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ChapterEighteen
TheUmbreon
The next morning, Wylie woke us up around noon with a gentle tap.
"What are we doing today?" Jared wondered as he, Heather, Carry, me, and Wylie gathered in the main room.
"Well, I'm going to wake Austin and we're going to go and see Uxie," Wylie explained. "I just wanted to tell you all to be very careful. We have to get you your memories back in a specific pattern, else the memory bridges do not form correctly. This pattern isn't usually predictable because only the legends and a select few of the Chosens know the pattern, but not all the legends who know have stayed on our side."
"Just tell us what you're trying to say here," Carry instructed, sighing.
"Azelf knows we need to see Uxie now, so she is probably going to come to Uxie's cave and try to kill us all," Wylie stated plainly. "And, no, Uxie cannot come to us. She's trapped, the reason we're going there."
"By what?" Heather wondered. "What could trap a legend?"
"Another legend," Wylie told her. "Dialga has trapped her in what I'm going to call a time capsule."
"Gosh! Are any of the legends on our side?" Carry exclaimed.
"Yes. That would be most of the rest of the legends," Wylie said. I was impressed by his patience with us, Carry especially. Sometimes I wanted to stick a nail through her skull to see how thick it was.
"Hey, guys." Austin came out of his room, looking bright and happy. The stitches on his side were ugly gray threads that criss-crossed his bright blue fur, dulling them.
"How are you feeling?" Wylie wondered.
"Ready to kick some Chosen ass," Austin replied, smirking.
Wylie smiled. "To Crystal Crossing we go, then."
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Once we reached the final pit, Wylie and Austin stopped us. Austin closed his eyes and scanned for auras. Wylie with his sharp eyes searched the cracks and crevices. Each of us had our ears open and tried looking around ourselves even though we really didn't know what we were looking for.
Austin pulled in a sharp breath as he sensed something. He snapped open his eyes and yelled, "Something's coming at us! Get back!" We all made a dash for the tunnel through which we'd entered, but suddenly a psychic block appeared.
"Damn!" Carry yelled. "It's always us, I swear!"
Wylie almost laughed. "Carry, it's always us for a reason."
"Who are you?" demanded a voice.
Wylie carefully stepped forward. He held his arms out in front of him, his palms facing up to show he meant no harm. "It's Wylie and my friends, Uxie."
A pale blue figure faded into view. She had what I thought looked like a yellow hat on her head. She gently touched her rubied tails to Wylie's paws and there was a small wave of red that pulsed through the air. Uxie.
The creature smiled. "Welcome."
"Thank you," Wylie said, and bowed. He stepped back to our group.
"Are we locked in?" Carry demanded, turning her head to give Uxie a sideways look that clearly signaled distrust.
"Not you, just me. I'll unlock my block," Uxie said, then waved her paw at the entrance. She frowned when the psychic shield didn't disappear.
"Shit!" Austin yelled suddenly. "Wylie! Follow my aura sphere!" Austin summoned a small blue ball of aura and threw it at the top right corner of the cave. Wylie immediately formed what looked like a very, very concentrated ball of glowing water and threw it at the same place.
The spheres hit something and exploded with a small burst of smoke and sound.
"Ah!" Dark yelped abruptly, falling over while clutching his head. Me and the rest of Team Song whipped around to face him, but he had already fainted. I figured the memory activated.
"My turn!" something feminine shouted.
"No!" Uxie yelled, and threw herself in front of us. She whipped her arms out, forming a barrier between her and us and whatever was attacking. She shook when an aura sphere hit the psychic shield, but neither her nor her barrier broke.
When the smoke cleared, a figure that looked like Uxie (except she had a blue hat instead of a yellow one) appeared in front of us. That would be Azelf.
"Uxie," the figure smirked. "Protecting your Chosen like you didn't mine?" The smirk turned angry.
"My Chosen knows his place," Uxie spat. "I'm protecting his friends. Your Chosen knew it, too. He gave his life for a great cause."
"He gave his life for a stupid cause! He-" Azelf began, her words being shot like arrows.
