A/N: You could as well call this a sort of bonus chapter, to make sure everyone's keeping up with the history of my personal Pokémon universe. Altough, there are some things of importance in this chapter, so you should read it anyway. and I'm sorry I haven't updated, I have just not been in writing mood lately.
History Of Humans And Pokémon
"Hey, guys!" Whitetail yelled. They were still in Hall of Origin, as Arceus had asked them to stay until the crisis with the humans had been solved. But said creator of the universe had now disappeared to unknown location along with Giratina, probably to have a secret meeting to plan how to get rid of the humans.
"I found this big... Ouch!" Whitetail's voice echoed from another room. Aura sighed and went inside. This room was filled with bookshelves, and on the floor, Whitetail was sitting, her tail stuck under a big white book.
"What is it?" Shadow asked, as he, Mighty and Feather came into the room.
"This book." Whitetail said and dragged the book off her tail. "It looked interesting."
"Let's see." Shadow walked over to the book. It had big, golden letters, which said History Of Humans And Pokémon. "Well then, let's have a look at what it contains." He opened the book, just to reveal a lot of text written in beautiful handwriting, illustrated with gorgeous pictures.
"Can we read it?" Feather asked.
"Sure. It looks interesting." Mighty said.
"Aura, do you want to start?" Shadow asked and gave the book to Aura. Aura nodded, and started reading.
"As the Pokémon World was created, Arceus started with creating Dialga, Ruler of Time, Palkia, Ruler of Space, and Giratina, Ruler of Antimatter. Then she created Mesprit, the Being of Emotions, Uxie, the Being of Knowledge, and Azelf, the Being of Willpower. These seven were the first members of The Council Of Legendaries.
She also divided light and darkness. From the light Reshiram, the White Dragon, came to be, and from the darkness came Zekrom, the Black Dragon. What was left in between became Kyurem, the Gray Dragon.
Arceus shaped the Hall of Origin and Earth, which she divided into land and sea, to be ruled by Groudon and Kyogre respectively. She also created Rayquaza to keep peace between the two of them. She created Regigigas to shape the continents, and during the ages of light that came, Regirock, Regice and Registeel came to be. She created Mew, the Being of Life, and gave him the responsibility to fill the planet with new kinds of pokémon. And all was well.
Wow, this book sure has a lot to tell!" Aura stated and handed over the book to Feather. "Your turn."
"Eventually, Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza were driven into a wild war that raged for a hundred years. During that battle, many kinds of pokémon perished. Aerodactyl is one example of one of the pokémon kinds that became very rare after that war.
When Rayquaza finally managed to stop the raging Rulers of Land and Sea, Earth was in ruins. The entire creation of Arceus had been destroyed.
Arceus was, of course, enraged, and to be sure that this disaster wouldn't be repeated, she created three pokémon to keep watch over the trio that caused it. Heatran was shaped from the lava of a volcano to guard Groudon. From the deep-sea torrents, Lugia was shaped to watch Kyogre. And from the rainbow in the sky, came Ho-Oh, to keep an eye on Rayquaza.
Your turn, Shadow!" Feather said and gave the book to Shadow, who continued where Feather had stopped.
"Arceus decided to reshape the planet, and began working with it harder than ever before. She created lush forests and plants, and created Celebi and Shaymin to watch over it. She separated day and night, and with the darkness of the night, she shaped the moon to shine, and with it, Cresselia and Darkrai."
Shadow frowned at the mentioning of Darkrai, but quickly continued.
"She shaped wind and thunder, and with it, Tornadus and Thundurus. She created beautiful fields, and put Landuros to watch over them. She created Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos to bring the seasons of winter, spring and summer.
She created Raikou, Entei and Suicune to roam the land to keep watch over it, so that nothing would go wrong again. She did the same with the seas, where Manaphy and Phione were put to watch, and the skies, where Latias and Latios would fly.
As time passed, she created a few other legendaries to keep normal, mortal pokémon happy. Jirachi, who could grant wishes, Victini, who could give the power to win, and Meloetta, who gave the mortal pokémon dance and music.
Do you want to read, Mighty?" Shadow asked. Mighty nodded and took the book.
"As pokémon flourished, Arceus decided to try creating a new kind of race on another continent. The humans. They were, however, foolish and adventurous, and did many cruel experiments on the pokémon which accidently found their way to the land of the humans.
They once caught Mew, and from a piece of the Being of Life's fur, they created Mewtwo. Mew took pity on the creature created from his DNA, and led Mewtwo to the land across the sea, where Mewtwo could be safe from the humans' clutches.
After the interference of Mew and the failure of this experiment, the humans found an unnamed ancient pokémon that had been left over from the war between Groudon and Kyogre. They created a new pokémon from it, named Genesect. They also created Deoxys from a space virus.
Mew, however, had informed the other legendaries of this madness. Arceus was furious of this attempt of playing creator, and led the legendaries on a raid on the humans. In this attack, the legendaries freed Genesect and Deoxys from the humans.
