The dread quickly turns to fear as I try to run with one limp leg. I don’t know what just woke, I only know what general direction it is and that is behind me somewhere. An ear piercing screech sounds out from whatever just awoke as I run as fast as I can with one leg in great pain. The sounds of chaos of the city all around as the group that is assaulting the city continues and all I want to, no, need to do is run.

I can feel my heart pumping as I just need to run. So much just passes through my mind as the scenery goes past me. My mind suddenly stops as one image appears in my mind. In it stands two humans, a hoot hoot, an aron, a braxien, a frogadier, and two vulpixes. Jennifer, Oliver, Hoot, Aron, Fen, Froagadier, Sune, Lumi. I couldn’t leave them behind. I need to find them. I need to know they are safe.

I hadn’t noticed but I had turned around and was making my way through the fleeing crowds and bits of debris. So much chaos. And for what?

A massive amount of dust and smoke covered the central regions of the city and it slowly spread to encompass the rest. The various airships were making their way towards it with one several times larger high in the sky sitting over the rest. In the cloud, bright flashes of red could be seen that would originate from I could only assume the top of the mansion and they would shoot of in straight lines in random directions.

As I moved further into the city, the sounds quieted down but the occasionally loud screech sounded out as explosions went off and screams where cut short. The dust and smoke became thicker, stopping me from seeing far into it. I find where I had left the twins and start looking for them here.

Jennifer! Oliver! Sune! Lumi! I yell into the cloud and destroyed streets, only receiving the continually quieter sounds from the chaos. I move to where the twins where standing. I search the ground but I don’t see anyone so they got away. But a slight dash of red next to a small roof tile grips my heart. I use Extreme Speed to bolt to it and I look at it seeing that it is blood. I look around for more, but I don’t see any in the immediate vicinity.

How am I going to find them in this situation? I say as I can feel the worry in my heart grow. As I slowly look around into the cloud of dust and smoke, I can see the outline of a person standing there. But something felt wrong. I slowly approached the person as I slowly make out more detail. It looked like they were running, but they were frozen. Like a statue, but that statue wasn’t there before. As I get closer, they look grey, as if made of stone. I wanted to believe it was a statue, but it wasn’t there before. I can also make out other figures further back in the cloud. I get close enough to see the figures face. He looked like a young man who was here on vacation. But his face only showed terror. The ground beneath him was the same grey as him and it looked like someone just dragged a paintbrush in a line that slid across the ground and up a nearby wall. Judjing by the direction, it must have been from the thing the awoke.

The ear piercing screeches continued as red light continued to flash for several seconds before fading. Screams ending suddenly. Both of people and pokemon. Considering everything, there is only one pokemon who could do all of this.

Yveltal.

I start to back off, as I start to feel panic. And my body just starts moving with a purpose.

I need to find them now and go.

I run back to the small blood stained tile and my body leans down and starts smelling it. After a few seconds of this, I start to smell the blood in the air. As my body turns its head, I can smell where it is strongest. I start following the scent through the dust, as it leads me away from the screeches behind me.

At first I am able to easily follow the scent and occasionally drops of blood but as I move towards the outer walls of the city, the scent of blood gets stronger, and sounds of fighting grow. While the dust cloud becomes less dense. I can see all sorts of rubble and craters.

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“Help.” I hear a weak sound call. “Somebody please.”

I rush to the sound and arrive at a small pile of rubble with a street light buried in it. I at first don’t see who is calling but I circle around to see a young girl half buried in the rubble. She has her head pinned sideways and she is looking straight at me with tears.

“Please.” She says. I feel my mind want to continue to search for my companions and I stop myself.

I cant leave her. Oliver and Jennifer will be fine. I scold myself as I move towards her and start shoving the rubble off the little girl. As I remove the rubble, I see one of her legs are under the light pole. I decide to do that last as I get the rest of debris off the girl. She didn’t appear to be too badly injured but she could be in a bad situation internally. The poor girl is still crying once all of the rubble is off her as I turn to the light.

I try to push it but I cant get it to move. I look to one side and see the post has a gap underneath it I can slide under. I do so and try to lift it by standing but I cant lift it.

I back out and go near her leg. I raise my injured leg with difficulty as Shadow Claw activates and I swipe down beside the girls leg. My strike slides through the pole, and the cut section just falls off. With the less weight, I am able to slide the pole off her leg. She tries to stand but she is to injured to and falls back down.

I go next to the girl lay down in front of her.

“What are you doing?” She asks through tears. I stand and go to her side and manage to slide my head under her arm and raise it, lifting her body a bit. I then slide myself under her to get her mostly on my back with her legs sticking out behind me. Lucky she is small enough for me to even do this. She realises what I am doing once she is one my back and starts crying again. “We cant leave daddy!” She yells in tears. I look back and, in the rubble, I can make out a hand just poking out. I already knew what his outcome was. I wanted to check by ripping up all of the tiles and seeing but some part of me told me exactly. So I started to walk away.

“Please, Daddy!” The girl cries as I carry her away from her father. I spent a few difficult minutes walking with the girl on my back as I couldn’t use all four legs properly. Although my injured leg was hurting less for some reason. The sounds getting quieter and quieter. The girl had fallen unconsious on my back for some reason.

“Hey!” I hear yelled from to my side as I pass a street and I turn to see a police officer coming towards me. “Wait a moment!” He adds so I stop. The man reaches me and checks the unconscious girl and breaths a sigh of relief. “She is alive.” The officer says as he picks up the girl and starts going down the same way I was. “Follow me, evacuation is this way.”

I see him run ahead but I turn around and start going back. “Where are you going?” The man yells as I move away but I don’t hear him follow. I am able to swiftly make it back to pile of rubble I saved the girl from because some part of me held hope the man was alive. But as I felt his arm, there was nothing.

Dammit. I say quietly before I return to my original task. I spent a minute trying to find the original scent of blood I was trailing before I found it and I followed it slowly. I continued down the same path I just took the girl. I got further than before I felt something go wrong as I just started falling sideways. I land on the ground as a wave of exhaustion and pain hit me as I fell onto my sore leg. I manage to get up and keep walking but this wave of weakness was still affecting me. The screeches in the air grew fainter as did the sounds of battle. My vision is suddenly blocked as something hits my face making me reel back and shake my head. I dislodged the thing and look down as it falls on the ground. It’s a piece of torn fabric with the majority of a red W on it. I quickly realise its upside down as it would have to a M.

It then struck me who the attackers are.

Team Magma! They are the ones that caused all of this. I growl with anger before its replaced with confusion. Why are they here though? Isn’t their whole thing about recreating the world with Groudon? Is Groudon here? No, if he was, everything would be destroyed completely as fire and lava wen’t everywhere. Besides, they’re attacking Yveltal. Unless they got the wrong information and they weren’t intending on waking the destruction pokemon. But why send such a large force if they wanted to wake Groudon? Unless they were trying to capture it. Dammit, why don’t I ever have enough answers!

Out of nowhere, my exhausted body screams in danger and I go to leap away. I turn my head as I do and I see a large white beam heading straight for me. It wasn’t going to hit me straight on but I knew with how I felt, I wouldn’t be able to dodge the explosion fast enough. Time seemingly slowed as I notice the origin of the shot was from the large aircraft that I could see through a large gap in the smoke as it sat fairly level with mansion.

In those few moments, so much passed through my mind is as I felt my body coated in energy as Extreme Speed activated so I could escape, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to dodge it. It was already too close and moving too fast. I closed my eyes right before I felt the pain which turned to emptiness as everything went completely black.