Friday 22/06/2007
The Tour...
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As I had promised myself, I went to see my Master unannounced. I know how He hates it so, when one of us goes before him without a special invite.
I had my reason to approach him. It was plaguing me. Worse. It was changing me. This... "She-Darkrai"... has been on my thoughts for the past month. It's as if my mind has become her slave, and I've been bound to serve her from the distance.
She has infected me. What this infection is, I know not. It is a new... sensation. My Dark Heart feels as though it is battling an internal enemy. What kind of curse did she bestow upon me? Was that her reason for remaining mute when I spoke with her? Did I envoke something? Perhaps she truly is me, reincarnated somehow...
My talk with the Arceus did not solve what I had hoped to learn.
I kneeled before Him reverently, as I have always done for years when approaching Him, but then I recklessly and apologetically preached about my reasons for being there.
But there was something in His eyes. There, as He stood before me in all His Magnificence in the Throne of the Hall of Origin, I could tell. He knew something I did not. Whatever it was, He did not speak of it. He only listened to me ramble on. I knew He knew what was wrong. He watches over me -- watches over Us. Nothing escapes His knowledge, his keen observations from the deck above the World. And as I finally finished my complaints beset before Him, He did a certain gesture with his legs -- as if He were leaping. Then, with great Power he hammered the ground, both golden hooves causing a shockwave that I trembled before. I... trembled.
He spoke in a voice so mystifying that I almost lost myself in a void created in my thoughts. It was as if I had gone adrift in a rip in time itself. Or rather, a tear in space... Before I knew what had happened, the Creator of Time and Space had descended, levitating out of a portal created within the floor. The shockwave earlier was nothing more than their dimensions opening, to be summoned into the Hall of Origin.
Why had my Master brought them before me? I don't know. To this day, only two days after, I am still at a loss. I suppose I will never figure it out.
Commanding the Great Dialga and Palkia aside, Arceus resumed contact with me. He told me, in an unamused but simple sentence, that it was not my time to know. He said he wasn't sure why or how it happened, but a duplicate had been created.
There was a flash of light, and before I knew it, I was beside my Master, Dialga, and Palkia. Before me was the World as I knew it: whole, beautiful, and soon to be cursed by My Hands as it was Night. Then the World shifted, and, like a camera, we zoomed in towards Sinnoh... At this point, I noticed We were standing atop the deck above the World which is the Hall of Origin, and we were gliding... towards a remote cavern east of Coronet. It was the same cave Cresselia had so long ago investigated. And residing within it was my duplicate. Oddly enough, she was slumbering.
My Master said He had known all along of my problem, and had been trying to think of a way to resolve it. He told me that I could approach the She-Darkrai without worry, as she was in fact I, only the opposite gender. But He warned me of what dangers would lie ahead for me, should I stray from my Path of Destiny... Then, in another quick flash, I was floating back on my Newmoon. The Great Dialga and Palkia, and my Master... they had vanished.
I feel a great confusion arise within me whenever I think back to those moments. Why does my Master refuse to answer me directly? What could He possibly know about the She-Darkrai that I do not? Perhaps I am thinking too much of the ordeal. I should... continue with my life. Sometime I will approach her, and rid the World of her. It is my duty to uphold my True Nature, to be the Prince of Darkness... I am Darkrai. I am One. And it will remain that way, forever onward.
Just because my schedule has been temporarily haulted...
does not mean that my pleasure to dismember dreams has died...
Do not worry much longer...
I will be there for a visit...
Your patience will be rewarded.
Slumber well...