And we're back! Eight god damn months!
I'm sorry, I know I said it was gonna be a short hiatus, but I seriously had a lot to do in Fighting Dreamers.
"My name is Lana Hale'Hua, I'm 18 years old, I was born in Hau'oli City in the Melemele island of the Alola Region, I'm a fisher, I'm a swimmer, well, I'm anything water-related."
"Get to the point."
"I know how to get to Kyogre and I'll show you."
"And what will you gain with all this?"
"Just a bit of vengeance, nothing more, nothing less. Now, let's bring the crew."
"Hmm..."
Back to Mt. Pyre.
"Now, where are you?" She asked with the Blue Orb in her hand while standing in front of the ocean. Dragonite then landed on the beach and Ash and Zinnia stood a few meters away from the girl.
"Put that thing down." Ash formed an Aura Sphere on his hand. "I won't ask again."
"So you're the magic boy." She giggled looking back at them. "Nice to meet you."
"That feels like an oversimplification." Ash answered. "I suppose you're the new admin."
"My name is Lana, dear..." She held the orb up in the air and it started to illuminate as grey clouds blocked the sunlight. "And I hope you two know how to swim."
"KYYYYOOOOOOOO!" A loud cry resounded around and lightning and thunder started to come from the clouds being followed by a sudden heavy rain, with Kyogre finally emerging from the water and floating on the surface looking at the humans.
"So we finally meet, big boy." Lana smiled pulling out a Master ball. "Now get in!" She shouted tossing it at the legendary.
"Extreme Speed!" Ash shouted and his Dragonite pretty much teleported himself in front of Kyogre and caught the master Ball between his claws.
"That's how we're playing?" Lana asked looking back at Ash.
"You think I'm just gonna let you capture him?!" Ash shouted.
"Guess not." Lana answered looking at orb in her hand. "But I don't exactly need to do that right now, do I? Kyogre, give me a Thunder!" She shouted and the eyes of the Legendary illuminated as a giant thunder came from the sky aiming at Ash and Zinnia, but Dragonite quickly flew to them and received the hit, falling defeated in the sand and dropping Lana's Master Ball afterwards.
"Zinnia, take that Master Ball and get out of here! We'll take care of the orb!" Ash shouted
"But I want to help!" Zinnia said taking the Master Ball in her hand, but staying next to Ash.
"If you want to help then do what I'm saying! Go with Winona and the rest! One of the Grunts will take you back to the base." Ash answered returning Dragonite and releasing Aggron, Absol and a shiny Sceptile.
"B-But I-"
"Another Thunder!" Lana shouted.
"Don't think so." Ash answered activating his Key Stone ring, his three Pokemon Mega-evolved at the same time in a flash of light and Mega-Sceptile's tail absorbed the lightning without taking any damage.
"Very well." Lana smiled again and suddenly jumped backwards landing on top of Kyogre. "Hydro Pump!" The Legendary opened his mouth and a huge stream of water came from it, but Ash's Pokemon responded with Leaf Storm, Dark Pulse and Flash Cannon, the three combined attacks were enough to overcome Kyogre and exploded onto the Legendary causing some damage to him. Absol then jumped on top of Kyogre and tried to attack Lana, but the girl released her Primarina, who attacked with a Moonblast and pushed Absol back to the shore again.
"Frenzy Plant!" Ash ordered and Sceptile slammed his hands in the shore, causing giant roots to come out of the sand and then wrap around Kyogre.
"Blizzard!" Lana ordered and the rain suddenly stopped only for it to be substituted by a strong snow storm that froze solid all the roots, letting Kyogre break free from them.
"H-Have I mentioned that Draconid people don't have high cold tolerance?" Zinnia asked trembling.
"I told you to get out of here!" Ash shouted.
"I'm not going to leave you alone with that!" She shouted pointing at the roaring Kyogre.
"I'm giving you an order!" Ash shouted again to then see a silhouette behind Zinnia. "Look out!" He tried to warn her, but Lana's Vaporeon suddenly jumped between them taking the Master Ball from Zinnia in her mouth, Vaporeon then ran towards Kyogre, but stopped when Winona and her Skarmory landed in front of her.
"We'll be taking that." Winona said as her shiny Swellow dove down to Vaporen with a Sky Attack and knocked her out to then take the Master Ball in her claws and hand it over to Winona, who went with Ash and Zinnia.
