EDIT: I DID ADD AND EPILOGUE TO THE END OF THE CHAPTER IF YOU DIDN'T READ IT YET
Chapter 50
Sierra's Tale. Part 14
The Final Battle Part 2
The End of it all
(Lucas)
Lucas angled his spear down at Sli'arks chest as he jumped into the air. Sli'ark angled his machete to meet Lucas's both of their blades clashed in a shower of sparks. SLi'ark actually batted aside Lucas's spear throwing off his equilibrium and Lucas rolled to the side hitting the reception desk creating a rather big whole.
Sierra came up from behind Sli'ark kicked his back causing him to stumble forwards. Lucas slowly got up, Sli'ark turned to Sierra and they both clashed each exchanging blocks and swipes of their blades at each other. Each time said blades clashed a shower of sparks was created.
It impressed Lucas that Sierra could go toe-to-toe with his arch nemesis, but she was just barely holding up to him. LSi'ark was stronger, faster, and attacked with much more ferocity than Sierra ever could. Sli'ark and Sierra clashed blades in a flash of bright light, they stared each other down dead in the eye with the others blades literally inches from the others face.
Sli'ark knee kicked Sierra sending her down to her knee before kicking her right in the chest spike into a wall. By then Lucas had regained his bearings, he channeled his energy into his leg muscles before charging at an unaware Sli'ark who was preparing to finish off Sierra.
Lucas rammed right into him with bone breaking force and carried the Hunter right through the glass doors and outside right into another door in the building adjacent of the bank they were in before finally burying him in a stone pillar.
Even then Lucas grabbed Sli'ark by the face and chucked him right through the new set of glass doors and right into a Hunter mech unit toppling the giant robot over. Lucas teleported into the street (let's call teleporting blink now because I just realized it sounds much cooler).
All out war was taking place in these streets. Lucas rose the orb side of his spear into the air, it started collecting energy and glowed a bright yellow. In one sudden move Lucas let out a blinding flash of light that seared the cornea of any being that dare look up at it.
From there Lucas channeled the suns energy once more and let out a continuous searing beam of energy from his now scepter burning the flash from the Hunters he targeted, he also melted the metal right off the mech walkers that bombarded the city street.
Flashing the blinding beam of light once more Lucas used the chaos to slip away unseen. He was about to go back for Sierra but he found her at his side soon after.
"I just realized something!" Sierra yelled as the two ran along the rooftops to get into a flanking position.
"Not the best time to voice your thoughts!" Lucas yelled back forming an aura sphere jumping across a rooftop gap, throwing it, and then tucking and rolling onto the following rooftop.
"Where is James?!" Sierra asked/yelled through the chaos, "I thought he had hitched a ride along with us?!"
"…SHIT!" Was the thought that ran through Lucas's head. He didn't see James on Uru'kai's back, then again he was more focused on Sierra and calling for help than where James was.
"I don't know Sierra!" Lucas yelled, "But this is not really the time to talk about a thing like that!" Lucas yelled back hopping off a rooftop palming an aura sphere.
He slammed the aura sphere into the ground causing a giant explosion decimating the Hunter ranks that found themselves within the blasé radius. Lucas stood up again but only to find Sli'ark up on his feet still hosing down Pokemon with a new gun now.
"How the hell is he still alive?!" Lucas thought.
The Hunters were slowly losing the battle, even though they killed hundreds of Pokemon, still hundreds more swarm in to replace them. It brought much guilt to Lucas's heart that so many of his Pokemon brethren were being slaughtered but he was also overjoyed by the fact that they were actually gaining grounds on the Hunters in a fight for once.
A loud screech rung in the air as Uru'kai and the rest of his flying bretheren descended upon the Hunter line. They snatched up Hunters in their talons flew them up to a good height and dropped them down the Hunters splatting on the ground below.
The Hunters directed their gunfire into the sky knocking the flying Pokemon from the skies their dead bodies crashing into the ground below. The distraction and chaos allowed us land-lubbers to move forwards.
"Push forwards!" Lucas yelled at the top of his lungs pointing his spear at the line of distracted Hunters. They may tote around guns and wearing military grade gear but these Hunters definitely aren't from a military background. Atleast most of them.
A line of armored Pokemon such as Rhyperiors, Garchomps, Bronzongs, Tangroths formed. Upon Lucas's signal they charged the line of Hunters breaking away any obstacle and barricades the Hunters had set up. They shoved away whole cars and piles of rubble like it were nothing.
From there the armor line continued their assault sweeping away the streets. A Rhyperiors charged a mech walker right in the chest, the machine grabbed the Pokemons head in an attempt to dislodge him but the Rhyperior was backed up by another of his kin and a Garchomp and the three tore the walker to pieces and soon afterwards its pilot.
The armor line pushed back the Hunters further into the city, although they moved a very small distance in total , no civilians have yet to be seen. Behind said armor line other Rhyperiors and Magmortars launched projectiles of rock and magma at the line of Hunters. Meeting the line of armor an armor line of Hunter Mech Walker came out from the fog/smoke of battle.
The giant mechanical constructs had a Metang esq. head with giant double jointed legs ending with a two toed foot with an ankle claw. The walker took a digitgrade stance were its ankles and soles of it's feet are permanently off the ground and it walks solely on its toes, much akin to how a canine walks such as a Mightyena.
The giant mechs had cute little prehensile arms loaded to the teeth with miniguns, rocketpods, and crowd control weaponry. The walker started showering the Pokemon warriors with canisters of tear gas. The blinded Pokemon were then lit up with minigun fire shredding them to chum and were shock-and-awed with rocketpods.
Bodies flew everywhere, Pokemon took cover for their lives. Minigun bullets ripped right through whatever cover Pokemon could put themselves behind tearing their body to pieces like a chainsaw through trees.
Lucas has put himself between a mountain of rubble, Sierra was at his side her head in his shoulders as he sheltered her from the destruction above. Protecting her is and had always been his one priority, getting into the spirit Lucas formed a thick shield of aura around Sierra almost entombing her.
The shield was very heavy mirroring its indestructability so Sierra couldn't move, at the most move very little like a couple of inches before the weight on her arms and muscles dragged her down.
"Stay here!" Lucas ordered standing back up.
Lucas's eyes flashed white for a split second before reverting back to their normal state. He channeled his energy, Lucas summoned a tornado of wind down upon the walker. The column of air was only about a story tall but it literally destroyed the machine.
One hundred miles per hour winds picked up the lumbering machine crashed it around slamming it into whole buildings leveling them like the walker was a ragdoll. An excessive amount of overkill killed that walker.
Lucas summoned a storm of aura over the Hunter lines that had cowered behind the walkers. A blue misty cloud appeared above the Hunters. All of a sudden hundreds-upon-thousands of little micro explosions lit up the blue misty cloud. They sent searing hot plasma shrapnel right ontop of the Hunters searing their flesh from their bones and tearing them apart. Within seconds almost all were incapacitated via plasma burns and those few who survived had severe 3rd degree burns.
Hours of brutal fighting carried on until Human and Pokemon forces found themselves at a stalemate once more just about ¼ of the way into the city the battle lines were set. No side progressed from said line without being mowed down by the other side.
Said stalemate lasted right too when the sun dipped below the sky. This is the time when nocturnal Pokemon become kings of the battlefield. I'm sure Hunter night-vision equipped special forces are doing the exact same thing the Pokemons are. Both sides sent their nighttime forces to stealthily maneuver their way to flank the other side.
The Hunter did a nice job and lit their position right up with campfires and tents. Pokemon didn't need campfires nor tents. So really they all just sat there in almost pitch dark their surroundings only illuminated by the light of the half-moon above.
The lack of campfire didn't eliminate the cliché campfire stories shared by campers infront of a campfire.
"Well…" Lucas said trying to break the awkward silence, "This may be ill timed but I'd like to thank you all for answering my call for help. I think it is safe to assume all of you know what the Hunter have done to my kin considering we were persecuted and slaughtered the most. What has the Hunters done to all of your kins?" It was a rather odd question to ask.
Sierra sat at Lucas's side half asleep and was currently refusing to speak to him as punishment for pretty much freezing her in a block of ice the rest of the battle until sundown.
A Rhyperior was first to speak, "First off who the fuck would ask that kind of question?" The Rhyperior started his voice of a light Russian accent, "Now that I got that part out of the way." He said preparing to tell his own tale. A tale within a tale, taleception.
Lucas flashed a sheepish smile before directing his attention to the Rhyperior.
"When we evolved from our Rhydon forms we Rhyperiors had taken to move into the undergrounds fashioning a simple life, not much action is to be seen when you live around rocks and like rocks." The Rhyperior said, "Anyways when the humans dug into the earth and stumbled upon us they started killing us off in order to clear the way so they could extract some shiny rocks out of the ground for Arceus know what."
"What's even worse is that they mine tons of absolutely useless shit." The Rhyperior continued, "Like some odd black colored rock that is completely useless by the way because they catch fire so easily and could potentially burn down any burnable structure that is around it." The Rhyperior continued ranting on for a while talking about the random "useless" rocks humans mine out of the ground.
