As they ventured deeper into the cavern, they continued to quietly walk towards their target. It wasn't long before they were there. Dusknoir showed his hand and the human stopped. The Digimon quickly checked if the Beedrills where there and saw them. He counted how many remained. There were four Beedrills and none of them appeared to be deeper in the cavern. All of them were asleep and unaware of their presence. Which meant that they still got the surprised attack on their side.

He gazed at the girl and whispered, "Hide."

Angel did so at a safe distance and hid behind a large rock.

The ghost type made sure to know where she was before gazing the targets. He turned invisible and slowly blew closer to them. The Beedrills all looked the same, except one who's body was covered with scars, showing that he fought much often and was a veteran in battle.

I should get rid of him first. He's clearly the leader and taking him down first will be for the best. Dusknoir thought as he flew near the bug Pokémon.

He grabbed his two hands, ready to strike with everything he got, like the previous one. He dropped it and knocked him out. The blow was loud enough to make the other beedrills woke up, but Dusknoir threw a Shadow Ball on the face of the closest one and took his distance, as the last two quickly woke up.

"Intruder!" the first one said.

"Of course. Do you think I was a guest?" Dusknoir taunted them with a grin.

They charged at him.

Chapter 9: Beedrills Hunt Part 2

Angel made sure that the knocked out Beedrills stayed unconscious. Despite being hid hard on the head, she wondered if they could wake up soon and might attack her partner by surprised. She saw Dusknoir fighting them and was glad that he had little trouble.

As Dusknoir dodged the darts coming at him and the attacked, he quickly saw one thing at his side, they are completely disorganised. Looks like taking the leader out paid off, he grinned, confident in his victory, "Is that all incompetents like you can do?"

"I'll show you!" the first one said, charging at him. He missed the ghost type and was rewarded with a fire punch in the jaw, sending the bug on the ceiling of the cavern and felt on the ground.

Dusknoir never let him recover and stroke with a shadow punch on the skull. He was tackled by the other Beedrill and crashed on the wall and painfully grumbled. He glared at the Beedrill and grabbed the wings, stopping him from pressuring his chest. The ghost type headbutt the bug Pokémon and threw him away.

The Pokémon quickly recovered and charged again, "Twinneedle!"

The ghost type grabbed the two spikes that served as hands for the bug type and resisted the strength of the other one. Dusknoir pushed his adversary back and grunted, "Shadow Sneak!"

The moment he disappeared from the Beedrill sight, the bug turned around, but saw nothing.

"Below!" Dusknoir yelled the very instant he tackled his enemy on the chest, crashing the bug on the ceiling. He followed by hitting the Beedrill face multiple times with a fire punch until he was knocked out.

He let the defeated Pokémon land on the ground and cracked his fingers, "It was way too easy."

The ghost type turned towards Angel when he saw her. He noticed her paled face and before realising what was going on, she yelled, "Look out!"

Dusknoir was sting on his neck and his back was slashed. He quickly took his distance and turned around. He saw the leader of the Beedrills up and ready to fight him.

The ghost type knew that something was wrong when his energy was starting to go away. The Pokémon glared at the bug type, he poisoned me! This should affect me this much. He started to feel a little sick as his body lightly paled.

"Looks like I got you well," the leader of the gang declared before chuckling. He gazed at the girl, "And looks like you have a strange companion with you. You might have hit me, but it wasn't hard enough Dusknoir."

I am resilient, but I feel the venom like a normal type, the ghost Pokémon thought as he put his hand on his face.

"You have defeated my entire gang. That was certainly very good from you," The beedrill lowered his head to the right and grunted, "But why is a Pokémon like you even here. You have nothing to gain and no spirits here," he threw many green spikes at the ghost type who dodged them just in time.

One of them went to Angel who jumped away and the explosion sent her on the ground. She grumbled before standing up.

"And very weak," he turned towards Dusknoir and readied himself for the battle, "So. Why are you here? I am a bit curious and I'll like to have the answer before I end your existence."

Dusknoir chuckled, "Why? For money of course. After all, I am a member of the Rescue Team," he was about to say the name of the team when he coughed and dodged at the last second the Beedrill sting.

The ghost type prepared his next attack. He created a shadow ball, but it took longer than expected and was tackled before it was ready, stopping the attack.