"Should we help her, Admin Shelly?" One of the Aqua Grunts asked as they were watching the battle form the submarine.
"She got herself in this problem, she better gets out herself too." She answered. "The plan was to summon Kyogre after we had escaped to a safe location, I knew that bringing along that girl was a bad idea."
"You guys okay?" Winona asked Ash and Zinnia.
"We are, but this back and forth is tiring me." Ash answered taking the Master Ball, which was suddenly taken again by a hook and pulled back to Lana by her fishing rod.
"You Hoenn people get distracted too easy." Lana smirked taking the Master Ball.
"Sceptile!" Ash called him and the dragon jumped forward at high speed towards Lana, but her Primarina stopped him with an Ice Beam, Aggron then attacked them with Stone Edge, but the attack was stopped by an Hydro Pump from Kyogre which knocked down Aggron.
"Anybody else?" Lana asked.
"Yes and thanks for asking!" Alita suddenly fell from the skies in her Latias form and took Lana in her arms, raising her in the air and taking her away from Kyogre.
"Hey, you! Put me down!" Lana shouted.
"...Are you even paying attention?" Alita asked and Lana looked down noticing that they were many feet up in the air.
"Oh..."
"She was caught!" One of the Grunts said.
"I'm giving Archie the biggest 'I told you' when I get back." Shelly smiled getting out of the submarine. "Sharpedo, Aqua Jet!" She ordered tossing a Poke Ball and the shark propelled himself in the air, hitting Alita in a wing and causing her to drop Lana, the Sharpedo then still in the air fired off a Hydro Pump and pushed both the orb and the Master ball out of Lana's hands.
"I'm gonna turn you into shar-bait!" Alita shouted still flying despite the hit as she charged an Aura Sphere and fired it off at the Sharpedo, but the eyes of the shark illuminated with red light, the Aura Sphere hit cleanly and the Sharpedo was knocked out in the middle of the air, but a haze suddenly came from his mouth and surrounded Latias making her faint as well, while all this happened, Lana kept falling to the ground, but Ash managed to caught her on his arms before she hit the sand, he then quickly returned Alita to her Poke Ball as she fell, but the Sharpedo fell roughly into the beach, meanwhile the orb and the Master Ball that he pushed away landed in front of Shelly, who then took both objects and Kyogre swam to her side of the beach.
"Well, since we're doing it here, we might as well go all out." Shelly tossed the Blue Orb to Kyogre and this opened his mouth to then swallow it, the Legendary was suddenly surrounded by a blue crystal cocoon only for this cocoon to explode just as sudden and reveal his Primal Reversion as Kyogre roared to the skies, the rains restarted at a far stronger pace, several lightning and thunders came from the sky and giant waves started to approach Mt. Pyre, with one of them washing away Ash and company.
"That's cool! How about you give them an Origin Pulse?" Shelly ordered, but Kyogre kept roaring and the lightning started to fall all over the place, with some of them even hitting some Grunts. "Hey! Stop that this instant!" She called again, but Kyogre kept roaring and then used an Hydro Pump against her, with Shelly barely avoiding it.
"You can't control him like that!" Lana shouted next to Ash's team as they were still from the hit of the wave. "Capture him before he kills everyone!"
"I don't take orders from you!" Shelly answered and another lightning fell right behinf of her hitting yet another Grunt. "Ugh, fine! But this was my idea!" She shouted to then toss the Master Ball and catching the Legendary at once, she then picked the ball up and smiled at Ash and co, while the remaining Grunts started to go inside the submarine, Shelly then followed them but looked one last time at Lana.
"Sorry, little crewmate, but in order to gain something, you must give something up." Shelly said before jumping inside, the submarine then dove down and disappeared in the depths.
"They... left me here?" Lana asked, only to be suddenly knocked out by a punch from Phoebe.
"No one messes with this mount in my watch." Phoebe said to then walk at Ash's group. "Everyone alive?"
"I guess." Ash said standing up and checking on his Pokemon.
"I'm fine." Zinnia answered.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Winona shouted at Zinnia. "They got away with a Primal Kyogre thanks to you!"
"Winona, Remember I said-"
"No, Ash, don't you dare!" Winona interrupted him. "I don't care if you said you'd take responsibility; this was all her fault!"
