Leodas: WHOO YEAH! I got down chapter 4! Sorry for the wait. I had a type of writters block. ^^ But i have to say that this is the longest chapter i have EVER done. But i hope it was worth the wait. though i think i need to get off the computer for a while cause now all i see are spots. XP lol Now fireland use disclaimer! :D
Fireland (My charizard): *sigh* Leodas does not, and probably will not own pokemon at anytime.
Leodas: Well goosh. :P
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"NOOOOO! Stop!" Ivory cried, but it was too late, she could do nothing but watch as the destruction bomb enclosed on her brother and friends seeming to drag everything around it leaving only a vast black and empty looking hole that gave off an eerie feeling where they once stood.
"BWA HA HA HA!" The grey and red armor man laughed like a man mad man in triumph. "Now all of your friends are dead! But that is what you get when you choose weak children to be your allays!" Ivory clenched her fists. "And now with you being the only one left, Aurora castle shall fall along with the rest of Ransei!" Then the man continued and broke into fits of laughter again.
"Argh! Don't count us out yet!" They heard a voice shout.
"What?!" The man shouted turning to where the voice came from. His eyes widened and he started to tremble as he saw a bright light coming from the vast black space.
The bright stream of light blasted through the blackness causing it to shatter. It continued to shoot forwards heading right towards the man and his Duskclops. They barley managed to dodge it and it hit one of the Aurora towers, splitting it in half.
"Rouikou!" Ivory exclaimed happily as she saw him, Oichi, Mitsunari, Kiyomasa, Masanori, and there pokemon all standing there looking relieved. They all had scratches and bruises on them but they were alive.
"But-But… That's impossible!" The man shouted outraged. "There's no way a mere human could-" He stopped himself in mid sentence after seeing what was in Rouikou's hand.
He was steadily wielding a long blue and red colored sword with a sharp bladed tip that had a picture of a dragon symbol running all the way to the tip.
Ivory looked at Rouikou seeming slightly surprised. "That's the sword our grandpa gave you isn't it?" She asked walking up beside him.
Rouikou nodded. "Yup."
The man was silent for a moment before speaking again. "So… It's true the guardian's sword was left in the hands of Aurora…" The man hid his eyes with his bangs making his face seem emotionless before he started laughing once again.
"What's so funny?!" Masanori asked.
"Hehehe… Finally… Maybe I'll have decent battle before I destroy this place! BWA HA! Prepare to be shrouded in darkness!" Suddenly a black crystal shaped object started glowing on his and Duskclops's forehead and the air seemed to get thicker and clouded, while swirling around them.
"Ah, heck! I can barely see!" Kiyomasa shouted.
"Argh! Why does my body suddenly feel like it weights a ton?!" Mitsunari asked.
"I can't move!" Masanori added.
"We have to stop this." Rouikou said, and Ivory nodded in agreement as Flareon and Glaceon once again prepared for battle.
"Wait! Lord Rouikou, your pokemon is too injured for battle!" Oichi warned. Rouikou looked at his Flareon to see she was right. Flareon's legs were wobbly and it seemed like Flareon was using all of his strength just to stand.
"…I wasn't referring to Flareon…" Rouikou replied walking up to the center of the field in front of the red and grey armored man.
"You don't mean-"
"I challenge you to a battle, with just you, and me!" Rouikou shouted pointing his sword at the man.
"So you wish to challenge me in the traditional way?" The man sneered. "Very well, I accept your challenge!" The man threw a dark sphere in the air but it started to change as it came back down on his arm. It turned in to long blade that attached to his arm. It was grey and red with a yellow zigzag that stretched all the way to the tip of the blade. Then it seemed to split in half creating two sharp twin swords that were lined across the man's arm side by side.
Observing the strange blade Rouikou nodded and walked to the middle of the field.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Ivory asked concerned for her brother well being.
"I have to." Rouikou replied not looking back. "But you just make sure nothing happens to the others, alright?"
"Okay..." Ivory responded watching her brother take his position in the field. The man, who did something similar, also walked up and took his position as well.
"Let us begin!" The armored man shouted making the first move by swinging his twin sword at Rouikou's head.
Rouikou dodged by ducking and clashing his own sword against it.
"Ha! Is that you got?!" The man asked. A grey aura surrounded the twin sword and the man took another swing at him. This time it immediately hit Rouikou's sword sending him a little ways backwards.
"Please hang in there lord Rouikou!" Oichi shouted from a distance.
Rouikou got back in fighting position. "Aright let's see if this works." A red Aura started pouring into the sword and he flung himself forward using his own body weight to increase the swing power of his sword.
The man took his own sword and empowered it with a grey glow once again clashing together. This time it was the man who was sent back.
Rouikou took the opportunity to try out something. "Now! FlareBurn assault!" Suddenly flames surrounded the Rouikou's sword and he swung it forward causing flames to shoot out.