"You know this isn't a stupid cause!" Uxie yelled.
"It's too late! I've already joined Dialga and Palkia!" Azelf said.
"The power has already started going to their heads! Soon they'll fight each other for it and then kill you once they realize who shared it!" Uxie spat.
"This banter does not matter! Behold what I've really come to show you!" Azelf said, and snapped her fingers.
Everyone braced themselves, but nothing came.
Azelf snapped again before yelling angrily, "Drowsee!"
"Oh, no," Carry sighed. "Not this bastard again."
"The same one who kidnapped Azurill...?" I wondered.
Before Austin or Wylie could ask what we were talking about, the big yellow bath tub waddled out from an entrance behind Azelf.
"Buizel!" he shouted. "I've come to kill you!"
"Don't waste your breath," Austin muttered, beginning to step forward.
"No," Wylie decided. "He's more powerful than he looks, and you're still fairly injured."
"Wylie! Don't you get it? They're trying to get you to end up like I was! They very much wantto kill you!" Austin insisted.
"I know," Wylie said, nodding. "Austin, let me do this."
Austin bowed his head in defeat. "Wylie, you know you can't die. We literally need you."
"And we need the rest of you as well," Wylie said. "You know only I can defeat him because of my power against him as his opposite Chosen, just how Craeg is yours."
Austin sighed, knowing arguing wasn't going to get him anywhere now. "Don't die."
Ididn'tknowWyliecouldbesostubborn, I thought to myself as I watched Wylie walk forward.
"I'm ready," the buizel decided, puffing up his chest to make himself look bigger. "Fight me."
The big yellow tub came forward.
"Kill him!" Azelf commanded. "Use your new trick!"
"Okay!" Drowsee shouted. He gathered up a ball of energy between his fat fingers and tossed it over to Wylie, who easy sidestepped to avoid the attack. "What?" Drowsee demanded. He tried again and again but failed each time.
Wylie uttered two words: "Child's play." then sprung into action, first throwing several water pulses at his enemy. Drowsee snapped and the balls of water flew back to where Wylie was- excuse me, had been standing. By the time Drowsee realized Wylie wasn't where he'd aimed, the crafty buizel had managed to rush behind him.
"Ya!" Wylie shouted, then with a burst of blue he used aqua jet to pummel his enemy to the ground. Drowsee jumped back up and Wylie stepped forward so his fist connected with his enemy's face.
"The trick! The trick!" Azelf yelled. Just then Austin launched an aura sphere at the legend. The blue sphere hit her with a large thud and she smashed backwards into a wall.
Uxie followed up after Austin's attack with a psychic. Azelf screamed and wriggled in pain as Uxie's power strangled her. Azelf gave one especially large twitch, and I noticed something falling from her flash. I heard a slight thump as whatever it was landed.
Meanwhile, Drowsee started to gather the energy again, but Wylie was too smart for that. He socked the yellow pokemon and then ducked and kicked out, causing Drowsee to collapse. Wylie jumped out of the way just in time.
"What is that?" I heard Carry ask. Her gaze was pointed directly at the place where the thing had landed.
"I'll go find out," I offered, then scooted off before Austin or Heather, whose gazes were pinned to the fighting, could notice and tell me to stop.
I slid forward with my back to the rocks as quickly as I could, ducking when the occasional burst of power hit near me. One went a hair above my head and, on reflex, I yelped.
Azelf screamed through the psychic attack, "Oh, no! Drowsee, get the osh-"
"No, you don't!" Austin retorted quickly, and threw an aura sphere. The blue ball of energy collided painfully with Azelf, cutting her demand off.
After that I ran as fast as I could, my arms flailing behind me and eyes wide with fear. I stopped in my tracks when I saw the flash again. In front of me was a tiny glass sphere with a small pattern inside. The pattern glew. When I moved to pick it up the cave light gleamed off it and its glow brightened into a momentary flash.
"Run!" Austin, noticing it and probably realizing what the glass sphere was, suddenly yelled. "Run as fast as you can, Jared! Get out of here!"
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