Hi! This is another drabble from a drabble thread :). Not much changed here, because not much needed to. Prompt was the quote below, which is from the Fire Emblem games.
Disclaimer: If I owned Pokemon, then I would own all the legends! Muwahahaha...oh wait...
Spirit Cage
"Can't... control..." -Owain
At some point, I thought I was the ultimate Pokemon Master. Not only had I defeated the great Creation trio of Sinnoh, but a lesser legend had offered itself to me for capture. Mesprit, the emotion Pokemon, who had always favored me from the start. It battled me, of course, and I had to chase it around for a while, but I could tell that it was only playing, a half-hearted test of my own superior skills. It wouldn't have shown up at all if it didn't want me to catch it.
And so I did catch it, and it loved me. It was always popping out of its Pokeball, wanting to play. It made me so happy, having such a legend worshipping me and fighting for me. It felt better than the time I defeated the greater legends, better than when I first got my starter. And suddenly, I felt the need to get Mesprit's siblings too. The urge became so strong that I couldn't sleep, and I found myself being guided by Mesprit to their lairs.
Azelf and Uxie were eager for me too. They didn't even run. After brief battles, their captures were easy. Now I had all three of them under my command, all of them excited to serve me.
At least, that was what I thought.
It took me a while to notice the changes. How I had odd blanks in my memory, or memories of things that didn't happen at all. How my emotions swung wildly and intensely for little to no reason. How my very will betrayed me, and I found myself doing things I didn't want to do. And how the trio was always around me, always laughing, always sneering...
The only reason I can speak of this now is because they want me too. Or maybe they're just gloating. Or maybe they have some other purpose, one I cannot understand. I don't know where I am. I don't know who I am, beyond these scraps of memory. I don't even remember my own name. I can barely think. And yet I just want to laugh...Help, I can't...
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I've always been kind of creeped out by the psychic monkey, I mean sprite, trio. Especially with such definite power over various parts of the human spirit. I've always figured that anyone who owned any of them, much less all three, would eventually be screwed over by their powers. What do you think?