Pikachu: To everyone who is reading this story, or more accurately no one,
I'm going to write this chapter all alone. That means that there the next
chapter won't get uploaded before I get a review. Unlike Vokteren, I only
write if I get any reviews so REVIEW.
Vokteren: Although you write this chapter I'll still add my comments, and it is my job to answer reviews. Your job is to check if there are any new reviews.
Pikachu: Well, you haven't gotten any reviews for the last FOUR chapters. Anyway I got quite a bit of inspiration this morning.
Vokteren: A discussion about if it was the table's fault or not may fit in a humor category, but this is not humor. I do not intend to make any characters more stupid than a person you and I know.
Pikachu: Who? Ah I see. He is more stupid than humor fics with a stupid Garet. I'm serious. Even Garet doesn't use four (maybe more) years to understand a movie he have seen. Anyway let's start this chapter after the usual disclaimer. "We do not own Golden Sun or Pokemon. Song, Shadow and Nightmare are our own however"
"Speech" ¤Thought¤ [Telepathy] (A/N: Author Note) (V/N: Vokteren Note)
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¤Where am I? It is so cold and dark. Are my eyes closed? No they're open. Then why can't I see a thing? And where are the others?¤ Isaac shivered of fear. ¤What did that boy do? I just can't seem to remember... NO. This is just like that nightmare. I have to get out of here. I have to do it for the others. I don't want to become what I became in the nightmare¤ Isaac became desperate when the darkness seemed to thicken. He had to get out and quick. He tried unleashing all of his psynergy but that didn't serve any purpose except for making him tired. He tried to slice the shadow with his sword, but it was just like slicing water. He started thinking about his friends. He had to get out of here. If not for himself then at least for them. Isaac closed his eyes and a tear rolled down his chin. When the tear hit the black matter it started to part. Isaac didn't notice this before he fell and landed on a boy.
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"Get me out of here!" Garet shouted. Instead of being worried like Isaac, Garet became furious. He did not have time to play silly games with some creepy weirdo. "Get me out of here or I'll burn you to cinders" Garet waited for any kind of response, but when he got none his eyes flared up. He started to glow a dark red and the temperature around him rose by ten degrees. Garet closed his eyes and summoned forth the strongest and biggest Inferno he could. The scorching hot fireballs spun around him and directed to a gathering spot one meter away from Garet. He smiled as the fire sizzled, sure that this fire would burn a hole in this odd fabric. When nothing happened, his smile and the blood in his face disappeared. "What? How? Why? This is surrealistic. It didn't even leave a burn mark" He began to worry. "Please. Please let me out. I promise not to yell. I promise I'll control my anger. I promise... that I must get a grip of myself. This shadow must have some effect on my brain. I can't give up on my attitude just to get myself out of this mess. I'll have to get out and still be the same Garet" A hole opened under Garet and he fell jus like Isaac did before. And just like Isaac he landed on a boy.
"I think I need an umbrella. A big umbrella"
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¤Hmm. This darkness is pretty much like the one I had in my vision. If this is the same darkness then a girl is bound to appear soon¤ Ivan sat down on the darkness. The invisible and yet visible ground was cold and smooth. Just like polished ice. Ivan waited for a while but when no one came he started to get impatient. "Anyone here?" he shouted. No response. "May someone please tell me what is happening?" still no response. "It seems no one wants to help me. That leaves me to find a way out on my own" A glint of white light suddenly flashed before Ivan's eyes and disappeared as quickly as it came. Ivan didn't fell any different, but when he looked at his hand he saw that a very faint light. He touched the "ground" and a hole opened. He looked down and saw that he would crash straight onto a boy.
"Did you install some kind of homing device, Nightmare?"
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Mia felt the darkness, not as something made of evil or hatred, but as something made out of grief. When she understood the grief her own heart became heavy. Why would Nightmare do something he didn't want to? "Why are you doing this? Why are you splitting us up if you don't want to? It is okay. You can say it to me and it will still be a secret if you want to" Mia could hear something that resembled a faint crying and the darkness around her burst like a bubble. She fell down and just like the three adepts before her, she landed on a boy with black hair and clothes.
"My back is really aching now"
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"What kind of test is this? This one is easy enough if you know what it is" Pikachu was very confident. A Haunter had visited Viridian and he had made a test just like this. Pikachu and a few others had volunteered to try the test before the Haunter traveled to a meeting for ghost pokemon. The test was just like this. You had to improve your soulpower enough to break the barrier of shadow. There was various ways to do that but the one Pikachu used was probably the easiest. She thought about a humorous situation and as her smile grew bigger, so did her soulpower. When her soulpower had reached the required level of strength a hole opened. Pikachu however did not pay any attention to this. She was laughing hard, and hit Shadow hard.
