Lucario ran through Mt Cornet, trying to locate his trainer once more. He rushed to the place where Cynthia had been taken and, to his relief, the blonde haired woman was sitting on one of the rocks, moving her hair from her eyes and trying to collect her thoughts together.

The Pokemon rushed over to Cynthia as she smiled at her partner. The blue and black Pokemon stopped in front of the blonde and Cynthia pulled him into a tight hug.

"Oh, Lucario, thank goodness you're alright," she smiled as she pulled away. The Pokemon nodded as Cynthia stood to her feet, staggering slightly. Lucario caught his trainer and quickly helped her to stand again.

"Lean on me, Cynthia. Everyone is fine now. Kate, Keith, and Kellyn have gone with Giratina. For now, we should take you to the nearest Poke Centre," Lucario spoke as Cynthia nodded her head once and allowed her Pokemon to help her out of the mountain.

"Do you know anything about the Union?" Cynthia asked as she shielded her eyes from the brightness of the sun. The blonde haired woman couldn't stop the grin that emitted from her face as she looked at the scenery in front of her.

Pokemon were frolicking in the grass and in the trees. They were back and they were happy.

"People who don't know a darkness is what caused all the problems won't remember being in the darkness. Those who do know will remember and those that were injured have been returned slightly better than before. At least, that is what Giratina said," Lucario explained as Cynthia nodded his head, thankful for the news.

"I'm glad. I'm so glad," she spoke as Lucario sat her down on a nearby rock. The blonde pulled out her PokeGear and typed in Flints' number. To her relief, the red-haired afro boy picked up immediately.

"Cynth, how goes it?" the redhead asked as he looked at his sister through the gear. Cynthia smiled as she looked at the redhead.

"Hey, looks like our little sister did it, huh?" she replied with her own question. Flint looked up on the other side of his gear to the sky and smiled gently.

"Yeah… yeah, they did it," the redhead agreed as he laughed slightly. Cynthia and Flint ended their call without another word as the blonde slid down the rock onto the grassy floor.

She laid there contently, watching the clouds go by in silence. Her Lucario joined her, laying next to her as they both watched the Pokemon fly and birds go by. Cynthia had never felt more relaxed and content in her life.


Wendy ran through the roads of Pallet Town. Her eyes were strictly set on Professor Oaks' Laboratory. The building was in her sights and she could feel her heart pounding more and more.

What if Sven hadn't come back? What if he still wasn't the Sven she knew? Would he have changed in the darkness? Would everyone have changed in the darkness?

The lime green haired woman forced the thoughts from her mind as she started to run up the path to Oaks' lab. Her lungs were on fire from all the running she had done, but she didn't care. She had to see Sven again and confirm if he was okay or not.

Wendy stopped outside the door the lab and looked at it for a few minutes before she decided to open it. Walking inside she looked around, the researchers were back to their normal station and, inside the large room, smack bang in the middle was Professor Oak speaking to the dark hair cowboy she had missed so much.

The room full of chatter turned silent as everyone looked towards the door. Sven hummed as he turned, his eyes widened when he saw the lime green haired girl in his hat standing in the room.

Wendy stared at Sven for a moment, not sure how to react. The handsome cowboy gave her a charming smile and quickly, Wendy rushed straight for him. Sven looked at her in shock, quickly opening his arms as the woman jumped into them.

Sven stumbled, moving back and tripping over his own feet. Oak quickly moved out of the way as the two were sent tumbling towards the ground. Sven grunted slightly but said nothing about the pain that racked his body as Wendy hugged him tightly.

"Don't you ever do anything like that again!" Wendy yelled as she pulled away from the man and looked down at him. Sven smiled slightly, moving his hand up to her face and wiping away the tears that were slowly streaming down her face.

"Have I ever told you how great you look in my hat?" he asked after a moment of silence. Wendy looked at him in shock for a moment before she grinned widely.

"Idiot! You were swallowed up by darkness and that's all you have to say?" she questioned. Sven shrugged his shoulders once and sat up with the green hair woman in front of him.

"I missed you," Sven whispered as he pulled the green haired woman into his arms for a tight hug. Wendy breathed in his scent deeply, having missed his hugs.

