Pokѐmon Journey III: Jezebel's Voyage

Chapter 25: Ending the Dispute

Third Person Point of View:

The storm was crashing above all their heads. Storm clouds pouring down rain clashed with intense sunlight that glared down to the earth below. The center of it was around the city of Sootopolis. Within its cove were two legendary beasts that fought to harm those that lived there because they were under the control of an evil woman who controlled their two orbs. The two beasts fought below against all the males of the IPHP League with their pokemon along with the single young girl who was not a changeling, Aria Charlotte. Crashing blows of multiple types kept the out of control pokemon at bay while their attacks were kept from the homes just a short distance away.

Above the entire battle sat another one. The battle above was fought by the two female changelings of the group, Violet, its leader, and Gwyn, her second in command (after Alexander, Violet's boyfriend). The two of them were locked fiercely in battle with Rosalie Agustino and her Pokemon- her loyal gengar and a perverted hypno. The two were incredibly powerful if they were able to hold back the attacks that Gwyn laid out against them. Violet herself was facing off against Rosalie, who took on the form of her hypno, the one Violet had to face over four years ago.

A cry could be heard from the pokemon below. It was a pained cry from the controlled Groudon and Kyogre who suffered with every attack they let loose onto the world around them. They cried out as their bodies ached and Rose was filled with delight from hearing their cries as they continued on their forced rampage. Those of the IPHP League could hear their cries too, hearing the pleas for help.

Violet howled in anger as the cries rang out and she rushed forward toward Rose, colliding with her as one fist was caught by Rose's and her other arm blocked an attack from the woman. Violet then resorted to her legs and Rose jumped over her, but not out of the way in time for Violet's tail to come wrapping around her leg and hurling her down below and into the water. The younger female dived in after her to try and submerge her below.

Below the water lay Gwyn who watched now in the form of her gyarados. Her two water pokemon were by her side and both dived after the woman. A gust attack from Gwyn's suicune and a twister from both herself and her gyarados pushed the woman further down. Violet then appeared with Rose still in her grasp as the two women were struggling for breath. Though against her crushing lungs' desires, Violet continued to submerge the woman and push her deeper with punches. One arm latched onto Rose's forearm, the other was sending punch after punch, burning with hell's flames coating her fist. She slammed it again and again into any section of Rose's body that could be reached.

Rose finally began her counterattack by changing her form to that of her gengar, becoming intangible and floating through Violet's body before erecting a curse upon her. The woman froze for a moment, but quickly pushed the pain away from her heart and sliced her claws upward at Rose. She cried out, but being under the water prevented her screams from being heard. Violet kicked her down further in the water before Gwyn and her two pokemon made more tornadoes under the water: one to push Rose down, the other to push Violet up. She had no water type pokemon to take the changeling form of and breathe down here; she would die just as fast as Rose if she did not get air soon.

Gwyn threw her attack at Violet and shoved her past the surface of the water where Violet's pokemon would be waiting before Gwyn herself turned to watch her pokemon keeping Rose in the depths of this area. There was no trace of her to be seen in the dark depths of the waters.

Upon the surface Violet heavily breathed as she made her way from water to land with the help of her pokemon team. She watched the others fighting against the beasts that howled in pain, but until Rose was dead and the orbs separated from her, they could do nothing. The woman had been sly enough to hide them and have her ghost pokemon hold onto them. He was hiding in the shadows and fighting as well, with the orbs inside his body.

"Mew damn that woman!" Violet hissed as she caught her breath in the arms of her dragonite. "Jezebel… hurry it up! In a one on one battle, we could take these guys so much more easily! But there's so many people around! We need you to quell Groudon and Kyogre!" She slammed her fist into some neighboring rocks beside her as her pokemon flew past with her in his arms.

