Vokteren: Sorry for the long wait. I have a reason but you would probably
take that as a silly excuse so I won't say it.
Pikachu: Save your breath. No one has reviewed. It seems like people have lost interest in this story.
Vokteren: I hope not. If I haven't gotten a new review by the time I finish next chapter I'll stop until I get new reviews.
Pikachu: Great. You better make sure you press the bottom left button soon.
Vokteren: May I ask you to claim and disclaim?
Pikachu: My pleasure. "We do not own Pokemon or Golden Sun. Spirit and Rainbow and the shadow person and his "master" are another story. They are our own creation and any similarity to other trademarks is asked reported as soon as possible"
"Speech" ¤Thought¤ [Telepathy] (A/N: Author Note) (P/N: Pika Note)
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"So this collective is some sort of society that helps everyone?" Minun asked. Her mother had told her stories from all over the world, but no story compared to this. Whoever had gotten the idea to form a collective was no less than a mastermind.
"Yes you could say that, although we are currently in a weak state. That Charmeleon you saw have been terrorizing the forest for quite some time. There are many rumors about him, mostly that he killed his trainer before he came here, but I don't believe that" Torchic said.
"I'm don't like all this killing I hear about all the time. The world is so scary and I don't even have my mother" Plusle began crying and when Plusle cried Minun cried. (P/N: Tearless cries for those who wondered)
"Calm down" Pikachu said while gently stroking their chins. "I'm sure that you are going to like being here. Let's go and meet up with the others in the collective"
Suddenly they heard a stomach growl; Pikachu looked at Torchic and gave her a you-are-in-deep-trouble stare when her own belly grumbled.
"I think we could use some food first" Torchic suggested
Pikachu gave her an I-admit-defeat look and led them towards his secret spot. She had stashed some food in a burnt out trunk nearby and her mouth watered when she thought about all the good food that was left in it. She started to run, and she ran, and she ran, and she stopped so quickly that they all crashed into one another.
"Why do we stop?" Plusle asked.
"Quiet" she whispered.
Pikachu looked carefully around before she started bashing her skull into a nearby tree. Minun was just about to ask her what she was doing when she saw it. A door was opened in the tree and they could enter. Inside Pikachu pulled out cookies and bread and jam that she had "found" in the forest. She offered the others some and soon they were feasting on Pikachu's delicious food. Pikachu had made this store with this as its purpose. They were having quite a merry time; even Minun forgot to cry every other minute, when they suddenly heard footsteps above. You see this was a really desolate place of the forest being so close to Viridian town. Pikachu went to the opening and tried to hear who was on the outside.
"You three stay down here" she said, but it didn't stop them from following. They were every bit as curios as Pikachu.
On the outside they heard heavy footsteps, then a crash, then heavy footsteps, then another crash. Someone was knocking down the trees in the forest, but why they didn't know. Then the footsteps came close to their tree. They held their breath and waited for the roof to get knocked away, that didn't happen instead this someone leaned on the door and began talking to himself. The owner of the voice almost made Minun start crying again.
"What would be the most painful way of giving them what they deserve? Poison, Toxic Venom? No, to common and besides I'm fire type, not poison type. Drowning? No, that would only harm me too. Trap them and torture them? No, they can attack from distance and they might even break free before I kill them. Ah, who cares? I just burn them then watch their agonized tries to heal their wounds. I'll just stand by and mock them and they shouldn't take to long to die either. Yeah, that'll work. Now I only have to find those creeps before they get back to their stupid little organization. Pah. That is just for cowards and weaklings" The owner of the voice slowly got smaller until it was gone.
"That was a little to close" said Plusle who comforted his crying sister.
"I think we better go back to the Meeting Place. I'm sure we can get some help there. There are some strong fighters there" Torchic said.
Pikachu agreed and led them out of the tree. After about thirty minutes of walking they came to a clearing with a stump in the middle. This was the Meeting Place, although it was quiet. Too quiet. Way too quiet to have any positive outcome. That was when they saw, smelt and heard it. The forest was on fire and it was closing rapidly. Although it was odd that they hadn't noticed it earlier and that they hadn't met any fleeing refugees. But this wasn't the time to ask silly questions. Now they had to run, and run fast. If they stayed much longer they would've been trapped in the fire and then they needed more than luck to live to tell the tale. Pikachu grabbed Plusle and Minun in one arm each and started running. Torchic followed in the same manner, trying to run as quick as her two feet could.
They ran for about 15 minutes when they heard a crash and a scream for pain from behind. They turned around and saw a three lying on the ground, burning. Pikachu let go of Plusle and Minun and ran over to the place where the tree had fell. If someone was trapped she had to save him/her. Torchic asked Plusle and Minun if they could stay behind, they refused and now four pokemon watched a different pokemon trapped under a tree.
"Now I understand why we didn't notice the fire before" Pikachu said.
"It was your doing, right?" said Torchic.
"Who did you expect? Santa?" said the Charmeleon mockingly.
"Do you need help" Minun smiled at Charmeleon. His tail and feet (A/N: Ouch) where trapped under a massive tree.
"Not from you" he snapped back.
"Really? Then I suppose we can just leave you there then. I'm sure that there are someone left in that burning Inferno of yours" Plusle said with a mockingly grin.
"Don't you dare mock me" he replied. He tried to use a fire attack, but failed since he had used much energy just supporting the fire.
"Are we really going to leave him here?" Minun asked anxiously.
"Of course not. We must help him" Torchic said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Pikachu didn't ask questions. She just began pushing the log together with Torchic. Plusle and Minun helped to and they made a slow and steady progress, even with Charmeleon mocking Torchic and Pikachu, as the flames drew closer and closer. After Charmeleon had ripped up about how weak Pikachu's family was, that Torchic was nothing but a ball of feathers and that Plusle and Minun looked like an experiment that had gone horribly wrong, they were finally able to throw of the log. A mystical human watched them from nearby, although he hid himself so well that they couldn't see him. He was there to help. The ones he helped couldn't possibly lose a fight. He was to strong for that. Now he was looking at the Charmeleon struggling to get on his feet.
"At least you can say thank you this time" Plusle said.
"I have the perfect way of thanking you" he smirked, before smashing Pikachu and Torchic down with his tail. He clawed up Pikachu's face and bit deep into Torchic's body before knocking them unconscious.
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Isaac and Garet dashed through the forest. They were furious at Menardi and Saturos for tricking them and now they wanted revenge. It wasn't that they had almost gotten killed by Saturos and Menardi that made them angry. It was the fact that they had saved them and in return they get knocked into a pit full of pointy spikes.
