(This is drawing to a close. I know. Sadness. About thirty, thirty-five chapters. And we're one what, twenty-three? Another one soon, I hope. Don't own!)
Merope padded forward. Oh, she knew exactly what was going to happen. But she wouldn't speak of it. They didn't call her the Disaster Pokemon for nothing, after all. Luna was yelling animatedly in the background. Merope couldn't help but laugh.
The child she had chosen to follow was strange indeed. She was not special, not by humanity's standards; but that would come, in time. She would show them. Nyeros approached her hesitantly.
"Merope. You're okay?" He asked softly. She looked at him. "I really don't know." He sighed, and fell into a steady rhythm next to her. She looked at him, and smiled. "Be grateful I let you walk beside me." He grinned toothily at her.
"Lest I smite you into oblivion." The two continued on in a warm, relative silence, excluding the idiots in the back.
"TURN LEFT!" Salem screamed. "Right!" He shook his head. "No, screw that! LEFT!!" Luna hit him over the head with the map.
"IT FUCKING SAYS GO RIGHT!! DO YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE OR NOT?!" He sighed. "Yes, ma'am." She huffed. "Good. Now come on." They went right.
And guess what?
"Okay, we're lost." Kita remarked. "This is all your fault." Azrael hissed at Luna. She stuck her tongue out. "Oh, fuck that!" They argued for a bit, unaware of what was about to happen...
Luna heard them before they struck. "Guys?" She called out. "Am I the only one that hears—"
It was too late. They all saw the eyes. The unforgiving eyes. The Absol pack moved as one, smoothly and quietly, better than a trained assassin. The leader, a grizzled Absol with a gnawed-at scythe, stepped forward. "Poor unfortunate child." He sneered.
"You have given life to the end of the world." Luna blinked. "Do I know you?" The Absol snorted. "You should. I am Eridar. I have come to kill the Absol, Merope." Luna squeaked. "What!" She sounded like an idiot, she knew, but she had to protect Merope.
"Child. I am doing you a favor. If she does not die, the world will end, and all will fall." He said softly. Merope's fur bristled. "I will not go quietly. I refuse." The Absol's eyes hardened. "Very well. Know you have sealed your fate, and the fate of your companions as well. BONE!" He called out triumphantly.
A huge Absol, one who had obviously seen many, many wars, stepped forward. The others parted around him. He had many scars lacerating his thighs and legs. His muscles rippled beneath his coat. Luna rushed to stand in front of Merope.
"Leave her alone! She hasn't done a THING!" Bone glanced at her. Then he struck her with a massive forepaw, sending Luna reeling. Vita flew up, and conjured a pink bubble, saving her from flying off. "Hey! Don't hit the kid, you rat bastard!" Vita swore angrily. Bone took no notice.
"Hey, yo. MEW here. Bow down and worship the Creator, bitches." Vita said in a huff, but everyone ignored her. She shook her head. "No fuckin' respect. You fat bastards." Kalisha glared at her. Bone and Merope were pacing around, sizing each other up.
Bone lept up, surprising Merope for all of an instant. Then, smooth as liquid, she was behind him, pinning him to the ground. "Never make the first move."
She purred in his ear triumphantly. Bone growled, and swatted at her, catching her in the shoulder. Beads of blood began to plip out of the would. She growled. "Brother, why do you attack me?"
Luna gaped. "Hold up! Brother!?" Bone growled. "You are dead to me, Merope. I have nothing to do with the end of the world." Something Merope had been holding in her eyes broke then. Hope that maybe, just maybe, Bone loved her still—it snapped.
She hung her head. All the fight went out of her then. "MEROPE!" Luna screamed. She swung her head to look at her trainer. "They'll find you...burn you..." She said softly, before Bone struck.
Luna heard the terrible snap of bones. And in that moment, they knew her heart had stopped beating.
All was silent for a second. Then Luna's high-pitched wails broke the silence. "YOU KILLED HER!" Luna roared. "SHE WAS YOUR SISTER!"
Bone took no notice of the sobbing trainer. He turned to go, and then—
A black, shadowy aura flew out of Merope's body. It struck him in the back, and he fell.
Merope began to rise.
"You always go for the back of the neck." Luna stared in terror. "No." Merope turned to her. But it wasn't really Merope. The pokemon she'd loved was now an it. Not-Merope laughed. "They knew what was coming. Fools. Trying to stop the end of the world."
The black aura exploded out of Merope's body, and it bore a swath across the sky. The entire world began to rot. Luna screamed again, as Merope's body fell to the ground. "Get up!" She shrieked. She saw the body stir. "MEROPE!" Luna screeched.
"Oh, god. My fuckin' head." Merope stood shakily. "Luna?" Luna's eyes brimmed with tears. "You're alive!" She screeched, hugging her. Cybela and Jirachi both looked up.
"Oh, she's alive. But she's brought the end of the world with her." Jirachi whispered. Luna looked at the world, warped and distorting around her. "Well? How do we stop it?" Luna asked.
Kalisha looked up. "I have seen this before. This landscape... this is how the world looked during the Great War." As if to accentuate her statement, two greenish-blue meteors streaked to the ground before them.
"Die, Space-Lord!" Vita stiffened. "Aw, crap. Rayquaza." Salem noted the tendrils on one of the meteors. "And Deoxys." The great green dragon rose up, and towered over all of them. "The War had begun." He saw Luna. "Really. You must be Luna, aren't you?" She blinked. "Um, yeah. But how do you know my name?" "Isn't it obvious? You're to come with me."
Luna surveyed the scene. "But what about Deoxys?" Rayquaza laughed. "Really. You've got to calm him down. I'm sure you can." Luna sighed. "Goddamnit. Okay..."
She strode over to Deoxys. "Hey. Um, Space-thingy. Well, I think you need to stop killing Rayquaza. Because, seriously..." She decided this direction was NOT working.
"Okay, fuck it. Dude, stop fuckin' killing Rayquaza. No one fucking cares he was on your territory about a billion years ago. Both of you need to calm the fuck down? Okay? Good?" Deoxys opened an eye.
"Really. Fine. But you could've been more polite." He was sniffling a bit.Luna sighed, and dug through her bag. "Sorry. I have a temper." She found what she had been looking for, and held out a bar of chocolate. "Truce?"
Deoxys chirped, and took the bar. "Yay!" Luna figured this was a much younger Deoxys. "Well, you know what? You shouldn't be in this war. So why don't you go back to space? It'll be safe there." Deoxys nodded.
"Okay! Bye, chocolate-lady!" He folded up his arms, and soared off back into space. Luna couldn't help but laugh. "Well, he was nice." She turned to Rayquaza. "Now. How the fuck do we get out of this war?" Rayquaza stretched his neck.
"Get on." Luna recalled everyone, along with Salem. They hopped on the dragon's back, and Rayquaza shot upward.
To where the war would begin, and everything else would end.