Well here is Chapter 24. I loved writing this chapter because it was kind of emotional and fun to write. I won't spoil to much on it but their will be a bit to talk about in the author's note at the end. Thanks for reading and thanks again for everyone who takes a little time to leave a review you guys/gals are awesome and deserve a medal or something cool like that lol.

Chapter 24: Life's End

Point of View Flare

I was now travelling down a path very nervously with Kana, Gray and the pikachu I just met known as Hesh. We were traveling down a path that followed the side of the mountain now. The reason we were heading in this direction is because we could hear the sound of gunshots off in the distance. Kana had an uneasy look on her face and she almost looked a little sick, Gray looked like he was on guard and he was very jumpy from even the smallest noises and Hesh was just walking down the path with a lot of confidence not fearing the danger ahead.

"Are we sure this is a good idea" Kana asked with a slightly shaky voice.

Hesh just looked at her funny "Towns back that way" he said as he pointed her towards town. I honestly wouldn't of minded heading back to town because honestly I was not really interested in feeling what it's like to get shot by a gun, although not to sound weird I was kind of curious at the same time what it felt like. Not that I would go testing it out, it was just an interesting thought.

The night was now almost over and we could see the sky going from its black darkness to a dark blue and soon the sun would be out and would bring the world back to life.

"What about you Gray do you think this is safe in anyway" Kana asked him, trying to get someone to bail out with her. "Kana if you want to go back that's fine, my opinion on you can't possibly get any lower" Gray with a snide smirk on his face. I was pretty sure that was just Gray's cruel humor and that he didn't really mean it completely.

"Jeez thanks" Kana said as she rolled her eyes at him in slight annoyance. I could tell Kana was worried because usually she would have just laughed that off, so obviously her personality was a little thrown off from the danger we were heading towards. All I knew is that we were running out of time and if Alex woke up before we were in town it was going to be very ugly for everyone.

Then we saw something that made Hesh's face freeze in shock. Running towards us was a group of four pokemon. There was a young looking eevee, a charmander, a squirtle with a little blood on him and a rattata that was breathing as if he had horrible asthma.

"Hesh" The charmander yelled towards the yellow pikachu who was still shocked.

"Connor" Hesh said quietly as he took in what he was seeing. "Where in the hell were you" Hesh yelled in a pissed off voice.

The charmander stopped dead in his tracks as soon as Hesh yelled and he stared at him not know what to say.

"Then the squirtle stepped in front of the charmander "We were all abducted by some odd individuals" the squirtle said speaking for the charmander. I was very shocked, we were looking for them this whole time and in the end they came to us.

"No time for introductions though our friend is injured and he needs medical attention now" the squirtle said in a dire voice.

"Please help" the small eevee said with a shy voice. I looked at her and she was shaking from everything that was going on and there was no way anyone who was sane could say no to a face like that.

"I'll help" I said out loud with a small smile to show my confidence. The eevee then let out a small smile. Gray then stepped forward and gave a small nod to show that he was in.

"I came all this way to lend a hand" Hesh said with a small smirk.

We all turned our attention at Kana who was still undecided. "Well" Gray asked her with an impatient voice.

"I'll see if I can help" She said in a slightly more confident voice than before.

"Much obliged" the squirtle said in a happy voice.

"I'm not trying to get out of this but Ebony and I are going to get the police and some medical assistance for our friend while you all go and help are friend" the squirtle said.

"I'll be coming with you Blue" the rattata who was breathing hard said.

"Okay fair enough, Connor lead me to your injured friend" Hesh said quickly agreeing to the squirtle's plan. Connor then nodded and began running in the direction of his wounded friend. We all followed Connor towards the direction of the gunshots we heard earlier. I was just hoping nothing to dangerous was up ahead and that we would be there in time.

Point of View Black

I was still lying on the floor bleeding to death slowly. It has now been about five or ten minutes and the pain in my hip had calmed down a little. I decided that it was time for me to at least attempt not to let those bastards capture me so easily. I then rolled over slowly and began using all of my will strength to get back up. The instant I even started using my muscles my wound instantly started feeling an intense sharp pain that was excruciating. I eventually made it to my feet and I took a second to let the pain die down. A little before I started moving again, I was breathing really heavy now and no matter how much I breathed I could not catch my breath.

I then slowly began making my way down the mountain. I knew if the scientist knew anything about tracking they would just follow my blood trail to my soon to be dead body. I took baby steps down the mountain and made my way towards the beach. If I was going to die I was at least going to die somewhere peaceful. Every step I took down the mountain I could feel the sharp pain in my wound screaming bloody murder and I just wanted to stop here.

