Burning Passion Part 7

I just stare at him in horror of his actions towards me. I try to back away from him, but he just comes closer and closer until I’m backed into a tree. He keeps coming closer until we are inches away from each other’s faces. He just stares at me with his fierce gray eyes.

“What are you still doing here?!” He says to me, frowning with his sharp teeth.

“W-What?” I say in fear.

“Didn’t you hear what I said? I want you to run!” He pushes me to the ground. “I want you to RUN!”

“Wesley you don’t-”

“RUN!!!” He roars at me. I get up and start to run into the woods. I don’t even attempt to look back at him. “Run you coward! RUN!” I hear him say he cackles behind me. As I run, I dodge all the trees in my way, but I also try to look behind me as well. I look behind me, but Wesley wasn’t there. ‘Maybe he’s gone. Maybe he gave up?’ I start to think to myself, but I knew I was only kidding myself. I knew no one would give up that easily, especially Wesley. He was too stubborn for that. “Can’t run anymore?” I hear him say out of nowhere. I look around franticly for him, but he still wasn’t there. Suddenly the ground below me started to burst open. I jump out of the as Wesley torpedoes out of the ground. I forgot Garchomps could do that. How I forgot I don’t know. He looks at me with a toothy grin and starts walk towards me.

“Wes, come on. This isn’t you!” I say standing up. I had get him back!

“I told you before. This is me!” He says as he jumps up to strike me down. I roll out of the way, dodging his attack. I look at what it left behind, and it wasn’t good. All I saw was a crater where he had struck. One blow and I was toast! I got up and started to run again. We kept at this for what seemed like days, him chasing and trying to hit me, me dodging and running from him. I stand there out of breath, trying to reclaim my energy back, while he seemed to be fine. “I’m getting bored of this already. I think it’s about time for this to end.” I fall to the ground face up due to my exhaustion. I watch as he comes closer and closer to me. “Any last words before you die?”

“Yea, I do. I have to ask you a question.” He stares at me and just laughs at me.

“A question? That’s it?! Fine I’ll humor you. What’s your question?”

“Why do you want to kill me?”

“That’s it? Why I want to kill you? I already told you. I want you to pay for leaving your family behind!” Something wasn’t right here. “Your family is hurt that you left them for your own selfish reasons, and I want you to pay for that.”

“Why do you keep saying that?”

“What?”

“Why do you keep saying that I left them?”

“Because you did leave them!”

“Not by choice!”

“I’m done talking! I know the truth about you! It’s time for you to die!” He raises his claw high up in the air, ready to strike. I close my eyes tightly, waiting for him to impact my body. I wait some more, still waiting for the impact. I start to open one eye to see why it hadn’t happened, and what I saw gave me hope. Wesley’s claw was millimeters away from me, but he paused his attack. He was shaking, shaking so much that he started to back away.

“Wes? You ok?” I sat up and just stared at him. I look at his eyes. They were switching between grey and the normal yellow eyes garchomps had.

“Nick…help…help me!” he shouted as he started to thrash about. I think back to the totodile I had seen before. I had done nothing to save it, or at least help it, but that was all going to change.

“Wes I know you’re in there! You have to fight it! You gonna let something control you?”

“N…No!”

“Shut up you!” said a voice from out of nowhere. After the voice said that, Wesley screamed and went limp for a few seconds, then came back with his eye gray again. “I won’t lose control!” The voice was coming out of him now!

“Wesley? What have you done with him?! Who the hell are you?”

“I should be asking you the same thing. Who are YOU, and why are you here tampering with my stooge?”

“Your stooge?! That’s my cousin you’re talking about!” I was mad now. I wasn’t gonna let him do this…whoever he was.

“I know, but I have you washing me out of his mind. That would be bad, and we can’t have that.”

“That’s it! I’m taking you down, and getting my cousin back!”

“We can’t have any more resistance. I’ll have to dispose of you quickly before he can break free again.” My blood started to boil. I charged at him in fury. He knocked me aside and slashed my arm. I had a cut now, but I didn’t care. All I wanted was for him to pay for he has done. I charged at him again, this time dodging his swipe at me and went under it, punching him in the gut. As my punch makes contact, cracks run through my fist and up my arm. At first I look in horror, but as I look closer to see red peeking out from the cracks, although it wasn’t blood. I smile as I start break apart my arm to reveal the Blaziken underneath. “Wh-What? How is that possible?!”

“Hehehe…hahaha! What did you expect? You’re in my world now!” I say to him. I start smashing my other body parts to reveal more of my blaziken body. The last piece of my body was my head. I hit the top of my head, making it shatter everything except my face, making it a mask. I take it off, revealing my blaziken face. As I hold it in my hands, I look at it for a minute, then toss it aside. “I hope you’re seeing this Wesley, because this is the real me. Alright you imposter. I hope you’re ready for the fight of your life!” say as I get in my fighting stance.

