Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Rejected ❯ Determination ( Chapter 13 )

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

OFF: Took a while... but chapter 13 is finally completed!

I hope you'll enjoy this new chapter!

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CHAPTER 13: DETERMINATION
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I opened my eyes and gasped for air...

Those visions... I hadn't been awake for long in the last days... so many memories... so many visions... and then that second Nightmare...

Truly, as air filled my lungs, I couldn't help but like the feeling... hours and hours of spending trapped into dreamworlds have a way of making you glad to return to the reality no matter how grim, dark, and flawed it may be...

Still, those memories still were as haunting as all the others I ever had.

Cherlie... and Mew... both visions creeped me out. In the first, the unknow caped Pokemon tried to incapacitate her for some reason, claiming that she was seeking the same thing than the caped creature... In the second memory, Mew gave birth to something that had been identical to her... a new Mew... and she nearly died from it while the baby itself was born dead. For some reason, this memory left me shocked... I had the feeling that Mew's survival and the baby's death had been connected... very closely connected... in fact, as if one caused the other...

...but I'm thinking too much now. I have been thinking for a long time now, not acting for quite a while.

First... regaining consciousness would be a good first step.

I begun by letting my body be filled with feelings... and I felt that I felt cold... but it was not the normal coldness caused by the lack of warmth but rather, a coldness caused by emotions...

I felt... nervous... so nervous... and my senses were unequally affected.

Most of my body met with a light, bright air shining blue with the light of the sun while my feet were touching to a substance that was very hard... and yet, very comfortable at the same time. A small, gentle breeze was blowing... not enough to chill me but enough to be noticed.

My eyes caught sight of few colors... but these colors were vivid and so bright. The entire ground stretched far, forming a rectangular metallic blue shape. In the middle, a gigantic carving in the floor, shaped like a Pokeball and colored like a Pokeball. It was finely crafted and I knew that if I stood over it, I would easily confuse it for a painting actually. High, pure white walls were on the sides and beyond them, chairs were lined up forming endless stacks on which thousands of humans of all ages were sitting on, cheering... At the edge of the place, the wall stretched, going high in the sky with stairs leading upward... and at the top rested a gigantic cup with a red flame burning endlessly there...

For some reason, the flame awoke a nameless fear in my heart and troubled my peace. This flame... I had the strange feeling that it was alive... nah! Must be my imagination. I can sense no soul in that thing.

I turned toward the humans sitting on the chairs on the top of the walls... and then looked up. My eyes widened and my peace was completely shattered.

Two large screens, one on the left and one on the right, were there. On them, the pictures of Mew's enslaver was displayed as well as the picture of another human. Above their pictures, it was written: "Champion Ashford VS Challenger Garlen Stone". six red squares under the enslaver's picture, six blue ones under the challenger's picture...

The humans... they were cheering... and the thousands voices amplified each others, causing me to gain a headache pretty soon. My ears... they were constantly hammered by so many loud voices... it was infernal...

I turned to the sky... and despite the fact that there was no ceiling, I felt trapped... completely trapped...

I was in the very center of the Pokemon League, at the very source of the Poison... I was at Indigo Plateau, the cursed stadium where Pokemon were forced to fight each others for the sake of a tiny piece of gold crafted like a cup.

"So... this is your new Pokemon?" asked a voice, at the other side of the arena...

I finally noticed some very important details...

Firstly, the sun was shining... it was shining a LOT more than it should and not even a single cloud was in sight... and the breeze stopped completely. The air was hot... burning hot, like lava. In fact, I was almost instantly soaked with sweat, my own, as the air's temperature seemed to rise to an insane level... and the sun... GAAAH! It's not the sun! It's a HUGE fireball! It takes all of the space in the sky, as if it's size had increased by a few hundred times...

Mew was next to me and judging from how she panted loudly, I must say that either she must be exhausted... either it is the heat that causes this... or both.

I was a bit relieved, seeing that Mew had survived, just like I did, the Nightmare... but unfortunately, it was only to find ourselves in the middle of a Pokemon battle...

As I turned to the side where the voice had came from, I froze over and the heat instantly vanished as my body seemingly froze over... with fear.

It was the largest Pokemon I had ever seen, ever... well, save for those Onyx and Steelix Pokemon but they are snakes so I do not count them.

This creature was easily half of a Onyx's size when upright... which meant that this creature was easily twice my size and several times Mew's size. Truly, this was a large Pokemon...

... and this Pokemon... I had never seen such vicious, hatred-filled eyes ever before. His red, armored, spike-covered body made him look like a weapon and his burning eyes were consumed with the rage to end all life. In fact, he was burning so much that his power was errupting out of his body and chased all clouds from the sky, inflating the sun...

I had heard legends of this Pokemon...

The Titan of Earth...

Groudon...

Above Groudon, flying in the sky was another Pokemon... a large one too...

The Pokemon flied in the sky around Groudon for a while and then landed next to him.

The Pokemon was a large, dark blue dragon. The dragon was almost as tall as me and it was much, much larger than me. The Pokemon turned to me, it's brown eyes piercing throught my mind with arrogance, and it hissed loudly...

"Heh! I doubt your pink Mewtwo wannabe is going to keep my Groudon and my Salamence from pounding your puny Mew into the ground! Indeed, my good friend! I'm finally becoming the Champion today!" announced the voice.

I noticed that behind Groudon, a metallic blue tower was there and standing on top was a human. Becease of the bright sunlight, I could not recognise him... but judging from how he spoke about Groudon then it must means...

WAIT A MINUTE! Groudon... WAS ENSLAVED?!?

I... I... this is... ugh...

This is impossible, right? First, Mew... then a certain "Mewtwo" which I never met but had strange visions about... and now, the Titan of Earth is enslaved?

What's going on here? Why were the Legendary Pokemon caught?!?... how could it happen?

How did the humans actually enslave Mew and Groudon in the first place? They're supposed to be deities!

... I... I didn't tought about it all until now... and now, I only end up even more confused. All this... I cannot believe it... I just can't...

What's wrong with the world? What causes everything to be so... wrong? Things shouldn't be this way! It just shouldn't!

