Shattered (Story)

=== Prologue ===
Once, there was a world before time, where only the sun, stars, and moon existed. The sun’s name was Eden, the moon was known by Pon, and the star’s name was Origin. They lived alone together for hundreds of years, shaping peace together, with a single crystal. The Nil crystal. It had seven shards to it, each representing something. Once represented the course of life and death, space, time, embodiment, control, and the power of the whole universe. The crystal was meant to be hidden from sight from anyone who entered the world before time, and fell in the wrong hands. One day, a sentient being entered the realm. His name was Shen, Shen Lung. He claimed himself to be a true master at Kung fu, a legend with his own style, the peacock style. He offered to help them thrive in their world, but only if they’d let him stay. The three agreed, and let him stay as long as he wanted. One day, Pon told the three: “I feel as if we’re missing something.” The other two agreed, until the idea came into mind. What they were missing, was the eclipse. Altogether, they created the eclipse with their own power. 
They loved what they created dearly, and they named him Eclipse. Eclipse was petite and frail, which risked his life multiple times when going out. For eleven years, the sun, the star, and the moon took care of Eclipse for as long as they could, but it all ended when the eclipse suddenly went missing. They went searching for him for days and nights, not stopping until they found him. But it was no use. They searched the whole universe, but there was no hope in finding him. Origin said, “this can’t be the end, we need to create another, or this world will never be complete!” The two agreed, and created another eclipse with a whole different species, a human. They loved him more than they could ever love anything else. But Origin mostly loved him than the other two. He spent time with him, his own son. One day, Origin thought it would be good for Eclipse to take martial arts lessons with Shen, so he took Eclipse there to train. Shen and Eclipse trained for years and years, but Shen wanted something from Eclipse when he turned 18. He told Eclipse to kill the three, and take the Nil crystal so they could have all the power they wanted. 
=== Prologue (pt2) ===
With already a heart full of evil, Eclipse on his 18th birthday, attempted to murder the three in the middle of the eclipse that was said to happen on the day of his 18th birthday. At the darkest hour, he had slain Pon and Eden. Origin, terrified of what Eclipse has done, tried to get rid of Eclipse, knowing that it was all Shen’s fault that this all happened. Shen had manipulated him. Though, Origin was too scared to already let go of his son, so he sent him to another planet, Earth, where he erased his memory, and completely reset Eclipse’s life. Origin killed Shen soon afterwards in cold blood. Origin, know living in grief, left this realm, changing his whole identity. He cut his hair short, he lost an eye just so no one could recognize him. He renamed himself to Choir.
=== Prologue (pt3) ===
I had no idea what Symbal just read to us. What does this mean? Justice, Antipathy, and the cat too look all confused. I couldn't exactly tell what Epoch was feeling, since I couldn't see its face. Symbal nods. "The Nil crystal...shattered...sent to different dimensions. Choir...father?" I stared in confusion, wondering what the heck he was talking about. "Uhm, Symbal? Everything okay?" He glares at me and starts to laugh. "Yes, I just think that I may be able to fetch those shards... TO BE MINE!" He laughs. Justice crosses his arms. "To be ours, you mean?" Symbal shook his head. "No, I didn't misspeak, I said what I said." He starts walking away from them. "I used you all for company, but I think I know what I want know, and its those shards. Can't you see? They can control the universe, apparently." Justice flails his arms in the air in anger. "But we're all supposed to be doing that all together!" Symbal shushes him. "No no no...not anymore we aren't." He pushes him to the ground. "Weak." He starts running away, and out of sight. Me and Antipathy give each other concerned side glances. "We're gonna die, and its gonna be Symbal's fault." He agrees with me, nodding. "Died a first time, guess I can die a second time." "Are you a zombie or something?" I ask him and he nods. "Something like that, heh." I look down at Justice and held his hand to help him up. "Uh, come on, lets go I guess." Justice nods and I notice that he looks panicked. "We can do all this standing around later, lets go." Us four all run out the cave we walked into.
=== Chapter one ===
Terno was leading the group across the city to get to the bridge. Alto frowns. "What exactly do we need at the bridge?" Terno sighed. "Well, I haven't told you but there's a crystal, called the Nil crystal. I heard it has the power to control the universe! But, I wouldn't do that be like that, so selfish and cruel to control the universe. And across it, there's a palace, and I heard that it's pretty, so I wanted to go take a look with Lockjaw." Choir thinks for a second about the bridge and the palace. Something felt off, like he knew a place with a bridge that lead to a palace. He felt sick in the stomach just thinking about it. Terno turned to the group. "We just have to get past the grassy part of the village and we'll be at the bridge in no time! Man, sometimes I really do need a break of taking care of the village..." Yuze, Lockjaw and Zoey all agree. Emotive in the back hopped onto Sunset's back, hugging him. "Wanna go for a little ride, buddy? We can get there before them for a little game." Sunset barks happily, which meant "yes! Sunset started running off with Emotive to the bridge, ahead of everyone by now. Manipulated looked down at Cream. "I can't exactly ride on your back, since you're too small...buuuttt..." He slowly turns to Jeptmal, who is on his fours. "But Jeptmal can!" He runs over to Jeptmal and tries to talk him into letting him ride on his back. Jeptmal gives in, and lets him ride on his back. "But I'm warning you, I wont go slow." He starts running, and he was faster than what he said.
