Hi! I recently saw the ending to PSMD, after enjoying the full game to it fullest...am I the only one to have cried my heart out and spent the next eight hours singing sad songs and drawing pictures? I probably am... Anyhoo...nope, I don't own Pokémon, and that's probably a good thing. I'd never make any good choices for business...(Just know, each character in this story has adopted a name other than their species name. Plus, I have added bits of dialogue and taken away some of it as well. Enjoy.)

Hikari's Perspective

I let out a long yawn as I sat up and for a few seconds, I was confused about my surroundings, before I realized I was in my home back in Serene Village. I had passed out after spending till long after moonhigh telling the story of Dark Matter and my accomplishments alongside...

Minaa. The young riolu was sleeping in her bed next to mine. As I looked at her, she yawned and pawed cutely at something in her dream. I giggled. Even in her sleep, Minaa was fun to be around.

Next to my bed was the teardrop-shaped amethyst on a silver chain. It was a necklace, and I wore it under my scarf. Just like every morning, I reached over, lifted my scarf up, and clipped the necklace on.

I stretched and walked into the next room to greet my old pops. He was murmuring distractedly while stirring something in his pot. It smelled of various fruits.

"Morning, Pops!" I said happily. The elderly carracosta turned and smiled at me. "Good morning, Hikari," he said. "Did you sleep well last night?"

I nodded. "Uh, yeah. Funny how talking gets me tired like that."

He chuckled and turned back to his cooking. "Do you have any plans today?"

I clapped my hands together excitedly. "Yes! Play with Minaa and all my classmates A-A-A-ALL DAY!"

He nodded, smiling. "Don't cause any trouble today. Be a good little pikachu."

"Yes, Pops. See you later!"

I stepped outside to enjoy the morning air. From afar, I got a view of some villagers exchanging greetings in the plaza. I stretched for a moment. "What a beautiful morning!" I murmured to myself. "Minaa's still out like a log, so I guess I'll go for a little walk on my own."

Looking up, I noticed a strange ball of blue light floating in the sky. Hey, what's that? I thought. It looks like it might land over the hill with the big tree!

"Pops!" I called. "Hey, Pops, take a look at this!"

My eyes fluttered open sleepily to the warm home Hikari had grown up in. To my surprise, her nest was empty. The necklace she set beside her bed every night wasn't there, either.

Hm? I thought. Odd. Hikari usually sleeps later than me. I got to my feet and brushed off a few stray strands of hay, before heading into the next room. Richard the carracosta was cooking something smelling of Leppa and Sitrus berries.

"Good morning, Minaa," Richard said, not taking his attention away from his cooking. "Did you sleep well last night?"

I nodded. "Yes, sir. Hey, do you have any idea where Hikari is?"

"Hikari?" Richard said. "Yes. Last I heard, she was planning to pop over by the hill with the big tree."

The hill with the big tree? I thought. Gosh, that brings back some memories. Maybe I'll wander up there myself. "Thank you, sir." I bowed a little before taking off out the door.

Over the bridge and down the path led me to see a familiar goomy and deerling.

"Oh, hi, Minaa!" Alexia chirped. "You're up late. How are you?"

"Oh, just great! I just saved the world!" I replied with a laugh. Freddy and Alexia laughed as well.

Alexia nodded toward the patch on my eye and bandage over my elbow. "Gee, those look nasty. What happened?"

I shrugged. "Well, dodging some spikes - long story - ripped the elbow cap out of me." Freddy cringed. Alexia nodded sadly. I touched my eyepatch. "I hit my eye before that. Hit with a fragment of Dark Matter when Hikari cracked it."

Freddy shuddered. "Ouch. Will you get either of them back?"

I sighed and shook my head. "Probably not. Oh well, at least I have proof I fought."

"Ehm...point taken? Anyway, are you looking for Hikari?" Freddy inquired. "We saw her heading towards the tree-hill-place."

I nodded. "Yeah, I was planning to meet her up there. Nice talk. See ya!" Alexia and Freddy waved the best they could as I dashed off toward the old hill.

Sure enough, when I arrived, Hikari sat on the top of the hill. Her aura said she was lost in thought, distressed and confused all at once. That was what I could sense- she was on my blind side.

"Hikari?" I said. "Show yourself. You're on my blind side."

Hikari snapped out of her thoughts. "Minaa? Oh, Minaa. Come over here...It feels nice under the clouds."

