Welcome – Ch.36 Disaster At Night
"Princess, Asima! Don't run off too far!" A man with red hair and a pair of amber eyes who wore a green hooded cloak and a pair of black leather shoes called out little Asima.
"I already know that, William. You always told that the village is a dangerous place and blah, blah, blah it gets really annoying!" the young princess said to him with a tone of annoyance.
William sighed and said, "I'm sorry, Asima, it's just that your parents told me I have to make sure you'll be safe when we come here."
"I know, I know." Asima pouted. "I'm just visiting, Misses Gabriella, Mister Jonathan, Kevin, David, Sophie, and Sophia just for a bit."
As the two of them came upon an old house, a young woman, with long blond hair and green eyes, was standing on the front porch as she watched her children playing outside.
"Ahhh! Run! It's the mummy!" one of her daughters with blond hair and a pair of green eyes, like the mother, screamed as she and her siblings were running away from her brother, who was dressed as a mummy.
"Don't let him kill us!" another daughter screamed, who looked a lot like her sister.
"Quick! Get somewhere safe! I'll stop him, with my gun!" another son, with black messy hair and a pair of silver eyes, shouted at his sisters and held up a fake bullet gun at the pretend mummy.
"You'll never escape from me!" the brother, who was dressed as the mummy, growled as he walked towards his brother.
The woman with blond hair giggled from watching her children having fun, until he saw both Asima and William. Her eyes began to narrow and called out to her children, "Kevin! David! Sophie and Sophia! Time to get inside!"
"What?" the four children questioned.
"Get inside! Now!"
The four siblings whined and sighed as the four of them got inside the house as their mother glared at Asima and William. "What are you doing here?" she asked them.
"Misses Gabriella, it's good to see you again!" Asima exclaimed as she smiled at her.
"Stay at you are!" Misses Gabriella yelled at her.
The young princess' eyes began to widen after the woman yelled at her. She never seen Misses Gabriella this mad before. "Huh? Misses Gabriella, what's wrong?" she asked her.
"It's you who's the problem! And so are your family, your kingdom, everything!"
"I beg your pardon, Misses Gabriella! What on earth gives you the reason to yell at the princess?" William asked the woman.
"Reason? Reason? I'll tell you what the reason is! My husband hadn't returned home ever since you locked him to jail!" Misses Gabriella yelled.
"B-But…I've sent him free, to return to you...and your family." Asima told her.
"You did…but that wasn't until one of your people killed him, ON HIS WAY HOME!"
"I swear! I told all of my people not to kill him! I swear!"
"You are lying! You're never coming here! EVER! Unless you want to die in this very spot!"
"Misses Gabriella!" William yelled at her. "One more rude comment to the princess and you'll be sent to prison and killed!"
"Go on ahead! If I've been killed, my spirit will go and be reunited with my husband!" the young woman laughed crazily.
"No, William! Don't let them kill her!" Asima shouted to William. "Let's just go back to the castle and forget this ever happened."
"You better listen to her! I'm sick of seeing her face and you who are from that kingdom, Faerie!" Misses Gabriella yelled at the man.
With that, both Asima and William walked away, leaving the woman laughing like a maniac and started crying after she remembered her husband's death. "Why? Why does this have to happen to him? I love him very much! I don't want him to leave me and my family!" she sobbed.
Then, why don't you try to kill the princess and her family instead? An evil voice inside her head asked.
"Wh-Who are you?" she questioned.
My name is Tabuu, and I'm the person who will bring back your husband you loved so much. the voice answered as the woman's green eyes began to turn into a pair of cloudy purple eyes.
Memory restoration 100%
Earla's eyes began to shot wide open as she sat up and started panting and beads of sweat formed on her forehead. She glanced at her surroundings and saw Aquamarine, Red, and his Pokémon sleeping peacefully as the campfire in the cave was still giving its' warmth in the cold night air.
Everytime she tried to go back to sleep, the same images and voices kept appearing in her head, which is giving her a big headache. Instead, she got up and grabbed her white hooded cloak and put it on as she walked outside from the cave and went to find the lake Aquamarine mentioned earlier.
