Chapter Twenty One: Legend's Night Out Part One: References
Inside Ace's mind
"Damn, that was awesome." Darkrai congratulated the person who he shared a body with, something he didn't do much (congratulating, not sharing a body- he did that a lot—remember the rituals the Kyuryoon preformed-ch. 19) "Not even I would have done that. You've got potential to be great, kid."
"You know that it was Nightmare." Ace said, by now used to Darkrai, who stopped being so aggressive once he watched Ace show his aggressiveness.
"But he's a part of you" Darkrai said, confused as to why Ace wasn't owning up to his actions like normal.
"I wouldn't have used his power" Ace said harshly, even surprising Darkrai. "if it wasn't for that damn Master Ball! I had to use his power to escape that thing and what you could pull from me wasn't going to be enough."
"Why not let me use his power?" Darkrai asked, a small chuckle escaping his lips.
"One" Ace said, catching the joke. "I'm not stupid. I'm not giving you that much power. Two: it only works for me, so you can't access it. It must be that it's attached to my energy signature and not yours, so it only lets me use it. Also, you're already Dark enough. If you got any darker, you'd be invisible.
"Touché" Darkrai said, chuckling a bit. "You know you used to be so much more afraid of me before."
"I was six" Ace said. "And you just started using violence. I got used to it over time and now I'm not even phased. Besides, you can't threaten me with much anymore since I learned to control my own mind"
"Yes" Darkrai said. "You're the most formidable opponent I've ever faced. If I went up against you in the physical plane, I think it could either way."
"I would love to have a physical fight with you" Ace said. "To see which of us is stronger, but the confines of my mind aren't the proper place for it"
"Right" Darkrai said, realizing that his test would have to wait.
"Oh, Hunter" he said as he left Ace's consciousness to move to his own corner of Ace's mind. "I do believe you'll enjoy the surprise waiting for you when you wake up."
"I know it's not from you" Ace said, an indifferent look on his face.
"It's not" Darkrai's voice said, chuckling a little. "You're right. But I'm sure you'll enjoy it all the more when you see what it is."
Ace sighed. "That guy" he thought. "is a pain in the ass to deal with all the time"
"What about me?" a very familiar voice asked as its source entered the room, her white clothes standing out a bit against the darker environment of Ace's mind (at least this portion).
"You're all right." Ace said. "Welcome to my section of the mind that I inhabit."
"It's a lovely mind." Shadow said.
"Are you kidding?!" Ace said, seeing through what she said. "It looks like a goth's house. How about you and me go to a nicer section."
"All right" Shadow said, giggling. "Lead the way."
The two of them went to a nicer section of Ace's mind and sat and talked until a loudass voice shot them awake, sending Shadow's consciousness into her body.
Ace's room
Ace woke up from his battle with Cyrus and the twins realizing two things. The first was that Shadow was in his bed and probably had been for the past few hours. The second thing he realized was that he was holding her, which had probably happened while he was dreaming.
The stranger one, however, was the fact that Shadow was in his bed. He shrugged it off because she stirred from the Hyper Voice Arcey sent their way.
"Good morning, Ace!" Maura called cheerfully, already out of bed and dressed.
"Morning, Ace" Shadow said, waking up and looking up at her best friend.
"Morning Shadow" Ace said, sitting up.
Mewtwo and Palkia happened to be walking past Ace's open door when they looked in to see Ace and Shadow in Ace's bed together.
"Hey, Ace" Palkia called. "Nice!"
"What are you talking about?" Ace asked, confused as to what the Space Pokémon meant.
"You and Shadow getting it on." Mewtwo said, chuckling. "Nice"
"What?" Ace asked again, still not understanding. Then it hit him and Shadow.
"Um—um—we weren't…" they both started to say, their faces red from embarrassment before Mewtwo cut him off.
"We know" he said, holding up a hand. "For one thing, you're both fully clothed. Secondly, we saw Shadow bring you in here unconscious and put you to bed before joining you."
"What about in his mind?" Palkia asked, laughing a little.