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Closing in on the island were Jezebel Emery-Twain and her final pokemon of her team, Empyrean, her rayquaza. The legendary beast of the sky and the final piece to the puzzle came forth toward the town, ready to cease the fighting and end the pokemon's suffering. Empyrean roared through the air and things suddenly seemed to have stilled for a moment. No sound carried on the wind, not even the weather, which had miraculously halted mid-change so that a beam of sunlight shone through the clouds and revealed Jezebel and her pokemon. Another one of the female beast's roars rang out and Kyogre and Groudon backed away, even under the spell of the orbs held inside the ghost pokemon's body.

Empyrean carried herself on the wind to where she put herself between the two pokemon and Jezebel flew to the side. While the battle was at a standstill, Jezebel's eyes glowed green and the center of her chest radiated light before the ghost pokemon appeared before her in pain and she grabbed him by his fat neck. The pokemon struggled in her hold, but she did not give way to him as she used the powers of the third orb and the borrowed power of her final pokemon to rip the orbs out of his ghostly body. His body wisped around the orbs until they were entirely pulled away and she held them in the air with telekinetic, levitating powers.

The two orbs were allowed to float away from the ghost pokemon's body and were handed to Jezebel's two male friends- the red orb to Casey Birch and the blue orb to Matthew Ashling. The two of them took the orbs into their hands before the legendary beasts finally started to move again, but this time calmly, and toward the trainers. The orbs glowed in the hands of the two trainers and they were carried into the air to face the legendary pokemon. The orbs were sucked into their bodies and the pasts shown to them through the hearts of the pokemon. Tears slipped from both young men's eyes before both of them pulled out pokeballs and tapped them on the faces of the legendary beasts before them.

"So you no longer have to suffer…" Matthew Ashling took in the mighty beast of the sea, Kyogre. The pokeball suddenly glowed blue and it became encased with a sapphire like crystal casing with ruby red glowing lines all over it, centering toward the button that would release the beast.

"So no one can hurt you again." Casey Birch took in the great beast of the land, Groudon. The pokeball glowed red before a ruby encasing covered it and bright lines of sapphire blue carved around the pokeball in patterns before centering at the button that would call the beast to reality.

Once the legendary beasts were out of the way and captured, freed from Rose's control, both of the boys were lowered back to the ground and forced to their knees from all the energy used to explain to them why the beasts wanted to be captured and protected. Jezebel watched the legendary pokemon happily, finally escape their suffering before she turned her head back to the pitiful gengar that was before her.

"Come on out, everyone; let's settle this. Blaze, Blade, take this pokemon down!" She threw the pokemon away from her just as her pokemon released themselves from their pokeballs and both of Jezebel's male fighting types jumped over her shoulders before throwing down their heels on the ghost pokemon's head and throwing it down to the ground.

"Where are you, Razi? I know you're here!" Rose's brother was the only one who had yet to reveal himself out on this battlefield, and was most likely waiting for an order that his sister was unable to give from the bottom of the ocean.

"Hiding from you, of course, Jezebel." The voice of the man whispered through the air. He was nearby, Jezebel could feel it.

"Come out into the open! Or are you scared?"

"You really think you can take me on?" She could hear chuckling from his voice. "Last time I nearly killed you, if it wasn't for Champion Gwyn Jalen!"

"But this time it's different!" The girl swung her body around and grabbed something that was hovering behind her. She squeezed the form she was holding tightly in her hands before Razi appeared in his changeling form, that of his mismagius. "I'm stronger now and a full changeling." She pulled his face closer to hers to see the death glare in her eyes. "And I'm not afraid of you!" She kicked his body down to the water down below where his sister was submerged. Jezebel dived after him, and from her mouth came a hyper beam attack that hit him square on as his form dissolved from shock and surprise. He was shoved deeper into the water and Jezebel quickly rose to the surface to join the others.

"Keep your eyes out!" Violet shouted over the silence that had fallen over the area. "Rose and Razi are not far away; they can attack again at any moment! It's too soon for them to give up!"

All members of the IPHP League and the young teens looked out over the area, watching for her.

