Story Notes:
so far I've fixed this story's chapters. the next one should be out by the end of the holidays. hope you all keep reading it!
Two: Reunion
It had been several days now since I became lost in this damn metropolis, no matter where I went; everything looked the same, the rotting corpses in the sidewalks being the only thing that broke the urban shape. By now, I had become accustomed to the smell, in fact, I was so accustomed to it, that last night, I had fried swellow for dinner. Though eating a fetid slab of rotten meat was NOT my idea of a gourmet meal, I kind of felt sick now.
Sick not only in my gut, but also sick in my mind.
This current war had raged officially for ten years, but in reality, this war began that faithful day, the imperfects began to take over. It's been nearly one thousand years since all humanity officially became 'imperfect'. A thousand years since the morphs first appeared, thousand years since the death of the only being who could possibly bring any peace into this mad world. Now look at us! Morphs fighting human, human fighting morph, human fighting human, morph fighting morph... this was no war I tell you... this was genocide disguised as war. When I joined legion, I never signed up for this.
The war had four sides to it, there where the Imperfects, the Perfects, the Cipher syndicate, and Legion. Each one had its own agenda to fulfill, and was willing to do it at any cost. Now that I stood in this city of death it became clear to me what that agenda was, regardless of which side you belonged to. It wasn't enough that the world was tearing itself apart, or that there is almost no fertile land left in the world. It isn't enough to see the fields of blood red plants, or the pools putrid water. It isn't enough to see the frozen bodies of soldiers everywhere, or the fact that almost every city now days is a city of the dead.
Legion was probably the only old school good guys around here. Ironic, considering that the Legion was supposed to be based on demons. The Cipher syndicate still remained the most enigmatic of the bunch, it was unclear what they were after, and who their allies where. One day, they might fight along side us, the next they might be against us. As I continued to walk down the streets, I noticed several banners still hanging from buildings. They where Imperfect and Perfect banners. Those two bastards where the most dangerous of the bunch. Perfects where Composed mostly of pissed off human and morphs with genetic implants, they went around from city to city killing anyone they deemed to be an 'Imperfect'; which to them, was pretty much everyone. And of course there where the Imperfects. They called themselves that due to the fact that they considered themselves direct descendants from the original ones, these guys where far from saints. Those soldiers I had seen several days ago must have been Perfects soldiers, and those things that killed most of my unit... where they Perfects or Imperfects? This was too weird for me to think, I had other things in mind at the moment. Like the pain in my gut.
"Oh man! My stomach! It's killing me!"
The more I walked, the sicker I felt. It wouldn't be long before I collapsed from the pain, but I had to keep going, I had to find shelter, even if I had to crawl into a sewer. The frozen ground made things harder, as I tried to maintain my footing in the frozen ground. Then, I found what I had been looking for, this time it was a house. It was in pretty good condition, which lead me to believe that maybe there was some medicine in there, as well as somebody still alive. Suddenly I felt my stomach cramp up, the pain it inflicted was intense, as if I had just gotten shot in the gut, I had to look to make sure there was no real bullet. I tried to ignore it as best as I could. Grinding my teeth, the more I walked, the more intense the pain became. It got to the point that I could have sworn I had not only one bullet lodged in there instead of food, but several bullets. I was only a few feet away from the house, yet every step felt like fifty, I wasn't going to make it. So close... yet so far... Before I could go any further, I fell on the floor; my vision was becoming blurry. The frozen ground sending a strange sense of numbness down my body and soul
"Dammit... I knew... I should... have brought some..................................aspirins... huuuu"
I fell on the floor face first, and passed out.
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"Do you think he's ok?"
I could faintly hear the voice of a little girl
"He's been out for some, I doubt he's still alive, his temperature is way too low"
It was the voice of another little girl
"Well, there's only one way to know for sure"
This time it was the voice of a little boy
"Hey! Put that that stick away!"
it had been the first girl who said that
"Why should I"
the boy replied. the other girl interrupted
"Because... look, he's waking up!"
