Myst was sitting on the chair of an hospital, with her hands crossed and looking a door in front of her, not believing what was happening now.
The last night, somebody got inside the Guild, and attacked Madame Fu, hurting her seriously. Luckily the medics got her stable before morning and she was resting now on a bed, but the Mienshao didn't awakened for now. When Myst knew it, she rushed the fastest she could to the hospital for see if Madame Fu was fine. But now, the only thing she, and the girls of the guild on the corridor, could do now was wait.
She leans back at the wall and groans "We should have known that one of them might pull that cheap shot just to hit us."
All the girls were completely silent at the moment. Evidently they weren't in the mood of talk just now.
And so they simply sit and wait. Finally having enough of wait, Myst stood up and left the corridor, wanting to be alone, and actually the only place where she could try to think was on the guild. Knowing that, the girls didn't followed her.
ONce she was there, she stood in front of the picture gallery, staring at the photos, especially the only one showing her. For a while, she thought about all what happened until now, and who was Madame Fu for she. Even not visible, she was fully angered, wanting nothing but the head of who dared to attack her and leave her in such state. After a while, she was to go to outside the building, until found Nida just in front the door.
"Where do you think are you going?" The Nidoqueen asked to her.
"Doing something stupid. How stupid? NO idea!" she fumed.
"Look, I don't know you, but I know Madame Fu and the girls, and trust me if I tell you that Madame Fu wouldn't like if you leave your rage do something stupid. You can even hurt somebody unrelated to your rage."
"Then what are you suggesting? That I slam my head in frustration?" asks Myst, her arms thrown up.
"I will tell you two words, a term that Madame Fu used for keep mind cool before getting out when one of her girls got to heated up: Rage fuck."
"With Rick?" she asks, soon having a bark from the Arcanine.
"Yes." Replied Nida. "You will do it with him on the gym." She signals the gym's door. "And I don't want you to get out until you calm down!"
"You clean that up" she states and stomps over to there, being followed by Rick.
Nida just moves to the Gym's door and rests on the nearest wall, with the door closed.
After of a pair of hours, Annabel just came into the guild. "Oh, you must be Nida, right?"
"Yes, that's me." Said the Nidoqueen. "Looking for the Zorua?" Annabel nodded at her. "Just there." She replied but stopped the agent. "Nope, Rage fuck."
"Ah, I see… and how long is there?"
Nida just opened the door a little, hearing raged moans and groans inside. "Just now they're in the 6th round. And that surprises me, the actual record I know was 4 times, and was by an enraged Primeape."
"Well, I need to tell some hypothesis I have and-"
"Just talk, she is hearing. Right?" Nida asked Myst.
"Don't expect any smart comments!" shouts Myst, while starting the seventh round.
"Well, in that case, I'm just thinking hypothesis, but they can have some sense. As you know, this group, called the 'Black Order', began to act some time ago. Correct?"
"That isn't new" called Myst
"Well, now that we have that clear, let's get to the next top." Said Annabel. "The second part of our mission was to discover the identity of the assassin that was using Clement's methods."
"Yes, I heard about that." Replied the Nidoqueen.
"We maybe aren't nothing, but when we were going here, I noted that somebody passed just at our side. Looker said that was as a female anthropomorphic Mega Banette. Still can't get how can exist mega evolved pokemon roaming around without the need of a trainer."
"Ask Yuuki!" called in Myst"She's a Mega Mawile!"
"Okay, anyway." She said. "For all this, is possible to confirm, only if possible, that this Mega Banette is the assassin we're looking for."
Myst came out "Then I hit the shower and let's go to find her. Oh and Rick passed out!" pointing into the room
"Returning to the topic, I just figured that the assassinations and the beginning of the actions of the group began nearly at the same time."
"So, are you meaning that both things are related?" Asked Nida.
"So… that means we are dealing with a team up." she said, "That only leaves the question where it started."
Then Annabel sighed loudly. "Sadly the only link with have with that isn't interested to talk at all…"
That caught Myst's attention "Perhaps I can try."
The two looked at her by that remark.
Nearly an hour later, Myst, Annabel, and Nida, alongside all the girls of the guild, were now entering the police station. Even Looker was surprised by this, so much that even didn't know for a moment where to go, until decided to follow the girls, asking her boss what was happening. Soon they reached to the cell where the captured grunt was, and opened the door, being Myst the first to get into, and surprised him pinning him against the wall, with her arm pressing on his chest.
"Ok sweety… I have questions~" and purrs "And I like to have answers. Good answers." He didn't answer to him, and now she got angered. "Look, I just learned something called Rage fuck, and still I'm a little pissed of, so now I'm wondering if keep calming down while raping you!"
"Wh-wh-what!?" He suddenly asked. "Oh, no-no-no! Bad idea, bad idea!"
"Talk! Or you know why only three males so far survived that WITHOUT GETTING A COMA!"