I turned so I could see Hikari and settled down next to her. It's true, I thought. Such a nice morning.

Hikari sighed wistfully. "Now that I think about it," she said to me. "we were sitting here under the clouds just like this...You remember? Back when we first met. You and I came up to this hill...And I told you about my dream."

"I remember," I replied, nodding.

"This is where I gave you that scarf, too," Hikari continued, her honey colored eyes sparkling. "This is where Carter let us become Junior Expedition Society members...and where we decided to leave the village and set out together." She reached over and grabbed my paw gently. "We've shared so many memories up here..."

It's true, I thought. I remember so many times...It's no wonder, though. This is a really nice spot. The wind feels great up here.

I really...I really want to stay in this world!

That's it.

"Hikari..."

She looked at me quizzically as I launched into what was coming. Her mouth fell open. "Minaa!" she cried.

"The role I have to play in this world has gotta come to and end, sooner or later!" I said. "Before long, it's gonna be time for me to go back to the human world. But," I added as Hikari's eyes widened. "I don't wanna go...I want to stay right here. In this world. So, we've gotta find a way to keep me here!"

I pulled on Hikari's hand, getting her to stand up. She cast me a confused look.

"More than anything else," I said quietly, tugging Hikari closer. "I want to stay here with you, Hikari. I don't ever want to say goodbye."

Hikari folded her lips over her teeth and looked away.

"...thank you..." she choked out. "Thank you...Minaa..."

I cocked an eyebrow. "Hikari...?"

"Minaa..." she said. "Do you know why I came here?" I shook my head. "Well," Hikari continued as if I hadn't done anything. "I saw a light falling here, onto this hill. That light...was actually Xerneas."

I blinked in surprise. Xerneas?! Hikari nodded like she could sense what I was thinking. "Xerneas," the pikachu repeated. "When she found me here...Xerneas said...that she was here to wake me."

Xerneas came...to wake Hikari...? I thought in confusion. The term sounded foreign to my ears. I hoped the look in my eyes - well, eye - was more curious than startled.

"She said she'd promised me." Hikari said, looking straight at me, then her eyes filled with wonder. "Why would Xerneas promise me something like that? And when, even?" she questioned aloud. I shrugged, absolutely clueless.

Hikari took my other paw in her hand and looked at me. I couldn't read the expression on her face.

"But when I touched Xerneas's horns," Hikari said, her voice almost a whisper. "I understood. I remembered. Minaa..." She leaned in to whisper in my ear. "The truth is...I'm Mew."

I pulled away from her sharply. "M-Mew?!" I cried, my voice sounding strangled with shock. "THAT Mew?! The one who-?!" I would never doubt anything Hikari said, no matter how absurd. Or, that's what I thought. This was insane!

Hikari nodded slowly. "Yeah. Back when Crystal - you know, Carter's celebi friend - told me she thought this would be my battle to fight, I knew somehow, she was right. It was like something just clicked. Although I had no idea what it meant then, once I touched Xerneas, I finally got it!"

She let go of my paws and took a step back. "In my previous life, I was Mew." She cracked a small smile.

"In..a...previous life." I stuttered in disbelief. "What?!"

"Minaa, we met a long time ago," Hikari murmured with a sigh. "Way longer than you can imagine. And when we fought, way back in the past, we defeated Dark Matter thanks to the stars aligning just right." Her smile fell. "Or, that's what we thought. But that wasn't really true."

My mouth was moving, but no words came out. I wanted to ask what the heck she was going on about, and that she could drop the prank. But I felt deep inside me that I knew she was right. With me still speechless, Hikari continued.

"Minaa, you and Mew defeated Dark Matter using all your strength, but it's no good to just defeat Dark Matter. All the hatred inside Dark Matter rained down upon the world...So that Dark Matter would be reborn in the distant future. And it was. It's just like Dark Matter said in this battle."

She was backing away form me again. I blinked rapidly, still lost as could be.

"In other words, when we last defeated Dark Matter, we actually failed! Mew messed up...I, messed up. So I was prepared to take responsibility. I sent my spirit into the future. To be born as Hikari."

I blinked and shook my head. "Hikari..You.."

Hikari gave me a look before holding a finger to my mouth for silence. "Minaa, it wasn't the Beeheeyem who erased all your memories. It was me. I..or, Mew...erased your memories. It was what you agreed to before coming to this world."

