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Later Years!
Chapter 25: No Need For Scars!
Written by drake22ice
Even though they were exhausted from that battle, the three looked to see what the new fuss was about. There-- coming from their tracks came a little voice screeching out as the teal piplup riding the girl moperat dashed to catch up with the group. Star and Tera laughed as piplup leaped from atop the moperat into Dawn's arms and the moperat to Gary's. "Looks like they don't want you to leave without them, Dad!" Connor called out. "Really?!" Dawn asked excitedly looking at the piplup. "Pip—Lup!" it said in unison with nodding its head. Dawn hugged it even tighter before looking over to her Empoleon. He was just looking ahead in the direction they were going. She walked over to him. "Soon, buddy!" she said trying to comfort him even though she did not want to lose him. Tears started to build up in her eyes.
As Gary rubbed the little rodent pokemon's head, it smiled up at him. He looked over to Dawn and her Empoleon. "We should probably get going!" he said which made the three look to Dawn and see why. The group started walking towards the city more. The moperat kept walking next to Umbreon like it was his side-kick or something. Spheal kept rolling around in the snow trying to keep its wounds numb. Connor realized it. "Here you go, little buddy!" he sighed out as the flash of red light jumped into the pokeball. "Rest well!" Feezub kept peeking down at the moperat as he sat down on top of Tera's head. "Do you really like him up there?" Star asked to Tera with concern. Tera looked up to her little cub and then to Star. "I don't know, but how can you tell that face, 'No!'" she laughed out.
"Look!" Connor called out and pointed. There was a Prinplup crawling their way. It was badly hurt, and barely able to move. Dawn's Empoleon rushed over to it and helped it to its feet. "What happened?" Star cried out. It squinted its one eye and pointed towards – what looked like a brick wall that reached all the way acroos from one cliff ridge to another that had been smashed. They heard loud and scary noises of growling, crying, and exploding. Gary took quick motion with Empoleon towards the wall. AS they got past it. In the center of what seemed to be the rubble of an abandoned human city, there was a large hole in the ice where a Gyrados Thrashed about in water smashing a group of Prinplup against broken down buildings and firing Hyperbeams at an Empoleon diving into it from behind. There were a few piplups running around scared. One almost got smashed by the tail of the Gyrados, but Dawn's Empoleon dove in and took it out of the way over near one of the broken down buildings. He noticed the prinplups and piplups holding eggs inside the building that he landed next to were scared and did not know what to do. The one prinplup saw her baby in his arms and ran over to get it with tears in its eyes. They all looked amazed at the large Empoleon and ran to the hole in the wall to watch him after he left to help the others.
Dawn reached Gary and saw the destruction the large dragon pookemon was causing. She saw her Empoleon diving around rescuing a few of the members of this colony before it stopped as if to see if the colony had a plan of action to attacking the beast. The three kids looked on to the battlefield and saw that the prinplups were not doing too well. "They all looked exhausted like they've been fighting for days. We have to help!" Connor said moving forward and reaching for his pokeballs. "Wait!" Dawn demanded out putting her hand in the way of Star, and Connor. They both looked up to her in question.
The colony's empoleon dashed in front of Dawn's Empoleon with rage. It stared at him until it got hit with the Thrashing tail of the Gyrados. The gyrados held its mouth open and rushed at Dawn's Empoleon. "Aren't you going to call for him to attack?" Star asked Dawn looking up to her. Dawn just kept her tear-filled eyes on her Empoleon. The teal Piplup watched from behind Dawn's leg. Her Empoleon dodged it and the dragon pokemon smashed its face into the hard ice. It got irritated and went after Empoleon again. It was just about to shoot a Hyperbeam, but the rage-filled Empoleon with a scar on its eye drilled itself into Dawn's Empoleon as if to say that it was his fight. Little did it realize the blast that was coming that shot him through one of the buildings. Dawn's Empoleon stood up to see what had happened and saw that the teal piplup had been running towards to where the colony's piplups were. Dawn was trying to catch it from getting hurt when the Thrashing Gyrados took notice and went for her. Dawn's Empoleon quickly got scared and as it ran to save her, his crown started to glow--- the light was so bright it formed around his hole body. Gary grabbed a device from his pocket. Empoleon saw the Gyrados's mouth start to charge for a Hyberbeam aimed at Dawn and the teal piplup. He dashed at sonic speed towards the gyrados. He made contact. The blast of his attack ripped through some scales and threw the dragon pokemon into the wall they had passed through earlier. It collapsed and the gyrados was not moving. Empoleon stood proud and Dawn had tears in her eyes as she looked in awe.
