Pokémon: Wings of Beginnings
Chapter 9: Double-Sided
May 7th, 2020
2:30 p.m.
Desert Resort
The Desert Resort, a popular place for tourists to visit on trips to Unova. Ironically, the harshness of the searing sun combined with occasional sandstorms makes it unfitting to serve as a facility for resorts. Part of the Desert Resort's charm is drawn to historians seeking to research as much as of the ancient, near fully buried site, the Relic Castle. Yes, it is-
A drunken, deranged laughter echoes suddenly.
A familiar polar bear swung his bardiche around, laughing all the while he massacred the Dulled around him. He moved with such extreme and agile movement that he spared no mercy to every Dulled he came across with.
"Enemy aroooooouuuuuunnnddd~! Splat~!" He sang as he sliced a Behemoth in half with one strike. He then catches a Sand Worm with a sudden leap and swung his bardiche down, sinking the blade into its' inner maw. "Jawbreakers for you~!" He sang before splitting the maw in half. "Sweet jawbreakers~! Hahahahahahaha~!"
Quietly, by the distance as Guy's maniacal laughter echoes, Weiss and Gray stared quietly.
"...How did this day turn out like this..." Weiss mutters to himself, adjusting his cloak.
May 7th, 2020
11:45 a.m.
WINGS HQ: Library
A few hours prior to this, there are WINGS members using the library materials there to study up for their various knowledge tests, to learn more about history and...
"I can name all eight regions, ya'ow!" Gray exclaimed as he enumerated the eight evolutions of Eevee in a mock test.
"Gray, that is the evolutions of Eevee." Sunai states, looking over while holding a book in his hand.
"Ah...Oh, yeah! They are this, ya'ow!" He exclaimed while writing down Droppoleon. "Water-type!"
"I believe... that you would be referring to Empoleon." Lusiane tells Gray. "Which is a Water... and a Steel type."
A few seconds of silence passed with Gray before laughter sounded beside him.
Lusiane shushes Guy. "Remember, we're in the library. Let's make it an environment for the rest." She looked over at Gray next. "And... try not to shout in here too."
"Okay~" Guy sang quietly.
"Yo..." Gray groaned.
The duo with the Flashrost twins sighed. Gray had always been lacking so badly in his academics that is more prominently pointed out in his "problem member" status. Guy just seems lazy to study, though he does put it good effort when he does study. Lusiane looked over Guy's mock test results and they were quite high on an average scale; needlessly better than his younger brother.
"Excellent work." She congratulated him. "It's still quite great with those marks."
"Yay~" Guy sang quietly while Lusiane looked at Gray with a stern look. "Gray. Work harder like-No, don't follow what I was about to say about studying as hard as your brother. Please. Work hard on your studies." She corrects herself.
"Ya'ow..." Gray groaned and fell on the book.
The two looked over of there was any missions available today. "Hm, there is a mission over at the Desert Resort." Sunai states. "The information recommends someone with affinity to ice-oriented attacks..."
"Oh, can I come?" Guy excitedly rose his hand, everyone flinched. They knew what would happen if he joined in missions in the desert.
"W-Well..." Sunai begins.
"Guy, don't take this the wrong way personally. But... I would say that you shouldn't be part of a team in desert areas." Lusiane says.
Sunai turned and whispered to her. "But Arubo has already gone on his mission today."
"Ya'ow..." Gray muttered before looking at the distance. Spotting that cat. "Weiss!" He received hushed whispers along with a jolt from the recipient.
"...And Guy, to say as to why you shouldn't partake in this mission is..." Sunai went ahead to explain...
But he was greeted with the broken lines of the polar bear who was there a second ago.
"Bro, Weiss-iss, let's go to Desert Resort~!" He heard the distant singing while he carried both on his arms.
Sunai stares quietly, putting his book down after a few seconds passed.
"Guy is looking at us, ya'ow!" Gray exclaimed while Guy ran after them. "Hahaha, enemies sighted~!" Guy sang.
