Chapter Three: Yveltal
Previously on Pokémon Azure Light:
"All these girls have disappeared all over the school"
"Shadow's gone"
"I know you did it."
"We should check the basement"
"They're already dead. They can't be easily beaten"
"This is the most powerful attack that this forme can use! Fear my Kyuryoon Black Shadow Aura Burst!"
The monster that had caused so much destruction in the past. The god of destruction: Yveltal.
"Yveltal!" Ace shouted in a rage. Chopper, Conner and Conner jumped in surprise. This was Yveltal, the demon they were told about in scary bedtime stories?
"So, Arceus' lapdog has arrived to rescue his girlfriend from the evil demon." Yveltal sneered at Ace. "how cute"
"Give her back you bastard!" Ace shouted at the monster. Yveltal just grinned evilly. He knew Ace couldn't do anything with all these people watching. Ace wouldn't blow his cover that easily.
Ace surprised him however. He lunged at him with an Elemental Oblivion, Superman Punching him in the face. Yveltal flew back about thirty feet, but was pretty much unharmed. He stood up, grinning.
"Is that the best you've got?" he sneered. "I would have thought the strongest member of the legendary council would have more power behind his punches."
Chopper, Conner, and Mira looked at Ace in shock. Ace, a legendary? And the most powerful member of the council? No way! But it did explain how he managed to take on Chopper and those Shadow Abominations without shifting out of human forme. And it did explain how he knew Arceus and Uxie. But which legendary was he? He wasn't Arceus or Uxie, so who did that leave?
"You will pay for the atrocities you have committed!" Ace shouted in a blind rage, pure darkness energy building up around him.
"Oh" Yveltal mused. "And what atrocities would those be?"
"You killed Latios!" Ace shouted, throwing a monster punch at Yveltal. Yveltal dodged this and simply stood in front of Ace. The others (except Shadow) all gasped in horror. This monster had killed Latios. There were rumors that he was dead, but no one could prove it.
"You traumatized Bianca when you killed her brother!" Ace shouted, throwing another punch, which Yveltal also dodged. The others were just as horrified. Latios was traumatized by the death of her brother. And her killer had no remorse at all. He just stood there grinning. What kind of heartless monster was this?
"You killed Lugia!" Ace shouted, this time the others heard a lot of emotion behind this shout, as if Ace had lost a close friend. Ace shot a huge energy blast at Yveltal, who didn't even bother to dodge. He tanked the blast, remaining unharmed.
"Well, technically, YOU killed Lugia" Yveltal pointed out. The others looked mortified. Ace had killed Lugia? But he seemed like he wouldn't do such a thing.
"You forced Cipher out of him!" Ace shouted, running up to Yveltal, landing several punches on his face. Yveltal just shrugged them off.
"But I didn't make the killing blow" Yveltal said, punching Ace through the wall. "That was you. I was busy beating the sh!t out of your other friends in the Hall of Origins."
Ace stood up, shaking with rage. His aura level skyrocketed, reaching levels that made Chopper, Conner, and Mira use Protect to-well, protect-themselves from the sheer pressure of Ace's power. Shadow cringed, realizing what was about to happen.
"So you do have more in you?" Yveltal said, powering himself up as well. Ace and Yveltal forced their auras into ranges that would make one feel like he was at the bottom of the ocean without a pressure suit. The others focused their powers into making sure their Protect shields held out. The power flooding the room was breathtaking. The auras of Ace and Yveltal had become so intense that they were visable. Ace's aura was so purely black that it seemed to draw in all light. Yveltal's was reddish with a few touches of black in it. Both raged like wildfires devouring anything not protected. Shadow quickly mustered up some power to protect herself behind a shield of energy, knowing it wouldn't last.
"But" she thought. "Can Ace hold him off?"
Meanwhile at the Hall of Origins
"Look what I got Dialga" Mina squealed excitedly, floating over to her blue-gray haired friend, who was chilling on the couch. She held up a manga in Dialga's face. Dialga pushed it away, Mina hopping up on the couch next to her.
"I bought a comic book from the store!" She squealed. The pink haired girl started jumping up and down. "They told me it was for older people. So that means I'm smart!"
"What's it about?" Dialga asked, curious of her ditzy friend's exploits at the comic book store.
