Chapter 2 - The shadow beasts

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"Bla" Talking

Bla Thinking

#Bla# Seraphim Language

'Bla' Telepathy

$Bla$ Discussions with the Shadow World

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When the first rays of sun shone through the window the next morning, the occupants of the room slowly but surely woke up. The other four were still asleep. Which was not unusual. Anoth was usually the first one who was awake. The others followed within the next fifteen minutes. So he got up, grabbed his things and disappeared in the bathroom. When he came out again, freshly showered and dressed, the other four were about to get up. He was dressed in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt that still had a vest on. Nothing that would be noticed by others. Anoth knew that the others would soon follow him and so he went over to the canteen. Breakfast did not start until around 7:00 am, but that did not really bother him. The machines were open 24 hours. And so, just two minutes later, he found himself at one of the tables with a plastic cup filled with steaming coffee in front of him. As a rule, he would then simply read in the newspaper until the others came to him, but today it was different. He could not let go of the Alteranic energy he had felt when the dimensional Bomb exploded. And so he sat at the table with activated holographic input field and looked at the record of it.

The first thing he found out was the initial dimension from where it came from. But the result raised more questions than answers. It had come from their home dimension. But the last time they heard of the Alterans came from the log buoy from Atlantis, which was sent off when it was under siege. Not enough, the buoy had probably been damaged in breaking the blockade of the Wraith and arrived almost 1.5 years too late. When they finally broke the code of the books and found out the position of Atlantis, they sent a fleet there to help the besieged city. But the only thing they found there was a radioactive rock in space. Which was radiated so massively that their sensors did not even reach to the ground. An exploration team, which had a shuttle to search for Atlantis came back with no results. Attempts to reach them via subspace communication have been unsuccessful. They were too late. The Wraith paid dearly for it. The Alterans were the pacifists and the brains in the Alliance. But the seraphim formed their teeth. They destroyed nearly 98% of the Pegasus galaxy's Wraith (1687 mother ships, 5541 cruisers, 121 superhives, 28 ultrahives, 14 clone facilities, and countless fighters) before being recalled from the galaxy to secure their own galaxy.

They were also still trying to find the Alteraner in the Pegasus galaxy. But apart from human colonies with negligible technology levels, there was nothing to be found. The Wraith had destroyed almost everything. Exploratory ships were sent to several neighboring galaxies to search for Alteran presence. But these too returned without success. A big hit for the alliance. The Seraphim had failed once before.

During the outbreak of the plague of nearly 10 million years ago, the Alterans completely sealed off their galaxy. The Seraphim were forced by the treaty to respect this decision, which did not prevent them from continuing their search for a cure for the disease. But when they finally found them, the Alterans had disappeared from the galaxy. At that time no ships were sent to the neighboring galaxies, as the Seraphim believed that the Alterans would not leave their own because they had quarantined them and they have been evicted from their galaxy once before. The only guess left was that the plague had destroyed them all. And so for the first time they lost the track of the Alteran people. Now they had a new track once again and Anoth would not let it pass between his fingers.

Further evaluations revealed that it came from Terra in the Avalon Galaxy. Now there was just one more problem. Anoth has not been in the Avalon Galaxy for millions of years. He had no idea what had changed there. But that could be found out. But still there were several questions in the room.

Were the Alterans moving again?

Were there other space faring people in the Milky Way?

If so, how far advanced were these to the Seraphim?

Were they a friend or an enemy?

All questions that need clarification. But what's the name of it? One by one. Before they could investigate, they had to go through the final meeting here. Only then could they leave this dimension. And who knows, maybe one day they would come back here. They had squeezed Team Rocket far enough that the rest could be done by the local military.

Anyway. The data he got from the short connection were too few to extract more information, so he ended the analysis and instead turned to the newspaper and his coffee. For a long time he did not have to wait, as the other four sat down next to him. They also wore normal everyday clothes.

"Good Morning." she greeted Anoth.

"Morning." was the sleepy answer he got back when the four of them took one coffee after the other and sat down next to him. No one else was in the canteen except them. Which was no wonder. After all, breakfast would not be served for half an hour.

"And, what did you find out?" Kagami asked.

"What do you mean?" Anoth asked, raising his eyebrow.

"You certainly analyzed the Alteranic energy, did not you?" Konoko asked.

"Yes." confirmed Anoth. "The source is from Terra Avalon Talaéako."

"Are you sure?" asked Mitara.

"Absolute." confirmed Anoth. "It came from our dimension."

"That's weird." said Kumiko. "The last time we heard anything from the Alterans was from the log buoy from Atlantis, but that was 10,000 years ago."

