Darkness, isolation, pain, hatred...Why did this have to happen? I just wanted to have a friend… to have someone I trust. Now, you took that away…

To be a true dark type, one must experience the darkest imaginable...

I jerked up, but relaxed as I realized I was dreaming. Ara, who was awake, rushed over to me. "You alright?" She asked.

"I am fine, I just have been having these weird dreams."

"Me too! 'ts why I am awake."

"Oh really? What kind of dream do you have?"

"Well, I dream that I am in a cage, you try to help me but a… stone of some sort gets lowered on my head, and then I wake up." She described. I groaned and clenched my fist. "That… I have that dream too…" I told her, making her concerned.

"Do you think it could h-" As I was asking her a question, I watched as she started sniffing the air, and then bare her fangs. "Humans!" She growled.

Hiding within the snow and using the hail to our advantage, Ara and I stalked our prey silently. As we got close enough, Ara jumped and lunged at the human, knocking him to the ground. Once he lost his footing, I quickly ran up and grabbed him by the collar. "What do you want from here?" I asked menacingly. The boy in question was a teen wearing a red hat and some jeans with a shirt. He carried a bag with him and was startled at the sudden attack. "Aah!" He yelled. I was annoyed, but sure he would do no harm, so I eased up a bit. "Why did you come here?" I asked, trying to be more polite.

"T-team galactic! They are trying to control Sinnoh…." He exclaimed. I loosened my grip on him, and helped him get up. He brushed off the snow and dirt before resuming his speech. "They have been capturing the lake pokemon, now they head here to summon Dialga and Palkia to harness the power or time and space for themselves!" He cried.

"Team Galactic have been talking shit and have not done anything. Do you honestly believe them?" I asked.

"Yes! Please! I know what they did with the lake pokemon. I was there when it happened!" He pleaded. I would still not have believed him, but Ara quickly added her own input. "You know, the dreams we are having could be related to what he is saying." She suggested. I thought about it a little more. "Fine. I will trust you." I decided. He relaxed up a little. "Let me introduce myself. I am Lucas from Twinleaf town. I became a pokemon trainer a couple months ago and ever since then, these galactic grunts and commanders have been messing with everything that I and my friend have been trying to do." He explained. "And you?" He asked.

"My name is Leo, from Eterna city. I am a…" I quickly shot Ara a look, and she suggested, "Hiker." so I continued. "I am a hiker, but I have just been a little defensive because of Team Galactic, hence that tackle." I explain. "You have had problems with them too? Those fucking douchebags…" He commented. "Hey, are you a trainer?" He added as he looked at Ara.

"Not really…"

"Do you think you can help me get rid of Team Galactic? You know how much of a pain in the fucking ass they are. They must be stopped, but I think that two hands is better than one, so, do you care to help me?" Lucas asked. I looked at Ara, who looked back at me. We were both waiting for each other's approval. Finally, I decided to step in. "Ara - I mean, my absol, who is a disaster pokemon, sensed that something big was about to happen with team galactic. If what you say is true, it could be a catastrophic disaster. I will do my best in aiding you."

Lucas smiled. "Thanks, but we have to go now! They are already here." He told us, beckoning to follow as we went inside the cave. While we followed behind him, we eventually reached a huge wall. Lucas threw out a pokeball, revealing a Torterra. "Torterra, use rock climb!" He ordered, and invited me to ride him. I got on and grabbed to his horn as he shot up the rocky wall.

We passed through more tunnels and walls, until we were attacked by a couple Galactic grunts. All of them failed to Lucas's incredibly powerful team, and we finally made it to Spear Pillar.

"Why, hello there!" Cried a voice. The same woman that was there when Cyrus used his steelix on me revealed herself. Lucas gritted his teeth."Fucking Jupiter!" He yelled. Another rocket member came out, Mars, and I watched as they both attacked Lucas with their pokemon. Though he did have defense, they were trying to attack him and not his pokemon. Seeing that it was a 2-v-1, he would not win. "Ara, quick! Use bite or some shit!" I ordered, as Ara ran up quickly and bit Jupiter's wobbuffet. As it was not expecting anything, and since bite was super effective, the Wobbuffet was injured badly. It walked back a little before falling over, completely knocked out. This gave Lucas enough time to attack Mars's pokemon, and knocked it out too. As Lucas and I aligned ourselves back-to-back, I heard running and suddenly another boy, who was the same age as Lucas, came running out. "No time for explanations! Go get Cyrus!" He yelled, and took my place in the battle.

I proceeded to run forward past the columns and random pillars until I reached Cyrus. He had his back turned to me, but he knew I was there.

"... ... Everything is ready for the creation of a new world. Now, all will end. And everything will begin." He spoke, and suddenly lifted up a crimson chain. "With this, the Red Chain made from the crystals of the three lake Pokémon. And this, the Red Chain I replicated with technological means... With these Red Chains I will pry open the portal to another dimension. I command that you unleash your power for me..." He cried, as he lifted up the red chain. I looked at Ara. "What is he doing?" I asked.

