Chapter Four: Old Friends, New Foes, Calls for Upgrade!
*/At Team WorldGuard Base.../* -Third Person-
"So let me get this straight...now we have an ally, who is an official member of Team WorldGuard?" Mew asked
Moonless now has both his hands in front of his face. *Sigh* "For the one millionth time...Yes..." Moonless said
Ribbon on the other hand, was enjoying the view as she tries to suppress her giggles but failed miserably.
Moonless looked at her with a raised eyebrow and said "What? Don't you get annoyed like this?"
Ribbon smiled and said "This just goes to show how great your friendship is with Mew."
Moonless rolled his eyes and said "Yeah right...You haven't seen her other side yet...She will probably even rip your throat out..."
"You know I can hear you guys right?" Mew then said in an angelic, devilish voice as she rubs both her hands together "And for your information Moonless, I won't rip her throat out but I sure will rip yours!"
"W-why? What did I do to you?" Moonless said as he swallowed hard.
"Hmm...Someone owes something, I wonder who it is?..." Mew said Moonless' name at the same time while she pretends to cough.
Moonless was loss for words as he starts panicking. "I uh...Oh yeah!" He then thought of an excuse to evade Mew for a while "I should probably go out to hunt Mutants...Yeah! That's what I'll do! You coming Ribbon?"
"S-sure!" said Ribbon as she tries to hold back from laughing.
Mew's angelic voice immediately became a devilish one as she screamed "Moonless!"
"Um...Yeah Bye Mew! Remember to look for Mutants!" said Moonless as he and Ribbon walks out the door.
Mew threw a book at him, but Moonless closed the door in time before the book made contact.
Moonless breathe a sigh of relief and said "Phew, that was close...I thought Mew would've forgetten by now...Oh well, I probably should make it up to her at some point."
Ribbon was still laughing, but she calmed down a lot more so it's more easier for her to talk now. "Yeah you should. After all, Mew has been working so hard on the computer, which is probably a good thing that I became a Mage instead of a reporter."
"Then again, if you never became a Mage, my other offers would've been either becoming a reporter like Mew or your not a part of Team WorldGuard." Moonless said while smirking.
Ribbon looked at him with narrow eyebrows and said "Man your harsh!"
Moonless kept his smirk and said "I know I am."
Ribbon sweat dropped while she said "That's nothing to be proud of..."
Moonless continued to smirk. "Proud of teasing you~"
Ribbon nearly shouted "You!..."
Moonless starts running since he was just teasing Ribbon to get her somewhat a part of the fun.
Ribbon smirked and said "Hey! Get back here!"
A Espeon-morph was walking towards the port to take some fresh air but was surprised that it was under construction.
"Hello, um...do you by any chance know what happened here?" she asked a Sceptile-morph.
"Beats me, but I think a monster or something were like destroying the port yesterday. That's probably why they are reconstructing."
"Huh...Well thanks anyways." she said.
The Sceptile-morph nodded.
POV Change(Espeon)
*'I only hear monsters in stories but in real life?! Nah I ain't believing it.'*
I probably should've payed attention to where I was going but I didn't, so I tripped on something and fell flat on my face.
"Ow..." I said while holding my right hand to my face, but there was something else that caught my attention.
I saw a dark colored rock the size of my fist. The rock was apparently what I tripped on, but I rather was focused on the rock so I looked closely to see what it is. I thought it was obsidian but I immediately crossed that out considering this zone is free of volcanic activity.
*'I'll probably study it more when I get home.'* I put the strange rock in my purse since it fits perfectly.
Just then I hear screaming from in front of me. I looked to see people running away from what seemed to be Gallades. They are slightly darker in color and they have red eyes.
*'W-what are those?...'*
They started charging at me and I did the one thing that came to mind, which is of course running.
...
POV Change(Moonless)
Ribbon and I had just finished the running, well running for me and chasing for Ribbon after the teasing I did to her. Let me tell you this...This will be the last time I'll try to tease her.
I was taking my time to breathe after all the running. "Man was that really necessary? To literally chase me from base to the port?"
Ribbon was also taking her time to breathe considering all the running/chasing she did. "Well yeah, You did tease me..." She stopped to take a deep breath before continuing, "And that's how I was going to get you back."
