Teamwork

'Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, and lightning,
lest these titans wreak destruction on the new world taking form,
though the beast of the sea shall arise to quell the fighting,
alone it's song will fail, and so shall come a great storm.
It shall deliver to us, from chaos, a very hopeful spark,
and it shall lead the side of light, banishing the dark.'

Porygon's uploading this as I dictate it, as I'm a bit busy to type just now.
Ok, so here's what we've worked out about the prophecy so far:
It starts the same as the original, warning people not to mess with Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. The fight is happening at a place that is a combination of both our worlds, as this cave has had rift activity change it at least twice. It says that Lugia's going to turn up, but like in the film he's going to need help. The weather will get even worse (Is that really all it means?) and the storm will mark the arrival of this world's chosen one. Although it says from chaos, so maybe it will be somebody coming through a rift? Ash maybe? We think it means us though. Very Hopeful Spark. VHS. It has to be, right? It's a strange phrase, it must be there as a clue. And apparently we have to save the world AND stop the latest batch of shadow aura Pokémon. Yay.

We were sheltering in the mouth of the cave as we worked this out, fighting off the dark Armaldo as it continued to swipe at us. As Blackmage's Metang finally sent it crashing to the floor, swirly eyed, we made a mad dash for the water.
'I'm coming with you! I got rid of the Armaldo!'
'Fine, Fine, just run!'
dodging the lasers, nets, and cannon balls raining down, I grabbed Rag's sleeve and pulled him left. 'Come on, we've got Ice island!'
We'd decided to split up and go after all three orbs at once. Anyone can get them from the idols, and whichever of us turns out to be the chosen one can activate them all when we get back.
Blackmage followed me and Rag, leaping onto his Metang and gliding along next to us. Rag had told Snover to go with Don and Sammy, and I saw him freezing the water ahead of them as they ran towards Fire Island. Vaporeon was doing the same for Maelstrom and Doom, and Glaceon was doing it for us. Snorunt, Hitmonchan, Butterfree and Clefairy had chosen to stay and defend the beach.
'Chatot! Go spy on the ship! See who's up there!'
Chatot flew away, repeating the instructions to himself. Dratini was quivering in my bag, and Joltik was trembling on my arm. Rag was hugging Pichu as he ran, comforting the terrified mouse.
'Come on buddy, we need to do this! The world is in danger, and it's up to us to fix it! It's an adventure!'
Pichu looked up at him, fearful, but looking thoughtful.
The huge shadow passed by underneath, startling us. Me and Rag started to skid, and narrowly avoided being shot by the ship above. A cannonball smashed into the ice, causing it to crack and rupture all around us. 'Grab on!' Blackmage yelled, his Metang reaching out to us, and I leapt as the ice beneath me broke, wrapping my arms round one of Metang's as it rose away from the water. I saw Rag clinging on for dear life to Metang's other arm, and we both yelled as we swung wildy. Charmeleon had clambered onto Glaceon's back for safety, and they were still running, Glaceon making more ice as they went.
Chatot swooped back down towards us, and spoke with Lawrence's voice. 'Such a pitiful group, thinking to beat me. But we play by my rules, and it is my turn. I think the quickest route to victory is to capture some of their pieces.'
He reverted to his own, bird like cry 'Lawrence has a friend! Friend controls the shadow monsters!'
'So how do we stop him?'
'Need the rat! Need the rat! Got a plan! Got a plan!'
Rattata leapt onto his back, and Chatot flew off again. In the distance, I saw one of the other groups get caught by a couple of huge diamond frames, that joined up to make a sort of static net, and whisked them up towards the ship.
'Noooo!' I hoped they'd be ok. Lawrence shouldn't hurt them, he just wanted them out of the way. It was going to make our job harder though.

Below, Charmeleon was waving at us frantically. He pointed behind us and I glanced over my shoulder 'Oh Hell.'
A flock of shadow Murkrow and a shadow Arcanine were heading straight for us, followed by some flying diamond frames. The Arcanine was jumping across the floating chunks of ice, roaring up at us.
Blackmage looked, and swore.
Pichu squealed, clinging onto Rag's ankle for dear life.
The frames flew at us, swooping down. Blackmage sent out Scyther, who flew towards the murkrow, slashing wildly. Dratini poked his head out of my bag, frowning at our attackers.
'You want to fight them?'
'ti!'
Dratini slipped out, securing himself on my shoulders before he launched an attack. Almost strangling me, he launched a twister, sending a group of the Murkrow spinning away, screeching.
'Can't.....breathe....'
He uncoiled quickly, giving me an apologetic look.
'No worries....good job.'
Glaceon had frozen a large area of water, and was gesturing for us to land.
'Blackmage! Take us back down, it's safe again!'
'Here we go!'
We swooped down, but as we got within a few yards the Arcanine headbutted Metang, shoving us skywards again.
'Aargh! Get ready to run, We'll hold it off!'
'What do you mean, we can't get-'
Metang twisted suddenly, thrusting us outwards, sending me and Rag spinning wildy towards the ice. Yelling, I landed with a thud, continuing to spin across the slippery surface. I managed to come to a stop, and sat up, looking for the others.
Ragnarok had curled himself into a ball to protect Pichu, and was groaning as he got up. Letting go of Dratini, who I'd pulled to safety as we were jettisoned, I checked Joltik was ok, and got to my feet. Joltik was on my shoulder, and shot a bolt of electricity at a Murkrow that dived towards us.
'Run!'
We limped away as fast as we could, fighting off any other Murkrow that slipped past Blackmage. My last veiw of him as I looked back was him leaping off Metang, aiming a punch at the Arcanine.
We've stopped to rest for a moment on the frozen beach of Ice Island, and I'm dictating this to Porygon. I'm looking for something to help with the pain in my leg. Aha! I knew I packed Lemonade!