"Yes, and when we arrived at Lantea, there was not much more than a high-radioactive cloud covering the entire planet." added Mitara.

"They must have used the Stargate to get back to Terra." Kagami came to think of it.

"Yes, but why did none of our probes, which we sent to Terra about every 2,000 years, find anything?" Anoth wondered.

"The only logical explanation is that they are hiding and do not want to be found." Kagami said.

"Or they all ascended." she reminded Konoko. "When was the last probe sent there?"

"That was about 1,900 years ago." Anoth said, then he came up with another explanation why the probes found nothing. "Could it be that they were in stasis capsules all the time?"

"That would be possible too, our probes would not see that, at least not from the distance from where we usually perform the scans, you'd have to be in orbit to discover it." Konoko agreed.

Too many questions, too few answers, let's move that until we're back in our dimension. " said Anoth. "Apparently, we are not the only ones who wake up so slowly." With that they all looked over to the entrance to the canteen, where slowly but surely the other inhabitants of the center came stumbling in too. Some looked like they could go back to sleep immediately, while others were already full of energy. It was amusing to watch some of them staggering in half-sheep were suddenly awake after a sip of coffee. The new guests in the canteen were mainly trainer, and their Pokémon.

"What's up today?" asked Mitara.

"First of all we have breakfast, then we look for our Pokémon and when that is done we have another flight lasting several hours." came Anoth's answer. Careful that the occupants did not pay to much attention to their group. The only thing that stood out was the shoulder-length black hair that shone in the light of the lamps. If they looked more closely they would see that the light in them split up in all the colors of the rainbow. In their combat suits they had not been visible.

Half an hour and a good full breakfast later, they were standing in front of the counter, waiting for Sister Joy. For a long time they did not need to wait, so sister Joy came through the door.

"Ah, Anoth, good morning." she greeted her.

"Can we go to them?" Anoth asked. And she nodded and led her backwards.

"Arceus and Mewtwo were picked up an hour ago by Mew and taken to the hall of the beginning." Angelica said as they were in the back. "The rest of the Pokémon are here, as well as ..." that just left her standing in the room as the door to one of the treatment rooms opened itself. Out of the door shot a golden-colored something that ran Anoth to the ground to give him then a copious face wash.

"I'm also happy to see you again Mandy." Said Anoth, somehow, while he laughed and his face was licked.

"What is this Pokémon?" Angelica asked curiously.

"Mandy is an Arcanona." Anoth answered when he had managed that Mandy released him. She was now next to him and letting him scratch her behind the ears. "Little cheeky toad, so you slipped away tonight." he whispered in her ear afterwards. His answer was just another lick across his face.

"And what exactly is she?" rang Angelika.

"The next level of Arcanine." Anoth explained. "They are 50% larger than an Arcanine, while an Arcanine is about 2m tall, the Arcanona are 3m tall, but the most striking thing about them is their nine tails." He stroked her through the thick fur. "If you want to turn an Arcanine into an Arcanona, you will need a Scale of Heatran, but there is another option, which requires a Reshiram feather and a Drakojewel, and then an Arcanine becomes an Arcadrago that is up to 5m tall. At the moment, there are only two Arcanona and one Arcadrago, and they all belong to me. " Suddenly a black blast shot out of Anoth, followed by a flash of light that revealed the other arcanona. She had, in contrast to the other, the same coat color as an Arcanine.

"Mandy!" she exclaimed angrily and Angelika's jaw hit the floor. She'd heard Pokémon talk to her many times before. Only this took place on a telepathic level. Speaking the way that Pokémon did, that was something else. "You promised to let me do that! I should-" Her outburst of rage was interrupted when Anoth began to crawl behind her ears as well. Her head was perfectly within reach, just inches from Mandy.

"If you two want to argue, do it in the field behind the Pokémon Center, not in it, and certainly not in the infirmary." Anoth growled both in the ear.

"Excuse me." Both said meekly. They knew that their Master did not understand fun with such a thing.

"How many times do I have to remind you both, hmm?" He pulled both of them briefly on their ears. His answer was a brief whine. Then he continued to scratch her.

"What was that?" Angelica asked.

"Oh, Lucy does not like it when Mandy sneaks off to jump on me."

"No, not that." Angelika was a little confused.

"So what?"

"She did not come from a Pokéball." Angelica said. "Where did she come from?"

"Oh that's easy, she's one of my shadow beasts." Anoth replied, as if those few words would explain everything. Anoth could have sworn that in the silence that followed, he could hear a cricket chirping somewhere in the distance.

