I'm back to prove that this story isn't dead.

Yeah you guys must hate me for giving you such a long wait, but I'm back and that's what's important.

And now for those of you that reviewed the last chapter.

The Black Flareon: I know, that's what I like about it, you'll learn soon enough don't worry. I apologize for the long wait.

Ghost132: Yep, tis a fine time to meet new people on the road to execution. I hope you don't mind that you had to wait so long for this chapter.

ZorialWater: Well I'm glad you're enjoying the characters, it's why I accepted them in the first place. I hope the long wait didn't make you lose interest in this story.

Neko-Chan Ammy: Don't worry I will, I've just been busy with all my other stories. I hope this chapter satisfies you. So sorry for the late update.

Now that that's out of the way, let's start this story shall we?

Disclaimer: Don't own Pokémon, which is pretty obvious.

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It was a bloodbath, soldiers just kept coming and coming. I dodged a mage and stabbed the wrist of the hand clutching it. howling the soldier dropped the mace, but I quickly shut him up by grabbing the mace before it hit the ground smashing his face with his own mace. I threw the mace like I would a knife and it struck another soldier where the Solrock don't shine. I pulled the knife out of the guy's wrist and jumped back to avoid a strike from another soldier.

"Eclipse where are you?" I called out and within seconds the dark type was at my side fighting off soldiers.

Damon was swinging his sword in powerful swings and having devastating effects. Any soldier idiotic enough to come close to him was quickly cut in half, decapitated or los a limb. "Just like the Terra Town Terror isn't it?" he called out to me.

I grabbed a soldiers dead body and used it and a makeshift shield when I saw the crossbows aimed at me blocking the arrows with the corpse, "You and I remember that day very differently." I said before picking up the body and throwing it at the crossbow men. "We can't fight this many people at one time, not with just weapons."

Damon smirked, "Leave that to me, just jump when I tell you to." I knew what was coming, Damon swung his broadsword in several circular motions over his head before stabbing it deep into the ground, "Now!" he shouted and bending my legs I propelled myself into the air, landed on a soldier's shoulders before using them as a springboard to get myself higher.

Damon clenched his hands around the hilt and his tattoos, which were hard to see because his skin was so naturally dark in color, started to glow and black electricity started to come off him. the sky above him darkened before he roared and out of nowhere a bolt of lightning struck ham and it traveled through his tattoos before turning black and traveling into the ground using the sword as a pathway.

The electric power of the black Storm aura traveled through the ground looking for a good conductor, it found one; the armor of the soldiers around us. Normally the electricity would just harmlessly pass through, but aura lightning was different. The soldiers froze their bodies twitching and convulsing with screams erupting from their mouths. Their flesh became to burn and turn black, when Damon thought they had enough he pulled the sword out of the ground.

I looked at the scene from the tree I was perched in, Eclipse and Nova were next to me. The three of us jumped down to the ground. The impact we made when hitting the ground made the ground tremble. The blackened soldiers trembled before they literally crumbled into ash, bones and armor.

I looked around me, "We told them it was a bad idea to try and hang us." Damon chuckled and I looked toward the town, "Is there a town market in that village?" Damon gave me an affirmative, "Does it sell clothes?"

"Yes, but our money was taken." He said.

I looked at my childhood friend, "Well then it's a good thing we're not used to paying then isn't it?" Damon smirked.

Within half an hour we had snuck in, grabbed some clothes, and snuck out without anybody noticing us. Damon grabbed a black shirt, black pants and a set of matching boots. I grabbed a white long sleeve shirt, grey pants, and grey boots.

We were at the outskirts of the woods, we were pulling traveling cloaks around our necks. "So what do we do now?" Damon said.

I looked at the woods, "We need to get my friends," I said, "we better get walking, we can't do this alone and it's a long walk to where we need to go."

