Chapter 5: The Prophecy's Revelations
Raziel disappeared back into the spectral realm and found that a shimmering portal lay open before him. He then said, "Eldress what is this? Where does this portal lead?" The Eldress replied, 'Raziel this portal goes to Nosgoth or it leads to this worlds time gates. How it has been opened I do not know. Be wary Raziel, once you enter this portal you are beyond my influence. Once through you will be in one of three places, this worlds past, future, or even Nosgoth. Seek out Kain and help right this world, back to its true self.' Then the Eldress stopped speaking to him as he entered the portal. When he emerged from the other side of the portal, he found himself in a chamber similar to that of Moebius' time chambers. Except there was a statue of Celebi on stool, opening a time portal. Raziel looked around and there was the activated time gate. If it led to the past or future Raziel didn't know. He didn't know how to operate the machine, so he just went through the portal. When Raziel emerged he found himself in a barren wasteland. He looked around and there was he creatures called pokemon. He found a sign with the symbol of Kain and a dragon on it, with the words Black Dragon Clan Territory, the wastelands. Raziel looked behind him to see a sign that read beware Rocket Clan Territory, the southern peninsula. Raziel moved along the border until he saw lush trees and a sign that read, the Ash Territory, stay away if you know what's good for you! Raziel decided to check this land out and he followed the path carved into the forest. Raziel sensed several regular wild pokemon that were hiding and others that were merely feeding with caution. When he finally came from the forest he said, "My god, what has become of this land? Have I traveled to the near future or the distant future? Apparently from my transgression through the portal as doomed this land to what it is now." Then a familiar presence spoke to Raziel, 'Raziel from the time that you went through the portal and emerged from the other side, this land is part of the Kanto Region. I will show you what happened through the final battles of the fate of this world. You shall see things that will be a horrible tragedy.'
*Flashback* Ash Ketchum and grown from a boy into a man. He battled Kain's forces for twenty long years, until the fateful day when he found the other guardians again. They created this worlds pillars and attached their powers to the pillars, just as it was done in Nosgoth. All nine of them had been assembled for the first time in nineteen years. Then it showed the many battles they each had fought. Starting from the day Ash brought them out of the spectral realm and found Garren's fried corpse. It showed Ash's hardest decision as he said, "This will be the last meeting we have together until we find a way back to each other. This will be the pact of the guardians, we will find each other again one day and then we will hold another meeting. May this be passed down to the next guardians, if one of us doesn't make back. The pact of the guardians!" Then they all went there separate ways, except for Misty and Ash who were then engaged to each other. They traveled to towns, villages, and cities for thirteen years. Then the day came, they traveled by day to Pallet Town. At night they would sleep in the trees and have the pokemon help hide them. When they arrived half of Pallet Town had utterly been in ruins. Ash and Misty raced to his home, which was on the untouched half of Pallet. When they arrived they saw vampires dragging unconscious people out of their homes. Ash let loose his strongest pokemon which had come back to him, Charizard. He commanded it to burn the vampires to a crisp, but only after he lured them away from the humans. Ash and Misty ran into his home and saw his mother brought back as a vampire right before his very eyes, by Kain himself. Kain turned when he felt familiar energy of the balance guardian. Kain then said, "The balance guardian reveals himself at last. Too bad I didn't find you thirteen years ago; I would have had such fun with you." Ash then said, "Let her go Kain, you let her go, don't you dare make her one of your wretched kind! Let her go!" Then a blast of energy came from Ash, as he hit Kain with his fists and feet, knocking through the wall. Kain got up and angrily said, "Such power, enough to have hurt me! Which only one has done and he vanished sixteen years ago! I see why you don't want me to make this female one of my kind, because she is your mother, well your too late boy! