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CH. 16: THE BATTLES ON MOUNT STORM PT.1
Saturday 9 October Afternoon / Clear
On the lower peak of Mount Storm.
AION POV
F.O.E Battle Theme PQ2
While you and the Postwick duo were busy on the top of Mount Storm, Aion decided to stay behind to face Doublade.
"* pant * * pant *" however, the alien was now on his knee, tired and hurt.
"Still alive? Incredible, you are undoubtedly a tough-skinned one." Doublade taunted Aion.
Doublade had succeeded in cornering the skilled fighter, thanks to his terrifying ability, Douleur de la Nuit, that allowed Doublade's attacks to hit the mark anytime without failing.
"His attacks… his attacks end up hitting me despite anything I do..." Aion reflected, observing the enemy.
"Up to now I have managed to dodge his blows, despite it, his attacks end up hitting me..."
Aion was in pain all over his body, and every time he moved he felt like he was being pierced by sharp blades.
Despite the pain, Aion was able to take the energy he had brought with him and drink it to regain a bit of his strength.
"... This was the only one I had left..." Aion thought.
"Maybe I should have asked the others to leave me some bottles of water and vitamins... no, surely they will need it more than I do."
Aion slowly stands up, ready to resume the fight against the metallic Shadow in front of him.
"I have to defeat him as soon as possible if I don't want to..." the thought of dying for real sends a shiver down the back of the alien, which on the other hand helped to reinforce Aion's will.
The alien looks at his spear beside him.
"... It would be useless, I have already tried to hit him several times with the spear without any result."
"What are you doing? You still haven't understood that there is no hope of victory for you." Doublade mocked Aion.
Aion stared at the Shadow without saying a word.
"I have no choice but to use Toxtricity to knock him out."
After thinking that, the alien rushes towards Doublade, summoning his Pokesoul.
"Toxtricity, discharge on him a Zerabarq attack!" the reptilian Pokesoul appeared, illuminating his body through his discharges, which he then hurls at Doublade.
The phantom double swords nimbly dodged the sparks generated by Toxtricity.
"Toxtricity, use Zerabarq again!" Aion orders his Pokesoul, but Double blade once again dodges the electric attack swiftly.
"TOXTRICITY! ZERABARQ!"
"TOXTRICITY! ZERABARQ!"
"TOXTRICITY! ZERABARQ!"
"ZERABARQ! ZERABARQ! ZERABARQ!" Aion tried several times to hit the target, but despite the speed and strength that he put in his attacks, Doublade always managed to escape his Zerabarq's attacks.
"Da- * pant * damn it..." he was about to collapse to the ground, but using his willpower and whatever strength he still had left, he stood up straight.
"Eughh, I could land even one attack..." Aion hissed frustrated.
"AHAHAHA!" Doublade let out a metallic laugh as he hoovered over the distressed alien.
"Did I already tell you?! This place is where you will die! And now let me give you the coup de grace." Doublade immediately tries to end the battle by slashing down Aion, the alien despite the exhaustion promptly dodges the attacks of the metallic Shadow.
"Nh-I can't do it anymore..." Aion thought as his head was getting into a daze.
"Ha-" exhausted Aion fell on his knees, he tried to get up failing.
"By now, you should have figured it out, right?" Doublade said sternly to the alien.
"I am stronger than you, your every action against me is completely useless, you signed your death sentence the minute we started fighting..."
"This time... this time... TOXTRICITY!" Aion jumped up and summoning Toxtricity tried to hit Doublade with all the strength he has left.
"ZERA-"
"Douleur de la Nuit." however, before Aion could close the distance between the two, again without warning, a series of phantom slashes struck the alien now at the limit of his strength.
The shock of Doublade's attacks was so overwhelming that Aion became unconscious without even letting out a groan of pain.
The comatose body of the alien fell dead weight in front of Doublade who silently watched the whole thing unfold.
"..." Aion's lifeless body gave no sign of life for at least a minute before the alleged corpse started coughing and breathing heavily.
