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"Everything," Diyem snarled, but it wasn't toward Nate. "Look at me. I take the form of a false body so people don't scream in terror. I only came to this world to save Eien, the one person I could truly care about. Do you think I would do any of what I did out of the goodness of my heart? What...

"I'll never be a hero," Diyem said immediately, looking away. "Entities like me can never be heroes. No matter what anybody tells me, be it Overseer or mortal or whoever else... I know that much is an unshakable truth."

"I... I..." Xerneas squeezed the tree trunk again. It looked like it was in danger of snapping. "I want to know why you care at all. Why any of you care. Why you keep... pestering me when I'm not even who you really want. What's the point? Blind faith?!" The wood creaked dangerously.

"I don't know..." Xernatus looked away. "I don't know anything... Just that I thought I was Xerneas. Th-that's all I know... that's all I..." He laughed a little. "I... I thought I'd lived for ages and ages, whole eras... and yet I'm only a few months old. Look at me now... You're older than I...

"I don't know," Xerneas said. "I felt... like I was supposed to help. That's... all I wanted. I had to protect the Tree. And I had to protect Diyem. And then... something changed, and I listened to what Diyem said, and that's it." Xernatus prodded the ground with what used to be its hoof...

"Being Xerneas is all I know." Xernatus shivered. "I... I thought I was him. I thought I was him all this time, and then I... one day I find out I'm not. I'm just someone who... replaced him. How would you feel if you... woke up one day and found out you weren't... whatever your name is?"...

Diyem didn't look like he wanted to hear Nate, but he also didn't order him to go away. His tail flicked and more darkness leaked from the corners of his mouth. "I suppose not," he grudgingly said. "But I don't see how that matters in the end. It's still... in my nature to be so cruel to others...

"Oh, I can choose. Fine. Then what happens if I choose to me Xerneas? Do you think anyone would agree? Do you think anyone would even... think of it at all?!" The tree trunk creaked against the pressure. "I'm... I'm never going to be what I wanted. What I was born thinking I was. It's all a...

"I just need... to talk to her. One last time... to apologize." Diyem looked out the window. Toast growled, or maybe it was a purr of some kind, and leaned into Diyem. "I can only imagine how she felt... seeing me with that mockery of a Xerneas... right in front of her. Not so much as speaking...

"Corrupted... I didn't even know I wasn't the person I was!" Xernatus flicked what used to be its lower body, now some kind of tail, in the snow. "I'm... Xerneas... but I know I'm not. I killed him. I killed him and stole his body and... now everyone just sees me as a parasite. They wanted to...

Nothing--not a word but also at least not an attack. The pile of coils did not move. But then, eventually, the thing's head rose from the ground, glimmering red-white eyes staring at Koa. "Oh, yeah?" it said, squeezing around the trunk. "Talk about what? Why do you care?"

It wasn't for a while, but he eventually did speak again, long enough that his voice was even. "...The last thing I told her... was that I hoped she'd get what was coming to her for overstepping what the Overseers had laid out. She wasn't supposed to interfere with Dark Matters. They had called...

"Oh yeah? Check on me? See how I'm doing? Yeah, right!" Another wayward beam carved more wet snow into nothing but vapor. "You're just like all the others. Just like that dumb Decidueye or that overgrown Charizard. Go away! You're just here to mock me!" It was a sorry sight. Xernatus was...

"Go away!" A beam of red energy crackled through the air and vaporized the snow in a thin path, but it didn't feel all that strong compared to what Koa had dealt with in the past. It also completely gave away where it was--hiding in the gloom of a particularly thick part of the forest.

"Mmh." Diyem looked off, claws digging into his thighs. His mouth leaked with Shadows and his chest thumped with a pulse of darkness. "Of course. Thank... you. But you don't have to say anything further." He seemed to be in pain. "I..." More silence. His flame was dim. "I don't... want to lose...

Diyem didn't look at Nate. His tail grew and fell, showing his thoughts. Toast rolled closer and headbutted his foot and Diyem raised it, furrowing his brow. "Grr..." Diyem sighed and brought his foot back down. Toast rolled onto it and Diyem kicked up, like it was a routine. Toast landed next...

"You could," Fugu said. "Which body do you prefer? How would you feel if, one day, you shifted to your Zeraora form... and found that it became 'solid?' That you could no longer go back, truly?"

"A human... Much like your father. Do you think that could have any relation to it? After all, when it comes to humanity, I do not think... there is much relation to it other than that." Fugu was still in the phase of bringing up all of these thoughts so Brisa could explore them thoroughly. So...

"I don't know," Diyem said, and his shifting body language suggested he didn't want to think about it, either. "I only hope that... I can speak to her and apologize later. If she would forgive me..."

And suddenly, the ground right in front of Dave exploded with energy. Bits of dirt got in his fur. The ground in front of him crackled with a silvery energy that felt like it would burn his very spirit if he stepped inside. "You can't just say that like it doesn't matter," Yellow said in a...