Chapter 3: A house guarded by stantler

Me: Happy Halloween everyone!

Aveira: You sound excited.

Me: I am. I love dressing up. I don't care how old I am!

Lightning: *coughs* 16, too old. *coughs*

Me: *glares* I'm changing your costume.

Hotaru: Can you change mine? I don't wanna be a bumblbee...

Me: Nope.

Aveira: Lightning is a scared kitty in this chapter.

Lightning: I am not!

Me: Yeah, you are.

Lightning: T.T

Me: Sorry, dragon132 if it offends you... ^ ^

Aveira: Aero doesn't own Pokemon, by the way. -_-


Aveira's POV

For a while only Hotaru and I were traveling together. We didn't think much about the other Pokemon we passed. They were just on their own journey. And for the ones that we hunted, well, theirs just ended. But now there's someone else. Lightning. He was older than me, 18 as I found out, but he was smaller. And a little immature. And he kept glancing at me!

"What?" I could no longer take it. A growl escaped my lips.

"Hm?" He said, once again glancing at me.

"Stop doing that. You're annoying me." I ran ahead of him, noticing Hotaru silently watching. "I didn't do anything. Well, not yet." My feet froze where they were. "Yet?" Grinning, Lightning trotted ahead of me and I tried my best not to bite him.

"I don't know. I mean, your top fur is so black and long. Someone could fall in love with you. You never know. Someone could also assume that we were together." He turned to me, a grin still on his muzzle. "But were not, are we?" With a laugh, he leapt forward, not paying attention obviously. He collided, face first, into a stantler.

"Whoa." Lightning said backing away.

"You cannot pass through here, sir. A house lies beyond here and I stand to keep others from going near." He stamped his hoof and a red, white, and green band wrapped around his leg caught my eye. The stantler's fur was grayed, giving me the impression that maybe he was older.

I think Lightning saw it too. "Sorry gramps. We're just passing through. So let us through."

The stantler lowered his head to meet Lightning's golden eyes. "Didn't you hear me?" He said softly. "Go around. It'll only extend your travel by about five minutes. I cannot let you through."

"Lightning, let's go." I ordered, already nudging Hotaru away.

"You win old man." Lightning grinned.

The stantler smiled and stood taller.

"Hey, what's that smell?" Hotaru asked, causing all of us to lift noses and sniff the air. I immediately recognized the smell, as did Lightning and stantler. Well, by the looks of their faces. The stantler immediately took off, heading towards whatever he was protecting. We trailed behind.

The smell of shadowed Pokemon could be overwhelming and this was close. It either meant they were really strong or really big. Everyone recognizes the smell of smoke, right? The smell of burning wood. Well, that, the smell of sweat, and their own unique smell gives you the smell of a shadowed pokemon. It isn't pleasant, in case you were wondering. We quickly arrived at a clearing where a small house stood. A darkened flygon and tyranitar stood. Immediately, I took a protective stance in front of Hotaru. Well, they were big, but they could be strong too. A single crimson eye met mine.

Vui's POV

I struggled to keep the giggles down as I adjusted my ocean blue bandana over my brown fur. A giggle escaped again and took a deep breath to calm myself down. But that was the funniest thing I've ever seen! A jigglypuff. A male jigglypuff! He was battling a raticate and I decided to watch from the side. Sure regular attack after regular attack. But then jigglypuff used sing. His voice was wonderful, beautiful. But it sounded more like a girl than a boy. A boy with a girl's singing voice! I just had to get out before I either fell asleep or hurt his feelings with my laughing. Out of the city and into the nearby forest.

And now that I was finished laughing, I felt a little guilty. Maybe it wasn't his fault he sounded like a girl. I was about to turn back towards the city when I heard a sound and froze. It sounded like roars. So I followed my ears to the source.

I quickly found a scene. A sceptile stood protectively in front of three tiny pichu and a cleffa. They were all clinging to each other as a tall cacturn stared at all of them, grinning. He raised an arm, full of deadly looking needles sticking out. A small breeze blew and cacturn's black scarf flowed. "Shadowed Pokemon!" I suddenly shouted. And immediately wished I didn't. The cacturn turned to me, rage oh so very clear in his dark eyes. He was then attacked by the sceptile that was protecting the smaller Pokemon. He used leaf blade then quick attack, knocking the cacturn off of his feet.