"I missed you too," the green haired girl muttered as she sniffled slightly. Sven took his hat off the woman's' head and gently kissed her forehead before placing the hat on his own head.

Wendy couldn't help but smile as she looked at the man in front of her, a small laugh escaped her mouth as she did so. It was certain that Sven was definitely her Sven.


Luana ran along the dirt road back towards where Crawford had disappeared. Isaac followed closely behind her but stopped once he spotted the afro-haired boy on his feet, shaking his head.

"Stupid dirt," Crawford muttered as he shook his head, trying to get rid of the dusty dirt from his hair.

"Crawford!" Luana yelled as the brunette haired boy looked up quickly. His eyes widened when he saw the black haired girl running towards him at full speed.

Isaac smiled as he watched Luana run at full speed into Crawford. The brunette haired boy picked her up by the waist and spun the younger girl around as she laughed loudly at the brunette.

Isaac watched the scene before him with a smile on his face. He couldn't wait for everyone else to come home.

"You're okay!" Luana yelled as Crawford stopped spinning her around and hugged her tightly.

"Of course I am. I'm always alright," he replied with a large grin of his own. Luana slapped his shoulder slightly, he shouldn't be so optimistic… but she didn't hide the laugh she gave off.

"I'm glad you're okay, that we're okay," Crawford added as he looked down at the black haired girl. "I don't know what I'd do if you weren't," the brunette whispered as he gripped Luana by the chin and lifted her head up to face him.

Luana gave a slightly confused look, but she gave a gentle, caring smile. The black haired girl nodded as Crawford leaned down to meet her.

Isaac watched with an open mouth as Crawford captured the black haired girls' lips with his own. He, honestly, did expect the two to get together at some point, but he had always thought they would save it until everyone was together again before they did.

Luana reached her arms up and placed them around Crawfords' neck, drawing him closer and closer to her as Crawford gripped the black haired girl tightly around her waist, pulling her into him.

Isaac nodded his head in approval at the two of them before turning to look back at the Union, which was once again standing tall and proud, looking over all of Almia.

He smiled, pride filling his being as Crawford and Luana pulled away and slowly walked over to him. Isaac grinned at the two as they stood hand in hand, both looking over his shoulder to the Union.

Together, the three changed their course and started walking back to the Union.

Back to their home.


Kellyn pried his eyes away from Cyrus for a moment to look at the stone hovering above Kates' bloody fingers. It was almost fully reformed, but it seemed rather small in the brunette haired boys' opinion.

"How much longer?" Kellyn asked as he looked up. There were small black clouds now hovering around the area. Kellyn looked away from the sky to see the scenery surrounding the mountain.

His eyes widened in shock as both Pokemon and people were returning to the ground in small puffs of black smoke. What surprised him though, was that those Pokemon and people continued on their way as if never remembering they were in the darkness.

"Some people react differently to the darkness. Those who did not know it was a darkness consuming their land will carry on their way as normal. Those who did know will remember everything from the darkness," Giratina explained as Kellyn turned to the legendary.

"What about those who were injured when the darkness swallowed them?" Kellyn asked, thinking about Seren and how badly she was injured.

"They will be fine. They will, unfortunately, still be injured. However, they will be returned in a slightly better state. Those who were on the brink of death will have recollected their energy, and those who were sent to the darkness with minor injuries will emerge with none. That is what I am sensing right now. Keith is having the darkness heal everyone as they return as best as he can. That is why this process is taking longer," Giratina answered as Kellyn smiled at the redhead thankfully.

"Go, Keith," Kate whispered as the redhead smiled down at her with a small chuckle. Kate grinned as she looked at the stone. The darkness entering Keith wasn't as thick as when it first started and there wasn't much left to go.

Keiths' eyes widened as he looked at the unconscious Cyrus, the darkness protruded from his back in a menacing manner. It became solid, multiple spikes emerged from the darkness.

"Kellyn!" Keith yelled as he looked at the brunette who had been busy speaking with Giratina.

Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion. The darkness started charging to Kate. The brunette haired girl turned around with wide eyes as she watched the darkness charge.

