Hi everyone. I'm back. I would have had this chapter up earlier but I went on a holiday with no computer. It was annoying so I wrote it down on paper and the same with chapter 9 which I'm almost finished, so that should hopefully be up soon. Also thoughts are going to be in italics from now on. Enjoy.

Chapter 8.

Suicunes POV.

The blinding light stung my eyes and slowly they adjusted.

"You!" I growled at the pokemon standing before me. It was that pokemon that had saved me in Pallet town, the forest, the field and the one that had attacked that Absol.

"I'm glad that you made it here alive." he said. "But with injuries I see." he added.

"Who are you?" I asked growling. "And why are you following me?"

"Because of the vow I made to Ho-oh to keep you safe."

"What?" I asked. What type of connection did this pokemon have with Ho-oh?

I was just about to ask when a furious roar and the sound of scratching distracted me. It was coming from behind me, from behind the main cavern. The Aura Sphere the pokemon had floating in between his hands vanished throwing the chamber into darkness. Then the pokemon closed his eyes and these things on both sides of his head begun to move, I didn't know how to describe them but they made a weird sound. He opened his eyes.

"I will answer all of your questions later," he said. "For I know you have many. But at the moment we need to get out of here."

"But there isn't a way out." I said, pointing out the obvious.

The pokemon ran over to the wall and placed his paw upon it and a large piece of the wall seemed to take shape of a door and it swung inwards, revealing a long dark passageway.

"How else do you think I got in here?" he said, looking past me at the fallen rocks. "You go through first."

I nodded and walked well rather limped over to the passageway. It was rather small so I knelt down and crawled into it. I hissed through my teeth as pain flared in my front paws and even sharper in my side. Great the pain was back. And I started to crawl, there was a little light coming from the Aura Sphere that the pokemon had generated again. There was a grating sound and the stone door slowly started to close as the pokemon darted into the passageway, the Aura Sphere vanishing.

"You can see alright with out it?" he asked.

"Yes." All ready my eyes were becoming accustomed to the dimness of the passageway.

Suddenly the rocks filling up the entrance of the chamber blasted inward and I swung my head around to see Entei standing there. He launched himself toward the closing door.

Please close in time, please close in time. I thought desperately.

But it didn't and Entei stuck his large paw in the way to stop the door from closing. He hissed when he saw the pokemon standing in front of me.

"Hello Entei." the pokemon said pleasantly. "Remember me?"

Entei growled and fire rushed out of his mouth toward the pokemon but before I could me a move to destroy the attack the pokemon reacted quicker then what I did. He placed his paws together and drew them apart and in-between them was a bone made out of aura, he twirled it around in front of himself obliterating the fire that reached it. Then the pokemon darted forward and smacked Entei hard over the head with it and then poked him in the eye making him stumble back but he still managed to keep his paw where it was. The pokemon jumped up as high as the passageway would allow and brought the bone down hard on Entei's foot. Entei howled and he staggered away from the passageway, letting the door close muffling his rage filled roar. I turned my head back around and continued up the passageway. The pokemon walked right behind me although this time he didn't let the bone made out of aura disappear, holding it in one of his paws the light from it making it easier to see where we were going. The passageway was getting narrower, I was finding it hard to get through getting stuck at times and the pokemon had to now crawl. Even though the pokemon had said no questions until we were out of here I had to ask one.

"What is the vow you made to Ho-oh?"

At first there was no answer then the pokemon sighed. "I vowed to him to keep you and your brothers safe. I have failed on two accounts but I won't fail again even if it means sacrificing myself to keep you alive and out of the hands of that bastard Eli."

This pokemon would risk himself for me? But there was something else that bothered me.

"If this place was a trap then why were there carvings in Bell tower that led me here?"

"It was a trap." The pokemon said simply. "The Dark Crystal did once reside here."

"But there is something else." I said. "If this place was a trap then why did Ho-oh take me here?"

"What? Ho-oh took you…" his voice broke off into a growl. "Damn Mew! Damn Mew to the pits of hell where he belongs!"

"What? Mew?"

"Yes. Mew." The pokemon said snarling. "He transformed into Ho-oh."

I shook my head; it truly was Ho-oh that took me here. But if it was Mew who was transformed into Ho-oh wouldn't his eyes be black?

"No it was Ho-oh." I disagreed.

The pokemon growled. "I should have stayed there in Bell tower to warn you and Lugia about this. But that damn Absol…" What had this Absol done that is so bad? "Our next destination is the Bell tower," he said. "I want to examine those carvings."

