AN: Dragon is back with the next chapter! *hears random cheering* Ok settle down people, first of all sorry if it was too long for your tastes, but it takes time because of work. We had a lot of drama in the last chapter, especially family problems. This chapter is going to kick up another serious note so I hope you all enjoy it. The harem is as follows:

Cynthia

Anabel

Korrina

Serena

Ursula

Elesa

Roxie

Dawn

Hilda

Sabrina

Skyla

Zinnia

Pokémon- Attack

"Pokémon"- Pokémon speaking (people won't understand unless told otherwise)

"Pokémon"- Human Speech

'Pokémon'- Thinking

"Pokémon"- Pokédex Entry

Chapter 15:

Fight for Freedom! Ho-Oh's Attacked!

Over the vast blue ocean, the legendary Rainbow Pokémon known as Ho-Oh was weaving and twisting around attacks that sailed passed him. Explosions took place either within the water or the sky, causing water to spray in the air and wet his feathers slightly.

Many different species of Pokémon can be seen attacking the Johto legend without any signs of stopping. Crobats, Metangs, Staraptors, and even Golurks were doing whatever it took to bring down the mighty legend who continued to dodge their every attack. Attacks such as Air Slash, Psybeam, and even Hyper Beam were all dodged with grace and speed.

Ho-Oh turned its head left and released a powerful Flamethrower that engulfed a mass of Crobats and Metangs. Two Metangs rushed towards Ho-Oh from behind, hoping to hit it with Take Down. Ho-Oh quickly dived downwards towards the water, dodging the rushing Metangs. He was quickly followed by a flock of Crobats.

When it neared the water, Ho-Oh shot another powerful Flamethrower at its surface. The attack hitting the now chaotic water caused a thick cloud of steam to rise, completely encasing the legend and its pursuers.

Loud splashing sounds can be heard from the thick steam as the Pokémon waited to see what would emerge. From the smoke, a Flamethrower rushed out (causing them to dodge as fast as possible). Ho-Oh burst from the steam and used the path the Pokémon created.

Ho-Oh grinned in victory at outsmarting the Crobat who were trying to get out of the ocean they were now in. He took off in high speeds to escape the other Pokémon who were still pursuing him, not intending to let him escape. 'These Pokémon are seriously persistent,' Ho-Oh thought to himself, dodging another onslaught of attacks along with explosions the attacks made. 'Let's see how they like this!' He turned around while charging a silver flame in his beak. "Sacred Fire!" He yelled out as he released his signature move on the surprised Pokémon.

Too shocked to respond, most of the chasing Pokémon were caught by the attack and plummeted towards the water. Out of the Pokémon caught by the powerful attack, only one Golurk still had stood in the air (but only barely from all the damage the attack did). The other Pokémon who couldn't stand the attack fell out of the sky into the ocean below.

The Golurk quickly fired a Hyper Beam that Ho-Oh dodged with ease before flying to the left as he ran attempted to escape the now cut down flock of Pokémon. As he flew, Ho-Oh saw he was flying towards an island of sorts, causing him to try going a different way (not wanting to endanger any innocent Pokémon inhabiting the island) only to be attacked with more ferocity. Some attacks even making contact with his body, causing him to wince slightly from the pain.

As they got closer to the island, Ho-Oh had one thought in his mind as he came to a realization. 'They are pushing me to that island on purpose!'

A light coming from the island caught Ho-Oh's eye, causing them to widen as he saw what was heading his way (and causing that bright light). Ho-Oh dived downwards, avoiding a powerful Flamethrower that barely missed his wing. Stopping his dive when he felt he was safe, the Rainbow Pokémon came face-to-face with his attacker.

A powerful Charizard stood before the legend with a vicious snarl on his face. The Charizard's body was littered with scars, no doubt from many vicious battles and intense training. From the powerful wind caused by the occasional flap from its scared wings, Ho-Oh could tell it was also a very powerful flyer.

The feeling the Charizard gave off was something that he has not felt in a long time from a normal Pokémon; an overwhelming amount of power. His fellow legendary Pokémon can exude this amount of power and the last one he felt that wasn't a legendary was the Lucario owned by Sir Auron.

Ho-Oh now knew that trying to escape the upcoming fight was pointless. This Charizard could no doubt keep up with him at his full speed, and with all of these Pokémon blocking his path still; he HAD no choice but to battle.

"Why are you all attacking me?" Ho-Oh screeched at the Charizard, who only growled in response. 'The power radiating off of him is not normal for his species, what is going on?'

"Now, now Ho-Oh," a voice spoke out above the two flying Pokémon. "I think it's quite obvious what's happening here, don't you?"