"OK, then the longer version." Anoth said with a sigh. "We are able to turn any organic being into a shadow beast, which we can then absorb into ourselves, who literally live in us and we can get them out as needed, or they come out by themselves, and when I get there my rascals think ... "

"What a rattle gang?" Angelica asked curiously.

"Oh dear." said Kagami, who already knew what was coming.

Anoth started to grin and only seconds later 10 Evoli and 10 Desert Foxes were running around in the room, doing all sorts of nonsense.

"That rattle gang." Anoth said while watching them play and make general mischief. Angelika just stared in disbelief at the gang that was about to devastate the corridor they were in. An Audino and a Chansey came from one of the adjoining rooms, trying desperately to get the mess under control, and Angelika helped them out. However, after a good five minutes of futile effort, all three looked at Anoth helplessly. He took two fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly. Which made sure they were with Anoth only seconds later. Some of them sat on the backs and heads of the two Arcanona. An especially cheeky Evoli had chosen Anoth's head as her seat and looked around curiously. Another had sat down in Anoth's lap, who now sat cross-legged on the floor. Three more Evoli were each on the back of the two Arkanona and the last two had made themselves comfortable on their heads. The desert fox, on the other hand, sat in a row right in front of them. The other four had followed the whole spectacle with a grin. Anoth grinned as well, which earned him three pretty bad looks.

"It's alright." Anoth was beaten. "Come back." For a moment it looked as if Anoth would make out a dark mist, then out of him came out Foggy Tentacles that wrapped around the Twenty-two shadow beasts to make them shine directly on White and disappear into Anoth. "Satisfied?" Anoth asked with a grin, which caused Angelica to throw the tray she was holding in his head and Anoth still grinned away.

"Clean up here!" Angelika was obviously a little angry with him. With a sigh, Anoth stood back on his legs and then snapped one finger. The result of that was that everything looked just like before.

"Satisfied?"

CLANG !

"Ouch!" Anoth called as he rubbed the spot where she hid his skull with the tray. But where she got that, Anoth was a mystery. He could hear his girls giggling. And even he could not resist a grin. After a short hawk, they came back to the very reason why they were back here. "That's why we're back here now, how's our Pokémon?"

"As I said, Arceus and Mewtwo have already been picked up by Mew."

"Then they are now in the hall of the beginning." said Anoth.

"Ah ... ehm Mew left this here." With that, Angelika handed Anoth a note. Anoth did not have to guess who this message came from. The writing was clear.

"What's this?" Konoko asked curiously.

"Oh just our little red dragon friend, who wants to thank us, that we have saved her secret love." Anoth said and handed the letter to her. Knowing that if he did not do that, she would always annoy him. Konoko read the short note and then passed it on. This went on until Mitara got her as the last one and immediately set her on fire.

"Do you really think the two of them will come together?" Asked Mitara.

"Love is blind." Konoko's brief answer came back.

"Back to what we are here for." said Kumiko. "I really do not feel like gossiping now."

"So, how are the other Pokémon?" Anoth asked.

"They are fine." Angelica said. "They are a bit malnourished and show signs of mistreatment, but they are doing amazingly well for Pokémon, who once served Team Rocket."

"How well?" Anoth asked.

"So good?" Angelica said and opened a door directly. Shortly thereafter, a pleased barking was heard and before Anoth knew he found himself under a bunch of Pokémon again.

"Houn Houn Houndoom." one of them shouted excitedly as the others licked his face.

"It's alright, that's good." Anoth laughed and stroked the next dog monster over her head exactly between her horns. And she obviously liked that a lot. Angelika did not notice, but the other, as Anoth led his energy flow into her body.

"You saved us." she said gratefully while still being stroked, and stopped in shock when she realized that she had spoken in a different language.

"Calm down." Anoth, who had noticed that she was on the verge of panic, said reassuringly. "That was my doing. I taught you the language."

"For real?" she sounded happily surprised. "Can you do the same for the others, can I still understand the other Pokémon, can you do that in other languages as well? "

The questions came quickly and Anoth took a few seconds to understand what she had just asked him. Angelika and the others, however, went on to look for their own Pokémon.

"Yes, you have them now as a second language." said Anoth. "It's the fastest way to learn a new language." The answer was that she licked his face. Then they were interrupted by an Arcanine. He did not need words to know what she wanted from him. And so it went in a row. It took a few minutes, but then it was over and all his Pokémon could communicate verbally without any problem. And so he found himself in the midst of his Pokémon. He had picked up 3 Mightyena, 2 Arcanine and 6 Houndoom from their last assignment on Team Rocket. All 11 sat around him and exchanged stories. One of the main topics was, of course, the inclusion as a shadow beast. That raised a question in front of everyone.