"Unbelievable... despite the devastating attacks you have received, you insist on cheating death." Doublade said surprised.
Aion didn't reply, limiting himself to panting breaths and coughs.
"Luckily, I used electroshock to counter the pain shock that I received."
"No answer, well it doesn't matter, in those conditions you wouldn't be able to continue this fight anyway."
"..." Aion still did not reply.
"This time I won't even have to use my ability, NOW DIE!"
Just as Doublade was about to give the last blow to the alien, Aion driven by adrenaline and his survival instinct, summoned Toxtricity to unleash a last desperate attack upon the phantom swords.
For a moment, Aion's red eyes took on a golden yellow pigmentation, no different from the humanoid Shadows they have encountered so far, with the only divergence that he missed the black sclera, and his eyes were of a noble and shining gold, contrary to the eerie and tinted in darkness, yellow of the hostile Shadows.
"ZERABARQ!" finally after countless unsuccessful attempts, Aion was able to damage Doublade with his electric attack, knocking him away.
Doublade despite being made of steel let out a screech of pain.
Left without energy for real, Aion fell back on the ground, his eyes returned red, he was struggling to breathe properly.
Doublade on the other hand effortlessly stood up, Aion's attack was strong enough to weaken him, but it wasn't enough to take down the metallic Shadow.
"You..." Doublade murmur dreadfully.
"Miserable punk... you thought you would get me into trouble with such a weak electric shock."
"..." Aion didn't answer, he just limited himself to staring at the Shadow from the ground.
"What are you going to do now?! All this effort for nothing!" Doublade said furiously.
"I had to * pant *... just hit you once..." Aion said in a low voice as he struggled to speak.
"What? Did you go crazy by any chance?"
"Don't tell me that all the slashes of pain drove you insane"
"Do you really think you can bea-" a doubt flooded Doublade's mind as he noticed a presence on his body... a rock, a rock, had attached itself behind Doublade's left sword.
"… The stones of this mountain behave as if they were lightning rods..." Aion thought.
"With that last and only attack, I managed to turn him into a magnet..."
At that moment, the lightning that until now had been falling incessantly stopped anomalously.
"If I can't *pant* defeat you, the mountain itself will take care of you..." Aion threatens Doublade.
"You... you won't ha-"
Doublade cannot finish the sentence as a series of lightning fatally struck him.
*ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPP!*
"..."
...
Doublade didn't even have time to let out any screeches, given the speed and destructiveness with which the bolts struck him.
The ghost swords fell to the ground lifeless, defeated.
Aion coughs as he watches the fearsome enemy was dissolving, defeated.
"Perfect... now... I have to... head to the top..." Aion tries to get up in vain, the only thing he can do is to turn on his back to scan the cloudy sky above him.
"It's useless... I can't move a single muscle anymore... I have to leave everything in their hands... well, never mind... I'm sure whatever is up there... they'll be able to get by without my help..."
The bolts of lightning that had resumed to fall incessantly stopped again, and the discharges of electricity now seem to be heading through the clouds, towards the peak of Mount Storm.
"... I hope they are all well..." as Aion thought about Victor and the others, he was starting to be surrounded by Shadows from both the mountain and the sky.
Those Shadows have been, probably drawn toward there, by the battle that had just ended with the defeat of Doublade.
The alien obviously, as usual, senses the hostile presences that were approaching, but rather than react to them, he simply closed his eyes, losing consciousness due to his psycho-physical exhaustion.
"Good luck." were his last thoughts before he passed out completely.
NORMAL POV
Ominous Sign
"So you are Beet's friends? Too bad then… I thought you guys were here to play with me." said the Shadow that had the appearance of a child, apparently the person whose physical appearance she had "stolen" was named Mary, a probable family member or acquaintance of Beet.
"Don't * pant * even try to waste your time with that bad copy of Mary..." told you, a run down Shadow Beet.
"Don't listen to him, forget both him and Beet, they're not funny to be around anyway, me and you can do so many fu-"
"I'm sorry miss but we're here to take our mate back." you told her in a rather bossy tone.
