Hey everyone! Sorry for taking four months or whatnot. I've been doing some free style writing to get some ideas out of the head, including future scenes, and it indirectly gave some ideas to add to the story or for later shorts n' shit.
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CHAPTER 66:
One… two…
One…
Two…
Blue sky…
Green grass…
It was an odd sight
It was just… flat land…
I looked up… seeing the bright blue sky with the fluffy white clouds, as a light gust of wind blew by. I stood up… getting off the grass, smooth and sturdy leaves, to see the endless land in front of me, flat like staring up a wall. I took a step… feeling solid ground below… I took another… the lands started to shorten into this void as I got closer…. A black wall… pure black… closing in every step I took.
I turned my head to see the lands close behind… it made no sense… it just continues… I was seeing all the details, but maybe it was lucid.
Looking back ahead, I saw a blue figure… I focused my eyes and to my surprise it was Reeka, standing there back facing towards me with as she stood as a statue, looking directly into the oncoming void. I started walking faster, watching as the black walls closed in faster as well. My running was fast, but it was slowed down with no control. I looked back to Reeka, but now I saw a white fluff standing there instead…
My face twisted as a perplexing sight just gave way. I asked, worried, "Ghe… zirha?"
I only saw her back as the far distance closed in, a black wall looking like death. I turned around and saw the wall get even faster. I quickened my pace, feeling slower than ever, only then see… tall and green, a tail directly between. I stopped as everything stopped closing in. I was paralyzed looking at the green being in front of me, taking a second notice it had to be Emma… but for some reason, it was not her… it felt rather… unnatural.
Her right arm moved up as the second arm moved up as well, both to her chest, but I didn't know what she was doing. Then her right arm came back down as… a huge blade ejected out of her hand, giving me a split scare. I stepped back, only then for Emma's head to turn to me, with a grin… a drastically elongated grin… with pointed teeth, like white knives, just giving me an evil glare.
I turned back, only to trip over something, back crashing into the grass. I looked up to see Emma, with the hand knife, the scarring smile, and piercing red eyes… red eyes with whites black. I didn't know what she was but…
I tried getting up, fear panicking in me, but then I felt the blade go through me as her free hand grabbed me hair, pushing my face into the dirt. I felt the hand slide down my head to my neck where the fingers were nearly digging into my skin. I felt the tips then grab my neck as Emma bent down and licked the side of my face.
My breaths were starting to become faster as I was already assuming what was happening, either she was going to rape me… then kill me… or worse… the other way around. Then a sharp pain shot through my body as I saw Emma slicing down my back, putting one hand into my back sending… such a… pain… I can't…
It's indescribable… so much pain… she dug into me and grabbed my…
She grabbed my heart and was petting it, it was weird… weird… pain…
The hand was pulled out, with the final jolt of pain trickling along my nerves. I couldn't believe I just had by body dug into… it's so…
The hand with the blade was just a normal hand now, the three fingers with blood caressing my face… I don't know what she would do… then I heard…
I heard an evil sounding chuckle as if she was enjoying this… then she pressed the hand against my head, placing the second one on my shoulder…
My neck! My neck!
She's biting it!
I can…
I can…
Can't…
…
…
…
So much pain… so much… I just saw a pool of blood… she bit my main vein… it felt like she ripped a chunk of my neck out… I wasn't dead… I pressed, feeling the red warm blood sticking from it…
Emma then sunk her teeth, I wanted to scream but no voice was let out. Her teeth and movements were dislodging my head…
I felt the one last jolt, and I went flying with the motions of her head, falling them down to the ground, looking towards the headless body…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"
(3rd Person)
Yugo woke up. He grabbed his neck, feeling around as his heart raced, a cold sweat drenching him. His last thought was seeing that Emma ripping his head off… with her bare teeth, chewing through the spine and neck. He swallowed hard, dry throat, looking panicked and ready to pass out. He looked then over to the chair… seeing nobody there.
He sunk back into his bed, calming down from the shock, shaking the thought off. He placed his hand over his head, trying to relax, only for the door to open, making him jump up.
