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Chapter Twenty Eight: Reunited once more
I woke up but didn't open my eyes, a throbbing headache dominated my senses. I let out a moan as I tried to open my eyes, this failed due to the familiar loss of my senses. But I knew what was coming and spoke, or better said thought, before the other could.
"You two were wrong, he is still stirring trouble and his master is the cause of the new disaster." I snapped at the celebi and mew I knew were on the receiving end.
"Umm…yeah, I guess so…" mew said hesitantly as if the worst was yet to come to me.
"It gets worse." Celebi confirmed. Great, I get all the good news don't I?
"Let me guess, he has captured all of the legendary beasts and I'm too late as well as he has gotten another deadly weapon and is about to go on a tantrum like a happiny you gave an egg bomb too?" I questioned none to sarcastically, the last battle came out as a win for me purely by luck.
"No, his master is one of the stronger legendary pokémon. We don't know who but he or she is no pushover." Mew noted and I let out another inner sigh.
"One last question, did I agree to this when I was human?" I asked curiously, I wanted to make sure of something with the answer.
"No, what makes you ask?" celebi asked curiously, I could just imagine the look on her face with her head tilted on an angle.
"Just wanted to make sure I wasn't insane." I replied simply, I must have been to agree to something like that which I was set to do, this sensation continued instead of me regaining my senses so I added "Mind leaving my mind? I want some time to think without to voices nagging at me at the back of my head." I thought bluntly, a moment later my senses began to fade back. I began to relax, I needed to think a bit. Sadly this didn't last as something nudged my side in a spot which was very sore.
"What's the big idea!" I shouted as my eyes shot open and I bolted upright, everyone was staring at me, I looked around and saw we weren't at the gym anymore. I went silent and made a slight blush of embarrassment before adding "Why am I here?"
"You passed out." Serva answered, that much I knew so I just made a face.
"Does anything hurt?" I heard an oddly familiar voice I didn't expect, I looked to see the nurse beside me.
"Only my side. Who's idea was it to poke me?" I said in a bit of a grumpy tone as I rubbed my sore spot to answer the nurses question, I saw Evona shy away at this so my question.
"No surprise, that eevee was nudging you there every thirty seconds." She said with a smile, I glared at Evona who made an attempt at a smile.
"So, why did you pass out this time?" Lyro questioned me in an overly casual manner as he gave me a hand to get up, I took it and got up with surprising ease given the fire like sensation that knocked me out.
"What do you mean "this time"?" I questioned him back with a hint of annoyance in my voice "You and Evona lead me when it comes to being knocked out and the last time I was like this was after that battle with…." I paused, I was pretty sure not ever pokémon present knew the story and I didn't want them to "That big field battle after my tiring battle with the magikarp…." I said with no confidence in my voice, that wouldn't have convinced even a slowpoke so I then added a more truthful statement "And when Evona found me out on the field before."
"And how many times have we fainted?" Lyro said with a raise of his eyebrows, I looked back at him with a confident look.
"Well when we were battling that…." I paused again, yet another encounter I didn't want to public "Sunkern?" I said stupidly with a slight raise of my shoulders and it quite literally sounded more like a question than statement, I saw the looks the others were giving me so I decided to think of some others though as I rushed through my memories there were no others "Well the list of times you would have fainted if I didn't let my stupidity guide me is bigger." I said confidently, I knew Lyro would challenge this.
"Really?" he questioned with his eyebrow going as far up as possible, he added with confidence to match mine.
"Yep." I said with a grin before starting my list "Like back when we first met with that scyther and then with the sneasel, houndour and poochyena though I am pretty sure you guys were actually knocked out, that or you were to busy doing your fur while I was having mine, frozen, burned and blasted with shadow balls all at once, and with…" I trailed off again, I thought a bit about who to use as zekrom, reshiram and Zreka "That pair, an elekid and magby. Then with… nuzleaf?" I said, the last bit about comparing Zreka to a nuzleaf left me a bit uncertain since only their types matched and then I added something in note of the deadly sword he had "Might I remind you how dangerous his twig was?"
"You are a master at coded messages." Evona said as she slowly shook her head with a sigh.
"Aren't I?" I answered sarcastically.
