Chapter 3

I weakly opened my eyes as I stirred. Slowly my vision came back to me. I frowned when I realized I was lying in my brother's bed. 'What am I doing here? How did I get here?' I looked around and saw my brother next to me and my mom sleeping with her head on my dad's shoulder, who was also asleep. My brother smiled at me. "What happened?" I asked, not realizing that I was in my Latios form, although I didn't know that I was a Latios at the time.

My brother chuckled as he heard me make small and weak squeals and coos. "I hope you realize that you are in your…uhm…true form," He said, not knowing what to call my strange body.

I raised an eye and looked at myself. I felt very weak but saw that I didn't have any injuries. My brother chuckled. "You don't remember what happened to you?" I shook my head in response and let out a sad coo. "It's alright, you'll probably remember once I start to explain, but first, let's wake up mom and dad," David walked over to them and shook dad slightly. "Dad, wake up, Michael's finally awake," I was confused at the 'finally' but shrugged it off. Dad raised his head, the movement causing my mom to wake up also. When they saw that I was looking at them they looked away, not able to look at me without remembering what happened.

David nodded and returned to his spot next to me. He chuckled and patted my head. "First of all, Michael can't remember what happened so I guess we better explain it to him, and hopefully he'll remember what happened so we don't have to repeat everything,"

Now I was totally confused. 'What on earth could have gone so wrong that they don't even like saying it?' I thought to myself. My answer came rather quickly when David started to explain. "Michael, remember when we came back from that flight we made? Mom caught us, well, more specifically, she caught you while you were in this form of yours. Well, let's just say she didn't believe it was you," I gasped very loudly when suddenly my mind started to work again, and everything that happened to me came back in one moment. I growled at my parents, slightly mad. I looked away, making my mom start crying. I groaned to myself, even when I was that mad at them, seeing my mom like that was just too much for me. I looked at David and squealed something, which he again guessed with great accuracy. "Mom, Dad, I think Michael is listening to what you have to say."

Mom stopped crying and walked over to me with my Dad by her side. She smiled weakly and patted my green feathered head. "Oh honey, I'm so sorry. I know that nothing can make up for the things that I said but… I'm sorry Michael." She said as she hugged me tightly and began to cry.

My dad also hugged me. "Sorry I tried to shoot you, son. I wasn't thinking at all and should have believed that it was you."

I sighed deeply, seeing my parents break like this was something very rare. I hugged them back slightly, groaning a bit at the effort it had cost me. "I forgive you two," I said. Everyone in the room jumped up in surprise. I raised an eye. "What is wrong with you all? You look like you've seen a ghost." My family's jaws had all dropped and were staring at me with wide eyes. I couldn't help but laugh at their expressions.

"You...you…spoke in telepathy!" My brother ended up almost yelling, making me raise an eyebrow.

"Huh? I did?" I asked, once again not realizing I was indeed doing it. My mom, my dad, and David just nodded. "But how? I couldn't do it before."

David hummed in thought. "Maye something triggered inside you when you used all that power. I tell you, that was most definitely the most powerful thing I'd ever seen in my life."

I sighed again. "Well, that could explain it. Oh, and now that I can talk, what did you mean when you said 'finally' awake?"

My dad scratched his head. "To be honest, you were out for three days."

I widened my eyes. "I WHAT?" I yelled out in telepathy, giving them all a good headache due to the power of the shout.

"Could you try to keep it down?" Mom asked while clutching her head, trying to ease the pain. "Yes, you were out for that long. David and Gerald were able to carry you to David's bed since yours is completely demolished,"

I groaned when I remembered I had destroyed most of my room in just a matter of seconds. I grunted as I forced myself up, having little problems apart from being tired. Sleeping for that long helped on that part, although it was probably the only good thing that resulted from being out for that long. I flew back to my room, having trouble flying through the small hallways. When I got there I gasped audibly. Everything I had previously owned was demolished. I looked up and raised an eyebrow when I saw a large open gap in the ceiling, right through the roof. 'I did that?' I thought to myself. 'Dang, I'm probably a lot more powerful than I thought.'

