Requiem of the Fallen Dragon
Part 3: Tale of the Fallen Dragon
Chapter 86: Sanctuary of Memory (3)
-Trial XVI: The Toxic Ranger
Sharon couldn't believe in the memory she saw. It is the thing that she had never known, but among them, Sharon is the only one who could collect this memory, but her memory was faded until she found out now.
"…" Sharon didn't know what to do next. She had just learned the secret that she wanted to learn most, but learning it made Sharon felt a bit bad too…
"…What will they act if they knew this?" Sharon mumbled. "Especially HIM… What will he do if he knew that…"
Sharon's train of thought ended here because the scene changed. It brought Sharon to a dark room. Other than Sharon, another Pokemon is here, lying on the floor.
"G…Garland?!" Sharon quickly approached Garland. Garland is unconscious. He is holding his paw at his left eye.
"W…What should I do?" Sharon tried to think, and then she got an idea.
She took out a berry. Since she is a ranger, she always carried several berries with her. Then she fed the Sitrus Berry to Garland…
"A…Arr…" Garland regained his consciousness and opened his right eye. Then he saw Sharon.
"Garland! I am glad you are safe!" Sharon spoke.
"Sharon… You saved me again…" Garland spoke.
Garland's word made Sharon thought back to their reunited. Sharon found Garland's body near the river that flew from the valley that Garland fell into. Then Sharon took care of Garland for several months until Garland got better.
"I am glad to have you by my side, Sharon." Garland spoke.
"So do I, Garland. You helped me from the prison of loneliness." Sharon spoke.
When Sharon finished speaking, the scene changed. It brought Garland and Sharon to a large hall with a large gap that separated this room into two sides. Other Hero/ine of Legend, include Anna, are already here.
"You Are Late!" Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus and Leonel shouted and Garland.
Garland ignored them and walked up to Hawkins, and then he saw the Diamond Ring at Iris's finger.
"So… Hawkins, you are finally brave enough…" Garland mumbled.
"Shut up, Garland." Hawkins spoke.
"Congratulation, Iris." Sharon said.
"Thank you." Iris smiled.
Anna approached Sharon and Garland. "Son of Tersoul and the Daughter of Twilight, what did you see in your scene?"
"The hell I would tell you!" Garland shouted at Anna, and Sharon said nothing.
"…So rude…" Anna mumbled. "Fine, if both of you won't tell me, let's continued…"
Seventeen Pokemon faced the large gap that separated the room into two sides. This gap is too large for someone to jump across, and a mysterious face made it impossible for someone to fly across the gap.
"So…" Rucas broke the silence. "How could we proceed?"
After Rucas finished speaking, an object appeared in front of everyone. It then flew up to them.
"T…That's…" Hawkins's face turned pale. He could remember it clearly.
"…The Souleater Rod." Garland spoke.
"But… It got destroyed since the battle with Hawkins already…" Rucas said.
"…It may got destroyed already…" Anna spoke. "But this is the memory, not the real world."
Garland and Hawkins looked at the Souleater Rod with a disgusting face. Iris, however, walked up to it and grabbed it!
"IRIS!" Hawkins shouted, but Iris smiled.
"Don't worry about it… The evil curse of this rod was destroyed already. It could no more control the Fallen. Now, it could only control a statue…"
Iris gave the Souleater Rod. "Here… Zira. You are more skilled with the staff than me. Try using it to control the statue over there." Iris pointed her finger at the statue on the opposite side of the room.
"R…Right." Zira spoke.
Zira swung the Souleater Rod to the statue on the opposite side of the room, making it glow with a faint aura. Zira then controlled the statue to move to the switch near it. Once the switch was triggered, a bridge appeared and linked both sides of the room together!
"Yay! I did it!" Zira said.
"Let's go… The last room of this place is right in front of us…" Anna spoke.
After crossing the bridge and entered the last room, everyone found themselves in another hall. This hall has only one door. (The door that everyone passed to enter this room.) This hall is circular. And the wall of this room seemed like it made from a clear water. However, the thing that they could see in the wall is the abstract picture.
