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The Legend of Thunder: Updated 6/8 Now truly complete!

Due to writers block, my birthday and Thanksgiving, I haven't written more then half of chapter 10. I'm trying to finish it, but things like my new DS are stopping me. Sorry for the delay.
 
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I'm almost positive chapter 10 will be up today. Don't hold your breath because if you faint, you can't read it as soon as you would if you never lost consciousness.
 
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Yeah, I know this isn't December 1st. I thought I would have this up by then, but I got stuck on the ending. But since I'm done, you all can read and enjoy.



Chapter 10​

Several hours after the three fairies were consumed, Thunder, Jack and Spark were on the road again. They decided that, being unable to sleep, they were rested enough and wanted to get far away from they saw the legendaries get killed. The moon shed silvery light on the path, casting shadows the concealed a shallow pit in the dirt that Jack unwittingly stepped into. Tripping, Jack saw the hard, dirty trail rushing up to meet his face and closed his eyes. Hitting the dirt with a thud, the transformed Pokémon groaned and rolled onto his back and promptly rolled down a grassy slope into a thorn bush.

“How could you be so clumsy?” Thunder asked as he and Spark went to help Jack out of the thorns.

“I never had anything this bad happen to me before I you got near me you stupid, yellow rat!” Jack exclaimed. “I escaped the Rockets and once you got near me I got caught. Now I’m a human and have cuts all over my body. I should get far away from you. Once I am, maybe I’ll change back into an Eevee and have horrible things stop happening to me.”

“You asked if you could come with us and we agreed. You’re staying with us until Lightning is rescued. And anyway, I’m gold, not yellow. ”

“Come to think of it, why am I helping you? I should be back with my clan. And if I order you to come with me Thunder you’ll either do it or be banished.” Spark said.

“You’re helping me find Lightning! We have to rescue her before she…” At this, the gold Pikachu trailed off and blushed. But in a few moments he got over his embarrassment and regained his anger.

The hostility, anger and resentment that the three had towards each other was so strong you could almost see it radiating off them in waves as a group of Shuppet floated down from the dark, starry sky to feast.

“Stop it!” And with that cry came a power blast of psychic energy. Forcing the Shuppet away, the powerful attack immobilized Thunder, Jack and Spark and put an end to their brief fight. Stepping out of the long shadows the setting moon made, a Gardevoir slowly walked toward the three.

“What I want to know is.” She began. “What I want to know is…”

“Get on with it!” Shouted Spark. “You said that twice already.”

After shooting the obnoxious Raichu an icy glare the Gardevoir started speaking again.

“What I was going to say before I was rudely interrupted was why are you fighting? It seems idiotic to me. Now I can feel that you still have hostility towards each other, so you will all join minds with me while I use Calm Mind. After doing that, all of you might not be so irrational and stop fighting.”

“There are other words for fighting.” Jack chimed in. “Sparring is one, warring is another. Oooohhhhhhh, combating is a good one. And we can’t and or won’t join minds with you. Now let’s see. What’s a good synonym for mind?”

“Will you just shut up already?” Thunder questioned. Looking at the Gardevoir as best he could without moving, he apologized to her. “This is what I have to put up with every day. I’m Thunder by the way.”

“Helen.” Was the only response the golden Pikachu received as the obviously irritated walked into the forest towing her captives behind her.

“Why do I keep meeting Pokémon with such strange names?” Thunder thought to himself as they arrived at a circular clearing, populated only by small, leafless bushes and dead, gray tree stumps at the center and edges.

“Now,” Helen started to say as she settled down onto the center stump. “I’m going to link my mind with each of you.”

After saying this, the Gardevoir closed her eyes and started linking her mind with the three unwilling participants. Immediately Thunder felt his mind being laid open to Helen. This should’ve been fine, for the Gardevoir had started using Calm Mind and was paying no attention to the Pikachus thoughts and could not have her thoughts seen, but Thunder felt two more presences looking at thoughts other then their own. Thunder, Jack and Spark had somehow all been included in the same mental link, and Jack and Spark, being the nosy busybodies they are, were looking at the others thoughts. Hearing them both mentally gasp, the golden Pikachu abandoned his respect for their privacy and went to see what the other two had just seen. Looking at thoughts was not unlike reading a constantly changing book. If you wanted to see another thought you just went to the next one, but thoughts fade in a few seconds unless you keep thinking that thought, and when someone is looking through your mind almost always you will think of the thought that you don’t want any one else to know and keep thinking it. So when Jack and Spark both felt the others presence, they both thought of what they didn’t want the others to know most.

