Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Rejected ❯ Fragments of Darkness ( Chapter 15 )

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CHAPTER 15: FRAGMENTS OF DARKNESS
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CLAC!

FWOOOOOOOOOSH!

I'm just... sick of it all. Sick of being trapped in balls and teleported randomly. Sick of seeing all that I treasure being taken away from me the second I stop suffering. Sick of having my powers control me rather than me controlling them. Sick of history writing me rather than me writing it.

Eliza... she doesn't understand... and the only answers she's getting are those of the Pokemon League... those of the heartless enslavers. I wish to give her answers... but I cannot because of the stupid language barrier.

I'm beginning to think that Mew failed to give me the ability to speak to humans... either that or I was the victim of a really, REALLY unfunny prank... although I doubt she would have done such a thing.

"Hi sugar..." that sugar-coated, naughty feminine voice...

Celebi was sitting on top of a strange white and blue metal pillar. She stood there, legs crossed, her left hand on her hips, right hand on her right leg. She stood there, slightly leaning backward, her blue eyes staring right into mine... and it was too obvious that her eyes spoke of desire.

My heart... was cold, pure ice. Her frame was breath-taking enough to make any male drool... but her soul was ugly enough to make any male puke. I don't know why you are here... but I will not let you do as you please!

"The design of this Purification shrine... it's... err... unique..." I turned around to see Eliza, who was seemingly embarrassed for some reason.

I turned back toward Celebi... and saw a human figure barely a few heads higher than Eliza... a figure which I could not identify.

"It's a special model. Anyway... will you wait outside while the Purification is carried out?" asked the human.

"Yes... I'll get going." she turned around to leave... but stopped right at the door and turned to face me one last time... "Mewlt... it will be alright. Believe me... it will."

With that said, she left... and I was alone with Celebi and that human.

Celebi smiled and was about to jump off the pillar when the human's voice interrupted her. "STILL!"

Celebi frowned, her face filling with anger... and she even begun shaking! She was so enraged... why is it so? Is that human... her trainer?

"Master Julius... we got him." stated the human, seemingly speaking to no one in particular...

"Perfect... bring him to me." huh? this echoing voice... telepathy? But... I see no psychic Pokemon around...

BRRRRRRRR!!!

WHAT THE?!? An earthquake?!?... NO! Not an earthquake!

I looked at the platform... and noticed that... it was sinking! No wonder the shrine's colors were off! It is in truth, an elevator!

I turned to see the human... and noticed two brown, empty eyes beneath a cloak... and that evil, malevolent grin...

CLANG!

The elevator stopped... "Celebi! Return!" the human pointed a Pokeball at Celebi and the green fairy turned into red energy before disappearing...

I heard footsteps... and a dozen of shadows all stood around me... humans wearing black armours, their faces completely hidden... all of them wielding strange weapons... For some reason, those weapons awoke a nameless fear in my heart...

"Follow us, slave." what kind of joke is that? What's happening? Where am I?

ZAAAAAAAP!!!

"MEEEEAAAAAAAAARG!!!" OH... GREAT... HO-OH!!! MY... NERVES... EXPLODING!!! THE... PAIN!!! ANTI-PSYCHIC... ENERGY... FORCED... INTO... BODY... AAAAAAAAARG!!!

ACK!

BAM!

I... I... wheeze... I feel... as if... I had been bathed into acid... so... painful... Crying... from the pain...

"Foward, animal!" the human ordered... I could feel the mocking tone...

I slowly stood up... and stared into her eyes... and I seen her maniacal grin. She was enjoying this... a terrible, inhuman Pokemon trainer... her face was hidden under her cloak, only her eyes and grin visible...

She pointed toward the metal door at the end of the room... "Go! Now!" she ordered again... slightly raising her left hand. I heard strange sounds... and I knew the terrible physical pain was coming up again.

There is no time to think. I have to act right now or be shocked...

There's... too many of them to simply use my powers... and my hatred has not awakened which means that I won't be able to use my Dark Power in time... which leaves me with only one choice...

I frowned and looked down... I will have to play along. I stepped foward... and slowly made it toward the door. "Good kitty, good." she is treating me like an animal... this feels... so awful...

BZZZZZZT!

CLANG!

The door opened to let inside...

BZZZZZZT!

CLANG!

... and closed behind me.

I looked up... and saw that the room was plunged in complete darkness... only one thing was visible...

"Finally... you are here." the telepathic voice! The source is right in front of me!

I focused on the darkness, seeking to see what was the creature that spoke to me using telepathy and... ?!? WHAT?!?

Clean, stylish short black hair, green, sharp, terror-inducing eyes... a black, stylish, clean business suit... a human being? The telepathic being was human?

"Yes, Pokemon, I am human." echoed the human's voice. His arrogance... UGH! If the arrogance in his voice was nearly as bad as his ego is large... then I fear that not even the largest opening in the universe would be sufficient to contain his ego, I'm sure of it.

"Do not be afraid, Pokemon. Go on and speak to me. Language is not a problem for the one who can sense the thoughts of Pokemon." stated the human, his mouth remaining shut as he used his brain alone to talk...

"Who are you? What is that about? Where am I?" the questions came quickly... and the human kept on grinning, his face stuck in it's expression.

"I am Julius, you will soon find out why you are here, and you are in an underground laboratory hidden under Viridian City." answered the human.

My eyes lit up. "You are THE Julius... Mewtwo's trainer, right?" father's trainer... the man I was looking for! Is Destiny finally smiling to me?

The human laughed... and his laugh... was so cruel... so maniacal... and my confidence was crushed. Maybe meeting him in such a place isn't such a good thing after all...

The human remained completely immobile... "Hahahaha... hahaha... well... so you know of this... heeheehee... It is irrelevant however. The test shall begin."

Test? What the... ?!?

BZZZZZZZT!