"Does this have something to do with the shadow Pokémon of Team Crypto?" one of the Mightyena asked.

Anoth had to laugh. "No." Anoth needed a bit to pull herself together again. "What Team Cipher did with their Shadow Pokémon was their pathetic attempt to mimic the shadow beast Pokémon's ability to bind the shadow beasts to us, and things that Team Crypto did not even begin to understand the species itself is preserved, but the shadow beast ability comes in. It allows the shadow beasts to access our own energy reserves and thus become a lot stronger, and that's just one of the many abilities that it grants. "

"What else would she grant?" That question came from one of the Arcanine who had lain down beside him.

"It allows attacks that you cannot even imagine, because by being a shadow beast, you are able to use our own energy, which is otherwise only available to the Seraphim, it is called Seràakìin, but this energy has a massive power and does require some adjustments to the body, but the process of doing it is anything but pleasant, and if that does not happen and you were trying to use my energy, it would burn your body from the inside out because it simply cannot control that energy.

There are three other ways in which I can take control of your body, and in the first one, I'm basically just adopting their perceptual senses without taking control of the shadow beast itself, so I'll take practically everything they see taste, smell and feel, and I can do that with as many shadowy creatures as I want. In this option, the head of the shadow beasts lights up in a yellow light, which can be dimmed using special spells until it practically disappears completely.

"The next option would be to take over only the Seràakìin, in which case the body, with the exception of the head, glows in Golden Light, which cannot be hidden, and the Shadow Beast retains full control of itself.

"The last option would be the full takeover, which is very rare, but I use it occasionally anyway, with this option the head and the body light up and you cannot hide it either.

"The first option, for example, is the one I use the most. It allows me, for example, to bombard a target from a great distance while invisibly hiding behind a hill, in the middle of the forest or otherwise, in one of the great beasts where hideouts and my shadowy beasts stand in such a way that they can survey the target object, which allows very unsightly surprise attacks or pinpoint attacks from high altitudes, in which case the shadowy beasts mark the target, so you can tell me what I'm after fire or tell me what they are aiming for, so I choose the attack myself.

"And as long as we live, our shadowy beasts will live too, and if one is ever mortally wounded, it will come back to us and be healed and reawakened."

"What do you mean you can take us over?" one of the dog monsters sitting next to him asked.

"The easiest thing would be to show you." With this he materialized right next to him a being that they had never seen before. "May I introduce, this is Kira, one of my two Alicorne, who I can count among my shadow beasts, they actually fell in my lap, I still do not know exactly where they came from, only that they come from my home dimension. She came over with her friend Meira and both were severely wounded when they suddenly appeared out of nowhere just a few feet away. " Kira nodded in agreement.

"He was the one who rescued us both then, I do not remember anything about my time before, my memories do not start until I came to in one of the hospital beds."

"Yes, I had to get some lead out of you to save your life, whoever shot you, he did not like you, that's for sure." Anoth said while Kira had settled in next to him. She probed with her eyes the Pokémon that sat in front of her.

"Do you really think they're good for you?" she asked Anoth, as she scanned the group of Houndoom with her eyes, who shied away from her gaze and then walked over to the two Arcanine.

"Who is she that judges us?" one of the Arcanine asked a little angrily that their abilities were being questioned.

"She's been with me for over 100 years." Anoth said to her. This factor left her quite meek. "She has seen more death and suffering than you believe." He looked at the other Pokémon. "You saw how that went down there in the Team Rocket facility, which is a bit different from a Pokémon fight in the league, but that's the war, that's why we're here, we're here for Team Rocket And I think the final battle is imminent, and Giovanni will come here with everything he has left. "

"When?"

"Probably in a few hours." Anoth was serious. If his feeling was right and it was very rarely wrong. There was no doubt about that.

"How do you know?"

"We trampled him a bit on his paws the last time he did it, he knows we brought Arceus here and he'll do his best to get her back and I just received an e-mail that told me he'll clear out everything that gets in his way, but bad luck for him is that she's not here anymore, but back to the real question. " Anoth glanced over at Kira. "May I?" Kira nodded. "Assuming direct control."

With that, Kira's original green eyes changed to yellow and started to glow. Also on her coat now a pattern was visible, similar to a zebra that shone in the same light. Anoth's eyes also glow in a yellow light and he looked without blinking into the distance.

