Chapter 25: Living Heaven Spirit Blade?
Riolu is flying through the wormhole connecting to the Reverse Dimension from the real world.
As Riolu flies down towards the entrance of the Reverse Dimension, he thinks with a serious expression in his eyes, 'I need to know everything about the Heaven and Hell Spirit Blades. I need to know why the blades were made in the first place…'
As he passes the halfway mark of the wormhole, he thinks as he looks down at his opened right hand with a serious expression in his eyes, 'The only thing that's been troubling me is the fact that Darkrai made me think that the Hell Spirit Blade was my main goal. He wanted me to take the Hell Spirit Blade out of the Underworld, but for what reason would he want me to think that getting rid of the Hell Spirit Blade would turn me back to normal?'
He looks straight ahead, reaching the third-quarter mark of the wormhole and he continues as he sees the end slowly coming up, 'Darkrai wanted me to get the Hell Spirit Blade out of the Underworld for some reason… I just need to find out what they truly are…'
After he reaches and passes through the end of the wormhole, he enters the Reverse Dimension.
As Riolu looks around at his surroundings, he notices a few differences between the normal world and the Reverse Dimension.
He is standing on an island surrounded by clouds where the ocean would be in the real world. Above Riolu lies the water, covering the whole top of the island. From the clouds; water flies up into the water above in a circular formation around the whole island.
When Riolu took a look at the ground, he notices that there is no snow, just a wide variety of grass and flowers covering the whole island. When he looked straight ahead from the dock, he sees the reverse form of Arceus's mountain.
Riolu's eyes widen with shock when he realizes that the mountain is floating up in the air with clouds and water underneath it, keeping the mountain afloat in the air.
Riolu thinks as he stares at the mountain with a serious expression on his face, 'Giratina… I'm coming your way…'
Riolu starts out by walking off of the dock, then making a running head start towards the mountain through the vast, wide garden.
As Riolu rushes through the wide open garden area of the island, he thinks with a serious expression on his face, 'Snivy… I'm sorry I couldn't stay any longer to hear what you wanted to say. But your aura… why did it feel warmer than it normally does?'
Before he could continue on with his thought, his eyes widen with shock as he hears a strange voice say inside his head, "The balance in this world is way off…"
Riolu stops running and he asks while standing out in the middle of the vast garden, "What do you mean by that?"
But the strange voice continues, "The energy balances… darkness and light…"
The voice clears away as meager amounts of white aura begin to radiate out of Riolu's arms and shoulders.
Riolu thinks as the white aura continues to radiate out of his arms like steam, 'Where is this voice coming from,' He continues as he looks at both of his arms and shoulders, 'and why is my white aura flowing out of my body now?'
When he looked straight ahead, his eyes widen with shock as his Aura Eyes activate on their own and he starts seeing clouds of black and white aura flowing into the Reverse Dimension.
The white clouds of aura are outnumbering the clouds of black aura as they mix together.
When Riolu's Aura Eyes deactivated on their own, he has a surprised expression on his face as he sees mist covering the entire land.
Riolu starts to shiver slightly as he feels an instant cold breeze all around him from the mist.
Riolu thinks with a troubled expression on his face as he looks around at his surroundings once more, 'What is going on around here?'
Before he could continue on with his thoughts, he hears the strange voice say, "Darkness… all around us…"
When Riolu looked straight ahead, he has a shocked expression on his face as he sees a giant shadow taking form one hundred feet away from him.
As the circular shadow reaches a fifty foot radius, Riolu thinks as he sees five giant shadow fingers forming out of the shadow, 'What the hell is that?'
As the shadow hand forms out of the shadow, Riolu hears a voice yell out from above him, "Incoming, Riolu!"
When Riolu looked straight up, his eyes widen with shock as he sees Giratina up in the sky, nose-diving straight towards the giant shadow hand in his original form.
After Riolu jumps back fifty feet away from the giant shadow hand, Giratina pierces right through the palm and out the back, causing large amounts of blood to flow down the wound.
After Giratina climbs back up into the sky, a loud roar of anger sounds from within the shadow.
Riolu looks right at the shadow with a shocked expression on his face as he sees it growing larger in distance.
He lands on the ground, turns the other direction where the dock is located, and starts running away from the quick extending shadow.
As the shadow slowly catches up to Riolu, threatening to devour him, Giratina circles the sky above the giant shadow hand and instantly disappears into thin air.
Riolu looks back at the shadow with a look of concern on his face and he thinks, 'This is not good… if I get caught in that, I'll…!'
As the shadow comes into contact with Riolu's right foot, Giratina reappears above the shadow close to ground level and he says with a serious expression on his face, "Jump on, Riolu!"
Before Riolu's right foot could sink into the extending shadow, he jumps up and lands on Giratina's neck.
After he lands on top of Giratina's neck, Giratina flies straight up, managing to avoid the shadow tentacles coming out of the void.
After Giratina reaches up high enough into the sky near the water, he circles around and faces the direction where the giant shadow arm slowly reaches for the water.
Riolu asks with a shocked expression on his face, "What the hell is that thing?"
Giratina replies as the bleeding hand reaches into the water and its blood pollutes the water to a red color, "I have no idea, but there have certainly been quite a few of them popping out of nowhere…"
When Riolu looked down at the ground at the extended shadow, his eyes widen with shock as he sees another giant shadow arm form out, followed by a giant demon head.
