Mansion
"HOW COULD YOU NOT BEEN ABLE TO DEFEAT HIM?!?!" shouted Belladonna to Vullen. Vullen stood silent, thinking of what the Ninetales had said. Just then, Demon Belladonna appeared right next to her counterpart.
"Calm yourself," she said, "Unless you want to bring the house down, then by all means, go nuts".
"That fox killed your parents!!! He killed them in cold blood!!! And you let him live!?!"
Vullen faced her mistress face on, "I… just couldn't…" Belladonna roared in fury as she electrocuted Vullen, yelping in pain.
"You really are evil, aren't you?" said Demon Belladonna as Belladonna ceased her attack.
"You're a fool, Vullen," said Belladonna, "He murdered them, he took your life away and you couldn't will yourself to slash his head off!?!"
"Forgive me…" whimpered Vullen as she bowed her head.
"Seems she fell for the whole 'we're siblings' trick," said Demon Belladonna, wiping her nails on her vest.
"How?!" asked Belladonna.
"You should have been there". Demon Belladonna coughed as her voice changed into Ninetalesuk's own voice, "I'm your twin brother... we were both born the same day…"
"He... looked... like the same age... as me... an adult," cried Vullen.
Belladonna turned her back towards Vullen: This isn't good... I'm about to lose my only warrior to them!
Demon Belladonna sees her worried look, "Mind if I make a suggestion".
"What?"
Demon Belladonna held out an amulet, "This is the Amulet of Asmodeus. It has the ability to manipulate one's mind at the users will. Just give this to her and she'll be listening to you as a dog does to a human".
Belladonna grins, "Okay," she turns to the Vulpix, "Vullen, do you really want to know the truth?"
"The truth?" asked Vullen as she lifted her head towards Belladonna.
"Yes, the truth. Go and wear a shirt that looks nasty and return to me"
"Very well, mistress," Vullen bowed and left to her room.
"You are a genius," said Demon Belladonna.
"Thanks," grinned Belladonna.
Flea Bite Cafe
"And then, she took her away," finished Angel Charlie. Angel Annabelle, Annabelle, Colleen, and Edward were brought by Angel Sasha. Ninetales sat silent on the couch, Shaina comforting him.
"Charles," said Angel Annabelle, "You said that she bounded you with a dark rope and she was surrounded by a black aura?"
"Yeah".
Angel Annabelle became shocked, "This could be a problem…" she turns to Annabelle, Colleen, Edward, and Ninetales, "If we don't get her away from Belladonna and... um, my cousin, we may permanently lose her to the darkness".
Ninetales looked up, "What? Do you mean?"
Angel Annabelle lowered her head, "Vullen will become Belladonna's dark warrior… forever". Ninetales stared at the floor again, Shaina comforting him, "Ninetales... we may still have time to save her".
"You sure do," replied a familiar voice. Ninetales and everyone else turn towards the sky, where Demon Belladonna glides down and lands by the entrance, "Miss me?"
"I think everyone would rather hit you," said Eevee.
"Shut up, you little stuffed animal".
"What do you want!?!" snarled Ninetales to the purple whippet.
"Nothing much, just came by for a little chat. Right now, my other self is going to tell your sister the whole truth and let her decide what she shall do with her future".
Mansion
"Are you ready yet, Vullen?!" shouted Belladonna as she began losing her patience with the young fox, "You never wear a lot of shirts anyway!"
"I only have one," said Vullen as she puts on a black shirt with red marks zigzagging up and down. "And frankly, I don't like wearing it".
"Never the less, it's time you learn the truth".
"I wanted to hear the truth for a long time. Tell me, mistress, who is Ninetalesuk?!? Why is he so persistent in saying he's my brother, when I think of it, he looks like the same age as me?"
"All will be revealed, young one," Belladonna smiled as she held out the amulet, "IF you put this on".
"What is it?" said Vullen as she looks at the amulet, the black jewel eerily shimmering from the sunlight, "It feels... Cold".
"Instead of me telling you the whole story, I have placed all the information you need in that amulet. All you need to do is wear it".
Vullen reached out to take the amulet, but hesitated, "I don't know... something doesn't feel right... about everything".
"Oh well. DON'T wear the amulet; all it shows is that you're fearing the truth".
Vullen reluctantly takes the amulet from the whippet's paws, "I'm NOT afraid of anything…" She puts it on, "Strange... I don't feel like I know anything yet".
Belladonna grined as she saw the gem beginning to glow from black to red, "Not yet anyway…"
Flea Bite Cafe
"Belladonna…" snarled Angel Charlie at the purple whippet.
