Playing With Fire: Chapter 25
AN: This chapter is dedicated to SarahNicole98, who was my first friend on Fanfiction. :D Hope you enjoy! And I hope that everyone enjoys the whole story! :)
The boy and the Houndoom walked slowly through the white mist, wondering where they were.
"Where are we?" the boy asked, and the Houndoom shrugged as best she could.
"I don't know," she said non-committaly, and the boy choked.
"You can talk?!" The Houndoom rolled her eyes.
"Never," she said, but before the boy could splutter a reply a small cough interrupted them.
"I've been waiting for you," the Pokemon said, stepping out of the mist ahead of the duo and looking at them through a sharp green eye.
"Hhh!" The Houndoom gasped and lowered her head at the Judgement Pokemon standing ahead of them in the swirling mist.
"You really exist?" The boy asked in awe, and Arceus nodded slowly.
"If you have read some folklaw about me, then you'll know what a certain power of mine is," she said, and the Houndoom raised her head in delight.
"You're really going to do it?" she asked in amazement, and Arceus nodded again, a bit quicker.
"Yes, Blitz. With a little help from Giratina, that is," Arceus walked gracefully to one side, and looked expectantly into the mist. A few minutes later, however, she made a little noise of impatience.
"Where is he?" she asked no one, but then she spied a small blackish-purple spot that had appeared in the mist, and that was steadily widening until it could easily swallow two double-decker buses tied on top of each other.
"I'm here, Arceus. You get too impatient," a deep rumbling voice said, as a pair of beady yellow eyes and a yellow helmet appeared through the portal, with the rest of the snakelike Renegade Pokemon appearing fast. The black and red tendrils along his great back quivered as his tail slipped through the portal, and he closed it with a rumbling growl.
Arceus tutted.
"Let's just get started, shall we?" she said, stretching a hoof and drawing a green circle through the mist around the two astonished companions.
Giratina smiled at his fellow Legendary Pokemon's lack of patience.
"Of course."
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I sniffed from where I was lying in the alley, Brad lying on one side of me, and Lucky asleep on my other side. Inferno was sitting up against a wall to the right of us.
"How did they die?" I asked quietly, and Inferno looked up at me.
"Team Galactic tried to steal us. We were near a lake, and when Danny resisted they threw him into the lake, where a Gyarados tried to eat him.
Me and Brad killed both Galactic agents while Blitz leapt into the water and attempted to rescue Danny from the Gyarados. She didn't get there in time, and Danny was bitten in the stomach and was dead before she got there."
I swallowed.
"And Blitz?"
"She was a Fire Type. You know what happens if we stay in water too long." Inferno answered and I shivered. Right then I felt glad that I didn't share that weakness with my friends.
Suddenly I heard a small snore from my left. I looked round and saw that Bradley had fallen asleep.
I looked back to Inferno, who was grinning.
"You know, he really missed you," Inferno said quietly, pointing to the Charmeleon. I smiled inwardly, though I didn't show it on my face.
"What about Lucky?" I asked, wondering how the Vulpix had been getting on.
"He's been fine. Brad's been guarding Lucky with his life, as you saw earlier." I grinned and looked down my muzzle to my nose, where I could just see the ends of a few scars on my nose.
"How about you?" Inferno shrugged dismissively of my question.
"Not too bad, really. I got my claw missing when I first met those two Absol that you chased away, and this part of my tail was ripped out by a rampaging Zangoose." he said calmly.
To me, that sounded not too good.
"Oh... so that's why they were asking Lucky where you were," I said, and the Magmar nodded.
"I accidentally trespassed on their territory a few miles away while searching for berries, and they attacked me. Then Brad showed up, wondering where I was, and we both creamed them,"
I lay back on the pavement, smiling up to the stars.
"I'm glad you've been okay," I said to Inferno, placing a warm paw on Lucky who had just started to shiver from the autumn wind.
It was good to be back.
Brad's POV
I lay on my side, staring at the Arcanine next to me. I wondered how she'd coped without all of us, especially Danny with the food supply.
She couldn't have done any worse than me and Inferno, anyway. I shivered at the though of those gigantic claws raking down my face, permanently scarring me.
I heard her talking to Inferno, about Blitz and Dannys' deaths. I then heard Inferno reply, and I wanted to join the conversation. But I just felt too tired; seeing Amber alive had taken a lot out of my emotionally.
I sighed, rolling onto my other side and facing away from Amber, and closed my eyes.
I wonder if she'll ever love me, I thought, before I slipped away into sleep.