Hey guyz and galz. Hopefully everyone is enjoying everything so far, but before we get to this chapter I'd like to say something I forgot to say last chapter. Well, I'm sure a lot of you noticed the new movie that came to theaters known as 50 shades of Grey... Well, it has just come to my attention that one of the characters in that movie is Mr Grey... I'd like to state that I have no relation to that movie in any way. I'm 1Mr Gray not Mr Grey... So, I'm not related to that p**no movie XD. Just had to clear that up, sorry. Anyhoo, enjoy the chapter!

Book II: Impending Twilight

Chapter 92: It's going to happen again

Point of View Black

It was now pretty early in the morning. I had to force myself out of bed pretty early to take care of something important this morning. Today was the day that I was going to start my dark matter training with Nia. The sun was just now barely breaking the horizon, and my eyes were barely even able to stay open. You have no idea how much I missed being nocturnal. I silently followed behind Nia as she guided me through the forest that was near Shalour city. Not much was said between the two of us. Honestly, things were really awkward at the moment, you know, because she came back from the dead and stuff, but I was trying to get past that. Don't get me wrong though, I was happy she was alive, but this was still a lot even for me. I had to figure something out though to break this awkward silence, and I think I had just the perfect conversation starter.

"So, how's your brother?" I nervously asked.

Nia didn't bother looking back at me, but her ears rose up a bit from the question, "Dante is doing fine. The doctor said he'll have a bit to go for recovery though, due to the poison doing a lot of damage," she answered.

"I see, well I hope he gets well," I added as I picked up my pace until I was walking alongside her. "So, onto a different conversation. Do you think it is smart to be helping this Skull Face creep, I don't trust him one bit."

For the first time this morning, Nia looked at me, "No, I don't trust him at all either," Nia admitted, "But, I made a deal with him, and I can't see how this would backfire on either of us, so for now I'm going to go with this," Nia told me, before she took her eyes away from mine, and focused on the path ahead.

"Nia, I get that this Jack person destroyed your life, but is it really worth putting yourself through all of this just to get even, maybe it'd be-"

"Just mind your own business Black," Nia spoke sharply, "You have your own Vendetta as well, you should know how it feels to have your life taken from you."

I was about to reply, but she was right. I hated Vincent, I hated all those Crimson bastards, I'd give anything to see them pay for what they did to me. Nia was no different, this Jack person took her life, and she wanted to take his to get even. But I couldn't help but feel this Skull Face freak was messing with her, I highly doubt he'd give a crap about Nia's feelings, so why would he care about her revenge?

"Anyways, this looks like a good spot," Nia said, breaking my train of thought.

"Do you think so?" I asked as I looked at the small opening we found.

"Yeah, this'll be a good spot to start training, so let's not delay this any further."

Point of View Stark

This whole mission so far was very anti climatic. I was expecting us to jump straight into apprehending Ryder, but apparently we have plenty of time to kill. So, here I am now, on a beach spending the day with trained killers like myself… The beach we found was pretty rocky, it wasn't the type of spot humans would go to hangout. The area was fairly vacant, but there was the occasional human or two that walked by, luckily none of which were trainers. I lied in the shade next to a tilted rock, this was the only spot that I didn't feel too exposed. The beach was like umbreon Hell in my opinion, especially the public beaches with all the humans and pokemon. I couldn't stand all the children that screamed and shouted either, it made me want to rip off my ears and scream till my vocal cords gave out. Perhaps I'm just a killjoy, but it infuriated me when I saw all those people acting so idiotic on a beach, like there isn't a care in the world.

Scarlet seemed to be the only pokemon that was brave enough to go into the water, the greninja lied on her back as she floated along the water. Vincent sat atop of the rock I was hiding under, while Merrick walked around the shore kicking up sand out of boredom. This was kind of a weird scene: a beach full of killers just lying around being lazy for a day. It kinda made me wonder what I didn't know about everyone I pass by: were they a thief, killer, drug dealer, rapist, or maybe just a normal person in society? You'd never really know, and it was kind of scary, unless you were a confident killer like me.

Hours passed by as we wasted away our day on the beach. Scarlet eventually returned to shore, and Merrick napped on the ground away from us. Scarlet decided to take a seat next to me, but she remained silent as she hummed a song to herself, one that was rather soothing, the greninja was a bit dull and monotonous most of the time, but she did have a nice voice when she did decide to use it.

