(Author's Note: I made a slight alteration to chapter 1. I decided to give Ursula's Zoroark a name so that writing his bits would flow better. His name is Ark, because Ursula found the full name a mouthful. Please pardon some of my capitalizations, I got tired of fighting with my typing assistant and I really wanted to update the fic.)
Chapter 2: The Night When Fantasy Became Reality and the Sadistic Game
The Previous Night...
In the shroud of darkness Ursula and Ark crept just out of reach of the eyes, jumping into cover whenever presented. The closer they came to the Pokemon Center, the more Ursula began to tremble and shiver. The anticipation of the act of killing drove her nerves to the edge, her adrenaline coursing through her to the point of breaking. She began to mumble and murmur like a mental patient, with her gaze proving hollow as she stared off into the void of the night. Ark looked worried for his new trainer, sensing her murderous intent being swirled in with anxiety and fright as he watched her shake like a leaf in a hurricane.
"I'm actually going to do it...I'm actually doing it...I-I'm going to be like the Zoroark Killer..." she mumbled, trying to come to terms with her choice as they arrived at the backside of the Pokemon Center.
"Mistress...are you OK?" Ark asked, placing a hand on her shoulder from behind. She immediately spun around, revealing a horrific gaze. Ursula had a wild grin spread from ear to ear, her eyes devoid of light as she breathed heavily.
"Hehehehe yes, I-I've never felt more alive. Come on, let's find some victims…" Ursula giggled nervously, Ark sighing as he continued to follow her gaze. Ursula took a peak around the back side of the modestly sized Pokemon Center to spot a boy and a girl, both of them clearly Pokemon trainers as they conversed with one another. She couldn't make out what they were discussing, but even if she could, the only thing she heard was the pounding of her heart in her ears as she began to have second thoughts.
"Should...I really do this? I mean I feel amazing from the adrenaline rush, but...once I do this, everything in life is going to change...am I really ready for that? I don't know shit about the normal world, and I want to throw myself into it? I really am crazy…" mumbled like a mental patient, weighing her options as Ark watched his trainer's turmoil, simply worried about her well-being.
"They're about to leave," Ark gruffly pointed out, Ursula taking a good long breath, holding it in her chest for a few seconds before letting it all out. She knew she couldn't juggle your thoughts forever, and with every passing second, it became now or never.
"There's no turning back and I know it...my heart won't forgive me if I crap out now. I'm not ready...but when would I really be ready for something like this? Alright, get ready, Ark…" Ursula alerted as she used her hand to issue him forward. Both of them crept along the wall of the center, keeping down beneath the windows to avoid detection. Every step they took felt like a step towards the edge of a cliff, the both of them stopping at the edge as they reached the corner of the center.
"Come out and attack when I tell you too…" Ursula quickly explained. Quickly, she bolted from the shadows and into the street, putting herself in the way of the two trainers that had left the center. Her face was blushing with fear and adrenaline as her breathing grew heavier, every inch of her being screaming for her to stop as she stared down the unsuspecting trainers.
"Um, can we help you?" the male trainer asked, Ursula freezing like a deer in headlights as she was overwhelmed by a tsunami of emotions and wild thoughts. Stepping closer, he called to her again.
"Are you alright? You don't look too well," the trainer's concern didn't help the situation, causing Ursula to curl up into a mental ball.
"Shit! I was so determined to do this that I forgot I'm a damn shut in! This is too much...I-I can't do this, I can't do this!" Ursula cried out in a panic, tears of fear beginning to role down her cheek as she stayed frozen in place. As the male trainer approached he reached out his hand for her shoulder. Sensing his mistress's feelings, Ark immediately shifted into his native form, jumping out from the shadows with intense speed. Before a finger could touch Ursula, he leapt, his teeth chomping down on the boy's arm. A guttural yell of pain escaped his lips as he was dragged to the ground, Ark growling ferociously as pinned the trainer down.
