So now were at chapter 35 and I can't believe how far this stories come over a short time. This chapter is a good one and will have something interesting in it later on. Thanks for reading and thank's to everyone who reviews!

Chapter 35: Trafficking

Point of View Flare

Everybody was now returning from our search to find Black after he snapped and ran off on his own. To our surprise though we found him napping on the ground at the rest area where we were originally at. Every single one of us stared at Black as he slept in a calm manner as if nothing happened. It was kind of bizarre seeing Black curled up in a ball breathing gently after he just snapped not even fifteen minutes ago, it was odd seeing him calmed down so fast when his temper is known to last for so long.

"Kana how long has he been here" I asked as I looked at the jolteon who looked zoned out and didn't even reply to what I said "Kana" I shouted really loud to get her attention.

The jolteon then stuck her head up and her eyes widened really wide "Huh w-what" she said in a confused manner as she looked around to figure out who called her name.

"How long has he been back" I then asked.

"About fifteen minutes or so" Kana replied.

Hesh then looked at her with a strange look "And you didn't tell us he was back" the pikachu complained.

"Well no, me and Black had an interesting conversation when he got back"

"About what" the pikachu questioned.

"Nothing, just stuff" the jolteon said in an attempt to remain tight lipped.

"Whatever you say kana" Hesh said as he let out a yawn. I myself was a little disappointed that Kana wasn't going to tell us about their conversation.

"Is everyone ready to go" Alex asked us as he walked towards us.

"Sure why not" Hesh said out loud to our trainer.

Alex then looked back at us and noticed his sleeping umbreon that had no intention's on waking up. Alex then walked up to Black and kneeled down as low as he could without falling on the umbreon and then stroked his hand along Black's fur gently. Alex then unstrapped a pokeball off his belt and clicked a button on it and sucked Black into the ball.

"Rest up Black, I know things have been hard lately" Alex said with a small smile as he stood up.

"Alright let's all hustle since we lost some time looking for Black" Alex said in a peppy voice. Shortly after Alex said that we all started walking down the path along the beach towards Cyllage city. Luckily for us the weather still managed to stay as perfect as it was previously today and I'd even say it cooled down a little to the perfect temperature.

Everyone was walking silently in our group. The lady from before that we dueled against went on ahead towards the exact same destination we were going and said she'd meet up with us there after we found our pokemon. I was actually kind of curious about what I could learn from that charmander. I was mostly curious about what he knew of Black and the pokemon after us.

"Hey Flare can I talk to you in private" I then heard Kana call out from behind me. I turned my head back to see a bothered looking jolteon. The jolteon held her head low and had a gloomy look in her eyes eyes.

"Sure what's up" I said with a small smile that was supposed to lighten her upset mood.

"Just let everyone go ahead of us a little first" Kana said as she looked at our group. I then stopped walking and she did the same and we let everyone walk past us. No one really paid too much attention to us lacking behind since most of them were day dreaming, except for Hesh who was talking to Gray a little about random miscellaneous stuff.

After everyone was out of hearing distance we then both started walking behind our group and I then decided to start off the discussion Kana wanted to have "What's on your mind."

"You said you knew Black's background right" Kana asked.

I then let out a sigh of irritation since I already told her I wouldn't ever tell her about it "I can't tell you remember" I said as kindly as I could without sound annoyed.

"No it's not that…" kana said in a hollow voice "When we talked earlier he told me about his family and why he never wanted to speak of it" Kana said as she avoided eye contact.

I then stopped walking and just stared at Kana in shock "He… He told you" I said in disbelief.

"Yeah" Kana said.

"Then what did you need to talk to me about" I asked in a confused on what she wanted to actually talk about.

"I didn't really think much about his family and what happened to them until after Black fell asleep, but these pokemon after him are very dangerous and the more I learn of them the more I realize how heartless they are" Kana said in a unsteady voice.

"What are you getting at" I then asked.

"What are we going to do when they come back for him, they'll kill us just for knowing him" Kana said quietly to keep anyone else from hearing our conversation.

"What are you trying to imply, should we just throw him out or wrap him up as a present and just give him to them" I then said in a slightly angered voice.

"That's now what I'm getting at, I like Black and I feel bad for him. I really wouldn't have the heart to ruin his life anymore" Kana retorted.

