47. Creation

Giratina was a confusing soul.

Arceus had come upon this conclusion when they had met each other in the reaches of nothingness. She seemed perfectly content that there was nothing, but he had wanted to take from this nothing and make something.

Hence his creation if the two beings who set forward the motion of time and created the nothingness into space. Dialga and Palkia had done their job in a very good way. Giratina had almost destroyed them, but Arceus was much stronger than her. She never succeeded.

But Arceus was still not satisfied. From his powers, he created an egg. From this egg hatched three tiny beings who brought new meaning forward. They brought knowledge, emotions and willpower, which gave him the ingredients he needed to create...

life.

Giratina was displeased. She cursed Arceus's newest creations, sub-beings he had named 'humans'. "None of them shall live forever," she had roared. "Every single human shall meet their end of life and when they do...they will see me as the new god."

Arceus was angered. He vowed to protect the three pixies named Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf with his very life so she would not touch them.

But how to ensure Giratina would not destroy all humans? Arceus then has Mesprit's help and he had created love. An emotion so powerful and unshakable, it would bring two humans together...and they would create even more humans. Mesprit, along with his two sisters, helped to spread this around, making humans learn about it with knowledge and gave them the willpower to try it out. Arceus was delighted when the humans had learned and accepted it and was even happier when they had began to create their own children. The kinship the parents felt for the child...it was a different love from what the pixies had taught, but the more he watched it, the stronger the feeling grew inside of him for the three pixies. They were his children, absolutely and indefinitely precious to him. When the pixies began addressing him as "Father", "Dad" or "Daddy", he smiled.

Oh yes, he loved his children. He had learned one of two kinds of love.

But the kind of love he had created was not actually something he had learned. But for some strange reason, when Giratina had departed for Turnback Cave, he felt a certain emptiness in his heart. He had tried to create more things, resulting in more and more pokemon. But nothing could fill the void. He spent time with his children, but not even that could fill in the emptiness he held.

Finally, he realized what it was: because Giratina was gone, he was missing her. In both senses. She had always remained by his side, watching him and acting as if she were a thorn in his side. But Arceus wanted her back.

Even though she had become the goddess of the dead and was suppose to be his opposite, she made him feel complete.

Hence why she was so confusing.

Arceus didn't mind. Sure she kept threatening to destroy his creations, but she never went through with it. As time went on, he grew to enjoy her antics.

Maybe he was falling in love with her too.