"Well, now I am in her." said Anoth / Kira. Her voice sounded strangely deformed, as if she were speaking with two voices simultaneously. Anoth / Kira got up and started trotting across the room. "I can see what she sees, feel what she feels, but Kira has no control over her body. I am in control." She stopped right in front of one of the Arcanine. Exactly the one who previously questioned their abilities indirectly. And before the Arcanine knew it, she found that a hoof was pressed to her nose. "Should I return her body back to her control now?" Anoth asked her. The Arcanine stared into the glowing eyes of the Alicorn and shook her head. "To bad. She was just about to spank your ass right now. " With that she took down the hoof again. "While I still have control over her body, I can still talk to her, and right now she's having a few ideas of things to do with you that I'd like to see." The Arcanine blanched as her Anoth / Kira telepathically sent some of the pictures to her.

"I should have kept my mouth shut." the Arcanine muttered. Anoth / Kira trotted over to one of the windows and looked outside. Best weather with clear skies and glorious sun welcomed them.

"Not too fast, you'll all get a hard workout." said Anoth / Kira. "Of course, only if you accept. And for that Kira and Meira will be the two who will give you the training, and believe me, the two will gladly turn you through the meat grinder. Releasing control." the glow on her body and in her eyes disappeared and so too disappeared the glow in Anoth's eyes.

"I can only give you the offer." All eyes were on Anoth again. Kira grinned over to the Arcanine, who had to swallow this, and came back to Anoth to lie down next to him. "We'll be leaving this dimension soon as soon as we're done with Giovanni, I can show you worlds you've never seen before, but the decision is yours."

"What would happen if we refused?" one of the Mightyena asked.

"I would release you back to the wild." Anoth answered.

"What do you think?" the Mightyena asked, turning to the others.

"I myself do not need to think about it for long." said one of the two Arcanine. "In the last few years, together with these vile rats, we've done things that I'd happily forget." Here she lowered her head. And she was not alone with that. Some of the things they had to do under Team Rocket really were not nice. To set fire to a building was the smallest of the tasks. The worst thing she should ever do was set fire to an orphanage full of kids. Luckily, it did not happen. Ash had noticed and met them. "Things that I'm really not proud of, here I get the opportunity not only to fight Team Rocket, but against who else knows how much evil is out there ... As for the attachment to you ... well ... we Pokémon will go in anyway if we get trapped in the Pokéball, and as a shadow beast that should not be much different. " She looked directly at Anoth. "Count me in." With these words she stood up and sat down beside the Alicorn. Although she was taller than the Alicorn, she could not help but flinch at the look that promised she would not spare her in training.

Now Kira sat up and put one of her wings over the Arcanine. "I think we both will be the best of friends." she said with a grin that spurred the Arcanine on the back. Because that grin promised her that she would suffer. Not under lashes and electric shocks, but more of total exhaustion for the next few months. But on the other hand, she would be much stronger for that. And that clearly outweighed a little personal discomfort.

Now the others began to consult whether to join him or not. Finally, they agreed and one of the six Hundemon stepped forward to speak for the rest.

"We have decided that we will join you." she said.

"As you wish." Anoth nodded. "Then I can start the ritual, I suppose."

With these words, Anoth got up and went to the middle of the room. There he knelt down and began to speak in a kind of chant in a language that none of them understood. The language of the shadows. The lights in the room started flickering before they went out completely. From the place where Anoth touched the ground, black lines began to appear on the ground. They became a massive seal of runes in the middle of which was a rune flee place. This site was surrounded by a ring containing hundreds of runes. From this point lines led away, which led to further circles. On the edge, another large circle surrounded by runes became visible. After nearly 5 minutes, the seal was completed. It was a massive structure with dozens of even hundreds of runes and several dozen rings. The Complete entity pulsed blue with power. The mighty power that was in the Rune seal was felt by everyone in the room. As soon as this seal was completed, Anoth got up again to jump straight out of the rune seal.

"So. Who wants to be first?" Anoth asked. The two Arcanine looked at each other and one of them finally stepped forward.

"What should I do?" she asked her voice betraying that she was quite nervous.

"Just stand in the middle of the seal on the open field." When Anoth saw that she did not really dare to step into the seal, he added, "You cannot blur the runes, so you do not have to worry about that." Anoth could see the Arcanine swallow, take a deep breath, then sit down in the center of the Rune Seal. Exactly on the vacancy in the middle of it. Anoth walked over to the vacant space at the edge of the seal. As soon as he stood in a circle he began to energize the seal and to sing a chant in the language of the shadows. When this started, the Rune seal, which had previously pulsed in the Blue Light, changed. Now it stopped pulsing but lit up with a black light and the power that was felt in the air increased significantly. The Arcanine, standing in the middle of the seal, now felt the seal's power hold her in place. She was no longer able to move. She had no choice but to join the ride.

