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Chapter 9
Realizations
A. N.: This 'un's a biggie, so bear with me! A lot of plot unfolds, and a lot of things explained. Plus, a lot happens. This is the longest chapter of all of my stories, and it may be painful for you to read this much plot, but bide with us, for evening shadows darken! And the fic will soon be over!
Seretni can swim, fly, shoot explosive crystals and beat the snot out of anyone. He has an IQ of 230, can convince cooperation of any species and is reborn after death because he is a cosmic entity. But there is one thing that binds him, and that is explained in this chapter. Seretni is not evil at heart, but what he thinks is right may seem evil to others. Just thought you'd like to know all that.
ON WIF DA FIC!
Crystal's POV
I follow the blue thing, who calls himself Seretni, back to the ruined city.
My head is flooded with emotion, and my thoughts in a mess.
A lot has changed in the past hour.
Glitch being a deceptive fugitive, Seretni being his archenemy, both being from a different world, Glitch being a different creature...
Ugghh.
Neither me or Seretni speak at all during the hike back to the city.
But, then, what is to be said?
When we get to the city, the pokemon literally swarm around him, trying to figure out what he is and such.
He manages to get them to give him some space, and he explains the whole story about Glitch, what he is and what he used to be.
Some of them don't believe him.
Sometimes, I don't believe him either.
But, you can't prove that it isn't true.
Seretni's POV
The creatures here are so strange.
Well, my species is strange too.
But there are a countable number of different species on my planet.
Here, there's like a million different species of them, all of them completely different from the next.
Lucky that we developed our stellar translator. Otherwise, no doubt I would have no idea what the heck these guys are saying. (A. N.: A stellar translator is kinda like a personal C3PO. It translates languages, and does it is such a way so that it seems like the wearer knows the foreign language naturally. Very hight tech. Right out of Star Trek. In Star Trek, they call it a UT, Universal Translator, but I like my name for it better.)
Obviously, about half don't believe that Glitch is what he is.
Crystal, as she calls herself, has been lost in thought ever since we returned from the hill.
Granted, we've only been back a couple of hours at most.
But still.
2 days pass...
Two days since we returned from the hill.
Glitch hasn't returned, and Crystal still seems a bit down.
She's pretty attatched to Glitch, I can tell.
But she's upset about what Glitch actually is.
She's locked herself up in her hotel room ever since we got back.
Speaking of which, where the heck IS Glitch?
How the heck does he spend two stinking days on a lousy hill in the outskirts of an ISLAND anyway?
Well, I hate waiting.
I'm gonna find him myself.
Glitch's POV
I wake up, my face literally frozen from the snow.
I get up, and look at my surroundings.
I'm at the hill.
And then it all comes back to me.
The blue thing, Seretni, sort of fought me up here.
He was irritated by my lack of effort in fighting back, and left.
And Crystal was here to.
Crystal.
Seretni did something to her that made her fight me.
'Cause she would never attack me.
Right?
The blue thing ticks me off.
He said that when I was ready to fight him, to find him.
He's obviously at the city.
The city and this lousy hill is all there is on this island.
How long have I been on this hill?
Ah, who cares?
I need to find the city.
I begin to float back to the city.
Seretni's POV
I open the door to the hotel room that the creatures gave me.
I walk out into the hallway.
I flex my neck, making a loud cracking sound.
I walk out to the exit door.
I step onto the platform that leads to the stairs that take you down to the first floor.
Instead of the stairs, I jump off the balcony.
I dive down a bit, then spread my wings, launching myself upward, and looping around the hotel, landing on the other side.
After landing, I begin to walk to the square.
As I get there, I notice something.
I notice Glitch floating to the square too.
We both reach the square at the same time.
Glitch's POV
Seretni walks onto the square the same time a I do.
Seretni looks right at me.
"So you've finally decided to fight, Glitch," Seretni begins.
"It ends here," I reply.
"As it has before. It's a cycle, you know,"
Seretni clearly notices my confusion, and continues.