=== Chapter two ===
Almost at the bridge, the group are ready to rest in the middle of the forest. It was dense, so it was hard to see through the trees. Sunset and Cream drag Manipulated and Emotive to the ground, kneeding them in a way of telling them: "Go to bed guys, its bed time!" They laugh, adoring their best friends and their ways of telling them what they want. Lockjaw laid down with Terno, hugging him tightly. He even kissed his cheek slightly, showing a sign of their love. "Alright everyone, go to bed. There is a long day ahead of us, so get to-" He's cut off by rustling in the bushes and voices. "Wait..up!" The voices say as they get louder. All Yuze, Zoey, Lockjaw and Terno get into defense positions to defend for their group. Lockjaw growls as it gets closer, and closer, until the person finally came into few. Well, maybe not one person. Two others were behind them. Lockjaw frowned. "Sam? Blair? AND Auditor?" Sam put his hands on his knees, bending over and breathing heavily. "H-hey guys..." It was hard for him to speak, since he most likely ran more than a mile to catch up with the group. Terno stepped up to him, staring down at him with a menacing stance. "What are you doing here, Sam? Do you have any reason?" Sam looked up at him, nodding. "Yes yes, I do." Terno crossed his arms, raising an eyebrow. "Go ahead tell me." Sam got up with the help of Blair and Auditor. "Y'know I was just thinking that you guys would y'know, need help?" He giggled in a way that meant he was nervous in a way. Terno sighed and stared at him right in the eye. "Really? Is this true? Lockjaw told me you were to chicken to go anywhere, not even outside the village." Sam flailed his arms in the air, groaning. "Okay maybe it's not just that. THERE'S A POKEMON THAT HAS BEEN FOLLWOING US THREE THIS WHOLE TIME!"
=== Chapter three ===
Terno looks around frantically. "Where, where is it?" Blair held up something in her hands, but set it aside to the ground next to Sam. It was an innocent looking Glaceon that looked like it had zero bad intentions. Lockjaw frowned walking over to it. "Sam, its a normal looking Glaceon. It wont hurt you." Manipulated jumped out from where he was sleeping, looking amazed. "GLACEON?" He ran over and picked it up, gasping. He started to pet it many times. "Awww! You're so cute!" The Glaceon purred at Manipulated in a friendly way. Manipulated tilted his head. "I'm assuming you're female...I'm going to name you something. Your name is Ayupan!" The Glaceon made happy noises that a Glaceon would make while Manipulated showed her to Emotive, Cream and Sunset. "Isn't she sweet?" Lockjaw sighed and turned to Choir. "Calm them down and tell them its time for rest, he can play with uh, Ayupan in the morning." Choir nods and walks over to Manipulated, telling him to quiet down. Lockjaw sighed and turned to Sam, raising an eyebrow. "I think your problem is gone now, and the minute we sit down to rest you're going to have to tell me WHY you're here, and WHY you decided to come with us. Sam nods and sighs. "Come on Auditor and Blair, looks like Lockjaw is going to act like my dad that never existed and scold me for everything that just happened." Lockjaw crossed his arms. "I'm not acting like your dad, just sit down and lets talk!" Sam laughs along with all the others, walking with an angered Lockjaw. 
=== Chapter four ===
Everyone fell asleep by the next hour, but it was quite hard for both Eclipse and Alto to fall asleep. Eclipse turned to Alto, which had a worried expression on his face. "You can't sleep either?" Alto nods slowly. "Yeah." They could both hear the sounds of Lockjaw, Terno, Yuze, and Zoey outside. Eclipse peeks out from his hiding spot to see them all in a circle, talking? He crosses his arms. "Hey! They're up but we're supposed to be sleeping? No fair!" Alto rolls his eyes. "They always do that I think. I dunno." Eclipse sighs. "Maybe y'know, we could uh... ask them for like uh...a story that they could tell us? To help us fall asleep....?" Eclipse giggles in a guilty sounding way. Altos face brightens up, his eyes wide. "Good idea! Now we just gotta make sure that they don't question why we're up. They both walk out from their sleeping spots, revealing themselves to the four. Lockjaw gets up in almost an instant, looking angry. "What are you both doing up now?" Eclipse hides behind Alto, hugging him tightly. Alto suddenly blushes, he didn't expect Eclipse to do that. He smiles a bit but gets straight back to the topic before he forgot. "Uh, me and Eclipse...We couldn't sleep very well, so uh, me and Eclipse wanted to hear a story from you guys!" The four look at each other, raising their eyebrows. Alto gives Eclipse a quick glance from behind him. "Next time, you're going to tell them, not me!" Eclipse nods, hugging him tighter. "Okay...sorry...!" He looks up at Alto with his red innocent eyes, looking a bit sorry for him. Alto blushes even more, and sighs. He hugs him back, smiling. "You really like hugs, huh?" Eclipse nods. "Especially if they're from you..." Alto smiles. He starts leaning into Eclipse's face, closing his eyes. Lockjaw clapped his hands together as they were just about to kiss. "Alright you two, if you want to hear a story, then I'll tell you the story of Ancient Audury."
=== Chapter five ===
Lockjaw cleared his throat, taking a deep breath. "Long ago, there was a hidden village in the middle of nowhere, where six guardians protected the place with their hearts. Zheng, Tāng , Huaifen, Kyoyan, Junjie, Bayojana, and Shen, were the guardians. They knew combat very well, but they mostly focused on Kung fu. It was their specialty, to fight off danger and to protect the village. But one, had pure evil in his heart. Junjie. He was selfish, a narcissist of all kinds. He even claimed one day the he'll rule the world, with the whole entirety of the world at his feet, bowing down at him. One day, the six were having a meeting, but all of the sudden, a glint of a shiny object caught Junjie's eye. He ran to it as fast as he could, finding three shards, and claiming them all as his. The shards, were apart of something called the Nil Crystal, which had the power to control the whole universe, but it was shattered long ago, before time. The shards all represented something. The three shards that were in Junjie's paws were space, time, and embodiment. Junjie's dearest friend, Tāng  saw what he was doing, and he had to stop him. Huaifen and Bayojana had to pin him down, just for Tāng and Zheng to gather the crystals and hide them. Zheng, flying away, came back empty clawed. Junjie, outraged swore that he would all their lives, even if it meant killing all of the citizens of the village. Tāng and Bayojana had just had a child together, so they had to do everything to protect him, but who would if no one would be there to be with him. There were to choices: Leave him and die, or take him to the orphanage. Bayojana couldn't see her child have such a horrible start, so she took him to the orphanage, where Huaifen also took her child, Yuze. The children were left at the orphanage, to never see their parents. Until one day, the village was burning down. And it was caused by Tāng's dearest friend. Junijie."
