Well here we are chapter 58, the drama continues!

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Chapter 58: Skull Face

Point of View Naomi/Nia

I continued to pull on the chain as hard as I could in an attempt to break free. It was useless though, the steel chains were too strong. I had only one way out of here, even though I swore to never use it again. I concentrated dark matter around my right paw until I had a deadly weapon formed. With one quick swipe I slashed the chain apart as if it was nothing. Along with the chain I carefully cut the collar off my neck.

I was now almost free. The only trial I had left was the door. It appeared I was out of luck… the door knob wasn't a handle instead it was one of those round circular ones that I'd never be able to grip with my paws.

"Shit" I muttered as I got ready to charge into the door. I slammed my entire body into the door with everything I had only to find out two things. One would be that the door was completely solid steel that wouldn't break easily. Two would be that my body was still in a lot of pain from my fight with Sam and I just bothered every injury I had in one movement.

Seeing as my body wouldn't be enough I resorted to my plan B yet again. This time though I decided to go with a shadow ball. I charged up the dark matter within my mouth and I launched it right at the door. The dark matter exploded upon impact and dust flew everywhere. Once the dust cleared up I saw the steel door standing perfectly unscathed.

"You got to be kidding" I said out loud in frustration. I began charging up another shadow ball, this time I put everything I had into one shadow ball. I launched the shadow ball at the door and the explosion caused me to go flying back to the opposite side of the room. Even more dust covered the room this time.

"This is a joke" I screamed to myself once I saw that the door only had a few scratches on it. If my strongest attack could only scratch the door then I was truly screwed. That attack took everything out of me and I was now trying to catch my breath from exerting so much energy at once.

"Sorry honey but that's not going to work" A voice called out to me from the darkest corner of the room. Emerging from the corner was that thing again.

"You" I said with a bit of anger. "What do you want now."

"I saw that you were in trouble so I thought we could talk a little" the voice said. Standing in front of me now was some creature that dared to take the form of Stark. I knew this creature wasn't him but I also knew he was real. The question that I wondered the most was what this creature really was.

"Who are you and why do you keep visiting me" I yelled at the imposter.

"Hmmm not excited to see me, I could get you out of here if you listen to a thing or two that I have to say" the creature said.

"Then speak" I growled at him.

"See this door here, very sturdy" the umbreon reminded me as he tapped on it with his paw. "You won't get out of here on your own. Sam and his friends made sure of that" the umbreon told me.

"Okay and what else did you need to tell me" I asked as I watched the imposter carefully to make sure he tried nothing on me.

"I'm willing to cut you a deal" the imposter said with a creepy smile on his face.

"I'm listening" I replied.

"I'll get you out of here, but in exchange you have to do two things for me" the white umbreon said.

"And those two things would be" I asked.

"You will finish teaching Black how to use dark matter as I told you to do in the first place and second your going to help him and his friends survive tonight, they will be in need of your intelligence" The umbreon told me. That's when I remembered what Sam said. Tonight was the night he was going to kill Black and his friends. At the same time I could care less, Black was really the only one I liked out of the group and that's mostly just because this thing forced me to help him out.

"Do we have a deal" he asked me as he extended a paw. As much as I hated this creature for wearing the face of my dead friend I didn't really have a choice at the moment. Either this or go through with Sam's future plan.

"Deal" I replied back as I shook his paw.

"Good then I'll get you out of here" he said as he walked towards the exit.

"Wait" I yelled out to him before he could finish what he was doing. The umbreon stopped and looked back at me. "Who are you and why do you look like Stark and what do you want from me and Black."

The creature looked at me with a small smirk "Call me skull face, that's what the legends call me anyways" the creature replied back.

"Skull Face" I said out loud. That was an odd name to go by but I could kind of see why.

"I'm called Skull Face since I only wear the faces of the dead" he replied back. This was strange, why would he only choose to appear as a dead person. He also speaks as if he is well known throughout myths. This would require some research later on.

"As for what I need in you and Black, I don't need much from you. But Black has some high expectations to live up to. That umbreon is pretty special" Skull face said as he turned into some form of dark matter and phased through the door.

A few seconds passed by and the door unlocked itself and slowly opened by itself. Nothing was behind the door and the creature known as skull face was gone. It didn't take me long to leave the room and make my way towards freedom. It appeared I was underground in the sewers now. This was going to take a while to get out of here.

Point of View Black

Ebony, Kana and I have been back at the hotel for quite a few hours now. The sun was setting and night was coming. Hesh seemed to be very excited for some reason as he tried to set something up on the TV. Ebony and Gray were both in a deep sleep in their own spots in the room. I was happy Gray was asleep, I was still very pissed about my arm and this stupid cast I had to wear. I had pretty much given up on getting the annoying thing off since it was practically indestructible.

One of the things everyone took notice too was the fact that Alex and his father were still gone. These errands they were running was taking an unusually long time.

"Got it" Hesh said in excitement.

