Finally! And for the record, I blame my parents getting sick so I have to take care of them, my brother and dad becoming obsessed with a computer game and stealing it from me, and SU's contest. Yeah, my bad. Oh, I also blame the not-so-short short flashback I decided to add.
Anyways, sorry for the delay, but here it is, the longest chapter so far! Read and Review, please, so I know what needs to be improved.
What have I gotten myself into?
I floated towards Darkrai, feeling the unwanted feeling of dread. Well look on the bright side, when I get closer to Darkrai, I'll start feeling his emotions instead of my own…. I mentally slapped myself when I thought this; Darkrai's emotions or my own, bad feelings were still bad feelings!
I finally reached Darkrai, who was still scribbling stuff onto his clipboard. I guess I would have been surprised if I weren't feeling Darkrai's emotions; while his feelings were still more powerful than what most people feel, they were much calmer than when I had first met him. A mental flashback came to me, of the torment.
I was surrounded by other Legendaries. Arceus had just made an emergency meeting, something big was happening. Most us were there, and I was talking to a couple I haven't met before, Manaphy and Shaymin. I knew most of the others, but there were still some I haven't met yet.
All of a sudden, a Pokémon that I didn't recognize ran into the room. She looked like a metallic swan, with three rings on her back. She was breathing heavily; she was probably traveling at full speed all the way here.
Arceus, who had yet to tell us what was going on, walked up to her and asked, "Cresselia, where are they?" I could feel Arceus' worry as she said this.
The swan, Cresselia, just said, "I don't know."
Suddenly, the room was filled with light, and Palkia and Dialga appeared out of nowhere. They had an almost overpowering feeling of guilt on them.
Arceus walked up to them, I could anger coming off of her. "What happened?!" She bellowed.
Palkia winced, and Dialga started explaining, "Well, me and Palkia got into a fight, and Palkia got hurt and fled, hiding in a town on the human world." A wave of astonishment hit me as everyone gasped. Dialga continued, "The town was brought into another realm, where I later found Palkia. But, the humans there had a music tower that played Oracion, which stopped our fight." Oracion, the song that can sooth the fiercest rage, everyone knew of it, and Arceus gave a surprised look.
Arceus' surprise soon gave into rage, she knew they weren't telling the whole truth."And did you bring the town back?" Palkia and Dialga nodded. Arceus tensed her shoulders up a bit, and walked forward. Palkia and Dialga started inching backwards, seeing Arceus' rage. "Well, then." Arceus said, her voice rising. "Would you like to tell me what you're hiding?"
Palkia said, stuttering, "I-I-I Don't know…"
At this point Arceus slammed front foot on the floor, cracking it. A wave of fear, and pity, hit me from the other Legendaries. That was almost enough to cover Arceus' rage and Palkia and Dialga's fear. Almost.
At this point, Dialga cracked under the tension. "The town that we almost destroyed happened to be Alamos town, in which Darkrai was living!" He screamed, quite loudly.
Gasps of the other Legendaries came along with the emotions of surprise. They started to mutter among themselves. "Darkrai?" "What was that demon doing there?" "The Pitch-Black Pokémon? Ekk!"
Arceus wasn't surprised, just angry. "And where is he now?"
"Dead." A wave of surprise hit me, hard, as Giratina walked into the room.
"You OK?" Shaymin asked me. I realized that I was shaking hard.
"Yeah, I'm fine; there are just so many emotions…"
"Oh…" Shaymin said, not really getting it. "So you're feeling everyone's emotions? That must be tough." I nodded, and he continued, "Do you want to get nearer the center? Arceus seems to have calmed down, and there are less Legendaries there."
Shaymin was right, there were less Legendaries there- seeing that Palkia and Dialga had left to hide in the far corner, and Arceus, deep within a conversation with Giratina, had calmed down. "That might help" I said, surprised that I sounded so weak.
We floated towards the center, just as Giratina and Arceus were finishing their discussion. "Losing the bringer of nightmares might have a very undesirable affect on the dream world."
