A few hours of rest later, Vengeance's eyes snapped open. She looked around the room, looking at us all with a confused look on her face.

"What happened?" She asked, her voice soft.

"You nearly killed yourself by attacking Jorethic." I explained. "You really need to be careful."

"If that attack didn't kill him, my best attack...would have to do." Vengeance looked at the floor. "But I've never used it before...my father said it's deadly."

"Your father?" Seedeth asked curiously. "What did he teach you?"

"An attack that allows both pokemon to be taken down...killed...it's a self sacrifice move." Vengeance explained, "My father never told me the name of the attack, he just told me never to use it...as both pokemon can be killed in the process."

"It's a last resort attack." I said quietly, "Why would you use it on the likes of him?"

"To end this, and to prevent Duskull from getting hurt." Vengeance looked over to the duskull, and a tear fell down her eye. "Come here, duskull." She said softly. The duskull floated over to Vengeance, and gave her a hug.

"You don't have to do this." Duskull whispered, "You can be my friend, and I will help you beat him."

"I don't want you getting hurt." Vengeance sighed, "You're too young to get messed up in all this...you don't deserve it. You should play with pokemon, learn to be a great battler, live with a trainer who will help you. I have nothing, except a grudge and a person I can't love." She looked at me softly, causing Seedeth to growl a little.

"I want, no, need to help!" Duskull demanded. "You cannot do this alone, and I don't wish you to! I want to kick his butt with you!"

"Such a stubborn little thing, aren't you?" Vengeance laughed a little, "I admire that in a pokemon." She coughed, clearing her throat, and looked over to us all. "Two verses one isn't fair, but I expect him to have a few servants on his side...I guess I'll be needing your help."

The duskull gave Vengeance a look of happiness, and gave her a hug. "I love you." She giggled.

"Aw, you're a cute pokemon too." Vengeance gave a small laugh. "I guess you could be my little sister, of sorts. After we have kicked his butt, I'll look after you, just you and me." She turned to us. "After this is done, you won't be seeing me again." She smiled, "I'll be out of your hair as soon as he falls."

"But why?" I asked, wagging my tail worriedly.

"I have taken up too much of both of your times with this grudge. As soon as it ends, you may travel around again, see the world together, or whatever you used to do before running here."

"We were thinking of staying here." Seedeth smiled, "Travelling a little around the area every now and then...we need to focus on our love...maybe spreading more love around...whatever goes through our mind.
"I'll go where Duskull wants to go." Vengeance smiled, looking down on the younger pokemon. "We may have an age difference of four years, but I need to look after her."

"Right then, we'd better go find that Haunter before he hurts anyone else." I said, turning to the entrance of the tent. The rest of the pokemon nodded, and we all exited the tent.

Outside the tent floated the purple pokemon himself, giggling his butt off...if he had one. He looked at us with slimy green eyes, and shook his head.

"You never give up, you guys." He said, clicking his claw.

An absol who looked amazingly like Jason floated in front of him. The eyes of the pokemon where sullen, as if the soul of the pokemon was under the influence of the ghost type. The absol gave a growl, and started lunging towards Vengeance. Instead of just standing there with my mouth open, I slammed into the absol's body with my beak. Blood poured from the wound, but the pokemon didn't seem to respond.

"You think you can stop Jason?" Jorethic laughed, moving his claws about, "He is under my control and my power!" The absol charged around, trying to hit Vengeance as she floated away from his attacks. She gave a cry of pain when the absol finally hit her, seeming to be struck with dark type energy. The duskull fell out of her arms, and landed beside her, also groaning in pain.

"Jason!?" I cried, "How do you know his name...how...what did you do to him?"

"I found him sniffing the floor for something." Jorethic laughed, "He was easy to take, as he was filled with anger and guilt. Those emotions are so easy to manipulate."

He then twirled his hand, and Jason started walking over to Vengeance. He twirled his hand again, and Seedeth and I where contained in a box of psychic energy. I tried pecking through the barriers, and Seedeth tried punching through them, but it was no use, we where stuck. We could only watch in horror as Jason opened his big mouth, showing his shiny, pointed fangs. It was then that the duskull floated up to the pokemon, her red eye glowing brightly.

