Authors note: When I finally motivated myself to continue writing this chapter, I worked out the plot problem while I was writing. Let that be a lesson to those authors who are reading this: just write! It is the best way to overcome writers block. I am really getting tired of waiting for an update to "I am Lucario" and "The Light in the Darkness". While they are both amazing stories, it has been over half a year since IAL has been updated and over an entire year or longer since TLITD has been updated. You know that really sucks, reading a truly amazing story only to find it unfinished. I have been waiting for an update since I started this story Pokemonhero, just get it done please!

It is awesome that you came back Eeveeinheat, sorry about having to start over and all.

-This chapter took a lot of inspiration, and has many things in it that will not be explained until Part 3, so just go with it. Also this chapter may turn out to be much shorter than my previous chapters-

THE CHRONICLES OF

LEGENDARY EEVEE

Chapter Twenty: Breaking Point

When I woke up, Azure and I were curled tightly against one another, sharing heat in the cold cage. Still feeling groggy and exhausted from fighting a mental battle for most of the night, I stirred and shifted, feeling the soft fur pressed against me and my head resting on Azure's fluffy mane. A smile worked its way across my jaw, I had done it. Those stupid whitecoats thought they could control me like a dog, but I had made it through the night without hurting Azure. Around midnight the stupid injection wore off and I was able to finally fall asleep next to her. Azure wasn't awake yet, still breathing regularly and her tail occasionally twitched in her sleep. I wanted nothing more than to simply enjoy this moment of peace at that moment, trying to fall back asleep with all the soft fur against me. I was so tired…

"Get up, Corvey is coming" I heard Eva's thought speech invade my peaceful sleep. I ignored her until I heard the heavy footsteps. Snapping awake, I uncurled myself from Azure, feeling her stir from the sudden lack of warmth. A man in a black leather jacket with a gold zipper appeared in the barred entrance of the cage. For a moment I tried to stare him down, blocking his view of Azure with my bulk. She stirred once more and got up, looking fearfully at Corvey before hiding behind me. That's when I realized that my muzzle was off. Concentrating, I drew upon the reserves of power within me to condense in the shape of a ball in front of my mouth so I could blast him with Shadow Ball right in his ugly face.

A sharp mental spike followed by a shock from my collar interrupted my attack, negating it before I could even build up a shred of power and leaving me stunned from the shock. Seeing this, Corvey grinned and reached in to grab Azure. I bit him, hard right through the leather sleeve of his jacket. He yelped and withdrew his arm with an angry expression on his face. For a moment nothing happened before he pulled out a red and white orb with shot a small red beam. Too late I realized what it was and tried to grab Azure but she had already disappeared into red light before being sucked back into the spherical prison. I growled at him but Corvey simply left without a word, looking very pleased with himself. I let my anger smolder and laid down at the entrance, wondering if she would be okay.

Θ Azure's POV Θ

I was soon released from the pokeball and handed from Corvey to the arms of one of the scientists, the same one who had thrown me into Michael's cage yesterday. He held me in the crook of one arm as he readied some handheld device with a needlepoint on the end. I yelped as it stung me in the haunch, putting my tail between my legs and whining. His grip wasn't painful, but something about the devices reading frustrated him and his grip accidentally tightened and I yipped.

My haunch still hurt from the needle, like something had stung me. Bracing his grip behind my forelegs, he set me inside a steel wire kennel cage that had a towel on the bottom. I stood up in the small confinement and strained my ears to listen to their conversation. They were saying something about me not carrying kits, or the hormone injection not being strong enough. That confused me until I recalled how Michael had acted strangely when he had been put back in the cage without his muzzle on. They must have done something to him in the hopes that he would mate with me, violently. That must have been why he was so on edge, he was fighting the injection they had given him. Before I could eavesdrop any further, one of the scientists picked up my kennel and placed me in a dark and quiet room out of the way. Sighing, I did a circle on the towel before lying down and resting.

I don't know how long I slept, it could have been the entire day I couldn't tell from the room, I was just really tired as my body was still flushing out the sedative. A sudden sound caused me to bolt upright.