"Almost their" I said to myself in between my pained breaths. I didn't know why but the scientists that were after me weren't here yet. Then I started to fear that they may have been too dumb to follow my blood trail and they went for my friends. I tried shaking the thought out of my head and I continued my descent down the mountain.

After about five minutes of inching my way down the mountain my body gave out and I slipped and fell. Sadly for me physics was not my friend at the moment and I tousled down the mountain for a few seconds before I could catch myself. I yelled in agonizing pain at the top of my lungs. My body hurt before but now it was ten times worse. I didn't waste any time after my scream though, I quickly began getting to my feet and I continued my descent.

After a few minutes of walking down a mountain half dead I finally made it to the beach at the bottom of the mountain. The sand on the beach was nice and cool on my soar paws. Off in the distance of the ocean I could see the sun slowly rising and it lit the entire ocean on fire in a variety of fiery colors. The sun was pretty blinding, but it made the scene perfect.

"It's a good day to die" I said to myself jokingly as I gently lied down on the sand. The sun's rays were slowly heating up my cold body and made me even more comfortable with my death. The ocean waves gently went up and down the beach making a really soothing noise as it went along the sand and retracted back into the deep sea. Life's end wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

"Found you" I heard a voice I resented call out from behind me. I slowly shifted my glance and I saw Stark standing about five meters away from me. He then slowly made his way towards me.

"Can't I just die in peace" I said in a slightly annoyed voice.

"No I'm afraid that would be bad for the Crimson Dawn" he said towards me.

"Who?" I asked" in a confused voice.

"Not the scientists who held you hostage but the pokemon who are after you" Stark enlightened me on the name of the group of pokemon after me.

"Then who the hell are the scientist and what the hell were they doing to everyone their" I asked in a slightly angered voice.

"The scientists go by the name of Team Genesis and they are a large group of underground scientists throughout Kalos who experiment on pokemon. Although they are mostly popular for creating artificial pokemon and using them for their own use or selling them to the highest bidder in an underground market" Stark said.

"I've never heard of them" I said in a faint voice.

"No surprise they are good at concealing their existence to the world" Stark said as he looked off into the sunrise.

"I have one question for you Stark" I said as I raised my head and looked stark in his blue eyes. He shifted his glance and gave me his full attention "Go ahead Shoot" he said.

"How do you kill someone like that eevee back in that facility and not feel anything. What kind of heartless monster does that" I said as I felt myself slowly coming back to life from my anger that was building up.

"How do I kill someone and feel nothing?" Stark repeated the question I asked "I guess it has to do with how I was raised. I wasn't raised in the wild like you nor was I raised by a loving family that taught me morals of any kind. I was raised to be a killer" Stark said as he looked at me with piercing eyes.

Stark then continued to enlighten me on his background story "The first memory I can even remember was when I was with my trainer. Although we weren't on a mission to get gym badges, he was a hitman that was greedy and would just about kill anyone if the price was right" Stark said as he continued his story.

I just listened to his somewhat interesting background story that seemed like a Hollywood movie humans would watch. "So I was raised to kill and in order to do that my trainer made sure to break my soul. I had a really close friend at one point in my life when my trainer and I were staying low in some country town. As soon as my trainer found out he literally took that pokemon deep into the woods and butchered him in front of me just to prove a point. I wasn't allowed to have friends, I was his tool nothing more and he had no use for tools with emotions" Stark said with slight anger towards his old trainer.

"Anyways I'd get into my life more but I'm afraid you will die before it's over so why don't I take you back and I'll tell you the rest after you tell me where your friends are" Starks said as he quickly got back down to business. I quickly froze up in fear. He was going to now save me just so he could get some answers out of me. I was just hoping he was going to let me die their but it seemed he had different plans than me.

Point of View Flare

We all anxiously followed the trail until we came upon a trail of blood. "He was right here" Connor yelled in frustration. After a little more observation Connor quickly realized that the trail of blood led down the mountain, which indicated the wounded pokemon probably moved on his own.

"Guys who is he?" Kana said in a really shaky voice that really worried me. Everyone quickly shifted their glance to where Kana was looking and we all saw a black scyther standing on a giant rock on the path. We all took a few steps back.

"Who the hell are you" Gray snarled in a vicious voice towards the black scyther. The scyther then jumped off the rock and went towards gray with his blade. Gray foresaw the attack and quickly jumped away to safety. The scyther's blade hit the ground and left a good sized cut in the rock ground. I gulped at that sight. I could only imagine the kind of cuts those blades would make against flesh and bone.

"Fine we'll play along with you" Gray said in a taunting tone. "Flare, Kana, Hesh go to your friend, charmander you have a type advantage and I don't so you stay here and help me beat the living hell out of this bug" Gray said with confidence.