David showed up from behind me and laid an arm around my neck and he chuckled slightly. "You were impressive. That power was amazing, just look at the ceiling." He said with a smirk. Then he looked down. "There is something you should see Michael." I looked at him and nodded and followed him downstairs. Once we were in the living room David turned on the TV and proceeded to play a recording of the news from two days ago. I gasped when I saw the news reporter commenting about a beam of light that shot clean through a house. Then they showed the video of my bright green attack. I gulped. "I guess I should be more careful. I think I'll out for a walk. I'm going to be back in an hour or so. Don't worry, I'll be fine." I said as I then turned human again. Without letting them respond I opened the door and walked out into the busy streets. I started to run through the crowd, a strange feeling guiding me somewhere. I couldn't place the feeling but it felt well… nice. I kept running, and somehow the feeling increased and decreased while turning around at corners. I kept heading toward the source of that feeling but never could keep up with it. I ran around for a good half hour before stopping and panting heavily from the long run. 'Darn it. It's just too fast.' I thought to myself.

"You are different than normal humans." A female voice said. I widened my eyes. "Who said that!" I yelled, earning a lot of weird looks from people passing by. Now that I thought of it, that voice wasn't being said, or at least not out loud. I recognized it because I had already used it a few times with my family. 'Telepathy.' I thought to myself.

The voice turned into a cute giggle. "That's right, telepathy. How did you know?" it asked me.

'You can read my thoughts?' I thought/asked in reply to the unknown voice.

"Don't be afraid. I'm here to help you." The voice replied. "I know you're different."

I groaned. 'Different.' I muttered in my mind. 'You mean I'm a monster, right?'

"Don't think you're a monster! You just don't know what you are." I heard the voice scold me in my head.

"Then what am I? A freak?" I thought to the voice.

"Please don't think you're anything like that. I'll explain everything to you. Also, I know that you are different because… I'm like you, or at least almost."

I frowned in confusion. 'What do you mean?'

"It's weird talking like this. Go inside an alley, turn into a Latios, camouflage yourself, and fly straight up. I'll meet you there," the voice answered.

I looked even more confused as I walked to a nearby alley. 'What the heck is a Latios?' I thought to myself. Assuming that she meant my true form, I changed into it, turned invisible, and flew straight up, just like the voice ordered me. Once I was high up in the sky and above the clouds, I stopped and turned visible again in a bright shower of light. "Are you here?" I squealed, not knowing if the source of the voice could understand me.

Then something in the air rippled which made me look at it. Then, all of a sudden, a bright blue shower of light appeared and another creature like me flew into the air. It looked a lot similar to me, but there were a few differences. It didn't have pointed ears like mine, but instead had more rounded ones that lay backward. The pattern on its head was also different, a shield-like form instead of my teardrop pattern. Its eyes weren't as narrowed as mine. It had big round amber-colored eyes but did have the same white circle in its eyes just like I had. The biggest difference was the color of its feathers. Instead of lime green feathers, it had red feathers and instead of a bright yellow triangle on its chest, it had a blue one. On the places where I had greyish-white colored feathers, it had pure white feathers, giving a nice shine in the bright sun rays.

"Never thought I would meet someone like me," I muttered.

"Never thought I'd meet a shiny Latios." She said while looking with her big eyes at me.

I sighed. "So, you were going to explain what I am?"

She shook her head to get her mind straight again. "Oh yeah, right. Well, you are a Latios. Latios are just a small part of the amount of Pokemon that exist in the world. Pokemon are… creatures that can control different elements like fire, water, electricity, and so on. They exist in many kinds, different from you and me. I am a Latias, the female counterpart of Latios, which is why I look so similar to you."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. 'There are more of me?' I thought bewildered. "But…why didn't I know this? Why do I live in this world and not with my kind?" I asked Latias in curiosity.

She sighed deeply. "That I don't know, I'm sorry. But if you would like, I can take you to my brother in the secret garden of Altomare. I'm sure he'll be pleased to meet you."

"Altomare? I never heard of that before," I said.

She giggled. "You wouldn't have heard of it. Humans are almost unable to get there and if someone managed to get into the pokemon world, it's almost impossible to go back. It's just a fact, although I don't know why," She stated, stopping the subject because that was actually how far her knowledge went on that fact.

I frowned. "Then why did you come here instead of staying with your brother?"

She gulped a bit when she remembered she had yet to inform Latios about what had happened. "Uhm, well, I just like to come here,"

"How did you find me?" I asked her, feeling incredibly stupid at the moment for not knowing a thing about this pokemon world.

