Hey readers, Umbrenox again! I want to say thanks to anyone who gave me answers (or gives me answers after this chapter is posted, or any other time). I'm sorry for the big gap between postings I have had a lot of things going on. So, hope you enjoy this chapter! *I do not own pokémon, that belongs to Nintendo. However, the story itself and OC's are mine. If any events or characters are the same as someone else's, I did not intentionally do so, it is pure coincidence.*
It was black everywhere I looked, and also silent. I had no idea where I was. I wasn't standing, sitting, laying down, falling, or anything actually. It was if I was just there, wherever 'there' was.
"Andrew," said a voice, breaking the silence. I looked around, but it was still a void of black. "Andrew," said the voice again. It was a familiar voice, very familiar. "Andrew! Open your eyes!" The voice commanded. I obeyed the command and opened my eyes. I then felt the weight of gravity suddenly, in a weird way. It was like it was there all along, or something. I looked up and saw a black sky dotted with the gleaming stars like pieces of a shattered mirror. I was standing on solid rock, and I could tell by the numerous pillars around me and the staircase of light that I was with Arceus again, in a dream (though the gravity feeling was an early giveaway).
Like before I proceeded up the stairs until I was staring at Arceus. "So, why am I up here again?" I asked. "I wanted to tell you something," Arceus answered. "And what is it that you wanted to tell me?" I asked impatiently. He paused for a moment, and then said, "You have to leave tomorrow." "What?!" I asked. I couldn't believe what I heard. I couldn't leave Kiara alone at this time, especially since someone mailed dangerous chemicals in a package that would mix when someone opened it. And I just got a job that I hope to keep. Leaving would put Kiara in danger, along with my job. "I'm sorry, did I just hear you say: I had to leave? Tomorrow?" I asked. "Why yes, I did. Is something the matter?" Arceus inquired. "Well, in case you haven't noticed, I'm being hunted down by a machoke and a bisharp that would rather break all my ribs along with my legs, dislocate a shoulder, gouge both of my eyes out, chop off a few fingers, and put a couple holes in my stomach so I can have a long and painful death than break my neck or something. I'm pretty sure that they are also ticked off at Kiara so they'll probably be the same with her. Kiara would be scared and heartbroken if I left now, and if something did happen to her I wouldn't be around to help. I'm still trying to figure out how to get home, and even if I want to go back. What else… oh yeah, and I just got a job that I can be successful at. And you want me to leave tomorrow?"
He was silent for a while, and it was unsettling. I really hope that he didn't get pissed. But when he did speak he didn't sound angry (thank God). "I will make sure Kiara does not get seriously hurt by malicious individuals while you are gone, but if harm does befall her it will be by her own accord. As for your job, the manager is pretty lenient and will probably understand your situation. But I cannot guarantee you keep it," Arceus replied calmly and slowly. "That's very reassuring thank you. But why do I have to leave?" I asked. "You need to be trained," Arceus answered, "Do you remember what I told you when we first met?" I thought back to that time, and remembered some of it, surprisingly. "Yeah it was something about something bad going to happen." "Close enough I suppose, but let me elaborate on the subject. Do you know the full story of Giratina?" I shook my head, then Arceus went on, "Giratina was one of the protectors, you know them as Palkia, Dialga, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Cresselia, and Darkrai. I appointed them as guardians over key elements in life: Space, Time, Knowledge, Emotion, Willpower, and Good and Evil attributes [Fear vs. Bravery, Despair vs. Hope, etc.]. I was a guardian of creation and life, but as I hate to say it, there has to be balance. Thus I created Giratina, guardian of destruction and death [Think of giratina as the grim reaper, mixed with Hades], and I had to give him… equal power to my own." Arceus was silent for a while, maybe regretting his decision. He started talking again so suddenly I flinched.
"It was a costly mistake. For many years Giratina opposed me, as I knew he would, to have balance. He wasn't evil, he was far from that. He destroyed, whether it be good or evil, and he took lives, whether they be good or evil. But one day he went beyond his boundaries. He started to destroy things that weren't supposed to be destroyed, took lives that were too early to be taken. I then acted as quickly as I could and repelled his attacks, but we were complete opposites, and we interlocked in a battle for many years. One would get the upper hand, only to lose it to the other. During our last moments of attacks, Palkia and Dialga created a realm in which you could only return from if you had a tether made by either of the two. With their help I banished Giratina to the prison, never to see him again. At least, until you showed up.
"Your appearance in this world was not supposed to happen. And the repercussions of it made everything even more unstable. Giratina would still be secured in his prison if he were alone, even with the instability, but he isn't. Beings with twisted minds wish to see the world get destroyed, and are currently working to release Giratina. These pokémon have probably felt the disturbance, and are working to weaken the distortion realm's barriers even as we speak.
"That is why you must leave. You are not trained enough to fight these pokémon. Once you are trained you must stop them. Giratina must not escape."
I took a minute to take his words in. I couldn't believe what I had gotten myself into. I'm just you're average teenage guy, but he expected me to save the world… awesome. And what if Giratina gets loose? What'll happen then? Other questions entered my head right then: Why did Arceus choose me, of all the biengs in the universe, to do this? And why didn't Arceus just destroy Giratina, or stop the bad guys from releasing him?
Oddly however, I chose the most irrelevant question to ask: "Arceus, if I wasn't supposed to appear here, why did I?" He looked at me like he was trying to figure out my question. It must have clicked because he looked up at the sky and answered, "There was already a slight disturbance, but even slight is bad if you split the whole universe in two different dimensions and make a third without time. Giratina, with outside help, would be able to escape with that slight disturbance. I allowed you to come here to stop Giratina, a problem that shouldn't exist. Therefore your appearance here was not meant to be."
I'm not sure I fully understood his answer, especially the splitting of the dimensions part, but it was good enough for now. Taking little time for the answer to sink in, Arceus instructed me on what to do, "When you wake up your goal will be going north, through mt. Cornet, to the place that you refer to as Snowpoint. When you get there, you will meet Frasier, a lucario. He is your first trainer. When you are experienced enough I will direct you to your second trainer. But now, you need to wake up."
I was jerked awake before I could blink, and I layed there looking up at the ceiling. There was weight on my chest, I looked down and it was Kiara resting her head on me. It was about 6:00 by the way the sky was painted orange and red, so I decided to wait awhile for Kiara to wake up. So I spent the next two hours trying to answer the new question in my head: "How am I going to explain this to her?"