AN: Just a heads up, chapters like the one you're about to read are, in basics, spontaneous flashbacks that will delve further into the origin of Pokemon and what caused them to appear in the Highschool DxD universe. Enjoy!
Chapter Start
Chaos, the name given to the formless matter that existed long before the creation of the universe. In this unending void of nothing, was a single being... a woman. She stood at 6'0" precisely, with long, flowing silver hair with golden streaks that went down to her feet. Vivid green orbs with red pupils gazed around in confusion and curiosity. She scanned her entire surroundings, before looking at herself. Silky smooth pristine light skin, a slim, yet curvaceous hourglass figure with D-cup breasts and perky light pink nipples, and a two halves of a golden cross-like wheel jutting out from her shoulders. She was naked as the day she was born, because she was just born.
"A long, long, long time ago, in a vortex of complete chaos and nothingness, a single Egg came into being, which then hatched into a creature that would later be hailed as the Goddess of Pokemon, the first Pokemon in existence..."
She did not understand where she was, nor did she understand how she came into existence. The nothingness is what she knew, it filled her with...
'Loneliness...' she thought, the senses she had - sight, sound, smell, taste, touch - felt... unused. Unindulged. She felt an emptiness inside herself. "I don't want to be alone..." she mumbled, tears welling up in her eyes as she brought her knees to her chest, curling up into a fetal position, never noticing a bright blinding light behind her.
(Play Pokemon Black & White - Unwavering Emotions)
"H-Hello?" the woman froze at hearing another voice, standing up and rubbing the tears out of her eyes, her green-and-red orbs darted around frantically in search of the source. A cold sensation on her shoulder caused her to spin around, only to come face to face with another being, someone other than herself... a man. He stood a good two inches taller than her - 6'2" - with flat platinum blond hair with black streaks that ended halfway down his neck. Like the woman in front of him, he had silky smooth pristine light skin, and an Adonis-like build. But what caught her attention, however, was the six black streamers with red spikes that jutted out from his back and his crimson red eyes with black pupils and black sclera, a stark contrast to the gentle expression on his face.
"U-Umm... Hi." the woman said shyly, a sudden nervousness building up in her chest as she gazed upon the only other person in existence besides herself.
"The Goddess's wish manifested into a single being, a companion of her own...
She had someone who she could call her opposite, her equal..."
'She's/He's beautiful...' the duo mentally stated, unknowingly sharing the same train of thought and blushing simultaneously.
"H-Hi..." the man replied, just as shyly as the woman before him. "Who... Who are you?"
"I... I don't know..." the woman responded, sadness glazing over her eyes. "Who are you?"
"I... I don't know either..." the man stated, concern dancing through his eyes as he saw how the woman before him became saddened. "H-How about I-I give you a name? A-And you can give me one too?" the spark of happiness that lit up in her eyes made the man feel a warm feeling spread through his chest, his own happiness increasing as her own did.
"R-Really?" the woman stuttered, eyes full of hope that soared when the man nodded his head. "M-Me first then! What is my name?"
"Umm..." the man hummed, stroking his chin as he pondered the question, his red orbs inspecting every inch of the breath-taking, elegant, divine woman in front of him. His gaze continued to take in the stunning sight before stopping at her hair, her golden highlights glistening despite there being no light to reflect it. 'Golden... Aureus...' he thought, his eyes beginning to dart around and look at their surroundings. 'Astral... Archeus...' An epiphany struck him, he knew what to name her...
"Arceus... Astral Gold... Your name is Arceus..." the man stated.
"Arceus..." the woman, now named Arceus, mumbled. "I like it!"
"Now me! What will my name be?" the man asked, beaming with excitement.
"Your name will be..." Arceus started, tapping a finger on her chin as her eyes were glued on his red eyes. 'Red... Girasol...' she thought, noticing how light glistened off his platinum blond hair, making her heart skip a beat. 'Purachina (Platinum)...'
"Red Platinum... Your name is Giratina..." Arceus stated, a shy smile making its way onto her face at the sight of the joyous expression on her companion's face.
"Giratina! I love it! T-Thank you!" the man, now named Giratina, exclaimed, engulfing Arceus in a warm embrace, the silver haired woman returning the gesture and resting her head in the crane of his neck.
