Chapter 1
I awoke the next morning, still in my sitting position. I let out a sigh as I looked to the sky and saw the sun slowly rising through it were a Solrock. The sight filled me with a combination of both... pain... and sorrow. My Father had ignored my prayers... yet again. I surveyed the rocky peak that had been my... home of sorts for the past year and a great sense of hollowness welled up in my chest. I had promised Belle that I would return in the event that my pleas were dismissed as trite... and it appeared that was what had happened.
“I guess... I’ll just go,” I said softly, shaking my head.
The morning dew had settled on my coat and I shivered violently for a moment before stiffly moving my foreleg. My entire body ached as I began to stretch, starting with my legs and then to my back as I went through my morning routine. Of course, ordinarily I wasn’t covered with freezing dew but that simply made me move a bit faster.
However, no water could ever be as cold as the pit in my stomach brought on by my rejection. I had sat on this cursed mountain for a year and a day, praying my heart out for him, and Arceus hadn’t appeared.
My eyes narrowed and my horn became dark for a moment before a ball of shadows appeared suspended above me with a snarl I sent it ploughing into a nearby boulder. Then I did it again, and again, and again! I raged at that boulder for how long I do not know, but I do know that when I was done naught but gravel remained of it.
A heavy breath poured out of my lungs, hot and misty in the icy air as I stood there looking over what little remained of the once large boulder. I bit my lip and turned away. My mission ... was done here. I had failed once again.
I began to walk away from the summit, heading for the trail back down. Hopefully, Belle wouldn’t be too smug about it... of course, knowing her, I doubted she would be.
As I was a step away from the decent, something unexpected happened.
“It is a shame, for someone who shows such devotion and willfulness ends up only to be ignored by the ‘almighty’ Arceus,” a deep male voice spoke out in the air above me.
I froze. Then, slowly, I raised my head to look at the speaker, only to find no one there.
“I’m over here young Absol,” the voice spoke again, this time coming from the direction of the boulder I had desecrated. I frowned.
“Father Arceus?” I called slowly.
“No, I am not he, nor do I ever wish to be,” the voice replied.
“I see...” I said slowly before turning my back on the boulder once more. “Then we have nothing to discuss,” I told the voice over my shoulder.
“I do not know about that,” the male voice stated. “While Arceus didn’t heed your plead, I have; meaning I am willing to help an Absol who seems to be desperate in trying to gain something.”
I paused, my front paw once again on the cusp of the moving. Then I let out a sigh. Maybe... just maybe, this voice held the answer to my prayers. I turned and began to tread my way over to the boulder. If it was a Geodude playing a trick on me, I would smash it to bits.
I walked up to the boulder and to my surprise found a small frozen sheet of ice... and staring from within the ice was a large golden mask with two red eyes incase in darkness looking right at me. The blood in my veins froze... it was not Arceus... not Arceus at all.
“Giratina,” I hissed, already beginning to back away. “Stay back foul one!” I growled, raising my horn.
The two red eyes rolled slightly. “Oh please, it is not as if you are going to harm me with that little horn of yours,” Giratina said in an unamused tone. “Beside, that whole ‘foul one’ personality is all in the past.”
I frowned down at the golden mask, my red eyes glaring at it. “So you say, how am I to know that you are not simply attempting to use me for some nefarious purpose?” I asked, no, demanded of him.
“Because I could have done it before when Team Galactic accidently opened a portal to my world,” the legendary ghost dragon stated. “I had a good opportunity then, but I chose not to. In fact, I did save the universe from being destroyed, unlike Dialga and Palkia who were captured by mere humans.”
“I see,” I said slowly as I continued to stare at him. “What... do you have to offer me?”
“Depends, what are you really looking for?” Giratina asked.
“I... I am looking for absolution for a crime,” I told him softly. “And... do not laugh... I know that an Absol searching for absolution is amusing to some...”
“I do not, I find it rather noble,” he replied. “After all, for a Pokemon that receives so much fear and inspires such hatred, it is rather honorable for one of you to be seeking peace.”
I had just been complemented by Giratina, I closed my eyes and let out a short breath.
“I... thank you,” I said with a small nod. “So... can you help me? Else... I will simply return down the way I have come empty pawed to the one I... love.”
“Possibly,” Giratina replied slowly. “I might know of a place of where you can find your peace and the absolution you seek. Of course... you must be prepared to give up the one you love... for a time.”
