Chapter 11 – A Night with the Enemy

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Time: 20:00

Location: Rhodochrine Jungle

A few hours have passed since Percival, and Lucille's encounter with Taka and the girl with Pink hair occurred. Believing it was best to try and stop the PULSE that have been set up by Team Meteor, the two had journeyed into the Beryl Ward. While the sun had set, Percival and Lucille had managed to fine another Officer, who pointed to them toward Rhodochrine Jungle.

"Man… it's gotten pretty dark, huh?" Lucille asked, flashing her flashlight around the trees.

"Yes, seems like night has come." Percival responded. "Pretty scary, right?"

"Mm… no," Lucille shrugged. "I've never really been afraid of the dark."

"oh… is that so?" Percival tried to say nonchalantly.

"What? Are you afraid?" Lucille smiled, starting to tease Percival.

"No… it's just being in the dark… it's creepy. Isn't it?" Percival tried to defend himself.

"Being alone, yes. But, when you're with company. You can always see light, even in the dark." Lucille smiled.

Percival couldn't help but smile himself. "It's amazing how you can say those things so brightly."

"Heh, it's just how I am. You kn-?" Lucille stopped herself as her light hit something shining on the ground. "Hey, what's that?"

"Hm?" Percival also flashed his light over the object as well. It was a gold object laid out in the leaves. "Seems to be some sort of Necklace."

"Maybe someone dropped it?" Lucille asked, moving over to pick it up.

"Yes, maybe…" Percival was somewhat suspicious as to the layout of the leaves. But when Lucille step over them and didn't fall, that suspicion left.

Lucille grabbed onto the gold necklace. Looking at it, gave Lucille some type of awe. "…"

Crack!

"Oh, no." Percival said as the floor beneath them gave out.

Time: 20:30

Location: Rhodochrine Jungle

"Ugh… can't believe I was that stupid." Nero cursed inside of a wooden cage.

"Nuzleaf!" Nero heard a Nuzleaf shout, with another behind it. They appeared to be carrying something.

"… Really?" Nero asked himself as he saw what they were carrying. It was a girl, she had blond hair and black clothes.

"Nuz Nuzleaf!" One of the Nuzleaf yelled at Nero, presumably for him to move back.

"…Fine." Nero agreed moving away from the cell. He rather not get hit with a Razor Leaf.

"Nuz." The Nuzzleaf nodded, then with the help of the other Nuzleaf. Placed the girl inside of the cell with Nero.

"ng…" Lucille stirred as the door closed. "huh?"

"Nuzz. Nuzleaf!" The Nuzleaf yelled at Lucille. Before they leave.

"What? Nuzleaf? What's going on?" Lucille asked herself wonder where she was. "Where's Percy?"

"If he fell into the same trap as you. He's probably in a different cell." Nero answered.

"Ah!" Lucille screamed in surprise. She reached for a Pokémon for self-defense. But…

"Missing something?" Nero pointed to outside of the cell where two lines of pokeball filled belts were. "Those Nuzleaf are smart… Tch…"

"So… we don't have our Pokémon…" Lucille said with worry still in her voice.

"If I had mine, this cage would be in pieces already." Nero snapped back.

"…" Lucille was silent unsure what to say.

"So… guess we have to have a truce for now…" Nero was reluctant to suggest this.

"A truce?" Lucille was surprised by that.

"Do you seriously not know what it means? It's a cease fire between two sides." Nero scolded.

"I know what it means." Lucille fought back. "I just… didn't expect you to suggest it."

"please that's the last thing I want to do, but…" Nero looks to the door. "Whoever comes to open the door, might be the other's foe. Or the Nuzleaf might come back with the intent to kill us. Using our intestine as-."

"Ew! Alright, I understand!" Lucille shouted back. "You don't need to go into detail."

"…" Nero rolled his eyes.

"… Your name is… Nero, right?" Lucille asked.

"Nero Umbrasyl. The one and only black demon." Nero responded.

"I'm-" Lucille was going to introduce herself… but Nero interrupted.

"Look blondie I said truce but no way are we going to be friends." Nero said, not particularly happy fashion.

"My name isn't Blondie." Lucille responded. "My name-"

"Don't take offense, I rarely call people by their actual names. I may know what your name is, but I'll never call you by it." Nero eyes showed a large amount of rage.

"A-all right." Lucille shook back from it. Not expecting him to snap that quickly.