"I doubt it" Mewtwo said. "Darkrai is inside of Ace's mind, so I don't think they'd do something like that with the chance of him watching."
"Oh, leave them alone, you two" Melody said as she walked by to eat breakfast. (Melody was accepted into the Council a while back (ch. 7) and moved in shortly after the events of chapter 17 because she wanted to finish out that month's rent.) "If he says he didn't do it, he didn't do it."
"Besides" Melody said, looking at Mewtwo with a slight grin. "Didn't you and Genny have some "fun" last night?"
Now it was Mewtwo's turn to be embarrassed.
"Well, yes, but…" he started, but Melody cut him off.
"And Palkia" she continued. "I overheard you speak to Mewtwo about you and Dialga last night."
"Yep" Palkia said with a look of pride on his face. "I'm willing to bet she'll have a little trouble walking today."
"Considering she's a Steel type" Mewtwo said jokingly. "I'm surprised that you're not having trouble walking."
"I'm just really durable." Palkia said, bragging.
"Either that or you didn't really "take the plunge"." Mewtwo said, a smile on his lips.
"At least I didn't ruin the couch" Palkia said, getting in Mewtwo's face.
"I told you never to speak of that!" Mewtwo growled, getting closer to Palkia, who was backing slowly away. Mewtwo wasn't known as the Most Powerful Psychic (next to Shadow and Bianca (Mega Evolved) that is) for nothing; his reputation was intimidating, even among other members of the Council (not as intimidating as the Unholy Trinity, but still).
Palkia decided not to say anything more for fear of getting his head punched.
"Guys, shut the F #$ up!" Ace and Shadow shouted, launching Dark Ball and Moonblast on the word F #$ respectively. The blasts hit, causing super effective damage to Mewtwo and Palkia and causing them to hit the wall.
Ace and Shadow got out of bed, not having to get dressed (they were already dressed from before). They walked to the breakfast table and sat down.
At the breakfast table
The legendaries all sat down to breakfast, all of them knowing that they were going to get a lecture of some sort.
Instead, however, Arcey stood up and began talking as usual, but with a different idea in mind.
"I've decided that we need a girl's night out." She said abruptly. Every legendary in the Hall looked at her with confusion, expecting some blabbing on about their training, but this was completely unexpected.
"I'm new here" Melody leaned over and whispered to Shadow, who was on her left. "so I don't know what's going on. Is this normal?"
"No, actually" Shadow said, a confused and suspicious look on her face. "this is new. Normally we get lectured about how we don't train enough. I've never once heard her say anything about this."
"Who the hell are you?!" Ace and Eon shouted. "And what the hell have you done with Arcey/my mom?!"
"I'm completely sane" Arcey said. "And I'm the original. I've realized that I might be overworking the fact I'm overtraining some of you. I think we could use a night of rest. So after school today, we'll have a girl's night out."
"What about the guys?" Entei asked, running a hand through his hair.
"You guys can do whatever." Arcey said. "I'm just taking the girls to the mall for some fun."
"Pass!" Eon and Dialga shouted, getting a confused look from Melody.
"The last time Arcey took us to the mall" Shadow explained. "We only went to the girly things and stores. Eon, Ace, all the boys, and Dialga were bored when we walked into the nail salon. Once we reached the massage clinic, they up and left us."
"Arcey brought the boys to the nail salon?" Melody asked, giggling.
"She quickly realized that boys liked different things than girls." Shadow said, also giggling. "Luckily, Giratina was with us and took the boys to go have their own fun (along with Dialga and Eon)."
"So, what would the boys do while we're away?" Melody asked.
"Probably game" Shadow whispered. "Or hang with Giratina. It depends on what they feel like doing."
"You can't pass." Arcey said, addressing Eon and Dialga. "I say you will go with us"
"Like f #$ we will." The two of them shouted back, prompting Arcey to launch Judgements at them, which they had both trained to endure (Eon just tanked it).
"I can't go" May said. "I promised an old friend that I'd meet him and a couple of his buddies for a visit."
"Fine" Arcey said. "Only because you had a prior commitment."
