Chapter 30: Spirit of Death

Servine is on her right foot and knee on the coliseum ground, placing her left hand on her right shoulder.

She looks down at her right shoulder and sees the cut mark of Mienshao's scythe; meager amounts of blood trickling from the wound.

Mienshao is standing fifty feet away from Servine, resting her scythe on her shoulders.

As the blades of her scythe are pointing down at the ground with Servine's blood dripping from it, she says with a serious expression on her face, "Didn't you listen to Lucario's words? You weren't keeping your guard up that well…"

Servine looks up at Mienshao with a serious expression in her eyes and she says with a smirk on her face, "You're the one who's keeping your guard down!"

After Servine says that, the real Servine instantly appears behind Mienshao like a ghost and swings her Leaf Blade tail towards Mienshao's waist.

Mienshao looks back with a shocked expression on her face and she quickly jumps up high into the air.

But Servine makes contact with Mienshao's right ankle.

After the real Servine disappears into thin air like a ghost and reappears right next to her injured self, Mienshao looks down at the two Servine's with a serious expression on her face and she sees the injured Servine disappear like a shadow.

After Mienshao lands back on her feet fifty feet away from Servine, she thinks as her ankle wound starts to bleed slightly, 'How interesting… so she knows how to create clones, huh?'

Mienshao tightens her grip on her scythe and she says to Servine, "Let's see if you can pull that rick off again!"

Servine says as white aura starts to grow out of her Heaven Gloves, "I'll give you more than that!"

Mienshao watches as the white aura flowing out of Servine's gloves forms into a two-bladed scythe.

As Servine tightens her grip on her scythe, Mienshao thinks with an intrigued look on her face, 'Interesting… so she's wields a scythe as well, huh?'

Mienshao points the end of her scythe as Servine and she says, "That's a nice looking scythe, but how do you think it'll handle against the Grim Reaper's scythe?"

Servine says with a serious question on her face, "There's something I do not quite understand about you, Mienshao."

Mienshao asks, "What do you mean?"

Servine replies while Mienshao keeps her scythe pointing at Servine, "The stories I've heard from Lucario about you… the fact that you were taken hostage by Darkdeath. I don't get why you're helping Darkdeath and his allies after everything they have possibly done to you…"

Mienshao closes her eyes as she recalls the torture Darkrai and Dark Riolu put her through when she was a Mienfoo and when Riolu and Zorua escaped.

After she opens her eyes, relieving herself of the memories, she replies with a serious expression on her face, "You have no idea what kinds of tortures I've been through."

Anger rushes out of her and she yells out as she positions her scythe into the attack position, "There's no way you could possibly understand the type of tortures I had to endure!"

Mienshao rushes straight towards Servine with a murderous expression on her face.

As Mienshao runs straight towards Servine, she continues to yell out with a murderous look on her face, "I won't let anyone take Zoroark away from me! Not after what I've been through!"

As Mienshao swings her scythe down towards Servine's head, Servine quickly jumps out of the way and lands on her feet ten feet away from the swinging scythe.

After she lands on her feet, she quickly switches to the defensive position as Mienshao pulls her scythe out of the ground and runs straight towards Servine.

As Servine jumps back continuously away from Mienshao's fury filled swings, Servine thins with a serious expression in her eyes, 'Whatever they put her through, it must have been pure hell.'

After Servine lands on her feet, she disappears into thin air like a ghost; Mienshao swinging her scythe furiously where Servine was.

Mienshao calms herself down instantly and she thinks with a serious expression in her eyes, 'I have to calm down… I shouldn't let my anger get the best of me.'

When Mienshao looked back, she sees Servine running straight towards her. But when she looked to her left and right, she sees two more Servine coming her way.

Mienshao looks back at the first Servine and she says with a serious expression on her face, "You know how to use your attacks quickly. I guess I should have expected as much…"

Mienshao closes her eyes and she says with a confident look in her eyes, "But let's see how long this trick of yours lasts!"

After Mienshao opened her eyes, an explosion of black aura rips out of her body; the shockwaves of the black aura pushing the three Servine's back through the air in a spiral.

After all three Servine landed on the ground and two of them disappeared, Servine thinks as her eyes are shut, holding in her pain, 'What the hell was that?'

When she opened her eyes and looked directly at Mienshao, her eyes widen with shock as she sees the black aura flowing out of her body like a giant fire.

Mienshao glares down at Servine with a murderous look on her face and she says in the demon language, "Say your prayers, Servine…"

Mienshao finishes as she points the tip of her scythe at Servine, "…for you are going to die from by blade!"

After Servine quickly gets back up on her feet, Mienshao instantly reappears right in front of her and swings her scythe down towards the top of Servine's head.

Servine quickly blocks Mienshao's scythe with her own scythe, trying to hold the attack up as Mienshao tries to push down.