I stopped.

"I'm not travelling anywhere else with you." I said. "I'm doing this on my own, you're not getting involved."

"I already am Suicune. You can't do this on your own, besides I have to keep my vow that I made to Ho-oh."

"Well… break it." I growled.

"I can't do that. I keep my vows," he said. "Also I suggest you keep moving I want to get out of this tunnel sometime this century, we should also get out of here before Entei comes in here after us."

"He's probably going to meet us at the end of the tunnel." I muttered.

The pokemon chuckled. "Oh I highly doubt that unless he can fight your friends that are waiting for you."

Hang on. What friends did I have here in the mountains?

I started crawling again through the narrow tunnel and I could feel a claustrophobia creeping in.Then I remembered I didn't know what the pokemon was or his name.

"Who are you?" I asked. "And what are you? I've never seen a pokemon like you before."

"I guess you have a right to know. Since I'm going to be travelling with you –"

I growled.

"Suicune no matter what you say or do you're stuck with me. And even if you run away I can still track you down. I am an Aura pokemon. I am a Lucario and you may call me as such. I know you still have many questions which I will answer later." he finished.

"Ok then." I said

This tunnel seemed to go on forever. There was nothing but encasing darkness in front of me. Then out of nowhere there was a squeal of pain. I froze. The squeal continued and something was moving underneath my foot. I looked down to see a Spinarak being crushed by my paw.

"I'm sorry." I said and lifted my paw.

The Spinarak scuttled past me and into the darkness. Then from behind me there was a yelp of fright I looked behind me and from the light of the bone illuminating the dark passageway. Lucario was pressed flat against the small wall watching the small pokemon scuttle past in the limited space; the Spinarak glanced at him and vanished into the darkness. I looked back at Lucario to see him shaking with what I guessed to be fear.

"You don't like Spinarak's?" I asked.

"That's a question." Lucario said, his voice shaking along with his frame.

I looked around shaking my head. This pokemon has taken on Entei and yet he was afraid of a Spinarak. I continued on I had only gone a couple of meters however when I realised that Lucario wasn't following behind me. I looked behind me to see him down the passageway in the exact same place.

"I'd like to get out of here sometime this century you know." I called out to him.

He seemed to snap out of something, he nodded and followed behind me. I continued on.

"Please tell me that you're not going to freeze up like that every time you see a Spinarak and a Ariados." I said.

"I can't help it that I have a fear of them."

"Why are you scared of them?" I asked.

"They're so spidery and the way they move. It creeps me out."

I rolled my eyes. "Since you are going to be travelling with me, is there anything else your scared of that I should know about?"

"No."

"You sure?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Good. Who are the people waiting for me?" I questioned.

"You'll see." Lucario said. "But there are concerned about you."

I made no response and we crawled on in silence and finally a light appeared at the end of the passageway, but it still seemed to be a fair distance away. Suddenly there was a loud explosion and a loud roar filled the passageway. That could only mean one thing. Entei had broken through the stone door. I looked down the passageway and gasped; fire was rushing toward us.

"Lucario!" I shouted. "Watch out!"

Lucario turned around with a growl and turned the bone out of aura into an Aura Sphere and sent it down the passageway, destroying the fire but also filling the passageway with smoke.

"Hurry!" Lucario urged coughing.

I crawled on faster making my paws and side hurt more. As I crawled on toward the light the passageway got larger letting me stand up. For what seemed like another ten minutes we continued on and eventually I stumbled out of the passageway and collapsed but a large pair of muscular arms grabbed me before I hit the ground and gently placed me back down but my legs wouldn't support me and I fell.

"Oh, you poor thing!" A women exclaimed and I was lifted into the air again. "Lucario! What did you put him through?"

"It wasn't me, it was them." Lucario growled.

My eyes adjusted. I was being held up it the arms of a Feraligatr and another nine were surrounding me. They were from the lake. There was a large boulder covering the entrance of the passageway with Lucario sitting on top of it. I looked up at the sky, it was still night. But where did that light come from? A Volbeat flutted past my head its end glowing. The Feraligatr holding me saw what I was looking at.

"It was so you could see your way," she said. "Thank you." she said to the Volbeat and it flew off. "Lets go." she said to the other Feraligatrs. They turned around and Lucario jumped off the rock and walked beside the Feraligatr carrying me. I squirmed in her arms.

"I want to walk."

