Parallel Hearts Chapter 17
As morning rises for the team, Mega was already up and restocked on food. Then they continue with they're journey (despite the fact that their bodies are still sore from yesterday's training). The silence this time was actually comfortable for them, as they walk to their next destination... the abandoned house.
"I'm telling you, there has to be a reason why that it's abandoned," Knolla breaks the silence as she decides to walk this time with both the compass and rolled-up map in each hand.
"There probably is, but we'll never know unless we find the reason," Zero replies as he carries his bag of food.
Mega was walking next to Rose and Beauty this time, "how have you been since we've been seperated, Rose?" Mega probably knows the answer, but he still wants to know if she was ok while he wasn't with her.
Rose turns her head towards him, "I've been fine without you, Mega," she looks up to the beautiful morning sky, "even though I wished that you were still around."
Mega feels guilty about the whole situation, "there were times I wished you were with me too," he hesitated about the next part, "though I feel I don't deserve it considering I'm a hypocrite."
She pauses for a moment and slaps Mega in the face, making him wince in pain, "you're not a hypocrite... I'm still here, aren't I?"
Mega pauses from the sudden slap, "yes."
Rose smiles, "then you haven't broken your promise just so long as I'm still alive." She wraps her arms around Mega's, puts her head against his shoulder, then cuddles into his fur with such passion, all while still walking, "I don't want anyone else protecting me but you... because you're the only pokemon I can truly trust with such a big promise."
Mega couldn't help but smile and wrap his other arm around her waist into a tight hug, "thank you."
Beauty watch the whole scenario and couldn't help but feel jealousy towards the bunny girl. She wants at least a hug from Mega time-to-time, then an idea hits her head. After they were done what they were doing, Beauty walks up to them and says, "Meggy, can I have a hug every now and then too?"
Mega thinks about it... he hasn't been paying much attention to Beauty since the journey started, "ok," he says with a smile.
Beauty tries to make the cutest face she could muster up, "you promise?"
Mega looks at her and couldn't resist the cute face she's making, "I promise," making her cheer and snuggles her head into his fur, "thank you, but if you don't, you're giving me a piggy-back ride."
Fast Star was walking next to Breaker this time, "you have amazing strength," he compliments the tauros, making the tauros smile in response, "thanks, I do my best when it comes to training."
Breaker thinks about what to say, "what's the move that you're trying to learn, anyways?"
Fast Star looks at Zero for a moment, "Water Pulse... Zero thinks it'd be better if I learn a move that might cause a status problem," making Breaker laughs, "I think Zero has some good ideas for you."
The buizel looks at Breaker for a moment, making him explain further, "if you're being train by the pokemon that trained Mega... wouldn't that mean you'll catch up to him?"
Fast Star thinks about it... raising his fist in the air, "you're right! I can compete with the mouse for who gets to become the stronger pokemon!"
Diggy and Midori watches Fast Star's determination, "he sure is pumped about the training excercises," Diggy comments, "yeah... enough said." They both nod to that agreement and continue walking in silence.
After a long walk... they made it towards the abandoned house. For being abandoned, it almost looks brand new: it's a three story house that barely has any broken windows, and the paint on it is the only thing that signifies that it's abandoned.
Mega looks at it for a moment, "that's not a house, that's a freaking mansion!" Everyone agrees to Mega's statement.
"House, mansions, same thing," Zero says with a shrug.
They enter through the gates and look around the garden, mainly Knolla, "there's berries of all kinds here, why hasn't anyone decide to live here?" She questions the unexplainable.
Zero goes through the front door and looks through the house to see if anyone else is in there at all, "still no one here..." he shrugs it off and walks into the empty house. He set his bag of food to the floor so it wouldn't weigh him down to try and remember where the bedrooms are.
Everyone decides to follow Zero, only for him to stop and turn around, "I don't remember where the bedrooms are," making everyone sweat drop, "I think we should split up."
Mega goes with Diggy and Knolla to explore the top floor, Fast Star goes with Midori and Beauty to the middle floor, Zero goes with Rose to look around the first floor, and Breaker stays around the entrance to keep watch.
Mega goes up the two sets of stairs to the third floor, "man, killer steps," he complains and stops to sit down and rub his feet.
