Eric: Wow… now that took way longer than it should've. The explanation for this disaster of a schedule will be in the foot AN, but for now, here are the answers to the reviews we've received on the previous chapter!
Hjof: I… don't even know. Please, next time I beg of you, post a legitemate review, because… I don't even know where to begin here.
Hjof, Rayrudan answered: wtf!?
AveragePichu: Well, I'm glad you liked my interpretation of Mewtwo, haha… And please, don't be offended by that, I just want to know what my readers think of what we write, that's all.
AP, Ray answer: The detail of the names is that i like to name everyone :P but only Pokémon know the names of Legendary Pokémon, and the one that wrote that book about them.
West: I seriously doubt he has a life… But eh, you're the one who sees him on a daily basis. Anyways, I'm glad to know you're also relieved the mind swapping is over. God knows how many times we confused the names and characters ourselves while writing… And yes, they cannot catch a break, they're Team Star, of course they can't, even while eating a banana. Also, banana? Banananananana.
Ray: well… I shouldn't get into this… Ok… someone went cu-cu or i'm not getting the joke
Eric566: Now, without any further ado… let's go!
Eric566: Banana…
Chapter 10
Adam's Danse Macabre
In another place in the forest, where Kaylani's and Leopold's kits where along with some of the Kaiser. They found themselves surrounded by a group of diferent Pokémon, an Alakazam amongst them. Luna had taken on a defensive stance as she and Radius alone tried to protect the pups.
"This isn't normal. No sane Pokémon would dare attack a Legendary's offspring nor their company." Luna said looking around at their foes, one of the Phiones had a burnt mark in one arm, courtesy of a Growlithe, involving themselves in a very serious fight.
Luna was having trouble fighting against this Growlithe and a Mienshao, mostly because the Alakazam kept redirecting her fire towards her only companion or the kits, forcing her to rely on physical attacks only. "Rad, can you take that bastard down!?" She asked. Radius went underground, trying to take it by surprise, but he found himself in an underground battle against a Drilbur, keeping the Eevee out of intervening with the psychic type, leaving Luna alone on the surface to fight off the rest of the Pokémon. And she was being quickly outnumbered.
The Vulpix fought as best as she could. Until they started attacking the Phione directly. Luna got to protect them, ending with a nasty cut that the Scyther that started attacking them left on her side. The attack was a diversion however, as the bug type hit her the moment she got in the way to stop it. And that attack had her down. Immediately, the Growlithe, Mienshao, Scyther and Alakazam attacked her, giving her a beating until she couldn't even stand up. Then the Growlith approached her wearing a sided smirk of superiority, and even though it wasn't needed, he put his weight over her to pin her down, while the Scyther approached with the exact same smile on the face and rose a blade arm, ready to strike down and chop her head off.
Hadrim arrived just in time to save her from a final blow. Blasting the bug away with a psybeam and slamming his body against the fire dog to get it off of her. Shade immediately stood at her side and started to summon a wish for her.
"Where's Rad?" He asked her, and she just pointed at a hole with her tail. Hadrim would have searched his son's mind over there but the Alakazam hit him with a psywave that send the Espeon tumbling, and stood facing the Eeveelution, prepared to fight. Hadrim stood up and looked at it, baring his fangs. "Sorry son, you'll have to wait a bit." He thought as he got ready to fight the Alakazam and the other three Pokémon there on the surface.
Meanwhile, underground, Rad was having some trouble since the Drilbur got some help from others of the same species. Five of them had dug a big room where Radius fell when the sixth ground type ambushed him, finding himself surrounded by them. Rad defended himself parrying with Iron Tail or blasting them away with Shadow balls. But at one time his six opponents attacked at the same time. He had to think quick, he retaliated. His swift nailed them all but this also made the damage lower since the attack wasn't concentrating in one of them, and after it, he was quickly surrounded again and the Drilbur where all around him. The Eevee concentrated for a moment and rose on his back legs to then slam his front paws down. Earthy spikes rose from it towards them, forming a spiky wall around the Eevee. Rad took advantage of the moment to dig upwards, getting to the surface again. When he saw his father, he went towards him, using a Shadow ball to blast the Mienshao attacking with a jumping kick, away from the Espeon. They formed a row between the scared Phione and their attackers. So far the pups only had been hurt by lost attacks since their foes were concentrating on Luna and Radius.
The enemies were about to attack when a blast of air took the Pokémon away from them. Lugia using his Aeroblast to push the Pokémon away from his children as Kaylani used the same move Dante had used, just that she focused on making the wave go towards the attacking Pokémon instead of all over, making them back away caught in the wave as they went to their offspring.
"Had… Heat me up, please." Luna said, approaching Hadrim and looking at him seriously. The Espeon doubted for a moment before he nodded and set his entire body ablaze, giving Luna what only can be described as a hug. Her body feeling the fire and feeding on it as her ability was triggered and enhanced her own fire abilities. Meanwhile, Shade went to Radius and put a wish on him. The Eevee got healed in a few seconds and he was ready to fight again.
In a clearing in the forest, away from where the fights were going on, Dark, Natalie, Luca and Dust where resting. The Lucario having frozen the Zoroark's wounds to avoid him loosing more blood, and telling him to rest. Dark was sitting against a tree, his eyes closed as his paws were tightly warped into feral fists. Natalie saw this and nuzzled him gently. He looked at her and sighed.
"What is it, bro?" Dust asked him.
"I'm frustrated." Dark said, simply. "All the training I've done has been for nothing at all!" He spat.
"Hey. You can't foresee that you will fight a Legendary on your first adventure." The Riolu said to him. "There are things we can't control."
"Even if that's true, Dust. I don't like relying like this on others to save my neck. I appreciate the help, but it just doesn't feel right to have others fight for me while I can't lend them a paw! I feel like a damn politician right now! Or for lack of nicer terms, like a fucking worthless piece of shit!" He said, clearly angry with himself.
Before anyone could say anything more, a thick fog rose. Dante didn't even care to keep silent this time.
"Then why don't you try fighting me face to face?" The Suicune's voice sounded within the mist and without a moment's hesitation, he started to attack Dark and Natalie. First the Eevee, making her scream in pain as he kicked her hard against a tree and then he Headbutted Dark right on the chest, taking his air away. When the mist was up, Dust quickly used his aura sight to keep track of the Suicune, but he wasn't fast enough to stop those attacks on the two he considered his siblings, yet he landed a solid hit on the side of Dante's head with a bone rush. The Suicune just blasted him away with a Hydro pump and did the same with an approaching Luca, also freezing her feet and paws to the floor. After that he went to the siblings and approached them. Dark summoned a bone rush, ready to fight. He knew he was weak but he wasn't going to give up. Not wanting anyone to get in the way this time, Dante used Ice beam to trap the three of them inside of an ice prison. Dust saw this as he recovered from the blast and ran as fast as he could to get there. He wasn't going to let the Suicune kill them. The Riolu jumped using his aura bone to reach higher and got into the dome of ice before the Suicune could finish it, smashing his bone rush with such force on the Legends head that half of it shattered to pieces and Dante actually ate the dirt.
"You will not lay a paw on my family!" Dust roared, not wasting time and running towards Dante, landing a close combat that took the water dog by surprise and made him skid backwards a bit.
Without a word, Dante lunged for Dark and Natalie, ignoring Dust, but the Riolu just blasted him with a green Aura sphere. "Fine!" Dante roared. "Wanna show you are more than big talk!? Then let's dance!" The Suicune added with a bit of a cocky tone of voice, sure of his victory. Then summoned an Hydro pulse, blasting Dark and Natalie against the ice walls. Dust this time held his ground with a new bone of aura, which was cracked from the force of the hit, but this time it endured the blow. After that, Dust shot forwards again, getting into a fight with the Legend. As much as he landed blows and dodged, blocked and parried, Dante did the same, from time to time trying to attack the Korel siblings, interrupted by the Shiny Riolu, who was putting all of himself in this battle. It was on a particularly hard hit, that made Dante stumble backwards and spit blood again, this time no broken fang went out, that he snapped.
"Enough!" He roared and concentrated, surrounding himself in a water sphere. "I'm sick of your intrusions! You three will drown inside this dome!" He roared as he released the surf mixed with an hydropulse that this time blasted the three of them against the ice walls.
