A/N: And here it is...a brand-new chapter, straight from Cerse's head! Please note that at the time this was written, I had watched Akira and Metropolis less than 12 hours ago. So my head is full of images of city destruction. Hahahahahaha.

Disclaimer: As of yet, Pokemon has not been added to the list of Cerse's assets.

Darkness of the Unown Part 4: The Silver Saga

Episode 6

Ho-oh bowed his head and closed his eyes.

"So it would seem. But I still wonder-why is it that you have come back here with the obvious intent of destroying me, only a short time after attacking Lugia?"

Silver shrugged.

"For the same reason I attacked Lugia-to...improve myself."

He caught Ho-oh's eye as it darted towards the thin walls of the tower. He smirked.

"What's this? Looking for a way out? I don't think you fully understand how powerful I've become..."

He jerked his palms down toward the floor, and a wave of blue energy cascaded from his hands onto the floor. It spread out all over the walls and ceiling and floor, and continued down through the hole in the floor, as well as the stairs. After a few moments, the flow stopped, and Silver stood straight again. He chuckled at Ho-oh.

"I've just reinforced every last splinter of wood in this tower with a kinetic barrier. Nothing you can do will be able to break it."

Below, Naoko was slowly maneuvering across a section of tiles, many of which were made to drop any who walked on them to the floor below. Behind her, carefully following her path precisely, were no less than ten of Ecruteak's finest, sidearms drawn as a precaution against any danger that may come. Finally, the group reached the end of the tiles and stood before the stairway to the next level of the tower. One of the officers climbed a few steps and looked into the floor above. He signaled down for the rest to continue on, but then let out a sort of strangled sound of distress and nearly fell off the stairs with shock.

"What the hell's wrong with-" started one of the others, but stopped as soon as a wave of blue energy gushed from the floor above. But it passed by harmlessly and continued on.

"It's definitely him..." Naoko muttered to herself.

Silver watched as Ho-oh looked around for a means of escaped, and laughed crazedly.

"There's no point. The only way to get out is to destroy me, which you simply can't do. But if you want to try, I won't stop you."

Despite the urgency of the situation, the jibe hit Ho-oh hard. He was a somewhat prideful Pokemon, and he was now feeling a hot enmity towards Silver.

He had fallen into Silver's trap perfectly.

He reared his head back and released a tremendous Sacred Fire attack, engulfing Silver in a huge vortex of white-hot flame. It collapsed in on him, and continued to collapse until it was only a tiny spark, which quickly disappeared.

There was no trace of Silver. Just a collection of smoky particles floating in the air. Ho-oh looked upon the scene breathlessly. So he wasn't so tough after all. But...something was wrong. The particles in the air weren't smoke. They remained floating lazily even after the smoke had dissipated. Then the began whirling around, and then coalesced and flashed. Once again, Silver stood before the Legendary; his eyes alight with crazed delight. He surged forward into the air, and slammed into Ho-oh's chest, propelling him backwards into the wall of the Tower. Then he gripped the bird's neck feathers and spun around, tossing him hard into the floor. He landed lightly on the floor and advanced towards the prostate form of Ho-oh.

He held his hands down at his sides, and a pair of energy spheres ignited into existence and began to grow. The great bird tried to get up, but Silver placed his foot on a wing, and none of Ho-oh's weakened struggling could dislodge it.

All the while, the spheres in Silver's hands had been growing, and were now set at nearly a foot in diameter each. He looked down at Ho-oh and smirked at how pathetic the once-proud and mighty Legendary was.

"Well, goodbye then, Ho-oh. Die peacefully knowing that you helped me reach my potential."

He raised his hands above his head and prepared to sling the spheres into Ho-oh's head.

"Allen! Stop it!"

Silver turned slowly. The energy spheres dissolved, but he kept his foot firmly on Ho-oh's wing. He glanced towards Ho-oh's head, which jerked up and slammed into the ground. Its body went limp.

