Of Light and Darkness
Scenario 2 - Revival
Chapter 2: Force
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"Ancient Cities blazin', Shadows keep attackin', little children cryin'.."
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Midnight.
The darkest hour of the day,
Some fear it, others embrace it,
All feel that it has some significance
or meaning, whether if it is the coming of evil,
or if it is to defy the orders of one's parents even,
or if it is to the coming whatever Dark Lord one may worship..
** Indigo National Guard(ING) Headquarters, Yesterday **
0000 hours.
Colonel Lawrence Solomon was standing next to the large window in his
office. He had a rather large and old book in his hands. The man, who appeared that he was probably to retire from his service soon, come a year or two, looked through the book. It was very early in the morning, or late at night(the issue was debateable), but he needed to see this one event, for it could quite possibly be the beginning of something that could change the course of existence as one knew it.
"So beautiful, the moonlight, making people believe that it is protecting them from the Darkness." The colonel said quietly to himself.
Suddenly, a large thunder crash was heard, a black lightning bolt struck
from the cloud-less sky. The landscape suddenly was black for an instant, the
moonlight came back as soon as it went. Another one followed, this time the lightning brightened the landscape to the point of nearly blinding someone, it too left instantly. Solomon smiled and closed the book.
"Ah good. So it's begun." He said as he turned around to leave for his bed.
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S c e n a r i o
Chapter 2 - Force
R e v i v a l
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0001 hours.
Existence.
What is this concept?
I've heard of it before.
But never quite understood it.
Is...this the thing called Existence?
I've been alive, I'm sure.
But I've never existed before.
Interesting.
0500 hours.
Solomon was back in his office, taking a sip of coffee. He was reading
a book which was set upon his desk. The colonel flipped through each page, smiling. The writing of it was in some dead language that most likely only
the best and brightest scholars knew about. Solomon smiled with glee, at
coming upon a page, which he started to read aloud in it's native language.
"Sun and Moon shall shine upon Earth..bringing a reign of death and
suffering to her children.."
"Poetry." he commented in his own tounge. "Pure poetry." Solomon smiled once again as he stood up and went to the phone.
1300 hours.
*Buzz* *Buzz*
The intercom was buzzing Solomon to inform him of a message from his secratary. He quickly pressed a button so that the secretary's message would
come through.
"Yes?" Solomon said.
"A Professor Michael Oak to see you sir." The voice of the secretary came
through.
"Send him right in, please."
"Yes sir."
* * *
Oak walked right into the Colonel's office, time had aged him well, his appearance wasn't much different, except for possibly an extra wrinkle or two. Much younger-looking than the Colonel's ghostly white hair and leathery hands in any circumstance.
"Ah, here you are Professor, come in, have a seat." Solomon said pulling out
the ancient book he was reading eariler.
"You said you had something important to tell me about." Oak said calmly,
eyeing the book on the desk.
"Yes, about the Second Sign." Solomon saw Oak's expression become concerned.
"..T-the Second Sign?" Oak's voice shook a bit.
Solomon nodded, "Two down, Five to go.", he gently handed the book to Oak.
"I know." Oak quickly flipped through the pages, each one a cryptic
prophecy of sorts was written.
"The First Sign --", Oak started to quote from the book also understanding the language, "..And when the mighty Pheonix flies over the one who will overcome, thus it will be annoucing the arrival of the Light's Savior."
Solomon slowly took the book back, he turned the page, "'The Second Sign -- 'In the middle of night, where only Moon dares venture, a black ray of light shall descend from the heavens and strike the Earth, however, a white ray shall follow, seeking to destroy the Dark one, thus bringing a new age upon to her children..'"
"So you saw the the rays of light?" Oak asked in a nervous tone.
"Yes, of course, otherwise I wouldn't have called you in today.", Solomon
grinned with his yellowing teeth, "I needed to tell someone else who studies
the Prophecies..apparently you can handle your knowledge better than I." He
smiled as he tugged on the skin of his left hand. "This knowledge has done
wonders for my appearance at such a young age," He said rather in a rather sarcastic manner, "many mistake me for 70, no one even remotely suspects me being 37." Solomon heartily chuckled.
"Appearances can be decieving, Colonel." Oak chuckled, abliet in a more nervous tone.
"But we ramble on. So then...First it was that boy seeing the Houou fly over him, so is he the supposed 'Light's Savior'?" Solomon asked.
"Apparently so, I denied him having seen that damn bird..I suppose because
I don't want it to end this way..not with Apocalypse.."
"All things have to end, people have to die someday..as much as we would like to believe..nothing is immortal."
"True enough. Well..I suppose this a one way street now..we begin our descent into the End of the World."
