Author's Notes: Muahahahahaha! Chapter 10 has arrived! Yeah, 10 complete chapters with lots and lots of reviews! I'm so proud

Blast: -sarcastically- Yeah, congrats to you

Somewei: I know .

Blaze: Does this mean more fights?

Somewei: Maybe Actually I think something is going to happen to the girls, and I also think that this chapter won't have as much action as my previous fights.

Blast: Gee, that's no fun.

Somewei: -shrugs- Too Bad.Blaze?

Blaze: Somewei owns nothing of the Powerpuff Girls except the Rowdyruff Boys episode and this story. All other characters that are not made up belong to Craig McCraken and the other creators of the PPG. On with the story.

Chapter 10: One Hope

Somewei

As Blossom flew toward her home, she thought about what Brick and Daisy said. The pink puff was confused with her feelings. She felt an anger toward Daisy that was leaning toward the direction of jealousy and she was mad at Brick for practically insulting her. The jealousy was what puzzled Blossom. Normally, she'd see girls flirt with Brick, but she paid no mind and actually didn't care at all, but when Daisy flirted with her counterpart, it was different.

Blossom really couldn't explain her feelings at the moment and concluded that she was just upset over the whole 'Rowdyruffs turn evil' thing going on. The Powerpuff leader landed carefully landed on the ground next to her "home." Blossom sighed heavily and looked toward the sky. It was now normal for the skies to be cloudy and gloomy, but Blossom honestly missed the sunshine and the warmth of the sun.

She looked ahead of her and as far as her pink eyes could see, she was able to see the dark, black palace that Ivy ruled from. Blossom watched the dust on the ground form small dust balls and fly through the air. The words that Brick said somehow hurt her.

She didn't how, but it did. And it made no complete sense to the redheaded leader at all. Blossom squeezed her eyes shut and small crystal tears fell down her cheeks. She looked up toward the sky once again and let her salty tears flow freely down her dirty and delicate face. Blossom sank to her knees and leaned against the wall.

Her injuries hurt her again, but Blossom didn't pay attention to them. She took deep, steady breathes and squeezed her fists tight. The leader didn't like the odds anymore. She was about ready to give up. She couldn't take anymore. Blossom closed her eyes and rested her head on her knees.

Never doubt your heart. Listen to what it tells you and follow it…

Blossom's head shot up with her eyes wide with excitement. That voice…that voice in her dreams, she knew who it was, and it comforted her. She punched her right fist into her palm and smirked. Although she was hurt, she was going to carry on for the people she loved. Blossom stood to her feet and smiled widely. She was going to become strong. She was going to become the strong person she once was. She wasn't going to fool around anymore.

Blossom ran into her "home" and ran down the halls. Along the way, she passed Ms. Bellum, Mitch Mitchellson and Mary Q. Contrary. Everyone looked at Blossom oddly as she passed by him or her in a hurry. She ran into Buttercup's room and found her family in there. Although, she was trying to catch her breath, she had the widest smile spread across her face. Her father, mother and Bubbles looked at her with a puzzled expression.

"Blossom, are you okay?" Bubbles asked slowly as she examined her leader and sister. Blossom gently placed her bandaged hands onto Bubbles' sore shoulders and nodded confidently. Bubbles was shocked with Blossom's optimism in the situation, and was afraid that something happened to her. Then, the blonde remembered that Blossom went to go see Vanessa and hoped that they both found something to bring the boys back. "Did you find out something that could bring Brick, Boomer and Butch back?"

"No, I haven't, but Vanessa said that only us could bring them back to the way they were," Blossom said with a light sigh. Bubbles looked down to the ground with dismay, her hopes shattering, but she looked up when Blossom spoke again, "It's going to be hard seeing how the boys are stronger than ever, but I believe that if we train ourselves like we used to then we can help the boys."

