Chapter LXV- Dragons of Destiny Part IV
I tried to move my head to look up, but we were moving too fast to the surface, the water was putting too much pressure on my head and neck. Then just as quick as it had gone, the air returned to my lungs. I gasped and wheezed and tried to open my eyes, as I clung to my mysterious rescuer. I coughed up some water and they shook me by the shoulders and shook me a bit. I coughed up more and opened my eyes to see some streaks of blue and green. They shook me more, and I blinked a few times until I realized who it was when my eyes had finally cleared up.
".......j-jaro--d..?" I said as I saw his soaking wet blue hair shinning with his watering blue eyes in the sun, his green t-shirt now soaked as well.
"Marcy...." He said and hugged me tight. I kind of just sat there floating in the water with him, until I heard Ryu roar.
"Uh!! Where's Erika and Ryu!!??" I said an looked up, spreading my soaked wings, trying to flap them. "Damn!! To heavy when they're wet..." I said and noticed we were very close to the Island. We began to swim as Jarod talked to me, to keep me from passing out again, as I was still dizzy from lack of oxygen.
"Erika's fine...she caught herself just as you fell in the water, she's commanding Ryu who is fighting Ryunoshi, but it looks like he's loosing..." He dragged me out of the water and I put my wings back, then put them out again. They were dry. I looked up into the air and moved my hand to cover the now bright afternoon sun.
"W-what.....should we do...I don't know what to do...." I said and Jarod walked up behind me, putting his hand on my shoulder.
"Do what you do best. Be yourself. Do what you think you need to do to get the job done." He said and I turned around to see him smiling at me.
"I'm...sorry I ran off. I...just didn't want you to get hurt, but...by not trusting you I put all of us in danger..." I said and clung to his wet t-shirt sleeve.
"It's ok. I know you were doing what you thought was best. Let's see if we can find Manuella." He said and he shouted over to Erika who was up in the air with Ryu and Ryunoshi, shouting out attacks. We searched through the brush, and looked through the places of the HQ we could get to, but no matter where we looked we couldn't find even a trace of her. Then there were two giant roars coming from above us. We looked up to see Ryu being tossed to the ground infront of us. We both covered our eyes from the dust and small rocks that flew up, and opened them to see Ryu just barely able to get up. I watched as he crawled to his feet, his skin covered in tons of little scratches and deffiently a few forming bruises.
"I can't let her kill him like this." I said and spread my wings.
"Please Angel, just be careful....no falling into the water...ok?" He said and I smiled at him as I flapped my wings and flew up to Erika.
"This is no good Erika....Ryu isn't srong enough." I said and thought for a moment as Ryu kept trying to get a good grip on the collar.
"Well....you tried talking to it...that obviously didn't work...what else IS there to do?" Erika asked as she watched Ryu get beat to a pulp and threw him a potion which he caught and drank quickly, just as Ryunoshi knocked the empty bottle out of his grasp.
"Wait....ok...good and evil are equal but in different ways right?" I said and Erika looked at me,
"Well....I would hope so..."
"Well this fight is obviously one sided..." I said as Ryunoshi punched Ryu so hard that he flew back and landed in a massive cloud of dust on the beach.
"Shit...got that right." Erika said as she flew to assist the injured Ryu, and I swooped down, grabbing Jarod and carrying him to the shallow water near the beach, where he swam to shore.
"We can't fight here Ryunoshi!!" I shouted desperatly. "There are too many people!!"
*This pathetic creature is of dragon blood but not of dragon pride...* Ryunoshi said, and continued, *It has no more right to live then any of you. You all must die...*
"WHY!?" I shouted, "BECAUSE YOU'RE THE DRAGON OF DEATH?? BECAUSE YOU WERE NEGLECTED? What is it? WHY DON'T YOU DECIDE!!?"
*I do what I am obligated to do until Ryunosei comes to stop me.* Me and Erika turned and looked at each other shocked.
"Ryu....isn't Ryunosei...?" Erika said and made kind of an exagerated 'damn' kind of face.
"But...then if Ryu isn't Ryunosei...then...that's why Ryunoshi is destroying everything! There's nothing powerful enough here to balance it out! We have to find Ryunosei!!" I said and we all perked up. Well...that is until Ryunoshi tried to bite Ryu. He jumped back and punched her square in the jaw, then grabbed Erika and threw her on his back, and me and Jarod jumped up onto Pidgeot.
*Come and get me!!!* Ryu taunted her and flew off away from the houses near the beach, heading in the direction of the park.