"Don't hurt my friend!" She cried, blowing a wind from her body. The wind was slightly purple in hue, and seemed to cause Jorethic to groan a little with discomfort. Jason's eyes seemed to flicker between his now empty self and his normal self. The absol shook his head, and swiped the duskull down with a paw. She fell back to the floor next to Vengeance, who weakly opened her eyes.

"No..." She cried, an aura forming around her body, "Duskull..."

Her eyes turned red, and she seemed to suddenly prop herself up from the floor. She seemed to make a deep breath as electric energy started to form around her, along with the aura. She exhaled, and the energy spread like water in a flood. The shock wave attack flowed through Jason's body, causing him to scream in pain while his eyes flickered from empty to normal again. The eyes finally faded at their normal state, but Jason's body lay on the floor, seemingly motionless. Jorethic clapped his clawed hands together, and gave a little laugh.

"Well done, but now it is me you face." He grinned, "I've been looking forward to killing you as soon as I found out that you hadn't killed yourself. After all, you where the only one to witness the illegal taming of the duskull over there." He pointed to the fainted duskull on the floor, and gave a laugh. "You are the only one who can lock me up." He gave a grin, "And this is why you must die."

His eyes glowed red as he charged up ghost type energy in his hands. Vengeance retaliated by forming a wall of energy around her as soon as he fired the ball at her. She groaned a little, holding up her protective shield as shadow ball attacks where repeatedly fired at her.

"Something's gotta give." The haunter cackled, charging up more shadow balls, "You can't hide behind your shields forever, emotional or physical."

It was at this point that Vengeance's eyes seemed to light up. She took a deep breath, and removed the shield, quickly moving out of the way of a grey ball of energy after she did. Jorethic gave a little cackle and gave chase, throwing balls of energy after her. Some of these balls hit her, causing her pain as shown by the look on her face, but also seeming to cause a dark aura to form around her body. This continued for a while, until another shadow ball slammed into Vengeance, causing her to fall onto the ground again with a groan. Jorethic floated over, charging another ball.

"Its a shame I didn't tame you." He said calmly, charging another shadow ball, "I would have liked to fuck your pussy till it was sore and cracked."

Vengeance groaned in pain, but the aura around her seemed to suddenly flare up, and she floated up next to him. "I would never be your servant!" She cried.

"I can tame anyone, I was the second best from the warm place!" Jorethic laughed, "And what are you gonna do about it? Kill me?"

"Yes." The aura around Vengence's body seemed to intensify, her eyes glowing white rather than red or blue. The aura also surrounded the shocked looking haunter, who looked around himself in panic.

"What?" He gasped, "Your kind don't learn destiny bond!"

"I am proud of my patient wobbuffet father." Vengeance growled, the aura seeming to darken. "No one on this planet deserves what you did to me or the duskull...but I have something to say."

"And what is that?" The haunter growled, feeling pain from the attack.

"You didn't hurt me." Vengeance started, "Nothing can hurt me." The aura grew so dark that only the two's eyes could be seen. "You didn't hurt me...nothing can stop me now."

Then there was a flash of light, and the screams of two pokemon echoed through the night sky. All that we could see was a blinding light for a few seconds, and then it faded. The duskull we had cared for looked over with a desperate look on her face, floating around the scene, which was just a charred crater.

"No..." Duskull cried, her tears falling on top of what seemed to be the remains of a black toy on the floor. "She's...gone..."

Now that the box around us had faded, I ran over to the duskull, holding her close. What looked like a toy was actually the lifeless body of Vengeance, with the zipper on her mouth opened. Seedeth followed me, and put a hand on my shoulder.

"She died for servants everywhere, Ruffy." She said, rubbing my shoulder, "And, seeing this duskull and her actions has moved me. Ruffled, you're free."

"Free?" I asked, looking at the flat remains of Vengeance's body.

"You don't have to be with me anymore." Seedeth looked away from me, her toes seeming to gather up charred dirt. "You can go find a mate. One who will properly love you."

"Seedeth..." I started, looking at the weeping Duskull, "You are a mate who will properly love me. I will teach you how." I grabbed her shoulder with my own wing. "I'm not like the others in your life, I won't leave you." I then put my other wing on the Duskull's back, "I won't leave either of you."