I began to stir; my right eye was the first thing to open. I realized I was in a dimly lit room, it was nighttime outside, I could tell by the dark frozen windows. My stomach was no longer in pain, but I still felt dazed. I slowly rose from the bed, and tried to get up, but my legs and arms felt like jelly, I was still dazed but I managed to talk as best as I could
"Who... who are you?"
The kids only smiled
"We where just, you know... around!"
I only shook my head, this kids where lying. I could tell by their distinct tone of voices and their eye movements. Not only that, but I could also tell by their eye movements. Something was up, but I decided to play along... at lest for now.
"You've been hiding here for some time? Haven't you?"
This time it was the little girl that spoke, my eyes had been dazed at first but after several minutes of recovery, my full eyesight returned to me, for a moment I was surprised, but my shock passed as fast at it came. Most of the kids where morphs, the little girl to the left was a sneasel morph, the other girl to the right was a croagunk morph, and the boy in the center was to my surprise, a normal human boy. All of them seemed to get along just fine. They all wore rags. they where orphans by the look of things. Or at least wanted me to believe they where orphans of some kind.
"Well... I guess you could say we have lived here all our lives... in a way..."
I slowly tried to get up again, but it was to no avail, I was still too weak to move, so instead I decided to burn some time by asking these kids what they knew about the surroundings, I also tried to see just how good of a liar this kid was. I noticed that I no longer felt any pain
"The pain... it's gone"
The kids only smiled, the boy responded my question with rather some speed
"Boy mister, you sure had a bad case of food poisoning, a little longer and you would have died of one hell of an indigestion!"
I nodded, following along
"So... how did all of you end up in this predicament?"
The kids immediately grew quiet, they looked at each other, then before any of them could answer, a voice sounded from somewhere in the shadows
"I can answer that"
It was a feminine voice that sounded too familiar to be a coincidence, it sounded as old as I was, yet it retained a fine balance of grace and intimidation. This voice, I have heard it in my dreams for years, tormenting me, taunting me, and at the same time... keeping me slightly sane.
I turned to face a shadow in the entrance to the room; I could clearly see the outline of a female Banette.
"No... it's not possible... you can't be alive.... This is just a dream... you can't...."
She walked into the room, but to my surprise, she was only half of what I remember. Half of her body was mechanized, one eye completely replaced. She was still wearing the headband I had given her as a gift, it partially covered her bad eye.
"Well, only half of what you remember is alive... the rest of me died that day, glad to see that it wasn't in vain."
Right in front of my eyes stood the very person whom I owned my life to, the very person whom I had chosen to spend my life with, the one reason why I was still alive; Rukia.
She sat right next to me, and gave me a gentle stroke across my face, three years of absence hadn't changed her feel at all, even if her arms where part mechanical now.
Suddenly, I blurted out the one thing that had bugged me for so long
"Rukia, why did you do it?"
She looked at me in the eyes; her one eye still maintained the very same glow from of warmth from before everything went wrong for us
"I think you already know the answer to that"
To tell the truth, that's all I needed. Now I felt as though I could finally sleep well.
But one thing still bugged me, and I had to know the real truth...
"But how did you survive that explosion, I mean, I saw you blow up in front of my face!"
The children who had been watching our warm moment suddenly became restless and worried about something, up until that point they had seemed fine, suspicious, but fine. But now, they seamed to be emanating a dark aura, me being part Banette, could feel it as plain and simple as looking at someone. But something was off, I could feel it at the bottom of my gut. But for the moment, I went along with it. I had to kill some time and see what I was up against
"So... how did you end up here, on babysitting duty Rukia?"
Rukia got up and walked towards the door, she looked around as if trying to spot someone, when she noticed no one was watching she walked towards the sneasel girl, and placed one hand inside of her coat pocket. The girl seemed to have noticed this and spun around, but Rukia was first to strike, Rukia using a rather long combat knife Stabbed her in the gut. I was shocked at first, until I realized that the girl was holding a gun, can't believe I missed that.
