Judgement
Arceus' voice rang out from the end of the hall.
"Giratina, Rayquaza," she said "Did you think we would not know about this hatchling. You shall…"
It was a dangerous thing to do but Rayquaza felt she had to. She interrupted the God Pokemon
"Please Arceus, there is something strange about the child."
"In what way" asked Arceus, her curiosity was aroused.
"Look!" said Rayquaza desperately
All of the legendaries looked at the Starlight who was still asleep. Arceus leapt forward in a single bound and looked at the hatchling.
"Rayquaza put it on the floor." Arceus commanded
She was about to protest about Starlight being called an it but seeing the look in Arceus' eyes the Sky Dragon put Starlight on the floor. Arceus looked at Starlight for a full minute before she began to glow.
"I can't allow you to exist hatchling." yelled the Alpha pokemon and she blasted a beam of white light at Starlight, Judgement.
Rayquaza turned away and buried her head in Giratina who was staring at Arceus with hatred in his scarlet eyes. There was a roar that made every legendary except Arceus to look up. The roar was high pitched and more like a very loud hiss than anything else. A black cloud appeared in the air and a voice hissed
"Arceus, leave off your attack, it will do no good as I am protecting the youngling."
Arceus stopped her Judgement attack and when the light faded Starlight was unharmed. The youngster looked at the Alpha pokemon
Arceus growled "Who are you?"
The voice answered "That is not important at this time. I will only say that this child is more powerful and important than she seems."
The black cloud faded into nothingness. Arceus stared at where the cloud had been then turned her eyes on Starlight.
"Now what am I going to do?" she said to herself.
Rayquaza looked down at the ground. Giratina looked at Arceus, his red eyes showed no emotion. Arceus looked up
"Very well, the child shall be allowed to live." she turned to Rayquaza
"What is it's name?"
"Her name is Starlight."
The Alpha pokemon nodded before moving to the far end of the chamber "Take your places. We have something to discuss."
All of the legendaries took their places and looked at the Alpha pokemon. She said
"I have sensed some strange energy signatures in the Hoenn region. I don't know what is causing it. Deoxys."
"Yes ma,am"
"I want you and Mewtwo to check this out and report to me what you find."
Deoxys nodded and she and Mewtwo left. The clone pokemon was slightly irritated at being sent on this venture, and with Deoxys no less, he was so full of himself just beacuse he wasn't from this planet.
Arceus waited for them to go then said. Palkia, Dialga there is a disturbance of Space and Time in the Reverse World. Mend it before the Reverse World is damaged too badly. Both the Space pokemon and Time pokemon left. Dialga glared at Paklia with her red eyes.
I've already been punished for this by Giratina, now I need to work with PALKIA!
The Spacial and Temporal Legends left, glaring daggers at each other.
Arceus gave the other quests and instructions until she was left with only Giratina and Rayquaza. The Sky dragon and the master of the Reverse world looked at the Pokemon God. Her eyes were cold and harsh like an icy wasteland. Giratina and Rayquaza felt themselves rise in the air. A look of horror and confusion passed over them before they were thrown into the far wall. Large cracks spider webbed along the stone as the legends struck the wall with backbreaking force. Rayquaza sgot up again and snarled
"What was that for?"
Arceus said in a voice of thunder "For defying me!" She kicked Rayquaza with her foreleg and blasted Giratina with a Dragonbreath attack. Giratina took the attack, it was super effective but he wasn't Master of the Reverse World for nothing. Rayquaza saw Giratina being attacked and made a life threatening error. The green dragon blasted Arceus with her Hyper Beam attack. Arceus yelped as the ebnergy beam struck her in the side. Slowly, she turned around to face Rayquaza who was glaring at Arceus through narrowed eyes. Giratina was worried for Rayquaza as Arceus whispered menacingly
"So you think that will help you, do you?"
Rayquaza tensed all of her muscles in preperation for an attack. Giratina closed his eyes, not wanting to see what would happen next. Rayquaza felt her whole body seize up and burn as if magma was being forced through her veins. She fell to the floor and writhed and thrashed. Arceus looked on, her face expressionless. Starlight had her blue eyes fixed upon her mother twisting and convulsing on the polished, golden stone floor. The young hatchling began to cry and wailed piteously
"NOOOO! STOP PLEEEEEAAAASSSSE!"
Arceus looked at the hatchling. Rayquaza lay still as Arceus lifted the spell. Giratina flew over to her.
"Are you OK?" he asked
"Yes. I am fine."
Arceus was still looking at Starlight, the young pokemon returned her gaze with piercing blue eyes. Arceus said "I don't know."
"Don't know what?" asked Starlight. She twisted her body and flared her wings as she asked the question.
Everyone looked at her in shock. Hatchlings usually spoke between six months to a year, Starlight however was merely a day old and was talking like a toddler at the very least. Rayquaza picked her up and cuddled her. Starlight was still looking at Arceus, Rayquaza and Giratina turned their gaze to the God Pokemon as well. With three sets of eyes on her, Arceus looked away
"I just don't know. This throws everything I thought I knew out of the window. I did not allow pokemon to create hybrids for a reason. I made it impossible so that there would not be too many different kinds of pokemon running around. If two different pokemon have an egg, then the egg is always on or the other. But this... I don't know. I just don't know"
Rayquaza bowed her head "This has caused a lot of trouble hasn't it."
Arceus nodded but didn't say anything. Giratina had his eyes closed and was obviously thinking very hard. Finally, he spoke
"I think this has something to do with that black shadow and that voice." he said softly
"Whatever that was, it was no pokemon, that much I am certain about." said Arceus. "I suggest we just go about our normal lives and see what comes of this. Keep Starlight in the Reverse World when you are here."
Rayquaza nodded.
"Now go!" commanded Arceus. The Alpha pokemon sat down wearily "I need to think about something."
Rayquaza and Giratina left. As she was about to leave the island, Rayquaza turned and mouthed to Arceus
"I'm sorry."
Arceus nodded, her green eyes were half lidded and her shoulders were slumped. When the two dragon legendaries had left, Arceus made a book float in front of her. It was titled "Dragons"
A chilling wind slipped through the hall. Arceus raised her head.
"Darkrai is that you?" she asked looking around.
"No, but I am one who has waited a long time to get you alone."
Arceus' fur bristled as she snarled "Who are you?"
A black cloud formed on the celing of the hall. Arceus looked as a black pillar of flame descended from the cloud, a black creature stepped out of it. It moved on four taloned feet and midnight black scales covered it's whole body. It's underbelly was like moonlight, as were the massive wings that protuded from it's back. It reminded Arceus of a Salamance but was a lot bigger and radiated power. It's horns were silver and when it looked at Arceus she saw that it's eye were different colours. One was the purest silver and the other was the deepest purple. The creature was at least twenty feet tall and a good bit over one hundred feet long. Most of this was made up of an extremely long flexible tail. Arceus stared at it for a second before asking,
"Who are you?"
He, for it was male answered "My name, you do not need to know. I will tell you that I am a Dragon of Darkness and am here to warn you of an evil that will come to this world and spread across it like wildfire. I also gave you the one who may be able to stop the darkness if she can find the true power inside her."
"Starlight."
The Dragon of Darkness nodded before fading into shadow and teleporting away. Arceus was deeply troubled by this revelation and lay down. Before long she was asleep, dreaming of things only she knew
Well that was chapter 2. Not much to say except I hope you liked it. No prizes for guessing who the dragon is if you've read my other stories
