A troop of Amazons were on their way to the Fairy Temple and their leader, a Grovyle, was led them.
A Flabèbè guard spotted them, and rushed inside to warn her companions of the intruders.
And the troops moved to enter the temple.
Their leader, Floette, ordered her best warriors to settle in, while the apprentices and the elders to find safety into the grounds of the temple.
The Grovyle leader stood in the entrance of the temple and called, "In the name of our queen! Either you hand us over your treasure, let us walk through your test or battle us! But then face the consequences!"
A warrior Florges took her katanas, that was the sign for all the other warriors to get their weapons, "We won't hand our treasure to a common stranger! Prove us you're worthy of it!"
"What do we have to do to be worthy?" demanded the Grovyle.
The Florges tackled her to the ground, "Survive!"
She snarled and punched her enemy before attacking with Iron Tail.
Florges dodged as used Fairy Wind together with her allies.
The Grovyle jumped and ordered to attack.
The fairy types combined various attacks from their mixed types, but as feared, to not much avail.
And they kept fighting, defeating them one by one.
The last one to stand was the leader Floette. She didn't give up, and kept on fighting.
And the Grovyle attacked again to defeat her.
Despite her resistance, the leader get defeated as well.
"I had thought you would use something else to test us."
"They're pompous and pathetic together," an Arcanine amazon said moving to the sphere.
"Secure it and send our home a message! We acquired the first sphere in the alliance!"
"Yes ma'am!"
And she looked around the temple.
"It seems there's nothing left. Let's go."
"Indeed!" and they began to move to their meeting point.
"Look! The Amazons are coming!" Walter said after checking the area around and flying back to the squad.
"Good to hear!" told Raven and moved to meet up.
"Did you get any trouble in getting the sphere?" Sebastian asked.
"Not at all. Those fairy types are all fake."
"The only fairy type I would fear is Xerneas," admitted Raven. "Now, we travel to the Dark type Temple."
"Right!"
"I am Raven and lead leader of this operation."
"Alright Raven, lead us to the Dark Temple."
"I hope you like teleportation."
"Why?"
"Because we will be teleported."
"Fine."
With that Raven nodded to Kalahari to teleport them.
"Gather closer please," the old Alakazam ordered them as he closes his eyes.
And short time later they were near the Dark Temple.
"It seems it's deserted. But be careful," Sebastian said, his wing glowing in a Night Blade as they moved closer to the sphere.
"Stop!" told Raven. "What is dark type specialty?"
"Sneak attacks."
"And now guess why here is so quiet."
"And you guessed right!" a voice said, then a Greninja attacked them with Water Shuriken.
And Raven slashed them, "I thought more of traps like falling rocks when we step on a certain point but this is acceptable as well."
The Greninja whistled as they're surrounded by pure and mixed dark types. A Mightyena aimed an arrow at Raven and shot.
"AWAY FROM OUR TEMPLE!" an Umbreon yelled and throwing Shadow Balls like hand grenades.
Raven shot his own ones to block them, "We want the dark seal! And we challenge you to test our worth!"
"Rather stomp on us! KROK, TAKE THE SEAL AWAY. GOOD AT NOTHING BIRD!" the Greninja yelled as a Murkrow hurried to grab the seal and to fly away.
"Raven, come with me!" Sebastian yelled as he took the fly and the Zangoose got on his back while the Amazons began to fight with the dark types.
"Let's try the move of training!" he said as he flew lower to let Raven jump down.
Which he did and grabbed for the feet.
Sebastian quickly caught up with his previous pokémon evolution and flew above it, "Ready?" he asked to Raven.
"Anytime!" he replied.
"NOW!" he yelled as the Murkrow huffed and hurried to fly faster, to no avail.
And Raven jumped down on the smaller pokémon, catching him.
The Murkrow crashed on the ground, dropping the seal.
Raven knocked the dark type out and grabbed the seal.
"Good! Let's go back to the others."
"Yeah," told Raven and they headed back.
"THEY GOT THE SEAL! KILL THEM!" a warrior yelled as they attacked Sebastian and Raven.
And Raven began to fight them.
A Bisharp dueled with him, aiming to stab in his vital points.
But his face got smashed by Raven's metal fist.
However, he doesn't feel it too much, being half steel type, and he stabbed his fake arm with his sharp blades.
But Raven didn't feel it and punched him away before attacking with his sword.
The Bisharp dodged and attacked again, making Raven go for one of his smaller blades to fight back.
The two fought until Bisharp jumped and attacked with Iron Head.
Raven only to move aside causing his opponent to crash on the ground before attacking the legs.
The Bisharp barely felt it as he kicked Raven on his neck and jumped up, attacking with Iron Claws.
And Raven countered with a blade and his metal arm, wishing he had a fighting move or a fire move.
Bisharp was an expert in sparring, so he gave a hard time to Raven, until Louis interfered using Metal Sound and distracting the Bisharp, "Finish him!"
And Raven slashed him several times before hitting the helm, cracking it.
The Bisharp stepped back holding his aching head, as Louis gave the fatal hit with Heavy Slam, "Is he... is he dead!?" Louis asked after realizing what he did.