"I agreed to having my memories erased?!" I blurted. Hikari nodded with a small laugh.

"Yeah. We'd made all those plans, like sealing the Luminous Water and all that, but I realized that if we went off of what we already knew, we'd end up making the same mistakes. We couldn't win like that."

I noticed she was glancing at me like she expected a response. I blinked apologetically. Truthfully, I had nothing.

Her hands slipped from my grasp. Hikari looked down sadly and hugged herself loosely. "Dark Matter was born..." she whispered. "from the negative emotions lurking within ancient Pokemon. Some of those emotions originated from Mew as well. But, when I accepted Dark Matter, it disappeared, along with the part of it that came from Mew."

A squeak of alarm escaped my mouth when Hikari's outline almost seemed to warp. Hikari shook her head and held her hands up when I tried to step closer.

"It was my battle," Hikari's voice was breaking in sadness. " I was fighting to forgive Mew...to forgive myself. But when I accepted Dark Matter, I set in motion my own death, as part of it."

Death?! I thought feverishly as Hikari looked at me. Her honey gaze held love and sorrow in it. I had no idea why, but it broke my heart. "It's not you who has to go, Minaa..." she murmured. "...it's me."

There it went. As Hikari backed away steadily, my heart shattered like a crystal vase. All my confusion was gone, leaving nothing but agonizing unwillingness at what was coming next.

A faint ball of golden light swirled around Hikari. I thought I could see tears springing at her eyes. "It's a strange feeling," I heard her say as I approached hastily. "I'm Mew. But at the same time, I'm not. I'm Hikari too, you know."

Another voice was echoing Hikari's. It was feminine, high-pitched, and warbled.

Is this the voice of Mew? I wondered. But I didn't dwell on it; Hikari was speaking again.

"I asked Xerneas for a final favor," she said. "When I remembered everything, I knew I would disappear. But..I had to at least tell you, Minaa. I had to explain. So I begged Xerneas to not make me disappear before I at least got to do that. So I'm glad she kept up her end of the bargain."

She stepped closer and held one of my paws. "The part of me that is Mew is filled with joy at finally done what I was meant to do. But the part of me that is Hikari hates that I have to give up on my dreams right when I was getting started, and..."

Stop drawing it out! I thought angrily, screwing my eyes shut to let the tears fall, ignoring the fact my blind eye stung at this action. Hikari never draws anything out. Get to the point!

"hates that I have to say goodbye to you." Hikari's hand left my paw and she backed away until she could fall off the hill if she tipped backwards. The light brightened, but I could still see tears streaking down her face.

"Just so you know, Minaa," Hikari wiped a spot under her eye. "I really, really wanted to stay with you too, Minaa. I actually wanted to stay with you forever, but..." She sniffed. "I guess I'm out of time...!"

My head was shaking slowly. This is it, I found in my tangled mess of thoughts. Hikari is leaving me. My worst nightmares are coming true. "Hikari..." I rasped.

"R-remember, this world only k-keeps going b-because everyone s-supports one another," Hikari stammered, trying to get her voice under control. She did this when she was trying to stay in high spirits but wanted to scream. "Th-they live every day accepting one another. The one who taught that truth to a self-centered fool like me...is you, Minaa."

The light...Hikari! I thought fervently as the ball of light got brighter.

"Hikari, don't leave me!" I blurted. Hikari smiled through her tears, attempting to be cheerful. "I'm not," she said. The voice overlaying hers was suddenly gone."Minaa, I love you. You're my best friend, no matter where either of us are. I'll always be a part of you, you know this. Don't forget me, because I'll never forget you!"

Hikari's feet left the ground. The ball of light began to carry her towards the sky. "I'll be fine!" she called. "I'm always fine, aren't I?" I stumbled forward, tripping as I reached for Hikari. Something fell from the light. I could barely believe it - it was the amethyst necklace that Hikari wore all the time.

I grabbed it and held it to my heart, not stopping the tears in my eyes. "Now Minaa," Hikari was yelling. "Do me one last favor, and don't you cry!"

"Too late for that," I mumbled ruefully. I drew in a breath. "Hikari!" I screamed to the light. "Hikari, come back!"

"HIKARI!"

When two spirits meet and go through so much together...they must be drawn back together. They will surely meet again.

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