"Not quite..that one boy could very well save us all, however doubtful..the
Prophecies don't speak of a Light Savior for nothing."
Oak nodded, a look of worry in his eyes.
"Well, I suppose we all pray for the best." he said with a uncertain tone.
Solomon grinned again, "Yes. Indeed. Well, I suppose that is all I wanted to discuss with you, you are dismissed Mr. Oak."
Oak stood up, saluted the general and left the office.
'May God..or whatever Higher Force there is, have mercy on us all' he thought silently.
1400 hours
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
"6 bullseyes." A young soldier put down the gun. He had short brown hair, blue and white uniform, and was wearing the earmuffs usually worn when on the target practice fields.
"Whoa, shit, where'd you get that kind of aim?" a passing soldier commented
on his fellow's dead-on handling of the firearm.
"What can I say? It's a gift."
"Keep it up and soon you'll make the Captain jealous!"
"Yea, I guess." The earmuffed soldier replaced the target and reloaded his gun, raising it again to fire.
1405 hours
Darkness.
A blinder of many.
However some will not be blinded.
They will still see.
They will ensure that all will see.
1406 hours
"Thus, Prophecies will be fufilled, and the world will be shaken, most likely destroyed," Solomon was again mumbling to himself, "this will be a most interesting experience."
The sun shone quite brightly through the windows, quickly followed by a cloud, covering the bright light.
"Very interesting indeed."
1700 hours
"Thus, the First and Second Signs have occured." Oak looked outside at the afternoon sky, the sky turning a shade of pink, "I suppose we're on our way down to Hell now."
The sun began to set.
1750 hours
"I heard the Captain was told by Solomon that we'll be dispatched
tommorow."
"Really? Wonder why."
"Yea, so do I, but we're soldiers, not commanders."
"I guess, suppose we'll both seeing what's all the fuss is about."
"Indeed."
"Hey, that was a pretty mean aim you had there at the firing range."
"You said that earlier."
"True, but still..."
"Quit admiring -my- aim and shape up on yours."
1810 hours
"Damned Prophecies, either they'll lead us on some godamned wild goose chase, or to the deaths of us all." Captain Lunarus was standing in the hangar, seeing all the magnificent machines of war, all in clean rows lined up against the walls.
"Dammit all." Lunarus said quietly as he left, spitting on the ground.
2100 hours
"Are you absolutely sure that the Prophecies are to be fufilled this year?" Lunarus asked his superior.
"Yes, I am certain. Brace yourself." Solomon responded calmly.
"What makes you so certain?"
"The Book of Prophecies. It says that 'In the middle of night, where only Moon dares venture, a black ray of light shall descend from the heavens and strike the Earth, thus bringing a new dark age upon the her children.'"
"Now you're going to tell me you saw this 'black light'?"
"Yes."
"You're seeing things, you're too old for your own..*oof*" Lunarus was knocked down with a single push.
"Don't mock me on matters which you are unfamilar with." Solomon said sternly as Lunarus slowly got back up, straightening out his uniform.
"S-Sorry, sir." Lunarus immediately recovered his normal expression.
"Tommorow, you'll see that I'm not just a crazy fool."
Lunarus just smirked.
"You are dismissed, Captain."
0000 hours
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star."
"How I wonder what you are."
"A little light shining in dark skies."
"Always flying up so high."
"A blessed savior to us all."
"Or maybe a devil to have everything fall."
"A wonderful shining hope in my dreams."
"or a scary darkness beyond my screams."
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star."
"How I wonder what you are."
Ash laid his head on his pillow and drifted into an uneasy slumber.
* * *
Solomon's head jerked up quickly from his bed.
"He's learning." The Colonel smiled to himself and stood up to look outside the window.
"I suppose I'll have to play my part in this and send out the troops later this morning."
"I'm sure the Captain will be more than willing to try to go against Prophecy, so it all falls into place."
0600 hours
"Damn early wake-up hours." An ING officer complained as he started to arm himself.
"Nothing ya can do to change that." Another said, tying the laces of his boots.
"Do you even know what the hell we're going to do?"
"No, not a clue."
0700 hours
"Damnit. Kill it now!" Lunarus ordered one of his officers via radio.
"Yes sir." An ING officer took out his MP5 combat rifle and aimed it at the strange, child-like creature, it was dressed in a kimono-type garb, it's eyes rather large, a diamond shaped like an eight-pointed sun on it's forehead and it had an aura of light around it.
'This is what we're ordered to neutralize?' The officer thought.
The officer fired his combat rifle at the child. The bullets were flying out of the weapon at a blindingly fast pace, but the officer held it steady on it's mark as he continued firing.