'I'll stay here too" Melody said, causing Arcey to look at her.
"Why?" Arcey asked, being a little softer with the newest member of the Council.
"Because I want to hang with the guys" Melody said. "They usually have my kind of fun."
"Are you sure?" Arcey asked. Giratina (who was sitting next to her) shrugged his shoulders.
"We're not going to do anything that a girl would be offended by." He said. He then looked at Entei with a glare, his voice growling. "And that means no strippers this time."
"What does he mean 'this time'?" Melody asked Shadow.
"The last time we did one of these things" Shadow said. "Entei invited some strippers over. Giratina took one look at them and sent them to the Distortion World. Entei got his ass kicked by Eon and Dialga, who had stayed with the guys. The way Ace told it was hilarious."
"I'll bet" Melody said chuckling a little.
"So then" Arcey said, looking at Giratina. "What would you do?"
"Maybe Battle Royale: Blood Edition" Giratina said, a toothy grin on his face and his fist in the air.
At this all the boys, along with Eon and Dialga cheered loudly. Ace and Eon jumped up on the table and pumped their fists in the air while making testosterone filled sounds before proceeding to engage in a brawl of their own.
"Stop it you two!" Arcey shouted at the two brawlers, who continued to wail on each other. Giratina finally stood up and grabbed them by the shirts and pulled them up so their ears were close to his mouth (this isn't saying Giratina is stronger, but they're not struggling to break free).
"Listen, you two" he whispered in a voice so quiet only the two of them could hear it. "If you keep this up, then you'll have to be punished. I'd hate to ban you from the Battle Royale: Blood Edition, but if you keep this up, then Team Black Flames will have to be disqualified."
When he said that, Ace and Eon got looks of pure fear on their faces that not even Zygarde could have produced. Melody's jaw dropped at the fact that Giratina could have said something to make them that scared.
"What did he tell them?" she asked Shadow, a little fear in her voice from the fact that the two bravest and most reckless people she knew could be afraid of a few words.
"I didn't hear" Shadow said. "But I'm willing to bet that he told them he'd disqualify them from the Battle Royale: Blood Edition if they didn't settle down."
"That's enough to scare them that much?!" Melody exclaimed, clearly shocked.
"Trust me" Shadow said. "You've never seen a Battle Royale with us involved. They're, as Ace or Eon would describe, pure awesomeness and godly pleasure all rolled into one."
"That cool?" Melody asked.
"Yep." Shadow said. "Ace and Eon are the reigning champs. The last time Team Catastrox came and got smashed. I sometimes join in for a great time. I think I will this time too."
"Oh, I think I'm gonna love this group." Melody said. "Wait, Team Catastrox? As in that nightmare story that we tell kids to scare them. The one about that Pokémon myth that is essentially the devil himself times a thousand?"
"Yes" Shadow said. "Yes, you will. And yes, that Catastrox. He's just a myth but that was Giratina and Mewtwo's team."
"Before you can get to your testosterone bloodbath" Arcey said, clearing her throat. "Ace, Eon, Melody, and Shadow have to finish school today first."
"Awww" everyone groaned. "Do we have to?"
"We can skip one day" Ace and Eon said.
"Nope" Arcey said. "Besides Giratina only does the Battle Royale at night, so you'd be past school hours anyway."
"Fine" Ace and Eon groaned.
"Besides" Arcey said. "I'm not taking the girls out until later tonight, so you can't have your 'pure awesomeness and godly ecstasy all rolled into one' until then anyway"
"Whatever" the two brawlers said, going back to their seats.
"Now that that's out of the way." Arcey said, turning to Ace, Eon Shadow, and Melody. "You four. Get to school."
"But first" Arcey said, her tone serious. "Xerneas has been captured by Lysandre. Prepare for recon and rescue tomorrow."
"Fine" the four of them said, heading out the door. The other legendaries went off to do something to pass the time.
"Ace, wait." Arcey said. "I'll give you your answers now."
Ace stood in front of Arcey.
"What are they?" Ace asked.
"Listen carefully" Arcey said as she told him what he wanted to know. When Ace had gotten what he wanted, he ran to catch up with his friends, thanking Arcey as he left.