We all came to a sudden realization when the entire sky turned mundane, and slowly, two portals appeared. First, a gigantic blue dragon leapt out of the portal and gave a bloodcurdling roar. Like an insane madman, Cyrus started laughing, crying out in joy. "Dialga, the mythical Pokémon, and the master of time!"

As he was speaking, out came a white-pink dragon, slightly smaller, and it too roared loudly.

"...And the other. Palkia, the mythical Pokémon, and the master of space and dimensions!" He cried, still laughing hysterically.

"I've waited so long for this moment, Dialga and Palkia. Shaping this world is a double spiral of time and space. Yes, the very things that you have the ability to control! You will do my bidding! I will have your abilities as mine! With the power I wield, I will create an entirely new world! The incomplete and ugly world we have now can disappear. I am resetting everything to zero. Nothing can remain. It is all for making the ultimate world. A world of complete perfection. Nothing so vague and incomplete as spirit can remain."

"Cyrus!" I yelled, pissed off at what he was suggesting. "There is nothing wrong with emotions. Sure, there are obviously negative and painful feelings, but without them, we have nothing positive. You can't have cold without hot!" I yelled as I approached him. He sighed and turned around.

"How very foolish of you. Hate, anger, distrust; nothing good comes of them. People strive too much to achieve happiness or joy. In doing so, they destroy one another, leaving nothing but a destructive path of sorrow behind. Our only choice to achieve perfection as humans is to rid ourselves of such imprudence!" He snapped back at me.

"Do you really want to live your lives without emotions? It would be so monotone and -"

"SILENCE! It is unfathomable to your young brain. One day, you will thank me for ridding -"

"How will I thank you? I would never experience gratitude if you do this!"

Cyrus cracked his knuckles. "How sad. You have been so indoctrinated that you can't see how unfinished humans are. A lost cause… If you are going to oppress me, I will CRUSH YOU!" He threatened, and reached for his belt. Next thing I knew, he threw out a crobat. Ara snarled at him, and jumped to my side.

"Crobat! Poison sting!"

"Ara, Night slash!"

The next moments were of two angry pokemon fighting one another, each hoping for the other's to faint. When Ara came out of the fight awake, Cyrus retracted the knocked out crobat and threw out another pokeball. Ara barely had any time to recover, when she was being bombarded with more attacks.

"Honchkrow, wing attack!"

"Ara, bite!"

Once again, Ara came out moments later wide awake. However, she was really scratched up, and could barely walk back to me. She still managed to lick my hand happily, and before I could pet her, Cyrus threw out yet another pokemon.

This time, Ara did not make it out without almost fainting. I could hear myself yell as the gyarados tackled Ara brutally. She still managed to get a bite in, knocking out the gyarados but then she closed her eyes, barely awake. Cyrus then sent out his last pokemon, and ordered it to attack Ara.

"Stop it."

I saw Ara laying there, helpless as the houndoom readied for an attack.

"Leave her alone."

The houndoom ran in to deliver the attack, and came in contact with her.

"STOP IT!"

From my hands protruded a ball, and I shot a dark void at the houndoom, before immediately feint attacking it. When I had finished, it was out cold. Cyrus stood there with a smug look on his face. I didn't mean to let anyone know my secret, but I couldn't lay helpless as he attacked Ara.

My Ara.

"How very interesting…" He observed, retracting his houndoom. I was seriously about to attack Cyrus but the patch of fur on the ground snapped me out of my anger. Quickly, I rushed to Ara's side and lifted her up. Slowly, I hobbled back to where Lucas was.

"Leo! Is your absol alright?" He asked when he saw me.

"Let me help!" His friend interjected, and pulled out a full revive, spraying her with it. Ara slowly got up moments later. I quickly threw my arms around her, as I was so worried. She licked my face in return, but once we saw the stares of Lucas and his friend, we awkwardly retracted.

"Thank you so much… uh…"

"My name's Barry. One day, it will be on posters all over Sinnoh because I am going to be the best trainer ever!"

I looked at Lucas, who just looked back at me. "He's always like that." He simply replied.

"What are you slowpokes waiting for? He's summoning Dialga and Palkia, let's go!" Barry interrupted as he ran off.

As we ran back to Cyrus, we all saw three balls flying in the sky above us. One yellow, one blue and one pink. Cyrus turned to them and sighed.

"I should have expected as much. Uxie," he turned to the yellow ball, "The Being of Knowledge." Azelf," he turned to the blue ball. "The Being of Willpower." And Mesprit," he turned to the pink ball. "The Being of Emotion…"

I chuckled to myself. "Are you honestly going to continue?" I asked. Cyrus turned to me.

"The Pokémon have come to protect Sinnoh? Pathetic and worthless. It takes the three of them, the three lake Pokémon that symbolize spirit, to balance either the Pokémon of time or space. But they can't maintain balance against the two. Not when both Dialga and Palkia are here. Their coming here is in vain. So much meaningless drama. Now, Lucas, Barry and… you. You all constantly interfered with my plans, but you will be forgiven. After all, there will remain no spirit for all time when I am done. All spirit will disappear. It will be ripped away... From you all! From your Pokémon! From those precious to you! It is time! My dream will be my reality!"