They followed a path made by broken branches, assumingly made by Saturos and Menardi when the path just vanished. Isaac came to a halt when he saw that the footsteps of presumably Saturos had disappeared. He looked around when he suddenly heard a high scream.
"Did you hear that?" Isaac asked his red haired friend, Garet.
"Yes. It seems the voice belonged to..."
"JENNA" They shouted together. The voice couldn't be anyone else's.
"Hold on Jenna. We're coming" Isaac shouted as he and Garet started to run towards the source of the sound.
"It must be serious if it can make Jenna scream" Garet said, well knowing. Jenna wasn't the one who got scared easily.
They ran for something that seemed like an eternity but it wasn't more than ten minutes before they got to an opening in the forest. There they saw Jenna lying on the ground, covered with bruises, standing over her was Saturos and Menardi. The sight of Saturos and Menardi harming Jenna made Garet and Isaac flare.
They didn't see that Jenna was smiling a grateful smile to Saturos and Menardi, and when the Ragnarok and Heat Wave made impact on their backs her smile disappeared. Instead she was shocked at Isaac's and Garet's behavior. She tried to get up, but a Pyroclasm from Saturos knocked her unconscious and harmed Isaac and Garet badly.
"You selfish idiots" Isaac shouted and launched a Quake Sphere under Saturos and Menardi.
They didn't even get a chance to get up before fireballs rained down on them from Garet's Inferno. The infernal flames badly damaged Saturos and Menardi, even though they are fire adepts, and now they didn't have much energy left. Menardi fixed that by casting multiple Wish, while Saturos used his psynergy to damage Isaac and Garet as much as he could.
"Flash, protect us" Garet shouted.
Immediately the cute little fire Djinni appeared in a flash of fire. She used her fire power to create a shield around Isaac and Garet, blocking of Saturos's Heat Flash and Menardi's Death Scythe. Isaac unleashed Sap the Djinni and together with his power he knocked down Menardi. When Saturos saw that his partner fell he became worried.
"Flint, help me" was all that Saturos heard before everything went black.
Isaac and Garet panted heavily as they sheathed their swords and walked up to Jenna. They discovered to their relief that she didn't have any open wounds or broken bones. Isaac casted his Potent Cure many times, but she still didn't wake up. He tried Revive but that didn't work either.
"What are we going to do?" Garet asked his friend.
"Well just have to wait for Jenna to wake up. How could Saturos do something like that?" Isaac said with disgust in his voice.
"Perhaps I can help" said a voice from behind them.
They turned around and saw a boy dressed in black clothes come out of the forest. He looked scary, but they didn't show it.
"What do you mean by help?" Garet snapped at the boy.
"I could help you remove the curse that makes her sleep, but in order to do that I need something from you" he replied
"What?" Isaac said.
"Those two" he replied, pointing towards the now awake, but immobile, fire adepts.
"What do you intend to do with them" Isaac asked.
"I'm going to use their life energy to awaken Jenna" The shadow boy said.
"You're going to kill them just so that you can awaken Jenna" Garet said shocked.
"Yes" his voice was cool and collected.
"That is fine by me" Isaac said. Now his voice was so cold that it scared Garet.
"What are you saying Isaac?" Garet hollered. "There has to be another way to heal Jenna"
"There is another way. You simply wait for the curse to wear off. That may take a long time however" the shadow boy explained.
"I don't care. I want those two dead" Isaac pointed a finger to where Saturos and Menardi lay paralyzed of fear "And I want her to wake up" Isaac pointed another finger at Jenna "They deserve it for harming Jenna"
"But" the shadow boy began.
"No. I want you to kill Saturos and Menardi and bring back Jenna. Evil persons like those two don't deserve to live" Isaac shouted at the boy, who was taking small steps backward because of the sound.
The shadow boy took a deep breath, before sighing "Okay, okay. It's your call. Although you could be a bit more thankful" he said to Isaac before turning to Saturos and Menardi. "You have no idea how much grief it brings me having to do this"
He started to glow with a black light before shadow tentacles came out of his hands. Garet tried to step between but Isaac pushed him out of the way. The tentacles hit Saturos first, piercing his chest and enveloping his body. Menardi watched in horror as the shadows devoured her childhood friend. She knew that the same thing was going to happen to her. She hoped that it would at least be painless.
The boy was using all his power to make it as painless as possible for Saturos and Menardi. He was angry at his master's friend for making him have to kill someone. His real master would never have told him to do so because he was kind. This new human didn't even look like his master, and it certainly didn't act like his master. The boy smiled an inward smile as he thought about his master. When his previous master died he had been assigned to work for this new human. He couldn't believe that his master had friends like the one who had ordered him to do exactly as the boy named Isaac told him to. Couldn't he just go as the other boy wanted? He was furious, but didn't show it. Why had his master's friend ordered him to say what he said? He could've awakened the human named Jenna without having to kill somebody.
Isaac and Garet watched, shocked, as the shadow devoured their enemies before retreating into the strange boy. When the final piece of energy had gone back to the boy he collapsed, exhausted by his feat. Saturos and Menardi where gone, nothing remained from them except Menardi's scythe. Garet ran over to the boy who was breathing heavily.
"Are you alright?" Garet asked worried.
"I'm as alright as anyone can get after they have just killed someone for the first time in their life" he replied sardonically, but quickly bit it back. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you, it's just that I've never killed anyone before and I didn't even have a reason to kill those two"
"It is alright. I felt the same thing the first time I killed a monster" Garet replied with a laugh.
"No. It is not the same" the boy replied, standing up. "I'm going to awaken Jenna now. Although it may look dangerous do not try to stop me"
The boy started to slowly melt into a shadow himself and then he crept towards Jenna's sleeping body.
"Um... Are you sure you are supposed to that" Garet said as the shadow started to cover Jenna.
[Are you trying to teach a millennium's years old creature his job?] The shadow said using a telepathic link he made with a stream of shadow.
"No" Garet said, a little ashamed.
The shadow didn't bother to answer as it now was covering her chest and was starting to spread out to her head and her arms. When she was totally covered the shadow started retreating again. This time though it started to flow into her body through her chest. There was a flash of light as the final rest of shadow disappeared into Jenna's heart, and when the light settled down the shadow boy was standing besides Jenna, who had opened her eyes and now got back her feet.
"What happened?" she asked no one in particular.
"You were affected by some sort of curse, but that boy healed you" Garet said.
"What boy?" Jenna looked around and saw no one. Garet and Isaac also saw that the boy had disappeared. "And where are Saturos and Menardi?" she asked.
"They are dead?" Isaac answered.
"What?" Jenna said in shock "Who? What? How? You did it didn't you?"
