Chapter 2
I've given everything I need
I've given everything I own
I've given everything I could
To blow up the outside world...
The creature floated lazily in the air, still preparing the destruction of things known. His plan had been in the makings of his tortured brain for years, and now it was finally coming into fruition. The emotions he felt were the first he had had in years, decades, and it was so strange. All energy had gone into the grand plan, and into nothing else, not eating or sleeping or bathing. Not training or moving, just using the great power of his brain to create this unique energy. And it was...... finished.
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It watched from space, a silent observer. The offspring was almost complete, though his soul was shattered. What would become of the world? It floated in the vacuum, and watched.
December 31, 1001; 11:40 p.m.
Adrienne's POV
Something was defiantly going on. There were no stars tonight, but the sky seemed way to black. Maybe it was cloudy? I don't know. Being a part dark-type, Danika always stays up at night, but today she was looking towards the eastern horizon, like she was in a trance.
"Dani.... Dani.... can you hear me?" It was close to midnight.... what did this all mean? I crawled over to Danika, draped my hand over her shoulders and shivered. What ever it was, she would protect me... I hope.
December 31, 1001; 11:51 p.m.
Keri's POV
It was almost midnight, but the sounds of a battle had awoken me from my dreams. I peeked out of the large, expensive tent I had taken with me two years ago. Typha was fighting something... or someone. I swear if its those guys from the palace again I'll go crazy. I had to give them credit if they had tracked me all the way up here on the mountain, even if their pokemon were no match for mine. But it wasn't them after all, just a group of dumb rapidash that had decided to fight in the middle of the night. I'll show them for disturbing me sleep.... I rubbed off the facial mask I had put on that night, and started to direct Typha against the 5 glowing fires that were rapidash. Like she needed it. A surf, surf, surf, surf, and hydro pump (just to keep it interesting) later, they were all defeated. Typha was the one glowing now. Oh. Sweet. She's evolving! Finally! I couldn't help but grin, screw the wrinkle lines. This was her moment to shine though, literally. The glow slowly turned from yellowish white to light, sky blue, and as quickly as it had began, it was done. There before me was the angular face, soft wing ears, and light blue body of my new dragonair. I congratulated Typha dually, and she slithered up onto my shoulders and smiled with here eyes. Two seconds later she just got weird, springing off my shoulder and onto the tent, collapsing it.
"Hey! What did you do that; for, you know how long it took me to set that stupid thing up??" I demanded. What was up? It was then I noticed the lights on the eastern horizon.
December 31, 1001; 11:58 p.m.
Kendra's POV
I closed my eyes. Whatever it was, it was getting closer.... larger.....
"What do you think it is?" Cole asked innocently enough. Our Mother had been partially psychic, so we were supposed to be able to sense these sorts of things, but now all I was getting was weak nothingness.
"How should I know? You're the older one, you should know more than me when is comes to sensing this crap" I was just making excuses and I knew it. Something drastic was about to happen, that was all I could tell. Some sort of..... energy? Is that what is was? It was exactly like the energy known to surround the earth (called "Guardian" energy) but different somehow, so different I could hardly tell, but it was barley changed, almost like a copy of Guardian energy... but... how could that be? The energy or whatever suddenly swelled in force, like it was going to consume the whole planet. I yelped and broke contact with it, holding my forehead because of the sudden headache I had gotten. Cole did the same thing, but tried to mask his pain. He thinks he's so tough. I always get headaches after trying to connect with something telepathically, which is why I hate doing it too frequently. I'm not exactly a pleasant person with a headache. I glanced at my watch, and then behind me at the lake where Riptide was supposed to be getting a midnight snack. Just as I was thinking that, she burst out of the water with all her vaporeon waterworks, but she didn't have any goldeen or seaking with her as she trotted over to the place where I was sitting.
"What happened to snack time Riptide? Going on a diet?" I said jokingly. She just waved her tail a bit and stared out into space. She could be a real ditz sometimes, but this wasn't like her. Maybe she was just tired. Right then Lightrings hopped up onto the rock next to his sibling and stared at the same exact spot. It was 11:59 at night, what were they looking at? Or... waiting for...?
December 31, 1001; 11:59 p.m.
Donovan's POV
I brought out the electric whip again. Titan was evolving into a great powerful creature, breaking out of the steel cocoon like it was paper. I had to bring about my authority right as he was emerging, or my very life could be in danger. Violent, strong pokemon always rebelled against weak masters at the time of their rebirth into a new form, and Titan was one of the strongest. I must prove to be stronger. It was almost time.... I drew back my arm for the first and strongest blow....
