Author's Notes-A few things that probably need to be said about this story, Originaly this story was rated T but I changed it to M because I felt the violence warranted it.. so if you don't want to read about a little over the top violence this may not be the story for you. But don't expect to see any romance, and the profanity will be pseudo censored, for now. this is probabily the third time I have read over this and made a lot of small changes. If you have any questions about the world where this story takes place please feel free to leave your questions in the reviews, and I'll try to answer them in the next chapter's author's notes. Hope you like dramatically overpowered legendaries.
Legendary Hunters
Chapter 1: A Heroic entrance... sort of
I shifted once again against the rough skin of my Pokémon as it lazily drifted in the currents. I was on my way back from ever grand city after the fourth attempt at the élite four when I finally managed to beat Drake. They were scary good, but like everyone in the league they are forced to use a common type so just about everyone beats them now a days. So many in fact, that they made beating the élite four is the only way to be considered good enough to enter official tournaments along with the fact that you can't challenge anyone who has beaten them without doing so yourself. Well you can't force them to fight you and no prize money is to be given in these fights. I thought this was a dumb rule when I started my journey but eventually realized it was just to protect fresh trainers from getting destroyed by every other trainer under the eyelock rule, that and to get all the rookies off the backs of some of the more famous trainers.
I was following the currents moving towards Slateport city after passing Pacifilog. I could have just flown, but since Burst got the knockout on that Kingdra and won the battle I figured he deserved a victory lap, but dang did his skin hurt. I looked down at his blue skin that felt like sandpaper and the star on his head while holding his rather large dorsal fin compared to his relatively small length from head to ... non existant tail, making him resemble a shark cut in half. He was actually leaner and faster than the most if his species, but it didn't matter much considering how fast all Sharpedos were. I was slightly thrown off-balance as he turned to avoid a rather large island that was covered in large boulders that were almost surly placed there by the black belt who was punching rocks along with his Machoke.
"Let's steer clear of this one burst I don't wanna have to deal with another battle now." He seemed disappointed by this as he always did when I passed up a battle he could take part in, but took a wider arc around the island. Being a shark he didn't really get to battle as much as he wanted to just because large bodies of water aren't always available. I waved to the black belt as i passed and he stopped to wave back before returning to punching his bolder. I'll never understand body building.
I'm sure that Burst could have gotten me to the city in 20 minutes at full speed with these currents helping, but I felt i should take time and enjoy the ride... that I wasnt really enjoying with the very uncomfortable skin. I glanced at the quickly approaching city and decided I would be there in around six more minutes. No point in changing speeds this close. I closed my eyes and started to daydream about the intense battles against the leader. Then I felt a shift of air. The very strong scent of pollen assaulted my nose. I opened my eyes and looked down to see Burst flopping under me in a field of flowers. I just sat there and blinked before realizing that this wasn't a dream and quickly recalling him. I would have to have nurse joy look at him later.
"Sup" said a voice behind me and I swear I almost wet myself as I quickly turned around and saw my long-standing friend approaching me. He was a bit on the chubby side but was nowhere near fat. He had dirty blonde hair that was naturally curly and rather long almost resembling an afro. He was wearing a white tee-shirt with no defining features and blue jeans. And the standard running shoes that every trainer had, his were white.
I sighed audibly as it quickly became clear what had happened "Any particular reason you teleported me?" I asked slightly annoyed as I glanced around and realized that this field of flowers went on FOREVER. I couldn't even see a treeline on the horizon.
"Yea about that. I met someone special and vouched for you deciding that you should see her too." he said in an almost nervous voice.
"Come on Cole did you really just kidnap me to introduce me to your new girlfriend?" I said feeling my anger flaring up.
He simply laughed and pointed to an especially tall pile of grass moving towards me. I blinked again and looked closer noticing a white face and flowers hanging behind both of its ears. It resembled a hedgehog but had grass blades instead of quills and was white everywhere else. I recognized it immediately (as any trainer would) as Shaymin the legendary of flowers and stuff. Not my favorite legendary, how could flowers be powerful. But I wouldn't say that out loud I was lucky just to be graced by the presence of a legendary (even if it was the lamest one).
