Disclaimer: I don't even know who I'm still doing the "I don't own pokémon" thing…..

Authors note: Hmm…. I'm note sure what to say, this went differently as to how I planned it, this story is writing itself. Just sorry this chapter is a touch short.

Chapter ten: Reunion

I woke up, it was before dawn obvious by the lack of light coming through the tent. I got up and packed my stuff, this time I packed a tent and some food. It will take a while to find virizion and I won't be coming back until I do. I thought to myself as I packed the last of the food I would need and splashed my face with a paw of water. I headed for the exit and turned my head before leaving and whispered on thing.

"Bye." Tears almost came through me knowing this could be the last time I saw them, I may not return and they may not survive the attack. I left before I made any noise and headed for the main gates.

"Good luck, none of my recruits nor I or Sarak would brave this quest." The arcanine said as he bowed his head in a sort of sign of respect.

"Thanks, I only wish I survive this." I said sorrow filling my voice. The arcanine signalled for the gates to be opened and I was let out instantly and began a steady run toward the distant forest which I was aiming for. The journey there took me just under half the day. I reached and passed numerous other small forests.

None seemed to interesting until I came across a seemingly familiar clearing where I decided to take a rest. As I was munching peacefully on an apple I heard a rustle behind and spun around as fast as I could but nothing was visible past the forest line. I got up and began to remember. Wait, this is where Evona found me. That means that's… my thoughts trailed off as a low hovering scyther charged at me hitting me dead centre with a wing attack before I could react.

"Miss me you coward?" the scyther said getting up after coming to a halt, I got up and pulled my arm across the bottom of my snout clearing the juicy mess I had there from the sudden impact "Last time it was three on me, but now its just you and me." He finished as if he had some right to boast.

"Last time I has half awake with my strength at half, I'm more than ready for a little bug like you." I shouted back getting in a stance.

"Who are you calling little pipsqueak?" the pokémon almost twice my size, he had a point "Now you fall!" he said charging in with furry cutter. I got ready and charged at him with the golden part of my beginning to glow as I dodged the attacks at close range before hitting him in the chest with sky upper cut and ducking to let him go over me and crash behind me.

"Sorry, wasn't that meant to be me crash and burn? Oh no, it wasn't!" I shouted at him as he attacked with a slash on my left side halfway with his getting up, I countered with a sideways sky upper cut from my right hand and doing a feint attack on his head with a short lived punch followed by a slam down from the side of my fist going down hard on his head. He seemed out so I headed off toward my bag, halfway there I heard a sound of something sucking in and turned to see scyther had charged hyper beam and fired. I crossed my arms in front of me and the silver part of the rings in my eyes let off a glow. I felt the beam hit and felt my feet slide as I lost ground, then I felt the beam stop and seized the opportunity to run in with sky upper cut and he fell back this time out for the count.

"Wits, and will over muscle and matter buddy." I said dusting my hands off as I said this little variation of the old saying. Then headed off to my bag and picked it up along with my slightly mashed apple and decided to be on my way.

As I entered the bulk of the forest I was looking for it didn't take long for me to reach the mist boundary. When I passed it I was attacked by a butterfree which I took down with a fast feint, it wasn't enraged so that was a sign I wasn't to late. I journeyed on finding several clearings, I found a few more rational pokémon who I managed to talk to, one being a caterpie who was sitting on a rock by a tree.

"Hiya." I said trying to be friendly, the bug type tried to scurry away "Wait, I'm not here to hurt you!" I said urgently putting my paws our and twisting my wrists.

"Huh? Your not?" it said surprised "An evil pokémon has shown up recently trying to get information out of the forests inhabitants, he strikes us with some pulse attack when we can't answer, I thought you were with him sorry." The caterpie said shyly.

"No, I'm here to stop it. Can you tell me what pokémon it is?" I asked thinking I had some lead.

"No, his voice comes from seemingly no where and he is never seen. We think it's a he from the voice." The caterpie replied feeling safer now.

"Hmm…." I replied lost in thought "Thanks anyway, come and find me if you have any news on the pokémon or what it's looking for." I said as I left.