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Ash was so angry that at the balance pillar it was turning a dark color as his anger grew and then Ash let it loose onto Kain who disappeared at the last second. Kain's words still haunted Ash, as he poured the gasoline onto his mother's body and lit it on fire. After that he left in the middle of the night and was presumed dead. He hadn't been seen or heard from since then, but rumors had that a lone man traveled the region in despair and destroyed all vampires he came across, setting the souls free. Then six years later eight of the guardians found their way back to the pillars, and saw a strange man at the base of the balance pillar. The figured him to be the new guardian and were about to introduce themselves when he said in a emotionless voice, "I know who you all are, Misty Waterflower the Guardian of Energy, Brock Slate the Guardian of Mind, Celebi the Guardian of Time, Mew/Two the Guardian of Dimensions, Ho-oh the Guardian of Nature, Shadow the Guardian of Conflict, Duplica Ketchum the Guardian of States, and finally Gengar the Guardian of Death." Then Misty said in a suspicious voice, "Who are you and what are you?" He replied, "I am the human Guardian of Balance, and who I am is not important. The person I was died along time ago, along time ago." Then Shadow telepathically said, 'Welcome back Chosen One, tell them who you are without telling them who you are.' Ash telepathically replied, 'So you know who I am, but I will tell them one thing only about who I am understood. Oh and Brock I know you can here this, so if you tell anybody who I am, I will reveal a startling information about you!' Brock only nodded and sat down. Then Ash said, "If you insist on knowing my name then call me Ashura." Then Misty said, "Good now for the second question, why are you here instead of off at one of the cities fighting vampires? You think I haven't heard of you, the one who sleeps during the day and hunts by the night, the one who travels the region because you lost a loved one long ago? Well answer me, you think you're the only one who's lost loved ones, well your wrong, you coward and vampire worshipper!" That's when Ash snapped and he was at Misty throat in a second and he said in a rage, "Don't you ever call me that again, do you understand me? You don't know what its like to loose control, to fall victim to your own rage! I lost many loved ones over the years! I lost my own mother to the master vampire himself! Do you know what its like to know that I could of stopped Kain from getting my mother?" Misty was shaking as she locked eyes with Ashura, and saw on the surface vengeance, remorse, sadness, despair, anger, and many other emotions deeper down. She then said, "I don't know what its like to loose my mother to Kain, but I do know what its like to loose one of my sisters to him." Ashura's rage calmed and he said, "Which sister did you loose to him?" She then said sadly, "I lost Lily to Kain at the battle of Cerulean five years ago. Where did you loose your mother at?" Ashura then said, "I'm sorry to here that, I lost my mother to a town that has been completely annihilated. It was on the southern peninsula and I believe it was called Pallet." Misty said, "My fiancé was from pallet but during the night a vampiric pokemon must have gotten him, because there were no remains found. I still where the ring he gave me as a symbol of what we stand for, of how he brought us through the worst and best of times, of how he brought us together in the time of need." Then she fell silent, and Ashuro was in a mental confrontation with Ashura over who would take control now. Then Ashura said to the part that was Ashuro, 'She doesn't need this now, she thinks we're dead.' Then Ashuro said to the part that was Ashura, 'No, she thinks I'm dead!' Then Ashura said, 'But you and I are one in the same, I am just a darker more grown of version, I still love her as well but you saw how she reacted to our sudden rage. We're not the same anymore you and I, you are a version of the past and possible future again and I am a version of the now and possible future as well. We are one in the same, but we are not whole as long as we battle each other for control of our body. Let us merge as one again, like we did in the past, remember the odd feelings you got when trouble was brewing and when a loved one was about to be harmed or taken fro us. That was I warning you to be careful. Let us merge as one again, you hold half of the emotions while I hold the other half.' With that said, Ashuro realized that Ashura was right and so he agreed to the merging as one again and then his eyes snapped open to a distant voice. Misty was saying, "Ashura, Ashura, are you okay? Is there anything wrong? Brock what's going on with him?" Brock replied, "His other half was battling for control, but now they're one again. He may be a bit nicer now that he's whole again. Misty his other half is known as… Ashuro." Then Ashura/Ashuro awoke and said, "Misty Waterflower its nice to see you again. It's been such along time, hasn't it? Well Mist what are you going to say?" Misty then realized something that had struck