Chapter 10 Laws And Regulations
He was slowly waking up to Friday cuddling next to him, he petted her head to wake her up "Friday, come on wake up" she slowly opening her eyes and yawn cutely at him "Five more minutes please" he smiled at her antics but wasn't gonna give up that easily "You know I can't lay in bed all day with you, come on wake up" he picked her up and carry her to the bathroom to wash up.
After a while, both of them were clean but the problem is Friday was now sleeping on his shoulder "You're really like sleeping don't you?" she kept sleeping and he gave up on trying "Looks like I have to babysit you for a while then" he noticed Pria and her sister Cass walking towards him.
"Is there a problem you two?" he asked them, both of them shook "No, but the elders wanted to tell you something about one of our laws that needed to change" he nodded and went to the cave to meet them. As he made it, one of the elders were curious about the Audino sleeping on his shoulder "Not wanting to bother but, whose the Audino?" he chuckled, this confused them more "She hatched last night, now I'm her father. Now that you all know, what law you wanted me to change?" Ivan spoke to him first "Its one of our previous leader's law, this law was about population control" then Veronica spoke "This was supposed to be our main objective, making a large number of pokemon within the pack to show our strength. Arcanine changed it because in fear someone might take his role one day, if we don't change this soon, we won't be strong enough to defend ourselves from larger packs" Nikolai thought about it and looked at them "Well…strength does come in large numbers, I don't mind about it. Let's declare it" all of them smiled in relief that he listened to them.
Friday slowly waking herself up and yawn cutely, Nikolai petted her "Was wondering when you're gonna wake up. Friday, meet the elders" he pointed towards them. She looked at them and smiled "Nice to meet you Friday" Ivan greeted her, then her stomach starts to grumble "Dad…I'm hungry now" he stood up and said to the elders "Sorry about this elders, but a little girl needs to eat" all of them nodded and he went out.
As both of them were walking, she noticed there were many pokemon around "Dad?...what's is this place?" she asked her confusing "This place is a pokemon pack, I…took the role as their leader around here" she looked at him surprise to know a human being a pokemon pack leader. They arrived at the cafeteria, he took two bowls and fill them with berries. Friday was already eating some "Slow down, we still need to find a sit" he found sits and sat down, he placed Friday next to him and put his bowl on the table. As he was about to eat, a Arcanine swipe away his bowl making him standing up instantly and also angry "What's your problem?!" he growled at Arcanine who was also growling "You! You shouldn't be leader to this pack human! Only a pokemon!" Arcanine yelled at him, this was making him even more frustrating .
"Stop wasting my time, the pack agreed on me leading remember! I haven't even hurt them!" he yelled back, Arcanine then swipe at him with his claws at his face. Nikolai wasn't fazed and he flipped the table along Arcanine on it, he was trying to get up but felt the table crushing him "You think I let you get away that easily mutt?" his voice took a sudden change with a very deep and menacing that it scared every pokemon in the cafeteria, but Friday was more worried about him.
Nikolai was stepping the table trying to crush Arcanine with it, "I'm gonna enjoy killing you" this made Friday's heart beat really fast, she wanted him to stop. "DAD!" Nikolai stopped and looked at her, her face was showing worry and fear…this made him guilty just by looking at her. He looked at Arcanine "All of you, leave me and my daughter alone for a while. Send Arcanine to the infirmary" all of them left and sent Arcanine to the infirmary immediately leaving both Friday and Nikolai alone.
He looked at her but didn't say anything, she just looked at him with a sad look. The cafeteria was quiet, after that he broke the silence between them "…I…didn't mean to scare you or anyone else Friday, he…he threaten me all right?" she didn't respond to him, just silence. He went closer to her and crouch down, she looked at him in the eyes and hugged him quickly, this startled him a bit.
She hugged him tightly and said "Promise me…'sniffle'…that you never hurt anyone" he thought for a moment "You know that Arcanine did hurt me by using his claws" she looked at him and noticed the claw marks were still bleeding on his face, her hands or paws starts to glow and place them on the wound healing it. He felt the wound slowly healing that he actually felt the skin pulling itself, after a while the healing process was done.
He stand up and picked her up "You know, I can just walk. You don't have to keep carrying me all the time" he blush embarrass "Can't help it, just felt like it" she giggled at his embarrassment "Its ok, kinda like it myself. Makes me feel special" with that, they left the cafeteria smiling each other. While they were walking, Nikolai saw Johnson walking with a Scizor "Hey Nikolai!" Johnson called him. He went towards Johnson and the Scizor "Hey there Johnson, whose your friend?" he asked "Names Tech, nice to meet you" she noticed Friday "And whose this little one?" she asked "This is Friday, just hatched last night" he said while petting her.
Johnson then spoke to him "Not bad for your second day as leader, I heard that you changed the pack's law" he was surprised that he knew "How? I haven't even told the pack yet" this made Johnson and Tech chuckled "You don't even know your own advisors? Pria and Cass announce it" he face palmed, he should have known that by now. "Well…atleast it helped me a bit, so how do you think about it?" they thought about it for a moment "Well on the plus side, having larger numbers will make the pack a bit strong. But also a lot more mouths to feed everyday" Nikolai was thinking, Johnson had a point, the bigger the pack, the more mouths to feed. "Well…how about we built more farms?" he asked Johnson.
Johnson shook his head "We don't have enough room within the walls, we already used the available spaces to build more houses for the new members" Nikolai was now running low on ideas, he needed to fix this problem as soon as possible before it gets worst. "I'll need to think about this, see you later you two" then they both them, Nikolai was in deep thought.
'I know if we keep expanding the whole place will be a target, can't keep digging underground too dangerous. Both choices were now taking risk, but I need the elders opinion on this. I'll ask them tomorrow' he thought.
While they were walking, he paid attention where he was going and accidently bumped into a pokemon. "Sorry about that" both of them said and at the same time surprised "You!" in unison again.
Both Friday and Sylveon's pups said "You know each other?" this made both parents to quiet…