Scary House [ Pokemon X & Y]
Well, this was mildly disgusting, having to trek through the darkness of a swamp and with this scary music playing, atleast he was not alone and Yuyuko whimsically floated by his side. In his mind, he knew they were safe after being hit with that blast but where could they be?
Well, that was the last thing on his mind as he walked through the swamp, seeing various swamp dwelling Pokemon around in the muck, gently submerging as he passed by. " Great, left alone in a swamp with a Ghost that doesn't want her dress to get ruined by the mud."
" Well, it is a rather nice dress, getting torn up by battle is one thing, mud is a true night mare to deal with. Sides this way we can talk without either of us slowing down." Yuyuko answered while Ziden softly got back onto solider land. " After all, I still haven't gotten an answer about how you feel about what Yukari did to you."
" Honestly, I dunno, I feel mad but I don't much feel much hate to her...I am going to punch her in the face at some point, dunno when." Ziden said while digging in his ear.
" Youkai are...odd about how they do things, she is a special case as well, so I do hope you don't try and kill her in her sleep."
Ziden softly scoffed. " Even if I did, she'd come back some how, killing her is exceedingly pointless so I will live with it and I will move on. For now, we have to reach that town and find out what is going on and what these faceless creatures are." Ziden said while moving through the darkness before stopping when he saw something ahead.
Ducking behind a tree, he could see a small group of short, white creatures all grabbing up onto the body of a Hex Maniac they caught, yeah, she was certainly not in good shape at all, she obviously fought the best she could but he could see the wounds on her, untreated, they'd be fatal.
Those creatures look very familiar to him but he did not remember where he saw this being before, his blade coming free as he leapt out into the fray, catching the white being off guard with his blade and cleaving through them like lightning, no blood came free but only a white substance as the monsters faded away into the mud like melting statues.
" Gross, you alright lady?" Ziden asked while looking at the Hex Maniac who was dropped into the muck of the earth, it was safe to say she was nnot alright, closer inspection showed she was not in the best of situations, her eyes could see him yes, but she was a mess down below, pieces off her dress and flesh were torn off, seems they were tearing her to pieces, in the distance, he could see the lights of the town. The poor girl wouldn't make it without help.
" Shit and Yukari and Sakuya have all the Elixirs on them." Ziden said while thinking before seeing Yuyuko fumble in her robes before pulling out a large green bottle. " Why did you-"
" What? my outfit doesn't have pockets, where do you think I hide my fans at?" Yuyuko asked as Ziden gently pouring the hi Potion into her mouth, gently moving his arm up to get the ship ready.
" Ugh...where...am I?" Hex Maniac softly tried to sit up but her sore body forbade that completely stopped that.
" Sorry but I'm gonna be sending you to a town with a doctor there, sorry about this weird feeling." Ziden touched a button on his sleeve and the girl was soon teleported to Geosenge and out of Danger.
" What were those creatures, from what I recall, those weren't Ghouls, were they?" Yuyuko asked as the town was in sight but they felt an immense danger from being outside.
" All of my senses are going into overdrive, this might hurt but I am gonna try to get inside the Pokemon Center by Teleporting." Ziden said while looking at the center from where he was. calculating the space needed before grabbing onto Yuyuko.
And boom, an explosion of light appeared into the Pokemon center as Ziden collapsed to the ground with Yuyuko in his arms.
" I had a feeling you'd do that." Yukari said while gently pouring a cup of tea over him, a waste honestly but its Yukari, what can ya do?
"Good thing ya got here regardless, well, we kinda saw what this town is dealing with and it ain't pretty." Meiling said while looking out the window, the room felt barren and down trodden, what exactly happened here?
" Well, if ya can tell, well, we saw something really not good out there." A soft sigh came from the lips of Reimu, softly going to recall what they saw along side the gym leader.
A while back...
" I am telling you, leaving to go outside is a terrible idea, that friend of yours is likely not part of the living any more because of those odd beasts outside, those...humanoid beings." Valerie stated, spotting a trainer getting frazzled up.
