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Chapter 36
Sasha
When Myles manages to get everyone down on safe ground, we quickly realize we're not totally safe.
The mountain is shaking.
We hear screeches of fear, and start screaming ourselves.
"What the hell is that?" Gekido yells.
"They're pokemon cries!" Myles realizes, his eyes going wide. "We have to get the hell outta here, guys!" He starts running down the few remaining feet of the mountain. Soon, scary-looking pokemon start appearing out of nowhere... and we still can't morph.
A shuppet screeches, and all the pokemon freeze in shock. When it stops, all the pokemon realize we're here.
Myles, Gekido, and I all shuffle together so we're back to back. We all fall into fighting positions.
The pokemon mostly consist of onix, geodude, machop, starly through staraptor, and bug types like butterfree and beedrill.
"Let me handle the rock types," Myles insists. "You guys-"
"Wait, how the hell are we supposed to fight?" I ask.
"You can use some of your powers without morphing," he reminds me. Oh, yeah.
"Okay. Thanks," I say. We brace ourselves as the pokemon begin throwing themselves at us.
Myles immediately whips his hood off, and it collides with an onix with a loud thud. The onix yells a low rumbling cry, and falls to the ground. The powerful black disk returns to Myles's hand with a red spot of blood on the edge. He flicks it away with a kind of deadly ease.
I start by summoning up an aurora beam. I direct its power at a staraptor sneaking up through the air. It hits hard, and crashes to the ground. But it isn't out yet. It roars back into the sky, and this time I wait until it gets close. When it does, I kick out hard, and my heel crashes into its face. It falls to the ground, and thankfully does not get back up.
"Sasha! Don't let them get close. Keep them as far away as possible," Myles instructs as he whips his hood at another pokemon.
"Why not?" I ask, actually curious.
"If that staraptor hadn't been knocked out, it could easily have killed you," Myles explained. "You have to remember that pokemon are much better battlers than us, even with our powers. Their more powerful than us, and in this case the claws would have been enough." He isn't angry, just careful.
"Okay. Thank you," I say. A butterfree charges at me. I am prepared to attack, but Gekido breathes a flame thrower, knocking it our right away. "Gekido, you want to get the bug types? I can get the fighting and flying."
"Good plan," Gekido decides, and focuses on a beedrill heading for Myles. It's easily wiped out with another flame thrower.
I focus back on the pokemon before me. Right now, a caterpie crawls over. I ignore it, as it's slow and Gekido will notice it. Instead, I look above me. A staravia is zooming in. I use aurora beam again, but it doesn't fall. A black slash appears across it for half a second, then it crashes to the ground in front of me.
"Thanks, Myles!" I say. I kick out at the caterpie as it finally gets over here. It is thrown a good seven feet (3 meters, I think), where it crashes to the ground. It doesn't get back up.
Next a machop tries to get close. I use air slash, and a clearish-white line scythes its way through the air and smashes into the pokemon, instantly knocking it out.
I gasp as I'm knocked over. I roll to my left, just as the staraptor who attacked me crashes into that same spot. I jumped up... and crashed into Gekido. He stands up right away, and holds a hand out to me. I take it, and he pulls me up. When I stand, we are almost nose to nose.
I ruin the moment and pull away. My stupid fantasies... again.
I use round, belting out powerful waves of musical notes. Who knew music could be dangerous! The pokemon I had aimed for fainted, clutching its ears.
I glance over at Gekido, who is wiping out pokemon by the boats. He uses fire punch to knock away and/or out the few pokemon who can get past his flame throwers.
Then a shadow sweeps across the field.
The Shadow Heart - Den Shadow Hjerte
Austin
When Avalon and I woke up again, we were in the same room as we had started in. The white walls. The brown doors, waiting to be opened. The same feeling of dread creeping up on me.
"Look, Austin," Avalon insists. She walks forward, then suddenly stomps down on a piece of flooring. It opens.
