Welcome – Ch.37 Agony Of The Fire In The Forest

As the sky was still at nighttime, the fighters left from the forest to avoid the strange black hole that appeared out of nowhere. Little did they know, Akemi watched them leaving and glanced at the mysterious black hole. She wondered why this black hole came here, but whatever it is, it came for some kind of reason. Before she had the chance to catch up to join the other fighters, an arrow missed her out of nowhere.

Once she saw this, she turned her body at the person who fired the arrow and saw Pit, who still had the dark aura around him and golden eyes. She knew something's wrong with the angel and that's when she began to take out her two swords as the possessed angel split his bow into his dual blades and the two of them charged at each other.

The sound of metal slashing metal can be heard as the two of them swung and blocked way their swords at each other. Since the two of them were both very skillful when it comes to sword fighting, it was impossible for either one of them to defeat each other. While Akemi kept trying to find a way to defeat him, she didn't even notice that there was the sound of a loud 'BANG!' and then, a sharp object scratched her cheek, and that's when she realized, she nearly got hit by a bullet. Then, Pit stopped and put away his dual blades as he moved out of Akemi's way, which is making her confuse that he stopped fighting her. As she looked at the person who fired that bullet, she saw the oldest son of the evil siblings, Kevin, taking a different gun in his hand and aiming it at her.

Then, Kevin pulled the trigger from his new gun and an arrow made out purple shapes was shot from it and headed to the female fighter. Just as Akemi saw the arrow, she quickly dodged it in time and summoned a few of her lightning powers at him, but her eyes began to widen as the lightning didn't have effect on him.

"Hmm…It seems your powers have no effect on me." Kevin smirked. "But very tasty and I think you would be perfect working as a power generator for my master." After that sentence, Akemi felt Pit holding her in place as Kevin reloaded his gun and aimed at her again.

Before anything else happened next, Akemi looked up at the sky and let out a loud agony scream as it echoed through the dark forest as she was now a trophy after the sound of another 'BANG!' from the gun. Little did the evil teenagers know, the clouds in the night sky started to get darker and making a rumbling noise, louder and louder in every minute.

The next thing that happened, a loud crash of lightning frightened the smashers in the forest.

"Charizard, return." Red commanded as he returned his fire Pokémon back into his pokeball to make sure if it's not going to rain soon from getting him weakened by water from the raindrops, and switched him with his water type Pokémon, Squirtle.

"A storm already?" Earla questioned as she glanced up the dark sky and pulled her hooded cloak closer to her body for warmth.

"Don't worry. A little storm won't hurt us, since Aquamarine and I can control water." Ruby mentioned, trying to give supportive to everyone.

"Yeah, but lightning can." said Red. "We have to find shelter until the storms stop."

As the rest of the fighters nodded with agreement, they all ran through the dark forest, trying to find the cave that was somewhere near them as they try not to panic from the sounds of lightning. Suddenly, a loud crash of lightning came from the storm clouds and hit a few of the bushes and trees, which started to create a small fire at first then grew into a big one, enough to cause a forest fire.

"Wait. Is that-? Oh my goodness! FIRE!" Aquamarine screamed which got everyone's attention and turned to see the fire in the other side of the forest, not far for them to get to.

"Quick! We have to put it out, before more parts of the forest get burned down!" Earla called out as she and the other fighters started running as they headed to the forest fire.

It wasn't long until the fighters made it and they all watched in horror as many of the plants and the little animals living in the burned forest were caught in fire and burned in agony as they slowly burned to the ground, nothing but ashes. That's when everyone started to brace themselves as they all charged in the fire, avoiding getting the flames on their clothing, and started finding ways to put out the fire from causing anymore damage to the forest.

Red started commanding his water Pokémon, Squirtle, to use his water gun attack at the flames while both Aquamarine and Ruby used their water abilities and the three of them doused the flames together. The two ghost Pokémon sisters, Misdreavus and Mismagius, both used their telekinesis powers and lifted a few piles of dirt and piled them over the fire close to them and watched as the dirt putted them out. Lucas used his PK Freeze ability and quickly froze the burned up trees and plants, and even though the fire melted the ice; it then began to turn into water which also put out the flames at the burned plants and the ground as Earla used her chains to pull back the burned trees from falling and getting their flames near the others.

As everyone was doing a great job putting out the fire, something caught Earla's eye and she saw a pair of wings through the flames, but it was really hard to make out who was the mysterious figure that had those wings. She could've sworn it was Kuro again, but no, it wasn't; it was the possessed Pit, who showed an evil grin on his face as his golden eyes were shining menacingly at her.

Her eyes began to shot wide open as the possessed angel flew down and grabbed her as he pushed her through the burned up rubbish which caught the other fighters' attention and watched as the female struggled to free herself from the angel's grasp.

"Pit! What are you doing?" Ruby yelled at the angel.

"That's not Pit! It's one of Tabuu's minions!" Red answered as he and the others ran towards at the possessed angel, but then, a swarm of Fire Primids surrounded them, as Earla finally freed herself leaving her to fight against the-no-longer Pit.

One by one as the Fire Primids started to blew balls of fire from their mouths at the fighters, they all dodged them, but a few of them ended up being burned on their skins from the burned rubbish on the ground just a bit. While the fighters were busy fighting the Fire Primids, Earla kept dodging from being slashed or wounded from Pit's dual blades everytime he swung them at her.

"If only I still had my sword with me, I would've finish him already." she thought to herself, when suddenly, the possessed angel stopped fighting her and froze like a statue as every one and thing froze in place and that's when she realized, time just stopped. Before she had the chance to wonder what just happened, both of her hands started to glow all purplish-white and there it was, placed in her hands; the sword came back to her.