"Yo-yo-you had fought the altered pokemon, right? These two tried to make me talk about that!" He said, sounding desperate while weakly signaling Annabel and Looker, more confused than ever.
"Yes! I got to fight it!" she snarled.
"Then I warn you, if you rape me, you would suffer the risk of turn into one too!" She said, soon getting her confused.
"What do you mean?" she asks.
"Look, in our, all the monster are already now half succubi, and they only think on fuck and rape every male or female they found, turning the guys into incubi, and the girls into monster girls!" He said and with a hand moves a little the hood and mask of his face. "By the place where I was recruited by the Order, I was nearly turned into one!" Evidently, his eyes, even scared by Myst, were unnaturally yellow, and he put his hood back."And for them, we're only pleasure tools for use endlessly…"
"That could explain what I saw before." Said Lucy, remembering when tried to read his mind before.
"Quite the cheap shot but what can you tell me about a Mega Banette?" she said and smirks "And I am NOT having issues with being a succubus."
"The Mega Banette? All I know is that she was supposed to be the first in being transformed, but no as this. The Grand Maestre just wanted to transform a random corpse for turn into a zombie or a wright using Demonic Energy, but then one of this ghost got in the middle of the process without warning and the result was that she turned into that Mega Banette!"
"And? For what we know she isn't like that rapes everybody." Said Ruby.
"It was supposed, but something was bad on her head! Very bad!" He replied. "All that was thinking is on kill and kill, babbling about a vendetta!"
"Vendetta?" Myst asked him. "What vendetta!"
"Only know that she was killed by a very young furball, cursing that she died at the hands of an amateur or something!"
Myst's eyes widened at the implication "What can you recall of this rambling? Anything specific?" she asks while pressing against him to underline that she is quite serious to get her answers.
"O-only that was a mere brat! I promise, is the only thing she said!"
She looks at the others for their opinions. Should she stop here or press on with more questions. Anyway, she basically figured now who was really this Mega Banette, like everyone knowing the case.
"That bitch is really back," she muttered, still not knowing what to do with that guy… especially as her blood boils now in anger.
"Tell us, where is the base! The REAL base!" Warned Nida, hitting her fist near his head.
"A base! An abandoned military base at an hour of the city!" He said scared.
Myst grinned "Thanks! It wasn't THAT hard, wasn't it?"
"Okay… what's now?" asked Xena.
Without warning, Myst grabbed the grunt and began to pull him out the cell. She was now in the middle of the station when Looker got in front of him. "What do you think are you doing?"
"I still have to finish something for my own sanity!" she called back. She was sane enough even being mad but didn't want to tell him the real motive.
"You're going to that base, right? You're going to stop them by yourself?" He guessed it. "That's a complete insanity!"
"You have no idea!" she said, "This is personal!"
"I know it! But still what you will do? Infiltrate their base? They will surely know that you will go there eventually. And what leaves that? A frontal attack? All yourself against probably a hundred or more of them, without count the possibility of there 'monster girls' that have with them?
"I find a way. I always did. Even in the most secure of places. You know that!"
"He's right!" Said Xena walking to them. "You don't ever need to do this alone."
"Correct. They hurt Madame Fu, we will take them down as you want too." Said Isis coming to alongside all the girls.
"GIrls…" she muttered. "YOu… are impossible." and had a tear in her eye.
"Yes." Said Kara. "If we have to go through the front door, we will do a lot of noise!"
"How much of an entrance bang did you think of?"
"Hold on a second!" Yelled Annabel at them. "Now that we know where they are, we will take all the agents we can get for an attack that base!"
"And that will take how long?" challenged Myst.
"It will take what will need to take! And you have no authorization for going there alone!"
"Do I look like I will be alone there?"
"You know what I mean." She said looking at all the girls. Myst crosses her arms simply. "But nobody says you can't follow us." She said with a smile.
"Quite the interpretation here." grinned Myst "Well… who's in charge of this little job?"
"Is just in front of you."
"How much?" she jokes a bit to get her angry side a bit under control.
Hours later, a large number of police cars and police vans were now driving on way to the base, while some vehicles driven by Myst and some of the girls were in the group.
"Myst, you hear me?" Asked Annabel from a walkie that was in hands of Myst.
"I hear you" she replied while speaking into the tool "And we're almost in position."
"Okay, when we reach, we will get inside the perimeter and we attack them without warning."
"That's a bad idea!" Said the grunt, that was tied sitting near Myst.
"Any other idea?" Asked Xena at him.
"Yes! Avoid everything they use!" He said, knowing that if he didn't warn them, they could use him as shield.
"You make that sound so simple" deadpans Myst and shakes her head "Anything else we should know?"
"Just… hide?"
She raised her eyebrow, wondering if he is serious.
In the military base, one of the members of the Order was watching the outside near a guard house, when then saw movement approaching there, soon seeing the vehicles running at them.