But as she wandered through the dark forest, she placed her fingers over her lips and felt her cheeks turning hot after she was thinking about what happened earlier at the Halberd. There's no way the black angel had feelings for her, and that kiss didn't mean anything to her.
It can't be she thought, but it wasn't until she felt her own heart beating rapidly than usual. She then suddenly began to feel all soft and warm all over her body, ever since she started to think about, Kuro.
"No. Please don't tell me this feeling is what I think it is." she thought to herself. "I can't be having feelings for him! I hate him!"
She hated everything about him. His appearance.
"I hate you."
His evil looks.
"I hate you!"
His annoying, sneering voice.
"I…hate…you!"
His beautiful ruby-colored eyes.
Earla began to blush and shook her head. "You idiot! Stop thinking about him!"
His soft plump lips.
Her face began to turn all red and just let out a frustrated groan and continued walking through the forest, searching the lake. "Why does he have to be so… cute?"
Night. Is their favorite part of the day. Nothing but pure darkness, unless the full moon shines brightly tonight. Every time when the sun sets and the moon rose in the night sky, it's like Halloween all over again. The two of them love scaring people and always love playing pranks on them just for fun.
As the two ghost Pokémons, Misdreavus and Mismagius flew through the night sky under the bright moonlight, their faces were filled with happiness and joy as the two of them played tag in meadows, laughing with excitement like there's no tomorrow. While Mismagius was trying to catch her little sister, she stopped in midair with a concern look on her sister's face.
When Misdreavus saw the look on her face, she stopped as well and asked, "What's wrong sis?"
"I could've sworn I just heard something." the older ghost Pokémon answered.
"It must've been the noises the meadows make when the wind blows through them." Misdreavus suggested.
"No. It's something else. Like…beeping?"
"Beeping?" the small ghost Pokémon questioned and listened carefully with her sister. "You're right. It's getting faster now."
"Faster?" Misdreavus asked, fear rising within her. She had only seconds to react. Staggering, she grabbed her little sister as she quickly floated away from the beeping sound and stopped behind a big boulder, waiting, until…
BOOM!
After the sound of the explosion, the two Pokémon turned their bodies around and saw some kind of black hole, sucking up everything that was near it. Both of their eyes began to widen as the two of them suddenly a swarm of strange white clouds, making the sound of crackling of electricity.
The two ghost Pokémon sisters braced themselves as they waited for the right moment to attack the strange cloud creatures.
"Lucas! Where are you?" Ruby called out to the psychic boy as she wandered through the dark forest, giving her chills by her spine.
She can't believe what just happened. Before she was by herself, she was with Lucas; until the sun began to set then fear began to appear in her eyes when she remembered those awful memories she had when she was a little girl. She was helping her mother to cook dinner for her family, but it wasn't until he came back home from work.
"I'm home!" her father called out as he walked through the front door.
"W-Welcome home, dear." her mother said nervously when she and little Ruby saw a bottle of alcohol in his left hand. "So, how's work?"
"Terrible!" Ruby's father shouted as his voice began to sound drunk. "That lousy boss didn't gave me my raise! That fat goof!"
"That doesn't mean you should be drinking so much, dear." his wife said to him.
"WHAT? Are you with his side?" Ruby's father yelled at her mother as he grabbed one of her shoulders and hitting her.
"NO! STOP! STOP, DAD!" Ruby screamed as she tried to pull her father's arm away from hitting her mother. Little did they know, she had a cooking knife in her hand.
"SHUT UP!" her father roared, but then, his hand had been accidently stabbed by the cooking knife, which is still in her hand. "RU…BYYYY!"
And that's when she started to run away from Lucas. As she ran through the dark forest, she kept hearing the psychic boy calling her name, but she ignored them as the feeling of being scared appeared right inside her after what she had done to her own father.
