What A Thief Can't Steal

Crusade Against the Alpha

To be honest, i have never thought i would reach this far... Even though it's easy. This book was already completed, but it was kinda deleted so...

I kinda went mad...

But anyways, enjoy!

Rose's POV:

The darkness stretched on forever. Blade and I have been running for hours, now... yet we have not reached the end of this dungeon.

"I-it's c-cold down here," I sneezed, shivering from the low temperature.

"I hope this warms you then," Blade smiled as he embraced me.

I felt my body burn with heat as he embraced me. I could only feel thankful that he had shared some of his heat at such a hostile environment...

"This seems to just keep going on forever, does it?" I mused, staring at floating debris all around us.

"It has to end somewhere, we just have to keep pushing forward," Blade reassured me, taking a sip from a cup that he had pulled out from his bag.

"What if it doesn't," I retorted.

"Well," he scratched his chin, "Let's just hope it doesn't, okay?"

We continued to walk together in silence. There was something about this dungeon... It was cold, dark, and just plain confusing... I shivered as I had a feeling that we were being followed.

"Blade?" I shyly called, "C-can we move a little faster?"

"Huh?" he suddenly stopped in his tracks, "Why?"

"I'm getting a bad vibe about this place..." I warned.

Slowly, we entered the next floor of The Oblivion. My heart leaped for joy when I saw the one thing this floor had that the previous floors never had: light coming from the other end.

"Hey, Blade!" I called his attention, "Could that finally be the exit?"

Blade squinted his eyes as he tried to look further, his face's expression slowly changing to a bit of relief.

"Yes, I guess so," he calmly stated, "But this means that we have to face Arceus now... Do you think you're ready?"

"Y-yes, I guess so," I stared back at his fierce and determined eyes. I wouldn't back down in front of him, for my knight... I know we would win.

We both began to charge towards the exit when all of a sudden, I felt something grab my left leg, causing me to trip.

"Blade!" I screamed, calling for help.

He quickly sprang back to my foot, slashing at some black hand that was clinging onto my leg, the hand quickly dissolved back into a shadowy pile underneath the floor.

"W-what was... that?" I stuttered.

"I-I don't... know," Blade breathed heavily, holding my hand tightly. I was relieved to find out that Blade was just as scared as I was.

Suddenly, the shadow extended from mine and another hand sprang out from the ground, clawing at me.

"Ack!" I screamed, using Psychic in fear, "G-get off!"