Hey everyone…I'm officially back now.
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You know what? I've kept you waiting for almost an entire month and I'm not about to keep you waiting anymore with a long authors note, so in the words of a famous YouTuber who's name I can't spell: "let's just jump into it."
(Actually, before we go flying off the handle, I want to tell you guys about this thing called POV. Now, most of you probably already know what this means, but I'm explaining it out of courtesy. POV stands for Perspective Of Viewpoint and is meant to show you, the audience, which character is currently narrating the story. For example, the text that I write now would be classified as Third-person POV as I'm not a character in the story. However, if the text indicates that the story is being told in say, Eli's POV, that means he is the one describing the events currently unfolding.
Ya got all that? Good, now let's move on.)
Eli's POV:
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(Eschatology - Glitchtale *Series made by Camila Cuevas. Song by Nevan dove*)
"Gods...where am I?" I said to myself as I looked around me. "...the last thing I remember is excepting that...thing's help and then...only bits and pieces." I take a minute to look at my hand... I notice that it seems...transparent. Almost as if I were a ghost.
I then hear an echoing boom sound out across the land, like a meteor landing in the distance. Alarmed I look out into that distance...I'm shocked. A shockwave of red zooms across the sky, then it slowly fades to black...the sight terrifies me, and I don't know why. I then notice I'm wearing some kind of ribbon I hold it in my stubs to look at it...it was the color of purple. Suddenly it starts to glow its own shade of color as everything around me fades away into a bright light.
When the light fades, the first thing I see is a group of strangers that all seem...blurry. After a while of staring, I must have convinced myself that this was most likely a dream so I didn't bother talking to them...and yet, they seemed very...troubled...it wasn't long before they spoke.
"..W...what...happened?" said one of the figures, a sense of dread hanging over its words.
"...My escort..." said another figure, defeat evident in its voice. "...we...failed...we weren't fast enough..." A moment passed...before he let out a primal scream and slammed the ground with some sort of weapon. "DAMM IT! WHY WEREN'T WE FAST ENOUGH?!" his voice then grew shaky as he fell to his knees. "...it's just like before...IT'S JUST LIKE GODDAMM BEFORE!"
"HOLD YOUR TONGE!" said a third member of the group. "...can't you see they've been through enough without us hammering the point home?" He explained, indicating that someone in the group had been under a lot of stress as of late.
"Does it matter now?!" the first spat back with a tounge of fire. "we've lost! How are we supposed to defeat him without the awakening jewel!?"
The third figure only looked on in silence. "WELL?!" yelled the second in irritation. "HOW ARE WE TO DO IT!?"
Then a fourth one walked between the two of them. "ALRIGHT! Enough is enough you!" he said, pointing a finger at the second, who then backhanded it as if it were a ball.
"DON'T. Talk to me in that manner BRUTE." he said, clearly losing his temper...it seemed the other was too.
"DON'T. Treat me like I'm a burden ASSASIN." the fourth said back, just as harshly.
The second figure then drew his weapon as the fourth set his hands on...fire? Now that was something I hadn't heard of before.
"EVERYONE! JUST! STOP!" said a fifth member as he stood to face everyone. "I LOST ENOUGH AS IS! I DON'T NEED ALL OF YOU FIGHTING EACH OTHER OVER YOUR PETTY ARGUMENT'S!"
Once his voice rang out, all the other voices stopped.
He then turned to the second. "Bearer of choice, I know this reminds you all to well of events that have tortured you for years, but you mustn't let them cloud your judgment! As long as we are alive, we have a job to do and I WILL see it done!" He said to the first, with a stern tone tempered with reason.
It was at that moment the ribbon glowed again, and I found myself somewhere else...somewhere horrifying.
At first, it appeared to be a plain of stone as far as the eye could see. Not wanting to be out in the open, I wandered the land for a while until I eventually came across a field of rock that arched upward. Once I scaled it, I was met...with death's twisted form of art.
Carcasses, everywhere. Some of them were pokemon, brutally ripped apart, stabbed, or bludgeoned by an unknown army. The others were of demonic looking beasts that be been burned, frozen, shocked, poisoned, sliced, bitten, and crushed by all of the elements of the world in various ways...it was as if I had found the graveyard of hell itself, the bodies lining the ground to the point where one could walk on them.
Something I found, I had to do in order to proceed.
The entire time, I felt a coldness I had never experienced before settle on my spine. As if death herself was watching my voyage across her domain. As I kept walking I found the bodies seemed to thin out after a while, until I was walking on the stone floor again...
And then... I saw...that.
In front of me, lay twelve final corpses. The first five were of varying demons in shape and appearance. One of them was a pancham with a hole in his heart...in the hole...was a note... it read as follows: "You should have trusted your friends...rather than believe solely in your own strength, as you searched for more power." The sight creeped me out.
The next...froze my heart with a sudden chill...before shattering it to pieces.
Th...they...they were there...all of them...Zoe...Vasu...Jax...Amar...and...a-and...Eini...Oh gods, Eini.
