Baa-Ram-Ewe!

by Darkonshadows

269. Blood Bathory Finale.

Author's Note:

Music- Zords (Instrumental) Ron Wasserman.

You'll known when to use it.

-Ransei, ocean south of Fontaine, Prison Castle, Pom-

“Sorry I didn’t help as much when destroying the bathtub.” Favela stated as if she hasn’t been helpful thus far.

“Trust me, this adventure is only going as well as it is because you helped us save the Primarina, you will have to do so again.” I approached the balcony behind the throne and looked at the grass below the balcony and saw tsomething. “Everyone look!”

“What do we be looking at, all the green… it’s not green, it be withering quickly!” Shanty pointed as the grass withering, turning brown and immediately dying before our eyes.

“I think we may have just destroyed the castles power source, specifically I think Primarina did when her voice broke the floor.” The castle is going to collapse pretty quickly if that were the case. Also the barrier was still up, so it was putting more energy into taking us with it than trying to prolong its existence.

“In any case you’ve been very helpful Favela and sure you’re a bit combative, but we like you and we wouldn’t have gotten this far without you. Now can you help Primarina get down there, you’re vines seem a bit overworked.” Having to think about it a bit, I decided to add. “Dolly can get her down if you don’t want to, you can carry Shine down if you wish. Make a decision quickly, because we really need to leave this horrible place like yesterday, then find out what made that horrendous noise on the battlefield.”

“Dolly does it, my vines can take much more stress.” I patted Favela on the back with a gentle hoof.

“Knowing your limitations is a good thing Favela, because I certainly keep losing track of mine. That said…” I motioned the Dalmatian toward Primarina. “Dolly on her back. Primarina, I’m sorry but you’re going to have to trust us and jump off the balcony.”

“Do I have a choice?” Primarina said looking shakily at the ground below, I silently shook my head.

“I can hold your flipper and jump with you to help out, you up for it Dolly?” I noted that unlike Favela, who didn’t feel like she did much.

“Dodo can be taking Shine, everyone else can be getting down easily themselves!” Shanty announced as a rumbling sounded throughout the castle and a portion of throne rooms entrances collapsed inwards.

“No more stalling!” I grabbed Primarina’s left flipper with my right hoof and leapt forth.

“No… wai-waahhhh?!” Primarina let out a slightly shrill, melodic scream as we dropped over the edge of the balcony, Dolly was looking towards me as we fell.

I inflated my wool and like a balloon our fall slowed immensely and with Dolly’s assistance it slowed even further. Dolly waited until we had built up enough momentum that she modified it to going upwards and we bobbed before slowly levitating downwards.

“Thank goodness I don’t have to go through that Ms. Primarina!” Shine stated jovially as she was small enough to ride Dodo, said miraculously living metal ostrich quickly dropped past us with jets coming out of his spread out feet and the underside of his wings.

“He is not being big enough to be flying, but he can be hovering.” Shanty stated proudly from the wall of the castle as she and Quetal climbed down the slow way. Sinistea simply hovered down and we were clear to run around for the front and could hope that our ride was waiting for us, because I doubt Primarina was capable of swimming too well in her poor condition.

“Thank goodness, solid ground!” Primarina was looking a bit pale, after having to use me and Dolly as makeshift parachutes. Now that we were on the ground all we had to do was circle around to the front of the castle.

We did that easily enough, none of the traps were working without the magical blood bath that apparently powered all the traps in the castle. We went through the archway to the patch of land in front of the castle and were at the barrier… the castle was still projecting it despite it weakening and slowly collapsing in on itself.

“Now what?” Dolly asked as we stopped and sat down for a break finally away from all the traps or most imminent danger.

The entire floating island started rumbling, it would collapse with us on it. Being buried alive unable to move and slowly suffocating wouldn’t be how I wanted to go out.

“All we can do is wait for help.” After coming this far, I really didn’t want to die. I was the first to notice a big problem, a humongous shadow with a backdrop of six bright sun like orbs on the sunnier northern side of the battlefield in the distance. “If you feel like trying to help break the barrier, then put some oomph into it. Otherwise, I think I might want to save my energy for that horrifying thing!”

That was a really big black wyvern, I didn’t envy anyone on the battlefield right now.

“Pom… please tell me we don’t have to fight that thing.” Sorry Dolly, but if we get back to the battlefield in time...

“That’s a really, really, big Noivern.” Okay now we knew what that Pokémon was actually called, thank you Quetal for that information. That is not going to help us fight a nightmare of that size.

