Chapter 3: Mew the traitor

Darkrai's POV

The next few weeks went by as usual. I was ignored by every legendary pokemon, except Mew of course, but even with Mew by my side I couldn't do much about it. I still tried to keep faith in my dream, sure that someday everything would change. Every dream has to have it's ending though, and today my dream was crushed..

I was scrubbing the hallways to the bedrooms like I did every day, awaiting queen mud, Palkia. That was when I suddenly heard Mew's voice. There was no mistaking that voice for anyone else and I couldn't stop myself from listening in, even though I know it's wrong.

"Seriously Mew, why do you help that freak?" Azelf's voice sounded.

"Because he's not as scary and dangerous as everyone thinks! He's really yay to play with and all."

I couldn't see her but that didn't mean I didn't know what she was doing, namely making a circle in the air as she said 'yay'. It was her trademark really, she always did it.

"Mew, I love you," He suddenly said. "Not like a brother, but more than that. That's why I don't want you to hang out with that freak!"

I dared to peek a bit more around the corner at those words and saw Mew's shadow leaning against Azelf's. I wasn't sure what happened next, but it felt like a knife had been driven in my heart. I felt tears of betrayal in my eyes and squeezed them shut. I spun around quickly and ran the other way without looking back.

Normal POV

Because of this he didn't see Azelf and Groundon appear from the room behind me, a wicked grin on Groundon's face.

"Now that would surely be enough for that freak to know not to put a curse on Mew again."

Azelf looked up at Groundon with a small smile on his lips. He had agreed to this to teach Darkrai a lesson, but he had never expected the legendary pokemon to react like this. For a small moment he just wanted to go after Darkrai and tell him that it all had been a set-up and that he was sorry. The problem with that was that everyone would hate him if he did, and he didn't want that. That's why ignored what was right and just went on with his usual work.

Darkrai's POV

I sat in a corner, crying, when Mew suddenly appeared. I glared at her as she came towards me,acting like nothing had happened.

"Hey, what's going on Darkrai?"

She asked sweetly while putting her hand on mine. I pulled my hand back rudely and looked somewhere else.

"Like you don't know." I said angrily. Mew cocked her head to the side, as if she really didn't know what was going on with me. But she had been there herself a while ago! I saw her shadow leaning against Azelf's! The memory made me shiver.

"I've been playing with Many all day, I really don't understand what you're talking about." She answered as I told her what I had only just seen. I narrowed my eyes and glared at her angrily. It was one thing that she and Azelf kissed, it was a whol other thing that she was lying about it right now!

"Darky, I would never hurt you! I truly love you!"

Again that hand on mine. I really wish I could believe her, and I almost did, but I saw it with my own eyes! I got up without another word, leaving her behind as I walked out. I now realized that I had been stupid, of course Mew wasn't to be trusted, no one was.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I muttered. "How stupid of me to actually believe that she liked me! She was just playing me, so she could hurt me later on. She's even worse than the others."

I stalked out of the Hall of Origen without taking notice to the fact that Arceus was supposed to give me permission to leave. I ran and ran until I couldn't anymore. I hid away in a cave, far from Mr. Coronet, from where through you could get to the Hall of Origen, where I finally sat down and cried.

I hated the fact that no one could just act normal towards me. Why were they all acting like I was so different from the rest?

"If I had a world to myself like Palkia and Dialga, everyone would be nice to me and would stop bullying me like they do now." I muttered as I wiped the tears from my eyes. Suddenly I remembered the dream from a few nights ago. What if I….

The idea of a world where everyone would be nice to me and wouldn't call me names and try to get to me sounded better than ever. But the idea of doing something so terrible like sabotage the Temporal Tower made my stomach clench in fear.

"Dialga will kill me if he ever finds out I was the one to do that to the Temporal tower."

I thought as I started using a wooden stick to draw on the floor.

At first I couldn't think of anything, the only thing on my mind being Mew's words.

"Darky, I would never hurt you! I truly love you!"

The tears ran down my cheek as I thought back to it again. How could she say that when her heart actually belonged to that little blue mean-

I didn't finish the thought as I suddenly heard something at the entrance of the cave.

"Did you hear something?" A male voice asked.

"Yes, I heard sobs." A second voice said, seemingly belonging to a female."Let's go take a look." The male voice said.

My head snapped up at the sound of that and as fast as I could I erased my drawing and backed away till I hit the back of the cave.

I could of course move through the wall and run, but I was curious as to who these voices belonged to and how they would react at the sight of me.

When they entered I immediately saw that they weren't legendary pokemon who were looking for me, but rather a family of Ursaring. The woman looked at me in shock as she laid eyes on me, the man started growling.

"What are you doing here, you monster?!"

I was surprised at his question and frowned. I might look a little different than other pokemon, but I surely wasn't a monster, right?

"I...I was looking for a hiding place," I stammered. "I'm not hurting anybody!"

The woman's look softened a little, her maternal instincts probably taking over.

"Sweety," she started towards the man. "Maybe he can-"

The male interrupted her however, raising his claw at me and growling.