The little girl screamed in pain at first, but then I realized that the scream took a low pitched roar as the girl's body began to change into something that resembled some kind of pink jelly. The other children then proceeded to try and attack Rukia, but she was too fast. She jumped and decapitated the croagunk morph. she let out a howl of pain from her severed head that resembled a deep growl. She too dissolved into a pink jelly-like material that sank into the floor. The boy was making a break for it, but this time, it was me who made the next move. by that time, I had recovered all movement. I jumped from my bed and grabbed him by the arms. I placed him in a stranglehold as he struggled to get free. The boy screamed in rage
"You have no Idea what you're doing! Death to the enemies of the land!"
I tighten my grip on him and slammed him against the nearest wall
"Who are you, no; what are you?"
The kid only laughed, I continued to smash him against the wall, every time drawing some blood that stained the wall
"We are the only thing standing in this impure world, you and your kind only putrefy the place with your presence, we stand here today as the regulators of you kind! DEATH TO THE IMPERFECTS! LONG LIVE PERFECTION!!!"
The damn kid was a perfect fanatic. But to make things worse, he seemed to be made of that gelatinous material as well, he dissolved his own arms and caused me to loose my grip. He dissolved into the floor, but reappeared right in front of me. Then all of the sudden, he took out what I knew too well was a grenade, he pulled the pin. Things went into slow motion from that moment on. his evil smile being the last thing I remember before I jumped out of the way. I grabbed Rukia with my arms and embraced her; I would not let this happen again. I would not loose her one more time.
The grenade went off, blowing half of the room away in the process. The explosion was so intense I was hit by thousands of pieces of debris; I could feel it penetrate and stick into my body. One of the pieces was so big, that it took my leg off; it would have taken Rukia's leg off if I had not been there. When the explosion was over, Rukia and me were on opposite ends of the room. she was scratched, but ok. I on the other hand was not. As I looked at my stump that was once a leg, I let out a howl of pain, then I realized that my chest was bleeding as well, I had been pierced from almost all sides, my arm was almost removed, it was just hanging by a small tread of flesh. As I looked up, I also realized that half of my head was gone as well. my brain was just about to fall off. Had it not been for my ghost nature, I would have been dead on the spot.
The pain was so intense, my blood was freely flowing. I knew I was dying; there was no denying it now. I looked over to where Rukia was. She was beginning to awake. At first, she was slow to get up, but once fully awake she saw me, she let out a scream of pure shock
"OH MY GOD!!!"
She ran towards me, and picked me up with surprising strength, she looked at my eyes and asked me while sobbing
"But... but... WHY?"
I only needed to smile, but I still said it just to make the point stronger
"I...think you already know the answer to that"
This was it, this was my last dance with fate, and I contemplated at my life up until this point, so much, in such a short time. I guess I had been right all along, no matter what path I had chosen, it would all have ended the same way.
Several things began to run through my mind as my blood slowly spilled all over the floor and into the snow outside...
Mike, I'm sorry, but I won't be able to deliver your last thoughts...
Rukia... a life for a life... I believe that's a fair trade...
I looked at her one last time before death took me away, her stare, so full of life, so warm... I couldn't help but call her name one last time...
"Rukia"
She looked at me with tears in her one good eye
"Take care... Of yourself..."
She shook her head
"NO, I WON'T LET YOU DIE! NOT AFTER EVERYTHING THAT WE BOTH HAVE GONE THROUGH! NO, I WON'T... I... WON'T..."
Her voice slowly faded away.
Eternal darkness welcomed me with a tight embrace. For a few moments, I could clearly see her holding my lifeless body as I slowly floated away. My blood was spilling into the snow, leaving a river of crimson liquid that stained it. But this was apparently not my real end...
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It was an excellent afternoon, nothing in the sky but the setting sun. As the sun slowly set, it cast a warm orange glow in the horizon. I was lying on the ground; next to me was the girl that I had sworn to be next to for all my life, Rukia. Her beauty filled me to the brim; I sometimes wondered what I had done to have such luck. Rukia was a descendant of a long line of powerful Banette morphs, legends even spoke of them been blessed by Giratina before she was killed. I never really cared for the past much; all that really mattered was the present. As the sun was setting we both looked at each other, Rukia smiled at me
"Aren't sunsets beautiful?"