From here seek and listen to: Deep Anxiety - Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix Music Extended
Leopold was defending his children and his mate. The Lugia keeping an eye on everyone, friend or foe. Sending the controlled Pokémon that came too close away with his wings. Meanwhile, Luna had the same two Pokémon that almost killed her trapped in a ring of fire, a tactic she had learned from certain fire male, and for the which she might thank him later… or not. This time however, she was in control. The Growlithe had his fire out of the question and could feel the danger of hers after she was fed from the flames of the Espeon for nearly a minute and a half while the Lugia and the Eevee kept them at bay. The Vulpix surrounded herself in fire and launched herself towards the other fire dog, who tried to dodge but was too slow as her fire blitz nailed him and she bite down hard on him, spinning and throwing him against a rock inside of the ring.
Without wasting time, she launched herself at the Scyther who prepared to parry and counter her, but her fire was too hot to handle now and he couldn't cut more than a few hairs of her fur before having to put his scythes like arms out by digging them on the ground. Moment Luna used to tackle the bug and with a strong hit of her tails and back paws, send him out of the fire ring, where Radius, upon seeing the bug, jumped and landed an Iron tail, knocking the bug out, before going back to his own opponents, a Mienshao and a Banette. The Eevee was in trouble but he kept his ground nevertheless. However, this wasn't like the other times, this Pokémon won't stop if he was knocked out, this wasn't any kind of spar and he had that very present.
Rad looked at them, waiting for any of them to make a move. The first was the Banette with a Dark pulse, the which he blew up with a Shadow ball, then came Mienshao with Close Combat, Radius dodged how he could, even parrying with iron tail and and at the last second pushing the Fighting type back with another Shadow ball. After this, he didn't stood in place, and dashed forwards with a quick attack towards the Banette with an idea in mind, The ghost type didn't move, seeing the kit come at it with an attack that would just go through. Mienshao tried to land a new attack on the running Eevee, but Rad just dodged and launched at the Banette, fangs bared but he didn't bite.
As predicted, the Eevee went through with his Quick attack. But then an explosion drove the ghost type face first into the ground. Rad had tricked it, using Shadow ball after being behind the Pokémon and then came close, biting hard on its arm and then stomped the ghost against the floor. However, he ended paws up doing this, exposed for a high jump kick that was already coming to him, until a psychic wave threw the Mienshao away. Hadrim helping his son as much as he could while he was facing an Alakazam. Three more Pokémon laying knocked out around them as this two kept their fight. Alakazam went with the psychic blades while Hadrim stood unarmed and then ran at the other Psychic. Parrying a slash with a forwards flip and an Iron tail, launching a Shadow ball of his own at his enemy, pushed forwards by a Psybeam. The Alakazam quickly protected itself with a barrier and sent a big rock towards Had, who dodged it and attacked again with a psywave, the barrier protecting the Alakazam once again as his eyes glowed for a moment. Then something triggered into Hadrim's mind, he saw himself hit by some invisible force and then all went to normal. "Fuck!" He thought as he launched a new attack and rose a barrier to the protect himself. He felt the strike hit the barrier from everywhere at once, the Premonition being blocked. However, before the Alakazam could attack again, a Vulpix slammed against him.
Luna stood up quickly and kicked back to the fight against the other fire type, her fire ring had died down and this had let the other dog much more room to attack her, yet she wouldn't let him scare her. She ran at him and they both slammed and rolled together on the ground, biting, clawing and the one beneath trying to push off the one on top. In the end they both separated and Luna launched a Flame Burst at him, the Growlithe dodged but he wasn't prepared for the Fire blitz she put on him right after, followed by a double kick and finished with a strangely powerful Dark Pulse at close range that slammed the fire dog against a three and let him hanging there, fainted.
Luna was about to boast when she heard Radius and dodged a kick using feint, ending by the Eevee's side and ready to fight against this foe with him now. Radius was readying another Shadow ball and running towards the fighting type, he tackled it to the ground and stood on its chest, blowing the ghostly sphere on his face and jumping backwards. When the smoke cleared, the Mienshao was down for the count.
Leopold was impressed with this display from the young Pokémon. However, there was still one more foe to defeat. Facing the two psychics battling he saw them stock still. Glowing amber eyes locked onto glowing golden ones. The Lugia caught up quickly, the two of them were in a mind struggle. Hadrim was putting all his willpower to try and break the hold that Mewtwo held over the other Psychic, but this was fighting him back with just as much force. Psychic blasts went here and there as a mutual psychic connection came to be. The Alakazam trying to extend its master's control to the other while the Espeon defended himself and tried to break it. Dirt rising around them as the psychics waves passed by them. Who ever said a battle of psychics is only a physical battle? Hadrim was having troubles as the Alakazam gained terrain on him, the Espeon pushing back, keeping in mind in the back of his head that he still had to go check on the others.
The Espeon fought the influence, protecting his mind as much as he could to avoid ending as another puppet to the puppeteer at the beach. However, something caught his mind. a glimpse of the Alakazam's own, the Pokémon semed to be pleased with the power it harnessed. "Why should I give up this wonderful power?" he heard. "Master Adam has gifted me with psychic powers you can't even reach, Espeon. When I am done with you I'll make you tell me where you live, and I'll kill every single member of your family. Then your children will become my personal slaves. That Vulpix for example sure has a nice figure, and that female Eevee there-" Hadrim roared so loud that it made the Alakazam flinch and shut up. His psychic force wavered and Had took advantage, breaking through the mental barriers as a strong psychic wave wafted the battle field, leaving the Alakazam dizzy and defenseless. Hadrim picked him up and rose him with his psychic. Big boulders were yanked from the ground and started to orbit around the other Psychic, who tried to break the hold of the Espeon over his body, but the strength of the Espeon had somehow grown to surpass his and he couldn't break free.
"Never… Dare you threaten… My family again!" Hadrim said back as his face held a vicious snarl. The boulders stopped rotating around the Alakazam and all at the same time were crashed against the psychic type. For a moment Had held the rocks floating, until he saw a drop of blood falling from them, it was them that he slammed it all down on the ground, uncovering the Alakazam. The bastard had enough luck to end just fainted, though one of his arms was bent one more time than usual, the bone broken, and blood came from the cut it made through muscle and skin and from various cuts on his body.
(music ends)
Without much more words or even more than a look at the fallen enemy, Hadrim turned around and went to Rad and Luna, who were receiving a wish from Shade. "You two okay?" He asked worried.
"Never been better!" Luna cheered with a smile.
"Don't worry, dad. I got this." Radius said with a smile.
Shade also smiled at his father and as with the others put a wish on him. The three of them were shocked by what the Espeon had done to that Alakazam, neither three of them had ever seen him do anything like that in their lives. Yet they tried not to show fear to the Espeon, after all this was a real fight. Of course, none of them knew what the Alakazam had said to make Had this mad. Leopold on other side was looking at the Espeon, once again impressed by the strength displayed. "I am positive to say that our two guests are in great paws." He thought but didn't say anything.
"Mr. Leopold." Hadrim called. "Take care of your children, we'll be good for now. Just take care of your family and we'll take care of ours." The Espeon said after he located the mind of Dark and the others, discovering they were fighting against Dante and in trouble.
"Be fast. Dante has them in a tight spot at the moment." Leo said to them. Hadrim nodded and immediately ran in their direction, the others quick on his tail.
Eric punched the lights out of one final Shiftry, who fell backwards and lifted sand with it's fall. Meanwhile, the rest of his team mates were finishing up their own fights, and yet Adam kept on staring, rolling his eyes as the last hypnotized pokémon fell, being swept away by an invisible force. "Jeez, you guys really are something! You beat up all of 'em… and didn't even break a sweat! Congratulations, seriously, you won. Now we move on to the second stage... " He teleports, vanishing from view, and reappearing on the ground, blasting all seven of them away with a psychic blast, sending them flying to the beach, everyone quickly recovering from the unexpected attack. "Leopold saved his kits, whoopy-doo, what a heartwarming reunion that must be…" He explained his reasons for stopping the attack of the hypnotized pokémon.
Lucy stands up, gritting her teeth. "You're a real piece of filth, you know that?" Adam only laughs in response, making the Shinx realize she was probably being too nice with him.