*'I was expecting her to chase me...but I didn't expect her to last that long...'*
"I was still not expecting you to actually last THAT long..."
"You underestimate me." she said while smirking.
*'True...Ribbon should never be the kind of girl to be taken lightly-'*
Just then, I hear screaming nearby. Which immediately brought the level of seriousness back to me. I'm pretty sure Ribbon realized too since her mirrored my expression.
"Mutants..." she said.
"Yeah, Lets go."
...
POV Change(Espeon)
I accidentally tripped when I was running the rock flew out from my purse. I quickly crawled over to grab it and stuff it back into my purse. Right as I turn around, the Gallades were around me, with their spears ready to stab me.
*'Forget what I say...MONSTERS ARE REAL'.* I screamed in my thought while I shielded myself with my arms, bracing for impact.
Then, I heard it, *FLAME PLEASE* *FIRE, FIRE, FIRE FIRE FIRE* followed by loud metal collision sound.
I opened my eyes to see a Flareon in front of me, holding a sword which blocked the spears of the Gallades.
He looked at me and said, "Now's your chance, hurry and get out of here."
POV Change(Moonless)
*FLAME PLEASE* *FIRE, FIRE, FIRE FIRE FIRE*
Right when the minions were about to stab the Espeon, I withdrew my GunXword and blocked the spears.
I turned to the Espeon and said, "Now's your chance, hurry and get out of here."
I then turned to Ribbon, who was now catching up to me. "Ribbon, you take care of her."
Ribbon simply nodded when she helped the Espeon up and escort her a few feet away from me.
"I'm going to end this quickly."
I pushed upwards with my sword, which sent the minions tumbling backwards.
One manage to catch his balance and charged at me with his spear towards my chest. I side-stepped to the right before quickly grabbing the spear staff, effectively locking it in my left arm and rendering it useless to the minion. Then, with a tug of my left hand, he flew forward and I spin-kicked him in the stomach, sending him flying into the crowd of minions.
"I'm not wasting anymore of my energy with you guys."
I changed my sword into a gun, and activated the special by placing my left hand in front of the weapon's sigil. *SHOOTING STRIKE, FIRE*
The tip of my gun gets charged with a red, fiery energy- meaning it was all ready to go as I fired multiple shots at the minions. In a matter of seconds, they all evaporated from the explosions.
Once the area was clear, and I double checked to make sure, I then looked around until I spotted Ribbon and the Espeon from before.
Walking over to them, sharing a nod of appreciation to Ribbon first, I then asked the Espeon, "Hey, are you okay?"
She nodded. "Yes, thank you for saving me." The Espeon added.
"You defeated the Mutant?" Ribbon asked.
"Only minions but no Mutants this time..." I said while I transformed back into a Eevee.
I thought I saw the Espeon's eyes go wide but I payed no attention considering I'm thinking on what to do with her being targeted.
*'The base will be a safe place for her to be...but what if she lives with relatives or her parents?...'*
"What should we do Moonless?" Ribbon asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Well, we can-" but I got interrupted when I felt two hands grab my shoulders, as I looked to see who it was and almost flinched at how close the Espeon's face was to mine
"Moonless?! Are you Moonless Night?!" the Espeon suddenly asked, tightening her grip on my shoulders.
I quirked an eyebrow and asked, "Y-yeah, but how did you know my last name?"
"Did you tell her?" I said as I turned to Ribbon, and for a second, I thought I spotted a look of jealousy of her face.
Ribbon shook her head replying with, "No, I'm as clueless as to why she knows your last name."
The Espeon then smiled and said, "Moonless it's me! Don't you recognize me? I'm Solaire! Solaire Aurora!"
My eyes widened as I looked at the Espeon in shock.
"That name sounds...familiar, where did I hear of that-"
Times of past childhood memories suddenly flashed through my mind and I saw another Eevee-morph.
*/Flashback.../*
"What is your name?" The Eevee-morph asked.
"M-My name is Moonless. Moonless Night."
"Cool! My name is Solaire Aurora, but you can just call me Solaire. Let's be best friends!"
"O-Okay..."
"YAY! Now then, let's play like how best friends should!" She chirped.
