Welcome – Ch.38 Ones With Hope
"WHERE ARE THEY?" Kevin yelled at the Pokémon trainer, who was covered in scratches, wounds, and bruises all over his body, lying on the ground.
"I'm telling you, I don't know!" the trainer shouted at him and the evil teenager kicked his stomach which made him cough out blood from his mouth.
"You're wasting my time." Kevin scoffed as he watched the rest of the smashers getting wounded by the minions of Subspace while a few of them turned into trophies. "I guess it's time for you to join the others." he smirked as he reloaded his gun and finished the trainer after the sound of a loud 'BANG!' and he turned into a trophy.
After that, one of the Primids came right next to the evil boy and started to make gurgling noises at him as if it was talking to him.
"I know the rest of them are still out there. As soon as we finish the last of them, including the 7 Heroes, the universe will be under our control and he'll bring my father back to life." the boy answered the Primid's question, but then, the next that happened someone kicked his stomach hard which made him choke a bit.
"You were looking for me, huh?" the person sneered at him and it was the black angel, Kuro.
"I was hoping to." Kevin grinned as he wiped off the blood coming out of his mouth.
With that, the two of them charged at each other with their weapons ready while the flames from the forest fire are separating them and the other fight that is going on between the minions of Subspace and the smashers. As Kevin started shooting at the black angel from his real bullet gun, but Kuro blocked them with his dual blades and swung them at the evil teenager. If it wasn't for his wounded that he got from Earla's sword he would've kill the black angel already. Kevin kept on trying to hit or shoot at anywhere part of Kuro's body for him to get him get killed already, but it wasn't until the black angel used one of his dual blades and stabbed the evil teenager's other arm.
"Heh. Tabuu always said you're one of the best fighters." Kevin grinned at him as he covers his new wounded arm from gushing out his blood.
"I'm not part of his freaking group anymore." Kuro coldly said to him.
"I know, but…tell that to my little brother. DAVID, NOW!"
After Kevin's command, David jumped out of nowhere and pulled out one of his swords or knives and stabbed directly at Kuro's back. The black angel began to scream from the pain and collapsed on the ground as blood began to drip from his mouth.
"I don't even get why you see in that girl since she's the enemy." Kevin scoffed at him.
"She made me feel so happy…and I never felt that for a long time."
"Too bad you won't be able to see her again." David sneered at him.
"I have not…come this far…to die now." Kuro growled at the evil brothers as his teeth were clenched together. "Because I promised her I would see her again." he thought to himself, but it wasn't until Kevin pointed his gun towards the black angel.
"What a shame." Kevin sneered at him as he began to pull the trigger.
BANG!
"What the-?"
"It's like you said, I'm one of the best fighters!" the black angel smirked, after he blocked the bullet with one of his dual blades. He was pretending that he was killed, but he really did got hurt from being stabbed one of David's swords and then, he quickly got up and stabbed both Kevin and David right inside their lower parts of their bodies with his dual blades.
"You've made a big mistake." Kevin gurgled his words with blood and snapped his fingers, with an evil grin on his face.
Suddenly, the remaining of the Subspace minions each let out a loud roar and ran away from the fighters.
"Where are they going?" Kuro asked, in a bit worried voice.
"Well…let's just say they're after someone." Kevin sneered at him. "And that someone is that girl you love so much."
The black angel's eyes began to wide with fear mixed with shock. He narrowed his eyes as he clenched his teeth and charged at the evil teenager with his dual blades ready to kill him, but then, a sharp pain hit him somewhere near his spine and the black angel collapsed on the burned ground. That's when he found out David stabbed another sword at his back again.
"This fight is starting to get boring." said David.
"Yeah. I know. Let's head back to, Tabuu. Let the other minions finish with, Earla." Kevin suggested and the two brothers disappear into the ground, leaving the same purple shapes with shades of yellow, along Red, Aquamarine, and both Misdreavus and Mismagius, who were now transformed into trophies.
