Chapter 1 (Grovyle)
A drop of dew fell from the tree it began it’s descent first with ease, but slowly very slowly it was stopping, until it’s progress suddenly stopped in midair, all had become silent, the light of the sun was no more.
At least that was how I imagined it, everyone did, it was the beginning of a time of Darkness that was now at it’s peak. I hated it and that was why Ryuu, my human partner, and best friend, and I were walking through the gloomy grey forest. If it could be called that, the trees were all dead, their naked branches reaching up into the mist that loomed overhead like a storm-cloud.
I could tell Ryuu hated it too, his bright blue eyes were cast downward, his shoulders slumped to his thin waist.
On the other hand Celebi was looking cheery as always, her piercing green eyes glistening with excitement. She had reason to be cheerful, if our plan worked this forest would soon be beautiful and green again, as I had imagined it. And Suicune would be able to free all those who were infected. Those whose wills were twisted to the evil power of Darkrai and whose eyes glowed blue, giving off an Aura of false security.
We stopped to rest in a clearing, we were almost there, and no one who would mean them any harm was around. I looked over at Ryuu, and instantly knew the boy was tired, he didn’t have half as much stamina as Celebi or myself. But then I realized with a start that I was tired too. My muscles ached from slashing all the dead branches in our way. I lied down, and without knowing it fell into a deep slumber.
When I awoke I immediately questioned Celebi as to how much time I had slept. “Oh, just about six hours, Ryuu woke up a couple minutes ago.”
This scared me six hours was too long, for all I knew Dusknoir, or Mismagius could be within shouting distance. “We have to go,” I said to nobody in particular. So we did, and made fairly productively, Ryuu hit his head on a branch once, and Celebi and I had a couple bruises and burn marks, the bruises mostly from the many varieties of Rock types, and the burn marks from the young Vulpix inhabiting the area.
And it wasn’t long before we reached our destination, a portal leading to the past. A sudden wave of terror entered me. It didn’t look like I had expected it, a swirling distorted area in space. It looked like… a void. Where nothing could survive, I thought about Ryuu, he had been my only friend before I entered the order. Even if just he were to not make it, well the truth was without Ryuu I wouldn’t really know what to do, he wasn’t just a friend but the abilities he had… not only was he capable of purification, but he had another ability, one that’s power and purpose were beyond my comprehension.
But I knew that if the world as it was were in the past where they were about to journey too, that sacrifices had to be made, they all knew that. So grimly, he hurled himself into the portal.
It wasn’t as bad as I had imagined it. I could feel hmy partner’s presences around him, and it was so… exhilarating, it was like flying without limits, I could go anywhere I wanted in the flow. It was barely apparent in my mind that I should probably stay with the others. I lost Ryuu’s presence for a second so he zoomed back. Then so suddenly that it made his whole body jerk in pain, I was out of the portal. Light flooded into view and I was momentarily blinded. I could just barely make out the form of Celebi in fron of me. Then as my vision adjusted, I saw the sun for the very first time. Inside me a mixture of happiness that I could see it, and sadness that nobody that I knew would ever see it again. I looked around me and saw that Celebi was about to go back through the portal. “Bye friend!” she said gleefully and sped through the disappearing portal.
As I watched her go I realized with a start that one key thing was missing. Ryuu. In all my excitement I had forgotten him, I looked around but saw nothing just specks of sunlight darting across the emerald grass. I looked around at the trees, the sun, and the bird Pokémon, and I sullenly walked in the direction of salvation, feeling terrible that Ryuu would never be able to see any of this. Which made the beauty of it vanish, leaving a coat of sadness on my shoulders. But something inside me todl me that I would see him again. So I got to work.