Ho-Oh looked up and his eyes widened at the site before him. A human wearing a black cloak was grinning his way. Protruding from his back were wings, about the length of Charizard's, made of pure aura. Pure BLACK aura! 'A Dark Aura user!' Ho-Oh yelled out mentally as sweat poured down his face from worry. 'This shouldn't be possible, not anymore at least. The last Dark Aura user nearly destroyed the world and almost killed Lord Arceus! He even made HIM permantely under his command! How is there another one when we kept track of every aura user that exists!'

"Charizard, use Fire Blast followed by Slash," the man suddenly commanded. Charizard roared with power before firing the powerful fire attack that raced at Ho-Oh. The legend quickly dodged, only to move his talons up and block the glowing claws of Charizard (struggling to keep the Fire/Flying at bay). So focused on holding his ground, he didn't see Charizard's other glowing claw rushing at him. Ho-Oh let go to try and dodge, but he moved too late and the Slash hit its mark across Ho-Oh's chest causing the legend to screech out in pain.

Not one to be outdone by another though, Ho-Oh swung his left wing at Charizard, his wings hardening into his Steel Wing attack. The surprise attack hit Charizard directly across the face, sending the Flame Pokémon flying backwards a few feet before it stopped himself and glared.

'That's just like you Ho-Oh,' the man thought. "Charizard go and show him what a real Steel Wing supposed to look like! Then burn him down with Flamethrower." The giant lizard took off towards Ho-Oh with his wings metallic like Ho-Oh's was a few moments ago. Ho-Oh screeched before rushing towards Charizard with his own Steel Wing.

The two attacks collided with a loud metallic 'TANG' and created a shockwave that dispersed any nearby clouds. The two Pokémon, while still trying to overpower the other, reared their heads back and fired a powerful, close range Flamethrower.

The two attacks collided and caused a pillar of fire to tower over the two Pokémon. The more power they poured into their attack, the more intense the tower of flames became. The tower, after about a minute of growing, began to bend and fluctuate from all the power it now contained. No longer able to sustain its form, it exploded in a fiery rain that the two battlers ignored.

Some of the small balls of fire made its way to the cloaked figure and the surrounding Pokémon. The Pokémon just did their best to either evade or defend themselves from the flames. The cloaked figure just grinned as a dome of energy formed around him, blocking the fire with ease. Ho-Oh caught sight of this action at the corner of his eyes and grimaced.

'His control over his dark aura is practically perfect,' Ho-Oh thought in worry, as he dodged a Slash attack from Charizard and sent his opponent back with a Flamethrower. 'Ash's aura abilities is near Master Level, but that's only in his control and shape. His skills in using Pokémon attacks still need a lot of work, unlike this man. That Protect attack was flawless.'

"Keep your head in the game Ho-Oh," the figure said. "Charizard, use Flare Blitz and make sure that it hurts." Charizard's body was instantly covered in flames before it changed into a fiery blue color, and charged at the surprised Rainbow Pokémon (who tried to dodge but failed). Charizard rammed into the legendary, causing an explosion that drowned out Ho-Oh's screech of pain.

"Follow it up with Slash," the cloaked man commanded. "Then hit him with a Fire Blast!" Another screech of pain was heard from the smoke as a colorful blur was launched out of the smoke. The blur (Ho-Oh) tried to straighten itself, only to be slammed by an incoming Fire Blast and was engulfed by another fiery explosion.

Charizard roared out in victory as it had bested one of the world's most powerful fire type Pokémon. Looking towards its trainer for orders, the man only smirked in amusement (and slight annoyance at his Charizard). 'You're not done Ho-Oh; you're far from being beaten.'

A Fire Blast made its way from the smoke and slammed into the unprepared Charizard. The attack pushed Charizard a few meter before exploding. Ho-Oh dispersed the smoke around himself with a flap of his majestic wings as he growled at his opponent.

"Don't count me out of this fight just yet, lizard!" Ho-Oh screeched in defiance. "I've lived since the beginning of the world's formation, and have battled just as long. You will have to do much better than that if you wish to take me on."

A roar erupted as the smoke was dispersed by the scarred Charizard who looked like he was still raring to go. The cloaked smirked at the fight before him.

'Go ahead Ho-Oh; you're just like you were back then.' "Charizard, go in with a Slash attack once more, and don't let up."

Charizard's claws glowed white as the extended in length and he took towards Ho-Oh who responded by flying upwards to dodge the Charizard. Charizard stopped its rushing and chased after the legendary into the clouds.

The cloaked figure's eyes glowed black as he used his aura sight to see the two Pokémon's aura. Then his black aura wings flapped as he flew after the two battlers.

Ho-Oh quickly dodged a Slash and twisted around another swipe. Flying over a third swipe, Ho-Oh's wings glowed metallic and countered Charizard's fourth attempt with a Steel Wing.