=== Chapter six ===
"Tāng tried to confront Junjie, but there was no use brining Junjie back to his old state. Tāng turned to his group members, a sad expression on his face. "All of you, leave and never come back. Bayojana, I want you to take Terno and raise him, please. I love you all!" He takes one last glance at them before running away into the fire, to face Junjie. They started up a fight, but there was an end to it soon after. Tāng Pushed Junjie into the forest while Junjie pulled Tāng into the fire with him. The five ran away with their village citizens. Bayojana thought about her son, about her son who she didn't want to have a horrible start. She took him back, but leaving Huaifens child alone. She taught Terno all sorts of combat, with the help of Shen. When Terno turned twelve, everyone in that group had died, expect Shen, who was long gone. Terno was sent back to the orphanage, where he made two new friends named Yuze and Zoey. he grew up along side with them, becoming the next village protectors, until someone new came up, many years later."
=== Chapter seven ===
Alto and Eclipse stared at the four while holding hands. Alto tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. "Sooo...That village burned down once?" Terno nods. "Yep. May not seem like it, but it's true." Eclipse raises his hand to get their attention. "Uh, excuse me? Who was that last person who came and stuff...?" Terno grabs Lockjaw into a tight hug. Lockjaw tired to push him away, but it was no use since his grip was strong. "Why this cutie of course!" Lockjaw pushes him away, blushing. "You didn't have to call me cu-" He was cut off by Terno, who put his finger over his mouth to shush him. "He saved my daughter, so I cared for him! Sometime later in life, he became my boyfri-" Lockjaw jumps up and pushes Terno away, looking angry and flustered. "That's enough, Terno! Way to much really!" Alto snickers, whispering into Eclipse's ear. "They became boyfriends? I don't understand why Lockjaw wants to hide it!" Eclipse giggles along with Alto while Lockjaw tries to get them to shut up. "Look, maybe we are boyfriends but...its embarrassing! Kinda..! Its just that I've never really been in a relationship..." Terno hugs Lockjaw again, but tighter. "You don't need to feel that way, am I making you feel that way..." Lockjaw shakes his head. "No! No! Ah...Lets just...head to bed now. Lockjaw runs off quickly, a more visible blush again. Terno frowns and sighs, putting a hand on his cheek. "He's right...I guess we should go to bed." He turns to Eclipse and Alto. "You guys should go to. G'night." He walks away in a sad way, bringing Yuze and Zoey with him. Alto turns to Eclipse and smiles. "Lets go, we have a long day ahead of us." He takes Eclipse's hand, holds it tightly, and walks back to their place. They fall asleep soon after.
=== Chapter eight ===
THE NEXT DAY
The next morning, Choir was wearing different clothes for whatever reason. He wore a Gi with bandages on his legs and arms, was he hurt? Alto stared at him, nodding slowly as Choir put on the rest of the bandages. "Are you hurt or something, dad?" He shakes his head. "No, not at all. This is just for uh, going to the Nil palace...." He says with a bit of hurt in his voice. Alto nods, hugging him tightly. "Never seen you wear anything like this, but you look cool!" Choir nods thoughtfully. “Thank you, Alto.” Alto gives him a thumbs up in response with a large happy smile on his face. Choir sighs. “We should start getting the others out of bed. We need to move on anyway….” Alto frowned, sensing a bit of suspicion from his father. “Dad? You seem to want to go pretty bad, is something wrong?” Choir jumps up in surprise, as if Alto scared him. He shook his head vigorously, waving his hands at him with a sign that said “No” He laughs in a nervous way. “Of course not, nothings wrong with me! I swear to you….!” Choir trails off in his sentence, sounding even more sad them he sounded before. Alto put an arm on his shoulder, rubbing it. “Dad, if there’s anything that’s going on, just tell me, okay?” Choir nods while Alto comforted him, making a soft purring noise. “W-we should wake the others up-“ Choir said in a sudden panic. “Y’know, we have a place to visit….!” Choir said with dread in his voice. He shook his head, clawing himself. He turned back to Alto with tears  in his face. “Listen, I need some time alone, okay? Just – wake the others up in the meantime-“Choir runs off, covering his face with his hands. Alto stares in complete shock. “Dad….?” He sighs, deciding that it would be good to leave his father alone for now, and just wake up the others. He called Eclipse for help as he walked to the camp, worry plastered all over his face. 
=== Chapter nine ===
After a while, Choir finally came back to camp. He looked fine from what he looked like before, all hurt with tears in his eyes. Alto ran up to him, giving him the tightest hug he’s ever given his father. Choirs face lit up in surprise and thought. He slowly put his hands around his sons, hugging him tighter than Alto was. “Hey dad! Where did you go? Everyone was worried about you!” Choir sighed with a tint of laughter in his voice. “There was a nearby pond that I discovered a day ago. It was pretty and all while it lasted, but I knew I had to come back to camp, or else you’ll leave me here in the wilderness.” Alto laughs. “We wouldn’t leave you out in the wilderness silly, we’d go out looking for you! Plus, you lead this whole group.” Choir nods with an expression of thought in his face. “Hm, makes sense…Anyway, are all the others awake?” Alto nods. “Me and Eclipse woke them all up, but mostly Ayupan, Sunset and Cream were the ones waking them up, they were loud!” Choir laughs as he walks into camp, holding Alto tightly. He stops in his tracks all of the sudden, taking Alto out in surprise. He stumbles back, losing his balance. “Woah! Dad? Why’d you stop?” He looked down at him with his menacing expression. “There’s something I need to tell you before we get back, okay?” Alto nods. “Mhm? What is it?” Choir crouches down to Alto’s height, sighing. “Listen, if anything ever happens to me, you’ll be the one in charge, you hear? I wont always be here with you all.” Alto nods with an upset expression. “O-okay….” Choir gets back up, continuing to walk back to the camp. Alto runs off to Eclipse, yelping his name. “Eclipse! My dad’s scaring me….” Eclipse tilts his head in confusion. “Why is he scaring you? Did he say he's getting married?” Alto looks up at him, with a face of utter shock. “What?! No – not at all!” Eclipse giggled. “Okay, what is it then?” Alto looked over his shoulder to check if Choir was still there. It seems like he left already. He came close to Eclipse’s ear, whispering into it. “Dad said if he dies, I’m going to be in charge.” Eclipse gasps. “WHAAAAT?!”
