'Thank you, Charles,' a soft, high pitched voice echoed through my head. My body shook as a chill went down my spine upon hearing the voice. It wasn't one that I could recall to memory, though it seemed familiar. I opened my eyes to find out who it was, but no one was there, in fact, nothing was there at all. As I looked around my body I realized I was in an empty white space. Opening my mouth I tried to speak though nothing escaped my lips. 'Why can I not speak? I cannot even move! I feel like I'm just spinning uncontrollably' I struggled to think, finding even doing that was a chore, 'am I dead?'

A sudden pain surged through my arms and chest like I was being ripped in half, but as I looked down, nothing was happening to me. "Charles, get back here!" another voice echoed, this one I could feel as it hit me hard, "You're not done yet! Get back here!" The voice seemed to grow angrier as the void of empty space around me shook. More pain racked through my body but then stopped instantly as I watched myself in horror. My body was splitting apart and dispersing into every direction right in front of my eyes.

The feeling of my body rushed back to me and I opened my eyes as I jerked forward, hitting something with my head. Rubbing my head I felt something similar to a hand leave a stinging on my cheek as I realized I just got smacked by Erika.

"Thanks for giving me a head ache jerk!" she said sarcastically, "I found you laying here when I woke up and was worried you were dead or something," I was still rubbing my head as she explained. I figured by the way she talked she didn't remember me almost killing her, "Hey! Are you even listening to me?" she yelled, putting her face closer to mine to get my attention causing me to jerk back and out of my trance.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm listening," I answered as a thought dawned, "wait, where's Riley?" looking around to see the pokemon nowhere in sight.

"Who are you talking about?" Erika questioned, looking around as well, "Was someone with you when you came here?"

"My pokemon, it's a riolu," I answered nonchalantly while getting a jealous glare from the girl, "Yeah, there's allot you don't know," I admitted trying to get her to stop staring.

"Oh, well, I didn't see a pokemon," Erika reached into her pocket as she talked, pulling out a crystal like object, it changed between a dark purple and a light blue repeatedly. Taking the object into my hands, I felt warm, like the heat of someone else's body was in my hands. Shoving it in my pocket I stood up to go, "Well, maybe my dad will know something about it, anyway I gotta go. I'll see ya' at school,"

After rushing out of Erika's house I looked around trying to remember where my house was, my memory evading me. "Come on, I got to remember, it's my house!" I smacked my palm to my forehead in frustration. A sudden heat starting burning my right leg, a yell of pain escaping from my throat, "What the heck was that?" I gasped, looking down to see a hole burned through my pant leg, the crystal lying on the ground glowing red. The soil underneath it started to turn black as smoke rose from ashes around it.

"What the h…" I was cut off, a burning coming from my palms where the crystals were. Biting my lip I turned my hands over to see they were glowing red as well. The black lines near the socket started to turn red and move up my arm along the rest of the line. I flinched in pain, and every line and symbol on my guardian robe that was black turned red. The heat burning into my skin, 'what is happening... to me,' I screamed in my head, my real voice not letting me.

When the pain finally subsided I fell to my knees panting, "What just happened to me?" I coughed out. I felt a grip on my right shoulder and I looked up to see my father.

"I see, you overexerted yourself and your riolu turned into this crystal to save you," he mumbled, rolling the crystal in his hands while looking me over finding burn marks all over my body that the robes left me.

"What happened to me?" I choked out, "What did Riley do to me?" falling down I rolled myself over onto my back, looking over my hand. My eyes didn't fool me, the black marks of before were gone, replaced by red. The gems changed too, no longer clear but filled with every color of light I could think of.

Looking back over to my dad I saw him shaking his head, his face hard to read though his eyes betrayed him by showing confusion. While my dad was good at hiding emotions and thoughts through his body, his eyes always betrayed him and showed him as an open book. "So what happened then? Or do you know?" my question snapped him out of his trance. "Well, I'm no expert in any of this, even being an aura guardian myself doesn't help," He began, his voice deeper than usual, "But, this crystal is empty of your riolu's life, which whenever a guardian's pokemon uses too much of its aura it resorts to this state…" he cut himself off, once more in deep thought.

"Well? Does that mean she's dead?" I asked getting impatient, once again looking over the red and blue armor. My dad once again awoke from his deep thought, "No, if I were to guess, I'd say she sealed herself into something," He interrupted himself, walking closer and pulling the robe aside near my shoulder, "which, looking at your body's new marking, I'd say that 'something' is you,"

I stood there frozen, remembering the voice that was in the void. "You're saying that she's part of me? That we merged?" I asked in a breathless manner. The older guardian nodded, turning away from me. I had no words anymore that came to my mind. I could tell by how little he knew that what had happened was the first it was heard of.

I sighed; standing up slowly, my muscles crying in protest after my body got burned. It was going painful moving for awhile, that much was certain; though I had to admit I was feeling pretty good besides the pain.

"So what am I to do now?" I asked in as calm a voice I could muster. I didn't get an answer; instead my dad motioned me to follow him back to the house.

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