Chapter 48

Sierra's Tale. Part 12

(Lucas POV)

The Hunters attacked and for some extremely strange reason my shroud blades popped to life. The plasma blades radiated an insurmountable amount of heat from them. Without a second thought I charged at the Hunter's surprise attack. Gunfire lit up the forest, I palmed an aura sphere and chucked it at them as a distraction.

From there I ran up into the tree running along its branches I found myself ontop of the disorientated Hunters just seconds after I threw that aura sphere. I clashed my shroud blades together creating a shower of sparks, and with that I jumped down, James followed suite behind me his Tomahawk out.

I flew through the air and timed seemed to slow. I reared my blades up my target was the machine gunner of the group laying down a huge volume of fire down at my friends. I landed ontop of his head and drove my blades right through his head the plasma sliding through his skull.

The machine gun fire died and I rolled to the side to avoid the ensuing gun fir aimed at me, they suddenly stopped aswell as James jumped down ontop of them and was brutally cleaving through them with his axe. I charged at them tackling a Hunter wielding a shotgun to the ground.

I pinned him down and decapitated him blood dripping from his severed neck with bones showing. I picked up the shotgun and turned to the rest of the group and emptied the tube at them, 6 shells full of buckshot tore through them ripping the poor bastards to shreds.

Once the tube was empty I chucked the shotgun aside and charged at the Hunters once more, there was 6 of them left. I chopped a rifle right down the middle melting the metal, I grabbed the remaining pieces of the rifle and batted its users head with it. He had the breath knocked right out of him and I grabbed his head twisted it and cracked it.

Using his dead body I rolled over his back locking my arms in his neck and throwing at another Hunter who tried to help his friend. Said Hunter was now pinend to the ground with a body ontop of him, I slashed his neck open allowing him to bleed out painfully and slowly before continuing.

My aura rifle appeared in my hand as I casually walked towards the remaining 3 Hunters, they were firing into a tree. I aimed down my sights and with an explosive *woomp I fired a compounded bullet at on Hunter ripping him to pieces.

I chucked my aura rifle at the two remaining Hunters that had turned their attention to me, the gun flew through the air and just before it hit a Hunter in the head it exploded in a bright blue explosion sending out a massive shockwave. Once the dust settled everything was dead silent.

"Everybody ok?!" I yelled, "Roll call!"

"I'm fine!" I heard Sierra call over.

"Fine!" Came James.

"I'm good!" Came Emily and the group called in safe and sound, they don't have names so they aren't important to the plot.

"Ok." I said and we all met up, my shroud blade flickered for a bit before popping out of existence. I felt the surge of energy leave my body giving me a kinda empty feeling. I tried activating my shroud blades again but to no avail.

It seems that most of my powers had returned but I still haven't unlocked my full potential, "How did they even find us?" Sierra asked.

"I don't know." Replied James, "That looked like a scouting force and we can be sure as hell know that they'll have backup behind them. We have to move quickly."

I gave a nod, we didn't have time to discuss the situation, "Alright lets move quickly, keep your eyes peeled for any Hunters." I said, and with that we all moved out at a fast pace.

I ran up the side of a tree and hopped between its branches, the other Lucarios in our party followed me. We ran along the trees swiftly and silently, the humans down below were at a jogging pace. Hearthome City is a couple of miles from here, so we will have a relatively long journey ahead of us.

Sierra moved infront of me taking the lead in the group, I watched her intently. But in the end she will be left of broken heart, and a debt forever unpaid. Those parts of the prophecy given to me by Dialga wrung through sending shivers down my spine. It means that whenever this struggle of ours end Sierra will have a broken heart and huge debt.

I still haven't figured out what debt she is to owe. But the broken heart part got to me the most… I feel the answer to that is on the tip of my tongue… but I just can't figure it out. Anyways just as the sun dipped below the horizon cloaking the world in a veil of darkness we decided to stop and set up camp.

(Later that night)

James and I decided to keep things under the radar of the Hunters we know are in this area so we will all be sleeping in trees this night as to further avoid detection. We haven't gone to sleep yet so for the past couple of hours we have been sitting infront of this one fire, well everyone else sight infront of the fire while I hunkered up in the trees.

We had completed about half of our journey just this afternoon and we will be making the other half of the journey in the morning. Everything was so peaceful and tranquilic no one bothered to talk instead opting to just doze off or stare at the fire.

I sensed a disturbance in the tree I was in and all of a sudden Sierra popped in out of nowhere.

