Chapter 18: CHAPTER-18
A random underwater cave in the whirl islands:
Noah could be seen sitting on the damp ground with curiosity in his eyes.
Right now he was wearing the stolen lab coat with a white shirt underneath and black pants with white shoes.
White shoes again.
All his Pokemon were outside their pokeballs and was around the cave somewhere.
Combusken and lampent were in a corner seemingly discussing something important.
Magikarp and lapras were wrestling on another side.
The baby lugia also known as silver was playing with mareep's wool with turtwig and larvesta.
Larvesta was not actually playing, he was sleeping with open eyes.
Weeks of turtwig's nagging made him adapt.
Turtwig was hyperactive and wanted to play with anyone he sees.
Lugia on the other hand was sitting with Noah and was trying to find a change in his expression.
Noah's whole eyes were widened as he looked at the huge rock carving on the cave wall.
The cave was massive unlike others.
The carving depicted a beautiful lady wearing a kimono with tied up hair dancing.
The girl's attire seems to have inspired on what the kimono girls wear today.
The girl on the carving had two different exquisite earrings.
One was made with a rainbow wing similar to Noah and the other had a silver wing.
Both Lugia and Ho-oh surrounding this girl with their wings while bowing their heads.
The background seems to be the top of the bell tower but it had some difference.
Noah speculated that this must have been the burned tower.
The girl in the carving danced joyfully and small traces of tears could be seen falling from the corner of her eyes.
Three Pokemon were around her legs and looked up at her in worry.
These three Pokemon were the eeveelutions of electric-type, fire-type, and water-type.
'Jolteon, flareon and vaporeon.' Noah's theory of these three being the legendary dog trio was confirmed.
'But who is she?' This was a question that still lingered in his mind no matter how he tried to connect it with other theories.
'The way she is dancing is similar to the ones I saw at the dance theater.' Noah slowly stood up and looked towards lugia.
He decided to revisit ecruteak city for one more investigation.
"You are not the one in the carvings right?"
Noah asked straightforwardly.
Lugia nodded in agreement.
'So Ho-oh wants me to find the lugia that was with him.' Noah finally discovered his true mission and got discouraged.
'How am I supposed to find something that even Ho-oh couldn't?' Noah smiled bitterly as he thought to himself.
'I also need to find the mysteries of the lady in the carving.' Noah was sure that a potrait of this also existed.
'How am I so sure? Good question.' Noah did not know the answer himself.
During the whole time he was thinking he didn't notice the disappearance of lugia.
'But dragons cave may also have something related to this or I can ask the gym leader's grandpa, only if he exists.'
'The incident regarding ordinary is also a huge amount of responsibility.' Noah sighed and took out a chocolate bar from his bag.
Lugia was kind enough to retrieve it for him while rampaging around inside team rocket's base.
'I was a bit too harsh on him.' Noah wanted to apologise but he was embarassed.
He was snapped back from his contemplation as Lugia's face suddenly appeared before him.
Even though his face was neutral and his body didn't move, his souls have already left his body.
'I take that back.' Noah sighed again.
He has been sighing a lot these days.
"What?" He asked while munching on the chocolate bar.
Lugia used psychic as a small wooden box and a white silk cloth wrapped around something floated infront of Noah.
"For me?" Noah knew it was for him but he just asked for the sake of it.
Lugia nodded and Noah snatched the box away and opened it.
It was a silver earring with the silver wing hanging on it.
'Does these even match?' Noah did not want to be seen as someone with bad fashion sense but then again who was he to reject a legendary Pokemon.
He wore it and similarly to the golden earring it did not hurt.
He then looked towards his next gift.
He took it with both his arms and uncovered it revealing a pure white egg with a silvery lustre.
'No way!' Noah felt the mission was worth taking.
'But I have to confirm it.' Noah looked towards lugia and asked: "Yours?"
Lugia shook its head and pointed towards the carving.
Noah's eyes sparkled in joy as he thought about the future.
'Even better, I don't want my lugia to have weak genes.' Noah thought but did not voice out his opinion lest he gets hit by a point blank aeroblast.
He darted his eyes around the cave memorising it and told: "I guess it's time to leave then."
He recalled his Pokemon to their pokeballs and waited for lugia to send him to the surface of the sea.
Lugia nodded and silver who heard this whined on seeing his friends leave.
Noah took his chances as he chuckled and approached silver and said: "I will visit another time or you can come with m-"
Noah was unable to finish his words as he was snatched by the collar and appeared on top of the water in the matter of seconds.
Lugia was overprotective.
Still fell for team rocket though.
Lugia dropped him onto the sea and stared at him while being in the sky.
Noah fell into the water with a splash but quickly came up with a smile.
"THANK YOU!" Noah shouted as he floated in the water and looked at lugia with a wide smile.
Lugia also seems to be smiling and immediately plummeted back underwater.
Noah could not stop smiling because these last few days were the most exciting but dangerous events that happened in his life.
But another reason was that he just felt happy even though he did not know why.
He released lapras and swam towards it.
He still had a lot to cover in johto.
He sat on lapras' shell and looked towards the sky and did not take his eyes of even though the sunlight was harsh.
He was a bit traumatized by zapdos.
Only a bit.
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Slowpoke cave:
Hundreds of slowpokes were worshipping a mural on the wall as a group of people walking by them.
They wore purple robes with unown alphabet inscribed on them.
They reached the mural and the leader who walked infront of them pulled back her robes revealing a stunning women with short green hair and yellow eyes.
She reached out her arm but refrained from touching the mural.
She noticed that the shadowy figure which disappeared before has returned.
She whispered: "He escaped...."
Even though it was a whisper everyone present there heard it and a chill went through their spines.
Even though her voice was soft and weak they all knew deep murderous intent was boiling inside her.
This time she whispered with a loving tone as she looked at the shadowy figure: "Don't worry my love, I will make sure he submits."
Noah won't.