10. Arceus
So, this was it. The day I survived my death, just about.
Giratina
I'd been waiting for ages, and still he showed no signs of appearing. The lunch bell rang and still no Arceus. Ten minutes later, however, the door I stood five feet away from, slowly creaked open. He stood there, all innocent and clueless. Yep, this was going to end up in a full-on battle that will probably destroy the whole school, but I didn't give one. He looked up, and his eyes met mine. His were frozen with fear, paralysed and defenceless, mine were intimidating and full of pure victory. The victory of defeat. I held the knife up to where he could see it.
"Okay Giratina. Just put the knife down-"
"And why would I do that?"
"Please Giratina, you don't have to do this."
"Do NOT tell me what to do."
He just stood there, trying to stay calm but clearly terrified. He didn't fight. He didn't run. He just stood there, standing his ground. Motionless.
"Don't move."
"Why not? I can do as I please."
"No you can't. Stop trying to talk me out of it."
"I will try to talk you out of killing me, I am your superior."
"You aren't my superior you son of a bitch!"
I did it. Without warning. I didn't know myself I had done it until I saw him. Silently crying in his own blood, a wreck lying half dead on the floor.
When we are seriously injured, our bodies can't cope with being a human, so automatically transform into Pokemon form to use the power to heal ourselves as much as we can. I just stood there as he slowly and painfully became his true form, the Alpha Pokemon. The stab wound was significantly less serious now, but it was still pouring with blood. He didn't speak, instead he attacked me with Judgement. A judgement for trying to kill him-again. The attack somehow missed me, but hit the wooden support in the roof of the hall and sent it all crashing down on me, crushed by countless tonnes of rubble. I used my only defence-my Pokemon form.
Once again, it was Alpha vs Renegade.
He attacked again with another Judgement; a meteor shower that was aimed directly at me. I tried my best to dodge it, but because there were meteors landing everywhere that was impossible. Instead I attempted to use a counter-attack. But he just shook it off as if it was a drop of water. I had to face the facts, he was much stronger than me. I had no choice. But before I admitted defeat he attacked me again, which sent me flying away from the school, and landing 300 yards or so away from what used to be the main building. I just lay there, in the field of grass, dying and helpless. I watched him there, doing the same. He was breathing heavily as he fell to the ground, exhausted and out of power, just as vulnerable as me.
You and me are the same,
We don't know or care who's to blame,
But we know that, whoever hold the reins,
Nothing will change-our course is gone and said,
And these wars they can't be won,
No these wars, they can't be won,
And do you want them to go on and on and on,
But soon we will see, there can be only one.
Arceus
For the first time, I felt panic running through me.
I could see school kids around me, curiously watching me as I lay in the ruins of the school. At the front of the crowd, was Shaymin. She had been crying, and tears still fell down her face, but she wasn't sad any more. She knelt down next to me and stroked my forehead.
"Everything's going to be okay, we're going to save you."
I didn't reply, I just looked at her. Then she started crying and threw her arms around me.
"Like I told you," I said softly, "Nothing will ever come between us."