"Oh, must we fight?" said Demon Belladonna, " I hate to lose my closest friends".
"We were never friends!" shouted Angel Charlie as he created a blue orb in his paw.
Demon Belladonna sighed as she glanced at Angel Annabelle, "Cousin, I thought you taught him that fighting was always wrong, and using Chuckie to fight your battles against me.; you have grown weak".
"Where is she?!" snarled Ninetales, "Where is my sister?!? When will she come back?!!?"
"Um…" Demon Belladonna grinned as she senses the evil powers of the amulet activating, "Soon, so don't you worry, fox boy".
Mansion
Belladonna chuckled as Vullen laid on the ground, holding her head, "What's wrong, my dear?"
"I...DON'T...AAAGGGHHH!" Vullen yelled in pain as the dark power of the amulet was slowly taking over her subconscious. Belladonna felt that now she was able to control Vullen.
"Vullen, stand up and become my slave... FOREVER!!!"
"GRAHHHHH!" yelled Vullen as she began to calm down, her head slowly rising as her eyes glowed blood red, like the gem's , "Anything you wish, my Mistress".
"Your mind has melted, your free will wiped away, anything I say will now be part of your mind as long as you wear that amulet".
Vullen put the amulet within her shirt, "Of course, my Mistress".
Flea Bite Cafe
"Heh, guess it's time," smiled Demon Belladonna.
"Time for what?!?" snarled Angel Charlie, his orb still held high.
"For Vullen to join the big leagues now!"
"NO!!" shouted Ninetales as he leapt at Demon Belladonna, but she reflects his attack with her own green orb.
"Fighting me is pointless, so here!" she tosses a package at Ninetales' feet, "Let's see if you can solve that" Demon Belladonna laughed as she disappears in green flames, "Before you have a demon for a sister!"
Ninetales groaned as Angel Charlie takes the package and opens it. Out came a note and a key.
"Ninetales," said Shaina as she helped Ninetales up to his feet, "Are you okay?"
"Don't give in, son," said Edward, "We'll get her back!"
Angel Charlie reads the note and becomes shocked, "I don't believe it!"
"What?" said Ninetales, looking at Angel Charlie.
"The note's a map, and it points towards here!" He shows a point on the map of San Francisco, "She was here, in this city, this whole time!"
"T-This whole time? Right under my nose... she was…" Ninetales falls to the ground, unable to hold on to the newly found truth.
"He's taking it hard, huh," said Eevee.
"Where?" asked Colleen to Angel Charlie, "Where is that witch holding my daughter?!?"
"That old mansion," replied Angel Charlie, "The one near the beach on the east side of San Francisco".
"You mean," said Flareon, "The one to be believed to be haunted?"
"So haunted that not even Ghost Pokemon want to go live there?!?" said Vaporeon, shaking.
"The very same," said Angel Charlie, "Belladonna may be the reason why Ghost Pokemon were never found near that place".
"I thought it was because Charlie spends time there, but I was wrong," said Jolteon before Charlie kicked him on the leg.
"Cram it! Now's not the time!" said Charlie.
Angel Charlie picks up key and goes to Ninetales, "Ninetales, now's the time to go and help her. We still have time, and I'm not here to see you cower like that!" He shows him the key, "Unless you already gave up on her?"
Ninetales gets up and takes the key from Angel Charlie's paw, "Let's go!"
Mansion: Front Yard.
The gates squeaked as it swung by its loose hinges, the yard was a desolate jungle of overgrown weeds and grass and the trees were singed with white ash; The path to the mansion was left untouched.
"Guess she's expecting us," said Angel Charlie, entering and walking towards the mansion, Ninetales ahead of him.
"I'm getting her back no matter what!" said Ninetales as he approached the door.
"I'm with you," said Shaina, "After all, she will become my sister-in-law".
"Mum? Dad?"
"We're coming too!" said Edward and Colleen.
"What about me?" asked Eevee.
"You're heading back to the apartment," said Ninetales, "You can't worry your parents".
"Aw, but your mom taught me a song, listen," Eevee plays a familiar song on the Ocarina, which made Ninetales think back to his happy puppy days with his parents, when his mom sang it to him.
"Still," Ninetales snapped out of his trance, "What about your parents?"
"We'll come!" said Kristen, popping her head out of the nearby bush.
"I agree!" popped Vec right next to Kristen.
"Like parents, like son," said Angel Charlie.
"I know," said Ninetales, facing the Espeon and Umbreon, "DON'T DO THAT!!"
The friends walked up to the mansion doors, where Ninetales opened it with the key and they all entered the gloomy entrance.
