Guardian Solaris
Gets a bit graphic in this chapter.
Chapter 26- Lavender Flames
"WAKE UP!"The rocketing noise shot through her ears, Serena bolted up. A Roar met her ears, her eyes found the blinding light of a bolt of lightning. "GET UP" She looked to her side to find Max beside her.
"What?" she said, as another roar silenced her.
"JUST RUN" he called grabbing the girl and pulling her up to her feet. But Serena was somewhere else all the while, dizzy from her time asleep.
Fire and Brimstone was what greeted her eyes. A bird cawing in the air above her, then silence. Slowly a single monotonous noise pierced through the silence.
"R-R-R- Regggiii" a yellow beam, blinding light. Something pushed down to the ground, as Serena felt warmer than she ever had. Fire was everywhere, dancing around her feet, daring to consume her.
She was pulled up once more, as a supporting arm picked her up, and ran pulling the young girl alongside.
"Run Run Run!" It cried, Max was close behind, Pikachu also running. A face on the floor and a Large Pokémon Standing in the background, throwing a child aside as it put its hands together.
Silence came about once more, until the atmosphere was filled with one call, "REGGGIII" as another great beam headed towards them, growing brighter and brighter, closer and closer.
"RUN!" Serena shouted but found that no one heard her as it struck. Everything rushed, as Serena felt pain coming from all corners of her body, the fire burning her skin, the smoke clogging up her lungs. Turning to her side, she found the very person that was carrying her, dust and ashes sticking to the side of his face.
Everything became a blur as they ran for their lives, explosions sounding out behind them, allowing the flame of panic to grow even larger than it already was.
"REGI" the Pokémon ordered as several more beams came flying towards Ash and the group, they quickly turned the corner, avoiding the attack. The road underneath them rattled from the power of the combined attack. The ground was littered with odd shapes, but Serena had no time to see what they were as they continued to run. More people ran all around, their screams drowned out by the roars of the flames.
To the right of the street a building collapsed, as the flames burst up, and golden ashes bust open around the area. A Pokémon let out an in audible cry from the wreckage of the building; people now began to run away from the creature that would make their deaths certain if they stayed.
"Guys." Max said, "there's only one of them, if we can take it out."
As everybody readied a Pokémon for battle. Although Serena was clueless as to what was going on, she still took out her Wartortle.
Noticing their trainers' attitudes, and the epic change the town had taken the Pokémon readied themselves for battle. Their foe still hidden in the flames launched a hyper beam without hesitation towards the new arrivals. "Thunderbolt" Ash ordered as Pikachu quickly negated the hyper beam in mid air.
Serena took a quick glance to the small Pokémon, noticing its usually bright yellow fur had become a dull grey, the camouflage making it almost invisible to casual passerbies. "Pika!" the yellow Pokémon said in defiance of his unknown opponent, knowing that they had the advantage of numbers here.
"Max is right" Ash said, "Now on three, we all attack at once" Serena and her new found friends tensed to turn the tide of what has been a one sided battle. "3, 2." He counted.
"Regiii" came the roar, as they all turned and saw the outline of the Regi in the distance. Everything became silent as one after another more and more outlines of hostile Pokémon appeared besides their commander.
The Regi lifted up an arm and commanded, "REGI, REG" As the dull caw of Skarmory could be heard in the distance, gradually overtaking the sounds of the roaring flames. Suddenly something swooped down, as May collapsed, Ash couldn't blink before Max was lifted off of the ground and crashed down once more, Mays brother screamed after his landing, crawling away from where he crashed, after witnessing something horrific.
More noises came like daggers flying through the air from all around, Ash felt strange, dizzy, as he and the others began to look around in panic wondering what was going on. The smoke began to blow into their faces, they began to cover their faces from the burning air. The sounds from all around became louder, and more co-ordinated, wave after wave of noise than silence fell once more, than one single noise pierced through the air .
"REGI" he roared, as the ground shook, buildings crumbled, the blazing red of the flames was overtaken by a bright golden light growing brighter and brighter, increasing in intensity. Then all became black.
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Waking up from his drop Ash felt something wet underneath of him, everything was fuzzy, slowly he focused as he saw everything on fire, then his ears decided to wake up. Screaming, everywhere, a roaring inferno. Roaring Pokémon Everywhere, somewhere, he got up, slowly feeling the soft ground. He double checked looking at the ground and finding a pair of eyes of a young girl.
