Disclaimer: Fine, I don't own pokémon! Only my storyline and its characters.
Author note: pretty damn obvious who was behind Laxar isn't it? P.s. some things are said in incorrect order or without commas in a way that's not proper English on purpose. I hope you like this chapter I had ideas about its ending for a while.
Chapter eleven: Virizion
"Me?" I said turning around to face the horse like pokémon, it had two blade like ears coming horizontally out of her head and two pinkish leaved extending out from a little lower down her neck, her shoulder blades too sported a bunch of sharp leaves jutting backwards "I'm Laxar, I have gone around trying to warn you and the guards of a rising foe who is trying to capture you, you are the last of your trio. Please, I don't want a fight like with cobalion." I said truthfully.
"I am the most rational of the three and see you speak truth, I wish your aid in freeing the others." She said seeing I spoke honestly.
"Look out!" I said knocking her over as a flame shot by just missing her at her, as it missed it landed at the edge of the clearing and disappeared.
"My thanks to you." She said as she got up. Then from where the flame had landed a column of fire shot up, so did another beside it and yet another, this went around the clearing the pillars vanishing soon after rising. Behind them the flames didn't vanish though, the trees closest to the clearing had caught fire.
"No! The forest!" I reached at the flames with a paw before being knocked over by virizion as she reared up in a double kick. I rolled over on the ground to see her in panic and confusion. She had lost control and in her confusion seeing only me around let loose an onslaught of leaf blade attacks using her blade like ears, the golden part of the rings began to glow as I dodged them and hit with a feint or sky upper cut whenever I could. She soon stopped and leaped back before firing a magical leaf at my feet, I jumped in the air to dodge and landed crouching with one hand on the ground before running in with sky upper cut only to be stopped short as green beams of light shot out and wrapped themselves around me and squeezed, I felt my energy fail me, I felt darkness start to envelope me. No, I am not going to give up! Not now not ever! A shouted echoed in my mind and I snapped back into focus, the silver half of my rings glowing brightly as I tensed and resisted the life draining attack. Her attack ended soon and I fell down to one knee before getting up and continuing my run up. Next her blades began to glow with an orange brown as she half swung half tossed her head and the aura from her blade like ears detached from her and was sent whirling through the air at me, I crossed my arms in front of me and pushed them out to meet the attack not even breaking in pace before I then put my paw to the ground and it began to glow white, when I was close enough I pulled it up striking her with all my might on the underside tossing her into the air and arcing to the tree alter. She wasn't out yet. I followed up my running at her yet again and jumping before impact adding a spin, I put my left foot out toward her performing feints first half before finishing my spin and slamming my right leg on her side in a powerful kick before she got up fully.
"Snap out of it! I care about this forest as much as you do!" I shouted before rolling to the side to dodge an energy ball she had just expelled from her mouth, she followed up with sacred sword before I could recover and sent be flying into the flames, I felt their searing sting as I hit the tree which was burning. This is just like before, I need to snap her out of it! Only way to do that is to extinguish the flames though…I thought to myself, but I was a mere fighting type, useless to fire. Wait, riolu is the aura pokémon. From what I remember everything needs aura energy to exist and survive, fire included! I close my eyes and hurried before virizion was done charging what I saw to be a solar beam. I felt the energy around me, I felt that of the fire forest and the fearful auras of the pokémon. I concentrated on the fire, singling it out. I felt myself draw its energy away from it and directed it towards myself to absorb it. I opened my eyes and saw the fire was gone and virizion was done charging. That's it, I'm doomed. I thought to myself but then felt something on my hands, I looked over at them to see a swirling green mist around them. This was my last hope whatever it was. I picked myself up and ran at virizion as she fired solar beam. I put my paws together the tips of each touching the wrists of the others in a sort of cup, before me and the beam collided I pushed them forwards and out twisting them so they booth pointed tips forward then I opened them up meeting the solar beam. I was stopped dead in my tracks and felt my hands being pushed back, I closed my eyes, I couldn't hold out much longer. The beam stopped pushing and I opened my hands, I looked back at my hands which were back at my side with the energy from solar beam between them. I looked over at virizion and saw she was preparing magical leaf. I was left with no option as I pushed my hands out once more unleash the stored whitish yellow energy of solar beam, tendrils of green mist pulled away from my hands and encircled the beam as it headed at her. She launched magical leaf in her turn but the attack was nothing compared to the power of her solar beam and what I recognized as my aura. She was blasted once more against the tree alter, this time she was snapped out of her confusion, I saw the anger gone from her eyes.