"I-"
"It was a simple order! He told you to get out of here!" Winona continued shouting at Zinnia.
"I didn't want to leave Ash alone!" Zinnia answered.
"You think he can't take care of his own?! You think he needs your help?! He has survived this far, hasn't he?!" Winona kept shouting. "And now he almost died! All of us almost died because you wanted to play hero with nothing but your stupid Bagon!"
"Leave Bagon out of this!" Zinnia shouted.
"Or else what?!" Winona ranted.
"Winnie, calm down." Phoebe told her.
"Do you even understand what's going on?!" Winona shouted at Zinnia again. "They got Primal Kyogre! Three years fighting them back all gone to waste! They won! They can flood this whole world and there will be nothing for us to do about it! And everyone can thank Zinnia for it!"
"They haven't won yet, Winona." Ash said. "You saw what happened, they can't totally control Kyogre yet, we still have time."
"But how much time?!" Winona shouted. "That's the thing! We don't know! It could all end tomorrow!"
"I'm not letting that happen." Ash answered. "We aren't letting that happen, we'll find a way, you know we always do… Let's just go back to the Headquarters and… we'll have to take her with us." He said looking at the unconscious Lana.
A few moments later.
Lana was sitting alone in a cold and damp room that had nothing but a single chair in the center of it, with Lana being handcuffed to said chair by both her wrists and ankles, she tried to force her way out without luck until the door of the room finally opened, with Ash walking inside and standing right in front of her.
"Well, I suppose this is the part where I get tortured, right?" Lana asked.
"Welcome to the interrogation room." Ash answered. "I have a few questions, Lana."
"Pfft, what makes you think I'm going to answer?" Lana asked. "If you don't know anything about me then that means I have the advantage here."
"Thing is that I do know some things about you." Ash sighed pulling out some papers. "We recognized you with our trainer database and our friend Phoebe made a little call to Alola to confirm some things, so let's see... Lana Hale'Hua, 18 years old, born in Hau'oli City in the Melemele island of the Alola Region, professional swimmer and fisher. Just so you get the idea."
"Hmm..." Lana simply stared at him.
"Listen, this whole routine can be pretty boring, if you just tell me where Team Aqua's headquarters are then we'll tell the officers that you helped us and you could get a light sentence."
"Then I'll tell you right now that you're wasting your time." Lana said. "I'm not a tattler."
"Of course, I imagined you wouldn't give in right away…" Ash sighed again. "Still, I read this whole report and the part that gets my attention the most is that there's not a single crime registered on your name, not even a minor offense, you seem like a model citizen, so I'd like to know how do you get from that to helping Team Aqua cause Armageddon."
"And how would learning my backstory help you resolve this mess?" Lana laughed. "Not like it matters, I'll be out of here soon, Team Aqua will come to rescue me."
"You really think so?" Ash asked.
"Of course, I helped them find Kyogre after they had failed for years." Lana answered. "And since they have the Red Orb as well, I gave them a huge advantage against Team Magma, those idiots won't get to wake up Groudon, Team Aqua owes me everything."
"And why didn't they just went to aid you back in Mt. Pyre?" Ash asked. "My team was washed out by that wave, but Shelly and her Grunts didn't even try to go there and save you, they also abandoned the other Grunts that were struck by those lightning."
"But I'm not a Grunt." Lana answered.
"That's what they made you think, right? It's all a play, girl, I know how Team Aqua works." Ash replied. "You really think you matter for them?"
"Didn't you see me leading the whole thing?!" Lana shouted.
"I did, but, I dunno..." Ash looked away. "The whole thing looked a little weird. You didn't stop to think for a second why would they give a new member all those responsibilities?"
"Because I guided them to Kyogre!" Lana shouted again.
"Perhaps... but, Shelly put you in big danger when she used that Sharpedo to knock down Latias while she was still carrying you, if I hadn't caught you… well, you know what would have happened."
"That doesn't- "
"If I had to guess, Archie, Matt or Shelly simply told the Grunts to follow your orders so you would feel confident and guide them to Kyogre, but I doubt they would have gave you a permanent rank, they would have most likely tossed you away either way." Ash continued. "Now that I think about it... who gave you that Master Ball?"
"None of your business." Lana answered.
