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Drake and the others appeared like they were in the middle of the throne room, and Zoran sighed, it wasn't even a half hour and they were already defeated. They were conscious but them and there Pokémon weren't seeming to move to stand.

"Sorry Sir, but we are all unable to stand" Drake said seeing that Zoran wanted them to come up and kneel or something.

"What happened?" Zoran asked, normally he would just send away or kill failures but this was different. In some way it felt like they wouldn't have been able to do it anyways.

"We encountered a Zeraora that has the ability to paralyze something with just a touch" Drake said and Zoran stood.

"There is a Zeraora on that island?" He asked completely disregarding the important fact that it had the ability to paralyze with a touch.

"Yeah, it's white with red patches of fur on it, and like I said earlier, it can paralyze you with just a touch." Drake said, "Brian was actually the first effected with it, and even though we aren't near it anymore its effect seems to be still just as effective as it was when we were there."

"I now know what I want from that island other than that Dragonite's head" Zoran said and Drake spoke again.

"Right, it also knows something about the Dragonite, we asked it to take us to it, but the Zeraora seems to be protecting it as well as the island" Zoran looked at Drake and pulled out his phone. Then he punched in the number that Drake gave to him in case they failed and called the number.

"Who is this and how did you get this number?" A female voice picked up on the other side of the line, obviously annoyed.

"Hello my name is Zoran, is this the one called Black Blade?" Zoran asked and the other side of the line was quiet for a second.

"Yes, now how did you get this number?" Black Blade said, "I am quite busy right now so hurry up"

"Yes I got your number from the group that I had hired for something in case they failed, and seeing that they are in able to continue with the task I am contacting you" Zoran smiled as Black Blade hummed with interest on the other side of the line.

"Okay I am interested now, if they've failed that means it may be worth my time" Black Blade said, "I will be there in three minutes" she then ended the call and Zoran looked down at his phone with interest. She sounded young, a lot younger than the group in front of him.

"Why would you give me the number if a child, no less a rude child?" He asked and Drake sighed.

"Even though she is only sixteen, she is much much better than all of us combined, and she'd be a challenge for even you should you fight her." Drake said noticing his finger twitch as he tried to test his body once more but he was unable to use his legs still.

A few moments later a junior high school girl wearing a black robe with four Pokémon at her side appeared: a Weavile, a Blaziken, a Greninja, and a Lucario. They were all covered with blood and even though the girl saw Zoran she didn't acknowledge him and instead turned to the Dark Moonlight Clan members.

"So how strong?" Was all she asked and they seemed to already know what she wanted.

"The Zeraora is about as strong as you and your team, the Dragonite has yet to be encountered" Drake said and Black Blade nodded, she'd heard all she wanted. She came up to Zoran and he gave her a pearl without a word, she was already threatening enough with all of the blood on her and her emotionless expression.

She didn't ask any questions or wait for Zoran to tell her what he wanted and the reward for it. She just tapped the peril three times and was gone from the room.

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I was running around the forest because I needed to expend some energy when I felt five presences on the north side of the island, the same side that the others came from. I grinned, this was going to be the owner of the sword that I had, it had to be.

I was there in a second and I saw a decent sized human girl with four Pokémon around her. Even though I could see that she had a black cloak on I could see that her eyes were a shining Emerald and she was excited about something.

I jumped back into the forest and waited for her to make landfall, and once she stepped onto the beach she just stood there, her Pokémon looking around. I waited for her to make the first move, but she didn't, she just stood there.

"Come out please" her soft voice was rather enticing but that didn't make me come out. I actually wanted to see how she'd react to me. I jumped from the tree I was on and stood about four meters away, at the edge of the forest. Her emerald eyes widened at the sight of me and she seemed torn whether she should admire or fight me, and instead she just started to talk again.

"Are you stuck here?" She asked first and I was surprised this time. I thought that she was going to ask whether or not I was going to lead her to the Dragonite, but no she asked something entirely unrelated to her mission, or what I thought her mission was anyways.

But I nodded in agreement to her question nonetheless and she just plopped onto the ground into a sitting position. Her Pokémon were obviously disturbed by this, but eventually they all sat down next to her creating a wide fan just at the waters edge. Though the fire Pokémon did stay a considerable amount away from the water than everyone else.

I didn't know what to do, I mean I thought that she was going to come in here and try to either catch me, go around me, truck me, or fight me. Not sit down there with her Pokémon and do nothing but draw in the sand aimlessly.

I sat where I was and closed my eyes, I guessed that if she didn't want to do anything fun then I would just keep practicing my awareness using electricity. I decided to see if I could sense further than the storm, it was at least three miles long and to the atmosphere so I didn't really need to evaluate the higher parts of it. And there was also the fact that I liked the feeling that I got as I let my senses pass through the storm.

It was like a giant battery that charges me even when I wasn't even in reach of it, but it only boosted my senses using this technique to study my surroundings. When I finally got past the storm I still couldn't sense anything other than the normal aquatic creatures underneath it and swimming around in and out of it on both sides of the storm.

Suddenly the girl stood up and I opened one eye and looked at her to see her looking back at the storm as well. I realized that my fur was standing on end, and the storm was quieter than usual. Was I actually gaining a little energy this time now that I've broken through and am able to sense areas past the storm?

