A/N- Ahhhh it so hot! Heatwave over here in south-eastern Australia! Thanks for all your reviews, you're all so awesome :) I have a new story, The Magic Within Us, kind of based off Harry Potter but it's Pokémon instead of magic. If that makes sense. You get what I'm getting at? XD Anyway, please check it out and review!
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This chapter doesn't really have any shipping but it'll come like a tsunami soon hopefully. Pun intended. I'm in a punny mood today XD I'm sure you'll all love the ending on this chapter ;)
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CookiesNCreamNess: XD So close but so far away! They will. Soon. Maybe. I know, I surprised even myself by that. Yay for Ikarishipping! More to come soon! Thank you! Lip gloss. You thought about cherries right? XD Randomness kicking in.
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NO MORE: I'm not sure what you read but I actually put quite a lot of Ikarishipping in there and there's a lot more to come so I'm keeping them in there. I'm using her game counterpart, Leaf, her name in the manga is Blue but I think its Green in the non-Japanese manga. I just like Leaf's character and I want to include Gary. I'll try my best to add more Ikarishipping and there should be Rocketshippping soon, hopefully.
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I highly recommend listening to the songs while reading. Especially the boys' one.
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Chapter Nine: I See Fire
"Auburn! Get Ketchup's friend and follow us!" I shouted from on top of my Rapidash. We were using codenames in front of the girls, we couldn't have them know our real names.
"Got it, Emerald," he replied, steering the Rapidash towards our raven-haired friend. He took Ketchup's friend, taking her hand and pulling her on top the flaming Pokemon. He gave us the signal, following our path.
We carried on riding in silence, through the forests and over a river. Finally, we reached a road where we dismounted the Rapidash. I took Sapphire's friend's hand, helping her down after helping Sapphire herself off the Pokemon.
I turned around to remount, but was stopped by the beautiful sapphire-eyed girl.
"Will I see you again, Emerald?"
I nodded reassuringly. I wasn't sure myself, though. Nevertheless, I said, "You will."
Of course, I would miss her so much that sometime in the future I would go out to find her. We had spent the last few days together, and she didn't deserve to die. In order to stop the assassination, my friends and I made a plan to set them free.
"But how will you remember me?" she asked, a single tear spilling out of her eye.
"Simple. No one has eyes like yours," I replied. It was true, there was no way I would forget those eyes.
Then I mounted my Rapidash, Auburn doing the same. We said our farewells and then rode off, not bearing to look back. The two of us headed back to the gloomy building, punishment befalling us. That place was just an empty building of death.
We arrived, putting our trusty riding Pokemon away. We ran back to the building to see Platinum laying on the floor, motionless with a pool of blood around his shoulder. Ketchup was attempting to hold guards off them with his young Pikachu.
Almost as if on cue, Lysandre appeared. The look on his face was more furious than we had ever seen. We shared a burning hatred for the man.
We knew we were in for torture, maybe even death. But us four had a rule, we were like non-biological brothers. If we laugh, we laugh together, if we cry, we cry together and if we die, we die together. And we did had this idea together so we'd suffer the consequences together.
"I will handle you all one by one," our boss said bluntly, knowing exactly what we had done. He grabbed me by my hair. "You're first."
I didn't protest. I knew we had this coming. He took me to a cell and threw me on the ground and ordered me to take off my shirt. I did as he told. I was kneeled on the ground, my hands tied behind my back and the whip rapidly made its way towards my back.
Drew sat up, sweating heavily. He wiped his brow, wondering why he had just had the terrible dream. Then he realised it wasn't just a dream. It was a memory.
I'll think about it in the morning.
A tall, pretty woman strode into the large office, placing her boss' meal on his desk. She turned to walk away, but stopped. She turned around, narrowing her scarlet eyes which matched her hair.
"Don't you feel that they'll soon remember who those girls really are?"
The man smirked, turning around in his chair. "I do. It will be the ultimate torture for them as I murder their beloved ones in front of their eyes." He paused, laughing. "Or perhaps I'll force them to do it themselves."
The woman's ruby-red eyes widened, and she breathed deeply as she tried to remain her composure. She was fond of the four boys, being the one who had educated and taken care of them as children.
"Isn't that too cruel, sir?"
Lysandre's eyes narrowed, and his expression turned dark. "Cruel?" he began, ridiculing the woman's words. "They're the ones who betrayed me as mere children!"