Arcanine was sitting at the front of my cage. His fur was dirty and matted and had bloodstains on his paws and face. I thought I saw wetness under his eye but it must have been a trick of the light, and he was staring out into space as if I wasn't here. The sad expression on his face confused me. He had that look in his bloodshot eyes of hurt, the kind of hurt that was always there. The kind of hurt that was inside, not outside. Still wearing that strange expression I had never seen before, he stared out until I heard a voice.

"Why do you smile?" he asked me in the tone of someone who spent their entire life looking for something that couldn't be found, the tone of someone who believed that life is a burden, the defeated and sad tone that hovered on the edge of insanity. I blinked, wondering if I had heard him right and confused by what me meant. You smile when you are happy, did he not understand that, this didn't make sense ! Arcanine was never like this, ever. The only words I had heard from his mouth were threats and boasting.

"I don't understand?" I said, his question didn't make sense, I wasn't smiling. As if those words were the trigger of something I didn't understand something broke in his eyes.

"No one does." He suddenly snapped and stormed off, hitting against the corner of my cage in the process. I watched him go, confused. 'Why do you smile'? What did he mean by that, this didn't make sense at all? This was not like him, something had changed. That look in his eyes as he left haunted me. It was the look of someone who has lost it. For a few minutes nothing happened, I half expected Arcanine to come back and attack but he didn't. Doing a small circle to get comfortable, I laid back down on the towel. What was going on with Arcanine, he never acted this way?

Corvey suddenly appeared out of no where, cell phone in hand, he grabbed the handle of my kennel with the other hand and I went tumbling as the kennel lurched. It sounded like someone on the other end of the phone was yelling at Corvey, and my trainer sounded frustrated. When he finally reached his destination, I was dumped on the floor of Corvey's office, still inside the small steel cage.

"Fine whatever, I'll send you him now, just give me some more goddamn time and funds." Corvey yelled before hanging up. He ran his fingers through his hair, muttering to himself before unclasping a pokeball from his belt. I gulped, expecting to be sucked into the small prison.

"Arcanine, return!" he said to my surprise and a small red beam of light shot out towards Arcanine. The fire beast leapt up swiftly and dodged the beam of light. For a few seconds he had a shocked expression on his face before he snarled with fury and dashed forward and smacked the pokeball from Corvey's wrist, an insane look now in his eyes. The pokeball shattered on the floor like ceramics.

"Why!" he roared and unleashed a torrent of fire upon Corvey, who barely had time to scream as he caught on fire. Arcanine plowed into the burning mass, knocking it into a wall with crushing force. I felt a strange shiver as my pokeball was destroyed and Corvey burned to death. Arcanine froze upon seeing the ashes, as if seeing them for the first time, and had a shocked and horrified look on his face that slowly twisted into madness. Mightyena burst into the room, his jaw hanging open at the brutal and bloody sight.

"You…you monster!" Mightyena howled charging forward. Arcanine set his tail aglow with a metallic sheen and spun around and knocked aside Mightyena so hard I heard something crack as he went tumbling. Then Arcanine was upon him with insane, savage fury…and…tore him to pieces. Raising his bloody face, he looked at me with a shattered, insane gleam in his eyes.

I screamed and cowered in the steel cage as his claws struck the side of the cage, spinning it like a top. He picked up the large steel cage and threw it into a wall. I slammed around with the impact, pain registering in my head as stars appeared. I screamed again with terror as he grabbed the bars of the cage and wretched them apart. I hid in the back corner of the steel kennel, trapped as he bent the slim steel bars.

