Hello and welcome to the next chapter, you've came a long way to get here like 160,037 words... Anyways thanks for reading this long and I'm glad people enjoy this story long enough to put in that time and it makes me happy that my story is at least that entertaining lol. Anyways this chapter will be continuing right from where our characters left off as the heat gets turned up this chapter! Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 42: Turning up the heat
Point of View Anonymous
The blaziken and I were now waiting for each other to make a move as the world around us fell silent, minus the rain and wind that added to the scene. Off in the distance I could hear thunder crackling as it echoed throughout the sky and off in the distance I could see a giant wall of storm clouds coming our way.
"I don't know who you are but you are going to regret getting involved in this" the blaziken said in a cold tone.
I wasn't fazed by his taunts and instead I looked forward to inflicting pain on him for being associated with Jack "You are going to regret being born with legs" I snarled at him.
My gaze was then directed towards the fennekin who was watching the fight that was about to go down and I didn't really care for the idea of him being in the way of our fight "Fennekin, go get your friend and get out of here" I said with a serious voice.
"They're not going nowhere, I have a job to complete" the blaziken piped up and the fennekin got unto a defensive position indication that he wanted to try and contribute to the fight, or in other words get in my way.
"Go to your friend now, you are not needed here. I can take care of myself" I said as I got ready to attack the blaziken.
The blaziken then took a step forward and he extended his knife out and pointed it towards me "Umbreon this is the end for all of you, if I was you I'd be begging for them to save you, but instead you try and play the arrogant hero" he supposed and the knife he was holding ignited on fire and a blade of fire extended past the knife blade and the knife was now a flaming sword that was around three to four feet long and looked more than intimidating. The flaming sword was really intimidating and there was no doubt that it could do some serious damage to someone. Now the thing on the top of my mind was how I was going to kill him and where are his open spots that I could go for. I could only assume that the best way to fight him would be to keep my distance and wait for an opening for his jugular.
Before I could get to deep into my thoughts the blaziken lunged forward and swung his sword vertically towards me in an attempt to finish the fight before it even began. My eyes flinched from his speed and as I moved out of the way I could feel the heat of the blade sizzling past me barely missing.
"Fennekin leave" I yelled as I ran towards the blaziken who jumped in the air and attempted to impale me from above. I slid out away from the blades reach easily but the moment the flames hit the ground it caused a combustion of flames that made me jump back even more from the scorching flames.
"Damn" I yelled out in frustration to help me cope with the pain of being burnt, I wasn't injured it just burnt a lot for an attack that missed. I didn't have much time to vent since the blaziken was already making his next move for me and he threw his fire knife straight towards me. I ducked right under it and it seared right over me with a hissing sound as it cut through the air, the blade then impaled a tree but the flames on the knife died out before it hit the tree so there was no forest fire thankfully. Before I could actually get back up the blaziken kicked me right in the jaw and I heard the joints in my jaw crack and I went flying into a tree back first and then I heard the joints in my back crack. I let out a loud screech of pain and I slowly struggled to my feet with a very sore back and jaw. I then started making my way towards the blaziken.
"We haven't even been fighting for a minute and your already almost done kid" the blaziken said with a small chuckle as he moved faster than a blink of an eye behind me and retrieved his knife from the tree it was stuck in.
I didn't take him underestimating me to well since I had no plans on losing to a pokemon like him. Since I was now pumped up with anger I found the motivation to continue fighting and I began sprinting towards him in many zigzags that made my movements hard to read. The blaziken kept jumping back away from me in an attempt to keep his distance.
"Your pretty fast for an umbreon" the blaziken said as he kept jumping out of my reach right before I caught up to him.
Then a giant ember flew through the air towards the blaziken and his eyes widened from the unexpected ember that the fennekin shot towards him. With only a split second to spare the blaziken slashed the ember with his knife which caused it to blow up in a fiery explosion which sent the blaziken tousling across the ground. The blaziken then got ahold of himself while sliding along the dirt ground and he rolled onto his feet and held his knife up and lit it up in flames again.
