Pokemon Virus Version Chapter 45
Location: National Park Forest
Seth's POV
Pokeball, grab it!" I said as I threw the pokeball at a Seviper that was lying in this blood bath.
Seviper was down, and the pokeball was thrown. Everything was in line for me to make the capture...before-
"-Yan!" the thrown pokeball was slapped onto the blood covered grass by a Yanmega.
"Yanmega?" Alice and I both questioned.
"Yes, I know. Ironic, isn't it?" A voice asked.
"Huh?" Alice, Mawile, and I all looked around until we spotted an approaching Lucy who accompanied the Yanmega.
"It's ironic how you don't expect to be defeated...by the same bug pokemon you rejected, Seth. Know why?"
I made no reply...
"Because you're not the only one after the big prize." Lucy answered as Seviper was now held down by Yanmega. "You know what they say: One man's trash is another man's treasure."
"I have no regrets." I said coldly. "Those bug types were a waste of my time at best."
"Now then." Lucy turned her attention to Yanmega and Seviper. "Yanmega, you can move out the way so I can capture our prize now, sweetie."
"Yan!" Yanmega cried as it followed Lucy's direct order.
"Kay," Lucy took out a pokeball, and stared at a downed Seviper who's eyes were closed. "You'll make a fine addition to my team-" Lucy lightly tapped the black serpentine with her pokeball, and Seviper was sucked in by a red arc of energy as a result. "-Especially when I'm promoted to the 'new' Commander 22."
Lucy never let go of the pokeball as it simply blinked red in the center.
"Is this it?" Alice questioned.
So I guess this is how today ends. At least, that's what I thought before Seviper came back outside of the pokeball, indicating that Seviper was NOT captured by Lucy.
"Sss'vipa!" Seviper charged straight toward Lucy with a Poison Tail.
Lucy herself stared into the blood colored eyes of Seviper for the first time, and flinched in fear as she screamed.
"Yan!"
"Huh?"
Lucy looked as if she knew her end was coming. Her eyes and mouth were wide open, even after the black serpentine was intercepted by Lucy's Yanmega, or should I say MY Yanmega that I released earlier.
"Paa!" Seviper had launched a stream of flame at the Yanmega, who swiftly dodged the attack.
Multiple Flamethrowers were launched at Yanmega, while Yanmega continued to dodge consistently.
"Why doesn't she call an attack" Alice asked as she, Mawile, and I all looked at a Lucy who fell victim to a paralysis caused by her own fear.
"Blood...Blood...Blood..." Lucy winced as she put both her hands on her head. "I see blood everywhere...when I loook into it's eyes...I see...I see death...my own death...That thing, it IS death!"
"Yan!" Our attention away from Lucy and back on Seviper, Yanmega was finally struck by Flamethrower, and was grounded upon the massive impact.
"Sss..." Seviper's shroud of darkness started to grow, as it slowly slithered toward the downed Yanmega. As it closed in on a downed Yanmega-
My eyes shot wide open. Mawile and Alice both turned their backs and covered their eyes. The sight was horrific, yet desensitizing at the same time. More blood was added to the blood bath. I called it: Raining blood. A drop made it's way toward my face, and I wiped it away with one finger only to stare at the finger that was a now a shade redder.
One must never keep their head away in the presence of their predator, or else they'll suffer the same fate as Yanmega just did-
"-Where predators keep their prey..." I clenched my fist ,"In their stomach."
Yanmega...
Seviper then returned it's attention toward me, giving me what a man name Professor Oak described as a 'You're next' look.
We were all back where we started: paralyzed in fear, as we stared death right in the face.
"Mawile..." I tried to capture Mawile's attention again, but it didn't work this time. I guessed we were all mentally scarred for life, from the image of Seviper devouring it's 'meal' just now.
I'm next...was this really how I would die? I wasn't able to stop Neo Snagem, or my brother, or Atticus...I've journeyed all over in search of a heart that I've realized I didn't even want in the first place. I never defeated Noah in a pokemon battle. And worst of all, I'll forever be a forgotten martyr, although it was nobody's fault but my own that we were all in this situation.
Fear...what more could I do without it?
...Wait a minute, Fear!
Whatever happened in the past, stays in the past. But sometimes the past is the key to unlock tommorow, which is why I'm now returning to an old memory within my heart...
Location: Seth's Heart
Fear...Fear...All I look for right now, is who I've kept sealed within my heart for a while now.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Traveling through the broken shards that were my heart, was Rose, and Missingno as well.
My heart was just as empty as ever, only now there was a single white staircase that went nowhere, but down.
"If I die now, my journey, my life...They would have questions that remain unanswered forever." I replied.
"What kind of questions?" Missingno asked.
"Does my power really come from nightmares and hatred?" Those words Lucy said to me...those words stuck with me. "If so, where can I find more nightmares? More hatred? I need Fear."
"Brother..."
"Fear's power is my only option at this point." I started down the descending stairs. "I must live later, rather than now if I ever want todestroy Neo Snagem."