"Um...how?"
The Eevee smiled widely, and softly tapped my shoulder.
"Tag! You're it!" she said before she started running.
"Wha? Hey that's not fair!"
"Hey Moonless! Come and catch me!"
"Oh yeah? I will do just that!"
*/Flashback Ends.../*
It wasn't until the end of the flashback that's when recognized her as my childhood best friend. Regardless of the change over the years, she still looked like the Eevee that I have come to know of.
"No way...Is it really you Solaire?"
"It is...It's been so long since we last met and you haven't changed one bit. You're still the same Eevee with blue eyes that I know of!" she said.
*'Right...If only you knew.'*
"Well I'm a mage now and you changed to the point where I can barely recognize you, you evolved into an Espeon!"
"Oh yeah...I almost forgot," I turned to Ribbon and said "Ribbon this is my childhood friend Solaire," I turned back to Solaire "Solaire, meet Ribbon."
"Nice to meet you." they both said in unison and shook hands, but I felt unease at the look that Ribbon was silently giving Solaire.
"Anyways, speaking of being a mage, you mean when you transformed into a Flareon and back?" she asked.
"That's one way to put it, but that's not the important thing. You are being targeted by Mutants."
"Yes, I realize that considering Ribbon already filled me in on that info." Solaire said, a bit of fear in her voice.
"But, does your parents allow you to stay at our base?"
"Yeah, besides they are on vacation right now so I can make the decision myself. Plus, if they know I'll be staying with you, then they will automatically say 'sure" she said.
I thought I saw Ribbon twitch, so I quickly replied.
"Wow...Okay...I guess that's settled."
"Speaking of parents, how are your parents doing Moonless?" she asked. Her question caught me completely off-guard.
*'Parents...Mom...Dad...'*
"They uh...We should head back to base right now before the Mutants actually show up.'" I said, changing the subject.
"You are right about that Wizard, and you are not going anywhere when I'm here!" said a arrogant voice behind me
I looked around and saw a Fearow-Mutant holding a giant long sword over his shoulder.
Both Ribbon and I got into a battle stance as Solaire hid behind us.
"Mutant..."
"Phoenix is the name and I challenge you to a duel." he said. "One on one.
*'I'm was confused at his words, wasn't he here for the Form? Why does he want a duel with me?'*
"Aren't you after the Form? Why do you want to fight me?"
"Isn't it obvious? To see who is better!" he said arrogantly.
"So you're leaving the Form alone?..."
"Who cares about the Form anyway? ALL I CARE ABOUT IS FIGHTING!"
Ribbon nudged me to get my attention. "Moonless, we should probably make a run for it, what if it is a tr-"
I cut Ribbon off saying "Deal,"
"Moonless!" Ribbon said, grabbing my hand.
"I'll be fine, look after Solaire and we're good."
"But!..." she tried to argue.
"Do you believe in me?"
She looks a me for a second, then at Solaire before she looked back at me.
"Okay, be safe." she said as she lead Solaire away to a more safe distance away from Phoenix and I.
The Mutant smirks and said, "Ready to get your ass kicked?"
"We'll see."
*THUNDER PLEASE* *ELEC ELEC ELEC-TRIC*
"Now it is show time!"
POV Change(Third Person)
Phoenix smirks and said "Show time? You really think you have a chance against me? If you can barely even defeat Ultra Violet, then I guess your dreaming on defeating me."
Moonless rolled his eyes and said "Man, do all Mutants talk this much?"
Phoenix's right hand gets covered in fire, the fire then expands into the shape of a sword.
"Any last prayers?" said Phoenix as the fire gets replaced with a sword.
"If Mutants can become less annoying that is." said Moonless while smirking.
Phoenix swings his sword across Moonless's legs, which Moonless dodged with ease by doing a 360 flip spin. Moonless then repeated the same process backwards as Phoenix swings back at him.
Moonless grinned and said, "My turn!"
Moonless then starts glowing yellow and a Thunder attack strikes Phoenix dead on, resulting in smoke after an explosion.
Moonless smirked and then mocked him by saying "How you like that, bird?"
The smoke clears to show Phoenix unharmed, despite an electric attack that can do heavy amount of damage to a flying type.
