Okay, it's time to get this ball rolling!
I'm going to start posting the synopses of the chapters and books of this fic that have been written so far - first up, the entirety of Book One.
Thanks for your endless patience, guys. Although it doesn't look it, I've actually been really busy with LTL (more so now that exams have just finished) - once I post these synopses up, you'll be delighted to more than just one chapter, and a couple of surprises!
Hope you all find this recap a useful reference; and, to new readers, I hope this helps introduce you to the world of Lisa the Legend in a less daunting way than trying to approach all 64 chapters at once.
I'd really love some feedback on this synopsis: is it too long, or is there just enough detail to sustain it? Hoping for some guidance on this if possible.
Cheers guys - and watch this space! More is on the way!!!
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Lisa the Legend – Synopsis.
Book One: Legendaries.
Chapter 1 - Adventure in the Burned Tower.
The story opens on a balmy October morning in Ecruteak City. Fourteen-year-old Lisa Walters has just finished her compulsory schooling, but she is not enjoying her summer break as much as she had hoped: her school friends, Tuscany and Charmaine, have left town for the holidays and her parents, experienced palaeontologists, have relocated to Kanto for a dig, leaving her to take care of her precocious younger siblings. The only good thing that has happened for Lisa lately is that her parents bought her her very first pokémon – but what’s the use in having an Aipom when the local Gym leader uses only ghost-type pokémon?
Frustrated that her parents have banned her from starting a pokémon journey of her own, Lisa decides to spend a day training at the Burned Tower, especially as there have been recent news reports of legendary pokémon sightings there. Leaving her siblings in the care of her grandmother, Lisa sets off for the Burned Tower – never expecting that what she sees there will change her life forever.
Chapter 2 - Lisa's Quest Begins.
After a victory against a fellow pokémon trainer, Lisa ventures too far into the depths of the Burned Tower and falls through to the hidden basement below, right into the middle of what appears to be a clandestine meeting between none other than Suicune, Raikou and Entei – the three legendary dogs themselves!
Catching hold of Suicune, Lisa and Aipom ride on his back as he pelts out of Ecruteak City, eventually throwing them off unceremoniously into a lake. After Suicune is attacked by a territorial Wooper, Lisa attempts to capture Suicune in a pokéball, which appears only to enrage him. He launches an aggressive attack on Lisa and Wooper before fleeing the scene.
Having accidentally captured Wooper in the process, Lisa is left in the wilderness alone, amazed at what she has just witnessed. She vows to find out more about the mystery of Suicune.
En route to the nearest town (Goldenrod City), Lisa battles a trainer named Anna, whose denial of the existence of legendary pokémon only fuels Lisa’s resolve.
Chapter 3 - The Contest.
Still trying to find her way to Goldenrod City, Lisa encounters Hiro and Kristal, two trainers from New Bark Town. The three become travelling partners for the day, taking part in the local Bug Catching Contest.
While competing, Lisa receives a phone call from her elder brother Tom, who demands to know where she has gone. After a heated discussion, he agrees to allow Lisa to travel around the nearby regions, on the condition that she returns to Ecruteak before their parents do.
The Bug Catching Contest finishes, with Hiro winning and Kris taking out third place; Lisa, who only catches a Caterpie, fails to rate a mention.
Chapter 4 - Friends and Rivals.
Lisa, Hiro and Kris continue to travel together, arriving in Goldenrod City to heal their pokémon. Lisa meets Tyler, Hiro’s obnoxious rival trainer, and the two engage in a heated match outside the pokémon centre.
After the battle, the travellers part ways: Hiro and Kris continue their quest for more gym badges, while Lisa sets off for the Radio Tower, which houses an extensive library that she knows holds information on the legendary pokémon – including Suicune.
Chapter 5 - Inside the Radio Tower.
Lisa visits Goldenrod City’s imposing Radio Tower. After being accosted by a suspicious man in black at the entrance, she meets a helpful library employee around her own age, named Gavin Luper, who shares her belief and interest in the legendary pokémon.
As Gavin takes Lisa to the tower’s Video Vault to find a Suicune documentary called “Sacred Suicune”, the two begin to form a friendship, and agree to meet for a friendly battle that evening.
Once they reach the vault however, those plans fall by the wayside. The two are stunned by the appearance of an oversized black beast, which prepares to attack them both with a deadly-looking green orb of light …
Chapter 6 - Recovery.