The colony came out from hiding and raced over to Empoleon. They were cheering for him. Even the hurt ones were stumbling over to see him. Gary and the three walked over to Dawn. Gary raised his device to show the video of what just happened. "What was that?" Dawn whispered out not taking her eyes off of her Empoleon. Gary looked at her and then back to his video. "I have never seen it nor heard of it, but I can tell you what I am going to call it—Hero's Crown!" he said with an amazed tone in his voice.
Just then the colony's leader stumbled out of his rubble. "Empo! Empo! Empo!" it called out with demand. They all looked at him and then to Dawn's Empoleon. The exhausted Prinplup started hitting the fallen Gyrados and the rest of the colony walked over to the scar-faced Empoleon. They sat down next to him as if that was their place. It took notice to the Prinplup being carried by Tera and Feezub. He yelled as if to scold the prinplup for not fighting. He dashed to attack it only to get hit away from it by Dawn's Empoleon. "You cannot run this place like that!" Tera yelled out realizing she almost got hit by an attack. Dawn's Empoleon stood there with its crown glowing again. The scar-faced pokemon stood back up and opened its mouth. Dawn realized it was going to be a Whirlpool attack, but she kept her mouth shut. Her Empoleon went for his attack again to knock the scar-faced leader off and over the wall. The colony cheered and went over to hug Dawn's Empoleon. Dawn even walked up to him. They shared a similar smile before she said "You found it!"
They all walked over to the Gyrados. "I think it is still alive." Gary said making every one look scared. "It doesn't look like Mr. Meowth did when he died." Tera said which made Star look away in guilt. "I have never seen such an outraged Gyrados. I wonder how it found this colony." Gary asked not really looking for an answer. Empoleon walked over to Connor and tapped his pokeball containing Spheal. Connor looked confused, but let Spheal out anyways. Empoleon motioned Spheal for something. Quickly Spheal shot an Icebeam that sealed the Gyrados in a large block of Ice. "This creature was too angered to be let out into this world." Gary said agreeing with Empoleon's decision.
Dawn's Empoleon looked towards the wall seeing the scarface peering through the hole. It turned around and disappeared. Gary had gotten the attention of the est of the colony when he pulled some of the waterloo berries out of his bag. Gary made another wonderful meal, but for this colony, which probably had not had a decent meal for a while. Star sat next to Dawn who was eating her food next to the little teal Piplup. Dawn kept looking to her Empoleon at the end of the group. "You know? He has taken a look at a colony that had it all. Now, that he has found this place, at least he knows what needs to be done in order to make this colony happy." Star said trying to comfort Dawn. Dawn looked down to her and put her hand on Star head. She rubbed it-- "You are just like your dad!" Dawn said smiling.
It started to get late. Gary and Connor went into their tent. "How much farther, Dad?" Connor asked before he yawned. "By Tera's device, it showed that we are less than a mile away from Icewindale. This was a city known as Diafor City. It was a battleground or at least a station for Team Aqua before the big war." He let out taking a look to Connor who had aalready fallen asleep holding his pokemon egg. Gary smirked and took Spheal out of his ball to spray him with a little bit of potion he had left before letting him back into his pokeball. "Things will be different, tomorrow." Gary said to Dawn who was peeking in his tent. She stared into his face with a look that showed that she will be ok. Her friend was staying and she had to leave in the morning. She closed the door and went into the girls' tent before laying to rest herself.
Well, Empoleon is leaving the group. Will Dawn be fine? Will their new friends stay with them? Check it out in--
Chapter 26: Is It a New Trainer?