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Chapter 1: Long Time No See

Authors Notes: Please be aware that I'm not nice to characters. I can and will hurt them. Seeing as this is a third installment you've already read what I can and will do with them. Their will be fighting, their will be blood, and the need for therapy. I don't tend to kill of canon characters, but my characters are a different story. I will post trigger warnings as things happen per chapter so be ready for those.

I will be posting chapters quickly (I've already got four written)

Trigger Warning: falling from great heights, almost drowning, and abandonment issues.

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Chapter 1

Long Time No See

Lake felt a sudden sensation of falling. She wasn't sure who she was clinging to now. She closed her eyes tightly. It seemed like they were falling forever. At least that's how it seemed. When she opened her eyes though the huge face that looked at her didn't seem to scare her half as bad as one would think when brought before a huge pokemon of such a vast size.

There was a low purr from the pokemon as it leaned in and looked at the child. Ingo looked up from where he was checking on Emmet who was just coming out of his unconscious state.

"Why have you called me back here? I thought we were through." Ingo pushed Lake behind himself. Away from the accursed pokemon that shoved him into the past making demands.

"The world has become imbalanced." Ingo scoffed, turning to pick up Lake. Helping his brother up from the floor

"That isn't my problem." Ingo told him. Lake looked around at the huge horse like pokemon. "I have a family, and I do not wish to be a part of your nonsense anymore."

"You say that like you aren't already part of this imbalance." He motioned to Lake and then looked at Ingo. "You do not know?" Lake looked up at Ingo and then at the huge white and gold pokemon. "I see..."

Lake wasn't sure what this huge pokemon wanted or even what it was. She had never seen it in one of her brother's books. Or even the pokedex her brothers gave her to look through.

"You will aid me, for her...benefit." Arceus's tone seemed curious but also unusual. Lake found herself holding Ingo's hand. Ingo pulled his brother to him. Emmet was so confused as to who this pokemon was.

"So you will send me back to Hisui?" Ingo asked. Arceus chuckled and a portal began to open behind them.

"No...you will close the fractures within every realm."

"Realm!?" Emmet asked, looking at his brother. "But how many are there?" Emmet asked his brother. Ingo wasn't sure. He had only visited one.

"The moment you close one rift, another will close on the other side. The cracks will begin to fade."

"What of him?" Ingo pointed to Steels who floated around the room, kicking and screaming like he was falling to his death.

"Let him be...he has done some wrong, and deserves this treatment. All those people he's killed. Including that child's creators." Lake looked up at the pokemon and hugged closer to Ingo.

So it was Steels who killed her parents...her concern for the man disappeared into anger for him. She shook her head and felt another hand around her back.

"It's okay sweet pea. We're here..." The reaction from Lake wasn't what Emmet wanted. She recoiled from his touch and whimpered. Emmet looked so floored and scared. What did he do to cause such a reaction?

"She still feels...scared...of you." Emmet's trademark smile faltered.

"Lake I..." the gravity around them increased and they began to fall through the portal, toward a realm they knew nothing about.

Lake tried her best to stay within Ingo's arm, but once they hit water they were pushed away from one another.

The churning waves pushed them around like inside a washing machine as the agitator spun back and forth. Lake's head broke free of the waters and she tried to call out but nothing came out. The water wasn't cold at least, that was going in their favor...right? She tried to propel herself toward shore, but the water pushed her away from rocks.

Wait..she saw someone just before she went under again. The water pushed her farther down. It couldn't have been that deep really, she was just short.

She kept trying to kick off something, anything to make her way up to the top, but the swirling motions of the water kept pushing her back down again. Her lungs tried to pull in air, but it only pulled in water. Coughing only caused more of the same reaction. She began to get light headed, she felt someone's arms around her. Being pulled back up above the surface her head rested on a shoulder. She felt so heavy above the water.

"Got her!" The voice was a little strained as if they were cold. Was it cold? She couldn't tell, what was wrong? Wait...was she breathing?

Emmet had found his way up onto a rock not too long after falling into the water. He spotted Ingo not too far off, he was a strong swimmer, but after shoving Emmet up onto the rock his next priority was their sister. But where was she?

Ingo felt something against his hip and he reached down pulling Lake above water. To his shock the girl wasn't breathing. Pushing her up onto the shore and laying her flat. Emmet walked back and forth as he watched Ingo pushing down on the young girl's chest. He couldn't help it, the tears ran down his face. The little girl they fought so hard to protect was waning away before him.

Counting up, still nothing...

Tipping her head back he blew into her mouth. Nothing.

Pressing down on her chest again, counting again...nothing again...counting...pushing...counting...

The girl coughed up the water still within her lungs. Ingo pulled Lake onto her side and rubbed her back. Emmet sighed in relief. He wanted his sister back, he had to make it up to her. Ingo placed Lake over his legs, chest down to help the water expel from her lungs.

"Oh sweet child..." Emmet ran his fingers over her wet hair and paused. "She has a fever." He shook his head putting his hands into his pocket and pulled out his pain medication.

"A half would be okay...right?" He looked up at Ingo who nodded and held his hands out for it. Ingo opened the bottle and upturned it and all that came out was water and a mix of whitish yellow sand that Ingo assumed used to be the pills.

"Great..." He stood up and looked around. "We'll have to find help...for the both of you." At least it was morning and they had plenty of time to hoof it. "Hopefully there is a station close by."