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Moemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Chapter 65
"Let's just beat it!" Nyu said, shrugging. "Why do we have to free that stupid Lucario?"
"Nyu, just do it…" I sighed, face palming, shifting the gem to my other, non-face palm hand.
"Fine…" Nyu sighed. She snapped her fingers, and the dark ice around Lucario shattered, Lucario falling to the ground. Lucario stood up, panting.
"You have defeated me." Lucario said, getting down on one knee, bowing in repentance. "You are free to take control of the blue gem."
"Alright!" I said, smiling. "Let's get out of this castle!"
Ninetales showed us the way out of the castle, and we headed out through the large doors.
"Hey, Ninetales, you wanna come with us?" I suggested.
"What? No way!" Petal exclaimed angrily. "No more moemon! None! Zero!"
"I'm sorry, but I'd have to refuse anyway." Ninetales said, smiling sadly. "As queen, I can't abandon my castle, you know."
"Oh, that's okay." I said, smiling. "You were really strong, and I was just thinking I could have used your help in fighting against Team Dim Sun."
"Yeah, but I can't." Ninetales said, shrugging. "But be sure to visit me again some time again, 'kay Kellyn?" Ninetales asked, kissing me on the cheek.
"Um… Sure…" I said, blushing.
"Stop blushing, you jerk!" Petal said, hitting me on the head.
"Hey, it's not my fault, it's a natural reaction!" I said angrily.
"Mommy and daddy are fighting!" Rio cried, wiping tears from her eyes.
"Oh, no, no we're not!" Petal said, immediately shifting to "mom" mode, and petted Rio's head repeatedly.
"Can we get going? This isn't getting any lighter!" Nyu complained, frowning. We had chosen Nyu to carry the blue gem, considering she was the strongest. Petal was apparently "to much of a frail maiden" to do it herself. Nyu was currently outside of the castle, glaring at us.
"Uh, yeah it is, since the gem doesn't have any weight at all." Petal shot back. Nevertheless, she followed Nyu outside with Rio accompanying her.
"…Let's just go…" Nyu complained.
"How are we going to get back to the headquarters?" Petal asked.
I looked around the icy tundra the castle was situated on, and my eyes landed on two Staraptor.
"We're gonna have to catch the Staraptor and fly with them." I said, frowning. "Let's go!"
I ran towards one of the Staraptor.
"Nyu, let's show those two are new technique!" I shouted, releasing out my disk. "Nyu, into the capture styler!" Nyu placed the gem on the ground, the gem hovering up into the air. She turned into energy and fused with the styler, the styler releasing a trail of ice behind it. The styler looped around the Staraptor, freezing them within black ice. The ice shattered, and the Staraptor were captured.
"Alright, let's go!" I said, smiling. Petal and Rio ran over to one of them. Nyu emerged from the disk, and grabbed her gem, and headed off to me.
"Oh, Nyu, I have some room in my bag now that Rio's egg hatched." I said, smiling, taking out my backpack. I placed the blue gem inside of it, and all of a sudden my back pack began hovering off the ground like the gem had.
"Alright, let's go!" I said, putting the back pack on. I wrapped my hands around Staraptor's chest, as Rio wrapped her arms around my waist. Staraptor flapped her mighty wings, and soared up into the sky. I looked and saw Petal and Rio were flying beside us on the other Staraptor.
"Whoa!" I said, though no one could hear me. "Flying is amazing! The wind rushing around my body, it's unreal!"
However, just as quickly as the rush had started, it stopped, the two Staraptor landing in front of the Ranger Headquarters.
"Thanks, Staraptor!" I said, hugging the bird moemon. The Staraptor nodded, smiling, and flew up into the air, the two disappearing.
We headed into the Ranger Union, we were finally home.
"I'm gonna go pay a visit to Kurou and Mary." I said, handing Petal my bag. "You go take the blue gem to Hastings and Erma."
"Got it." Petal said, nodding. "And while you're at it, introduce Rio to the two of them, too."
"Okay." I said, taking Rio's small hand. The three of us headed to the room I was staying in. We entered the room, Mary and Kurou rushing over to us.
"Come on, not again!" Kurou said immediately. "Why do you keep bringing moemon back with you on your journeys? Aren't we enough?"
"This is my daughter." I said, smiling, seething with rage at the two of them.
"Oh, sorry." Kurou said, rubbing her head sheepishly.
"It's okay." I said, smiling. "Rio, this is Kurou. She was my first partner moemon."
"…Mommy is prettier." Rio said, uninterested. An irritation mark appeared on Kurou's head.
"Why that little-!" Kurou exclaimed, Mary holding her back as she thrashed at Rio.
"Hello, Rio. I am Mary." Mary said, smiling, reaching out a hand to shake Rio's hand.
"Why aren't sheep out in the fields?" Rio asked, uninterested. An irritation mark appeared on Mary's head.
"How dare she say that about me, that little-!" Mary exclaimed, Kurou holding her back as she thrashed at Rio.
"Well, she certainly acts like Petal, that's for sure." Kurou said, after I managed to get the two of them to calm down.
"Same personality." Mary said, frowning.
"Um, master…" Nyu piped up.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"It might seem a little weird, but I have the feeling we're forgetting something…" Nyu said, frowning. "Probably just my imagination…"
Charmander was standing in front of the ice castle, freezing cold wind blowing snow onto her body.
"…They forgot me." Charmander said, frowning as the blizzard dumped a heap of snow onto her.
"How could they." Charmander said through the smothering snow.
Poor Charmander! Wake up and join Kelly already! Geeze!