"I'm just thinking that if it was your Master Ball AND you were the one who knew where to get those orbs to summon Kyogre maybe you could have done it yourself, you could have had Kyogre for yourself, sure, there were some people guarding the shrine, but I doubt they'd suspect from such an innocent-looking girl like you, why go through all the trouble of bringing Team Aqua with you?"
"I just...I have nothing to tell you." lana looked down for a moment.
"Just to repeat it, Team Aqua doesn't care about you." Ash said. "But you know who does? Your family, they have the whole region looking for you, I'm asumming you came to Hoenn without telling them and now they think you disappeared, so tell me, how am I supposed to tell them that their little Lana joined Team Aqua? Or maybe you should tell them yourself?"
"SHUT UP!" Lana shouted and glared at Ash as she tried to regain composure. "Heh, you're trying to play the bad cop? You think I'm scared? YOU'RE SO FUNNY! HAHAHA! Ha... huff, is this the part when I call my lawyer?"
"No. This is the part when you listen to me." Ash continued. "As I told you, this is an interrogation room, do you know the kind of people that have sit on that chair? Thieves, murderers, terrorists... you know what makes them all so dangerous? The complete lack of a conscience. The inability to feel remorse... but that's not exactly why I see when I look at you."
"Well, you said it yourself, I'm such an 'innocent-looking girl'." Lana said.
"That's what I said, but I didn't mean it in appearance, I can tell there's something more deep inside you… nevertheless, you took your choices, just like those people."
"Choices..." Lana laughed again. "What do you know about choices?! ...I was robbed of choices."
"Why exactly?" Ash asked. "This report says that you had a normal life, your parents and sisters are all well."
"And it's that all that it says?" Lana asked.
"...Then why don't you tell what it's missing?" Ash replied.
"Do you... do you have any idea of what it's like to see the person you love the most die? Knowing there's nothing you can do to save them?"
"Of course I do." Ash answered. "So, who was it?"
"Well, I'm really starting to think you're not going to let me go so..." Lana laughed again, but her smile quickly disppeared. "...I lost my best friend, and the way it happened made me understand that there's no hope in this world, no reason to still believe in humanity, people are evil and there's nothing we can do to change that... I saw Kyogre once in Alola, the power he had... I thought that maybe if I got Kyogre, I could somewhat fix this world, that's why I resorted to Team Aqua, they offered me an opportunity, an army, and I took it… coming to think about it, I guess you're right, they abandoned me when they could… they were just using me, like everyone else."
"...I'm sorry about what happened to your friend, but not everyone in this world is like that." Ash answered. "There are still people willing to do the right thing."
"Sure, like you?" Lana asked again. "Where were you and... those 'people willing to do the right thing' when Mallow was crying for help?"
"...Guess I was fighting my own battles." Ash answered.
"Who was the person you saw die?" Lana asked. "Or was it just a trick to make me open up?"
"My mother, her name was Delia." Ash replied. "And trick or not I guess it worked."
"...I don't know where their Headquarters are." Lana said. "I spent the whole time in the submarine with Shelly, sorry to disappoint you."
"…Thanks for being honest then." Ash answered as he walked away.
"You're just gonna leave me here?" Lana asked.
"Do you have any other suggestion?" Ash said looking back at her, Lana simply shook her head with a rather disappointed look and Ash walked outside of the room and closed the door, finding Winona outside.
"You okay?" She asked.
"…Can you investigate what happened to her friend?" Ash asked.
"Oh, sure, I'll see what I can find." Winona answered. "Ash, listen… sorry about losing my temper back in Mt. Pyre."
"Don't worry, Winona. You weren't exactly wrong after all." Ash answered. "Team Aqua will surely become a growing trouble now… how's Alita?"
"She's fully recovered already." Winona answered. "That Destiny Bond from the Sharpedo surprised her, but it wasn't anything serious."
"And the other Grunts?"
"All dead." Winona said. "But Phoebe said the authorities already went to recover the bodies."
"That's fine, I guess." Ash said. "We didn't have any casualties on our side, right?"
"All of our Grunts are unharmed, don't worry." Winona assured. "By the way, the champion is waiting for you outside of the Heaquarters."
"I'll go with her in a moment." Ash added with a sigh.
"It's been… a while since you mentioned your mother." Winona said. "You really didn't have to tell her that, you know?"
"Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have..." Ash said. "Winona... I know I don't like to touch the topic that much, but... we both were there when she passed, but you arrived some minutes earlier... did she tell you anything?"
