Chapter Eighteen: Legends Part Six: Finality

Skyla and Flare gave each other high fives as they ran to face Zygarde, the rest of the group following behind. The two eager battlers leapt at Zygarde, shifting into their Pokéformes, Skyla going for a Dark Punch and Flare for a Fire Fang. Zygarde smacked all five away, chuckling as he fired a blast at them, which almost destroyed the tower they were on. The Exploration Team suffered decent damage from that simple blast alone.

"If this is what you're coming at me with" Zygarde said. "Then, don't even bother getting up. You'd be better off surrendering now and saving yourselves the pain."

"We'll never give up." Destiny said, the five standing up, stumbling slightly.

"Any plans?" Skyla asked.

"Yeah." Flare said. "We attack all at once. One huge attack, one powerful blow. Let this bastard feel all of us at once."

"Right." The rest nodded, the five of them standing in a half circle. They charged their powers into a singular blast, firing it at Zygarde. Zygarde pushed it with one hand, the five members of Team Lunar Fire pushing with all their might. They gave a tremendous yell, the ball moving towards Zygarde more.

However, Zygarde had more power up his sleeves, using both hands.

"He's so strong!" Skyla shouted, the five Team members giving everything they had to oppose this monster.

"I am stronger still!" Zygarde shouted, pulsing more power into the attack, Team Lunar Fire fighting as hard as they could to prevent it from returning to them. The sheer power could be felt from all around.

Elsewhere

"What is that!?" the teacher shouted, running to the door. Her Psychic powers allowed her to see the battle happening around her. She gasped as she saw the struggle, watched the beings fight and use their powers to prevent the terror that had befallen their world from gaining anything on them.

With Team Lunar Fire

The Exploration Team fought against the demon, who was pushing their powerful attack backward, the two parties pushing with their full strength. The ball began to get smaller, condense itself. However, the power in it seemed to increase, destroying the tower around them. Team Lunar Fire simultaneously rose into the air to gain a better vantage point continued to push hard against Zygarde,

"You fools will never be able to defeat me!" Zygarde said, laughing as he continued pushing against them, the ball of Team Lunar Fire's energy getting even smaller. The Exploration Team continued to push as hard as they could, straining their power to maintain the position of the ball.

Zygarde gave one last yell of power, pulsing one last burst of his power into the pushing back of the sphere. In that instant, the sphere got smaller, shrinking to the size of a golf ball. In that instant it also grew larger, the power within turning it white as it pulled Team Lunar Fire into it.

The Exploration Team screamed in pain as they fell in, their very essences being ripped apart from the force of the strange sphere's pull, almost as if it had gravity. Their pain ceased as they suddenly grew quiet.

With Zygarde

The strange sphere disappeared, leaving the demon to himself. He chuckled, using his power to rebuild his destroyed tower.

"Foolish warriors." He said. "They fell just like the rest. Even the Unholy Trinity fell to the power I wield. I can't believe—what?!"

The entire area around Zygarde began to shake, shuddering as if the earth itself was splitting apart at the seams. Power beyond power, a strange and unholy energy began wafting through the area. All around the world, people felt the huge power, shuddering and trembling as they felt it.

In the Distortion World

"what the hell is that?!" the guardian of the Distortion World exclaimed, feeling the overwhelming power emerging from the outside world. "Is that—no! It isn't! It's something else! Something even more powerful! The one thing that could fight that monster!"

"What is it?!" his assistant said. "I can feel that power even here! Has Zygarde transformed again?"

"He is already transformed." The guardian said. "I can feel this is a different power, a power that rivals his. Whatever the source of this power is, it is certainly something to fear. I hope it's on our side, because it's our last hope."

In the world of the living

"What is that?" the mother felt the shuddering of the overwhelming strength of whatever was coming. "That's not that monster, Zygarde. This is… purer. It's so much different. This thing must be what's capable of fighting him."

"Mommy, what is that?" her son walked in, curling into a ball on the floor.

"Something we need to hope is on our side." The mother said.

On the home world of the DNA Pokémon

"Wh-what is this power coming from Earth?!" they all gathered around to see the fight. "To think we'd left just centuries before this kind of power emerges. It can't be that this is the power of a simple Earthling."