"Why are you so shocked Jenna?" Garet asked.
"They saved me from...something. I can't remember it right now" She replied.
Garet gave Isaac a slightly bitter stare. Isaac felt guilty for actually saying he wanted Saturos and Menardi dead. Suddenly Jenna jumped to her feet and ran into the forest, crying. Isaac and Garet was about to run after her when the forest began to blur and suddenly they found themselves on a hard stone floor.
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Vaporeon, Skitty, Andrew and Felicia were facing of against the raging Charizard. Why he had turned on his trainer like that, they didn't know. All they knew was that if they were to save him they had to beat Charizard.
"Let me handle this" said Felicia.
"No, you lost the last time and you are still too weak" Andrew said. The last comment earned him a smack on his head.
"Any one else having something against it?" She said to Skitty and Vaporeon.
They shook their heads, but Vaporeon asked "Why is it so important for you to fight alone?"
"Because he is going to get back for ambushing me like that. If it had been a fair match I would've won" She replied.
"Ok" Skitty answered. "If it is that important to you then I won't interfere"
"Fine" she said before turning to the Charizard and shouting. "You're going down now. You hear me? You're going down"
The Charizard just snorted before charging up a fire attack to unleash at Felicia. Felicia smiled and attacked.
(A/N: This scene was censored because Pikachu got epilepsy from trying to imagine the battle so we'll just skip to the outcome)
It hadn't been a hard battle, but it had been a tough one. Felicia had to deplete all of her electric charges in order to win. Charizard however hadn't been able to get in one hit and was now fleeing as quickly as he could.
"Dishonorable, truly dishonorable" Felicia said as she saw the fleeing dragon.
"You were great Felicia" Skitty cheered from behind.
"That was awesome. I've never seen anyone before battle with such control and power" Vaporeon complimented.
"I told you she was special. I'm sure she could beat all the trainer pokemon you meet in those championships" Andrew said.
"Yeah" the two others cheered, making Felicia blush.
"Thanks guys. I couldn't have done it without you two though" she said looking at Skitty and Vaporeon.
"Nothing to thank us for. Just a pleasure helping nice pokemon like you" Skitty answered for both of them. "What do you think we should do about the trainer though?"
"You could give him to me" said a voice from between the trees.
"Who is there?" shouted Andrew
"Oh, it's just little me" said the owner of the voice and appeared from behind the trees. He looked like nothing they had ever seen before. He was about the size of the Charizard, although he was covered in black fur, didn't have wings and had gleaming white fangs and claws.
"Little would be a little exaggeration" Felicia said sarcastically.
"What do you plan to do to that boy?" Andrew asked.
"Can you guess" he replied, although what he thought was ¤Damn it. Why do I have to play roles like this? I know that my master instructed me to be loyal to her although I am starting to doubt her intensions. At least she didn't say that I had to do it this time. Threatening would be enough and that is just pure luck¤
"Yes" they replied, knowing perfectly well what he meant.
"Are you going to?" he asked
"NO" rang the answer.
"Then what about me taking you four instead?" the beast replied.
"Try it. We will defend ourselves to the best of our ability" Skitty hollered.
"Impressive" said a female voice from behind. They turned around and saw a young human girl, about 13 years old, stand behind them. They didn't get more time to look at her before the world around them blurred. Skitty and Vaporeon closed their eyes, and when they opened them they were standing on a cold stone floor together with Garet and Isaac.
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"I guess we owe you a thank you" Menardi said to Mia.
"You're welcome" she replied, happy that she had been able to save them from being squished between two rocks.
"Why did you help us?" Saturos asked.
"Because you needed help. Mia helps everyone" Ivan said
"Why did you meanies attack me and leave me for dead at the sanctum?" Megan asked Menardi. Her orange hair waved in the air.
"We needed two pure hearted children in a sacrifice to stop a great evil. Of course you wouldn't join us by free will, since your task was being devoured by the dark creature but" Menardi was cut short.
"Hold it, hold it, hold it. Did you two intend to feed Megan and Justin to a beast inside these caverns?" Mia asked horrified.
"How could you do that?" Ivan asked.
"You probably think this is crazy, but the only way to kill this beast is to feed it two pure souls. At least I think it was two. Alex do you remember the exact number?" Saturos saw the unconscious Alex and turned to Mia. Before he could ask Mia raised her shoulders.
"It doesn't sound crazy, but it still doesn't give you the right to kidnap children" Mia snapped.
Before anyone could reply Ivan said "Take us instead"
Menardi and Saturos were first shocked then they gripped themselves. This was Ivan and Mia. You couldn't expect anything less from these two.
"No Mia. I don't want the evil monster to eat you" Justin cried in Mia's dress.
"No. It can take me instead" Megan added and before Mia could protest Justin had volunteered to.
"I'm starting to get all weepy eyed" Menardi said sarcastically.
"Oh hush with you" Saturos snapped. "Four is better than two so we better get going. If we wait for to long the seal is broken"
"Seal?" Mia asked
"Yes. Did you think we did this only because we craved the power the dark creature leave when it dies?" Saturos said.
"Yes" Ivan answered.
"Why you little" Menardi started but was stopped by Saturos.
"If we sacrifice our selves what are you going to use the power to?" Mia asked.
"We are going to use it to light the lighthouses. They have to be lit because" an earthquake stopped him.
"The seal is breaking" Menardi shouted. "If we don't hurry the world will be plunged into darkness"
Mia didn't waste her time on questions. She felt a powerful force down one of the paths and she started to run towards it. The others hurried after. They didn't know why, they just knew that they had to. Left was an unconscious Alex. (A/N: Honestly, you didn't think I'd let Alex destroy all of this?)
Mia ran as quickly as she could. The force was getting stronger and the light from the strange rocks on the wall grew dimmer. Finally they arrived in a room with a big black thing. It looked like some sort of black half liquid matter that slowly drifted to the left and right. The creature seemed to look at the newcomers because it was totally still. Little did they know what the creature was really doing.
¤Oh, I can't take it anymore. Now I have to eat two of those children in front of me and I can't bear it. What is Rainbow thinking about? Please, Shadow. I need your strength now. You have to help me through this task because I can't do it alone¤ the creature sighed down, waiting for any sign of help. Suddenly great warmth spread through him, giving him mental power and courage to do as he was told. He turned towards the children and hated himself for having to eat those two who got up first. At least he didn't need to kill them so he could spit them out when he was finished with this task. The other task he had gotten was to bring Mia and Ivan back to Rainbow. Perhaps Mia and Ivan where the ones stepping forward. That meant that he could get away from Rainbow quicker. Only the thought made him bubble with joy.