“I hope that stupid, yellow pain doesn’t see that the real reason I’m still helping him to rescue Lightning is because I could’ve done it before, hesitated, and lost my chance.”

Seeing this, Thunder was outraged. And seeing that he was insulted and called the wrong color for the second time within ten minutes didn’t make it any better. Sending his mental probe towards Jack’s consciousness, he hoped for the blond human’s sake that his thoughts didn’t involve insulting him.

“PLEASE don’t let Thunder and Spark know that the real reason I transformed into a human must be because I’m a clone of an Eevee created by Team Rocket and genetically engineered to have strands of human DNA so I could transform between Eevee and human whenever I was commanded to. If they knew that I was really traveling with them because the Rocket at the control tower realized that their experiment must not have failed because what I look like now is exactly what I was supposed to look like when I transformed and must’ve told his boss so now they must be looking for me and I’m safer with them, they might leave give me up to the Rockets because they’ll know that I was using them before. But if they do find out, I hope they also know that now I consider them as friends. Obnoxious, not-as-smart-as-me friends, but still friends.

Feeling the other two’s presence in his mind, Thunder started to hope that they wouldn’t find out that the reason why they had to hurry was because soon she might….

“ENOUGH!” He roared. Deciding to forcefully end the mental link between the four, the golden Pikachu released a huge Discharge. “Wow.” He thought. “Since when can I do that attack?” Then he looked at what the electric attack had done. All the bushes in the clearing were burning, and the normally brown bark of the trees all around him had turned into various shades of gray and black. The stumps that they had been sitting on, as well as all the other stumps in the clearing, had been obliterated and the occupants had fallen to the ground. Looking at the three other beings in that were in range of his attack, he saw that only two of them were relatively unharmed. Spark, being an electric type and a higher level then Thunder, was barely affected by Discharge. Helen, who had been raising her Special Defense with Calm Mind over and over, was also in pretty good shape. Jack, however, was in a completely different state. Unprotected by either type, attack, or anything else had taken the full brunt of the huge, electrical charge that had come at him and was twitching on the ground with blackened skin and the strong odor of burning flesh. Still a little stunned, the golden Pikachu was still standing on the charred remains of his stump when Helen and Spark were rushing over to the fried human to see if he was O.K. After seeing that most of the black on him was the ashes of the Team Rocket uniform that Jack had never actually taken off, and that he was just knocked out and not dead, Spark turned to the Gardevoir with his paws clenched and his teeth bared.

“Why were all of us in the same mental link?! You said each of us would have our own link and you messed up. How could you be so stupid? Now the stupid yellow pain-in-the-neck knows why I’m helping him and can use it to guilt me into continuing to help.”

“For the last time. I’M GOLD, NOT YELLOW!”

“And while we’re yelling at the obnoxious Raichu, I’ll point out that this is the very reason I’m nocturnal. When I slept at night and was awake in the day like most other Gardevoir, whenever I was in a group I would make mistakes. So realizing that being social just wasn’t for me, I started transforming myself from a diurnal creature to a nocturnal one. And if that stupid orange rat would think for a moment, he might realize that I obviously haven’t talked to anyone in a while and haven’t done anything like that before. So I messed up and put you all in the same link. Satisfied?”

“Great,” Spark moaned not to quietly. “ANOTHER smart aleck.”

Fed up with him, Helen used Psychic on the idiotic Raichu and repeatedly slammed him into the nearest tree again and again without any signs of stopping.

“Can you not kill him?” Thunder asked. “I want a turn to torture him.”

“Don’t torture him, we may need him for later.” This was Jack, just becoming conscious from the electrical blast that had, and still, caused his body pain whenever he moved. Turning to Thunder he said. “I’d offer an apology for not telling you about what I am sooner, but considering the fact that you just caused me an immense amount of pain, I’ll forget about the apology I should owe you and accept your apology.”

“Well, if he’s talking like that already, he’s fine. And, as usual, he’s right. You should stop killing Spark.”

“Fine.” None to gently lowering the unconscious Raichu to the ground, Helen turned towards Jack and said. “The only one of you that I actually feel sorry for my mistake towards is Thunder. You, Jack, are obnoxious, but aren’t as bad as that pathetic excuse for a Raichu. I hope that you’ll be rid of his idiocy one day.” Then saying goodbye to the two, the Gardevoir Teleported herself away to a location unknown to Thunder and Jack.

