Chapter Five
Nightmare
Lucas walked far ahead of Damion and Dawn while constantly looking at the tall grass that surrounded him to see if he could find some hidden Pokemon. The three were currently walking down Route 202 in hopes of reaching Jubilife City. Out in the distance, Lucas could see the top of some of the buildings that occupied the huge city. The idea of reaching the most advanced city in Sinnoh was occupying the mind of Dawn, but Lucas and Damion couldn't stop thinking about the Neon Angel.
They would constantly wonder upon what the cashier told them about the Pokemon and if that Pokemon truly existed. Both of them would dream of capturing such a mighty Pokemon and they also dreamt of the respect the people of Sinnoh would give them once they had caught it.
Suddenly something leaped out of the nearby grass and ran past Lucas. After regaining his bearings from the shock the Pokemon gave him, Lucas pulled out his Pokedex and ran after the creature.
There, standing inconspicuously in a patch of grass, was a tall blue Pokemon that stood on two legs and had two giant ears pointing straight up. The Pokemon stared back at Lucas through two giant blue eyes that were surrounded by what appeared to be a black mask but was in actuality a part of his face. He looked a lot like the jackals that Lucas saw in his picture books of ancient Egypt.
"Lucario: The Aura Pokemon. It has the ability to sense the auras of all things. It understands human speech. Lucario can catch the aura emanating from others and use it to read their thoughts and movements. Lucario's name possibly derives from part of a Japanese spelling of orichalcum in reverse, reflecting its mythical design and Steel-type. It may also refer to Cairo, Egypt."
"Awesome…" Lucas whispered. By this point both Dawn and Damion caught up to Lucas and saw the awesome spectacle that was Lucario.
Lucas reached into his backpack and pulled out a Pokeball, ready to capture Lucario and claim it as his. He lifted his arm up and aimed at it, wondering if the harder he threw it would raise his chance of catching it.
"Stop." Lucas whipped around and saw a young man walk out of the bushes and towards Lucario, who quickly jumped to his side. "This is my Pokemon."
The young man was a little taller than Lucas with short brown hair that jutted up and swerved back. His attire consisted of a fancy white turtleneck sweater that was covered in the front and back by a bronze plate that went down from his chest to his black belt. The plate was covered with many odd, swirling designs. His pants were black as well as his shoes and his white ankle socks were showing slightly. If asked where he came from, Lucas would probably say some English family for his voice reflected it.
"Who are you?" Damion asked. The young man gave a laugh.
"I am Erron DaLucian Boraan the Third." He gazed at the confused faces of the three kids that surrounded him and gave a laugh. "But you can just call me Sir Erron, the pirate."
"Pirate!?" Lucas shouted. "You're a pirate?"
"Yes, but I am not here to rob you, else I would have already." Erron gave another laugh. "I only steal from those who truly deserve it, like Team Galactic."
Lucas, Dawn, and Damion all looked at the other and then back at the pirate in front of them. Sir Erron whipped around and began to walk away from the kids with a wave. He suddenly turned back around.
"You kids better be careful," Sir Erron said. "There are more pirates than me and most love to steal things from clueless kids."
Cyrus stared at the small Pokemon contained in front of him with a sinister grimace that in no way could ever explain the darkness that resided in his cold heart. The small Pokemon was writhing in pain from the shocks it was receiving and would cry out in agony, but the heartless man would just smile more and waited until the Pokemon would finally give in to his demands. But the tiny Pokemon was a resilient little bastard and no matter how much he would crank up the intensity, it would mearly accept the pain and not utter a single sound that showed it was giving in. The infernal creature was like a brick wall, but even brick walls can crumble when enough force is exerted.
A loud squeal escaped Dawn's lips when she saw Jubilife's magnificent golden gates. She bolted towards the entrance leaving Lucas and Damion coughing from the dust she kicked up. Damion soon ran after the excited girl, while shouting to her to slow down. Lucas, on the other hand, noticed a pink flash behind him and quickly got to pulling out his Pokedex.
What is it, Lucas? Shinx asked. Every since the fight with Spyder, Lucas hadn't put Shinx back in its Pokeball.
"Dunno," Lucas responded. "I think it might have been a Pokemon."