"Are you guys being serious?!" she began to get irritated by you.
"Listen, this is the last time I will say it kindly, forget about Beet and come play with me, instead." Shadow Mary threatened you while throwing a tantrum.
You and the others assume your fighting stances, ready for the battle to begin.
"We mean it!" you warned Mary.
At first, the brat stares straight at your eyes without showing any emotion, and then she burst into hysterical laughter.
"... Fuahhahhha, you guys are very funny, FU FU FUUU FUAH FUAHAHAHAHAHA FUFUAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
The flashes of lightning in the sky had intensified, and their fall was now strangely concentrated on the peak of the mountain.
"What th-"
A thunderbolt fell very close hitting Shadow Mary, without causing her any damage, actually, she seems to have absorbed the lightning.
The little girl's body then turns completely black, apart from her creepy eyes, she began to deform and grow larger.
"Tch, here we go again, I guess..." Hop said annoyed.
The little girl who until now was in front of you, totally disappeared, giving way to a long-necked yellow biped creature, her most peculiar features thought, were her tail and her fluffy hair, which seem like clouds, the same clouds that covered the mountain.
In fact, just like the same clouds, the tail of Shadow Mary was also attached with scarlet jewels, and one on top of her head, as usual, the only thing left of the original body was the possessed face of Mary.
BATTLE STARTS
Nothing is Promise
"COME, COME, COME TOWARDS THE LIGHT OF DAMNATION, COME TOWARDS THE LIGHTHOUSE OF DEATH!" Shadow Mary scream at you.
"Aion hasn't reached us yet, what should we do about it?" Gloria asked you worriedly.
"Nothing, facing the threat ahead of us is our momentary priority." you told her.
"Right..." Gloria whispered.
"We should get by without Aion's help."
"POKESOUL! LUCARIO!"
"SCEPTILE, COME!"
"ASSIST ME CINDERACE!"
The entire team summons their Pokesoul, ready to face a new threat.
Before ordering your attacks, you turn around to make sure the real Beet was far away enough from you, after ascertaining the boy's safety, you order Lucario to attack.
"Lucario, use Jiratetsu!" The Pokesoul emanates metallic radiation from the palms, which then turned into an energy sphere, before flinging it in the direction of Shadow Mary.
Given her giant stature, Shadow Mary fails to dodge the attack, which in return, does not seem to damage her that much.
"Gloria, Hop! After me!"
"Roger!" they two both shouted.
"Sceptile Shayavir!" Hop ordered.
"Cinderace unleashes a Victyr attack on Shadow Mary." Gloria instructed her Pokesoul.
The two Pokesoul do as they were told, unleashing a storm of winds and fires, which hit Shadow Mary, unlike your attack, the latter seems to damage the Shadow much more.
"MMAMAAAAAAARGH !" Shadow Mary bleated in pain.
"TSK! STOP BEING NAUGHTY TO ME! NOW I WILL SHOW YOU, YOU BULLIES!" Shadow Mary raised her arms to the sky, and as if she were making a prayer, she summoned out bleating a series of lightning bolts that began to fall on your heads.
"Guys watc-" one of the lightning bolts fell right next to you, despite not hitting you directly, the lightning was devastating enough to make thwart you aside.
"W-wh-what a powerful lightning!" Hop stammer.
"Not only that, that was also incredibly fast too..." you said as you stood up.
"ONE MORE!" Shadow Mary assumed again her attacking position and once again summoned the lightning above you.
"ALEXANDRIA THUNDER!" from the sky above rained a series of lights and electric rays, which upon impact with the ground discharged all their sparks around you, the attack was so devastating that even the earth shook.
In addition, the discharges released by the beams ended up reaching you, damaging you.
Both you and Hop and Gloria let out a cry of pain at the powerful shocks of electricity that you have been subjected to.
"God... It hurts!" you complained, trying to remain on your feet.
"Such power was to be expected..." Hop said as he struggled to get up.
Gloria remained in silence, letting out just some groan of pain.
"We have to be careful, we can't take this type of damage every time." you warned your friends.
