Author's Notes:

Okay, before I start this, one big reason for the delay was heavy change in the future of this story. If you haven't seen my profile, check it out, because an outline of the series is there. If you checked it out before this chapter's release, check it out again, as the series outline changed heavily.

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~Chapter 2: Tower of Souls~

Yin, a young human at age 14, is the first human to leave his home with the intention of not returning that day.

Eevee, his age compared to a human's would be that of a toddler. However, he is older mentally than Yin. Despite seemingly being carefree and such, Eevee seems to have his own problems. A recent past which plagues him with guilt.

These two meet each out on the plains of Origin Valley. In a world where pokemon and humans seem to only wish for each other's destruction, these two form a companionship. Their world is a hostile one, and their bond is formed through debt. After Eevee saved Yin's life from an Ariados attack, Yin allows the Eevee to travel with him. It is the first time in the short history of the world such a partnership has been born. Now, they travel out to the Wandering Dusts, a desert that makes Origin Valley look like the size of a garden.

They progress now into the desert, an odd tower entering their peripheral vision as it looms over some of the mountains surrounding the valley.

Yin and Eevee were amazed. They had finally reached the edge of the desert and they could not believe the sight before them. As far as they could see was just sand. The desert was mostly flat, and it looked like a desolate plain. The sun's harsh light beat down on the desert and the areas a little far from them seemed to wiggle a bit in the heat. The only thing that gave variety to the landscape were the strange creatures that shambled around across the sand. They weren't a pokemon of any kind and seemed to be made of a stone a similar color to the sand. They had one large eye that was a bright red. Their body was very wide at the top, having broad shoulders and huge arms. Their legs were puny, therefore the creatures didn't move around on their arms. They instead walked using their hands as feet.

Yin wasn't a total stranger to these creatures. They appeared sometimes after a death; particularly a death that was quite slow and painful. They formed from a light that left the corpse of the creature that had died. So, these monsters had been named Soul Walkers as they formed from the soul of a being. It was also notable that the stronger the creature that died, the stronger the Soul Walker created. There had been a few occasions where powerful pokemon had starved out on the plains. Those Soul Walkers were not fun to deal with.

Although, out here something seemed a bit different about the Soul Walkers. Each of them glowed with a reddish light, and unless their eyes were playing tricks on them, both Yin and Eevee swore that the formation of the stone around the eye made them look like they had not been put into this state normally. Something was out of the ordinary here for sure. That is when Yin saw it. Off to the right, hanging over a couple of outlier mountains was a tall tower. Due to the size of the mountains, this tower was invisible from inside the valley. However, this made Yin wonder, who had built this tower? No known pokemon built structures such as this so it had to be some greater force or an unknown group of humans. Although, the chances of humans being to live in such harsh conditions were very slim.

Eevee followed Yin's gaze and looked at the tower. It gave off a bit of an odd feeling. The tower was a bit taller than those mountains, but not as tall as the ones surrounding Origin Valley. There seemed to be odd little lights tracing around the outside of the tower, but they couldn't be quite sure from this distance. Yin felt oddly compelled by his curiosity to head towards the tower, so he did so. Eevee watched Yin for a second before following Yin, not quite sure why they were taking this detour. Although, he to was curious as to what was awaiting in the tower.

The walk to the tower did not take as long as they had expected. In what seemed to be in a few short minutes, but in reality was hours, they reached the tower. The lights were now clearly visible as orbs of lights that left behind trails. Odd, indecipherable whispers seemed to come from the orbs, as if they were asking for help. Two orbs specifically came to Yin and circled around him. It was like they were trying to get their attention. Yin looked curiously at the odd orbs, they weren't trying to harm them, were they?

"Sad, isn't it?" A voice said via telepathy. Yin grabbed the hilt of his blade and was ready to draw it.

"Who's there!?" Yin and Eevee asked simultaneously, daring the voice to show itself. The voice at first merely laughed in response to Yin and Eevee's reaction to its voice speaking to them.

"If you wish to speak to me and learn more about these orbs of light, climb the tower. At the top, I will speak to you. However, beware, as the tower is not uninhabited. My guardians lay in sleep, waiting to wake up in response to a visitor. You will be the visitor that wakes them." Yin looked at Eevee, seeing if the Eevee wanted to go into the tower. Eevee nodded and entered the tower; Yin followed him inside. The inside of the tower was an amazing sight. They were greeted with a large room, a large pillar of light in the middle of a spiral staircase that went up to the ceiling of the floor they were on. Yin looked around expecting some sort of monsters or pokemon to come out and start trying to attack them. However, this floor appeared to be completely empty.

"Odd, didn't the voice say something about guardians?" Yin asked Eevee. Eevee looked around as well, confused just as much as Yin. Where exactly were the guardians? Why wouldn't this floor have some guardians? "That is quite odd. Wouldn't it just be easier to get rid of weak visitors by putting guardians on the first floor of the tower?" Eevee thought. They both shrugged and went towards the stairs to climb up to the next floor. However as they stepped foot on the stairs the pillar of light shone brightly. Then, the orbs of light that made the pillar all went to the entrance of the tower, forming a strange figure. It was tall and in a sort of humanoid shape. It had two long serpentine arms and no legs, suggesting it merely moved across the ground in same way a slug or snail would. The little orbs of light that made it up could be seen floating around inside of it, as its "skin" was translucent.

"Well, it would appear THAT is the guardian. I don't think we can handle that, so, how about we run?" Yin asked Eevee before taking off up the stairs. Eevee followed closely behind, he had a feeling they WEREN'T supposed to fight that thing, and that it was just going to chase them around the tower. Turns out that Eevee was actually correct. On the next floor, the staircase went up the outer walls, again in a spiral fashion. However, also on this floor was a Druddigon guarding the bottom of the drew his blade, knowing that there would be a confrontation here. Yin and Eevee approached the Druddigon; who upon seeing them fired a Fire Blast in their direction. Yin was able to easily sidestep the attack and slashed at the Druddigon with his sword. However, the Druddigon merely swatted the blade away and prepared a counter attack. Eevee attacked with an attack of his own right after Yin and threw the Druddigon off balance. This gave Yin an opening for an attack. Seizing the opportunity, he made an upward slash at the Druddgion, cutting into its rough hide.

The Druddigon let out a roar of pain, but it was clearly not defeated. Looking back at the staircase quickly, Eevee saw that the creature that was chasing them was on the same floor as them now, but it seemed to move quite slowly. Eevee bit down on the Druddgion's leg, distracting it while Yin slashed at the dragon again. This time, after the slash, the Druddigon seemed to fade? Then, as it was seemingly gone it exploded into more of the orbs of light. The orbs of light that made up the dragon went to the light creature and made it larger and assuredly more powerful. Yin and Eevee quickly ran up the stairs, eager to put more ground between them and this creature. The next floor had 3 Fraxures on it. All of which charged at Yin and Eevee the moment they set foot on the floor. They were weaker than the Druddigon and were more easy to dispatch than that dragon. However, there were 3 of them, and that was what made the battle against them difficult. The Fraxures were quite dumb, and Yin and Eevee took advantage of that, even tricking one to fall down onto the previous floor. Just like the Druddigon when they were defeated they faded into the lights and powered up the odd creature that was chasing Yin and Eevee.

However, they seemed to have forgotten that it was constantly chasing them. When they reached the steps; a long serpentine limb wrapped around Eevee.

-End of Chapter-

Author's Notes:

Yeah, I know, I know, I said I'd make the chapters longer. Trust me though, what happens next deserves its own chapter all to itself. Anyways, I should have the next chapter up soon! As always, please review!

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