"...Run." Weiss tells Gray.
"Ya don't need to tell me, ya'ow!" Gray agreed and both of them ran so that they won't be victim to this polar bear's massacre.
It was so quick when they set foot inside the desert before this Beartic started to act 'oddly' from his silly nature.
"...Hahaha~"
Gray and Weiss looked over under the searing sun towards Guy as he begins to suddenly shake repetitively. The unnerving chuckling is coming over from him... The polar bear lifts his head up slowly, a terrorizing glint in his drunken-like eyes as he calls out his bardiche.
"Enemy... siiiighhteeeed~!"
"Come back, enemies~ hahahaha~!" Guy sang as he chased them.
'Someone, please end me now...' Weiss thought to himself.
"Hi, cat enemy~!" Guy cried as he leaped over Weiss, bardiche above him and ready to cleave him into two.
"Agh!" Weiss yelps. He teleported before that could happen as Gray blocked the swing at him.
"Yo, Guy!" Gray exclaimed as he pushed the polar bear back with his staff. "It's me!"
"Enemy~!" Guy laughed.
Ice formed around Gray's staff. He smiled sheepishly. "...Ah, I'm gonna die, ya'ow." Gray nonchalantly quipped as he was frozen solid by a burst of ice.
Weiss watched as Guy batted the frozen Gray at him. He couldn't evade it on time.
"Gwah!" He shouts, feeling the heavy impact and thrown off of his feet as the two skidded away from the echoing, demented laughter.
"Ahahaha~! Double kill~!" Guy sang as he turned to defeat all of the remaining Dulled around the area.
May 7th, 2020
8:00 p.m.
WINGS HQ
Sunai and Lusiane stared at the state they were in once they completed the mission and returned back to HQ. Guy was fine with a few tears and wears on his uniform. The other two, however...
"..." Sunai said nothing.
"..." Lusiane said nothing.
"...Please. Don't ever speak of this again." Weiss said, shivering.
"...Yeah, ya'ow." Gray agreed.
Sunai nods. So did Lusiane as they looked at the cheery polar bear. "Mission complete~" Guy cheered with a light paw pump into the air.
"...Yes. You should change out of your uniform." Sunai says.
"Okay~" Guy nodded and left to change his uniform. The other two looked at the beaten allies. "...It went as all of us guessed..." Weiss grunts with a sudden ache on his rib. The duo quietly stared and nods, accompanying them to the medical bay to treat them.
May 7th, 2020
8:10 p.m.
WINGS HQ: Guy's Room
Guy entered his room and it was neat... compared to how he usually turns his room a 180 during night, sleeping or so. Blanket folded neatly on top of the pillows with a rather crumpled mattress covering.
"Time to change and sleepy for the nighty~" Guy sang as he took off his shirt to reveal that regular coat of fur all around his body. He moved over to the large mirror situated beside his wardrobe, scratching his stomach. His large nails parts his fur apart, defined abs present there...
Then in a flash, he saw some large wound on it.
"Huh~?" Guy exclaimed and blinked a couple of times. He looked down at his abs again to see no open wound. "Nothing~"
After touching it, he confirmed that there wasn't any injuries there.
He wondered what was that just now. He looked at his left hand and saw a bloody stump. He blinked and saw his hand opening and closing by his command.
"Open sesame~" he sang while he did so.
He went to the bathroom and took a bath. While he did so, a blink and he saw himself drenched in his blood. Another blink and he was back to damp fur with water running down onto him.
"Hm?" Guy muttered. "Not activated yet." He shook his head and resumed scrubbing himself clean.
Once he finished, he dried himself with a towel and looked at himself at the mirror to see that he was missing both feet, one arm... an eye... his right ear... One blink... and he was back to normal. The polar bear continued to look at his reflection... as normal as he is now...
"...Again..." He whispered.
This is so strange... lately since those dreams of dying, he had been having brief images of these... And death... means everyone will forget him...
