Kates' P.O.V
Days had passed since the incident with Keith freaking out on us. I sighed as I walked out of bedroom in my bikini. Once I got to deck the cool night air blew on my skin. Rythmi stood in a pink bikini, May stood in a red one, while Solidad stood in a white one. Keith stood in black swimming trunk, while Drew stood in emerald green ones and Harley stood in some with Cacturne painted on them. I walked over to them; my blue bikini clung to my skin as I did so.
"The Temple of the Sea should be at the bottom of the ocean around here," Solidad said as we all stood on the railings, our poke balls were attached to different items, or around our waists. Keith and I still had our stylers on.
Lullaby flew over to me with a sad smile before we jumped into the water, putting our Aqualungs in as we did so. We swam through the sea, the moon shone through the darkness of the sea, illuminating something in front of us.
"That's," May gasped once she saw the Temple. "It's been forever since I came here," she added through the mic on the Aqualung.
My eyes drifted to a dark submarine outside of the Temple. I frowned once I saw Phantom's signature on it.
"We've got company," Keith spoke the words I was thinking as we all surfaced in the Temple.
The temple itself was huge; grass grew in small places, while water ran down in little streams. Pokemon from the sea swam along the streams as the water flowed.
We stood on the marble ground before looking around. We needed people to hold off Phantom and his minions otherwise we wouldn't get Lullaby to the Sea Crown.
"Alright, May you're with me, you remember the way right?" I asked, May nodded her head, "Keith you're coming with us," I added, Keith nodded his head. "Harley, Solidad, Drew and Ryth, I need you four to hold off any of Phantom's cronies that ok with you?" I asked, they nodded their heads.
"Alright, let's go," I said as we began running down the halls off the Sea Temple. May had us split with the others once we came to the top of the stairs. As we ran a loud explosion was heard then the sound of Rythmi's scream.
Keith and I stopped as we turned around. May stopped as her eyes narrowed.
"Beautifly come on out," she ordered, Beautifly flew out of its pokeball and around May's head, "Go back that way, there's a blond girl that needs help, do what she says ok?" May asked, Beautifly nodded its head before flying off.
"We need to help her," Keith said as he tried to take off down the hall, I grabbed his wrists.
"Ryth will be fine, Solidad won't let anything happen to her, if I knew she'd be in I would have had her come with us, trust me Keith," I ordered, Keith looked at me in doubt before nodding his head.
May nodded as we began running down the halls again. We passed a number of pokemon as they jumped out of the water before we came to a large water fall.
"Well, well, well, looks like Phantom wasn't wrong," we turned at the sound of someone talking, May held her Blazekin's pokeball in her hands.
"Go passed the waterfall, you'll find the sea crown, I got this," she ordered, we nodded as we jumped into the water. To our surprise two Wailmer came to take us through the waterfall, which was a good thing I guess. Lullaby sat on my shoulders as we were taken through.
Once we were there Keith turned his head to me.
"You think anyone's had a run in with Phantom or my dad and brother?" he asked, I looked at him before shrugging my shoulders.
"I'm not sure," I answered honestly as we climbed back onto dry land. We walked towards a large statue with loads of glowing blue crystals in it. My jaw dropped in awe at its beauty while Keith just stood speechless.
"Well, nice to see you again beautiful," I mentally groaned at the voice, Kai. I looked around the room before seeing him emerge from behind the Sea Crown with Phantom and Max, this is gonna be fun.
Normal P.O.V
Solidad hisses as a fire attached managed to burn her arm. Harley jumped out of the way of a scold attack with Rythmi in his arms; the girl was burned, but not enough to kill her.
"We need to get these guys outta here," Rythmi stated as she looked at the five people in front of her, each of them worked for Phantom.
"Beau~," the three teens turned their heads when they saw May's Beautifly coming towards them. They nodded as the Beautifly landed on Rythmi's shoulder.
"May sent her Beautifly to help, looks like she's taking orders from you Rythmi," Harley said as he set her down on the ground. Rythmi nodded her head as Solidad told her Beautifly's moves, Gust, Solar Beam, String Shot and Silver Wind.
"Alright, now things get serious," Solidad hissed as she was hit with another fire attack. She looked at the five pokemon in front of her, they were all Houndoom.
"Alright, let's do this," Harley smiled as his Cacturne stood in front of him. Rythmi thought for a second before thinking of something.
"Follow my lead," she ordered, Solidad and Harley looked at her in confusion before nodding their head.
"Alright, Beautifly String Shot, tie them up," she ordered. Beautifly called its name as it shot a string from its curled nose. The cronies laughed before ordering the Houndoom to use a fire attack, Rythmi smirked. "Perfect," she whispered as she nodded to Harley.
"Cacturne, Pin Missile now," Harley ordered. Cacturne called its name before shooting a series of white coloured pins towards the Houndoom. The cronies were distracted by the string shot they didn't see the pin missiles coming, therefore resulting in getting hit.
"Alright Solidad your turn," Rythmi said as she ordered another string shot to tie the Houndoom up again.