'Still got it.' The officer thought proudly, remembering the compliments given on his aim.
However, the bullets simply stopped short of the creature's forehead as it started to sing a sweet song. The soldier dropped his weapon.
"I said neutralize the target!", Lunarus barked his order via the radio.
"The song...so soft..peaceful...", The officer said in a sleepy voice as he felt his legs becoming weak as his stance became uneasy and he started swaying, the song still playing softly.
'It will end quick. Fear not.' The thought surged through the officer's head, though it was not his own.
The bullets quickly began to fly back toward their deliverer. The bullets immediately penetrated the officer's forehead, he didn't have the time to scream as he hit the ground hard.
'You didn't have to interfere.' The officer's last thought would haunt him for the last moments of his life, not just because it was true, but because it wasn't even his own.
Lunarus saw everything, he couldn't believe his eyes. The bullets had been deflected back to the one who fired them. He quietly sighed sadly.
'Damn lunatic.' Lunarus was still denying Solomon. He decided to communicate to his superiors.
"Headquarters come in. This is Captain Lunarus reporting."
"Yes, we copy."
"We have another man down." The Captain said sadly.
Several more officers were dispatched, armed with weapons varying from combat rifles to grenade launchers. They didn't stand a chance as their weapons were either deflected, or simply had their effects be futile. As gunfire was flawlessly deflected with deadly results, the same haunting thought was transmitted to them from the child-like being seconds before their deaths: 'You didn't have to interfere.' The child suddenly saw the helicopter above, and sent it a simple message.
'Don't interefere further.' Lunarus thought, suddenly wondering where the thought came from.
"Maybe I'm going crazy, but in my insanity, there is reason." Lunarus muttered to himself as he and his group pulled out.
0800 hours
Televisions across the nation were lit up with the same basic news announcement: "Just an hour ago, the wreckage of various Indigo National Guard vehicles was found. All official reports stated that they were tracking down a raging charizard on a nearby island that the police couldn't handle. The reports further state that while the ING was able to bring down and neutralize the charizard, most of the people sent out were killed in the process. The pokemon has been taken to ING's laboratories for further study."
0900 hours
"Believe me now, Lunarus?" Solomon said with a smile.
"I still think you're full of it." Lunarus replied curtly.
"Well then, see if you'll want to say that again tommorow."
"Tommorow?"
"Yes. I think we shall see one of the soldiers of Moon."
"You're insane."
"Perhaps I am, but it won't matter soon enough."
"So, how are you going to cover this one up?" Lunarus changed the subject quickly and asked curiously, deciding to play along.
"Simple. I've already told the media that ING tried neutralizing a renagade Charizard."
"You work fast." Lunarus said with a bit of a sneer in his voice.
"There will be more work to do tommorow, our final act is beginning." Solomon said warily.
* * 24 hours later * *
0900 hours
"We have the target in sight." An ING officer looked down at another bizarre creature, this time a darkly colored being, with large batlike wings, a remotely humanoid figure with mostly reptilian features.
"You know the orders the Captain gave us!"
"Blast the shit out of it, got it."
The ING helicopter fired two missles at the creature. The missles went on with their descent, exploding on impact only to completely fail in their intention.
The creature was still standing, nearly unscathed.
"Dammit! What should we do?"
"Follow orders and keep firing!"
Missles, bullets started scorching the grassy landscape. The creature was partially injured now, but retaliated.
A large blast of black fire came out of the beast's mouth.
"Holy..." The ING officer never did finish his sentence, he and his helicopter were instantly frozen in ice and made their descent downward, cracking like an egg.
As the creature looked on pleased at his victory, he was struck in the back by various forms of ammunition. He roared in pain as he finally collapsed.
"Sir, we have neutralized the target."
905 hours
"Hmm, they've done it. Very well." Solomon smiled upon hearing the report. He quickly went to pick up the phone and dial up Professor Oak, but he hesitated. Something told him that he shouldn't.
'He'll figure it out on his own. Don't worry.' Solomon was unnerved quickly by the transmitted thought before getting back his bearings.
"Very well then. Shall it start?" Solomon said to nothing visible in the room.
'Yes. The captured soldier your officers are bringing can't be allowed to survive.'
"Understood, I've been ready for this for a long time."
'Any last requests?'
"End our lives quickly."
'I'll see what I can do.'
1100 hours
It's presence.
I feel it.
It lives.
1200 hours
"The same one?! Shit!" Lunarus looked on in the surrivaliance cameras at the small childlike creature his group had encountered from the day before.
"There's nothing you can do," Solomon said grimly, "The Prophecies..."
"You and your goddamn 'Prophecies'!"
Solomon simply smirked, "Stubborn one, aren't you?"
