A brief note, I wrote this on a whim after reading Lampent's Pokedex data and though that perhaps some of them don't wait for their prey to die.


Lampent

You lie alone in your hospital room. Your family has left; most of the staff has left. You are left alone, dying of cancer, with only the steady beep of the ECG to keep you company. Slowly, from the crack in the door, you see a small, gas-lamp-shaped shadow enter your room-levitating. A Lampent. The adorable little beast floats towards you, slowly, until it is right above you, its glowing, yellow eyes peering into yours. It floats above you; waiting, watching. Finally, the creature decides that it can wait no longer. It extends its wrought-iron limbs like tendrils and severs your life-support. As you feel your heart slow and your breathing becoming laboured, the Lampent edges closer and closer to your face until you can feel the warmth from the St. Elmo's Fire burning inside it. Your eyelids flutter, and a sharp pain fills your lungs. You cough blood. A smile is all but preceptible on its mouthless face as it draws your very soul, your life-essence into it.

In the morning, the nurse comes in to check on you, a look of pain and terror etched across your frozen, pale face.

"The spirits it absorbs fuel its baleful fire. It hangs around hospitals waiting for people to pass on."