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'No. No, no, no. Kellyn was….Kellyn is…..and so is Rythmi…..Isaac's also…..' Keith couldn't comprehend anything. He just couldn't. He refused to accept any of this.
As Keith was thinking, staring down at Kellyn's still body, Seren managed to capture the Gengar. However, she paid a price. A cut reaching from the right side of her nose, ran down her face, over her lips, and stopped at her chin.
The Gengar disappeared into the darkness as it was swallowed up by Kate, whose eyes never left Keith and Seren.
"Keith," Seren whispered as she turned around to look at him. Keith didn't move, didn't hear her, didn't want to hear her. Everything he knew, everything he ever loved, it was all crumbling beneath him.
Kate's hands glew black as she launched an attack at Seren, who stood guard over Keith.
"I won't let you hurt anyone else!" Seren called as she closed her eyes. Keith looked up, his eyes going wide in shock as he ran in front of Seren.
"NO!" he yelled, the attack never hit him. Instead, something blocked it, something see through blocked it. Keith looked around, his hands, they were glowing slightly. "What?" he whispered to himself as Seren fell to her knees.
Everything was catching up with her. Her chest seemed to tighten as she looked at Keith, whose eyes fell on her. He lifted her up, walked over next to Kellyn's body and set her down.
Seren looked up at him, trying her hardest to breath, but it was like her lungs were collapsing, she couldn't do anything. So, she closed her eyes, her chest slowly rising and falling as she did so. She had passed out.
"This ends, you've injured almost everyone we care about," Keith growled as he turned around. His words weren't directed at Kate, no they were directed at the Darkrai stood behind her.
"But I haven't even done anything yet boy. It's been Kate and Gengar all along," the Darkrai answered.
"Let Kate go," Keith ordered. Darkrai's eyes glew their eerie red colour as he looked at Keith.
"I prefer to keep her, she'll be good for dealing with future menaces," Darkrai replied before flying into the sky. "Kate, end him," the Darkrai ordered. Kate didn't speak as she moved forwards, her hands held out in front of her.
Darkrai disappeared from the rooftop, leaving the two teens to fight. Keith looked at Kate, biting his lips as he did so.
"Kate please, you've got to listen to me," red shot from Kate's hands. Keith didn't move, he took the hit full on. He wasn't going to fight her, he couldn't.
He watched as she advanced in him. She didn't seem fazed that he had taken the hit head on. But once her hands began glowing black, Keith knew he had to say something to make her stop.
"KATHERINE ATREYA JONES YOU LISTEN TO ME NOW!" he yelled, Kate's red eyes went wide as she looked at him. Keith smiled as he slowly walked over to her.
"H-how?" the word was soft as it escaped Kate's mouth. She had heard him, the Kate inside had heard him.
"Kate please, you need to listen to me," Keith begged, her eyes stopped glowing red; he knew he didn't have much time. "This isn't you. Please, believe me, you're destroying everything yes, but it isn't your fault. I promised I would bring you back and that's what I'm doing. I'm not going to let you be taken by the Kate, please, try and fight this. We need you Kate, I need you," Keith begged, his eyes held tears that threatened to fall.
He had lost his mother, two of his best friends, Isaac was lost in the darkness and Seren was losing too much blood, it was possible she would also die. But he wasn't going to lose Kate, no matter what.
Kate looked around. In her mind, she could that's where they were. She was surrounded by the darkness. How she wished it would leave.
"Kate please, you need to listen to me," she could hear Keith's voice, but after that, everything he said, she couldn't hear.
Kate wandered through the darkness, looking for something that could pull her out of it, anything that would be of help to her, but she couldn't find anything.
"It isn't your fault," there it was again, Keith's voice, but it sounded closer now. Kate began running through her mind, trying her hardest to find where the voice was coming from.
"KEITH!" Kate yelled, she wanted to get out, she needed to get out, but without Keith's voice, she didn't know what she was doing.
Keith dodged the darkness that was shot towards him by his bestfriend. What he had said, hadn't gotten through to her, but he wouldn't give up.
He dodged another blast of darkness before running over to Kate. He stood directly in front of her.