"Okay that you are lighter, but the others didn't laugh at least"
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"Torchic was afraid. Deathly afraid. She had never told it to anyone, but Torchic was afraid of the dark, and when things were as dark as this she became hysterical. "Help me, Help me, Help me, Help me" she said as she ran around in circles. When you are running around in circles you are eventually bound to get dizzy, and this was just what happened to Torchic. She became to dizzy to stand and eventually she fell down. ¤Okay Torchic, just calm down. You can't just run around and do nothing. You have to stop being afraid of the dark¤ She took a deep breath, stood up, took a new deep breath and shouted "I'm not afraid of you anymore. Just come and get me if you dare because I dare face you" Torchic overflowed with energy and a hole appeared under her feet. She looked at the rapidly approaching boy and said "I was just kidding. I didn't mean it" Bonk, Torchic crashed onto Shadow.
"I was serious when I said that I needed an umbrella"
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Skitty remained cool and calm. If she remembered right then Pikachu had done something similar back in Viridian. She closed her eyes and tried to remember what Pikachu had told her. She focused, and focused, and came to a stop when her soulpower had forced open a hole for her to fall through.
"Couldn't you wait a few more seconds? I've almost gotten up an umbrella"
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Vaporeon was struck by an odd tiredness. It felt like something heavy was placed on his entire body and he couldn't shake it off. He almost fell asleep before he finally got a grip of himself and started thinking. ¤This heavy thing is something created by my imagination. If I can get it of I could get out, but to get it of I need to use my own willpower. Faith can transcend logic if you put your entire soul in it¤ He focused on a picture. At first it was nothing but him on nothing. But slowly new things came into view. Green grass and a blue sky. A lake and a few trees. Flowers opening on the ground. Vaporeon bouncing of an umbrella.
"At least I got the umbrella up before the last one hit me"
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Vaporeon opened his eyes and stared straight into a pair of brown eyes and a smile of relief.
[Are you alright?] Pikachu asked.
[I'm alright. But it was not a nice landing] He replied.
[At least you passed the test as well. Every one passed this test easily] Pikachu set up a teeth showing grin.
[Are we going to battle now?] Vaporeon asked.
"I'm afraid so" said a voice that was much more mature than the person who said it. "If you are going to learn the psynergy of Gaia Rock you must face me" Vaporeon turned and looked straight at Shadow.
He stood about the same height as Ivan, but instead of blonde hair he had pitch black hair. He was clad in an even darker robe and had a golden cloth around his body. His face was pale as a ghost, but showed two deep soulful brown eyes and, not a mockingly, but a friendly smile. Around his head he had a tiara made out of something that resembled silver.
[Who are you and how old are you? You look only fifteen years old] Vaporeon asked.
"My name is Shadow and I'm thirteen years old"
"Thirteen years old?" Garet said a bit shocked.
"How do you think you can beat us if you're only thirteen years old?" Isaac asked.
"Rainbow was only twelve years old" Shadow replied.
[Oooooookay. So we have actually battled two kids in the earlier elemental mountains?] Pikachu said.
"Yes. You are perfectly right miss" He replied, making Pikachu blush.
"Well, if you really want to be beaten then that is fine by me" Garet said.
Shadow turned to Garet and gave him a bone piercing stare before answering "Don't take me lightly just because I'm young and not physical strong. My powers come from somewhere else" He turned to Nightmare and spoke to him. "Nightmare, now you can use that song pellet we got from Song"
Nightmare closed his hand and it glowed black before he opened it and threw a tiny pellet to the floor. When it broke Arabian music started playing. (A/N: random choice) (V/N: very random) Most of them looked around, confused about where the music came from. When Shadow saw that he told them that it came from the crushed pellet. Inside it all the music was held back by Song's Sound Shield. Some, like Garet and Skitty, used a little time to understand, making Shadow a bit impatient. He didn't want to do this but he knew that he had to.
"May we please start? Unlike you I don't have the next eternity free" he said in a bit irritated tone.
Garet was about to say something, but was stopped by Isaac and Mia casting Ice Missile and Quake Sphere. The Quake Sphere made Shadow unable to move on the ground, forcing him to take the Impact of the sharp icicles. However that did not happen. Before the icicles reached him he glowed black and the attack passed right through him.
"I told you not to take lightly of me. Now it's my turn to show you a Dark Strike, or would you rather want a High Serpent?"
