Well here's chapter 21. Well I actually like this chapter a lot in my opinion and it will also start setting things back into havoc again. So hopefully everyone has been enjoying things in the story so far. I'd imagine if you read this far you actually enjoy the story so thanks for reading this far I appreciate it. Anyways don't be afraid to review because I really appreciate it when people take the time to tell me what they think of the story. Anyways on to the story!

Chapter 21: Ghost Town

Point of View Black

I found myself standing at the bottom of the hill from where I grew up as a child. I stood at the bottom of the hill contemplating if I wanted to go up their even though I knew how it would end. Snow gently fell from the night sky and slowly covered the world around me. I made up my mind and decided I was going to climb up the hill regardless of the consequences. I slowly walked up the hill fearing what I already knew was there. Once I reached the top I was surprised to see nothing up here. I looked around for the dead leafeon that always haunted my dreams but she was nowhere to be seen. I still felt on guard and I had no idea what to expect seeing as I knew this dream always ended in a tragedy.

"Ryder" I heard a whisper from behind me. Turned around and saw nothing. Then I looked down the hill and saw the leafeon staring at me from the bottom of the hill. She then turned around and began walking towards the city far off in the distance. I began running towards her as fast as I could, but then the snow began picking up until I could only see a few feet ahead of me. The night itself also got much darker and everything became very unsettling and I could now tell my nightmare was truly beginning. As I continued walking through the frigid snow I could feel my entire body becoming numb and every step I took I just wanted to fall down and get off my frozen feet.

After a few minutes of wondering aimlessly through the snow with half frozen paws I saw a light off in the distance. I couldn't make out what was emitting it but I ran towards it in hope that I would find some shelter from the harsh snow. Once I reached the light I quickly realized it was a lamp post. I was now in a town. I observed all of the buildings and I could tell I was in Snowbelle city. I looked around as best as I could through the snow that was falling and there was no one in site. Other than the one lamp post there was no other sign of light anywhere. Then the lamp post began flickering and the light went out and I was left in the darkness of the night alone.

I walked through the streets of the condemned city slowly. I had no clue what to expect and I was shaking in fear of what might happen as this dream progressed. Then the ring's on my body started glowing and emitted a blue light around me which lit the ground around me enough to see. Why my rings where deciding to work now I had no clue but I was just going to go with it for now. I continued to walk through the empty streets but then I noticed a puddle of blood. I looked at the blood and quickly realized that it was a blood trail leading somewhere. The blood made me feel sick to my stomach and I felt extremely light headed to the point where I felt like I was about to pass out. Despite the fact that I was terrified of blood I decided to follow the blood trail.

The blood trail was pretty long and whoever was bleeding had diffidently been injured seriously. The blood trail mostly followed the streets, but then it turned left and led towards an alley between some buildings. I continued to follow the blood into the alley, each step I took I could feel my head becoming more light and I knew if this kept up I was going to black out in my own dream if even possible. The alley was extremely long but it did eventually have turn at the end. Once I reached the turn I turned the corner and I saw something that would traumatize me for life.

Their lying on the floor was a dead jolteon and a dead vaporeon. The jolteon had a giant cut on his throat and there was blood everywhere. As for the vaporeon she had a giant stab wound on her back that appeared to have gone straight through her entire body. The two pokemon that lied in front of me were familiar to me. The jolteon was my brother and the vaporeon was my sister. I felt extremely disturbed and I could feel my stomach turning upside down. Seeing my family killed like this just made me want to vomit. I was light headed before but now I was absolutely sick and I was barely standing and my vision was blurry.

"Ryder" I heard a feminine voice call from behind me. I already knew who was behind me and I already knew what was going to happen next. I slowly turned around with tears rolling down my eyes and saw my leafeon mother standing behind me. She had a similar gash in her neck like my dead brother. I stood their petrified in fear.

"Leave me alone" I said with a shaky voice as she slowly walked towards me. One of the demented things I noticed was how she was struggling to hold up her own head from the wound on her neck. I took a feeble step backwards every time she stepped towards me. I kept my full gaze on her to watch her to make sure she didn't try anything. After about six steps back I then tripped on my dead brother's body and fell in a puddle of blood. I was now covered in their blood and I no longer had the will to move. I just watched in fear as my mother slowly walked towards me. When she was in front of me, she stopped and looked me dead in the eyes for a few brief seconds. Everything seemed to stand still even the snow stopped falling from the dark sky. She then lunged towards me at light speed and pinned me to the ground with her paw. She then slowly brought her mouth towards my neck. She then violently bit down onto my neck and I felt a sharp pain as I fell unconscious from the pain.

I awoke screaming in absolute terror in middle of the night. I was now terrified from my nightmare. I was now behind the pokemon center where I had originally fell asleep. I looked around and noticed Hesh who looked really startled as he stared me as if I was crazy.

"Are you okay" he asked in a tired voice. I took a few seconds to calm down before answering his question.