=== Chapter ten ===
Alto nods vigorously. “Yeah! And I really don’t want to be in charge of this whole group with how many people? I don’t even know!” Alto holds up a finger, cowering a little. “Its 24 people, actually….” Alto groans in misery, clawing his face. “I KNOW! AND THAT’S A LOT!” Eclipse looks away. “You know if it actually happens, I can help….” Alto gasps. “Really?! Oh thank the lord of Justice because doing it all alone would be a pain in the butt!” Eclipse giggled. “I mean, of course I’d help you-!” They smile at each other in a loving way, almost as if that they were meant for each other. Alto gets close to him, holding Eclipse’s hand. “Thank you, Eclipse…It really means a lot….” Alto was clearly blushing, and so was Eclipse. They stared at each other in silence, but it was broken by Manipulated staring at them, asking: “What are you guys staring at each other for? Is something happening? Are you guys speaking telepathically?” Alto snapped out of his trance, looking at Manipulated with a skeptical look. “What – no-, we’re not speaking telepathically! We’re just, staring at each other!” Eclipse nods with a smile on his face. “In a loving way….” Manipulated gasps, his eyes full of wonder. “You guys are in LOVE?!” He looks down at Ayupan and Cream, who were both in his arms. “You guys hear that? Eclipse and Alto are in looove!” Alto blushes in embarrassment, snorting a little. “Now he’s going to go around the camp telling everyone….” Eclipse pats his shoulder. “But that’s good! Now we don’t have to go tell everyone ourselves!” Alto nods. “You’ve got a point, plus if I told Choir this he’d freak out, and I really don’t want to have a five hour long conversation about being in a relationship with someone….” Eclipse laughs, hugging Alto tightly. “You dad is silly sometimes, to be honest.” Alto nods. “He is, really. Sometimes he can be really threatening, and really innocent sometimes. But most of the time he’s just embarrassing.” Eclipse laughs again, but louder. Choir from the other side of the camp calls out for them. “Alto! Eclipse! Come on now, we’re leaving.” Alto nods at Eclipse, while Eclipse takes his hand. They run off to see the others.
=== Chapter elevon ===
While they all travelled to the bridge, Choir seemed bothered by something the whole time, but no one knew what he was so bothered about. He hugged himself continuously, he hid his face countless times under his sleeves, and he even cried silently. No one at all seemed to notice Choir’s frustration expect Alto and Eclipse. Choir’s frustration only seemed to worsen once they came closer to the bridge. He never seemed to be in the mood for talking that day, so he kept away from the others to have some space. He even let Lockjaw lead the group instead of him. He stayed in the back, where no one could talk to him. Despair walked up to Alto, whispering in his ear. “Hey? Is your father, okay? He seems awfully upset lately…he hasn’t even spoke to one of us.” Alto doesn’t know how to respond to this, considering the fact that he didn’t know what was upsetting Choir. He decided that his best answer was just to say he didn’t know. It was good to have honest answers. “I-I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with him. Maybe he’s just feeling a little y’know, depressed?” Despair nods thoughtfully. “Probably. He seems to shoo everyone away if we even try to get close, or talk to him, should we just give him some time to himself for now?” Alto nods. “That would be best, leave him alone for now.” Despair walks back to his fiancé, holding hands with her. About an hour or two pasts, and the group began to see damaged statues of people they never knew about. One looked like Lockjaw in a way. They had that same, long, and soft to the touch looking hair. They both as well, had angry expressions and Gi uniforms. One statue was far behind all the others. It took the body shape of a human with long hair. It looked much like Eclipse, but bulkier and had more of a threatening stance. The only thing that was wrong, is that the face was blacked out by something. Alto walked over to it, staring up at it with a curious face. He touched it, moving his hand across the statue in a slow motion. Choir stared at it from the back with a look of pure fear plastered all over his face. He looked away, looking like he was about to have a panic attack. Alto knew Choir had some kind of relation to this exact person, but why?
=== Chapter twelve ===
Alto decided to look around some more, to see who these people were. He walked up to the one H looked very similar to lockjaw, staring up at it. Yuze walks over to Alto, staring up at it was well. “That’s Kyoyan. He was one of the strongest fighters known. People say that he had the Silat fighting style.” Alto nods in a slow motion. “Why does he look so much like Lockjaw? I mean – the hair, the face, and everything?!” Yuze laughs, smiling as she turned to Lockjaw, who was in the far side of the statue grounds. “It’s because that Lockjaw, he’s a fan of Kyoyan. Ever since Terno told Lockjaw about him, he was destined to be just like him… a fighter, one who protects his own village with his heart with his own style.” “What kind of style does he have? Silat just like Kyoyan?” Yuze shakes her head. “No, but we both have the same styles. Tiger style of Kung fu.” She whispers in his ear for a split second. “It’s said that tiger style is the most deadly, and could literally kill you.” Alto makes an expression of shock and wonder, but a bit of confusion. “I mean, you do look like a big cat – like a tiger….” Yuze rolls her eyes, smiling a little. “People say that, but I don’t mind.” Alto began to examine more of the statues. “There is so many of them! Are these guys really that important?” he thought to himself. He spotted another statue that looked like an Incrediman with sticks behind his back. He nudges Yuze and points at it. “Who’s that?” Yuze frowns, like she was disappointed. She sighs, taking a deep breath. “That’s Shinobi. He's the whole reason why my species and Incredimen are kind of in a civil war.” Alto tilts his head. “What? Incrediman and Meowscarada are in war? What happened?” She sighed. “I’m not sure that this is not the time for telling stories.” She holds up her bandaged tail, showing it to Alto. “This is a mark from that war. My father, tried to kill me after Shinobi ordered every Incrediman to kill every Meowscarada in sight. Though he hesitated to kill my mom and me, but it was heartbreaking. When he tried to kill me, the only part of me he managed to cut with a knife was half my tail. Me and my mom never saw that monster ever again.” Alto frowns with a sympathetic look on his face. He walked up to her, hugging her as tight as he could. “I’m sorry about that…you never deserved anything like that.” Yuze smiles. “It’s all alright now. Shinobi could be dead, and if so, I hope that psycho of a shogun is.” “But what if he is still alive, even to this day?” Alto asks. “I was at least 12 at that time, and now I’m 33. He was not young, not old, but I’m sure he’s dead….” She mutters under her breath for a second. “At least I hope he is….” She sighs but smiles at Alto as if she was feeling bad. “I’ll tell you the story in full detail once its time, okay?” Alto nods. “Okay! I’m going to see other statues and see who those people are….” Yuze waves at him as he walks away. “Okay, see you later!”
