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[ POV Change ]

Fearow's heart sped up as he anxiously thought his trainer might be in danger.

( ~ Sttsh ~ )

Fearow used a drill run to break through Lavender Tower windows as he entered the floor Austin was on.

What did he see truly shocked him to his core?

[ A few minutes earlier ]

Buried Alive's hands clenched harder under the shocked eyes of Marowak, Butterfree, and Austin.

The Pokeball exploded.

" NO !"

Austin shouted as something snapped within his head.

( ~ Boom ~ )

Buried Alive's rotting body was flung and waves of aura escaped from Austin's body.

Marowak used her bone to prevent herself from being flung back unlike poor Butterfree who crashed into the walls.

" Free," Butterfree grunted as he saw his trainer run forward and crash his fist into Buried Alive's face.

Buried Alive turned to Austin who was blinded by anger.

Butterfree sensed a ghostly aura gather in Buried Alive's hands as he used

to open one of Austin's pokeballs before crying out.

" Free !"

Bulbasaur appeared beside Austin as he immediately launched an energy ball toward Buried Alive's hands under Butterfree's shout.

( ~Ssss~ )

Bulbasaur's energy ball clashed with Buried Alive's ghostly energy.

Using this split-second opportunity, Marowak's bone is outstretched as a blue aura forms into bone constructs.

Marowak then used fling as dark-type energy wrapped around her bone rush.

Marowak gazed upon Buried Alive with hatred as she flung the bone rush at his head.

( ~ Whoosh ~ )

Marowak's bone shattered Buried Alive's jaw.

Austin used this opportunity to throw an overhand punch as he twisted his hips while performing a semi-circular and vertical punch thrown directly at Buried Alive's face.

Buried Alive was disoriented as he crashed into the ground.

His face turned to see Marowak charging at him with a skull bash.

Fuck.

Buried Alive couldn't help but curse as Marowak's attack made Butch's rotting corpse into a paste smothered on the wall.

" Marowak!"

Marowak screamed up as the last attack was of a mother for her lost son.

Austin couldn't even feel sympathy for Buried Alive as he was too disgusted and furious about its actions.

Fearow broke through the windows as it looked shocked at the scene before rushing to his trainer.

Austin smiled as he saw the look of worry in Fearow's eyes.

{ It's not over yet. }

Hearing the telepathic command of Munna, Austin's gaze hardened before one of the pokemon on his belt was suddenly enveloped by a greenish aura before it was replaced by the dark crystal device.

Austin received a lot of information from Munna telepathically as he looked at Fearow.

" Think you can give us a ride."

" Fearow !"

Fearow cawed and puffed out his chest.

Who else is going to give you a ride?

Austin climbed into Fearow as he returned to Butterfree and Bulbasaur.

" Get me to the bottom of the Lavender Tower."

" Fea !"

Marowak gazed upon Austin as he left Fearow's back.

She knew that it was partially his fault that her precious son was gone but she couldn't blame him.

He didn't know that her son would die at that thing's hands.

He even tried to save them.

Marowak closed her eyes as she sent a prayer to Arceus to keep the human safe.

The destroyed shards of Cubone's pokemon scattered around the floor suddenly shattered into pieces of sparkling dust.

{ Miss Marowak, I know it's not the time to ask you this but can you help us? }

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[ Lavender Tower: Sealed Room ]

The severed white hand was covered in a ghostly aura as intricate runic symbols carved into the hand glowed in a purplish light.

The surrounding talismans began to be enveloped by another wordly flame.

( ~ Boom ~ )

The door to the sealed room was suddenly blasted open as a spinning Wortortle made his entrance with a dab.

Wortortle shot a water gun onto the otherworldly flame but the water didn't have any kind of effect on it.

A pink paw outstretched from the blasted hole in the door as Clefairy used gravity to separate the otherworldly flames from the talismans.

Wortortle gave Clefairy a thumbs up which he returned with a double thumbs up.

Austin crawled along Bulbasaur and paused while looking at the severed white hand holding onto the ancient Pokeball and the distorted statues of the 3 evils.

Creepy.

Austin gulped before taking a few breaths while moving forward. Clefairy, Wortortle, and Bulbasaur stood guard over Austin who pulled out a knife to prick his finger causing blood to flow out.

Buried Alive's aura spiked as he sensed what Austin was doing.

Austin meanwhile drew the symbol " theta nigrum" onto the severed hand while thinking.

I am going to wash this hand a hundred times after this.

Suddenly Austin's theta nigrum glowed with a crimson aura that seemed to cause the other intricate runic symbols on the carved hand to dim before the glow completely vanished.

( ~ Screech ~ )

Buried Alive's scream bellowed out from the surroundings as Fearow who used pursuit to hide in Austin's shadow shot out using an aerial wing.

Fearow's wing slashed through the severed hand's wrist before ghostly energy swirled into reality.

Buried Alive's face manifested into reality scaring the ever-living shit out of Austin and his pokemon.

"

R̷̛̪̈̎͛́̀͗͋̒͊̕̕͝ę̷̪͔͓̝͖̝͉̤̘͍̒̇̏͂͋̀͛̎̎̌͝͝͝͝ͅt̴̛͚̯̮̦͙̎̋̍̈̒̓̑͑̈̈̒̌ū̴̱̞̟͈͉̠̞͓͚̝̬̣̿͆̔̄̆̒ͅr̷̻̟̟̪̜̰̀n̵͕͉̫̪̮̠̟̫̺̟̤͑̈̒͆͜ ̶͍̫̹̣͓͙͔̩͉́̾͒̋̓̃̎̒́̆́͑̕͠Ì̷̧̛͉͓̩̭́̇͛̂̑̂̎̇̈́̅̑́͜t̶̟̩͙̮̺͈̬͍̫͎͎̘̣͆̊̓̎̽ͅ ̶̼͈̦̙̿͂̎͐" ( Return it )

Buried Alive bellowed out in his distorted voice as Austin used every last bit of courage to catch the falling severed hand.

{ Munna, when is the talisman coming?}

{ It's on its way }

{ Hurry up! }

Austin thought as he scrambled to run away from the astral head of Buried Alive.

Clefairy, Bulbasaur, Wortortle, and Fearow launched their strongest attacks at Buried Alive whose eyes glowed in response before waves of ghostly energy enveloped everything around them.

Their attacks faded away like mist as Bulbasaur, Wortortle, Clefairy, and Fearow were knocked to the floor.

They tried to stand and defend their trainer but Buried Alive's aura was too much.

Clefairy looked at Buried Alive approaching closer and closer to his trainer who tried to run and hide using the dark crystal device but they were in its domain, there was no place to hide.

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