A smile formed from her lips as she was filled with joy that her sword came back at just the right moment for her to be back fighting like she used to be. When time began to unfroze, she used her sword and blocked most of the angel's dual blades, who was shocked to see her sword, appeared out of nowhere. Even though he was fast and skillful with his dual blades, she was better when it comes to sword fighting, but she wondered why she was so good at it since she didn't practice the day she was awaken. At just the right moment to dodge one of the dual blades, she quickly grabbed on his arms from doing another attack on her and by using all of her strength, she threw him into the fire.

As she watched the possessed Pit struggled to get away, his whole body was covered in flames, peeling every skin and feather from his body and wings as he screamed from the pain and disappeared into Shadow Bugs. Once he was finished, Earla then threw her sword like a boomerang at the Fire Primids, who are still fighting the rest of the smashers, and watched also as the minions were split in half and disappeared into Shadow Bugs as well.

"Are you guys alright?" she asked the other fighters as she ran towards them after her sword returned to her hand.

"I'm a little burned up, but I'm good." Red answered.

"(Same here)." the ghost Pokémon sisters said.

"We're all good here!" Lucas called out.

"That's good to hear, but we can't stop now. There's still a bunch of fire left to put out." Earla replied as she pointed to the remaining fires that are still in the forest.

Before everyone continued putting out the remaining flames, a sound of a loud 'BANG!' echoed through the forest and out of nowhere, an arrow made out of purple shapes came towards them. Lucky for them, they all dodged it in time, but it wasn't until more of them were launched after the sound of shooting.

"Okay! This is getting really annoying!" Earla shouted and threw her sword at the same direction where the arrows are coming from. For a short moment, all of the fighters heard a loud blood murdered scream at the direction where Earla threw her sword. Then once her sword returned to her hand, their eyes began to widen as they saw Kevin, who now had a large cut on his left arm that is gushing out his blood.

"You…YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS FOR HURTING ME AND KILLING MY FATHER!" he hollered at Earla and shot another arrow from his bullet gun.

As the fighters were screaming Earla's name to tell to get out of the arrow's way, she stood still since the arrow was coming fast at her and braced herself at what's going to happen next, until someone flew down and carried her away from the arrow just in time. As she looked up at the person who saved her, her eyes began to widen to see it was Kuro.

"Don't you dare hurt her, Kevin!" he yelled at the evil boy.

"Kuro? What on earth are you doing protecting the enemy?" Kevin retorted. "I thought you're supposed to kill her!"

"I don't want to kill her! She means a lot to me!" the black angel shouted back to him which made a shade of red appeared on Earla's cheeks.

Kevin narrow his eyes at him as the fighters were surprised to see that Kuro had feelings for Earla, even though he's one of Tabuu's helpers. Then, Kevin smirked and said, "So I see you're trying to play knight in shining armor to her. Are trying to disobey Tabuu's orders?"

"Tell him I'm done working for him and find someone else to work for his sorry butt! I don't even want to make Earla or anybody else suffer!"

"Even for you not to exist this world anymore?" Kevin grinned as he saw Kuro's shocked look, even Earla and the rest of the fighters were shocked as well.

"I don't know what are you talking about." Kuro hissed at him as his teeth were clenched.

"Oh come on, Kuro. I already knew that my mother brought you back to life so you'll work for her and Tabuu. Also, you did want to get revenge on Pit."

Kuro couldn't take it anymore. He was furious mad now as his eyes are now glowing red with rage, but he stopped when he saw Earla got up and slapped Kevin across his face.

"Enough!" she yelled at the Kevin, who touched his swollen cheek after the slap. "Even though, Kuro won't exist any longer, he still has the right to live life! For the first time of his life, he found what is like to have feelings like everyone else! He found happiness, joy, and love! He loved me and he tried not to hurt me, even by Tabuu's orders!"

Kevin then began to glare at her as Kuro heard those words he always wanted to hear for a long time. She was right. He did found happiness when he was with her and he never knew he would started to have new feelings he never felt before, love.

"Tough luck." he heard Kevin voice sneering at Earla which made him shocked from his thoughts as he and the rest of the smashers saw a swarm of the Subspace minions surrounding them. "I guess you won't be able to watch this kind of fight."

As the minions got closer and braced themselves at the fighters, more of the fire started to get in the smashers' way which makes it difficult for them to fight in this situation. Just before the fight against them and the minions, Kuro quickly grabbed Earla in his arms and flew away just before one of the big minions did an attack on her.

While in the air, Kuro flew on the other side of the forest, away from the fight. As he landed, he gently place Earla by a tree.

"Kuro, what are doing? We have to go back to help the others!" Earla shouted at him.

"It's too dangerous!" he said. "I just don't want you to get hurt."

"I don't care! I want to help them! Who knows what will happen to them!"

"No! You have to stay here! I'll help them!"

"You idiot! You'll get killed yourself!" the female fighter cried as her eyes began to water with tears, ready to come out of them. She couldn't hold them back and just let them fall as she said the words he never said to him back after the kiss from earlier. "I…I love you!"

The black angel's eyes began to widen after hearing those words. He remembered telling those same words to her from earlier and he thought he was stupid for telling them, but he never knew that the person he loved so much is telling those same words to him. He wiped the tears away from her eyes and slowly pressed his lips against hers, just for the last time if they won't be able to see each other again. Only this time, the kiss lasted for a few minutes as it was more passionate than ever.

As they pulled away, Kuro said, "I love you too, but I don't want you to get killed. If I come back alive, I'll back to you. I promise."

Earla couldn't help but smile at him as more tears fell from eyes. "I know you will." she said and then the black angel flew away from her to go back to the fight as she ran the opposite direction from him, away from the forest.