=== Chapter thirteen ===
It was half an hour later after Alto was done searching around. He found out some of the people of the statues had a bad history. The group decided it was time to get out of there, but Choir said that mostly because he feared something in there. Choir again, didn’t want to lead the group, as he is still feeling ill, so he gave leadership to Terno. Terno motioned everyone to follow him, waving his hand in the air. “Come on you, guys! We’re almost at the bridge!” Everyone heads back to their journey, back to focusing on walking to the bridge. Soon after, the air began to thicken as fog came. It wasn’t much, but it was hard for certain members to see. Zoey stretches his wings, flying up high in the air with just a flap of his wings. “I’ll be up here, just to check if there is any danger around.” Terno gives him a thumbs up. He turns to the group. “The fog, it means we’re near, from what I remember.” Choir muttered something under his breath, but no one could quite make it out. Duality, on the other hand, heard him. He sounded like he said “Death is near for me, oh come save me father.” She was confused, what have he meant by that? She didn’t know he had a father. She thought about asking, but the state that Choir was in, wasn’t exactly the best. She kept her mouth shut as they all went. After a while, Cornet broke the silence by holding up his Resevoir card, looking unsure about it. “I don’t think carrying a Resevoir card is safe anymore. Glory might be dead, but we don’t know. I know he’s still after me.” Eclipse kicks a rock away and into the fog as he looks up at Cornet. “Ditch it in the bridge. Isn’t there like a water fall there or something?” Cornet shrugs. “Dunno, never been there before. But, if there is, I might as well just do that.” Jeptmal nods as he joins the conversation. “It’s better to keep it away for now, that is the last card to exist anyway.” He bends down to a small puddle on the floor, laying his paws in it. “Maybe once Glory is dead…maybe I wont fear making cards,” He sighs, “If only if I remembered how to make any…its been so long I forgot….” He looks up at Cornet. “Maybe at least breaking the card would be better than throwing away history like trash, how about that?” Cornet thinks for a second and smiles. “Sure. Like cracking it in half?” Jeptmal nods. Cornet gives him a thumbs up in response. After a few minutes later, Zoey comes back from ground. “We’re just a few feet away. Once you hear the water, we’ve arrived.” Terno smiles. “That’s great!” Moments later, the fogs thickness begins to decrease as they arrive at a large bridge with a waterfall beneath it. Lockjaw hugs Terno tightly. “Guess we’re here!”
=== Chapter fourteen ===
Nobody said anything, or did anything for a long minute. Lockjaw took a deep breath, clutching his fists, while walking towards it. But before he could even take a single step on the bridge, Jeptmal stopped him on his tracks by holding up his paw in his face. He turned around to face Lockjaw, glaring at him. “No. Stay back, I’ll go.” Lockjaw makes a sightly confused expression, but he doesn’t argue. Jeptmal starts to walk across it, narrowing his eyes to see how long it was. Even though it was hard for him to see through the fog, the bridge was significantly long. He continued to walk across it, but stopped. His ears twitched as if he heard something, and smelled something. He clutches his fists, getting into a slight defense position. His ears twitch again, and he finally gets something. “No – DANGER!” He screams as something jumps on top of him, scratching his face. Jeptmal hisses, backing away from this new foe. He covered his cheek, noticing that he was bleeding. He looks up, growling in a voice that sounded threatening. “What do you want now? Why have you come back?” The person laughs in a familiar voice, a very familiar voice. “I told you that we’d see again sometime…didn’t I?” He laughs. “Silly, silly kitty….” Jeptmal growls, wielding his claws. “What do you want from us Glory!? Tell me!” Glory gives Jeptmal a stern expression, as if he wasn’t in the mood for arguments. “I want your card. WHY WON’T YOU GIVE IT TO ME!?” He crashes into Jeptmal, pinning him down on the bridge, holding up his fist for a punch. He had a blade like object on his arm that could stab Jeptmal. Seconds before Glory could make impact with Jeptmal’s face, he punched him first, as hard as he could. He then kicked him in the crotch to have some space to get up. Glory lets go of him which allows Jeptmal to have space. “I don’t understand Glory…why do you want a piece of broken history?” Glory gets up, holding onto the railings of the bridge. “It’s not a piece of broken history…its like a lost child to me…don’t you get it?” Jeptmal glances back at the group, making eye contact with Cornet. Glory does as well, narrowing his eyes. “I know he still has it…just give it to me!” Jeptmal turns back to face Glory, and turns to Cornet. He takes another turn to Glory, and runs to Cornet. He grabbed Cornet, throwing him across the bridge. He ran towards back to Glory, where Cornet laid face first, at his feet. Alto screamed in terror. “CORNET!” Jeptmal looks back at him. “Don’t worry Kiddo! I have a plan.”
