"Mewtwo... Mewtwo..."

Mewtwo opened her eyes, but she didn't really open her eyes. She quickly realised that she was dreaming, but there was something not quite right about the dream. It was almost like something outside of her was influencing her unconscious mind. Something unimaginably ancient and powerful, but a force that beared her no malice.

"What's going on?" she asked cautiously, trying to stay on her guard even while her instincts told her nothing was wrong. It vexed her, the unnatural contradiction.

"I wish to speak with you. Well, you and Wolf and Lucky." The voice replied, echoing in her ears as much as her mind. It was a feminine voice, soft but full of authority, and Mewtwo felt compelled to obey it. "I will need you to come to this place, so that we may speak."

***

Mewtwo woke up, sitting up abruptly in the common room. None of the other pokemon had stirred, the room still dark and the moon high in the night sky. Much like any of her other dreams, the detail stayed with her powerful mind in perfect clarity, but there was something even more perplexing. In her dream, there had been little to see other than a black glow and a white flame. With a gasp of shock, she remembered the place the voice had told her to go. A place she had never been before. A place she didn't even know existed.

Hastily putting on a dressing gown Wolf had bought for her, she hurried quietly through the halls of her trainer's home in search of Wolf's bedroom. He and Lucky would still be asleep in there, but she needed them urgently right now. In some corner of her mind, she could feel that awesome power watching her every move. She shivered, quickening her pace.

Finally she reached her destination, quietly opening the door and poking her head into the room to see their sleeping forms entwined on the bed. She breathed a sigh of relief as she noticed they were both clothed, happy that it would take little time to get them there. She crossed the room, kneeling next to the bed and laying a hand on his shoulder.

"Wolf." She whispered urgently, giving him a gentle shake. "Wolf, please wake up." He mumbled something unintelligible, the hand around Lucky tightening slightly but otherwise gave little other sign of hearing her. Annoyed, she shook him harder, this time he opened his eyes groggily to stare at her.

"Mewtwo?" he asked, glancing at the clock next to his bed. "It's one in the morning. What is it?"

"Wolf, I need you and Lucky to come with me." She murmured back, looking at him with an intensity that he had never seen in her eyes before. He blinked at her, hearing the note of stress in her voice, before deciding that she wouldn't have woken him up for something that wasn't really important. Gently he shook Lucky, pleased when the Lucario woke up soon after. After a quick whispered explaination while Wolf threw the previous days clothes on over his boxers the trio teleported to their destination.

***

When they rematerialised, Wolf was shocked to find himself standing in the middle of the sky. He yelped in surprise, Lucky jumping next to him as she reached the same conclusion as him. Only Mewtwo was unfazed, already knowing everything about this place.

"We will be fine." She assured them, watching as they calmed down and began to study the area. Hundreds of feet below them stretched a snow coated landscape, broken on their left by a mountain range that stretched as far as they could see. To their immediate left a wall of multicoloured light shimmered over the top of the mountains, and Wolf's jaw dropped as he realised that he was looking at an aurora.

"What's that?" Lucky asked, pointing at a dot that seemed to be moving across the snow plains below them.

"Whatever it is, it's moving fast." Wolf replied, watching the dot close with their position with alarming rapidity. Once it was what seemed like five kilometres away from them it leapt up into the air, covering the distance and height between them like Wolf would take a single step. When it landed a mere handful of metres away from them, they could see what it was. It was a large blue dog with a flowing purple mane and two thin white tails that stirred in perfect unison with the breeze flowing around them. Extending from its forehead was a large crystalline growth, and Wolf almost fell over when he realised that he was looking at Suicune, the legendary pokemon of the Northern Winds.

"Mother told me to come here." She stated, looking at Wolf with an unnerving intensity. "She said that I needed to guide you to her." Wolf nodded meekly, following Suicune when she led the small group along the invisible path in the sky. The path seemed to climb higher and higher into the sky, although Wolf felt no change in either the pressure or the temperature.