He held his arm flat out and a shadow shot from the palm and straight through Isaac. Even though the shadow was insubstantial the energy still harmed him. Shadow turned towards Mia and the ground around her started to glow black. Mia braced herself for an attack, but nothing came. Pikachu and Garet had tackled Shadow to the ground and now Garet held Shadow pinned to the ground with his sword across Shadows throat. Garet thought he had won, but was wrong. Shadow disappeared and appeared again floating above Garet. Shadow smiled as he threw small metal stars (P/N: Also called Shurikens) towards Garet. He was barely able to dodge the small stars. Shadow was about to descend to the floor but was knocked back by an Ice beam from Vaporeon. He crashed down near Nightmare.
"Nightmare, give me that gift from Spirit" he said as he got up.
Nightmare gave Shadow a bond of cloth and gave it to Shadow. Shadow just smiled and put it on around his head, leaving to long ends to hang down behind his head, before he started to run towards the group. As he ran his speed got greater and the cloth pieces started to spin around, quicker and quicker. When he had reached the first of the group he didn't touch the ground. Garet was stunned by the speed and couldn't do anything but brace himself. Yet again Shadow was cut of before he reached Garet. Skitty and Torchic had used Fireball and Gaia to knock Shadow into a nearby wall. When Shadow got up he saw that the cloth was burned up, and with that he had lost Spirit's speed. Shadow jumped into the center of the group and glowed black.
"Good luck enduring the Black Wave"
He let out an explosion of black that knocked the humans of their feet. The Pokemon was too small to be hit by the wave. However Shadow knew what he was doing. The ground around the pokemon glowed black before four surges of dark energy exploded under their feet. The energy changed shape to snakes, and pushed them higher and higher before Shadow directed them together into a cloud of darkness. Shadow didn't want to do this but he had to. He made the final fusion of the High Serpent strike and transformed it into Shadow Urge. Small rows of different colors appeared around the cluster of dark energy. The orb got smaller before bursting and letting the four unfortunate pokemon fall hard onto the ground.
"Looks like I win" Shadow said.
"Think again mister" a female voice said.
Shadow turned around and saw Mia glowing in a bright blue light, restoring the power of her friends using Pure Wish. (P/N: Saved me hundreds of times) The seven others got up with renewed strength. They smiled at Shadow, a smile a cat gives a mouse, before launching different psynergy attacks at him, knocking him into Nightmare.
"Are you alright?" Nightmare asked.
"I'm perfectly fine. They are not however" he got up and turned to the group "I'm done toying with you. Time to end this with Bane"
Everything around them became black. Just like when they were trapped by Nightmare. This time however they could see each other and Shadow perfectly. What was interesting them however was what happened right above Shadow. A red donut with a middle of a purplish black appeared above him. Small particles of red and purplish black came out of Shadow and floated into the mystical object. (P/N: There is still Arabian music playing in the background) Now a little white object appeared in the middle of the purplish black. It got gradually bigger and when it had stopped growing one could clearly see that it was a skull. Now four scythes appeared around Shadow before floating into the object and arranging themselves in a cross pattern behind the skull. Shadow smiled and the mystical object split into eight smaller but identical copies. The small copies rushed towards the group and when the made impact with a person they just collapsed. Ivan, Pikachu and Mia were barely able to dodge the first wave. The others passed out. Mia and Pikachu thought themselves safe but Ivan was still on his guard. That was what saved him. The objects turned and raced at them again. This time only Ivan dodged, leaving him alone against a creep with power over the dark and a mad skull. Shadow had to wait, first of all the Bane projectile had to be stopped. Ivan kept on dodging the strike and as he dodged the object slowly became dimmer as Shadow got exhausted of controlling it. Eventually it dilapidated and left Shadow panting heavily.
"You are skilled Ivan. But you are alone against me now and you will fall for my Dark Revive"
Shadow glowed black and black leaves fell down around Ivan. Ivan sensed danger and jumped away. Shadow just continued making leaves fall around Ivan but he just dodged them easily. Eventually Shadow got tired and used something Ivan didn't expect. Small vines rose from the stone floor and held Ivan in place for long enough to make he leaves land on him. When the leaves landed a black light shot down and hit Ivan.
"I've got you now Ivan"
Ivan felt he couldn't move. He could only watch golden leaves slowly drift down on Shadow before golden light bathed him. Now small orbs of black rushed out of Ivan and headed towards Shadow. As they got closer they changed color to golden. After that hollow stars rained down on him. Right before they hit him, they slowly floated over his head and fell down with him in the middle. When the hollow stars hit the floor the dissolved and reappeared going reverse at Shadow. However now the attack seemed to be over and Ivan didn't feel any different. According to the look on Shadows face Ivan had done something very special.
