Ch 9: Darkness spreads
"Char char!" Charmeleon said in amazement as he looked around at the charicific valley and the massive charizards that populated it. "This place is even more amazing than you described" May said as she stood behind her chameleon. Ash decided to take May to the charicific valley to help train her chameleon. The two hadn't come alone, Felix and his charizard had also accompanied them.
"This place hasn't changed much since I was last here" Felix said. "Dad didn't you train here for a while with your charizard?" Ash said. "Yes we trained here for a long time 8 years ago It feels right that you found the charicific valley too" Felix said.
With them were Ash's charizard, his son, and Liza. "You know Ash I always had a feeling you reminded me of Felix. I guess I was right" Liza said. "Char" Charmeleon said to Ash's charizard. Charizard growled something back and set his son down in front of chameleon.
The young charmander looked up at May's charmeleon and said "Char" softly. "Char" Charmeleon said. Charmeleon turned to the side and used flamethrower. Ash's charizard did the same, "Char" Charmander said sounding happy. "May your Charmeleon seems to get along well with Ash's Charizard" Liza said.
"He was charmeleon's teacher a while back, now he's going to teach him again" May said. "He won't be alone, Charizard and I can help you to" Felix said. "Thanks for coming with us dad" Ash said. "I wouldn't miss out on some time with you Ash" Felix said.
"Hey Liza where's Charla?" May said. "Charla's helping some of the other female charizards with their eggs" Liza said. "Well let's get started with some training" Ash said. "Well have fun with training. I need to check on some of the other charizards" Liza said.
Charmeleon and Ash's charizard started sparring with eachother. "Metal claw!" May said. Charmander's claws turned metal and he charged at Ash's charizard. "Charizard metal claw" Ash said.
Ash's charizard blocked charmeleon's claws with his own then knocked charmeleon back. Charizard growled at charmeleon saying something. "You've still got a lot of work to do my student" Charizard said. "I'm getting there" Charmeleon said as he got up. "Alright Charmeleon use flamethrower" May said. "Charizard flamethrower" Ash said.
Charmeleon opened his mouth an unleashed a jet of fire at Charizard. Charizard smiled and unleashed a colossal jet of fire that swept away charmeleon's. Charmeleon was engulfed by fire and felt the heat only get worse as Charizard continued the flamethrower.
"May this is part of being a trainer thinking on your feet on how to get out of this kind of situation" Ash said. "Right, let me think . Oh I've got it, Charmeleon use firespin" May said. Charmeleon unleashed a firespin into the air that sucked away all the oxygen and engstinguieshed the fire around him.
"Nice move May" Ash said. "Alright follow-up with dragon rage" May said. Charmeleon opened his mouth and unleashed a burst of dragon energy at Charizard. "Dragon claw" Ash said. Charizard charged foreward and smashed his claw into the dragon rage destroying the attack. "Char char!" Charmander said excited. Pikachu was standing next to charmander "Daddy!" Charmander said. " Aww you like watching your daddy battle" Pikachu said to charmander as he rubbed his head.
"Hey Ash, May I have an idea for some accuracy training" Felix said. "Alright what did you have in mind" May said. A few minutes later May and charmeleon were ridding Ash's charizard while Ash and Felix rode his. "Charizard use smokescreen" Felix said. Felix's charizard opened his mouth and shot out a ball of smoke into the air. "Charmeleon use flamethrower" May said.
Charmeleon opened his mouth and unleashed a jet of fire that tore the ball of smoke apart before it had a chance to burst into a screen. " Charizard smokescreen!" Ash shouted. Ash's charizard opened his mouth and shot out a ball of smoke directly in front of him. "Dragon rage!' May said. Charmeleon opened his mouth and unleashed a burst of dragon energy that tore the smokeball apart.
"Great work charmeleon" May said. "Your accuracy is impressive, when you learn overheat that will be important" Charizard said. "I'll keep that in mind" Charmeleon said back. "Hey what's going on down there" Ash said. He noticed that several charizard down below looked like they were attacking the other charizards.
"What in the world" Felix said. Ash and Felix's charizards were also confused with what was going on. "Charizard take us down, let's get a closer look" Felix said. The two charizard flew down toward the valley to see 3 large charizard with black energy around them and their eyes glowing red. "Wait a minute" Ash said. He tried to read their aura but all he found was darkness. "I've seen this before, they're being possessed by Dark aura" Ash said.
