..:: Underground Labyrinth ::..

The golden wings again? And the other shadow…the pure black one…it was here too. Once again the scene repeated itself. Once again the beak had pierced through my bleeding chest. Once again I felt the pain. Once again blood spewed from my body, melting into the rest of the ocean. The black shadow swooped down onto the water, floating just on the surface.

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I woke up with the sun shining strong down on me, the breeze blowing. The sky was a sparkling azure, complimented by the billowing white clouds. The scene would be perfect if only the ground below was in the same beauty as the sky had been above. Blood stained the dirt below me, tinting the brown a dark crimson. I had realized that the blood had come from my body, from the wound in my chest. There was no pain whatsoever though. I found myself clutching the dagger that I had found a while ago, my fingers seemingly in a seizure. Umbreon watched me as I examined my surroundings. Cyndaquil was quiet, hiding behind Umbreon. The two said nothing.

//Let's go.// Umbreon broke the silence.

"Go where?"

//…You'll find out soon enough…// I was pissed off again…why doesn't this thing ever give me a straight answer? And plus I want to win a gym battle!!


"Umbreon…bre…" [I…knew it…]

"Cynda?" [Knew what?]

"Breon…umbreon…" [From the moment that she appeared on the Alph Ruins…she was the destined…]

"…aa??" [Huh?]

"Umbreon…" [Never mind.]

"…Cyn…" […aw…]


The dark poke'mon had led me to the union cave. I was confused. "Why are you leading me here? I still have a battle with Falkner in Violet City!" The duo didn't respond. I expected it. ::sarcasm:: Some great poke'mon, one that wont even listen to what the trainer says, what a wonderful day this will be…::end sarcasm:: What else could I do? The only thing I was supposed to do is to follow them…that was my job after all.

After walking for what seemed like miles along the narrow maze of the Union Cave we had finally reached a dead end, except for a small stream of glistening water, flowing strangely in zigs and zags. The two poke'mon dashed across the snake-like river. I tediously followed along, the bottom of my pants dragging to the floor and into the water.

Crossing the water I had felt a small jolt of electricity. Not knowing what it was, I looked back, and saw nothing, just that same small stream of water. Slowly the sinew of liquid began to twitch, and moved, snaking out to rest somewhere else. Umbreon had been waiting for me, seemingly at another dead end. The two poke'mon stepped through the dirt wall, making a small splashing sound as they walked through. I was vexed. Things like this weren't normal, but I guess with a knife stabbed into my heart, and me being still living, wasn't exactly normal either. How could things get any worse?

I touched the walls timidly, the tips of my fingers trembling in anticipation as they reached the walls, once again sending a shock across my system. I finally told myself to stop being a wuss and step through. Going through the walls was even worse. It felt like millions of needles being stabbed into my bare skin, pricking and poking me as if to see what I was, if I was really supposed to be there. The needles had let me through, and I fell to the ground with a painful thud. The area around my arms had bruises, small little dots of red where blood was supposed to fall, and surely enough they did. The tender drops of crimson fell to the ground, the earth eating it up as if it had been so thirsty for aeons. That made me think, how long had this place been here?

I looked up to see the walls of the place, made of the same walls that had been in the union cave. One small detail though, the same little river that had been here the time I first came had been fused with the walls, the streams seeming to pulse slowly. They snaked along the walls of the cave slowly, glowing in the same slow rhythm of that of a heart beat. The veins seemed to change color too, first starting with the light sapphire blue of the sky to that of the blue-green sea, and finally to green of the grass of the land that we rested upon.

I quivered in this place, the whole air filled with silence, seeming as if electric jolts were lined upon the room, every once in a while sending me a shock through the silent air. Two people stood in the main hall, one entirely dressed in silver, while the other entirely dressed in gold. The strange aura around them caused the air to quiver and shake throughout the whole time. They seemed almost too powerful for this place.

The silver one was a woman, platinum strands of hair falling gracefully upon a shining robe. Her face was lined with strange runes, the shape of a moon lay on her forehead. The gown she wore was filled with intricate designs, radiant fabric glowing through the air. The one that stood next to her was a man, looking almost like the silver, maybe they were even twins. He was marked with the same rune as the first, except this one was of the sun. He wore a gold cloak, with almost the same design as the silver one. The two were both adorned with oversized wings, seeming to be too big for their form.

As soon as they had realized that I was in the room, maybe even surprised at my sudden intrusion, they had both opened their eyes at the exact same time. I quivered at their glares, the two sets of silver and golden eyes boring into me. I desperately looked for the umbreon and the cyndaquil that had led me here in the first place. I found neither of them, instead I found the same boy that had "just moved here…" He stood with the cyndaquil at his side, not bothering to say a word. I waited for an explanation…and got none.



author's note: that took quite a long time...i finally dragged my lazy ass up and made this chapter...probably going to take even longer to make the next one...^^;;;