Dusknoir back hit the wall but managed to push the Beedrill away. He furiously gazed at his assailant and quickly searched for a way to prevail. The venom was slowing his mind down and nothing came when he dodged pin missiles, when one hit his right shoulder.

The ghost type put his and, on the sting, and took it out, whining painfully before blocked the next attack. He countered with a shadow punch on the abdomen of the bug and sent him away, before sneaking behind the Beedrill, ready to punch the skull.

Dusknoir wasn't fast enough as the other Pokémon stabbed in his gut and injected more venom inside of him. The ghost type grunted, and his right hand ignited. He gave a fire punch on the snout of the bug and followed with another one. Alas, the effect of his assault was greatly reduced by the venom, and the increase dosage was really affecting him. Having trouble to float in the air, he was lightly waving when he was hit by many pin missiles coming at him. He could only cross his arms and protect his face, enduring the assault.

The ghost one panted loudly as he furiously glared at Beedrill, or so he thought he was, since the Pokémon was flying to the left and not in front of him, if only… Only… whatever. Dusknoir thought.

Angel was panicking when she saw her partner cumulating more and more wounds. The Beedrill continued his assault and wounded Dusknoir more and more, stabbing the Pokémon multiple times until the ghost couldn't fly anymore. He landed on the ground sitting against the wall of the cavern and weakly grabbed the sting coming to his eye, "I…" he couldn't find the words.

"It's over. My venom is more powerful than most Beedrills. That's why you are already weak. Time to end your life Dusknoir. This should send a clear message to the Rescue Team."

Angel forgot her fear and threw a rock on the eyeball of the Pokémon. The bug painfully grunted and took some distance to the ghost type.

The ghost Pokémon gazed at Angel, trying to say something, but no words came as he fainted.

"You!" he grunted at the human.

The girl took a step back, wondering what to do now. She got his attention, which she never knew why she thought of doing it, but here she was, attracting the Pokémon and saving her partner.

The Beedrill gazed at Dusknoir and knew that he wouldn't wake up for a while.

The other Pokémon is the threat right now, "I have time to destroy you right now. Pin Missile!" he threw sting towards the human girl, but she dodged and ran away.

Angel kept running and heard the wings of the bug coming after her. She turned around and saw him right above her. He hit her chest and sent her away.

The child coughed loudly as saliva came out of her mouth.

"Just as I thought. You are weak and barely a treat. I wonder why Dusknoir pity you like that, but that question isn't important after all," he prepared to end her life when he suddenly yelp when a web was on his face.

Ariados suddenly jumped from the ceiling and bit the back of the Beedrill as hard as she could, before jumping away, "You have to face me now Beedrill!"

"Ariados!" Angel yelled, surprised by her presence.

"No question now," she replied.

"You'll pay for this trickery!" Beedrill yelled before charging at her, ready to poison her.

Ariados jumped away and avoided his sting. She countered by throwing more web on his face, but this time, the wasp Pokémon avoided it.

"Twinneedle!" he charged with his needles, ready to hit the spider Pokémon, but never hit the target, no matter how many times he tried. Dammit! Even if I beat Dusknoir easily, he still asks me a lot.

"Surrender now Beedrill. The only reason you defeat Dusknoir was surely because you got him with some trick of yours."

It was the case, as he attacked Dusknoir when he wasn't expecting it, which pissed him off. He looked around and saw fainted ghost type, far away and the child, near him. He gazed at the human girl, who was now standing up. He grinned as he thought, good thing I can use a hostage.

He flew towards her, ready to take her as a hostage, but the girl was grabbed by the web and pulled towards Ariados.

"I've arrest enough dirty criminals like you to know when they want to fight dirty like that."

There is another one! He was about to use Dusknoir when he was grabbed by the web and his wings were trapped. He felt on the ground, but quickly stood up. Ariados was now in his way while Angel dashed pass them, standing behind Ariados.

His hostage solution was out of the question now. He had to fight.

"Angel. Go near Dusknoir and stay there, I'll defeat this Beedrill," the spider Pokémon warned her.

She obeyed while Ariados took the offensive. She tried biting the wasp Pokémon, but quickly jumped out of her range and countered with fell stinger, which hit the back of the spider. He quickly waved his hand and hit her on the face, sending her away.

