The street lights creaked open their vision; bring light upon the darkening rock tile ways in the nights ever absolute shroud. Ichigo stood gawking, with Zorua on his shoulder, in awe at the sheer ancient beauty the city held in its colliding and combing patterns of stones and vines. He thought about how the rest of the world must compare to this beauty, it made him shutter, with all the Pokémon and people living in harmony and city like this he really couldn't wait to see the rest of this region. He regretted not getting a better look at it early when on the death ride with that Gogoat, but was glad he still managed to see this view in all its glory.

"Oy, Strawberry we bought the time on the field let's get to it" Yorouichi called across obviously trying to push Ichigo's buttons, but to no avail since the beauty completely distracted him from the remark. "Oh, right yeah coming" he said walking over to the field getting a quick glance of the Roselia statue which gave him an odd feeling for some reason.

Urahara sat down on the bench at the side of the field tapping his fans end in annoyance from being dragged away from his Poke mart at this time of night. 'Jerks I would usually be fiddling with some new product design at this time of night then enjoy some un expecting costumer get fooled into trying it next morning' Urahara pouted at the thought of his usual Monday night being ruined. "Get in position Urahara I want to get this battle under way sooooooo... me and my Pokémon can beat the crap out of Ichigo" Yorouichi stated before pointing a finger at Ichigo and making a loser gesture with her thumb at him. Ichigo smirked before turning his head to Zorua who was still on his shoulder "you hear that the purple cat thinks her Pokémon can beat you, well I think it's time you prove her wrong... Hey Zorua!" Ichigo shouted the last part getting just the reaction he wanted Zorua jumped out onto the field eyes a blaze. "Zoooorrruuuuuaaa!" he roared in response.

"Heh, you're still as strong as ever but. Sooo. Iiissss. Mmmyy. Persian!" Yorouichi yelled throwing out the said Persian. The Persian stood twice the height of Zorua with a scarcely hidden of pride on its face. This earned It a great snarl by Zorua who was one you should never look down.

"Kay, Kay... This will b battle with no time limit and remember..." Urahara began as he twiddled with his hat before placing it back on top of his head and finishing with "to give it your absolute all!"

"Zorua, charge in with fury swipes!" Ichigo commanded as Zorua charged in with its claws shining. "Persian, bite down on Zorua's tail!" Yorouichi commanded with a smirk on her face. Persian quickly obeyed as soon as possible pouncing forward, spinning past Zorua, and biting a mouthful of its tail. Zorua gritted its teeth in pain Ichigo though quickly thought of a way to get his pal out of harm's way "Zorua pursuit with your hind legs". Zorua's eyes gleamed as a purplish glow enveloped his leg. "Crap Persian get away" Yorouichi yelled realising the trouble Persian was in but it was too late, Zorua's leg snapped back hitting Persian square in the face sending it flying back. Persian quickly recovered, spinning, and landing on its leg with only a slight mark on its head.

"Good thing about cats, Ichigo, they always land on their feet, now Persian use thunderbolt" Persian charged electricity between its whiskers before sending the great wave of electricity at Zorua. "Zorua counter with shadow ball!" Ichigo instructed as Zorua fired a powerful shadow ball right at the direction of the thunderbolt. The two moves collided before exploding and creating a great cloud of black smoke. "Zorua charge into the smoke with fury swipes primed and ready" Zorua followed immediately and dived into the cloud. "You two Persian fury swipes" Yorouichi commanded back with Persian speed showing itself again as it shot into the cloud. Seconds later the cloud scattered from the flurrying images of fury swipe after fury swipe danced around Zorua and Persian.

"Your Zorua is as fast as it was six years ago" Yorouichi remarked as she stood smirking her usual smirk before the flashing images of claws. "Heh, don't even try to compare us to how we were six years ago cause..." Zorua ears pricked up "you'll find we're too different now for it to be possible!" Ichigo yelled as Zorua responded to his voice and landed a killer swipe across Persian's chest, causing Persian to grown in pain before jumping back.

"Kay Ichigo, I'll believe that but don't think we haven't changed ever" Yorouichi replied as her Persian tensed it muscles as it padded towards Zorua. "Now Persian, power gem full force" Yorouichi yelled. "Peeeerrrrsiiiaaannn!" roared Persian as the red gem on its head shined and sparkled before as it realised multiple gem shaped energy blasts directly at Zorua; Point blank range. "Zoooorruuaaaa!" croaked Zorua as he was sent flying onto its back.

