Hello again readers. Edge and his friends have made a new friend and has choosen to join them. Before they could walk on the path that Ahriman has made, they get stopped by someone Ahriman seems to know. Could this person be a friend, or is he gonna start trouble?
On a side note, I thank those that has told me about some errors that I have missed. However, I don't really have a computer anymore. Thats broken and I don't know how to fix it. I guess it just gotten old. So Im kinda stuck with using a table, which is harder to type on and harder to keep writing errors from happening, so try to bear with me please and thank you. I will try my best to keep errors to a minimum.
With that out of the way, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
-POV change: Sorcha-
"YOUR ALIVE?" Ahriman exclamed with widen eyes. "Your not getting into more trouble, are you Ahriman?" The new comer asked. The new comer turned out to be an Absol. Is he Shadow? "What do you think Shadow?" Ahriman replied. Shadow laughed while walking up to us, which gave me a better look at him. He looked fine, except for the scar on his face that went over his right eye. Whatever happened to him to give him that scar, he is really lucky not to of lost his right eye.
"Huh. I see you made some new friends. Does that mean we are no longer friends Ahriman?" Shadow said while giving a playful pout. He was having a bit of a hard time not smiling, so I knew he wasn't really being serious. "Oh come on Shadow. You should know that no one can replace a friend like you." "Haha. I sure hope so. Then I would have to do the same." "You can't find a Lucario that can replace me." The two of them laughed and joked with each other like old friends who are catching up with each other. Wonder how long its been since they last seen each other.
"So what are you up to now Ahriman?" "Well, all of us are gonna take Xehanort down. I for one, am glad about this. Im tired of being their doormate." "Good. I hope you don't mind one more member joining you then." Edge then walked over to Shadow and said, "We can use all the help we can get. From what I have heard from you, Im guessing you hate these guys." He turned to me with an angry look on his face. At lease its not directed at me. "I hate these people with a burning passion." "Good to know. Remind me not to get on your bad side." Shadow gave Edge a smirk while Edge had a scared look on his face. Well, seems like we have another powerhouse on the team.
Well then, if we are gonna go on with this, lets stop standing around and get something done." I said, wanting to get this done and over with. We all agreed and we started walking across the path made by Ahriman. I started to get a little curious about Ahriman and Shadow's history with each other. "So...since we have a long way to go, you think you can tell us a little about yourself? Like, how you and Ahriman met?" Shadow looked over at me with a smile and the others got closer to hear. "Well, Here is what happened..."
-POV change: Shadow-
(Flash back)
I was walking through a forest, bored out of my mind. Not too many Pokemon really wants tobe around an Absol. They think that we are the bringer of disaster just because we can sense them. Oh well. I soon heard the faint sounds of someone crying. Thinking I could make a name for myself, other than a disaster Pokemon, I followed the sounds. The crying sounded like they were coming from a really young Pokemon. As I followed the sounds, I seen a little Riolu sitting under a tree with his paws covering his face. What was off though was that he had red fur other than blue or gold colored fur. Is he a different kind of shiny? "Hello little one. Are you hurt or lost?" My greeting caused the Riolu to jump a little and look at me with a frighten look. He sat there, trembling where sat at. "Don't worry. I won't hurt you. My name is Shadow. Whats yours?" "A-ahriman." "Nice to meet you Ahriman. Now, why are you crying? Did you lose your parents?" "I-I don't have p-parents." "Really? Then, who takes care of you?"
Ahriman then told me that he wasn't born from an egg. He was created by someone called Xehanort, his master. Though Ahriman said that he is afraid of Xehanort and tries to do what he is told, otherwise they hurt him. He then said thst he is a part of some group called Organization XIII, but Ahriman doesn't want anything to do with this group anymore. "Well why not just run away from them?" "I have the power of darkness in me. If I try to run away, they can easily track and kill me for doing so. Im just a slave to them." At a very young age, he is being treated like a slave? The guys must have no feelings towards others but themselves.
"Did you complete your mission for once, or did you fail like I thought you would" A unknown voice said. Then a black hooded figure said while levatating a card in his hand. "Please, just...give me more time. I can recruit someone from this world. I promise I can. I just-" "Quit your crying you pathetic little mut!" The hooded figure launched the card that he had right at Ahriman, who ducked and covered his head, causing the card to hit the tree and bounce off, or so I thought. Instead, the card cut right through the tree, causing it to collaps right on to the ground. This guy seems really dangerous. "Please Luxord, give me more time!" "Your out of time! You need to be taught that failed missions are unacceptable." Luxord then brought out another card. Learning what his cards can really do, I don't want to think about what it could do to Ahriman. "Wait! Stop!" I yelled out.