Dodge, dodge, counter. Dodge, dodge, counter. This process kept occurring down.

Charizard's next attempt had just missed Ho-Oh and was about to attack again before its master gave another order. "Use Dragon Claw and grab his wings!"

Charizard's white claws vanished and they were replaced by large, purple ethereal-like claws. Ho-Oh, who was already in the process of swinging his Steel Wing, was caught off guard by the change in tactics and could not react in time. Luckily though, thanks to the Steel Wing, Ho-Oh took little to no damage from the Dragon Claw's energy grabbing his wing.

But now Ho-Oh was trapped, locked by the tight grip that the snarling Charizard had on him. The cloaked figure commanded as he calmly and slight amusement in his tone. "Charizard, Dragon Rage."

Opening his powerful jaws, a dark blue sphere formed, before Charizard released it (while still holding onto Ho-Oh). The Johto legend screeched in pain as the attack scorched its feathers, the intensity of the close range attack increasing in power. Charizard cancelled his attack as he glared at his slightly smoking opponent (whose screeching stopped).

Ho-Oh, whose eyes were still closed from the pain he felt, snapped its eyes open and clasped his beak around Charizard's neck as tight as he could. This caused the Fire/Flying Pokémon to roar out in pain.

"Charizard, ignore your foolish pain and use Dragon Rage once more," the cloaked man commanded, uncaring of his Pokémon's cries of pain. Charizard swallowed down its painful cries and fired another close range Dragon Rage, eliciting another cry of pain from Ho-Oh.

The legendary used all of its will to ignore the pain he felt, as he clenched his teeth and allowed electricity to spark around his body. The cloaked figures eyes widened as he saw what was about to happen.

"Charizard, get out of there!" he yelled out, but it was too late as Ho-Oh unleashed a devastating Thunder attack on Charizard. Not only did it cancel Charizard's Dragon type attack, but it made the Flame Pokémon loosen his grip as he wailed in agony.

This allowed Ho-Oh to break free and knock Charizard down with another Steel Wing. As Charizard plummeted, Ho-Oh gathered the familiar silver flames in his beak and unleashed his signature move.

The hooded man's left hand clenched into a fist as he saw the Sacred Fire approach Charizard. 'That damn Ho-Oh has learned a few new tricks since we last met,' he thought to himself. A smirk made its way on his lips as he flexed his dark aura, 'But even then...'

Charizard's eyes snapped open as he sped down faster and rolled to the right, dodging the Sacred Fire. "Use Flare Blitz Charizard and make it count." Charizard's body was covered by the familiar blue flames as he rushed towards Ho-Oh.

'How can it still be able to battle!?' Ho-Oh thought frantically as he dodged Charizard, only to be chased by the Fire/Flying type. 'I can't keep this up much longer. Battling non-stop all day, being chased down by the other Pokémon, and expending so much energy with my attacks (not to mention the multiple Sacred Fires used), along with all the damage I've been taking!' He turned and charged at Charizard as his body began to glow a rainbow color, his feathers taking on the glow as well. He began to spin as his Sacred Fire surrounded him (the rainbow colors mixing into the silver vortex).

'So he's using it,' the cloaked man thought, amused by the turn of events. 'His rainbow aura, the second reason he's called the Rainbow Pokémon. This is his final stand move, since when he uses it, its really draining on him. It looks like its over for you Ho-Oh, get ready to say goodbye to your free will!'

"Charizard..." he paused as the two Pokémon got closer to impact before he yelled out his final command."...Blast Burn at full power!"

The flames encasing Charizard's body became so intense that all surrounding Pokémon began sweating. The flame on his tail not only grew in length, but also in intensity. The blue flames traveled to his arm and fist as they glowed so brightly that the surrounding Pokémon had to look away. The light caused by both Fire Pokémon lit up the ocean below and the intensity of the fire caused some of the trees on the island below to smoke slightly.

Inches from each other, a loud screech came from Ho-Oh as well as the powerful roar from Charizard echoed for miles as some of the Pokémon had to cover their eyes from the high volume. Time seem to slow as Charizard swung his fiery fist forward and Ho-Oh lunged at full force with its multiple colored vortex.

The two titanic attacks collided, as a shockwave so powerful that everything in the surrounding area was affected. Clouds dispersed and vanished (leaving a clear blue sky), the once calm ocean was now shaking violently as if a storm was blowing, even the audience of the battle were thrown back a few meters and to fight as best they could to not be thrown further.

The two Pokémon continued to push as another shockwave occurred, this time stronger than before. Neither Pokémon were willing to lose this struggle and with one final yell they pushed with all they had.

