"In response to a challenge, Volan aims to scour Kalos with only the help of Flying Pokémon. But as he heads toward the League, the future looks uncertain. A past war, an ultimate weapon, a girl with a dark past, and something ominous lurking inside of him... Volan must team up with his friends and save Kalos from the greatest threat it has ever faced - himself."
— Author's summary
The second installation in the main Legendverse. The sequel to "Pokémon Black & White: Tale of a Legend", "Flight" is based off the events of the Gen 6 games and narrates the adventures of Volantes and Thrin Gurei two years after the battle against Team Plasma, known in-universe as the Battle of Vertress. Together with their friends from Vaniville Town, the siblings decide to challenge the Kalos League - in Volan's case, only by using Flying-type Pokémon. However, the bloody history of the Kalos region comes back to haunt them in the form of Legendary Pokémon and a fanatic criminal organization hell-bent on creating a beautiful new world... at least, for those that survive. It is written by Cottonmouth 25 and can be read here
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Flight of a Legend provides examples of:
- Always Chaotic Evil: Sera seems to only live for antagonizing those around her, Thrin in particular.
- Animal Talk: Just as in the first story, except now Volan can understand the speech of those closest to him.
- Bag of Holding: Again, the strange ability to carry virtually anything in a backpack is lampshaded.
- Beware the Cute Ones: Majesty, before she's captured by Volan, is aggressive to the point of gathering an entire swarm of Combee and chasing him down.
- Lovrina of Team Flare.
- In the prologue, Xerneas and Yveltal take orders from a single Zygarde Core, which is tiny compared to either of them. It's obvious they know of Zygarde's unique abilities.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: With variable success, Sera tries not to show any emotion, but she's hiding twelve straight years' worth of anger under the surface.
- Big Damn Heroes: Bernice and Oliver come to Volan and Thrin's defense when they're attacked by Team Flare at Professor Sycamore's lab.
- Bilingual Bonus: Latin names for Pokémon return, and translations are provided at the end of each chapter. Additionally, Akuma's name means "devil" in Japanese.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: This almost happens to Sina's Garchomp when Team Flare affixes it with a collar designed to turn it into a Shadow Pokémon.
- Broken Bird: The reason why Sera is so unpleasant is because of her seriously bad childhood and growing up in a dysfunctional family, with only her Pokémon to support her. It's implied that Skroop and Nigel are the only ones that have kept her from going completely insane... although it could be argued that she's already some of the way gone.
- Call-Back: The events of "Tale" are occasionally brought up.
- Call-Forward: Professor Sycamore is working with Samson Oak on the RotomDex.
- The Cameo: The Pokémon smuggler from the anime's XY series makes a quick appearance.
- The Chosen One: Or Chosen Three, rather.
- Chick Magnet: Calem is frequently thought of as good-looking by a number of female characters. He gets it a lot.
- Professor Sycamore too, of course.
- Combat Pragmatist: Toby
Crosses the Line Twice when he has his Beartic use Blizzard on Rudy, after the latter had already fainted from taking too much damage. - Crash-Into Hello: As a Call-Back to "Tale", Volan reunites with Caitlin in this way.
- Dark Is Evil: While not necessarily a villain, Sera isn't exactly a ray of sunshine, either.
- Inverted with Yveltal - she's just doing her job.
- Deadpan Snarker: Several of Piper's translated comments come off as rather sarcastic.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Standard for the Pokémon universe, but Majesty the Combee is mentally conditioned to obey the wishes of her new "queen" when Volan catches her.
- Distant Prologue: The prologue takes place 3,000 years ago, after the end of the Kalos War, before going to the present day.
- The Dog Bites Back: Sera is routinely abused by her mother, and after twelve years of it, she finally snaps.
- Establishing Character Moment: Toby is introduced leading a trio of children, too young to be raising Pokémon on their own, into the middle of the woods where a monster is said to lurk.
- Arguably, his Establishing Character Moment was way back in "Tale of a Legend", where he beat down Volan and Bernice in a flashback and triggered the former's Cynicism Catalyst.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Team Flare announces their scorn of Team Plasma, or more accurately, their horrendous uniforms.
- Flashback: Sera has a brief one as she recalls how she met her starter Pokémon.
- Friendly Rivalry: Inverted with Volan/Toby and Thrin/Sera. Played straight with Thrin/Calem.
- Funny Background Event: When Sera promises to get revenge on the Lumiose Gym Leader for throwing her out of the Gym, she briefly notices Clemont (the Gym Leader) reacting with horror and dismisses him.
