Chapter 11

My Shadow form watches with great interest as I am consumed by the darkness that I was purified from.

How does it feel to have that power again?

My darker side hisses with delight as my eyes turn red and my scales begin to slowly turn purple once more.

Stop this! I scream in pain. Please stop this!

My Shadow form merely cackles in laughter at my pleas.

Forget it!

The pain of being a Shadow Pokemon is starting to return. Oh please just make it stop. Make the pain stop! A sudden voice splits the pain.

Hectra wake up!

Whose voice was that? It could be Shadow but . . . Wait a minute wasn't I knocked unconscious by Shadow's Faint Attack? If I was then this whole thing makes sense. I am in one of Darkrai's nightmares!

Sorry about this but I'm returning to the real world! I growl as I bust out of the confinement of my nightmare.


I awaken to find that Shadow and I are in a cage. The cage is made of steel but yet I sense that a current of dark energy streaks around its bars.

Careful Shadow, don't touch the bars of the cage, I whisper to the dark-type pokemon that lays by my side.

Understood! Shadow answers.

A sudden shriek coming from outside the cage begs me to turn to it. That shriek came from . . . from well Tara. What is she doing here? A man dressed in blue comes up, Ardos, no doubt that it is him, and stands before her with what looks like the spirit of a pokemon. It's black and has a red jaw-like thing covering where its mouth is supposed to be. A streak of what looks to be like white hair covers the top of the pokemon's head. A single turquoise eyes shines out from the white hair. Could this be Darkrai?

"Welcome Tara, so nice of you to drop by," Ardos hisses as Tara tries to get away from whatever is holding her.

"You captured me and my pokemon team as we entered Orre!" She screams. "How is that for a welcome?"

Ardos merely chuckles at her response.

"I figured that you might come to save your Lugia that you gained from a certain boy named Adam, am I right?" Ardos questions.