Hello, so well it's finally here.

Again, I didn't have much time to write. But at least, that one doesn't look bad. So here it is.

Enjoy!

Disclamer: I don't own Pokémon


Chapter 5: The Hell Army

Gaby stared at Charles. Both seemed to understand the danger but the Charizard seemed to know more about the "Hell Army".

"What is the Hell Army?" Lurio asked.

Charles looked at the Lucario, worried:

"...something dangerous. Which was supposed to have vanished years ago."

He paused. The Charizard looked around and looked at the group again. Lurio, like Gre, wanted to know more about the Hell Army. Gaby seemed to just want to know what to do now though.

Charles finally began: "The Hell Army was a military organization which had as a goal to take down the Steel Federation and establish a new order, supposed to make the people "free". But soon, their real objective has been discovered: they actually planned to transform the country into a powerful empire and start conquering the nearby kingdoms thanks to the brute power. I thought it disappeared after their leader's death and the lack of members, like many others. But it seems not. And those guys maybe not alone."

Gaby understood what he meant: "You think that other cities are ruled by a commander of the Hell Army?"

"Yeah."

"But how are we supposed to stop that?" Gre asked.

"For now, I don't know. The Steel Federation isn't nearby. So trying to get some help will let them expand their influence. And we can't just get in and eliminate everyone. There's too many of them."

"The Arcanine is clearly their boss. Of this group at least. We should find a way through the mess and silence this guy." The Garchomp suggested.

"Well you're right. But of course, the main problem is how..." Charles answered.

Everyone stayed silent, trying to find the answer. Lurio while everyone was wondering, looked around their position to see if anyone was approaching. For now no one was coming and the sun was beginning to illuminate the city, which more seemed to be a fortress actually, with all the guards around it. After a while, when Gre brought boerries to eat for the breakfast from the nearby forest, Charles finally had an idea:

"That sounds simple, but we'll need a distraction."

"Yep, that sounds basic." Gaby replied, who seemed sceptic for what the plan seems to be.

"Well... not that much. At night time, Gaby and I will attract as many guards as we could, I'll take care the flying ones and Gaby the remainders. Gre will climb that tower during the mess but do it fast. The Arcanine isn't an idiot by far, he will understand what we're up to quickly enough to stop you if you're too slow. Lurio will assist you from behind in case troubles would await you. What do you think?"

"I trust you. Let's hope it will work." Gaby answered

"I don't have a better idea so I'm in." Lurio agreed.

Gre nodded, he seemed ready. Assassination was his speciality. Lurio was now thinking about Mack. He knows that Mack changed thanks to his ability to read someone's mind. But the fact he joined the Hell Army was contradictory. Mack became someone nice so joining an organisation which goal is to expand its power doesn't make any sense. Then Lurio noticed something. When Mack killed Lola, he appeared cold, ready to kill because "orders are orders". But he was actually in conflict in his mind. On a side he was telling himself « Why am I doing this? It wasn't necessary... » and on the other side « You had to do it. » Something was clearly pushing him to do that. Lurio had to find out what it was. And it had maybe a link with his secret. He was thinking about all of this while looking at the fortress, illuminated by the sun, with many guards around it and on the high walls. Then he noticed something: a Magmortar talking with the Typhlosion. They were really far but the aura vision was enough to see that the Magmortar was Mack. Obviously the Lucario wasn't able to hear what they were saying or read their thoughts. Seeing this made him want to help Mack even more. Something was really disconcerting the magmortar for a long time.

It was night time. The group splitted into two groups. Gre and Lurio were hidden behind the high walls, guards were watching at the top. They were two, a Chandelure and a Darumanitan. Other guards were placed far enough to enable Gre to eliminate both. The Greninja created a big water shuriken and climbed quickly the wall and leapt right in front of the fire types. He immediately dealt the Darumanitan a violent blow with the shuriken at the head before he was able to understand the action. It exploded at the impact and the enemy was knocked down, bleeding due to the sharp of the shuriken. The Chandelure was about to do an energy ball, Gre was ready to dodge it. But Lurio immediately showed himself right behind the specter Pokémon and he formed dark energy with his hands and a beam ploughed into the Chandelure and knocked him down making him fall onto the ground. Nobody saw the action. They jumped and landed onto the ground silently and hid the themselves behind a building. Gre brought the uncouscious Chandelure with them.

