I stood there, staring at Midnight in disbelief. No. It couldn’t be. It just 
couldn’t. A sudden chill ran up my spine, as my whole body got cold. It was 
getting hard to breathe. It felt like a big brick was on top of my heart, trying 
to push it to the ground. Was Midnight dead?! No... he couldn’t be. If he was it 
was just a bad nightmare... that’s all. Just a nightmare. I was too shocked and 
afraid to do anything. I stared at Midnight as if expecting him to just start 
breathing again. I shook my head. No. This can’t be happening. But it is.
    “Midnight!!” I cried once more. I sank to my knees as I started sobbing 
uncontrollably. “This is all my fault. You were right about me. I should never 
have left your side.” I whispered, staring at him as the rain poured down even 
harder.
    “So the evil creature actually has a friend, huh?” A voice said from behind 
me. I turned around to face a girl, about the age of eighteen, staring at 
Midnight calmly. Her long flowing silver hair was pulled behind her ears. Her 
skin was pale and jewelry of sky-blue could be seen everywhere on her. Her eyes 
were a dark and cloudy piercing grey. Standing at her side was an Espeon. 
    “How can you call him an ‘evil creature’?!” I shouted at the girl, angry. I 
didn’t care who she was right now. All I cared about was Midnight... and how 
this happened to him.
    “If he wasn’t an evil creature then I wouldn’t have done this to him, little 
girl.” The girl said, turning to look at me.
    “So YOU were the one who did this to him! You killed him!!” I screamed, 
trembling in furry. 
    “I didn’t kill him, little girl. I simply took away his soul of darkness. 
He’ll start breathing and become conscious again soon.” The girl said, now 
staring at Midnight again. “See?”
    I turned around and looked at Midnight. He was now fully human. Not a trace 
of him being part Umbreon was left. As she had said, Midnight was now breathing 
again. His breaths were slow, but he was breathing. 
    “What?” I asked. The girl sighed.
    “My name is White Crystal. At least, that is what I want you to call me. As 
you know, he is an Umbreon. Umbreon are creatures of pure darkness. But there 
are two types of darkness. One is calm darkness. Darkness that befriends the 
nighttime and the moon. Darkness that feeds off of moonlight for power. Then 
there is the other type of darkness. The darkness that’s blacker than night. The 
darkness that feeds off of shadows for power. The darkness that is never calm, 
but instead constantly full of rage and hunger for revenge. This is the type of 
darkness that is within your friend...” White Crystal calmly explained. 
    “That’s not what type of darkness Midnight holds!” I said.
    “...My Espeon here attacked your friend for me. Or, rather, took away his 
soul of darkness and hid it in the dimension of souls, where it will stay 
forever. You see, this isn’t a regular Espeon. This Espeon has special powers.” 
White Crystal went on, ignoring me.
    “I said that’s not what type of darkness Midnight holds!” I repeated. 
    “Your friend used to hold the first type of darkness. You must understand, 
little girl. Your friend became angry. And anger turns into rage, which turns 
into hunger for revenge, hunger for the shadows.” White Crystal said. A small 
grin just barely escaped her face.
    “No! This can’t be true! You’re a liar!” I shouted. A ran towards her, fists 
ready. She nodded to her Espeon, who jumped in front of me and tackled me to the 
ground.
    “It is true, little girl. Oh, and by the way, I think your friend is waking 
up.” White Crystal said. I pushed her Espeon off of my body and ran over to 
Midnight. His eyes slowly opened as he woke up. 
    “Midnight! You’re okay!” I cried happily. He stood up and turned to look at 
me. But his stare seemed to go right through me. That icy stare that always 
seemed to stare though my soul was gone. His expression was lifeless. 
    “Midnight... that’s such a strange name...” He whispered, staring off into 
space. I stared at him in disbelief. “Midnight, are you feeling alright?” I 
asked, full of worry. 
    “Of course I’m alright.” He answered, now staring at the ground. “But why 
did my mother and father name me Midnight?” He asked. I continued to stare at 
him. Then I turned to look at White Crystal.
    “What did you do to him?!” I shouted. 
    “I took his soul of darkness away from him, remember?” White Crystal 
answered, still remaining calm. 
    “You... you... how dare you?!” I screamed. I started glowing black. I stared 
at myself wide-eyed and lifted up my hands. In them were two balls of black 
light. I blinked. Then I understood what was happening. “You shall pay for what 
you did to Midnight!” I screamed, raising my hands up towards White Crystal. Two 
beams of black light shot out of them. Finally. I could use an attack. The 
expression on White Crystal’s face was not calm anymore, but there wasn’t any 
expression of worry either. 
    “Espeon, attack.” White Crystal ordered. Her Espeon jumped in front of me 
once again. This time it glowed white as it shot beams of light at me. Our two 
beams met in the middle, where they stayed. 
    “You shall pay!!” I repeated. I started running towards White Crystal’s 
Espeon, Suddenly there was a bright flash of light as I felt my feet lift off 
the ground. The world around me starting spinning, and it got hard to breathe. I 
didn’t know which way was up and which way was down anymore. Soon everything 
went black. But then color returned. I looked around me.
    Bright white light was everywhere. I wasn’t standing on anything. I was 
floating in the air. I didn’t even know if there was ground. Or sky. My eyes 
widened with fear. I was in the dimension of souls. I looked around, searching 
for Midnight. He should be here... right? I wasn’t sure how to move. I started 
kicking my legs as if I was underwater. It worked. I started moving. At least, I 
think I was moving. It was hard to tell. After awhile, a black blob emerged in 
the distance. I squinted. It was an Umbreon. It was Midnight! 
    “Mid-” I was about to call his name when suddenly a strong force stabbed me 
from all directions. I groaned in pain. It felt as if my arms and legs were 
being ripped off. 
    “Weren’t you even listening?” I familiar voice came from somewhere. It was 
White Crystal. “This is the dimension of souls. You are part Umbreon, which 
means that you DO have some darkness inside you.” White Crystal said. I groaned 
in pain once more. Ignoring White Crystal, I tried to move towards Midnight. But 
it was no use. I couldn’t move. I was in too much pain. 
    “Midnight!” I managed to shout. Midnight looked around wildly in the 
distance, as if searching for something. He didn’t appear to have heard me. 
“Midnight!!” I shouted once again. He didn’t hear me at all this time either. I 
groaned in pain again. If I could get him to come to me with my magical jewel 
before, I can do it again. But I couldn’t even move my hand up to reach for the 
jewel. Tears streamed down my face. Our journey was a failure. Midnight would 
never turn into an Umbreon again. And I’d never turn into a human again. That’s 
when Midnight’s words came back to me.