"Zorua, get up there's no way in hell that's enough to knock you out, come out" Ichigo rooted Zorua up as it struggled to its feet. "Zorua's as tough as ever, Strawberry" Yorouichi stated as Persian tapped its foot on the ground impatiently. "No... Yorouichi Zorua's tougher than what you remember" Zorua stamped its foot on the ground before giving a defiant snarl. "Zorua, payback..." Ichigo said calmly. Zorua suddenly was charging at Persian full pelt totally throwing it off guard; Zorua swung its malevolent purplish glowing paw right at Persian side sending it skidding across the field into a nearby bench destroying it, in a cloud of dust.

"Damn, you're right. Ichigo but are sure you should treat a girl's Pokémon like that, you may get a slap" Yorouichi joked admitting Ichigo's Zorua had grown strong in their years apart. "Come on Yorouichi lets keep going, just like with my Zorua, I know that's not enough to knock out your Persian" Ichigo said; his statement proving correct as Persian strolled out of the dust with a furious glare on its face. "Fine Ichigo lets continue our battle" Yorouichi said as if on cue sparks flashed between Yorouichi and Ichigo.

To the sides of the arena you could see Urahara sweating as quite a crowd of people and Pokémon had began noticing the battle and were now watching intently from cafes and bench's. 'Damn you guys if this keeps up the gardener will see the broken bench and I'll have to pay a fine for you guys' Urahara thought before slouching in remorse shocking a couple who was walking by.

Meanwhile under the Roselia Fountain. "Whas'sup with all that noise it's really pissing me off" complained a grunt as he bounced a rubber ball against opposite wall and catching it in a never ending cycle. "Just stay quiet that's all the boss ordered you to do until this is finished being calibrated" complained another grunt as typed codes furiously into the strange machines holographic keyboard. "Wha 'ever I'm gonna wait in my truck till this thing is ready" slouched the lazy grunt before trotting off catching the ball mid way. The second grunt continued to type at a non-stop pace into the machine as the metallic cables vibrated from the surfaces shaking. 'He's right though all that noise is irritating' Thought the grunt as he finished calibrating the system, and input the start code into the machine with two words "show time".

On the surface the Roselia Fountain's water suddenly stopped flowing as a metallic antennas slivered out of the flowers on its arms. A slight humming could be heard before dying down completely. Then suddenly a wave of transparent darkness washed over the air affecting each and every Pokémon it came in contact with. Soon the city was filled with panic as Pokémon everywhere reported to be shaking violently with a black shadows clawing at them all over.

"Zorua!" Ichigo shouted skidding over to Zorua picking him up in his arms to cradle him. "Come on Persian, what's wrong? Tell me! I can't help unless you show me what's wrong!?" Yorouichi said with worry patting Persians stomach. But Persian couldn't say anything, just like Zorua, just like every Pokémon outside their Poke balls; They all felt as if their souls were being torn away from their bodies, like a hole in their very being was being formed, a hollow hole. Then every Pokémon all at once let out a blood curdling shriek as a hole burnt into them from the black shadows. Every Pokémon cracked open their eyes to reveal a sick pale eyes with no pupil. Each and every one of them felt pain, just pain, not physical but much deeper pain and they all knew they had to express it.

Zorua slashed at Ichigo with Fury Swipes causing a bloody scratch to appear across his face, Ichigo shocked by the attack let Zorua go. Zorua dashed around the field in circles before stopping, a shadow ball formed in his mouth as he shot it right at Ichigo.

"Get down!" Urahara shouted as he tackled Ichigo out of the way just in time to have the shadow ball fire off into a nearby tree destroying it. Ichigo scrambled to his feet to finally realise what was going on every Pokémon was rioting around the city; everything was catching fire. "What the hell is going on?!" Ichigo shouted into the madness while Urahara just studied everything with a sorrow filled gaze.