"Then what" I asked her again.

Kana then just looked at me with shaky dilated eyes "Flare I'm scared honestly, I don't want to hurt Black but I'm scared those pokemon are going to kill us in our sleep one of these nights" Kana said.

I then looked her in her shaky eyes and I replied with a smile "Don't worry, we have more pokemon on our team now and plus were getting stronger. If we all just stick together I'm sure we can all push past this" I said as I pulled Kana into a hug and we both sat there in silence as our group left us behind.

"What if your wrong" Kana then said as I hugged her.

"I'm not, we have some strong pokemon with us and last time they got us in a secluded area where no one was around, we'll just stay in populated urban area's" I then said with a convincing plan as I let her go.

"I guess you have a point" Kana said with a smile on her face that showed she was cheering back up to her usual happy self.

Kana and I then both looked up the path and saw that are team was almost out of site. We both exchanged glances for a quick second and we both then started running back to our group. Kana could have easily out ran me but she ran along with me and didn't leave me behind.

Point of View Stark

It didn't really take long for my new leader to put me to work. I was now assigned a little mission to silence a loose end. Accompanying me on this ever so crappy mission was the white espeon I first socialized with when I joined the crimson dawn and the other individual with us was a quilava who went by the name Merrick and wore a bored expression ever since we left on our mission.

Our party was now in the shady part of Luminose city. The streets were crowded with many people who paid very little attention to our trio as we walked down the streets of Luminose. Here and their though I could see a few humans or pokemon shoot me a dirty look since no one really liked my kind, although I could have cared less. It was now early evening and most people were finishing off they're day of work and getting ready to go home soon.

"How long until we are at the objective" the quilava said as he gave out a lazy yawn.

"We'll get their when we get their" the white espeon known as Vincent said in an agitated voice. I myself had grown annoyed with the whiney quilava. Most of the trip he has done nothing but complain and take up space in this mew forsaken world.

After around ten or so minutes of walking down the crowded streets of Luminose Vincent then led our group down an alley.

"Were here" Vincent said as if he didn't really care.

"Arceus finally" the quilava said in an exaggerated whiney voice.

Vincent then walked into the middle of the alley and stood right in front of a manhole that had a big lid on it. I then saw the manhole lid literally lift up a little and slide away from the hole. I then looked over towards Vincent who seemed to be the one who moved the lid.

"The sewer's" I questioned.

"It wouldn't have been my first pick either but it's where the target is" Vincent said as he got ready to jump down into the hole. Vincent then jumped down and the quilava quickly followed. I then thought for a second about whether I really cared about earning their trust enough to actually go down there.

"You coming or not" I then heard the quilava yell in anger from the hole.

I then jumped down the hole and quickly felt my feet contact with water and a solid ground at the bottom of the ground. Once I was at the bottom I quickly noticed how bad it smelled down here and I instantly wanted to just get out of this Mew forsake place.

Once I did get over the smell I then noted that the only source of light was coming from the flames on the quilava's back.

"Follow me" Vincent then said as he led us through the horrid sewers.

"How do you know your way through this place" I then asked as me and the quilava followed.

"I've met this pokemon before, our groups use to be business buddies but now things are different" Vincent said.

"So why do these pokemon have to die" I asked. Not that I cared about killing them, I just hated wasting my time and it never did hurt to have a reason.

"Because they help Team Genesis" Vincent said.

"How so" I asked.

"We are now heading into a base that is inhabited by a group of pokemon that make their living off pokemon trafficking and they sell a lot of these pokemon they kidnap off the streets to Team Genesis, which they then genetically alter and make the pokemon superior and sell them at a high price on the black market."

"I see" I said as I took in the info. After a few moments of wondering in the dark sewers with minimal light we eventually saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Once we got closer to the light I noticed the light was from a lantern that was hanging off the ceiling of the sewer and right next to the lantern was an arbok and a cubone standing right in front of a door that was randomly in the sewer. The two pokemon wore a smug look on their face that obviously showed they were up to no good.

"Stop right there, state your name and purpose" the arbok hissed in an unfriendly tone.

Vincent just looked at the arbok and the cubone for a second before replying "Hello to you to, we are from the Crimson Dawn" Vincent said.

