EoS: Alright, here's another chapter, where Reaper finally awakens! Review!

Lauren: It's about damn time.

Infinity-darkmage-Zarfeeeer:

EoS: Because it is.

Phil the Persona Guy:

EoS: Alright, well, keep waiting.

I AM REDUNDENT:

EoS: I see.

Mr. Brandloyal:

EoS: Yes, you should.

Pokepimp:

EoS: Accent and pedo, who does that remind me of…

Lauren: Die.

Electrifry:

Lauren: Yeah. Right.

TheLightningPunisher:

Lauren: Over your dead body.

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EoS: This isn't a situation that should have a "Yay"

Aurore's Moemon Adventure

Chapter 40

"Master…" Sora sighed, staring out the window at the streets of Castelia City. She was kneeling on an armchair, looking out through the window.

"I feel so bad for her…" Sakura said, staring at Sora, frowning. "I mean Aurore just leaves all of a sudden, and leaves her a sighing wreck…" Sakura was sitting on a couch, frowning, and Lulu was sitting next to her on a chair.

"Wow, you really are like her…" Lulu said, frowning. "I wonder if it's really because the two of you mixed your aura…"

"I know, it's weird…" Sakura said, frowning. "Every time we touch, it seems like our emotions just… mesh. It hurts, but…"

"So, what exactly can you feel?" Lulu asked, confused.

"I don't know…" Sakura said, frowning. "It's just such an incredible rush…"

"Oh." Lulu said, nodding as if she understood. "Do it again, and I'll watch."

"But it hurts!" Sakura complained.

"We need something to snap her out of this funk, and searing pain oughta do it." Lulu said, giving her a thumbs up.

"Alright, fine…" Sakura sighed. Sakura slowly moved towards Sora, who was still sighing, and lightly placed her hand on the dark moemon's shoulder. The two felt the pain again, but Sakura felt something else. She felt a strange throbbing darkness pulsing out from her body, Sakura falling to the ground.

"Wh-what the hell?" Sora said, clutching her shoulder. "Why'd you do that?"

"What… was that?" Sakura asked. "That dark power… What the hell was that?"

"Huh? What kind of dark power?" Lulu asked.

"I don't know… I just felt our minds link together, and then all of a sudden, I felt a sort of surge of darkness… As though there was some… THING inside of her that I'd never sensed before…"

"Are you okay?" Sora asked, extending a hand. Sakura, however, backed up and looked at Sora.

"What are you?" Sakura asked.

"Wh-what do you mean?" Sora asked, confused.

"Hey, what's going on, guys?" Oshawott and Bluebell walked into the room, Bluebell's eyes still red from the crying she'd gone through.

"We're talking about Sora's darkness…" Sakura said, standing up, eyeing Sora wearily, Sora looking back and forth between Sakura and Lulu, in desperate need of support.

"…Oh…" Bluebell said, looking away. Oshawott simply looked down, silent.

"What is it?" Sakura asked.

"Well, before…" Bluebell said, frowning. "There have been some times when Sora… changed."

"Aurore looked really freaked out about it, but also seemed to know what it is…" Oshawott said, frowning.

Rin had remained silent this entire time, but she stood up and walked over to Sora.

"'Reaper exists deep inside an individual's subconscious…'" Rin said, staring off into space. "It couldn't be…"

"Wait, Sora… Is Reaper?" Bluebell asked.

"No…" Sora said, shaking her head. "I'm… I'm not…"

"Sora…" Lulu said, reaching her hand out to touch Sora, but Sora's eyes glowed with a fierce anger. She opened her mouth, releasing a shockwave of darkness that hit Lulu, sending her flying back.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Sora shouted, holding onto her head. She stared at them with tears in her eyes.

"…I… I thought you were my friends…" Sora said, tears falling down her face. She turned and ran out of the hotel, crying.

"Sora…" Sakura said, but Rin shook her head.

"Don't…" Rin said, frowning. "If she really is Reaper… Then there's nothing we can do… Aurore might be able to stop her, but we can't do anything…"

"When our minds…" Sakura said, looking down, frowning. "When we touched… I saw the darkness inside of her… The darkness… It's not like anything I saw… It was angry, afraid… and a little sad…"

Sora ran out into the streets, looking around for Aurore, crying.

"Master!" Sora cried, falling down to the street.

"We meet again." Sora turned to see a figure walking up to her. The figure wore a dark cloth wrapped around its face, concealing their identity. The figure wore a black robe over their body, concealing their body from view. The figure's eyes stared down at Sora sadly, as thought they pitied her. The figure carried a wooden staff in their hand, a white crystal imbedded at the top. They had six more staves tied to their back, each imbedded with a crystal of a different color.

"You again?" Sora said, staring up at the figure, confused.

"You shouldn't be here." The figure said. Maybe they frowned. It was hard to tell.

"I know where I should be…" Sora said, wiping tears from her eyes. "With my master."

"Indeed." The figure said, nodding. "You need to go to him, before something bad happens. If you two aren't reunited soon the sadness you feel… It will cause Reaper to awaken, and when that happens, Aurore will have no choice. He will have to kill."

"Kill?" Sora asked, shocked. "Kill… me? Master would never…"

"He left to avoid doing you any harm." The figure said. "Thought that would be enough. He thought that if he wasn't around you, then he could keep Reaper from awakening. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Now, we're running out of time."

"What do I do…?" Sora asked.

"You have given into despair…" The figure said, reaching into their robes. The figure held a hand out. Their hand was gloved in a black glove, with black bandages wrapped around their arm. In their hand was a violet stone, Sora took the stone from their hand.

"What's this?" Sora asked.

"It is the dusk stone." The figure said. "Farewell." The figure turned and walked away into the night, vanishing like the darkness.

Sora began crying, wiping tears from her eyes, and howled at the sky.

"MASTER!" Sora shouted, collapsing. She lay on the ground a long time, crying, before her eyes snapped open. She stood up and walked across the street, headed for a very specific place.

Meanwhile, Aurore was drinking. He was sitting at the same bar he'd found Lulu at. However, there was a new bartender. He was so nondescript, there would be no need to describe him.

"You're really knocking them back." The bartender said, frowning.

"I know…" Aurore said, frowning. "I can't help it. I'm depressed…"

"Why?" The bartender asked.

"I threw the love of my life away to protect her from myself…" Aurore said, frowning. "I can't believe it…"

Tears fell from Aurore's eyes into his drink, and he poured it down his throat, coughing. All of a sudden, like he realized something, his head jerked towards the door.

"What is it?" The bartender asked.

Aurore clutched his head, wincing. "Oh no… Not now…"

Aurore fell off of his stool, lying on the ground.

"Hey, are you alright?" The bartender asked, looking over the bar at Aurore.

"It's coming… It's coming…" Aurore said, holding his head. All of a sudden, he stood up smiling that crazy smile you smile when you know that you're doomed and you've given up hope.

"I'm fine." Aurore said, turning to bartender, the smile still on his face. "Tell me something… Do you fear the Reaper?"

EoS: So, Reaper is coming! How will our heroes defeat it without killing the innocent host?

Lauren: Well, we'll see.