-Fontaine Peninsula, Battlefield Center Line, siege artillery forward position, Grit the Long Slinger-

They were still alive!

“I see the Rescue Team, they’re alive and got out of the castle! I don’t see their ride though… the waves are pretty chopping out there, keep hammering the Noivern and the castles barrier!” The island the castle was sitting on looked like it was sinking into the water and if the barrier was still up when the water starts flooding in... “Scratch that, all firepower on that barrier! We need to break it, we’re not abandoning them to drown out there! It looks like Captain Skeeball is about to start drawing the Noiverns attention off of our troops anyway, so the Miltank units can pull everyone’s butts out of the fire.”

“Yeah and if Captain Skeeball goes down, I’m going to need everyone off the field when I Dynamic Maximize, Skeeball has already fired off her Zenith move so her husband and unit will have to be able to hold off that Maximized Monstrosity.” Maiden Jig was taking to the field?! Even the administrator of Aurora that has been overworked before Evan took up his position as king was raring to finish this fight. “When Skeeball goes down you will need to return to hitting that Noivern with all you have.”

“Right, we’ll switch targets immediately as you say. We’re still missing the Silly Spheals and the Lapras that went out with the Rescue Team, now the Rescue Team needs rescuing and they seem to have a Sinistea and poor looking Primarina with them.” Poor lady, her hair was messed up, she was covered in scars and I wouldn’t out it past that overgrown Noivern to have tried to ruin her beauty out of jealousy. “They will need the Lapras if they all want to get out of there in a timely manner, because most of them might not be able to swim that far to get back and will be sitting ducks in the water.”

-Open ocean somewhere south of Fontaine, Spheal-

Ice was safe, they can’t get us on ice!

A sharpedo would prove me wrong a second later and it leapt out of the water and chomped into our makeshift iceberg putting a hole in it and nearly unbalancing it. Nearly getting one of us, but we sprayed him and froze him and pushed him off our frozen sea water platform.

Okay, ice was not safe, not safe at all!

We put backs together and see… uh… I don’t know how to count, how many fins was that circling us? There was being much less than when we started, but we didn’t take them down… hmmm. Maybe they got hungry and left?

Two fins turned towards us and the Sharpedo popped up and opened their mouths. We all focused on them.

That’s when Ms. Plessy rammed them both out of the way, joy!

“Get on me!” Plessy shouted as she popped up and then skidded sideways over our iceberg, knocking us up onto her back and she hip checked the two Sharpedo we didn’t see coming at us from behind. “Okay, we’re bugging out! I already took out five of them underwater and it looks like you got a few yourselves, good work boys!”

Having skidded back into the water Plessy started to speed away and she suddenly looked up as something flashed by overhead. It be making a shiny light when it hit a big bubble, bubbles were fun to pop!

Were they trying to pop bubble? We would help!

-Plessy-

“Bubble? Bubble!” The six not exactly bright, but still highly capable, Spheal shouted one after another with cheerful ignorance of how dangerous things were getting, like that giant Noivern on the battlefield.

I turned to start swimming for the castle now that I opened up some distance between me and the Sharpedo.

That flash of light was a barrier and the castle looked to be collapsing, if they are waiting on a ride out, then I’m that ride as I’m the only one out here that can react and reach them in time, I seriously doubt the Spheal were going to do it!

A Sharpedo burst form the water aiming for my neck only to be hit by a ball of ice the size of my head the knocked them out cold.

Okay, close one, I could feel that one’s teeth on my neck there for a second… A quick moving Dragon Dance and I was back up to full speed.

-Captain Skeeball-

“Come on my tubby hubby, let’s do this thing!” I shouted from on top of my husband Wilhelm with the rest of the Skitty Squad.

“Right!” Stated the suave deep voice from beneath us. So what if I might have imagined the suave part, my beloved Wailord was back in action and my unit was complete once more!

My husband swung around and fired an Ice Beam into the side of that Nasty Noivern. My Wilhelm just prevented an attack on Evan and Motochika working the Pokémon into a functional retreat while keeping up their offensive. The smaller attacks would going to chip her down eventually if she ignored them.

Not that it paused the Noiverns rampage as she soon turned and just took down the Super Sentai Squirtle Squad with a single blast of sound and they were being picked up and carted away quickly as casualties. Their shells likely being the only reason they were still alive.

Motochika wasn’t letting off of the Water Pulses and Evan hadn’t stop aiming stars for the Noiverns eyes to irritate her, because there really wasn’t much slowing her down at that humongous size.

