Chapter Six

For the second time, Char awoke to strange surroundings.

Well, maybe not entirely strange..

The bed from the dream now surrounded him. He was IN the bed!

And arms were around him. Nascour was holding him tightly.

Turning around to meet Nascour's eyes, he glared.

"So I'm your companion, hmm? Just what do you plan to do with me?", Char asked, curious, and pissed.

"I plan to love you. Just how you want me to love you. And maybe, to involve you in my plan."

"Plan?"

"Yes, now that I'm free I'm going to try to take over the world again, you know."

Char was silent. He really, couldn't object to that. After all, it was what he had wanted to do, long ago. What he still wanted. If he could only figure out how.

"But enough about that for now. Why don't we handle, the more... important matter?", Nascour said, running his hands all over Char's body.

Char just lie there, he would have nothing to do with it. Or at least, that's what he thought.

"I'm up for a change, how about you?", said Nascour, and before Char could even process the words, he had been flipped on top of the man. "You never touch me, I feel unloved..."

Char growled. "No way."

"But come on, Char—I see it in your eyes. I know that you... want me."

Char said nothing. He looked at Nascour, realizing that yes, he was indeed an attractive man. And he was in fact, attracted, as he really didn't care what gender people were, as long as they interested him. But he could never love a pokemon-hater. He was the perfect example of the kind of person Char hated.

"I hate you, Nascour. As long as you hate pokemon, I will hate you. That's why I destroyed Cipher in the first place. I can do it again."

"But Char, you're so mistaken! I don't hate pokemon!"

"Then why did you support Evice's Shadow Pokemon Plan?"

"Because I had to!"

"Well, aren't you trying to breathe new life into it now?", accused Char, confused.

"No. No. No. Do you notice Xia's appearance? She's a Shining Metagross. I'm starting a Shining Pokemon Plan."

"Shining?", Char had done some research on Shining pokemon. Formed the opposite of Shadow, by opening a pokemon's heart completely, past normal. Light fills their heart, their color changes, and they gain a golden aura. But unlike Shadow pokemon, they have to be treated extremely well, or their heart will close again, resulting in a normal pokemon. "Shining pokemon need love and care!"

"Does it look like Xia is being mistreated?", Nascour asked, pointing to Xia, who was in the next room, sleeping.

Char froze. Nascour wasn't lying. He did love pokemon. He just wanted to be evil as well.

And that was exactly what Char wanted.

"I see it in you eyes, Char. I think you finally understand me.", Nascour said, relieved.

"Perhaps...", said Char. "But, I still don't understand your love for me."

"I just love you, Char. That's all. And I wanted you to understand that."

"But I'm sure you want me to join you.."

"Smart boy. Yes, I do want you to join me, but only because I knew you were like me, you wanted the world, you wanted power! But you wanted to share it with your pokemon friends. I feel the same, Char, I truly do."

Char looked into Nascour's red eyes, seeing no lies within them.

He glanced at Xia, sleeping, happily, well-taken care of.

And then, for the first time, he leaned downward, kissing Nascour on his lips.

"I think we've come to an understanding.", said Char, making up his mind.

The world would be in his grasp. And this time, it would be by standards he accepted.

Nascour smiled. "I love you, Char."

Char smiled back. And as he prepared to make love to Nascour, for the first and not last time, he said:

"I love you too."

And the new world—began then.

END