Malex went up and paid for the merchandise. He walked out of the shop along with an sulking Sapphire who had brought a few items for her Pokémon. The Slowpoke had chosen a ribbon. Sapphire stared down at the Pokémon, who know had the blue ribbon as a bow on it's right ear. Sapphire shook her head. The site of a male Pokémon in a bow was quite worrying, but it wasn't the brightest Pokémon around. To him, the ribbon looked pretty and it was happy enough to take it. Light hadn't brought anything from that shop and instead had ran for food on a stall opposite that Sapphire paid for willingly while grabbing something for everyone else to eat too. Malex's Autumn had picked up a bow for around it's neck. It was red and much larger than the one the Slowpoke had picked up.
"Some things wrong." Malex stated, scanning the area around him, and odd hunch that the two and their Pokémon was being watched and aimed at.
"Hm?" Sapphire pulled out the Pokéballs and returned both Light and the Slowpoke before walking over to Malex as he placed the new hat on his head. "What do you mean? Everything seems perfectly fine to me." Sapphire stated smiling kindly.
"Watch out!" Malex shouted, pushing Sapphire out of the way and onto the floor landing on top of her. She squirmed and protested, but in the midst of that she looked over his shoulder and saw an arrow narrowly miss him. If he had not shoved her out of the way, it was safe to say she would have been injured, perhaps even have died! "A-Are you alright Sapphire?" He stood up and offered out his hand, which she took and helped herself to her feet.
"I'm fine. What was that?" She asked and looked up in the direction the attack came from. She saw someone up high scurry away dressed in a cloak. "What the? Were we being targeted?!" Sapphire asked in a violent tone.
"Autumn, return to me please." The small Chikorita hopped back into the ball it had broken forth from and Malex put the ball away. "I don't know what these jerks want from us, but it would be best to run for it for now!" Malex exclaimed, grabbing Sapphire's wrist and running as fast as they could.
A random person stepped in front of them. They were dressed from head to toe in religious looking garments. A book in one hand, and a Pokéball in the other. The man had long blonde hair and bright blue eyes. "Please! You must hurry!" The person screamed as people began to run up behind Malex in Sapphire, dressed in the same clothing as this man, but with fire red colours and orange hair. "You must trust me, but you're going the wrong way!" the man shouted stepping in behind Malex and Sapphire ready to face the approaching group. "You must make your way to the castle! Near there is a cave and it leads directly into Mount Moltres! These foolish simpletons want you as sacrifices for the legendary fire bird, but I will not let such youth as you fall to the flame. I shall try to join you later on at the cave to be your guide but for now leave these bothersome folk to me!"
Sapphire couldn't believe what was happening, but decided that there was no time to waste. Who could say if the man was really on their side, but at the moment they had no other choice. The two teens changed their way of direction and kept running for the castle. Malex looked back at the man who was fighting on their behalf. He had released a Vaporeon while the other group had released fire type Pokémon such as Ponyta, Growlife, Vulpix and various other fire type Pokémon.
"Damn it.... There's no way just one Pokémon can fight off all them!" Malex shouted running faster and now looking forward, seeing the outline of a cave.
"You're forgetting, that guy has a type advantage with that Vaporeon." Sapphire's breath was growing rather weak. They got to the entrance of the cave panting and gasping for air. Sapphire trembled and fell to the ground, her body too weak to cope with the fast movements, and now they could see from the distance; shrouding the entrance of the cave was a thick fog of dust and smoke. They had heard a bang and was wandering what happened. "What the!" Malex suddenly knelt down besides Sapphire.
"It's obvious that you're such a weak twerp that I'm going to have to carry you for a while." Malex said, closing his eyes. Having male pride, he wasn't going to let Sapphire continue in such a state, but there wasn't time to hang around and let her get her breathe back.
"... Malex..." She closed her eyes and smiled, climbing onto his back and taking up his offer. It took a moment, but Malex prepared himself and lifted her up off the ground.
"Oh! Ah! How much do you weigh fatty!" He grumbled, stumbling forward a little.
Sapphire huffed and smacked him around the back of the head. "Shut it gaywad! I'm not heavy you're just pathetically weak!" She barked giving him another smack, just for good measure.
"Ah... You argue like a married couple." Both of them turned around the the familiar voice. Malex nearly dropped Sapphire in surprise to how quick the man had gotten there. It was the guy who had told them to head for the castle and enter the cave.
"How did you?!" Malex was in total shock and let down Sapphire so she sat on the ground. The man simply smiled and waited for Malex to continue. The boy was too stunned to speak a word and all he could mumbled was a stutter. He looked down at the mans side and saw the Vaporeon he had released earlier. To reach the cave just a few moments after the teens, the guy had amazing abilities and the Vaporeon must have had amazing attack to smash right through all the foe Pokémon. "How did you get here so fast?!" Malex finally managed to spit out and watched the man chuckle.