"Get out of here, you monster!" He said threateningly.

I didn't wait for him to repeat himself, disappearing through the wall instantly. When I was out I ran as fast as I could towards the other part of the forest, where there was another cave. Maybe this one would be empty and I would have some peace so I could sleep. However when I arrived my hopes were crushed and I was chased away and made fun of because of my appearance once again. This happened several more times, until I finally found an empty island and a place to stay.

There was a cave on the island and I sped towards it through the darkness. It was late and pitch black outside. Inside the cave it was even darker, but I didn't care, after having had to run all day I was exhausted. The moment I closed my eyes I fell into a deep sleep, though I would later wish I hadn't.

-Darkrai's dream-

A pokemon with black fur and red hair bowed down in front of me and showed me a strange looking berry. "I stole this last one especially for you, lord Darkrai."

The pokemon I didn't recognize said. My other self smiled viciously and took the berry. "That is great, Zoroak. Were there any difficulties while getting it?" he asked as he thoroughly studied the berry.

"No master, there were a few rebels who tried to stop me but I simply burned their houses down to get away." The Zoroak said with a vicious grin of his own on his lips.

"You've done good Zoroak," my other self said as he reached for a satchel of money to give to the pokemon. "Here," He said. "Your reward, for your loyalty."

The Zoroak smiled as he saw the content, he was satisfied. The moment the pokemon wanted to leave another pokemon appeared, a shiny Rhyperior. He first bowed before me and then took a few steps closer.

"Lord, I just received a message that team a team from the PIT retrieved 4 out of 5 time gears."

There was a fearful expression on Zoroak's face now, he knew what was about to happen. "How can that be!" My other self asked loudly, sounding infuriated. "Didn't that nitwit of a Dusknoir kill them the first time!?" The other me roared.

The two remaining pokemon bowed down in fear now, as if they knew exactly what could happen if I became this angry. "They..they escaped lord, the partner is a Grovyle, and a tough one at that. Every time the girl with the Dimensional Scream was on the verge of giving up he found some way to encourage her to keep fighting. Even while knowing what would happen to them if they stop the Paralysis of time!"

The other me got up and almost seemed to grow in size as he made a less than satisfied face, he looked terrifying. Rhyperior shrank back, that's how scared he was. I kind of liked it really. One of the biggest and strongest pokemon scared of a little squirt which he used to always call an ugly mutt. If he wanted to he could knock me out/kill me with one blow. Instead, he was shaking in fear right now, like a scared baby would be doing.

"I guess I'm gonna have to ask Primal Dialga to find another henchman, considering this one seems to be blind." A sound of nervous chuckles filled the room. Even though the joke wasn't funny at all, they couldn't risk what would happen if they didn't laugh, because that scared them more than anything.

The other me got up and walked over to the door. "Where are these so-called heroes now?" he asked the moment he passed Rhyperior.

"They're halfway through Dusk Forest, lord. I suspect they'll be trying to travel to the past with the help of Celebi."

I nodded, satisfied with the knowledge, as I stroked his cheek. "One more question, my friend. How is it that they know they need the Time Gear to stop the Paralysis of Time?"

The Rhyperior looked up at me with wide eyes. He knew he had to tell me the truth now, or it wouldn't end well for him.

"Your archenemy M told them lord, she wants to stop the Paralysis of Time as much as everyone else."

I noticed my other self's eyes widen in surprise. I didn't exactly get who this mysterious 'M' was. There were many pokemon whose names start with-

Suddenly it hit me. Mew! Mew must've told these so-called heroes how to stop the Paralysis of Time.

My thoughts were confirmed when the other me instantly let go of Rhyperior's face and took several more steps towards the door.

"Well, well, so my former friend Mew thinks she can interfere with my future, does she?!" I growled with clenched claws.

"Do we have to deal with her, lord?" Zoroark asked timidly.

I spun around, my eyes shooting fire. "NO!" I growled. "I will deal with this. First those heroes, then I will personally take care of my past, once and for all." I said with a vicious grin.

-End of dream-

AAAAAAAH! I yelled as I shot up in a sitting position instantly. That had probably been the scariest dream I'd ever had. But was it really a dream? Maybe it was a vision. A vision of the future I would be the cause of.

I scrambled to my feet quickly and found the piece of paper I'd noticed before. It was clear that this cave had been in use by another family until very recently, there were still all kinds of things lying around.

I grabbed something to write with and made a list of everything that had happened in my dream, making sure I didn't leave anything out. I didn't relax again until I was done, looking the piece of paper over and frowning. I quickly put it away, not really feeling like thinking back to the dream anymore. Instead I started wondering about the family that had lived here before. Maybe I would meet them some day, maybe they might even be my future-

My thoughts were interrupted as I suddenly saw someone standing at the entrance of the cave. I was just in time to be able to suppress my scream and stared at the pokemon with wide eyes. He was black, like me, and he had a bunch of red hairs surrounding his face.

There was no doubt about it, this was the pokemon from my dream..

A new chapter and again there's a cliffhanger!

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