This is the one hundred forty-fourth chapter in Pokemon Heroes. This chapter will be a turning point in one character's life, so be prepared. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any of the songs.
(Opening song)
The snow was still coming down on their bodies.
Ash stood in front of the entrance to the cave Articuno was resting in, while Brendan, May, and Dawn were behind the Dark Signers.
Demyx faced the kids while Larxene faced the Aura Guardian.
Her eyes could only show murderous intent, her face could show anger, and her mind must've been filled with many, many sinister things.
"You dared to get in my way," she said as her Knives got covered in electricity. "Now...I'll just rip your organs out one by one. Each and every one of yours!"
Ash's fists were engulfed in aura, and he was already in position to fight.
"You can try, bitch!"
Demyx, looking at Brendan's pupils changing from brown to emerald-green, tilted his head to get into hearing distance of Larxene.
"I think we should just go," said Demyx. "It's already ruined. Articuno might find a way to escape, and you'd have to go finding it all over again. Let's retreat for now so there are so casualties between us."
Larxene tilted her head.
"Casualties?" she asked, and then electricity started crackling around her as a crazed, sinister smirked form on her face.
"There will be casualties! This winter wonderland will be stained with warm, red, flowing blood that's coming from the slits on their necks! There will be certain casualties here, but I'll make sure, kid, that I won't be one of them!"
With a yell that sounded like a roar, Ash came at her with his aura covered fist, hitting her on the cheek, sending her a few feet away on the snow.
Their eyes met, and they found their goal.
They were going to kill the other.
The battle had begun.
Become the Hero
Larxene's skidding on the snow stopped. She immediately prepared the Knives in her hands, ready to throw them at the boy, but suddenly, he had already appeared in front of her, with his leg cocked backed. His aura covered leg then launched forward and kicked Larxene on her face, launching her away once again.
"Dammit!"
This power Ash had now was amazing, but she didn't have time to marvel upon it. She landed on the ground on her feet, and then swiftly, while spinning her body around, threw tons of electric-covered Knives at Ash.
The boy dodged every one.
Larxene's eyes widened as she watched him come closer with his fists cocked back, ready to propel the aura covered attack on her face once again.
"Dammit!"
She crossed her arms and blocked the attack, but the force of it made her fall back. In the process of falling, Ash's other fist was already aimed at her face.
It collided with her, sending her further into the snow covered ground, but the force of it must've already caused cracks to form on the ground beneath the snow.
Demyx only watched in amazement. The power Ash was using now wasn't as powerful as when he fought him. It made the man think if he should start running and abandoning Larxene to fight on her own.
He was about to ask if she was still alive, but then he noticed the smirk on her face.
"She has this under control?"
"Dawn, May, stay back!"
Demyx heard Brendan say this while he was thinking. He turned to the kids and saw Brendan coming at him. His iron hard fist collided with the Demyx's Sitar after bringing it in front of his face. Demyx was pushed back. He quickly played a note to send a geyser at Brendan, but the white haired boy had already dodged it.
"That's not working on me again!" Brendan yelled.
With an amazing speed, Brendan came and delivered another iron hard punch at his gut. Demyx was sent away, trying his best to regain his composure after receiving that forceful blow.
"Dammit, Larxene!" he thought as he saw Brendan once again coming at him. "You just HAD to involve me in this shit, didn't ya?!"
He got his Sitar and it turned into its powerful form, having much more spikes and looking way more demonic. He played a note, causing water to rise from the ground. The speed of the water moving within that geyser was so fast that it had the ability of cutting through a tree, and maybe a human body. Demyx's power also allowed him to turn that liquid into a solid as soon as it hit someone.
The water was sent at Brendan. The boy prepared to get out of the way, but then his foot fell into a deeper part of the snow, trapping his leg.
The water got closer and closer as he tried removing his leg, but it was no use, so he crossed his arms, prepared to take the blow.