"HA!" The two both hear someone laugh at them, as it was a voice Nero didn't recognize he backed into the shadowy corner of the cell. Lucille on the other hand walked forward watched Fern walking away from the cell laughing.

"Fern!" Lucille called out to him.

Begrudgingly Fern returned to the cell. Though he had a smile on his face. "Really sorry about that, Lucy, I just had to step away for a moment to keep from bursting into laughter. Seeing you trapped in that cage is just too much."

"Hey!" Lucille responded.

"Hm…" Fern looked to the back of the cell meeting his eyes with Nero. "ha! You too! You look so helpless. It suits ya. I mean, really, imprisoned by Nuzleaf? I'd come up here in hopes of finding a gym leader, but all I just find some scrub in a cage..."

"…" Nero grit his teeth, knowing that just by saying one word he'd keep himself locked away.

"By the way, Demon, how is it being a Gym leader?" Fern smirked raising some gym badges he'd earned. "Turns out the leaders are super easy. I tore through two of them already! And here you are stuck in a cage. It's priceless!"

"…" Nero staying quiet, continued to grit his teeth, while balling his hand into a fist.

"Well, can't totally blame ya. Nuzleaf are deceptively crafty to be able to build all this. Though a Dark Type Trainer such as your self should know this." Fern continued to torment the caged beast.

Noticing Nero's anger Lucille intervened. "Yes, yes… Fern could you please let us out?"

"I'll gladly open the cage for you... If you get on your knees and beg. Whaddya say?"

"Wha?" Lucille was slightly stupefied at what Fern offered.

"You heard me, on all fours like a dog." Fern said.

"O-okay…" Lucille said, knowing this might be her only way out. Followed ferns instructions

"Now Repeat after me: I admit that I am an inferior Trainer, Battler, and Person to Fern."

"al… All right…" Lucille once again accepted. "I-."

Fern interrupted. Looking at Nero. "You too."

"Go to hell." Nero's anger finally snapped.

"You're not gonna do it?" Fern said slightly startled.

"Like Hell I would." Nero went to the front of the cage pressing against the bars. "As if I'll listen to a narcissistic brat like yourself."

"Fine, suit yourself!" Fern shouted starting to leave

"Fern, wait! What about me!" Lucille cried out.

"Rot in there, for all I care!" Fern shouted back, already going out of site.

"What the hell!" Lucille screamed at Nero. "He was going to let us out!"

"Tch. A brat like him." Nero scoffed. "I'd rather die then ask him for help. He just has no problem trying smash a trainer's pride."

"Pride, do you even know what that is?" Lucille asked. "There's no way someone like you could have pride."

"That's something that I should be asking you." Nero declared. "I mean you just agreed to it like it was nothing. You are really stupid. You look… you're nothing like her."

"What?" Lucille wondered what Nero meant.

"Nothing." Nero angerly replied.

"You definite-." Lucille tried to pursue the subject but stopped by Nero.

"You keep quiet, or I'm breaking the truce." Nero threatened.

"Fine…" Lucile dropped it. Though she still wanted to talk, find some information about him. "So…"

"What, now?" Nero was still in a foul mood.

"*Gulp*… Um, why did you join Team Meteor?" Lucille asked.

Nero stared at her, just sighed. "Unlike you or Shiro. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth."

"I didn't have a silver-." Lucille tried to defend her side, but Nero wasn't finished talking.

"Compared to my hellish life, you most definitely did." Nero growled. "Unlike me, you probably never had to fight for your own life. Never had to worry for what your next meal was, whether it be some real food or just another piece of trash."

"what about your parents!" Lucille exclaimed, "they cared about you, didn't they?"

"My parents?" Nero laughed, with a demonic smile. "You know my nickname, the Black Demon. Guess who gave it to me."

"…" Lucille was horrified at what Nero meant.

"Both my parents were blonde, yet they gave birth to a child with black hair. And get this." Nero lifted his shirt to reveal a birth mark. It was on the center of his chest, a giant black mark, a hole if you would. "As if I was born without a heart."

"But they-." Lucille's will was shaken.

"Let me continue, do you think I use Dark types by choice?" Nero then asked, reminded again and again every time he sees one. "all my life, they've been drawn to me. some nice, some not, others just want me dead or hurt. My parents hated that even more. Just continued to put more effort in thinking that I'm a demon. Thank my stars I don't have to see them ever again."

