Requiem of the Fallen Dragon
Part 2: Fenrir's Tale
Chapter 36: Rumor
Rucas's body was shaken by a strong force; making the young Lucario woke up from his slumber.
"W..What?! Earthquake?!" Rucas roared.
"Rucas! You finally woke up! Thank you are safe!"
A familiar voice could be heard by Rucas. Then he realized that someone is standing in front of him. That Pokemon is a big, tall, muscular and powerful crocodile-like Pokemon named Feraligatr. The Feraligatr wore a uniform that pirate usually wore. He also wore the pirate captain hat too. That Pokemon is the one he was finding, the Ocean Pirate, Magnus Aquamarine the Feraligatr.
"M…Magnus?!"
"Hi! Rucas! It had been a very long time since you left!" Magnus greeted.
Rucas looked around himself. There is no pink forest or pink lake. Instead, he is in the Island Lake of the Bluewave Island.
"I thought that the mushroom got you… You are lucky that the water in the lake of Yggdrasil's root has a power to cure you from the poison of the mushroom…" Magnus spoke.
"How could I come here? And where are the others?!" Rucas looked around and realized that Leonel, Zira and Fenrir are not too far from him. They are sitting near the lake.
"They are fine! Do not worry about them!" Magnus said.
"Magnus, what happened?" Rucas asked.
"Well… I went for a walk on the beach where I found the unconscious body of Leonel and that Eevee. I decided to take them with me. When I got back to this place, I found you with that Zoroark. I greet you, but you tried to attack me. At first, I thought that the Zoroark was about to harm you so I attacked her, but you still tried to fight me so I had to knock you out. After that, the Zoroark told me everything, include your story after you left the Venturnome Town and the strange thing that occurred around the land of Symmetria. Then I threw you, Leonel and the Eevee into the Island Lake. Leonel and Eevee woke up a while before you did. Leonel scolded me for throwing him into the lake, but it was fine."
'So… Everything… Maria… They were just the illusion…' Rucas thought to himself.
Leonel, Zira and Fenrir walked up to Rucas and Magnus. Then Zira and Fenrir introduced themselves to Magnus.
"So you were Rucas's younger sister and Anastasia's friend. I am Magnus Aquamarine the Feraligatr, the Ocean Pirate." Magnus introduced himself.
"Yup! It's nice to meet you, Senpai's friend!" Zira greeted.
"…" Fenrir said nothing.
"Zoroark, I was so sorry for trying to attack you. I thought you were trying to attack Rucas." Magnus apologized.
"…You ruined it…"
"Hm?" Magnus looked at Fenrir, but Fenrir quickly changed the topic of the story.
"Now Rucas, you had met with your friends, the Ocean Pirate, what will you do next?"
"Magnus, do you know anything about the strange feeling at the Bluewave Harbor? I went there and found that the town was seemed to be divided into ten sections…" Rucas asked.
"I have never gone to the Bluewave Town after I left the Venturnome Town…"
"Why?" Leonel asked.
"…This."
Magnus showed his left arm to everyone. There is a strange mark appeared on his left arm. And that mark is identical to Leonel's mark of sin!
"…The mark of sin?! You have it too?!" Leonel spoke in an unbelievable voice.
"…So Leonel, you have it too, right? I got it after I evolved. I think it appeared because of the sin for me because I am a pirate. So I decided that from that day on, I will live alone here as a pirate who will rob and kill anyone who stepped onto this island. But I couldn't do it. Riftblade knew this so he came and tried to comfort me."
"Riftblade?" Zira asked.
"He is my cousin. He then stayed here with me. He will sometime go to the Bluewave Harbor to do a grocery shopping, and he told me that the Bluewave Town had changed so much…"
"And now, where is Riftblade? I didn't see him around here…" Rucas asked.
"…He went to the Bluewave Harbor one week ago, but he hadn't returned yet. I am worried about him. I was about to go to the Bluewave Harbor when I found this." Magnus showed Rucas and his friends something. They are the lost bags of them! "I found it at the other beach of this island. I remembered that you and Leonel carried a bag like this, so maybe you and Leonel are on this island. And I was right."
"Magnus… Since you have heard everything from Fenrir, what will you do next?" Rucas asked.
"…I think the answer is clear. Symmetria is falling into another Chaos. And since you and Leonel are on the adventure to stop it, I could stay still and do nothing. So I will rejoin your team. This sinner will clean his sin of killing Pokemon by saving the life of Pokemon in Symmetria." Magnus answered.