“That got her attention, swing around hard left and draw her back towards the ocean and away from our forces!” I grinned. “Let’s keep her attention with a unit command, Big Beam Barrage!”

My unit acting as one as the Noivern tried to launch a blast was hit with a veritable wintery storm of ice beams and a functional blizzards worth of energy launched by a Wailord, the pain was definitely enough to draw her ire and turn her towards focusing on us.

“Back us up and keep firing kittens!” I shouted over the screaming icy winds and lancing beams. “Prepare for backwards jack knife left… wait for it… now!”

With a jerk my Wailord twisted tail fin first back and to the left out of the way of a massive wall of sound distortion passed by, I notice some large slashes had scraped across the right side of my husband.

“You okay Wilhelm?!” My worry was palpable after being separated from him for so long and getting him back today.

“Never-better-Skeeball!” His whale song came out as a Noble Roar attack that fought against the second incoming sound wave and stalled it out before the remaining power went into shaking up the Noivern.

“Bathory is an Infiltrator style Noivern!” I announced to no one in particular, there’s no blocking its attacks at all as they’ll go straight through barriers. Infiltrator style Pokémon specialize in busting Protect moves or anything defensive like it. This means only evasion was a fully viable defense, even if Wilhelm was big enough to take on a Dynamic Maximized monster, he wouldn’t be able to match the raw power they were outputting for very long and he wasn’t nearly fast enough to keep dodging forever either.

My kittens were continuing to try and ice the Nasty Noivern, but she was agile for something of her size even if ice was effective it was going to take a lot more than we were putting out to take her down. This made me wonder, how in the world do Pokémon that grow to this size still have the capacity for flight? The power she was using must be using at that size to retain her speed must have been enormous!

I knew why my hubby could float and how he was doing so, he was a talent for floating over land and he did it just to stay with me! Not the most important thing in the world to anyone else, but it was special to me that my husband was a big softy.

Two water spout attacks fired off, from Wilhelm behind us and he inhaled to fire another ice beam, the ice beam was aimed upwards and two massive balls of ice fell down making Bathory dodge the first one. The second one slammed down on her tail and grounded her, she surged forward in anger on her legs to slash across the left side of my husband’s face with her right wing, bodily turning him to expose our side.

My children even in the face of danger kept firing and I was doing so right alongside them in continuing to hit the monster with every ice beam I could. With a kick we all had to hang onto Wilhelm as he flopped onto his side with a wail of pain and I could hear my, mostly gentle, husband cry in fear.

It wasn’t fear for himself, it was fear meant for us.

“Come on hubby get up, we’re not abandoning ship love, this Captain goes down with her husband!” I was screaming as the horrible monsters left leg tore a gash into my husband’s side trying to scratch us off as we kept hitting her with constant ice beams.

“Skeee-balll-” Wilhelm whined another Noble Roar buffeting the monster as she raise her right leg and the claws came for us.

“We’re not leaving you Wilhelm, not again!” I stated defiantly as I looked up into a pair of wings spreading and the monstrous visage staring down on our tiny forms compared to my husband’s large girth. “I’m a hero of Aurora darn it and I don’t abandon anyone for long, especially not my big lovable husband!”

The ears reeled back as the leg rose high, she was obviously going to claw and shred us with noise.

Before the leg could crush or scratch us all away as my kittens continued pump ice beam after ice beam into the massive talons, something tore into the claws of the wing joint of her raised left wing. I turned and looked to see the magical barrier on the castle flash, Grit was hitting her and the castle at the same time! Our allies were ridiculously talented and I’m glad I managed an alliance with them!

Said claws on the left wing broke apart and the monster screeched and was even in more pain when something tore through the bottom of the right wings member tattering it and filling it with a massive amounts of splinters. Splinters for it anyway. The sound blast she was preparing to fire from her ears shot straight up into the sky clearing some of the swirling clouds away so that a shaft of light shined down on us.

I looked to the sun, my kittens gathered around me and we didn’t cower, even Wilhelm was silent but still fighting with his glare as he tried to sit up. I continued to fire ice beams, but I was alone, my kittens were exhausted by being the front line of the battlefield… all of my brave little, super strong, kittens.

-Grit-

“Come on you monster, I’m not just sitting back and watching you destroy family!” The evacuation was still going and the Skitty Squad’s attacks were weakening, Wilhelm was in dire trouble if he could float and was basically beached. “Keeping aiming through the bottom of her wings at the castle! Artillery units give her everything you got if you’re not working the siege engines.”