"What do you think it is doing?" Megan asked Mia.
"I think it is valuing us. Perhaps it thinks it can decide who is better just by looking at them" She replied. It wasn't a good answer but it was honest.
"I'm scared" Justin said.
"Just have faith. Everything's gonna work out in the end" Ivan comforted
Now the creature used a tentacle to point at Ivan and Mia. They both tried to swallow something that was stuck in their mouth but failed. First Mia took a step forward then Ivan did. Now everything happened quickly. The shadow lunged at Mia and Ivan with two tentacles. Upon impact the shadow spread out and covered Mia and Ivan. Their shapes could be noticed inside this nightmare as they got dragged deeper and deeper into the dark mass. Suddenly there was a scream and Mia and Ivan awoke on a cold stone floor. Isaac, Garet, Skitty and Vaporeon stood above them. They sighed in relief when they opened their eyes.
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"Thank goodness you're alive. Nightmare was so worried he had killed you two" Isaac said.
"Nightmare?" Mia asked.
"That boy with those scary eyes" Garet replied.
[When we met him he was a scary beast that looked like a pokemon] Skitty said.
"But who is Nightmare?" Ivan said.
[He is sitting over there] Vaporeon said while pointing towards the edge of the platform they was on.
Now Mia and Ivan saw that they weren't in that cavern anymore. They were on a platform with a smooth rock surface. The rocks were colored in different colors and the air was thick with rainbows. On the edge sat a boy with black hair and clothes and looked rather depressed. A girl with rainbow colored hair, yellow skin and clothes in many different colors had tried to comfort him but she was just showed away. She turned around and saw that Mia and Ivan had awakened. She smiled an uneasy smile. How was she going to tell them that she had lost two of their friends?
"Rainbow. Can't you tell Mia and Ivan about what they have just been through?" Isaac shouted.
Rainbow smiled, relieved that she got a few more minutes. She used her powers to create two rainbow chairs to Mia and Ivan and asked them to take a seat. The others got their own chairs and sat down too. Now she was going to tell about what everyone had experienced.
She began by telling about what Isaac and Garet had been through. Then she told about Skitty's and Vaporeon's experience. And finally she told the others about her test for Ivan and Mia. They had all been through different tests, made to suit the pair perfectly. She explained that Nightmare had helped her (here Nightmare threw an angry look at Rainbow) by playing that shadow that gave them choices. She then told them that everything they had experienced was just an illusion. Rainbow had used characters she knew that they resented so that their tests would be as hard as possible. However, Skitty and Vaporeon had met two real characters in their test. Rainbow had visited a forest in Kanto and had met Andrew and Felicia. They agreed to help her just because she asked, so she is getting more and more convinced that humans are among the most evil living things but that was of topic.
"But where is Pikachu and Torchic?" Mia asked.
[Yeah Rainbow, we want to know to. You have always left after bringing us here. Why didn't you leave this time?] Skitty asked.
"Um... because..." She staggered.
"Because she has lost them" Nightmare said.
"[What!?]" They shouted.
"Yes" Rainbow said while staring at her feet.
Mia wanted to give Rainbow something Nightmare would love to see, but before she could do there was a bright flash and a boy with brown skin appeared out from nowhere. In his arms he was holding Plusle, Minun, Torchic and Pikachu. Pikachu and Torchic was unconscious and Plusle and Minun were asleep.
[What is going on?] Vaporeon asked.
"Rainbow asked me to go and find Pikachu and Torchic. I arrived just in time, but I don't have time to talk" The new boy said. He hurried over to Rainbow and whispered something.
Rainbow's face changed into shock before calling "Nightmare. Go with Spirit. He is going to need your help"
Nightmare just nodded in agreement and a second later he and Spirit were gone.
"Okay. Now for the final test. I'm going to fight all of you and you better do your best" she said. The scenery got darker colors and the GS crew got into fighting stance.
Rainbow made the first move. She grabbed in thin air and a bow appeared out of nowhere. She created an arrow made of her color powers and shot it at Isaac. Isaac was focusing on a Grand Gaia spell so he was unable to dodge the arrow. Just as the arrow hit he unleashed his attack, severely wounding Rainbow. The arrow did something worse. When it hit Isaac all the colors on his body disappeared. He became colorless and motionless.
Mia, Garet and Ivan didn't let that distract them. Garet used Inferno, Ivan used Tempest and Mia used Ice Missile. All attacks made impact together and because of Rainbow's ability to combine others power they created something called an Infernal Icewind. Okay, usually she can control it but sometimes she can't and then she combines power without wanting to. Small shards of ice filled with fire spun around in a tornado. In the middle of the tornado was Rainbow and she was quickly weakened. When the attack finally ceased she had no energy left to battle.
"I admit that I lost. Allow me to congratulate you and bring you back to Aqua Rock's interior." she said. "Oh and before I forget here is the results"
Isaac and Garet: Horrible. Ivan and Mia: Incredible. Skitty and Vaporeon: Great. Torchic and Pikachu: Excellento deluxio
"What happened to Isaac?" Mia asked as they saw Isaac had still not moved.
"He is colorless. When you are colorless you usually leave your body because colors sustain your mind and soul" she answered. "I'll return his colors back to him"
As usual a rainbow appeared and encircled Isaac. There was a bright flash and then they were standing in front of the stone slate in Aqua Rock.
"One of you may touch the stone and learn how to use the power of Parch" Rainbow said in a royal proclamation voice. Mia urged Vaporeon to be the one to learn it and one minute later Vaporeon had mastered Parch.
"Thank you for letting us learn the power of Aqua Rock" Isaac said.
"You're welcome. Good luck catching up with Jenna" she said.
"Um...Rainbow?" Garet asked
"Yes?"
"Do you know where Jenna is?" He said.
"One sec" she said. She closed her eyes and started emanating a strange light. When the light faded she opened her eyes and said. "Jenna is...oh darn"
"What is it?" Ivan asked.
"She is fighting a dragon" Rainbow replied
"And?" Mia said.
"And I don't like dragons" Everyone sweat drops before she continues. "She is inside Gaia Rock on the island of Izumo. If you hurry you may get there before she leaves"
"Who is winning the battle?" Isaac asked
"No one right now. They are pretty even. Goodbye" There was a puff of pink gas and then she was gone. The adepts left Aqua Rock with a new goal. Gaia Rock on the island of Izumo.
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Vokteren: Sorry if this chapter is bad, but I've written from 12:00 to 20:20 so I am getting a bit tired.
Pikachu: When you have read the story...PUSH THAT BUTTON ON THE BOTTOM LEFT.
