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Part 8: The Only Option

Grovyle and Frillish-Amy struggled to open their eyes, and when they finally did, they found that they had both collapsed to the ground. All around them was a scene of destruction, with the earth torn apart thanks to the impacts of various attacks from the battle. There didn’t appear to be many Pokémon left, as they could be seen flying back to Tao Village to repair whatever damage had occurred. The ones that remained were flying in place, and strangely enough, were keeping their distance from…apparently, some sort of scene where Amy and Grovyle were stuck in the middle of.

They then turned their eyes to the scene itself, wondering what was going on. Kyurem stood in front of them, and just ahead of him was a severely-weakened Jellicent-Chikorita who had also crashed to the ground. She stubbornly refused to just lie there, though, and kept trying to push herself off the ground, to no avail.

“Kyurem…?” Frillish-Amy croaked. She tried to push herself up, but the pain from the Shadow Ball attack earlier was too great. “What…are you doing…?”

“I AM SORRY. I KNOW THIS IS PAINFUL FOR THE TWO OF YOU TO WATCH, BUT IT MUST BE DONE.”

Grovyle struggled to push himself up, but like Chikorita and Amy, he was also too weak to do so. He not only had to deal with the Shadow Ball impact, but everything else he had been through just to speak with Kyurem earlier that day. “What…do you mean…?”

“WHEN ONE BECOMES A GHOST, THEIR PERSONALITY CAN CHANGE IN UNPREDICTABLE WAYS. THEY CAN EITHER REMAIN THE SAME, OR UNDERGO COMPLETE REVERSALS IN THEIR MORALS AND WAYS OF THINKING. SUCH A CHANGE CAN ALSO BE DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY THE WISH THEY HAD THAT MADE THEM WANT TO CONTINUE LIVING THIS WAY.”

Chikorita could then see that Amy and Grovyle were still awake, and shouted, “I’m gonna KILL you! I swear I will! I swear—!”

”FOR CHIKORITA…HER LAST WISH WAS THAT SHE WANTED TO CONTINUE LIVING IN TAO VILLAGE, NO MATTER THE PRICE, AND TO LIVE PEACEFULLY, WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING KILLED BY THE VILLAGERS FOR ANY REASON. THE WAY SHE IS NOW, SHE IS ANGRY AT YOU, AMY, FOR NOT LETTING HER DO SO, AND SHE IS ALSO ANGRY AT THE VILLAGERS FOR BLAMING HER FOR ALL THEIR TROUBLES WHEN I WAS AWAKENED 500 YEARS TOO EARLY.”

“Isn’t there…any way…to get her to stop?” pleaded Amy.

“…NO. THERE ARE SOME GHOSTS WHO BECOME THIS WAY. MANY GHOSTS SEE THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS IN THEIR PAST LIVES AND BECOME GOOD, BUT ONCE IN A WHILE, WRATHFUL ONES LIKE HER SHOW UP. SINCE THEY CANNOT DIE NATURALLY, THEY PRESENT A GREAT DANGER TO THE WORLD. THE ONLY WAY TO MAINTAIN PEACE AND BALANCE IN THE WORLD…IS TO DO THE RIGHT THING.”

Amy saw that he was charging up an extremely powerful-looking ice attack, and realized what was going to happen. “No! No, you can’t! There—there has to be...another way…!”

“THIS IS THE ONLY WAY. SHE HAD HER CHANCE TO REFORM, BUT INSTEAD, TOOK IT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. SUCH A THING IS IRREVERSIBLE. SINCE SHE HELPED YOU TWO TO SAVE THE WORLD IN THE PAST, IF SHE WERE ALLOWED TO LIVE, SHE WOULD NOT STOP AT JUST TAO VILLAGE. SHE WOULD GO ON TO DESTROY AREAS EQUIVALENT TO THAT SHE SAVED IN THE PAST. SHE WOULD GO ON TO DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD.”

“The…the whole world? N…no way! How would you even know that? She wouldn’t do that!” gasped Amy. “But—but—why not just lock her up or something? Ah—I didn’t mean it that way, but…well, you know—”

“SUCH A THING WOULD BE EVEN MORE PAINFUL FOR YOU. THIS WAY IS THE BEST WAY FOR THE WORLD. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH GHOSTS LIKE HER BEFORE, EITHER. I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING. IT IS ONE OF MY DUTIES AS A LEGENDARY TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF THE WORLD WHEN NORMAL POKEMON CANNOT. TRUST ME.”

