Chapter 15: Finding The Gardevoir Village

(Hey guys, I'm hoping to get this chapter out before my college starts on October 2nd for my fifth quarter. Justin dying was a hard choice, but Rui needed the push to finally subdue the evil within him and absorb it. Now he's gained access to a few forbidden abilities, but those will develop on their own. As for the other players, they undergo their own evolution as well. I hope you all enjoy this new chapter. ^_^/)

{Third Person Point of View}

-October 24th, 2041-

(Human World)

Cray is locked in a cell, staring at a blank white wall, waiting for his next 'mate' to enter his room. For the past few months, Takata has kept Cray trapped in here. He's using him for experiments involving fertility rates and hybrid qualities. It's been weeks since Takata last appeared, but he knew the bastard was watching him. Relishing the fact that a once proud man like Cray, has become such a lowly man. Today, however, is different. The person who opened his door is a gardevoir, a very strange one at that.

She approached him, "You are Cray, correct?"

He looked at her with his eyes, not moving his head before shrugging, "It doesn't matter what I'm called anymore."

The gardevoir introduced herself, "My name is Silvia, I'm your brother's mate... or I was."

That lit a spark in Cray, infuriating that this... thing dared to touch his younger sibling. Without warning, Cray got up, trying to strangle the pokemon. She easily stopped him, giving the man a worried look as he was pinned to a wall.

Silvia sighed, "Listen to me, I'm sorry.

Cray flinched, "You're sorry?"

Silvia leaned back, looking down shamefully as her wings folded up, "I'm Gaia..."

Cray stared at her in shock, "You... you were Gaia all this time?"

Silvia nodded, "I know you hate me, but I truly love your brother."

Cray glared at her, "So what? You're here for my blessing to screw my brother?"

Silvia bit her lip before saying, "I... already did."

Cray went silent for a long while before saying, "You better have something good to say before I make my life dedicated to murdering you."

Silvia released him from the psychic influence, "Your brother is one of the best players in the game."

Cray nodded, "I figured he would, he'd want to be freed."

Silvia continued, "He's suffered through so much, and I want to be there for him. I want to keep him in the light, so to speak."

Cray gave her a weird look, "Why are you telling me this?"

Silvia shakily took out some important documents, "I... I need you to sign this in order to say Rui's my husband."

Cray clenched his fists, "Is this some kind of fucking joke to you!?"

Silvia held the papers firmly, "This is no joke. It's the only way I can get back into the game. Takata won't let me until I get you to sign. He agreed to this only because he said it was impossible."

Cray crossed his arms, leaning against a wall gingerly, "It is impossible, I'm not signing it."

Silvia shook the papers, "Rui might die if I'm not there! He might turn evil and start killing other players. He might-"

Cray yelled, "I would rather have that happen than let some inhuman whore like you marry him!"

Silvia started crying, "Please Cray. I need this." She released a pitiful wail, "I just want to see him and apologize for everything I've done. Is that so bad?"

Cray watched her cry, staying silent before giving up, "You got a pen?"

Silvia gasped, looking at him before clumsily looking for one, "Thank you!"

Cray scribbled his name on the papers, "Don't thank me, just don't... you know."

Silvia smiled, looking at the papers, "Don't worry, brother-in-law, I'll take good care of him."

Silvia left the cell quickly, locking it so Cray couldn't escape. He sat back down on the floor, staring at a wall until he was needed for another fertility test.

{Rui's Point of View}

-January 19th, 2042-

[Status of the Game so far]

Top Player of the Chapter: JPR

Gender: Male

Age: 18 Years old

Level: 97

Class: Frenzy Soldier

Weapon: (Super Rare) FrostGrip

Skills: 57

Guild: NightWatchers

Guild Leader: ElvenSightSeer (Level 91)

Quests Completed: 2634

Players left in the Game: 1.65

Players that have died: 922,630

Floor Bosses Defeated: 60

Highest Floor Achieved: 42

These last few months have been busy. Celebrating Christmas in here wasn't what I wanted... but it... was great. Everyone got a free exp boost, only 10%, and it allowed a lot of players to join the front lines. It's terrifying to think about how close we are to having one million deaths in this game. All those players who died... now Justin is among them. Ever since that ultra beast killed Justin, I've been a lot stronger. This time, I wasn't as harshly affected by it. I trained with my friends to fight off the loneliness, and sadness, so that I can improve. I was also there to make sure no one fell into a trap. I've been looking for the gardevoir village, but the front lines have been needing me every day. We're almost halfway there... halfway to freedom. When I think about it, is it really worth it? Life seems so normal now that we've been in here for such a long time. I just... I just wish there was a way to resurrect players... but there is no way. There is only death for us...

