Chapter 10
Darrel smirked. It was his army of 60 or so, against their 9. There was no way they could lose now.
James looked back a few days, trying to figure out how he had gotten himself into such a predicament. He then shook his head. No, it would take at least 9 couple thousand word chapter to cover that. He didn't have that kind of time.
The group quickly sprung into action. Cassidy changed into her Pokemon form, and discarded the clothes to the side. Officer Jenny cocked her handgun and raised it, pointing it at the shadows just past the dying flames. The Houndoom crouched low, and growled, ready to spring at any second. Cynthia turned her hands into fists, and raised them up. Garth dug into the ground, and disappeared. Shade's parents got into a fighting stance, side by side. Shade just shook nervously and got into a fighting stance near James. James just cracked his knuckles, and clenched his hands into fists.
This wasn't going to be easy.
The first grunt stepped over the small line of flame. No sooner than she did, Garth soared out of the ground, grabbed onto her head, and ripped her throat out, sending blood everywhere. He quickly tunnelled into the earth again.
A Grimer slid towards the group, and was melted into a pile of goo by Cassidy. The rest of the Grunts and Pokemon charged them.
The two Zoruark completely vanished. Cassidy and the Houndoom leapt into the fray, causing chaos left and right. Officer Jenny shot the grunts with guns with superior marksman ship, causing the rest to rethink using guns.
A fist flew towards Cynthia's face. She ducked around it, and then struck out. Her fist connected to the grunt's temple, knocking him out. She quickly jumped, and spun in the air, connecting her foot to another grunt's head. She was like a ninja.
James ran out into the fray. He threw fist fist into a grunt's face, shattering their nose, and sending some of the cartilage into their brain. The grunt died instantly. James then turned, and kicked a grunt in the side, making her double over. He then kicked the grunt in the side of the head, making her black out.
James was suddenly grabbed by two grunts, one on his left arm, and one on his right. He thrashed around, trying to escape their grip, but it was to no avail. A third grunt stepped up towards him, and pulled out a switchblade knife. The grunt flicked it around menacingly, swishing it in front of his face. The grunt finally pulled his arm back, and thrust forwards.
James, timing this perfectly, shifted all his weight to the left, and wrenched his right arm to the left. It popped. The unsuspecting grunt on the right was thrown forwards, and got the switch blade buried hilt deep into his eye. The the grunt gave a blood curdling cry, and clawed at his face, trying to remove the painful knife from his eye. James with his left arm still caught, circled around the grunt holding his arm, and pushed her forwards into the grunt that had the knife. They went sprawling to the ground, and lay there in a heap of tangled limbs.
The Houndoom on the other hand, looked like it was having the time of its life. It bounded around the glade, and quite happily launched a plume of flame at anything within 10 feet. It looked a bit like a puppy unsteadily chasing after a ball. A rather large and intimidating puppy, that could shoot flames. The smell of charred flesh permeated the air.
Bang, bang, bang!
Officer Jenny let fly a storm of bullets. Bang, click, click, click! "Shit!" She swore. She pulled her arm back, aimed at a grunt, and threw. Her aim was true. It sailed through the air, past Cassidy, and Shade's mother, hitting a grunt in the neck. The grunt's windpipe was crushed, and the grunt thrashed around, finally collapsing due to lack of air. Jenny pulled a rather large hunting knife out of its sheath on her belt. She just flicked it, and them launched into action. She lunged forwards, plunging it into a grunt's chest. She wrenched it out, and whirled around, jumping into the air, and then stabbed it into another grunt's head. She quickly pulled it out, and turned, slashing another grunt's neck, sending blood flying all over her uniform. She was a whirlwind of death.
Shade's parents were going crazy. Her father appeared in front of the grunts for two seconds, picked them up by their legs, and swung them around, letting go at the right moment to cause the grunt to go flying into a bunch of others. He quickly disappeared again.
Shade's mother on the other hand, was like an assassin. She would appear in front of a grunt for half a second, and slash their throat with her razor sharp claws, sending blood everywhere. She would then disappear, killing her next victim.
Shade was quite content sitting there, observing. She cringed whenever a large splatter of blood, or a body part came flying near her. She noticed a grunt sneaking up behind James with a knife. "James! Look out!" She cried. James turned around, left arm holding his dislocated right shoulder. The grunt slashed at him, and James caught the knife in his left shoulder.