"Something is moving the atmosphere around us." Mewtwo whispered fearfully, knowing that to accomplish such a feat foretold of an unfathomable power. Wolf and Lucky shared an uneasy glance, but they still followed Suicune.

"We are here." The legendary pokemon said, halting abruptly while Wolf nearly walked into her. His jaw fell again as he took in the tall white ivory tower that had seemed to appear out of nowhere. Looking around, he saw that they didn't seem to be anywhere. Taking a moment to collect himself, he walked slowly into the tower, Mewtwo and Lucky trailing him.

The room that awaited them seemed to spiral upwards for an eternity, the walls invisible under a layer of bubbles that shone with a subtly different light from the ones anywhere near it. The appearance looked to Wolf like the walls were coated with a rainbow. Wolf stared in awe until a powerful presence demanded his attention.

Standing in the middle of the room was a pokemon, but one Wolf had never seen before. It stood as tall as him, with brilliant white fur broken up by some black patches. A golden ring surrounded its midsection, shining emeralds set into the joints of the ring. It stared at him with the same unnerving interest Suicune had shown, but there was a strange love in that gaze. Wolf was reminded of his mother as he looked into her eyes, and he was sure that his companions were as well.

"Wolf O'kai, I've been looking forward to this meeting." The pokemon said, her voice melodic and perfect, and seemed to put him at a curious ease. "I am Arceus, the goddess pokemon." His eyes widened while Lucky and Mewtw bowed deep before her, and he felt the overwhelming urge to do the same. To their surprise she laughed, though there was nothing but delight in the sound.

"You don't have to bow to me." Arceus said, amused. Slowly the pokemon got to their feet, embarrassed at their actions. Under the goddesses gaze they relaxed much quicker than they would have thought possible, looking to each other again for comfort.

"Arceus?" Wolf asked, trying to slow his own breathing. "I suppose that answers the who. That just leaves the why." Arceus giggled again, the sound taking her visitors off guard with its simplicity.

"My, my, impatient aren't we? I suppose in your position I would want answers too." She mused, walking towards Wolf until she was a respectful distance away. "For starters, you didn't notice me when you walked in because I wanted you to see the Pillar of Infinity first, to understand where you are. This is the centre of creation, where I watch over the mortal world."

"Okay, I'm staying with you so far." Wolf nodded, still wondering what this was all about. Arceus nodded as well, understanding his feelings.

"From here, I can cast little influences over people and pokemon, just enough to set them on the right path." She explained. "If the situation is serious, I will send one of my favoured children to oversee its completion." She stared at Wolf a little oddly as she spoke, the trainer feeling as though he was missing something. "But something else has come up, and I will need your help for it."

"You need my help?" Wolf asked, incredulous. Arceus smiled again, the feeling of hidden knowledge overcoming the trainer again.

"I know you will help." She said. "You already have my blessing, and that is something I do not bestow lightly." The words caused a memory to stir, and Wolf's eyes widened.

"Giratina said you were blessed!" Lucky exclaimed, having reached the same conclusion as Wolf. Arceus frowned, the trio shivering as they felt the sudden shift in mood.

"He did?" the goddess asked, Lucky nodding meekly in response. "He should have known better than to tell you that." She stared for a long moment, before shaking her head and letting her friendly demeanour return. "Water under the bridge, I suppose."

"Anyway..." Wolf said, prompting her to continue. She nodded, her smile growing sad.

"Arakhara." She said, the smile disappearing. "He is a pokemon as old as I am, one who is what mortals would know as the daemon type, if mortals knew of him at all. When I was created, Arakhara sprang into creation alongside me. He wanted nothing more than to destroy me, and the void. Even before creation came into being, I fought against him. The battle taxed me to my very limit, but in the end I managed to take victory. I could not destroy him, so I sealed him away in a prison outside of creation."