He knew that it wouldn't be enough, he already felt exhausted and his head was starting to hurt now. He flew towards Dusknoir and Angel, closing the distance.

The spider threw her web again but missed the legs.

Beedrill was now near them and ready to take one of them as hostage, until his partners woke up.

Angel saw him coming, knowing how useless she was, the girl couldn't only mentally apologised to her partner and her rescuers, I'm just a human. What can I do against Pokémon in a fight? Her right hand hurt again as something radiated once again, but it wasn't the same thing as against the spirits.

"Hear me Blessed child! Use my own blessing now," the same voice than before quickly told her.

She believed it and raised her hand. The radiance suddenly threw a black beam from the back of her hand and went towards Beedrill.

"W-" was all he could say before the blast hit him and sent him against the wall, knocking him out.

Angel felt pain in her hand as she covered it with her other one. She panted and looked at Ariados, who had her iris expanded, "I don't know what I did… but it worked," continuing to pant loudly. She recovered a little and checked on the ghost type, still K.O. She rushed by his side and checked on him.

Ariados recovered and immediately attached the Beedrills, knowing too well that the human forgot about them.

"Dusknoir!" she asked loudly.

The Pokémon wasn't moving.

Ariados walked outside the cavern for an instant before coming back.

"Answer me," she asked as she grabbed two of his six flats projections and tried to shake him, but couldn't really move him.

"Calm down Angel. The poison isn't really helping him, so you have to give him an antidote," the spider took a bottle of antidote out of a bag she had with her, "I brought it just in case."

The child nodded as she grabbed it, "Thank you," without thinking about the fact that they forgot to prepare themselves about that. She took the yellow bottle and spray its content on Dusknoir. The liquid was quickly absorbed in his body but remained unconscious.

She worryingly looked at her partner, but her thought focused on Ariados who asked, "Do you have more ropes. We better make sure that they won't be left unrestrained when they come back."

She didn't immediately oblige, "And Dusknoir?"

"Without the poison, he will recover. None of his wounds are that bad," the spider Pokémon replied.

Angel nodded and took out the ropes to attach all of them. Once it was done, the two females dragged the targets outside.

"Thank you for being here," the girl said before asking, "Why are you even here?"

"Alakazam was uneasy in letting the two of you alone. After you left, we got more detail about the bounty that someone forgot to send, and the carrier was in a hurry to deliver it today. Which was about their leader, who was more powerful than the bounty itself implied. Knowing about Scyther and Dusknoir and how discreet Heracross is, he asked me to come here by myself and don't worry. I won't take the bounty. You deserve it," she answered.

Once the Beedrills were dragged outside, the girl asked, "Do it was you that Dusknoir felt?"

She nodded, "Yes. I rushed to join you and was almost spotted."

The human child gave a few quick glances inside while the spider looked at her. After a short time, it became awkward, "Go check on him. He is your partner. I shall watch over them."

"Thanks," she said before joining her partner.

Ariados gazed at her and thought, I shall ask about what she did later. That wasn't something a human could do.

Dusknoir didn't wake up and Angel remained near him. The girl wondered what to do and what she should do. She put her hand on the chest of the Pokémon and waited. There was nothing to say.

Despite being a jerk and mocking her a few times, she knew he wasn't a bad Pokémon. Just annoying and getting on her nerve. She just didn't have the courage to reply.

Fear was one thing Dusknoir didn't feel. He wasn't afraid of dying, he wasn't afraid of battling, even if it was one he couldn't win.

That's what he believed, but right now, that emotion was striking hard. His body was uncontrollably shaking as his fingers trembled out of his will, making it impossible to grab anything. What was the source of his fear, the ghost type didn't know and was incapable of understanding its origin? Despite that, he was there, looking at a silhouette as a rhythmic sound resonated. It was both a relieving and worrisome sound for the Pokémon.

Around him, everything was blurry, as if he was incapable of perceiving it.

"Dusknoir," a kind voice whispered to him.

The Pokémon looked at the one calling him, "******. I am here."

The one who talked to him replied, "You heard him right?"

The ghost type shook his head and replied, "Maybe, but…" he closed the distance and extended his arms, "Everything is going to be alright!"

