Okay, PLEASE READ THIS AUTHOR'S NOTE!

This one chapter is the most violent of all. Be warned, the violence is quite heavy.

In fact, the first scene is based on a movie that was probably the most violent movie ever made.

Anotherscene is based on a best-selling book.

I hope you can guess what they come from.

Now, you've been warned. Here it comes!
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Chapter 24

I strike Celebi with the sharp stick across the cheek. Celebi winces in pain as a mark is shown across his cheek. I then bring the stick across the other cheek, forming another mark. I then strike him in a downward-right motion, making him flip over as blood starts flowing from his face. While he struggles to get up, I strike him again. A mark has appeared on his back. I strike him again across the back, another mark. I do so again, another mark, this time blood spewing out.

I continue to strike his back. As I do, more blood comes out with every hit. A hit, more blood. Another hit, even more blood. At one point, the blood splatters across my face, as if an attempt to blind me. I wipe it off and smile evilly as I enjoy the feel of the blood splatter across my face. I continue to hit him.

After about fifty hits, I attack him in a downward left motion, forcing him onto his back. I then put the stick right up to his chest and stop myself right in front of him.

"Now, are you going to use your powers to help me or not?" I asked him.

He weakly opened his eyes and struggled to speak. "I would rather die then help you." He said.

"Maybe a few more whacks will change your mind!"

I then hit him hard with the sharp stick across the chest. I then hit him across the stomach and blood starts spewing out. I hit him again. Even more blood. After ten hits, I stop myself.

"Give in yet?" I ask him

"Just kill me now and end my suffering if that's what you want. You will never get the power!" Celebi told me.

"I'm having too much fun seeing you perish!"

I hit him with the stick. It gets stuck in his stomach this time. With all my might, I yank the stick in the direction I hit him. I hear him scream in great agony from the hit. I then continue to hit him as more blood splatters on my body. After one hundred hits, he is now nothing more than a barely breathing bleeding corpse. I knew one more hit would kill him. I raise my stick high into the air.

"Last chance!" I said.

"Just kill me!" He said.

I'm about to deliver the final blow, when suddenly I hear a loud noise from behind me. I turn around to see flames surrounding a familiar creature. It was none other than Ho-oh. He must've come to stop me from killing Celebi.

"Jirachi! You nearly killed Celebi!" Ho-oh said angrily.

I just gave him the silent treatment as if not caring, which I didn't. All I wanted was for him to use his power for my desires, and he refused to do so. He was now paying the price for defying me.

"First you go and rape Mew, thus destroying her immortality. Now you go and attack Celebi in a murderous way to get him to use his power?"

I could tell that Ho-oh had had it with me. I believed that he would kill me.

"Normally, I would do away with you permanently. However, Mew informed me that you actually turned out to be the chosen mate for her. So those charges are dropped. However, you can't be forgiven for what you just did. I hereby banish you into a cursed life. In fact, it will indeed be worse than death."

I did not understand. I wondered what could be worse than death? Suddenly, I couldn't even move at all. I drop the sharp stick, it barely missing the nearly dead Celebi. Hard purple stuff then start to surround me.

"What's happening?" I asked.

"Jirachi! I hereby banish you to be confined until a certain time. At which time you will be ordered to serve that who freed you, for only ones who are pure of heart can free you. You will be given seven days to complete such a task. If you fail, you will be permanently confined; never to be free again. My word is law!" Ho-oh told me.

The purple casing continues to surround me, as it does, the blue wish tags appear at the ends of my hair. I am soon consumed by the purple casing, confined from anything in the outside world.

"No! Please! Let me out!" I begged while pounding my fists against the new thing I was in.

Suddenly my eyes start to grow heavy. I soon give into the sleep as my mind drifts into the darkness that is before me.

I eventually awaken. As I do, I look around to find that it is night. I see a strange creature in front of me. Maybe another pokemon that was created while I was asleep, which I wasn't too sure how long it was. I was curious to know what the new species was. This creature is strange to me. I could however, after close examination, tell that it was not a pokemon at all. We pokemon can tell if it is a pokemon just by smell. This creature didn't have that kind of smell on it. I then remembered that Ho-oh had banished me to a place where, not only pokemon, but also what's called humans would live. After that, I had found this to be a human.

"Hi, I'm Adam. Who are you?" The human asked me.

"My name is Jirachi." I answered.

Adam was light skinned, with brown hair. I could say that he was probably twelve years old in human years. However, I wasn't sure how humans measured their life span at the time. He also held a very strange uniqueness to a certain boy I was going to meet in the future.