Seeing as she didn’t have any fight aside from Skeeball and could probably deal with her later, Bathory turned her sights on us and flew forward as we were dealing damage. I had seen Skeeballs lips move at this distance, she basically told me that Bathory was an Infiltrator type Noivern. As if she wasn’t a nasty enough piece of work already.

“Don’t stop firing until you need to dodge! She’s an Infiltrator Noivern, so if you have to dodge, then dodge hard and fast!” A blast wave of destructive noise fell upon us taking out a siege engine to our right and we didn’t retreat even as Pokémon ran past us.

I finally spotted Plessilia, good girl was still out there and she was almost to the castle. Another ballista was blown apart in a wave of sound and foot stomped down knocking me into the siege engine behind us.

My body was already hurting, but I found myself in a really good position to really put a bolt in Bathory’s eye. The loading crew, bless their hearts, they had finish loading this ballista before retreating and with where I was laying…

I raised my left arm and fired a Snipe Shot into her left eye making her roar, until I couldn’t hear anything anymore. She just deafened me, hope the healers could deal with that. She raised her left talon intending to crush me.

Using my left arm I aimed the ballista upward and I kicked out with my left leg, I couldn’t get up or move, but I could still shoot something worthwhile.

“I really shouldn’t have been on the battlefield today with my injuries.” I calmly stated as death lumbered over me. “If I wasn’t though… many more could have lost their lives to you!”

The lever slammed forward and I had been using my foot to channel energy into the ballista as it fired, instead of crushing me Bathory dodge out of the way to her right with a grin. As the glowing tree sized bolt flew off into the distance.

“What’s that grin for now?! You already know I don’t miss!” Shouting this with a smile on my face and having been under her stupid control was sickening, she thought herself intelligent? She didn’t know tactics and could only barely grasp the bare minimum, basically Bathory was just a power mad bully to me. I grinned when her eyes widened at my implications. “You should have just taken that shot!”

-Prison Castle Cachtice, Pom-

That monster was tearing up the battlefield, glad I wasn’t over there… though a part of me wanted to help with that.

This place was called Cachtice Castle. It would be nice to see it gone, but could it not take itself with us when it left?

Something came soaring at us and we all moved to the side as a large brown cylindrical thing ripped a glass like hole in the barrier, busted through courtyard and tore into the castle. The castle immediately began collapsing and the barrier began fading.

“Well at least we won’t be being dragged into the sea.” Shanty said with a grin.

“We’ll still be pulled into the whirlpool the sinking island will cause.” If that didn’t kill us I didn’t know what will, the thought terrified me on a number of levels and there were far worse ways to go out.

“Nobody is dying today, Plessy’s Passenger service is here to pick up some heroes!” Plessy slung her backside into the space below the ledge we had been trapped on. “Hurry up!”

“Please don’t specifically call me a hero…” I whined as I gladly hopped onto her shell. “If anyone is a hero here, it’s you for making it back to us in time!”

“Did you save a lot of people today? Did you lead your team to success? Then you’re a hero, even if you are technically acting as mercenaries! You can’t fool me Ms. Lambchop, you’re a good person!” Once we were all on Plessy’s shell, she kicked off the sinking island and the castle that sat on it. The sinking place threatening to suck us into a quickly forming massive whirlpool of destruction. “Hold on tight, this is going to be hard to pull away from!”

-Battered Peninsula, center line artillery group, Grit-

A grin formed as I took out the castles infrastructure, possible taking away Bathory’s control over the Pokémon in the sea as we were still saving those that were on the land. I could see Plessy pulling away with the Rescue Team.

I could die with no regret here, but I’d rather live, I aimed up with my left arm and fire another shot into her eye. For all the damage it did like a chewed up leaf spit wad, I was defiant to the end.

Clawitzer, Octillery and even Bartholomew were here hitting her with all they had as they backed away, she wasn’t slowing down as she prepared to hit me with a sonic attack. That was going to shred me entirely, couldn’t move, didn’t have the strength to move and my broken body had hit its limit coming out here.

I leaned back and closed my eyes, however something caught my eye and I snapped them open wide with an evil grin forming on my face. Today was not the day that Grit the Long Slinger dies! Today was the day I would begin my recovery for a long, long time…

“Hey… don’t focus too hard on me now, look up and pay attention to what’s in front of you.” Bathory didn’t listen as she was about to flick her ears for me. I calmly kept a look up at her as a large pink foot planted itself next to the retreating artillery unit and a large shadow pivoted forward over me.

Bathory’s ears flickered forward, but they didn’t have time to get off the entire attack when…

“PUFF!” A nub of a fist slammed home into Bathory’s face in a beam of raw physical force, as I got a front row seat to Maiden Jig of Aurora showing up in Dynamic Maximize form.