Vokteren: You really need to learn some manners.
Pikachu: Save your breath. No one has reviewed. It seems like people have lost interest in this story.
Vokteren: I hope not. If I haven't gotten a new review by the time I finish next chapter I'll stop until I get new reviews.
Pikachu: Great. You better make sure you press the bottom left button soon.
Vokteren: May I ask you to claim and disclaim?
Pikachu: My pleasure. "We do not own Pokemon or Golden Sun. Spirit and Rainbow and the shadow person and his "master" are another story. They are our own creation and any similarity to other trademarks is asked reported as soon as possible"
"Speech" ¤Thought¤ [Telepathy] (A/N: Author Note) (P/N: Pika Note)
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"So this collective is some sort of society that helps everyone?" Minun asked. Her mother had told her stories from all over the world, but no story compared to this. Whoever had gotten the idea to form a collective was no less than a mastermind.
"Yes you could say that, although we are currently in a weak state. That Charmeleon you saw have been terrorizing the forest for quite some time. There are many rumors about him, mostly that he killed his trainer before he came here, but I don't believe that" Torchic said.
"I'm don't like all this killing I hear about all the time. The world is so scary and I don't even have my mother" Plusle began crying and when Plusle cried Minun cried. (P/N: Tearless cries for those who wondered)
"Calm down" Pikachu said while gently stroking their chins. "I'm sure that you are going to like being here. Let's go and meet up with the others in the collective"
Suddenly they heard a stomach growl; Pikachu looked at Torchic and gave her a you-are-in-deep-trouble stare when her own belly grumbled.
"I think we could use some food first" Torchic suggested
Pikachu gave her an I-admit-defeat look and led them towards his secret spot. She had stashed some food in a burnt out trunk nearby and her mouth watered when she thought about all the good food that was left in it. She started to run, and she ran, and she ran, and she stopped so quickly that they all crashed into one another.
"Why do we stop?" Plusle asked.
"Quiet" she whispered.
Pikachu looked carefully around before she started bashing her skull into a nearby tree. Minun was just about to ask her what she was doing when she saw it. A door was opened in the tree and they could enter. Inside Pikachu pulled out cookies and bread and jam that she had "found" in the forest. She offered the others some and soon they were feasting on Pikachu's delicious food. Pikachu had made this store with this as its purpose. They were having quite a merry time; even Minun forgot to cry every other minute, when they suddenly heard footsteps above. You see this was a really desolate place of the forest being so close to Viridian town. Pikachu went to the opening and tried to hear who was on the outside.
"You three stay down here" she said, but it didn't stop them from following. They were every bit as curios as Pikachu.
On the outside they heard heavy footsteps, then a crash, then heavy footsteps, then another crash. Someone was knocking down the trees in the forest, but why they didn't know. Then the footsteps came close to their tree. They held their breath and waited for the roof to get knocked away, that didn't happen instead this someone leaned on the door and began talking to himself. The owner of the voice almost made Minun start crying again.
"What would be the most painful way of giving them what they deserve? Poison, Toxic Venom? No, to common and besides I'm fire type, not poison type. Drowning? No, that would only harm me too. Trap them and torture them? No, they can attack from distance and they might even break free before I kill them. Ah, who cares? I just burn them then watch their agonized tries to heal their wounds. I'll just stand by and mock them and they shouldn't take to long to die either. Yeah, that'll work. Now I only have to find those creeps before they get back to their stupid little organization. Pah. That is just for cowards and weaklings" The owner of the voice slowly got smaller until it was gone.
"That was a little to close" said Plusle who comforted his crying sister.
"I think we better go back to the Meeting Place. I'm sure we can get some help there. There are some strong fighters there" Torchic said.
Pikachu agreed and led them out of the tree. After about thirty minutes of walking they came to a clearing with a stump in the middle. This was the Meeting Place, although it was quiet. Too quiet. Way too quiet to have any positive outcome. That was when they saw, smelt and heard it. The forest was on fire and it was closing rapidly. Although it was odd that they hadn't noticed it earlier and that they hadn't met any fleeing refugees. But this wasn't the time to ask silly questions. Now they had to run, and run fast. If they stayed much longer they would've been trapped in the fire and then they needed more than luck to live to tell the tale. Pikachu grabbed Plusle and Minun in one arm each and started running. Torchic followed in the same manner, trying to run as quick as her two feet could.
They ran for about 15 minutes when they heard a crash and a scream for pain from behind. They turned around and saw a three lying on the ground, burning. Pikachu let go of Plusle and Minun and ran over to the place where the tree had fell. If someone was trapped she had to save him/her. Torchic asked Plusle and Minun if they could stay behind, they refused and now four pokemon watched a different pokemon trapped under a tree.
"Now I understand why we didn't notice the fire before" Pikachu said.
"It was your doing, right?" said Torchic.
"Who did you expect? Santa?" said the Charmeleon mockingly.
"Do you need help" Minun smiled at Charmeleon. His tail and feet (A/N: Ouch) where trapped under a massive tree.
"Not from you" he snapped back.
"Really? Then I suppose we can just leave you there then. I'm sure that there are someone left in that burning Inferno of yours" Plusle said with a mockingly grin.
"Don't you dare mock me" he replied. He tried to use a fire attack, but failed since he had used much energy just supporting the fire.
"Are we really going to leave him here?" Minun asked anxiously.
"Of course not. We must help him" Torchic said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Pikachu didn't ask questions. She just began pushing the log together with Torchic. Plusle and Minun helped to and they made a slow and steady progress, even with Charmeleon mocking Torchic and Pikachu, as the flames drew closer and closer. After Charmeleon had ripped up about how weak Pikachu's family was, that Torchic was nothing but a ball of feathers and that Plusle and Minun looked like an experiment that had gone horribly wrong, they were finally able to throw of the log. A mystical human watched them from nearby, although he hid himself so well that they couldn't see him. He was there to help. The ones he helped couldn't possibly lose a fight. He was to strong for that. Now he was looking at the Charmeleon struggling to get on his feet.
"At least you can say thank you this time" Plusle said.
"I have the perfect way of thanking you" he smirked, before smashing Pikachu and Torchic down with his tail. He clawed up Pikachu's face and bit deep into Torchic's body before knocking them unconscious.
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Isaac and Garet dashed through the forest. They were furious at Menardi and Saturos for tricking them and now they wanted revenge. It wasn't that they had almost gotten killed by Saturos and Menardi that made them angry. It was the fact that they had saved them and in return they get knocked into a pit full of pointy spikes.
