May 28th (Michina Town Ruins, Sinnoh)

(Drew's POV)

I couldn't believe, how did May survive that attack, it was humanly impossible.

Giovanni looked stunned then angry. He fired a beam of light at her but she raised her hand and blocked it not suffering any damage at all.

"I SUMMON THE POWER OF ARCEUS!" she shouted.

She glowed in white light and it soon disappeared to show an angel, literally, she looked like an angel except she was missing wings. She showed no cuts, bruises, or anything, she was completely healed. Her clothes were replaced with a strapless white dress that went knee length but had slits on the sides, flowy arm sleeves, and a choker with a yin yang charm though it looked different than it should. Her hair was flowing free with silver and gold streaks and her face showed traces of silver and gold eye shadow.

What I loved most was that her eyes were still the same sapphire gems that I fell in love with, they gleamed brightly with a fiery passion that only May could possess.

(May's POV)

At this point in time, I've never felt more alive. I felt so much power that it was bursting at the seams.

"But this is impossible, the chips I implanted should have made you powerless," Giovanni stuttered angrily.

"There is only one thing that needs to get through your head," I said before smirking. "I DEFY THE ODDS!"

I then summoned a lightning bolt to strike Giovanni though he dodged and shot a Solar Beam at me. I placed my arms in front of me as I created a shield with my aura. Giovanni looked annoyed and shot Water Gun at me only to loop it around me and strike back at him with a greater force. He got pushed back into the cliff face and a plate disappeared. It then reappeared on my wrist as a charm on a charm bracelet and I felt a huge boost in power.

Giovanni then laughed, "What's so funny jerk?" I snapped.

"You are now powerless, you are bursting at the seams with power. If you have the plates of Arceus on you for the elements you control, the huge amount of power will destroy you if you try to use even the slightest amount," Giovanni said with a grin.

I ignored him and tried to shoot a Water Gun at him, but I suddenly felt a huge blockage from overflow in power and cried in pain as I knelt to the ground.

"May!" everyone cried.

I breathed in heavily as I wanted to punch him to shut him up but he had a point, holding onto the plates that I already had powers for would double my power and if I used any…..well….ya know.

"As much as I would like to continue fighting you, I have a world to conquer," Giovanni said with a smirk before turning to his agents. "Finish her off," he ordered as he suddenly disappeared.

"Ugh, great," I muttered in frustrations as I stood and turned to look around to see Team Rocket grunts had surrounded me poised with weapons.

They fired their weapons and I created an aura shield before swiping my arms in an arc around me to send a wave of aura to knock them down, "Anyone else want a piece of me?" I asked as I took a stance to attack.

They stood up and raised their weapons causing me to sigh, "Guess we're doing this the hard way."

I whistled loudly and a few seconds later, swarms of wild pokemon came to attack the grunts. While they were distracted, I ran to where the gang was being guarded by swarms of agents. I started to attack them by throwing aura shaped knives making them pinned to the cliff side behind them.

"Are you guys okay?" I asked and saw that they looked terrible. "Never mind."

Drew then ran to hug me tightly and I returned it, "You're alive," he murmured.

"Of course I am grasshead, I don't go down easily," I teased gently as I hugged him back.

"I guess what Giovanni said was true, how are you going to fight him now?" Dawn asked as she walked over to me with a limp.

I sighed, "I'm not sure."

"We'll help ya and kick his ass," Ash said enthusiastically.

I laughed halfheartedly, "You guys are in no condition to help me, but I appreciate the thought."

"May, Ash wasn't joking, we're ready to help you," Misty said seriously.

"I know and I would like your help, but you guys look like your half dead," I argued.

"Speaking of dead, why aren't you?" Paul asked.

"Paul!" everyone shouted while Dawn hit him on the upside of the head.

I laughed, "It's okay guys, cut Paul some slack. I figured since Giovanni stole most of Arceus' power by using Judgment so many times, if he did one final attack it would be normal. I talked to Arceus in advance to let that shot have a huge dosage of healing that would kill the chips implanted in me allowing me to gain my full access of power. What I didn't count on was having an overdose of power by taking the plates back."

Leaf looked confused, "I don't get it, you had the fire plate in your hands before and you had no trouble with your powers, why are you having trouble now?"

"Because I wasn't powered up fully when I had the plate in my hand, I only had the power of earth at the time. Now I have the power of all the elements I learned so I have more power this time," I explained.

