Chapter 11: An Old Friend
Darkrai couldn't believe it's eyes.
"Why did you follow me, Yveltal?" Darkrai questioned.
A large set of red and black wings just flapped there, with the familiar face looking right at Darkrai.
"So let me guess? You have returned to send me back to the Voidlands, because I wont follow you?" Darkrai asked. "Well you wont get your chance, because I am ready for you this time!"
Darkrai let out an Omnious Wind, directed towards Yveltal. Yveltal vanished into thin air.
"Did I really defeat the mighty Yveltal? No, That can't be right?" Darkrai thought. "There's doesn't seem to be anyone around though.."
Darkrai continued on its path. "Another presence?"
This time Houndoom was right behind him.
"So, Yveltal retreated and left its minion to stay and fight." Darkrai examined. "I can't be bother with this. I got better things to do."
Darkrai turned back around and kept to it's path. Houndoom growled.
"Fine, so be it." Darkrai unleashed another Omnious Wind. This time, Houndoom had disappeared from the scene.
"Must of scared him off" Darkrai said.
"You're pretty tough." said another voice.
"What, who said that? Darkrai answered.
"Do you remember me, Darkrai?"
Darkrai's memory started racing back.
"...Zorua?"
"Darkrai!" Zorua happily said.
There stood a gray fox right in front of Darkrai, standing a little bit over two feet tall with a dark gray mane around it's neck. It had red feet and a fluffy gray tail. It's red eyebrows stood on top of its blue eyes staring back at Darkrai's. It had a bushy fur patch on its forehead with the bottom half- gray and the upper half- red.
Was this even real. Someone was messing with Darkrai. First Yveltal, then Houndoom, now this new creature claiming to be Zorua? It did sound exactly like Zorua. Darkrai concentrated for a moment. Deep down inside, there was no doubt this being was in fact, really Zorua.
"You got pass my tricks." Zorua said. "My power is to create illusions to fool others."
"Why did you choose to appear as Yveltal and Houndoom?" Darkrai asked.
"I wanted to show off my powers and I can only copy those that I have been around." Zorua explained.
"You were around them?"
"Yeah, they summoned me into this place."
"It's about time they noticed your worth."
"I think there is more to it than that, but Master Yveltal did say I was definitely worthy." Zorua grinned.
"Well, what happened?"
"Well, My presence wasn't very easy to find, according to Master Yveltal; I was hiding it. I couldn't help it though, I was scared and all alone after you left, Darkrai, so I went and hid. Master Yveltal said that it was the least that could be done."
"For what? Yveltal is nothing but a traitor, that turns anyone he doesn't like into stone." Darkrai protested.
"That was a trick from the bad group of darkness." Zorua explained. "Do you remember when we were discussing the different kinds of darkness? The ones that can steal bodies away from others? They also have the power to turn any physical being into stone, so they can prey off the souls of the fallen. These souls are sent to the Voidlands, the home of the dark matter - our original home."
"Also, Master Yveltal knew that we had a connection. Deep down inside of you, you had a loneliness that only a lost friend could cure. That I could cure.." Zorua continued.
"So Yveltal knew.." Darkrai thought.
"So why does Yveltal have the power to do so?" Darkrai asked.
"The bad group of dark matter can take over anyone who has a part of dark matter in them. That goes for you and I as well. Master Yveltal falls easy pray to them, because of the large amount of soul energy it has. Dark matter is attracted to this soul energy and they find it very delicious. Master Yveltal can fight it off for the most part but when a large amount of darkness takes over, theres not much anyone can do, even Master Yveltal. So be on your guard, Darkrai."
"Master Yveltal is trying to come up with an efficient way to stop us dark types from getting overran by the dark matter." Zorua continued. "Please don't be mad at Master Yveltal. It was the evil dark matter's fault. Master Yveltal felt really bad when you were turned to stone."
"So that's what Yveltal meant by those words." Darkrai said to itself.
...
"Hey Zorua, Do you want to go meet someone by the name of Arceus. Arceus saved my life when I was trapped in the Voidlands, so I wanted to go visit."
"That's sounds great, but what about returning to Master Yveltal?" Zorua asked.
"We can go back to Master Yveltal after we go visit Arceus for awhile. It would be a good idea to go back and help plan. Also it would be good to go make up with Master Yveltal from this big misunderstanding." Darkrai said.