As Servine tries to hold up Mienshao's attack, Mienshao says with a serious expression on her face in the demon language, "It's no use, Servine…"

While Servine holds up Mienshao's attack, Lucario and Zoroark are fighting in midair, clashing and disappearing again and again with Night Slash and Aura Blade in play. With each clash of their attacks, they disappear into thin air and reappear again, clashing with each of their attacks.

As they continue to clash each of their attacks, an explosion of gray aura rips through the sky within the dome, increasing the dome's strength as it absorbs the shockwaves.

After Zoroark and Lucario clash again, Zoroark says with a serious expression on his face, "I've been looking forward for this day to come, Lucario!"

After they both disappeared and clashed again in another random area, Lucario says with a serious expression on his face, "Zoroark, why are you doing this?"

After they both disappeared and clashes again in another area, Zoroark says with a demon like grin on his face, "Why? It's because you're still here, breathing and living!"

Zoroark slowly starts to push Lucario's arms back as he says, "You breathing right in front of me is pissing me off, Lucario!"

Sweat rolls down Lucario's face as he tries to push Zoroark's arms back.

After they both disappeared into thin air and reappeared in another random area in the sky, Lucario yells out with an angry expression in his eyes, "Open your eyes, Zoroark! Don't you see what Darkdeath has done to you?"

After they disappeared and clashed again for the last time, Zoroark yells out with a serious expression on his face, "Of course I do, Lucario! But I've got a reason!"

Zoroark pushes Lucario back through the air with all his strength, sending Lucario flying straight towards the dome wall. He stops in midair before hitting the dome.

As he kneels down on his left knee and right hand, he thinks as he looks directly at Zoroark with a serious expression on his face, 'Zoroark… it seems as though you have closed your eyes and have fallen into the darkness of Hell.'

After Lucario disappears and attacks Zoroark head on, he yells out with a serious expression on his face, "Open your eyes, Zoroark!"

Zoroark's eyes widen with shock as Lucario tackles right into him, sending them both flying straight towards the other side of the dome.

As they both fly toward the dome, Zoroark says with a malevolent grin on his face, "I know everything about the spirit blades, Lucario!"

Before Lucario could slam Zoroark against the dome wall, an explosion of black lightning aura explodes out of Zoroark's body.

Lucario has a serious expression on his face as he says, "So it's going to be like that, huh? Well then…"

An explosion of white fire aura erupts out of Lucario's body as he yells out, "Two can play at that game!"

As Lucario and Zoroark pushed each other back and forth in the air, Servine is still holding her ground underneath Mienshao's scythe.

Sweat rolls down Servine's face as she thinks, 'I can't keep this up much longer. If I don't find a way out of this soon…'

Before she could finish her thought, Mienshao yells out in the demon language, "Awaken angle of death, and strike Servine down!"

As the black aura forming out of Mienshao increases in size and power, Servine thinks as she feels her legs slowly giving in, 'Did her power just increase?'

As Servine continues to stand her ground, Mienshao's body is covered with black armor, shielding her visibility.

Mienshao yells out like a demon, "It's time for you to die already, Servine!"

After Mienshao's body became visible again, Servine has a shocked expression on her face as she sees Mienshao in the Grim Reaper's cloak with the hood up over her head.

Mienshao yells out in her same demon language, "It's time to put an end to this damned battle!"

As Mienshao's scythe began to slowly cut through the shaft of Servine's scythe, Servine thinks with a look of concern on her face, 'I've got to make this next move count!'

After she closes her eyes, she creates nine clones using her Double Team move; the nine clones surround Mienshao and the real Servine in a circle.

As all nine Servine clones ran straight towards the middle, Mienshao says with literal black fire forming out of her eyes in the demon language, "It's useless, Servine! No matter how many of you there are, your destiny is still the same!"

Mienshao successfully slices right through the shaft of Servine's shaft; the tips of the blades making contact with Servine's right shoulder.

Servine screams in pure agony as the bottom blade digs right into her right shoulder; her blood splattering through the air and onto the ground.

After the blade makes contact with Servine's right shoulder, the nine clones yell out with serious expressions on their faces, "You son of a…!"

Before they could finish their sentences, Mienshao forcefully pulls out her scythe from Servine's shoulder and she spins around like a top after Servine's main body falls onto her stomach.

The scythe slices right through all nine clones, causing their blood to spray all over the place as they disappear into thin air.

After Mienshao stops spinning, she looks down at the bleeding Servine with a serious expression in her burning eyes.

As she rests her scythe on her shoulders; Servine's blood dripping from the blades, Mienshao says with a murderous grin on her face, "It's all over for you, Servine…"

As Mienshao lifts her scythe into the air with the tips of the blades pointing up at the sky, Lucario looks down at Servine with a look of shock on his face and he yells out, "Servine, NO!"