“Hmph! It doesn’t matter what form you take, you’re not getting my servant back!” He said as he launched towards me. He makes contact we me, but it didn’t feel like any kind of move, it just felt like someone punched me, except with a sharp object. He is smiling at his attack being successful, but his smile fades as he sees that all he did was minimal damage. It seemed that he may have the strength, but not the knowledge to use it properly.

“That was all? It seems you’re not as strong as you thought. I gonna guess you are the type that uses others strength instead of your own! I’ve seen your type before.” I say as I counterattack by throwing him on the ground and Blaze Axe Kicking him in the back. He screams in pain as it makes impact.

“How are you this strong? I’m supposed to conquer you, not reverse!”

“I told you before this is my world! I can do anything in my dreams! This is no longer my nightmare, it’s yours! I’m gonna kill you!”

“Ah ah ah! You have to remember this is little Wesley’s body! You kill me, you kill him too!”

“You’re bluffing. I know you are, because this is a dream. This isn’t real!”

“What? You think this is a dream? You are so clueless! Didn’t you notice that you felt everything that has happened to you while you were here?” He was right. When Wesley pushed me at the start, when he caused the tremors by his attack, when the imposter struck me just a few seconds ago, I had felt it all. “Sure, this may be your world, where you can do anything, but this is also really happening! So now you see, if you kill me, you kill him!” He said with a smirk on his face. “In fact, this isn’t your world after all. We’re just somewhere else in the world!”

“Why should I believe anything you say? You could be lying about the how thing!”

“Fine. Kill me, but don’t blame me when you find your cousin dead!”

“Fine. If I can’t kill you, I’ll just separate you from him! I’ll pull you apart!”

“You’ll what!? But what about your cousin, Wesley? You could kill him!”

“I don’t care! He would rather be dead then be controlled!” I flip him over on his back. “Wesley! If you can hear me, try to break through. Reach for my hand!”

“You fool! I’ve got him locked tight! There is no way he could-” He started to struggle with his next words. He was starting to lose control. “How… How are you…” He sounded like he was choking. His eye’s started changing again between gray and yellow.

“Nick…I’m…trying…” It was Wesley!

“Wes, hold on! Grab my hand!” He struggled to lift his claw to reach me. As soon as he got to my hand, I stood up and put my talons on the impostor’s chest, and started to pull.

“What are you doing?! If you do that, you’re gonna pull my arm off!” said the impostor.

“It’s not yours, and it will never again be under your control!” I started pulling hard. I pulled with all my strength, trying to get him out of his prison.

“You’re…you’re crazy! You’re gonna-” He was once again cut off by Wesley breaking through.

“Don’t…hold back! Use everything…you got!” said Wesley, struggling.

“Got it!” I decide to use Blaze Kick to see if the pain weakened the impostor’s bond on him.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!” I could hear both of them screaming from the pain. I was almost out strength, so ‘I needed to pull him out, or it all would have been for nothing!’ I think to myself. As soon as I think this, a flash of light comes from where I’m pulling. I fall back as Wesley’s human form comes flying out of his garchomp form. I fall to the ground, but get up quickly to see what had happened.

“Ugh.” Both of them say together. I look over to the garchomp.

“All right you. Time to die!” I say as I put my talons on his chest once again.

“Hey hey! Ow! Stop that!” I heard Wesley’s voice come from the garchomp.

“Wait…Wesley? Is that you in there?” I get off the garchomp, letting him get up.

“Dude that hurt!” He said as he got up.

“Wait, if you’re in there, then he is…” I trail off as we both look at his human body. We both watch as it gets up.

“You will pay for this!” The impostor says as he comes towards me, ready to attack. I grab him by his shirt, and throw him to the ground. “Unhand me you thieve! Give me back my body!”

“Your body!? If anyone here is a thief, it’s you!” Shouts Wesley.

“Wait, I’m confused.” I said “I thought you turned him into a garchomp?”

“No, you idiot! How can I turn someone into garchomp when they were already one? He was already a garchomp to begin with!” I turn to Wesley and do my best to smile the biggest smile I could ever do.

“Wes! You’re just like me!” I forget the impostor for a minute and hug Wesley tightly.

“Nick, what are you talking about? What do you mean ‘you’re just like me’?”

“You’re a pokeuman! You’re gonna turn into a Garchomp!”

“Wait, I’m gonna turn into this?!”

“Yep!” He just stands there with his mouth open. The impostor tries to sneak away from us, but I grab him by the collar. “Where do you think you’re going?”

“Nowhere! Just wanted to give you guys some space.” He says nervously.

“Nope! I’m ending this now.” I throw him on the ground. Doing so exposes his back a little, and due to this, I find a crack in his back, just like this ones I had. “You want to do the honors, or you want me to do it?”