Why isn't Ho-oh doing anything?!? This is such a twisted situation... the ruler himself should come down and intervene!

I... I begun to wonder... the poison... what is the poison... that powerful poison that enslave all creatures, mortals and Immortals? That poison that corrupt all the hearts?

I always wanted to learn it's name so I could eliminate it... but my resolve begun to weaken... if even Mew and the other Legendary Pokemon failed... then who the heck am I to believe that I'll succeed? I, a mere mortal, succeeding when even deities have failed? What a joke...

"Mew! Half-Mew! Get ready!" ordered the enslaver.

I refuse to fight... huh? Mew is getting into position?

"You're not serious... you're not going to fight for that stupid human!" I asked, not believing that she would obey that terrible man...

Mew didn't said anything... she was floating, silent...

I turned to Groudon. According to the legends, he is supposed to be unruly, impossible to control... thus, a human should be unable to control him, isn't it?

"Groudon... you will not obey, I hope?" I asked, knowing what the anwser would be but denying it to myself, clinging to that last ounce of hope I had left...

"I have lost all dignity. I am not the Titan Groudon... I am a common Groudon, a human's slave..." his voice was filled with frustration and sadness... the voice of a Pokemon who had lost the will to live.

I stared at the Salamence next to Groudon... "Do you realise that your trainer has comitted an unforgivable sin by trying to control Groudon?"

The Salamence relied quickly... too quickly. "Groudon is a Pokemon. A Legendary one, yes... but a Pokemon nevertheless. Pokemon obey their trainers."

That... disgusting... anwser. I hate it... hate it... hate it... HATE IT! Why can't they state ANYTHING else than this stupid, cursed explanation? "Pokemon obey their trainers"... WHY?!? WHY MUST POKEMON OBEY THEIR TRAINERS?!? They repeat that non-stop... they ONLY say that!... but why? WHY? WHY?!?

"Meeeew?... MEW!!!"

BOOOOOOOM!!!

Ugh... ACK!... I feel... wheeze! Well... I...

I looked around... only pure darkness...only pure darkness... I was alone, with my hatred as my only companion. I'm sick of having it as my sole partner.

This world... inspire me nothing but hatred. I look around... and hate everything I see. I knew that... that I would never be able to save something I hate. I realised that I had never harmed anyone not becease I was good myself... but becease of promises.

I was constantly tempted to unleash destruction... I was pure hatred and destruction and tought only of those...

Was I always pure hatred?... no. Long ago, I used to be filled with naive dreams that filled Derlank with hope. I used to dream of playing outside, in the sun, of meeting my parents... I hoped to see the humans and Pokemon who were free of the evil grip.

I felt... ashamed... and empty.

I always had those powers... those psychic and dark powers... but... I used to be gentle, despite my powers... but not anymore.

I realised that I had grown violent, cruel, ruthless, remorseless...

As I got out of the Defect Center, all of my dreams about the outside world... shattered, one by one. My heart, once filled with beautiful dreams, was now empty... only my love remaining... and then, even then, it was taken away from me.

I stood, completely empty and with no dreams left. I had dreamt of freeing Mew... of unbinding her beautiful soul from the poison... but it is too strong. I cannot compete against something that enslaved the Legendary Pokemon... not without an edge of my own... and I doubt that fighting despair with despair will work.

I am nothing but a monster... I have nothing to turn to, to believe in... exept hatred. I who escaped from my powers... I who always seeked to use my inner Darkness for something else than to spread pain... I found myself with no purpose other than this one.

This is hopeless. A mere mortal won't undo the poison. I just can't do it...

I closed my eyes... no one will help me. No one will comfort me. The enslaver will try to break my will, Mew will obey and so will Groudon. That Salamence? Please! The humans around? They're completely brainwashed...

I stood there and espected the dark flames to rise... but nothing came. There was no hatred in my heart... nothing... only emptiness... only despair...

I looked down... and stood there, the world disappearing...

The air moved... as if a sound was heard... but soon enough, this faded too... and the air stood still, completely still.

The temperature... could not be felt anymore. I stood there, in complete darkness, alone... completely alone...

Nothing... nothing to do... nothing to look up to... nothing to live for...

My dreams are gone... my life is gone...

Slowly, my fur begun to burn as if powerful fireballs struck it and crushing blows caused various body parts to cave in... but I didn't moved an inch. I had no reason to move... no reason to even look at the world.

I am... empty.

A light pierced the darkness... a red ray of light... but it faded before it could reach me... the sound echoed a long time... and faded, like everything else.

I turned toward the sky and saw a dark sun... a black fireball surrounded with a strange aura...

For a second, I saw a huge, seemingly invinsible sphere fly in front of the sphere... it was so strange... it had no physical form and yet... I felt it's presence...

The sphere did not intrigue me however. Nothing did. My dreams were gone... my purpose was no more.

A single sphere of light at my feet... a memory...

Everytime I am in trouble, a sphere appears out of nowhere... so conveniant... and yet, so suspicious. Where do the spheres come from? What do they do? What good are those memories to me?

Still... I have nothing to lose. I grabbed the light sphere... and then, I, too, faded...

FLASH!

"Mewtwo..." her voice was wicked, distorted by pure hatred...

I stared at Mew, her eyes shining with the thirst for blood... the thirst for destruction.

I was so tired... I had fought her for such a long time... and yet, she continued to attack with such fury...

Yes, I was technically stronger than her... but my normally superior power was being drained quickly while she continued to fight with unnatural endurance and determination... in fact, she had looked and felt unnatural ever since that cursed day...

Her fur had changed color. Her fur was now almost completely white, only a few small patches of pink fur at the tip of her ears, hands, feet, tail, and between her legs being visible.

Her eyes has grown sharper... much sharper. She no longer giggled, never ever... she was now all too serious. She no longer squirmed about in such a strange way, as if squeezing throught the gaps of Time and Space... she now stood tall, straight up, like a soldier. Her large ears no longer flapped and twitched... they stood still, like mine...

In fact... I had always tought that I was looking like a serious, unfeeling being... until I saw Mew right now. She was... totally focused on her cold mission... which was to kill me.