Damon's eyes widened, before he smiled widely, "Oh yeah, Wolf and Jackal are gonna bring the old gang back together." He said using the name on his wanted poster. Oh yeah Damon was a criminal… but then again so am I.

I chuckled, "More like the jackass and the son of a bitch are going to deal some damage."

Damon punched my shoulder, "Like hell we are."

"Let's get walking," I said and I took the lead with Eclipse at my side.

Hours passed and soon the sun was high in the sky, good thing the trees provided some shade, it may have been springtime, but the sun was still intense. A deep growling sound was heard and I pulled out my daggers and Damon unsheathed his sword. "Absol," Eclipse said catching my attention, "Sol, ab absol absoool." He explained and I realized what that growling was, it was Eclipse's stomach.

"Oh you're hungry," I said and Eclipse nodded, I put away my daggers and looked around the forest, "there's bound to be some game around here, let's split up and meet back here in a few hours and eat then." Damon nodded and he and Nova walked into the forest. Eclipse and I walked into a different direction.

It pays to be sneaky, and also to move through the trees with ease making little sound, because I was tracking a Deerling, one that was pretty big for its size. If I could sneak up on it and strike from above it would be an easy hunt. Eclipse was keeping a safe distance away from the Deerling on the ground.

Soon the Pokémon was in sight, it was eating from a bush of Lum berries, which was also a score because Lum berries were Eclipse's favorite berry. I pulled a knife out of my bag and readied it. I threw the knife and a sound caught my attention. The Deerling's cry of pain told me I had made my mark, but when I looked back at the bush I saw the Deerling was gone.

"Dammit," I cursed jumping down from the tree. Just in time to see what looked like an injured Pidgey struggle to get away. I heard something behind me and turned around just in time to have someone crash into me. I was sent to the ground, but I got up and looked at the person that crashed into me.

She was a girl around my age, but she was shorter than I was by quite a few inches her build was average, but her hips had some nice curves to them. Her black hair was slightly short at style in a- what was is called… fairy trim, no pixie cut that's it. She had fair skin, a heart shaped face, her jawline was slightly on the hard side. Her hazel colored eyes were a little large and her lips were full. She was wearing a blue striped dress with a collarbone length neckline, she was wearing a soft light blue jacket over it, it was a lot like a blazer just not as stiff. The shoes she were wearing were traveling shoes. There was a bow in her hand and a quiver of arrows on her back. Floating at her side was a Froslass.

The mystery girl, though for some reason she was familiar to me, got up and glared at me, "Watch where you're going!" she said.

"Watch where I'm going," I said, "you're the one that crashed into me."

She looked around me to see the Pidgey get away, "Aw, now look at what you've done. I've been hunting that Pidgey and now I've lost it because of you."

"Well if it weren't for you and that Pidgey crashing through the forest like an Ursaring I would've gotten my Deerling before it could escape," I shot back, "besides a real hunter wouldn't let a Pidgey get away."

"Excuse me," she said, I could see that Eclipse was glaring at the Froslass, a glare that she easily returned, "are you saying I'm a bad hunter."

"If the shoe fits, wear it." I said.

"Fine, how about a battle to settle this then?" she said, "Glacia versus that mangy Absol you have there." I'm guessing Glacia is the name of her Absol, the name was familiar, but I still could place it.

"Absol, sol sol AB!" Eclipse said, wow I never knew he would have such a colorful language when talking about a girl. His fur was a little more unkempt then most Absol's, but he hated the word 'mangy'.

"Very well," I said, "but don't expect me to go easy on you because you're a girl." The battle began shortly after that.

I communication battle plans and strategies to Eclipse through my aura, it was how all aura user's communicated to their partners. The girl was doing it too. Eclipse's scythe-like horn began to glow white and a wind started to pick up. Glacia put up her arms and a shimmering shield appeared in front of her, she was limited Eclipse's Dark moves with Light Screen, good thing I had him use Razor Wind. Eclipse howled and the wind around him began to glow and turn into blade before launching themselves at Glacia.