Arcey smiled and looked at Giratina.
"We did a good job raising these kids, didn't we?" she asked.
"Are you kidding me?!" Giratina exclaimed. "You tried to hook all of them up! I noticed that Palkia had a limp this morning. Dialga had one, but it was a very small one. What does that make you think they did?!"
"Got into a fight" Arcey suggested.
"They've been in fights before." Giratina said. "And usually arms get broken. Remember the time Ace and Palkia took her 'Gears of Time'?"
"Yes" Arcey said flashing back.
Flashback- eight years ago
Sapphire and her little group of friends raced up the tower in an attempt to stop Dialga's rampage after losing her 'Gears of Time' or her favorite pair of earrings that happened to resemble gears. Her little group was her, a Munchlax boy, a Charmeleon boy, and a Riolu girl (not Kiria). Dialga was at the top, pissed off so much that part of her was turning orange. Ace and Palkia had nicknamed this level of anger, Primal Mode (not to be confused with Primal Reversion) due to the intense level of anger and fighting prowess 'unlocked' during the duration of it.
"Are you sure we can calm Dialga down?" the Riolu, Grace, asked, a little nervous to take on the Time Goddess herself.
"It's fine" Sapphire assured her. "Dialga's a good friend of mine. Besides, she's our age, so our experience is on a similar level. My sister's trying to fix her from where she is, but we're having problems with that."
"But what if we have to fight Dialga?" the Charmeleon, Char, asked.
"Let me handle her." Sapphire said, shaking her blond hair out of her eyes.
The four of them made it to the top of the tower, where Dialga was standing, shouting in anger, her aura purely visible.
Sapphire simply walked over to the Time Goddess and bitch slapped her, causing her to flinch.
"What the hell was that for!?" Dialga shouted at Sapphire, her anger levels to a normal area.
"You were in Primal Mode again." Sapphire said.
"Oh" Dialga said. "Sorry."
"It's fine." Sapphire said. "We found the Gears."
"You did?" Dialga almost squealed (she really, really loved those earrings). Sapphire handed over the earrings, which glowed green with a blue snowflake pattern in the middle. Dialga took them and put them in their case, returning to the Hall.
"So what do we do now?" the Munchlax, Chompers (it was a nickname) asked.
"I guess we—" Sapphire started to say before Palkia teleported into the area, laughing his ass off.
"Boy, Dialga, you should've seen the look on your face when we took your earrings." He laughed out loud (he had his eyes closed).
He opened his eyes to see Sapphire and her group of friends, but no Dialga.
"So it was you." Sapphire said, getting menacingly closer to Palkia, who got a look of fear on his face.
"Um… I.. uhhh" Palkia stuttered. "Ace. A little help here."
Ace appeared from the shadows that were on the floor, an irritated look on his face.
"What is it Palkia?" he asked. "I told you not to tell Dialga we pranked her."
Ace noticed Sapphire at this point, who was really pissed off that her cousin had done this.
"All three of you" she whispered to her friends. "Get a Brick Break ready and wait for my command."
"Allright" the three friends said, preparing the Fighting Type moves. Sapphire walked up to Ace and grabbed him from behind on his arms. Ace struggled lightly, Sapphire's friends running up to him with their moves ready.
At that moment May appeared, ready to help calm Dialga immediately after she had prepared a powerful Hypnosis (one strong enough to knock out 'Primal'Dialga), just in time to watch Ace jerk his arm, catching Sapphire's in the motion and producing a sickening snap.
Present time
"Yeah I remember" Arcey said. "That was the time Ace broke Sapphire's arm"
"Yeah" Giratina said, remembering that event. "That was unpleasant."
"I remember that he apologized to his cousin like twenty times." Arcey said, still in the past.
"I'm pretty sure they had a little fun last night." Giratina said, bringing Arcey back to the present.
"As long as they don't ruin my couch." Arcey said
"Get over the damn couch!" Giratina shouted.
"Would you want to sit on it?" Arcey asked.