"What is this room?" Tyrus asked.
"…" Anna looked around the room silently. "This room… It is the place that linked the real world and the spiritual world."
"Hey…" Garland crossed his arms. "Any easier word than that spir..eh… something?"
"Then, this linked our world and the Afterlife!" Anna spoke.
"WHAT?!" Everyone spoke out in surprised. "The Afterlife?!"
"Yes. While you are in this room, you may call anyone who is a Pokemon from the Afterlife to speak with if their soul didn't rebirth or destroy already." Anna explained.
Everyone became amazed by Anna's word. They could call anyone from their dead?!
"C…Can I try?!" Nyxier couldn't hide her amazement.
"Go on." Anna smiled.
Nyxier walked up to the middle of the room. Then she spoke up.
"Mother…"
Suddenly, a picture of Pokemon appeared at the wall. That Pokemon then walked closer to Nyxier, and then she appeared from the wall into the room…
"Nyxier… My lovely daughter…" Glacier Tundrafrost the Aurorus, Nyxier's mother, spoke as she saw her daughter.
"Mother!" Nyxier ran up to her mother. When she reached her mother, she found that she could touch her mother!
"Wahh!" Nyxier cried and hugged her mother. "Mother, I missed you so much…"
"Nyxier…" Glacier spoke. "You grew from a young woman into strong and brave Pokemon already… I am so proud of you…"
While Nyxier is hugging her mother, Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus and Leonel walked forward and called the name of their father.
Then, four Pokemon appeared from the wall. They are Jedi Floratree the Sceptile, Ordin Novaflare the Charizard, Scarley Aquamarine the Feraligatr and Dyabolt Sparkvolt the Heliolisk.
"Hey! Look who called all of us at the same time!" Scarley spoke.
"Yeah! Our sons!" Dyabolt said.
"Hm!" Ordin mumbled.
"Come to papa Jedi, my son." Jedi called.
Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus and Leonel walked up to their respective father. All of them seemed to be happy to see their father/son.
"Father, could you teach me the art of Swordsmanship?" Joshua asked.
"Hey… Joshua…" Jedi said. "I have a better thing to teach you! Such as how to bind the heart of pretty lady? Wanna learn?"
"…No, thank you." Joshua mumbled.
"Ellisk! How was your life? You seemed… like a thief." Dyabolt spoke.
"Yes, I am a thief. But… I only steal from the corrupted noble, not the poor one!" Ellisk said.
"Good boy!" Dyabolt said.
"And you, Magnus? Old Seablade told me that you are pretty powerful!" Scarley said.
"Of course! Look at my muscle!" Magnus flexed his muscle.
"Not so fast!" Scarley flex his muscle too.
"Sigh…" Ordin sighed. "Leonel, what are you dressing?! You looked like a tribal of something…"
"That's because I have dedicated my life as the Volcano Guardian…" Leonel answered.
"Hm! You old-headed kid!" Ordin mumbled.
As Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus and Leonel are talking to their respective father, the rest are deciding.
"Zira, don't you want to meet your mother for the first time?" Kamui asked, but Zira shook his head no.
"My mother is a human, so she won't come if I call. What about you, Kamui?"
"Both of my parents are still alive, so they won't come too." Kamui answered.
Rucas crossed his arm. His father is a human, so he won't come if he called too...
Fenrir, at first, wanted to call her parents, but after seeing Rucas, she decided that she didn't want to hurt Rucas's feeling…
Tyrus looked around. He is not sure if he wanted to call his father or not…
"Tyrus!" Nyxier called. "Come on! Call your father too!"
"…Fine." Tyrus then called the name of his father…
Another Pokemon appeared from the wall. He is no more than General Kohaku Orestone the Tyrantrum.
"Who called me?!" Kohaku looked around the room until he saw Tyrus. "Hm! Why did you call me?!"
"Kohaku!" Glacier said. "Don't call your son so rude!"
"Glacier?! You are here too?" Kohaku said.
"Right. And your son is the one who called you." Glacier said as Tyrus walked up to joined with Glacier, Nyxier and Kohaku.