We were all hesitant about leaving Gray and Connor with such a dangerous looking opponent but I knew if Gray couldn't handle him he could at least kill the bug with his horrible attitude. We all obeyed his orders and quickly ran down the mountain in the direction of the blood trail. After about five minutes of walking the trail led to a beach. On the beach we saw an umbreon that was white standing over something black.

Hesh didn't waste any time and quickly bolted down the mountain towards the umbreon in an angry manner. Kana and I followed at a much slower paste since we weren't use to navigating around on a mountain. Once Hesh reached the bottom he froze and his fist tightened up in an angry manner and I noticed he was gritting his teeth and death staring the white umbreon. Once I got closer I noticed what the white umbreon was standing above.

"Black" I said faintly in disbelief of what I was seeing. Kana stood next to me in shock as well not believing what she was seeing. The white umbreon then turned around and moved away from Blacks body and revealed a giant wound in his hip that was bleeding quite a bit.

"Black" I yelled towards my long lost friend. I saw him shift his glare towards us.

"Flare… Run" I heard him say as his head fell to the ground.

"You know Black" Hesh asked me while he kept full eye contact on the white umbreon.

"Yeah Black is my friend" I said as I felt fury building up inside me. The white umbreon then looked at us with a slightly shocked look.

"Well this will save me the time of beating the answers out of your friend, it looks like you came to me" The umbreon said with a voice that set my teeth on edge.

"What" Kana said in a worried voice that was shaky.

"My colleagues have been looking for you, you know since your all loose ends" he said as he took a step towards us. Kana took a step back, but Hesh and I held our ground.

"Wait let me help him" Hesh said in a worried voice towards the umbreon. The umbreon just looked at him in a confused manner. "Let me try and stop his bleeding please" Hesh said in a desperate voice.

The umbreon just stood there for a second and considered what he was saying "Fine, but no tricks" the umbreon said with a serious voice. "No tricks" Hesh said as he walked towards Black cautiously with his hands up. The white umbreon just took a few steps away from Black and gave Hesh some room to help Black. Hesh had no equipment on him to help at all so the best Hesh could do was put his hands on Black's wound and apply pressure. Black was still conscious so when Hesh applied the pressure he winced in pain from the pressure.

"It's going to be okay Black were here to help you" Hesh said in a calm voice.

"Jolteon are you fast" Stark asked her. Kana then froze up a little from him asking her a question like that so randomly.

"I'll take your silence as a yes, run down the left side of the beach and there should be a lifeguard tower somewhere. Once you find it there should be some medical supplies for your friend" the umbreon said as he pointed in the direction of the lifeguard tower. Kana just looked at me for a second not really knowing what to do.

"Just go Kana we'll be fine" I whispered to her. She gave a small nod and ran as fast as she could towards the life guard tower along the beach the umbreon spoke of.

I just awkwardly stood here keeping a close eye on the white umbreon. "Are you the one who hurt Black" I asked with a serious voice.

"Not the wound on his side that was caused by my comrade" the umbreon said with a small yawn. I felt kind of insulated that he would even consider yawning at a situation like this.

"Then why are you letting us heal him" I said in an untrusting tone.

"Not that I care for him, it's just that someone wants him alive and no matter what he can't die" the umbreon said as he stretched his body out a little.

After a few minutes Kana came running back with a big first aid kit in her mouth. She got close to Black but she refused to get close to the white umbreon.

"I'm not going to kill you yet so just give him the kit" the umbreon snapped at her. She then cautiously brought the kit to Hesh. Hesh quickly opened it up and it revealed bandages and a liquid container and a stitching kit. Hesh gulped and then wiped some sweat off his head as he began to take out the equipment.

Black just looked at Hesh with a weak and tired glare. "He's just going to kill all of you once this is over, run while you can" Black said in a faint voice.

"Don't worry about us just try and focus on staying awake" Hesh said in a calm voice as began unscrewing the lid to the liquid container. The container appeared to be rubbing alcohol and I knew that pouring it on a wound as deep as Black's was going to burn like fire, but at least it would keep him from getting an infection.

"This may sting a little buddy but just hang in their okay" Hesh said as he then placed a hand on Black to hold him still. Black just looked away as Hesh began pouring the alcohol in his wound. The instant the rubbing alcohol made contact with his wound he quickly began wincing and squirming in pain as he let out a groan of pain here and there. Black's eyes were now clenched shut as he gritted his teeth in an attempt to cope with the pain he was in.

"Okay that's the worst part Black, now I just need to stop the bleeding a little more and I'm going to stitch up your wound, can you hang in there for me buddy" Hesh said in a somewhat professional caring doctor voice. Hesh then took out a cloth and began pressing in on the wound and Black then began wincing in pain again.