She looked at me with her soft amber eyes. "Well like I said, I like to come here. When I was walking through the streets I saw a television shop giving an emergency broadcast. I saw you firing a luster purge and I immediately went searching for you, I can even take you to my world if you would like."

I sighed deeply. "I... I can't. I'm sorry, but I can't just leave my family." I didn't care about my friends, because I didn't have any and those I called my friends were just a facade.

However, she saw right through it. "You hate it here don't you?"

'How the heck did she know that?'' I thought, making Latias giggle.

"Remember," she tapped her head. "I can read thoughts and also sense emotions. I felt that you had deep sorrow and would love to come with me but you can't because you don't want to leave your parents. You know what, talk to them. I'll come back here at the same time and place tomorrow to hear your decision. Just discuss it with them and come back here to tell me the outcome ok?"

I nodded weakly, not able to get over the fact I had a chance to go to where there was more of my kind but had to wait. But, tomorrow is another day. She nodded to me and was about to fly away but stopped. "Hey, do you have a name? I know that humans do that,"

I smiled. "My name is Michael,"

She smiled back. "Ok Michael, see you tomorrow," She said and shot off like a bullet.

My eyes widened when I saw her speed. 'No way could I ever go that fast,' I thought to myself. I turned invisible and flew down to my house, entering through the hole in the ceiling. Once inside I changed into a human, knowing the small hallways are a little difficult to fly around in my Latios form. I quickly rushed down and saw David, my mom, and my dad waiting near the door. I laughed. "Waiting for me?"

They all jumped, startled by my voice. "Don't do that!" David yelled. "What took you so long?"

"Ok, you'll never believe this, but I met someone like me," I said with a big smile. "she explained that I am a Latios, a Pokemon and that there are many more of my kind. She asked me to come with her but I couldn't accept yet, I told her I didn't want to leave you guys. She said that I should discuss this matter with you and that she would come back tomorrow to hear our decision and that I could go with her then," I explained to them, unable to hide my excitement.

David sighed. "Michael, what did I tell you? I told you that you had to go immediately when you found someone like you,"

I looked at him. "I know, but I couldn't just leave you guys worried. Besides, I want to hear what mom and dad have to say about this." I said while gazing at my parents who were visibly shocked.

My mom and dad looked at each other and nodded. "Michael, this is the only way you'll be truly happy isn't it?"

I smiled weakly. "Unfortunately, yes. I'm sorry mom, dad, but I just feel like I don't belong here. So, can I go with her?"

They smiled. "Yes, you can. You should have left anyway in a couple of years, you're fifteen after all," My mom said.

Elsewhere… (3rd person POV)

Latias quickly flew back to Altomare, 'I can't believe that after three days of searching, I've finally found him. I certainly didn't expect to find a shiny Latios,' She smiled brightly as she remembered me. 'I hope they'll let him come with me, where he truly belongs. But I wonder how Latios will react,' She shivered when she remembered she had to explain the situation. The last few days he had told her to not leave the secret garden since it wasn't safe outside, but she hadn't listened and had flown off anyway. After an hour of flying, she saw Altomare in the distance. She turned invisible and flew down into the secret garden where she turned visible again. "BROTHER!" she yelled throughout the garden, not sure if Latios was there.

She heard someone groan from behind some bushes and she giggled when she saw Latios very tiredly coming out of the bushes. Latios in contradiction to me was a normal Latios, meaning he was blue where my green was and had a red triangle on his chest. "Was it necessary to yell at me like that?"

"Because it's very, very, important," She said.

Latios sighed. "So what exactly is this important?"

She fidgeted in the air. "Well…uhm…remember that…Lorenzo and you forbid me from…leaving the garden?" she stammered out nervously.

Latios narrowed his eyes. "Yes sister, I remember that. I told you that you couldn't fly to the human world under any circumstances," He said, only making her feel more guilty. He sighed and narrowed his eyes even more. "You didn't leave, did you?" he asked wearily.

She gulped. "I'm sorry but I…" she was just about to tell say that she had met a shiny Latios but she was cut off by her brother. "Latias! Both Lorenzo and I warned you! You can't leave just because you like the amusement parks so much!" he groaned and closed his eyes, seeing the complete city. He searched for the aura of Lorenzo which he quickly found at the museum of Altomare where the DMA was placed and where he tends to give free info about what happened to Altomare and his amazing history. "Lorenzo, Latias has flown to the human world again," Latios said in telepathy.

