Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Rejected ❯ Let There Be Emptiness ( Chapter 7 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

If you didn't read the note at the beginning of the edited version of Chapter 6 before... then do so now.

This will prevent a bit of confusion with what happens in this chapter... or rather, with what doesn't happen.

Well, that's all.

Enjoy.

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CHAPTER 7: LET THERE BE EMPTINESS
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"You... you... you have stolen my life!" screamed the hideous monster. "You shouldn't have been born! You were not meant to be! I was supposed... to be the one..."

The creature stared at me... but I was horrified to see that where there should have been eyes, there were two gaping holes... and there was this stench... a stench of rotting flesh...

"There was supposed to be only one Mew! ONLY ONE!" it screamed, lashing toward me.

My eyes widened in horror before the monster... but altought I tried t move, my legs didn't reacted and my psychic powers had no effect on myself...

I stood there and closed my eyes... them, I awaited the impact as the hideous beast went to strike me down...

...

I awakened, all panicked and my fur stained with sweat. I looked around... I was lying there, on my back, hiding behind a bush. Lights could be seen in the distance...

I sighed, relieved. Merely a nightmare. I was still in the hiding spot, on a cliff just on the edge of Pewter City. The sun had not rose high enough to fill the world with it's light yet so it was still dark.

Then, I noticed something... I was alone!

Where is that Minun?!? Where is Cherlie?!?

I jumped out of the bush and begun to look around frantically... and then, I noticed her soul signature, away from here, in a nearby open field.

I went there as quickly as possible and stopped right in my tracks when I seen Cherlie... and noticed that she was not alone.

Cherlie stood in front of a Plusle and was not saying anything... no, nothing at all. The Plusle stared back, saying nothing as well...

I approached the Minun, wondering why the two stared, silent...

"Cherlie... is there something wrong?" I asked.

Tears poured out of her eyes... she seemed to be in pain.

I turned to the Plusle, my eyes glowing with hatred! I won't allow anyone to harm Cherlie! Never! Ever! I turned back to Cherlie... and then noticed something... there were no bruises... no wounds... no cuts...

That Plusle didn't harmed Cherlie?... then why is she crying?

"Cherlie... why... are you crying?" I asked, confused.

"Mewlt... do... you love me?" she asked. I could sense hesitation in her voice for some reason...

"You know that you are my light, my light in the darkness of my heart. As long as my love for you burns brightly, there is nothing I cannot do." I said.

It was true... I was sincere. If it wasn't from this Minun... I would have never, ever made it out of the Defect Center. I'd probably be a nice little mindless slave working for a nameless Pokemon trainer right now. Thanks to her support, I could live to become free...

She kept on staring at the Plusle, never looking at me... and I begun to grow worried... what's going on?!?

"I returned... just as I had promised I would..." said the Plusle.

I raised an eyebrow. What did that Plusle mean? "Cherlie... do you know him? Who is he? What is he doing here?"

Cherlie closed her eyes. A final tear rolled down her cheek and then fell toward the ground... the beautiful crystal tear shattered on the ground like glass...

"At the age of one... I fell in love with a Plusle... an undead Plusle. We were madly in love. However, one day, he got caught by a Defect Trainer... and then, he got hurt in such a way that his heart stopped beating completely and he was unable to move anymore, thus looking really dead. The Defect Trainers brought him out of the Littleroot Defect Center and brought him to the Dump, where they burried the dead Defects. There, he promised me he would recover and someday find me again... and there he is..." she explained.

I gazed at the Plusle... so, he's Cherlie's ex-boyfriend...

"Mister... so you are Cherlie's last boyfriend... you must have a very interesting tale to tell." I stated.

The Plusle smiled sadly. "Cherlie? This is... a beautiful name. Too bad that just like me, you are nameless in truth, my love..."

For some reason, I felt jealousy rising inside of me as the Plusle was hitting on Cherlie!... and what's this rubbish about Cherlie being nameless? There is no way she could be nameless!

I turned to Cherlie. Confusion could be seen all over my face...

"I am... Minun. Not Cherlie... just Minun. Thead born dead does not need names..." she stated.

"Cherlie... stop doing this to yourself. You have a name... a beautiful one... one that represent how unique you are." I stated.

"I am not unique. My existance only becomes obvious when in the arms of a male... first it was Plusle... then it was you... I truly am someone only when there is love infused into my heart, giving it life..." she said.