"STILL STANDING?!" Shadow Mary said, surprised after seeing you resisting her attacks.
"THAT' WONDERFUL, FINALLY, TOYS THAT DON'T BREAK! NOW WE CAN PLAY TOGETHER FOREVER! YOU ARE DIFFERENT, YOU ARE NOT LIKE MY OLD TOYS, WHICH BROKE WAY TOO SOON!" after saying this, Shadow Mary went back to her summoning position.
"ALEXANDRIA THUNDER!" the destructive beams of light were about to fall upon you again.
"VICTYR!" a volley of flames intercepted the beam of electricity, causing it to explode in midair.
"Gloria! That was fire, keep it up." you congratulate the girl who, despite having received damage as you did, she had gone out of her way to save you.
"You are welcome!" she thanked you sarcastically.
The last minute save, done by Gloria, instills in you, confidence and courage that straightens you and made you resume the battle.
"Braixen!" you decide to switch Pokesoul, after witnessing the much more effectiveness Victyr attacks had on Shadow Mary.
"Victyr!" Braixen summoned a will o wisp.
"Shayavir!" Sceptile created a gale of wind.
"Victyr!" and Cinderace hurled a fireball toward Shadow Mary.
Assisted by your companions, you create a storm of fire and wind that scorches Shadow Mary, the now burned Shadow Mary lets out a bleat of pain.
"BAD! BAD TOYS, BAD TOYS !" Shadow Mary resisted your attack and instantly recomposed herself.
"FINE, LET ME SHOW YOU A TRICK!" Shadow Mary's crimson jewels detached from her body to then spread around you and her.
"Wha?!" you stared at the sphere's stop right in midair above you and around you.
"ALEXANDRIAN SHOCK WAVE !" Shadow Mary once again calls the lightning bolts above her, but this time instead of hitting you they are promptly absorbed by the jewels that Shadow Mary had left midair.
These in turn release a kind of shockwave that hits Hop full in, which unfortunately was in the middle of Shadow Mary's jewels.
"HOOOOPPPP !" you and Gloria scream the name of your friend in a panic.
"IT'S NOT OVER, TAKE THIS!" Shadow Mary mocked you.
"Damn you! Braixen!" you summon the biped fox again to assist you in the fight.
As soon as you tried to attack the giant monster, you notice something wrong.
"Uh?" Braixen's movements seemed much slower than usual.
"What th-"
"WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME!" you suddenly hear Gloria scream, you turn to see what was happening to her, only to witness a surreal scene, Gloria running in slow motion or so it seemed like to you.
"Victor! I- I was going to assist Hop! B-but for some weird reason, I feel like I'm not running at all." Gloria said incredulously.
"Tch, it's definitely the work of those damned gems and the shockwaves emitted earlier!" you stated without any hit of doubt.
"YOU GUYS WERE A BIT TOO LIVELY BEFORE, BUT NOW YOU SHOULD BE SLOW ENOUGH TO ALLOW ME TO CONTINUE PLAYING WITH YOU!" Shadow Mary returned to the summoning position.
"Fuck, she's about to call those rays of electricity again!" you exclaimed in fear.
"No... if we get hit by such an attack again, we-" Gloria said as she slowly moved under the effect of the jewels.
"ALEXANDRIA-"
You close your eyes, hoping to resist the impending attack.
"MANAQUA!" but just at that moment, a figure with platinum hair throws himself against the long-necked monster, hitting her with a powerful jet of water.
You and Gloria gawk at what just happened in front of you, Shadow Beet had just shot down Shadow Mary with a powerful jet of water, damaging Shadow Mary tremendously, forcing her to unleash a tremendous bleat of terror and pain.
"Hey, you!" Shadow Beet turned to you after he landed back.
"The slowing effect should be over, heal your friend quickly, the battle has just begun and it would not finish anytime soon." Shadow Beet warned you.
You were back to being able to move at normal speed, and without wasting time Gloria reaches Hop and gives him some water and vitamins, after doing this Hop opens his eyes again and gets up immediately ready to continue the battle.
