Authors notes: That's right. Its a double post. Probably the only one I will ever do. Well it's finally here the showdown that everyone has waited for. Azelf makes her appearance. Sit tight and try to enjoy the fight against our hero's and their first legendary Pokémon fight.

Chapter 3 BOOM

I released Loki from his Pokeball as we walked through the north gate of the resort. He enjoyed the moonlight just as much as all Umbreons and was glad to be out of his ball. I enjoyed the light he put off and being able to see. Now that we had passed the resort Lake Verity was just a hop and a skip away. Well actually it was about twenty minutes of walking through tall grass and turning down all the challenges that the nocturnal Pokémon were throwing at us.

"So the plan is to have all our psychic Pokémon out at once and while Metagross Alakazam Lilly and Espeon all pull it down into the lake, Burst can take a chomp out of her and start crunching down. If she manages to get away from Burst we will just all launch our most powerful attacks at once." Cole said making sure we were both on the same page. Three days and that's all we had come up with. Something about the plan seemed to easy to actually work but I didn't see how a psychic Pokémon could do much with a dark type ripping it to pieces.

As we got close enough to see the lake I recalled Loki to help our stealth situation and we released all the Pokémon needed for the plan from behind a tree so the red lights wouldn't disturb anyone. We were actually going to do this. We were going to attack a legendary because a different legendary told us to. Wow that sounded stupid now that I thought about it. Well there was no turning back now. It was do or die time and at the moment I was more scared of Shaymin than I was Azelf. "Lilly get ready to give Azelf a little wake up call." I said as we looked into the cave in the middle of the Lake. Burst you dive down and stay out of sight so she doesn't catch on to our plan." He nodded and went under the lake to swim laps around the bottom.

Lilly and Metagross's eyes started to glow crimson while Alakazam and Espeon's eyes started to glow purple. Suddenly there was a yelp and a very confused Azelf floated out of the cave sleepily rubbing her eyes. "What is the meaning of this?" She asked looking around at us. When no one would answer us she settled for trying to read our minds. But she couldn't get into our heads as our sizable group of psychic Pokémon stopped her. She sighed and said, "So that's how it's going to be huh? Well I'm warning you. You don't know what you're getting yourselfs into. Then her eyes glowed orange and all four of our psychic Pokémon were encased in orange bubbles She in turn was encased in a purplish-red sphere.

"We can't hold her... She is too strong... Losing badly... Attack now." Was the scattered response that Lilly gave me as they fought for a the ability to control the other. Well that was that. Plan failed. Time to improvise. I sent out Apollo and Kingy, my two winged battlers. Apollo was a Charizard, and Kingy was a Salamence. Apollo was my starter Pokémon and was about as normal as a giant fire-breathing dragon-lizard could get. That's one of the great things about him since Charizard is a well-rounded Pokémon, and I wouldn't have anyone else for my first partner. On the other hand Kingy was much larger and way more bulky than a normal Salamence. He was a good foot taller than a Salamence should be at his age and had a larger wing span, even though I don't think they fly with normal physics. I jumped onto Apollo and we took off.

Cole, in turn sent out Mismagius, A creepy little purple ghost Pokémon with a huge witch's hat, And his Scyther, A green mantis monster with scythes along its arms. Cole jumped on Kingy and commanded his Mismagius to use shadow ball, And Scyther to use fury cutter. They started off towards Azelf, but before they were even within range Metagross lost its ability to concentrate and Azelf used the lack of pressure to pick the four psychics up and hurl them all in different directions. Metagross was buried in the sand on the beach. Alakazam went through a tree and hit another one and slumped unconscious. Espeon went into the lake and started freaking out, apparently she didn't know how to swim. And Lilly was sent flying towards the trees but managed to turn intangible and teleport behind me before she hit one. So much for psychic verses psychic.

"Apollo go in for a flamethrower I said and he swooped down to breath a tongue of flame at the now distracted Azelf. It was trying to dodge a swarm of shadow balls while at the same time trying to stay out of Scyther's range and his wicked looking blades. She screamed when she burst into flames but just threw Apollo flying with a psychic blast. He did everything he could to prevent me falling to my death but the effort prevented him from leveling out before crashing into a tree. I was dazed but remarkably unharmed. There was no way I could send Apollo back in like that while I was riding him. Fighting on your Pokémon apparently only worked while the opponent was playing under a very restrictive rule set. Who knew.