'Warm...' Arceus thought, yawning cutely before closing her eyes, slowly falling asleep in Giratina's embrace. The platinum blond haired man remained silent, a small smile present on his face as he watched his equal rest. Soon enough, he too fell asleep, never noticing the white energy flaring from Arceus, nor the black energy he himself began emitting.
"At the dawn of creation, Arceus and Giratina slept, their energies bringing forth the beginning of time and space, the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life..."
When Giratina and Arceus woke from their slumber, they felt a new sensation underneath them...
"What is this stuff?" Arceus questioned, running her hands through the strange green terrain that they awoke on.
"Grass?" Giratina suggested, shrugging his shoulders. "I don't know why, but that just sounds right to me..."
The duo spent the next six days exploring the new land around them, finding themselves on a giant landmass that seemed to have no end, with fresh air, luscious vegetation, crystal blue waters, and clear blue skies.
"Arceus-chan, what do you think we should call this place? More importantly, this land?" Giratina asked, flying up to one of the high branches of a tree and picking two Lum Fruits, floating back down and handing one of the large berries to Arceus.
"Hmm..." Arceus hummed. "How about... we name this place we're in Tengoku (Paradise) and this land... Pangea?"
"Pangea? What a strange name. How did you come up with that?" Giratina questioned.
"*SNAP*!" Arceus was about to reply, when the sound of a tree branch snapping caught the silvernette's attention, her eyes widened as a dark figure darted across her vision.
"G-Giratina-kun..." Arceus said, fear evident in her voice as she shakily pointed over to a nearby tree. "Someone is watching us..."
"Show yourself!" Giratina exclaimed, three of his tendrils wrapping around Arceus protectively and his eyes glowing menacingly as he glared at the tree.
His eyes softened, however, when he saw who was hiding from them...
"H-H-Hello..." two small children came out from behind the tree, both boys, one with short pink hair and the other with short dark blue hair, but both had eyes like Giratina's, red with black sclera and pupils.
"Children...?" Giratina questioned, lower his guard as he and Arceus approached the two boys, both of whom backed away in fear.
"It's okay, we won't hurt you..." Arceus said, her gently soothing voice putting both boys at ease. "My name is Arceus, and my companion's name is Giratina. Do you two... do you have names?"
"U-Umm..." the pink haired boy stuttered, pressing his index fingers together shyly. "M-My name is P-Palkia..."
"A-And my n-name is Dialga..." the dark blue haired boy added before looking at Arceus. "Are... A-Are you our kaa-san?"
"K-Kaa-san?! I... uhh..." Arceus sputtered, trailing off as she saw the hopeful look in both the boys' eyes. "... Yes! And this is your tou-san!" she exclaimed, gripping Giratina's hand with her own and embracing him in a side hug.
"... What-" "Tou-san!" "-oof!" Palka and Dialga, in their joyous excitement, tackled their 'tou-san' to the ground, accidentally dragging Arceus down as well.
"It looks like they like you~" Arceus giggled, still holding Giratina's hand in her own while the two boys laughed at the comical expression of shock frozen on the platinum blond man's face.
"Eons passed, the world in which they had created began to make life of its own in the form of Legendary Pokemon in relation to nature itself, along with the first ever species of Pokemon - the Mew - as well as primitive man.
It would seem, for the longest time, a steady peace was instilled upon the world. But...
It would not last."
Giratina grimaced at what he saw, an expression that was scarcely seen by anyone, including himself. But it was with good reason, for before his very eyes was a sight that he had not seen in a millennia.
The land below him was scarred, few patches of grass remained. As if the very ground had been torn up into what he was staring at. It was a tear in the very air in front of him, a tear in time and space, in reality itself, about ten miles up in the air, sixteen feet tall and wide in a circular shape. Inside the tear was a plethora of constantly changing colors, mostly focusing around blue and purple.
Despite being as old, if not slightly older than the world itself, he didn't look a day over thirty. His platinum blond hair had grown out more, now held in a ponytail that went halfway down his back, the black highlights in his hair having expanded slightly. Atop his head was a golden crown surrounded with two large horns pointing sideways, and he wore a black cape with golden shoulder pads, underneath which he wore a light grey vest decorated with intricate golden designs, a black open robe with golden lining, and a grey robe with alternating black-red-black horizontal patterns. His eyes, though still demonic in appearance, held a wisdom that could only be gained by time and age. His energy flared slightly, not enough to spook the Mews and humans around him, but enough so that he could draw attention.
