Chapter 10: To Provoke Two Deities

"In other words, your parents were murdered." The white beast turned, looking out the glass roof of the hall at the stars, quietly gazing into the depths of the eternal void.

Alfa froze, his limbs unable to move, his mind in turmoil, yet focused only on one thought; murdered… Not victims of an avalanche, murdered. Someone had just decided to go and take their lives.

"Who?" Alfa uttered the word with venom dripping from his tongue.

Arceus sighed, turning to face him. "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not going to tell you."

"WHAT!?" Alfa shouted, looking at the deity, not caring that it could destroy him in less than the blink of an eye.

"I need to have fun when I wake up." Arceus smiled. "You'll think it sadistic, but I prefer not to contain rage when one exacts it one their surroundings though I do hate it, and I rather like this hall."

"But I will put you on the path of finding out. Go to the reverse world and track down Giratina. If you can get him to co-operate, he'll help you." The deer-like entity continued.

"Why would Giratina know?" Alfa asked, his twin's curiosity showing itself in him.

"The reverse world observes and temporarily records everything in the real world in, well, bubbles, until Giratina absorbs them every so often. Giratina is quite literally a history book. He's memorized every single event in the real world, whether it be from the planning of a war, or something utterly insignificant such as someone sleeping." The deity explained. "Interestingly enough, Sendoff Spring isn't far from here. But it's getting in that's the problem. Then there's Turnback cave. Such an annoying place."

The deity seemed to be contemplating Turn-back Cave's annoyingness, staring thoughtfully towards the roof.

"You can't enter Sendoff Spring until you've met Giratina, or you enter from the other side." The deity finished, staring wistfully out the glass wall in front of it.

"What other side?" Alfa asked, knowing that it was barely likely that he would be able to see Giratina if it was inside Turn-back cave.

"Let me rephrase that. The only other way is to enter Turnback cave through the Reverse world. Then again, if you can get to the reverse world, there's no need to go to Turnback cave…" the white Pokemon corrected itself, turning to look at Alfa.

"You should be leaving now." Arceus stared into Alfa's eyes, before breaking his gaze with a blink and turning towards the window again.

"I will find a way to get back at you for delaying me if I can." Alfa nearly growled the words, turning to find the staircase had reappeared. He walked down the staircase, contemplating what he could do. Then a plot arose in his mind. He just needed to find and get on good terms with Mew.

"Oh please do! With a mind like yours to test, it would just be boring if you didn't!" Arceus called out as the rip in the air closed and he staircase slowly vanished once he reached the bottom.

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Alfa walked down to past the entrance to Lake Valor, pressing his hands against the trees of the thick forest on the other side. So he really couldn't get in could he?

He sighed, sitting down against the trunk, when he saw something flitting by. Something small, feline and pink. Mew. Latios by his side, he raced after the cat which was absentmindedly roaming about.

"MEW!" Latios shouted out telepathically. The pink cat stopped in its tracks looking around confusedly.

"Latios? Where are you?" the cat replied, not knowing that Alfa was privy to and part of their conversation.

"Above you." Latios replied, nearly sitting on Mew in an attempt to amuse everyone. Mew's eyes flitted from the dragon which nearly sat on it to the human who had one hand on its flank.

"You have some explaining to do!" Mew ordered grumpily, disappearing momentarily and reappearing with a can of milk.

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Half an hour later…

Mew was in a much better mood now, having drunk the entire can of milk and listened to their life story in brief, as well as Alfa's amusing plot to get back at Arceus.

"I'll do that. And I'll record it. Don't think I don't know how to use a cellphone!" Mew shouted indignantly as Alfa glanced at the empty can. The cat cooled down almost immediately.

"Sure. I'll help you." Mew replied.

"The problem is, how?" Latios supplied thoughtfully, tossing the empty can around telekinetically for fun.

"You guys know how I can assume the shape of any other Pokemon, right?" Mew asked, as both Latios and Alfa nodded.

"So you're going to turn into Giratina and therefore let us in?" Alfa cut in hopefully.

"No. That wouldn't work." Latios answered. "Arceus said you have to see Giratina, not what it looks like, or we could have just looked at an old painting."

"He's right kiddo." Mew sighed, his expression going down momentarily before it lit up again. It was all an act, Alfa decided, Mew could never be sad.

"Well the other legendary Pokemon get really annoyed when I turn into them; they can tell; and usually try to kill me on the spot. So I'll turn into Giratina, and then turn back and hide." Mew finished, as Alfa saw how it would work and moved aside to the bushes to hide, Latios behind him.

Mew started glowing for a minute, before it changed into a dark grey dragon with inky black wings and a golden crown like helm. Mew shifted back to its real form and flew over to them, hiding with them in the bushes as a screeching roar sounded. The air around them darkened and a path in the trees opened up and the same dragon emerged, screaming; Giratina.

The dragon looked around, clearly annoyed, before dematerializing. The path in the forest wall however, was still there. Alfa turned around to find that Mew wasn't there. He wondered where it had gone when his phone clicked. He opened it and there was a video waiting. Loading it, Alfa watched.

"***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************!" Arceus let out a string of some of the most colorful swears of every language as Mew flew out of the hall of origin, the deer like deity being pulled along by the flow that had flooded the hall and was pouring down the stairs, down the spear pillar, and down Mount Coronet. Alfa wondered how much the cat had put in and what it had flooded the hall with when he noticed the caption

VANILLA PUDDING, LOL