"Yeah, I just had a nightmare, that's all…" I said in a shaky voice.

"A nightmare so bad you woke up screaming" Hesh said surprised by why I was screaming so loud in middle of the night.

"It doesn't matter Hesh" I said trying to end the conversation quickly.

"Well okay if you say so. Are you sure your fine?"

"Yeah, I'm just going to take a small walk to calm down a bit" I said as I got up and stretched my shaking body out a bit.

"Okay just be careful" Hesh said as he lied back down and began going back to sleep.

I then began walking away somewhere private where I could just be away from the world around me. I decided to head towards the beach at the bottom of the mountain. When I said I was going on a small walk that really just meant I was going to walk around until dawn.

Point of View Stark

Kane the scyther and I where now searching for the umbreon Ryder. Luckily for us the kadabra told us his current location. This mission was going to be easy except for the fact that it was going to be hard for me to not accidentally murder the umbreon. The black scyther and I were now almost at the top of a mountain above Ambrette town. From here we could see almost everything from this side of the mountain. We could see Ambrette town itself along with the ocean in the distance and even Cyllage city far off in the distance to our right. I looked down the mountain in an attempt to find the target. The nice thing about those scientists messing with my body was that they actually enhanced some things about me. For example my now blue eyes where much superior to my old eyes and could make out anything from far away.

"Where do you think he is" I asked the silent black scyther. He just looked at me as if I wasn't supposed to talk to him.

"Oh yeah I forgot you don't ever talk" I said with a slight attitude. I then began heading down the mountain to get a better look in some of the area's I couldn't see from here. The only reason we knew he was in this specific area is because we were able to track his trainer's progress on beating the gym leaders and he still hadn't beaten the second gym leader yet.

I quickly ran at light speed down the rocky mountain and sometimes I would jump rock to rock so I could get across some areas easier. The scyther on the other hand decided to stay on the mountain for now and keep a look out from up there for now. I couldn't help but wonder what type of person this umbreon was and why this Crimson Dawn group wanted him so bad and why they would go through the trouble of reanimating me just to capture him. I was still very shocked from discovering that I was a reanimation of my old self. Stuff like that actually really messes with your mind, although at the same time I didn't really care too much since I was alive. The really weird part to me was the fact that I have only technically been alive in a sense of speaking for a few hours. According to the kadabra they made a clone of the real Stark with a blank mind and just let the clone grow until it was a proper age. My body was able to grow faster than an average umbreon thanks to some science stuff he explained to me that I never understood. I just hoped that they were smart enough to reverse some of those effects once my body was the appropriate age.

I eventually climbed down the mountain until I was in Ambrette town. This town was pretty quiet since everyone was asleep at this time of night. Another weird thing about me was that the rings on my body were black so the light they emitted was black so I couldn't even see the light they made, they just kind of glowed and that was it.

I walked down the street looking for the umbreon I was in search of. As far as I could tell there was no sign of life at this time of night so I decided he was not here. I then decided to go even lower on the mountain to find him. I walked towards the cliff of the mountain and gazed off into the distance. From here I could see the beach perfectly. That's when I noticed a faint blue glowing light on the beach. I observed the light a little closer and I quickly discovered that the light was coming from an umbreon on the beach. I then began making my way silently down the mountain towards him.

Point of View Black

I was now silently walking along the beach. As I was walking along the beach I was watching the ocean waves go back and forth along the beach. The sound of the ocean waves was very relaxing and made me feel pretty calm. The almost full moon was reflecting off the water of the ocean and made the water sparkle slightly.

I continued walking along the beach for about fifteen minutes until I noticed something odd along the beach. There was a bunch of abandoned houses along the beach that looked pretty worn down. The houses were made of rotting wood and the windows on the houses where smashed out. As I entered the abandoned town I couldn't help but remember my dream from last night. There were roughly around twelve houses following the beach. Some of the house looked like they were really close to collapsing on themselves. I couldn't help but wonder if Hesh knew of this place and if he even checked it out yet for those missing pokemon. I doubted he would have overlooked a place like this but I figured it wouldn't hurt to check it out.

"Hello" I yelled out loud. I waited for a response but all I heard was silence.

"Is anybody their" I yelled out loud. Again all I heard was silence in return. I walked up to one of the abandoned houses and observed it. I then noticed the door was cracked open so I got the brilliant idea to explore inside the old creepy house. Once I entered in the house I quickly noticed how dark it was. Luckily for me the lights on my body lit up the house just enough for me to see. The house was pretty dusty and the wooden floor was rotting and I was actually worried that it was going to collapse from below me. There was average furniture in the house such as a couch, some chairs, book shelf and tables that were all covered in dust. After a few minutes of walking around my front right paw fell through the floor and I fell down as I tried to catch myself as I slowly fell through the floor.

"Dammit" I muttered below my breath as I slowly pulled my paw out of the new hole in the floor.