"We 'used' that couch before" Giratina said. "And you sat on it just fine."
"That's different." Arcey said.
"Not really" Giratina said, grabbing his love interest in a side hug. "But, yes you did a good job raising them."
"You helped" Arcey said."
"Not that much" Giratina said.
"You're like a father to them" Arcey said.
"I guess" Giratina said, chuckling. "I guess."
Pokémorph high-hallway
"So, what's the Battle Royale like?" Melody asked Ace as they walked down the hall of their school on the way to their first class.
"Sorry" Ace said. "First rule of Battle Royale: Ya don't talk about Battle Royale. Besides, you're staying home with us guys and Eon and Dialga. You'll find out firsthand what it's like."
"Okay" Melody said, satisfied with his answer.
Shadow noticed something out of the corner of her eye. She looked over to see a girl at her locker. Several students walked up to her and offered to shake her hand to greet her, but she politely declined their offers.
"What's up with her?" Ace asked, noticing the girl. "Something's familiar about her."
The four of them walked over to the girl to introduce themselves.
The girl's perspective-1st person
Sigh. Great. Another person that wants to 'welcome me to our "great" school'. Why don't people get that I just want to be left alone. This jerk walked up to me, trying to 'welcome' me to this school. But when he put his hand out to have me shake it, I politely refused like my mother told me. He didn't quite get why and I didn't want to tell him. The last thing I need is to be labeled a monster. My mother always told me that I should just keep my abilities under control, but it's so hard. Funny, I'll bet my brother never had this kind of trouble with his abilities. My mom always told me about him and his 'destiny'. She made it seem like he was so great.
But I must say: for all the time she told me about him, she would always say I was special too. She did say he was picked because usually the male is the one because it is a harsh process. I'll bet I could handle it, but she said that he couldn't handle it alone. There was another person with him that helped him get through it. My mother always told me that if it wasn't for that other person that my brother wouldn't have survived.
Four more people came my way. It seems that they want to introduce themselves. Woohoo. I guess I'll have to tell them what I tell everyone else. But the boy seems really familiar.
Normal POV
Ace and the rest of the group walked over to the girl, who seemed a little irritated to see them. Ace seemed to think she looked familiar.
The girl wore a tattered black dress that went down to her knees, but was lower in the back. It rippled like a living organism, even though there was no breeze. She wore black, shadowy leggings that seemed to be alive. Her shoes were raised (not heels, but platform) and were as black as her dress. She wore a necklace that had crimson, diamond shaped crystals on it and hung just below her collar bone and just above her breasts. She wore long black gloves that were of the same material as her dress and reached her shoulders. They twitched slightly as her irritation showed. Her skin was a little paler that most, but not really noticeable as an outstanding feature. Her face currently was showing an expression of irritation, but it was normally emotionless and almost cold. Her hair was white, the exact opposite shade of Ace's hair. Her hair was much longer than Ace's though, reaching down past her shoulders to her waist when it was let down. It was, however, behind her, flowing like in a breeze. The reason for this was because she was releasing a small bit of her power in order to cause the psychics of the approaching group (Ace and his friends) to wish to back away. Her eyes were ice blue and seemed to pierce one's soul, their looks cool and intimidating.
When Ace and his friends reached her, she tensed up a little. She was reading Ace's aura, his Dark powers prevalent.
"What do you want?" She said, growling a little. "And if you say 'welcome to this school. We're glad you're here' I will break your arm."
"Interesting" said Ace. "But we're not here to say that. We're here to introduce ourselves."
"I'm Ace" he said, extending his hand towards the girl."
"I don't shake hands" she said, turning away. If one looked at her face, they would see a small look of hurt on it.
"I'm immune to nightmares." Ace said plainly, shocking the girl, and causing her to look at him.
"What?" she asked, unsure what she had just heard.
"Your nightmare powers won't affect me or Shadow here" Ace said, pointing to Shadow.
"Do you know what I am?!" She said, raising her voice. "Everyone at my previous school hates or fears me for being a monster, something I'm not."
"I am a monster." Ace said. "I'm a Darkrai as well. I know just what it means to hold back a monster inside of you."
