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Riolu: Well now... shall we get back to our fight?
Dark Riolu: We shall... but be warned, you will meet your death!

Chapter 21: Legendary Weapon… God's Arrow

Dark Riolu says with a serious expression on his face as Riolu runs straight towards him, "No matter what you plan to do… you'll still die in the end!"

Riolu jabs his two Aura Blades close to Dark Riolu's heart, but he blocks Riolu's Aura Blades with is scythe.

Dark Riolu sends Riolu flying back through the air, causing him to crash into a tree and sending it timbering to the ground.

After Riolu gets back up onto his feet from the sitting position, he thinks as he glares right at Dark Riolu, 'I won't allow him to take anyone else away from me!'

As Dark Riolu jumps straight towards Riolu with a malevolent grin on his face, Riolu jumps quickly to the side, managing to avoid Dark Riolu's scythe.

After he lands back on his feet and faces Dark Riolu's back, he runs straight towards him once more, attempting to run his Aura Blades through Dark Riolu's back.

But he quickly faces Riolu, grabs a hold of his neck by the neck, and lifts him up into the air. Riolu eyes are cringed tightly as he is lifted into the air, his Aura Blades slowly deactivating.

Dark Riolu looks right at Riolu's face with a malevolent expression on his face and he says, "You know… I should just finish you off right here and now… but that'll be too quick for my tastes…"

Dark Riolu tosses Riolu into the air with a great amount of force, causing him to reach the clouds before he starts falling again.

Dark Riolu readies his scythe and jumps into the air straight towards Riolu, attempting to grab a hold of him by the neck once again.

Riolu thinks as he falls towards the treetops, 'My training battle with Snivy… really took a lot out of me…'

After Riolu opens his eyes, his eyes widen with shock when he sees Dark Riolu appearing right in front of him like a ghost. Dark Riolu grabs Riolu by the neck once again, and ends up tossing him straight down into the treetops.

After he smacks right into the ground through the treetops, making a crater in the ground, his eyes widen with shock as blood comes flying out of his mouth from the impact.

As Riolu tries to get himself back up onto his feet, Dark Riolu instantly appears right in front of Riolu and grabs him by the neck once more with his left hand.

While Dark Riolu lifts Riolu up off of the ground, Riolu thinks with his eyes tightly shut, gasping for air, 'Damn it… Dark Riolu has managed to become stronger after I regained my strength.'

Dark Riolu grins malevolently as he says while keeping a hold of Riolu in midair by the neck, "You're pathetically weak, Riolu. You don't stand a chance against Zoroark if you're getting beaten this easily."

Dark Riolu yells out with a serious expression on his face, "I was expecting more out of you!"

Dark Riolu tosses Riolu back up into the air once more, making him go as high as the clouds again. While Dark Riolu jumps up into the air, Riolu thinks with his eyes still closed, 'He's right… I still have a long way to go…'

After Riolu opens his eyes, he looks down at Dark Riolu with a serious expression on his face and he thinks, 'I can't allow him to kill me like this!'

As Riolu aims both of his palms at Dark Riolu, he thinks with a serious expression on his face, 'If you think I'm weak now… feast your eyes on this attack!'

Dark Riolu's eyes widen with shock as he sees white aura exploding out of Riolu's body like wild fire as a blue and white sphere takes form in front of his palms.

Dark Riolu thinks with a serious expression in his eyes, 'What the hell is that? It's too powerful to be an Aura Sphere…'

Dark Riolu continues as the sphere begins to grow with sparks of blue and white aura flying out of the sphere, 'Whatever it is… I have to reach him before it's too late!'

While Riolu continues to charge up for his attack, Snivy is jumping off of the top of the mountain with great amounts of force, flying straight towards Riolu.

She thinks as she slowly gets closer to Riolu, 'Riolu… what the hell are you thinking? Why are you going to use that move now?'

Riolu yells out after the sphere reaches its maximum size and power, "Aura Blast!"