"Let me off down on the beach so you can focus on flying more than protecting me." Cole, who had witnessed the ungraceful crash decided that staying on Kingy wasn't the greatest idea either and landed next to me.

"Does this thing ever get tired?" He said looking at it and now that I was looking at it to it really wasn't showing any signs of fatigue at all. This was going to be a long battle.

"Alright Kingy get in there and use a few dragon breaths, Try to get it paralyzed. Apollo you use some air slashes from a good distance to back Kingy up." I instructed my two Pokémon. Who took off with slightly less enthusiasm than they had earlier. Meanwhile the Mismagius had managed to hit Azelf with a shadow ball and was rewarded with a heaping load of Scyther to the face as Azelf threw Scyther into her and then threw both of them onto the beach. Azelf then turned towards us. She looked around and after realizing that there were no more psychic Pokémon to stop her, she smiled and forcefully entered our minds.

"I have no Idea why you have attacked me but seeing as you wont leave I have no choice but to steal your willpower and leave you to rot on this beach until you succumb to hunger and thirst." She said as I felt this weird almost numbing feeling spreading throughout my body but always concentrated at my head. I wanted to turn away from her stare. I wanted to scream. I wanted to just stop and rest for a minute. What was I doing here. So tired. Ugh sleeping is too much effort. I started to black out...

WHAM.

I opened my eyes to see a very angry-looking Gardevoir glaring at me. "Lilly?" I said realizing I had been slapped across the face. I looked around. I was on a rocky plateau sitting just above a very thick cloud layer. All I could see were clouds in all directions stretching forever. "Where did you bring me?"

"This is your subconsciousness. It is the last hiding place for your mind during extreme trauma like having your willpower being taken away by an angry legendary. These clouds aren't natural and are Azelf's doing. It seems I got to you just in time seeing as these clouds would have swallowed you in just a few more seconds." to emphasize this the clouds raised a few inches and were almost spilling over the top of the plateau.

"How do you know about it?"

"Well for humans to enter this state is rare but Pokémon come close to dying all the time."

"How do I stop it." I asked moving closer to the edge to look at the clouds.

"I am going to try to use dream eater to attack the clouds. Hopefully I can do enough damage to give you a fighting chance. The best you can do to fight back is think of something that makes you really angry and burn away any doubt of actions. This may hurt... a lot." She said as her eyes started to grow crimson again before she disappeared. And guess what I felt? Pain lots and lots of pain as she tore at my dream-scape removing huge chunks of the clouds and the ground underneath. The clouds flooded into the holes she made and away from me but It was obvious that In a few minutes either my dream-scape would be destroyed or Lilly would have to stop. I had to concentrate.

What pissed me off? Shaymin was one thing. But that doesn't really bother me as much as it did at the time. It was my fought. What else? Well the fact that Cole had beaten his league before me. Even though I started over a year earlier than him. But again it was my fought. Anything else? That it took me four tries to beat the élite four. That I only win battles because my Pokémon are higher leveled. That my rash attitude and lack of strategy leads to stupid situations like this. I knew what pissed me off now. It was how very bad I was at everything. I had to rely on type advantage and pure power to get me out of situations where a bit of strategy would do. If it wasn't for my team I wouldn't have even got to Hoenn much less through the league. If there was one thing that really made me mad it was how incompetent I was as a trainer. D***IT D***IT D***IT D***IT D***IT. If I was only a little bit better I would have beaten the league faster. I would have withdrawn Lilly before Shaymin could hurt Apmhy. Honchcrow wouldn't have left me right before the élite four. I would have defeated Shaymin. And this pathetic excuse of a legendary wouldn't be wiping out our whole team.

Then the dream-scape got much brighter as flames started to erupt below the clouds and the plateau evolved into a volcano. Fire and rocks went everywhere as I held the thoughts of how much I hated myself and how I would become stronger. The clouds tried to attack and cover the flames but they perished to them instead. In a matter of seconds they were all gone and I looked out to the burned plains and rolling hills that were my mind. It used to be beautiful. Just fields upon rolling fields but now it was torn to pieces and ravaged by the fire. I took a few deep breaths and the flames stopped. The volcano turned back into a plateau and grass started to regrow. Then dirt flowed from the holes that Lilly had created and filled them. Grass started to grow where the holes had been. My dream-scape was the way it should be and I was content. Now just one more problem to solve.

