Welcome back. Once again, thanks to AmyDonovan525, you are a gem. So last chapter I ended with Arceus about to tell Jake what this was all about right? Well I had this idea that instead of telling him the prophecy completely from memory he would-ah you'll get to that soon enough. I wrote this chapter from Arceus' POV so tell me what you think.
There is a prophecy that speaks of the boy with the Dragon Mark, I told him. It is written in one of my most sacred halls.
"And that would be where? Where are we?" Jake asked. I had almost forgotten to tell him.
We are in a place that was formerly used to worship Legendary Pokemon.
"Such as yourself," he commented, "So this is like a church?"
More like a shrine for all Legendary Pokemon.
"All of them?" he asked, "Including Darkrai and Cresselia and Celebi and-"
Yes, I interrupted, Even them.
"But I don't see any statues," he pointed out, "Shouldn't there be statues and fountains and stuff?"
There are, but as there are many Legendary's they need their own space.
"I don't see why Palkia would need any more," he laughed. It took me a while to figure out he was making a joke.
Yes, I told him dryly, I suppose.
There was an uncomfortable moment of silence in which I found myself wondering if this boy was the hero I was looking for. Then he did something strange. He opened his mouth and let out a fearsome roar.
"Um, sorry," he said, clearly embarrased, but also scared for he knew not what he had done. He had just proved to me that he was indeed, the one this world needed.
No worries, I told him, Now come with me, and I will take you to the Sinnoh room.
"Room?" he asked, as I led him straight.
Yes, there are different rooms for each region, one for Kanto, one for Johto, one for Hoenn, one for Sinnoh, one for Isshu, and so on.
"So all the legendaries are worshipped in the same room?" he asked
No, there are rooms inside the rooms which lead you to different shrines for each Pokemon found in that region.
"And where are we going?" he asked. These questions were starting to annoy me.
First we must go to the Prophecy Chamber, which is straight ahead, so I can show you your destiny. Now keep quiet.
He made a face as if he wanted to argue, then apparently thought better of it and didn't say another word. I quickly brought him to the place where I had been a thousand times.
It was a simple room, built with stone, that had two torches on the far wall directly in front of us. As we walked closer, writing on the wall became visible, writing I never bothered to memorize so that I wouldn't have to keep thinking of it. Jake's eyes grew wide as he read:
As the world is enshrouded in darkness, the world will fall
The power to defeat this threat lies in a simple call
A young hero will rise and dethrone the Dark
A young hero who possesses the Dragon Mark
He and only he can raise the Dragons of old
He and only he can take the cold
The cold of time and space where he must travel
The cold of the Reverse, then he must battle
And though he knows nothing of this land
The world will rest in his capable hands
When I saw his eyes pass over the last word, he collapsed.
So now Jake knows his destiny, what will he make of it? Review if you're feeling friendly. If not, have a nice day :) Next Chapter will be in Jake's POV, and yes, I will be switching from Jake to Arceus every now and then, to tell different parts of the story and to feed the plot that even I don't know the end of.