"It's about this girl named Yuri." Mina explained. The Mew girl paused in confusion. "It's really weird though. There's this other girl that I think is also named Yuri. They do some weird stuff with each other. And they do it all backwards, too."
"Let me see this comic book" Dialga said., holding out her hand. Mina handed her the comic book and Dialga looked at it. She turned it over to see the title and then flipped through the pages, sometimes gasping and blushing in her face.
"A few things, Mina" Dialga said, closing the book and putting it beside her. "First is that this is a manga."
"What's a manga?" Mina asked, clearly confused. "Is it a special kind of comic book?"
"Yes" Dialga explained. "It's a comic book that you read backwards (from right to left)."
"Oh" Mina said, her eyes wide with excitement. "Cool!"
"The second is that the character of this manga isn't called Yuri. That's the genre of manga that this one is."
"What's genre?" Mina asked.
"It means the type of comic book or manga." Dialga explained. "Like action or romance."
"I like romance!" Mina shouted materializing a rose from nowhere and putting it in her teeth. She stood over the couch in a triumphant fashion.
"Yuri is a strange type of category" Dialga continued. "It is…"
She leaned over and whispered into Mina's ear the information she needed to know. As she told her, Mina's eyes grew wide and her face turned from its usual light pink to blood red.
"Wh-wh-what?!" she exclaimed, shocked at what she had just heard. "I've been reading—"
"What's all the noise in here?!" Arcey thundered, poking her head in the door. Her yellowish-white hair fell into her face as she walked over to Mina and sat down on the couch.
"What's wrong Mina?" Arcey asked soothingly. Mina told her and Arcey burst out laughing.
"That's hilarious" she said, picking herself off the floor. "It's okay, Mina. We all make that mistake sometimes. I made that mistake. Ace made that mistake, but it was with yaoi."
"What's yaoi?" Mina asked. Arcey explained it to her and she got a look of disgust on her face.
"Eeww" she said. "That's disgusting."
"Yeah." Arcey said. "But he just got more. Not yaoi, but more mangas. All of us have some form of manga and anime in our possession. Ace is our Dragon Ball, Rosario Plus Vampire, Soul Eater, and Ao no Exorcist guy. Giratina is our Naruto and One Piece merchant. Mewtwo likes Fairy Tail and Bleach. Even Dialga likes Sailor Moon." Dialga blushed at this.
"So understand Mina" Arcey explained. "Manga and anime aren't bad things, but some people make them bad things."
"I get it now" Mina said. "Arcey what's wrong?!"
Arcey had frozen in place with a look of fear in her face. Dialga quickly called Mewtwo and Giratina, who were playing an intense game of Poker, in to see what was wrong. Mewtwo did a psychic scan while Giratina tried to coax her out of it.
"I'm picking up some intense signals from her mind" Mewtwo said, a little worried. "The damn fool!"
"What's going on?" Dialga asked.
"Ace." Mewtwo said.
"What about him?" Dialga asked, worried what the psycat's response would be.
"He's fighting Yveltal" Mewtwo said, truly afraid.
"What?!" Dialga gasped. If Ace was fighting Yveltal, then why hadn't Shadow come for help?
"I'm sensing two powerful energy sources in the area of Poke-morph High School." Mewtwo said nervously. "It has to be Ace and Yveltal. It can only be them. There's no mistaking it. They're going at it. They still in human forme though. That's a relief. Maybe this won't be the brawl of the Millenia. But if Shadow gets mixed up in this, then Ace would stop at nothing to obliterate Yveltal."
"Won't the seals hold?" Dialga said.
"Yes" said Arcey, who had recovered from her shock. "They will hold as long as Shadow remains unharmed."
"Why?" Dialga asked. "Why Shadow?"
"Are you dense?" Arcey asked. "She's the only reason that Ace hasn't killed us all."
"What?" Dialga said, surprised. "How can that be?"
"She is his emotional limiter." Arcey said. "He has a very strong emotional attachment to her. One that is linked to every fiber of his being. That is why he can sense her condition."
"So that's why he's going all Unholy Demon on Yveltal." Dialga said. "Yveltal must have hurt or done something to Shadow that Ace didn't like."
"Don't forget" Arcey said. "That Ace still hates Yveltal for what he did to Latios, Bianca, and Lugia. He would surely try to make Yveltal pay for that as well."
"So, he's going to fight Yveltal to the death?" Mina asked, worried for her friend's safety.
