Alright, here is chapter 2, in Book II. Anyways, fair warning, this chapter is really long, so keep that in mind. This chapter will also be the final part to the prologue of Book II: Impending Twilight.
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Chapter 77: The red eyed demon
Point of View Ryder
It has been quite a while since the zorua had spoken to me. That zorua was rather creepy, and the mentioning of experimentation was beyond scary. But, the thing that terrified me the most, was how he mentioned was that my mind was going to be wiped. I didn't want to forget who I was, nor did I want to forget my family, even if they were gone now.
The only thing that was managing to keep me slightly distracted, was the constant sharp pain in my mouth from the teeth I just lost earlier, as well as the severe bruises all over my body. The slightest movement hurt, even just a few inches to readjust myself.
Looking across my prison, I could see Zack, my brother constantly ramming into the bars of his prison. I could see that he was wearing down, his attacks were now becoming more sluggish, and he was slowing down. While his efforts were appreciated, I realized long ago that we were at the human's mercy.
A loud creaking noise echoed in the air. I looked down the hall as best as I could, and I saw two humans carrying a pokemon by his arms. An unconscious lucario was being dragged down the hall, until he was thrown into the cell to the left of Zack.
"Wait, you?" Zack said in confusion, as he tried to get a better look at the lucario. Zack wore a look of surprise as he looked at the multiple gashes on the lucario's body, along with many other wounds that covered him from toe to head.
"You know him?" I asked in confusion, not recalling his face from anywhere.
"Kinda, you were knocked out at the time, but he was the one who saved us earlier," Zack answered me.
Once the lucario was thrown into the cell, the humans began putting chains on his arms that were attached the walls and constricted his arm movement. After the lucario was chained up, the two humans shut the cell and walked away. A moment of silence passed by, until the lucario's head flinched up as he inhaled a deep breath. He quickly looked left and right, and tried to move, but found out that he was chained up.
"Lucario, are you awake?" Zack asked from the opposite side of the wall from the lucario.
"And who're you?" The lucario asked Zack, "Actually, I recognize your aura, Flareon," the lucario responded to Zack.
"So, even you got caught, huh?" Zack stated.
"It took multiple teams of pokemon to take me down, and they're foolish if they think they can contain me," the lucario said, as he clenched his fist.
"What, you're saying you can bust out of here?" Zack asked.
"When the time is right, I will kill them all."
"Right…" Zack said awkwardly, as he found a corner in his room, and lied down.
"So, how long do you think it'll be until they begin experimenting on us?" Zack asked out loud.
"Any minute now, they've already transferred us to a facility in Kalos," the lucario said.
"Wait what?! Since when the Hell did they get us off our home island?"
"I'm not surprised you didn't know," the lucario said, followed by a short pause, "Once they capture pokemon, they inject them with drugs to keep them asleep for a long period of time. Then they transferred you across the sea to here, which is about an hour boat ride," the fighting type answered.
"Wait, how long was it since you saved us then? Because we were captured shortly after you helped us," Zack frantically asked as he got up.
"That was about a day ago, you have probably been out for quite some time," the lucario answered.
"Great, the bastards are already messing with us in ways I don't like," Zack growled.
"It's nothing compared to the experimentation they do in this facility," the lucario began to say, "They do many horrible things to pokemon, first they'll start by altering your mind, then depending on your species, they'll make you into a specimen. For a flareon, I'd expect them to make you one of their mindless slaves, and they'll alter your body to make you stronger," the lucario said, as he inhaled a deep breath, "But for your jolteon friend there, I'd imagine they'll do worse things, since he looks uniq-"
"Just stop!" I yelled across the room, "I don't want to talk about this, I just want to go home," I said as I curled up in a ball, and hid myself from everything. This was going to be the end, Zack and I were going to be altered and turned into mindless monsters. I didn't want this fate, I just wanted to go home and be with my family one last time.
"No point in hiding from the truth, jolteon," the lucario said.
"That's enough!" Zack shouted from the other side of the wall from the lucario, "Just leave him alone, he's still a child and doesn't need to be haunted by such thoughts, he has enough problems as it is."
"Very well," the lucario said, before he remained silent.
A moment passed, until a loud creaking noise filled the air, and two humans walked down the cell block. "There he is," one of the two humans said as he looked at Zack, before he pulled out a stick, with a needle at the end.
"Get back," Zack growled, but as he growled the human stuck the stick in the cell, and jabbed it into his neck. Zack's eyes widened, before they rolled into the back of his head, and he fell over unconscious.
"Zack?! Leave him alone!" I yelled at the humans as they opened his cell door, and picked him up. "Stop, bring him back, please!" I yelled at them, but they carried him away, and within seconds he was gone.
"Where are they taking him?" I asked the lucario.
The lucario remained silent for a moment, before he looked at me, "It looks like your friends was chosen to be their next project," he answered.
"Well can't we do anything?"
"Wait patiently though, the time is near," the lucario said with tranquility.