"Your right but how did this happen" Felix said. "Ash can you help them?" May said. "Maybe, Daniel showed me how to heal a pokemon from dark aura" Ash said. "I can help to" Felix said. "Dad you can use aura?" Ash said. Felix smiled and his eyes glowed blue for a moment. "Where do you think you got yours from" Felix said.
On the ground one of the dark charizards smashed another charizard in the head with dragon claw. As soon as he did he saw baby charmander and Pikachu who Ash left on the ground to watch him. Charmander, terrified, curled up into a theetle position "Char!" He shouted. As the charizard got closer, pikachu got between him and charmander. "Pika!" He said as his cheeks sparked with electricity.
The dark charizard roared flashing his fangs then unleashed a jet of black fire at them. Pikachu unleashed thunder which went right through the flamethrower and hit the charizard. The power of the thunder forced the fire to the sides and away from them. The charizard growled and charged directly at them with his claws glowing violet.
Pikachu covered himself in electricity and charged at the charizard. The charizard smashed his claws into the ground just where pikachu would have been had he not jumped into the air and hit charizard in the stomach with the full force of voltackle. The charizard was knocked back and started to fidget from the electricity.
Pikachu started to glow blue as he gathered all of his electric power. The charizard was still recovering from the paralysis as Pikachu came up and unleashed fusion bolt knocking the charizard out. "Pika!" Pikachu said. Felix saw the charizard get knocked out and when they were close enough to the ground he jumped off his charizard and onto the charizard.
"Nice work pikachu" he said as he knelled down and put his hands on the charizards head. Felix's eyes started glowing blue as the dark aura began to flow out of the charizard. After a minute the darkness was completely out of the charizard. The charizard was still unconscious but he was no longer possessed by dark aura.
"Well that's better but there are still two more" Felix said. Ash got off Felix's charizard and May got off Ash's with Charmeleon. "We need to knock out the other two charizards before we can heal them" Felix said. "I'll take one you take the other" Ash said.
One of the dark charizards was standing over another charizard. He was using flamethrower on the other charizard. Before he could inflict any more harm Ash's charizard smashed into the dark charizard using bulldoze to knock him off the wounded charizard. When the dark charizard got up he saw Ash's charizard standing between him and the wounded charizard.
The dark charizard roared and unleashed dragon rage. "Charizard use dragon rage" Ash said. Charizard unleashed a larger dragon rage that tore through the other dragon rage and knocked the dark charizard out. When Ash saw him hit the ground he sprinted over to the charizard and started to force the dark aura out of him.
May came over with her wartorle and blaziken out. The three of them helped up the wounded charizard get up and moved it to safety. Ash finished up with the dark charizard and cured it of the dark aura. "There all better" Ash said.
Near a waterhole another dark charizard was attacking two young charizard. The possesed charizard was much older, larger, and more powerful than his opponents. The one of two young charizards used flamethrower while the other used dragon rage. The dark charizard used steel wing and blocked the flames with his metal wing. Once the flames were gone he used dragon claw to smash through the dragon rage.
One he was clear the dark charizard unleashed dragon tail across the first one's face knocking him down. The other one came at the dark charizard with a dragon rage. The dark charizard smashed the lower jaw of the young charizard with a dragon claw. The dark charizard opened his mouth to blast the young charizard with dragon rage when Felix's charizard smashed into the other charizard. Knocking him out-of-the-way and possibly saving the young charizard's life.
"Charizard use dragon claw" Felix said. Felix's charizard and the dark charizard began exchanging blows with their dragon claws. The dsrk charizard attempted to swipe at Felix's charizard's legs. The swipe almost knocked Felix's charizard onto his back but he managed to stay on his feet. The dark charizard swung his right claw forward at Felix's charizard.
"Charizard use steel wing" Felix said. Felix's charizard blocked the dragon claw and then samshed the dark charizard in the face with his wings. As the dark charizard realed back Felix shouted, "Dragon rage!". Felix's charizard opened his mouth and blasted the dark charizard in the face. "Nice shot" Felix said. The dark charizard fell to the ground and Felix sprinted over to him.
Ash saw his father heal the third dark charizard, he and charizard helped May's pokemon get the wounded charizards over to May. May had taken out all of the potions they had brought with them and was using them on the wounded charizards.
"Alright May I think my dad got the last one" Ash said. "Alright hey Ash do you think you could use your aura to heal the other charizard" May said. "Right" Ash said as he went over to the nearest charizard and started healing him. Moments later he saw Felix and his charizard moving two of the knocked out charizards over to them.