"Most likely." Said Arcey. "The seals in his body will prevent his full, ungodly power from emerging, but if Yveltal harms Shadow, I'm sure he will crack them to stop Yveltal."
"So what?" Mina said. "So he breaks the seal? What's the worst that could happen?"
"Think of seal as putting in electricity" Arcey started to explain. "Establishing one is like putting the wires and sealing up the walls. Activating and reactivating one is like turning on the lights. Deactivating one is like turning off the lights. Cracking one is like punching through the wall and ripping out wires. It is very hard to fix that. Almost impossible even. If Ace cracks his seals then we will all die at the hands of the most powerful monster that we have ever faced."
"But you can beat Ace, right Arcey?" Mina asked. Getting no reply, she started to quiver. "Right?"
"No" Arcey said plainly. "Ace is essentially an ever evolving being able to grow in power as he ages. Ace has long since surpassed me, but the seals and Shadow keep him in check."
"So all we need to do is keep him from breaking the seals, then?" Dialga asked.
"If only it were that simple" Arcey said. "If Ace experiences extreme emotions, then he will crack the seals. The only thing that could make him crack his seals wide open would be if the one person he'd sworn to protect with his life were to die. If that happens, then the only thing that would stop him from killing us all would be if we resealed him, but he would simply kill us with his unholy aura."
"So we make sure Shadow survives, then" Dialga said. "But can we take on Yveltal?"
"No" Arcey said. "The only one capable of fighting that monster is Ace."
"Then why don't we let him fight Yveltal?" Dialga asked. "I mean if he's the only one…"
"NO!" Arcey shouted. "If he goes all out, then those Pokémon with him will be suffocated by his own aura."
"Should we get them?" Mewtwo asked.
"Not until Yveltal leaves" Arcey said. "We can't risk him endangering them."
"I hope Ace will be okay" Mina said.
"Don't worry" Arcey said. "Ace will be fine."
Back to Ace and Yveltal
The two of them were unleashing power on the realm of gods. The scariest part (in the minds of Chopper, Conner, and Mira) was that they were just unveiling their auras and not even attacking or shifting out of human forme.
"You will pay for what you did to Latios, to Bianca, to Lugia, and to SHADOW!" Ace shouted, charging up a massive energy attack. He put all of his energy into his fist, causing it to glow with an unholy power.
"Elemental…" Ace said, pulling back his fist.
"Oblivion!" Ace yelled, leaping at Yveltal. Yveltal threw a punch of his own, charged with similar energy. The two fists collided mid punch, causing massive shockwaves to erupt from them. Conner, Chopper, and Mira grabbed on to each other for dear life as the whole room (and unsurprisingly, the school above it) started to shake violently under the force. After about thirty seconds they flew apart, panting.
"You are good, Hunter" Yveltal said, his long, gray hair in his face. "Or should I call you by your official title?"
"You will not leave this school." Ace said, changing the subject.
"I'm under a school?" Yveltal asked. "What school is this? Please tell me it's not Poke-morph."
"It is" Chopper said.
"Damn it!" Yveltal spat.
"I won't let you leave." Ace said, charging up a massive energy blast.
"Try it, Hunter" Yveltal taunted. "Or should I call you by your real title: Darkrai?"
Chopper, Conner, and Mira both stared at Ace in shock. This man before them was Darkrai? The legendary Nightmare King? The most powerful Dark Type in the world? The one Pokémon everyone regarded as the devil himself? This man, who had risked his life to find his friend and help Chopper and Conner find Mira, was a demon? This couldn't be true.
"If you know who I am" Ace said. "Then why don't you fight this fight on real terms?"
"You are making a grave mistake, Darkrai." Yveltal cautioned. "No being has survived my true forme."
"Not yet" Ace said, not an ounce of confidence lost.
"Fine" Yveltal said. "I won't hold back any more."
Yveltal gave a small grunt and started putting out even more energy than before. His body started to convulse as his transformation set in. His arms grew wider and longer, his fingers forming long claws. His red clothing grew black stripes and encircled his entire body. His head became triangular in shape and he grew two horn like protrusions from his head. His silvery hair grew even longer as his feet became more like bird talons. He grew a tail about the same shape as his arms but it only pointed down. When he had finished he had become like a giant wyvern, his body length from wings to tail measuring about seventeen feet. His body size not including them was about six feet tall. His body in flight resembled a letter "Y".