"My brother is going to be changed forever, don't tell me to just wait patiently!" I snapped at him. The lucario just sighed, and he closed his eyes, and almost looked as if he was meditating.
"This is it," I said as I banged my head into the wall with frustration, "Zack's going to be changed," I said as I slid to the ground, and tears began to form in my eyes.
No matter how hard I tried to think of a solution, my mind found nothing. Zack was going to be altered, and I never even got to apologize to him for being so difficult lately. He was always looking out for me, and I was bitter towards him for his mistakes. I knew that his mistakes haunted him daily, but he always put my life first, even if he risked his in the process.
A long period of time passed by, most of which I spent sobbing. At this current moment, I no longer had tears left. I've spent so much time crying in the past, and if I wasn't so difficult, Zack and I would possibly still be safe.
"It's time," the lucario said out loud, and his eyes opened.
"Time for what?" I questioned him, as I forced myself up off of the floor.
"Time for our escape, I have amassed enough energy to break free of this prison," the lucario stated as his body began to glow with a blue aura. The aura increased, until a bright light began to flash from his body. I clenched my eyes shut as the light blinded me.
Once the light died down, I looked at the lucario to see that his chains were broken, and that his form had changed. The lucario was now much taller, his fur had more black markings, the long black hair like things on his head had grown longer, and were now tipped with a crimson red, along with his paws which were now crimson red.
"What are you?" I questioned in disbelief as the lucario punched his cell door, and a blue light flashed, and the cell bars blew off.
"Mega evolution, in this form I am near unstoppable," the mega lucario said as he punched my cell bars, and they blew off. "Now come, this is your chance to save your brother, but understand that they will kill you if it comes down to it," he stated as he began walking down the cell block.
"Wait!" I yelled at the lucario. He stopped, but didn't bother to look back at me.
"Who are you?" I questioned him. "My name's Ryder."
"Names have no value, but I shall give you the honor of my name, due to circumstances. My name is Mandus," he said as he continued walking down the cell block.
"Thank you, Mandus," I said to him, but he continued walking down the cell block. As the two of us walked down the cell block, many other pokemon began yelling at us, begging us to free them.
"Come on, you gotta help us!" one of the pokemon shouted at us.
"Why aren't you helping them?" I asked Mandus.
"They'll only get in my way, they'll be freed by the time I leave," he answered.
"Then why free me?"
Mandus stopped walking, and looked back at me, "Because, I know what it is like to want to help family, but you can't because you're powerless," Mandus answered, as he sped up his pace. Once he reached the end of the hall, he slammed his fist into a steel door, and a blue aura exploded, and blew the door off.
The instant the path was opened; Mandus darted through the door, and sped down the hall. Multiple humans saw him coming, and threw those balls that contained pokemon. Three pokemon now faced Mandus, a scyther, a meinfoo, and a grovyle.
The grovyle was the first to make its move, and it lunged towards Mandus, with the leaves on its arms readied like blades. Mandus quickly ducked under the attack, and as he did, the scyther slashed its blade towards Mandus. The lucario quickly jolted back in time. The scyther then stabbed its blade at Mandus, but he grabbed it by the arm, and kneed it in the gut. The scyther fell to its knees gasping for air. Mandus held its bladed arm, and placed his foot on its elbow. Mandus then pressed down, and all that could be heard was a loud snap, followed by a pained scream. The scyther fell to the ground, and Mandus pulled on its arm until it ripped off.
The mienfoo jumped towards Mandus, and he extended the scythers arm out, and penetrated its torso. Blood shout out of its mouth, as the mienfoo fell to the ground, dead. Just as the mienfoo fell, the grovyle swung a leaf blade at Mandus. Mandus quickly moved out of the way, and extended his paw into the grovyle's face. The grovyle flew back with a violent burst of blue energy, and it laid lifeless on the ground.
The three trainers all stared at Mandus for a second, before they all took off running. Mandus didn't bother chasing after them, and he just calmly began walking down the halls. I nervously followed the lucario. As I walked over the dead pokemon, I could feel myself gagging from the gruesome scene. Mandus slaughtered them without mercy, and he did it with minimal effort.
Mandus turned a corner up ahead, and I slowly followed behind him. As I turned the corner, I saw Mandus holding an armed human by the neck. A crack filled the air, and the human fell dead on the ground, and Mandus continued walking.
Suddenly, a loud beeping noise started going off in the air, and red light began to flash every few seconds. "Alert, this is not a drill, we have a rampant pokemon running amok in sector C, repeat this is not a drill," A voice boomed through the facility we were in.
"What's going on?" I asked Mandus, as he calmly walked down the hall, with me following in his shadow.
"They're alerting the others, there will be more to come, much stronger foes on top of that," Mandus answered.
"And you can take them?" I asked Mandus.
"We'll find out," he answered in a dry tone, "Just stay behind me, unless you can actually fight," Mandus told me as he took off running down the hall, and turned a corner up ahead.
