Title: Heartbeat
Rating: G
Word Count: 191
Genre: Character Study
Summary: Green+Scyther. The first time he feels it, it's like a dagger through his heart.
Disclaimer: Pokémon & Pokémon Special aren't mine.
Author's Notes: For ebullientsoul. One of several fills for a fic challenge over at LJ.
The first time he feels it, it's like a dagger through his heart.
He's young and unsuited for battle, and too small for his eight years. He watches the rocks, frightened by the threat of those high up on the cliff ledge—the promise of more clattering thunder, more stone shattering apart around him, more cuts and bruises as he's caught in the storm.
Another rock falls. Green cringes, his hands clenching around the Poké Ball in his hand reflexively, and then it happens—Scyther, released, soars through the air and tackles him, and the new bruises he gets as he skids on the stones are nothing in comparison to the thunder of his heartbeat, the searing whisper of the pokémon's blades. The Scyther stands tall, and as the rock falls towards him, he slices it in two before the child can flinch.
Then he glances down at his Trainer, backlit by moonlight, and the look is piercing.
"Hah! Now that's love, boy," Chuck calls. The Machoke beside him heaves another rock into the air, aiming carefully.
Love. He stares at his Scyther, and the pokémon nods before leaping into the sky.