"Are you sure we should watch this with Ebony in the room" Kana asked as she looked at the sleeping eevee.

"Relax, that kid can sleep through anything, plus if she wakes up I'll just turn it off" Hesh replied back to the worried jolteon. I had no idea what they were talking about nor did I really care.

"Hey Black would you like to watch a horror movie" Hesh asked me with a smirk on his face.

"A horror movie" I questioned. I was familiar with the word horror but not a horror movie.

"Just come on you'll see" Hesh said as he dragged me towards the TV without my consent. I guess it wouldn't hurt to watch a movie since they were entertaining and I never got to watch any.

The movie was now starting. Everything in this movie seemed to be going on normally… teenagers going on some stupid camping trip, stereotype whiney teenage girl being a bitch to everyone. Then there was that one perfect guy who acted all badass and finally that punk ass teenage snob guy who treats everyone like shit yet still got invited on a camping trip.

I zoned in and out of the movie until a certain scene came on the TV "Hesh what the hell is this I don't want to watch that crap" I said as I shielded my eyes from the two young adults doing things I didn't want to see.

"Ugh yeah for some reason every other horror movie has stuff like this, never got why? Does it like boost their ratings or maybe people buy these movies just for these scenes" Hesh questioned.

After a couple more scenes like that it was finally getting dark in the movie, yet nothing was happening and this was the most shitty romance crap movie I have ever seen in my life. No plot, bad acting and to many scenes I didn't need to see. Thank Mew that Ebony was a heavy sleeper, someone her age did not need to be exposed to this trash.

The movie progressed and one of the guys left the camp area alone to go do some business out in the woods. That's when I realized what a horror movie was. Standing behind the innocent man who was just trying to find a spot to take a leak was a taller man with a hockey mask.

"What the" I began saying before the masked man took a machete out of his jacket. I gulped as I watched the ignorant man continue his night stroll not even noticing the man behind him. The man in the mask grabbed the person and impaled him with the machete and blood exited the wounds. My jaw dropped from the sight as my stomach became very noxious from the sight. I couldn't believe what I was seeing… it… it… was horrible.

I couldn't help but notice Hesh looking back at me every couple seconds to see my reactions to every scene. The next murder was about to occur when a man was in an abandoned cabin and he heard someone knocking on the door. As soon as the man walked up to the door a machete went through the door and killed yet another innocent victim.

I couldn't believe what Hesh was making me watch, it was disgusting and I couldn't see how anyone could enjoy this. The next murder was the last one I could tolerate as I watched a girl beg for mercy as she was slowly cut to death slowly by the masked killer. There was blood everywhere and I could feel my hemophobia kicking in.

I stood up and began making my way to the bathroom where I could get away from the bloody images that were haunting my mind now. Hesh just laughed at me as I walked away from the movie.

"Come on it's just a movie" he called out to me as I walked into the bathroom. I really felt as if I was about to vomit from the graphic scenes. Movie or not I couldn't tolerate the bloody scenes. I lied down on the floor as I tried to calm down and keep myself from vomiting everywhere.

"Are you okay" Kana asked as she walked into the bathroom. "You know none of its real right?"

"I know but…" I began to say before I stopped myself from mentioning my fear of blood.

"Sorry we shouldn't have forced you to watch something like that" Kana said in a sympathetic voice. I could tell she felt bad and I wanted to tell her it was no big deal, but it was a big deal to me.

"I just don't want to see stuff like that okay" I said back to the jolteon.

"Don't you like the thrill of a good scare" Kana asked me. I did enjoy a good thrill, but not the thrill of watching someone bleed everywhere as they scream for mercy.

"Kana can I tell you a little secret" I said very quietly.

"Sure" She replied back without whispering.

"It's not that the movie scared me… it's just that..." I tried to say before I lost the courage to tell her about my fear. I always did want to tell someone I could trust, but every time I wanted to I couldn't.

"You can tell me you know I'm not going to make fun of you or tell anyone" Kana said with a trusting voice as she got closer to me.

"This stays between us okay and after this I'm going to trust you to keep movies like that away from me" I said in a stern voice. The jolteon nodded her head back in agreement to what I said.

I was very hesitant about telling her, this was something I never told anyone ever. The only reason I was about to tell her was primarily because I trusted her. I mean her and Flare are the only two that know about my family, or I would hope to Mew and they haven't told anyone my secrets yet. So I viewed Kana and Flare as the two friends I have that I can trust with things like this.

"I don't like blood… it makes me feel uncomfortable" I said awkwardly as I waited for a smart ass comment.

"Oh!" Kana said as an imaginary light bulb lit up above her head. "So that's why." I shook my head to confirm.

"That stays between us, now next time I'm going to trust you to make sure there's no excessive bleeding in a movie." I said back to the jolteon.

"Got it."

Point of View Hesh

Before we could get any further in the movie I heard someone knock on the door to our room. I picked up the remote and I headed towards the door. I wondered who it was and what anyone could want at this time of night.

