Transformation: New Dawn
Chapter 16: revenge
A/N: Hi everyone! Here's another update, and I'm sure you eager fans can't wait for another. ^_^. MEE-YAA!
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon, Nintendo does. TurtlesandMonkeys owns the Transformation universe and I am only borrowing with permission. Swack 16 owns John and Sarah, TurtlesandMonkeys owns Mary, Lord Nalthren owns Omega. CHIKA! CHIKORI!
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The jeep revved though the dirt road, the trees whizzing by at a steady pace. John only stared out into the forest, seeing an occasional pokemon here and there. Mary and Linda sat next to him in the back while Yui sat in the passenger side and an omega soldier was driving them. John fingered his Necklace, thinking about what his grandpa Shu told him.
So my family was a part of the ancient society…
"Vee." He found himself saying and Mary and Linda looked at him. "What?" Linda asked. John raised an eyebrow. "What I say?" Mary looked at him with a curious stare. "You said 'Vee', like an Eevee." John put a hand to his throat. "Really? Huh…"
Wonder what that was all about…
He looked at the others. "Hey guys, I don't know how to say this, but…" He scratched the back of his head. "Do you ever get the feeling that you weren't cured all the way? That the pokemon is still kind of in there?"
Mary looked to him and Linda cocked her head. "Pokemon still inside?"
John nodded. "Sometimes I just feel some of the things I felt when I was a pokemon still resonating with me. That 'Vee' must be left over from when I was an Eevee." Mary thought about it. "You know…I don't recall some feelings from either the time I was a Togekiss, and there was that time I was a Plusle, but I think the Doduo still resonates because it was so recent. Other than that, I don't see it."
"I don't feel anything left over from the Skarmory other than I don't want that to happen again."
John looked out the window. "Oh, never mind then. Just a thought…"
He looked at his reflection in the window, staring hard. He then began to imagine several features changing on his face, making him look more like…an Eevee. He blinked and shook his head. Get a grip John...you're not an Eevee anymore…
He thought back to his experience as an Eevee, and remembered how almost…natural it felt. He didn't like being short or walking on four legs, but he felt more at home in Eevee from than when he was a Doduo. Of course, I lost my mind that time…but why do I still feel something from the Eevee? He remembered the time before he regained sentience, seeing the little silver Eevee reach out to him, and he took its paw. The Eevee helped guide me back…
He then began to remember the fight in a detail that gave him the impression he was the Eevee that fought for his sanity. Maybe I was both…maybe that Eevee was me.
He grasped a hand around his necklace and rubbed his thumb against the stone, noticing its shiny silver surface reminded him of the fur he had when he was an Eevee. He looked at his bangs, looking similar to the ones found on young Eevee kits. He thought back to the pair of Vaporeon that Grandpa Shu always kept, talking to them with such fondness. He wondered why he was thinking all these thoughts now…
Yui looked ahead and saw something. "Hold on, stop the jeep." He told the driver. He opened the door and removed his pistol from his holster. In front of the jeep headlights was a figure on the ground, almost like an unconscious kid. John went to the front seat and saw Yui cautiously approach the laying figure. Yui looked back. "Looks like some kid passed out on the road. " Mary and Linda joined John as they watched Yui approach the child on the ground. John felt a growl in the back of his throat. "Something doesn't feel right." Linda blinked and thought she saw the bushes rustle. "Uh guys…what did those kids that attacked you in those stories looked like?" Mary turned back. "Young, had markings, traveled with pokemon. Why?"
John's eyes widened and he began to open the door. "Shit." He muttered. He then jumped out. "Yui!"
Yui had approached the child and was reaching for a pulse when he heard John. He turned. "What is it?"
"Don't! It's a trap!"
The child on the ground then opened his eyes and kicked Yui in the stomach. Yui grasped himself as he fell back from the sudden blow. The kid stepped up and made a whistle and a vine shot out from the bushes and wrapped around Yui's arm as he reached for his fallen pistol. Another vine whip shot out and wrapped around his neck and he began to struggle and grasp at the vine around his neck with his freehand.