"Ok." the caterpie shouted at me as I left seemingly eager to help. I left and continued on my journey finding the mist wall a few times, made me wonder how my navigational skills were actually good. Soon enough a rather violent in nature pinsir which put up a little fight but fell after I hit it with feint and an instant follow up of sky upper cut. I had a run in with a silcoon hanging off a tree, quite literal seeing as I bumped my head as I turned a corner at a tree.

"Ouch." I said rubbing my head then pausing in this as I held the cocoon steady from its wild swings "Sorry, do you have any idea where virizion might be?" I asked.

"AHHH!" it shouted "Don't hurt me please!" it continued hurriedly.

"No, I'm not trying to hurt you, I'm trying to stop the one who is." I said blocking a string shot aimed at my face.

"Sorry." It said its eyes looking down "Well no I don't, but I have some ideas." It said.

"I'm willing to listen." I said leaning against the tree it hung by.

"Well I think its hiding somewhere in the depth of the forest, it seems perfect." It said obviously expecting me to laugh.

"Your right." I said much to its surprise as I pushed myself off the tree "Mind telling me which way the forests core?" I asked urgently.

"That way." it said spinning slightly and shooting string shot at another tree in the intended direction I should go towards.

"Thanks a bunch." I said as I headed off in that direction, I should have known from magno pillar valley to head to its centre. Only trouble would be keeping on track, after a while I found myself to be lost again as I ran into the mist border. This wasn't my day for directions. I decided to head past the mist border and make a camp to think through my strategy for finding and fighting virizion or the guard, a serperior it was I think, or worse yet booth. Booth were bigger than me and virizion had a resistance to fighting, it would be tough. I set up my small tent which took a while, it was odd and cone like so I had to beat a tall pole into the ground so I scaled a tree and hung above the pole before dropping down slamming it down with my foot, a bit of a pain for my foot but then again it was my stupid idea. The rest of the tent seemed simple enough but seemed to be designed for a duo to assemble as I struggled to tie the top of the canvas on the top of the pole, this involved some climbing. Once it was attached I headed off in search for a rock, I needed one to weigh down one end of the part where the canvas reaches the ground while I tied its opposite down. Took we a while to my surprise but even then I just gathered a whole lot of small ones and put them in a bag as a weight. Set up took me a further while to tie everything down while shifting the bag of rocks each time. Once it was done I headed in unloading my bag. What I could give to be a swampert. Remembering they could collect moisture from the air. I opened up my map and used a stones from the bag to weigh the edges. I pulled out an apple and began too much stepping outside at one point to climb a tree and check the sun, it was close to dusk. I then climbed down and went back to my tent for a rest, I would need my strength.

"Wake up! Wake up!" a quite shout came, I woke up to see the lights were back, This might help find serperior. My thoughts came but were interrupted as I faced the speaker, it was caterpie "The forest pokémon are going nuts! I think something is wrong!" it said fear clear in its voice.

"Don't worry I'm on my way!" I said jumping up and grabbing my bag and an apple as I rushed out leaving my tent behind, I had no time to pack it, and the little caterpie in it. It was barely past dawn. While I was running I scanned to see what auras I could see, the forest buzzed with them but one stood out. It was strong with anger, fear and pain clearly mixed in, it was rope like in shape and was constantly moving but never straying from its main location. Serperior! My thoughts came and I tripled my pace if not more, as I approached I felt another one, dark evil and intentions I couldn't understand enveloped it. Their dance signalled there was a fight going on. When I was but five meters away the rope like one collapsed from its usual upright position into a heap on the ground and the dark one leaped up on something and paused there briefly before dashing off at a pace I could barely comprehend. I reached the clearing not five seconds after the fight I entered the clearing seeing a big and wide tree in the middle with a slit in it bark where the sword once lay. I then saw serperior and rushed to help it, it was barely conscious so I fed it some oran berries.

"Here eat these." I said lifting its head and feeding it the berries, it seemed surprised to see me.

"Who are you?" it asked weakly.

"I'm Laxar, I came to try and warn you but I see I'm too late as with cobalion and bastiodon." I said regretful at my double failure.

"Who are you!" came a shout from behind me clearly female.