The girl grabbed Ace's hand to find that he was indeed unaffected by her nightmares.
"I'm surprised" she said. "Even holding back with fifty percent of my power, I still give people nightmares."
"I use nine tenths" Ace said, causing the girl's jaw to drop.
"You must have a real monster inside of you" the girl said. "What's your name?"
"My name is Ace." Ace said. He then pointed at Shadow, Eon and Melody. "And this is Shadow, Eon, and Melody. And yes I do."
"My names Darkora." The girl, Darkora, said.
"Funny" Ace said. "That was my mother's name."
"Mine too" Darkora said. She was going to say something else when a girl dressed in green ran up to Ace.
"Ace" the greed clad girl, Cela, said. "Can you help me find Jirachi? He went after May and I can't track her."
"On it" Ace said to Cela. He turned to Dakrora. "Excuse me."
He used the shadows to send himself to Jirachi's location.
"He can use Shadow Force?" Darkora asked.
"Yep" Eon said. "Trained by the Death God himself."
"Cool" Darkora said.
With May
"It's great that you could come out here and hang with us May." Ash, May's best friend, said, grabbing a soda. Ash had also brought his friend Brock and Brock's cousin, Max, along, seeing as how they were two more of May's childhood friends.
"Yeah" May said, grabbing herself a soda. "Arcey let me. I'm not missing anything though. It's just a girl's night out. Those are horrible."
"I know" Ash said before Brock reminded him that he'd never actually been on a girl's night out (this Ash has about the same intelligence level as the one from the anime).
"So how have you guys been?" May asked, wanting to catch up with people she hadn't seen in a while.
"Great" Max started to say before an object that looked like a star wrapped in a blanket fell to the ground in front of them.
"What is that?" Brock asked, walking over to it. He picked it up, only to have it unwrap to reveal a small pokéforme Jirachi (he liked his pokéforme a lot). The Wish Maker woke up (he'd had a nap on his journey) and stretched. He flew around the room, surveying it.
"That's Jirachi" May explained. "He can grant small wishes."
"I wish for girls" Brock said. "Lots and lots of girls."
May smacked him across the face, telling Jirachi to ignore that wish.
"Can you give us candy?" Max asked, his stomach growling. May's eyes widened the second she heard the word candy.
"Candy?" Jirachi asked, his eyes also widening (but for a different reason). "Yes, let's have candy!"
Jirachi waved his hand, causing tons of candy to fall from a portal in the ceiling. When candy stopped falling, there was three feet of candy on the floor.
"Candy!" Jirachi shouted, just about to dive headfirst into the candy when another, much darker portal opened up and a hand in a black glove grabbed him by his golden scarf thing (the little things that trail off of Jirachi that cocoons his body).
"Get back here, you little bastard." Ace said, starting to pull Jirachi back into the portal. Brock, Ash, and Max all three shot Focus Blasts at Ace, who released Jirachi and exited the portal before grabbing Jirachi again.
"Let the kid go!" Brock shouted at Ace.
"I don't think you're in a position to make demands of me" Ace said. "I've been looking for him. And he's coming with me."
Ace noticed May sitting on her seat.
"Hi May" he waved to his cousin.
"You know him?" Ash asked May.
"He's my cousin, Ace." May said. "He came here to take Jirachi home. He's not supposed to be here. He left without permission, so Ace is returning him home."
"Are you going to hurt him?" Brock asked.
"If he eats any candy or resists." Ace said.
"Why would you hurt him?" Max asked.
"Because a hyper Jirachi is bad (not as bad as hyper Mina, but still bad)." Ace said, exiting through the portal.
"Bye May" Ace said just before he closed the portal. "I'll see you later."
"Your cousin is weird." Ash said.
"You have no idea" May said, shaking her head with a smile on her face.
Pokémorph high- With Shadow and the others
"So" Darkora said to Shadow. "You're his girlfriend, right?"
Shadow blushed while Eon nudged her with her elbow.
"Wh-whatever gave you that idea?" Shadow asked. "I mean we like each other a lot, but we're not dating. At least fully."
