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~Chapter 3: Scattered~
A huge tower looms over mountains outside of Origin Valley. Compelled to the tower, Yin and Eevee go to it. There, they see it is surrounded by orbs of light. A voice talks to them, telling them that if they wish to learn more about the orbs of light that they must climb the tower and speak to it. So, they decide to climb the tower. When they start to climb the steps on the first floor to progress up the tower however, the orbs of light all come together to make an off creature.
This creature chases them up to the tower. However, in a moment of carelessness, it gets Eevee in its grasp.
Eevee yelped when it grabbed him. The way the limb felt was very odd, it was like the creature was made of some sort of water or something. it felt liker water was touching him, yet it was a solid limb. Then it felt like the creature was trying to suck him into its body! Yin slashed at the creature, but the material it was made of merely moved out of the way, as if it was acting on its own accord. Yin tried to think of a way to save Eevee, but his sword wasn't working at all.
A fireball came from the stairs and hit the limb that was holding it Eevee. It exploded on contact with the limb, and the limb dropped Eevee. Eevee was then caught by Yin. Yin looked over to the stairs to see someone from origin Village there! It was one of his mother's friends, Liz. Liz had long red hair, which trailed down her back. She wore robes with amplified her mystical powers that she had. Liz was one of the few humans able to wield a power called magic. Magic wielders were able to bend the elements to their will and shoot fireballs or bolts of lightning. At least, that was what Yin had seen from Liz up to this point. he was sure there were many other things magic could do.
"Liz! What are you doing here!" Yin asked his friend. Liz merely ignored his question and grabbed Yin by the arm pulling him up the stairs up to the next floor. Which happened to be the top of the tower. When they got up there, they saw it was shaped very much like an arena. perhaps now they were going to have to fight the creature here? It seemed like it, as there were no places to run from here!
Sure enough, when the creature got up onto the same level as them it let out a roar. However, when it went into the light its skin changed. It was clearly a solid form now. Perhaps now normal attacks could harm it? Yin decided to test his theory by charging at the creature and slashing at it with his sword. His blade cut into the skin of the creature just like it would for any other thing he would attack. The creature swiped an arm at Yin, knocking him back a bit. Right after that its shook in pain as electricity crackled along its body, the source of the electric attack being from Liz. Then right after that attack a purple orb smacked into it, Shadow Ball.
Yin came back up to the creature and sliced at it again as it was also hit by yet another electric attack from Liz. From Eevee came a barrage of stars, swift. The stars hit the creature, the bigger stars exploded into smaller stars upon impact then those smaller stars would disappear. After that, the creature let out a loud roar, before a large orb of darkness shattered the creature. The orbs of light scattering around the area. Yin, Eevee, and Liz looked at the place where the orb of darkness came from. There was a small rock in that direction. The rock had a crack in it.
"Did that thing destroy the creature?" Liz asked, thoroughly confused by the sight of the small rock.
"Yes, I destroyed the Soul Wraith. You would not have been able to destroy it, so I decided to interfere," A telepathic voice coming from the small rock said. Then, the crack in the rock glowed a bright purple, and a somewhat pinwheelish shape came out it the same color as the glow from the crack. A face and green orbs appeared on the shape. The small rock was, in fact, Spiritomb. "This place is the Tower of Souls. i am the keeper of the tower. A great burden I bear, watching over the souls of the dead until their rebirth. Yet, I must search through every soul, and destroy the human ones. In a world this large, that takes quite awhile."
"Wait, you have to destroy the human souls? Why!?" Yin asked, drawing his blade once again. Liz however put her arm in front of him, stopping him from attacking Spiritomb.
"It seems you are not aware of humanity's fate. very well, allow me to inform you a little bit. Humans were not directly created by Arceus. No, the three fundamental gods of this world made you. Xerneas, breathed life into. Yveltal gave you your powers, like magic, or your extreme intelligence. Zygarde ordered this creation, the creation of his tools. Now, I'm afraid if I told you more, I'd be putting myself in danger. So, I will not explain more than beyond this point." Spiritomb explained.
"So, it's true what my mother told me about humans then? They are meant to be tools of the gods?" Eevee asked Spiritomb. Of course, what he said would be indecipherable to Yin or Liz.
"Not necessarily, humans still have free will young one. Which is why your human partner is able to overcome your very nature and be your ally. In that way Pokemon and human are the same. They both are able to make their own decisions, but whether they can stray from their destiny? Well, humanity hasn't been around long enough to fulfill its TRUE destiny. Perhaps humanity will need to be stripped of their free will. after all, their numbers grow larger by the minute, large cities with highly advanced weapons have even popped up," Spiritiomb said, highly shocking Yin and Liz. Humanity was alive outside of Origin Valley? How was that possible!? Every human lived in Yggdrassil before they were kicked out!
