Silverhowless

Chapter 8- Silence

Finally, the day of the contest arrived. Koopas from all places walked into the stadium and sat in their places; the owners of the participant pets entered behind the stage to ready their pets. Shawn, Corey, Jule, Bites and DJ were in the back with their respective owners. Fox, however, was missing. The others were pacing around, expecting him and getting each time more nervous; Roy was there with Iggy, Larry, Bowsy, Ludwig and Morton.

"Where is he?" Corey thought as he paced around angrily

"He said he was hanging out with his friends," Shawn explained

"Again?" Roy was shocked

"I can't believe it!" Bites smacked his head with his paw

"I thought dad had forbidden him to hang out with his friends," Jule tilted his head to one side

"Well, let's calm down," Iggy tried to cool everyone down, "maybe he'll cross the door at any moment,"

"He'd better!" DJ growled

"And now," Alondra began saying on the microphone, "the next participants are authentic Silverhowls! Belonging to Fawful, the Silverhowlesses!"

The crowd began to cheer up and clap; Carly, Fawn, Sarah, Jamie, Banana and Esperanza were behind the stage, Fawful walked closer to them.

"Alright, Carly! This is your moment! Show them what you can do!" he said

"I will!" Carly replied excitedly as she went towards the stage

The others got closer to Fawful…

"Do you want to tell us something?" Esperanza asked eagerly, waging her tail

"Oh, yeah…" Fawful thought for a moment, "Don't spoil Carly's debut! Just do according to plan and don't ruin her act!"

After hearing this, the Silverhowlesses went disappointed towards the stage.

"Oh, dear! This is not good! We go after them and Fox hasn't arrived yet!" Shawn began to bite his claws

"We're doomed!" Jule cried horrified

"Hey, calm down! We still have time! Maybe he will arrive soon!" Corey tried to sound positive, but he himself was worried on what would happen if fox didn't appear.

Meanwhile, on the stage, the Silverhowlesses began their act. Carly first threw a various fireballs from her mouth; Esperanza transformed into her dragon form and used her tail to split the fireballs into shining flakes. Sarah then emanated lilac light from her body and it gave the flakes a more beautiful look; the crowd was amazed. Fawful, meanwhile, was recording their act in a cell phone, then pointed it at his face.

"Interested? I'm Fawful, 555-63-03-17," he said before he continued recording the Silverhowlesses

Banana slowed time and the shining flakes remained still; Jamie made a water spirals from a nearby pool and Fawn then splat it with her tail. When the water splashed, everything turned into rainbows. The Silverhowlesses stood in a line, proud of their work. All people in clapped and cheered from their seats.

"That was great!" Larry commented

"And Fox hasn't arrived yet!" Roy said

"This is it! We're in big trouble!"Jule peered down his ears

"And what will we do now?" Bites inquired in desperation

Corey looked at the ground

"Thanks, ladies," Alondra announced, "and now, the next are pure blood Silverhowls! Belonging to the Royal Koopa Family! The Silverhowls!"

The Silverhowls looked at each other coldly; they could not make their act without Fox. Corey stood up and walked into the stage followed by his siblings, then towards the microphone.

"Hello? Well, I know you expect us to perform now, but… our brother, Fox, is not here. And, we won't perform without him…" Corey explained, the VTD traducing his sound into words.

The crowd exchanged murmurs among themselves.

"there can't be only five hero children," Bites added, "or only five Pokémon in a party, as there won't be only five Silverhowls performing,"

"Sorry…" Shawn apologized before the Silverhowls went back to backstage in shame, the Silverhowlesses felt sorry for them; they didn't want to win y default.

"Well… I guess that settles it…" Alondra announced sadly, "the Silverhowlesses win,"

The crowd cheered, the Silverhowls went to their respective masters' side, Roy sighed In disappointment; he couldn't believe Fox had failed to show up. They all went back to the castle

XOXOXOXOXO

Fox rushed into the stadium and up the stage

"I'm here! I'm here!" he called, but he found there was no one left, everything but the stage was dark, "oh, no"

"They left already, Fox," he heard a voice. Fox turned and saw Fawn standing a few meters from him

"Your brothers retired because you didn't show up on time," she said sternly, "Fawful was right; you only think about yourself,"

Fawn's glare then softened

"But yo must know I didn't want to defeat you like this," was all she said before turning and running away

Fox stood there, hurt. She was right…

"I only think about myself…?" he thought in silence as he sat down and silently began to cry

XOXOXOXOXO

Three hours later, at night, Fox entered the living room of the castle. All of his siblings were in there, apparently asleep. He walked close to Corey

"Coreyvan? Are you awake?" he asked softly

But there was no reply; Fox turned around to Willy

"William?"

No reply

"Shawner? Sherilia? Julius?"

Neither of them replied; Fox desperate yet silently walked towards Bites and DJ

"Bittern? DJ?" he called for them

But they didn't reply neither. Fox felt sad and grieved inside; how could he do this to them? They had lost the contest because of HIM; they were all disappointed of him. Fox left for his master's room, now knowing all his siblings were awake but chose not to talk to him. As Fox was heading for Roy's room, he noticed Nava was about to pass by him.

"Hey, Nava," he called

But Nava didn't even bother to look nor speak to him and just passed by; great, he was angry at him too. Finally, when he was at the corner of Roy's room, Fox saw his father was heading for Bowser's room.

"Hey, dad," Fox called

Demon had the same attitude the others had and didn't speak to Fox as he passed by

"Dad, wait,"

Demon still kept walking

"Would you speak to me, please?" Fox finally cried desperate and at the verge of tears

That seemed to call Demon's attention; he stopped and turned his head to look at his son

"… I hope you had fun with those friends of yours…" he whispered coldly as he continued on his way

Fox felt as if an ice spear had struck his heart; even his father was mad at him too… but they had all the right to be mad at him. Fox sighed sadly and silently headed into his master's room to sleep.