As Mienshao starts to swing her scythe down straight towards the back of Servine's head, two figures form out of Mienshao's black aura.

The two figures grabbed a hold of Mienshao's scythe and held it up in the air.

Mienshao has a shocked expression on her face as she asks in the demon language, "What the hell is this?"

When Servine slowly opened her eyes and looked up at the two figures, her eyes widen with shock when she realizes that they are Audino and Maractus; the real Audino and Maractus.

Mienshao looks at Audino and Maractus with a murderous expression on her face and she asks in the demon tone, "What is the meaning of this? How the hell did you two come back?"

Maractus looks right into Mienshao's eyes with a serious expression on hers and she says, "We're not going to allow you to go any further, Mienshao! You are no longer the same Mienfoo we used to know!"

Maractus says with a serious expression on her face, "Besides, where do you think you got all that power from?"

Mienshao's eyes widen with shock as she recalls the time Darkrai destroyed the living dead bodies of Audino and Maractus during his training with Zoroark.

Audino looks right at Maractus with a serious expression on her face and she says, "You take care of holding Mienshao down,"

Audino looks down at the wounded Servine as she finishes, "I'm going to take care of Servine's wound!"

Mienshao looks right at Audino with a serious expression on her face and she says in the demon language, "When I get my hands on the both of you, I'm going to make you suffer a slow and agonizing death!"

After Audino let's go of the scythe and rushes to Servine's side, Maractus quickly summons vines out of the ground and she wraps them around Mienshao's waits, legs, and arms, tying them all together and tangling her up.

As Maractus holds Mienshao down, Audino quickly puts her palms over Servine's right shoulder and uses her Heal Pulse.

As pink aura radiates from her hands into Servine's shoulder, Servine asks with a weak expression on her face, "Wh-why are you helping me…?"

Audino looks down at Servine's face with a cheerful smile on her face and she replies, "Because you're the only one that can open Mienshao's eyes to the truth before her."

Servine has a confused expression on her face as she asks, "What do you mean?"

As Audino heals Servine's wounds, Zoroark looks down at Audino, Maractus, and Mienshao with a serious expression on his face and he says, "Well what do you know… so those two managed to survive Lord Darkdeath's attack."

Lucario looks down at Audino and Maractus with a confident grin on his face and he thinks, 'It seems as though their spirits were able to escape into Mienfoo's aura, just before she evolved. Glad they're on our side in this fight.'

As Zoroark looks down at Mienshao, he thinks with a murderous expression on his face, 'You damned fool… how could you let yourself get captured like this?'

As Lucario looks right at Zoroark with a serious expression on his face, Zoroark yells out with an angered expression on his face, "Mienshao… you son of a…!"

Zoroark disappears like a ghost, causing Lucario to lose his footing in midair.

As Lucario regains his footing and looks straight down at the coliseum floor, his eyes widen with shock as he sees Zoroark reappear right behind the captive Mienshao; stabbing her though the heart with his electrified Night Slash.

As the tip of the Nigh Slash sticks out of Mienshao's chest, she coughs up a lot of blood onto the vines and ground, her eyes widening with shock and disbelief.

Maractus looks right at Zoroark with a shocked expression on her face and she thinks, 'Th-that's impossible!'

Audino looks back at Mienshao with a shocked expression on her face and she thinks as she sees the electricity from the Night Slash burning Mienshao's skin, 'Did Zoroark just kill Mienshao?'

When Mienshao turned her head back slowly as blood came rolling down from the corners of her mouth, she asks with a weak look on her face, "Zoroark… why…?"

As Zoroark twists his arm in her chest like a key, causing Mienshao to scream in agony, he says with a murderous expression on his face, "It's because you failed me, Mienshao."

After Zoroark pulls out his right arm from Mienshao's chest, her body falls over face down in the tangled vines and roots.

As he blood pools out from underneath her, Lucario yells out as he flies down straight towards Zoroark, "Zoroark, you damned bastard!"

As Lucario flies down closer towards the ground, he hears Reshiram say in his head, "It's almost time, Lucario! Servine's…!"

Lucario blocks out Reshiram's voice as he picks up his speed down towards Zoroark, trying to beat him to the downed Servine.

After Mienshao died completely, Maractus and Audino began to disappear into thin air.

Audino says with a concerned expression on her face, "Get up, Servine! Get up before it's too late!"

After Audino disappears into thin air along with Maractus, Zoroark is standing in front of Servine's head, aiming the tip of his right Nigh Slash at the black of Servine's heart.

As Zoroark took aim, Lucario yells out, "Servine, get up!"

But it was too late, for Zoroark has stabbed Servine through the back and through her heart.

As Zoroark pulls out his arm from Servine's chest; blood pooling from underneath her body, Lucario yells out with a look of shock on his face, "Servine, NO!"