Chapter 13: Legacy

It has been two days since Riolu and Zorua first arrived on Kirlia's and Kirlio's island. They are already out at sea with Kirlio controlling the ship, waiting for Riolu to regain his strength again so he can control the ship again.

The Oran Berries helped him regain is ability to restore energy, but it takes a while for him to revive to full potential.

Three days have now passed by, and Riolu is back to full strength. He slowly gets up out of his bed, testing out his arms and legs to see if he can use them. Riolu smiles as he gets up out of his bed with no problems at all.

He stretches out his arms and legs with his eyes closed and he thinks, 'Finally, I can get out of the bed now.'

When he stops stretching and opens his eyes, he sees Zorua rushing into the room and shutting the door behind him quietly. But he's panting heavily with an annoyed expression on his face.

Riolu asks with a curious look on his face, "Is everything all right with you?"

Zorua looks directly at Riolu with a surprised expression on his face when he sees Riolu standing up out of bed, but his surprised expression soon turns back to an annoyed expression as he whispers, "It's Kirlia… she's annoying the crap out of me."

Riolu replies, "I'm sorry to hear that. By the way," Riolu has a curious expression on his face as he asks, "How far are we from their home island?"

Zorua shrugs his shoulders and he replies, "Beats me… I haven't talked to Kirlio yet ever since we've set sailed. I've been dealing with Kirlia this whole time."

Riolu nods his head and he replies as he walks towards the door, "All right. I'll go talk to Kirlio and see how far we are from…"

Before he could finish his sentence, he hears Kirlia screaming with fright.

Both Riolu and Zorua look right at the door with shocked expressions on their faces and Riolu thinks while Zorua asks out loud at the same time, "What the hell was that?"

Riolu quickly rushes to the door and opens it. When they both got outside onto the deck, they see Kirlia standing there, looking up at the captain's area on the top of the room with a shocked expression on her face.

When both Zorua and Riolu looked up where she's looking, their eyes widen with shock when they see another giant demon kraken forming out of the water.

Kirlio is looking back at the kraken with a look of shock on his face and he yells out, "What the hell is that thing?"

Riolu has a look of concern on his face when he looked up at the sky and noticed that the sky is completely dark where the kraken is located. Riolu thinks, 'Damn it… the darkness has already reached this point now!'

Riolu yells out to Kirlio, "Kirlio, get the hell down from there!"

Kirlio does what Riolu says without any question and manages to dodge he kraken's hand that tried to grab a hold of him.

Riolu has a look of concern on his face as he thinks, 'Another one of these bastards, huh? I guess Darkrai really must want to get Zorua back.'

Riolu looks back at Kirlia and Kirlio with a serious expression on his face and he asks, "How strong are your psychic powers? Are you guys able to use it to increase the speed of this ship?"

Kirlio nods his head and he replies with a serious expression on his face, "Yeah… but there's a limit to what we can do with our Psychic attack to do such a thing."

Riolu asks with a serious expression on his face, "How long can you two last together?"

Kirlia replies with a serious expression on her face, "About ten minutes…"

Riolu looks up at the kraken with a serious expression on his face and he thinks, 'That'll have to do… for now. Unless…'

Riolu looks back at Kirlio and he says, "Kirlio, you use your Psychic to increase the speed of the ship! Kirlia, you use Psychic to hold down the kraken's arms once it gets into range!"

Riolu looks right at Zorua with a serious expression on his face as he says, "Zorua and I will have to fight this bastard again. Just be sure to hold down the kraken's arms once it gets into range of the ship, got it?"

Kirlia nods her head with a serious expression on her face and she replies, "Alright, if that's what you want me to do."

Riolu looks back at Kirlio and nods his head, signaling Kirlio to use his Psychic to increase the speed of the ship. As Kirlio focuses most of his energy into the ship, the ships speed steadily increases from thirty miles per hour to eighty miles per hour.

But the kraken keeps up with the ship, leaning its body down forward like a snake as it swims its way towards the ship.