Kellyn looked at Kate and did the only thing he could think of at that minute in time. He rushed towards her and threw his body in front of the spikes. The darkness collided with the brunette.

Kellyn gritted his teeth, blood seeping down from his mouth as Kate stared, wide eyes and open-mouthed. Her body and clothes covered in sprays of the brunettes' blood.

Kellyn fell to his knees in silence. His breathing became heavy. Keith watched with a shocked expression. His grey hair turned back to its original red as he screamed his best friends name.

The brunette laid on the floor. Dark spikes emerged from the back of his body before they turned into a mist that Giratina collected into his own body. Blood seeped out from Kelly's wounds as he flinched slightly on the ground.

Kate moved her body slightly to look at the brunette. He was going to bleed out. Kellyn would die if they didn't help him.

Kate turned to move away from Keith, the redhead didn't stop her. His frame of mind was the same as hers, they needed to save Kellyn.

"Kate, no!" Giratina yelled as Kate looked at the large Pokemon in shock.

"He'll die!"

"The stone needs to be fully formed before you can help him," the legendary spoke. Kate opened her mouth, not sure what to say as she looked at Giratina.

"He'll die!" she repeated, not being able to find any other words to support her argument.

"If you stop this process then we will not be able to complete the stone," Giratina argued as he glared slightly.

"So, we'll make another!" Keith hissed as he looked at the Pokemon standing next to them.

"There isn't enough darkness to form it into another stone," Giratina replied with a confident voice. "You have to finish the stone," he ordered.

"No! Our friend is more important than this!" Keith growled as he looked back to Kate, who gave a scared expression. She didn't know who to listen to. She loved Kellyn, he was like her brother but the world also needed to be saved.

"If the stone is not complete the darkness will grow stronger in this world until it starts to consume it once more," Giratina spoke as Keith hissed in annoyance.

"Can I survive if I take the rest of this darkness inside me?" the redhead asked as Kate gave him a shocked look.

"Keith, no," she whispered. Kate had already saved him from having part of Darkrais' magic in him. She didn't want him to live with something like the darkness inside him.

"Can I?!" Keith asked as he looked at Giratina, who thought for a moment.

"It's possible, but it'll be similar to when you were cursed. You will have blackouts and the darker side of you will be more powerful," Giratina answered as Keith looked back to Kate, who was giving him a pleading look.

"Kellyn needs you to heal him," the redhead whispered as Kate felt her eyes start to swell with tears. "I can deal with it. It's not like I don't accept my dark side," he added as Kate shook her head. It wasn't right, Keith couldn't do something like this again.

"Can… can we use the darkness to heal Kellyn? You said Keith was using it to heal others, so… can we?" Kate begged as she looked at Giratina, who remained silent.

"Kate, even if we could, I don't know how I'm controlling the darkness to do that. You can save Kellyn so please," the redhead pleaded as he looked at Kate. Keith knew how to control a darker side of himself, Kate knew that much. She frowned and nodded her head slowly.

Keith placed a hand on hers before taking the stone from her fingers. Her fingers stopped glowing the white colour and the darkness stopped flowing from Keiths' open wound.

Kate frowned slightly as she looked at Keith, the darkness never stopped flowing into his hands and body. Keith smiled reassuringly at the brunette, who leaned forward and gave him a small peck on the cheek.

"You better be okay," she whispered and quickly turned around to Kellyn, who was lying motionless on the floor. "Kellyn, can you hear me?" Kate asked as she looked at the brunette. His stomach and chest were bleeding heavily, there were cuts going along his legs and a couple on his face as well.

The brunette groaned in response to Kates' question. She smiled gently and held her hands over to brunettes' bleeding body.

"Stay still, I'm going to heal you," Kate whispered as she placed a glowing white hand on Kellyns' chest, she then placed the other over his stomach and concentrated.

Keith watched as Kate healed his friend up, a small smile spreading across his face. The redhead could feel the darkness starting to build in his body as he watched his friend. He welcomed the feeling, not being scared of it as Kate looked up at him with a worried expression.

"I'm fine," Keith smiled as Kate nodded and turned her attention back to Kellyn. His wounds were closing up, but Kate knew they would scar and for that she was slightly worried.