She looked at me unsure but put me down anyway. I took a step but a shudder ran through my body and I fell to the ground. I was scooped up again.

"You're not walking." she insisted.

And they walked on. The sound of Ladyba and Ledian chirping filled the night and an occasional Noctowl flying overhead. I squirmed in the Feraligatrs arms again; I didn't like being carried it made me feel weak. I glared at Lucario as I heard him chuckle.

"Put up with it Suicune." he said. "You're injured."

I wish I wasn't.

The Feraligatrs continued on passing through the trees, it sort of felt like a guard and slowly I fell asleep.

When I next opened my eyes dawn was starting to rise but we weren't in the trees and I was lying on the ground, Lucario sitting beside me. I looked around; we were on the plateau with the Feraligatrs standing around us looking at the volcano. I looked there to, it was smoking.

Why are we here?" I asked.

"Because something's going to happen." A male Feraligatr said.

As if his words were the set off switch the ground started to shake and I flinched at the volcano literally blew apart, the pieces of it flew everywhere; crashing into other mountains and crushing trees. I looked back to where the volcano once was. Groudon was there, his roar of endless rage and fury ran throughout the mountains. SUICUNE

(My keyboard is stuffing up for some reason whenever I try to put an exclamation mark or anything after Suicune it just goes back to lower case. hmm strange, so that was Groudon yelling then)

I gulped.

Lucario moved in front of me and the ten Feraligatrs in front of him, trying to block me from Groudon's view but it was too late he had already seen me. And he took a step toward us. My ears picked up something. It started low at first but it got louder very quickly. It was chanting. Three pokemon then appeared floating in a circle above Groudon's head. Groudon looked up at them but as he locked eyes with one of them it begun to glow and so did Groudon. He then turned around and dived into the ground, soil covering the crater where the volcano once was. Then the three pokemon disappeared.

"What were they?" A Feraligatr asked.

"Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf." I said. "The three beings. Uxie is the being of knowledge, Mesprit is the being of emotion and Azelf is the being of willpower. They can also control what beings they are. Uxie can wipe memories, Mesprit can control emotions and Azelf can control someone will. The one glowing before was Azelf, he controlled Groudon's will and sent him away."

"What about Entei?" Lucario asked.

"I've got no idea." I said. "I think that since Groudon erupted out of the volcano like that, the passageways will be collapsing so I'm hoping that Entei will be crushed in the process."

Lucario laughed.

I was picked up again and the Feraligatrs walked on and slid down a slope of the plateau and walked on. About an hour later we walked into the canyon. Lucario walked in front of us, his eyes darting to the trees he passed. Suddenly he stopped the Feraligatrs stopping with him. Then the things on the side of his head lifted up and quickly moved up and down again. Then they stopped and he looked up at the sky, an Aura Sphere forming in-between his paws. Everyone else looked up there too.

A large dragon pokemon flew out of the clouds, a jet of flame slithering out of its jaws. The Salamence flew down toward us. It was Eli's Salamence but Eli wasn't on its back. Lucario sent the Aura Sphere at it but it veered to the left avoiding the attack. It sent a jet of fire toward us; water hit it from the Feraligatrs, destroying it. A light formed in the Salamences mouth and the Hyperbeam flew at us but it missed and hit the ground knocking up a cloud of dirt. The Salamence flew right over us knocking the Feraligatrs to the ground with the wind from its mighty wings. As the dirt settled back to the ground I saw the Salamence dive out of the sky heading toward me. Then Lucario appeared out of nowhere and jumped onto its neck when it was close to the ground and sunk his sharp canine fangs into the dragon pokemons neck tearing out chunks of flesh. The Salamence roared in fury, it folded its wings and did a corkscrew through the air throwing Lucario off its neck but it caught him in its claws and threw him hard into the ground pinning him there. An attack started to grow in its mouth and Lucario quickly managed to slide out from underneath its clawed foot and touched its chest. A white light formed underneath Lucario's paw and it enveloped the dragon pokemon. Force Palm. And the Salamence was sent flying backwards but it quickly recovered, it got up and flung itself at Lucario grabbing him by the waist with its razor sharp teeth and started to shake him vigorously. Lucario's blood ran through its mouth and dripped down onto the ground. The Feraligatrs cried out in anger and tried to attack the Salamence but it knocked them back with its strong tail. It sunk it teeth deeper into Lucario, he cried out and it didn't take long for him to pass out. The Salamence then threw his limp body to the ground and turned to us.