"Hm! You must have a gut to come to this place! This is what I want my son to be." Kohaku spoke.
Tyrus couldn't believe it. This is the first time that his father complimented him.
"T…Thank you, father!" Tyrus said.
While Tyrus is talking to his father, the rest are still deciding.
"Sharon, won't you call your parents?" Garland asked.
"I…I think I shouldn't… Beside, they won't come if I call…" Sharon answered.
Garland wanted to ask more, but he decided not to do.
"And you, Iris?" Hawkins asked.
"I was created from the DNA cloning method in the laboratory, so I have neither father nor mother." Iris answered.
"Then…" Hawkins looked at Garland. "Garland, let's call our parents here."
"Right. I will call father first."
Garland walked forward. "Father." Garland called.
Garland's voice echoed, but no Pokemon appeared from the wall.
"Father? Can your hear me?" Garland called again, but his father didn't come.
"Tersoul Quakersand the Garchomp, can you hear me?" Garland called his father with his full name, but his father still didn't come.
"So annoying…" Hawkins stepped forward. "You fxxxxxg father of us, move your ass to meet us at this gxxxxxn place now before I shove my weapon right up to your ass!"
"!"
Once Hawkins finished splitting the foul word out, the room shaken a bit, and then.
"SQUAAAKKKKKAAKKK!"
A loud shrieking is heard by everyone in the room. Everyone who came from the Afterlife became frighten with fear.
"Oh! No! Not that red bird!" Dyabolt spoke.
"Everyone! Get away from the wall!" Glacier spoke.
Everyone (Include the characters from the Afterlife.) moved as far as possible from the wall. (But they didn't exit the room.) Except Garland and Hawkins who is still standing in the middle of the room.
"What is that?!" Hawkins asked.
"That voice…" Garland mumbled in fear. He could remember that sound clearly! It is the sound of the thing he feared the most!
Suddenly, the wall shook very hard! And then, a Pokemon flew out of the wall into the room!
Everyone became frighten once they saw that Pokemon. That Pokemon is a giant, red and black Pokemon that looked like a bird. He has two black horns on his head and bloody eyes. He looked around the room fiercely!
"WHO DARE SPLITTING THOSE FOUL WORDS AT ME?!" The Yveltal roared and looked at everyone with the raging face. "YOU ALL SHALL SUFFER UNDER MY POWER OF WRATH. WITHNESS MY POWER OF DESTRUCTION! GARRRRRR!" Yveltal roared and flew into the sky, preparing for the battle!
Lord of Destruction
Yveltal
Yveltal roared and fired a Dark Pulse at everyone. Luckily, Iris used Protect to cover everyone. (Include the Afterlife characters.)
"Whew! Thank! Iris! You are as helpful as ever!" Scarley said.
"Yeah… Such a cute and beautiful babe of us…" Jedi said.
"Shut up, Jedi." Iris spoke before she realized that Garland and Hawkins are out of her Protect range!
"Hawkins! Garland! Watch out!" Iris shouted.
Yveltal gave up attacking Iris and others and focused his attack at Garland and Hawkins instead. Yveltal fire another Dark Pulse at them, but Hawkins and Garland flew up into the sky just a bit before the Dark Pulse hit them.
"Brother, what should we do?" Garland asked.
"He is dark type and flying type Pokemon, so my Psychic move and your Ground move won't work." Hawkins answered.
"Then, let see how good he is with my bullets!" Garland spoke and shot a bullet from his rifle at Yveltal's wing, making Yveltal lost his balance!
"Getting hit by my bullet and only lost the balance? Not bad…" Garland mumbled.
"Then, let's attack together." Hawkins suggested.
Garland shot a bullet from his rifle again as Hawkins threw his Chakram at Yveltal's wing. This time, however, made the Yveltal fell from the sky and crashed onto the floor! The red bird then became stunned for a while.
"Well, brother, where should we inflict a pain on this bird?" Garland asked.
"Maybe… Let's strike his horns." Hawkins suggested.