They followed a path made by broken branches, assumingly made by Saturos and Menardi when the path just vanished. Isaac came to a halt when he saw that the footsteps of presumably Saturos had disappeared. He looked around when he suddenly heard a high scream.
"Did you hear that?" Isaac asked his red haired friend, Garet.
"Yes. It seems the voice belonged to..."
"JENNA" They shouted together. The voice couldn't be anyone else's.
"Hold on Jenna. We're coming" Isaac shouted as he and Garet started to run towards the source of the sound.
"It must be serious if it can make Jenna scream" Garet said, well knowing. Jenna wasn't the one who got scared easily.
They ran for something that seemed like an eternity but it wasn't more than ten minutes before they got to an opening in the forest. There they saw Jenna lying on the ground, covered with bruises, standing over her was Saturos and Menardi. The sight of Saturos and Menardi harming Jenna made Garet and Isaac flare.
They didn't see that Jenna was smiling a grateful smile to Saturos and Menardi, and when the Ragnarok and Heat Wave made impact on their backs her smile disappeared. Instead she was shocked at Isaac's and Garet's behavior. She tried to get up, but a Pyroclasm from Saturos knocked her unconscious and harmed Isaac and Garet badly.
"You selfish idiots" Isaac shouted and launched a Quake Sphere under Saturos and Menardi.
They didn't even get a chance to get up before fireballs rained down on them from Garet's Inferno. The infernal flames badly damaged Saturos and Menardi, even though they are fire adepts, and now they didn't have much energy left. Menardi fixed that by casting multiple Wish, while Saturos used his psynergy to damage Isaac and Garet as much as he could.
"Flash, protect us" Garet shouted.
Immediately the cute little fire Djinni appeared in a flash of fire. She used her fire power to create a shield around Isaac and Garet, blocking of Saturos's Heat Flash and Menardi's Death Scythe. Isaac unleashed Sap the Djinni and together with his power he knocked down Menardi. When Saturos saw that his partner fell he became worried.
"Flint, help me" was all that Saturos heard before everything went black.
Isaac and Garet panted heavily as they sheathed their swords and walked up to Jenna. They discovered to their relief that she didn't have any open wounds or broken bones. Isaac casted his Potent Cure many times, but she still didn't wake up. He tried Revive but that didn't work either.
"What are we going to do?" Garet asked his friend.
"Well just have to wait for Jenna to wake up. How could Saturos do something like that?" Isaac said with disgust in his voice.
"Perhaps I can help" said a voice from behind them.
They turned around and saw a boy dressed in black clothes come out of the forest. He looked scary, but they didn't show it.
"What do you mean by help?" Garet snapped at the boy.
"I could help you remove the curse that makes her sleep, but in order to do that I need something from you" he replied
"What?" Isaac said.
"Those two" he replied, pointing towards the now awake, but immobile, fire adepts.
"What do you intend to do with them" Isaac asked.
"I'm going to use their life energy to awaken Jenna" The shadow boy said.
"You're going to kill them just so that you can awaken Jenna" Garet said shocked.
"Yes" his voice was cool and collected.
"That is fine by me" Isaac said. Now his voice was so cold that it scared Garet.
"What are you saying Isaac?" Garet hollered. "There has to be another way to heal Jenna"
"There is another way. You simply wait for the curse to wear off. That may take a long time however" the shadow boy explained.
"I don't care. I want those two dead" Isaac pointed a finger to where Saturos and Menardi lay paralyzed of fear "And I want her to wake up" Isaac pointed another finger at Jenna "They deserve it for harming Jenna"
"But" the shadow boy began.
"No. I want you to kill Saturos and Menardi and bring back Jenna. Evil persons like those two don't deserve to live" Isaac shouted at the boy, who was taking small steps backward because of the sound.
The shadow boy took a deep breath, before sighing "Okay, okay. It's your call. Although you could be a bit more thankful" he said to Isaac before turning to Saturos and Menardi. "You have no idea how much grief it brings me having to do this"
He started to glow with a black light before shadow tentacles came out of his hands. Garet tried to step between but Isaac pushed him out of the way. The tentacles hit Saturos first, piercing his chest and enveloping his body. Menardi watched in horror as the shadows devoured her childhood friend. She knew that the same thing was going to happen to her. She hoped that it would at least be painless.
The boy was using all his power to make it as painless as possible for Saturos and Menardi. He was angry at his master's friend for making him have to kill someone. His real master would never have told him to do so because he was kind. This new human didn't even look like his master, and it certainly didn't act like his master. The boy smiled an inward smile as he thought about his master. When his previous master died he had been assigned to work for this new human. He couldn't believe that his master had friends like the one who had ordered him to do exactly as the boy named Isaac told him to. Couldn't he just go as the other boy wanted? He was furious, but didn't show it. Why had his master's friend ordered him to say what he said? He could've awakened the human named Jenna without having to kill somebody.
Isaac and Garet watched, shocked, as the shadow devoured their enemies before retreating into the strange boy. When the final piece of energy had gone back to the boy he collapsed, exhausted by his feat. Saturos and Menardi where gone, nothing remained from them except Menardi's scythe. Garet ran over to the boy who was breathing heavily.
"Are you alright?" Garet asked worried.
"I'm as alright as anyone can get after they have just killed someone for the first time in their life" he replied sardonically, but quickly bit it back. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you, it's just that I've never killed anyone before and I didn't even have a reason to kill those two"
"It is alright. I felt the same thing the first time I killed a monster" Garet replied with a laugh.
"No. It is not the same" the boy replied, standing up. "I'm going to awaken Jenna now. Although it may look dangerous do not try to stop me"
The boy started to slowly melt into a shadow himself and then he crept towards Jenna's sleeping body.
"Um... Are you sure you are supposed to that" Garet said as the shadow started to cover Jenna.
[Are you trying to teach a millennium's years old creature his job?] The shadow said using a telepathic link he made with a stream of shadow.
"No" Garet said, a little ashamed.
The shadow didn't bother to answer as it now was covering her chest and was starting to spread out to her head and her arms. When she was totally covered the shadow started retreating again. This time though it started to flow into her body through her chest. There was a flash of light as the final rest of shadow disappeared into Jenna's heart, and when the light settled down the shadow boy was standing besides Jenna, who had opened her eyes and now got back her feet.
"What happened?" she asked no one in particular.
"You were affected by some sort of curse, but that boy healed you" Garet said.
"What boy?" Jenna looked around and saw no one. Garet and Isaac also saw that the boy had disappeared. "And where are Saturos and Menardi?" she asked.
"They are dead?" Isaac answered.
"What?" Jenna said in shock "Who? What? How? You did it didn't you?"
"Why are you so shocked Jenna?" Garet asked.