"A trap door," I realize. I walk over and peer down into the hole, which has stairs leading downwards. White, of course. "How'd you know it was here?"
"This metal thing," Avalon tells me. She points to a small silver square with screws connecting it to the floor. If you look closely, you can tell that there's something attached to it.
"Good catch," I praise, and we high-five. I stand back up after pulling the flap fully open. "Shall we?"
"Yes," Avalon says, and fearlessly goes first. I follow, but flinch as her footsteps echo loudly down.
"Avalon..." I show her to take her shoes off and walk heel-toe so your feet make almost no sound.
When we make it down the stairs, I can tell something isn't right.
Mostly because a shadow falls over us.
Avalon screams.
The Shadow Heart - Den Shadow Hjerte
Lily
"Jay!" I shout, and throw myself at the fake mew. I hit it hard into the ground, but it twists around and bites me with scary fangs. I scream and, feeling my wind powers activate, the vampire mew is whipped into the wall, where it melts. I immediately get over to Jay, who's gasping for breath. "You ok- AH!"
I yelp as something hits me hard. I roll to my left and just barely dodge the fake latias in her rampage. Her eyes are glowing an eerie red, and she is being as vicious as she possibly can.
Unfortunately for her, anger causes attention to be more on revenge than anything else, including the battle at paw. I easily dodge her attacks, but she has lots of trouble dodging mine. I hit her with my wind attacks time and time again, but she only manages to hit me weakly a single time. She gets frustrated and even more distracted, and I am even able to unleash a hyper beam. Finally, her form dissipates.
But I know she'll come back even stronger.
The Shadow Heart - Den Shadow Hjerte
Lyan
I beat the latios again, sighing in relief as it fades. Quickly, it regains its form and rushes at me. I dodge easily upwards, then throw an energy ball down that hits it hard. But it isn't over yet.
He charges at me again, and expects it when I dodge. He quickly recalculates and is easily able to hit me with luster purge. I am slammed with a power only very few pokemon can use. This results in me at the bottom of the wall after very recently crashing into it.
He rushes at me. I jump at the last minute, and he hits the wall with a thud. I slam down on him wityh a luster purge. It's super effective at such a close range, as expected.
Latios smirks.
Latios uses something like explode.
I hit the wall hard, but I know it couldn't be over. Fake Latios's smirk told me otherwise. He's on me again in seconds.
I hear Lily yell, but can't do much about it, I'm pinned to the ground. The latios hits me again and again, enjoying my pain. He rips his claws across my face next, and I soundlessly scream.
But I know someone hears me, somehow...
Jay hits the latios hard, sending it into the wall. Angered, it gets up. He charges at Jay, who's too weak to do anything after using so much of the little precious energy he had left.
"Keep dreaming!" Lily yells and rams into the latios, who was seconds away from Jay. She smashes him into the wall, hitting him over and over. He fades away.
Before I know it, I'm hit again. A mist ball this time. I look in the direction it came from and see the latias. I fly up, but she was expecting that. She body slams me into the ceiling, then grabs me and uses seismic toss.
I hit the ground too hard, and my vision fades. A tear slips down my cheek as I hear Lily scream again. I can't help her. Again. Again she has to be on her own. I should be helping her, but I'm too weak...
The blackness hits me like a boulder.
The Shadow Heart - Den Shadow Hjerte
Sasha
All the pokemon suddenly stop.
And smirk.
All of them sit down and breathe out. With their breath comes green smoke. The green smoke seems to force their souls out of their bodies, as the pokemon fall uselessly over when it leaves them. Next black smoke leaks out of them, or, rather, with them. The smoke is made up of their bodies... creepy.
All of it flows easily into the mountain.
"What in hell is going on?" Gekido asks, astonished.
"Guys, I'm guessing you should be prepared to meet your doom," Myles guesses. "I think you should kiss first."
"What?" Gekido and I gasp.