"There they are!" Yelled Annabe from the radio to all the vehicles.
"They have discovered us!" Yelled the guard, jumping in the guard house for avoiding the vehicles, which were stopping inside the base forming a barricade with the cars and vans, agents coming from the vehicles and getting behind them for cover, soon opening fire with their weapons to the Order soldiers that were now attacking them with they crossbows.
"Crossbows? How classic are they going to be?"
"Come on, come on, come on!" Ordered one of the Order captains, making some of the soldiers to get some oddly shaped weapons, these soon beginning to fire at the agents what seemed beams that generated small flames where they hit, soon getting the police off guard.
"In the name of-!" Yelled Myst avoiding one of these shots. "I thought they were trapped in middle ages!"
"I said you to avoid everything they used." Said the soldier trying to hide and figure a form of escape from them.
"Girls! Time to get some more serious."
Dracea nodded and threw a Dragon Breath to some guards, causing an explosion that got them down, easing a little the enemy fire.
Myst threw a set of Shadow Balls between shots to take down some more.
"We must try to get to the hangar, surely the boss is hiding here." Suggested Pixy signaling the large hangar away from them.
"Duck!" Yelled Hira, when suddenly some female jiginka Crobats and Pidgeots began to fly over all them, trying to catch some of them.
The attacks keep on and they are slowly getting the defense crumbled, but the defenders using those 'magitek' weapons were the most troublesome, showing that they were shooting projectiles like electric bolts and freezing bolts.
"Now you wish you have at Simon at an elevated position," muttered Myst.
"Just we have to figure something." Said, Anabel.
"How like if we distract them and you try to reach the hangar?" Asked Ruby, punching a Crobat that got too near to her...
"SOunds like a plan!" she nodded And looks for a good spot to get into the interiors once the distractions start.
Soon Xena, Dracea, Hira, Fatima, and Lucy began to use their special type attacks to the defenders, causing more chaos to the defenders.
Myst changed her appearance to her surroundings and runs towards the door. But she was was soon blocked by a pair of robots that weren't fooled by her disguise. So instead she slams a pair of smoke bombs on the ground to cover the area with smoke to trick the minority of their sensors before dropping a bunch of flares as well to cover up her heat signature.
But before she could try to sneak, she was grabbed from behind, being held by what seemed a gijinka Nidoqueen, making her an easy target for the robots when her distraction finished.
"This is getting serious!" Said Ruby. "Limey, Dracea, Dolly, Jane, how like if we get serious too?" She said to the named girls.
Myst reacted quickly and grabbed a dart of hers and slams into the body of the gijinka, filling her bloodstream with a mix of Salazzle poison and the most potent knockout serum she could find. The poison was only dozed to be the carrier for the serum due to the ability to even infect poison or steel types.
The gijinka began to get dizzy but tried to keep a hold on her, while soon the robots noted her and prepared for an attack, but suddenly a fast Ice Punch hit one of the robots, freezing it in the process. The one she saw who done the attack was Dolly, in her mega evolved form.
"Thanks!" called Myst, injecting another dose of it, getting the dizziness high enough to free herself, soon making it drop her and fall to the ground.
"No problem!" Said Dolly, just using Thunder punch on the second robot.
A pair of flying gijinka approached them, but then Dracea, also on her mega evolved form, stroke them with dragon breath, taking them away. Myst soon noted that Ruby, Limey, and Jane were on their mega evolved form, hitting hard every enemy got in their way."
"How are they doing that?" asks Myst to herself and sighs "I would bother to learn… if Zoroarks had Mega Forms. That and I am too sweet as Zorua" she jokes before running off.
Inside she began to walk inside the hangar looking around, until get easily on the center of the place, soon standing in front of what seemed a large circular machine, with what seemed a white and gray vortex inside of it.
"Is that a gate? Or portal?"
"That, my friend, is a Worm Vortex." Said a voice over her.
"A dejavú again?" She asked, looking up, finding hanging platforms.
At the platforms at the sidelines she could see at least four supposed monks of the group, while at the centre over the machine, she could see a man with a heavy black and red armor with red trims, shoulders with large horns, a black cloth covering one of his legs and a red cape, with a red hood with a black spot at the top, covering his face.
"I take you'Re the leader? After all, a first meeting needs a presentation."
"Very right, my dear Zorua. I am the Grand Maestre, leader of the Order of the Black Star, and you're the Zorua Assassin that the governments of this world hired for take us out alongside that group of female warriors." He said, but soon Myst saw what seemed an anthro Mega Banette standing near to him.
She grits her teeth "And I see you brought along somebody who should have stayed dead."
"Well, I sincerely wanted a random subject for start with a small 'undead outbreak', but things happen." He said.
"And I'm still surprised that you were able to get here." Said the Mega Banette: Carla Clement.
"A lot has changed" smirks Myst, getting her daggers ready "Last time I checked you missed a few years of training."