"Sorry, but why save the forest from burning?" she asked evidently surprised in my action of taking time to stop the fire instead of dodging.
"This forest, its trees." I said lifting my arms and paws in a gesture to include everything "I care about them as much as you do, I see them as equals if not superior." I replied as I headed over to help her, I was hit with some blast to my side as I did "Ahh!" I exclaimed as I fell over, I no longer had the strength to get up. My face was facing the ground mostly so I could only see the ground and a little bit above it were she was, that was enough to see the red light surround her and then her colour and shape fade into it. The ball then fell down and shook twice before she burst out in a white light.
"ZO-!" she began but was silenced as I saw the edge of a black explosion and the white red light come again, the ball fell and this time she didn't get out. Another blast came between me and the ball making a cover as before and when it all cleared the ball was gone. I had only seen the details of this that were ten centimetres from the ground and down. I passed out with one angered thought in my head. How could I let this happen…Again! The thought echoed through my head as a scowl came over my face and I left consciousness.
"Wake up, we saw you fight. Thanks for saving the forest and trying to help." Came the slightly high in pitch voice of a butterfree.
"Think nothing of it, I failed." I said lifting my head and rubbing my arm which had taken the blast.
"Contrary." Came a calm, soothing and melodic almost hiss-like voice "You saved this forest, a feat none of us could accomplish and not many if any pokémon who live out of the forest would care for." I looked over to see the serperior on my right, she had, she evident by the voice and certain facial features.
"I think of them like brothers, even you may find that odd." I said as I got up with a few groans from my hurt arm which didn't seem to like being used as a support now.
"No, I find it fully understandable." She replied with a nod "Pokémon from far forests tell us of a war by a wall of trees." She informed me suspecting that's where I came from.
"The guild!" I should have known this, sneasel mentioned it "I have to go, my friends are there." I said getting up and rushing off.
"I'm coming too." She said as she raced after me having no trouble keeping pace "Follow me." She said as she reached me a bit further into the forest line and then headed a little but ahead, seemed right considering I would probably get lost.
"Us too." Came the unexpected voice of the butterfree from the clearing above us past the canopy, it was being followed by venomoth, beautifly, jumpluff and its evolution chain, mothim, beedrill, ledyba and its evolutions and even a bunch of yanma from the air, I looked back to see a hoard of weedle, caterpie, wurmple, pinsir, venonat, a bunch of paras and a few parasect, some nincada, swinging spinarak with a few ariados, sewaddle and some of its evolutions, dwebble and countless more.
"Thanks guys, me and the guard will go ahead." I said as I picked up the pace "By the way, what's your name."
"Sepera." She said confirming my idea she was a female as she too picked up the pace. At this rate me and Sepera reached the walls in an hour at most running into scyther who jumped out of our way as we charged at him when he blocked out way.
"Has he been giving you trouble?" she asked implying she would end it if he had.
"First time we met I was half fainted and I helped bring him down, in fact the other two were being mashed until I did. On my way to the forest I came through the clearing and met him thinking he only lost because he was outnumbered before, I proved him wrong as I took his hyper beam full blast then struck him out with sky upper cut." I said simply.
"Like with virizion's solar beam?" she asked inquisitively.
"No, I crossed my arms in front of me to block, I didn't trap it like with virizion. I learned that on the spot when I did it with her solar beam." I said seeing a greyish black cloud for-shadowing the distant horizon "Lets hurry, we might be too late." I said pumping up my speed. First thing to come into view was a bunch of staravia and starly in the air raining attacks on a hoard of pokémon, dark types. I explained as we reached the flying types were the good guys and the hoard of dark types were the bad ones. First thing we came across was team Dark Day along with some other important looking villains at the back, no surprise.
