Note: This Pokemon FanFic is set in an AU hence the world is different and not the same as in the games and the anime. Please no flames only constructive criticism please. I hope you all enjoy.
Pokemon: End of Days
Prologue
His reach was seemingly infinite. It was as if nothing could escape his sight, as if everything was well within reach. His mind could find anything and no one could ever hide from his piercing gaze. It was as if the whole world was his and there could never be any secrets from him.
But even as he reached his gaze out once more he felt a real twinge of annoyance. Everything was meant to be his, unable to be hidden from him. But even as he told himself this he knew it was not true. There were those that were hidden from him, ones who avoided his gaze and no matter how hard he looks nor what he did, he could never change that.
As he thought more of this he began to feel a rage build up inside of him. It was a rage he was very familiar with every time his thoughts fell onto this simple fact. It was not meant to be this way. The world was meant to be his! There was meant to be nothing that could avoid his gaze. He remembered there escape, their defiance and refusal to follow him and accept his rule. The battles that followed and his complete and utter rage that followed with his imprisonment.
He shook with the thought and a tremor shook out from his prison, causing a distinct ripple through the surrounding area. At this he paused, allowing his thoughts to calm and a pleasant feeling crossed over him. His prison was weakening. While he could not leave yet his time was coming soon. At one point he could not even sense what was outside, but now his thoughts were able to be extended and feel all the life forms around him.
His time was coming very close indeed. Soon his desire for revenge would be complete and those who caused him so much suffering and pain would finally get what was coming for them. And with that thought a resounding laugh echoed out from his mind. And all those who felt it, shook with an unnatural fear.
Chapter 1: Beginning
Daniel let out a loud grunt when he hit the floor. Even after hitting the floor he refused to move or open his eyes for several minutes, instead settling onto the floor as if it was his bed. Indeed with the bad sleep he had had that night, the prospect of just lying there and going to sleep on the floor seemed like a really good idea. Unfortunately his alarm went off right at that point indicating it was 6am and time to get up for Tafe. Groaning Daniel conceded and pulled himself up.
Daniel was certainly feeling tired and when he finally walked onto the train he seriously considered having a snooze while heading to North Wollongong. However Daniel knew his phone alarm was never enough to wake him up and knew if he slept he would miss his stop. So he had no choice but to settle into a seat and rely on reading his novel to keep him awake.
As the train trundled along after an hour Daniel found his mind wandering to that morning when he had fallen out of bed. It was not uncommon for Daniel to roll out of bed one way or another. Usually during a bad dream, or sometimes a rather vigorous one. However this morning had been very different. It had been from a dream but he was not entirely convinced it had been so.
Daniel had felt what he could only describe as a ripple. It had happened so suddenly and unexpectedly. Daniel had been having a rather uneasy dream before that, with a feeling of great unease coming over him. And then he had heard the laugh. A great booming one that had chilled him to the core and made him terribly scared and fearful. That is what had made him jump and fall out of his bed.
Daniel knew exactly why he had such fear. He could only think of one who had such a laugh. One that could chill him as it did. But it was impossible he thought. There was no way he could reach out, he was trapped with no way to reach outside. But the possibility was still there. Daniel had to think back and wonder. Was the prison really permanent?
He had never considered the possibility as to how long the prison would last. At the time it had seen like a permanent solution and in recent years he had seriously come to think he would never have to worry about it again. However he had been seriously shaken now. He wasn't sure what to think at the moment. Could it be he was soon going to be free? Should he check the prison and see? Or would that simply reveal himself and cause more problems?
Daniel then noticed a girl glaring at him as if he was doing something wrong. He realized lost in his thoughts he had been staring at this girl for several minutes, something she obviously didn't agree to. Quickly clearing his throat Daniel looked down at his book but didn't really read. As worried as he was there really a point getting really worked up?
For all he knew this was just a crazy dream, most likely emerging from bad memories. Daniel re-assured himself this a few more times until he felt much better. Shaking his head to clear the final thoughts Daniel resumed reading his novel.
