Chapter 14

They both landed on the ground a few feet from Angela and I. He wore a solid blue robe with solid black pants and his hair was black.

"I'm guessing you've never heard of me?" He asked me, he seemed a couple years older than me, I was only 28 so he must of been in his 30s.

"I'm the legend hunter Stephen, this is my partner Lyra, she's suicune." He told us as the suicune stood by his side.

"Wait. The legend hunter Stephen? The man who has gone across the world with his suicune and fought almost all the legendaries?" I asked in astonishment.

"The one and only." He boasted, his suicune rolled her eyes.

"I was on the trail of Darkrai here and he fled to this town, sorry for bringing any harm to this town or its people." He said respectfully.

"It's fine, just help me get rid of Darkrai here and we will be even." I told him as I returned my focus towards Darkrai who had broken off the ice from his body.

"Okay, Darkrai is a tricky bastard so I need your help, I'm gonna make Lyra use hydro pump, you use a fire type move like flamethrower and hit the water. The water and the fire hitting each other will create steam and it will surround Darkrai and he won't be able to see, when he can't, use your hardest hitting move on him." Stephen ordered.

"Okay Angela, use flamethrower at Lyra's hydro pump." I whispered to Angela, she nodded and waited patently.

"Okay Lyra, hydro pump!" Stephen ordered the suicune, she shot a large spray of water at the Darkrai.

Angela knew her cue and did as planned, the water and fire collided and created a steamy mist that surrounded Darkrai and made him temporarily blinded.

"Now! Focus blast!" I ordered Angela.

"Go! Hydro pump!" Stephen told Lyra.

The two used their moves and both hit Darkrai directly with a large explosion of smoke and dust. The fog cleared and Darkrai hovered weakly over the ground and stared at us.

"I'll make sure you pay. Humans." He said as he slowly descended towards the ground and went through it like a ghost.

"That was a damn good job." Stephen said as he high fived me.

Angela came and hugged me happily and I held her up in my arms.

"Now, who is this little lady?" Stephen asked flirtatiously, Lyra's lightly kicked him from behind.

"This is Angela, she's my partner." I told him as I introduced her.

"My apologies for not introducing us both properly. I am Stephen and this is my partner, Lyra." Stephen said as he pointed towards the suicune.

"Sorry for my lack of speech." Lyra said respectfully.

"Angela was the same way for a while." I said as I patted her head lightly and rubbed her ears.

"So what legendaries have you fought so far?" I asked curiously.

"Several, I was gonna fight mewtwo before this but she didn't seem to interested." Stephen told me.

"Mewtwo is a girl?" I said in astonishment.

"Yeah? So is celebi, mew, manaphy, latias, Lugia, articuno, jirachi, mesprit, Cresselia, virizion, reshiram, and yvetal." He told me as he counted each on his fingers.

"Also including Lyra of course." He said as he reached back and petted her lightly.

"Why wasn't she interested? I've heard that mewtwo is a ferocious fighter." I asked curiously.

"I don't know, she seemed to have something on her mind, she completely blew us off." He said as he crossed his arms in an annoyed fashion.

"It's so amazing that we got to meet you!" Angela said happily.

"No, no! It's my pleasure, getting to meet two amazing partners." He said happily.

Angela and I both blushed, I guess you could say we were partners. We invited them to stay at our home but they declined, something about how they prefer to sleep out in the wilderness.

"Those two were odd." Angela said as she lazily plopped down onto the couch.

"Yeah, it was really amazing how quickly he knew what to do though." I told her, she nodded and laid back into the couch.

"Well that was our last official job, we can retire now." I said aloud, watching for Angela's reaction.

Her ears perked up and she jumped into my arms happily and licked my face, it was her form of kissing that was natural to her so I didn't mind it.

"We can be together now?" She asked excitedly.

"Yes, we can." I told her as I patted her head lightly.

She hugged me tightly for a while until we both started to get tired.

"Let's get to bed." I told her with a loud yawn.

"Yeah." She said tiredly as she hung on to my arm and we walked into the bedroom lazily.

She jumped on the bed and I lazily took off my clothes, feeling her gaze fiercely, it was making me nervous.

"Damn, I can deal with just about anything but when it comes to her and love, I turn into a nervous child." I though hesitantly.

I laid down on the bed and the moonlight shown in the room and illuminated the bed, lighting up the room a bit and making the scars on my chest noticeable. I tried not to let them show because it made Angela feel bad, they were all from when she rampaged that first time when she was just a Zorua, she tore my chest up.

"I'm sorry." She said as she began to cry as she looked at them.

"No, it's not your fault." I told her as I hugged her close to my chest.

"I've done so much to you and I could never repay you, I'm sorry." She said as she looked up at my tearfully.

"Shush, it's okay, you didn't mean it and you know that." I told her as I held her close to me.

She stopped crying but every once and a while she would snivel, I held her in my arms and petted her lightly to make her happy. Eventually she fell asleep in my arms and I laid back onto the bed, letting her sleep on me and laying down so I could sleep too.

~the next morning~

I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed and full of energy, I looked down at Angela who was curled up on me with her head on my chest, her leg across my waist, and her arm around me torso.

"She's really attached." I thought to myself with a smile.

She eventually woke up and she greeted me with a warm smile and a yawn.

"I'm going take a shower." I told her as she let go of me.

"I'm going back to sleep." She said as she rolled over and went to sleep.

I went take a shower and she was up and when I was done, she laid down on the couch as I cooked breakfast.

"So for use to leave our job, we have to go meet him again." I said quite nervously, I hated that man, he gave me chills.

"That creepy agent dude?" Angela asked with a loud sigh.

"Yeah, him, I don't like that we have to either." I told her.