"Hello." She said sweetly to me plopping herself down on my lap. You know you could have asked if you could sit on my lap. I wrapped my arms around her body and she leaned into me getting nice and snuggly.

The first thing I noticed was her odd new scent, Sierra smelled of a mix of blueberry and honey, why does she smell like that, "You smell… different." I made a rather odd statement.

"Something new I'm trying Lucas… do you like it?" She asked almost opportunistically.

"Why would you change your own scent Sierra? In fact how did you change your own scent?" I asked, scent was a very important part of Lucario social status. You can tell a lot about a Lucario through his or her scent, you can tell whether they are shy or courageous, their social status, whether they are a natural leader or follower etcetera.

All of a sudden I found myself…. Intoxicated by the scent. It was alluring, attracting, something I really couldn't resist. It was this perfume she was wearing, I found myself sniffing in more and more of it just trying to take it all in. It wasn't the scent of HEAT because of Sierra was in HEAT I would have a massive boner right now.

Sierra noticed my intoxication, "Precisely for this reason…" She said seductively planting a kiss on my lips wrapping her arms around my shoulders and pulling herself closer to me.

I savored her soft lips, they were so sweet and warm, I could lose myself in those lips of hers and stay in this moment kissing her forever. However Lucario anatomy worked against us and soon we parted for air, Sierra being the biggest of tease didn't take it any further and resumed her old position with her back to my front.

"The question still stands… did you like it?" She asked slyly.

"It's growing on me." I replied, I could tell she was smiling.

We just sat there for what seemed like hours just enveloped in each-others warmth. I rested my chin ontop of her head and she just snuggled herself more into my mass. I was quite enjoying this cuddling session. Eventually however Sierra decided to break the silence.

"Lucas…" She asked.

"Yea?" I replied.

"Do you think that heading to Hearthome is worth it?" She asked, "I mean so many things can go wrong on our journey and we're putting everything into the fact that Hearthome will be our safe haven."

I did not fully understand the question but Sierra picked up on my confusion, "Think of it like this…" Sierra tried to explain.

"We have put our entire trust and faith into this… safehaven. Why haven't we been moved there before, why wait until now to move here?" Sierra asked hypothetically, "What happens when we reach the city? I have this gut feeling this Hearthome City will be a false messiah."

"You don't trust James?" I asked.

"No I do trust him. I just don't trust the people he trusts." Sierra said, "I mean when an entire population is so corrupt to the core who can we trust?"

"Where else can we go Sierra? What else can we do?" I replied, "We have nobody to help us. Barely anybody are on our side. What other choice do we have?"

Sierra remained silent for a while turning around as to that her eyes faced mine, "I'm just saying that we should keep our guards up Lucas. To not pour our complete trust and faith into something we have never seen." She said softly.

I gazed into those sapphire eyes of hers, I could lose myself in them. Sierra brought a hand up to my face and ran her fingers down the scar branded on my face. My wounds have healed since the day I got that scar but my skin is still singed and scarred in that area.

"So many terrible things have been done to us on behalf of those Hunters Lucas…" Sierra said running her fingers along my scar, "I'm just saying we should be careful…"

I just kept gazing intently at her, I saw both worry and love for me in her eyes. I cupped her head with one of my hands and brought her in for a kiss. Once we parted she rested her head on my chest and soon dozed off her arms around my chest refusing to ever let me go. I placed my chin ontop of her head and wrapped my arms around her waist.

"If you are right about this Sierra then atleast we all die together right?" I sarcastically asked.

"Yea because that will be so much better." She replied with the same amount of sarcasm.

I kissed her forehead moving my snout close to her ear, "On a more serious note Sierra." I whispered, "I'll never let anything hurt you Sierra… even if I have to die trying."

(That morning)

My eyes slowly drifted open my vision still very hazy. I noticed a warm mass ontop of me of which I assume was Sierra. She was sleeping as soundly as a Buneary right now. I gazed lovingly at her something I've been doing quite a lot lately. I rubbed a place just behind her ears with a finger, her favorite spot of so I've found out, I was rewarded with a soft purr.

Afterwards I carefully maneuvered myself out of her grasps and jumped down onto the forest below leaving Sierra up snug in that tree. I checked my surroundings no Hunters are about to attack us so I attended the fire. First off I scoured the area nearby and plucked up some dried and dead grass.

