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Chapter 1: The Beginning

-Deep in Eterna Forest-

The girl frantically ran out of the secret lab and through the thick forest, ignoring the salty tears that lingered in her eyes. Her lush green home was slowly being stained black, as was the rest of the world. Each step was harder to take than the previous one, it would be so easy to just stop and let it catch up to her.

But Mother and Father would never want her to do that, and she had to live. They had sacrificed themselves for her to escape, and she would make sure that they would not have died in vain.

Fuelled by the desire to live for both herself and her parents, she rubbed her tears with the back of her hand and let her feet slow to a stop near a mossy rock before slowly turning around, nothing but raw anger showing in her deep brown eyes.

The crazed Rayquaza licked its blood-stained claws and stared into her determined eyes. Those scientist fools, they should have known better than to combine his legendary strength with DNA from the two deities: Dialga and Palkia.

They said it was for him to be the leader and protector of mankind and he agreed, since he was known for being the dealer of justice among pokemon, but they should have learnt that bringing those two deity's together, in whatever way, would inevitably cause darkness.

Of course, they soon payed the price for their "experimenting". All of them were dead, and soon this useless offspring will join them. He finally succumbed to the growing shadow that had grown over the past 5 weeks, fuelled by the human's ignorance of the laws of mother nature.

He finally let go of all his feelings, thoughts and memories as the darkness silently engulfed him.

She saw the almost-liquid goo slowly creep up his body, staining everything black until it eventually reached his eyes, turning them the brightest shade of blood red. It dripped from his body and wilted the flowers underneath him, turning them a midnight black.

She felt her blood run cold as the goo crept towards her feet, feeling for a new soul to taint, a fresh body to devour. As it enveloped her body all her feelings suddenly rushed back, and the small amount of hope for her survival was fading rapidly. The tears threatened to come back and overwhelm her, and her heart was frozen solid with fear.

Then it happened. The thing that would change the world forever. A bright circle of light glowed in the space between her and the first of the shadow pokemon, and she could just make out the shape of a small green-backed pokemon.

The girl stood, frozen to the spot, unable to force her aching legs to move. The goo that had managed to climb up to her knees had dissolved in the brilliant white light, leaving only the feeling of numbness and a dark stain to her light blue jeans. Streak stared into the light, her eyes searching its infinite depths for answers.

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Streak's POV

I stood there, neither able to move nor to comprehend what was happening, the most confused I had been in all my fourteen years of life. A bright white light had appeared suddenly in the black wasteland that lay between me and the Rayquaza. It filled me with hope, and temporarily soothed the deep void in my broken heart. After finding that this mysterious glow did not harm my eyes in any way, I immediately scanned it for answers. And it seemed that answers are what I was going to get. A sudden gust of wind rustled through my waist long bangs and snaked underneath the short bob of hair at the back of my head.

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Normal (no-one's) POV

The light engulfed everything in its path, dissolving the horrid black goo with a smell that burnt the nose. A small green backed pokemon slowly floated towards the ground, manipulating the wind to her will, and landed on top of the mossy rock. The small Shaymin cried out to the Rayquaza from atop her rock.

Be gone, evil creature, from these forests, and take your darkness with you! I, as the protector of this forest and its inhabitants, will give you the choice to run away and never return, or to die a slow and painful death!

The Rayquaza hissed and eyed Streak hungrily. Its hunger was anything but satisfied by the snack he made of the humans. With his new nostrils, he could smell the human girl's blood pulsing through her veins. There was a price for the added power though. He could think only simple thoughts, and it took all his restraint on not killing the girl.

Never mind about restraint, her blood smelt so fresh! And the fear...it was rolling off her in waves, beckoning him to sink his fangs into her soft flesh...

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Streak's POV

The Rayquaza pupils turned tiny and I felt a rush of fear as it suddenly became a blur, before the small green pokemon started to move just as fast. I watched in horror, unable to help the forest protector and unable to defend myself against the blood-thirsty Rayquaza.

Before I knew it, I saw the Rayquaza grin evilly and strike at me. I scrunched my eyes tight, waiting for the inevitable contact, hearing a huge crunch, but I found the pain I expected never came. I cracked open one eye and saw a pale green mostly transparent shield in front of me, presumably a protect attack from the Shaymin.

