Chapter 31: Where help arrives.
"Melonnie.", Richard sadly said as he looked at one of the Koffing that surrounded them. The Koffing seemed to be saddened as well.
"What do you mean: The day the Adventure Guild falls?!", Nya asked in a rude way.
Mo was thinking of a way to escape. A hole in their formation they could take. He was out of ideas and hoped for the other to have one. Or for Lunala to finally return. With or without Axel any Amy.
The Bellossom put her hand on her hip.
"Weren't you wondering why we are so less?"
"Why?", Richard asked.
"It's a little surprise we got for you.", the Bellossom said. "But it doesn't matter right now. ... for you."
"Weren't you that Bellossom that got arrested after the raid?!", Aaron suddenly realised.
Silence.
"That one I shoved a sun stone in her mouth?", Mo slightly turned himself towards Aaron.
"And you three were also the ones that snitched our secret hideout to the police!", the Bellossom shouted at them.
"How did you got out?!", Mo loudly asked. "Were we informed about this?"
The Bellossom smiled and stepped closer to the Mimikyu.
"The Forces of Evil are much more influential than you think. Go figure."
As the Bellossom drew closer Mo hissed at her and his eye glow up as he did.
The Bellossom was unimpressed by it."
"You think I'm afraid of you? The first time we met you and your two friend ran away from us and the second time you used some really mean tricks on me."
Bellossom presented herself to Mo and the others.
"Look at me! I'm smaller than my henchmen, nobody takes me serious anymore, because I'm just too cute now! And it's all your fault!"
Her face turned very grim for a Bellossom.
"But I'll tell you what. Through my evolution I became stronger, and soon I will rebuild my empire, bigger and stronger than before, with your friends as my personal slaves and your rags as my new handkerchief."
"I don't even know your name!", Mo complained. "... not that I even care."
Charlotte quickly wrote a sign and showed it to the Bellossom and the others who stood beside her.
"I'll make you eat those words!"
"And by the way, since the last time we met I became stronger myself, too.", Mo told the Bellossom.
Silence.
"How much stronger could YOU have become?! It's only been a week!", Bellossom made fun of Mo. "Everybody, look at him and laugh!"
And so the Forced did as they were told.
Mo stepped closer to her.
"Mo! Don't!", Aaron tried to warn his friend, to no avail.
"In the past week I discovered some thing I had in me that I never knew I had.", Mo began to explain.
"Many times I was told I had a lot of anger and hate in me. Some even say: Evil", Mo's eyes began to glow bright.
"I have discovered that this is the truth, this is who I am. And I also discovered that this hate made me stronger.", a dark aura appeared around Mo. This began do creepy out various of the Forced minions as well as his fellow guild members.
"I can't control this hate most of the times, but I will try my best to do so.", Mo's voice began to change into a demonic tone again.
"I will do so, because there are Pokémon I want to keep safe. Good Pokémon, Pokémon I care for.", the sky suddenly turned dark as night.
"And I personally believe one can do good thing using the powers of darkness ... and DEATH."
Silence. Most of the trooped looked around and were stunned by the sky turning black. The two team broke up their formation and looked at Mo, still focused on the Bellossom. They themselves were astonished.
Bellossom was not impressed at all.
"You think those light effects intimidate me? I've seen-!"
Her speech was suddenly interrupted by Aaron. His eyes wide, looking up.
"The sky! It's not Mo!"
Mo just realised himself and his aura and eye glow disappeared instantly.
"The sky?!"
Bellossom looked up as well and screamed:
"It's her"
Team Blue was rather confused and looked up, too.
There she was. Lunala returned, and just in time.
"What is THAT?!", Nya screamed in horror.
Richard looked over to her with huge eyes and small pupils.
"A terrifying creature called: The ... I dunno!"
"That's our ride.", Mo softly answered.
Bellossom looked around hysterical.
"Why are you just standing around?! Attack!", she ordered her troops.
That moment something small jumped out of Lunala's bag. Still in mid air, it began to burn and a stream of fire came out of it, either hitting the Noibat and Spearow around it or making them flee.
Distracted by this show Mo saw too late what the Bellossom was doing just now. She began to spin around in a graceful way, and as she did, small, pink petals flew straight towards him and the others.
While Charlotte managed to use her log to protect Team Blue, and Aaron covering his face with his ribbons, it was a direct to Mo. It not only hurt him like small blades being throw at him, it also made many, tiny cut on his costume. He was thrown by her attack against Charlotte's log.
Seconds later, the stream of fire also aimed for the Pokémon on the ground, including Bellossom. She did not see it coming either and was also thrown back by it. A wall of flames now separated her with the two adventurer teams. Oddish with burning leafs ran around in panic. Most of them collapsed shortly after.
Right next to them, a Cyndaquil with a red scarf hit the ground with his full body. All of Team Purple and Team Blue looked at it in a confused way.
"Axel! Are you okay?!", a familiar, girly voice from above them called down.
"In my head ... it was supposed to look way cooler.", the Cyndaquil answered in a muffled tone. Axel and Amy from Team Red had returned!
"Are you okay?", Nya asked Axel popping out her head behind Charlotte.
Axel answered by raising his head and spiting out some dirt and grass.
Through the now smaller getting wall of flames walked Bellossom. Mo never saw a Bellossom THIS angry looking before. Her eyes filled with rage and her body covered in soot.
"By the way, HE is actually The Chosen One.", Mo said to Bellossom and pointed at Axel who was just getting on his feet again.
That moment, Amy also landed next to her partner. The Riolu did a superhero landing.
"We'll help you take out the remaining enemies!", she said and did a fighting position.
Bellossom shook her head and smiled grimly.
"You have no idea.", she said.
Axel spit a thick cloud of smoke at Bellossom, Amy dashed towards her.