"Now. Give me Suicune and no one else will get hurt." It said, Lucario's blood dripping from its mouth. Also it was lying, I could see the lie plain in its eyes. "And if your thinking about saving this one." it inclined its head at Lucario. "You shouldn't waste your time. He hasn't got long left." it then nudged Lucario with the tip of its tail.

Then before she could stop me I leapt out of the Feraligatrs arms and ran at the Salamence dodging its tail. Even though I was tired rage fueled my body. I need to save Lucario. It's now my chance to save him. I jumped onto one of its wings and then onto its neck. I could see where Lucario had bit into it. Chunks were torn out and one was so deep that it revealed a pearly white bone. I too bit down on its neck. I wanted to break it. I tore out a large chunk of flesh and tossed it to the side. The Salamence jumped to the sky, it was going to corkscrew again and I quickly jumped off its neck and onto the branch of a tree. It flew over the canyon, circling. One of the Feraligatrs cautiously approached Lucario and was about to pick him up when the Salamence locked its wings and dived landing over him roaring and thrashing its tail making the Feraligatr stumble back. I jumped out of the tree and landed behind and quickly charged up an Aurora beam. The Salamence whirled around and I sent the beam toward it, the beam hit it in its chest and it was sent crashing into the trees. I quickly ran over to it and put my paw on its neck and charged up another beam. Then the beam disappeared as shock froze me into place. The Salamence was glowing white and its shape was changing, it became smaller. It then floated up from underneath my paw swaying unsteadily back in forth in front of me.

"Mew." I said quietly.

Mew then vanished, he had teleported. I growled and walked over to the circle of Feraligatrs standing around Lucario. I pushed to the front. Lucario was lying in his own pool of blood; eyes closed his breathing shallow.

"We need to get him to our healers immediately." I heard one of the Feraligatrs say.

The female Feraligatr who carried me stepped forward and gently picked up Lucario. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw one lean in and try to pick me up. I jumped away from him.

"Oh no." I said. "I'm not being carried again."

"Suicune please. You're injured," said the one carrying Lucario.

"I'm fine." I said but as I spoke a sharp pain flared in my side. "I'm walking." I insisted through gritted teeth.

She shook her head. "Lets go." she said to the Feraligatrs and they obeyed without comment and they walked on. And I jogged up to her.

"Why is it you're the one giving orders and carrying injured pokemon?" I said.

"I feel like it's my duty to make sure an injured pokemon is alright and I'm the leader of this Feraligatr pack."

"Do you know if Lucario will be ok?"

"I don't know," she said. "He's lost a lot of blood."

Please pull through Lucario.

"What's your name?" I asked her.

"Sapphire." she said. "I certainly know yours." then she added. "I shouldn't have told you about that prophecy, you must be worried sick of what it said."

"No, its ok. It's actually revealed another part of my journey. Restoring time." I still didn't know what that meant. It must have something to do with Dialga. "How did you know that we were at the volcano?"

"Lucario came and got us after you knocked him out. How are you feeling?"

"Fine." I said.

"You'll still need to be assessed by one of our healers."

I grimaced. We walked on pain occasionally rose up inside from my paws and slowly the canyon came to its end, its ragged edges sinking back down into the earth. We walked on for a bit when an emerald forest of trees appeared. Occasional bug pokemon flew past us once we were in the trees, chirping filled the forest as the bird pokemon woke to a new day. The leaves rustled overhead from a light breeze coming from the north and for an hour we walked through the forest of trees and after awhile the sound of rushing water reached our ears, for a quarter of an hour we walked toward the sound we then emerged out of the trees. A gushing stream of water flowed past us and over the edge of a cliff. We were at the waterfall. The Feraligatrs waded through the water and onto the bank on the other side and started down a worn out path that weaved through the trees. It must lead back down to the lake. Sapphire turned back around.

"You coming?"

I looked back at the waterfall. "Uh. Yeah, I'm coming." I then jumped over the rushing water and landed on the other side.

"Sapphire! Wait!" A female voice shouted as Sapphire begun to turn around. There was a flutter of wings and a Staraptor landed beside us.

"Yes Sky. What can I do for you?" Sapphire asked the bird.

"Well…" the Staraptor named Sky started. "I see that you have an injured one and I could fly it down there so your healers can attend to it quicker."

"That would be great Sky." Sapphire said. "Thank you. Also could you tell them that Suicune is injured and that they'll need to have a look at him too."