"Well that's a pain, how are you going to stop him if you're stuck at your limit? Too bad you can't have someone else hold the plate," Dawn said with a sigh.

A light bulb appeared causing me to grin, "Dawn, you're a genius!" I shouted as I gave her a hug.

She along with everyone else stared at me like I was crazy, "How am I a genius?" Dawn asked confused.

I smirked as I took a step back from everyone and created a small ball of aura in one hand while holding the plate in the other. I then merged the two and I felt part of my life force taken away making me fall to my knees in surprise.

I looked at the end result to see the plate was still small in a small glow of aura creating a pendant on a string, "Misty, catch!" I yelled as I tossed it to her.

(Misty's POV)

I caught what May threw at me and I saw that it was a pendant necklace of the water plate. I put it around my neck and I was engulfed in a blue light. I felt my injuries heal and my clothes changed as the light faded away.

I looked at myself in surprise, "May, what just happened?!"

"You now have the power to control water as long as you are wearing your pendant," she explained.

I looked at the pendant and then back at her, "Why did you fall when you made it?" I asked suspiciously.

May sighed, "Since you guys don't have protection from the huge dose of power the plates possess, I took a part of my life force to create a small force field to regulate the power so you can you use it," she explained.

We looked shocked at what May did, "May, you can't do that, you'll kill yourself in the process," Drew protested.

"I will be fine, I can do it enough times for the plates that I can't hold. Also a word of caution, every time this happens, I will be powerless for a few minutes so you guys are gonna have to cover for me," she warned.

I then hugged me, "You bet we will," I said with a smile as she hugged me back.

"All right, time to save the world!" Dawn said excitedly as she pumped a fist in the air.

May laughed before she turned to see Gardevoir walking toward her. After giving Gardevoir orders, Gardevoir nodded and walked away to talk to the wild pokemon. She then turned back to us before closing her eyes and focused. She then twitched out of the vision causing us to look at her concerned, "May, you okay?" Drew asked.

She nodded, "Giovanni is in Petalburg City and I'm concerned about Max," she said worriedly.

"How are we going to get there?" Leaf asked.

"A huge leap in teleporting," she said before focusing again.

Before I knew it, we were in Petalburg City with Giovanni wreaking havoc by setting buildings on fire and ripping up streets.

"Great, why does my hometown have to be destroyed?" she whined.

"Don't worry May, we'll stop him," I reassured her as I took a stance.

She nodded and did the same, we then blasted Giovanni with a double Water Gun causing him to look at us in surprise. "How did you know I was here and how do you both have power?!"

"There is always a loop hole," May said with a smirk before we charged in with different attacks with water.

As a shock, I actually got the hang of it and I can't lie, this is incredible. May leapt into the air and swiped him high while I pounded him with a wave from the side. She nodded to me and we both did a double Hydro Pump causing another plate to appear as a charm on May's wrist. Giovanni roared in anger and sent a Hyper Beam at us. We tried to dodge it in time, but both of us were hit and slammed into the side of a nearby building while Giovanni escaped again.

"You girls okay?" Ash asked in concern as he came up to me.

"We're fine, but I'm not gonna lie, that hurt," I groaned as I stood up to lean on Ash.

Drew helped May up when we heard a faint voice shout her name.

May turned around to see Max running towards her and attacked her with a hug, "You're okay," he murmured into her softly.

"Of course I'm okay, I don't go down easily," she teased.

"So what's going on?" Max asked.

"Giovanni has Arceus' power by having control of the plates which we are trying to get back and everyone has to hold a plate for powers that I have otherwise I will explode from too much of the same power," she said trying to sum it up.

Max blinked twice, "I think I get it, so that's why Misty looked different?"

I nodded, "I have control of the water plate."

Max then looked at May's wrist, "What plate is that?"

"The bug plate. If you don't mind, you're going to have to tag along and help out. We also need to find out where Giovanni went next," she said.

"Give me a sec," Max said as he whipped out a small pda and starting tapping it with a stylus. "Looks like he's starting to cause chaos in Slateport City."

"Great, he's going after the bigger cities in the regions," she muttered as Max called out Kirlia to use Teleport.

Soon we found ourselves again in the midst of Giovanni destroying buildings and causing damage, "We have to go through this fifteen more times after this," I complained with a mutter.

"Let's hope we can steal more than one plate this time," May called.

I nodded and we ran into action, I controlled water from a nearby fountain while May started attacking with Frenzy Plant.

"Ah so you're back again," Giovanni called.

"And we're here to take back what you stole," I shouted as I hit him hard.