"Are you crazy? We're injured and beaten!" Bubbles nearly shouted as she stared at her sister like she had seen a ghost. "Not to mention the fact that I tried talking to Boomer about his past, but he seemed to like the fact that - quote, unquote - 'he enjoyed being free.' We can't bring them back!"

"Well, Bubbles, I have one thing to say to you - you need to try harder. What did you do? Ask him what he remembers? That's not going to help. You need to show him the kindness you first showed him when you two first became friends," Blossom remarked. She looked up toward the ceiling and closed her eyes. Her head was throbbing, but she could care less. "I believe that we could do it if we trained and learn to use the abilities that we never experienced before - it's the only way."

Blossom took her hands off Bubbles' shoulders and stepped back, examining her weak and tired blonde sister. She shifted her gaze from Bubbles to her unconscious raven-haired sister to her mother and father, who, at the moment, was confused with what Blossom and Bubbles were talking about.

"We have to believe in ourselves, and we have to believe in the people that believe in us. Without them, we'd be nowhere, and three people that really believed in us need our help more than ever," Blossom continued. "We're gonna believe and we're gonna make everyone else believe. Have faith, Bubbles. This is our home and I'm not ready to give it up just yet. I'm ready to fight for my home, my country, my family."

Bubbles smiled as she walked up to Blossom. Ever since they're defeat with Ivy, she hadn't felt there was a chance of hope anymore, but with Blossom now speaking of peace, faith and hope again, Bubbles felt stronger. And if it did mean they were going to get hurt, the blue puff was going to stand behind her sisters one hundred percent.

"I'm with you," Bubbles murmured as she placed her hand onto Blossom. Blossom clasped her hand over Bubbles' and squeezed it gently.

"Thank you," Blossom whispered.

"C'mon boys, she wants to play with all of us, then let's have some fun," Brick snickered as he kept his red eyes on Buttercup. The green puff gulped nervously as she tried to keep her cool. If she made it out of this predicament she would cherish her family for the rest of her life. Buttercup gasped as Butch and Boomer rounded up against her, preparing to attack with no means of stopping. Brick smirked, "Attack!"

Buttercup squeaked in fear. Although she was not one to easily show her fear, Buttercup couldn't help but shake in place. The green puff knew that if Brick and Boomer completely tossed her sisters around as if they were nothing, no doubt she was a goner. As the three brother came in for the kill, Buttercup jumped into the air, just barely missing the devastating punches that Brick and Boomer would've given her. Buttercup snapped around just in time to find Butch floating beside her, but her quick reflexes froze and due to that affect, Buttercup received a painful blow to the stomach.

She crashed into the computer screens behind her and began to fall to the ground when Boomer popped out of nowhere and kicked her as if she were a soccer ball. The boys began to play their own version of volleyball, tossing Buttercup around by punches and kicks instead.

Now I know what volleyball feels like, Buttercup thought to herself bitterly. Before she reached Boomer once again, she snapped her body in an upright position and kicked Boomer hard in the stomach. To her shock and horror, Boomer caught her foot before it could connect with him and flipped her over so now he was holding Buttercup by the arms tightly.

"Hey Butch," called Boomer to his brother. "Wanna try this new punching bag I got for you?"

Butch smiled wickedly and crackled his knuckles as he advanced toward both his brother and his counterpart. Buttercup's face paled at the thought of getting the stuffing beaten out of her. Butch answered the blue ruff with a calm voice that sent a shiver down Buttercup's spine, "Sure, bro, I'd love to."

As Butch inched closer to Buttercup, her piercing green eyes grew wide with fear. Her heart raced and as Butch raised his fist, Buttercup did the only thing that came to her mind - she let out a shrill scream.

"NO!" screamed Buttercup as she bolted upright in the hospital bed she was in. She looked around at her surroundings. She sighed in relief when she saw a comforting sight of Blossom and Bubbles on either side of her. Bubbles wrapped her arms around Buttercup when she noticed that her raven- haired sister was panting heavily. Blossom furrowed her eyebrows and sat at the end of the bed.