A Garchomp said his kind is hunted down because for his fins which humans use for…. Soup. Pokemon are use to the notion that their kind are killed and eaten on a daily bases but the Garchomp's story really disgusted them. A Staraptor said his kind is hunted because humans use their feathers for ceremonial purposes.
Each time a Pokemon gave their own story on why the Hunters are exterminating them the sense of hatred for the humans grew exponentially among them. Lucas for one hated how wasteful the Hunters are. How for most they kill an entire Pokemon just to get it's horn, feather, or a fin for Arceus's sake.
But that was why they were in this fight, in this city, in this final struggle to stop all the corruption and death once and for all. The group of Pokemon listened to a couple of more sad depressing story that only flared their tempers even more.
Anyways when all was said and done everyone prepared to catch some sleep knowing they'll have a hell of a day ahead of them. And no they won't be sleeping completely vulnerable and defenseless there literally ¼ of the total Pokemon in this rag-tag army is out on guard duty. That is still a lot of Pokemon keeping tabs on the no mans land and the area around it.
Lucas turned his attention to Sierra, technically it she was scheduled to go up on guard duty tonight. This sounds vaguely familiar, "You catch some shut eye Sierra. I can take over for you on guard duty if you want." Lucas offered, the offer really didn't mean much considering he created the schedule of lookout in the first place. He is the whole mastermind behind this entire operation.
"No. No, no, no, nonononono." Sierra quickly objected, "I already owe so much time to you time to start working that off. Besides everytime you volunteered to go on guard duty in my place we always ended up getting attacked. So thank you but no thank you." Sierra almost sassed, she pushed Lucas out of the way and stormed off into the perimeter of the little camp the Pokemon had set up.
Lucas flashed an almost evil smile and settled down on his back a leg plopped ontop another, "Sucker." He though before slowly drifting off to sleep.
(Sierra)
Sierra literally hadn't been on guard duty for months because every time the time came for her to stand guard Lucas was there to take the burden of the duty off of her. Of course said acts of righteousness has cause Sierra to accumulate a lot of dept in time of course. Lucas would never collect said dept from her but the notion in general has been eating away at her.
So tonight she stands guarding the perimeter along with 30 other Pokemon in this little patch of city alone. Off in the distance Sierra faint silhouettes of Dusknoirs, Sableyes, Dustoxes and other ghost/dark type Pokemon sneaking through the night. It was the Pokemon version of a special forces, although Sierra would have preferred stealthy assassin Pokemon like Scythers but she couldn't really choose who went out on those missions.
So Sierra just sat there for quite a while. After a couple of hours the Lucario was barely awake her eyes struggling to open. A sudden sound sparked her curiosity, it sounded like a tiny airy pump, and was followed by crackling sound, and then by a very whistling sound almost as if some projectile has been launched.
(Lucas)
Lucas only had time to sleep for a couple of hours before the little camp he was in was suddenly blown up by a barrage of grenade launcher fire. Every Pokemon sleeping in the area got up in a split second and took cover from the bombardment. Lucas counted 3 explosions before he ducked behind cover, "3 more to go." He thought.
Any Pokemon that didn't react fast enough were ripped apart due to the shrapnel and the explosive blast alone sending their mangled bodies up into the air. It was assumed that whatever Hunter team firing upon them would have more then 1 grenadiers so Lucas waded out the bombardment until there was no explosions for atleast 30 seconds.
Eventually it did stop. Lucas dared to peak his head up, his ears were met with the displeasing sound of machine gun and rifle fire. He instinctively ducked down but soon found out the gunfire was directed at another target. Almost everyone taking cover looked back up in almost perfect unison, it was quite creepy.
Lucas looked up to the Hunter that were positioned on the roof. He spotted the Pokemon that were suppose to be guarding the perimeter charge at them. Once spotting the defenders Lucas instinctively searched for Sierra and focused on her.
She moved like the wind metal claws out charging the Hunter bobbing and weaving between the squad of Hunters to avoid fire while subsequently making them fire on allies. Lucas was just about to stop gawking at her when another massive explosion shook the roof they were standing on.
Either a Pokemon decided to blow up the roofs with friendlies on it or the Hunters gravely miscalculated the coordinates for artillery fire, I don't even know. Sierra went flying into Lucas's position crashing her way right through a wall of a house Lucas hid behind.
"Arceusdammit Sierra!" Lucas yelled/laughed aura rifle forming in his arms, "The FIRST TIME you do guard duty in months we get lit up by explosions and machine guns!" Lucas yelled firing at new arriving Hunters.
"Shut the hell up Lucas!" Sierra screamed back, "They were already on their way when I took up the fucking job! There was fucking nothing I could do!" Sierra shrieked (I noticed I have been using yelled a lot so now I'm going to start using different synonyms of that word) back
"Would the happily married couple please SHUT THE FUCK UP and shoot them!" A Rhyperior bellowed at Sierra and Lucas who really did look like an old married couple arguing, "I don't know if you haven't noticed but WE'RE BEING SHOT AT!"
Looked very angry at that point but he refrained from showing said anger. He still looked pissed but he refrained himself every now and then firing explosive shots at the Hunters raining hell down upon them.
"Sableye teams in position." A Sableye radioed in and was followed by Dusknoirs and other Pokemon of the special forces team, "Awaiting greenlight for ambush." The Pokemon had already adopted a lot of terms from Human special forces units, it was rather strange because they had no prior contact with human special forces.
"Begin you assault." Lucas accidently said out loud.
"What?!" Everyone in the little house replied. Lucas silently cursed himself for that.
"Begin you assault."
In a few short seconds the Hunters had stopped firing and Lucas could faintly hear through their radios that their base was being ambushed. Of course when Lucas heard it every other Pokemon heard it so that was when any hiding Pokemon made their move.
Lucas popped the head right off of a Hunter and used a force palm to break away the wall creating a massive explosions similar to the effects of the Humans C-4 on a wall. Pokemon charged out from that little house hopping over the bodies of their dead brethren.
Lucas formed an aura sphere in his hands and launched it at a Hunter displaying incredible accuracy as it blew a Hunter's in half. Rhyperiors formed a line and started excavating dirt and rocks from the ground and launching them at the small 12 man team of Hunters, Magmortars did the same.
Lucas ran up a wall grabbing onto a ledge Sierra right at his side. There was only 6 Hunters by the time Lucas got up there. These bunch looked seemed a lot more like they were actual military as they mowed down any Pokemon that dare charged them with double-taps from their rifles.
Just two pulls of the trigger each for every Pokemon that came at them and they all came falling down. Lucas palmed an aura sphere and chucked it at the feets of the Hunters dispelling a large cloud of smoke. They were still firing so one could see the muzzle flashes through said thick smoke.
Sierra formed metal claws extended to a good 4 feet due to Lucas's gift. Lucas formed his poor mans metal claw which was the same length as a normal metal claw. However Lucas merged them together extending their length on each of his individual arms to 4-5 feet long. Sierra looked over to them and rolled her eyes.
"Show off…" She whispered under her own breath.
Lucas has formed basically pseudo shroud blades, still not as good as the original ones though but he has yet to gain access to them. Lucas and Sierra charged at the Hunters through the thick smoke once they were within arms length they started eviscerating them tearing them to pieces.
One Hunter managed to squeeze a couple of rounds right into Lucas's shoulders but they did little to subdue him. Within seconds all of the Hunters had been taken care of and shredded into little unrecognizable pieces of meat and bone.
Only 1 remained after that and even he was badly injured. Lucas ordered any Pokemon closing in on the last human to not attack. The Hunter looked young and a patch on his shoulder stated him as a private in rank. He rose his sidearm and started firing but the magazine was empty and so was followed by empty clicks.
Lucas's glared daggers at the Hunter he was just about to beat the crap out of the kind and politely ask where the Prophet Krane was located but before he could.
The young Hunter began to laugh hysterically chucking his sidearm to the side and pressing something on his bullet proof vest, "Hahahahahahahaha. You fucking lose boy!" The Hunter cried, "Youhehefuhucking lose!" A faint beeping sound emitted from his vest which quickly grew in speed.
"Asgard this is Loki." The Hunter radioed in, "Odin is in position, releasing Fenrir!"
"Fenir…. Odin….? Oh no….." Lucas eyes widened and in one split seconds his instincts took over. He quickly force palmed Sierra throwing her out of the way, "Booomb!" Lucas yelled at the top of his lungs running away from the Hunter.
He didn't get far as a massive explosion racketed the rooftop. Pieces of shrapnel and ceramic plating flew right into Lucas's back imbedding themselves right in there. The explosion itself seared the fur on Lucas's back and some strands caught fire.
The explosion took him off his feet sending him flying through the air. Any Pokemon that surrounded the Hunters were incinerated and shredded by shrapnel. Lucas's head was pointed down his legs angled up in the air. Infront of him he saw Sierra crashing into a streetlamp and right into the front door of a gas station.
Lucas flew right into the ground skidding roughly against the asphalt. Crashing into a car breaking through it's doors and coming out the other side and then crashing through the front door of the same gas station right into an isle of snack foods and beef jerky. He lay ontop of a pile of glass that dug into his front his back still burning but the Lucario couldn't move. All of his strength was sapped from him.
