Chapter 185: Soul Dew
Kai felt the overwhelming joy brimming out from everything as he landed on the grass.
Other than the obvious threat of the legendary Pokemon going insane and attacking him, nothing could hinder Phase 2 now. No one, not Order's Contestants, not Officer Jenny and her squad, not even Bianca's grandfather, Lorenzo, would have in their wildest imagination thought that Kai could enter the Secret Garden like this.
'If I didn't have Dementor's Blood Essence, then it would not have been so easy,' Kai thought, sneering, and looking around.
Even though it was nighttime, the Secret Garden was more than alive.
In the movie, this place was the home of Latias and Latios, bursting with wild Pokemon. Immense stone walls surrounded it, with brick fountains decorating its pathways. The entire field within the garden was grassy, and hundreds of fresh flowers swayed in passing gusts of gentle wind. Both natural and artificial ponds were glistening black and blue, and the sizes of trees varied from 10 to 100 ft.
All this gave the Secret Garden quite a Venetian Gardens type of look.
For Kai, the most beautiful thing, or better to say beautiful fact, was that only a few people knew of this location.
He and Item-M had concluded that even though Order's Contestants might have information regarding this place, they won't be allowed to come just because they were volunteers recommended by Officer Jenny. So they would center all their defenses on either the warehouse or the museum.
'Go to the museum and clear the area,' Kai had commanded Item-M after discussing all these points. 'When I come there, I must find no one other than the 4th-floor Contestant. Do not fight her by yourself. You are not her match in your current state.'
'Well,' Kai thought, his eyes landing on the three legendary Pokemon staring at him. 'Let's hurry, I think.'
He smiled, still holding Bianca like a rag doll with Selene coiled around her neck, and glided towards the tallest and grandest pool shimmering under the light of stars.
When he neared the pool, he put Bianca on the ground. -/Attack me and she will die,/- Kai warned the three Pokemon, before gliding off to the showering pillar of water.
He could feel the adult Latias closing in on Bianca, who was almost in a state of comatose but only smiled to himself at that.
The pool he was looking at was enclosed in a decorative metal cage of iron bars. The water in it had a distinct unearthly and spiritual glow, and it was falling into an open pond some 20 ft below the pool. This spiritual water seemed to be circulated throughout the Secret Garden through this pool.
'Fascinating!' Kai thought, and then his gaze landed on the altar, submerged at the bottom of the pool. It wasn't deep enough for him to not recognize the thing sitting over the Altar. It was a fist-sized, dark blue glassy ball. Thousands of silver-ghostly light were twinkling inside it as if there was a river of stars within it.
'Soul Dew,' Kai recalled the name, feeling immense waves of Breath emanating out of it. As he looked at it, his eyes beamed under his hood, and his breath rattled. This object was the cornerstone of Kai's plans, but the grin on his face, causing his dry lips to reach his ears, told that Kai had a more hideous and heaven-shaking scheme in his mind.
The two young Eon Pokemon were almost letting a growling coo.
Kai ignored them. His eyes shone with an imperceptible red glow, and the Soul Dew lodged out from the Altar using Telekinesis. Like a bullet, it flew towards Kai and he snatched it out of the air.
-Now!- he hissed out of the blue.
All things happened simultaneously and instantly.
Selene, who was already hissing furiously at the approaching adult Latias suddenly let go of Bianca and lunged at the Pokemon. Taken aback by this stupendous surprising action, the adult Latias flew back. But the distance between her and Selene was short enough for the Ghost Serpent to outmatch the Pokemon's reaction.
Selene's figure burst into a mass of silver mist, disappearing into adult Latias' body, and then, she exploded with a Soul Chill at her maximum capacity.
Never had this Secret Garden known such a horrendous and agonizing cry, a scream of pure agony. A frosty layer of white-blue color crawled its way around the red adult Latias, as she fell to the ground, crashing, thrashing her wings and her hands.
From the other side, the two young Eon Pokemon let out furious cooing noises. All the Secret Garden had come awake, suddenly. The water had lost its luster after Kai had taken out the Soul Dew too. Pokemon were coming out of the ponds, down from the trees, and out of the bushes. Kai recognized Yanma, Butterfree, and Poliwag among many.
But he didn't have the time to do anything else.
-Again- he hissed.
For the first time, the world got to know the horror named Selene, the so-proclaimed Goddess of Moonless Nights.
Soul Chill, like Intangibility, was her Ability. It could momentarily freeze a legendary Pokemon's soul, but it couldn't prevent it from healing and shaking its effect off. Kai wouldn't have used this move on the adult Latias if that had been the case.
But constant bursts of Soul Chill at maximum output? Now that was something else. Yes. It put quite a strain on the Ghost Serpent for her to do so continuously, but that was her job. Kai had these thoughts while planning this phase.
'All Items must serve their purpose,' he had told Selene. To that, Selene had just nodded, flicking out her tongue, as if Kai's cruel words was the most casual statement.
The adult Latias cried again, her coos becoming shriller with every next burst.
The young legendary Pokemon came to action, then. They couldn't do anything about the adult Latias, so like two immense powerful jets, they dashed towards Kai.
An unprecedented amount of danger rocked Kai's mind from all around, but in return, he just smiled.
He wasn't nearly as fast as them, and he wasn't equipped with monstrous moves as them, either. But he had one thing, which these young Pokemon lacked.
Brutality!
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AN: Following images will be available on author-interaction Channel of discord server
1. Images of Secret Garden
2. Images of Sacred Pool and Soul Jew with edited markings
3. Images of legendary Pokemon and how their invisible forms look like
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