(So...good things happen, bad things happen, and remember, I did promise angsty Tristan/Morgan, so yeah...
I can't promise no one dies...I really can't...but I love Tristan and Morgan intensely, and will do my best to keep them alive...I don't know how I can, though...
See, we DID make it to Lavender Tower! Goody for us!
And yes, I did totally once again defy conventional physics. For fuck's sake, it's a world where pieces of METAL magically control creatures that spit fire and release clouds of poison and where deities are controlled and defeated by ten year old kids. So I fucking concede that I get to screw with physics as well.
Oh look, another miserable ending. I've GOT to stop doing that.
Don't own.)
Jack screamed, blood spurting out in a fountain, as Opal turned to his mother. "WHAT DID YOU DO!?" He screamed at her. Celeste fumbled for the Pokeball.
"YEEESSS! IT'S MIIIINE! MIIINE! MIIINE!" She roared.
Olivia watched as she dove towards it, and screamed. "NO! NOOO!" She roared, diving for the Eevee's spasm-racked body. "YOU CAN'T TOUCH HIM!" She grabbed Jack, and pulled him tighter to her own body, as the blood dribbled down her chest and pooled in her lap.
Celeste turned to her, and snarled. "You little cunt. It is mine." She snarled at Olivia, and dove at her, not even caring she couldn't really touch her, and—
"NO." A single voice that trembled with pure rage.
Morgan's eyes shot open. "B-bethany?" Tears sprung to his eyes. "Oh, god."
The warrior-woman stood defiantly in front of her daughter, stopping Celeste. Her brown hair flashed silver, and her eyes glinted with a contained fire ready to unleash for her daughter's sake. Olivia stared up in awe. "Mommy?" She whispered softly. "Mommy, is it really you?" Bethany stood firm.
"Celeste Trent, for shame." She snarled quietly. "A child? Isn't this what you renounced? Killing children like you did so long ago, washing walls with their blood?" Celeste openly snarled at her, face twisted by rage.
"The Pokeball is mine. It's all mine. I caught her. What did that Eevee do to deserve it?" Bethany turned around. Olivia sobbed openly, holding the Eevee in her arms.
"Jack...Jack, Useless...don't go...Useless...JAAAACK!" She screamed at the Eevee. "PLEASE!" The Eevee opened one beautiful silver eye.
"I love you...Livvy. It's okay...I'm sorry...I wasn't stronger..." Olivia shook her head.
"NO! No, you were strong...you are strong...oh, Jack...I love you too...Useless..." Her breath gave out, as she gasped, "don't leave me." The Eevee smiled.
"Goodbye, Livvy...I promise to get stronger in the afterlife..." He shuddered quietly.
"NO! NO NO NO! YOU CAN GET STRONGER HERE! STAY WITH ME! STAY WITH ME!" She roared, but it was too late.
The Eevee, her companion, her starter, her best friend...her...her...lover...had died. All the love in the world couldn't have saved him.
Olivia turned to Celeste with pure hatred in her eyes. "You bitch." Her voice was a lion's roar, and she yanked the knife out of Jack's still body, and held it to Opal's neck, holding the hysterical boy in a grip.
"Should I kill him then, you bitch? Should I make his blood sing?" Opal's eyes became wide and terrified.
"Livvy, no! It's me! Opal! Please don't...don't..." Bethany put a cool hand on Livvy's shoulder.
"It would solve nothing. Let him go, sweetie." Olivia's eyes were crazed still, but she put the knife down.
"He's dead, mommy...it's not fair..." She wept openly. The moon still glimmered, and the ghosts stood there, each defending their own child.
"Eh? What's all this, then?" A pink kitten floated out into the clearing. Mew blinked. "What...hey, Liv. What's wrong?" Olivia wordlessly gestured at Jack.
Mew appeared calm. "Aah. He's with Giratina, then. Don't worry, kid..." Mew grinned. "I think the god of Death should know what he's doing."
Jack looked up at the titanic Death god, and blinked. "Sir? Do I get to go home now?" He asked. Giratina chuckled, and shook his head.
"No...but I must say...you're a very strange case, young one." Giratina looked out at the Wall of Destiny, adjoining to the Wall of Remembrance.
"You were destined to be the pet of a rich little girl, and become a Glaceon. But that girl, Olivia...she interrupted that destiny. It's quite easy to interrupt destiny, actually. Most people corrupt their own destinies at least once. She came and took you away from the Lab, and her angered fueled your desire to be. To serve her. You wanted her acceptance." Giratina looked away.
