Hello and welcome everyone to the next chapter of PMD Ivory: The Sacred Relics, now in the-

Giovanni: Um...help us please?

Marcos: Yeah...help.

Michael: Y-yeah, please it's bad enough to deal with blue boy, now there are so many of them!

Hold on I'm getting to this! Anyways, I own nothing except this story and all the pokemon I get via trade, capture, or breeding. Enjoy! ^_^

Chapter 55: Decisions

"Alright, what's going on here!?" Tidal demanded, the Samurott made his way through the crowd of his evolutionary line.

"We found these suspicious pokemon wandering around here, they claim to know someone here in our peaceful village." spoke a Dewott wearing a black mask, three of them stood next to Giovanni and his brothers as they're bound together with rope. Their screams are muffled as their beaks tied shut.

"Dew, what should we do with them?" Morgan asked her brother.

"I don't know, should we even help them at all?" Jesse whispered back, arms crossed

"Yeah, they have been a pain but-" Dew ran off to the center where Team Shadow is held captive

"Dew what are you doing?" Morgan asked as the Dewott ran over to the group of pokemon

"Wait!" Dew shouted as he approached Team Shadow, Tidal, and the masked Dewotts

"Oh Dew, I was just about to summon you. Since your friends are the only ones I allow to come to our territory, I may ask if you happen to know them at all?" the older Samurott questioned

Giovanni muffled screams were heard as he tried to break free as he's both surprised and angry that Dew is here.

"When I was with my team they tried to rob one of my friends, don't even worry about them." Dew answered with a shrug "They're stupid but they aren't a threat, just petty thieves."

"I swear to Arceus above once this is over I will end you.." thought Giovanni but was snapped out of his anger by Tidal's cold gaze who then turned to Dew.

There was silence, not one voice spoke for a few moments as the afternoon became very tense. That's until Tidal broke his silence. "Very well then…."

"But Milord, what will we do with the captives?" One of the masked Dewotts asked.

"Dew will decide their fates, we don't want any thieves here in this village. Especially those who would steal valuable information and pass it on to other rival clans." Hearing Tidal say that struck a nerve within Marine in which she angrily began to make her way to give that Samurott a piece of her mind, however, she was quickly pulled back by Jesse.

Dew was caught off guard by his grandfather's decision "Wait what?"

"I don't need to repeat myself, feel free to dispose of them."

Everyone is anticipating what Dew will do next. Is he actually going to end the lives of Team Shadow? Giovanni and his brothers shook in fear due to the situation. Is this really the end? Not even Team Ivory or Marine could come with a good response. Dew withdrew his shell blades, the sunlight reflecting the water from his Razor Shell would make one mistake the move as not water, but cold, lifeless steel.

Dew paced in front of the bound and gagged birds, blades still active as he began to speak

"Decisions...always decisions ..

Whether to fight or fly

Whether to live or die

...to take up the blade

and defend the honor of the past

or to let the past burn and strive

strive for a future that is not cemented.

I have made all of these decisions with a mind

clouded and unsure.

a hearth wary and deluded. Could i save them all

would i die myself? Is there any true peace in life?

Or are we all meant to clash and continue to author

new sagas in this book of war. No matter what decision

I may make I will never have a regret,

nor questions of right or wrong

for the only one who can judge me now

is me and by the blade of ancestors I will never look back"

Those were the words Dew spoke as everyone remained dead silent. Dew stepped in front of Giovanni and his team, the Big Boss pokemon and his brothers flinched in anticipation as the sounds of cutting and slashing was heard. "This is what death feels like? It feels awfully painless than one would expect...however…

"Wake up…" an all too familiar voice is what he heard. Slight snickering was heard, Team shadow looked around and see that the rope that tied them were cut into numerous pieces, not a single scratch on their bodies. They looked back at Dew who had an unamused look on his face. Some of the clan members stifled laughter, even Team Ivory and Marine found it amusing.

"Get out of here, I do not want to see you here again!" Dew ordered, with Razor Shell still activated

"B-but…we came-" Giovanni stuttered

Dew gave the Honchkrow a death glare as other members of the clan started moving closer, Tidal standing right behind Dew

"Ok ok! We have a deal! Let's scram boys!" Giovanni shouted as the dark bird trio quickly flew away as fast as they can..

Dew turned around and almost jumped as Tidal gave him a stern look. Feeling the gaze of his sharp, cold, eyes made Dew feel uneasy.

