Chapter 22: Orbs•
Selena's Wailord transported the three trainers all the way to Aether paradise to hurry and save Lillie and Cosmog. Selena didn't want to take the ferry. She was use to sailing on her Pokémon. If Froslass knew where the Alola region was, she and Alex didn't have to take the plane in the first place
"This is a little extra..." Gladion comment
"It's awesome in my opinion!" Hau stretched high in the sky next to his terrified Lycanroc next to him. It's was only yesterday his Pokémon was a Rockruff and now it's evolved the next day. He was late for the meeting up at the harbor. He must've been training
Selena stood up in the very front, letting the breeze blow into her face as she held the Darkium Z in her hands. Nanu turned up at the meeting place and offered a battle, since he was the Kahuna of the island surprisingly. Looks like she completed the grand trial without planning on doing so
It was still a few miles to go before they reach aether paradise. She still had time to do the thing she didn't get the chance to do before. She took out the Adamant Orb and Griseous Orb from her new bag she got in Mali shopping center, and turned to her friends
"Don't pay any mind to what I'm about to do" the boys looked at her confused before she looked back at the ocean and threw the Griseous Orb in the air "Giratina! Come forth and show yourself to your master!" The Orb shined brightly until a portal appeared, bringing out the large legless legendary from its world. Gladion flinched and stood up, staring in shock
"Ra!!!" Giratina shouted loudly. Wailord moved a little, stopping in place and almost made the boys fall off. Selena floated up to the legendary and held its head
"Giratina... it's been so long since I've seen you. I've been meaning to check up on you since what happened, but I didn't have the guts too" she pressed her forehead on it "after what happened, I still saw it that it was your fault of their escape, but that wasn't the case. I'm sorry I accused you. You were trying to stop him, but ended up hitting..." Mew showed up, holding her shoulder
"You finally accept what happened..?" Selena nodded. Giratina bumped its head softly on her as a respond, sorry for what it let happen, and looked down at Gladion staring at it. Mew giggled and spun around
"Wow! I didn't know you owned a legendary! Selena!" Hau smiled
"Are you thick? I told you I only own two... Giratina is responsive to my call, so I only call myself it's master only because it's attached to me"
"That legendary... it looks like the shadow I've seen in my dreams" He said. Selena looked at Giratina, knowing this was a fact that Giratina was his parent. She pet its head as Mew flew up to him
"It's telling you to stop littering its world!" It giggled. He blinked confused and looked at his hand, shaking it and made the black ball he made before "yeah! That! Don't just throw unnecessary things into the Distortion world just to fascinate yourself!"
"It really is my..." Selena stood back on Wailord and raised her arm
"I knew that during the time we were together in route 3. It shouldn't stay here for long... time to go back. Thank you, Giratina!" Giratina went back to its world, dropping the Orb back into her hands. Mew cheered and spun around Hau laughing with it. Gladion sat down, staring at his hands
"How do you feel about meeting your legendary?" The side of his lip curled a little
"I'm honored..." Hau crawled to sit next to him and face Selena
"Say! Have any idea which is mine? I want to know who created me!" Mew giggled
"Oh silly boy! You can see if you look with the Reveal Mirror! But there's no telling if you can because it's dangerous to look through it if you're not worthy. I can't tell you if you are because you're not mine" He looked confused "only those Leles who are worthy can see through the mirror..." Mew looked at Selena "you have accepted your past, and you've gain much control over these pass months. If the Lele is not worthy and the legendary knows it's not necessary for them to know, or if you don't have control over your powers, the mirror can be toxic, and it'll only be a mirror to regular person"
"So I have control over my powers now?"
"Well yes! If you didn't notice before. All the legendaries in the 5th dimension hang out at Faraway island! You'll be able to see the shadow triad in the 4th dimension and put them in peace" Selena smiled tearfully and nodded
"Thank you... but right now, I have other things to worry about. We have to save Lillie and Cosmog" the boys nodded "thank you for all that you've done... Mew" Mew kissed her cheek
"Of course..." Mew flew to Gladion's face, invading his personal space. It leaned into his ear "take care of my princess..." he blushed and nodded just as it disappeared. Selena and Hau questioned him. He looked down, blushing.
"Anyways, thanks for showing me my legendary parent... it was an honor" Selena smiled and sat down, looking down at the Adamant Orb. Maybe... it's not a good idea to ask about its relationship with Toby. He's still in that building. If he's still suffering on his own, she'll have to bring Dialga out if she can't do anything
"Let's go Wailord! To Aether Paradise!" She shouted, scaring the boys from the sudden noise. Wailord cried out and started swimming again. She sat there in silence before noticing the reveal mirror appearing on her lap. She held it up slowly, staring at the glass. Celebi appeared instead of her reflection
"Hey there!" She blinked confused "I want to tell you something cool! Hold up the mirror towards your friends like a camera and you'll be able to see their legendary!"