Suddenly my mind was ripped open as the Alakazam, that Cole must have sent out while I was sizing up Shaymin, created a link between me, the Alakazam, Cole, and Shaymin.
"Ugh you know I hate having people reading my thoughts." I said in my head
"Get over it." he said with a frown "this is very important so PAY ATTENTION." he shouted in my head which in turn gave me a slight headache.
"Really well sorry that im not jumping for joy at you meeting Shaymin and deciding that you had to take me to a completely different region along with nearly killing Burst." I said a little angry that I would have to fly back since there was no way to teleport back to Slateport without someone to link since Alakazam had never been to Hoenn and only found me because I was friends with Cole. Suddenly a thought occurred to me. "How did you even teleport me anyway Sharpedo is a dark type."
"Are you stupid?" he said then when I didn't respond he stated "when Alakazam couldn't find you I guessed you were riding Burst like a dum a**. Seriously? Who would ride a Pokémon with the rough skin ability?" He said which hurt me a little but I knew he didn't really mean it. and he went on to say, "so I just had Alakazam use miracle eye and the rest was easy."
"Oh." I said aloud feeling silly for not figuring that out earlier.
"WILL BOTH OF YOU S*** HEAD TRAINERS SHUT YOUR UGLY PIE HOLES AND LISTEN CLOSELY!" Said a very loud and powerful voice in my head that I realized was Shaymin.
(Wtf was that. I never expected the great flower legendary to have an attitude like that.) I thought a little too loudly thankfully Alakazam did me a solid and didn't broadcast it to everyone.
"NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, honestly why did I have to get the two dumbest most worthless trainers in the world as my representatives," She glared at the Alakazam realizing that he had sent that message before carrying on. I'm sure he wouldn't be doing that again. How was an eight inch hedgehog scaring him. I'm sure she went on with that rant as it took her a short pause before continuing. "You two are going to go to lake valor and battle that miserable excuse of a legendary Azelf after which you will catch it and put it in the pc. You will not in any way speak to it or attempt to use it in battle got that."
I had to admit Shaymin was kinda scary but i was no slave especially to the flower legendary. "And what if we refuse your oh so rude request to do your bidding." I thought with a large amount of contempt at her smugness.
"Oh," she said looking at me with a look that would probably kill me if looks could. I took a step back. "In that case," she went on, "I'll just have to kill you here and find another couple of trainers who will."
Whoa. That was completely unexpected. I probably should have just agreed to her demands there and just went back to Hoenn pretending this didn't happen but, I was way to angry at being bossed around by this thing. "Like you can take both of us." I said snorting in a way that I just knew would piss her off. And looked towards Cole. Who put his hands up and backed off
"Whoa dont drag me into this" he said aloud. sometimes he reminded me of a coward.
Shaymin on the other hand laughed and said "why yes, yes i can." before taking a few steps towards me and shedding a few leaves that hovered around her just waiting to be thrown. I didn't have to be a genius to know they were sharp.
I took a few steps back before calling her bluff and stopping before deciding on a Pokémon to fight her with. I could easily beat her with Apollo or Kingy but what would be the fun in having a type advantage. On the other hand I couldn't use burst and prince because yea. and Loki had taken a pretty bad hit against that Machamps cross chop and I wasnt really that fond of the idea of making him battle quite yet. So that only left Ampharos. I quickly reached for the poke ball as recognition flashed across Shaymin's face that I would be battling her. She smiled, I shuddered. Something wasn't right.
"Mmm K." I said enlarging Ampharos's poke ball. "If you can beat Amphy one on one I'll go through with this bulls*** request and stupidly attack Azelf for no reason.
She laughed really loudly and the Alakazam transferred it to my head, "Ahahahahahaha really? Only one well at least this will be quick so I can return to sun bathing. Your lucky im in a good mood and am willing to spare your life for your insolence this time."
