CHAPTER 7

~Anger, Begets More Anger.~

Heyo everybody, it's Redanato the Hero of Flame!

I'm sorry for the lack of an update but it's looking like it'll be a little while before I have a chapter up, I'm just trying to pass by the days till christmas.

But for now, I'll try to update as often as possible. In the meantime, Let's see me attempt at actually starting this chapter.

I was being shook awake. I didn't know why, and I couldn't do anything about it. Litterally. I couldn't controll my body at all for a minute. I suddenly felt feeling return as my eyes opened.

"Red, wake up!" I heard, it was Casey's voice.

"C-casey? What's going on?" I asked, jumping up.

"You were having a nightmare..." She said shyly. "I thought you might wanna be woken up..."

"I... I was having a nightmare?" I asked noone in particular.

"Was I wrong to wake you?" Casey asked, bringing me back into reality.

"Huh? Oh, no. I apreciate it." I said half-heartedly. "Wait... how did you know I was having a nightmare?"

"I could feel it." She explained, "and when I came in here I saw you tossing and turning."

"Oh" I said, remembering that she was the feeling pokemon. "Alright, thank you."

I looked out the window, it was just barely becoming morning. I stood up and walked over to the window, sitting down when I got to it.

"... Do you... want to talk about it?" Casey asked. I could tell she was concerned.

"I can't. I don't even remember the nightmare." I explained. "Haven't for a long time"

After that we just sat in silence. That is, untill Wave came busting in the door.

"Hey Red, we've got company!" He stated, running back out the way he came.

Realizing this was an emergency, I jumped up and chased after him. When I got downstairs I was surprised with what I saw. The Mightyena was back, and Midnight was attempting to hold it off, and loosing. I jumped in front of her, right inbetween the Mightyena and her.

"Red!" I heard her say.

"I'll handle him, Casey, get her patched up." I commanded. I saw Casey nod out of the corner of my eye as she and Midnight pull back to the back of the room.

"Well if it isn't the little runt that hurt my legg" The mightyena said in a hystarical voice.

"I had hoped I broke something when you did." I said harshly.

"Don't worry, something's going to break this time. Only it wont be my leg, it'll be your neck!" The mightyena lunged at me. Not noticing he didn't use crunch, I jumped to the side, only to get hit from behind by the Mightyena's quick attack.

I flew into a wall, then fell to the ground. The Mightyena slowly walked towards me, as if to taunt me.

'This can't be... the limit of my power...' I thought to myself, not having the energy to speak. How did I run out of energy that fast?

Red! I heard Shadow cry out.

'Shadow... help...' I spoke to him.

Allow me to take control, and I'll handel him.

'All...right...' and with that, I lost control of my body.

"Initializing spiritual switch" My body spoke, but it wasn't my voice that came out. It was Shadow's. My body began to glow as it's fur turned silver, my eyes becoming blood red. Shadow growled at the Mightyena, getting into a battle stance.

"W-what is this?!" The Mightyena asked, clearly confused about what just happened.

" "This" is your worst nightmare. I am Shadow, Shadow Sacato!" Shadow shouted as he suddenly lunged at the Mightyena, completely catching him off guard. The roles had switched, now it was Mightyena who was being hindered, and not me. The Mightyena struggled to get up, and then attempted to lunge back at Shadow.

Shadow expertly stepped to the side, letting Mightyena crash into the wall behind him.

"I believe that's game." Shadow said.

I thought you had said we couldn't do the spiritual switch. I commented.

'I had believed we couldn't. I guess the despricity of the moment allowed it. I honestly have no clue.'

Well for once, I see you are at a loss for words. But it might be that we have a limited amount of times we can do it. I am kind of currious as to what drained my energy so fast.

'I don't know, I suppose we'll have to find out later. Maybe it had something to do with that nightmare.'

Maybe, in the meantime thought, How about we switch back.

"Reverting spiritual switch" Shadow said, I felt myself regain control as my fur and eyes returned to normal.

I looked to the others, who were stairing at me wide-eyed and with dumbfound looks. "So that's the power of an alternate spirit..." I heard Wave wisper to himself. I had no doubts that he already knew. But surprisingly, noone bothered to ask what I just did.