He only managed to extinguish the flames on his back.
"Lucas…" Sierra groaned picking herself up from that fall, "Lucas!" She cried running over to him. Sierra lifted the rubble and shopping isles off of him with much effort, she was never as strong as he was and this was a heavy load.
"Nonononono." She almost pleaded under her breath her heart dropping tears welling up in her eyes, "Come on Lucas stay with me." She frantically tried to heal Lucas's wounds growing more scared and panicked by the second.
"Nonononon why aren't you breathing? Oh my Arceus why aren't you breathing." Sierra was scared/panicked out of her mind now as she can't figure out why he wasn't Lucas, "No Lucas you can't die on me! You can't die. Please Lucas!"
Lucas's eyes slowly drifted open as he let out an extremely pained groan, he tried getting up but his strength failed him and he slammed back down into the ground grinding against the glass underneath. His entire front was soaked in blood while his entire back was singed and burnt. That action alone caused Sierra to yelp.
"Lucas!" She cried a massive wave of relief. A low flying helicopter buzzed by just outside, seconds after series of explosions took place. Lucas heard an extraction team land on the ground just outside the gas station, Sierra was frantically trying to heal his wounds making little progress.
Lucas tried getting up again but only fell again, "Come on Lucas get up!" Sierra pleaded. Lucas heard something plank on the pumps outside.
"Sierra you stupid girl…. Get down!" Lucas willed enough strength to reach up facing unspeakable pain, grabbing Sierra in his arms and pulling her under him shielding her from the inferno of fire that ensued just seconds later.
Lucas braved that explosion with a painful grunt, gasoline fueled fire and shards of glass and shrapnel piercing his back and side. Lucas gritted his teeth and barely managed to brave through it. His back didn't catch fire this time and after the explosion he collapsed on the ground again.
A grenade rolled into the room. Lucas held Sierra close in his arms refusing to let anything hurt her, he has been succeeding but so far he has been burned alive and his backs is riddled with shrapnel just jutting out, it is quite surprising he is not paralyzed yet. The grenade detonated subjecting Lucas to another round of painful shrapnel and fire.
A fireteam of Hunters stormed into the room. Lucas had nothing left to give, "Rick…. Why are you doing this to me?" He though weakly hurt by the fact his old friend never shows up anymore. He felt a presence enter his mind.
"Your time of awakening is fast approaching Knight." Rick came in and just as fast left his mind.
Lucas felt Hunters descend upon him lifting him up in the air and beating the crap out of him. One pulled a thrashing Sierra away from his grasps, "Should we take the female?" A Hunter asked what is assumed to be his commander.
The Hunters beating him now held him in a kneeling position his chest exposed. Sli'ark Upnik of all people stood infront of him. The Hunter kneeled down staring Lucas right in the eye, Lucas was much too weak to glare back.
"Keep her. She could prove useful for leverage." Sli'ark said before punching Lucas square in the face knocking him out. The last thing Lucas heard was Sierra's blood curling screams before he blacked out.
(Several hours later)
Lucas felt a tarp lift itself off of his head, he had regained some strength and looked around. He was tied to a chair in a room with blacked out windows. There were actual windows near the ceiling letting in some sunlight so they were partially underground and Lucas had been out atleast until daybreak.
Sierra sat infront of him tied to a chair a tarp still over her head. All of a sudden a a powerful punch nailed him right into the stomach causing him to keel over. Another punch uppercutted him in the snout. Another came at his cheek and another at his gut again.
"You know I've always wanted to do that." Came the voice of Sli'ark, "A while ago I was wondering why you kept beating me in a fight and then it occurred to me… why the hell was I playing fair? So I got a brainwashed little kid, got him to blow you to hell, used a bunch of fucking explosives, and boom I have you tied to a chair." He sneered.
Lucas shook the dizzies out of his head and glared daggers back at the Hunter, Sli'ark raised his hand in an innocent fashion, "Now I can't stay here all day. I have stuff to do, you understand right? Smiting you demons off the face of the planet and whatnot it is very hard work."
"So let's get to the point shall we?" Sli'ark asked nicely, "You and princess over there are pretty much the only Lucarios in this cute army you whipped up yesterday. Question is… where is the rest of yah?" He said getting a chair and plopping down infront of Lucas.
"I know I didn't wipe you off the world yet. So I'm going to ask nicely only once. Where is the rest of your friends?" Sli'ark even put up a pretty convincing fake smile. Lucas glared daggers at him in return he accessed Sli'arks mind but just hwne he was about to blow out his brains he felt a powerful force restraining him.
Hunters had put clamps on him to limit his psychic powers to non-lethal levels. Lucas adjusted and decided to give a threatening message, "No way in hell."
Sli'ark gave a fake heavy sigh, "So be it. I was afraid that I'm going to have to do this but I fear you leave me no choice." Sli'ark did not sound remotely guilty that he had to make that choice.
Lucas spat out a poll of blood and prepared himself for the beating he's about to receive. Sli'ark took a drape off of the table at the center of the room. He browsed over the various intense interrogation devices. He selected a set of brass knuckles.
Sli'ark punched Lucas square in the jaw. Then to the guts. Then to the face. He repeated said cycle for a couple more times and by the end Lucas's fur was soaked in his own blood. He was panting spitting out another pool of blood.
"I've been waiting to do this for a long time boy." Sli'ark gave an evil laugh heading over to the table picking up a pair of jumper cables and strapped them to Lucas's metal chair, "I've been waiting a long time."
(Several strenuous hours of painful torture later)
Lucas's was hanging on by the skin of his teeth. In the past 3 hours or so he had been beaten, electrocuted, burned, impaled, and nearly drowned. So it is an act of Arceus that he was even alive but Lucas didn't even show signs of spilling the location of the other Lucario groups the entire time.
Sli'ark stood infront of him panting, his fists bloody. Lucas who was bruised in all sorts of places his ears clipped rolling in his sweat and blood. Still Lucas sucked it up and almost challenged Sli'ark to carry on.
Several other Hunters had joined in on Lucas's interrogation and took their part in trying to break him but it all was to no avail. However Lucas's nightmare was only beginning as Sierra stirred and soon she woke up.
"Arceusdammit Sierra why did you have to wake up." Lucas thought angrily.
"Oh well lookie here…" Sli'ark smiled a devilish smile walking over to Sierra lifting the tarp off her head, "Good morning princess good thing you woke up we were just about to start our advanced questionnaire."
"Lucas… what the hell is going on?" Sierra telepathically asked. Her eyes widened in utter horror as they went over Lucas, "Oh my Arceus what did they do to you!"
Lucas spat out another glob of blood, Arceus blood must be pooling into the Lucarios mouth. Lucas beamed her the past couple hours and the intentions of Sli'ark.
"Now let's see who breaks first." Sli'ark sneered, "Of course with Soldier Boy over there, I asked nicely where the rest of your friends are." SLi'ark motioned over to a bloody beat up Lucas with 2 black eyes and all sorts of scars.
"So you only have one go at this princess. Will you tell me the location of where the rest of your Lucario friends are hiding or do we have to do this the hard way?" Sli'ark asked his face right infront of Sierra's, "It'll be an awful shame for you to get that pretty face of yours all beat up and bloody."
"Lucas…." Sierra called, "I want you to promise me something. I want you to extract the location of the rest of the colony from my mind and I want you to promise me that no matter what happens to me you won't tell him a damn thing."
"What?!" Lucas was distraught by this, "By now they know they cannot break me but you Sierra. They know you are the key to my lock. They'll kill you Sierra! They'll kill you because you are the only thing important to me!"
"What's more important?! My life or the survival of our kind." Sierra retorted, "I may die today Lucas but no way in hell am I going to take the rest of my kind with me…. And even if I die…. If I die or get pretty damn close to it you would have accessed you powers by then." Sierra took a more righteous selfless tone, "Your duty is to protect at all cost is it not? If I die or hang on the brink of it your full powers will come to you. We just have to hold out for long enough."
"How will you know if my powers will even come! I cannot live without you Sierra!" Lucas heart nearly broke at her suggestion, "I am not going to risk your life over the off chance your hunch is correct!"
"And what would you have us do?! Tell them where our friends and families are! We may die today Lucas but we atleast lit the spark to the fire that will burn away the corruption of the Hunters forever! You just have to trust me Lucas… as I have always trusted you…." Her mental tone was much softer now.
"Lucas… I am asking you as your mate and as your leader. Please. Trust me…" Sierra looked his way softly. With a heavy sigh Lucas did as he was told. Sierra turned to Sli'ark glaring at him dead in the eye in one fail swoop she head butted him breaking his nose.
Sli'ark recoiled back in pain grabbing his bloody nose, "So be it…" The Hunter said. He attached jumper cables to Sierra's chair. He wiped Lucas's blood from his brass knuckles. Sli'ark got a bucket of water and poured it all over Sierra wetting her fur.
Sli'ark turned on the electricity and the expected effect took hold of Sierra. Sierra let out an incredibly pained scream reverberating through the air. Its echoes could be heard throughout the halls of this bunker. Sli'ark turned off the electricity and started beating Sierra.