Her soul was unlike her body... it was tortured and distorted. It was becease of the Ritual of Passing... the Ritual that wrecked my life.

There can be only one Mew... and I knew this. Mew... the Mew I know... is actually an anomaly...

The Ritual of Passing... was when the life of the current Mew was ended so that the new one may be born... but in the case of Mew's mother... two Mews were born while only one should have been born.

I had tought that the nightmare, the threat had been nullified when I killed the original, actual Mew years ago... we both tought that we had defeated Fate...

Then, for years, we discussed and made our decision... we decided to finally have a child... we decided to break the Ritual of Passing and create an entire specie... but Fate had other plans.

Destiny had dictated that Mew would fall in love with Jirachi and that the Ritual of Passing would be carried out... and to prevent this, we had the original Mew killed. I know since I was the one who stole her purity and thrown her off the top of our castle, killing her...

... but Fate could not be moved.

With the original Mew dead... it was the anomaly that was used by Fate.

It all happened a dark, stormy night... the clouds were ominous... the sun had denied us... the inhabitants of our castle were filled with a sense of dread...

Mew changed... a desire was inserted in her mind... the desire to be with Jirachi rather than me. She begun to call me names and sighed all day, longing for this stupid shrimp...

Then, she dumped me and left for him... I was completely destroyed when she left.

I hid in the darkest corners of the world and cried... cried... and cried... Shadow Pokemon and undead Pokemon all over the world tried to comfort me... not to avail. Not even Meowthtwo, not even Illumina, not even Shadow Lugia... they were all unsuccessful.

I was left vulnerable... without Mew, I felt empty... I had no determination, no purpose... and then, she noticed it...

Celebi... I hate you... I despise you...

She was always jealous of Mew. As the Legendary Pokemon of Time, her attraction to me, the Legendary Pokemon of Darkness, was a natural one... and as such, she always felt jealous of Mew.

With Mew out of the way, she proceeded to try and manipulate me... I was so weak... so distressed... and as such, I easily fell to her schemes and quickly enough, she was taking me to her place, abusing me in every way she could think of...

Mew, her, found Jirachi and drowned herself into an imaginary romance that was not. Jirachi never really cared for her... he only loved her in a physical way and besides, a metal comet was going to reach the planet's orbit soon and as he hated this world with passion, he was more interested in not missing it than with dating with Mew... but Mew was completely, entirely blinded.

She never noticed that she was the only one taking action, she never noticed how he never really was happy about doing anything with her besides sex...

I should have intervened... but I was weak at the time and Celebi manipulated me skillfully. She drowned my emotions and toughts with physical pleasure... and even went out of her way to set me up against Mew.

She forced Mew into becoming jealous... she set up Jirachi into fighting me... and of course, she made sure that Mew would always see us "by accident" whenever Celebi was abusing me... all to build up the hatred between us.

I still remember her distress... her screams of emotionnal pain...

The more she seen Celebi abuse me, the more painful it got... and the more she drowned into her fake romance with Jirachi... until the dreadful day that Celebi made me break the promise I had made to Mew.

The promise... I still remember it...

Mew... I had promised you that I would impregnate you and you alone... that my entire body and soul would be yours alone... and you promised that your child would come from me and me alone... and that you would be mine, both body and soul. We promised that we would be together forever... and this promise to only mate with each others was a symbol of the strenght of our resolve. We believed our love to be strong enough to overcome our reproductive instincts until the moment would be right for us to fully complete our union...

The promise was broken both ways... and Celebi triggered it all.

I remember this day... she sent a letter to Mew and then, she manipulated me...

I struggled for a long time... but in the end, she crushed my will and forced me to break my promise... and Mew arrived the very moment I finished breaking it, as Celebi received what she had always wanted from me...

Mew snapped. All pleasure was erased from my mind as I stared into her eyes. Her right eye twitched violently and real rivers flowed out of her eyes... her pain was silent and beyond the imagination as her worst nightmare came true... a nightmare which she had feared even more than death... even more than to be defiled.

The night came... and on the top of Mt.Moon, Mew broke the promise as well... and the cursed Ritual of Passing was completed.

I quickly learnt of Mew breaking the promise since Jirachi told me himself... and then, the last straw was pulled. My mind snapped out of it. Pure hatred flowed in my veins.

The hatred... gave me strenght... it gave me the mental strenght to break free of Celebi's control.

I searched for three full months, seeking out Jirachi... and not thinking about going to Mt.Moon. It took me three months until I finally checked the mountain and found the two "lovers"...

The night had come for Jirachi to leave the world and Mew begged Jirachi not to leave her while he was congratulating her for "finally finding a use for her breasts, after all", pointing at her inflated belly and totally ignoring her feelings, as always.

This angered me greatly... I couldn't take it... really I couldn't.

I attacked Jirachi... I decided that he didn't deserved to go anywhere.

Mew screamed at me to stop... but I knew she wouldn't stop. Seeing me... gave her too much pain. It was so... moronic. The more she suffer, the deeper she burries herself in that fake romance... and as such, the more she saw me fight Jirachi and get hurt, the more she cheered for Jirachi altought I knew her heart cheered the other way...

Her mind... was totally possessed by a love she never wanted, a love inserted into her by Destiny alone.

I would not let her be manipulated by Destiny. I hoped that destroying Jirachi would free her... but as I struck down Jirachi, Mew was not freed.

She escaped... and I didn't saw her again until now.

Six months have passed... and Mew is approaching the end. Soon, she will give birth to the next Mew... and this act will be fatal to her... but she ignores it. She is still blinded by her fake love toward Jirachi.

"You will pay for what you did." Mew's voice... it was cold... cold as ice... "You will pay for killing my lover!"

I stood up slowly despite being tired... "There is no point to this fight, Mew. What is done, is done... I only wish for your safety..."

Mew's eyes were distorted by hatred... "Wha... WHAT?!? What is done, is done? NO! I loved Jirachi! You murdered him!"

"I love Jirachi"... she says that all the time. It frustrate me so much...