"I know, I know it hurts just hang in there for me bud" Hesh said with a small reassuring smile in an attempt to calm Black down a little.

"Is he going to be fine" the white umbreon asked in a serious unpleasant voice.

"If I can stop the bleed he will be fine for a while, but he needs a hospital now before he gets worse" Hesh said towards the umbreon.

After about a few minutes of watching Hesh apply pressure to Blacks wound the bleeding was finally slowing down.

"Okay I can now move onto the next part. Black I need you to stand completely still" Hesh said as he looked Black dead in the eyes. Black just gave a weak nod as Hesh began pulling out the stitching kit.

"I can't watch this" Kana said as she turned her head as if she was about to puke. I on the other hand was going to keep a good eye on our white umbreon to make sure he didn't try anything.

Hesh was now holding two tweezers, one in each hand. He also had out a long wire that was attached to a suture needle. Hesh then took a deep breath and grabbed the suture needle with the tweezers in his hand and then he grabbed Blacks flesh with the tweezers from inside the wound and held it out and then put the needle through the inside of his wound and then put it through the other side of the wound and then moved up along the wound and went to the other side of the wound and put it through the flesh of the wound and then put it in the exact opposite side of the wound and continued the process until he was about five stitches in on each side. Once he was five stitches in he pulled the wire from both sides of the wound together and the flesh from Black's wound came together and he began tying a knot to hold the flesh together. Once the knot was done he took a deep breath and wiped some sweat off his head.

The wound was only around one third sealed by now and there was still quite a bit to go. The whole time Hesh was stitching up Black, Black just tried his best not to make sudden movements as he closed his eyes. Every here and there you could see Black grit his teeth tighter from being uncomfortable. I could only imagine the pain he was going through and how horrible it must feel to get stitches put in you without any form of pain killer.

After around ten minutes of watching Black being stitched up Hesh finally made a knot on the final stitch and the wound was now sealed up completely. Hesh let out a sigh of relief and quickly sat down to relax from having to focus so long. Black on the other hand was still conscious and just lied their probably exhausted from his near death experience.

"Is he completely stable now" The umbreon asked as he looked at Black.

"Yeah as long as he doesn't move around too much we should be able to get him to a hospital alive" Hesh said with an exhausted voice.

"Good" The umbreon said as he walked over to Black. Everyone including Hesh all got really on edge as he moved towards black. Black tried moving away but the white umbreon then hit him in the temple of his head with his paw really hard. I then watched as Black's body went limp and he fell unconscious.

"The hell was that for" I yelled in anger as I began charging a flame thrower in my mouth.

"I don't want him getting hurt while we finish up here" The umbreon said as he looked us in the eyes.

"I thought you were going to let us go" Hesh said in a betrayed voice as he got away from the umbreon as fast as possible.

"I never said that, you asked to heal him and I allowed you to. I'll make you a deal though" the umbreon said to us. We all just stared at him with killer eyes and waited to battle him.

"If you can kill me, you can take your friend with you, but I don't think any of you have a chance of landing a scratch on me" he said in a taunting voice. We all just continued staring at him.

"You can tell a lot about someone's battle experience by looking into their eyes. I can tell you have seen a little bit of experience fennekin since your eyes glow with confidence, but that is also one of your weaknesses and the pikachu on the other hand just wants to smash my skull in, but judging by his glare he's probably the most experience out of all of you and the jolteon over there. I can tell you are a coward just by looking at you" He said as he judged all of us just by the look into our eyes.

"Shut it" Hesh yelled with fury in his tone.

"I remember one time I fought a pokemon who was a member of the elite four, now that was one hell of a battle, sadly it did end in a draw but I think we both held out pretty good. Do you think you can match the power of a member of the elite four" The umbreon gloated with pride as he took a step towards us.

I knew if he was telling the truth then we were all in serious trouble since we all struggled to beat the first gym leader. I could feel a bead of sweat rolling down my head as I swallowed the saliva in my mouth and prepared for a fight to protect all of our lives.

Chapter End

Author Note: Well as I said at the beginning I loved writing this chapter it was entertaining just to write. Anyways I bet Black really loved getting that medical attention without any pain killers. Anyways for those of you who don't know what a suture is it's a hook like needle used for surgery. Before I made this chap I actually looked up some real surgery video's that way I could give a good description on that stitching scene. Anyways some of Stark's background was revealed but I promise you that's just the beginning of his story. (I won't spoil much) Gray and Connor are now fighting that black scyther and I'm sure he will put up a good fight. Anyways a lot is going on and things are getting very intense for our cast of character as they all fight for what they believe'n. Thanks for reading and as always I'm going to thank everyone who reviews and reads.