"I'm not a superstitious man."
"That's because you believe anything you don't see is non-existant. You'll see soon enough, as will I." Solomon smiled and closed his eyes, making himself look like a kindly old man for an instant.
"Don't give me that bullshit." Lunarus snapped.
"You want evidence of this so-called 'bullshit' of mine? Look to the beast that your men just brought in. That's the Prophecies slowly coming to be."
Lunarus simply snorted.
'Crazy old fart.' He thought.
1225 hours
It's close.
To destroy it.
It can't be allowed to be.
Many must die to save many more.
* * *
"What can you find out about this?" An ING scientist asked his colleague.
"Well, from what is obvious, it seems to be an evolution of the Charizard, but it appears to be something far more..."
The scientist and his colleague were standing in front of a giant body, it was the creature that the ING has 'neutralized' eariler.
"Continue on."
"Well, it's DNA structure is slightly different..and also.." The colleague knocked on the skin, with a slight "clang" sounding, "It seems to have much harder scales than an average Charizard."
"Have you discovered anything about the 'cold fire' reported by the soldiers?"
"Not at all, sir."
"I see.."
The scientist thought he saw the 'Charizard' stir..but quickly dismissed it as his eyes playing tricks on him.
1240 hours.
It's here.
Solomon, I'll fufill your request
All others, I'm sorry.
* * *
A loud yet beautiful song started to be heard throughout the entire ING compound.
'Niiii tann...tannnn niii...niii tannn..nii tannn..' It was almost like a hypnotic chant.
The ground trembled.
* * *
"Here comes our time, Lunarus, call whichever loved ones you have." Solomon looked sternly at Lunarus.
"Not...prophecy...it's not..." Lunarus said weakly as he looked teary-eyed outside..seeing the small child singing gently, no doubt what was causing the ceiling light to swing.
"Oh, but it is. Your foolishness brought this to you. You are aware of that, aren't you?" Solomon grinned slyly.
The song continued, the ceiling was starting to crack.
"It was you, God damn it!" Lunarus yelled at Solomon, not only because of his fury, but because the song had grown deafeningly loud.
Solomon once again smiled, "You're dismissed Captain. I'll make a note to the media to blame this on some random terrorist attack."
Lunarus cursed under his breath and walked to the door, but before he left, he turned around and said, "Prophecy or not, this is some bizarre shit the world's going to see, isn't it?"
"The world, yes, we, however, have done all there is to our part in this." Solomon grinned again. "You're dismissed from all duty, as am I, do not, I repeat, do not even try to interfere in this, you'll just be wasting time better spent repenting for your sins."
"Just answer me one last question."
"Yes?"
"Just how old are you? 200? 300?" Lunarus was ready for just about anything to pop up.
"Thirty-seven. You are dismissed." Solomon said plainly.
"Y-yes sir." Lunarus left the room, not quite expecting that.
The song continued gently as the windows broke, slicing across Solomon's cheeks and tearing his uniform. The ceiling soon followed and started collapsing.
"And so, it begins." Solomon smiled calmly as he his surroundings literally crumbled before his eyes.
'You're dying for the greater good.' A transmitted thought, no doubt sent to everyone from the creature.
"Nothing is immortal...indeed." Solomon felt the rubble fall on top of him, bringing a quick end to his life.
1:40 pm
It's presence.
It's gone.
But many more yet remain.
1:41 pm
"So, how's it been all this time?" Brock smiled happily towards Ash, offering him a riceball as well.
"It's been good, I guess, if not incredibly slow, just occassional gym battles." He accepted the riceball and slowly began to eat it.
"Same here." Misty and Brock said at the same time.
Ash felt a bizarre sensation course through his brain, various images zooming across his mind's eye, including the Houou, a bright shining light, a black hooded man and a bright blue sky.
"Times..." Ash said in a tranced voice, "The times...will...change..day
..night ..battle lines.."
The others looked oddly at him.
"A-Ash?" Misty shook him by the shoulders. Ash went out of his trance.
"What? What happened?"
"You were saying some strange stuff.." Brock looked worried.
"Like what..?" Ash looked confused.
"Something about times changing, day and night and battle lines.." Misty informed her friend.
"Odd...." Ash murmured.
'Great..now I'm going crazy, great way to start a reunion with strangers.'
"Well come on! Let's go to Pewter City!" Brock got up and started running, signaling the others to follow.
"Hey, wait for us!" Misty and Ash ran simultaneously after Brock.
'Times are changing at least..' Ash thought, brightening up a bit.
To be continued...
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Well, that wraps up another chapter, please review!