"If you loved Jirachi too much... then why do you flinch whenever you saw me with Celebi? Why did you felt jealousy if you didn't loved me?" I asked.

My words pierced into her mind like a Poison Sting into a Grass Pokemon's skin. She flinched and recoiled a bit, her right eye twitching madly.

Then, she got ahold of herself and gazed into my eyes... her eyes were terrible... deadly blue knives... "NO! I LOVED JIRACHI!" her voice was filled with determination and confidence... but I knew that she was yelling that to convaince herself.

I have to continue on... I must make her awaken! I must help her break free of that forced feeling bestowed on her by Destiny! She must awaken and fight back her fate!

"You loved him?... but did he loved you back?" I asked, knowing full well what the anwser would be...

"DUH! We were madly in love! We were made for each others." she stated.

WRONG! Your feelings are clouded... now to shine some light on them! "He loved you? He never wanted to do anything for you. You were the only one that ever shown him anything while he sat there and watched. He never cared about you and whenever something was wrong, it was your fault alone, and whenever something was right, it was thanks to his efforts alone. This isn't what I call caring about the one you love..."

"LIES! LIES! LIES!" she cried.

"Lies? He was happy the night he left you. He didn't even cared for you... not even for your child. He didn't cared if you would give birth to a child. All that he cared for was the comet. He hated this world... and all those who lived on it, including YOU!" my tone grown threatening as I pointed out the flaws in her toughts...

"NO! NO! NO!" she was rocking back and forth in the air, as if in great pain...

"He never loved you and you never loved him. He abused you and would have thrown you away if I hadn't intervened." I explained, smirking.

Mew's expression of pain changed to hatred as she stopped shaking and turned to me. "YOU didn't loved me! You betrayed my feelings! You went with that whore, Celebi!" she barked.

I closed my eyes... I had espected this question... and I won't lie to her. I'll be frank.

"Mew... I loved you... and I never stopped doing so. I was left weakened and empty when you left me... and Celebi arrived to fill the void. I felt guilty... and I'm not sure I'll ever forgive myself for giving in... but know that I never stopped loved you, ever." I slowly stated, eliminating all hatred and fear from my voice. I sounded confident yet compassionate...

"Then why didn't you came back for me?" asked Mew, smirking and especting me to screw up in my anwser... but I had planned it out already.

Again, I was frank. "When you truly love someone... you learn that you must sometimes let go of the one you love. I didn't realised that your relationship with Jirachi was fake initially and thus, let you stay with him hoping that you would be happy... and it is why I took such a long time to intervene. I am... sorry. Again, I am sure that things should have worked out differently..."

Mew stared at me... all her questions had been anwsered accordingly and she remembered... and as I stared into her eyes, I saw tears forming as she realised it was the truth...

... but I also frowned, seeing the ugly artificially inserted love rise. Indeed, she was going to deny it all and burry even further in her made-up romance...

"LIES! LIES! LIES! I LOVED JIRACHI! I LOVE JIRACHI!" she was screaming at the top of her lungs, trashing about in the air as if struggling against the grip of an unknow force...

I didn't said anything... I awaited to see if she could awaken...

After a while, she stopped struggling and then turned to me, her eyes glowing with murderous intent... I had failed...

"You lie. Jirachi loved me like you could never. I will destroy you, monster!" her voice was faint and yet, terrible...

I frowned. I was about to give up... about to burst in tears at the idea that she had truly been lost... that a random urge inserted by who knows who was all that it took to shatter our relationship... that our love had truly been this fragile and easy to destroy...

"You are not Mew." I stated.

Mew's eyes widened. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?"

"You are not Mew. Mew isn't the Pokemon in front of me." I continued.

Mew trashed about, enraged! "I AM MEW! HOW DARE YOU?!?"

She looks so... pathetic. I feel mercy for her... her who is tortured by toughts that aren't hers.

"Mew was filled with kindness and care. Her love was not only directed at her lover... it was a love of life, a love of all things. She brought hope and hapiness everywhere... Yes, she was childish at times... but if more people like her existed in this world, then the world would have been a better place..." I explained. I spoke with my feelings... for it was how I truly felt about Mew.

"I am Mew! The Legendary Pokemon of Light and Purity! I am untouched by such petty things as "love" and "hope"!" her reply was quick and harsh.

I smirked... a critical flaw in her logic... "If you are above "love"... then how could you have loved Jirachi?"

Mew... begun to trash about even more furiously! She hammered herself into the ground repeatedly while screaming hysterically as the artificial toughts inserted in her brain were clashing against each others.

Slowly, she begun to slam herself harder... and soon, she begun to bleed... the blood was splashed all over as she hammered herself and hurt herself... and soon enough, she was covered with her own blood.

Then, after several self-induced hits, she collapsed, falling on her back, exhausted, shaking nervously...

I approached her and placed myself right in front of her. She attempted to blast me with a psychic attack... but I easily nullified it. She was weakened...

"I'm... I'm so confused..." she cried.

"Don't worry... someone tampered with your mind..." I explained.

"Can... can you fix that?" she asked, tears flowing out of her tiny, cute eyes...

I nodded and placed my hand on her head... and slowly, I drained her of the toughts which weren't hers... and she instantly begun to feel guilt as she realised how much harm she had caused to herself and to me...

"I... I can't believe I destroyed such things... I wrecked your life... I... I dumped the one I love and destroyed his life... I killed your friends after you destroyed Jirachi and reduced to ruins what you had built... I am a monster..." her voice was shaking with sincere guilt and sadness... but I had forgiven her already...

My friends... Meowthtwo, Illumina, Shadow Lugia... they were all resting in peace. Altought they had perished in the war between I and Mew... I knew that they were in peace. As for what I had built... I have eternity in front of me... I can always rebuild everything. As for her wrecking her life... yes, she did wreck it... but we can always restart anew...

"Why... why didn't you fell into hatred? The world forsake you... you friends are gone... what you fought for was destroyed, defiled... you had nothing to live for but hatred... and yet, you didn't destroyed everything... why?" she asked, confusion being added to her guilt.

