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The Dark Type	By : Manifest Destiny Category: Pokemon > General Views: 36309 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. Pokemon is copy write by GameFreak, INC. and Nintendo. I make no money from this story, nor do I seek any.

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Note: This chapter was rewritten on 1/18/17
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Chapter 3: A Dream for Two
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Iruni Thomas was fast asleep, exhausted from the long night he had endured out in the snow to rescue the injured Sneasel. As he lay unconscious, his mind was mysteriously blank. Normally, dreams would play out in his head and leave a wistful sort of bittersweetness when he awoke the next morning. But tonight he did not dream.
He felt as if he was awake but he was clearly not in his room.
The world around him was darker than any night, but Iruni could clearly see his own hands in front of his face. Below his feet was no ground or floor that he could see, but kneeling down, he could feel some smooth surface. It was neither hot nor cold, the same as the air, if there was any to breathe. Iruni checked his arms and legs and found that his injuries were no longer present on himself in this strange place.
Iruni wondered whether this place was simply a dream gone wrong; a clean slate to be painted on but nothing had formed to keep his mind occupied, and his mind wished to wander anyway.
As far as he could see, the place stretched on forever. Iruni walked for an unknown time, but nothing around him ever changed. His footsteps made soft thuds as they landed on the “ground”, but they did not seem to echo.
The lucid experience was beginning to wear on him. Nothing changed and nothing happened for as long as Iruni waited. Traditional dreams would have actions, words, feelings, or emotions that he would be a part of. Here he had full control of his body and mind, but nothing to do with it. The black void of nothingness only ate at his nerves and made him anxious.
“Why am I aware right now?” asked Iruni. “What am I supposed to do until I wake up?”
‘I’m sorry.’
The unknown voice seemed to come from everywhere at once, startling Iruni and making him fall down onto the blank surface he stood on.
“Who was that?” he shouted into the darkness. Iruni got up and spun on the spot, eyes straining to see anything around him.
‘I’m so sorry.’
“Sorry for what?” Iruni decided to engage the voice. He felt a sort of pressure weighing down on him, like something was clinging to the back of his neck.
‘I’ve been trying for so long to fix what I’ve broken all by myself. Then I saw you. I got excited.’ The voice sounded sad and remorseful.
“What are you talking about?” Iruni asked. “You’re not making any sense.”
‘That’s okay. I just… have to make sure of something. I wanted to ask you now, to know for the future.’
“Ask me what?”
‘If you had the chance to help someone right a wrong, to make amends with another person they have wronged, would you do it?’ the voiced asked.
Iruni thought the question over. It seemed too simple and innocent to be so important. “Why wouldn’t I? There’s no reason to let someone get away with hurting someone else.”
‘What if it meant throwing away your fate?’
“My fate?” repeated Iruni. “What do you mean?”
‘You wouldn’t know it, not unless I came to you in the waking world, but your future would become something else, a life going along a path that I need you to. You might never meet someone you were supposed to. You would live out your life, but it wouldn’t really be “yours”.’
“Then…” Iruni went over the proposal. It was terrifying to think about, but he didn’t feel this voice was threatening him with the scenario they had explained. They didn’t sound committed to the plan just yet. “No, I wouldn’t do it. No matter how much you want to fix a mistake you’ve made, you shouldn’t control the lives of others.”
‘I see…’ the voice said, disappointed. ‘How very human. Never willing to give up their free will or their way of life.’
“Are you calling me selfish?” Iruni accused. “Do you expect me to just throw away everything I have planned for whatever you want from me?”
‘You misunderstand…’ said the voice. ‘I was merely… comparing you to someone I knew. It was a compliment, I assure you.’
“Well, okay then.” Iruni was having trouble understanding this strange presence’s purpose for coming to him. “What is it about me that you decided to ask this of me?”
‘Only you can do what I need.’
“Do what?”
‘It’s only ever you. Every time I look, there you are. Both of you.’
“Both of who? You’re not answering my questions.”
‘It hardly matters now. You are going to help me. That can’t be changed now. It never could.’
“What? What do you mean?” Iruni felt fear rise up inside himself. He felt desperation from this strange voice. “I don’t know what you are, but no one has the right to alter the future of someone else.”