" My parents are all locked up in their home! I have to go to them! My Pokemon and I can take care of them!" The male broke right into a sprint out of the door, Valerie trying to stop him only to be thrown down as he ran out into the dark, clutching a great ball in his hands.
But this would prove fatal as that air of doom and gloom rung out over the area, the oddly squishy ground quaking under his feet before he could feel something grabbing his leg. " What!? Oh no!" He was quick to try to throw out his Pokemon but an arm caught that arm of his and soon, a powerful scent came through the air. The heavy stench of blood because of what just occurred, the arm of the male being ripped clean off by one of the white creatures, prompting Valerie to cover the eyes of the children nearby and her own.
When the others tried to run out to help, a barrier formed, trapping them inside and when they looked outside, they could see the horrors that occurred, the screams of the young man as the creatures tore him asunder and his blood staining the ground below. Frustration grew amongst the heroes as they could not have helped the boy, he was too far gone now.
Meiling's fist collided with the glass, only to leave a large crack which repaired itself instantly, the barrier made sure no help could come at all, but that was not all of the horror tonight, they saw the massive, normally beautiful tree, defaced completely by the remains of trainers foolish enough to escape but, that was not all, even Combatmen were up there.
The sounds of terror soon ended but now, only the silence of the night came shortly after the awful sound of something metallic being crushed underfoot.
Back to the Present...
Ziden was gazing up at the tree to see this nightmarish sight but he was confused, he was gazing at the tree, but he saw nothing on it, just wood and cherry petals. " Tthe hell are you guys talking about, ain't nothing on that tree at all!"
" What the hell!? Are you blind, you dumbass! We can see all the bodies on the tree!" Reimu said, pointing up to the nightmarish sight.
" I'm not, I simply don't see anything, maybe you guys are letting that sight spook you guys too much." Ziden said, Yukari soon looking up at the tree herself and messing with the boundaries on her eyes. " Hmm, I see...so that is what this is."
" But this whole thing seems pretty familiar thinking about it." Sakuya noticed, tapping her jaw for a moment. " Didn't we encounter something like this in the past? These certainly aren't ghouls." Sakuya noticed as Ziden looked out into the darkness.
" IF they aren't these Ghoul things, then, what are they?" Takeru asked as he felt a powerful sense of Dread, heading right to the door before Valerie got in the way.
" No, absolutely not, I shall not allow anymore people to go out there to their Death!" Valerie said, her eyes determined to not allow Ziden to pass by her at all.
" Hmm, the odd lady isn't gonna let us save this town, do we blow her up?" Utsuho asked before Ziden simply walks up to Valerie and picks her under her arms.
" H-hey! Stop this at once! This is severely uncouth!" Valerie was flailing hard before Ziden throws her behind him and right onto the unsuspecting Meiling, Val had a soft landing but Meiling did not since she was now facedown on the ground.
Ziden didn't mind this at all, he soon slaps on his driver and grabs the Salamander coin as Takeru soon joins him.
They soon took sprint out of the building and soon into the darkness of the night, transforming into their Rider Forms in seconds, not noticing that Sakuya snuck out with them and skids along the ground with them, leaving her Gardevoir inside with the others as the barrier came down.
But this time, it was different, maybe it was because they had the potential to fight back, but they were not expecting this, the sound of a heartbeat that was ringing through the air around them, before they looked up to see a giant ball of flesh, seeing that the bodies were floating up into it and soon formed a massive ball covered in bodies.
Sakuya instantly remembered this beast from their past dealing with Castlevania, a beast made of bodies that attack without mercy. " Legion, so this is our foe...first the puppet Master, now him, is Dracula here as well?"
" Nah, I doubt it, probably gave Sigma some monsters to help take this place over, it makes sense now. Those creatures weren't ghouls, they were a part of Legion, just means we kick his ass and make sure this thing goes down!" Ziden slides a card into the Gauntlet and soon summons the Salamander Saber as Takeru grabbed his own blade and began to take flight.
" Sakuya! Forget our rules! Fly and take that thing down!'' Meiling yelled out from the center, finally up on her feet after what Ziden did to her with the Gym Leader a while earlier.