"Mew... you teached me something years ago... No matter how dark and desperate the situation may seem... when even your very friends have forsaken you... when all love, hapiness as been washed away... Hope will always remain. There are and will always be causes in this world which are still worth fighting and dying for..." I explained.

Mew stared into my eyes and slowly used her powers to heal her wounds and wash away the blood covering her fur.

Strangely enough, her fur didn't returned to it's white color... unstead, it returned to it's former pink, corrupted color... the color of the fur of the Mew who I had always knew and loved...

"Let us restart anew..." I suggested.

Mew nodded...

Altought there would be problems to solve such as our issues with Celebi and the thing that was growing inside of Mew, whatever it was... the fact was that we were together once more... and that was all that mattered.

FLASH!

I couldn't believe it...

Mewtwo had lost everything... and he still carried on? His friends had perished, his lover thrown him away, whatever he was building was destroyed... and he still carried on?

Not to lose hope... to continue to fight to protect others... was Mewtwo's purpose in the end. He who was born of pure Darkness... ended up protecting in the end. Even when the Light itself was corrupted, his hope still shined brightly... and in the end, his hope brought the Light back to it's original self.

Do I have a purpose? A cause worth fighting for?

... yes... I fight to fulfill my promises to Derlank and to Cherlie.

But apart from the promises... do I have purpose? I wanted to see this world with Cherlie... I wanted to see the beauty of this world... did I saw beauty in this world?

I remembered swimming with Cherlie... I remembering gazing at the stars... the race in the unreal tunnels...

Yes... this world has beauty... and many more beautiful places must be existing... I just need to find them and gaze upon their harmony.

Mewtwo... was Darkness, just as I am and he revealed himself to be Good... why couldn't I, too?

I opened my eyes and... I was awake once more.

...

I... I can't see anything? How come...

Ha! There! I can see the moon... and it fill the field with a faint light. I felt the grass under my feet and smiled... for some reason, the fact that I was able to feel something filled me with hapiness...

I begun to wonder... those visions about Mewtwo and Mew... they always arrive in pieces... and not in chronological order either...

That fight scene... that scene where Mew and Mewtwo had stopped fighting and where he remembered his time with her and why he was fighting...

It happened before the child was born dead... that strange, creepy body for which neither cared... and all of that happened before in my dreams... I knew it... altought I didn't knew why.

Everything... was so familiar. I felt as if those fragments of memories were changing me... little by little...

I had learnt to let go... learnt to love with a sincere feeling unstead of binding myself... I had learnt that sometimes, one had to fight and hurt others for the good of the majority despite the pain it caused... that there was always a cause worth fighting for...

All those spheres... all those memories... they helped me and made me stronger... stronger mentally. I felt as if I was maturing thanks to those spheres... as if I was slowly becoming someone better...

Who helped me? Who was showing me the past?... the spheres... where do they come from?

"Mewlt... we meet again..." whispered a familiar, feminine voice.

I turned around... and I saw a familiar figure hovering above the ground, carried in the wind by small, delicate wings...

"Hi sugar... had a good day?" asked Celebi.

I frowned, remembering what Celebi had done to me... what she had dared to do to me.

She manipulated me... and for that, I will never forgive her. I just won't.

She slowly landed in front of me and walked toward me... the way she walked... it was the way only a female could, moving her hips around like that... and I suspected that she was already trying to manipulate me again.

She stopped just in front of me. I stared into her eyes... and saw her eyes glow with wicked intentions... I will not let you use me... not again.

"It is terrible, isn't it?" she asked.

Should I anwser... well... since she stands there, waiting patiently for an anwser... I guess I will give her one.

"What is terrible?" I anwsered with a question as I didn't knew what she had been talking about...

Celebi smiled... "That Mew... is not happy. She has a trainer... she should be happy... and she is not."

What? Is that some kind of joke? A Legendary Pokemon? Saying such a thing? Heeheehee... HAHAHAHA!

"What's so funny?" she asked, her smile slowly turning into a frown.

Oh no! I... I cannot contain my laughter! She noticed it! I hope she won't get mad and attack...

"We... we... well... it's just that... that the idea of Mew being happy from being a slave is well... ridiculous!" I explained, struggling to keep my laughter to myself.

Celebi stared into my eyes... and I stopped laughing. Oh great Ho-oh... she looks SO angry...

"Didn't you seen it? Didn't you realised that only having a trainer can give you hapiness? Pokemon need trainers to be happy... you saw it... you saw the lack of meaning... the pain... how everything was unfair... humans are the key to it all. Trust them." she was obviously fighting against the hatred within her heart...

I felt my legs shaking... I felt... weak... If Celebi is to attack me... then I know I won't be able to escape. She has control over Time... and thus, will find me wherever I go...

Celebi stared into my eyes, especting an anwser that did not come... "ISN'T IT?!?"

I didn't moved an inch... and Celebi moved backward a bit, raising an eyebrow... well, she would do so if she had one. "I... see..." she slowly stated, fighting her hatred less and less...

She turned my back to me... "Well... you will someday understand. Learn from Mew... from her mistake... for she never trusted her trainer and thus, was never happy. Trust into humans... serve them... become theirs..."

Celebi disappeared as suddenly as she had appeared leaving only a few words behind... "You will soon know what I want... very soon..."

She laughed as she disappeared... and her voice... echoed... her laugh... sounded so creepy... I felt a chill going down my spine...

"Meeew..." meowed the pink kitty, who had been watching the whole scene...

I turned around, facing her... and then, I noticed that the surroundings had changed... this place was... ... where am I?

Huh?

All the colors swirl in front of me... and then, everything is clear once again... and the feelings start hammering my nerves.

My hands... are all covered with blood... my own. I stared at myself and noticed that I was covered with cuts and burns of all kinds...

I turned to face Mew... and saw her in front of me, floating there as Groudon dashed toward her... we were still in this arena, in that stupid battle...

"MEW! ICE BEAM!" ordered the enslaver.

"GROUDON! SLASH!" ordered the challenger... or rather, Groudon's enslaver.

Mew changed her position, lowering her tail behind her, standing in a diagonal angle, mouth opened... blue energy gathered inside of... tremendous amounts of blue, cold energy...