"What do you want creature?" "If you would of listen to Ahriman a little bit more, rather than insulting him, you would of learned that he HAS recruited someone!" "Oh? And who would that be?" "Duh, me stupid. Right Ahriman?" I gave Ahriman a little wink when I said that and grew a little smile on his face. "Yeah. Thats right!" "And what is your name creature?" "Its Shadow." "Well then, lets get back to The World That Never Was. Xehanort will be most pleased to hear that Ahriman has actually completed a mission." Luxord than created some weird looking black portal and walked right through it. Ahriman then got up from his sitting position and walked over to me. "Are you serious about this? Don't you got a life here to take care of?" "Ahriman, if there is someone who needed help and I could do something about it, but choose not to, how could I live with myself? Im going through with this. Besides, you look like you could use a friend." Ahriman looked at me with a wide, opened mouth smile and his eyes started to fill up with tears, but these were tears of joy.
Ahriman then jumped up at me and gave me a hug, which I gladly returned. "Thank! Thank you so much!" "Hey, it not a problem. Now lets get going. Don't want to keep them waiting." We then walked through the portal and we ended up in a white, boxed in room that has a small bed. "This is where I say in until they need me. As you can see, there are no doors, walk ways, nothing. Im basically in a cell." "Oh. Im sorry to hear that Ahriman." "Its fine Shadow. Besides, its not all that bad now that your here, friend."
(Five months later)
"Shadow!" We both heard our names and black hooded figure came out. "Yes Luxord?" "Xehanort has requested you to take on a mission, alone." "No! Shadow and I do missions togerther, or we don't do them at all." "Ahriman, its fine. I will be back in no time." Alright. I guess I will keep on working to Evolve." "That a boy. Just keep working hard." "Its time to go. Into the portal with you." Luxord created another portal for me to go through and I walked through it and I found myself in a black voided area. This got me very confused as to what my mission is. Then a giant Heartless came out of nowhere and started to attack me. This more of a suicide mission, but I think that they are just trying to get rid of me. But what for?
-POV change: Edge-
(Present time)
"And that about sums it up. He was having a rough time, so I choosen to stay with him for as long as needed." All of us were just stunned from hearing this. Rose was stairing at the ground, almost on the verge of tears. Sorcha looked the same, stairing at the ground, but I couldn't tell if she might cry or not. He ears were blocking her face a little. Link tried to comfort Sorcha and I tried to comfort Rose. I, myself, felt a little depressed from hearing this. But right now, we can't be feeling sad or be distracted from anything. "Come on can't be acting like this. We need to stay focus. Others are counting on us to stop Organization XIII." Rose and Sorcha lift up heads and nodded. Im surprised that Hunter was unaffected by any of this. His dark side is really cold hearted. How is he suppose to overcome this himself?
Throughout all of this, we are halfway there to getting to the castle. "Um, guys. We have a problem!" Sorcha caught our attention and she was looking behind us, which caused the rest of us to look in the same direction as she was. We then seen what looks like a mob of Heartless Mightyena. "This isn't good." "No kidding Rose, we can't fight them. There is too many of them." "Thats not what I meant." "How about you tell us the resaon while we RUN!" We then all started to run as fast as we could to the castle and Rose continued."If Im correct, one Heartless is created from one individual. If there are that many Mightyena back there, that means our world is falling into darkness control. If we fail...there won't be a single Pokemon left alive on our world." This made me feel like as if more weight was put on my shoulders. I then tripped and fell.
"Edge! Are you alright?" Link asked while running over to me. "I feel...sick." "Well come on, you can vomit when we reach the other side." Link then pulled me up by the arm, which hurt a little bit, and pushed me from behind to keep me moving. I don't know why, but I kind of lost my will to keep going, but the fact that if I decided to fall from my lost will, Link would step on me, which would really hurt, and I don't want him stepping on my snout. That would really hurt. So just tried to keep up. We managed to reach the other side before the Mightyena Heartless could catch up to us, they were still coming. "What do we do now?" Hunter asked. "I got this." Ahriman said. He then raised his paw at the path and made it vanished, causing the Heartless Mightyena fall into the void that is under the castle.
We all the walked to the edge of the platform that led to the front gate of the castle. "Well, that takes care of that, I guess." I just looked into the void, terrified of what I just seen. "All those Pokemon...died...in vail. I feel so..." "Edge, are you okay?" Link asked me. I didn't feel good. I felt really sick. That actually did happen. I felt so terrified, sad, angry, depressed, its just so hard to explain. I just felt so sick that ended up vomiting over the edge of the platform. Link was had a paw on my back, mostly to keep me from falling over the edge, and patted my back a couple of times. After a few seconds, that felt like hours, I stopped vomiting. I seen that the others walked away to give me some space, but Link was still there, patting my back. "Are you feeling better Edge?" "No. The other Pokemon are in danger of being turned into Heartless. Our world might be gone if we fail."
