Tale of the DNA Virus
A/N: Round Four: Deoxys. Here's another one of my 'why the heck the legendaries are where they can be caught in the game when they were XXXX in the anime' explanations. It also has a bit of 'real life mystery explanation'. Hope you like.
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You step from your hired speedboat onto the tiny spit of land on the ocean near the Sevii Islands known to man as Birth Island. The origin of the island's name you do not know, but as you brush your hair from your face, you know you are prepared for whatever challenges will face you here. Armed with only your passion for knowledge, your love of the unknown, your Pokemon, your wits and (in case all else fails) your old AK47 handgun, you prepare to brave this remote island's mysteries. Your eyes glint in determination as you march into the grass meadow that is the main feature of the island. After a few moments of photographing and making mental notes, a flash of bright light shocks you, and you wonder for a moment if this could be the resting place of Zapdos, the Thunderbird which had disappeared from Lightening Island years ago, ever since the Lawrence III incident.. After all, what else could have made such blinding light? But as you uncover your eyes and look up, you discover you are wrong.
A lone red and green figure sits atop a rock on the strange triangular-shaped island. Its figure resembles DNA strands, and a dull, lifeless purple gem seems to be embedded into its chest. Its glassy black eyes stare at you with a penetrating gaze. You detect loneliness and some sort of yearning in those alien abysses of pitch black. You gasp quietly and grab for your camera, so that you may capture this foreign sight forever on it, but to your dismay, the little machine seems to have disappeared. You curse mentally, and slowly look up to meet those haunting eyes again. The creature seems to be not only looking at you, but looking into your soul and mind. Instinctively, you feel an invasion of privacy, and attempt to hide your fear. You fail miserably of course.
This is followed by several tense moments of fearful silence, and you feel a trickle of sweat run down the side of your face. The intensity of the creature's gaze has not faltered, and you can almost feel its eyes drilling into you. At last, it surprisingly breaks the silence by speaking. It is unlike any voice you have ever heard before, and you cannot tell if it's a deep and booming, high-pitched and soprano; whether it's that of a child's, woman's or man's. It is simply a knowing of words and what it wants to say in your head. A wave of ever-changing colors appears in the sky, and your eyes widen as you recognize it as the aurora borealis. And it is in this way the creature tells its story to you.
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Almost all my life, it's just been my sister and I. Our species are not the maternal kind, we reproduce only to prevent our race's extinction despite our insanely long, and as soon as the eggs are born, the mother leaves. The father has already left a long time ago. After all, the females of our race lay hundreds of eggs at a time. Why worry? At least one or two of them are bound to survive. It's not too different from some types of Pokémon, such as Magikarp and Krabby, to be honest.
That was the case in the litter I was born in. 638 eggs, all siblings, all floating around on some 'anti-planet destruction unit', A.K.A. a meteor. Slowly dying one by one. In the end, only my sister and I survived.
Nobody knows what the name of our species is. After all, it's not like our parents are around to teach us what it is. All we got is instinct. That means that we choose our own names as well. My sister chose 'Deoxys'. I'm not sure what it means, but she thought it sounded cool, and I agree with her. I chose Kiaxtrus. Sure, it isn't as awesome as 'Deoxys', but I've never been the creative one of the litter. She is.
One of the most instinctive differences our species has from other living creatures, I've learnt over my travels, is that we are complete loners, relying on only ourselves, often simply mating with the first member of the opposite gender that happens to be in our species that we meet, because that might be the only time we'll ever see one in our life spans. We have enhanced longevity, but the expanse of space is so much that it's possible for one to wander there forever, and just die. Completely alone.
However, there must have been something different about Deoxys and me. Usually when young of our species hatch, they immediately part ways. But not us. We stuck together, to be honest, I don't know why, but we just did. All that we had was us, and that hard, cold meteor. We were never alone, no matter where we went, what we did.
For a long time, I'm not sure how long, it could have been for centuries, for all I know, it was just Deoxys and I, wandering around space. We didn't have anything to do. Our species doesn't eat, doesn't sleep. We simply existed. It would have been nightmarish without my sister. We made up games, talked, traveled and visited other planets. It was on one of these innocent little vacations that the event that would change my life forever took place.
