3. Giratina

I hadn't seen Shaymin all day.

Palkia was in her room with Cresselia, maybe they knew where she was.

"Yes?" Cresselia said after I knocked on and slowly opened the door. They were both looking at me disapprovingly.

"Have you seen Shaymin around?" I asked.

"For crying out loud Giratina, do you ever leave her alone?" Palkia laughed.

"Have you seen her or not?"

"Actually, I saw her going out before," Palkia said, "She seemed quite secretive,"

"Yeah, I saw her," Cresselia added, "she was with Arceus."

Palkia gave her a look.

I froze, standing there, shocked. Arceus had always taken everything away from me, and I will never forgive him for banishing me to the distortion world. But this was different. This was worse than anything else. I wouldn't let him take her away from me as well. She was all I had left.

All I had left to live for.

Darkrai

I could tell something was going on when Giratina pushed past me and Dialga as we came in from the supermarket. I mean, he always pushes past us, but I could tell by his face he was going to kill someone, literally.

As we came into the living room, Palkia was frantically typing someone's number into the keypad, worry infecting her face. Cresselia was next to her, looking over her shoulder at the screen of the phone.

"What's going on?" Dialga beat me to the question.

"Bad news people," Cresselia said, "oh wait, be quiet,"

Palkia was holding the phone to her ear, waiting impatiently for someone to pick up.

"Hello?" It was Shaymin, Palkia had the speaker on quite loud, so we could hear what she was saying,

"Shaymin, are you with Arceus?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Right, we'll tell you everything later, just run back here, but go through the town, not the fields,"

"Why? Palkia please tell me what's going on..."

"There's no time! Shaymin please, run, and don't bring Arceus with you,"

"I am not leaving him in danger,"

"Shaymin listen! Giratina's out there and he will physically kill you both if he finds you together,"

"So your just going to let Arceus die?"

"Look Shaymin. Arceus is much more powerful than any of us. In his Pokemon form he will be fine,"

There was a long pause.

"Shaymin please, just get out of there,"

Silence.

"Okay," Shaymin said finally, "But tell me absolutely everything when I get back,"

She put the phone down.

"Now all we can do is wait," Palkia said, "and hope."

Shaymin

Something was wrong. Very wrong. Me and Arceus had been in the cafe in town, chatting over a cappuccino. I had left him in there when I said I was just going to get a spoon (our table was around a corner from the till and main entrance). After I was out of the door, I ran. I sprinted so fast my legs ached after ten seconds. Diverting into an alleyway to catch my breath, I felt a vibration in my jeans pocket. My phone. I slid it open.

1 new message:-Giratina

Did I dare read it?

Coming to get you

I felt cold sweat build up on my face. For a moment, I stopped breathing, I stopped thinking, I stopped living. I ran my finger over the Blackberry logo on the back of my phone, trying not to look at the screen.

Palkia was right.

Run.