Chapter 1

I need to get out of here...NOW!

I wasn't safe here anymore. I had stumbled onto Ghestsis's plans. I had overheard what he inteded to do in his conversation with Bronius, one of his 'Seven Sages'. He knew I had overheard him, and he was going to make sure that I couldn't t tell anyone. Thinking about him made my temper flare.

How dare he use that child!...How dare he use MY child!

Suddenly, an alarm sounded and Ghetsis's voice sounded above me.

"Faithful members of Team Plasma, I have terrible news. The Pokemon Zoroark is a traitor to our cause! Do not let her escape at all costs! If she gets out, there WILL be concequences!"

As his voice started to fade, Team Plasma members started filing out into the hallways. I stopped as I as completely surrounded by the knight-like people. I growled when they started taking out their red and white spheres, letting their Pokemon out in a sparkling crystal blue light. I looked around at the Pokemon surrounding me, noting that they were all hesitant to attack me. When they failed to come at me, the grunts started shouting and kicking at their Pokemon.

I roared at the abuse torwards these Pokemon, they didn't deserve it and yet they were treated in such a harse manner. I truly wished N could see this, that he could see what his subjects were doing to Pokemon behind his back. I didn't wish to hurt them any further, but I had to get out of here. I used Night Daze and sent the Pokemon and humans rocketing torward the walls. I was saddened as my friends cried out in pain, but I was equally satisfied with hurting these low-life humans.

I bounded torward the the stairs on the other side of the hallway, people and Pokemon alike recovering from my attack. Before running onto the next floor, I stopped and looked around while hiding using the railing of the stairs. There were more humans on this floor, and their Pokemon were running about as well. Before coming out of my hiding place, I used Double Team and ran out in the open, making the copies and myself scatter.

A small group of about 4 or 5 grunts followed each one, including myself. When I got halfway down the hallway, I used my Illusion ability to fade out just like the rest of the copies would in just a few seconds. I kept running while the humans quickly slid to stop, I didn't want them to run into me, that would be a problem. I kept myself 'invisible' and slowly progressed through the different floors in the castle. When I got down the last flight of stairs to the ground floor, my heart sank.

Ghetsis was standing ten feet in front of a pair of large, impending doors.I slowly krept over to middle of the room and stopped when Ghetsis suddenly snapped his fingers. Behind Ghetsis, the rest of the Seven Sages, including Bronius, made their way out of the shadows to stand behind him. While from the other three sides, other members of Team Plasma stepped out of the shadows, surrounding me on all sides.

"You can stop with your little illusions Zoroark, I know your here." He smirked. I was dumbfound on how he knew that I was down here, i was supposed to be 'invisible', nobody could possibly see through my Illusions, but Ghetsis quickly cleared that up as an evil grin swept across his face.

"Each of the Seven Sages have been given a special jewel that allows us to see through your illusions, so why don't you go ahead and remove it and show yourself!" He shouted as he removed a necklace from around his neck and showed it to me, as did each of the other Sages, the dark purple gems glinting coldly.

I growled, but did as he said, and removed the illusion I had arched an eyebrow, "All of them." I looked down at my paws and roared, but grudgingly complied as a small form took shape. I looked at Ghetsis and then back down at the sleeping form in my arms...my baby Zorua, only a week old. I had gone off to get her after I had heard the two Sage's conversation earlier.

Before I left the nursery with her, I shielded her from sight using one of my Illusions, while also making one for myself that made it look like my arms were free...not carrying my little baby.

Ghetsis laughed at my feeble attempts to protect Zorua. I hugged Zorua protectively against my chest while I growled at him. "You won't take Zorua away from me!" I snapped at him, using my telepathy.

Ghetsis took a step back from surprise, shocked that I was able to communicatewith him, but overcame it and snapped his fingers."Well, we'll just have to see about that."

The grunts around me released their Pokemon and commanded them to attack. I waited as they moved closer torwards m, and as they came ever closer to me, I unleashed my Night Daze attack as a dome of purple-pinkish color expanded and sent everyone into the walls with loud thuds.

While I had the chance, I charged up a Hyper Beam for my escape. When it was finished charging, I aimed it toward the wall in front of me and fired, a section of wall exploding and crumbling to the ground. I noticed Ghetsis was starting to recover from my attack, propping himself up on shaky arms and glaring at me. I growled at him and proceeded to run to the hole I had created and sent him one last thought.

"You will NEVER take Zorua away from me, and if you so much as lay a finger on her, I WILL come after you!" He just continued to glare at me as I jumped into the hole and landed on the outside, running away from this dreadful place and into the forest beyond with Zorua wrapped protectively in my arms.