"Erk here is a very skilled Pokémon. An attack like Surf is something quite useful when batteling against so many Pokémon." He chuckled slightly and Sapphire managed to pull herself to her feet forcing a smile onto her lips.
"Erk? Is that Vaporeon's name?" She asked bending down to stroke the Pokémon. He rubbed his head against her hand and yapped in delight of her soft touch. The man looked down at the two and his heart was warmed by such a touching moment.
"Yes. Erk is his name. Oh I apologies. My own name is-"
"WATCH OUT!" Malex shouted, jumping to push the man out of the way, but it was too late. The man had been cut off as a sharp blade was pushed straight into his gut. Malex was not in time and Sapphire hadn't even seen the attack coming. The blood flew from his body and stained his white garments as well as flicking onto Malex's body and Sapphire's face. She screamed terrified and fell back... It had been years since she screamed but the situation had gone into a complete shocking state. Erk jumped in front of it's master and tugged on his clothes using a paw.
"Vap vap!" He yelped as the blade was retreated. The body of the man fell to the ground and the blood stained blade was actually the arm of a Scyther. Standing next to the green bug was a lady with long pure red hair. Her eyes was a dark brown and she was dressed in a long red cloak and the under clothes were a pitch black with gold details running around the edge.
"Stupid prick." She muttered watching as the Scyther licked the blood off it's hand and smirked with a chuckle. "The man used his own life to save a bit of bird food. Ha! Too bad the bird food wont be able to get away now. What a waste, he would have made a good husband for a little lone women like me." She laughed and smiled at her opponents who were now stumbling further away from the cave. "Eh? Am I scaring you?"
"Vap Vap!" Erk threatened getting itself into a battle position next to it's master's body.
"We can't let Erk do this alone! We... we didn't even get to say thank you to that man." Sapphire announced. "Light! Slowpoke! Lets do this!" She threw the two balls out and the Pokémon came to the field.
"What?! Are you crazy!!!!!!" Malex shouted looking down at the released Pokémon. "Leave the Vaporeon! Lets just get out of here!
"The man.... with no name... said that the only way out of here is through that cave... so we must go through it. But right now theres an ugly b!tch blocking our way." Sapphire stated glaring at the women who scoffed at the insult. It was obvious it wasn't the first time she had been called such a harsh name.
"..." Malex grabbed Autumn's ball and set her free. "Theres no helping it with you around is there Sapphire? I suppose we should thank this man for his life, by not losing our own. Are you stable enough to battle?" He asked concerned.
"It's not me who's fighting. LIGHT! Start this thing with an Ember!" Light jumped into the air before his eyes narrowed becoming sharper and even scary. With a high speed he began to rush at the Scyther, forming an ember in his mouth. "Slowpoke! Use yawn!" She commanded as the pink Pokémon opened it's mouth wide and let out a huge yawn which made the Scyther yawn as well as the lady.
Malex stepped up and looked down at Autumn. "Autumn use your tackle and be quick about it!" The small green Pokémon began to rush at the larger bug Pokémon. She lowered her head and rand along side Light. The Vaporeon also jumped into battle calling up water that seemed to appear out of no-where. It jumped onto the water and began to ride the giant wave as though it was surfing. Malex and Sapphire both knew this was the move that the man had used on the other lot of weirdos.
"Scyther! Don't let them land a move! Slash!" Scyther disappeared from sight with it's fast movements and appeared in front of the chikorita. A harsh slash came slamming down on the poor Pokémon not even giving it time to counter. Autumn flew back after being hit by the slash attack and landed on her back. She wiggled around and was already covered in scratches and bruises.
Malex pulled out her Pokéball and called her back. "Sorry Sapphire, but if I leave Autumn out there then she's going to faint. I'll treat her with the Potions I brought later." He stated watching as Light successfully landed an ember on the bug. Scyther squealed and looked back as it's fragile wings were burning. It screamed before yawning and falling asleep. "Light! Get out of the way or you'll be hit by that surf too!" Malex assisted and Light did as it was told jumping swiftly out of the way of the Vaporeon's attack. The Surf hit the sleeping bug dead on. A critical hit.
"Scyther!" The lady screamed, but it was no use, her Pokémon was asleep. Sapphire had commanded to use a tackle on the Scyther, and Slowpoke did what it was asked. Slowly the attack landed and the woman spat on the ground. Had she lost or would Scyther wake up? It twitched and Vaporeon, Charmander and the Slowpoke all waited to see if they would need to attack again. Sapphire and Malex both crossed their fingers in hope, but if the Pokémon had fainted... would they need to kill the women or should they make a run for it into the cave?