"What do you hope to win by defeating us anyways, Adam?! It's not like it's gonna happen anyways, but… Just curious!" Nox was flaring up again, knowing that he didn't have to hold back against this opponent, but his question was a good one, and Zed frowned, just like Jake put the pieces together.
"I think I have a pretty good idea…" The Zorua mentioned sombrely, leaving the explanation to whoever wished to end that train of thought.
Jake took up the silent offer, his face impassive, yet a hint of disgust appearing as he turned to face Adam again. "He wishes to beat us to an inch of our lives, then take control of our bodies and use us for his dirty deeds." The Sneasel confirmed, confirming the Zed and Elly's fears, and surprising everyone else in the team. Adam smiles and claps his hands.
"Clever! You're really clever, it'll be hard to break into that brain of yours… and yeah, I told you all before: If a tool doesn't do the job, the artist throws it away and gets himself a new set! And new, shinier, and far more powerful set than any he has ever laid his eyes on." His smile twists into a disturbing smirk, his eyes starting to emit a purplish glow as he prepares for battle. Eric resummoned his light staff, and Elly summons the black sphere as well, whilst Zed's claws start glowing purple, Lucy's fur crackles with electricity, Serge flaps his wings, Jake drew his claws again and Nox started breathing flames through his nostrils.
(Impossible - Transistor)
The first sun beams shone against the water as the celestial body rose over the horizon, bathing them with its first lights. After a few more seconds of standing still, Adam teleports, appearing between them and blasts them apart from eachother with a psychic wave, heading after Zed first, who landed close to Nox. The Zorua quickly morphed into a Graveler and blocked a psychic charged hook, but he didn't manage to block following overhead, having to jump backwards, sand raising up and allowing Adam to land a cheap blow on the Zorua, kicking him away, Nox jumping in afterwards and trying to bite down on his tail. He did so, Adam howling out, but this appendage was for far more than just show, and the Houndour was flung away at intense speeds towards the Graveler, who grabbed him in time.
Without touching the ground, the Mewtwo flew at them, Zed throwing Nox up into the air and letting him rain fire, Adam having to stop it with a psychic barrier, then Zed following up by charging into Adam and carrying him away, then tossing him back and against a howling Lucy, who slammed her back legs against his back as she stopped running for a second, turned around and donkey kicked him, Adam teleporting immediately afterwards, holding his back as he reappeared.
"Alright, pretty good for being the weakest." He said, readying two shadow balls, releasing them both at the two groups, Zed and Nox running away whilst Lucy dodged the one headed towards her and ran at Adam at intense speeds. The Mewtwo however, was smarter than that, and wasn't to be fooled so easily. As Lucy ran past him and went to strike in from the back, he turned around and rose a psychic barrier, lifting up sand in the process, she slammed against it with force, and then he punched it, breaking it into pieces and hitting Lucy away, cuts appearing on her body.
She screamed and landed on her feet. "Damn, this guy is smart!" She announced through telepathy, starting to run away and throwing a bolt of lightning as Nox offered support with some fire, trying to cut off possible escape routes for the Mewtwo whilst Serge and Zed, transformed into a Pidgey swooped in, large barriers cutting Eric, Elly and Jake's advancements, making some sort of maze of sand to try and encase them. Serge dived in, landing and turning around as he did so, lifting his wing from the sand extremely quickly, aiming to cut Adam in half. The Mewtwo saw the cutting attack and summoned a psychic blade of his own, longer than Elly's, and several of the attacks as Serge spun towards him, pushing against the last strike and throwing Serge off balance. Zed coming in from behind and pecking the back of his head, distracting him momentarily to allow Serge to recover from the parry.
The Pidgeot continued his assault, slashing from multiple angles whilst Adam blocked skillfully, albeit taking steps back and towards Nox's flames, whilst swatting Zed away with his other hand, grabbing his head as he transformed into a Cranidos and smashing him into Serge, then teleported behind them to deal a decisive blow with his blade. However, Lucy came to the rescue again, this time striking with a thunderbolt and shocking him momentarily, before Nox blasted him away with a fireball, clearing an escape route for Serge and Zed, who flew up again, this time Zed as his normal Zorua self.
Serge went to get the rest of his teammates whilst Lucy and Nox distracted Adam, but by the time he got there, Eric smashed throu gh the last wall and roared as he rushed at the Mewtwo, kicking up sand with each step, whilst Elly destroyed the wall with psychic powers of her own and launched a slought of psychic power, sand waving in the air as it was picked up by the invisible force, hitting the general area where Adam was like a whip, making everyone there get away and the Mewtwo teleport to Elly's location, Elly summoning psychic blades as he came down on her, grasping his own with both hands. She pushed him away and Jake landed on top of Adam, stomping his head and then falling down along his back, the Sneasel throwing two slashes in the form of a cross, drawing purplish blood, whilst Elly used her black sphere to create a giant black Riolu fist and smash him towards the actual Riolu, who stood still with his staff in both paws, waiting for the last second before striking upwards, hitting the Mewtwo once as he rose up, turning around in midair, then hitting him again and sending the psychic legendary higher up, and finally releasing his light staff and letting it blow up in his face.
However, by then, the Mewtwo was gone, teleporting to the middle of the beach and snapped his fingers, his wounds healing once more, then crossed his arms as two shadowy claws burst from the tips of his fingers and glared at his opponents, all of them charging at the same time. Eric came in first, jumping and slamming his fist into the sand as it missed it's mark, rolling underneath the claw as Zed came in right after him, once again a Cranidos, but Adam had already seen that trick, and merely stomped on him and gained leverage, jumping over him and doing a flip into the air, his tail swatting Lucy away as he rose, the claws transforming into spheres which he launched to his sides, exploding and blowing sand everywhere.
Serge flapped his wings and returned it, then a half buried Eric burst out with his light staff and swung at Adam's legs, Elly screaming the Mewtwo's name at the top of her lungs as she slashed at his body, but he merely twisted again and flew away between the two almost simultaneous attacks, two icicles trailing after him, flipping to get his feet back on the sand and breaking one of them, grabbing the other and returning it to its sender, the Sneasel gracefully jumping out of the way, although Nox quickly melted the icicle just in case the Mewtwo wanted to use it for later. Adam smirked and summoned both a shadowy claw and the large psychic blade, then flew towards them with a murderous look. This proved to be fun.
(Stop the music)
Luca was throwing all she had towards the icy dome. The sound of fighting inside making her both think the worst and be relieved, and spurred her to keep throwing Aura spheres at the wall, trying to break through it. The thick dome of ice cracked but there was no sign that she was going to break through anytime soon, even when she started smashing it with her ice hammer. After a bit, Hadrim, Shade, Radius and Luna appeared besides her, teleporting in as the Espeon managed to use his mate's memory to locate the place. She looked at them for a moment before Suicune started to roar and it's shadow turned into a sphere.
Radius quickly dug a hole and started moving, hoping that the dome had nothing under. Fortunately there was no ice underground and he could pass the Ice wall. The Eevee heard steps over him and dug towards them, coming out in front of the ground along with a rush of fresh air and oxygen. Without much words, the Eevee faced Dante, who released a huge wave. Hastily raising on two legs and smashing his paws down, Rad rose an earthy wall in front of them all that endured the powerful wave and the water pulse, cracking and with some leaks of water. At least they had a chance.
"To the hole! Now!" Rad said. Natalie looked from where he had come out and made a run for it. Being smaller she could just ran through without a problem. Dust hesitated for a moment, seeing the hole so small it made him shudder but in the end the Riolu dragged himself through it. Dark had much more trouble just by being larger than the hole. The Zoroark cursed and looked behind him, summoning attack after attack to try and break the ice wall, he even tried to melt it but he wasn't able to do much.
"Damnit!" He cursed and turned to look at Rad, who was still trying to hold the earth barrier. The Eevee was struggling as, at the other side, Dante kept launching attack after attack. "Rad! get out!" he yelled at the Eevee.
"Are you crazy? you go first!" He answered.
"I don't fit in that hole!" The Zoroark protested.
"Then make it bigger!" Rad countered. "I'm not leaving you behind, bro."