"Maybe, but sti-"
"Calm down. After all, their failure is certain, and they can't stop us, for the benefit of our world." Said the Grand Maestre.
"So? THen I assume you don't need this!" she said and threw a shadow ball at the machine.
But he extended his hand and a bolt was shot from his hand, destroying the shadow ball. "Ah ah ah, no so fast."
Then crossed his arms. "Leave at least give you some distraction, while I explain you a story. Is the least you deserve."
Soon from the vortex appeared three creatures: one seemed to be a gijinka female werewolf, another being a gijinka female lizardman with a blade, and the last one a gijinka female minotaur. The three of them with the black necklace on their necks.
"Now fantasy creatures?" she asks in irritation while dropping in a fighting position when the three creatures attacked her.
"The tale just come from thousands of years ago, which originally came from the birth of both type of beings: humans and monsters." The leader began to tell.
"During generations, existed us, humans, with our deities, and monsters, with their absolute leader, the named Demon Lord. The existence of both kinds was very simple from the start: humanity gets overpopulated, the monsters attack; when the human's number got reduced, a hero appears; the hero slays the Demon Lord, and the monster began to attack between them; the monster's number got reduced, and the human can restore itself. Many can see it tragic, but worked for millennia."
"Let me guess!" she said while jumping between the monsters, trying to cut the collars "SOmething went wrong and broke the system."
"Exactly! A day, a succubus fooled a hero of the certain age, the strongest in history but also a naive one that thought that humans and monsters can live together, and both slew the actual Demon Lord. She took the throne in seconds, and with the powers of the title, the new Demon Lord changed all the monster in her image. The same one that you're seeing now."
She manages to get a cut on one of these collars and asks "Nice and dandy! But unless you want to repopulate them HERE I don't see the reasons for your efforts…" then groans "Is this to spread that curse here or what? Please, not that. Is so cliche. I get that from every third cult I am hired to stop."
"You don't get all the story! When she did that, she made a terrible mistake, there were no male monsters, and these creatures can give birth to female monsters. That, and the fact that the humans completely infected with their energy can give birth to males is leading the world slow but unstoppable to their end! With the end of stop this, some groups began to rise, this one is one of them. And while we were looking for methods of stop this disease, we just found the vortex that connects to this world. A world more advanced than us."
"And then you got the brilliant idea, right?" She said avoiding some attacks from the creatures.
"That's right. After of infecting and transform a high number of your pokemon, we could send them to your big cities, leaving them to do what they know better: kidnap and rape both men and women. And when the governs gets to know how disastrous is that, we will subtly inform them about the problem in our world, and they will use their weapons for end the Demon Lord for good."
"Is a good story, but something tells me that your world is how will stay, whatever you try, and surely will change for better." She said, cutting the second necklace.
"That's blasphemy!" He suddenly yelled at her.
"Oh?" she smirks "Did I hit a nerve here?" and with a well-placed throw with a throwing knife, the third of the collars are cut. "I am so sorry… I see myself more of a heartbreaker than a nerve striker."
The leader just stared at her, just before taking out a mirror. "Take these back. And send it."
Soon the three monsters were teleported inside the vortex and he looks at her. "Seems I have to show you some lessons, my dear. But don't worry. I will not be no harsh with you." He said, just when what seemed a large steampunk like mecha crossed the vortex, and while the leader jumped and began to float slowly, the mecha's upper body opened, leaving a grunt to get out of it. "But all depends on how to resist the hits." He gets inside and closed it, soon giving some punches to the air, ready for battle.
Myst sighs loudly "Next time I go shopping, I add something that takes care of mechas fast." then looks up "Mind if I add that to my to-do list fast?" her eyes scanning the construct for any potential weaknesses as she taunted him.
"I wonder if your tauntings will save you after receiving a lesson from this Iron Golem."
"Then you get two steps further than any other mech I saw so far."
The mech walked to her, throwing a fist to where she was, but she jumped to a side, but there saw the dent the robot done to the ground. If for some reason Myst was to stay just there...
"Good that I am NOT that stupid to stand still" she whispered and moves around.
But even by the size of the mech, his steps were long enough to get near to her and try to punch her where had the occasion.
THought she kept avoiding and slashes a few times, but the armor was harder than her blades. He kept following her until he accidentally punched a box, she spotting that there were some explosives that, even if they were old, still they could work.
So she went to grab some and threw them at the mech, after lighting the lit. The explosive blew just on the mech, causing some damage to it.
"Cursed furball." The Grand Maestre cursed inside. "Attack her!"
Soon the monks over them were going to do something to her, but without warning, Xena and Isis appeared and began to distract the monks. Carla simply didn't care about that and kept looking the battle.
"Myst! Lucy thought of something! Remember these orb that these morons use?" Yelled Xena, trying to shock some of the monks.
"What would you think if there was a master one that takes every holder of these things to where the orb is?" Asked Isis, making an ice wall in front the monks.