May then controlled a few small boulders to toss at him, but he retaliated by dodging them and shot lightning at me. I panicked for a second, but May quickly got in front of me and redirected it back at him with twice the power while I added Water Pulse. He cried out from the shock and I saw that two more plates appeared on May's wrist.

May shot me a look and I nodded in understanding, "Alright you creep, let's see how you like a Misty hurricane," I shouted as I started creating a water funnel.

After I felt there was enough power, I threw it at him Giovanni to stop it by destroying it with Fire Spin. He then shocked me with Thunder causing me to cry in pain as May threw a pendant to Dawn.

(Dawn's POV)

I caught the pendant May threw at me and put it on. I was engulfed in a light blue light and I felt my injuries heal. Like Misty, as the light faded, my clothes appeared to be different as well. I wore a skating dress in multiple shades of blue and white skating boots.

"Looks like I'm up," I said with a determined grin.

I quickly created skates on the bottom of my boots and then used Ice Beam on the ground to create a path for me to skate on. As I skated down the path, I created snowflake ninja stars to toss at Giovanni before I switched directions and used Blizzard. He looked furious and then suddenly disappeared.

I then skated over to May, "You alright?"

She nodded, "I just need to regain my energy," she said tiredly as I saw everyone else race towards me while Ash ran to Misty. "You okay?" May asked her.

"I'll be okay. Besides, we need to keep attacking Giovanni, we have only gotten a few of the plates," she said quickly.

May nodded and stood up as Max started taping on his pda again, "Looks like he's in Lilycove City."

We nodded as Max called out Kirlia to use Teleport.

We then appeared on the outskirts of Lilycove and we could see smoke coming from the city, "Great," I muttered.

We ran toward the city to see Giovanni wreaking havoc on the town as he was destroying buildings with Hyper Beam.

"You guys stay a safe distance away," May ordered the guys and Leaf before turning to Misty and me. "Let's go."

Misty and I nodded and ran with her toward the center of the commotion where Giovanni was and I shot Ice Shard at him to get his attention.

Giovanni laughed as he used Flamethrower to melt it, "I don't think you can do much to me. I'm sure you've noticed that every plate you steal allows me more power as a self-defense mechanism."

"We've noticed, but we'll still kick your ass," I retorted as I stealthily formed more snowflake ninja stars before throwing them.

Giovanni retorted by created a rock wall to protect him before punching it at us, "You'll have to do better than that," May shouted as she broke it apart while Misty ran to him with a huge wave of water.

I then skated my way around dodging attacks as I threw Ice Shard, Ice Beam, and Blizzard in his direction while Misty hit him with Hydro Pump and Water Pulse.

May threw in every type attack in between before she noticed that Giovanni had reached a low point, "Now!" she shouted at us.

I stopped skating and sent a huge Ice Beam while Misty sent three Water Pulses back to back while May added three Zap Cannons.

A huge collision occurred and Giovanni roared in pain, "Girls," May called signaling us that we had to cover for her.

We nodded in understanding and started to keep Giovanni busy by throwing back to back attacks. May called out to Ash to catch as I froze the water Misty covered Giovanni with. We thought we had him frozen in place, but he broke free and he used Psychic to throw me against the side of the building.

(Misty's POV)

"Dawn!" I saw her collapse onto the ground causing Ash to run up next to me giving me an idea, "Ash!"

I started to use Hydro Pump and he nodded catching on to my idea. He quickly added Thunder causing my Water Gun to give Giovanni a bigger shock. He cried out in pain and disappeared to most likely attack his next target.

"Nice work you three," May commented weakly as she stood up with Max's help.

"Paul, I'm fine," Dawn assured as he helped her up.

"I've found out where Giovanni is," Max called before we were teleported to our next destination. "Olivine City."

I looked around, "Look out!" May shouted.

She tried to raise an aura shield in time, but a boulder smacked her into a nearby building.

"May!" we cried.

Giovanni laughed as he used Flamethrower only for Dawn and I to create a huge frozen shield to protect everyone. "I knew you insolent children would follow me here."

He then summoned Stone Edge to break through the shield we created knocking us back, "He's becoming a bigger pain the ass," I muttered.

"We still have to take him down, we got to hit him big time if we're gonna take two more plates," Dawn said determined.

Ash and I nodded as May stood up weakly, "Can you guys cover me a second?" she asked.

We nodded and grinned, "Just make sure you come before the fun is over," Ash said with a goofy grin.