I had to help. That guy was obviously attacking small Pokemon for no reason at all. I growled, feeling anger build up inside of me, then let out a strong, in my opinion, shadow ball towards the enemy. Cacturn was knocked off his feet by the attack, but before I could attack again, the cacturn stood and ran, disappearing into the trees. I hoped he'd go to some dessert far away where no one could find him and he could just stay alone. I huffed and turned to the pichus.

Sceptile knealt by the younger pokemon, making sure they were okay. I quietly padded over, curious. Sceptile saw me a grinned.
"Thanks, you gave me an opening to attack."

I smiled. "Just wanted to help save them from the shadowed Pokemon."

"He's not shadowed." He told me.

"Huh?" I tilted my head, implying my confusion.

"He was a normal Pokemon, just angry for some reason. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if he did become a shadowed Pokemon."

"Oh." My eyes went to the smaller Pokemon play their little games. I grinned. "Okay!" I turned and started back.

"Uh, wait!" I heard and turned.

Sceptile gazed down at his feet, probably thinking. He then looked back at me. "Are you traveling by any chance?"

"Well, yes." I said hesitantly.

"Well, for a while i've been searching for someone to travel with and-"

"And you want to come with me?" I cut in. I smiled in apology and sceptile slowly nodded.

"Okay!"

"Okay? You're just going to agree like that? Even though you don't know who I am?"

"Well, you seem nice so far." I told him. "I don't know your name but I'm pretty sure we can get to know each other."

"Hm."

"I'll start." I grinned. "My name's Vui. As you can see, I'm an eevee. 13 years."

Sceptile cleared his throat and adjusted his bright red scarf around his neck. "I'm Avery. I'm obviously a sceptile and I'm 14."

"Now we're a travel group!"

Lightning's POV

Flashback city

I, as a shinx, stood frozen as an entire pack of tyranitar attacked. They weren't shadowed, but just as deadly and out for blood. My parents, two very strong luxray, stood tall in front of me. I could only stare in disbelief as the Pokemon tore through our home. They dug out our den. All of it. Our stash of food quickly disappeared. Once they finished their destructive run through our home they set their rage-filled eyes on us.

"Run!" My father ordered pushing me back. We lived in a grassy plain so there weren't many places to hide. I took off, running away from the madness, praying to Arceus that they'd be okay. But even I knew that their chances were slim. I continued running, not daring to look back. Tall grass whipped my face but I continued, ignoring the stinging pain.

I soon found someone's den and leapt inside. I didn't stray too far inside, for fear of finding something, but I didn't stay too close to the entrance. I sat, breathing hard, hearing only my hear hammering on my chest. I waited for hours. I only stared at the bright entrance, wondering what could have happened to my parents. Hoping for the best. Even if they were badly injured, that they would survive and we could built a new den.

A shadow blocked the light of the entrance and I tensed, feeling my heart speeding up again. I slowly got to my feet.

"Hey! Outta my den!" A high pitched voice shouted. A fairly old looking rattata scrambled in and glared. "I didn't invite you here. Get out or i'll attack!" I was roughly pushed out. I watched as the old Pokemon scrambled back into his den. I could tell he hadn't battled much when he was young. He hadn't even evolved yet.

But I didn't have time to worry about that. I ran towards my den, or what was left. I came to a stop at carnage. It looked like a pack of tyranitar tore threw the place. Well, they did. And one was left, chewing bones? A small gasp escaped my lips and I took several steps backwards. The single tyranitar turned to me, his mouth covered in blood. The blood of my parents. And he still looked hungry. A loud roar jolted me and I took off again, running a whole lot faster than I did before.

Exiting flashback city

I took several steps back, feeling my heart start to pound painfully.

"Hey!" My eyes went to Aveira, who was staring at me. "You're so strong, attack them before the old guy gets hurt."
I noticed the stantler charging right into the fight.

Aveira shoved Hotaru back, who seemed determined to fight this time, and glared at me. "Help him!" She shouted before running right into the fight.

Aveira's POV

What was wrong with him! Why would he just stand there, knowing this stantler couldn't beat these shadowed Pokemon. I growled as I ran to the stantler's side. The two Pokemon stood in front of us, their breaths were heavy and didn't smell all that good. Their rage filled eyes stared into ours.