Mansion: Foyer
"Wow!" shouted Eevee, "What a Mansion!"
"No more Resident Evil for you," said Ninetales, annoyed.
"Nooooooooo," howled Eevee.
"Okay, where do we go?" said Angel Charlie, looking around the foyer, "We have two doors to our side, one in the back, and then, there's the stairs…"
"Allow me to save you the trouble," interrupted a venomous voice.
"It's Miss Happy-Go-Goer," said Vaporeon.
"Care to say that again?" said Demon Belladonna as she appeared next to Vaporeon. Before anyone knew, she disappeared and reappeared at the base of the stairs, "Welcome... to our humble abode". Ninetales growled as Demon Belladonna smirked, "I see you brought your parents as well. Think that would help you? HA! Not even with all their help are you able to save your sister!"
"Of course we can!" snarled Colleen.
"I want to see her! I want to see my daughter... NOW!!" roared Edward to the purple whippet.
"Of course," began Demon Belladonna as she hears a crash from above, "Here she comes!" Vullen lands in between the group.
"V-Vullen…" began Ninetales before she unleashed her sword to his neck.
"Ninetalesuk…" she opens her eyes, still glowing red, "It's time to end this!"
"Wait! Vullen!" shouted Colleen as she stepped in front of her children, "It's me! Your mother!"
Vullen looks at her and growls, "My mother's dead…" she turns and snarls at Ninetales, "BECAUSE OF HIM!" she lunges for Ninetales, sword ready to slice, but then, Edward knocks his own daughter down.
"No! Stop!" he shouted, "You can't kill him! He's your brother! We're a family!!"
A black aura surrounds the enraged Vulpix, "I HAVE NO FAMILY LEFT!" she shouts as she unleashes the aura, making everyone become pushed back against the walls and staircase.
"What's happened to her?" said Shaina as she got up.
"I LEARNED THE TRUTH!" snarled Vullen as she threw three daggers toward Ninetales, but he knocks them off with his Iron Tail.
"What truth?!!?" shouted Ninetales, "What lies has Belladonna told you now?!!?"
"EVERYTHING! MY MISTRESS TOLD ME HOW YOU KILLED MY PARENTS AND LEFT! NOW…" Vullen leaps into the air, sword in paw, "DIE!!" She falls, sword heading straight for Ninetales, but then, Vullen was caught by a blue aura appendage and pulled away from Ninetales.
"Vullen, listen to sense!" said Angel Charlie, holding the Vulpix down, "Belladonna's nothing more but a demon! She'll only tell you lies, never the truth!"
"Stay... out.. of... my... WAY!!" roared Vullen as she breaks Angel Charlie's hold, then she clasps her paws together, making a prism of darkness engulf him.
"Charlie!" shouted Angel Sasha, heading for him.
"VULLEN!" shouted Angel Charlie, trying to break through the prism, "LISTEN TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS RIGHT!"
"I only listen to one person…" said Vullen as she turned to Ninetales, uncovering more daggers, "AND THAT'S MY MISTRESS!!" She launches the daggers to Ninetales, who swatted them, but then, Vullen appeared behind Ninetales. With a swift Iron Tail, she sent him up, where she was about to slash at him, "NOW DIE!!" Before the sword made contact, Ninetales vanished with Quick Attack, making the sword hit the ceiling, "THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK!" she shouts as she too vanishes.
The group waits as they hear and see certain parts of the foyer being crushed or slashed, Ninetales grunting and Vullen yelling. Then, they heard an attack landing on someone. Ninetales reappeared and landed onto the floor, exhausted. As he was getting up, Vullen appeared, grabbed him by his tails, and threw him into the next room.
Mansion: Dining Room
Ninetales skidded over the tile flooring to the other end of the room. Exhausted, Ninetales had difficulty getting up as Vullen approached him, "V-Vullen... S- Stop…"
"MUST... AVENGE... PARENTS…" Vullen snarled as she approached him, sword ready to end Ninetales' life.
"Vullen... Belladonna stole you from us before we get to know each other! I'm your brother... please... Stop…"
"KILL...Kill…" Vullen hesitated as her sword began shaking, "kill…"
"Vullen!"
"Vullen!" shouted Colleen and Edward as they rushed to them. Vullen somehow couldn't do it, she couldn't kill Ninetales. Tears streaming from her eyes, she dropped the sword and cowered away, but then, Belladonna appeared on the long, dusty table in the middle.
"I knew you couldn't do it," said Belladonna to the cowering Vulpix, "YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A FAILURE!"