Linda and Mary gasped and John growled and pulled a ball from his belt. "Go Sora!" he released the Staraptor and it flapped its wings as it was released. "Go help Yui out!" Sora nodded and began to sail for the bushes when a thunderbolt struck him and the bird veered off and slammed into a tree. John then saw several young children come out from the bushes with scowls on their faces, being led by two twins with red hair and strange markings.
It's them… the society.
John recalled Sora and reached for a ball. "Come on, I'll take on all of you!" He yelled defiantly at the kids. Linda saw Yui begin to get dragged off by the vines, his struggles becoming weaker and she pulled out her tranquilizer pistol and walked out of the jeep, getting into a kneeling position and firing into the bushes, the vines suddenly slacking. Yui pushed them off as he struggled to get up. Several kids suddenly jumped on him and held him down. Linda then began to aim at the children when a thunderbolt struck her hand and she cried out as she dropped the pistol. She saw a Minun scurry by with an enraged look on its face. Yui struggled and looked at them. "Go! Get back to the jeep! Get out of here!"
Mary then gasped as a Pinsir appeared on the driver door and rammed its two mighty pincers into the door, the driver reaching for his gun when it pulled hard and tossed the door. Mary turned around and saw a Heracross fly down and get behind the Jeep and stuck its horn under the bumper. The Driver was about to aim at Pinsir when Heracross pushed against the ground and the jeep began to lift, making the jeep jolt and the driver dropped his gun. Pinsir rammed forward and the driver suddenly screamed as the cruel horns rammed into his thigh, the muscle being shredded like butter and blood gushing on the bug pokemon's horns. Mary gasped at him and felt him grab her with a shaking hand and Mary felt the jeep rise again as the Heracross lifted again. Linda and John looked back at them "Mary!" they both called out.
Mary closed her eyes as the jeep began to flip forward and heard metal and glass crunch, closing her eyes as glass showered in. She felt hands grasp her and saw the kids beginning to grab her. She began to swat at them when the grabbed her arms. "No! No! Let go of me!" She yelled at them. They grabbed her legs after she was out of the jeep and held her down as they began to tie her. John was running to them when one of the twins saw him coming and suddenly pulled a sweep kick, tripping John and he felt the world whirl as he tumbled forward. He landed on his back and several kids were on top of his chest already, bringing their ropes. John shook and struggled. "GRAH! LET ME GO! YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!" The red headed girl scowled and kicked him in the side of his head. "Silence! You will be judged by Yasuo's grace soon enough!" John could see Linda dodging one of the lunges made at her and she swung a punch but they dodged and tackled her down, bringing their ropes. The Driver was also dragged. Soon the kids brought them to a tree, bound up tight by the ropes. The other children gathered around the twins. The twins walked up to the group. "We remember you two…those who broke the rules." The redheaded girl said to Mary and John. Her brother looked to Yui and Linda. "And you two are also guilty of aiding these traitors of the way, and therefore, you too must be punished." Yui struggled in his ropes. "You kids are with those society nut jobs, like the ones we have back on omega." The redheaded boy, Daryn suddenly struck Yui in the face. "Silence!" The girl, Mira walked to the driver with the bleeding leg. "We can't take him back like this. He'll slow us down." the driver looked to her with wide eyes. She then looked to Daryn and he nodded, pulling out a syringe with light blue substance. He began to sweat and shake in his bindings. "No please…don't," he pleaded through strained words. Daryn suddenly stuck it in his neck and he began to cry out instantly. The other's looked with confused and terrified looks. The kids cut loose his ropes and he began to clutch himself, writhing as a new pain even more intense then his torn leg assaulted his body.
It's not even midnight...why is it working now? John thought as he watched the virus begin its work.
The man's pores began to leak a thin layer of slime as it began to travel all over his body, making his skin appear slick. His skin began to turn a light blue, the back of his neck turning burble as a fin like ridge began to protrude from his spine across his back. He was on all fours as an object began to build up in his pants and tear through, revealing a large round tail with the blue fin extending to it. His arms began to shrink as his fingers began to recede and merge and become round three fingered digits. His torso began to swell up as his legs were shrinking back into his body, the pain of his organs relocating making him scream with agony. His neck began to thicken and his hair fell out as his ears merged with his head and his nose shrank back, leaving two holes. His mouth began to stretch wider and settled into a dopey smirk.