He thrust an arm into the gap and tried to grab me with his clawed grip. I shrank back as far as I could into the cage, his claws closed an inch in front of my face. I screamed again with pain as he heaved forward and grabbed my left foreleg in a crushing grip. His claws left gauges in my arm as he yanked me forward by my arm and banged my fragile body against he steel bars, the gap too small to pull me through. I cried with pain as he wretched my arm out of its socket as he pulled on it, losing all control in my left shoulder. Giving up, he released my damaged leg and formed a ball of fire in his mouth as he prepared to burn me to death…

Θ Michael's POV Θ

I heard her scream and every hair on my pelt stood on end. No! She was in trouble, I had to get out of here, something was going on the smell of burnt flesh was invading the facility. I heard her scream again and I charged into the bars, and the electricity shocked me almost to unconsciousness. Gasping for breath and struggling to get control of my spasming limbs. I got up and rammed the bars again, only to get forced to my knees my electricity that nearly knocked me out. I laid on my side struggling to breathe. This wasn't working; I couldn't break out like this. The electricity was too strong, and I couldn't do enough damage to the thick bars. Another scream sounded through the air, this time she sounded as if in pain. I had to help her, but how could I get out, the bars were electrified.

"The bars may be electrified, but the walls are not." Said Shadow from the depths of my mind. Why was he helping me, it didn't matter, I focused energy to my tail and slammed the sheet metal walls.

My attack barely left a small dent. Howling in frustration I attacked the metal again and again, but the steel was too strong. I heard Azure scream again, time was running out, I couldn't give up now I had to save her, I would tear down this sheet metal blocking me from saving her no matter the cost. I slammed it again, the vibration making me stumble and fall. No, I couldn't give up! I was not going to be too weak again! Not now, not ever again!

I couldn't see it, but my tail glowed this time with a deep crimson color. My attack left a ragged hole in the metal, the sheet steel folding like aluminum foil before the power of the crimson sweep of my tail. I paid no attention to this phenomenon and wiggled through the hole, the sharp edges of the bent steel slicing my back. I hit the ground in a full sprint, running with all the power of my quick attack as I saw Arcanine preparing to incinerate Azure who was trapped in a steel wire kennel, one of her forelegs sticking out at an odd angle. I plowed into him, redirecting the flow of fire and somehow knocked him over. He snarled with rage and batted me aside with a huge paw. Insane eyes gleaming, he charged at me baring his long bloodstained fangs.

There was a furious gust of wind and power and Arcanine was suddenly sent barreling backwards through a wall and crashing to a halt a considerable distance away.

I looked back and saw Eva, standing over the body of Mightyena and Corvey, tears falling freely from her face. She was crying, and had a look on her face that defied description. It was not simply fury, it was beyond furious, the look that showed betrayal and grief and terrifying anger all rolled up into one. She walked forward, the psychic aura of power around her so strong it was visible, cracking the floor tiles where she walked. The wall Arcanine crashed through tumbled down, as another followed suit, the building was being torn apart.

I ran to Azure who was still trapped in the cage crying, her leg still stuck through the bent bars. She was sobbing uncontrollably wailing about her leg, which was sticking out through the bars. The sound of her screaming was heartrending, her leg was stuck at an angle it should never be at, the bone no longer connected at the shoulder socket. I fumbled with the latch, trying to get it open while Azure was wailing, she was hurt really bad. Suddenly the entire door of the kennel was torn off its hinges by a psychic force, freeing Azure's leg as she collapsed on her side, still wailing about her leg with a weakening voice.

"Go kid, this is my fight." She spoke with authority as she suddenly appeared in front of me. Her tear stained and furious expression told me this was going to be a fight to the finish. I nodded respectively and chomped on Azure's scruff and hoisted her in the air, the motion jarring her leg and making her yelp. A blast of fire tore down a wall, incinerating lab reports and papers as it shot towards me, only to be deflected by a clear barrier. I ran, each bounding motion causing Azure pain as I escaped the compound, Azure still whimpering in pain as I ran, trying to put as much distance between me and Arcanine as possible. Eva knew she couldn't win, but she was going to die trying anyway because of what he did. I couldn't let her sacrifice be in vain.

Θ Eva's POV Θ

I deflected the sudden blast of flame that tried to incinerate Azure and Michael, the sloped barrier bending with the effort. That first attack that sent him through a wall took a lot out of me, but I was not going down without a fight. I was going to kill him, or die trying. Its not like I had anything else to live for anyway. Arcanine suddenly emerged from the smoke, his blood red coat covered with rubble. I snarled and yelled out in an acusing voice.