I returned the smile
"I guess, though I can think of something even more beautiful than the sun"
She shook her head while still smiling
"You flatter me so! I think I might blush!"
Both of us shared a laugh, the sun was about to set, Rukia looked at me in a hurry
"Quick, make a wish!"
I looked at her somehow confused
"What do you mean? Its just a sunset"
She shook her head
"No, this one is special, a thousand years ago, at this very time, the ancient god took his wife in marriage, it is said that even the earth celebrated their union, as a hope for the future, a future in which humans, pokemon, and morphs could live in peace. Since that day, whenever the sun sets, you're supposed to make a wish, and it might be just granted!"
I looked at the setting sun
"Then there is only one thing I wish for..."
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"Wake up..."
"Wake up..."
"Its time to rise"
"Its time to rise anew"
"Death is not your end"
"Up Cos"
Managed to open one eye slightly, I managed to catch a look at what was happening, someone was opening my chest with an electric saw.I Closed my eyes. Then opened them again, this time I could see a bright light as someone was opening my head open, I could feel my blood flowing down my back... Closed them again. Opened them one last time to see someone setting up what looked like a mechanical leg... And I blacked out for a while.
"Listen to me..."
"You have got to wake up..."
"You are the last of the line..."
"Your destiny is greater than you can possibly imagine..."
"Your fate is the world's fate... so...wake..."
I slowly mumbled into the apparent void
"Who are you...?"
The voice only replied with an emotionless tone
"I go by many names, some refer to me as god, others as Arceus, others as the beast, and others simply as Edgar"
I opened my eyes into what appeared to be an endless void
"Edgar? But you're..."
The voice filled the void once again
"Dead? In a matter of speaking, yes. But not all hope is loss, for I still live as long as you live"
Now, I was confused
"What do you mean?"
Edgar appeared before me, not as a shape, but rather as a light of some kind
"As you can see, only my soul remains, and part of that soul lives within you"
I asked with shock at his statement
"But why me?"
Edgar only laughed
"In time you will know"
I shook my head in anger
"AND WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?"
Edgar only laughed some more
"Seek my power out. Some of it already lives in you. All you have to do is search... search and you will find it... now WAKE UP!!!"
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I opened my eyes in surprise, and looked around. I was in what looked like a lab; it was filled with high tech tools. I looked around once again and suddenly spotted Rukia, she was standing a few feet from where I was, as soon as noticed me awakening, she rushed towards me, and held me in a tight embrace, I had no Idea how this was possible, I was supposed to be dead, yet here I was clearly breathing, something told me it had to do with the little conversation I had with Edgar. I tried to look around, but I could not move my head much, Rukia got close to me and whispered into my ear
"I'll fix that"
She pressed a button, and released me, the first thing I did was to look at my arms, they were somehow different, then I noticed it, there were that of a Banette. But one of them felt heavier than normal. I looked around at my leg, it was also attacked, but it was covered by what looked to be an exoskeleton of some kind, I got up in a hurry, nearly tripping on some cables on the floor
"RUKIA, what... what... what..."
She only pointed at a mirror in the wall, I raced towards it fearing the worst. And I was right. I looked at my new face, all while my hands shook from what my eyes where perceiving. I couldn't help but letting a scream of pure terror
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! MY Face! MY BODY! AHHHHHHH!!!!"
I held my face in shock
"I... I... I... what... wa... wa...wa..."
I was lost for words, for the first time in my life; I actually looked like what I was supposed to be. A Banette morph. But this was unnatural, how could it be possible?
I turned to face Rukia, she only moved aside to reveal my savior. He was wearing a blood soaked lab coat, his goggles also stained with my blood. he looked at me and smiled.
"Well, well, well. Small world after all, huh... Cane?"
I was only filled with hatred towards this man; he was responsible for all my suffering up to this point, my nightmares where filled with his evil laughter. Rukia only gave me a sad look, I understood fully what she meant to say, but I still refused to believe it, it just couldn't be true.