In a flash, three more people joined him, two young men that appeared to be seventeen, and a beautiful woman with a slightly younger appearance than himself.
"Tou-san, you spiked your energy. You've always told us to never do that in the mortal realm unless it was an emergency..." Dialga stated, an underlying seriousness in his tone. He had certainly grown from the small young boy that Giratina first met, both physically and mentally, just like his other brother had. His dark blue hair had grown out, going halfway down his back, the same applying to his bangs. Atop his head was a silver horn-like crown with two fang-like horns jutting downward. Like his father, he wore a cape of blue silk with silver shoulder pads, though his ended at his hips, under which he wore a blue, light blue, and sea green-colored kimono. Gripped in his right hand was a double-edged naginata with a twelve-inch blade four-inches wide made of polished silver with blue edges and a black pole.
"Dialga-chan is right, darling. You and I both set that rule." Arceus stated. Physically speaking, she appeared to have not aged a single day, the only difference being that she now wore clothing. Atop her head she wore a delicate golden tiara that was shaped similar to the golden wheels protruding from her back. She also wore a high-collared hime-kimono which was adorned with intricate lines that were gold and silver.
"I think I understand why he called us..." Palkia said, gazing behind his father at the dimensional gap. Unlike his brother and mother, his outfit was more western than eastern. The lower half of his face was hidden behind the silver and pink gladiator helmet he wore, a jaw-like protrusion connected to the helmet. He had round light purple-striped plates on his shoulder area, where two pink pearls lie encrusted with a gray rim encircling them, a metallic purple upper chest armor plating, under which he wore a black long-sleeve shirt, black baggy pants, metal plating around his waist with a purple loincloth, grey boots, and a purple cape that went down to his feet and had a high collar. Sheathed at his left side was a one-handed rapier with a magenta-stained steel.
"Always observant, Palkia-chan." Giratina said, causing a small smile to form on his son's face from the praise, but a dark frown to mar his other son's face, something that went unnoticed by Arceus, but not by Giratina. Ever since the past few centuries, an unspoken feud between the two brothers had begun over their parents' attention, the tension increasing everyday.
He could barely remember a time when the two would actually act like brothers, back when they were more like a family...
Family. It almost brought a bittersweet smile to his face. At one point in time, he could actually say that and mean it, that they were a family. Don't be mistaken, Giratina still loved both his sons and his equal, Arceus, but relationship between his sons' was strained, they weren't even on speaking terms anymore, the only time they would even address the other would be if they were in the same presence as either Giratina or Arceus. And his equal... after taking the role of Goddess of the world, she had distanced herself from the rest of the family, focusing solely on her responsibilities to the world they had created.
It broke his heart, knowing that his family was that fractured. He barely saw his three surrogate daughters, Uxie, Aself, and Mespirit, because they, just like their mother, were busy with their responsibilities to the world.
"What... is that-" Arceus started, eyes widened in shock at the sight of the tear behind her equal.
"A tear in the fabric of reality." Giratina finished. "Dear... It leads to the void." A gasp of surprise escaped Arceus's lips, which confused their two sons.
"The void. The very place that had birthed Arceus and Giratina. Everything was nothing, and nothing was chaos...
And the chaos was trying to reclaim what had been taken from it."
"The... void?" Dialga questioned, raising an eyebrow at his father's statement.
"It's just that. A void. Filled with nothingness and chaos." Giratina explained.
"It's where your tou-san and I came from." Arceus added, causing both Palkia and Dialga's eyes to widen. "B-But, darling... are you certain that this tear leads to that?"
"I went in and confirmed it myself. But that's not what concerns me..." Giratina said.
"What do you mean, tou-san?" Palkia asked.
"An hour ago, this hole was eight feet in diameter. But as you can see..." Giratina stated. "It's now sixteen feet."
"It's expanding." Arceus finished, her hands covering her mouth in shock. This was bad. If this thing continued to grow, then all of her work... all of their work, would be for naught as everything would being to unravel.
"So, what are we to do?"
"We need to close it."
"I know that, brother, but how are we to go about doing that?!"
"There isn't any way I know how to close this gap."
"Well what are we going to do?!"
...
"I think... I think I know how." Giratina finally said after an hour of silence, each of the three other people pondering a solution to this problem broke from their mental train when the silence was broken.
"What do you mean...?" Arceus called out, noticing the tired look on her equal's face. As if he was resigning to an unknown fate.