At this, Dark had no words for it. In the end, he went back to try and break or melt the Ice wall behind him. Dante's attacks were stronger each time he attacked, Rad's earth wall wasn't going to put up for much longer, and the Eevee was getting tired of holding it, feeling the heat of the Zoroark behind him trying to melt the ice wall.
Meanwhile, out, Natalie had heard her brother through the hole. "We have to do something, damnit!" She said, trying to make the hole bigger herself, but she wasn't doing much progress. Shade stepped forwards to help her, being more used to the move, she was able to make it a bit bigger, but still not enough. However, before the shiny Eevee could start to make the hole bigger, the corners of Rad's wall crashed under the pressure and water started to flood their side. Even sinking into their little escape route. "Fuck!" The normally clean mouthed Eevee cursed herself, Radius tried to remake the corners but Dante's Hydro pump kept blasting them open. The water level rising as Dark kept trying to melt the ice. More fire being seen from the other side as Luna decided to aid while doing the same thing that in the previous fight, but still it was a very hard task, even with Luca smashing her hammer and Aura spheres at the cracking ice, Natalie with her own Shadow balls and Dust's own attacks as well.
Above, the sky started to get clouded. Clouds appearing and as they grew together into a big grey one, the thunder rumbled. In a moment, a massive storm cloud was over half of the island, but the thunder seemed to be concentrated over the area where the Kaiser were trying to free their trapped family. Luca felt something, but she ignored it, more concerned for her children, but Dust stopped his attacks, and looked upwards. Electricity was accumulating at some point, and his eyes grew wide.
"Back off!" The Riolu called for them. Hadrim, Luna, Natalie and Luca looking at him and then, hearing the rumbling, looked up. And jumped away just in time to avoid a massive thunder that fell over the dome. The ice cracking like glass and exploding everywhere. Hadrim put up a barrier to protect them, big chunks of ice smashing against it for a moment before it stopped. When the dust settled and the ice dome came into view, it was demolished, Dark, Radius and Shade panting on the ground, soaked to the bone as Dante lay away from them, electricity jumping from him and some scorching marks on his body.
"Never thought of you as one to bend to the will of a crazed god, Dante." Came a very old sounding voice, from seemingly everywhere. Another thunder fell, flashing them blind for an instant, before they saw, where it landed, another big quadruped Pokémon was there. With yellow fur, the tail twisting like a thunderbolt and a light lilac mane over its back, also with the black marks on its body. It's body resembling that of a sabercat, complete with two big fangs. Raikou was standing in between the Suicune and the three young Pokémon recovering their breaths, facing the Suicune, who used an Aqua ring to recover a bit.
"What would you know… you old glory." He answered as he stood, coughing slightly. His body covered in cuts from his own obliterated ice dome, now healing from his recovering move. "You won't understand why this has to be done." He said, trying to buy some time.
"I do understand that humans had been greedy this time. Wanting to harness the power of a god. Trying to take his place, and thus only managing to kill themselves and other species in the process." Raikou said, as she saw another ring of water healing the Suicune, but for now it was a time for time. "I get that they deserve to be punished. However, I do not share that extinction is the right punishment for them. It is just like with the Yorlin. Dailos ordered to cleanse the world, then he forbid them from being born again. The world has its balance and you know it. If there is a kind that harness a god's power, the others would comprehend this power better and know not to mess with it. Without it the others will only yearn for it at some point, and will try to achieve it without caring about the consequences." She added, glancing back to see Shade and Radius standing up with the help of Luca and Dust, Hadrim had gone to help Dark, Natalie going with the Espeon.
"You three okay?" Luna asked them, worried.
"Yeah… just out of breath." Rad said still panting slightly as he recovered. Unfortunately, Dante was also recovered again.
"You know pretty well those bastards had it coming to them, Ren! Don't try to sell me now that myth about the Keeper or whatever bullshit you can think of!" He said. "I am going to kill those humans and then nothing will make him have to worry again!" With this said he launched an Ice beam at her, Ren just send a Thunderbolt to counter him, both attacks exploding on collision and rising a new cloud of dust. The area around them, previously a little clearing in the forest was now a field since a few tree lines had fallen down after the dome was crashed by the thunder and the water and the ice had flooded the area, making the clearing a lot more bigger.
"You are still a child it seems, Dante." She said. "If it's you want… Then a fight you'll get." She declared. Her old lady voice rising as she roared and electricity covered their surroundings in an electric field. Thunder roaring in the cloud in the sky.
(For this seek and listen to: Dust: An Elysian Tail OST - 11 - Deities)
Electricity danced around Ren and over the field as she locked eyes with the Suicune. He was the one to start, launching at her with an Aquajet. She responded with a Wild charge. The two moves collided and the two Legendaries separated from each other, Ren kept her composure while Dante was infuriated. He launched an Ice beam at her, the which she dodged with a sidestep and then ran at him, her fangs crackling with electricity. Dante bared his, covered in a thin layer of Ice.
Again they wrestled, this time rolling on the ground, trying to get the upper position while attempting to land a bite on the other. In the end, Dante changed for an Extrasensory and Ren discharged her electricity. The two attacks cancelled each other, a new cloud of damp dust rose and covered them for an instant. More trees being put down by the force of the explosion. Hadrim protecting his family as best as he could, his barrier cracking every now and then. The momentary cloud of dust was enough to allow Dante to land a blow, sending Ren backwards a bit with an Aurora beam. After this, The Suicune summoned his mist to cover the battlefield. Hiding the Suicune in a fog only he could see through.
Ren found herself quickly surrounded by the dense fog, and Dante took advantage of her blindness to land a few hits on her. He was getting ready a Hydro Pump to blast her when a green Aura sphere flew right towards his face, blowing up and throwing him off.
"Be a male, Dante!" Dust's voice called. "You can't hide from my sight so show yourself!" The Riolu challenged. His eyes open and the irises emitting an auric glow and gaining a slight tint of green. He was using his Aura sight, with open eyes, and had a bone rush in one of his paws, ready to fight. Dante growled at him and ran at the Riolu, ready to bite his head off. Dust got ready, used to the Suicune's moves by now and stepped aside to dodge and swung his Aura bone. The Shiny Riolu hit the Legendary on a shoulder, unbalancing and making him lose his foot and fall down. The fog cleared after a bit. Dante livid now, attacked again, this time approaching with an Aquajet. Dust couldn't dodge in time and tried to block the move, but his Aura weapon broke on impact and the Riolu was bitten hard on an arm and thrown aside. Dust let out a howl of pain, once down he sat up and looked at Dante, seeing the Suicune coming at him he readied another Aura Sphere but Ren beat him to attack the Water type, ramming against him and both of them wrestling again.
Shade took advantage to go to her older brother and, as quickly as she could, made a wish for him. Dust's arm was much better after a bit, even though the wound was still there, it was less deeper than it had been previous to the healing. The Riolu immediately rose up to his feet, readied a new Aura bone and went back to battle. The fog was gone, so now they could fight better. Luca jumped into action too, waiting for an opening before trying to land a hit that Suicune just dodged. Dust ran into the fight action and attacked, his blow connecting but Dante held his bone with his mouth and he just crunched it into pieces. Dust cursed again and blowed up an Aura sphere up close to his face, making the Suicune step back for it. Hadrim summoned a Psybeam to push the legend even more back. Until he roared and summoned another Extransensory, Luca and Dust being blown away by the hit and Hadrim protecting himself, Luna, Shade, Rad, Dark and Natalie, Luca landing in front of him. The Espeon approaching her quickly and she sat up, panting.
Radius was finally recovered. Seeing this, the Eevee stood behind his father for a moment. Then he heard Dust roaring and going right back into the battle. He too wanted to do something. The Eevee ran into the battlefield. The electricity on it cracking at his paws, yet he ignored it and went directly towards the Suicune, going faster with a quick attack. Once close, Rad jumped and bite down on Dante's face. the Eevee was thrown away with a head shake, yet he landed on his feet and went back to running with another Quick attack. Dust came back and landed a hard punch on the water dog's head, followed by a double kick using all the strength he could. Dust used the kick to get space between them, and Ren followed by ramming into Dante with another wild charge, shocking Dante to the point of convulsing.
Watching this, Dark didn't want to be less, and stood up, just to be stopped by Natalie and Luna. He looked at them and then at the fight ahead again. The fight was on, but, surprisingly for Ren, her electric field didn't last as long as she remembered.
