The Patron Quadrilogy: The Legend Begins

Chapter 36

Monday, October 16th, 5:02 p.m.
Tree of Beginning
(May)

"I'll take you down on my own!" Raina growled as she ran at Chess. "I am Raina, the last surviving member of the Zephyr Clan. And a Zephyr never goes back on her word!"

"Zephyr, huh?" Chess said as he stepped back. "Zephyr.... Zephyr....." He repeated, as if he were trying to remember something, while also dodging Raina's attacks. "Oh, that's right! That's the name of the woman and kid that I killed!"

Raina stopped cold. "You.... Y-you're the one who killed my mother and brother!?" She choked out as she felt tears rolling down her cheeks. May felt her blood run cold.

"This man killed her mother and brother?"

"Guilty as charged," Chess smirked. He could see that Raina was frozen in fear and grief. He grabbed her by her shirt collar, and raised her into the air. His hand glowed with Aura. "To think that there was another Zephyr that lived. Oh well," he sneered. "Today will mark the end of the Zephyr Clan."

"Raina..." May whispered as she struggled to get back up. Suddenly May felt another surge of Energy, but something was off about it. "This isn't adrenaline, what's happening!" She winced slightly. "Whatever it is, it burns! It feels like I'm standing by an open oven!"

"This is.... unprecedented," Kyogre remarked. "Human, you are something else."

"What's happening!? It burns!"

"You seem to have tapped into my strength on your own. All Patrons can do this, but I've never seen it to this degree. I have to stop the Energy flow now, or you really will die."

"Please, just let me have a little more strength... Let me save my friend.." she thought as she got to her feet, feeling this new Energy coursing through her. And she could feel the pain increasing as well.

"Can you still take the pain?" The Sea Basin Pokémon asked.

"Yeah, I can."

"Then go. Be quick about it!"

"Dragon Cl-"

*BANG*

Chess was cut off by a shooting pain around his waist, and shortly after a white and blue gloved fist connecting square with his jaw. May had lunged at him and punched him. The punch, though generic, made Chess drop Raina and sent him flying back several feet, making him collide back first into some debris. Chess landed and grabbed his waist, bringing his hand up to his face after and seeing that it was stained with blood. His blood. He looked up and saw May standing by Raina. Her face and neck were glowing with yellow streaks of Energy.

Back with Raina, May rested her hand on her shoulder. Raina looked up and gasped.

"Raina..." May said as she grabbed her and pulled her to her knees, hugging her. "It's going to be okay," she murmured to her as she felt Raina crying into her shoulder.

"I cut you off from my Energy, human."

"Well... it was fun while it lasted, Kyogre."

"It'll be.... Okay..." May said before finally passing out. Raina panicked and began shaking her.

"May? May!? Wake up!" She continued shaking her, trying to get May to wake up. She noticed that the yellow streaks of Energy had faded, leaving behind a reddish skin. "The Energy was so intense that it managed to burn her, even though it only lasted a minute!? What the hell was that?!"