Garland and Hawkins tried to attack Yveltal's horn with their respective weapon, but none of their weapon could harm the Lord of Destruction!
"If our attack won't do, how should we attack this red bird?" Garland asked.
Hawkins looked around, trying to find something to attack the Yveltal. Finally, he found a statue of a Pokemon that wielded a giant hammer.
"Maybe smashing his head with a hammer will do it. Zira!" Hawkins turned his attention to Zira who hid behind Iris's Protect. "Use the Souleater Rod to control that statue to slam its hammer at this Yveltal's head!"
"B…But… Won't he hurt?" Zira asked.
"Sigh…" Garland sighed. "Then, you would prefer to let it take our life away?"
"EEAAAAAA!" Zira screamed when Garland scolded at her. She then controlled the statue using the Souleater Rod and made it slam its hammer at Yveltal's head! This made Yveltal hurted very much!
"SQUAAKKK! YOU ALL WILL PAY FOR THIS!"
Yveltal stopped using the Dark Pulse but used the Oblivion Wing instead! This time, Garland and Hawkins had to become more careful or else their life force will get sucked by the Lord of Destruction. But finally, with the combination of the brothers, Yveltal is defeated.
"SQUAAKEEE!" Yveltal roared after getting hit by the hammer for the third time. Then the red bird fell unconscious!
"Did he… die?" Zira asked while Iris removed the Protect barrier.
"A Legendary Pokemon like him won't die easily." Iris answered.
Garland and Hawkins looked at the Yveltal again, and then Garland realized something…
"This Yveltal is Yterval!"
"What is that fxxxxxg thing you were talking?!" Hawkins scolded at his younger brother.
"His name is Yterval the Yveltal. He is the ruler of Darkon, one of three land in the Afterlife.
"Yes." All Pokemon (Include the Afterlife Pokemon) came. "He is the ruler of Darkon. He is very scary and merciless, but he always judge the thing with the heart of Justice." Ordin said.
"If this Yveltal is the ruler of Darkon, then who is the ruler of Lumina and Soulyn?" Garland asked.
"Soulyn is ruled by Zygarde, the order Pokemon." Dyabolt answered.
"And Lumina… Actually, its ruler is the Xerneas Princess named Xinnia…" Jedi said.
"But since she is not able to have this duty, so the Pokemon that is the ruler of Lumina is…" Scarley explained. But just a bit before he could finish his explaination, a shadow of Pokemon appeared on the wall of this room! It is a shadow of a Lugia…
"No! Everyone! Cover your ears!" Scarley warned.
Everyone quickly did as Scarley told. Luckily, just a second after everyone covered their ears, the Lugia appeared from the wall and started screaming with a high-pitched voice!
"EAHHH! YTERVAL!"
The Lugia quickly approached the Yveltal. Once she saw that the Yterval is just unconscious, she looked at everyone, especially Garland and Hawkins. "You were the one who hurt my dear Yterval?! You must pay for your crime!"
The Lugia then flew into the sky and rammed at Garland and Hawkins! She acted so fast that neither Garland nor Hawkins could protect themselves!
But…
The Lugia attack neither Garland nor Hawkins. Instead, she hugged them and cuddled them!
"Hawkins-chan and Garland-chan! You finally come!" The Lugia spoke as she cuddled the Garchomp and another Lugia.
"H…Hey!" Hawkins spoke after he could gather his conscious. "W…What are you doing? Release us now!"
The Lugia let go Garland and Hawkins and looked at them with a playful face. "Heehee! Both of you are so cute when you grew up! And handsome too! Of course!"
"W…What are you talking about?" Garland asked.
"Oh! I am sorry…" The Lugia spoke. "Garland, Hawkins, I am your mother."
"WHAT?!" Garland and Hawkins roared with a shocking voice.
"But…" Iris interrupted them. "Their mother is Winsol the Lugia, but Winsol the Lugia has a different appearance than you…"
"Of course!" The Lugia spoke. She is still smiling. "It's because I am not that old Winsol! I am her rebirth form! My name is Diasol the Lugia, and now I served as the ruler of Lumina!"