The human... disappeared? An illusion? It was an illusion?

CLAC! CLAC! CLAC!

Loud sounds... and the lamps on the ceilings all lit up, revealing the shape of a large underground Pokemon arena. I was standing on the Challenger side of the arena and on the other side was a strange being...

The being was about a head or so taller than me and seemed so similar... and yet different. The being was sitting down on the floor, staring at his feet... and I thought I could see him trembling...

A tremendous amount of negative feelings is emanating from this being... I... I never felt so much hatred, sorrow, and regret in the past... never... ever... This being... a thick veil of feelings surrounds him and engulf this entire arena into complete darkness... and as I stared at him... all of my dreams and hopes disappeared, only my negative feelings remaining...

I collapsed... I... I stared at my hands... blood... blood all over my hands... Murderer... I am a murderer... I killed so many people... and... and... I broken all of my promises... I... I am worthless...

I cried... I cried in despair as the aura of this creature emptied me of all positive feelings. I hoped... for the pain to disappear.

"Please... make it... stop..." I couldn't help but beg this strange creature for mercy, sobbing like a little child...

I... I suffer so much... and this being remains silent... filling my heart with his vile emotions... what kind of monster are you? Leave me alone! Please! Make it stop!

FLASH!

Derlank... fell down without a sound... vanquished by time...

FLASH!

NOOOOOO! PLEASE! NOT... THEIR DEATHS... AGAIN...

FLASH!

Spark was dragged underwater by the weight of the rock to which he was tied. I seen his eyes as he stared into my eyes one last time...

FLASH!

WAAAAAAH!!! MY HEART... IS BREAKING APART! MAKE IT STOP!!! OH GREAT HO-OH!!! HAVE MERCY ON ME!!!

FLASH!

ACK!

Ugh... wheeze... wheeze... I'm... I'm trembling... my entire body is shaking... I'm... I'm relieved that it stopped... but the pain is still fresh...

Why did it stopped?... and why did it begun in the first place?

I... wiped the tears off my eyes... and slowly got back up, staring at the creature...

He was so similar to me... and yet different... white and purple instead of pink and purple... his ears like horns instead of like mother's... his fingers inflated like balloon and not delicate at all... and his eyes...

His... oh my great Ho-oh... his eyes... HIS EYES!

I am not looking at a Pokemon's eyes... it is the Shadow flames... the purple Shadow flames that are coming out of his orbits, mimicking the form of eyes... two transparent orbs with an inferno of purple Darkness burning within, a small, long, black slit forming a pupil...

The eyes... of pure Hatred... of pure Darkness... of pure, raw Evil.

This creature... cannot be anyone else... it must be... Him... the Legendary Pokemon of Darkness... the one who has pure Hatred flowing thought his veins... the Devil Pokemon... my father... Mewtwo...

My whole body... is trembling in terror... father... is not looking at me... he is turned toward his feet, Darkness oozing from his eyes and forming a puddle of negative feelings under him. Large flames erupt all over him, forming a large aura... much larger than anything I seen before. The purple flames gather in his back, forming three pairs of wings entirely made up of Shadow energy...

Truly... he looks like people has described him as... and he looks... so completely different from the visions I had of him.

His mind is empty, only pure Darkness flowing out. His face is expressionless... his inner negative energy flowing through his face like an old, damaged mask.

The Darkness forms large claws at the end of his fingers and toes... the Darkness erupting from his head amplify the look of his eyes and ears, transforming his eyes into flaming orbs, his ears into actual horns. Large wings of pure Hatred comes out of his back and cover the entire arena... I can feel their touch... I can feel his power... his tremendous psychic power... and his Hatred...

"Da... daddy?" I whispered, my heart still feeling the aftershock of the pain the aura of negative feelings gave me...

The being turned and... and...

He... he... he is staring... in... in my eyes...

I... time... has stopped... time has stopped... my heart... I can hear it beating... thump thump... thump thump... his eyes... his... I can't believe what... I am seeing...

Souls... I see souls... thousands and thousands of souls, human and Pokemon, all within his eyes... thousands of souls crushed and mashed together, their faces distorted into an expression of pure terror and intense suffering... within him, the suffering of millions of souls sleeps... and his Hatred unites it all into one huge Dark Power... the Shadow energy...

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Julius's voice echoed... "He is the Source itself. Negative feelings are attracted to his heart like metal to a magnet and then, he transforms the negative feelings into raw power which he release under the form of Shadow energy... or raw Darkness, if you prefer. He is the link between the physical plane and the Vortex. Within him, pure Darkness finally takes a physical form. If it wasn't from him, Shadow Pokemon such as you wouldn't exist."

He attracts negative feelings and then give them a physical form? Is that... his power?

...

Mew... her power is to give a physical form to the hopes and dreams of people... and Mewtwo's power is the opposite...

...

It is logical... but I still wonder... If Mew and Mewtwo are such opposites... then why weren't the positive feelings of all beings attracted to Mew for her to turn into Light? What caused her power to fail... and father's to continue working?

"Mewtwo... rise!" Julius's order echoed thought the room... and my eyes widened in horror, seeing Mewtwo's eyes lit up and turn red as he stood up, standing in such an unnaturally upright stance... he looked... like a machine... a soulless machine...

"Mewtwo... Psychic!" another order from Julius. I seen Mewtwo turn around, point at me, and...

SLAM!

...

...

...

Huh? Where am I?... ugh... my head hurts... so much... I feel as if a whole pack of Tauros had ran over me... ugh... my whole body... feels so weak...

I... I do not recognise my surroundings... all that I see... is darkness... only darkness...

CLIC!

Fwiiiiiiz...

Huh? What was that?... how strange... Suddenly, it seems that I am in a room... a small room completely in green. Some kind of strange lines constantly hamper my vision however... and for some reason, I feel... heavier.