I tore them up into small fibrous pieces and set them near the smoldering ruins that was the fire last night. I pushed aside some of the wood and ash and found some few spare embers. I got my tinder and scooped up the ember. I blew long breaths into the embers causing them to light up and eventually the tinder caught fire.

The small flame grew into a full blown fire enveloping the entire tinder bundle. I set the live flame down into the firepit and it caught fire. After a while I had restarted the campfire. I got some sticks and twigs and placed it near the flames fueling it and causing it to grow.

I sat down near the flame holding my paws up to it to warm them. Nearby I heard James waking up and he ungracefully fell down from his tree landing flat on his back onto the hard forest floor.

"Arceusdammit!" He groaned, "How the hell do you sleep like that." He groaned again lethargically trying to get back up onto his feet, the process in general looked incredibly painful for him.

"How can I be so sore for sleeping in a dam tree?!" He kept on complaining about how bad his nights up for a couple more minutes before plopping down next to the fire holding his hands up to the flame.

"Good morning." I finally said, "How'd you sleep? I had the most amazing night ever!" I said with truth but a tone of sarcasm in my vice.

"Fuck you." He replied hating the fact that I had a much better night than his.

"Should we have breakfast or should we wait until we reach the city?" I asked.

"Let's have breakfast now I guess the city is not that far away and we haven't been attacked last night so the zealots are not nearby." James said looking around for his pack. His eyes scoured the campsite until he found out it was up in the tree he was sleeping in.

James gave a sigh got up and trudged to his tree running about the branches grabbing his pack and jumping down. He was great at climbing trees but not so great at sleeping on them. He walked over to the campfire again and didn't sit down but dropped down brining up a lot of dust and dirt with him as his ass hit the ground.

Sierra woke up soon afterwards and she joined us by the campfire. No one else woke up however so it was just the three of us.

"Ok…. What have we got in here…" James said to himself looking through his pack. He pulled out 3 strange brown bags, what are we gonna eat that?

"What…. What are those?" Sierra asked her nose twitching at the odd scent the three bags gave off.

"They're called MREs, Meals Ready To Go." James replied, "Field rations for soldiers, we can still eat them."

"Ok… um… how are we suppose to eat paper bags? And are you saying soldiers eat paper bags?" Sierra was still extremely confused.

"No Sierra…." James sounded frustrated, "It's what's in the paper bag is what we eat."

He tore at the bag and took out like 7 even smaller brown nags from it. What the fuck…?

"So the sole purpose of that giant brown bag was to carry 7 smaller bags? What are we going to eat those?" Sierra was more confused than ever.

"Arceusdammit…" James facepalmed. He threw us the other two bags, we both instinctively opened but it was only Sierra that started gnawing at the bag's contents.

"Sierra…." I was starting to get frustrated by her stupidity now, "Tear up the smaller bags…"

Sierra stopped gnawing on a smaller bag and did so, she bit into it tearing the top right off. Her eyes widened as she was met with the edible contents of the smaller bag. From my view it looked like a piece of meat, Sierra gingerly nosed around the opening before biting on the piece of meat pulling it out of the bag and gobbling it down.

From there I think Sierra figured out how all of this worked as she is now gobbling down food from the other bags, "Why do you humans keep your food locked up in a paper bag?" She asked curiously still eating. James and I decided not to answer that.

Emily soon woke up and fell face flat onto the forest floor and after an amount of ranting similar to James she settled down by the campfire.James handed her an MRE she opened it without effort and started eating it's contents. The other received rude awakenings via rolling off of their trees but the Lucarios that woke up didn't experience much trouble.

But almost all Lucarios, my parents, Sierra's parents, and etc. had the same confusion with the MREs like Sierra did. It was so funny. It took them all a good 30 minutes before the figured out how to tear away the top of the field rations and another 10 minutes to figure out the foods were in the separate packs.

So breakfast was quite extended but it seemed like they like the human MREs. Afterwards the litter was terrible leaving James to clean up all the empty paper bags, I didn't even help him. After James finished cleaning up, all by himself, we packed up camp and started to head out.

"We are about halfway there to the city." I said, "If we move fast enough we should arrive at the gates by afternoon." I said.

"So let's get too it then." Sierra said. I double stepped up into a tree swinging along its branches. The rest of the Lucarios in our group followed suite, Sierra again took the lead infront of me.

James took to the trees aswell being one of the only humans that can glide across the trees like we Lucarios do. The rest of the humans however ran at a swift pace.