"How are we going to hide the bodies? Especially the Darumanitan?" Lurio asked.

"We won't. As Charles said, we have to act fast. Hiding them would take too much time and that Darumanitan seems heavy and he's especially bleeding. Cleaning this mess would take way too much time." Gre answered.

Lurio nodded. He was impressed by the professionalism of Gre. He never saw the Greninja acting so for a long time since he quit the village. And he was showing the experience he acquired with the time. One infernape was walking near of the main building. Gaby and Charles had to act, the infernape didn't have the intention to go away and go neutralizing him would be a risk. They don't know if other guards were near or not. Suddenly there was a loud noise followed by an earthquake. All guards ran towards the source. The distraction was there.

"Let's go." Gre told to Lurio.

They ran towards the main building's wall and began to run on it. Many noises came frome the brawl. Orders from the officers yelling at their troops, explosions, flames... Despite the number of enemies, the Lucario was confident to the Garchomp and the charizard's combat skills. The thing that worries Lurio the most was the Arcanine, his aura was powerful and the Lucario has no doubts that he has much more experience than both of them. The next thing was Mack, should he fight him if they do meet him? They were getting higher and the top wasn't too far anymore. But suddenly right under Gre a window opened, Lurio wasn't able to react in time and an arm grabbed and attracted him in the building. The Typhlosion's face was right in front of him, showing his teeth with a threatening smile. The Lucario was at his mercy.

"Well well, who do we have here?" The Typhlosion asked happily.

Lurio gasped, aware of the danger, and was about to do a ice punch right on the face like the other evenig. But the Typhlosion immediately threw him backwards and the combat type rolled on the floor and his head stroke on a wall. His head hurting, he looked at the Typhlosion.

"It wasn't too hard to understand why your two friends are alone down here. Now I'll take care of you and..."

The Typhlosion stopped. His eyes widened and turned back quickly and formed an energy ball as fast as he could. Gre appeared suddenly, holding a water shuriken and the two Pokémons attacked at the same time. An explosion occured and the Typhlosion was repulsed backwards. Lurio formed an aura sphere and threw it. The fire type dodged it in time. He was in difficulty. He turned back again, expecting the Greninja to attack again. But Gre showed up faster than expected, charging right into him with a waterfall. The officer tried to block with his arms but he was repulsed again across the wall. The next room was a large corridor with stairs at the bottom. Mack was there. The Typhlosion was able to rebalance himself. He noticed the Magmortar and yelled at him:

"Lieutenant! Help me to take care of these guys!"

"What?" Mack answered, confused.

Gre charged the officer again with a water shuriken. The enemy defended himself with a focus blast. There was another explosion and both went to the next room. Lurio noticed Mack who noticed him too.

"Why are you still here?! You want to beat our boss?! Then you're idiots! You're no match to him!" Mack yelled in anger.

"Gre and I can do it and I'm sure you think so." Lurio replied.

"I don't!"

He rised his arm and shot a fire ball. The Lucario rolled aside. The ball exploded on the wall behind him, creating a hole to the next room. The Magmortar did not attack again, standing there, stearing at the Lucario. Lurio was reading in his mind that all he wanted was to him to go, far from this place. But at the same time, he thinks he has to kill him, to burn him, because that's what they want. After a few seconds, Mack finally talks:

"I'm sorry Lurio but if you insist, I have to eliminate you."

"I know that you don't want to. Who wants you to do this?" Lurio replied, trying to not put up a fight.

"What?! Stop reading my mind! Those thoughts are bad and I'm trying to make them disappear!"

Mack shot again. Lurio rolled aside again. He aimed the head this time.

"I'll make you regret your choice!" He threatened.

He shot again, and began to burst. Lurio dodged the first shot and ran on the wall and leapt, trying to land behind the magmortar. A shot touched his left arm, it was hurting pretty much. It was like his arm was burning in hell. Despite the pain, he landed behind Mack and threw an aura sphere towards him. But Mack dodged it just in time. Lurio was surprise by the mMgmortar's speed.

