"Wake up, sunset."
I open my eyes and blink in confusion. "Sunset?"
Sori snickers. "Your scales remind me of the color of a sunset. Don't you like it?"
My brother grins. "It's almost the opposite of dawn, not sure why we should like it or not. As long as we are not the end of all hope for you it's fine."
The Deino tilts her head. "End of dawn, maybe? Nah, I stick with hot scales."
She snickers and rubs against us before we stand up. I look to Drak. "So, first we get some breakfast then we start our training?"
My brother nods. "Sounds like a plan."
Our guide grins and takes the lead.

As we enter the food room a Rattata dashes into the kitchen, not sure if it was the same as yesterday.
"My ruin returns! I shall praise Arceus when they finally leave..."
I shake my head. "We're not that bad, right?"
Sori grins. "No, you're worse."
My brother snickers while we sit down in front of the first dish. "Guess we are lucky you enjoy bad company, huh?"
The Deino blushes and we start our meal.
It does not take long before we gorged everything down the dark dragon leads us to the training hall.
I admit, I'm not sure if it is extremely smart to continue experimenting with an attack which almost killed us the first time we tried to use it, but my brother seems confident we can achieve something great and I hope that will get us a bit of peace later.
Sori falls back as we enter the hall and snickers nervously. "I will get the potions. You wait here and prepare yourselves, if there is a way for you to do that."
She runs off before I get a chance to reply. My brother chuckles. "Prepare ourselves, huh? What does she think we should do, meditate?"
I shake my head. "I guess she really does not know how to help us with the new attack." I glance over our body. "No open wounds." I slightly focus. "No poison, my core is pretty much in tip-top shape. Besides a bit of fear I don't see any problem."
Drak nods. "We are most likely about to attack ourselves in an attempt to create a possibly suicidal move. A bit of fear seems appropriate, brother."
Sori walks in with a large case on her back which she carefully sets down onto the ground. She grins. "This should be enough to patch you up for several tries if you're not wrecking yourselves too bad. Ready when you are, hot scales."
We nod and take a few steps back, not sure about the range of our experiment. I try to concentrate and use shadow aura, but a wave of fear and hate breaks my focus. Drak looks to me and grins. "Sorry, I shouldn't go full force right from the beginning."
I nod and grasp at my core, slowly creating my aura. Emotions assault my mind again, but I increase my focus on my attack and shut them out while familiar pain fills me.
I keep the aura up until our aching body becomes unbearable. Opening my eyes I see my brother looks at me and shakes his head. "It won't work if you shut me out."
I grit my teeth. "So we have to endure each others attack? You know this will get agonizing."
Drak snarls. "Power always comes with a price, thought you knew that already."
Sori steps closer and pours some liquid over our back before she shakes her head. "Come on, guys, you will get nowhere with an attitude like that."
I nod and try to smile. "Guess you are right. I hope it's worth it."
The Deino grins and gives us a lick before she steps back to a safe distance. "I'm sure your attack will be great." She coughs and continues murmuring. "I only hope I got enough potions, I didn't notice you're somewhat resistant to them..."
I extend my aura again and almost immediately feel the dark pulse affecting my mind. Instead of fending off the attack I try to suppress my instincts and welcome the emotions. 'You're too small.'
I twitch, but leave my defense open. 'Weak!'
My head starts to hurt awfully and I struggle to keep my instinct to shut out everything in control. 'You're weird!'
The mental pain intensifies and I feel my moral sinking. 'Red... I won't waste my time with you!'
I shake my head and try to banish the voices, but I does not work. 'Freak!'
I'm about to give up as something lays onto our skin.
Useless...
The aching of our body suddenly sharply increases while the mental assaults seems to easily pierce my last defenses and scratches directly into my mind.
I feel weak. I am weak.
I drop my aura and feel my brother does the same.
"Please, stop it..." My head drops to the ground and I cough up blood.
Sori steps closer and pours some liquid over our back before leaning against us. "I know you can do it. You almost got it."
The pain slowly subsides, but the feeling of weakness and fear take a lot longer to fade away. My brother shudders. "Useless... there's no point in going on..."
