Hey everyone welcome to the next chapter in the story. Before I continue I would like the thank genericgamer207 for being nice enough to edit this chapter along with the first chapter to this story. So just remember if my grammar seems like it evolved past the intellect of a third grade story teller it didn't... Although I'm still trying to improve. Anyways things continue from last chapter so enjoy.

Chapter 59: "Say my name"

Point of View Gray

'Sarah… Joel… Katherine… Aaron… I haven't forgotten a single one of you, not for one day. I still remember that day all five of us fought valiantly against this riolu and that white umbreon. Despite the fact that I no longer have a horn that's real, I can still sense this eerie feeling just like I felt last time. This time I'm going to win, this time I won't hesitate. This time I will kill him.'

The riolu that Nia said was named Sam just watched me from the shadows of the room with a demented smile on his face. The smile triggered something in me and I found myself growling at the riolu. The riolu jumped towards me and swung his sword horizontally. I quickly rolled below it. Before I could recover from my roll the riolu sent a stabbing motion towards me. I leaned away from the attack as the blade nicked the side of my neck and blood splattered out of the wound.

I jumped back from the riolu and got some space between the two of us. I concentrated my energy and formed an ice blade around my right paw. The blade resembled a knife and would easily kill him with the right hit. I lunged towards the riolu and swung my blade towards his neck. The riolu ducked under my attack and tried sweeping my feet with his leg once I landed. I jumped again over the attack and tried impaling him midair. The riolu blocked my ice blade with his own steel one, and after they collided we both retreated back from each other.

The riolu and I charged at each other. I jumped off a table that was in the middle of the room, and shot an ice beam at the riolu in midflight. The riolu smoothly rolled out of the way and plunged his sword towards me all in one smooth movement. I was in midair when his blade cut my gut area. Blood shot out of my wound as I smacked into the ground. I quickly rolled over and got back up onto my feet. My adrenaline was too high to feel pain at this point.

The riolu sprinted towards me and began sending a series of quick attacks. I barely dodged each attack as I heard the blade cutting through the air itself. The riolu sent a kick towards me and made full contact with my gut. Spit flew out of my mouth as I went flying into the air. Sam moved faster than my eyes could comprehend and he landed a solid punch on me while I was in midair and sent me flying out into the hallway.

I quickly scurried to my feet despite the fact that his blows felt as if they were from a lead pipe.. I was now in the hallway and I could tell this fight was really about to get nasty. The riolu flew out the door as he swung his weapon at me with deadly precision. I quickly dived out of the way with an ice beam charging. I launched the beam mid-dive and the riolu moved around the attack. Seeing as he was too fast for that attack, I decided I was going to try something else. I launched razor sharp hail out of my mouth towards the riolu. It was like a shotgun and scattered everywhere throughout the hallway. The riolu spun his blade in a circular motion at a high velocity, deflecting every piece of hail flying his way.

"You're pretty good," the riolu complimented as he moved towards me. I shot another hail attack towards him and, once again, the riolu deflected each piece with his blade. In one quick movement the riolu jumped on the wall, ran along it, and rocketed off it towards me. He swung his sword vertically faster than my eyes could comprehend the movement. The blade sliced the side of my hip open, but I was able to dodge most of the serious damage.

I moved back from the riolu who walked towards me slowly. The riolu then stabbed his sword into the ground and left it in the floor.

"I like it up close and personal," the riolu taunted as he got in a martial art stance. One fist held towards his face and his other hand in front of his torso.

Sam dashed forward and swung his left paw towards my jaw in an uppercut motion. I retracted my head back as I felt his paw scrape the side of my jaw. I jabbed my bladed paw towards the riolu but he caught it with his right paw, pulled on it, and made me to fall forward on my stomach.

