Chapter 6: The Overwhelming Darkness and Light

Riolu asks dark Riolu with a look of disbelief on his face, "H-how can it be that you have a Hell Spirit Blade?" Dark Riolu grins malevolently as he says in the same demon/Underworld language, "Let's just say Lord Darkrai accepted me to have the blade."

Riolu looks back at the other direction where Zorua and the others are located and he thinks, "But… I've felt the Hell Spirit Blade's energy coming out of Zorua!" Riolu has a troubled look on his face, "Could it be that I was wrong?" Riolu looks back at dark Riolu and he says, "Since you have the Hell Spirit Blade with you,"

white aura radiates out of Riolu's hands, "than I have no other choice but to use this!" Dark Riolu has a malevolent grin on his face as he says, "Let's see how much control you have over it," dark Riolu jumps straight towards Riolu with a murderous look in its eyes, "Riolu!"

While Riolu and dark Riolu fought against each other, Zorua is bending back and dodging a fierce, sharp jab from Audino's bony fingers. Zorua jumps back away from Audino and Mienfoo flies straight towards Audino's head with a High Jump Kick. Mienfoo kicks Audino right on the head and sends her flying back.

However, as Audino falls back slightly, Mienfoo cringes her eyes as she feels a massive burn on her right foot. She falls onto her right knee and holds her right foot with both hands. There are severe burn marks on the skin. Zorua rushes to Mienfoo's side as Audino is about to finish Mienfoo off by stabbing her in the face.

But Zorua blocks the attack right on time with his right arm. Zorua has a painful look on his face as he feels the finger bones piercing right through his arm. Mienfoo looks up at Zorua with a shocked expression in her eyes as she sees Zorua's right arm engulfed in the flames.

Zorua looks back at Mienfoo and he says to her with a serious look on his face while maintaining the Riolu form, "Mienfoo, you need to get out of her now!" Mienfoo looks up at Zorua with a worried expression on her face and she asks, "But… what about you, Zorua?"

Zorua has a serious look on his face as he replies while blocking Audino's second stab attack with his left arm now, "I'll be fine! Just get the hell out of here while you still can! If you don't flee, then this bastard will possess your body too!"

Zorua pulls him arms out of Audino's nails and slashes away fiercely at Audino with continuous Night Slashes from his two burned arms. While Zorua gets Audino away with the Night Slashes, Maractus rushes to Mienfoo's side and helps her up. "We have no other choice, Mienfoo! We need to get out of here while we still can…"

While Maractus helps Mienfoo up, Mienfoo says with a worried expression on her face, "Yeah, but what about Zorua? We can't just leave him here all alone! What if he gets injured and the demon…?" Mienfoo is trying to get back into the fight, but Maractus says with a worried expression on her face, "Please forgive me, Mienfoo…"

Maractus uses Sleep Powder on Mienfoo, which causes Mienfoo to fall over in a deep sleep. After she falls over, Maractus lifts her up over her shoulder and she looks directly at Zorua with a concerned look on her face. After Zorua uses one more Night Slash and sends Audino flying back towards one of the charred buildings, Zorua looks back at Audino and nods his head of approval.

Maractus nods her head and she starts to make a run for it back to base. After she disappears from the area, Zorua looks back at the location where Audino is located and he asks Audino in the Underworld language, "What's the deal with Darkrai wanting to put me to the test?"

Audino walks out of the rubble of the charred house she landed in and she says in the same language, "You should know the reason, amateur. You haven't killed any of these Pokemon here yet. It's been taking too long, that I was sent here by Lord Darkrai to show you what you should be doing."

Zorua has a serious expression on his face and he says while slowly transforming back into his original form, "There's a problem with your story…" Zorua closes his eyes and sighs deeply. Audino has a confused expression in her flaming eyes and she asks, "What's that, Zorua?"

When Zorua opens his eyes, Audino's eyes widen with shock as she sees Zorua's blood red eyes and vertical eye pupils. Black aura explodes out of Zorua's body as he says while two horns grew out of his forehead and his fangs and claws grew sharper,

"You weren't sent here just because of that. You also came here to eliminate me, so you can become Darkrai's apprentice!" Audino has a malevolent smile on her face as she replies, "You've seen right through me." Zorua lets out a menacing roar and jumps straight towards Audino with a murderous look in his eyes.

While Zorua and Audino went into a battle of the demons, dark Riolu is swinging his sword straight towards Riolu's head in midair. But Riolu manages to block the blade with his white aura engulfed hands and pushes back away from dark Riolu.

After Riolu lands on his feet, he thought while aiming his right palm at dark Riolu, "I can't afford to lose here! Not against the likes of that demon!" Riolu starts running straight towards dark Riolu with the white aura coming out of his hands growing larger in size.

Dark Riolu has a shocked expression on his face when he sees a red colored place appear from out of nowhere in midair, flowing with the white aura. Riolu appears right in front of dark Riolu and starts firing a barrage of Force Palms at the demon, but dark Riolu blocks most of the attacks with his sword.

But when he sees the red plate form into Riolu's body through the white aura, dark Riolu has a look of disbelief on his face as he sees fire radiating off of the white aura. Riolu fires a massive flaming Force Palm at dark Riolu.

Dark Riolu tries to block the attack with his sword, but the flaming force from the attack was far too great. Dark Riolu is sent flying through the air with the blade shattering into millions of pieces.

After dark Riolu lands on his back and the red plate form out of Riolu and vanishes into the air, Riolu asks in a different language besides the Underworld language, "Is that all you've got? Are you telling me that the sword of yours actually braked?"