Moonless' smirk disappears, his expression is replaced with a more concerned one.
*SLASH STRIKE, ELECTRIC*
"Take this!" Moonless said.
Moonless swings a yellow cross-crescent wave at Phoenix. Phoenix however, wasn't alarmed as he swings his sword, which repelled the attack towards a tree.
Moonless eyes went wide as his charged attack was repelled without any signs of struggle.
"You can hurt me with such weak electric attacks." said Phoenix arrogantly as he gets covered in an aura of fire.
Phoenix charges up a giant fireball and shot it at Moonless. The impact sent Moonless crashing through five trees.
Phoenix said mockingly "How you like that now huh?! Can't beat the heat!"
Moonless said "You need to cool down!"
*AQUA PLEASE* *WATER WATER WATER WATER*
*DUPLICATE PLEASE*
Moonless changes one of the GunXwords into a gun while leaving the other a sword. *SLASH STRIKE, WATER* *SHOOTING STRIKE, WATER*
Moonless prepares for an double attack with his dual weapons as he said, "Try this for a change!"
Moonless swings one of his GunXword while he shot with the other. A blue crescent wave is then merged with a blue energy ball, which then flies toward Phoenix at an alarming speed.
Phoenix increased his fire aura, to the point after the attack made contact, it immediately evaporated from the heat.
Moonless' eyes widen at the fact that his attacks had absolutely no affect on him.
Phoenix said, "You're just wasting your time. Your puny attacks can never put out this immense fire of mine."
Phoenix then charges for a powerful Heat Wave attack, which Moonless evaded with the transformation of Flareon.
*FLAME PLEASE* *FIRE, FIRE, FIRE FIRE FIRE*
Phoenix rolled his eyes and said "Oh please, like that form of yours is going to do so much to me..."
Moonless replied with a defensive tone "At least I won't take as much damage as before!"
Phoenix then fired a Blast Burn attack attack at Moonless, Moonless countered with the barrier magic ring of his.
*PROTECT PLEASE*
To Moonless' surprise, the Blast Burn attack literally shattered his barrier and blew Moonless all the way near the port.
"D-damn it..." said Moonless while struggling to get up.
Phoenix then grabs a hold of Moonless' neck while holding him up in the air.
Phoenix smiled and asked, "Already done? I thought you were stronger than this,"
Moonless struggled to get out of Phoenix's grip but failed with many attempts.
Phoenix gave a sigh of disappointment and said "In that case, DIE!"
Phoenix then coated his sword in fire, sliced Moonless across the chest and then threw him out into the ocean.
Moonless screamed in pain from the attack while he flew into the water. Phoenix then fired a Fire Blast towards the way Moonless flew at. The second the attack made contact, it exploded on the water.
From far, Ribbon and Solaire were watching the events unfold. They were both too shocked to do anything, even Ribbon; despite she could've helped prevent that from happening.
"Moonless!" Ribbon and Solaire both shouted.
...
*/Under the ocean.../*
Moonless was slowly but surely drowning as he sinks toward the ocean floor.
POV Change(Moonless)
I was slowly sinking towards the bottom of the ocean, I tried but I don't have enough energy to swim up to the surface. Hell I even tried using the blue ring but my Magic Energy is also limited.
*'Damn it...Is this going to be the end of me? I need power, even just a little bit, it will be enough...I need...Power!'* I thought as I slowly drifted into unconsciousness
An image of a red-eyed Arceus then flashed in my mind.
*'Rooooaarrrr!'*
And after that, the last thing I remembered was seeing a pink and purple figure before I blacked out.
POV Change(Ribbon)
After Phoenix left, Solaire and I ran toward the water as fast as we could, looking for any signs of Moonless. So far, no luck.
"Moonless!"
"Ribbon! Have you seen anything yet?" asked Solaire.
"Not yet!"
We kept searching until Solaire suddenly said "Hey! Look over there!"
I looked to where she was pointing and saw a Vaporeon-morph slowly swimming towards shore, the Vaporeon then stopped swimming and laid in the water. Solaire and I both jumped into the water to save him, considering it was easy to recognize Moonless with his blue eyes, no matter what form he is in.
*'Thank Arceus he still has energy to swim back up.'*
...