He checked the door if it was locked and decided to go to bed without putting any clothes on. He laid on his back and looked at the ceiling. He blinked to see that the sky was crimson... and there was a bloody spike that pierced through his abdomen. His own blood splattered on it.
He looks down at himself... nothing through him...
He let out a sigh before turning to the side. There was another bear lying on his chest, beside him. An arm was covering her in an embrace.
A blink. And she is gone... Who was that?
He sighed and closed his eyes. He pushed those thoughts away and went to sleep.
May 7th, 2020
9:00 p.m.
WINGS HQ
"Yo Weiss, you remember something about Guy sayin' of a Bewear?" Gray asked.
"What? A Bewear?" Weiss wonders.
"Never heard of her and what's with the name, Eabear, ya'ow?" Weiss flinched of how punny that name was.
"...Uh..." He shook for a bit in response.
Weiss looked at the list of members of active and dead and no name that matched "Eabear" was there. Maybe she was an imaginary friend.
He breathes. "...I hope the previous desert missions didn't take a toll on his mentality for this..."
"Yeah, ya'ow." Gray agreed.
"Weeg, I'm gonna be fine."
They hear Iggy's voice in the distance and turned.
"Come on, Professor's orders." Luigi responds.
"I'm okay, Weeg. I've rest up enough and don't feel any ache around..."
"No, he said one more day. Listen to Professor or else I'll tell Commander about it."
A sigh. "Fine..."
They watched Iggy head off away from Luigi, towards the direction to head out of HQ. "Iggs!" Luigi groaned and went after him. "Wrong way!"
They watched him leave before turning to themselves.
"Iggs into it, ya'ow?" Gray asked.
"...Well..."
Weiss looked ahead of how stubborn and hot-headed Iggy could be. No one can stop it now.
May 7th, 2020
9:50 p.m.
Giant Chasm
The Giant Chasm, a large impact crater situated near the settlement Lacunosa Town. The area itself was said to have been created by a falling comet shard, and habitat to many extraterrestrial Pokémon there. Folklore in Lacunosa Town states that the comet shard contained a terrifying monster making its' home in here. It was said that at night the monster would appear in the town along with the cold winds and take away humans and Pokémon to eat them. For that, a wall was built around Lacunosa Town to keep that monster away and a rule was established that residents stay inside their homes at night.
A snow white furred Pokémon, known as Absol, looked around the chilling area. Its' horn felt strange. Something is amiss in this place... no, not the fabled monster of folklore...
It turned over to look at the cave where frigid winds leave occasionally. Inside that very cave, a large being is lying on the ground, rumbling coming out in the form of slumber.
He was a large grey and blue dragon that had a hunched figure with large muscular legs and short arms with a pair of claws. His head and snout were blue with pointed horns at the back of his head. Between his horns was a yellow crest. On his back were a pair of strangely shaped wings with ice spikes at the end to hide the tendrils. His tail was a three blue conical spikes that may look like a damaged turbine. Upon closer look, the right horn and wing are shorter than the left wing, which meant he had taken some damage beforehand and now left him to look like this.
A rumbling echoes, and the dragon remained unmoving. Another rumbling and still the dragon remained in his state. A third rumble, and the dragon suddenly opened his eyes, revealing yellow eyes with no visible pupils.
He looked around, trying to feel some kind of matter from appearing but didn't feel anything. That was strange, wasn't she going to visit him? He looked at something he was given. He opened it and checked something.
"See you at 2200 hours, Dad!" Was what was on the message but he checked the time displayed now and it wasn't past that time yet.
He looked out. Maybe she decided to come early tonight? He went out to check and...he felt something is coming. Wasn't her, it felt so... empty.
He readied his stance he took when in combat. "Who are you!?" He called out.
He didn't receive any verbal response.
He readied icicles around him, ready to impale this intruder of they were proved to be hostile. Who were they?
After several seconds of scanning, he spots something shift.
He looked to see an unknown avian he didn't recognize at all.
"Tch!" He groaned and fired the icicles at it. He knew just by looking at it that it was a Dulled, which meant that it is his enemy.
