Chapter 10: A New Path
Darkrai had set off for its adventure.
"What did master Yveltal mean by those words, 'it had no choice'." Darkrai had thought. "Yveltal is probably responsible for Arceus turning into stone as well. Well either way, Yveltal is no longer my master."
"I am on my own now." Darkrai continued. "I must find Arceus."
"If only I could of explained to Darkrai about what's been going on." Yveltal said.
"Why didn't you say something." Houndoom replied.
"Well, I was going to, and then Darkrai just left. I guess I missed my chance.." Yveltal said." I was just glad to see Darkrai again, I didn't know what to say first. The Dark Matter will pay for what its done."
"You heard Darkrai though; The darkness is gone."
"The Darkness will never be gone. If darkness was truly gone, the balance of this universe would be unstable. Most of it may vanish from time to time, but it can never truly be gone."
"What will you do master?"
"While my powers are still fresh from absorbing them from Zekurshirem, I can now begin to create the sun. It will protect us from the darkness. I will need your help Houndoom. I'll create balls of energy from the power that I've absorbed and intensify them with my own power, then you will have to cover them with flames and we'll shoot them out far away. If we stay too close to this ball of energy, we could burn up. The balls should combine and grow bigger and bigger."
"How far away?" Houndoom asked.
"At least a million miles away. We should still be able to see it, because it'll be so big that it'll look bigger than us even that far away. This is what I saw in my vision anyways." Yveltal answered.
Yveltal and Houndoom proceeded to do as planned. The flaming balls of energy shot out, but they didn't go out as far as they would like. They weren't as hot as they would like either. These balls of energy just disintegrated when they got so far away. Yveltal and Houndoom kept trying but nothing was going according to plan.
"Why isn't it working?" Yveltal questioned. "We've been at this for awhile. I guess dark creatures like us are just doomed to this curse of darkness.."
"We will find a way!" Houndoom comforted. "We will just have to try hard and not let the darkness consume us, when it comes back."
"You're right, Houndoom." Yveltal said. "Lets think of something else."
"You know, Yveltal," Houndoom began. "those lights out in the distance. They have to be something like what we are trying to create. Somewhere, someone out there is making suns. We could try and find them."
"That sounds like a good plan, but that someone could be anywhere. We don't even have a lead. As far as we know, they could be as far away as those lights are, and they look pretty far away."
"Hmm..." They both pondered there for awhile. "We'll think of something." Houndoom finally said.
"So these objects that Lucario recovered." Jirachi began. "I believe they are the remains of Zekurshirem."
"That does make sense, now that I think about it." Lucario said.
"Apparently Zekurshirem is made up of three different beings, each with their own powers." Jirachi continued.
"It's like what you have said before Arceus, every creature can only be blessed with two different powers." Lucario noted.
"Well of course. I tried combining four plates to make a powerful being, because I needed something with that kind of power to help with my creation of the living world." Arceus answered.
"Guess that didn't work out. It seemed like it was too fragile to hold all three powers in one form." Jirachi explained. "The lightning and fire part of that power was too much distributed and they needed to recover. Not very much ice power was distributed, so that why there was only an ice being left of what remaining. The two other diamond looking objects are the bonding items. It's what was created to help keep those creatures all into one.
"Luckily for us. I do believe we can recover these three beings after some time. A lot of time actually, but it can be done." Jirachi continued.
"Yay, now that we got that figured out, lets go play." Mew said cheerfully.
"Not yet!" Jirachi scolded. "We still got some more things to discuss."
"Aww..." Mew frowned.
"Well get to playing soon, Mew." Lucario comforted. "I'm sure there is not too much more to discuss."
Mew cheered up after Lucario's words.
Jirachi continued once more. "It was a good idea, Arceus. No one could of known of the conflict that could of affected your work. But I'm sure you were well aware of the fragileness of this creation."
"In a way. It was a mostly a test after all." Arceus said.
"So what do you think we should do, Jirachi?" Lucario asked.
"I had some questions for Arceus about Zekurshirem." Jirachi said. "I wanted to know more about the creation."
"I guess I should of made three different beings to begin with, but it was something I wanted to try out. The power of fire was enforced by the power of truth. The power of lightning was enforced by the power of ideals. With this power, I wanted to create an atmosphere where living things could strive." Arceus explained. "The power of ice was enforced by sheer power to make just enough cold air currents to mix with the heat and stir up the contents of the atmosphere to make it more stable.
"The name 'Zekurshirem' represents the three creatures when they are combined to express how powerful it is." Arceus continued to explain. "The three creatures have separate real names. Kyurem is the name of the ice counterpart; Reshiram was the name given to the fire counterpart, and Zekrom was the name given to the lightning counterpart."
"That makes more sense." Jirachi concluded. "I do believe after these spheres have had time and when they come in contact with someone with pure intentions of ideal or truth, these creatures can be recovered. The third sphere with the power of ice should recover on its own as well.
"I understand." Lucario said. "Thanks for looking into this, Jirachi."
"No problem. I like studying things and learning more!" Jirachi said happily.
"Now what do we do?" Lucario asked.
"Yes, I was really needing those three beings to finish my grand creation." Arceus said.
"Well, you could always use different creatures!" Jirachi suggested.
"I could..." Arceus thought.
"Here, you might want this." Lucario said as he gave the Jewel of Life back to Arceus.
"Ah finally, my full power has returned!" Arceus said, sounding pleased.
"Okay I will need just two creatures for this." Arceus continued. "The first will be 'The Ruler of Land', Groudon.