"Magmortars aren't that slow you know?" Mack said with a threatening smile.

He charged a shot. The cannon was emanating much heat and the hole was glowing. The Magmortar was about to shoot a fire blast, and Lurio was right in front of the cannon. He immediately jumped but Mack was fast enough to react in time and grab his tail with his other hand and landed him violently on the floor. He was about to shoot. The steel type could't go away in time. So he did an aura sphere and threw it into the cannon and the fire blast was shot. A powerful explosion happened at the impact and Lurio was sent away right through a wall and landed hardly in a storage room where there were many boxes. All his body was hurting like last night, especially his left arm. He looked at it and noticed that it was actually burning a bit. He immediately extinguished the fire, the arm was really injured because of the burn. He stood up and saw Mack approaching. He was injured too but not as much as the Lucario.

"Clever, as always." Mack commentated, kinda annoyed.

"Still powerful." Lurio replied.

"Heh, if you say so."

"If I have to die here, can I at least know why you are forcing yourself?"

Mack stayed silent.

"Please, I need to know." Lurio insisted.

"...for my honor." Mack finally answered

"What?"

"For my honor. My grand father and my father were officers in the Hell Army. When it disbanded, my father was part of the few people still believing into their dreams of power. And guess what? My entire family was giving her support. Except me..."

Lurio started to understand.

"Every time he was talking, I was quiet. Every time he was telling me something, I nodded. I obeyed. I made them think I was a nice and docile child. But I wasn't. I wanted to quit, to flee as far as I could of my family. I wasn't adhering to their ideals of power and everything. I just wanted a simple life when I could live in peace. But I couldn't. You see the day when I was stealing money to the chespin? I did it for my father because he wanted me to steal as much money as I could so we would help the Hell Army to get some. The fight was because he told me to beat down every person who attempt to stop me. After that day, we went for Firstone. You know the following."

Lurio didn't know what to say, Mack's life could be summarized with one word: obey. He's doing all of this because his family, his father, were forcing him to. He was scared of them, but he didn't try to go away. Not even one time, because of his fear.

"If you wanted to go away that much, why didn't you try to?" The Lucario asked.

"They're my family, I can't..." Mack answered.

"But it's not up to them to decide who you will become!"

"But..."

"And you have the power to! So why don't you just go away right now?!"

"Some like me tried and they're dead! My friends died! Why are you so naive by thinking I can flee without being pursuited by assassins?! There is no try!"

"So avenge them! Make the Hell Army disappear of your life! Again, it's your life!"

Mack didn't reply. He was looking at the ground.

Suddenly a wall explosed behind him. The Typhlosion appeared in the smoke, injured. He looked at Mack and noticed the Lucario.

"Lieutenant why is he still alive?!" He yelled at the magmortar.

"Sir, he is..." Mack tried to answer.

"I don't care! You are supposed to be our best Magmortar and I gave you orders so why is he not dead yet?! You were chatting or what?!"

"Orders..."

"Instead of repeating what I say, go..."

"Just shut up, I'm tired of this."

"What?"

"I'm tired of this. Always obeying. My power grew so why should I still obey like a mindless puppet? My entire life was just about obeying my father... and now, I'm tired of this and you won't change my mind!"

"Then you will die for what you just said! Even if you do flee, assassins will come for you!"

"Then I'll fight and kill them!"

He charged right into the Typhlosion and prepared another fire blast. The Typhlosion did the same. Gre, who came across the wall, saw what was going to happen and ran towards Lurio and yelled:

"Take cover! Now!"

They both hid themselves behind a wall and a really powerful explosion happened when the two fire types shot, blowing up a big part of the floor. A big hole were now here, the typhlosion were under them, unconscious, maybe dead. Mack was at the edge of the hole. Lurio ran towards him and used his aura vision. He was still alive, but weak. The Magmortar opened his eyes.

"So... how was it?" He asked with dfficulty.

"You were awesome." Lurio answered.

"You were right, I have the power. I was just scared." He stopped for a moment and continued. "I don't know if I can make it though. That was a powerful fire blast what he sent."

"You will. Don't say that."

"If I don't, please do something for me..."

"What is it?" The Lucario asked with difficulty.

"Make them suffer..."