"She was cold to you. She hated you. But you knew...underneath that...she just wanted to work with you. To prove herself, and to make you work as well as she could. You pressed on, doing the best you could to protect her, and she in kind protected you." Giratina looked up at the sky.
"This is a place of endless night. The sun does not shine here; it has no need to. So, young one...I'm afraid there is no turning back from here." Giratina sighed.
"You are one of the Darkness now. You can never leave it, because now...it is a part of you. You, young one...for being only a scant amount of age, have managed to corrupt your destiny utterly." Giratina's eyes glinted in amusement.
"I have to respect that. And perhaps..." Giratina charged up an Aura Sphere. "Well, who's to say you can't corrupt your destiny any more?" He fired the condensed energy at Jack, who instinctively dodged, and fired off a Shadow Ball.
"Embrace the Darkness, little one. Corrupt your being, and become." Giratina whispered.
Jack began glowing, and he knew inside him he needed to get away.
"Run! Run, young one, run away from the Torn World, and run back! Leave this place! HURRY, WHILE THE POWER IS AT IT'S MOST POTENT!" Giratina roared, as Jack fled, paws elongating as he sprinted through the Torn World, glowing and shining, as the light faded and he became Darkness, he became—
"BETHANY!" Morgan screamed, interrupting Olivia's sobs, rushing over. She looked back. "Steven?" He shook his head.
"Well, Morgan, technically, but...oh, darling..." Olivia looked up. "This is mommy?" She said, as her voice filled with misery. Morgan nodded, and reached a hand up to her silvery cheek. "Yes...oh, yes..."
Tristan watched quietly with tears in his eyes.
Celeste, in the chaos, possessed Opal again, and grabbed the Pokeball. "Idiots." She spat, as she pressed the button to summon Mew's power—
Nothing happened. She snarled. "What the fuck is this!!?" Olivia gasped slowly, as Jack's body twitched, and began glowing. Mew grinned.
"Death knows exactly what to do."
He was one of the Darkness now...but Darkness needs to take its' rightful place in the world, even so...bringing Shadow to Light and proving there can be good as well as evil, as well as both...
"JACK!" Olivia screamed as the glow faded away slowly. He had evolved...
Into the Darkness.
Into an Umbreon.
"JAAAAAACK!" She screamed, and the Eevee-turned-Umbreon looked up. "Livvy?" She screamed in happiness, and tackled him, burying herself in his fur, and laughing.
"Oh, Useless..." She sighed blissfully. "You're okay..." Jack wagged his tail.
"Look, I'm stronger!" He cried. Olivia shook her head.
"You're alive. That is all that matters right now." She kissed his forehead, as he purred and nuzzled her.
"You bitch." Celeste spat. Bethany almost laughed.
"I know. She takes after her mother." Olivia and Morgan both swelled up with pride. Jack turned to her.
"I am Darkness. I take you away from Light. You don't deserve to be here." He spat, fur puffing up, azure rings glowing fiercely. Opal's eyes widened.
"NOOO DON'T TAKE MOMMY, NOOOOO—" Jack fired a Shadow Ball at her, and she dissipated, leaving the world, and escaping to the afterlife.
"MOOOMMMMY!" Opal roared, trying to follow her. He looked around, and saw she wasn't there. His eyes shattered, and Olivia looked away with a sick knowledge, as she saw sanity flee his eyes, and Insanity take its' place.
"Kill me." He pleaded, turning to Olivia. She paused. His eyes filled with tears. Olivia felt a twinge of sadness. He had deserved so much better.
"Please, Livvy. I love you...wouldn't you do this for me? Your friend?" He pleaded woefully, taking the knife he'd used to kill Jack and putting it in her hands.
"Let him go. He's been tainted by her forever. Only Death could save him, redeem him, only escaping from the world will heal him. Do it, Livvy." Bethany advised. Olivia shook her head.
"But...but...there's always the chance to build up! To become something new! To be!" She cried, trembling like a small leaf in a typhoon. Bethany shook her head.
"Only...well, sweetie...he's lost the part that made him. His mother was his life. He built himself in her image, and now that the person is gone, the mirror is left empty..." Bethany sighed.
"It would be a kindness. The mirror cannot retain another image." Amai shook her head.