"Not too shabby kiddo, but your going to have to use bigger flames if you want to scare me" the blaziken said as he jumped onto the side of a tree and then jumped off of the tree and landed on a tree branch that was high up. The maneuver he just did was actually pretty impressive and similar to something you would see a ninja doing.
"It's time to turn up the heat!" the blaziken then stabbed his flaming knife into the tree and the tree began igniting on fire.
"Holy Shit" the fennekin said as he took a few steps back and his leg began to tremble. I myself was pretty worried since I wasn't too fond of the idea of burning alive in a forest fire.
The blaziken jumped out of the tree at light speed and he swung his sword at the fennekin who barely moved out of the way in time. The fennekin let out a loud whelp of pain as he moved out of the way. I soon noticed that the blaziken did hit him and I saw that he nicked the fennekin's ear slightly leaving a small slit that was on the left side of his ear and was around an inch long of a cut.
"Are you okay" I asked in concern as I ran to his aid. Although I don't know why I cared since he was just getting in the way on the most part.
The fennekin then shook his head "Yeah I just did that out of reflex" the fennekin admitted as he began to charge an ember in his mouth. The blaziken just stared at the fennekin with fearless eyes as he stood his ground. The fire that the blaziken originally started was spreading to other tree's and smoke was slowly beginning to cloud the area around us as a few sparks from the tree's made their was yo the ground. The fire was slow to spread though due to the rain that was pouring down.
The fennekin then released his ember towards the blaziken who didn't even bother to dodge it and the ember made solid contact with him and exploded against his chest. The blaziken's upper body flinched a little but he didn't even take a step back and instead started walking towards the two of us.
"Nice try kid, but your low quality flames aren't going to burn someone like me" the blaziken said as he began to laugh while walking towards us. The blaziken then lunged towards the fennekin at a speed so fast I couldn't even react and everything slowed down as I saw the blaziken's knife about to puncture the fennekin's throat. I tried running towards him to help but I was too slow. The fennekin's eyes just opened wide and his pupils got small from the shock of being so screwed in just a split second.
Then there was a giant explosion of dark matter around the blaziken and he went flying into a tree. Behind the blaziken was the umbreon I saved earlier, which I was slightly impressed on his timing and it was almost as if he purposely waited for his friend to almost die before saving him. I wondered if it had to do with the fennekin leaving the umbreon behind earlier.
'Did he just use shadow ball' I then asked myself in my head, knowing full well that only murdering umbreon's could use such a move 'who is this person and why does he have that ability.'
I didn't have much time to pounder that though as the flames that the blaziken started began to spread and it was now getting really smoky, leaves where falling off the tree now and the fire was now beginning to spread rapidly as ash covered the air and made it almost impossible to breathe at ease.
"We need to leave now" the other umbreon yelled in a serious voice as he ran towards us on wobble feet. It was obvious he was still very weak from his near death experience and I was surprised that he was already up and moving, then again some umbreons are almost indestructible and not even a pissed off charizard could be enough for the right umbreon.
The fennekin then decided to add in his input "He's right where going to die if we stay here" he said.
"You two go I'm not done with this guy" I said as I eyed the blaziken who was just now recovering from his injury from the shadow ball.
The fennekin then yelled something at me as I began to spring towards the blaziken "Come on it's not worth it if you die" he yelled in a concerned voice. For most pokemon he would have been right but if I couldn't set things right then there was no point to living for me. All that matters is that I kill Jack.
I then jumped towards the blaziken who was still trying to get to his feet and I had my fangs directed straight for his throat. When I was in mid-air the blaziken threw something at me that I couldn't quite make out, but I instantly felt a strong sharp force penetrate my right shoulder and I went flying back and hit the ground. I let out a loud scream of agony as I saw my blood spill all over the ground and my vision became blurry. My eyes slowly shifted to my shoulder and revealed a ninja star that was covered in my blood sticking out of my shoulder.
"Nice try" the blaziken said as he picked me up by my throat and began squeezing it so hard that I couldn't breathe.
"Let her go" I then heard the other umbreon call out from behind me. The blaziken's eyes then looked behind me to where the umbreon probably was standing. Seeing that he was distracted I took my one and only chance of survival and I bent my neck just enough to bite his wrist as hard as I could. Blood instantly squirted out of his wounds and he dropped me onto the floor and clenched his wris as he groaned in pain.