Just as the Black Beast’s attack is fired, Gavin screams out with pain, apparently suffering a migraine, before shooting out a beam of psychic energy at the beast. The ensuing collision of energy tears the Radio Tower apart; as a bookshelf falls to crush her, Lisa passes out in shock.
Lisa wakes up on Route 34; she and Gavin were apparently teleported to safety. Once they are taken to hospital to convalesce, Lisa broaches the subject of the psychic beam that Gavin used to save them. To her surprise, he becomes aggressive and flatly refuses to acknowledge the event even took place.
Finding out that Lisa is on a pokémon journey, Gavin’s Uncle Eusine, whilst visiting Gavin, asks her to deliver some pokémon to his friend Jack Criddle on Cianwood Island.
Eager for an adventure, Lisa obliges.
Chapter 7 - Journey for Cianwood.
Lisa and Gavin bond while returning to Route 34 to pick up Gavin’s Natu from the local police. Lisa learns more about the mysterious Black Beast while talking to the on-duty officer.
After defeating Lock, a bug pokémon trainer, in battle, Lisa is elated when her Wooper evolves into Quagsire. After the fight, Lisa and Gavin decide to part ways – he will return home to Goldenrod, whilst she will be heading for Cianwood Island – however, as he watches Lisa leave, Gavin begins to question the decision to part with his newfound friend.
Chapter 8 - Suicune's Return.
Now with a team of six pokémon – Aipom, Quagsire, Butterfree and Girafarig, plus Eusine’s Mankey and Granbull – Lisa reaches the coast. As Quagsire dives into the shallows, Lisa sees, to her amazement, Suicune standing furiously before them. Suicune and Quagsire engage in a fierce battle, while Suicune becomes more and more incensed at both Quagsire and Lisa.
When Suicune turns on Lisa, she runs, abandoning her pokémon for her own safety. Just when it appears that Suicune is about to attack her fatally, Lisa is teleported to safety by a Natu latching onto her shoulder: it turns out Gavin has changed his mind and decided to come with her to Cianwood, saving her at the crucial moment.
Realising with horror that she has left Quagsire alone on the beach, Lisa runs back, only to see Quagsire reject her and swim out into the Cianwood Sea without her.
Chapter 9 - Battle on the Coral Reef.
Lisa surfs into the sea on Gavin’s Staryu in search of her estranged Quagsire. Finding a coral reef, she meets Irene, a local trainer who claims she has just captured Quagsire for herself. The two begin to battle for ownership of Quagsire.
Chapter 10 - Fighting the Ocean.
During the match, Quagsire becomes overwhelmed with compassion for Lisa’s nearly-drowned Aipom and returns to Lisa. Irene reveals herself to be a Gym Leader for the Whirlpool Cup. Lisa defeats her in a fierce match and wins the Coral Reef Badge.
Regrouping, Lisa and Gavin surf to Cianwood Island. After struggling with a dangerous whirlpool, in which Lisa enlists the help of her newly-caught Dratini and Gavin captures a particularly violent green Lanturn, the friends find themselves beaches on the shore of Cianwood Island.
Chapter 11 - The Ungrateful Sailor.
Shortly after, Lisa delivers Eusine’s two pokémon to a sailor named Jack Criddle. Lisa and Jack battle on his boat as it sails back to Red Rock Island. Impressed by Lisa’s skill and doggedness, Jack gives her a pokéball, but before Lisa can open it, the boat is sucked into an even larger whirlpool than before …
Chapter 12 - Psychics.
Lisa, Gavin and Jack attempt to use their pokémon to fight the whirlpool – to no avail. As the boat is sucked deeper into the water, Gavin loses his balance and is roughly slammed into a metal railing, collapsing before abruptly screaming with pain. His psychic powers activated, he telekinetically returns the boat to safety, much to Lisa and Jack’s bewilderment.
Later that evening, Gavin acknowledges his psychic powers to Lisa and explains the curse that he believes has been placed on his family.
Arriving on Red Rock Island, Lisa decides to compete in the Whirlpool Cup.
Chapter 13 - The Colosseum.
Lisa and Gavin experience Red Rock Island before going to the Colosseum for the Whirlpool Cup tournament’s opening round. Lisa’s badge automatically qualifies her for the second round; Gavin, meanwhile, fights and wins his first battle.
Chapter 14 - The Water Washout.
Back on Shellder Beach, Irene is awoken at night by a man demanding to know in which direction Lisa Walters is headed. Irene reveals that Lisa intended to participate in the Whirlpool Cup.
