It makes me so happy that so many of you love Kaiyou! Ahh… It fills my heart with joy. And no, I didn't "invent" the language. I just… made up translations to it, which you will see shortly. :)
And to the person who asked, no, Demi isn't in love with Kaiyou. Kaiyou is more of a big brother or even a father figure to her. He's her personal deity. (Kind of.) So, she wouldn't have a romantic relationship with Kaiyou. She does have a crush on someone, but I'll just leave it at that. :)
Disclaimer: I own Kaiyou, Yasille, Shayla, Shayla's Uncle, and all names, save for Kuvai, Illauna, Gruzog, Segalla, and Anubo. The rest isn't mine, no matter how much I wish for it.
Price for Freedom
Chapter 18
Anubo
It was the day after Kaiyou had woken up, and we were out of the stinking hospital, traveling to Sootopolis. Kaiyou had spoken with Yasille telepathically, and we were to meet her there.
"So the Yasille you saw in that first dream is the one we're going to meet at Sootopolis?" Tai asked me as we were flying over the sea. I was on Shoko, sitting with Tai, Shayla was on Amburna with Kaiyou behind her, Saji was flying slightly below them, and Illauna was above us, riding on Articuno. She didn't have any of her pokemon out, besides the ice bird. In reply to Tai's question, I nodded.
"Yup," I said. "It's the same person. I think she knows how to defeat Anubo."
Tai sighed. "I hope so."
I cocked my eyebrow. "What's this? Tai, the great warrior, afraid?"
Tai scowled at me. "Shut up. You should be too, what with this huge evil thing rampaging around. Why are you so cheerful?"
I shrugged. It was probably because all of my teammates had recovered so well and so fast. And Kaiyou was back to his old self again. I heard Shoko grunt from beneath us.
"I heard he's already destroyed everything up to Rustburo," the charizard grunted. "There are a lot of refugees fleeing to Johto -maybe we should too, while we still have the chance."
Tai growled. "You mean run away? That's crap! Shoko, even if we did, he'd come into the region we were at eventually."
Shoko shook his orange head. "I also heard that Goldenrod is about to mount an attack on him. They're gathering all of the military strength in the whole Johto region and placing it all in Goldenrod. Even the other countries are helping out -a pidgy told me that there were Americans, Germans, Spanish and Japanese in there, and that there were a lot more to come."
I shook my head. "Even with all of this military power, I doubt that it'll hurt Anubo very much…"
Tai scoffed. "Demi, have you not seen an action movie in your entire life?" At my blank stare, he continued. "I know the run-down. Americans have nukes. Nukes can blow anything into smithereens. Including Anubo."
I frowned. "I don't know. I hope you're right, Tai." The thought that Anubo could be defeated so easily… I didn't think it was very possible. No, my intuition was telling me that the battle against Anubo would consist of more than a few Americans and their "nukes".
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We had come to a small diner in Sootopolis City, with Kaiyou in his human form and the rest of my comrades out of their poke balls. Illauna kept her tyranitar, Gruzog, out to ensure our privacy. Shayla and Illauna sat down on one side of a red, cushioned booth and Kaiyou sat on the other. He leaned back and put his arms up on the top of the booth in a casual manner. Illauna leaned forward on the glossy wooden table and spoke softly.
"Is there any way to stop him?" she asked in a whisper, looking at Kaiyou, who had turned away and was looking out the window to his right. When he heard the question, he turned to her and cocked his eyebrow.
"Stop?" he asked, apparently not knowing who Illauna was talking about. Shayla sighed and crossed her arms.
"Who do you think?" Shayla said in a harsh whisper. "Anubo! How do you stop him? How do you defeat him!"
Kaiyou stared at her, and then burst out laughing. The few people in the diner with us began to look at the Dark Legendary, but then Illauna's tyranitar growled at them, to which they happily went back to what they were doing before. After Kaiyou had stopped laughing, he wiped his eyes -apparently, he had laughed so hard, he cried.
Tai didn't like this. "How could he laugh about Anubo?" he asked in my ear. I gave a slight shrug -I thought Anubo wasn't a laughing matter, but apparently…
Kaiyou looked at Illauna like she was insane. "Defeat Anubo?" he asked incredulously. "Ha! Naïve human, do you really think there is a way to defeat a leviathan like that?" He leaned back on his seat and looked back out the window. "No… There isn't a way. At least not one that can be used in this age anyway." He looked back at Shayla and Illauna and narrowed his eyes. "You might as well just give up and find some underground haven until he blows his anger out. Once his strength is spent, then he will return to his Kuvai form and return to the Black Tomb."