Ho-Oh's light from the spinning vortex dimmed slightly, as an explosion replaced the scream of the Pokémon as it echoed through the vast sky. The explosion caused a thick cloud of smoke to cover the battling Pokémon, blocking the view from the spectators.

For a moment, no move was made and not a sound was heard. The man nodded his head as the smoke was blown away by the powerful flap of wings. Charizard stood proudly and menacingly while being covered by burn and bleeding bruises. In his right hand was a bruised and barely conscious Ho-Oh, who dangled limply in the Charizard's tight grip.

Wordlessly, the cloaked man lowered himself as he flew towards the lone island (taking note that some plants were either smoking or already lit with flames). Charizard flew after his master as his grip tightened on the slightly struggling legend.

Once they reached land, the man's black wings dispersed into energy and were reabsorbed into his body. His Charizard landed soon after with a loud 'THUD' and tossed Ho-Oh to the sandy ground. As Ho-Oh tried to get up, he was slammed back to the sand by the Charizard's foot on his back.

Ho-Oh barely raised his head as he glared at the cloaked figure. "Why...why are you...doing this?" Ho-Oh asked as menacingly as he could (which didn't really work due to his raspy voice).

"My reasons are my own Ho-Oh," the man spoke out. "The only thing you need to know is that I am your new master." At the word 'master', Ho-Oh released a deep and menacing growl. This action caused the man to smirk and the Charizard to stomp on Ho-Oh's back (causing the legend to grunt in pain). "What's wrong Ho-Oh, having some trouble?" The mere taunt and amusement in his voice made Ho-Oh's blood boil in anger.

"Just who, are you?" Ho-Oh grounded out. "There aren't many aura users left in the world, let alone someone like you!" You could practically taste the venom in Ho-Oh's words.

The man simply shrugged at Ho-Oh's anger and tone, as a new smirk made its way on his face (happy at seeing Ho-Oh in such a state of pain and anger). "You know who I am Ho-Oh," he replied calmly. "You might even say..." he pulled off his hood (revealing slightly spikey raven colored hair), dark brown eyes, and a chiseled handsome face, "...you know me really well. Do you recognize me now?"

Ho-Oh's eyes widened, his anger still growing throughout his body. 'It can't be, it can't be him!' "How DARE you mock his face you bastard! He's dead and you dare to cause his spirit such unrest with your actions! You will PAY!"

"You really don't think its me Ho-Oh," the man replied, pleased by Ho-Oh's rising rage. "Then there is undeniable proof that its me." His black aura roared to life around him, twisting around him in a violent manner as it kicked sand into the air. The color began to change and lighten up slowly as it changed from its black color to a light blue.

Ho-Oh's eyes widened once more, he couldn't believe it! This aura, this powerful feeling was held by only one person! That means his attacker, the one that's caused him such pain, was his closest mortal friend! He couldn't believe it (he refused to believe it), but the evidence was staring him in the face, as his enemy.

"How could you," Ho-Oh whispered in a soft tone as his rage rose. "How could you do this, to me, to us!?"

The man smiled, though far from the warm smile Ho-Oh remembered, as his aura quickly returned to its black color. His eyes glowed black and the same black aura erupted from Ho-Oh's body, causing the legend to screech in pain.

'When did he get me!?' Ho-Oh yelled mentally as he panicked. He watched helplessly as the man he once trusted raised his hand and the black aura rushed at Ho-Oh, bathing the Rainbow Pokémon in it dark embrace.

Ho-Oh screeched in pain as he tried to resist the control of the black aura and the cold feeling in his heart. He refused to become a puppet, he would not be controlled! Two minutes have passed and Ho-Oh was still resisting...'his master'...this caused Ho-Oh to pause in shock at his thought.

That was a big mistake.

That split second pause was all the man needed as his black aura intensified around both him and Ho-Oh. Just as quickly as it grew, the black aura stopped. For a moment, it just floated around the Rainbow Pokémon's body before it was slowly absorbed into it. Charizard stepped away from the Johto legend as the last bit of the black aura disappeared into Ho-Oh.

As Ho-Oh began to stand up, the man nodded as he could feel the hate and malice from Ho-Oh. Pleased with the result he grinned at the once proud Legendary of the Johto region. "You belong to me now Ho-Oh, am I understood?"

Ho-Oh opened its now darkened eyes as he bowed lowly to its new master. "Understood, Master Red."

AN: That is it and I'm stopping there. I hope you all enjoyed the battle and now capture of Ho-Oh. I wanted this battle to portray how powerful the, now revealed Red and the legendaries are. I feel that the legends are seriously nerfed in the anime, compared to the power that they SHOULD possess with their titles. I hope I showed it well enough. I don't have much to say really. Please review and tell me what you think of it, I love reading the review from you all. Have a great Christmas (if I don't have a chapter up before then) or whatever you celebrate.

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