Paragon

Hisui Incursion [13]

PARAGON

Hisui Incursion Arc [13]

Chapter 65 : Power of a Legendary

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Growlithe and Cranidos coalesced onto the ground and immediately looked around at the approaching Unown. A ball of energy impacted on Cranidos' skull and he reared toward the attacker with a furious roar.

"Wait, Cranidos!" Akari commanded.

Yura glanced nervously at Ash. "Are you sure they don't just want to play?"

Ash kept his eyes on the Unown and swatted away another Hidden Power. "Release Shieldon, Yura," he said in a low voice. "And stay close to Sabrina."

"I'll protect the Professor!" Rei called, jogging back toward him, Growlithe in tow.

Laventon looked like he wanted to say something but quietly accepted the protection. He did not possess any pokémon of his own, so as much as he complained about Rei and Akari's overprotectiveness, it was certainly warranted in cases like this.

"Should we attack, Ash?" Riley asked, Aura dancing on his fingers and blazing in his eyes.

Ash looked around them. There were at least fifty now and they were slowly getting closer. Their Hidden Powers were harmless for now, but if they continued to appear at this rate...

"Thunderbolt, Pikachu. Take out as many as you can."

Pikachu nodded and leapt straight into the air. Electricity ignited around his tiny body and he threw his limbs out, casting jagged bolts all around them. He twisted in the air, dragging the bolts across the ground and through the lines of Unown. Where they came into contact, the thunderbolts flashed cobalt and the Unown disappeared in a puff of darkness.

Pikachu dropped back onto Ash's head and gave an indignant squeak.

Only a few Unown remained floating around them, and upon realizing so, they froze in midair. No more Unown appeared.

Silence roared through the valley as the Unown hung motionless in the air. A bead of sweat dropped down Ash's temple and he almost flinched as he brushed up against Sabrina behind him. He figured attacking them might incite further aggression, but they couldn't just stand there and let the Unown further accumulate.

One of the Unown's eyes twitched.

An infernal echoed off the rocky surface of Mount Coronet as the remaining Unown suddenly blasted apart, countless clones flooding off their forms and whipping into a vicious cyclone that encircled that entire group. A wall of darkness covered in glowering eyes spiraled around them in an enraged frenzy.

"What the hell?!" Rei shrieked.

"Ahhhh!" Yura buried her face in Sabrina's leg.

Her Shieldon snarled and a metallic sheen flashed across his obsidian face. He bulleted forward straight into the mass of Unown, the impact spraying stray Unown into the eye of the storm where they spasmed and vanished.

"We have to get out of here!" Ash shouted over the roar of the cyclone. "Riley, cover us!"

The Guardian nodded and an azure shield opened overhead. As the storm of darkness beat against it, individual Unown went flying off in a frenetic rampage.

"Follow Shieldon!" Laventon bellowed, pointing.

From where he'd begun, Shieldon beat, bit, and tore his way through the slicing darkness with reckless abandon. However slight, he'd begun to force his way out.