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Koa nodded firmly, then eyed his shadow again, staring into his cold yellow eyes. All the words his shadow had said still rang through his mind, as well as Starr's. "You can't get rid of me. You can't." This time his shadow's voice sounded cool, but softer. Insistent. "Yeah. Yeah I can't," Koa...

Koa couldn't help but give a small smile at the reassurance, wamrth seeping through his fur. His shadow still lingered, but at least he wasn't making more stupid comments for now. Ho-oh's feather, he felt kind of silly though. It gazed back at the shadow Incineroar. Despite its reserved...

"I do," he began. He felt rather than saw his shadow watching him. He was happy, and proud of his successes. He heaved another sigh. "I know I've come far, and I've learned a lot. And... I know by now I can't be perfect." He paused, at a loss for thought. His shadow filled in. "I guess I just...

Koa hung his head. "I know that." He did. Even if he forgot it sometimes. And even if his stupid shadow kept holding it over him. "I just wish I didn't have those thoughts or fears or doubts. All that darkness. Don't you ever just wish you felt normal?" He sighed, eyeing the shadow from the...

Koa stifled the urge to look away from her shadows golden gaze. "But we'll forget, won't we?" he murmured, looking at Starr. "When we go home. But our shadows, they're still a part of us." His own shadow ducked its head, falling silent. "They don't lie... they don't go away." "I don't want...

As Starr's shadow spoke, the other shadow seemed to waver more, its shape flickering. Despite the anger it seemed to still project, there was fear beneath it too. "I can't... Let him forget. I don't want to forget." Koa cringed uncomfortably at the words.

A pit yanwed inside Koa as he realized what the shadow had said. What he had said. What was he doing? "Starr I'm sorry-" he felt like shrinking into the couch. He probably sounded like an idiot. The shadow scowled. "It's... what I have to do." For the first time its voice wavered slightly.

"I don't. I won't." Despite his anger, his voice sounded almost desperate to himself. He dragged his furious gaze away from his shadow and back to Starr. "I only believed in my da- him back then. Before I knew." For some reason he felt like he needed Starr to understand that, to know he wasn't...

"I won't," Koa snarled, rising up slightly, gaze locked on his shadow. He had a brief vision in his head of springing upon it, tearing it up- "Really? You worshipped him. You agreed with him. You thought he was right, that he could make the world a better place. Given half the chance you would...

The shadow bristled. Its gaze narrowed, annoyance showing on its expression, though only subtly. She'd cut a nerve, more than it wanted to admit. "It's what he needs. I'm keeping him from making the same mistakes. From becoming something horrible. From turning out like him." The shadow spat out...

Koa's whole body remained rigid as he stared at the shadow, caught between anger and and inkling of fear. Why now? Why here, with Starr? He was supposed to be past all this. Why wouldn't it just leave- The shadow glared back at her, his demeanor seemingly disaffected. When it spoke, a strange...

The comment made Koa snort. Starr beating the stuffing out of that thing sound pretty appealing... His eyes widened at the unexpected sight of Starr's shadow, kneeling in front of his own. Its eyes flickered as it regarded Starr, its expression seeingly unchanged. Yet there almost seemed to be...

Koa kept shaking his head. It didn't make enough sense. "But all it does is make stupid comments-" "All I do is say what's true." Grim horror filled Koa as he realized the voice no longer came from in his head, but from right next to him. Gold eyes, cold and detached as metal, met his own. His...

Koa drew back slightly, chest suddenly tightening. "Wh-what?" He shook his head. "No, I don't think... that doesn't sound right. It doesn't make any sense." He didn't hate himself or anything. "Maybe I'll just hold out, you know? We'll be gone soon anyway," he said, forcing a lightness into his...

"Tell that to him!" Koa growled. "I tried easing up or whatever." In a mocking tone, he continued. "Stop being perfect, talk about stuff more, stop thinking of myself as some kind of monster, accept that my dad was a deranged lunatic, and that I'm his son-" Sucking in a sharp breath, Koa rolled...

"Exactly. I thought that was it. I mean, I know I can't be perfect and I'll make mistakes and stuff, and I have accepted that but-" He gave a vague shrug. "I saw it briefly, fighting Giratina. I thought maybe that was it. I can't change... well you know how it is. You can't change where you...

"I thought I knew," Koa said with a sigh. "I thought I just needed to I dunno..." he rolled his eyes "stop expecting myself to be perfect. But I still hear it, sometimes. In the back of my mind, always making some stupid comment." Always trying to tear at him. He wasn't sure anyone else even...

Koa bristled at the familiarity. "That's just it though. Why don't they go away then," he muttered bitterly. "I thought I was..." he exhaled forcefully. "I thought I was good with mine after ... that whole storm craziness. It was quiet or whatever." You can't ignore me that easily. He dug...

Koa groaned. That's what everyone had said, and kept saying. "I know but-" His mind fumbled for words. "The truth... its..." What? Maybe he was just searching for an excuse. Shadows didn't lie. Maybe it was just that simple. All the things in his head were just... true after all. But he...

Koa nodded vehemently in agreement before falling silent for a few moments. He swore he kept seeing something flickering at the edge of his vision, but he pointedly ignored it. The silence began to stretch before Koa spoke again. "You don't think there's much truth to them right?" he tried to...