"We got um" Felix said as he started to use aura to heal one of them. "Hey wait a minute has anyone seen Charla or Liza?" Ash said. "No, now that you mention it this can't be all the charizards in the valley" Felix said.
Suddenly they heard another roar and cries of pain. "May stay here with these charizard we're going to check it out" Ash said. "Alright" May said as she sprayed another charizard with a potion. Ash, Felix, their charizards, and Pikach rushed deeper into the valley. Charmeleon noticted that baby charmander was missing. "Char!" Charmeleon said as he looked around for baby charmander.
The young charmander had rushed after his father wanting to know where he was going. When Ash and the others reached the other end of the valley they saw the other charizards under attack from another 3 dark charizards. "Oh son of a" Felix started. Ash was looking around and saw Liza being attacked by one of the dark charizards. "Look it's Liza!" Ash said.
"Please stop, this isn't you" Liza said to the Charizard. Ash's charizard looked closer at the charizard attacking Liza and his heart sunk as he realized who it was. Ash and Pikachu looked closer and realized that the dark Charizard attacking Liza was Charla.
"Oh no" Ash said. "Pika" Pikachu said soudning sad. "Ash what's wrong?" Felix said. "That charizard is Liza's charizard and my Charizard's mate" Ash said. Felix and his Charizard looked over at Ash's charizard. "Ash, you save Liza. We'll take care of the other two" Felix said.
"Charizard I know this will be hard for you but we have to stop her" Ash said. Charizard sighed and then nodded. Liza was now on the ground below Charla. "Charla please, it's me Liza. I've raised you since you were a charmander. We've been friends for years, we've done so much together" Liza said.
Charla snarled at Liza, flashing her fangs, and prepared to use a flamethrower on her trainer. Liza's eye began to tear up as she closed her eyes. Just as Charla unleashed flamethrower, Charizard used steel wing and got between Charla and Liza, saving Liza's life.
Liza looked up and saw Charizard above her. "Charizard!" She said. Charizard grabbed Liza and started sprinting away from Charla. Charla roared and prepared to use dragon rage. Just before she could, Pikachu unleashed thunder and knocked her back.
"Pika!" Pikachu said. Charla snarled and unleashed a fireblast at Pikachu. "Pikachu dodge it" Ash said. Pikachu quickly moved out of the fireblasts path and prepared to attack again but Charizard put his foot in front of Pikachu. He started growling at Charla trying to talk to her.
Ash helped Liza up and said "Are you alright?". "physical yes but what has happened to Charla and the other charizard?" Liza said. "Dark aura, they're being possessed by dark aura" Ash said ."What do we do?" Liza said. "My dad and I can heal them but we need them subdued" Ash said.
Ash's charizard desperately tried to talk to Charla but the dark aura had made her go feral. She snarled at Charizard and unleashed a dragon rage at him. Before charizard could move he was hit with dragon rage and stumbled backwards. Charla rushed over and smashed him across the face with dragon claw. "Charizard quick use steel wing" Ash said.
Charizard turned his wings metal but hesitated as he looked at his mate. Charla slashed him across the face again with dragon claw, knocking him to the ground. Ash and the others didn't notice that baby charmander had found them and was watching his mother attack his father. "Char?" He said sounding scared.
"He won't fight back" Ash said. "He's in love with her, I don't think he's going to" Liza said. "You'll have to knock her out then Pikachu" Ash said. "Pika!" Pikachu said. Charla was about to unleash dragon rage on Charizard when she was hit with thunder.
"Nice shot" Ash said. Charla snarled and turned around toward Pikachu. Charla unleashed a massive flamethrower towards Pikachu, but Pikachu was far to fast. Charla heard Charizard slowly getting back up and she smashed him across the face with dragon tail.
"Oh no" Ash said. "Char!" Baby charmander cried out. "What the charmander!" Ash said. When Charizard saw his son standing not very far from them he roared out in fear. "Charmander move!" Ash said. Charla saw charmander and then snarled at him. When Ash tried to go over and get Charmander Charla unleashed flamethrower at him. "Ash!" Liza said. "Pika!" Pikachu said.
Ash lurched back just in time to avoid the fire. "Oh shit" Ash said as he stumbled backwards away from the fire. Charla unleashed another jet of fire towards Ash and Liza, forcing them to move back away from charmander. "Charmander run!" Liza screamed. Charmander shouted out at Charla "Char! Char" he said sounding very scared. Translated he was saying "Mommy! Mommy!".