When all was done, the newly formed Quagsire opened its expressionless eyes and shook its clothes off. Yui stared with an unbelievable look and Linda closed her eyes at the sight. Mary and John just stared, wondering why the virus worked when it was to even midnight. The Quagsire began to slide into the forest. Mira and Daryn smirked and pointed at the rest. "We now have a means to end your meddling, and this time, not even daylight will hide you from our wrath." He then gestured to the other kids to lift them up and haul them away. John squirmed as he felt the kids beginning to grab him and jerked hard. "Where are you taking us?"
Mira smirked. "Someone wants to see you again."
John growled. "The old man, your elder?" Mira shook her head. "No, he is no more, the last we heard. Never the less, you will receive proper justice for your crimes."
John growled and Daryn made a gesture and one of the kids struck him on the head, John struggling to maintain consciousness when another blow knocked him out…
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The society children dragged their captive cargo through the forest, deep night settling in. They preferred the night, the darkness shrouding their actions and keeping their activities a secret from the world. The girls began to protest when Daryn and Mira told the others to silence them and they placed tape over their mouths. Daryn smiled. This was just like before, in the heyday of their society, before the rule breakers led their society to complete and utter ruin. Well, almost.
They soon came upon a small enclosure lit by stone torches. Mary could smell the faint hint of incense burning and although this wasn't the same village they had been to before, drapes with the familiar markings were placed in several areas of the small camp. There was a tent with the faint dim glow of a fire inside, ornate markings on the tent flaps. Mira and Daryn told the others to stop and both simultaneously walked forward and kneeled.
"Oh Father Aylewood, we have returned with the law breakers for you to judge." Mira said.
John began to stir and was waking up, seeing the small makeshift camp and the markings. He looked to the tent and watched it open. Mary's eyes widened as she recognized the figure emerging from the tent.
A man with markings on his skin walked out, his white robes draped with purple sashes marked with gold markings shaped like the ones on his skin. On his thin cheekbones were several vertical red stripes, a crucifix made to look like a "Y" on his head. He had a hooked nose and narrow eyes and over his silver hair he wore a tall papal cap with the same "Y" embroidered on the center. Hanging by his hips was a dagger with ceremonial markings. His thin mouth curled into a wicked smile when he saw the captives but returned to its straight serious position.
Mary and John remembered him. He was the insane priest from that village…the one who took Sherice…
"You have done well young ones." The priest, Father Aylewood, sternly told the twins and they nodded. "Rise." he told them and they stood up and went by his side. He walked up to Mary and held her chin in his hand, his nails almost like claws.
"I remember you…the girl from the village…the one with that Missy girl." He then spat in her face and viciously let her go. He walked up to John. "And you… you were the little Eevee." John growled at him and spat in his direction. One of the kids came by and kicked his side. Aylewood then walked to Yui and Linda. "And you two...I don't believe we have met, but I am sure these traitors have told you all about us." He reached for Linda's tape. "You'll no longer need this." He jerked it off and Linda cried out as the tape pulled her skin and stung as it left her face. The young ones did the same to Mary and Yui. Yui shook the sensation off and leered at the priest. "Why are you doing this? This whole society thing is nothing but a load of crap."
"Shut up!" a little kid said and smacked his face. Aylewood crossed his arms behind him and walked to Yui. "Outsider, you could never understand our way of life, but do not mock it. It is truth."
"I bet." Yui retorted. Aylewood stopped and shook his head. "You think you have all the answers yet you could never realize the full truth of things." He began to turn his back from them as he looked up. "You 'civilized' men who bring nothing but pain and misery to the world." He turned to them. "But Yasuo's way is a just one."
"No it's not! You're just forcing people to do your crazy ways, that's all it is!" Linda cried from her spot. Aylewood chuckled and walked forward. "Young one, I was once like you. Blind..." He grabbed her by the chin. "Ignorant." He brought her closer to his face. "Slaving away under a society who only oppressed others, mindlessly following a pack of lies that was meant to reassure us when we went to bed at night, making us believe our insignificant lives were leading towards a grander purpose." He reached with his other hand and pulled out a warped old crucifix. "This is what I used to believe in, a hollow promise, an empty symbol with no real value in today's hostile world." He let her go and began to walk away. "But then…my eyes were opened…to real truth." He looked at them with wild eyes, as he seemed to remember. "I was just a little altar boy, slaving away, idling through life, when we came to one of these villages, trying to convert them, trying to show that their way of life is inferior to our own. But what I saw was the opposite."
