"The time for tea has passed Dahlia. Fix up these cups now"
"Okay master Darkening"

The bellossom maid said, as she picks up the cups and teapot onto the tray and walks. The heavy rain night with the occasional thunderous roar can be irritating, he needs some rest like everyone. At least his money survives the hardships of such conditions in his brilliant estate. He needs to be ready tomorrow, a business deal with Dr. Clefairious.

In the bedroom is Petunia covering the windows with curtains. A red ball then rolls into her view towards the snivy, she looked up and went into the hallway looking around of her would-be playmate. There is nothing there.

Ivy was admiring the rain outside her mansion, and went back to check on Yuki, Darkening's sister, she was rather irritated when the rain came and got her coat wet at least her pet, Mimi was able to ask a maid to clean it. After a brief chat with the hypnotist's sibling she went to the library and saw Petunia yawning at the foyer. She turned around and saw an open empty door that leads to a short and dark corridor to the guest room, she never remembered opening that door as it was closed by Dahlia 9 mins ago, she went there and shuts the door. When making a step into the library, a voice called out to her, it was Darkening.

"Darling? Have you seen my lighter?"

"It's in your office, dear"

Darkening went to the office and saw his lighter, he goes to the guest room to check on her sister. A conversation about business as usual and blaming the dark cloud for dropping water on her, Darkening at least made her a bit better that the coat will be cleaned by his finest maids. As her sister fancied herself to a nearby table (offscreen in the picture), Darkening lights up his cigar.

The sound of the door shut startled him just faintly.

"Hello?"

No one responded. He checked the hallway, empty.

"I need some rest, sister. Come along"
"Yes, my brother"

Dahlia is finishing cleaning up the teapot and was interrupted by Petunia.

"Ms. Dahlia?"
"Yes mistress, what do you need?"
"There is a mon at the door"

Dahlia went to the foyer and slightly peek through, it was a male shiny an anthro Mew with an umbrella at the right, the psychic-type seems to be wearing a white hoodie with blue letters that spell rockstar on the front. The way he had his left hand on his back suggests he is hiding an object. The right hand holding the umbrella is slightly turned to his left, making the umbrella akwardly bank against his head

"Is Freddy home?"
"I'm afraid you found the wrong house, sir"
"Well, he is he hom-"
"He's not here. I don't know Freddy."

A small pause of 13 seconds and the mew left, bringing the hidden object to his front, it is a purple gemstone. She was scratching her cranium, as it was strange to see someone holding a gem in the middle of a nighttime thunderstorm. She looked to her right and saw Petunia walking towards the stairs. The adult snivy stopped in her tracks and saw a red ball bouncing the down the stairs, Petunia looked up the stairs to find. Nothing. Dahlia also noticed the ball, she remembered when Petunia was young, she had toys, even some bouncing spheres. But the look on Petunia's face says she doesn't remember this object that hopped off the stairs.

Dahlia reached the hallway leading to Petunia's room and the room of Darkening, shared with his two wives Ivy, and Rachel. She turns to look at Petunia to find a Lycanroc standing in her room, holding a black diamond. Petunia is grabbed by the head with a tentacle swallowing her entire dome. Dahlia wants to scream but she can't for some reason, the Lycanroc then started to change. His white highlights began to change into black shadows, his eye also started to change, a human-like eye not belonging to an animal, that stares straight into her soul, his eyepatch was then absorbed into his missing right eye and the socket begins to form teeth. The grotesque figurine then grows what appeared to be new limbs at the lower torso sides, below on each arm.

She ran away from the hallway and her mouth finally unleashed a terrified howl. Rachel and Yuki then turned to the right at the direction of the bellossom's scream.

"What bloody hell was that?!"
"It's Dahlia!"

The 3 'chus and the Servine came to the direction of the scream, they found a distress Dahlia at the foyer.

"Something is in the mistress's room, it has Petunia!"
"Who has?!"
"Uh, mom what's going-"
"Ryan honey just-"
"Who's in her room Dahlia?!"
"It's a lycanroc"
"My steed?!"
"No it's not, it's a different one!! It has an eyepatch and then-"
"Show me the room! Rachel, take Ryan and find a safe place to hide! Yuki go with Rachel!"

Darkening and Ivy went to the room, to find a pair of wet footprints leading to the kitchen and to the dinning room. Ivy hears a scream behind her, Darkening was being dragged by something that has broken through the window, she pulled her husband away by the long moist ropelike mass, sacrificing his top hat. Another appendage, dripping from the rain tries grabbing the couple, they retreated going into room to room, trying to find their missing Snivy daughter.

While at the garage, Rachel pulled out a sledgehammer from the tool section, looking at both the two entrances with a scared Ryan, Dahlia and worried Yuki behind her. These 'mons are clearly not the type of explorers/rescuers she knows, who are they? What do they want with Lotsamoni? Every Pokemon in the town hates him for being such a snob but why did they went for their daughter first? The thought of violent intruders trying to take their children is immensly an adult fear she has felt before but this one came out of nowhere, the thought of taking young Ryan away to evil strangers and what horrors they are going to do with Petunia-. She takes some breaths and doesn't let her guard down, she approaches the door, sparks coming out of her cheeks and tail ready to face off whatever is behind the sliding door while taking glances at the extra side door that was haphazardly barricaded.

A thud was then heard above, they realized the one thing they forgot to look. There was a skylight window at the ceiling of the garage. A face came into view it was a glaceon with human-like eyes, this was impossible unless the icy-quadruped somehow has a flying type with it. The ladder is in the garage with them. The dreaded uncanny eyes continued to stare straight through the solid transparent barrier.

"Who are you?!" Yuki yelled at the intruder.

