Disclaimer: Before you read this, I did use a couple of quotes from The Ring 2. Also I don't own The Ring 2 or any characters from Pokemon, or Xenosaga.

Darkness VS. Darkness:

Previously: Ash Ketchum arrived at the home of his true love, MOMO Mizrahi. When he got there he saw that MOMO was missing and found a blank videocassette tape on the floor. When he found out what happened to MOMO he was pulled into a world parallel to the human reality. He met and confronted the vengeful spirit of Samara Morgan, a girl with a large black hate filled heart and a giant fear of water, who resides in the cursed tape that MOMO accidentally watched. Samara made the mistake of making Ash angry simply by plucking a hair from MOMO's head, when he told Samara not to, and now he is outraged and ready to kill. Now enough with the delays, LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!

Ash growled menacingly and crouched on all fours and said, "I hope you're ready, 'cause here I come!"

"You come right ahead." Samara said bracing herself for the barrage from the now half-human boy standing in front of her. Ash didn't waste a single movement, as he let out a blood curdling deafening shriek sending Samara into a state of shock. As soon as Samara put her hands to her ears she closed her eyes, a fatal mistake, Ash took this opportunity and bolted at her missing her as she struggled to get her ears to stop ringing with the inhuman screech, but he managed to land a palm thrust on her back. "Stupid brat." She gasped in pain as she was pushed forward. She wheeled around and was tackled to the ground with Ash, fangs bared, trying to bite into her for a finishing blow. She pushed up on him with both of her legs and thrust him off of her. Ash flipped back onto all fours, charged at Samara and kicked her in the stomach, and prepped for what appeared to be another palm thrust but she was wrong. Ash's arm became long, black, and covered with sharp scales, with most of his strength he pinned Samara to a tree, but she liquefied into a puddle of water and solidified behind Ash and grabbed him by the neck.

"That's a big mistake on your part you freak. GRRRRRAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Samara was almost impaled as jet-black spikes jutted out of Ash's back. She vanished and reappeared in front of Ash laughing coldly.

"Give it up. In this world I control everything." Samara said in a cold heartless tone of voice.

Ash laughed insanely and said, "Before I continue on with our friendly little chat, tell me one thing."

"What is it?" Samara asked.

"What the heck is your name?" Ash replied questioning.

"My name is Samara Morgan, I'm eight years old, I spent most of my life in an insane asylum, I was adopted by a woman who threw me down the well I climbed out of." She said with a fear-inducing look on her face.

"And let me guess, you're afraid of water because you drowned in the well. Or were you afraid of water from the very beginning when you were a baby?" Ash asked as the spikes slowly began to sink back into his body.

"How did you know that?" She asked taking a step back.

"I have to know what someone's worst fear in order to drive someone insane." Ash replied. A black scar appeared around his right eye, his voice sounded like there were two people speaking in stereo, his eyes began to turn bright burning red. The scar on his eye turned fiery red and began to spread all over his body and red energy began to seep out of the mark and engulf his body. He growled threateningly and sounded like a mad animal and said, "I'll show you what my power can do in an alternate reality. I'll destroy this world and add it to my own. And I'll destroy you with it."

"I'd like to see you try." Samara taunted. Ash took these words like a dog takes a tennis ball, his curse mark extended off of the tips of his fingers and spread over the ground and headed towards Samara and two, black, slime covered arms reached out and grabbed her legs. Unfortunately, Samara liquefied and solidified behind Ash and pushed him hard, sending him flying into the depths of the well.

MOMO screamed out, "ASH NO!" But she was too late.

Samara turned and walked toward her and said, "Now you're going to join him." She was upon MOMO, who was trembling with an unearthly fear, and was about to grab her when she felt the ground beneath Samara's feet. The sky went from the usual stone grey turned a deep blood red and then a whirlwind of red energy blasted skyward and a loud, outraged roar sliced through the air. A long black, dripping wet arm appeared out of the well followed by another arm, and a black head, Samara felt as though she was looking at a slightly more demonic and frightening version of herself. Before she could breathe, the black hair covering the things head it parted to reveal a red mask with a horrifying Japanese demon's face and two horns, for the menacing touch of the ANBU Black Ops of the Hidden Shadow Village. "What is that thing?" She asked.

"I have thousands of names. Doom, death, destruction, darkness, evil, but mostly I'm simply called Necros. My current vessel calls me Omninecros for the reason that I have many dark forms, each with specific powers that compliment that form." A deep and evil voice said from behind the mask.

"Tell me, do you like to play games?" Samara enquired.

"Only if I decide which ones we play." Necros growled. "In fact, I was going to ask if you wanted to play a few games. If you lose, my human side shall decide your fate. If you win, and I doubt that you will, you will stay forever trapped in this purgatory."