"Fuck!" He swore. The grunt tore the knife from his shoulder, and slashed at him again. James ducked under it, and then kicked at the grunt. The grunt caught it, and slashed his leg. James screamed in pain. The grunt then sent him sprawling to the ground, and raised the knife above his chest.
"No!" Shade cried. She launched a shadow at the grunt. The shadow enveloped the grunt's head, and then disappeared, going up his nose. The grunt gave a cry, and dropped the knife. He started thrashing. The thrashing got more and more violent. The grunt's head exploded, sending brain matter everywhere. Some landed on James' shirt. Shade watched the eyeball of the grunt slowly roll past her, making her gag.
"Holy crow Shade!" James exclaimed. He got up slowly, trying not to jostle his dislocated arm. James started to walk towards Shade, but heard a noise. He quickly turned, and punted a rabid Rattata into the face of an unsuspecting grunt. She screamed in pain as the Rattata tore out her eyes. The Rattata fell off her face, and was killed with a sickening crunch when the woman stepped on it.
Cassidy was completely unstoppable. She pounced at a Bidoof, sand bit down on its neck hard. Snap! The Bidoof's spinal cord broke, killing the poor creature quickly. Cassidy let go, and then knocked a Koffing out of the air. While it was down, she shot a fireball at it, causing it to explode, and ignite several other Pokemon and grunts around it. A grunt ran screaming past her, with his ass on fire.
She noticed a grunt sneaking up behind Cynthia, holding a knife by his side. Cassidy launched herself at the grunt, and bit down on his arm. Hard. The grunt dropped the knife, and screamed in pain. Cassidy was biting so hard, it was making her jaw hurt. She launched a large flame out of her mouth. The grunt's arm melted down to the bone. The arm came off at the elbow. Cassidy dropped to the ground and walked away. She left the grunt sitting there, screaming silently in pain, clutching at the charred stump that used to be his arm.
"Thanks Cassidy!" Cynthia shouted over her shoulder, and then knocked another grunt out.
Garth was having the time of his life. He had beer done anything this exciting before, and he was loving it! He leapt up and slashed at a grunt, catching them in the arm. The grunt cried out in pain. Garth then circled around the grunt, and bit hard onto their leg, causing them to fall to the ground, and pass out from blood loss.
"Take that you fucking bitch!" Garth gloated. He then kicked the grunt in the side for good measure, and ran off again, searching for his next victim. He came upon a grunt that was taking wild swings at Cassidy with a knife. A slash hit home, and gave Cassidy a rather nasty gash across her side.
"AH!" Cassidy cried out in pain. The grunt aimed the knife at Cassidy's head, looking to finish her off. Garth quickly jumped on the grunt's back, and cut his neck open. Blood sprayed all over Cassidy, making her look like a mass murderer. The grunt dropped the knife to try and stem the bleeding, but it was no use. The grunt bled out in seconds, and lay there, gurgling and choking on blood.
"Suck it you stupid cunt! Take that you fugly bastard! Get wrecked you dick-sucking mommas boy!" Cassidy blushed at the rather descriptive words used by Garth.
The crowd of Team Galactic grunts was starting to thin. Shade's father appeared in front of one, and ripped off both her arms, before leaving her lying there, bleeding out. Cynthia picked up a knife from the ground, and threw it at a Zubat swooping at her. It caught the Zubat in the chest, and it died instantly.
The three remaining grunts bolted, all heading in different directions. Officer Jenny whipped her hunting knife at one of them, hitting them directly in the back of the head. That grunt fell to the ground dead. Jenny then picked up a switchblade from the corpse of a dead grunt, and launched it at another grunt. Due to it being a knife she wasn't used to using, it hit the grunt in the calf. That grunt fell to the ground, completely unable to move. The final grunt was hunted down by the Houndoom. It pounced on top of the grunt, effectively immobilizing him.
"No!" Darrel cried in complete shock. "NO!" He screamed louder.
The group slowly approached Andrew and Darrel, limping or being careful, trying not to injure themselves any further.
Cassidy launched herself at Darrel, creating a large scratch across his face.