"Why Arcanine? Why did you do this? Why did you kill him you monster!" I yelled addressing both Mightyena and Corvey. No more would I receive a friendly lick in the face to wake me up on tire mornings, no more would I hear his jokes or feel his fur. No more would I feel a comforting pat on the head or be praised by my trainer. It was all gone, all because of him, because of someone I knew. Releasing my anger in a blast of almighty power, I shattered floor tiles and sent a shockwave of power at Arcanine who couldn't hope to dodge as he crashed through another wall, ruining more of the building I once called home as a section collapsed to reveal the stormy sky.

With a primal roar Arcanine blew apart the rubble covering him with a blast of fire I scrambled to dodge and came hurtling out of the debris. Using my psychic powers, I took his legs out from under him rather than face his full force and he tripped and fell. My plow did little to harm him, Arcanine was a tough bastard. Opening his maw, he shot a beam of fire at me. I condensed my powers into a singe beam and countered his Flamethrower with my Psybeam attack. When the smoke cleared from the two attacks Arcanine was charging strait at me. I teleported behind him and as he was skidding to a stop I blasted him with another Psychic attack. As he went flying back from the shockwave, I felt my knees weaken and nearly fell, I couldn't keep this up, and those mega blasts were barely harming him, doing more damage to the building than the fire beast. I jumped like a cat to dodge a pillar of flame that shot out from the dust.

I needed to stay in the remnants of the building or my Psychic would be like wind to him. Without something to ram him into the advantage went to Arcanine. Picking up a table with my mind, I threw it at the red and black shape speeding towards me with Extremespeed. The table broke like ice before his bulk and I barely had time to form a barrier before he hit me. The barrier cracked and bent and my feet slide backwards from the impact.

"Why did he always like you better, I am the stronger one!" He suddenly roared and leapt at me. I teleported a short distance away to dodge, already feeling the strain of using Teleport. I was not an Abra, that move took a lot of energy, but I was my last option. I teleported behind him and blasted him with Psychic in a last ditch effort. He went flying back from the shockwave but remained on his feet, leaving skid marks on the scorched earth from his claws. I had to catch myself to keep from collapsing, but focused on the fact I would never be able to tell Mightyena how he made me feel. The fact that I would never be able to say 'thank you' to Corvey for adopting me off the street, even if he did experiment on me. Before I was just a lost stray, then he came along, my savior from hunger. I didn't care if others thought what he did was bad, he was my trainer and I owed him so much. If only I had been less stubborn and tried to repay some of the debt I owed to him, but now I never would get that chance. All because of him!

I unleashed a hidden reserve of energy in the form of Psybeam. Arcanine dodged and disappeared with a feat of speed that Extremespeed granted him and appeared behind me, tail already aglow. I was too late and too weak to stop him as he crashed through my feeble barrier with a shattering sound like glass and hit me with his Iron Tail. I went tumbling and skidding on the ground from the impact, my chest constricted in pain as my side opened up from the hit. I laid unmoving, blood staring to leak out from the wound on my side. I glanced up as Arcanine appeared above me, looking like the executioner everyone feared.

"Why?" I croaked, tasting blood in my mouth from my damaged rib cage. Just weeks ago, I had fought alongside him as an ally, before he turned all closed off and sadistic. What had happened to him, why was he doing this?

My mind had a flashback of that time I remembered so well as I saw that huge paw coming across to break my neck.

A flashback of a sad kid in a leather jacket that was too big for him holding the remnants of his sandwich out to a small, starving eevee in a cardboard box. The eevee came forward and ate out of the kid's hands, and in return the kid with messy hair and the jacket picked up the scrawny eevee to cradle it in his arms and take her home with him. That eevee didn't care that the home was the team rocket headquarters, it had found a home, and would follow this boy wherever he went.

I closed my eyes and fixed that image in my mind, when Corvey first held me, a smile coming across my bleeding face as the paw hit the side of my face and my neck snapped.

I would follow him, wherever he went…

Always.