I walked towards them, my entire body shaking all the way...It took me a while to get there. When I did, I tried to find any sort of life signs from them...and got nothing. "...Oh, gods...guys..." I whispered to myself... I started to feel tears run down my face...they were dead...all of them...gone, like the wind...
Except for one.
I heard coughing from my right and found that eini...was still alive. "EINI!" I screamed as I rushed to her side, not wanting to lose her too.
After she finished coughing, I heard her breathe softly. I gripped her paw with my own "EINI PLEASE! DON'T GO!" I screamed, at this point emotionally unstable... I was practically begging her to stay alive.
Eventually, her breathing grew deeper, and faster...she wasn't going to die yet, that was for certain. She managed to open her eyes slightly. "...e...ei-" before she could say anything else, I put an appendage on her chest.
"Don't say anything please!...just...save your strength...use it to recover." I told her.
She kept looking at me, continuing to breathe...before she groaned in pain and clamped her eyes shut. Panicked, I frantically looked at her body...it horrified me. Three gaping marks in her chest. Each, leaking blood out...the area I touched was just above them...she would die at this rate.
Thinking quickly, I tied the scarf I was wearing around the wound to try to stop the bleeding...it seemed to be working, but I just wished I could do more...sadly I had no supplies to treat her wounds properly..."...Are you okay? Tap my...thing if you are" I asked...to my relief, I felt her weakly touch my stub..she was alright.
I sighed a sigh of relief as I looked around. "...C'mon, we need to get to someplace other than here." I said as I gently picked her up on placed her on my back.
After a while of wandering, we made it back to the sea of body's...as we wandered, I noticed that the pokemon were carrying bags of supplies. I searched through them, hoping to find something that would help her while I had no luck with medical equipment, I managed to find a satchel of water, along with two Oran berries.
I set her down behind one of...'them' to prop herself upright I then handed her the berries and water. "..here, have these, they might get your strength back." I said to her. She opened her eyes and tried to reach her arm towards the 'meal' but her arm just fell back to the ground. "can you not lift them?" I asked. she managed to slightly, move her head from side to side.
I picked up the satchel for her. "here, let me do it." I said as I pressed the tip against her lips and lifted... I could see her throat move up and down, drinking the liquid.
After a while she let out a soft "mmph" indicating she was done. I lowered the satchel and she panted slightly...although this time, I could tell there was a lot more life in those breaths than the ones before... I raised the berries to her mouth. She bit one of them and chewed it, the juice hopefully, revitalizing her.
We took a few moments to rest there...before I heard a voice speak to me.
"..So...the boy has wandered into the future it seems." The voice said.
I sprang to my feet. "Who's there?!" I shouted.
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Nothing...
"...It truly is an injustice fate has cast upon you...even her life can't be determined to be saved...but, if you are here, in this place, and have that scarf as well...perhaps you can escape." the voice said to me.
I frantically looked everywhere but could see nothing that I hadn't seen before... I then felt very tired...as if I had spent all my energy at once...the last thing I heard after collapsing to the ground was this:
"...Eil, as the prince of illusion, it is foretold that you will be the one to save your friends from a terrible fate...but you can't do that as you are now...trust in your beast-like instincts, utilize your human-gifted intelligence, and master your powers of deception through anyway possible before you run out of time..."
"Of course, you can't do any of that...if you're asleep."
(let the music play out.)
Eini's POV:
(Falana - Dust: An Elysian Tail)
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I stood alone, next to the bed...
After all of that nonsense, the people in the center deemed Iman to be rabid and a threat to the rest of the pokemon in the center after they saw what he did to us. He was thrown out of the place, and all that remained of him was his lackeys... I just didn't know what to think... I really dodged a bullet there...we ALL did...but at what cost?
Yes we had escaped, but at the end of it all, Eli was completely exhausted and unconscious...by the time everyone got there, he was in bad shape...ms joy told me that it was most likely because that this was the first time he had ever tried to use his moves before...the backlash was too much for him to handle.
They had put him in a bed and ran a diagnostic on him...it didn't look good...he was in a coma...Three weeks had already passed.
I looked at the face of the zorua who had saved me...his mouth was covered in a breathing mask that automatically brought air into his lungs...he had no wounds, but it was still...painful to look at...i gripped his paw in mine...
I couldn't help but wonder...what was going on in his head right now? I knew that it was common for peplole in comas to have dreams, so I wondered what he was dreaming about right now... I hoped it was a nice dream, filled with whatever it was he desired.
"...Oh, Eil." I said to myself as I watched him rest. "...please wake up...please come back to us..."
And that does it for today everyone! I hope you're all excited for the return of dual natures. But that's not the only thing to return, I can promise you guys that as of today, I am out of my funk and ready to post again for a bunearys heart! I don't know exactly when the chapter will come out, but I DO know that it will be the very next thing I work on after this.
with that being said, this is riolulover97, hoping ya'll get to go to heaven!
(Also don't worry, I'm not going to abandon The last days either, it's just IT'S turn to get the back seat for now.)