He held his arms out. "I saw harmony, union, a fair and just place where all were judged equally, all had the same claim to happiness, where a cure to human suffering was found." He brought his arms down. "The ony way to end human suffering…is to become more than human."
"My teachers, the priests, tried to shut themselves away from this truth and tried to swat it away and replace it with their own ways…but," He paused. "There was no hiding from the truth, the truth I now saw."
"Their way was truth, no tall tale was told among them, everything made sense, and their lord saw the future, a future where perfect balance would rain on the Earth."
He looked at them and smiled. "You see now? I gave up my former life of lies and hollowness for a more fulfilled one, one with purpose. I would try and liberate others with the word of truth, the way of the society. The elder Demetrie was more than wiling to spare me if I devoted my life to the cause."
He looked at the moon. "What they did was open my eyes to the truth that they already realized: Our time had come. We were a pestilence on this planet, a blemish that could only be removed by nature's swift hand. But rather than doom our race to annihilation via the furies of the elements, nature and Yasuo's mercy had a way for us to continue in more suitable forms for this planet, by becoming one with another of Nature's children who flourished without the trappings of civilization. The pokemon."
He looked at them. "You see…humanity's only salvation is to recede from our mortal forms and become one with another of Nature's children, to become a pokemon. It is the natural way of things, and you are only fighting against the inevitable." He went to Mary and John. "And your destiny will come, weather you are prepared for it or not."
The young ones then grabbed them and began to drag their captives toward a small rumpled statue with markings and the moon hung over head. They were all placed around it and Aylewood walked forward, chanting ancient hymns as he walked forward.
John struggled and felt his hand grab a sharp stone. He then began to move it in his fingers and slowly rend at the rope. Mary was placed next to him and she looked at the priest with a determined and angry face. Linda began to move around, feeling her pocketknife in her back pocket and moving her fingers what little she could to at least reach for it.
Aylewood took out his dagger and began to chant in the moonlight.
"Oh ancestors, we bring before you those who defile our ways and rebel against us. We bring them before your ever watchful eyes to properly judge them and present swift justice."
"Oh let your justice rain down upon us and bring us a step closer to the day of promise! The day when all suffering will end, when all shall be blessed! Oh tell us now ancestors, guide us!"
John was felling his ropes beginning to strain. Linda felt her fingers grasp around the handle.
The Priest stood in the moonlight with his eyes closed, his shoulders sinking. There was a long pause. His eyes slowly opened and he looked at them with a smile. He then walked forward and brought his knife high over Mary. Mary's determination was slowly beginning to show the fear in her eyes. She still leered at him. "We will stop this one day." She told him. The priest swung his knife down and Mary felt her ropes slacked as they were severed and the priest grabbed Mary's arm. He pulled her up and began to drag her to the front of the young ones gathered around the statue.
"Mira, the vials."
Mira nodded and went into the tent. He looked at Mary who was struggling. His face gave way to a wide-eyed smile. "I am going to enjoy watching you writhe in pain and hearing your screams of agony." Mary stuck her tongue out at him but she turned to see the red headed girl returning with a silver brief case and she opened it, presenting several multicolored syringes. Aylewood smiled and reached for a syringe.
"Now justice truly is swift. Midnight can't save you now." He told her as she began to shake and pull away from him but he held her arm tight.
John began to cut faster while Yui started and noticed Linda moving as she unfurled her knife and began to slowly cut into her ropes.
Aylewood slowly brought the needle over Mary's exposed arm and jabbed the needle into her arm. Mary's heart raced and she began to feel tears building in her eyes. No, she didn't want to appear weak in front of her friends, not now. Aylewood brought his thumb over the syringe, preparing to push the virus into her system.
John felt his ropes snapped and instantly got up. "HEY!"