"DON'T TOUCH MY MISTRESS!" Ark roared between its clenched teeth, the female trainer immediately removing a poke ball from her waist. Throwing it out, a Machoke emerged from the bright light, his trainer ready and calm to handle the situation.
"Machoke, pull that Zoroark off of Travis!" she ordered, seeing this, Ark waited for him to get in nice and close before letting go of Travis, immediately darting for the female trainer, who cried for Machoke to come help her. Ark was too quick for the Machoke to react, immediately lunging for the girl's throat with his blood soaked teeth. His teeth snapped air as she turned to run, but Ark was too quick, catching up and snatching up her ankle with a crunch. Ursula suddenly snapped out of her catatonic stature, seeing the boy getting up, grunting painfully from behind clenched teeth as he reached for a poke ball.
"Oh no!" Ursula thought in a panic, immediately running at the boy as fast as she could, tackling him to the ground as he went to throw his ball. He let out a shocked groan as he hit the ground, the ball escaping his hand before he could release it.
"What are you doing?! Get off me!" Travis yelled, managing to wiggle free of her shaky hold. She immediately latched herself onto his bleeding arm, holding him back from his poke ball the best she could as she watched Ark maul the female trainer to death, blood flying everywhere as her shrieks were silenced. Ark immediately confronted Machoke, who was enraged by the sight of his trainer's demise. He swung at Ark with ferocious punches, Ark managing to narrowly dodge each one with his speedy movements.
"I SAID LET GO!" Travis screamed at her, the immense, throbbing pain of his arm causing his patience to jump off a cliff as he turned to her. The slapping sound of skin hit the air as his fist buried itself in Ursula's cheek, causing her to yelp loudly and let go. Hearing this, Ark growled furiously, dashing past the Machoke to lunge at Travis, ferociously slashing at his throat with his claws. Travis gave a horrific stare as he felt his jugular tear to shreds, immediately going pale as a splatter of his blood splashed on Ark's face, it's glowing blue eyes piercing the last lights of his eyes before turning to the Machoke once more.
"What's going on out here?!" A voice shouted from the door of the Pokemon Center, the sight of a nurse calling out to the madness. Noticing the Machoke becoming distracted, Ark immediately grabbed a hold of Ursula's wrist, helping her up before dragging her off to the side of the building and out of sight. Managing to find a spot behind the center and out of sight, both Ark and Ursula caught their collective breaths.
"Are you OK, mistress? I'm sorry I reacted before you gave me an order, but this overwhelming feeling to protect you took over and I couldn't…" Ark's sentence was cut off by Ursula's lips, her hands grasping the sides of his space as he stared in surprise. Moaning loudly into the kiss, a creepy smile formed on Ursula's face, her tongue aggressively invading his mouth before shoving him up against the wall. Ursula was struck with a fit of sadistic, gleeful laughter, her hood dropping off her head to reveal a pair of scary, widened eyes. The scared, uneasy girl that Ark knew was now gone, a psychotic husk left in its place.
"Hahahaha we did it Ark! We fucking did it! We killed people…and my God what a rush! I've never felt this alive! Hehehe...you deserve a treat for such a good job…" Ursula's voice fluttered joyously as she dropped to her knees, gazing up at him with a perverse grin as she reached to his crotch, finding it hidden in the tufts of his fur. Ark's eyes began to flutter, letting out a small whine as Ursula began gently stroking it, helping it harden.
"M-Mistress what, ah…" Ark whined as Ursula took the head of his member into her mouth, her hand now stroking it as she sucked him off. Her mouth slowly bounced up and down its length, her own moans vibrating it lovingly as her perverse gaze looked up at him. Ark's claws began to carve into the wall, his loud panting and groaning only fueling Ursula's urge as she moved quicker, anxious to please her good boy.
"Agh!" Ark yelped as he hit his breaking point, his claws audibly carving into the structure as felt his body hit the edge. Ursula pulled her mouth with an eerie grin, standing and grabbing him by the tuft of fur on his chest before throwing him to the ground.