"NAUGHTY BEET!" Shadow Mary growled at Shadow Beet.
"NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY BEET!"
"Damn brat, I have no time to waste with you, tch, if only he wasn't so weak..." Shadow Beet looks towards the helpless body of the real Beet, with an expression of disappointment.
"If he wasn't weak, we wouldn't even have needed their involvement... instead..."
"HEY! LISTEN TO ME!" Shadow Beet addressed you directly.
"If you want to return to your world alive and kicking, you have to follow my instructions." said Shadow Beet, sounding very bossy.
"You guys came here to save Beet anyway, I'm I right?"
Each of you remains silent and listens to the words of the Shadow.
"If we work together, I'm sure we will be able to bring down this abomination of a being!" the Jungian shadow of Beet said grimly.
You do not say anything, but you make it clear that you intend to cooperate with him.
"Since you seem to agree, I would say to-"
"One moment!" Gloria interrupted him.
"Leaving aside that you tried to kill us before, this battle... shouldn't this be Beet's challenge?" Gloria asked Shadow about Beet in a serious tone.
"..." Shadow Beet went completely quiet.
"... Beet has refused the call of his consciousness, he refuses to give up his state of blissful ignorance." declared Shadow Beet.
"What do you mean? What are you trying to say?" Gloria asked him to be more specific.
"It's useless to explain it to you now, simply put it something that only Beet and I can understand, while we're working against that abomination there, I'm trying to reconnect with him, he- I need... I just need a little more time… " Shadow Beet said those last words with less conviction.
"HEY! STOP IGNORING ME, I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU YET!" Shadow Mary roared furiously.
"ALEXANDRIA THUNDER!"
"Look out guys!" you manage to dodge the thunderbolts and ray of light hurled at you in time.
"LUCARIO!" you swapped your Pokesoul again.
"Hey "fake" Beet, you want us to keep that Shadow busy for you, right?" you yell at him as you ran towards Shadow Mary, from his facial expression you could tell that he didn't appreciate the way you have called him.
"If you were able to reconnect to Beet that would help us tremendously, after all your Manaqua attacks will be stronger after you rejoin him, isn't that right, Blastoise?" Gloria grinned confidently.
"... hmpf, you guys know way too many things, far too many if you ask me." Shadow Beet replied annoyed.
"Oh come on, don't be like that, after all, our goal is still the same, right?" Hop smiled mockingly at him too.
While the others were arguing behind you, you and Lucario launched into a series of attacks aimed at Shadow Mary.
"AURA BARRAGE !" Lucario throws an unstoppable punching barrage on the gigantic Shadow that all ends up landing on her.
"ARIO RIO RIO RIO RIO RIO RIO RIO ARIOOOOO!"
Shadow Mary can barely hold the barrage of punches without falling.
"Come on, guys, don't give it any chance of recovery, attack her at once!"
Doing as you ordered, everybody began unleashing once again his own serious of attacks on Shadow Mary.
"Cinderace use Victyr!"
"Shayavir!"
"MANAQUA!"
At that precise moment, Shadow Mary under attack from three different directions somehow managed to get immediately on the defensive counterattacking by using her gems again, which broke away from her body to shield her from the attacks.
"ALEXANDRIAN SHOCK WAVE!" her gems positioned themselves in front of her as a way of protection.
Instantly, your companions' elemental attacks were absorbed by the Crimson Gems.
"Are you serious?" exclaimed an irritated Hop.
"Shit, not again." you tried to get away as far as possible from the spheres given your relative proximity to Shadow Mary and her spheres, but just as expected, the shockwaves were released from the jewels and despite you desperately doing the possible to avoid the impact, you were eventually caught into it.
"VICTOR!" Gloria and Hop shouted your name.
Shadow Mary without wasting time tried to crush you under her left paw before she could kill you, you were saved in extremis by Hop and Shadow Beet, the last distracted Shadow Mary using the Zerabarq attack that he had already prepared in advance on her.