"Are you actually trying to help me, or are you just going on a killing spree?" I said quietly, as I slowly walked down the hall in mandus's footsteps.
Halfway down the hall, found a steel door that was cracked open. I curiously looked at it, unsure if I should break off from the path that Mandus was taking. After a moment of thinking, I decided to push the door open, and investigate this strange facility was in.
"What is this stuff?" I curiously asked as I looked around the room and observed the strange technology that was everywhere.
But one thing about this room sent a dark cold chill down my spine. In the room there were multiple rows of massive tube container that were filled with a strange liquid. Inside the glass tube were pokemon. At first I nervously looked at them, but after a moment, my curiosity got the best of me and I walked up to one of the tubes. In the tube was a female jolteon. A tube went from from the top of the container down to the jolteon's mouth, and a mask went around her snout. As I stared at the jolteon, I noticed how peaceful she looked, and it almost looked as if she was just sleeping.
"Who are you?" A voice called out to me. My head quickly flinched in the direction of the voice, and things got freaky when I saw an identical jolteon to the one in the tube standing behind me.
"I'll ask you one more time, who are you?" the female jolteon asked me, as electricity began to circulate through her fur.
"I umm, I'm…" I began to say, but words wouldn't properly come out.
"You're one of the escaped pokemon, aren't you?" the jolteon said in a grim tone, as the electricity in her fur began to intensify.
"Just what the hell is this place, and why the hell does this jolteon look identical to you?" I questioned her, even if she was on the verge of deciding to kill me.
"They're reanimations, every single one in this room," the jolteon stated.
"Reanimation?" I said in confusion.
"They're clones of pokemon, but altered to be stronger than the original. Sadly for you, I am a reanimation, and my speed exceeds the average jolteon, along with the voltage of my attacks," she warned me, as a spark flew off her body.
"Well, I'm not exactly normal either," I bitterly responded.
"I can see that, Genesis already started altering you, but I wonder why they bothered changing your eyes to red?" she curiously stated.
"I haven't been altered in any way. These eyes, my differences, they're all natural," I responded.
"Natural red eyes? And I thought I was created to be a freak," the jolteon said, with a sneer.
"Don't call me that," I responded as I attempted to dig my claws into the hard steel floor, but instead my paws scraped along the floor, creating a high pitched scraping noise.
"Why don't you make me, you red eyed demon," the jolteon said with a cocky smirk.
"Shut up!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, and an unknown force shoved the jolteon back and caused her to tumble over.
The female jolteon quickly recovered to her feet, but her cocky arrogant stare was now replaced with the ever so satisfying look of fear in her eyes. The reanimation took a step back away from me, as she kept full eye contact with me.
"What… What kind of monster are you?" she asked in a shaky voice.
"I told you, not to degrade me like that," I snarled as another forced threw her back, but this time she smashed into one of the tubes with a vaporeon in it, and the glass shattered, and the liquid poured out, and the specimen pokemon was disconnected from the tube it was attached to and fell to the ground. The female jolteon now had multiple shards of glass in her body, but she just stared at the specimen vaporeon on the ground. For a moment the vaporeon was normal, until it began violently flinching around, almost as if it was having a seizure, and after a minute, its breath stopped and the vaporeon appeared lifeless.
The jolteon was now struggling to her feet, as she tried to control the pain of having multiple shards of glass impaled in her. I just nodded my head as I walked towards her, and stepped into the water like substance that flooded the floor. The moment I stepped in the water, the water around the jolteon rose up, and ensnared her. The waters temperatures soon changed, and it became a solid coat of ice around the jolteon. The jolteon opened her mouth, but nothing came out, only a stiff breath that didn't know how to describe the freak I was.
I then walked up to the jolteon, and leaned in towards her ear, "You're probably very confused right now, but that's just how I want you," I whispered into her ear, as I stood next to her.
"This… this... this isn't normal," she said in a shocked tone.
"No it's not, I'm far different from the other eeveelutions. Due to some phenomenon, I have full elemental control, but there is no point in telling this to a dead jolteon," I whispered into her ear, as a large shard of glass rose into the air, and levitated towards her neck. "Now, you can go back to not existing, just like you originally should have," I said as the shard of glass slowly grazed against her neck, and began ripping open her jugular. At first she screamed in agonizing pain, but it soon toned down to a gurgling as I watched her choke on her own blood. After a moment, the jolteon fell limp, and the ice prison around her body melted back onto the ground.
"What… What did I do…" I said in horror as I looked at the dead jolteon, and realized that I lost control of myself again. I continued to stare in shock as I watched the blood mix in with the liquid that flood the floor, and I soon found myself in a pool of blood.
"Arceus… What did I do?" I said as I began to feel light headed, and my stomach began to feel absolutely sick. My body lowered as I felt my muscles weaken, and I soon found myself throwing up on the floor in absolute disgust from my actions.
"No-no-no," I frantically said in disbelief as I fell sideways into the puddle of blood, and my vision began to grow dark, until I lost touch with reality.
"Wake up, now," I voice calmly said as I felt something nudging on me.