"I'm not giving up on you Kate, I promise I won't," he whispered as he moved away from her slightly. His eyes board into her, trying his hardest to find any signs that she was listening to him, but he couldn't find anything.
"Kate, just listen to me one last time, without attacking me," though he knew it wasn't the real Kate he was talking to, she stopped attacking him, to listen to what he had to say to her.
"Rythmi and Kellyn are dead…."
"Rythmi and Kellyn are dead, Seren's severely injured and Isaac's lost in the darkness," Kate stopped running. Rythmi and Kellyn were gone? She fell to her knees what had she done? How could she have killed two of her best friends, attacked one and plunged another into the darkness?
"It's sad I know, but please Kate, we need to stop the Darkrai and I can't do it alone," she stood back up. Keith needed her help, only she knew how to stop Darkrai, and she'd be damned if she wasn't putting the pokemon six feet into darkness.
"Remember the times we had, when we first met? You called me Small Dick and I called you Flat Chest. Well, I'm sorry for all those times, I didn't mean it. I guess I was just making fun of you for no reason, well there was a reason, I just didn't realise it until recently," Kate kept running. She could see something, something bright, was it a way out?
"What you said to me in the Union, about having to end you, I'm not doing that, I couldn't hurt my best friend," Kate carried on, the light was getting closer. "You told me, if I couldn't bring you back with other memories to try one other, a recent one we shared. That's what I'm gonna do Kate, I'm gonna do it because I-," the light engulfed Kate, she could feel the darkness leaving her body.
"Love you," Keith whispered as he quickly pressed his lips to Kate's before drawing away. He back away as he watched the girl's eyes turn from red to blue. Had he done it?
Kate collapsed to her knees as darkness began to pool out of her body; she seemed to be in pain as she screamed out.
The darkness wasn't the only thing that left her, a small ball of white light followed. Into the air, out of the darkness surrounding them and then it was gone, just like that.
Keith rushed to Kate's side as the darkness around them began to fade. Kate clutched onto him for dear life, crying as she did so. She sobbed into his bare chest, not wanting to let go.
She looked up at him, her blue eyes sparkling with the tears that were flowing from them.
"Welcome back, Kate," Keith whispered as he hugged her closer to his chest. Dark voids opened up all around Almia, the ones that Kate had created, spitting people back out. Barlow rushed over to where Crawford and Luana were, but Luana was still unconscious, Crawford had regained his sanity though.
Kate pushed Keith away gently before standing to her feet. The Darkrai landed in front of them, its eyes an angry red colour.
"YOU FOOL!" Darkrai yelled as he launched towards Keith, taking him off the top of Altru Tower.
"KEITH!" Kate yelled as she held her hand out towards him, grabbing him just in time. Kate clung to his hand as she tried her hardest to pull him up.
"KATE! WATCH OUT!" Keith yelled, Kate looked over her shoulder to see Darkrai coming at her, but something blonde tackled it out of the way.
"ISAAC?!" Kate yelled in shock. One move from Darkrai, it slashed Isaac's chest, the boy fell to the ground, unconscious.
Keith looked at his blonde haired friend as he glared at Darkrai, this was ending now!
Kate readied her styler, having remembered the update that was put into it, but she doubted anything like this would help her.
'Arceus please, I know you can hear me, just give me some help,' she thought as she started her styler off.
"CAPTURE ON!" Kate yelled as she began circling Darkrai, who was starting to move faster than sound. Kate screamed as she was knocked into. Keith caught her by the hand, pulling her around and landing her next to him.
"What's going on?" he asked as he quickly looked over to the Darkrai, who was creating dark voids to swallow people up in.
"It's not working, feelings aren't getting through to it, I don't know what to do," Kate whispered as she looked at the dark pokemon, who was sending a void over towards her and Keith.
Keith looked at Kate with panicked eyes before he relaxed.
"Well, whatever you do, figure it out soon," he ordered as he pushed Kate out of the way of the void. In the process Keith was dragged into the darkness himself.
"KEITH!" Kate yelled as she gripped his hand. Something wasn't right, normally she would have been dragged in as well, but something was happening to Keith's hands, they were glowing brightly.