I was gonna destroy this cocky legendary. "Mmm K. Amphy lets show her how we treat bossy little hedgehogs,." I said as i through Ampharos' poke ball. Ampharos was my only Pokémon without a real nickname. when I suggested some cool names like Thor or Chernobyl he just thought it was stupid and prefered to be known by his species name. We settled on Amphy.
In a flash of red light Amphy appeared. He was mostly yellow with a white stomach and black stripes on his tail neck and ears, kinda reminding me of a bees pattern. His ears were pretty long and so well as his neck. His tail had a large red gem on the end of it. He had flipper like arms and thick short legs with only one pointy claw
"Ampharos" he said looking at the situation before recognizing his opponent was Shaymin and quickly backing away towards me pointing and saying "amph, amphaross"
I turned to Alakazam who shrugged. Alakazam only went into Amphy's mind once and according to him it was an absolutely horrible experience but wouldn't say anymore on the subject. luckily it wasnt very hard to get the gist of what he was saying
"Dont worry Amphy, Shaymin may have been a legendary, but its only eight inches tall and is the freaking legend of flowers. what is she going to do flower you to death." Amphy still looked concerned but would never go against me he was always so loyal and would fight Arceus himself if I needed him to.
Realizing Shaymin still hadn't made a move I decided to go first "fire punch it Amphy" he held his... fin up and closed his eyes. Concentrating hard and knowing I would let him know if Shaymin tried anything. Electricity was easy for him but fire was a little harder this would take a few seconds. I stared at Shaymin waiting for her counter attack but she just sat there smiling not even seeming to be ready to fight.
Smoke rose from Amphy's paw followed by flames that roared up happily feeding on his cottony fur. I flashed back to teaching Ampharos this move and remembered all the times this lead to full body emulation. Nurse joy wasnt happy about the nine or ten times we came back that day.
Satisfied with the flame he had made Ampharos charged at Shaymin in that weird way Ampharoses waddle. I always found it almost comical but didn't let it distract me
Still Shaymin did nothing just watching Ampharos approach completely passively. I was beginning to be worried this would just be a slaughter of the poor thing. But as Ampharos was rearing back for the punch and bringing it down to pound his fist into Shaymin, she smiled and two vines grew out of nowhere one grew under Shaymin and carried her to a safe distance at the same time another one grew upwards and wrapped around the fin Ampharos was gonna punch her with. That vine was tough, it completely stopped Ampharos and slung him around to slam his back on its trunk. I was spiky and looked quite painful.
The vine carrying Shaymin stretched towards the stunned Ampharos and Shaymin jumped on top of his head. Ampharos tried to swat it with his other flipper but it didn't even come close to reaching his head.
Shamin on the other hand bit him on at the base of his right ear and Ampharos cried in pain. Suddenly the most duh thing occurred to me. "Ampharos discharge." He was too happy to apply and pumped a huge amount of electricity into everything which didn't do much since he was grounded by a vine and Shaymin was a grass type but it did make her jump to the vine that had carried her to avoid the discomfort of the electricity which grew and stretched her a good distance away where she laid down on it and seemed to go to sleep. D*** she was cocky.
"Ampharos iron tail that vine down and use that fire punch to burn it off you" it actually took him five hits to break the thick vine holding him up and when it broke he fell to the ground and the bit of vine that was tied to his arm fell on his head. it was also covered in thorns and it was clear it hurt. he got up and punched the vine with his other fin and it burned off him. He stared at Shaymin relieved to have it gone. I could see several cuts where it had been and burn marks everywhere else.
Then i noticed that a flower had sprung up where Shaymin had bit him... weird. but I couldn't focus on it at the moment, I had to get back into the battle before I lost. I took a moment to plan out a strategy and decided that another fire punch wouldn't hurt since there was no way that trick would work again.