"Zack?" I said with a glimmer of hope as I opened my eyes, but instead I found Mandus standing over me, shaking me awake.
"We need to go, the path is now clear," Mandus said, and my eyes focused on the crimson red liquid that the lucario was covered in. The lucario stared at me for a moment, before he looked at the dead jolteon that was near me.
"What happened here?" Mandus asked, as he grabbed my shoulders, and forced me up.
"I… I don't know," I hollowly responded, "I… I lost control of myself, again," I said as a teardrop fell of my eye, and landed in the liquid below me, becoming one with the crimson liquid.
"Come with me, we don't have much more time," the lucario said as he gave me a nudge with his foot, and I began to walk with my weak muscles.
The lucario took point, and walked around ten steps ahead of me once we entered the hallway again. As I walked, I looked at my right paw and stared at the blood that covered it. The urge to wash the blood away overwhelmed me, and I could feel myself going mad as I felt the gooey substance soaking my fur. It was the whole right side of my body that was soaked in blood, and I'd imagine that it made me look as if I was split into two half's.
Third person point of view.
Mandus continued to lead Ryder down the halls of the Genesis facility. Neither of the two talked. While Mandus focused on the path ahead of him, Ryder was lost in his mind, torn to pieces for what he had just done.
After a few minutes of walking, the two came upon what used to be a door, one that Mandus destroyed much earlier. The two exited the halls and came into an open room, that connected multiple wings of the facility.
"This is the exit," Mandus stated, as he looked dead ahead towards an iron gate, one that he had opened earlier.
"What about Zack?" Ryder asked Mandus.
"I searched this whole facility, I'm afraid he is gone now," Mandus answered in a monotone voice, not showing any sign of emotions.
"That's not true, I know he has to be here somewhere," Ryder protested.
"I've killed half of this facility, I've checked everywhere, and most of them evacuated already. Zack was probably taken as well, since he was out of his confines at the time," Mandus told Ryder.
"But… Zack… no," Ryder said in confusion as he had no idea on how to respond.
"I'm sorry," Mandus answered. "Let's leave, we're now in Kalos, and I know Genesis has other facilities in this region," Mandus added. "We'll find him."
"You promise," Ryder asked, with a small glimmer of hope in his voice. Mandus responded with a nod, and without another word, the two headed for the gate that would free them. Mandus ran up to a control panel on the gate, and he pushed a series of buttons on it. For a moment nothing happened, but then an alarm went off as the gate began to open.
The two closed their eyes as a bright light shined them from the other side of the gate, and a loud bang went off and the two felt sharp piercing objects impale them. Standing on the other side of the open gate was three humans, and five pokemon. The humans were geared up with tactical military equipment, and armed with assault rifles. The three pokemon were a delphox, a grovyle, a chesnaught, the same zorua that confronted Ryder earlier, and a flareon that wore a blank expression on his face.
"Z-Zack?" Ryder said in surprise, as he tried to move, but couldn't due to the bullet that was shot into his leg. The flareon didn't even respond to his name, and remained silent, but the one who did respond was the zorua, who stepped forward.
"You," Mandus growled as his eyes widened, and his knuckles tightened, "I'll kill you."
"I wouldn't be so sure on that, I've brought my own personal team here to kill you, plus a new addition to go along with that jolteon once he's captured," the zorua said with a confident smirk, "Besides Mandus, I'm sure you're near your breaking point," the zorua said, as his smirk widened.
"Zack! Zack it's me, what're you doing with them, run!" Ryder shouted at his brother, but the flareon just looked at him curiously.
"You don't get it kid, do you?" the zorua said as he walked towards the flareon, "As I told you earlier, your brother and you, are mine," he said as he tapped the flareons side, but Zack only glanced at the zorua.
"Give him back to me!" Ryder shouted at the zorua.
"No, you will be reunited with your brother, but under my circumstances. I have had a lot of money put into altering him, he is now able to reach new levels, he's perfect," the zorua said with pride.
"Perfect," Mandus repeated in a dark bitter tone, "You alter nature, you have tainted that flareon, and he's now a monster."
"I call it perfection, but I understand how some might view pokemon like us, as freaks," the zorua said as he looked towards us. "Anyways, I'm getting bored now. So, why don't we just start this, I'll at least be kind enough not to drag this out, when the outcome will be the same no matter what," the zorua said, as he took a few steps back.
"Ryder, get back, this is between us," Mandus growled, as he got ready to fight, despite the bullet the went straight through his upper torso.
Ryder let out a loud groan as he forced himself off the ground, and he moved back, while keeping an eye on his brainwashed brother. Once he was out of the way, all the humans pointed their weapons at Mandus, and all the pokemon got into battle stances, while the grovyle deliberately stood in front of the zorua who was hanging back from his group.
