Chapter 9: Finding Darkrai

Mew went up to Arceus

"You know, there is a definite way to tell if Darkrai had made it through the portal." Mew said.

"Really? How?" Arceus seemed surprised.

"If you focus through your mind on the being you want to communicate with, then they will hear you through telepathy." Mew explained. "Only few beings are blessed with such a gift."

"Oh yeah! It's just like when I first met Lucario." Arceus remembered. "We communicated with each other without speaking, through our minds. That is what Telepathy must be."

Arceus closed it's eyes and focused on the Voidlands. It search through its feelings and detected a life force.

"That must be Darkrai!" Arceus exclaimed. "Darkrai, can you hear me?...Darkrai!"

Darkrai had awoken from it's slumber. It heard a familiar voice calling to him.

"I'm still alive! We must have weakened the Dark Matter quite of bit, if it hasn't tried to consume me yet." Darkrai noted. "But what is this voice I am hearing... It's Arceus!"

"But how?" Darkrai continued. "Arceus?"

"Focus your mind." The voice called. "Can you hear me Darkrai?"

Darkrai closed it's eyes and focused on the voice.

"Arceus is that you?" Darkrai telepathically answered.

"Yes. I was afraid you didn't make it from the Voidlands. Seems that I was right."

"Yes, I didn't make it throught the door it time. The door vanished right when I got up to it. I was frightened and left the cave and then rested outside."

"I should have let you go throught first. All I could think about was getting away from the darkness. I had no idea the door would vanish."

"I didn't either. It worked out in a way though. It gave me a chance to leave one last warning note for those who get caught in this dimension. Now I am stuck here with no way out."

Darkrai shuddered. It couldn't stand the thought of it being consumed by Dark Matter.

"We will find a way to get you out of there Darkrai, just hold on." Arceus assured.

"I sure hope so." Darkrai vanished back into the shadows.

"He's still trapped there!" Arceus shared with the others.

Just then, Jirachi had appeared on the scene.

"Hey guys! I think I have an idea about what these objects are!" Jirachi informed.

"Now is not really a good time." Arceus said "We have in issue we must settle first."

"Arceus! Its good to see that you are not stone anymore. Deoxys told me all about what happened." Jirachi exclaimed.

Arceus told Jirachi all about what happened after he got turned into stone and how it had escaped the Voidlands.

"Hmm...the Voidlands? I've never heard of them. I need to add this to my list of studies." Jirachi replied. "More importantly, we need to come up with a plan of how to save Darkrai."

The four of them had pondered there for a moment, when Jirachi had a great idea.

"I know exactly what we need." Jirachi said. "Palkia had told me of a being it had helped Dialga create that could travel through space and time. Maybe we could have it help us rescue Darkrai."

"That sounds like an excellent plan!" Arceus noted.

"Maybe after this rescue mission, we can discuss the contents of these unique objects that Lucario had come across." Jirachi replied.

"Go Celebi. You are being summoned by Jirachi." Dialga had told the green fairy-like creature.

Celebi had flew down from the clock tower through a portal it had created right next to Dialga.

"Ill be back soon, Dialga." Celebii had said before it had vanished.

A small portal had opened up right next to Arceus. Celebii had came through to join the four friends.

"Celebi!, its good to see you again!" Jirachi exclaimed.

"Hey Jirachi! Hey Mew!" Celebi had answered happily.

"Hey Celebi!" Mew had replied happily. "Celebii takes Jirachi and I through space and time on adventures, and we play together." Mew had explained to Arceus and Lucario.

"That sounds like fun!" Lucario had replied.

"Hey Celebi, can you help us travel through space and time, to go rescue our trapped friend in the Voidlands?"

"The Voidlands?!" Celebi had said with a sweat and a frown. "That place sounds scary! I'll help though. There is a slight problem, I can only open up portals barely bigger than I am. So only Mew and Jirachi would be the only ones able to accompany me on the mission."

"A rescue mission?" Jirachi questioned. "That sounds really fun!"

Mew had nodded alongside Jirachi.

"Alright, as long as you can find a way to help Darkrai escape from that horrible place." Arceus said thinking about it's experience in the Voidlands. "Celebi, Jirachi, Mew; I am counting on you. No one deserves to ever be in a place like that."

"You can count on us!" Jirachi reassured.

"Mew handed Celebii and Jirachi two blue scarves with white arrowed lines spaced on it. Mew had one of its own.

"What's with the scarves?" Lucario asked out of curiousity.

"These are our good luck scarves for whenever we go to different places together." Jirachi had answered.

"Are you guys ready to go?" Celebi asked.

"Yes lets go!" Mew had answered. Jirachi nodded along with Mew.

Celebi opened up it's portal and the three had left.

"Good luck to you three." Arceus wished them.

The three had traveled through the portal.

"How do we know where we're going? We usually just go where the portal leads us, right?" Mew had asked.

"Most of the time that is the case, just for the fun of the surprise, but if we can keep focus on Darkrai's being, then that should lead us right to it." Jirachi answered.

"None of us actually know Darkrai." Mew replied with concern.

"This is true." Celebi finally said. "We might have to make a few trips. Even if we don't know the being, we can still follow faraway spiritual presences. The closest one seems to be unstable."

