EoS: Here's the second half of the auction! I managed to get this chapter out faster due to having nothing to do for a while now!
Lauren: Well, let's hope you keep it up.
TheLightningPunisher:
Lauren: I think EoS gave him permission.
RandomDragon:
Lauren: Good, use all of your anger… Let it flow through you…
Lovethastory:
Lauren: In this? Most of them.
Scorch321:
EoS: Well, we'll see.
Foxfawn:
EoS: Well, we'll see.
ProfessorBranch:
Lauren: Um… okay.
HidingFromTheCold:
EoS: Don't worry, I'm working on it.
Aurore's Moemon Adventure
Chapter 14
Aurore walked backstage with the other seven competitors, a bunch of ugly, fat old men. They reached the back room, the walls lined with cages.
"Alright, down here." The director said, leading the group down a large staircase in the center of the room. They headed down the staircase, and reached a large door. They walked through the door, and were surprised at what they saw.
"Whoa…" Aurore said, looking around. They were inside of a large dome, filled with plants, creating a small underground forest. The dome was lit by bright lights, shining down from the top of the dome.
"Alright, she's been released in here." The director said, stepping back. "The first one to catch her will become her master. Begin!"
The eight men there started running. Obviously, Aurore was the fastest. He charged into the green brush, and pulled Sora's moeball off of his belt.
"Sora, go!" Aurore said, tossing Sora out of her moeball.
"What? Where are we, master?" Sora asked, looking around, surprised.
"We're beneath the auction house, in some sort of capture arena." Aurore answered, frowning. "Now, Sora, I need you to do something for me."
"Of course, what is it?" Sora asked.
"Did you get a good look at her?" Aurore asked. "The moemon?"
"Yeah, I did." Sora said, nodding. "Why?"
"I need you to use your illusion to transform into her." Aurore said.
"Oh, sure!" Sora said, smiling, her shape and form changing to resemble a much smaller moemon, her black hair turning green and her black clothes turning into a tattered green dress.
"Alright, Sora, I need you to cause a distraction for those other guys." Aurore said, frowning. "Make them chase you around, so I can find her without interruptions. Do you think you can do that?"
"But they could catch me…" Sora said, frowning uneasily.
"Listen, as long as you're my moemon, you won't be caught by other trainers." Aurore said, smiling reassuringly. "And even if you are… I'll take down everything in my way and take you back with me."
"Thanks, master!" Sora said, smiling happily. "You can count on me!"
Sora, still transformed, ran into the bushes, leaving Aurore standing there by himself.
"Alright…" Aurore said, looking around. "Let's see if we can find her…" Aurore placed the palm of his hand on the ground and closed his eyes, listening. Aurore stood up, his eyes still closed. He looked around, still with closed eyes, and walked off in another direction.
Remember the training… Aurore thought, his eyes still closed. Focus on the moemon's energy…
Aurore looked at one of the trees, his eyes shut tightly. He saw a black world before his eyes, but what he felt was much different. He felt a large tree sticking up into the sky, radiating a soft and unmoving energy. He continued walking down the grassy forest floor, his head looking each and every way for some sort of fluctuation in the aura of the forest, just one little fluctuation that would signify where the young plant moemon was hiding. Soon enough, he found it.
Aurore stared at a bush that was vibrating a strange aura, the aura fluctuating in a way that matched the beating of the heart.
Aurore's eye's opened, and he blinked slightly, adjusting to the light. He looked down at the bush and parted the leaves, finding the young moemon hiding within it, shaking.
"Ah…" The moemon said, staring up at Aurore, terror in her eyes. "Please… Don't hurt me…"
"What?" Aurore asked, surprised. "I'm not gonna hurt you!"
"You-you're not?" The moemon asked, her shivering slightly stopping, but the look of fear and insecurity still hadn't faded.
"No." Aurore said, shaking his head. "I want to protect you."
"Protect… me?" She asked, frowning.
"Yes." Aurore said, helping her to her feet, helping her out of the bush. "I'm gonna help you back home, just you wait."