The stantler charged towards the tyranitar, his body tensed for the attack. I recognized it as take down and watched in horror as his attack hit, but immediately after the tyranitar roughly slapped him away, leaving a wound in his side. The tyranitar turned and growled at the Pokemon.

"Weak!"

I leaped in front of the stantler, also keeping my eyes on the flygon. I leaped this way and that, dancing in front of the tyranitar and keeping his eyes on me, using the move taunt. "You wouldn't be able to hit me if I'm this slippery." I added. The tyranitar snarled and swiped a claw at me. I easily dodged, adding to his rage.

I danced away from the stantler as he tried to stand. "Lightning!" I shouted, searching for him, finding him nowhere to be found. Hotaru had dissapeared too. I suddenly noticed that flygon had disappeared, as well. I stopped hopping around and whirled around, searching for him. Stantler soon joined me and I turned to the rage filled tyranitar. "Where's that friend of yours?" The stantler asked.
"I wish I knew."

I ran towards the tyranitar, feeling dark power sharpen and lengthen my fangs. I bared them and leaped ontop of the Pokemon and bit down on the tender spot between his armor. His scream in pain was deafening this close but I held on. Suddenly I felt a huge shock and immediately let go. I fell in front of the tyranitar, who seemed uneffected.

"Dammit, Lightning, wait until I let go before you shock someone." I shouted getting to my feet.

"It wasn't him, young lady." The stantler stated. I turned to him and sighed. At least if it was Lightning he'd be here to help. As the tyranitar struggled to stand, the stantler stepped up to him. "You should sleep now." He said in a gentle voice. I could barely see psychic wave radiating off of his antlers.

"Hey!" I shouted. A single claw raised into the air, aimed at stantler. In a burst of energy, I crashed into the stantler, knicking him off of his feet before the claw crashed into the earth. A growl of frustration came from tyranitar.

"Maybe you should rest." I said motioning to the large wound on his side. "The battle isn't over, miss."

I sighed. I'd completely forgot about flygon too. Wait, flygon had wings. I looked up. A purple-ish beam shot down from the trees and I leaped out of the way, but not enough for it to catch my back leg. I leaped to my feet, ignoring the pain in my leg and searched the trees. "There!" Stantler shouted. He pointed with his antlers to a spot where flygon clung to a thick branch. "Can you hit him with hypnosis from down here?" I asked.

"Absolutely not." He said. "Okay." I said, then was suddenly knocked away by a claw. Growling, I meediately jumed up. The tyranitar had his aim on stantler, who was still focused on flygon. My fangs grew longer as I ran towards him. I leaped up and used the move cruch. Quickly, I followed the attack with shadow claw, using all my strength to scratch him mutiple times. As soon as I leaped off, stantler arrived with a full forced take down, shoving tyranitar into a thick rooted tree. I kept my eyes on him as he struggled to stand. A glance at the trees told me that flygon was still watching, planning something. Tyranitar finally fell to the ground, unconscious. That leaves one.

I stared at the flygon, willing him to come down. He didn't. I shouted at him. He stayed quiet. I used taunt. He got angry and landed in front of me. I grinned. I caught a glimpse of his tail shining before it collided with my body. I was sent flying across the field into the house. Apparently the wood wasn't strong enough and crumbled as I created a hole. I shakily stood and shook rubble off of my fur. Was someone living in this house? The stantler sure protected it like someone did. I looked around, seeing nothing but old furniture and wood. Paintings were smashed. Then flygon landed in front of me. I saw his tail shine again and immediately leaped away. Flygon swung and hit the rest of whatever stood. He was destroying the house.

Suddenly, flygon was shoved a distance away and into a tree. The stantler was glaring at him as he stepped closer. Waves, once again, radiated from his antlers and soon the flygon was out. Stantler drooped. He had to be exhausted. With a huff, the pokemon collapsed.


Me: That was a fun one to write.

Aveira: It was definetly longer.

Me: And I'm proud.

Vui: I finally made it. ^ ^

Hotaru: Yeah, you did.

Vui: That cacturn's so mean!

Hotaru: Yeah, he is.

Me: Review please.