Raven chucked on him, "While I fear his days as warrior are over, he will live."
"Phew. I-I could never bare the fact I've killed someone," Louis said.
"Sooner or later you will have to kill," told Raven. "At least if some of my fears come true."
"What fears?"
"That we have to face the army of the king."
"Oh..."
"RUN GUYS, RUN!" Kalahari yelled.
Raven heard that and ran as well.
Everyone ran away, away from that massacre.
"Are we all here!?" Kalahari asked.
"Yeah!"
"Good. You got the seal, right?"
"We did," Sebastian replied with a nod.
"How many more we need to take?"
"14 more temples."
"We don't have time for that! The army may be ready even now!" Sebastian said.
"I know," told Raven. "The only thing that is at our side, is the fact that the king won't be able to get the Crown as long he doesn't have the means to open the temple which contains it."
"Maybe we should split up," an Amazon proposed. "Groups of four or five mons for each temple, this way we'll gather them quicker."
"That's a good idea! But we have only one to teleport," told Raven. "Which means one group will take longer than the other."
"Which are the nearest temples so far?"
"I know the Grass and Flying ones," Walter said.
"Split to original groups or do we a mixed group?" asked Raven
"Better original groups."
"Good!" told Raven and turns to the leader of the Amazons. "Do you have somebody to transport notes for you?"
"Not really."
"Then we need to get somebody..." replied Raven. "Since we have to keep in touch with who is moving to which Temple and inform each other if something unexpected happen. And with only Walter around it could get quite messy with communication if we don't know where you are."
"Our sister FlameTail is the fastest messenger we had," chief Grovyle said as a Talonflame stood out from the group.
"Good! Each time something unexpected happens or we gain one of the seals, we send a massager to the other group to inform each other. That way we prevent that one of us accidently move to a temple which is was taken by somebody else already," declared Raven and the fire/flying type moved to Walter.
"Even you being a male, I am looking forward to working with you."
"Much honored to work with an Amazon," the Wingull smiled and offered his wing for a handshake.
She looked at it and went to shake it, before telling, "If you meet the expectations I put into you... you can perhaps share my nest."
Walter gulped and blushed slightly, "I-I will give my best."
"Good!" she replied and began to leave with her fellow Amazons.
"C' mon, let's go!" Sebastian said.
And they began to head out.
On the way, Raven told to Walter, "If you are allowed to take up her offer... don't disappoint her or your blood leaks out badly. In this Amazons there's no joking."
Walter gulped loudly, worried.
"That's why I always try NOT to impress an Amazon too much."
"W-Well... I-I'll do my best. That Talonflame is hot."
"WALTER!" Sebastian scolded him. "Focus on the mission, and think about ladies in your free time."
Raven laughed, "Ready to teleport?"
"C'mon guys," Kalahari called them.
And they got closer to him.
They teleported to the next temple, far away from where the Amazons headed.
"Let's head in and challenge them," told Raven. " Though... the fights seem to be too easy. It was always told it was suicide to fight against the temples."
"Maybe it's because they lowered their defenses, since no one ever challenged them."
"Or there is something we don't know," told Raven. "Let's take the seal."
"Right."
And they entered the temple.
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT!?" a Froslass shouted.
"We are here to claim the Ice Seal! And we are ready to prove that we are worthy."
"We lost the seal not much time ago. Go away and seek it if you want it."
"Who took the seal?" asked Raven.
"A Mawile at the service of King Amadeus."
"Damm! How much time passed?"
"About two weeks ago."
"No chance to get it back without a big fight..." mumbled Raven and turned to the others. "The race is on! Walter! Inform the Amazons about this. We move directly to the next temple! Which is the closets one?"
"The Steel Temple. Many of my fellows found refugee there," the Froslass said.l
"What do you mean?" Sebastian asked.
"The Mawile came with a small troop of Fire type warriors. It's been a massacre. The few surviving ones found refugee to our Steel siblings."
"We will head there instantly," told Raven.
"If you tell them I sent you, they won't fight in giving you the seal. After they found out what happened, they'd do anything to keep it safe."
"Thanks for the heads up," replied Raven with a respectful bow.
The Froslass bowed at him and gave a little smile, "Please stop this madness."
"That's why are traveling," told Raven and nodded to Kalahari.
"Save this kingdom, and the world. Please."
Kalahari nodded and closed his eyes.
And within seconds they were close to the Steel Temple and hurried over, hoping they weren't too late.
A Steelix used Iron Tail on the ground, creating a quiet earthquake, "Stand back!"
"Froslass from the Ice Temple has sent us!" Sebastain said.
"And we are here to secure the Steel Seal before the king's troops steal it."
"If you're here to stop Amadeus' madness, we can give you our seal," the giant steel snake said and crawled back in the temple.
And the group walked after him.
An Aggron held on paws the sphere, "Keep it safe, and put an end to this war," he said, giving the seal to Raven.
"We will! It's only unclear who will give the killing blow."
"You have to go now."
Raven nodded and took the map out to see which temple was the next.
"Good luck."
And they moved to the Poison Temple.