My eyes narrowed on his image. Was he telling the truth? Did he truly know of place where I could at last find absolution? It... was too good to be true.
“Thank you... but I think I will pass. You are not Arceus, you do not have the power to grant what I seek,” I told it, turning away for a final time.
“That might be true,” Giratina replied. “But neither does Arceus.”
I continued to walk away, not looking back at his empty words.
“If you continue to walk away like this, you will only be spiraling down in your own despair,” Giratina called out. “So much so that you will become more angry and hateful towards everything around you that the only thought which will go through your mind will be to attack everything in sight... even your dear Belle.”
“You don’t know that,” I growled back at him, still striding towards the exit of the summit.
“Is that so?” he replied. “Then I guess that little ‘battle’ with her when coming up the mountain was nothing.”
I froze in stride. “That was nothing,” I stated firmly. “She was fine.”
“That is only because you were holding back... but sooner or later you will slip, and her blood will be splattered across you horn,” he told me with a calm, but serious, tone.
“You- you’re wrong!” I growled. “I-I would never do that!”
“Then continue walking back down the mountain if you truly believe that,” Giratina said. “But if you don’t find what you’re seeking soon, you will regret it.”
That stopped me. As much as I hated to admit it... he was right. I had been so driven to find Arceus. So heedless in my desire that I had abandoned Belle to be captured. So... filled with anger and hate, all directed inwards, that I had lost my senses. If... if I walked away right now... then I would never find my absolution and I would never find myself.
“I’m... listening,” I said as I padded back to the sheet of ice.
The head of the dragon nodded slowly. “Good... as I said, I know of a place of where you can find your absolution... your peace. I can take you there if you wish. Though there is one condition; once you are there you will be stuck there until you find the absolution you seek.”
“And if I never find it?” I asked in a low voice.
“Then you will never be able to return here, you will be forever cut off,” Giratina replied.
“What of Belle?” I asked him slowly. “I know her... she will come looking for me. If she finds naught but an empty mountain then she will simply search all the harder.”
“I will simply tell her that you left and are no longer on the mountain,” he told me. “If she believes me, then she should return to her trainer.”
I thought it over for a moment and then nodded. “I... accept your offer,” I told him. “When Belle comes for me... tell her that I love her... and that I will return when I can.”
Giratina nodded his head. “Then step into the ice, young Absol, come into my domain and you will be one step closer to what you seek.” The image of Giratina vanished, leaving only a picture of what looked like a starry sky.
I took a deep breath and stepped forwards onto the ice. The ice rippled like water, allowing me to easily sink through it, and as I passed through I emerged out of pool of water settling on a large floating rock. My eyes widened in surprise and I looked around uncertainly.
There were dozens of other floating pieces of rocks, or would you consider them islands, of all shapes and size, hovering about. Some of them had trees on them, but they grew with some twist in their trunks, but every one of them were hanging upside down. Off in the distance was a waterfall, but the water was flowing upwards instead of down.
Then it hit me... I was viewing everything upside down.
I let out a cry of surprise and my paws scrambled on the rocky surface until I stopped panicking. I was hanging upside down. And that was alright here. Alright. I was not going to fall to my death. I was... alright.
“Welcome to my domain, young Absol,” Giratina’s voice spoke behind me. I spun and was confronted by a phantasmal dragon. His head was cloaked by a golden mask and a pair of dark eyes stared down at me. Stretching down from its head was a long... seviper like body with six spines and six pair of spikes spread out across it. Emerging from its back were six large... wings of a sort though they were by no means solid.
I will admit... my first reaction to him was to cower in fear; who would not when confronted by such a monstrosity? The power radiating off of him was more than enough to reduce me to nothingness without the least bit of effort... deep down my brain was screaming ‘bad idea, bad idea, bad idea’ at the top of its ‘lungs’.
“I hope you do not mind being upside down, but I do not have much control on where these portals appear,” Giratina told me. “I know to some, it is quite... unsettling.”
“I... it’s... okay,” I finally managed to say. “I’m alright. Yes... I’m alright.”
Giratina nodded his head. “Good, now,” his body weaved through the air and began to approach me. “Jump on and I shall take you to the world which I spoke of,” he finished as the top of his head hovered above me.
“And you will not... eat me?” I asked, though fully aware of how stupid the question sounded the moment it passed between my lips.