"Good to meet ya, Jirachi." Adam put his hand in front of me.

I just stood there confused. Was this the way humans greeted eachother? I then put my hand out in the same gesture. He then grabs my hand and shakes it, shaking me in the process. I give a light cry as he shakes me.

He soon lets go. "Sorry, I don't know my own strength." He said sweat dropping, trying to apologize.

"Uh, it's okay." I said, accepting his apology. Though I didn't think I deserved one in the end.

However, this human didn't even know who I was. He had no info about my dark past. I guess he was one of the few who didn't get the info. I was still the same evil Jirachi I was in the past.

The boy then took me home to what he called his family. As he does, I fall asleep, probably because I had no energy in me.

I soon awaken with a refreshed mind, and find myself in front of the boy again. He was probably waiting for me to wake up.

I look at him with barely groggy eyes. "Adam?" I ask him.

"Ah, I see you remember me from last night. Glad to see you're awake." Adam said.

That's when my stomach growled.

Adam just gave me a sweat drop. "I guess you're hungry." He said with a fake smile.

He gave me some food to eat, which I happily ate rather quickly. I had soon eaten ten helpings of food. I guess being asleep for so long does that to ya. After fifteen helpings, I stopped, as I was satisfied, not being able to eat another bite. Guess I was pretty hungry.

"Wow! You sure have an appetite." Adam said to me with a sweat drop.

One would probably guess I was eating for ten, as I now had a rather round belly from all the food I ate. In truth, if I had known, I was asleep for nearly four billion years. That's quite a hibernation time if you ask me.

Adam then washed all of the things that he put the food on. I then go outside for a little fresh air. As I breathe in the fresh morning air. I look around and see just how much the planet had changed over the course of four billion years. I saw many trees in the area, along with rather tall grass being present.

I soon found other pokemon among the area. I then saw a couple of brown birds play fighting with eachother and just smiled at them. They were rather happy enjoying themselves.

I wasn't surprised that they were so happy. They were free, unlike me. I had been banished into a crystal. Suddenly, I remembered that I was supposed to serve the one who woke me from my slumber, which I figured to be Adam. Leaving the rather lovely scene behind, I fly back to him for my first task as his servant, or as I would like to put it, his slave.

I soon found out that the food was only meant to give me the energy needed to do what the human wanted me to. He abused me by whacking me with a stick and forced me to clean the place. The experience brought me back to how I treated Celebi. Now that I knew how it felt, I was regretting ever doing it. After I was done with the first task he commanded me to do, I was out of energy. All of the fuel I had gained from the food was completely gone.

I weakly walk back to Adam, asking for some food. He just throws down a few small pieces of food to the ground. I eat the small amount of food, grateful that at least something was fueling my body.

Adam then stares at me evilly. "Did I say you could eat it?" He asked and whacked me with a stick, leaving a mark on my tiny forehead.

He then grabbed me by the arm and forced me outside. He then brought me to a small, rather deep, pit. It was probably a hundred meters deep, maybe less than that. He then forced me to the ground and made me face down into the pit.

"Now, regurgitate the food that you ate!" Adam commanded me. I understood what the term meant and knew what he was asking me to do. I look at him with sorrow in my eyes. "Do as I say! You said the great Ho-oh punished you to do as I said. So do as I say!" He said with great anger.

I then take my finger and put it into the back of my throat. My system soon goes into reverse and I throw up the food that I had just eaten. I continue to repeat the same motion until my stomach is completely empty, and I collapse to the ground.

After that, I found ways to sneak food into my stomach to help me live for another day. My guess was that after I told him about what I did in the past, he thought that I didn't deserve to live, and decided that I should suffer from starvation. I had luckily survived enough throughout the seven day period I was meant to serve him through, with a better understanding that what I did was wrong, and with a regret of it as well.

End Jirachi's Point of View

"I am terribly sorry for what I did in the past, and if that one Celebi that I nearly killed was still alive, I would apologize and hope that he would forgive me for what I did to him." Jirachi thought to himself as his past thoughts came to an end. "Max, you were one of the few who treated me as a friend. We had such a strong friendship, yet I never told you about my past. Despite that though, all I want now, is to be free from my cursed life." A small tear escapes his eye as he turns his head back to the battle in front of him and looks at Max. "Max, please save me from this cursed life. Please, help me!"

End Chapter 24
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Well, that's it for Jirachi's Past.

So, can you guess where the two scenes come from? You might be quite surprised in the end.

I'll reveal it next chapter.

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