"Serena" he said in a whisper. Picking himself up, looking into her illuminated face to find that she had her face covered with blood, motionless. "No" he muttered. Slowly he picked up her head off the ground to find locks of dark black hair fall. He sighed, finding that it was someone else who had died was some small victory, in a strange way.
The trainer dropped the girls head to the ground, not really bothering much more about the dead child; he had to think about himself now.
"Pikachu?" he called out even though his voice became drowned out by other screams and roars much more desperate and ferocious than his own. He figured that the explosion must have separated the group, or at least that's what he hoped. Ash quickly checked his Pokéballs, ensuring that they were still all upon his person, even if Pikachu is... somewhere, he hoped with the rest of his friends.
"Typhlosion" he called out as his Pokémon released itself from its Pokéballs. The fire type quickly surveyed its surroundings, feeling the intense heat around it seemed to reinvigorate the fire type.
"Phlosion" he said ready for battle, noticing the drastic change that had been made to his trainers face. The ash that stuck to it, blood that mixed with that Ash to make a strange mixture of things. His eyes one of the only recognisable feature upon him.
"Glalie" said a hostile Pokémon as it turned a corner to meet the face of the fire type.
'An Ice type should be a clear victory' Ash thought. As the ice type floated, seemingly unfazed by its surroundings that would have already weakened it, let alone the fact that it would be facing Ash's reinvigorated Typhlosion, fresh from his Pokéball.
"Gla- lee" it said in a low tone, barely heard by Ash. The Pokémon floated as it put up an intimidating glare unto Typhlosion. Neither side made a move, until Typhlosion became bored of dragging out what should be a simple straight forward battle for longer than it should take.
The fire type launched an Ember attack, to test out his opponent, as the attack hit head on. Glalie hit the ground as a result, feeling the searing pain of the burns just inflicted onto it. The hostile Pokémon got up, the portion of the Pokémon that hit the ground covered in a thick ash, the burn marks from the relatively weak attack covered in the ashes to make the Glalie look even more intimidating than it already had been.
"Easy, not as strong as the others" Ash said filled with some confidence, than the buildings on either side of Typhlosion collapsed as two giant spheres, clouded in smoke and fire burst out like cannons, slamming into Typhlosion. The two spheres exploding once they made contact, knocking Ash off of his feet. In an instant the trainer got up to find two Golem on either side of the now fainted and scarred fire type. They kicked Typhlosion repeatedly, grabbing the already scarred Pokémon as they tore his fur off. Typhlosion let out a weak squeal, as he was brutally assaulted by the two hostile Pokémon.
Ash returned the fire type in an instant as the two Golem and the Glalie formed a line looking directly at the trainer. Silently staring for him to make his move.
"Right, just one thing to do." He said, touching three of his Pokéballs as his Meganium, Feraligatr, and Kabutops appeared in a flash of red light.
Their opponents roared out in unison although Ash's trio were unmoved.
"Tops", Kabutops said to the others, keeping a calm demeanour. Meganium moved to the side, as did Feraligatr. Their opponents did the same thing with the Golem on either side.
In the blink of an eye Kabutops began to glow a bright white as he sped towards the Glalie stopping right in front of the Ice type, as he returned to his normal colour wind blowing all around of Kabutops. His scythe shone a dark black as Ash commanded, "Night Slash" Kabutops slashed and slashed unrelentingly as Glalie fainted, but Kabutops continued with the attack making sure that the Ice type wouldn't fake its state, wake up and make a sneak attack from behind.
The Golem seeing the trouble their comrade was having rushed in to sandwich Kabutops from either side, but Ash saw ahead of their plan, "Razor Leak, Hydro Pump" he ordered as the two super effective attacks struck their targets, everything was going well as Kabutops finished with his prey.
But as quickly as things turned around they returned to the way they originally were once more, a bright beam struck Kabutops, sending the already occupied Pokémon reeling back from the shock.
Ash saw an all too familiar silhouette in the distance, a Regi, although which one it was unknown to the trainer. The familiar monotonous tone of the Pokémon's cry filled the air, silencing all other noises, "Regiiiii" it called. Stopped only with the sounds of two explosions, Ash saw both his Pokémon who were in battle being beaten by the Golem who then took it onto their hands to repeatedly beat them into the ground, probably overcome after they were distracted by the Regi. Ash returned them, as Kabutops returned in front of his trainer.