“Of course not, Absols give me indigestion. Far too much angst,” he replied, though he chuckled lightly in a joking manner.
“Right...” I said slowly before I sprang lightly, and surprisingly I felt almost completely weightless as I ‘fell’ from my perch on top of the rock, landing on its head.
Giratina began to fly through the air, his body weaving through it like a seviper does when swimming through water. As I stood there atop its head I felt the odd sensation of flight without air racing through my ruff, it was unsettling but I soon grew used to it.
“Where am I going?” I asked him after several long moments of silence, feeling the need to break the oppressive atmosphere.
“A world that borders yours; a place that will be totally new to you, yet holds the air of familiarity to it as well,” Giratina replied.
“Must you speak in riddles?” I asked him with a small snarl of irritation. “While I admit they are better then silence; I would prefer straight answers.”
“Very well, you will be heading to place known as Equestria. It is full of magical, colorful, little Ponyta who on occasion break out into song,” he replied in total seriousness in his voice.
I paused.
“No; honestly where am I going?” I asked him, not buying his words for a moment.
Giratina chuckled slightly in amusement. “You will soon find out for yourself,” he replied as we approached a floating island with another small pool of water in it surrounded by dark looming trees. Giratina lowered his head to allow me to hop off and land on the island. I landed easily and turned back to face him.
“I... thank you Sir? If I find what I am looking for in this ‘Equestria’ then I will be forever in your debt,” I told him.
“Then best of luck to you,” Giratina told me sincerely. “I do hope you will find your peace.”
I gave him a neat bow, and then stepped through the water.
I appeared in an unfamiliar yet uninspiring glen surrounding a pond. I was soaking wet, but I quickly leapt out of the water and gave myself a good shake to disperse the water. I frowned as I sniffed my surroundings and moved my blade slightly from side to side to take in the atmosphere.
The smells were unfamiliar... yet nothing stood out as overly threatening. As for the atmosphere... it was shockingly similar to my own world though I was several hundred feet lower in altitude.
“Strange... I was expecting... odder,” I mused to myself as I continued to look around.
My stomach suddenly gurgled and I realized that I had not eaten since the Clefairy the day before. I heard noise in the underbrush and my ears perked up. Out from within it walked a... extremely small and malformed looking Bibarel. It paused and stared at me for a moment as if I was an unusual plant before it continued about its business.
I raised an eyebrow slightly, but then shrugged. A free breakfast is nothing to sneeze at or pass up. With a simple leap, I reached it and the Bibarel barely had time to react before my teeth seized around its neck. I wiped my head once and the whiplash cracked its neck. I dropped it to the ground and then closed my eyes.
Father Arceus... I know that you did not heed my plea before, but please guide this soul to your embrace, I prayed softly before I began to eat. The meat was good, though a bit too fatty for my tastes. It also was not nearly enough. I frowned as I stepped away from my finished meal, I was still hungry.
Strangely, another two Bibarel appeared out of the underbrush, both wearing puzzled frowns. I struck quickly and before long I was finishing my meal. I strode over to the pond and quickly washed any remaining blood from my coat, then I set off, looking to find my absolution.
Fluttershy stood in front of Applejack’s farm, a smile on her face as she and her friend returned from their ‘spa day’. She had finally managed to talk Applejack into going with her and Rarity for once without there being a large event scheduled. Judging by the faint, relax, smile on her face Applejack had fairly enjoyed the experience.
“I have to say Fluttershy, I might not be into much fru fru stuff, but I can’t deny I had a good time with you and Rarity today,” AJ said tilting her head to the yellow mare. “Thanks for allowing me to join the two of ya.”
“It was my pleasure Applejack,” Fluttershy said with a smile. “I’m just glad that you finally decided to take me up on my offer,” she continued sweetly.
“Well you’re mighty welcome,” the orange earth pony replied. “Hopefully I’ll be free for next spa day, if nothing goes wrong with the apple orchard that is.”
“Oh; well I hope so too,” Fluttershy agreed before she looked up to see a bird flying towards her. “That’s odd, Mister Robin shouldn’t be here,” she said as the red bird alighted in front of her and began to tweet.
Fluttershy’s face went through several different emotions. First it was shock followed closely by grief, and then finally determination and outrage.
Applejack watched the mare with a curious eyebrow. “What’s the matter?” she asked.