"Smart thinking here to get to them or recall of them." she said while throwing the next explosive "Only have my hands full with a Mech. One of actual quality."
"That orb would be at the hands of the leader!" Said Isis.
"But who knows where is he just now?" Xena asked.
"Take a good guess who has the best toy." countered the zorua.
The explosion damaged more the mech, but still was holding and chasing her, now beginning to jump for stomp her.
She smirks as jumping means you cannot control your landing and she left on the landing spot quite a load of explosives, ready to blow up at the right time.
When landed, the explosion threw him to the ground on his back, giving Myst an opening for try to damage it more.
And this time she aimed for the arms and legs to render it immobile, but still he stood up and was ready for attack her again. "Really? Most would be done by now."
Then shrugs "I am too soften up by losers."
"I'm getting tired of your jokes." He said from inside the mech and went to punch her. ONly to hit ground… and found explosives laid out in a circle.
The explosion caused was enough for destroying part of the armor, revealing the Grand Maestre inside the mech, being forced to control now only an arm. Myst used that to throw one of her knockout darts at him.
"Damn bitch!" He extended his arm and a bolt was shot to it, destroying the dart midair.
She grumbled and threw the next explosive to get the other arm.
He avoided the explosive, but that gave her a good view of where was the orb the girls mentioned. She thought that getting it would finish the duel, but she knew that using the orb now only would take ALL the soldiers outside the hangar INSIDE of it.
Thought on the other hand… there was a convenient portal close by and if she got it to use it on the other side and close the portal the troubles are low, or just throw the orb across it just after activate it. The problem now was: how take the orb from a man inside half mech and send him across the portal? Because surely he doesn't have one of these other orbs with him.
"Now Gilgarman would be nice" she muttered before running towards the mech. She jumped over a punch and took hold, climbing to get to the opening.
"Just take this!" He shouted, sending a fireball from his hand to Myst. She avoids it and grabs inside, pulling his arms and twists it. "You little heretic!" He said groaning in pain by the grab. "You really have no idea of what you're doing."
"Oh really?" she asks before grabbing the master orb and activate it, causing it to shine. "At least I got a solid plan."
She then kicked him, making the controls to react and force it to backstep until getting inside the portal. And when landed and the orb was shining more, she threw the orb with all her strength inside it.
And she got the remaining explosives and set them up to blow the portal sky high once she is sure her plan saw how the Monks over her got trapped on light pillars that then turned into orbs, and fastly flew inside the portal, soon followed by for what she thought as thousands of them, all crossing the portal until no more were visible.
Then she lits the charges and runs. The explosion caused by the charges destroyed the machine and closed definitely the portal. Now the only things remaining are the transformed pokemon, which now the police and the girls could deal, and…
Carla clapped her hands staring at Myst. "Very interesting and well done. Just for curiosity: why you didn't kill him?"
"Part of the deal" was Myst reply "They wanted them to be stopped but not killed." and got her daggers ready "I wonder why you didn't try and stop me, though."
"Oh, well, I thought he could defeat you, and between you and me, I'm not really a fan of his plots. Turn pokemon into humans disguised as them, bah!"
"Well… now to the hard part… honoring that contract…" than she glared at the ghost "Or rip your Arceus Dammed Soul out of your body and toss it back to where it belongs!"
"Before of start a fight, just to figure things. They're supposed to be your friends, right?" She signals Isis and Xena. "Then, why they're still alive?"
"Excuse me?" asked the three girls
"Young girl, let me get this clear. You're an assassin, and you keep people at your side. That isn't a little 'hypocrite'? An assassin only has a friend, death."
"Call me outdated for following old order rules." she simply said.
"You don't understand. I got data about you, I know your potential, Zorua Assassin. But, these people, these 'friends' hold you back. And whoever holds us, must die. When you understand that and know that the only good friend is the dead one, nothing will stop you." She explained with a smile.
"You're so sick" she growled and narrows her eyes. "So sick and not understanding what you're doing. You would kill no matter who. It is your own drug. And drug addicts have of course no friends."
"We assassins are no addicts, we're just death messengers. Is your friend and master."
"Just shut up, bitch!" Yelled Xena.
"Yes! You're only good backstabbing people!" Yelled Isis.
"I really hate, when people, interrupt me!" Carla said and suddenly her claws turned as dark clouds with hand form and grabbed both girls, approaching them to her. "I'm not interested in the opinion of a pair of girls which fate should have been dead at the hands of the Zorua. Maybe, I have to do it myself.
"CLEMENT!" Yelled Myst, getting the assassin's attention, who saw her staring the ground. "When I came here, I made a promise for not kill anybody to a pokemon who I highly respect. But now, you got me out of my nerves, touching all the known and unknown berserk buttons. And, in my opinion, you're already dead." She stared at the ghost.