"Crimson huh" the arbok said as he looked at his partner cubone "Genesis told us you'd be co-" A hole then burst open between the arbok's eyes as blood splattered all over the sewer wall's and his body fell on the wet cold floor and didn't move as a pool of blood formed around the arbok's head.

The cubone then looked at his partner as he quivered in fear from the graphic sight. Then I saw the skeleton make on the cubone's face crack between his eyes and then another hole burst open between the cubone's eyes and he fell on the ground dead next to his partner who also appeared dead.

I then looked at the white espeon who appeared to be the one who caused the gruesome deaths of the guards. He appeared to be unfazed by the murders and he just walked over their dead bodies as he opened the door with his psychic powers. I had no doubt in my mind that the espeon was a very dangerous individual who would pose a threat to any pokemon who didn't have a type advantage like me.

Shortly after he walked through the door Merrick and I followed behind the white espeon through the door that led deeper into the enemy's base. Once we were inside the door we were in a long dark hallway with barred cell's following along the walls of the dark room. Our party walked down the hall and as we walked I looked into the cells and saw many pokemon lying down in the cells. Some of the pokemon were awake and just watched us with eyes full of despair and showed no sign of hope. Throughout my life I have seen many faces like that and by now I was more than use to seeing the darkest corners of this world.

Once we reached the end of the hall we came upon another door. Vincent then opened the door with his mind again and we followed him through. When we entered the new room I saw a big opening and in the middle of the room I saw a pokemon standing in the darkness. Luckily my enhanced eyes that team genesis gave me allowed me to make out the figure in the darkness and he appeared to be a sneasel. I then looked around the other parts of the room and it appeared to be the one sneasel. There was no light in the room we were in other than a small light coming through the ceiling which made a spotlight right on the sneasel.

"I knew you would eventually come for me" the sneasel said as he looked at all of us.

"Not going to beg for your life" the quilava said to the sneasel as he gave a big toothy grin.

"I'm not the one who should be begging" the sneasel said as he smiled back at the quilava.

"The hell is that supposed to mean" the quilava yelled as he began walking towards the sneasel. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a scyther come out of the shadows and sprint towards Vincent at lightning speed. Vincent began to turn his head slowly as he heard the sound of running but the scyther shoved his bladed arm into Vincent's back before he could even see the scyther. I then ran towards the espeon as the scyther held the white espeon up with his blade shoved through his back. Blood pured out of Vincent's wound as he made a gurgling noise as blood came out of his mouth from the internal bleeding.

I then used dark matter and surrounded my right paw and jumped in the air towards the scyther. The scyther tried to dodge my attack but I jabbed him right in the face before he could even move and he instantly went flying to the ground. Once the scyther fell down along with Vincent I then looked at the white espeon. It didn't take long for me to realize he was dead and probably died within seconds after he was punctured, yet I was unfazed since death was a part of my life since I was a child.

I then looked over towards the quilava who appeared to be fighting off other pokemon who were giving him a hard time while the sneasel just sat back and watched the chaos. The pokemon fighting the quilava consisted of many different species such as a Persian, an arcanine and a golbat. The quilava continuously shot flamethrowers everywhere which caused the pokemon to dive out of the way as the flames lit up the room with a light that blinded me even with my enhanced vision.

Then the persian managed to get behind the quilava when he wasn't looking and tackled the quilava to the ground and pinned him down with his paw's as he tried to rip out Merrick's throat with his teeth, but the quilava managed to hold him back enough to save himself. The other pokemon then began making their way towards me as they got in their battle stances to fight me.

I then covered my entire body in dark matter as I sprinted towards my opponents without fear. I went for the golbat first since he appeared to be an easy kill and I lungedstraight towards him and swung my shadow paw straight for the pesky bat. The bat's eyes widened as I made my move but right before it landed he flew out of the way as I grazed its chest and blood dripped down its torso.

My eyes were then attracted to the arcanine who was charging up a ember in his mouth. He launched the fireball at me and I quickly ran towards the ember but right before it hit me I swiftly did a roll right under the attack and kept my speed as I charged towards the canine like creature.