May shook her head while chuckling as we charged after Giovanni. I summoned water from a fountain nearby and started to swing it at him while Dawn kept circling around throwing ice and Ash threw in shocks in between. After a few minutes, May came back throwing air slashes as we continued to bombard Giovanni with attacks.

We stopped after we saw Giovanni fall to his knees, "Not again," he spat weakly as three plates appeared this time on May's wrist.

Without needing to be told by May, the three of us prepared a strong defense knowing Giovanni would lash out in anger as May created another pendant. She then called out to Paul for him to catch, he caught it and went through a similar transformation as the rest of us. He then stood next to Dawn to add rock walls to our defense. Giovanni then lashed out with Frenzy Plant, Gust, Flamethrower, and Focus Blast knocking all of us back while Giovanni disappeared from our sight. May fell to the ground from the blast while the rest of us were able to still stand on our feet.

"He's getting stronger now that he's lost half of the plates," Leaf commented.

"No kidding, that guy packs a wallop," Ash groaned as he shook his head to reorient himself.

"May, you're not looking good, you're getting paler," Dawn said worriedly.

She breathed in air heavily, "I think it's because I've been fighting a lot with only have my life force," she said tiredly as she stood up. "We should get moving."

We stood in front of her, "We're not leaving until you recover some more, you only have a little over half your life force left," Drew said firmly.

I could tell she wanted to keep going, but she sighed and collapsed to the ground from exhaustion. Drew then sat down next to her and placed her head on his shoulder so she could rest on him.

"We should try to come up with a game plan as to how to finish off Giovanni," I suggested.

"Isn't the plan to keep doing what we're doing?" Ash asked confused.

Paul shook his head, "May won't have any strength left to finish the job if she has to keep fighting. I think it's our part to battle him so that when he's weak, May can help with the final attack so the plates can go to her."

"That's a good idea," Dawn chirped. "We should figure out if we can do any combinations that will have any effect along with good defensive techniques."

Ash and I nodded in agreement. Soon the four were discussing strategies while Leaf and Gary were talking to Max as to where Giovanni went next and Drew and May were having a private conversation of their own.

After letting May rest for a few minutes, we teleported to Golden Rod City, "Max, Kirlia can't teleport us anymore so why don't you let it rest," May said as we noticed that the poor pokemon was exhausted.

He nodded and did so while we went to start attacking Giovanni. The planning of combination attacks did help, but it was a hard fight to put up with since Giovanni seemed to be stronger every time we faced him. After ten minutes of Giovanni getting hammered, Dawn yelled at May that it was now time to strike. She ran forward dodging debris and attacked with Fire Spin while the rest of us hammered Giovanni hard making him collapse again.

May again got two more plates and wasted no time creating the next pendant while we created another shield of defense. May called to Gary to catch and after he transformed, he helped us strength the shield with an air barrier. I looked at May to see that she looked concerned, she than ran out around the shield toward Giovanni. She grabbed him from behind and she launched the both of them into the air from a rock that she summoned. She threw him above her as a huge Hyper Beam exploded from all direction.

"May!" we shouted as we watched her fall back to the ground.

Gary quickly created an air cushion for May to fall on to soften the landing before we surrounded her.

"Quick Misty, try to heal her," Dawn shouted.

I looked flustered, "I don't even know if I can," I said nervously.

Ash took my hand and squeezed it, "Just try Mist, for May's sake," he said gently.

I nodded and raised some water above her and started to move my arms in a swaying motion. The water started to glow and I saw May's face relax.

She smiled at me as I was shocked as to what I just did, "For a person with a hard exterior, you have the kindness to heal those you care for," she said softly as she sat up.

I felt tears starting to appear and I hugged her tightly, "Please don't do that again, I don't want to lose my best friend," I whispered.

"May, why did you run out like that, you could have died from that," Dawn said harshly.

May sighed, "Because I saw that he was a bomb ready to explode and your defense would not have held up against that so I had to get him as far away as I could."

"But that was too risky," Drew argued.

"I know it was, but I didn't have much of a choice," she retorted before calming down. "I think the best form of defense from now on is that Paul creates a hole in the ground for us to hide in. Creating shields won't work anymore."

We nodded in agreement, "We need to get moving, we don't have much time," she said as she stood up.

"But how are we going to get there, Kirlia is too tired and we don't have any other pokemon to teleport us," Leaf argued.

"Hmm…Max, where is Giovanni now?" May asked.

"Viridian City, why?" he asked suspiciously.