He could care less whether she lives or not but more so when his arch enemy will break just to save his love. One thing's for sure it is going to be an extremely painful day for Sierra. Sli'ark kneed her right up the snout breaking her jaw. He sidearmed her face.
Sierra gritted her teeth and just took it when Sli'ark when punched her but when he turned the electricity on she couldn't contain herself. Lucas frantically tried to break out of his chains pulling against the metal chair to no avail his strength failing him.
"DIIIAAALLLLGGGGAAA! Why must you do this to me!" He screamed at himself anger boiling up inside of him as he couldn't protect the one creature on the planet he was tasked to protect, but he sat their helpless as Sli'ark beat the living daylight out of Sierra.
"Don't give in Lucas!" Came Sierra who was struggling to hold on. Sli'ark turned the electricity on once more Sierra's bone chilling screams reverberating through the air. Sierra was in for one hell of an evening.
(Several more hours of torture)
Lucas was on the brink of breaking. Sierra was on the brink of death. The were in a pretty bad situation. Sli'ark ssat on the table sipping some lemonade, "Whooo you guys are good. Wish I had 10 more Hunters like you refusing to break under any circumstance." SLi'ark walked over and poured the burning lime drink on his woudns creating an unbearable sting.
The Hunter did the same thing to Sierra who sat leaning to the side head limp her eyes dull from pain and electrocution, "L-Lucas….. Don't tell him a damn thing…" She numbly told him psychically. She had been repeating the same phrase for the last 20 minutes.
Blood flowed from various wounds on her body spilling onto the floor. Her jaw and sbout were broken, arms broken, legs broken, her fur was singed from the electric chair. Lucas was on the virtual breaking point he could feel the power boil up inside his body.
But he had no way of knowing when they were granted to him or even how it feels when they are granted to him. So for the past 3 hours it stood there building up inside his body as salt on his wounds. For 3 hours he sat there as Sierra was maimed and tortured know he could have saved her from her unspeakable torment at anytime but was absolutely powerless to do so.
Soon however Lucas grew limp his eyes low, he had never been so low in his entire life watching his mate get beaten and tortured before his very eyes while he sat there helpless to save her.
"Want to say anything now?" Sli'ark asked in an extremely nice voice, "All your pain and suffering can go away if you just tell me where your friends are." The Hunter talked down to a half dead Sierra. He waited for 30 seconds before heaving a heavy sigh.
Sli'ark turned to Lucas, "Now I know you aren't going to spill your guts for damn shit." Sli'ark pulled out a pistol Lucas's heartbeat rose his adrenaline pumping, "I've tried killing you so many times before so I know I can't kill you. Hell if I could you'll be dead already." Sli'ark casually walked over to Sierra placing the pistol right up to her head.
Sierra couldn't respond her entire body was numb, "Now let's see how much you are willing to sacrifice to protect your friends." Sli'ark said pulling back the hammer on his pistol of which was a 44. Magnum Revolver.
"I want you to consider your choice the next… 2 minutes very seriously." Sli'ark said very seriously, "Her *points barrel in the air* or your friends *points barrel at Sierra*."
Lucas considered his choices very seriously, "Sierra or species…. Sierra or species… Sierra or species. I can find someone else….. But it's is Sierra's life here… It was the ONE task given to me…. I can't live without her…. I'd do anything to protect her, I-I can't let her go... I can't let her go." Lucas looked into Sierras eyes.
Sierra returned with a soft look, she had suffered through much too much her transfixing gaze told Lucas one message and one message alone, "Do it Lucas…. Don't tell the bastard anything… For the survival of our kind Lucas…. Please." Those words shook Lucas to the core.
Lucas against everything he stands for decides to not save Sierra. He didn't give Sli'ark a response, conveying his choice, "Hmm…. Well that is peculiar Soldier Boy you surprise me everyday." Sli'ark sneeredand laughed and evil laugh.
Lucas's heart dropped a sense of unspeakable guilt piercing his body to the bones. Sli'ark pointed his revolver at Sierra's stomach and fired a shot. Sierra winced in extreme pain as the bullet flew through her body tearing her insides up bust she was much too weak to scream.
He fired another shot in the same area, blood pooled from her two wounds, "I'm not going to kill you Soldier Boy, not yet. I want you to fully understand the depth of your failure both to your kind and to your mate. Who you just let die by the way." Sli'ark sneered, "Then when you are literally begging for me to put one in your head will I finally end your torment."
For the first time in a long time tears welled up in Lucas's eyes, he will have to sit here for hours watching his mate slowly bleed out. Sierra gazed into Lucas's eyes seeking whatever comfort she could in this cold time. Lucas was broiling with rage, angry to the bones.
Lucas accessed Sli'arks mind, with his telepathic clamps he could only give the Hunter a mild head ache, "Be careful where you tread Hunter. For nothing is more dangerous in this world then a man with nothing left to lose."
"I'll be looking forward to it." SLi'ark laughed walking to the door and opening it, "First you gotta watch your girlfriend die and you have to figure out how to get out of here before you can do any of that." Sli'ark sneered walking out the door and slamming it behind him.
Lucas was left along with Sierra who was hanging on by a thread, "Lucas…" She said softly, "Don't be afraid Lucas…. Don't be afraid…." Lucas could hear Sierra's heartbeat which was very slow, faint, and weak.
"Don't let my death be in vain Lucas. You get out of that chair and you destroy the Hunters once and for all. For both of us… for both of us…" Sierra's heart beat grew fainter and fainter and Sierra's eyes closed and her body went limp, Lucas's heart dropped.
"Sierra!" He strained against his chains willing it to break begging for it to break but to no avail, "SIERRA!" A single tear dripped down his eye.
"No! Sierra!" He wished this moment wasn't real he begged for this moment to not be real, Lucas let out a pained roar tearing away at the chains that bound him to that chair, he ripped the telepathic clamp from his head.
"Sierra!" Lucas begged, he ripped her bounds away, he cradled her in his arms, her breathing was soft her heartbeat very faint she was hanging on by a thread, "It was the one job I was entrusted to do…. I promised you dad…. Dialga…. No way in hell am I going to let you down now." Lucas frantically tried to stabilize Sierra's condition but he was brawler not the healer in the relationship.
Through much effort Lcuas atleas closed up the bullet holes, "Stay with me Sierra." Lucas whispered trying to stop the bleeding throughout her body, "Don't give up on me sweetheart." Eventually Lucas stabilized her condition but it was the most he could do, Sierra's life hangs in the balance.
"I swear to you now Sierra I will put a stop to all this madness once and for all…." Lucas whispered softly, "But your life is out of my hands now…" Lucas said sadly stroking the soft fur on her face.
Lucas forced himself to teleport her away to a Pokemon camp at the very back of the battle lines. He left her life in the hands of others not himself, although the Pokemon he'll send her too are much better healers it was still hard for him to perform the action.
"I'm going to stop this once and for all Sierra." Lucas promised Sierra as her body was being blanked away in a puff of black smoke, "Be safe Sierra, I will come back for you…" Lucas struggled to control himself as Sierra was teleported away.
With the last puffs of smoke she was gone leaving Lucas alone in that interrogation room. All of a sudden his pain and grief were replaced by anger and hatred. Lucas felt the power broiling up inside him finally supernova. His body shook.
"GrrrrrrrAHHHH!" He roared aura armor appearing on his body. Their sudden appearance took him off guard Lucas looked over his armored hands in shock his fanged helmet forming into place. They stopped forming on him right before they were complete, before the plate went over his hand and the fangs over his mouth.
Lucas didn't even have to think, he only had one mission in mind, one final mission to complete, kill Krane, Kill Sli'ark. Lucas looked at his hands, all of a sudden his shroud blades bursted into existence. They glowed a blood red. Lucas got his game face on his face showing the unspeakable anger he now felt.
The final part of the mask slid together in an electric pulse. The slit for Lucas's eyes glowed red (the rest of the armor was still blue). Lucas clashed his blades together creating a shower of sparks his fangs split and Lucas pointed his nose into the air and let out a bellowing earth shattering roar.
"I'M COMING FOR YOU SLI'ARK!" Lucas focused his energy and in a supernova of an explosion incinerated the wall separating him from the outside.
Storm clouds loomed over the horizon fast approaching this Arceus forsaken city. Earthquakes shook shattering and toppling whole buildings. Full sized F6 Tornadoes descended down from the heavens and wreak havoc amongst the Hunters. The apocalypse had just came to this Arceus forsaken city, the power of the legendries themselves were about to be unleashed, For Lucas was right, there is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose.
Lucas focused his energy his blades dislocating themselves a tiny bit and started spinning at incredible rates. After a few seconds they stopped and their momentum sent Lucas flying up into the clouds, he wielded the power of gods. His fangs split and Lucas let out an ear shattering roar into the landscape.
In a bright flash of light an aura construct of massive proportions appeared under Lucas. The aura construct looked exactly like a Rayquaza, Lucas mounted the giant beast and it slithered down into the city. The aura Rayquaza flew low between the buildings making sharp turns between skyscrapers whipping it's tail as it turned toppling whole buildings.
"Pokemon! Attack the city!" Lucas bellowed using his newfound psychic ability to tell all Pokemon in the city and within a 10 mile radius of the city. Lucas could hear the hundreds of thousands of battle cries as Pokemon battled the Hunters.