I then thrashed my entire body into the arcanine and left a giant burn mark on the creatures left side from the dark matter around my body. The creature rolled around in pain as I placed my paw on the creature and pinned it to the ground and he looked up at me with shaking eyes that stared into my blue eyes.

"One down" I said as I raised my other paw up to finish the job. Then all of a sudden everything in my body felt bizarre as my vision got blurry and the muscles in my body felt very loose and struggled to support my weight. I then got off the arcanine as I struggled to even stay conscious. Then I felt a wet substance flowing along the side of my mouth and the inside of my mouth had a bitter metallic tasting liquid in it that was not saliva. There was no doubt in my mind that it tasted like blood, I've tasted it more than enough to recognize it.

To confirm my suspicion I quickly swabbed the liquid that escaped my mouth and flowed down my lips. I looked at it and my suspicions were confirmed, it was indeed blood.

'How, I wasn't even injured' I asked myself as I looked around the battle zone with blurry eyes. Then all of a sudden I felt a strong solid contact on my right side and I fell on the ground and skidded along the concrete floor. Then I saw the arcanine from before charging an ember up as he stood above me. I tried to struggle but my body felt way to weak and I knew I was in serious trouble.

'The hell is wrong with me' I screamed to myself in my head as I tried to understand why I was bleeding.

"That's enough" I heard a voice call out as everyone looked towards the sneasel who wore a look of terror as I saw Vincent who was perfectly fine standing behind him with a psychic attack charging up.

"How… I watched y-you die" the sneasel said in a shaky voice as he shook in fear.

"The mind is such an easy thing to fool if not properly trained and you and your friends believed an illusion over reality" Vincent said as he looked at the sneasel with a small grin. I had to admit myself, I thought he was dead and I couldn't believe that, that was an illusion and he was perfectly fine the whole time.

"Everyone stop now" the sneasel said in a shaky voice as his men backed away from me and the Persian got off the quilava and the arcanine got off me and took a few steps back from me as I slowly struggled to my feet.

"Please don't kill me" the sneasel said as a tear began to fall down his eyes.

"Seriously" Vincent said in an angered voice "Look at what kind of business you run, you don't have the right to cry and feel bad for yourself, why do you deserve a second chance" Vincent said as tears continued falling down the sneasel's face.

"P-Please I don't w-wanna die" the sneasel said as more tears flowed down his face and he cried like a child.

"Oh I'm not going to kill you. I've got something better in mind" Vincent said as he looked at the back of the sneasel's head.

"W-What's that" the sneasel said.

"Your all going to fall asleep in a moment and when you wake up the police will be here and we'll let the law sort things out" Vincent said in a dark tone.

"Going to the police that's dirty" the persian that was on the sneasel's side yelled.

"And your business isn't" Vincent retorted.

"Vince please give me another try man, we can talk this out. You want money I can make you a rich pokemon, Hell I'll make your friends rich as well" the sneasel said in a nervous voice with a few sniffles added in.

"Money holds no value to me" Vincent replied "Tell me though, maybe info on Genesis may persuade me to look the other way if you promise to behave in the future" Vincent said as the sneasel slowly turned his head towards the psychic.

"Like what" the sneasel asked.

"Hmm how about something that will help us defeat them" Vincent said with a small grin on his face.

"I don't know anything about them honestly, they just pay us good for pokemon" the sneasel yelled.

"And who usually comes to pick up the pokemon" Vincent then asked.

"Usually a couple armed soldiers meet us out in middle of route thirteen and they take the pokemon from their" the sneasel said without a second thought.

"Just soldiers" Vincent asked.

"Umm" the sneasel said as he continued to think "There was also a scyther with them here and their but during the more recent trades the scyther hasn't been their" the sneasel said.

"Okay and what else do you know then."

"Nothing they just pay us that's all I know" the sneasel said in a stressful voice.

"Surely you value your life more than that" Vincent said.

"Vince come on man, this is all I know… let this slide and I'll make you a twenty five, seventy five partner" the sneasel pleaded.

"Not interested in your business now answer my questions" Vincent replied.

"Okay fifty-fifty it doesn't get better than that" the sneasel said with a nervous laugh.

"If I hear one more offer I'm going to fry your brain until you can't even comprehend basic math" Vincent said in a dark tone.

"Listen I'm sorry I seriously know nothing… I'd help you if I could" the sneasel said as tears began to form in the sneasel's eyes again.