"...She asked me to take care of you." Winona answered with a smile. "And that's what I've been doing."
"Thank you, Winona." Ash added hugging her. "I know I can always rely on you."
"Y-Yeah… thank you." Winona whispered hugging him as well.
4 years ago.
"Miss Ketchum, please, don't worry." Winona said to her, with the woman laying in the bed of an Hospital room. "Everything will be okay; Ash is only a few minutes away from here, he's coming as fast as he can."
"That's great to hear." Delia sighed. "At least… I'll get to see him one last time."
"P-Please don't be so dramatic." Winona forced out a laugh as she tried to smile. "Those are just… they are minor injuries; you've gotten out of worse."
"Just... make sure that Ash doesn't blame himself because of this." Delia said. "This wasn't his fault; he doesn't have to make himself responsible of the things that those people did."
"He' s still going to feel guilty though, I know him." Winona said. "And to be honest, Miss Ketchum… I think this is a response for when Ash- "
"Please, dear." Delia interrupted. "There are things that… we simply can't control."
"I guess that's true." Winona answered.
"Winona… I don't think I've thanked you enough for taking care of my Ash."
"We've both been taking care of each other, Miss Ketchum."
"Of course, Ash and you are so close, I... I'm glad he'll have you after I'm gone."
"Miss Ketchum, please stop saying that."
"Just look at me, dear." Delia sighed. "There's nothing left for me."
"M-Miss Ketchum-"
"Promise me... that Ash and you will get together."
"What?" Winona asked.
"Promise me that you two are going to get married and that you're going to have lots of beautiful children, can you do that?" Delia asked.
"I-I…"
"Please, you're the only one who'll take care of my Ash, what's 4 years of difference? I think I had the double of that with his father, heh." Delia insisted with a smile. "I know you've liked him since you two met, I'll admit I was pretty hesitant when he moved in with you, but I had to get back to Kanto and he wanted to stay in Hoenn… I almost feel like he only wanted to stay here because of you, to be with you, his 'big sister', Winona."
"Miss Ketchum, I'm sorry, b-but Ash doesn't see me that way."
"He loves you dearly, but I can tell he's too embarrassed to give the first step." Delia smiled again. "You both were made for each other, please, promise it, promise me that you'll be together and be a happy family, that's all I'm asking you, please."
"I-I..."
"Mom! Here I am!" Ash shouted bursting into the room.
Back in the present.
'In the end I could never promise it, but that was what she wanted.' Winona thought while she was still hugging Ash. 'That was her last wish, though she didn't mention it to Ash before she… and of course, I've never mentioned it either, I… I do love Ash, but I'm sorry, Miss Ketchum, I doubt it'll work out, I don't want to run what I have with Ash now, I'm not sure if I can fulfil that wish.'
"You miss her too, right?" Ash called her back to reality and Winona noticed that she was crying.
"Of course I do." Winona separated from him and quickly cleaned her tears to then look at Lana through a one-way mirror, with the girl looking down again... "So, what are we doing with her? Should I call the officers to come and take her to jail? Should we deport her back to Alola?"
"Leave her in the prison room of the base for the moment." Ash answered. "The Jennys are quite agitated with the Kyogre situation and I wouldn't want them to end up hurting the girl."
"You're worried about her now?" Winona asked.
"She seems to have been through a lot." Ash said. "And I'm just not sure that she told us everything. I think we should keep her around for the moment."
"Roger that." Winona replied and Ash walked away. "There are some things that just aren't meant to be." Winona sighed.
"Hey, Ash!" Zinnia suddenly got in his way before he reached the front door.
"There you are, Zinnia." Ash greeted her. "Sorry about-"
"No, please, I am the one who's sorry." Zinnia interrupted. "I should have listened to you, Winona was right, but like I said, I was worried about you."
"It's all okay, Zinnia." Ash answered. "We'll solve this situation, don't worry."
"Sure, so where are you going now?" Zinnia asked.
"I need to go to Mossdeep, but first I have to talk with an old friend who came to pay a visit, she's in the entrancre. Come along." Ash explained and Zinnia followed him outside.
"Aster Ketchum!" The girl waiting outside smiled at him once their eyes met.
