A soft yawn of a hero slowly greeting the morning with a soft smile on that face of his, a good sleep for once, these beds were so much better than any of the Pokemon Center beds.
Ziden plopped right up onto his floor and softly did stretches to awaken those muscles of his and get to work at morning exercises before noticing the odd sensation of someone on his back, peeking back to see Meiling, albeit highly injured. The stench of blood was heavy on her.
" Meiling!? Jesus Christ in a wheel for hamsters the hell happened to you?!" Ziden asked, feeling her grip on him strengthen.
" Well...got in a bit over my head in a training session...Yukari sent me here to get treated by Eirin and everyone got concerned about the thing that hurt me." Meiling said before making sure she was securely on his back, using her legs to hold on tight.
" Thing that hurt you?" Ziden raised a brow at this, he knew this was not gonna be a good revelation at all.
" A weird man with a claw...called himself Vega...said his claw was remade to harm demons and Youkai. Outside of that...he could not harm me." Meiling remembered that battle, she took him down, she was not sure if he was alive after that assault with how far she sent him flying.
" Great...Anti-Demon Metals...they even have that for their humans." Ziden said while softly sighing, going back into doing pushups while she was on his back. " Anyways, glad you are alright. It could have been alot worse." Ziden said, going to reach up and pat the head of the Chinese Youkai.
"Yeah...guess I am gonna be joining you guys for a while, several of the others went back and Okuu and Sakuya replaced their numbers." Meiling answered before relaxing fully.
"...Heh, so is this what its like for those guys that have many love interests?" Ziden whispered to himself. " Oh well, as long as I can manage time, I should be able handle it." Ziden sighed out, simply going to stand up with her on his back.
" Well, as long as its not too much for you, but just don't call me China like the others, lest you would like to know what Chi to the jewels feels like." Now that sent shivers down his spine but that breaking sound of glass filled their heads once more.
" You have reached a new level of the Lovers Arcana, you have reached Rank 2 and have gained the Rainbow Dragon Keyblade and Chi Impact Style. Continue to grow the bond between you two."
Of course the silence between the two was broken by the opening of the door revealing Sakuya entering the room. " Am I interrupting something...because the old man here wants to teach you about something called Mega Evolution. Sanae and Kaguya have already learned about it. So it is your turn." Sakuya said before vanishing into thin air, something not many people would get used to.
" Well...you best get going and learn about Mega evolution. I'll be fine." Meiling said before getting off of his back and heading to the bed. The male heading out to the door and opening it, before being welcomed by music.
Tower of Mastery [ Pokemon X & Y]
The music was nice and calming but not the sight of the sleeping Utsuho outside his door and the sight of Yukari talking to a man whose eyebrows might need a tad bit of shaping up. " Ah! So there is the young man who has a Pokemon with him yes?" The old man got to his feet as Yukari nodded.
" Indeed, he has a Tyranitar, Electrivire and now a Snorlax." Yukari explained, softly taking a bite of a colorful snack before her, making a happy noise from the taste of it.
" Welcome to the Tower of Mastery, Young Man, I am Gurkinn, the one who usually administers the Mega Trial, but due to the odd circumstances of this land being in danger, I have decided to give some of your friends a Keystone." Gurkinn was seen holding up a black box, opening it and showing two Gems, both of them were Keystones.
" Eh? Why two of them?" Ziden asked before spotting that white blob near him began to form into Yuyuko and soon grabbed onto one of the stones and took it into her possession.
" For that exact reason, your ghost friend their has a bond strong enough to create the conditions of Mega Evolution." Girkinn softly smiled at Yuyuko while looking at the spherical stone.
" So...how does it work?" Zidenn asked, picking up his own stone while the man hands Ziden a Mega Ring, noticing that his right arm still had the Mecha Mimicker there before getting an idea. Using a bit of impromptu magic that he had left, he fused both items and now had the Keystone inside the device.
" You see, that stone you have is known as the Keystone, it is the Catalyst needed to active the power of Mega Evolution, however, the other item I do not have for your Pokemon, for a Keystone to work comfortably, you should head to Lumiose and check the shops to buy items to place the Keystone in. Mega Evolution is the culmination of the bond between Pokemon and trainer. When that bond is pushed to the maximum and drawn out with the other item, a Mega Stone, Pokemon can reach a further beyond form in order to achieve new powers and abilities." Girkinn explained while Ziden and Yuyuko nodded. " However, be warned, Mega Evolution does cause a strain on a Pokemon so its not possible to do it more than once per battle. And you can only use it on one Pokemon."
" Well, that's kinda restrictive, at some point, we should find out which Pokemon can Mega evolve." Ziden said, placing his hands into his pockets, seeing the others coming out of their rooms.
" Indeed, but since you are going on a path, it would be best to head back to Lumiose, now that this town is on the path to repair, it would be safe to leave it be." Girkinn suggested while Ziden looked to Reimu.
" Don't look at me, you, Sanae and Kaguya are the ones doing your little adventure while saving the world. Plus don't forget, we need to find that life Pokemon to save our land." Reimu reminded before Ziden slapped his face hard.