"Alright, Lapras use hydro cannon," Solidad ordered. The pokemon called its name before a very powerful water attack came from its mouth, sending the Houndoom flying into its trainers. Due to the shock the trainers lost their balance, resulting in them falling over to edge of the level they were on and into the sea.
Harley, Solidad and Rythmi high fived before looking around.
"Where'd Drew disappear to?" Harley asked, Solidad frowned.
"We could have used him," she added.
"Let's go find the others, we'll find him with them, I'm sure of it," Rythmi said as they began running in the direction May, Kate and Keith had took off in.
May hissed as she was thrown into the opposite wall. Blazekin gave her a worried glance as he carried on fighting off the Venusaur and Blastoise.
The Arcanine that was advancing on May began getting closer and closer before it opened its mouth, getting ready to launch an overheat attack on her.
May squeezed her eyes shut as she waited for the burning pain to begin, but it never came. Opening her eyes she saw Drew Masquerain using a protect, blocking the attack from hitting her.
"MAY!" Drew called as he ran towards the bruised girl. She smiled at him before giving him a hug.
"You ok?" he asked as he hugged her back, May nodded her head into the crook of his neck as an answer.
"Let's get rid of these guys," May whispered as she stood to her feet. Blazekin jumped back, barely missing the Hydro Cannon sent his way, while the Venusaur grabbed Masquerain and flung him into Drew, who caught him.
"Return," Drew ordered as he returned Masquerain to his pokeball.
"Blazekin focus on the Venusaur," May ordered as she looked at the large grass type pokemon.
"Roserade let's do this," Drew called as his beloved pokemon emerged from its pokeball. She nodded her greeting to Blazekin, who nodded back to her before turning her attention to the Blastoise.
"Flygon!" Drew called.
"Wartortle!" May called.
"Let's do this!" they both called as they released the two pokemon. Wartortle landed on Flygon's back as the pokemon flew in the air.
"Let's just end this," one of the cronies said as they ordered the Blastoise to use hydro cannon on Blazekin, who dodged it before using overheat on the Venusaur, which took the attack head on.
The crony bit her lips as she watched her pokemon fall to the ground from one attack.
'They're not very strong,' May thought as she looked at the girl, who returned her pokemon. She watched as the other pokemon avoided hers and Drew's attacks, they had stopped attacking them. It then dawned on May.
"They're a distraction," she whispered to Drew, who nodded his head.
"Yeah, I figured," he replied as Solidad, Harley and Rythmi came running over to them.
"Drew we were-,"
"No time for talk, these guys are distracting us, something's going on where Kate and Keith are," May interrupted as she returned her Blazekin, who had done its job. They watched as the Blastoise fell unconscious before turning their attention to the remaining Arcanine.
Before Drew or May could order another attack a loud piercing scream came from the Sea Crown, stopping everything one in their tracks.
"KATE!" Rythmi and May yelled as they looked at the water fall.
Kate and Keith looked at the three people in front of them; they hadn't taken any of the Sea Crown this time, so why were they following them?
Kate drew her pokeball before calling out Togekiss. To her surprise neither Phantom, Kai nor Max called out any pokemon. Jumping onto Togekiss, Kate started flying towards the top of the Sea Crown with Lullaby in her arms. Keith readied his styler if any of them tried to attack her, he would be ready.
His eyes left Kate's flying figure as he looked in front of him, to his shock he saw that his father was gone. Narrowing his eyes, he back up, only to back into something hard and strong. Looking up he saw it was his father.
Max reached a hand out as he grabbed Keith's mouth, preventing his from screaming. His other hand grabbed both of Keith's. Kai walked over to his brother before grabbing the styler and destroying it. Phantom laughed as he released six Beedrill, that went after Kate.
Keith watched in horror as Kate placed Lullaby where she was meant to be on the sea crown. A single tear came to her eyes as it slid down her cheeks.
"Love you, Kate," Lullaby said as she gave Kate a hug. Kate hugged back as more tears came to her eyes.
"Love you too, Lullaby, take care," Kate whispered as she set the pokemon back on the throne. She didn't need to turn around to know that the Beedrill were behind her. Togekiss flew higher in the room as she tried to lose them.
The Beedrill began letting pin missiles shoot at Kate and Togekiss, successfully hitting the pokemon, sending both of the flying towards the ground.
"RETURN!" Kate yelled as she steadied herself in the air, so she was falling head first. Before she hit the ground, she flipped and landed on her feet. Her eyes flew to Max, Kai and Phantom, who had Keith in their arms.
"One wrong move, I'll snap his neck," Max hissed as Kate stood to her feet. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at the four of them, none of them moved, Keith's eyes were full of worry, not for himself, but for Kate.
Kai walked towards Kate as she stayed still, her eyes left Keith's to meet with Kai's a twisted emotion filled them, she couldn't tell what though.
And then, it all happened to fast, the movement, the piercing pain and the scream that escaped her mouth. Kate looked down at her stomach to find a silver bladed knife lodged into it. Kai removed his hand from the knife before looking at his father.
"KATE!" Keith screamed, but that was all that he managed to say as he felt his world go black, a sharp pain filled his neck as Max removed the needle from it. The black liquid that filled the needle began coursing through Keith's veins as he fell into a restless sleep.