"You are growing weak, Old glory." Dante taunted while she looked around and then set a new field and looked around. She noticed something. The young male Eevee was making her field react. The electricity surrounded and danced around his paws and he didn't even noticed. She looked at it, curious, but had not much time before Suicune rammed into her with an Aquajet. "Getting distracted?" He asked, taunting her but she only sent a Thunderbolt at him, which he dodged by jumping aside, same with the Aura sphere that Dust threw at him. Luca was still sitting down, Shade by her side as the Extrasensory had really done damage to her. Even with Shade's help, Luca couldn't move much.
"You should go." Ren said to them, taking advantage of Dante being busy with Dust and Rad. Hadrim looked at her and at their kits with worry. "Don't worry. They can take care of themselves pretty well." She said. With this, Had stood and helped Luca and the both of them retired towards the treeline, Shade, Luna, Dark and Natalie doing the same.
Meanwhile, Dust and Radius kept their pressure, until Dante forced them to dodge by summoning a huge wave once more to get some room. Once the attack was out, Dante was about to attack Dark and Natalie, but Ren made a Thunder fall on him, stopping him by making him dodge once again. The Suicune looked at her, and then at the approaching Riolu and Eevee. Dust went for a close combat but Dante just kicked him away and then headbutted Rad to counter his quick attack, the Eevee landed on his side and rolled a bit, and then he rammed into Ren with another Aquajet, making her fall on her side.
"It is time that the Legendary saber cat gets a replacer." Suicune said approaching her while she stood up. The both of them locked eyes once more. Dust was recovering his breath a bit, this fight was taking its toll on him. The Legends were about to go at each other again, but a white blur hit Dante right in the face, making the Suicune look aside and stop. Without letting up, another hit. Ren could see it was the young male Eevee, using his quick attack repeatedly on the other Legendary. However, what took her off guard was the improved speed of the kit. Somehow he was faster and not only that, when he finally stopped, he seemed to be taller and his fur looked like it was changing in coloration. Then she saw the electricity at his paws and she realized. Without wasting time, the Raikou launched herself at Dante as well, ramming into him and then feinted around him, in a way that she had the Eevee right in front of her, at the other side of the water type, and then she summoned a Thunderbolt. The thunder above roaring as Dante sidestepped and the attack flew directly at Radius, who's run away ability would have helped him dodge it, however, something told him to stay in place and he got the full force of the lighting. Electricity danced all over his body as his fur puffed up for the static, the Eevee growing a bit more and his fur gaining a more orange tint. Once he recovered, Rad launched himself at Dante once again, the Legendary was taken aback by the speed and got hit once again in the head, this time having the Eevee biting down on him again. Dante roared in pain, not only from the bite but also because he could feel the electricity running through the samal's pokémon body and shocking him slightly, until he got rid of him by jerking his head a few times until Rad let go, and landed on his feet.
The Suicune was about to attack when he went stock still. The electric field was gone again, the Eevee had his fur spiked up and it was now completely orange, electricity dancing around his body, that had almost reached Hadrim's size. Thunder fell down from the sky, landing on Radius and covering the Eevee in electricity until his body wasn't visible. More lightnin falling down on the Eevee as everyone stood looking, not able to do anything, their bodies wouldn't respond for the moment, until Dante shook his head and prepared an Ice beam to launch at him, but Ren stopped him using Wild charge. After a bit, the thunder stopped, but the Eevee was still covered by the electricity, this jumping around as if he was a tesla bovine.
Ren realized what was happening and that he needed a bit more of help, but while she got ready, Dante took advantage to attack Radius. Dust got in the way, managing to take his eyes off of his brother and stepping in front of Dante to protect him. "You won't touch him!" He said as he dismissed his bone and threw a barrage of Aura spheres at Dante. His firerate wasn't the best, but it was enough to slow down the water type. In the end, Dante passed over Dust, kicking him to the mud, but when he was about to attack Radius, Ren let out a mighty roar and a huge thunder fell over the Pokémon. Dante stopped out of reaction and an instant after he was blown away by an electric wave that let lose the accumulated electricity around Radius, most of it being absorbed by the recently evolved Eeveelution. The electricity crackled around him as he opened his brown eyes once again.
Instead of looking at himself. Radius went back into the fight. He was much faster than before. Somehow, he knew what to do and how to do it. The now Jolteon covered his body in electricity and rammed himself against Dante's chest, electrocuting the Legendary aside of making him skid backwards a bit, Rad finished his attack with a potent thunderbolt, to the whcih Ren added her own and both attacks hit Dante, making him let out a howl of pain as he was utterly scorched beyond healing by his Aqua ring.
(music ends here)
"How… how could you… defeat me?" Dante asked laying on the mud, not being able to move because of the pain and the paralysis the attacks had made on him. Ren approached him calmly while Dust, Radius, Luna, Shade, Dark and Natalie stood back, keeping their guards up just in case.
"They are protecting their family, Dante." She simply said to him sounding more motherly this time around with him. Dante looked at her.
"I see… I gotta admit… It was a fun battle." He said chuckling slightly trying to ignore the pain. "Yes… they are strong… and those two have… potential." He added, looking at Dark and Natalie by the end of his words before he looked back at her. "Dailos won't… take my failure lightly…" He finished, forcing himself to stand up.
"Stay down." Ren said, trying to keep him down but he rose to his paws either way, Dust and Radius getting ready to go back to the fight, Even Dark prepared an Aura bone, he was fed up of just looking this fight that had started because of him and Nat. Dante looked at them. He'd been defeated, and coming back would mean a painful death. The Suicune turned away.
"I better disappear for the time being." And with that, he started limping away, surrounding himself in a very thick fog that dissipated as he went off.
"He's gone." Ren said. With this words, Dust let himself fall on his knees, grunting and panting hard. Dismissing his Aura sight he quickly grew blind, his silver eyes closing on their own when he lost the sense as he recovered. The Riolu stood there in place, until he felt someone nuzzling his side.
"You okay?" It was Rad's voice. Dust searched with his paw until he felt he touched something. It was a paw and he went up, feeling the shoulder and the neck, until he felt the muzzle.
"Rad?" He asked, smiling feeling the spiky fur. "Looks like… you just needed a bit more of energy." He joked, smiling and Radius actually laughed slightly.
"Yeah. Had I known earlier, I would have plugged my tail in a wall socket!" Both brothers laughed a bit, until the others came to them and Shade cheered for her brother. Luna smiled with her tails wagging. Natalie was also happy to see that he became what he wanted to be, and also smiled. Dark had a bittersweet taste on this whole thing. On one side he was happy Radius got what he wanted, on another he felt horrible for not being able to help in the battle. Yet he pushed bad thoughts aside and cheered with them. Hadrim and Luca joined them not very long after, and both Lucario and Espeon were greatly surprised to see their evolved son. Dust on his part stood up, with a small aura bone in a paw as he was still tired from the fight and to use it as a stick to walk.
"We should go with the others." He said and everyone agreed. Radius let out a relieved sigh and his fur went down and smooth, which honestly surprised Dark and Natalie, since they have never seen a Jolteon with smooth fur instead of spiky, let alone one with orange fur and long tail like Rad had turned out to have and to top it all. After a moment the Zoroark looked at Radius, then at Ren and back at the Jolteon and then to the Raikou and like that a few times more.
"Wait… Rad… you have Ren's marks on your fur." Dark commented seeing that he indeed had black fur forming patterns like those that Ren had. The Raikou approached hearing this and seeing them all looking him over.
"Do not fret, kits. It is just a pattern on the fur. Maybe because he absorbed my electricity. I am not sure. But it's nothing to worry about. I'd say more, that together with your fur colour and your tail makes you an even more unique Jolteon." She reassured them.
"Um… Miss Ren." Natalie started but she was interrupted.
"Oh dear. Call me just Ren." She said warmly at the little Eevee.
"Oh… Okay. Ren… Why did Dante want to kill my brother and I?" She asked.