"Just use the proper pokémon not just any random thing that comes to mind." Cynder said with a sigh, the others joined in.
"Why what could you possibly mean?" I said in a play at being stupid, another sigh followed, I looked up by some urge and saw the puzzled look on the faces of the people present, then I turned back to Cynder. It was true Evona and Lyro hadn't quite told him all of it, more like a brief overview and they didn't mention the pokémon's names and a few details like the siege were missed so even he and Serva were a bit blank on this.
"You can't just beat a scyther and a gang of three pokémon and then struggle with a magikarp." Cynder said plainly, he was all to right. Maybe I should have said a trio of diglet or washed up magikarp?
"Well what are you going to do to make me?" I questioned after a pause, I wasn't to confident in this, some nagging sense told me not to be.
"We could tell them." Evona said cheekily, I glared at her angrily but she pretended it was something along the likes of "Why thanks for the favour!" and in returned gave me as warm smile much to my annoyance.
"Well you two wouldn't know the whole story, you weren't there with the magikarp." I said with some caution to use the names I had previously used, then I added a part to try and annoy her back "And unless you actually were fussing over your fur back with that trio of dark types you wouldn't know what exactly happened would you?" I said in an almost smug manner, though that nagging feeling to not get to confident remained.
"We weren't completely knocked out so we could still watch, plus while you were taking a nice nap after the big battle we had a conversation with one of the guards, a big green one that is thin and long to be exact." Evona continued with some cheek in her voice, she was referring to the serperior of course though the serperior had been knocked out when I arrived so it wouldn't know it all.
"Yeah, that pokémon was having its own nap while that battle went on so I could confidently question the accuracy of that story." I countered with a roll of my eyes and my arms cross at my chest.
"Stop with the excuses or I'll lick the story out of you." She countered with a roll of her eyes to match mine.
"Next time I get away it will be for good." I mumbled, Evona gave me a look that implied a challenge "How about breakfast first? Or whatever meal suits the time it is." I suggested as I jumped down from the bed me and the rest of the pokémon had been standing on.
"Where are you going?" Alex questioned as I landed, I looked up at him, he was standing with most of his weight on one foot and booth hands on his hips. I rubbed my belly in reply, his posture relaxed and he put on a puzzled expression "You faint without warning and for no reason and the first thing you can think of when you wake up is food?" he asked, admittedly that sounded stupid so I gave an equally so reply, a pointless grin on my face as I shook my head wildly up and down, he made a face at this.
"I say we follow his lead, we haven't eaten since breakfast." Jane said in a bright tone as she led the way out of the room, I follow closely behind. After a few steps I heard the rest of them follow.
A few minutes later we were all in the cafeteria of the pokémon hospital with the trio of people sitting at a table and the pokémon sitting between them on the benches or on the floor, I sat on the floor with my back leaning against the bench, Jane had handed out the brown pellets known and pokémon food but I wasn't eating mine, I took this time for break and just sat there with my eyes closed.
"So, how do we decided who gets to keep him?" Jack said, this snapped me out of my semi dreamlike state, my eyes shot open and I tuned into their conversation.
"Well its my ball so I say I do." Jane said simply, as she put something else in her mouth, that was enough.
"You know we did agree to let him choose, not capture hi…." Alex began but was cut short by Jack.
"Yeah, yeah, why do that? I can bet he wouldn't choose any of us." Jack said though an evident mouthful.
"What is going on?" I shouted very loudly, everyone went silent, I bolted upright and glared at them then shifted my gaze to the row of poké-balls attached to Jane's side, two sat separately from each other, previously it had been only one. I snarled and made a quick lunge at them, I was going to grab them booth since I didn't know which one was for me.
