Chapter X4: Your inner demon!
Music: Pokemon The Movie 2000 – Lugia's Song (Remix by GlitchxCity)
"You are wrong! I am not a demon! I am not a Pokemon! I am not an abomination! I! AM! A! VIRUS!" As the matter in front of me formed itself into a Ninetales black as the night, I'd already recognized what it said before. As it was finally looking like a Ninetales, its eyes started to glow. Red, like always. "How? How are YOU here? YOU are the Demon? We killed you already, you can't be alive!" My opponent laughed about me. "Wow, you are even more stupid than I thought. In just a few seconds of talking, you said FOUR wrong things. That's a new record. First off: YOU did definitely not beat me. The guy with the hoodie saved you. Second point: Do I look dead to you? I can't even die! Third point: Even with your mystic friends help, you wouldn't have stand a chance against me. I could've killed all of you easily. I just WANTED you to win. But not 'cause I'm the Demon, since I'm not. Well, partly. But you don't have to understand." He WANTED us to win? Back as we fought him at the clearing of Thunder's home continent, he did not seem that optimistic to win. And why would he want us to win? "Why would I? Tell me one reason why I should explain it!" I was even more scared than before. "How do you… I did not even say it out aloud, and still you know what I thought?" "I know everything! You should know that already. I know everything about everyone! And I know that your journey is ending now!" Without any other warning, the traitor attacked me.
The attacks he used were no regular Pokemon attacks, that was for sure. He mostly used his shadowy energy to attack. Luckily, I could dodge most of them. But sadly, my attacks did not seem to do any good. They did not even hit him. But still, I had hope, since I could still see the Shadow Crystal. SD had not gotten all of its power yet. As we fought, the dark being started to talk. "Well, since you'll die soon anyways, I guess I could tell you some things. First off: I am not the Shadow Demon itself." "Tell your lies to someone else! I know everything I have to. And only the demon could use the Crystal's force!" "LET ME FINISH! LITTLE PEST! I am only ONE PART of the demon. Actually, there's three parts of it. Once ago, I was whole. But this damn dragon split me apart. Two thirds of my soul's power were locked inside the Crystal. One third was left. But the soul only contains three fourths of my power. My vessel, too, has some. One fourth to be exactly. But Darkrai, this idiot, was too stupid to summon me correctly. My body and my soul were split apart! Since then, I could not afford to be recognized. I just used the initials of my full force's name." Exactly that moment I realised, that we could've gotten it LONG ago. Because… SD isn't actually a name, so… "What else did you think SD stands for? Do I look like a Save data-Card? But only my whole self is allowed to be the shadow demon. I am only the soul. Most of its power. I am the Cursed Virus!"
This would mean, that there still would be a chance. Because of Darkrai's mistake, SD… the Cursed Virus was missing a part of his power. Without it, it would very likely not be able to destroy everything. "And as if that wasn't bad enough, you pest decided to show off! Hell, you were always annoying!" "What did I do to you? I only assisted my friends all this time. We only fought you once! Are you really that salty because of that?" "You don't remember, I know." "Wait… you mean…?" "I know about your past! I know about your future! I know everything!" For the first time, I really felt rage coming up inside of me. "TELL ME!" "Geez, no need to be that pissed. There's no reason why I shouldn't. You know, I already came back to this world a month BEFORE I met Thunder and Darkrai. I had to fight for myself. And YOU were the one to welcome me into this world… but it was not very nice of you! Just attacking me, without any reason…" I knew about SD's true identity before? I FOUGHT him? "And as I finally defeated you and wanted to get rid of you, your useless piece of trash disturbed me! Before I could even finish you off! And he healed you up completely. This dirty traitor!" With this new knowledge, I understood one more thing. "Darkrai never attacked me? Even if we thought he did?" "Ms. Idiot finally gets something! Congratulations! Why would he attack you? That's my job!" To support his statement, he attacked once again. Still, I was able to dodge. I felt that I could win this fight. I had not hit him once, but he couldn't hurt me at all too. Maybe, just maybe, one or two hits would be enough for me to strike him down. But my endurance got lower as time went on. I tried something else.
"Just… stop it now! You can't kill me, don't you see? Just a little more time, and I'll win. Just… give up already. We fought for 20 minutes straight!" Like I should've expected, he laughed at me. "You are nowhere near KILLING me! And thanks for telling the time, I lost the track of it. Space and time are not really my thing. That's why I want to get rid of them! But finally, I've stalled enough! The Crystal is ready!" I understood what SD did. He just tried to stall time, so that the Crystal would lose all of its power. With that, SD would become even stronger and it would be harder to beat him. I determinedly stood between him and the Crystal. "I won't let you get it!" "Let me tell you all of it. All about you, before we finish this!" I was really confused about this act, but he just continued.
