This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
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"you carry lyanna to yveltal, then," iskander sighed, and stabbed the pencil into one of lyanna's open wounds for lack of a place to dispose it in. "i have to mangle some bits of the surveillance."
Batin heaved Lyanna off the bed, up into his arms, and made his way out of the room.
4XnPq5rc > 50 Lyanna screams for help > 50 encounter nurse
The Dream Queen might not have flinched at having a pencil stuck through her arm, but she apparently drew the line at actual kidnapping. She tried to scream, though her voice was still hoarse from years of disuse, and she only ended up making a thin whistling noise, like a distant tea kettle.
A nurse stepped out of the station as they passed by though, her eyes lighting on them with horror.
"I was just looking for you," Batin said cheerily. He thrust Lyanna towards her. "She's dripping blood all over the floor, it has to be a health code hazard."
The woman turned; whether it was to run back into the station and hide, or to raise an alarm, Batin never found out.
> 50 minerva shows up > 50 yveltal
Minerva stepped out of the doorway behind the woman, silent, and ran her through with a stone edge. She caught the body as it crumpled to the floor, and then incinerated it with a fusion bolt.
< She will no longer be a hindrance. >
"Thank you," Batin said. "Would you grab one end of this woman? She's getting heavy?"
At long last, they made their way to the roof of the hospital where Yveltal waited. Batin laid Lyanna down on the ground before the legendary.
hacking into the surveillance cameras was a breeze. iskander spending time with aaron had paid off handsomely. a quick switch-around was all that was needed for them to clean things up in the ward; there was no sign of two men ever entering, and neither were there signs of distortion landing on the hospital's helipad. iskander stepped away from the security room and returned to the ward.
what remained was a single patient in the intensive care unit. iskander moved to the bedside, and watched the sleeping figure.
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yveltal watched batin return with the woman, and took a step back when he laid her down before him. 'you reek of the dream world, it said, spreading the influence of its phantom force over lyanna as well. 'perhaps you will fare better in your next life.' the ghastly energy seeped into lyanna's skin, discoloring her face before she turned into ash, her life drained away from her.
it cocked its head, feeling significantly more energized than before. it could sense that the hospital was full of weak people -- this wasn't what it wanted, and yet, it was bound by honor to aid the two in their conquests.
iskander soon returned to the roof. he walked slower than he did before, as he was carrying someone.
yveltal immediately took interest in the new presence.
'this one comes from the land of nightmares.' yveltal watched her with a narrowed eye. unlike lyanna, it did not take interest in the new presence. it had no interest in dabbling in the matters of the land of nightmares -- its rightful place was in the waking world, where lives were real and its powers were strong. 'it is not pure.'
<50 yveltal takes them home >50 yveltal destroys the hospital
Batin looked over at Iskander and his cargo with as much interest as Yveltal had disdain.
But all he said was "Small world," and clambered onto Yveltal's back again. Pointing out to the legendary that he also resided in the Land of Nightmares and was probably impure seemed like a counterproductive idea.
As Yveltal consented to bear the unclean cargo and prepared to bear the four of them away, lifting up from the hospital, it began to glow brighter and brighter in the eyes of those cloaked under phantom force with it. (Those whom were awake to see, anyway.) Tendrils of energy snaked from the hospital to the bird. A tasteless meal, but one that sated its hunger for the time.
As it winged towards Iskander's home, the hospital collapsed inward on itself behind them, sliding apart in a terrible shower of rubble and metal. If there had been any left alive from Yveltal's feeding inside, it was doubtful they could have survived.
yveltal's taste for the land of nightmares was different. it was one thing to have been honed by it for a long time, and another to have been briefly touched by it in several different ways.
the hospital crumbled under its might, and it took to the skies once all signs of life force had disappeared. yveltal circled the air above juno for a while, before landing atop the roof of the old eltanin house. it remained silent.
COorEAiP <50 yveltal takes them somewhere else
yveltal dropped them off on the roof, before flying off and back to the tower of janus.
still carrying the patient from before, iskander turned to batin. "what now?" he asked, quietly.
He nodded at the patient in Iskander's arms. "You might to get her to a bed," he said. "Considering she got ripped out of the intensive care unit. If you need, I'm sure I can raid Nerio's hospital for supplies."
He had a rather intimate knowledge of the building, after all.
"I also wouldn't mind some tea, if that's alright." Minerva shifted nervously behind him.
"she's still breathing," said iskander, watching the slow rise and fall of her chest. "but yes, i need to lay her down." he glanced down from the roof. it was a good drop from where they were standing to ground, and there was no other way of descending. "i'll have tresillian make us some tea -- but the lucario can't go into the house. sorry, batin, but i don't want to startle the old butler."
tQA57qz_ >50 jumps safely into a balcony
it took some careful balancing and a good grasp of mathematics, but iskander managed to land on a balcony on the second floor without coming to much harm. his patient was also still intact; he didn't know if the shock had jolted her, though. he slid open the glass doors into the adjoining room, and laid her down on the bed.
< Please don't be too long, > Minerva whispered to Batin. < It's cold. >
He contemplated telling her to warm up by lighting something with a fusion bolt, but he wasn't sure she wouldn't let it get out of hand. And he certainly didn't want to burn Iskander's house to the ground via an electrical fire.
Batin jumped down lightly after Iskander and entered the room. While the other man rang the bell, for lack of anything better to do Batin drifted to the bed and pushed a lock of hair back from Neo's face.
"What was she doing in there?"
He assumed it had something to do with her little field trip with him, but he wasn't sure of the specifics.
"she fainted," said iskander, ducking back in and walking over to the bed, "i couldn't leave her lying where she was. it would draw suspicion."
tresillian arrived in the guest room a moment later with a tray of tea and assortment of sandwiches; it was the best that he could provide on such short notice. to batin, he smiled; to neo, he merely raised a querying eyebrow and then a questioning glance at iskander, before he left them to their own devices.
iskander noted that tresillian had prepared three teacups. perhaps the butler was more alert than he let on. "cheers," he said a little too cheerfully for someone who had just witnessed a hospital go to ruin, and tapped his teacup against batin's. "we should go on adventures like that more often."
"it was great fun," batin agreed, sipping his tea. "do you want to schedule one for next week? but in regards to our mutual friend there, i was curious more about why she fainted in the first place. lingering effects from her time with me? she seemed rather put out about being infected."