Latios felt Lorenzo sigh deeply. 'That girl will never learn will she? Hold on, I'll be there in a sec, there's a close entrance to the secret garden from here. See you in five minutes ok? Just keep Latias there.'

Latios nodded. "I'll do that," He opened his eyes again and saw Latias nervously floating in the air. "I called Lorenzo to see what we'll do about your behavior sis, you have to understand that you just can't leave this place. We have a duty here,"

Latias was about to say something but Latios glared at her, clearly asking her for another reason to make her punishment even worse. She sighed and decided to wait until Lorenzo arrived which only took a few minutes. Soon an older-looking man came into the garden, looking slightly angry. "Latias, care to explain?" he asked her.

She smiled, happy to have the chance to finally defend herself. "Well I already told you I saw a luster purge fired on one of the TVs right?" she said. Lorenzo and Latios rolled their eyes, they hadn't believed a thing of it but Latias bravely continued. "Well, I found that Latios. He's a shiny Latios, one that doesn't even know there are many more pokemon, heck, he didn't even know what a pokemon is," she smiled brightly at Lorenzo and Latios who looked at each other. But soon they started laughing loud. "Oh c'mon sis, a shiny legendary? And he doesn't even know it?" Latios laughed loudly.

"Latias you have to see this from our point, what are the chances of finding a shiny pokemon? And you say you saw a shiny legendary? That's impossible!" Lorenzo chuckled.

Latias pouted. "But it's true! I saw him and I talked to him. I asked him to come with me but he didn't want to leave his parents without talking to them. I told him I was coming back for him tomorrow,"

Both Lorenzo and Latios stopped laughing. "Oh no you don't," Lorenzo said.

Latios nodded also. "You aren't leaving anymore Latias. This has gone far enough,"

Latias widened her eyes and squealed angrily as she flew off inside Lorenzo's house which had a passageway into the garden. Both the blue eon dragon and the elderly man sighed and shook their head. "You don't believe it either, right?" Latios asked.

Lorenzo chuckled slightly. "Not one bit. This is just an excuse to leave again. To be honest I don't see what humans have anything more than us. I mean we have amusement parks too,"

Meanwhile, Latias squealed angrily inside Lorenzo's home, she had trouble keeping herself under control, but right when she was about to lose it Bianca came inside. "Latias? What's wrong?" Bianca asked the red dragon, who was her best friend in her whole life. Latias once again explained how she found me. Bianca smiled. "Congratulations Latias, you did it!" she hugged Latias tightly which she returned as tightly. "Thank you, Bianca, but Lorenzo and Latios don't believe it. I want to go after him tomorrow but they won't allow me to." She stated.

Bianca looked very angry, took Latias' claw, and guided her out, going to Lorenzo and Latios who just had finished their conversation. Before Bianca could speak, Latios held Latias in place with a harmless yet powerful psychic. He flew closer and widened his eyes, making them shine brightly, and then tapped her head. Latias suddenly felt very light for a moment at the touch before going back to normal. Then Latios looked up and made his eyes shine blue again as he put up a powerful psychic field around the secret garden. "It's done, Lorenzo. She can't leave now." Latios said.

Latias frowned and shot up in the air, trying to leave. But while she was flying up she felt an immense power pushing her back, making it impossible for her to continue flying up. Giving in to the power she was pushed back to a lower altitude. All of this happened without harming her but still effectively blocking her passage out of the garden. Bianca growled at Latios and Lorenzo. "What's wrong with you two? For once Latias finds something useful in the human world and you just laugh at her?"

Latios and Lorenzo frowned at her. "Don't tell me you believe her also. Latias is lying, Bianca! Don't be a fool." Lorenzo said.

Bianca pouted. "Latias never lied once to me. I'm sure she's telling the truth."

Latios shrugged. "Sorry, Bianca but Lorenzo and I think otherwise. I made sure she can't leave for now until she has calmed down and stopped doing such things ok? This is only temporary,"

Bianca and Latias pouted more and walked back inside. Lorenzo and Latios shook their heads. "girls," Both muttered in their own language.

Chapter 3 is done!

Lots of heavy editing done here...

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