"Persian, return please" Yorouichi commanded softly; Persian just turned from the bush it had set on fire with a hollow but angry gaze. "Yes that's right Persian it's me you're trainer, your friend, come on get in the poke ball and then we can sort you out" Yorouichi pleaded shifting closer to Persian. Persian's teeth grinded, but only Ichigo seemed to notice. "Yorouichi! Get down Persians going to attack!" Ichigo yelled sprinting right towards her and Persian who was charging a Power gem. "Peeeeeerrrrrrsssssiiiiiaaaaaaannnnn!" shrieked Persian as the Power gem fired; Ichigo just managed to save Yorouichi from the attack but Yorouichi dropped Persian's Poke ball and... smash, it was destroyed by the attack. Yorouichi and Ichigo watched as a blue light formed around Persian before breaking away like glass, they both knew what this meant; Persian was a wild Pokémon now. Persian shrieked one last time before pouncing off into the smoke and rubble.

"Persian! Come back please!" Yorouichi called between sobs. "Urahara burst through the smoke coughing harshly "come on you guys we got to get out of the square everything's on fire" he said with a raspy voice. "Zoooooorrrrrruuuuuuaaaaa!" Everyone's heads snapped in the direction of Zorua's new Shadow ball "Shit! Everyone brace yourself" Urahara yelled. Ichigo closed his eyes to a sudden but familiar flash of light, only to open them to find Deino firing a dragon pulse to counter Zorua's shadow ball. After the explosion that ensued Ichigo saw Deino looking back at his master with a confused sad gaze; he knew exactly what it meant why was Zorua fighting against us. Urahara couldn't help but take this time to ponder why Deino wasn't experiencing what all the other Pokémon were.

"So, how is the machine running my precious scout?" Questioned the sinister voiced man over the phone; he climbed into a van waiting for a response. "Sir I'm afraid to report only a 90% success rate with transforming the Pokémon into their hollow states" replied the grunt as he stared at the statistics on his watch. "90%?! Explain why now!" yelled the sinister man as the van he was in began driving off. "Sir the machine doesn't appear to be strong enough to control dragon types their genes are simply too strong to be affected by the machines current output of energy" answered the scout as he burst out onto the surface into the madness of fire and smoke. "Tch, understood even with no dragon types we will still receive a great amount of hollow Pokémon this fine day" stated the sinister man as he turned his com of instructing all the scouts to pick up the pace.

"Ichigo we have to get to the nearest Pokémon centre now they have the equipment to handle this and keep us all safe" Urahara shouted dragging Ichigo to his feet. Yorouichi had already scrambled to her feet but was still obviously shocked by losing Persian. "Ichigo come on we have to go! Now!" Urahara shouted once again pulling on Ichigo's collar. Ichigo forced Urahara's hand off him; Ichigo turned round to face Urahara and Yorouichi with a look of disgust. "Are you kidding me?! Run and leave Zorua behind?! No way not in a million years!" Ichigo shouted turning to Deino to tell him to prepare for battle. "Ichigo you saw what happened with Persian what if Zorua's Poke ball is destroyed its best if we get help from the Pokémon centre" Yorouichi said putting her hand on Ichigo's shoulder.

"Yorouichi... would you be saying those words... now if it was me in Zorua's position" Ichigo asked physically shocking Yorouichi; he grabbed her hand with his. "If you can say you would right now I'll come to the Pokémon centre right now no complaints, If not..."Ichigo continued Yorouichi eyes crept away from his gaze as she let go of his hands. "That's what I thought... Deino let's go!" Ichigo finished as he and Deino leapt off.

Ichigo found Zorua, still rioting with other Pokémon, against a cafe with a family taking refugee. "Deino get Zorua's attention I'll evacuate the family" Deino bound off using dragon claw on one of the affected Woobat knocking out instantly. "DEEIIINNNOOO!" roared Deino as he drew Zorua's attention along with a Gloom and Timburr. 'Thanks Deino I'll give you a special Pokepuff later' Ichigo thanked inwardly as he pointed away out for the family in the cafe. "T-t-tiiimmmburrr" groaned Timburr as he fell to the ground with swirly eyes; Deino stood triumphant over the Gloom and Timburr but he knew the real challenge was just beginning.