"Attack." I said to the serperior as I let loose a sky upper cut with each hand going diagonally to its opposite side hitting sneasel and a shiftry before I headed into the crowd with Sepera staying back to stop them going after me as I left a trail of upturned dark types behind me mostly pawniard, nuzleaf, sandile, scraggy and a few stunky and low hovering murkrow. I saw Evona, Lyro and Asen up in the middle of the gates with Arcar to their right signalling orders to the growlithe firing fire spin and other attacks on the horde while Sarak on their left with a few staravia hovering behind him. Suddenly Lyro prodded Asen and pointed in my direction, Finally I'm seen! I thought to myself relieved. This changed as Asen went over to Sarak and nodded in my direction, the flying type turned to his troops behind him and raised a wing at me. The four of them flew higher and begun to swing their wings wildly releasing bright, glowing blue crescents flying at me. Air cutter, perfect. I thought to myself sarcastically, The idiots are trying to kill me. My eyes let of their golden glow from their ring and I begun to dodge them best I could some whipping past me, some brushing my fur and some outright hitting me, still I didn't break pace. I was obviously hard to recognise, especially amongst the explosions. Sarak then got up himself surrounding himself in a white aura. Sky attack, brilliant! I thought to myself sarcastically, Sarak wouldn't be able to stop once he has begun and gotten close and dodging isn't an option with his body size, I would have to counter it. I ran at the staraptor who had just begun his dive as I pushed through the dark types not wasting attacks on them and jumped onto a nuzleaf's head before kicking off to intercept the attack with sky upper cut, the staraptor realising who I was just before impact and unable to stop collided. He was sent a little bit back through the air as I fell back almost knocked out into the hoard of dark types, they all fell upon me at once with attacks. My eye let off its silver glow for endure as I tried to hold out. Suddenly all pain went away, everything went black. I wasn't knocked out I knew it, a light flashed and I saw a kid, he was a boy but his hair was very long he was standing on a sloped field and there was a gang of others shoving him around and hitting, shoving him and grabbing at his hair. I heard them shout insults and tell him to run away or roll on the ground and cry. He did neither, he instead held his ground despite the constant tackles, he held firm and didn't run, he didn't respond to their insults either. Then they all closed in to him and began to bring him to the ground like the dark types were doing to me. He had closed his eyes as he struggled against the guys who were bigger than him. My view changed to his face and I saw his eyes open and narrow, determination clear as daylight shone brightly, a ring of gold and silver clear in each eye. He tensed and pushed up against the downfall of weight, he pulled a few off once he was crouching and then rolled to his side making them all tumble off. The vision ended and I came back to reality. That kid was me, I thought to myself, then I hadn't given up, I won't now either! The last words echoed as I got my legs under me and pushed up on the pile of pokémon. I struck with sky upper cut a few times to make them loosen up before rolling to my side making them tumble off. I got up and resumed my charge, my determination doubled. I looked back to see Sepera was being held down by the shiftry and about to be struck with icy wind from sneasel.
"NO!" my cry echoed as I ran back with all the speed I could muster, no air cutters of sky attacks in my way, determination doubled. No pokémon could stand in my way as I begun to drag my paw along the ground. I was five meters away when the sneasel seemed fully charged to unleash all his strength, I mustered my last bits of reserve strength and once more doubled my speed striking sneasel's side just before it let the attack loose. I followed up with feint as I jumped over Sepera to attack the shiftry.
"Thank you." She said as she got up relieved to be saved from that super effective ice attack.
"Your welcome, I reckon the main force should be coming now." I said looking back and seeing nothing at first then a thin line over the horizon "I'll head back to warn them not to attack them." I said rushing once more back through the horde of pokémon. This time around urgency wasn't as great but I was not much of a surprise as a bunch of them turned to face me. Sepera took them out with a leaf tornado before I reached them and I continued raising my paw in thanks without looking back. I reached the gate and began to scale it using the many iron bands that reinforced it as grip and attacked any dark types I saw doing the same. I leaped over the last part and landed clumsily which led to my collapse. The adrenalin was gone and I was almost too tired and weak to move.
"That's it, I'm not letting you out of my sight again. Especially for another stunt like that." Evona said as she helped me up by letting me support myself on her, she had obviously gotten better though she still held her front paw up. Sepera came up and over the gates now.
"The hoard of dark types is now trapped, the pokémon of the forest have them trapped against the walls here." She said.
"Nice back up you brought us here." Lyro grinned as he walked over, his arm was no longer in a sling.
"They came on their own will, I think it was some sort of thanks for stopping the forest fire." I said finally having got up.
"Some adventures you have on your own." Asen said as he too joined us "So, where is virizion?"
"Captured." I said regret in my voice "The mystery pokémon used incinerate to set the forest line around the clearing which confused and enraged her, she attacked me and I fought back eventually bringing her down with a surprise return to sender solar beam, surprised us booth honestly. Then I was blasted with some pulse attack and lay on my side being able to see only ten centimetres above the ground where she was, I saw her being captured and then another blast made a cover so I couldn't see who took off with the ball." I said.
"Well you did great, you took down a legendary pokémon solo. I don't know who else could do that, especially with that pokémon having a type resistance on you." Lyro said with a grin "Now tell us how you stopped the forest fire, you're a fighting type with no water attacks." He said his tone with traces of curiosity and wonder.