"What're you humming?" I asked the frog.

Scarlet stopped humming as she glanced at me, "It's an old song my old mate and I used to like," Scarlet answered.

"Mate?" I questioned her, "I believe you actually mentioned that once, after we were attacked by that thing."

"I recall," Scarlet answered quietly.

"So, what exactly happened to this mate of yours, I don't recall you ever mentioning him before or after that," I cautiously asked, since this could be a dangerous question.

Scarlet let out a sigh as she stared off towards the ocean, "Despite your background Stark, I have nothing against you, but I don't want to tell you about that. It doesn't really concern you," Scarlet responded with a bit of agitation, but she was polite about it at the same time.

"Yeah, sorry," I replied to the greninja.

"It's fine, you're far from the first to do this, it's only natural that you're curious," Scarlet responded.

After the small little chat between Scarlet and me, I began to notice the fact that Vincent was really quiet. I couldn't quite see him too well, since he was on top of the rock that I was hiding under, but I could see his shadow overcasting on the sand in front of me.

"Hey Vince, you're a bit quiet today," I pointed out.

The espeon remained silent for a moment, "And you're a bit talkative today," the albino espeon spoke back. Seeing as we were on the beach, and I had a question that was relevant, I decided I was going to ask it.

"So, if you're albino, how can you stand being in the sun, especially on a beach?"

"Remember, Genesis helped me, they modified my pigmentation and skin so I could stand to be out in the sun, if not I'd be killing myself by being here right now," Vince answered.

"I see," I replied, while growing a bit bored of everyones inactivity.

"So… What about your brother, are you going to be okay confronting him?" I asked out of boredom and with a bit of interest.

"Who knows," Vincent spoke, "I probably won't be going against him head on, we won't be discussing tactics until the night before."

A bit of time passed until I got bored again, and I decided to go for a walk around the city. Vincent decided to stay behind with the others, he just warned me to be careful, and out of all things not to run into Ryder or his friends. I highly doubted something like that was likely. Shalour was such a big city, and it had numbers of people and pokemon to go with it. I honestly hated populated areas, but I was bored enough to roam around.

I walked through the streets full of humans and pokemon. All the humans seemed to move around me, each and every one of them had to stop to look at me, since my fur color was so unique. I heard a few comments about my fur whispered amongst the humans and pokemon watching me, but I paid no attention to them.

This walk through the city kinda took me back a bit, Naomi and I used to do things like this, but usually it was so late in the night no one was awake. For a matter of fact, we both walked through Shalour before, perhaps I was doing this for the nostalgia? After a bit of walking through the streets, I decided to go down some back streets into a shady area, the reasoning behind this was so I could get a bit of quiet in this city. Everything was much less noisy here, which was to my liking. I quietly walked along, until I heard arguing. I continued to walk down the street until I saw an alley between two buildings, inside was an old zorua and a servine that were surrounded by three pokemon: A pancham, an axew, and lastly, a pidgeotto.

"I said give us the bag, don't be a snot about it!" The pancham commanded with irritation.

"I said piss off!" the female servine snapped at the pokemon as she wore a backpack.

"Now now, why don't you all just walk along," the zorua said in a tranquil voice that sounded like he was in a very good mood.

"We're not asking again, give up the freaking bag!" the axew demanded.

"ughh, why can't all you thugs just get jobs or something," the zorua said as he shook his head, "How disappointing."

I continued to spectate the scene from down the alley, but I didn't have any intentions on getting involved, I couldn't care less about them two getting robbed.

"Lucy, do take care of them," the zorua said dismissively as he began to scratch his head with his paw.

"Alright," the servine chimed with a smirk, "So, which one of you wants to be hospitalized first?" the servine known as Lucy asked.

"Sean, Eric, take them down," the pidgeotto ordered as if he was the boss of this operation.

The zorua then glanced down the alley and noticed me spectating the scene, which caused me to cringe a bit.

"Hey you, why don't you stop standing there and help an old zorua and his friend?" the fox ordered me.

"Dammit, this is what I get for not minding my own business," I muttered as I made my way down the alley. "Can you three assholes just go your own way, I'm really not in the mood for this today," I spoke lazily at the three thugs.

