Nothing As It Seems

Chapter 10

"Go, Poochyena!"

As the grunt threw the pokeball, a black and gray wolf came flying out at Skitty and I, growling and baring its teeth.

"Get ready Skitty" I whispered as she stepped forward to battle.

"You just won't give up will you?" I growled, "Skitty, Quick attack!"

Darting forward at lightning speed, she slammed all her weight into her opponent. "Bite!" Poochyena, as soon as it had been hit, clamped on to the scruff of Skitty's neck and bite down hard. Her cry reached me from across the battle field.

"Scratch and then Quick attack again!" I shouted, worried about the safety of my pokemon.

Bringing her clawed hand up, Skitty swiped it across Poochyena's face, leaving five angry red marks, and causing it to release her in sudden pain. Poochyena left an opening perfect enough for Skitty to come and slam into it once again. In a flash she was by side, albeit she was panting extremely hard.

"Can you continue?" I asked her, kneeling down to her level. My response was a lick on my hand and then a meow. Growling was coming from the grunt's Poochyena as it glared at us.

"Poochyena, howl and follow up bite!" The grunt was ticked off royally.

"Skitty, Dodge the bite and tackle!" I yelled as she began moving away from the incoming wolf.

Unfortunately, Skitty didn't make it out of harm's way in time and had her back left leg bitten into, causing her to cry out. Somehow, in that position, she was able to tackle her adversary and knocked it clean off of her and into the rock wall, creating a small avalanche of rocks to come piling onto the pokemon. The Avalanche was the last straw to knocking out the Poochyena.

"You win this time bitch," The Team aqua grunt growled out, recalling his fallen pokemon. He dropped the Devon Goods and the injured pokemon, and then as he was running past me, he once again shoved me down. He then vanished out of the cave. Carefully, I picked myself up off the ground and walked over to the good and injured pokemon. I stored the goods in my pack and reached for the Wingull. But once I got in about a couple inches of it, the Wingull decided it didn't like me and pecked me.

"Ouch! I'm not going to hurt you, I'm not like that Aqua grunt. You'll be with your owner soon. Alright, I just want to help you." I calmly said, trying to pick it up again. The bird finally let me pick it up and I cradled it in my arms as I turned and began walking towards the entrance of the cave. Soon I made it out of the cave and into the moonlight that had overpowered the sun while I was inside. The man by the entrance came rushing over.

"My dear! You've saved my dear Peeko! Thank you. Come to my house by the sea and I'll pay you back!" While he had been talking I handed him back his injured companion, he now began walking away.

Once he was out of hearing range, I turned to Skitty, "That was weird" She bobbed her head in agreement and then walked back towards Rustboro with the Goods. Walking back was weird, it seemed as though the each shadow would like to come up to me and try and pull me into it while trying to either kill me or scare me. We reached the spot I had wanted to train in and saw Harvey was there, waiting there.

"Ashley, I'm glad you're alright! Did you…by chance -"

"Here ya go," I cut him off by handing him the Goods.

"Thank you! Oh, Thank you! Would you mind if you could meet me in front of the Devon Corp building tomorrow at eleven. My boss wishes to meet you after what I told him before all this happened."

"I'll try, and it's no problem. Have a nice rest of the night." I smiled and waved as I decided that it was beginning to get too late to train with everything happening. I walked southwards towards the Pokecenter. Once inside, I handed my pokemon to Nurse Joy after recalling Skitty who was tiring quickly after walking back here with me. Nurse Joy looked at me strongly, as I began walking up to the second story and then down the hallway. Arriving at the door to my room I unlocked it with the key and walked in, locking it behind me. I didn't bother to change and just crashed on the bed. I was out faster than a light.