Chapter 51.

Sky

"Rein," I said, "Whose that?" I pointed to the body.

"You two are complete idiots!" snapped Rein, "Look around you!"

I closed my eyes and activated aura. I saw the auras of many Pokemon surrounding us. I opened my eyes and turned to the Toxicroak, "You set us up!"

He smiled, "Of course. Did you really think you could defeat me and get away with it? I came to capture you two and I will succeed!" He lifted his hand and pointed to us with one of his deadly hand claws, "Get them!"

Immediately the three of us were surrounded on all sides by many different poison type Pokemon. I held my spikes at the ready. It was obvious from their pointy weapons and expressions that they weren't going to let us walk away. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rein extending his claws.

"We seriously need to talk after we take care of them," said Rein before jumping into the large group of poison Pokemon.

"Are you going to be okay?" I asked Luke, ducking under a Seviper's tail before shoving my spike into it. I twisted it and pulled it upwards, shaving the tail clean off. Before the Seviper could cry out, I had turned around and stuck my left spike into a Stunky. "You aren't like us. We fight like this a lot."

"I'm fine," said Luke. He slashed a knife across a Dustox's throat.

In the mass attack, somehow I saw the Toxicroak running away from the battlefield. "You aren't getting away from me!" I growled. I raced towards him, slashing my spikes at anyone who tried to get in my way. I was on autopilot, my spikes just moving to get everyone out of my way. I heard someone calling me but I ignored the voice. It didn't matter. All that mattered was making that Toxicroak pay. "This time you will die!" I cried, jumping into the air.

The Toxicroak looked back and saw me flying at him. He smiled cruelly and said, "Is it ever that easy?"

A Nidoking jumped in front of me and slammed his fist against my chest, sending me tumbling to the ground. I coughed and looked up. I rolled before the Nidoking could land on me and break me in two. I jumped to my feet and turned to face the Nidoking, the battle raging behind me. I noticed a silver band with a ruby set in it on his arm as well as the fact that he was blue. Great. I was fighting a shiny high member of the Purtiy Organization. I suddenly realized that if a ruby silver rank was working for the Toxicorak then that Toxicroak has to be a higher rank than him. Oh Acreus. I was in a bigger mess than I wanted to be in.

The Nidoking charged at me, his claws covered in a dark aura. Shadow claw. I created an aura sphere and flung at the Nidoking I turned around and almost crashed into a Beedril who was flying over to me. Without thinking, I cut him in two before jumping into the crowd, landing next to Rein.

"What the hell are you doing?" spat Rein, his claws glowing. He hit a Weezing, knocking it into a Gulpin and Muk. "You seem out of it. And why would you go alone? I know you had Luke with you but still."

"I'm sorry!" I lifted a foot and hit the ground. Rocks came out of the ground and crushed a couple of the poison Pokemon. "But when I saw him…well I couldn't think straight!"

"Because he was the one who attacked the bandit camp….and took your sister." It was more of a sentence than a question. Rein didn't wait for me to reply. He knew he was right. Rein picked up a Stunky using his claws and flung it at an oncoming Swalot. "Was it true?"

"What is true?" I asked dodging acid spit by a Victreebel. I jumped and landed on it, shoving my spike down its' mouth.

"Your sister is working for the Purity. She was the one who stabbed you wasn't it." Again, it was more of a statement than a question. "You are forgetting Rushin's rules of battle. When revenge is involved-"

"One must be careful or they will be blinded by the revenge," I finished, "I know Rein but it is a lot harder to do in pratice." I spotted Luke fighting the ruby silver ranked Nidoking. "I'm going to help my cousin," I said before running towards him. Maybe I was just running away so Rein couldn't lecture me about how bad I screwed up.

Luke jumped over the Nidoking's shadow claw and swung one of his knives at the Nidoking's face but the Nidoking lifted his left hand and blocked the knife with his bare hand. I swung my spike at the Nidoking but he grabbed Luke and flung him at me. I had to pull my spikes back to avoid impaling my cousin. We crashed into each other and hit the ground. I lifted my head to see the Nidoking standing over us, a smug expression all over his face.

"Oh be quiet!" The Nidoking didn't know what hit him. He looked down in shock to see three claws sticking out of his stomach. The claws receded and the Nidoking fell, leaving Rein standing over him. He returned his claws back to their normal size before giving me a paw. I accepted it and got to my feet. I turned and helped my cousin up.

"Where's the Toxicroak?" asked Luke, looking around.

"Left in that direction," Rein pointed in the direction he had went.

"Let's go Luke," I said, "We can still get him."

"Woah there," snapped Rein stepping in front of us, "I need you two to think logically. This could be another trap to get you Sky. Look, we are going to have to get him another time."

"But…" I protested.

"Sky!" Rein's face softened, "I understand that you might be upset but we need to think. And what about Spark? Do you really think she wants to be with Sophie right now? She needs us Sky. The two Pokemon that understand what she is going through."

I looked at the ground, knowing Rein was right. "I'm sorry Rushin. I wasn't thinking." I looked up, "Then let's go back to that hotel."

Rein smiled and nodded, "That's a good idea. Wait. I almost forgot." I watched Rein run over to a nearby abandoned house and picked up something. He ran over to us and showed us a small Ho-oh charm. "This Politoed let me have it for free," he explained, "Thought it might cheer Spark up a bit you know?"

"It might," I said before we began to head back to the hotel. I noticed Luke seemed to be looking at something. "See something?"

Luke was startled. "Oh uh…," he said, "Thought I saw something but it was nothing."