The attack went right through Glacia without dealing any damage, and then I nearly slapped myself for my stupidity, Normal-type was ineffective on Ghost-types. Glacia seemed to smirk and she started generated a blue glow in between her hands. I sent the command just as Glacia launched the Ice Beam. It made contact with where Eclipse was standing and there was a burst of frost. When it faded Eclipse wasn't there, he had used Dig.

There was a moment of silence before Eclipse burst out of the ground behind Glacia and slashed at her, this time the attack did hurt her. The Froslass quickly recovered and she started to dance in a foreboding way. A strange whistling was heard and then out of nowhere a large gust of purple wind that coursed through Eclipse's fur and it seemed to bite at him the entire time.

I watched the two Pokémon dance around one another launching and dodging different attacks. Both of them were looking tired and I could see that Glacia's Light Screen was fading. I gave the silent command and Eclipse's scythe-like horn started to glow dark purple and he leapt at Glacia and hitting her with a powerful Night Slash. Glacia looked very weak, but she generated a yellow spark of electricity and shot it at Eclipse. The energy shot through his body and his fur was crackling with electricity; paralysis.

I urged Eclipse to go for one final Night Slash knowing that would be enough, but when he tried he just couldn't move. Glacia took advantage of the opportunity and blasted Eclipse with another Ice Beam. Eclipse was forced back several feet and fell to the ground he tried to get up, but his legs were too shaky.

"He won't battle anymore," I said kneeling down and petting his fur while at the same time using my aura to help him heal himself. Another one of the perks to a strong bond between an aura user and his partner.

The girl seemed surprised, but happy. Glacia must've been closer to being finished than I originally thought, "Glacia, your icy heart outshone the sun." she said in a tone that could be considered cute. Then something went off in my head and I was sent into a flashback.

I was around 9 years old and playing Tag with Eclipse by the cliffs not far from my home town, "You'll never catch me Eclipse," I yelled behind me with a playful tone and laughing as I ran from my partner. The chase didn't last long as the Absol tackled my back and sent us somersaulting a few times. I untangled myself from the Disaster Pokémon, "Man that was fun, okay now it's my turn." I was about to chased after Eclipse when a voice caught my attention.

"Help!" it was a girl's voice. Me and eclipse looked over to see a girl hanging from the edge of a cliff with a Froslass trying and failing to bring her back up. Wasting no time Eclipse and I ran over to her.

"I got you," I said as I grabbed one of the girl's hands and started to pull, I felt Eclipse grab the back of my shirt with his teeth and help me pull her up.

I wasn't as strong then, so I still had some trouble, which is why I was glad to have Eclipse helping me. after a few minutes we got the girl back on top of the cliff and away from the ledge, "T-t-thanks for saving me." she said in a shy tone.

"Anytime," I said, talking to a girl at the age of 9 was a little strange, but I could adapt, "do you want to play? Me and Eclipse were just playing tag." she smiled.

"I'd love to." She responded and I held out a hand.

"I'm Wolf," I said and she shook my hand.

"Eira Winters," she said.

I came out of the flashback, I looked at the girl closely and now I could see why she looked familiar. I was once friends with a girl named Eira, but she moved away about a month after I met her, "Eira Winters?"

She looked at me totally surprised, "How do you know my name?"

I chuckled, "I can now understand why you crashed into me, you never really were the most coordinated runner when we played tag." realization seemed to dawn on her.

"Wolf?" she said I nodded and she giggled, "wow you've really changed."

I laughed and scratched Eclipse's fur, "Living in the wilds will do that to you."

Eira looked curious as to what I meant, but then she seemed to remember something and she bolted off into the bushes and being the curious person I am I followed her.

I soon found her, the Pidgey she was hunting earlier was in front of her. She shot at it with her bow and the Pidgey dodged it, but the arrow still nocked its wing. Making it even harder than before for it to fly. I thought she was going to have a successful kill, but then the Pidgey began to glow. It evolved into Pidgeotto completely healing itself and making it even stronger.