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On the edge of the battlefield, Jezebel's family lay waiting for the all clear for them to see their children, but it was still too dangerous with Rose and Razi still loose in the water. Of all of them, Jezebel's mother was the one who was the most antsy to move. She waited with her hands held over her mouth to prevent herself from screaming as she watched her little girl fighting. The rest of the family watched, with equally pained expressions, but the one who hurt the most was the one who would be dying within a few weeks.

Matthew saw the pained look on her face and turned his head to Casey and Aria who stood with him. "I'm gonna go and talk to them and protect them up on the cliff." The two nodded to him and he raced as fast as his legs would carry him up the cliff. Appearing soon before Brittany Emery-Twain, he stopped before her and smiled.

"Mattie, what are you doing?" The woman questioned the young boy who stood before her.

"Everything is going to be okay, Mrs. Emery-Twain. Jezebel and the others are going to stop them." Matthew smiled up at the woman and walked up closer to her. "You and your family should really step back; we don't want anyone getting hurt. There's already so many of us risking our lives to stop them…" His eyes cast themselves downwards from her. "Jezebel would hate it if she lost you…" The woman gasped lightly at his statement. "She just found out that you were hypnotized all these years; now she wants to know the real you, with what little time she has left."

"My baby… she forgives me?"

Matthew looked up at her and smiled. "There was nothing to forgive since it wasn't your fault. She used to view you as a horrible woman, but now that the truth is revealed… she can't bring herself to hate you or blame you, since it wasn't your fault… but…" Matthew turned around to glare at the water. "That doesn't mean that she's any less furious with Rose."

"None of us are, Matthew." The woman sighed and looked at the ground. Memories of the day she met the vile woman and was placed under her spell still echoed in her head.

"Please, Mrs. Emery-Twain, call me Mattie." The young man smiled at her. "All my other friends call me that."

"I'm… your friend?" Brittany blinked as her eyes widened at the young man before her.

Matthew laughed. "You're just like her, you know, or she's just like you… Jezebel, that is." Matthew then took on a serious tone. "But you really do need to step back, Rose could be around anywhere since we lost track of her under the water, along with her brother."

The woman nodded and stepped back a bit with her family.

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Rosalie Agustino broke the surface behind a good set of rocks away from the eyes and ears of the IPHP League and all the young teens that joined into their operations. She hissed lightly as she watched her two pokemon fighting for their lives out in the middle of the battlefield and being beaten badly while she was away.

Suddenly, bubbles appeared next to her before red hair came up next to her and she quickly pulled her brother to the surface and held him to her side. He gasped for air before her held onto his sister.

"Rose, they beat us… again…" Razi pounded the water, which turned a few heads. Their eyes widened as they were quick to dive back under the water. Rose and Razi quietly pulled themselves to the surface a good twenty feet away in another section of the cove. While the league checked out where they had just been, Razi turned to his sister. "Sorry about that, Sis… but what do we do?"

"Oh I'll do something, all right." Rose snarled and glared upward to see the young green haired boy talking to Jezebel's mother, Brittany. She grinned as she glanced up at her target and rose from the water, taking on her form of gengar before she flew up in the air towards the two. Razi grinned as he watched her fly up and no one was noticing her at all.

All until Violet's ears twitched and she turned to see Rose gunning right for Mattie…

"Mattie! Behind you!" The green haired boy only had enough time to turn around before the devil woman had appeared before him. He gasped as the woman dived, her clawed hands out before her and blood shot into the air.

A scream echoed out, one from Jezebel, as she watched the scene. No one had seen the flash of movement, not even Rose, until the last moment. Rose's claw was embedded through the chest area of Brittany Emery-Twain, who had taken the hit for Mattie, while the hand had still flown through at Mattie and torn open his shoulder from the angle.

Mattie cried out in pain and fell to his knees as he held his shoulder as it bled. His team crowded around him and watched as the woman who had protected him from the deathly blow stood before him, a shocked look to her face while blood slipped out of her nose and mouth. A bloody tear dripped down the side of her face.

She coughed out more blood and held onto Rose's arm when the woman went to yank it out. Even in the grip of the weaker woman, Brittany Emery-Twain held on with all the life still left in her to keep Rose from getting away.

