A Dragon's Tail
Tail 3: Richard's Tail - Ignorance
Tail 3-1: A Busy Life
"Where did those bastards go?!"
"Don't dare to think yer could escape from us like that!"
That was a voice from a group of Pokemon, which consisted of an Electabuzz, a Mawile, a Bisharp, a Klang and an Electrode that ran around dark and small alleys. It seemed like they were chasing after someone…
"There! I think they went that way!"
A Klang spoke up, and all of them ran in the direction the Klang said.
"…Are they gone yet?"
A small and high-pitched voice came from one of the dark alleys, with three Pokemon who were hiding there. The one who had just spoken up was a female Heliolisk.
"I think so." The second Pokemon spoke up. He was a male Aggron.
"Whew…" The female Heliolisk wiped her sweat. "Thank goodness…"
"Yeah…" The male Aggron said.
"AND ALL OF IT WAS YOUR FAULT!" The female Heliolisk suddenly became angry at the male Aggron.
"Hey!" The male Aggron looked at the female Heliolisk. "Why'd yer have to shove that onto me?!"
"BECAUSE YOU ARE AN IDIOT!" The female Heliolisk said and pointed her paw at the Aggron's face.
"Hey! You want some from me?!" Aggron stood up and rolled his sleeve.
"I am not afraid of you, you overgrown rust!" Heliolisk said.
The Aggron and the Heliolisk then looked into the eyes of each other. Both of them were about to get into a fight of each other if it wasn't for the third Pokemon who was with them.
"Could you miserable creatures cease your disgusting action right now. Don't you realize how much annoyance you have caused?"
The third Pokemon spoke up with a calm and a sharp voice without looking at both Heliolisk and Aggron. Instead, his eyes were focused on the book he was reading instead.
"Oh, Sorry!" The female Heliolisk suddenly changed her mood as she heard that voice.
"Sigh…" The male Aggron sighed. "I will never get used to an erratic nature of thunder…"
"AH! There yer're yer bastard!"
Suddenly, the five Pokemon that were trying to find them appearing and surrounded the Heliolisk, the Aggron and her other friend who was still reading a book!
"SxxT!" Aggron cursed.
"What's wrong, dude?" Electrode spoke up. "Too scared to fight all of us?"
""Yer may be strong, but yer won't win against all of us!" Electabuzz said.
"Heehee! What's wrong, Viola?" Mawile said and looked at the female Heliolisk. "Now it's time to show us what good are Grimlock's brawl and your brain!"
"Tsk…" Heliolisk mumbled. "I'd hate to say this, but we're outnumbered right now."
"…Idiots…"
The third Pokemon who was reading a book spoke up. He then closed the book and moved forward. "If both of you are too scared to fight, let me handle this."
When the five Pokemon saw him, the thing they did next was laugh.
"A bookworm like you?!" Bisharp said.
"What can a weakling like you did against all of us?!" Klang asked.
The 'bookworm' said nothing. He then reached his paw to a pendant he was wearing. As she saw him doing this, Viola quickly spoke up.
"Grimlock! Cover your eyes!"
The Aggron quickly covered his eyes with his paw, and the Heliolisk did the same thing. All of this was just before…
"Lord of Blindness, I summon you!" The 'bookworm' said and called a silhouette of a Legendary Pokemon!
"Luster Purge!"
The silhouette of a Legendary Pokemon loosed a sudden burst of light from his body that brightened everywhere around here and dazzled everyone who didn't protect their eyes!
"ARRRAAA! My eye!" Bisharp said in pain and rubbed his eyes.
"Y…You dirty little brat!" Electabuzz said and did a very same thing as the Bisharp.
"It's because of your eyes couldn't adapt to a sudden light as the retina didn't—" The 'bookworm' was about to explain what had happened to their eyes when the Heliolisk spoke up.
"Yeah, yeah… Save your lesson for later. Grimlock, carry him!" Heliolisk said. Then the Aggron grabbed the bookworm's body, and then the trio ran away from the group of gangsters.
"Damn you!" Electrode roared.
The trio ran out of a dark alley to a big road in a huge and civilized city. This place was none other than the Gamma City, the capital of the Republic of Civilight. The trio then walked up along a dark road at night. While it's almost midnight, the road was still lively. The road was full with cars while there's many Pokemon walking on the footpath beside the road. Most Pokemon are dressed like a businessman who had just finished their overtime work or a student who had just finished their tutoring class at night.