"That was fun!" Mew said happily. "You should invite us back to your dimension again sometime, Jirachi."
"Yeah it was. Palkia has done a really good job on constructing its dimension with low gravity." Jirachi replied.
"I'm glad that Dialga let me come play with you guys!" Celebi cheerfully said.
"You should ask Dialga if we can come visit your dimension sometime, Celebi." Mew said.
"I'm not sure if you want to go visit there. Everything is warped by time there and confusing. Not really a place I would describe as fun, but it is fun flying around." Celebi replied.
...
Arceus stared down at the sphere that was beginning to look like a livable planet.
"Kyogre and Groudon have been doing a good job at creating a livable planet." Lucario complimented.
"Yes they have. I can't wait to make it a place worth living for many creatures." Arceus said with it's eyes gleaming.
A few moments later, Lucario noticed something wasn't right. There was immense energy coming from the planet.
"There's something coming from the planet down there, Arceus." Lucario informed. "The energy readings I'm getting from my aura is outrageous."
"We need a way to get down there to inspect what's going on." Arceus said.
"We can go inspect it for you." Jirachi offered.
"Okay! Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi, I leave you in charge of inspecting this issue." Arceus proudly said.
"We're on it." Jirachi said.
"How are we even going to get down there?" Celebi questioned.
"I have just the thing." Jirachi said.
Jirachi's tags on its star shaped head started glowing. Hoopa had appeared on the scene right before them.
"Hoopa can get us there." Jirachi said.
"Hoopa can help you with Hoopa rings!" Hoopa said happily, ready to help.
One of Hoopa's rings from its body vanished, while another ring floated right before them.
"Hoopa's rings work like small portals. Are you surprised?" Hoopa said with a smirk.
"Yes, we are very surprised!" Mew said agreeing.
Jirachi, Mew and Celebi had put on their adventure scarfs.
"Lets go!" Jirachi said flying through the ring. Celebi and Mew had followed.
"More Water!" Kyogre roared.
"More Land!" Groudon roared back.
"Oh no, if this keeps up, then they could destroyed all the effort that was put into making this planet. We've got to stop them somehow." Jirachi observed.
"There's too much energy pressure being exerted into the air for our Gravity to do any good against those powerful beings." Mew said.
"Yeah, we need to stop them!" Jirachi replied.
Groudon and Kyogre were neck to neck with each other, because of their differences. Kyogre did not like land and Groudon did not like water. The ground was rumbling with earthquakes and fierce storms fill the sky as rain poured down onto the battle scene.
"Lets try our attacks!" Mew said.
"No, we should go inform Arceus. We won't be able to handle them by ourselves." Jirachi urged.
Mew didn't listen to anything Jirachi had said. It was already on it's way to go deal with the two titans.
"Mew, no.." Celebi said with concern. "Well, we can't just let Mew deal with this on its own." Celebi followed.
Mew had unleashed a Blizzard onto the two giants. It seemed to slightly slow the two beasts, but they were still at it. It did not bother them at all. Mew then proceeded with a Thunder onto the two. It did nothing at all to Groudon, but Kyogre took attention to Mew. It let out a terrifying cry. Celebi launched Magical Leaves past Mew towards Kyogre at it's advance. This only made Kyogre more angry. It unleashed a powerful Water Pulse at Mew and Celebi that knocked them back.
Jirachi sighed. "Mew gets too confident, because it has all types of attacks at it's disposal. I don't think that's going to be enough to help, though."
"Let's try and use our Psychic powers to stop them." Mew said looking over at Celebi.
Psychic powers were unleashed from the two friends. Kyogre and Groudon were surrounded by Telekinetic energy. They could barely move, but eventually struggled free. Groudon had roared this time. It did not seem to appreciate the interference. Spikes made of land had struck up from the ground, striking Mew and Celebi. The two had cried out in pain.
"Mew! Celebi!" Jirachi cried out with worry.
Jirachi started storing up power. The two beasts were headed right for Jirachi.
"There's not enough time!" Jirachi said. "Were doomed. I knew I should of just went back and informed Arceus."
Groudon had struck Jirachi with a glowing fiery claw. Jirachi had fallen to the ground.
"Ugh.. so much power. Gotta get out of here." Jirachi said struggling to get up.
This time Kyogre was right before Jirachi. Jirachi closed it's eyes. It was the end with nothing left to do. Jirachi embraced itself for the impact, but instead something had grabbed Jirachi. It opened its eyes to see Lucario.