"Ryu! Why are we going to the park?" Erika asked as the two of them dodged a claw that had been swung at them, but Ryu was too busy trying to dodge Ryunoshi to answer.
"I think....he may want to see the statue!" I shouted to Erika from a safe distance away.
"That's right!" All of a sudden, Noki was flying near Erika and Ryu.
"Careful over there Noki!!" I said as we barely dodged Ryunoshi's wing tip as we flew past.
After dodging serveral attempt to knock us out of the air, we were half way to the park when Ryunoshi suddenly turned and headed back the way we came. I turned around carefully to try and see where she was heading, but my angle was too off to be able to tell.
"Don't worry about her. If Ryu has found something that can stop her, then we don't have to keep her on our tail!" Erika said as we made it to the center of the park with the statue just as the sun was setting. We all disembarked our creatures and ran as quickly as we could over to the statue.
"So what do we do baby?" Erika asked and looked at Ryu who seemed rather mezmerized by the statue. "Ryu..?" All of a sudden, I noticed one of her pokeballs on her belt glowing.
"Hey Erika! Isn't that Haunters pokeball!?" I asked and she took it off her belt.
"Yeah...huhg...wonder why it's--" But just as she was about to finish her sentance she looked around and noticed who appeared to be Lexa. "......uuuuGGHhhh....Marcy...!??"
".......Lexa..?" I asked and she nodded. "Ugh...ok where's Noki..?" I asked and the ghost simply pointed to herself. "....what do we have to do..? Where is Ryunosei?" I asked and she moved her head silently and looked up at the statues massive head. I looked at her then at the statue then at her and pointed to the statue. "THIS...? IS Ryunosei..?" I asked and she nodded again.
"Crap." Erika simply said and Jarod stared at us.
"Ugh...how do you know that Angel..?" He asked, but I ignored him for a moment, and what must have seemed it to him, continued to talk to myself.
"Erika....if the body is here...maybe the mind it needs is too! What if Lexa IS Ryunosei!?" I said and the ghost smiled at me.
"I think that's a yes..." Erika said and let out her Haunter. "Well....buddy....guess this is it. No escaping your destiny..." She said and hugged him as tight as she could. "You were a wonderful pokemon...I'll see you again someday I'm sure of it." She said as a few small tears formed in the corners of her eyes.
I tried to move my head to look up, but we were moving too fast to the surface, the water was putting too much pressure on my head and neck. Then just as quick as it had gone, the air returned to my lungs. I gasped and wheezed and tried to open my eyes, as I clung to my mysterious rescuer. I coughed up some water and they shook me by the shoulders and shook me a bit. I coughed up more and opened my eyes to see some streaks of blue and green. They shook me more, and I blinked a few times until I realized who it was when my eyes had finally cleared up.
".......j-jaro--d..?" I said as I saw his soaking wet blue hair shinning with his watering blue eyes in the sun, his green t-shirt now soaked as well.
"Marcy...." He said and hugged me tight. I kind of just sat there floating in the water with him, until I heard Ryu roar.
"Uh!! Where's Erika and Ryu!!??" I said an looked up, spreading my soaked wings, trying to flap them. "Damn!! To heavy when they're wet..." I said and noticed we were very close to the Island. We began to swim as Jarod talked to me, to keep me from passing out again, as I was still dizzy from lack of oxygen.
"Erika's fine...she caught herself just as you fell in the water, she's commanding Ryu who is fighting Ryunoshi, but it looks like he's loosing..." He dragged me out of the water and I put my wings back, then put them out again. They were dry. I looked up into the air and moved my hand to cover the now bright afternoon sun.
"W-what.....should we do...I don't know what to do...." I said and Jarod walked up behind me, putting his hand on my shoulder.
"Do what you do best. Be yourself. Do what you think you need to do to get the job done." He said and I turned around to see him smiling at me.
"I'm...sorry I ran off. I...just didn't want you to get hurt, but...by not trusting you I put all of us in danger..." I said and clung to his wet t-shirt sleeve.
"It's ok. I know you were doing what you thought was best. Let's see if we can find Manuella." He said and he shouted over to Erika who was up in the air with Ryu and Ryunoshi, shouting out attacks. We searched through the brush, and looked through the places of the HQ we could get to, but no matter where we looked we couldn't find even a trace of her. Then there were two giant roars coming from above us. We looked up to see Ryu being tossed to the ground infront of us. We both covered our eyes from the dust and small rocks that flew up, and opened them to see Ryu just barely able to get up. I watched as he crawled to his feet, his skin covered in tons of little scratches and deffiently a few forming bruises.
