Chapter 14: Two New Allies

It has been two days since Riolu and Zorua fought against the second kraken. Riolu is still in his bed, still sleeping.

But after one more hour of sleeping passes by, Riolu opens his eyes slowly.

As he sits back up, with his right hand over his right eye, trying to get rid of a headache, he thinks with a confused expression on his face as he looks around at his surroundings, 'Wh-where am I… how did I end up here?'

When Riolu got a good look at his right arm, he sees blood stains in his fur.

He thinks as he looks out the window of the boat, 'Now that I think about it… we were being chased by a kraken. I wonder if Zorua and Kirlia managed to beat it.'

Riolu has lost parts of his memory when he was in his white aura form. He hears the doorknob squeak and he looks directly at the door and sees Kirlia walking in.

After she closes the door behind her quietly, she asks with a look of concern on her face, "Are you all right, Riolu?"

Riolu nods his head, but he asks with the same confused expression on his face, "How did I end up in here, and did you guys manage to defeat the kraken after I got knocked out?"

Kirlia has a concerned expression on her face and she replies, "So you did lose your memory of the battle, huh?"

Riolu asks with the same expression on his face, "What are you talking about, Kirlia?"

As Kirlia walks up to Riolu's bed side, she asks with a concerned expression in her eyes, "Riolu… did you know that it was you who killed the kraken with your white aura?"

Riolu's eyes widen with shock and he asks, "R-really… but why don't I remember anything about it?"

Kirlia stands right by his bed side and she replies while looking down at him, "I don't know why, but the only words we heard you scream out were 'I don't want to hear it' as you fought."

After Kirlia explained that part of the battle, Riolu's memory of that battle start to return but the memories of him learning the truth from his inner voice still remains hidden.

Riolu replies back softly with a concerned expression on his face, "Now I remember the battle… but everything else afterwards is a complete blank…"

Kirlia asks with a look of concern on her face, "Riolu… is it true that you have Arceus's power within you?"

Riolu instantly has a serious expression on his face when he hears what Kirlia asked. He thought as he shuts his eyes, 'So… I wasn't in control of my body at all during that fight.'

Riolu looks up at Kirlia with a serious expression in his eyes and he says, "Kirlia… it's true that I do have some of Arceus's power. But not enough to be considered complete."

Kirlia nods her head with a calm expression on her face and she replies, "I see… anyway, is everything all right with Zorua?"

Riolu's serious expression turns into a look of concern and he looks down at the surface of his bed with a concerned expression in his eyes. Riolu replies, "I'm guessing you've read his emotions, huh?"

Kirlia nods her head and she asks with a curious expression on her face, "Tell me, Riolu. What has that child been through when you first met him?"

When Riolu looked up at Kirlia, he hears Zorua reply from behind her, "My friends, my family, and my life…"

Kirlia looks back at Zorua, who is at the doorway, replying with a depressed expression on his face, "They're all dead..."

Kirlia asks with a concerned expression on her face, "How did they die?"

Zorua replies with a serious expression on his face, "It's because of Darkrai, the ruler of the Underworld. He and his army of demons came up from their world and took over my home island…"

Kirlia has a look of concern on her face as she says, "That explains the darkness I've been sensing in your soul. So you're Darkrai's…"

Zorua nods his head and replies, "Well… I used to be. Right now, we're heading over to Mirage Island and see if Arceus can fix everything."

Riolu has a look of shock on his face when he starts remembering parts of the conversation he had with the inner voice during the battle. Riolu has a look of concern on his face as he thinks, 'That voice… it told me that it is next to impossible to destroy the spirit blades… even gods don't have that power.'

Riolu has a serious expression in his eyes as he thinks, 'But we still need to go to Mirage Island and at least go to Arceus and see if he can come up with any type of answer.'

Riolu's serious expression morphs into a look of concern as he thinks, 'But my roles as a Pokemon… did that inner voice tell me what my role is?'

Kirlia asks Riolu with a concerned expression on her face, "Are you okay, Riolu?"

Riolu looks up at Kirlia with a calmer expression on his face and he replies, "Yeah… I'll be all right."

Riolu quickly changes the subject by asking Kirlia, "Are we almost there at your home island?"

Kirlia nods her head and she replies, "Yeah. If we go out onto the deck, you can see the island up ahead. Also, we are out of the darkness range, but it looks like there's going to be a pretty bad storm coming our way."

Zorua nods his head with a look of concern on his face and he says to Riolu, "Yeah… it will probably be too dangerous to venture on through the storm on the ship, so we'll probably have to stay on their home island until the storm clears."

Riolu nods his head and he replies, "Yeah… I suppose we should, since there's no other choice."

Riolu looks right at Kirlia and he asks, "By any chance, do you and your brother have your own house?"

Kirlia nods her head and she answers, "Yeah… if you want to stay with us during the time, you can."

Riolu grins at Kirlia and he replies, "Thank you, Kirlia. We won't stay for too long."

Kirlia grins back at Riolu and she replies, "It's all good, Riolu. Besides…" Kirlia looks at Zorua, gives him a deriding grin, and she says, "That means I get to have more time to mess around with Zorua."

Zorua looks right at Kirlia and just gives her a nervous grin. He thinks with a troubled expression behind his fake grin, 'Oh god… I forgot about that.'

Kirlia replies after giggling slightly, "Oh… you'll remember, Zorua."

But Zorua's fake smile vanishes and he just has the nervous expression on his face revealing slowly. Riolu laughs at Zorua's expression and he thinks, 'I'm sure everything will be fine, and I'm also sure everything will turn out fine once we reach Mirage Island.'

