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A little over a decade ago, three children were born.
A baby girl with dark red eyes, whose flesh caught fire and into her skin was burned the mark of the legendary bird Moltres. Across her back it glowed red and hot as cinders. She slept soundly, cooing in her worried mother's arms as the doctors spent days calling pokemon specialists looking for an answer.
Less than a week later, on the other side of Kanto, another girl was born, her hair a pure, snow white and eyes the color of ice. Frost turned her skin hard as stone and as it thawed and broke apart, the mark of Articuno was left on her lower stomach. It was a strange shade of blue and cold to the touch.
The next day, in Vermillion City, Gym Leader Surge was dozing off in the waiting room, a Pikachu on his lap, as they waited for the news of his little sister’s baby. A zap of electricity startled him awake and destroyed the lights above him. In the darkness he stood at the ready, his Pikachu’s cheeks crackling with electricity. Then the scream of a newborn baby filled the air, and he ran to the noise.
In the nurse’s arms was a baby boy with lightning scars across his chest, the mark of Zapdos charred into his skin. The baby wailed and kicked as his mother flatlined on the hospital bed. Surge turned his confused gaze to his sister’s husband, Willow, as he stared in horror from his seat across the room.
Thusly were the legendary birds of Kanto born into human form.