Legion Battle [ Castlevania: Curse of Darkness]
This was going to be one hell of a battle, Ziden could tell, considering he swung that blade upwards and unleashed flames into the body of Legion, causing the Mudmen to drop down to the ground, leaving them for knives and Takeru to fire at with his gun. The male soon began to slice hard along the body and causing more to spawn down below.
Ziden was the only one ddown on the ground at this point, Ziden was not bothered, barriers around the homes, meaning they had no back up, no aid during this battle and that they would be the ones to take down Legion. He was focused on the insane amount of Legion bodies on the ground as his blade cleaved through many of them and took them out beforre he leapt backwards to avoid a massive chunk of Legion that came free.
His head craned upwards as he saw exactly wha was going on and wow, he is kinda jealous that knives in Castlevania were ot this effective as he sees Sakuya literally vanishing and reappearing like lightning, throwing knives through the body of Legion as its shell literally exploded apart.
As fast as it came together, even faster was its bond destroyed and the true form of it was revealed. And it was a truly odd sight, a spherical cage with various blue tendrils coming from it that aimed right at Ziden blasted him dead on with Lasers, sending him flying into the tree, sending splinters and bark all over the ground from the impact. Had he not forced it back down, there would be blood in his helm from the impact as he fell down onto the ground.
Sakuya, of course, did not take that lightly as she dashed right down onto Legion and slammed her knives right into that cage, causing an explosion of energy from the slices as Takeru was quick to fly in, dodging the lasers by phasing out as a ghost before letting his blade cleave through a tendril and cause it to crash down onto the ground down below.
LEgion was not in good shape but Ziden noticed how easy this was and the more damage they did, , the more this feeling of dread washed over him before he sees Sakuya soar right past the cage, slicing it right apart and watched it smash down into the earth. " That was far too easy. But the job is done." Sakuya spins her knives slowly as the white creature in the core of Legion began to leak out of the cage.
Sakuya had her guard down for a mere moment before she felt an explosive burst of danger came from behind her, turning only to see a giant white fist smashing into her gut, the impact strong enough to cause all spittle to leave her mouth and sent her flying right into the roof of someone's house, the barrier catching her but causing pieces of the roof to shoot up into the air.
" Silvia!" Ziden yelled before seeing the creature rising up out of the puddle of whiteness. Light began to shine out from it as a white, malformed humanoid stood tall out of it, the thing most notable on its white frame was the heart that was before them, the skies themselves turned red and the clouds spun around above them. This was truly a night of evil now as Reimu quickly scanned the beast that Ziden was facing and had Yukari open portals up near their ears so they could hear the info.
" Nuculais, A giant of light, born in the core of the Legion. Imperfect due to expulsion before fully formed. A light based creature, Dark attacks will aid you the best here. Be wary of its attacks, its zombies are still able to be summoned during this battle. A Rank S threat."
" Tch, so many damn powerful beings here, why can't we get a simple battle for once." Ziden asked himself as he sees Nuculais' arms turning into blades and dashing right at him, slashing him right across the chest and sent sparks flying out from his armor. " Crap!"
" We had alot of easy fights, I guess this is just our wake up call to the monsters of the East. We'll be fine." Yukari's voice came through the portal, seeing it literally fuse into his helm and essentially forcing a comm link between the duo.
" So get your ass in gear while we try to get a hole open in this barrier!" Reimu yelled out as Ziden quickly spins his saber and uses the fire trail to force Nuculais back from attaccking.
Takeru had quickly chaged to Musashi form and drew his twin blades, dashing right into the battle. " I don't know what kind of monster it is but I will make sure my blade slices it down!" His blades slicing deep along the legs of the creature, causinng it to stumble hard each slash given to it.
The Creature stagggered for but a momentt before its fist came down onto Takeru and slides hard along the ground into an uppercut into the side of a building, smashing the wall to nigh pieiices. " Grk!"
" Goddamn! This thing is beyond annoying!" Ziden drew out a card and slides it into his Gauntlet as Flames gathered around his sword as he gripped it with the both of his hands.
