I apologize for the wait. I have two very good reasons, or excuses, what ever you prefer. The first is that I've gotten incredibly far behind on homework and am now risking having to redo 10th grade. The second is that I finally got Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky! I used to have it, but mine disappeared. But this game is incredibly hard to find! I had to go to another city just to buy it! And even then, there was only one in stock. I could have used eBay, which so far is the only way to get it online that I could find. So those are my reasons. Now enough of that and onto the disclaimer!

Disclaimer: Game Freak and Nintendo own Pokémon, not me.

Now on to the story! Nyah!

Chapter 17: The Fate of Humanity

Part II

Me and Lightning walked through the city streets, looking into each of the buildings for a sing of life. It was eerily quiet, and the buildings held no indication of what had happened. The buildings, if anything, were completely intact though. The windows that were broken, seemed to have been broken by plant growth. Nature had done a number o this place, which leads to this question: How long has this place been empty?

There were street lamps that hung over our heads like vines, they were all dead though. This place, I don't know why, looked familiar.

"Steven," Lightning said, catching my attention. I looked over to find him by one of the buildings, gesturing for me to come over. I walked over to him and he continued, "Try touching the building."

I looked at him oddly before I did just that. I pressed my paw against the cement wall feeling nothing out of the ordinary. Then I began to feel dizzy. It took me a second during the dizziness before I realized why Lightning wanted me to touch the building; my Dimensional Scream. Then my vision went blank and I heard no more.

I heard screams all around me but I could see nothing. The screams included emotions of desperation and sorrow, but most of all, fear. The screams all stopped abruptly and my vision came back to me. I was in the middle of a street in the ending of a day, sunset. The sky had turned red and held what could only be silence.

I looked down the street to see a horse like creature. It was purplish black and had what appeared to be thorns around its stomach. The thorns were blood red and made a partial circle around the creature. The face of the creature held glowing red eyes of something that had lost all reason. The creature then looked strait at me and began walking towards me, it's colors changing as it came closer. Its body changed to pure white and its thorns changed to gold. Its eyes dimmed to a more gentle red but still held to pupil.

I tried to step back but my body felt different. I looked down to see my hands, human hands. I was wearing the clothes I had worn before I left my world. I had on my black Adidas Jacket and my black and gray speckled shirt. My legs bore black jeans and black shoes with gray stripes. But in the center of my chest there was a small hole with blood frozen right outside of it. That was the place where my dad had shot me.

I looked back up to see the enormous creature standing before me. It was about three times my height and way, way bigger than me. It was staring right at me with what I could only perceive as pity. I was scared, why was I a human now?

"Why, young miss, do you resist the inevitable?" It said in a god like voice. 'Miss?' I thought questioningly. I then looked behind me and saw a woman on her hands and knees. She had golden brown hair that covered her face and was wearing a green dress. She seemed to be crying, no she was crying. I could see the tears dripping on to the ground. She then spoke, with a beautiful voice that made me feel safe and hurt me to hear it in so much pain.

"B-because I want to have a family before I die." She choked through her tears.

"A family?" The creature said, but I did not turn to look at it. I was concerned for this woman's well being. The women nodded to the creature's question, not showing her face. "You are the first to be able to resist my power and still have the will to live. I will grant you this wish. Please rise and show me your face."

She rose, pushing the hair off her face, and looked boldly at the creature before her. Her eyes were only slightly red from and were a brilliant mint green that just soothed my soul when I looked at them. She looked to be my age as well. "I want to give birth to a daughter and a son." She stated boldly looking at the creature before her.

"I can grant you that, but there will be a price you will have to pay." It said, its eyes still showing pity, but not mercy.

"I'll pay this price, whatever it may be."She announced, bolder still.

"Then so be it."

And with that, my vision was blinded temporarily in a white flash before I was alone on the street once again. I looked around wondering why I was still here. Then I saw a pink cat like creature come towards me from seemingly nowhere that I recognized as Mew. I watched silently as it stopped in front of me and stared right back at me. We both sat there staring at each other until...

"Well Steven, how was it meeting your Mother for the first time?" It said in a feminine voice that sounded vaguely familiar. After the initial shock of being talked to I recalled what she had just said.

"Wait... My Mother?" I asked slowly, as the pieces were slowly put together in my head.

"Yes, your Mother, your birth Mother." She said, smiling lightly.

As she said that, the pieces clicked together in my head and I realized that the woman from earlier was indeed my mother. I remembered the peace I held felt and her mint green eyes. "It was... Peaceful..."

The pink Mew in front of me smiled. I smiled back at her before asking, "What happened here?"

"Arceus, the Pokémon you saw earlier, killed all of the humans that had been here by taking away their will to live. But only your mother survived. Arceus had wiped all the humans from this world to keep them from interfering with Pokémon. He loathed the humans so much that he became corrupted, as you saw earlier." She said, her smile still gently sitting on her face.

"Okay, last question, how can you see me?" I said, wondering all the while why her voice sounded so familiar.

She said nothing but simply continued smiling at me. She then disappeared as did everything else, casting me into a world of silence and void of light.

My eyes opened giving me the view of Lightning's face. I sat up with him hurriedly getting off of me and looking at me worriedly. "Are you okay Steven?" He asked me his eyes showing concern.

"Yeah, why?" I asked wondering why he was worried.

"Well, you passed out and you started crying." He told me. "And you don't usually pass out during your Dimensional Screams."

"I was crying?" I asked as I brought my paw up to my face, feeling the fur underneath my eyes to be wet. "Well I'm alright now."

"Thank goodness." He said, clearly relieved. "So what did you see?"

I began to explain to him what I had found out, keeping my mother and mew out of it. I told him what ha happened to the humans, but not how I had found out. I wanted to keep the information about my mother and Mew a secret for now. When I had finished he looked at me with a bit of shock and what I thought might have been a look of hurt. But if that look of hurt had been there, it was gone now.

"So all the humans are dead in this world?" He asked, to which I nodded. "I always thought there might have been human living somewhere in the world, I didn't realize they were all killed." he said hanging his head.

"No one could have realized that, Lightning." I said reassuringly, as I put a paw on his back.

"I know, its just, why did Arceus do it?" He asked looking up at me. "I know he hated humans, but why would he kill them all?"

I said nothing for I already knew the answer. I had neglected to tell him that Arceus had become corrupted.

"Steven," He said, looking into my eyes. We stared at each other for a few seconds not saying anything. His eyes that matched the color of mine, never moved from my view. I felt something, but I don't know what it was. I couldn't identify it because it was so small. Was it perhaps fear?

"I... Lets head back." He suddenly said, snapping me out of my thoughts. I nodded, ignoring the fact that he sounded like he wanted to say something else. We both turned and began walking back to camp. We would explore more of this place tomorrow. Besides, If we didn't get back to camp before our Mew wakes up... Bad stuff would happen. With that in mind I walked slightly quicker.

Done! Though it's kind of short I hopped you all liked it! Here's the characters!

Steven~Lucario
Lightning~Luxray
Erica~Shiny Mew
Ray~Quilava
Aaron~Absol
Victor~Eevee

Now these chapters are going to get even more less frequent because I'm going to be working on the other story more. Oh and please do review, it makes me really happy when I get reviews from you guys/girls. Also if you do review, I would love to hear any theory's you people have about the story! So without further ado, Nyah!