Groudon, him, accelerated and winded up for his next attack. It was way too obvious that he was going to try and smack Mew right in the jaw with his sharp claws...

I will not allow this to happen... I will not let those humans control Legendary Pokemon! I will prevent this!... I don't know how I'll do it but I will stop them!

"Heh! Looks like your Half-Mew finally decided himself to fight! Look at that aura of psychic energy!" why do all Pokemon trainers sound so... arrogant? Why do they all sound and act the same?... well, no time to think about this...

"HALF-MEW! FUTURE SIGHT!" ordered the enslaver.

You wish! I'm not doing anything for you!

Let's see... if I use my powers from this angle... no... this won't work. Maybe... hmm... that wouldn't work out either... Then this... nope... ... I must find a way!

If only I could use something that has both anti-psychic properties and ice or water properties...

A Shadow attack... if I could use a Shadow attack... then maybe I'll be able to stop them! Shadow Chill, the Shadow ice elemental attack... it could work!... well, maybe not but it has the most chances of success. I have to try it! I must!

I... must unleash the Dark Power... and I know how to do it.

All I have to do is remaind myself of how the enslaver treated Mew... how he is trying to corrupt an innocent child... how he is so uncaring and cruel...

I hate him... I truly hate him... It is becease of people like him that Mew is suffering... and that all trainers are alike? Even worse! All monsters... all of them...

"Huh? That purple aura... GROUDON! LOOK OUT!" that stupid human... do you think you can own a Legendary Pokemon? HMPH!

Everything... seems darker now... and I can see Mew and Groudon that almost reached each others, preparing to unleash their attacks... I will not allow neither of you to do so.

I pointed at the shrinking space between the two and gathered all of my rage... all of the rage gathered into a cold feeling... a cold emptiness from the void the human cruelty causes... this void will take a physical form and freeze the two in their tracks!

I unleashed the fury of the Shadow Chill...

FWOOOOSH!!!

The coldness... exploded in a chaotic way, causing large ice blades to errupt out of my body and spread quickly in what seemed to be a mix between an explosion and wild flames devouring everything...

I tried to control the ice... but I felt so... cold... so... uncaring. I wanted to stop Mew and Groudon... but on another hand, I wanted the blades to pierce throught the humans, to fling them upward, to devour their souls...

I hated them... I hated them so much... and the attack only became stronger becease of it.

The ice spreads, seemingly forming large spikes and towers as a world of anger and hatred spreads... The large icy snakes lashed toward the two... I attempted to control them... but I wanted to consume the humans so much... that those two seemed merely like obstacles...

NO! They're not obstacles! They're the reason I unleashed this power! I released my hatred so that it may prevent them from obeying those vile, twisted, evil, monstruous, unworthy humans... I hate them... I want you all to disappear...

"Meeeeeew..." huh? She is meowing... and she sounds sad...

I felt... sad. I somehow knew that it was me who made her so sad... that it was I who has hurt her feelings... and the guilt stopped my hatred in it's track. I could see it... all around me...

The entire arena... was almost completely covered under a thick layer of black, shining ice... an unnatural ice with red, swirling energy glowing from the inside... the hatred... my hatred...

I seen the tall spikes and towers, expanding nearly endlessly toward the sky... and I also saw the gigantic saw, the opened snake mouth, the blades... I saw them as they had climbed the towers on which the trainers stood and the blades had stopped, merely an inch from their necks...

I also saw the gigantic barrier of ice, separating Mew and Groudon...

I... I almost killed those two... but then... they are deserving it. Why did you stopped me, Mew? Those humans... are so horrible...

"Mewlt... you have nothing to gain by hating humans..." her soft voice soothed my weary soul. Hearing her made me forget about the hatred... it made it go away... altought it did also made me a bit sad... like always.

She was now facing me, her blue eyes shining... "Not all humans are like the Champion and all those who enslaved the Legendary Pokemon..."

All those who enslaved the Legendary Pokemon... wait a minute! Does this means that... Mew and Groudon aren't the only ones?!?

"I can read your soul, Mewlt... and yes, we are not the only ones. It is becease of... the Decision." she explained.

Decision? What's this? "Mew... what is the Decision?" I asked. I had to know...

Mew turned to the sky, her gaze distant and sad... she remembered the past... and seemed to flinch as sharp emotionnal pain struck her. Tears started pourring out of her eyes as she remembered an event that had most obviously traumatised her... and whatever can be terrible enough to make such a legendary creature suffer must be really, really horrible...

"Mewlt... about twenty years ago... Ho-oh made a choice... He decided to give all Legendary Pokemon trainers... exept for himself, of course. He sent visions to humans all over the world, telling us our locations and what we feared so that we may be captured. Some protested, most accepted their fates for Ho-oh is, after all, the ruler of this world. Four Legendary Pokemon protested and fought against this decision... Latias, Lugia, Mewtwo... and..." she didn't finished her sentance.

There was no need for her to finish it... for I had guessed the anwser. The fourth Legendary Pokemon... the fourth rebel... had been Mew.

"HMPH! So touching... but do not kid yourselves! This ice wall will be melted by my power! The sun shines with renewed vigor as long as I am out... and soon, I will be free to proceed and to trash you both, making MY trainer the ultimate Champion of the Pokemon World!" Groudon's voice... was deep, cruel-sounding... but most of all, depressed.

"What do you have to gain from this? Why do you want your trainer to be the best? No one will even look at you. You'll be nothing than his tool... nothing than one more Pokemon he used... just like that Salamence." I asked... and then, finally realised something.

The Salamence! I had completely forgot about it! I hope that I didn't...

drip... drip...

Please... it is not...

drip... drip...

Blood... Blood drops falling from above a tower, just to my right... the Salamence is empaled at the top, crying in pain and distress... and while I was relieved that it was alive... I also seen that the injury was serious. It won't survive long without help...

I turned to the challenger... and he was more focused on the ice blades that had stopped just in front of him than on his Pokemon. In fact, despite the fact that he had probably realised by now that he was safe... he didn't paid any attention to his Pokemon who had been in the center of my attack...