"No." The Espeon said. "No, he's mine." Bethany stared at her. Amai stared back. "Please." The Espeon's voice was full of pleading. Bethany laid a hand on her head.
"Little psychic one, you know what I say is true. I'm sorry. I truly am." Amai turned to her, and nodded.
Slowly, she stalked over to Opal, and put a paw on his leg. "Opal?" She mewled. "I love you." Opal looked at her, and smiled, taking her into his arms and pulling her toward him, being for one second only lucid, to say what he had to say—
"I love you too, Amai."
Olivia shed not a single tear as she shoved the blade through the Espeon and into Opal's heart.
It wasn't until she saw her mother, smiling at her, knowing that she'd done the right thing, that she started to cry.
Her mother held her as best she could as Olivia sobbed, turning to Morgan as the tears quieted.
"Morgan? Morgan, what are you..." She saw Tristan and Morgan. She pointed to Tristan. "Who is he?" Morgan's eyes filled with tears, and he gave a strangled sob before turning away, running off deeper into the woods.
Tristan met Bethany's eyes. She smiled. "I see. Good for him, he found someone else to love." Tristan sighed with relief at her acceptance.
"Right...I should go find him...before you go, I figure he should say goodbye..." Tristan ran off into the trees, going to find Morgan.
Jack turned to Santi. "I..." Santi shook his head. "I understand...I know you wanted strength..." Santi turned to him. "But will you truly get it, Jack? Because I'm not sure if anyone can answer that question but you." Jack's rings glowed blue for a single moment.
"I understand." Olivia watched the exchange quietly, looking away.
"Look! I evolved! LOOK AT ME! I'M MORE SPECIALER!" Leviathan interjected. "I AM! I have bigger teeth than Jack does, right? Livvy, look at ME! ME ME ME!" Livvy rolled her eyes.
"Yes Lev, we know you evolved." Her tone was light, as Grimwald poked him with his tail. "Evidently evolving didn't help your height."
Lev bit him harshly, as Grimwald shocked him. The two crashed to the ground, both still frazzled. Olivia merely raised an eyebrow, and scratched behind Jack's ears.
Tristan rushed through the undergrowth, and found Morgan, sitting there quietly, staring into the surface of the water. Dratini no longer than Morgan's arm frolicked under the water, creating tiny spirals around and about through the water, making tiny humming noises as they did so. Tristan had to admit it was rather pretty.
"Honey?" He called out, watching Morgan flinch.
"Don't...don't, Tristan." His tone was cold, the ice holding back a river of tears. Tristan froze.
"Sir? Sir, please tell me what's wrong...come back. Bethany wants to say goodbye." Morgan snapped his head in Tristan's direction.
"She hates me." His voice was full of fear and misery. "She hates me because I'm with you." Tristan shook his head.
"She doesn't, at all! She's glad you've found someone to love...she's glad you're happy again...Morgan, please, sir..." Tristan looked at the man, whose eyes were soft, yielding...he just didn't know what to do any more.
So Tristan had to say it. He hadn't...hadn't had the courage before, could've pretended this was a dream, and he would wake up soon, but he needed to say it before Morgan was lost to him forever...
"Sir...Morgan? I love you." He said it before he could stop himself, the words finally breaking free as they'd wanted to do for so long, as Tristan shed a single tear in happiness. Morgan finally knew.
"I love you. But I loved her first." Morgan said quietly, before walking away.
Tristan watched him go, and said nothing as he walked away.
His heart shattered, cut his insides open, and as the blood froze in his veins, he spoke one sentence.
"Well, then that explains a thing or two."
He called out Gliscor, and ordered, "Take me to Lavender Radio Tower, please..."
Olivia saw her daddy come back, and take Bethany's hand as best he could. She knew to let them be, and decided to head into Fuchsia, to see if there was any food left over. She hadn't eaten for almost a day and a half now.
In the tiny kitchen in the Pokemon Center, a half-hour later, full of food and drink, she turned on the TV to see if there was news on the riots.
"Hey...what's Tristan doing on TV?" She said in shock, wondering how he'd gotten there.
"Good evening, citizens of Kanto. As you know...my name is Tristan Rainier...and I..." Olivia's eyes widened.
"Am an admitted homosexual."
Morgan, who'd been standing in the doorway, screamed in unison with Olivia as the TV turned to static.