Before I write this chapter, I would like to say-DragonSlayer, I know how to spell Satan

Before I write this chapter, I would like to say-DragonSlayer, I know how to spell Satan. "because of some demon seten or something" is a clue. Espeon does not know the correct pronunciation. I chose seten because it is close enough that the mistake could be made, especially in a religious community that doesn't say it often. After all, I know how to spell Lucifer, and I do have spell check.

This is the longest chapter yet. You have been warned.

They are coming

I can hear them

The masters grab the chain and drag me out, nearly strangling me.

The sun is setting. Dusk.

I can see all of them, the masters, and worse, my once-friends.

They stare at me as if I am a demon from the pits of Hell, come to drag them down.

* * *

A chorus starts to sing. This is a very religious event, the saving of the innocent from the evil demon pokemon who took it over.

They sing in that chant. After several, they start an ironic one. Well, considering they're singing about god's love and redemption, a more ironic one.

"…was blind but now I see"

I look at the pokemon, lying happily by their master's feet. Their eyes are filled with blind devotion. They, who I grew up with.

They saw once. Now they are blind.

The only one the song applies to is me.

I laugh softly. They all freeze. Why would the demon laugh right before it is drive out?

[I was blind. Having evolved, I can finally see]

They don't see or hear, let alone understand what I am saying.

[I'm not deaf either. But you are doing this because you still are]

They can't see me. They can only see a demon.

They can't hear my words. They hear the voice of the devil.

* * *

They unchain me. The master of all the masters steps forward, holding the stone.

I bolt.

* * *

"Grab it!"

"Don't let the evil creature escape!"

They manage to catch the long chain. The collar on my neck jerks.

If I cannot escape…

Better to die.

If I'm lucky, I may take out the murderer.

I turn completely around, and jump back into the mob.

I fail.

He runs away, and the other master is still holding my chain. I can't reach him.

I failed.

I failed to kill him.

* * *

"So, demon, you dare to try to attack me? Why? Does your master Satan wish to kill a man of God?"

[Murderer] I say quietly

"What did you say?" he says dangerously.

[Foul killer] I snarl.

"You, a demon, dare to call me foul?!" he yells, outraged.

[You killed them. You killed them, you hurt others. You killed him.] I growl. I can't help it. If I am to die, I will at least face him.

"Who, devil? Other demonic pokemon?"

[You killed the charizard. Not even mercifully, no, you wouldn't even do that. You ripped her son's wings off.]

"She was a hellfire pokemon." Fanatic conviction.

[Your kind wiped out every pidgey, pidgeotto, and pidgeot in the whole area. None have lived here for a generation]

"And glad we are of it!" he says proudly. The other masters raise their voices in agreement.

[You have killed off every pokemon within hunting range but the rattata, and even they are rare now. What did any of them ever do to you?]

"They were wolves that plagued our faith."

[I have seen what happens to those rattata that are caught. You impale them and leave them to die]

"They are evil, rejecting the form God gave them"

[You burned my brother slowly after shoving a spit through him]

"Ha! It was far too merciful a death for that devil pokemon"

[You laughed as he screamed]

"Why should we not rejoice in the death of every evil pokemon?" yelled out one of the other masters.

[My mother is dead because of you]

He frowns. "What do you mean? Your mother, Godfire, was a good, god-fearing pokemon who died in an accident. Why both her children turned out so badly, I will never know."

[She leapt into a lake. She did not even try to swim. Just took a deep breath and drowned. And you drove her to it.] I accuse. [Yet you call me evil]

"What do you mean?"

[I. Saw. Her. I was by the lake when she jumped. Why else would she have fallen into the water?] I whisper.

"She committed suicide? Why would Godfire do that? She would go to hell for such an horrendous thing."

[I guess she felt that is were she belonged. She couldn't live after seeing her mate crushed slowly over the course of a day, and her son burned, and not helping them.]

"No," he says with conviction. "Demon, your lies are clearly false, but this is the worst of all. Godfire would never have done that. She was a good pokemon, unlike you." He turns and addresses the others. "Because of the great evil in this pokemon, when it becomes an eevee it will be changed into a more fitting form immediately. It will become a vaporeon and I name her…Angelmyst."

He steps forward again. I struggle. He cannot get close enough. The other masters hit me, but the pokemon are told to stay back, lest they be contaminated by my 'evil'.