Right when Chikorita had mustered enough energy to leap at Kyurem, he unleashed the pent-up Glaciate attack, freezing her in place. He then used Draco Meteor, forming innumerable amounts of meteors in midair, and launched them all at the icy mass that had Jellicent-Chikorita still frozen in place. It was almost as if time had been slowed down, and the Draco Meteors were moving much more slowly than they should have been, but either way, the result would be the same. Neither Amy nor Grovyle had the strength to get up and try and stop it as it headed on its collision course with the icy mass, with Chikorita still trapped inside.

The final anguished scream that day could be heard for miles around, right before it, too, became muffled in the infinite sharp pieces of debris that scattered everywhere the moment the Draco Meteors hit.

NEXT PART>>>

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This is a story that explains what happened to Grovyle that led to him becoming Darren the Golurk of Team Pecha today. Darren himself is telling this story to Amy and Chikorita between Pages 35 and 36 of Team Pecha's Mission 6:

Part 8 of 14. We were quite lucky that evil Weavile gang leader Slasher was reincarnated into a nice Banette named Gnasher who liked fashion and stuff. But if it's possible for someone who was evil in life to become good in death...wouldn't it also be possible for the other way around? Granted, the factors surrounding this phenomenon are dubious at best, especially given the odd nature of these guys. But I figured that in the event that there ARE really evil ghosts, there should have to be some way to actually kill them so they wouldn't drown the world in darkness. Who do you call? Legendary Pokemon, of course.

(Or Ghostbusters, if such an organization exists in Tao World. Whatever works.)

...That being said, I wonder how they're going to deal with mean Gold the Haunter, unless Syrup already managed to kill him.

Oh and the method being used here to kill (yeah, kill ) Jellicent-Chikorita is the same way one would use to kill a Metroid: Freeze it in place and shatter the ice so that its body can be torn apart.

Sorbet the Kyurem is an NPC belonging to #PMD-Explorers .

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Part 8: The Only Option

Grovyle and Frillish-Amy struggled to open their eyes, and when they finally did, they found that they had both collapsed to the ground. All around them was a scene of destruction, with the earth torn apart thanks to the impacts of various attacks from the battle. There didn’t appear to be many Pokémon left, as they could be seen flying back to Tao Village to repair whatever damage had occurred. The ones that remained were flying in place, and strangely enough, were keeping their distance from…apparently, some sort of scene where Amy and Grovyle were stuck in the middle of.

They then turned their eyes to the scene itself, wondering what was going on. Kyurem stood in front of them, and just ahead of him was a severely-weakened Jellicent-Chikorita who had also crashed to the ground. She stubbornly refused to just lie there, though, and kept trying to push herself off the ground, to no avail.

“Kyurem…?” Frillish-Amy croaked. She tried to push herself up, but the pain from the Shadow Ball attack earlier was too great. “What…are you doing…?”

“I AM SORRY. I KNOW THIS IS PAINFUL FOR THE TWO OF YOU TO WATCH, BUT IT MUST BE DONE.”

Grovyle struggled to push himself up, but like Chikorita and Amy, he was also too weak to do so. He not only had to deal with the Shadow Ball impact, but everything else he had been through just to speak with Kyurem earlier that day. “What…do you mean…?”

“WHEN ONE BECOMES A GHOST, THEIR PERSONALITY CAN CHANGE IN UNPREDICTABLE WAYS. THEY CAN EITHER REMAIN THE SAME, OR UNDERGO COMPLETE REVERSALS IN THEIR MORALS AND WAYS OF THINKING. SUCH A CHANGE CAN ALSO BE DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY THE WISH THEY HAD THAT MADE THEM WANT TO CONTINUE LIVING THIS WAY.”

Chikorita could then see that Amy and Grovyle were still awake, and shouted, “I’m gonna KILL you! I swear I will! I swear—!”

