The screech echoed into the room. It was closely followed by a large black dragon appearing in the hole in the ceiling. Red eyes, scaly dark body and a tail that glowed a magnificent icy blue. Around it were streams of blue lightning, encircling its body to make it all the more menacing and powerful. It was Zekrom, the legendary black lightning pokemon that reined over Unova. The Zekrom that belonged to me.
From where I hung in my ties, I watched as the massive pokemon descended into the room from the hole in the ceiling. It didn't have very long before the giant dragon was attacked by Ghetsis' Hydreigon. The huge hydreigon was nearly as large as Zekrom, only smaller by a foot or two.
Ghetsis tore away from N, who surprisingly still had his pants on, and spat some sort of insults before shouting at his pokemon. "Finish Zekrom, Hydreigon." He said with a menacing grin as the three headed dragon bit deep into Zekrom's skin. It growled loudly with the pain from the attack.
"Zekrom!" I shouted for my pokemon as it fell to the floor, lightning crashing everywhere. The dragon stood up, shaking it's head before racing at Hydreigon, and the two clashed. Dark energy from Hydreigon was met with the blazing blue energy from Zekrom, causing massive explosions. The swirl of energy hit the walls, causing large chunks of stone to fall to the ground. The air was echoing with the raging screeches of the two well-matched dragons.
It took a moment, but my inner trainer seemed to dominate anything else. "Zekrom, use Dragon Rush!" I was roused into life again as I commanded my old pokemon.
Ghetsis cast a glare at me, "You too Hydreigon." He spat without looking. He came at me with a hand out, slamming it to my throat. Breathing became in impossible for me as I tried to gasp for air desperately, only to be met with the pressure of having strong fingers clenched around my windpipe.
"B-black!" N attempted to shout, but his voice was shakey, and he looked as if he had no energy to even shout anyway. I began to struggle desperately. I was without air, and black spots were beginning to appear in my vision. At this point all I could see was Ghetsis' menacing face, glaring at me darkly, determined to kill me. Behind him, there were lights from the battle going on between the dragons, causing shadows to cast across his face. This seemed to make him scarier. Trying to think of something, I launched my knee up to kick Ghetsis in crotch. It effectively worked, because he let out a gasp and doubled back.
"Why the hell did I not think of that before?" I grunted to myself, "Zekrom, a little help?" The giant black dragon was effectively pinning Hydreigon down, hitting it with a Dragon Rush. He sent out a flash of electricity right at the peg. It exploded from the wall, causing me to drop to my knees. It burnt the rope also, sizzling it into burst crisps, but also burnt my wrists in the process. I barely noticed. Going awhile without moving made my legs feel like jelly I realized as I tried to stand again. While Ghetsis was distracted with aching balls I darted at N. I don't know why, it was like a bodily instinct to make sure N was okay, even if I had been mad at him this whole time. I nearly keeled over from my sore butt. It still throbbed. Every time I felt the pain, the memories came back to mind. I furiously shook my head, attempting to reach for the peg.
"B-black behind you!" N grunted. Too late. I felt a hand on my shoulder as Ghetsis forced me once again against the wall.
"I should have killed you when I had to chance." Ghetsis rasped with eyes wide as he stared threatening at me, "But… I will fucking end you now." He said silkily.
"ZEEEKKKK-RAHHHHH!" Came Zekrom's screech as it came up behind Ghetsis. Its jaws went around one of his arms, pulling him away from me and across the room. He was only saved by a member of the Shadow Triad who leapt into the air and caught him, putting him safely on the ground. But he bled profusely from the wound he received.
"Zeekk…rommm…" After clawing N's peg from the wall, Zekrom walked over to Reshiram, sniffing her body and letting out small, desperate sounding growls.
"N, N? You have to get up… We need to get out of here." I was trying to speak to N, who was in his own world at the moment. He was staring around, eyes looking glassy.
"Come on… N?" I whispered, grasping his shoulders, "We need to get fucking out of here… We need to get away from him."
"I'm afraid I can't allow you to do that…" Came a rather familiar voice. I whipped around, glaring at a Shadow Triad ninja. He stared down with cold, green eyes, "our Master wants to get his revenge. Which he hasn't gotten yet. We will stop your overgrown charmander over there. You aren't going… anywhere." The last word was said with immense menace as he pulled out a pokeball. From out of the ball came Simisage, who landed in a fighting position. "Go get Zekrom. I don't care if it's a legendary pokemon, do it." He added as the simisage hesitated.
"Oh boy, more battles. Let's go, Simisear!" Another ninja twirled his way over to the other, letting out the fire monkey.
"God damn it, are you serious? Not enough revenge? Ghetsis fucking scarred N for life, and I was fucking raped and we were both tied to a wall without food or bathroom breaks." I rose to my feet from where I was crouched next to N. "I think he's gotten more then enough fucking revenge." I would have punched the ninja, but I was trembling on my feet from weakness.
"Enough? ENOUGH? Our master had his entire life thrown away. Everything he tried to work for, gone. You two should be tortured until dead." The green eyed ninja shot back. "Simisage, go now." The green monkey launched itself at the Zekrom, who was crouched over its counterpart Reshiram. When the monkey came near, the giant dragon whipped around, clearly pissed off. It took only one blast of lightning to effectively make Simisage faint. The simisear had second thoughts, but ran at the legendary pokemon anyway. It too, was blasted by the dragon's power.
Now lying on the ground was a Hydreigon, Simisage and Simisear all results of Zekrom's bad mood. He snorted, returning to Reshiram. He clawed the chains that kept her restrained off, then pulled her from the ground. It sickened me as I watched so much of her fur torn off. It was stuck to the blood covered ground. Zekrom let out whimper for the barely alive dragon as he pulled her on his back.