"Where do I start… Do you remember the beginning of our nice little battle? I told you that we talked before all of this. Inside your mind. What did I tell you back then?" Many memories resurfaced. "I AM you! I am your mind! I am your inner being!" "You'll not recognize me." "You'd be dead where you stand!" "All of this was me. Do you understand?" To be honest, I didn't. "For Giratina's Sake, how are you that stupid? *Sigh*…you know where my vessel went? Because I do. Together with me, a single soul was sealed away in another dimension. As I got split apart from my body, this useless trash decided to try and used MY precious vessel to escape and be alive again! Now this stupid rotten soul controls MY vessel. And of course does nothing than to annoy me!" I had an idea what he could mean, but I prayed for it not to be true. "HAhHAhaHahHhAhahAHaHHAaH, no need to be that scared. You got that right! You are me! You are my vessel! You are my power! "Fate" is just the name I gave you. Since you'll set this world's fate in stone! You know why I wanted you to come here? First I just wanted to kill you, get my body back and destroy the world, but at second thought… what would be better? Me or me second times? And if you want to know exactly, you never stood a chance. If I would've tried, I would've taken exactly 7.3 seconds to end you. You became pretty strong, I'll admit." "That's why you told me to spread the darkness back in my mind? I'll never join you!" "Oh, you're so wrong little girl. I just wanted you to stay away from Thunder. No, there IS my darkness inside of you. Did you ever feel unreasonable rage? Hate? That was me! And before Thunder could save you, back at the clearing as he found you first, I planted the seed of Darkness inside your soul! It weakens you soul and strengthens your body!" Before I could act, I heard the Crystal shatter behind me. A weird feeling overcame me. The last thing I heard was SD talking. "I did never want the rest of the Crystal's power. I kept it to reawaken your inner demon!" Before my body changed completely, I was only able to do one last thought… "Thunder, Evan! I am sorry. I did not know that… I… have no time left. I am sorry. I failed you. Farewell."
Music: The legend comes to life (Lugia's Song) – Music Box
Thunder's POV:
As my nemesis finally died, I hurried to get to the main room. The demon had to be there. Something had happened to Fate. If I'd hurry, maybe I could manage to save her! And with these thoughts, I just ran! As I arrived at the Crystal room, I saw something I did not expect. Fate was the only one standing there. She seemed pretty exhausted, as she was breathing very loud. Her fur seemed very strange. It was kind of… dark. She looked at the wall where I expected the Dark Crystal to be. She did either not recognize my arrival or she did not care. "Fate? Are you okay?" I was still pretty worried about my love, as not she answered, but a voice from behind me… a voice I'd recognize everywhere. "She can't hear you… buddy!" Behind me, there was a black Ninetales, eyes glowing red. "How? How are you piece of shit here? I hoped that you'd died!" "Sorry bud, but you won't get rid of me. After all… I am the judge of this world!" "I should've guessed that you'd be the demon! But I believed that even such a piece of shit would be better than you!" "You are pretty rude. Why are you talking to your best friend like that?" "You never were my friend, you trash! What did you do to Fate?" "Aw, no worries bud. I'd never hurt your precious girlfriend. I know how much you like her. I just showed her what happened before she lost her mind!" Without any warning, Darkness surrounded me. Instantaneously, I felt pain shooting through my body. The next second, I found myself crashing into the ceiling before falling down, getting buried underneath some rocks. "I hoped you'd survive that, but I just guessed you would after beating Darkrai. Before I end you and all of this world too, want to know the truth?" "You… don't even know… what truth is… bastard!" Even with my last power fading…again… I would not give in to him. I just hoped to be saved by the Dragon's fury again. "I do. And Fate does too. What if I told you, that your trust was your downfall once more?" Finally, Fate turned around to look at me. Her eyes were glowing yellow… "What if Fate was just a rebellious part of me all along?" "You… are lying… she'd never… lie to me… like that!" I did not want to believe it. "No worries, bud. She wouldn't. She didn't know herself. But now she does. And hey, you should be happy. Not only will she stay alive, but she'll reign the world! Of course, together with me!" I did not want to respond anymore. "Don't do such a sad face buddy. You couldn't win from the very beginning, but you played pretty well! You know what? I won't kill you!" I looked at him, surprised. I knew that something was wrong. "I'LL LET YOUR GIRLFRIEND HAVE THE HONOR TO FINISH YOU OFF!" Without anything to say, Fate started to charge some kind of beam in her mouth. It was shining brightly. Other than the future. This was how it would end. Taken down by the love of my life. The world I wanted to save being destroyed. Everyone I cared about dead. Nearly… One last smile before the beam was shot…
And this concludes "Never alone". Not the ending you'd expected? Well… but the world's hope is lost. We don't know what happened to Evan, but we can imagine. Fate has succumbed to the Darkness and Thunder… same as Evan… I want to thank every single one of you for reading this story. I had much fun writing and I'll very likely do another big story. But first I'll get back to my main Fictions. "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Walross Edition". If you want to watch them, feel free to visit "Günter aus der Dönerbude". Also, subscribe if you want, the channel nearly got 200 subs. Thanks to everyone. Oh, and maybe you shouldn't unfollow this story too soon ?