"Da fuck, you don't just show up on a scene like this and act like you don't care!" the axew exclaimed in irritation.

"Just be quiet, you're taking up my time right now, so I suggest you run before I paint the walls with your blood," I spoke in a cold blooded voice as dark matter began to surround my body, only for scare factor though, I didn't really plan on killing them.

"Drop him boys!" the pideotto commanded, but I had other plans. I quickly dashed past the axew and the pancham, and I ran straight for the pidgeotto, the bird tried to take flight, but I slammed my skull into the birds gut. The bird let out a loud cry as all the air left his body and he hit the ground. I looked back just in time to see the two other pokemon getting strangled by the servine's vines.

"Tfff, all talk, no bite," the servine scoffed as she threw the two pokemon on the ground. The axew and pacham raced to their feet and ran towards their injured boss who was writhing in pain on the ground.

"I'll be taking my leave now," I spoke as I began walking back from where I came. I gave a quick glance back and I saw that the three thugs were now escaping.

"Hold on a minute," the old zorua called from behind me.

I looked back at him, but I didn't bother wasting my words on someone who was going to die from old age soon.

"A white umbreon, your kind isn't very common," spoke the zorua with amusement.

"I'm leaving," I spat out as I tried to ignore the old fox.

"I suggest you listen to Rhys, you don't want to make an enemy out of him," Lucy called out to me.

I turned around and shot her a death glare, "And why do I care?"

"Oh Lucy, leave the poor thing alone, I may be old, but he'll be gone long before me," the zorua said behind my back.

"What did you just say?" I snapped as my glare shot towards the zorua.

"Ahh, so you are the infamous Stark," the zorua chimed with a smirk.

"Who the Hell are you?"

"My name is Rhys, and I'm a member of Genesis, just like you," spoke the zorua, "The Servine behind me is Lucy, she's also a member, and my assistant."

"And what makes you so special that you deserve a body guard?"

"I'm getting old, and I'm also a very, very special pokemon," the zorua spoke as he got closer to my face.

"Yeah…" I said as I pushed his face away from mine with my paw, "Keep telling yourself that."

"No need to be so snide, we're both a part of the same organization, so we can help each other," the zorua said.

"First off, I hate Genesis with a passion, they're merely using me as a tool," I snapped at the zorua, "But what kind of help?"

The zorua gave me a smug smile, "I'm looking for a group of pokemon, they all need to be silenced, and I also need to capture a pesky umbreon."

"Ryder?"

"Bingo," the zorua said as his smirk widened.

"Why do you want him, isn't he Crimson's deal?"

"That umbreon is worth a lot of money, someone like him would sell for millions, or a huge profit could be made off him if we study him. Plus it's best that Crimson doesn't get him, it'd be the end of us all," the zorua told me.

"So you know of Crimson's plan?" I said with surprise.

"I do," the zorua said with a nod, "I'm an old friend of Mandus, or was at one point."

"You actually know that lucario?" I said with even more surprise.

"I do, Mandus and I go long ways back, we used to be very fond of each other."

"So wait, what's his deal then, why is he the way he is, that lucario has crazy power, it's not normal?"

Before I got a response the zorua let out a chuckle, "Mandus lived a life of tragedy, he is who he is now due to having no heart left in him, he's just a shell of a lucario wanting revenge against the world for taking from him," the zorua told me.

"What exactly happened to him?" I asked as I grew more interested.

"That's a story for another day, I'm sure you have places to be as well, don't you?"

"Not quite at the moment, but I guess I'll be going then, just one thing though, how did you know me?"

"We know each other, you just don't remember me in this form," the zorua spoke cryptically as his face became more serious.

"But, I do wish to know where Ryder is?"

"I have no idea, I'll be confronting him on the first night of the full moon," I replied.

"I see, well I'll find him on my own then, take care, white umbreon," the zorua said as his smile returned and he waved his paw at me.

"Yeah-sure," I said as I turned tail and departed from the two.

'Mandus wants revenge against the world, that's interesting,' I thought to myself as I left the alley.

Point of View Black

I panted hard from exhaustion as the dark matter around my paw faded. My training has been going on for some time now, and I was pretty exhausted at this point.

"Alright, that should conclude today, good job," Nia said with approval, "You've still got a long way to go though, but you're improving."