"This is my true forme" Yveltal said, laughing. "There isn't a chance in hell you can defeat me now in your pathetic human forme."
"Fine then" Ace said, a small grin on his face. "I'll transform and fight you on equal ground"
"Bring it on!" Yveltal roared.
Ace clenched his body and putting out a lot more energy than before. He forced his energy levels higher and higher. After a few seconds he gave a DBZ style yell and his body started to change. Unlike Yveltal's, however, Ace's was a much smaller transformation (meaning his body didn't grow huge like Yveltal's). His black jacket and pants grew even darker (somehow). His red scarf turned the color of blood and solidified. It stuck up in jagged points around Ace's neck with a longer point in front of his mouth. In the end it resembled a lower jaw, the points being the teeth.
Ace preferred to wear the scarf and quite liked how it became a "frickin' awesome armor piece that looked like a mouth". That wasn't the only reason he wore it, though. Shadow knew the real reason that he wore it: she had given it to him for Christmas one year. He refused to take it off, except to sleep or wash it. It had even become part of his transformation.
Ace's whole body started to become less and less solid, becoming more and more like a shadow. His body widened in his chest area and his arms sort of became a little thinner. His fingers joined to become three large claws, while his legs became more like stilts, thinning out at the bottom. His hair turned from pitch black to dark white, becoming longer and flowing like a cape from the massive amount of energy he was putting out. His eyes got larger and turned icy cobalt in color. He grew shadow like cloth from his shoulders that flowed like his hair. He grew a sort of skirt in his midsection (he refused to refer to it as a skirt). His tail grew out from the back of his body. It more resembled a wide long shadow about one foot in width and about three feet long.
When Ace had completed his transformation he stood facing Yveltal. After his transformation Ace had remained at about six feet tall, the same size as Yveltal.
"This will be interesting" Yveltal said, preparing himself for the fight.
"Yes it will" Ace said, his voice closer to a demon's than before.
The two of them lunged at each other, each throwing a multitude of punches and kicks at each other. Ace had the upper hand, his arms and legs being a more average size.
"That was very good." Yveltal said. "But it ends here"
Yveltal charged up an enormous amount of energy. Ace braced himself for a punch or physical attack. Instead what he got was a huge surprise.
"Oblivion Wing!" Yveltal shouted, firing a large laser like beam at Ace. It struck Ace right in the chest. Chopper, Conner, Mira, and Shadow watched as it pierced through Ace's body like a knife to butter. Ace dropped to his knees, forcibly shifting to human forme and coughing up blood. Shadow gasped in silent horror from behind her Protect shield. Yveltal laughed at his opponent's struggle to stand.
At the Hall of Origins
"Oh no" Arcey jolted to a straight up sitting position.
"What?" Mewtwo asked, also feeling that one of the massive energy sources had instantly stopped.
"Ace is severely injured." Arcey said, a grave expression on her face. "I need to retrieve him."
"Your speed" Mewtwo said.
Back to Ace
"This…" Ace struggled, both from the blood in his lungs and from his consciousness failing him. "Isn't over"
Yveltal, shifting out of Poke-forme, walked over to Shadow and picked her up bodily. After he touched his fingers to her forehead, knocking her unconscious, he slung her over his shoulder. He turned to Ace who had actually stood up, despite the blood pouring out of the hole in his body.
"I'll be taking this now" he said, referring to Shadow. "She'll make a lovely bride"
"You bastard!"Ace shouted. "You'll pay for this!"
Yveltal only smirked and carried off his prisoner through a portal he summoned. Ace stood there for about thirty seconds before he screamed in pure rage at the air itself. Chopper, Conner, and Mira simply stared at him, wondering just what he was going to do next. As they expected, Ace dropped to his knees and collapsed from blood loss. Chopper got up first and started applying pressure to Ace's wound, trying in vain to stop the bleeding. This was in vain because there was a large amount of blood pooling around Ace's body.
"Can we save him?" Mira asked, anxious for the fate of her new friend.
"I don't think so." Chopper said. "He's lost too much blood and he overexerted himself to try and stop Yveltal. I don't think he'll make it."
At that moment a portal opened up with a loud thunderclap. Conner and Mira huddled together, scared that Yveltal had returned. However, what stepped out of the portal was someone they didn't expect, but were glad for the appearance of anyway.
