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Prolouge
With the cloudless sky, arceus graces us with yet another full moon. Though times have changed, at least that much has remained the same...
This moon... I sware by my father's remains. It'll be the last he ever sees.
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Raphiel: heheh, gracias senior, you've been muy corroporative for us today.
Flank: This one was a lot more talkative that the last few we had to go through. I didn't even have to get my hands dirty.
Rapiel: Hahaha, hey, I think he's still breathing, should I poke em?
Flank: Do whatever pleases you, We got what we came here for. Not like we can go anywhere until the boss gets back anyhow.
-Raphiel stoops down and pokes an unconscious guard in the neck with an extended finger. The guard emits a low grunt, but otherwise doesn't respond.-
Raphiel: Aww, pity, and he was so much fun to play with...
-Flank casts his comrade an annoyed glance from atop his stack of crates. This is what he had to put up with everyday. Raphiel and his obsessive whining, it was starting to give him a headache.-
Flank: Say, how much longer until we break the surface?
It's been ages hasn't it, I sick and tired of these walls.
-Raphiel looks up from his experiment with the half-dead guard.-
Raphiel: Huh? ID'nno, a few hours I guess...
Boss said it wasn't far...
-Flank takes out a dagger and eyes it causally-
Flank: A few hours--
-Flint's ears perk up at the sound of someone approaching. His eyes take on a murderious glint, and he cats his knife out into the shadows. Theres silence...
Then a lone figure steps out, clothed in all black robes-
Flint: Boss! Took ya long enough, where've you been?
-The figure takes a look around at the clearing, then at the guard lying dead on the floor. Is face shows the faintest hints of a smile as he takes in the each of the man's broken fingers. These two must've had a lot of fun with this one.-
Figure: Flint, Raphiel. I take it your objectives are both complete?
-The two lackies salute. Flint drops down from his seat atop the crate stack, and walks over to greet his superior.-
Flank: Nice to have you back chief.
Aye, this one was much corroporative he was...
Raphiel here sure had his deal of fun, didn't you Ralph?
-Raphiel grins idiotically-
Raphiel: That I did mijo~
Sang like a pretty bird this one did.
Tweet tweet~
-Flank manages to look highly annoyed at the bad bird impresion-
Figure: Hmm... Very well then, I leave it up to you, Flank to brief me on the intel as we move forward. Come, both of you.
Both: Aye!
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Indeed, times have changed a lot...
Looking up at the starlit sky tonight, I see the same set of dots, illuminated by the very same orb as any other night. The same boring sea of white and black. Boring was good, I liked things that way.
Predictable, no guesswork invonved. It made things easy when you wanted to get over an another person. I should know, It's what I do for a living.
...
We're getting close. Flank, Raphiel and I. We've been on this very same train for nearly a year. Coountless times, we've come close to reaching our goal, only to reach another dead end. That's the way things worked underground. Nowadays's you couldn't even trust your own brother not to stab you in the back.
Even now, our journey has not been met without resistance.
I gazed down upon my next victim, a pale man dressed in all white cloth. He gazed up at me with those trimbling pleading eyes that never failed to tick me off. I kept my face cold and hard. I knew the man would be looking for some trace of emotion in my eyes, anything, rage, vengeance, greed. Those were the emotions men understood. I hid them all.
"So, are you going to make things easy, or do I need to break another finger?" I asked casually. I grabbed hold of the man's hand and pulled his index finger painfully back. The man tried his best to squirm free, but my Psychic had him held strong.
"P-p-please..." the man pleaded.
His index finger snapped. I took a deep breath and sighed over the man's agonized cries. There it was again... Always with the "please".
"Look," I said, hiding impatience "Clearly you don't want to be here anymore than I do. So spill it, where is your master hiding?"
The man piped up in a small quivering voice
"M-master... h-he doesn't hide... Our m-master would never hide from his problems..."
"Is that so?" I said, admiring the man's loyalty.