"Are you sure you have made the right decision?" the Samurott finally spoke

"Yes, they won't be back, even if they do return, they're aren't' much of a threat." Dew assured as his team plus Marine walked up to him.

"More of a nuisance if anything." Jesse added "Like Dew said, they're barely a threat to anyone."

Tidal looked at Dew with Marine clinging to his arm. He then looked towards Jesse, who noticed a sudden change in his aura. Without saying a word, the Samurott leader walked away. Everyone went their own paths soon after except for Team Ivory and Marine.

"Um...you can let go now…" Dew tells Marine as she quickly did and brushed herself off hiding a faint blush.

"Ugh, finally...How about we split up for now, if you want to know more about this place?" Marine suggested " Squishy and I need to finish out on some private matters."

"Oh, like how we caught you two earlier?" Mystic remarked causing Dew to blush and Marine's eyes to widen

"Look, even if I'm forced to marry him I'd never lower myself to someone like..him!" she shouted causing Mystic to laugh at the situation "D-don't you have to meet that shopkeeper!?"

"That's probably a good idea." said Morgan as everyone began to go their own path except for Mystic who stayed behind which her teammates noticed this except for Dew who was dragged off by Marine.

Jesse took notice to this and walked towards the shiny Zorua "Hey Mystic, you're coming?" Mystic, however, ignored the Riolu as she spaced out for a moment until Jesse called her again.

"Mystic!" he called again snapping the Zorua out of it.

"Huh? Oh...sorry Jesse you can go on without me." she tells the Riolu "We could go later, how about you see how Static is doing."

Jesse, sensing how Mystic is feeling nodded. "Just don't get yourself into trouble." he tells her

"Hey! Aren't you coming!?" Morgan shouted who was a good distance away from both the Dark and Fighting type

"I'm coming Morgan, let's check on Static first." replied Jesse as he came running towards the Meowth.

-000-

"Phew….Can't believe you'd let them go, I really don't know if thats very smart of you Squishy" Marine said as the two walked along the beach

"Trust me, this isn't the first time we've dealt with them." Dew explained, the two walked down to the beach as the Dewott laid back in the sand. It's bad enough that he gets dragged into his long lost clan in forced marriage, now those birdbrains decided to show up and get captured and was ordered to end them? He could've done it and never have to deal with Team Shadow again, but he just can't do it. Whether or not Tidal was pleased of sparing them is a whole different story.

Marine sighed as she sat next to Dew. Hearing what Tidal has said had really gotten to her. Yes she wanted to take a treasure from the clan, and being forced to be betrothed to someone she doesn't deem worthy. What else could the Buizel do? She, herself doesn't know what the treasure is for, but she's willing to try to get it back for her clan. Even if its mean being arranged to marry Dew.

"Hey…" Dew turned around and saw Marine, sitting awfully close to him. Her orange fur gave off a nice lighting in the afternoon sun, Silence lingered in the air for the two water types as the cool sea breeze blew.

"J...just what do you think of me? And this clan?"

Dew confused by why Marine would ask that. Sure he spent two days with his long lost family. He can't deny that everything that happened since he's been brought here, and even finding his parents and even long lost brother in the last mission really was a lot to take in.

"Well….despite everything that has happened, somehow I can sense that you're a sweet and wonderful girl on the inside. If I have to marry you, I wouldn't mind that at all. However, I would like to know you more."

Marine was caught off guard but didn't know how to respond. Dew continued to speak

"As for the clan, I value them. My sister and I have spent a good chunk of our lives without a family since our parents were away on that mission in the Western Desert. But it's nice that I actually have a place to call home, a family." he finished. Mystic, who used her ability to disguise herself as a Krabby heard everything and many thoughts were circulating in her mind. Dew is her friend, her teammate, but she wanted to be more than that for him. She didn't want to admit it ever since he got dragged back to his clan but she does care for him.

Marine was surprised to hear that, honestly, she expected something else but she lost all thought. The Buizel leaned over Dew with a smile. Dew was unsure what to think until she leaned in closer to him.

Slowly, surely as a certain Zorua remained shocked as she couldn't believe what she's witnessing, she with a look of disappointment, she began to leave.

"Wait…" she heard Dew's voice "I cannot do that with you Marine."

"What do you mean?" Marine asked as Mystic turned around and almost tripping and blowing her disguise.

