Hello people, this is my second chapter. Review and enjoy it.
Chapter 2, Sacrifice
Z stayed behind outside the ruins as usual to monitor our progress. As everyone else searched the temple for anything that could be important to the historical society, they kept note on all the ancient art on the walls. One in particular caught Sabre's attention. It had a dark figure fighting off what appears to be Palkia and Dialga. The figure itself looked strangely human but there was something off, she just couldn't figure it out though.
A couple hours later, they found a large room with a gorge in the center of it. "So, want me to fly you over?" Nova, the Starapter of the group asked. Everyone knew what he meant though. 'Can I show off my skills' was the real question. "No, if I let you fly me over every gorge we find, firstly I'll lose my limbs, and secondly, what am I supposed to do if your not there to help me?" Instead she used her grappling hook gun to swing across. But before she could, Vaporeon climbed on me back to get across. Lucario used extreme speed and a aura sphere as a push him upwards. "Show off," muttered Gardevoir before she used teleport to cross the gorge. When everyone was across they moved on deeper into the temple.
When the team reached the deepest part of the temple, they found what appears to be an old alter. And on the alter, there was a amulet that strangely looked like a pokeball. "What is it?" Dusclops asked. "Z, any suggestions on what it is?" asked Sabre, "Well, other than an ancient pokeball on a chain, I have no idea." Sabre moved to pickup the amulet. She barely touched it when we were blinded a huge flash. When the light died down, the amulet was around her neck. What the heck? How did that get there? When she tried to remove it, it wouldn't come off. Lucario tried to remove but failed, that is when everyone heard a new voice, "Finally, I have been freed!" The team backed away but Sabre stood her ground, "Who's there? Show yourself!" When she said that, the dark figure from the picture appeared and said "I am the High Priest of the Evolution Temple. Who are you?" Sabre was shocked, had she awoken him? "I'm called Sabre. What happened here?"
"When I was still alive, I was given a power to grant anyone who was deemed worthy the power to become a mystic being, I grew tired of giving away all that power after twenty years of faithful service to my 'king'." "Mystic beings?" Nova asked. "Pokemon" answered Sabre. It took her a minute to realize that Z's didn't do the translation. That is when she had a massive headache and almost fell to the floor.
Gardevoir was the first to react by using psychic to catch her mid-air. "I should tell you that by freeing me, I deemed you worthy of being a 'Pokemon' as you call them. But as you were clever enough to find this place and awaken me, I shall give you back your humanity if you swear you allegiance to me."
Her reply was something like this: "Triple shadow." It was a move she came up with for triple battles. First, Vaporeon attacked first with a shadow ball followed by Lucario's shadow claw combined with a shadow punch from Dusclops. He laughed at the attempt and blocked all the attacks. "Fools, you cannot defeat me! Only those who are spoken in legends could and they barely did it!" While he was evilly laughing again, Sabre threw a punch towards his gut catching him off guard.
He stumbled backwards as she reared for another attack. By the time he recovered, Sabre threw another punch. But this time, the attack just went through him. Literally. "So, that is your choice then. Fighting a force that could destroy you all in one blow. ... Very well then, but you have proven yourselves strong fighters. So I shall not destroy you, but turn you to stone intill you have accepted my rule."
"How is turning us to stone going to work? Wouldn't we be unconscious?" Gardevoir asked. "Simple. You shall be aware of your surroundings as if you were frozen in battle. I shall start start with you, Sabre. Though perhaps I should wait for your transformation to finish. Maybe then you will be easier to convince." By now, Sabre's entire body was covered with fur, and she had an eevee tail with ears to match it. "Like I'd ever join a psycho like you!" Before he could react, she was on top of him again. This time the rest team attacked as well. But he was just to powerful, next thing they knew, they were all knocked back into the wall. When Sabre looked up, the High Priest was released a ball of grey energy. Vaporeon somehow jumped in the way and was turned into stone.
For the first time she can remember, Sabre didn't know what to do. By this point, Z was worried that the team didn't respond for a while, so he came looking for them. When he reached the room we were in, he froze. From what he saw, Sabre was half eevee, everyone were all slammed against a wall and a ghostly figure just turn Vaporeon to stone. Once he saw what was about to happen, Z unleashed a hyper beam attack on the High Priest. The Priest didn't see the attack coming and fly threw the wall. Sabre was still trying to accept the fact that her closest friend was now stone when everyone huddled around her and Gardevoir used teleport to escape the temple.
When they were out side the entrance was closed and Z asked "What in the name of Palkia happened in there?!" As Dusclops and Nova explained, Gardevoir came over to Sabre. "Are you ok?"
"I don't know Gardevoir, I just need some time alone." "Alright, but I'll have someone keep an eye on you so we don't mistake you for another Pokemon."
"I understand..."