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(Short story:)

You find yourself alone in the woods at the stroke of midnight, the moon is high up. After having a few of your favourite drinks at the local Pub (whatever it is you drink), your supposed short walk back to your village Bed & Breakfast lead you here.

The locals...were hysterical...terrified...something had them terribly spooked in recent months. The tale was only new, yet spoke of like an old wive's tale. Residents spoke of visitors and their Pokemon being 'spirited away' never to be seen again.

It all sounded too much like Sleepy Hollow to you before...but now...

You could feel something calling your name, or so you think. Ghostly silent, yet, so close. Every now and then, two demonic red eyes pierced the blackness of the forest foliage, watching, watching. Laughter at your plight.

It was coming for you.

You trip, fall into a muddy ditch, the few clouds in the sky partially block the dim moonlight so now it is hard to see even mere feet in front of you. Then a roaring wind. The trees swayed all in the same direction as if something was pulling them and indeed there was something pulling them, vacuuming winds of a not-so-big twister, but certainly big enough to suck you in. It's colour seemed strange, but your thoughts are to get out of this damned muddy ditch, but climbing up the bank only causes you to slip in again.

It was too late: the tail end of the Tornado sucks you in and you're sent spinning upwards into the funnel. Mere moments pass, yet it feels like you've been imprisoned in that twister for a whole day, as you land not so hard, but your head is spinning, as is to be expected of the situation you had just encountered.

Your breaths though feel short, a slight struggle for air, but not enough to suffocate you outright. The land around you...twisted...alien. It was like a twilight world consisting of dead trees and cracked castle walls of a sinister design. The colours of this world consisted of dark colours: blacks, greys, purples, violets...

But what scares you most is the residents: Pokemon of various types and sizes...all...sinister. Their bodies made up of the same dark colours as the landscape, their eyes: Blazing hot Red.

You stand up and stagger...the atmosphere of this place takes a grip on you. You feel a change internally as if your moral fiber was being tinkered with. As you land backwards, feeling the darkness was going to make you black out, you see a large winged creature standing over you...it smiles at you curiously. It's eyes scanning over you, its gaze enough felt like it could really kill.

You scurry on your stomach to get away, but the beast pins you with its winged hand:

"Greetings" it says to you in a calm, charming like voice yet with a sinister 'rasp' to it. The sound of its voice can be heard within your head.

You ask it what he is and where you are;
"This...is my domain." it replies "And I...am Shadow Lugia."

You gulp in a petrified manner, you've heard rumours about this Pokemon before:
"I used to be a living entity" he continues "But then my body was 'purified' by a human child many years ago. When my 'light' half was purified of me, I technically became deceased. My soul has roamed this world since then, but with spirituality, comes spiritual powers. I used my spiritual powers to create this world from a Spiritual Plane I discovered. Since then, I have used it to energize me and my dark soul."

He waves a wing over the land to the 'residents';
"To help sustain me and the spiritual energies of this world's atmosphere, I took the souls of the living and brought them here, where the land changed their forms and minds into my brothers and sisters: Shadow Pokemon, just like me." Now you know what happened to those people who had been 'spirited away'.

You ask Lugia 'Why haven't I changed yet?'- the answer was a sinister low chuckle;
"That's because I have chosen you my friend." *he smiles his eyes flashing brightly "To become my new physical avatar-the host for my return to physical being. I have harvested enough souls to power portals back to the realm of the living"

You notice the large Tornado in the back. A purple-y hue, you wonder if it was the same Tornado which transported you to this world, as more like it begin to pop up from the sky. To what realm or time they lead to you don't know...yet.

"Now the time has come" Lugia says, his body turning into a more smokey, ghostly like essence "You will become me and I will become you. I will live once again, and you will be a God in this world and in the next!" he calmly says to you.

You don't care if you became lord of the Universe, you would not want to become this...this monstrosity! But the moment you were sucked into that tornado your fate was already sealed....streams of 'smoke' begin to emanate from Lugia entering into you. A cold feeling grips your body and your ability to move vastly reduced.

Your skin begins to change colour, your hair seems to dissapear, as the clothes on your body begin to bulge from the increased girth of your body morphing. You see your right hand begin to change, the fingers grow out into a massive winged-hand, your eyes feel strained around the eyelids as they seem to 'harden' as eye 'masks' grow out.

Your vision grows sharper, clearer, like a hawk's vision, but also everything takes a redder tone. You see the light emanating from your own eyes onto the ground below as you hunch over, the red light lighting up the ground directly beneath you.

You get back onto your knees, then your feet. Your clothes can no longer take the strain of your increasing size and burst and tear, your stomach 'bulges'. You look at your right hand horrified: it's completely changed! Into a wing same as Lugia's. You then look at your left hand, you see it in the process of changing into a winged hand as well. You also see the thing snaking by your leg and wrapping round it slightly as it grows longer, that was the moment you realized your humanity was slipping away.

'Oh God not the tail!' you yell

"Oh yes, mustn't forget the tail!" *Lugia cackles in enjoyment now over your change. You realize finally after this transformation began that there didn't appear to be any pain coming from this transformation. You could feel the stretching of your skin and hear the clicking of your bones as you change, but it felt quite...energizing. Like a soothing electrified massage over all your body. Whatever powers Shadow Lugia was using to transform you, he wanted to make it as comfortable as possible: he didn't want you dying from shock during his transition from spirit into you.

You feel spiney plates then growing from your back: fins to help you swim and fly when the time eventually came. As Lugia begins to pour more of his essence faster into you, you feel his mind beginning to merge with your own. His thoughts were becoming your own now: you were becoming Shadow Lugia!

The last of your clothes gives way, your body devoid of human parts now and completely that of Shadow Lugia's. That was not the end though as your body grows bigger and bigger, over seventeen feet high you grow as your legs, stomach, wings, head and tail grow bigger to the proper dimensions of a fully sized Lugia.

It was done, the transformation was complete! Shadow Lugia had been reborn! Well done, you are the lord Shadow Pokemon: XD001. From this day forth, you will be one with the darkness and Shadow Lugia for eternity.

"Now we will return to the world" Lugia says, or was it you? No matter, when you do return to the world, you and the residents of this realm will make the world know very much that you are now more than a legend...you were Shadow! And fear you they will....

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Time taken: 4 days

Phew, well I bet you thought I was dead, Nope! I've had a busy summer but I wanted to make a Shadow Lugia TF pic for ages, he's awesome! Evil transformations are best! This is also the first time I've ever drawn a background digitally in one of my images, It's a bit bare, but I really like the tornado in the back, I wanted to create a 'dark world' to set the tone of the picture and the dark transformation within it.

I hope you all like it, I spent a lot of time on this picture!

Artwork © TFAddict 2012, it cannot be used, traced, copied, without letting me know first please. If you would like to use it for whatever reason, say, a Youtube AMV, please let me know, I'd really appreciate an acknowledgement in the credits/description.