"Hmm that's too bad… for you" Vincent said as the gem on his forehead began to glow a bright crimson red and then I watched as everyone in the room beside our team become dizzy as they began to sway around and eventually they began collapsing on the ground. One by one each of them fell to the ground unconscious including the sneasel.

I looked down at the golbat's unconscious body and saw that he was only asleep as it snored peacefully unaware of the serious trouble it was in.

"Let's go" Vincent said in a tired voice as he sluggishly walked towards the exit.

I instantly noticed his swaying as he struggled to stand "Are you going to be okay" I asked, even though I felt like crap myself at the moment.

"Yeah, I just used a lot of energy back there with the illusions and knocking them out" Vincent said in a drowsy voice.

Then the quilava stepped into the conversation "So how are the police going to find out" the quilava interrupted.

"Simple, I'll find a police officer and I'll plant a thought into his head or make him hallucinate something that'll lead the police here" Vincent said as he continued to walk on his weak paws.

"Alright let's just get out of here… it smells like hell" I said as I followed the espeon on my weak paw's as well. The only thought I truly cared about at the moment though was what was wrong with my body and why it decided to act up like that randomly.

Point of View Flare

It was now getting late and the sun had set long ago and our crew was now settling down for the night. Alex had set up a camp fire to keep us all warm for the night and it illuminated the area around us with a fiery orange color. Off in the distance we could all here the ocean waves splashing against the beach over and over.

Gray, Ebony and Alex had both fallen asleep long ago and left Kana, Hesh and I awake and Black was still in his pokeball.

"So Kana you ever going to tell me about what Black told you" Hesh pried.

"Nope" she replied bluntly as she lied down on the ground and rested her head on her two paws that were crisscrossed.

"Secrets I tell you" Hesh said as he sat down and put his hands behind him to support his weight as he leaned back and looked into the stars.

"So this is what it's like to travel" Hesh said in a relaxed voice.

"That's right you've never really left Ambrette have you" I said.

"Nope I've always been there and never really had a need to leave until recently" Hesh said as he looked up into the sky.

"Was it worth it" I asked.

Hesh then looked at me for a second as if he was unsure "We'll see I guess" Hesh said as he redirected his view towards the star's in the sky.

"Isn't that the little dipper thinge" Hesh then said as he pointed to the stars in the sky. I then looked to where he was pointing and tried connecting the dots in the sky but they all seemed to make everything but the little dipper.

"No I think that's just a group of stars" I said as I continued to look up.

"Do you know where any constellations are" Hesh then asked.

"Well sure I do" I said as I looked up at the sky and searched for the right group of stars as I strained my eyes to find any constellations.

Then I spotted something "Well yeah you got that thing right their… A umm blob… of star's… making a blob" I said as I slowly let my paw fall and I realized I had no clue what I was talking about.

"Wow that one is just beautiful" Hesh said sarcastically with a small chuckle.

"Yeah, yeah shush up" I replied jokingly as I let out a yawn and I then lied down like Kana was. Hesh seemed to understand that I was sleepy since he didn't really say anything ever since I lied down. Everything just felt so perfect, the air around me was cold yet the camp fire warmed me up and created a very comfortable sensation that made the sleeping environment perfect. But to top that off in the distance I could hear the ocean waves swooshing back and forth along the beach, which luckily we were out of the tides reach.

Everything here was just perfect and I could feel sleep call my name as everything slowly faded to black.

Chapter End

Author Note:Well that concludes that chap. So things may have been a bit slow on our main protagonist's side but for Stark things were a bit more interesting. So in the chapter you may have noticed the scene where Stark started randomly having blood come out of his mouth, I'm not going to get to into it but just note that it may actually be important later on. I really liked writing this chap also because I got to show more of Vincent and Merrick and I'm always looking to build up their characters since their hardly seen at this point. Well I actually can't wait to upload next chapter because it will have an interesting beginning, you'll just have to see it when I upload it but when I do I think everyone will find it interesting.

Thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, follow and fav'd my story. Also I haven't really mentioned this in awhile but if I am making grammar mistakes or maybe just making a story telling mistake in general please inform me through a review or PM because I'm always looking to improve this story. Thank you.