To this, the Raikou went serious all of a sudden. "You two have potential. A lot of it. None of us knows exactly why but it makes Dailos worried. He wants your heads so he will not have anything to worry about to cleanse this world and get rid of humanity forever." She answered. "I am not telling you are the only ones that can defeat him, but you can be a major help on that feat." She added. "But be careful. Dante was only the first that came after you wanting to gain Dailos' favor. More will come and stronger. You two have to be prepared for them. It is not sure that you'll get help of one of us that is against Dailos." She said.
"Don't worry ma'am. We'll make sure to put them in shape." Dust joked and laughed a bit, but he was serious.
"I truly hope so, young Riolu. As I hope you recover your sight soon." She answered.
"This? Don't worry, I'll be fine. Even then, thank you for your concern." He said to her, bowing slightly his head.
"I wonder how the others are doing." Luna said, looking towards the general direction of the temple. No one said a word for a bit.
"Don't worry. That group can handle whatever comes at them, for sure." Dust said, and most of them agreed. Even then, their worry was still there.
Adam roared out and lifted four trees off the ground, then launched them one after another at the team. Eric jumped up and ran along the first tree, jumping up to the second and somersaulting towards the third, to then do a handstand, jump and plunge down on Adam with a charged aura kick, whilst Serge flew around the trees skillfully and the others dodged, Adam steered to the right and dodged the strike, which left a crater and lifted a veil of sand, which Eric used to his advantage to summon another staff and try and hit Adam, but the Mewtwo saw through him, blocking the weapon with his hands and then hurling him over his shoulder, making sure to toss the weapon away before it blew up spectacularly. He turned around and locked his eyes with the Riolu's, who closed them immediately and was picked up by Serge, who then hurled him upwards by spinning, letting Eric just enough time to charge both of his arms with aura, and then come down with both fists on the psychic type's head.
Zed transformed into a Graveler and grabbed an uprooted tree, seeing it was the perfect chance as Adam blocked the strike from above with an invisible barrier whilst he struggled against Serge's wings. He spun it around and hurled it at Adam, attempting to catch him off guard. But their foe had several years worth of battling behind him, and knew that something was coming when Eric and Serge looked behind him, as well as the sound of the massive tree flying towards him through the air. He turned to face it, and in just one swift and calm move, he jumped, avoiding Serge's wings and pushing Eric back whilst his right foot glowed, a blade appearing and grabbing it with his toes, before slicing the tree in half, locking eyes with the shocked Graveler. The Mewtwo teleported behind him and readying a shadow claw, but Zed blocked the attack with a stone arm before Lucy came in at high speeds and crashed against the Mewtwo, albeit he stopped her in her tracks with a psychic barrier on his side, which shattered. His right foot, the one with the which he had summoned that psychic blade, trembled under the Mewtwo's weight, as it was weaker, and he lost his balance, groaning as he fell, forcing him to back down, as Nox came in transformed in a wheel of fire and scared the Mewtwo away, raising several psychic walls of sand and boxing them in.
"You bastards… forcing me to use that technique…" He looked at his foot, it was slightly bent. He had used his own psychic energy through a point he wasn't used to, and in an odd manner. It was an insanely difficult technique… and here he was. These guys… they definitely were something.
"Eyes down here!" Elly locked eyes with the Mewtwo as soon as she could, and the two began fighting against one another. Adam was an extremely capable psychic, and his powers were incredible, but so were Elly's, and soon it came down to their knowledge and mental density. They tried to force the other's eyes off of eachother, but contrary to what Elly had expected, he was putting up a valiant resistance, and she wasn't used to duels that lasted this long. However, Eric saved the day by vaulting with his staff over the newly arisen wall and smashed him away, through his barriers and sand, and towards the trees. After quickly grouping up again, everyone watched as Adam jumped out of the trees with a fist enveloped in shadows, Eric, Serge and Jake being the first to run in, whilst the other four stayed close behind to offer support or run in if they were knocked away.
Adam smashed his fist into the Riolu's staff, and the three combatants entered an incredibly quick fight with the Mewtwo, sparks and weapons clashing and flying off constantly as they all jumped and rolled to avoid their opponent's strikes. Jake slashed horizontally and Adam bent upwards, floating in midair and kicked the Sneasel away, Elly taking his spot as she began attacking with two psychic blades insanely quickly, forcing Adam to move even quicker to dodge every strike as he kept spinning around in order to dodge all of their strikes. He managed to duck under both Serge's and Eric's attacks, punching the Pidgeot away and kicking Elly and Eric down. The Riolu got up faster than he predicted, and the psychic type found himself pinned between Serge, who brought his right wing down on his psychic blade, initiating a struggle between the two as sparks flied off, and Eric drove his weapon forward and into the Mewtwo's shadow claw, also initiating a struggle. It ended soon, however, as Adam spun around, bringing Eric with him and dodging Serge's wing, slamming his two attackers against eachother, missing Jake by just a few inches as he ran in, the Mewtwo's tail attempting to slam against his head, but the Sneasel ducked under it.
Adam focused on the other two combatants and didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, which was, in the end, his downfall: As he launched a shadow ball at the knocked back duo, Eric forcing himself to block it with his staff, blowing both of the energy objects up and sending Eric and Serge tumbling across the entire beach, severely wounding them, Jake came in and slashed at his belly, the Mewtwo parrying the attack with his shadow claw and bringing down his psychic sword on the Sneasel. Elly, however, had other plans, and blocked the blade with one of her own, and as Jake recovered and Adam tried to cut Elly's head off with a shadow claw, the ice type parried him instead, swatting his hand away with his claw and then drove his right claws into his belly, his claws burying into his flesh.
The pain Adam felt was excruciating, having his stomach and internal organs ripped and pierced through by the Sneasel's extremely cold claws, who looking at him with a slight smirk of satisfaction, whilst feeling as if the cold itself was spreading across his body as he coughed up blood… but he wouldn't die right then and there. With a howl he unleashed a heavy wave of psychic energy, throwing both Elly and Jake away, both of them landing on their backs, yet struggling to get back up because of their exhaustion, whilst Nox, Lucy and Zed ran in to try and finish the job. Grabbing his lower belly with his left hand he once again summoned a psychic blade and defended himself against their strikes, but was overpowered and felt his psychic blade break underneath Zed's Cranidos' head, the transformed dark type slamming him away into Nox's searing flames, forcing Adam to teleport away, Lucy changing her direction and running in from behind to deliver a finishing blow, throwing him away and into the water.
The Mewtwo slammed against the shallow end of the beach, water flying everywhere as his own dark red blood mixed in with the salty water. He forced himself to turn on his stomach and tried to stand up, falling to his knees as the salt in the water in his wound made the pain even worse. He looked up to face the rest of the Team Star members, and his eyes widened to see that they were all still standing and ready to fight. They looked slightly hurt and somewhat tired, but they could all keep fighting for quite some time.
With that sight, Adam lost his will to fight, smirking as he looked down, grabbing his stomach and chuckled. "Alright… I give up, you win." He simply announced, using some of his remaining power to heal that particular wound, where he feared he could bleed out. He couldn't heal it properly, but at least he stopped the bleeding and the damage to his organs. He looked up at Team Star. "You're… too much for me." He continued, attempting to get up and face them, but fell down to his knees again.
The display was slightly pathetic, yet he had admitted defeat, and they could see why, with Eric taking the word, slightly limping with his left leg. "We warned you, Adam… You couldn't defeat us with your filthy tricks." The Riolu was referring to the Mewtwo's previous tactic of mind controlling innocents, the psychic legendary shaking his head,
"I guess so… But, you won, even with that… you lot…" He looks up, smiling. "You're just what we need right now… to kill those humans." His words confused everyone greatly, but Elly had had about enough from Adam, summoning a psychic blade and pointing it at his neck.
"Explain! What reason did you have to try and kill our friends or beat us to become your slaves?!" She inquired, the Mewtwo knowing that there wasn't any room for joking or drawing out the conversation… and thus, he decided to go straight to the point.
"You heard Dante… this world and humanity have its days counted. Dailos has decided that it's time for some… spring cleaning, and plans to wipe out humanity from the face of the planet… just like he did with the Yorlin." He begins talking, and nobody says anything, expecting the Mewtwo to explain himself better… or not. "Your two friends, the former humans… they're the key to beating him." He said, the Eevee's eyes widening.