* * *

"Angelmyst! Angelmyst, stop it!" She calls. Traitor. She tells them to back off.

" Angelmyst, please, listen to me. Ignore the demon. Please stop fighting. This is for your own good. Please. I'm your trainer. I'm the one who looks out for you. I know what's best for you. Trust me." she looks at me pleadingly.

[Why should I trust you?] I say.

"I'm your trainer, your friend. Let Father use the stone."

[You relinquished your right to call yourself my friend the day you held me back and stopped me from ending his suffering.]

"Who?"

[My brother] My voice is quiet

" Angelmyst, stop. Don't listen to the demon. I know that you are still there…" she says pleadingly.

[For once, you're right] I say.

"What?"

[I am here. I was always here. But every time I try to tell you, you say it is a demon speaking]

"Angelmyst, I don't understand…"

[Stop calling me that! It is not my name!] I scream.

"Yes it is. Father just named you."

"Ha. The demonspawn renounces the name. What, oh evil thing, do you call yourself?" said the master's master.

"Angelmyst-"

[My name is not Angelmyst. My name is…] I pause, and the knowledge bubbles up within me [my name is Silverfire.]

"See! Even now, it names itself of hell's flames! The wolves of Satan are always preying at my flock!" calls her father.

* * *

It is almost completely dark now.

[If I cannot be free, better to die] I whisper. [And better to die now, killing you, then die by your torture] I begin to glow. The other pokemon whine, scared. The masters look scared too. I smirk.

[What are you afraid of? Surely your god would protect you if I was truly a devil.] I am brilliant now, shining like a small sun. [Unless I am innocent, and your God a lie] I look over at the pokemon [Run, and you will live]

They look at me, and run. But the masters do not, will not. They trust in God. Unfortunately, their trust is misplaced.

[Firewind, Nightshadow, Thunderstorm …I avenge your deaths] I say, almost silently, [Nova] I whisper to myself, as my power explodes outward. It is killing me, but it kills them. I feel their minds disappear.

One is left. Just a little longer…I beg-there.

The master is gone.

I am surrounded by blinding light, before fading into darkness.

ANGELHAVEN DESTROYED BY UNKNOWN ATTACK!

Yesterday Angelhaven was destroyed by a devastating explosion. The entire town was completely destroyed. Although the most of the pokemon escaped, the humans were not so lucky. Every human died but a teenager named Charity, who claims a something shoved her out the range of the blast.

Charity also claims the explosion was caused by an espeon, who was attempting to kill everyone in the town. She says her eevee had evolved and they were attempting to devolve it so it could become a vaporeon, when it went insane.

The body of the espeon has not been found. What attack it used, and how it was able to use such power just a day after it evolved is unknown. Charity describes the blast as being like an explosion attack, but espeon was "glowing like a star" before it released it's attack. Also, no explosion attack on record, by the most powerful pokemon, has ever done even a fraction of this damage.

Charity explained that the espeon, which called itself silverfire, had a umbreon brother. Many scientists have speculated if there could be some contamination in the genetic line, though the parents were a flareon and jolteon. Most believe this is further proof that umbreons and espeons, or dark and psi pokemon in general, are untrustworthy and dangerous, but few people doubted that before. Trainers are advised to keep everstones on their eevees until they are sure what it should evolve into, and another mandatory aggression test will be preformed on all trainer's espeon and umbreon…

In the woods at the edge of the town, two eyes shined silver.

Having finished this dark, nasty story, I would like to address anyone who doesn't think anything like this could ever happen:

Please go to a search engine and look up anti-pokemon or Christian anti-pokemon web sites.

Having done that, please remember why the Salem witch hunts, the inquisition, the holocaust, and all those other things happened.

Think about why the Native Americans, or Indians, were persecuted. Not because they were mentally inferior, but because they worshiped pagan gods and were thus devil worshipers. At one point blankets from a smallpox hospital were given to them in the hopes of killing most of them off.

Now imagine what would happen if the church had that kind of power now.

Scary, huh? Well, I hope I have given you a lasting glimpse of why god isn't always good. As an author, one of my goals is to warn people of what might happen, so that it never will. I hope you all have learned something, unless you already believed this.

A good web site to look into is www.crossroad.to. As well as the pokemon essays, I suggest the essay on how the book The Giver, which condemns stuff like killing underweight and deformed babies is really encouraging us to do it, and the one on teletubbies(no, I don't own them).