"Mattie…" Brittany was quick to turn to the boy behind her and smiled at him when he looked at her with fearful eyes. "Please take care of my daughter…"

Rose's eyes widened and grinned at the blood before she yanked her arm out of the grip of the dying woman. Brittany fell to the ground and collapsed as the silence hit the air.

"MOM!" Jezebel screamed as the reality hit her and her eyes widened as she watched her mother being attacked and dying before her. Rage overtook her being and the girl sped over to Rose, first breaking off the arm that had been embedded in her mother's torso. Rose didn't scream as most of her mechanical arm was taken, but it was a machine after all.

Rose jumped away, now free of the woman's body. While Brittany lay in Matthew's arms, Jezebel sped forward and changed her form to that of her blaziken. With her powerful legs, she leapt at Rose with such speed and fury the woman wasn't able to keep up. Within seconds, Jezebel had gotten closer to the woman as she tried to escape and had her claws extended to where she reached forward and sliced away at Rose's neck, taking large chunks of skin with her.

Rose hardly had enough time to scream before she collapsed to the ground and ended up rolling her body over the cliff. The woman was struggling to breathe as she fell and it was her brother and her pokemon that came to her rescue before she would suffocate from the disconnection of her vital tubes in her throat due to Jezebel Emery-Twain. Razi glared up at Jezebel before focusing on his sister.

"Gengar, keep her blood in her veins and not slipping out; Hypno, you teleport us all to a safe location so we can take care of this, now!" In the next second the set of them vanished without a trace. Jezebel screamed and looked around for them with an extreme growling in her voice before she turned back to look at her mother, slowly dying on the rocks.

"Jezebel!" The younger female looked to Violet, who called out to her. "Go to your mother! We'll look for Rose! She couldn't have gotten too far!" Violet turned to her members. "Find Rose! She's on the brink of death and it'll take a miracle to revive her, but I bet Razi can do it!"

The IPHP League jumped into the air and fanned out while Jezebel turned back to her dying mother on the rocks in Matthew's arms. Tears started to slip down her face while her family crowded around her mother. Jezebel slowly jumped up the rocks to meet up with them, and prepared to either save her mother, or prepare for her death.

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On an island to the south of the battle, Razi appeared with Rose's team out. He set Rose out on the sand to try and make her more comfortable. Her neck was sliced right open. Claw marks were visible all along it with pieces of skin that also came off when Jezebel had gripped it and ripped.

If Razi had not been there, Rose most likely would not have made it…

"All right, you two; get ready to supply for her! We don't have much time before the league shows up!" The younger brother turned to his older sister. "Rose, Gengar stopped the bleeding, but for you to heal, we need you to suck the energy out of us with dream eater. Take all that you need to heal yourself or you're a goner!"

Rose growled at the wording her brother used. Razi had his hand over her sliced open neck and could feel the severed cords moving as he held them there when she growled. He looked down at her in worry; normally he didn't give a damn about this feeling against his hand so long as the person died, but this was his sister, the one who came up with all the plans, who was dying before him.

"Rose! Sis! Please! You'll die soon and never complete your revenge!"

Rose finally gave in and sighed before she took on the traits of her gengar. She opened her mouth to speak, but found that she could not. Her eyes widened before she growled again and thought of the move in her mind before she would be dead. From the three before her, she sucked out the energy of all of them and it directly went to her neck to tie things back together and drain that of her pokemon's energy and that of her brother's. She used this process until she was able to cover her neck in a thick veil of skin, bright red in color and showing off the large amount of skin that Jezebel had taken from her, her entire neck was almost red, meaning the entire front of it was destroyed.

Her pokemon fell to the ground, knocked out from all that was taken from them. Razi was all right, for Rose only took a small amount from him so he could still use his abilities to get them out of there. Razi picked up his sister in his arms, careful of her neck, and levitated up into the air. He returned Rose's pokemon to their balls on her belt and flew away from the battleground behind them, going back to recover and start all over again.