"Do not be ridiculous." I said, as a painful feeling begun to slowly grip my heart... "It was actually the opposite. You always were so full of life and vitality... so full of emotions and dreams... If there is an empty being here, it is me..."

I lowered my head. I truly believed what I just said... for despite all my years, I still had no purpose in life exept to fulfill my promise to Derlank... and to make Cherlie happy.

"You truly are a special Pokemon, mister Mewlt... Minun was lucky to meet you..." said the Plusle.

"HER NAME IS CHERLIE!" my voice was raising in volume and harshness. I couldn't control myself...

"Cherlie... let us continue our journey to Mt.Moon... we will see the stars, we will see the magical caves, we will see the Clefairies..." I said... but as the painful feeling grown, I felt as I was beginning to beg her...

"Mewlt... Cherlie... never was. I am a dead Minun... whose heart was revived by an obsession... an obsession of a male... I cannot help but think of Plusle... our bodies and souls constantly attract each others and my fate force me to obey my instincts..." she stated.

She turned to me... she frowned and immense emotionnal pain was visible on her face. Seeing such sadness... broke my heart... and far from numbing my own pain, it only made my own emotionnal distress worse...

"I have been thinking, ever since we left the Pikachu pack... I've always denied the feelings I felt for Plusle, always discarding my physical attraction to him becease I had chosen you... you who love with your whole being unstead of just your body... but I realised... that I needed a change... that I needed to return to the physical love that Plusle gave me..." she said.

NO! This is not happening! After all we went throught... she leave me, like that, for a male that she KNOWS don't even care about her for real?!?... in the name of change? I felt a part of myself die as one of the two reasons for my existance vanished...

"But... but..." I couldn't complete the sentance. I no longer had the strenght to.

The two mice approached each others... and as they touched, their opposite static energies caused them to glow in a faint light...

"Cherlie... I... never betrayed your feelings... and never will... I will keep my promise..." I whispered...

Her ears twitched, showing she heard what I said... she turned to me... she was smiling sadly...

"Cherlie... never was..."

She closed her eyes and Plusle lifted her and promoptly carried her away...

... no! NO! This will NOT happen! It just... won't! Not if I can help it!

I felt my eyes slowly turning red... and a familiar rage rose... the same rage which had erased my memory of my escape from the Defect Center.

Large, sharp claws came out of my fingers and bright, intense dark flames flowed from my injured heart and spreaded throught my tense body before finally errupting out of my body throught the skin, giving me the look of a living purple and black fireball...

"I WILL NOT LET A MERE PHYSICAL LOVE DESTROY MY PASSION!" I screamed.

I lashed foward... and dived right at the Plusle, seeking to kill... despite the fact that I knew very well that the foe was already dead and couldn't be killed a second time...

The Plusle dropped the Minun...

BAM!

A slight yelp of surprise and pain... he harmed her! I will never forgive him! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!

I screamed... but what came out of my throat was anything but a word or a cry. It was some kind of roar... a horrific, high-pitched roar...

"So... you want to fight to determine whoever will keep the female, right? It is a normal instinctive behaviour..." stated the Plusle.

My vision had turned almost completely red as rage blinded me. I felt the urge... the urge rising... to draw blood with my claws and to spill it everywhere... to stain the ground with the blood of this monster! I will kill him! I will destroy him!

"I will not let hormones get the better out of the reason of my life!" I stated.

I jumped foward, claws extended, my sharp teeth showing, roaring in rage, about to smite this monster with all of my fury!

I struck with all of my strenght. I plunged my claws throught his chest. I saw, in slow-motion, the claws pierce throught the skin and then slowly go down, ripping apart fur, skin, flesh, and bone and spraying blood all over my claws, my hand, arm, and the Plusle's chest as the three, long cuts were made.

SLAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!

Plusle stepped backward, gripping his chest in pain... but then, he turned to me and...

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!

AAAAAAARG! THE RAGE! THE RAGE! THE PAIN... IT... IS UNBEARABLE... IT... MIXES TO MY RAGE... AAAARG!

BOOOOOM!!!

I forced the electricity out of my body, at once! The thunderbolt was reflected back into the stupid rat... but it was black this time! Ther Plusle began to burn as the thunderbolt was returned back where it belongs... and unfortunately, the skin around the three cuts melted a bit, causing the wounds to close.

So annoying! I'll rip your head off!