She smiled and dropped the girls on the ground, while she jumped to the ground, landing without a problem. She raised her hands, and with a small movement revealed that inside her fingers were the blades of daggers. "Come on!" She taunted at Myst.
"Okay. Let's dance." Myst replied getting in battle position, with a red spark on one of her eyes, her blood red daggers beginning to be covered by a dark energy. And she dashes forward.
"Ready or not, here I come!" Carla yelled and turned into a shadow on the ground for just appear behind her with her hands ready for slashing her.
Thought Myst ducked the first slash and blocks the other with the dagger. The ghost then retreated and extended her arm trying to grab her. But she jumped over it and slashed her arm, and slams the dagger into her. She retracted the arm and held it for a while, until throwing some daggers at her from her fingers.
"What the?" asks Myst surprised rolling under the daggers "Not normal movement!" and threw a shadow ball at her.
She just countered with her own Shadow Ball. "This is a duel of assassins, the only rule is to kill the other." She said, throwing another dagger at her.
She blocked it before throwing her own dagger "I meant not a normal movement for a pokemon like you! What did you do to yourself?"
"Banettes are usually described to be empty from the inside, only being filled with rage and hate. I'm only using that in my favor." She said getting ready more daggers when inclined her head to avoid the dagger.
"And cut yourself open with it?" she asks.
"I'm now an undead and this body repairs by itself from any damage. An interesting benefit of this Demonic Energy of them."
"Must have misplaced my holy water."
"Keep joking all as you like, it will never save you."
"We will see!" told Myst and watches her opponent carefully.
She kept distance at her, and without warning, she extended a Shadow claw to her. Myst sidestepped it and slashed it several times with her daggers before dashing towards her opponent.
When recovered her attack she used Will-O-Wisp against Myst, throwing a barrage of blue flames against she.
Myst put into a defensive stand and the attack… went through her like nothing.
Carla stared confused about what just happened, beginning to look around. Then she felt a slice of a dagger into her back, followed by another strike into the neck.
She granted by that strikes and turned around slashing with her claws. But Myst barely got away and threw a shadow ball at the ghost.
She countered the attack with her own shadow ball. "Cursed furball."
"Bad puppet!" she said and threw a few daggers at her.
She avoided the attack and threw her own daggers at the Zorua. And the two dances around while throwing their daggers, until she extended a Shadow Claw at her. WHich Myst jumps on and runs towards the evil puppet, daggers in reverse grip.
Suddenly she jumped into the shadows and jumped out behind her, ready to blast her with a Shadow Ball point blank.
Myst let herself fall to avoid the incoming attack, trusting her years of experience and instinct.
When the attack failed and flew away, she aimed a second Shadow ball at her, but the Zorua kicked her arm, making the attack flew to the roof, blowing it with the explosion.
Then the dark type slashed the chest of the ghost and tried to stab her with the other dagger. But the ghost type grabbed her arm with her hand and tried to slash her with her daggers. To which, Myst used her own one to block the bladed weapons in her fingers.
After of try to push her attack, she resigned to it and got away from her in a jump.
The Zorua was panting a little before she threw some of her throwing darts at the ghost, growling loudly. She just burned them with Will-O-Wisp. Thought one got through and impacted by her stomach.
She looks at the dart and took it away, throwing it to the ground. "I'm tired of your tricks." She said and jumped high, charging a large Shadow Ball. "Die!" She sends the attack to her.
Myst tried to run away from this giant ball of ghost death, knowing that such a direct impact would harm her greatly, no matter her type advantage.
She got away at time from the impact, but the orb exploded, destroying the ground, revealing an underground area under the hangar. Large parts of the ground began to fall to the ground, Myst holding herself on one of them, while Carla landed on other of the falling rocks.
Myt looked at the surroundings "What is this cursed place?"
"Seems the army dug an underground cavern under the base before being abandoned. Seems fitting for your grave!" She said and jumped at Myst with her finger-daggers ready.
Myst eyes widened in surprise but then narrows them and jumps as well, her daggers in a reverse grip, ready to strike. Soon began a duel clashing their weapons mid-air while jumping on the falling rocks. Between the jumps, they also exchanged throwing knives and long ranged attack… while Myst adjusted slowly her movement as she realized something. She saw that, even if Carla was now a Ghost Type Pokemon, she had not complete control of the Ghost Type's genuine abilities, as flying… or even getting intangible.
The two landed on separated falling rocks and Carla jumped at the same time as Myst, but the Zorua just changed the jump's inclination to her.
During that jump, she twists her body slightly and slams upon impact with the ghost, the daggers into Carla's chest and quickly wrapped her feet around the ghost body, keeping a solid hold while the impact made them both miss the stones they were jumping for, falling down the shaft without anything to land on but the ground.
"Myst? Myst?!" Yelled Xena, looking at the large hole.
"Myst! Are you okay, Myst?!" Yelled Isis too. "Myst!"