"Son of a bitch" he yelled out loud in absolute anger. The area around me was now really smoky and I could hardly see and I could hear branches falling off the trees and when I looked towards where the fire started I could see fiery colors through the smoke growing bigger every second.
"We'll have to settle this later, better watch the shadow's kids because I'll be watching from the darkest corners of the night" the blaziken said as he turned around and ran away like a coward. The umbreon and fennekin instantly began to run towards me to help me. Before they reached me though I rolled over and attempted to get onto my paws but the instant I even tried to stand a pain shot through my shoulder which made me scream in pain and I instantly fell down on the ground and my whole body shot up with agonizing pain that almost made me want to cry, too bad I haven't cried in almost a year or so.
"Are you okay" the fennekin asked me even though the answer was pretty obvious.
"Oh I feel fantastic I feel healthy, the weather's great and this forest is fucking burning down, how the hell do you think I feel" I shouted sarcastically with a lot of anger built up in my words.
The umbreon on the other hand just stared at the blood coming out of me with a weird expression that made him look really out of it and he looked as if he's never seen blood before and it was really beginning to piss me off that he was just watching me like that.
"Should we take the ninja star out" the fennekin then asked in a frantic voice.
At this point I was too tired to respond to his idiotic question and I felt myself slip into darkness from blood loss.
Point of View Black
I stared at the blood that was now coming out of the female umbreon's shoulder really fast. The blood made me feel very light head and uncomfortable. Out of all the times for my hemophobia to act up now was not the time and I needed to get over it and help or she will die.
"Black" Flare then yelled and snapped me out of my thoughts about how much I hated blood "We have to get out of here now" the fennekin said as he coughed from the smoke that was polluting the air. I myself was having a hard time breathing and almost drowning to death not too long ago wasn't helping.
"Yeah" I then replied in a faint voice and I began to walk up to the unconscious umbreon and I faced my fears. I looked at the ninja star that was stuck in her shoulder that was now covered in red thick blood and I bit down on it and pulled it out of her body as gently as I could, when I pulled it out I could really feel every muscle in my body just wanting to go limp. I wasn't really sure if that was the right move to do since right when I did that more blood started leaking out of her body and that's when I felt like I was going to vomit everywhere.
Seeing as she wasn't moving I put my snout right below her stomach and pushed my head below her whole body and then I stood up which when I stood up she slowly slid from my neck to my back and she was now safely slung over my back asleep. Luckily she was pretty small for our species and that was good because I wasn't in the mood to carry a bunch of wait right now in a burning forest.
"Let's go" I said quietly as I began to run with her on my back. I had to run slow though since if she fell I'd have to do that all over to get her on my back and we had no time for that at this point or we'd be burnt alive with the forest fire and that wasn't quite how I planned on exiting this world.
Flare followed behind as I ran through the flaming forest. Smoke covered all of the air around us and made it really hard for me to breathe and to make things better for me my unconscious friend's blood was dripping all over my body and it felt really unsettling for me. I tried my hardest not to think about it but all I could think about was the crimson blood that was slowly dripping down my body and it didn't take long for my whole chest and right side to be covered in her blood.
"Black are you okay" Flare then asked noticing how uncomfortable I must have looked.
"Yeah I'm fine" I replied really quickly as we ran through the forest that was on fire. I would tell him that I had a fear of blood but I really didn't feel like being made fun of now out of all times.
After a few seconds of running I heard a loud cracking noise and I instantly stopped in my tracks as a tree came crashing down in flames in front of me, ashes and sparks went flying everywhere as me and Flare both covered are eyes. 'That was close' was all that ran through my heads as I thanked Mew for me not being a few seconds ahead when that happened.
Flare and I both ran around the fallen down tree and continued running as fast as we could out of the forest of hell. After a few seconds of running I saw a light at the tree line and I quickly realized that it was the sun's rays and we were almost free from this hell hole. Flare and I both exchanged glances as we picked up out paste and we both heard the sounds of tree's falling over behind us. Once we reached the tree line we both didn't stop for a second as we ran out of the forest that was on fire and into a big open field of grass that was a nice change of scenery versus the forest of hell that was all doom and gloom.