POV Change(Moonless)
I woke up and was greeted with a powerful beam of light shined at my face.
"Ughh...Where am I?..."
"Moonless!" I heard someone to my right say
I turned my head to see Ribbon and Solaire sitting on chairs next to me.
"Ribbon? Solaire? Where am I?..."
"Your at the hospital, you scared us half to death when you were down in the water for ten minutes." Solaire explained.
"Thank Arceus you still had energy to swim back up or else you for sure would've drowned." said Ribbon.
"Y-yeah, thank Arceus..."
*'W-was that Dragareus? Did he give me the power and energy?...'*
"Moonless?...Are you okay?..." asked Ribbon, genuinely concerned for his health.
"Yeah, it's nothing...Although I'm worried more with Phoenix on the loose. There is no doubt what destruction he can cause when is a Mutant himself..."
"Moonless..." I hear Ribbon say, but then paused for a moment, as if she was looking for the right words to say. "But why didn't you use your ability to fight Phoenix?
"Most of my Magic Energy that I used yesterday have not been replenished, so I didn't have enough to use the ability."
"Hey uh Moonless?" Solaire suddenly asked.
"Yeah?"
"I know you have a lot of knowledge with rocks so I would like you to see this." said Solaire.
"Seriously? At a time like this?..." I gave Solaire a look of disbelief.
I'm pretty sure Ribbon also had the same face as me after hearing Solaire ask such a question at the wrong time.
"Well...Sorry, I just want you to take a look...It's okay if you don't want what to..." Solaire said.
"Fine...Got nothing to do at the moment anyways, we don't even know about Phoenix's whereabouts."
Solaire took out a dark colored stone from her purse and showed it to me.
"Huh...never seen this kind of rock before..."
Then the stone glowed faintly and I felt some energy and power radiate off the stone.
"Wait...What was that?..."
"What was what?" asked Solaire
"You felt that too Moonless?" asked Ribbon.
"Yeah, looks like something nearby is reacting to it."
"But what can that be?" asked Ribbon
I thought about it before I remembered that I had a dark colored ring, a dud rather considering it never worked when I try to use it.
I took out the dark colored ring. To my surprise, the ring is also glowing. The closer I moved the ring to the stone, the brighter it got until I moved it so close to the point where the stone's shape then changed to one that looks like a ring. Then, the light shone so bright for an instant, with the rock still glowing.
"Whoa...W-what just happened..." Solaire asked
"Beats me..."
"Moonless, look!" said Ribbon.
When the light from the rock was gone, the only thing left in Solaire's hand was no longer a stone but a dark colored ring, similar but also different than mine.
"A ring?..."
*'Was that a magic stone?'*
"Wait...How did the stone turn into a ring?..." asked Solaire, astonished.
"Hey Solaire, can I see that ring?"
"Um...Sure?..." said Solaire as she handed me the ring.
I took the ring, the instant light was reflected off the ring, an image flashed in my mind.
*'Rooaarr!'*
My eyes went wide as that same image of a red-eyed Arceus appeared earlier was now seen again.
"Maybe...Maybe this ring grants me access to another form of transformation!"
"Wait what? What does that mean? Solaire asked.
"It means, I might just have the necessary powers to defeat Phoenix."
"It's...worth a try." Ribbon said.
"Solaire, I know you found this stone...er...ring...is it okay with you if I hang on to this ring?"
"If this ring can help you with your tasks, then you don't have to ask me for a favor," said Solaire
"Why's that?" I asked already knowing the answer.
"Because you would already know the answer to that." Solaire said smiling.
"Thank you Solaire."
Solaire replied by simply nodding.
*'Phoenix, get ready because you won't even know what's about to hit you.'* I thought, smirking to myself.
"If I'm guessing correctly, he might show up just any min-"
I got cut off by sudden screams coming from the halls of the hospital.
"I was right."
"Moonless, show him whose boss!" said Solaire.
"Don't hold back!" Ribbon added.
I nodded and ran out of the room, towards the direction of the screams in search of my enemy. With barely even running a mile, I was greeted with him rampaging through the halls, in search of a particular someone.
"Well well well, if it isn't my favorite ringy Wizard, I thought I'd already finished you off," said Phoenix in a mocking tone.