I turned to Mew... "Mew... help that Salamence!" I asked her.

"I will only do so if ordered..." she said, starting to cry as she stared at the Salamence, helpless at the top of the sky, in the clouds, pierced in the stomach in the middle of his flight by my anger... my cold, pure hatred...

"Why do you want to save an enemy?" asked Groudon. His expression was unreadable and his mind was shut tight...

I turned to him and anwsered frankly. "I will not let a Pokemon die for the sake of a stupid trophy." I explained.

"It is not about the trophy... it is about honor... it is our destiny as Pokemon! To live or die serving our masters..." it was so creepy... it didn't sounded like something he would say... but rather like something someone inserted in his mind.

"Who brainwashed you? You used to be fiercely independant! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD?!?" my last scream made everyone in the entire stadium turn toward me... altought only the Pokemon could understand me.

"There aren't any Legendary Pokemon any longer, mortal." explained Groudon. "Mew may kid herself... but I know that Ho-oh now rules alone. We are nothing but pawns..." I can't believe I'm hearing this...

"You are GROUDON, the TITAN OF EARTH!... and you call yourself a pawn?!? You could kill those trainers in seconds! You could raise mountains and bring forth the power of heat on all those who stand in your way! You're basically a deity! I refuse to believe that you stand powerless before fate!" I stated.

He shook his head. "Ho-oh is not a Legendary Pokemon... just like Lugia isn't a Pokemon. They are not even from this world... and not in the sense of another planet, like Jirachi or Deoxys... no... they came from the Emptiness. They are not Pokemon... they are Gods, Half-Mew. Even the strongest creatures of this world can't compete with Gods... and even less with THE God himself, with a capital "G", the one who controls Fate itself!"

The ice... started to melt under the effects of Groudon's power... and I stood there, not believing what I had heard...

What made the Legendary Pokemon of Life so superior to all the others? What had allowed Ho-oh to control the lives of the other Legendary Pokemon?... and why would he do so? Why doing something so cruel? Wasn't Ho-oh supposed to be second only to Mew in terms of love and care to this world?

"Ho-oh... has changed." explained Mew, reading my toughts. "He..."

SLAAAAAASH!!!

"MEEEEEAAAAAARG!!!" screamed Mew as the sound of steel piercing and ripping throught flesh was heard.

I turned around and saw Mew, a large curved blade sticking throught her chest... and the blade was tied to a stick... and this stick was held by a caped Pokemon... and the terror rose...

The fog... is gathering... it is Death, holding the scythe... and piercing throught Mew's flesh.

"You said too much. Your time has come. You were already supposed to die in this fight... Fate dictated it. This Pokemon had only delayed slightly the inevitable..." stated the cold, cruel feminine voice...

Everything froze... everything turned to pure ice and the world stood in pure Darkness... Mew's expression... an expression of sheer terror... and sorrow.

"Me... Mew... two..." she whispered, tears streaming down her cheeks and blood pouring out of her open wound...

"I... I... I lo... love... you..." Mew thrown her head back and slowly floated down, the Pokemon pulling the blade out of her chest...

The pink kitty floated down like a falling leaf, her eyes closed, red clouds dropping out of her chest at a steady rate... and she landed softly on the ice-covered ground, my half-melted hatred forming a blue and crismon coffin for the the most pure of all Pokemon...

My heart... was suddenly ripped apart... and all of my fear vanished.

"NOOOOO!!!" I rushed toward the caped Pokemon, my heart screaming of rage and sorrow.

"Buzz off, unsignificant worm." she simply stated.

She pointed at me and I felt an overwhelming force strike me. I tried to struggle... but... I could not even concentrate or even try to that my body was hurled straight into the closest ice tower...

BAAAAAAAM!!!

ACK! GLEEEEEEAAAAARG!!!... that... that didn't felt good... I broke straight throught the tower and knocked it down... and also probably broke my back. I fell down, unable to get up, blood forced out of my mouth as I trembled, unable to control my damaged nerves...

I... I am paralysed... only my head moves... only my head... I turned... and seen the caped Pokemon holding a strange, transparent Pokeball... HUH?!?

Inside the Pokeball was... MEW?!?

How can this be? She's still there, lying down, dead... which means that this is... I can sense but... can it truly be...

Could that caped, scythe-wielding Pokemon truly have captured Mew's soul? I find it hard to believe... and yet, it is a fact. She is holding Mew's soul in her hand...

"Hehehehe... Two souls obtained... five left to go until... hehehehehe!" the Pokemon's laugh... is so cold...

The caped figure shrunked the Pokeball and hid in her cloak... then, she turned toward me. "As you can see... you are clearly no match for me... so don't even try to challenge Fate!"

The Pokemon disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared... and the fog was gone as well as the terror... but the sorrow remained.

Somehow, I was able to stand up... and found out that I had only been stunned, not truly hurt... altought I knew that I had been drained of the vast majority of my stamina when I had been attacked.

Such raw power... even Mew had seemed completely powerless next to this Pokemon. It was truly... terrible beyond imagination. I had never imagined that something could kill a Legendary Pokemon so easily... and of all Legendary Pokemon... it had to be Mew... not only among the strongest... but most of all, among the most kind...

I struggled against the pain, both physical and emotionnal as I walked toward the pink kitty... she was lying on her back, sleeping peacefully... or so I hoped.

Each step... feels like a knife piercing my feet and my heart... and more tears come out... and more of them... and I feel more and more sad... and I became slower... all... is cold darkness...

I collapsed on my knees before Mew...

"Please... wake up..." my voice was shaking... I begged her... I begged her to awaken... I begged her to be faking her death...

Mew... slept in a dreamless sleep... her eyes stuck in their last expression... sorrow and regret... I tought I could hear her howl in sorrow one last time over her broken dreams...

The ice coffin has almost disappeared... leaving Mew's body lying, her fur wet in red and blue liquids... and soon, my tears joined the liquids...

"Please..." I placed my hand on her neck, seeking a pulse... but there was none...

I denied it... it was impossible... a Legendary Pokemon... can't die... and least of all, her...