As the head tires to take form out of the shadow, Riolu hears the voice say as the color of his eyes instantly turn blue with the pupils of his eyes turning into a white diamond shape, "Terminate the darkness… must destroy the threat from Hell!"
Riolu's eyes widen with shock as white aura spontaneously explodes out of his body. But the white aura has a different form to it, acting as if its real white fire.
As Giratina flies down straight towards the other hand, Riolu's shocked expression turns into a serious one and he says with his voice and the strange voice combining, "The balance in this world has been thrown off… the dark energies and light energies… must eliminate…!"
After Giratina pierces right through the other giant hand's palm, Riolu jumps off of Giratina and grabs on to the top of the giant shadow hand.
Giratina looks back at Riolu with a look of shock on his face and he thinks, 'What the devil is he doing?'
As Riolu's two White Aura Blades form out of his arms, he hears the voice continuing, "Balance disrupted in this world… must terminate!"
As Riolu climbs up the demon's hand by stabbing his Aura Blades in the demon's hand, Riolu thinks with a serious expression on his face, 'This feeling… it's just like that day!'
He recalls the time when he fought against the first giant kraken and lost complete control of his body.
After Riolu reaches the middle finger, large amounts of white aura explodes out of his body like a massive inferno.
The demon roars in agony as the white aura begins to burn his middle finger severely.
Giratina has a shocked expression on his face as he feels the massive energy waves coming from Riolu. He thinks as he flies straight towards the demon's other arm, 'That power… is it finally reawakening?'
As the demon swings his arm towards the ground, the white aura increases in size and power as it starts burning the demons skin until it becomes charred.
As the white aura slowly turns into white fire, Riolu jumps off of the charred arm and takes flight into the air.
After the hand smacks onto the ground, the skin shatters off like glass, revealing the bones and muscles of its hand as the lacerated skin turns into ash.
The demon lets out an agonizing roar as Giratina and Riolu both fly straight towards the demon's last hand.
After both Giratina and Riolu flew side by side towards the next hand, Giratina thinks as he looks right at Riolu, whose flying through the air looking like a blazing comet, 'His Heaven Spirit Blade… it's slowly reawakening to its true form!'
As Riolu roars loudly, the white aura forming all around his body increases in power, increasing his speed through the air, leaving Giratina behind.
As Riolu reaches the next hand and fiercely stabs his Aura Blades into the palm, Giratina thinks as Riolu jumps off of the palm and stabs his right arm into the demon's wrist, forcing himself to fly straight down while cutting the demon's arm open,
'Riolu… your Heaven Spirit Blade is about to reawaken! After all this time, the Heaven Spirit Blade is reawakening its true strength and form!'
As Riolu continues to fly down with his arm still slicing right through the demon's arm, causing blood to gush out of the massive wound, the Heaven Spirit Blade within Riolu's soul slowly begins to change its form.
White chains form out of the end of the hilt, two white spikes form out of opposite sides of the guard with blue fire lit at the end of the tips, and the blade grows longer with crescent moon shaped blades growing out of the guard, the tips reaching towards the tip of the middle blade.
After the sword changed its form, Riolu's eyes widen with shock as he feels an explosion of energy rip throughout his entire body.
The Aura Blade from his right arm grows larger and longer, reaching the other side of the demon's arm.
After Riolu lands right on the demon's shoulder on his feet, his Aura Blade slices right through the demon's whole shoulder, sending its destroyed left arm timbering down into the clouds.
As the demons lets out a murderous roar, Riolu says with the inner voice's voice combining with his, "This foolishness must end… this war between Heaven and Hell!"
As Riolu faces the side of the giant demon's neck, he yells out as he pulls back his giant Aura Blade back aiming for the neck, "I can't stand this damn war!"
Riolu stabs right into the demon's neck, causing blood to gush out and fly all over the place.
As the demon screams in a dying matter, Riolu screams out to where Giratina can hear every word, "It seems as though the Heaven and Hell Spirit Blades weren't enough to keep the war from taking place,"
Riolu continues as he pulls his right arm out of the demon's neck and stabs it again in a different angle, "Damn you, Darkrai… you've managed to find a way to unseal the gates of Hell. You've found a way to get your hands on the key…"
After Riolu pulls out his right arm again, the demon shuts its eyes and slowly starts to fall back towards the clouds.
Before Riolu jumps off of the demon's shoulder, Riolu continues with a serious expression in his eyes, "I guess we have no other choice but to allow the war to go on. But once the main battle begins, a new spirit blade shall be created."
After Riolu jumps off of the demon's shoulder as it begins to fall through the clouds towards nothingness, Riolu continues as he flies straight towards Giratina's location, "I guess we weren't enough to keep the gates of Heaven and Hell sealed away… Zekrom."
After Riolu shuts his eyes, the powerful white aura that came out of his body flows back into his soul, causing him to slowly fall down towards the ground face down.
As Riolu falls towards the ground knocked out, Giratina flies down straight towards where Riolu is about to land and he thinks with a serious expression on his face, 'I guess Riolu now knows a few things about the blade's purposes…'
After he lands above the ground under Riolu's direction, Riolu lands on Giratina's back like a cushion.
After Riolu lands on Giratina's back, Giratina flies towards the top of his mountain, thinking with a look of seriousness in his eyes, 'It seems as though you have no other choice but to use that, Reshiram…'
As Riolu opens his eyes part way, he thinks as his eyes turn back to his normal eyes, 'Reshiram… and Zekrom? Are they the Heaven and Hell Spirit Blades?'
Riolu shuts his eyes, knocked back out into sleep.