I try to move my head... but I can't. I feel as if something was keeping my head there... as well as all of my other body parts. I can't move an inch... I cannot even move my tail. I feel... so strange... the feeling of metal over my body...

Metal... touching... my body?

...!!! I get it! I must be chained to the wall or something... which means Mewtwo must have knocked me out instantly with his powers!... which also means that his attack was incredibly powerful to knock me out so quickly.

I... I don't want to imagine what it would have been if he would have used his powers to kill... I would no longer be alive most probably...

Relax... relax... Mewtwo is your father... he's not going to kill you... he's not going to kill you... relax, Mewlt... relax...

"So... you are awake, Half-Mew." Julius... where are you? Why am I here?... why am I kept here? Let me go! Let me go... NOW!

... huh? Nothing happened! I'll try again...

Inhale... relax... concentrate... NOW!

... still nothing? What the... I should be free by now!... or at the very least, my psychic powers would have awakened!

A cold, cruel laugh... Julius... he is laughing at me... I'm beginning to think that Ho-oh may hates me. Why am I going through all this? Why are things always going so wrong?

"It is useless, believe me. You will obey me... and me alone. You are mine now, Half-Mew." your wish! I will not allow you to...

Huh? What's that? I can see... something approaching... a shadow... What? Father? I can see him... he is standing in front of me, looking down...

"Father! Father! I am here!" I tried to get his attention, yelling as loudly as I could... but he had no reaction. He remained motionless, expressionless...

Julius laughed again... "He is a good Pokemon... unlike you... but you will be trained well. Soon, my orders will be your thoughts."

Your orders? My thoughts? Your wish! I will never serve you... NEVER! I will break free, you hear me? I WILL NOT REMAIN TRAPPED HERE!!!

Cherlie is awaiting my safe return at the river... I will break free of those chains, whatever they may be! It doesn't matter how solid that Julius guy may think those chains may be... I'll break them with my Dark Power! If my psychic powers fail... then I'll use father's, instead!

"Father..." I whispered to myself... closing my eyes... gathering my negative feelings...

I remembered the hatred I felt before being knocked out... I remembered the sorrow, the regrets... I mixed it to my anger and frustration... I... I reminded myself of mother... of mother's death... of how she died... of this strange Pokemon... this awful, vile, twisted Pokemon...

Whoever you are... you will not get away. I despise you... I hate you with all of my heart... you who robbed mother of her dreams... you who destroyed her life and my own. I will never forgive you. I just won't do it. I JUST WON'T DO IT! NEVER! EVER!!!

Stupid chains... I HATE CHAINS! I'M SICK OF BEING LOCKED UP USING CHAINS, POKEBALLS, OR ANYTHING!!! I hate you all... I HATE YOU ALL, ENSLAVERS! I hate this world's stupid, cruel rules! HATE IT ALL! I'll break all of them... I'LL BREAK EVERYTHING APART!!!

"MEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!!!" DISAPPEAR!!! I'LL SMASH THOSE CHAINS!

UUUUUUUUUURG!!! MORE POWER! I NEED MORE POWER!!!

HMPH! ACK! The power... THE POWER! THE HATRED! I'm BURNING!!! I'LL DESTROY EVERYTHING!!!

AAAAAARG!!! DESTRUCTION!!! DESTROY!!! DESTROY... EVERYTHING!!!

LET ME GO!!!

ACK! Gulp... GLAAAARG!!!

My vision... the green... it's... glass... blood... all over the glass... burning... inside out... can't take... too much... uuuuUUUUUUURG!!!

GUUUUAAAAAAARGL!!!

SPLASH!

IT... IT HURTS... I'M... I'M DESTROYING MYSELF... HATRED... TURNING... INTO SADNESS... CAN'T TAKE IT... PLEASE... MAKE IT STOP... PLEASE...

GLAAAAARGLGLGLGL!!!

Red... red everywhere... my heart... hurts... my entire body... is trembling... cuts... my body... urgh... cuts all over my skin... skin ripping itself apart... so sad... so lonely... all alone...

Meeeeeeew... meeeeeEEEEUUUURG!!!

COUGH! COUGH! CROULGL!!!

Gulp... GASP! CAN'T BREATHE! CAN'T BREATHE! PLEASE... FATHER... HELP ME... PLEASE! I CAN'T BREATHE! MY THROAT... FILLING WITH BLOOD!!!

THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP!!!

NOOOOoooo... my... heart... my entire body... is exploding with sorrow... sadness... so lonely... all alone... in this place...

Can't... breathe... please... help...

So... dizzy... can't breathe... bleeding... from everywhere... no skin left... completely burned... father... help... please...

I cry... cry... I can feel the salty water burn my eyes... can't breathe... eyes burning... whole body opening... heart is about to... to... explode...

GASP!!!

Can't... take... anymore...

I... I... no... I don't... want to die... here... all alone... destroyed... by my... own... power...

GASP!

I... I closed my eyes... and relaxed... I... I'm going to drown in my own blood... I cried... I cried in protest... I can't see... my eyes are burning... can't breathe...

gulp... gulp... gulp...

C... Ch... er... lie...

thump... thump...

beep... beep...

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...

...

Warm... I feel... warm... so strangely dizzy and warm... I feel... something in my chest... something warm...

I... I don't know what is happening... but I no longer am afraid... I no longer regret anything... I only feel... a warmth in my chest... something entering my body and flowing through all of me... something is keeping me alive somehow...

I am blind... I can't see anything... but I can feel the warmth... the warmth...

Huh?... I... I tought I seen something...

...

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!" a loud scream of intense, raw physical pain... "Meeeeeeeeew..." followed by a moan... once again of raw suffering.

Breathing... she is breathing so quickly... I can hear her heart pumping so quickly and with so much force... I am not in her soul, feeling what she feels... but I can sense that she is arcing her body upward... and she is so tense...