"Well, you're immune to his nightmares." Darkora said. "One can only be immune to a Darkrai's nightmares if they're given the 'blessing of a Darkrai', which can only be given by a Darkrai. And you're the only one that has it."
"I'm immune because I'm the same race as him." Shadow said.
"You're not a Darkrai." Darkora said.
At that moment Ace came back through a portal.
"Ace" Darkora said. "How is your girlfriend immune to your nightmares?"
"She's the same race as me." Ace said.
"But she's a Gardevoir." Darkora said, confused.
"Your point" Ace said.
"My point is" Darkora said, a smile on her lips. "why haven't you two started dating yet?"
"Nightmares" Ace said. Darkora instantly understood what he meant.
"I'm sorry" she said, sympathizing with the Dark Type. "I know what it's like to not be able to get close to someone."
"It sucks" Ace said as a bell rang. "Well, we've got to get to class. Talk to you later, Darkora."
Ace and his friends walked off, leaving Darkora alone with her thoughts.
"He seems like him" she thought. "But I can't be sure. The description of him was too vague."
"But anyway" she concluded as she shut her locker. "He was nice. I'd like to get to know him better."
Darkora looked down at the floor, something catching her eye. She picked it up.
It was a small book with Ace's name on it. She opened it, looking for an address. Finding one she wrote it down and put the book in her pocket.
"I'll return this later" she thought to herself. "Right now I need to get to class."
Hall of Origins-after school
"We're back, bitches!" Ace and Eon shouted as they kicked the main doors of the Hall of Origins open. Shadow and Melody just shook their heads as they followed their friends into the Hall
"Yes!" Dialga shouted excitedly. "The Black Flames are here! Now we can start the Battle Royale: Blood Edition! The girls already left, so we can start right away. Melody, you're on Shadow's team. We already picked out a name for you guys: the Psychic Powerhouses!"
"Yeah!" Ace, Eon, and Shadow shouted. Melody followed them, ready to find out just what the Battle Royale: Blood Edition actually was like.
Battle Royale: Blood Edition Battle Site (Hall of Origins training room)
"What up bitches!" Ace and Eon shouted as they entered the training room, Shadow and Melody right behind them. "The Black Flames are here to F #$... YOU… UP!"
The entire room cheered for the reigning champs of Battle Royale.
"Why are they cheering?" Melody asked.
"Ace and Eon are the reigning champs." Shadow said, chuckling at her friend's testosterone filled sport endeavor. "They're making their victor's taunt."
"Interesting" Melody said. "But why do they keep using 'bitch'? I mean Dialga's here."
"Dialga slings it around more than anybody" Shadow said. "It's like the official profanity of Battle Royale."
"This room looks kind of weird." Melody said, looking around.
The room was fitted with outer space wallpaper. There was a table in the middle of it that looked electronic.
Ace and Eon put on two arm bands and gave two more each to Melody and Shadow, who put them on, Melody confused the entire time.
"That looks like Dungeons and Dragons" Melody said.
"Trust me" Shadow said. "It's way better than D&D."
"Sweet!" Ace and Eon high fived each other. "New table!"
"Yep" Giratina said, seated at the table next to Mewtwo. "Now we don't have to run outside and manually enter our information into the computer. This table will do it for us."
"So, who's match is it tonight?" Ace asked.
"The Psychic Powerhouses" Mewtwo read from a sheet of teams. "Versus the Black Flames in a title match. Winner take all."
"Bring it on!" Ace and Eon shouted at Shadow and Melody, who sat down at the table.
"Shadow" Ace said as he and Eon sat opposite of them. "Teach Melody how to play."
"Allright" Shadow said.
"What are these?" Melody said, looking at the objects in front of her.
"These are our die." Shadow said. "First, pick up the six sided die."
Melody did as she was told, noticing Ace and Eon were doing the same. All four of them rolled their dice. Melody rolled a four, while Shadow and Eon both rolled fives. Ace nailed a six.
"We win!" Ace and Eon fist bumped, picking up two twenty sided dice and rolled them. The combined total was thirty three.