“Some... some awful white monster came out of a pond on the edge of the Everfree and ate three innocent beavers!” Fluttershy exclaimed before she turned to Applejack. “Applejack, I hate to be a bother but...”
“Let me get my lasso, and I’ll help ya capture this ‘monster’,” the mare replied without hesitation.
“Thank you Applejack,” Fluttershy said softly. “I simply cannot let some monster kill my forest friends.”
AJ nodded her head in agreement and broke into a gallop as she ran towards her house.
Fluttershy turned back to Mr. Robin and smiled. “Don’t worry Mister Robin, I’ll make sure that this monster understands that it’s not right to eat innocent little forest creatures,” she told her reassuringly. “Why don’t you stop by my house and ask Angel for some extra food?” The bird tweeted it’s thanks and then took off leaving Fluttershy alone.
“Don’t worry Mister Beaver... I will make sure that this monster understands that what he did was bad, very bad,” Fluttershy whispered softly to her dead friend.
This was not the first time one of her forest friends had been killed by a predator, but after the tongue lashing she had given the entire pack of manticores, she thought that they had learned. The yellow pegasus sighed, the poor manticores had looked so sad afterwards and she did so hate to do it, but it was either that or lose more friends so she’d done it. Now she would have to do it again.
The sound of hooves rushing up filled the mare’s ears and Applejack came to Fluttershy’s side.
“Alrighty, I’m all set,” she told the pegasus. “Lead the way.”
Fluttershy nodded, and together they set off towards the forest.
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I LOVE ABSOLS!
You did it again, another story I love....
Absol's emo as fuck. Interesting so far, though.
I honestly don't want to see Fluttershy use The Stare on Cres. He was just hungry and trying to survive.
As much as I enjoy your stories, I have no idea wtf an Absol is (a pokemon of some sort, but beyond that I got nothing) or why it should have to look for absolution or whatever, so I think I'm gonna have to give this one a pass......
My approval for this story has skyrocketed since I glanced at it. I don't really see many Pokemon Crossovers doing well for some reason, but this is very promising!
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Absol: a four legged thingy that can predict natural disasters. Because of this, they are considered unlucky. They are a dark type, and have a curved horn on their head. In their Megaevolution, a Absol grows a emo hair flip and wings
*eye twitch* One of my favorite authors... story about my favorite pokemon...
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This story is amazing so far, and I'll continue on reading it. The only thing that I need to ask is what kind of Pokemon is Belle?
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Shiny Absol
You have me interested good sir! Have a moustache
! You can have more when you release more chapters.
...and this is where my hope for this story plummets ever so slightly. Fluttershy lives in cottage, next to the Everfree Forest. It would be illogical to assume that she doesn't let obvious carnivores eat as is required of them. She's hung out with a bear, and has been seen in the show to be giving dead fish to two ferrets.
Granted, I'll still be watching this story, it's just as I said earlier: My hope for it has fallen a little bit.
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My assumption is that there's a difference between fish and beavers (at least in Fluttershy's mind). Of course, that could just be me. Also, the beavers were most likely her friends so there's that too
Don't forget to mega evolve him
3925534 I think the reason it works is that beavers don't have too many predators. Granted, just like others, they've got their fair share, but for the most part, they aren't in much danger. That's why in this case, it's more severe.
Well that was sad...
But very awesome 
3925534 FINALLY someone else makes that point...
But I do rather enjoy this story, keep it up author guy!
3924621 im honestly thinking the stare will just be LEAR or MEAN LOOK or something like that
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Alicorn princess!~
Seriously. Wtf is up with Game Freak.
Finally, a story about my absolutely favorite pokemon. Heh heh, get it? Yeah. I shouldn't have done that.
I like how Giratina is portrayed in this story
My friend, I enjoy Pokémon crossovers, and I am the sole editor of, well... now one Pokémon crossover story, A New World, a New Way (the other author I was working with seems to have forgotten me). Two things:
What Pokémon species is Belle? (I can't help but think of Gardevior since that's the name of the Gardevior in the aforementioned story; also, Belle appears to be an Espeon from the description given. Sexy.)
Also, I'd like to help you as you continue this. Even though I'm only editing/proofreading one story, I think I'm making a name for myself here, especially since I'm preparing to post my own story. What do you say?
watched, faved and liked for the clever use of a pokemon name.