The Pidgeotto swooped at Eira and she dove to the side and the Pidgeotto just quickly changed direction and chased after her. Her hands glowed sky blue before she turned around and blasted her aura, she missed but she hit a tree that was immediately covered in a layer of frost. So she had a Water and Ice aura. I looked around for Eclipse, he wasn't anywhere in sight. I groaned I really didn't want to do this, but…

I focused and I felt the marks on my body glow, you could almost see it through my shirt. I reeled my fist back and threw it forward and a blast of my aura and it shot forward and it blasted the Pidgeotto and it crashed to the ground completely lifeless.

Eira looked over at me in shock, "Figured I would help you out a little," I said.

"Well thanks," she said with a sincere smile, "now I can finally have some food." She went over to collect the Pidgeotto when a growling was heard. Eira jumped back when a Houndoom leapt out of the bushes snarling at her. She screamed a little and jumped and clung onto me. Houndoom growled before leaning down and grabbing the dead Pidgeotto with his mouth and running back into the bushes.

I looked at the bushed and then at the girl clinging on to me, "Eira, you can let go of me now." She looked up and her face went bright red before she jumped off.

"Sorry," she said, then she looked back at the bushes, "now what am I going to do."

"Absol," a familiar Pokémon cried behind me.

"Eclipse where have you been?" I turned around and saw Eclipse had the Deerling's neck in his mouth, "Oh, good boy Eclipse." I said grabbing the Deerling and putting its limp body around my neck. I looked back at Eira, "Come on Eira, cook it right and a Deerling can feed several people."

We came back and found Damon with a fire and he was using his sword to chop up what I think used to be a Tauros and there was a pile of different berries next to him. "Ah good you're back, just in time too I was about to start cooking the meat." I took the Deerling off my shoulders and threw it next to him, "Sweet, you got us some venison too." He looked up and saw Eira, "I see that wasn't the only catch you got, a good one too." Eira blushed a little.

"Damon this is Eira and Glacia," I said introducing her.

"Pleasure, I'm Damon and this is Nova." He said patting his Lucario's head, "now let's get this meat on the fire shall we." He said rubbing his hands together before getting to work.

It wasn't long until all of us were enjoying the meat, Damon was always good at cooking. I brought the Deerling leg t my mouth and used my teeth to pull the meat off the bone I chew the meat before swallowing, "Is this Cheri I'm tasting?"

"Yes it is, with a bit of Liechi to balance the palate." Damon said and I took another bite.

"You should be a cook, you'd be quite successful." I pointed out.

Damon chuckled, "Just doesn't hold the same thrill as the what I do now." He said.

Eira looked like she was enjoying the meat, "Slow down Ice Queen there's plenty to go around." I said and she looked at me.

"You still remember that nickname?" she asked.

Damon laughed and punched my shoulder, "Wolf here can remember the number of kills he made in a raid he was in over a year ago after getting hit on the head with a Hammer Arm."

Eira looked at me, "Kills in a raid?" she asked.

"A story for another time," I said, "let's just finish this meat and then all of us can get back on the road."

Eira was surprised, "All of us," she said, "are you serious?"

"We could use another person in our little group, plus we've never had an archer with us." I said and Damon agreed.

"I'm only an amateur." She said timidly looking down.

"Oh c'mon it'll be fun." Damon said.

She waited a bit before answering, "So where are we going?" she said and I smiled.

"First we need to finish up this meal and pack up the leftovers," I said, "then we're going to Darkari Town."

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And there you have it, the chapter the few of you have been waiting for is finally here.

I want to personally thank BlueFlame27 for sending Eira Winters.

Hopefully I'll be able to get the next chapter out to you guys sooner and not give them such a long wait. Just keep following this story.

This is W. R. Winters signing off.