Cartoonfan88: Hello y'all, sorry for the late chapter update, been flat-out with lots of things! DarthHomer: Like what?
Cartoonfan88: Well, I was left in the dark, literally, for a meeting, I've had lots of work to do, I've not been able to get to the computer in time, and I've been getting lots of time on my PS2 DarthHomer: You're a massive gamer?
Cartoonfan88: It's one of the major parts of my life, other than music, writing and my friends! DarthHomer: That's pretty good, can we start the fic now?
Cartoonfan88: What, no 'Previously?'
DarthHomer: Nothing has really happened in the story, so I can't!
Cartoonfan88: Nevertheless, lets begin anyway!

Pokemon Legends
A Pokemon Fanfic Story by Cartoonfan88

Chapter 7: Gets easier every time you do it

Ash had never heard such a scream in his life, it sounded like a normal female scream, but he felt a lot of fear inside of it. He woke up the others, excluding Dante, whom Ash feared he would go ballistic at. They tip- toed down the hall to the lobby of the Pokemon Centre, only to see the Joy who was working there cornered by a peculiar looking creature, looking almost like the one in Ash's dreams.

Seeing as he had no weapons on him, and his only Pokemon, Pikachu, looked like he wouldn't be enough to stop that thing, Ash went back to the bedroom, to try and wake up Dante, whom seemed like Ash's only chance of survival. As he entered the room, he heard Dante singing yet another song, "Take me to the place I love, take me all the way".

Ash didn't want to hear the rest, so he gently asked Dante to wake up, "If there is a reason for waking me up from such a beautiful dream, speak now!" was all he said. Ash explained to him that the Joy was cornered by a mystery assailant. "So?" he replied, "I hate the Joy's, she can get killed for I care".

Ash was stunned by his response, so he tried to bargain with his knowledge of the assassin. "He's tall" Ash said, "I know plenty of guys that all tall" replied Dante. "He's carrying a big sword" said Ash, "I know plenty of guys with big swords". "He's black" said Ash; "I know plenty of guys who are black" replied Dante. "He's standing up in a weird way" said Ash, Dante's reply was a little more delayed than last, but he replied saying "Does he have short wings?" Ash said that he did, and shortly after saying that, Dante rose from his bed, got his sword, and Ash led him to the situation.

When Dante laid his eyes on the assassin, he knew at once who it was. "He works for the sorceress, apparently he knows something about the Joy" he clarified for the kids. He then readied his sword, and charged towards the assassin, who was caught off guard by Dante's surprise attack, as he fell to the floor, his sword just landing mere inches next to the Joy's head.

Dante then went to the assassin, and sort of picked him up with his sword, holding his sword up to his neck, so that he was above ground. "Now, why would a lowly servant of her evilness try to both a lowly Joy? Is it cause that the sorceress is treating you bad, or are you in dire need of a companion?"

The assassin spat at Dante, who said "That's your first of three strikes, two more, and I promise you, I shall separate you from your body!" The assassin laughed, saying "So, I am honoured to die for her, and as soon as we kill the Joy, all of Viridian shall be ours!" he then proceeded to laugh evilly.

"I hate it when the villain tells us his plan and laughs in that manner, that's your second strike, hurry up and make your third, I eager to kill you". He then proceeds to laugh again, "You can't stop us now! We shall annihilate all who oppose her! I long to see you in hell!" laughing again.

"You first" Dante replied, the assassin was surprised of his reaction, as then Dante pushed his sword up, causing him to jump a little, then as he returned to his original position, Dante quickly cut off his head. Turning to the kids, he spoke "Well, he wanted to die, and he wanted to see me in hell, so I just made it a little quicker for him".

Nurse Joy then approached Dante, trying to say thank you, but Dante replied "Do you have something special that they want, or did they want you're pretty little face?" Before she could answer though, a loud bang could be heard, followed shortly by several more loud bangs, turns out that the assassin was just a scout, and that the real assassins were the massive amount of creatures smashing the protected doors in order to slaughter everyone and everything inside.

"Looks like we just stepped out of the fridge and into the oven!" Dante exclaimed, everyone else looked confused and mouthed words of disapproval. Dante then beckoned the kids to come here, and slowly made their way towards him, all were confused on what he was going to do.

"Christmas comes early my brothers and my sister" said Dante, whose strange speech puzzled the kids, but afterwards, produced three swords from his coat and gave them to the kids, who were stunned, Pikachu was just confused, Dante then said "Don't worry little yellow one, you need of no weapon, you are a living one!" Pikachu then felt a little relieved and more confident.