“Did you hear that?” Thunder asked, his ears perking up.

“Hear what?”

“It sounded like someone slapping their hand on their face as hard as they could. There it is again! But now it sounds different, like they’re banging their head against a tree.”

“You’re imagining it. Now help me move Spark to a better location for sleeping and let’s get some shuteye. It’s been a long day and dawn is in approximately seven and a half hours.” Groaning, the Pikachu hurried to move the unconscious Raichu to a better location so Jack would shut up.

After they had made camp under an oak tree and Thunder was lying in a pile of fallen leaves he had collected as a temporary nest, he saw that Jack was still awake, and let his curiosity get the best of him.

“Jack, if you ever transform back into an Eevee, are you going to find other Eevees to be with?”

“Yeah.” He replied. “Once I find enough, Eevees will rule the world. With me as their leader, who will be able to stop us?”

“Pikachus. Sooner Pikachus rule the world then Eevees.” And with both of them chuckling at that thought, Thunder and Jack fell into a dreamless sleep. That is, until Spark started to snore so loudly that the small cavern they were in echoed with the sound. Waking up, they stuffed the Raichus mouth with leaves and went back into their slumber, leaving Spark to spit dead leaves out of his mouth.


R&R please. And whoever can tell me what a creature that is up in the day and sleeps at night gets a cookie.
 
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“It sounded like someone slapping their hand on their face as hard as they could. There it is again! But now it sounds different, like they’re banging their head against a tree.”

“Once I find enough, Eevees will rule the world. With me as their leader, who will be able to stop us?”

ROFL!
 
I mean the term for that sort of creature. Like the ones that are up at night are nocturnal. I'm guessing that Arceus999 will get the cookie.
 
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Well, just finished chapter 11. If I hadn't met brawler in person yesterday and had him tell me to get chapter 11 up soon, I would've finished it last night. But, just to spite him, I'm posting it now.:tongue: You guys also get a bonus. I'm posting the teaser for my next fan fic at the end of this chapter. Well, enjoy.


Chapter 11​

It was noon by the time Thunder, Jack and Spark started walking towards their destination, a human city, again. Jack and Spark were flinching with every step they took, Jack due to several first and second degree burns he had received from getting hit with Discharge, Spark because of bruises he had gotten from being slammed repeatedly against a tree, so both of them were going slower then Thunder, who had escaped all type of injury the night before.

“Hurry up.” Thunder called to the other two. “We still have an hour to walk before we stop for lunch.”

“That’s easy for you to say.” Jack replied. “You didn’t get hit by a powerful electric attack and get multiple burns.”

“You didn’t get slammed against a tree either.”

“That was your own dumb fault Spark.” Thunder and Jack said in unison. Looking at each other, they burst out laughing.

“What’s so funny?” Spark demanded.

Still in unison, Thunder and Jack grinned and said. “You know what they say. Great minds think alike. Obviously we both have great minds and you don’t.”

Seeing that they were teasing him, the Raichu ignored what they were saying and sat down on pile of brown and orange rocks. “I like the color of these rocks.” He commented. “They’re orange. How many orange rocks do you see?”

“Get off the rocks and keep walking.” Jack ordered. “You don’t see me sitting down, do you? Ahhhhhhhhhhh…”

Slipping on a patch of ice, Jack’s rear met the hard, unforgiving mix of rocks and dirt he had been walking on just a few moments earlier. “Why the heck is there ice here?”

“I don’t know. The point is, I do see you sitting now.”

“Shut up Spark.”

"Shut up Jack."

“Maybe if you both weren’t to busy telling each other to shut up, you would notice that it’s getting colder, the pile of rocks Spark is sitting on is moving, and there’s a thumping sound that’s getting louder.”

Pebbles were now bouncing a good three inches into the air as a tall, beeping silver Pokémon with seven glowing red dots that appeared to be its eyes stepped out of the forest and onto the path. Its body was solid metal. The air grew colder still as another beeping Pokémon approached. This one, a bluish beeping, Pokémon that had seven yellow dots for eyes, its body seemed to be made of solid ice. Spark was hurled to the ground as a third large Pokémon with seven red eyes rose from the ground. Its body made solely out of orange and brown rocks, the three friends realized that it was the rock pile that Spark had been sitting on, and that it made a formidable trio with the other two. Thunder, Jack and Spark soon found out that the Pokémon’s only form of communication was beeping, booping and wild gestures with their long arms. After sitting and staring for five long, boring minutes, Thunder finally grew tired of the annoying sounds the three things made and started to walk past them.