It was the planet of Exceglyx, what used to be a superheated, barren sphere full of volcanoes and craters, but was now just a wasteland full of dormant or extinct volcanoes. Deoxys and I were playing in one of the dormant ones, just fooling around and chucking bits of rock at one another. At least, we thought it was dormant. In the middle of one of our games of 'Who can find the coolest-shaped stone' (We were bored, okay? Even this seemed fun compared to floating around aimlessly in space!), I spotted a stone shaped like one of our heads: Ovular, with two square-like knobs on two parallel sides. I stretched out a tentacle, about to grab it and present my great find to Deoxys, when the ground started to shake. This was no concern to me, and I simply lifted myself off the ground. Then the lava started spewing out of the ground. Deoxys! Deoxys! I cried out telepathically, flashing colors appearing in the sky, space, whatever you call it, as they always did when we 'talked'. But by the time I found her, it was too late. She hadn't been fast enough, and her lower body was trapped in the magma, which was hardening fast due to contact with the icy air of outer space. I was horrified at the sight, and tried my best to free her, unleashing waves of psychic fury upon the rock which held my sister fast. Unfortunately, I was too preoccupied with attempting to free Deoxys to hear her warnings, and the spout of magma from the ground engulfed me.
It's a strange feeling, you know? Expecting to die, but surviving. It appears that our species has an emergency ability. When our lives feel threatened, we immediately change into this sleeping, crystal-like state, not unlike the sleeping mode of Jirachi, whom I later became acquainted with. I couldn't see, hear or feel anything. I only sensed a presence beside me: Deoxys, probably. I tried with all my might to reach her, but failed. Then everything went black. It was there I slept for years, centuries, perhaps even millenniums and eons. This was an even stranger feeling: I was half-asleep, and I felt asleep, but there was still a miniscule part of me that still retained consciousness. I stayed in that state for ages. However, even now, Deoxys was right there, by my side. We were never alone, whether we were floating in space or fossilized in volcanic rock. Eventually, we figured out how to project our consciousnesses into small diamonds of light outside the rock, and we communicated to each other in that way.
As Deoxys and I slept, fossilized in rock, Exceglyx became to come alive again. Volcanic eruptions changed and formed the landscape. Eventually, the part of the planet we were in broke off, and started hurtling and wandering through space. We eventually were pulled in by the gravity of a certain small planet in the 'Milky Way' as you call it. A small, blue planet called Earth.
As the chunk of rock that used to be part of Exceglyx fell through Earth's atmosphere, the heat caused it to break up even more, into two parts. One was containing Deoxys, one containing me. We eventually crashed in some cold, snowy landscape. Oww…. I thought, not really noticing the lights appearing in the sky. That was some crash landing…. I whined, stretching my tentacles. Ahh… My tentacles ach- Wait. I'm stretching my tentacles! I looked at myself, bewildered. I was out of my crystallized 'egg' state! I was… Me again!
Slowly, testing my aching limbs, I crawled out of the crater I had made when I crashed; body glowing with built up power. I was free again! When I looked up to search for Deoxys, I was met with a horrible surprise. Apparently, she hadn't been released by the crashing. I wrapped her 'egg' up in my tentacles, and rose into the sky, trying to protect her and find a way to release her. That was when that creature attacked. Apparently I had accidently hit it on my way down, and the Ruler of the Sky was PMS-ing that day, so he decided to come and attack me. Can't he see that you can't exactly tell where you go when you're stuck in a rock? In my attempt to dodge his enraged attacks, I dropped Deoxys, and to my horror, some skinny little creatures that I hadn't noticed before abducted her! However, I was distracted by the situation at hand: I still had to fend off Rayquaza! Driven by the need to get rid of the green menace as fast as I could so that I could rescue my sister, I unleashed my full and previously undiscovered power on him, and I nearly defeated him!
I didn't mean to cause that pack of Walrein and Sealeo to stampede! Heck, I didn't even notice them! If you were being attacked by a giant green lizard would you focus on defending yourself, or the weird waddling blue things around you charging towards a tiny little thing that you don't know anything about?
But then, the beings that had kidnapped Deoxys intervened, and Rayquaza blasted me with some sort of supercharged beam, and defeating me, left me for dead in that deep, dark ocean that I crashed in as those humans took Deoxys away to who-knows where. My body was destroyed by that green –censored-'s last attack, however, apparently my race is very durable, and though my molecules and subconsciousness were alive, my physical form was ripped to shreds. I retreated into egg state while I regenerated, but I was not glad I was alive. I was as good as dead inside. Because for once, I was truly alone. Deoxys was gone.