While Hop, to counter the induced slowness caused by the shockwaves, used the winds created by Sceptile to fly toward you and grab you away from Shadow Mary.
"DAMN IT!" Shadow Mary yelled in frustration against Shadow Beet.
Without getting noticed by Shadow Mary, Gloria and Cinderace approach the Shadow thanks to the winds of Sceptile too.
"It seems we can no longer risk elementary attacks, we have nothing left but physical ones then!" after this declaration, Cinderace's left leg is engulfed in flames.
"Blazing Cic Dros Ben!" Cinderace hit Shadow Mary with a bicycle kick with all of her fiery power.
"MAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Shadow Mary bleated in pain.
"TCH! DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME !" she then growled furiously.
"ALEXANDRIAN THUNDER!" a new series of lightning bolts and beams fell on all of you and blasted away every single one of you.
As the lightning stopped, all of you were knocked down by Shadow Mary's attack.
"Eugh... too- strong…" was the only thing Hop managed to say.
"Somehow this was even worst than Shadow Veronica's attacks…" you thought pessimistically.
"..." the silence settled on the battlefield, as you were all struggling to get back on your fit, silence that was promptly shattered by the only being still standing.
"AHAHAHAHAHAH ! DID YOU FINALLY UNDERSTAND, YOU CAN'T BEAT ME! I AM STRONGER THAN YOU ALL COMBINED!" Shadow Mary screamed immaturely as she stood victorious over you.
"Shit..." you whisper bitterly.
GLORIA POV
Borderline of Madness DAN ver.
Without the others noticing the first to get up was Gloria, but the girl had not gotten up to continue the fighting, she actually did, but she had something to accomplish before resuming the fight.
When she was struck by the lightning beams of Shadow Mary, she was sent flying in the opposite direction of Hop, Shadow Beet, and Victor.
By a coincidence, she fell right next to Beet, the real Beet.
The girl was surprised to see that the boy, despite the noise and tremor that was going on around him, was still unconscious.
Gloria stared at the boy for a while before approaching him and starting to shake him out of his numbness.
"Hey... wake up..."
"Wake up... if you don't wake you up... things will get worse for all of us and you..."
"..." Beet gave no reply back.
"... Yo- you… are like us after all... you too have demons with which you don't wanna confront yourself..." Gloria said with sadness in her voice.
"As far as I do understand you, I... we can't let you stay in that vicious circle, believe me, it's better once you get out of the prison you self-exiled yourself into."
"Tell me..." Suddenly without any warning Beet, spoke and moved, getting up, making Gloria jump a bit astonished. The boy had finally woken up from his numbness.
"Tell me... how do you manage to silence those voices... how can you fight against these voices... every day, how can you not try to escape from these damned voices every time..."
"..." Gloria looked at Beet without saying a word.
"I tried... I tried several times to apologize to her, but every time I want to try... I... I ..." Beet cast a desperate look at the monster that was Shadow Mary.
"Mary... I... t- ARGGHHHH."
"BEET!" Gloria reflexively moved to help the platinum-haired boy, who was now holding his head in her hands.
"Look! It's the wicked eye's boy!" a childish voice of a boy was heard.
"Nobody plays with you because you're nasty, Granny Hairs." said then a child with a mean tone of voice.
"Do you always have that expression on your face? Don't you get tired of it? Come on, why don't you wanna play with the other children?" this time the voice of a young adult or a teenager was heard.
"Leave him alone, he behaves like this only because he doesn't have a mom and a dad!" said the voice of another child, this sentence in particular leaves Gloria stunned for a moment.
"* sniff * * sniff * I'm telling you the truth * sniff *" a little girl's crying was now hearable. "* sniff * I didn't tell him Beet, I swear I didn't tell anyone * sniff * why don't you want to believe me!" cried the little girl.
"Enough... Enough, Enough, Enough, ENOUGH, ENOUGH!" Beet began to scream as he continued to hold his head in his hands.
"Beet! Calm-" "THERE YOU ARE! WERE YOU HIDING FROM ME, BEET!" Shadow Mary roared with an unsettled glee.
