Chapter 7 - danger in the sky

Rayquaza defrosted with agonizing slowness. Slowly opening its eyes, it surveyed the wreckage of the pillar bitterly. Summoning its mighty powers, it leaped into the sky to find the other legendaries before they too, fell to the pokemorph. The only thing it could think of was that he must not get his hands on either the darkness quiver or the bow of shadows. One would be disastrous, both would leave the world to face the arrows that can pierce the day, a fatal catastrophe that could not be allowed to happen again.[br]
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Bugsy stumbled upon the Jirachi shrine unexpectedly; he had never known there was a shrine in the maple grove to begin with. Waking with a start, Aqua and Serena nearly clobbered him before Aqua recognized him. "Well this is a surprise to see you here, Bug. Your egg hatch for you?" "Yes, it did." said Bugsy proudly, calling out his Eevee. "Well I'll be damned... it was a shining Eevee that hatched for you huh? That doesn’t occur too often man." "Yah I know, I got more Pokémon here in the grove too" "Excuse me but could you please explain who this guy is Aqua?" Serena interrupted "My bad, Serena this is Bugsy, a friend from in town who is currently on a quest to achieve great things. Bugsy, this is Serena, a friend of mine I met last night." suddenly Everet piped up in Serena's head "Hey you're a pokemorph! Hey Bugsy she's a pokemorph!" "What the hell is a pokemorph?" Bugsy asked "Man you gotta teach that Eevee some discretion. Well since the cat is outta the bag, yes, Serena is a pokemorph. As to what they are, the last batch was a natural occurrence that ravaged the world for three generations. This batch, as she told me earlier, was a result of genetic experimentations. Apparently only one or two actually have any wish to destroy the world as we know it." "How are they gonna do that?" Bugsy asked. Surprisingly, it was Serena who answered “The Arrows of Piercing Day” seeing the blank looks on her friends’ faces, she continued. "The arrows of Piercing Day rip the light asunder, causing trails of darkness to follow behind it that eventually close. If they hit anyone, then that person is then corrupted and then acts as an arrow of darkness himself who is then far more dangerous than the arrow ever was.” “Geez, my day just keeps getting better and better.” Aqua grumbled.[br]
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Rayquaza went from place to place of the legendary Pokémon. In the heart of a volcano, he found Groudon, frozen without melting. In the seafloor trenches, he found Kyogre, also frozen. Place after place he found the same. Finally he found that the only ones not frozen were Jirachi, Celebi, and Mew. Jirachi, however, was still in its thousand year slumber and Celebi not even in this dime dimension. Mew was not to be found as always. Rayquaza thought silently, “The prophesy is coming to pass. I must find the Water and his Silver, and quickly!” [br]
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The air above them thundered and trembled and the mighty Rayquaza alighted before them. Suddenly, he went berserk. “A crossed one is with you! This cannot be!” he roared and promptly began to try to destroy Serena. Rayquaza suddenly found himself to be held in a powerful psychic grip from which he could not move. Looking around, he saw that this aura came from none other than Aqua. “Rayquaza, knock it off. Crossed one she may be, but she is not the one who has done you harm. Stand down.” Aqua released his grip on Rayquaza, and he immediately snapped out of it. “Water” he rumbled “you are the one to put the final end to the threat of the crossed ones once again. True I stopped them before but you delivered the final finish oh so long ago. Your body may be changed, however your mind, and your taste in friends, hasn’t. Silver, it is good to see you again” “What me?” Silver jumped “but I’ve never met you before” he thought. “You have always been at Waters side since you first met, ages ago. Through the ages you and he have risen to fight the threat again. In ages past you were the Eevee of transformation.” [br]
Rayquaza began to glow. Brighter and brighter till the grove shone like the day. And the Water and his Silver were awoken anew in their memories. “Oh crap” Aqua breathed, “The crossed ones have returned. Fortunately for you there’s only one who is intent on destroying the world this time”. Suddenly a snapping sound occurred, and Mew slid into the visible spectrum. Bugsy jumped, he now knew why he felt like he had been being followed for the past few days, because he had been followed by Mew. “Mew would you please look below the shine to make sure the darkness arrows are still there?” Aqua asked. Four astonished heads whipped around to face him. “You mean that the darkness arrows are here?” Rayquaza rumbled. “Yes” Aqua replied “this is where I hid them, although the shrine wasn’t here of course. “[br]
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Suddenly a horribly evil aura was sensed and Galefor came into view. Seeing Rayquaza, he was greatly surprised. Even more surprised, was to find a human so close to equal in his power. Smiling grimly, he realized that this must be the place where the arrows of darkness or the shadow bow was hidden.[br]
Alighting softly he put his hands into a fighting position, and summoned his weapon, The Sword of Slashing Shadows. “Oh damn, this is so not my day” Aqua grumbled. He was just about to summon his weapon when a new face appeared bearing a flaming claymore and eyes blood red with rage. [br]
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