A moment of silence passed by, until a loud bang filled the air, followed by a thunder of automatic fire and blinding flashes. Mandus moved in an instant, and he jumped in the air with a blue aura forming into a ball in his palm. Mandus let out a grunt as he threw it with all of his might. The ball flew towards the humans and pokemon, and they all dove out of the way. The aura exploded as it hit the ground, and the room shook from the power.
Debris filled the air for a few seconds as all the pokemon and humans looked around for the lucario. One of the humans looked down towards the ground and saw the upper half of his team mate, and the human cringed at the sight of his dead comrade. One of the humans fired their gun, and a blue flash followed soon after. Another human fell to the ground as the debris cleared up, to reveal a gaping hole in one of the humans and Mandus standing behind him.
The delphox pointed its wooden staff towards the lucario, and a torrent of flames flew towards the lucario. Mandus quickly jumped to the side, but the fire readjusted itself and followed him. As Mandus avoided the torrent of flames, the last remaining human shot an automatic flurry at Mandus. Mandus foresaw the attack, and quickly dodged the stream of bullets, closed in, and elbowed the human in his hip. The human let out a grunt as the chesnaught swung his fist towards Mandus. The lucario whacked the side of the chesnaughts arm, and redirected the blow away from him.
Just as Mandus finished defending himself, he quickly charged an aura and punched the human, and the human flew into the incoming torrent of flames. The human let out a loud scream before he fell to the ground, burned to the point that bones could be seen, and a burnt cinder could be smelt by all.
"Alright guys, stop playing around and kill him already," the zorua shouted at his comrades, as the grovyle continued to protect him.
Zack inhaled a deep breath and let out a astronomical sized flamethrower. Mandus's eyes widened as he barely managed to jump out of the way. Before Mandus could catch his breath, a spray of embers flew towards Mandus from the delphox, the infernal flames left multiple burns on Mandus, and he quickly jumped out of the way shielding his face. As Mandus dodged one attack, the chesnaught quickly moved in and threw a punch at Mandus's face, the unsuspecting lucario suddenly felt his fist break through his defense, and smash into his right eye. Mandus tumbled to the ground, and rolled a few meters across the floor, but he gained control of himself and jumped up to his feet in mid roll. The lucario panted as his swollen eye clamped shut.
The mega evolved lucario let out a grunt, and a bright light flashed, and his body reverted back to his normal from. The now normal lucario fell to the ground, and laid flat as he panted in exhaustion. The three opponents all moved in, and formed a circle around him. The chesnaught moved in from behind, and grabbed Mandus by the arms and pinned him down to the ground. The zorua let out a laugh as him and the grovyle moved in towards Mandus.
"Wow, how weak have you gotten over the years," the zorua said in surprise as he stood directly in front of the lucario's face.
"Go to Hell," Mandus snarled.
"Haven't I told you my perception on reality before?" The zorua said as he looked Mandus directly in the eyes, "This world is Hell, and what better way for humanity to be tortured than for us to torture each other every day. It's almost funny actually, but then again, I have a dark humor," the zorua said with a laugh.
"I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you in the most gruesome way possible, and after you're dead, I'm going to kill everything you care about," Mandus said in an exhausted voice, but still kept his piercing stare on the zorua.
"That's nice, but I only have one person I look up to, and even if you did by some miracle break free and kill us all right now, you'd never get close to the head of Genesis," the zorua responded and finished with a bored yawn.
"Leave him alone and let my brother go!" Ryder shouted, as he moved in on the scene.
"Ahh, it looks like he saved us the trouble of hunting him down," the zorua said with a smirk, "Capture him," the zorua then ordered.
The delphox quickly turned its attention towards Ryder, and extended its staff. A torrent of flames formed and shot towards Ryder. The jolteon shot out a lightning bolt, and the two forces collided, but the fire overwhelmed the lightning and continued forward. Ryder then quickly moved to the left, and the torrent of flames exploded against the wall.
"Don't resist jolteon, I don't want to have to damage my new prized possession," the zorua said as he lazily sat down, and spectated the scene.
"Zack, you got to snap out of this, I know you're still you," Ryder pleaded towards his brother, but the flareon showed no response.
"I already told you kid, your brother has no memories in his mind left, his mind has been written to obey me, if I truly wanted, I could have him commit suicide here," the zorua said to Ryder.
"Please just give him back, he's all I have left," Ryder begged the zorua.
"As I said before, you two will be reunited under my conditions, don't make me constantly repeat myself. Now submit, or we'll do this the hard way."
"Jolteon, just get out of here, you won't win in a straight up fight," Mandus said from the ground, as he was pinned down by the chesnaught.
"Alright, I'm really losing my patience, just capture the pest, I got things to do you know," the zorua said with frustration and his minions all faced Ryder, excluding the chesnaught that was pinning down Mandus.
Ryder cautiously took a step back as the delphox and the flareon that both approached him, the grovyle remained near the zorua, but kept its eyes on Ryder. The flareon opened its mouth wide and sprayed an ember out of its mouth. Ryder quickly moved back, and charged up a bolt of lightning. Once fully charged, Ryder shot the bolt, and it headed towards the delphox. The delphox swatted the bolt with its staff, and the bolt exploded with sparks flying everywhere.