When he saw her father grabbed butcher knife in his hand, her mother kept yelling at her to run and that's when she did. She kept running through the dark forest when suddenly, tripped and fell in front of a tree. She tried to walk, but she had unknowingly sprained her left ankle.
"RUBY!" an angry voice yelled. She turned her head and saw her father standing in front of her, holding a butcher knife still in his hand.
"Daddy, please leave me alone. I didn't mean to stab you!" the frightened Ruby exclaimed as hung onto the tree, as though hoping it would save her.
"TELL THAT TO MY HAND!" her father yelled and started to run towards her.
"No…no…" she whispered. "NOOOOOOOOO!" she yelled at the top of her lungs and that's when her water and wind ability formed inside her saved herself from her drunken father.
"Ruby! Snap out of it!" she heard Lucas' voice which made her snap back to reality.
"L-Lucas?" she questioned. "How did you find me?"
"I heard your screaming and I went to find you, to see if you're okay." he answered, but then, Ruby wrapped her around him as she started crying on his chest.
"I'm glad you're here…" she whispered to him.
The young psychic boy began to blush, but he began to smile as he held her close to him. "Don't cry. You're okay now." he whispered to her softly.
BOOM!
The two of them quickly let go and saw some kind black hole somewhere on the other side of the forest. Then, they both got up and ran to see where the black hole is coming from, holding each others hand as they ran through the forest.
As Earla splashed some of the lake water to her face, she wondered why those images and voices kept appearing in her head whenever she's unconscious or asleep. "Get a hold of yourself! It was just one stupid kiss!" she thought to herself angrily, until she looked down at her own reflection on the lake. She saw herself crying.
One by one, her tears drop from her eyes and splashed into the water, creating small riffles.
"Why did I just call him cute?" she thought as more tears fell in the water. The more she kept thinking about him, it's as if she doesn't want him to leave her. "Is this…what love feels like?"
BOOM!
Her eyes began to widen and turned to see a black hole somewhere not far from the cave. She wanted to go see what's going on there, but she doesn't want the others worry about her. She didn't have a choice and pulled her hood over head and ran through the dark forest as the moonlight shines under her.
BOOM!
Everyone inside the cave had their eyes shot wide open from their sleep.
"Was that a bomb?" Aquamarine shouted.
"I'll go check." said Red as he quickly got up and went outside the cave to see some kind of black hole somewhere not far from the cave. His eyes began to widen when he saw it. "Is that…?" he wondered.
"Red! Earla's not here!" he heard the female fighting shouting to him.
"What?" he questioned as he ran back inside the cave and saw she was right. Earla was not here.
"Where do you think she went?" Aquamarine asked him.
It took a while for the trainer to think, but when he remembered the black hole, it hit him. "She must've gone there!" he shouted.
"Gone where?"
"The black hole that just appeared right now!"
"A black hole?"
"Come on, everyone! We have to find her!" the trainer called out as he returned both Squirtle and Ivysaur to their pokeballs, and both Red and Aquamarine got on Charizard and the three of them sored into the night sky.
"Shadow Ball!" Misdreavus shouted as she summoned one of her attacks at the strange cloud creatures as Mismagius unleashed Ominous Wind.
As more of the cloud creatures used their electric attacks at them, the two of them dodged and summoned more of their ghost abilities at them, until several chains tied around the cloud creatures to the ground. The two ghost Pokémon looked up and saw a mysterious person wearing nothing but a white hooded cloak. It was Earla.
"Need some help?" she asked them.
The two Pokémon sisters nodded and continued fighting the cloud creatures. Out of nowhere an arrow made out of pure darkness missed Earla and when she turned to see the person who fired the arrow, it was the black angel, Kuro.
"Well, I see you're back." she smirked which made the black angel glared at her.
Then, he dived down at the female fighter with his dual blades ready to kill her, but Earla used her chains which tied around his weapons and threw them out of the black angel's grasp. Once the weapons are away from either one of them, she ran towards him and punched his stomach which made Kuro wheezed from the force. He then tired to do a kick on her head, but she blocked just in time.