"Wait a minute…" Hawkins spoke up. "If you are the rebirth form of our mother, then, where are our father?"
"Oh! I forgot him! Sweety! Wake up!"
Diasol the Lugia turned her attention to Yterval the Yveltal and waked him up.
"W…What?! Yterval… is our father?!" Garland said.
"Yes! He is the reincarnation of Tersoul the Garchomp, your father!" Diasol said.
"…" Yterval gazed at everyone, but he seemed to calm down. "I am sorry for being hasty. I didn't know that I would have such a foul-mouthed son…"
"It's not his false! Hawkins-chan got corrupted by the Souleater Rod before! Just like Garland-chan!" Diasol said.
"…I see…" Yterval mumbled.
'Then…' Hawkins thought. 'The reason why our father didn't come when Garland called is because he reincarnated already, but our bond is very strong, so he still heard my voice when I called him with a bad word…'
Diasol and Yterval looked around the room. "The reason that all of you are here is because you are at the final step to defeat the Fallen Dragon, right?"
"Right." Rucas answered.
"Then… I won't interrupt anymore of your talking with your parents. Go on. I also want to talk with my sons too." Yterval said.
"Thank you!" Everyone said.
Everyone continued talking with their parents. (Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus, Leonel and Tyrus called their mother here too.) However, as everyone is happy, three Pokemon aren't.
"Mother…" Anastasia and Baromyteus approached their mother. "Where is father? Why didn't he here?"
"…I tried to call him, but he didn't come." Anna answered.
"…" Baromyteus removed his skull helmet and looked at it. This is his father's skull he wore as a memento.
"Excuse me?" Diasol and Yterval approached Anna, Anastasia and Baromyteus. "Anna, is this the skull of Baron?"
"Yes." Anna spoke. (Anna and Baron knew Diasol and Yterval before.)
"And you said that he didn't come?" Diasol asked.
"Right." Anna answered again.
Diasol and Yterval smiled. "It's because he is still alive."
Diasol and Yterval's word made three dragons shocked very much. "B…But… He died already! In front of me!" Baromyteus said.
"Yes, he died already. However, he got a second chance, so he will come back again…" Yterval said.
Suddenly, the skull helmet started glowing, and then it changed into the shape of another Shiny Haxorus!
"BARON?!" Anna spoke as she saw her husband again.
"Anna?! Anastasia?! Baromyteus?!" Baron the Shiny Haxorus spoke after he saw that he is alive again.
"FATHER!"
Anastasia and Baromyteus ran up to their father and hugged him. "WAH! Father! We missed you so much!"
"Don't cry… I am here now…" Baron spoke.
"Baron…" Anna looked at her husband. "You… came back…"
"Yes, Anna. I am here." Baron spoke, and then he looked at Yterval and Diasol. "Thank you for giving me a second chance."
"It's because you deserved it." Yterval answered.
Everyone left Sanctuary of Memory with a happy heart. Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus, Leonel, Nyxier, Tyrus, Garland and Hawkins said goodbye to their parents before they left. And once they got out of the dungeon, Anna and Baron went back to Kingdom of the Dragonking. And others went back to the Colorless Garden.
"What you all did is beyond my expectation." Frostic complimented. "With this, you all are ready to face the Fallen Dragon."
"Yes. But since the winter of Symmetria is worse, we should defeat the Fallen Dragon as soon as possible… Maybe tomorrow." Rucas said.
"Hey… If it was before, this puppy will say that you will defeat it now." Garland teased at Rucas.
"S…Shut up!" Rucas spoke.
"Anyway, you all should go back and have a nice rest. Then come and meet me here tomorrow. Remember that tomorrow is the final day of your mission, so prepared yourself well. If you want to do anything, do it before you couldn't…" Frostic said.
"What does it mean?" Fenrir asked.
"…I am sorry to say this; you may not survive the battle tomorrow, so you must prepare for the worst." Frostic said.
"Of course! We will do our best for tomorrow! YAH!" Everyone spoke and raised their paw up.
