Chapter 3
What does friend mean to you?
Oh so wrongfully abused
Uh-huh you like me confused
All included but you...
The Storm and Shockwave had engulfed the earth for exactly six hours, the first six hours of the new year 1002. Any person that had come in contact with a pokemon 1 hour before the Wave had been affected. For the first few hours after all had awoken from the comatose-like side-effect of it, there was panicked confusion among the weakened Changed ones and the frightened Unchanged ones, but the unchanged, mostly wild pokemon remained the same, just missing a 10 hour space of time from their memories.
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It hovered in space, always watching, always surveying the world with It's omniscient eye. It was pure innocence, but with perfect maturity, and It observed the new change that had taken place upon the surface of It's birth-planet. This was interesting... so interesting to Its baby-blue eyes. This change that had happened was not foreseen, because it was the Offspring's plan, and the Offspring's power was Its power. Power that was so easily hidden over the decades it took to produce it. It felt.... anger... frustration at the Offspring, for it had changed things without permission, he had changed the rules right in front of It, and that was... unsettling.
The decision was made, there would be no further insolence from the Offspring, Its power was to be respected and worshiped, not used, even by it's own seed. It moved for the first time in centuries, crystalized ice breaking off its body as the power returned to the once lackluster form. A brilliant display of light later, and It was gone, traveling into the depths of time to plan, to foresee what the Offspring was trying to block.
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Adrienne's POV
What.... What happened? I was somewhere.. It was like a dream-world, like I was living in my head or something, if that's even possible. Am I dead? That storm was pretty bad I guess, but I might have remembered something from that, like the point at which my body gave out. I was floating I guess, or what you could call floating. I couldn't feel my body at all, I probably was dead. Then... why could I still think?
I drifted along I guess, waiting for something to happen. After a while I felt something else, like... a sleeping beast or a dark power.... but I recognized this power, what was going on here? The power or whatever suddenly stirred, and my thoughts were overwhelmed with confused emotions, but the emotions weren't coming from me. They were coming from that other thing. Confusion gave way to anger... rage is a better term for it, because the thing was growing all around me, slashing and screaming about being trapped.... trapped? So it could "talk" or at least thing in words. So I guess it wasn't a beast.... why is there another person here? The thing calmed down a little and started "drifting" as I was. That power was so familiar....
*So you haven't figured it out yet either?* A voice... in my head. It sounded like a deep feminine voice, so it was a she. I directed my thoughts at her, but I guess I didn't need to seeing as she had known them before as I was thinking to myself. All the while I was thinking, she was listening, because I wasn't hearing any of her thoughts or emotions or anything like before. *I see your just as weirded out by this...place as I am* she said *who are you anyway? Are you human?*
Yah, of course I'm human, what did that make her? *Houndoom* How was that even... wait.... Danika? Is your name Danika? *yes, that is the name I've had since birth... and I'm guessing you're the one that gave it to me.... Adrienne* This was getting freaky, I must be dead. It is said that pokemon are sentient as well as humans, which means they must go to the afterlife, to Moltres, after death. *I don't think we're dead human, I think we just need to wake up* Well... like I haven't tried that. *You never really "try" to wake up do you? It just is supposed to happen* Well, when is it going to happen? I'm tired of waiting around in this crazy dream-place. *Well its nice to know you haven't lost any of your personality Adrienne* she thought with the equivalent of a smile. As if on cue, the place we were in started to melt and fade. *hmm, I guess thinking about it does help after all human, I'll be happy to get back into my body and move, all this thinking hurts my head* And she said I hadn't changed....
A light filled my thoughts, and I awoke with a jolt. *well that was fun* said Danika in my head.
Kendra's POV
Drifting... drifting away, I was drowning. *you will not drown, I won't let you..* Yes, yes I will... my mind is so hazy and clouded, dripping with water like a full sponge. I felt myself being pulled away... prepare to die... to lie forever at the bottom of this lake.... my mere 17 years of life had offered me nothing but inevitable doom, and I was still drifting, not able to feel my body... sinking. *Don't you dare give up Kendra, it may seem hopeless, but you must try.* I can't... why won't this voice just hush and let me sleep? *because you don't have to give up, and you must wake up, NOW* That last word resounded in my thoughts like a huge gong had been struck, great, now I couldn't sleep at all. Thanks a lot voice thing. *your welcome, now move* A light of awareness pierced the murky darkness, though even that light seemed filtered, diluted. I slowly opened my eyes... I was underwater of course, and I could see the black darkness below and the light filtering in from above. *Good job Kendra, I'll take over from here* The voice was streamlined and sleek... nice to listen too. My mind was so drowsy, but I could still feel myself moving upwards. The light was so nice... and I felt like I could breath now... in a strange sort of way. There was a bubbly giggle in my head. *you sound so drunk Kendra, I think I let you sink for too long, but you just wouldn't wake up* Uggh.... *almost there* My body moved by itself, I was too weak to do anything...