Arceus laid down a red plate and a brown plate. Lights came out from the two plates and had formed a large beast right next to Arceus. This bright red creature stood on two legs about 16 foot tall. It had black primal designs all over its red back, head, arms and legs that glowed a fiery yellow. It had three black spikes on the side of its neck that matched the color of its belly all the way up to its frightening face. Its fiery orange eyes stared right at the enormous sphere of energy right in front of it.
"Next will be just a water type creature. 'The Ruler of Water' , Kyogre." Arceus said.
Another large beast formed from the water type plate. This being was more long that tall and resembled a fish. It reached a total of 32 feet long, only because of its long tail that forked off into two ribbon like fins on each side. This creature also had red primal designs on its blue back and wing-like fins that came from each side of it. These designs glowed a yellow resembling lights instead of a fiery yellow like it's rival, Groudon. It had a large white mouth that followed down to its underbelly. It's glowing eyes also stared at the enormous sphere.
"Kyogre, Groudon; You will help me with my creation right before our eyes!" Arceus said excitingly.
"There will be more land!" Groudon roared.
"There will be more water!" Kyogre roared.
"There will be both!" Arceus said.
"Okay Groudon, I need you to shoot a large ball of fire right into the middle of the sphere." Arceus continued.
Groudon did as asked. A large fiery ball filled about a little more than half of the capacity of the sphere.
"Okay Kyoge, I need you to cool that fiery ball with your water." Arceus said.
Kyogre also did as asked. Except only the outer half of the fiery ball ended up cooling down. The rest stayed a ball of fire under the crust of the cooled lava.
"That will work." Arceus said with a sweat drop. "Now go my two proud beasts. Go forth and shape this land to call your homes."
The two had enter the sphere of energy to continue Arceus's work.
Darkrai had been traveling for a few hours now. It could feel Arceus's presence, but it still seemed pretty far away. Darkrai started having a flashback.
"Who are you?" Darkrai asked, looking over at a dark ball of energy right next to it.
"I'm a part of dark matter, just like you. My name is Zorua. Whats yours?"
"I'm Darkrai. What is our purpose? What is dark matter?"
"We are physical energy that is made up of negative emotions." Zorua explained.
"That sounds bad. So we are meant to be bad?" Darkrai questioned.
"Not all of us are bad. It seems that most of your energy is originated from solitude and trickery. It's not really all that bad compared to the rest of them."
"It seems you are made up of the same aspects as me. Maybe that's why we are getting along so well."
"Yeah, Only the strong survive in our group. Some of us are even meant to take forms. That is what I hear from some of the others, anyways. I believe if you try hard enough then you can achieve this. A lot of the others are arrogant and want to steal the bodies of others and claim them as their own. Those are the bad parts of darkness."
"Zorua, lets make it our dream to get forms, then we can be friends and travel together."
"That sounds great, Darkrai!"
Darkrai continued on its journey, thinking more on it's flashback.
"Oh yeah, Zorua and I had a goal together. I lost some of my memory when I was summoned, but somehow I remember this particular scene of what I was before. Why wasn't Zorua summoned?" Darkrai wondered to itself.
Another flashback popped in Darkrai's mind.
"You have summoned me?" Darkrai questioned.
"Yes, you have now taken a form. You have worthy intentions." Yveltal said.
Darkrai looked down and examined its body. "This is amazing!"
"My Dark Aura lets me summon creatures of the dark that are worthy of taking a form. Then the form they take is based on their personality" Yveltal explained.
"Oh no, I'm hearing the voices of darkness again, gotta resist!" Yveltal cringed.
"Is there something wrong? Darkrai asked.
"It's nothing." Yveltal reassured. "..Anyways, I need help with planning on striking back at a nemesis of mine that is equal to me in strength. I must prove that I am strong."
"Why am I needed?"
"Because this enemy of mine has an ally. You're job is to make sure he doesn't get in the way."
"This is stupid." Darkrai thought. "This isn't something I want to do. I don't want to fight. I want to help others and prove that darkness can be good too."
"And if I refuse?" Darkrai finally said.
"TheN I HaVe No NeeD FoR YoU." Yveltal demonically replied.
Yveltal's eyes darkened. A beam shot straight from its mouth and turned Darkrai instantly into stone. Moments past and Yveltal finally snapped out of it.
"No!" Yveltal growled disappointedly. "I lost control of consciousness and next thing I know, this happens. This is truly a terrible fate."
"I will find a way to cure you, Darkrai. Then we will prove our strength and fight away this darkness together." Yveltal said.
"I have been here before.." Darkrai said, after waking up from being passed out for several hours.
"Was I not worthy enough... No I still have my form.. What's going on?" Darkrai said, confused.
"Now I remember what happened." Darkrai said, glaring at it's thoughts.
"Gotta find a way out of here.. What's in this cave?"
Darkrai continued on into the cave and came back out about an hour later.
"I'm not sure if I want to stay in there. There's creepy voices running through the walls. Hold on... I feel someone coming, gotta hide.."
"What is this place?" Arceus questioned.
"That is when I met Arceus." Darkrai said to itself.
Darkrai was interrupted from its thoughts. "What?.. I can feel someone approaching me from behind.. This presence seems familiar.."
Darkrai turned around to see a familiar face staring right at him.
...
Chapter End
Who could be behind Darkrai? Stayed tuned! I plan on releasing the next chapter within the next two or three days. :) -YourBestFriendAizen