Chapter Ten: Enter, Eros…
In this chapter, I will be introducing two new characters, and you get to read what happens when you try to kick Ian in the… You know where.
"Ah! Zephyr Plains, the physical manifestation of my calm and gentle personality! So nice to finally enter!" I said as I felt the gentle breeze flowing through my hair. I heard two girls yawn behind me, and then I yawned myself as well, mine sounding a bit like "Nyaaaaaa!" like it always does. I curled up on the ground (Wow, just like a mattress!) And fell asleep, my two girlfriends doing so soon after they saw me sleep on the ground. Then, somebody screamed…
At the scream, I woke up, seeing somebody dissolve. Wait… That kid again. "You again?" I asked in a bored tone. "What do you want from me, kid?" I then sped up the dissolving. "You know what I want! Now let mommy go!" "Listen up, kid. Either you say things in a way that makes sense, or you let me sleep." Just then, Terna woke up and looked at me. "MOM! HELP ME!" "Terna, do you know this guy?" I asked her, and when she nodded, I pressed my hand to the square field surrounding the kid, and swiping it down, removing the field. "Really, kid, if you told me you knew Terna, I would have removed the Buffer without letting most of you dissolve first." I waved my hand at him, and everything that was dissolved regrew in seconds. "Now, I am going to let you go, and you explain exactly why you have been stuck in the Buffer for the past five hours, why you even tried to enter Zephyr Plains, how you survived the Buffer, and how you know Terna." I then let him go, and he tried to punch me! Of course, it missed, because nobody hits an Illusion. Here is the trick: I turned my head sideways, then formed another, Illusionary head in its place. I did that about as fast as Eternals can, and being the fastest of the Eternals, that was, of course, easy for me. I then phased out of the arc of a kick, and backflipped away from another. The kid then hit me a few times, before I blocked his kick with my own, and he went flying. I dashed and smashed him into the ground, to which he reacted by kicking me in the crotch! I grunted, not actually in pain, but just for the show. Then I laughed! "C'mon kid! I am Eternal, and as we are normally genderless, kicking me there is even less effective than kicking me in the head. You should know that!" The kid then pulled out a dagger with a Shadow Charge. Both mine and Terna's eyes went wide at that. "NO! Eros, enough!" Terna screamed. "But mommy, he's evil! He kidnapped you! He almost killed you!" Laughing, I walked over to Terna, hugging her and kissing her forehead. "You explain things to him. I am going to wake up Neutrina." After I kissed Terna, the kid lost his temper and threw the dagger at me while I was walking away, Terna screaming "IAAAAAAN! Watch out!" while I merely spun around and caught the dagger in mid-air, draining it of its Charge, and crushing it. I then left with a black hand, caused by the Charge, which I discharged in the Void. I then gently shook Neutrina awake, with her mumbling something about cake. "C'mon, Neutrina, I know you like to sleep, but it's time to wake up. And, yeah, cake is pretty good, unless it's burned." After waking her up, we went back to the kid and Terna, before I heard something. "I see. So that guy is your original boyfriend... And my father? That kind of does explain my Solar abilities..." Wait, his father? I see... "Yo! Having a nice chat here?" I called out, the kid glaring at me, then nodding and walking up to me, sticking out his hand, and mumbling "I'm Eros, the Solar Electricity Eternal Hybrid. Pleased to meet you, real father." "Huh? Real father?" "Yeah, I met Nova a few times, and mom told me that that was my real dad, and she lied, although she claims she didn't." "Well, Terna did not lie, as I AM Nova, partly at least. I am also part Ian, hence the name Ian Nova, or Ianova for short. Pleased to meet you. And yes, you can kick me in the balls without hurting me, although that is simply because there is nothing down there to kick. Even if I wear only a skintight bodysuit, you cannot find out whether I am male or female, because the Eternals lack any physical gender differences, and our body is completely smooth." To explain, I took off my shirt to show Eros my smooth upper body. No hair, no navel, no scars, no nothing. (A.N.: Suddenly, I feel an informational filler coming up.) This smooth body of ours is used for all sorts of things, and shares a few details: the lack of gender differences, and general flexibility. Physically, we are pretty simple. (Now, time for questions.) "Okay then, Eros, first of all: How old are you?" I asked him as I pulled my shirt back down. "I'm only about five years old, dad." (I see, so he has followed the standard cycle of 300 years.) "How many elemental techniques do you know?" "Several Solar types and a lot of Electric ones, one Sound based and I can