Zack quickly dashed forward and tackled Ryder to the ground. Ryder tried to shove off his brother, but he found himself overpowered by his elder brother.
"Zack, this isn't you. Remember me, Mom, Dad, Lucy, and everyone else you cared about!" Ryder shouted at his brother as the flareon opened its mouth, and bit down on Ryders shoulder. The Jolteons eyes opened wide as a chunk of flesh was pulled off his right should.
"Zack… " Ryder said, as blood gushed out of his wound, and he felt his body becoming numb. Ryder began to feel weak, and for a moment, his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and his eyes shut.
"Looks like he's finished," the zorua said with a smirk, as he headed towards the unconscious jolteon.
Suddenly, the jolteons eyes bursted open, and electricity circulated from his body, to Zacks, and caused the flareon to yell in pain as electricity pulsed through his body. Zack fell to the ground, and Ryder quickly climbed back up. The zorua quickly jumped back behind his grovyle bodyguard.
"You're going to regret your actions," Ryder said in a dark tone, one that belonged to a totally different pokemon. Ryders eyes were now glaring towards the zorua with a cold glare that lusted for his blood.
The delphox stuck out its wooden staff, and a stream of fire flew towards Ryder. The jolteon just smirked, and opened his mouth and began to absorb the flames into his own body. The delphox stopped after a moment, and it just stared at the jolteon in shock.
Ryder aimed his snout towards the chesnaught on to of Mandus, and a stream of fire exited the jolteons mouth. The chesnaught quickly got off of Mandus, and moved to the side. Mandus rolled out of the way, and barely avoided getting severely burned. All of the pokemon in the room looked at Ryder in shock, all except the zorua, who understood what was truly going on.
"So, it's true," the zorua said with a growing smile, "I thought it was all lies, but you really are what the legends make you out to be," the zorua continued on.
As the zorua curiously watched the jolteon, Mandus got up, and began charging an aura in his right palm. The fighting type ran towards the chesnaught. The chesnaught responded by swinging his fist, but Mandus ducked under it, and extended his arm outwards, and his charging palm exploded in the chesnaughts hip. The pokemon slammed in the ground with a loud 'thud'. Mandus didn't waste a single moment, and he jumped on top of the chesnaught, and began wailing on his face with his right arm as he held him down with the other. The chesnaught tried to stop Mandus, but after a few seconds the chesnaught was covered in blood and bruises, and no long conscious.
The delphox was now shooting multiple fireballs at Ryder. The jolteon moved away from the attacks, and wore that same blood lust look in his eyes. Mandus took the Delphox's distraction, and he charged towards the unsuspecting fox. Mandus came from behind, and he wrapped his arm around its neck, and used the other to secure his arm in a lock. The delphox thrashed its body back and forth, but as Mandus continued to choke it from behind, its movements became weaker until it dropped its staff, and fell to the ground. With those pokemon out of the picture, Ryder and Mandus both looked at the zorua, and the grovyle.
"Well… this isn't looking good for us," the zorua said in a voice that didn't really sound to bothered by the situation.
"It's over," Mandus said in a bitter tone.
"It's far from over Mandus, do you really think you can stop me?" The zorua said as a bright pink light flashed, and the zorua changed forms. Mandus's eyes widened as his arms dropped from their fighting stance. A young female riolu now looked back at Mandus.
Out of nowhere, blood shot out of Mandus's shoulder, and the lucario began to fall to the ground. Standing behind him now, was the grovyle that was next to him earlier.
"Even while falling, you're still slow," The grovyle said as he dashed towards Ryder at a rate that no normal eye could comprehend it. Ryder quickly responded by jumping into the air, and avoided the grovyle.
"Wrong move," the grovyle said in a dull voice, as he jumped into the air towards the jolteon, with a leaf blade ready to slash him. Ryder smirked right before his mouth opened. The grovyle's face froze in mid air as an unknown force smashed him into the ground, and pinned him down with bone crushing pressure.
"Pathetic," Ryder spat out as he walked towards the zorua that still took the form of a riolu. The Zorua shifted back into his normal form as Ryder slowly walked towards him.
"Hey now, think this through. I'm not in the mood to kill you, but I will if you keep looking at me like that," the zorua said nervously as he backed away from the red eyed jolteon. The zorua soon found his back against the wall, and the jolteon stood directly in front of him, with his face only a few inches from his.
"I've thought this through, and I'm going to enjoy this... a lot," Ryder said with a sick twisted smile. Ryder opened his mouth, and slowly reached his fangs out towards the zorua's neck. Right before they reached him, Ryder pulled back as he let out a pained grunt, and began shaking his head frantically.
"What am I doing?" Ryder said in confusion as his personality began to stabilize again. The jolteon began to feel light headed as he tried to recall the past few minutes, but his mind failed to recollect the memories. The jolteon looked around the room, and his jaw fell low as he saw all the dead, and half dead pokemon and humans in this room.
