Author's Note: Hello everyone ! As you might have noticed the uploads have been a bit more frequent, that is because I have more time at hand now and can write more. SO be sure to hopefully expect more chapters sooner.
Viewer's Discretion advised!: This is a violent and graphic chapter! It has graphic violence, indications of rape and Angst !
Our team of four finished up their breakfast and packed everything back into the backpack again. They were finally ready to head to Rustboro city for their first Gym Badge.
"Well then, it is time to head off! Just a little further are the Petalburg Woods, when we go through there we will basically be in front of Rustboro City," the leader explained their plan of travel.
The Pokemon gave a nod and started walking back up to the grass areal of Route 104. Just a little further ahead was the entrance to Petalburg Woods. Just as our quartet wanted to enter, a young man stopped them in their tracks.
"You people shouldn't go through there, it's too dangerous! Sevipers and Zangooses have started their petty little war in there. Everyone that dares to enter is seen as an enemy and will be attacked relentlessly, form both parties. It's just sad for the Pokemon that have their natural habitat there…" The young man finished his explanation on why our team shouldn't head into the woods.
"What? What are those doing here? They should be on Route 114, as far as I know," Xavier said to Richter telepathically.
Richter then turned back to the young man and asked, "I heard they should be located on Route 114, why are they here now endangering other pokemon?"
"The Elite 4 of Hoenn became sick of their war on Route 114 and told them to go separate way from now on, or there will be real war. They didn't want to mess with the Elite 4 and left, but not too long they found themselves here, in Petalburg Woods, and reignited the war they had. The Elite 4 said they would send someone again to stop all this nonsense, but to this day nobody came," the young man finished his explanation about the situation.
"Well you are right about one thing, Sir. Up until nobody came, I will finish this. Once and for all, I can't sit idle while innocent Pokemon suffer under circumstances that they didn't cause," Richter's expression turned very serious when he said that and proceed through the entrance, his Pokemon right by his side.
After they entered the new area, they looked around to spot any danger. They stood there watching their surroundings for couple minutes, before moving on.
The second they moved, something jumped out of a bush next to Xavier and it was going for him.
Everything slowed down for Xavier, as he saw his assailant, a Seviper, closing distance on him. It was opening its mouth, revealing the razor sharp teeth. From one of them, poison was already leaking. Just before the fangs connected with poor Xavier, a blur appeared before him and suddenly the Seviper was gone out of his sight.
Richter stood next to his Ralts, holding the Seviper in his right hand, gripping it tightly so it won't be able to escape.
"Now, listen up here buddy. You are gonna tell me where your leader is and I will make our parting as least painless as possible. Understood?" Our protagonist said in a firm and serious tone.
"Drop dead, human! I won't tell you anything! How are you even capable of communicating with usss?" The Seviper hissed.
"I will give you two more chances to answer my question in an orderly and nice manner. So, where is your leader?" he asked again, growing a little more impatient.
The snake still hesitant to answer, growing more and more hostile by the second.
"It does not seem like it will tell you anything. You might want to let her go, no reason to talk to a wall," Alexander said from behind Richter.
"One last try. Where. Is. Your. Leader?" strengthening his grip on the violet snake.
The Seviper was definitely under pain now as Richter was tightening his grip around its head.
"Auron, I need to tell you something important. Back when I saved you from that Luxray pack, they didn't actually ran away when I arrived. They wanted to eat you and your dad, I couldn't let that happen. Sooo, I had to fight them, fight them to death. I killed two of his Luxios, only then he started to run away with the rest of his pack," Richter revealed the truth to his friend, "I am being honest with you, with all of you here. I have killed my fair share of Pokemon, but I only did it in self defense or to defend others. That is something we learned back at the temple."
Auron was shocked by what has been revealed just about now, same with Alexander. Xavier on the other hand didn't think too much into it.
"I...I understand what you did and I appreciate it a lot. Without the actions you took back then, I would not be here talking to you. I promised to you multiple times that I will stay by your side, no matter what. You having killed before won't alter my choice nor my opinion about you," Auron said with a serious yet at the same time happy voice.
"Well, I am pretty shocked about this revelation too, but, just like with Auron, your actions won't change my opinion on you. I know that the world isn't all sunshine and happiness, death is also part of life. So, don't worry, I will stay by your side too!" Alexander elaborated with a smile on his face at the end of it.
"Well, I don't really care to be honest, I also know that death is inevitable. Especially when you have to fight for your own life," Xavier simply stated.
"Thanks for your understanding everyone. I appreciate the loyalty and honesty from all of you," Richter replied with a little bow at the end, "Now back to you, my little fella."
Richter started to spin the Seviper above his head and after about ten seconds released it, it flew straight into a tree, shattering its skull on impact.
"This will set a sign to anyone else close by, showing that we are not joking around nor that we are some people to take easy," the leader said in a stern voice.
"Everyone, stay close to me! The poison won't hurt Auron, but would be devastating to Alexander and Xavier," Richter explained to his team.
