So its been a few months. Told you guys I'm not leaving the story, so here we are. I really wanted to get a chapter out today-ish, I guess it depends on time zone, but about the one year anniversary of the first chapter! Hurray! Also a little bonus for taking so long, for those of you who read these, you may remember a mention of a story I was planning that had drained all of my attention from my other works that would come after this one. Well I'm going to put up a little teaser for it in my profile, at the bottom that bio or whatever they call it, for all of you guys who are interested. Another announcement, I plan, in the far off future to do this story over again after my skills as a writer have improved, I have no idea when or where that will be, but eventually those details will be given out. Furthermore, I am planning to (as much as I despise the idea) make a schedule for myself, I believe I've mentioned it a few times, but the current high school I go to is quite rigorous, one of the most so in the U.S., so I am barely functioning most of the week, but I don't want to give up writing, so scheduling it is. As for details on this story, well, I feel I've lost it a slight bit, writing while distracted seems to do that, but I'm still on track for what I'm planning, just a little bit of sliding off of said tracks that I need to control. In other news I've learned not to trust myself with mods, I just recently got SE Skyrim, and on PS4, for those of you familiar, there are significantly less mods available on the PS4, yet I've still managed to crash the game multiple times, and bug out multiple npc's faces, I should stop, but mods are to much fun (literally the first time I've ever had the pleasure to play with mods (I'm a console gamer)). So enough random stuff and updates, start the theme and let's get going!


"Dim, we have not had the pleasure before today." Linde remarked. "We have not." He responded. Linde continued, "We all regret what happened to your family, and send out our condolences to you. But that is beside the point, we need to tell you something about Obsideon's father." Dim grew a confused face. "We need you to understand something Dim. We've watched and have known about the coup about as long as it's been a plan, and we've known that certain key figures could be used against us. To prevent this we formulated a plan, our favourite young Espeon, Obsideon's mother, would have a child, and would eventually complete her mother's work. In the meantime however, we suspected someone in our ranks may have been deceiving us, and we had to prevent Obsideon from being totally corrupted, so we had her father 'removed from play'. The father she knew was her's, but his life essence was drained to the bare minimum. You may be familiar with the works on where our attacks come from, it is normally thought that our life essence gives us that power, and keeps us going. By taking that we crippled him, but when she became a Silyco, her power wasn't as strong as it may have normally been. And before you ask, yes it was voluntary."

Dim was dumb-founded. "If you knew about this so far in advance, why didn't you prevent it?" he was looking very angry, and his cool was beginning to slip. "Don't take that tone with me. Your forgetting what was happening, Darken controls our military, we couldn't fight him, it wouldn't work. We had to be tactful, the Star clan refused to get involved unless there was violence, or it was eminent, and the Abselite refused to deal with what they called the 'worrying of old Espeons, who hadn't seen the light of day since their one-hundreds'. Our paws were tied, we were playing a game of high stakes strategy, and Darken held all the positions necessary to win, all he had to do was squeeze." "And yet here we are." "Yes, because in all our foul luck, we happened to pull the right strings the right way, just enough for us to scrape by." Dim grunted unsatisfied with the answer. "You don't need to like it Dim, no one is here for your opinion, I wanted to explain that Obsideon isn't a full Silyco, so don't depend on that to keep you alive, or your child for that matter." Dim made an unhappy face. "Fine, but just so you know, I never cared how much power she had, I always knew I would protect her." The council all nodded and Dim walked out of the room. "Oh, and this doesn't leave these walls without my consent, alright?" He glanced over his shoulder and nodded.

"Hey, what did you guys talk about?" "You know if I could tell you they wouldn't have sent you out." She frowned. They walked for a while around the city, with no particular destination, and though war was imminent, and various enemies could come at any time they still had no worries, and strolled in complete peace. It got to become dark and the lighting was virtually gone, they decided it was time to head back to bed, because they only had a little bit of time before they would have to get back to work, and they couldn't enjoy it without ample rest. On their way back they found Apollo. "Oi, Dim, and Obsideon." Dim grew a slightly unhappy face. "Apollo, I am married to her." This seemed to be the second time Dim was picking up on something she wasn't, probably due to her not knowing the Absol as well. Apollo smiled at Dim. "I was kidding. So what are you doing at this fine hour?" As usual for him, his tone was perfectly neutral. "We were about to go sleep, we've barely slept in the past two days." "But the night is young friend, besides, I was about to go on a scouting patrol and I need some company, just in case." His tone was still neutral, but the last three words were spoken noticeably slower. "Obsideon I'm going to go with Apollo real quick." Obsideon gave a questioning look and Dim answered "I'll explain later." He kissed her forehead and left with Apollo. Obsideon, having had Dim taken from her twice in one day walked back to their Abselite home alone.