Aylewood looked in surprise and Mary stepped on his foot. He cried out and his fingers dangerously began to clench. John slid forward and bumped into both, the impact causing Aylewood to pull the syringe out of Mary's arm and he pushed but only fired the virus into the empty air and the liquid dripped down to the floor. Mary and John instantly rolled forward to get out of his reach. Linda just cut the ropes on her and got up and began to help Yui out. Aylewood snarled. "Young ones, get them!"
The children began to scramble toward them and Yui got up. He took the rope and tossed it at the torch behind the approaching children and pulled, the torch toppling and sending sparks and embers behind the children. They stopped in surprise at the sound of the clashing coals and were momentarily confused. John pulled his Pokeballs and tossed them out. "Come on out!"
His pokemon team got out and surrounded him and Mary. He pointed at the approaching young ones. "Riku, dark pulse now!" The Lucario nodded and folded his arms as he focused the energy and launched a pulsing wave a purple energy at the children. The kids gasped and were knocked back by the force. Mira and Daryn saw this and growled, taking out some Pokeballs and released a Dewgong, Victreebel, Venomoth, and Minun.
"Attack!" they said and the pokemon went to counter John's pokemon.
The Victreebel shots a vine whip at Riku's legs and tripped the Lucario and pulled him toward its open mouth. Sora the Staraptor flew in and pecked at the plant pokemon, the Minun appearing behind Sora and aiming a thunderbolt. John took a flagpole out of the ground and began to head for the little mouse when the kids surrounded him. He busted the long pole over his knee and took the half more suited to him and wielded it like a pole. "You want me? Come and get me!" The kids rushed forward.
Ruby the Vulpix hung close to Mary as they ran to get to a place of safety, Kairi the Espeon watching their back. Kairi saw Riku and Sora facing the Victreebel and Minun and looked at John facing the children with his pole. She looked to Mary and Ruby. "Espy." She told them and they stopped and Mary understood. She looked to Ruby. "Oh…ok, try a flamethrower on that Victreebel!" She pointed to the plant and Ruby nodded. Mary then looked to Kairi. "And try confusion on that Minun!"
She had no idea why she knew that these particular pokemon knew these attacks, but she knew it had to do with her being with combined with John for a while.
Ruby crouched forward and the Vulpix fired a small stream of flame that struck the Victreebel and knocked it back and the Minun found itself being surrounded in blue light as it began to feel confusion settling in. The air rippled around it as psychic energy attacked it and sent the mouse back. Kairi then turned and cried out as she saw the Dewgong sliding toward Mary. Mary gasped and felt the Dewgong ram into her. It opened its mouth wide.
Mary shut her eyes as she expected the teeth to clamp into her skin and infect her when she heard Kairi cry out and leap in front of her, a blue barrier around her. The Dewgong clamped its teeth on the blue barrier and Kairi pushed it back, sending the Dewgong back. "Thank you." Mary told the Espeon and they got up and began to head for Linda and Yui, who were facing the children on their own.
John slammed a few more kids back when he sensed some behind him. He then saw Riku slide by and palm the attacker away and nod at John. The two faced back to back and began to take on the onslaught of children. John swung to the left and brought the pole out on the shin of a child in front of him. Riku attacked the child that was approaching from the right and then did a spinning kick at the group behind him.
Linda saw the pokemon and children come in from all directions and took a deep breath as she remembered all her father taught her. Yui also stood his ground and held his hands out in a stance. Two kids rush forward with ropes and Linda held her hands out and grappled her hands around the kid and she used hi momentum against him and tossed him overhead. Yui grabbed the other kid and whiled behind the child and struck an area near the neck that made the kid swoon over with dizziness before he fell down unconscious. An Exploud roared and the ground in front of it exploded as the shockwave was sent forward. Yui grunted and pushed Linda out of the way and shut his eyes as the wave pushed him back into a tree. Mary ran by and helped Linda up and they began to back away from the pokemon that were approaching them. Ruby called out as the Venomoth was settling over them and began to flap its wings as toxic dust began to fall. Sora flew in and began to use a whirlwind to knock the deadly dust away.
Yui reached for the pack of syringes he kept with him and began to jab them into his leg, filling them up with blood. He looked up to see a Scyther flying at him when the Espeon fired a rainbow array of rays at it and caused it to veer off course. Linda and Mary joined him. He gave them syringes. "Cure incase of infection right away." They nodded.