" Card Set! Infernal Slash!" Ziden swings his blade in a X shape, the first flame floating there before the second blade made it an X ad slammed right into the heart of the monster, loud shrill screech came from the beast before it formed a massive blade with his hand and sliced Ziden skyhigh into the air.
" Whoa!" Ziden was spinning high into the air and soon found himself seeing two blades coming towards him, he knew it was going to slice him in half and he had no clue if the Rider Armor could handle that at all, his blade soon smashing into the blade and smacking the arm down, that blade soon coming up to try and slam into him, only to hit a barrier, one of Yukari's craft as he sees her floating next to him.
" Hah, in over your head again, hero boy?" Yukari teased, Ziden quickly flipping down onto the ground, looking up into the sky to see the sight of it turning blood red and the swirling ominous clouds above them. As they watched Nuculias' body growing bigger and bigger from seemingly being put into some kind of pinch mode.
" Shove it Yukari, we got bigger fish to fry right now!" Ziden yelled out as he softly pulled out the Sylph medal and slammed it into its slot as Salamander shot out and fly to his hip, vanishing in a golden glow.
" Purifying Winds! Blow away Despair in its Tracks!" After his Driver sang, winds spun around him as three bullets fired and slammed right into the heart of the beast that was a terror to this town.
" While my bullets are not of a darkness variety, my bullets of wind shall tear your body asunder and save this town from your evil." Ziden stated, his personality shifting once more as Yukari held up a spell card, with the barriers preventing damage to the homes to an insane extent, he had no reason to fear overly damaging this town, not that she'd care.
" Abandoned Line: Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station!" Yukari's card began to glow before a large gap soon opened up behind her and a massive train shot out of it like a cannon, stunning everyone in the area as the train slammed right into the chest of Nuculias, and right into that heart, sending it smashing backwards along the ground and right into the barrier nearby, causing the train to violently explode and coat the beast in flames, its hellish but distorted scream rang through the night.
Ziden and Yukari were quick to leap after two white fists shot up from the Earth to try and hit them, only to be met with silver knives slamming deep into the flesh of the monster, a black smoke coming off from the impact.
" So the beast dislikes darkness then? Good thing Koakuma made these tags for me to use on my weapons." Her knives were glowing with a black energy before launching them right into the smoke cloud, hearing the screams of the beast before seeing it charge right out of the smoke, soon unleashing hell by yanking up the corpses of Zombies nearby and slamming them into the ground, causing explosions that racked the area and sent Ziden sky high.
" Curses!" And it was not done at all, as itt raised that fist high into the air and slammed it down into Ziden, smashing the man into a crater without mercy.
" That thing is beyond angry now, hmm, wonder if I should...yeah." Yukari closed her fan before Gaps began to open up all around it, unleashing pure hell upon it with rays of various lights while Takeru was slapping something new into his Driver.
" KAIGAN: ROBIN HOOD!" Sounds of an Arrow flyingg by could be heard ." HELLO! ARROW! MORI DE AOU!" When the sounds of Dramatic bass sounds and arrows stopped, Takeru could be seen in a brand new form, cloaked in green and using a bow like gun as he aimed it at Nuculias.
" My life...is burning bright!" And he unleashed his own bullets into the chest of the monster, hitting deep and hard into its chest while it began to stagger back, letting out hellish screeches in the middle of the night.
With Takeru and Ziden going to stand next to each other, preparing their finishers with Ziden sliding his card into the gauntlet. " This beast has terrorized this town for too long, let us end this night mare for these people!
" Card Set! Finishing move, Ready!" Ziden aims his gun at the stunned and down creature, watching it shake back and forth as green lights formed around him and gently began to form into fairy like beings, armed with bows as Yukari watched.
' Oh? So that is what is going on then. Kanako, what is the purpose of doing this?' Yukari wondered this as the fairies aimed their bows at the beast, wind spiraling around the arrow heads.
" Sylphic Blasting Squad!" Ziden pulled the trigger on the Sylph Magnum as an explosive arrow of wind shot out and into the chest of Nuculias as it screamed as Takeru pulled on the lever of his driver.