Keith was lifted out of the darkness, his body glowing brightly as he looked at Darkrai, who backed away slightly.
"This ends," Keith whispered as he launched at the Darkrai. Kate watched in amazement, as Keith began fighting off the Darkrai.
"Kate," Deoxys and Cresselia landed next to her. Kate turned to look at them; Cresselia took one look at Keith and rushed off to help him.
"What's going on? How is Keith doing that?" Kate asked, Deoxys looked at her with a proud face.
"When you saved Keith from being the Cruse of the Son, he became the Son of Light, a gift given to people by Cresselia. Originally, Keith was to be the Son of Light, but Darkrai got to him first. Luckily now, his powers are coming out when we need them most," Deoxys explained as he gave Kate a sad look. "However, in the process of you losing all the darkness within you, Summerlands' Gift also came out unintentionally. Arceus can give it you back but-,"
"No," Kate interrupted.
"Ex-excuse me?"
"Those damned powers have ruined my life enough. Everyone I know is dead because of them. I just want to end all of this, tell me how to stop it," Kate ordered as she looked at the Deoxys, who gave her a disappointed look.
"Unfortunately, I do not know," he replied, Kate gritted her teeth as she balled her fists.
"God damn you Arceus," Kate hissed as she threw her necklace to the ground. If Arceus wouldn't help her out, then she needed the Tears of Princes to turn the Shadows Crystal clear.
From the bottom of Altru Tower, Sven, Wendy and Raisha held their Tears of Prince up high. The Tears soon lifted from their hands up towards the top of the tower.
Wendy smiled as she hugged Sven tightly, they were finally getting somewhere.
"The darkness has gone, Keith did it," Hastings muttered to himself as he looked up towards the top of the tower.
"Do you think they'll be alright?" Wendy asked as she looked at Sven, who smiled.
"They're not rookies anymore," he answered as he looked up towards the top of the tower with Hastings. Each giving them emotional support.
The Tears of Prince floated passed Kate towards the Shadow Crystal, which soon reacted with them, turning a nice, pretty see through shade.
Kate looked at the crystal, nodding her head as she did so before looking at Keith and Cresselia, who were fighting against Darkrai. How Keith was flying in the air? Well, Kate assumed it was one of his abilities.
The Tears of Prince soon made their way over to Kate, shrinking down and embedding themselves within her styler. Kate gave a confused look before looking at Deoxys, who nodded his head.
"Wendy?" Kate asked into her styler.
"Kate? Is everything alright?" Wendy asked as she looked at Kate's image on the screen.
"Honestly, no, I need a Staraptor up here and I need it now," Kate answered, Wendy gave one nod before ending the call.
Kate waited a minimum of five seconds before Wendy's partner was resting on the edge of Altru Tower. Kate quickly climbed a top of it before going to capture the Darkrai.
Keith dodged a number of attacks that were thrown at him by the dark type pokemon before throwing back his own light attacks. A growl escaped Keith mouth as he was hit with a red wave, which paralyzed his arm.
"Capture on," Kate whispered as she began to circle the Darkrai, who didn't notice, he was too caught up in the fight with Keith.
Keith did notice though and continued acting as a distraction as he moved away from the Darkrai, bringing it further from Kate. Darkrai threw a red orb at Keith, who at the time had his back turned.
Cresselia noticed the dirty trick and quickly rushed in front of Keith, protecting him from the attack. Keith turned around in time to see the light pokemon falling to the ground, his eyes widened.
Deoxys quickly jumped into action to save his friend. He flew towards the ground before successfully catching Cresselia. Keith sighed in relief as he looked back at Darkrai.
"That was a dirty trick," Keith hissed as the Darkrai came forwards once more, right into Kate's capture line.
The Darkrai turned around, its eye blazing red as he fired an attack at Kate. The Staraptor panicked, moving quickly it dodged the attack, but Kate fell in the process.
Keith glared at the dark type before going after his friend. Kate held her arm out to him, which Keith took before pulling her back up.
