Shining Legends

Chapter 2

"I'm looking, don't worry," I said to Articuno. I had them carrying me instead of Lugia to give them a break. That's when I saw it, a giant tree with huge berries on it. "There!" I pointed to the big tree and Articuno saw it. Moltres and Zapdos flew ahead as we headed to the tree. They all landed as Articuno put me down and went to eat. Moltres had sat Spector down as I found some smaller berries laying on the ground. I grabbed them before sitting down with Spector and releasing Mewtwo for a snack.

After a few minutes of sitting there, Moltres hit the ground. "Check Moltres!" I told Spector. I jumped to my feet and saw a black bird with red flames on it. Seconds later, a purple bird showed up. After another few seconds, an orange bird showed up. Then it hit me. The resemblance.

They noticed me after a few minutes of back and forth battling. They all flew away, all but the orange one who ran quicker than light. Once I was sure they were gone, I went to check on Moltres. It was just a few scratches and a blow to the head. I was able to get him up as I grabbed a potion from my bag. "This may sting a bit," I told them. A sprayed the potion on his injuries and he let out a cry of pain. It hurt me, but I had to get him healed up. Once I was finished, I wrapped up his foot that was too badly injured for potions to heal completely and helped him into the sky.

"We oughta go," I said. "We sure aren't welcomed in this location." Articuno picked me up and We continued flying until we reached a new area. This area held piles upon piles of new Pokémon. It was a giant forest with a huge plains in the center. I was dropped there and I retrieved my birds. "This is quite the forest, isn't it Spector?" Spector nodded and we began to walk, hoping to find signs of civilization. We walked for hours and had no luck. I sighed and called Lugia for help. Me and Spector rode on their back as we looked for civilization.

Things went from calm, to battlefield. We managed to evade trainers under attempt to capture Lugia, but that didn't stop two boys from grasping onto Lugia. I brushed the scales of Lugia to make them turn and help the boys on their back. I glared at them. "Who are you to grasp onto Lugia like that?" I said to them. "The question is, who are you to grasp onto Lugia?" One of them asked me. "This is a mission, I have trained Lugia." I lied.

I sighed as many questions were asked. I was so fed up with them that I just dropped them onto the streets and left with Lugia to return them. "Victini," I said, releasing Victini. He danced around me in happiness. He climbed in the shirt and left his head and arms hanging out of the top. I walked around with Spector and Victini, looking at some of the places around. I stopped by one of the stands selling Cherri berries and oran berries. I bought two for Victini and Spector and gave them their respected berries. Just as we turned to leave, I saw one of the boys trying to snap pictures on Victini. "Buzz off would ya?" I told him. He apologized and told me that he wanted to study legendaries for the professor. I sighed again. "Where is this professor?" I really didn't want to show off all the legendaries, now knowing I don't have them all.

The boys led me to the professor, and he was shocked to see Victini. Turns out the boys names are Ash and Goh. Quite the names for nosy boys. "Might you have other legendaries you can call?" Professor Cerise asked me. "No," I lied. "I'm more interested in the legendaries of this land. Perhaps we can speak about the birds?" The professor looked confused. "You entered the Crown Tundra like THIS?!" He was shocked. "Yeah, if that's where that giant tree is." He heard giant tree and paused. "Tell me none of your Pokémon ate the berries on that tree," he said. "Well yeah, why?" I was genuinely confused. The professor sighed. "Those are dynamax berries. Any Pokémon who eats them are bound to gigantamax!" I looked confused. "How does that happen?" I was handed a bracelet with an X on it. "Use this in dens and gyms, it will grow your Pokémon to a great size and make them stronger." I was fascinated by this. "Tini!" Victini said. I laughed. "No Victini, you can't dynamax." He looked sad. "I will leave you to explore this region, enjoy your stay!" I waved goodbye to Cerise as Ash and Goh followed me.

"Can we go to the Crown Tundra?" Ash asked, sparkles in his eyes. I sighed. "You must keep this a huge secret if I show you anything you are about to see, got it?" I said, my voice stern and cold. The boys nodded and I led them to a secluded place no one could see us. We entered a cave and I took out three poke balls. I threw them and out came Articuno, Moltres, and Zapdos. They all saw Ash and Goh and freaked out. "Hey hey! It's okay!" I was able to calm them down and I explained our situation. "Moltres, Zapdos, grab one of them. We are returning to the big tree." Articuno picked me up while Zapdos grabbed Ash and Moltres grabbed Goh. "Watch Moltres' leg, the other Moltres injured him." Goh looked at his wrapped up leg and looked at the ground, not realizing they were high above the ground. They were so focused on the birds, they didn't realize Spector being carried by Ho-Oh.

"There!" I yelled. They all dropped us at the tree, Goh and Ash falling. I recalled my birds and we investigated the tree. "You guys go explore, I'm going to investigate these berries." The boys ran off with their Pikachu and Raboot, off to explore the Crown Tundra. I laughed at them, they were quite the handful.

I sat under the tree, sketching the giant berries. "These berries are huge," I said, Spector nodded. Just then, I heard a screech. I looked in front of me to see Moltres, the dark one. He looked in pain. I stood up and put my hands out. "Hey, it's alright, I won't hurt you." The Moltres attempted to attack me. It grazed my shoulder and he hit the tree. It wouldn't get back up so I took my chance. I began to look at it and I noticed what was causing its pain. It was scratches on its neck.

I grabbed my potion and decided to take my shot. I sprayed the scratch and the Moltres took off. It tried to shake me off, but I was able to get the potion onto the scratch and wrap it up before I was thrown of and into the tree. I fell onto the ground and I was rushed up by Spector. I felt something looking at me. I looked up to see the orange Zapdos. It was looking at me, nothing else. I looked down to Victini who was sleeping, curled on my chest. I don't even know how he stayed asleep through all that. Heavy sleeper I assume. I looked back up at it and was walking away instead of running. "Zapdos?" I said. It looked back at me and walked back. It got closer this time and I was nervous. I had never caught a legendary myself, only obtain them through hereditary generations. It didn't do anything when I reached into my bag but stare at me. I pulled out a sitrus berry and gave it to Zapdos. It hesitantly took it and ate it. It continued to look at me as if it was waiting for me to say something. "Would you like to-" I was cut off by the boys running back in the distance. "You have to go! They're coming back!" I held my hands up as to not push it away and scare it or have to attack me. Seeing as it wasn't leaving, I put one hand on its head to see how it would react. It wouldn't leave. I looked back to see the boys closer to the tree so I ran to the nearby cave. I tripped over a rock and twisted my ankle. I struggled up and that's when I realized Zapdos standing over me with it crouched down. Spector was able to move the rocks off my foot and I held onto Zapdos for extra support. As we made our way into the cave, we became less visible. By this time, I had recalled Victini to sleep.

Spector had grabbed sticks and leaves to try to fix my ankle. Zapdos had sat down with me while Spector came back. He patched my leg and got cold water to help with pain. The whole time, Zapdos remained with me. At this point, I didn't even want to capture Zapdos. He seemed to like his home. Is that how all the Pokémon felt about their homes? I feel like such a bad person now. That's when I began to devise a plan to release them into their habitats, their rightful areas. I didn't realize that so much time went by that I was asleep before I knew it. The last thing a felt was a head laying on my legs before I was completely in the dream world.