"Welcome back, Magnus." Rucas welcomed his friend.
"Then, the next thing to do is…" Leonel spoke up.
"Return to the Bluewave Beach." Fenrir crossed her arms.
That's right! How could they go back to the Bluewave Beach since their raft was broken by the whirlpool?
"Rucas, I forgot to ask you this; how did you come to this place?" Magnus asked.
"With the handmade raft. That's why we got washed ashore."
After Rucas finished his answer, Magnus burst out a laugh.
"HAHAHA! Rucas! You forgot it already, right?"
"Forgot what?!"
"The Seacross Grotto! There is a passage that linked between the Seacross Grotto and the cave at the Bluewave Beach!"
"…And the Guiding Melody too since you had visited this place already, Rucas." Fenrir mumbled.
Leonel and Zira looked at Rucas with the eyes that told Rucas, 'Rucas, how could you forget this? We risked our lives with the whirlpool and the poisonous mushroom…'
"I am sorry, everyone." Rucas apologized.
"…Forget it, Hero of Justice. And now, we could come to this place and leave this place as will with that passage." Leonel said.
"But there is an easier way!"
Zira's word attracted the attention of everyone. Then Zira looked at Magnus. "Hey! Big guy, you have your own instrument, right?"
Magnus picked something from his bag. It is a timpani drum with wave-patterned drums. "Yeah… This was my deceased father's treasure. Seablade wrote in his will that it will be mine after I evolved into a Feraligatr. This is my instrument, the Aqua Drum."
Rucas started teaching the Guiding Melody to Magnus. Now when everyone played it, they could warp to the Island Lake of the Bluewave Island.
"And Senpai, watch this!"
Zira's body glowed blue, and then she evolved into the Vaporeon!
"So you gain another Eeveelution, hm? Very nice." Rucas complimented.
"Thank!" Zira transformed back to her Eevee form.
Rucas opened the map of Symmetria again. "We have met Leonel and Magnus already. There are two more friends, Joshua and Ellisk."
"Hm… Ellisk lived in the Yelspark Field near the Gamma City. And Joshua lived in the Greenleaf Forest near the Venturnome Town, right?" Magnus looked at the map.
"… I think we should go to meet Joshua first. The Greenleaf Forest is easier to go than the Yelspark Plain." Leonel expressed his thought.
"Right!" Rucas played the Guiding Melody, and everyone is warped back to the Fullmoon Temple.
The next place to go is the Greenleaf Forest. Since the path that Rucas used to go to the Greenleaf Forest four months ago, but that way must passed through the STP, so Rucas and his friends decided to take a new path. The new path is passing through the Symmetria Field north of Solar Village and passed into the southern of Greenleaf Forest. This path was deserted during the time when Garland was alive because The Phantom Storm often set an ambush for the travelers who passed through this path. Now Garland was dead, so everyone can travel through this path without worrying of the ambush.
"Magnus, do you know about the renewed Phantom Storm?" Rucas broke the silence while everyone is walking to the Greenleaf forest.
"Even the Mad Demon was dead, the Phantom Storm still exist…" Magnus said.
"…Strange…" Fenrir mumbled.
"What's wrong, Fenrir?" Rucas asked.
"... Zira said that the renewed Phantom Storm started attacking the land of Symmetria again… But we haven't even run into any of them during our journey…"
"Because there is a stick…"
Magnus's word attracted the attention of everyone. "What do you mean, Magnus?" Zira asked.
"During my staying at the Bluewave Island, Riftblade brought me a rumor that there was a Pokemon that tried to interrupt any plans of the renewed Phantom Storm…alone."
Magnus's word surprised everyone. There is a Pokemon that tried to interrupt the renewed Phantom Storm alone?!
"What?! What kind is that Pokemon?! How can they do it alone?!" Rucas asked unbelievably.
"I don't know much, Rucas. The only thing that I knew is that the mysterious Pokemon is the sniper that has an excellent skill with the rifle. The rumor said that that Pokemon never missed the target when they shot it with their rifle. Everyone called them "The Black Sniper"…" Magnus said.
"The Black Sniper…" Rucas mumbled. The only Pokemon that he known to have the perfect skill with the rifle is the Mad Demon… But since the Mad Demon was already dead, so there must be another Pokemon…
'I wonder what kind is that Pokemon… The Black Sniper… Maybe one day, our path shall cross …' Rucas thought.
To Be Continued…
Dragon of Vale: Magnus finally rejoined the team. The next member is Joshua!