This would've been up yesterday if I had enough time to write it. And I had a small bout with the demon Obstructo, lord of writer's block.
Bastard.
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Let's see... we left off at the end of Kyuri's dream, in which the legendary Pokemon Suicune summoned her to free The Great Kehrimohr, Legendary Explorer. And no, I'm not going to go on and on about what happened between Kyuri's dream and their arrival in the Northern Wastes. Instead, the first few paragraphs will summarize what happened.
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I own very little of this story, the more I think about it. I own the storyline, Team Alpha, Team Omega, and Kehrimohr... well, mostly. Pokemon is property of GameFreak. All OC's belong to their respective creators. Meh.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: The Eternal Nightmare
Chapter 7: The Northern Wastes
Kyuri's POV
After I woke up, we raced out of the guild to the waterfall Team Alpha was based in. I have to admit, they have good taste in décor. We woke them up and I told Kahrik about my dream. He put up a bit of a fight about gallivanting off over a dream, but Spirit talked him into submitting. In about ten minutes, he gathered the items he needed from Dugtrio's Item Shop and Rhydon's Storage for our journey, and we left for the Northern Wastes.
It took three days to get there. Victor was complaining that he had to walk all the way there. "If we were in our final forms, we could pick you guys up and carry you there." Blah, blah, blah. Walking is good for you. Kahrik quickly silenced him with a blow to the back of the head and a reprimand. At least we didn't have to listen to him the whole way. Victoria was the only one who found him funny.
The Northern Wastes was a vast dungeon with a high wall all around it to keep the heavy snow from destroying everything around it. The doorway was formed by a giant ice arch, built by thousands of Mamoswine and Piloswine ages ago, back when humans still lived in the area. Legends say that the reason humans no longer live here is they enraged the legendary ice Pokemon that lived here, Regice. They tried to destroy his mountain home, and he brought down his full wrath to make them leave. Terrified by the rage of a single Pokemon, they ran away to faraway regions, never to return lest Regice inflict more suffering upon them. Thinking of what happened to them—the humans—makes me feel kind of sad. They were so scared of a Pokemon that they ran away. I wonder if there are Pokemon where they ran away to. I wonder what a human looks like. I've heard they don't have fur, and their ears are on the sides of their heads.
Kahrik led the way through the door. "As soon as we get on the other side, we're in the Northern Wastes. The place is known for powerful Ice Pokemon, so be on guard, guys. One well-aimed Ice Beam and I'll be dragging you all home on a sled. Spirit, Victor, Victoria, and especially you, Kyuri, try to avoid trouble, alright? I don't feel like developing biceps that I'm going to lose when I evolve anyway." He could be a real jerk, but he was right. Being a Ground Pokemon, I wouldn't do well here. I definitely didn't want a repeat of the Southern Wastes. But, at the same time, I didn't want him to think he could push me around. I could take him on if I wanted to.
Now was not the time to let him win. "I did go to school. I know my type alignments. I'm not stupid," I growled in response, walking past him.
"I was offering help, dumb ass. Get off your high horse," he snarled as Victor and Spirit moved out of the way of my team.
"Don't call her that, you prick!" Soul hissed, rearing her head at the lizard.
Kahrik looked at her through sly eyes, curling the corner of his mouth into a sneer. "You really want to ride this train?" he asked, flexing his claws. "You and I both know you can't take me on. Remember our showdown at Poison Woods."
I remembered it. It was before Team Omega joined the guild. Soul, Victoria, and I went there, to prove we could cut it as explorers. But apparently, though Clefable didn't tell us, he sent another team to deter us. Team Alpha was the team we had to take on. They joined a few months before we did, and they had a lot more experience than we did. When they saw how young we were, they refused to battle us. That didn't sit too well with Soul. She thought he meant we were weak, instead of wanting us to have our chance. She called him an insufferable, sexist swine.
By the time Kahrik was finished with her, Audrey had to have her in the hospital for a solid month before she was capable of battling with her. He was stronger than he looked, even as a Charmander. She put up as best a fight as she could, but his Twin Flamethrower technique was out of this world. Soul didn't have anything on him.
Still, the snake was resilient. "I've gotten stronger since our last battle."
I couldn't let this happen. "No. It's my turn." I stepped in the way between her and Kahrik. "You aren't going to beat my partner the way you did last time. I won't let you." I held up my club, ready to fight.
I noticed Spirit start to move forward, but Kahrik motioned for him to stay. "If she wishes to battle me solo, allow her." Then, he stepped forward, loosening the golden band around his head. "So be it." With that, he crouched in a ready stance. "You make the first move. After you lose and we get home, you can be our maid."
That set me over the edge. I tightened my grip on my bone club and charged forward, ready to knock his block off. "ASSHOLE!" I roared as I got within reach, swinging the club around like a baseball bat, trying to connect with his head.
He caught my club with one hand, hardly straining himself to hold me back. Then, he ripped it out of my hand and brought his head down on mine, clenching his jaws around the muzzle of my helmet. He spun around a few times, his teeth scraping the metal, before letting go, sending me flying into my teammates.
