sorry for the absence guys, leave a review please. It's largely because of the lack of support that I'm not updating very much anymore, but I felt this story needed a good bit. I enjoyed writing this, I had forgotten how much I liked doing it.
As per usual, any missing words are NOT to be blamed on me. FFN has an issue.
I knew I should be mad. I should have been angry at Alec for following us, for endangering his life. But I couldn't find it in me after that I had just seen. We needed to get emery out of this place before...
"Mew, what if..."
She looked at me, her eyes full of pain.
"What if we are already too late?"
The silence that fell was like a thick blanket, and it stretched out for the longest. No one spoke. Alec was the one to break the silence.
"We won't be."
His voice was certain, and I forced a smile as he continued deeper into the unforgiving cave.
Its hard to tell time in pitch blackness. But I estimate we had been walking for roughly an hour, maybe two when Alec pulled on my arm. I didn't stop walking as I responded."Yes, bud?"
He clung to my paw, and I gave a smile. My smile slipped when I felt his small paw shaking in my grip.
"Alec what's wrong." I turned to him,and moved our light to illuminate his small form and instantly knew what was wrong. He had tears in his eyes, and was doing his usual little..dance. Me and mew gave a groan at the same time-our son had the worst possible timing.
"Daddy I need the bathroom.."
I felt irritation flash through me.
"There isint a fucking bathroom here, Alec. "
I regretted the words as soon as I had said them, as he went still and began to cry. I sighed heavily-this cave was getting to me.
"Buddy I'm sorry."
I picked him up, and we continued on, me now carrying my sniffling son. About an hour later, or so it felt, though it could have been mere minutes, I felt something warm and wet roll down my midsection, and it stopped and closed my eyes with a heavy sigh as Alec's sniffling resumed. Mew turned to us.
"Alec, no ones mad."
The boys reply was garbled by tears, and sounded like little more then a blurted out series of nonsense. When we had managed to get him to calm down, his words chilled us.
"I didn't have a accident c-us I had to go bad, I got scared.."
I nodded slowly. " we're both here son, nothing will hurt you."
He shook his head furiously.
"I saw something."
Startled, me and mew took a brief glance at each other. Beyond our light, was nothing but blackness. So whatever the boy had seen...had been close. And we hadn't even noticed it was there.
"What did you see?"
He was silent for a short time.
"Something was following us."
I had nothing to say. Mew shuddered. I picked the boy back up, and we continued on in silence. We where being followed, by an entity we couldn't see? Or, was it that I was missing something obvious? I didn't really want to find out.
It was dark. It soon became cold to where even I was unable to sustain a small, psychic light. So we where reduced to following a wall. It was, to say the least, terrifying at times-times where we would almost fall off an unseen cliff, or be forced to battle-the only light to see our attacker being the brief and dim light from our attacks. I was acutely aware of each breath we took, each echoing footstep. There was a subtle shift in atmosphere, and i had the unshakable feeling that we were no longer alone.
"Hello?"
The word echoed for a full minute. Mew clung to me.
"Mewtwo, what's going on?!"
I raked my gaze accrost the thick blanket of darkness.
"I don't know.."
There was a dark laugh, seemingly coming from every direction. I spun around, and put Alex and mew behind me,looking around us wildly.
"DARKRAI?"
A low hiss was my reply. I gulped heavily.
"Give us our son and we will leave! Th-there isint any reason for there to be trouble!"
A long silence stretched out, before the shadows voice echoed, right in my ear.
"But there is a reason.."
I yelled and shot a shadowball where he had been. It burst harmlessly on the stone wall. My fur bristled madly. The hell was going on?
"Coward! Show yourself!"
A low laugh.
"Ohhh, I'm the coward now am I? Are you not? You, who hid behind a human, YOU who sired half bred freaks, YOU who protected humans."
I let a low growl slip from me, and tightened my protective hold on mew and our son.
"So have you darkrai. I did not steal a child from his bed in the night, I did not break ancient laws in doing so! I DID NOT provoke you! So why are you doing this to us?"
I didn't get a reply. The heavy feeling of darkrais malicious presence faded.
"Mew...?"
I had a sick feeling in my gut. It was a twisting, painful tug. Mew didn't reply.
"Alec?!"
No answer greeted me. I stuck my arm out in the darkness where my son and mate where supposed to be, and was greeted by empty air. They where gone. He had taken them. I staggered back,and slowly slid down the stone wall to sit at the base. I was vaguely aware of a horrid sound, rhythmic and painful. The entire cave seemed to be shaking. Then I realized what the sound was. It was me. The horrid clawing feeling in my chest...I was sobbing. Trembling. Reduced to a crying mess in the absence of my family. I had the awful feeling, that I may never see them again. And the words I had said so long ago now haunted me. I promised to care for emery and Alec like I had failed to care for Jessie. I had sworn to protect them...And I had failed. They where gone...and I was alone.