And yes, that opening quote was gotten from Sonic Adventure ^_^;
Scenario 2 - Revival
Chapter 2: Force
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"Ancient Cities blazin', Shadows keep attackin', little children cryin'.."
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Midnight.
The darkest hour of the day,
Some fear it, others embrace it,
All feel that it has some significance
or meaning, whether if it is the coming of evil,
or if it is to defy the orders of one's parents even,
or if it is to the coming whatever Dark Lord one may worship..
** Indigo National Guard(ING) Headquarters, Yesterday **
0000 hours.
Colonel Lawrence Solomon was standing next to the large window in his
office. He had a rather large and old book in his hands. The man, who appeared that he was probably to retire from his service soon, come a year or two, looked through the book. It was very early in the morning, or late at night(the issue was debateable), but he needed to see this one event, for it could quite possibly be the beginning of something that could change the course of existence as one knew it.
"So beautiful, the moonlight, making people believe that it is protecting them from the Darkness." The colonel said quietly to himself.
Suddenly, a large thunder crash was heard, a black lightning bolt struck
from the cloud-less sky. The landscape suddenly was black for an instant, the
moonlight came back as soon as it went. Another one followed, this time the lightning brightened the landscape to the point of nearly blinding someone, it too left instantly. Solomon smiled and closed the book.
"Ah good. So it's begun." He said as he turned around to leave for his bed.
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S c e n a r i o
Chapter 2 - Force
R e v i v a l
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0001 hours.
Existence.
What is this concept?
I've heard of it before.
But never quite understood it.
Is...this the thing called Existence?
I've been alive, I'm sure.
But I've never existed before.
Interesting.
0500 hours.
Solomon was back in his office, taking a sip of coffee. He was reading
a book which was set upon his desk. The colonel flipped through each page, smiling. The writing of it was in some dead language that most likely only
the best and brightest scholars knew about. Solomon smiled with glee, at
coming upon a page, which he started to read aloud in it's native language.
"Sun and Moon shall shine upon Earth..bringing a reign of death and
suffering to her children.."
"Poetry." he commented in his own tounge. "Pure poetry." Solomon smiled once again as he stood up and went to the phone.
1300 hours.
*Buzz* *Buzz*
The intercom was buzzing Solomon to inform him of a message from his secratary. He quickly pressed a button so that the secretary's message would
come through.
"Yes?" Solomon said.
"A Professor Michael Oak to see you sir." The voice of the secretary came
through.
"Send him right in, please."
"Yes sir."
* * *
Oak walked right into the Colonel's office, time had aged him well, his appearance wasn't much different, except for possibly an extra wrinkle or two. Much younger-looking than the Colonel's ghostly white hair and leathery hands in any circumstance.
"Ah, here you are Professor, come in, have a seat." Solomon said pulling out
the ancient book he was reading eariler.
"You said you had something important to tell me about." Oak said calmly,
eyeing the book on the desk.
"Yes, about the Second Sign." Solomon saw Oak's expression become concerned.
"..T-the Second Sign?" Oak's voice shook a bit.
Solomon nodded, "Two down, Five to go.", he gently handed the book to Oak.
"I know." Oak quickly flipped through the pages, each one a cryptic
prophecy of sorts was written.
"The First Sign --", Oak started to quote from the book also understanding the language, "..And when the mighty Pheonix flies over the one who will overcome, thus it will be annoucing the arrival of the Light's Savior."
Solomon slowly took the book back, he turned the page, "'The Second Sign -- 'In the middle of night, where only Moon dares venture, a black ray of light shall descend from the heavens and strike the Earth, however, a white ray shall follow, seeking to destroy the Dark one, thus bringing a new age upon to her children..'"
"So you saw the the rays of light?" Oak asked in a nervous tone.
"Yes, of course, otherwise I wouldn't have called you in today.", Solomon
grinned with his yellowing teeth, "I needed to tell someone else who studies
the Prophecies..apparently you can handle your knowledge better than I." He
smiled as he tugged on the skin of his left hand. "This knowledge has done
wonders for my appearance at such a young age," He said rather in a rather sarcastic manner, "many mistake me for 70, no one even remotely suspects me being 37." Solomon heartily chuckled.
"Appearances can be decieving, Colonel." Oak chuckled, abliet in a more nervous tone.
"But we ramble on. So then...First it was that boy seeing the Houou fly over him, so is he the supposed 'Light's Savior'?" Solomon asked.
"Apparently so, I denied him having seen that damn bird..I suppose because
I don't want it to end this way..not with Apocalypse.."
"All things have to end, people have to die someday..as much as we would like to believe..nothing is immortal."
"True enough. Well..I suppose this a one way street now..we begin our descent into the End of the World."