"I don't like where this is heading." Wolf said, getting a short laugh from the goddess.

"Neither do I." She admitted. "He has regained enough strength to escape his prison, and now he seeks a way to breach creation. If he succeeds, he would destroy everything that is. This time I might not be able to stop him, and it is possible for him to raise an army."

"An army?" Lucky whispered fearfully.

"He will awaken the dormant evil that stained the void from his creation, that which has seeped through into my universe and planted itself into a great deal of people and pokemon." She continued. "They will be distorted into daemon types, foot soldiers with which he can overthrow creation."

"I have a question." Mewtwo said, a worried look on her face. "If you could only just stop this guy when you fought him, what chance do we have?" Arceus smiled, though Mewtwo's expression didn't change.

"I wouldn't expect you to fight him on your own." She replied. "I merely ask that you stand alongside me when he finally breaks through." The psychic nodded, while Lucky breathed a sigh of relief. Wolf remained silent, one hand on his chin in deep thought.

"I suppose we really don't have a choice." He said finally. "I'm used to existing, and I'd like to keep it that way. Besides," he added, one hand finding Lucky's paw. "I have something worth fighting for." Lucky felt the heat rise in her face as she smiled warmly at him, stepping closer to rest her head against his chest. Arceus smiled at the love between them, remembering exactly how it came about. Mewtwo noticed the not quite hidden feelings behind the smile, frowning at the goddess as though she once again knew something she wasn't sharing.

"I am glad that you will help me." She said. "I will contact you when it is time, so all I ask of you between now and then is to prepare yourselves and your other pokemon as best you can. Until then, I bid you farewell." All around the trio the scene began to fade into blackness while they faded into sleep.

***

As they finally faded back to their world, a small pink pokemon floated out from behind one of the pillars in the circular chamber. Mew drifted over to Arceus, and the goddess could see her daughter putting two and two together.

"This is why you wanted me to delay him from becoming a trainer." She said, watching as her mother nodded in answer. "You knew that he would become a pokemon. I suppose that also explains why you blessed a human in the first place."

"Exactly." Arceus replied. "Had he become a trainer before meeting Lucky, even if he had met Happy first, he would never be able to use my blessing to its full potential." They remained silent for a minute, until Mew felt ready to voice the second question.

"Why him?" she asked, watching Arceus as she looked at the spot Wolf had been occupying. A sad smile lingered on the goddess' face.

"Mew, you know I can't tell you everything."

***

Wolf woke up in his bed, his arm draped around Lucky. He was back in his boxers, feeling as though he hadn't moved at all since falling asleep the previous night. Lucky stirred next to him, blinking sleep out of her bright red eyes as she regarded him uneasily. The door opened, Mewtwo shuffling in and sitting on the side of the bed while the lovers dragged themselves into sitting positions as well. For a long moment none of them made a sound.

"That wasn't a dream, was it?" Wolf asked nervously, the psychic shaking her head worriedly in response. "We're in a mess here, aren't we?"

"That's putting it lightly." Lucky said, her tone mournful. "I don't know how Arceus expects us to do this."

"We'll figure out something." Mewtwo assured her, but Wolf could hear the fright in her voice. He reached out an arm and drew her closer, Lucky already in his other arm.

"There's no sense in worrying about it, I guess." He said, holding both pokemon as close as he could. "When the time comes, we'll either be ready or we won't. All we can do until then is aim to be ready." He looked down to see both pokemon smiling back up at him, a faint ray of hope cutting through thoughts of the nigh impossible commission Arceus had asked of them. He smiled reassuringly back, drawing them both back onto the bed and just lying there until sleep took them again.Chapter End Notes:"Wait, you just told us what's going to happen!"

In a way, yes. Now I could've held this back until further into the story, but I'm not a fan of the good guys finding out that ultimate doom is approaching at the last minute and having almost no time to prepare a little ridiculous when it's know about well ahead of time. Well, that's my reasoning anyway.

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