"Really?" She whispered and secretly lifted the mirror to face Hau holding his stomach like he was hungry. The glass spiraled around until it showed his face transparent to... Groudon!?
"WHAT!?!?" She shouted, flying into the air, staring at the Primal Groudon raising from the lava and roar to the sky "what does emotions have to do with a Pokémon like Groudon?" Leles don't have the same power as their legendary, that's right... but Groudon created Hau!? Really!?
"What's wrong, Selena?" Hau asked. She shook her head and pointed the mirror towards Gladion. He blinked confused and covered his face, feeling like his picture was being taken from the way she was holding the mirror. His face turned transparent with Giratinas and a cave area with what looked like glowing green goo in a puddle. She couldn't see a Pokémon in there at all, so there was no way to identify the second image. He was created by two Pokémon as well?
"What are you doing!? Stop playing around!" Gladion glared. She huffed and put the mirror in her bag before turning around to see aether paradise in view
"Land ahoy!" Hau cheered. Selena petted Wailord for a thank you and levitated everyone to the harbor in Aether paradise. Gladion raised his arm to prevent them from taking another step
"This place probably already knows about us... we better be careful" just as he said that, four aether employees ran their way and aimed for punches and kicks in the air. Gladion snapped, using his keen senses and disabled their powers, making them fall flat on the floor
"Nice try! You know you can't touch me!" He glared angrily. Selena took out her reveal glass and faced it towards the four Leles glaring at Gladion holding his hips. These Leles looked related... and their legendaries were the four swords of justice, Virizon, Terrakion, Cobalion, and Keldeo.
"We might not be able to attack you! But we can still battle!" All four of them send out their Pokémon. Hau send out his strong looking Incineroar. He really had been training
"I got this! Go!" He told the two "I won't mess up this time! I'll teach these guys to respect their fellow Lele friends! I don't know why Lillie would be here in aether paradise, but it's my fault for not protecting her! I don't loose! go and I'll catch up!" Gladion and Selena nodded before running off to find the elevator. Gladion spotted a few aether employees hanging around guarding the place. He disabled the Leles powers while Selena used the mirror in full curiousness. She spotted the children of Heatran, Zaptos, Cresselia, and Meloetta.
"I don't know what you're doing, but I need you to focus here" he whispered "these employees are serious about their jobs. They can't use their powers, so either we battle or just run"
"I don't want to battle. We don't have time for that. Froslass, let's go" Froslass appeared and teleported the two to the safest spot from corner to corner, passing the employees, and reached the elevator "shouldn't we wait for Hau?" Froslass left and came back with Hau and his Pokémon
"Hau... how I get here?"
"Looks like everyone's here" Gladion pressed some buttons on the operating elevator "we can't use the main elevator... I was afraid this would happen. But what a pain"
"Dude, is there something you know that we don't?" Hau asked
"We're going up then..." Gladion completely ignored him. Selena only stared, letting everything go with the flow. She hopes Lillie is okay...
As the elevator goes up, she felt the aura of Toby coming closer. In their stop, his voice came from behind them "I, Toby, am the Aether Branch chief" he said with such "elegance" Selena made a face. Great... he's like this again "the only one in the world, I'm irreplaceable"
"You're pissing me off Toby, that's what!" Selena glared
"You know him?" Gladion asked
"You dare to come back... uninvited?" Toby stood tall
"Like you don't know why. You of all people should know everything that happens in the Aether foundation. Isn't that right, high-and- mighty branch chief?" Gladion sassed. Toby chuckled
"Awe! Look at you... living out in the world hasn't been kind, hasn't it? Don't act like you know me, kid. I'm not saying a thing! I wouldn't expect you all to understand" he eyed Selena staring at him "you there... for some reason you stare at me like you have a chance. I understand that I'm handsome, but please, I need you all to leave, if you know what's good for you"
"That's my line, Toby" she took out the Adamant Orb. His eyes widened "do you dare me to bring out Dialga?" He forced a laugh
"Y-you think I'm scared? I have nothing to do with that Pokémon. I am my own man... and I'm powerful! You wish to fight me? Branch Chief Toby?"