"Allright!" they shouted, high fiving. "We got hellscape!"
They put two little figures on the space marked 33. Ace's was black while Eon's was orange. Everyone around them cheered; they knew what this meant.
"What's hellscape?" Melody asked Shadow.
"It's an environment in this game." Shadow explained. "Hellscape boosts Dark and Fire type powers. Other environments give other boosts and have debuffs, but this one has no debuffs."
Suddenly a knock was heard. Giratina looked at the "girl cam" (the Hall's security cameras), which showed activity at the front door.
"Is it the girls?" Ace and Eon asked, worried.
"It's a girl." Giratina said, looking at the security cam. "She looks similar to you Ace."
"Darkora" Ace said, causing Giratina to tense up. "I met her at school."
"You met her?" Giratina spat the word 'her'. "At your school?"
"She's my age." Ace said. "And her mother is named Darkora as well. I know you saw what happened when I was born, but this girl isn't that Darkora."
"Her aura is very similar to yours" Mewtwo observed, thinking.
"I know." Ace said, getting up. "I'll go see what she wants. Then we'll finish this match."
Ace went to the door and opened it. Darkora stood outside, patiently waiting.
"Hello" she said. "I'm here to return your book"
"What book?" Ace asked, confused. "I don't remember losing a book."
"This one." Darkora said, holding up the book she had picked up in the school. Ace looked at it, not seeming to recognize it.
"I don't recognize it." He said, taking it. "I'll find out whose it is."
"Thanks" Darkora said, staring at Ace, trying to read his aura.
"Hey" she said, looking at his hands. "Are you playing Battle Royale?"
"Yes" Ace said. "Do you know how to play?"
"Yes" Darkora said, her eyes lighting up a little. "But I haven't had a good challenge in a while."
"Would you like to join us?" Ace invited her.
"Sure" Darkora said, following Ace into the house. They entered the training room where the guys (and girls-besides Shadow and Melody) booed.
"Hey, hey." Ace said. "She's played before, so she's going to play singles."
The members in the room stopped booing and got quiet. Dialga walked up to Darkora and smirked.
"If you're so good" she said. "Then face me."
"Fine" Darkora said, a smirk on her face.
"After the Black Flames and the Psychic Powerhouses finish their match, then you and me will see who's the best."
"You'll be in for a shock." Darkora said, smirking.
"Back to our match." Ace said, sitting back down next to Eon. Shadow and Melody picked up their twenty sided dice and rolled them, their combined total twenty.
"Yes!" Shadow pumped her fist in the air. "We got an all boost!"
"What's that?" Melody asked.
"All of our types get a boost." Shadow said, grinning. "We can match Ace and Eon now."
"No offense, Shadow" Melody said. "But this is boring."
Every person in the room (save Ace, Eon, Shadow, Giratina, and Darkora (who muttered with a smirk: "new player")) hissed at Melody, who flinched at the comments from the other players.
"Hey" Ace said. "This is her first time playing. Cut her some slack."
"So, what do we do now?" Melody asked.
"Now the fun part begins." Ace said.
"What do you think the girls are doing right now?" Entei asked with a chuckle.
"Don't know" Raikou said. "But I'll bet it's not as much fun as we're having."
With the girls
"So, what are we going to do now?" Shay asked. "I'm so bored!"
"Me too!" Victory and Mina complained. "When are we gonna do something fun?"
"Oh my me!" Arcey shouted at them, clearly irritated. "We've been doing fun stuff for a while now! What would you like to do now?!"
"Go to the beach." Cela suggested. Every other girl there agreed.
"Fine!" Arcey shouted. "We'll go to the damn beach! Are you happy?!"
"Yep!" the girls shouted.
Arcey face palmed. This was going to be a long girl's night out.
how will the beach trip go? Will they have fun or will it be boring as hell? What is the "fun part" of Battle Royale: Blood Edition? Who is Darkora? Find out in future chapters of Pokemon Azure Light (maybe-i might forget like with Kiria (who will get stuff figured out about her later on))