"Where is Ace?" Arcey asked, her white hair flowing in the suction of the portal. Chopper looked down at Ace's body, prompting Arcey to look at it as well.
"Oh my me!" she gasped. "What the hell happened to him?!"
"He was attacked by Yveltal" Chopper said, explaining the events to Arcey. "By an attack called Oblivion Wing"
"No!" Arcey said, her eyes going wide. "Don't tell me he tried to fight on after that."
"He stood up to fight again" Chopper said, a little nervous. "We didn't think anyone could survive being hit by one of those things."
"That stupid f&%$ing moron!" Arcey shouted. To Chopper she said: "If one trains hard enough he could withstand it. I had told Ace, however, to not try to fight on after that point however."
"Well, he seemed pretty pissed that Yveltal took Shadow" Mira chimed in. Arcey's eyes grew wide as she took in this new information.
"That explains his energy spike" Arcey said. "I need to get him to the medical area."
"How do we get out of here?" Mira asked (remember she had been teleported there and hadn't gone down into the basement).
"I'll have to take you with me" Arcey said. "I need to fill you in on some details, as you are now a part of this. I also need to check you over for dark infection."
"Will it hurt?" Conner asked.
"Maybe not" Arcey said. "I've never done this before" Conner went pale.
"Oh well." Arcey said. "Now's the perfect time to find out." She dragged the screaming Conner, along with Chopper and Mira, into the portal.
In the medical bay
"Where am I?" Ace thought, opening his eyes. He scanned his surroundings.
"Oh" he realized. "I'm in the medical bay" He tried to sit up, but was hampered by a sharp pain in his chest.
"Damn Oblivion Wing" Ace cursed, fighting the pain to sit up, but his endeavor was cut short.
"Ace, stay on the bed!" shouted his cousin May, who ran in with her twin sister Sapphire. May ran up to Ace, her blonde-brown hair waving in her face. Sapphire leaned against the wall, brushing her sapphire blue hair out of her eyes. May looked back at her sister who refused to do anything to help her restrain their cousin, who would definitely go after Shadow if he could leave his bed.
"Help me dammit!" May shouted at her younger sister, who gave her a scoffing look.
"Do you remember the last time I tried to restrain him?" Sapphire said, a smirk on her face. "He almost broke my arms. And he would have if Shadow hadn't come up and punched him in the face."
"Just help me!" May shouted, fighting what was clearly a losing battle. Ace pushed her off of him (gently) and stood up shakily. Sapphire stood in front of him to stop him from reaching the door. Ace simply ignored her and kept walking. Sapphire braced herself and dug her feet into the ground. Ace kept walking, Sapphire only succeeding in gaining a little friction on the floor. May tried to employ her psychic powers to aid Sapphire, but Ace simply kept walking.
"Assistance required in the medical bay!" May sent a telepathic message to anyone in the area. "Patient escaping! Assistance required! I repeat! Assistance required!"
Mewtwo, being the closest, arrived first. Surveying the situation, he decided the best option was to shift out of human forme and use his immense psychic powers to try to return Ace to the medical bay.
"Arcey!" Ace began to shout. "Arcey, we need to talk!"
May, Sapphire and Mewtwo pushed on Ace as hard as they could, both physically and psychically, but Ace still pushed forward, seemingly unaffected. Dialga arrived next and gasped at the scene. While she was figuring out what to do Cela (Celebi) and Manaphy arrived. The three of them quickly put their best efforts into trying to force Ace back to the medical room. But the best they could do was slow Ace down a little.
"When Ace trained me I realized he was strong" Cela said, straining against her tutor's pure physical strength. "But I never realized he was this strong!"
"Trust me." Dialga said. "He's injured so we have a slight advantage, but this is nowhere near his full power"
"If he was at full power and uninjured." Manaphy chimed in. Manaphy was very good at analysis and could determine a situation just by looking at it. "Then it would be no point fighting him. We would be knocked out in an instant. His rage is keeping him going here though. If he was calm then we could restrain him."
"Why's he so mad?" Sapphire asked.
"I heard Yveltal took Shadow" May said. "That would get Ace pretty mad."
"What's all the commotion!?" Arcey bellowed, emerging from her room, her shirt a little bit unbuttoned. "I am trying to have se—I mean a meeting—with Giratina! What could be so important that you would interrupt that?!"
Arcey surveyed the situation and realized it would be best if she aided in the situation. Ace took notice of her and shouted in her direction.
