Keiths' P.O.V

The darkness consumed me, inside my mind; I knew I was a prisoner. I knew full well what I had done to Kate, but I couldn't stop it, this darkness, this, almost like madness, was beating me from the inside out. Soon, I wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

For now, I had little control over my emotions. I had blacked out multiple times in the night and almost hurt Kate as she slept. The bandage on her stomach had become loose during the night, therefore I tried to take advantage and kill her then and there.

But this wasn't me; I knew that, Kate knew that. I don't know how, but she just does, she knew I wasn't me when she saw me, when I answered those questions.

"Who are you?"

"Keith Dazzle."

"Who am I?"

"Kate Jones."

"What happened when you were captured?"

The minute I was unable to answer that one question she knew I wasn't me. But if I wasn't me, the only question remained, who was I?

I did have control over my own body, at least until I blacked out. I had never had control over myself when I did, but I had never meant to severely injure anyone, especially Kate.

"Keith!" I heard my name being called. I turned from the large tree outside the Union to see Kellyn running towards me. I didn't reply, I just turned back to watching the rising sun.

Yes, rising sun. I hadn't gotten any sleep last night; I couldn't, not with Kate in the same room as me.

"Keith?" Kellyn asked once he reached me, I looked at him out of the corner of my eye. An imaged passed my mind, it was of Kellyn, only he was covered in blood and almost dead. I heard laughter, evil laughter in the background, I knew that laugh, whether it be good or bad, it was mine.

"Yeah?" I asked. I tried to sound like my normal self, and not like I was trying to bottle down this darkness that was slowly consuming me. I growled silently, I would make my father pay for this.

"Everyone's awake, even Kate, but she's complaining about a pain in her stomach," Kellyn explained, I don't know why, but I didn't feel my heart drop when I heard that. I didn't feel bad for injuring her, it felt…..good. I really wasn't me, and I think Kellyn saw that too.

"What happened when you were captured?" he asked in his calm tone. I looked at him, my eyes turned from their normal colour to pitch black; I was surrounded by the darkness in my mind again.

"That's none of your business," I knew what I was saying, but I couldn't stop myself, I needed something to snap me out of it, anything.

"Keith, calm down, you've blacked out ag-," Kellyn stopped mid-sentence as my had grabbed him by the throat, cutting off his air supply.

"Keith!" he choked out. I glared at him.

"You won't stop me from killing her; I'll kill her and use her powers to destroy everyone. Get in my way, and I'll eliminate you," I hissed to Kellyn's face as my grip tightened.

"LET HIM GO!" I yelled in my mind, but nothing happened. The darkness was too much. I turned around, angry blood red eyes glared at me as they came closer. "No," I whispered, it had happened, it had finally happened. Darkrai had found a way into my mind, found a way to make me do what he wanted, but I wouldn't let him, I couldn't.

I glared back at the red eyes as they stood in front of me, even if this killed the inner me, I needed to stand up for him.

"STOP!" I yelled at him. Laughter, that was all that came in reply.

"KEITH!" I knew those voices. I turned; through the darkness I could see my friends. Though, if this was only in my mind, or if it was real, I couldn't tell.

My grip on Kellyn loosened as I dropped him to the floor before backing up slightly to the steps. Not knowing how far I was from them, I took a step too many. My foot never made contact with the ground as I started falling.

"KEITH!" Rythmi and Seren's voice. I smiled slightly, maybe if I fell I would get amnesia or something, maybe they'd be safe, maybe….it was the only way, for me to die.

I felt a hand grab mine, I knew the touch all too well, it was Kate.

"KATE!" again Rythmi and Seren yelled in Unison before I was being pulled up by someone. I looked at who had pulled me up, Kate had, with the help of Sven.

I looked at both of them in shock, Kellyn had recovered from my grasp quicker than I would have imaged as he stood over us, of course he held his throat with his hand, still trying to get his breathing right.

Rythmi and Seren stood on either side of him as they gave me shocked looks. Sven was panting hard, like he had ran to help pull me up, while Wendy ran over from her Staraptor. Kate sat in front on me, on her knees like I was, panting heavily.