The next day on Red Rock Island, Lisa finds that her first opponent is none other than Anna, the trainer she met on the first day of her journey who sneered at her tale of legendary pokémon.
During Lisa and Anna’s match, a collision of Ice Beams causes Lisa’s Dratini and Anna’s Psyduck to be frozen underwater, both unable to breathe.
Chapter 15 - Watered-Down Revenge.
The Colosseum is overrun by trainers trying to unlock Dratini and Psyduck from their airless prison, but when Gavin’s Lanturn electrocutes him, his powers are activated once more, shredding the ice field but rescuing the trapped pokémon. Exhausted by the effort, Gavin falls down a crevice in the ice, unconscious.
While Gavin convalesces in hospital, Lisa has a rematch with Anna and wins, taking her through to the competition’s Semi Final.
Meanwhile, Gavin is consulted by a psychic pokémon expert, who turns out to be a representative from Ecruteak Gym – Tom Walters, Lisa’s elder brother. Gavin discusses his powers in depth for the first time.
Chapter 16 - Whirlpool Champion - Part I.
Gavin and Lisa continue to train and fight their way through the tournament, eventually reaching the unusual three-way Grand Final match.
Before the match, Lisa realises that her passion is not just pokémon training, but researching the legendary pokémon. She decides to become more focused on her goal after the Whirlpool Cup is over.
Chapter 17 - Whirlpool Champion - Part II.
After an epic match, Lisa and Gavin are crushed by a skilled water pokémon trainer named Marina. At the after party, Lisa and Marina become friendly, exchanging contact information and promising to catch up again soon.
Chapter 18 - Legendaries.
Gavin spends a day training on Silver Rock Island, where he encounters (and appears to capture) a sleeping baby Lugia; it is later revealed, however, to be a crafty Ditto.
Lisa is contacted by Professor Westwood, a pokédex contributor, who asks her to help write the entry for the Black Beast, as she is one of a small number of people who have ever sighted it. While compiling the entry, Lisa discovers more about the history of the Black Beast, which she names “Lunanine”.
By way of thanks, Professor Westwood gives Lisa a pair of crystal bells. He invites her and Gavin to join him on an expedition to Silver Rock Island to look for Lugia, but they decide instead to head back to mainland Johto.
Chapter 19 - Sacred Suicune.
A couple of uneventful weeks later, whilst en route to Ecruteak via Moo Moo Farm, Lisa and Gavin are again accosted by Suicune. Lisa tries to battle Suicune, but he flees, leaving Lisa mystified as to why he appeared at all.
At a riverside rest hut, Lisa is delighted to meet up again with Kris, who she met on the first day of her journey. While they reconnect, Gavin swims in the river, where Suicune confronts him underwater. Awed, Gavin is silent as Suicune creates an indigo/gold pokéball and gives it to him, saying that it will “help him”.
Resurfacing, Gavin opens the ball, but it seems to be empty. He rejoins Kris and Lisa, who are battling, and decides not to mention his surreal experience just yet. After Lisa wins the battle, Kris decides to come with them to Moo Moo Farm.
Later that night, Suicune secretly meets with Entei and Raikou, confirming that a mission has been a success. From the top of the Tin Tower, a phoenix eavesdrops on their conversation.
Chapter 20 - Animal Magnetism.
Suicune, Raikou and Entei are running, discussing how something was “unavoidable” and that “most people won’t believe him”; Raikou expresses regret about it. Entei and Raikou go to “make sure nobody finds out”, while Suicune goes “to check on ‘him’”.
Meanwhile, Lisa, Gavin and Kris bond en route to Moo Moo Farm, and decide to compete in the farm’s monthly contest.
Elsewhere, in bushland near Ecruteak, a bedraggled old man collapses whilst attempting to “warn them”. A few hundred metres away, Anna, en route to visit Lisa in Ecruteak, is cornered by a man who is apparently a Team Rocket agent. She escapes, but leaves behind some of her possessions, including a note containing Lisa’s address.
Back at Moo Moo Farm, Lisa inadvertently catches a Magneton during an event. She also receives a phone call from Tom, who insists that she return to Ecruteak at once, though he won’t say why. Lisa explains to Kris and Gavin that her journey is over, and she needs to go home at once.
Suicune watches them from afar, before wheeling around to attend to another pressing matter. Further afield, high in the sky, the phoenix watches the scene below, observing Lisa and remarking to itself that she will be “a legend”.
-END OF BOOK ONE-
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