"I didn't think that a Zeraora would be over here" the girl suddenly said and I opened both eyes this time and watched as she came forwards a step, but as soon as she took that step towards me I shot up and got into a defensive stance.

"Don't worry I don't want to attack you" she said and I tilted my head but relaxed, I felt like what she said was true, but it still didn't help my unease.

I then realized that I was holding something of hers, so I took out the sword and let it cut off the vines securing it to my back. Then I stabbed it into the ground next to me and fluffed my fur up due to the vines having pressed it down too much. And once I felt like my fur wasn't pressed and uncomfortable I grabbed the sword again and ran to stand in front of this 'Black Blade' girl and in her shock she couldn't have reacted in time if I decided to use the sword against her, but I just stabbed it into the ground in front of her and jumped back to where I was. Her Pokémon immediately went to stand in front of her but she just pushed her way through them.

"Why? With your speed it would've been easy to kill me while I was caught off guard" she said and I just smiled at her and stuck out my tongue a little to tell her that I didn't want to kill her or her Pokémon.

"Then where did you find this?" She asked and I just opened my arms and motioned to the entire island's forest behind me and that seemed to have satisfied her.

"Okay, I've heard that you know about a Dragonite that lives here" she finally got to the reason that she was here for. It took her longer than I thought it would for her to get there. "Will you take us to it?" I shook my head and got into a defensive stance.

"If you want to get to Mr. Dragonite then you'll have to go through me and this forest" I growled aloud and her Pokémon bared their teeth at me and showed off their powers.

"Okay I take it you won't let us past, Chloe would you mind telling me what Zeraora said?" Black Blade turned to a Lucario at her side and the Lucario's fans suddenly started it vibrate and I heard a voice in my head like it was being broadcast, and I wasn't ready to her one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard before. It sounded like the howling wind going through a plain of flowers, soft and yet powerful.

He said that he is not going to let us pass, and apparently he knows the Dragonite as a sort of mentor or something the voice said and I accidentally let my guard down for a moment and Black Blade noticed, and looked at her Lucario, and then at me, and she smiled.

"You like Chloe don't you?" She said, "I can feel the passion that she has for you as well just to let you know." Wait. What? She likes me too? Why? How?

I didn't get the chance to think about anymore questions before the flaming Pokémon suddenly came towards me, and the Greninja started off behind it. I growled, fine, they wanted to do it this way, I'll play.

I grinned at the two and met them in the middle, dodging the Flame Punch that came towards me and I tapped the arm of the Flame Pokémon and immediately moved on to the Greninja before the Flame Pokemon even started falling.

Sadly it saw me coming and reversed its momentum to jump back to the other just before I got a chance to touch it. I stopped with my paw reached out and there was a soft thud in the sand behind me. Instead of going back to where I was, I smiled and flexed my claws.

"My turn" I said and ran at full speed, I got a chance to touch the Weavile and the Lucario before they got a chance to react, but Dark Blade and the Greninja fled before I got a chance to get near them.

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Me and Greninja barely got away from the Zeraora as it decommissioned another two of my partners. It was fast, much faster than me and Greninja, and it wasn't even using its lightning powers to move either, this was all purely training.

"Why haven't you used your electricity to get close to us like the others?" I asked and it stopped getting ready to attack and looked down at Chloe.

He says that he doesn't have any lightning to use Chloe said using telepathy and I was truly shocked now. Then I looked around and it made sense.

There was a giant plane of water before getting to the storm, and the Zeraora couldn't run on water or float so the only way it would get electricity was if it was charged with something. It probably used it's remaining electrify reserves to get to the island safely, and had gone without it ever since.

Thought what was most surprising was the instead of trying to get to the storm it focused on using the electricity around it to its benefit. And since every living thing has electrical currents that it can manipulate it's become quite powerful in a different way.

"That's quite an impressive ability you have" I said to it and it just grinned. Then it started to talk again and Chloe translated.

He says that he doesn't want to kill us and would rather not fight, but he is willing to bargain with us she said and I crossed my arms.

"What do you want? And how does that help me?" I asked and the Zeraora grinned once more.

He says that he'll get us a chance to fight the Dragonite, but we are not allowed to kill and any attempt to do so will be stopped by him and he'll immobilize us all...permanently Chloe went silent for a little while but continued. It says that in return for letting us fight the Dragonite, it wants to come with us to the mainland, and if we beat the Dragonite fairly we may get a chance to kill it, depending on whether it cares or not.

"Okay" I turned to Greninja and she nodded, "I guess we'll take your deal, but first you must make sure that you get the Dragonite to come to us"

He says the if the Dragonite wins against us then he be pardoned from all crimes and never hunted for again Chloe adds and I growled. Of course the Pokemon thought of that too. No we couldn't just come back and kill it without the Zeraora here to protect it and the island.

He says he'll be back and that whatever he did to us is going to wear off in a half hour because we're a 'strong team'? Chloe seemed confused but I understood what the Zeraora meant but it wasn't going to be fun waiting here.

"Fine, but don't take too long or I'm going to come for you" I said and the Zeraora growled at me and flexed its claws. "Okay, okay, fine, fine. I'll stay here until your back." It seemed to like that answer better and all it did was give a big grin and shoot off into the forest.

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