"A... failure?" muttered Vullen.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE! Since the day I took you, I thought I could get the most powerful object in existence, but it proved worthless when I read the rest of the prophecy!"
"Powerful object?" said Ninetales, "Wait, were you after ME!?"
"I was, but the prophecy needed nine other Legendary Pokemon, which I failed to obtain. I then used Vullen as a warrior to me, powerful and deadly, but still not obedient!"
"What is this hidden object?! Why am I special?!"
"None of your business. Besides, I think THEY already caught most of the Legendaries by now".
"They?" said Colleen, "You mean, they could come after Ninetales?"
"ENOUGH OF IT ALREADY!! VULLEN, FINISH HIM, OR I WILL, BY YOUR OWN PAWS!"
"Vullen... don't!" said Ninetales as Vullen grabbed her sword again.
"I... I... GRAAHHH!" she cried as she launches sword down towards Ninetales' side, "Don't…"
"VERY WELL!" shouted Belladonna as she waved her paws as they turned green, "Oscuro Manipuli!"
"GRAAHHHH!" shouted Vullen as she held her head, the black aura emitting from her body. Ninetales grabs Vullen as she struggled.
"Fight it!" shouted Ninetales to his sister, "FIGHT IT!!"
"SAVE YOUR BREATH!" shouted Belladonna as she saw Vullen's fur half turning black, "IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE!"
"No! I won't let go!!"
"TOO LATE!" shouted Vullen, Belladonna's voice echoing with it. She swats Ninetales away and launches Colleen and Edward off with a black aura blast. Her face turned half black as her teeth grew into fangs and her claws grew longer, "NOW, IT'S TIME THAT I TOOK THE WHEEL," she approached Ninetales with her sword, "THIS TIME, THERE'S NO HESITAITON! GOODBYE, NINETALESUK!"
"V-Vullen... No!" Ninetales braced for the attack, but Vullen was stopped, her sword and self being held with a blue outline.
"Mind if I cut in?" said Kristen, her eyes glowing blue as she sends Vullen flying off.
"An Espeon!?" said Belladonna, amazed at the new friend.
"Yes, and don't you forget it!"
"It won't matter," said Vullen, getting up, "I'm going to kill you all anyways, so…" Vullen disappears and reappeared behind Kristen, "FAREWELL!" Before she could strike, she was tackled from the side, "UGH!" Belladonna saw an Umbreon appear next to Vullen, "GRR... AN UMBREON TOO!"
"Leave my wife alone!" snarled Vec.
"Yay! Go, mummy! Go, daddy!" cheered Eevee from the doorway.
Vullen was angry that her black aura engulfed her, forming into a black shape, "It's time to enter the next level!"
"No," said Shaina, "Not again"
Vullen's body became surrounded by a giant black, skeletal figure, made from her black aura. The demonic head and limbs moved as Vullen moved, like a puppet and a master, "THIS IS THE END OF IT ALL! VULLEN IS NOW MINE!!"
"V... Vullen!" said Ninetales, but Vullen and Belladonna just laughed at him. Vullen points to him, the skeletal aura figure points it to him as well, "THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO NOW TO SAVE HER! NOW, DIE!!" The aura's fingers transform into Vullen's daggers, the blades more longer. She swings the aura hand and daggers, ready to slice the fox, but Ninetales disappeared as the daggers hit the ground, breaking away at the tile.
"Sorry I got here late," said Angel Charlie, his arm around Ninetales, "Annabelle's just got here!"
"Preacher!" said Belladonna as she saw the pink whippet, "Decided to join Ninetales' Death-day party?"
"Annabelle," asked Ninetales, "Please, is there something special about me?"
"Now's not the time!" answered Annabelle as she points to Vullen, "We have to stop her!"
"HOW ARE YOU GOING TO STOP ME?!?" laughed Vullen, "WITH A SMILE AND A SUNBEAM?!?"
"How about a song?" suggested Eevee.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" bellowed Vullen, "WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS, A GAME!?!" She lifts the aura's arm up, "THEN, IT'S GAME OVER FOR YOU!!" She swings it down towards Eevee.
"Eep!!" shouted Eevee before he zooms to the other side of the room, making the appendage hit the tile floor.
"WHAT THE HELL?!?" shouted Vullen as she became held in place by Kristen's Psychic.
"Leave... my... son... alone!!" she shouted.
"THINK THAT'LL STOP ME!" roared Vullen as she breaks through the Psychic and grabs Kristen with the aura's appendage, "THINK AGAIN!!"
"NO!" shouted Vec as he leapt at the aura's arm, but passed right through it. Vullen bellowed her laugh again.