The pair of Trainer and Pokémon slowly walked back, knowing that they were outnumbered and possibly outclassed by the legendary Pokémon. More silhouettes in the red hue of Lavenders flames appeared, standing besides the Regis imposing figure. "Looks a bit hopeless don't it" Ash muttered to his Pokémon, although it seemed as if it had not heard its trainer. "You can still run." He said, but Kabutops held his ground in front of his trainer, arms out ready to protect the human with his last breath.
"Well, there is another option. "Ash muttered, seeing a Froslass rush out of the smoke to the Glalie, check that it was alright and carry it behind the front line. "Let's trust that he'll help us, and not join them" Ash said as He took out a black Pokéball, "Kabutops do you want to stay in the fight?" he asked as the Ancient Pokémon nodded, "right, come on out" the trainer called out as he threw the Pitch Black Pokéball, a black beam of energy came out, forming a head, body, tail, wings as the beast emerged from its Pokéball, seemingly healed from its previous battle with Marcus.
It roared around as buildings all around collapsed, sending bright sparks flying into the air, and its call pierced through the air as Ash could see the Regi in the distance move back at the sight of the beast.
"Now let's hope that Serena and Pikachu are with May" he said, climbing on top of A'Drith, Kabutops chose to take the awkward approach of taking the vantage point just behind of the dragons head, irritating it slightly, but it otherwise remained fine. "Buddy."Ash said a word he hadn't said in a while as he got an odd look from the dragon. "Anyway, you wanna do this?" A'Drith turned around, looking forward, and flapping its wings, as Kabutops kept his footing, shooting aurora beams to any Pokémon upon the ground that would be firing towards them. "I'll take that as a yes" Ash sighed, "I hope you're doing well Serena, Pikachu, May."
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"Flamethrower" May shouted to her Blaziken as the wall of Pokémon continued to close in on her and the others. Marching in a military line, reducing the damage of all their attacks between them. Max, Dawn and Serena behind them, the group continued to back up.
"This won't last forever. "May said.
"No duh, just keep stating the obvious May" Max said, commanding his Grovyle to hold back the line for a while longer. Suddenly the group felt a wall behind them as the line of Pokémon before them continued marching. The many assorted Pokémon stopped just four meter away from the groups Pokémon, they broke ranks roaring and rushed wildly to their foes. the Pokémon's colliding attacks created small explosions left, right and centre as the group was slowly overrun. May was thrown by what seemed to be a Gaveller.
She got up to find herself separated from the others, she recalled her fainted Blaziken just before multitudes of smaller Pokémon rushed onto the fainted fire type. The recalling of her Pokémon caused a Rhydon to take notice of her as it marched up, punching her in the stomach knocking her to the ground, than kicking her in the ribs as she rolled away in pain.
A burst of red light appeared, as Mays Blastoise released herself, standing in front of her trainer as if saying to the Rock type that he could not harm her trainer. Rhydon scoffed as a Froslass launched a side attack with an Ice beam encasing half of the Pokémon's shell in ice. Rhydon took his chance and used an horn attack on Blastoise knocking the Pokémon onto its shell with a thud.
In an instant Rhydon used stomp on Blastoises shell, sending shockwaves through the water type. "RHY" it roared as it stomped once more, on the defenceless Blastoise.
It squealed, wanting to run away from this situation that it was in. Usually things would be the other way, things should be the other way round. Out of nowhere Blastoise launched a water gun attack from its Mouth sending the Rhydon back. With its newfound space the turtle like Pokémon rolled onto its side and lifted itself up. Seeing May slowly getting up spurred the water type on more, it turned around to find itself on the receiving end of a mega punch. Sending it onto the floor once more.
Things weren't always like this; the Pokémon had her Pride knocked into the dirt once more by a stomp attack from the Rhydon, putting her in her place.
But things weren't always like this. Blastoise looked back into its past, where things were safe, better. It withdrew into its shell as it dreamed of the days it was a Wartortle, with May, taking challenge after challenge, than further to when it was a Squirtle. The flowers red blue yellow and pink, glowing in the radiance of the sun. But now, she couldn't be near a flower without crushing it, without destroying it.
What had she become now?
She didn't know, so she ran, for the first time in many years, as the red beam of energy engulfed her and she returned to her Pokéball to think of something other than victory at any cost.