“Come on you two. We can’t sit around all day trying to see what these things want.”

Sidestepping around the icy one, the Pikachu found his way blocked by the rock one. Sidestepping again, he found his way blocked again, this time by the steel being.

“O.K, there are only three of them. If I go around them again the path should be clear.” But when he went around the gray thing, he found the ice thing again. Deciding that going around didn’t work, and blasting would, Thunder used Nasty Plot a couple of times.

“Uh, Thunder. You do realize that these beeping idiots are probably ten or more levels ahead of you, don’t you?”

“And how do you get that number Jack?”

“Because they’re completely unafraid of your cheeks shooting off electricity.”

“As you said, they’re idiots. And you might want to get under cover, I’m about to use Discharge.”

Looking at Spark with panic in his eyes, Jack grabbed him and ran towards the trees and hid himself and the Raichu behind a huge fir. Looking out from behind the sappy trunk, he saw the three creatures getting blasted and quickly pulled his head back behind the evergreen before he got hit by any part of the attack. After waiting a few seconds, he realized that the massive electrical blast was over and poked his head out from behind the tree again.

“You’ll never beat them like that.” Jack called. But Thunder was to busy looking at a patch of air that looked like it was rippling. Suddenly, the whole area lit up brightly for a second and a man with a black raincoat appeared from out of nowhere.

The three Regis stood in an even more defensive stand as the man, floating in their, started to have glowing eyes and looked around.

Hooded man: "Nice electric attack. But you’re weak so it's no surprise that you didn't do much damage! Those things are called Regirock, Regice and Registeel by the way."

The man removed the hood and everyone could see the face of a thirty or forty-ish year old man with blond hair and deep green eyes.

"How do you dare to call me weak!" Thunder said and launched another Discharge with all his might. This attack was really powerful and everything that got hit was scorched.

After the dust had settled, Thunder looked around, breathing heavily from putting so much energy in his attack. He thought that he had taught that creepy guy a lesson but saw to his surprise that nothing got hurt. The icy creature took the blow again and the man had absorbed all the electricity and put it into a ball of energy.

"As I said....Weak"
The ball of absorbed energy that the man held in the palm of his hand, was crushed by just closing his hand.
"I don't have time to waste on minor life forms like you and your friends...."

The man threw black balls of energy towards Thunder and the tree where Jack and Spark were hiding. But before they hit, the rocky creature summoned some rocks to interfere with the man's attack. The balls exploded on contact and created a small black hole that sucked up all rocks from the attack before disappearing.

"Interesting move....Let's see if you are worth it... But first... why don't you watch from the side lines and see what true power really is..."

Spark, Thunder and Jack got a purple glow and started to get pulled into the air. They could not move a single muscle and were forced to watch the goings on.

Then, the man tried the same attack with the black spheres of energy but this time towards the three elemental creatures.

The metal one jumped in front of the other two and used Zap Cannon to hit the spheres before they could reach them.

"Hmmm, maybe something a bit faster......or more powerful...that hits them all....."

The man started laughing menacingly. This only geared the three Regis to attack with Ice Beam, Zap Cannon and Ancient Power.

The man now had to move from his spot in the air, absorbed the energy from Zap Cannon and used that energy to stop Ancient Power while dodging Ice Beam.

"Let's see if you can survive this....."

The man daringly teleported himself in front of Regirock, appearing with a glowing fist. He punched the Regi with the glowing fist, on its head, crushing it to smithereens.

Then, the other two tried to attack the man from up close, but the man teleported behind them.

"This......................is................. . gonna, GOOD!"

He kicked Registeel's rear so hard that it was aerial for a little while and summoned a huge pit full of starving Aron, Lairon and Aggron.

Thunder, Jack and Spark watched in utter horror while Registeel beeped as it was consumed by the hungry Pokémon.

Regice turned around and used Blizzard. That attack actually hit the man but it didn’t freeze it up.

"I'm not chilling out because you want me to!”

Then, the man unleashed a rain of black spheres of energy that were impossible for Regice to avoid. Regice got hit and was sucked into the vortex.

The man looked up at the three floating bodies. "The show is not over yet..." And the man teleported the three into space with a strange barrier so that they could breath and be warm.

It looked like they were very close to the sun because it was pretty hot and there was a very big source of light near them.