her as odd, but she had just shrugged it off. Ashura/Ashuro was two yet one, then it struck her he had called her Mist, only one person had ever called her that, and that was Ash Ketchum. Then she said slowly, "Ash is it you, is it really you?" Ashura/Ashuro nodded and then Misty said, "Ash, I can't believe you're alive. But how your body was gone and there was nothing left!" Ash then said, "I left in the middle of the night as my consciousness split into two one being Ashura and the other being Ashuro. I traveled the region slaying vampires across the region and fell in love again with a few different women who ended up being a vampires lunch each time. Though a part of me never stopped loving you. Then after a while I found myself here and I saw how the balance pillar was a deep grayish black. One half being the grayish black and the other being a grayish white. I've been here for the past month, fending off all uninvited vampires. That's when I noticed that when I started meditating here the pillar became solid grayish white. But all the other pillars except one were white, the pillar that wasn't and still isn't is the pillar of mind. Brock Slate is a traitor to our cause, he has allied himself with the vampiric empire." Everyone turned to Brock as he took a damp rag and wiped away the camouflage on his skin. When it was all wiped away his skin was pale white. Then he said, "Yes, I'm a vampire now, but by choice, I had Master Kain use the same technique he used on the former conflict guardian. I can have any woman I want, if I turn you all into vampires and I'll be perfectly…" That's when they all noticed a spear sticking through Brock's heart as he crumpled over onto the ground. Ash was sad that he had to do that to Brock, that's when the vampire army came rushing in and captured them. *End Flashback*
Then it all went black, then it went white and the images disappeared. Raziel stared in horror as he saw what had happened. Then he shifted to the spectral realm and there was the portal again. He went through it and arrived just as he went into the portal in the time chamber, he rushed over to the portal he first came from to get to the time chamber and went through it. Raziel emerged in the spectral realm and he shifted back to the material realm and saw everyone there. He then said, "It shall not come true, the prophecy. It will be the reverse of what the prophecy says will happen. Unless we can take Kain down now, this world is doomed. Eldress I know you have the power to transport me to Kain, transport me there so that this world shall not end up as Nosgoth. The Eldress complied and transported Raziel to Kain's lair. But not before Raziel said, "Choose your friends wisely for they may betray you in the future. Also keep your friends close but your enemies closer or there is certain doom." When Raziel saw that Kain was resting, but not moving, he knew right away that Kain was evolving. When Kain awoke he was done evolving he sat up and said, "Ah, Raziel so nice of you to wait for me to awake. It will be your undoing of course, but nobody is perfect." Then he blasted Raziel who dodged and swept at Kain with the Reaver. Kain let out a small howl of pain and continued his assault on Raziel. He shot another lightning bolt at Raziel and Raziel again dodged it, and slashed at Kain again. Kain again let out a small howl of pain and again began his assault on Raziel. He then tried out his new evolution of another set of arms. Each set with their own set of claws, and ability to rip flesh with he slightest scratch. Kain then smiled as he sent four lightning bolts flying in different directions at Raziel. Raziel was careful not to get hit by any of the bolts drawn to him as he rushed Kain and jumped over him at the last second drawing Kain's attention away from the lightning bolts coming at him. Kain now completely turned around, with Raziel running away from Kain. Kain sent four more bolts at him, but was soon hit from behind by the bolts that Kain had fired at Raziel. The bolts hit him hard enough to render his new arms useless. Raziel then ran at Kain and slashed with all his might and chopped his two new arms off. Clean from the bone they sprouted, Kain howled in great pain as Raziel struck with the reaver again. Then Kain opened a portal and blasted Raziel away from him into the far wall. Then he said, "Interesting Raziel that you would come so close to defeating me again, yet I escape again. But here, now, this world is not the right place. Remember Raziel I have seen our future and it is horrible. Maybe by the time we end up back in Nosgoth you will have learned that I am not your true enemy. Remember Raziel the coin as landed for me so far, and had landed for the guardians here, but remember it has yet to land on its edge." Then Kain disappeared into the vortex inside the portal and had escaped Raziel again.