"They saved me from...something. I can't remember it right now" She replied.
Garet gave Isaac a slightly bitter stare. Isaac felt guilty for actually saying he wanted Saturos and Menardi dead. Suddenly Jenna jumped to her feet and ran into the forest, crying. Isaac and Garet was about to run after her when the forest began to blur and suddenly they found themselves on a hard stone floor.
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Vaporeon, Skitty, Andrew and Felicia were facing of against the raging Charizard. Why he had turned on his trainer like that, they didn't know. All they knew was that if they were to save him they had to beat Charizard.
"Let me handle this" said Felicia.
"No, you lost the last time and you are still too weak" Andrew said. The last comment earned him a smack on his head.
"Any one else having something against it?" She said to Skitty and Vaporeon.
They shook their heads, but Vaporeon asked "Why is it so important for you to fight alone?"
"Because he is going to get back for ambushing me like that. If it had been a fair match I would've won" She replied.
"Ok" Skitty answered. "If it is that important to you then I won't interfere"
"Fine" she said before turning to the Charizard and shouting. "You're going down now. You hear me? You're going down"
The Charizard just snorted before charging up a fire attack to unleash at Felicia. Felicia smiled and attacked.
(A/N: This scene was censored because Pikachu got epilepsy from trying to imagine the battle so we'll just skip to the outcome)
It hadn't been a hard battle, but it had been a tough one. Felicia had to deplete all of her electric charges in order to win. Charizard however hadn't been able to get in one hit and was now fleeing as quickly as he could.
"Dishonorable, truly dishonorable" Felicia said as she saw the fleeing dragon.
"You were great Felicia" Skitty cheered from behind.
"That was awesome. I've never seen anyone before battle with such control and power" Vaporeon complimented.
"I told you she was special. I'm sure she could beat all the trainer pokemon you meet in those championships" Andrew said.
"Yeah" the two others cheered, making Felicia blush.
"Thanks guys. I couldn't have done it without you two though" she said looking at Skitty and Vaporeon.
"Nothing to thank us for. Just a pleasure helping nice pokemon like you" Skitty answered for both of them. "What do you think we should do about the trainer though?"
"You could give him to me" said a voice from between the trees.
"Who is there?" shouted Andrew
"Oh, it's just little me" said the owner of the voice and appeared from behind the trees. He looked like nothing they had ever seen before. He was about the size of the Charizard, although he was covered in black fur, didn't have wings and had gleaming white fangs and claws.
"Little would be a little exaggeration" Felicia said sarcastically.
"What do you plan to do to that boy?" Andrew asked.
"Can you guess" he replied, although what he thought was ¤Damn it. Why do I have to play roles like this? I know that my master instructed me to be loyal to her although I am starting to doubt her intensions. At least she didn't say that I had to do it this time. Threatening would be enough and that is just pure luck¤
"Yes" they replied, knowing perfectly well what he meant.
"Are you going to?" he asked
"NO" rang the answer.
"Then what about me taking you four instead?" the beast replied.
"Try it. We will defend ourselves to the best of our ability" Skitty hollered.
"Impressive" said a female voice from behind. They turned around and saw a young human girl, about 13 years old, stand behind them. They didn't get more time to look at her before the world around them blurred. Skitty and Vaporeon closed their eyes, and when they opened them they were standing on a cold stone floor together with Garet and Isaac.
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"I guess we owe you a thank you" Menardi said to Mia.
"You're welcome" she replied, happy that she had been able to save them from being squished between two rocks.
"Why did you help us?" Saturos asked.
"Because you needed help. Mia helps everyone" Ivan said
"Why did you meanies attack me and leave me for dead at the sanctum?" Megan asked Menardi. Her orange hair waved in the air.
"We needed two pure hearted children in a sacrifice to stop a great evil. Of course you wouldn't join us by free will, since your task was being devoured by the dark creature but" Menardi was cut short.
"Hold it, hold it, hold it. Did you two intend to feed Megan and Justin to a beast inside these caverns?" Mia asked horrified.
"How could you do that?" Ivan asked.
"You probably think this is crazy, but the only way to kill this beast is to feed it two pure souls. At least I think it was two. Alex do you remember the exact number?" Saturos saw the unconscious Alex and turned to Mia. Before he could ask Mia raised her shoulders.
"It doesn't sound crazy, but it still doesn't give you the right to kidnap children" Mia snapped.
Before anyone could reply Ivan said "Take us instead"
Menardi and Saturos were first shocked then they gripped themselves. This was Ivan and Mia. You couldn't expect anything less from these two.
"No Mia. I don't want the evil monster to eat you" Justin cried in Mia's dress.
"No. It can take me instead" Megan added and before Mia could protest Justin had volunteered to.
"I'm starting to get all weepy eyed" Menardi said sarcastically.
"Oh hush with you" Saturos snapped. "Four is better than two so we better get going. If we wait for to long the seal is broken"
"Seal?" Mia asked
"Yes. Did you think we did this only because we craved the power the dark creature leave when it dies?" Saturos said.
"Yes" Ivan answered.
"Why you little" Menardi started but was stopped by Saturos.
"If we sacrifice our selves what are you going to use the power to?" Mia asked.
"We are going to use it to light the lighthouses. They have to be lit because" an earthquake stopped him.
"The seal is breaking" Menardi shouted. "If we don't hurry the world will be plunged into darkness"
Mia didn't waste her time on questions. She felt a powerful force down one of the paths and she started to run towards it. The others hurried after. They didn't know why, they just knew that they had to. Left was an unconscious Alex. (A/N: Honestly, you didn't think I'd let Alex destroy all of this?)
Mia ran as quickly as she could. The force was getting stronger and the light from the strange rocks on the wall grew dimmer. Finally they arrived in a room with a big black thing. It looked like some sort of black half liquid matter that slowly drifted to the left and right. The creature seemed to look at the newcomers because it was totally still. Little did they know what the creature was really doing.
¤Oh, I can't take it anymore. Now I have to eat two of those children in front of me and I can't bear it. What is Rainbow thinking about? Please, Shadow. I need your strength now. You have to help me through this task because I can't do it alone¤ the creature sighed down, waiting for any sign of help. Suddenly great warmth spread through him, giving him mental power and courage to do as he was told. He turned towards the children and hated himself for having to eat those two who got up first. At least he didn't need to kill them so he could spit them out when he was finished with this task. The other task he had gotten was to bring Mia and Ivan back to Rainbow. Perhaps Mia and Ivan where the ones stepping forward. That meant that he could get away from Rainbow quicker. Only the thought made him bubble with joy.