" Kaigan: Robin Hood! Omega Drive!" Takeru soon duplicates himself into several copies with their bowguns drawn as they all unleashed their explosive arrows into Zoiden's assault.
Thralls of death came out from the giant, the beast slowly staggering backwards before slowly falling down to the eearth, lightning coursing off of its body as the dark red skies slammed down into him, causing it to scream over louder. Everyone was on guard as Reimu finally broke through the barrier and quickly ran ouside with the others, Meiling quick to take a stance and Okuu aiming her arm cannon at the beast, only to see it start to melt down into the ground.
" Jesus...that was alot different from the normal battles we have with this thing." Sakuya sighed out, gently clutching her arm, wincing from it before snapping it back into place.
Once the beast fully melted, the sky began to fade back to normal and Ziden and Takeru both detransformed, but Ziden noticed that his coins were glowing bright. But once Reimu looked up at the tree, she noticed it was perfectly normal. " What? What happened to all the bodies and the Pokemon on the tree..."
" There was nothing there, seems Legion or his master casted an illusion spell to terrify these people but I am confused, why cause all this death and destruction upon these lands, if you wish to take it over, why not keep them alive but under control?" Yukari was confused to why this was happening as Yuyuko could be see sneaking out of a house, carrying a large bag of food for herself.
"...That's true, something bigger is going on here and it might be bigger than what went down with the Ultima Brigade." Ziden said while looking at Reimu as Valerie got out of the center and heads over to them.
" I...humbly thank you for saving our town, but is it truly safe for us to be out and about and bury those we lost?" Valerie asked before Sanae came out of nowhere to nod heavily.
" Yeah! We've freed many towns so far but we have yet to even hear a town was taken back over. Seems weird though in that case but hey, things are fine it seems." Sanae nods heavily as Kaguya finally comes out, looking disheveled from a nap, the sun reappearing in the sky.
" Hmm, looks like the sun finally returned, odd, I did find it odd it was always dark around here." Ziden said while sighing as Takeru soon looks out to the exit of the town, which leads to the next town.
" I see, well, I shall go ahead and have our trainers clean this place, hopefully, you can save the next town over. Its being roamed by a monster as well, though it is less horrifying than the one here." Valerie stated, recalling that massive beast.
" Uh...you gonna give us any hints about this place or you gonna be all secretive." Meiling asked, softly running her hand through the red striking hair of hers.
" Dendemille Town is...suffering from an odd wolf creature attack, atleast, we think it is a wolf. Their Nurse Joy used the Pokedex's new functions to show me what it was and it was big and angry. I hope you all remain safe, as a Gym Leader, I must keep this place safe." Valerie said as Ziden and crew nodded.
" We'll save Kalos and have this nightmare ended, we promise." Takeru swore, planning to stop Shocker and Sigma.
They all headed out to the exiit as Ziden was going to say something to the group, only to feel that familiar burn in his chest.
The Flames of the Candelabra was flickering and that dreadful feeling washed over the group.
" This feeling...so another Fiend is here, but where?" Ziden asked, everyone looking around before hearing a loud noise, one Reimu has heard before.
" Wait, that noise...it sounds like that noisy thing Byakuren rides around on back in Gensokyo." Reimu stated as Yukari looked to the sky and listened deep into the air but they could see it now.
The burning wheels of a bike coming to them and the skeletal being riding upon it...
Trivia:
1. Legion's inner body which was that cage contains the being the group fight, we were foreshadowed of its existence in past game prior to Curse of Darkness but maybe someday we will see the full and true form.
2. Don't try and guess what that large wolf was, I purposely left it vague because, I love surprising you guys
3. That skeleton on a motorcycle is not Ghost Rider, it happens to be inspired by him.
4. This story is darker for a reason cuz of a certain item from a certain series being filled by battle, which is an alteration to how you actually fill it but- Ayy, gotta warp things into fun scenarios
Author's notes: Sheesh, a month between uploads? Tragically sorry about that but goddamn, life came at me like lightning but no worries, a job is not gonna mess up my upload schedule anymore. i will try to have good sized chapters pumping out every month. So I hope you guys are still watching and reading! Leave a review anyttime you'd like!