She was enormous and on our side, plus that was a damn good sucker punch and I was glad to be a part of it. A giant monster like Bathory should be more aware of her surroundings and shouldn’t have tunnel vision on little old me.

What little I could hear or feel through vibrations was still painfully loud in my ringing hearing and the deep thrum of her voice was a welcoming feeling even if my ability to hear was getting more shot by the second. Still it was worth it to see the look on Bathory’s face as her giant nose was shattered with what was possibly a loud and painful bloody crunch as she went skidding backwards and broke her red v nose thing into small chunks.

-Nearby the artillery unit, Motochika-

“Grab him!” I ordered, a nearby Miltank carefully lifted Grit’s broken form from the siege engine that was falling apart from the near miss of the Boomburst attack that the Noivern was about to fire. It had been halted by a good friend of ours.

“Maiden Jig… you’re so big, beautiful and round… also soft and fluffy… please come back from this fight okay?!” The large pink form Evan was shouting to, with slightly red cheeks, slowly turned their right eye to him.

We saw Jig smile and a slight shift downwards before she turned back to the sliding dragon managing to stand up from such a devastating blow, even we didn’t know when Jig Dynamaxed she just came out of nowhere from the sunlight and appeared with her right nub thrusting forward for massive Maximum Strike. Bathory truly had a real fight on her talons as Maiden Jig was now protecting the retreating Pokémon with her massive form.

She puffed up slightly in a threatening gesture before shrinking back down to her normal Dynamax’d size and started to stomp forward.

I heard the term for what was about to happen as a ‘Kaiju Fight’.

-Hero: Maiden Jig the ‘glee-puff’, Dynamic Maximized Punchy Pink Puffy Powerhouse!-

“JIGGLY!” I raised my left nub as I charged forward feinting another maximum powered strike with my left. Bathory tried to get into the air. Smirking, I stopped my charge because this was what I wanted.

I brought my fists in front of my eye and grinned.

“MAX STARFALL…” I tried to whisper, but it still came out obnoxiously loud.

Bathory looked confused, she obviously never had Dynamax training with her predecessor like I did… if she had anyone train her at all for this kind of fight. This wasn’t a simple ‘Puff Up’ one maximized attack battle with my predecessor though, this was the real thing and my blood was pumping through my massive form at the speed of light with every breath.

I felt alive and would bring the light back to Fontaine, this evil didn’t belong in this world!

Trying to get an aerial advantage on me immediately as the Fairy Type attack began was a poor choice as massive stars of energy enclosed her and bracketed her to lock her in place. She was soon eating dirt when a massive beam pounded into her spine from above, had she stayed on the ground she would be able to at least stand up to the attack as it pummeled her.

Bathory stood up and blasted me with a soundwave, my entire body jiggled with the impact, but my flesh didn’t so much as scratch as I kept my stance firm. I grinned and stomped my right foot against the ground and a huge slab of stone rose up and slammed down on top of Bathory crunching both her wings.

“MAX ROCKFALL.” I stated after having used the attack with a vicious grin and brought up my nubs to block her talons tearing into my skin rabidly, she wasn’t even using attacks anymore. I pity her and I had two moves left in me. She was pushing on fumes since her lack of being able to draw blood into her mouth means she was rapidly losing strength. Given she was this close, this wasn’t going to miss. “MAX KNUCKLE!”

My left fist finally moved forward having been charging the attack since the feint, my left nub burrowed into her chest causing her to reel back. Despite being bloodied and hurt, I kept pushing it forward to the southeastern part of the peninsula away from Skeeball and anyone so I could use my final move as I force Bathory onto her back.

I had the moves Rollout, Pound, Drain Punch and Dazzling Gleam, but there was one move I had yet use. The ultimate move of Igglybuff, Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff lines of Pokemon, a move my ancestors perfected, the move of the ‘Glee’ family… Puff Up.

Leaping into the air I landed on top of Bathory belly first, she clawed at me with her broken claws on her left wing, her right wing which still had working claws and tried to find purchase with her legs talons to try and push me off and my injuries were mounting and this would take a whole heck of a lot out of me… but… someone just had to threaten ‘MY BELOVED IDIOT KING’.

Slowly I started growing my mass far surpassing the Dynamax form, the ultimate defensive technique Puff Up could take any attack… but would leave the user unconscious and bodily exhausted. Doing it while Dynamaxed? Oh, this was going to hurt! Her, mostly!