It moves about, evading the released icicles, flapping greatly as the dragon recreated the icicles again in a flash.
He fired again and swerved to evade the avian creature with its dive attack. He flinched, he remembered that feeling. Being confined and used. He... refused to experience it.
"...I don't want to be a weapon's ammo ever again!" He screamed and fired a blast of draconic energy out of his mouth. The creature spun over to the side, flapping away as the dragon aimed towards it. He looked at the movement and flew around to evade the talons fired at him. He fired a whirlwind of ice. It dives to the side, though the dragon took note that the ice caught onto it. But it wasn't even slowing down.
"An Ice user." He analyses. "What does it want with me?"
He watched its' movements. It was quick, for sure...
"...!" He gasped as some black matter flew out of the ground toward him. "These are...!" He flew upward and fired ice spikes before he charged in while something materialized from one of his arms. "Then you forced me to use this!" A hammer formed as he slammed the avian Dulled with it.
He knows... if these matter caught hold of him... But his mind recalled the past...
A candle-like being looked at him while she laid in the debris of an aircraft. He watched her closely before he...
"Don't worry little Summoner." He comforted as he embraced her. "I am here."
"I can't leave her just yet!" He screamed and froze the matter with the slam of his hammer. They shattered around him. He gritted his teeth as more came. He rolled away and flew to the side while evading the matter.
He looked at the avian. It hasn't shown any signs of exhaustion either. Again, more bad news. The dragon spots some of the icicles present, he quickly realized something was about to come out from them. He moved his head to evade a shot of the matter leaving one icicle.
He sneered. He needed to finish this as soon as possible. The matter followed him. He flew around the area and fired frigid blasts at the matter that got close before he slammed the ground with his hammer and created a path of frozen spikes at the avian.
The avian kicked off from the ground it was on, but the spikes quickly shot up when they were under it.
It looked and blew arctic winds at the spikes. It broke the spikes and caused a compressed air explosion that caused the dragon to fly out of control as the matter caught his foot.
"!!!" He gasped and tried to break free by firing a freezing breath at it. The avian fired back air of its' own towards the dragon's attempt.
The dragon flinched as more matter went toward him. It hit his arms, his hammer was unsummoned as it contained him. He shook defiantly, trying to break free.
The avian flew over to land onto him with the matter restricting him.
As the matter covered more of his body, the loss of the dragon's own consciousness increased.
"...Carla..." He muttered before everything turned dark.
The avian watched the matter covering the dragon and resting onto his body, it began to glow, energy seeping from the dragon into it. It did a mighty caw and flew above out of the place and disappeared into the night.
Somewhere in a distance, an Absol ran and behind it was a hooded figure. They rushed amongst the woods of this area until they stopped at the cave the dragon used to live in. The hooded figure looked around as she went past the Absol.
"Father? Father!" She called.
There was no response from the cave.
There was a rustling from a bush nearby. She turned to see a blue stag approach her.
"Cobalion, did you find him?" She asked.
"...No, I did not." The stag, more specifically, known as a Sword of Justice, Cobalion, replies.
She looked around and asks. "Virizion, Terrakion, Keldeo. Any signs?"
She heard some answers, but their answers are similar from Cobalion's.
"...Father...Where are you..." she muttered with worry. "I...I wanted to show how I much of a Summoner I've become..."
She was quick to notice that without her father's presence, the place is losing the refrigerated air around it. "Ah..." She looked around as everything started to melt. "If this happens..." she turned to Cobalion. "Several Pokémon won't survive long in hotter places. We have to help them!"
Cobalion nods. They rushed ahead while Cobalion contacted the other Swords of Justice.
The Absol whom had sensed this imminent event which occurred during its' absence to bring this individual looks quietly. This feeling of the environment changing does not bode well... it could feel... as if this energy... will be used.
It looked at a distance to where WINGS was located. Even just a slight change of the environment... it could feel it.
Something will happen there.
Chapter 9 Concluded