"Not quite..that one boy could very well save us all, however doubtful..the
Prophecies don't speak of a Light Savior for nothing."
Oak nodded, a look of worry in his eyes.
"Well, I suppose we all pray for the best." he said with a uncertain tone.
Solomon grinned again, "Yes. Indeed. Well, I suppose that is all I wanted to discuss with you, you are dismissed Mr. Oak."
Oak stood up, saluted the general and left the office.
'May God..or whatever Higher Force there is, have mercy on us all' he thought silently.
1400 hours
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
*Pow*
"6 bullseyes." A young soldier put down the gun. He had short brown hair, blue and white uniform, and was wearing the earmuffs usually worn when on the target practice fields.
"Whoa, shit, where'd you get that kind of aim?" a passing soldier commented
on his fellow's dead-on handling of the firearm.
"What can I say? It's a gift."
"Keep it up and soon you'll make the Captain jealous!"
"Yea, I guess." The earmuffed soldier replaced the target and reloaded his gun, raising it again to fire.
1405 hours
Darkness.
A blinder of many.
However some will not be blinded.
They will still see.
They will ensure that all will see.
1406 hours
"Thus, Prophecies will be fufilled, and the world will be shaken, most likely destroyed," Solomon was again mumbling to himself, "this will be a most interesting experience."
The sun shone quite brightly through the windows, quickly followed by a cloud, covering the bright light.
"Very interesting indeed."
1700 hours
"Thus, the First and Second Signs have occured." Oak looked outside at the afternoon sky, the sky turning a shade of pink, "I suppose we're on our way down to Hell now."
The sun began to set.
1750 hours
"I heard the Captain was told by Solomon that we'll be dispatched
tommorow."
"Really? Wonder why."
"Yea, so do I, but we're soldiers, not commanders."
"I guess, suppose we'll both seeing what's all the fuss is about."
"Indeed."
"Hey, that was a pretty mean aim you had there at the firing range."
"You said that earlier."
"True, but still..."
"Quit admiring -my- aim and shape up on yours."
1810 hours
"Damned Prophecies, either they'll lead us on some godamned wild goose chase, or to the deaths of us all." Captain Lunarus was standing in the hangar, seeing all the magnificent machines of war, all in clean rows lined up against the walls.
"Dammit all." Lunarus said quietly as he left, spitting on the ground.
2100 hours
"Are you absolutely sure that the Prophecies are to be fufilled this year?" Lunarus asked his superior.
"Yes, I am certain. Brace yourself." Solomon responded calmly.
"What makes you so certain?"
"The Book of Prophecies. It says that 'In the middle of night, where only Moon dares venture, a black ray of light shall descend from the heavens and strike the Earth, thus bringing a new dark age upon the her children.'"
"Now you're going to tell me you saw this 'black light'?"
"Yes."
"You're seeing things, you're too old for your own..*oof*" Lunarus was knocked down with a single push.
"Don't mock me on matters which you are unfamilar with." Solomon said sternly as Lunarus slowly got back up, straightening out his uniform.
"S-Sorry, sir." Lunarus immediately recovered his normal expression.
"Tommorow, you'll see that I'm not just a crazy fool."
Lunarus just smirked.
"You are dismissed, Captain."
0000 hours
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star."
"How I wonder what you are."
"A little light shining in dark skies."
"Always flying up so high."
"A blessed savior to us all."
"Or maybe a devil to have everything fall."
"A wonderful shining hope in my dreams."
"or a scary darkness beyond my screams."
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star."
"How I wonder what you are."
Ash laid his head on his pillow and drifted into an uneasy slumber.
* * *
Solomon's head jerked up quickly from his bed.
"He's learning." The Colonel smiled to himself and stood up to look outside the window.
"I suppose I'll have to play my part in this and send out the troops later this morning."
"I'm sure the Captain will be more than willing to try to go against Prophecy, so it all falls into place."
0600 hours
"Damn early wake-up hours." An ING officer complained as he started to arm himself.
"Nothing ya can do to change that." Another said, tying the laces of his boots.
"Do you even know what the hell we're going to do?"
"No, not a clue."
0700 hours
"Damnit. Kill it now!" Lunarus ordered one of his officers via radio.
"Yes sir." An ING officer took out his MP5 combat rifle and aimed it at the strange, child-like creature, it was dressed in a kimono-type garb, it's eyes rather large, a diamond shaped like an eight-pointed sun on it's forehead and it had an aura of light around it.
'This is what we're ordered to neutralize?' The officer thought.
The officer fired his combat rifle at the child. The bullets were flying out of the weapon at a blindingly fast pace, but the officer held it steady on it's mark as he continued firing.