"Then create a new one."
"Creating new beings takes a lot of energy out of me, and I need that to bring the Legendaries back to Earth. It would be much easier to just bring him back to life."
Giratina hesitated, he didn't like losing souls. "Very well."
Grumbles from the Legendaries behind us were heard as Arceus and Giratina started focusing their power toward bringing back the Pitch-black Pokémon. The form of Darkrai started to appear a few meters away. I didn't know much about Darkrai, just that others feared him and called him evil. I was actually slightly curios about his emotions, I guessed that he was cold-hearted and didn't feel anything at all.
I was dead wrong.
As soon as he appeared, I was swept up in a turmoil far greater than anything I have ever faced before. Pain, sorrow, confusion, anger. Were these Darkrai's emotions? What was going on? I can't breathe, everything is getting dark, I can't see…. I barely felt it as I doubled over, and Shaymin was yelling at me. "Mesprit, what's going on? Mesprit? Mesprit!"
Mesprit! I jerked out of my daze, not too far away from Darkrai. Huh? Who called my name? What the heck happened there? You dazed out! I realized what was going on; Azelf was calling me using telepathy.
I'm fine. I said back. Just a flashback.
A flashback? Man, you are weird!
Shut up.
Blocking Azelf out of my mind, I focused on the problem at hand, asking Darkrai out. For some unknown reason, he has yet to see me. Strange, I would think of the bringer of nightmares to be a little more observant.
"Um… Darkrai?"
Darkrai looked up from his clipboard at me. His blue and white eyes looked bored, which was completely different from what he was actually feeling. "What?" His voice was cold and hard.
"Um… well…." Why was I stammering so much? All I needed to do was ask him. "Y-your emotions are calmer than usual today…."
I mentally slapped myself again, while Darkrai's eyes narrowed. "…Right." He just went back to the clipboard.
I felt my face redden more than it normally is. Why was I messing up so bad? It didn't seem like such a hard thing to do. "So… do you want to go to the carnival with me?"
The minute I said this, I regretted it. All the other Legendaries nearby just stopped what they were doing, and just stared. The only noise that was heard was Darkrai's clipboard hitting the ground. That's right. He was so surprised, that he dropped his clipboard, and was just staring at me wide-eyed. It would have been quite comical, if I wasn't so embarrassed.
"Erm…." Darkrai said. He blinked a couple times. All his other emotions were replaced with surprise and confusion. Say no, already! "I guess… it wouldn't hurt…."
Wait, what? "So… that's a yes?"
"I guess so, yeah."
"Oh. Ok, then." I wanted to say that I had just did it for a dare, I really did, but… there was just something about his emotions, that I couldn't place. Was that… happiness that I felt on him? Was he happy that I asked him out? And that other emotion; was that… was he lonely? "I guess… I'll see you later then."
"Alright." Darkrai said. He was still confused, but he defiantly lonely and happy as well. How did someone get those three feelings at the same time, anyway?
I hovered back toward the truth-or-dare group, feeling the stares of the other Legendaries. I just wished they would stop staring. When I asked Darkrai out, I just felt so embarrassed-
Wait. I felt embarrassed. I was near so much emotion that I probably wouldn't have felt anything, but, but I felt embarrassed. Was Darkrai embarrassed, and I felt that? No, it was definitely my own emotion. But how-
"So, how'd it go?" Mew said, almost crashing into me.
Speaking of emotion, anger raced through me. "I am going to kill you when you sleep."
"Epp." Mew ran, fast. And I chased him, faster.
Love that ending! It's surprisingly hard to write about someone who has no emotions of their own, actually. I hope I'm writing Mesprit good!
...Mechagodzilla, when did you become a mind reader?
Oh, I own nothing. Not even Darkrai's clipboard, which I have no idea whats on it.
Darkrai: And never will.
Not even a peak?
Darkrai: Alright. *Shows clipboard*
*Reads* Plans to get rid of DG... Hey!
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