Kate looked over at her friend with worry in her eyes, what was she ment to do? She had just been stabbed and now they were taking Keith. She couldn't do anything.
Her hands came to her stomach as she applied pressure to stop the blood from flowing out. Her eyes filled with tears as she fell to her knees.
"Keith," it came out as a whisper, a sorrowful whisper. Then, without warning, her world turned black and she fell into the nearby water.
May, Drew, Rythmi, Solidad and Harley jumped off of the Wailmer as they ran to the Sea Crown. Lullaby flew nervously in the air before flying over to Rythmi and dragging her to the water. May ran behind her as she did so.
"What-," May didn't say any more as she saw Kate's body in the red tinted water. Without thinking, she jumped into the water, swimming to the bottom before grabbing Kate and pulling her out.
Rythmi began panicking once she saw the unconscious body of her best friend, while Solidad began applying CPR. Harley desperately looked around for something to use as a make due bandaged until they got to the ship.
Drew held May in his arms as she cried for her friend, while Rythmi kept muttering about how she was stronger than this and how she would pull through. Harley returned with a silk clothe a moment later before wrapping it around Kate's wound. Once he had done that, he sat and waited.
Solidad applied pressure to Kate's chest before forcing air into her lungs again. She repeated this process a few times until Kate coughed up some water. She moan quietly as she opened her eyes, her vision blurred.
"Keith," she muttered, though everyone heard it, they all looked around, Keith was nowhere in sight. Kate's eyes snapped open as the memory came back to her. "KEITH!" she yelled as she looked around, her wound had almost stopped bleeding, but she was feeling weak.
Solidad grabbed as she stopped her from moving around so much.
"Kate, calm down, what happened to Keith?" she asked, Rythmi looked at her in worry, while May and Drew's eyes narrowed, each of them had a feeling, Harley prepared for the worst.
"They took him," she whispered as she lowered her head, "Phantom, Max and Kai took his," she added as she looked at the exit to the room. Everyone gasped, but Rythmi began to cry, May and Harley comforted her while Solidad put May's arm around her shoulders.
"We need to get out of here, if they have Keith, we need to save him," she stated as they began walking. Lullaby flew next to Kate's head as they did so.
"Lullaby," Kate whispered, the blue pokemon turned to look at her, "You have to stay here," she added, Lullaby gave her a worried look, but nodded her head, knowing she had no choice.
"Love you, Kate," Lullaby said as she gave Kate a hug. Kate smiled in reply before looking at Lullaby.
"Love you too, Lullaby, take care," she whispered as everyone put their Aqualungs in, with that, they began swimming back to shore.
Once back on the boat Kate looked around the ocean, Phantom's submarine was nowhere to be found. She cursed as she hit the railing before Solidad took her, leading her to the medical room.
Drew held out a broken styler to Rythmi, who covered her mouth with her hands.
"Keith's strong," Harley spoke up, "From what I've seen of him, he won't go down without a fight," he added, Rythmi nodded her head.
"I know, but he's like my brother," she stated as she let a few tears escape her eyes. Harley returned to the captain's quarters as he began steering the ship back to Almia.
Later that night Kate stood in the captain's quarters, May, Rythmi, Solidad, Harley and Drew all with her. They were waiting for a call from the Union, hoping to put in a report and tell them about Keith.
"What I can't figure out is where he'll be," Rythmi stated as she looked out the window. Kate began thinking, there were many places to hide in Almia, but she had a feeling they'd hide him in plain sight and she had a feeling she knew where.
Keith moved around in the chains he was in, having recovered from his little knock out. Kai walked into the room, followed by Max, Phantom and Blake. Keith growled lowly before he felt another presence in the room.
He turned his head only to come face to face with piercing red eyes, Keith knew, then and there, who it was. His heart began racing as fear filled his eyes, for once in his life, he was scared.
"What's going on?" he asked, he managed to keep the fear out of his voice. Max smirked as he walked over to Keith, who glared at him. Once Max touched Keith's shoulder, Keith flipped.
"DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH ME!" he yelled, his eyes flashed red and remained red.
"Looks like we've done it," Phantom stated as he laughed loudly.
"Not quite, Darkrai still needs to bring out the rest, then we'll go for Kate," Blake replied as he watched Keith stiffen.
"If you hurt her I will kill you," he hissed, they laughed.
"Oh Keith, my poor naïve boy," Max started, "It's not us that'll be hurting her," he added on, Keith gave them a look of confusion.
"It's you," Kai finished, Keith glared at him.
"I wouldn't hurt her," he shot back.
"But you will, and you won't know you're doing it," Blake replied with a large evil grin before Keith hissed in pain. A black aurora surrounded his body as a burning sensation filling him. He screamed, he wanted this to end, to make it stop, his eyes turned from red to black then from black to brown before his eyes closed.
The pain left him, he felt hollow, an image of Kate filled his mind, he growled. Keith Dazzle was no longer the Keith Dazzle we knew; he was now, something entirely different.
Please don't kill me for making Keith evil, well, he's gonna be evil for the next few chapters. So stay tuned to find out what happens between him and Kate, I can tell you know, it won't be good, so REVIEW!