"What is this about Apollo?" "Well, for starters, your wife is quite pretty, nice catch." He smiled at Dim, his voice becoming much more natural, and less neutral. "For one, don't talk like that about my wife, second, you do realise that whenever you talk to females your voice becomes ridiculously neutral right?" "Yeah it's a nervous tick I got from training. It is supposed to feign a lack of weakness, and prevent the finding of lies." "Uh-huh." "Well what I actually called you for was that we got a report of more groups scouting near the walls, and we, that being the rest of us generals decided you and I should go out with a bit of troops and knock them around a little. Up to it?" "I'm pretty tired right now, but I guess." "Great! I'll lead us to the two camps we identified as hostile early today. Mercy helped us with the information, and we'll be taking him along in order to capture any youngsters there, the rest we have orders to either kill or detain if possible." "Very well."

"Alpha leader, this is Beta, we finished our rounds." "Alright come on back, your next watch will be in an hour." "Yes sir." The Beta leader Umbreon had just finished patrolling around the camp, and was returning with squad when he began to hear a strange series of whistles. "Alpha leader, do you hear these whistles?" Silence. "Alpha leader?" "Beta leader, retreat with your men at once, we are under attack!" Beta looked in confusion and ran towards the camp. When he arrived he found it obliterated, only one body was left. "Alpha leader! Are you okay?" There wasn't a response. "Sir?" Beta leader began to get afraid. He walked to his commander's body and tried to get a good look at him. His face had been burnt to the point where even the bone had been scorched away. "Arceus!" He turned away and stumbled back to his troops light-headed. "Alright, we're moving, we need to go link up the the base down the river." He started to turn back around, but then stopped. "Where's Jins?" The others looked around and shrugged. "Damn." He began to motion that they needed to leave, before anyone else ran off, or before the attackers came back.

Dim, and Apollo sat in a tree watching, on a nearby tree, Mercy was busy trying to get the kid they just captured to calm down and not scream. "You know burning the guys face off was bit over kill." "You know where I got my name right?" "Yeah, yeah, I know." Apollo smirked. "So Dim ready to hit them again?" "Sure." They both looked at Mercy to make sure there weren't anymore children to nab out. He nodded. The Absol pair jumped from their tree, along with the other thirty Absol in their possession. Within a minute the Beta leader was the only one left, and running fast. "Dim go ahead and get him." Dim nodded, and surged forward, preparing a night slash. He threw it out, and it completely severed the Umbreon's back right leg off. The Umbreon quickly collapsed, rolling on the ground till he stopped, sprawling out, and very dazed. Dim finally caught up him and head-butted him, effectively knocking him out cold. Dim then used a small controlled flamethrower to cauterize the severed leg. When the rest caught up to Dim the prepared themselves to bring back their new captives. The enemy Beta leader, and a few of his troops, along with the children they had taken. "Alright that leaves one more camp, it's a little to that direction over yonder." "Did you just use the word 'yonder'?" "Yeah. So?" "I didn't know anyone still used it." Apollo laughed a little. "You need to get out more." He chuckled out.

They began walking and before long, Dim could sense the enemies in their camp. "I count thirteen. Mercy, I thought you said there should only be twelve?" "Should only be twelve, I never said there would be only twelve." "Fair point, but then who is the extra?" Mercy thought for a moment before Dim interrupted him. "The extra just vanished." Apollo looked at him. "What do you mean vanished?" "They were there, and then all of the sudden they weren't." Dim grew a dark look. "That may have been an execution." He suddenly ran as fast as he could toward the enemy camp. Apollo looked at the troops and motioned for them to follow before running after Dim himself. Dim was creating distance between himself and the troops, and before long was at the enemy camp. It took about three seconds to realise that it was a female Luxray that had been at the camp, and it had been knocked out, and beat up, possibly more that that, he noted ominously. He turned, fury in his eyes, to the startled Umbreons in the camp, and turned maga, gold rings sprouting on his body, like the time he had fought Darken. He quickly slashed apart all of the Umbreons, coating himself and much of the nearby surroundings in their blood. When he finished off the final one, after slitting the Umbreon's throat out with his horn, he turned normal again and walked to the Luxray.

He gently poked her awake. She slowly regained consciousness before freaking out about whatever the Umbreons had done, thinking they were about to do it again. Dim tried to calm her down and eventually she managed to notice that he wasn't an Umbreon. In fact, to her, he looked like a physically representation of "Adrestia!" She bowed low, sobbing lightly, and mumbling random thank yous, prayers, and promises. "What are you doing?" Dim questioned, after he got over the initial shock of what she was doing. She paused and then slowly looked up. "You're Adrestia. Right?" "No, I'm Dim Star, who is Adrestia?" "She is the Goddess of just revenge. Are you sure you're not?" Well for starters, I'm male, so I don't think I could be a Goddess, and for two, last I checked I was mortal." "Then are you her champion?" "I am a champion of a few Deities, but I don't remember her being in there." "Oh. Okay. Sorry about that then, I'm a little out of it right now, those, umm… I guess they used to be Umbreons, did quite a number on me." "What did they have against you?" "I took some food, me and my son have been quite hungry, and I hadn't been able to get any food, so I decided that these guys would probably be okay with sharing and so I asked them. They refused and were quite rude, so I came back earlier to take some, I got caught and then they did all of this." She motioned with a paw at her body. "I don't really want to ask, but what did they do?" She got a pained face and looked down. "I don't remember much, but I'm pretty sure you can infer about the same amount of information by looking and…" She paused before beginning to tear up. "Smell."She whispered.