His eyes closed. He was still breathing.

"He's still breathing, we have to do something or he'll die..." Lurio said.

"I don't know if we have the time... if only Charles was here." Gre replied.

"But we can't..."

"He would prefer you make them suffer for what they did instead of helping him. That's what he said."

There was a silence.

"...you're right."

Lurio stood up.

"I'll make his wish come true."

They used the stairs, decided to accomplish their mission.

They were now approaching the Arcanine. After a few roofs passed, they met a Salazzle and an Incineroar who were going down. The poison type spat out a toxic gas towards their two enemies. The two jumped aside to dodge the gas but the gas would probably get bigger with the time. Gre yelled at Lurio:

"I'll take the Salazzle! The other one is yours!"

He nodded and immediately noticed that the Incineroar was charging him, his body completely in fire. Lurio rolled aside just in time to dodge the flare blitz. If he touched him, he would be fainted right away. The Incineroars are reputed for their strength, but the lucario also know that they aren't really tenacious. An aura sphere should knock him down. When he was creating the aura sphere, the dark type did a sword dance. Aura was emanating from his body.

"I really have to not get touched." Lurio thought.

But the Incineroar was slow, so he had time. The aura sphere was ready to being thrown. The fire type roared loudly and his body was now in fire and charged. Lurio didn't understand the idea. But he still shot. The Incineroar dodged it by jumping high enough and now planned to crush the Lucario. The steel type was surprised by the risk taken by the dark type but he had to dodge quickly. He jumped backwards and when the Incineroar landed the floor cracked and shaked. He was stunned because of the recoil of his tactic. Lurio jumped and rised his leg. The incineroar didn't have enough time to get up and Lurio dealt the high jump kick in the dark type's back. A crack happened and the Incineroar yelled in pain before he fell unconscious. Lurio sighed of relief and looked at Gre. He already finished his part, the Salazzle was down, wet. Lurio found that fight not hard, but after his formerly fights, this one looked easy. Surprisingly the building wasn't that much inhabited. Maybe everyone was sleeping in the underground and the others were already out. Gre and Lurio were really lucky if that was the case. Lurio was actually worried. He was feeling something was wrong. To him, it was too calm. He told Gre his worries:

"You're right, I find this place too calm too."

Then they finally arrived. The doors were closed, but not locked. Gre looked behind Lurio to see if anyone was planning to attack them by surprise. Nobody. So they entered quickly and the Arcanine was here, still sitting down, watching the outside. Lurio and Gre approached, ready to attack at any moment. Then the Arcanine finally talked:

"Gentlemen, I'm sorry about not introducing myself completely before. I am Dorfnil, commander of the Hell Army. Actually I knew you would come. Your plan was what I expected from you."

Two Marowaks appeared at the two sides of the room. They had a dark skin and their staff were in fire. Dorfnil turned around, smiling.

"Now you know my name, that would have been a shame if you died without knowing it."

They were approaching, surrounding the two. The Arcanine finally said:

"Kill them."

The Marowaks leapt on their targets, ready to strike with their bone staffs. The two jumped backwards, dodging the attacks. One guard turned towards the Greninja and prepared to deal another slash. Gre created a water shuriken and shielded himself from it. The other one did a sword dance, increasing his aura. The Lucario charged an aura sphere and threw it. It touched the target and exploded. Lurio didn't know that Marowaks with a darker skin and a burning bone existed. Maybe their type isn't the same, he hoped they weren't ghost types. The Marowak appeared in the smoke, without any injury. They actually were ghost types. His bone suddenly became darker. That shadow bone was for Lurio, the Marowak charged towards him. He attempted to hit the Lucario many times with his bone with several quick attacks which Lurio dodged but the ghost type was suddenly about to deal a violent slash from his left. Lurio bent down and the bone almost touched his ears. But immediately after, the Marowak did another slash. He was just able to block it with his arms. At the impact, Lurio was repulsed, still able to fight. His arm was hurting, not as much as before but the knock was really strong. Lurio straightaway replied with a dark pulse. The ghost type wasn't able to dodge it and was hit. But he recovered quickly, despite the serious injuries. He seemed upset and his whole body ignited and rushed into the steel type. Lurio jumped high and the Marowak hit the wall, creating a hole. He didn't know where the Lucario was. The ghost type was at his mercy. A dark energy beam emerged from his hands and hit the Marowak, finishing him. When Lurio landed, he saw Gre dealing a vertical slash on the Marowak's head, knoking him down, Gre looked tired because of the fight. Suddenly, Gre got struck by a luminous object, which seemed to be electric. The Greninja was sent away and hit the wall, damaging it. He was out. The electric object was Dorfnil.