Now, two golden rays have passed away from Anoth, which now supply another part of the seal with energy. A ring containing several smaller circles that completely surrounded Arcanine began to shine in the golden light. Then the runes filled discs began to spin inside the ring. The rune marks within the ring now shone in such a bright white light that was so bright that the Arcanine had no choice but to close her eyes. Shortly thereafter, the now in the bright white light and filled with runes slices began to rotate as well. Only seconds later, each of the circles shone in a solid white light, from whose center now a column moved up to the ceiling. This also happened to the rest of the circles. From the outside it looked like the Arcanine was surrounded by a rapidly rotating grid of light. Then the tips of the columns began to move towards each other, forming a kind of cage with the Arcanine in the middle. The rotation speed continued to increase, until from the outside of the Arcanine was no longer recognizable. Instead, in the middle, there was only a bright white dome of light. What they did not see was that nowhere near this cathedral the energy was gathered at the highest point of the cathedral. Then to come down as a one meter thick beam on the Arcanine. She immediately felt the energy begin to rebuild her body. The Seràakìin adaptation had begun. And as Anoth had said, it was also the most painful step. She felt like her body was being taken apart from within. Which came in a way pretty close to reality. The energy had begun to disassemble their energy lines and put them back together directly.

This was the first step necessary for them to use the Seràakìin at all. Even if they did not use it actively, it was always part of them. It pulsed through their body, if only in the background. In addition, it was necessary because the existing energy channels were too weak to be able to conduct the energy of the Seràakìin.

The Arcanine roared in pain. Then, just before she thought she was going to faint, it was over and the Arcanine sighed in relief. She found that she could at least move her head and when she looked down at herself on her legs, she could not believe what she saw there. The otherwise black stripes in their fur pulsed in a golden light. But she did not have much time to admire her new appearance.

The cathedral of light, meanwhile, had disappeared and had stopped the rotation of the ring. And also the runes filled discs within the ring came to a standstill. The bright white light had disappeared and returned to the slowly pulsing dark blue tone. But now the rest of the seal was glowing in a dark purple hue. And it did not take long for the remaining runic-filled circles to highlight something like tentacles, which then slowly began to wrap around the Arcanine just to extend directly to it, then do the same to Anoth. For almost a minute, they stood there, then the tentacles of pure energy dissolved, as if they had never existed. The Arcanine was gone. Only Anoth was still standing there.

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Unknown place

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She did not know where she was. The last thing she could remember was how the tentacle-shaped energy formations wrapped around her and how her body dissolved into energy. A feeling very similar to a Pokéball and yet completely different. Now she found herself in a meadow again. In the middle of the bright sunshine, she was sure that she was still in one of the treatment rooms in the Pokémon Center. As she looked around, she noticed a forest to her left, a lake was straight ahead, only about 200 yards away, and on her right hand side there were mountains at some distance.

"Where am I?" she asked herself aloud.

"You are on the Shadow Plane, young Arcanine." a distinctly feminine voice answered behind her.

Startled, the Arcanine spun around, only to come face to face with an Arcadrago flanked to the right and left of each Arcanona. "Where?" she asked uncertainly.

She felt very small in front of the Arcanona. She herself was about 2m tall, while the Arcadrago right in front of her already came to a shoulder height of about 5m. The head of the Arcadrago was at eye level with her at the moment, which did not cause her to calm down, after all, even the eye of the Arcadrago was as big as her own head. Not to mention the razor sharp teeth in the mouth of the Arcadrago. The wingspan was as long as her body. About 40m. The body of the Arcadrago was covered with fur, which showed the tiger pattern, which also has an Arcanine. On the head of the Arcadrago were two horns pointing backwards and on the snout two very long cord hairs. The Arcadrago also possessed a mane that reached down from the head to the tip of the tail and at the end of which there was a brush. The mane of her was in a slightly lighter shade of orange than the coat.

"On the shadow plane." Repeated the Arcadrago. "Here we are when Anoth does not call us into the real world." With that she pointed with her paw on land that surrounded her. "Here we can rest, relax or do what most of us do here."

At that moment, a horde of Procompsognathus scurried past. Small green dinosaur running on two legs. Just under 30cm tall and a good 1.2m long. But that was not really what she was looking for. Not even the fact that she had never seen these creatures before. Rather, it was the fact that they were running at high speed right at them. And the fact that they were followed by a group of Eevee and fennecs. Only seconds later, it was exactly this troupe that had come to a halt right in front of her. In a rather funny way. Because before her was now a ball of fur and scales. This ball began to disentangle very quickly. Shortly thereafter, 20 Procompsognathus, 10 Eevee and 10 fennecs stood in front of her.

"Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!" they all chanted. At the same time the Procompsognathus sprang around the whole time. Only then did she notice that they were carrying something. Each of the Procompsognathus had a berry between the two paws and it almost looked like it was too big for them.

"Eat it." said the Arcadrago. Her answer was a questioning look from the Arcanine. "Being a shadow beast requires a lot of your body, and these berries will help you get back on your feet." The Procompsognathus unloaded the berries in front of her and then raced off with the Evoli and Desert Foxes. Probably to search for more berries for the upcoming new Shadowbeasts.

"Are they always like that?" the Arcanine asked as she sniffed at one of the berries. The Arcadrago sighed.

"These are chaos makers." she said, "That's perfectly normal for them."

The Arcanine just nodded and started eating the berries.

"Ah, one of the new ones is here." came a much deeper but nevertheless female voice. When the Arcanine finally looked up, she did not trust her eyes. In front of her stood a nearly 40m great Ninetales? No. Kyuubi. That was the right term for the species. How she knew that was unknown to her. Another mystery.

"If you're waiting to catch a fly here, you can wait here for a long time." Another voice came. Just as deep as the previous one but also a female voice. "They do not exist here."

The Arcanine closed her mouth so fast that a click sounded.

"Lereya and Laraya nice that you come to us." the Arcadrago greeted the two Kyuubi sisters who came over to them.

"Nice to see you too, Lyth." Lereya greeted the Arcadrago.

"So she's one of the 11 newcomers?" It was less a question than a statement.

"Yes." Confirmed Lyth. "But three of them worry me."

"You do not need to remember me about that, I know that Lyth." A slightly irritated voice that seemed to come out of nowhere.

"You know I'm worried about the three." Lyth complained in an almost plaintive tone.

The voice seemed to sigh. "They'll get a strengthening potion from me before I do the Ritual. Believe me, I know what I'm doing."

"I should say so." The voice seemed to giggle on it.

"We can discuss this later in private ..." The answer came and the Arcanona became much redder. Then the voice was gone again.

"Who or what was that?" the Arcanine asked.

"That was Anoth himself." Laraya answers. She could feel the second question even before she had pronounced it. "And what he meant to argue with ... well ..."

"We can transform ourselves too." Laraya continued when she saw her sister blush a little. "The first one is an Anthromorphic Form, while the second is a Human Form, which is simply because an Anthromorphic Form is easier to achieve for a beast race than a human form, for in the Anthromorphic Form we keep parts of our beast form, so it's basically just an intermediate form when it's transformed into a human form. "Anoth, by the way, likes both forms." Now she too became red. "That makes it more often than not that it gets a little hotter around him."

"In Anoth's Name!" another voice called. Also this female. "Can you two still not say that directly without blushing?" It was an Absol. "What she means is sex." Her companion, also an Absol nodded.

"It's nothing new, something like that," she said. "Most Shadow Masters do that. And why should not they do that?"

"Thanks, I think I got it." said the Arcanine. She did not really want to talk further about this topic and therefore changed the subject. "How can Anoth talk to us directly here?"

"That's very easy to explain." said the Lyth the Arcadrago. "You still remember, as I told you, that we are in Anoth himself?"

"Yes I do."

"The sun you see over us is essentially Anoth's Magic Core." she explained. And the Arcanine looked in disbelief at the high sun, which on closer inspection was not even that far away. "He can see everything that's going on here and he can talk to us too, we're in him."

"We are a part of him." confirmed Laraya.

"Right. But we are not just here to rest and certainly Anoth has already told you a part of what you can do, we are also an Inner Defense, if anyone tries to read his thoughts and memories he first has to get by us. It's probably unnecessary to mention that the 99% of those who try it already fail before us. " She said that last sentence with not a little pride.

"But enough of it." Lereya said, "Rest first, the takeover is very stressful, even for beings as powerful as us."

"Yes." said the Arcanine, yawning widely. "Where can I do that?"

"Just pick a place, under a tree or anywhere else."

"I will." confirmed the Arcanine and walked over to one of the Big Trees standing in the meadow behind her. A short time later she fell asleep. The takeover must have cost her more strength than she had been aware of in the beginning.

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So the rituals continued. Three hours later and only the three Mightyena were left.

"Now there are only three of you left, but before I can start, you should drink something that gives you extra strength." Even as Anoth said this, he opened his storage dimension and pulled out three vials. In each of the glass vials was a brown-blue liquid. "These are strengthening potions." He explained, placing her on the floor in front of her. "They look awful and taste the same, but you'll need them."