But then, a whirlpool was sent at the attack, causing the opposite directions the water was going in both attacks to cancel each other out.
Piplup landed in front of him, and Dawn came from behind and grabbed his shoulders to help bring him back up. When he got free, he gave a sigh of relief and turned to Dawn while giving a smile.
"Thanks."
"No problem," said Dawn.
Demyx was by himself, shaking his ass to the music he was playing on his Sitar. As he played, more and more pillars of water were rising up from the ground.
"YOU READY TO ROCK?!"
"Hell yeah we are," said Brendan, and he released Mightyena from its Pokeball to let it stand by his side as Piplup stood by Dawn's.
The pillars of water were then sent toward them.
Ash stood over Larxene's unmoving body. He had noticed the smirk on her face. He looked down on her, kicking her head a few times to see if she was still conscious.
"That isn't something you should be doing to a lady."
That voice caused him to duck by instinct before one of Larxene's Knives was sent downwards at the top of his head. He turned back to see her behind him, even though she was clearly present on the ground.
She took the other Knives on her other hand and brought it down on Ash. The boy jumped out of the way quickly, but the Knives had already slashed at his shoulder, causing blood to leak out.
He stood away from her, holding onto his bleeding shoulder, looking at her other body on the ground, which looked like it was slowly disappearing.
Larxene had already positioned the Knives in her hand to strike again.
Ash materialized his Aura Blade and charged at her.
"You can keep trying," said Larxene as a small ball of electricity appeared in front of her. She moved it to go farther away, and it suddenly changed to become a large ball of cracking thunder.
Ash had quickly ducked before he was struck by the ball, letting it barely miss his head. He then jumped out from under it while back-flipping, then sending his aura covered foot on her.
She simply grabbed his foot, and then dangled him in midair.
"You know...I've always wanted to see what a heart really looked like. Maybe I should see yours."
A bolt of thunder then came crashing down on Ash. It continuously shocked him as he yelled in pain. His vision proceeded to get blurry, but then he saw something kick Larxene, pushing her back while also dropping Ash.
Ash's face got buried in the snow, and when he got out, he saw Combusken before him.
"You alright?"
He heard May's sweet voice behind him. He turned to her and nodded. Even though his fingertips were still twitching after getting hit by that attack, he still stood up with May's support.
"You sure it's alright for Combusken to be out of its Pokeball now?" he asked.
"It was the one who wanted to help," said May.
"Pikachu!"
The electric mouse ran between Ash's legs to get in front of him. Even though it was injured after that attack Larxene had inflicted on them earlier, it still stood, ready to keep going.
Larxene had already regained her composure. She gave a "tch" after seeing more foes.
"That's more of a bloodbath for me then."
Ash immediately came running at her. He tried throwing a punch, but Larxene just held out a fist that smashed into the boy's face, sending him backward.
Then, Pikachu came running at her with a Volt Tackle. Due to the attack having the same element as her, she easily brushed off the attack and held Pikachu's forehead tossing it aside.
Combusken then came and struck Larxene with a Fire Punch from behind, but Larxene easily held its fist in the palm of her hand. With them all surrounding her, she could easily deal the final blow and end it all.
A smirk formed on her face yet again, but it was quickly erased when Ash's aura covered feet rammed into her chin.
Pikachu then came back and struck her with an Iron Tail, pushing her away from them.
Combusken came from behind and delivered a powerful kick, launching her away. She crashed into the snow as snow flew into the air.
They all stood together, ready for her to stand back up.
After a while, unfortunately, they saw her coming out of the snow. She wiped off the snow from her jacket and glared at them.
"Congrats...you've succeeded in getting through this."
Then, they noticed the Knives she was carrying becoming longer, and green lines started to form on them. The snow around her feet was popping as sparks escaped from them. Her weapons could no longer be classified as Knives anymore. Now they all just looked like long daggers, and she had no problem carrying them all in her hands.
"Now...let's see how you'll be able to get past this."