Dark Riolu's eyes widen with shock as he sees the sphere fire a gigantic beam of destructive aura straight towards him.

Dark Riolu thinks with a serious expression on his face, 'Damn it… there's no way in hell I can dodge that attack!'

Dark Riolu intercepts with the beam and is sent flying straight down towards the ground with the beam's path.

But while Dark Riolu flies down with the beam, he thinks with a serious expression in his eyes, 'What the hell… something's different with Riolu's power! Why is Riolu's power growing stronger?'

Riolu thinks as he continues firing the Aura Blast from his palms, 'What's this sensation I'm feeling? It feels as if my power is returning to its full potential!'

As the white aura surrounding Riolu grows stronger and larger, the Aura Blast grows larger and stronger as well.

Snivy thinks as she sees the Aura Blast growing, 'So it worked after all! Lord Arceus, you saved us both the trouble of dealing with this bastard with our energies at low level. Now we can give him all we've got!'

Dark Riolu looks down at the ground and he yells out with a look of shock on his face, "Oh hell!"

Dark Riolu makes contact with the ground on his back with the beam, getting caught up in the large explosion produced from the Aura Blast.

The explosion of the blast wipes out most of the trees surrounding it in a one hundred thousand foot radius.

After Riolu stops firing the Aura Blast and the explosion clear away, Riolu lands back on the ground on his feet, looking directly at Dark Riolu with a serious expression on his face, who is lying on the ground still alive.

Dark Riolu has lost his left arm and most of the skin on the left side of his body. Dark Riolu's left stump starts to bleed fiercely, the blood slowly pooling on the charred ground.

Riolu says with a serious expression on his face, "So you survived from that attack, huh? That's quite a surprise…"

Dark Riolu looks directly at Riolu with a serious grin on his face and he says, "Of course I'm alive, Riolu…"

As Dark Riolu slowly gets back up onto his feet, he continues, "I'll admit that your power has increased during your attack, but thanks to that power boost of yours, my power has increased as well, giving me the ability to survive your so called Aura Blast."

After Dark Riolu stands up straight, he continues as he begins to glow bright black, "In fact, you should be able to do this now at your current level!"

Riolu's eyes widen with shock as he sees Dark Riolu's left arm instantly regenerate. But that's not the only problem, for Dark Riolu's form slowly begins to change.

Riolu has a serious expression on his face as he thinks, 'Impossible… how the hell is Dark Riolu able to…?'

Before he could finish his thought, large amounts of black aura explodes out of Dark Riolu's body as he says while his voice slowly gets deeper, "What's the matter, Riolu? Are you beginning to see what you're capable of doing?"

After Dark Riolu grows taller and his spikes grow larger on his chest and hands, he continues as his body and face begins to change, "Now, Riolu… I shall give you my full potential!"

After the black aura clears away and Dark Riolu stops glowing black, Riolu's eyes widen with shock when he realizes that Dark Riolu has evolved into Dark Lucario.

Dark Lucario grins malevolently and he continues as two black angle wings grow out of his back, "Now… you're life ends here, Riolu!"

Before Riolu could even notice it, Dark Riolu instantly appears right in front of Riolu and grabs him by the neck with his left hand.

Riolu's eyes widen with shock as Dark Lucario flaps his large wings and sends them both flying straight into the air.

Riolu thinks as he gasps for air and they reach above the clouds, 'Damn… so he managed to copy my current energy level! At this rate… he'll…!'

Before he could finish his sentence, Dark Lucario says after Riolu opens his eyes, "Let's see you get out of this, Riolu!"

Dark Lucario throws Riolu down with great amounts of force, sending him flying head down towards the ground.

After he flies through the clouds, he thinks after he opens his eyes, 'I guess I have no other choice but to use my next technique…'

After Riolu manages to run himself around with his back facing the ground, he activates his two white aura bows from his gloves and aims carefully at Dark Lucario.