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Sure, I'll start sending them to you if you pm me about it. Also; she's a Shiny Absol, probably should have been clearer about that
so far i like it! keep up on the story!
…Yeah, you're gonna need something a bit stronger than a rope and a Stare.
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Yeah you should... probably should fix that now... or whenever you have the chance. (IE, add some sort of line in the prologue)
This song is this title
You made my day. Kudos good sir.
I like this ghostie.
3925534 It may be that the immediate area around Fluttershy's house is a safe-zone, a sanctuary that predators are welcome in, but must leave if they are to hunt. With the fish and worms, maybe they are considered to be of even less intelligence as the other animals, and/or they were caught outside the perimeter of safety.
Tracking because Chuggaaconroy's LP of Pokemon Emerald made me interested in Absol.
Oh Cres you have no idea, I also cracked up at Giratina being serious about it!
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Either way, I'm sure it'll be SUPER EFFECTIVE!
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know
Absol is one of favorite Pokemon!!! Also please have Cres kick both applejacks and fluttershys butt!!!
Favorite for now, I look forward to giving you a like when I have more of the story to read.
While I know I must bar my full review of this until it is finished, I have to say I absolutely LOVE IT! Absol was always my favorite Pokemon as I was born into a family of jocks and rednecks (nothing against those two demographics) but I ended up a "geek", and because I was good at maths and sciences my family treated me like a walking disaster. But then I found this community and it gave me the courage to move out and live a life where being an absolute brony is fine and awesome. You all are amazing. Keep on keepin' on.
Reading coz Absol is best pokemon
This is likely the pokemon fic I've always wanted. Absol is one of my favorites after all, and I enjoy the 'darker' realism you've given this pokemon world
A few things concerning the Absol, are you going with the four move limit, or something different? He obviously knows how to Sucker Punch, and his attack on Belle might've been a Slash. I'm sort of hoping he knows Future Sight since it's just awesome, Detect too, and Perish Song is just evil. Altough I'm not entirely sure what the move he used on the rock was, he could've found a TM and somehow self-learned Shadow Ball, or he could've had a trainer at some point? Also, I think Pressure would be an interesting ability for him to have if you make it affect non-Pokemon, though somehow giving him Magic Bounce would open up for some great fun concerning Twilight (Possible Mega Evolution in the future?)
As for the story itself, it looks very good so far, though I do agree that Fluttershy should know how the world works regarding predators and prey. If it's an animal killed in her sanctuary then it's understandable, but out in nature, in the Everfree forest no less, animals kill animals. That's just the way of things. In any case, Faved and Liked, and awaiting new updates eagerly
Oh. You're writing that kind of Fluttershy. The kind that doesn't seem to know how the food chain works. "Predators eating prey!? Disgusting!"
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Looking back I should have clarafied this point a little bit, don't worry she's not a 'no one is allowed to eat meat!' kind of thing. I'll elaborate more in the next chapter.
Eh, not really.
I like the Giratina spin. He gets way underplayed.
More and more
I will make a pridiction that belle will travel there to get him
Gotta say I'm a little surprised and at the same time not surprised at Fluttershy's reaction.
: Um excuse me but... could you perhaps be so kind as to die on the spot so no other animals would have to die instead? If you don't mind of course...
For one, she should know that there are predators in the world.
They eat other animals not out of malice but out of natural born instinct and necessity to survive.
If she's going to scold him for eating those beavers to live, why not outright say:
Now yeah, she is in character and all but still, she should know that this is nature at work.
Being angry and trying to prevent nature from progressing isn't the right state of mind.
Those beavers might have been her friends but... well, is she going for revenge or is this a plea to ask him to no longer eat her friends?
Cause if the latter is the case, then what animal will he be allowed to eat and which not? The fact he might ask that will most likely put her on the spot: who would she be to choose who is to die and who's not to die for the sake of Cres surviving.
I suppose I might be getting too much ahead as she assumes Cres is a monster that kills and preys for fun and not just another creature that preys to live.
I'll keep reading and keep an open mind.
please update soon! I love this story, and i can't wait to see more!
I thought it would be INSERTRANDOMPERSON/THINGHERE.
i really like the habit that he prays after he kills, it makes him seem original.
however, please use more sensory words, i had to conjure up a setting out of midair
7/10 pretty good job in my opinion