She looked at me, her eyes flashed with anger before I felt a stinging pain in my cheek.

"YOU JACKASS!" echoed through the almost empty area around us. The sound was so loud the pokemon abandoned what they were doing to run. I held my cheek, Kate had just slapped me.

I closed my eyes as I looked at the ground. I tried to focus all my energy on keeping the anger in me that boiled so easily now down, but at the same time, I tried to focus on what Kate was yelling about.

"You're such an idiot I can't believe you. So you got kidnapped, so your power's going out of control more than normal. So you're hurting people more and want to stop. But you're not in control of any of it. You think we're stupid or something, we can see plain as day something's wrong with you. And we haven't done anything to hurt you back, or told you to leave, you wanna know why?" Kate raged as she looked at me, she stood to her feet with tears streaming down her cheeks. Now my emotions hit me, I felt angry, sad, stupid, but most of all, I felt regret.

"It's because we trust you Keith," Rythmi added as she looked at me.

"You're our friend," Seren added.

"And we're not going to give up until you're sane again," Kellyn stated with a wink, but it only caused him to get whacked by Seren, who glared at him.

They all knelt down to my level before looking into my eyes.

"We made a pledge, to be the best we can be right?" Seren asked, I nodded my head, my hands were at my sides, my cheek had stopped stinging, but I had no doubt that there would be a bruise or something.

"And we can't be the best unless we all work together," Kellyn stated as he placed his hand on my shoulder.

"We've all got our ups and downs, but we'll stick with each other through thick and thin," Rythmi added with her motherly smile whenever any of us did anything wrong.

"What we're saying Keith, is that we're not only friends, but we're also like a family, and we'll do anything for each other," Kate smiled as and everyone else gave me a group hug. I felt the anger in me leave, but not for long. I could feel it bubbling inside me again, but I ignored it, all that mattered was I knew my friends would be with me, even if I wasn't me for now.

"But the minute you're back to your normal self you're gonna pay for this bruise that's gonna come," Kellyn said as everyone pulled away. Kate just rolled her eyes, while Rythmi started lecturing him about 'violence doesn't solve anything', while Seren hit him over the head.

"If violence doesn't solve anything tell her that," Kellyn complained as he held his head.

"That's different," Rythmi replied as she looked at Seren, who just gave a cheeky smile.

"How is it?" Kellyn asked.

"'Cause you're an idiot," Seren and Rythmi stated in unison.

"That makes no sense," Kellyn replied as he sulked off back into the Union. Rythmi and Seren followed closely behind him.

Kate turned to me sweat dropping as she did so.

"Ok, so maybe we're not that much of a family, but we're all still friends," she stated as she stood up. "Come on, let's go back in, then we'll try to figure out how to get you back to normal," she smiled as she held her hand out. I took it before she pulled me to my feet.

"Come on love birds, Erma needs to see us all," Seren called from the door of the Union. Kate went beat red before rushing towards the door, while I casually walked with my hands in my pockets. I turned back to look at the sun, I wonder where Sven and Wendy went, I wonder when they went.

I turned back to the Union; I felt my eyes flash black.

'This isn't the end, they'll never free you. They don't care about you, they care about their safety,' I heard Darkrai's voice in my head. My eyes narrowed.

'You're wrong, they're my friends,' a lame argument, but I had to say it.

'Really? How much do they know about you then?' I froze in place as I thought about that, none of them really knew anything about me.

'Exactly.' I shook my head, ridding me of the thoughts before I continued on my walk towards Erma on the Operators Floor, or the third floor, I don't know what they called it.

I did know, however, if I was to try and become my old self again and rid Darkrai from my mind, it would take a long while and a lot of help. I just hope my friends are up for it, if not, there's no telling what I could do.

So sorry about the long wait for the update, been a busy month with Christmas, and I know this is late but hope everyone had a good Christmas and Happy New Year, for new year's. So review and I'll see you soon, hopefully. Also sorry about it being a short chapter and I'm now taking more requests if you want to see certain people/pokemon or certain events to happen please PM or review them and I'll see what I can do, ok? REVIEW!