"It's good to see you too, angry bird." I said with a smirk, returning with a mock of my own.
"At least now I can really take my time in breaking down every piece of your bone!" said Phoenix arrogantly as he cracked his knuckles.
"Oh that won't happen,"
"And why's that?" he asked.
"Because I'm going to defeat you!"
"Huh...Quit talking crap!"
*FUSION EMBRACER PLEASE*
"Transform!"
*FLAME PLEASE* *FIRE, FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE*
He goes for a punch towards my head, to which I countered with a block with my left arm. I then went for a kick towards his chest, to which he grabbed my legs and threw me at the wall. I did a back flip, gained my balance on the wall, jumped off while doing a flip forward to evade a punch from Phoenix. I dodged his punch but he was able to grab a hold of me before I landed and slammed me against the wall, causing cracks on the wall to form. Phoenix drew his sword and attempt to slice me, but I got out of his grasp in time by kicking his chest, which in return caused him to slice the wall instead of me. The wall crumbled with both of us outside of the hospital.
He tries to go for a quick swing but I jumped away from him before he was able to swing his sword. I then swapped my red ring with the dark ring.
"Dragareus, give me your power!"
POV Change(Third Person)
"Dragareus, give me your power!" Moonless said with confidence.
Moonless moved his left hand in front of his pendant, but the pendant replied with a command of *REJECTED*
Moonless' confidence immediately disappeared. "What?!" *REJECTED* *REJECTED* "What the hell is going on?"
Moonless wasn't paying attention as Moonless gets kicked in the face by Phoenix.
"You should pay attention when you fight, Wizard." Phoenix asked mockingly. "What's wrong? I thought you said you were going to defeat me,"
*REJECTED* *REJECTED*
"Oh well, your crappy excuse for a mage, you couldn't even land a scratch on me. Oh yeah before you die, keep in mind. That Espeon is not a Form, I used her to bait you!" Phoenix said
Phoenix then grabs Moonless' neck, threw him in the air and kicked him in the stomach. The kick sent Moonless crashing onto a hospital bench.
"Any last words, Wizard?" said Phoenix as he prepares for a final punch.
"Dragareus, I know you can feel it...Please...LEND ME YOUR POWER!" said Moonless as he moved his left hand in front of his pendant again.
POV Change(Moonless)
"Give it up, Wizard" said Phoenix as he prepares for a final punch.
"Dragareus, I know you can feel it...Please...LEND ME YOUR POWER!"
Suddenly a image flashed in my mind again, only this time it brought me to place. I looked around to see a Leafeon-morph and a Glaceon-morph laying on hospital beds, standing in between the beds were an Eevee-morph. This place is familiar, but it was something that I wanted to forget in my whole life.
"Mom...Dad..." said the Eevee-morph.
"I-is this my Mentality Zone?..."
An Eevee-morph appears to my right, he was identical to me but he had red eyes instead of blue ones.
"Precisely, this is the Mentality 'Comfort' Zone of Moonless Night..." he said in a deep voice, completely different from mine.
"And you are..."
He looked at me while grinning and said "Isn't this event traumatic?..."
He grinned and then looked at the younger Eevee-morph while saying "The time of your despair?"
I closed my eyes while replying "Yeah...However, it is not just despair...This is also where I got hope from, the hope that prevented me from turning into a Mutant."
The red-eyed Eevee then looked back at me, smirked while saying "You just never give up do you?"
"You know the answer to that. Dragareus, lend me your power!" I said while I raised my left hand with the dark ring
He smirks before he changed shape into a dragon looking Arceus. He then said "Indeed, that ring grants you access to another form of transformation. However, whatever happens to you or your body is your responsibility. If you cannot master the powers correctly, it will lead you into despair."
"Have you forgotten already Dragareus?"
"Hmm?..." he said.
"Your power grants me hope."
"Why did I know you were going to say that?" he asked.
I simply just smiled. He looked and me and grinned. He then laughed and said "Interesting, then let see how worthy you are of using my powers!"
He then flew into the sky and straight into me.
I was then brought back to reality to where my pendant starts glowing, the glowing blinding Phoenix temporarily.