"Mary... I..." Beet looks at Shadow Mary with eyes steeped in pain and despair.
"Damn it!" Gloria exclaimed instead. "NOW WE CAN FINISH OUR GAME OF HIDING AND SEEK! GO! TRY TO CATCH THIS!"
"ALEXANDRIA THUNDER!" Shadow Mary summoned a bolt of lightning from the sky, directing it towards Beet, who still does not try to move. In fact, Gloria had to save the situation, the girl summoned her lagomorphic Pokesoul, and tries to counteract the very powerful attack of Shadow Mary with one of her fireballs.
"Victyr!" the fireball collides with the lightning bolt, causing yet another explosion.
What Gloria had not foreseen was an immediate 'attack in' once again launched by Shadow Mary, this time as a target, Gloria herself and Cinderace, who, due to fatigue, did not manage to dodge the attack in time, getting thus forced once again on the ground shocked and unconscious.
"Are you okay?" Beet tried to shake Gloria up, while he witnessed in terror as Shadow Mary prepare to attack him again.
Beet tried to move, to run away from there, but he was paralyzed by the terror that Shadow Mary was causing inside his heart with her eerie eyes.
"I- I- Mary- maybe- I- forgive- guilt- entirely..." Beet begins to say words at random, that seemed to not have a sense.
"ALEXANDRIA!"
"I… deserve it, maybe I… deserve to die..." Beet resigns himself to his fate and gets into position, waiting to be struck by Shadow Mary's lightning.
"THU-"
"MANAQUA!" unexpectedly, however, Shadow Beet, treacherously hits Shadow Mary with a jet of water mixed with ice chips, the attack is powerful enough to make Shadow Mary lose her balance and make her fall.
After landing the giant Shadow, the "fake" Beet glances at the "real" Beet, looking at him with a reproachful look.
"..."
"What are you even doing? You are not even trying to survive!" Shadow Beet reproached Beet after he instantly appeared behind the real him, causing him to flinch for a moment.
"Tch... what do you want?" Beet frowned at his Jungian doppelgänger.
"You know exactly what I want, I want you to stop clinging to the past." Shadow Beet answered firmly.
"Easy for you to say... after all it's not you who has to put up with these headache inducing whispers, after all, aren't you the one who creates them for me?" Beet said furiously to Shadow Beet.
"... I am those words in your mind, me and" she " we all are part of you." Shadow Beet said, pointing to Shadow Mary.
"..." Beet didn't answer him.
"I am thou, and thou art I, and until we will fully unite, we will never be able to beat the darker part of yourself." Shadow Beet warned him.
"You keep saying the same damn things... these words you are saying do not help me at all, I'm sick of hearing you gibbers." Beet complained.
"..." Shadow Beet watched him apathetically.
"The more you talk and instead of convincing me, you only make me more doubtful and in the meantime the voices, those voices... those screams ... the mocking voices of those cursed children..."
"GRANNY'S HAIR, GRANNY'S HAIR, GRANNY'S HAIR, GRANNY'S HAIR!" a chorus of children was audible, and it seemed to be humming a song in a clear derisive tone.
"..."
"GRANNY'S HAIR, GRANNY'S HAIR, GRANNY'S HAIR, GRANNY'S HAIR!"
"I want... I want to end it now... I want to die…"
End of Chapter 16
CONFIDANTS
0. The Trainer (Victor): Rank 3
1. The Exchanger (Hop): Rank 2
5. The Calmer (Kabu): Rank 2
7. The Conqueror (Gloria): Rank 2
12. The Empathazier (Milo): Rank 1
19. The Saver (Leon): Rank 1
POKESOULS WITH VICTOR:
Braixen (Victyr),
Carvanha (Manaqua - Hoodubh),
Blitzel (Zerabarq)
Author's Notes
헤이 얘들 아!. (Hei Yaedeul A!.) Like always, I invite you to leave your opinion or critic in the comment, check the Deviantart account amd the Pokesona Instagram account, and the playlist for this chapter is in the comment section. And with that said stay safe and until next time, farewell