"Will do." Sky said she then turned around and waited, Sapphire walked forward and gently placed Lucario on her shoulders where her wings began. "I'll make sure that it won't fall off." Sky promised, she then took off and slowly spiraled down to the lake.

We then turned around and walked down the path. It felt that like my limbs would collapse at any second, I was so tired. It only took a couple of minutes and we emerged out of the trees. A bunch of Totodile was playing in the water in a game of tag I think it's called. Croconaws and Feraligatrs were lying by the sides of the lake basking in the morning sun. But on the other side of the lake was the thing that caught my attention the most. Two Feraligatrs stood over Lucario, looking at Lucario's wounds. I jumped onto the lake and ran across it.

"Is he ok?" I asked the healers urgently when I reached them.

"Hopefully." One of them said. "Now we've been told that we have to heal you aswell.

Without letting me answer the other Feraligatr circled around me.

"Claw inflections to the two front paws." it said it a deep voice. "A deep scratch on the inside of the left hind leg…" he stopped at my side. "What do we have here? Hmm. A lot of swelling and yellow-purplish bruising." He then reached out and poked at my side. I yelped and jumped away from him. The pain was intense. "Just as I thought." he said. "You have a broken rib maybe two."

A rib? When did that happen? It must have been when I collided with the frozen waterfall.

The Feraligatr turned around and walked into the trees, muttering to himself. I looked over at Lucario. The bleeding had stopped and the wounds were gone.

"He woke up just before you arrived." The other Feraligatr said. "We gave him an Oran berry to heal his wounds. It healed the ones on the surface. But Oran berries can't heal everything.He has some internal bleeding, the Salamences teeth have punctured one of his organs, and we realised that had happened when he started to cough up blood. We then put him to sleep with a Chesto berry and we are hoping that he will last until tonight."

"What's going on tonight." I asked, my side throbbing.

"We have a friend that might be able to heal Lucario tonight. He comes to the lake every night."

The other Feraligatr came and stood beside me. "Eat this." he held out an Oran berry to me.

I took it out of his hand with my teeth and ate it. I felt a weird feeling spread from the tips of my paws to the hexagon crystal thing on my head. I moved my paws there was no pain and it was the same when the Feraligatr touched my side.

"Good." he said and he walked off.

The other Feraligatr sat down on the side of Lucario and I slipped into a doze. Images flashed across my mind. When I was standing on the Y-shaped walkway in the volcano, Groudon erupting out of the magma and then destroying the volcano. The Lucario almost being ripped in half by the Salamence who was really Mew. Then I was awakened as water was splashed onto my face from the Totodiles playing in the water.

I watched them having nothing else to do. Suddenly one of the girls screamed and the group of Totodile ran out of the water and hid behind me. Was this apart of the game?

"The monster!" One yelled.

"The legendary Suicune will protect us!" Another shouted.

I was a little taken aback by this and I looked at the water. I saw something large disappear into its depths. Did I just image that? "What monster?" I asked.

The Feraligatr answered me. "There is a legend that a great water monster lives in the bottom of the lake, guarding something precious. The kids are scared because we say that we are going to feed them to it if they don't get to bed on time or if they misbehave." she chuckled. "They even get spooked by a little water pokemon and sometimesthe Croconaws pretend to be the water monster when the kids are playing in the lake. Scares them witless."

I laughed.

Slowly the Totodiles went back to the water but stuck to the shallows. I went around the lake talking to the Croconaws and Feraligatrs. I couldn't help myself and I went into the lake and played water games with the Totodiles and after they had worn me out I went and stayed by Lucario's side. Please hold on till tonight. I couldn't help but think those word every five minutes or so. And slowly night fell and the full moon rose bathing the lake in its silver light.

We gathered close to the borderline of trees, Sapphire holding Lucario and we waited. The a loud howl echoed throughout the night, it faded and the night was silent one more. A couple of minutes later it sounded again only closer. A snap of a twig on the ground disturbed the quietness just beyond the treeline. A pair of red eyes shined through the darkness, it stepped out of the trees the moon shining of it glossy sleek black coat. A hell demon stood before us. The Houndoom scanned the pokemon waiting for it.

"A welcoming party?" it sneered. It voice was like velvet and silky. I didn't know how to describe it and also it voice was filled with power.

End notes: Finally I finished typing it up, took me 8 hours. Woo hoo! Longest chapter yet. So what did you think? Good? Bad? In-between? Let me know. Will Lucario survive? I should have the next chapter up very soon. Please review. Cya.