"Thanks," I said in between my pants, "I-I need a moment," I said as I fell over on my side from exhaustion.

At the moment I was so tired that the dirty ground felt like a bed to me. Nia just giggled silently as she walked to me and stood over me as I lied on the dirt.

"You going to be alright, I know this stuff can be tiring to learn?" Nia asked with concern.

"Yeah, I just need a break before I go train with Alex later today," I spoke as I finally caught my breath.

"You're going to train even more today?" Nia said in surprise.

"Yeah, we got to beat the third gym after all," I said with a toothy grin.

"Ugh, the little journey you're on sounds so annoying, I'd hate to be a part of it," Nia grimaced.

"Actually, I hated it so much at first, but it's actually fun at times," I told her.

"I see," Nia said with very little interest on the topic.

"So, what are you going to do once all of this is over?"

Nia looked at me with surprise, "Hmmm, I don't know, I kinda want to try pursuing my dream again," Nia said with a glint in her eyes.

"Which is?" I asked with amusement.

"Research. after I had my procedure, I was offered a job at this one place, but I had to postpone it so I could deal with this," Nia said with a bit of excitement in her voice.

"That's cool, I think that'd suit you well."

"Really? Well, I am a very book smart after all," Nia said with a confident smirk, "What about you, what will you do once this all ends?"

"My journey, or the Skull Face thing?"

"Well, both I guess."

I had to actually take a moment to ponder this question, since I've hardly thought of it before, "Hmm, I don't know, maybe Alex will keep me around, maybe he'll set me free again, but no matter what I do, I want to find somewhere I can be happy and live without conflict," I answered truthfully. Yes, living a carefree life would make me so happy, it just seems like too much to ask for.

"That sounds so simple," Nia said as she looked down at me, "But don't you ever want to do more in life, don't you just hate standing still?"

"What could I possibly do in life? I'm just an umbreon with a load of problems."

"Well for one you don't limit yourself by thinking you can't do anything," Nia began to say, "That's what I always hated about where I grew up, all the pokemon in the forest I lived in never wanted to grow, it always confused me why the pokemon society never grew like humans did, we never culturally evolved or modernized our society in any way."

"I never noticed that," I replied.

"Typical wild pokemon," Naomi teased as she sat down next to me, which I was still lying down in exhaustion.

"Nia, you're wild right now," I protested I tried to get up, but Nia held me down with her paw.

"Yeah, and I also have more intelligence than the average human," Nia retorted with a smug smirk, "And would you mind stop calling me that, my real name is Naomi."

"Then maybe you should have told me that from the start," I said, "Anyways, I need to get going, I have somewhere to be," I told Nia-Naomi as I pried myself off the ground.

"Oh, that's too bad," Naomi said with a bit of disappointment.

"Oh, well I can probably see you later if you want, maybe after my training," I offered.

"Hmmm, sure, that'll probably give me plenty of time to visit my brother," Naomi said.

"Well, I'll meet you outside my hotel around when the sun is going down, is that cool?"

"Sure," Naomi said with a nod, "See ya then."

Afterwards I departed from Naomi and I headed back to the hotel to meet Alex and everyone for our training session. The training was rather boring, we did a trainer battle with some random fat kid and we demolished his pokemon. After a bit of training with Alex, we called it a day. Then, Flare, Kana and myself went to do our own personal training session. Kana mostly watched as Flare and I sparred against each other, sadly I was still losing these fights… Afterwards, the three of us headed back towards the hotel, which soon it would be sundown.

"Ahh man I'm so freaking tired," I whined as I lied collapsed on a couch in the hotel room, which Gray happened not to be occupying at the time.

"Well, that's what you get for doing two training sessions in a row," Hesh opened his mouth, "But I'm sure it'll all be worth it one day you overachiever."

"Three actually," I corrected him.

"Three? When?" Hesh questioned me.

"I did some training early this morning with Naomi, she's helping me to-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're still hanging around her?" Hesh said with annoyance as he crossed his arms and looked at me with irritation.

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?"

"Oh nothing really, other than the fact that she's a dangerous pokemon to be around," Hesh stated.

"Yeah well, I don't care," I replied back, not really caring about his opinion.

"Listen Blacky, a lot of us are really on edge about this chick, she's dangerous," Hesh continued on.