"Damn it, you won't get away!" The Shadow Triad member spat as he grabbed me roughly, pulling out a kunai from who knows where and held it to my neck, "Zekrom, put Reshiram down or Black gets it."
Alarm coursed through me, even more so when Zekrom gave us both a bored look. "Oh come on, don't you care you're trainer is gonna die?" I protested.
"Black!" N howled. He still wasn't moving, except for the light trembling.
"Cilan, no!" The ninja who was quiet until now finally spoke up. His voice shook a bit; he obviously wasn't used to speaking out.
"C-Cilan?" I squeaked in surprise. Wait… Cilan as in the Straiton City gym leader? Wait… That means…
"Cress, shut up, we aren't supposed to reveal our identities to anyone!" Cilan spat at his brother. I felt the cold edge of the blade press closer to my skin.
"Cilan, just let Black and N go already." Cress took a step forward, glaring with icy blue eyes.
"Y-you dare go against our Master's wishes?" Cilan narrowed his eyes dangerously. I could see them sparkle with annoyance.
"I dunno dear brother, this all seems so mean. I mean, I really like Black. He's nice, and he has a good ass." The other Shadow Triad member who I'd guessed by now was Chili complained.
"This… is fucking ridiculous…" All of us were silenced by Ghetsis' growl. He rose off the ground, slightly bent over. He glared up from a shadowy face, "Cilan, kill the boy already. Then kill your brothers for betraying me. Hydreigon, be useful and slaughter Zekrom and Reshiram. Why are you all so useless? YOU'RE NO BETTER THEN N!" he rang out, spitting furiously. "Get a fucking move on…!"
I felt the blade go into my skin, but Cress was fast. He knocked Cilan's hand. The weapon went flying across the room as Cress punched Cilan in the face, "I'm... so sorry brother, but this… this is too much." He said in his ever quiet voice. "I know Master saved us all those years ago but… That doesn't mean we should keep killing people for him…!"
"TRAITOR!" Cilan snarled back.
"ZEEEKKKKKKK-RAHHHH!" Zekrom screeched once again. He slowly lifted his body off the ground by slapping great wings. His tail began rotating and glowing profusely before his body was cloaked in a bright blue thunder-like energy. Then, every-thing erupted in explosions. I even felt part of my body blaze with burns. It was a Fusion Bolt, and it completely ravaged everything. I felt the ground shaking beneath me. Every thing was a blinding bright color, I was unable to see, but despite this I felt around until I felt N's hand. Without hesitation I yanked him from the ground.
"N, you realize where we are?"
"I.. I.." I heard N's confused reply. He was obviously still in his own world.
"We're in the castle. That means there's a fucking cavern below us where the castle used to be. At least, that's where I think it was, since it rose from the damn ground."
"Y-yeah…" N confirmed.
"We need to get out of here before we all fucking fall into it." I dragged him along as the blind light from the powerful attack faded away, revealing the damage it caused. Most of the room's floor had been blasted away, and some chunks in the wall, revealing other rooms that were ravaged. The holy in ceiling was becoming bigger as stones began falling from the tremors of the entire castle beginning to fall. The powerful Fusion Bolt was causing the whole castle to tremble and collapse within itself. The walls were crumbling away at an alarming rate, as was bits of the floor. I narrowly dodged a stone the size of my torso. "N, snap out of it this isn't the time to be fucking daydreaming!" I shouted at him. He only looked back with a strange look. A few moments he shook his head, eyes looking clearer. He nodded shakily, standing up on one leg, awkwardly holding out the other –broken- one. I wasn't sure where Cilan, Cress or Chili went. I felt sick thinking that they had fallen into the chaos of the collapsing castle along with the three pokemon that had fallen to Zekrom.
I limped my way to the edge of the remaining floor. The middle of the rooms ground had been blasted away. Below was nothing but black and falling stones as the castle fell into itself.
"Zekrom!" I called for the pokemon that was flapping in open air. He reached his dragon-paw down. I took it, and he began pulling us onto his back. Zekrom already had to be under pressure since Reshiram was also on his back, but he withstood it as I crawled onto his back. I kept a tight grip on N's hand as I tried to pull both of his onto Zekrom's back.
"Ahh! BLACK!" I heard the blood curdling scream of N again. Then I felt the hand holding N became extremely heavy. I almost tumbled off Zekrom's back. Looking back, I saw Ghetsis holding onto N's ankle. He was attempting to crawl up N's body.
"Black…!" N gasped, holding tight to my hand despite Ghetsis crawling his way up N's leg in an attempt to pull us both into the collapsing castle.
"N! Don't let go damn it, we're almost out of here!"
"But… but Ghetsis!" N yelled. Ghetsis was reaching for his shoulder, staring at me with wide, insane eyes.
"What the hell about him?"
N slowly shook his head; his finger's beginning to slip, "This should have happened long ago…"
"N, N shut up and hold on-"
"Black... I'm sorry. For… for everything." And then silence as he deliberately let go of my hand.
"NO!" Ghetsis who was reaching for my hand shouted as him and his son plummeted into the darkness of the collapsing castle.
I screamed as well, only I was screaming for N. Zekrom began flying upward, taking me off his back and holding he close with his paws as the remainder of the ceiling crumbled away, along with the walls.
Despite everything I had been through. The fact I was drugged, raped, tied up without food, almost killed, almost watched N be raped. Everything… All I could feel was guilt for blaming N before. Anger for not doing more to save him, and now he was gone.
N… Was… Gone.
Ironic. I was listening to my Playlist and Falling Inside the Black by Skillet came on.
Anyway, I fear alot of mistakes in this one. Written at 2 Am when my mind was mushed on Nabari no Ou.