The man's eyes widened. "No! No! Impossible!" he cried. "Duskclops use Destruction bomb!" Duskclops floated down to his master and launched a huge blast at the flames of the sword.
The both smashed into each other causing an explosion and smoke to cover the battle field. When it cleared they were all left standing though Rouikou seemed more worn out than the man and the Duskclops.
'Darn it Rouikou. You know that using an attack like that drains your energy out, why did you have to that?' Ivory thought.
"Hey! That was cheating!" Masanori shouted.
"Only the weak play by the rules!" The man shouted in laughter. "Now Duckclops, use Shadow ball!" Duckclops started shooting the shadow balls at Rouikou, who was barely dodging them.
"Glaceon, use ice beam!" Ivory commanded. Glaceon shot out ice beam which destroyed the shadow balls. Then Ivory and Glaceon walked up beside Rouikou.
"If you get to use a pokemon then so do we!" Ivory yelled.
The man smirked. "Now shadow punch!" Duckclops suddenly appeared in front of them and hit Glaceon sending her into the air.
"Glaceon!" Ivory exclaimed.
"Ivory watch out!" Mitsunari shouted over from where he was with the others.
"I wouldn't worry about her if I were you…" Ivory turned around to see the man behind her about to strike her with his sword. Ivory prepared herself for what was going to happen next.
"Don't you dare touch my sister!" Rouikou shouted stopping the man with his sword and pushing him back. "Ivory you take care of Duskclops while I take care of this guy!" He exclaimed running after the man.
"Right." Ivory turned her attention towards Duskclops. "Glac!" Glaceon exclaimed standing in front of her.
"Glaceon, use shadow ball!" She exclaimed. Glaceon shot out a dark Sphere at Duckclops, who countered it with a shadow punch canceling it out.
"Ice beam!" Glaceon hit Duskclops directly with the ice beam. But Duskclops seemed unaffected.
Then Duskclops dashed towards Glaceon and slammed it towards the ground with what seemed like a thunder punch.
"Hang in there Glaceon!"
"Glac…eon!" Glaceon pushed itself off the ground. Then Duskclops came at it again with a thunderpunch. But just before it could hit a stream of flames hit it sending it flying back. "Flareon?!" Ivory asked.
"Flar!" Flareon exclaimed. "Huh, I guess you're feeling better now." Ivory said. "But if you're here then where's-"
"ARGH!" Suddenly Rouikou and the man came crashing through one of the standing walls. Rouikou managed to get back up and walk up beside Ivory weakly.
"How are you holding up?" Ivory asked.
"Eh, I've been better I have to admit." Rouikou mumbled looking around for the man who seemed to have disappeared again.
"BWA HA HA! Now this comes to a close!" They both looked to see the man along side his Duskclops while smirking. Duskclops was holding an enormous sphere above its head. "Now, finish it!" He cried. But then they noticed the black shards on there heads that seemed to be reacting to the sphere.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Rouikou asked Ivory. Ivory nodded in response.
"Flareon, Iron tail!"
"Glaceon, Aqua tail!"
Flareon ran up to the man and hit the shards attached with iron tail while Glaceon did the same thing on Duskclops with Aqua tail causing the shards to crack and the sphere to disappear.
"ARRGH! NO!" The man cried falling to the ground letting pieces of the cracked shards fall. "Y-you've ruined everything ARRGH! Y-you will pay for this! You will pay!" Then with that the man and his Duskclops disappeared along with most of the warriors and pokemon.
Everything around them went back to normal like nothing ever happened.
"Lord Rouikou, Lady Ivory! Are you two alright?" Oichi asked as her, Mitsunari, Kiyomasa, and Masanori ran other to them.
"You had us worried there for a minute." Kiyomasa said then looked over at there hurt pokemon.
But before they could reply Rouikou fell to his knees and dropped the sword on the ground and it disappeared.
"Rouikou? Rouikou!" Oichi shouted kneeling beside him helping him stay up.
"Huh? Wha?" Rouikou asked. "Hey, don't worry I'm still alive kind of." He joked weakly.
Oichi sighed slightly relieved. "Come on. We better get you inside." She said helping him get up and walk to the castle.
"Yeah, we better get our pokemon inside and figure all this out afterwards." Ivory adding gathering the pokemon and heading inside with the others.
"Uug. I don't even feel like crawling to my bed…" Ivory wined lying on the castle floor. "What about you Glaceon?"
"Glac…" Glaceon said tiredly refusing to move as well.
"Yeah, you guys go on to bed I think we are going to sleep here tonight." Rouikou said while sitting in a chair. "Then we'll try and figure out exactly what happened in the morning."
"Flar…" Flareon agreed.
Oichi and the other stood there silently for a moment.