Riolu looks up at the sky with a serious expression on his face when he realizes that the darkness in the sky and the environment behind the kraken has already changed.

Zorua looks right at Riolu with a serious expression on his face and he asks, "Are you sure you're ready for this, Riolu? You've just got all of your energy back!"

Riolu nods his head with a serious expression on his face and he yells out through the wind, "Don't worry about me! Just be sure not to lose control again when you fight!"

Zorua nods his head and he transforms into Riolu. Riolu charges up for an Aura Blade in both arms, while Zorua charges up for a Night Slash in both arms, forming the black aura coming out of his arms into the shape of razor sharp blades.

Riolu looks back at Kirlia and he says with a serious expression on his face, "Keep your guard up and get ready! When you notice one of its arms are about to attack the ship, keep it in place with Psychic and we'll take care of the rest!"

Kirlia nods her head and stands her ground. Riolu looks at the direction where the kraken is coming and he yells out to Zorua, "Let's go, Zorua!"

Zorua nods his head and he replies with a serious expression on his face, "Right!"

As both Riolu and Zorua make a running start and jumps straight towards the kraken, Kirlia thinks with a serious expression in her eyes, 'Good luck out there…'

As the kraken slowly straightens itself up to where from the waist up is out of the water, Riolu and Zorua continue to fly straight towards the kraken, about to launch their attacks.

But while Riolu flies through the air, he has a troubled expression on his face as he thinks, 'What the…?'

White aura automatically explodes out of Riolu's body like wildfire as Riolu continues, 'My aura's agitated… what the hell is going on here?'

After Riolu reaches the kraken's left eye and stabs his right arm though it, he starts hearing a voice say in his head as the kraken swings its head back and forth, trying to get Riolu off, "Riolu… your role as a Pokemon is…"

After Riolu pulls his right arm out of the kraken's left eye and jumps off of it and flies down straight towards the ship, he thinks with a concerned expression on his face, 'It's that voice again! But what is it?'

After Riolu lands on the deck of the ship again, faces the kraken again and jumps off of the deck towards the kraken, he hears the voice say to him again, "Riolu… spirit blades… keys…"

After Riolu reaches the kraken's upper right arm, he climbs up to the wrist by stabbing his Aura Blades into the kraken's arm to climb up.

Riolu continues to think with a serious expression on his face, 'What is this voice trying to tell me? Who are you?'

After Riolu reaches the wrist with a trail of blood flowing down the kraken's arm, he rises his right arm away from the kraken's wrist. After he moves his arm away, huge amounts of white aura explodes out of the arm alone.

After Riolu swings his right arm down at the wrist, Kirlia's eyes widen with shock when she sees Riolu slicing the kraken's hand off in one single slice.

As Riolu pulls his left arm out of the kraken's arm and flies back towards the ship, Kirlia thinks with a look of shock on her face, 'Riolu… what's happened to you?'

After Zorua lands back on the deck, he looks directly at Riolu and he thinks with a look of concern on his face, 'Riolu… what the hell is going on with your white aura? It feels way too different now…'

Riolu lands on the deck and faces the kraken again, who is moving its head down towards the ship, about to take a bite out of the back of the ship.

But Riolu just walks to the back of the boat with his right hand out. After he gets to the back of the ship, the white aura grows larger than ever before like a powerful uncontrollable blaze.

The kraken intercepts with Riolu's right hand, but it stopped dead in its tracks. Riolu holds on tight to the kraken's nose as he hears the voice say, "Open your eyes, Riolu! Don't you understand what your true motive is?"

Riolu screams out, "I don't want to hear it!"

Riolu stabs his left arm into the kraken's face, turning his arm in many directions like a key in a keyhole.

The kraken lets out a murderous roar and it lifts its head back up, taking Riolu along with it.

Zorua has a serious expression on his face as he thinks, 'What the hell is going on here? Why is Riolu freaking out like this?'

Zorua makes a running head start and jumps up straight towards the kraken again with both Night Slashes still ready to attack.