"I've dreamed of doing this for so long hehehe…" Ursula let out another creepy giggling fit as she quickly undid her pants, dropping them and her panties to her ankles. Ark stared at his mistress's nether region, her juices already trailing down her legs from anticipation. She got down on top of Ark, her pants pinning down his legs as he felt something hot and moist rest on his twitching member. Ursula let out a loud gasp, her hips shivering as slowly began grinding on him, her hands becoming entangled with the fur of his chest.
"Mmf…!" Ursula whined loudly, her body trembling with her waist with each hard grind of her snatch, Ark's claws digging into the dirt as he shook as well, his tongue out and panting loudly as he lost himself to the feeling. As Ark went to howl, Ursula covered his mouth with her oversized sleeves to muffle the sound as she felt his prick begin throbbing and pulsating.
"Bad boy! You aren't supposed to cum before your mistress!" Ursula cackled, quickly reaching down and grabbing his semen covered cock, immediately shifting her hips to guide it inside of her crevice. Ursula quickly covered her own mouth as she let out a shriek, Ark's member now deep inside of her, his seed still expelling after dropping her hips down. Sirens could be heard in the distance as Ursula clawed her fingers into his fur, gripping it tight as her hips started to rock and bounce on his member, her other hand still forced against his mouth.
"Who's a good boy, who's a good boy!?" Ursula perversely chuckled, Ark's eyes rolling back into his head before shutting them. Ark then began to whimper and whine ferociously into her sleeve, his body completely overwhelmed by pleasure as his body tried to thrash away.
"Oh God I'm losing my mind! I'm about to cum!" Ursula shrieked, her hips slapping down on his tortured dick, shiver and shaking as if begging for relief. Still cackling like a lunatic, Ursula began to mimic her beloved Pokemon, her pants and wild, carnal shrieks being drowned out by the oncoming sirens. Her eyes rolled back as she threw her head back, slamming her hips down a few more times before losing it all over his prick, her mouth opened wide and screaming as she tensed and trembled, Ark's seed oozing out of her.
The moment seemed to last an eternity as Ursula breathed heavily, her whole world now changed. As the ecstasy began to subside, her arm began to throb and sting with intense pain. Looking at her beloved Pokemon, she found that he had dug his teeth into her arm, blood soaking through the arm of the hoodie as he too came to his senses. She sucked at her teeth to try and hide the pain, Ark immediately letting go as his expression turned to that of panic.
"Oh no! Mistress, I'm so sorry! The feeling was too much for me to handle!" Ark shouted but the sirens drowned him out. Ursula glared at him with killer eyes as she tried to make out what he was saying, clearly seeing that he was in a state of panic. Leaning down she hugged tightly around his neck, her lips moving to his ear.
"Let's get back home before we get caught," Ursula's words rang clearly as she let go and git up, letting the depraved mess that was her crotch leak down her legs as she quickly retrieved her bottoms from her ankles and pulled them to her waist, fastening them before sliding her bleeding arm into the long front pocket of her hoodie like a sling. Still shaky, they managed to back track as they trekked through their original path, carefully alluding detection the whole way back until they were in the safety of her room. Shutting the door, Ursula took a deep breath, quickly snapping around, striking on Ark's snout with the back of her hand.
"Don't EVER bite me again! Not only did you ruin my favorite hoodie, you could've killed me!" Ursula shouted, Ark whimpering shamefully as he placed a claw on the stinging sensation. Throwing off her hoody, she dropped back into her chair, her scowl still aimed at Ark as she held out her arm.
"Come over here and clean your mess up," Ursula ordered, Ark immediately rushing to her side. Carefully he began licking at her wound, her arm tensing up as Ursula let out the occasional grunt of pain, reaching into her desk drawer to retrieve a small medical kit. Ursula then let out an exacerbated sigh as she saw tears fill Ark's eyes, clearly feeling the guilt of harming his mistress. As Ursula's hand approached Ark, he flinched, bracing himself for another strike, only to have her hand gently rest on his head. She began gently petting him, putting him at ease as he continued his task.