"Yeah-yeah, that's nice," I said as I jumped off the couch and looked at the window, it looked about time to get going.

"Hey, where are you going now?" Hesh said with irritation.

"Out," I replied as I managed to get the door open.

"What are you doing?" Kana questioned me before I exited the hotel.

"Out to hang with Naomi," I said as I ignored Hesh, which I hoped this pissed him off.

"Booo, booo Naomi!" Hesh said as he gave me a thumbs down.

"Well, have fun," Kana said as she waved me off.

"See ya Kana, and go jump out a window Hesh."

Point of View Naomi

I waited patiently outside the hotel Black was staying at, the sun was now setting, so he should have been out here by now. But then, as if on cue, Black walked out of the door.

"Hey!" Black said as he made his way towards me.

"You ready?" I asked the shiny umbreon.

"Uh huh," he said with a nod.

The two of us began walking in a random direction as we began to talk about what happened while we were apart. I told Black about how my brother was doing at the moment, while he told me about his day of extreme training, which seemed like a lot to me. Soon the sun was down, and a blanket of darkness covered the sky. The only beacon of light in the sky was the moon that was nearing completion. Black and I walked down the streets, the rings on our bodies were glowing with energy, the darkness around us was illuminated with gold and blue colors that mixed together. The two of us felt very lively, like nothing could stop us, we were full of so much energy.

"So, what's there to do around this city?" Black asked me.

"Mmmm, I don't know, there is the beach, umm dinner, or just do whatever," I told him, unsure on which would be best.

"Dinner sounds great, I haven't eaten practically all day," Black said with a smirk.

"Sure, I know a great place," I said with a destination in mind.

"Hey Naomi," Black said to get my attention, "I have a question."

"What's that?" I asked with curiosity.

"Well, I think all of my friends are unsure about you right now, and I think it'd be best if you get as many people on your side as possible, since my Dad is still unsure about you," Black began to tell me as he looked a bit nervous, which was kinda cute in a way, "Well, tomorrow I was going to ask everyone to do something fun or something like that, maybe you'd like to come with us?"

"What's so special about tomorrow?" I questioned him.

"Well," I Black said quietly as if he was a bit sad, "Tomorrow is my Birthday actually, usually I'd be spending it with my family, but now my friends are my family, so I figured we could all do something. I haven't told anyone though, since it seems kinda awkward to ask something like that," Black said as he wore a pained look, obviously a special event like that would remind him of his family.

"How old will you be?" I asked him.

"The big Eighteen," Black responded with a forced smile.

"Ahh lame," I teased, "I'm nineteen, so I don't want to hang with someone like you," I teased as I jokingly looked away in a smug fashion.

"Oh shut up," Black said jokingly.

"But seriously though, I'd be interested in doing something tomorrow," I said with a smirk as I jokingly punched Black in the shoulder.

"You think they'd let me come?" A separate voice said. Black and I both turned to see a servine and a zorua watching us. The zorua appeared to be entering the older stage of his life, since his fur appeared to be graying, and his voice didn't exactly sound that young either. The servine looked pretty young compared to the old zorua, she she was around our age, if not a few years ahead of us.

Point of View Black

"Who are you?" Naomi questioned the weird zorua. Although, something about this zorua was very familiar, but I couldn't quite remember him.

"Wait a minute!" I said with astonishment as I walked towards the zorua in a hurry, "I… I remember you."

"You do?" Naomi said in confusion as she looked at me with an odd look.

"You're that zorua that saved me from freezing to death in a blizzard," I said.

"Ahh, so you do remember me," The zorua said with a smile.

"I never did get a chance to thank you for that day."

"Yeah, well I have my regrets as well," the zorua said as his smile turned to a frown, "I didn't realize who I was saving."

"Wait, what's that supposed to-" I began to say, before a vine lashed out at me. The vine slashed against my skin and left a stinging pain.

"What the Hell?!" I snapped as I ran back to a safe distance.

"Lucy, I told you I would take care of him," the zorua spoke to his comrade.

"Sir, I'm supposed-"

"No," the zorua's voice boomed, "This is my mistake."

"What the Hell do you want from me!?" I yelled at the two as I felt blood dripping down my side, which also managed to set my fur on edge from my phobia.