"Perhaps they have gained a technique like us." Another said. "They seemed capable of it with enough training. This must be the power of the Earthlings."

In the afterlife

"What have you to say about this, Arceus?" the being asked the former god, the two of them watching the battle unfold. "Your pupils' children have been cast down. However, this power is something that is perplexing to me. I have never seen anything similar. What have you to say?"

Arceus smirked, looking at the being with one eye. Crossing her arms, she looked down at the scene of Zygarde's tower, a slight chuckle coming from her.

"It's over." She said.

With Zygarde

The demon felt the rumble, watching in awe as a bright light exploded from the spot in front of him, actually throwing him backwards as he looked at it, shielding his eyes to try to see what was in the bright light.

"What the hell are you?!" he exclaimed, the light beginning to die down, a figure standing there.

"I'm the person who's gonna beat you." The figure said, a strange sound to her voice, almost as if she was more than one person.

The strange figure was taller than the members of Team Lunar Fire, but not by much. She had on green shoes with black laces. Her pants were pink and purple, orange splotches on them. She wore a jacket that was orange over a green shirt. Her hair was a flaming green, her eyes a burning pink. Her aura was a flaming orange aura surrounded by a distorting black aura. She wore green gloves with the Team Lunar Fire symbol on them, the colors altered to be their polar opposites.

"The most powerful members of the Legendary Council couldn't beat me." Zygarde chuckled. "What makes you think you can?"

"Because I'm better." The figure smirked, landing a punch to Zygarde's gut so fast he couldn't see it.

"You're fast." Zygarde punched her in the face, glaring at her. "What is your name?"

"Luna." The figure smirked. "Luna Jikan Kasai. But, you can just call me Luna. Basically, I'm the one who's gonna kick your ass."

"You're foolish to attempt to defeat me." Zygarde said. "I will now destroy you."

Zygarde's aura flared up, causing the ground around them to shake. Luna cracked her knuckles, a confident smirk on her face as she summoned her strange power to her hands. It distorted from black to orange to purple to green to pink, seemingly all five colors at once, but not the same.

"Tengoku no honō (T/N: Flame of Heaven)!" She shouted, giving a powerful yell as she shot her power into the air. The power rained down on Zygarde, causing him pain.

"You're not at your full strength." Luna roundhouse kicked him in the face. "You don't have Xerneas and Yveltal to absorb this time. Now, you're mine!"

Luna began to rain heavy blows down on Zygarde, each firing a powerful shockwave, the shockwaves themselves destroying the terrain around them.

Zygarde caught her fists, slamming his head into hers, knocking her back. She growled, kicking him in the gut as she slammed her fist into his face.

She kicked him into the ground, making her body into an X shape, gathering energy above her. The burning ball of energy was green and silver in color, the size of a wrecking ball. She poured more energy into it, making it even larger as she yelled with her power.

"Tsuki o moyasu (Burning Moon)!" She threw the energy ball down towards Zygarde, who pushed it back with his hands. Luna put more power into it, punching it with her strength.

The ball detonated, sending both warriors backwards with enough force to split the earth open wide.

Zygarde gave a yell of rage, his body bloodied as he glared at the strange warrior in front of him.

"You bitch!" he shouted. "I'll kill you!"

"You'll die trying." Luna said, her smirk turning to anger, rushing forward and driving a knee into his gut with all of her power. Zygarde fell over, his body distorting into a strange snake like form, a fan of plates surrounding his head. His eyes turned into green compound eyes as he roared at them, using his power to distort the very ground around them.

He summoned spikes from the ground to pierce them, Luna screaming in agony.

"Y-you haven't won yet." She said, despite her gaping wounds.

She began to yell, her power rising at an incredible rate, nearing Zygarde's. Her body began to distort, becoming like that of a Ditto's Pokéforme. However, it became a green color, shifting constantly.

Zygarde roared, rushing for this creature. However, a flaming Flareon emerged from the shape, the shape morphing into it, biting Zygarde on the neck. The Flareon shifted to a Darkrai, pulsing her nightmarish powers into Zygarde. Zygarde managed to shake her off, slamming her on the ground.

However, she'd shifted into a Gardevoir, her immense Psychic powers bursting forth as she began to slice him over and over, her eyes glowing green.