use Telepathy. That's about it." (Normal learning pattern, slightly faster than normal.) "Can you Transform already?" Eros nodded, shocking me. "I can Transform, but only uncontrolled ShapeShifts and Super Mode, why? (Super Mode! At that age! If he can Trance as well...) "If I can Trance, then what, dad?" "Wow, you can read my mind. Probably only in Illusionary worlds, as I need to keep my realm stable, but still..." Eros laughed at me. "Seriously, dad. I can't read minds yet." (Oh, yes, you can, Eros.) He gasped, and I laughed. "Here's the plan. I teach you how to control sound, Aura, Illusion, Light and your Transformations as soon as you can Trance, and then you come with us on our trip through the Spiron region, okay?" Eros nodded, and Zephyr Plains started to shimmer a bit, warning me that it was getting instable. "And now... We leave!" I exclaimed as I warped us all out. Back in Spiron... Perfect... Just amazing... Well, back to Snagging, I guess... (sigh)
Third persons POV
In Orre, Cipher Base, Citadark Isle
A grunt walked up to a tall man in a chair, and kneeled. "Report, Ievan." the man said with a cold voice. "Sir, there is yet another batch of failures set to be shipped in a few hours. Also, there have been some unidentified people in Spiron, sir. Would you like descriptions?" the grunt said, obviously afraid. "Fine." the man answered. "Sir, they are two girls, a man and a boy. One of the girls had white hair, the other sky-blue, or electric blue, I'm not sure, and both were about twelve. The boy and the man looked similar. The man was about eight feet tall, with white hair down to his heels, a faint blue shade was also reported." At this, the man was surprised. "Ian? I see... Finish your report and get me to Spiron as soon as possible." "Yes, sir. The boy was about five feet tall, with short blue hair, like a mix of the man and the second girl. They were guessed at about 21 and 14, sir. Would you like to take Lovrina with you when you go to Spiron, sir?" The man nodded and the grunt left. (Soon, both XD-002 and Ian will belong to us again. To us, Cipher, the rulers of the Orre region!)
Back to Ian's POV
Spiron, somewhere in a forest, a few hours later
"Say, dad, why did you steal that other Trainers Pokémon? Isn't that kind of illegal?" Laughing, I explained things to Eros. "Listen, kid. This here is the Spiron region, a dump for failures, and a place with zero in terms of laws. And I stole that guy' 'Mon because that was a Shadow Pokémon." (Like XD-002.) "No, not like XD-002, because that thing never really existed in the first place. That Arcanine was a Pokémon whose heart was artificially closed, and tightly locked as well. Did you see those black manes?" Eros nodded. "That has warned me that THAT was a failed XD-series Shadow Pokémon, dumped in here by Cipher. And before you ask, yes, I have helped Cipher out once, with making XD-002, and I basically tricked them into giving it to me, because my mind can take on the strain of an XD, and my heart is also locked, but naturally and tighter than the safe of the USA president, which means that in order to purify XD-002 you also need to purify me, which is impossible because I have not been locked artificially, but naturally, and purification only works on artificial locking. And that not only let me keep my sanity, but it also lets me do... This!" I shouted as I shot off a massive storm of little Shadow Energy lasers. "Homing, thank god. Shadow Stream would be a pain in the ass to hit with if it wasn't." I laughed as I ended the Shadow attack. I then reached into my pocket, pulled out a playing card, and swung it inwards, splitting a small, black bullet in two, and then outward, throwing the card, which made a whistling sound as it cut the air apart. Somebody ducked as my playing card, the Ace of Spades, imbedded itself three and a half feet into a rock, sticking out on the other side a bit. "Hello, Michael."
Michael's POV
Him again! "You son of a... I spend three years making that bullet!" I shouted angrily, to which Ian said "And I needed less than a second to turn it in two. Now, who's the efficient one here?" and he laughed! He actually laughed! I then leaped away as he shot a small golden ball at me, roughly the size of a baseball. The ball explodes as soon as it hit a large rock, creating a forty five feet crater. (Aura. Since WHEN can that guy control Aura?) "Since I was hit by Aura. Or rather, since I absorbed it after the hit, that was the moment I could use it, controlling came naturally afterwards." Damn that guy. Ian laughed. "And no, I am keeping XD-002. If you try to take it away, I will kill you." He stated in a cold tone. To empathize, he summoned a massive ball of golden Aura, roughly three times the diameter of the moon, and then compressed it to the size of a table tennis ball, which was pulsing with energy. He then shot it upward and the sphere exploded into rainbows. "What are you?"