The sky suddenly crackled and turned from pure black to bright blue and purple in one second. It was like someone had decided to rip open the sky or something. I yelled and covered my ears at a deafening roar of trees being blown off their roots, once solid rocks being fused together, and what seemed like the scream of some feral beast. The sky... I couldn't see the sky anymore, I could only hear the scream and the roar of destruction. I fell to my knees before this storm, this madness, only to cautiously open my eyes and find myself kneeling before the tyranitar that was Titan. Oh god.... I'm dead now. If not from the insane destruction around me then from this insane monster that I created. He looked at me and saw my fear. I had broken rule number one of my rule of strength: never show fear to your pokemon. I felt the noise around me magnify and the sky went wild with unimaginable colors. The pain in my ears increased, pain like nothing I had ever felt. My hands were covered in slippery, sticky wet stuff.... blood.... Oh god, oh god... oh Mew of time, Entai of fire, Suicune of storms... anything! I don't want to die! The black silhouette against the ruptured sky... the narrowed, glowing red eyes... this was the fist emotion Titan had shown me since I first started his training. Of course it had to be anger. Titan was crazy because that's how I had wanted it. He brought back a massive claw and arm, solid rock and power leered at me like death itself. I closed my eyes, I couldn't take it anymore. Please don't let me die....
I felt a rush of wind before my face.... time seemed to slow down right before the massive claw of Titan plunged into my insignificant face. Please.... I felt a shockwave of pain rip through my face and I lost my breath. I screamed, but nothing could be above the roar of the storm. The blood loss was getting to me. The pain was getting to me. I tried to open my eyes, to see what the hell was going on, too try and look death in the face. All I got from one eye was burning hurt, but the other opened, miraculously. Titan was roaring like he could be heard if he tried hard enough, bringing back both claws like he was going to squash my head like a melon. A shockwave of energy else hit me from the back and seemed to go right through me. It didn't add anything to my pain, just to go through. I could hardly see, the earth was shaking, I was shaking... sinking to the ground actually. If a human experiences too much pain unconsciousness protects them like a veil. I prayed for life before, now all I want... is to... sleep.... But all I got was fresh agony.
Adrienne's POV
The light and sound wouldn't stop, but Danika was finally moving at least. I didn't understand anything. What was with this storm? Is it all in my head? Am I going crazy? I cried and held my hands over my face and chunks or rock blew past, scratching up Dani and I until we were bruised and bleeding all over. It wouldn't stop...... would it ever stop? A shockwave or something came roaring up, and I braced for death... but it passed through me. What is going on...? My last thought before my mind blanked and my body fell limp.
Cole's POV
The storm had been going on for.... hours? Minuets? Seconds? I couldn't tell, it was just insane. My brain was almost ready to give out, but I couldn't black out just yet.... I sensed something like a wave or energy approaching. Would that be what killed us all? The whole point of this storm seemed to be to put people in pain, thought all the pokemon did was try to protect us. Lightrings had formed a dark hole to suck in any rocks that flew past at 200 miles per hour. Kendra's Vap wasn't doing so well, because all she could control water and constantly attacking debris didn't help that much, and constantly depleted her energy. Come to think of it, Lightrings's energy was being quickly depleted too, as though the storm was taking it all out of him. There! The psychic part of my mind screamed as I abruptly sensed the wave upon us. It passed right through me like a ghost, but knocked me backwards a few feet. Kendra wasn't so lucky. The waves passed through, but knocked her right into the lake. Her Vaporeon dove in after her, and I tried to follow, but my body unexpectedly failed me, and my mind felt like a black blanket was being wrapped around it. It must have been... that wave....
Keri's POV
Well the tent was no help, I don't think it would have helped much even if Typha hadn't knocked it down. But that didn't keep me from being indignant about it. This was the freakiest thing I had ever seen, did these sorts of storms happen all the time at this freakish mountain? The sky was torn open with all these colors, and the noise... ugg... I pressed my hands against my ears to try and get it to go away, but that didn't help at all. It was like all the white noise.... and some sort of scream was being beamed straight into me head and wouldn't leave. I squinted around looking for Typha, but all she was doing was hitting away these massive chunks of rock and, get this, trees that were flying around everywhere. Now what was going on here... CRACK! I guess Typha missed a rock, because I blanked out before I hit the ground with a huge chunk of rock against my head.
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The beast smiled with his pale white lips. The deed had been done. He covered himself with a barrier and the shockwave came all the way back to him from the ends of the earth. Now it would be easy, now he would just have to wait.