"What we did behind the Pokemon Center, that's the kind of treat you can expect whenever you do a good job, but you won't get that if you bite me again," Ursula stopped Ark's task by gripping at his hair tightly, forcing his face up so that Ursula could give him a hard kiss, a sliver of blood crawling down her bottom lip. Ark nodded as Ursula pulled away, licking her lips before beginning to wrap her arm up.
"As for the authorities...we probably won't be able to stay here any longer, besides...we can't get famous unless we kill people all over Kanto so it's not really a bad thing…money also won't be an issue since I can work on the go so we're in decent shape to start everything," Ursula praddled with the tip of the bandage between her teeth to tighten it before wrapping it tightly with tape. A smile returned to her face as she got up and took Ark by the wrist, gently pulling him into her bathroom.
"We gotta clean you up before we go, you look and smell like a slaughterhouse," Ursula chuckled as she began running a bath, Ark quietly nodding as he watched. The rest of the night from there was none too eventful, with the both of them sharing her bed. Ark laid behind Ursula, his arms around her waist in a hug as her cold, calculating eyes stared off into space, the shock of witnessing a murder slowing numbing before her eyes shut and she found comfort in the darkness.
There was a rather large crowd of people surrounding the area where the murder had taken place with police tape creating a guide into the Pokemon Center. With Zorrin on his shoulder and Arkianna floating behind him, Luca believed it would be best to scope out the scene to try and find any kind of clue of what kind of people and Pokemon they were dealing with.
"Arkianna, I know it's been awhile...but I want you to put yourself in the killer's shoes and figure out where they would've run to," Luca asked, turning his head to face her. She changed into the appearance of a Zoroark, chuckling gruffly before giving his cheek a nuzzle.
"That's easy...my love…" she replied gruffly, vanishing from the sights of the naked eyes. Arkianna took her time as she phased through the crowds of people with ease, appearing out of sight right at the scene. Arkianna began having delightful flashbacks of before she met Luca, a twisted grin upon her face as she sniffed at the various blood puddles. Even with her sense of smell being a farcry from what it once was, it was easy to pick out her favorite fragrance: blood. Analyzing the various dried splotches, she immediately noticed faint patches of it, like footprints from days gone.
"Hehe...here we go…" Arkianna gruffly chuckled, following the trail to the side of the Pokemon Center, where she was graced with a stronger scent of death. Carefully following it to the rear, she was suddenly hit with another familiar smell, which made her ghostly face feel a slight fit of warmth.
"Oh...my...they are just like me...and Luca...hehehe…" Arkianna snickered, following the scent out to the other side. Arkianna called to Luca as she became visible, signaling him over with her hand as she waited.
"Did you find something?" Luca inquired as he reached her, a perverse grin spreading across her hazy face.
"Oh yes...after they killed...they made love behind the center...like we would do...now I have the scent of their...fluids and blood. Follow me…" Arkianna replied, immediately changing into her native shape of a Haunter as she began blowing through the forest, Luca desperately trying to keep up as Zorrin ran in front of him. Breathless but undying, Luca finally caught up to his love and child, the three of them standing outside of a complex of condominiums.
"Whoever it is clearly has money…" Luca pointed out, Arkianna following the last remnants of the blood trail. Phasing through walls, it led her to the top floor and right to her door. Without hesitation, Arkianna phased through the door. At a first glance it was clear something was off; there was a thin layer of dust on nearly everything, with only slight signs of life in the kitchen area for obvious reasons. Continuing to observe and search, she heard a slight shifting noise of covers. Arkianna found herself in a state of awe as she entered the room she was alerted to. Her eyes followed along the seemingly endless trail of newspaper clippings that covered the walls with countless images of herself and her beloved Luca plastered all through out.