"You guys were sure taking your sweet time." said the hero.
"Lucario!" Jirachi said weakly. Jirachi had fainted right in Lucario's arms.
Lucario had dodge around Kyogre and Groudon's continuous attacks and gathered up Mew and Celebi.
"Hoopa, now!" Lucario said telepathically.
A ring had appeared right in front of Lucario as he jumped through.
Lucario had appeared right in front of Hoopa and Arceus.
"That was a close one." Lucario commented. "Good thing I arrived on time, or you guys might of not made it."
"What happened!" Arceus said in shock.
"Those two are raging into a war down there and these three got caught in the middle of it" Lucario explained while looking down at the planet.
"Hoopa must summon the two mythical healers!" Hoopa said.
Hoopa held out two rings above it's head with both arms. Latias and Latios had came out of the rings.
"How did you do that?" Lucario said, surprised.
"Are you surprised? Hoopa can summon others when in need!" Hoopa explained.
Arceus had created a tiny platform, that was just big enough to hold the three. Lucario laid the three friends down on the platform. Latias and Latios created a Healing Pulse and directed it toward Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi.
"After some rest, these three should be better in no time. We need to finish healing their injuries first, though." Latias assured.
"Thank you Latias and Latios." Lucario said relieved.
"We need to stop the two beasts on the planet, or your creation will be done for.." Lucario continued.
"I know just what we need to calm them down." Arceus assured.
Two plates were laid down in front of Arceus. The Draco Plate and the Sky Plate formed a long, green serpent dragon with two arms extending from its body followed by four spiked plates extending each direction half way down its body, three-fourths of way down its long body and right before its tail ended. An arrow shaped extended from each side of its jaw, guarding its fierce set of teeth and glowing yellow eyes. From its head to tail, it extended thirty-five feet long. Yellow thin streamers flowed back from its slim pointed ears and it's arrow shaped jaw, as well as from its torso right under its arms. It also had Yellow patterns, similar to those of Kyogre and Groudon.
"Go Rayquaza, stop this pathetic war between those two beasts, down on that planet." Arceus commanded.
Rayquaza had already started racing down to where Kyogre and Groudon was. It knew what it had to do. Moments later, Rayquaza had pierce through the planet's atmosphere.
The war broke out in vicious waves splashing up onto the shores of the lands, as both rumbled violently, representing their creators. Rayquaza's exerted energy did not go unnoticed. Kyogre and Groudon looked up towards the sky to see the long, green dragon appear right before them.
"You fools, Look what you are doing to this planet. Your work will be all for nothing if you two keep raging like this." Rayquaza informed the two.
"What do you believe should be the most essence of planet. Land or Water?" Kyogre asked.
"FOOLS!" Rayquaza let out a powerful roar. The skies had cleared from rain and the raging seas had calmed. The land had also stopped shaking. "There can be both, without you two fighting. Look around you, there's plenty of land AND water.
"I guess we have been pretty reckless." Groudon admitted.
Groudon raised up a cave from the large land mass and proceeded to go inside. Kyogre had dived down into the waters surrounding the lands. Little did they know that they would be asleep for many, many years.
"I shall claim the atmosphere as my main home so I can monitor these two. I'm not convinced they are done with their fighting. They clearly don't like each other and what they represent" Rayquaza told itself.
"Well, looks like things have finally calmed down" Arceus observed.
"Yeah, I can feel a more peaceful atmosphere as well." Lucario agreed.
"That's a relief. I didn't think those two would ever stop." Latios noted. "We've done all we can, they just need a few more hours of rest and they will be brand new."
"Thanks again. I'm sure Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi will be even more appreciative, when they wake up." Lucario said.
Latias and Latios had gone back through Hoopa's rings.
"Hoopa must go now too." Hoopa said, then vanished through its own ring.
"I'm glad that's all over with." Lucario said relieved as he stared at the departure of the three.
Arceus and Lucario had laid down for a nap after the exhausting events that have token place before them. Little did they expect the two sets of eyes gazing upon them.
"We finally found you Arceus" Darkrai said. "I think we could go for a nap as well, Zorua. It's been a long trip"
"I agree." Zorua said exhaustingly.
The two had laid down as well, off to the distance after their long journey..
Chapter End
Everything is finally coming together!.. Maybe.. Stay tuned for my next chapter! -YourBestFriendAizen