A/N: Finally! Here is the start of arc 2, The Humans! (The first arc could be called, hmm, The Mission.) And third arc... Shall remain a secret for now.

The meeting of two races

"HUMANS?" Whitetail questioned and stared at Arceus. "You're kidding, right?" Arceus shook her head.

"No. I am not." she said, sounding angry, but somehow, she managed to keep her calm. "They arrived here this morning. They came over the sea, with their ships. I have sent Giratina to speak with them, to find out what they are doing here. He will be back soon, I hope."

"I am back already." a voice echoed out of nowhere, and Giratina appeared in the room, apparently from using Shadow Force. Feather shrieked like a little girl.

"Eeek! Big monster!" he yelled and hid behind Mighty. "Grumpy, protect me!"

"It's Mighty, not Grumpy." Mighty hissed to Feather, before turning to Giratina and bowing respectfully. "Lord Giratina. It has been too long."

"Mighty, there's no need to bow to me." Giratina said with a smile. Then he turned serious again. "Arceus, the leader of the humans, a man named Fortis, has asked to meet you. So I set up a meeting between our races tomorrow."

"Good." Arceus gave him a nod. "Inform all the other legendaries to come here tomorrow morning."

"Every single one?" Giratina asked. Arceus nodded.

"Yes." she said. "Except Darkrai, of course. That traitor has no right to enter the Hall of Origin anymore. Not after what he did to you." She looked at Giratina with love in her eyes. Then she turned to Team Saviours. "Prepare yourself. Tomorrow will be important. And also, if you wish to speak during this meeting, I wish you to adress me as Queen Arceus, and Giratina as Lord Giratina."

"Well, that second one'll be easy for Grum... I mean Mighty." Whitetail finished her sentence as Mighty gave her an angry glare. "What? Feather just happened to call you that, and I thought it suited!"

"You also have to adress Whitetail as Princess Whitetail." Arceus quickly interrupted as Mighty was about to grab her daughter's tail with his jaws. "And please, Whitetail, try to behave during this meeting." Whitetail, who had just bitten on to Mighty's tail in return, smiled a sweet, innocent smile.

"Sure, Mum!"

Next morning, every legendary pokémon came to Hall of Origin. Arceus spent a lot of time telling everyone, especially Feather, Whitetail, and some of the more childish legendaries, how to behave on the meeting.

"She really is serious about this." Shadow stated as Arceus lectured Feather for calling her 'Whitetail's Mum' for the fifth time.

"That is how Arceus is." Giratina said with a smile. He and Shadow had retreated to a corner of the room to stay out of Arceus' sight, just to avoid being complained at. "Always strict and serious when it comes to official meetings and Whitetail, but in private, she really is so se..." He never finished that sentence, because Arceus just cast a glare at him, showing clearly that she wanted him to keep his mouth shut about whatever he was going to say. Giratina silenced, and he and Shadow remained totally quiet for a few minutes.

"Well, did the humans tell you anything about why they were here?" Shadow asked, to end the silence, that suddenly felt a bit awkward.

"No, they didn't." Giratina replied. "Fortis, their leader, said this: 'We wish to see the ruler of your land, or of the closest pack, or any leader figure you have.' He seemed to think that we were some sort of wild animals." He smirked. "Well, that, of course, is what the wild pokémon are. But we're not all wild pokémon, are we?"

"Definitely not." Shadow said, and thought about the wild pokémon, unable to speak, and seemingly at a low level of intelligence.

"Well, anyway, I told Fortis: 'That would be our queen, then. Arceus.' He seemed to find it amusing that our current leader had the same name as the leader of our land at the time the humans left. I didn't mind telling him that Arceus then and Arceus now are the same person." Giratina said. "Neither did I mind telling him who I was, and that I happen to be the killer of a human..." He sighed and watched Shadow.

"It's not your fault!" Shadow said quickly. "It's Darkrai's fault."

"Right." Giratina said, but as he floated over to Arceus to ask her about something, Shadow understood that Giratina was feeling guilty about everything that had happened.

"Bored." Whitetail muttered as she sat beside Arceus, who was sitting on her throne. On Arceus' other side, Giratina was situated, and on Whitetail's other side, Shadow, Aura, Mighty and Feather were standing. The other legendaries were standing around the room, in the positions Arceus had told them to, waiting for the arrival of the humans.

"Don't do anything dumb, Whitetail." Shadow whispered from beside her. "If you make Arceus mad at you now, no one knows what the consequenses will be."

"All right." Whitetail muttered, before adding to herself. "I'm still bored."

"They're coming!" Victini suddenly burst into the room, twitching her ears in excitement. "Arceus, they're..." As she noticed Arceus' glare, she whispered: "Sorry. Queen Arceus, they're coming."

And indeed did they come. Into the room, about twenty humans made their way. Most of them looked scared, some of them confused, and a few even looked angry. But the man walking forward all the others, who everyone immediately realized had to be Fortis, only looked proud.

Fortis was a man in his late thirties; his red hair reached down to his shoulders, and he had a short red beard. His brown eyes drifted around the room, watching all the unique creatures that were gathered before him. He wore a golden cloak, which looked very valuable.

"You must be Arceus." Fortis said and stepped forward, meeting Arceus' gaze. "I am Fortis, the one who has been chosen to lead this group of explorers."

"Why have you come here?" Arceus asked, interrupting Fortis just as he was about to continue speaking. "You call yourself explorers. But I am sure that there is something more to the story." Fortis looked annoyed with the interruption, but he continued.

"We are here to take back what belong to us." Fortis said. "You might not be aware of it, but 3.000 years ago, this land belonged..."

"To us!" Giratina spat, seeming very angry over Fortis' speech. "Not to you humans! You came here and took the land by violence!"

"Calm down, Giratina." Arceus said, looking a bit worried. Shadow now noticed that a young man with long yellow hair tied up in a ponytail, maybe nineteen years old, fixed his eyes at Giratina, staring at him intensely.

"Fortis!" he then yelled, and Shadow thought that the voice reminded him barely of something. "That has to be him! Giratina the Killer, from the old legends!"

"Silence, Draconis." Fortis hissed to the young man, but the mistake had already been done. Giratina looked terribly furious, something Shadow hadn't seen since back at the time they were fighting him, but Shadow also noticed the pain in his eyes.

"Killer?" he spat, his voice distorted with fury, and stared at Draconis. "That might be true, in its own way. But, young one, I warn you. You have insulted me, and for that you may have to pay!"

"So it is you, then?" Draconis asked, his voice sounding angry too. "You, the human slaughterer!" Giratina roared in fury, a sound that made everyone flinch, even most of the legendaries.

"How dare you?" he hissed and was just about to attack Draconis, but Arceus stopped him with her psychic powers.

"Calm, Giratina." she said, but Shadow could detect fury in her voice too. "Fortis, I believe that this discussion should be quit, for now. You may return to your ships and wait there for time being."

"Accepted." Fortis said, but he didn't look very happy about it. He and all the other humans left the room, but Draconis cast a strange gaze at Giratina as he left; the gaze was filled with fury, but also with something else that made Shadow worried. He looked exultant.

A/N: So, now you've been introduced to even more characters! Fortis means strong in Latin, and Draconis means dragon in Latin, in case you're curious where I took the names from.

Also, thanks to Last Warrior 7, who gave me the motivation to write the next chapter! I hope you review, that would help me to keep my new motivation up!

~EmeraldEevee97