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May was up now but her odds seemed to look a little worse, two of her Pokémon knocked out and dangerously outnumbered; slowly the Rhydon that battered her Blastoise cornered her, arms out on either side of it. Head down as the Rock type begun to spin its horn. May let out a slight squeal. Blinking her eyes, to hear a large crashing sound. She opened her eyes to find the Rhydon as well as other hostile Pokémon knocked out onto the floor, the faces of her companions filled with awe, she moved her eyes, to find what they were looking at, and there he was.
Dark gray fur, lit up by the burning hue of Lavender on flames. Snarling slowly as he swiped another Rhydon off his feet and into a building with a flick of his wrist.
Marcus snarled as Max let out a weak, "Thanks" the bipedal wolf scoffed, the beast turned around, straightened up, threw his arms out on either side of himself and howled into the night. His scruffy, scarred hair shaking as did the rest of the town.
"Humans, can't do anything for themselves." He mocked. Looking around the burning buildings, the bodies that lay upon the floor, the dark clouds that had formed up above, and the silver Ash that had now begun to fall. Complimenting his appearance.
Feeling hungry, he picked up a body from the floor with a claw, brought it to his mouth, snapped off the leg and ripped off the meat, chewing it before he swallowed, as the rest of the group stood in shock. "Still a bit chewy" he muttered.
The wolf then saw something, as he rushed and crashed into a building in anger. May and her friends just stood in wonder, as the creature that had just saved them as he stumbled into the bricks of the ruined structure. Picked himself up and continued to run.
Narrow streets, winding roads, he rushed through them all, the thick souls of his feet ensuring that he could step n a lot of things without feeling any irritation. Marcus reassured himself as he continued to run around the streets of Lavender town, 'I just woke up, side effects most likely' he rationalised.
"Are they" a voice replied, he turned around in a panic. Two red eyes, in the shadow of a three story house. Watching the wolf intently.
"AWAY WITH YOU" He roared at the eyes, punching the wall as it collapsed with one great swoop.
He then turned around to see an elderly human walking, seemingly with much strain. Like all other people trying to get away from the invaders. He was then shot down by a flying boulder as a Golem used his rock throw attack.
"Survival of the fittest" Marcus smiled leaping onto the old man to give him a quick death in case the boulder hadn't completely finished him off. The Golem looked at the towering Wolf with awe. Marcus smirked, picking up the Golem and throwing it into the street, cracking the ground that it landed on.
"See my Fiend. How I can take out this little band of yours like slaughtering a Mareep. What do you and... him hope to achieve." He shouted at seemingly nothing. "What do you hope to gain from this?" he asked.
"Victory" came the reply, the dark voice speaking from no one specific location.
"Good luck in trying to accomplish that, but it seems to me that you are chasing after something that you can not achieve as long as I stand in your path." he bellowed.
"Then join us?" came the reply.
But Marcus said nothing, just ran away from the voice, in search of more of my subordinates. One after another he ripped them apart, then ran. He quickly caught sight of another lone Golem, as he picked up the Rock type that attempted to struggle out of the beasts' arms. Finding no other way out the Golem self destructed, fainting himself, but Marcus remained completely unfazed. Murmuring, "hmm, a suicidal" in the distance he heard a number of footsteps, the wolf like creature smirked, his hand glowing as Golem was miraculously healed in an instant. Noticing that he was still in the wolfs hand the Golem got ready to destroy its own body once more.
Marcus took the Golem and hurled it into the dark smoky air, as it flew; he felt the footsteps stop, as the Golem exploded in the distance. He figured, if they were a foe, that would be one less to take down, if they were human, he saved them from an even more brutal death, either way he hadn't had as much fun in a long time.
"Skills such as yours would easily find a place with us, why not join, find your identity. You are built in that image. You are meant to live in the pack, not alone." The voice came once more.
"What do you know? You are a child compared to me, you have no idea of who you serve, what you do it for." He retaliated in a calm demeanour. "How long have you been watching me?"
"Long enough to know that you need a purpose. You need somewhere to belong."
"Are you suggesting we get together?"
"Yes, join us"
"Us, sorry I'm a one woman man"
"What?" the voice replied.
"Besides I'm not turned on by stalkers. If you want to get my lollypop, I have to tell you I have standards."
"No, I'm not speaking of-"
"and on our first day you suggest we get into a GROUP. You are really dirty you know."