The Rayquaza slithered through the skies at break neck speed moving near the speed of sound creating sonic booms that would shatter the glass from buildings and Hunter air vehicles. Lucas rode right behind the constructs head grabbing onto it's horns. The Rayquaza snuck up behind a group of fully loaded little bird helicopter, the leviathan opened it's maw and a hyper beam came rushing out cutting the helicopters in half sending them plummeting to the ground.
Dark storm clouds now hovered over the city every now and then cracks of thunder and lightning would go off. Thunder would reduce moral to the Hunters below and lightning would kill anything it comes in contact with. Nearby the F6 Tornado picked up car, trees, and other debris and flung them around like missiles.
The pillar of wind would destroy whole buildings, at this pace Lucas would single handedly level the whole city by sundown. The Rayquaza flew right above the city streets moving to the outskirts of the city were Pokemon and Hunters had their stalemates.
Lucas channeled his energy drawing all of his power from the storm clouds above him, "Cleanse the lands my friend!" Lucas ordered.
The Rayquaza opened it's maw charging up a hyper beam, Lucas spread his arms across either side of the serpent. Lucas released the energy that had built up inside him, a wall of electricity ran down the sides of the streets while the Rayquaza released his hyper beam running it along the center.
Below them Hunters and Walkers were electrocuted and scorched alive, "Kill them all!" Lucas ordered the Rayquaza as he stood up and leap off the serpent. The Rayquaza now free to do whatever he wished laid waste to the Hunter below scorching them alive and toppling whole buildings right ontop of them.
Lucas flying through the air braced himself for impacting the ground. Any onlookers would have seen a possessed Lucario about to impact the ground and shred the Hunters to pieces. An aura Groudon appeared over Lucas it was just a silhouette but it was clearly distinguishable.
Lucas slammed into the ground like a burning meteorite creating a huge crater. His fangs split and Lucas bellowed a blood curling roar instilling fear into the heart of every Hunter. He charged their cutting all of them in half.
He palmed an aura sphere and disintegrated several mech walkers with a single touch. Lucas focused the storm clouds bolts of lightning shot down from the heavens striking Hunters and Mechs with unmatched accuracy.
"Charge!" Lucas commanded the Pokemon forces which followed his orders, "Kill them all! It has been made clear there are no civilians in this city! Marche towards their command center!"
Lucas painted the city streets with ancient runes, with each runes the Rayquaza above ran it over with hurricane force winds and its hyper beam incinerating everything it touched. Hunters were pushed back to their final stronghold in almost no time which was about 3 hours.
The stronghold was a fort like base at the center of the city. It had massive 12 foot reinforced concrete wall and at it's center was the full military force of the Hunters/this city.
"My brothers sisters!" Lucas called at the walls of the Hunters final stronghold, the Rayquaza hovered above just waiting for the command to glass the fort, "Today we finally put an end to the blight of the Hunters! All the death, destruction, and despair will finally be righted this day! Ride with me and so we will finally cut the head off of this malevolent Seviper ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
Lucas let out a warcry and he was followed by now millions of other Pokemon behind him, "Cleanse this city!" Lucas ordered the Rayquaza above and it flew into the stronghold and started glassing everything, "POKEMON! CHARGE!" Lucas blew up the wall and a swarm of Pokemon came flooding into the stronghold.
For when Lucas was inside the walls of the fort he spotted Sli'ark, a surge of anger and an almost bloddlust like feeling surged through him.
"Oh well lookie here!" SLi'ark yelled over to Lucas, he was in an exosuit that wasn't like the mech walker as it took a much more human shape and mimicked the Hunters movement within its cockpit, "Looks like Soldier Boy found his way out. Let's dance boy!" SLi'ark mocked drawing a knife, it was the exosutit's knife so it was the size of Lucas himself in relation to the walker.
Lucas clashed his shroud blades together creating a shower of sparks, the final battle between Lucario and Hunter was about to ensue.
(Sierra)
"Hey I think she's waking up" Sierra faintly heard the sounds of a Chansey. It took a while before she realized what battle she was in and her eyes snapped open and she shot up.
"Where am I!?" Sierra was dazed and confused drawing a metal claw.
"You're in the field hospital dear." The Chansey replied, "You appeared here in a puff of smoke all scarred and bruised." She said.
Sierra looked over herself noticing all of her wounds had been healed up, "You're good." She complimented, "But if you excuse me I have something dire to attend to." Sierra swiftly said before running out of the field hospital much to the objections of the Chanseys beckoning for her to come back.
"Judging by the storm clouds and tornadoes I think it's safe to say Lucas finally acquired his powers." Sierra thought running through the mountains of Hunter rubble and debris.
She noticed that a rather large battle was taking place near the center of the city. Within minutes Sierra reached the fort at the center of the city. She entered the fort through the rather large whole blown into the wall.
There she saw a battle of almost apocalyptic proportions. Pokemon everywhere were engaged in fierce battles with Hunters. Tanks rolled out of underground tunnels and only managed to fire 1 shot off before being mobbed and destroyed, said one shit killed hundreds of Pokemon.
Her eyes wandered over to a rather epic battle. Lucas was currently engaged in a fight to the death with a giant robot. He dashed and slid between the mechs legs slicing it in half, Lucas had no more sense in honor and fighting fair when it comes to Hunters anymore.
Lucas incapacitated the robot and ripped Sli'ark out of its cockpit. He chucked the Hunter across the ground, Sierra jumped down and decided to help Lucas, "WHERE IS KRANE!" Lucas bellowed chucking the Hunter to the walls making a sizeable dent.
"WHERE IS THE PROPHET KRANE!" Lucas beat the Hunter into the wall, "WHERE IS YOUR FRIEND HUH! WHERE IS HE!"
"Lucas! You're going to kill him before you find out anything!" Sierra yelled over to Lucas. The Lucario stopped his assault and gazed over at Sierra his face was in disbelief.
"Sierra my Arceus you're alive!" Lucas dropped Sli'ark and ran over and embraced her wrapping her in his arms and spinning her around, "Oh my Arceus you're alive! I was so worried…." He sobbed into her shoulders.
"You saved me Lucas… My knight in shining armor…" She embraced him aswell. Lucas planted a kiss on her lips, Sierra savored his warm kiss. It has been such a long time since they had a soft moment such as this one. But the moment was short lived.
An army of exosuit appeared from an underground tunnel shocking and awing away at the hordes of Pokemon, "Odin is in sight, terminate at all cost." The two Lucarios heard through a mech walkers radio.
Lucas's eyes widened, he pulled Sierra in his arms erecting an aura shield to cover them. A barrage of high explosive missiles rained down upon them. Each barrage weakened the shield more and more until it finally shattered. Luca stood up and storm clouds appeared over the fort.
Lucas sent out his own artillery barrage at them pillars of lightining raining down upon the walkers destroying them. However the two Lucario's attention has been diverted from Sli'ark of all Hunter who may be the only one that knew how to stop Lucas.
Lucas sensed something coming up behind him he was about to turn around but he was too slow. A pointblank shotgun blast shattered Lucas's armor, but it did not effect him. Turned around and drove his shroud blades right into Sli'arks chest…
The Sli'ark gagged for air as the shroud blades pierced his lungs. He only managed to squeeze the trigger one more time and a blasted Lucas point blank range right on his unprotected chest. Lucas's world went numb. Sierra's heart dropped.
"We die to-together S-Soldier Boy." Sli'ark struggled. Lucas drove his blades deeper into the Hunter. Another shotgun blast went right into Lucas's chest sealing his fate.
Both of them went numb their eyes dull. And in one fail swoop both fell to the ground lifeless. Everything seemed to go in slow motion now.
"LLLUUUCCCAAASSS!" Sierra ran over to her lost mate.
Rain descended down from the heavens, it was an almost surreal thought. Lucas had been killed…. Up in the clouds one could almost hear the pained roar of Dialga himself. Lucas and Sli'ark arch enemies for the longest of time both slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the others kind, the two warriors of different species die together.
The prophecy has been fulfilled…
The Lucarios of Sinnoh faces a bleak and decelent time ahead.
The daughter of Dialga shall rise above the rest, through pain misery and death she shall make a choice that determines the fate of her species.
She will face many challenges and dangers along her journey but never shall she face them alone.
She will have her faithful knight her guardian, her protector, her lover… faithful to the bitter end. She will also have the help of any of the kind of heart and a friendship she will create born of guilt, righteousness, and dutyship.
Whether she fails or not is determined by her, but in the end she will be left of broken heart and a debt forever unpaid
(Epilogue)
Sierra's world was torn to shreds… her heart shattered into a million pieces and casted into a merciless fire. Her entire existence could be summed up in a few simple words: Cold, lonely, dark, meaningless, a bottomless abyss. It should have come as no surprise to her that when her eyes lazily drifted open from a night plagued with nightmares that the Lucario found herself in said bottomless lifeless abyss (Actually it was kinda surprising. Not THAT much though)
"Wh-where am I?" She confusedly asked looking around her new environment.