While the voices run inside the cave, light began to enter into the hole from the roof's hole. Inside, Myst was standing on her feet, looking down for a moment, until she raised her view to the light. Below her was Carla's body, with both daggers still on the ground, completely inert.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" Yelled a voice inside the Police Quarter. In the office given to Locker and Anabel, they were talking to the Director of International Police from a video phone, with agent Victor near him. "Are you saying that during some days you knew about the Zorua Assassin's true identity, AND YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT?!" Even the director was speechless about the agent's outburst.
"What I can remember is that it was one of her conditions that we forget that with the help of an associate of hers about her true looks and name." explains Locker remaining calm and fold his hand "And while we had prepared a few things to circumstance it around, secretly taken photos, notes, even some emails… none of it made past that erases moment."
"But you could have asked the people around!"
"Sorry, but we can't remember how was she or if we had any ally on this work. Even the informs related to it are… incomplete, as if the Zorua Assassin didn't want us to ask certain people." Replied Anabel. "Sorry, but we have no clue of her or any friend of she here."
"I just left without warning my post in the Aether Paradise in Alola when I found about this, and now…" He was saying but then his eyes got twitched, his head leaned to a side, he dropped the phone, and then fell to the ground on his back.
The chief only looked him for a moment just before getting the phone and look at the monitor. "Did he just have a heart attack?" asks Locker in wonder.
"Not, just fainted. Too much for him." Said the director.
"He really hoped to get leverage on her, huh?" asks Anabel and shakes her head "Anyway, that is all we can report so far."
"Understood."
"And… what will happen to the… transformed pokemon?" Looker asked.
"I just recently began to ask to every scientific group my mind can remember. Somehow we will have to return them to how they were. Or at least make them live at peace. But for what you said, whatever transformed them, is slowly dissipating, I'm right?"
"Yes. In fact we have no any additional ones since the end of the event."
"And what happened with… Clement's body?"
"It's… complicated. Like always with ghost types. But it is confirmed… she's gone."
"Well, that's good. But I'm asking what will happen to now to the body."
"It will be disposed off as ghost type bodies could reanimate themselves if they aren't take care for." said Looker with folded fingers
"Yes, we don't want to have this episode again." Anabel replied.
"Well… now I wonder if she will dare to try to claim the payment for her work with this gang, but I think she wouldn't." The director said, knowing that if the Zorua Assassin was to try to get the payment, she would be arrested seconds later.
"She sends us the bank account for a child charity organization native to this region… with the request to send it there." explains Annabel "WIth the copy of a conversation between the two of you."
He narrowed his eyes. "A copy?"
"At least it is the copy of an MP3 file," she replied and shrugged.
He groaned loudly. "There is no form of having her with an arm caught?" He put a hand on his face. "I'm wondering why we have still open that idea to turn her an internal agent…"
"Because she never broke her word." said Locker "And once the money is in the charity, the file is deleted from all sources."
"Don't tell me… And surely if we don't do it, we will see that file even in the soup, right?"
"She said nothing that happens. Only that the file is gone as soon the charity is supported. And we already checked it… it's clean."
"And what connection has she with that charity organization?"
"We don't know…" she admits.
He sighed loudly. "Well, maybe we can find something in the bills." He said and looked the agents. "Because she put the bills at the name of us, right?"
"Only those who don't offer any information. THe others are paid by one of her many aliases… which is properly already frozen down."
The director groaned loudly at that.
On the guild, there was no activity. The girls were all in the meeting room, is a complete mess of dirt, clothes on the ground, and empty bags. Evidently, the girls were not in the mood of doing anything, even after of what happened.
Soon the door opened, Rick getting up when saw who was entering there. It was Madame Fu, who just left the hospital and was being helped by Nida for move around, even if the Mienshao wasn't interested in that. The girls soon stood up from wherever they were at the moment and looked at her.
They were nervous for two reasons… first the mess they left the guild in… and about her reaction to Myst's action.
"How are you, Madame Fu?" Ruby asked finally.
"I'm very disappointed by how bad I taught you about cleaning and maintenance of the guild." She said with a serious tone but then smiled. "And very well for what I see."
The happiness of the girls was obvious and they began to hug her, while she tried a little to hug all them. They hold that for a while before breaking it.
"Well, I see you around. Don't think that I'm needed more here." Said Nida waving a hand and leaving the building.
Madame Fu nodded at the Nidoqueen and then at the girls, just before giving a clap to the air. "Come on! We don't have all day! The festival will don't be this night?"
"But Madame Fu. Are you-"
"I'm really sure. Even if I was hurt or we had a gang here, that aren't reasons for not do our parade." She replied at Lucy. "But first, I think this place should be cleaned, right?"
"Yes, you're right!" Said Marinda and the girls began to clean the room.
"Myst, I can talk with you a moment?" Asked Madame Fu to Myst.
Myst nods "I am coming." she and moves to her.