Those years that I spent reforming in that crater were the worst years of my life. I had no idea what those monsters had done to my sister, whether she was still stuck in that chunk of rock, or whether she was alive or not. So as one might imagine, as soon as my body had reformed, I immediately started searching for my sister, or at least what remained of her.
It took me years, years of being spotted, then hiding from those humans, years of flying through all sorts of landscapes on Earth, years of braving attacks from both humans, the strange creatures on the planet known as 'Pokemon' or both. Those were tedious and stressful years. However, finally, I came to a place that I later learnt was a human-made landscape known as 'La Rousse City' to the inhabitants, where my sister was held in, still trapped in her crystallized form.
I started attacking the humans and Pokemon there, crazed with rage and anger towards the beings that had taken my sister from me. How dare they take the only thing I had, the only thing I cherished from me? How dare they take Deoxys from me? Where was my sister?
Then the humans really crossed the line. They sent their little slave drones to attack me! Cowards! I roared mentally, and I'm not sure how I did it, but I immediately created replicas of myself and sent them to attack the humans, abducting them so they would know how it felt like to have a loved one taken away from you. It was only fair, right?
In the end, they must have figured what I wanted, and they released Deoxys. I was finally happy, and was content to leave the humans in peace after being reunited with my sister. But our happy moment was cut short. He attacked again. That idiot, Rayquaza. I seriously think he's out to get me. And boy does the guy hold grudges. Luckily, I didn't have to take care of him: The slave drones that had attacked me earlier were now onto him. I can't say he didn't deserve it.
For some strange reason, Deoxys wanted to save him. She begged and begged me over and over again to save Rayquaza. Why should I? He hates me, I hate him. But what can you do when your sister flies over to your mortal enemy and tries to help him, risking her life, what do you do? You are forced to help her.
So we saved Rayquaza's sorry and undeserving butt and I was just about to yell at her, asking her what exactly she was thinking doing that, or hug her so tightly that she'd never leave me again, we vanished. Just like that. Rayquaza, Deoxys and I vanished from La Rousse City.
Where did we end up? We were in a giant white hall with pillars and standing on clouds, A.K.A. The Hall of Origin. And there, right in front of us, was a giant white, grey and gold centaur-type thing that introduced itself as Arceus. Arceus told Deoxys and I that we were guilty of the following charges:
Attacking a Legendary (Multiple times)
Harming a human city
Causing a Legendary to have to appear in front of humans (Multiple times)
And last but not least…
Invading the Earth
Who did this 'Arceus' think she was? She might rule this planet, but we don't come from here, so we didn't know about any of this! Besides, Rayquaza attacked me first! But of course, she was biased towards her precious legendary of the sky, and sentenced us to solitary confinement. Yes, solitary confinement. That meant I was going to be separated from Deoxys again.
So, by the decree of Arceus, here I am. Stuck on this 'Birth Island' place, held back by boundaries of Arcues' godly power. I have heard from several sea-going Pokémon of beautiful lights in the North Pole, where Deoxys is being held. I hope she's found someone to keep her company, she's allowed to see others since she didn't (And I quote) 'Attack Rayquaza and La Rousse City'. I still miss her every day. Arceus told me that the only way I could be freed was if a human came to the island and the human pardoned me for 'my crimes'. So finally, here is my chance. You have come, and I have met you. You have heard my story. Will you finally pardon me, so that a loving brother can simply be reunited with his sister again? Please? Forgive me, human?
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You are entranced by this creature, by Kiaxtrus' story. You think Can I forgive him for trying to destroy La Rousse City? But then, it isn't really his fault…. Before you know what you are doing, you hear the words, "I forgive you, Kiaxtrus. Now, go find your sister."
Kiaxtrus sighs as a shudder runs through his body, and the purple gem begins to glow with immense power. As the Aurora become ever so stronger and more beautiful, you see Kiaxtrus rise into the sky, in his full, alien glory. The last words you hear from him are:
Thank you, human.
Then he flies off into the distance.
The next thing you know, you are waking up in your soft, comfortable bed, your Pokémon sleeping on the floor next to your bed. And you can't help but wonder if this, the story of Kiaxtrus is nothing but a dream.
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So, how did you like? R&R!
~Rayshia
