I looked over at the hay pile and felt my tired body long for rest. I crawled to the hay bale and felt my heart slow down to the point that I fell into a deep sleep. No rooms or memories, only darkness waited for me in my sleep.
I slowly stirred to the feeling of warm aura near me. I looked up and focused more to see the supportive protective aura fill the room and centralize on a moving Buizel. The Buizel came over and began rubbing my back.
"Nora? What are you doing here?" I asked as I slowly stretched my arms to rid them of the heavy drowsiness.
"Katrina came by last night," Nora answered.
I froze in my stretch and stared at the ground, slowly remembering the feelings that I saw before.
"She told me about the mission. She told me about how she almost hurt the team. She told me about how you helped her break free from her trance."
"Did she tell you about the council meeting?" I said, scared to hear the answer.
Nora took her paws back and set them on her lap. I felt the awkward tension build a little as I refused to speak, and she searched for the right words to say. I couldn't move. I felt like a child who was just caught breaking something precious.
"Did they tell you what I am?"
"My child. You have been called many things as of late. Everyone may be able to call you things, but no one has the power to decide for you child. Only you do." She grabbed my paw and I turned to her.
"I don't want to be called a monster, but now. Some are calling me a savior. I don't want that. I just want to help. I don't want to be a mistake, but I don't feel worthy enough to be someone's hero."
"Then, my child, you know what you need to do. Go and help them, no matter the titles that they might force you to keep. Now let's go. They are waiting for you to continue the meeting." Nora said as she stood.
I took a quick sigh and stood to follow her out of my room. I felt the intense aura spill out of the council room into the hallway as we approached. We stopped at the entrance of the council room and Nora grabbed my paws. She squeezed my paws, and I felt her caring pour through her aura. I felt something round being pushed into my paws and I saw some berries being handed to me. She leaned forward and whispered, "I know this isn't a good breakfast, but it's better than nothing and I know you will need your strength in there my child."
She smiled and walked away leaving me with a smile and the berries in my paw. I looked quickly swallowed the berries before knocking on the door to the council room. A wave of powerful aura splashed over me as the doors opened and every pokemon from before leaned to watch me enter. I could see the different stares peer at me. Some with anger, some with concern, others with disappointment, and finally Katrina's stare.
She turned my way with her ears folded behind her head and looked at me with sadness filling her eyes with her tears. The fur under her eyes looked wet from recent tears and felt her sadness stab my heart. I could feel something wrong. Under the pressure of the fierce aura in the room, there was something else. A feeling of awkward worriedness. I began to look at the other Pokémon in the room, but they turned away as I tried to look them in the eye.
"I see that Koro has finally appeared for his final hearing." The general spoke to call the meeting to order, but I couldn't stop thinking about his specific wording.
"Yes, Koro. This is a hearing. In light of the information about humans and their presence here in our world. We have concluded that you are no longer a viable source of help to our world Koro." The general spoke.
"You see young Caleb." Lord Ferris spoke up.
"All humans that have arrived before were strong enough to resist the darkness that was befalling the world at the time. One key difference between the past humans and you are, that the past humans were never corrupted by the dark presence. Your beast form, which has appeared fantastically many times, is proof that you are not the pure human that was sent here to help us. Your corruption could be used against us to quicken the end of our homes." He chuckled a little under his breath.
"Which means young Koro, you can't be left to live. The longer you are here, just as the stories have told. If a human resides too long in our world, then there will be disastrous effects on our world. So that means that you will be killed to make sure that there won't be any further damage." Lord Ferris finished and stapled a smirk on his face before wiping it away to join the seriousness of the room.
I was in complete shock. I turned to look at Sir Lance as he stared at the dirt in complete shame. The general sighed as I passed over everyone's faces. No one wanted to say anything in my defense. All that Katrina could do was turn away and cry. Zeina looked away and leaned against the wall while Carter only struggled to put out the small fires under his feet.
I felt my heart and my clash over the feelings that began to stir and boil together. Despair and anger fought like two raging animals inside my mind. This was a different swirl of emotions. My muscles flexed and I felt the beast rage within my core, but I didn't let him out. This was my anger and I wanted to gith with it!
"We apologize young Koro; we understand that you were sent to a foreign land without the choice of the darkness taking hold of your heart. It truly is- "Lord Ferris started up again.
"Are you kidding me!?" I cut him off.
Everyone broke from their trance and began staring at me with concern. I stood and felt my heart pound strongly in my chest. I wanted to let the beast out to see what he would do to them all. This was getting ridiculous.
"I have dealt with this crap for my entire existence here! I have trained my body, my mind, and even dealt with your problems as a disregarding council!"
"How dare you!" Korook stomped over to me and blew smoke from his nostrils.
"That mission you sent us on was the darkness taking innocent for terrible experiments! This went on for too long just because you all felt that it wasn't worth it! We barely made it out of there just because I had the beast inside me! Without that bit of darkness working for us, we wouldn't have been able to beat those fallen Pokémon!"
Korook backed down as he processed what I said. I could see the rest of the council shuffle in their seats.
"I am here to help, and I have done every last little task that you have thrown at me. At every moment I have tried my best to atone for my mistakes. I will continue to fight for you because I need to make sure that those who have been lost by my hand, won't be for nothing. My existence here will have meaning. I have a job to do, and I will finish my mission."
I turned to the council and felt my aura battle with the general's fierce aura.
"Now will you help me complete my purpose here or will you get in my way?" I couldn't tell what he was going to do, but I felt his aura push against mine with great force.
"Are you suggesting that you would fight us to save our world, even if it would result in your death?" the general asked while standing from his council chair to face me. I felt his aura even stronger and struggled to stand my ground. Everyone stared in anticipation of what was going to happen.
Before I knew it, I was slammed to the ground. The air from my lungs was gone and my muscles refused to move. General Hawl stood above me with his arms behind his back.
"How can you fight for us when you can't defend yourself from us? We need someone to be stronger than us. To stand when they have been beaten harder than ever and yet you lie here on the ground. Pitiful." He slowly began walking back to his chair, leaving me on the ground.
I tried to force my muscles to move, but I couldn't. My strength was gone, and I couldn't do anything about it. I felt the monster stir and my muscles began moving, helping me to rise from the floor. I felt the monster fill my lungs with air and leave me standing behind a surprised General. I panted and said, "I am still standing."
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