He nodded, he had a pained look on his face. I'd only taken out two of the man's fingers so far, i hadn't even broken any major bones yet. Still, he had that near-broken look in his eye that told me he was almost ready to submit. I casually snapped the man's arm.
"Good," I said, over the man crying out in pain.
"Then, If he's been so kind to place himself in plain sight, would'nt you mind kindly telling us where we can find him?"
"D-devil..." The man sobbed.
I gave the man my best shark smile.
"Why sir, you flatter me... Here, why don't I patch up those wounds a bit, you don't look well."
I placed a hand on the man's chest, he looked at me confused for a second, then cried out even louder than before as each of his bones mended themselves then snapped back into place. When it was all over, the man was good as new. And so the cycle continues.
"All right... I'll talk..." The man said, not wanting to go through another heal/torture session.
I raised an eyebrow, then kindly releaed my psychic on the man so that he could move around. I didn't have to worry about him turning traitor on me. I'd already know it if he tried anything. Plus it'd be simple to catch him again, i wouldn't even have to lift a finger.
"Go on." I said.
The man paused for a second to gather himself. He cast a worried look at me to make sure that I wasn't pulling his leg just to toy with him. He was only met with the same emotionless stare as always, so he sighed and figured he may as well take the only opportunity that was offered to him.
"I was intructed to be our Master's guide into the city for the week" The man began. "This master... such is the term we grace all our clients with... he was a bit stranged. He liked to prattle on for long hours about the most random things. I thought he was pretty easy to get along with, despite his odd tendencies..."
My eyebrow raised up a small margin at that. A friendly man with unortodox tendencies here and there. This just may be the man we're looking for. I nodded my head at the man, urging him to carry on.
"I-I haven't seen him since he undocked at Library Island a few weeks ago. H-he said he was going to go visit an old friend... then I never heard from him again. It's not far from here actually... just a few blocks and you can catch a bo--"
I raised my hand to silence the man. I'd heard all I needed to know.
"So he has been here..." I thought quietly to myself. Could it be? Was on full year of long tireless searching finally coming to an end?
"Thank you sir, you've been of great help. You may leave."
The man looked at me with eyes wide. He could'nt believe it. Was i really just going to let him go?
"T-thank you master" The man stammered, bowing.
I waved my hand at the uneccessary title.
"Just go... I've better things to do than to have you waste my time with your polite garbage. In case you haven't noticed, I'm
not one of your fat-pocket clients."
The man stood a little taken aback, but was greatful nontheless at the mercy that was being shown to him. He bowed to me one last time, then took off down the alley, heading for the safety of the streets.
I looked over into the shadows nearby where flank was hiding.
"Kill him" I said. Then got up and headed out to catch the next ferry.
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Library Island
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"Greetings Carl" Venomuthi smiled. "It's been too long hasn't it?"
Venomuthi gazed down sharkishly at the overweight aligator trembling beneath his foot. K. Rool still couldn't beleve anyone had made it down the mountain this far.
"V-venomuhti..." K. Rool breathed. He yelped as muhti stabbed his sword into the ground just next to his head.
"Lets cut to the chase" Venomuhti said, wasting no time, "You have something I wan't. It's taken me 3 weeks now to navigate through the system of caves beneath Mount Library, and my feet are tired. Don't make this any longer or harder than it needs to be."
K. Rool's face beaded up with sweat. So it was true, Venomuthi was here to take away his most prized treasure. But, he couldn't just hand it over to him. He's spent his entire life trying to get that, perhaps if he could stall the man long enoguh...
"You have five seconds to answer before body parts start coming off" Venomuhti said simply. Oh well, there went
that idea.
"I- I don't..." K. Rool began, then was cut short as the sound of footsteps was heard coming down the wide staircase.
Venomuthi grunted with frustration. He really wasn't in the mood for another distraction.