Then the man appeared next to them. He pointed at something and when Jack, Spark and Thunder looked, Regice was spit out of a black hole and was slowly floating towards the sun. It beeped while it was slowly melting from the utter heat produced by the sun.

"Hello and...goodbye...”
Jack, Thunder and Spark were send into a black hole. While in it, they regained control over their bodies but were spinning rapidly.

And suddenly, they were spit out, launched at an incredible speed, still twirling. Fortunately, they ended up in a big lake; otherwise the impact would have surely killed them. Landing with a huge splash, they quickly resurfaced and swam to the shallows.

“Who the heck was the insane murderer?”

“I don’t know Spark, I just don’t know. Why are you just standing there staring into space again Thunder? Please don’t tell me he’s coming back.”

Snapping out of it, the Pikachu started walking away. “I was staring because I leveled up quite a few time just now and don’t know why. I now can use Light Screen, and I can also tell you two to start walking towards that city again. Do you really want to be here if that psycho comes back?”

Heeding his words, Jack scrambled up the sandy bank and onto the grass on all fours before getting to his feet and running after him. Spark didn’t bother to get on two legs and just ran on four, quickly overtaking Jack and catching up the Thunder. Rising from all fours, Spark waited with Thunder for Jack to catch up.

“I still don’t know why I leveled up.” Thunder commented to no one in particular as he and Spark watched the human dash towards them. ‘”Not that I’m complaining, but it’s just a little weird. What do you think Jack?” He had caught up and, of course, had an answer.

“If… you… wait…me… catch… breath… I…tell… you.” He panted. In a few minutes he recovered and went on with his explanation. “You attacked the Regis before they were killed, right?”

“Right.”

“Well, you participated in the battle and therefore when the Regis died received half of the Experience Points they gave out when they were defeated. And since, as I told you before you attacked them, they were at a way higher level then you were, they gave off a massive amount of Experience Points, enough to level you up a few times. Right now, you’re probably level forty-two or forty-three.”

“Well that does explain it, now get moving. We’re almost at the city and I’d like to get there before dark.”

And with that command, he started walking towards human civilization, a human airport and, hopefully, Lightning.


CROSSOVER!!! Credit for the entirety of the part containing i'mperfect goes to afstandopleren, because he wrote it. He also put numbers instead of writing them out, so if there is any part were he did that that I missed, please point it out so I can change it to how I do it. And for the teaser, THERE ISN'T ONE!!! I was just "teasering" you.:lol::tongue::wink: R&R please.





No, I did write a teaser. Here it is.

Edited out, it's not going to happen.
 
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He didn't catch it because both "where" and "were" are in the English dictionary, though they have *completely* different meanings.

Don't do a Find/Replace on all of them. Just on some of them :D
 
I'm the one who wrote it, so if you wanted a different teaser in arceus999's thread, he should have written his own. No. Since we're co-writing it, it makes sense that we ave the same teaser. Afstandopleren has yet to post it in his thread though. And Bullados, you absolutely right. When I was going through afstandopleren's part I completely missed that. (Not blaming him for anything) Didn't know you're reading this story, but I'm glad you are. I've estimated that I have about 6 more chapters and 1-3 more months until I finish. After I do, I might fix up some of the previous chapters and get to work on ideas for my next fan fic. Fixed all the grammar issues that I could find. Happy now?
 
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He didn't catch it because both "where" and "were" are in the English dictionary, though they have *completely* different meanings.

Don't do a Find/Replace on all of them. Just on some of them :D


Could you please explain what the real difference is and when to use them properly?? I taught English myself as the schools I went to did not teach this Language yet.
 
From Webster's:

Where -- 1 a: at, in, or to what place <where is the house> <where are we going> b: at, in, or to what situation, position, direction, circumstances, or respect <where does this plan lead> <where am I wrong>

Were -- a past-whatever conjugation of the word "be".

Basically, with the 'h' you're describing a place or an action. Without the 'h', you're referring to the past in some way.
 
Ok. First of all, I'm probably not going to write the next chapter until a week or so after Christmas, so don't expect one until the new year. I might write it, but it's a big maybe. Secondly, after being informed by my bros that I have some grammar issues, if the more experienced writers *CoughBulladoscough* or the people who are really good at correct grammar *CoughArceus999cough* could tell me what I need to fix up in my chapters to make them grammatically correct, that would be very appreciated so I could actually use proper grammar for my next chapters, and for my next story.
 
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