"Tou-san?" Palkia said.
"I... know how to stop this tear from spreading..." Giratina stated, closing his eyes and releasing a long sigh. His black energy flared around him, causing his six tendrils to sprout out from his back as he began to walk forward, placing his hands on both his sons' shoulders. "Dialga... Palkia..." he began, tears welling up in his eyes. "I know you two don't always get along, but I must ask you both to do something... together."
"D-Darling... you're scaring me..." Arceus said, worry evident in her eyes at her equal's behaviour.
"In my time, as you already know, your kaa-san has control over matter itself, while I have control over antimatter..." Giratina said. "What I've discovered, is that the void is all consuming... it's composed of antimatter."
"No..." Arceus mumbled. "No no no no no, darling!"
"My sons, I can hold the void at bay, I can close the gap in reality, but only if you two close the gap in time and space." Giratina finished, the weight of the situation finally hitting Dialga and Palkia.
"T-Tou-san..." Dialga mumbled, tears welling up in his eyes.
"You... You can't be serious! Y-You..." Palkia muttered, tears flowing freely from his eyes.
"I... This... This will likely be the last time you will see me, in a long, long... long time..." Giratina stated, no long able or willing to hold back the tears in his eyes.
"G-Giratina-kun..." Arceus started, tears falling from her eyes. "Don't do this! There has to be another way-" "There isn't..." "M-Maybe with a bit more time-" "We don't have anymore time. If we don't stop this thing now, then it will continue to grow exponentially until everything we created is consumed." "PLEASE! D-Don't go... I... I-" Arceus was cut off from her words when Giratina engulfed her in a hug.
"I wish there was another way, Arceus-chan, truly, I do... But no one else has the expertise like I do over antimatter." Giratina said, stroking his equal's hair while she cried onto him. "Arceus-chan, my dear Astral Gold... forgive me." he mumbled, pulling her chin up so that her gaze met his own. With one swift movement, their lips met, both closing their eyes and enjoying the sweet embrace of their equal. But alas, this feeling would not last.
"Giratina-kun..." Her eyes widened in shock before rolling to the back of her head as she fell unconscious, one of Giratina's tendrils having struck a pressure point and knocked her out, her limp body plummeting down to the ground, only to be swooped up by Giratina and gently placed on the bed of grass she was but seconds ago dropping towards.
"I'm sorry." Giratina mumbled, gently stroking Arceus cheek. She unconsciously grabbed his wrist, tears still falling from her eyes even in her sleep. He slowly reached for his own wrist, delicately peeling away her fingers one at a time. Hesitantly, he tore his gaze away from her sleeping form, flying back up towards Dialga and Palkia, his heart sinking as he got further and further away from Arceus.
"Tou-san-" "Dialga-chan, Palkia-chan... Your kaa-san won't be unconscious for long. We must do this now... for the sake of everything we've created, for the sake of the world..." Giratina stated, steeling his resolve as he entered the gap. "Farewell, my sons..." he said, all six of his tendrils gripping the gap from inside the void.
"Goodbye, tou-san..." Dialga whispered as he raised his naginata, a light blue ethereal energy encasing the blade. Meanwhile, Palkia unsheathed his rapier, the magenta blade glowing with pink energy. With a strained cry, Giratina's body lit up with black energy as he began to pull the gap inward while Palkia and Dialga slashed in a vertical and horizontal arc respectively, the pink and blue energies clashing against the gap for a few seconds.
...
Arceus groggily woke up, the pulsating feeling of a sharp pain in the back of her neck still present. Gazing up to the sky, her eyes widened as she saw the blue and pink energies sparking in the air, causing her to recall the events prior to being knocked out. Her body began to work overtime, jumping up and flying towards her two sons.
"NO!" Arceus exclaimed, but she was too late. The blue and pink energies dispersed at the same time as the black energy surrounding Giratina died down, the circular gap closing up as if it were glass. The silvernette banged her hands helplessly against the glass-like barrier, stopping when she noticed her equal pressing his hand against the other side, his gaze meeting Arceus's own.
His lips moved to form words, but no sound came out to Arceus, the last sight she would see of her equal being the sad, yet comforting smile that he flashed her moments before the plethora of colors concealed his form from view, fading away until there was nothing but air and the world around them.
"G-Giratina-kun..." Arceus mumbled, having gone into a state of denial.