As Riolu pulls out his left arm and starts climbing up the kraken's face up using his Aura Blades to climb up, the voice says back to Riolu, "Riolu… you'll have to face the truth sooner or later!"

Riolu says once he reaches the kraken's forehead and pulls his right arm back, "I… don't…" Riolu screams out as the Aura Blade on his right arm grows larger, "I don't want to hear it!"

Riolu stabs his right arm into the kraken's forehead, causing large amounts of blood to pour down from the kraken's forehead wound.

The kraken lets out an agonizing roar and it tries to swing Riolu off by flailing its head. But Riolu holds on tight, and stabs the kraken again with his left arm, increasing the size of the wound.

After Riolu pulls out his left arm, he stabs below the wound, climbing down the kraken's face. After the kraken stops flailing its head, Riolu jumps off of the kraken's face and starts falling down towards the deck of the ship again.

But as he flies down, he faces the kraken again in midair and aims both of his hands at the kraken's head.

After Zorua lands back on the deck, Kirlia thinks with a shocked expression on her face, 'This power… what's Riolu about to do?'

Riolu says with both his and the inner voice's voices combining as a sphere of blue and white aura takes form in front of his palms, "Let this…" Riolu's eyes turned into the Aura Eyes as he yells out, "Let this reveal your Judgment!"

The sphere instantly grows larger and thousands of blue and white arrows like beams shoot out of the sphere, flying straight towards the kraken with shockwaves bursting out of them all.

As the arrows make contact with the kraken, thousands of holes instantly appear all over its body. Blood pours down from all of the holes instantly as the kraken lets out a roar of agony.

Zorua's eyes widen with shock as he thinks, 'Riolu… this power that's coming out of you… is this what I'm like when I'm losing control?'

Kirlia thinks as she stares at Riolu's attack with a mesmerized expression in her eyes, 'There's no question about it… that's the attack called Judgment! But the only one that could use that is…'

Kirlia finishes after Riolu stops firing the aura arrows and the kraken collapses into the bloody water, 'Arceus!'

Riolu continues to fall straight towards the deck of the ship with his back facing it.

As the white aura slowly begins to disappear, the voice says to Riolu as he closes his eyes, "You're role… in order for you to return as a human… is… to…"

The voice is cut off after Riolu thinks, 'I already know what my role is… the one that was given to me by Arceus. It's to bring the Hell Spirit Blade to him and destroy it, right?'

After Riolu's Aura Blade deactivates, the voice replies back, "Riolu… Arceus didn't tell you than, huh?"

After Riolu smacks down onto the deck of the ship right in between Kirlia and Zorua, he replies back, 'What do you mean by that? What hasn't Arceus told me?'

The voice replies as Riolu's body just stares up at the sky with his eyes wide open, seeing Kirlia and Zorua looking down at him with worried expressions on their faces, "The fact that it's impossible for even the gods to destroy the spirit blades, of course."

As Kirlia and Zorua help Riolu back up by having his arms around both of their shoulders and his head just looking down at the deck, Riolu thinks in a shocked tone, 'Wh-what… if that's the case, then what's my main role for being a Pokemon?'

The voice replies as Kirlia and Zorua starts to walk Riolu over to his room, the voice replies, "If you're thinking that you have to destroy Darkrai… that's incorrect. No one, not even humans, can destroy gods."

After Zorua and Kirlia gets Riolu into his room and lies him down on the bed, Riolu asks in a serious tone, 'Than what is my main goal for being a Pokemon? If it has nothing to do with the Hell Spirit Blade or the destruction of Darkrai, than what's the biggest threat?'

The voice replies after Zorua and Kirlia leave the room, "Isn't it obvious, Riolu? Can't you see what the main threat to the Pokemon World is?"

It takes Riolu a few minutes, but then he replies in a shocked tone, 'Y-you don't mean it's…!'

The voice replies after Riolu falls into a deep sleep, "That's right… you've guessed correctly."

Before Riolu falls further into his deep sleep, he thinks of the name, 'Zorua…'