The wind atop Spear Pillar howled as I stood in pure silence, pure contemplation.

  The wind suddenly vanished. I had felt a presence watching this whole entire time.

  Below me, there was viscous, black goop slowly submerging my feet.

  I knew this feeling, I had felt it before. But how? The last thing I ever remembered was my poketch screwing up…

  “I see it has worked, and Lord Arceus isn't aware of your newfound existence.”

  I stepped backwards away from the impending Giratina. It felt as if I didn't deserve my own emotions as they failed me. Time and time again they fail me. It feels as if this is impending death.

  My sight snapped to the figure rising up like the midsummer sun, throwing all I saw into pure obscurity. I should be mad at what he did to me, he turned me into a pure force of nature. And worst of all, my emotions and needs now lie in the hands of humanity.

  The figure of Giratina shed its black shell as it fully rose up to the surface. It didn't seem harmful, but who knows what else it did to me besides change my very being.

  “You performed beyond what I expected, Zekrom.” Giratina smiled softly. “Me and Dialga… we think you've passed our test.”

  ‘WHAT?’ My character shattered into a million pieces. I've always become somewhat reclusive when lonely, it's like Giratina knew exactly what to say to break me out of that behavior.

  “Speak, Zekrom” Giratina moved closer, each step rattling the pillars. “It's easy, just form a word with your mouth. It really is that easy.”

  Giratina turned his head a little bit in thought “...or you could use telepathy. Though we only really use it for humans.”

  I gave a firm nod as I took a deep breath and cleared my throat. “Garrrboder….. Trrrubish…..”

  “Good, that's good enough.” Giratina said. “You didn't harm a single human or get angry. And the fact you even kept control in this body…”

  Giratina shut his eyes in further thought then spoke the words “you weren't supposed to be alive, you're not normal.”

  “I don't want to join you guys, just turn me back.” I focused my eyes into his, trying to not look away or blink.

  “Hm, really? I would have thought any smart human would like to join us.”

  “I don't care!” I raised my voice, my tone slowly morphed into rage and a hint of agony. “I've stayed like this for long enough! I just-”

  “What will you have?” Giratina interrupted me, his eyes back open and his tone straight. “Your mind will still be filled with self hatred and the thoughts of your own demise. We can help fix that, even if it takes a millennia.”

  “You reek of manipulation, why should I trust somebody who deceived me? And why do you think you know me at all?” I turned around, fully prepared to leave him in the dust.

  “It's interesting to see how much of your own you've kept. you've inherited his instincts, but nothing of his personality.”

  The dust around me started to vibrate as my tail generator flared to life once again. But I held off on leaving immediately, since I knew he would have something to say.

  “If you don't let us be your ally, then we would have to seal you in the Dark Stone. And That's not a fate I would wish on a mind as mortal as yours, your body is legendary but your mind hasn't caught up. It would destroy you if it was a long time.”

  My tail stopped whirring as I straightened my back and turned around to meet his gaze. The air around me refused to settle, it seemed to get heavier in fact.

  “The what stone?” I said in a confused tone. If I was going to be stuck in this body, I had to know as much as I could about myself.

  “Well you see, long ago you regularly slumbered in the stone. And you're trapped until a human with strong ideals summons you. And In this stage of the world? It's going to be a long, long time my friend.”

  My eyes widened and my body suddenly tensed. Would my whole body just be squished into that stone? Is it like a pokeball? That was probably the worst experience ever, I can't do that for an indescribable amount of years!

  “I'll… join you guys, okay? But don't make me follow some stupid orders, I just want to be left alone.”

  “We will respect that, and you can do whatever you like. Just NEVER purposely harm the humans, do you have that clear in your mind?” Giratina oddly growled the word NEVER.

  “Thank you, and goodbye” I said in an empty tone, I knew I wanted to say something something but I just couldn't properly get the words out

  “Wait so, what happened with Palkia? That bomb I got saved her, right?”

  “That is none of your business, you know that don't you?” Giratina said harshly, he clearly wanted to just leave and go do his own things.

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  “I just thought that if-” I'm rudely cut off by Giratina fading into the ground. Becoming the black goop just like how he came in.

  “Wait! Get back here, you —!” I yell towards the black tar-like substance receding into the ground like a puddle on a warm day.

  I was alone again, I had to get my mind off of that fact.

  ‘Well if I don't have to leave, I guess I can finally take a peek at this satchel.’ I slinged the satchel to my chest and opened it, dumping the contents out on my hand.

  There was one thing that stood out to me past the drawings and the little snacks she put in. It was some sort of heavy white stone, it even had a little line from the top until the middle, where it diverged into 2 seperate lines.

  ‘It looks so familiar, I've seen something like this in my father's notes. I'm sure I have at least read about this though.’

  I put the stone back into the satchel and observed the other items I was given. A few of those treats that were in that box that was brought in, the drawings, a bar of white chocolate, and… a slip of paper with the word Thank you on it.