Rachel, then noticed the glass begins to form small cracks as if the glaceon is pressing its face into the window. It's not just the manner this ice-type tried to break the window, the glaceon's face has some sort of semi-organic shine, as if the left ear and some parts of the face has shine while some parts are typical fur. Is the glaceon made of marble? The glass broke. Rachel and everyone in the garage can't rack up what they are seeing, its neck stretching from the window where it came from, its abnormality is the sight of such uncanny terror that places irrational confusion on their sanity.

"We ha-a̸̗͝-̸͎̆a̵̦̽-̶͓͐a̶̪͌-̶̩̌ve a surprise for you-̴̞̓y̵̩͐o̵͍͊ù̴͉-̶̩̽y̵̜͠ò̷̻ǔ̷̙"

The head went close to the terrified three but was hit by the sledgehammer of the Raichu scientist.

The 3 ran out of the garage and then the glaceon grabbed Dahlia's dress with its mouth pulling towards the abomination. There was no time as Rachel saw another glaceon who is a shiny, with arms and hair that unnaturally stretch just like the other glaceon's neck, alongside a familiar umbrella that separated beyond the fence.

"You were just home-̶̤̆h̴̖̾o̴͔͐m̵̮̕ë̶̤́-̷̡̎h̸̽͜o̵͓͒m̷͔̏e̷̗̓-̶̜̔h̴̰͋ó̷͕m̸̥̌e̷̱͛-̷̺͛h̷̞̏ǒ̵͔m̷̥̀e̴͈̓" The umbrella mew then ripped a part of the garage, sending the projectile flying towards the three 'mons, they ducked.

They entered through the backdoor of the manor, through the library, Petunia was there.

"Petunia! Come here! We are leaving!"

The Snivy didn't say a word

"Petunia! There are intuders in the house! Where's Lotsamoni?"

"Oh, my dad is okay. Everything i-̶̮̆i̷̮̕-̷̞́i̶͎̚-̸̰̀i̸͈̐-̸̢̓s fine"

The Snivy turned around, she is holding a topaz. From a door came out Darkening and Ivy

"Petunia! Petu-"

Petunia gazed at her parents before going towards Rachel. They watched in horror, as the Snivy's tail grows longer, a shadowy mass envelops her cream underside and her yellow stripes are reduced to gray. Her arms begin to grow grotesquely into thick claws with vine-like shape, her vines are also have turn black. The beautiful red eyes of Petunia begin to dislodge and sink into her sockets, they are then replaced with human-like eyes. She turned back to her parents, her head turned to an 180 degree angle

"Mommmy, daddy. Why-̵͙̿w̷̗͝h̸̜͛-̵̲̈́ẘ̴̼h̵̛̩-̶͕̽w̸̯͂h̴̡̑-̵̯͘why a-̷͈̓r̷͍̎-̴̬̀r̶̞̄-̵̩̆ȑ̴̭-̵̗̕r̶̺̋-̵̫͋re you making those faces-̷̮̂ş̸̊-̷͉́s̶̠̚-̶̇ͅs̴̠͗"

The Lycanroc enters the view of the victims, and stops right next to Petunia, or what was used to be Petunia. The topaz she is holding begins to open, revealing 2 black tentacles that enveloped the heads of her parents.

"Who are you?!"
"What are you all doing to my brother and my nephew?!"
"They are mine"

A dull-colored vulpix in a beautiful red and grey dress appears to the group, holding a ruby.

"You will submit to my will, your husband Rachel is an important asset to me"

"What do you want?"

"You"
"My god w-̷̨̾w̷͉͠-̶̬̃w̶̥͂-̷̪̓w̸͙̚ants you all"
"She is our god Rachel. She i̸͉͛s̷͎̀ our savior"

Rachel swings her sledgehammer at the another tentacle and a Thunderbolt at another one, coming out of the vulpix's ruby. An arm came out from the ceiling, it was the shiny glaceon who brought along that glaceon from the garage and the umbrella mew. The glaceon then pulled the Raichu towards the ceiling and stopped at the 2nd floor that overlooks the library, Rachel can see the rest of Darkening's maids, smiling at her, holding gemstones. Ryan was given the same fate as Darkening and Ivy, then eventually the last two.

The mew with the umbrella went outside, letting the muffled screams inside the manor sound like music until its no more. He saw that the storm has passed, he still likes the shade. The mew turns to see A clefairy.

"Who you must be? Darkening is odd to let vagrants run amok around his yard"
"He is generous man after all"
"Hmm, says the one that can loiter and leave it"
"Says the one that turns other 'mons into robots"
"My god, feels like we are like doctor"

Dr. Clefarious raised an eyebrow on this Mew's sudden turn from hypocrisy to acceptance is odd. She has seen hypocrites like her accepting the fact of using irony to buy their way out to lie. But in the body language of this Mew made this one strange.

"Tell me doctor, do you believe in god/Arecus?"
"I d-"
"And do you believe he is dead?"
"What are you on about vagrant?"

Before Dr. Clefarious can react, the last she sees is someting long and shadowy consuming her vision, multitude of eyes stare at her. She then sees that the eyes begin to form purple colors, forming a swirl. Dr Clefarious tried to shake, look away at the things staring at her in every directions and pry the tentacle holding her entire head as she felt being lifted off the ground. The swirls go bright and merge into one as Clefarious' body began to change into bone china.

(Loosely based off The Night that belong to Diaemus, another one of NotMolo's works. The some parts of the home invasion that takes up the entirety of part 14 and the camera shots are an inspirational reference to The Strangers)

(Rachel's role and use of the sledgehammer before becoming a Decepquidem is a reference to Manu from Rec)

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