Both of us owned our lives to the man who destroyed them in the first place.
"SILTH! YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"Chapter End Notes:finally fixed it good. hope it makes more sense now.
the next one will be out after the hilidays are done
Sick not only in my gut, but also sick in my mind.
This current war had raged officially for ten years, but in reality, this war began that faithful day, the imperfects began to take over. It's been nearly one thousand years since all humanity officially became 'imperfect'. A thousand years since the morphs first appeared, thousand years since the death of the only being who could possibly bring any peace into this mad world. Now look at us! Morphs fighting human, human fighting morph, human fighting human, morph fighting morph... this was no war I tell you... this was genocide disguised as war. When I joined legion, I never signed up for this.
The war had four sides to it, there where the Imperfects, the Perfects, the Cipher syndicate, and Legion. Each one had its own agenda to fulfill, and was willing to do it at any cost. Now that I stood in this city of death it became clear to me what that agenda was, regardless of which side you belonged to. It wasn't enough that the world was tearing itself apart, or that there is almost no fertile land left in the world. It isn't enough to see the fields of blood red plants, or the pools putrid water. It isn't enough to see the frozen bodies of soldiers everywhere, or the fact that almost every city now days is a city of the dead.
Legion was probably the only old school good guys around here. Ironic, considering that the Legion was supposed to be based on demons. The Cipher syndicate still remained the most enigmatic of the bunch, it was unclear what they were after, and who their allies where. One day, they might fight along side us, the next they might be against us. As I continued to walk down the streets, I noticed several banners still hanging from buildings. They where Imperfect and Perfect banners. Those two bastards where the most dangerous of the bunch. Perfects where Composed mostly of pissed off human and morphs with genetic implants, they went around from city to city killing anyone they deemed to be an 'Imperfect'; which to them, was pretty much everyone. And of course there where the Imperfects. They called themselves that due to the fact that they considered themselves direct descendants from the original ones, these guys where far from saints. Those soldiers I had seen several days ago must have been Perfects soldiers, and those things that killed most of my unit... where they Perfects or Imperfects? This was too weird for me to think, I had other things in mind at the moment. Like the pain in my gut.
"Oh man! My stomach! It's killing me!"
The more I walked, the sicker I felt. It wouldn't be long before I collapsed from the pain, but I had to keep going, I had to find shelter, even if I had to crawl into a sewer. The frozen ground made things harder, as I tried to maintain my footing in the frozen ground. Then, I found what I had been looking for, this time it was a house. It was in pretty good condition, which lead me to believe that maybe there was some medicine in there, as well as somebody still alive. Suddenly I felt my stomach cramp up, the pain it inflicted was intense, as if I had just gotten shot in the gut, I had to look to make sure there was no real bullet. I tried to ignore it as best as I could. Grinding my teeth, the more I walked, the more intense the pain became. It got to the point that I could have sworn I had not only one bullet lodged in there instead of food, but several bullets. I was only a few feet away from the house, yet every step felt like fifty, I wasn't going to make it. So close... yet so far... Before I could go any further, I fell on the floor; my vision was becoming blurry. The frozen ground sending a strange sense of numbness down my body and soul
"Dammit... I knew... I should... have brought some..................................aspirins... huuuu"
I fell on the floor face first, and passed out.
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"Do you think he's ok?"
I could faintly hear the voice of a little girl
"He's been out for some, I doubt he's still alive, his temperature is way too low"
It was the voice of another little girl
"Well, there's only one way to know for sure"
This time it was the voice of a little boy
"Hey! Put that that stick away!"
it had been the first girl who said that
"Why should I"
the boy replied. the other girl interrupted
"Because... look, he's waking up!"
I began to stir; my right eye was the first thing to open. I realized I was in a dimly lit room, it was nighttime outside, I could tell by the dark frozen windows. My stomach was no longer in pain, but I still felt dazed. I slowly rose from the bed, and tried to get up, but my legs and arms felt like jelly, I was still dazed but I managed to talk as best as I could
"Who... who are you?"