"Holy shit we made it" I yelled at the top of my lungs in surprise.
"Hell yeah we did" Flare yelled in response, which was very out of character for him since he never cursed, it was a more of a me thing to be a potty mouth.
Off in the distance of the field we could see Cyllage city which was where we were originally at. "We need to hurry and get her to a pokecenter" Flare said in a concerned voice as we kept running.
"Yeah I agr-" I said before I was interrupted by the supposedly unconscious umbreon on my back "No don't take me their" the umbreon said in a very weak voice that I could hardly hear.
"What why not" I yelled out in annoyance.
"Just drop me off in an alley somewhere and I'll take care of myself" she said quietly.
"We can't do that, your going to die like this if you don't get help" Flare then piped up in a concerned voice.
"Please… just don't" the umbreon struggled to say with the little energy she has. I exchanged an odd glance with Flare and I wondered what the hell was this pokemon thinking, I carried her out of a forest fire with her bleeding all over me just to hear that.
After running down the grass field for a few minutes we eventually made our way into the city and we were now running down the busy rainy streets of Cyllage city. Everyone who saw us looked at us oddly and some people stopped what they were doing as they saw an umbreon carrying another bloody umbreon through the streets. Must have been an odd sight, or maybe they all found it amusing since none of them even considered trying to help.
"Black if she won't go to the pokecenter then we can get Hesh to help her, he saved you after all" Flare said, which actually was a good idea in my book was.
"Alright that sounds good, plus where closer to him than a pokecenter" I replied to Flare.
"How are you holding up, does it hurt too bad" Flare asked the umbreon who was barely clinging to life at this point. I don't know what kind of dumb question that was though, she just took a ninja star in the shoulder I'm sure it felt great, the only upside to a wound like that was bragging rights of saying you survived something like that.
"Pain is an illusion created by the mind" The umbreon replied faintly in a pained voice. This umbreon had some weird logic in my opinion first not going to the pokecenter and now she's talking about this crap, whatever she was on I wanted to know.
"Just because it's in your head doesn't mean it's not their" I replied as I kept running to our hotel. The umbreon didn't reply and I just assumed she blacked out again or she was just too tired to respond.
After a few minutes of running down the streets we finally reached the hotel that we were staying at. "Flare go in and get Hesh I'll take her behind the hotel where we will have some room to help her" I said as I went my separate way from the fennekin who did as I asked almost immediately. Off in the distance I could hear the sound of sirens which was probably from the fire trucks that were going to the forest fire we survived.
Point of View Flare
I was now inside the hotel running at full speed down the hall towards our room which wasn't on the first floor. Sadly for me I didn't know how to operate the elevator so I had to run up the stairs. Once I was halfway down the hall I recognized our room number and I stopped running and began knocking on the door aggressively nonstop.
"Come on open up now" I yelled loud enough for the whole hotel to hear me. A few seconds passed by before the door finally opened revealing Hesh who opened it, which couldn't of been more convenient.
"Flare where the hell have you been and where's Black" Hesh said in a grouchy voice.
"Hesh… we need your medical expertise" I said in an awkward voice.
"The hell… is Black almost dead again" Hesh said in annoyance as he put his palm to his face.
"Just grab Alex's first aid kit and come with me now" I demanded in an anxious voice. Hesh then ran back into the room and invaded Alex's personal belonging in his bag and grabbed the first aid kit I spoke of and he ran back to me with it, him going through Alex's bag also meant that he threw everything that wasn't a first aid kit somewhere random in the room which created a big mess I'm sure Alex was going to enjoy seeing whenever he got back from wherever he was.
"Alright let's go save Black again…" Hesh assumed as I led the way to the injured pokemon.
Once we were outside I directed Hesh towards the back of the hotel like Black said he'd be. Once we reached the back Hesh and I saw Black standing up on all four paws waiting for us. Then on the ground was the other umbreon with a pool of blood forming around her.