"What? How on Tellus did that happen?" Shadow was shocked and at the same time impressed. "It doesn't matter. I've got other tricks up in my sleeve"
Shadow opened his hand and the hand glowed dangerously black before he shot out a skeletal hand at Ivan. Ivan saw the hand approach him and hit him straight where his heart was. He saw that the hand was still in contact with Shadow and seeing the long thin arm made Ivan close his eyes. He felt a horrible cold spreading through his body. He tried to open his eyes but they refused to listen. (V/N: Still Arabian music playing) The cold kept on spreading and Ivan knew that he had to free his heart if he would have any hope of winning.
Mia opened her eyes and saw a horrible sight. Ivan stood almost lifeless before Shadow. Mia saw that Shadow had a hand where Ivan's heart was, but Mia also saw the sorrow on Shadow and Nightmare's face. This was what kept Mia from bothering them. She just couldn't get herself to backstab someone again. And not someone with so much sorrow on his face. Mia did not know that what Shadow really wanted was someone to backstab him so he could stop doing this.
Ivan tried again too open his eyes. This time he succeeded and saw straight into a pair of sad eyes. Shadow also saw that Ivan had managed to open his eyes and this made him even sadder. Shadow raised his other arm and this one he pushed into Ivan's head. This forced Ivan to close his eyes again. When Ivan awoke he was looking straight at a woman. She was crying before giving him and a girl with purple hair to a man with a beard. A new image slid into his mind. Ivan was running alone in a wood. He heard wolves howling towards a moon. A bush nearby shook and Ivan closed his eyes. Now Ivan was standing in a town. He saw a caravan leaving the town and him. Ivan closed his eyes and cried. A new place appeared. He was walking along a cold stone path. Suddenly he stopped before a big statue resembling Master Hammet. He was about to do something when he suddenly screamed.
"No. You are not allowed to see this"
Ivan opened his eyes and saw Shadow lie on his back in front of him. Before Shadow got up Ivan had drawn his sword and now he pointed it at Shadow.
"No one is allowed to see that secret" he said.
His sword glowed and a voice howled from the sword "Asura"
Ivan dashed at Shadow. Mia could only see a blur and a little later Shadow had two cuts across his chest.
"I give. You are indeed skilled. I'll take you back to Gaia Rock" and with a white flash they arrived back in Gaia Rock. The others awoke when they got away from that cell like room.
"What happened?" Garet asked.
"You won and that is what happened. I'll let one of you learn Sand now" Shadow said.
The ground shock and a stone slate appeared nearby the stone statue. Skitty was the one who would learn the new psynergy and after learning it the slate dissolved into sand. Shadow bid them farewell and with a flash he and Nightmare disappeared.
"What are we going to do now?" Isaac asked the others.
"That's easy" Garet said. "Let's go to that festival in Izumo village"
The others agreed and headed towards Izumo. They had been in Gaia Rock max one hour. As the adepts left Nightmare and Shadow watches them leave Gaia Rock.
"They are truly skilled. I think they are the right ones" Shadow said,
"I agree. I have never seen anyone as skilled as they are" Nightmare replied.
Shadow stood up and nodded. He stood this pose until the others entered Izumo again. When they did he fell to the ground.
"Shadow!" Nightmare jumped up to his master, no not his master, his first friend in millenniums. "Shadow, are you all right?"
Shadow didn't reply. Instead he burst into tears. "I can't do this anymore" he sobbed. "It is a miracle that I didn't break down and cry during the fight with those kids. I am a good for nothing person who can get myself to actually battle them without a reason"
Nightmare tried his best to comfort Shadow. Not noticing the white glow that emanated from Shadow's chest before there was a bright flash.
"What? Is that really..."
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Pikachu: I'm going to cut it there.
Vokteren: This chapter is really good Pikachu.
Pikachu: Thank you. Can you promise me one thing Vokteren?
Vokteren: Sure. What?
Pikachu: Don't submit a new chapter before I have gotten any reviews. I want someone to respond to these chapters.
Vokteren: I promised that I'd promise you that but I don't like it. Anyway since you made the chapter you can upload it. I'm going to bed.
Pikachu: I'll do it. And to any of those who want to know more about the Lifechildren just e-mail us. Remember to label the e-mail. Oh, and don't bother e-mailing about Nightmare or Song. We won't tell you anything about those two yet. Those who review this chapter may get to be in the story if they want too. Tell that in a review. (like anybody reads this.) Until next time.