"That's one down." The Arcanine said, calmly.

Lurio stared at Gre, uncouscious. Then he glanced at Dorfnil. He felt anger dominating his mind.

"I did underestimate you." Dorfnil continued. « After all you managed to survive my embush. So those Marowaks were no match for both of you. Especially for your friend here. I'm sorry to announce that I didn't hold myself when I attacked."

He looked at Lurio, noticing his anger.

"Oh he's maybe something more than a friend? Because your anger is telling me he isn't just your friend. It's like he's your... brother."

Immediately his sentence finished, the Lucario charged an aura sphere, it was bigger than usual but he didn't care."

"I see that your aura increased due to your anger. How intimidating. Don't worry I will kill you nicely with a wild charge too, so we could write "Lurio and Gre got both killed by a wild charge"."

"Shut up!" Lurio yelled of anger.

Lurio threw the powerul aura sphere into the Arcanine. He straightaway moved so fast that Lurio didn't react before he got hit. the Lucario recovered and understood what just happened. Dorfnil used extreme speed to dodge the aura sphere and attacked. He had to calm down. Gre couldn't die because of a surprise attack, not like this. He looked again at the Greninja, still uncouscious.

"You know, I heard about really powerful Lucarios threatening people. If you were one, that would be disappointing." Dorfnil said.

Lurio didn't listen. He had to find a way to counter his extreme speed. Dorfnil wasn't in fire or something similar when he attacks. So attacking right before he strikes could injure him but that was risky. So maybe he should jump and do high jump kick to eliminate him. That was also risky but that was probably the only solution. The Arcanine prepared himself to attack again. Lurio concentrated. The fire type moved. The Lucario tried to follow the movements but he got hit immedately at the chest. It was hurting but not that much. He had to try again. The time between the moment he moved and he hit was short and the same as before. Lurio had guess when the right moment to jump. Dorfnil seemed amused.

"Too intimidated? If you don't want to fight, that will just be an execution." He commentated.

Lurio was silent. Dorfnil seemed to be annoyed by this. So he attacked again. Lurio jumped. But he got hit. That was too late. He spat out some blood at the impact and was repulsed further but was still able to recover, with difficulty. Dorfnil began to doubt of Lurio's plan and finally understood. He laughed:

"Haha! Are you really trying to counter my extreme speed?! You're more an idiot than I thought. I'd like to see that!"

Lurio felt his body getting weaker. He was maybe able to resist three extreme speeds but he wasn't sure if he was able to resist a fourth. But he concentrated. The Arcanine was just about to attack again. The lucario prepared his jump. When the arcanine moved, He immedately jumped. It was the the good one. The arcanine was about to hit but he didn't. He looked upwards and saw Lurio, about deal the high jump kick. He jumped backwards but it was too late. The combat type dealt his kick. But it was not in the back, it was in the shoulder. Dorfnil got hit. He yelled. Lurio landed, happy to have touched the commander. But he wasn't eliminated, and Lurio was weak. Weak enough to be fainted in one hit. But he set himself in a combat position. He was ready to fight. Dorfnil stared at the Lucario, rather angry.

"Well, you did it but now you will die because of your stupity! I'll taste you when you will be roasted!"

The fire type ignited himself and was about to rush on Lurio. But suddenly he got hit by a waterfall. The Arcanine, surprised rolled before being able to recover. Lurio looked at his left. Gre was standing, a hand on his injury on his chest, in a combat position.

"That's for attacking me from behind and hurting Lurio." The Greninja said.

He then looked at Lurio who was looking at him with a wide smile.

"Gre!" Lurio shouted

"Still able to fight?" Gre asked.

"Of course!" Lurio answered.

"How cute..."

They turned to Dorfnil, who was standing. He was now serious, and injured.