A black mass suddenly blazed by in front of Lucas' face. With a scream of surprise, Lucas fell backwards and stared in awe at the trees the unknown creature just disappeared into. He looked over at Shinx, Shinx looked back at him, and the two ran into the woods.
Lucas and Shinx ran through the woods as fast as they could, dodging tree stumps, rocks, and low branches. Lucas, Shinx whined. I can feel the energy from those two creatures, they are very strong.
This just served to motivate more into finding out what those two creatures were. Shinx and He eventually discovered a clearing in the middle of the woods where the two creatures were hovering, facing each other. They looked like Pokemon and one was as graceful in appearance as the other one was nightmarish.
"Cresselia, the Lunar Pokémon. Shining particles are released from Cresselia's wings like a veil, and it is said to represent the crescent moon. On nights around the quarter moon, the aurora from its tail extends and undulates beautifully. Her name is derived from crescent, referring to a phase of the moon. The selia in her name may be derived from Selene, the Greek goddess of the Moon."
"Darkrai, the Pitch-Black Pokémon. Legend has it that on a moonless night, Darkrai will lure people to sleep and unleash nightmares upon them. Darkrai's name is a combination of the word dark and kurai, the Japanese word for dark. Darkrai can trap people in nightmares. It can become a shadow to move quickly, but it is still susceptible to damage in this state. It is also capable of human speech."
Darkrai was a black, shadow-like creature. It had a small black head with a white substance erupting from its head covering one of its bright blue eyes, and also had a red growth around its neck. It had skinny arms and long black tatters that hung from its shoulders; it also had an hourglass figure and appeared to be wearing an old, ripped cloak. It didn't appear to have any legs as it was just hovering above the ground.
Cresselia, on the other hand, had a blue, swan-like body with a yellow underside, and two magenta tufts that formed an arc across her chest. The yellow ornaments on the sides of her head gave her head the appearance of a crescent moon. Cresselia also had glowing, pink, ring-like wings on her sides and back with paw like protrusions resting on Cresselia's chest.
Beauty and the Beast.
Lucas stepped on a twig. The noise was incredibly quiet but Darkrai and Cresselia heard it, and the two bolted off in a flash in two separate directions. Lucas cursed out loud and pounded his fist onto the nearest tree. When Lucas thought about it, he realized that Cresselia and Darkrai probably knew he was there, considering that his Pokedex was louder than the twig. They probably ran because the crunching of the twig revealed the fact that he was edging closer to them.
"Lucas!" Damion shouted. "Where are you?"
The blonde haired boy sat down by a small pool of water near the entrance to Jubilife. He stared down at the reflection the water cast and wondered how long Lucas had been missing for and also why he had left in the first place. A ripple formed on the waters surface and Damion realized that he had accidently kicked a small rock into the pool. He reached his hand in to grab the rock when he felt something smooth at the bottom of the pool.
Damion observed the small crescent object he now had in his hands. It was a pink rock of some kind and it would refract light and glow when tilted in different directions. The object entranced Damion, so he put it in his pocket to show to Lucas and Dawn later.
A rustling noise startled Damion and he jumped up from his spot. A blur of black rushed at him and knocked him back down. The world seemed to spin around and around before he was surrounded by blackness.
Damion opened his eyes and stood back up, stumbling here and there as he tried to regain his balance. His vision, which was blurred, finally came into focus and he noticed that he was still by the pool of water, but not all was the same.
Lying face down on the grass in front of him was Lucas. Damion shouted in surprise and ran to help his friend up. The nightmare was just beginning. Damion turned Lucas around and stared in shock at the blood that seemed to seep from his pores. A whisper escaped Lucas's lips.
"Dar… Dar…" Lucas groaned. "You traitor…"
"What?" Damion whispered, his eyes wide open in shock.
"Die… Die… You traitor…" Lucas grabbed Damion's face, his icy fingers digging into the side of his skull. Damion screamed as loud as he could, but the scream seemed to be lost to a void unknown and unseen. Lucas's face melted before him, as did his body and the last remnants of his clothes until all that remained beneath Damion was a small pool of sorrow and hatred. And Damion passed out in that pool.