"Aaah!" She yelped springing into the air at the sight of a titanic serpentine body slithering out from the shadowy abyss.
The serpentine figure slithered towards Sierra and reared up revealing it's face, the figure easily dwarfed her, easily rising 20-30 feet above her. Her eyes widened. The figure had a long grey serpentine body marked with black stripes and red stripes arranged like an oreo with black outside and red inside running along its length.
From its midsection 5 rows of golden spikes ran down its sides ending just before its tail. From the midsection up 3 rows of golden protrusions were arranged in a ribcage like fashion. From those 'ribs' 3 tentacles with thorny ends sprouted up. There were 2 sets of golden plates on either side of its face/head making the appearance of a helmet that grooved up forming a crown-like shape. Its eyes were piercing red orbs.
"You are in the Void Sierra." An ancient motherly voice called to her, she mispronounced Sierra's name as 'Sigh-air-ra' instead of 'Sea-air-ra' it wasn't anything to raise attention too it just erked her like a pet peeve (Officially confirming how Sierra's name is pronounced), "A land that bridges the realm of the living and the dead."
Her eyes widened as she came to the realization that she was in the presence of a god.
"Why….why am I here?" She was at a loss for words.
Giratina motioned with her head to a space to her left. A cobalt blue portal sparkling with electricity the size of Giratina herself burst into existence next to the Legendary. A diamond blue pillar-like foreleg took a step out of the portal and out came the ruler of time himself, Dialga. Basking in his greatness he ushered a bellowing roar shaking the fabrics of time itself.
"Do you really have to be so loud brother!" Giratina growled in annoyance, "You are literally roaring at the epitome of nothing." Dialga only had a smug grin on his face.
Giratina heaved a stressed sigh looking as if she was resisting s terrible urge to beat her brother up. Once everything had settled down Dialga directed his attention to Sierra.
Clearing his throat, "I have called you here Sierra" He said (pronouncing her name the right way). His suddenly expression softened, "I am sorry about Lucas, Sierra…" Upon hearing those words the Lucario slumped down tears starting to well up in her eyes.
"Just… why you've brought me here…" She strained under her breath, it took almost all her willpower to stop herself from having a complete breakdown.
"You and Lucas have suffered and endured through so much Sierra…" Dialga said softly, "No one has the right to ask any more of you. But I'm asking."
She raised an eyebrow in curiosity wiping the tears from her eye.
"The other members of the Legendary Council have been talking. They have seen Lucas in action and it got them thinking." Dialga said, "Palkia was actually the one that suggested this plan. Too put it bluntly he called for more Lucas's."
"… What?" Was Sierra's confused response.
"I know I'm confused by it too." The King of Time agreed, "Uh… basically. Lucas represented an ideology as of recent events you saw yourself that thousands of individuals rallied behind him in his cause. He inspired everyone around him from your colony-to the humans. It has been many centuries since any mortal being has inspired others so much as to save a species from extinction."
"The plan is that every Legendary Pokemon will now have… liaisons bridging us to the mortal realm. We actually have done something similar to this centuries ago, back when Pokemon were mere animals and we gods never revealed ourselves to the denizens of this planet. These special individuals were known as demigods. Half god-half mortal being harboring the best and worst of both our worlds within themselves, they were the champions of the mortals the pinnacle of their kind." Dialga explained, "Much like Lucas these demigods were imbued with great powers. They were tasked with carrying out the orders of the gods on the mortal realm, their work –in our name- was of very great importance ranging from determining the fate of this planet or saving or exterminating species to bring balance back into nature."
Dialga inclined his head closer to Sierra's his piercing red eyes gazing right through her soul, "For a time these past couple thousand years the earth experienced an era of peace and tranquility. As of recent events the Council Fears, as is the natural order of things, that that peace is coming to a close, and once again the world will need these champions once more." Dialga finished pausing to let Sierra absorb the information.
"The other legendaries have already begun selecting their ambassadors to the mortal realm. Anyone lucky enough to be chosen by us will be blessed with immense powers, the type of power they have will be determined by the specific Legendary that chose them." Dialga continued, "So say someone were to be chosen by me, and they except, the individual would find themselves with special powers and control over time itself." Dialga said.
He took a deep breath before asking her the hard hitting question, "I have chosen you to be my ambassador Sierra."
It hit her like a freight train, "What?!"
"I have chosen you to be me disciple Sierra, that is why I had asked my sister to call you here." Dialga said, "I figured with the passing of Lucas… you can take up his post, honor his memory. You would have all his powers and abilities and since you would be under my power you will be immortal."
The Lucario was dumbstruck. At first she was honored to be chosen by Dialga then her gratefulness gave way to guilt and heartbreak, "He wants me to r-r-replace Lucas?" Bad thoughts started rushing to her head again this time she wouldn't be able to hold it in.
"I know this must be a difficult decision for you, I know he loved you very much..." Dialga said softly, "I'll give you some time to think about this. You will be waking up soon, the next time you fall asleep will we meet again. Take your time Sierra this is a life changing decision."
And with a flick of his head Sierra's eyes snapped open from her sleep.
(Exit dream)
Sierra sprang up from her bed in a cold sweat, her eyes darting around the room she was in. She was sweating and gasping from the 'nightmare' she just had. Sierra had spent the night in James house in a guest bedroom, she sat up resting her head against her knees. She heaved a heavy sigh.
"Take up his post…. Honor his memory… I am so confused!" She thought to herself, "How could I replace him? How could I ever take his place, WHY AM I EVEN CONSIDERING TAKING HIS PLACE?! I miss you Lucas…" She tears welled up in the Lucarios eyes and she started to cry again.
After a while she had cried herself out and then retired to thinking about what Dialga said and the choice she now has to make, "I wish you were here Lucas…."
Sierra's grieving was interrupted by a knock on the door, there were 3 knocks and her ears twitched accordingly in a very cute way. The door opened and James peekd]ed head through.
"Hey. I came up here to check up on you" He said walking over and sitting down next to her, "How are you feeling?" He frowned as he noticed that she had been crying again.
"B-better I guess." She replied wiping away the tears from her eye with the back of her hand, James looked at her with a doubtful look on his face, "You know Sierra… Lucas's death affected us all-"
"James…"
"If there's anything you want to talk about-"
"James!" Sierra cried covering his mouth with a paw just to shut him up, "Really, I'm fine! You don't need to worry about me." She lied through her teeth, to top off the act she put on a pretty convincing fake smile.
"Ok. If you're so fine then I have something I want to show you," He said, "Come on." He motioned towards the door getting up and walking out leaving it partly open.
Sierra lingered for a while deep in thought but eventually she followed suite. She walked out the door of her temporary room and followed James into another room just down the hallway. When she entered said room she found it was quite empty save for some shelves stocked with books and a desk with a computer monitor on it.
James pressed a few buttons and a newsreporter appeared reading off the news. Sierra was instantly interested, not in the news article but computer monitor itself, "What the fuck kind of black magic is this?!" She thought circling the monitor trying to figure out how a person had been trapped inside the screen. James chuckled at her confusion, it was like a monkey trying to figure out what a computer was, it was quite sad actually.
Sierra tried to investigate the innerworkings of this computer for the next 5 minutes before she finally gave up, "You done?" James asked in amusement.
James pressed a button and the news recording started to play, "U.R Police have finally cleared the compound you, Lucas, and that army of Pokemon stormed. They discovered a deceased Prophet Krane at the bottom of the heaping pile of shit that base quickly became." James said.
Sierra was speechless it hit her much like the way Dialga's offer hit her (like a freight train), "….What?"
"Well it was sorta bound to happen, I mean like Krane was already in that facility and a hundred thousand Pokemon came down upon that place looking for him-"
"No…. I mean.. he's…. he's dead?" Sierra had a look of ecstasy mixed with confusion on her face. The notion was surreal to her, "It can't be that simple…"
"Yes Sierra…. Krane is dead, most members of his killer cult –those who hadn't been killed by the mob of Pokemon- has been rounded up and subject to questioning. There was a significant amount that deserted the cult at the last like the cowards they are, they have most likely gone into hiding but they are being hunted as fugitives by U.R Martials."
The Lucario was still standing there, dumbstruck, "No… this is too simple… it can't be over that easily." Sierra was in denial now, James noticed that. James took out a holo-pad and swiped the screen from the monitor onto said pad.
"Believe me if you want too but officially this is all over," James said handing Sierra the pad, "I don't know if you heard about this either since you've been bed ridden for the past couple days, the other elders of your colony have been discussing the future plans for your species."
"No..," She replied looking over the holo-pad, "What's it about?"
"The majority of them agreed that Lucarios are solitary creatures and were never meant to form up in the colonies of a thousand that you formed." James said pacing around the room, "The plan is to finally break up the colony and spread out across the region as the majority of the species had been doing for the longest. They won't be splitting up families I assume, but let's just say a lot of Lucarios are going to have to get used to isolation and solitude."
"Hmm…" She pondered that plan.
"Hey I'm just relaying what I heard. This plan, they said, will be effective immediately, the day after Lucas's funeral to be precise." Upon hearing Lucas, tears started to well up in Sierra's eyes, James instantly regretted mentioning Lucas.
