Chapter Eleven : Two New Teammates, DrethithClan Captures!
"Stop!" Adrianna ordered running over to Nix.
"Vat do you mean schtop? Ve found him snooping around your house!"
"Do you know this Pokémon?" Shannon asked.
"I share dreams with him at night. He left Drethith so he could join us!"
"You should have told us." Madoka stated, taking her paws away from the irated Wobbuffet.
"I was going to. But I thought he arrived in three days, and I thought I had time to think of how to break it to you."
"I was being chased, I found a shortcut and I took it. But I'm afraid that some DrethithClan members may have followed me here, so I came looking for your house as soon as I could."
"You trust someone from Drethith?" Wanda almost growled to Adrianna.
"Nix hates DrethithClan. He's no longer a member."
"You know who else hates Drethith? Me. I despise them." Wanda narrowed her eyes at Nix warily.
"You're not the only one. Drethith has started to physically abuse its members more often than it used to."
"It always abuses its members. Because Drethith takes away what you love, and shatters it." Wanda snorted, and left. Just as she left, someone entered.
"I just discharged myself. I'm going to join DragonsDen." Amelia chuckled "whoa, Wanda looks like her cousin."
"Amelia?"
"Nix!" Amelia smiled " Adrianna said you'd be coming. She said you wanted to join. Well me too!"
"You both are members of our team now, but I going to go after Wanda, she seemed rather upset." Adrianna nodded, leaving the house and finding the blue turtle floating on the water underneath the dock.
"Hey. I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but Nix needed to get away from Drethith."
"No need to apologize...I understand that he needs help and support, he needs to join us, but DrethithClan...it ruined my life, even mentioning that place is a trigger for unhappy memories."
"But maybe if it weren't for Drethith, maybe we wouldn't have met, and I'm glad I met you. So forget about Drethith, they're just a bunch of idiots, worry about the present, like the fact that there might be members nearby, members that we need to fight."
"So this is where you've been all along." A voice said, Adrianna and Wanda looked up, and saw a Glaceon, Flareon, and Leafeon.
"Crystal, Drake, and Lida." Wanda frowned, the three eeveelutions had a cloud shaped symbol on their foreheads, inside of the cloud was a black star.
"What are those symbols on their foreheads?" Adrianna asked.
"The symbol of Drethith." Wanda replied, jumping from the water onto the dock, and Adrianna noticed, that the same symbol that was on there foreheads, was also on Wanda's shell.
"What do you want?"
"We've come to find Amelia and Nix, but we found you instead, Mimi will be very pleased." Crystal smiled.
"I bet Yui will be excited to see her too." Drake snorted evilly.
"Yui and Mimi will never see me ever. Because I'm not coming with you, me and Adrianna will fight you, and you will run back to the hole you came from."
"Aren't you as feisty as ever, you think and and that little Raichu can defeat the three of us?" Lida chuckled sarcastically.
"We're definitely stronger than you." Adrianna snarled.
"That may be true, but we will still win, because we cheat in battle." Crystal smirked, taking something from her bag and throwing it. Smoke appeared everywhere, and Adrianna's surroundings were as black as the night sky above her. Someone pushed her into the water, and Adrianna sunk down into the murky depths, she started to swim upward, luckily for Adrianna, she was a very good swimmer, but she was running out of breath as she swam upward and she soon gave up because she lost breath, but just as that happen, something pushed up from under her.
"That's quite a big splash you made!" Anemone exclaimed as they surfaced the water.
"You think you can clear this smoke with a water type move?" Adrianna asked.
"Yup-adoddle!" Anemone said. Anemone used Water Pulse, it did a good job of clearing the smoke! Adrianna saw a horrible sight, Wanda being handcuffed and a gag was placed in her mouth.
"Hey! Stop that!" Adrianna shouted, but the trio ran off with Wanda.
"They took your friend, you have to go after them." Another Lapras said, as its head surfaced the water.
"This is my brother, Avery." Anemone introduced.
"Go after those Arceus-damned DrethithClan members. And show them how it's done." Avery growled.
"I'll have to make a plan on how I'm going to get there."
"Anemone knows a way there. She could take you."
"But Gatekeeper said I could only come back once more!"
"Well, seems like this here Raichu could easily find its way back. Right?"
"I guess, she does look like a good swimmer. Would you be alright swimming across a lake?"
"I guess...but I have to tell my friends." Adrianna said, pointing to The Den.
"You go on a tell your friends, we'll be waiting." Anemone dropped Adrianna onto the dock, and Adrianna walked into The Den.
"I have some unfortunate news...Wanda was kidnapped by DrethithClan members." Adrianna confessed, and her friends looked at her like she had two heads.
"Now that you mention it, the name Wanda sound familiar...what's her last name?" Nix asked.
"Lee..."
"Wanda Lee!? No wonder they took her, you'd better go after her right now!" Amelia exclaimed.
"Why is this such a big deal?" Adrianna asked as Amelia and Nix tried to push her out the door.
"Let's just say that the Lee family is not a pleasant family." Nix whispered.