A small spark of sharp pain blossomed on my arm, and upon pulling up my sleeve and looking at it my heart stopped beating for a fraction of a second. There was a small graze there, only one or two centimetres long, but the thing that shook me to the core was that there was a black liquid falling from it. I felt it crawl up my arm, and probe the terrible cracks deep in my heart.

It was so tempting, just to let go of all feeling and become a shadow, but before the prospect of becoming a shadow could become any more desirable, I closed my eyes and relived all the good moments of my life.

Mother humming to herself, picking flowers in front of our home and laboratory, the Old Chateau. Father smiling at me when I was five, his glasses glinting silver in Summer's light. The feel of a Buneary's fur. The taste of lava Cookie's washed down with Moomoo milk. The sweet smell of Gardenia's gym.

I felt the darkness slowly creep away, but part of it remained, strangely filling the empty void of my heart instead of enlarging it. As I opened my eyes and sighed, feeling some-what happy and certainly content, I felt a new wave of purpose rush over me. The darkness in my heart suddenly turned to a beautiful, warm, liquid light and my fingertips glowed, then my arms, then my whole body.

Bathed in this warm, pure glow I walked over to the stunned and amazed Shaymin and to the crazed Rayquaza. As I approached him, undeterred by his constant roaring and blood-thirsty eyes, he started to struggle less and by the time I came to a stop next to the great beast and laid a soft and reassuring hand on its black body it had started purring.

A rough but heartwarming purr, that eventually grew until it turned into a huge ear-splitting roar. I stroked its surprisingly soft scales soothingly, and to my surprise started turning back to a vivid green colour.

After reverting back to its original state the colossal legendary looked down on me with tender but grieved eyes. I could tell that it felt terrible guilt and shame as what it had done as a shadow pokemon and as the last of the glow retreated from my body, I smiled at it reassuringly.

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Shaymin's POV

I watched as the Rayquaza lost the little control it had left and I immediately moved to protect the human girl. I used focus energy while dodging its un-precise but hugely powerful attacks. Once again its deadly fangs and their venom missed me by a hair, and even at this speed I could tell that it was learning. And fast. My left rear foot slipped on a leaf for a fraction of a second, and that's all the beast needed.

I saw it grin at the girl and relish in her fear before attempting to strike. I quickly focused the power I had built up into a tackle attack, and head-butted him away from the girl. Hopefully she didn't get hit, because even if she survived the initial wound, the shadow venom would turn her into an evil being of darkness.

And that was a fate much worse than death, as there was no known way to reverse the effects of the shadow.

I used protect to shield the human before reaching into myself and using seed flare on the Rayquaza. It looked like it wouldn't get up for a few moments so after temporarily downing the beast, I looked over to the girl to check if she was alright. I froze as she had when I looked at her arm.

There was the smallest graze, but what I was worried about was the shadow that licked around the edges. There was no way to stop it now. I just had to forget the girl and concentrate on the Rayquaza.

She closed her eyes peacefully and a small smile curved the edges of her lips. What was this madness? Even with the prospect of becoming a shadow, she seemed utterly content. As if…she was living the happiest life anyone could ever imagine, not the cold, harsh and cruel life of reality.

I sighed sadly as I watched the darkness spread to her heart. Anytime, anytime now this kind and positive girl would be lost to the shadows for the rest of eternity.

But…I gasped in amazement as a warm ethereal light flooded from deep within her body, as if the darkness had disappeared. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly in concentration as she transformed the last of the darkness into pure goodness.

Slowly, she opened her eyes and looked at me, her face full of wonder and her now golden eyes filled with happiness and a torrent of questions. But she held them back and walked towards the crazed Rayquaza. She would be killed for sure, but when I looked at it, the closer she walked, the less it fought and by the time she reached it, it was almost…purring.

She tenderly stroked its scales and, to my utter astonishment, it started reverting back to its vivid green colour. She looked up at it and smiled reassuringly.

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Rayquaza's POV

I looked at her feeling nothing but bitter sorrow and regret at what I had done and great pity for the death of both her parents.

Somehow knowing she would understand me, I let all my feelings of gratitude and happiness of being free from the dark prison fill six small words.

Thank-you, Streak of Eterna Forest.

Author's note: So...who guessed the pokemon? I will be using different POV's (point of views) but don't worry, I will clearly label it. Also, italics either means that pokemon are talking to one another or telepathy is being used. Enjoy and please review!

-Moonlite Streak-