Vokteren: Although you write this chapter I'll still add my comments, and it is my job to answer reviews. Your job is to check if there are any new reviews.
Pikachu: Well, you haven't gotten any reviews for the last FOUR chapters. Anyway I got quite a bit of inspiration this morning.
Vokteren: A discussion about if it was the table's fault or not may fit in a humor category, but this is not humor. I do not intend to make any characters more stupid than a person you and I know.
Pikachu: Who? Ah I see. He is more stupid than humor fics with a stupid Garet. I'm serious. Even Garet doesn't use four (maybe more) years to understand a movie he have seen. Anyway let's start this chapter after the usual disclaimer. "We do not own Golden Sun or Pokemon. Song, Shadow and Nightmare are our own however"
"Speech" ¤Thought¤ [Telepathy] (A/N: Author Note) (V/N: Vokteren Note)
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¤Where am I? It is so cold and dark. Are my eyes closed? No they're open. Then why can't I see a thing? And where are the others?¤ Isaac shivered of fear. ¤What did that boy do? I just can't seem to remember... NO. This is just like that nightmare. I have to get out of here. I have to do it for the others. I don't want to become what I became in the nightmare¤ Isaac became desperate when the darkness seemed to thicken. He had to get out and quick. He tried unleashing all of his psynergy but that didn't serve any purpose except for making him tired. He tried to slice the shadow with his sword, but it was just like slicing water. He started thinking about his friends. He had to get out of here. If not for himself then at least for them. Isaac closed his eyes and a tear rolled down his chin. When the tear hit the black matter it started to part. Isaac didn't notice this before he fell and landed on a boy.
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"Get me out of here!" Garet shouted. Instead of being worried like Isaac, Garet became furious. He did not have time to play silly games with some creepy weirdo. "Get me out of here or I'll burn you to cinders" Garet waited for any kind of response, but when he got none his eyes flared up. He started to glow a dark red and the temperature around him rose by ten degrees. Garet closed his eyes and summoned forth the strongest and biggest Inferno he could. The scorching hot fireballs spun around him and directed to a gathering spot one meter away from Garet. He smiled as the fire sizzled, sure that this fire would burn a hole in this odd fabric. When nothing happened, his smile and the blood in his face disappeared. "What? How? Why? This is surrealistic. It didn't even leave a burn mark" He began to worry. "Please. Please let me out. I promise not to yell. I promise I'll control my anger. I promise... that I must get a grip of myself. This shadow must have some effect on my brain. I can't give up on my attitude just to get myself out of this mess. I'll have to get out and still be the same Garet" A hole opened under Garet and he fell jus like Isaac did before. And just like Isaac he landed on a boy.
"I think I need an umbrella. A big umbrella"
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¤Hmm. This darkness is pretty much like the one I had in my vision. If this is the same darkness then a girl is bound to appear soon¤ Ivan sat down on the darkness. The invisible and yet visible ground was cold and smooth. Just like polished ice. Ivan waited for a while but when no one came he started to get impatient. "Anyone here?" he shouted. No response. "May someone please tell me what is happening?" still no response. "It seems no one wants to help me. That leaves me to find a way out on my own" A glint of white light suddenly flashed before Ivan's eyes and disappeared as quickly as it came. Ivan didn't fell any different, but when he looked at his hand he saw that a very faint light. He touched the "ground" and a hole opened. He looked down and saw that he would crash straight onto a boy.
"Did you install some kind of homing device, Nightmare?"
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Mia felt the darkness, not as something made of evil or hatred, but as something made out of grief. When she understood the grief her own heart became heavy. Why would Nightmare do something he didn't want to? "Why are you doing this? Why are you splitting us up if you don't want to? It is okay. You can say it to me and it will still be a secret if you want to" Mia could hear something that resembled a faint crying and the darkness around her burst like a bubble. She fell down and just like the three adepts before her, she landed on a boy with black hair and clothes.
"My back is really aching now"
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"What kind of test is this? This one is easy enough if you know what it is" Pikachu was very confident. A Haunter had visited Viridian and he had made a test just like this. Pikachu and a few others had volunteered to try the test before the Haunter traveled to a meeting for ghost pokemon. The test was just like this. You had to improve your soulpower enough to break the barrier of shadow. There was various ways to do that but the one Pikachu used was probably the easiest. She thought about a humorous situation and as her smile grew bigger, so did her soulpower. When her soulpower had reached the required level of strength a hole opened. Pikachu however did not pay any attention to this. She was laughing hard, and hit Shadow hard.
