Serena's POV

How long have I been in this endless dark void? Nothing but whispers of my inner despair and regrets echoing around me.

I gently layed my head on the ground as I look up to see a faint white light that was so far away from me to reach, it was my only way out and I couldn't even reach it.

This situation feels so...familiar and oddly new that it's making me tremble, haven't I have been in this situation during the Battle between Lysandre and Giovanni?

A younger version of me woke me up that time, but where is she now? How do I get out of this mess without her? Do I really need a past image of myself just to get out?

As I think about somethings for answers a faint footstep could be heard around me as it was getting closer to where I was laying down. I glance to where the sound was coming from and it made me frown.

A wicked smile and a venom like laugh came out from that disgusting mouth of my evil counterpart as she looks down at me.

"Why can't you stand up? Are you to afraid to even talk to me eye to eye?" Her smirk gives me the chill, and those eyes were as red as blood, it made me tremble alright.

"Why should I? Aren't I already trapped in this forsaken lonely place? Why should I be interact with you if I were forced to be here so no one could reach out to me" I blankly said while looking back at that faint white light above, I could see she was smirking from the corner of my eye and it disgusted me more.

"You remind me of this damsel in distress in one of those books we used to read. What was it called again? Oh yes, a fairy tale, you're that princess character who would always need a knight to save her and it makes me sick! How can you be so reliable to someone when you can be independent? Why don't you turn your back on them and join us in restoring the world it once was? Why can't you see the real light? The real world? The real dream!!"

"Because I'm not you who has a twisted wicked mind! I'm not this evil Serena who trapped the real side of her deep in her soul that she could not get out without someone reaching out for me. I'm not someone who would dare betray her friends, we all have our dreams to accomplish and my new dream has just yet to begin! We have our goals to accomplish and missions to do just to achieve that dream, and we would always pull through every obstacle that comes along the way!" I said with determination in my eyes and finally looks at my counterpart in the eyes, she was surprised and I couldn't understand what she was trying to express from her face other than shock.

It felt like a big weight on my shoulders evaporated just like that as the evil side of me backed away with fear in her eyes.

"Y-You fool! Do you think dreams can make this world better than it used to?! The world before was the ideal world! Where Arithn ruled the world with his own will! They did not need to have a drea-"

"Isn't that your goal? That would make it a dream right? A dream to where you want to change the world to what it used to be?"

Evil me grits her teeth and a purple like aura began emanating from her, her eyes glowed red and she extended her hand and grips on my shoulder as hard as she could.

Her glare felt so deadly that it made me freeze on the spot, but what other option do I have besides staying in one place? I have no way out aurnd it's impossible to grow wings to fly to that light.

"It's not a dream! No! I refuse to accept that the world Arithn used to rule is nothing more than a dream now!! We will change this world! We will destroy every resistance that would dare to fight back, and that includes you!" She then formed a small energy ball out of the aura surrounding her body and was about to throw it at my chest, but before it could even touch me she froze and I think I know why.

"If you kill me then it will kill you aswell right?" Just like I thought, she pulled back and threw it on the ground beneath her.

"You imbecile..."

I look around me and notice that the dark void was changing, the atmosphere around me felt lighter and I could hear a faint sob coming from my counterpart.

I glance back at her and placed my hand on her head, she growled from the contact but did not fight back.

"In every fairy tale there would always be a damsel in distress right? Well, those were the stories we read, or should I say "I" read? We are the same entity and without the other the body cannot function, you are a part of me or a side of me that I never knew existed until the day Calem came and pretty much made my life hell, but I don't mind...I don't mind a all." I said in a softer tone, she looks at me with tears in her eyes and asked..

"How so? Do you not hate him for ruining your life?"

"He did not ruin my life, nor made it to where I would commit suicide. Because no matter how fairy tales puts it, this damsel in distress can fight her own battle without the help of anyone" I said with my hands formed into a fist, she evily smiles at me and she begins to disappear.

"Oh really? Well then, let's see how this fairy tale believer can handle the battle that will commence after this conversation of ours. I would like to see his reaction from seeing you right infront of his eyes crying, asking for help like those princess wannabe. I want to see who can out the other, is it you or is it your counterpart" After that she disappeared and the area around me began to glow white and the next thing I see was a battlefield and my friends battling for their lives.

I look around and saw civilians severely hurt or crying, one girl saw me staring at her and quickly ran as far from me as possible.

What has my counterpart done?

I look back at the my friends and notice that there was someone missing.

Realizing who it was I begin to panic as anger began rising up.

'Was that conversation awhile ago just a distraction? That....twisted...' I glared at the battlefield and screamed at the top of my lungs yelling how I would end this battle.

But that wasn't why I was angry..

I was angry that they took my Ash..

This means war...

Who cares about about damsels in distress and fairy tales.

No one can hurt the people that are impprtant to me!! Especially the boy I loved!!

I ran to the battlegrounds and sent out my Pokémon and we began battling these creatures that were nothing but darkness.

As my anger controlled my mind and all I could think of was Ash, I could hear my friends calling out to me, trying to tell me something but whatever it was probably meant the figure who was staring at me coldly in the eyes.

It made my whole world shatter as I look at this figures face lost its colour and everything.

"Hello....Serena"

'What have they done to you?' I thought and gritted my teeth.

Because right infront of me was none other than...

Ash Ketchum himself.