The three Mightyena eyed the potions. The liquid inside the glass bottles really did not look pretty. But in the end, each of them took one of the vials Anoth had uncorked and gave all three one vial each. Shortly thereafter, all three dropped the vials to the floor. Horrible was probably not exaggerated, after the grimaces made by the three. Meanwhile, with a wave of his hand, Anoth let the shards lying on the floor disappear, wondering what kind of grimace a Mightyena could draw.

"Disgusting." said one of the Mightyena as she shook herself. But at the same time she could feel the potion doing its work.

"It tastes disgusting, but I can already feel my strength increasing, much more than what they have here in the center." noticed one of the other Mightyena.

"That does not surprise me." said Anoth. "That's what I made from plants that do not exist here, and it's no wonder that this potion is one of the strongest energy drinks." He stroked all three over their heads and looked into their eyes. "Are you ready?"

"Yes." One of the Mightyena said while the other two nodded.

"Then let's go." Anoth said, returning to his part of the Rune Seal. It took a while, but then the Mightyena agreed who would go first. The ritual low as well as its predecessor and just under half an hour later, Anoth had taken all three as shadow beasts.

$ How are the three? Anoth directed this question to the shadow plane.

$ They are all very weak. $ Came the voice of Lyth in response. $ Otherwise they are fine. $

$ How long will it take them to recover? $

$ Probably several days. I know that it took me a few days to recover from the ritual. $

$ Yes. You slept through several days.$ Anoth said after thinking briefly. $ How are the others? $

$ They joined the Arcanine and are sleeping now. $

$ Then it worked out wonderfully. Thanks Lyth. $ Anoth ended the conversation on Shadow Plane and at the same time called Kira back there. Now the cleaning was announced. Anoth now placed himself in the middle of the runic seal and knelt down. Then he started pulling the remaining energy out of the seals. Once that had happened, the lighting in the room came on again. When that happened, he got up and with a single wave of his hand he removed the Rune Seal completely. It simply dissolved into a small cloud of smoke. The room looked like there had never been such a seal there. Then he left the room. The door closed behind him on his own and Anoth stretched once. Immediately afterwards he made his way to the entrance of the center. On the way, he carried the Pokéballs, which now had no inhabitants in his camp dimension. Shortly afterwards he arrived at the entrance of the center. There he saw that the other four were already waiting for him. And someone else was here. The general of the Joint Forces was there as well.

"General." Anoth greeted him with a quick nod.

"Ah, Anoth, it's great that you're here." the general and the two shake hands briefly.

"So, what does it look like?" Anoth asked.

"We are still evacuating the city at the moment."

"When will that be completed?"

"The last buses leave these minutes."

"When are the Rockets here?"

"In about half an hour."

"What do we have to expect?"

The general spread a plan on the table in front of him. And then point to the sea. "Our reconnaissance aircraft have located a small fleet of ships bearing the Team Rocket Symbol."

"I'll take care of that." said Kumiko. "I show them the way to the seabed."

"What else?" Anoth asked.

"A whole fleet of helicopters, pointing to the northern part of the map." Again he was interrupted.

"Mitara and I can take over." Anoth said and Mitara nodded in agreement.

"And a lot of ground troops and tanks and weird machines." the general led his remarks to an end.

"How many exactly?" Anoth asked.

"Unknown." The general replied.

Kumiko, you may like the ships, but please sink them BEFORE they're in firing range of there cannons. "

"Will be done!" With these words Kumiko was already gone.

"My two Kyuubi Lereya and Laraya and my two dragons, Krashindzul and Dreynaaral, will fuel the ground forces, Kagami, you will take the control of my two Kyuubi, because I will concentrate primarily on the airborne forces and if the time allows parts of the ground forces."

"That's okay." said Kagami. "I'll give you my griffins and eagles for that, and I'll focus on the ground forces."

"Good, Mitara and Konoko, you two are going to put up a shield around the city, because the weather should be ... stormy." The others grinned at this comment. Anoth's weather report in such a case included storms with typhoon strength, hurricanes and so much more. The discussion continued for a while. Then they were outside, waiting for the Rockets, who would arrive any minute now. This would be Giovanni's last fight. The Dark Lord of the Pokémon World will fall here.

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A / N: So that's it for this chapter. Next, Giovanni sees his downfall and welcome to the Harry Potter universe.

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A/N 2: The next Chapter will take longer to translate. It is around 46.000 Words strong. Stay tuned for the next Update.