"I drained it of its energy." I said not understanding it all myself "The thought that everything needed it energy to survive crossed me and I singled out the fires aura then drained it, that nearly cost me my hide, all that saved me was some mysterious attack I found out I had. A green mist emitted from my paws, I cupped them then pushed them out and opened them up to meet solar beam, it ended up pooled between my hands and I launched it back against virizion's follow up of magical leaf. While I fired it some of the green mist spiralled around the beam and over to virizion boosting its power." I said hoping someone, namely Asen, could make some sense of it.
"It could be some use of aura. But riolu emit blue glowing aura, not green mist ones." Asen said stumped by this information.
"Strange powers for a strange riolu." Evona said with a smile.
"Enough of me, how has your day been? How's the battle?" I questioned.
"The hoard is pressed between the ever en-closing anvil of those pokémon you brought along and our hammer of attacks, they are falling quickly. A few growlithe are hurt but not badly along with a few starly and staravia mainly due to those murkrow." Arcar replied stepping in "The last of them remain elusive but none of the murkrow which are the only ones with any hope of fleeing will. They aren't lasting long either, our aerial support and general Ice is taking them down rapidly." He said nodding at a gallade raining hail attacks, his most distinctive features were two reddish scars running the length of his for arm.
"I need a staravia for me and Lyro." I said "Lyro, how's about you come with me on a shocking spree to bring down those murkrow before they become a nuisance?" I asked and turned around at him to see him looking over at me smiling.
"Sure." He said hopping onto one of the two staravia who had just approached, I got onto the other. They then flew off into the battle, Lyro directed his partner in battle towards a concentration of murkrow attacking a smaller amount of staravia and starly then thunder shocked them to give the staravia and starly room and time to strike back, I headed to the murkrow performing aerial attacks on the bug types who were struggling with the flying attacks from murkrow and the fire attacks from some of the dark types capable of them. I jumped off and struck a murkrow with a sky upper cut in reverse, since I was hitting down, before kicking off it towards another one. I did this to about four before landing and joining the fight. Lyro flew over and used thunder shock to bring down the rest of the murkrow who decided it would be fun to use flying attacks on my specifically. The battle didn't last much long after the dark types still up and ready to fight us depleted at a smooth and steady pace with their aerial cover gone. I saw Sepera leap off the gates and land in the middle of the battle zone cushioning her fall with leaf tornado and making room at the same time, I rushed through to back her up. Now the dark types were under attack from front, back and centre if we leave out above with no where to run. Lyro jumped down from his ride to lend us a hand, from the gate Evona used helping hand before going down and coming out of the gate which briefly opened to let out a charging bastiodon and closing before any dark types could get through. Though my guess is they wouldn't even if we left it wide open. Evona used dig immediately disappearing. The bastiodon charged over to us clearing his way with iron head. Evona's dirt trail appears again as she circled us digging a tunnel which collapsed into a trench to keep the dark types at bay and give me some lower ground from which to perform sky upper cut. She then appeared at my side knocking away a sneaking dark type. Our team was complete, two defenders, two attacks and Evona shaping the field and giving us support. Now to make it even better the gallade jumped down and ran around us using blizzard and making a wall of frozen dark types which I started smashing with a side ways sky upper cut. Meanwhile I heard a shout from Asen.
"Now Ice, lets use homing slash!" his shout came as he fired a night slash over in our direction, I thought he was crazy but the gallade obviously knew the plan behind this and his eyes let off a blue glow as he used physic and begun to control the night slash bulldozing the dark types behind the I ice wall I had just finished breaking up.
"Now to take care of the fire attacks coming from those fiery attackers she said with a grin before starting a dance consisting mainly of dipping and shaking her head, I felt a drop of rain on my head soon after she started. The amount of conscious dark types was dwindling fast, those unconscious and regaining it were being tied up with string shot by those bug types who couldn't fight. Soon our little team retreated to our little island surrounded by the trench, the dark types often stumbled in backwards which stepping away from the battle and thought it might be some escape only to be met with our heart warming attacks as they tried to get on our little frontier. Soon the last of them fell, I collapsed to my knees with exhaustion.
"At least this turned out ok." I said puffing.
"Thanks to the back up you brought." Evona said beside me nodding at the bug types rounding us the tied up dark types "Good job, but I'm really never going to let you out of my sight now." she said playfully as she nudged my arm and I recoiled, that blast from back at the forest did some harm and had its after effects.
"Ahh." I said flinching and holding my arm, Evona had a worried look on her face feeling terrible for what she thought she did "Its not you, I got hit by a blast back in the forest." I said reassuringly before I blacked out.