I flied right into the Plusle and placed my hands on his large head. The Plusle tried to shock me again... but the pain merely caused me to tremble a bit and anger me further!

Now... DIE ONCE AGAIN, UNDEAD PEST!

I pulled with all of my strenght both physical and psychic. The head was pulled off easily and blood flied out of his body, no longer connected to the head. Due to the pressure, the blood formed a small fountain in front of me...

I gazed at the fountain, satisfied, as the Plusle's body was emptied of it's blood... the blood flow slowed down, the pressure became lesser, and the spire of blood seeemd to melt like ice exposed to fire...

His body fell, lifeless... I dropped the Plusle's head and turned my back to the, this time, really dead Pokemon...

"MEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOW!!!" I screamed as I felt the most sensitive part of my body being crushed by what felt like teeth.

The head had bit the tip of my tail while the headless body was crawling toward me...

My eyes widened... what did it took to really kill an undead?!? I slammed my tail about, trying to get that stupid head off... but it hanged on, crushing my tail with it's jaws! A stream of warm crimson liquid began to flow out of the wound and began to cover the Plusle's head as well as my tail...

I was completely panicked... or enraged... or maybe was it the two at once?

WHATEVER! I DON'T CARE! GET OFF! GET OFF! GET OFF! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!!! AAAAAARG!!!

I shot Shadow Bolts about, trying desesperatly to get the Plusle off my tail... and I felt the body grasping my right leg and beginning to slowly climb on me...

NO! I WILL NOT ALLOW IT! DIE!!!

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!

I unleashed a Dark Supernova. The sheer strenght of the explosion transformed the open field where I had found Cherlie and the Plusle into a smoking cratter. No lifeform... exept Cherlie... was left. Everything else... ashes.

But then, my panic grown into sheer terror as the Plusle's head, altought no longer recognisable, was still hanging on my tail, bleeding me to death. The body's lower part was reduced to ashes... but the upper part of the chest and the arms still climbed... and were getting dangerously close to the place...

"NOOO!" I screamed, my terror growing stronger than my rage.

Suddenly, I stopped feeling pain from the head's bite and I no longer felt the body climbing... Neither fear, neither rage haunted my heart for a single feeling overcame all the rest.

Air! Air! I need air!

GASP!

I collapsed to the ground, the Plusle's arms grasping my neck and choking me... I need... air!

The world... is spinning... so... dizzy... ACK! Lungs... burning...

I crawled... toward Cherlie... her figure... is so... distant... everything... is so distant...

"Ch... ACK! erlie... GASP! Help... me..." I managed to whisper...

Everything... begun to fade... and I felt so tired... so very tired... and so dizzy...

I fell to the ground... and felt like sleeping...

No... this cannot end like this... I will not... be killed... byy this rat... I refuse to... I refuse to go to the cold sleep before I fulfilled my promise to Derlank... before Cherlie...

ACK!

I sprung up and unleashed my full power... I knew there were chances that I would kill myself in the process... but I had the choice between this and letting Plusle kill me. Between a guaranteed death and a probable suicide... I prefer the choice that give me a chance of survival.

"I... will... not... fall..." I whispered...

FLASH!

My heart begun to beat more slowly... and I felt all my strenght leaving me... Almost all of my blood and air was gone... and as my heart seemingly stopped, my soul remained suspended in this body... and then... it happened.

"NOOOOOO!!!" screamed a voice... Cherlie's voice I guessed. I was no longer conscious enough to make the difference...

My heart was crunched by my eternal sorrow... There was no rage, no grudge... only sadness... Sadness that I had failed Cherlie... sadness that I had failed Derlank... sadness that I had let down everyone. I will never learn what is the poison, as Derlank wanted... I did not save Spark's life... and now, Cherlie was trapped with a monster who did not even love her and whose she did not love...

I had failed everyone... I was worthless... but while my life was a waste... I'll not let my death become a waste as well. I will bring this undead with me... I will let the sadness of my heart take him with me!

A black energy slowly oozed from my body... and then, as my final act before running out of air and blood, I thrown Plusle's head and body foward and then fired ALL of my power at the undead thing...

"NOOOOOO!" screamed the voice again.

As the undead remains were thrown off me... I suddenly realised I was no longer dying. I could breathe again and while I had lost a lot of blood, the fact was that it was the Plusle's jaws that was squeezing the red liquid out of me, not the wound itself.