‘I do have that right. I’ve done it before.’
“Get someone else to help you!” Iruni yelled.
‘There is no one else,’ the voice said, defeated. ‘You’re the only one who ever helps me!’
“You’re not making sense again,” Iruni warned, but he considered their words again. “You’ve looked into my future, is that right?”
‘Yes.’
“Did you… already know what I would say before you came here?” Iruni asked.
‘No, not for sure. I don’t have a clear vision of the future, but I can see timelines and possibilities. The only ones that look like I can finally fix my mistake, you’re there. Helping me.’
“But I said ‘no’ just now,” Iruni protested. “I don’t want to lose whatever future I already have ahead of me. If I refuse you here now, doesn’t that change those futures you saw?”
‘No,’ said the voice. ‘because I already told you; I’m sorry. I’m very sorry, but you won’t remember this conversation. You’ll become involved in my problem even if I do nothing, but you’ll be cared for and guided along the way.’
“Don’t!” Iruni pleaded. “That’s not a life! That’s a prison.”
‘In the future, when you’ve had the chance to see the world, you may change your tone.’
“I’m saying ‘no’ now!” Iruni swung at the darkness, but his fist hit nothing. “Nothing… will change your mind? I’ll just become a tool for you to use?”
‘I am not as cruel as you think I am. This terrible life you are imagining right now is what I’m trying to correct. There’s another life that I… interfered with. I want to fix what I’ve done and you’re the only one who can help save them.’
“I…” Iruni sat down on the blank ground, struggling to put his thoughts together. “How different will my life be? You can see that, can’t you? Telling me now won’t matter if you’re just going to take my memories away.”
‘True enough…’ the presence in Iruni’s mind was silent for a long moment. ‘Like I said, you will likely never notice the differences, but what is different will actually prolong your life by a significant amount. I will only need to actively intervene once and that will save you from an early death.’
“And why should I believe you?” Iruni asked.
‘You don’t?’
Iruni did believe what the voice had told him. He was going to set out and begin his Pokémon trainer career soon, so it stood to reason that he might find himself in dangerous situations as he traveled the region. If he was none the wiser to his altered fate, would his future self care?
“You aren’t very trusting,” Iruni said. “Not showing your face and doing all of this to me… If I agree to do this, can I at least ask you to do something for me?”
‘I suppose.’
“This major intervention you have planned in my future,” Iruni stood defiantly. He did not know where to look into the darkness, but he stared intently as if he had locked eyes with whatever had been speaking with him.
“I want you to show yourself to me, who or whatever you are. Try and convince me again, face to face.”
‘I… will try.’
“When—I know I probably won’t remember, but—when will you change my life?”
‘Your life… I won’t need to change a thing for about… three and a half months. That time will be entirely yours.’
“When you show up to me then, will you tell me about this?” he gestured to the blank void around him. “Will you tell my future self that I agreed to help you?”
‘I don’t know about that,’ the voice said. ‘If you found out that kind of knowledge, you might start working against me.’
“You know, I probably would,” Iruni agreed. “I don’t like this now.”
‘I don’t expect you to forgive me for what I will do,’ said the voice. ‘But I hope that in your future, you find yourself a reason to agree to help me on your own.’
“What do you mean?”
‘Maybe something precious to hold onto?’ the voice suggested. ‘Or someone?’
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The black void that had imprisoned Iruni’s mind drifted away and was soon replaced with an innocent dream. Iruni continued sleeping soundly throughout the encounter with the strange presence. He unconsciously held the wild Sneasel, who occasionally snuggled closer to the human as she slept, safely against his chest. Further down on the bed Iruni’s Houndour lay over the human’s feet.
Hovering just above the three slumbering individuals, a fourth being looked down on them as they slept the early morning away.
“I’m sorry,” they said. “If you don’t know I’m here, maybe it’ll all be alright. You can hate me for the rest of your lives, but for now… try to enjoy yourselves.”
The uninvited guest teleported away without a sound.
Iruni and the two Pokémon continued to sleep, unaware that their fate had become forever altered.
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To Be Continued…
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