She frowned, realising there was a loophole. "And what if they refuse?" she asked, her chin lifting slightly.
"Well, that's what this is for."
A tear escaped her eyes as she saw the dreaded object he had raised. A small gasp was heard as she realised what her malicious boss was implying.
"Please, not again…"
The morning sun shone through the large windows, a bunch of contestants already in the kitchen. Only Dawn, Misty, Paul, Ash, Brock, Calem and Lucas were there. Calem and Lucas were chatting, and Brock was making breakfast.
After a silence between the four others, Ash asked Misty for a battle, who gladly agreed. Soon after, the pair left. Of course, while arguing and laughing.
The remaining bluenette tapped on the table awkwardly with her long nails. Her cobalt blue eyes gazed at the plum-head sitting opposite her.
"So, Paul, when's your birthday?"
The said boy's eyes met Dawn's as he raised a brow. "24th of February."
The bubbly blunette grinned brightly, as if she was a child and Christmas had been announced early. "Seriously? That's a day after May's birthday!"
"And your point is?"
"You guys can have a joint birthday party! How cool is that?!"
Paul rolled his eyes, managing to tolerate her continuous chatter for only so long. It took two minutes until he could take it no longer.
"… or you guys can do it at a restaurant, but that would be kinda boring so –"
She yelped, her waterfall of words coming to a halt. Paul had covered her mouth, cutting off her lightning-fast blabbering. He leaned in really close to her face, causing Dawn to blush fiercely. Then, he whispered something in her ear.
"Shut up."
Then, leaving Dawn speechless with embarrassment and anger, he stood up and left.
"I still can't believe how you came up with most of this," May praised as she scanned through the lyrics written in Leaf's neat handwriting.
The other brunette scratched her head, smiling modestly. "It's only because I had the right inspiration, you know?"
Misty, who had been listening carefully, raised an eyebrow. "And what exactly was that inspiration?" she pressed, staring hard into her friend's green eyes.
Leaf looked away, stuck for words. "Uh, er, I was playing video games."
Her orange-haired friend sighed exasperatedly. She knew that no matter how persistent she was, she wasn't going to get an answer from someone as stubborn as Leaf.
Suddenly, the door burst open. The four girls in the room turned to look, and narrowed their eyes at the sight of the 'intruders'. It was Ursula and Melody.
"What do you want?" Dawn asked, suspicious of the two Candies.
Melody held her hand up in the air, as if it proved she was innocent. "No need to be so rude, Dawn. We just came to –"
She was cut off by Ursula, who stuck her nose up in the air. "We were told to give these to you by a mailman. From Lyra, I think," she said as she handed a package to May, who was closest to her.
Leaf's viridian eyes lit up at the mention of her friend. "Lyra?" She stood up, taking the package from May. It was torn open by her hand, and inside was a letter and a big box.
Leaf took the letter in her hands, reading over it and muttering it out loud as she did.
Dear Eye of the Liepard,
You guys are amazing! To go that far, I never would've thought!
Here's a little present I have for you guys, hope you enjoy! I had Silver join me to shop for them. (:
Oh, and Leaf, I'll be waiting for you at the end of the Elite 4.
From your #1 fan,
Lyra
Dawn grinned. "She's so sweet, open the box! The suspense is killing me!"
Leaf rolled her eyes playfully but did as Dawn said. She opened the box to see four amazing microphones with a small note attached to each with a name and a sentence. There was an aqua blue microphone with blue stones all over it and tag with Misty written on it. Leaf smiled and handed it to Misty. Dawn got a hot pink one with pink stones, May got a red one with dark red stones and Leaf got a green one with dark green stones for herself.
"It's so pretty," May said as she admired the rose-red sequenced microphone.
"These are perfect!" Misty announced, grinning widely. "We can use them tonight, and all our other performances to come."
Leaf nodded, turning back to the sheets of music. "We should practise our song one more time, since we're leaving soon –" She stopped, noticing their 'intruders' were still around.
"Why are you two still here?"
"Guys," Drew began, hesitating slightly, "I have something to tell you."
Ash's eyes twinkled in anticipation. "You caught a new Pokemon?
"No, Ash."
"Then what?" Paul asked, raising an eyebrow. Gary was listening intently too.
He ran a hand through his chartreuse hair, pausing. "Last night, I had this dream… it wasn't an ordinary one, though. It was a flashback of when we set them free."