The doctor came in as he asked, "Oh, you're awake. Well, no need to worry, everything on you is fine in case you were you wondering."
He walked in as Yugo just chuckled, "Heh, yeah, sorry… just…"
He dazed off as the doctor asked, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah I… I had a nightmare."
"Oh, that's nothing unusual. Anything to note?"
"Nah, nothing… just…"
A feeling came over him… an eery tenseness. The doctor asked, "Just what?"
"Just…"
Something flashed in his eyes. He shook his head as then the room's door opened ever so slowly. Yugo looked up as he saw a green hand, long and slim, push its three fingers through the crevice, grasping the door. Yugo chuckled as he thought Emma was playing tricks on him.
The doctor, looking more concerned to why Yugo was looking off, "Mr. Blazik… is everything alright?"
Yugo started to have panic in his eyes as an arm stretched in, with the door opening revealing the nightmare he witness just entering his room. He began to hyperventilate as he saw the nightmare Emma show her head through with the demonic smile as he screamed, "No, no, no!"
The doctor grabbed him, "Blazik, what's wrong?"
"Get her away from me!"
"Who? Who away from you?"
He turned seeing nothing as Yugo still saw the nightmare just approach the bed closer fingers gliding across the bed frame and cutting into the mattress. Yugo just jumped off the bed into the corner as the doctor tried to keep him down, only to then press a panic button alerting the staff.
The nightmare walked around as Yugo tried using the doctor as a shield, but the doctor saw nothing. Yugo just backed against a wall as the nightmare just went right through the doctor like a ghost and then stabbed Yugo's chest with her knife fingers, holding him in one place. Yugo stared directly at her as she then opened her mouth wide and directly bit on his head.
She disappearing as Yugo slowly passed out. He collapsed on the floor as his vital signs were darting significantly on the machine. The doctor pressed the button a couple more times in a panic and tried to quickly get Yugo hooked up on an IV. A couple nurses quickly came in as they tried getting Yugo back on track.
(Outside)
"You're friend suffered a syncope."
The doctor explained briefly to Judas and Emma as Emma almost cried, but Judas asked, "Syncope is?"
"He just passed out…"
Emma went into immediate relief on hearing that. However, Judas asked, "Any reason?"
"Well… he had an unusual episode of seeing something that made him go into a panic state, and then somehow… he just collapsed and began to go into an odd state of paralysis which we had to resuscitate him."
"So… he just…"
"We were about to consider possibly cardiac arrest, but there was no involvement of the heart… but since he was seeing something that… I didn't even see when it happened, I assumed that maybe he was suffering from PTSD?"
Judas wanted to laugh, but held it and asked in serious tone, "PTSD from?"
"I'm not sure, anything you know that may have happened?"
He shrugged, "I… don't know. What did this thing look like?"
"Well… the only thing he said was 'get her away from me' so… did some girl attack him by any chance?"
"Uh…"
He pretended to think… but he actually had one girl standing next to him that is notorious at this point for her brand of violence. So, to avoid any issues, he shrugged, "Not that I can think of."
The doctor rejected both of them, "Well, I'm afraid I can't let you see him just because of the condition he's in at the moment."
Emma asked, "Can't I at least see him? Please?"
"I'm sorry, no guests for the moment. Maybe you can try later if he's in good condition."
Then a Gardevoir pushed them aside, in a foul mood, "Out of my way!"
And she stormed down the hallway without any more.
Judas looked sideways and commented, "What's up with her?"
The doctor shrugged, "Not sure."
(Down the hall…)
Midori just stormed in, hearing the news about Frank getting littered with lacerations. She went in as she was horrified by the scene. The bandaged body was Italy, unconscious, as he was mauled last night. The doctors had to have him saved from blood loss and to make matters worse; Italy didn't even see who the perpetrator was.
She stood by his side looking over as he was bandaged up, asleep with an unknown pain. Midori took a deep breath, trying to not snap, and just looked away. The doctor from earlier entered the room with Midori darting at him. The doctor himself took a deep breath and asked, "Anything you'd like to know?"