"Don't resist, child," the zorua spoke as he jumped into the air, with a crimson energy pulsing around his paw. The fox slammed his paw against the ground, which the paw then released the energy in a shockwave that blasted Naomi and me back. A strong drowsiness consumed me as everything began to go dark.

I began to climb back up to my feet, only to meet eyes with the zorua. "If you were anything other than a ghost or dark type, you would have been in a deep slumber by now," spoke the zorua.

"What the Hell is wrong with you!" I snapped as I shook off the grogginess.

"I'm doing this to protect this world from Mandus," the told me.

"Mandus," I said as I remembered that name that was mentioned by the psychotic quilava, "Who the Hell is this Mandus person, why is he after me!"

"You're not normal child, you know that, Mandus knows this," the zorua spoke.

"I knew it," I whispered to myself.

"Black," Naomi grunted as she began to pull herself up, "What is he talking about?"

"I see you keep everyone in the dark, Black," the zorua said as he shook his head. "Now, come with me peacefully and I will keep you from being captured, but if you resist, then your death can't be helped, I think a few samples would do anyways," the zorua said with a smile.

"Sir, perhaps I can help?" the servine asked.

"Sit down and relax Lucy, it's not everyday you get to see me fight." The servine let out a scowl as she moved back a bit.

"Just don't do anything stupid, okay?"

"Yeah-Yeah, I heard ya," the zorua grimaced, before he turned towards us again, "Now, let's do this," the zorua said with a sneer.

"No, that's far enough," A voice boomed from above. All of our glances shifted upward atop of a shop to see a croagunk, the same one that attacked Naomi earlier.

"Who are you?" the zorua said as his head cocked to the side, and he watched the croagunk fall to the ground. The croagunk gave a gesture with his hand and even more pokemon emerged from the darkness of the night. About three pokemon in all joined the scene as they surrounded the zorua and servine. I saw a vulpix, a bayleef and a dewott move in, as the croagunk came to my side.

"You alright kid?" the croagunk questioned.

"Excuse me, I asked you a question," the zorua piped up as the three pokemon kept a close eye on him.

"I don't need to give you my name, so back off," the croagunk said with annoyance.

"Heh, how annoying, you don't realize who you're messing with," the zorua said with his smile, "Let me show you that I'm not just some old fox."

A crimson aura surrounded the fox's paws again. The three pokemon that surrounded him got ready to attack, but the zorua slammed his paws into the ground faster, and the crimson energy blew them all back. The croagunk's eyes widened as he saw all of his team mates fall into a deep slumber.

"Eww, it got quiet all of a sudden," the fox spoke as he walked over the unconscious bodies.

"Black, take Naomi and get out of here," the croagunk instructed me.

"You can't be serious?"

"I am, now get going," the croagunk yelled.

"Black, come on," Naomi said as she bit down on my ear and began to pull me.

"Lucy, get them, I'll deal with the croagunk, just give me a minute," Rhys said as he sneered.

"Got it," Lucy said as she began to dash towards us. Naomi gave me a stronger tug before she let go and I followed behind her.

Naomi and I both ran quickly, we turned around every corner possible. There wasn't one human or pokemon in sight to help either. My heart pounded in my chest as I felt my exhaustion catching up to me, the one day I decide to be an overachiever was the worse.

I continued to run until I felt something wrap around my back hind leg, and I got pulled to the ground as something pulled me back. Naomi looked back just in time to see me resisting.

"Naomi, help!" I yelled fearfully as I felt the servine's other vine wrap around me and restricted all of my limbs from moving freely.

"I don't think so!" the servine said as she shot a razor leaf at Naomi. Naomi closed her eyes as the leafs sliced her up.

"Hold tight Black," Naomi said as she dashed at the servine. I felt the vine around my leg slither off. The vine then shot for Naomi as it wrapped around her neck. I could hear the vine constricting around Naomi's neck as she vine threw Naomi around. Naomi's eyes grew wide as her eyes filled up with terror.

"I wonder if I can break your neck," The servine said in a bored voice. "What do you think Black, should I try?"

"Let her go!" I screamed at the servine as I tried to break free, but the vines constricted around me, which brought me pain. "Stop!" I managed to scream out as I felt my bones getting crushed.

"I'll let her go once I finish up," the servine responded as she sat down and yawned. "You really should have stayed away from her if you like her, you knew Genesis was after you, yet you continued to pretend it wasn't happening. You may be cute for an umbreon, but you're selfish, a very unattractive trait I don't like in men," the servine said wryly.