Then... she suddenly relaxed and fell back on her back, panting... and I felt something... someone holding me... I felt so small... so vulnerable... and confused... and... my lungs... they... they burn...

GASP!

I inhaled loudly... and I felt the air entering into my lungs and filling them with much needed oxygen... and I felt the warmth... I felt as if I was on some kind of strange surface... a surface that curved upward and then came down, the higher structure separating into three round orbs which were pressed against me, keeping me from falling...

I can still hear the female panting desesperatly for air... and then, her respiration... grew louder... and I realised I was getting closer to her...

"It's a male..." this voice... a deep yet caring voice... the voice of a male...

I felt... an aura of happiness... a warm happiness that overflowed from both the being holding me and the panting female... he respiration felt less forced, I sensed her relax... and her pain seemed to subdue completely...

I... the being no longer holds me... another being now holds me... I feel... as if I was now on another surface... a curved one. What is holding me is a lot smaller... and has a lot more delicate hold... my instincts... tell me that I should go upward... that there is something I need...

I am so small... so weak... I'm still wet... my fur didn't dried off yet... I struggle... my little paws can't find anything to cling on... I grow worried... scared... but then, I felt as if whatever was holding me carried me upward... and I felt a strange curve... and a strange feeling... I touched the strange thing with my nose... I rubbed against it... I heard a giggle... the female... she is giggling... her voice nullify all worries within my heart... I feel safe... and loved.

I placed my lips on the strange object, just as my instincts dictated me to... and as I sucked, I felt a strange substance entering my mouth... it was warm, tasty... and I quickly fell asleep, keeping on sucking and drinking in my sleep as my instincts dictated me to...

A word echoed in my young mind... milk... I like milk...

In my sleep... I heard voices...

"How... will we name him?"

"Hmmm... What about... Mewlt?"

"... It is a fine name... I like it... Heh... do you hear us, little guy? You are named Mewlt... Mewlt... Mewlt..."

Mewlt... Mewlt... Mewlt...

...

Hmmm... errr... oh... meow... I'm... a few more minutes mommy... please... hmmm... so tired...

... BRRRRRR!!! Such a chilling sensation!

I opened my eyes... and I was shocked. I saw... the most pitiful Pokemon I had ever seen.

I seen a humanoid cat figure on it's knees, sobbing loudly, trembling like if his body had completely broken down. Tears constantly flowed out of his eyes as he cried... I stared at my father... and felt mercy. His sadness was completely sincere and flowed from his body at a steady rate, reaching my heart...

I... I wish I knew why you are so sad... and how I could help you...

I slowly stood up... and got off the bed. I slowly walked toward Mewtwo... and placed my right hand on his shoulder... he turned his head slowly toward me...

His eyes... were filled with such confusion and raw sorrow... he looked like a Pokemon who had been locked into a dark room and tortured for years...

Despite his fur being clean and his entire body being in a healthy shape... there was something about him that gave him such an aura of pain and suffering. He seemed... ruined.

His sobs slowly stopped... although he still trembled. His sorrow was just as intense... but a new, strange feeling had made his sorrow fall silent...

"Wh... wh... wha... we... wa... whr... whe.. whar... wher... where al... where am... where am e... where am I...?" he was struggling... struggling to speak. He sounded as if he no longer remembered how to speak let alone to feel... he looked like a Shadow Pokemon who was just purified, losing it's identity, losing everything and it's heart assaulted by foreign feelings...

I... I didn't knew what to answer... I... I don't know... the room is dark... I can't see anything... this whole laboratory... is in perpetual darkness...

"Wa... wh... who... who am... who als... who err... who are... who are you?" his voice was hesitant... he was unsure of his words... unsure in his thoughts... unsure as he tried to recollect his destroyed soul and repair his thoughts...

"Daddy... it's... me. Can you remember?" I wanted... to sound confident and comforting but... but I couldn't...

Father... daddy... I'm... I'm here... I'm with you... we are together... Everything will turn out alright... whoever you or I may be... I...

I collapsed on my knees and hugged him. His eyes... spoke of confusion... but even in his state, he could understand it... I felt his arms wrapping around me... and I felt his round, large fingers grasping my back... he hugged me with all of his strength and I felt... safe... and I heard him starting to sob anew... but his tears... were tears of relief and happiness...

He just continued to cry and cry and cry... and although I frowned more and more each time... my happiness grew. I felt like crying in happiness too... crying as finally, after more than fifteen years of suffering and despair... I had met my father anew. There was no need for words... the emotion was more than enough for now...

I felt like continuing to hug him forever... I was terrorised... terrorised that we may be separated if I let go... I didn't wanted to lose him... to lose him like mommy was lost... I... I don't want you to die, daddy...

"How touching..." Julius... my father's trainer...

I felt him gripping me harder and yet, recoiling... trying to get away from him. I stared into his eyes... and the flames were gone. In his deep purple eyes... I seen his pupils shrink to the size of two slits... and I seen the sheer, raw terror. He was completely, totally terrorised.

He meowed incoherently in distress, his face distorted as his cries became louder and quicker.

"P... pl... pr... ples... pla... please..." I seen him make huge efforts to beg the human... to beg him to leave us alone...

"I hate weakness." the human's voice... was as cold as ice... and sharp as a knife.

I stopped hugging father. I stood up and slowly turned to face the same human I had seen back in the arena, the same malevolent grin on his face. You will not separate us. You will not turn us into tools. I do not know what you did to father... but whoever tortured him like this... is not worthy of existing!

I pointed at the human and focused on him with the intention of killing for the sake of protecting the only family I had left. I will not fail. I won't forgive myself if I fail.

The human laughed... "Hahahaha... HAHAHAHAHA!!! Haaaa... well! That was fun!... but I fear that my suit prevents you from harming me, see? Now... OBEY!"