“How about we both do it?” He suggests. We both get ready to smash him to smithereens. “Take this, you body snatching sociopath!”

“This is for all the trouble you caused us!” We stomp into his back, and just like I thought, I was like smashing pottery. Cracks ran through him, and then he turned into dust. As he turned into dust, the forest was disappearing, revealing the plain of flowers and the lake once again. I started to wonder what the imposter had said was true. In my other dreams, they were just weird dreams I had, but this one was different.

“Hello? Earth to Nick!”

“Huh? What?”

“I asked you if you could tell me what’s happening to me.”

“Uuuuuhhhhh…”

“Dude, come on! I need some answers!” Just then the ground started to shake. The volcano in the background started to erupt. “What’s going on?!”

“Wes, listen to me. Probably tomorrow, someone you know or love is going to do something horrible to you, but don’t blame them for that. They can’t control what they are doing. When someone comes to rescue you, you have to trust them, they want to help you.” The lava coming from the volcano was getting closer, and the ground between us was splitting apart, separating us on two different sides, just like before. “They will lead you to a base that houses people like you. You have trust someone just this once. Do it for me!”

“Wait! What are you talking about? Nick come back!” He shouts as we move farther and farther apart. “At least tell me what I should do when I get there!”

“Ask for me! They will probably know where to find me! Oh and Wes!”

“Yea?”

“I miss you man!”

“What? What do you mean you miss me? Nick come back! Nick…Nick!!!”

I wake up in the clinic on a bed. I see a whole group of pokeumans gathered around my bed.

“Nick! You’re awake!” said one of them. It was Todd.

“Dude I’m glad you’re ok!” said Star.

“I’m so glad you’re not sick!” said Emi.

“Welcome back!” said Angel.

“Well, my job is done. Glad you’re alright kid.” Said a Drowzee. The drowzee then walked to the door, waved goodbye, then he went out the door.

“Guys, what the heck is going on? Why am I in a clinic?” I said in confusion

“You’ve been asleep for about a week!” said Emi.

“What?! How?!”

“You were having a Nightmare. You were stuck in there and you wouldn’t wake up.” said Star

“When they woke up a week ago, Star and Emi tried to wake you up for school, but you wouldn’t wake up, no matter what they tried.” said Angel. “So when trying waking you up didn’t work, they went to Ms. Jewel. She said that you might have been having a nightmare, so she called a drowzee down here to see if it was true, and with our luck, it was true. What was your nightmare about anyway?”

“I don’t want to talk about it right now. What happened while I was gone for the last week? Anything interesting?     ” I ask. They all look at each other in concern, then back at me. “What? What happened?”

“There was…another attack.” said Todd.

“What?! Where?! Who?!” I getting out of bed, but fall to the floor due to my legs being asleep.

“Whoa, slow down dude!”

“No! Someone has talk to someone about this!”

“It’s already been done. Ms. Jewel has made sure that the victim had gotten help for their injuries. She also offered counseling if they needed it. By the way, Ms. Jewel wanted to speak to you about something when you woke up…if you woke up. Said something about it being about the strange dreams you’ve been having.” said Star.

“Oh, great! I’ll be happy to go see her. I have some questions about those too.” I started to get up to go.

“Hey! You sure that you’re alright? You know you can talk to us about this stuff right? We’re your friends you know.”

“I’m not his friend! I… just came to if he was alright, that’s all!” said Angel, turning her back from me, although I thought I saw her blush a little.

“Oh really? If you’re not my friend, then why did you come? You didn’t have to, so why did you?” I said, teasing her.

“I just wanted to ok?! I’m leaving!” she said to me, then went out the clinic door.

“Well I’d better get going too. Gotta go see what Ms. Jewel wants to talk about. I’ll see you guys later.”

“See you later.” They all said with concern on their faces.

“Guys, I’m fine, really.” and with that, I left the clinic and my friends behind. I started to walk towards the direction of Ms. Jewel’s office. As soon as I arrive at her door, I click the buzzer and wait for a response from the room.

“Come in.” says someone from inside. I open up the door to see the aggron staring down at her paper work. I walk into the room.

“Excuse me, Ms. Jewel?” she looks up at me and gets a surprised look on her face.

“You’re here! I didn’t expect you to be here so soon. Don’t you want some time to recover from your experience?”

“No! I don’t need to recover! I feel just fine!”

“You do, do you?” Her face returned to her usual blank expression.

“Yes.”

“Do you really?”

“Yes!”

“Are you sure?” I was about to object again, but something just breaks inside, I fall to my knees and palms, and just start balling.

“NO! God no!” Ms. Jewel comes over and kneels down next to me and pats my back.

“It’s gonna be ok. We’re all here for you.” I just continue to ball my eyes out as she says this.