Chapter 6

The great rush of the waterfall was rapidly carrying Kero and Yuna to the great rocky depths below, and would surely die - but something came in a great flurry of speed. The dark figure put the exhausted pokemon down, and flew - or ran off. Yuna coughed, and inhaled the air heavily, savouring every breath. She got up, and blinked, trying to make sense of what just happened, attempting to put everything together. She remembered; when the three pokemon kidnapped her and threw her down the waterfall, and Kero jumped down too, and then something caught her, but what? She wondered if Kero was still alive. She ran along the grassy feild in search of her friend. "Kero? Kero? Where are you, Kero? Keroooo!" She shouted for a long time...

(Kero's thoughts

Ugh... Where am I? What am I? Oh no...

I got up, and looked around. The last thing I remembered was when something hit me and I crashed into someplace. I was in a thick forest... Where was this place? I was lying on a thick pile of leaves that seemed to spread into the depths of the gloomy forest. I tried to find a way of getting out of here, and get back to my friends. I was alone, and I was scared. I didn't know what would be my fate; I didn't want to know. I was way too young for this! Why was this happening to me?

I quietly sobbed to myself as the darkness crept over me and covered me in a blanket. It was almost night time. I finally knew what had to be done, and looked for my friends...)

Yuna saw a thick forest to the left of her, but hesitated to go in - she knew that any pokemon could easily kill her, but what if Kero was in there? She'd been searching the whole place around her, and of course this was the only place left. She went in anyway, not knowing what she would expect...

Think branches and leaves covered the ground. This forest was like a jungle, darkness lurking at every turn, the cold night air freezing to the bone as Yuna tread on through the black of night. Every treetop covered the light, making it seem eerily ghost-like. The trunks towered over her as if to claim power among the land.

A cold bead of sweat trickled down Yuna's face and stained her fur. She felt something brush against her leg making her turn around, fast. An eerie vioce came from nowhere. "What's the matter? Are you scared? You never know what might pop out of the darkness..."

"Coward. Show yourself!" Yuna tied her best to hide the fear that paralyzed her, but to no avail. Her eyes showed a genuine look of fear, glancing all over. Her heart was beating loud and fast in such way, she thought, that if someone were to come near they could clearly hear it.

"I am NOT afraid of you!" She lied not wanting to look weak.

Meanwhile, Kero was trying to find his own way out. Fortunately he was on the right trail, but he would soon go the wrong way... Suddenly, Kero heard a noise. "YUNA!" He practically ran at the speed of light, but the only thing that greeted him was a Hoot-Hoot. He sighed, slowly going back to his intended path again.

Yuna tried to defend herself from the voice that was remarking such unpleasurable things. She knew she had to hold her ground, though; the eerie voice would feed off her fears, as it slowly did so.

As the creature that was hiding in the forest came out, its dark, frighteningly huge shadow crept over her (which looked very peculiar... powerful, even), and when its figure finally came to be, the creature revealed itself. It was...

A small rattata with a tape recorder.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Yuna fell head over heels, extremely embarrased. "Oh, great," she said, "I get to be freaked out by a stupid rattata with a tape recorder. Geez."

"No, not really, you stupid fool. Look behind you..."

"Huh?" Yuna looked up to see the real figure that emerged from behind the big shadow - she knew that shadow wasn't just a big shadow of a rattataBefore she could respond, the strong paws of the creature snatched her off the ground...

Kero let out a sigh. How could he ever find Yuna in this forest? The fog was getting thicker, and it wasn't helping. He however, continued to call her name. "Yuna! YUNA! Where are you?!" Came Kero's

desperate cries."HEEEEELP!!" Was the scream that answered his question. Kero's ears became alert as

he followed her screams.

It watched Yuna as she squirmed within his grasp."You are pathetic." He spoke into her mind.

Yuna couldn't stand anymore of his taunting and kicked him in the face, forcing him to release her.

At this time, Kero arrived on the scene. Kero immedeately leapt over to Yuna with a smile on his

face. "YUNA! You're alive!" Yuna pushed him off. "Got bigger problems!" Yuna responded just in time

to use barrier to stop the beam plummeting toward them.

((--I am not revealing the secret identity until later, though you can take a good guess.--))

Nurse Mew's aquamarine eyes flew open. She rose from the bed and stared out the window, watching

explosions to the north as they lit up the pitch black sky. "He's back..." She said in a worried

tone as her eyes narrowed into the distance of eerie blackness disturbed only by the quiet but extraordinarily violent light

of the explosions that showed his presence.

Yuna's barrier was beginning to weaken, but she held it back with all her might. She whispered instructions to Kero."Run Away Kero! I'll stay and fight him!" Before Yuna could finish Kero immedeately refused.

"I ODRDER YOU to run away Kero! If we both die, Pyro will have no one to battle with in the Tag Team round! WE WILL LOSE THE TOURNAMENT IF YOU DON'T RUN AWAY!"