"And for you, when I get back I want this room cleaned!" She said to the girls, before heading with the help of Myst to her office, closing the door from behind.
"I take it is about my actions… am I kicked out once more?" she said, nonchalant as she is more or less expecting it.
"Look..." She said, sitting in her chair. "Is true that we made a deal that you don't kill anybody. But Nida told me who was the ghost and her relation to the case, and both knew that there was no other possibility of stop that crazy assassin." She explained and looked at her. "I bet that in your life away here you saw how the law investigates the guilds that cause deaths, right?"
"They weren't investigations… they were close downs." sated Myst "Even at clear accidents."
"Yes, and you know that meanwhile, they investigate the death of this ghost, you can't stay here."
"If they still knew the connection between me and the guild. All they know the Zorua Assassin killed the ghost. It's completely on my bill. I did everything to keep the guild out of it."
"I see." She closed her eyes.
"I don't plan to stay too long anyway… only staying for the festival and the birthday of my godchild."
She nodded and opened her eyes. "Before you leave… I want to show you something." She stood up and went to her file cabinet, taking a large folder, placing it in front of Myst.
Curious she opened it and gasped at the contents. Looking at Fu she asks "How?"
She smiled. "You remember when you were a child, and you were drawing that card?"
She nodded and stared at the folder's content. In there were all the newspaper clippings related to all her cases in which her card appeared, and not only that. There was too about the people she has helped in all her career, between them the news of Cynthia and the kidnapped Riolu.
"Even if you decided to use your skills for death, you still didn't forget what I teach you about help the people when is needed and do what was right." Madame Fu explained.
Smiling Myst chuckles "How could I forget? Here are some teachings that were on both sides of my life" and found something else in the clippings… a card with a child drawing… her first adapt to make her signature card. "I didn't think it would still exist…"
Looking up while placing the card back down Myst chuckles "You should check the bank account of your Child Charity. My way to say thanks for the time I had here… the time now. And the time and valuable lessons back then."
She smiled and looked down, closing her eyes. "Maybe I didn't have in all this time the opportunity of saying this, but…" She raises her head and looks at the Zorua. "I'm proud of the woman you've become."
That words were enough of made tears to fall from Myst eyes, who suddenly waved her body at her with her eyes closed. "Thanks, for everything!"
She just stared at Myst, keeping her smile. The Zorua then began to sob, something she hasn't done for years...
A couple of days later, the streets of the town were filled to the brim while keeping the middle free for the colorful wagons with figures and themes to celebrate the day.
Between some of the wagons, one was a representation a forest, where Merinda and Hira, dressed as jungle amazonesses, acting seductively, and roughly at the same time.
Followed up was a tomb, where Fatima floats around, making ghost noises, while June runs after her with the equipment of an exorcist, trying to "get rid" of the ghost type.
Another one seemed a simple platform, where Kara was doing maravarisms with around three bones.
The next one looked at a stadium, where Ruby, Limey, and Dolly were dancing at unison using small flags with their logo with both hands.
Followed up too by one that seemed a medieval keep, with Dracea at the keep's top acting challenging, while Pixy, disguised as a princess, posted at the keep's balcony waving her hand to the public.
Then a circus came and the meowstic of the group began to show little magic tricks while a light show was created by Isis and Xena, with combination of their dark and electric type moves to underlines the magic tricks.
Myst was smiling seeing the parade from a spot away of indiscreet eyes, enjoying how they performed in the festival. After a while spotted a wagon that seemed an oriental tatami, where was Madame Fu, making martial artist movements, hearing to the people how was surprised that she was still able to do that, even after being sent to the hospital days ago. The Zorua chuckles a little while standing to her sides are her friends Saphire and Zane and their daughter Melanie on her shoulders, holding on the Zoruas head.
'You're going to participate in the festival this time?' sounded a voice of herself from her memory.
Several years ago.
"This will be your debut. In this occasion, I will watch you from the public" Said Madame Fu to a young Myst.
"But I wouldn't see where you are…"
"You don't need to worry about that. Just enjoy yourself."
Myst began to think for a while until she got something in mind. "Then, during the parade, I'm going to do this." She said and raised her fist, extending only the thump and index fingers.
"And what's supposed to be that?"
"A message." She replied. "Means that even if I can't see where you are, I will be watching you always!"
Madame Fu got moved by what she thought.
Present.
As the little group keeps watching the parade, Myst looked her hand doing the sign, and when she turned her eyes to the parade, her eyes widened as she saw something peculiar.
Madame Fu was standing on her parade, making exactly the same sign she showed to her time ago. But not only she, all the members of the guild began to raise their hands doing the same sign aiming it to the sky.
"You really haven't forgotten it… eh?" smiles Myst. "That brings back memories…"
A figure similar to a Zorua was sitting on the roof of one of the buildings looking the parade.
"Now I understand why this was her favorite." She said the light of some fireworks illuminated her, showing white fur instead of gray.