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Okay so I'm only updating this because people keep telling me. I really have no motivation to write any more of these until I find time for myself.

Gawd 4th year of high school is a pain. Too many projects uwu.

Anyway hope you enjoy this new chapter!

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Serena's POV

It's quiet. Too quiet.

It's unbearable, the silence, followed by these shadow figures that keep appearing in my dreams.

Who are you? What are you trying to tell me? I can't understand you. What's making you appear in my dreams?

Are they dreams? I...don't know. They feel weird like any other dream, but I feel like I'm alive somewhere else.

I know it won't answer my questions. I don't know if it's real yet. But I just want someone to tell me what to do. Someone please tell me...

How can we avoid the inevitable? How can we change the tide to prevent chaos?

...How can we get back the people that were taken from us?

After Ash got corrupted. Everything went wrong. Suddenly people are getting corrupted and are joining the "right team". Almost every trainer in the land has been corrupted. The last remaining people left, well, they lost hope.

The only ones who are still fighting are Gary and the others. I on the other hand...

I gave up.

So here I am on my bed looking up at the ceiling and contemplating my life. At times like these it makes you recall about your life. Bittersweet ones that makes you long for the good ol' days.

How I wish we can go back to those times. How I went off to find him and give him back that blue handkerchief. How with their help I was able to find my dream, my passion, my drive.

Now all I want to do is go back home and hide until this "new world" comes.

If you can hear me right now you'll probably be disappointed in me. Though I know that's impossible now. So I decided to let you be.

Pathetic. I really am a coward.

I can't even get out of bed. It's like my body refuses to, but I'm not fighting it. I no longer care for anything. I just want to be left alone until everything ends.

The sky has turned purple a month ago. The month when Ash left me to join their cause. It's pathetic just how weak I became when he left. But did my strength really came from me? Or did that strength came from him and I just used it and called it my own?

Honestly I don't know anymore. I just want to close my eyes and go back to sleep. So that's what I did. I closed my eyes and eventually went to sleep.

And just like the first time they've appeared in my dreams. I'm standing in the middle of what I can tell is a meadow. Around me are the same shadow figures telling me to keep on fighting.

At first it convinced me to keep moving forward, to keep fighting for the ideals I believed in. But now? They're nothing but a nuisance.

"Stand up" they say.

"Yell it out" they say.

"Keep grasping on hope" they say.

"Hope? What hope? Have you not seen what's going out there? If you refuse to join them, you'll be erased from existence! If there was any hope left, it's not me who has it. Go bother Gary, May, Brock! Go bother someone else!!" I screamed.

And just like the last time. They continued on. Trying to make into a fool. A fool who will do whatever it takes to save the world.

I was a fool once and we managed to save Kalos. But a fool can't always save the world.

And I'm not too much of a fool to try.

"Keep fighting"

"Reach out you hand"

"Grab onto the hope"

"Call on the power of Nature"

"No. Be quiet for once. I just want to...sleep" I said.

And just like before, the world around me starts to fade and darkness consumes me.

And just like before, I let it consume me without a fight.

Just like before, the remaining hope in me continues to reduce.

I'm pathetic.