Mirror of Nightmare
Chapter 33: Day III; Light, Darkness and Spirit
-Yterval's Side
With his magic of invisible, Yterval sneaks into the Darkon easily. He realizes that some residents of the Darkon had turned into the demon, and the rest residents are hiding in the outskirt area of the Darkon, far from his place, the Darkon Keep.
Yterval spent Day II in walking around the outskirt area of the Darkon. He learned that all residents in Darkon are tormented by those monsters. He couldn't do anything, even appear in front them and cheer them up because he needs to conceal himself.
Today is the Day III, it means that he has only five days left before the end. Yterval decides to go to the inner area of the Darkon. There is a small problem in going into the inner area of the Darkon, and that is the thing that divides the Darkon Outskirt and the Inner Darkon…
River of Sin…
Normally, the ferryman of the River of Sin is Darkrai, one of his trust servant, but now, the one who is the ferryman is the demon, so there is no way that Yterval will cross the river of sin with the boat, leaving only one way…
Fly across it.
But flying across the River of Sin may make those demons to notice Yterval, but since he has no choice, he has to fly.
The River of Sin is quite vast. Everytime that he flies across it, he can hear the eerie sound comes from that river.
Finally, he can cross the river without getting noticed.
But…
"Who is that?!"
Yterval turns his attention to the source of the voice and realizes that five demons are running up to him!
'What?! How can they see through my magic?!' Yterval thinks and about to flee, but one of those demons points his lance at Yterval's neck.
"Don't dare to move or die." That demon says.
"!" Yterval looks at those monsters.
While the lance-wielding demon is pointing Yterval's neck with his lance, two demons stands next to the lance-wielding demon and the rest two walk around, like as if they are finding something.
"…It's fine, no one is around." One of the demons who walk around says.
After hearing that, the lance-wielding demon lower his lance from Yterval's neck.
"Sorry, prince, about the thing that we had done." The lance-wielding demon says.
"W…Who are you?" Yterval asks.
Hearing Yterval'sentence, all five demons removes their mask, reveal themselves as…
"S..Sacred Children!" Yterval says.
"Sheeee! Don't talk too loud, prince." The lance-wielding demon, who turns out to be Ordin, says.
"We are surprised that you have shown up yourself in this place alone." Nardal says.
"But… How can you come here?" Yterval asks.
"After we sacrificed ourselves in the Palace of Legend, we ended up here, but because of those demons, we have to conceal ourselves." Jedi says.
"Also, actually, we are the residents that once live here, but one day we woke up in the world, without any memory. After we returned to this place, we finally remember." Glacia says.
'That's it!' Yterval thinks. Because there were five lost souls that disappeared from the Darkon for two decades… Those lost souls… are the Sacred Children!
"What about you, prince?" Ellisk asks.
Yterval starts explaining everything that happened after the Sacred Children sacrificed themselves. His story shocks all Sacred Children.
"Arceus…Why…" Glacia says.
"That it is. Now we are trying to find the piece of the Mirror of Nightmare." Yterval says.
"Well… We don't know anything about that mirror. Sorry." Ordin says.
"But…You said that the living creatures in the world start to fade away, but no one in the Darkon had started to fade away!" Ellisk says.
"What?!" Yterval says.
"Well… We don't know anything about it… But hey! Don't worry about it too much!" Nardal says.
"Now, I must find the piece of the Mirror of Nightmare first…" Yterval says.
"Did you check every place in the Darkon already?" Ellisk asks.
"No… I haven't checked the Darkon Keep yet." Yterval says.
"Darkon Keep? But there are so many demons guard the entrance!" Jedi says.
"But hey! We can fix this! Prince, we will distract them and let you go into the Darkon Keep, okay?" Ordin says.
Yterval and the Sacred Children walk up to the Darkon Keep, where there are so many demons guarding the entrance. The Sacred Children, disguise as the demons, distract those guards and let Yterval to enter the Darkon Keep easily.
Yterval walks around the Darkon Keep. There are many demons in the palace, but…
'I didn't see anyone that could be the leader of those demons.' Yterval thinks.
Finally, Yterval reaches the throne room of the Darkon Keep, but no one is in the throne room.
