Title: No hope

Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: None
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #54, Hope

Rating: R
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: Character death, fanon, gore

           

            Without hope, there is nothing.

            It’s sinfully easy to do. It always starts the same way. He clasps his hands in front of his chest, and traces the first line down from his collarbone. As always, the flesh splits cleanly apart, enough for the handle of the sword to emerge. The sword always builds from the inside out, starting with his organs, working its way up as his bones – silversteel – solidify around living flesh, honing the hilt, then the guard, and finally, his lungs and heart make up the tip of the blade, the last breaths he takes before it is complete.

            The Sacred Sword has been born again.

            He lets his eyes fall closed, knowing that his duty is complete, and ignores the cries of terror and sadness coming from the one he died for.

 

End Fic

Completed 3/17/07

Written from Lance’s POV, because I’m a dork! ^^ And proud of it!