"NORMAL ATTACKS ARE USELESS AGAINST ME... GAHHH!" she howls as the arm freezes as Vaporeon and Snowflake fire their Ice Beams to it.
"Meet a new friend of ours!" said Vaporeon.
"I'M GETTING SICK OF THESE FRIENDS!" growled Vullen as the arm detaches, having Kristen land as the ice breaks her free.
"We're not!" said Leafeon, joining Snowflake, "They're great!"
Vullen smirked as her aura figure grew four more appendages, "THEN THERE'S PLENTY MORE FOR YOU ALL!!! DARK MIMIC!" Each arm launched a different attack: Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Water Gun, Flamethrower, ShadowBall, and Magical Leaf. Meanwhile, Colleen was suffering from her heart from breaking.
"I... I don't know how to free her," she cried.
"We're in trouble," said Eevee as he popped his head from a vase.
"Colleen," said Angel Charlie as he gets Ninetales to her, "That song you taught Eevee, did you ever sing it to Ninetales since he was born?"
"Yes," said Colleen, confused, "Why do you ask?"
"I got an idea. I just hope it works. Eevee, come here".
Meanwhile, the whippets were in combat, throwing orbs or throwing a punch or two. Belladonna smiled as Annabelle began to pant.
"GIVE IT UP COUSIN!" said Belladonna, "SHE'S MINE!"
"I'LL NEVER LET YOU WIN, BELLADONNA!" shouted Annabelle, "WHY DID YOU KIDNAP VULLEN ANYWAY?!?"
"SOMETHING YOU'LL NEVER FIND OUT!! AH, I SEE SHE'S DONE!" Annabelle turns around and sees Vullen, her aura appendages all containing worn out Pokemon. Belladonna and Vullen laughed, "YOU LOST, COUSIN!"
"No…" said Annabelle as she saw Vullen's appendages drop the unconscious bodies of their friends on the floor.
Just then, Eevee begins to play the song on the Ocarina, making Vullen's ears perk up. She turns around and sees Colleen and Ninetales, approaching her. Colleen sang as tears came out of her eyes, "Sleep, little one, don't make a sound,
I'll always be here when you're feeling down.
Dream away, and before the night is done,
I'll be here with the rise of the sun".
"That... Song…" she puts her paws on her head, the aura figure copies, "I... remember... that... Song".
"It still remains in your heart," said Ninetales as Vullen groans. The aura figure began to disintegrate, making Vullen change back.
"NO!" shouted Belladonna, but before she could do anything, Annabelle and Angel Charlie tie her up with the blue appendage.
"A bit tied up, aren't we?" joked Angel Charlie.
"MY OTHER SELF!!! STOP THEM!!"
Demon Belladonna walks in, tied up too, Angel Annabelle holding her, "It's over!"
"No... no... NO!!"
"That... Song…" grunted Vullen as her fur began changing from black to brownish red, "I remember…" In her confusion, the amulet fell out of the shirt, revealing itself.
"What's that?!" said Edward, pointing at it.
"The Amulet of Asmodeus?!?" gasped Angel Annabelle as she turns to Demon Belladonna, "You gave her that!?!" Demon Belladonna just smirked at her.
"What's the Amulet of Asmodeus?" asked Ninetales.
"A powerful, demonic artifact. It derives from Beelzebub's Crown of Submission".
"Oh yeah," said Angel Charlie, "The Queen Bessie Fiasco".
"Queen Bessie?" asked Ninetales.
"Not now!" said Angel Annabelle, "Anyways, It allowed Belladonna to control Vullen as she were a puppet".
Everyone glared at Demon Belladonna, "What? That's what I am, and always will be".
Vullen collapsed onto the ground, unconscious. Ninetales rushes to her and takes the amulet off her, "Vullen, I'm sorry".
"Uh-oh. Guess her heart was too weak for the darkness".
Ninetales hugs Vullen, "Whatever happens to you, sis, I'm here for you".
"Well, I do love to stay, but…" Demon Belladonna swirls into a black fog and disappears.
"Not without me you don't!" shouted Belladonna to her counterpart. She sees Annabelle and snorts, "Hmph! Here's a little hint cuz: Eighth...Chaos...Emerald!" With that, Belladonna disappeared.
"Eighth Chaos Emerald?!" said Annabelle, "Does she mean the Master Emerald or... an actual eighth emerald?"
"I don't know, but right now…" Angel Annabelle points towards Ninetales, Colleen, and Edward, all near Vullen, "She needs our help". She approaches the family, "Ninetales, let's go take her to the Heaven's. She'll be safe there".
"Alright," agreed Ninetales.