Charla snarled and looked at Charmander for a minute. Charla roared and charged at charmander with her claws glowing. "No!" Ash and Liza screamed. Charmander curled up into a theetle position and his eyes started to tear up.
Just before Charla could get to charmander she was tackled to the ground away from him. Charizard was now on top of Charla, holding her down as she furiously tried to break free. "Quick Ash now!" Liza shouted. As Ash started sprinting over towards Charla, she got her jaws around Charizard's throat and started clamping down. Charizard grunted in pain as Charla bit down on his neck.
"Pika!" Pikachu said. "Charizard!" Ash screamed as he continued towards them. When charmander saw his mother biting down on his father's neck he broke out crying. Liza printed over and picked him up. "Char!, Char!" he cried.
Charizard let out another groan of pain just before Ash could reach him. "Hold on charizard" Ash said as he put his hands on Charla and started forcing the dark aura out. Charla started thrashing more violently and blood started to come down from Charizard's neck. "Come on please" Ash said as he threw everything he had into forcing the dark aura out of Charla.
Charizard's vision began to fade as he lost more blood. "Please Charizard hold on" Ash said. It took another few moments and then Ash got the last of the dark aura out of charla. The blackness faded out of Charla's skin and her eyes returned to their normal color. Her head dropped to the ground and she groaned sounding confused.
Charizard fell to the ground breathing deeply. "Charizard no!" Ash said. He looked at the large bite wounds with blood coming out of them. Ash put his hands on Charizard's neck and started using aura to heal him. It was at this moment Ash started to feel exhausted. He had never used aura this much before and it was starting to take its toll on him. "Charla!" Liza said as she and Pikachu rushed over.
Pikachu came up beside Ash and looked up at him "Pika" He said. "Charla are you ok!?" Liza said. Charla opened her eyes and slowly looked up to see Liza and charmander. She smiled and groaned happily. Charla brought her head up to charmander but when he saw her he quickly turned away digging his head into Liza's arm. She growled sounding confused. "Charla you" Liza started. "Pika" pikachu said.
Charla looked down at Pikachu as he spoke "Pika, Pikachu" Pikachu said as he told Charla what happened. When Charla heard what happened she gasped and looked over at Charizard. Her eyes started to tear up as she lowered her head down to Charizard. Charizard looked up at her and saw she was no longer possessed by dark aura. He let out a faint smiled and groaned.
Charla lowered her head and licked across his face. Ash got off Charizard nearly ready to faint from exhaustion. "Pikachu" Pikachu said as he rubbed up against Ash. "I'm sorry Charizad I can't do any more" Ash said. Ash had managed to stop the bleeding and deal with the worse of the bite wounds. Liza looked down at Charizard's neck and let out a breath of relief. "It's alright Ash the rest of the wounds will heal with time.
Charla let out a happy growl and licked across Charizard's face again. Liza set charmander down and he ran over to Charizard and started hugging his head. "Char char" he said sounding relieved. "Ash!" Felix shouted as he ran over to him. "Ash are you ok!?" He said. "I'm alright, I'm just a little exhausted" Ash said. "Son you need to be careful with how much aura you use at one time" Felix said.
"Ash!" May shouted as she ran with her pokemon towards them. Felix helped Ash up and he saw May. "May I'm alright, I'm just a little exhausted" Ash said. May came over and kissed Ash. Charizard slowly got up and lifted charmander up into his arms. Charizard smiled as he pressed his head into his father's chest.
"Well I healed the other two charizards so I think we're in the clear" Felix said. When May let go of Ash he looked at Charizard with charmander in his arms. Charla lowered her head towards charmander who was still afraid of her. She let out a soft groan and charizard did as well. Charmander turned to face Charla.
When Charla saw this she smiled and licked charmander across the face. Charizard handed Charmander to Charla who took him in her arms and cradled him. "Char" Charmander said sounding more relaxed. "Hey Charizard" Ash said. Charizard turned to him "Why don't you stay here with your family for a while" Ash said.
Charizard smiled and groaned happily. "We definately need to tell Daniel about this" Ash said. "Your right, I've never seen this many pokemon possessed by dark aura at one time" Felix said. "Ash do you think Daniel will know what to do?" May said. "If anyone will it'll be Daniel" Ash said.