"STOP" the voice commanded.
"But you're a woman right?"
"No, I'm of the male gender if you must kn-"
"Oh, so you want some man on man action?"
"Stop that!"
"Besides, you're just a pair of eyes, where dose my sword go?" he said keeping a smirk upon him, his voice out of place in the setting of a burning city. He turned around and began to walk away.
"Will you join. Yes or no?" the voice asked from what seemed to be a distance.
"Sorry Marcus is not here at the moment, please a message after the growl. Grrr" he purred, before sprinting into the distance, ready to find another victim.
'Cheeky little...'
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Serena found her Gallade besides her, using his leaf blade to deflect any ranged attacks that may find its way to his trainer. On the front line Ninetales was doing fine against her opponents. Her experience ensuring that she would be a hard target to defeat, although her opponents were not exactly falling like flies.
Max rushed to Serena's side, as his Gardevoir appeared besides him, "Gardevoir, help out Ninetales" He said, hopefully they would be able to make a hole in their now looser ranks that would help them to run, breathe for five seconds, and maybe find the missing link of their group.
Serena looked over to Dawn who covered May as the brunette found her footing and released her Pokémon. She watched Dawn as Pikachu fought besides her Floatzel, almost as if they had done it many times before.
"FOCUS" Max shouted into her ear, as she winced, looking back to the battle at hand. Ninetales seemed to be holding her own, and Gardevoirs' help seemed to be an added bonus to holding on the hostile Pokémon who now seemed to have lost their early momentum after the intervention of Marcus.
"Things seem to be going fine" she muttered.
"What are you crazy?" Max said, in front of the younger girl, clearly over reacting.
"No, just a bit tired." Serena said, "If there was a bed I'd fall asleep."
"Well than go away. If you're not in the fight go away, and stop putting the rest of us in trouble." He said.
"Are you alright?" she said keeping her cool.
"Are YOU alright? Keep your eye on the battle if not walk away." He said, the sounds of battle seemed to die down in the distance.
"Calm down, I don't know what's up but."
"But nothing. You don't get it; you're still too little. How you would understand anything."
"Maybe a pill should help, but to be honest I don't think a clown could put a smile on your face." She said.
"What are you talking about?" Max snorted, "This isn't a joke you know" clearly the stress was getting to him, but Serena chose to stay quiet this time looking around to anywhere but in his face.
Ninetales seemed to be doing well with neither of the two Pokémon having heard the conversation between the two. May was busy dealing with a last Froslass on her front, Dawn was...
"Max shut up!" she screamed into the boys ear, "Now I know why May slams your head in with a hammer all the time, you're a jerk, so I'll leave her alone if I were you."
Max sneered to the white haired girl as she once again looked away not wanting to start something stupid. She found Gardevoirs opponent retreating, Max called Gardevoir over as he walked over to his sister who was finding a few more Pokémon arriving.
"Are you alright?" Dawn asked the young girl.
"I'll be fine. Thanks for coming up here." The white haired girl said with a weak smile.
"Max is just tired and besides I think that May might be a bit mad at him for what he did."
"Thanks, I don't know what's wrong with him tough." Serena said as Dawn shrugged.
"Well I think we can get going now" Dawn said, finding their Pokémon waiting intently for a command.
Serena took a look over to the two sibling as they came over with their Pokémon, May taking care to not look at Max, not talk to him, pretend that he was some invisible ghost and to not take notice of it, and it was getting to the younger of the two who was slowly getting to realise what he had just said.
"Just one thing Serena" Dawn asked with a smirk.
"yeah?"
She whispered "Do you have a crush on Max?"
"No... No, never. No chance. It's actually a bit scary thinking about it." She said echoing Ash before her. "What made you say that?"
"I don't know, just call it a feeling"
"Aren't you supposed to be concentrating what you'll do to Ash in the bedroom" she retorted.
"W-w-w. How" Dawn stuttered.
"Come on let's get going before more of them come." May said coming over, interrupting the two.
Serena smirked, "I don't know, just call it, you always staying close to him, hugging him at every opportunity and everything else." She whispered as to not alert May.
"But do you know. Is he... singl-"
"Yes"
"Is he strai-"
"Yes"
"How do you know what I'm talk-"
"How wouldn't I know?" she said as Dawn sighed.
"You gonna tell him about this talk?"