"Dark and Natalie? What do you mean they're the key to beating 'him'? And who is this almighty creature that wants to destroy everything?!" She asked, but Adam shook his head and looked up at her, his eyes transmitting a simple yet blood chilling message: I would rather die than say why or who. However, the fact that she had said those two names shocked everyone else to the core, but before they could ask her what she meant, Adam coughed up blood as he tried to talk again.
"You come… from another world… just like they do… But unlike them, you don't know what terrible and horrible things humans are capable of… but you'll see… eventually, you'll see that we're right." It wasn't a threat… but a warning. "Heh… for being legendaries we're plain out useless if we can't even band together and try to do something… See, there's a group of legendaries that sided with Dailos, some that stayed neutral, and some that went against him… this last group searched high and low for someone pure enough to defeat our master… and they found that human. Shame he turned into a Zoroark… and that he wasn't as pure as they thought him to be… alas, what's done is done." He chuckled, coughing up blood again. "But as I was saying… it's none of your business, but I can tell you, that if you were to fight Dailos, all of you together… you could potentially win." He concluded, getting back up, Elly backing away, the Mewtwo taking a breath. "That's why I wanted to take control of you, so you wouldn't interfere, and…" He coughed a little, stopping himself mid talk.
Jake, who was standing back with his arms crossed, nodded and finished for him. "Hence why Dante struck so suddenly… if Dark and Natalie are essential to bringing down this Dailos, killing them whilst they were weak would ensure victory… Yet a question remains; if you truly believe in this Dailos to be your master… why are you telling us this?" The Sneasel's question goes unanswered for some time, and Elly once again brings her blade to his neck… yet the Mewtwo doesn't answer, and looks up at the Eevee defiantly.
"You wouldn't dare kill another living being… no matter how despicable they are." He simply stated, and Elly's face drained of all colour, her psychic blade vanishing, the Mewtwo emerging victorious from that exchange, absolutely everyone who knew Elly understanding exactly who he was referring to. "However… I am a pokémon of my word." He raises a hand and snaps his fingers. "I have released all of the mind controlled pokémon in this forest… and I shall give you all another small parting gift." He snapped his finger again and teleported the whole team and himself to where Ren and the Kaiser were, surprising the hell out of them all. Dust lifted his head and ears at the sound of someone close and started quickly sniffing his surroundings, until he recognized the scents. He would have relaxed, if not for the scent of fresh blood, that there was one scent he didn't recognise and the fact that there was still another one missing and it was irking him the most in the inside, while the rest of the family got ready on guard as well.
After a few moments, a water sphere appeared and held Adam tightly. Leopold then landed, looking at the Mewtwo with a death glare, while Manaphy was on his back, with her eyes glowing as she had an arm extended towards the water, making it hold the psychic type.
"This is how low you can step, Adam?" Leo asked. "Controlling others to do your shit. We all agreed we've never do that! How many minds you think you've broken with this!?" The Lugia was clearly ticked off, as Adam had clearly broke a vow all of them, psychic Legendaries, did.
"Unlike some idiotic legendaries… none, I know how to control a mind, old friend… or I think I'm not entitled to say that anymore?" He glares at Leopold with a smirk, as if taunting him, the Lugia shooting him a deadly glare, confirming the Mewtwo's suspicions. "Bah, my mind's made up anyways: I'll help Dailos, so you can tell and shout it out to the four winds… spread the word, y'know?" He recommends, which surprises Leopold… but more so Kaylani, who is baffled.
"Adam… What have you become?" She asked, concern in her voice, yet he looks at her with that smile.
"What I had to… in order to join Dailos… I'm telling you, it's over for you… " He glares at them, then at Dark and Natalie. "And for those two as well. Dante knows where you are, and once he knows that… you're toast. In other words: Come to the dark side… we have cookies." He smirked at his own words, having seen that one on a shirt somewhere before.
"And about your friends, Adam? What would Alex think if she saw you like… like… like this!?" She exclaimed. There was a sudden spark in the Mewtwo's body, and he involuntarily shifted, as if trying to get up, which scared everyone and got ready to fight. The Mewtwo, however, groaned and shook his head, yet didn't verbally answer that last question.
"I can't waste anymore time here… I have yet another gift to give you all… I'm just the type of gift that just keeps on giving, y'know? So good luck… because you're going to need it." And with that, the Mewtwo stood up, rose his arm and snapped his finger, teleporting and vanishing away, as Kaylani's water hold crashed down on the floor.
Once Adam was gone, he left behind a tense silence. No one said anything for a moment for different reasons, until Dust rose his voice. "Well fuck the fucker. He's gone now." He said out loud, sounding nervous as his nose went slightly wild as he still searched for what was a miss.
"Hmf… Agreed." Hadrim said. "In the state he was I highly doubt he'll attack us again anytime soon. We should be gone by that time." The Espeon said.
"I second that." Certain orange furred Jolteon said, his voice familiar to everyone that had missed what had happened. The members of Team Star were confused at first, and then they all flocked the new Jolteon, asking what had happened, why did he look like that and many, many more questions, and even a challenge for a race from Lucy.
"Let me stop you all one second." Dust interrupted, now clearly trembling with worry. "Team Star… Or anyone that knows... Where the fuck is Emily?" He asked them, distressed and just needing to ask someone. The Shiny Riolu hadn't seen the little pervy Eevee since the start of the fight at the temple, and now that everything was calm, he was shaken for not even getting her scent.
The entirety of the Kaiser fell silent. They had not paid attention to the Eevee in all this mess and none of them had an answer. Leopold and Kaylani held a not good answer as when they counted their children there wasn't any Eevee with them. The silence only made Dust start to freak out and pace around, kicking pebbles and mud.
"Last time… I think I told her to hide inside the temple, like… behind a pillar, or something, I was too busy fighting to look at where she went, but I know she hid somewhere in there." Serge explained, spreading his wings and about to take off… but he howled out in pain and withdrew his left wing, making everyone look at him, extremely worried. Shade went to him in a haste.
"Let me check." She asked to the avian, wanting to check the wound to see if she could do anything to help. She wasn't sure the point her wish healing properties would work, but she could try, after all it had never hurt anyone. So, once she got a look at it, the shiny Eevee placed a paw gently on Serge's shoulder as to not upset the wound and made a wish for him. In a few seconds she'll know if she can heal bones or just close up wounds. Serge's pain didn't decrease, if anything, Shade made it slightly worse by placing her paw there.
Jake walked up and examined it, touching it in certain spots and making the Pidgeot shout, before finally reaching a conclusion. "I believe your wing is broken." He concluded, making everyone sigh.
"Really!? What tipped you off, genius!?" Shade was the first to say it. "Sorry. It seems like my Wish can't heal broken bones." She apologized to Serge, stepping back, and the bird laughed, saying that she had taken the words right out of his mouth. Jake was about to explain that he had wanted to identify which spots of the wing were broken… but decided to stay silent.
Meanwhile, Dust was still walking to and fro. Worried but trying to calm down. "Relax, Dust. She's fine. She's safe. We just have to go there and get her." He thought, trying to calm his breathing by breathing deep, but it only made his shaky breath even more notorious. The Riolu kept on walking, even when they started to go back towards the temple, making some of the others nervous, while at the same time chanting in his head that Emily was okay.
Eventually, they reached the temple, which wasn't in a really good shape, but didn't show signs that it was about to give out and fall apart… It needed some patching up, though, that was certain. They went in and looked around, giving the Riolu ample room to go look for Emily whilst they treated some of the wounded. Eric seemed to have hurt his right leg, albeit he hadn't twisted it or anything, it was just sore. Elly had a massive headache, Zed and Lucy both felt beaten up in some places, same with Jake and Nox, and finally Serge had broken his wing. Adam had been a challenging foe, much more than Dante, and Jake was theorizing that he could very well be one of the strongest legendaries out there.
Most of the Kaiser Pokémon were more or less fine. Their wounds had been scratches and cuts that were taken care of on the spot. However, they were tired. Dark and Natalie were the most fresh of the group, and to the Zoroark this was worst than the hit he got in the first place. He rubbed his belly where he previously had some cuts from one attack from Dante, now gone thanks to Shade. He looked at everyone, and felt like garbage. True he was glad they protected them, but the only thing he did was run like a coward. "Never again." He swore.