"What the He-" the pikachu started saying before he ran to the dying umbreon and opened up his med kit. Hesh instantly pulled out bandages to help stop the bleeding as he reached it towards the lethal wound in her shoulder. But right before he reached it the female umbreon extended her paw and smacked the bandages out of Hesh's hand.
"I told you I don't want your damn help now go away" the female umbreon yelled in a weak voice.
"Are you sure you look pretty rough right now" Hesh asked in a concerned voice as he picked up his bandages off the ground.
"Take a hint and go away" the umbreon said with anger in her voice "You already screwed everything up for me."
Hesh then looked at me and Black as if we did something wrong "Flare… Black… Did you-" Hesh started to say before Black stopped him right their "No" Black said in a defensive voice.
"Listen if she doesn't want my help I have no right to" Hesh said in disappointment as he packed up his medical equipment.
Black then decided to add his input "Listen lady I don't know what your problem is but you saved me back there. At least let us help you for helping me" Black said in an honest voice that showed he really did want to help.
"Fine" she then scowled in irritation.
Hesh then began to take out his medical supplies again and he took out a bottle of rubbing alcohol to disinfect the wound. "This may sting a bit" Hesh said as he unscrewed the cap.
"Yeah, yeah just do what you need to do to help your friend sleep at night" the umbreon said with attitude and Hesh began to poor the wound disinfectant on her and she winced in pain. Hesh then grabbed a bandage and applied pressure on her wound to slow the bleeding down before he did whatever else he needed to do.
"So do you have a name" Hesh then asked to pass the time while he was applying pressure to the wound.
"Please… I really hate small talk" the umbreon then snapped.
Hesh's eyes blinked a few times in amazement to how ungrateful the umbreon was being for us helping her. I couldn't believe it either, I know she saved Black's life but we saved hers as well and now she was just being flat out rude and disrespectful towards us when we didn't have to do anything for her in the first place.
"Well sorry, I'm just trying to pass the time" Hesh said in disappointment as he nodded his head in distress.
"Nia" the umbreon then replied, which made me wonder if she actually realized how ungrateful she was being.
"Nia that's a nice name" Hesh said as a smile formed on his face and he continued applying pressure on her.
I then decided I wanted to ask my own questions even though she'd probably bite my head off for asking "So do you mind me asking why you where after that blaziken" I asked. Hesh instantly looked back at me with a confused glare.
"Don't worry about it" Nia replied in a grouchy voice.
Despite her grouchy voice I wasn't stopping there since this may actually help me figure out who was after us "You mentioned a person named Jack earlier, does he have something to do with that blaziken" I pried.
Nia's eyes instantly became filled with rage as she growled "Back off, what part about don't worry about it don't you get" Nia said in anger.
Then something snapped in me "The part where everyone I know is in danger and you know about the pokemon after me and your info could save lives, this isn't about your personal vendetta" I then yelled in anger.
Hesh then looked back at me with his jaw wide open "Whoa what'd you just say, some ones after us…"
"It's a long story…" I then replied knowing that I was going to have to tell Hesh everything now, which obviously I was going to have to tell him at some point I wasn't just going to keep this from him and everyone else.
Chapter End
Author Note: Well that ends that chapter. So now we have a name for our new umbreon in the story. Nia was a name I pondered on for a while it was that or Sarah and some other name I couldn't quite remember. Anyways I think Nia is a cool name for a character like her. So Nia personality seems like she's pretty stubborn pokemon lol. I like that about her, she's not stubborn like Gray she's just kind of got a lone wolf personality from what you guys/gals can tell so far. Which of course their will be more development on her and their is a million different things I could do with her lol, like just randomly killing her off with in the first paragraph next chapter lol jk I wouldn't do that, maybe in two paragraphs XD. Anyways now onto the blaziken, when I think of him I think of a ninja lol, an ass kicking ninja with fire powers. From what we've seen so far is that he's pretty talented at fighting and pretty quick on his feet. Anyways I'm going to stop myself here since I could go on all night about the stuff going on in this arc lol so I'll end this with a thank you to everyone who show's any form of supporting this story and I appreciate it. Although I say that every chapter so my thank you's probably mean nothing at this point lol.