Sam grabbed me by my horn and pulled me up to my feet. He kneed me in my chest, and I grunted in pain as he landed a solid punch between my eyes. The impact of the punch made a loud metal clanking sound. He let go of my horn, then delivered another punch in my jaw and sent me flying back. Every spot he contacted with his fist ached. His fist were unnaturally hard, almost as if they were steel.

"Having fun yet" the riolu asked as he cracked his knuckles.

I slowly got up onto my feet with muscles that were resisting the pain. "Having the time of my life" I said as I spit some blood out of my mouth.

Point of View Flare

We all were running down the stairs as quickly as we could, and we finally made it to the main floor. We pushed open the door to the stairwell and we entered the lobby of the hotel. We all looked around cautiously for any sign of danger, but there wasn't a soul in sight.

"Why is no one here? Not even the counter lady," Hesh pointed out the obvious.

"See if the phone down here works," I suggested. The rodent jumped up on the front desk and picked up the phone and put it up to his ear.

"Damn!" the pikachu threw the phone across the room. "Let's just get the hell out of here and get help, I trust Gray but I don't want to leave it up to chance."

"I'm afraid we can't allow that." We all froze from the anonymous voice. Coming out of the hall was a raichu and that same blaziken that kidnapped me and Black earlier.

"Who are you and what do you want from us," Kana asked the two strangers.

"Remember not to kill her specifically," the raichu told his blaziken friend. I looked at Kana, 'why wouldn't they want to kill her?'

"Noted." the blaziken nodded back at the rodent.

"Hey ass-face she asked you a question!," Black shouted at the two. Sadly he was ignored and the two just watched us carefully.

"Dibs on the fennekin," the blaziken said to his partner. Why would he specifically want me?

The raichu stuck his paw out towards us and made a handgun out of his fingers. We all watched in confusion as the raichu continued to point it at us as if this was some kind of joke.

"Bang" the raichu said blankly as his cheeks jolted with electricity that conducted to his right paw, and a bolt of lightning shot out of his hand at the speed of a bullet. We all dived out of the way as the lightning made contact with the front desk and fried the computers creating a loud thunder noise.

"There's no escape from us., Every room in this hotel was bought out for this night, you're the only one's here. The doors are locked up also, so no one comes in or out. That is not until you're in body bags," the raichu told us.

'Every room was bought out?! How bad do these people want us dead?.'

"Bring it," Hesh retorted back as he got to his feet. The raichu just looked at us with a bored expression and held out his fake handgun again.

"Shit," Hesh yelled as another bolt of lightning was shot towards him. He wasn't fast enough this time and he was electrocuted. The pikachu fell to the ground as every muscle in his body conducted electricity and every muscle of his tensed up.

"My name is Raiden, also known as the lightning god. The volts in my electricity exceed the average pokemon, so even type advantages don't have an edge against me." Raiden crossed his arms as Hesh slowly got back up to his feet fighting the resistance from his muscles.

This wasn't good, that raichu was able to hurt Hesh with his own element type, what would it do to me or a water type. My heart rate increased from the pressure that was accumulating.

"Let me handle this. Don't worry I'll leave your fennekin friend for you," the raichu said as he walked towards all of us. Black and Kana moved to the left and Hesh and I took the right as we surrounded the raichu. Ebony on the other hand stayed back, none of us wanted her getting hurt. I glanced back at the blaziken and it appeared he wasn't going to jump in yet.

We all charged towards him at once. He quickly turned towards Kana and Black and shot a separate bolt of lightning towards each of them. By the time they were hit Hesh swung his fist towards the back of the raichu's head as I charged up a flamethrower. The raichu caught Hesh's hand without even looking at him. Hesh swung his other paw at the raichu but he jerked his head away from the other punch without looking.

"What the fu-"Hesh began to say before he yelled in agony as his body was filled with electricity. The pikachu fell to the ground. I launched my flamethrower towards the raichu but he dove out of the way.