After the meeting with Frostic, everyone went back to the Lunar Village to get a rest before the final battle… Of course, everyone is stressed and exciting for the tomorrow's quest. (Except Iris who had felt this feeling before.) In the end, most of them asked Iris to use her magic to put them into sleep or else they won't sleep easily, except someone who still wanted to stay up in the night…
Fenrir gazed at the star from her house. Tonight is still snowy. The temperature is lower than the time after she came back from the Gamma City, but her heart is much warmer than before…
'Rucas must had seen something during the Sanctuary of Memory that made his hatred toward her decreased drastically.' Fenrir thought. 'Is there any chance that Rucas will take me into his heart?'
"…Fenrir."
A voice called the name of the Master of Mercy. At first, Fenrir wished that it is the voice of the certain Lucario she loved, but it wasn't. It is a voice of a female Goodra.
"Anastasia…" Fenrir looked at the Goodra. "You should go to sleep now. Today we had passed so many things, and tomorrow we will face many things…"
"I knew… Still… I don't know that; will I succeed or will I fail? I couldn't bear it if I failed…" Anastasia said.
"…The story of living creature's existence is not fathomable, Anastasia. Whatever will be, will be." Fenrir said her personal quote to Anastasia.
"Right… We will never know what will happen tomorrow unless tonight has passed…" Anastasia said.
"…" Fenrir gazed into the night. Will tonight be the last night for her to see the beautiful night sky from her hometown?
"Um… Fenrir, could you… do something for me?" Anastasia spoke up again.
"…What?" Fenrir said. She still looked at the night sky.
"…If Baromyteus or I couldn't fight beside you until the end, could you finish the mission to its ending?" Anastasia asked.
"Haha…" Fenrir cackled. "Of course, I will, but that won't be necessary because I am sure that all of us will live until the end."
"…Thank you, Fenrir." Anastasia mumbled.
While Fenrir is looking at the night sky, another Pokemon is looking at the same sky, but from a different place…
Rucas also looked at the night sky. Tomorrow is his day; the day he lived for. It is the final mission for the Hero of Justice.
'…Even among the dark sky, the bright stars could be seen…' Rucas thought. '…Maybe… The Darkness isn't all bad… We just feared it, so we said that it is evil…'
However, Rucas is not alone. While Rucas was thinking, he could feel a presence of another Pokemon. He turned his attention from the night sky to the incoming Pokemon, to his surprise as the Pokemon who has just come is the Pokemon that hated him to the deepest part of his heart!
"B…Baromyteus!" Rucas spoke out.
Baromyteus pointed his sword at Rucas. "Scream or roar again and I will slash the flesh of yours."
Rucas lowered his voice so only Baromyteus and he could hear it. "Why are you here?"
Baromyteus put away his sword. "I have something to talk to you."
"Talk to me?" Rucas repeated the word, unbelieve in the thing that Baromyteus has just said. "But didn't you hate me to the deepest part of your heart?"
"Of course, I hate you. I hate you from the moment I met you until now, and will hate you until my last breathe." Baromyteus answered.
"And then… What do you want to talk to me?" Rucas asked.
"About tomorrow's mission. I have a plea to ask you. This is my first and my last plea for you." Baromyteus said.
"…Say it." Rucas crossed his arms.
"Should we fall during the quest, be sure to finish the mission until the end." Baromyteus spoke out.
"Of course. I promise that I will finish our mission no matter what." Rucas promised.
"Moreover, should I fall, be sure to take care of her in my place." Baromyteus spoke out.
"Her? Do you mean Anastasia?" Rucas asked.
"You have a brain, haven't you? Figure it out by yourself." Baromyteus crossed his arms.
"…Alright. I will take care of 'her' should you fall, but I don't believe that a strongest warrior in our group like you would fall easily." Rucas said.
"…" Baromyteus said nothing more.
To Be Continued…
Dragon of Vale: I knew this chapter is pretty bad… Well…
The 11th dungeon ended here. Everyone reunited with their family. And even Anastasia and Baromyteus's father got revived! What a delightful news for them!
A few chapters remained… This story will end soon…