"Eekkkk!" she squealed as I grabbed booth of the shrunk down poké-balls, I jumped away after I had them booth in my hold, one was in each paw. Now which one was which? I pressed the button on one of them and it grew in size, a moment later a beam of red light shot out from the button and hit me, it spread over me and I felt the same sensation as when Alex had tried to catch me, my point of view rapidly shifted into the ball. Great, just my luck I picked the wrong one. I thought to myself as I pulled back a paw before slamming it at the wall, to my surprise it didn't work. Let me out! The thought thundered in my head and as I said the last word the ball opened and my point of view shifted out again and I felt myself materialize once again. In front of me stood Jane with Alex on her right and Jack on the left, I looked at her hand and noticed it held the ball which was used to holding me. I jumped and swung my arms above me to try and grab it but she just held it up higher and out of my reach. I curled my lower lip and crossed my arms stubbornly after realising the only way to get it off her would be to hurt her and I didn't feel like a fight, especially knowing that I would have a everyone present attack me "Ohh quit being a baby." She said to me.
"Well Riolu are baby pokémon." Alex noted, she growled at him for that pointless remark.
"Anyway how do we decide who keeps him, I mean you didn't really catch him fair and square now did you?" Jack said, he seemed to be keen to settle this fast.
"Oo, oo!" I said as I waved my paw in the air enthusiastically as if to say "pick me!", they all looked at me so I began a quick charade. I pointed at each of them as to say "you" then I held my paws up in a guard before bouncing on the balls of my feet and pushing my paws out in a mockery of a fight, a hitmonchans battle style more specifically then I stopped this and pointed to myself as I grinned at them.
"And what happens if we all lose?" Jack said sceptically as he positioned his hands on his hips, I did another short charade by pointing to myself again and walking on the spot "So if you beat all of us we let you go?" he asked to make sure he had understood me correctly, I nodded enthusiastically though no one shared my enthusiasm.
"No deal." Jane said in a dull manner, it wasn't like I had expected different but my spirits slumped to hear the words.
"How about we go back to the old plan?" Alex suggested, he seemed to side with me more than the others did and seemed to prefer to have me on his team only if I wanted it since I wouldn't make his life easy if I didn't want to be near him. And that went for all of them.
"Hey joy, mind checking my pokémon? I want to be sure they are ready for the breeder conference today." Said a young trainer as he held out his poké-balls to nurse joy, he had short blond hair and a blue top with some cream shorts.
"I didn't know there was a breeders conference here today." Jane said in a low voice of disappointment.
"You need two pokémon to enter though you can use more, it's a race to get past a bunch of obstacles and then ride a sled down a hill, you have to try and slow down the other teams as you do to make sure they don't beat you." The kid explained, a twinkle entered Jane's eyes and she brought her hands together in front of her before looking down at me with a hopeful smile. It sounded fun to an extent and didn't involve direct combat, and I guess it could be a start to some training against people more experienced than the dopes I was with so I nodded.
"You've changed your tune." Evona said as she walked up beside me with a curious expression on her face.
"It's a way to train and it doesn't really involve a direct fight from what he says and it sounds fun to say the least." I replied simply as I walked back to the bench where I had been sitting, my bag of pellets was there and I wanted to have a snack now.
"And you never said what made you faint, it wasn't the battle so don't tell me that." She said as she followed me, I sighed. Since it hadn't been mentioned up to now I was hoping it would be forgotten.
"Zreka." I answered plainly in one word as I reached down to pick up my bag "And he had powerful company." I added with a grim tone.
"Let me guess, that's either the magby or elekid, or maybe even the nuzleaf?" said Serva in a smiling tone who had been ease dropping. She had no idea how serious this was.
"The nuzleaf." I explained to make it clear who I had used to reference Zreka "A big, sly, black and red nuzleaf who nearly cut me in half." I said with an even grimmer tone, I heard an "ohh." From Serva though this was much quieter "And its all because of those two!" I snarled in reference to celebi and mew, I clenched my paws into fists as anger surged through me "Of every moron on this planet they chose me! Why did it have to be me! There are plenty stronger, Plenty!" I thundered as the alien rage possessed me, I didn't know myself like this, sure I have been angry but now I was barely containing myself to pouncing on whoever was nearest to me and smashing their skull. This wasn't me and I knew it.
That's it, unleash that fury. Came a voice in my head, it wasn't mine. It wasn't Zreka's or any of the two small legendary's, but what it was was a dead give away. I activated my sense of auras and sure enough something was inside me. I closed my eyes to concentrate, it was a dark aura, almost black at that.