"No James I'm fine… it's just… difficult whenever someone mentions him." She tried reassuring him sensing his regret.
"Sierra if you want to talk about anything I'm here if you need me." He said.
"Thanks James… um is there anything else that you wanted to show me? If not, I want to be alone right now." She asked.
"No nothing more," He said walking towards the door, "And Sierra." He said just before walking out.
"Yea?"
"Don't take his death too hard Sierra he was an icon to all of us and he died with honor, knowing that Lucarios won't ever have to fear the Hunters anymore." He said before walking out.
Sierra waited until James footsteps were just barely audible before she slumped down against the wall covering her face with her paws dropping the holo-pad, tears pouring from her eyes. There was a pit in her heart filled with guilt. The sun soon rose over the horizon but Sierra spent the rest of the morning silently crying, grieving her lost lover.
Sierra spent the rest of the day with Lucas's family comforting each other helping each other through their great loss. Now Sierra sat perched on a tree overlooking Twinleaf Town the small little town that had helped her so much, the small little town that took the colony in when they when they were in dire need of help, the small little town and it's people that saved her kind from being wiped from the face of the earth. As you may have noticed Sierra is doing quite a bit of contemplating and soul searching as she watched this town.
Later that night after parting with Lucas's family, Sierra found a nice comfy branch to sleep on. Tonight was one of the few nights that she didn't cry herself to sleep, she was ready to make her choice.
(Enter dream)
When Sierra finally drifted off into the dream world the next time she opened her eyes she found herself in The Void, this time however Giratina wasn't here. Sierra only had to wait a few minutes however before Dialga appeared from the abyss.
"Have you made your choice?" He asked getting right to the point.
Sierra spent a few seconds to make up her mind at the last second, "Yes… Yes, I'll do it-but under one condition."
Dialga raised an eyebrow, "Which is?"
"I want you to bring Lucas back…" She almost pleaded with the Legendary.
"Sierra…" Dialga said the tone in his voice alone saying: It can't be done.
"-Please, if I'm going to serve you for the rest of my life I just want the chance to save the mon I love." Sierra pleaded.
Dialga heaved a sigh, "Believe me I want to heed you request. But it's not my call to make Sierra." Sierra's heart dropped. As if on cue Giratina appeared out of the abyss she had heard the whole thing.
Sierra's pleading eyes switched from Dialga to Giratina, "Please…"
"Death does not like to be cheated Sierra," Giratina said softly she inclined her head towards Dialga as if they were having a mental argument. After a few minutes Giratina turned her attention to Sierra with a soft look on her face.
"I will allow 48 hours, even that is pushing the boundaries Sierra, as my brother said Death does not like to be cheated," Giratina said, it was hard for Sierra to not be disheartened by the news.
"Sierra… that is more then enough time for you to tie up all loose-ends and say your goodbyes to each other" Dialga said, "Tell him all the things you wanted to tell him before he died that you never got the chance too. Cherish the remainder of your time together Sierra…" Dialga gave some final pieces of advice before with a flick of his head Sierra was expelled from The Void and the Lucario's eyes snapped open in the real world. She snapped upright looking around in a cold sweat, she was half expecting to see a Shiny Lucario at her side but there was no one there.
"I swear to fucking Arceus if that was just a random dream-" Her breath was taken away as a shadowy cloud of smoke appeared on the tree branch infront of her. It looked much like the cloud of smoke Lucas would appear in when he teleports in and out of places. Sierra gasped as that (^^) thought came to her.
And out of the shadowy cloud came a familiar golden Lucario. The sight of him alone brought Sierra to tears, "Oh my Arceus Lucas!" She shouted flying into his arms, burying her snout in his fur, tears streaming down her eyes.
He wrapped his arms around her waist tucking his head ontop of hers, he cradled her rocking her from side-to-side. Just seconds before, Dialga had explained the whole situation to Lucas, he knew what she did to get him back from the dead, albeit it was only for 48 hours.
"I missed you so much…." She cried, "I-I didn't know what to do Lucas I-"
"Shh… Dialga explained everything to me" He shushed her, "I understand, you don't have to explain anything to me." He cradled her, soon Sierra's eyes grew lazy.
"Let's just enjoy tonight shall we?" He whispered into her ear reassuringly, "We'll worry about what we have to in the morning but let's just enjoy tonight, alright?" Sierra just melted into his arms perfectly happy to comply.
There were literally a million other problems that she would have to face in the morning and maybe billions more after her time with Lucas is up but just for this night she didn't have to worry about any of that. She was just happy to be back in her lovers arms.
(The next day)
Lucas's parents were certainly ecstatic when the found out their son was alive they were soon heartbroken to find out he was not back permanently, it was a bitter-sweet moment. Lucas spent his 2nd to last day alive with his family getting closure, tying up loose-ends, and saying their final goodbyes.
It was kinda hard for Sierra to not feel a bit jealous, she had basically sold her soul to the devil just to get Lucas back from the dead, albeit it was only for a measly 48 hours, and Lucas had spent the first half of that 48 precious hours with his family (and not with her) but Sierra held her tongue.
Now she and Lucas sat curled up on a tree branch, "I'm sorry I mostly ignored you today Sierra," Lucas said nuzzling her neck, "I'll make it up to you tomorrow sweet heart, I got something really special planned."
"Yeah now start making plans." Sierra wanted to say but couldn't bring herself to say it.
When Sierra finally fell asleep Dialga visited her dream once more to brief her on her new duties as his ambassador.
(Enter dream)
Sierras eyes snapped open and she found herself within the dream world. This time however she wasn't in The Void. Strangely… she was on a beach. A dream sun was setting over the horizon giving the entire atmosphere a warm orange glow as it dipped below the horizon. The air was filled with the sound of waves gently hitting the shore, Sierra gasped at the site of the serein beauty of the dream beach.
Sierra's eyes wandered throughout the dream beach taking in the beauty of the place. Her eyes stopped at a ghostly form sitting on a beach chair. The ghostly form was quite peculiar it shifted into many different form every second you looked at it. It shifted from many different human, animal, and pokemon warriors throughout history. From a Spartan, to a tiger, to a Samurai, to a giant T-Rex, and to a rather strange looking human warrior. The Soldier was fully clad in futuristic combat armor, was like 7-8 feet tall, she didn't know what came over her but the though 'Sentinel' came to her mind as she viewed the warrior.
"…Rick?" The words slipped from her mouth.
The ghostly form noticed her, "Sierra!" Ricked yelled getting up from his chair and hugging her, "Oh my it's been a long time." He hadn't seen her for a very long time, since the time he decided that Lucas would no longer need him to carry out his former duty in protecting Sierra.
"I missed you too Rick it's been a long time," Sierra said, "Although the only time I've ever seen you in the past is when you were possessing Lucas and hacking through countless ranks of Hunters." The spirit chuckled.
Dialga suddenly appeared on the beach his massive form kicking up a shit ton of sand, "Ah, I see you accepted his offer. I'll leave the two of you alone." Rick said noticing Dialga. He did a backflip a jet pack appearing on his back and he whisked away with a sonic boom, it was a hella way to make your exit.
Dialga directed his attention to Sierra getting right to the point, "Again Sierra… I cannot even begin to tell you how sorry I am about Lucas…" He said softly.
Sierra felt like she got punched in the guts… again, but she stayed strong, "Just… just get on with it, sir." She was struggling.
"First I need you to swear your allegiance to the legendary council and subsequently me. Then I will brief you on your new mission," Dialga said, "Raise your right paw." Sierra raised her right paw.
"Repeat after me."
I pledge my allegiance to Dialga The Lord of Time
As ambassador from the Legendary Council to the Mortal Realm
I swear to uphold my post and carry out my duties to the best of my abilities
If I ever break my oath may my soul forever burn in the Land of the Dead
So help me Arceus
"Pretty stiff consequences for breaking the oath don't you think?" Sierra asked.
"Meh, these ambassadors we're inducting will have powers in some cases equal to us gods," Dialga said, "We gotta keep them in line somehow. And the threat of eternal torture in the afterlife definitely does the trick."
"And what task would you have me do… sir?" It felt weird for her to refer to Dialga as sir but if she was going to serve him she might as well make a habit of it.
"As I said before the world is coming into an age of peace now. So the Council will not be needed for the next couple of centuries," Dialga said, "However, that peace certainly won't last and when the world falls into chaos again we will be there. I assume you are acquainted with the members of the Ketchum family?"
"Yes." Sierra replied.
"One of their descendant will be vital to the next great prophecy, I task you with safeguarding their bloodline to make sure it isn't prematurely extinguished until they do their part in the next great prophecy," Dialga gave Sierra her mission, "I've already informed James of this mission."
"Ok." Sierra replied there wasn't much else to say it wasn't like she could say no or anything.
The dream world began to swirl away, Sierra was about to wake up, "Lucas really has a wonderful day planned for you in the morning Sierra," Dialga said, upon being reminded of Lucas Sierra grew depressed again.
"Hey," Dialga said tapping her on the shoulder upon noticing her saddened state, "I know I'm going to get a lot of flak from my sister about this but… I hope you know Lucas has earned paradise in the afterlife, and I don't know maybe a couple centuries from now Lucas will be eligible for reincarnation depending on how bitchy Giratina is at that century. All I'm saying is keep your eye out." Dialga winked and with a flick of his head sent Sierra out of the dream.