  I stared into the distance, many times have I just gotten time to think? Sure I'm stressed more than ever before but when am I not?

  It could always be worse.

  I could be dead. Wait, am I dead? I mean I'm here now and that's all that matters.

  ‘Now would be the perfect time for me to get interrupted and be dragged along someplace, but luckily for me he's become more competent at this… only a bit’

  ‘I guess I finally have time to try these treats, they smelled so good in that box.’ I brought the food up to my face and tossed it into my mouth.

  ‘Wow! This is…” I stumbled backwards from the edge and landed directly on my ass

  “The raspberry filling! With the white chocolate bits and brown sugar mixed with the batter…… It's like Arceus itself made it so I could taste every individual ingredient!”

  I realized I was practically yelling at nobody and I quickly quiet down, I was supposed to be on my way to Unova anyway.

  Then it hit me

  The sugar was too sweet, and I could taste every individual sugar crystal assaulting my throat and taste buds.

  ‘I hate sweet things, why did it taste so good for a second? Why did I even try to enjoy it?’ I put a hand on my head and softly smacked it in shame, but I accidentally cut myself slightly. A bit of glistening blood trickles onto my hand, reminding myself of my weird baseball glove like claws.

  “I'm tired of this… I j-just…” Every pillar of my mental fortitude that was left started to collapse. I Was a legendary, an absolute force of nature.

  Here I was, having some sort of crisis on top of a mountain, alone at that.

  Alone, how many times will I be alone, isolated alone Alone ALONE

  My eyes glistened and my vision blurred as I felt the howling wind suddenly cease, like it was taunting me.

  It was a pretty cold day today. The clouds were shining and luckily, the sun was shielding me from the beating moon.

  I walked into my first period class at school on a pretty average Thursday morning and put my coat on the hanger next to my locker.

  “Ugh, did I really have to get history class first period?” I said as I scoot past the other students and plopped myself in a seat in the back.

  The students around me rambled on about the latest update to Pokenite, something about how a black hole was stuck on their screen when the game opened. I already had my night planned out and it was going to be Glorious when I got home.

  Yeah, my mom's getting me a new Pokemon! She works as an elite four member for the Sinnoh League so she gets to handle really special kinds of Pokemon. There was this time she had to bring a Garchomp home for a few nights because its trainer was out of the region to go to some event in Unova.

  My daydreams were interrupted by the arrival of my Teacher. “Class…! CLASS!” She yelled in a pissed off voice, The shouting of the class quieted down, but not fully.

  “What's so funny, Dom?” I bounced my leg up and down as a faint smile was plastered on my face. My mind was totally elsewhere, on the topic of my new Pokemon.

  “DOM!” I was jolted from my daydream as a red hue was present on my face from embarrassment. “You're here to learn math, young man!”

  36525000000 until the end

  644 Millennia until the end

  436117076600000000 seconds since then

  Forevermore,

  How could he know this new dawn's light would change him forever?

  Forgive me

  Forgive me not

  Forgive me

  Forgive me not

  Forgive me

  Forgive me not

  Forgive me

  Forgive me

  See your mother

  Put to death

  Far above the moon

  Planet Earth is blue

  And there's nothing I can do

  Why can I forgive me?

  I unknowingly shuffled towards the edge. The stone beneath me cracked with each heavy and unbalanced step. My mind was scrambled, it felt as if something in my brain was attempting to scramble old memories.

  I could still remember everything perfectly fine, but there's so many other things going on now that's making me cognitively shutdown.

  My fear, my anger, my regret, my grief. It's all been thrown into the flames to burn, but that makes the fire burn even hotter and seep further into my consciousness.

  I opened my eyes to witness myself on the edge of Spear Pillar. I quickly stomped on the edge to plant myself to the ground and I slowly backed away.

  ‘No, I'm not doing this. I need to focus! I'm going, right now. but Arceus I feel so tired, I never got more than an hour of sleep a day in that place.’

  I took a deep breath and began to focus my energy into flight once again and rose up into the air. My tail generating this much electricity was finally starting to feel natural, I could even feel my head filtering out each useless thought and only having me think of ones that helped in the moment.

  As I was soaring through the air I started to think of what I would do when I even got to Unova.

  ‘Maybe I could play electricity like a guitar and do something with that bit of music theory I decided to learn a few years back.’

  ‘Or maybe I could just make some friends? The feeling of helping others was practically a week's worth of joy now in this body, at least from my experience with that woman.’

  ‘Maybe I could even start acting in some movies? I'm almost guaranteed to get a mountain of roles. Actually, seeing the same face in every movie is bound to get boring. That one Pokemon recently who landed all those roles is a prime example of Why that's a bad idea.’

  ‘Okay… what if I opened up an orphanage? I like working with children, and I could probably give them a better childhood than the one I got dealt.’

  ‘… I land in the middle of a city, and then I announce my arrival! Everyone probably knows already that I'm around so it shouldn't go bad.’

  again but much lighter on story and stakes.

  Which idea appeals to you more? (Just curious)