"And Luca called me obsessed...THIS is obsessed...but...I kind of feel...happy by this…" Arkianna quietly thought as he eyes finally caught sight of the movement. Laying in the bed of the room was a girl no older than Luca, huddled up in the arms of a Zoroark beneath a thin sheet. It was both heart warming and laughable as a sinister feeling welled up inside Arkianna, a playful kind of sinister she hadn't felt in many years. Shifting into her old form of a Zoroark, she hovered over the girl, struggling to contain a fit of sadistic laughter as she stared in silence. Her eyes began to glow as she used Dream Eater, immediately turning her seemingly peaceful dream into a nightmare. She began groaning and and babbling fearfully, sweat appearing on her forehead as Arkianna watched gleefully.
"Delicious…" Arkianna gruffly called, Ursula's eyes shooting open to see the sinister Zoroark glaring her in the face.
"S-Shit! Ark get up! Get up!" Ursula shrieked as she scrambled out of Ark's grasp, immediately lunging for the floor as Ark stirred awake. Ark immediately put on a ferocious glare which was quickly dismissed by Arkianna, who put him back to sleep with Hypnosis. Ursula immediately backed into a corner as Arkianna approached her with unnerving speed, getting in her face as she let out a ghastly laugh.
"So...you're the one pretending to be...me and my darling Luca…" Arkianna sneered, Ursula's widened eyes quickly piecing things together.
"W-Wait...you're the Zoroark killer?!" Ursula's voice was both terrified and excited, Arkianna tilting her head curiously as she looked around the room again.
"It started as a simple thrill until I found the love of my life...then it became life and death...but more importantly...you made it painfully easy to find you...if this were Unova...you would be screwed…" Arkianna's gruff, broken speak patterns unnerved Ursula as she tried to restrain her shaking.
"I-I'm such a huge fan of your work! I've followed the story ever since the first reported kill! How did you managed to keep escaping authorities?" Ursula began to fangirl, but Arkianna put a stop to it with a ferocious snarl, putting her on her wits end once more.
"I'm here to kill you...I can't have you risking my darling Luca's freedom...however…" Arkianna paused with a sinister grin, her eyes sweeping around the room once more before returning to hers.
"I haven't felt much of a thrill in many years...but seeing your handiwork made me happy...I remembered the days back in Unova...so...little girl...I want to play a game with you…" Arkianna let out a whispy cackle, Ursula trembling fearfully as she gazed back at Arkianna with confusion.
"A...game…? What kind game?" Ursula's shaky voice caused Arkianna's grin to widen as she backed away from Ursula, helping to ease he tension.
"You want to be like me and my darling Luca...so I'll give you that chance...I'm going to let you go, then, starting tomorrow...I am going to hunt you down...if you don't kill anyone each day...I'll find you quickly...if you kill a few...I'll take longer...I want the thrill of hunting so badly...that I'm giving you this chance…" Arkianna's gaze pierced through Ursula's heart, filling her senses with the sensation of frozen death as Arkianna continued. Desperate to save her own life, she immediately came to terms with the rules of the horrific game, her back slumping in defeat.
"I...I accept…I'll play your game..." Ursula replied quietly, Arkianna letting out a fit of maniacal laughter, satisfied with the parameters of the game she set up for herself. Reaching forward she lifted Ursula's chin to force her to look dead into her eyes.
"Hehehe...you wanted to know how my beloved and I survived? I didn't...I died to save him by the end of it...will your beloved do the same? Or will he lose himself to the murder and lust like I once had? I'm excited to find out...good luck…" Arkianna cackled once again, transforming back into the shape of a Haunter before vanishing in a cloud of smoke, leaving Ursula to stare at her slumbering Zoroark, a flustering whirlwind of excitement and dread overtaking her. Arkianna immediately returned to Luca, trying her best to hide her sadistic sense of satisfaction.
"No one was home...but I found a picture...I know what they look like…I'm sure we'll hunt them down in no time..." Arkianna replied, Luca giving her a smile as he gave her head a pet, planting a kiss on her cheek.
"Excellent work as always, I love that I can always count on you," Luca replied, Arkianna's expression of immense satisfaction fueling her with the thrill of once again indulging in her favorite past time, hunting. Leaving the complex, the three of them decided it was time to eat, a whole new journey awaiting them.