Link helped me up, again, and walked me over to the others. "I feel like I lost my will. I just..." "Edge, your feeling like this because your afraid of letting everyone down and our world falling into the darkness control, right?" Sorcha asked in a calm voice. I nodded. She got closer to me. Before I knew it, Sorcha slapped me right accross my face. "Then you need to get ahold of yourself. You can't do this on your own and we can't do this without you. NOW PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!" Sorcha said and slapped me again. My face must have a red imprint of her paw on my face. "Alright, alright. I get it. You can stop slapping me." "Good." "Well then, if we are done slapping everyone in the face, can we get on with what we came here for?" Shadow said. "Yeah. Yeah, lets get going." I said while pushing Link's paw away from my back. "You sure your alright?" Link asked. "Yeah Im better. Im focused. Lets just get going."
When we got to a set of big doors, we got blocked of by some wall of dark energy. I walked up to it and placed my paw on it, causing it to unleash a blast of energy, causing me to go flying backwards. I got blasted to far that I got to the edge of the platform and was having a hard time keeping my balance. I would of fell foward over the edge if it wasn't for Link that rushed over and helped me by grabbing my tail and pulled me away from the edge. "Ooowww! My tail!" "Quit being a baby. Yesh." Tears were running down my face from him pulling my tail. Give me a break. "This is where your little trip ends." A hooded figure then appeared in front of us, with a cards levatating around him. "Luxord!" Ahriman and Shadow said in unison. "Oh Shadow, Im surprised to see you again. I thought our plain to get rid of you would of worked." "Well guess what, it failed. Thats to your idea, I got this scar on my face. I think I should return the favor." Shadow then used Shadow Ball and launched it at Luxord, who blocked it by shooting a card at the attack, canceling it out completely. "Weak.,How did you survive that giant Heartless?" "Wouldn't you like to know!" Link then charged and Aura Sphere while saying, "Try me on for size!" and launched the attack at Luxord. From what I could tell, this sphere was chagred at much as it could, being really strong.
However, Luxord took one of his cards and made it bigger, just to bat Link's Aura Sphere away and change the direction of the sphere's path, making it head straight for me. I wouldn't be able to dodge out of the way at the speed its going, so I had to take the attack head on. I have gotten stronger. I might be able to handle it. As the attack came at me, I took my right arm and held it in front of me and the sphere struck my arm. The sphere didn't explode, but instead, tried to push me off balance. Knowing I couldn't be able to hold it much longer, I swung my arm to the right, redirecting it to the right.
"Wow Edge, you have gotten stronger." Link said. I shook my arm, feeling a little bit of pain from my actions. "Well I have to in order to be useful." Link smirked at me and we refocused on Luxord. However, Ahriman and Shadow stepped in front of us. "You leave him to us." Ahriman said. "We want payback for how he treated us and for trying to get rid of me." Shadow said while they both got into a fighting stance. "I have been waiting for this moment for a very, very long time." Luxord said with a smirk. He then brought out two cards, both as big as him, and got in his own fighting stance while a bunch of cards floated around him. Luxord then launched a few cards at them both and Ahriman swung his arm, creating a barrier, blocking the attack. Shadow then used Night Slash but Luxord dodged it. Ahriman then ran at Luxord with Metal Claw and Ahriman and Luxord got in a huge clash. You would think that Luxord's cards would be destroyed, but they acted like they were made out of metal. Everytime their weapons clashed, sparks went flying everywhere.
"Im no longer a weak Riolu, Luxord!" Ahriman said before he did a backflip, kicking Luxord and sent him flying up in the air. Ahriman followed him by jumping and retracted his Metal Claw so he could land a powerful hammer punch, sending Luxord back to the ground. Shadow followed up by running at Luxord and head butted him, hard, which sent him flying to the wall of the castle. Such team work. "Is that all you got?" Luxord got back up and resummond his card like weapons. After all of that, he can still stand? "My turn!" Luxord then sent out a barrage of cards and Ahriman created another barrier, surrounding them both. The cards bounded off the barrier. One of them went pass the barrier and just above my head, right between my ears. The card was close enough that it cut my fur a little bit. Those cards are like razors. Almost like Razor Leaf.
