Kai looked at Red Sun and recalled a pending Magical Contract.
"I have another command for you, Red Sun," Kai said, flicking his hand, and taking out the Pokedex. "Fill it up with as many Digimon as you can, including their evolutionary stages.
"Meg will contact you through the Primordial Tower Trade Market, giving you further orders. From now on, all her words are my words."
As Red Sun frowned, Kai sent a Party link to him.
Party Members could see who else was in the Party.
So, as Red Sun saw three Contestants in the party, with one Code Named Spawn, and the other Stark Blue, he instantly realized whom Kai was talking about.
He also realized all three Party members were women, making him look at his chest again.
"Do you have HP capsules?" Kai asked Red Sun.
Somewhere along the line, Kai had already consumed all his Rare Grade HP Capsules which Red Sun had given him in the Pokemon Random World.
Now, Kai didn't even have his Uncommon HP capsules.
Since the descent of Reality Marble, Selene had been sleeping in Kai's heart.
She had suffered much, losing her entire body below her head, and had shown no sign of waking up.
"No, my lord. Those were 3rd-Set's premium grade HP Capsules. I gave all my savings to you… I mean… I lost them."
Red Sun winked.
Kai's jaw dropped.
What?! Kai was shocked. How much of a boot-licker was he to give all his savings to Petyr in the Pokemon World?
Even Moraine felt utterly flabbergasted, stepping away from him as if she feared catching a disease.
Over Kai's head, Cersei giggled, but her voice didn't leave the shadow mask on her face.
Kai knew well his 3-days Time Limit was already over, and his Mission Credits were vanishing at an astonishing rate.
So he just shook his head, forgetting about HP Capsules for now.
Kai threw a look at Moraine, then.
"You will have your orders soon enough," he told her, looking her up and down. "Till then, do as you please."
Moraine looked back at him, her long, blue hair stuck to her face, drenched in blood. "Don't forget the Promise."
Kai didn't deign to reply.
He flicked his hands, and turned around, disappearing in the dark, with Cersei flying behind him.
On the ground, Red Sun and Moraine eyed Kai's blurring silhouette with complex gazes before giving each other a look and scurrying away in different directions.
Kai showed no haste, running casually over the desolate island.
But just as he made sure that they had gone out of Red Sun and Moraine's sight, he pulled Cersei toward him.
A teleportation vortex appeared in front of Kai as he sent Cersei back to the Tales of Beedle the Bard, ignoring the blush on her cheeks.
Then, with a last look at the Port Royal, he threw himself into the vortex.
However, just as Kai was about to step into the vortex, something happened that made him stop.
His eyes widened, a great shock chilling his spine.
Covered in filth, bubbling shadows, and wrath-despair-sadness beyond bounds, she was looking at him from the sides.
Kai couldn't believe it.
He just refused to believe it.
Was it truly…
… Elizabeth Swann?!
Why was she… Why was she… here?!!
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A few minutes ago,
In the sewers under the Governor's mansion, there was a figure, nailed to the arching, filthy wall.
Nails were running through her palms, embedded into the grime-covered wall, and her feet were dangling, filth reaching up to her waist.
These sewers weren't well-developed, to begin with.
Their size dwindled between 4 ft height, max, to 2 ft minimum.
In such a cramped place, naked and alone, was Elizabeth Swann.
After spending an entire night in sewers, breathing the wretched smell of filth, and the booms overhead rocking her figure, Elizabeth had survived.
But, if one were to hold their breath to keep the putrid smell out of their noses, they could hear a whisper.
A form of jumbled words as if someone was chanting or praying something.
Only when one neared Elizabeth's mouth did these words gain a discernible form.
"Truth…" she was saying, drooling. "… I… must know… the Truth."
It was then something stirred within the filth, like a fish in the water. It bobbed up and down as if it was trying to come out, but lacked strength.
Elizabeth gave it no attention.
Then, with a soft bang, a hand protruded out of the grime.
It was a bony hand, only half a foot. And black. So black, in fact, that one could call it a shadow.
The tiny hand clawed at the wall and pulled its body out.
It was a frail and stick-like body, completely black from head to feet.
From all over the body, a black fog was emanating, along with drops of black liquid, melting into the filth underneath it.
The black shadow had no comprehensible face, but the subtle curves and its eyes did match a certain existence.
The Shadow Lord!!!
Pirate Lord Henry Morgan, the mightiest Alchemist of the Pirates of the Caribbean Random Worlds, was still alive!
No. He wasn't still alive.
Better would be to say he had resurrected within one of his shadow creatures.
Shadow Lord had indeed died.
But it wasn't the first time Shadow Lord had died, either.
In the past, the Pirates Lord, with the help of Captain Jack Sparrow, had already disposed of him once using the shadow gold; the substance that gave him powers.
However, it was this substance that had allowed him to gain a further understanding of his arts, enhancing his knowledge.
That's why, since his resurrection, Shadow Lord had been biding his time, waiting for the right opportunity.
Yet, even he failed to fathom the mystery of the being who called himself Red, and his powers.