"Great work Deino, now... Zorua you want to come back to your family quietly or-"Ichigo began "ZOOOOORRRRRUUUUUAAAAA!" Zorua roared as he charged at Deino with pursuit. "Crap, Deino dodge then throw Zorua with its tail" Ichigo commanded Deino followed the instructions immediately as he dodged Zorua's pursuit biting Zorua's tail and throwing it into the cafe wall. "Deino, quick fire fang!" Ichigo commanded as Deino ran towards Zorua with fire enveloping its mouth. 'With Zorua's strength and power I can't hold back I need to weaken it down before I try reasoning with him" Ichigo thought; Zorua recovered from being thrown into the wall and countered with payback. The two attacks collided, mid stride, forcing both Pokémon to skid back in pain; Zorua though seemed the worse of the two as its breathing had become rampant. 'Seems the battle with Persian has finally caught up with Zorua, seems like now's as good as time as any 'Ichigo deduced before yelling "Deino, restrain Zorua!"

Deino complied immediately charging behind Zorua and grabbing it with its mouth by the main. "Zoooorrruuuaaaa!" Zorua shrieked in anger. Ichigo saw his opening and charged in taking both Pokémon in his arms; "Zorua what wrong with you I thought you and I were partners" Ichigo yelled. "Dei-Deinoooo!" Deino called as well, Zorua's mouth started building up a shadow ball. Deino saw this and attempted to throw Zorua away to protect Ichigo; "Deino no if I we let him go now he may run off we'll just have to take it" Ichigo shouted tightening his hold on the two. The shadow fired at point blank range striking Deino first, before creating an explosion that engulfed all three of them.

Yorouichi and Urahara had arrived at the Pokémon centre moments ago only to be met with a horrible view; Pokémon and trainers alike were all in horrible pain, some had severe fatigue while others had bleeding body parts. Urahara and Yorouichi made their way to the front desk to find nurse joy ordering the staff around while taking care of an infant Axew. "Nurse Joy is everything alright this place looks like a war zone med bay" Yorouichi commented to nurse Joy; she rose her head from the Axew's chest and replied "no Yorouichi and, ah, hi Urahara; no one knows what going on with the Pokémon their all rioting for some reason many people are getting hurt or losing their Pokémon its chaos!"

"Nurse Joy tell me about the Pokémon here is there anything similar about them, anything at all" Urahara questioned nurse joy as he scanned the Pokémon in the lobby. "Umm I think they may all be, umm, yes that's right there all Dragon-types" nurse joy replied striking her fist, softly, in her hand for emphasis. "I see..." Urahara simply replied before returning to his thoughts; "what are you thinking Urahara?" Yorouichi asked only to be met with silence.

"Anyway, Nurse Joy our friend is out there in the madness trying to help his Pokémon who... Who turned" Yorouichi said; Nurse Joy immediately acquired a shocked face. "Oh no we have to get him here now it's not safe out there with all those rioting Pokémon" Nurse Joy frowned Yorouichi frown deepened.

"Nurse Joy how many of the dragon Pokémon here are unharmed" Urahara questioned.

Nurse Joy grabbed a nearby pc box and brought up all the Pokémon checked in that night. "Only 20 Dragon-type Pokémon are checked in tonight with only 3 able to battle, why?" Nurse Joy Questioned, Urahara simply stretched his arm emphasising the whole Pokémon centre. "Think all these Pokémon are Dragon-types or have Dragon-type aspects and none of them have started rioting of developed holes even Ichigo's Deino wasn't affected and he shares aspects of the same type as Zorua meaning..." Urahara elaborated before Yorouichi cut in with "Dragon types must be immune to the transformation!"

"Well done Yorouichi... well done for stealing my thunder" Urahara sobbed; "Ah, shut up we have no time for your terrible jokes, Nurse Joy do you think you can round up those three Pokémon's trainers we need them to help Ichigo get here" Yorouichi pleaded. Nurse Joy thought for a minute before answering with "you'll have to ask them yourself it goes against my code as a nurse to force or ask something of injured trainer's here's their names and appearances" she finished while giving Yorouichi a printed list of the trainers. "Thank you Nurse Joy, I'll go find them right aw-"Yorouichi began only to be cut off by a girls scream. Urahara, Yorouichi all turned their heads in the direction to see a crowd of people surrounding the front entrance.