"Did… Did I do this?" Ryder said as he began to tremble.
"What in the name of Arceus is wrong with you?" the zorua said as he began to move away from the jolteon.
"I… I didn't mean to…" the jolteon said as he uncontrollable quivered from the thought of the possible murders he committed.
Ryder saw the zorua give someone a nod, and the jolteon looked in the direction that the zorua looked in, and a few meters from him he saw Zack. The flareon opened his mouth wide, and a scorching hot stream of flames closed in on the jolteon.
"Zaaack!" Ryder shouted as the flames began scorching the entire left side of his body. Ryder screamed at the top of his lungs as the flames burned away the skin on the left side of his face, and his left torso. Ryder continued to scream as he fell to the ground, with the smell of burnt flesh present in the air, with smoke arising off the burnt skin on his body. Agonized screams echoed in the air as Ryder flailed around on the ground crying, until he passed out from shock.
The zorua walked up to Ryder's burnt corpse, and observed the severe damage done to him. The entire left side of his face had been burnt to the point that his species was unrecognizable, and his left torst was no better.
"Just kill him," the zorua ordered the flareon, "He's too unstable to tamper with."
The flareon gave a nod as he looked down at his near dead brother. A tear rolled down Zack's face, and he became surprised from the random emotion he was experiencing. The flareon nodded his head as he tried to understand why he was feeling this way.
"Hurry up, I may be cruel, but it's best to kill someone in his state as an act of mercy. He seems to suffer from some split personality, kind of symbolic that you scorched him in half," the zorua said, as his grovyle team mate managed to regroup with them.
"That was close," the grovyle said as he looked at the burn victim.
"Agreed," the zorua said with a nod.
As the two talked, Zack slowly lowered his head towards his brothers throat to finish off the last of his family. Just as his teeth clamped around his neck, a force grabbed the flareon by the neck, and pulled him into the air.
The flareon gasped in surprise as he saw Mandus panting as he held him. The lucario then threw the flareon in the air, and smashed his fist into the flareon's head, causing him to instantly lose consciousness.
"Don't you ever stay down!" the zorua shouted at Mandus, as the lucario got into a fighting stance.
"Just die, demon!" Mandus shouted as he through a ball of concentrated energy at the zorua.
The fox's eyes clamped shut, right before the blue aura collided with his right eye. A loud explosion went off, and the zorua was blown back, and the fox twitched on the ground, with blood streaming down from his face.
The grovyle quickly ran up to the zorua and flipped him over. The zorua yelled in pain as he was flipped over, and revealed a missing section of his skull, and a lot of torn off skin. Sadly, Mandus's attack was weak due to exhaustion, and had nowhere near the effect of his other attacks.
The grovyle quickly lifted up the zorua, and slung him of his shoulder, and he took off running towards the exit. Mandus took a few steps, but his body gave in, and he fell to his knees panting in exhaustion. After a second of recovering, Mandus looked over to Ryder, and walked towards the jolteon.
Mandus crouched down next to the burnt pokemon. He extended his arm, and gently pressed his fingers against his neck to feel for a pulse, but Mandus felt nothing. The lucario stood up as he nodded in disappointment.
The lucario then gazed at the unconscious flareon. Mandus was hesitant for a moment, but he walked towards the flareon, and picked him. Mandus then began limping away with the flareon, and the two left the Genesis facility, and left Ryder's remains behind.
Point of View Zack, two weeks later
"Where am I?" I questioned the lucario standing in front of me.
The lucario now leaned against a tree in the middle of a forest, and he looked up at me, "You're in the Kalos region now. Do you now remember anything? Genesis, Ryder, what you did?"
I took a moment to think, and I practically jumped as a thought ran through my head, "Wait, where is Ryder, is he-"
"Calm down, your still mentally recovering from what they did to you," A feminine voice said from behind me. I turned around, and behind me I saw a gardevoir floating in the air.
"Who're you?" I question the psychic.
"I am the one who restored your mind. It took a long time. Genesis is good at what they do," the gardevoir told me.
"So is no one going to tell me where the Hell my damn brother is!" I shouted at the two. The two glanced at each other for a moment, before Mandus took in a deep breath.
"During the time you were brainwashed, you had no control of your actions," Mandus began to say, "During the time you weren't yourself, you killed Ryder."
For a moment, time stood still as Mandus's words sunk into my head. Suddenly a memory of Ryder burning and screaming flashed into my head, and I recalled the murder of my brother.
"No… I… I didn't," I said as I began to feel light headed, and my head became clouded with the image of my brother repeatedly screaming nonstop.
"Mandus!" The gardevoir screamed at the lucario, as she levitated towards him, "Couldn't you have at least been a little more nice on how you worded that!?" the psychic shouted at him.
"He had to find out somehow," Mandus replied in a dull voice, as he jumped up into the tree, and sat on a tree branch.
"He was all I had left," I said as tears streamed down my eyes, "And… and I killed him."