"Let us come!" Madoka begged, following Adrianna out the door.
"Only two of you can fit on my back, maybe three if you try, Adrianna should choose a friend to bring." Anemone informed, and apparently Avery had gone away.
"The two former DrethithClan members that we have don't seem eager to go back, and you seem to want to choose them..." Shannon pointed out, then she signaled to herself, Madoka, Brunhilda, and Brendan.
"Brendan. You will come with me." Adrianna decided, jumping onto Anemone's back, Brendan followed.
"You picked me..." Brendan sighed.
"Did you want to be chosen?"
"Yes. I want to see for myself what a monster Xerneas has become."
"That leader of DrethithClan? She's a monster." Anemone growled.
"What was this Gatekeeper that you spoke of before I went to tell my friends?" Adrianna asked as they departed.
"Gatekeeper? Oh he's a Klefki. He guards a gate that leads to anywhere you like. You can buy a gate key for 8,000 poké, you can only use it a certain amount of times because it's made from fairy magic, Gatekeeper uses a temporary kind of magic, so that's why you can only use it a certain amount of times. Me and my brother Avery have tried to hammer DrethithClan hard many times, and we only have one more use on our key, the gate we take leads to a Mystery Dungeon called Narrow Glacier Path, it's a directly behind their base, and there's hardly any Dungeon Pokémon."
"Why do we have to swim across a lake after we save Wanda?"
"Because if I wait for you, some DrethithClan patrol will find me and throw me out, I have to leave as soon as I drop you off."
"At least we have a chance to save Wanda, Xerneas was a very powerful Pokémon back in her day, she's probably abusing her power now."
"You're probably right about that Absol, wait your name is Brendan, right?"
"Yes."
"Ok good." Anemone nodded. Eventually they arrived at a golden gate, and a Klefki was mounted onto it, locking it shut.
"Anemone, you only have one time to use it to get to and fro. Will you use it now?" Gatekeeper narrowed his eyes.
"Yes." Anemone gulped.
"Okay." Then Gatekeeper stuck a key inside itself and the gate opened. A bright white light spilled out of the gate, Anemone launched Brendan and Adrianna in, and they landed on freezing thick ice, Adrianna noticed a big glacier up ahead, and a flag with the symbol on it, a black cloud with a star on it, the Drethith symbol.
"There's the path up to Narrow Glacier Path." Brendan said, nodded his head towards a path leading onto a narrower path which lead to the top of the glacier.
"Then that's where we have to go." Adrianna took steps forward in the harsh snow storm they were in, Brendan followed, pushing through the harsh winter, they finally reached the path. Brendan and Adrianna came across no Pokémon as they finally reach Narrow Glacier Path, it was a long path, and a hard path to trudge in this storm, and puffs of relief came out of Adrianna's and Brendan's mouth when they finally reached the top. Now when they finally caught their breath, they had to gasp at the charcoal black castle they saw in front of them. Adrianna unsheathed her feet claws so she didn't fall over, and walked forward with Brendan on her tail, ignoring the numbness in her nose she looked back to see how Brendan was doing.
"We can't stop now. We need to keep moving." Brendan said when he saw Adrianna worriedly glance at his limp paw.
"That may be true, but if you're hurt, then we can slow down."
"No. You know better than I that Wanda needs us, I can put up with a little bit of pain."
"Looks like you're putting up with a lot up pain by your expression, what'd you do?"
"When we arrive atop of the glacier remember I tripped, I didn't say anything because we need to get moving."
"Well if you insist on putting up with it, then why don't you come over and lean on me? It would make things much easier for you, and we would travel faster." Adrianna offered, and Brendan did not refuse. The two finally reached the other side of the glacier and were just a few feet away from the rooftop of the castle.
"There's a jump we need to jump." Brendan pointed out, Adrianna then realized that they would have to jump to the rooftop or fall to the ground and die.
"We can jump at the same time, when we land on the roof we will know that we landed together." Adrianna suggested. And then Brendan and Adrianna took a step back and ran and jumped. Adrianna squeezed her eyes shut, and then realized that she was safe on the roof of the castle.
"We made it." Brendan sighed.
"Now we have to find a way in." Adrianna shouted in the snow storm which seemed to be getting worse. Adrianna looked around and saw a watch tower which they could walk to, they could climb up it and enter through the door to get inside. Adrianna noticed two casualties, the first one, there was what appeared to be a Noctowl in the watch tower, the second one, is the the roof was icy. But there was a positive, the snow is so thick that it'd be hard to spot Brendan, Adrianna however was a different story, her orange coat was noticeable. Adrianna told Brendan of her plan, then after his approval, Adrianna rolled around in the snow and got it stuck to her fur making it blend in with the winter around her. Hoping not to slip of the roof, Adrianna and Brendan trudged until they reached the watch tower, and from there they climbed it. And once they reached the top. Adrianna and Brendan used a double attack, Thunderbolt and Night Slash, it's super effective, and the Noctowl fainted. Adrianna and Brendan entered the building and started down the long staircase of the watch tower.