Angel gasped when Dusknoir suddenly extended his arms and hugged her against his chest, "Everything is going to be alright!"

The girl didn't know how to react, thinking that the Pokémon was obviously still not completely here. She did notice that the ghost eye was still a pale red instead of the usual darker color.

"D-Dusknoir. Wake up," she asked him.

The red of his eye took its normal color and felt something squished against him. The ghost Pokémon looked down and saw the girl against him. Not only that, but he was the one holding her against him. He gasped and quickly, but not harshly, pushed her away, "D-don't touch me! You're not-" and was suddenly quiet, Not who? He wondered.

"Geez," the girl grumbled, but still had a small smile, clearly relieved he was back, "I was worried about you. You didn't wake up for a while."

"What are you talking about? Where are-" his mind returned to the present and quickly searched around, "Did they escape? By Arceus! We let the targets escape! That Scyther is going to-"

"No. They are all captured and are waiting outside with Ariados," Angel cut him.

The Pokémon gazed at her for a few seconds, before asking, "Ariados… from the Tempest Team?"

"Yes. She saved our lives and-"

"That Scyther is going to take our bounty!"

"No! It's only her!"

The ghost type looked in her eyes and knew that there was more to it, "Explain now," before floating in the air again.

As they went outside of the cavern, Angel told him everything that happened and were outside when she reached the part about the power she used.

The Pokémon looked at her in disbelief, "As if. It's still hard to believe you could purify the spirits and-"

"She can do that too?" Ariados asked.

The two Pokémon's looked at each other's for a few seconds.

"Yes I can," the girl replied.

Dusknoir crossed his arms and asked, "She told me everything. And you followed us because Alakazam didn't believe how great I was?"

"He was right," she bluntly replied.

That annoyed the ghost type, even if it was all too true, "He took me by surprise," he flew towards her, making sure that Angel couldn't hear them and asked, "Has she been hurt?"

"Yes, but I guess it wasn't that bad if she can stand up," Ariados replied.

"From what I know, humans are fragile," the ghost type replied, she was lucky.

"So. About that blessing power," Ariados started.

"There is a lot to say, but not now," Dusknoir blocked her question, quietly yelling her to leave it for another time, "Back in Dawn village. She will have to explain everything."

"H-hey!" Angel yelped.

"That's not my job stupid human. It will make you less stupid to do it on your own," he chuckled loudly.

She pouted, annoyed by his attitude, but also relief that he was still him. It was just too weird that the ghost Pokémon hugged her like that and out of the blue.

The ghost type approached her and asked, "Before we do anything else stupid human, are you wounded? Because-" he hesitated to continue before adding, "Ariados said that the Beedrill hit you."

Angel replied, "I'm okay. He really didn't hit me that hard."

The ghost type suspiciously gazed at her, before ordering, "Take the Oran Berry we brought. It will help healing you."

The child took it and accept eating it. She was feeling the pain in her chest but didn't want them to look under her shirt. She was a girl and Dusknoir clearly seemed like a male. She ate it and could already feel the pain in her chest diminishing. She wondered how it was possible but put that question aside. It wasn't her home world.

"Let's get out of here. We have a bounty to collect," Dusknoir said.

Angel grabbed the Orb and the team dragged the criminals near them, completing the mission. The girl hoped that Dusknoir and Ariados won't antagonise each other's like Scyther did with her partner.

The next day, Team Salvation collected the reward and were back in Dawn Village with Ariados. Thankfully, the two Pokémons barely talked together.

"And the coins are for us," Dusknoir said, holding the large bag of coins on his shoulder. When he saw Scyther, he just showed it in front of the green bug, annoying him to the max.

"Ariados! Why were you with them? You just vanish out of the blue and tell us nothing!" Scyther yelled. His voice wasn't expression anger, but seemed worried for her, while his glare seemed infuriated.

She waved one of her leg and replied, "I was with them to make sure that Angel wouldn't be hurt."

Heracross appeared and excitedly asked, "Tell us what happened!" which made Angel glad that he wasn't asking all those questions on her this time.

As she resumed everything that happened. Alakazam joined them as he listened to everything that happened. Ariados gazed at them when she reached the part where Angel used her strange power and their eyes turned towards her.