As I struggled to get up, he examined the bone. "You know, real Pokemon don't need weapons to use their attacks. Look at you. Why do Cubone wear masks? Are you afraid your faces will scare away any potential mate?" He jeered, tossing the bone in front of me.
"You jerk!" I shouted, grabbing the bone from the ground. Amongst other Cubone, I was already a freak. My club was a metal bar with two rounded spikes on each end. I never knew my mother, so how could I wear her dead skull? My helmet was made by humans, and stolen by Harpazo for when I hatched. The bastard never did anything useful, but he did at least allow me to look like the rest of my species. "Shut up!" I screamed, clenching my teeth and trying not to start crying.
"Oh, poor baby. Let's fight, and I'll show you how real Pokemon do battle!" he snarled, taking a deep breath before firing a Flamethrower right at my head.
Thinking quickly, I rolled out of the way, hiding my eyes so he couldn't blind me with the heat. Kahrik strode over to me and hoisted me up by my tail until my brown eyes met his angry azure orbs. They were in an even angrier glare than was normal for his species, narrow and cold, even though he was a fire Pokemon. Why was he so angry at me?
Before I could protest, he threw me into the air and, while I couldn't dodge, jumped up after me and drove his razor-sharp claws into my back, sending both of us back to the ground. I could feel my warm, earthy red blood oozing from the deep wounds and down my back. Then, while I was incapable of escaping, he darted his head forward and clamped his jaws around the back of my neck, shaking my limp body back and forth like a piece of prey. He wasn't really trying to hurt me—if he was, he would've dug his teeth in deeper. It was like he was trying to teach me a lesson without making me useless for the mission.
After a while, he let go, blood dripping from his mouth. "Never call me an asshole," he whispered in my ear. I could see the bright crimson liquid drops fall from his lips and stain the pure snow directly beneath them. "Nemo me impune lacessit. Latin for no one provokes me with impunity. That's my motto, and one you would do well to remember." Then, he removed his claws from my back. "No one strikes me without punishment."
He backed away, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. As I got to my feet, Soul slithered over, glaring at him while helping me up. "Bastard," she hissed, licking my wounds.
Kahrik turned away and looked at his team members. "Come on, men. We have a cave to find."
"You can't find it without me," I spat, wiping blood away from the back of my neck and packing it with snow. "I'm the one who had the dream."
For a moment, he was silent. Then, he turned his head so I could see his right eye. "Why do you think you're still alive?" My eyes widened when I realized his vendetta. "I'll let you live until you are no longer useful to me. When that last grain of sand falls to the bottom of the hourglass, you'd better watch your back. Cross me, and you die." With that, he and his team strode ahead. "I have no time for weaklings."
"I'm not weak," I answered, tears blurring my vision. "I'm not useless. You put everyone who knows you through hell! Why are you so cruel?"
He stopped in his tracks as the snow started falling, slowly covering up the evidence of our fight. "Cruel?" he turned to me, noticeable pain in his eyes. "You call me cruel?" A long moment of silence passed between the six of us while he mulled over his next sentence. "You haven't seen anything yet, sweetheart. There are Pokemon out there that are a lot worse than me, Pokemon that will kill you with no mercy, as I show," he paused. "Pokemon that will make you watch as they take everything away from you. Hell?" he turned away, staring at his claws before flicking off the blood and striding ahead. "You know nothing of hell."
I couldn't let that go unanswered. I ran ahead, club in hand, and walked alongside him, glaring at him. "At least you knew your parents!" his eyes widened and he stopped his gait. "I never even got to see them!"
He stared at me in disbelief for a moments. "You never knew your parents," he repeated, scratching his chin. After that, he strode forward. "Consider yourself lucky. I watched my mother and foster father get tortured and eventually murdered by Team Ragnarok. That is why I am 'cruel'. I can't afford weakness. I will not stop until I see that damned Honchkrow dead, his partners torn to shreds, and any Pokemon that helped him imprisoned for eternity. Until then, my life is an eternal nightmare."
My team followed behind, neck and neck with his partners. "Team Rapture is responsible for my predicament. I never even got to know my parents. They kidnapped me while I was still an egg. I hatched at their base."
We didn't talk after that. In fact, he almost never opened his mouth after that. He let me lead the way across the landscape I dreamt of, and he did most of the attacking, knocking other Pokemon flat on their asses sometimes before I even knew they were there. After several hours of walking, we reached the frozen cave.
"So this is the place," he murmured, staring at the icy wall between us and the inside of the cave.
Victor flew over to him and glanced at the wall. "Why don't we just melt it and move on?" he asked, ready to use Dragonbreath.
Kahrik reached down and hovered a hand in front of the Dragon Pokemon's face. "We don't know how good the upper support for that wall is. If we melt it without checking first, we could send more snow crashing down on all of us in an avalanche," he replied, pointing up to the top. "Fly up there and test it out. Walk around on the snow above the door."
"I have a better idea," Spirit offered, slithering over to the other side. "How about you just melt a hole big enough for you to fit through? You're the biggest one here that can't fit through a small hole."