Confused? Well Puff Up was technically an attack as much as it was an ultimate defense, however the attack portion of the defensive move was a point blank energy surge. If Bathory hadn’t been trapped beneath my increasingly large bulk, then she might have been able to get an inch away from me and making my final attack a moot point.

Unfortunately for her, I was crushing her under my weight and my skin to skin contact means the attack portion couldn’t feasibly miss if she couldn’t get out from under me. My bulk surpassed the clouds, my form covered the entire south eastern portion of the Peninsula.

All the energy I had gathered…

“J-I-G-G-L-Y---P-U-F-F--JIGG--OLY-----PUFF----~!” The world turned white as the massive mountain of pink screamed the song of her people in a world shaking manner that brought immediate silence afterwards.

“You should have thought better about messing with all my friends and family…” This wasn't said, it was but a transmitted feeling.

-In space-

Looking down the planet at the Arceus shape continent of Ransei, one would see a large bloom of a pink mass taking up a portion of one of the back legs and in a second a white flash that drew the meteor defense Pokémon that protected the planet from being destroyed, known as Rayquaza, to stare in shock.

A Pokémon just surpassed all their bodily limitations for an instant and went even further beyond, they would go down as a legend throughout the annals of time. Given they left a huge hole in the landmass of the Ransei continent that started immediately filling with water.

-Ransei, five minutes later, Fontaine's Battle Battered Peninsula-

A pink form laid on the ground unmoving, next to her was a dragon that had every bone in their body broken, their organs were ruptured and they were trying to struggle to stay alive as they shrunk down.

The red tinted swirling clouds in the sky cleared up to reveal a vibrant blue as the day was halfway finished.

The sun shined and Carmilla Bathory burned, her fleshed started boiling, her body caught fire and started to turn to ash. She couldn’t scream in pain, she could move and she couldn’t escape her fate as her life began extinguishing in the sun.

A Miltank found Maiden Jig, their countries administrator, who just inexorably changed the landscape of Fontaine forever by reshaping the entire eastern shoreline of the peninsula. She stopped to stare in horror as the monstrous Noivern quickly began burning away to nothing in the sun, they couldn’t even create a hint of a noise of pain.

What was left of the burning Carmilla Bathory afterwards was nothing but a large pile of ashes, the vampire dragon met her demise without being able to whimper.

“Stop gawking and get Maiden Jig already, she needs emergency medical aid! Also send back help for my husband immediately!” Ordered Skeeball as she watched the burning ashes of Bathory float away in the wind with a sad frown.

As tired as Skeeball was by the frantic fighting and her badly battered form, she stayed there to watch the ashes until they were all dispersed into nothing and the Nightmare that came to Fontaine was cleansed from the world fully.

-Hours later, repurposed medical fort, Pom-

We had escaped the wave caused by Maiden Jigs explosion by diving underwater, it ironically stopped the whirlpool from growing bigger and saved us from being sucked in.

I was slightly happy that the dragon was dealt with and that we didn’t personally have to deal with that huge problem.

Smelling something on the air that drew my attention as I watched various Pokémon run around seeing to every Pokémon that had spilled blood, was battered, beaten, broken on the battlefield… all the suffering that was caused by one person alone.

An entity I could smell as still existing despite her body having said to be burned away in the sun like a true vampire. The thought chilled me to the bones and it certainly explained the bathtub of blood.

I followed the scent with a hint of worry and saw a smaller version of what Bathory had been, she was sitting in the shade of the tree looking to the evening sky as it painted beautiful orange color among the fading blue.

“Elizabeth?” I queried.

She squawked loudly and fell out of the tree.

“Wha… oh… um…” She seemed nervous and despite falling to the sunlight she wasn’t burned by it. “Uh…”

“Thank you… for the hint and the exit in the throne room.” She seemed meek and not at all the like the larger one that caused all of this.

“Oh… heh…nothing...” She looked away being ever so shy.

“Can I hear your story?” I sat down and calmly patted a spot next to me on the rock.