"Dementio, what do you want? Can't you see I'm in the middle of something?" Venomuhti began. Then suddenly looked down. Why was the floor getting hot?
Venomuhti jumped back several feet. Just in time, the floor beneath him exploded, and K. Rool was shot somewhere off into the cieling.
"Greeting's president" A soft voice called out from the shadows.
Venomuthi's pulse quickened. He knew that voice.
"Xiroey, old friend" Venomuhti smiled. "How've you been? Mari still whining about "friends" and "guardains" and all that?"
A short black-hooded figure stepped out into the wide chamber. He pulled his hood back, revealing a mane of spikey black hair, and two murderous purple eyes.
"Still stomping on whomever you please in order to get your way..." Xiroey mused, gazing up at the ceiling.
Venomuhti took a good look at Xiroey's face and laughed.
"Ha! You're one to talk! Look at you, those eyes. You have the eyes of a killer Xiro. What's wrong, your wittle friend's death make you mad?"
Xiroey looked up and gave Venomuhti his famous blank stare.
"Friends who...?" Xiroey said, then nonchalantly pulled out a pair of guns.
"Hmm..." Venomuhti mused. He jumped to the side just as Xiroey unleashed a volley of Ice bullets near his head. He reached out his hand an shot out a string of web. Xiroey lazily waved his hand at it and it's trajectory was defelcted.
"Ooh" Venomuhti cooed "Someone's got a new set of tricks"
Xiroey vanished, then reappeared at Muhti's side with his gun raised above his head.
"Just die..." He said simply, then brought the gun down.
Muhti raised his sword up just in time to block the blow. The two weapons clashed, and sparks flew through the air. Venomuhti was a little stunned at first, then he looked up and realized there were a pair of sharp blades hidden beneath the gun barrels.
"Sneaky" he said, then kicked his ex-friend in the crotch.
Xiroey went down, grunting from having his babymaker's abused so harshly. "Thanks for stopping by" Venomuthi said, then he brought his foot down on Xiroey's head. Searing pain shot up his foot after he realized that his attack didn't connect. He looked down and saw a set of black spikes poking out of the ground where Xiroey's body should be. And his leg was impaled painfully on one of them.
Venomuhti heard a soft voice whisper in his ear before it disspeared again.
"One Year..." It said, Then the entire room went quiet.
Venomuhti grunted, then pulled his leg out of the spike. His pant leg was rapidly turning red. He'd make that pesky Eon pay as soon as he got his hands on him. But where did he go...?
The ground beneath him rumbled. Venomuhti looked down and tried to jump back just as the ground beneath him exploded. Unfortunately, his wounded leg wasn't about to have it. He cried out and was stuck there as he got pelted by several tons of heavy rocks.
A black latios shot up out of the deep fissure it created in the gound. It took no chances, and shot several black Thunderbolts down into the dust. Down below, Latios heard someone cry out in pain. He got him!
A powerful force whacked Latios in the back of the head. He went down and hit the ground right next to the deep hole he created.
Oh right... Venomuhti had that...
"Careless as always" Venomuhti sighed, brushing dust off his pants.
Both he and his leg were completely fine.
"I haven't had the luxury"Latios growled darkly, then his body began to glow a multitude of swirling colors"
Venomuhti raised an eye at that. Where had he'd seen that before?
The swirling colors stopped. Latios floated there for a sec to give his neck a good crack back and forth, then he sped at Muthi with speed rivaled only by one famous blue hedgehog.
"At last, my search comes to and end" Latios said, as he was getting ready to deal the final blow. Venomuhti was lying beneath him on the ground. He couldn't move. Somehow the Eon had managed to restrict all of his movements... but how...?
Latios raised up a claw, It lit up bright blue with purple flames dancing around the sharp tips. Venomuhti raised an eyebrow at it.
That was new...
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Shadow Cleave..." Latios said, then brought the claw down.
But don't think we're BFF's or anything. I still hate you. Just slightly less now.