(By the afternoon)

We had been running nonstop for the past 4 hours or so, in human time it is now 12:00 PM. The human group below us were utterly exhausted and just as soon as they caught sight of the city walls of Hearthome City they collapsed on the forest floor gasping for air. I'm not trying to make them look like wimps, they did just run for basically 4 hours straight….

James didn't really collapse gasping for breath but he looked winded. Meanwhile the A-team over here, I didn't break a sweat, Sierra didn't break a sweat, the rest of the Lucario in our group broke sweats but they weren't as winded as the humans.

Those of us in the trees jumped down with the rest of the humans to catch our breaths aswell, even though we weren't really out of breath. After the 5 minute break we continue on. The City was still a fair distance away, like about half a mile away, so it will take another 1 hour to reach the walls.

Well what'd yah know we reached it after 1 hour. Apparently modern cities take from the playbook of medieval castles with every city I've seen having huge castle walls surrounding it. At the sight of what should have been salvation we only saw a sight that made our hearts dropped.

Civilians probably the citizens of the city were camped out just outside the city walls. The gates had been locked the cities own citizens kicked out.

"What the hell…" Came James. The walls covered up the city as their intended purpose but we only saw black smoke rise from behind the walls.

"What have they done." Came Emily. All of us came rushing at the city and were picked up immediately by its citizens. For the first time in my life I swear Sierra isn't right about her assumption about this city.

"Stay hidden." I broadcasted to all Lucarios in our group, they followed my command and climbed up a tree and hid themselves within the leaves.

James and the humans rushed down to meet up with the inhabitants of the city, "What happened?!"

"We don't know, the mayor ordered all of us to evacuate out of the city yesterday night." An inhabitant of the city said.

"Why would he do this?"

"We don't know. All we know is that military officials and political representatives are the only ones that stayed in the city." The man said a helicopter came buzzing in out of nowhere up above circling the city before moving into the confines of its walls, "Helicopters have been going in and out of the city ever since we left."

The rest of their conversation was inaudible to me as they spoke much more quietly because now soldiers armed with rifles stood ontop the walls of the city. My eyes widened, please don't let Sierra be right. After 20 more minutes of talk James walked back to us in the trees.

"What's the situation?" Sierra asked.

"I don't know Sierra, the city people said the mayor ordered everyone to evacuate the city as of yesterday afternoon." James explained, "The only personal that stayed were political and military officials, even Nurse Joy was ordered to evacuate." James explained, I didn't know who Nurse Joy was but she seemed important.

"Ever since then helicopters have been flying in and out of the city picking up and dropping off Arceus knows what." James explained.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked looking down at James from the tree.

"I don't know Lucas they have things pretty locked up in there." He said turning around and pointing the guards up on the wall, "I'm gonan try to sneak into the walls tonight, I assume you will be with me." I nodded my head at the last part.

"How could such a thing like this happen?" Sierra asked, "Hearthome was suppose to be the one place free of the Hunters corruption."

"I'm praying that isn't the case here and that they're discussing something else." James said, "But no place can be free of corruption Sierra."

"Lucarios, heed my warning. Do no head towards Hearthome City at your respective times." I broadcasted to all Lucarios, I hope they actually heed my warning.

James took out his cell phone from his pocket and proceeded to make several calls telling the humans in all of the groups spread out across multiple towns to not start heading towards Hearthome.

"I hope the Hunters didn't get to this city…" I said we all looked towards the city, walls guarded by soldiers.

"Well we'll all find out tonight…." James said.

(Later that night)

James, Sierra, and I have decided to keep our infiltration into Hearthome City a secret. So I woke up in the middle of the night full moon shining down upon me illuminating the forestscape. Since Sierra was at my side, as always, I woke her first. I gently shook on her shoulders for a while before her eyes snapped open.

"Come on Sierra." I whispered, "Time to go."

I jumped down from our tree, Sierra rubbed the sleepiness out of her eyes before joining me. Arceus now where is James? I hadn't kept track of where James is, I didn't have to search for him as he suddenly hopped down from his tree, Sierra yelped at the scare and James and I shushed her with a hoarse shhh her.

"You read James?" I asked, he nodded. All of his gear was packed up with his bow and sword on his back and Tomhawk and pistol at his hip, along with several other backup daggers and pistols hidden throughout his body.