    “Our journey.... is just a whisper away.”

    “Midnight!” I whispered this time. Midnight finally turned around to look at 
me. 
    “Starlight!” Midnight cried. Instantly the pain stopped, and I kicked my way 
towards Midnight, completely unaware that I had turned fully human and a blob of 
black light was floating behind me. I bent down to hug him. That’s when there 
was another flash of light. Then everything went black. Then color returned.
    I fell to the ground, now in my poke’ morph form again. Groaning, I sat up 
and looked at Midnight. He was now in his poke’ morph form again too. The tears 
streaming down my face were tears of sadness at first. Then they turned into 
tears of pain. Now they were tears of joy. I turned to look away from Midnight, 
and instead at White Crystal.
    “You!!” I shouted. With no Espeon blocking my path, a stood up and ran 
towards White Crystal, raising my fists. I jumped up.
    With a soft buzzing sound, and I jumped through White Crystal.
    White Crystal was a hologram.   
     
Note from author: Yea, I’m actually typing at note from me on here. I’m not sure 
I’ll be able to write part 8 before June 20th, so I might as well tell you now. 
I’ll be on vacation to North Carolina and Pennsylvania from June 20th to July 
5th. And you know what that means... yes, I won’t be able to update during that 
time. You get a cookie for guessing correctly! ^_^ Eh... yea. Okay. I’m done 
with my little note. >_>;;
Hasta la vesta! (sp?) Feel free to review! *puts sunglasses on*
~Kitten  >^.^<