"Um… Lord Rouikou?" Oichi asked quietly.
"Yes?"
"Is it alright if me and Jigglypuff just stay with you two tonight? Y-you know just incase they come back!" Oichi asked saying the last part quickly.
Rouikou smiled softly at her and moved over motioning for her to sit beside him.
Oichi sat beside him lying against him while Jigglypuff floated down next to Flareon and cuddled up with him.
Mitsunari sighed and lied down on the castle floor with Pawniard. Then Kiyomasa and Masanori did the same thing along with their pokemon.
"Aren't you guys going to use the beds?" Ivory asked.
"Nah, we've decided to sleep here tonight." Kiyomasa yawned.
"Besides it's not like we aren't used to it…" Mitsunari replied.
"Yeah…" Masanori immediately fell asleep.
Ivory silently laughed to herself and drifted off to sleep.
*At Dragnor castle*
Four people stood around the dark room. Three of them were barely visible, hidden by the shadows. While the forth one appeared to be the man with the Duskclops. He kneeled down to the floor before speaking. "M-my lord…" He cringed at what happened next.
A dark sphere appeared and took the form of a man with a black hood over him holding a bladed staff.
"You imbecile!" The hooded man hissed. "You dare come back after you failed so badly at such a simple task?!" He pointed the bladed staff at the man with the Duskclops and held it near his face.
"I-I'm sorry sir, but the boy has the ancient swor- Ahhhh!" The blade staff suddenly whipped past his eye leaving a red cut over his eye. The man fell back in pain.
"Do not give me pitiful excuses. You'll be lucky if the dark master lets you live!" The hooded man turned his back on him and started walking away.
"So when are we going to attack Aurora?" A voice, that was female, asked. The hooded man turned and looked at her for a moment.
"We're not." The man answered plainly.
"Wha?"
"You have all been assigned four kingdoms to run while I run Dragnor. And I am not letting us all fall behind of schedulable because of his foolishness." Then he turned to the man now lying on the ground.
"I don't care how you do it but get the castle back and destroy those nuisances. Or I'll kill you myself." With that he disappeared.
"Teehe… I suggest you get started." The female voice also disappeared the same way as the first one.
"…" Then one of the other ones did something similar.
The man got off the ground and started walking off cursing under his breath unaware of the boy who was following him.
The man continued down the hallway, his footsteps echoing through the halls as his Duskclops followed closely behind with no emotion.
"So what is it you plan to do?" Someone chuckled. The man turned around to see a short boy standing in the shadows with a small wacky looking pokemon floating above him.
"As if it's any of your business." The man snarled.
The boy 'tsk'ed' as him. "Let me guess. You were planning to attack head on with the surrounding castle weren't you?"
"And if I was?"
"Then that would be idiotic. Even for your standards. Especially since it went so well last time." Sarcasm was dripping from his last sentence.
"Then what you suggest I do?" The man started to get impatient and angered.
The boy silently chuckled. "Easy." He adjusted a piece of glass fragment that laid across his face. "You let them come to you…"
*The next morning*
Ivory slowing woke up at the sound of Starly's singing. 'At least some of the pokemon has come back.' She thought. Then she felt something warm up against her. She was surprised to see Mitsunari lying against her while silently sleeping.
'Since when did he come over here?' She thought recalling last night and remembering that he had decided to sleep near his pokemon…
"Cottonee! Cott-nee!" Something shouted outside waking everyone up.
"What was that?" Mitsunari asked sleepily. His face started to turn completely red when he realized he was right next to Ivory. "Ah, I-I um…"
Kiyomasa and Masanori both were trying to keep themselves from laughing but failed.
"S-shut up! Like you have room to talk!" Mitsunari turned his head away from them.
"COTTONEEEE!" Just then a Cottonee holding a scroll came crashing in through an open window and landed on the floor. It had cuts and bruises all over it and its eyes were squinted shut.
"Oh my goodness!" Oichi gasped. Everyone went over towards the Cottonee.
Ivory picked it up gently. "I think it will be alright. We just need some potions for it." Ivory said carefully taking away the scroll it was holding.
"It must have gone through a lot of trouble to bring that here." Said Rouikou while opening the scroll.
"Well, what does it say?" Kiyomasa asked.
After reading it Rouikou's face went pale. "Oh no… Oichi, get the Zebstrika ready! We have to go to Greenleaf! Now!"
"Yes, right away." Oichi replied racing to the stables.
"Wait! What's wrong?!" Ivory asked.
"From the sound of it Greenleaf is in trouble… A whole lot of trouble…"
Leodas: Well i hope this chapter went well. ^^ Though i really don't know anything much about sword fights so i had to use the top of my head so hopefully they were okay.
Fireland: And yet the villans still remain nameless. :P
Leodas: ...er anyway please remember to leave a review and tell me what you thought!~