While everyone was resting, Dust didn't lose time and walked into the temple, no matter that he couldn't see shit. His aura stick helping him avoid obstacles and his nose and ears guiding him through the hallways as he looked for the last of the group. He wasn't the only one looking, since Dark and Nat could do something for once that day and went with him. Ears and noses alert in case they caught any scent or noise. Dust called for Emily as well while trying to find her scent, the echo travelling down the empty hallways. He had caught her scent trail and was following it, ears perked up in case he heard her.
Eventually, she did hear him, and she poked her head out from behind a stone pillar, where she had been hiding for the last few hours. As soon as she saw the Riolu, she cried out his name and rushed to his arms. Hearing her, Dust's ears faced her and then he did, not expecting her to be so quick he fell on his butt when she jumped at him, but hugged her nonetheless. "Here you are! Are you okay?" He asked, feeling with his paws a bit searching for possible injuries but he found none, and hugged her tighter, feeling relieved, Emily returning the hug and nuzzling him.
"There you are!" Now it was Natalie who said it as she came running since she heard Emily's yelling, Dark appearing not much later and sighing, along with Nox who watched the scene with open wide eyes… He was happy to see them like that, but it still hurt him that she had ended up choosing Dust over him.
"The others are waiting outside. And Emily seems to be fine. We better go now." The Zoroark said.
"Yeah. I just want to get back home and let myself faint on our puk bed." Natalie said, stretching herself, to which her brother let out a chuckle.
"True, this was stressful… but Nat, I doubt we have any right to complain here." He pointed out and made the Eevee lower her ears. "Come on, what's done is done, we just can improve and be able to hold our ground." He said to her, trying to cheer her up.
"Dark… when you're down you stink at cheering others up… Almost as much as Jake." Natalie said, more joking than serious, but it was true.
Once back outside, Luna, Shade and Elly went to Emily to see if she was okay, which she was. And as they had have time to rest some, Hadrim asked if starting the trip back towards town was okay with them so Serge could be treated.
"Yes, I'm going to need some bandages… It didn't seem to be too bad, but I want to do it in calm conditions, so that I don't make any mistakes." Zed explained the Pidgeot, who nodded and accepted all of his conditions. Anything to get his ability to fly back and properly too.
"You wouldn't let a nurse at a Pokémon center do the job, huh?" Radius asked the Zorua, who looked at him confused, but then Serge butt in.
"I'd rather have someone who has treated me before than some human who I have never met in my life and doesn't know me either!" He exclaimed, clearly against the idea of going to a pokémon center.
"Heh. Now you are like a puppy on their first visit." The Jolteon chuckled. "Fine have it your way." He said and left it there.
Leopold approached the group after a bit. "I have to say. I am impressed how you all were able to handle yourselves. We were worried you might end up much worse, honestly." The Lugia said to Hadrim and Luca.
"I'll be honest. We have Team Star and Ren to thank for that. We might been able to take down Dante alone, but with Adam added…" The Lucario said looking at the ones she had named.
"It's nothing, really. It's the least we can do in exchange for your generosity so far, Luca. Still, I feel there are a lot of questions that remain unanswered… Leopold, Kaylani, does the name Dailos ring any bells?" Eric asked, checking if they knew who it was or not.
The Manaphy looked at him for that question. "Dailos Arceus. Life giver and major God of this planet. And personally, he's gone mad again." She answered his question, shaking her head in the end. "He usually just punish humans for this behaviour they are getting into. Turning a whole investigation body into pokémon and wiping their memories, only few surviving in their new lives. Plain out making one of us cause a catastrophe to destroy all the investigation but whether humans died or not it was because of their own abilities, he never directly killed anyone. That's why I think he's gone mad with this… humanity extinction thing." She says.
"It is true that they had grown greedy and want to harness our powers for themselves. But as I said to Dante: extinction sentence is too much for it." Ren said, showing that she shared that thought but not the way of dealing with the issue. Nobody said anything, but instead looked at Eric, who had a grave look on his face. If that was the case… it was going to be a massacre. Arceus… of all pokémon...
The Manaphy attempted to change the subject. "So. I get now that your little swapping issue is fixed you are going to go back home?" She asked.
"Yeah. Some of us could use a bit of rest after this… little adventure." Hadrim answered.
"Those two…" Leopold said, looking at Dark and Natalie. "They'll need much more than what they've shown if they want to survive to the others." He commented, getting a look from the others there. Hadrim had that clear too. If what Dante had said was true, this won't be the last they'll see of the Legendaries.
"We'll take care of that." Luca said to this. "But first we better go home, make sure everything back is fine and rest a bit. Then we can start training." She added.
"Yeah… and it's going to be some seriously intense training, I might add… no more joking around." Eric said out loud, his tone of voice telling them that he was dead serious this time around.
"I could take you to the town, or even to your home, if you want." Leopold said. "This island is used to see me around during this time." He chuckles. "And it's actually fun to see their faces when they do." He added.
"Thank you, Leopold, but we can handle. Besides… Luca here doesn't like heights and that Shinx over there, Lucy, is not very found of water." Hadrim answered. "That and... we are from Kirol." the Espeon added.
"I see…" Leopold said, looking at the both named with a gleam in his eyes that made Kaylani giggle.
"Don't get ideas, dear. Any of this females could give you a hard round if you where to tease them… Besides, then you'll have to face me." She said and the big psychic Legendary shuddered from head to tail for that, her tone making sure to tell him that if he did that he was in for some trouble.
Elly, however, was actually caught off guard by this. "Wow… not even legendary pokémon are safe from us, are they?" She asked the Manaphy.
"Oh dear… I don't actually know if he's fearing what you'll do to him or what he'll have to face with me later." The Manaphy said, licking her lips, looking at her mate with a look that dared him to do what he wanted to do, yet he stood still, not daring to look back at her.
"You know? I think I'll go get some more fish. Shame it's not gonna be cooked this time." And with that he flew up and towards the sea, leaving his mate in a giggling fit, as well as triggering laughter from every single female with a mate, and making said mates either sigh or look around nervously.
Dark had heard that part of the conversation, yet he looked at them all. "I don't get it." He said mostly to himself.
"Maybe it's better that way?" Radius offered, both of them shrugging at it.
"Better that way." Serge sentenced.
"Well guys! And Ladies… Shall we get going?" Dust asked out loud to them all. Everyone nodded, said goodbye and sorry once more to the two legendaries, and walked away with a promise to come back to visit every so often after Serge's wing had healed.
Jake, however, still had a question. "Hold on.. I just came to a shocking realization…" He turned around and looked at the pair of legendaries, which were heading back into the temple. "How… wait… Impossible!" He kept exclaiming, yet nobody understood what he meant.
"What are you on about?" Nox asked, clearly amused by the Sneasel's freakout.
"They have offspring… a female of that petite size and a male so large… How?!" He asked, and absolutely everyone fell silent… only for laughter to break out of everyone's mouths, especially Nox and Serge.
Even the Kaiser pokémon were laughing at his shock, mostly because he looked funny. "Well… a little piece of information for you, and for free." Dust started without looking at the Ice type. "Wailord and Skitty can mate and have offspring." The Shiny Riolu said to him, still laughing a bit. "So those two being able to do it is not that surprising." He ended, laughing afterwards a bit more. That information didn't help Jake though, and instead confused him even further.
Eric566: Alright, explanation time… We're sorry for taking an entire month to TRANSLATE half of a chapter we had already written in English, and yet since we want to release them simultaneously in both languages… yeah, you can guess what happened afterwards.
Rayrudan: uhgh… yeah mostly my fault I got excited for coming back to a game I love… and neglected this a lot. I'm sorry really and i'll try to get more into the chapters, I love this fic and it would destroy me for it to be left because of me… hell! It was me who suggested this cross! -sigh- well…
Eric566: We're both at fault though, because while he was playing games, I was studying for my exams, so I didn't have much time to do anyhting either… but eh, I passed all of my exams with flying colors, so it's all good!
Rayrudan: well good for you bro, I still got to get into the raid roster in my game so heh, well someone's doing great. is till don't have much exams planned ahead so for now I still SHOULD have time to split between this two things I love do dearly! See you all on the next one, hopefully sooner than this hehe! Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Also, Eric gimme one!
Eric566: Banana…