Get out of me! I thundered back at it, I felt my aura begin to burn up and I focused on used it to push out whatever was in me, slowly it gave way and the vague aura in me separated, it felt painful in the sense I felt like someone was ripping out my stomach though it was over quickly. I opened my eyes to see a grinning gengar staring at me.
"You got me out but can you beat me?" it -he by the sounds of it- said evilly as he put his hands together, between them appeared a dark crimson orb with little to make it different from black, multiple rings of energy split off and circle it like the rings of Saturn. Purple sparks began to fly off the orb before he pushed it out at me. I felt a burning pain as it contacted with my chest, I was pushed back and a beam of circles at every angle extended from the orb pushed me steadily along. I only came to a halt after having flown past the people who had resumed their dispute on ownership, up until they heard me shout about mew and celebi, and hit the wall of the counter with a loud crash and even then I didn't fall to the ground, my body had made a reasonable sized imprint into the plastic workings and I was held there by the constant pressure of the beam coming from gengars dark pulse.
"Stop that!" I heard Evona thundered with a fury I didn't know the normally playful eevee possessed before she jumped at the shadow pokémon with a streak of white light trailing behind her, though she merely passes through the overly confident ghost type.
"I'm a ghost type lil' one." He chuckled at her before looking back to me and pumping more power to the dark pulse.
"Being a ghost type doesn't help with this!" Lyro roared as sparks flared his cheeks, this effect spread over his whole body before he suddenly burst into a shower of sparks with tendrils of electricity whizzed off his body which was coated in an electrics charge, he then pumped his fists in front of him and a bolt of electricity shot out of him in the gengar's direction, hovering just above the ground. the gengar's grin faded immediately and his hands dropped limply to his sides, as a result the beam stopped too. I heard a gulp before the bolt of yellow electricity that was tinted with the same blue of Lyro's badge contacted with the purple shadow. It engulfed him in less than a blink, his body made uncontrolled contractions and twitches as his expression turned to one of pain, this stopped soon and her fell to the ground, I looked back to Lyro who stood there panting in the middle of a large scorch mark, the occasional spark flying off his red cheeks.
"I'm not done yet, my master expects more!" the gengar said as he floated back into the air. Was this Zreka? It explained the dark pulse and meant I would be able to beat him here and now, but then how come Evona couldn't hit him? "I have never failed Zreka yet!" he added and thus confirming he isn't. he turned back to me and raised his hand, he fired a zigzagging beam of black light from his fingertips, it had streaks of crimson at regular intervals and a light purple aura around it-night shade-, it came within inches of me before I rolled to the side to dodge. There was a violent explosion beside me before bent and superheated shards of rubble hit my side.
"You want me?" I questioned rhetorically, I was pretty sure he was more than a match for any of the pokémon used by the trio of humans and Evona didn't have a move to use, Lyro had shown power enough to more than phase the shadow pokémon but he himself became exhausted in doing so. I had to get that gengar away "Come and get me!" I challenged as I charged at him which very well violated my challenge, he fired a series of globs of purple sludge which by the smells of it, very foul smells at that, was either toxic or acid-sludge bomb-. I dodged left and right and continued my charge, I got close before jumping straight at him, I knew I was just going to pass through and that was the point, I landed on the table behind him and turned back to make a taunt "Did I scare you?" before looking forwards and jumping at the panel of glass that separated the inside from the out. There was sound of shattering glass as I tackled the window, it gave way with no resistance, a few shards of glass fell down on me and gave me a few cuts but I was otherwise fine as I continued. I heard an angry scowl behind me before the sound of the air whooshing around my pursuer. I quickly found my way around the building and onto the street where a few horns were heard as I dashed across the road and a few less noticeable "what's going on?"s from passers by.
"You can't out me you little pup." The gengar said, I could practically hear him grinning. I ignored this and continued to run, all I wanted to do was get distance between us and anyone else, I couldn't escape defeat this time.
"I'm not trying to win or get away you mindless moron!" I shouted back to him as I followed the road in some hope of getting out of this city. I saw the beginnings of a dirt road on a hill ahead as it came into view over the houses and a glimmer of hope arose, I could escape him in the forest. This hope was extinguished as I felt a powerful blast at my feet followed my an explosion that quite literally threw me off my feet. I flailed through the air before hitting the ground and making a bit of a tumble and hitting a halt.