(Exit Dream)
(The next day)
The sun rose over the horizon basking the world in it's warm glow. Lucas was first to get up and went through his morning routine before waking Sierra.
"Hey, wake up," Lucas said shaking her awake. Sierra's eyes groggily opened.
"Come on, wake up," Lucas said, "I have a very special day for the both us." Sierra sat upright wrapping her arms around Lucas's shoulders and planting a kiss on his lips, she just realized that she would have to do a lot of that on Lucas's last day.
"*Mmhmm* *Muah* I love you so much Lucas." Sierra whispered breaking their kiss and hugging him.
"I love you too sweetheart," He replied licking her cheeks.
"Where are we going today?" Sierra asked.
"It's a surprise." Lucas replied helping Sierra up, she went through her short morning routine of just brushing the kinks out of her fur. When she was finally ready Lucas offered his hand.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Ready." She took his hand and in a flash they were teleported to the entrance of a cave many leagues away. Sierra gasped instantly recognizing the place.
"Look familiar?" Lucas slyly asked.
"You're bringing me here?" Sierra was quite surprised.
"Well I thought the setting is quite poetic, you know our life long journey ending where it started," Lucas said, Sierra cringed at the word ending, "Hey, don't be like that. Let's just enjoy this day okay?" He said reassuringly, he wrapped and arm around her waist and she an arm around his neck leaning her neck against his shoulder.
They walked into the cave and soon reached a familiar cliff face dropping down into a black abyss. Of course both of the Lucarios know what lies at the bottom of the abyss. Locking arms they jumped down together and after a couple seconds of freefalling they hit a layer of leaves which gave way sending them into Dialga's Garden of Eden.
Sierra hadn't seen this place since she was a little Riolu, and it still took her breath away. The place was mini-tropical rainforest settled at the heart of an extinct volcano. The sun shone in from the roof of the volcano basking the whole forest in a warm almost angelic glow.
Lakes, fields, waterfalls, and hills also dotted the landscape of the rainforest adding to that paradise vibe it gave off. Sierra and Lucas strolled down to a waterfall that dropped straight down feeding into a lake with the jungle on their left hand side and fields with rolling hills on their right hand side.
"Remember when we first came here?" Lucas asked full of nostalgia.
"Yeah, we were only Riolus back then," Sierra answered sheepishly the memories coming back to her too, "We've come a long way since then, been through so much, changed so much." Sierra said sitting down on the edge of a cliff overlooking the lake, the waterfall to her right.
"So much has happened," Lucas said, "It feels weird thinking back to how the world was back when we were Riolus doesn't it? The world has changed so much."
"I know this place is beautiful but I hope you have much more planned for this day then just sightseeing?" Sierra asked with a hint of genuine worry in her voice.
A grin appeared on Lucas's face, "Of course I have more things planned." He grabbed her shoulder and teleported them to a field of rolling hills.
A picnic, set with a blanket, a basket full of food, a cooler full of refreshments the whole 9 yards, had been set up for the both of them, a note ontop of the basket read 'Courtesy of The King of Time'
They spent the rest of the day frolicking throughout the paradise teleporting or running from place to place. Sparring, sightseeing, dancing, racing, having casual sex, kissing, and going to the Pokemon version of Carnivals and circuses Courtesy of the King of Time. Sierra definitely dreaded the Ferris Wheel and clung to Lucas like her life depended on it while they were on it.
At the end of the day we can find the two Lucarios curled up next to each other on the side of a hill, "That was quite the day." Sierra cooed nuzzling Lucas's neck. Every second now more then ever Sierra ran the risk of breaking down completely into a sobbing mess knowing how close Lucas was from being taken from her.
So she clung to him for dear life thinking maybe if she held him tight enough, loved him strong enough, that maybe Giratina would have a change of heart and decided to let Lucas live. But the logical side of her knew that that wasn't possible. Lucas sense her inner turmoil but there was nothing he could really do to help her, and he hated himself for that.
An idea came to Lucas's head, "Come on, I have a very special evening planned for us," Lucas said getting up and helping Sierra up. He took her hand and teleported them to a river just south of them. The river flowed through a forest.
Sierra looked around at the new setting, the beauty of the place took her breath away as always. With a snap of his fingers Lucas signaled an entire Orchestra of Kricketunes, Kricketots, Ludicolos, and Jigglypuffs appeared literally out of nowhere. Sierra gasped at the sight, Lucas found a log big enough for the two of them to float on and rolled it into the river.
(A/N By now I highly suggest you go to a new tab and play the song I'm going to give you while you read)
(Can You feel the Love Tonight- By Elton John)
The two Lucarios jumped onto the log and got settled down. Sierra sat next to Lucas resting her head on his shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her waist. As they floated down the river the orchestra of Pokemon played their songs. The sun was starting to set below the horizon illuminating the world in it's warm orange glow and when it descended upon the forest it created a truly breathtaking sight.
"Courtesy of Dialga?" Sierra asked, almost everything given to them today was from Dialga.
"Courtesy of Lucas," He replied leaning in and planting a kiss on her lips, "I know this is going to be one of the last nights we'll be spending together in a while. But let's just enjoy this moment, ok?"
"Ok…" She replied wrapping both her arms around his neck and closing her eyes as she let herself be serenaded by the Pokemon Orchestra, the Pokemon Orchestra Lucas put up just for her.
They spent the rest of the night floating down the river admiring the scenery of wherever it took them, the orchestral music adding a romantic mood to the background. At an hour till midnight, an hour until Lucas completely vanishes from the world we can find the Lucario couple laying together at the mouth of a cave looking at the moon as it rose into the sky.
Sierra knew the time was coming and this time she wouldn't be able to hold in the tears. She turned around, wrapped her arms around Lucas's neck and silently sobbed into his neck fur. Lucas did his best to cradle and caress her but in the end there was nothing he can do.
(5 minutes until midnight)
"Don't go Lucas… I need you," Sierra pleaded in a deathly whisper, "Please don't go. I can't imagine how I would survive without you Lucas. Please don't go." She cried feeling like a little Riolu again, tears poured down from her eyes soaking Lucas's Golden Fur.
"Sh-sh-sh-shh…" he whispered trying to soothe her, he wrapped his arms around her waist and slowly rocked her.
"Sierra… I want you to promise me something…" He said by now he could feel primal forces tugging at his soul urging it into the Realm of The Dead. Lucas lifted Sierras chin up with a finger, he gazed into her tear filled sapphire eyes.
"I want you to promise me something…" Lucas hastily said in a gentle tone, "And I'm not going to leave this life until you make me that promise."
"W-what is it?" She barely managed to reply.
"I want you to promise me that you'll move on after this…" Lucas said quietly.
"Wh-what?!" That took her by surprise.
"Sh-sh-shh…" He shushed her pulling her into his arms in an embrace, now he found it hard to keep his tears in. He rocked her slowly from side-to-side trying to comfort her, "After I'm gone I want you to find someone else. Someone else who will love you, who will hold when times are dark and tell you everything is ok, someone else who will make you as happy as you've made me Sierra."
He took both her hands lacing his fingers with hers looking at her dead in the eyes, his shroud blades burned into existence on his arms, "Promise me, Sierra…" He struggled, the color of his fur started to fade is his body was (re)dying.
Sierra leaned in and gave him one last kiss before burying her face in his chest fur, "I promise Lucas…" She whispered under her breath. Lucas heaved a relieved sigh, with a flash of light his shroud blades transferred to her.
She felt the heat and power of a thousand suns on her arms. Lucas grew limp embracing her in one final hug, "I love you Sierra," Was all he said before he dissolved into a mist of aura. The mist flew around the cave for a few seconds before a portion broke off and ascended into the heavens. The other half circled Sierra, a two lights appeared on her body one on her heart and one on her forehead, Lucas's aura flew around her before combining flowing into her heart and her mind.
With a flash of blinding light Sierra's fur turned golden and she was left there, in the cold, dark, lonely world.
The Lucarios of Sinnoh faces a bleak and desolent time ahead.
The daughter of Dialga shall rise above the rest, through pain misery and death she shall make a choice that determines the fate of her species.
She will face many challenges and dangers along her journey but never shall she face them alone.
She will have her faithful knight her guardian, her protector, her lover… faithful to the bitter end. She will also have the help of any of the kind of heart and a friendship she will create born of guilt, righteousness, and dutyship.
Whether she fails or not is determined by her, but in the end she will be left of broken heart and a debt forever unpaid
This marks the end of Sierra's tale, in a sense the prophecy given to Sierra and Lucas when they were but Riolus has completed itself to the dime. I should have taken my break a week ago but I wanted to end off Sierra's tale more rightly then the way I had intended a week ago. Thank you so much to all of you who stuck with me for this long. I will be back to writing in about 2 weeks time with my extended vacation. If you haven't already please life, favorite, and review, throw me some ideas on how I should continue Ash's tale in 2 weeks because honestly I am all out of ideas by this point XD. So take care be safe and like always. Unto next time mates!