"Shut up, you can't just kill her like this!" I screamed at the top of my voice as a dark energy exploded from my body, which ate the vines right off of me.

"Fuck!" the servine screamed as what was left of her vine retracted. Her vine also released Naomi who dropped unconscious.

"You're going to pay for this," I said venomously as dark matter pulsed around my body. I quickly leaped towards the servine, her vine shot upward and grabbed onto the side of a building and pulled herself up.

"You're starting to piss me off. I knew you were going to be a pain," spoke the servine as she used her damaged vine to grip the building, while her other vine went for me a wavy pattern. I tried to use dark matter, but I couldn't quite get the attack to work like before, so instead I dodged the vine.

"Stand still!" the servine yelled in anger as she continued to try and get me, but I eluded the attacks. I then responded with a shadow ball. The servine leapt off the wall and used her damaged vine to pull her towards the top of a lamp post. The good vine then managed to catch me off guard. I felt the vine coil around my neck a few time, until it tightened enough to crush my neck.

"You're dead," the servine said as she jumped off the lamp post, but she had her vine travelling over the lamp, so she then used it to pull me upwards. I tried to let out a scream, but nothing would escape my mouth.

"Should have just cooperated, I don't find joy in killing others, ya know," the servine talked to me as I felt myself blacking out. Then suddenly a blue blur flashed above me, and the vine was sliced.

I hit the concrete ground with a loud thud, and I instantly began breathing in sweet air. I looked up to see a greninja walking towards the servine, a greninja with a sword mounted on her back.

"I'm getting tired of all these-" the servine began to speak, before the greninja threw a water shuriken. The water shuriken slashed the servine's leg and she fell to the ground as she whipped her good vine at the ninja.

In a flash I saw the vine get hacked off by the greninja's sword. The servine let out a loud scream as the ninja walked towards her.

"Wait, you don't have to do this," The servine pleaded as tears began to stream down her eyes while she trembled. The greninja held her sword against the servine's cheek, slightly cutting her flesh.

"You'd just come after him again," the female greninja spoke as she rose her blade and swung it downward. The servine let out a scream before the greninja's blade stopped near her throat. The servine just sat there trembling uncontrollably as she sobbed.

"Ryder," the greninja spoke to me. I quickly jumped up to my feet as I realized she knew my real name.

"Who are you?" I asked as my legs shaked. If this greninja came after me I was dead.

"Get out of here," she spoke, before she pushed a pressure point on the servines neck and the grass type passed out within a second.

"You're not going anywhere!" the zorua from before shouted out at the greninja as he ran towards her in a flash. The ninja quickly withdrew her sword just in time to swing it at the zorua, but the fox managed to maneuver around the attack in mid air.

"Put her down," The fox growled.

"I don't think so," the greninja spoke as she jumped back and ran up the wall of a building until she was in a safe spot.

"You're asking for me to kill every last one of you Crimson Dawn bastards," the zorua spoke sharply as he growled.

"Mandus will be happy to know you're around, Rhys," the greninja spoke as she sheathed her sword again.

"Don't you think for a moment I don't have the power to kill every last one of you, I didn't come here alone either, I have enough manpower to kill all of you ten times over," the zorua threatened.

"Your threats don't intimidate me," the ninja spoke as she held out the servine to taunt the zorua, "Why don't you try and claim her back," the greninja said.

"You better run fast greninja," the zorua spoke before a pink light flashed and his form shape shifted into an identical greninja. The imposter then ran up the wall after the real greninja.

"You wait Black, I'll be back for you soon," The zorua spoke as he chased after the other until he was out of sight.

After the two left, I was left with silence, which was very unsettling to me. After I took a moment to get ahold of myself, I turned to Naomi and ran towards her. I quickly lowered down and placed my ear against her chest, luckily I could hear a beat, so she wasn't strangled to death.

"Thank Arceus," I said as I quickly got her onto my back by burying my head below her and rolling her onto my back. I didn't waste a single second on retreating back to the hotel. I ran as fast as I could. I wasn't even concerned with what happened to the croagunk, right now I only cared about us.