"Fuck!" He swore. He grabbed Cassidy by her fore paws, and swung her around at an incredible speed. Darrel let go, and Cassidy flew straight towards the group. James leapt to intercept her, and caught her square in the stomach. James and Cassidy flew backwards a good 10 feet before finally rolling to a stop. Cassidy got up quickly, and growled menacingly at Darrel. James however did not get up. He had hit the ground too hard. He had protected Cassidy from being injured, while he hit his head on something, rendering him unconscious, or worse.
Cassidy, noticing that James did not get up, started to worry. She turned her back on Darrel, which was an incredibly risky move. She nudged his neck with her nose.
"James?" She asked. "James, wake up!" She cried. James laid there unresponsive. "James!" She changed into her Pokemorph form, and knelt down beside him. "Wake up!" She shook his shoulder, but he lay there unresponsive. She lifted his head up off the ground, and placed it on her lap. She brushed some of his hair out of his eyes. "Please!" she whispered. She looked at his forehead, and saw a deep gash running the length of it. "No!" She whispered in horror. She glanced behind her, and stared at the large knife laying blade up on the ground, in the path that they had rolled, fresh with blood.
Darrel smiled. He had killed one of them. Not on purpose, but he still did it.
Cynthia looked over her shoulder at Cassidy, crying over James' corpse. Her throat tightened a little bit, but she held it together. She hadn't known James that long anyways. It was like if someone had moved to your neighbour hood, and died a week later. You would feel bad, and a little sad, but it wouldn't affect you that badly.
Cassidy was shaking and shuddering, gasping occasionally because she was crying too hard. She looked at James through watery eyes. The gash across his forehead looked smaller. No she thought to herself, it was probably just her eyes playing tricks on her. She clenched her eyes shut, and held onto James. She felt a slight shift of weight in her lap. Slowly, she opened her eyes. The gash on his forehead was gone.
James groaned, and shifted slightly. His head was pounding.
"You're alive!" Cassidy cried. She squeezed James excruciatingly tight, putting extreme amounts of pressure on his dislocated shoulder.
"Ah!" James cried out. Cassidy shouting in his ear, and putting a lot of pressure on his shoulder almost made him want to die. Cassidy, hearing him cry out, immediately let go.
"Ohmygosh!" She exclaimed quickly. "I'm so sorry I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine!" He said quickly. He didn't want to go through apologies. James started to sit up, using his left arm to push himself upwards. His arm suddenly give out, sending him to his side, jarring his dislocated shoulder. "Son of a-" He didn't finish. Everyone was watching what was taking place, and James didn't want to corrupt Shade's innocent mind with aweful language.
He started get up again, and Cassidy helped him. James was now standing, leaning heavily on Cassidy because of his injured leg. He and Cassidy slowly made their way over to the group. Once they were there, James was almost fully walking on both his legs, just barely leaning on Cassidy.
Darrel stared at James in horror. "What are you?" He asked. He wiped the blood off of his face from when Cassidy scratched him.
"I'm the guy that's going to kick your ass." James said simply.
"No!" Darrel exclaimed. He suddenly started getting angry; cause of one of his mood swings. "Not possible!" He shouted. "I saw you die! They saw you die!"
"Who's 'they'?" Andrew asked. He had no clue what Darrel was talking about.
"Them." He growled, and looked directly at you, the reader. "They saw you die!" He exclaimed crazed.
"Darrel, calm down!" Andrew told him. He was getting nervous now.
"No!" Darrel roared. "I'll kill you all!" He reached behind him, and pulled out a rather large gun. An AK-47. He aimed it at the group. "Die!" He growled.
Darrel shot at them, emptying the clip.
Authors Note:
Hello everyone! Sorry this is late. I re-wrote the first chapter, an edited some other stuff. It's not easy writing graphic fight scenes. Anyways, I was being lazy, and I'm sorry. I just got a DSTWO and I set that up, as well as going through piles of homework. I was busy. Anyways, I am going to try and write a Halloween chapter, but that means I'm going to have to shoot out 5-7 chapters before then, which is an absurd amount. So just stick with me and I'll get this done. Thanks for all your support! If you have any ideas please message me.
Thanks!
InfamousVenous
P.S.: When I made up Darrel, I was thinking that he would look something like Bucky from Captain America Winter Soldier.