I looked to Sierra she gave me a nod aswell. I however wasn't ready, channeling my energy I willed my fur to turn a midnight black, well a part of my fur atleast. Since I was a shiny Lucario my yellow fur covering most of my body turned to the midnight black while the light blue fur at my chest turned to a much darker shade.

Sierra cracked up into an uncontrollable laugh at my sight, James looked at her with confusion.

"Yea, yea laugh it up." I said, "But if we get discovered and all hell breaks loose I'll be the one to save the day because they won't be able to see me for shit." I said in a superior tone.

Sierra took a step closer to me, "You always save the day Lucas." She said giving me a light peck on the lips, "So I'm not really scared Lucas." She gave me a wink before taking off in the shadow towards the wall.

"She's…. she's something." James noted.

"Yea…" I said almost dreamily, Arceus I love her so much.

I ran up the trunk of a tree pulling myself onto its branches. James followed me soon later, we will be taking a direct infiltration into the city but in a less guarded area of the wall. The inhabitants of the city set camp near the gates of the city so the most guards were focused there. So if we sneaked our way to the wall opposite of the gates then we can atleast sneak more fluidly into the city.

I jumped from my tree to the other balancing myself along the branches shimmying along the trunk of the tree balancing/running along the opposite branch I leapt onto another tree rinsing and repeating the cycle with every respective tree. Soon Sierra joined our tree-running. We passed the line of camping city dwellers.

After about 20 minutes we reached the back entrance to the city. The walls were scarcely guarded by soldiers and my prediction was right that most would be at the gates. I silently leapt down from the tree I was in. There was a large amount of tall grass leading up to the wall that broke just 15 feet before meeting it.

I crept silently through the grass in a crouched position using my hands to help me navigate trying to stay as low as possible. James had his bow at crawling low through the grass, Sierra showed up behind him. No one looking down would have seen us except for the rustling in the grass, but we could just be the wind blowing on the grass for all they know.

At the 15 feet mark where the grass broke away I dashed quickly towards the wall then planting my back up against it to avoid detection. Sierra dashed towards me aswell doing the same thing I did. James drew his bow and launched an arrow at the wall, the broadhead buried itself into the wall leaving a rope dangling down the wall attached to it.

I grabbed onto the rope and made my way up the wall pulling myself up. I reached a ledge and pulled myself up onto it. Looking outwards from the wall there was a lot of cover with the square rises in the wall but looking in there was almost no cover for attackers looking into it. I pulled my aura rifle out, since it was a giant glowing blue gun I turned it completely black.

I'm going full commando this night. I jumped off the platform erected to look over the wall and found cover behind some crates. Sierra came over the ledge and took cover next to me. James was last to come up, he dislodged his arrow from the ground and put it back into his quiver.

We continued into the city, there was only about 2-3 guards in this entire area. We wouldn't attack them until they posed a threat, "Be right back." I telepathically broadcasted to Sierra and James.

My rifle evaporated into thin air in a misty blue cloud of aura and I teleported away in a puff of black smoke and appeared behind a guard in a guard post overlooking the forest. He like all humans were much taller than me so I would have to aim high. I silently stood up moving my hands into position just behind his neck, I dared not breath.

In one single motion I locked the humans neck in my arms and applied a vice like pressure. 3 seconds later the human was out cold, I knocked him out I didn't kill him. I teleported to the guard post right next to the one I was in, the guard in that post noticed me choking out his friends but I appeared behind him and choked him out before he could sound the alarm.

I teleported to the last guard post and choked the guard there out. This time however I took his high-powered rifle and a magazine or two from his vest. Rick beamed my knowledge of the rifle, that was the first time I've heard anything of him in a long time.

I teleported back to Sierra and James who already started moving into the city. We had made it past the walls and are currently moving through its streets staying hidden in the shadows. There were almost no guards patrolling the city, terrible choices were made this night on behalf of the security of this city…

"We don't have much time, others will find the guards I knocked out." I whispered pulling myself onto the roof of a building, "We best move swiftly."

I ran across the roof of the building and once reaching the edge of said roof I leapt off throwing myself out there. I tucked and roll once impacting the next roof which was much lower. Sierra was right behind me while James took another roof/route entirely. Our destination will be the city hall of this city.

We were at the outskirts of the city and we needed to head to the center of the city, this may take a while. Luckily most of the travel was just hopping from rooftop to rooftop. Soon however we spotted guards on a rooftop and they spotted us.

There were 8 of them and I throwing caution to the wind leapt right at them.

