NOVEL NEXT Chapter 81: Spreading Despair – Dementor vs Pokemon!
Past Midnight, June 2
Alto Mare
Hidden under the shade of thick bushes, Kai spied on the Museum's guards.
The movie had shown no guards around the Museum, but it was one of those things that needed not be displayed outright. With the most important machine, DMA, being present in the Museum, it would have been stupid to think it lacked security.
The only reason Annie and Oakley, two Team Rocket members, could go into the Museum in the latter half of the movie was that they had two powerful Pokemon and high-tech surveillance instruments.
Kai had no plans to infiltrate the Museum. Not yet.
It would have been useless without the Soul Dew, anyway. The DMA (Defense Mechanism of Alto Mare) needed that jewel to start, and then further required one of the Eon Pokemon as a power source.
Kai had no time to deal with those issues. He had decided to first go to the New Bark Town and get Elementary Pokemon Trainer Ability somehow from Professor Elm.
-Hunt!- Selene hissed, slithering over his shoulders.
Kai frowned as he looked at her. The Ghost Serpent had already become a hidden, trump card for him. Now, acting as the Magical Creature in pact with the Fangs, she had become an even more crucial part of his power.
Professor Elm is a scientist, Kai reflected, eying the guards. He must have high-tech equipments which I can use to carry out a deep analysis of Selene’s strange state.
At the end of day, regardless of his killing nature and terrifying thoughts, Kai of House Stormborn still carried the Will of a scientist in his heart. He longed to put his inborn skills to test, making them also a part of his power. However, ever since his mother’s death, he had been on run. This was also the case after his resurrection in the Primordial Tower.
For the first time, Kai felt like he could truly put his knowledge to test in this Random World.
He could not deny it or hide it. The thought of experimenting and coming to meaningful conclusions excited him a touch more than acquiring the new Ability.
-Hunt!- Selene insisted, hissing loudly in his ears.
Kai could feel her determination to show him she hadn't become useless.
Stubbornness. A familiar crazed stubbornness was taking roots within her. The stubbornness to tower over the beings despite her obvious blindness.
She wanted IT. Maybe as not much as Kai wanted IT, but no less either.
-Power. I must have it- she hissed, showing Kai her fangs.
Kai grinned from ear to ear.
-A worthy ambition!- he hissed back as he eyed a guard patrolling the fence around the museum. -Did you smell the food?-
-Bird. Over there, on the tree, master- Selene said, her forked tongue flicking, tasting the air.
Bird? Kai thought, narrowing his eyes. A flying-type Pokemon?
Most of the Wild Pokemon in the city were diurnal. By night, they had gone to sleep. Yet, Kai had come out at night.
There were decent reasons for it.
First, from the movie, both Kai and Petyr had concluded one thing. The Legendary Pokemon Latias loved to roam around the city, watching various Pokemon Trainers and their Pokemon. She was attracted to the feeling of ecstasy and joy that one could find in abundance during the daytime in the streets of the water city. So, it being night, Kai won't have to worry about running into Latias, as the Eon Pokemon had the skill to make themselves invisible.
Second, it was the nature of Pokemon themselves. Unlike normal animals, Pokemon and other magical creatures were more like humans. They had powerful emotions and wills. And thus, Kai could affect them using his Dementor's Blood Essence.
-Go then- Kai hissed.
Selene's forked tongue kissed his chin and then with raw fury she slithered away, disappearing into the thick darkness, as her white draconic scales pulsated with rings of black and yellow.
Kai looked at her. Let her spread her own despair, he thought, a bit of pride welling up in his heart. Show me what can you become.
As the pride reached his head, Kai brought out the dark creature sleeping within him. No longer did he control the coldness. Nor did he try to bury his hunger to spread despair.
The leaves and branches around him froze to death as a hooded cloak appeared over Kai's transforming figure. His entire body shriveled up, becoming like a corpse with every passing second. The flesh left him, making him look like a walking skeletal being. Long strips of tattered black cloth billowed behind him without wind. His left hand went for his right forearm, and he felt the ten deep, rough impressions of long bony fingers where the original Dementor had gripped him.
Then Kai slithered.
The moment he saw that guard going to a blind spot of other guards, Kai flew towards him, freezing everything in his path. Hovering above the ground like a wraith, he swooped down on the guard’s back.
He could feel it, the raw emotion of happiness and hope.
Kai's mouth parted, and he sucked deep.
His breath rattled, and he backed away, leaving the man shivering. The guard's face had contorted, fear and old terrifying memories returning to him. An inconspicuous layer of frost appeared over his body, soaking him wet.
He looked around but found nothing.
Kai trembled in joy, the taste of devoured hope and happiness lingering at the tip of his tongue. He went for him again, like a shadow of a tall tree under a moon. But on this moonless night, he was an incarnation of darkness.
One of the foulest creatures in the infinite worlds had started its hunt.
Time after time, Kai kept sucking out his happiness until the guard dropped to his knees.
"Who's there?" the guard cried, shivering, crying, and finally sensing another presence. But Kai didn't go for the kill. He waited, like the predator he was, sucking in the guard’s fear.
As he lost his fear, a bit of his courage returned to the guard. His hand reached for his belt, and Kai beamed, finally finding a practical use of Emotions Manipulation and Fear Absorption to manipulate others.
"Come… out…" the guard said, his life dwindling by a thread. "Yanma!"
The bright blue beam outlined itself into a massive Pokemon.
It was a red-green Pokemon that resembled a dragonfly, but bigger. It had three pairs of legs that could wrap around a grown man's head easily, and its two pairs of wings had a red band over them.
The Pokemon buzzed, fluttering mid-air, making sharp turns. Since the moment it had come out, it had been looking in Kai's direction.
Kai had been waiting for the Pokemon to appear. Like a mass of black mist, he lunged at the magical creature before it could come at him. It was so fast that it instantly flew away backward, its wings beating the air at high speed. But even that couldn't prevent Kai from spreading despair into the Pokemon, and freezing its wings.
Both Kai and the Pokemon danced around each other.
Under them, the guard gaped at the monstrosity that was Kai's figure. No. He couldn’t let this dark creature play with the Pokemon any longer. “Yanma!” he cried. “Use Wing Attack!”
The Pokemon’s wings buzzed, glowing white.
It’s speed suddenly doubled as it threw itself toward Kai like a missile.
Before Kai could even dodge, the Pokemon slammed one of its wing right into his chest.