"Okay that you are lighter, but the others didn't laugh at least"
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"Torchic was afraid. Deathly afraid. She had never told it to anyone, but Torchic was afraid of the dark, and when things were as dark as this she became hysterical. "Help me, Help me, Help me, Help me" she said as she ran around in circles. When you are running around in circles you are eventually bound to get dizzy, and this was just what happened to Torchic. She became to dizzy to stand and eventually she fell down. ¤Okay Torchic, just calm down. You can't just run around and do nothing. You have to stop being afraid of the dark¤ She took a deep breath, stood up, took a new deep breath and shouted "I'm not afraid of you anymore. Just come and get me if you dare because I dare face you" Torchic overflowed with energy and a hole appeared under her feet. She looked at the rapidly approaching boy and said "I was just kidding. I didn't mean it" Bonk, Torchic crashed onto Shadow.
"I was serious when I said that I needed an umbrella"
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Skitty remained cool and calm. If she remembered right then Pikachu had done something similar back in Viridian. She closed her eyes and tried to remember what Pikachu had told her. She focused, and focused, and came to a stop when her soulpower had forced open a hole for her to fall through.
"Couldn't you wait a few more seconds? I've almost gotten up an umbrella"
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Vaporeon was struck by an odd tiredness. It felt like something heavy was placed on his entire body and he couldn't shake it off. He almost fell asleep before he finally got a grip of himself and started thinking. ¤This heavy thing is something created by my imagination. If I can get it of I could get out, but to get it of I need to use my own willpower. Faith can transcend logic if you put your entire soul in it¤ He focused on a picture. At first it was nothing but him on nothing. But slowly new things came into view. Green grass and a blue sky. A lake and a few trees. Flowers opening on the ground. Vaporeon bouncing of an umbrella.
"At least I got the umbrella up before the last one hit me"
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Vaporeon opened his eyes and stared straight into a pair of brown eyes and a smile of relief.
[Are you alright?] Pikachu asked.
[I'm alright. But it was not a nice landing] He replied.
[At least you passed the test as well. Every one passed this test easily] Pikachu set up a teeth showing grin.
[Are we going to battle now?] Vaporeon asked.
"I'm afraid so" said a voice that was much more mature than the person who said it. "If you are going to learn the psynergy of Gaia Rock you must face me" Vaporeon turned and looked straight at Shadow.
He stood about the same height as Ivan, but instead of blonde hair he had pitch black hair. He was clad in an even darker robe and had a golden cloth around his body. His face was pale as a ghost, but showed two deep soulful brown eyes and, not a mockingly, but a friendly smile. Around his head he had a tiara made out of something that resembled silver.
[Who are you and how old are you? You look only fifteen years old] Vaporeon asked.
"My name is Shadow and I'm thirteen years old"
"Thirteen years old?" Garet said a bit shocked.
"How do you think you can beat us if you're only thirteen years old?" Isaac asked.
"Rainbow was only twelve years old" Shadow replied.
[Oooooookay. So we have actually battled two kids in the earlier elemental mountains?] Pikachu said.
"Yes. You are perfectly right miss" He replied, making Pikachu blush.
"Well, if you really want to be beaten then that is fine by me" Garet said.
Shadow turned to Garet and gave him a bone piercing stare before answering "Don't take me lightly just because I'm young and not physical strong. My powers come from somewhere else" He turned to Nightmare and spoke to him. "Nightmare, now you can use that song pellet we got from Song"
Nightmare closed his hand and it glowed black before he opened it and threw a tiny pellet to the floor. When it broke Arabian music started playing. (A/N: random choice) (V/N: very random) Most of them looked around, confused about where the music came from. When Shadow saw that he told them that it came from the crushed pellet. Inside it all the music was held back by Song's Sound Shield. Some, like Garet and Skitty, used a little time to understand, making Shadow a bit impatient. He didn't want to do this but he knew that he had to.
"May we please start? Unlike you I don't have the next eternity free" he said in a bit irritated tone.
Garet was about to say something, but was stopped by Isaac and Mia casting Ice Missile and Quake Sphere. The Quake Sphere made Shadow unable to move on the ground, forcing him to take the Impact of the sharp icicles. However that did not happen. Before the icicles reached him he glowed black and the attack passed right through him.
"I told you not to take lightly of me. Now it's my turn to show you a Dark Strike, or would you rather want a High Serpent?"