"May! Good to see you." Ash greeted her and the two shared a hug. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh? So I can't visit my friend now?" May asked separating form him with a pout. "How rude of you."
"It's not that, I just thought that as the Hoenn Champion you'd have more important things to do." Ash replied.
"Well, as the Hoenn Champion I thought that this would be important enough." May answered. "Is everyone okay?"
"As okay as we can be." Ash said. "Team Aqua finally managed to get a win."
"Yeah, Max told me about it, but I'm sure you guys will stop them all." May answered. "And you can call me if you ever need help… uh, who's that?" She asked pointing at Zinnia who was staring at them.
"Oh, this is Zinnia, she's a Draconid and she's been staying with us." Ash introduced her as Zinnia tried to force out a smile.
"So she's part of the clan you saved." May walked to Zinnia and offered a hand. "Name's May Sapphire, pleased to meet you, I'm the champion of the region and a good friend of Ash."
"Sure, uh, pleasure's mine." Zinnia answered.
"Alright Ash, I have to go, the champions from other regions somehow found out about what happened here and called for a reunion." May explained. "I just stopped by to make sure the gang was fine."
"Thanks, May." Ash said.
"Well, see you two later." May said to then walk away leaving Zinnia and Ash alone.
"So, uh, a good friend?" Zinnia asked.
"Yes, she is." Ash replied.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…all ok?" Ash asked.
"Of course…" Zinnia trailed off. "Never mind, Ash, I've gotten an idea, like I told you, I feel like Winona is right, I should have left, but you told me to leave because you thought I wouldn't be able of holding my own against Team Aqua, right?"
"I guess that's true." Ash admitted.
"Then I want to train with you!" Zinnia said. "I need to become a better trainer, I need to catch more Pokemon and get stronger with them! Maybe you could be some kind of coach for me."
"Training, huh?" Ash asked. "Well, that's actually a good idea."
"Then where do we start?" Zinnia asked.
"Well, I told you I need to go to Mossdeep, but that actually would be a good place to start." Ash said. "The person who first taught me about Aura lives there, I'd like to introduce to her and then we'll have that training."
"I'll follow your lead!"
Meanwhile, back inside the building, Winona was watching Ash and Zinnia's talk in a security camera, with Alita in her human form standing by her side.
"...You still don't trust her." Alita said.
"I don't." Winona answered.
"But Ash seems to do." Alita continued.
"For some reason."
"You want me to follow them?"
"Just make sure they don't notice you." Winona nodded.
Meanwhile with Team Aqua.
"And here we are, Archie!" Shelly smiled walking to him and offering the Master Ball. "Kyogre is finally ours."
"...What happened to the girl?" Archie asked taking the Master Ball.
"Team Delta took her." Shelly answered. "But who cares? We finally got what we wanted."
"Yeah, but we can't control it." Archie answered looking at the Ball. "So this girl was right, she did in less than 24 hours something that we couldn't do in years."
"And what's so important about that?" Shelly asked.
"The important part of that is that this girl might also know how to control Primal Kyogre too, but you let Team Delta take her with them."
"You're not een sure about that!" Shelly shouted.
"Well, you weren't sure about trusting her and she gave us Kyogre in a silver plate!" Archie shouted back. "And I saw the video, she was controlling it just fine, but it all went to hell when YOU activated the Primal Reversion!"
"And what do you want me to do now?!"
"I want you to find where the girl is being held, free her and bring her back here unharmed."
"Why do you are about her so much?!" She shouted again. "We're pirates! It's every man for himself!"
"Maybe, but a captain without a crew is destined to sink and I'm not quite fond of that idea." Archie answered. "I want you to find her."
"...Fine." Shelly sighed and Archie walked away with the Master Ball. "But it would be a shame if something bad happened to her, wouldn't it?" She whispered with a smile.
And that's it!
Quick review response:
UltimateCCC
That's the idea.
Hyperion07e
Yup, all of my fics are filled with references, many quotes and scenes here and there, it's kinda my trademark, I guess, I just really like to do it. For example, the interrogation scene in this chapter was inspired by many episodes of Hawaii Five-0.
Luca
Something I forgot to answer last time, yes, Ash is a ladies man in all universes, but this won't turn into a harem, I really mean this time... for real.
Holdonlupin is out!
I'll get back to Fighting Dreamers.
Let's hope it doesn't take me other eight months to make the fifth chapter of this though.