She then rushed at them at an incredible speed. Ash pushed May to the ground and took out his Aura Blade. She struck him with the daggers on her right hand, but he blocked them. He prepared to direct his attention to the other set on her other hand, but before he could, he already felt wounds open on his side.
He yelled in pain, Larxene took his head and tossed him aside. May's first reaction was to run toward him, while Combusken and Pikachu proceeded to strike Larxene. As they got close, Larxene didn't even seem to move, but they both felt strikes hitting them repeatedly on their bodies. They fell to the ground, having a hard time getting up.
Larxene started walking toward the kids. Ash tried stopping the blood that was coming from his side, but Larxene had already kicked him down. She then placed her foot on his head.
"I shall start the bloodshed with the blood from your head all over this snow."
Before she could apply anymore pressure though, a snowball had hit her face. She froze, and then slowly turned to May, who already had another snowball in her hand. She was staring defiantly at the woman.
"What kind of child do you think I am?" Larxene asked. May didn't respond. This prompted the woman to take one of her daggers and throw it at May.
"Watch it!"
Dawn suddenly came and knocked May to the ground with her, but not before receiving a gash on her leg where the dagger cut instead.
They landed on the ground, and Dawn held her bleeding leg as May quickly checked to see if she was okay.
Ash watched this all go down, and it made him try forcing himself to get back up, but Larxene kept pressing his face against the snow.
She wasn't even paying attention to Ash at this point. Her sight was focused on Brendan, off in the distance fighting Demyx.
"How pitiful," she said out of nowhere.
Piplup and Mightyena looked exhausted. They tried their hardest to at least try dispersing the water attacks from Demyx before they hit their respective trainers, but every time they destroyed one, another appeared in its place. Now, Brendan was trying to protect them, diverting the water from the Pokemon, trying to get him to be the aim of Demyx's attacks.
But even he too was getting exhausted. After their previous battle, he hadn't really gone into full recovery yet.
"Don't look all tired on me," said Demyx as he snickered. "That ruins all the fun."
"Screw...you."
And then, using Mightyena's speed, Brendan came running at Demyx. Demyx played a note, and a pillar of water went toward Brendan.
Brendan jumped out of the way as the pillar dug deep within the ground.
Brendan kept going until he was finally in front Demyx.
He cocked his Aggron-powered fist back and prepared to strike him, but then a geyser came out of nowhere and launched the boy into the sky. When another note was played, two more pillars of water came up from behind him and went for Brendan on opposite sides. They crashed into him while he was in the middle of it.
His yell was pleasing to Larxene's ears, and her smirk grew as she saw him fall to the ground.
Demyx proceeded to shake his ass around again.
"Brendan!" called out Dawn, and she tried standing to get to get to him, but the pain in her leg was too much, and she fell back down.
"Pitiful."
Ash's glare went toward Larxene, who was now loosening her foot on his head.
"You kids try so, so hard, but you'll all end up dead by the end of this. You grew up with hearts, telling you what was right and wrong, but now, you must've noticed that the choice you made was wrong."
"Our choice was right," said Ash as he watched Brendan try getting back up. "We came to protect something that you people were trying to destroy."
"No," said Larxene, and Ash saw the chance to escape from under her foot. "The choice you made was definitely wrong."
"Shut up!"
Ash got out from beneath her and swung his Aura Blade at her neck, but Larxene jumped backwards to dodge it, as if she was expecting it. She threw one dagger at the entrance of the cave in the process. When she landed, she threw two more at her sides.
"Are you prepared for another?" asked Larxene, and she now positioned her arms as if she had a bow and arrow. The kids thought she was creating something, but they saw nothing.
May was the one who looked up and saw the clouds gathering in one spot in the sky.
"Ash-"
She didn't finish, because the dagger at the cave sent large electrical currents to grab onto the kids', including Brendan's, legs. It then proceeded to pull them to it. The Pokemon were not captured. The kids tried releasing themselves from the attack, but their attempts were useless.