Jay invited me to a voice chat, I joined it, hearing him say, "Rui, how's it going man?

I shrugged, "I'm alright. I coped better than I thought I would. I hate the new nickname though."

Jay sighed, "Yeah... say, everyone's going to the grave stone in order to remember the dead. You wanna come with us?"

I thought about seeing Carly's name... but I still said no, "Not this time man. I'm looking for special information."

Jay asked, "Is it front lines stuff?"

I shook my head, "No, personal. I hope to see you soon."

I hung up on the chat, thinking about the memory stone. I visit it every week to see Carly's name. I miss her so much... I can't help but wonder what the game would be like if she lived. If she... just took that damn potion. I still failed her... why..? Why did Reaper have to ruin everything?

I opened up a message from an information broker, "Dear Murloc, I think I found out where the gardevoir live. My sources say they hide in a special forest on the 25th floor. Good luck getting there."

Silvia told me where she came from... but I had forgotten it months ago. My mind has been too focused on the front lines, so I've forgotten a lot of things. Even Carly's appearance slips my mind from time to time. Such a beautiful, kind girl... now I'm looking for another one. Silvia... an evil succubus gardevoir that raped me. Why am I looking for her? I know I shouldn't care about her, and yet, I do. Maybe it was Dark's fault, or maybe it's my fault. I was the one that looked for her months ago. Now, here I am again, looking for her. Like I walked in a big, fucking circle. Vulthurin has to take up the mantle of the frontlines now, especially with me on hiatus until Silvia is found. If she was still on my friend's list, then it'd be easy, but nope. She's gone. Well, floor 25, here I come.

(Floor 25)

I remember the stories people told of this floor. Of players turning on each other at random, sometimes being raped by a pokemon just because the creator is a monster. This floor used to be Frontline members only until a few months ago. This floor has a lot of forests, lakes, and every September 28th, it has the nicest star light sky. I remember coming here during that day, looking at the stars. How can something fake be so beautiful?

I wandered through most of the forests, looking for any signs of the gardevoirs. A week passed before he finally found a scrap of evidence that the gardevoir exist in the forest. A player, low leveled, is tied up to a tree trunk as a warning.

She looked at me, crying, "Free me... please."

I cut her lose, "Did the gardevoir do this to you?"

She nodded, "Yes."

This is great news, so I asked, "Do you know where their village is?"

She shook her head no, "I was unconscious to and from there. I have no idea where they could be. Most likely, it's passed me."

I noticed she is level 30, "How long have you been stuck here?"

She looked down, "Ever since we got to this floor."

I flinched, "That... that means the search and rescue guild hasn't been doing their job. Ugh... Sadly that has to be dealt with later."

I gave her a teleport crystal, allowing this player to go to the tenth floor. Hopefully her guild members are still alive and can help her. I delved deeper into the forest, keeping my eyes open for any ambush attempts. I began to hear voices, knowing I'm getting closer.

"Gedoi var, gasu vi?"

"Veriz gard vasu vid. Hee hee hee."

They were speaking to each other in their own tongue, but I was ready for them when they pounced on me. With my one handed swordsmanship at level 10 now, I easy defeated them. They were only level 63, many levels below me. Silvia was a higher level than that when I first met her. Their dark, fairy and psychic attacks did nothing to me. My high level gives me a large resistance to their status afflictions.

I yelled, "Enough! Take me to your village."

One of them spoke, "Why are you searching for our village outsider?"

I told her the truth, "I'm looking for Silvia."

All of them flinched, glancing at one another, "How do you know her name?"

I put my sword away, "She's important to me."

They glared at me, "Silvia is dead."

I shook my head, "No, she's not."

Three of them glared at me as one stood in front of me, "How do you know?"

I tilted my head, "I don't, it's just a gut feeling."

She turned her head shamefully, "We can't beat you... so you've earned your right to enter our village. Know this, you cannot free any of our captives."

I bit my bottom lip for a moment before nodding, "Alright, lead the way."