Dim's suspicion was confirmed, The scent she was ashamed of was one of ownership, gained from mating. "How old are you?" She sniffed. "Thirteen." Dim looked at her with sadness, and extreme rage, she was around his and Obsideon's age, so there was a certain connection he felt to her, like she was a sister he had never met. "Come on, I'll help you up." She looked at him, bright green eyes, ashy coat covered in blood, and thought of him as a big brother, the one she never had. She tried standing as best she could, and Dim helped her up all the way. "Okay, my soldiers and friends will be here soon, so they can help you. Didn't you say something about a son?" She looked at him surprised. "Yeah why." "I don't want him alone out here, where is he?" She gave him instructions on where he would be and asked that he not see her until she had healed up. "I understand." He said before leading her to Apollo and the soldiers and explaining the situation. He finished by telling Mercy to tell Obsideon what had happened. He then raced off to find the Luxray's son, but right before he did he asked, "Luxray! What's your name?" "Lucy!" He nodded and ran off to the destination she had previously indicated.

He ran for a few hours before getting to a small cave like opening, carefully dug out to keep rain from getting in and to hide whatever was inside. "Is there anyone in there?" Dim asked as nicely as he could. No response. He figured that was probably a good sign, a child would have been instructed not to respond, most likely at least. He crawled in, and looked around the dark space, he noticed a small bundle of fur looking at him fearfully from a corner. "I'm not here to hurt you. Are you the son of a Luxray named Lucy?" Dim asked, trying to be as nonthreatening as he could. The small bundle unwrapped itself and revealed it was a small vulpix. "Are you a friend of Mom's?" The little one asked. "I suppose, she got in a bit of trouble but I helped her out, I came here to make sure no one hurt you, I would like to bring you to her." The Vulpix considered the situation for a moment. "Really?" Dim looked at him with eyes of despair, though the Vulpix picked up on a burning rage deep inside him boiling just short of being obvious on the rest of his facial features. The Vulpix calmed a little at this, he seemed angry at something else, so he was probably telling the truth. "Okay, I'll go with you." Dim smiled a little, "Come on, I'll lead you to where she is." The Vulpix stood and followed him out into the night. Dim gestured in a direction and began walking, the Vulpix close behind.

Dim made sure to avoid the scene of his slaughter, he didn't want to scare the young kit. He had washed his fur in a stream on his search for the kit. "What's your name kit?" "Mom calls me Ray, but my original name was Number Thirty-one." "Number Thirty-one?" "I was born a trainer's pokemon, but he released me, because I wasn't strong enough. Mom found me not long afterward, and took me in as her child." "You're adopted?" "Yes." The continued walking in silence for a few minutes. "Ray, how old are you?" "About four." "How long have you been with your Mom?" Vulpix began to look vaguely suspicious, "Three and a half years, about that much anyway." Vulpix was familiar with the scent of the Umbreons he knew his mother had went to see, he had been able to smell it the last time he had seen her, and this Absol had the scent as well, and all of these questions… something wasn't right. Vulpix suddenly veered off into the woods, trying to get away from Dim, who he thought must be in league with the Umbreons, he had to find his mother and get out of there. He tried to track her scent, but he was tackled by an annoyed Dim. "Okay kid, I don't want to be mean, but my wife is waiting on me, and I would like to get back to her so I can sleep, so you can either come with conscious, or unconscious, it doesn't really matter to me." Vulpix started to answer when they heard some shouts. "Arceus's mother…" Dim sighed, "Ray, don't move I need to settle this." Dim let go of the Vulpix and jumped into the trees.

He looked for where the voices had come from and found his fears true, a large group of Darken's troops were moving in the area and had found his small massacre. "General, this group is even worst than the last one, I can't even tell who they are." The apparent General shook his head gravely, "Men be prepared, we may have to fight something atrocious in these woods." His soldiers seemed to physically solidify themselves. Dim found the children of the group and immediately invaded their minds, knocking them out-cold. Startled by the multitude of his troops dropping, the Umbreon general began scanning the trees. Dim called out, using the echoes to mask his location, "Members of Darken's rebellion, leave these areas, or face the fury that even your highest leaders fear." "Yeah right." an Umbreon scoffed, causing giggles to spread through the ranks, being hushed by their commanding officer. "Be you anything short of a god, neither Darken nor his troops will fear you." Dim's lips curled, then he stopped, was that bloodlust? His father's words, "Your thirst for power will destroy you". He thought about his current goal, to kill all of those troops. "No." He jumped out of the tree and walked calmly to the troops. Wings sprouted out of his back and his horn enlarged, signifying his mega transformation. Then the golden circles began forming on his body. The Umbreon general stared, first not worried at all, then beginning to fear a little. Dim stopped in front of the leader, about five metres away. "I suggest you leave."