The Deino presses closer against us. "Don't be so depressed. You're not alone."
I sigh and stay on the ground. "Why do you care? We couldn't help you."
The dark dragon shakes her head. "I already told you, it was not important. I lo-... just like you, that's all."
We slowly get in position while Sori takes a few steps back. We grit our teeth as the barrier between Drak and me shakes. 'Last try... I don't want to go back... we have to... one more time, for Sori.'
My aura extends and the pulse of my brother quickly mingles into it.
Pain... Despair... Hatred...
Slowly I feel something new building up, few inches away from our body. Power. The feeling of might quickly gets overwhelmed by depression.
Worthless... Agony... Disgrace...
I extend my grasp of my core and force more power into the new aura and feel my brother does the same.
"Are you okay? Maybe you should stop for the moment."
I slowly open my eyes and see a layer of blood on our skin, thicker at our red scales. Our energy reduces to a point I'm starting to wonder why we're still standing, but the new power increases in power instead of collapsing.
Fear... Selfish... Weak...
Sori steps closer to our body, but stays out of our reach. "Stop it! You're going to kill yourself if you keep this up!"
Useless... Pathetic...
I stop feeding energy to my aura while my brother ends his pulse, but the new attack does not end instantly. Instead a final pulse goes off, hitting the Deino before the feeling of power fades.
Vulnerable...
We shake. I quickly let go of my focus and look to the dark dragon who has fallen onto the ground, bleeding and twitching. We rush over to her and carefully press against her while my brother grits his teeth. "Come on, get up. You don't get killed so easily."
He gulps and I give our guide a small lick on her left side where I noticed several cuts. "We know you are strong enough to shake this off."
The Deino slowly relaxes and opens her eyes. "I hope I never get on your bad side, hot scales. I feel as if I was dragged into hell for a moment." She shudders and stands up while she grits her teeth before she looks at us and chuckles, blood dripping from her mouth. "You look worse than I feel. Let me get the potion for you."
We shake our heads and I spit a bit crimson saliva. "You need it more. Get us a nice meal and we will be fine."
Sori leans against us and seems to hesitate for a moment before she nods. "Your pride will be your end one day." She coughs. "But I won't argue with you, this time."
I grin as we slowly lead her to the can. "It's not always bad to listen to me."
The Deino grabs the potion and empties it in one sip. The effect shows immediately as the few smaller cuts vanish and the bigger wounds close a bit. 'Wish I knew what they put in these things. The results are always amazing.'
My brother shakes his head. 'Special berries and that sort of stuff. We don't need that kind of help.'
I look to Sori while our body slowly fills with pain. "Do you feel all right?"
The dark dragon nods, but keeps close to us. "Yes. Now come on, we need to get you a bit medical attention, you look like a bloody mess."
My brother snickers and licks a bit of blood off her. "So do you. And we already looked like this when we arrived. Don't you like us like this?"
The Deino blushes. "I like you, but I like you even more if you're not totally covered in red, the scales are enough."
We grin and follow her lead, trying to pay no attention to the pain.

Our arrival at the medical room feels strangely familiar. Focus only on Sori and stepping forward, the only differences being the amount of blood on us and the Deino sometimes looking back instead of seemingly ignoring us.
We manage to take a few steps more than last time before collapsing, again. Darkness surrounds us.
"Are you kidding me?! Who did they fight this time?!"
Sori answers in a surprisingly soft tone despite the anger in the voice of the human. "Themselves, I guess. Please, try to get them patched up enough to enjoy their last day on the ship."
"Did I ever fail you? So, happy when they leave you alone and continue their training in the mansion?"
I hear a sigh. "I don't think they will take his offer."
"If they leave you will have to go too."
Something presses against us and I hear a low whisper. "Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I simply could follow you."

End of chapter 29. I admit I think I could have done better introducing the new attack, but one the other hand, I can't get rid of the feeling it would only have been a waste of time to dig deeper into that matter. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.