She turned towards the others, yelling, "Voi geri garde."

The way to their village led me through an illusion. That's what makes this place so difficult to find. When we walked through, I was surprised to see such a large village. Wooden huts in trees, small houses on the ground, fields, berry farms, livestock, they had it all here. One thing that shocked me, is the amount of low leveled players they have trapped here. The first one we walked by, is level 5, and he must be a gardevoir's bitch.

Why I say this, because he got smacked onto the ground when he looked at me, "Gedoi geri!" The female gardevoir yelled.

The player whined, whimpering as he crawled into a stone home. The gardevoir followed him in, locking the door behind her. Two males, one gallade, one gardevoir, both have a girl stuck between them. They touched her hair, flirting with her as she seemed happy to get the attention. When she noticed me, she looked away ashamed.

The gallade looked at me, "Gevlad?"

I glared at him, "Fuck off."

He extended his elbow blade, "Glaw gev dar!"

I kept walking, ignoring him. In the field were a mix of NPCs and real players. A gardevoir watched them with a thorn notched whip, ready to hit anyone slacking off. Inside the village, higher level gardevoir and gallade roamed around, wearing armor made for them. That means they have smelting in this village. That's not normal, what were the creators planning for these psychotic pokemon? One human girl is getting fucked behind a building by three gallades. I don't know if it was rape or not, but it still urged me to attack. The reason I didn't... I needed to find Silvia.

I asked them, "Where are we going?"

The one from earlier said, "To meet the Matriarch, she'll talk to you."

I looked around more, thinking about this 'Matriarch'. She must be their leader, and if so, what has she done to change the gardevoir. I highly doubt they were like this at the start of the game, even Silvia stated that the succubus gardevoir were created to protect the peaceful gardevoir. Yet they seem to be a warmongering race of slavers. The deeper I got into the village, the more I felt threatened. I could see them all staring at me, eyeing me like predators getting ready to strike. In fact... I wanted them to attack. I could kill all of them myself and save the weaker players from feeling the fear of being kidnapped. With the players on the front dwindling every day, we need some sort of outburst. At least 20% of the player base is still on the first floor out of fear.

An NPC, boy, about 7, brown hair, thin body, approached me, "Do you have any food? My mistress took mine away for not working hard enough."

I knew I shouldn't have felt bad for him, but I did. I gave him a piece of bread and he looked so happy. I watched him eat it, thanking me with a bow before running back to his gardevoir mistress.

The gallade behind me said, "You shouldn't have done that."

I asked him, "Why? It wasn't right to let him or anyone else starve."

The gallade said, "He's not your responsibility. He would have been fed next time. It was just a small punishment. How will he learn if people show him such generosity?"

I looked over my shoulder at him, "Maybe he would work harder if you all were kinder to him. Instead of being assholes, have you ever tried being nice to get what you want?"

The gallade grunted something in their native tongue. If I had to take a guess, he probably called me stupid. After walking for another 5 minutes, we reached the entrance to a place they called the Sacred Grove. A large multitude of flowers are grown beside the path in a rainbow like pattern. I noticed graves, listing the names of those that died.

The gallade behind me muttered, "Do not be so surprised human. We can remember the dead as well."

I said to him, "Do you remember players who have died here as well?"

He grunted, "Of course we do. If you devote yourself to us, then why wouldn't we remember you?"

I glanced at him, "How would they die here if not by your hands."

He flinched, "We do not murder the good humans!"

I narrowed my eye, asking, "What do you mean by, 'good human.' Do you mean an obedient slave?"

He looked aside, "Maybe I do, what are you going to do about it?"

I gave him a cold stare, "I could kill you with my bare hands weakling. Trust me, you don't want one of the top players to be your enemy."

He viciously flinched, "S-Shut up! You're nothing compared to the succubus gardevoir!"

I smirked, "My mate is a succubus gardevoir."

My escort suddenly jumped away from me, yelling, "Now!"

27 shadow balls and dark pulse were shot at me from the surrounding area. I stood there rolling my eyes as they collided with me in a small explosion. When the smoke cleared, a spiritual purple ribcage encased me, protecting me from their attack. I looked at their shocked expressions with a bored look.

I said to them, "Did you really think you could harm me?"