"Be careful" Rose said.
As the three of us continued down the stairs, we stumbled upon a broken memory. THIS memory was recent though.
I immediately recognized where I was upon my entrance into this particular memory: It was where I first met Fear.
Rose and Missingno were both still floating, while I settled onto an invisible platform, observing a Fear who was also watching our previous battle from afar.
"Remember?" Missingno asked.
"You saved Yumi from the very dark aura that found it's way inside you. When Fennekin evolved, your fear of fire had overtaken you. Putting the dark aura together with your overwhelming created Fear as a result(Chapters 24 & 25)." Rose explained.
"And I've somehow a chance to finally escape this empty heart of yours that I've been forced to call home." We were all approached by Fear.
"If you think of it that way, then yes." I replied.
"You know, there really is no reason for me to decline your offer, but I'll let you know what will happen once I'm freed." Those purple eys of Fear's began to glow with power. "Trying to fight you would be rather pointless, for I know I'd be defeated once more. But when I'm free, I will be free to take and release control over your body, and in exchange you with gain control of all my powers. Do you accept?"
Rose and Missingno both looked at me, awaiting my reply.
"I accept this contract." I answered while nodding my head with a hint of hesitation.
And so here it is. My quest for power has taken a huge step forward, while it may have taken a step back at the same time.
"You've made a wise decision," Fear said. It was like looking at a mirror whenever I saw him, except Fear would actually give a psychotic smirk every once in awhile. "And so our exchange will now begin!"
That dark aura...it made it's way toward me, and I could feel the dark power surging within me. I looked at Fear, and at myself at the same time. My right eye turned a mysterious purple color, and I could feel the minds of Fear and myself becoming one. Fear had gained control, but he wasn't in COMPLETE control. In a way, I had become fear itself, as I had finally unlocked from inside, an incarnation of pure evil.
Seth's/Fear's POV
Seth and Fear were now one mind, and when I came to, I saw a black serpentine surrounded by a dark aura, it's stance on murky, blood covered grass.
"Aah yes, a shadow pokemon, I see." Isaid as I gave a fiendish smirk. "I might as well pick up where I left off with you. Now allow me to demonstrate to you what true darkness REALLY is."
"Sss!" The darkness shrouded Seviper lunged at me.
I looked into the snake's blood colored eyes, and couldn't help but chuckle as I quickly ducked and seized control of it's body using telekinesis. Seviper was now surrounded by MY dark aura.
"Maw?" Mawile cried.
"Seth?" Alice questioned. "Is that YOU controlling that- that..."She couldn't finish her question.
"Seth? No." I answered. "Seth and Fear are now one. They are me. As for my name, the only mix I can think of for Seth and Fear is Seifer. Ah yes, my name is Seifer." (This seriously was the only name I could find. Kingdom Hearts and FFIX have nothing to do with my decision).
"Seifer?" Alice said confused.
"Connections and memories, everything that Seth and Fear once called their own...they're mine now."
Without word, I rushed the dark aura to Seviper's neck, and proceeded to choke the serpentine without mercy.
Lucy gasped as she finally broke from her paralysis caused by her own fear, and caught sight of the violent choking. "What the?"
"So you're finally awake." I said. "Just so you know, after I'm done with Seviper, YOU'RE next!" I smirked fiendishly.
I returned my attention toward the Seviper crying out in pain, as it remained in mid air being choked.
"S...sss..ng.."
"In the presence of my predator...I have become the predator itself. As for you-" My eyes narrowed. "Those who kill should always prepared to be killed." The dark aura raged as the black serpentine was starting to fade. "But-"
I released Seviper from the dark aura's hold and took out a pokeball, ready for capture.
"-But I still intend on capturing you..." I said as I lightly tapped Seviper with the pokeball, which released a red arc of energy forcing the black serpentine in as I held the blinking pokeball in my hand.
Why I didn't kill Seviper? While Fear simply wants Seviper to suffer, he wasn't in complete control of the Seth that still wanted to capture Seviper. I guess my personality is just split between the two. And right now, I believe Seth's wish is to regain initial control, so it shall be...
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Seth's POV
Even though I've freed Fear from his prison, my control is still stronger than his. Have I really learned to control him AND myself as we speak?
"-Yes, yes I have." I said to myself.
And now Seifer, the combination of Fear and I, will only come and go at my command- the command of a now permanant incarnation of pure evil.
Once the pokeball I was holding clicked shut, Mawile, Alice, and I all let out a sigh of relief. I looked back to see that Lucy made her escape, but that was all forgotten once Mawile and Alice both dragged me down on some nearby fresh green grass to tackle me into a hug.
"Get off me!" I said annoyed.
"We're alive!" Alice said while still hugging. "We didn't die!"
Mawile was still shivering, but that didn't stop her from burying her face in my chest. "Mawile."
After the pointless affection, we all leaned against the biggest tree we could find.
"Now what?" Alice asked. "We're still lost, aren't we?"