"Seems like you're still able to fight? I underestimated you again... Be happy. I won't anymore." He said in a threatening tone.

Gre created a water shuriken and Lurio charged an aura sphere. The commander's leg seemed to hurt.

"He can't do extreme speed anymore... I think." Lurio told to Gre.

"He can but it would be painful." Gre replied.

"So let's take advantage of it."

Lurio threw the aura sphere and Gre ran towards their target. Dorfnil ran fast and dodged it. Gre threw his shuriken as well. This time the Arcanine did an extreme speed to dodge the projectile. His face was clearly showing that his leg was hurting him. Fire was going out of his mouth and Lurio, who was in his line of fire, moved. The commander did his flamethrower. The flames were pursuiting Lurio who was running on the walls as fast as he could. Gre threw another shuriken towards Dorfnil to stop him. But Dorfnil reacted fast enough to jump backwards to dodge the shuriken and still continued the flamethrower. The flames finally touched Lurio on his leg and arm. He screamed in pain and rolled all along the wall and hit another one. The fire type ended his flamethrower and ignited himself to do a flare blitz into Lurio. The Lucario tried to get up and run but his leg was painful, adding the pain of the entire body. He needed help:

"Gre!" He shouted.

Gre appeared right behind Dorfnil and leapt towards him. The hands holding strongly a water shuriken, he was about to strike it on the commander's head. The Arcanine turned around and hit Gre with his head, sending him to the other side of the room. Dorfnil was now luminous again, about to do a wild charge into Gre, still on the ground due to his current injuries. That would kill him. Lurio immediately reacted by doing an aura sphere towards the Arcanine. But he straightaway jumped aside and dodged the sphere, letting it going for Gre. Lurio immediately yelled:

"NO!"

The Greninja saw the aura sphere and threw a quickly made water shuriken at it, making it explode. The explosion created some smoke, filling a major part of the room. Lurio used the aura vision to see through it. But Dorfnil immediately came to him, the jaw in fire. Whe he was about to bite the Lucario's neck, Lurio used his injured arm to protect himself. The Arcanine bit it profondly, making Lurio scream in pain. That was probably the most intense pain he felt in his life. Dorfnil was about to do a flamethrower in his arm, aiming the head. Lurio didn't want to force his arm to move, but he had to for preventing the fire type from doing the flamethrower towards his head. When the commander was just about to spit flames, the Lucario moved his arm to his right in a huge pain. The Arcanine missed and burned the wall instead. But the arm... Lurio yelled very loudly, the pain became unbearable. Gre immedately answered with a waterfall into the Arcanine who released the arm when he got hit. Lurio looked at his arm. He didn't know if it was really an arm. It was burned, not bleeding because of the burning. The pain was something he couldn't find the words to describe it. Dorfnil was getting weak, his leg seemed to become a real handicap for him. Despite the injuries, he was still able fight with ferocity. The commander covered himself of electricity again and prepared to do a wild charge into Gre, who created a water shuriken. Then he charged, at a surprising speed. Gre jumped, dodging the attack. But the Arcanine immediately turned around and leapt on the Greninja. At this precise moment, the water type threw his shuriken at the fire type. But the Arcanine managed to do a barrel roll to dodge it. Gre gasped by seeing the perfect time reaction of Dorfnil, he tried to dodge the wild charge. But his arm got hit, making him yell. He rolled on the ground. The Arcanine walked to his direction.

"Any last words?" Dorfnil said, seeming tired.

"You're forgetting someone." Gre answered with difficulty.

"He can't even get up. While I tasted his arm, he tasted hell. Nobody can get back on their..."

Lurio leapt on the Arcanine, preparing his foot for a powerful high jump kick, screaming because of the effort. Dorfnil turned around and was surprised to see Lurio still able to fight. His eyes widened by the fear and he tried to dodge, but it was too late. The Lucario stroke violently the foot on the jaw, knocking down the Arcanine. He was now laying on the ground, the mouth bleeding. The commander was fainted. Lurio breathed loudly.

"Now you know the taste of my kick..." He said, exhausted.

He squatted down because of his injuries. Gre, seeing the severely injured arm, got shocked:

"Lurio! Your... your arm! We... we have to find a medic now! Quick!"