"Um Lilly. How do I leave?" I said looking for her. I heard a laugh and felt the world shift. I was really dizzy so I closed my eyes. When everything stopped trying to hurl me around and the ground stopped churning I opened my eyes. I was back on the lakes beach. I Sat up and realized I had been drooling. Wiping my mouth I looked around. Lilly was looking a little worse for wear. And she was panting a bit. Cole was still unconscious and seemed to be trying to fight off the clouds too. I smiled. I could give him a hand with that. I walked up to him and reared back. Then I kicked him. Hard. Right between his legs. He jumped and his hands went straight to his crotch. His eyes opened wide and he looked at me with a questioning gaze.

"Wake up sleepyhead. I figured the great psychic trainer that managed to conquer Sinnoh so quickly wouldn't be beaten by such a weak trick like stealing willpower." His eyes narrowed and he stood up to punch me. I dodged to the left and pushed him forward. He stumbled and almost fell forward on his face. Before he could regain his balance I pointed to Azelf. "You can beat me up later right now we have to finish this. By this point Azelf had defeated Kingy and Scyther. And Apollo was sitting on the beach standing on all fours panting heavily. Mismagius was cackling evilly while using faint attack to teleport around and spamming shadow balls when she could. And Espeon had washed up, unconscious on the shore. Metagross had apparently never managed to dig himself out of his sandy prison as it seemed that Azelf had managed to place a few barriers that prevented him from simply flying out. It was a good thing he didn't need to breath.

We were running out of options. I sent out Amphy. I didn't like it but there was no way we were not going to win this after all the effort. Cole sent out his last Pokémon. It was a Machamp. I sighed. It wouldn't be able to do anything. Or would it.

Keeping my promise to do better I stopped to think a little before I acted. Burst was still at the bottom of the pool. We needed to get Azelf into the water before he could do anything. Machamp wouldn't be much use unless she got much lower. Amphy could probably do some massive damage with a few thunders but a taunt would get so much further. But Ampharos can't learn taunt. I would have to use the next best thing. Loki hadn't even been sent out yet for this battle. So he was still fresh for action. But he would have to wait for Apollo to recover before coming out since he had no way to fly up to Azelf's level. Alright I think I got everything together. "Amphy. I just need you to stall long enough for Apollo to catch his breath. Think you can manage?" He turned to me and gave a reassuring cry in his own name. This time we wouldn't be beaten.

"Amphy use a thunder to get its attention." He nodded and went to work connecting the path for the flow of electrons to follow from the clouds to Azelf. For a few seconds nothing happened, then there was a massive bolt of lighting flying from a low hanging cloud blinding everyone who had since become used to the dark and it flew straight into the unsuspecting Azelf. She screamed in pain before turning to see us. She was surprised to see us up and moving again. That much was for certain by the way her jaw dropped and she almost fell out of the sky. Then she noticed Amphy or more specifically the flower just behind Amphy's ear. There are very few ways to describe the look of pure hatred on her face. Oh, that works. She floated up closer just to make sure before confirming that it was indeed Shaymin's.

"SO THATS WHY YOU ARE HERE" she yelled/broadcast to everyone. "WELL SHAYMIN. WE WILL SEE HOW THIS PLAN OF YOURS WORKS WITHOUT YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE HOST." She said coming still closer to Amphy. Then her eyes resumed their orange glow but intensified to an almost blinding level. And a visible box of psychic barriers appeared around Amphy. Amphy ran up and thunder punched it but just bounced off. He tried to shock it but nothing seemed to even bother the orange tinted walls. Azelf smiled an evil smile that would do a Gengar proud and the box started to close in. Amphy panicked and started to release discharges hopelessly. I started to panic at the knowledge of what she was trying to do. I had to do something fast or Amphy was going to become a tiny cube of compressed dead. I had to jumpstart my plans.