Behind them, Lunala floated down to the three teams.
"Get in! We won't stay for long!", she told them. Inside her bag was already a Pokémon neither Mo or the others have met before. A Klefki.
Aaron helped Ziggy and Nya into the bag. Charlotte already helped herself and jumped right in it. Mo raised his dark aura and backed the Sylveon, threatening and Pokémon that came close to them.
Richard was talking to a Koffing.
"Why don't we go to ME? We can spend all day there. It'll be great!"
Aaron took him and quickly put him in Lunala's bag as well.
"We're ready to go!", Aaron called at Axel and Amy.
Amy just knocked the Bellossom to the ground with a punch to her chest and hurried to Lunala. Axel looked down at Bellossom and then hurried, too. They jumped both into the now full bag.
"That's what you get if you mess with the Adventurer Guild!", Mo threatened the remaining minions with glowing eyes.
"Mo! Hurry!", Aaron called out to him. He was holding himself on one of Lunala's wings, because there was no space for more Pokémon in her bag anymore.
Lunala was about to take off.
Mo turned around in shock and started running.
"No! Wait! Wait!"
Lunala was already to high for Mo to reach the bag. So he clenched onto her sickle shaped tail as hard as he could.
As she rose into the air, Mo could see the remaining, few minions of the Forces of Evil assemble.
"There is one thing I need to do.", Lunala said.
She took a deep breath as her mouth began to glow bright orange and released a hyper beam directly to the Force's base.
With a deafening shattering noise the base blew up, rocks flying all over the place and a shock wave threw most minions off their feet.
"That needed to be done.", Lunala defended herself. With that Lunala took off. Mo still clenching for his dear life.
Below, Mo could see the Bellossom panicking.
"Axel, Amy! I'm so glad you came for us!", Nya exclaimed in joy and hugged the Riolu.
"That really was a close one! I had this situation so NO under control!", Mo confessed.
"Where did you learned to do this strange voice, Mo?", Aaron asked from above. He climbed onto Lunala's head.
"I don't know!", Mo said. "It's the same with my eyes! It just comes!"
Mo tried to concentrate. His eyes glow up and his body swell up as he did.
"We are one. We are all. Our unity cannot be divided.", Mo said in his demon voice.
"I got it now!", Mo told everyone. "Next campfire story time is going to be awesome!"
"Who are you?", Ziggy asked. Mo could not see quit properly, but Ziggy was talking to the Klefki from before.
"My name is Ditrich, and I'm an expert on keys and logs.", the Klefki answered. It hat a weird and high pitched voice. "The Forces captured my from my hometown; Lively Town. They showed my this strange key and asked my about it. I knew something was not right, so I refused to tell. Then they kidnapped me. They wanted to take me to their base and make me talk. Axel and Amy from Team Red here tried to rescue me, but they were ambushed by the Force's reinforcement and got captured as well. We were lucky this ... Lunala ... came."
"They got the key?!", Ziggy asked in a state of shock.
"Not anymore.", Axel proudly corrected.
Klefki showed the teams one special key. One of the many keys the Klefki was carrying was large. It was shaped like a simple key, but it was made of a material. Probably some kind of gem stone. It was glowing and constantly changing between the colours red, orange and yellow.
All of the other teams were astonished. When they were looking for a key, Mo did not expected for it to be an actual key. But it still looked special.
"And what about the Origin Stone's location?", Mo asked. "Does the key tell it? Does the Forces know?"
"It does.", Dietrich quickly answered. "But it's a riddle I cannot solve. I told the Forces nothing. Now that they got neither the key, the riddle or my knowledge, there is now way they get to the stone's location now."
Mo was very relieved, and he could her Ziggy applauding. Still, something was bothering Mo.
"And what's the riddle?", Nya asked.
"I will show you all later.", the Klefki answered and put the key away. "Now is not the right place and time."
While Lunala remained silent for the rest of the light, both, Axel and Amy, told everyone of what happened the remaining day. How they sneaked out of the guild to search for the key and save Team Blue, how they were chased by members of the Force's of Evil, who they call themselves The Forces of Darkness, of how they reached and freed Dietrich, but were eventually captured shortly after.
Mo was not sure how to feel. They did their part in the story of "The Legend of the Origin Stone", but he felt like it was a task that, literally, everyone could have done. He could not feel pride, he was just doing what he should do.
Aaron was much different. After they finished their story, he told everyone about Amy's and Nya's parents, how Team Purple broke out of the guild, how they met Lunala for the first time and the battle Mo had against the Force's air force. And he praised Mo's selflessness when he saved Ziggy. Towards his speech, Mo felt rather embarrassed.
It was already getting noon when they arrived at the shores of the central western Air Continent. Or at least Mo felt this way. It was a long day and there were some long trips already. But once they would finally back at the guild HQ, it will be all better again.
"Were almost back!", Amy exclaimed in joy. "I hope mom won't be mad at us."
"Father will be mad an ME for sure.", Nya said.
"Subject change, does anybody smell something?!", Mo pointed out. For him the smell of a fire was in the air. As if he was standing next to a strong smoking camp fire.
"There is something smoking over there!", Aaron pointed out from Lunala's head.
That moment, Lunala stopped in mid air and floated on the spot.
"It's not just something! It's your guild!", Lunala realised.
In the distance they could see it clearer now, the guild HQ. A part of it's roof was burning and smoking and has already fell apart.
"Oh no, this is horrible!", Richard exclaimed!
"Let's hope we're not too late!", Lunala said and flew straight to the guild, even fatser than she did before.
"MOM!", Amy cried out.
"FATHER!", Nya cried out.
"MY STUFF!", Mo cried out.
"You've got your priorities straight ...", Ziggy said and looked down, directly to Mo, as he said it.