The Mysterious Hidden {4th Place in Romance (Pokemon Watty Awards 2015)}

Chapter 14

N~
I found myself floating in a dark void. I felt cold all over my body and shivered. Muffled voices filled the gaping black area, echoing into the darkness. "N," a familiar voice called. I saw a majestic white dragon hover in front of me, the same dragon from my dreams!

"You... You're..." I stammered.

"Yes, I was your guidance, Reshiram. I guard the truth while my other part, Zekrom, guards ideals." Its deep blue eyes pierced right through me. So that was what Zekrom meant by its "other half. I thought

"Am I dead?" I asked nervously. Reshiram paused and then gestured me to get onto its back. I floated over with ease and grabbed onto its soft neck, heated with its blazing fire within.

"Come, I have something to show you, but answer this question," it said. "How much do you want to see Touko again?" My eyes widened. Touko!

"I... She..." I tried to find the right words and took a deep breath. "She means everything to me. And... She is the most precious thing I have, more precious than my life. I would die to see her again." Reshiram nodded.

"Even if it means that you won't look at her the same way ever again?" it asked.

"Won't... Look at her the same way? What do you mean?" I asked.

"Exactly what you think it means," Reshiram replied. "When you see her agian, you will never think of her the same way as you do now." I stared into a tuft of fur on its back, swaying in the light cool breeze.

"Will I hurt her?" I asked.

"If you can control yourself, no, but it will be a lot harder than you think." it explained. I thought, and with confident eyes, I looked at Reshiram.

"Yes. I do want to see her again, I love her." I said. Reshiram started to fly forward, and soon I could see a light, a vision, like a movie playing in front of me. I saw some forrest Pokemon happily playing in the abundant amount of trees, tackling each other and laughing. Then I saw a boy with green hair approach them, happy as well, with light blue eyes and a gold rubics cube around his neck: he was a younger version of me, myself from the past. The Pokemon seemed to welcome him as their own family. Soon, a Zorua leaped into younger me's arms, licking him all over the face playfully. I then remembered seeing a Zorua before when I was younger. Was that it? Reshiram flew over to another patch of light where another scene played before me. It was my younger self, being carried away from the forrest Pokemon by a man with green hair as well: Ghetsis. He patted little me on the head.

"I was so worried about you, N." he said sweetly. "Let's go home, my son." My heart almost stopped and I barely lost my grip on Reshiram.

"He's... He's... Ghetsis is my..." I whispered with shock. Reshiram nodded. I placed my hand over my chest and looked at the scene with wide eyes. Reshiram flew over to another scene. In it, I was a little older, playing with a blue ball all alone in a dark play room, bouncing it on the walls and catching it and my face emotionless. Suddenly, two girls, one with pink hair and one with yellow hair came in with other Pokemon, laughing cheerfully. My younger self began to laugh too, as if his spirits were suddenly lifted, and ran over to them, hugging them happily.

"Those were your sisters, Concordia and Anthea." Reshiram explained. "They have cared for you since you three were very young." It flew over to another scene. I was with Concordia, Anthea, and a Darumaka. The Darumaka seemed unhappy.

"What's wrong?" Concordia asked it. I was just thinking about before I came here... It replied.

"What happened?" Anthea asked. The Darumaka was silent for a while, then finally cried. Humans! They hurt me! They made me fight my friends and abused me! I got hurt and they didn't care about how I felt! They promised they'd look after me, love me, treat me like family, but they lied. They all lied! The Darumaka burst into tears as Anthea stroked its back to calm it down. I then felt a pain in my chest, like a longing to hurt the humans that hurt the Darumaka. A longing to hold to the Darumaka and tell it that everything will be alright. Concordia sighed.

"I believe that Pokemon will only truly be free if they are left in their home, in the wild, with their real friends and family..." She looked at me. "Right, Harmonia?" Harmonia... Isn't that what Kyurem called me? I thought. The younger me hesitated.

"Yeah..." he finally said and began to pet the Darumaka. "You're right... Liberated from trainers... In peace... With friends..."

"With love..." I finished, starting to feel wet in my eyes. "Free..." Suddenly, something clicked in my head, like the last piece of a puzzle. A burning sensation filled my head as my memories slowly started coming back to me. Each and every piece of it. The many times Ghetsis hit me, the pain of all the Pokemon I met, my royalty to Team Plazma, the hatred of trainers and Pokemon battles, and worst, but finally, the memory of how I lost my memory. I memorized the harsh battle between Ghetsis and Touko, the huge blast through the wall created by Zekrom's Fusion Bolt, me running to protect Touko, falling off my very own castle to save her life and the hard blow to my head as I hit the ground. I screamed at that thought. The scenes disappeared and Reshiram began to fly up.

"Please, N," it said. "There isn't much time. You have to stop Ghetsis! You need to free the people and Pokemon! I will lend you my strength. You will find me in your old room on a table in my light stone form." I started to see a light gleaming from above. From there I knew who I was:

I was Natural Harmonia Gropious, and I was born to liberate my friends!