Author's Note: this may very well be the most brutal chapter. You have hereby been warned. If ya don't want to see brutality, death, and some very gory stuff please exit now. If not, enjoy.

And on recommendation from a friend, I decided to try something else with this chapter, showing the victims view for once.

Again you've been warned.

Chapter 28: Reckoning

Shadow had watched more than enough. He began to hover slowly over. Cleave stomped upon Blade's back again and again. When he finally let up he kneeled beside Blade. "Well now, do you have any last words?"

All of Blade's fear suddenly vanished and he spoke again. "Who's the second strongest member of your pack?"

Cleave grinned and pointed to a female weavile. "That would be her."

Blade rested there leaving one final sentence to them. "Get fucked."

"Oh I intend to Blade, don't you worry your worthless little…" Cleave was cut off as he looked over seeing the very weavile he pointed to being held against a tree screaming out in fear.

She was terrified, the only sight to greet her in the dark was that single glowing red eye, but she could barely see it. Shadow had his claws over her face, pressing the tips of his claws into her eye sockets until he felt he had a good enough angle. Then he stabbed his claws in, and in one decisive motion pulled her left eye out. Then as tears began to stream down her other eye he made to take that as well. The entire pack attacked him, bombarding his back with dozens of attacks. Slash, ice beam, metal claw, no matter how many hit him or how hard, he didn't so much as flinch. He simply pulled the weavile's other eye out and dropped her to the ground. He turned to face the pack, that crimson eye melding to look like death surrounded by the billowing white smoke of his head. They staggered back at the sight before them.

I hadn't stopped screaming the moment he began pulling my left eye out. 'what is he doing, why can't I stop screaming why is everything going?' The sight I had was replaced by pitch black in my left eye, the image of the darkrai's single red eye was burned into my brain as he began to extract the right. 'No stop please! Please I'm sorry!' And then my vision was gone, replaced only by darkness and the terrifying sight of the single crimson eye. Fear was all I felt, but then it all stopped.

Shadow didn't speak, he simply grabbed another weavile by their arm and forced their claws out, quickly stabbing them over and over with their own claws. Their cries went unheard as Shadow continued stabbing over and over again turning their stomach into a bloodied mess of paste. The pitch-black pokemon released them and they hit the ground, clutching their stomach hoping to save themselves, but there was no fixing what Shadow had done to them.

The darkrai's grip on my arm was beyond anything I'd ever felt, any more pressure and the bone would snap and be crushed. The way their arm twisted forced my claws out, and then. Pain. So much pain. One, two, three, four. 'He's…..stabbing me with my own claws….' I tried to scream for help, but there was nothing, no sound, just that feeling. Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. 'Why won't the pain stop? Why doesn't he stop? This hurts so much, I can't stop him, I can't move! Am I? Am I going to die?' Thirty-seven, Thirty-eight, Thirty-nine. 'He's still going. I can't feel my stomach, it's like there's nothing there anymore. Why won't he stop?!' Fifty. 'What's he doing? He let go!' I clutched at my stomach, trying to hold everything in, but it all spilled out like liquid, I couldn't save myself if I wanted to. Thump.

Another weavile attacked and he caught it once again forcing the claws out and stabbing them in the stomach again. The pack reeled awaiting the savage onslaught of stabs, but they never came. Shadow instead pulled the claws until he split the weavile's stomach open horizontally. He then jammed his free claw inside and pulled out his intestines. The weavile was stunned beyond belief, and couldn't even utter a cry of pain. Shadow quickly took the intestines and wrapped them around his neck several times before hoisting him up. The dual type thrashed and alternated between clutching their stomach to try and hold in the other organs to clutching at his intestines as they constricted his throat and strangled him. Shadow let them suffocate a moment before roughly jerking upward snapping their neck instantly with the force of the motion.

'No, stay away from me!' that was all I could think as that monster pulled me by the claws. He forced them out and stabbed me in the gut with them. I felt my blood ooze out of the wound as I stared up into his eye. That eye, it had me frozen, I couldn't even bring myself to struggle. 'what is happening? I feel almost empty inside?' His claw was cold and dark as it pulled my intestines. No matter how much I willed my body to move, the fear and the pain kept me frozen. Even as I felt my own intestines wrapped around my neck, even as I felt myself lift from the ground. 'There! A chance!' I struggled and thrashed trying to pry my intestines away, but I kept feeling more spill out, so in a vain attempt I tried to alternate between them. I couldn't breath, and after all that, all the suffering and pain. He just jerked up and. Crack.

They hit the ground and the pack was frozen with fear. Shadow took a third weavile by the claws this time simply snapping them off. The sickening crack and shatter of the claws left the weavile screaming out. Just as the darkrai intended, he reached in and pulled the weavile's tongue out, and before it was even able to register in their mind, Shadow had severed the tongue with their own claw. As they reeled back, he pulled them close by the head and shoved the claw into their mouth setting the pointed tip against the roof of their mouth before abruptly forcing their mouth shut stabbing the claw up into their head from the inside.

'He just dropped my partner, why's he grabbing me. Nonononono! Don't stab me with them….don't kill me like you killed him! Please!' he twisted my claws out and grabbed them, snapping them off at the base. I couldn't help but scream out. Something happened, my tongue went numb suddenly, but it didn't stop my screams 'I shouldn't have, he's holding my mouth open. Why is he putting my claw inside? What's he doi….' Slam.

They dropped face first onto the ground. And Shadow went for the fourth weavile, the last one excluding Cleave himself. Shadow simply held this one by the neck and squeezed until he felt the bones shatter and the passage of their throat collapse under the pressure. Their body went limp almost instantly. And Shadow, this time slammed them into the ground hard enough to completely bury their head in a split second.