As such, as my vision returned, I saw a yellow and blue mouse throw herself into the black sphere...

"No!" I whispered to myself, my eyes widening in shock.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The sphere exploded. Yellow and blue fur flied about... as well as bones and flesh... and when the smoke caused by the explosion dissipated, Cherlie was nowhere to see...

I slowly floated back to the ground... and noticed the ground was back to normal... as if I had never attacked in the first place...

I grabbed my tail and then placed the tip in front of me. No wounds... I was as good as new.

What had happened?!?

The Plusle stood up, in perfect health as well...

"She... absorbed and converted the attack into pure energy... I can't believe it... I tought that... only the legendary Mew could do this..." He whispered.

Slowly, it begun to snow... but then, the snow was too shiny... too clear... too beautiful... and my mind knew it was Cherlie...

"Cherlie... what have you done..." I whispered...

Then, slowly, the white dust gathered... and in a flash of Light, I dreamt again...

...

I saw Cherlie, encased in pure Light, floating in front of me... She was identical to what I had looked like during the vision where Spark had died while myself, I remained the same...

"Cherlie?" I whispered...

...

I awakened and Cherlie was in front of us, crying...

The Plusle ran to Cherlie and grabbed her, giving her a hug. Then, he turned toward me, his face showing anger...

"You MONSTER! You nearly killed Minun with your jealousy! Leave us alone!... and never come back!" he yelled.

I made a step foward, not believing what was happening... I neither understood why Cherlie turned from me... neither how she could do this...

"What should I do..." whispered the Minun, gazing into my eyes...

"You need a change. This Poke... no... this creature binds itself to you like a parasite. You need a true, sincere love... not a puppy love." he stated.

WHAT DID HE SAID?!?

"CHERLIE!" I called, stepping foward again!

Cherlie turned to Plusle... and then... my face dropped and intense sadness gripped my heart as she blushed.

The two walked away, continuing the journey toward Mt.Moon... without me...

I stood there alone... and I felt my world crumbling...

"What... did I do? Why... did this happen?" I asked, to no one...

I laughed nervously, my entire twitching from an unknow tic.

"HeheheeHAeheho... This is a joke... a VERY bad joke!" I stated.

I turned around, smiling, denying what happened. This is impossible... completely impossible... this cannot have happened. This has NOT happened! I refuse to believe it! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT! Cherlie is playing a joke on me... yes! Most definitely! This is a joke! Hahahaha! Very funny! The joke is very funny! Now... let's end the joke!

"OK! Joke's over! Come back, Cherlie!" I called, sure that Cherlie would suddenly leap out of a nearby bush...

I stood there, awaiting her return... the wind blew... seconds passed... then minutes passed...

"I'm waiting! Come out now! It's not funny!" my face was distorted as reality slammed into my face... hard...

My tail, my legs, my entire body was twitching. My heart jumped up and down and I felt as if a Machamp was constantly punching me into the stomach with powerful dark-elemental punches...

"CHERLIE! YOU CAN RETURN!" I screamed, tears pouring out of my eyes.

The... the wind is blowing... and no one is coming...

"You... can... return..." I whispered, collapsing on my knees, grasping my head.

The world begun to shrink... the ceiling, the sky, begun to lower itself... the walls, the trees, slowly retracted as the world, the room, begun to shrink... the sun's light grew faint and darkness surrounded me... but this was not the Darkness I was accustomed to... not the calm, silent Darkness that welcomed me in times of need... this darkness... was devoid of the warmth I knew from the Darkness I always stood in. This one was cold, gripping, crushing, merciless...

"Cherlie..." the words barely left my mouth.

I was all alone... all alone... First Derlank... then Spark... and then, now, Cherlie...

I was alone... all alone... I was always alone... I never stayed with anyone... never, ever... I was condemned to loneliness... to eternal punishment for a crime I do not know about throught loneliness...

I choked, crushed by this world which hated me. This world which only knew hatred and suffering. A world devoid of meaning... devoid of dreams... devoid of hapiness...

My instincts detected the weakness in my mind... and then, the grip of insanity and it's instincts rose, presenting a hand in front of me...

My mind grabbed the hand and let the wind of insanity blow all toughts away...

Whatever happens... altought my body lives, my soul is already dead. Whatever my instincts do... whatever if I become a Pokemon trainer's slave... for I am dead.

Let there be emptiness.

=TO BE CONTINUED