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The Pokémon Prometheus 2 Ch. 20 by foxgamer01 (critique requested)

The Pokémon Prometheus 2 Ch. 20

Ch. 20 The Decision

Kyle sprinted forward, his eyes narrowing and his body glowing as he approached. Though only seconds passed, it felt like an eternity for Maya to shrink down. He grunted, running past anthros who still fled from the destroyed farms. One anthro fell, though he seemed frozen in time, and Kyle’s eye glinted.

If only he had the time.

Seconds later, he ran through the area where Maya once stood, searching. He gritted his teeth, running through rocky plains and pawprints before he felt the ground shake. His ears folded back a bit before he followed where the shaking came from. Finally, he stood before the last pawprint he had not searched, where Maya lay, defeated.

And where Adrian stood in triumph.

He glared, with sparks emitting from his fists, and he summoned a new Aura bone before sprinting down, his body still glowing. In an instant, he went behind Adrian and swung his Aura bone high. The chance to finish what he started months ago has come, he thought as he lowered it—

Adrian leaped to the side just as fast as the Aura bone crashed down against the ground, inches away from Maya’s nose. He blinked even as Adrian spun around and charged, his head slamming against Kyle’s stomach. Soon, he crashed against the pawprint’s side, with some stones jagged against his arm as he yelped.

Kyle closed one of his eyes, grunting as he pulled himself off from the crater, with Adrian leaping and spinning forward as his tail glowed. He lifted his Aura bone up, and the attacks connected. The Aura bone broke, with Adrian’s tail slamming against his side before he crashed against the ground, with him bouncing a bit and away before getting back up. But by the time he lifted his head, a five-pointed fire came. He lifted his arms up, feeling burns as the fire engulfed him.

Soon, the fire stopped coming, and Kyle lowered his arms as he stopped glowing, Adrian ahead while glaring back.

“I’m impressed,” Kyle said while readjusting his mask. “I didn’t think anyone could avoid attacks as fast as lightning. Especially someone like you.”

Adrian growled. “Hello, Kyle. You are that Kyle, right?” Kyle’s eyes narrowed. “Of all the things I thought you’ll be doing these last six years, turning yourself into a part-electric type is not one of them. Not to mention dealing with someone like Maya. So, what Pokémon did you get your electric-typing from? A Pikachu or,” Adrian paused, and his eyes narrowed as well. “They were a Jolteon, right?”

“You should’ve been a Vaporeon, just like your dear daddy wants,” Kyle said in a mocking tone, and Adrian’s ears folded back while his claws extended. “But, to think that, rather than become a Vaporeon, you evolved into a Flareon instead. Her heart belonged to me. I thought I made that clear that day.”

Adrian laughed before turning to his front left paw. “What you did that day was the worse mistake of your life. Something that you only reinforced when you came back. If only I had known that me being a Flareon really infuriated you sooner, far more than what I thought.” Kyle summoned a new Aura bone, and Adrian grinned. “Far better payback for what happened.”

“It seems that whatever made you stronger made you arrogant.” Kyle pointed the Aura bone forward. “Choose your next words carefully.”

“Too bad,” Adrian said as he lowered his body. “I’m done talking.”

“So be it,” Kyle said. “Once I defeat you, I’ll take Faith—”

Adrian’s tail glowed once more before he sprinted forward. He leaped up and swung his tail, but Kyle’s body glowed once more. He jumped to the side and slammed his Aura bone against Adrian’s side. He soon crashed against the pawprint’s walls as electricity formed over Kyle’s other hand-paw. He flung it forward, with electricity ripping through the hole as he held a grin. Afterward, he reformed the Aura bone into a ball and expanded its size before throwing it in, with it exploding.

With smoke and dust covering ahead, he laughed, but Adrian leaped out from it, his fur scuffed up. His tail glowed still before swinging once more. Kyle blinked, forming a new Aura bone and holding it ahead while gritting his teeth, making contact with his tail. The ground broke under him before he crashed into the side as well.

Kyle grunted, digging himself out only for Adrian’s head to slam against him once more, crashing back into the hold. Soon, fire came in as well, with him feeling burns throughout his body even as he wiggled. Finally, he broke free from it, leaping to the other side of the pawprint before pressing against his Ninetales mask. He felt burn marks on it, and electricity ripped through his body before spinning around.

Adrian charged forward even as Kyle formed an Aura sphere with his hand-paws. Soon, he tossed the Aura ball, with it exploding against Adrian’s head. But he kept on going and slammed against Kyle’s stomach once more. He grunted out, slamming his hand-paws against Adrian’s head, but soon Kyle flung back once more. Finally, he pushed himself forward, his feet-paws digging through the ground below him, and he avoided crashing against the pawprint’s wall.