The male Charmeleon considered this for a while, then looked over at him. "And that's why you're on the team," he replied, pointing to the long blue and white Pokemon. Then, he stepped forward and took a breath. One Flamethrower later, there was a wide hole in the wall.
What happened next astonished us. The ice actually grew back to cover the hole. For a solid fifteen minutes, we stood staring at the spot the hole was on until Victor broke the silence. "That's not normal."
Kahrik clenched his teeth and snarled. "No ice block is going to best me." He took another deep breath and sent another Flamethrower into the ice. Again, the hole patched itself. He was quiet. "Okay, any other ideas?"
Soul slithered forward. "Kyuri could smash the ice with her club and we could rush in. That might work."
Spirit shot her down immediately. "Great, break the ice and get about halfway through before the ice grows back and cuts you in half. That's the best thing I've heard all day. Shall we?" He shook his head before sliding over to the ice, rubbing his cheek against it. He pulled his head back and watched the ice slowly refreeze the small dent he made. "It works very slowly. Maybe your Twin Flamethrower would work?"
Kahrik nodded, then motioned for him to step aside. He took a deep breath, then rose his arms, slowly lowering them in front of him. After a moment, he jerked his hands back, and blue flames danced across his claws. He drew back his stance, then thrust his fists forward, sending two pillars of fire into the ice. "As soon as I stop, jump through! One! Two!" He stepped forward, "THREE!" As soon as his arms dropped, Spirit, Victor, Soul, and Victoria rushed the entrance, each slipping in before the ice sealed itself again.
He stood there for a moment, staring at me. "There was time for you to get through. Why didn't you go?"
"You first," I replied, glaring at him.
"What, you don't trust me after that fight?"
"I have my reasons."
"You have an inferiority complex."
"Maybe. I still won't trust you."
"If it closes, you have to rely on your club or get out of the way. One Flamethrower will put you in the hospital."
"I'll take my chances."
Silence, then a chuckle. "Very well." He took a deep breath and unleashed a Flamethrower at the ice, melting it and creating his doorway. Instead of cutting off the flames, he ran forward, only closing his mouth when he was close enough to jump through. He made it, and I was about to enter before there was a bark behind me.
I spun around, and there she was. Suicune, the Aurora Pokemon. She strode over, holding her head proudly. "So you answered my call," she said, staring at me with her cool, blue eyes. "Where is your team and Team Alpha?"
"In there," I replied, pointing to the cave.
She shook her head and strode over, sniffing at the wall as the ice closed. "This is the work of a powerful Ice Pokemon. If your friends are in there, it won't be easy to get them back out." She turned to me then, and lowered her head. "I think I might be able to help with getting you in, though. Break the ice with your Bone Club," she instructed me, stepping over to the ice and shaking her mane.
I nodded, then lifted my bone into the air, slamming it as hard as I could into the ice wall. It shattered, and immediately started growing back. But Suicune was a force to be reckoned with. She used Mirror Coat to stop the ice from sealing in. Instead, it grew backwards and widened the hole until Suicune could get in with me. We entered and were met with the stares of my companions.
"Suicune..." Kahrik whispered, inclining his head slightly.
The wolf-like Pokemon strode over to him, holding herself high. "You, Kahrik, need to be more considerate of others. You should treat your friends with more respect, and stop being so arrogant. You may be one of the Chosen Ones, but that does not give you the right to be cold. As a Fire Pokemon, you need to learn to control the two emotions you are known for: love and anger. Apathy is not in your nature."
He seemed surprised that she knew his name, but he lowered his eyes without a word. Then, Suicune turned back to me. "Go forth, Kyuri. Free Kehrimohr."
That got his attention. "Kehrimohr!" He gasped, his head jerking up to meet eyes with the legendary beast. "As in, the Great Kehrimohr?"
"The same."
"Zapdos." Kahrik muttered, turning to see deeper into the cave. He clenched his fists, and his tail flared brightly, lighting the cave up so we could see easily. "Let's go, Team Alpha. We have a Pokemon to find."
He, Spirit, and Victor left without another thought. "You'd better go after them, child," Suicune said, nudging me forward. "Go! Find Kehrimohr!"
I paused, looking back at Suicune. "What kind of Pokemon are we looking for, exactly?"
What she said next amazed me. "Zoroark."
End Chapter 7
Ta-dah! So, now you know what kind of Pokemon The Great Kehrimohr is. Zoroark, the Master of Illusions. And I do have a few questions left unanswered in this chapter! w00t.
How does Suicune know The Great Kehrimohr? What is his relation to Kahrik? What Pokemon created that ice wall, and why? The last few will be answered in the next chapter, actually.
Coming Soon! Chapter 8: The Great Kehrimohr
Still in need of OC's for the other teams.
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Evil Teams in PMD: TEN
Team Ragnarok
Death the Honchkrow
War the Houndoom
Pestilence the Shiftry
Famine the Crawdaunt
Team Rapture
Seraph the Froslass
Harpazo the Gengar
Epiphaneia the Sableye
Parousia the Mismagius
Team Apocalypse
Illiaster the Ampharos
Team Quietus
Dusk the Dusknoir
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