"It's not what I want... but if it come down to it being our last choice, I won't hesitate to beat you" she punched her hands together, holding the Orb in the air, to make herself more threatening with her glowing eyes and floating hair "and I don't mean in battle... come over here and I'll beat you silly" he flinched and took a step back
"D-don't even..." he held his head "I won't be beaten... I am important to this foundation. The last line of defense. I am a powerful Lele and you cannot touch me without fearing for your lives. I will kill you with time!" Hau poked Selena's shoulder
"Hey... if your friends with him, try using your voice to call out to him" she flinched, blushing "I mean... you can call forth your friends from far away. I think that's the reason why Gladion ran to the aether house in the first place, it's because of your voice" Gladion over heard this and blushed, glaring to make it seem like he wasn't
"I-I can't count on it to work... I don't know how it works really, so let's not waste our time"
"But..." she shook her head, feeling shy and looked at Toby eyeing the Adamant Orb "I'm going to help you, Toby! I won't give up on you! You're the reason why I'm alive today!" Hau realize what she was talking about and gasped. Toby sighed and walked to the elevator to do some adjusting
"You're getting pretty annoying... so just get this over with and I'll take you down to the bottom floor" he slid his card and ran off the elevator, wanting to get away from the Orb Selena still had. The elevator went down quickly
"Toby!" She glared "I'll get you..." Gladion looked around some lab area
"Nothing's change... 2 years passed already" she stared at him. Gladion seems to really know this place. Could it be possible that he ran away from this place? What is this place really? It has a bad vibe to it today...
Celebi landed on her shoulder "2 years huh? Did you run away at the same time Selena came back from her adventure?" It winked, knowing the answer. The pair looked at the small legendary confused
"Ran away? What was Toby talking about earlier anyways?" Selena asked. Gladion walked off to look at his surroundings
"It's like a secret hideout" Hau comment, looking around in awe. Selena only stared at Celebi flying around her. Why is it here?
"Don't get too excited, Hau" Gladion said "though I guess it's better than freezing from fear or nerves" Hau smiled wide
"Well yeah! I have to keep positive so I won't let anyone down! My emotions are contagious, so I'm always going to make any situation fun so we can keep our chins up!" Gladion smiled a little "so where do we go now?" Selena turned and faced the only door that's available for them. There are a few people in there, so she walked forward without a word. Damn you Toby... she was so close if he didn't mess with the elevator
"Hold it, princess" Gladion huffed "might not want to just go up into a door and not have a plan"
"Like you have one?" He rolled his eyes
"There's two labs up ahead. I'll check secret lab A. You two check out Secret Lab B. You can't miss it" Zyna came out his hoodie and jumped on his shoulder all happily
"What's that?" Hau pointed. Celebi giggled
"Zyna! Get back in the hood!" Gladion glared. Selena almost giggled, remembering how Lillie always says that to Nebby.
"What was that?" Hau asked
"Nothing! What's important is that we need to save Cosmog" he ran up ahead. Hau walked up to Selena
"Geez, it's just a question" he then whispered "He's so mysterious and rude" He shrugged, staring at the ceiling
"Gladion feels bothered. Who knows what he's thinking" he looked back at her "but seriously, Selena... that friend of yours back up there. He was suffering. What are you going to do about it?" She sighed and looked at Celebi
"Celebi... have any idea what's wrong with him?" It waggled it's hand
"He's actually under mind control. Dialga is not happy. Not one bit! But not to worry... your voice can reach to him"
"My voice?"
"It has the power to attract those who have seen your eyes. They will listen to you and nothing else" she blushed
"I told you!" Hau cheered "it's your voice!" Celebi nodded
"You can't really control who comes when they hear you sing, but know it's your followers wanting to be with you. You bring happiness to those around you. This power... is one the first phase of your second to last power"
"S-Second to last-?!" She face palmed "I thought I was done developing!" It laughed
"Oh my darling! You're more than you think you are!" She huffed, turning away. What the hell?
"Come on Selena, Lillie must be scared. We have to save her" Hau said. Selena nodded and ran to the secret labs with him. There was employees around, protecting the place. Hau fought them so Selena could run up ahead to the secret lab B, but not before checking up on Gladion. He seems bothered like Hau said. If he said it, that means it's true. She went off to check up on him. He was in the first door she spotted and walked in, seeing him staring at nothing but a operating table
"Hey, you alright?" He shook his head
"Nothing's here..."
"Then why are you staring at that table?" He sighed and looked down at his Pokéball. Zyna frowned at him "something is bothering you. Tell me. We're friends, aren't we? I told you about me before, now it's your turn. Though I won't make you"
"Me and Null... we're more alike than we might look" his hands were shaking "we're both what we're made to be... I was like an ornament to my mother. Wearing whatever she told me to wear, acting however she wanted me to act... Null is crafted just as carefully. it was made just to battle the beasts. In this room... right here" Selena looked around surprised "even if I ran away, I'm still a ornament. I don't have to act a certain way or wear something special, but I was crafted for a purpose" he sifted his expression towards her "Selena... I..." Celebi shook its head, flying between them
"No, it's too soon for you to tell her. Until she gains her last ability, she can't know"
"Know what?" It faced her
"Don't worry about that... just know you'll get it soon. Today"
During my editing process, I actually forgot what went on after this so... we'll both see what's up!
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