"Hey Daniel, can I copy your notes?" Daniel looked up as Brad smiled at him in a sheepish way. Daniel gave a little laugh. "Sure."
He handed over the notes and Brad happily headed back to his desk to copy the notes. Daniel looked round the class at the rest of the class as they did various things.
Emma was talking with Fiona about something or other. Robert was making some sort of dirty joke and Tom was listening intently and laughing. Ben seemed to be working hard and Hayley was supposedly scrolling through something on Deviantart. Adam was mindlessly surfing some sort of website. Brad was copying Daniel's notes feverishly and Mikaylah was looking over his shoulder clearly intent on doing the same thing.
Daniel couldn't complain, he had copied the notes from Emma himself. The class wasn't doing a huge amount of work obviously. Everyone was meant to be working on an assignment but no one seemed intent. It was due in 3 weeks so it wasn't all that important right now. Daniel turned back to his computer quite intent on just looking through his favourite gaming site again when he heard something very interesting.
"That was some serious evil laugh," Robert said rather enthusiastically, "I woke up with such a start I. Seriously it's been ages since I've had a dream like that."
Tom looked over a great look of surprise on his face. "Seriously? I had the same dream. I almost fell out of bed."
They both looked as each other with somewhat shocked looks when suddenly Emma sidled over. "I seriously had the same dream, no joke." Almost straight after that came over Ben claiming the same thing.
"This can't be happening." Daniel said to himself. Every single person (excluding Fiona) had the same dream. The very one Daniel had that morning. He had managed to shake off the bad feelings earlier however now his bad feelings towards the dream had come straight back. How could they all have had the same dream? It couldn't possibly be a coincidence. Something was clearly wrong.
"You alright Daniel?" Daniel snapped out of his thoughts and found Emma staring at him. "What?"
Emma gave a laugh and said "You were completely out of it, all glazed over. What were you thinking about?"
Shaking his head Daniel forced a smile. "Oh nothing just lost in some random thoughts. I'm back now."
Daniel quickly turned back to his computer and pretended to start working again until Emma looked away. As much as Daniel wanted to think about this, Tafe was not the place to do it. Daniel decided he would have to wait until after Tafe and work. Then he could possibly figure out if something was going on.
"No Dad, really I am full." Daniel said as he entered his room and quickly shut the door. He took a deep sigh and listened intently. Once he was sure his parents had moved back into the lounge room and were not going to interrupt him at any point. Once he was sure Daniel moved into the centre of his bedroom and set himself down cross-legged.
"Let's get started then."
Daniel closed his eyes and concentrated. Nothing seemed to happen and Daniel just sat there with his eyes closed and seemed to be concentrating, at least to the outside eye. Daniel's mind was reaching out from his body, twisting and searching far from himself. He was trying to contact Isaac desperate for some sort of council. Surely the two of them could work out exactly what was happening.
After only a few minutes, but as Daniel's mind searched it seemed like much longer, he started to become extremely worried. Where are you? Daniel cried out with his mind. Isaac would have responded by now, he has never waited this long to talk back. Please respond! Have you felt the vibrations? Could it be his prison is weakening?
There was no response whatsoever. Daniel lost track of how long he searched with his mind, how desperate he was to get an answer. However he never had a single response from Isaac, no matter how long he searched and reached out with his mind. When Daniel finally brought himself back to his body a shiver ran down his spine.
He was still incredibly worried about the voice, but now that had multiplied ten-fold. Something was definitely wrong especially if Isaac wasn't responded. Could it be possible he had been attacked? How had they even found him? Frustrated immensely Daniel punched his desk and accidently took a chunk out of it. Swearing he tried to put it back in when there was a knock on his door.
"Yes don't worry!" He yelled quickly, "Just…fell off my chair!"
The worried voice of his Dad came through the door. "Are you sure?" "Yes, I'm fine. I just leaned back too far." Daniel breathed a sigh of relief when he heard his Dad's footsteps go back down the hallway.