"You lost this, not the round or the battle but the war!" laughed the gengar as he raised his hands above his head, a dark ball of energy formed between them, it seemed to be made up of an inner core that was a light shade of purple that could be called white on first glance, around it the purple colouring became darker as it went out until it eventually reached a pitch black out side which had a crisply defined surface and emitted a faint purple light, between the white inside and the black outside tendrils of black electricity extended and were outlines in a pale purple, around the outside sparks of similar electricity encircled the ball. He held it above his head until it grew bigger than the pokémon himself "Say your goodbyes!" he smirked before launching it straight at me, I quickly cross my arms in front of me and made a shield with iron defence, I made it as thick as I could to resist the black ball of energy though to my dismay I couldn't hold it back and my arms lost the distance between them and my body in a mere moment after which the shields retracted and the ball of black energy collided with me in a deadly explosion. I was pushed hard against the ground and felt it give way with a crack barely heard due to the sound of the explosion, I felt the gushes of wind created by the explosion whip about through the smokescreen along with some of the rubble which had been tossed up finding its way down, the smokescreen cleared quickly and I was left lying in a crater with sparks of black electricity crackling through me as an after effect. I lay there barely awake, the gengar recoiled slightly at this but recovered quickly enough "I admire you're spirit and strength but it isn't enough to get you through. Then once I am done with you, master says I may take care of the yellow squirt and that amusing brown one as I wish, others I encounter are to be taken care of as I wish so that means the rest of your friends." He taunted with a cackle, he went to far with that. I felt the core substance of my aura pulse and radiate, it filled me with a renewed energy, I rose up shakily and this made the gengar panic slightly, he charged another ball. I raise my paws in front of me with the palms facing him and he fired it, the impact made me slide a few centimetres but I regained the ground with little trouble before pulling back my paws and pushing them out to launch attack back at the shadow pokémon, shadow ball being a ghost type move did plenty of damage on the pokémon of its same type. He fell back on the ground without a sound except for an "oof" of whatever he breathed being forced out of him. I myself had suffered some damage too and was barely keeping myself up, I saw the gengar start to get up on his feet rather than floating up, he seemed to tired to do so and was shaking with exhaustion though I was pretty sure most of it was from what Lyro did, the shadow ball I sent back to him must have just gotten rid of his confidence or whatever kept him up. He raise a hand at me in preparation to use nightshade.
"Strike him in any way and it is your end!" a voice I thought I wouldn't never hear again, Asen. I saw the mountain hopping pokémon leap over me and land in front of the shadow pokémon, the outer edge of his horn let off a mid way to black crimson glow like the one on his badge, and like his badge it had lighter spots swirled into it in a liquid like manner, he raises his head to his right before bringing it down to his left in a long sweep, his horn slashed across the front of the ghost type and made him stumble back. Yet another super effective hit with night slash, but the pokémon wasn't done as he recovered quickly and pulled back a fist, a light blue mist swirled around his fist with a few streaks of white the mist began to swirl rapidly, the gengar then charged at Asen and struck him hard on the black oval on Asen's forehead, crystals and chards of ice began to grow around where the punch had landed and went on to encase his whole body at a very rapid pace until he was completely covered. I felt my aura ignite, and at the same time I felt a blazing heat below me… that wasn't right for sure. I looked down to see an inferno covering the step of my right foot, thought only the part that actually touched the ground. Perfect. I thought to myself with a grin coming over me, I leaped out of the crater with a renewed energy and landed on Asen with my burning foot and looked down at the shadow pokémon who was backing up, the ice melted almost as fast as it appeared and I leapt off to avoid hurting Asen "Thanks." He said as he shook himself, I looked back at him with a smile before turning back and to my horror seeing a massive shadow ball gliding just above the ground and heading straight at us, it was much bigger than the first one and I did the first thing that came to mind, I made a sharp twist and lifted my leg with the fire on it in a kick which collided with the shadow ball, there was an explosion and I felt myself fly back with the angered cry of "No!" from Asen as I flew by, everything seemed to go in slow motion and my eyelids blinked slowly, they didn't open the second time and I found myself once again engulfed by a wave of darkness.