The demon's sadistic attitude was making it quite difficult in Samara's direction. "So in either case I lose." She groaned.

"Actually," The demon said, "Ash, decides what happens when you lose. He'll probably do something nice like resurrect you, reform you and make you his adopted baby sister and fill you life with undying love and happiness. If I were chose your fate I would just as soon mutilate and devour you but I'll be merciful to someone like you."

"Hmph," Samara scoffed, "this, Ash, you speak of, sounds like a total weakling. You should just eat me and get it over with."

"Hmph, you sound like a total weakling by just saying that." The demon replied, "I should devour you right now."

You touch that girl and I'll make sure your chakra stays on empty for all of eternity. Ash said to the demon while he was in front of the seal. Remember you're using my body after all.

"All right you brat," The demon said, "you win I'll let you decide your fate but if I had my way I'd eat that pathetic, wet as rain, self centered, little excuse of a cursed brat and pick my teeth with her bones." Necros turned and said, "Because I don't have a say in the matter of your fate, I'll go with my original plan. The first game we're gonna play is called "Truth or Lie," the last person to fall into the pit of lava loses."

"I accept your challenge." Samara said.

The ground transformed into a solid floor made of hexagonal tiles. "The rules of the game are simple, your opponent asks you a question and you have to answer it correctly your tile turns green and stays solid. However, if you answer the question wrong, the tile will start to crumble and you must try to jump to another tile before you fall into the lava. Understood."

"All right," Samara said.

A giant screen appeared on the side of them an a voice said, "Ready, 3…2…1…Begin!!"

"First question, Samara." Necros said, "Are you afraid of the water?"

"No." Samara said.

A buzzer sounded and the screen played a scene from Samara's past, a woman said, "Samara was no trouble, we had no trouble with her at all."

Samara covered her ears, "Stop." She moaned.

"But when we tried to bathe her, it was like torture for her. One night we saw Evelyn trying to drown her. Samara was screaming in unearthly pain. When we asked Evelyn why she did that she merely said, 'Samara told me to.'" The screen went black and Samara was petrified with fear.

"Looks like you lied." Necros sneered.

The tile beneath Samara began to crumble; she jumped onto another tile before it felt into the lava pit. She glared at her opponent and asked, "My turn. Are you older than I am?"

"Yes, I am twenty-thousand years old, and I have twenty tails to prove for every millennium I've been alive."

The screen came on again and a middle aged man with white hair, black eyes, a head band over his left eye, and a mask that covered his mouth and nose who said, "The Omninecros is an infection that occurs once every thousand years. The demon itself is a shape shifting shadow creature with a nasty attitude, but fortunately it is very easy to control. The infection on the other hand, has had twenty people that have been infected, making it exactly twenty thousand years old." The screen went black once again.

Samara was devastated, the demonic boy in front of her was correct. "My turn already?" The demon laughed in false curiosity, "All right, here we go. After your victims watch that accursed tape of yours, do you mostly give them a phone call telling them how long they have until you kill them?"

"Yes." Samara said knowledgeably.

The screen went on again and showed a man who had just watched the accursed tape answering the phone and a raspy voice said, "Seven days." And the screen, once again, went black.

"Well it looks like I'm safe." Samara grimaced.

"For the time being," Necros said, "now just shut up and ask the question."

"All right." Samara said, "Do you love that girl with the pink hair, the red dress over the white full body uniform, and the red beret."

"I love her more than life itself." Necros answered.

The screen went on again with Ash saying, "In all my years alive, I've never met a girl like MOMO, I love her more than life itself." The screen blanked out yet again.

"Hmph, heh, heh," Necros chuckled evilly, "I do so love to tell the truth, even though it's not much my style, but it sure works for this kid. I'm actually starting to warm up to him. Now for the next question; has anyone ever escaped your wrath after their time was up?"

"NO!" Samara said.

The screen activated again and showed a woman escaping from Samara's curse and then it showed MOMO still alive. Samara felt embarrassed and couldn't believe that lying was going to tilt this game in her favor. But before she could clear her head of what might happen if she lost, she heard two words that made her blood run cold, "GAME OVER, the winner is OMNI-NECROS!!"

"N-n-n-n-no that's impossible," Samara shuddered, "I d-d-didn't g-g-get a chance t-to ask you a question."

"That's because you were too paralyzed with fear to notice your tile crumbling beneath you." Necros said triumphantly, "Seismoveiw, show my opponent what I mean."

"Sure thing boss." The screen said, "You see Samara, when you lied and got the question wrong you were simply horrified and didn't notice that your tile was starting to crumble and fall into the lava filled abyss below you, and Necros said the first one to fall into the lava pit would lose. Now let's get on to the next round."

Okay so this chapter is a cliffhanger too, but I'll try to make the next chapter a little bit longer and more action pact than this. But until then, please R&R.