Daryn showed up with a syringe. "For Yasuo!" he cried as he brought it forward. Linda grabbed his hand and swung him aside and kicked him in the stomach. She took his syringe and rammed it into his shoulder. "Stick THIS!" she yelled as she pushed the virus inside him.
Daryn cried out immediately and reached for where she stabbed him and felt the virus work on his system right away. His skin began to turn into an orange color as his torso and stomach turned a lighter creamy orange. He landed on his knees as the back of his shirt quivered and a pair of bonelike extensions poked out his back, the orange skin going over them and a blue leather formed making them look like dragon wings. Daryn's feet began to change as his bare foot began to twist and merge into three and his legs thickened, destroying his shorts. Out of his backside a large tail appeared and his neck began to grow longer, his torso thickening and rounding out. His hands began to split into claws and his red hair began to fall out as his ears turned into horn-like extension and his mouth and nose merged into a long snout with sharp teeth. His tail ignited with a flame on the end.
The new Charizard roared into the night sky and shook the tattered remains off. Kairi then lifted it up and sent it back, panting from the effort. The Charizard landed next to Mira who's eyes widened at the sight of her former brother and she growled and took out a syringe.
John beat back another set of attackers and saw the group in one area and began to head for them. He saw the red head rushing at them with a syringe and he tossed the pole in a spiral as it whirled at Mira and stuck her ankle, causing her to fall over, the syringe rolling out of hand. She got up and tossed dirt at John as he ran forward, John crying out and grabbing his face as he ambled forward. She then jabbed her knee in his stomach and grabbed his back and swung him toward a tree. John rolled and got up, wiping the dust from his eyes and saw Mira coming. Riku then appeared by her grabbed her around the chest but she stepped on his foot and bit his arm. Riku cried out and Mira then rammed a fist in the Lucario's face and he went down. John then tackled her in the back and the two began to roll, grappling with each other. Mira pinned John down and reached for the Syringe with her other hand. Yui ran by and kicked it away and Linda tackled her to get her off of John. John got up and saw Mira rolling with Linda and Linda held her down. "Gotcha." She smirked.
Her eyes widened as she felt a jab in her back and saw the Priest over her with a syringe in her back.
"LINDA!" John called out. Aylewood removed the syringe and pushed Linda away. "Young ones, to the forest!"
The young ones began to hide in the trees and the Charizard came by and Mira hopped on its back and they began to fly into the forest.
Linda held her self as she felt the virus beginning to penetrate into her system, setting her nerves ablaze. Tears rolled down her eyes as her skin began to burn as it began to turn a dark black. Several glowing yellow rings appeared around her body.
John took the syringe from Yui and began to rush at the changing girl. Aylewood saw him coming and unleashed a Pokeball, releasing a Haunter. The ghost flew at John and phased through him and appeared behind him and held him back, John struggling against the ghost.
Linda reached out to him with a changing hand that became a black paw and a tail busted through her pants. Her ears began to lengthen and her eyes were turning red.
"UMBRE-JOHNNNN!" She called out.
John then broke free of the ghost and tossed the syringe at Linda. The syringe punctured her skin and injected immediately, pushing the blood into her. Linda felt the pain being replaced by a tingly sensation and saw her paws grow back into fingers and her skin began reverting to human color as her tail shrunk back.
Aylewood growled and began to retreat back into the forest. John picked up his pole and ran in his direction. "Come back here!" Mary reached for him. "John!" John ran into the forest while Linda sat on her knees, feeling her arms and realizing how close she was to transforming again.
Mary went by her and gave her a quick hug to comfort her.
Linda looked in the forest. "Come on, we have to get John."
He saved me…
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John began to run off into the forest, looking for the priest. "Come and face me, Applewood, Adlewood, whatever!"
The shadows rushed at him and struck him in the face, sending him back. He saw the priest there scowling.
"Why, young one, why? Why do people like you continue to resist? Why fight the tide of inevitability?"
John got up. "I fight because it's right. I fight for honor."
"Honor, right, wrong? All those are just abstract concepts, nothing of real value, of real truth! You fight for an empty cause without even contemplating why. That is why you will lose!" Aylewood shot back. John stood up. "I fight for what's right because that is what I believe. I believe it is my destiny to beat you, to never give up." He took a deep breath. "I will defeat you, for my family's honor."