Shayla pounded her fists on the table. "That's crap! You're his GUARDIAN! You HAVE to know a way to stop him!"
Kaiyou glared at my trainer. "I am the Guardian of the Black Tomb. Not of Kuvai himself. I'm just supposed to make sure this doesn't happen."
"Fine job you did there," Tai muttered, and the Dark Legendary turned his icy gaze upon the jolteon beside me. Tai whimpered and jumped behind Shoko. The charizard merely rolled his eyes.
Kaiyou returned his gaze back to the trainers. "Besides, Anubo's rampage won't last too long…" Then, his face became worried. "Unless…"
Shayla's eyebrow went up. " 'Unless…?' Unless what? Don't tell me this situation could get worse."
Kaiyou sighed. "Well… Anubo… It's a complicated thing… What Anubo really is, is a formless demon that possesses others in order to survive. Anubo got a hold of Kuvai when… Kuvai first came into being. The thing is unstoppable, especially since he has Kuvai's powers to wield at his whim." Kaiyou picked up the menu in front of him began to read. The two trainers exchanged glances and looked back at Kaiyou.
"…What are you doing?" Shayla asked. The Dark Legendary made a glance at my trainer from over the top of his menu and looked back down.
Instead of answering her with words, he raised his hand and the waitress, though reluctant to come near because of Illauna's tyranitar, walked to Kaiyou. "D-Do you need anything, S-Sir?" she stuttered, but Kaiyou didn't pay heed to her fright.
"Yes, I need a Pecha and Wiki Berry pie, please," he said, handing the waitress some money.
"D-Do you want a whole p-pie or just a s-slice…?" the waitress asked.
"Just a slice," Kaiyou answered and patted his belly. "Gotta watch my carb intake -I'm trying to watch my figure."
The waitress gave a nervous laugh, took his money and then walked briskly away, keeping her distance from the tyranitar.
For a moment, I wondered where he had gotten that money, but my thought was distracted by the shout that Shayla gave after the waitress left.
"YOU'RE ORDERING PIE?" Shayla demanded as she stood up out of her seat. I myself flinched away from her -I had never heard that kind of tone out of her before.
However, Kaiyou wasn't intimidated. He stared at her with a kind of blank stare, and said, "Well, yes. I'm hungry. All of that stinking hospital crap made my stomach want real food for once."
Shayla plopped back into her seat. She let her head fall onto the table with a thud and moaned after the collision. Illauna didn't pay attention to this and tried to talk to Kaiyou again.
"Look. Every pokemon has its weakness. Mewtwo and Lugia… They're psychic and can be taken down with a dark or ghost or bug type attack." Kaiyou raised an eyebrow. "Even you can be taken down with an army of fighting-types… This Anubo guy has to have some kind of weakness."
Kaiyou smiled bitterly. "You would think that wouldn't you? You humans… You just don't know when to give up. Anubo has no type. His attacks have no type. Therefore, he has no weakness, and no strength against any other pokemon. He has pure, cataclysmic power and size on his side. And he's a shadow… so guns and any kind of artillery won't work."
Shayla moaned in irritation and allowed her voice to grow. "Why can't you think of a way to stop him! He's destroying all of Hoenn! And pretty soon he'll move on to Johto and then finally Kanto! We have to stop him NOW!"
Kaiyou glared, and then gave a small frown. "No."
Shayla roared with anger, and then leaped over the table and wrapped her hands around Kaiyou's neck. "YOU KNOW A WAY, DON'T YOU?" She shook him a few times, and shouted the same question over and over again. I looked behind me and saw the whole diner staring at us with open mouths and wide eyes. Gruzog growled and roared, and the spectators returned to their previous activities.
Finally, Kaiyou slapped Shayla away and pushed her back into her seat. He rubbed his neck for a moment, and, with a steely, determined glare focused on my trainer, he said, "I do. But it's not like it could be of any use here, in this era."
Illauna looked at Kaiyou patiently. "You've said that before. What do you mean by that?"
The Dark Legendary frowned. "It's not going to do you any good, human, to know."
Shayla scowled. "Stop beating around the friggen' bush. Tell us what it is."
Kaiyou leaned back in his chair and scowled at my trainer. "No. I won't. I'm telling you -it won't do you any good and it'll be a waste of time and air."
Shayla's face grew dark. "Who was the one who saved you from those wounds you got after getting the blue orb?"
Kaiyou's face darkened, and his lip drew up in a very wolfish manner. "I never asked you to do it. I could have healed by myself. I didn't want your help."
