Aright, here's another chapter, where Kelly fights Lucario!
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Moemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Chapter 64
"Alright, the wall's down!" Petal cheered, smiling. "Rio, daddy broke the fourth wall!"
"Yay!" Rio cheered, smiling. She is so cute…
"So the blue gem is through that door, huh?" I said, pointing at the large blue doors behind where the force field used to be.
"Yes." The black leather woman said, nodding. "Good luck. I have utmost faith in your abilities."
"Um, thanks…" I said, shrugging. "Alright Petal, ready to go?"
"Okay!" Petal said, nodding. "But first, I need to help Rio get there." Petal led Rio to the door, Rio following after her on shaking feet, holding tightly onto her hand.
I opened the two large doors, and headed inside of the cavern. The cavern was large and spacious. I looked around it, amazed. The cavern was a spherical shape, the walls being made of black stone. There was an old staircase that led down to the deeper part of the sphere, lined with torches. All over the walls were glowing blue stones that set the room in a bright blue glow. In the center of the room was a large grey shrine, a bright blue crystal hovering above the shrine. The crystal was multi-faceted, and was shaped in the shape of a tear drop, glowing a bright blue.
"Alright, I'll go get it!" Petal said, smiling. She let go of Rio's hand and charged down the stairs. Suddenly, however, a blue clothed figure shot out at her from above. The figure kicked Petal in the stomach, sending her flying back.
"Petal!" I shouted.
"Mommy!" Rio shouted, her face going white.
"I got you." Nyu said, appearing behind Petal, stopping her from falling to her death off the stairs.
"Thanks…" Petal said, holding her stomach. "You saved my life…"
"Of course I did!" Nyu said, smiling. "You're important to master, so you're important to me, silly!"
"Alright, tagging in." Petal said, frowning. "Kelly, you're up."
"Alright." I said, looking around for the figure from before.
"Another Ranger?" I looked around, surprised. I had no idea where the voice was coming from.
"Yes…" I said, frowning.
"Fine. I will do battle with you." I looked around for the owner of the voice, when suddenly she appeared before me, standing before the blue gem.
The moemon wore dark blue jeans, and wore a sleeveless yellow shirt with a frilled collar. She wore long black gloves that stretched up to her elbows, and had blue hair with two blue ears on top of her head. Her blue hair ended in black ponytails that reached down to her shoulders, and she had bright red eyes that glared at me.
"A Lucario!" Ninetales said, surprised. "I had no idea one of them was in my castle!"
"Are you going to fight?" Lucario asked.
"Of course I will." I said, smiling. "Capture styler, go!" I shot the disk at Lucario, who disappeared. She reappeared behind me and kicked at me full speed, but luckily Nyu tackled her.
"Get off of me!" Lucario shouted, confused.
"Nyu, come back." I said, gesturing to her. Nyu jumped off of Lucario and landed next to me. I ran down to the shrine, waiting for Lucario to come for me.
"Stand away from the gem." Lucario ordered.
"Ninetales, come on!" I shouted.
"Flamethrower!" Ninetales shouted, releasing a blast of fire from her mouth, aimed straight at Lucario.
"Dodge." Lucario said, jumping into the air, above the flames. Even more unfortunately, the flames began heading for us.
"Whoa!" Nyu exclaimed, the two of us ducking down. The flames shot past us, hitting the blue gem. And then… The flame… turned. It moved around the gem like water bending around a rock, as though the gem was protected by divine power.
"Aura sphere." Lucario said, launching a sphere of power at Nyu.
"Ice punch!" Nyu shouted. She punched the aura sphere head on, creating an explosion. Nyu flew backwards into my arms, injured.
"Ninetales, into the capture styler!" I ordered. Ninetales turned into a ball of flame and then fused with my styler. I shot the styler out at Lucario, a trail of flames shooting out behind it. The styler looped around Lucario, setting her body on fire.
"Uraah!" Lucario shouted. She released a shockwave of aura out from her body, shattering the loop. Ninetales fell out of the styler, and Lucario charged at her. Lucario kicked Ninetales in the side, sending her flying through the air. Ninetales hit the ground next to me, groaning in pain.
"No…" Rio said, shaking. Tears fell from her face as she stared at Lucario in shock. "How could you do this? Stop… Stop…"
"STOP!" Rio shouted at the top of her lungs. Suddenly, her power level spiked to an insane level. Lucario turned around and looked at Rio with an expression of… fear. Lucario seemed to be paralyzed in fear by Rio's power.
"Alright, Nyu, now!" I shouted. "Nyu, into the capture styler!" Nyu fused with the capture styler and the disk shot at Lucario. The disk spun around the stunned Lucario before she could respond, and Lucario was then surrounded by pitch black ice that froze her solid. Trapped inside the ice, there was nothing more she could do.
"We won!" Nyu cheered, emerging from the capture styler, smiling. She hugged me tightly, and the two of us fell, leaning against the podium the blue gem was floating above.
"Alright, I guess we need to take the blue gem then." I said, standing up. I reached out and grabbed the blue gem, pulling it off the podium. Strange… It was very light, for some reason.
"So that's the blue gem?" Ninetales asked, walking over to the two of us. "Wow, it's pretty amazing, isn't it?"
"Yeah, it is." I said, nodding. "You don't mind if I take this, do you?"
"Nah, go ahead." Ninetales said, shrugging. "I didn't even know this room existed, and I couldn't give a damn if you kept what was in it."
"Thanks!" Nyu said, hugging Ninetales.
"Don't. Touch. Me." Ninetales said, smiling, flames rising up behind her.
"Sorry." Nyu said, backing up.
"So are we just gonna forget about the Lucario, or what?" Petal asked from the stairs with Rio.
A very good question.