He held his arm flat out and a shadow shot from the palm and straight through Isaac. Even though the shadow was insubstantial the energy still harmed him. Shadow turned towards Mia and the ground around her started to glow black. Mia braced herself for an attack, but nothing came. Pikachu and Garet had tackled Shadow to the ground and now Garet held Shadow pinned to the ground with his sword across Shadows throat. Garet thought he had won, but was wrong. Shadow disappeared and appeared again floating above Garet. Shadow smiled as he threw small metal stars (P/N: Also called Shurikens) towards Garet. He was barely able to dodge the small stars. Shadow was about to descend to the floor but was knocked back by an Ice beam from Vaporeon. He crashed down near Nightmare.
"Nightmare, give me that gift from Spirit" he said as he got up.
Nightmare gave Shadow a bond of cloth and gave it to Shadow. Shadow just smiled and put it on around his head, leaving to long ends to hang down behind his head, before he started to run towards the group. As he ran his speed got greater and the cloth pieces started to spin around, quicker and quicker. When he had reached the first of the group he didn't touch the ground. Garet was stunned by the speed and couldn't do anything but brace himself. Yet again Shadow was cut of before he reached Garet. Skitty and Torchic had used Fireball and Gaia to knock Shadow into a nearby wall. When Shadow got up he saw that the cloth was burned up, and with that he had lost Spirit's speed. Shadow jumped into the center of the group and glowed black.
"Good luck enduring the Black Wave"
He let out an explosion of black that knocked the humans of their feet. The Pokemon was too small to be hit by the wave. However Shadow knew what he was doing. The ground around the pokemon glowed black before four surges of dark energy exploded under their feet. The energy changed shape to snakes, and pushed them higher and higher before Shadow directed them together into a cloud of darkness. Shadow didn't want to do this but he had to. He made the final fusion of the High Serpent strike and transformed it into Shadow Urge. Small rows of different colors appeared around the cluster of dark energy. The orb got smaller before bursting and letting the four unfortunate pokemon fall hard onto the ground.
"Looks like I win" Shadow said.
"Think again mister" a female voice said.
Shadow turned around and saw Mia glowing in a bright blue light, restoring the power of her friends using Pure Wish. (P/N: Saved me hundreds of times) The seven others got up with renewed strength. They smiled at Shadow, a smile a cat gives a mouse, before launching different psynergy attacks at him, knocking him into Nightmare.
"Are you alright?" Nightmare asked.
"I'm perfectly fine. They are not however" he got up and turned to the group "I'm done toying with you. Time to end this with Bane"
Everything around them became black. Just like when they were trapped by Nightmare. This time however they could see each other and Shadow perfectly. What was interesting them however was what happened right above Shadow. A red donut with a middle of a purplish black appeared above him. Small particles of red and purplish black came out of Shadow and floated into the mystical object. (P/N: There is still Arabian music playing in the background) Now a little white object appeared in the middle of the purplish black. It got gradually bigger and when it had stopped growing one could clearly see that it was a skull. Now four scythes appeared around Shadow before floating into the object and arranging themselves in a cross pattern behind the skull. Shadow smiled and the mystical object split into eight smaller but identical copies. The small copies rushed towards the group and when the made impact with a person they just collapsed. Ivan, Pikachu and Mia were barely able to dodge the first wave. The others passed out. Mia and Pikachu thought themselves safe but Ivan was still on his guard. That was what saved him. The objects turned and raced at them again. This time only Ivan dodged, leaving him alone against a creep with power over the dark and a mad skull. Shadow had to wait, first of all the Bane projectile had to be stopped. Ivan kept on dodging the strike and as he dodged the object slowly became dimmer as Shadow got exhausted of controlling it. Eventually it dilapidated and left Shadow panting heavily.
"You are skilled Ivan. But you are alone against me now and you will fall for my Dark Revive"
Shadow glowed black and black leaves fell down around Ivan. Ivan sensed danger and jumped away. Shadow just continued making leaves fall around Ivan but he just dodged them easily. Eventually Shadow got tired and used something Ivan didn't expect. Small vines rose from the stone floor and held Ivan in place for long enough to make he leaves land on him. When the leaves landed a black light shot down and hit Ivan.
"I've got you now Ivan"
Ivan felt he couldn't move. He could only watch golden leaves slowly drift down on Shadow before golden light bathed him. Now small orbs of black rushed out of Ivan and headed towards Shadow. As they got closer they changed color to golden. After that hollow stars rained down on him. Right before they hit him, they slowly floated over his head and fell down with him in the middle. When the hollow stars hit the floor the dissolved and reappeared going reverse at Shadow. However now the attack seemed to be over and Ivan didn't feel any different. According to the look on Shadows face Ivan had done something very special.