Jezebel's Point of View:

I rushed up to the side of my family and my mother who was in the arms of my best friend. Mattie held onto my mother as the blood seeped out of her. My eyes widened and I took on the form of Silky and released her to help me out.

"Come on, Silky. Morning sun!" I dropped down next to my mother and used my healing attack. Silky was about to help me when a hand got into our way. I blinked up at it and watched as my mother stopped me. She gently pushed my hands away and blinked her tear-filled eyes at me.

"Don't… Jezzy…" I was startled out of my healing and took her hand into my own. "It's all right…"

"No, it's not! You're dying!" I pushed my hands back over her abdomen. "Let me heal you!"

"It's not worth it… I was dying anyway…" She held up her hand to my cheek. "I have brain cancer… I have for years… I've been fighting it most of your life…"

"Why didn't you tell me?" I hiccupped. My eyes were pouring tears. It was no different than a waterfall pouring water over rocks.

"Rose… she got to me eight years ago… prevented me from telling anyone…" I felt my mother's fingers brush over every little portion of my face. "And even if she hadn't gotten to me… I only had a few weeks left…"

"But that's still time, Mom! Still time you can use!"

"I've suffered for too many years, Jezebel… I've prepared myself for this moment… I'm ready to die…"

"But I'm not! None of us are!" I gripped her fragile hand in my own and held it to my face again. My heart was swelling with so many emotions that I'd never felt before in my life, that I'd never felt for her. But because of Rose, raging sorrow came to my heart.

"But I'm surrounded by my family… something I've wanted for years now… something that was taken from all of us because of that woman…" She suddenly made a high-pitched sound and blood shot out of her mouth.

"Mom!" I raced to cover her with my hands again to heal her, but she batted them off.

"Don't… I'm ready, Jezebel…"

"But I'm not!" I sobbed. "Mom… I never got to know the real you!"

"You still can…" My eyes widened as I looked at her. "Jezebel… I recorded everything that happened to me in diaries… I have for my entire life… ever since I could write… your father can show you where they are…" I looked back at my father and watched as he wept above me before he dropped on his knees next to me. My uncles and aunts followed suit.

"Brittany… I wish I had known…" My mother reached up to wipe away my father's tears.

"Norman… I love you… I love all of you…" She looked around to all of us before she looked back at her husband. "Norman, you and Mattie take care of my baby girl…"

"We will, Brittany!" Mattie was quick to respond first and my mother smiled at him.

"You're a good boy, Mattie… I know you'll be good to my daugh…ter…" My mother's eyes rolled into the back of her head and I watched as her hand fell from my father's cheek. My eyes widened as I watched as she faded away from us; she felt lifeless. I slowly reached out toward her with shaking hands… her skin… it already felt… cold… to the touch…!

"Mom!" I could barely form the word as it came out of my mouth. "Mother!" I thrashed forward to get closer to her body, but my father held me back. He crushed me into his chest, afraid to let me go for his own sanity. I cried. All I could do was cry as I watched my mother's lifeless body lie before me. I reached out from my father's hold and my eyes widened when I saw the blood drying up and turning darker.

"MOTHER!"

Witch's Note:

Oh. God… and now a moment of silence for the character of Brittany Emery-Twain, who died before her family, finally happy.

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But there was the death I promised you all, and the almost-death of Rose has come forth. Jezebel has rendered the woman speechless- total loss of voice entirely. It'll be a while before we see her again, but who knows about her brother.

I hope this chapter struck the hearts of you readers and I hope it was the battle chapter that you were hoping for. I'll begin working on the next chapter, which will deal with many flashbacks and reading in Brittany's diaries along with court. Will they see the same things that the IPHP League and the families see? Or will all four of Jezebel's aunts and uncles be sent to prison? You'll have to tune in next time to find out!

Please send in Reviews and Questions for me! We have only about 12 chapters left before this story is over! We're coming closer to the end! Love you all and see you next week with another chapter!

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