- Goldfish Poop Gang: The four Team Flare grunts that harass Volan, Thrin, and Trevor both in the forest and on Route 4.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Celosia of Team Flare, as well as Sera De Lis.
- Hold Your Hippogriffs: Pokémon-based phrases continue to be used, although Shauna takes it up a notch.Shauna: Why don't you put your Mankey where your Meowth is and fight me in a Pokémon battle?
- Hurricane of Puns: What results when Shauna meets Professor Samson Oak.
- It's Personal: Why Volan and Rudy are so motivated to battle Toby the first time they meet (again).
- Jerkass: Toby, full stop.
- Meaningful Name: Volan continues to give his Pokémon these - Edgar the Murkrow named after the author of The Raven, Piper the Fletchinder called as such because she's a songbird, and Majesty the Combee will eventually become a Queen Bee.
- Oh, My Gods!: Arceus continues to be invoked, although other Olympus Mons are mentioned as well.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: It is not subtly implied at all that Garchomp Blade and Gallade Cloak are actually Sina and Dexio with Mega-Evolved Pokémon.
- Precision F-Strike: Sera to her mother more than once, but especially after she finally breaks.Sera: I'M FUCKING DONE!
- Prophetic Dream: Volan dreams of the Ultimate Weapon on the first night of his journey, and again in Camphrier Town.
- Punch-Clock Hero: Yveltal teases Xerneas about spending his existence growing flowers, implying that his sternness is due to this.
- Pungeon Master: Shauna, and then some.Shauna: You vivillains are really starting to ledybug me!
- In an interlude chapter, Shauna interrupts a video call between Samson Oak and Professor Sycamore, and starts a pun-off with the former. Sycamore decides Screw This, I'm Out of Here! in response.
Word of God is that Shauna being a punner was decided long before the Sun & Moon anime revealed Samson as such.
- In an interlude chapter, Shauna interrupts a video call between Samson Oak and Professor Sycamore, and starts a pun-off with the former. Sycamore decides Screw This, I'm Out of Here! in response.
- Recruited from the Gutter: Thrin recruits Gulp the Bellsprout, who was just abandoned by Toby after losing a battle and wants to show him up as a result. Seems to be a running theme with Toby, as this was how Volan caught Rudy in "Tale".
- Retcon: Ash's journey through Kanto was immediately followed up by Unova in "Tale of a Legend", then Hoenn for two years and finally Kalos.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Lord Shabboneau, the rich owner of Shabboneau Castle, wants to take matters into his own hands when it comes to the Snorlax due for Camphrier Town's Harvest Festival.
- Rule of Funny: Why Shauna peppers her speech with Pokémon puns.
- Running Gag: Volan sometimes chats with his friends from Unova online.
- Shout-Out: Multiple so far:
- Volan is playing Super Slowbros with his friends overseas in the first chapter.
- Thrin names her Elegant Vivillon "Akuma", after another purple butterfly with strange powers. Doubles as a Stealth Pun.
- Sera's favorite video games are Pocket Monster Hunter and Resident Yveltal.
- Ship Tease: Trevor might have a thing for Shauna based on his reaction to her hugging him.
- Stepford Smiler: Lovrina acts downright cute, but she's easily the most disturbing villain Volan and Co. have met at this point.
- Those Two Guys: Tierno and Trevor are best friends, and Volan sees them as this.
- Time Skip: The main story begins nearly two years after the Battle of Vertress.
- Took a Level in Badass: Volan and Thrin's old Unova Pokémon have only gotten better over the years.
- The Team Flare grunts that Volan and Thrin defeated in Santalune Forest come back with Shadow Pokémon and almost get their revenge.
- Dexio and Sina, by far the most dramatic example of this trope seen in the Legendverse. They've gone from useless in the games to being actual superheroes, and are considered good enough to have partnered up with Blaziken Mask in protecting Lumiose City.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Shiny Pokémon are said to be this in Kalos, possibly due to mutations resulting from the fallout caused by the Ultimate Weapon 3,000 years ago.
- Verbal Tic: Edgar'll be talkin' like dis, see? It ain't just the accent, see?
- Villain Respect: Sera was inspired to start working to become a Trainer when she saw Volan's heroic deeds on TV, and she treats him with respect (although the same can't be said for his sister).
- Villainesses Want Heroes: Calem, unfortunately, is good-looking enough to have grabbed the attention of Team Flare admin Lovrina.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Nigel has a moment of this when Sera commands him to attack her mother.
- You Can't Fight Fate: It's said by Zygarde that there's a calamity coming on an even greater scale than the Kalos War.