"No need to worry" Serena said with the smile back on her face.
Max came up behind the two girls shoving past Serena, as she looked at him with anger. But just as Dawn was about to defend the young girl by kicking Max, he was knocked onto the ground by Gallade unconscious.
"llade" it said glancing at Gardevoir wondering 'why can't she keep a better leash on her owner. Preferably a black leather leash, with spikes... No that's too far Gallade; if she's reading my thoughts that might give her some dirty ideas... either that or she'll smack me.'
Serena and Dawn just looked at each other as Gardevoir came up to her trainer and used her psychic powers to carry him. Not noticeably angry with Gallade for what he did to her trainer.
"That's one way of getting some rest." Serena joked, happy once more, "Now let's find your crush" she said as Dawn blushed.
In that instant the wind picked up as the dark clouds above the heads of the group began to part, a large Black and red creature flew above the city, red wings and horns glowing brightly from the red light that emanated from the burning town.
The great beast flew through the dark sky as a bright Aurora beam chopped down flying types in its Proximity.
"Ash" the group shouted but to no gain as the black dragon had flown away into the distance.
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"Two O'clock" Ash said as Kabutops turned accordingly and shot down another Skarmory, or damaged it to the best of his ability, the birds fell after one hit but managed to find their wings just before they could crash into anything. A'Drith wasn't really interested with the small fry's, the black dragon clearly didn't care about the swarm of Skarmory that flew, they were his equivalent to flies, and he felt that the shellfish upon his head had more need of the training.
Slowly A'Drith began to descend, the smoke of the town split apart as they descended, as Ash saw the charred remains of the town, bodies that paved the streets, men women children and an assortment of local Pokémon, laying down in the dirt. The buildings were mostly damaged. The besieging Pokémon had left nothing but damage, the fire had now burnt through a lot of its fuel, as it began to slow down, this only resulted in a thick black smoke that became a barrier between what was happening on the ground and what was going on in the air, or even higher, in case the humans would like to use their technology to spy on our little escapade.
As they cut through the smoke, the feet of the dragon shattering some of the last remaining rooftops as it glided above the town Ash could now see People, running in groups, the last remaining survivors as only a very small amount of Pokémon remained to chase them, suddenly the ride came to a halt sending Ash to jolt forward. He looked to the side finding a group of People underneath the dragons head terrified for their lives, by both the horde of Gravelers and Golems coming towards them, as well as the uninvited guest above that had hemmed them in to one place with no escape.
Ash ordered for A'Drith to take out the Pokémon coming up towards them, as the dragon opened up his mouth and let out black purplish flames, with it he formed a great wall of flames that spread out and away from the group of a dozen people as well as a few small Pokémon.
The residents of the town stood in awe as the rock types ran out of the searing flames. The fire sticking onto the rock types skins like glue, not extinguishing, they screamed as flames roared out of their mouths, the insides of their bodies having been set alight.
"Run, get away" Ash called out to the people as Kabutops jumped off of the Chaos Pokémon's head guiding the people and Pokémon to a safe route away from the town, regardless of the fact that they would be slaughtered by my troops eventually.
Hesitantly the people made their way away from Ash and his Pokémon. The trainer watching to make sure no other Pokémon would appear out of nowhere to give them the jump. As well as making sure that A'Drith would stay on his best behaviour, even tough that was already very unlikely.
"Hello" came the voice from underneath Ash.
"Hello?" he replied finding an old man... a familiar old man. "Do I know you?"
"Yes" he replied. "My name is Mr Fuji. I'm sorry I lied to you both before." He said, but nothing popped up in Ash's mind. He could see a small Pokémon hiding behind the old man's legs.
"Yeah" Ash said still unsure of what the man was saying.
"I apologise for... what I did. But they made me. I had a small house here, and I took care of the Pokémon that were abandoned, most of them probably are in a better home now." The man said. "But I'm sorry they threatened to harm the children. They are everywhere and with a weapon like that they'll be watching you as well."
"Sorry?" he said in a clueless tone.
"Them, they are everyone, I found out about them and they made me regret putting my nose in. Watch the shadows."
"I'm sorry what do you mean" Ash asked the man that he didn't know. As he was telling him about something he didn't really pay much attention to.
"Well" the man said starting his speech again. A Froslass leapt from the distance attaching itself to the man's head. Mr Fuji screamed out loud as the Pokémon began attacking the elderly man. Ash looked at the sight in alarm shouting, "A'Drith, get it off" but to no avail as the Dragon just stood there watching with some amusement.