It is actually helping, the graze has faded a bit. This is seriously weird. It's a shame the same won't work for Rag. At least he landed better, he's just a bit sore.

Aaahh!

INFORMATION: A SMALL EXPLOSIVE SHOT HAS MADE CONTACT WITH ICE ISLAND. FRIEND.UNIT.TEMPEST IS LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE. FRIEND.UNIT.RAGNAROK IS RUNNING FROM RUBBLE THAT IS HEADING TOWARDS OUR PRESENT LOCATION. RETURNING TO AUDIO INPUT DICTATION.

It's Lawrence! He's attacking Ice Island! And us! What was that! Damn! He's woken up Articuno! It's coming out! Wow, it's so beautiful. I mean it always looked cool, but it the flesh it's just so much more....wow.

The others! Zapdos and Moltres! They're setting off from the other islands! They're all awake! It's starting!

INFORMATION: MORE EXPLOSIONS. THIS AREA IS HAZARDOUS. UPLOADING CURRENT DATA IN CASE OF TERMINATION.

Once more onto the beach!

My DSDex said that there was a huge disturbance of dimension energy back up in Scotland, at the same beach as before, by Smoo cave. Kirlia teleported  us all up there, and we looked over the barrier at the top of the cliff to see what was happening.

There was a huge rift open a little way out to sea, partly submerged. Water was surging through it, mixing with our sea, both worlds gaining a little of the others' water. I saw a shadow beneath the rift, some huge creature whooshing away into the depths. I clutched my shoulder, feeling another huge ripple coming, and winced as it happened, a wave of energy bursting from the shard and spreading outwards. As the ripple of distortion reached the water, islands appeared some distance away, fading into existence. One seemed to have a volcano, one had jagged rocky spikes, and one seemed to be coated in a snowy blanket. I heard Pichu squeal, running and hiding behind Ragnarok's leg as a thunder rumbled overhead.
 Me and Rag looked at each other, beaming '2ND MOVIE!'

'Yeah yeah, it's awesome. Now move!' Doom led the way down the steps, running towards the disturbance. As we reached the beach, I saw a dark coated figure running from the cave entrance.
'Blackmage! What the hell are you doing here?!'
'Looking for more fossils and.....none of your business! What's going on?'
'Shamouti islands just came through a ripple! I don't think shamouti itself did though. It's the 2nd movie!'
'Typical! Will I ever get to treasure hunt without some big disaster bringing you lot here?'
Sammy yelled  'Watch out!' and I leapt sideways just as something slammed into the sand where I'd been. It was a net, with spears at each corner.
'What the-'
There was a sound like a cannon firing, and black sphere shot towards us, smashing into the rock face above the cave, leaving it coated in ice.
Something huge and dark began to emerge from the clouds, some sort of skyship, with propellors all around it, keeping it in the air.
'Who is that? Lawrence? That's just Lawrence right?'
Something was dashing along a propellor support. It reached the end, and dived off. It slammed onto beach with an eruption of sand, and as it uncurled itself we saw it was an armaldo, with glowing red eyes and a shadowy aura.
'No. I think we're dealing with a bit more than just Lawrence.'

A prophecy set in stone

So, we recently had a ripple that resulted in Lenora turning up in London. The natural history museum in London has gained an extension that can't be seen from outside, with Lenora's museum tucked away inside. She's resumed her duties there along with her husband, but says we can't battle her until she's all set up :(.

What's got us excited though is a stone slab she found amongst her exhibits. She hadn't seen it before, and as we were there sorting out a wild herd of patrat that had come through with her, she invited us to have a look. It was ancient, and it's engravings were faded and damaged in places, and in a language nobody recognised, but Porygon had a load of files about ancient Pokémon languages and was able to translate it for us:


'Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, and lightning,

lest these titans wreak destruction on the new world taking form,

though the beast of the sea shall arise to quell the fighting,

alone it's song will fail, and so shall come a great storm.

It shall deliver to us, from chaos, a very hopeful spark,

and it shall lead the side of light, banishing the dark.'

2nd movie anyone?

Dragon departs

Dragon's gone. last week he asked to have a look at the shard in my shoulder, placed a hand on it, concentrated, and with his other hand drew a circle in the air. He said he'd finally figured out how to get back to his own world. The circle he'd drawn became a rift, like the one he fell through! He forced the shard to open it! If only I could learn to do that!
Anyway he thanked us, said goodbye, and enteredt the portal, as did the Shinx we helped out a while ago, who has since evolved all the way into a Luxray. Dragon said he thought that Luxray was going to make a new friend, and had a rather interesting destiny, so I hope wherever they went, it's happy.

Oh, and the giant Rattata problem got sorted. I may blog about it, but we've just discovered something rather interesting that may turn out to be more important. More soon.