"We'll camp out here for the night." I replied. "It'll be easier to navigate when moring arrives."
"Aaaww!" Mawile made quite a long yawn while stretching her arm as she then leaned against me, falling asleep almost right away.
If only it were THIS quiet earlier today...
I had captured Seviper, but at the same time I questioned whether I could control this killer as I stared at the shadow pokemon's pokeball.
With my mind becoming one with Fear's, not only did I gain control of his powers, but I also regained a few memories that I have lost. I've JUST remembered that I had captured a Murkrow at the beginning of my journey (Chapter 5), I met a girl named Althaea whom is traveling to Goldenrod City right now, and I defeated a Pidgeot in the process of obtaining a Zephyr Badge from Falkner in Violet City. At one time, I tried to kill a man I simply called Commander 21 using Mawile (Chapter 19), and I remember encountering a few commanders such as 24 and 10, and I promised myself that I would defeat them in the future.
The regaining of my memories from the early parts of my journey only slowed my drift into a deep sleep. But I eventually dozed off...
...
This is a dream, or is it?
Location: Seth's Heart
While still empty, it felt as though my heart's connections with everyone was restored. Yumi, Chikorita, Volkner, Flint...I despised this feeling, because what were also restored were my broken connections with Zero, Atticus, and that orange dragon, Charizard. I started to wonder where in the world my father Rosen was. It's been six years since I last saw him. I also wondered why my mother Flora married Atticus again, and why Atticus had left me behind to die five years ago. Who was Rui? And what did finding Missingno have to do with her?
Fear and I were the same person now, and was now tamed as long as he rested within my heart. Rose and I were just finishing our conversation that shifted our attention away from Wes, as far as searching for our true enemy was concerned.
"-Rui was the girl in the 'Utopia' dream I had a little while back(Chapter 26)." I started.
"If we return to that Utopia dream, maybe Rui will finally give us an answer." Rose finished.
"But how do we return to Utopia?" I asked.
"I would have expected YOU of all people to know the answer to that, Brother." Rose replied. "The answer is simple: We just have to dream about it. The problem is, how and when the dream will come."
"I guess only time will tell." I said as I closed my eyes.
"I too believe so," My sister said in agreement.
Rose and I spent the rest of the night in my heart just drifting away...The dream was rather forgettable as far as 'dreams' were concerned, and I soon whited out...
When I came to...I was on a bed in what looked to be a Pokemon Center?
"Huh?" I said confused. "How'd I get here? Was it all a dream?"
"So you're finally up..." A voice whispered to me.
I attempted to get out of bed to get a glimpse at where the voice was coming from. "Er..." But I fell back down immediately after feeling a very sharp pain from my abdomen. I grabbed my abdomen and winced in pain before looking to see Alice staring at me from the bed that rested right across the room.
"You..." I looked at Alice confused. "How'd we get here, and out of the forest?" And where's Mawile?"
"I'm not sure." Alice replied.
"Ursaring, Chikorita, and I went to search for you three early this morning." The room door was already open, and Chapel had entered the room, along with a Chikorita who immediately hopped on my bed to greet me.
"Chico!"
I didn't even bother asking how Chapel was able to find us because I knew she used my memories to guide her through the forest, liking using an instant replay over and over again.
"Mawile's being treated by Nurse Joy. All she needs is probably some rest at this point. I believe you do too, Seth." Chapel looked at me, noticing the apparent lingering pain coming from my abdoment. "That Poison Tail dealt more damage to you than you think."
"We can leave first thing tomorrow morning." I suggested.
"Sure." Chapel said with a smile as she then turned to Alice, who was apparently staring into my eyes before being addressed. "And what about you?"
"Well, I WAS planning on leaving later on, but I'm REALLY tired from last night." Alice replied. "My next contest in Mahogony Town won't be for quite some time though."
"I see." Chapel said as she turned around and started out of the room. "Well, I'll leave you two alone and let you get some rest now." The door was closed, and the room was quiet...Before Alice suddenly approached Chikorita and I.
"I should tell everyone how nice you were to me. Especially that lowly peasant, Yumi. She'll be extremely jealous." Alice gave a haughty smile as she crossed her arms.
"Huh?"
"You DID say I was pretty, after all (Chapter 44)." Alice fluttered her eyelashes. "And I got to spend some time alone with you. Protecting a lady who didn't want to be left alone in the dark forest-" Alice continued rambling as Chikorita and I simply looked at each other before I subtly drifted back into a deep sleep.
To Be Continued...
So, as far as the story is concerned, this may very well be the most significant chapter so far.
Seth+Fear=Seifer, Seth's new alias with his shadow powers unlocked, though his only revealed power is telekinesis.
And yes, what Seviper did to Yanmega is alone enough to change this story's rating. But it won't always be like this because I will actually warn you guys when a chapter has some disturbing action, like this one.
So please stay tuned for a generically light hearted Chapter 46, that will feature major canon characters.