Chapter 12: Cleansing Flames
"WHOA!" Blaze screamed as he found himself soaring through the night sky. The red flames surrounding him flicker in the night sky like a star. Many bystanders from below would mistake him for a shooting star. "This is awesome!"
He looks down below noticing so many houses down below. " I never knew the earth was so huge, maybe. bigger than my wo-"
SMACK!
Blaze immediately face-planted right into a metal object in front of him, which happens to be the Eiffel Tower. He slowly peeled off and landed on the ground, creating semi-big cloud dust, startling everyone nearby.
When the dust disappeared, the Houndour laid on his back with swirl eyes. Many people got up close to him shocked by his cartoony appearance.
"Stand back!" The dog catcher shouted as he slowly got closer to the dog and caught it in his net, but before he could lift it up, the flames surrounding Blaze burned the net easily.
"Ow," Blaze woke up and looked around at the everyone staring at him in utter shock. "Um excuse me, do you guys know where am I?"
By his voice, everyone screamed and ran away from him. The dog catcher ran back into his van and drove off.
"Huh," Blaze stared a bit confused, but just shrugged it off. "It's like they never saw a Pokemon before."
Blaze zoomed through the streets, leaving a trail of flames behind. Blaze jumped up on one of the umbrellas sending him in the air. The flames surrounding his body send him flying in the sky again. Many people who noticed him were astonished by his sudden movement.
The Eiffel Tower wasn't the only landmark Blaze past while flying. Blaze came across the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sophia, Palace of Parliament, and many other popular landmarks from different countries going in a full circle around the world.
"And that's how I make my mane silky smooth," Mizella concluded. Almost everyone went back home, not caring about the monster. Only the Hames family, Ashely, Shermar, the news reporter, the cameraman Anya and Curtis were there. Curtis and Anya stopped fighting and just played rock paper scissors.
Ericha let out a huge yawn, not interested in Mizella's life story about her mane. Jesselyne, Geoff, and Tristan were too busy poking the monster who was also asleep.
"I-Interesting," Jesta Veila lied, but sounded enthusiastic."Now can you tell me why you summoned this beast?"
"Oh, right I forgot," Mizella glared at Curtis and Anya. "These two have the nerve to present me with a fake trophy! Back on my home planet. I beat the stuffing out of anyone who gives me something fake!"
"You heard it here folks," Jesta announced. The camera turned to Curtis and Anya who turned to the camera."The reason why our world is ending was because of these two irresponsible students."
"It was just a prank!" Curtis yelled
"Alright, heartless finish those two-tail liars off!" Mizella ordered, but the Octillery heartless was still asleep, causing tick marks to appear on the Mightyena's head.
"Wake up stupid!" Mizella slammed his tail on the heartless's head, popping the snot bubble.
Jesselyne, Tristan, and Geoff ran back towards Ericha and Sheila while Jesta fell off of the Octillery landing on top of the cameraman. Octillery shook the pain off and began to charge up another beam from his mouth.
"Curtis Anya get out of there!" Ericha yelled, however, they were frozen in fear hugging each other. Ericha was about to run towards them but froze when a miracle happened.
A burst of flames slammed on the back of the heartless, sending its head downward in the exact time the monster was going to attack. Instead, it fired the orange beam to the ground causing a massive explosion, which pushed everyone back.
"Douch!" Mizella land on the hard concrete face first, leaving a face print. "Alright, what's the big idea!?"
When the dust cleared up, everyone looked to find the monster slowly standing and in front of him was a familiar figure that made Ericha's eyes widen in joy while Mizella jaw's dropped in disbelief.
"Blaze!" Tristen and Jesselyne cheered glad to see the puppy okay.
"W-What?!" Mizella stuttered in shock. "B-B-But How?"
"Haven't you learn by now sis?" Blaze said turning to Mizella with a grin on his face. "No matter how far you sent me, I will always come back."
"Grrr!" Mizella angrily growled.
"He looks so cool," Tristan admired the flames surrounding Blaze's body.
"You guys might wanna get out of here," Blaze ordered. The Hames family including Shermar, Ashely, Anya, Curtis, Jesta and the cameraman, who was still catching the footage, ran away from the schoolyard.
Mizella climbed onto the play structure. "Finish him off once and for all!"
Octillery let out a vicious roar, firing thousands of small tentacles from above and were coming downwards towards Blaze.
With quick speed, Blaze was able to avoid multiple rows of tentacles crashing into the ground, kicking off massive dust clouds. Once he landed the houndour waste no time and launched multiple shadowy orbs from his jaws, striking all the tentacles that were emerging out of the cloud dust, instantly dissolving into dark particles.