For Kuro, more of his blood dripped from his mouth as his back began to ache from being stabbed by David, twice.
"You're not really, Pit, are you?" he heard a voice inside his head.
"Who…? Who said that…?" the black gurgled blood through his words as he glanced his surroundings.
"Over here on your right." the voice answered.
Listened, Kuro turned his head to his right and saw Lucas, who was next to Ruby the two of them were both covered in wounds, bruises, and ash smudges all over his body, except Ruby was unconscious and he isn't.
"Heh. You're that psychic boy. Lucas, right?" the black angel asked.
"Yeah, that's right, but try not to talk too much. You'll loose more blood like that. Just talk to me in my thoughts; I have telepathic powers." the psychic boy suggested. "By the way, who are you? And why do you look a lot like, Pit?"
"My name is, Kuro. And I'm just the dark self of, Pit." the black angel answered through their minds. "The two of us hate each other and we always end up fighting to the death, until I was defeated."
"Then, how were you able to be back alive, since Pit killed you?" Lucas asked.
Kuro didn't say anything for a short moment, but he finally said, "The Lord of Darkness."
Somewhere at the other side of the forest fire, where there are no signs of the minions from Subspace, both Link and Mario were walking around, wondering what happened here, but then the plumber stop.
"What's wrong, Mario?" Link asked him, but the plumber hushed him.
"Do you hear that?" Mario questioned.
"Hear what?" Then, the two fighters stand still as they both listened carefully and, the two of them heard the sound, besides the crackling sparks of the fire, there was a sound of someone yelling and a swarm of the minions of Subspace ran past them.
At first, they were both confused of why the minions didn't go after them since they were enemies, but then the two fighters just realize the minions weren't after them; they were chasing someone through the forest. This person was hard to tell if it was a girl or a boy if it wasn't his/her white hooded cloak he/she was wearing, which made the two of wonder as if they met that person before.
"Quick! We have to help that person!" Mario shouted.
As Link nodded with agreement, the two fighters went after the minions to help the mysterious person.
As Earla kept on running away from the forest, she could already hear the screaming of the fighters who were still in the forest fire. She tried to ignore them, but the screams were louder as if they were being murdered and heard much more sounds than that, like the sounds of falling trees, metal cutting against something, gunshots, many more she can't even want to hear as tears were flowing down her cheeks. She begged for the noises to stop, but they didn't.
When she began to hear the roaring noises of the Subspace minions coming after her now, she wondered if she could fight against them or not, but it makes it difficult since she's on her own now, but has she no other choice. She quickly stopped running and pulled her sword out in one of her hands. Yes she was scared. Yes she was nuts fighting like hundreds of those monsters by herself. But she had no other choice.
As a swarm of Primids, Spaaks, Greaps, and all the minions of Subspace charged at Earla, she jumped to the air and threw her sword at the which sliced a bunch in half, gushing out Shadow Bugs as they collapsed on the ground. After that, she unleashed several of her chains and tied most of them in place into one big blob. Once her sword returned to one of her hands, she charged at the captured minions and sliced them into pieces as she ran past them.
Suddenly, one of the Greaps broke her chains into several pieces and charged at her. Earla dodged in time, but then, few of the Bombed removed their bomb-like heads from their bodies and threw them near her, which cause a small explosion and sent her flying. Once she hit the ground hard, she struggled to get up and watched as the rest of the minions starting to charge at her. She knew she was going to die now. As she waited for death to come to her at any second now, her eyes began to widen as she saw both Mario and Link, both attacked the minions.
Mario sent out his fire balls from his hands and melted and burned some of them while Link used his sword and slashed the others into pieces and they all watched as they turned back into Shadow Bugs.
"Are you okay?" the Hyrulian warrior asked Earla as he helped her get up.
She nodded for response. "Who are you?" she asked.
"Guess you don't remember us, huh? My name is Link and the red plumber is, Mario. Are there any others that are with you?" the warrior asked.