"Arcey! We need to talk!"
"Okay" she said. "Just return to the medical room with them and we'll talk."
"NOW!" Ace said, his eyes turning blood red. It was at this point that Arcey realized that she shouldn't push him too far. She told the other legendaries to go back to what they were doing and she would deal with Ace.
"But what if he leaves?" Sapphire asked. "He could get hurt."
"Just go back to work" Arcey said. "I'll have a talk with him."
The others went back to their previous activities. Arcey put her arm around Ace's shoulder. Ace pushed it off, much to Arcey's shock.
"I know what you were just doing" Ace said. "No offense, but I'll not have your arm on my shoulder."
"Fair enough" Arcey said. "I need to talk to you about something anyway. I can't have the others know about it."
"What is it?" Ace asked. Anything she only told him was definitely important.
"Eon knows." Arcey explained. "I had her take your friend Kiria to a distant place for reasons I'll explain to you later."
"What is that important?" Ace said, suspicious of why Arcey only told her daughter and not anyone else, such as Giratina.
"Ace what I'm about to say is Class Omega importance." Arcey said, her tone as serious as it could possibly be. Ace's eyes widened slightly. Class Omega importance was reserved for the most severe of occasions. In fact, since Ace first met Arcey there had been only seven things classified as Class Omega importance. The most prominent one on Earth that Ace could remember, other than Yveltal, was…
"Ace" Arcey said repeating herself. Ace braced himself for something truly horrible. The next three words that Arcey spoke to Ace not only sent shivers down his spine, but also caused him to shake a little.
"He has escaped"
With Chopper, Mira, and Conner
"So how do you think Ace is holding up?" Conner asked his friend.
"I don't know" Mira said. "But considering what I saw of him earlier, I think he'll pull through."
"I hope he does" Chopper said. "I can't wait to have another fight with him."
"You do realize you'll get your ass handed to you like last time?" Conner pointed out.
"Yeah, but" Chopper said, a gleam in his eye. "That was one of the best fights I've ever had. Probably the best. I always thought I would beat him when I kept getting stronger. I had failed to take into account the fact that he hadn't shifted though."
"I wonder what would've happened if we hadn't used Protect to shield ourselves" Mira said.
"We'd have gotten nightmares" Conner said. "Ace wouldn't have done it intentionally, but his incredibly powerful aura would have given us all nightmares."
"What about Shadow?" Mira asked. "She didn't use Protect except near the end of the transformation"
"She's probably immune" Chopper reasoned. "Having been around him for so long"
"That makes sense" Conner agreed.
The next thing they heard were struggling pleas from inside of the medical hallway. They got up to the window to see Ace dragging behind him about five other legendaries.
"What are they doing?" Conner asked.
"I think they are trying to restrain him." Chopper said.
"Should we help?" Mira asked.
"Do you honestly think we could help the legendaries restrain their most powerful fighter?" Conner said.
"Good point." Mira said.
Later
"I need to talk to you three." Arcey said, coming into the room where she had told the three teens to wait.
"What is it, Miss Arceus?" Mira said, remembering her manners.
"I need to fill you in on some things regarding Ace and Shadow" Arcey said. "And please, call me Arcey. All of my Council calls me that. I will allow friends of my pupil to call me that."
"Ace is your pupil?" Chopper asked.
"Was" Arcey said, a small chuckle in her voice. "He kicked my ass long ago. He is the most powerful member of this council."
"Then Yveltal must be insanely strong." Conner realized.
"Yveltal beat Ace because his signature attack: Oblivion Wing." Arcey said, scoldingly. "That attack steals the soul of the target and uses it to restore the stamina of the user. It was an underhanded tactic."
"So Yveltal can just use that on Ace over and over again to keep beating him?" Chopper asked, worried for his rival.
"No" Arcey said gravely. "The attack is deadly, but it can only be used on a target once. Ace won't be beaten by that underhanded technique again."
"Well, that's a relief." Conner said.
"But can he beat Yveltal?" Mira asked.
"If both went to full power" Arcey started. "then Ace would obliterate Yveltal."
"Then why didn't he?" Chopper asked.
"Three reasons" Arcey explained. "The first is that he knew you three would be harmed by his enormous power. The second is that I placed seals in his body to prevent that ungodly power from emerging again. The third is that Shadow is sort of like his limiter. He won't do anything risky with her nearby."