But Shayla wasn't daunted. "But you accepted it. And, at this moment, you are still in my possession."
"You know," Kaiyou said loftily -quite a change from the ominous tone he had just a second ago, "Threatening me isn't going to get you anywhere. I could kill you in an instant -I'm not scared of you, human. Oh, of course you could sick your own pokemon upon me, but I could just disappear into the Void, safe from Anubo, and you would never see me again."
Illauna sighed. "Please, Kaiyou… Why won't you tell us? It wouldn't hurt to know, would it?"
The Dark Legendary scoffed. "Of course it would. Because you'd think it would be possible. And then you would go on this pointless wild goose chase and drag me with you. No. I'm not going to tell you."
There was a moment of tense silence where no one dared to move. The waitress, having overcome her fear of Gruzog, brought Kaiyou his piece of Wiki and Pecha berry pie. He took a piece off and tossed it to me, to which I hungrily gobbled up. They were, after all, my two favorite berries. Tai whimpered about him being hungry too.
Shayla threw herself against the back of her seat, and turned to Illauna. "He's not going to tell us. He's too damn stubborn." I saw Illauna look at Kaiyou, who was hungrily devouring his piece of pie, and sighed.
"Maybe you're right," Illauna said sadly. "But maybe he's right, too. Maybe there isn't a possible way to stop Anubo. After all… he should know of all people."
Kaiyou paused in his eating.
Shayla looked at the other trainer like she was insane. "Are you crazy?" she half-shouted, "He can't be telling the truth! There's always a way to defeat anything, no matter how impossible it may seem! At least there's a way to do it!"
Illauna shrugged. "I don't know, Shayla. I'm sure he doesn't like Anubo rampaging around as much as you and I, but… but I have to go by what he says. He knows more about Anubo and Kuvai than we do."
Shayla nodded. "Yeah… he does have infinite knowledge about the subject… And he's so powerful and glamorous…"
Kaiyou lifted his head. "Flattery won't work either."
Shayla pouted and cursed. Illauna sighed and then looked at Kaiyou in the eye. "Please, Kaiyou. I know that you don't want to get dragged into this and go on 'a wild goose chase' as you proclaim, but…" Illauna's face became determined, and her back straightened. "But this is your responsibility as the Guardian of the Black Tomb. If something goes wrong there, then it's your responsibility to fix it. We're willing to help you clean up your mess. Will you accept it or not?"
Kaiyou watched her for a moment, and, after a few seconds, sighed deeply and leaned back in his seat again. "I know I'm going to regret this, but… but I recall something from a long time ago -when I was still in my original life. I remember something -a legend- about the presence of a pure-hearted trainer accompanied by a pure-hearted pokemon, about how it would stop Anubo somehow. It's corny as hell, I know, but that's the way. The ONLY way. Unless you count running away to Europe or something." Kaiyou looked out the window. "There. I've told you. Now, do with it what you want."
Shayla seemed surprised. "That's it? That's all we have to do?" She began to get out of her seat when the Dark Legendary pulled her back down.
Kaiyou scoffed. "You ARE naïve! Have you ANY idea how HARD it is to find something remotely pure-hearted! A rock would have more chance of being pure-hearted than a pokemon! Or a trainer for that manner!" He crossed his legs under the table. "I told you, in this day and age, there isn't any hope of finding either one."
Shayla sighed. "So pessimistic. Someone has to pure-hearted. A whole species can't be all one thing, like evil or good. Someone has to-"
"Shut up," Kaiyou interrupted. "I don't want to hear any of your rational crap. But, see, you're proving my point. I knew you would want to go looking for a pure-hearted trainer and likewise pokemon. Friggen' wild goose chase. Well, you know what? I don't want to be a part of it. I don't like Anubo tearing up the landscape and killing innocents, but I don't want to be dragged into some pointless journey that will exhaust supplies and raise useless hopes." He got up to leave, but, for some reason, I jumped in front of his pathway.
He looked at me for a moment, and then smiled a bit. I don't know why he did, but then he scooted back into his seat. Shayla and Illauna looked at him strangely.
"I thought you didn't want to be a part of this," Shayla said in a condescending tone, to which Kaiyou glared.
"I don't. But your absol seems to think that this could work." He then looked at me, but… I was confused. I didn't have any hope for this plan. I just… I didn't really know why I jumped out in front him. I just did…
Shayla crossed her arms. "So, what about any of our pokemon?" she asked. He looked at her, and the inclined eyebrow rose. "Could any of our pokemon be pure-hearted?"
