A Legendary Issue
(3) - Tea Time
"Here we are," Shining Armour said as we approached a door indistinguishable from any of the other hundred or so. I learned quite a while ago that hiding in plain sight was often the best protection.
"So we are," I replied. "Mind knocking for me? I'm a bit preoccupied with not making the floor look like a mosaic..."
Shining Armour glanced at my levitating form, then shook his head to hide the grin that appeared. He raised a hoof to knock, but a voice rang out from inside before it made contact with the door.
"Come in," the voice said as the door was opened magically from the inside.
The Royal Office was nicely decorated, but it appeared to have been toned down since I was last here. The incredibly plush, bright red with golden embroidery, swamp of a carpet was replaced with a much less offensive blue one. The magnificent silk curtains were now mere cloth, and even the massive, mahogany desk was downgraded to a smaller, oaken version. Two alicorns, one white and one blue, were sitting at the ends of said table, drinking what appeared to be tea. Shining Armour immediately bowed.
"Princess Celestia; Princess Luna," he acknowledged. "The emissary is here."
Celestia smiled and took a sip from her cup. "I gathered," she said cheekily. "Thank you for directing him here, Guard Captain. That will be all," she concluded, dismissing Shining. He nodded, bowed again, then began walking back in the direction we had come.
When he was a bit further down, I hovered to the right enough that I could look into the room with both eyes, rather than just one.
"Are you just going to sit there, or are you going to—" I began, but my words were cut off when Celestia's horn flashed and I felt everything shift around me. Suddenly, I was a few feet further from the door, now actually inside the room. A wave of vertigo hit me like a brick.
"—teleport me inside, as I can't fit through the door," I finished lamely, vision swimming. When the sensation subsided, I tilted my torso in the direction of the princesses. "Good afternoon Princess Celestia... and Princess Luna. Good to see you back in the land of the ponies."
Luna seemed almost taken aback that I knew who she was, but she quickly hid it with a mostly differential mask. "We have not yet met. Thou art James, we—I," she corrected automatically, "presume?"
I nodded, silently snickering at her archaic accent. "You would be correct, princess. It's nice to finally meet you."
Luna placed her hovering cup down on the table and offered her hoof, presumably for the customary hoofshake. I stared at her foreleg wryly.
"I'd shake, but if I uncurl one of my legs to do so, I'd land onto the nice carpet and crush the marble beneath. Pretty bad design flaw, I know—it's like they weren't even thinking when they designed me."
A perplexed look broke free of Luna's mask, and she hesitantly withdrew her foreleg.
Well, so much for humour. I never was proficient at making good first impressions.
"Never mind," I sighed. I hovered a little more to the right in an attempt to center myself along the side of the table. I stuck out on both sides, but at least I tried. "So," I began. "What's got you so riled up that you needed me out of hibernation to fix it? And why was it important enough to not be included on the scroll?"
Celestia's horn flashed briefly. A moment later, a translucent gold sphere expanded from her horn, growing large enough to encase the three of us. As soon as the edge of the sphere had passed through me entirely, I felt my hearing shift. It felt like I was underwater, with sounds strangely distorted, but still understandable.
I recognized the globe's purpose: it was a noise-cancelling spell, and it made certain that we wouldn't be overheard.
"You really don't want whatever this problem is to become common knowledge, do you?" I commented.
Celestia nodded, and let out a pent-up sigh. "The locations already affected are suffering from mass hysteria. I can't risk any outside forces getting a hold of this information, for fear of the panic spreading."
That got my attention.
"Whoa there, slow down a second: just what are these 'affected locations,' and why are they—well, affected?"
Celestia sighed again, and it was then that I noticed the bags under her eyes. She looked like she hadn't had a wink of sleep in several days. "A series of tears between our dimension and another are occurring. I know not what the cause of these tears is, but that's not even our biggest problem."
Luna glanced at Celestia, who nodded subtlety in response.
"There have been reports of fantastic and extraordinary creatures harassing, tormenting, and in one case, killing our citizens that live in the outermost cities of Equestria," Luna explained solemnly. "The descriptions of the creatures vary indiscriminately, from large, dog-like creatures that control the elements to ones that seem to be made of living shadow."
If I had an esophagus, I would've gulped nervously. Those sounded a lot like—
"James," Celestia began before I could say anything, "do any of these creatures match the descriptions of other beings like yourself? Other... Pokemon?"
Ah crap. I knew there had to be a reason why it was me she chose rather than, say, a contingent of the Royal Guard.