Yterval looks at the throne. He suspects that the throne…
Yterval touches the throne, he feels the great power comes out of the throne. Yterval wastes no time and drains the power to be his own.
Suddenly, after Yterval finishes draining those power, a path that leads to the underground appears!
"Finally! This must be the entrance to the Sanctuary of Mortality! It will open only for me because only I that can drain those power!" Yterval mumbles and enters the dungeon, Sanctuary of Mortality.
-Diasol's side
"FINALLY!" Diasol roars.
Finally, Diasol found the entrance to the Sanctuary of Mortality in the Soulyn. That entrance is located in her bedroom!
"Now I can go into this place and meet Zygarde!" Diasol says.
"Congratulation, princess."
Diasol turns her attention back and see three wandering souls. Those souls are…
"Maxnet! Terrus! Soryl!" Diasol says.
"Yeah…" Soryl says.
"How can you come to this place?! And how can you turn into the wandering soul?!" Diasol asks.
Maxnet, Terrus and Soryl explains everything to Diasol.
"So, you are the souls that lost from the Soulyn, right?" Diasol says.
"Yes." Terrus says.
"And… It looks like that Link had retrieved another piece of the Mirror of Nightmare already!" Diasol says.
"Seem like that." Maxnet says.
"We can't waste any more time!" Diasol says and enters the dungeon, Sanctuary of Mortality.
"Good luck, princess." Maxnet, Terrus and Soryl say before leaving Diasol's room.
-Xynnia's side
Xynnia is crying.
After she conceals herself with her magic and walks around the Lumina, which now is under the control of those demons, she can hear the cry of the residents of the Lumina. Xynnia cries because although she is the princess of the Lumina, she couldn't do anything to get them out of their torment.
Xynnia walks around the Lumina. She couldn't find the entrance to the Sanctuary of Mortality, so, leave only one place that she still doesn't go, the Lumina Hall.
Unlike the Darkon Keep, Lumina Hall doesn't have too many guards, so Xynnia can sneak into it easily.
Xynnia walks around the Lumina Hall. She goes to her room, ballroom, dining room, and the dungeon of the hall.
"!" Xynnia shocks, because there are so many Lumina citizens get imprisoned in the dungeon!
"…When will we get out of here?" One of Luminian (The citizen who lives in Lumina.) asks.
"I know that Princess Xynnia are trying to help us from somewhere in the world." Another Luminian says.
"Hm! Princess Xynnia?! She didn't even do anything for us Luminian." Another Luminian says.
"That's right! She always keeps herself in her room. She is the one who ruined the friendship between us and the Darkon!" Another Luminian says.
"But she tried very hard to develop Lumina into the better place!" Another Luminian says.
"So what? Everything that she says, actually is the word from her advisor! She can't do anything on her own!" Another Luminian says.
"Yes, she is the puppet, soulless Pokemon! No… she is not a Pokemon! She is just an empty shell!" Another Luminian says.
"How dare you say something like that to our beloved princess?!" Another Luminian says.
"But it's true… wait…what? I think that I hear the sound of someone crying…" Another Luminian says.
All Luminian look around themselves, but no one is crying.
"Maybe it is just a daydreaming…" Another Luminian says.
No…
That's not the daydreaming.
If someone can see through the magic, they will see that Princess Xynnia had run out of the dungeon, the tear is coming out of her eyes.
Xynnia runs until he reaches the throne room, where there are no one.
Xynnia walks up to the throne and places her hoop on the throne.
…Is this the fruit…
…Is this the fruit for everything that she had done?
Since the day she became the ruler of the Lumina, she tried very hard to help the Luminian, but why… Why the Luminians say something like that toward her?!
Hm?
Xynnia whips her tear off and realizes that a path to the underground appears in front of her!
'… How can the path appear?!' Xynnia thinks, but she has no time to think about that.
Xynnia steps into the path that will lead her to the dungeon, Sanctuary of Mortality.
To Be Continue…
LD: As I thought, I know that the main characters that already died will appear again.
Pokedragon: You are such a sharp guesser.
LD: In this chapter, Xynnia is a tearjerker.
Pokedragon: Xynnia is a very pathetic character, so she cries very often.