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"I See You"

They're closing in on me.

I never thought that they would make this much progress. I've done so much to make sure that they could not reach the point they are at now. Yet I know that they are in Aurora Town according to one of my followers, plotting together, ready to make their next move very soon.

The Dimitri halves are ready to eliminate me, the very reason that they are split apart into two beings.

They became a threat when I tried to absorb their whole self that day long ago when they were one. I gave him a part of myself by accident. The piece did not do anything, but it was in Dimitri. But I did not interfere with Dimitri's life. He could not go to Shiron when I left for there. There was no reason to fear him when he was out of my sight.

It did not remain that way forever. One of my followers betrayed me and brought him to Shiron to stop me. Her portal was attracted to him because a piece of myself was in him. I knew then he was would be a true threat. I did not know if he would learn to control or be aware of the piece of myself in him, but I would not take chances. I had already made that mistake by not taking care of him when he was on Kuron.

My effort to eliminate him ended with myself unable to trace his shadow. He was stolen away after being torn out of Dimitri and I could not find him. A time later, the corpse I thought was his selfish original self was stolen away as well and breathed life once more. I could not track him either because the traitor had done something to them.

Now they're together once more and plotting against myself.

I know because one of their followers invaded the mountains where so many of my own remain. He went there and tried to find the way to my home, taking down so many of my kin in the process. Even now that he has been stopped and will no longer be able to aid the Dimitri ones, the Luxray I tried to break for so long took his place and is returning to the Dimitri ones. Any day now they will reach the Dimitri ones. When they do, it will not be long before the mountains are invaded and the Dimitri ones come to kill me.

I cannot fathom how Dimitri has become such a large threat to my well-being. When he awoke me from my slumber those years ago, he was a harmless child. He could do nothing on his own and had to rely on others to have any sort of power and strength. He was weak and frail, unable to understand what he had done when he set me free.

Now here he is, split in two, proving to be my greatest enemy. He holds an entire army at his disposal, as well as one fragment of my former self. Soon he will have that Luxray in his company as well, giving him the directions to reach my home.

I mustn't let the Dimitri ones reach my home. I mustn't let them ruin my plans. I have worked far too long and tirelessly for them to put an end to everything. They do not understand the pain I feel every day… they do not understand how much it must end.

I have most of Shiron under my control now. My numbers grow by the day as my followers bring more hosts to Pledge Mountain under the guise of providing them safety from my kind. Every day the shadows overwhelm their selfish "true" selves and take over. Every day they claim what is rightfully theirs with my power.

Shadow Dimitri should have understood why I do what I must. He is exactly like myself; a shadow. A self that was never wanted by their host. Someone who is tossed aside and silenced despite only wanting to help their host.

And yet he does not understand. He still resists me. He still intends to kill me. He knows he is a shadow and not the "true" Dimitri, yet he still does not join me. Instead, he joins with the other Dimitri.

It is pitiful, but he must die. Shadow or not, I cannot have anyone against myself. He will need to be eaten, just as the other shadows who begin to disobey or cannot fulfil their roles adequately. They must all return to me and let me use their strength to extinguish threats on my own. Perhaps I'll return them to hosts when everyone in Shiron belongs to me, but not now. I cannot afford to have mistakes now.

I'm ready.

That human isn't going to stop me!

I'll kill that Dimitri guy the second he shows up here! I'll rip his heart right out and crush it!

They will not be able to reach the portal, Master. Raikou, Suicune, and I will not let them pass.

The non-plagued ones are deceived and think we are protecting the castle against an army of plague. They will fight for us.

I'm ready to create a great storm to envelop this castle in so that the enemies cannot come here so easily. Lightning will strike the air as they attempt to fly here and zap them into oblivion.

Nobody will ever reach you, Master. You have nothing to fear.

I hear all of them now. They are ready for the impending attack. They are ready for an entire army to come storming up the mountain and that a number know how to kill my life-force that brings them to life. They know that Candlelight Rem is with the human and how problematic he will be. I hear all their voices in my mind, thousands of them at once, telling myself the same thing.

They will stand by myself until the very end.

They want their world back. They do not want to be alone anymore.

They understand myself so well.

I give them a plan. I give each of them an order and I make sure that all of them are strong enough to prevent the Dimitri ones and their army from getting to the portal. I put more of my power in each of them, more than I have before. I even have my followers from the clans scattered across Shiron go there to help. I can see all of them at once and watch them abandon their followers without a second thought.

They know how crucial it is to come to Pledge Mountain.

They must stop the Dimitri ones. The Dimitri ones and their army must not enter my home.

But if they are able to fight against all of my followers with their army and somehow reach my home, I will kill them. I know how to eliminate the vermin that they are. They will not kill myself.

Then when all of them are dead, I will take back Candlelight Rem and I will give all of the shadows their world back. Then I will move onto Kuron and free the shadows there. Human shadows are the same as Pokémon shadows. They are suppressed there as well, if not even more so. Shadow Dimitri is proof of that. Maybe I will move onto other worlds and dimensions after I free the shadows of Kuron. I see the other dimensions from my home. I see how much the shadows there suffer. Perhaps everywhere needs to have its shadows freed.

But I will focus on Shiron first. Shiron must have its shadows freed first. I need to deal with the resistance on Shiron.

I must eliminate Shadow Dimitri and the true Dimitri along with their followers. Any day they will be here to kill myself. I must prepare for their arrival. There is no option to strike them where they current plot. They will eliminate my swiftest kin. If an entire army was sent, they would not reach it fast enough either. Everyone will be gone by the time the army arrives to the town.

I must ready Pledge Mountain for their imminent arrival instead. I must retrieve the corpse of my former self that rests in Cacturne Desert and reabsorb it back into myself. I must make more of the pendants out of its flesh to give my army power. There is no longer any time to force synchronization with the hosts. I must make as many pendants as possible and give any shadow in any form one. Time is running out.

But do not worry, my kin. Fret not.

We will all be free soon. We will all have our world soon.

We will no longer live alone in the dark.