"Yes! There were others!" Earla answered to Link, but then she gasped when she realized the others, who are probably still in the forest fire. "Oh no! The others! They're still in the fire!"
"What? Link, you stay here with the girl! I'll go find the others!" Mario shouted and started running off back to the forest.
As the plumber disappeared into the forest, tears began to fall from Earla's eyes as she was worry about the black angel, Kuro, who might not be coming back to her once the fight was over. "Please…let him and the others be alright…" she begged to herself.
"Huh? Wait. Are you trying to say the Lord of Subspace? Tabuu?" Lucas asked.
The black angel didn't say anything.
"Kuro?" the psychic boy questioned, but that's when he realized the black angel was slowly dying. Both his mouth and wounded back were still dripping his blood to the burned ground, making a small puddle underneath him.
"…I'm sorry…Earla…"Kuro gasped through his words.
"Kuro? Kuro, hang in there! Don't die now!" Lucas shouted at him.
"Lucas…I'm dying…it's too late for me…"
"Don't say things like that! Do you want to leave, Earla, all alone?"
The black angel's eyes began to widen after hearing his lover's name. No, he doesn't want to leave her. He loved her so much that he doesn't want to, but he was dying.
His eyes began to feel heavy all of a sudden. He tried to stay awake, but the more he lost his blood, the more force his eyes wanted to be closed. Then, he felt something wet dripped from his tired eyes. They were tears. He never cried before in his life, but these tears showed him that he was beginning to feel sad.
Suddenly, he saw a red plumber running towards him and the other fighters, but it wasn't until his eyes began to fully closed as his mind was filled with nothing but darkness.
Is this death? he wondered. No, it can't be. He already know what death is like before, when he was defeated by Pit. Then, what is this?
To his surprise, he wasn't dead; he was still alive. As he began to open his eyes, he wasn't lying on the burned ground anymore; he was at some kind of campfire with the fighters, Mario, Link, Lucas, and Ruby, sleeping peacefully.
He began to look at himself and saw that his wounds were wrapped in white cloth and bandages while there was a bandage on his right cheek. Then, his eyes began to widen as his face turned red when he saw Earla sleeping on his chest.
The black angel began to smile as he moved some of her hair behind her ears to get a better look at her, which made his heart beat faster. Just as he saw her sleeping face shining underneath the moonlight, Kuro lifted her chin up and brushed his lips against hers; trying not to wake her up, but then, the young female fighter kissed him back.
"I thought…you were going to die back there…" she whispered to him after they let go and tears began to fall out from her eyes.
"Shh. It's okay. I'm right here with now, just like I promised I'll be back to see you again." the black angel whispered back to her as he wiped her tears away.
"I know. I'm glad you're okay." Earla replied and kissed the black angel's left cheek and nuzzled her head on his chest. "I love you, Kuro."
"I love you too, Earla." Kuro whispered to her as he wrapped his arms around her and the two of them went to sleep.
Ugh…I made this chapter terrible! I think I went things a little fast like Earla and Kuro being a couple, but they hate each other from the earlier chapters and NOW their a couple! I think I did things too fast.
Anyways, THIS is the final chapter I'm posting before I leave to New York for a week. In case if you're wondering when will I be back, I'll come back somewhere at July 7-8 in the night. I'm not sure because we're coming back home in the middle of the night.
Kirby: Awww! Group hug, everyone!
Everyone: *Hugs me*
Me: Thanks you guys. I'm going to miss you all too. Speaking of Earla, where is she?
Kevin: AAAHHHHHH! Get this girl away from me! *still running from the mad Earla*
Earla: Kevin! You're going to pay for hurting, Kuro!
Me: Hey, Sonic. Don't the two of them remind you between you and Amy?
Sonic: Ugh. Don't get me started.
Peach: Isn't anyone going to stop her?
Pikachu: (Please review!)
July 14, 2011: This is a rewrite.