A small crowd, probobly no more that 20 pokemon, has gathered around me and Seretni.
"This has happened before, the inevitable battle between you and I, as it will undoubtedly happen again in the future, except in a different location,"
He pauses, and, noticing my confusion again continues again.
"We are born on a planet, you try to destroy it and I try to stop you.
I rise victorious, and the process begins on another world. It's like... Light and dark, yin and yang. Both are halves of a whole. And, in some strange, mysterious way, they cancel each other out. If one comes to an end, the other will quickly follow. But in our case, for some strange reason, we unknowingly try to bring an end to ourselves, because we both believe that the world will be better without the other. But, in the end, one dies after he defeats the other,"
"Then why fight?" I shoot back, "Why destroy ourselves, why condemn ourselves to this repetitive fate?"
"I have thought about that myself. The question plagued me, dug into my brain like a tick. I spent lifetimes searching for an answer. And then the answer found me. I realized that while we can't live without each other, we can't live with the other. We were doomed to die from the start,"
This comment brings a gasp from the crowd, which pulls a chuckle from Seretni.
"As I realized this, I panicked. As you know, any creature's number one instinct is survival. Even though I knew that at one time or another I would die anyway, I wanted to find a way to liberate myself from this repetetive cycle. I didn't want our lives dependant on the other like ours were. I tried franticly to find a loophole in the rules. I serched for a solution for ages, never losing hope. That was probobly the only time you actually succeeded in blowing the planet up,"
The crowd gasps again, slightly irritating Seretni.
"It was this current life that I finally figured out a solution. The answer would have only worked on the planet we came from, because that planet's creatures had something no other species had,"
He paused for effect.
"Technology,"
The crowd gasps again, getting a scowl from Seretni. I roll my eyes, and Seretni continues.
"You see, the species on that planed evolved differently than any other I had seen. Whereas most of the others evolved mostly in physical power, these species were gifted with not strength, which they quite severely lacked, by the way, but great intelligence. The creatures have gotten to the point where they use technology to soar across the galaxy, and they even know how to improve their own physical capabilities by use of technology. But the machine that intreagued me the most was their molecular teleporter, a device that deconstructs your molecular structure, then reinvents your molecules in a different location. Now, this gave me an idea,"
He paused, and took a breath, and kept on.
"My plan was that if I was able to somehow change your molecular structure so that you became something different and wipe your memory so that you had no clue about your past, but didn't kill you, I could survive as my own creature. If you were still in existance, but without any way for anyone to ever find out that you were ever anything else but what you are, I could survive perfectly normal. So I tampered with the teleporter, and chased you into it,"
The crowd gasps for the 15 billioth time, and now I begin to get ticked off at the crowd. But Seretni's story intreagues me.
"But after I sent you to this planet, I discovered something. After sending you off, I began to feel sick, just as I had all those other times. I felt like I did after I had killed you. Thus, sending you off meant the same thing as me killing you. But you didn't suffer, meaning for you, life was normal. But, the teleporter didn't completely transform you. It wiped your memory and changed your looks, but not your intentions, as if the cycle had taken another loop. So you being unaffected was not the result of your transformation. Then it hit me,"
Seretni, takes a swig of water from the water bottle that was NOT there two seconds ago.
"You were unaffected because you were not on the planet you hatched from. Somehow, the meteor that we hatched from bonds us, so if we get away from it, we are no longer stuck in this bond. So I fixed the teleporter, and came here. But then I found one more flaw. Another roadblock to the life I worked so hard to get," He pauses for effect, "You,"
The crowd almost gasps, but he gives them a harsh look, and they don't make a peep.
"For some strange reason, even when we were away from the meteor, we still are poisonous to each other. Even away from the meteor, if we were both on the same planet, we were doomed to die from being in the other's presence. And that has led us here, to the ground zero of where our glorious final battle will stand. Only one of us will survive. Here, this is no longer good or evil. This fight will break our cosmic bond and give the victor freedom. A freedom that I have fought an eternity for. So, Glitch... it's been nice knowing you,"