"Ugh!" said Phoenix as he shields his eyes.
*NIGHT PLEASE* replied a voice command from my pendant
A dark colored circle appeared and knocked Phoenix away from me.
*DARK, DARK, DARK, DARK, DARK* said the voice command as the circle moved towards me.
In an instant, I was no longer a Flareon but an Umbreon. Strangely though, the rings on me were not yellow, instead they were blue.
"Now it is show time!"
POV Change(Ribbon)
Both Solaire and I were watching Moonless getting beat up by Phoenix, literally getting beat up and Moonless was not fighting back.
"What is he doing?! If he doesn't fight back, he is going to get killed!" said Solaire.
*'I want to help him...but something is like telling me this is Moonless' fight and I shouldn't intervene. What is this feeling?...'*
*'Child...'*
*'!...Xerneas, is that you?'*
*'Yes child, I know you want to help him, but this is his fight, not yours.'*
*'But!...'*
*'Like what Moonless said, do you believe in him?'*
*'I-I do, but...'*
*'If you do, keep that faith in you. Believe in him, like what he did to you when you were in despair.'*
*'H-he did?...'*
*'Yes, he had faith that you were able to force down the Mutant, and you did.'*
*'But how did you know?'*
*'Don't forget I'm the Life Pokemon.'*
*'If he did that for me, then I'll do it for him.'*
*'That's the spirit child.'*
*'You can do it, I believe in you...'*
*'Also a side note, Solaire does not see Moonless as a potential lover, and neither does Moonless.'* That made me blush.
Just then Moonless said "Dragareus, I know you can feel it...Please...LEND ME YOUR POWER!" while he moved his left hand in front of his pendant.
A voice command replied with *NIGHT PLEASE*
A dark circle appeared and knock Phoenix flying, the circle then slowly moved towards Moonless with another voice command.
*DARK, DARK, DARK, DARK, DARK*
After that, Moonless was no longer a Flareon but an Umbreon. The only strange part was he had blue rings when a normal Umbreon is suppose to have yellow ones.
*'A-another Eeveelution transformation! B-but why does he look so...familiar?'*
POV Change(Third Person)
"Now it is show time!" Moonless said with motivation, the motivation of defeating Phoenix.
Phoenix got up, drew his sword and said "Why you!..."
*CONNECTION PLEASE*
Phoenix charges at Moonless with his sword, in which Moonless parried easily with his sword. Phoenix then swings the other way, which Moonless avoided by jumping over. Moonless then slashed Phoenix's chest with his sword. To Moonless and Phoenix's surprise, that slash did a significant amount of damage.
"You little!..." Phoenix said as he held his left hand on his chest.
Phoenix goes for a swing on his head but Moonless predicted what was about to occur and he was ready for it.
*DUPLICATE PLEASE*
Moonless now has two swords, which he crossed them in an X shape to block the in coming long sword, the swords clashed with a metal sound. Moonless pushed the sword up and cross slashed Phoenix across the chest. Again, they were both surprised at the damage, but that gave Moonless more courage and confidence in beating Phoenix.
Phoenix now was the one getting his ass handed to him as he swings his sword to Moonless left. Moonless parried it with his dual sword and sent his sword flying. Moonless slashed Phoenix again and adding a final double stab to his chest.
Phoenix fell onto his back and said "T-this is impossible..." as he struggled to get up.
Moonless said "It is possible, I told you before and I'm going to defeat you!"
Just then, a light flashed and Moonless noticed it was his other dark ring.
Moonless looked at his ring for a solid 2 second before he said "Hmm...Looks like I can finally use this."
*ABILITY REQUIEM STREAM GO*
Moonless started glowing and a beam of light is then shot into the sky. The second Moonless looked at Phoenix, a beam of light falls from the sky and hits Phoenix dead on.
Moonless said "So I need to focus who I want to hit huh...cool." Then a victorious grin came over his face.
Moonless focused all of his energy at the thought of Phoenix. Suddenly, a bright color energy is forming in the sky and a huge beam of energy is then fired at Phoenix. Phoenix tried to counter the attack with a Blast Burn but failed since Moonless' attack went straight through the Blast Burn and landed on Phoenix. A scream of agony can be heard followed by an explosion.