"He's taking them out easily," Shermar said softly.
"Go Blaze!" Tristan cheered.
Blaze jumped up to avoid a horde of tentacles surrounding him. Due to Ho-oh's flames, he jumped high up in the air than before, with a horde of tentacles following him from below.
"Look out Blaze!" Ashely called out as the tentacles were cornering him
Noticing this, Blaze's tail formed into a shiny metallic gray, and with one horizontal motion. His iron tail hit all the tentacles surrounding him, which disintegrated into particles.
While still mid-air, Blaze bit his tail and started spinning, with his body like a flame wheel. Once he was on the ground he zoomed through the field, leaving a trail of fire behind him. He easily avoided the tentacles that emerged out of the ground.
"Come on get him!" Mizella roared. One of the bigs tentacles lunged at Blaze opening it's wide jaws snapping it shut, the second the flaming wheel went inside.
A chorus of gasped was heard from the bystanders, while Mizella was jumping on the play structure in glee.
However, everyone noticed the big tentacle's mouth began to emit smoke from its body and was turning more redder than before. The monster tentacles spat out Blaze up in the air, however, it couldn't take the heat as it disintegrated.
Blaze turned to the viewers. "Kids this is why you should never put fire in your mouth."
"Who is he talking to?" Anya asked, the others just shrugged.
"Blaze look out!" Sheila shouted Blaze noticed the shadow of the second giant tentacle covering him. Blaze jumped out of the way as the tentacle broke into the pavement and burrowing underground. Once Blaze landed he stood still closing his eyes.
Mizella noticed this and laughs. "What you think you can defeat the tentacles by thinking?"
Blaze ignored her taunts and focus on his breathing. His ears picked up the sound of the big tentacle underground, which did a u-turn beneath his feet. Once he heard the sound getting louder, Blaze jumped high in the air just as the big tentacle emerged out of the ground chomping its vicious jaw at Blaze.
"Shadow Ball!" Blaze informed a dark purplish orb out of his mouth and shot it downwards at the tentacle who chomp down on it, the orb exploded instantly in its mouth. Blaze then landed on the ground as the big tentacle was falling, he launched himself towards the falling tentacle, delivering powerful headbutt sending it flying into the school building.
"He's amazing," Curtis said in awed.
"Not bad for Pokemon, which and I quote you said they were babyish," Tristan taunted.
Once he was on the ground, Blaze stared at the carnage, while the second big tentacle disappeared. "Oops, I was hoping my headbutt would stop it from destroying the building."
"GRRRR!" Mizella growled. "Blast him!"
Dark energy was forming around Octillery, causing it to let out a roar of agony, it then began shooting fast past streams of bubbles at Blaze who ran towards the field evade the bubbles.
"Something feels off about the monster," Jesselyn said noticing it's fast-paced movement.
While dodging the bubbles with ease, he noticed the creature's behaviour was more aggressive than before. Kyogre's words filled his head.
"However if the monster isn't defeated within 24 hours, the energy will kill the user becoming a full; fledged Emerald Heartless."
"I have to stop the energy before it devours Remoraid, but how?" Blaze said to himself. Blaze continued to evade the bubbles with ease as well as the small tentacles until he got an idea. Blaze stop causing a stream of bubbles to hit him, creating a massive dust cloud.
"Gotcha!" Mizella grinned, but immediately faded when she noticed that he wasn't there when the dust disburse. "Huh? Where did ya go?"
"Looking for me?" The Mightyena turned to find Blaze on the play structure, leaning on the play structure with little scratches from the attack.
"W-What, but how?!" Mizella asked in shocked
"I could explain it to you, but I'm in a bit of a rush so," Blaze answered
"Oh I see, well I'll gladly finish you off quickly," Mizella grinned as she cracked her paws.
"Okay, that's not really what I meant, b- whoa!" Blaze jumped just in time as Mizella was about to chomp on him. He landed on her back and then dashed off of her leaving a trail of flames on her back.
"HOT HOT HOT!" Mizella screamed as she began to roll around trying to take the flames out.
"HEY I'M RIGHT OVER HERE!" Blaze shouted at the monster who responded by firing a burst of bubbles towards his direction.
Blaze jumped off the play structure while Mizella finally got the flames off her back. "When I get my hands on that Houndour I'm gon-,"
She froze when she noticed the bubbles coming towards her. "Oh fudg-,"
The powerful stream of bubbles crashed into the play structure, causing a burst of gray clouds to cover the play structure. Ericha and the others noticed Mizella emerged out of the smoke from above, with swirls for eyes.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOST TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER!" She yelled as she was sent high up in the air before turning into a star.