He held up the chunk of the desk in his hand. It had been a long time since Daniel had done something like this. He was usually so good at concealing his strength or abilities that it was almost second nature. He threw the piece down and gave an exasperated sigh. He wasn't sure how he would be able to hide taking a chunk out of the desk. He would need to come up with a pretty convincing story.
"I can't believe in one day, after becoming so damn comfortable with everything, my whole world has been almost entirely shattered." Daniel threw himself onto his bed.
He kept trying to convince himself it was just a dream, but the fact everyone at Tafe had the exact same dream, and the fact he could not contact Isaac no matter how hard he tried he couldn't deny the obvious truth. All the facts pointed to the obvious. The cage had to be weakening. This means he could have some very difficult times ahead.
Daniel found this worry was very tiring, and without realizing it he gradually found himself dozing off. One of his last thoughts was hoping he would not hear any kind of laugh that night.
"Daniel you're not laughing at my jokes. DANIEL!" Kosta gave Daniel a slap on his arm and he jumped at the contact. "Sorry, what?"
"God Daniel," Kosta said flailing his body in a very extravagant way and looking very hurt, "Here I go to the effort of making an amazing joke and you weren't even listening. A perfectly good joke ruined!"
Daniel let Kosta rant on for a little while longer before Emily cut in. "Kosta shut up." This however only caused Kosta to divert his very random rant onto Emily.
This gave Daniel the chance to immerse himself entirely into his own world again. The laugh had echoed out once again and he was now more shaken than ever. He had intended to stay home and try to desperately work out what was happening, however when he had received the invite to go and hang out with Kosta, Emily and Pat he decided he had to take the invite. There was something he needed to check that would help confirm his suspicions one hundred percent.
When Daniel finally brought himself back to the conversation Pat was in the middle of his own story about some amazing thing he did in a game. Daniel patiently waited until he finished and then quickly cut in saying, "Hey, I had a really odd dream last night."
"Did it involve me naked?" Kosta said quick as a flash. Daniel responded by slapping Kosta across the face, which resulted him in dramatically falling to the ground and making several strange noises. Pat proceeded to throw a pillow at him.
"Anyways," Emily said laughing at the still convulsing Kosta, "What was the dream?"
"Well it was really strange to be absolutely honest. I felt like I was flying through space as if I was completely free. Then out of nowhere I heard this laugh. It was really creepy and deep and just freaked me out. Never had a dream like that before."
Daniel took a second to look down preparing himself, and then looked around at everyone. Instantly he felt his heart sink horribly. The looks on all their faces told him exactly what he wished he wouldn't find out. They all must have had the exact same dream. Sure enough they soon all launched into a fierce discussion about how they could all have possibly had the exact same dream.
Daniel just let himself become lost in his own thoughts; his friends too busy discussing this new discovery. Daniel had decided what he had to do. The only problem now was when he was going to do it. How was he ever going to get the time? People would surely notice his sudden disappearance and he wouldn't dare find a way to make it so he wouldn't be noticed.
This was going to take some very tricky planning indeed. As Daniel watched his friends animatedly discuss what could have caused the dream he heaved a sigh. If only they knew. If only…
Daniel looked at the street lights as he walked past, appreciate the time completely alone and letting his thoughts roam completely. His parents certainly didn't know he went out at this time and wandered around. Daniel felt wandering around after midnight, completely alone without any chance of running into anyone was the best chance to finish his thoughts.
But even being completely alone didn't slow down his thoughts, his mind felt like it was a giant swirling whirlpool and he couldn't arrange them at all. He couldn't believe after only 2 days it felt like his entire world was falling apart. He had honestly begun to feel as if everything was all right, as if nothing was going to go wrong. He allowed himself to honestly believe he could finally have peace of mind. Now it seemed everything could fall apart.