"Phew..." Moonless then took his time to look over his new form.
Solaire and Ribbon both walked out to greet Moonless, his now Umbreon form.
Ribbon said "You have...evolved!..."
Solaire said "Of course not technically, but you get the point."
Moonless nodded and looked at his ring before he then transformed back into Eevee form.
"Also, Solaire is not a Form, so she is safe from the Mutants." Moonless explained
Solaire asked, "How did you know?" as she tilts her head.
Moonless explained "Phoenix used you to bait me into fighting him."
Ribbon said, "So it was a trap..."
Moonless shrugged and said "Not really considering that I defeated him, and got a new power in return." as he looked at his new ring.
Ribbon rolled her eyes and said "Yeah, after almost losing that is..."
"You guys make a perfect couple~" Solaire cooed.
"What?!" said Moonless and Ribbon in unison while blushing.
Solaire smirks and said "You guys make a perfect couple~"
Moonless said "We do no-" but gets cut off as he passed out.
"Moonless!" The girls shouted in unison.
"Moonless are you okay?" asked Ribbon with concern, but the sounds of light snoring from the Eevee made her think otherwise.
"Phew, he was just sleeping. That fight had worn him out pretty good huh?" said Solaire.
For that whole day since the encounter with Phoenix, the breath that the two have been holding in, finally gets released as a sigh of relief.
Ribbon then asked "Hey...Solaire? I have a question to ask you."
"Yeah?"
*/2 hours later.../*
POV Change(Moonless)
I woke up from the exhaustion that knocked me out cold before. I thought I would still be outside of the hospital, to my surprise, I was back to my own room at base. I walked to the meeting room to see Mew and Ribbon talking to someone.
"Mew, Ribbon, who are you girls talking to?" I said while I yawned, with my eyes barely open.
"Me of course!" said the voice across from them.
I immediately realized whose voice it was and I opened my eyes WIDE to see Solaire sitting on the chair across from them.
"Um..."
"Glad to see me?" Solaire asked
"Why are you still here?...Should you be at home right now?"
"This is my home now!" she said with glee.
"Wha?"
I looked at Mew and Ribbon and asked "Would any of you like explain what happened at the time when I passed out?..."
Ribbon raised her hands like a student requesting to answer a question. "Teacher, I invited Solaire to be a part of Team WorldGuard."
I stood there, dumbfound as if I was registering every word slowly.
"I invited her to be a part of Team WorldGuard." said Ribbon as she smiled.
"And you didn't care to talk about this with me before you make the decision..."
"I did, with Mew. After all Mew does need someone to help her and it is the perfect time to recruit another member. Right girls?"
"Yep!" Mew and Solaire both said in unison.
"Thank you Moonless! I'll take this as gift that you owe me two days ago!" Mew said with glee.
My mouth was hanging wide open at that point and I asked "How does that work?!" while the girls were giggling at my remark. They started talking to each other in their little "Group Talk" thing.
*'Oh boy...I'm going to have so much fun with this...'* I thought sarcastically.
*'You will, trust me.'* I heard someone say telepathically to me, and I knew immediately who it was. He's the last one person that I will ever want to have teasing me over having to live in a 'harem'.
*'Shut up Dragareus.'* I swore I heard the being chuckle in response to my remark. I can already picture the smirk on his face as he gets to enjoy watching things unfold like a show on television. Once again, I groaned in annoyance.
*/At the Warehouse.../* -Third Person-
"So Wizard managed to defeat Phoenix..." said a voice.
Sabrina nodded her head while she looked down.
"What about the Form?" the voice asked.
"The Espeon was not a Form, it was a trap Phoenix set up for Wizard."
"I see..." said the voice.
Sabrina knelt down and said "I'm sorry, Lord Ideal."
"Hmm, no matter. Right now, our main goal is to increase in numbers, so we Mutants can become the dominant creatures of the world! How can we let such an obstacle stop us from achieving such goal?" said Ideal.
"Yes...Indeed Lord Darkness..." said Sabrina with a grin.
"You may leave now, Sabrina." said Ideal.
Sabrina nodded her head slowly before she disappeared.
POV Change(Ideal)
*'Things are not going the way I have expected...'*