Uh… hi! I know I haven't updated in a while… I was a little busy working on 3ds max. I have taken quite a liking to it. But that's a different thing…

So let's continue the story…

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"I think this is a good time to do so," Lucario rose from his meditation as a small smirk grew on his face.

"What do you mean?" Fiery gave him a weird look mixed of confusion and suspicion.

"I mean, Zoroark has stopped his scanning,"

"But just a few hours ago he rested?" Chipa questioned.

"Yes and by that he has cooled down a bit. He probably thinks we died in that mental aura attack he gave us. We can now plan our mission to take him down."

"Good! Let's do it then!" Pika shouted as all of them did the same.

And now all of them are ready to set off with their plan to take Zoroark down and bring back peace to the world.

Chapter 18: Going through it…

"So you all ready to take him down!" Lucario said to all four of them.

"Yes, we are ready!" All four chimed together.

"So let's go then," Lucario signed to the guardians.

"Yes," the guardians said as they floated around all of them. They made a triangle shape around them and started glowing.

"Just keep your eyes closed," The guardians said with a smirk. Everyone closed their eyes as the three glowed in their respective colors as rays from their hands joined the other rays and suddenly a large white ball of pure energy galloped them teleporting to their desired location.

Pika opened his eyes to see himself standing upright and a slight smile came around his face. It was a little off-track but for the first time in all this days he was teleported on his feet. But then he felt something weird. He was on a plain surface with no trees, no hills and mountains and no friends. The sky was dark and suddenly he fell on the ground.

He opened his eyes and guessed what he saw was just an imagination. He got up and looked around to find his friends looking towards Mt. Coronet.

"So this is it," Fiery said.

"The time is here," Chipa stated.

"The time for the greatest battle, the world witnesses," Icycles said.

"The time for peace to return," Lucario said.

"The time to make the world a better place to live, let's go!" Pika cried as he looked into the eyes of his friends.

"Let's do it!" All of them said in unison and started walking towards the cave entrance not used in centuries.

After a while of walking, running, sneaking past Murkrows and others, they reached to the entrance of the ancient cave.

"Look, this cave has a secret pattern and to find that we have to first of all stay together. The puzzle is like this, whenever a path is divided into two, there will be a riddle on the wall in between. Answer of the riddle will tell us which way to go," Lucario said.

"And what kind of riddles this will be?" Icycles asked.

"They will be probably stating an incident that occurred in the past,"

"Oh and how many such riddles will be there?" Icycles questioned again.

"I don't know, probably three or four," Lucario stated.

"I have an idea, let's go there and solve those," Pika said.

"Ok let's do it then." All of them ran into the cave.

There was enough light to see where they were heading. There were some Murkrows out there but they sneaked pass them easily. After a lot of walking they came to a point where the road divided into two. And on the wall in the middle, there were some ancient carvings.

"Looks like we have a problem here, which way to go guys?" Chipa questioned waving off her leaf away.

"Hey look! There are some kinds of drawings here," Fiery noticed the drawings drawn on the wall in between the roads.

"These two drawings are facing the two ways and these look like Pokémons," Pika pointed out.

"Quite good! The Pokémon on the left is Dialga and that on the right is Palkia for sure," Lucario told them.

"Looks like this is our first riddle," Icycles said.

"Yeah, but what does it point out. Dialga is facing to the right while Palkia is facing to the left. What could be hidden in this?" Chipa stated.

"As per my knowledge, Dialga controls time while Palkia controls space. There should be something related to it," Fiery said in her thoughtful way.

"If you would ask me, I would go with time," Icycles said.

"And why would that be," Pika questioned.

"Because I like to pass the time," the moment Icycles uttered this, everyone except Lucario fell anime style.

"There is no time for joking!" Lucario said silently while thinking what the cravings could mean.

"I have an idea! Why not first we go by the left path and then if we couldn't get to the top, we would come back and go by this way." Chipa said.

"What if we got lost in there and wouldn't be able to get out? Chipa we need to think it through before we take any step because the world's protection is on us now," Pika sighed.

"I have solved it," Fiery exclaimed.

"What?"

"I solved the riddle,"

"And what is it?" All of them questioned.

"Look, these two ways are symbols of time and space. The one thing I noticed is that there are small crosses drawn around the drawings which probably means that to get to the top one has to do something that can cause him to defy both time and space," Fiery explained.

"And what is this 'something'?" Icycles asked.

"That's what I don't understand!"

"That's nothingness." Lucario stated.

"What?" Pika asked.

"Nothingness, a thing which doesn't consider any time and doesn't require any place, which defies all the laws and basics of nature, it's just a way to denote the powers that aren't in the control of both Dialga and Palkia. But how can we go through nothing?"

"I am really confused," Icycles stated scratching his head and trying to understand what Lucario just said.

"But how can we enter nothingness?" Fiery asked.

"Nothingness is a thin line where the dimensions of Dialga and Palkia meet," Lucario stated.

"A thin line?" Fiery started to think. Pika went towards the wall with the pictures and started examining them. The one thing he noticed was that Dialga's and Palkia's tails were connected and the point where it connected was a hole. He touched it and a bright purple light flashed out of it. The purple ray went straight upward through the wall and lighted a big drawing. Suddenly the images started flashing with purple light and Pika was sent flying backwards on the ground. Suddenly a big purple light flashed and a black portal like thing opened up on the wall. Before anyone could say anything they were sucked in the portal and then it closed.

What's happening? What was the portal? Where did all of them vanish? Is it a trick by Zoroark? Will they be able to stop him and bring back peace to world?

All this and much more in the next chapter….

Till then see yaa….