"Yes!" Rin lightly cheered, holding her fist up in victory as everyone watched Aurore on the monitors.
"Che." Bluebell huffed, looking away, upset. "Now we're gonna have another companion, aren't we?"
"Shut it." Oshawott said, hitting Bluebell on the head.
"Ow!" Bluebell said, holding the bump on her head. "You bitch, what'd you do that for?"
"You're being obnoxious." Oshawott said, frowning. "Thinking about sex all the time, you're just as bad as these losers."
"What was that?" A large man standing in front of them demanded, spinning around. "Who are you calling a loser, you bitch?"
"You!" Oshawott said angrily. "It's pathetic pricks like you that are the cause of moemon having to suffer! If you pathetic excuses for men would just disappear, then we'd be much better off!"
"Shut up you!" The man shouted, grabbing onto Oshawott's neck, holding her up into the air.
"Hey!" Bluebell said, biting down on the man's leg, causing him to cry out in pain, dropping Oshawott onto the floor, and clutching his bleeding leg.
"Thanks…" Oshawott said, standing up.
"No worries, you're my friend!" Bluebell said, smiling. "But if you were after master on the other hand…" She muttered the last part under her breath.
"Huh?" Oshawott asked, surprised.
"Nothing, nothing!" Bluebell said, smiling sweetly.
"Damn it!" The man exclaimed, standing up, glaring at the two angrily. "You moemon, thinking you're all high and mighty? Around here, you're nothing but garbage!"
"Stop it, guys!" Rin said, stepping in between them.
"What, are you another one of those stupid moemon?" The man asked, glaring down at her.
"Ah'm human." Rin answered, frowning.
"Well, a lone little human girl." Another man said, stepping up to her. "One human and two moemon. No place for them."
"What are ya gonna do?" Rin asked, backing up, Oshawott and Bluebell both putting a hand on her shoulders reassuringly.
"A human girl and two moemon, huh?" A third man said, stepping up behind them. "Well, I wonder how much the auction house would give us for those two. The girl, however…"
"Well, she has her uses." The second man said, smiling lecherously, stroking her cheek.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Rin exclaimed, releasing a shockwave of energy out from her body, sending the men flying backwards. The shockwave continued, blowing out the lights, the entire room blackening out.
A few seconds later, the lights switched back on, and the second man advanced on Rin again.
"Hey." Aurore said, poking the man on the shoulder. He turned around, and Aurore knocked him out with a swift punch to the jaw, the man falling onto the tile floor.
"What the hell do you think you're doing to my daughter?" Aurore asked, frowning.
"Daughtah?" Rin asked, surprised.
"Well, kind of." Aurore said, frowning. "I mean, legally, I guess…"
"You should have seen it!" Bluebell said, smiling. "Rin killed all the power with one scream! It's a good thing the backup generators kicked in!"
"What?" Aurore said, his face going pail.
"What's wrong?" The young moemon asked, pulling on his sleeve.
"We need to get back." Aurore said, grabbing onto Rin's wrist, charging through the crowd to the backstage, Bluebell and Oshawott following after him along with the young moemon.
Aurore charged down the staircase and into the dome, which was pitch black with the lights having been shut off. The air seemed tense and dank with a strange irony smell.
"Sora!" Aurore shouted, looking around through the blackness. Soon enough, however, the lights turned back on.
"Damn…" Aurore said, biting his lip, staring at the horrific sight before him. The forest had been totally destroyed. The bushes were burned, the trees torn down, everything within a few minutes. However, what was really disturbing was the scent. An acrid, horrid scent that Aurore placed as soon as he saw it.
"Blood…" Aurore whispered, staring at the butchered people lain at his feet. About ten meters away stood Sora. Her black clothes and pale skin were covered in blood, her blue eyes glazed over, as though she was unconscious. However, she consciously raised her arm ever so slowly to her mouth, licking the blood off of her hands, never removing her cold, dead eyes from Aurore's.
Lauren: What. The hell. Was that.
EoS: You'll see.