Before anyone could retort, she quickly teleported us there and collapsed from the huge amount of energy, "May, why in Mew's sake did you do that?" Drew asked angrily.

She ignored him and turned to us, "Get going you guys, you need to weaken Giovanni down again."

We glared at her, but did as she said.

(May's POV)

"May, stop doing that!" Drew shouted at me again.

I looked at Drew to see that his face showed anger but his eyes screamed fear, "I'll try, but I can't promise anything."

Drew then hugged me tightly as if I would disappear on the spot. I allowed him to hold me as the battle raged on knowing the Drew feared to lose me more than anything.

"May!" Dawn shouted.

"Drew," I said softly.

He sighed but let me go, I pecked his cheek before racing off to join everyone else. I unleashed a Solar Beam as everyone else attacked and Giovanni roared at the collision, "Keep it up, we almost have him," Misty strained to say.

I put in more power and then Giovanni fell to his knees, I felt two plates appear and wasted no time creating a pendant with the Psychic one. Paul was busy with digging as I threw the pendant to Leaf. After she put it on and transformed, she ran to Paul and used Psychic to help him dig more earth out. Just as Giovanni roared in using Draco Meteor, we climbed into the hold and Paul covered the top.

The ground shook as meteors came crashing down and I felt Giovanni's presence disappear, "How many plates do we still have to get?" Ash asked.

"Three, fire, grass, and dragon," I said.

Paul uncovered the top and we crawled out, we gasped at the destruction that Giovanni did, "Oh my Mew!" Dawn cried.

I made a fist seeing what Giovanni did, it fit the vision that I saw earlier and it didn't make me feel any better.

"We should keep fighting," Leaf said breaking the silence. "Do you think you have enough energy to do the final blow if we leave now?"

I nodded, "It'll take longer for Giovanni to reach that point, he's a lot more powerful than he was earlier and it doesn't help that he is in a rage."

Leaf nodded, "Giovanni is now in Saffron City," Max said.

Leaf then bowed her head and placed her hands together in concentration. Soon we found ourselves teleported there in one piece, "Not bad Leafy," Gary said with a smirk.

Leaf smiled weakly, "I wouldn't be able to fight for a minute or two since I just used Teleport," she explained.

Everyone nodded in understanding before racing off once more to fight Giovanni, "May, how is Arceus doing?" Leaf asked.

I sat down and started to focus on my connection with him. With every second, I felt more pain. He was still alive but barely, the red chain was hurting him badly and he was slowly dying from not having his plates.

I opened my eyes and looked at the fight, "Not good, to put it in blunt terms, he's slowly dying from not having his plates and being trapped in the red chain."

"Is that why you look sickly?" Max asked.

"I don't know, I feel like it plays a small part, but it's from having little of my life force," I answered slowly.

"Then stop giving away your life force," Max retorted.

I sighed, "It's not that simple, I need to face Giovanni when the last plate is taken. That is when he will have the most power and even all of you put together would be able to stop him. So in order to do that, you guys need to hold onto the plates for me and for that, you need my life force to protect yourselves from burning up from the overload of power."

Max still didn't look happy, "Don't worry, it'll all work out in the end."

But I can't guarantee you'll like the way of how it happens. I watched the fight as Gary hit Giovanni with Air Cutter with a follow up by Paul using Stone Edge. Giovanni dodged both and threw a Flamethrower at them but Misty and Dawn quickly created a shield in defense. As the shield got Giovanni's attention, Leaf and Ash attacked from behind using Psywave and Zap Cannon.

This caused Giovanni to fall to his knees signaling that it was my turn to join in. I quickly called for a Frenzy Plant to hold Giovanni in place as everyone hit him with their attacks. He roared in anger as a plate was taken away. I quickly created the pendant and threw at Drew who caught it. He and Max then ran to join the rest of us as Paul and Leaf were trying to create another hole. We hopped in and I sealed the top just as Giovanni unleashed a powerful attack. We could feel the tremors underground and I looked down with a sigh knowing that this attack did a lot of damage.

"He's gone," I said as I felt his presence disappear.

Paul then reopened the hole and we gasped at the damage done, "This is madness," Leaf gasped.

I gripped my fist in anger and took a step to start putting out the fires by Gary stopped me by placing a hand on my shoulder, "We've got this," he said with a small smirk before turning to Misty. "Let's go Red."

Misty rolled her eyes at the name but followed him as they ran more into the city. A few minutes later, rain clouds appeared and started a heavy downpour. Drew created an aura shield to help us from getting soaked as Misty and Gary trudged back.