He took out a Pokeball... and I recognised it. It was my Pokeball... that cursed tool of enslavement. Oh no! Not this time, you monster! I will dodge the incoming beam... I must! No! I mustn't... I WILL dodge it! Failure to do so... is not possible!

PIZIIIIIIIP!!!

I seen the ball's center glow red and fire the beam... and everything slowed down to a crawl.

The air... is heavy... and thick as steel... but I won't fail! The beam... is moving so slowly... and yet, my body doesn't move an inch!

Move, body! MOVE! MOVE!!!

UUUUUUUUURGH! Must... get... out... of the way! I... I clawed at the air... at this thick, hard barrier! I must pierce it! I MUST!... I WILL DO IT!

My entire body... is glowing blue...

U... Urg... so... difficult... so tiring... beam... too fast... ACK! The farther my body moves... the thicker the air becomes! So hard... to struggle... must... keep up... tired... must... ugh... tired...

NO! I'm too slow! Beam... getting... too close... moving... not quickly enough...

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!" I WILL NOT BE CAUGHT!!! NEVER!!!

BOOOOM!!!

The beam passed barely an inch away from my left arm and bounced harmlessly off the invisible wall... and I smiled. I... I did it... I dodged the beam... and the Pokeball... it was knocked off the human's hand...

CLANG!... clang! clang!clang!

It slowly bounced on the ground at his feet before finally stopping... the human stood there, his hair blown backward by the strong wind current my movement must have caused.

He's shocked... MY TIME TO ACT!

The human saw me and frowned in anger, diving toward the Pokeball! I won't allow you to try again... oh no! I won't! I blasted myself with all of my psychic power... and upon making it in close, I rose my left foot as high as I could... and brought it down using all of my strength!

CRAAAACK!!!

"AAAAAAAAAARG!!!" Julius's scream of pain was music to my ears...

I looked down... and the scene played in slow motion. I seen his hand coming down and grasping the Pokeball... and then, a nanosecond later, my foot touched the back of his hand... and I seen his hand turning red and almost exploding as my foot thrusted it into the Pokeball, smashing the ball into pieces and breaking all the bones inside. I seen the bones split in two within his hand and pierce through his flesh, sending crimson liquid all over the Pokeball shards, his own hand, and my foot. I pressed down further... and the hand was almost cut wide open as I forced it down on the Pokeball shards, making deep cuts all over it... and then, finally, finishing crushing his hand, causing the skin on the sides to open, flesh and blood splashing all over the floor as his hand was completely crushed.

I pulled off my blood-covered foot and Julius just continued to scream, bringing his hand back, grasping his wrist with his other hand.

I seen it on his belt... a gold and silver Pokeball... I knew this was what I was looking for... Mewtwo's Pokeball...

While the human screamed in pain, I reached for his belt... and snatched the Pokeball! The human was too busy screaming to notice I had snatched his Pokeball...

This Pokeball... I seen the letters on it... the holy sphere... the GS Ball... Supposedly built by the Legendary Pokemon and totally, entirely unbreakable. No Pokemon can escape it's grasp... no Pokemon...

It isn't unbreakable! Mewtwo... father... YOU WILL BE FREE!

I thrown the GS Ball down and brought my foot down... and... and... and... HUH?!? UUUUUUURGH! Stupid GS Ball! Why won't you break?!? UUUUUURG! I'm putting all of my weight on it and it doesn't break!... ACK! Even by using my psychic powers on top of my weight... it still don't even show any sign of stress!

Footsteps... I can hear footsteps...

"MASTER!!!" a feminine voice screamed...

I seen the human... the human who had brought me here via that elevator... she is no longer wearing her cloak and I can see her beautiful, pale human face... she has blonde, long hair... brown, empty eyes... and her face speaks of fanatical loyalty...

Julius... keeps on screaming... I can see his hand... completely flat, bones sticking out, sharp Pokeball shards stuck deep in his flesh... a gruesome, satisfying sight... serves you right, heartless monster!

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!? Bring the medical team here ASAP!" screamed the girl... "... and somebody! Get those stupid animals back in their Pokeballs!"

The humans... pointed their weapons at me. Oh no! I did not break that Pokeball only to...

ZAAAAAAAAP!!!

NOOOOAAAAAAAAARG!!! THAT... FEELING... AGAIN!!! MY ENTIRE... BODY... BURNING!!! THE ANTI-PSYCHIC ENERGY... AAAAAARG!!!

I... I collapsed on my knees... and turned to my father...

"PLEASE!!! HELP... ME!!!" I couldn't keep the tears in... it... IT HURTS!!! AAAAAAARG!!!

"PLEASE!!!" MOVE! DO ANYTHING! PLEASE!!! I BEG OF YOU!!! ANYTHING... TO STOP THE PAIN!!!

MY NERVES... MY... MEEEEEEAAAAAARG!!!

"F... FATHER!!!" I... I screamed at the top of my lungs, feeling my strength leave me...

Ugh...

BAM!

They... they stopped... I... I feel... so weak... I've been completely fried... I... I'm... lying on the floor... so weak...

I... I slowly slipped away... I felt... the sleep... claiming... my... cons... cious... ness...

zzzz...

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In my sleep... I had a vision... a vision...

Mewtwo... father... he is staring at my frame as I lied there, unconscious... and his eyes... burn with anger... but it is not the empty, soulless anger he had back at the arena...

His eyes... burn with a much, MUCH stronger hatred... a righteous hatred... a different fury... he no longer seems pathetic or weak...

He is tall... he is powerful... his purple eyes glow and the humans step backward as he strikes fear into their weak hearts. His hatred flows, forming a cloak of pure darkness around him...

I seen him... he can't find the words... but he tries to... his mind... his heart... he feels alive once more!... and he will not let a bunch of humans take his life away!

"N... n... na... ner... NACK! Nor... nerv... NEVER AGAIN!!!" his voice boomed through the entire room as his last words came out of his mouth, deafening like thunder!