"BC, what's wrong?" questioned Blossom softly. Buttercup looked up at her redheaded sister and gently wiggled from Bubbles' grasp. Bubbles took the hint and stood back. Her cerulean eyes slowly drifted into Blossom's rosy eyes. The blonde waited patiently for Buttercup to answer. Buttercup grasped tightly onto her blanket and sighed heavily.

"I had a nightmare," The green puff began hesitantly. She looked at both her sisters, who were waiting patiently for their sister's explanation. Buttercup closed her eyes as she head began to hang low from shame. "It was about the fight in Ivy's palace."

Blossom glanced at Bubbles at the corner of her eye and motioned for Bubbles to follow her outside. Shifting her gaze back to Buttercup, Blossom gently placed a hand on Buttercup's shoulder comfortingly and gave her sister a weak smile, "Buttercup, rest. I know your fight must've been a big one."

Buttercup nodded and slowly lied back down onto her soft white pillow. Blossom got off the bed and walked outside her sister's room with Bubbles at her heels. The hotheaded leader quietly closed her sister's door and looked at Bubbles. Bubbles' now stringy pale colored hair draped over her eyes as she looked down to the ground.

"Her pride has been hurt badly," Bubbles whispered as she looked up. Blossom only nodded in agreement. Bubbles could tell that Blossom had a lot on her mind and she bit her bottom lip. "So has yours."

Blossom was caught completely off guard with this statement. She looked at Bubbles shocked and she began to speak, "What are you talking about Bubbles?"

"It's true. You're not the same Blossom anymore. If you were still as confident as you were before this dispute broke out, you would have continuously approached Ivy with the same technique. You would have never thought of training us. In a way, I'm glad you and Buttercup were beaten up," Bubbles proclaimed. The last statement caught Blossom hard. Her sister was glad that her and Buttercup were beaten up?

"If you two still had your pride, then you would be blind and never even thought strategically. Blossom don't you see? This yours - our - wake up call. We've be relying too much on our laurels!" Bubbles continued. She paused and looked at Blossom. Gradually a smile crept upon Blossom's face. The blue puff sighed.

"You're right Bubbles," Blossom agreed.

Princess looked at the calendar that she kept in her room. No else knew, but Princess kept track of the year, days, hours, minutes, seconds. Currently it was November 5, 2005. The teenager sighed heavily. She missed all the Christmases and Thanksgivings that she spent with her father. There was even a class Christmas party with the Powerpuff Girls she enjoyed. Princess missed smelling the gingerbread men being cook and the aroma of fresh pine coming from the huge Christmas tree.

She looked out the window and into the dark skies. Rain never poured here anymore, flowers and plants never blossomed and fear and darkness defiantly covered this once prosperous and peaceful town. Princess knew for sure that this would be her first Christmas without any friends or family. She frowned slightly and tied her golden Egyptian daggers to her waist.

No more dwelling on these thoughts; I have work to do, Princess thought sadly as she exited her dull room. Ever since Ivy took over, the evil villain took all of Princess's belongings, and just to make sure Princess would obey her, Ivy took Princess's only picture of Daddy Morebucks that Princess treasured to her heart. Princess despised Ivy with all her heart. That much was for sure.

Blossom landed gracefully on her now ruined home. It was almost a year ago that Ivy took over and destroyed her home. It still stood strongly, but everything inside was ruined. The pink leader walked into the house and looked around. All the pictures of her sisters and her family were burned and the furniture was beyond repair. The reason Blossom came here was the recollect her thoughts. The recent events were a lot of weight on Blossom's shoulders.

I wish everything would go back to normal, Blossom thought silently to herself. She looked down to the ground and sighed. She squinted when she noticed a small-unburned picture that somehow survived Ivy's destruction. She collapsed to her knees and picked the picture up. It was Bubbles, Buttercup, Butch, Boomer and Brick before she came back before Stanford.