"Wave, how about you help me get this Mightyena out of here." I suggested. We were interupted however.

"Rustboro" I heard. I looked down to see the Mightyena trying to speak. It coughed a minute. I saw Midnight begin to walk over to the Mightyena.

"Father..." I heard her say.

"You all... must go to Rustboro... That's where they are... keeping her sister..." the Mightyena said. It took me a minute to register what that meant.

"Alright it looks like we have ourselves a few rare Pokemon here!" The human said, I was the only one able to understand it apperantly.

" A shiny Poochyena, anouther Ralts, and an Eevee! This is just my day! Haha!" He stated.

So that other Ralts was Casey's sister?

"Dad... please..." Midnight wispered to her father.

"Those... bastards... they used their "science". I was destined this way wether I succeeded or failed... you all... have proved yourself... Please stop-" That was the last thing the Mightyena got to say.

I suddenly clicked what had just happened.

I KILLED Midnight's father.

After a few minutes of silence, Wave finally spoke up. "Common Red, let's take him outside" He suggested. I simply nodded and helped him take the Mightyena's body outside.

Outside, I used bite to dig a makeshift grave, and we burried Midnight's dad.

Midnight went to bed early that night.

I walked into Midnight's room a little while later. "You awake Midnight?" I asked silently.

"Yes..." I heard her respond. I saw her sitting by her window, stairing out to the sky.

"Midnight..." I said sitting next to her. "I'm sorry..."

"You don't have to apologize... it's not your fault." She said.

"It kind of is though, I'm the one who did the deed."

"No... it's really my fault."

"How so?"

"I had the chance to save him when those human's first took him from home... but I was scared. It's my fault all this happened..."

"You know... a good friend once told me... blaming yourself for something won't do anything exept hurt you more. I have a feeling that she was talking to you." I explained. Midnight glanced at me while I looked forward.

"Of course, she may have been a bit hypocritical, but she definatly knew what she was talking about." I laughed for a second. "So if it's anyone's fault, it's the people who took your father in the first place, not your own."

"Thanks Red. You know, I feel as though this is a bit Dejavu-ish" Midnight admitted.

"In sorts, it is for me to." 'Only the opposite lulz' I thought to myself.

"Just remember" I said finally.

"Anger, only begets more anger"

And that about raps it up for this chapter. I'm sorry once again for the long wait, it wasn't until recently that inspiration for this chapter struck. I know a death seems a little to violent, but I couldn't think of a better way to reveal the next plan of action without referencing my unwritten story.

So anyways onto explanations. The "Spiritual Switch" is an ability that Red and Shadow have that I mentioned in the earlier chapters. What normally happens is my hair turns silver (from it's current dirtyblonde) and my eyes turn blood red. All other apearances are exactly the same, other than the clear personality difference. Meaning that his stance, speach, and attitude is very contrasting to Red's/mine. However, I originally didn't plan to ever include the Spiritual Switch until much later in the story, but I felt that since Red was fighting alone against Mightyena this time, I needed some way for Red to win the fight. And if I made it so Shadow was in control, Mightyena's death would've made much more since.

As for Shadow's movesets, he doesn't have one. All of his moves are exactly as they were in my unwritten stories, so he doesn't use any Pokemon moves currently. Of course, his moves have some references to Sonic as they are chaos moves, such as Red's Chaos Rift. However, I didn't need to impliment Shadow's moves in this chapter as the fight was pretty uneven.

That last scene with Midnight, it's actually not referencing any of my stories and is referencing a real event. To be honest only the owner of Midnight will understand the full joke of what happened, even though it was a pretty sad moment.

So there are only 2 more days untill Christmas day. (btw I realized you can't see the arrows in the ^.^ face, so I'm going to temporarily replace them with 6.6 so you get the idea of the face it's trying to be) I can't even say 2 days cause I'm typing this at 11:49 pm of 12/23/2014. So untill my next chapter, which shouldn't be for a while, Merry Christmas everybody, or whatever religion you celebrate because they are all awesome. Till the Hero of Flame returns, it's time to flash!

~Redanato Sacato the Hero of Flame