Two days later
"How're you holding up?" the gardevoir known as Anya asked me.
I just remained silent for a moment as I stared at a stream of water, "Horrible," I answered.
"I family is never easy," Anya said as she stopped levitating and sat next to me and we both stared at the stream, and sitting in the tree branches above us was Mandus.
"I still have the images of me burning him alive stuck in my head, every time I close my eyes that's all I see," I told the gardevoir.
"I'd imagine that it was traumatizing."
"I've been thinking though," I said, as I looked at the gardevoir, "Things like this are happening all over Kalos. More pokemon are becoming victims every day by organizations like Genesis," I continued on, "Well my brother Ryder always wanted to help others, there were many times he got us into trouble because he was so selfless," I said as I reflected on the memories, "Ryder would want to put a stop to organizations like these from growing, so I was thinking that I would start fighting to stop organizations like Genesis, so no one ever has to go through what I did."
"So you're saying that you want to rebel against them?" Mandus called out from the trees above us.
I looked up in the trees towards the lucario, "Not just Genesis, if madness like this is happening everywhere, then I want to put an end to the madness," I said as I stood up, and stared at the lucario, "My brother would have wanted it, and I feel like I owe him this for taking away his life," I said with a bit of melancholy.
"You'd need a lot more than yourself to pull off something on that scale," the lucario said as he jumped down from the tree, and his back faced me.
"Then help me, if you truly want to fight them again, then you'd best do it with comrades on your side," I told the lucario.
"Help you?" the lucario said as he turned back towards me, "I prefer to hunt alone."
"Then what about Anya, she's someone you keep close, and she helps you?"
"Anya and I just know each other, I helped her in the past, so in exchange she does favors for me, like mending your mind," Mandus answered.
"What about you Anya, interested in making a difference with me?" I asked the gardevoir.
"I'd have to think on that one, but I would be interested to see where this goes," she answered me, before she looked at Mandus, "Mandus, you should take his words into consideration. You have been working against organizations like Genesis for a long while, perhaps his help will aid you."
"Perhaps," The lucario said, as he began taking my proposal into consideration.
"Just think, you took down that base on your own. Imagine what we could achieve if we all teamed up, imagine everyone working together to achieve a world where no one is threatened," I said to the lucario.
"I'll give you one month to show results, but at any time I may drop out if things don't go in a directions I like. And recruiting is your domain. I'm not that sociable," Mandus said.
"You're serious?" I said in surprise.
"Don't make me walk away now," Mandus replied in annoyance.
"Right. Sorry, but what should we go by, if we form an association we need a name to go by," I told the lucario.
"Just keep it simple, nothing ridiculous," Mandus told me.
"Alright, how about angels of peace, or maybe the pokemon peace revelation, or maybe-"
"We're just going to call it World peace association, and that's final, I refuse to be associated with anything absurd," Mandus interrupted.
"World peace association? That's kind of bland, don't you think?" the gardevoir asked Mandus.
"I'm not playing this game, the point is to get the point across to everyone, now this name is final," Mandus said in a stern voice, and I just gave him a nod.
After the discussion of the name, Mandus jumped back up in his tree, and that left me to myself, along with the gardevoir who was relatively silent at the moment. My heart still felt torn to pieces from what I did, despite my better mood, I was still a broken down flareon. But me making this commitment brought me a feeling of relief, almost as if I was avenging him, and saving others from what I did.
"I swear I'll make everything right, Ryder."
"Since the beginning of time, hatred has bred more hatred, and through all the hate, darkness was born"
"There is a point when many pokemon rise, and a point when many fall into the black abyss of their own madness and turn on those they love"
"It is those you least expect that are truly miserable and have been lying to you all along"
"Nothing that you know is true, and everything you have been told is a lie"
"And within the heart of darkness, a monster was born"
1Mr Gray presents
The Black Dawn - Book II: Impending Twilight
Author Note: Well, good luck to everyone on trying to connect all of this with the main story, some of it may be simple, but some isn't as simple. I'd also love to hear some theories, if anyone wants to share. Anyways, thank you for viewing, and I hope this book can turn out much better than the previous. With some honesty though, book 1 was kind of slow to write, since everything was setting the stage for everything to come, so brace yourselves for mind fucks, heart breaking scenes, and more conspiracies that surround politics...
Also, I know I keep saying this, but please check out my new story. I know I keep asking, but it'd mean a lot to me :D
Fun Fact: A question some of you may have asked is "Why the Kalos region?" well I have an answer for those of you who wanted to know. I choose to do The Black Dawn in the Kalos region simply because it was the newest game, and at the time I knew a lot about the landscape and such. I never had a DS, so I missed all of those pokemon, so I only had the gameboy generations, and X and Y. Plus, I also liked that Kalos had a little of everything from snow to swampy area's, to mountains, and even just pretty basic areas. So that is my reasoning behind the selection of the region.
Don't forget to suggest a funfact for me to go over, seriously though... I'm running out of ideas, so ideas are appreciated.