" I completely forgot about that!" Ziden said before Takeru sighed.
" SEriously? Well, as long as we stop Shocker along the way, its fine." Takeru answered while looking to Girkinn.
" Hmm, a Pokemon of Life? Well, there is a Pokemon like that in Kalos but that's something you might wanna ask good ole Sycamore." Girkinn stated while everyone looked at him with a blank stare.
" Wow...to think if someone remembered what we came here for... we would know where to instantly go." Reimu stated while Ziden looked away from everyone.
" Well, when we get back to the city, we should ask him about that Pokemon." Yukari stated before getting up.
" Ah, but I should let ya know something!" Korrina dashed into the room. " Apparently, according to the gym leader in the next time says their problem has been resolved by some odd swordsman."
" Some swordsman? Wait, your communications still work?" Takeru asked while looking at her.
" Yeah, surprisingly, they are all still active and working. Guessing these Shocker guys didn't bother to take it down, all of us Gym Leaders are still up and about and we notify each other of how our towns are." Korrina explained while Sanae stretched her arms behind her head.
" Hmm, wonder why they did that...seems kinda fishy." Sanae thought while looking to Yukari.
" Well, we do use it to try and get help from the Poke Army Rangers but...they get wiped out whenever we call for them, its what i heard from each town." Korrina said before sighing seeing that all of the trainers came here from the Poke Center. Seems they will remain here.
" Well, a mysterious swordsman eh?" Ziden seemed interested before feeling Sakuya tugging hard on his ear.
" Absolutely not, focus on the mission, not fighting swordsmen that come from nowhere." Sakuya said while listening to the whines of Ziden.
After a long time of resting and gathering supplies, the group began their walk down to the next town, surprisingly, nothing really went wrong on this trip. No new pokemon spotted and not a single enemy in sight, well...that was until they actually reached the town and saw the sight they were not expecting, a sight that was supposed to be a ruined town, but it was barely damaged house wise, the streets were destroyed by combat and an odd sight was before them.
A machine that looked like an aged twinkie was sliced clean down the middle. " I know this Maverick, Wire Sponge. He was...vastly unimpressive from what I remember." Ziden said before Kaguya noticed the man in the middle of the destruction, sitting down on the ground, seemingly meditating.
" Ah...so you're the ones that the odd creature of steel was talking about. I honestly have no clue why i was materialized here but it seems that I get something out of this. I get to test my blade against a swordsman of this era, you wouldn't mind humbling an old swordsman like me with a spar?" The male asked, softly standing to his feet.
Ziden was going to speak but then he saw Youmu appearing from a gap, likely through the one that Yukari had open at the hotel. " If that is the case, I would like to test my blade against you as well. Is that not an issue?" Youmu asked while the blue haired male softly removed the blade from its sheathe.
" No, whomever of you two wishes to face me first, you may come. My name is Sasaki Kojiro. I know not why I am here but I shall gladly test your blades." Sasaki softly took a stance while the others ignored this and proceeded to go check on the trainers at the Pokemon Center.
Elsewhere...
Sigma could be seen sitting upon a throne, gazing at a screen which housed the face M Bison, who seemed to be beaming with sadistic glee at the moment. " So, let me get this straight, that item that your new ally has will allow you to change the Earth so that Shadowloo controls it?"
" Indeed, this item was taken from his treasury and now all of a sudden, its energies will grant the user one wish once it is fully charged and I shall make full use of its power to change the world and bring a true ruler to control the Earth." Bison stated while holding up the item, a pure golden grail, radiating unholy amounts of magical energies.
" Hmph, I care not how you do things on your world, once Kalos loses its hope, I shall infect this land and move onto the next land until this world is officially mine. LEt us do our bestt with the powers granted to us by Oscura." Sigma stated, holding up his hand and letting darkness leak from it.
" Heh, indeed, but for now, I must keep an eye out, ever since coming to Shibuya, I've gained the eye of Ouma, they will no doubt cause issues, I shall deal with them when the time comes." Bison stated before ending the call as Sigma sat in the throne room.
"...Lysandre. How long will it be until the weapon is fully ready?" Sigma asked, speaking to the hidden man in the back of the room.
"...It shall be some time, we will need to gather more energy and find those missing components. Thenn, you will gain your weapon to conquer this world." Lysandre answered, gazing at the giant gem floating in the lab.
Trivia:
1. Sasaki Kojiro will be very familiar if you watched a certain anime.
2. You will know what that golden cup is if you also wayched that anime.
3. The Mega Stone users will all have unique MEga items to ascend their pokemon to their Mega Forms.
Author's Note: Sorry about the delay but the Mario game had my attention for a good while but updates will continue and the chapters are gonna get more crazy. man, whodda thought i would do all this after reading on TV Tropes on various fanfics. Spooky stuff. Oh yeah, due to keyboard issues, you might sometimes see many letters heavily repeated, its mainly my M, S, D, J,G,H keys. So just a heads up