"I can't let her kill him like this." I said and spread my wings.
"Please Angel, just be careful....no falling into the water...ok?" He said and I smiled at him as I flapped my wings and flew up to Erika.
"This is no good Erika....Ryu isn't srong enough." I said and thought for a moment as Ryu kept trying to get a good grip on the collar.
"Well....you tried talking to it...that obviously didn't work...what else IS there to do?" Erika asked as she watched Ryu get beat to a pulp and threw him a potion which he caught and drank quickly, just as Ryunoshi knocked the empty bottle out of his grasp.
"Wait....ok...good and evil are equal but in different ways right?" I said and Erika looked at me,
"Well....I would hope so..."
"Well this fight is obviously one sided..." I said as Ryunoshi punched Ryu so hard that he flew back and landed in a massive cloud of dust on the beach.
"Shit...got that right." Erika said as she flew to assist the injured Ryu, and I swooped down, grabbing Jarod and carrying him to the shallow water near the beach, where he swam to shore.
"We can't fight here Ryunoshi!!" I shouted desperatly. "There are too many people!!"
*This pathetic creature is of dragon blood but not of dragon pride...* Ryunoshi said, and continued, *It has no more right to live then any of you. You all must die...*
"WHY!?" I shouted, "BECAUSE YOU'RE THE DRAGON OF DEATH?? BECAUSE YOU WERE NEGLECTED? What is it? WHY DON'T YOU DECIDE!!?"
*I do what I am obligated to do until Ryunosei comes to stop me.* Me and Erika turned and looked at each other shocked.
"Ryu....isn't Ryunosei...?" Erika said and made kind of an exagerated 'damn' kind of face.
"But...then if Ryu isn't Ryunosei...then...that's why Ryunoshi is destroying everything! There's nothing powerful enough here to balance it out! We have to find Ryunosei!!" I said and we all perked up. Well...that is until Ryunoshi tried to bite Ryu. He jumped back and punched her square in the jaw, then grabbed Erika and threw her on his back, and me and Jarod jumped up onto Pidgeot.
*Come and get me!!!* Ryu taunted her and flew off away from the houses near the beach, heading in the direction of the park.
"Ryu! Why are we going to the park?" Erika asked as the two of them dodged a claw that had been swung at them, but Ryu was too busy trying to dodge Ryunoshi to answer.
"I think....he may want to see the statue!" I shouted to Erika from a safe distance away.
"That's right!" All of a sudden, Noki was flying near Erika and Ryu.
"Careful over there Noki!!" I said as we barely dodged Ryunoshi's wing tip as we flew past.
After dodging serveral attempt to knock us out of the air, we were half way to the park when Ryunoshi suddenly turned and headed back the way we came. I turned around carefully to try and see where she was heading, but my angle was too off to be able to tell.
"Don't worry about her. If Ryu has found something that can stop her, then we don't have to keep her on our tail!" Erika said as we made it to the center of the park with the statue just as the sun was setting. We all disembarked our creatures and ran as quickly as we could over to the statue.
"So what do we do baby?" Erika asked and looked at Ryu who seemed rather mezmerized by the statue. "Ryu..?" All of a sudden, I noticed one of her pokeballs on her belt glowing.
"Hey Erika! Isn't that Haunters pokeball!?" I asked and she took it off her belt.
"Yeah...huhg...wonder why it's--" But just as she was about to finish her sentance she looked around and noticed who appeared to be Lexa. "......uuuuGGHhhh....Marcy...!??"
".......Lexa..?" I asked and she nodded. "Ugh...ok where's Noki..?" I asked and the ghost simply pointed to herself. "....what do we have to do..? Where is Ryunosei?" I asked and she moved her head silently and looked up at the statues massive head. I looked at her then at the statue then at her and pointed to the statue. "THIS...? IS Ryunosei..?" I asked and she nodded again.
"Crap." Erika simply said and Jarod stared at us.
"Ugh...how do you know that Angel..?" He asked, but I ignored him for a moment, and what must have seemed it to him, continued to talk to myself.
"Erika....if the body is here...maybe the mind it needs is too! What if Lexa IS Ryunosei!?" I said and the ghost smiled at me.
"I think that's a yes..." Erika said and let out her Haunter. "Well....buddy....guess this is it. No escaping your destiny..." She said and hugged him as tight as she could. "You were a wonderful pokemon...I'll see you again someday I'm sure of it." She said as a few small tears formed in the corners of her eyes.