"Coincidence," Paul mused, narrowing his eyes. "I also have had one like that recently."
Ash stuck his hand up in the air. "Me two!"
"Same here," Gary said, looking up from the book he was reading.
Ash's face was filled with concentration. "There has to be a reason why this happened," he said, holding a hand to his chin. "Maybe something triggered it..."
Gary, Drew and even Paul were all surprised that Ash came up with a reasonable statement. Then again, he was a genius in battle.
Paul shook his head, dismissing the thought. "We have to concentrate on our performance tonight, we can think about that later. Staying in this competition and protecting the girls from other assassins is our main priority, until they're kicked out."
"So, what will happen to them when we take them back?" Ash asked quietly.
Gary looked at Drew and Paul curiously. "Yeah, what's gonna happen to them?"
Drew looked over at Paul for an answer since he didn't know either. He sighed. "I don't know. I don't even know why he's making us go after them in the first place, they seem like ordinary girls to me,"
"Maybe it's because they have talent?" Drew asked, doubting the thought himself.
"Doesn't explain why he would need them," Gary said, Ash nodding in approval.
Paul sighed and grabbed his guitar, he wanted to drop the subject. He didn't like remembering he had to take Dawn to the horrible man, despite how annoying she could be sometimes.
"Drop it. Let's go practice now."
Later that night...
"You don't know about me, but I'll bet you want to! Everything will be all right, we just keep dancing like we're; twenty-two-oo-oo," the girls heard Serena sing from on stage. The crowd seemed to be loving it.
Misty, Dawn and May were enjoying the performance, standing up and watching it. However, Leaf was tensed, not bothering to watch.
Her orange-haired friend turned to glance at her, noticing something was wrong. Misty turned away, taking a seat next to her distressed bandmate.
"What's wrong? You look stressed."
"I'm not worried about the performance," Leaf replied, sighing. "It's the song."
Misty frowned, folding her arms. "What do you mean –"
"Eye of the Liepard, you're next," a lady with a earpiece and clipboard said, ushering the girls.
Luckily for the brunette, she had no time to be interrogated as they had to hurry onto the stage.
"Next up, your favourite new girl band, Eye of the Liepard!" Dexter, the MC, announced as the girls walked up from the sides of the stage and took their places.
Dawn, May, Misty and Leaf exchanged looks and the lights dimmed and the music started, white spotlight on each of the girls. (A/N Battlefield, Jordin Sparks)
Leaf clutched her bedazzled microphone tightly started her solo. "Don't try to explain your mind I know what's happened here. One minute it's love and suddenly it's like a battle-field." Her lyrics came straight from the heart.
"One word turns into a, why is it the smallest things that tear us down? My world's nothing when you're gone, I'm out here without a shield."
She softly shut her eyes. "Can't go back now."
Misty walked up beside her, the spotlight following. "Both hands tied behind my back for nothing. Oh no, these times when we climb so fast to fall again-" she clutched her microphone tightly,"Why we gotta fall for it now!?"
"I never meant to start war, you know I never wanna hurt you! Don't even know what we're fighting for," the four girls sang together.
"Why does love always feel like a battlefield, a battlefield, a battlefield? Why does love always feel like a battlefield, a battlefield, a battlefield?"
"Can't swallow our pride, neither of us wanna raise that flag. If we can't surrender, then we both gonna lose what we had, oh no."
Dawn took a small step forward. "Both hands tied behind my back with nothing. Oh no, these times when we climb so fast to fall again-" she shut her eyes momentarily, "-I don't wanna fall for it now!"
Eye of the Liepard repeated the chorus, yellow and red spotlights dancing around the stage.
"I never meant to start war, you know I never wanna hurt you! Don't even know what we're fighting for!"
"Why does love always feel like a battlefield, a battlefield, a battlefield? Why does love always feel like a battlefield, a battlefield, a battlefield?"
"I guess you better go and get your armour."
"Get your armour," they sang, repeating it several times.
"We could pretend that we are friends tonight," Leaf started.
"And in the morning we'll wake up and we'll be alright," May sang.
"Cause baby we don't have to fight," Dawn followed.
"And I don't want this love to feel like-" Misty finished.
"A battlefield (oh), a battlefield (oh), a battlefield, why does love always feel like a battlefield (oh), a battlefield (oh), a battlefield," Dawn sang, solo.
"Guess you better go and get your armour," Misty and May belted out.