"What? How on Tellus did that happen?" Shadow was shocked and at the same time impressed. "It doesn't matter. I've got other tricks up in my sleeve"
Shadow opened his hand and the hand glowed dangerously black before he shot out a skeletal hand at Ivan. Ivan saw the hand approach him and hit him straight where his heart was. He saw that the hand was still in contact with Shadow and seeing the long thin arm made Ivan close his eyes. He felt a horrible cold spreading through his body. He tried to open his eyes but they refused to listen. (V/N: Still Arabian music playing) The cold kept on spreading and Ivan knew that he had to free his heart if he would have any hope of winning.
Mia opened her eyes and saw a horrible sight. Ivan stood almost lifeless before Shadow. Mia saw that Shadow had a hand where Ivan's heart was, but Mia also saw the sorrow on Shadow and Nightmare's face. This was what kept Mia from bothering them. She just couldn't get herself to backstab someone again. And not someone with so much sorrow on his face. Mia did not know that what Shadow really wanted was someone to backstab him so he could stop doing this.
Ivan tried again too open his eyes. This time he succeeded and saw straight into a pair of sad eyes. Shadow also saw that Ivan had managed to open his eyes and this made him even sadder. Shadow raised his other arm and this one he pushed into Ivan's head. This forced Ivan to close his eyes again. When Ivan awoke he was looking straight at a woman. She was crying before giving him and a girl with purple hair to a man with a beard. A new image slid into his mind. Ivan was running alone in a wood. He heard wolves howling towards a moon. A bush nearby shook and Ivan closed his eyes. Now Ivan was standing in a town. He saw a caravan leaving the town and him. Ivan closed his eyes and cried. A new place appeared. He was walking along a cold stone path. Suddenly he stopped before a big statue resembling Master Hammet. He was about to do something when he suddenly screamed.
"No. You are not allowed to see this"
Ivan opened his eyes and saw Shadow lie on his back in front of him. Before Shadow got up Ivan had drawn his sword and now he pointed it at Shadow.
"No one is allowed to see that secret" he said.
His sword glowed and a voice howled from the sword "Asura"
Ivan dashed at Shadow. Mia could only see a blur and a little later Shadow had two cuts across his chest.
"I give. You are indeed skilled. I'll take you back to Gaia Rock" and with a white flash they arrived back in Gaia Rock. The others awoke when they got away from that cell like room.
"What happened?" Garet asked.
"You won and that is what happened. I'll let one of you learn Sand now" Shadow said.
The ground shock and a stone slate appeared nearby the stone statue. Skitty was the one who would learn the new psynergy and after learning it the slate dissolved into sand. Shadow bid them farewell and with a flash he and Nightmare disappeared.
"What are we going to do now?" Isaac asked the others.
"That's easy" Garet said. "Let's go to that festival in Izumo village"
The others agreed and headed towards Izumo. They had been in Gaia Rock max one hour. As the adepts left Nightmare and Shadow watches them leave Gaia Rock.
"They are truly skilled. I think they are the right ones" Shadow said,
"I agree. I have never seen anyone as skilled as they are" Nightmare replied.
Shadow stood up and nodded. He stood this pose until the others entered Izumo again. When they did he fell to the ground.
"Shadow!" Nightmare jumped up to his master, no not his master, his first friend in millenniums. "Shadow, are you all right?"
Shadow didn't reply. Instead he burst into tears. "I can't do this anymore" he sobbed. "It is a miracle that I didn't break down and cry during the fight with those kids. I am a good for nothing person who can get myself to actually battle them without a reason"
Nightmare tried his best to comfort Shadow. Not noticing the white glow that emanated from Shadow's chest before there was a bright flash.
"What? Is that really..."
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Pikachu: I'm going to cut it there.
Vokteren: This chapter is really good Pikachu.
Pikachu: Thank you. Can you promise me one thing Vokteren?
Vokteren: Sure. What?
Pikachu: Don't submit a new chapter before I have gotten any reviews. I want someone to respond to these chapters.
Vokteren: I promised that I'd promise you that but I don't like it. Anyway since you made the chapter you can upload it. I'm going to bed.
Pikachu: I'll do it. And to any of those who want to know more about the Lifechildren just e-mail us. Remember to label the e-mail. Oh, and don't bother e-mailing about Nightmare or Song. We won't tell you anything about those two yet. Those who review this chapter may get to be in the story if they want too. Tell that in a review. (like anybody reads this.) Until next time.