"That must be Darkrai!" Mew said. "Arceus did say that Darkrai was left with these dark creatures. It is probably frightened"

"It must be. I don't think there are very many creatures out there, and if there are, they must be too far away to detect." Jirachi conversed. " A lot of us were created from Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina. We don't even know where Mew is from. It's still a mystery where Darkrai is from as well."

"At any cost, we must get Darkrai through the light portal. It wont fit through the portals that I create and besides, if its body is a stone somewhere; the only way to free it, is through that portal." Celebi said.

"I think you are right." Jirachi agreed. "Lets go!"

The three had ended up in the Voidlands. A cave could be seen in a far distance.

"That must be the cave that Arceus was talking about!" Mew exclaimed. "Darkrai must be somewhere near there."

Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi arrived at the cave after a few minutes travel. A dark figure had come from inside the cave. It was Darkrai.

"That must be Darkrai!" Jirachi said.

"Darkrai! We are here to get you out of this place." Mew approached.

"STAY AWAY INTRUDERS!" Darkrai had threatened. Dark waves of energy unleashed from its body and struck the three friends.

"I was under the impression Darkrai was friendly." Mew frowned with sadness.

"THAT'S IT. LET ME FEED OFF OF THOSE EMOTIONS!" Darkrai laughed. It's eyes was nothing but darkness inside of them.

"We are too late." Jirachi said to Celebi. "You know what we must do. Ill hold Darkrai at bay."

Celebi nodded. Celebi closed its eyes and focused on Dialga. "Dialga, we got here too late. We need to go back in time."

Jirachi had unleashed immense Gravity. Darkrai was forced to kneel on the ground.

"WHAT IS THIS TRICKERY! Darkrai could not move a muscle. It was bound to the ground.

Time had froze. Celebi, Mew and Jirachi had watched all around them. It seemed as time was flowing in reverse. Darkrai had floated backwards back in the cave. An enormous yell came from the cave.

"That must be Darkrai." Celebi noted. "A little further.."

Dark Blobs came out of the cave flowing past Celebi. Darkrai came back out of the cave and went past the three friends as well.

"Darkrai must of been chased into the cave by the Dark Matter." Celebi said. "This is good, right here Dialga."

Time had started flowing again. There they were right behind Darkrai.

"You will not have me!" Darkrai resisted. "I will not become consumed."

"Oh ReallY? WhaT CoulD YoU PoSsbly Do To ResiSt Us!" The dark voice taunted.

"We will protect you." Celebi had assured Darkrai.

Darkrai turned around to see the three. "Who are you guys?"

"We are friends of Arceus." Jirachi answered.

"Ah! WheN DiD YoU GeT HerE?!" The dark voice growled.

"Celebi, you lead Darkrai through the cave and get it through that portal." Jirachi said. "Mew and I can take care of these guys."

"HaHaHa, WhaT CaN YoU TwO WeaKlinGs Do?" Laughed the dark voice.

"Lets do this Mew!" Jirachi told it. Mew nodded.

Both had unleashed immense Gravity, stronger than before, because of Mews help. The Darkness could not even begin to hope to move.

"AH! WhaT Is THis?" growled the dark creatures.

"You're not going anywhere." Mew's eyes glared at them with determination.

A light had shined from the cave. Moments later, Celebi had came out from the cave.

"Darkrai made it through!" Celebi said happily. All of the dark blobs were stuck on the ground. "Lets get out of here."

"You're NoT GoinG AnYwherE!" The darkness said.

Jirachi had closed its eyes and started storing up power. The Dark Matter had surrounded the three friends.

"If I Can'T CoNsUmE ThE OtheR, TheN YoU Will HAve To Do."

"Ew, these things are all squishy." Mew complained.

"Good thing we have these scarves to protect us!" Celebi exclaimed.

A large light came from Jirachi's tags hanging from its pointed head. "This is your doom!" Jirachi said as it attacked.

The darkness had vanished from their surroundings as the light covered it.

"Now we go." Celebi said.

A portal had opened for Mew, Jirachi, and Celebi to escape. The three friends had ended back by Arceus and Lucario's side.

"It's done!" Mew said happily. "Time to play!"

"It's time to discuss these objects!" Jirachi argued.

"Thank you guys for helping Darkrai. I can feel that Darkrai has found peace. Now I can set my mind with ease."

"Lets discuss these objects, then we can go play afterwards." Lucario tried to come with an agreement with the two.

"I'm glad we could help Darkrai. I wouldn't want to be in a place like that either!" Celebi said happily. "I must go report back to Dialga. Maybe I can come back later and play with you guys!"

"Sounds good!" said Mew.

The four said farewell to Celebi.

"Rescue missions sure are fun, aren't they Mew?" Jirachi said.

"Yes they are!" It agreed. "I like helping others."

"Ah Darkrai, you have returned to us!" said a familiar voice.

"You are a traitor to your own comrades!" Darkrai growled.

"Oh don't get me wrong, I had no choice."

"Did you not? Even if I hadn't turned to stone, what you were planning, I wanted no part of." Darkrai said. "The Darkness is gone. I'm leaving."

"Where are you going Darkrai?"

Darkrai had set off to find Arceus and the trio that helped it escape from that dark place.

"I am forever in your debt. I want to help, just like you guys did." Darkrai said.

Chapter End

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