Usagi: *rubs bump on head from the shoe Tajiri-san threw at her the other day* Ooooowwww...ouchie! I..don't own...
Usagi looks around suspiciously for a Tajiri-san. But he's nowhere to be seen.
Usagi: *looking sly* Ho ho ho! I OWN POKEMON!!! MISTY, ASH, PIKACHU!! MINE ALL MINE!!!
Tajiri-san: Omae! Bakayarou! Pokemon dewa arimasen!
Mr. Tajiri: You! Idiot! Pokemon is not yours!
Usagi: WAAAAA!! Gomen Nasai, Tajiri-sama! *ducks as a shoe comes her way* Gomen nasai! I don't own Pokemon! *runs off, ducking for cover as more shoes come her way*
Tajiri-san: *sighing* Amou... *smiling over to readers* Tanoshimu.
Mr. Tajiri: *sighing* Fool...*smiling over to readers* Enjoy yourselves.
Pika-Pika: Pikachuuu!
Chapter Fourteen :: Alone
"...Ash...."
Ash's eyes widened as his name gently flowed out of Misty's mouth. His head slowly lifted, his eyes meeting hers. He blinked a couple times, confused at her expression.
"...Ash." she repeated. "I...I.."
"Why must you constantly ruin my life?!" Yuuki screamed out, tears rushing down her face. "Do you live to make my life miserable?!"
Yuuki thrashed out towards Ash, tears of rage stinging her eyes. Her smack contacted straight into Ash's cheek, the impact of the smack echoing throughout the garden.
"Yuuki!" Misty gasped, alarmed by her actions.
Ash's bangs hung over his eyes as his hand cradled the red cheek. Yuuki cried out in a fury once again, her whole body shaking uncontrollibly.
"You will not take them from me!" Yuuki growled out, her hands shaking at her sides, "I won't allow it!"
Yuuki drawed back, panic evident in her features. She violently shook her head, tears staining her cheeks. A sob escaped from the back of her throat as her legs became week and she fell to the ground and began to cry into her hands.
"They can't leave me..." She continued to sob, "...not again..."
Glaring up at Ash, she screamed out towards him. "My friends will not desert me again! I won't let you..." Yuuki stumbled to her feet, trembling in her rage. "You won't take them away!"
The ground beneath them began to jerk violently. A dark violet aura erupted out of Yuuki and her eyes became blank and souless. Her hair lifted with the aura's wind.
Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Togepi all gasped in astonishment. Their world around them shattered into a billion small fragments, leaving them in a hazy, gray abyss.
Within the darkness, bright eyes glowed. Eyes which had lost all meaning of life. Eyes which were now dead. Eyes that held no emotions, and no heart.
Friends...
The word whispered throughout the darkness, sending chills up Ash's spine. He listened contently as the shadows enveloped him in blackness. Misty stood next to him, also wrapped within the darkness. Her eyes closed as she had no will to fight it. Pikachu and Brock were slowly dissapearing into the endless darkness. Slowly their faces faded into the back of Ash's head, soon to be completely forgotten.
"Pika....chu..." Ash breathed out, dazed as the darkness swallowed him. "B..Brock..."
His calls were so light only he could hear them, but they were quickly fading into the back of his mind, along with all of his memories.
Come...my friends...
Ash watched in a daze as his friends dissapeared into the black abyss. Darkness ate away at Misty, dragging her down into the endless pit of inky black. Finally coming back to reality, Misty let out a scream as the darkness smothered her.
..Come..do not...resist...
"Ash!" Misty screamed out, tears stinging her eyes.
Ash jerked her way, his eyes wide in horror. His memories hit him like a fist in the stomach. Pikachu and Brock had been taken by the darkness and now Misty was getting swallowed whole. He reached for her in a desperate attempt to save her, but to no avail.
Thick darkness smothered Misty, dragging her down into the shadows, into the black abyss, her scream echoing through the frozen grayness as she dissapeared. His eyes widened in utter terror. He could of saved her, he could of acted more swiftly, but he didn't. His hand hadn't grabbed her in time, he was too slow. She was counting on him to be the hero and he couldn't even do that...he let her dissapear. She was gone. Forever.
They were all gone.
He was alone...
....Again....
His hand dropped, dangling at his side. His shoulders slumped as his head hanged low in defeat. He had promised her that he would save her. That everything would be right again. He had lied to her, he couldn't save her, he couldn't do anything.
A single lonely tear ran down his cheek. He closed his tear-stained eyes and let out a soft sigh. I give up. He sighed again, there was really no use in going on. He had no intensions of living alone. Misty and the others were happy living with Yuuki, in their little fairytale world...he had no right to destroy their happiness....even if it was fake...
He sat in the darkness, willingly letting it smother and wrap around him. He had lost all hope. This was the only option. He would die, here, in the darkness. Alone. He laughed at the irony of it all, he had always thought he would die happy and surrounded by all his friends and family.
The darkness smothered him. Everything turned black. Everything got cold. Everything around him was frozen, almost dead like. But suddenly it all changed. Warmth returned to Ash's body and a burst of light erupted through the darkness.
He squinted his eyes, shading them from the exploding flood of light. The warmth felt so good, cradling his body, sending a rush of chills through him. Within the light a figure came his way, a warm, kind figure. Ash smiled, opening his arms eagerly, wanting..no..needing the pleasure the warm light brought.
You mustn't give up hope. You are the only one who can save them.