Knolla flies up the stairs, holding Diggy in her arms, "stop complaining and lets take a look for those bedrooms," Knolla states and gets Mega on his feet.
Diggy looks around and see a hall with hardly any doors, "wow, this hall is almost empty." The other two looks at the small swinub and then look at the almost empty halls... this wouldn't take too long.
Fast Star was looking through the empty halls, "where are the doors?" He asks in fustration as he looks around.
"Relax, we have an entire day to look for that comfortable room." Midori giggles at the eevee's comment.
"And you need to train more, you couldn't even break a rock!"
Beauty huffs at that mean comment, "that wasn't very nice, Fast Star... not everyone are power-houses like you, Meggy, or Zero."
The buizel crosses his arms in response, "well at least train harder next time."
They found a door at last on the empty halls. Fast Star jumps, hangs on the door nob, twists, and using momentum, he opens the door. When they look inside, they find that it has a water-filled hole, "cool," Fast Star shouts in excitement and dives into the water. The two sighs at the water weasil's natural instinct to swim around.
Zero was trying to remember where that room was as he and Rose were in a decision on where to go between the two halls in front of them, "which one was it again?" Zero asks, making Rose fustrated about the situation.
"Why don't we pick one and see if that's the correct one?" She asks, "so that way if it isn't the right one we can always go back and pick the other one." That's a great idea and Zero decides to pick the one on the left.
Mega opens one of the doors, only to see a empty room, Knolla was having the same results, but Diggy found an old desk from the door he opened.
"Guys, I found something," he shouts to the others, making Knolla and Mega to look through the drawers on the desk.
Knolla only finds a piece of paper in one of the drawers, and begins to read it, "'Dear anyone who reads this,'" she begins, "'get out of this accursed house as soon as you can, because your life is in danger.'" She wonders how, "'there is a ghost pokemon here that can take your life force away from you as they done to me and my wife.'"
Mega was scared about the situation they're in, "g-ghost pokemon that take away your life force?"
Knolla wastes no time and gets out of the room and flies down to the first floor.
Breaker was laying on the floor, taking a nap when Knolla was flying down as fast as she could. "Breaker get out of the house as soon as you can," she orders him, making the tauros look in confusion, "why?"
"Because this place will drain your life away," that's more than enough reasons for him to barge out of the house.
Zero begins to remember where the bedroom is, "it should be... right over here," he opens a door and there lays six sets of beds, all set together to look like one big bed.
The sleeping arrangement gets Rose confuse, "how are we going to sleep?"
Zero just looks at her, "relax, there's another bedroom over there," he points at a door on the left side of the walls, "you girls sleep over there."
This puts relief on the rabbit pokemon, she doesn't want an argument on who sleeps where now, especially with who might actually sleep next to a certain pikachu, until she sees Knolla flying straight at them, "we have to get out of here!"
After a good swim for Fast Star, everyone continue their search for the room they're looking for, "I feel better now," Fast Star says while still covered in water.
"Of course you are," Beauty huffs as she decides not to be a vaporeon. Is there any evolution choice that she can be comfortable with?
Her train of thought changes when she sees her love interest running down the halls for them.
When Mega caught up to them, he was heavelly breathing, "g-guys," he begins, "w-we have to get out of here," he inhales deeply to regain his lost breath.
"Why?" Midori asks.
"Because this place is dangerous, I'll explain when we get outside!" The others follow Mega as he leads them through the halls, unknown to them that they're being watched.
Everyone, except Breaker meet around the entrance ready to leave, but the door in front of them just slams shut.
"W-What's going on?" Beauty stutters and hides behind Mega.
"It must be aware we're all here now," Knolla says as she watches the others trying to open the door. They heard a large bang from the other side of the door, "I can't help you guys out either! These doors are solid," they hear Breaker from the other side of the door way.
"W-What is that?" Beauty asks pointing at a purple glow from behind them, the others look at it, freaking out in the process.
The glowing orb grows closer to them, revealing a chandelure, "greetings fellow travelers," it begins, but by the judge of it's voice it's female, "thank you for coming, but I'm afraid your spirits are to feed my flames."
Mega was first to recover from his state of fear, "and why should we?"
The chandelure's fire in the center of her head begins to grow from the question, "because I want to eat... it's been so long since I had a decent meal," fire begins to form in front of the chandelier pokemon into a ball, "Flamethrower!"