"Kellyn, I need you to talk to me now. How are you feeling?" Kate asked as the brunette looked up at her with a gentle smile.

"I want to see Seren again, Kate… please," he spoke in a weak voice. Kate felt her heart sink slightly at the tone as she looked at the brunette. She removed her hand from his now scarred chest and smiled gently as she ruffled his hair.

"You will, we're going to see them again as soon as the darkness is gone," Kate whispered as she moved her hand to his face, healing the scratches on it.

"Is Keith okay?" Kellyn asked as he looked at Kate, who nodded her head. "Tell him I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything when I yelled at him," the brunette added as Kate looked up at Keith, who was chuckling slightly.

"Forget about it, Kell. You're going to be fine. We'll get back to the Union soon," Keith spoke as he looked at the brunette, who tried to roll over.

"Stay still," Kate ordered as she moved a hand to his legs, healing them as well. "You're going to feel very drained, Kellyn, but you'll be alive," the brunette added. Kellyn simply nodded his head as he looked at the girl.

A ringing noise filled the air as Kate looked at her arm, her Styler was ringing. She looked at Keith with a shocked look, the redhead gave her an equally shocked look as Kate pressed a button on her Styler.

"Rythmi?" Kate asked as a cheering noise came through the device.

"Kate you're okay!" Isaacs' voice filled the air. Keith gave her a confused look, normally it was Rythmi who answered the calls but at that moment Kate really didn't care.

"Isaac! You have no idea how much I have missed your voice! How is everyone?" Kate asked as she looked up at the sky. The last of the darkness was being pulled into Keiths' body.

"We're all fine. What about you guys?" Kate asked as she moved her hands away from Kellyns' healed body. She helped the brown hair boy sit up as he smiled at her.

"We're all good. Is everything okay now?" Rythmi asked as she looked at the brunette, who nodded her head.

"Everything is okay now. We'll be back at the Union soon. I promise," Kate smiled as she looked at Kellyn and stood to her feet. "How are the others, Seren, and everyone?" she questioned.

"Seren's fine. She'll be touching down at the Union soon. Ben and Summer still have broken bones and Wendy picked up a few minutes ago. She's going to see if Sven is back," Rythmi answered. Kate smiled as Kellyn looked up at her with an appreciative grin.

"Good, keep us updated. We should be heading home soon," Kate replied as she ended the call with Rythmi before turning to Keith who had taken the last of the darkness into his body.

The redhead stared up at the sky with a smile on his face, it had finally return to its normal blue colour. Kate followed his eyes as she nudged Kellyn, who also looked up.

Bird type Pokemon were flying through the air once more. The wind blew gently as the teens smiled at one another, everything seemed to be fine once again.

Giratina spread its wings and roared. Across from the group, a large portal opened up. Keith stepped down to where Kate was standing as Kellyn struggled to stand to his feet. The redhead and Kate quickly wrapped their arms around the boy.

"Follow me, please," Giratina ordered as they all started to walk towards the portal. Kellyn looked confused as the three of them walked through it. His eyes widened in shock as he looked around.

They were in a dark dimension. If Kellyn had to guess he would have thought they were in space for a moment or so. Keith held his hand over to Kate, who took the newly formed darkness stone from it before stepping forward.

Kellyn watched in confusion as a figure started to materialise in front of them. Keith and Kate both seemed to keep their cool as they looked at the figure in front of them.

The brunette haired boy practically fell to his knees as soon as he realised who was materialising in front of them. Keith grunted and quickly kept Kellyn on his feet, chuckling slightly at the brunettes' bewilderedness.

"Katherine," the familiar voice spoke.

"Arceus," Kate smiled as she took another step forward. The god pokemon smiled as he looked at everyone in his space. Kellyn looked around and more and more legendary Pokemon started to appear.

Mew, Mewtwo, Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Rayquaza, Groudon, Kyogre and so many more were appearing in the space around them. Kellyn couldn't believe his eyes as he looked at the Pokemon surrounding them.

"Holy Arceus," the brunette whispered in astonishment.


Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter. I have managed to fully complete this story now and there are exactly three more chapters left for me to post. I will review them and have them uploaded soon. Until then, please REVIEW!