At last, the trio stopped in front of a building with a sign 'Dr. Lumiere's Clinic'. The trio then wasted no time and entered the clinic. Inside the clinic was dark because the lights weren't turned on. As they entered this place, the female Heliolisk spoke up.
"Uncle Lumiere! We are back!"
Her voice echoed into the darkness, but there's no response.
"Hey! Dr. Lumiere! We are back!" The male Aggron shouted, but there's still no response.
"Uncle Lumiere! We are back!" The female Heliolisk shouted again, but the result was still the same.
"Maybe he's busy with his work…" The male Aggron said.
"I think so." The female Heliolisk said.
But then…
"…? Who's there?" The male Aggron said and pointed his paw into the darkness ahead the trio. There's someone there walking up to them… But… He didn't walk… He's actually staggering up to them!
"W…What?!" The female Heliolisk said before she found that the one who was staggering up to them had a darkened face like a zombie!
"EAEAEHA!" The female Heliolisk screamed in fear.
"ARRRARARA!" The Aggron screamed too.
"Click!"
"What are you doing, Viola, Grimlock?"
A familiar voice echoed into the ears of the female Heliolisk and the male Aggron. They then realized that the light was turned on by the 'bookworm' who was with them too. And the Pokemon whom they thought as a zombie was actually…
"U…Uncle Lumiere?!" The female Heliolisk said and looked at the Pokemon in front of her, who was actually an Ampharos in a gown coat and with a stethoscope hanging on his neck. He had raccoon eyes caused by lack of sleep
"That's right. It's me, Dr. Lumiere Sparkvolt the Ampharos, your uncle." Lumiere the Ampharos said and looked at the female Heliolisk and the male Aggron. "And why did both of you have to scream, Viola Sparkvolt the Heliolisk and Grimlock Rusteel the Aggron?"
"I…It's Viola!" Grimlock the Aggron spoke up. "She screamed, so I screamed too!"
"I…I was just… thinking that you were a zombie!" Viola the Heliolisk spoke with a shaking voice. "You staggered up to us and you had raccoon eyes… S…So…"
"Sigh…" Lumiere sighed. "Anyway, where had you been? It's already 23.00!"
"W…Well…" Grimlock said.
"Sigh…" Lumiere sighed again. "I already know the answer from your expression, Grimlock. But… Well… It's getting late. Why aren't you going to sleep right now?"
"Okay…" Viola and Grimlock said and walked up to the stairs and went upstairs.
"…Dr. Lumiere." The third Pokemon who had been silent for a long time spoke up. "Do you have anything I could help with tonight?"
"Hm?" Lumiere looked at the third Pokemon. "Oh, don't worry about it. There's no work tonight."
"Then, can I use your library again?" The third Pokemon asked.
"That's just like you…" Lumiere said. "Okay, you can use it, but be sure not to push yourself too hard, okay?"
The third Pokemon said nothing. All he did was just nod in response. Then he moved up to the door right to the entrance of this place. As he reached it, he opened the door and entered the library…
A small lantern was lit once the one who had just entered the library sat down on a chair. A light from a lantern revealed him as a male Pokemon who looked like a cross between a bird and a dragon. He had an aerodynamic body, white on the upper body while blue on the lower body include his two plane-wing like wings on his back and two small wings near his torso. His arms are white and blue while his face was white with a blue pentagon across her face. He had a red triangle mark on his chest and a white triangle ears. His eyes were red that hid his hunger-for-knowledge and seriousness within his mind. He always wore a pendant in a shape of a luster orb.
As he sat down, he opened a book he always carried with himself on the table and continued reading it. However, his action was interrupted by a voice that echoed into his mind through the pendant he wore.
'We need to talk, Richard Lustermist the Latios!'
"Not now, Lord of blindness." The Latios named Richard said while his eyes were still focused on the book he was reading. "Go and fetch a bone if you got bored, if you can see one of course."
'… Is that the thing a scholar usually speaks?'
"You talk as if you didn't have a better thing to do." Richard said.
'I already did plenty of good things… I was once a great king of the greatest kingdom in the world of Pokemon, I once helped a group of Hero/ine of Legend in their quest, and—'
"You are now a helpless lord of blindness who couldn't do anything except peck other Pokemon." Richard said.
'And you would still be a drooling vegetable if I didn't offer you to form a pact with me…'
"Sigh… I yield." Richard closed the book he was reading. "I will never win a word quarrel with you, Mega Latios."
'And you'd better always keep that in mind.' Mega Latios said. 'But I think my words are futile because I will never choose to form a pact with an idiot."