"Bang," the raichu said blankly in mid-dive and shot another bolt of lightning towards me. I dived out of the way as the bolt barely missed me. All the fur on my body was standing on end from the lightning that almost struck me. This was really bad, that blaziken hasn't even stepped foot into the fight yet and we were already losing horribly.

"Leave him and the jolteon, remember," the blaziken called out.

Everyone who had fallen victim to the lightning was now struggling up onto their feet.

Point of View Naomi

I silently snuck through the darkness of the night. I was now approaching the back of the hotel that Black and his friends were staying at. All the windows to the hotel were covered with blinds so I couldn't see inside. All side entrances were locked along with the front door. That left me with plan B:, breaking and entering.

I approached one of the windows and began charging up a shadow ball. Before I launched my attack a solid object tackled me onto the ground, my body slammed into the brick wall of the hotel.

"Who the hell are you." a Charmander yelled as he stood over me with his arms crossed. I could feel myself mentally snapping from the random act of assault.

"I'm going to give you a ten second head start to run like hell," I stated. The Charmander just continued to cross his arms and stare at me as if he wasn't afraid.

"Nah, I got something important to do here lady. Are you one of those assassin people or just a burglar?" the Charmander asked.

"Assassin?" I repeated "No… What do you know about them?"

"You know about them too?" The charmander said with surprise. I nodded back in response. "Wait does that mean the creepy face skull guy visited you too!" the Charmander exclaimed.

"Yeah he told me to come here to save Black and his friends, I'm assuming you're on the same mission?"

"Yeah that creepy thing forced me into this as well," the lizard replied.

"We need to hurry then, Mew knows how long they actually have before they show up. We may already be too late," I said.

"Let's go then." The Charmander grabbed a rock on the floor and threw it through the window I previously tried to destroy. The glass shattered and we made our entrance. I didn't waste a second, and I jumped up on the ledge and entered the hotel. The Charmander struggled to pull himself up the ledge and fell through the window and made a loud thud upon impact. I looked around cautiously to make sure that that alerted no one.

"Let's keep it quiet," I whispered to the Charmander who was groaning on the ground. He gave a thumb's up as he crawled up to his feet.

"Just so you know my name is Aiden, just so you can properly address me if needed" he stated. I could really care less about anyone's name at a time like this. Plus it's not like I had plans to see him after this.

"Let's keep moving," I whispered as I walked silently down the hallway we were in.

Point of View Flare

Our fight continued on as everyone in our team gave it everything they had. Most of us had felt the high voltage of the raichu's electricity at least once. The only one who wasn't helping was Ebony, but that was because we made her hide. She was too young to face this kind of stuff. That one time back at Genesis was enough for her.

"Aren't you all getting tired of getting shocked," the raichu asked us.

"Not as tired as I am of hearing your mouth run," Hesh yelled out.

Hesh and the raichu were engaged in a spiteful argument that wasn't contributing to anyone. That is except for the big opening the raichu had behind him. I concentrated flames around my body and I charged toward the raichu with flames hot enough to melt the skin off of him. I leapt towards him but right before I made contact he jumped above me. The raichu pointed his handgun at me and struck me with lightning. Every nerve in my body lit up as I hit the floor. The raichu quickly jumped on top of me and pinned me to the ground.

"Flare!" Kana and Hesh yelled in sync.

"Let him go or I'll-" Kana yelled before she was cut off.

"You'll what? I'm in full control of this situation. I have been holding back this whole fight. If I wanted to right now I could fry his brain to the point that he'd be drooling all over himself for the rest of his life. Do you want that?" Kana instantly froze from the thought he put into her head. I tried to resist but my muscles wouldn't cooperate due to the electricity they endured. All I could do is watch the raichu decide my fate.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ebony coming out of her hiding spot. The eevee looked at me with eyes that showed her fear. The fear in her eyes instantly converted to a growl as she gritted her teeth and dashed towards the unsuspecting raichu. Ebony pounced towards him with her tiny fangs ready to taste blood. The raichu extended his left paw towards Ebony and caught her by her throat. Ebony let out a loud whimper of pain from being stopped with that much inertia by her throat. The raichu jumped off me with Ebony in his grimy hands.