I placed my right hand on her chest. I didn't even took the time to protect myself as I unleashed Shadow Bolt after Shadow Bolt into her body and my own.

Each time, the dark energy ripped my body further and surged her body with electricity... and each time, my emotionnal pain grew as she continued not to breath...

I sped up... I had to make her awaken... I just had to... even if I would end up destroying my body in the process...

"Stop." A physical contact...

I turned to face Groudon... his face was disformed with an expression that seemed half-way between pure rage and frustration... but I felt neither feeling in his soul. Groudon had never been born with the ability to feel sorrow as a Titan... Mew had teached to him, along with Rayquaza, what was sadness... and as such, the pain was even more intense that he knew that the one who had allowed him to unbind himself from the Magma Sphere had died before him... and that he had done nothing to help her.

I stared into his eyes... and he simply stood there... "Mew... died trying to tell me that Ho-oh had changed... as if someone didn't wanted me to know..." I stated.

"Ho-oh knows what he's doing." replied Groudon.

I was shaking with anger and sadness... Was Ho-oh REALLY knowing what he was doing? He has let Mew DIE! How can he know if he's doing if he lets her die?!? Why didn't he took anyone else unstead?... why didn't he took me, unstead? I who is plagued with pure, sheer corrosive hatred? Why did he took her, the most innocent of Pokemon?

"You stick to your ideals... like your father." commented Groudon.

I turned to him, confused. Groudon knew my father?... and he said that I am like him?

"Groudon... you knew my father?" I asked.

"Everyone knows him... but few knows he had a son. The fact that he could reproduce awakened fear in the Legendary Pokemon Council. I am afraid... that your birth contributed to this situation." explained the Titan.

I raised an eyebrow. "What is my connection to the Legendary Pokemon, anyway? Why... do I run into them? Why... do I look like a bit like Mew and a bit like Mewtwo in another way?"

Groudon closed his eyes... "Becease... that Mewtwo is your father... and Mew your mother."

W... w... w... WHAT?!?

SAY WHAT?!?

Mewtwo... is my father and... Mew is my mother?!?

I almost jumped back on my feet since I got back up so quickly. I stared at Groudon, disbelief all over my face...

"No one knew... exept for a few souls. Light and Darkness are not supposed to coexist... and as such, the existance of a child who was born from the union of Light Incarnate with Darkness Incarnate is an abomination." he explained.

I... I... This is... just... impossible...

Groudon closed his eyes... "If a Pokemon was worthy of being called a Legendary Pokemon... it was her. She is exeptionnal... she was one of two Mews... born out of an unique anomaly... the other Mew inherited her mother's consciousness... but your mother became the true, actual Mew despite not being pure physically... for altought her body was defiled... her soul was pure."

Too much... shock... to absorb...

"The birth... of a Mew never go unnoticed... so we all knew that your mother was actually a copy... but we didn't cared if she didn't had Mew's soul... for she was kindness itself, hapiness, innocense. Unlike the age-old transmitting consciousness, your mother actually lived to her name... she was devoid of hatred... and despite having a hard life, Mew always remained herself... to the very end."

I turned to the pink body... and intense guilt struck my heart...

Mother... Mew... my mother... she had been there for so long and I had been too stupid to ever notice it... even with the clues.

I collapsed into tears, realising I had broken one of her dreams... for her own son had never even recognised her...

"GROUDON! RETURN!"

"I will never defile her memory... I will never forget, even if a new Mew arrives... all that I hope is that... the Legendary Pokemon of Darkness will not hate the world for allowing this tragedy to happen..."

FWOOOOOOSH!!!

Groudon disappeared in a flash of red light...

"Do... do not cry..." this voice... it forced me out of my sorrow for some reason...

I can see... the Salamence... he is lying on the ground and has lost a lot of blood obviously. The challenger... never helped him. He has let him suffer here... and it is now obvious that he can no longer be saved...

"So... I had not seen it wrong..." he whispered, struggling against the pain...

I wondered what he was talking about...

"Whoever... is born from Mew becomes her successor... just like she did... you must bring hope to this world... and drives back hatred where it came from..." his words echoed... and they felt... they felt... as if it was Mew's will itself...

"It is such a honor, mister Mew... I die in the final battle of the Pokemon Championship. It is a glorious end... in front of the souls of all the Pokemon World, both human and Pokemon... showing my full power to all and remaining ever glorious, dying as a warrior rather than living as the tool of a Champion... but most of all... I could see... the rise of a new Mew..." the Salamence closed his eyes and remained there...

A Mew falls... a new one takes it's place.

The Ritual of Passing... was executed.

To bring hope back to a doomed world... is Mew's destiny...

Was I up to it? Mother was much mightier than I am and she got killed so easily by this terrible enemy... and then, I feel so weak, so unsignificant, so pathetic...

How will I do this? How can I cleanse the Poison if it claimed mother?

... I was born out of a forbidden union... and despite having Mew's form and responsability... I know that I draw my powers from the Shadow... from my father.

My father... the father of all Shadow Pokemon... Mewtwo...

I never met him... but I heard tales... all of them detailing him as a terrifying devil who ate the souls of Pokemon and spread chaos and destruction throught the land...

But then, could Mew accept to fall in love and have a child from someone evil?... I doubt it. and furthermore... the visions I had portrayed him in a far, far different way from what I had heard...

I will find Mewtwo... I will seek his help. I will not be able to live in a world consumed by the Poison... and as such, I gladly accept this fate. I will become the next Mew and cleanse the world of the Poison and it's incarnations! I will not rest until I have built a world in which Cherlie and I will be able to live happily in... and of course, I'll create a future for all Pokemon and humans... I will free the Pokemon of the slavery of Pokeballs, humans from the slavery of blind ambition.

"HALF-MEW! RETURN!"

FWOOOOOOOSH!

CLAC!

The Pokeball attempts to restrain my toughts... but I am strong. The burden is great... but I prefer this to despair, to being helpless. I will become a Legendary Pokemon... I will find the source of the Poison... and I will destroy it!

I swear it! I will destroy the Poison or will die trying! This world will have a future and I refuse to give up without a fight!

=TO BE CONTINUED