"Move please nurse coming through" Nurse Joy stated as she barged through to the front of the crowd with Yorouichi and Urahara, but they weren't prepared for what they saw. "Ichigo..." Yorouichi whispered as she lay her eyes upon the kneeling, heavily wounded, panting friend of hers; his shirt and jacket were singed and his breathing was insane. "Ichigo we have to get you help, Nurse joy come here and help Ichigo!" Yorouichi said falling to her knees and supporting Ichigo. "No! Help Zorua and Deino first this was all for them so I won't let anyone help me till there better" Ichigo shouted passing Zorua's weak body to Nurse Joy. "Ok Ichigo we'll get your Pokémon as right as rain in no time" Nurse Joy promised as she placed Zorua on a stretcher another nurse had brought and ran off.

Yorouichi and Urahara supported Ichigo as they carried him to the quieter upstairs Lobby. "So Ichigo what happened, I haven't seen you so banged up since you went sledding with Hallibel and Yorouichi" Urahara reminisced as they placed Ichigo against a sofa. "Me and Deino changed Zorua back check if you want there's no hole in his chest anymore and his eyes are normal again" Ichigo said as he took a sip of the water Yorouichi brought him. "How may I ask well after me and Deino locked Zorua in a bear hug we...

As the dust and smoke mixture faded away along with a few scrapes of Ichigo's clothing a slightly sorrowing Image could be seen. Deino and Zorua were both mostly unharmed from the blast while Ichigo on the other hand was an entirely different story his clothes were in chars and his body was badly bruised. "Deeiiinnnnno" Deino winged at the sight of his injured trainer, while Zorua just let out a vicious snarl as he struggled free.

"Hahahahaha Zorua, you're attacks are still as strong as I thought they were. Yep, just as strong except for one thing, there's no way in hell the Zorua I know would allow anything to ever control him" Ichigo started out calmly before shouting out towards the black stained heavens. The grip he had around both of them increased, as he continued "the Zorua I know had the same dream as me and Deino you remember what that is Deino" Ichigo shouted his question; "Deeeeeiiiiinnnnnoooo!" Deino roared in remembrance. Slowly and slightly Ichigo's and Deino's chests began to glow a faint blue colour. "That's right Deino with you, me and you Zorua we were going to become Pokémon champion there's no way in hell you could ever forget no matter what!" Ichigo shouted one final time before both his and Deino's chest shined a great blue light. Both Ichigo and Deino watched as what seemed like a blue chain of light burst out from each of their chests they seemed to wave about in the air for a bit. Then as if in response to the blue chains appearance a pure black shadowy chain burst out of Zorua's chest hole. Ichigo watched in amazement as the two chains struck into Zorua's chest hole. Ichigo's mind was soon flooded by these painful thoughts and feelings before as quickly as they occurred they vanished along with the black chain from Zorua's chest hole. Ichigo felt a tug in his chest before the blue chains both reseeded into his and Deino's chest, leaving no trace of Zorua's chest hole.

Ichigo collapsed to the floor, still cradling Zorua and Deino, watching as Zorua's true eyes opened after what seemed like forever. Ichigo nearly burst into tears but was stopped when Zorua started licking his face weakly. "Welcome back Zorua" Ichigo said as he struggled to his feet; "Zoorrruaaaaa..." Zorua whispered in reply weakly before fading into unconscious. "Zorua! Crap come on Deino Ichigo said as he began sprinting full force towards the Pokémon centre.

"And that's what happened" Ichigo meekly finished as he gulped the last of the water he was given. "Quite the event I see, blue chains, black chains holes appearing in Pokémon; what could it all mean?" Urahara questioned as he began walking around pondering what it could possibly be. "Sorry Ichigo I have some calls to make but I'll be back as soon as I can" Urahara said walking off without another word.

"So, Santalune city it's been a while, sad to see your looks can't stand the test of time" a hooded man joked out loud as he strolled leisurely down the burning road. "Whew, the police and pick up crew have their work cut out for them when this all blows over" the man continued as he kicked on of pieces of rubble down an ally way. The rubbles tip tap tap died away into the shadows of the alley cueing the barrage of many turned Pokémon. "Wow I think you guys need to calm down, but lucky for you I'm the one to do it" the hooded man laughed. All the Pokémon simply ignored him and started preparing their respective attacks. "Aaaawwww, you guys are so mean but I guess it is best to show you what I mean instead of just blabbering on about it" The hooded man said; in a single instant though the area had become shrouded in a blue light before disappearing again. Within the vanishing light you could see the hooded man strolling away whistling happily as the Pokémon behind him all sleeping without any chest holes to be found.