I am sitting in darkness, in a pool of black liquid, my pain from before now just a distant memory, it's still slightly throbbing but I can move now. Every direction holds nothing but darkness, it's actually calming in a sense. The darkness I'm standing in is like night's darkness, covering the world in a soft and gentle dark. I wander around, lost and mesmerized as I can see myself in perfect detail but I don't emit a glow and everything is still dark.

It doesn't feel like I'm standing on anything though, like I'm floating in a sense, I wonder where I am.

I hear something in the distance, fast approaching, it sounds like static, I then see it, a light coming towards me and suddenly the dark is lit up with tiny yellow particles in the air.

It looks stunning, like a star-filled night sky but you're right up there next to the stars. Each particle emits some electricity and getting shocked by it isn't painful, but rather pleasant in a way. 

The particles part, showing me a path of darkness, I naturally follow as if entranced. 

After walking for some unknown amount of time, it didn't feel like any amount could describe it, it felt instantaneous and everlasting at the same time, I finally arrived at a throne.

A dark miasma started swirling around, and lightning struck it as if sensing my presence.

After the little storm went away, atop the throne sat the same creature I had seen before, a pitch-black, werewolf-Anubis hybrid, with a massively intimidating frame and height, it's Anubis head bearing a yellow gem, upper body covered in red glowing writing, legs covered in massive red X's, its entire left hand was covered with a silver gauntlet that goes halfway across his left arm, highlighting its claw and its right hand on the other, or should I say his entire right arm was a gruesome sword. The sword was pitch black and reaches all the way to the ground, the sword looks like a crescent lightning bolt and was connected by a chain that was wrapped around its right shoulder.

Its olive-colored eyes bore into me and I felt like everything that I kept secret was being exposed to this creature.

"What do you desire? Money and Wealth? Glory? Honor and Pride? Authority and Power? Revenge? Or something that transcends all of them? Whatever it is, I can grant it. Speak up human, what is it that you desire the most?"

This creature's voice chilled my body and what it was saying was absurd, a wishgranter? Jirachi is the only known pokemon to do so, and yet this creature wasn't exactly lying but still hiding something.

"What are you not telling me, you want something out of me in return. So what is it? Unless you answer, I am not giving you one." I was in no position to negotiate but I tried anyway.

"Quite a clever one you are, I merely desire a vessel, so that I may oneday break free of 'it's' influence. The Otherworldly Darkness that controls me and my comrades. Of course, should you choose to accept then you will be subjected to great pain on a daily basis. However I am your best chance of breaking free from the hellhole you're stuck in. If you don't accept then we will both be subjected to Mutually Assured Destruction."

This creature intriqued me and I wanted to ask more of it but it suddenly howled in pain as black tendrills shot forth from this calming darkness and drilled into it's body. These dark tendrills were not of his doing, they carried a darkness filled with malice and hate. I had to make my decision and this was my only certain choice I had.

"In exchange for this power, you must free me and my comrades. Accept this contract and while you live in the world of humans, you will live unlike any other human. A different providence, a different time, a different life. The power of gods will isolate you, are you prepared?"

"Very Well! I accept your contract!" I yelled back and a white light engulfed me

When I awoke I was sitting in a pool of the blue liquid, I looked at myself in examination and realized I was fully healed, I even felt better than when I was back home. The scars still were there, as well as the symbols, I picked up a shard of broken glass and used it as a mirror. My face hadn't changed except for one thing, my eyes had turned the same olive gold color as the beast and one of my eyes held something like a seal. 

I took a deep breath before standing up and using my now doubled aura capacity to scan and oh boy was this facility a mess. It was a wonder this thing hadn't collapsed on my head, it looks like everyone evacuated. Water was flooding the place quickly and I got some clothes from and closet I found and went to then computers, I still had a mission after all. 

The computers were wiped hastility and so I was able to recover around only a gigabyte of data before I really had to leave.

I engulfed myself in a bubble and lept straight up, bursting through layers of cracked reinforced steel, past the ocean and into the sky. 

I didn't know how much time had passed since my capture, and I didn't know where I was at all.

It was cold, and there was nothing but ocean as far I could see, I just decided to fly in a direction and after an hour of flying according to my internal clock, I finally saw land. It was the coasts of Kalos juding by the architechture and pokemon. 

All the flying around using pure aura was tiring and I was very tired and on the verge of collapse, I just made it to a safehouse and passed out while waiting for some water. However I knew I would be safe, I had made it back alive from that hell and gained tremendous power along with it. Now onto my next goal: learn all I can from this beast.

There ends the Aether Arc! Hope you enjoyed this six part missionand let know what I should do next! Also props to you all who got the Tower of God and Code Geass references I threw in! I'm going to need a good amount of input from you guys to start the next Arc so get typing in the comments below! Until next time, Ja ne!

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