I felt a cool wind as my face burst through the water's surface. Instinctively, I mustered my strength and gasped for air as my limbs treaded water absently. There was a shore nearby, and I let the current take me too it as I started paddling myself. *If your still tired, I'll swim for you, I have more experience in the water anyway* ok... whatever... I let my thoughts sink and my lungs breath in sweet air. After an eternity it seemed, I felt myself run along the shore. The warm sand felt good against my cool skin, and I immediately fell into slumber upon it. Thanks... Riptide...
Cole's POV
I had met Lightrings. It's strange how a creature can be your ally for two whole years and you don't really get to have a chat with him until something like this happens. I guess I'm rather grateful. *As you should be, after all, I'm the fighting part of the team* he said smugly. *that was not smug, I'm just stating a fact* It is kind of annoying that he can "see" all my thoughts though... *oh come on, you know you like it, you just said you were grateful* yah well, things change pal, mind trying to get out of this spot instead of talking about how great and powerful you are? I added some sarcasm to that little thought for fun *fine, fine, this place is like a dream right? So we just gotta wake up, I can wait for that* You usually aren't conscious in you dreams though... and you defiantly don't talk to your pokemon in dreams. This probably has something to do with that storm-wave thing that happened before. *well duh* I just saying.. err thinking... I guess we have no choice but to wait around.... Do you know anything about that storm thing Lightrings? You were looking towards the east for 20 minuets before it came, like you knew about it or something *well... its hard to explain, but I just had this freaky sense that something was coming, you know, like how they say all pokemon have a sixth sense about danger?* Do you know what is was or where it came from? *I know it had something to do with Guardian energy, cause that's what I was feeling a build up of* yah, I felt it too sort of, you know me, part psychic. Lightrings snorted at this, his element was darkness, the arch-enemy of psy element energy. Oh well, he had to get over it when he evolved into umbreon, and he'll deal with it now. *Can you sense anything now? Your in your head right? Just kinda look around like I know you do sometimes* I've already tried, but it's like my psy doesn't even exist anymore, I can't get a thing. *Oh well... back to waiting right? Lets reminisce about old times* he said with wistful emotion. I wouldn't exactly call it "old times", I mean it was what? Only two years right? That's not exactly a life time of experiences *it's still something, and I'm bored. Fine... remember the time you evolved? Now that must be the funniest evolution story anyone has, I thought with a laughing emotion. I guess we have a few memories...
Keri's POV
Someone was singing. I was beautiful, like the Suicune Serenade I used to hear all the time back at Dracil... like the lullaby my mother used to sing me.... My thoughts came back to as my consciousness did, but it was very gradual, I think my mind just really wanted to hear the song better, it was so lovely. When I "awoke" it felt so eerie, like I was stuck halfway between awareness and illusions. Where the heck is that singing coming from then? *From I*
....o...k.... now I'm hearing voices. Voices and something else, felt like an emotion, like tranquillity. I'm crazy or just dead? There was a laughter in my mind now, actually, more like a giggle, all bubbly like that. *one could say you are bubbly too Keri, but then that would go for your personality and not your laugh*. Ohhhh... I get it... wait, my laugh is too bubbly, I worked hard to get it that way too. *perhaps you shall work harder next time if that is the result you desire* Now this voice thingy was making fun of me too, how snooty. *your one to talk, princess, have you not yet figured out who I am?* Well if you would just stop this taunting for a sec... hey, how can you read my thoughts anyway? You some kind of psychic? *no, try again friend* Friend? Well I only have once true friend... but she's just Typha. *and there you go, good guess Keri* Typha? Alright, that's it, I'm confused, and I am going to just sit around here until something happens... well I would if I had a body I would.... anyway... hello Typha, nice to finally meet you. *same to you, princess.*
Donovan's POV
I was scared. I had never been so frightened in my entire 23 years of life... but still... every age is capable of dread. Especially this kind... when you think your going insane or you think your dead, trapped in some.... some strange place where you have no body, only your mind. There is a darkness in here though... a sleeping beast I think will shatter me, shatter my mind if I don't get out of here fast. But... but I can't leave, no matter what I do, and that thing... that dark power is stirring, awakening. I panicked, getting as far away from it as I could, but as it awakened it seemed to grow, to consume everything, even the space around me, until I was surrounded by this murky power.
Then... then it became fully awake with a bellow of power and anger. I screamed in agony as the thing ripped at me, tore at every fiber of my being from all sides, and I was enveloped in a black hell. I couldn't stop my own shrieks, not that I could hear them over the roars of that thing.... the roars of Titan. That's what it was... that's the only thing it could be, Titan in his infinite rage and power, bellowing without reason, and I the small, infinitesimal dot caught in his soul, not able to do anything but struggle uselessly and recede deeper within myself to escape this pain. But it was not escapable, and I curled up into the recesses of this nightmare place, shuddering against the roars and tearing of Titan... wishing to Mew that I should be so lucky as to die.