'He's choking me?! Why won't he let go?! What is he?!' I thrashed as best I could feeling the pressure crushing my windpipe. His grip only grew stronger and stronger. 'can't breath…. Can't move…no escape' he finally applied full pressure and…crunch.

Thirteen pokemon in all, four Weavile, eight Sneasel, and Cleave. But no more, now it was just Cleave and his Sneasel.

Shadow turned again, this time to face one Sneasel. He lifted it by the ears and began pulling the feathers from its body one after the other. It thrashed and writhed in a vain attempt to escape, but Shadow held it still as he began to pry the gem from its forehead. The gem came out with a profuse amount of blood which splattered the darkrai's lower body. The Sneasel was about to pass out when Shadow tore the gem from its chest as well, the pain suddenly shooting them back awake in seconds.

'it hurts! My head! My back! Why's he taking my feathers?! Hasn't he hurt us enough?' that pain was indescribable, like having a tooth yanked out with no numbing. No even that wasn't an apt description. 'No, no not my gems!' that pain was something else. The way his dark claws dug into my forehead, cracking and splitting the skull as he pulled the gem from my forehead. It felt like, well the only closely relatable thing is, having something thin and hard shoved under your fingernails. The pain pushed me too far. I was just about to pass out, but the pain erupted again this time as he tore the gem from my chest. Then he threw me away.

Shadow tossed them aside and grabbed another violently, taking them to a nearby rock. The pack attacked once more, desperately trying to stop Shadow from killing more. They didn't even slow the nightmare inducing pokemon. He simply began slamming the sneasel's head into the rock every time a sickening crack could be heard. Again and again he slammed their head in until finally their skull caved against the rock.

I was dragged by my head, the way that darkrai pulled me to that rock was horrible. But then he started. The first slam left me dizzy and dazed, then he slammed me again. I felt my face weakening with every motion. Until finally, my face simply came apart, and he let me hit the ground.

Shadow turned quickly, snatching another one up as the previous one hit the ground, it's destroyed face looking like nothing but excess flesh with no bone inside. The darkrai let out a slight chuckle as he pressed the sneasel's head to the stone and forcefully scraped it across. He twisted the Sneasel around revealing that the entire right side of their face had just been removed in that single motion. This left the muscle and sinew exposed on the smaller pokemon. The darkrai slammed the other side of their face into the rock, and the pack watched in horror as he did it again, ripping away the flesh with the stone before them.

'No, I don't want my skill caved in, I don't want to die please!' he slammed me into the rock as if he could hear me. His eye was focused entirely on me when he pulled me. Rip, tear, drip, all of those sounds in my head as I felt my face torn open and off. I was in a panic, I wanted to live, I wanted to escape, but he turned me around and do the same, harder, the pain was simply too…

He tossed them to the ground and once again turned back to face the pack. Five left.

One turned to run, but Shadow seized them by the head feather before forcing them to face him. He sprouted his dark spindly legs as he kicked it's knee, forcing the bones out the other side. He took the Sneasel by the arm and slammed against the elbow forcing the bone to protrude outward as he drove it into the dual type's eye.

I shouldn't have run, my legs would still be intact. My skin, and fur torn open behind the knee, I couldn't describe the pain if I tried. He's taken me by the arm. I can't feel my hand, but it feels like something's out and….Stab

Shadow threw them upon another and stared into their eyes as he stabbed them through the chest with his own claw, without hesitation he took hold of the smaller pokemon's heart and ripped it out holding it upon display for the remaining Sneasel and he crushed it in his claw.

Too fast, couldn't see it happen. Just a blur…

He looked to another and it dropped backwards on the ground. Shadow gave an almost friendly look to the dual type. The pitch-black pokemon helped them to their feet before forcing their claws out and stabbing them in the throat with them.

The last two Sneasel held each other tight awaiting Shadow's judgement. They hoped it would never come, but Shadow pried them away from each other. He strangled one with a single claw as he slammed the other into a tree over and over again. Finally they both stopped thrashing, one with a shattered neck, the other with an entirely shattered spine. He tossed them aside as he floated close to Cleave and Blade.

"My my my, someone likes to break what doesn't belong to them." Shadow took a step forward with his spindly legs. And Cleave scurried back. Shadow kneeled down and froze Blade's wound shut. "Perhaps I'll take something from you, though the only thing you value seems to be your life."

Cleave staggered away, only for Shadow to burst forth and stop mere inches from his face. Cleave took a swipe at Shadow with his claws extended to their limit, but the darkrai caught his claw and snapped the three digits off catching one in mid air. The pitch-black pokemon pulled him forward and stomped against the side of his leg twisting and breaking it. Cleave tried to turn to run, but Shadow repeated the motion with Cleave's other leg. Shadow pulled him into the air by his neck, while making his trophy disappear, he stabbed into Cleave's chest just right to puncture a lung.

The darkrai dropped him to the ground and stomped the arm with the broken claw until it was broken. He kneeled beside Cleave. "Crawl. If you can escape, I'll let you live." Shadow stated as the weavile slowly dragged himself across the ground. "You'll never get away if you're that slow." Shadow created a shard of ice and stabbed it into Cleave's leg. "I'll leave you like this for now. Blade is in need of attention. Besides, I see no way could make it out of this alive." Shadow turned back and went to Blade lifting the Sneasel up and cradling him as a knight would a rescued princess. Shadow used teleport. And they were gone.