"You..." Dialga muttered, his hair overshadowing his eyes as he turned to his brother. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"D-Dialga-chan-" Arceus called out.
"My fault?!" Palkia exclaimed, outraged at the accusation.
"You're to blame! If you weren't so fucking shit with your power over space, then tou-san might still be here!" Dialga yelled.
"Me?! If you didn't suck at controlling time, then you could've just reversed time so that the portal didn't exist!" Palkia retorted.
"Palkia-chan! Dialga-chan! Stop fighting-" Arceus exclaimed.
"No! He started it, kaa-san! He just can't get over the fucking fact that he was too weak!" Palkia exclaimed.
"I'm not weak! If anything, it's you that's weak!" Dialga exclaimed.
"Brother - no... Dialga - pray that we don't ever meet again." Palkia stated, his eyes glowing a menacing red color. "For the next time we meet... I will strike you down."
"In your dreams, I will strike you down first." Dialga retorted.
"Stop you two! You're brothers-" "No, kaa-san... I have no brother." "Neither do I!" And with that, Dialga and Palkia vanished in a spike of blue and pink energy respectively, leaving a heartbroken mother alone to collapse onto her knees in the air.
How could she have not seen this? How could she not have seen the tension between her sons? Or how her equal was the only thing keeping them all together. Tears fell freely from her eyes.
Once again, she was alone. And she couldn't help but feel that this was her own fault...
"In an act of self-sacrifice, Giratina threw himself back into the void that had created him, proclaiming himself the universe's guardian against the void of nothingness, to prevent the world from receding back into the chaos it had broken off from...
Many variations of the legend had been passed down and told over the centuries, the truth fading into obscurity as one title began to make itself known...
Giratina the Renegade."
Chapter End
To put things in perspective about power in this fanfic, no holding back, Arceus is slightly stronger than Giratina, who in turn is vastly stronger than Dialga and Palkia, who are on par with the Tao Trio, the Weather Trio, the Mortality Duo, and Zygarde.
Arceus is as strong as the God of the Bible, the fifth strongest being in the Highschool DxD universe. So adding Pokemon, here is the list of the twenty strongest beings in this fanfic that are alive (Incapacitated beings count as well, but dead do not. This list also counts the characters at their peak performance).
(Rank) (Name) [Title (*Note that "The" or "no" denotes the presence of the actual name included in the title)]
1. Trihexa [Apocalyptic Beast]
2. The Great Red [Dragon of Dragons]
3. Ophis [Infinite Dragon God]
4. Shiva [God of Destruction]
5. Indra [King of Heaven and Gods (Hindu Faction)]
6. Arceus [Goddess of Pokemon]
7. Giratina [The Renegade]
8. Lilith [Infinite Dragon God]
9. Ddraig - Albion [Red Dragon Emperor/White Dragon Emperor]
10. Dialga [The Temporal] - Palkia [The Spatial] - Zekrom [Yin Black] - Reshiram [Yang White] - Kyurem [Wuji Grey] - Rayquaza [The Emerald] - Groudon [The Ruby] - Kyogre [The Sapphire] - Xerneas [no Seikatsu] - Yveltal [no Shi] - Zygarde [no Tsugi]
11. Mewtwo [Guardian of Pokemon]
12. Hades [God of the Dead]
13. Rizevim Lucifer [Lilin]
14. Sirzechs Lucifer [Satan Red]
15. Ajuka Beelzebub [Satan Blue]
16. Serafall Leviathan [Satan Pink]
17. Falbium Asmodeus [Satan Green]
18. Grayfia Lucifuge [Satan Yellow]
19. Fenrir [God-Devouring Wolf]
20. Crom Cruach [Crescent Circle Dragon]
There ya have it, CanadianRider! If any of you have a problem with this list, please bring it up with me with logical explanation (Example: Issei should be included because of [Insert reference to canon powers here]) (Not accepted: You fucking fagtard bitch idiot Issei is powerful the most and yous a fagtard and blah blah blah whine whine!)
I might be compelled to change the list of power up IF given logical reasoning behind why this character is stronger than that character.
Ddraig: Hey! How come I'm just as strong as that scaly white bastard?!
Albion: What'd you call me you overgrown garden snake?!
Crimson: Both of you SHUT UP! I've got to crank out more chapters like Disney does magic and assembly line whimsy! See ya next time!
-CrimsonKyuubiSage out!