Myles laughs. "I can't believe you two don't realize that you've fallen hard for each other!" Gekido and I go red, which helps neither of us to prove our innocence, as if we could deny it. "Now hurry, before we all die."
I can't tell whether he's joking or not, but I really, really hope he is. Either way, Gekido and I walk towards each other. I look up at him, and he looks down.
Myles is right. I am in love with Gekido. And somehow, he must be in love with me.
His lips are sweet against mine.
Then the mountain shakes and the sky roars as gray clouds start to fill it. Gekido pulls away, but the look of regret on his face after doing so tells me what I want to know. He does love me!
The three of us back up and prepare to fight. The mountain shakes violently, and giant boulders begin to roll down the mountainside. Finally, the top explodes, sending rocks flying everywhere. We easily dodge them all.
Unfortunately, they're not the threat here.
That would be the huge shadow monster climbing out of the rubble. As it climbs up to stand on top of what's left of the mountain, I notice that there's one part of the monster that isn't black. It's an eerie green thing... If the monster was a CD, the green thing would be the size of the hole in the middle. As it got closer, I realized it was the heart. It beat quickly, pumping invisible blood through the monster.
"Get ready," Myles advises. He sounds weird... like he thinks it's sarcastically funny. Does he think it's the end? Is it?
The shadow thing comes at us slowly. When it comes close enough, it shoots small black darts. We easily dodge them. But, I can't help wondering what they'd do to you. I hope you wouldn't turn into a shadow, like the pokemon...
Myles makes the first move by launching his hood right at it. It cuts across the middle of the blackness... without doing anything. It doesn't even flinch.
"What the hell?" he yells in surprise.
Gekido tries a flamethrower. Nothing. I even try hydro pump. Zip!
All the while, the damn monster keeps throwing those black quill-like things at us.
"Try the green thing," Gekido suggests to us all. Come to think of it, nothing has hit it...
I use energy ball. It hits the green thing with a hard smack, and the monster roars.
I flinch. It sounds like a hundred souls screaming in horror.
"Do you think we're hurting them all?" I ask anyone who can answer.
"Considering the fact that we're in Fate's mind, I think that's just to deter us. It can't be real," Myles says.
"But we're real," Gekido argues.
"Fate has tried mind tricks before. Either way, we have to keep up," Myles decides. Gekido and I meet uncertain gazes, but don't argue. Myles sends his power crashing through the black shadow, hitting the heart hard. Green ooze started squirting everywhere. Including on us.
"EW!" I scream.
"It's not real!" Gekido tries to soothe me. "It's fake. Just to mess with us. Right, Myles?"
"Yes," Myles agrees, as he, of course, throws the hood again. His accuracy is incredible. He gets the heart again easily. Gekido and I join in. I decide to use psychic. I wave my arms around in funny directions, and the attack casts a bright red over the creepy green, tinting it a disgusting yellowish color. I squeeze my hands into fists, and the heart convulses.
Meanwhile, Gekido charges up a hyper beam. At the same instant he uses it, Myles throws his disc and I squeeze my hands again. Together, the three attacks take down the heart.
The shadow creature dissipates, screaming in agony. The green heart crashes onto the ground, pretty much exploding.
Now I'm covered in green goo. F**k you, Fate. Next it'll be you, I promise.
The boys are much more concerned with the small staircase that opened up beneath the crap.
"Sasha, come on!" Gekido calls.
"There better not be more goo," I mutter.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Hey, so, I finished Connections. I'm currently doing grammar crap. I would just publish everything now, but before I make a sequel (if that happens) I want to focus on A Different Dark for awhile because its, like, collecting major dust in my attic right now xD
The reason I tell you this is because I need an OC for it. I've started thinking about it and I need a GIRL. And... I'm probably only going to be accepting ONE. So, submit your very best!
P.S. it might not come out until September, mostly because I'll only be home and at my computer for the first two/three weeks of the summer.