I rushed my way through the hotel until I finally made my way up to the room our team was staying in. Once in front of the door I bashed my skull into the door, and then began scratching at the door. It took a moment, but Alex finally opened the door.

"Jeez, Black calm dow-" Alex began to say before he stopped mid sentence, "Oh what now?!" he exclaimed as he saw Naomi's unconscious body. Alex quickly picked her up off of me and took her inside. I followed in behind and pushed the door shut with my head.

"Black, what happened?" Flare questioned me as he ran up to me along with Kana.

"It's happening again," I said anxiously as I walked past the two of them, "I need to leave, I can't stay here anymore," I said in a panic.

"Wait, who attacked you?" Gray then butted in as he jumped off the couch.

"It was Crimson Dawn and Genesis, they're both here now," I said as I continued to panic, "The only reason we got away was because they started fighting each other, but they're going to come for us, I know it."

"Calm down Black," Gray told me.

"How the Hell can I calm down when I have two groups trying to kill all of us, we need to leave, now."

"You're forgetting about WPA, I know them all personally, and your father is the leader, they will help you, I have no doubt," Gray reasoned with me.

"Do you really think they could help us?" Kana asked Gray.

"Of course, they're a force that shouldn't be trifled with," Gray said with confidence.

Hesh then finally decided to put his input in, "Great, I knew something bad like this would happen eventually. But Gray is right, I think these WPA guys could be of help."

"Then we should seek them out when the sun comes up," Gray said.

"Agreed," Flare added, "I don't think running will solve any of our problems."

Despite everyone being optimistic, I couldn't help but get a bad premonition, I couldn't just put my faith on luck anymore, our luck has to run out sooner or later, but for now I'd trust my friends judgement.

"Alright," I said with a weak nod.

"Okay, when dawn comes I'll set out to find your father," Gray told me, "I also suggest that we take shifts keeping watch, or I can do the whole night," Gray offered.

"I can help to, but I want WPA to take Ebony somewhere safe," Kana said as she glanced at the eevee that was still silent.

"Wait, why?" Ebony said in confusion.

"Cuz, this is a dangerous thing, and I don't want you to get hurt, you're just a child."

"But-"

"No buts," Kana interrupted, "I'm sure they'll be able to work something out for all of us, but you take top priority in my opinion."

After about an hour long discussion, Naomi finally decided to wake up. Alex wasn't really able to do much for her, other than put an ice pack on her neck to reduce some swelling that formed. I also got a very long lecture about getting into trouble, which was about as fun as you'd imagine. Naomi winced in pain as she came back to reality, while I smiled because I was so happy to see she was doing okay.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" I whispered to Naomi so I wouldn't startle her.

"Where am I?"

"You're in the hotel I'm staying at, don't worry, you're safe here," I reassured her.

"What happened to that zorua and servine?"

"A greninja kidnapped the servine and managed to lure the zorua away," I answered.

"Uhhh, I missed a lot, didn't I?" Naomi said as she got up on all fours.

"Yeah, sadly I think they'll be back for more."

"Oh look at the time Black," Naomi said excitedly. I looked up at a clock that was on the microwave to see that the time was 12:04 AM. "Happy birthday," Naomi said with a smile.

"No, not a happy birthday," I said with a frown.

"Wait it's your birthday?!" Hesh said in surprise, which caught everyone's attention.

"Yeah…" I replied with annoyance, since I was no longer in the mood to do anything to celebrate.

"Wow, well I wish you a happy birthday on this wonderfully shitty night."

"Thanks…" I muttered.

Chapter End

Author Note: So, this is a chapter I had to plan carefully for, since in the chapter it isn't just Black's B-day, it's also The Black Dawn's birthday today. That's right my story is one year's old now... Bring presents, preferably cash... Just kidding, unless you want to be cool, I won't stop ya ^.^ Anyhoo, if some of you remember me asking about theories on pokemon aging, this was why, so yet a third thank you to all those people I contacted about that (You know who you are).

And oh no, my headphones stopped working with my computer D: (I used Turtle beach x32) I need my headphones for writing XD Oh well... I needed to stop listening to this one song anyways, from a TV show I love and I ever since it got released I have been listening to it non stop while writing lol Some of you may know the feeling.

Special thanks to genericgamer207 for editing this chapter under short notice, it took him a bit of work to get this done on time for the Black Dawn one year anniversary.