"What so you mean again?" Conner asked.
"Ace has unleashed his full power once before" Arcey said, shuddering a little. "The entire planet was threatened by the full force of his power. But don't worry. He only unleashes it when fighting a substantial threat."
"That reminds me for whatever reason." Chopper said. "The girls were being taken in our school. Were Kiria and that orange haired girl that hangs with Ace taken?"
"No they weren't" Arcey said. "My daughter Eon took Kiria on a little skip day"
"They did what?" Conner asked.
"Here let me start at the beginning" Arcey started to tell a story.
With Eon and Kiria -early that morning
She woke up, her bright orange hair all in her face. She spit it out and got dressed. Today was the day she would finally skip and go do something fun. She got out her favorite orange shirt and light orange pants. She got out her lightish-yellow orange scarf and tied it around her neck. It always hung down in front of her chest like a mane or beard. She wished Ace and Shadow were coming, but her mother wouldn't let them. She wished she didn't have to skip school just to have a fun day, but by her mother she would if she had to.
"Eon" she heard her name called. Speak of the devil. Or god in this case.
"Eon" Arcey said, entering Eon's room. "I have a job for you."
"What is it?" Eon asked, hoping it wouldn't interfere with her day of fun.
"I want you to take your friend Kiria with you on your skip day" Arcey said.
"Why?" Eon asked. "Not that I don't like Kiria or anything. It's just that you don't really know her. Why would you want me to take her?"
"Eon" Arcey said very seriously, sitting down and twiddling her thumbs. "As God there are some things that I must keep completely secret, even from the rest of the Council. I have my reasons for asking you to take her, but I cannot reveal them as of yet."
"Okay" Eon said, realizing this was the only answer she would get from her mother. "I'll take her."
Eon then left to go grab her friend to take her on a fun day of shopping and food. Arcey smiled as she watched her daughter leave the Hall of Origins. She laughed as she remembered Eon and Ace trying to get her to rename it the "Hall of Justice" after they watched some episodes of Super Friends. She realized that her daughter and her friends that lived in the Hall were growing up. They weren't children anymore. Some of them acted like children, but they were still growing up all the same. It wouldn't be long before they would all be gone on their own to guard individual regions. A tear slid down her cheek as she thought about it. Some of them she wouldn't see again. Thoughts of Latios and Lugia plagued her as she pushed them out of her mind.
Back to the present
"So how does that help us know where Eon and Kiria are?" Conner asked.
"Why do you want to know where we are?" a voice came from the door. The voice in question belonged to Eon, who had just returned with Kiria from a fun day. Eon walked over to the window and looked through it.
"What the hell are they doing with Ace?" she said, noting the power struggle going on between Ace and about seven other legendaries.
"May wants him to rest" Arcey said. "Ace wants to go after Shadow."
"Where's Shadow?" Eon said, slight panic entering her voice.
"Yveltal kidnapped her." Arcey said. "Ace is trying to leave now to get her back even though he's wounded."
"Ace was wounded!?" Eon and Kiria both shouted at the same time.
"He was hit by an Oblivion Wing" Arcey explained. "He's recovering remarkably fast, but May still wants him to rest."
"I'm going to help him" Eon said, starting to open the door.
"You'll do no such thing." Arcey almost shouted at her daughter. The entire room looked at her in shock.
"And why not?" Eon challenged, anger decorating her face like war paint.
"Because this is Ace's fight" Arcey said. "He needs to do this himself."
"Why?!" Eon shouted. "Why should I let him do this alone?! He could die!"
"He will go to great lengths to rescue Shadow." Arcey said. "At this point you would be a burden to him."
"Fine" Eon said, realizing she would get no better reason. "I'll stay with Kiria"
"So how is Ace doing?" Kiria asked politely, trying to change the subject.
"He's doing great" Arcey said, her tone almost turning completely gentle. Eon noticed this as well as her facial expressions. Something was up with this Riolu girl. Ace had said so on the first day of school. But what could it be? What did it have to do with her mother? Eon decided that she would have Ace help her figure that one later. Right now she decided to get some sleep.
"So should I tell them to let Ace go?" Eon said.
"Trust me." Arcey said. "They'll let him go in a minute."