"It wasn't even a human power of the legends. How did you do it?" Scyther asked as he closed the distance to her.

She avoided his gaze and grabbed her arm, "I… I'm not sure," and that bastard won't help me, "I- It's hard to believe it."

"If you are here by the will of Arceus, then there is something that has to do with it correct? After all, everything we learned about humans is that they have no power to control any element. Their power is to create many strange things that we Pokémon can't," Alakazam said as he looked at team Tempest. He crossed his arms. His thumbs were pressing against his spoons, as if he was ready to use his psychic power, "I am curious about how you can use it. Don't hesitate to tell us, as member of the Rescue Team, we promise to keep it a secret. That is, if you don't want everyone else to know about it."

Angel thought about it, "Well…" she decided to explain how she used it for the first time, which meant that she revealed how she met Dusknoir and the first time she used it.

"You can purify spirits," the psychic Pokémon said, pensively.

"That's cool. You are a spirit hunter?" Heracross asked excitedly.

"No. She helps them reaching the spirit world, when they can't," Ariados resumed.

"Or when that fat ghost type is useless," the green bug chuckled as he covered his mouth with his arms.

The ghost in question had his wispy tail twitched, "I wonder what you could have done! Or right! Nothing! You are useless against spirits!"

"Shut your mouth!"

"I don't use a mouth to talk, so it's already shut," the ghost type grinned in victory.

Scyther face turned red when Alakazam grunted, "Enough. So, you use it with your left hand, right?" he approached her and looked at the hand in question as she positively nodded. He lightly gasped as he looked at it more intensively. He noticed that the palm was covered with four marks, one at the top, one at the bottom, one at the left and one at the right. The marks looked like it was a scar, giving the impression that it was either cut of burned on the palm. The top one had the symbol of Arceus wheel that he had around his chest, the bottom had the golden part of, what it looked like, Giratina's head, the left one had the form of a portal and the last one had the symbol of an hourglass.

"Those are… the blessings," he managed to say.

Now, the other Pokémons looked at her palm and made the girl feel uneasy as she looked at it, "W- How did it get here?"

They all looked at her with an akward silence, even Heracross.

"You didn't notice that… stupid human?" Dusknoir asked in disbelief.

Her face turned red as she managed to reply, "N-no. Got no reason to look at it."

"You got the blessing of Arceus and his three children Angel. Giratina, Dialga and Palkia also blessed you!" Alakazam said as if she was special, which was the case if those four legendary Pokémons gave their blessing.

She was at a lost of words, even more as the Pokémon's were all looking at her. Alakazam managed to calm down and coughed loudly, gaining everyone attention, "Guess team Salvation really suits you. I don't know the why, but you must have a very important mission if they all gave their blessing."

Angel wasn't saying anything and just looked at the palm of her hand.

"I think this should be enough," Dusknoir started as he crossed his arms and raised his head, "You are making this stupid human feel more than what she is, a stupid human. We both need to rest and recover from this bounty hunt."

The ghost type grabbed the girls hand and pulled her outside.

The four Pokémons remained there and said nothing, before Scyther asked, "Is our world doomed of something?"

Alakazam raised his shoulders, "I don't know, but Arceus wants her to be in the Rescue Team for an important reason I don't know."

"I guess it has something to do with the spirits, if she has the power to purify them," Ariados said.

Alakazam ordered, "Not a word to anyone in the village, the other Pokémons, other Rescue or Explorer teams or legendary Pokémons. Understood?"

They quietly nodded.

"She had enough, and I believe she doesn't have any answers right now," the psychic concluded, continuing to be in deep thought. He closed his eyes and grumbled, I'm feeling tired, just thinking about what is to come.

They entered in their residence and the two dropped on their bed, tired of their hunt and suffered some lack of sleep.

"Stupid human. What I did in the cavern, just forget about it," the ghost type ordered.

The girl gazed at him and realised it was about the hug, "Right. You must have a strange-"

"What did I say stupid human?" he warned her as he raised his finger.

"Sorry," she replied, before yawning.

"Rest human," the ghost type said as he closed his eye and felt asleep, the girl quickly followed him.

AC: This is the end of this chapter.

Next: The Mysterious Hunted House.