She asked, seething, "Who did this?"
"We… have no idea yet."
"Doesn't this place have cameras? Guards?"
"Guards… not yet, cameras, only in the front and back entrances up to my knowledge. I have no idea…"
"Well, do you know what happened to him at least?"
She was fuming in his face as the doctor calmed her, "All we know is that your husband was hung up by vines, lacerations throughout his body, and he was blindfolded and gagged… which means he wasn't able to see the attacker so whoever did it… well did it while he was asleep… he couldn't yell for anyone to help."
"Are you sure no one saw?"
"No."
"So how did you find out if nobody saw…"
"We didn't know until a nurse came in to check. What we do know is that he was wrapped in vines, so it had to be a grass type that did it."
"Do you know which kind?"
"No. Any grass type can learn vine, so either a grass type willingly did it… or someone ordered it."
"There's no… no culprit?"
Her face started turning pink as the doctor answered flat, "No culprit from what we've seen. We would call police… but you specifically…"
"Said no, and thank you for considering that at least."
"Well, we'll see what happens during the week, in case the perpetrator appears more than once."
Midori let a huff out and left, "Thank you doctor."
And left the room with little less to add.
(Meanwhile in the northern region of Kalos)
"Ack!"
Clara jerked out as Ataki was partially putting bandages on, not knowing exactly what he was doing. He finished the poor bandaging, and then asked, "Ok, so I'm pretty sure the iodine comes next."
Clara exclaimed, "You were supposed to put that on before!"
"Do I look like I passed biology class?!"
"Don't you know anything about medical procedures?"
"No, I dropped out, and besides, Aloha is not the best areas for hospitals and medicare."
He pulled out a bottle of the iodine and then just dumped half of it on her arm, making her hold her scream as tears left her eyes. He asked, not paying much attention to her suffering, "So what the hell was all that? I know you gave me a short ass run down days ago but… there's gotta be more to that weird shit than just 'oh look a Zoroark came and killed everyone' INCLUDING MY COWORKERS!"
He screamed as the sights still scarred him a little. She timidly answered, "Uh, yeah, that. You really want to know what happened?"
"Yeah, I'd like to."
"Well… it started… those days ago…
"I was working on a task on sequencing the island's native Pokémon, trying hard to find a mega evolution within them. We already analyzed that the Z-crystal could active a mega evolution, but we had no direction of where to start…
"Then in the middle of decoding a sequence, the alarms went off. At first I thought it was a fire, but I heard screaming… and not just one or two… a bunch. I heard… so much screaming… then there was gunfire. I thought stay in the lab, don't do anything stupid. After minutes passed, I just heard the sounds of… sc-screaming… AAAAAAAAAHH!"
She was interrupted by the painful pressure of the fabric soaked in antiseptic. Ataki nonchalantly asked, "Continue with the screaming."
She took a deep breath, "A-After a while I decided to get out, maybe dart for it… u-u-until I saw it."
"Saw what?"
"That… Z-Zoroark thing."
"That's the Pokémon's name?"
"That's not the point. It was so… weird it just darted out and I saw it… killing them… so viciously."
Her breaths shallowed as the memory replayed, "I swear it only spared me just so there was something to tell…"
Ataki asked, "Didn't you say it told you something?"
"Yes, it said… I'm going to summarize but… it said that the institution was a joke, Flare was a horrible place, every single member was scum no matter what they did, and he vowed to kill each one off."
"Sounds like some bullshit vigilante talk."
"Well, whatever it was talk it was, I ran out as soon as two guys distracted it. I ran out, and… didn't know where I was going and…"
"And then I came into the picture I take it?"
"A while after, yeah."
"So basically a crazy Pokémon hyped on cocaine on a murder spree… while trying to sound intimidating?"
"But it's not your typical Pokémon, it looked like on but it was off."
"Liiiike?"
"Well… you saw it… didn't it seem… unnatural?"