"Where are you Isaac?" Daniel muttered to himself without really thinking. It didn't seem right at all dealing with this without Isaac there to guide him. Daniel felt horribly alone and had no clue how he could possibly check and see if all this worry was really necessary. And he couldn't shake the feeling he was being followed.
Daniel turned quickly to see the man stop a few feet away from him. He had his face covered by a low sitting hat and had a long coat. He certainly had the typical shady look. Daniel wondered if he was just a common criminal, perhaps a mugger trying to get some sort of revenge. If that was the case Daniel wasn't worried at all, a common mugger he could easily handle without concern.
However Daniel couldn't help but shake the feeling that this was more than a mugger. For one muggers never really wandered Penshurst, it was generally an extremely safe area. Daniel supposed there could be one randomly. However he was sensing something he hadn't sensed in quite a while. And it was this that was making him tense every muscle in his body, prepared to take action if it was required.
After a minute where nothing happened, Daniel felt his annoyance build up slightly. "Who are you and what do you want?" Still no response came from the mysterious man. Daniel took a tentative step back, seeing if maybe he could just walk away.
The man was suddenly shrouded in a field of electricity. Suddenly a thunderbolt shot out from the man towards Daniel with sudden speed. Daniel took a step to the side and only just managed to dodge the attack. The thunderbolt hit the ground behind him and blew a chunk of the pavement out. Daniel looked at the man now with renewed strength, knowing his suspicions had been confirmed.
"So, which Pokemon are you?"
The man suddenly surged outwards as if he was expanding. Then the clothes exploded as the man's skin changed and he transformed. Soon Daniel smirked as an Electivire stood before him growling rather fiercely. Daniel was about to comment when he realized something was wrong. Electivire were normally yellow and black with some red at the end of their antennas. However this Electivire was more of a red shade where it was supposed to be yellow. And the tips of its antenna were blue.
But that doesn't make sense, thought Daniel. That is the wrong colour. The only time I know of a Pokemon not being the proper colour was… As the realization hit him hard Daniel had to dive to the side as Electivire shot past with a Wild Charge, Daniel only just managing to move out of the way.
"I can't believe this!" Daniel yelled frustrated. Without thinking Daniel turned and opened his mouth just as the Electivire turned to see him again. Dragon Breath shot out of Daniel's mouth heading straight to Electivire with frightening speed. Electivire moved however the breath scraped his left arm and it growled in frustration.
"You shouldn't look like that!" Daniel yelled backing up and preparing himself for another attack. "This just confirms everything I have been feeling over the past 2 days."
With a roar Electivire unleashed Thunder, the attack tearing up the sidewalk as it approached Daniel quickly. Daniel placed his hands in front and placed Protect. As Thunder hit it sparked violently and there was a large explosion. Quick as a flash Daniel sped through the smoke surprising the Electivire too slow to react.
Daniel's hand has claws grow out each of his fingers and glow brightly. Daniel swung and the Dragon Claw connected with massive force. The Electivire's chest burst open spraying blood over Daniel's arm and all over the sidewalk. As Daniel landed and settled himself down Electivire fell to the ground with a thud and gave one last groan.
As Daniel looked the Electivire's colour returned to its natural state and Daniel heaved a sigh. "I didn't want to kill you. But it's the only way I know to break the control over you, at least by myself."
Daniel looked around and was relieved to see no lights on any of the houses had turned on, though he couldn't imagine how no one had heard that thought. Looking back to the Electivire Daniel decided he would need to dispose of the body. People didn't know of Pokemon and wouldn't exactly react well to seeing a body of a Pokemon lying dead in the street.
As Daniel effortlessly lifted Electivire onto his shoulder and began to walk away a thousand thoughts began to swirl throughout his mind. This Electivire had without a doubt proved everything he had suspected after these last 2 days. Now things were going to become very interesting. If this Electivire had found him, it could find him again, and it could find the others.
"Tomorrow will certainly be a very interesting day."
Thanks for reading guys hoped you enjoyed. Only constructive criticism please, hope you look forward to the next chapter.