Another attack was sent at the two, this one hitting them both, sending them flying onto the roof. Kate cough as she looked up, Darkrai hovered above Keith, who was knocked unconscious, bleeding badly.
She looked at her styler, just a little more and she'd have done it. Activating her styler Kate began circling the pokemon once more.
Darkrai glared at the girl, too angry for words he attacked her, slashing at her body, her face, arms, legs, back, stomach, she was covered in blood.
Keith groaned as he lifted his head up, he looked at Kate as she circled the Darkrai one last time. The capture was complete, the Darkrai disappeared, Kate collapsed to the ground unconscious.
Keith was instantly in action as he sprung to his feet, running over to her. Kate's pulse was lowering, she was losing too much blood, he picked her up, but stopped, he couldn't leave the others could he?
The three Tears of Prince left Kate's styler and began circling around the Clear Crystal. As they did so, the crystals seemed to reach with each other.
Red, blue, yellow and clear bubbles began to fill the sky as they landed around all of Almia, restoring it to full health. Some were absorbed by Rythmi, Isaac, Kellyn and Seren, who began stirring in their sleep once again.
Keith's face lit up as he realised his friends weren't dead at all. He could hear footsteps coming up the stairs; he turned to see Barlow and the rest coming up at high speed.
Even though the others had absorbed the bubbles which had given them life again, though Keith suspected it also had something to do with when the darkness left, they were still bloodied and beaten.
Barlow heaved Rythmi over his shoulders, while Sven took Kellyn; Wendy grabbed Seren, while Raisha took Isaac. Keith walked over to them with Kate; they began descending the stairs as the bubbles continued all around Almia.
As they exited Altru Tower, people watched them walk, none cheering, all silent for the ones who were bleeding. Once they reached Altru Park, they broke into a run, trying their hardest to get to the Union in break neck time.
They made it, Keith hesitated to enter the building, he could feel something was still off, like the darkness still lingered around them.
"Keith!" shaking his head, he followed Sven's voice as they all rushed to the infirmary with the injured teens. Kate had completely passed out, breathing heavily for breath as the doctors and medical care took them to work on them, help heal them.
Keith watched as his friends got treated to in the same room he was in. Sure, he hadn't passed out, but he was still injured nonetheless.
Luana was also laid in another bed in the infirmary, though Keith didn't know what happened to her, he assumed it wasn't good. Her head was bleeding, her body was cut and bruised and she had an awful gash in her side. Keith wondered how she was alive.
He looked out of the window as he waited for the doctors to finish up with his arm; one thing ran through Keith's mind. One thing and one thing alone.
They had done it, Almia and the world were safe, but they paid a heavy price. Each and every one of them were scarred, physically and emotionally, but he didn't care, the world was safe now, all thanks to them.
Keith smiled, when he friends wake up, he was never going to let them out of his sight again. They were family, forever and always, one large family.
And that, was something Keith was grateful for.
Kellyn: Is it done? Is the story finished?
Me: Nope, one more chapter and then we have the sequel.
Rythmi: Do you even have the summary for that yet?
Me: Crap, I knew we were missing something.
Kate: You have the title though?
Me: Title's done, I'll tell everyone what it is next chapter.
Seren: Says here you're bringing in an old villain we all know.
Me: Yep.
Kate: Does it say who?
Me: Nope.
Keith: Do we have to do a sequel?
Me: Do you have to be annoying?
Keith: Damn!
Kate: Well, no he doesn't have to.
Seren: In this world he does.
Rythmi: Anyway, you know what to do, hit that button below and review this story. If not, no final chapter and no sequel.
Seren: I wonder if she'll make a sequel to the sequel.
Keith: Please don't give her any ideas.
Me: No, but after the sequel I already have another Kate and Keith story planned out, and you're gonna love it.
Kellyn: Didn't you make up a shipping name for me and Seren?
Me: Oh yeah I did, anyway that's not important, we'll explain that next time.
Rythmi: JUST HIT THE REVIEW BUTTON ALREADY AND REVIEW OR WE ALL DIE!
Isaac: We did die.
Rythmi: You know what I mean.
Cast: Until next time. REVIEW!