With Ho-oh totally unconscious, Silver took his foot off of its wing and took a step towards Naoko, who stood at the top of the steps. He glared at her angrily for a moment, and then his face changed to an expression of impassive realization.

"Of course, of course. How could I forget possibly the most important person from my old life..."

Naoko's heart leapt.

"You remember?"

"Of course I do. Which is why you now have to die."

She gasped and took a step back, shocked at his statement. He began slowly walking towards her, a murderous glint in his eyes.

"No, Allen! Stop!"

He didn't hear her, and continued.

"NOW!"

Two of the policemen jumped out from their hiding places under the stairs, to stand half-out of the stairwell. Their sidearms were already out, and they both fired.

The first two bullets hit Silver in his left leg and shoulder. More came, as the first two officers continued firing, and the rest of them came out of the stairs to add their fire. He stumbled backwards under the onslaught, as the bullets opened bloody holes all over his body. Finally, the leader of the police group held up a hand, and the firing stopped. Silver fell forward to the floor, to lie in a slowly growing pool of blood, which was just one of the numerous bloodstains all around.

One of the officers slowly approached, holding his gun at the ready. He knelt down, and reached out a hand to feel for a pulse. Right before his hand touched Silver's neck, his body shattered, nearly bowling over the officer. The small fragments that Silver's body had become drifted towards the ceiling in a disperse group, and stopped.

After a tense moment, where the fragments seemed almost to be thinking to themselves, they plunged downwards at blistering speed, directly towards the officer who had tried to take Silver's pulse. They struck him one after the other, punching straight through his abdomen. When the last one passed through, he gave out a choking cough and slumped to the side. Silver reformed his body, and glanced at each of the policemen in turn.

"Heh...pathetic."

Before any of them could recover their wits enough to fire, he had rushed forward and struck the first two with blows powerful enough to send them flying back into the walls, passing through the kinetic barrier and continuing on through the thin walls to the empty air beyond. Within two seconds, three more had suffered the same fate, leaving only four officers to slowly back up, shielding Naoko behind them as they moved towards the stairs. Three of them raised their guns and fired, while the other fumbled for his radio. Silver simply smirked and put out a hand. The bullets slowed and froze in midair.

"You know, these really do feel rather good. You ought to try them."

The bullets turned around and flew back as if fired again, striking the three shooters precisely in the forehead. They fell forward to the floor.

By now, the last one had gotten to his radio, and was about to press the talk button, when Silver stood in front of him and gripped his throat. He lifted him up off the ground effortlessly.

"You're in my way." he said calmly, and tossed the man away to smash through the wall and plunge down to the city below.

"And now for you, Naoko."

"Allen! Stop this! Stop this killing! You've done enough!"

"No, Naoko, It isn't enough. It will never be enough until they say it is enough. Until then, all I can do is continue. And now, you stand in my path. So in order to continue, you now must die here and now."

Naoko could do nothing but stumble back into the wall as Silver raised his hands above his head. A roiling orb of blue energy formed between them.

"Goodbye, Naoko. With any luck I'll see you again..."

And he brought his hands down, releasing the orb and sending it rushing towards the defenseless Naoko.

But it stopped.

It hung in midair mere centimeters from Naoko's terrified face. Then it rushed backwards, striking Silver in the chest and propelling him up into the air, to crash down onto the floor a few yards back. The kinetic barrier shattered and dissolved.

He shakily started to get to his feet.

"Why!" he demanded of the air, "Why did you stop me--? Aaaaaaaagh!"

He clutched his head as if in great pain, and slumped back to the floor. With a great effort, he jerked out his arm, and a dark opening shattered into existence in the air. He stumbled to his feet and tumbled through it. It closed itself behind him, leaving Naoko alone in the blood-splattered room.

A/N: Yes, that was short, but when has a chapter of this story been anything else? I'll try to have the next one up quicker. And I still haven't come up with the whole plot for this...but I do have the overall plot for DotU. But I'm not telling you! Unless, of course, you were nice enough to visit Pokemon Black, a link to which can be found on my profile page and my website, The Unown Realm.