"You guys okay?" Leaf asked as she ran to help support Gary.

"We're fine, but we need to recharge," Misty said as Ash helped her stand.

"Where's Giovanni?" I asked Max.

Max started tapping his small tablet, "He's in Sinnoh now, Jubilife City."

I breathed in deeply, "Alright, what's the status of all the cities that have been hit from Giovanni's destruction?"

Max tapped some more, "The cities are damaged and Officer Jennys have started to take control of calming everyone down. Also, no deaths have been reported, just a few injuries."

"Thank goodness," I sighed in relief before turning to Misty and Gary. "You two ready to keep fighting."

Misty grinned, "You bet," she said determined.

I then turned to Leaf as she started to focus, we then appeared in Jubilife City with her ready to pass out, "Leaf!" Gary cried as he caught her.

"I'm fine," she said tiredly as he lowered her to the ground. "It was jump a bit of a longer jump is all."

"Stay here and rest," I ordered her gently before looking at the others. "The rest of you should get going."

They nodded and raced away as I turned my attention back to her and saw a blank expression on her face, "Leaf?"

She then snapped out of it and looked scared, "May, is it possible to see visions."

I nodded, "It can happen, why, did you just have one?"

She nodded shakily, "May, the final fight, I saw glimpses of it, you won," she said quickly with shaky breathes.

I nodded again as she continued, "But then I saw you lying in blood not moving," she said as tears began to appear.

I was a little shaken by what she said, but pushed it aside as I hugged Leaf in comfort as she cried, "May, you can't die," she whispered so Max didn't hear.

I didn't say anything so I wouldn't upset her further so I continued to hold her as she cried, "May, what's wrong with Leaf?" Max asked.

"She saw an upsetting vision," I said before turning back to Leaf. "Let's keep the vision between us, no use in upsetting everyone else."

She sat up and nodded before wiping her tears away, "I better get fighting," she said determined with a straight face.

She then ran to the fight to use Psychic to help Drew from crashing to the ground, "May, what was Leaf's vision?" Max asked.

"Nothing you need to worry about," I said quickly.

"But May, she was crying, how bad was it, was it about you?" he asked worriedly.

"Max, it was nothing, Leaf was just startled by having a vision. Now don't worry about it," I said trying to end the subject.

Before Max could retort, I saw that Giovanni again had fallen to his knees signaling it was time to steal another plate. I ran toward everyone while summoning Hyper Beam and let it go as I reached everyone. After everyone steadily attacked for thirty seconds, another plate appeared and Giovanni let loose a Dragon Pulse before everyone could take cover. Everyone was thrown back hitting the ground hard as Giovanni disappeared.

"Ugh, that hurt," Dawn groaned as she sat up.

"No kidding, how did Giovanni summon an attack so fast?" Ash grunted.

"The defense power increased since Giovanni now only has one plate," I explained as I began to create the last pendant.

I groaned as I fell from only having a sliver of my life left, "May!" everyone cried as they gathered around me.

"I'm fine you guys," I said tiredly as Drew helped me sit up.

"May, you look terrible," Dawn murmured softly as I saw tears began to appear.

I chuckled, "No doubt I look dead."

"May that's not funny," Max said upset.

I smiled softly, "Sorry, I have a really bad sense of humor in bad situations, here," I said as I placed the pendant in his hand.

He slipped it on and transformed just like everyone else did, "So the dragon plate is the last one Giovanni is holding onto?" Max asked to clarify.

I nodded, "We better get going."

"May, you aren't fighting, you're in no condition to do so," Drew said sternly.

I sighed, "Drew….."

"No, you're not fighting, you don't even look like you have the strength to stand," Drew argued. "We'll take care of the fight."

I wanted to argue back but how could I, I felt weak as it was and there was no way I could handle the power of any attack.

"Alright fine," I agreed in annoyance.

"Where is Giovanni now?" Leaf asked.

Max again starting tapping on his tablet, "Hearthome City."

Leaf nodded and teleported us there, "Leafy, you stay here and guard May, the rest of us will fight Giovanni," Gary said.

Leaf nodded, "Be careful."

He nodded back with a small smirk before running to meet up with the others.

Leaf sat down next to me and we everyone start attacking using Stone Edge, Ice Shard, Frenzy Plant, Flamethrower, Water Pulse, Zap Cannon, and Air Slash causing Giovanni to roar from the hits. He retaliated by using Draco Meteor causing flaming rocks to head towards everyone. Drew tried to create an aura shield, but halfway through it gave way causing everyone to be hit by the meteors.