Almost as if on cue, a series of crashes was heard. Eon ran to the window and looked out to see Ace finish shaking off his restrainers, walking toward the exit of the Hall. Eon stood there, her mouth agape, realizing just how tough and powerful her friendly rival really was.
"If he could do that with seven of our most powerful members while in human forme" Eon thought. "Then how royally f&%#ed is Yveltal?"
Eon then remembered what her mother had told her in secret this morning. About him. About how he had escaped. She knew that he would try for some revenge against his imprisoners. Eon hoped that Ace could keep Shadow from his evil clutches. She knew that if Ace was there, then Shadow would be safe from him. But could Ace make it to Shadow in time to save her from him? She prayed to her mother that he would.
With Ace
Ace walked outside of the Hall of Origins, trying to sense Shadow's aura to give him a better bearing on where his oldest and closest friend was. As he exited the Hall he noticed Mina building a fire on a ledge. Curious, Ace walked over the fire and sat down, thinking a little conversation with the young psychic would give him some clarity and leads.
"What are you doing Mina?" Ace asked, taking a look at what Mina was throwing into the fire. It was a comic book. A manga to be more specific. Ace looked at the cover: Yuri Fun. The cover had two girls on it. Ace blushed as Mina realized he had seen the cover. She snatched the manga away from him, quickly throwing it into the fire.
"NO!" she shouted. "Don't look at it!"
"Bwahahahaha!" Ace burst out laughing. "You bought a yuri! Do you even know what that is?"
"Yes" Mina said, blushing blood red. "Dialga told me"
"Hahaha!" Ace laughed. "You read it before that didn't you?"
"Yes" Mina said, her face now redder than a Scizor's poke-forme armor.
"It's okay" Ace said. "Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. You just have to learn from them."
"Shouldn't you be trying to find Shadow?" Mina said, an unamused look on her face.
"Oh shit!" Ace realized. "I do! I hope she's okay until I get there!"
Ace took off flying in the direction he thought he sensed Shadow in. Mina looked at him and shook her head.
"That boy will never truly understand his true feelings for her" Mina said in a rare episode of philosophical insight.
In an unknown location
She awoke to a strange sensation in her arms and wrists. As she tried to move them to see why the sensation was happening, she found she couldn't. She awoke with a start, realizing that her arms had been chained up on a wall. She tried to pull them off, but the chains were too strong. She started to panic and yank the chains with all the force she could muster. But with the previous events of the day (or however long she had been there, she couldn't tell) she couldn't pull enough force together to even crack the chains. She grunted as she pulled one last time, this time realizing two things:
The first was that she no longer had the seal holding her mouth shut. Now she could talk and move her lips again.
The second was that this place looked altogether too familiar to her. She strained her memory to find the place in her mind. Coming up with nothing she resigned herself to wait until she gained enough strength to break her chains. However, seeing as she was chained standing up, she saw that not happening for quite a while.
Suddenly she heard a door open nearby. Turning her head toward the sound she saw her captor enter the room she was sealed in. He walked up to her with a smirk on his face.
"What's wrong, my dear?" Yveltal asked with a mock hurt in his voice. "Are the chains too tight?"
"Go f#%& yourself!" Shadow said, hate blazing in her eyes.
"Now that's no way to treat your future groom" Yveltal said, stroking her chin. Shadow jerked her head away, hitting it on the wall in the process.
"He'll come for me you know" Shadow proclaimed boldly.
"And how will he find you even if he makes it here?" Yveltal asked.
"You won't beat him again!" Shadow said angrily. "Your dirty, underhanded trick only works once!"
"Maybe so" said Yveltal. "But I know he has all those seals in his body so he can't reach his ungodly potential."
"He'll stop you" Shadow said, a tear starting to form in her eye. "And he'll save me too."
"Well, I've got a little surprise for you." Yveltal said, chuckling a little. "I recently broke my old friend out of prison. You wouldn't know him, but we've known each other for a long time."
Shadow cringed at this. Someone he knew from a long time ago? That was in prison? Who could that be? At that moment a voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Now, now my dear. That's not any way to treat someone who could easily rape you and slaughter you where you stand."
Shadow turned the palest shade of pale and started shaking like a leaf in the wind as she recognized the owner of that voice. He was feared by many, in some ways even more than Yveltal. The man who was responsible for almost as many deaths in less time. The one man that every individual and even the Legendaries are taught to fear. The man known only by the codename he used to identify himself: Giovanni.
To be continued