"I don't care about the tournament anymore Yuna! I Just want to help you! You made me what I am and I'm not going to abandon you, especially not now!" with that, Kero charged rapidly at mewtwo, pinning him to the ground for a second before he threw Kero against a tree.

At that point it became a battle of psycic powers. Each were straining thier minds, but little did the mysterious creature know that Yuna was behind him. She lept on him just as he turned around, at that moment she pinned him to the ground. She sent a beam at him, but he reflected it, knocking her against the same tree and Kero, leaving them in a heap, hurt and bleeding.

Kero's lavender eyes stared into the creature's motionless ones. "W-wh-what do you want? Why are you doing this? And... who are you?" It hesitated to answer, but did so anyway. "I am going to capture Nurse Mew and clone her for profit. I am not telling you my identity because it will not matter to you once I deal with you!" He raised his paw to unleash an attack. Before it could, Kero mustered just enough energy to blind it with a light beam. Kero pushed Yuna up on her feet. Get up!" Yuna got up and together they ran out of the forest the way Yuna had came in. Eventually the Pokemon had recovered and was going to get back at them. "AHA!" He teleported to where they currently were.

After a few long minutes, they finally had come out of the forest. They ran to the waterfall from whence they came.

The Pokemon appeared before their eyes.

"Uh oh..." They said.

The powerful pokemon ran into them in great speeds, and - THWACK!!!! They were instantly shoved into the humoungous cliff. Yuna, dizzy, looked up. Thankfully, she was at the bottom where it wasn't as spiky and death inflicting. Kero, on the other hand...

"Oh my god... KERO!"

The pain rushing through Yuna's body was great, but she refused to die for one reason. It was the burning flare of hatred she had for the hunter that murdered her father. Yes, that passionate flare that burned deep within her soul and made her blood boil in hatred. The desire to avenge her father was too great to meausure, and that kept up her strength. This time, This time, Kero was the one in danger, and Yuna had to save him.

The will to live and to make that hunter regret made her seem to glow red. She let out a scream. She wanted so bad to make that wreched hunter pay for his deed... Viewing Mewtwo as the hunter.

She stood up, letting out a mighty yell as her body glowed a golden color, rings shining. Kero stirred but was not fully awoken - he was too hurt to do that. Yuna underwent an amazing transformation.

She grew a few inches, her muscles increasing in size and her claws extending fully.

Her eyes flew open as the glow slowly faded, and Kero woke up; the transformation had probably rejuvinated him!

"Wow..." Kero said, astonished, staring at her as she jumped up and got him off the cliff. "I'm so happy you're still alive!" He cried a little as he had thought he would have been gone for sure.

Yuna couldn't resist and smiled warmly at the young espeon nearly crying tears of joy. "Hey," Yuna said pushing him off her with her paws. "Cut the dramatics, we got a psycho to stop."

Kero smiled and nodded, following her as she put him down and walked, determined to get rid of the evil creature. Her sleek, beautiful fur cascaded off the waterfall, a rainbow reflecting off her now golden rings.

Kero didn't fully understand Yuna's transformation, but he knew it would aid them on thier journey. Yuna was something he couldn't describe. She wasn't a mother figure, or a caretaker, a sparring partner or a trainer to him, but some mix between the 4.

"Oh, yuna... you go get 'em!" Kero said, a sign of significance in his face. Yuna looked at him akwardly, snapped out of it then slightly smiled, sort of like she didn't want to show her feelings. "Well... thanks, kid."

Yuna decided to get down to buisness once and for all. She ran into the Pokemon with all the speed and agility it could create.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" But before the mysterious creature could finish, it went BANG, SLAM into the forest, far, far, away.

"Now!" Yuna said. "Let's get outta here!" They ran to the waterfall they had come down. "Easy." Yuna said, and...

Reverted back to her old self! She had used up all her power for that one single blow on the Pokemon (it was a very powerful one).

"Oh great, now how are we gonna get up there? Especially when I have no more power left..." Yuna sighed sadly.

"Huh..?" Kero looked behind him as a sillouhette behind the rushing river in front of them came to life.

"Wha...?" Yuna looked up, eyes buldging at the massive creature that emerged from it...

"It's..." They chimed together...

"A..."

"GYRADOS!!!!"

The Pokemon was crashing up the waterfall, sending out roars and bellows, making the ground shake! The water splashed on top of the two Pokemon.

"Hey... why don't we jump on?" Kero said, an idea coming into his brain.

"Are you MAD?! We're gonna be killed! We might as well jump into a ditch full of spikes and Scyther claws." Yuna simply refused to go on the crazed creature.

"Naw! C'mon, it'll be fun!" Kero grabbed Yuna and jumped on.

"NO, WAIT-!" But it was too late as Kero had already got her onto it, and there was no way she was getting off of the mad Pokemon.

So it crashed up the waterfall, with two very wet pokemon on its back.

But, finally, the Gyarados was up the waterfall. The two jumped off while they could as the gyrados swam off into the distance.

"Well, that was fun." Joked Yuna.