The female human pointed at Mewtwo and yelled: "FIRE!!!"

Beams of purple energy were directed toward the humanoid cat figure... but for some strange reason, the anti-psychic energy was absorbed by his cloak. It was so strange... it seemed as if the Darkness around him was so powerful that it had took a physical form, consuming the anti-psychic beams before they could reach my father.

My father sticked his right hand out of his cloak... and then, his hand was surrounded by a blue aura and his eyes glowed. He spun his hand around and suddenly, the beams of anti-psychic energy were deformed... he grinned evilly as the beams slowly begun to twist around and take on strange shapes...

"STOP! STOP FIRING!!!" yelled the female human, panicked.

"We can't! The canons are acting on their own!" replied the voice of a panicked agent.

She turned to face the psychic kitty, frowning. She stood there while Mewtwo slowly caused the beams to unite and form a single large, snake-shaped beam... The beam, now a living snake of anti-psychic energy, floated before the kitty...

"Kill." a single word came under the form of a telepathic message everyone could hear... and the blood of all the humans froze, hearing the terrible order.

The snake disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared as the guns stopped firing... and then, they were slowly turned around until their canons faced their users...

BLAM!!!

All of the guns fired at once and a single beam of anti-psychic energy was shot from each... and each pierced through the chest of each of the humans wielding the guns, each time making a heart explode on the way out.

In an instant, dozens of souls were destroyed with such ease... it was unreal...

Only the female human and Julius remained there. Julius stopped screaming, his eyes widening in terror as he realised that his most powerful Pokemon had revolted... and that he was next on his Pokemon's list.

Mewtwo grinned evilly... but then, the female human stood in defiance before him and her master...

"G... g...glorg... gloa... ga... go... aw... al... orrr... go away." his mind still couldn't find the words... but his thoughts were getting clearer by the second... he was more and more aware... and he was aware enough to know that this human stood in HIS way.

"You wish!" replied the human, taking out a Pokeball. "You may be the Legendary Pokemon of Darkness... but I have the Legendary Pokemon of Time under my control!"

The human opened the Pokeball... "CELEBI! GO!"

Mewtwo saw red light... and then, the red light gathered and formed the curved, beautiful body of the green fairy and Legendary Pokemon, Celebi...

She hovered there, staring at him, grinning... "It ha..."

"SHUT UP SLAVE! HYPER BEAM!" the human screamed, interrupting Celebi in mid-speech.

"Shut up mortal." there was a green blur... and Celebi was suddenly behind her trainer...

"Celebi! I... I..." the human coughed blood, unable to finish her speech... and then collapsed, her neck opening wide open... and it became obvious that she was dead.

Julius stared at the green fairy, terrified... he stopped screaming, trembling... Although he was at least twice the fairy's size, he cowered before her, small as a Caterpie before the Legendary Pokemon... "Please... please... have mercy..." he begged...

Celebi slowly lowered herself to him and smiled sweetly, grabbing his head... "You have outlived your usefulness." she said it in such a calm, mocking tone...

CRACK!

Celebi spun Julius's head, performing a whole circle and instantly breaking his neck. The Pokemon trainer fell down, dead before he even reached the floor... and with this done, Celebi turned toward the psychic kitty, blushing.

"I have waited for suuuuch a long time, my love..." she begun... "I have dreamt of this day... the day when you would once again be free... free for me to grasp for myself!"

She slowly landed and winked. Mewtwo recoiled in horror... and begun to attempt to say something but couldn't, only incoherent sounds coming out of his throat as Celebi walked toward him, swinging her hips in such a feminine way as she did so, smiling as if nothing had happened...

"STAY BACK!" yelped the white and purple cat, panicking as the green fairy made it in close. Celebi tilted her head to the right and stood there...

"What's wrong? Didn't recovered from being brainwashed, don't you?" she was acting in such an innocent way... and yet, it was too obvious that her intentions were malevolent. She seemed... so completely terrifying. There was something about her... that awakened the survival instincts of all those who seen her... something inside her which reeked of death and destruction.

Celebi seemed to enjoy this situation... to enjoy the death, the suffering. "Isn't it wonderful, my love? A banquet of blood and souls for us... Admit it. We were always meant to be together... Darkness and Death walking hand in hand..."

She flied above the cat using her wings... and then slowly hovered to him and slowly placed her arms around his large frame, hugging him. "It is only natural that we end up together... so why do you resist?"

Mewtwo... shook his head... "M... Mew..." he whispered...

Celebi's smile widened and she tilted her head to the left... "You didn't heard the news, dear? The humans spoke about it all over the news!"

Celebi jumped off the kitty and in a flash of light, a small remote teleported in her hand... and in another flash of light, a huge square object appeared before the two... a television, I believe... or at least, I think it's what a television is supposed to be. Derlank was pretty vague about it...

Celebi pointed the remote at it... and on the screen of the television or whatever that was supposed to be, a still picture of Mew, sleeping in a lifeless sleep in the arena, was shown...

"Yesterday, the Champion's top Pokemon, Mew, was killed by a strange caped Pokemon. Theories begun circulating about what Pokemon the Champion could use to repla..." Celebi made the television and the remote disappear this instant...

Mewtwo remained there, his face distorting... "N... not true..." he whispered...

Celebi nodded. "No use in denying it. She's gone. You have waited for all those years... in vain."

Mewtwo's eyes suddenly widened and he fell on his knees, his confidence instantly disappearing as he felt a cold, sharp blade piercing painfully through his heart. "NOT TRUE!!!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.

The green fairy's face darkened as her innocent smile turned into a sadistic, psychopathic grin. "It is true... It is true..." she seemed to chant those words like an insane song of some sort...