Everyone stood up and volleyed for a second attack by hitting and dodging as the person attacked from behind. After a while, everyone was breathing hard not being able to Giovanni fall to his knees.

"They've been fighting for a while, but they can't shake him," Leaf said worriedly.

I stood up, "May, don't you dare," she threatened.

"Leaf, we have no other choice," I argued.

"Yes we do, I'll go fight, you stay here," she argued back.

I was about to retort but she glared daggers at me, "Fine," I said annoyed as I sat back down.

She looked at me one more time before running off to help the others. She used Psywave to help cover for Gary as he landed a hit. Everyone looked surprised to see her and also looked relieved that I didn't come forward to fight.

"May…..there's not….much time…..," Arceus strains to tell me.

"I know, I can feel you slowly slipping away," I said tiredly. "We almost have all the plates to save you."

"You may think that, but understand that you are still far from saving me, you must hurry," he said faintly before he completely disappeared.

I shook my head from the conversation and turned to look at the battle. Even with Leaf helping, they weren't making much of a dent in fazing him.

I shakily stood up, "Time to end this," I mutter as I start running towards the fighting as Paul and Dawn are knocked to the side.

"Ah, look who's decided to come and play," Giovanni taunted as he tried to attack me with Dragon Claw.

"May, what are you doing, get away!" Dawn plead.

I ignored her and dodged the Dragon Claw as I hit him with a Thunder Punch to the jaw causing him to scream in pain.

"Why you little…..," he spat.

I didn't let him finish as I hit him with Vine Whip before shooting an Aurora Beam at him.

He flew back and skidded a couple feet as I leaned forward to rest on my knees, "Is that the best you can do?" he taunted.

I shot multiple Aura Spheres at him causing him to collapse on his knees, "NOW!" I shouted as I fell to the ground.

Everyone got up and started hitting him with attacks nonstop. After a minute, I felt the last plate appear and I heard an evil chuckle. I turned to look at Giovanni to see him standing with an evil look of insanity on his face. Suddenly we all found ourselves back at the Michina Town ruins with all the grunts rounded up and the gym leaders, Elite Four, and Champions healing themselves and their pokemon.

"You may have taken the elemental plates, but there is one you have forgotten, the one that holds Arceus' entire life together," Giovanni jeered with a smirk.

My eyes widened and I mentally face palmed at my stupidity, "YOU MONSTER!" I roared as I unleashed a Fire Spin only for Giovanni to counter with Hyper Beam and send me back into a cliff face.

"MAY!" everyone shouted.

"You'll pay for that," Dawn shouted as she started to skate rapidly and throw snowflake ninja stars along with Ice Shard.

Giovanni just chuckled as he moved his hand sending a wave of energy. It destroyed the ice and hit Dawn causing her to scream in pain as she wiped out from tumbling on the ground.

"Dawn!" Paul shouted as he started to throw boulders but Giovanni dodged them all.

Soon everyone else started to attack, but they were thrown aside one by one.

"No," I cried softly as I watched everyone go down.

Giovanni tsked, "It's your fault your friends are hurt, you set them up on a suicide mission. Now who should I kill first?"

He then walked to Drew who was unable to get up, "Say good bye," he said as he held his hand to Drew ready to attack him.

"NO!" I shouted as I ran in front to take the attack.

The attack of energy hit me sending me into the cliff face again with enough force to create a dent of my body.

"May!" everyone shouted.

(Drew's POV)

I froze as I saw May hit the cliff side as I heard Giovanni laugh evilly, "Yes, I have finally killed the Guardian of Arceus, nothing can stop me now."

May then groaned as she stood up and I saw that she was surrounded by a rainbow of colors.

"Th…this is impossible, you couldn't have survived that," Giovanni spluttered.

May smirked, "I'm surprised you haven't figured it out. You see, when a pokemon's energy runs low it has a special ability to allow it's moves to increase in power."

Giovanni's eyes narrowed as he yelled in anger, "In other words, you….are….screwed," May taunted as she summoned a chunk of rock from the cliff side to throw.

He dodged it and sent a Hyper Beam at her where she countered with Solar Beam causing an explosion. She then charged after him on a pillar of wind sending one attack after the other. Giovanni tried to dodge them all and counter, but he couldn't due to the attacks coming one after the other. After the dust settled, May walked up to him and raised a hand out as if to summon something. Suddenly a stream of light came from Giovanni to focus on May's hand. When it went away, a plate was revealed.