=== Chapter fifteen ===
Jeptmal looks back at Cornet, who looked so scared he might even pass out. Cornet looks down at the water down bellow the bridge. “Oh, oh, oh….” Jeptmal grabs him by the scruff, lifting him up. “Don’t pay attention, and just get out your card!” Cornet gulps, thinking: “What was Jeptmal up to?” But he didn’t want to argue with Jeptmal, so he brought out his card and held it up. Glory lunges forward to grab it, but lands face first in the bridge by Jeptmal tripping him. He sets a paw on Glory’s head, pressing down on it to the point where the bridge broke. He looked up at Cornet. “Shatter it, Cornet! It’ll break him!” Cornet grabs two sides of his card, attempting to break it as Jeptmal told him to. Then, all the sudden, it shattered into a few pieces, only leaving half a card left. Glory screams in agony, clawing Jeptmal. Glory gets up to his feet, shaky from the card breaking. “I didn’t know you’d have the audacity to such a bold act….” He clapped his hand over his head, yelping. “Oughh….” He groans in pain. Jeptmal crashes into him, almost making Glory accidentally fall of the bridge, but Jeptmal wanted to do that for himself. He pinned him against the railing with his claws deep into his flesh. “I won’t feel sorry for you, psychopath.” He pushed him into the raging waters of the waterfall bellow. Glory screamed in terror, but he had no hope of coming back. They heard a splash, and a mix of Glory’s screams being drowned out.” Jeptmal looked down at Cornet, smiling. “Good job, you did well. Now don’t break that last piece, it is the only card left out here.” Cornet nods. “Uh, you’re welcome. Can we cross the bridge now?” Jeptmal nods. “Come on you, guys! Just a few people at a time.” The group eventually crosses the bridge safely, with Choir of course, being the last one to cross. His tears cleared up a little, and he didn’t seem as sad as he was before. They were on dry land, once again.
=== Chapter sixteen ===
As like it was before, it became foggy. It was worse from what they experienced before. Along the way, they saw tons of statues of people that they’ve never seen before. One, stood tall and formal with a stern expression. He looked like a tiger who lead a group, just like theirs, before, but lost all hope of it. Another one stood beside him, a red panda who looked chubby, and quite small. His expression didn’t look so threatening as the tigers. It looked more placid, with a hint of a smile. Vantasser put his paws on them, examining them carefully. “I may know these two. The white Tiger, his name was Xiulan. His other partner was named Tengfei. They were two popular fighters who protected this exact valley from danger.”  Vantasser pulls out a thick and dusty book out from his satchel that he carried around. He dusted it off, opening it carefully. “I had a library in my mansion. All kinds of books, filled with history, were there.” He sighed emotionally, looking away in disappointment. “I only carried a few. The rest are gone because of Post Mortal. But the good thing is, I brought my most prized ones.” Alto bends down and looks of Vantasser’s shoulder as he begins to read some of the pages. He sees a picture of Xiulan and Tengfei, fighting off an army with what it seems to be a whole village behind them. He traces his finger across the page, squinting. “How long ago was this….?” Vantasser flipped the pages, revealing the hidden history that no one knew about. “Very, very long ago.” He looks up at the statues for a moment, closing his eyes. “Some say they died. Some say they still live to this day. They all they that because one day, they disappeared mysteriously for years. They never came back, ever.” He closes the book shut, stuffing It back into his satchel. “We’ll investigate more into this forgotten history of warriors. Maybe there’s more statues that we could look at, hm?” Alto nods. “Will you let me read that book, one day?” Vantasser nods in a delighted motion. “Of course, young one, of course I’ll let you read it.” Alto smiles at him. “Thanks.” Vantasser nods in a way that meant, “You’re welcome.” 
=== Chapter seventeen ===
Alto caught sight of another statue, except it was a Pokémon. He didn’t have any idea which one it was, so he just called it a blue cat with purple hair. He reached into Vantasser’s satchel for the book, opening it and examining the pages. Until, finally, he caught sight of the same Pokémon. It was a Suicune, a Pokémon that Alto had not heard of before. Apparently, the Suicune’s name was Nasima. She was just like all the other legends that they have heard off, except she worked alone, fighting off army’s. It was said that she lived in this exact area, across the bridge, and into the valley of the statues. He looked up at the statue, glaring at it. He put the book back into the satchel, walking off to the group. He stood up in front of his father, tapping his shoulder. “I think we should go now, dad. We’ve been here for a while now.” Choir nods. “I strongly agree…get Lockjaw to lead everyone again, I still don’t have the guts to lead you all.” Alto nodded and headed to Lockjaw to tell them they were leaving. Soon after, they were moving again. Venomama in the back, was taking care of Choir, making sure he was okay and in stable health. Alto appreciated the help that Venomama was offering for his father. After all, Choir has gone through some tough things. Soon, they arrived at a palace that looked like it’s been there for years. Terno got town to his knees, along with Zoey, Yuze, and Lockjaw. They bowed for it, closing their eyes. Terno spoke in a low, and soothing tone. “To Eden, Pon, and Origin, who created peace, and happiness, but most importantly, us, and the Nil Crystal.” He opened his eyes, putting an arm over his chest, and one raised into a fist. “To Eden, Pon, and Origin! Who created peace, and happiness!” Yuze, Lockjaw, Terno and Zoey all said it at the same time, with their voices raised. Everyone else did exactly the same, except Choir, who only had his eyes closed, with warm tears running down his face. Everyone got up to their feet, with Terno who turned to them all. “Because of those three names, we’re all here, in peace and happiness. We are all blessed by them.” He turns to the palace. “And this, this was their home. The Nil palace. We shall enter it with respect.” He began to take slow steps into the palace, with everyone else following behind them. Sunset was the last to step inside. He looked around, his ears twitched constantly. He heard something in the distance. He made a low, threatening growl that meant danger was near. He looked behind him, to see that two crane looking birds were flying in the air, circulating them. They both looked almost exactly like Zoey and Decidueye. They were Mauro, and Sunset knew that as a fact. Emotive patted his head. “Come on Sunset, come on.” He walked away with Sunset, inside the palace.