"Yeah," I muttered, mind errant with hypotheses. This was bad; real bad. "Those descriptions match some Pokemon all right. Unfortunately, those Pokemon happen to be among the most powerful there are. I doubt that I'd stand much of a fight against one, let alone as many as you think are running amok."
Princess Celestia smiled grimly. "I'm well aware of that, which is why I'm not asking just you to handle this."
I felt a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"I take it you're referring to the rest of the people who're trapped here, too. Right?"
Celestia tilted her head slightly. "Whatever happened to calling them 'friends?'"
I snorted. "A lot can change in three-hundred years, princess. Even if I knew where the ones who can still walk are, that doesn't mean that they'll join my solitary quest at my behest."
"I'm well aware of that as well, James, which is why I'm sending my personal student, as well as five of her friends, to aid complete this task—with or without you."
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...Because I hadn't finished writing it yet!
Hope he's made a few elder dragon friends over the years, because Entei alone would fuck shit up. Gonna take a bit more than tasting the rainbow to stop Legendaries...
This story off to a great start. I'm looking forward to finding out what happen to Jame's friends. I'm also looking forward to the first meeting between him and the mane six.
It took me three chapters to realize that the title meant that Legendary Pokémons are the ones causing trouble.
Dun dun duuunnn~
This'll be epic. :D
Rayquaza.
I wanna see Rayquaza.
And Groudon.
Or go classical with the biggest 'fuck you', MEWTWO.
i will be very happy if there is a darkrai chapter/arc(depends on how long each legendary takes to beat). darkrai's dark void combined with nightmare would be cool. not to mention a dark type versus metagross. for that matter heatran and entei/moltres would be cool.
So the mane 6 are getting involved too? Interesting. Then again, quite an obvious move to make considering it is now the modern Equestrian era.
I can't really think of any of his friends besides his ghostly one (sorry, forget his name) that would have survived 300 years though, unless some pokemon are really REALLY long lived or they went into some sort of suspended animation for 300 years. Maybe Gardevoirs have exceptionally long lifespans, or Seth (I think that's the name of the Piloswine) could have frozen himself kinda like that one episode in the anime in the Johto series? I don't know, I think those three besides Philomena had the best chances of sticking around.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing the main 6 react to James.
And the Mane 6 will finally meet the humans turned Pokemon. Now let's see which one freaks first.
Pinkie, for need to throw the "new ponies" a welcome party?
Rarity, for something fashion related?
Fluttershy, for fear of the giant walking tank and/or the living ghost?
AJ, for... I got nothing for her. She's pretty grounded.
Rainbow Dash, for needing to challenge one of them to a race? Or perhaps insult one of them?
Or Twilight, for "discovering" a new species and documenting them for later study?
Only time will tell.
Sounds like Darkrai is among the legendaries showing up. According to the Pokédex and one of the movies, he's supposedly not that bad of a guy (or whatever). Hell, the reason why he hangs around Cresselia is so he doesn't accidentally drive everyone insane with the nightmares he causes merely by existing. I wouldn't be surprised if he's freaking out right now because he can't find Cresselia.
3294400 It'd propably depend on what story Solecism uses for each legendary. For example, if she uses the canon of the movies, then I'd imagine that legendaries like Mewtwo would be more likely to help out rather than cause trouble.
The legindary dogs and darkrai... Fascinating
what? Legendaries? killing for no reason? I just can't see that
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I'm not sure if meeting up with Luna would be a good or bad idea.
Are Raikou, Entei, Suicune and Darkrai also Human-turned Pokemon?
And imagine James' first encounter with the Mane 6…
Twilight: Either she freaks out and tries zapping James, or examines him.
Rainbow Dash: She tries to tackle him, and gets a spitting headache (at best) for her efforts. That, or she thinks he looks awesome.
AppleJack: She either gapes in shock, or gets aggressive and ends up nursing two sore hooves. Whether James actually budges depends on whether he's levitating or not.
Rarity: She faints, or she comments on his color scheme (Personally, I think Slate blue and metallic grey/chrome do go quite well together.)
Fluttershy: She faints, or cowers. Because no matter how you look at it, James CANNOT do cute as a Metagross.
Pinkie Pie: HITHEREMYNAMEISPINKIEPIE….
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Does the 300+ year old Ryder hate James? Because as depressing as it may sound, he would have a pretty good reason for becoming jaded/bitter/crazy.