Dark Riolu gets back up with a confused expression on his face and he thinks, "What the hell is going on here? Why did Riolu's power turn to fire after that red plate formed into his body?" Riolu says in the different language, "Tell this to Darkrai when I send you back to the Underworld…"

Riolu raises his right hand over his head and he says while a Draco plate appears in his hand out of the white aura, "Tell Darkrai to be prepared for me, 'cuz I'll be coming for him for the actions he is taking!" Dark Riolu's eyes widen with shock as he thought, "Riolu… is it possible that you have…?"

Before dark Riolu can finish his sentence, the plate forms into Riolu's body and the white aura has powerful red aura combining with it. Riolu points right at dark Riolu and he yells out fiercely, "Lets this reveal your Judgment!"

The white and red auras took shape of spears and they all flew straight towards dark Riolu at a blinding speed. Dark Riolu quickly places both of his palms onto the ground and he forms his dark energy into the ground. After he lifts his hands away from the ground, a giant shadow black scythe forms out of the ground in front of dark Riolu and he quickly grabs a hold of the hilt.

He quickly jumps out of the way at the last second and manages to avoid getting hit by the Judgment attack. After dark Riolu lands on the ground with the giant two bladed scythes in hand and over his shoulders, the Draco Plate forms out of Riolu's body and disappears into the white aura, along with the red aura.

The white aura is now forming out of Riolu's body like a wild fire, as if it is enraged. Dark Riolu grins with a malevolent look in his eyes and he says in his own language, "Good thing Lord Darkrai saw this one coming, otherwise I could have been dead forever…"

Riolu has a serious expression in his eyes as he says in the other language, "I need to keep this up. I can't allow this demon to live after seeing my abilities in action!" A Psychic Plate forms out of the white aura and into Riolu's body next and the white aura instantly turns to a pink color.

Dark Riolu points his scythes at Riolu and he says, "Show me the true power of the lord of the Heavens!" Both Riolu and dark Riolu jumps straight towards each other and are fighting once more.

As Riolu and dark Riolu fought with everything they've got, Zorua is going all out and has transformed into Darkrai. Audino has a serious look on her face as she thought, "Zorua's power is actually increasing? But I thought he has already reached his limit of strength!"

Zorua grabs a hold of Audino's shoulder bones and crushes them completely. Audino has a shocked expression in her flaming eyes as the dark soul possessing her thought while jumping back away from Zorua with shattered shoulder blades, "Zorua… is already becoming more like Lord Darkrai! But how can that be…?"

Before Audino can finish its sentence, Zorua reappears right in front of Audino and grabs it by the neck and lifts it up into the air. The flames in Audino's eye sockets vanished as if it is cringing. When the flames reappeared like the opening of the eyes, Audino says with a painful expression on its face, "You've passed the test, Zorua… now release me…"

Zorua doesn't say a word and moves Audino's face closer to his at eye-level. Audino has a frightened expression on its face as it asks, "What are you doing, Zorua? The test is over!" After the red and black aura forms out of Zorua's eyes, he says to Audino in the Underworld language, "I've been ordered to kill you by Lord Darkrai, and that's what I'm going to do!"

Audino's eyes widen with fear as it asks, "Wait, what? Lord Darkrai said…" Before Audino could finish its sentence the red and black aura forming out of Zorua's eyes forms into Audino's fire eyes. Audino's jaws hang wide open as if in shock as its whole body turns to a charred black with red crack markings forming all over its body.

The fire that is used as its skin vanishes as the soul possessing Audino's body dies. After the dark soul died, the red cracks grew larger and the body shatters as if it is glass with a pool of blood flowing out of it.

After the body got destroyed, Zorua transforms back to its original form and his claws, teeth, and horns turned back to normal. Zorua has tears of sadness rolling down his cheeks as he said the name, "A-Audino…" Zorua falls to the ground, knocked out from the overwhelming darkness that took him over before.

While Zorua just lies there on the blood covered village center, Riolu and dark Riolu are fighting intensely. Riolu has a Wing Plate within his body and is blowing dark Riolu right onto a wall by using the white aura is a massive wind blast.

Dark Riolu slams against the wall and falls onto the ground with a blade shattering off of the double bladed scythe. Dark Riolu looks right at Riolu with a malevolent look on his face and he yells in the Underworld language, "You bastard! You destroyed my precious scythe!"

As dark Riolu slowly stood back up onto his feet, the Wing Plate forms out of Riolu's body and back into the white aura as he says, "It's all over. Prepare to…!" Before Riolu can finish his sentence, his eyes widen with shock when he feels the white aura instantly form back into his body, causing Riolu to lose all of the power he was able to use before.

Riolu looks at his hands with a confused expression on his face and he asks in the normal language, "What just happened to me? How did I end up over here?" Dark Riolu has a surprised look on his face as he thought, "W-was he being controlled by that Pokemon? If so,"

Dark Riolu gets back up onto his feet and he says while getting the scythe over his shoulders with the blade pointing down towards the ground and he says, "I guess you win for now, Riolu…" Riolu looks directly at dark Riolu with a confused expression on his face and he asks, "What are you talking about? What just happened?"

Dark Riolu doesn't say a word and he just vanishes into the shadows, heading back to the Underworld. After he left the area, Riolu looks around that abandoned village and sees all of the damage that was caused. "D-did we do this during the battle?"

When Riolu looks back at the location where the other village is located, he has a shocked expression on his face when he senses only one Pokemon in the village up ahead. Riolu thought as he ran through the forest, "Oh no! What is going on over there?" After Riolu left that village, Darkrai's voice said from the shadows, "So… Arceus is within his body, huh?"