"Alright, what do you want to speak with me about?" Richard asked and touched the pendant that he always wore. "Did you have a problem with me calling you 'Lord of Blindness'?"
'…As much as I detest it, I accept that I have no objection of you calling a blind dragon like me 'Lord of Blindness…' Mega Latios said. 'The thing I want to talk with you is, don't you remember my words about calling me for a help?'
"…'You mustn't summon me in front of others…'." Richard recalled what Mega Latios once told him. "But today was an emergency as I couldn't rely on those idiots."
'You know…' Mega Latios continued speaking. 'When someone forms a pact with a Legendary Pokemon, they will receive an enormous power at a cost of being cursed to lose something in their life. However, being idiots who don't understand anything, most Pokemon, as they heard about a Pokemon trading something in their life for power, think of them as fiends and brand them as banes of the world. That is why I told you not to summon me in front of others!'
"Yes… Yes…" Richard mumbled. "I don't consider losing something for a power a bad thing, especially what I get in return for doing this was priceless."
Richard turned his attention to the book he was reading. The cover of the book was engraved with an extraordinary pattern, and the content of this book was written in a language that an ordinary Pokemon (Or in Richard and Mega Latios' word, an idiot) couldn't understand.
'If it wasn't for me…' Mega Latios spoke up. 'You will never get your paw on an invaluable book that contains all knowledge within this world since when the universe was created until the time of Twilight Crisis. It's none other than the 'Chronicle of Twilight'.'
Richard thought about Mega Latios' words about the Twilight Crisis. It was one of several crises that occurred in the world of Pokemon, but most Pokemon could only remember two, the Fallen Crisis and another one…
"But the Twilight Crisis had occurred since 1,150 years ago…" Richard spoke up. "It was so long that most idiots have already forgotten about it. And since the Chronicle of Twilight has only recorded the knowledge of the world until the time of Twilight Crisis, there's a record of knowledge of 1,150 years from the time of Twilight Crisis until the present that was still lost."
'That's why I need your help, Richard.' Mega Latios said. 'Despite I am completely blind, I still hunger for the knowledge of the world, so I need help from you, one of the very few Pokemon who isn't an idiot, to help me decipher the thing that was written in this chronicle and uncover its secret. Once we are able to do it, we would be able to unlock the knowledge of the world that was recorded from the twilight crisis until today.'
"And did we succeed?" Richard asked with a sarcastic voice.
'A hero's quest doesn't end in a day, Richard.' Mega Latios answered. 'We still have a long way to go.'
Richard ignored Mega Latios' words and opened the Chronicle of Twilight. He then continued reading it.
'Anyway, Richard…' Mega Latios spoke up again. 'I saw you—'
"Saw?" Richard interrupted Mega Latios' words.
'I SENSED you reading the chronicle as if you were trying to learn knowledge of something…' Mega Latios corrected his words. 'What was that knowledge you were trying to learn?'
"Couldn't you stay still and not know something?" Richard asked sarcastically.
'I afraid I couldn't.' Mega Latios answered.
"Sigh… All I could tell you is that I am trying to fulfill a promise I made to my little sister." Richard answered.
'Oh, I remember.' Mega Latios said. 'You told me you have a younger sister, but both of you were separated from each other when you were turned into a Pokemon…'
"Right." Richard nodded. "I still don't know where she is, but one day, I will leave this nasty city to find her, and then I will never let anything separate us again."
'…Hearing this from you reminds me of my younger sister…' Mega Latios said. 'She is a bit annoying, but I really care about her…'
"…" Richard said nothing in response. He just nodded slightly before turning his attention to the Chronicle of Twilight and continued reading in. As he did this, Mega Latios stopped speaking to him and Richard's Dragon Relic, the Luster Pendant, stopped glowing…
'One day, I will find you and I will be able to fulfill my promise to you… Wait for me, Rachael…'
To Be Continued…
Dragon of Vale: Welcome to the third tail of this story! This tail is called 'ignorance'… What a strange name! Anyway, as you can see, the story of this tail occurred in the Republic of Civilight.
Let's give a warm welcome to the main protagonist of the third tail. His name is Richard Lustermist the Latios. He is a serious scholar who seemed to be… more intelligent than an ordinary Pokemon. He had formed a pact with a Mega Latios, and his Dragon Relic is a Luster Pendant. For his weapon… Richard's weapon is the Chronicle of Twilight. Yes, he uses a chronicle as a weapon.
And… that's right. Richard is Rachael's onii-chan, and they will be reunited with each other soon within this tail…
A special thanks to Ridin Valon for helping me with the error correction.