"I never meant to start war, you know I never wanna hurt you, don't even know what we're fighting for," they sang together powerfully.
"Why does love always feel like a battlefield, a battlefield, a battlefield? Why does love always feel like a battlefield, a battlefield, a battlefield?"
"Guess you better go and get your armour!" Leaf and Dawn sang together powerfully.
The girls finished off their performance perfectly, the crowd going wild at the end. The girls were panting from singing so hard.
Dexter walked onto the stage as the crowd started to simmer down, "Amazing! You girls are really setting the standards high for this show, now lets see what the judges have to say about this."
Valerie smiled warmly, giving a nod. "You showed us a different side from your last performance, you went from playful and happy to serious and heartbroken. Truly amazing!"
"I agree with Valerie completely!" Ramos exclaimed, chuckling. "I'm getting the idea that your next performance will give us more of a surprise!"
Korrina grinned. "That was so like, fabulous! You girls are awe-some!" She stuck her thumb up and the crowd went wild again.
"Thank you for that girls, if you want to vote for Eye of the Liepard, text E-O-T-L to the number shown on your screen," the MC announced as the performance ceased.
Ash gulped as he heard saw the lady with the clipboard calling them, "Guys lets go, we're next,"
Drew noticed Gary's head was in clouds and whacked him on the head, snapping him out of his trance. Paul picked up his guitar and headed towards the side of the stage. the others following.
The girls in the audience were going wild as they walked on the stage, Paul sat on a low stool and started strumming his guitar as the crowd simmered down, the rest of the boys standing. (A/N I See Fire, Ed Sheeren. Skipped the first verse)
Paul started strumming his guitar, Gary and Ash started singing softly.
"If this is to end in fire, then we shall all burn together, watch the flames climb high into the night."
"Calling out father, stand by and we will, watch the flames burn auburn on the mountain side, high."
Paul and Drew started singing as Gary and Ash went quiet, "And if we should die tonight, then we should all die together, raise a glass of wine, for the last time,"
"Calling out father, prepare as we will, watch the flames burn auburn on the mountain side."
"Desolation comes upon the sky."
They all shut their eyes softly, singing together, "Now I see fire, inside the mountain, I see fire, burning the trees."
"And I see fire, hollowing souls, I see fire, blood in the breeze."
"And I hope that you'll remember me."
The four boys sang the next verse, the audience was mesmerised by Paul's guitar and their soft voices and eventually reached the chorus again;
"Now I see fire, inside the mountain, I see fire, burning the trees," they sang together once more, this time a bit louder.
"And I see fire, hollowing souls, I see fire, blood in the breeze."
"And I hope that you'll remember me."
Paul's strumming and their singing got a lot stronger.
"If we cry, we cry together,"
"And if the night is burning, I will cover my eyes,"
"If we laugh, we laugh together,"
"- for if the dark returns then, my brothers will die."
"-and if we die, we die together."
"And as the sky's falling down, it crashed into this lonely town."
"That place was just an empty place of death."
"And with that shadow upon the ground, I hear my people screaming out,"
"We all shared a burning hatred for the man."
"And I see fire, inside the mountains," they sang together, powerfully.
"I see fire, burning the trees, I see fire, hollowing souls."
"I see fire, blood in the breeze."
Their expressions were serious as they sang in perfect sync, all four remembering memories they tried to forget so many times.
The look on all of their faces were serious, like they were remembering something bad.
"I see fire."
"Oh you know I saw a city burning," Paul belted, loud and clear.
"I see fire."
"Feel the heat upon my skin," Drew followed.
"And I see fire."
"And I see fire burn auburn on the mountain side," Gary and Ash finished, the music and strumming ceasing.
The audience was silent for a few seconds but then burst into wild applause and cheers.
Ghost of the Night looked around at themselves and smiled, they were starting to enjoy singing. Even Paul.
"That was truly amazing! It seemed like you boys were trying to tell us a story. Where did you get these amazing lyrics from?" The MC asked, holding the microphone up to Ash.
"Now, let's do it!"
A hot pink-haired woman whined, pouting. "But Meowth, we haven't performed yet!"
"We aren't here for 'dat," the talking cat-Pokemon snapped, glaring. "Let's get em' while da guys are distracted, 'dat MC might go on forever!"
The man with lavender blue hair nodded, agreeing with the small feline Pokemon. "He's right, Jessie! Let's go!"