"Cough!" Shadow Lord coughed, tumbling to gain his footing. "… What… is this power?"
On the shadow creature's forehead, a yellow stroke glowed hideously.
Qliphoth Genesis… was a Seal on Shadow Lord's existence which even resurrection could not dispose of.
It was then that Shadow Lord faced Elizabeth, eying her state.
"Cough! Cough!" Shadow Lord's cough intensified, and his left arm fell off, becoming black fog. "I… can't survive."
Once more he looked at the young lady; if there was anything about her that could be said living.
"Who… are you?" he asked, his voice breaking. "What are… you doing here? Let me have a… look."
Some said that if the notorious pirate Edward Teach, commonly known as Blackbeard, was a demon, then Henry Morgan was a downright devil.
He had no sympathy or mercy for anyone.
For his benefit, he could do anything.
In these things, Shadow Lord was exactly like Kai.
But there was one thing more that they shared, a soft spot; if one dared to give it a name.
Family!
Shadow Lord touched Elizabeth Swann's head and her memories flashed in his mind.
After a few seconds, he let his hand fall, strength abandoning him because of the Seal.
"Elizabeth…" he whispered, an ancient presence filling his voice.
His own memories went to the past, searching for a face he seemed to have long forgotten. "… Mary… Oh, Mary! Would things… be different if you were at my side? Would they?"
Few remember, but Sir Pirate Morgan wasn't a loveless man.
There was one woman he loved the most, to whom he had given his everything — Mary Elizabeth, his wife!
Elizabeth Swann's name had resurrected an old memory, bringing Shadow Lord's mind to a point in the past he had never imagined he would visit.
Endless emotions found him, embracing him like a lost friend.
"Sigh!" Sir Henry Morgan sighed, a touch of serenity lingering in his breath as if a tremendous weight had lifted off his shoulders. "Perhaps… Perhaps it's time for me to move on."
Shadow Lord gave Elizabeth a decisive look and put the tip of his index finger on her forehead.
"Live, Elizabeth," he mumbled, endless black fog seeping into the young lady's naked body. "Live for revenge. Kill the one who brought you suffering, the pirates who forced you to go through everything, and the marines who couldn't save you.
"Kill this Captain Red of the White Serpent Pirates. Kill all and everything.
"Let the Day of the Shadows descend on this world once more. Take my legacy and become… the Shadow Princess!"
Elizabeth, for the first time, lifted her head, her eyes darker than dark, deader than dead.
"I…" she whispered, shadows rippling in her mouth. "… I will know the Truth."
The tiny shadow creature crumbled, his head falling off.
Dying, once again and for the last time, Shadow Lord's gaze seemed to pierce through the sewers' walls, eying a smiling face.
He smiled at that smile. "Mary… I have finally come."
Bang!
A shadowy bang rang within the sewers, the filth surging like waves.
A cloak of shadows covered Elizabeth's figure.
Her hair gained a shade of the blackest color, and when she breathed, black, evil fog escaped her mouth.
In her eyes, there was a distinct hint of knowledge, as if she had just come to know some deeper mysteries of the universe.
The Shadow Princess had taken birth!
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Shadows howled around Elizabeth Swann, the Shadow Princess.
She had recognized Kai as the Demander of Truth — the Pirate she must must must must Kill!
"Hahahlyhehahaliue!" Elizabeth laughed, cried, and cackled, standing in her position. The Shadow Lord's Powers were still uncontrolled and unknown to her.
She looked around and saw nothing but death.
Her friends, family, and life… gone.
Nothing mattered now.
Elizabeth looked at Kai and saw the cause of his madness; this death; this despair.
"I CURSE YOU!" the Shadow Princess cried, digging her nails into her shadowy face. Her skin peeled off along with the blackness. "I CURSE YOU!! I WILL KILL YOU!!!"
With soul-chilling abruptness, a notification appeared in Kai's eyes, washing his pupils with grayness.
…
[
Activating Cosmic Authority…
Outer One Title confirmed…
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Congratulations Contestant Kai Stormborn…
You have orchestrated a new Lore
…
Cosmic Authority: Outer One (2/3)
1. The Evil Pokemon of Alto Mare
2. The Demander of Truth
Lore of the Evil Pokemon of Alto Mare and the Demander of Truth:
The Devastating Despair
The Blue-skinned Demon
The Unforgivable Cursed One
The Scion of Death
]
…
Boom!
The Shadow Princess shot toward the Pirate, annihilating everything in her wake.
Kai's gaze had gone harder than hard as he looked at the 2nd Cosmic Authority and its Lore. He had been already feeling apprehension about the DEATHs gazes.
But this Lore seemed to have hammered the nail deeper into his consciousness.
Kai stared into Elizabeth Swann's dead eyes and, as if mockingly, slowly melted into the vortex.
Behind the void that he left in his absence, the shrill, maniacal, and revengeful screams of a hopeless creature echoed across the obliterated Port Royal.
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Volume 14: The Scion of Death -Ends!!!
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AN: How was the Side Mission guys?
Officially, the novel has become an alternate timeline when compared to the Original Fanfic.
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