Dante then turned towards the still silent Nurse Joy. "I hope you know how to fight, because most healers are pretty weak anyway". Nurse Joy replied "I am no healer, I am a fighter!" She then ran behind the counter and produced a spear. "Well, that's certainly changed my opinion on healers!" Dante said...stunned, but still focused on battle.

He then turned towards the doors, which the creatures were still trying to break open, he then saw Ash, Misty and Brock in perfect battle formation and position, "You ever used a sword before?" asked Dante. Ash replied "No, but I feel like I have." Misty replied "Yeah, so do I" Brock also replied with the same reply.

Ash turned away from the door and began to study Dante's sword even more, the blade looked a little red, but the thing the distinguished it, at least for Ash, was the markings on the bottom of the sword, they looked like a Pokeball, with about 5 short lines surrounding it. Before Ash could say anymore, Dante said to Ash "You want a sword like this?" Ash nodded "After we survive this, I'll take you to a place where we can get one like this"

A even louder bang could be heard, Ash's head snapped back towards the door, and he could just barely make out the shape of swords and claws getting through the door, they were breaking through! Dante managed to calm down a little and get back into battle stance, rasing his hand, and sticking up three fingers, saying "When the last finger drops, so shall thine enemy" everybody had no clue on what he just said.

Another loud bang later, Dante had lowered his first finger, a second time, he lowered his second. The group began to survey the damage done to the door, realising that a few more strikes would be enough to break it open. Finally, the third bang was heard, as a hoard of creatures piled into the lobby, Ash realised who these creatures were, they were the ones from his dreams!

As Dante had predicted, he had lowered his last finger and began to charge at the enemy, knocking down 3-4 soldiers, and killing them with fatal stabs. He then began fighting at least 5 at a time, dodging and parrying all blows, until he managed to jump over all of the soldiers, and killing the majority of the group while in mid-air. He then made a call to anyone else wanting to fight him "Anyone who wishes to taste the ground, feel free to attack me!"

Ash was faring pretty well, actually managing to pull off perfect parries, perfect dodges, but was careless in the fact that he didn't try to go for a killing strike, he also focused mainly on one at a time. He almost didn't make it, as one soldier tried to get behind him to back-stab him, but Dante quickly noticed it, pulled out a spear with a rope tied to it, threw it at the soldier, yelled "Get over here!" as he pulled him towards him, then quickly slashed him. "Come on Ketchum, don't play with them, kill them" suggested Dante, and shortly afterwards, Ash managed to drive his sword into one of the soldiers, killing him instantly.

Brock and Misty were faring surprisingly better, as they were managing to pull off some kills, but were wise in the fact that they had gotten their Pokemon to help them fight, Brock had gotten his Geodude to try and weaken the enemy by punching the stuffing out of them and trying to guard Brock from attacks. Misty's strategy was a little different, she had her Staryu to try and knock down the enemy, so they were easily vulnerable to any killing strikes.

Nurse Joy, on the other hand, was faring insanely well, managing to actually kill almost anything that moved near her. This provoked a angry cry from Dante, yelling "No one out-slaughters me!" He then raised his sword in the air, yelled "Spirit of the Flame!", as one of the marks on the sword lit up, and brought his sword down hard, causing a ring of fire to surround Dante, and burning all surrounding enemies. "Anyone else want to fan the flames of death?" Asked Dante, as his sword then completely ignited.

The battle raged on for another 20 minutes, until finally, the last soldier had fallen. Dante then walked over to the children, who were shaking and scared. "Not easy the first time huh?" the kids were unsure of what he said. "Killing people the first time isn't a easy experience, but every time you kill, it slowly starts to get easier, and less emotional."

Ash and friends felt a little relieved at his comments. "Now, I feel like we've spent enough time here, shall we press on to the forest?" asked Dante. Ash and friends agreed, but then they looked at Nurse Joy, who was kneeling on the ground, picking up the bodies, her Chansey was helping her. "What about her?" asked Ash, "Do you reckon she could help us?" Ash and co thought that Dante would say no flat-out, but said "Joy", she turned around to face him, "I wouldn't worry about picking up those dead bodies, because where you're heading, you're gonna create lots more of them".

Nurse Joy was relieved, as she went to collect her belongings to join the heroes. Ash asked why Dante said yes. "Well, we could use someone with her skill, but the real reason is that anyone who sees something like that has to be in someway, related to the story of the sorceress, so I say she comes!" She then joined the group, who had already begun to leave the Pokemon Centre...

Cartoonfan88: Well ladies and gentlemen, what did you think of this chapters epic bloodbath?

DarthHomer: I thought it was really cool! I love bloody fights
Cartoonfan88: That's nice, but still, please, READ AND REVIEW!