The voice -1

As Aoki kept moving forward, the fog started getting denser.

After an hour of traveling, Pidgeotto reported various things.

The first thing he said was that she could not go higher than the fog as she would feel a head-splitting headache if she tried to do that.

The fog had completely messed up her sense of direction and was showing her different illusions making her confused about her location.

If not for the mental connection with Clefairy, she would have lost till now.

In spite of having a psychic barrier, weakness was taking over her quickly so Aoki called her back to the Pokeball.

After traveling for another hour, they came across a large number of fainted pokemon on the road with a condition as if they were getting sucked dry.

Some of them had a high fever while some of them were dead.

Something really bad was happening as Aoki's face was getting grim.

He has a rough idea that the mist is most probably done by a ghost pokemon with powers no less than elite Pokemon.

He had to hurry as if the Pokemons could die, the people in the town can too.

There was another question as to why only he was unaffected by all of this.

'H….m…'

[Master the amount of poison in the environment has increased ]

"How long can you hold? "

[A few more hours ]

"Let's hurry then "

'Hu…m'

After traveling for 2 more hours, something strange happened.

Aoki felt as if a voice was calling for him….

He already felt it before but it was getting clearer every minute.

He told his Pokemon to stop and focus if they can hear any voice as he closed his eyes for better hearing.

"Human…." Aoki heard a deep voice as he found himself in a dark space with a source of light a little far from him.

"What happened? Where am I ?" Aoki voiced in the dark space but somehow he felt like a strange calmness enveloped him and calmed him down.

"Human …" he again heard a voice but this time he was sure that it came from the source of light.

With no other choice, he decided to make a run toward the source of light.

With each step he took, he felt spirit-crushing fear halting his steps.

The fear was greater than the time when he ventured into the wild Pokemon alone…fear grater than the time when Arcanine was protected from an elite Pokemon and got critically injured….fear greater than the time when he confronted more than fifty Gyarados…fear greater than the time when he was surrounded by the Nido tribe.

He felt as if something was gripping his soul.

He bit his lips hard to focus.

'I have to move forward…I don't have time'

Slowly he took one step at a time towards the source of light where he feeling came from.

As he reached the source of light, he was beyond shocked to see what was there.

A pitch-black Pokemon whose limbs were tied up with purple chains.

The Pokemon had a white fog-like plum emerging from his head with a red scarf tied to his neck.

The overall appearance of the Pokemon was something like a monster from a fairy tale.

"Darkrai…." Aoki muttered as he clearly knew the Pokemon before him.

"Seems like you know about my species human," Darkrai said looking at Aoki.

As Darkrai said that, Aoki felt like all of his fears disappeared all of a sudden.

"Now if I look closely, you are truly a dark aura user " continued Darkrai as his blue eyes stared at Aoki from top to bottom.

"You must have a lot of questions, feel free to ask"

"What do you mean by dark aura? " Aoki asked as he was genuinely confused.

"You are immune to the passive effect from the energy of chaos.

You are the first human in centuries I have seen who has this ability.

This space is an ability of mine with which I am communicating with you.

These chains are a form of confinement seal that drains my powers

The only reason that I am able to communicate with is that you have powers related to darkness and my seal has weakened. "

"Power of Darkness? "

'When did I have something like that '

"The power behind the soul of a human is different for everyone.

A strong sole wielder can gain the power to use Aura or Psychic energy but the strongest soul gains the ability of Dark aura making release their energy to make the being around them grow faster and immune against many types of energies like the energy of chaos to a certain degree "

"Energy of Chaos ….Giratina "

Darkrai's eyes widened after hearing the name from Aoki

"I am surprised that you know about the source of energy of Chaos, I thought humans forgot that name," said Darkrai...

"I am here, that means you need me for something right ?"

"Yes, must have seen the fog surrounding here…in another 8 hours it will start spreading hundreds of Km and something very terrible will happen.

In the basement of Lavender town, you will find a gate.

You must enter the gate and kill everything inside the gate along with the Gengar that is leading them." said Darkrai as some unknown information flashed inside the head of Aoki.

Huff Huff!

Aoki dropped to the floor panting as he received a lot of mental pressure from the information relayed to him.

"You have to hurry human " Each word of Darkrai sent made his heart beat faster as Aoki began sweating profusely.