Whitetail, your turn." Mighty stated and threw the book to Whitetail, who caught it and continued to read.
"This shocked the humans. They had never thought that their victims would strike back. Yet, they became curious. What could be found in that land, on the other side of the sea? They gathered some brave humans and travelled over the sea. At first, the pokémon didn't protest, as they wanted to see if this could be useful for them.
They were proved wrong. For ten years, the humans enslaved pokémon and treated them like pets. Not only the wild kind, which are like animals in every way, but also the intelligent ones.
During this time, Arceus created Cobalion, Terrakion and Virizion to serve like fighters for justice; later on these three were accompanied by Keldeo, an orphaned pokémon that became legendary due to their interference.
Notable mortal fighters for justice during this period were Aura the lucario, Feather the pidgeot, Lightning the luxray, Chaos the zoroark and Yen the mightyena. After Yen killed Lightning, and Chaos quit fighting for unknown reasons, only Aura and Feather remained.
A betrayal took place among the legendary pokémon. Giratina tried to kill Arceus and stole the egg that contained his and Arceus' child, only to drop it into an abyss. Arceus, the legendaries, Aura and Feather tracked him for months. When they finally found him, Giratina fought back, killed Aura and a human who was known by the name Shadow. Arceus then managed to seal Giratina into the Distortion World." Whitetail frowned. "That's rubbish!"
"Guess whoever wrote this book didn't know the truth." Aura stated and took the book from Whitetail. "The humans had never thought of pokémon as creatures capable to kill. They were scared and fled from the land of pokémon, back to the other side of the sea, taking some wild pokémon with them, probably to be used for experiments.
Arceus, physically and emotionally weakened after the battle against Giratina, withdrew into another dimension to recover. But before leaving, she did one last thing. She gifted Aura's soul with the power of rebirth. Feather insisted on getting this power as well, so Arceus gave him the power too.
This rebirth works in a complicated way. The spirits of Aura and Feather are being passed down generation after generation. The question is that the gift may as well be a curse; as a child is born to the pokémon who hold Aura's and Feather's souls, they die automatically, in order for the spirit to be passed down..."
Aura stopped reading at this point. Shadow thought he understood why. When I was born my mother died. Hadn't Aura said that in the Dark Void? And here was the explanation... If Aura hadn't been part of the prophecy, thus not the reincarnation of the first Aura, her mother wouldn't have died...
"Feather, is your father dead?" Whitetail asked. "How can you then have a little brother?"
"He's my half-brother." Feather replied, sounding much more mature than usually. "I have five other half-siblings too, all younger than me. Dad died when I was born."
"3.000 years passed." Mighty said; he had picked up reading from where Aura stopped. "Nothing of interest really happened, except a few conflicts between legendary pokémon, which Dialga and Palkia, who had put aside their rivalry in order to temporarily replace Arceus, had no problems fixing.
Trouble started brewing again when Whitetail, long lost daughter of Arceus and Giratina, accidently freed her father from his prison. Because of this, Dialga and Palkia had to come to a decision: they made Mew revive Shadow, turn him into a pikachu and delete his memory, as they suspected that a human-turned pokémon without memory was the only way to complete a prophecy about the ones who had to stop Giratina.
Shadow met up with Aura, a riolu, who was the reincarnation of Aura the lucario, and together with Whitetail, they started a journey together, forming an Exploration Team: Team Saviours.
A war raged between The Council of Legendaries and Giratina's shadow army, but the three managed to stop it: it was revealed that the real traitor was Darkrai, who had used mind control on Giratina."
Shadow took the book again.
"Arceus awakened, Giratina was freed from Darkrai's clutches, and peace had once again come.
Half a year later, Whitetail, Shadow, Aura and Mighty, a former commander of the shadow army, embarked on a new quest, later joined by Feather, reincarnated in the shape of a very naive and annoying pidgey.
Their quest was, however, interrupted by the return of the humans. From Giratina, Shadow received..." Shadow stopped reading. "It doesn't say anything more. But I don't understand! Giratina hasn't given me anything!"
"Oh, here you are." Arceus suddenly stepped into the room Whitetail quickly took the book from Shadow and hid it under the carpet. "Have you seen Giratina? He left an hour ago, and I haven't seen him since."
"We haven't seen him." Whitetail said, for once being honest.
"And by the way, Shadow, Giratina asked me to give you this." Arceus made a small package levitate over to Shadow, who took it. "I do not know what there is inside, but you can check for yourself." Arceus left the room.
"Phew." Whitetail said and took out the book again. "If Mum had discovered that we're reading her books, she'll..."
Whitetail stopped talking at this point. Because the unfinished sentence in the book had been finished. ...the Griseous Orb.
A/N: Cliffhanger! Hehe... I'm going to try to write the next chapter quickly!