”FOR CHIKORITA…HER LAST WISH WAS THAT SHE WANTED TO CONTINUE LIVING IN TAO VILLAGE, NO MATTER THE PRICE, AND TO LIVE PEACEFULLY, WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING KILLED BY THE VILLAGERS FOR ANY REASON. THE WAY SHE IS NOW, SHE IS ANGRY AT YOU, AMY, FOR NOT LETTING HER DO SO, AND SHE IS ALSO ANGRY AT THE VILLAGERS FOR BLAMING HER FOR ALL THEIR TROUBLES WHEN I WAS AWAKENED 500 YEARS TOO EARLY.”

“Isn’t there…any way…to get her to stop?” pleaded Amy.

“…NO. THERE ARE SOME GHOSTS WHO BECOME THIS WAY. MANY GHOSTS SEE THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS IN THEIR PAST LIVES AND BECOME GOOD, BUT ONCE IN A WHILE, WRATHFUL ONES LIKE HER SHOW UP. SINCE THEY CANNOT DIE NATURALLY, THEY PRESENT A GREAT DANGER TO THE WORLD. THE ONLY WAY TO MAINTAIN PEACE AND BALANCE IN THE WORLD…IS TO DO THE RIGHT THING.”

Amy saw that he was charging up an extremely powerful-looking ice attack, and realized what was going to happen. “No! No, you can’t! There—there has to be...another way…!”

“THIS IS THE ONLY WAY. SHE HAD HER CHANCE TO REFORM, BUT INSTEAD, TOOK IT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. SUCH A THING IS IRREVERSIBLE. SINCE SHE HELPED YOU TWO TO SAVE THE WORLD IN THE PAST, IF SHE WERE ALLOWED TO LIVE, SHE WOULD NOT STOP AT JUST TAO VILLAGE. SHE WOULD GO ON TO DESTROY AREAS EQUIVALENT TO THAT SHE SAVED IN THE PAST. SHE WOULD GO ON TO DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD.”

“The…the whole world? N…no way! How would you even know that? She wouldn’t do that!” gasped Amy. “But—but—why not just lock her up or something? Ah—I didn’t mean it that way, but…well, you know—”

“SUCH A THING WOULD BE EVEN MORE PAINFUL FOR YOU. THIS WAY IS THE BEST WAY FOR THE WORLD. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH GHOSTS LIKE HER BEFORE, EITHER. I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING. IT IS ONE OF MY DUTIES AS A LEGENDARY TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF THE WORLD WHEN NORMAL POKEMON CANNOT. TRUST ME.”

Right when Chikorita had mustered enough energy to leap at Kyurem, he unleashed the pent-up Glaciate attack, freezing her in place. He then used Draco Meteor, forming innumerable amounts of meteors in midair, and launched them all at the icy mass that had Jellicent-Chikorita still frozen in place. It was almost as if time had been slowed down, and the Draco Meteors were moving much more slowly than they should have been, but either way, the result would be the same. Neither Amy nor Grovyle had the strength to get up and try and stop it as it headed on its collision course with the icy mass, with Chikorita still trapped inside.

The final anguished scream that day could be heard for miles around, right before it, too, became muffled in the infinite sharp pieces of debris that scattered everywhere the moment the Draco Meteors hit.

NEXT PART>>>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

>>>BEGINNING<<<

This is a story that explains what happened to Grovyle that led to him becoming Darren the Golurk of Team Pecha today. Darren himself is telling this story to Amy and Chikorita between Pages 35 and 36 of Team Pecha's Mission 6:

Part 8 of 14. We were quite lucky that evil Weavile gang leader Slasher was reincarnated into a nice Banette named Gnasher who liked fashion and stuff. But if it's possible for someone who was evil in life to become good in death...wouldn't it also be possible for the other way around? Granted, the factors surrounding this phenomenon are dubious at best, especially given the odd nature of these guys. But I figured that in the event that there ARE really evil ghosts, there should have to be some way to actually kill them so they wouldn't drown the world in darkness. Who do you call? Legendary Pokemon, of course.

(Or Ghostbusters, if such an organization exists in Tao World. Whatever works.)

...That being said, I wonder how they're going to deal with mean Gold the Haunter, unless Syrup already managed to kill him.

Oh and the method being used here to kill (yeah, kill ) Jellicent-Chikorita is the same way one would use to kill a Metroid: Freeze it in place and shatter the ice so that its body can be torn apart.

Sorbet the Kyurem is an NPC belonging to #PMD-Explorers .