"Let her go" Black shouted at the raichu.

"This eevee is my trump card, why would I do that?" the raichu asked as he tightened his grip around Ebony's neck and she whimpered from the pain.

"She's just a child, you can't be serious!" Hesh yelled.

"Exactly, none of you want's her blood on your hands. So I suggest you listen well or I'll break her little fragile neck," Raiden demanded.

"What do you want," Hesh spoke up. Everyone waited in silence as we all feared his demands.

"The fennekin and jolteon will fight my comrade in a separate area," the raichu demanded. Why was this raichu and blaziken singling out me and kana? Why are we the odd members of the group right now?

"Any objections?"

"Flare, Kana, will you two be fine with meeting his demands" Hesh asked us. "It's that or-"

"If it saves Ebony we don't have a choice," Kana responded.

"Excellent," The raichu said. "Blaze escort them to another area to do your thing." The blaziken nodded at his friend and waved his hand to indicate that we were supposed to follow him.

"Do you two think you can do it" I asked the two friends that I may never see again.

"It's not about what we think. It comes down to the fact that we have to win" Black responded to my question. "Just win and come back safe," Black added with concern in his voice.

"You too," I responded back. After our small little parting Kana and I both followed Blaze down a hall. The blaziken didn't even seem slightly concerned about us attacking him from behind. Then again every attempt at that against the raichu failed, he didn't even have to look to react appropriately to our attacks.

"Where are you taking us" Kana asked the blaziken that was guiding us down the hall.

"We're going to the park, the moon is directly above us now and it will light up the area for our battle. There we will be secluded and we can get some things out of the way in privacy," the blaziken answered.

Neither of us had anything to say, for now our walk was stalling any serious danger and the moment we get outside I planned on running to the nearest form of help. Before I could plan to far ahead the blaziken turned around with a dart gun in his mouth, he shot two darts with great precision into both Kana and my neck. My vision quickly grew blurry and I began seeing double's.

"It's alright, go to sleep. You can trust me Flare," the blaziken said as I fell to the ground fighting off the drowsiness. It was too much and eventually my eyes closed and they refused to open back up.

The last thought I could think about before I blacked out completely was who this guy was and what was up with his obsession with me.

Point of View Black

"Bang." Hesh and I both quickly dived out of the way from another lightning bolt.

"I thought we had a deal" I yelled at the raichu who still had Ebony in his custody.

"Don't complain about a fair fight to me, there are two of you and one of me. I'm only evening the playing field" the raichu stated.

Veins were now bulging out on Hesh's face as he clenched his fist "Evening the playing field! You're taking a child as a hostage and on top of that you're going against your word!"

"This is why you and all your friends are going to die. You don't understand the concept of a real fight. This isn't one of your gym battles where you have rules and honor. No in a real battle you die and hang on to your morals, or you do whatever it takes to win." Neither Hesh nor I knew how to reply to that speech. It was clear now that this raichu didn't care. He was a survivalist that would do anything to achieve victory. It was clear now that we had to assemble a plan to win or Ebony was going to die.

"Any ideas on how we win," I whispered to Hesh who was right next to me.

"What is there to do, if we move Ebony dies, if we stand still we die along with Ebony," Hesh responded stressfully.

"Wait you aren't implying that-" I began to ask before Hesh stopped me.

"No" Hesh quickly interrupted "I just don't know what to do, no matter what someone dies…"

"I get what you're saying, but there has to be a way." I understood Hesh's mood. The only thing we could do is dodge his lightning attacks until we exhaust ourselves. In the end we would die if Ebony wasn't freed from his grasp. I couldn't live with her blood on my hands… not just so I could save myself.

'Mew… if you want to do something for once, then please… please send us a miracle' I prayed as a last resort.