The kids only smiled
"We where just, you know... around!"
I only shook my head, this kids where lying. I could tell by their distinct tone of voices and their eye movements. Not only that, but I could also tell by their eye movements. Something was up, but I decided to play along... at lest for now.
"You've been hiding here for some time? Haven't you?"
This time it was the little girl that spoke, my eyes had been dazed at first but after several minutes of recovery, my full eyesight returned to me, for a moment I was surprised, but my shock passed as fast at it came. Most of the kids where morphs, the little girl to the left was a sneasel morph, the other girl to the right was a croagunk morph, and the boy in the center was to my surprise, a normal human boy. All of them seemed to get along just fine. They all wore rags. they where orphans by the look of things. Or at least wanted me to believe they where orphans of some kind.
"Well... I guess you could say we have lived here all our lives... in a way..."
I slowly tried to get up again, but it was to no avail, I was still too weak to move, so instead I decided to burn some time by asking these kids what they knew about the surroundings, I also tried to see just how good of a liar this kid was. I noticed that I no longer felt any pain
"The pain... it's gone"
The kids only smiled, the boy responded my question with rather some speed
"Boy mister, you sure had a bad case of food poisoning, a little longer and you would have died of one hell of an indigestion!"
I nodded, following along
"So... how did all of you end up in this predicament?"
The kids immediately grew quiet, they looked at each other, then before any of them could answer, a voice sounded from somewhere in the shadows
"I can answer that"
It was a feminine voice that sounded too familiar to be a coincidence, it sounded as old as I was, yet it retained a fine balance of grace and intimidation. This voice, I have heard it in my dreams for years, tormenting me, taunting me, and at the same time... keeping me slightly sane.
I turned to face a shadow in the entrance to the room; I could clearly see the outline of a female Banette.
"No... it's not possible... you can't be alive.... This is just a dream... you can't...."
She walked into the room, but to my surprise, she was only half of what I remember. Half of her body was mechanized, one eye completely replaced. She was still wearing the headband I had given her as a gift, it partially covered her bad eye.
"Well, only half of what you remember is alive... the rest of me died that day, glad to see that it wasn't in vain."
Right in front of my eyes stood the very person whom I owned my life to, the very person whom I had chosen to spend my life with, the one reason why I was still alive; Rukia.
She sat right next to me, and gave me a gentle stroke across my face, three years of absence hadn't changed her feel at all, even if her arms where part mechanical now.
Suddenly, I blurted out the one thing that had bugged me for so long
"Rukia, why did you do it?"
She looked at me in the eyes; her one eye still maintained the very same glow from of warmth from before everything went wrong for us
"I think you already know the answer to that"
To tell the truth, that's all I needed. Now I felt as though I could finally sleep well.
But one thing still bugged me, and I had to know the real truth...
"But how did you survive that explosion, I mean, I saw you blow up in front of my face!"
The children who had been watching our warm moment suddenly became restless and worried about something, up until that point they had seemed fine, suspicious, but fine. But now, they seamed to be emanating a dark aura, me being part Banette, could feel it as plain and simple as looking at someone. But something was off, I could feel it at the bottom of my gut. But for the moment, I went along with it. I had to kill some time and see what I was up against
"So... how did you end up here, on babysitting duty Rukia?"
Rukia got up and walked towards the door, she looked around as if trying to spot someone, when she noticed no one was watching she walked towards the sneasel girl, and placed one hand inside of her coat pocket. The girl seemed to have noticed this and spun around, but Rukia was first to strike, Rukia using a rather long combat knife Stabbed her in the gut. I was shocked at first, until I realized that the girl was holding a gun, can't believe I missed that.
The little girl screamed in pain at first, but then I realized that the scream took a low pitched roar as the girl's body began to change into something that resembled some kind of pink jelly. The other children then proceeded to try and attack Rukia, but she was too fast. She jumped and decapitated the croagunk morph. she let out a howl of pain from her severed head that resembled a deep growl. She too dissolved into a pink jelly-like material that sank into the floor. The boy was making a break for it, but this time, it was me who made the next move. by that time, I had recovered all movement. I jumped from my bed and grabbed him by the arms. I placed him in a stranglehold as he struggled to get free. The boy screamed in rage
"You have no Idea what you're doing! Death to the enemies of the land!"