"Ampharos fire punch again but this time let's be a bit more careful," I said as his paw instantly burst into flames again and he ran at Shaymin when he was about half way there I commanded "power gem" and he nodded and kept running. Suddenly his tail glowed and rocks rose up from the ground around Shaymin and would have slammed into her but several vines grew from the ground and impaled them all. It was quite impressive how she got the exact center of every single one of them, but I didn't expect it to do much just distract her to cover Ampharos's charge. Ampharos was just four or five feet away and was about to jump at her when he stopped and screamed pulling his head down and furiously trying to rip the flower off his head.
"Ampharos are you O.K." I said concerned about my Pokémon wellbeing as he fell to his knees still screaming in pain. Then I noticed that there were actually vines moving under his skin and felt very sick. this was horrible. I never expected anyone to use a tactic like this.
Shaymin had since lifted her head and was smiling at me. I knew that it was over and raised Ampharos's poke ball. "Return Ampharos," I called as the red beam hit him. but the beam didn't turn him to energy and suck him up it just covered him and then faded. that was when the vines writhing under his skin burst forward from several spots spraying blood everywhere. this was horrible. I fought the urge to throw up as Shaymin was laughing at my expression.
Shaymin said something and Alakazam sent her thoughts into my mind, "hmm that Ampharos seems to be hurting why don't you recall him before the damage is any more permanent that it already is." I swear you could feel the mocking evil enjoyment of the situation she had as Ampharos was still screaming and writhing in pain as the vines grew to the ground and lifted him up.
"Please stop you win ill go fight Azelf just don't do this to Amphy." I pleaded as his crying became gurgled I guess they pierced a few origins.
"Ah but you see that's not good enough anymore." She said and the pure enjoyment she was having of this situation was tangible even through her mind. "I had to get my paws dirty and go out of my way to show a minion his place meaning you're not only going to fight and capture Azelf you are going to go and catch them all," ALL. what did she think I was a professor oak lackey. Ampharos ended that train of thought or rather the lack of Ampharos's screams did. he was now completely out cold but those horrible vines were still moving and more were bursting out. This was so wrong.
"Do you know how many of the official rules you are breaking you could get into serious trouble for this." I said desperate to get some sort of leverage
"Oh? And who is going to tell them. I don't see and official judge and it's not like you are going to live through this encounter if you don't agree to do my bidding." She was right i had no choice
"O.K O.K.!" I yelled glancing at Ampharos "Just don't let Amphy die," I said actually crying at the situation. I was never one of the wimps who run desperately crying every time they saw one of their Pokémon getting attacked but this was different my Pokémon, my friend was dying or already dead. What have I done. I know what I did. I stupidly angered a legendary and my Pokémon were paying for it.
"We have a deal then." She said and the vines started turning brown and started rotting into nothingness leaving Ampharos to fall pitifully to the ground in a heap of blood. I honestly didn't even know that he had this much in his entire body and was sure he was dead. but no there was the faint up and down motion of his stomach as he breathed in and out. I sighed out a breath I didn't know I had held. Feeling greatly relieved that he was still alive I tried to recall him again and this time the red light encased Amphy and turned him to energy before sucking it into the ball.
"You might want to bring him to a Pokémon center before going to face Azelf." Shaymin said into my head as Cole came to comfort me, but I didn't want any. I shrugged my shoulder out of his hand and stood up. Turning to Alakazam
"Please teleport me to a Pokémon center." I said still feeling very sick. It looked to Cole who nodded and readied for the jump. Cole touched me and the Alakazam, his eyes steadily glowing brighter.
"Hows that for flowering him to death. Hope you fight better than that against Azelf or you will lose more than that crappy Ampharos." Was the last thing I heard before the landscape shifted and curled around in a green and blue blur before everything went black
After thoughts If you find any spelling and grammar mistakes feel free to pm me about it and I'll try to update it. I am currently overhauling all the chapters to make them sound and look better.
Thoughts for the next chapter: Nurse Joy will definitely not be happy about Ampharos's condition and I'm going have to explain in a way that doesn't bring Shaymin into the picture. Also one of the most important Pokémon in the series will be showing up since she wasnt with me at the time of kidnapping followed by an over the top legendary fight. What have i got myself into. Ugh.