A Hero's Blood

Chapter 9

Nina grinded her teeth and was just about to call another attack but then they heard a loud scream, identical to N. Gin's.

John asked, "What was that?"

Pete answered, "Not sure but it did sound like N. Gin. There must be something wrong back at the houses."

John nodded as he stated, "Let's head over there!"

Crunch and Nina nodded as they recalled their Pokémon and ran back to the houses.

Meanwhile, at the bay, the boat came in from the port.

Old Phillip turned and said to his passenger, "Well, here we are, ma'am. This is the infamous N. Sanity Isle."

The lady got off the boat, revealing a woman with medium length brown hair, brown eyes, wearing a pink shirt, purple jeans, white shoes, pink hat and a pink scarf.

"Thank you," the lady responded, in a beautiful British accent.

Old Phillip replied, "You're welcome, Miss Cortex."

The lady smiled and headed into the jungles of the N. Sanity Isle.

Nina, Gus, Aku-Aku, John, Pete, Cynthia, Selma, Cristaen, Johnny, Cynthia, Coco, Crunch, and Coral arrived back at the bases and saw the unbelievable sight. Standing there, next to Cortex and N. Gin was Crash Bandicoot. Coco was in total shock. Crash hadn't change in a year expect for the fact that he had lost his left leg and in its place was a fake leg. Everyone else was in shock as well but none more so than Nina.

Coco asked, "Crash...you're alive?"

Crash nodded and answered, "Yeah, the attack that took my leg. I managed to get to Citrate Isle where Benny found me and took me to the hospital, where they gave me my fake leg. I've been with him ever since."

Johnny turned to Selma and asked, "Isn't Benny the gym leader over on Citrate?"

Selma nodded, still a bit shocked. Cristaen didn't care anymore so she wrapped her arms around Crash and held him tight. Crash was surprised at first but returned it.

Aku-Aku stated, "It is great to see that you are alive and well."

Gus responded, "Yeah at least we don't have to feel guilty about Arachina being drugged."

"What," everyone said in unison, except for Coco and N. Gin.

Coral asked, "Arachina was drugged?"

Crash nodded and answered, "Yeah, that's how I lost my leg."

John turned to Nina and questioned, "You sunk that low to win against Crash?"

Nina defended, "I didn't do it!"

Gus replied, "I believe her because we had a Pokémon battle."

Cortex responded, "Smart, a Pokémon battle proves if someone cheats or not."

Tiny questioned, "Tiny doesn't cheat."

Cynthia rolled her eyes as she asked, "But if Nina didn't, who did?"

John answered, "Probably Uka-Uka."

Pete added, "Wouldn't put it past him."

Selma stated, "Well, at least we are all together again."

Nina commented, "Probably not for long."

Everyone perked up as Crash asked, "What do you mean?"

Nina answered, "The Evil Twins are back."

Back with the lady, she finally got to the houses.

She said, in her British accent, "Finally, I have arrived. Hopefully, I can cheer up my brother."

-Flashback: One year ago-

Crash dragged his body as far as he could. He could no longer feel his left leg anymore. He was getting a bad feeling.

"Oh gosh, this hurts," Crash groaned as he continued to drag himself to any kind of help with one good leg and trail of blood behind him.

Crash actually was in an underground tunnel that was taking him under the sea and to Citrate Isle. Crash finally managed to surface on the beach before passing out. The next thing Crash knew, he woke up to the gym leaders and the Elite Four. From Citrate Isle was Benny, the defender of the Dark Grass badge. Benny had short green hair, brown eyes, wearing a green grass suit and bluish-green shoes. From Toola Isle was Delia, the defender of the Light Fire badge. Delia had long red hair, stunning hazelnut eyes, wearing an orange shirt, red-orange pants, and yellow-orange shoes. From Rolland Isle was Marissa, the defender of the Psychic Eye badge.

Marissa had long black hair, green eyes, wearing a purple suit with purple sneakers. From Grote Isle was Jacob, the defender of the Rapid Water badge. Jacob had short brown hair, blue eyes, wearing blue shorts, and blue flip flops. From Java Isle was Ileana, the defender of the Cold Steel badge. Ileana had short blonde hair, brown eyes, wearing a grey dress suit, and black shoes. From Say Isle was Ethan, the defender of the Ele-Bolt badge. Ethan had short brown hair, brown eyes, wearing a yellow suit and yellow shoes. From the Elite Four was Oscar, the first Elite Four and master of Ice types.

Oscar had rather short blue hair, stunning blue eyes, wearing a blue suit with blue dress shoes. Queeny was the second of the Elite Four and master of Bug types. Queeny long red hair pulled back in a rather long ponytail, blue eyes, wearing an orange shirt with her navel showing, blue jeans, and black flats. Ursula was the third Elite Four and master of Poison types. Ursula had rather short purple hair, almost boy-ish like. She had dark green eyes and she was wearing a purple kimono. She also had flip flops on her feet and she had a pink Japanese flower in her hair. Zeke was fourth Elite Four and master of Dark types.

Zeke had short black hair, blue eyes, wearing a dark suit with a white bow tie, and black shoes. Crash was surprised to see them.

He asked, "What is going on you guys?"

Delia answered, "Benny found you on Citrate Isle. He brought you to the hospital and then called us."

Crash turned to Benny and said, "Thanks, Benny."

Benny stated, "No problem, although there is one."

Ethan added, "Everyone thinks you're dead."

Crash stated, "I gotta tell them the truth."

"No, not yet," Queeny advised.

Oscar added, "You can't tell them until a year from now. Trust us. By that time, the champion will return and we'll have our eighth gym leader."

-End of Flashback-

AK1028: Well, that's the end of chapter 9! Hope you guys liked this and I hope that this twist was worth it!

My news: my mom has now lost track of time, has zero patience, having trouble going, and really losing it all together. It is not an easy month for me right now. Tomorrow is Toonami night and I'm not missing it for the world.

Story news: Ribbon Cup Chronicles, a Pokémon fiction story and The Call of a Heroine, a Fairly Odd Parents fiction story will be updated today or tomorrow as well, again depending on time. For Unova League Chronicles, I'm getting help from TimPrime1, thank you so much, hun. For The Chaos of Knowing; Volume 2, a Fairly Odd Parents fiction story, after this is done, I will go back to that and finish it off. As to my real world Pokémon story, that is going to be on the back burner until next year as a New Year fiction story. I do want to plan a new Fairly Odd Parents crossover but after The Call of a Heroine is over and done.

Final end: Please read and review! And always think outside of the box!