Mirror of Nightmare
Chapter 20: Savior, Man and Monster
-Somewhere in the world…
He is there…
He is in a village, full with Pokemon…
But…
Most Pokemon in this village… are death…
Their bodies are covered with red blood. Their arms and legs are torn apart from their body…
Who did this?
None other than…
Him…
He is standing in the middle of the village, holding the death body of a small Pokemon in his hand…
He rises the soulless body into the sky before letting out a roar!
But then, his face turns back from a feral face into a normal face. His eyes turn from bloody eyes back to normal. He looks around the village with a frighten-looking face. Then he looks at the one that he is carrying before he lets out a cry…
What happen?
A minute ago, he rampaged the village, and a minute later he cries like a mad one…
Then… Several villagers that are still alive come out of their shelter. They look at him with the eyes that full with hatred, fear and despite.
"Monster!"
-Awakening
Link wakes up in the morning. Rucas and Navi are still sleeping. All of them are staying in Hyrule Castle Town Inn for a night.
Link thinks of his dreams. Since he arrives Hyrule, he had five strange dreams…
The first one… He is fighting in the war…
The second one… He is rampaging the village…
The third one… He is walking in a mysterious place…
The fourth one… Continue from the first one… He gets injure from the fight and is about to die…
And… the fifth one… From the last night… Continue from the second one… He regains his consciousness and realizes that he had killed most residents in the village…
He picks his notebook from his bag and writes all of his dreams in the book in order to not forget it.
After that, he wakes up Rucas and Navi and they go out of the hotel to the Milk Bar in Hyrule Castle Town to have a breakfast. At that place, they run into Yterval.
"Good morning! Darkon prince." Rucas greets with a low voice so only Yterval and his friends can hear. (Because Yterval doesn't want anyone to know that he is the prince of Darkon.)
"Hm? Does Princess Xynnia awake yet?" Yterval asks.
"Well… Zelda sent us a message that she is better than yesterday, so she will awake before tomorrow." Navi says.
"That's good…" Yterval says.
Link and Rucas looks at each other. They want to know more about the past of Xynnia and Yterval, but they decide not to ask Yterval…
Link and Rucas have a breakfast with Yterval at the bar. While having a breakfast, they notice that most people on the bar is surrounding a human that dresses like a bard.
"What is that?" Yterval asks.
"Well… In Irtha, at the bar, sometime a wandering bard may show up and tell a lore or a legend to the children…" Rucas says.
"Should we go and listen too?" Yterval asks, but Rucas shakes his head no.
"I had have listened to the tale from the wandering bard since I was a Riolu, and I have listened to all of the lore from them." Rucas says. Then Link, Rucas, Yterval and Navi notice that the bard is starting to tell the story.
"…The planet that we are living is created by the god "Arceus", isn't it? The planet is born and existed through generation… It is like the box of memory… It witnessed so many tales and legends… Some legends may have forgotten through time… But no matter what, the planet still remembers it… This is one of the lost tale that had never been recorded in the history of the world… It is the tale… of the Savior, Man and Monster…"
'Savior, Man and Monster?' Link thinks. Then he notices that Rucas starts to turn his attention to the story.
"Hey! Rucas! Didn't you say that you don't want to listen to the tale from the bard?!" Navi asks.
"Don't get me wrong. The reason why I want to listen to this story because I have never heard of a story like this before… The story of Savior, Man and Monster…" Rucas says.
The bard continues telling the story while playing his harp…
"The story begins in the night with the moonless sky… All shrouded in the darkness… The god had granted the life to the newborn child… He also gave the great power to the child… The power with no equal… This makes the child blessed with the invincible state… However… This power is the blade of two sides… It grants the child with the power with no equal… But it also turns the child into the monster with no heart... The child was despised by everyone… Every night with the moonless sky… The power shall consume the body of the child, turn him into the heartless monster… This power makes the child become sad and fill him with grieve… So he needs to live alone in order to protect everyone from his darkside… One day… he helped a young maiden from the danger… He quickly told the maiden to escape from him… The maiden… did not do as he told… The maiden approved to the boy… Places her hand on the boy's heart… She is the only one that didn't afraid of the boy… This made the boy so happy… The day after that day… the boy lives with the maiden… He learned how to control the power of his darkside… Everyone starts to stop to be afraid of the child… The child grew up… from a boy to a young man… He hoped that he will finally live in peace. But… no.. When the god learned all about this… he became very angry that the young man didn't accept his power… So he gives the young man the final gift… At a night with the moonless sky… The power of the young man somehow grew stronger… stronger then the young man could control… He rampaged the village that he lived in… killed almost everyone in the village… The young maiden that lives with him tries to stop him… But the thing that stop is the beat of her heart… She died in the hand of the young man… The night passed… The morning came… The young man returned to normal state… Only to find the guilt that he had done… He even killed someone whom he loved… The survivals in the village got mad at him and chased him from the village… branded him as "The Heartless Monster"…"
The bard stops telling the story for a while before he stands up and tells the last part of the story…
"Now… Here is a riddle of guess if you can… Who is the savior, man and monster…"
After he left the riddle, the bard walks out of the bar…
"Savior… Man… Monster…" Yterval mumbles.
"Such a sad story…" Navi says.
Link looks around and notices that Rucas isn't in the bar anymore, so he pays the cost of his breakfast and walks out of the bar.
Outside the Hyrule Castle Town. Link found Rucas is sitting under the tree, looking at the sky.
When Link approaches to him, Rucas finally notices Link.
"Hm? Link? Sorry for ran out of the bar without telling you before… I just want… some fresh air… You know… The air in that bar isn't so clean…" Rucas says.
"Hey!" Someone says. Then Navi and Yterval flies up to them.
"Yeah…" Rucas says.
"The story from that bard is quite sad and amazing!" Navi says.
"Hm… That story reminds of my life when I was in the Darkon…" Yterval says.
"Yterval, what does you do as the prince of Darkon in the land of the Afterlife?" Navi asks.
"My work? I judge the sin of the lost soul and judge the place for them…. If they are good enough when they were alive, they will go and live in the Lumina, but if not… Darkon… Some soul choose to live in the Soulyn in order for them to reborn." Yterval says.
"Wow… It is such a difficult work." Rucas says.
"When I was young, this work belonged to Zygarde, my father. When I grew up and got crowned as the prince of Darkon, this work is mine… However… As you know… I was just a child, so Giratina, one of my servants, sometime he did this work instead of mine. But now, I do this work all alone. Hm…" Yterval says and acts like that he had just remember something.
"What's wrong?" Navi asks.
"I just remember something… About almost two decades ago, some lost souls in the Darkon disappeared without any trace…" Yterval says.
To Be Continue…
LD: I can answer to this question!
Pokedragon: Yes, Arceus is the Savior, everyone is a man and you are a monster.
LD: No, Pokedragon. The god in that story is the monster. The maiden is the Savior and the rest is the man.
Pokedragon: LD, this is the first time that you say something sounds good…