Kaiyou laughed. "Are you serious? Let's see, shall we? First off, your jolteon is gluttonous and harbors feelings of jealousy -no winner there." Tai pouted from behind Shoko. "Your dragonair is vain, your charizard is bloodthirsty in battle, your espeon is selfish, your scizor wants everything to burn, and your absol has feelings of revenge and hatred bottled up inside her…" He leaned back in his booth and put his hands behind his head. "No, none of the pokemon present will do."
Shayla cocked her own eyebrow. "Well? What about you?"
Kaiyou seemed surprised by this question, but then his shock settled into the smirk he usually wore. "Me? I'm cynical and pessimistic."
Tai scoffed. "Never would have guessed…"
The Dark Legendary didn't seem to hear Tai's remark and kept talking. "I think I know of a pokemon… but I doubt we could find a trainer before Anubo lays waste to this pitiful planet…" He looked out the window and then smiled. "Ah, she's here."
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We walked out of the diner and saw Yasille in her human form, staring out to the ocean in Sootopolis. I guess she heard us coming because she turned and looked us over. She was so beautiful in the sunlight -her golden hair seemed to shine and glow on its own in the day. She saw Kaiyou and her face broke out into a wide smile. "Brother…"
I looked back to Kaiyou, who had the most wonderful smile on his face. He stepped forward and held his arms out to his sister. "Little brat," he said softly.
Yasille squeaked in delight, and then ran at full speed to tackle her brother. She plowed into him and then wrapped her arms securely around the Dark Legendary's neck. She then began to mutter delightfully into his shoulder. I heard him chuckle and then he pulled her off and then ruffled her golden hair.
"How are you, sister?" he asked a little anxiously. She looked up at him and then smiled.
"Ame na horo!" she shouted. "I missed you for so long! How are you…" I looked at her face, which was full of confusion. Kaiyou looked down and then cocked his head.
"What?" he asked, and then Yasille's face became pale.
"You… Why do you smell like an ultra ball?" She looked up at her brother. "Kaiyou, have you been…"
He smiled and waved the matter off with his hand. "It's all right, Yasille. Don't worry about it. We have much larger threats to deal with."
At first, Yasille seemed confused for a moment, but then her beautiful face broke out into another smile. "Oh, I'm so happy… I was mortified when they killed you… But now, after so long, you're here and… and…" She let her head fall back to her brother's wide shoulder and began sobbing happily into his shirt. Behind me, I heard Tai say softly, "Aww… It's… It's so heartwarming…" I looked and saw him sniffling. Saji stared down at him like the idiot Tai was. "I think going to cry…"
Saji hit the jolteon on the head. "Pull yourself together, man…"
I chuckled lightly and then, I felt a wave, much like a storm gives off before it hits. However, this was no storm. I shuddered at the feeling it gave off. It was a cold, harsh, foreboding feeling. I looked to the sky and saw a figure slip over the sun through the hole in the mountain. Apparently, Kaiyou and Yasille felt it as well, because they sprang to their feet and looked to the sky in fear.
"We have to get out!" Kaiyou shouted. "We'll be trapped here! He's got the only route out blocked!"
"What?" Shayla cried. "You mean Anubo's-"
Shayla didn't finish her sentence because right then, a shadow ball collided with the ground near our feet and exploded. I was thrown off my feet and into the interior of the mountain. I felt dizzy at first, but then I staggered back to my feet to see Anubo's grinning face through the hole in the mountain.
"Ah, Kaiyou!" he roared. "You did survive! Amazing. Simply amazing. You know, you remind me of a cockroach- you never seem to just die."
he roared.I looked to my left to see Kaiyou, still in human form, standing defiantly before Anubo, a furious expression sketched on his face.
"Damn you, Anubo!" he shouted over the screams of the citizens. "I'll never rest until I rid Kuvai of you! Parasite! Leech! DEMON! LEAVE HIM!"
Kaiyou's form morphed into his true form, and then he lunged at the giant Anubo. The shadow demon growled and then sent a shadow ball at the advancing Dark Legendary. The two connected, and then Kaiyou was thrown back to the ground, but he landed easily on his feet.
Anubo snarled. "What I do with Kuvai is my own business, not yours, dog! Now, let's see if you will die properly!" And then, in his massive black paws, he formed another huge ball of raw energy, and then flung it down upon us.
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Ah, finally… I end this chapter… :sighs: I think I'm going to fail Chem and Math this 6 weeks… I really do… I hope I do well on the upcoming tests…
Ja!