I tighten my grip on him and slammed him against the nearest wall
"Who are you, no; what are you?"
The kid only laughed, I continued to smash him against the wall, every time drawing some blood that stained the wall
"We are the only thing standing in this impure world, you and your kind only putrefy the place with your presence, we stand here today as the regulators of you kind! DEATH TO THE IMPERFECTS! LONG LIVE PERFECTION!!!"
The damn kid was a perfect fanatic. But to make things worse, he seemed to be made of that gelatinous material as well, he dissolved his own arms and caused me to loose my grip. He dissolved into the floor, but reappeared right in front of me. Then all of the sudden, he took out what I knew too well was a grenade, he pulled the pin. Things went into slow motion from that moment on. his evil smile being the last thing I remember before I jumped out of the way. I grabbed Rukia with my arms and embraced her; I would not let this happen again. I would not loose her one more time.
The grenade went off, blowing half of the room away in the process. The explosion was so intense I was hit by thousands of pieces of debris; I could feel it penetrate and stick into my body. One of the pieces was so big, that it took my leg off; it would have taken Rukia's leg off if I had not been there. When the explosion was over, Rukia and me were on opposite ends of the room. she was scratched, but ok. I on the other hand was not. As I looked at my stump that was once a leg, I let out a howl of pain, then I realized that my chest was bleeding as well, I had been pierced from almost all sides, my arm was almost removed, it was just hanging by a small tread of flesh. As I looked up, I also realized that half of my head was gone as well. my brain was just about to fall off. Had it not been for my ghost nature, I would have been dead on the spot.
The pain was so intense, my blood was freely flowing. I knew I was dying; there was no denying it now. I looked over to where Rukia was. She was beginning to awake. At first, she was slow to get up, but once fully awake she saw me, she let out a scream of pure shock
"OH MY GOD!!!"
She ran towards me, and picked me up with surprising strength, she looked at my eyes and asked me while sobbing
"But... but... WHY?"
I only needed to smile, but I still said it just to make the point stronger
"I...think you already know the answer to that"
This was it, this was my last dance with fate, and I contemplated at my life up until this point, so much, in such a short time. I guess I had been right all along, no matter what path I had chosen, it would all have ended the same way.
Several things began to run through my mind as my blood slowly spilled all over the floor and into the snow outside...
Mike, I'm sorry, but I won't be able to deliver your last thoughts...
Rukia... a life for a life... I believe that's a fair trade...
I looked at her one last time before death took me away, her stare, so full of life, so warm... I couldn't help but call her name one last time...
"Rukia"
She looked at me with tears in her one good eye
"Take care... Of yourself..."
She shook her head
"NO, I WON'T LET YOU DIE! NOT AFTER EVERYTHING THAT WE BOTH HAVE GONE THROUGH! NO, I WON'T... I... WON'T..."
Her voice slowly faded away.
Eternal darkness welcomed me with a tight embrace. For a few moments, I could clearly see her holding my lifeless body as I slowly floated away. My blood was spilling into the snow, leaving a river of crimson liquid that stained it. But this was apparently not my real end...
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It was an excellent afternoon, nothing in the sky but the setting sun. As the sun slowly set, it cast a warm orange glow in the horizon. I was lying on the ground; next to me was the girl that I had sworn to be next to for all my life, Rukia. Her beauty filled me to the brim; I sometimes wondered what I had done to have such luck. Rukia was a descendant of a long line of powerful Banette morphs, legends even spoke of them been blessed by Giratina before she was killed. I never really cared for the past much; all that really mattered was the present. As the sun was setting we both looked at each other, Rukia smiled at me
"Aren't sunsets beautiful?"
I returned the smile
"I guess, though I can think of something even more beautiful than the sun"
She shook her head while still smiling
"You flatter me so! I think I might blush!"