"You're gonna have to fight us first!" Yelled Barry, stepping forward. He released an infernape. "Flame wheel!" He cried, but before the infernape could land his attack, Dialga and Palkia charged up and completely destroyed the infernape. The two dragons were completely under Cyrus's control, and they attacked wantonly.

"Fight you I will!" Cyrus cried, throwing out his weavile. I watched as Lucas and Barry helplessly exhausted all of their pokemon. The keepers of time and space were not pokemon that were easy to fight. In the end, all of Barry and Lucas's pokemon fainted, with the weavile, Dialga and Palkia still standing. The two boys glumly retracted their pokemon. Cyrus cackled at the lugubrious trainers. Though Ara growled, she did not step up to the dragons, as we all knew she didn't stand a chance and I wasn't going to subject her to fainting right after she recovered.

"Cyrus, are you mentally deranged?" I asked. "Even a stupid idiot can distinguish many cons in your ideal world."

"That's true…" he replied. "But only sophisticated humans can differentiate the pros!" He added, then slowly whispered to me, "You aren't either." before leaning out and yelling, "Dialga! Palkia! Let us begin the creation of my perfect universe. Now, I -" He stopped speaking as he turned to me. I had lurched over, flailing on the ground. As I heard him talk, I suddenly felt a wave of rage… not one that I experienced, but that awful feeling you get when someone's angry at you, and you feel guilt.

Though Lucas, Cyrus, Barry and Ara looked at me strangely, they too, all felt the impact.

"Holy shit" Lucas cried.

"W-whats happening?" Asked Barry.

""What is this pressure I feel...? Something...is enraged?" questioned Cyrus.

Behind him, droplets of water slowly came into existence on the floor. Black, purpulish water that resembled my dark void. It eventually formed a huge puddle, and from the reflexion of said puddle rose a creature. I couldn't make out any details of it, other than it was huge and completely black. Like a shadow.

"Interesting. So, there is a Pokémon that can only appear as a shadow."

Cyrus observed. "Regardless, the effort is rash and foolish. I have harnessed the powers of Dialga and Palkia..."

"I, Cyrus, won't have any more interferererererere...!"

All I heard was the loudest, ear-devastating screech and everything went black. Not just black that we normally experience, that was grey compared to this. this was darkness that was so preeminent it engulfed meters of light that were foolish enough to cross it's path. Darkness that was so omnipotent, the mere sight of it was cold, chilly and overwhelming. Darkness so interminably paramount, it had dominion over all the eye could see. Or once see.

Slowly, light flooded my vision again and I regained my composure. I had fallen to the floor, as did everyone else… except for Cyrus. He was missing. Where he once stood lay a portal, and around us, the pillars that stood tall were oblique and askew. Slowly, I got up. The shadow creature was still there, and it spoke with a menacingly powerful voice. "YOU… WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE HERE?" I honestly had no reply, and I mumbled out of horror. "SHOULDN'T YOU BE BESTOWING NIGHTMARES ON THE INNOCENT?" It asked with a laugh. "WHY THE HUMAN FORM?" It added. Oh… it thinks I am darkrai?

"AAAAAH! It is roaring at us! Attack it!" yelled Barry. Obviously, he could not understand what it said. The shadow pokemon just turned to him. "WHO ARE THESE IMMATURE COHORTS OF YOURS?"

I chuckled, and introduced myself. "I am Leo, kin of Darkrai. I came to stop Cyrus, as did my companions." I replied. Lucas and Barry did not hear the first sentence, but heard the last one. The shadow pokemon laughed.

"Leo, are you insane? Why are you talking to -"

"WELL THEN, HUMAN. I SEE IT IS TRUE WHAT YOU SPEAK. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE LEGENDS?"

I gulped, and replied, as the other boys cowered in fear. "No…?" The shadow pokemon laughed again, and started explaining.

"IT GOES LIKE THIS; THE KIN OF DARKNESS AND THE KIN OF LIGHT IS THREATENED AND HE EXPERIENCES TRUE DARKNESS, UNLEASHING UNFATHOMABLE POWER." It slowly relaxed, and stopped yelling. "Human, come to my world. I am inquisitive. Bring your companions and exterminate Cyrus."

"Uh… I don't really want to…" I sheepishly replied, having heard her myth. "IT IS NOT YOUR CHOICE!" It replied, and the next thing I knew, I was falling into an endless pit of darkness… Into the weirdly disoriented land.

The distortion world.

This has been the most entertaining chapter to write! I really hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing. Expect tons of more action next chapter, but then deep and emotional material the chapter after the next. I am also working on a lemon called "Let us train you." so I might update this a little less frequently. Sorry!

P.S. Some poetic reader, please help me out by making a poem related to the myth. You can edit over in my document, link is on my profile.