Chapter 8 End of the Nightmare

Level 32 Ahmes (Gallade) psychic/fighting

Moves:

Slash

Double team

Psybeam

Future Sight

Level 26 Wingal (Lycanroc (dusk)) rock

Moves:

Crush Claw

Bite

Rock tomb

Sand attack

Level 28 Llew (Wimpod) water/bug

Moves:

Struggle bug

Sand attack

Defense curl

“You! Pieces of shit! Let go of me so I get out the rest of my Pokémon to destroy you!”, Kyou growled still being restrained by Ahmes.

“Maybe if you calm down a bit.”, Aichi suggested sweat dropping.

He had absolutely no idea why this guy was so mad at him and attacked him. He noticed the red A on his clothes realizing he must be a part of Team Asteroid.

“Yeah...let’s not do that. We should probably call the police so this lowlife can rot in jail.”, Kamui suggested.

Riolu looked over to Kyou. It was hard to believe just a few years ago he was a wide eyed hopeful trainer. He wasn’t perfect of course, a bit too arrogant for his own good, but he wasn’t bad. Now, he was a complete maniac. Riolu hopes to maybe one day return and bring him back to how he was, but felt he was already lost.

“Oh, wait I forgot Misaki! She’s fighting those goons and Kurosawa all alone!”, Kamui shouted.

“W-what?! Okay let’s go then take him with us Ahmes.”, Aichi ordered as Ahmes nodded, lifting Kyou up into the air with its powers.

Aichi and Kamui eventually made it to Misaki gawking in shock as they saw various ghost Pokémon littering the ground knocked out.

“What the hell is Misaki? Does she have powers too?”, Kamui questioned shakily.

“Not that I know of…”, Aichi trailed off sweat dropping as they made their way over to Misaki.

Misaki had sat down clearly exhausted. Assista Eevee was next to her sleeping like a cat. The robed men were knocked out. One started to wake up groaning while holding his head.

“What happened?”, Kurosawa groaned.

He seemed to be back to normal; they didn’t quite know why though. They explained to him everything that happened until now and he looked horrified.

“W-what I just let the ghost Pokémon have their way with everyone? Oh, Arceus! What was I thinking?”, Kurosawa questioned.

“It seems like you were under some sort of control. One likely inflicted by Suzugamori Ren.”, Misaki explained.

“I’m so sorry really… I don’t know how, but I’ve gotta fix this...”, he apologized sounding very disheartened looking to the surviving townsfolk and the destroyed town.

“I know it might not mean much, but it’s alright you weren’t yourself.”, Aichi said as Kurosawa turned his attention to him and Kamui.

“Thank you truly. You two are really brave kids. I think you should take this.”, Kurosawa said handing Aichi the ghoul badge.

“Why are you giving this to me when we didn’t even battle?”, Aichi questioned.

“If you were able to take down that Kyou guy you're more than ready to have this badge. Besides I don’t think I’ll have much time for battling. We've gotta rebuild everything.”, Kurosawa replied.

“You want help?”, Aichi asked as Kurosawa chuckled, patting his head.

“You’ve done more than enough kid. We can handle this. After all, you three plan to take down Suzugamori Ren and Team Asteroid right?”, Kurosawa replied.

“Yeah...I just really feel bad that we couldn’t have gotten here sooner...”, Aichi said as he looked over to the citizens.

Aichi looked surprised as the boy from before walked over to him sheepishly.

“T-thank you mister, for avenging my sister.”, the boy said bowing , making Aichi really flustered.

“You don’t need to bow it’s fine...Wait that ghost I met...that was your sister?”, Aichi replied.

The boy got up to face Aichi.

“Y-you saw her!”, he gasped.

“Y-yeah...I don’t know where she went so many things happened at once. Maybe she was able to move on. That would be nice.”, Aichi replied.

“Yeah...I hope so. I bet she’s in Heaven now.”, the kid said, tearing up.

Aichi patted his head.

“Don’t worry it will all be alright.”, Aichi assured.

Later…

Aichi, Misaki, and Kamui prepared to leave after the cops came to pick up Kyou.

“R-Riolu! (W-wait)”, Riolu said, stopping the three.

Aichi looked back to Riolu raising his eyebrow.

“Is something wrong?”, Aichi asked.

“R-R-Riolu! Riolu! (I-I please let my join you Sendou Aichi!)”, Riolu said as Aichi’s eyes widened in shock.

“I thought you didn’t like humans?”, Aichi questioned cocking his head genuinely confused.

“Riolu. Riolu. Riolu. Riolu…Riolu! Riolu! (I didn’t. I had all, but lost my faith in humans...and friendship, but you have reinvigorated it! Please allow me to join your team!)”, Riolu begged bowing.

“Of course you can. You don’t have to beg me though. Welcome to the team! Uh...do you have a name?”, Aichi asked as he approached Riolu and Kamui and Misaki looked on clueless.

“Riolu. Riolu. (My name is Gancelot.)”, Gancelot answered.

“Okay, nice to formally meet you Gancelot.”, Aichi said holding out a Poké ball.

Gancelot touched the ball entering in.

“Did you just talk another Pokémon into joining your team?”, Misaki questioned exasperated.

“Yeah…”, Aichi chuckled, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

“That’s pretty cool. You're like a Pokémon whisperer. Can all psychics do that?”, Kamui questioned.

“Not that I’ve heard of.”, Misaki answered.

Aichi was about to go back with the others before he saw the ghost girl waving in the distance.

“Thank you for freeing us.”, Ime smiled brightly.

Aichi smiled, waving back as Misaki and Kamui looked at him like he was crazy.

“What are you waving at?”, Kamui questioned.

“It’s nothing…”, Aichi said smiling knowing the souls of Drifblum’s victims were now free.

Somewhere…

Ren sat in a chair clapping as he was watching a screen displaying our heroes. It cut off as he stopped smiling.

“Very impressive 003v...or should I say Sendou Aichi. I can’t wait till we meet again.”, Ren said smiling sinisterly.

“What should we do about Kyou?”, A rather tall young man with purple hair and a beard wearing a green suit with a red A said.

“Who?”, Ren questioned as the man sweat dropped.

“Never mind…”, the man said.

With Aichi…

“There’s a city between here and Grandblue city. It doesn’t have a gym. We should rest up there and stock up on some potions before having to face Gouki.”, Misaki said.

Kamui looked down at the mention of Gouki.

“It will be fine Kamui. This time you have us.”, Aichi assured, smiling.

“Thanks, Aichi.”, Kamui said with a small smile.