Aylewood nodded and pulled out his dagger and reached under his robes and pulled out a long sword. John stood his ground and stared him down. Aylewood crossed his blades across his chest. "May Yasuo's mercy reign upon you. You and your pathetic family."
He then charged at John and John stood his ground, whirling his pole and blocking the dagger as it dug into the pole and knocked Aylewood in the chin, making him drop his dagger. He fell back and got up, holding his sword with both hands. He then swung at John and John dodged, sticking the pole into his back, making him drop his sword. John hit him in the back again and knocked him down. He circled Aylewood when he tossed some dust at John. John covers his face and Aylewood gabbed the dagger and thrust forward. John held the pole out and blocked it. Aylewood swung again, John turning to avoid each swipe. One swipe caught his arm and shredded his jacked. He then struck Aylewood in the shin and kicked him back. Aylewood lunged at John and pushed him into a tree, John head butting him to break out of it. He hit him across the face. "That one is for Sherice!" He called out. He swung and struck him again. "For Missy!" He stuck him again. "For Mary!" He kicked Aylewood across the chin. "For my Family!" He held him by the collar of his robe and swung back with his fist and connected, making a large impact sound as Aylewood reeled from the punch. "And that one was for me!" Aylewood trembled back from John, blood coming from his nose and his cheek was bruised, fear on the man's face. He then felt his back against a tree and then he turned to John and began to smile and laugh.
"Heh, you may defeat me now, but you will never defeat the virus. It is truth…it is the way. Even if you find a way to protect yourselves from it and hide from it, even when your children have children, the virus will still be there and will lead humanity toward its ultimate end. It is inevitable." He smiled. John stared him down. "That may be, but I believe in a time when human and pokemon will live in perfect union without having to destroy each other. My family believed in it and so do I."
Aylewood laughed at him and John swung the pole and stuck him on the side of the head, making him fall to the side. John looked at him behind his shoulder. "I rose, you fell."
He then left the priest unconscious on the floor as he walked off to meet up with the others.
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Linda and Mary waited with Yui when they saw the bushes rustle and gasped but calmed down when John cam out, looking battered and having a bleeding arm. Mary ran up to him. "John!" She hugged him tight. John patted her back. "It's ok, I'm all right." Yui went up to him and began to tear up some of the fabric form the tents. "We gotta wrap that up."
John sat on a log and Linda walked by him, a blush on her face. "Hey John, thanks for saving me…" She said. John smiled. "It was nothing." She shivered. "I was so close. Who knows what would have happened if you didn't try to save me." John smirked. "But I did, did I?" Linda smiled yeah you did. John flinched as Yui tightened the cloth. His Pokemon approached him and sat by him, little Ruby hopping on his lap and nuzzling him. "Vul!" She said. He petted her. "You all did great. I couldn't have done it without all your help."
After they recalled all of John's pokemon and patched his wound, they got up and began to move. "We should find another place to rest, incase those weirdoes try to come back." Yui said. They al nodded. John looked into the sky. Grandfather…I did it…I defended our honor…
Now they have to focus on finding Akira and the others…
Cindy…
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And there! Whoo! What a LONG chap! XD This chap was difficult for me to write in its initial stages since I had such epic recent chaps and had to keep that trend up and the first draft had them going to Delta base no problem and that version didn't hold up to well with me. So I rewrite the chap adding John's little musings about the Eevee and the trap and things were on track. Any point after the Quagsire Tf could have been the end for this chap and lead to the next. In fact, this chapter feels like several chapters put into one! XD! I could have written them that way, but I didn't want to disrupt the flow I had created here and it feels so fulfilling this way. What I loved about this chapter was Father Aylewood, the name I came up for the priest who was in TurtlesandMonkeys' original story, Ancient Society. What he explained in there will appear in my prequel story Ancient Society ascension and I liked the way he just said his speech. I also liked having Mira and Daryn, the twins from the original story show up and I hope people enjoyed their fate in this one. XD Anyway, please review! I would definitely LOVE to hear feedback about this particular chap. XD
MEE-YAA!