'Still got it.' The officer thought proudly, remembering the compliments given on his aim.
However, the bullets simply stopped short of the creature's forehead as it started to sing a sweet song. The soldier dropped his weapon.
"I said neutralize the target!", Lunarus barked his order via the radio.
"The song...so soft..peaceful...", The officer said in a sleepy voice as he felt his legs becoming weak as his stance became uneasy and he started swaying, the song still playing softly.
'It will end quick. Fear not.' The thought surged through the officer's head, though it was not his own.
The bullets quickly began to fly back toward their deliverer. The bullets immediately penetrated the officer's forehead, he didn't have the time to scream as he hit the ground hard.
'You didn't have to interfere.' The officer's last thought would haunt him for the last moments of his life, not just because it was true, but because it wasn't even his own.
Lunarus saw everything, he couldn't believe his eyes. The bullets had been deflected back to the one who fired them. He quietly sighed sadly.
'Damn lunatic.' Lunarus was still denying Solomon. He decided to communicate to his superiors.
"Headquarters come in. This is Captain Lunarus reporting."
"Yes, we copy."
"We have another man down." The Captain said sadly.
Several more officers were dispatched, armed with weapons varying from combat rifles to grenade launchers. They didn't stand a chance as their weapons were either deflected, or simply had their effects be futile. As gunfire was flawlessly deflected with deadly results, the same haunting thought was transmitted to them from the child-like being seconds before their deaths: 'You didn't have to interfere.' The child suddenly saw the helicopter above, and sent it a simple message.
'Don't interefere further.' Lunarus thought, suddenly wondering where the thought came from.
"Maybe I'm going crazy, but in my insanity, there is reason." Lunarus muttered to himself as he and his group pulled out.
0800 hours
Televisions across the nation were lit up with the same basic news announcement: "Just an hour ago, the wreckage of various Indigo National Guard vehicles was found. All official reports stated that they were tracking down a raging charizard on a nearby island that the police couldn't handle. The reports further state that while the ING was able to bring down and neutralize the charizard, most of the people sent out were killed in the process. The pokemon has been taken to ING's laboratories for further study."
0900 hours
"Believe me now, Lunarus?" Solomon said with a smile.
"I still think you're full of it." Lunarus replied curtly.
"Well then, see if you'll want to say that again tommorow."
"Tommorow?"
"Yes. I think we shall see one of the soldiers of Moon."
"You're insane."
"Perhaps I am, but it won't matter soon enough."
"So, how are you going to cover this one up?" Lunarus changed the subject quickly and asked curiously, deciding to play along.
"Simple. I've already told the media that ING tried neutralizing a renagade Charizard."
"You work fast." Lunarus said with a bit of a sneer in his voice.
"There will be more work to do tommorow, our final act is beginning." Solomon said warily.
* * 24 hours later * *
0900 hours
"We have the target in sight." An ING officer looked down at another bizarre creature, this time a darkly colored being, with large batlike wings, a remotely humanoid figure with mostly reptilian features.
"You know the orders the Captain gave us!"
"Blast the shit out of it, got it."
The ING helicopter fired two missles at the creature. The missles went on with their descent, exploding on impact only to completely fail in their intention.
The creature was still standing, nearly unscathed.
"Dammit! What should we do?"
"Follow orders and keep firing!"
Missles, bullets started scorching the grassy landscape. The creature was partially injured now, but retaliated.
A large blast of black fire came out of the beast's mouth.
"Holy..." The ING officer never did finish his sentence, he and his helicopter were instantly frozen in ice and made their descent downward, cracking like an egg.
As the creature looked on pleased at his victory, he was struck in the back by various forms of ammunition. He roared in pain as he finally collapsed.
"Sir, we have neutralized the target."
905 hours
"Hmm, they've done it. Very well." Solomon smiled upon hearing the report. He quickly went to pick up the phone and dial up Professor Oak, but he hesitated. Something told him that he shouldn't.
'He'll figure it out on his own. Don't worry.' Solomon was unnerved quickly by the transmitted thought before getting back his bearings.
"Very well then. Shall it start?" Solomon said to nothing visible in the room.
'Yes. The captured soldier your officers are bringing can't be allowed to survive.'
"Understood, I've been ready for this for a long time."
'Any last requests?'
"End our lives quickly."
'I'll see what I can do.'
1100 hours
It's presence.
I feel it.
It lives.
1200 hours
"The same one?! Shit!" Lunarus looked on in the surrivaliance cameras at the small childlike creature his group had encountered from the day before.
"There's nothing you can do," Solomon said grimly, "The Prophecies..."
"You and your goddamn 'Prophecies'!"
Solomon simply smirked, "Stubborn one, aren't you?"