"Apollo I need you now!" I said in a hurry running towards him. Luckily he seemed to have recovered enough for what I needed him to do. I ran up to him as I got out Loki's Pokeball out and tossed it next to him. I didn't give Loki a chance to survey the area as I talked as quickly as I could, looking back at the barrier. Azelf had taken the liberty of doing this as slowly as possible. She seemed to be enjoying the screams of Amphy as he tried to fight back the ever closing barriers. It was getting to the point where he had could barely move and he was holding both arms wide to hold the barrier at bay to prevent loosing any more space. The effort wasn't doing much as the barriers continued to move in unhindered.

"Apollo I want you to get as high as you can as fast as you can and use seismic toss on Loki but make it an illegal seismic toss. I want you to put everything into it. Loki I want you to get as much speed as you can before using Sucker punch on Azelf. Go hurry." Loki jumped onto Apollos back and Apollo grunted and breathed a bit of smoke. Loki retracted his claws then they both took off as fast as I have ever seen a Charizard move. Which was very fast. When they were in the air I turned to Cole and his Machamp, who was beating on the barrier.

"Jerry brick break isn't working I don't know what to do." That barely registered in my head as I ran up to Machamp.

"Machamp I need you to use foresight on Azelf and be ready for this." he looked back at the Ampharos who was now being crushed by the barriers and grunted something that I took as an apology before turning back to Azelf and concentrating. At this time Apollo, who was higher than the tree line decided he was high enough and started a dive. When he reached the fastest speed that gravity would allow he did a corkscrew throwing Loki off and grabbing him. In any other situation I would have really complemented that show of aerial performance. Then he did a quick flip while still falling and hurled Loki at the ground at an Insane speed. There were Ninjasks who wish they could go as fast as Umbreon was going now. Loki seemed to forget what he was doing and started to flail a bit before catching on and tipped his head down in a nose dive and reached his front paws towards the ground while his back legs trailed behind him. Then a couple of feet before he hit the ground he disappeared into a cloud of black smoke. Azelf who had no idea about any of this continued to crush Amphy. Who now seemed to have limbs that were bent beyond their elasticity.

Then Loki popped back into existence above Azelf still carrying that same speed and slammed into her like a... power trick Shuckle's fifth roll-out against a Yanma. I'm sure Loki outright broke both his front legs while at the same time I was surprised that Azelf wasn't reduced to a cloud of red. They both went crashing towards the ground like meteors. "Machamp dynamic punch. Lilly please catch Loki." I called as I ran the few feet back towards Amphy. The barrier was gone and he was laying on his back with his arms and legs and tail all stuck to him at weird angles they were all broken as well as his neck. He was still breathing and I could see that D*** flower's vines moving beneath his skin as it forced his limbs away from his body and stretched them. I recalled Amphy before I could see anymore.

I looked back towards Azelf just in time to get to see Machamp punch her right before she hit the ground. She went flying across the beach and bounced across the top of the lake twice before going under. Just as she started to sink Burst made his presence known by coming up under her and biting down, he jumped out of the water with her in his mouth. He turned and went back into the lake and headed for the bottom of the lake while crunching on her violently the whole way down. Azelf realizing that she was under water and couldn't breath tried to create a bubble to breath but it just fizzled out when it touched Bursts skin. She started to panic and scream as her blood was turning the lake red. In her confusion she didn't even think to fight back and quickly started to lose consciousness. I breathed a sigh of relief. This nightmare was finally over. Now I just had to throw a ball and everything could go back to normal. But as I was grabbing an ultra ball to throw, Lilly appeared in front of me with her eyes glowing crimson and before I could question anything she put up a barrier around me and Cole. Within milliseconds of the barrier being completed there was a massive explosion from the entrance of the lake and as the shock waves hit the barrier it cracked and shattered. The shock waves hit us.. I went unconscious...

After thoughts: This chapter has spawned an entire arch that I have not planed for but I felt was completely necessary for my Pokémon personality's sake. Originally the heroes were going to use a multi-surf to cause a massive tidal wave that floods the whole coastline and puts the rest of the battle around 7 foot under. But since I stupidly included some people in chapter 2 who were not part of the story making everything change. Perhaps for the better. :) Also why are dark moves the coolest.

Thoughts for the next chapter: The next chapter may be a while away seeing as to how I am not sure If I will ever get back to writing... It would be wise to watch out for it but don't expect regular updates.