She then shifted into a Celius, the sheer power from her Roar of Time threatening to split him in two.

Zygarde broke out of it, firing a powerful Hyper Beam at the strange warrior. The beam hit, causing considerable damage to her.

She then morphed into a Cresselia, summoning the power of the moon, her wounds healing instantly.

"This is the final attack I'm going to use." The warrior said in the thoughts of Zygarde. "I'm going to kill you in one strike from this."

"Moeru tsuki no akumu (Nightmare of the Burning Moon)!" She shouted. Instantly, a strange dark power surrounded the group. The moon in the sky began to move under Luna's power, a strange Dark Fire surrounding it as it hurtled towards them. It impacted with the Earth, detonating and sending the powerful aura out around the planet, shuddering it to its core.

Luna looked at where Zygarde had been, only seeing dust.

"Seems like his reincarnation has begun." She said. "It will be up to a new generation to defeat him."

Luna gave a shriek, her power exploding into ten spheres that landed in a circle. The spheres slowly morphed into the five shapes of the members of Team Lunar Fire as well as five Pokéformes.

"Wh-what happened?" Skyla rubbed her head. "I wonder what happened. Last thing I remember is fighting Zygarde."

"Same here." Cela said. "I can't believe it was over so quick. I don't sense his energy… wait, what are these five Pokéformes doing here?"

"They… they're ours!" Destiny gasped. "these are our Pokéformes."

"How is that possible?!" Cela exclaimed, looking at the Pokéformes and at herself. "Only Skyla and Flare have Pokéformes."

"The potential is in all of you." The Celius said in the minds of the group. "Well, was. Now, humans and Pokémon have become separate all over the planet. The result of that destructive attack and Zygarde's destruction."

"But, what does that mean for us?" Dana asked.

"Become stronger, aid in the survival of the human race and teach them to bond with their Pokémon." The Darkrai said. "We shall rebuild the moon, but this is the last time we shall see each other for a while."

"Where are you going?" Skyla asked.

"Where our destinies lie." The Flareon spoke. The five Pokémon shot their power into the air, the pieces of the destroyed moon levitating and moving to where they rose in the sky. The Pokémon then turned to their former human formes.

"Zygarde is going to reincarnate." The Cresselia said. "Be prepared because it will not be in this generation, but another. You must train successors."

"How?" Flare asked.

"You will find out how." The Gardevoir spoke. "We are counting on you."

"Alright." Cela nodded. The five Pokémon nodded back, the Gardevoir teleporting them away.

"So, I guess we have to figure out what we're doing." Skyla said.

"We could explore." Flare grinned. "We are an Exploration Team after all."

"Sounds like a plan." Cela smirked. "I'm in. Which way, Leader Skyla?"

"this way." Skyla pointed in front of her. "That way sounds good."

The five of them headed in the direction Skyla pointed, preparing to take on the world if need be.

Elsewhere

"They managed to do good." The being said to Arceus.

"I knew they could." Arceus said. "I was surprised that form could overpower Zygarde that easily."

"It didn't." the being said. "He let himself be killed so that he could rise later, in a time when Team Lunar Fire doesn't exist, a time when his power could truly threaten the world."

"Then, what will happen?" Arceus asked.

"there will be a chosen one ready." The being said. "a person of a pure heart and great ambitions, a descendent of Ace Hunter and Shadow Darkstar."

"Then, I guess we have to hope." Arceus said.

"That we do." The being said. "That we do.

And, here we have it, the ending of Team Lunar Fire, which leads into In Dark of Night, the next in the series. I can't believe this makes the third(?) fic i've actually finished, the first being the original Pokemon Azure Light. But, I also can't believe it took me this long. I also dislike how this chapter is so short, but I for the life of me couldn't make it longer. I truly tried. I guess I'd just burnt out of it (that and I absolutely suck at uneven battles like a 5 on 1), but it's finally finished. I'm so glad. I'm going to remaster it like the original Azure Light and I want to do it better justice and to do differently with it. I want it to be a much better story and i guess part of this chapter being like it is comes down to me not being used to the style of this story anymore. I truly hope the Remastered version is better (and, I'll try not to have spoilers for Azure Light Remastered, but who knows).