"You are officially powerless," May said firmly as Giovanni fell forward.

She then ran to Arceus and started place the plates she had in a circle around him. I then saw that my pendant along with everyone else's disappeared causing us to transform back to normal. Our pendants then returned to their original form and joined the circle.

Suddenly I heard an angel's song and saw that it was May. As she sang, her clothes changed again to an elegant gown with a lace overskirt and draped sleeves. Her hairstyle changed to a half up bun half down curled hairstyle and an elegant mask of make-up covered her face making her look like a goddess.

(May's POV)

Despite the transformation, my singing didn't falter as I swayed my arms to allow a flow of aura to surround Arceus to heal him and destroy the red chain. After a few minutes, I stopped as I saw the red chain disappear, but I could tell that Arceus was not with us.

"May?" Max asked.

I said nothing, but looked toward Giovanni as he weakly sat on the ground, "You killed him."

Giovanni smirked, "It's not like his death means much."

I walked over to him and slapped him in the face hard as I felt tears appear in my eyes, "You killed the legendary who created our world, you have brought on our end."

As I said that, I felt a shift in energy on the planet and all the wild pokemon began to cry as dark clouds appeared in the sky.

Giovanni tried to stand and walk away but I created some vines to hold him down, "You need to face your punishment for your crime," I said curtly.

"What are going to do, kill me, you seem too soft to do that," Giovanni jeered.

I kept a straight face, "Every person has the ability to kill including me, but death is too nice of a punishment for you. Instead I will follow the ancient rules of conduct for punishment."

Giovanni looked at me with narrow eyes as I formed a small sharp dagger of ice. Then with precision and speed, I took his right eye, his left ear, and his left hand so quickly no one saw what I did til Giovanni screamed in pain.

I then healed the stub on his wrist, the side of his head and eye socket so he wouldn't bleed out to death, "May, what did you do?" Max asked in fear.

"I gave him his punishment of losing half of the ability to see, hear, and touch. He deserves worse, but I believe this will be enough," I explained firmly as I used Psychic to move the removed body parts away where I burned them to ash.

The weather then took a shift for the worse as the wind began to pick up, "May, what do we do, can't you heal Arceus?" Dawn asked.

I shook my head, "I can't help something that's dead, his life force as moved on, nothing can be done."

I then had a flash of an idea, "Cynthia you've studied the Sinnoh legends, is it true that life forces can be taken and given by a person who holds a compassionate heart?"

Cynthia nodded, "There are legends that people have done that for pokemon and legendaries, but we don't know if that's true."

Her eyes then light up in horror, "You can't possibly think of doing that, it's much too risky, you'll die."

"May, what is she talking about?" Misty asked as the gang walked up to me.

Leaf then looked ready to cry as she realized what I planned to do, "May, you can't," she sobbed.

"What is she planning to do?" Gary asked.

"She'll give up her life force to give Arceus life," Leaf cried.

Everyone stared at me in shock before looking upset, "May, you can't," Max said as he hugged me while crying.

"It is not my choice, we are born, we live, and we die. I was born to protect Arceus and this is what I was destined to do," I said as I hugged him while stroking his head.

"May, you can't, we won't let you, we'll find another way," Drew said desperately as tears began to form.

I let go of Max before walking up to Drew and kissed him, "I'm sorry but there is no other way."

I then turned around and created an aura shield around me and Arceus so that no one could interfere. I then started to recite my prophecy as the gems appeared before me. I felt no fear of death or what was to come because I knew that it would all work out in the end. I took the gems in my hands as I knelt next to Arceus' heart, I crushed the gems into a powder and placed my hands with the powder over Arceus' heart before taking a deep breath and transferred the last of my life force.

(Drew's POV)

We shouted at May to stop, but it was too late. May fell to the ground limply and nothing happened as the shield disappeared. I ran to May's side and held her body in my arms as tears fell down my face. Suddenly a white light surrounded Arceus and he rose to the sky to calm the world.

"The world is now safe," Arceus proclaimed.

"But what about May," I shouted in anger.

"May has done what she was destined to do, she saved the world by giving me her life, but rest assured she is not dead. A tiny thread of her life remains," Arceus explained. "In three days' time, she will be restored to full health."

As he said this, May's body started to dissolve into the sky as little pieces of shimmering light and I heard a soft voice speak, "Wait for me."