"That's not nec..."

"No please. It's a miracle your arm isn't dead yet! So let's find a medic, I'll call Charles to bring you to a chansey or whatever, a safe place where you can heal!"

At this moment, the Charizard appeared in front of the window and broke through it. He immediately saw Lurio's injuries, his reaction was imminent:

"Oh dear Arceus... what..."

"Charles! Please carry him to a medic, he really needs to..."

Right before Gre could finish, Dorfnil woke up, and roared in rage. The mouth bleeding, he was more intimidating than before.

"I won't be defeated like this!"

Charles took a step forward, determined to protect to two injured.

"As a commander of the Hell Army, I, Dorfnil, will..."

Suddenly something came across the ceiling and landed right on the Arcanine. He was on the ground but still awake. The thing afraid Lurio and Gre, and Charles growled. It was a Mega-Lucario.

"Oh, what a coincidence that we meet again. Especially you."

She was the female Lucario that Gre, Gaby and Charles met weeks ago. She looked upset to see Charles again, but then she focused on Dorfnil, who seemed to be scared.

"I don't have time to have fun with all of you, so I'll just do what I have to."

She charged an aura sphere, for the commander. Charles immediately ran to stop her.

"NOOO!" The Arcanine yelled.

And she crushed the aura sphere on his face. The explosion stopped the Charizard. When the smoke disappeared, the Mega-Lucario vanished. Dorfnil's face was burned by the aura and some skin were gonen exposing the within. He got killed. Lurio wasn't able to watch the corpse.

"Damnit!" Charles shouted, angry for letting her go and kill the commander.

Then Charles looked through the hole in the ceiling, silently. Suddenly he took Lurio and took off.

The Chanseys were working really hard to heal the several injuries, especially the arm. It took at least two hours before his arm was again usable without causing pain to Lurio despite the healing moves they used. They were still at Firstone. The Steel federation arrived thanks to Charles and began to interrogate many civilians and members of the Hell Army. The sun was rising, hours passed. Lurio was sitting, watching the scene and wondering. Mack disappeared. At least he was alive, but where did he go? He'll maybe never know the answer. Gre joined him, with bandages on the chest and his arm.

"How do you feel?" He asked.

"Way better. What about you?" Lurio answered.

"Same. Do know where Mack did go?"

"No idea. Vanished, literally. By the way where are..."

"Charles and Gaby are helping the Federation. Gaby received some shots and hits, but he's actually doing fine."

They both knew that their journey wasn't finished yet. They would be interrogated and have to go somewhere else, tracking the Mega-Lucarios. But since a new danger appeared, they would have to face it later.

"Do you know where we are going?" Lurio asked.

"Towards the South-West of Seraïon. We've been told that strange things occurred in the Gara desert. But Gaby told we will rest for one entire day. So we'll heal."

"Okay, then..."

A Magnezone came to them, escorted by two Galleons.

"Hello, sorry for bothering you but we'd like you to answer some of our questions."

"Okay officers." Lurio answered.

"First, do you know where the Heatran is kept?"

Lurio was surprised by this question. And that was true. Where is the Heatran they met? Lurio and Gre didn't know at all. They completely forgot it.

"We don't know. Sorry. But did someone told you about that Heatran?" Lurio answered.

"Yes, your friend the Garchomp told us that a Heatran tried to kill him from distance. But he disappeared after you defeated the Arcanine."

"Oh right."

"Now can you tell us what abilities was using the Lucario you met?"

Another surprising question, why would they need to know that? Gre answered this time.

"Well uhh... she knows how to use an aura sphere, nasty plot, uhh flash cannon... we don't know more."

"Alright, thanks for your cooperation."

When they were going away, Lurio asked:

"Do you know why they asked these questions?"

"I don't know. Maybe to see if she's the same Lucario that destroyed the Peak village, but that would surprise me. There was no survivor."

That was true. These questions were stranges but he was getting sleepy. He closed his eyes, and slept. Nothing particular happened in his sleep. And that was fine. He just wanted to rest.

End of chapter 5


From now on, I won't give any expected date or schedule or something. I can't promise something, so all I can is that you have to be patient.