Third persons POV
At Michael's question, Ian smiled like a psychopath. "I am IAN NOVA!" Ian's voice echoed through the forest, while several Cipher grunts released their Pokémon.
"Sounds like the fun is about to begin. Shining Mirror!" Ian shouted as he shone brightly, and a Hyper Beam suddenly disappeared into a golden ring of energy. "Shining Release!" He then shouted, shooting back the Hyper Beam, before shooting up to dodge a Pin Missile. "I really love my wings, it makes flying so much easier! But then again, I still prefer normal flight." He mumbled as he dodged a Hydro Pump and shot off a beam of light. He dove to the ground and shattered into dust as he hit the dirt, rapidly reforming high in the sky, and the point of impact suddenly exploded! "Gravity Inversion!" Echoed through the forest, and the flow of energy that caused the gravitational pull of the planet sped up, causing the gravity to invert. (To the human idiots that did not understand what has happened, Ian reversed gravity, and now, he is going to use the situation, Nova-style.) "Now, face Gravity Crush!" Ian shouted as he practically froze the energy flow, returning gravity to normal, but intensifying it to thirty times the normal level to smash his opponents into the ground with the force of a meteor. Launching a barrage of Shadow Balls, he rapidly KO'd all Pokémon in his range, than Snagged over a hundred Shadow Pokémon in just under a minute. " Gravity Neutralize." He said, and the gravity flow returned to the normal pace. He then landed with a smug smile. "Snagging... Complete."
I was walking back to see how Eros was doing, and saw him with a highly instable Aura Sphere. I quickly walked over and smashed the sphere apart, turning it into a blanket of little sparks. - CODE: GAMMA - LOCKDOWN - Could be heard as I sealed off Eros' Aura while Neutrina used her bow to snipe a camera lens from about half a mile away. I thanked Neutrina and told them to find Michael and Lovrina, and capture them. Cipher was not going to survive this...
Eros's POV
Illusionary Realm: the Void
Me and father were fighting, and for some reason I was having trouble hitting him, as he always blocks my swings with his own. As our swords collided once again, I asked him why. "So, dad. Why can't I hit you?" Dad smiled and said "Because I can hear and follow two beats, while you can only follow one. Now, are you ready to step it up a bit?" I nodded, and with a smirk Ian flew back, screaming "Photon Dragon!" which caused a brightly shining dragon to surround him, and he attacked. That. Freaking. Hurt. Even though the attack was Solar, it still hurt worse than being smashed between two planets. I then countered with my own combo. "Shining Plasma!" I shouted, and I shot off thunderbolts with a Solar charge. Dad chuckled and reflected the attack with Magnetic Reversal, which combines Magnetic Mirror and Magnetic Release, and I got hit again. It still hurt, even though I could absorb both base elemental energies. I then rushed at him with my sword, and suddenly, something felt off. And I found out what was off when I stabbed Ian, and he vanished! "Aura Cero!" Dad shouted, and I was soon struck by a beam of white Aura, which, obviously, also hurt. (I have to learn how to do that! I just have to!) Dad chuckled and told me to focus, and then he hit me with his next attack, and it hurt, again! "Shining Vortex!" Dad bellowed, and a spiraling stream of energy soon formed a vortex around me, and the vortex shot lasers! And then Ian blew up the Vortex, causing large, rainbow-colored beams of light to erupt from the point of the explosion. "Plasma Reversal!" Ian shouted, and the beams turned into very painful pinpoint lasers, and those never miss... Wait, why would dad use that technique... Oh, DAMN!
Ian Nova's POV
I smiled as my son was hit by one of my stronger attacks, although it was still pretty weak, only powerful enough to destroy one large island at a time. "Time to finish this. Izahou Koiné Entis!" I shouted as I charged my third strongest attack. Soon, a bright sky-blue energy surrounded me, and I mumbled "Terna, lend me your power." to add electricity to my elemental arsenal. I then cut off my emotions and shut the three gates to my heart to add Psychic power and Shadow Energy to my attack. "Ki-ína Noisà Aruvey!" I shouted to combine Psychic, Solar, Lunar, Dark, Shadow and Electric energy to the sphere to form my third strongest attack, and I hit Eros with Izahou Koiné Entis, knocking him out in the process. "INEN: 1, Eros: 0." I said with a smirk, and I flashed a bright white as I ended the Illusion, and returned us to Spiron's Nerival Forest.