Deep within the clutches of a dense forest, five people make their way through the rough terrain and the moist soil. Three children and two man, all struggling for their survival as they push themselves forward through sheer grit.
" Silo.. your leg." Ash remarked silently, yet his words were heard by everyone as they all turned to look at Silo.
"I am fine." She reassures weakly but her words weren't very convincing with the bluish tint of her leg.
Ash could tell even without a second look, she had broken a bone or two, something not very rare as Vigo was being carried by his little partner instead which seemed almost conical at some point.
"This won't do." Ash said as he came closer and lifted her onto his back while Scyther cleared the way through the bushes and moved on.
Silo blushes, her mind going all sort of directions. She even forgot about her revenge on N for a second but sobbed up after the sight of those corpses haunts her.
"How much more till the safe area?" Ash asked Vigo.
Vigo raised the map in his hand, his eyes scanning their location through the trees and the trying to find any landmarks. He turns to Ash. "We should be near it.. and we are deadmeat if we are not."
The sun was falling by the second, the sunlight tilting every moment as the threat of the night hangs over them like a guillotine. The wild pokemon have already begin watching them, their eyes locked onto their figures as if waiting for their chances for attack.
Bit by bit time passed. The light begins fading away yet nobody spoke a word, their silence hinting at a looming threat and they wanted to avoid any danger they could have.
Suddenly the trees begins lessening and even some chopped tree trunks begin coming in sight occasionally, they were clean and there were marks of footsteps.
Ash felt his vigor rise, his hopes recovering as he begins walking faster and faster. Soon the group came out into a clearing and were greeted by long walls raising to several meters with torches hung on every few meters.
The group was felt like they had escaped narrow death as the eyes in the forest begin moving away from them.
" *Phew* We are.. safe.", Ash almost collapsed onto the ground. His legs already at their limits from walking with Silo for the whole day but he stabilized himself and kept moving.
* Sound of tree branches being broken*
Suddenly something shot out of the forest and hit Ash and other's feet and their balances were broken as everyone fell face first on the ground.
Ash linked with Oshawott and so did everyonr else with their partners. There breaths heavy and exhausted as they looked back to see the attacker's face.
At that moment Ash saw a green thing shot out from the forest, 'RAZOR SHELL' he screamed to Oshawott through the link as he recognised the attack as vine whip.
Oshawott followed instantly, using razor shell as he split the vine two and the remaining ones retreated back to the forest as a single pokemon walked out.
"A Serperior!?" Everyone exclaimed in shock. There eyes were locked onto the elegant pokemon in front of them as it slithered along the ground.
It raises it's head with pride as it glared at everyone in the group and sent chills down everyone's spines, everyone except Ash who was looking as if he had just seen his favourite movie star.
The Serperior felt fear coming from the group but the mere sliver of excitement from the exhausted Ash raised it's curiosity.
The Serperior was a Alpha, it's body twice the size of the original as it looked more like a Leviathan than a serpent. It's body was darkest shade of green and it's gaze colder than ice.
Slowly and surely it's slithers forward, ignoring everyone until it was right in front of Ash and did something that nobody expected. It tried to communicate with Ash.
It coiled around Ash and checked every corner of his body, analysing it as if having found what it was looking for. It came even closer until it's face was right in front of Ash.
" Interesting. I was expecting you to be one of the attackers but i guess you are victims as well."
All of them understood the Serperior thanks to their links but their minds were still filled with confusion even after the paralysed effect of the glare and bloodlust vanished.
Ash put Silo down and they both together walked forward, Silo walked behind him as she grabbed his shoulder to support her swollen leg.
Ash turned to the Serperior and asked "was it some guy riding a black dragon?"
Serperior suddenly begins releasing bloodlust again, it's mind flooded with the memories of the attack. It leaned forward towards Ash, "HOW DO YOU KNOW?" It asked back with a slow and threatening tone.
" He attacked us too and dest- killed most of our caravan." Ash answered truthfully.
"Caravan? You are people from the monestry?"
Ash nodded in agreement and the Serperior felt it's rage calm down a little. It begins slithering forward again this time towards the walls.
"Follow me." It said, it's eyes locked onto the walls as it made a wierd noise and the wooden gates opened.
The group followed behind silently, all silent except Silo who was being princess carried now and was steaming as she mutters things to herself.
Then they saw it, the destruction of the village that is. The backwall in the distance was crumbled down, houses within the walls were either obliterated to ashes or reduced to mere rubble as only a few people came in sight.
They wore light clothes like a shirt and shorts with few of them in flippers and some in shoes as they cautiously scanned the group. One of them recognised the twins and ran forward to meet them. She was a elderly women.
"SILO. VIGO." she screamed with all her might as tears begin falling down her cheeks but she was stopped in her tracks by Serperior who pointed at the rising moon with its tail.
The realisation dawned on them as they watched the dark clouds gather in the sky and the crackling of thunder was heard again.
Everyone moved, quickly slipping into the village well and right into a underground bunker where the surviving villagers stay.
Everything happened so fast that Ash and his group didn't even have the time to even understand where they were going. However they knew if they didn't move now, everyone in the village will be doomed.
Inside was a tunnel, a tunnel barely wide enough for one person to move through at a time so it took some time but all five of Ash's group entered alongside the villagers.
"We should be cautious. We should enough energy to atleast run if that bastard found us." One of the survivalists said as he found some space on one of the rocks.
"I agree." Vigo nods in agreement as he also found himself a sitting place on the floor and sat alongside his dweeble.
Ash and Silo followed behind and also sat on the ground while the other survivalist went to find something from among the villagers.
At this time, the old lady came again with a stick in her hand and a small minccino trailing behind her as she arrived with a small bottle of water in her hand.
The twins looked at her and greeted het back as the they move into a heated discussion. Meanwhile Ash as the only tired kid in the group, drifted into his sleep after gulping down some berries and giving some to his oshawott to munch on.
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"You have grown boy. Grown far worse than i imagined."
" So have you old man. *Cracking his Knuckles* Today is the day you pay for your sins."
"Sins? A child of misfortune that once led a group of terrorists have no right to call me a sinner boy. It was and will always be my good luck that I destroyed those demons in human skin."
Standing atop the peak of a Cliff, Osiva glared at N and Zekrom who look down upon him from the skies. Their gazes cold and chilling as Osiva mocked N.
" THEN DIE WITH THAT YOU TRAITOR.. ZEKROM USE FUSION BOLT"
"ROAR"
Lightning converged onto Zekrom, thunder gathering from the storm clouds as it transformed into a bolt of lightning and struck towards Osiva.
"Steelix." Osiva called his pokemon calmly and watched as a towering snake of metal with a body of steel ruptured through the ground to block the attack.
"Samurott.. swords dance."
The Samurott arrives from the side with blurry speed and a gust of wind as it used swords dance and glared at the legendary dragon with a smile on it's face.
Osiva's aura flared, his old tiny frame recovering to certain extent as his dwarfish body returned to it's normal 5'10 ft height and the battle begins.
N grinds his teeth in frustration, ramping up his aura and link to Zekrom as well but he was barely reaching half the amount of Osiva.
"OUTRAGE" he yelled, his thoughts readable by even a child from the look in his eyes.
Osiva smiled, lamenting N's cocky brain as he watched the dragon dive in for a attack with fury. "Fool.. Air slash."
Samurott and Steelix followed up as Osiva linked with both of them at once and jumped back to avoid a direct confrontation.
The fight has begin.