Collision of the Truth

Chapter 5 - Hints of the Truth

Eriscordia was a bit infuriated on what her master did. She didn’t accept how her master decided to take someone else instead of the one person she knew would complete her master’s wishes. Of course, since the Corviknight was her master, she wasn’t allowed to refuse any decision he made.

The Corvikight landed on the entrance of a cave, giving Eriscordia some time to board off him, along with the unconscious Ash. Well, of course, Ash needed a bit of help getting down - if you could call it that. That meant Eriscordia had to carry Ash down. From their side, it’s a bit of a good thing that Eriscordia had pretty amazing strength. Well, at least for someone like her.

As soon as Eriscordia boarded off with Ash on her shoulders, she and Corviknight proceeded to enter the cave, dragging Ash across the stone rocky floor. Since the floor was a bit too rocky, then I guess you could say that Ash’s legs had a couple of scrapes, here and there. One of them actually opened up a small cut, in which blood trickled down from the small wound.

Once the duo and Ash made it inside the cave, Eriscordia proceeded to place Ash sitting down by the wall. Well, more like throw Ash since she didn’t exactly like the boy.

“Master,” Eriscordia began, “why did we take a boy instead of who we were after?!”

“This vessel is not suitable anymore, and I needed to get done with this nonsense, and quickly. It won’t be for long, this vessel was just used for some time since I almost ran out of time to find a new vessel. Luckily, I found this Corviknight on the way, and I stayed in this vessel as a last resort, Eriscordia. Understand that I only have a few more days, and I will have to break our deal. It comes to an end, here and now.”

“But master-!”

“Don’t call me master, I never intended for you to be allied with me, but I needed some help with going my way as I cannot see. For countless centuries I have tried to regain my body to continue my life, and here I am now.” the Corviknight proceeded to land an attack on Eriscordia, sending her flying to the left wall of the cave. She immediately passed out, blood trickling down from the back of her head signaling that the blow was indeed immensely strong.

Ash seemed to regain consciousness when he was met with a steel bird in front of him, and a lady with black, straight hair, a white robe, and… red ink soaking from the back of her clothes? Ash was completely oblivious to the sight of blood - since he didn’t want to believe it was real blood.

When Ash tried to stand up, the steel bird proceeded to slam the right wall with its right-wing, causing a very slight earthquake in the cave. Ash took this as a note to stay down until the steel bird leaves an opening.

“What do you want?” Ash asked the steel bird, keeping the rage as low as possible from reaching his voice.

“So you’ve awakened, perfect,” the bird responded, “I shall proceed with my plan.” Ash felt an extreme pang of a fear rising in his chest, and it was a really strong one at that. If he were to describe it, he would describe it as Tauros running around his stomach mercilessly. Something seemed to come out of the bird, and it triggered something in his memory. A memory he kept in the back of his mind for so long.

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Ash and his Pikachu were running throughout the ruins of the king of Pokelantis, searching for the entrance to the chamber where the stone Pokeball resided in. After a short while, he was able to find a door at the end of a corridor.

Ash started to tinker around with the door, to see if he could get in. It didn’t take that much messing around to open the door. Well, more like flip and let Ash and Pikachu in and then get closed shut again.