In a flash Kabutops found his way to Mr Fuji as he placed his scythe between the two and took the Froslass off like a bug as the ice type Pokémon fell to the ground. Ash looked towards Mr Fuji, laying upon the ground, groaning in agony, clearly. The Cubone that was standing behind the elderly man made its way up onto his chest looking into his eyes.
The Cubone was young, evident from its size. Holding its bone in one arm as if it was a club. It looked onto his owner as the Froslass ran away. It got off and walked towards Ash.
"Bone?" the Pokémon said offering a club to Ash as Ash took the young Pokémon into his arms.
"Think he'll survive?" Ash asked Kabutops to which he got a no in return. "So what do we do?" the trainer asked.
Kabutops walked over to the lying body the ancient Pokémon looked over to the Cubone as the youngest of the group covered his eyes. Kabutops stuck its scythe into the mans skull a clean insert through the bone and the brain and out again killing him in an instant. With the minimum amount of blood spilt.
"That's one way of doing things." Ash mused, as Kabutops looked to his trainer in the eye, feeling the weakness that had been growing within his superior. There was a time when the two would be like a well oiled machine, cutting down anything that may come into their path, knowing what they needed to do at the right time, but now the shellfish Pokémon saw how his master had become undisciplined, his eye not as fixed as it should be on the ultimate goal.
"Bu tops" he murmured, looking towards A'Drith and knowing that the dragon may be right about some things. But unlike the dragon Kabutops has a duty to serve. Duty is what his life revolved around, and it would only end when the darkness would come.
With that the group walked onto A'Driths back, as the dragon kept a look of indifference even though the old man's death was his fault partially.
Kabutops pushed the button of his Pokéball allowing him to return himself into the stone ball that was his curse and his duty till the day where there is no tomorrow.
Ash looked over to the Cubone in his arms, as the Pokémon made itself comfortable it its new owners arms, "You alright?" Ash asked in a soft voice, but got no reply. This little Pokémon had already seen a lot in its few days alive. The day that its mother was killed by the dark men with the red symbol on their shirts. "Team Rockets" the blue lady called them, but it didn't matter to Cubone. From its mothers body he ripped off the muscles, the skin, and took her head off her body. Scooped out her eyes, brain, clipped off the teeth and placed the skull of his parent upon his own head. A crown claiming his independence, even if in reality his independence was not as long as he would have liked.
A new parent came as well as the ghost of his mother. They came to him every night, asking him to kill the old man. Take another trophy, than the dark men came and took him away. When he came back he said that his mother was sent to the great Arceus, and was in his paradise. But Cubone knew that that was just a story the old man had made up, weather to please himself or the Cubone was another matter.
Ash got no answer as he wondered what was going on in the young ones mind.
Then a loud rumble came from the sky, shaking the dragon, and Ash.
The smoke rippled away in an instant, clearing the air, as the clouds that lay even higher above the town began to swirl, as an recognisable shape began to take form. A swarm of what seemed to be Charizard flew high above in the sky as a bright beam launched itself out of the clouds striking the centre of the city. The ground shook, as buildings that weren't already demolished shook, in this now nearly deserted town.
It seemed, things would only get worse.
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F.Y.I.
-No excuse is really good enough is it? At least I got this done before the New Year.
-Just to warn, I am not scared to kill off characters, I've got quite a few of them, and it will happen. And I won't do one of those crazy magical legendary Pokémon tear item bringing back to life... O.K. Maybe I'll do it once but that's my limit.
- The Glalie Ash fought off against used tactics over strength, stalling Ash for two golems to position themselves as they took out Typhlosion before he even knew it. (Just to show that there are more ways to win a battle than those displayed in the show, like outnumbering your opponent, surprise attacks, morale, the trainers' authority over his Pokémon and the Pokémon's sense of fear/loyalty to the trainer e.c.t. all should have a greater impact on things)
- I'm not too keen on gore but in some places it gives the story a bit of an edge. Personally I'm not to keen on turning this into a horror fic, or a blood bath where everything dies and it rains blood and people start eating finger cakes, but in battle scenes it is rather difficult to avoid such things and pretend that in battle such things don't happen.
"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."
- Dorothy Thompson
And now I vanish to sue timoteyo7...