The chapter after this one is the last one, I'm sorry the fanfiction is a short one!
–sweatdrop-
Remember, I'm considering a sequel.
No songs today, sorry. C I do suggest the artist Masashi Hamauzu though, great video game music director. :
Now for chapter six…
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The ground below Latius started to shudder violently not one moment after the soul's drip broke. "Oh no…" She whispered silently, Latias seemed troubled as well. Since Jasmine couldn't float, she fell backwards on her rump due to the tremors underfoot.
The two Latis flew over Jasmine's head and out through the thick wooden doors, where it had slightly splintered due to Latios violently smacking into them. They flew out of the museum, and sure enough, the sky overhead had darkened with black thunderheads.
It started to drizzle, and dangerous flashes of lightning lit up the sky. Latius clenched her small red paws into fists, her amber eyes sparkling. "I know what I have to do…" She said, preparing to launch herself into the air.
Latius held her back. "No, Latias, I have to do this. Latios told me to protect you, and I won't fail him." She said in a steely tone. Latias looked up at her, her eyes wide. "You've…seen my brother?" She asked feebly.
Latius paused before nodding. "In a memory." She lied, shooting into the air. Latias persisted on following her. "I can't lose you!" She cried over the ear-shattering roar of thunder. "You don't know what it'd be like for me if I lost someone I loved twice!" Tears started to stream down her cheeks, but Latius couldn't tell. The rain had increased.
As they rose above the rooftops, Latius gasped. There was a huge tsunami about to engulf the whole of Alto Mare. I hung in the air like a huge blue, foaming arch. "The soul's drip will go down with the city." Latias whispered.
"Unless a Lati lends its soul." Latius whispered, finishing the verse. Latios…She thought, her eyes glazing over with tears. She contained herself, inhaling deeply before focusing her energy in her soul. Her body started to take on an eerie lilac glow, she closed her eyes, and when she opened them, they were glowing.
Latias closed her eyes and sighed, she couldn't do it. She couldn't help Latius, the lilac Lati was on her own. She didn't know why, but she just didn't want to see Latius go.
Latius glanced backwards, but Latias obviously wasn't going to follow. Instead, the crimson Lati lingered, staring longingly at Latius. Latius lowered her head, and dove headfirst into the towering wave.
Latias gasped as Latius was engulfed by the raging waters, and was relieved but broken inside when she saw a pinpoint of light appear through the dark water. It grew into a massive globe of blinding white light, and it pushed back the wave into a gentle current that lapped at the ground.
Latius was now transparent, her features a glowing lilac. She closed her eyes and listened to her failing heartbeat.
Thud-ump…Thud-ump…Thud…ump…Thud-ump…ump.
Hm-hum…Hm-hum…Hm-hum…Hm…hum…Hm-hum…hum.
She started to hum to her heartbeat, despite the fact that the musical beat was gone. Then she could hear voices.
Mistake
Failure
Nothing
Wrong
Defect
Unloved
Reject
You don't belong here
You don't belong here
Latius clenched her ghostly paws into fists. "No!" She cried out. She knew this was the moment. She would have to choose to die as what she feared she was all her life, or she would repent.
She was repenting.
"You're wrong! I AM something! I am NOT a failure! I am NOT a mistake! I AM right! I am NOT a defect! I am NOT a reject! I AM loved! I DO belong here! I've come to save Alto Mare, and I have! I have failed at NOTHING!!" She cried out, each word the voices spoke stabbed at her heart, but she held back the tears of pain. She was Latius, the strong, the vigilant, the brave, and the unique.
The voices were silent, and she knew she would never hear them again.
Though, there was something else that was silenced.
Thud…ump…thud…ump…thud…………………….
Latius's heart had ceased to pump the essence of life through her body.
She exhaled softly, and closed her eyes, and they were never to be opened again.
Latius had saved Alto Mare, yes, but she had died doing so. Latius had sacrificed her soul to save a city, something she never would've done before she had met Latias, and something she never would've done before she met Latios.
Latius had grown a lot more in the past couple of days, sure, she hadn't learned everything, but she had learned enough. And she could continue to learn as an entity floating around the universe, but more importantly, she could learn with Latios.
They would be two souls dancing around in the moonlight; they would be two souls together, flitting around wherever they pleased. They would be more elusive than Mew itself. Most would presume them dead, but they were quite alive. For nothing really died, it continued to live as nothing but an entity. An entity that is always there, you just have to look hard enough, and maybe, just maybe, you'll be able to see the faint image of them for a moment.
Xx Latias xX
Latias watched as the globe of light dwindled to nothingness, and she quickly went into a dream projection, concentrating on what Latius would see.
Her eyes glowed, and she saw the pokemon world. Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh, all becoming farther away. Latius was floating into the cosmos. The sphere of light shattered into white stardust, and it floated in front of Latias's face, forming into a ball and glowing brightly before it became the new soul's drip.
Latias reached out and held it in her paws, tears starting to flow from her glowing eyes. She found herself floating over the museum roof, and she despondently headed towards the garden.
When she arrived at the garden, she floated over to the fountain and placed the soul's drip in its holder, where it glowed before water surged powerfully from the fountain once more.
"Thank you…Latius."
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-sniffle- I actually didn't cry one single tear while writing this. D
Latias POV in next chapter, than special thanks.