Seeing Nero smile at this, Lucille could only reach a single conclusion. "D-did you…"

"I wish." Nero said. "My mother abandoned me with my dead-beat father when I was young. Which lead to my father to put all the blame on me. With my mom gone, that only lead to sorrow and alcohol. Which lead to a lot of painful memories for me, and for him eventually his demise."

"…" Slowly tears started to fall down Lucille's face. She started to cry, crying for life that Nero had.

"Oh, quit it with water works Blondie." Nero scolded. "you asked for why I joined Team Meteor. Here plain and simple they were the first to seem for only my strength, not what I've been called. To them I'm not a demon."

"it must have been hard…" Lucille said tears still in her eyes.

"Shut up. I don't want pity." Nero growled, then looking up at the dark sky. "I'm going to sleep."

"…" Lucille was quiet, as Nero went to the corner. Siting up, in a position ready to fight if that was the case, and slowly drifting off into sleep.

Minutes pass as Nero actually falls asleep, when Lucille looked to him, he seemed so peaceful. As if nothing bad had ever happened in his life… Lucille then wondered, why would his parents call him a demon.

Slowly as the time continued to tick away, Lucille found it impossible to sleep. Though she was in the presence of the enemy, she felt like Nero wouldn't hurt her. She was actual more worried about Percival, and how he was doing, locked in a cage somewhere. She slowly started to laugh at her mistake of falling in that Pit Trap, before finally remembering about the item she found.

She first checked to see if the Nuzleaf took it from her, apparently, they didn't. Lucille still had the Gold Necklace. It was a pendant slash locket type necklace, with a Sun carved into the object. It was similar, yet also the opposite to her own silver crescent moon pendant. With great intrigue Lucille started to fiddle with the Gold Pendant, as if trying to find some sort of clue as to who the owner is.

Click.

The Pendant opened; it was a locket. It opened up slowly with slots of two pictures. The first one, it was a picture of a young boy around 5 or 6 years of age. The Boy had Black hair and grey eyes… it took Lucille a moment, but she recognized the boy as her current cellmate Nero. Though between the two there was a disparity between the two, the picture of the young Nero was different from the current one. It was as if nothing bad had ever occurred, like even though he was continuously called a demon, he didn't care, his life was still joyful. Wondering about the second picture Lucille turned to look at it. But unlike Nero's picture, this one had its glass shattered, making almost impossible to see the fine details of the picture. Though still roughly making it out, Lucille identified the person of question to be a girl with blonde hair.

"Who?" Lucille wondered who this person was, and how they knew Nero.

"Ng…*wine*" Nero slowly rose from his sleep. A Nightmare, one that has always haunted him in his sleep. He automatically reaches for something that is not currently around his neck. Noticing that it isn't there, he looks around in a panic. Noticing that it is open, in the hands of Lucille. "Give it back."

"huh?" Lucille panics hearing Nero's angry voice, and quickly closes the locket.

Nero got up and stood over Lucille, "Give it back, now."

"I-I will…" Lucille shakily answered. "But f-first, who is the girl…"

"None of your concern." Nero stated. "Now give it back."

"N-no!" Lucille yelled. "I won't! not until you answer me!"

"Grr." Nero growled, attempted to swipe it out of Lucille's hands, but that failed. "Fine!"

Nero yelled backing away, from Lucille. "…"

"The girl is the only person who never declared me a demon." Nero angrily spat out. "My twin sister."

Lucille was surprised to hear that Nero had a relative, let alone a twin "…"

"To my parent's anything she did was angelic. While everything else that I did was just another mistake." Nero continued. "Though even all that, every time my parents told her to never get close to me, she decided against it. She never let me feel sad, never feel alone. She was the kindest person I had ever met. She was almost always by my side. Though… in the end… That was her downfall."

Lucille's eyes went wide. "Y-you mean…"

Rustle, Rustle

There was some rustling of the grass outside of the cage, it was a Chatot. It moved the leaver to open the cell, while saying "Chat-chat— 'Release Nero!'… Chatot!"

"About fucking time Taka." Nero cursed, quickly leaving the cell.

"Wait!" Lucille shouted at Nero. "What happened to your sister?"

"I said it before. Dark-types are naturally attracted to me. Some nice, some not…" Nero drifted off. Remembering the day, that continuous nightmare.

"Some that just wanted you dead…" A chill ran down Lucille's spine as she said those words.

"Now, I'm taking this back." Nero grabbed his Necklace from Lucille's hands. "Next time we meet it'll be as enemies. See you around idiot."

Nero grabbed his pokeballs and within seconds of doing so, disappearing into the forest's shadows.