*****Authors' Note: Here is another chapter of Double Infinity! A rather dramatic one, so hopefully you'll enjoy it the best :) Reviews are always appreciated and are the fuel we need to keep creating more of the story.
Chapter 3
I had no idea how long I was unconscious for. When I woke up, though, I was lying on a cold stone floor, roped up, gagged, and bleeding. It became apparent to me that this was a prison cell in the heart of Greevil's lair quite quickly, as I had been here more than once on investigation missions.
"Finally, you're awake," I flinched at the sound of Greevil's voice. A small man in a purple cloak walked out unsteadily, leaning heavily on a cane. He had permanently narrowed eyes with brown glasses to help him see.
I tried to speak, but it just came out as grumbles. Greevil just laughed and continued to speak in an Italian accent "Ah, yes, yes. You want to, no? You should have thought twice about coming here, then!
"I am quite glad you decided to pay me a visit, though. I have wanted you to see my latest... invention. Come in here, Shadow Dialga and Shadow Palkia!"
My eyes widened. Dialga? Palkia? They were only Pokemon myths from a faraway place called Sinnoh - which my father called fake. After all, these mysterious creatures could supposedly control time and space. If all the legends were true, and if Greevil really had turned them into Shadow Pokemon, there was no way I could leave this place alive.
Greevil really wasn't lying, though. For the moment he called them inside, part of wall slid up to reveal two enormous creatures I had never seen before. One of them, which I assumed was the controller of time, Shadow Dialga, had black skin and silver crystallized spikes on its body. The controller of space, Shadow Palkia, had dark gray skin and stood on two firm legs. Small, straight wings stuck out of its back and it had a red ruby on its arm.
"Beautiful aren't they?" Greevil asked to no one in particular. "Definitely my best Shadow Pokemon creation so far - though I eventually hope to make a Shadow Lugia. Either way, I thought you should get a grander death and be killed by these two instead of dying at the fangs of Ariados. You agree with me, no?"
I continued to glare at him, hating that I couldn't say anything or move at all due to the ropes. "I shall make this quick - you have caused me so much trouble in the past that I would rather get rid of you quickly than let you plot an escape."
He looked like he was about to give a finishing command when he paused. "Seth, I wish to tell you one more thing first. Your Pokemon are already dead. Your Charizard died because of the Ariados' venom, and you forgot to return your Vaporeon so she met the same fate. As for the rest of your Pokemon, a couple experiments killed them quite quickly."
Greevil's words stunned and angered me more than anything I had ever heard in my life. My team. My precious, best, most amazing team. Was now dead. They were all gone forever, never to be seen again. Greevil yelled some words to Dialga and Palkia that were inaudible in my ears. The only sound was my heart pounding as tears rolled down my cheeks.
The words must have been a command, though. Because when I looked back up at Greevil and the Shadow Pokemon, I saw them preparing their signature moves, Roar of Time for Dialga and Spacial Rend for Palkia. Both of the moves were supposedly just a myth - like me someday. The man who fought and lost in the battle to protect Pokemon.
Blurry beams of energy and light shot out of them, smashed through the bars of my prison cell, and slammed into my bloody, tear-drenched body at the exact same time. And just like that, I disappeared from the world forever.
*****Author's Note: To be continued... somehow