"So, wait, humans exist outside of Origin Valley!?" Liz asked an astonished look on both her and Yin's face.
"Yes, the fundamentals made multiple tribes of humanity, one of which they desired to keep closest to them. The one most important to humanity's destiny. That is your tribe." Yin looked like he was starting to become somewhat irritated.
"What IS our destiny? If we are supposed to fulfill it, wouldn't it help you if you told us what it was!?" Spiritomb looked at the three. He decided to get this over with. These two humans were getting somewhat annoying. Yin, Li, and Eevee were all enveloped in a bright light.
"I will not tell your destiny, but instead put you on the path to fulfill it." After Spiritomb said that, the lights shot up into the sky. After a certain point, the scattered. Two of the lights stayed together, while one went in the opposite direction. Their journey was truly about to begin. They were now scattered. All according to the destiny set out for them.
Yin woke up his back and the rest of his muscles aching. When he opened his eyes, he saw that he was in a very different place. he was all alone, and the the terrain around him was wet and grassy. huge trees were all around him, and barely any light got through the canopy above him. He got up groaning in pain as he did so. "Liz? Eevee?" He called out hoping that his friends were close by and okay. However, the only response he got was the sounds of the area around him. Which was alot of noise, this forest was very loud. He got to his feet looking around. The area was very colorful, odd orange plants trailing across the grounds and up the big trees. The land was also quite odd, like something out of a fairy tale. It seemed to rise up and down, and some of it made a uniform path for travelers to follow. Seeing as he really had no where else to go, Yin walked along that path, taking in the beauty of this forest.
As he walked, he could've sworn that multiple times he saw something out of the corner of his eye watching him. However, every time he tried to look at it the thing that was watching him was gone. Then, when he looked away, he swore he could see it again. Was the way the forest looked just playing tricks on him, or was something really there? Soon, something dropped down in front of him from above. The creature had a soul int he middle of it, with an odd etheral body around it. Yin had heard legends about these monsters, elementals. Each one used an element, this one, based on how its skin was crackling with electricity, clearly used electricity. He drew his sword, but by the time he had it properly drawn he was hit with a ball of electricity, knocking him unconscious. In his last seconds of consciousness, he saw that the ground around the area seemed to be moving.
Liz had a secret, one she had kept from all of her friends, and even her family. It was a unique gift that she was given, one that she was sure no other human had. Unlike most humans, who have to guess what a pokemon is saying, liz can clearly understand pokemon. Like it was speaking in clear English. Of course, up until now, it had no purpose, as she wasn't with any pokemon long enough for it to matter what it was trying to say. However, when she woke up, she was thankful for that gift. Yin was nowhere to be seen, but Eevee was with her. It seemed like Spiritomb had split them in two groups, which seemed like an odd thing to do. Perhaps it was all part of the 'destiny' he said they had to follow. Liz scoffed at that thought. As he said, humans and pokemon have their own free will, she wasn't about to do what some legendary told her to do!
She looked over at Eevee. So, that's Yin's partner, huh? She thought. She shook the Eevee awake. "Wake up, youngster," She said, mistaking Eevee's age since he wasn't evolved. After Eevee heard that, he woke up right away, an angry look on his face.
"I'm not a youngster," Eevee said, getting up and stretching. He then looked around at the area they were in. It was a craggy area with jagged rocks surrounding the little bit of a clearing where they were. It was somewhat similar to the passage Yin and him took to get out of Origin Valley. "Wait,where's Yin?!"
"Don't you remember? Spiritomb separated us. Yin could be halfway across the world, or he could be right around the corner." Evee was astonished that Liz had responded to question directly.
"Wait, you can understand me? I thought humans couldn't understand pokemon." Liz sighed, putting her hand over her face.
"Yeah, that's correct, but I'm different, I can understand pokemon. I don't know how or why I have this gift; I just have it." Eevee was quite surprised to say the least, but it seemed like asking more questions wouldn't yield any more answers, so what was the point in asking more? Liz began to walk away from him.
"So, what do you plan to do Liz? I mean, you're going to go after Yin right? he is your friend right?" Eevee asked. Liiz looked at Eevee.
"That's exactly what I intend to do. I'm going to find Yin, then hopefully we can home. I bet he has already realized how big of a mistake it was to leave the valley. By the way, do you have a name, Eevee?" Evee ran up to her, climbing on Liz's shoulder. He smiled before speaking.
"Rion." Liz nodded before setting off, climbing up the wall of rock that surrounded them. When they reached the top of the rocks, they saw something astonishing. It was a village made of metal, is how Liz would describe it.
Gah, once again, this one feels sloppy to me. Sorry if it wasn't that good of a chapter. I'm still trying to get past the opening of the story. Which, this was the final chapter of! As always, please review!