"Well it was bound to happen," Jesselyn commented with a wide grin on her face.
"I hope she lands safely," Blaze mumbled, feeling a bit guilty for tricking her.
The energy surrounding Octillery was getting more powerful. The small tentacles began to grow to the size of the two Blaze took out.
"ROAR!" The Octillery prepared to charge up a powerful beam from its turret-like mouth, aiming it at the group.
"WE ARE GONNA DIE!" Curtis and Anya screamed. Geoff and Sheila hold onto, Jesselyne, Tristan, and Ericha, Ashely held onto Shermar, and Jesta hugged the cameraman who was still catching the action. Blaze ran in front of the bystanders.
"ROAR!" Octillery let out a battle cry as it blasts a powerful stream of water, with the large tentacles falling behind. Blaze took a deep breath, gather all of the flames Ho-oh gave him, in his mouth.
"Flamethrower!" Blaze roared firing a massive stream of flames out of his mouth. The two attacks collided.
"Whoa," Ericha said as she and the others witness how big the flames were. They were able to push the stream of water back emitting a heap of streams. The big tentacles also couldn't take the heat as they were immediately disintegrated into white ashes. The flames continued towards the heartless pushing through it Hydro Pump easily until it made contact with the heartless itself.
The heartless roared in pain as the energy inside the monster was seeping out of the monster, forming into a red heart with black vertical and horizontal lines. Octillery's body began glow shrinking down into a form of its pre-evolution, Remoraid who was flopping around on the sidewalk.
Everyone watched as the heart floated in the air for a short period of time before it disappeared into the night sky.
"He did it!" Jesselyne announced breaking the silence. She as well as Tristan, Ericha and Ashely ran up to Blaze who was a bit wobbly after that last attack. His body returned back to normal as he was about to collapse, but Ericha caught him just in time.
"Are you okay?" Ericha asked worriedly.
"Y-Yeah," Blaze answered weakly. "I'm just a bit tired right now."
As soon as he said that Blaze fell asleep in Ericha's arms, causing her to smile.
"Is he okay?" Tristen asked beside her.
"Yeah," Ericha answered as she stood up, while she cradled the sleeping Blaze in her arms. Ashely walked over to him and slowly stared at his sleeping face. Ericha noticed this and smiled. "You can pet him if you want Ashely."
Accepting her offer, Ashely slowly touched his fur and began to pet the Houndour. "He looks so cute."
"Move it I wanna see!" Anya pushed Ashely and was about to pet Blaze, but without warning Blaze unconsciously bit her hand.
"OW!" Anya pulled back her hand.
Ericha giggled."I guess Blaze must think you're a snack."
"Or maybe he knew that you two were the ones who caused this whole mess!" Jesselyn announced.
"Hey, it was her fault for bringing that Mizella creep to the stage!" Anya countered.
"Yeah to stop you from hurting Shermar anymore!" Ericha snapped
"ANYA POEI HORSEA!" Anya cringed as she turned to find a tall woman marching towards her.
"M-Mom?!" Anya stuttered looking shocked. "What are you doing here?"
"Don't act smart with me young lady!" Her mother snapped. "Not only did your prank almost cause a world's crises, but you used my credit card without my permission and maxed it out!"
"I thought you said that was yours!" Curtis glared at Anya.
"Did I?" Anya sheepishly grinned. "Sorry I must've forg- OW!"
Anya's mother grabbed her daughter's and Curtis's ears. She turned to Curtis, "Curtis you're mother will deal with you. Anya you're going home to discuss your punishment."
The Hames family, along with Shermar and Ashely watch as Anya's mother walked back with pinching Anya and Curtis's ears.
"Seriously? Poei Horsea?" Jesselyne chuckled. The Hames siblings couldn't help but laugh quietly with Jesselyne.
"Hey!" They turned to find Remoraid flopping towards them. "What about me? I was held hostage by Mizella!"
Ericha raised her eyebrows. "You were?"
"Well not really, but I wasn't expecting myself to turn into a monster!" Remoraid screamed.
They all looked at each for a second until they turned back towards him. "Okay, we believe you," Ericha said.
"Oh thank y-GASP!" Remoraid suddenly froze. "I forgot I can't breathe without water."
"It took ya this long to figure it out?!" Jesselyn asked in shock.
"I'll get a bowl of water," Shermar said as he ran towards the school. While Jesselyne, Tristan, and Ashely were trying their best to keep Remoraid alive, Ericha sat on the plank of wood behind the destroyed playground. She stared at the sleeping Houndour, wondering how powerful he really is.
"You know I always love that Houndour," Geoff said while Sheila rolled her eyes.
Next Chapter: Aftermath.