Both of us shared a laugh, the sun was about to set, Rukia looked at me in a hurry
"Quick, make a wish!"
I looked at her somehow confused
"What do you mean? Its just a sunset"
She shook her head
"No, this one is special, a thousand years ago, at this very time, the ancient god took his wife in marriage, it is said that even the earth celebrated their union, as a hope for the future, a future in which humans, pokemon, and morphs could live in peace. Since that day, whenever the sun sets, you're supposed to make a wish, and it might be just granted!"
I looked at the setting sun
"Then there is only one thing I wish for..."
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"Wake up..."
"Wake up..."
"Its time to rise"
"Its time to rise anew"
"Death is not your end"
"Up Cos"
Managed to open one eye slightly, I managed to catch a look at what was happening, someone was opening my chest with an electric saw.I Closed my eyes. Then opened them again, this time I could see a bright light as someone was opening my head open, I could feel my blood flowing down my back... Closed them again. Opened them one last time to see someone setting up what looked like a mechanical leg... And I blacked out for a while.
"Listen to me..."
"You have got to wake up..."
"You are the last of the line..."
"Your destiny is greater than you can possibly imagine..."
"Your fate is the world's fate... so...wake..."
I slowly mumbled into the apparent void
"Who are you...?"
The voice only replied with an emotionless tone
"I go by many names, some refer to me as god, others as Arceus, others as the beast, and others simply as Edgar"
I opened my eyes into what appeared to be an endless void
"Edgar? But you're..."
The voice filled the void once again
"Dead? In a matter of speaking, yes. But not all hope is loss, for I still live as long as you live"
Now, I was confused
"What do you mean?"
Edgar appeared before me, not as a shape, but rather as a light of some kind
"As you can see, only my soul remains, and part of that soul lives within you"
I asked with shock at his statement
"But why me?"
Edgar only laughed
"In time you will know"
I shook my head in anger
"AND WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?"
Edgar only laughed some more
"Seek my power out. Some of it already lives in you. All you have to do is search... search and you will find it... now WAKE UP!!!"
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I opened my eyes in surprise, and looked around. I was in what looked like a lab; it was filled with high tech tools. I looked around once again and suddenly spotted Rukia, she was standing a few feet from where I was, as soon as noticed me awakening, she rushed towards me, and held me in a tight embrace, I had no Idea how this was possible, I was supposed to be dead, yet here I was clearly breathing, something told me it had to do with the little conversation I had with Edgar. I tried to look around, but I could not move my head much, Rukia got close to me and whispered into my ear
"I'll fix that"
She pressed a button, and released me, the first thing I did was to look at my arms, they were somehow different, then I noticed it, there were that of a Banette. But one of them felt heavier than normal. I looked around at my leg, it was also attacked, but it was covered by what looked to be an exoskeleton of some kind, I got up in a hurry, nearly tripping on some cables on the floor
"RUKIA, what... what... what..."
She only pointed at a mirror in the wall, I raced towards it fearing the worst. And I was right. I looked at my new face, all while my hands shook from what my eyes where perceiving. I couldn't help but letting a scream of pure terror
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! MY Face! MY BODY! AHHHHHHH!!!!"
I held my face in shock
"I... I... I... what... wa... wa...wa..."
I was lost for words, for the first time in my life; I actually looked like what I was supposed to be. A Banette morph. But this was unnatural, how could it be possible?
I turned to face Rukia, she only moved aside to reveal my savior. He was wearing a blood soaked lab coat, his goggles also stained with my blood. he looked at me and smiled.
"Well, well, well. Small world after all, huh... Cane?"
I was only filled with hatred towards this man; he was responsible for all my suffering up to this point, my nightmares where filled with his evil laughter. Rukia only gave me a sad look, I understood fully what she meant to say, but I still refused to believe it, it just couldn't be true.
Both of us owned our lives to the man who destroyed them in the first place.
"SILTH! YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"Chapter End Notes:finally fixed it good. hope it makes more sense now.
the next one will be out after the hilidays are done