Almost as if it was on queue a shadow ball tore through the air towards the raichu. He quickly dived out of the way with Ebony held between his arms. I quickly glanced in the direction from where the shadow ball came from and I couldn't believe who it was. My prayer was answered by Nia. Standing behind her was that one Charmander that pissed me off, although under tonight's circumstances I'd let it slide. I could almost say I was glad to see him.

I quickly looked back at the raichu who was already back up on his two feet. This time the charmander launched an ember. The raichu quickly dodged out of the way. The grip on Ebony's neck loosened and gave her an opening. She bit down on his arm and blood squirted out of the wound.

The raichu flinched back and swung the eevee off his arm. A piece of his flesh ripped off along with the eevee. She slid across the ground and recovered to her feet immediately. She stood up and spat the chunk of the raichu's flesh out of her mouth.

"Looks like I lost my trump card," the raichu stated as he observed his wound.

Ebony quickly ran back to me and Hesh, Nia and the charmander quickly came over towards us as well. I was impressed with Ebony taking that chance, she responded perfectly.

"Is everyone alright," Nia asked as she kept her eyes on the raichu.

"Yeah we're just struggling to get by is all," I responded. "Thanks. That could have gotten really ugly if you didn't step in when you did."

"Yeah but he got around my attack. I meant to take off his head originally." That was a dark idea, I never knew she would resort to violence like that.

"How does he keep dodging us without even seeing us" Hesh asked out loud.

"He's a good fighter that's why," Nia responded.

"Does he like have the sixth sense or something? He's dodging attacks that aren't even possible" I added in.

"We'll come up with something" Nia told me.

Point of View Flare

My eyes slowly creaked open as I came back to reality. It appeared that I was still alive at the moment. The blaziken wasn't lying we were going to the park. I quickly remembered that Kana was knocked out too and I quickly got back up on my feet to locate the jolteon.

"Kana" I shouted as I looked around frantically but it was difficult to spot her due to a thick fog that covered the park. Eventually I spotted her. I ran over and gave her a nudge, but she didn't even move. I placed my head against her chest to make sure she was even breathing; thankfully I could hear her breathing.

"Glad to see you're awake" a voice called from behind. I looked back and I saw the blaziken standing behind us.

"What do you want from me" I shouted at the bird like pokemon.

"I just wanted to talk a bit, I'm not going to trick you or anything" the blaziken said as he took his knife out of its sheath and dropped it on the ground.

"Who are you" I asked the fire type. The blaziken just stared at me with a blank expression.

"Who am I?" the blaziken repeated the question "Apparently I'm a forgotten face." I launched an ember straight towards him in response to his question. The blaziken just dodged it by only moving his upper torso.

"I haven't forgotten your name… Flare."

"Don't make me ask you again, who the hell are you!" The blaziken walked closer to me until his shadow overlapped my smaller form.

"Say my name," The blaziken demanded.

"What!?" I jumped back away from him as I began charging another ember in my mouth. I launched it and the blaziken punched it and caused a mini explosion that blew away some of the fog, but replaced it with smoke. He flew out of the smoke cloud and landed directly in front of me.

"Say my name," he demanded again. I quickly swiped my claws towards his legs but he jumped over the attack. "Say it." I didn't know what to say, I had no idea what his name was.

"I don't know your name now stop messing with me," I yelled back at him.

"Think back Flare, don't remember me by my appearance now, remember me from six years ago." An illusion popped into my head and the blaziken was masked with a mirage of a familiar combusken for a split second.

"H-Hunter?" I said in disbelief to what I was witnessing.

To be continued...

Chapter End

Author Note: So here we are with another cliffhanger. Well everyone hang around for the next chapter because things will get catastrophic for our characters. I kind of feel bad for the owner of the hotel... hope his/her insurance is good. Thanks for reading and thanks to everyone who supports this story. Also feel free to fav or follow this story, it would mean a lot to me.