“Okay…” The small bat like Pokémon fluttered over to me and sat down next to me. “There once was a little girl born to nobles, who was always taught to treat others as beneath her, the peasants, slaves and serfs… throughout her life nobody among the nobles corrected her and she was always seeking to be the center of attention. Eventually she started cutting up women out of jealous as she grew older, her servants and anyone she could capture to start bathing in their freshly spilled blood to stay youthful. The people, eventually tiring of the cannibalism and blood bathing monster that the little girl became, soon stuck the grown up version of her in her own castle to seal her in a room for three years where they fed her but did little more. Not willing to outright kill her themselves and leave her to a torturous existence. Claustrophobia of being trapped in an enclosed space, Autophobia for being unable to interact with anyone day in and day out, three solid years of this torture is what it took for it to sink in that they would never be freed, eventually Blood Bathory gave in to despair and perished with her mind completely broken, nobody cared or shed a single tear. Her legend however would continue on… creating a vampire that would be born from a dangerous mystical war of wishes, things that grants wishes always brings incredible danger from those with lofty dark ambitions and with it life is given to legends… the legendary Bloodbath of Bathory Castle became reality from the history of what became known as the Prison Castle Cachtice. Thus is the story of the warped castle of traps that became a place that drained and fed on blood of the people who died there, engorging itself on it even. It wasn’t Carmilla Bathory, what I could become, that was in control of the castle like she thought… it was the castle controlling ‘HER’ and I barely had the strength for one saving throw for when you entered the castle with a large amount of fear and trepidation, but still a lot of hope to save everyone you could. Even if you can’t save me, no one would cry if I were to fully disappear.”

"I would." The small bat sniffled and started crying, I wrapped a leg around her.

“Yikes, talk about being spoiled to death!” Dolly commented dryly making me flinch, but I kept holding Ellie. When had Dolly shown up?! “Kind of want that to happen to Clarissa Corgi naturally, spoiled pedigree inbred that she is, but I wouldn’t necessarily wish that kind of torture on anyone no matter how tempting it might be. Mama Delilah began raising us better than that and even saved the monster that was Cruella De Ville! For who would cry for the monster if my mother and father didn’t save her from herself out of the goodness of their hearts?”

I felt a pulse from Dolly and I felt a pulse from my own body, when she recalled Cruella De Ville’s story before being arrested and incarcerated. Delilah and Doug would certainly cry if they let the monster die when they could have done something to save them, even if that monster were to be ungrateful, they were truly excellent dogs raising far too many good children and Dolly was one of their results. I was happy to have family like Dolly to share my feelings with.

“What are you going to do now?” I asked of Elizabeth, a… a younger version of her? How did that work exactly? It didn’t matter, someone needed help and… despite my disdain for being called a hero… I couldn’t let this problem go unanswered.

“I’m just going to stay in this forest for the rest of my…” Booping the bat pokemon on the nose with my left hoof as my right was still wrapped around her and comforting her, I glared at her.

“No.” I said sternly.

“No?” The story she just told me said that nobody ever corrected her, I’m doing that right this instant!

“You have been given a second chance, make some friends, try not to be an attention seeker and try to be more humble. Don’t waste it like it sounds like you are going to do!” My sternness made her look up at me with numb shock. “Go out there and enjoy the evening... Ellie Zabor, get out and do stuff, learn from people and find a way to turn your life around… and never become that!”

“Ellie Zabor… that sounds like a nice name… not something a monster should ever hope to...” I lifted up Ellie and drew her into a tight hug, a hug which Dolly joined as she couldn’t let a child go depressed like this one was.

“By the power Paprika, let my hug compel you to make better life choices than what you were going to do to yourself!” I shouted as I gently held and caressed.

-Equus, Airship Mauled, Paprika-

I smiled, don’t know why I did as I rubbed a hoof over my belly.

It sounded like someone needed a hug and happy connections, they were certainly getting both.

It would be a few months yet before my little cria came out of my belly, I already loved them dearly.

Then I would be able to get close enough to touch Arizona and Velvet again!

With happy anticipation came joy, whatever it was I was feeling… that hug will definitely mean something to whoever is receiving it!

-Fontaine’s Battered Peninsula-

A Pokémon called a Noibat took to the sky with drying tears in her eyes, free of her future, free of her past, and most of all… free from fates design to become something greater than a demonized person that was made to become what they were and force into a cycle of reliving the same pain and suffering over and over again.

Arceus smiled down upon Ellie as she flew in the evening sun and Pom had actually shed the tears that the vampire known as Carmilla Bathory needed to finally be put to rest.

For someone had to cry for the monster and Pom was both willing and able to mean it, Dolly joined her in a good cry from feeling the sorrow through their bond as they had held that little bat close before letting her fly off to find her way in this world she was reborn anew in.

Those tears broke the cycle of Elizabeth ‘Bloodbath’ Bathory. All that was left was Ellie Zabor who would go on to make many strange friends and find love, also she would become a hero worthy of the title ‘heroic spirit’. One spirit that probably should have mentioned or warned Pom what ‘heroic spirits’ were in the first place, it would have helped many things much sooner, but spilt milk and all that.