Dew sighed with a faint blush "I have feelings for someone else."

Marine didn't know what to say. Part of her feels relieved but the other part feels disappointed. "It's the fox girl isn't it?"

"Mystic? Yes, I do love her."' the Dewott replied back

"Well you can pretend I am he-" Marine soon felt a sharp pain in one of her tails causing her to scream. Marine ran in circles causing Dew to sweatdrop at what just happened.

"Owowowow! Get it off! Get it off!" she screamed as the Krabby soon released itself and transformed back to a shiny chuckling Zorua.

"Mystic!?" Dew exclaimed blushing a bit

"Hey Dew." the small fox replied still chuckling. Marine grabbed one of her hurting tails to rub the pain away while glaring at Mystic.

"Oh….you're here." the female Water type sneered before crossing her arms and turning her head away. "Looks like my plan to lure you out worked."

Both Dew and Mystic sweatdropped and stared at her for a moment

"Liar…." muttered Mystic

-000-

Static awoke in a bed trying to process what just happened, trying to move, he felt an intense pain in his head, only for the pain to ease when he felt a strange substance placed on his head.

"Ah, you're awake." the Pikachu heard. Static sat up in a makeshift bed and turned around to see a Dewott placing a bowl on a nearby table, cleaning it's hands off in a nearby bucket of water,

"Dew? " Static asked confused why do you look more….attractive?

The Dewott blushed for a minute at the attractive part but laughed, indicating that it's female "I'm sorry, but I'm not master Dew

Static's eyes widened. He couldn't believe that he'd easily make a mistake like that. "Uh...oh, sorry...just what am I doing here?" the Pikachu asked before rubbing his forehead and feeling a sticky substance. "And what is this on my head!?

"Master Dew wanted to make sure you were well rested, as for the ointment I used made of our fresh berries, that was to cure your headache." the Dewott explained.

Static knew she wasn't telling the truth, he can faintly remember it. The guards surrounding him, angering Tidal, and the blow that knocked him out, he's certain that it was Dew. "I'll get him back for this later…." thought the Pikachu

"Hey, can you walk now? I'm sure your friends are looking for you." the Dewott stated causing Static to snap out of his thoughts

"Oh...um, who are you anyway?" Static asked

"I'm sorry." the Dewott said before taking a slight bow "I haven't introduced myself. My name is Tachi, I am a servant here. Of the side branch of the Watatsumi clan."

"Wait? Servant?" Static asked confused

"Yes, because this clan is large in itself, someone has to keep track of things. Although I'm not Watatsumi by blood, I have been raised by one in the side branch. To serve the main family. To serve Master Dew, Master Tidal and anyone else in the main family." she explained

:"But why should you? Do you want to do anything else outside of here? I mean you are too cute of a thing to be staying at this dump." Static replied causing the Dewott to give him a harsh stare

"It is my duty to serve the clan, besides, I do enjoy it here. Especially since someone as handsome as Master Dew was brought here. Too bad he has to marry that no good Buizel of the other village."

"Marine right?"

"Yeah, that one. Fate can be a cruel mistress." she said before heading over and handing Static a cup of hot tea.

"So...you got a thing for him?" he asked out of curiosity

Tachi froze in place with her face becoming red as a tamato berry "um…"

The two were interrupted as a knock on a door was heard. Behind Tachi, the door slid open by a Samurott who appears to be a guard as well, along with a certain Riolu and Meowth walking inside.

"Jesse, Morgan, what happened?" the Pikachu asked putting his tea aside, running towards his two friends.

"Well, you acted like an idiot, Dew knocked you out to save your rear end, we were supposed to learn more about Mystic's item but got interrupted because team birdbrain decided to get themselves caught," Jesse explained

"So...their goose...well crows are cooked?" Static asked jokingly causing everyone but the electric mouse to facepalm.

"No, Dew decided to let them go and they went off to who knows where...while Dew is with Marine with Mystic doing her own thing." the Riolu finished

"Spying on them…" Morgan muttered

"Anyways, we're about to see the old shopkeeper if you want to join us." Jesse said

"Sure, I'm coming. Oh, and thanks Tachi." spoke the Pikachu a the female Dewott just gave a smile and a bow once again.

The trio prepared to leave the door as Jesse felt something in his head, Stopping for a moment he held his head in pain which worried the others

"Jesse? What's wrong?" Morgan asked as she, Static, and Tachi with to check on him. Suddenly,the Riolu began seeing himself in a field on top of a mountainous area. Another Riolu was there with him who appears to be younger than him. He heard nothing else except for two words from a voice unfamiliar to him.