They heard thunder crack in the sky.
"You have survived many attacks," said Larxene, "It'll be one hell of a miracle to dodge this one."
She then released her imagery arrow, and at that exact moment, a large thunderbolt came from the clouds toward them, but it wasn't shaped as a normal thunderbolt.
It looked like an arrow made of thunder.
The grip of the electrical currents was getting weaker as the arrow came closer.
Everything turned white, and one girl acted without thinking.
May suddenly turned and pushed Dawn into the cave so hard that it looked like she elbowed the bluenette. Dawn's leg was released, and she rolled deeper into the cave that had a downward inclined slope in it.
She only watched as her friends were electrocuted by the powerful attack, and the winds pushed her deeper within. Demyx, to escape the winds that were formed because of the explosion, surrounded himself in a water prison, and Larxene stood still in her position after she released the bow, smiling.
When the explosion, stopped Dawn's first reaction was to climb the slope toward the entrance, despite the pain she was feeling from her leg.
When she got up there, her expression turned to horror as she watched her friends lie on the ground. She saw sparks leave their bodies, and she saw their bodies twitch involuntarily.
She heard Larxene's laugh, and her eyes met hers.
Demyx got out from his water ball and looked around at the destruction.
"Great," he said. "Now we've got them out of the way, let's do our business and then get the fuck out of here."
"No."
Larxene's hands were now carrying her normal Knives that materialized. She was looking at Dawn.
"Not all of them."
"But, Larxene, she's weak. We can just flick her and she'll be down."
"I SAID NOW ALL OF THEM!" she yelled as she got closer. Dawn was frozen in place, unable to move.
But then at the corner of her eye, she saw Brendan getting back up.
She saw Ash getting back up.
She saw May's body move a little bit.
Larxene stopped and watched as the boys tried standing up, even when their body parts were twitching with the volts of electricity coursing through their bodies.
"You know," she said, "if you allowed yourselves to stay down on that one, I would've given you a silent death."
"We're not done yet," Brendan said.
"You have to hit us with more power than that to actually kill us," said Ash.
The boys were so weak that just flicking them would send them down, but Larxene was confused.
That was one of her most powerful attacks. Whoever was hit by it would've had their limbs ripped apart, their eyes popped out of their sockets, and their hearts to explode.
But she then noticed the red leaving May's eyes, and then it made sense.
Her power was the reason they were alive. She had done something.
"Dammit," Larxene thought.
May then forcefully moved her neck to look at Dawn.
"Go protect Articuno."
She had said that in such a low voice that it looked like she was whispering, and Dawn was lucky to hear it.
"Me? What about you guys?"
"If something happens to us, you'll be by Articuno to protect it."
"I-I can't fight these guys alone. They'll kill me without a fight."
"I know you can do it, Dawn."
"But-"
"Don't worry, it'll be there to help you."
Dawn, feeling reluctant to leave her friends to this monster who could kill them at any second now, didn't want to go. But she couldn't let them down, so she nodded.
"Fine," she said. "But I'll give you ten minutes. If you're not done yet, I'm coming back."
"We'll get this done in nine," said Ash.
"How about five?" said Brendan.
Dawn turned back once more, and then walked deeper within the cave.
She was limping as he used the wall to support her movements. She felt the cold air hit her body, and she shivered. Even as the cold got more intense, she kept walking.
The walls and floor were icy, so she had to watch her footing.
She heard the explosion and rumbling from outside, but she tried her best to ignore them.
She then heard a small screech coming from the Pokemon within that cave.
She walked faster, until she finally got out of the tunnel and stood in a large, open, icy area.
A platform sat in the middle, and on that platform was Articuno, glaring at her.
Dawn got closer, raising her hands up to show that she wasn't a threat.
She had noticed that ice was placed all over Articuno's body, signifying that it covered its wounds up to stop the bleeding and to heal up.