I stood in front of the door getting ready to open it. Then a thought popped into my head. 'Funny this is just like that scene in the mov-" I was thinking before a blade stabbed through the door. I quickly fell to the ground barely having the reflex to dodge it. I let out a loud scream from the blade that almost killed me.

"Holy shit it's… it's him" I yelled as I crawled away from the door in terror. The blade retracted back out of the door. I had to rub my eyes to make sure that was real. Black and Kana both came out of the bathroom to see what was going on. I couldn't believe that this was happening, was this some kind of screwed up prank.

"Guys that killers outside" I yelled as panicked thoughts came into my head about being mutilated to pieces.

"Okay Black has had enough of your joke" Kana said in Black's defense.

"But-" I started saying before the door was kicked open. We all froze as we looked at the door with no one standing there who could have possible opened it.

"What the hell…" I said in a shocked tone. "Guys this isn't a joke, come here" I said in a worried voice. Everyone was a little hesitant and all the noise seemed to have woken up Gray and Ebony.

"Someone call the police, I don't think where alone anymore" Flare suggested. I kept my eye on the door but I ran to the phone and picked it up. Even though they wouldn't understand me I'm sure they'd get the idea if a pikachu was screaming bloody murder. As soon as I picked up the phone all I heard was a beeping noise that showed that the phone wasn't working… just like in the movie…

"Shit it's not working" I yelled out loud to everyone.

"What's going on" Ebony yelled out in a panicked voice.

"Ebony just stay away from the door" Kana called out. The eevee backed away from the door as instructed.

Things then escalated more and the power to the hotel went out. Everything was pitch black and we couldn't see anything. Within a second the blue rings on Blacks body lit up and illuminated the room with a faint blue light.

We all froze as we heard some out of pitch whistling in the back corner of the room. We all slowly turned our heads towards the whistling. Standing in the shadows by the TV was a riolu with a sword slung onto his back.

"Who are you" I yelled out to the riolu.

"Why don't you come and find out" he replied back in a dark tone as he slowly unsheathed his sword.

"Theirs way more of us than you" Flare yelled at the ninja like pokemon.

"I can take you all on, but I'm not alone tonight" he said as he finished taking his sword out. Everyone stared at the riolu as he pointed his sword at all of us with a menacing smile. The backup power to the hotel kicked in and some emergency lights turned on in the hallways just giving enough light to navigate.

"I'll take care of him" Gray said as he stepped forward with a vicious growl.

"Gray I respect your heroism but we need to work together on this and not split up" I told the absol who was growling ferociously at the riolu as if he wanted to tear him limb from limb. I wouldn't even expect a growl from him like this if Black pissed him off as much as he could.

"Just go get help. I have a personal vendetta to settle with him" Gray growled.

"Gray are you sure you got this" Flare asked the dark type. He just gave a nod without looking.

"Alright he's on you then, I know you can handle him" Flare said with confidence in his friend. "Let's go" Flare commanded everyone. Everyone including myself hesitantly got out of Gray's way so they could fight. I wasn't sure if I trusted Gray to beat him, I've never seen Gray fight seriously but I was sure he could raise hell if he wanted to.

"We need to head towards the exit" I instructed everyone.

Point of View Gray

It's been eight years. Eight years since Eclipse fucked me and everyone I cared about over and we had to fight this exact riolu and his umbreon friend. Back then we failed to win that fight, but then again that was back then and I'm not even the same pokemon anymore.

"May I ask who you are" The riolu asked me. The fact that he forgot me was sickening. How could someone forget something so horrible!

"Eight years ago, you, Eclipse and that other white umbreon took everything from me" I said to the riolu who seemed unfazed by my anger.

"Eclipse, the name sounds familiar. I can't say I remember you though" the riolu babbled on not even caring about what he did.

"I'll make you remember my face" I yelled at him.

To be continued...

Chapter End

Author Note: Alright I know i've been doing shorter chapters lately and I apologize. Some chapters feel better at these lengths at the same time and it gives me more time to plan whats coming up and not overwhelm myself. Next chapter will be longer though.

I haven't asked this in awhile but I'd appreciate some constructive criticism. I'm feeling as if I could do better but I'm not really sure what to look out for on my errors. So if anyone would like to be kind enough that would be awesome.

(This paragraph is a bit of rambling about horror movies lol) For anyone who's wondering I was referencing the move Friday the 13th. Its an older horror movie that got a remake in 2009. I'd recommend the movie to anyone who's allowed to watch rated R movies with adult themes. (I joked around with that a bit while Black was watching it). One thing I thought would be hysterical is if I had Black watch The Evil Dead. That movie is the most F***ed up thing I have ever seen. Truly the most gory movie I have ever seen. Anyways sorry I got off topic I just love horror movies lol.

Now onto more plot related stuff. Skull face was the name I gave the thing that takes the forms of dead pokemon. Their is some interesting things to put together on Skull Face and you can expect him/her to show up again.

Anyways thanks for reading and another thank you to anyone who supports this story!