=== Chapter eighteen ===
As they walked in, everything was dark. It felt eerie almost, as if something dangerous was coming for them all. Alto admired the place, touching the crimson walls. “Woah…this place is beautiful. Who were Eden, Pon, and Origin anyway? Why did they need such a cool place?” Vantasser pats his back. “You’ll learn soon enough.” In the distance, Sunset began to bark. He meant it as a warning, but no one seemed to get it. He whimpered and clawed Emotive’s clothing. Emotive didn’t get a hint of what Sunset was trying to tell him. He supposed that he was excited about visiting a place that was created before time. He bent down to Sunset, scratching behind his ear. “Hush boy, you’re excited, aren’t you.” Sunset’s ears dropped in a saddening manner. He looked up at all the others with hope in his eyes. Moments later, Terno pulled out three shards and placed them in the center of the palace carefully, making sure they don’t get scratched. He bowed to them again, the same way as he did last time, along with the others. “To Eden, Pon, and Origin!” Everyone repeated after him, their voices loud and clear. Terno stood back on his feet, dusting himself off. “Its very nice here, isn’t it?” Lockjaw nods in agreement to him, putting an arm around his shoulder. Terno laughs, but he trails off as he sees a pair of eyes in the shadows. He gets into a defensive position. “There’s a Novisren here. Everyone gets into defense position.” Everyone did what Terno commanded them to do, with Sunset growling in the background. The Novsiren hiding in the shadow laughs, a laugh that both Lockjaw and Terno heard before. “Oh, you didn’t notice me this whole time, didn’t you?” The Novisren laughs again. “I thought we knew each other, Terno. After all…we are best friends, aren’t we?” It steps out of the shadows, revealing itself. He had the same exact drape that came from behind Terno’s head, except instead of a diamond, it had the eye of the Null card. He also wore a winter coat and had no arms. Terno jumped back in surprise. “Fenghuang! What are you doing here? I thought you died in Mt. Silvers Blade!” The Novisren, “Fenghuang” laughed again, but with more of a sadistic tone. “Oh no no no…we never died. You must be wondering where Hurry, Block, and Tackle must be, hm? Well…of course they’ll all here….” Two crane like birds came out of nowhere, both looking like Decidueye and Zoey. Sunset made a threatened bark, his growl getting more tensed by the second. Lockjaw made a look of despair as he saw a Mauro of himself, with no arms, staring at him in the eye. The Mauro of Lockjaw, Hurry laughed. “Its so nice seeing you all here again…I missed you! Not.” Lockjaw growled. “We tried to warn you about that blade. You idiots! You could’ve listened, and you wouldn’t have lost your arms!” Typh in the background hugged Kuma tightly. “What’s happening, what’s happening, what’s happening!?” Kuma pats his head. “Shh, its okay buddy, don’t panic.” All of the sudden, Fenghuang and Hurry both wield katanas, with the birds, Block and Tackle, get into defense positions. Fenghuang giggled. “Oh, and we’re not the only ones here….” Alto suddenly hears a scream from his father, of pain and worry. Alto swiveled around to see his father, almost getting murdered in cold blood. “Dad!” He screams, just as someone large crashes into him.
=== Chapter nineteen ===
Choir looks up at his attacker, wide eyed. “W-what?!” His attacker smiles up at him that meant no good. “Hello father. It’s been quite a long while.” Alto looks up at his attacker, amazed to see who it was. It was his older brother, alive? He looked so different, much larger, and bulkier. It was like he was a completely different species. Alto screamed at him, trying to push him off. Symbal did not move, considering how heavy he was. Alto begged him to get off him, crying almost in fear. “Who is that guy with dad?! What is he doing?!” Symbal made what looked like a smile, even though it was so hard to tell, because he didn’t exactly have a mouth. “Oh Alto, poor poor Alto. So clueless! Do you not know that we’re here to kill you? Oh, how clueless….” Symbal said it in a mocking tone, a tone that he used to make when he made fun of Alto. Alto again, attempts to shove Symbal off, but fails continuously. “We must save dad! Please!” Almost for a second, he escapes from under Symbal, but he grabs him back into place, pinning right back down. “Just sit and watch. When they’re done, I’ll fight the weakling you are.” Choir takes many steps back as his attacker starts to get into a defensive position. “I know you remember me very clearly, don’t you. Oh, oh, now don’t call me the “Beloved Eclipse,” you should know that “Eclipse” isn’t my name no more...you can call me…Shadow.” Choir also got into a defensive position, his eyes still wide in shock. “What do you want, Shadow. You have no right and no reason to be here, living or stepping foot on these grounds. Shadow laughed, a sarcastic one. “Oh, I thought I was your son, Origin. Wasn’t I? Now you’re treating me like an outcast, somebody you never knew…what a shame, I thought that you were the kindhearted and joyful father I used to know.” Choir clutches his fists into a tight ball of anger. “You have no right to call me by that name! You may call me Choir, and that is what you will call me.” Alto made a face of shock in the background. “Origin…?” Symbal clasps his hand over Alto’s mouth, causing him to shut up. Shadow made a fake face of disappointment, sighing. “All I ever wanted to do was make you proud….” He said with sarcasm in his voice. “And you achieved that! You made me proud, so proud!” Choir said back at him with rage in his voice. Shadow gave him a smug look that sent chills down Alto’s spine. “I wanted a reward.” Choir shakes his head. “NO!” Shadow looks away in annoyance, waving his hand in the air. “Oh, oh you’re giving me a headache! Quit that already!” He laughs, looking like he didn’t even have a headache. “You see…I wanted those shards as my reward, our, reward.” Just as he says “our,” a white peacock tail feather with red and black circles drifts off towards them. Shadow picks It up with a smirk on his face. “You remember him, don’t you, father?” As Choir looks up from the feather, a past enemy stood beside Shadow with a expression of pure insanity. Choir stumbles back, almost falling over in pure shock. “S-Shen…not you too….” Shen laughs. “Hello, old friend….”
