"You must be Gym Leader Roark." Destiny said, after her eyes got used to the sudden light. But even though she could see clearly now, Roark remained invisible.
"Who, that foolish man over here?" The voice said, and the light hovered over the corpse of a dead man. Black boots, grey uniform, and a red helmet: This was the man Destiny saw on posters with the word "MISSING" under it. This was Gym Leader Roark.
Havis and Sabio gasped. C-Cis just stood there, motionless, staring at the dead body. Destiny could hear him saying very softly: Please... How many more...
"Let me introduce myself." Suddenly, the entire room was lightened. Destiny could finally look around and see where they were. But this wasn't the Oreburgh Mine. She was standing in a large, empty room, with no visible walls or ceiling. The exit was gone, and even Roark's corpse, that had been laying in front of her a second ago, was nowhere to be found. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't find the words. She wanted to run, but she couldn't move.
"My name is Seron. I am one of the Spirits of Emotion. I killed Roark because I wanted to meet you, Destiny. I knew that sooner or later, you would come here, so I waited." Even though the man was standing in the middle of the room, his face remained invisible, as if he always lived under a shadow.
There's no way out, Destiny thought by herself. This place isn't even real. It must be some kind of illusion created by that Spirit man. That means that the only way to get out of here...
"Is by defeating me, exactly." Seron laughed. "I forgot to mention, I can read your mind. Now, I have no choice but using the Pokémon that Roark had with him before he died. So I think we should make this battle a little more fun."
Suddenly, Destiny felt an immense pain, as if her bones were stretching out, and her skin was shrinking. She fell on her knees, and screamed from the top of her lungs. Then, everything went black before her eyes.
Destiny opened her eyes. She felt different then before. She looked up, and saw Havis, Sabio and C-Cis sitting a few meters away from her, with a disgusted look on their faces. Seron smiled. She could finally see his body now. He was tall, muscular, with beautful brown hair. His white teeth were almost blinding. "You might feel a little weird right now, isn't it? Let me show you what you look like." He clapped in his hands, and four immense walls raised from the floor. Only weren't these regular walls... "Destiny, look in the mirrors around you. What do you see?"
In the mirror Destiny saw the most hideous creature she'd ever seen. It was standing, bent over, with the ugliest face you couldn't even imagine. Everything about this creature was straight-up disgusting. And it was everywhere. Each mirror wall was made out of thousands and thousands of smaller mirrors. The creature her everywhere around her. And then she realised it.
"This... This monster... I am this monster?" Destiny couldn't control her emotions. Scared, angry, afraid, all of it at the same time. But most of all, she was disgusted. She would never accept that horrifying monster to be her. She would refuse her own body with all of her might.
In front of Seron were a Geodude, an Onix, and a Cranidos.
"Let's battle."