Chapter 9: the presence
Luke's POV
I charged through the darkening forest, looking for a place to relieve my anger.
How can he be so dense? I thought to myself as I burst into a clearing and quickly scanned the area around me for other Pokémon, I wanted a challenge, and I was about to move on when my adversary came through the trees.
"A bit far from your little friends, aren't you?" he said, his mocking tone filling me with irritation.
"I didn't come all this way to have a chat, hypno."
"Oh, don't worry; I know exactly why you came to me. Let's get started shall we? I don't have all night you know." Without hesitation, I used Extreme Speed, he simply held out his hand and I stopped in my tracks.
"Now, now, we can't have any of that." The hypnosis Pokémon said as he slowly swung his pendulum before me.
"That's right, just fall asleep, I won't hurt you little one." I felt like a child, wrapped in my father's arms, slowly drifting away . . . then all at once, I was thrust back into reality as Hypno tackled a humanoid aura to the ground.
"Run! I can't hold him for long, get back to Mark and the others and tell them that Hypno is preparing an assault!" the human- a teenage male by the sound of his voice, shouted, I turned and flew through the trees, determined to get back to my brother before that thing, I refused to acknowledge him as a Pokémon, did. When the light of the campfire came into view, my friends heads whipped toward me.
"Hypno is planning an assault! I don't know where or when, but I do know that he's capturing older humans and possibly Pokémon as well." I said as quickly as I could.
"You saw Hypno?" Flare sounded worried and slightly irritated at the same time.
"Yes, and before you blow up at me, I know that if Hypno attacks, he'll use every able bodied puppet he has." I said, trying to keep everyone as calm as possible.
"Well what are we still doing here? We need to move, quickly!" Mark said, as calm as ever.
"No, we must weather the attack; it is the only way we can get Flare's brother back." Grace interjected.
"She's right, if Hypno does bring everyone he has, that very well could be our last chance before-"she stopped herself.
"Before what?" Flare's voice was shaky.
"Before he kills them."