"Slightly?"
"Like it was…"
"OK, ok, I get it, something was off. But at least we aren't going back to that base."
"Well we can't stay in Kalos either."
"Why not? I thought you fur ball fuckers were from Kalos?"
"We are from here, but I never said I liked it. Besides, it might be the next place to fall apart on the map."
"Eh, maybe."
(In Kalos)
"There's belief that Kalos may be next to fall apart."
A high officer told the two agents as he walked back and forth. Sollars and Reeves were in adjacent chairs as the officer told both of them, "Now, supposedly this nightmare phenomenon you got helped those crazy mad scientists, and hopefully we have a weapon we can use to stop any form of decay… but with the events happening, it seems inevitable."
Sollars asked, "And what would that mean for us? We did the job and now you're saying it's… worthless?"
"No, I'm saying we're preventing something that's just going to… how you say… happen anyways. There's no good definition. Unfortunately, trusting that Italy son of a bitch is nowhere near any better, but throw some money at him and he'll sell everything he got. Now, you two I assigned a more… trickier task."
"Which is?"
"I need you to go back to that campsite… and round everyone up."
Sollars looked perplexed, "You want…"
Reeves raised, "Now hold on…"
The head agent stamped down, "I know you have objections, but here's my reasoning… we have had two tests, both positive, and we've already proven to be able to get this nightmare form. Now we need to apply that to a less reactive state with the Pokémon that can't mega evolve. We get that, Kalos will have a weapon. Make it an attachment; we can bypass the PRA really easy."
Sollars summarized, "Basically, you want us to get more lab Rattatas?"
"Precisely. The goal here is to create the weapon and if we get some others that don't have it and they go positive, it's very, very, easy to hold our ground. Besides, you two had an easy picking last time round."
"I literally had my Steelix go in circles."
"See? Not a problem. Now, let's get back to the main scenario."
From the city to the wilderness, everyone that is not kidnapped or in the hospital is still in the camp, doing… really anything but training or practicing.
Judas was mumbling a few things as he officially let them do whatever. The Vanilliuxe was being watched by the little couple as the rest were in their little group. Rebecca came over as she asked, "Tired I take it?"
Judas looked up and answered, "Annoyed is a preferable term. But bored is the best."
"Huh, bored of being the baby sitter?"
"Yes."
She sat down beside him and asked again, "So where are you from exactly?"
"Unova, I've said that."
"Yeeeaah, but it seems you… don't really come from there."
He titled his head back in annoyance, "I come from a different Unova, ok?"
"There's only one Unova dude."
"I really have to explain?"
"Mhm."
Judas looked straight forward… awkward how he should word it. He tried to explain, "I… uh… come from a strange family… and from where they're from… they don't exist here… It's like… you know what a parallel universe is, right?"
She thought for a bit and shrugged, "A little."
"Well, I'm from one."
"Oh… I guess that… uh… continue."
"Well, my family really is… let's say a high class of crime… like the Kalosian prick."
"So… you both have criminal families."
"Sadly yes. My grandfather started it as well. He really just inherited the place. Then my mother got it after he died… and supposedly in line it's me… well… anyway, it's actually not a bad place."
"How so? I'd figure it's a lot of mess and killing and… all that stuff."
"Not really… my mom does a lot of that… I don't… I'd like to live nice a peaceful."
She nervously reminded, "Says the guy who has that creepy mega evo…"
"That's Kiyask's invention, argue with him."
"Ok, but… are there nice people there?"
"Oh yeah, you have the doctor, my cousin, half of my siblings…"
"Not related?"
"My doctor… uh, there's some in the northern sector…"
"Ok, ok, so unless you're all involved, it's quiet."
"Yeah, I always try to avoid it."
"Well… how did you get here? A getaway?"
"Not sure. I would love to know why I'm here, or at least how I got here."
"Well, isn't there a way to get back?"
"Well, from what I understand, Yugo's grandpa apparently got a way, and Kiyask is another…"
"But you haven't left yet?"
