Last episode: Thanks to great timing, Stitch was speared out of Death's grasp but then into Rage's. Weakened from Death's attempts to kill him, he was a sitting duck for Rage. Thanks to Aurora and Brock appearing at the right time, they were able to save him just in time.
Back at Shadow's Castle, Apocalypse punched Rage in the face. Rage flew against the wall as he saw Deceit smiled.
"Don't you ever listen?" Apocalypse sighed, rubbing his head, trying so hard to stay calm.
"Hey, it was better than discussing about it. We need to take action before they get any stronger!"
"Rage, Rage," Apocalypse shook his head, "By you just jumping at This Crystal of Fire, now they know that we know that they're out there. They'll just start training harder. They'll try and find the other crystals faster than before. It'll be harder to defeat them now!The Crystal of water will be even harder to find, the original had time to train the New Crystal of Water."
Rage didn't say another word.
"Go back there and finish the job." Apocalypse commanded, Rage walked right out of the room. Apocalypse snapped his fingers, instantly three seekers appeared out of nowhere, "Find the Crystal of Fire and his friends and stick to the original plan." The seekers flew right out of the castle.
"So, we are going to stick to the original plan?" Lust asked.
"Yes."
Back in Smokey Town, it was a Festival, the Celebration was the day that Crystals had arrived, and of course the town folks didn't know that the descendents were right in town. There were markets selling almost anything to get some money, there were games (like where you had to throw a ball to hit the bull eyes to make a person sitting on the platform fall into a large bucket of water). Aurora was eating some cotton candy, Stitch was licking ice cream, and Brock was eating one of those giant turkey legs.
"This is great, Aurora. I've never been in a Festival where they celebrated your ancestors." Brock laughed, munching on his turkey leg, getting some all around his face. Aurora just giggled, but then she just stopped.
Aurora's POV"Damn, why is he here?" I asked myself. I was so surprised to see him. He was laughing with some other girls but he walked away. One of the girls had her arms around him; she looked like a princess, my heart started to ach. I saw him, staring at crystal necklaces but then he turned his head, he was staring at me. My heart, it was already broken but it felt like it broke into smaller pieces. He looked so mad but surprise to just see me. I held tightly to the platinum ring that was on my left ring finger.
"Aurora, are you okay?" Stitch asked me. I could feel the tears forming in my eyes, I haven't seen him for a while now, and the pain still hurts.
I wiped my eyes, "Yeah, I'll be right back." I lied, walking very fast away.
I leaned against a wall, in a dark alley; I couldn't hold the tears back. He broke my heart the moment he said it was over and goodbye. He was the only one for me and I still don't understand, he was my first. I can't believe I'm breaking down because of this. It was like two months ago.Okay, that's enough, Aurora you can do this. I took a deep breath and started to walk back to where I left Stitch and Brock back there. There was a huge crowd when I came back, and I saw Stitch about to start a fight with him and Brock already trying to back Stitch right out of it.
" Listen you Bastard, what did you do to Aurora?" Stitch yelled right at him. I was trying to get through the crowd.
"I didn't do nothing to her!" He snaps right at Stitch, trying so hard to control his anger. I have to admit he's still so cute when trying to control his anger.
" You said you didn't know an Aurora Borealis, and now you said you didn't do anything to her! You lying son of a bitch!" Stitch yelled louder. I could hear him screaming at the top of his voice, "If you hurt Aurora again, I'll burn your sorry ass, I swear!"
"I didn't hurt Icy!"
" Who's Icy? I'm talking about Aurora, when she saw you, she started crying!" Stitch yelled so loud.
"She was crying." He said himself quietly; he looked so guilty in that second. Then he looked at Stitch with an angry snarl, "Listen, you son of a bitch, if you-"
Then, I heard something like someone punching someone else, I was finally able to get into the middle. Stitch punched him out. He was sitting on the ground, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. He looked at the blood.
"Oh hell no, you must wanna death wish, little man." He stood up, he was so tall and handsome….no wait, I can't let him hurt Stitch. Before I could stop it, he punched Stitch in the face and then in the stomach but before he could really punch Stitch in the stomach, Stitch punched him in the stomach and uppercut him in the chin. He was just about to jump on Stitch again.
"Stop!" I yelled, jumping in between them before Stitch really got hurt, "Okay, the fight is over!" I yelled, the once cheering crowd moaned in disappointment and walked away.
"Come on, Stitch, Brock, let's get out of here." I said, not even looking at him, I just started to shove Brock and Stitch away from him before another fight started again.
"Wait, Icy." He shouted his pet name for me, "I'm sorry, okay. He just walked over and started something. Saying that I hurt you. I didn't mean it." I looked at him, damn; he still has those beautiful eyes. I was so mad and upset at the same time.
"Listen….Don't you ever……." I lost my words, for that second. All I could think about was him and cherry blossoms falling everywhere, the day when he turned his back on me forever. I wasn't thinking, anger just flustered inside of. I blanked out; I came right into focus when my fist met the right side of his face. He fell on the ground, looking at me, I couldn't bare it, and I just ran away.
Stitch's POV
Later on that evening, Brock and me found Aurora sitting on the edge of a small stream just outside of Smokey Town and where the Trail of Flames has now started. She had a clean rag out. My face was kind of swollen from the punch whatever his name gave me.
"Come here, Stitch. Your face…it's swollen." I sat next to her, Brock sat on the other side of her, he was sometimes quiet. I looked on her face; she was smiling as she put the rag on the swollen part of my face. The burning was so painful and intense, I just started to scream. Brock started to laugh and so did Aurora.
"You didn't warn me or something!" I jumped.
"It's what you deserve for trying to start a fight especially when you have no idea who you were fighting." She giggled and then put the rag on my face again, "How did you know that he made me upset?"
"You started to cry when you saw him and I accidentally knocked your bag down and the picture of you two together came out."
She didn't seem angry at me, she just smiled. There were sudden shrieks in the air, I turned around.
To be Continued…
What came out from behind Stitch's back? Stay tuned for the next chapter.