Kyle roared out, with more bolts of lightning forming from him even as Adrian’s body glowed purple. Soon, he fired a fiery purple wave while Kyle’s electricity generated through the ground, ripping through dirt and stones. Finally, their attacks collided and exploded in the middle, with smoke and dirt hovering over the air.

Seconds passed as the smoke faded away and the dirt settled back, but both Kyle and Adrian stood there. They glared at each other, with Kyle lowering his head, his gritting teeth exposed. Yet Adrian turned upwards, his mouth closed. And despite the explosions and the attacks, Maya still lay in her own little crater, not even hearing the conflict.

The seconds counted down, each one feeling like a lifetime to them. Kyle’s right foot-paw twitched even as Adrian’s front left leg flexed a bit. Still, they said nothing and made no movements, standing like statues. Finally, their eyes connected, glaring even as Kyle’s right hand-paw twitched.

But soon, they leaped forward once more.

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Faith ran as fast as she could when she kept hearing explosion ahead, her eyes wide as she cursed, not having any more macro reserves. She even wondered who or even what he was fighting. Perhaps Maya, if his final attack didn’t hit or she proved to be far stronger than they thought. Regardless, she hoped that the ten minutes it took to get there didn’t cost Adrian.

Soon, she reached the very edge of the massive pawprint Maya left behind, with her giving out a gasp. Flames melted dirt and stones into a glass with huge holes left behind within and on the walls; she didn’t know how it could still be seen as a pawprint. Maya lay at the center, higher than the others even as she didn’t move.

But there were two other figures in the pawprint as well.

To her, they moved like a blur even as they threw fire, Aura, electricity, and ground against each other. The ground shook a bit with Faith stumbling before regaining her balance, her muscles tense yet sore. Soon, the two blurs jumped away from each other, with Adrian landing just below her even as the masked Lucario, Kyle, landed across from the two. Both looked bruised and exhausted, though Kyle’s spikes on the appendages shrunk down to near nothing.

“Adrian! Kyle!”

Both Adrian and Kyle turned up to Faith, both looking startled. Adrian gave out a wide grin, but Faith’s ears flattened to the sides, and her tails lowered even as she smiled back. But Kyle’s left hand-paw glowed black, and he grunted, gripping it tight. He pointed the glowing paw at Adrian even as a black sphere formed in front of it. Adrian turned back; his expression darkened as he bent low.

Faith shook her head. “Stop fighting! Both of you!”

Kyle’s breathing tightened, his chest moving in and out. He shook his hand-paws while gritting his teeth as though struggling with his very desire. He exhaled for a couple of seconds before his right hand-paw pushed the left up, inch by inch. His body shook even as the sphere pointed towards Faith, his eyes shut before it fired.

Faith took a step back, her ears flattened back even as her brain screamed to keep moving. But her exhausted body refused to move against her fear. Even so, it moved so quick that she even wondered if she could avoid it if she wanted to. Her jaws dropped, her eyes wide, and her heart pounding against her chest.

But Adrian leaped, and the black sphere impacted his chest, fusing with him.

Faith regained use of her legs even as Adrian fell down, limp. Even slamming against the ground didn’t make him react. She slid down into the pawprint and pressed his body, but he became icy cold. And Kyle lowered his arms, half-relieved and half-thoughtful.

“Adrian?” Faith said, the area becoming far colder even as her fur bristled. “No. No. Why?” She spun to Kyle. “Kyle! Why?! What’s the point in this?! Is this what you wanted?!”

“He is not dead if that is what you’re thinking,” Kyle answered, and Faith took a step back. “He is just cursed, but unless he is taken to my master, he will die within 120 hours.”

“Then, why?” Faith lowered her head. “I don’t understand.”

“I do not understand as well,” Kyle said even as he rubbed against the half-burnt mask, his hand-paws having ashes on them. “Just that my master desires power, and he believes that it can be found in this A-Ninetales. Or you.”

“Huh?”

“Faith, come with me,” Kyle said while pressing against his chest. “My master will lift the curse if you do. If not, remember that it’ll take 120 hours until Adrian dies.”

“I-I.” Faith pressed against Adrian’s forehead, with it cold. “Why do you serve such a master?”

“Because he took me from death’s door.” Kyle reached for the purple Ninetales mask. “And now my life belongs to him.”

He grabbed the mask, and, inch by inch, he pulled it off. Finally, he lowered the mask before his hand-paws let go, with its ears impaling the ground. Faith gasped, her body turning cold even as her paws shook.

Impaled upon his forehead was a purple gem, four-point diamond shape, which glowed a bit.