Riolu thinks as Dark Lucario starts to fly down straight towards Riolu in a nose dive formation, 'If I remember correctly… Dark Lucario is an immortal clone. However… there are a few ways from him to actually die. Either the original body dies, or…'

As Riolu forms an arrow from his right bow, he thinks as an explosion of white aura bursts out of his body like wildfire, 'To completely stop one's heart, lung, or brain functions…!'

Snivy has a shocked expression on her face and thinks as she feels and sees Riolu's white aura, 'Riolu… are you seriously going to use that now?'

Snivy continues after she lands on the ground and starts running as fast as she can towards the charred area of the forest, 'Riolu… if you use that move now, you'll exhaust over half of the energy you've just received!'

Riolu says with a serious expression on his face, "I can only use this move this one time… once I use it, it'll take a few months to recover it. But I have to use it… even if it means!"

Dark Lucario's eyes widen with shock as he sees Riolu beginning to glow bright white, glowing as bright as the sun.

As Riolu glows bright white, the white aura bow from his left hand starts to transform into an arrow.

An aura arrow at first, but slowly changes into a real one with a golden tip and a white colored shaft.

Dark Lucario thinks with a look of shock on his face, 'N-no! How the hell could this be possible?'

After Snivy reaches Riolu and Dark Lucario's area, she looks up at Riolu with a look of shock in her eyes and she thinks, 'Riolu… so you're planning on using God's Arrow, huh? Do you understand what will happen once you use that weapon?'

As Riolu gets closer to the ground and Dark Lucario continues to fly down in the same path, Riolu thinks with a serious expression on his face, 'Even though I'm going through evolution… I won't be able to evolve for a while after I fire this attack. I can't allow myself to evolve just yet!'

As Riolu focuses his evolution energy into the bow, Dark Lucario thinks with a look of shock on his face, 'N-no way! He's sacrificing his evolution privileges just to use this one attack! What the hell is he planning on using?'

Before Riolu's back lands on the ground, he yells out with a serious expression on his face, "It's time to finish you off, dark clone! Penetrate his heart, God's Arrow!"

After Riolu fires the arrow and slams right into the ground, Dark Lucario thinks with a shocked expression on his face as the arrow flies straight towards him at blinding speeds, 'G-God's arrow? It can't be!'

After Dark Lucario positions himself in the upward position and tries to fly straight up, his eyes widen with shock as the arrow pierces through his chest and out of his back.

Dark Lucario coughs up blood as he starts falling straight towards the ground with blood flying out of his wound.

While Dark Lucario slowly falls down towards the ground, Snivy rushes towards the crater that Riolu created after falling from the sky on his back.

When she looked down into the crater, her eyes widen with shock when she sees Riolu standing there with an aura chain forming out of his hand that created the God's Arrow.

Riolu is no longer glowing white after he fired his attack.

He looks up at Snivy with a confident grin on his face and he says, "Snivy… I need you to stall Dark Lucario while I charge up my energy again. I need you to buy me some time, so I can finally deliver the final blow."

Snivy nods her head and she replies, "I'll do whatever I can to help you, Riolu!"

After she faces the direction where Dark Lucario is falling, he recovers from his fall and manages to land on his hands and feet.

As he coughs up blood onto the ground, Snivy thinks with a serious expression on her face, 'Now it's my turn to fight, Riolu! I'll take care of the rest for you!'

As Snivy runs straight towards Dark Lucario, she thinks as she activates her Leaf Blade from the tip of her tail, 'I hope you have some sort of plan to kill this bastard!'

As she runs with her Leaf Blade growing sharper, Dark Lucario slowly gets back up onto his feet with his scythe still in his right hand.

He looks right at Snivy with a serious expression on his face and he yells out, "I shall kill your best friend right before your eyes, Riolu!"

Dark Lucario runs straight towards Snivy with blood still flowing out of his chest hole, not able to regenerate at all.