I decided I was now done exploring this condemned house and that it was time for me to probably head back to Ambrette town. I exited the house and I stopped to look at the ocean for a few minutes before I went back to town. I quickly noted that in about two or three hours the sun would be coming up and the night would be over.

"Good evening Black" I heard an anonymous voice call out from behind me. I quickly turned around and saw an umbreon behind me. Although this umbreon was different from other umbreon's I've seen. This one had pure white fur and he also had black rings on his body instead of the usual gold rings. Although I guess my rings weren't gold either.

"Who are you" I asked in a serious voice.

"Relax for a minute. I'm not just going to attack you out of the blue like that" the white umbreon said as he walked closer to me.

"I'm not playing any games with you. Who the hell are you" I demanded.

He just looked at me with an unfazed expression on his face. "If you most know my name is Stark and I'm here to capture you" He said in a serious voice.

I quickly jumped up and got in a defensive position and prepared to fight another one of Vincent's crazy friends. The white umbreon who called himself Stark on the other hand just stood there as if this was a joke to him.

"This is going to be hard" Stark said.

"You bet your ass it's going to be hell for you" I said in an intimidating voice.

"No I mean it's going to be hard not to kill you" He said bluntly.

"You haven't seen me fight so how about you judge me after I kick your sorry ass" I retorted in an intimidating voice.

The umbreon then started bending his neck and I could hear his neck cracking. "Well it's time to give this new body a try" Stark said. I just stood there completely confused on what the hell he meant by new body. Then Stark literally moved so fast towards me it looked as if he teleported. He then head-butted me right in between the eyes and sent me flying to the ground. I now had a massive migraine from the head-butt I just received from my foe, but I quickly got up and shook off any pain I was feeling.

I then began charging towards him with all of my might. I then sent a quick swipe with my claws towards his face. He just ducked under it and hit me with his body. It didn't hurt to bad, but it did cause me to take a few steps back from him.

"Mew you suck at this" I heard Stark mutter under his breath. I now felt a little offended and I was not going to let this asshole get away with that. I then charged towards him and then swiped my right paw towards his face again. This time I retracted my paw when it was a few inches away from his face and I sent my left paw instead towards his face. He dodged the attack with very little effort though.

"The hell am I even here for" I heard Stark say in an angry voice. "They are seriously wasting my time on a defenseless pokemon like you" Stark said in a pissy voice.

I then took my chance since he was distracted and I charged up a shadow ball and shot it towards him. He didn't even move away from shadow ball and instead he just extended his paw and then my shadow ball was literally absorbed by his paw and looked like it went into his body. Now I was pissed because he was pulling that shit Vincent pulled on me when I used shadow balls on him. Although then I noticed that Stark was a little surprised by my attack. Yet I was more surprised on how he absorbed my shadow ball like that.

"I have to admit Black, I didn't think you were the type" Stark said.

"What do you mean the type" I said in a confused voice.

"The type of pokemon that actually went through with killing someone" he said. My eyes widened at the statement he just made and I felt myself become consumed by anger.

"I've never killed anyone asshole" I shouted so loud that my voice echoed through the quiet night.

"Don't lie to me Black" He said in an angry voice "I'll just finish you off here if your not going to be honest with me" Stark said.

"I've never murdered anyone ever and even if I did how would you know" I said in a very aggressive tone.

"Because you used a shadow ball and not a lot of umbreon's can use that attack"

"So" I retorted.

"So only umbreon's that have actually committed the sin of murder can use dark matter on that level. I would know" Stark said as a dark aura began glowing around his body.

"Killing destroys the heart in ways never thought possible and by doing that an umbreon's can use dark matter at will" Stark said as the dark aura grew stronger around his body.

"Well sorry to tell you but I'm just different I guess" I said as I looked him dead in the eyes.

"Bullshit stop lying to yourself" Stark snarled towards me.

"You stop making false accusations asshole" I shouted as loud as I could at Stark.

"Very well, this conversation is over Black" Stark said in a serious tone and the aura around his body went away. Before I could even blink Stark literally teleported in front of me tackled me so hard that I couldn't breathe for a few seconds. I lied on my back trying to catch my breath and then I saw him standing above me. I tried to get up before he could attack me again but then he put his paw on my throat and pushed on it until I couldn't breathe.

I struggled as much as I could but I couldn't get him off me and I slowly felt the world around me fading into darkness.

"Shhh don't fight it Black" Stark whispered in a calm voice. I then felt everything around me go black and I fell unconscious.

Chapter End

Author Note: Well shit now Black lost that fight and its pretty obvious he is in some serious trouble now. So Stark is accusing Black of being a murderer now because he can use dark matter to make a shadow ball. Do you think Black actually killed someone or could it possible have to do with his special ability, I'll leave that to your creative imagination until the answer comes. Anyways thanks a lot for reading and please take a few seconds to review if you want to be awesome. Thanks