Disclaimer: If I owned Pokémon, then this would be Japanese.


Chapter 8 – This Time is Different

It was a wasteland. Trees with no leaves, small pools of purplish water were everywhere. Cresselia and Darkrai just stared in shock at the world that they had just entered. Suddenly, a Dodrio fell from the sky, obviously dead. How it got up there was beyond both of them.

"Where is this place?" Cresselia asked, moving forwards, and then stopping.

"Beats me. Although..." Darkrai began looking around. He noticed yet another door beside one of the trees. "There is a door over there."

Cresselia turned to look at the door, "Another one?"

Darkrai said nothing instead opting to travel through the door, with a sighing Cresselia right on his heels.

-

Through this door was a near opposite of the other. This land had huge human buildings. They were towers with over a thousand windows. And huge paths with cars zooming along past them all. Cresselia looked around and found nothing but the towers and cars. Darkrai didn't seem to care much about all this as he slowly scratched his own arm.

"Something wrong, Darkrai?" she asked.

"I don't feel the pain," he stated.

"So, what's that got anything to do with this?"

"Do you remember? In dreams, you don't feel pain," He said, again scratching harder this time. Cresselia followed suit, also noticing no pain. She was about to say something, when a huge portion of the world in front them ripped away to reveal a navy and purple swirling mass beyond. Seconds later, another chunk of everything disappeared. And another. And another.

-

Cresselia and Darkrai woke up at the same time.

"Darkrai, what was that?" Cresselia asked.

"I don't really know..." Darkrai said, with his hand on his chin.

They both thought in silence before shrugging and leaving. Luckily, there wasn't anything odd to stop them leaving the building. But upon exiting, they found that they weren't in the town anymore. Even stranger, when they looked around, they saw the building they hade just left to not be there. It was just a field beside the path they were on the other night. Without a word, they joined to the path and continued down it.

-

Sooner than they thought, they bumped into another town, this one also a complete dump. But everything was disturbing to see. People with no heads, chunks of bone poking out form the carcasses. Blood soaked walls, scattered limbs on the ground. It was the general ghost town. Not to mention a Gengar looking like it was eating something next to a squirming, yet sleeping, human.

"That's it!" Darkrai shouted, alerting the Gengar to their presence.

"What's it?" Cresselia looked at him.

"At the end of our dream, it was Dream Eater," Darkrai told her.

"Someone ate our dream?" At this, the Gengar's ears pricked up.

Darkrai whispered, "I think it was him," He then, without warning, shot a Dark Pulse directly, not giving it time to move. The Gengar then fell over, unconscious. Suddenly, a green blur shot past them, and then the world flashed a bright white.

-

Where they appeared, neither of them knew. It was a lush forest, a new and warming feeling, with the huge red moon still hovering above in the sky. Suddenly, some mysterious voice rang out.

"This is the future. The future where you both of you give up, and Eclipson takes over everything. By now the 'other you's are both dead."

Darkrai and Cresselia looked around in confusion, before realising that the voice must have been telepathy.

"Be careful, it's a lot like what's in your time, except most things are dead, and what you find could be an entirely different Pokémon to what you're used to," The voice explained.

"So how far in the future are we?" Cresselia asked, in hope the voice cold hear her.

"You are about three hundred and fifty years into the future," The voice answered.

"Who are you?" Darkrai looked around, seeing if he could spot the voice.

"I can not tell you that right now," The voice said, "But I am on your side, and I brought you here as a message, although I am weak and you may end up in an entirely different timeline. This shouldn't happen too often, so find out as much as you can while it's possible to."

"Wouldn't us knowing about stuff in the future cause a paradox if we changed what we would do in the present?" a worried Cresselia asked.

The voice made a slightly childish giggle. "No. If I brought you to the past, then you could cause a paradox because that has already happened, and you shouldn't change it. But the future is still to be written."

"You said the timeline might change, can you explain?" Darkrai asked, keen to get more info.

"Yes, I can. I am weak, as I said already, so you may be sent to a different future," The voice answered, "I have to leave you here, so goodbye for now."

-

Darkrai and Cresselia looked around, and eventually saw the first form of animal life. This Pokémon was like a monkey, a lot like an Infernape was. But this one was yellow, and had small orbs of light on its head, and its shoulders. The monkey's face was a dark yellow, and the rest of it was a goldish brown. It looked towards them, then suddenly screeched and leapt. It was stopped in midair by a well placed Shadow Ball.

"Thanks," muttered Cresselia. Then there was silence as she noticed that Darkrai was looking around as if to listen for something. "What is it?"

"There's something else here," Darkrai muttered. As if on cue, a whole group of the Light-Infernapes jumped from the bushes and surrounded them. A bigger one, probably the leader, stepped forwards.

"If you wish to live, then surrender yourself!" It slowly said to the moon legendaries. Cresselia and Darkrai were about to ready attacks, but the monkeys, having fast reflexes, managed to blind them with the light. The Light-Infernapes then paralyzed them both with Thunderwave.

"Okay, okay! We surrender!" Darkrai shouted through gritted teeth.

-

(This is the Light-Infernape Leader's point of view)

"Good!" I shouted to the two newcomers. They were strange, these two. I had not seen any of their kind in the forest before. "Take them back to base!" I ordered to some of my clan. We were one of the many forest's clans. We had many slave Pokémon working back at base, it was partly thanks to them, that we have our defences. I call them slaves because that's what they really are. But we do treat them with the respect they deserve. We give them enough food that their species would need. It kind of works out really. The more we get, the more likely we are to survive and get enough food for us all. Many join us because they will be more likely to survive. It's kind of like a miniature of what those things from around two hundred years ago did. I believe it was called a government. It was just tales back then, that a group of Pokémon couldn't do it. But we proved them wrong.

I looked over to where my fellow Gilnapes were. They had already tied both of the strange Pokémon to logs, and were now carrying them back to camp. I started walking among them, on our short way back to base. When I say base, it sounds small, but it is like a human country, with all of us Pokémon in there. But we are small, and thus it is only about the size of a human city. Humans. Rumour is that they were once the ruler of every land, every country. But that's all it is, just rumour.

-

(Still the Light-Infernape (Gilnape) Leader's point of view)

Back at base, our well defended home town made in a very big clearing. Defended as in a wall of Bastiodon on every side. We had released the weird couple. One of them was asking for me. So I walked out to them.

"Where are we?!" the black one with white hair shouted, growling at us.

I responded, "You are in our home, Giridia."

Both of them looked around, taking our town in for the first time.

The other, multicoloured one, asked a very odd question, "What exactly are you? You look like Infenapes." That must have proved one rumour correct. The one that stated we had come from a Pokémon called Infernape. These were like us but, could control fire.

"We are Gilnapes, we welcome you, but in order to be treated fairly, you must do the work," I told them. I walked away, to my meeting hall, to discuss what job they were to be assigned. Until I heard screams, that is. I turned around to find the two additions to be, well, not there! I quickly asked one of the Gilnapes. His reply perked my interest about them.

He said they had just faded away.


Well, I had fun with the end there. Although I think it was more description on what the world was like in that time.

I'm also wondering if you liked it, and if the Gilnape point of view was a good addition to the chapter.