"What do you think it is doing?" Megan asked Mia.
"I think it is valuing us. Perhaps it thinks it can decide who is better just by looking at them" She replied. It wasn't a good answer but it was honest.
"I'm scared" Justin said.
"Just have faith. Everything's gonna work out in the end" Ivan comforted
Now the creature used a tentacle to point at Ivan and Mia. They both tried to swallow something that was stuck in their mouth but failed. First Mia took a step forward then Ivan did. Now everything happened quickly. The shadow lunged at Mia and Ivan with two tentacles. Upon impact the shadow spread out and covered Mia and Ivan. Their shapes could be noticed inside this nightmare as they got dragged deeper and deeper into the dark mass. Suddenly there was a scream and Mia and Ivan awoke on a cold stone floor. Isaac, Garet, Skitty and Vaporeon stood above them. They sighed in relief when they opened their eyes.
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"Thank goodness you're alive. Nightmare was so worried he had killed you two" Isaac said.
"Nightmare?" Mia asked.
"That boy with those scary eyes" Garet replied.
[When we met him he was a scary beast that looked like a pokemon] Skitty said.
"But who is Nightmare?" Ivan said.
[He is sitting over there] Vaporeon said while pointing towards the edge of the platform they was on.
Now Mia and Ivan saw that they weren't in that cavern anymore. They were on a platform with a smooth rock surface. The rocks were colored in different colors and the air was thick with rainbows. On the edge sat a boy with black hair and clothes and looked rather depressed. A girl with rainbow colored hair, yellow skin and clothes in many different colors had tried to comfort him but she was just showed away. She turned around and saw that Mia and Ivan had awakened. She smiled an uneasy smile. How was she going to tell them that she had lost two of their friends?
"Rainbow. Can't you tell Mia and Ivan about what they have just been through?" Isaac shouted.
Rainbow smiled, relieved that she got a few more minutes. She used her powers to create two rainbow chairs to Mia and Ivan and asked them to take a seat. The others got their own chairs and sat down too. Now she was going to tell about what everyone had experienced.
She began by telling about what Isaac and Garet had been through. Then she told about Skitty's and Vaporeon's experience. And finally she told the others about her test for Ivan and Mia. They had all been through different tests, made to suit the pair perfectly. She explained that Nightmare had helped her (here Nightmare threw an angry look at Rainbow) by playing that shadow that gave them choices. She then told them that everything they had experienced was just an illusion. Rainbow had used characters she knew that they resented so that their tests would be as hard as possible. However, Skitty and Vaporeon had met two real characters in their test. Rainbow had visited a forest in Kanto and had met Andrew and Felicia. They agreed to help her just because she asked, so she is getting more and more convinced that humans are among the most evil living things but that was of topic.
"But where is Pikachu and Torchic?" Mia asked.
[Yeah Rainbow, we want to know to. You have always left after bringing us here. Why didn't you leave this time?] Skitty asked.
"Um... because..." She staggered.
"Because she has lost them" Nightmare said.
"[What!?]" They shouted.
"Yes" Rainbow said while staring at her feet.
Mia wanted to give Rainbow something Nightmare would love to see, but before she could do there was a bright flash and a boy with brown skin appeared out from nowhere. In his arms he was holding Plusle, Minun, Torchic and Pikachu. Pikachu and Torchic was unconscious and Plusle and Minun were asleep.
[What is going on?] Vaporeon asked.
"Rainbow asked me to go and find Pikachu and Torchic. I arrived just in time, but I don't have time to talk" The new boy said. He hurried over to Rainbow and whispered something.
Rainbow's face changed into shock before calling "Nightmare. Go with Spirit. He is going to need your help"
Nightmare just nodded in agreement and a second later he and Spirit were gone.
"Okay. Now for the final test. I'm going to fight all of you and you better do your best" she said. The scenery got darker colors and the GS crew got into fighting stance.
Rainbow made the first move. She grabbed in thin air and a bow appeared out of nowhere. She created an arrow made of her color powers and shot it at Isaac. Isaac was focusing on a Grand Gaia spell so he was unable to dodge the arrow. Just as the arrow hit he unleashed his attack, severely wounding Rainbow. The arrow did something worse. When it hit Isaac all the colors on his body disappeared. He became colorless and motionless.
Mia, Garet and Ivan didn't let that distract them. Garet used Inferno, Ivan used Tempest and Mia used Ice Missile. All attacks made impact together and because of Rainbow's ability to combine others power they created something called an Infernal Icewind. Okay, usually she can control it but sometimes she can't and then she combines power without wanting to. Small shards of ice filled with fire spun around in a tornado. In the middle of the tornado was Rainbow and she was quickly weakened. When the attack finally ceased she had no energy left to battle.
"I admit that I lost. Allow me to congratulate you and bring you back to Aqua Rock's interior." she said. "Oh and before I forget here is the results"
Isaac and Garet: Horrible. Ivan and Mia: Incredible. Skitty and Vaporeon: Great. Torchic and Pikachu: Excellento deluxio
"What happened to Isaac?" Mia asked as they saw Isaac had still not moved.
"He is colorless. When you are colorless you usually leave your body because colors sustain your mind and soul" she answered. "I'll return his colors back to him"
As usual a rainbow appeared and encircled Isaac. There was a bright flash and then they were standing in front of the stone slate in Aqua Rock.
"One of you may touch the stone and learn how to use the power of Parch" Rainbow said in a royal proclamation voice. Mia urged Vaporeon to be the one to learn it and one minute later Vaporeon had mastered Parch.
"Thank you for letting us learn the power of Aqua Rock" Isaac said.
"You're welcome. Good luck catching up with Jenna" she said.
"Um...Rainbow?" Garet asked
"Yes?"
"Do you know where Jenna is?" He said.
"One sec" she said. She closed her eyes and started emanating a strange light. When the light faded she opened her eyes and said. "Jenna is...oh darn"
"What is it?" Ivan asked.
"She is fighting a dragon" Rainbow replied
"And?" Mia said.
"And I don't like dragons" Everyone sweat drops before she continues. "She is inside Gaia Rock on the island of Izumo. If you hurry you may get there before she leaves"
"Who is winning the battle?" Isaac asked
"No one right now. They are pretty even. Goodbye" There was a puff of pink gas and then she was gone. The adepts left Aqua Rock with a new goal. Gaia Rock on the island of Izumo.
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Vokteren: Sorry if this chapter is bad, but I've written from 12:00 to 20:20 so I am getting a bit tired.
Pikachu: When you have read the story...PUSH THAT BUTTON ON THE BOTTOM LEFT.
Vokteren: You really need to learn some manners.