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So I just bought all of the skittles in the stat e I live in for no reason? Damn.
If ALL the Legendaries are in here, than I'd love to see how they handle the Regi Trio and/or Regigigas. Probably because Regigigas can feasibly drop-kick James across the world. I mean, Groudon created the continents, but Regigigas dragged them around.
Also, I'd love to see Pinkie's reaction to Mew. And maybe Mew would be willing to aid them.
Was this intentional????
I'm also getting the feeling James is going to meet up with the old gang of Pokémon on his way there.....
Well interesting bit can you at least make it so the Latias can be friends with mane six please because shes friendly amd shy
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Mewtwo can be homicidal if he's angry.
3294943 well, yes... but there's a REASON for that....
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Also in pokemon lore they say that Kyurem eats people and pokemon.
3294949 I haven't played Black 2 or White 2... but it said Living Shadows... that's Darkrai isn't it?
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She just said there was one case of killing. Didn't say who or what.
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who does that remind you of?
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Two separate statements that may or may not correlate to each other.
chapter are to short , but other then that it is ok
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Those aren't "four" dog-like creatures are they?
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how many can do that?
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Touche....
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Well Entei would would beat James pretty soundly due to fire beating steel types, Raikou would be some issue maybe and suicune heh no problem for a steel type like metagross.
Keep up the great work...I'm hoping to see a Pikachu...what can I say it's been my favorite since Gen. 1~
3294636 That would be a much better plotline than stereotypical evil.
EVERYONE PAGE THE AUTHOR!
It's so good to see daily updates. Thank you oh Kind one!
I really liked your idea behind this story, but I can't help but to feel that the 'prequel' of this tale was quite rushed.
In my opinion, the prequel could have been made longer, or at least, have had an acceptable time-skip. It felt like everything was resolved in the matter of days, basically.
You really didn't have to write them as two separate stories.
But, who knows? Maybe you'll incorporate flashbacks that'll tell us more. Don't stop writing this story, I want to read it still.
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Damnit, ya beat me to it.
Regigigas is one of my all time favorites.
Ho-Oh and Groudon are tied for first, then comes Regigigas, followed by Kyurem.
I also want to see the Kami Trio: Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus.\
Maybe the could all have been brothers in human life, with the Landorus one being the 'smart' one with the other two being, well, dickheads? It would fit their background.
Ahh, the legendary big-cats and probably Darkrai.
Suicune is a big cuddly Puma!
Raikou is a big cute Tiger!
Entei is a weird Lion!
Meow!
Incredible story. I read the entire prequel in a single day. Now, I'm hoping for more of your chapters as soon as you can write them out. the only complaint I have is that the chapters aren't longer than 1000 words. as much as I like this story I'd like to be reading it a lot.
Keep up the good work!
Shit gonna get real!!!!
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I was thinking along the same lines: Mewtwo would probably just find some isolated location after arriving and meditate, until Little Guy managed to find him and somehow aquire his help in subduing the rest of the legendaries.
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There is not only Kyurem, but Giratina was banished to the Distortion World for its violence, so it could be either or. But Darkrai does not harm others, except by causing nightmares around it to protect itself when threatened.
I only have one problem with this story...
The chapter's are so short, oh my god!
Other than that, I love it. Still, I wouldn't mind longer descriptions and more plot happening in each chapter.
3295509 What's sad is that he can't control that defense mechanism, he can't even turn it off.
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Short... and quick to release. You ain't gonna be waiting for the next one for too long don't worry bout dat.
3294336 short, quick, to the point, regular posts. i like it. 8.5/10
Well, this isn't good. I knew what it was from the story description, but it still isn't good. Still, Mane Six! Our hero finally gets to meet his best pony! Though I imagine that more than three centuries of life as a living tank has cooled his ardor...
That being said, it's interesting to note that the displaced six have two breeding pairs among their number. (M!Gengar and F!Gardevoir [Amorphous], M!Mamoswine and F!Blaziken [Field]) I wonder if anything came of that. Obviously there are both emotional and logistical obstacles to that (the second one's not quite Skitty on Waillord action, but comes close) but it's not entirely impossible that there are a bunch of Raltses and Torchics somewhere in Equestria. Just saying. (And I'm probably not the first to do so. )
In any case, looking forward to more.
3295509 how could I forget Giratina?! He's one of my Top Ten!
I wann see Regigigas, Latias and Articuno those are my personal favorites Virizion and Hetran are up there to.
Darkrai-Luna battle, COMMENCE!