Everyone scatters around to avoid the deadly stream of fire that burns the carpet they were at, Mega, being the first to react, "Thunderbolt," releashes a bolt of lightning from his body towards the chandelure.
"Protect," a wall of energy forms around her and blocks the attack, after it disappears Fast Star tries to attack her from the left side, "Water Gun," and bursts a stream of water from his mouth.
Seeing the attack coming, "Flamethrower," another fire ball begins to form on her right side and fires a stream of fire towards the water going against her. The two attacks collides, cancelling each other out and creating a large amount of mist all over the place, Zero's cue to attack, "Bullet Seed!" He slides on the floor below the Fire/Ghost Type pokemon and unleashes a barrage of seed-shaped energy from his mouth.
He succeeds on hitting her, giving Beauty and Rose an opporuntiy to attack as well.
"Shadow Ball!"
"Hidden Power!"
Beauty channels a sinister black ball to her mouth, while Rose forms energy balls around herself. Rose charges in to get a better chance of hitting her opponent and launches the many energy balls towards the her target, "Protect," another wall of energy forms around chandelure, blocking the barrage of energy.
Knolla only knows one move, Metronome, and she decides to give it a try, "Metronome!" She wiggles her glowing paws, hoping to get a good move.
Suddenly, the energy barrier dispersed, "w-what's going on? Why can't I can't use Protect anymore?" The chandelure asks in complete shock, "looks like I used Disable," she sighs in relief, knowing this is the best she can offer.
Beauty takes the new opportunity she now has while the going gets good and launches her Shadow Ball at the giant pokemon. After a good, solid hit on the back of the chandelure, makes the eevee smile as she channels another sinister black aura sphere from her mouth.
The chandelure was getting annoyed about the situation, "Shadow Ball," she channels a black, aura ball of shadows, different from Beauty's, and launches it at Mega, "Will 'O Wisp." Chandelure fires a blue fire from the purple flames on her head right after.
Mega easily dodges the dark aura ball, but was hit by the blue flames. He feels like he's on fire and soon was covered in flames, screaming in pain, "Mega, are you ok?" He hears a question behind him as he falls to all four, "don't worry about me, just keep fighting," he orders the owner's voice.
Fast Star wishes he put out the fire on Mega, but he knows Water Gun wouldn't put out the flames. Zero slides on his feet backwards as he was forced back from an attack next to the water pokemon, "can you use Water Pulse yet?" He questions Fast Star without looking at him.
"I'm not making good progress... I can only make one a day," he replies to Zero, making him smile, "lets make the most of it then."
"Powder Snow," Diggy inhales, then exhales a cold barrage of snow from his snout. It freezes the Ghost/Fire Type, but only for a moment as it melts through it with a channelling Flamethrower. She aims it at the swinub, "Dig," he dodges the attack by burrowing underground.
Knolla looks through a bag of berries that one of them was carrying, "I know there is a rawst berry here somewhere," she says thinking she can cure Mega from his burning status. She finds one, grabs it, and flies towards Mega as fast as she could, "Mega! Eat this!" She tosses the rawst berry towards him, making him catch it and eat it as fast as he could, despite hating bitter food. The flames on him stops as he feels better and runs toward the chandelure.
Zero dashes towards the chandelure with great speed and reflex against the burst of flames going against him, "Leaf Blade," he blocks one of flames about to hit him with one of the bladed leaves growing out of his arms. As he gets closer, he slices pass the chandelure, "now Fast Star!"
Suddenly, the buizel appears in front of her with rings of water forming around his arms, "Water Pulse," he tosses them out of his arms and hits the chandelure in the face, but that wasn't enough to knock it out.
"Dig!" Diggy appears from the ground and impacts against the chandelure.
"Volt Tackle!" Mega appears right behind him as well and hits her, going for the knock out. When the electrical charge attack collides with chandelure, there was a massive explosion engulfing both the pikachu and chandelure.
Nobody knows who will come out of the puff of smoke, until Mega walks out with the unconscious Ghost/Fire type pokemon on one of his hands. After dropping her, "that was too easy," the pikachu looks towards the others as he says this with a smile on his face, making them sigh at his remark.