"Don't leave…"

Jesse quickly snapped out of it as he heard Morgan's voice. "Jesse? Jesse?"

"Huh?" the Riolu asked confused as everyone gave him looks.

"Is something wrong?" Tachi asked as Jesse continued to think about the memory he just received

"No...it's nothing, nothing at all." he replied

-000-

Far away from the village and deep into the mountains, Team Shadow are perched on a dead tree, catching their breaths after that scare from earlier that day. Being captured and almost dying like that? There is no way they can deal with this.

"I can't believe skirt boy jet us go like that." Marcos said

"Y-yeah, thought were were gonners for good." Michael stuttered

"Listen I don't know what yous talking about, but we should try and go back and see if there is any dirt we can find on them. See if there is any treasure we can steal too."

"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" his brothers shouted shocking the larger bird.

"Yeah, there is no way I'm doing this! I'm not risking my feathers this time!" Marcos shouted

"Especially with that c-crazy cat around either!" Michael yelled as well

"What!? Yous two are defying me!?" Giovanni yelled angrily

"I told you, leave me out of this!" Marcos growled at his older brother before flying off as Michael followed.

Giovanni felt his anger boil up inside of him, his eye twitched as he flew after him. "GET BACK HERE!"

Both Michael and Marcos simultaneously used Air Slash knocking their brother down to the hard, rocky, floor. Giovanni struggled to get up as he just felt more anger build up in him.

"YOUS KNOW WHAT!? FORGET YOU GUYS!" he yelled before firing Dark Pulse at random areas, destroying the mountainside around him. Giovanni eventually tired himself out until he heard some footsteps approaching him.

"Perhaps I can be of assistance." an older Floatzel said appearing next to him.

-000-

Since the events at the beach, Dew, Marine, and Mystic have been awfully quiet with each other. The trio remained at the beach until Mystic spoke up.

"So….um...should we be meeting up with the others?" Mystic suggested.

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea." Marine said, cutting Dew off.

"I mean, we were supposed to get more info until team morons got themselves caught." Dew added "The others probably have the same idea as well."

"Yeah,,,you're right, so how about we get back to the village right dear?" Marine said as she grabbed Dew's arm tightly putting more emphasis on the last word.

"Hey, I thought you're not into the whole marriage thing." spoke Dew trying to pull his arm causing Marine to blush as she realized what she is doing before shoving him off earning a glare from Mystic

"Whatever squishy." she said walking off leaving the two alone.

"What's her problem?" Dew questioned "First she kicked me in the goods, now she wants to act like we've been together this whole time?"

"Yeah, I can understand you two putting up an act with until you two find a way to stop the clans from fighting and all, but I think a switch flipped in her head." Mystic said as she turned her head away. A few seconds of silence followed them.

"Um….you didn't hear everything did you?" spoke the Water type blushing as Mystic's eyes widened. The Dark fox blushed as she the thought of Dew saying that he does have feelings for her began to ring in her head like a bell. Mystic suddenly tackled Dew with tears flooding her eyes.

"Dew! I wanted you to stay on the team with us. You were there for me when I needed it, you were the reason why I keep fighting alongside you. But if we were to separate, I didn't want it to end like this!" she cried as Dew was shocked and couldn't form the right words.

"You were my friend, and ever since our second mission together I've been having these thoughts for you! I wanted to be by your side. But I want to be more than that!"

"Because Dew! It's because I..I…"

Mystic was caught off guard as she felt something wrap around her head and pulled closer to Dew. Their lips brought together in a deep kiss that caused the shiny Zorua to melt in his arms. The two separated for a second locking into each other's eyes

"I love you Mystic…" he tells her

I'M BACK! AND BETTER THAN EVER! Ok seriously it's been a while. Made the deadline on April 13 which coincidentally enough is Mystic's birthday….its literally a year since my last update my god… Anyways, a big return, Dew x Mystic now a thing, Team Shadow split? Jesse's memories are slowly returning and a big change in Marine's personality. There will be a lot to come and more to be seen next time on PMD IVORY: THE SACRED RELICS!

Also, Gio is supposed to say "yous" like that. Yes, that was on purpose

Marine appears only to reveal that she's Mystic using her illusion.: Review everyone!"