Jessie sighed, rolling her eyes. "Whatever. Let's go get those twerpettes, I'll give them an extra-hard time for ruining my time to shine and –"
"Go, Weezing!" James yelled, cutting off his female companion. The pokeball released a large, purple gas Pokemon. "Now, use smokescreen!"
Everyone in the waiting room turned around, alarmed by Weezing's thick black smokescreen. It was making it extremely difficult for everyone to see and breathe."
Misty was coughing uncontrollably, not being able to speak. "What's - *cough*- going on here? Leaf, May, Daw-" She couldn't finish her sentence as she collapsed onto the floor, her air supply gone.
Eye of the Liepard were coughing and trying to find their way out like everyone else but they were engulfed in sleep powder by the unknown assassins, collapsing on the ground in the chaotic room.
They soon were dragged away, only Serena managed to catch a glimpse of Meowth's tail through the thick smoke.
Paul was getting tired of the questions, an annoyed expression on his face. He narrowed his eyes when suddenly, Dexter stopped talking as he touched his earpiece and frowned.
The disturbed MC put on a fake smile as he turned to the cameras. "Thanks for that, Ghost of the Night. To vote for them, send G-O-T-N to the number shown on your screen. We'll be right back, after this short break," he said hastily, rushing through his sentence.
Dexter put on a fake smile. "Thanks for that, Ghost of the Night, to vote for them send G-O-T-N to the number shown on your screen. We'll be right back, after this short break!" he said hastily.
The camera's stopped filming the live show and Dexter spoke up loudly. "There's been a problem in the waiting room, we advise everyone to stay calm. Evacuation will begin shortly, and please exit in an orderly fashion."
The plum-haired boy's eyes widened, and he turned to look around at the boys. "Let's go," he said grimly, ushering the others to follow.
They entered the room, scanning it thoroughly. The fire brigade was called in case of a fire, and they were handling clearing the smoke.
Serena was frantic. She babbled on uncontrollably, so fast that no one could understand her.
Calem put his hands on her shoulders, staring into her eyes. "Serena, calm down. What's wrong?"
The honey-blonde looked at him, taking a deep breath. "They got the girls, they got Eye of the Liepard!"
Ash immediately turned around, narrowing his eyes. Eavesdropping came to him naturally, he was an assassin after all. "Who got Eye of the Liepard?"
"I'm not sure, there was this sparkly glittery stuff thrown on them and it stood out in the smoke," she began, not taking a breath between her words. "All I was a Meowth's tail." She sighed, rubbing her head. She turned around and walked away with Calem to report the incident to the police.
Ash's face scrunched up in concentration. "Sparkly glitter that made the girls collapse?" he asked no one in particular. "Sounds like a Butterfree's Sleep Powder."
"And a Meowth? Didn't Jessie and James having a talking Meowth?" Gary added, narrowing his eyes.
Drew nodded, smirking because he had the answer. "It was obviously them. Other than the girls, they're the only contestants that aren't here."
Paul turned away, and punched the wall. "Damn it! We let them get away!"
Ash patted the frustrated assassin's back. He shook his head, grinning because he had plan.
"No, we can still find them. I have an idea, so listen up guys..."
A/N- Whew, the songs took me ages to write up. I kind of ended with a cliffhanger, hehe sorry bout' that. The reason why I skipped a verse or chorus is because it felt like it made it too long and I wasn't bothered to write it because it takes ages. And fanfiction was being dodgy and I wrote up like the whole song and everything and saved it and it didn't save and just went to an error page. I write on this, not on Word, lol. Gosh I was so annoyed XD
Another thing, just because Drew had a flashback dream (A fleam? A dreshback? I'm actually being serious, a fleam or a dreshback, what should I call them? XD) doesn't mean the other boys will have one and stuff. They all had it on the same night as you can just read. They might have more flashbacks throughout the story though XD
Ketchup :') That codename made me chuckle. I bet you can all guess who he is haha!
So you know, I have an announcement. After this story is done, I plan to do I sequel due to something at the end with one of the "shippings". It depends if I can get the idea right. Thoughts on a sequel?
More Oldrivalshipping and Pokeshipping on the way! :)
I told you this before but just in case you didn't see it, check out my new Harry Potter-inspired-story, The Magic Within Us (it's still Pokémon).
Thanks again for all your reviews, I accept suggestions just as long as they're not really Farfetch'd (Pun intended, duh XD)