Brick looked annoyed with the whole ordeal and the irritated expression on his face made Blossom slightly giggled. She touched the picture and never took her eyes off of Brick. He had his red hat on backwards like normally that covered his messy, but handsome flaming red hair and his dark black sunglasses covered his warm red eyes. Her fists clutched the picture tightly. Small teardrops formed on the old picture as hot tears fell down Blossom's now pale cheeks.

She couldn't take the pain anymore. Even though she gave a speech of hope to her hopeless sister, Blossom herself doubted they would pull through this. Brick, the counterpart she had come to rely, her counterpart that could actually understand what she said when she talk and analyzed, the person that could understand her altogether was gone. Blossom's whole body shook as she completely broke down in tears.

Author's Notes:

Okay, I'm done with this chapter. Yeah, I know, kinda gloomy. I know I said 4 chapters in a row, but chapter eleven has a bit of malfunctions so I can't update all four today. Maybe in a couple of days I will. Hey, I like the whole Japanese chapter titles. Maybe I'll do more. Anywho, here are the Review replies.

Review Replies:

Tonifranz: Yes, I like DB/Z/GT. Actually, the duplicating thing that Ivy does actually comes from most of the attacks that Goku did when he was little, but I enhanced it a little. Yes, the honor code for the Rowdyruff Boys was irritating, but the whole idea was to make them look weak. You're correct, Ivy did take their energy during the fight so the DG could overcome them in strength, very smart of you. The reason the bad guys let the girls escape was because they were being stupid. No, Ivy's whole idea of fighting the PPG is when they're at their full strength, but for the time being, she just wants to toy with the girls. Sad, but true. Awesome job on Allies and Rivals, by the way. I cannot wait to see the outcome. Thank you for both updating and reviewing.

Kawaii Kitty-chan: lol, you like Tigger too? He's so cute and funny! Anyway, remind me to read your CCS fanfics. I absolutely love Cardcaptor Sakura. Gundam Wing? Quatre's so cute in that! And don't worry about the review being long. I've had longer before with past stories. If you like PPG fanfics, then be sure to watch out for my upcoming story A Powerpuff Christmas Carol. Anyway, thank you for reviewing.

Just-some-girl1: Thank you for the review. I'm glad that you think this story is cool.

Fangewriter: I'll try to finish this story. More than likely I will.

HUnnu: Thank you for the review! Glad you like it!

Hairy Gregory: Blossom was having a blonde moment when she decided to travel through the city (not offending Bubbles or anyone blonde, I'm semi- blonde myself, lol. I have highlights). Buttercup has a will to live in this and even if the odds are against, she'll survive. Even if it is painful. She escaped from the boy's clutches barely able to hold onto her life. You read that she collapsed when she entered. In fact, in her condition is had to be a miracle that she survived. You'll see a part in the story, where each of the girls use their powers in combat (Blossom uses her premonitions, Bubbles uses her telekinesis, etc.) Anyway, thanks for the Review, HG!

Firestarter10388: Thank you for reviewing!

Angel-Bratt44: Blossom and Brick are my all time favorites, followed closely by BC and Butch. Bubbles and Boomer do seem a bit pathetic, but I think it's cool when they go all 'hardcore.' I actually find it amusing. More than likely, I may add Blaze and Blast in the sorry. Speaking of which, I wonder where they are.I told them to get my Frappicino and that's all! Oi. Thanks Nicole!

Starship Gazer: Indeed, good luck. They'll need all the luck that they can get. Thank you for the review!

Jeez, that's a lot of reviews. That's…counts reviews about nine to answer. Not including the ones that Tonifranz gave me. Anyway, I promise to get chapter eleven up ASAP!

Blaze: Yeah, stay tuned for Chapter 11: The Rage Inside Red

There you are! Where's my Frappicino?

Blaze: Blast has it.

And where, pray tell, is she?

Blaze: -shrugs- Dunno.

Oi, anyway, L8er days…

Somewei

"If you want to be somebody and you want to go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention..."

- Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act II: Back in the Habit