"Over there!" A guard yelled, "Who's that on the roof! Get down from there immediately!" I jumped off the edge of the roof I was on, leaping through the air my legs tucked in and my arms flared up metal claws at the ready I pounced on them

I planted my feet right on a guards chest pushing him backwards and down onto the ground with my momentum, and using my momentum I rolled right off of him after I basically drop kicked him. The guards were much better shots than Hunters and they instantly started light me up.

I ran towards the edge of the roof and jumped off turning in midair I grabbed onto the ledge I was suppose to jump off of. From their I quickly shimmied my way to the right crossing the edge just after the guards went to check where I fell of and found I wasn't there.

An arrow whizzed through the air and impaled a guard right in the head pinning him to the ground a couple feet away blood gushing out of the new breathing hole he had along with exposed bone and brain matter. I also heard Sierra jumping down and started slashing at the guards.

I pulled myself onto the roof palming an aura sphere, and chucking it at the guards distracted by Sierra. It detonated right on a guards back sending a shockwave knocking them all off their feet, including Sierra. She was the first one to get up and glared daggers at me.

I gave a sheepish smile and we proceeded to finish off the dazed guards via decapitation, "Shit now we have to move more quickly than ever now." We wasted no time and started moving out of this area leaving a pile of dead bleeding bodies in our wake.

We were halfway to city hall now, a helicopter came buzzing by right ontop of his buffeting me in a tornado of downward wind. Luckily they hadn't spotted us and flew right past us, it circled around city hall before landing on a heli-pad and soon I heard the roar of the engines die down.

I leapt off the roof deciding to take to the streets now, I landed on a street lamp jumping off the bar and tucking and rolling on the ground. The streets were rather wet covered with a good amount of stale water from rain. The streets were also met with the nice and welcoming smell of garbage and feces and the slums of the city. I ran through the slums of this city staying in the shadows and away from any bright lights.

I jump, slid, and rolled over random benches, crates, cars, and hotdog vendors alike. Soon I reached city hall and upon noticing the heavy amount of guards are there I took to the roofs once more. I met up with Sierra and James was still on the other roof.

City hall was right infront of us, I see it took a lot from ancient Greek architecture with massive pillars and huge doors. Sierra and I got into a prone position overlooking the hall. James sat perfectly still perched ontop of a chimney still overlooking them.

There were about 15-20 guards stationed on each side of the massive doors leading into the hall. Just infront of the hall lining the wall was an extremely cute line of guards backing up the guards stationed at the front.

"Shit how do we get past that?" Sierra whispered hoarsely.

"I don't know Sierra." I replied glancing over at James ontop that chimney looking all badass with that hood of his up. He glanced back at me and jumped down from his chimney.

He made his way to wear Sierra and I were laying, he drew an arrow and with a silent whistle the arrow flew away dragging a rope line with it. It imbedded itself and an end of the rope into the roof while the other end of the roof was with James. He imbedded that into the roof securing it between the legs of a rooftop bench.

I motioned to Sierra to go across first, at first she was mortified but James and I eventually convinced her to cross. She had the cutest pout on her face as she prepared to cross across the rope. Sierra hopped onto the rope locking her legs between it dangling down on it. Her ears were hanging down giving her an absolutely adorable look.

Sierra shimmied her way across. Afterwards James shimmied his way across the gap, and lastly I went across. Now on the roof of the city hall James cut the line placing the arrow back in his quiver and retracting the rope. I looked across the roof scanning for an entrance into the building.

Soon I found a hatch, I walked over to it popped it open and hopped down. I was followed by Sierra and James, I pulled out my aura rifle again. I soon found myself in the attic area of this giant building, it wasn't really an attic just a series of wooden beams connected by catwalk. This is a terrible design having the such an ugly looking ceiling in the main building of this city were really the most tourists would go, bad for business.

But for now I thank there crap engineers and designers. Down below us a meeting was taking place. My expression soon turned into a sharp glare as I looked down below and I saw virtually the last human I wanted to see. Sli'ark….

The genocidal bastard was meeting with the mayor of this town. Shit…. Sierra was right…. FUCK! They stood over a large table was a map splayed across. On said map were multiple pins of different color pinned on different location, a town there, a forest here, maybe a mountain over there.

A surge of anger and hate radiated through me, I raised my rifle up scope trained right on the fuckers head. I can end it now…. I can end it all now…. And the bastard will never see it coming. Just when I was about to pull the trigger I felt a powerful force stopping me.