Ellie Zabor began her life.

Comments

[Darkonshadows]

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What Cu Chulainn saw will come up again eventually.

Yes I based Dancing Flame on some breathing techniques, it's primarily a longma technique Pom learned from Tianhuo to try and help Pom calm down from being so panicky all the time. Said technique helps longma control their fire.

Pom uses the technique to increase her overall speed mentally and physically because she's not capable of controlling fire to a similar degree.

[Akin2018]

Nice way for this battle to end, what other stuff will crossover into this world based on the question marks? Also hmmm would the flowers that make animals become feral and savage not work on Pom without using her magic since she is so in touch with her feral side, that it won't work.

Knowing Pom she is going to get thrusted into Dazzle's side quest eventually. Is their going to be a joke where when Dazzle evolves and Pom defends her honor by defeating many bad suitors and leads to something hilarious like Pom marrying her by mistake, and she is already married to a woman she loves anyway.

When Pom and Dolly go back to Dolly's world to visit her family like on her birthday it would funny as Leap Lamb and Caper Canine leap back into action, Pom brings her god puppies along with her, which no doubt learn from Pom after her recent adventures. Of course this is an aftermath thing/special chapter, it is your story of course.

If you have seen Madagascar franchise mostly the third film, if Captain Chantel DuBois was an animal, would she be on Pom's tail to kill her like a mercenary or something like that, and she would have a mount with Pom's name on it.

[Herald of Opera]

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Again, Dazzle is clearly leaving the universe to avoid her birthright. She probably would have ended up in Ignis on general principle, so Huoshan won't be much different.

[AllenVth]

I got several things to say. First off, Jig was amazing in this. Showing off what True Dynamax is all about. Bathory didn't stand a chance. And a Final Smash move to boot. This story is holding nothing back.

Pom is a hero even if she doesn't want to be acknowledged as such. Saving Lil Ellie from her past.

At this point, Pap has gotten some sort of divinity if she felt that from dimensions away.

[Booster Spice]

Oh wow, that was the very definition of a Slap Down?

Even greater than a Footfall.

Really hope someones got the berry and seed farms either up or in prep. Theyre going to need them to sort out the other monsters being drawn together in this reality as Monsters make as Monsters Do?

[Akin2018]

Hello DarkonShadows, what is Pom's equivalent to Shin Akuma and even possibly Oni the destroyer of heaven. Because I think the slight reference to Akuma shun goku no satsu/full flurry fury is not for show.

Also a few anime questions. Have you ever seen RWBY and If you have up to volume 8 then do you know about the maiden powers, if Pom was turned into a faunus with all of her current abilities she has now, would she able to grow stronger with maiden powers as they synergize with her own magic increasing it even more aka fuse into her very soul and fighting spirit.

Do you know about Baki the Grappler and Yujiro Hanma. Because I think Pom at this point would be able to defeat if not kill Yujiro if she really had to but it wouldn't be easy, I think with the power of Imagination Yujiro might even evolve during the fight and unleash the physical manifestation of his own fighting spirit which would look like a ogre.

https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/bz5iea/respect_yujiro_hanma_the_strongest_creature_in/

[Darkonshadows]

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It's a confirmed attack that actually occurs in the 'Thems Fighting Herds'. It's Pom's level 3 super just called 'BAHHHHH' where Foenum Pom basically does the Akuma attack if her puppy takes a hit. Yes Foenum Pom is already on that level of ridiculousness already despite her shivering and whining showing that she had a feral side, Equestria Pom is just taking that to much further extreme when she goes Sheep's Clothing and uses Dancing Flame at the same time. She's actively capable of matching the ridiculousness that all her 'Fighting Herds' friends in Equestria are capable of with her own brand of it, despite all of this... Pom's constitution is still her major weakness and she should really lay off on the double edged abilities.

She probably won't hit full equivalence because her constitution wrecks her more often than not.

I'm not the greatest fan of RWBY, but I know what you're talking about. I think Pom would synergize with Summer or Spring the most. I don't think she would kill for the powers though. Plus a Faunus with Pom's disposition, intelligence and magical control of her wool as a Semblence... she'd be pretty strong already if she figured out what she was capable of while being forced to fight. It would be a bit over the top in levels of ridiculous along with the maiden powers wouldn't it? You would be essentially giving that particular Pom super longma powers with Summer Maiden.

Yujiro Hanma... really? I thought it would take someone on Kenshiro's 'I easily make people explode violently' levels to match that insanity, mind you Kenshiro is known for walking through buildings and cutting them in half... with his face.