=== Chapter twenty ===
Shen lifted his sleeve, revealing that he had blade like feathers on his wrists. In a swift movement, he shot one towards Choir, impaling him by stabbing it in his stomach. Choir took a few steps backward, grabbing the blade and attempting to pull it out. “Y-you…insane peacock!” The “insane peacock” replies to him. “Take that out, and you’ll die. We don’t want you to die just yet…we still want to play for a little, isn’t that right, Shadow?” Shadow smiles, walking towards Choir with a threatening stance. “Shen has taught me everything I need to know, everything I tell you….” Choir coughs up bits of blood, weakened from Shen’s attack. “It was a mistake…a mistake brining you to Shen so he could teach you Kung fu….” Choir trembled, almost in tears. “You aren’t the Eclipse I used to know…you were so kind…you loved me, Eden and Pon so much…what happened to you….” Shadow made a stern face of annoyance. “You still miss them, don’t you?” He turns to Alto and Symbal, smiling. “Is that why you created those two? As a replacement for them? Hah! I guess I’ll have to kill all of you in cold blood.” He looked back at Choir. “Starting, with you.” He charged towards him, punching him hard and straight in the face, causing Choir to get his guard down. Alto kept struggling underneath Symbal, kicking. “Symbal, please! What is wrong with you?!” Symbal began strangling Alto, as hard as he could. But just as Alto was about to faint, Decidueye and Zoey started attacking Symbal with their claws mercilessly. It annoyed him quite enough, which gave Alto the chance to run. He ran out from underneath him, looking up at Zoey and Decidueye. “Keep him distracted! Okay?” They both make bird like noises which Alto assumed meant “okay.” As Alto looked around his surroundings, he found that everyone was trying to fight off enemies. Hurry, Fenghuang, Block and Tackle seemed like a powerful group that took about five people to take down. He finally caught sight of Choir and the other two, fighting each other. Alto was about to join in when Symbal knocked him over with a series of kicks and punches. Alto slid across the room, feeling torn. Symbal adopted a threatening stance that terrified Alto. Symbal walked up to him, his claws out. “I HATE YOU; I HATE YOU EVER SINCE THAT DAY!” Alto scooted back on his butt, obviously too weak to stand up on his legs. “What day are you talking about?!” Symbal clutched his fists in anger. “The day YOU were created! Dad always loved you more than he loved me!” Symbal now sounded more upset, as if he was heartbroken, and clearly jealous. Alto was in shock. Choir never went up to him and said “you’re so much better than Symbal, Alto! I love you more than him!” Alto was clearly confused. Symbal looked up at him with a face of pure rage. “Ever since that day, I wanted you dead!” He pinned down Alto to the ground once again, a bit of sadness in his eyes. “So today, I’m going to get rid of you once and for all.”
=== Chapter twenty two ===
Alto stared at him for the longest moment, and so did Symbal. It was like they were both paralyzed, not wanting to hurt each other’s souls. Alto could see a single wet tear fall down from Symbals check, and onto Alto’s chest. Symbal shook his head, hissing. “No, I have to kill you!” He raises a claw, attempting to slash at Alto’s face. Alto dodged his attack in an instant, getting up to his feet and getting into a defense position. So many things were going on in Alto’s head. He was confused, worried, and felt sick out of all things. There were so many things to uncover and understand. But he couldn’t possibly think about all of it in this situation. Besides, he was being attacked by his brother, who looking like he could literally kill him, considering how large and bulky he was. Symbal again, attempted to attack him, but Alto blocked his attack, holding it back. Symbal let go, looking down at his own hand and his claws. “I thought you were weak. You said you never had any experience with combat, and all of the sudden, you know how to fight?” Symbal scoffs, as if he thought it was pathetic. Alto made an expression of annoyance. “It’s been years since we last seen each other, besides the time when we came to the Toybox Universe and found you there. I thought you died, what happened?” Symbal kicked Alto’s legs, making him fall over. “You see, someone came and helped me, but that is none of your business!” Alto gets up from the kick, checking around his surroundings. Again, he saw his father, Shen, and Shadow taking him down. He could see that they were all soaked in each other’s blood, but mostly Choir’s. His father was dying, and Alto didn’t want to see that happen. Alto took a glance at Symbal, who was trying to catch his breath. While he was distracted, Alto made a head start of catching up to his father. He jumped on top of Shadow, attempting to strangle him. “Leave him alone, now!” Shadow hissed in anger, trying to throw Alto off of him. Alto pulled out an arrow – which he seemed to have pulled out of nowhere- stabbed Shadow’s shoulder with it. Shadow screamed in pain, finally throwing Alto off him. “Get lost, already! Or you’ll be dead too!” That’s when Shadow’s words caught Shen’s attention. Shen turned his head towards Shadow and Alto, and dashed towards them. Choir yelped, screaming as he was about to see Alto die Infront of him. Shen, slowly lifted up his sleeve, and revealed the blades that were in shape meant to look like a feather, shot one directly at Alto. Alto closed his eyes shut, bracing for impact. Bur seconds later, he felt absolutely nothing at all. He looked up, distraught to see what happened. Choir had the blade that was meant to kill Alto, in his chest. He stood in front of Alto like a shield, and that is what he used himself for. But Choir couldn’t possibly survive anything like he just experienced. The blade impaled Choir through his chest. The tip of it was seen sticking out from his back. As Choir took his last breaths, he turned to Alto. “Alto. I’m sorry. But I’m afraid I will send down my leadership to you.” He fell to the ground with a loud thud, with blood splattering around them all as an effect. Alto bent down to Choir’s face, panicking. “No! Don’t leave!” Alto felt terribly dizzy. His brain wasn’t functioning properly, it was full of thought on what might happen next. “Choir, please, talk to me! Please!” He begged and begged for Choir to speak. Choir opened a tired eye, staring at him. “Leave me here, and don’t come back until the time is right….” Alto glanced at Shen, Shadow and Symbal who all stared with their eyes wide. “But- “Choir cut him off by putting an unstable hand on Alto’s cheek. “I said leave, and never come back. Lead everyone to a safe place, and never stop believing yourself….” Choir smiled at him, but that comforting smile left moments later as his eye closed. He stopped breathing completely. Alto stared at the lifeless body on the floor carefully as he slowly got up from where he was crouching. He could feel his vision beginning to blur as he heard the voices of his friends fighting off their enemies. They were loud and so very clear. They all sounded so scared as well, so very scared that it hurt Alto just hearing it. He heard something else, but it was all muffled. It sounded like a large thud and crashing. He could see with his blurry vision, Shen being thrown across the room by a large creature. He couldn’t see no more. He fell on the ground, passing out.