The gallade from earlier charged at me, extending his elbow to use psycho cut. Once it him my spiritual ribcage, a sickening Crack rang throughout the grove. Next, it was followed by his screams as he held his now broken arm. I made an arm appear, quickly grabbing the gallade in a firm grip. The thumb rubbed his head as he screamed in agony from being squeezed. With but a gentle push from my thumb, his neck is snap as I dropped his body to the floor. Everyone stared at his health bar going to 0 and making his body shatter.

I turned my spiritual ability off and said, "You see that, that'll be you if you don't take me to your leader in the next 15 seconds."

-15 Seconds Later -

Three gardevoir quickly took me to their leader, the Matriarch they spoke of. What I found, baffled me. Their leader is Silvia, why hasn't she contacted me? Why didn't see come looking for me? I stared at her back in shock as the gardevoir quickly left.

Silvia never turned around, her demonic wings folded up, "So... you came."

I nodded, "Yes..."

Silvia sighed, "Did you come here for revenge?"

I shook my head, "No."

Silvia looked up, "Then why?"

I answered her quickly, "I came here looking for you. Why didn't you try to contact me?"

Silvia turned towards me, "I couldn't, I made a deal with the creator and he tricked me."

I asked, "What do you mean he tricked you?"

Silvia closed her eyes, "I was murdered here... but dying here only sent me back to the real world. The creator is using the dead human souls to make pokemon real."

I stared at her in shock, "He's doing what!?"

Silvia sighed sadly, "You heard me correctly Rui. The stronger the player is, the more essence his soul produces."

I then said, "Then you've got to help me!"

Silvia shook her head no, "I'm sorry Rui, but I can't."

I frowned, "Why Silvia?"

Silvia looked down, "I'm not allowed to leave this floor."

I stopped frowning, "Then I'll get you off this floor."

Silvia shook her head again, "Rui, it's not possible. The creator of the game made it impossible for me to leave."

I said, "Nothing is impossible if we work together."

Silvia giggled at that, "That was really cheesy Rui."

I walked over to her, hugging her, "I'm a cheesy person I guess."

Silvia agreed, she's still taller than me, "Rui, what is it that you want?"

I said, "I want you to be with me forever."

Silvia hugged me, "Why? I hurt you... I used you... why would you want someone as distasteful as me?"

I nuzzled her shoulder, "I don't care about any of that Silvia. I'm your mate, right?"

I could tell Silvia was smiling, "You're damn right I am. No one else is ever allowed to have you."

I chuckled, "You're the jealous type."

Silvia nipped my ear, "No. I'm the protective type. You're mine, right?"

I nodded, "Yes, I'm yours Silvia."

Silvia pulled back, "Okay, so how will we get me out of here?"

I pulled out a teleport crystal, "We use the basics."

I grabbed Silvia's hand and tried to use the teleport crystal. It didn't activate, making me look at it in disappointment. Silvia eyed me, looking at my level and equipment.

Silvia then asked, "How are you certain I'm Silvia?"

I looked at her, "You want me to punch you and find out?"

Silvia shook her head, "You certainly gained some balls in my absence."

I shrugged, "I learned a lot in the recent months. I learned why I loved you, despite you being a bitch who raped me."

Silvia scratched her chin nervously, "You're not still mad about that, right?"

I smirked at her, "Oh, I'm not mad. I'll just torture you when we get to my new apartment."

Silvia got away from me, "No way!"

I started laughing, "Don't be like that, I'm only joking."

Silvia pouted, "Don't be mean to me."

I held her hand, "Come on. We have a long walk ahead of us."

Silvia asked, "What do you mean?"

I wrapped an arm around her, "I'll walk you back to my home, just the two of us."

Silvia blushed, "Won't that take days?"

I nodded, "Yep, but that gives us plenty of time to catch up."

Silvia looked nervous, "What about my people... they need me."

I shtugged, "Fuck them. They can survive without you."

Silvia shook her head, "No. There's only one way to settle this."

I looked at her in the eyes and asked, "That is?"

Silvia took a brave breath, "You have to beat me in a one on one battle."

(That's the end of this chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed it, despite the long wait. I'm not feeling very happy lately, I've gotten sick and have been dealing with something that greatly saddened me. Also, I started a , if you look at my page, you'll see it, but to make the link, you have to remove the #. Please review, favorite, and follow to support the story. Also, I'm writing my own original story on my , first 5 chapters will be free but after that, they will be only. I hope you guys still read what you can, I love your feedback.)