Before anyone could say a word, they hear Kirlio yelling from the top of the room behind the wheel, "We are at least twenty minutes away from Illusion Island, and it is already starting to rain! Once we reach the island, you guys head over to the house while I take down the sail!"

Kirlia has a look of concern on her face as she says, "The weather is usually bad here. So once we reach the island, we need to make a run for it to the house. Got it?"

Both Riolu and Zorua nod their heads and wait for the boat to reach the dock of the island.

After the boat is at least ten minutes away from the island, Kirlio yells out, "All right, everyone! The storm is already getting worst outside, and…!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a huge explosion sound is heard that causes small shockwaves to rip through the ship.

After the sound clears, Kirlia yells out Kirlio's name and she asks, "What the hell was that?"

But Kirlio doesn't reply to Kirlia's question.

Before Kirlia heads outside, Riolu says while having his Aura Eyes activated and looking up at Kirlio, "He's all right. The ship just got hit by something."

Kirlia looks back at Riolu with a look of concern in her eyes and she asks, "What did the ship get hit by, though?"

When Riolu looked straight ahead at the island, he replies with a serious expression on his face, "It's the Pokemon of that island that are attacking us… they must've sensed Zorua's aura and came to the beach, prepared to attack us in anyway."

Kirlia has a serious expression on her face as she asked, "But why would they be attacking us, though? Why would they be after you and Zorua?"

Riolu closes his eyes with a serious expression on his face and he replies, "It's because one of our friends committed suicide in front of our previous home, in order for everyone else to know that Zorua is Darkrai's apprentice…"

Kirlia has a look of concern on her face as she replies back, "I see…"

Kirlia closes her eyes and she says with a grin on her face, "Well then… I guess Kirlio and I can just scratch our plans with returning home."

Kirlia opens her eyes with a serious grin on her face and she says, "If those Pokemon are planning on hurting my friends, they can kiss my ass!"

Zorua has a surprised expression on his face when he heard what Kirlia just said.

His surprised expression turned into a confident grin and he says, "Well now… I didn't think you'd say something like that."

Before Kirlia could reply to Zorua's statement, Riolu looks up at the ceiling and yells out at Kirlio while more long distance attacks makes contact with the ship, "Change of plans, Kirlio! We're going to head for Mirage Island first!"

Kirlio yells back to Riolu and the others, "Got it! I don't want these guys to hurt any of you, either!"

After Kirlio changes directions and starts going around the island from three thousand feet away, Riolu has a shocked expression on his face when he senses two battleships setting out from the island and sailing straight towards them from behind.

Riolu quickly gets up out of bed and rushes out to the deck, followed by Zorua and Kirlia.

After they got out to the deck in the harsh rain, Riolu goes to the side of the ship and looks behind it, seeing the two battleships following them.

Kirlia and Zorua see what's coming and Kirlia says with a serious expression on her face, "Damn… I wasn't expecting for them to send out battleships in this weather."

Riolu rushes up to the captain's area and sees Kirlio still manning the wheel with blood tricking down from his mount on his arm.

Riolu says to Kirlio with a serious expression on his face, "Kirlio, I need you to go ahead and go down to the deck…"

Kirlio nods his head and gives Riolu the wheel.

After Riolu grabs the wheel, he looks down at Kirlia and Kirlio with a serious expression on his face and he yells out, "Remember what Kirlio did before when we fought the last kraken? Well this time, both Kirlio and Kirlia will be speeding up the ship! We have to get away from these guys before they start open firing!"

Riolu looks directly at Zorua and he says to him, "You better get back inside the cabin, Zorua! We're going to go above one hundred miles per hour and try to get as close as we can to Mirage Island!"

Zorua nods his head with a serious expression on his face and he quickly rushes into the cabin.

After he gets inside, Riolu looks down at Kirlia and Kirlio and he yells out, "I hope you two will have enough energy for this!"

Both Kirlia and Kirlio nod their heads and Kirlia replies with a confident smile on her face, "Don't worry about that, Riolu! I usually make Kirlio look bad when it comes to using Psychic!"

Kirlio only has a calm expression on his face as he nods his head in agreement.

Riolu grins confidently at Kirlia and he replies, "Good to know! Well then…" Riolu yells out as he cancels his Aura Eyes ability, "Let's get out of here!"

After the two battleships start firing a mob of Zap Cannons, Kirlia and Kirlio launch their Psychic on the boat, instantly causing its speed to dramatically increase from ten miles per hour to one hundred ten miles per hour.

Riolu holds on tight to the wheel as the gravitational force tries to pull him back.

Riolu's eyes are shut tightly as Kirlia goes over board and increases the speed dramatically again.

Riolu thinks while he has his eyes shut and holding on tight to the wheel, "This is insane! I never thought Kirlia would have this type of power!"

When Riolu opened his eyes and looks back, he has a shocked expression on his face when he realizes that the two battleships are nowhere to be found.

When Riolu looks straight ahead, his eyes widen with shock when he realizes that the surroundings of the ship have turned into streaks.

It doesn't take Kirlia long to start feeling exhausted and starts slowing down the ship to about one hundred miles per hour.

After the speed drops to sixty miles per hour, Riolu looks down at Kirlia and yells out with a look of concern on his face, "Are you all right, Kirlia?"

Kirlia pants heavily with an exhausted expression on her face and she replies, "Y-yeah… I just went a little overboard…"

When Riolu looks straight ahead, he say with a serious expression on his face, "Actually… you've done it perfectly…"

When Kirlia and Kirlio looked straight ahead, they both have awe-inspiring expressions on their faces when they see the huge wall of clouds in front of them, indicating that they are about to enter Mirage Island territory.