Little did Earla know, one of the cloud creatures charged straight towards, but then she heard someone said, "PK Freeze!" and the cloud creature turned into ice just before it attacked her. When she saw this, she turned to see both Lucas and Ruby ready for battle against the rest of the cloud creatures.
"Earla!" she heard another voice from above and saw Red and Aquamarine flying on top of Charizard.
"Red!" she called out to him waving one of her arms to the air to get his attention, but then, something inside Kuro snapped as if there was some kind of relationship between the trainer and Earla.
The black angel raised up his raven wings and flew to the trainer at a high speed and knocked him out from the fire Pokémon. As he watched the Pokémon trainer falling through the air, he heard Earla's voice screaming the trainer's name which made him even more furious. The next that happened, he flew down as he picked up his dual blades from the ground and carried her in his arms as he flew away from the battle. Before Red hit the ground, Ruby summoned her wind ability that stopped his fall and saw both Kuro and Earla flying away from the others. He tried to catch up to them, but since there was a battle still going on between the smashers and the cloud creatures, which are called Spaaks from the Subspace, he can't.
As Earla struggled to free herself from Kura's grasp while they were both up in the air, she had enough and would rather fall in the ground than being carried by him, and that's when she punched him right up his nose and let go of her. Even if she was falling through the air, again, she summoned one of her chains and grabbed hold of a tree branch which made her land on the ground safely.
"What was that for?" she yelled at him.
"OW! Why did you punch my nose? It's starting to bleed already!" Kuro yelled at her also as he showed her his bloody nose.
"That's what you get for trying to kidnap me!"
"Kidnap you? What on earth would I do that?"
"Uh…hello? You tried to kill me back at the Halberd and started fighting with me a few minutes ago!"
"I was trying to talk to you!"
"Talking to me? As if!"
"That's why I carried you here!"
"Yeah, right! It's not like you're trying to kill me, again!"
"Shut up!" the black angel snapped at her as he stabbed one of his dual blades at the tree next to her, which missed her head. "Just…let me talk to you." he whispered to her as he stared straight at Earla's brown eyes with his ruby-colored eyes. Both of their faces began to turn into a shade of red as they felt both of their hearts beating faster like a drum beat.
When Kuro saw how beautiful Earla's eyes glittered under the moonlight, he leaned his towards his face towards hers as he said the words, "I love you," and pressed his lips against hers and both of her eyes began to widen.
Should she pull away and slapped his face again like back at the Halberd? No, she doesn't want to. What's even stranger, the feeling of his own lips pressed against hers actually felt…nice.
The kiss he gave back at the Halberd, it didn't mean anything to her, but this one proves that the two of them do have feelings for each other, but it wasn't until Kuro quickly pulled away as his face was redder than hers. The two of them didn't say anything for a short moment then the black angel flew away from her, feeling himself a complete idiot for kissing her.
Once after Earla watched him flying away, she touched her lips with her fingers and couldn't believe what just happened. While she was thinking too much of the kiss, she didn't even notice that the other fighters were calling her name.
"Earla! Are you alright?" Aquamarine called out to her.
"Huh? Y-Yeah I'm alright." Earla answered.
"Did that black angel did anything to you?" Red asked her which made her face even redder when she remembered earlier, lucky for her it's too dark for everyone to see her red face.
"Well, he did tried to kill me, but I fought back and sent him flying away like a coward." she lied.
"At least everyone's alright." Ruby mentioned.
"Yeah. Wait a minute. Where are Charizard, Misdreavus, and Mismagius?" Lucas asked and that's when everyone saw the three Pokémon sleeping next together.
"Ha ha. I guess the three of them were tired after fighting with those Spaaks." Red chuckled and everyone else started laughing with him, except Earla, who was still remembering the kiss Kuro gave her and the words, "I love you."
Misdreavus joins the team.
Mismagius joins the team.
And…I'm done. So thanks for reading this chapter and good night.
Also, Kuro was jealous after Earla called out Red's name, and I literally feel myself blushing after the kissing scene. XD
July 14, 2011: This is a rewrite.