"I'm not a superstitious man."
"That's because you believe anything you don't see is non-existant. You'll see soon enough, as will I." Solomon smiled and closed his eyes, making himself look like a kindly old man for an instant.
"Don't give me that bullshit." Lunarus snapped.
"You want evidence of this so-called 'bullshit' of mine? Look to the beast that your men just brought in. That's the Prophecies slowly coming to be."
Lunarus simply snorted.
'Crazy old fart.' He thought.
1225 hours
It's close.
To destroy it.
It can't be allowed to be.
Many must die to save many more.
* * *
"What can you find out about this?" An ING scientist asked his colleague.
"Well, from what is obvious, it seems to be an evolution of the Charizard, but it appears to be something far more..."
The scientist and his colleague were standing in front of a giant body, it was the creature that the ING has 'neutralized' eariler.
"Continue on."
"Well, it's DNA structure is slightly different..and also.." The colleague knocked on the skin, with a slight "clang" sounding, "It seems to have much harder scales than an average Charizard."
"Have you discovered anything about the 'cold fire' reported by the soldiers?"
"Not at all, sir."
"I see.."
The scientist thought he saw the 'Charizard' stir..but quickly dismissed it as his eyes playing tricks on him.
1240 hours.
It's here.
Solomon, I'll fufill your request
All others, I'm sorry.
* * *
A loud yet beautiful song started to be heard throughout the entire ING compound.
'Niiii tann...tannnn niii...niii tannn..nii tannn..' It was almost like a hypnotic chant.
The ground trembled.
* * *
"Here comes our time, Lunarus, call whichever loved ones you have." Solomon looked sternly at Lunarus.
"Not...prophecy...it's not..." Lunarus said weakly as he looked teary-eyed outside..seeing the small child singing gently, no doubt what was causing the ceiling light to swing.
"Oh, but it is. Your foolishness brought this to you. You are aware of that, aren't you?" Solomon grinned slyly.
The song continued, the ceiling was starting to crack.
"It was you, God damn it!" Lunarus yelled at Solomon, not only because of his fury, but because the song had grown deafeningly loud.
Solomon once again smiled, "You're dismissed Captain. I'll make a note to the media to blame this on some random terrorist attack."
Lunarus cursed under his breath and walked to the door, but before he left, he turned around and said, "Prophecy or not, this is some bizarre shit the world's going to see, isn't it?"
"The world, yes, we, however, have done all there is to our part in this." Solomon grinned again. "You're dismissed from all duty, as am I, do not, I repeat, do not even try to interfere in this, you'll just be wasting time better spent repenting for your sins."
"Just answer me one last question."
"Yes?"
"Just how old are you? 200? 300?" Lunarus was ready for just about anything to pop up.
"Thirty-seven. You are dismissed." Solomon said plainly.
"Y-yes sir." Lunarus left the room, not quite expecting that.
The song continued gently as the windows broke, slicing across Solomon's cheeks and tearing his uniform. The ceiling soon followed and started collapsing.
"And so, it begins." Solomon smiled calmly as he his surroundings literally crumbled before his eyes.
'You're dying for the greater good.' A transmitted thought, no doubt sent to everyone from the creature.
"Nothing is immortal...indeed." Solomon felt the rubble fall on top of him, bringing a quick end to his life.
1:40 pm
It's presence.
It's gone.
But many more yet remain.
1:41 pm
"So, how's it been all this time?" Brock smiled happily towards Ash, offering him a riceball as well.
"It's been good, I guess, if not incredibly slow, just occassional gym battles." He accepted the riceball and slowly began to eat it.
"Same here." Misty and Brock said at the same time.
Ash felt a bizarre sensation course through his brain, various images zooming across his mind's eye, including the Houou, a bright shining light, a black hooded man and a bright blue sky.
"Times..." Ash said in a tranced voice, "The times...will...change..day
..night ..battle lines.."
The others looked oddly at him.
"A-Ash?" Misty shook him by the shoulders. Ash went out of his trance.
"What? What happened?"
"You were saying some strange stuff.." Brock looked worried.
"Like what..?" Ash looked confused.
"Something about times changing, day and night and battle lines.." Misty informed her friend.
"Odd...." Ash murmured.
'Great..now I'm going crazy, great way to start a reunion with strangers.'
"Well come on! Let's go to Pewter City!" Brock got up and started running, signaling the others to follow.
"Hey, wait for us!" Misty and Ash ran simultaneously after Brock.
'Times are changing at least..' Ash thought, brightening up a bit.
To be continued...
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Well, that wraps up another chapter, please review!
And yes, that opening quote was gotten from Sonic Adventure ^_^;