She hopped around the psychic kitty, chanting the words over and over... "It is true... It is true... It is true... true true true!" she chanted over and over, hopping happily around him in a cruel ritual of sorts...

Mewtwo turned toward the ceiling and a deafening scream came out... a heart-wrenching lamentation came out of his throat... and it seemed as if he had died on the spot out of raw emotional pain...

...

I... I wonder... did Julius really die? Did... father really protect me? Did Celebi... really did such things?

I want to awaken and find out... I want to be awake... I want to come out of the darkness of my mind and see for myself!

I felt... I can feel it...

Someone is stroking my forehead... I can feel it... the gentle touch... human skin... it is human skin... Was I caught again?... or am I free? Is it the nurse of a Pokemon Center?... or another soul? Maybe Eliza?... maybe somebody else?

I want to know... I want to know...

Why can't I open my eyes? Usually, when my consciousness was awake, I could open my eyes...

"I can't... I can't believe it..." this voice... I recognise it... Eliza... but why are you so sad? Why?

"You shouldn't have made your Pokemon fight like this! Look at it! LOOK AT IT!" this accusing voice... the usual voice of a nurse Joy...

Why are all nurses in Pokemon Centers called Joy?... and why do they are all the same, with the same pink hair, same voice, same everything?... Truly, people wonder about the mysteries of the Pokemon... but what about the mysteries of humans, huh? Like the riddle of the Pokemon Centers' nurses all being the same person?... or about how the humans came to enslave all creatures when they have no powers in the first place?

Truly... this is a weird world we live in...

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!!! I... I just found him like that..." Eliza... was crying... and I felt her sympathy toward me... her mercy... her pain...

I do not feel anything... I do not see anything... what happened to me?

"Look at him. About ninety percents of his entire body has received third degree burns. Everything points out to the fact that he has been shocked with more than enough Dark-elemental energy to kill any normal Psychic Pokemon at least twenty times!" what? Ninety percents of my body... has burnt?

I remember the anti-psychic energy entering my body... I remember the humans pointing their weapons toward me and overloading me with anti-psychic energy...

Was my body... this badly damaged?

"But... he isn't suffering! he is not in pain! He'll recover!" protested Eliza... but protesting against what?

"It's normal that he can't suffer anymore! He has no nerves left! Nothing! He's living only because of the machines to which he's connected! Apart from his brain, his body has became just one big lump of ashes! He's paralysed, blind, and deaf for life!" her voice... echoed in my brain...

I am... blind... paralysed... deaf... and I can no longer sense anything? Only my brain remains intact... only my psychic powers and their machines keeps me bound to the mortal plane?

... this is a joke... a very bad joke... This cannot be... I refuse to believe it... I am not... destroyed. I've suffered before... I've suffered serious injuries... very serious ones... I cannot be in such a state... no... no... NOOOOOO!!!

"WHOA! Weren't you supposed to purify your Pokemon?!?" the nurse... I could feel her emotions...

"He was supposed to be purified! I don't understand why he still emits purple flames like that!" she protested.

"Please... no more... of this Purification... please..." I begged them using my telepathy, knowing very well that they would not hear it...

But then... I sensed something... surprise and confusion...

"Did you heard it too?" asked Eliza...

"Who are you? Where are you? Who said that? Show yourself!" the nurse... she's reacting as if... as if...

... AS IF THEY HAD HEARD ME!

"HEY!!! I'M HERE! The Pokemon in front of you!" I didn't knew if I was truly in front of them but... well, I had to try!

"Half-Mew? That echoing voice... could it be you?" Eliza... her confusion disappeared as her surprise grew even further.

"Don't be ridiculous! Psychic Pokemon can't communicate with people!" oh no! You are wrong, nurse Joy! So very wrong!

Mew DID give me the ability to speak to people!... and I will use it now that it is FINALLY working!

"Eliza, it's me. Can't you hear me? I am here. Can't you hear my voice? I am... here. I am so happy... happy that you finally understand me." I continued, hopping for her to admit that I could speak...

"Joy! That's extraordinary! He's speaking! Yes, Half-Mew! I can hear you! I can hear you!" Eliza... was so overjoyed. Her joy... touched my heart. I attempted to smile... but I could not feel my face... I didn't felt anything...

"No! Pokemon can't speak!... and anyway, this Pokemon is pretty much dead. We should put an end to it's suffering right now. Eliza, I need your permission to finish off Half-Mew." WHAT?!? I did not make it this far to die here and now!

I don't care if my body is pretty much gone! It will be repaired! There must be a way!... I know it! Someone can repair it!

"Eliza! Don't do this! My body... it can be repaired!" I begged her...

My life... is in her hands... and this frustrates me so much... but I know it is a fact...

"Half-Mew... your body... it's so horrible... It would take a miracle to repair it... it would take the intervention of a Legendary Pokemon..." a Legendary Pokemon...

... but I know of a Legendary Pokemon! I remember the scene...

FLASH!

Mewtwo stared at Mew's barely living body... and I remembered his thoughts as if they were my own...

"There is only one way to save her...

The ultimate healing move... a powerful Shadow move that is so powerful and risky that even Shadow Lugia dares not use it... even I, the father of all Shadow Pokemon, knows that the move could kill me if I used it..."

FLASH!

Mewtwo... saved his love from death... he... a Legendary Pokemon...

"Eliza... did you found a gold and silver Pokeball containing a strange Pokemon at the place where you found me?" I asked her, hoping that she had taken Mewtwo with her...

"Yes, I found Mewtwo. I wonder what he was doing there in his Pokeball, all alone, in the middle of nowhere... and what does it have to do with you? He's a Shadow Pokemon, he can't save you." father can save me... I am sure of it.

"Eliza... release Mewtwo." I asked her...

I awaited... and then, I felt a presence... and then... I felt sorrow... and the emotion gripped my heart.

Father... you are here... I can sense your presence...