"No Lucas, it is not the time yet." Rick came into my mind.

"I can end IT ALL right now Rick! Can stop all this killing of my people! He has killed thousands of Lucarios. And you have the audacity to SAY NO?!" I was furious at that point.

"It is not the time yet Lucas…. You have your chance soon. But not now…" Rick said before I felt him leave my mind but I still felt the presence there blocking me.

"From the scouting parties I can probably guess that the colony of Lucarios are around… this area." Sli'ark moved his fingers around a patch of land near the mountain and forest his finger grazing across Solaceon Town aswell.

Well he got one of our locations correct what he doesn't know is that we are spread all across Sinnoh. And his information is now completely off considering we moved out of Solaceon Town.

"Urban myths is that Hearthome City, this city is the only one that remains unpure and deny the prophets light." Sli'ark said, "The Lucarios will surely here of this myth sooner or later, I need you to keep up that myth as much as possible and eventually I hope the little demons will find their way here where we can finally extinguish them." Sli'ark said.

"It shall be done." The Mayor said. My blood was boiling at this point and looking over at Sierra I can tell she was feeling the same way aswell.

I felt my shroud blades surge into existence the hot flaming blades of plasma burned the air around me and almost singed the wooden beam we stood on. Rick said I couldn't kill him… but nothing was stopping me from beating the hell out of him.

I stepped off the wooden beam and fell several stories down.

"Fuck, Lucas!" I faintly heard James yell to me.

I flew through the air wind rushing past me as I fell downwards. I stayed as rigid as possible showing absolutely no fear with just one mission in my mind, beat the fuck out of Sli'ark until I am finally allowed to kill him. I slammed right into the table breaking it in two sending chips of wood and splinters everywhere in a 10 feet radius of me.

I didn't even sprain an ankle. Once the dust settled I was left staring daggers at the most hated individual in my life, "Well hello there Soldier Boy." Sli'ark flashed and evil glare at me.

I grinded my blades together creating a shower of sparks and charged him. Sli'ark waited just before I made contact and drew his sword with lightning speed and our two blades clashed in a shower of sparks. Only one of my blades were locked with his so I rose my leg and groin kicked him.

Sli'ark kneeled down in pain, I maneuvered my free blade and melted his sword off at the hilt. My blades popped away and I started beating him senseless. I punched him in the chest grabbed his head and kneed up into it. He was sitting on his ass now so I reared a leg back and kicked him right up the chin.

The bastard flew like 3 feet away before landing motionless on his back. I walked over to him popping my shroud blades up again. Sli'ark suddenly popped to life a shotgun raised at me but I had anticipated that and within split seconds I rose my blades to cover my face.

*bang

The pellets met my blades in a shower of sparks, I dropped my blades and sliced the barrel of his shotgun right off. I stomped down into his chest grabbed his legs dragging him across the floor and with my great strength I spun the mother-fucker around a couple times before releasing sending him flying into the wall. He hit it and faceplanted the ground afterwards leaving a notable dent in the wall and taking pieces of concrete with him.

I was about to go over there and beat the crap out of him again but I was stopped by the reverberating clicks of the entire security force of this building loading their weapons. The guards had noticed the commotion and came rushing in and soon they encircled me rifles trained right on me.

"Ah shit, look what we have here." Sli'ark said in a mocking tone, "Looks like Soldier Boy here is in a little predicament."

After that statement I drowned Sli'ark out for the majority of his monologuing afterwards. We have to get out of here, and warn the others of his plan. I channeled my energy. I linked up with James and Sierra who were still perched at the ceiling refusing to jump down and help me this entire time and now.

I brought the power a hurricane into this room. I grabbed all the guards in a psychic vice-hold chocking them aswell as lifting them up into the air. A powerful swirling wind came into this room taking everything that wasn't bolted to the floor in a hailstorm.

Every single object in this room swirled around and then merged in a hurricane like funnel. A rift in space time appeared at my waist. My self-made hurricane grew stronger and stronger. In one fail swoop I teleported the three of us out of their leaving a massive explosion in our wake and my self-made hurricane collapsed on itself and ruptured into a supernova of an explosion.

Well much to my annoyance I took time from my spring break to write/type this. If I were to complete Sierra's tale I atleast want to do it right. So the next chapter will be the last of Sierra's Tale and then afterwards I will take my actual break from writing/typing. Please fav, follow, review and like always. Unto next time mates!