Judas looked to her, "I'm trying."
She smiled, "Maybe you don't want to leave?"
"I don't want to leave? With these fucking ret'rds?"
"Well, maybe you like someone here?"
"Uh, no, nowhere near."
"You sure?"
"Nope, maybe Ghezirha, but that's about it."
"Eh, maybe you're just a bit of a nut to crack."
"Oh, if I'm a nut, I got a fucking bomb shelter as a shell."
She just shook her head, holding the smile, "Alright, if you say so."
And left off. "I'm going to check on the rest."
He replied back, "Fine, I'll watch these two."
"Where did Emma go?"
"What?"
(At the hospital)
"Emmaaaaaa… it still hurts you know…"
Yugo mumbled as he was getting a tight hug from Emma. She released and generally asked, "Are you better?"
"Eh…"
"Just… a little?"
"Not really."
She sat down, disappointed, "Oh…"
"Emma… look… it's not going to go away instantly… this crap takes time… especially seeing as it's been less than a week."
"I know, but I want you back."
"Oh, I'm sure the group wants me back…"
"No, I want you back. Everyone else doesn't really care that much."
"C'mon Emma, let's not get selfish."
"It's true ya'know…"
"Emma, Reeka and Ghezirha also care. And don't forget about Jacques and Elene. "
She blushed in defeat, "J-just because they… I…"
Yugo told her, "Look, I'll be getting back soon. Actually, speaking of the girls and getting back soon, are they back yet?"
"No."
"Damn it…"
He looked away as Emma stood firm, "If they ever come back, I'll make sure to stop them."
"Mhm… why didn't you stop them the first time?"
"Well…"
She had the dumbstruck thought remembering she let them take Reeka… so she lied, "I was knocked out and couldn't do anything… but this time I promise I'll fight them."
"Well good luck then."
He closed his eyes to rest as she left the room… and outside she now had butterflies realizing she just lied straight to him… he'd hate her for this… but maybe if she made up for it… maybe. She shook her head and left back to the camp.
But before she left, Yugo asked, "Emma?"
She looked back, "Yes?"
"Before you go… what does… she look like?"
"She?"
"She."
He stressed the word as Emma grew scared, shuttering her head, "Y-y-you… s-seen her?"
He nodded. Emma lunged and hugged Yugo harder whispering and whimpering, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…"
Tears rattled her speech as Yugo was getting oxygen cut off. He eased her, "Emma, calm down…"
"I can't… she's gonna kill you…"
"No she's not… trust me."
"Yugo, I've known her for so long, she's gonna do it… you don't know what she's like."
"All it looked like was you with sharper teeth and red eyes."
"That's because… she is me."
"Well… I'd say it was a mental…"
"No, Yugo, it is me… it's like she's…"
Lost in words, she shook her head as she began to recount horrific memories. "No… Yugo… you need to get rid of her…"
He questioned, "How? We tried some psychoanalysis and that failed. Other than putting a bullet in you, I really don't see…"
"Yugo, please…"
"Is there a way to avoid her?"
She looked anxious, but took a deep breath, "Just close your eyes."
"Close…"
"Your eyes… just… pretend she's not there and she'll think she's ignored."
"That's it?"
"I learned that… she likes seeing you frightened… but not looking at her… I don't, it works like that."
"Odd… but I guess I'll try."
"Don't try, just do it, it does work…"
"Ok, ok…"
She let go of him slowly as he then persuaded, "Now go back to the camp Emma…"
She refused, "But…"
"Emma… obey…"
She sighed, and sulked her way out of the room. When she did return to the camp, a new talk was made between the whole group.
Judas stated in front, "Alright, we've come to the conclusion that we'll end up having to fetch the two canines thanks to the giant serpentine bitch's bartering skills."
She didn't make any noise, but her face showed all her annoyance. "Now, do we have a general idea what we're ta do?"
Nobody answered. Fafner, however, asked, "How… risky do you want?"
"A half and half risk is my highest."
"Ok… well I might be able to help…"
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