"Fa... father... I am here..." I called to him... I hoped for him to hear me...

"Wh... what... what ha... What happened to... you?" his thoughts... were still getting clearer by the second... but he also sounded so... weak. This filled me with a nameless fear... why did he felt so weak suddenly?

"Father... I need your help... please..." I felt a change in his heart...

"Why did you release this Pokemon? It's useless. We should just get rid of Half-Mew already." nurse Joy was growing impatient...

"NO! Not... NOT MY SON TOO!!!" a deafening roar of protest... and I suddenly felt cold and empty...

"OH DEAR... SEPARATE THOSE TWO POKEMON!!!" Joy... I can hear you... I can hear you... for real... my ears... they work once more...

CRRRRRC... CRACK!!!

Eliza screamed in terror... I hear a lot of screams lately... my poor ears... my poor, poor ears... I wish for people to be quiet... to be quiet once again...

I felt... wet... I felt something dripping on my chest... and I opened my eyes. I seen two purple eyes... two purple eyes filled with love and care... and for the first time in such a long time... I seen the loving father I had seen in my vision with my own two eyes...

"Li... live..." his voice... was weak...

His chest had opened wide and I could see his inner organs, all burnt as he absorbed all of my wounds and forced them into his own body... I seen him in such a pitiful state and yet... he stood tall, strong...

He slowly took his hand off my chest... and I stood up, finally seeing the room of the Pokemon Center. The entire room was flooded with light... so much light... so white... blinding white... but I preferred this to the darkness of blindness.

It is so ironic... from a black blindness to a white one... my injuries caused by Darkness, removed by Darkness... and altought I do admit that what the humans call the Dark element is not truly Darkness... I admit that the Dark and Shadow powers are quite close...

I slowly stood up and I stared at the nurse. Her brown eyes stared at me in total confusion... "This is... impossible... No Pokemon can... recover from such injuries..."

"Well... believe it!" I recoiled in shock... those words... they came out in human language... OUT OF MY MOUTH! I had spoken the human language!... but... but how?

How could I do this?... I smiled... finally... FINALLY! NO MORE LANGUAGE BARRIER! I... I have awaited this moment for such a long time... Finally! I can imagine it! The humans... they will no longer boss me around because that they think that I can't think! People will no longer assume stuff on me! I will be able to tell to people what I want and thus, get it!

"I... I... This is... incredible... a talking Pokemon..." nurse Joy was so surprised... but Eliza smiled.

She had begun to believe it before my words came out under the form of auditive waves... The second she heard my telepathy, she begun to believe...

"You hear this? You hear this? I hope you're hearing me as well, Me..." I turned and... stopped right in my tracks.

Father... is lying there, in front of the bed, his eyes closed... he is not moving... He must have collapsed from exhaustion when he saved me...

I kneeled down and grabbed his hand... it's cold... it feels like touching cement or something... it felt like...

brrr...

I had a shiver run down my spine... it felt like when I had touched Derlank's body when he died... it was cold... so cold... and this made me worried.

"Mewtwo? Wake up..." I asked him... already, a doubt begun to grasp my heart...

... and if the injuries had been too much for him to handle? If, unlike that time when he saved Mew, he had been unable to save me without throwing his life away?

... no... he cannot die so easily. This vision... this vision where he showed off such amazing powers... he is a Legendary Pokemon! Legendary Pokemon can't die so easily... can they?

I remember mother... how a simple strike to the heart was all that it took to kill her... how easily she fell...

"WAKE UP!" I begun to panic... I... NO! Not father too... after mother... not father! Not the only family I have left! Please... please wake up! Please Ho-oh... don't do this to me!

He shivered... and his purple eyes opened and stared deep into mine... and I felt relieved... so very relieved...

"M... m... my son..." he whispered... he was so weak... he was crying from an apparent physical pain... but he was alive and it was all that mattered.

"HOLY MILTANK! It's still alive!" Nurse Joy's eyes widened and she took out some kind of strange machine and activated it... "QUICKLY! We have an emergency here! I repeat! WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY!"

I heard footsteps and turned to face Eliza...

"Eliza... you deserve explanations..." I begun.

She stood there... and then, I felt her hand on my shoulder... "Half-Mew... not now... my father is coming. Nurse Joy told me..."

The Champion... You do not have a Legendary Pokemon with you... you do not have a powerful slave with you anymore. Next time we meet... you are going down! I swear it! I won't kill you because you are Eliza's father... but this won't keep me from taking revenge for all those you tortured! Justice will claim you, monstrous enslaver!

As for Eliza... she is right. If her father is coming... then I cannot explain everything here... but now that my words can finally breach the barrier of human language... it is only a matter of time. Finally, I will explain everything to her... my motives... who I am... where I come from and where I want to go... and what I expect from her. I also want to know more about her... Truly, there is much to be said... and yet, so little time.

I turned to face Eliza one last time... "Show me the way. We must hide from your father and let nurse Joy work... I guess."

Eliza nodded and walked toward the exit. As I followed her, I turned one last time toward my father... I seen the Chanseys gather around him... and as he stared into my eyes, I felt happiness filling my heart.

You are free, father... I will not let you any other human get ahold of you ever again. I will find a way to unbind you to the GS Ball and then get rid of it so that you may never be caught ever again. I will not allow anyone to make you suffer again...

...

It is strange when I think about it... I didn't need to use my powers to free father... actually, he was the one that did everything. My presence... was all that it took for him to break free...

But... when I think about it... what happened to Celebi?... and why did I found myself able to speak, all of a sudden?

I had a strange feeling... a feeling... as if I was being watched... I shrugged and forgot about it. Must have been a nightmare...

Everything will go fine starting now. Father will recover from whatever Julius did to him, Eliza will understand, I will control my powers, Cherlie will return from the river, and the Poison will be destroyed.

Yes... everything will be fine...

=TO BE CONTINUED