“He promised that if I granted him the power that he desires, I would be free from his chains, and my life will be mine once more.” Kyle reached out his hand-paw over to Faith. “But if he finds it within you, we’ll be together once more. We’ll be happy. Please, I beg of you. Come.”

Faith felt her heart ripped into two, one eye at the dead-like Adrian and the other at the alive-like Kyle. David’s words echoed into her, about if she would renounce her love for Kyle for what happened in Kucheat Town. Yet, even after both Kucheat Town’s attack and this invasion, one that ended with Adrian in a horrible state, memories kept clouding her mind. The memory of the Riolu who helped her cope with the loss of her parents. That, along with the memory of the Lucario who lived with her before disappearing.

Perhaps David was right about how delusional she is.

But it seemed so right.

Even so, would Adrian be happy with it? She even wondered if he would hate her for the rest of her life if she accepted Kyle’s proposal, even if it meant living. And it was he who lay down even his life, even though he doesn’t expect anything in return. By any regard, he gave up far more for her than Kyle ever had: his family, his money, and even his health. If she took it, it would make everything he suffered for her, all of the training he took to get stronger, all for nothing.

Perhaps David was right about how Adrian was the right one for her.

But if she rejected, it made all of the years she spent with Kyle all for nothing as well.

What will be the decision?

“Faith,” Kyle said, his face softened even his voice became soothing. “I know this is a hard decision for you to make. But please, come. My master made it clear that he wants you if he doesn’t get A-Ninetales, but he promised that he’ll be gentle if it’s you. But only for so many chances. If I failed,” he lowered his eyes, with them turning away, “I’m not sure if you will survive the progress.”

“Kyle,” Faith said even as her eyes flattened to the sides. “Please answer this one question. When you fired out that curse at me, did you want Adrian to take the fall?”

Kyle winced as though pierced by a Bisharp’s blade, yet his voice remained smooth. “You know that I will never hurt you. That all I wanted was for us to be happy together. I thought Adrian knows that as well.”

Faith’s ears flattened forward, not sensing a lie from his voice even as her heart screamed in anger at him. Her tails lowered, her head felt heavy, and yet she felt no closer to the path she wanted to take. She raised her left paw but didn’t extend it forward or backward, just letting it hover in the air. Kyle took a few steps, passing over Maya’s body before raising his right hand-paw to her. Even so, she didn’t make another move.

“Are you sure this is the one?”

“We checked through the other ones, so this must be the one.”

Faith’s ears twitched, hearing the voices of A-Ninetales and Saria. She turned upwards, hearing paw steps coming closer by the second, though not earth-shattering ones. Kyle sighed and lowered his hand-paw while shaking his head. Instead, he placed a hand-paw over his chest and bowed to Faith.

“Remember, my sweet Faith, 120 hours.”

Kyle lowered himself to Maya before his expression became filled with disgust. Instead, he turned around, not picking up either Maya or his mask. His body glowed yellowed before he jumped out from the pawprint crater and ran away, leaving Faith once more. Faith lowered her paw, with all four of them shaking even as her head bent low.

“He’s getting away!”

“But he didn’t take Maya or anyone with him. So, let’s see what happ—”

A-Ninetales and Saria stopped at the very edge of the paw-shaped crater, with them gasping. A-Ninetales leaped down beside Faith and the fallen Adrian and, when he touched him, he paled. Saria leaped over them and headed over to Maya and, after checking her unconscious body, turned to the others. She pressed against the badge and spoke some words to it, but Faith didn’t catch what they meant.

A-Ninetales pressed his paw against Faith’s head, who then collapsed and sobbed into her own legs. He kept on rubbing her back, saying soothing words which Faith didn’t understand, even as the tears came freer. Then, he picked Faith up and hugged her close, with tears falling down on each other’s back.

Minutes passed until a giant Flygon mech, with its cannons smashed, lowered before the pawprint. Anthros poured out from it, with them putting a blanket on both Faith and A-Ninetales before they entered the mech with Saria. Next, Adrian and Maya lay on stretchers and carried in, with Faith extending her white paw to the one Adrian lay on. But they were taken to a different part of the ship, anthros blocking her way and A-Ninetales pressing on her shoulder. So instead, they lead her to the guest room. There, she lay on a couch, with A-Ninetales and Saria trying to comfort her. Even so, she felt her heart dying inside.

Hope failed, and fear consumed her.

The Pokémon Prometheus 2 Ch. 20 (critique requested)

foxgamer01

Here is the twentieth chapter. Enjoy.


The Decision


It's our destiny!
Let this world rest now!
 Are we revoked?
 Is this our real flaw?

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