She finally got close enough, and her knees sank into the snow as she breathed heavily.
"I'm sorry," Dawn said. "They sent me. I know I won't be able to do much for you. My friends are out there, trying the best they can to prevent those people from getting in, and I don't know how long they can hold out. If they are finished...then I'm sorry."
A pause followed, and it sounded as if Dawn was trying to hold back tears.
"I...I'm not like them. I don't have power to fight like them. I'm always the girl that has to stand back as I watch them break their backs. It's hard, and I try to get through it, but in times like this, I feel so, so useless. But-"
Dawn looked toward Articuno's eyes, and Articuno could see her determined soul through hers.
"-I've got the same spirit as them! Even if those people get in here, I'd still stand and fight, even if I'm powerless! I'll keep fighting until I die! So you don't have to worry, because I'll be here to protect you! And one day, I'll be able to protect them, too! Because you don't need power to do the right thing!"
She then extended out her hand.
"So put your faith in me! Please!"
Articuno stared at her. After a moment, it nodded.
It then reached out and placed its beak on Dawn's hand. It made Dawn smile.
But her smile quickly turned to shock as she watched a blue light form on her hand.
Demyx sat alone, playing notes on his Sitar. He was so bored, especially over the fact that Larxene hadn't finished kicking and torturing the kids that were at her feet.
It had only been five minutes since Dawn had gone in. The kids were down in two.
"Are you done yet?"
"Almost," said Larxene as he stepped over Ash's gut and started kicking it. Blood escaped his mouth, and his vision became more and more blurry.
They had lost the fight, but Larxene wouldn't let them go. She continued to kick them all, preventing them from dying. She tried to let the moment last.
Demyx found this to be a complete waste of time. Since the kids were down, they could just enter the cave and finish off Articuno, and then just end their quest before the other Dark Signers realize that they've been gone for a hella long time.
"Are you done now?"
"If you want to finish this up so quickly, then how about you go in there and capture Articuno rather than sit on your fat ass."
"I don't want to get myself killed," said Demyx, and he looked away to proceed playing with his Sitar.
Larxene looked down at the kids. None of them were dead. She felt satisfied now, so she no longer felt the need to torture them.
Now, it was best just to kill them.
She walked over to Brendan and materialized one of her Knives.
"Maybe if you didn't decide to intervene, this wouldn't have happened to you, you think?"
"I don't regret this at all."
"Whatever," said Larxene, and she held the weapon higher. "Then you should be prepared for this."
Larxene then felt an even colder atmosphere surround her. Demyx felt it as well.
The kids didn't feel it, but they did feel something weird.
Larxene quickly turned to the cave entrance, and out of it came Dawn.
She wasn't wearing her coat. She was in her normal clothes, even though the air around them was definitely below zero degrees.
Larxene noticed ice covering her leg wound.
She snickered.
"You came back out?" she asked. "You should've just found an exit and got the hell out of here."
Dawn glared at her.
Her only response was placing her right foot in front of the other, and then placed her fist over her palm.
A blue light formed between her fist and palm.
Larxene watched in observation, seeing her next move.
And then, like out of thin air, large, ice like lances appeared out of her extended palm and they all headed for Larxene.
Everyone was wide eyed.
Dawn had obtained the power of ice.
(Ending song)
Next Time on Pokemon Heroes: With Dawn's newly obtained power, she begins her attack against the Savage Nymph. This turns the tables on the battle, and it is with this battle that'll decide the fate of Articuno. How will this battle end, and will Articuno stay within the light, or will it fall into the darkness? Next Time: Ice Princess.
That was that chapter. Yes, Dawn Berlitz has obtained ice powers. I made the poll some time ago to ask you guys if it was okay for her to get powers, and the majority of the vote went to it becoming real. There is actually a whole backstory as to why I decided to give her powers, and why I gave her THIS power, but I'll be explaining that next chapter. See you next chapter!
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