The attack broke Ahriman's barrier, and Shadow used Shadow Ball to cancel out Luxord's attack. They both then ran at Luxord. Ahriman with Metal Claw and Shadow getting ready to use his sharp claws. Luxord went for Ahriman, leaving himself open for Shadow to get a lucky shot on Luxord with his claws. Ahriman then slashed at Luxord, ripping his cloak around his mid-section and around his face, which knocked his hood back, revealing his face a bit, but thats all that was revealed. The rest of his head remained covered. He then pulled on his hood, covering his face from us again. "Im tired of this. This ends now!" Luxord said. He launched another wave of cards at them, but they ran towards the attack with Ahriman in front of Shadow with his Metal Claw attack, blocking and knocking the cards out of his way which cleared a path for them to take, leading to Luxord. However, Luxord seen this coming, and readied a giant card. Once they got close enough, Luxord grabbed his giant card and swung at Ahriman and Shadow, knocking them near the edge of the platform.
Link and Hunter were about to step in to help, but I stopped them by putting my paws up. "No guys, this is their fight. We musn't get involved. Not yet at lease." They both nodded and stepped back. Refocusing on the battle, Ahriman and Shadow were standing back up. Ahriman with Metal Claw and Shadow charging a Shadow Ball. Ahriman rushed at Luxord but faked it as he jumped over him, leaving him open to Shadow's Shadow Ball. Luxord got him from behind and got launched towards Ahriman, who kicked Luxord knocking the wind out of him as he doubled over. Luxord then got kicked by Ahriman and went rolling over to the edge of the platform. "You guys...are just...lucky..." Luxord said between gasps from the air being kicked out of him. "Your just afraid to admit that we are weak, like you!" Ahriman and Shadow then charged their own Shadow Ball, then brought them close together, combinding their power. After they fully charged the attack, they launched it toward Luxord and sent him flying off the platform to his doom.
"Hmph. I wanted to send him over the edge their with my bear paws, but I guess this will do." Ahriman said, causing me to chuckle a little to what he said. "Well Im satisfied with this. You don't know how long I wished I could do that. I guess wishes do come true." Shadow said. "You guys did great! Amazing team work. But not as amazing as Sorcha and I." "Are you serious Link?" I said, giving a bit of a annoyed look. "Oh Link..." Sorcha said while rolling her eyes. "You can't help but to boast about yourself once and a while, can ya Link?" "Careful Edge. You might of been able to block that Aura Sphere, but you can't take me on in a real fight. Do I have to remind you about the last time we trained together?" "Don't remind me." Link just started laughing and patted me on the back.
"Why don't we just get into the castle so we can do what we came here to do." Hunter said. Might of been a little cold, but I understand why he said it. We need to stop Organization XIII before they do anymore harm that can't be fixed. We all nodded and went over to the front gate that was blocked by a wall of dark energy, which disapeared when we got to it. Probably because Luxord is gone now. We pushed the gates open and walked in. When we did, the inside was huge. We were on another platform and if you looked over the edge, you wouldn't be able to see the bottom. "Come on guys, lets keep going." Rose said and we walked on the only path that was presented to us.
When was started walking, I soon got a major headacke and I fell to my knees screaming my head off. "Edge! Are you alright?"I heard someone say, but couldn't make out who. I soon heard a voice in my head. I couldn't make out what this voice was or what it was mostly saying, but I got that my team and I was the only ones left that could stop Organization XIII and that I had more power than I knew I had, which is what I will need in order to repair the damage that Organization XIII has caused. I was then brought back into the real world with everyone looking down at me. I was laying down on my back. "Are you alright Edge? You passed out." Rose asked me. "Yeah Im okay. I heard a voice, telling me that we are the only ones that are able to stop Organixation XIII. If we fail, all will be lost. I think I feel sick again." "Don't go vomiting again Edge." Link said. "No. No, no I...Im fine. Im focused." "Good. Cause I don't want to have to slap you again." Sorcha said.
"Well, lets just get going. Every second we waste, them more our world and others fall under the control ofOrganixation XIII." They all nodded and we made our way to the top. "Wait, I just remembered. When Im in here, I can create a portal that allows a faster travel through out the castle. However, I can just get us halfway up there." Ahriman said. "Thats fine. Just do it." I said and Ahriman held his paw out and created a portal. "Alright guys. Lets get going." I said and then we walked through the portal.
-To be continued-
Well, Edge and his friends have msde it to the castle and are one step closer to stopping Organization XIII. Will they do it, or will they fail? Find out next time.
Answer: Currently, I am following a Pokemon fanfic called Return Of The Cursed Gift. Its a Pokemorph story by Talkingbirdguy. Its really good, in my opinion. And Im also following and other Pokemon fanfic called Knight Of The Aura by BlueStardustGTX. I would recommend reading both stories. I think they are really great.
Well, thats all from me. Until next time. Bye!