Our squad treaded lightly forwards, always trying to be aware of their surroundings so that no more surprise attacks should occur. They tried staying as far away from bushes as possible, since the snake's like to hide in there.
"It's weird...We still haven't encountered any Zangoose. Shouldn't they be in a constant war with each other according to the guy at the entrance?" Auron asked raising an eyebrow, "You are right, there definitely is something wrong...," Richter added to Auron's observation.
The leader stopped his team in their tracks and shushed them down. He then crouched down and put his right hand on the ground. He stood there for about a minute before suddenly rising up and unsheathing his katana.
"Everyone! Get ready to fight! They are coming!" He exclaimed loudly and entered his battle position, "I know this is a lot to ask, but don't hesitate to finish them off if necessary!" he added.
They positioned themselves, back to back, so they can't be attacked from behind. Xavier just stood there in between them.
The earth began to shake a little, a rumble started to sound and grew louder every second. Our crew knew what was about to happen, and everyone turned very serious and battle ready. The rumble grew louder and louder, until it stopped and everything went silent. This silence remained for another 10 seconds, "What happened?" Auron whispered to the others. No one answered and stayed more alert than before.
A sound, similar to a branch snapping, could be heard and right after that the assault started. Zangoose and Seviper appeared out of seemingly nowhere and poured towards our heroes. Zangoose using Slash and the Sevipers Poison Tail.
Richter skillfully blocks every strike heading for him and cuts down every opponent foolish enough to challenge him. One of the Zangoose jumped at him and tried to do an aerial attack. Richter just pushed his sword towards him and stabbed him right through his chest. The lifeless corpse slid down the blade towards Richter, looking at him with now lifeless eyes. Our swordsman pushed the body off his katana and cut down another Seviper jumping at him, cutting it precisely through the middle.
Meanwhile, Auron was holding off his own. He entered his Swords Dance status again and fending off his attackers via a variety of moves. He countered another Slash attack from a Zangoose and retaliated with a Power-Up Punch. Thanks to his Swords Dance status and the enhanced attack from previous Power-Up Punches, he was able to punch the Zangoose's head clean off. Auron was clearly shocked by what he has just done, but didn't lose his composure. He quickly understood that this is a life or death situation and that it is either him or them and he didn't want to die now, especially after Richter saved his life just a couple of days ago. His conviction and motivation grew stronger.
On the other side, Alexander quickly and easily dodged every attack that was directed at him. With his already incredible speed, he dodged and countered his enemies. Using Pound and Bullet Seed he was able to keep his assailants at distance. However, a Seviper was able to sneak up on him and jumped at his face, using Poison Tail. Alexander was shocked and froze in place, he knew that if that attack connects, there would be little chance for him to get out alive. Suddenly, Auron jumped in front of his friend and took the attack for him and then proceeding to get proper revenge by aiming and hitting the Seviper's face with a Force Punch. The impact and the wave of energy following right after, caused the poisonous snake to fly off to the distance and against a tree. The impact against the tree caused it to break its inner bones and spines, rendering it useless.
"Thanks, bro! I don't know what would have happened if you didn't help me there!" Alexander said with a thumbs up to his best friend, "Don't worry about it, I also don't want to know what would have been if you were hit by that. Let's just continue and try to stay alive," Auron responded, also giving a thumbs up to his friend.
The Team held close together, defending each other from incoming attacks. The enemies were merciless and just kept coming, it felt like an endless stream of Zangoose and Seviper. Our protagonists gave it their all, fighting what felt like an eternity, even though the fight lasted about 10 minutes only. Slowly but surely the enemies died out and less and less opponents were left, some even were overcome by fear and ran away. After another two minutes of figthing, the brawl and onslaught finally stopped.
Auron and Alexander were heavily breathing and exhausted, while Richter was still cautious and active. He was more experienced in fighting afterall, he knew that this would not be it.
"Very well done guys, I am proud of you all! But I am sorry to say, this was probably not everything. Their leaders didn't show up yet," the sword wielding fighter said to his team.
*Clap* *Clap* *Clap*, a slow clapping could be heard from behind the team, from where they entered the woods.
"I would have never guessed that something like this could happen. I am impressed, really!" A male voice said from in the shadows, "Everyone that came in here died a quick yet painful death, you four are the first to survive!"
A young man stepped out of the shadows, on closer inspection, it was revealed to be the man that tried to stop our crew from entering all together.
"No problem, young man we are always happy to help the innocent!" Auron responded with a big smile, still covered in the blood of his enemies.
"Hehe, I don't think you understand in what situation you guys brought me into. You know, I am the one that brought the Zangoose and Seviper here. It was me that brought them under my control!" The man said with a maniacal laugh afterwards.
"What? Why would you do that, and how above all things?" Alexander chimed in and asked, confused about the whole situation
"He is the one the Elite 4 send to stop all this in the first place, but he saw his opportunity in controlling all of them instead of just resolving the whole conflict all together! But there is still something missing. Why would he do all this, why would he stay in the woods here and kill everything and everyone that enters. You are hiding something, something that should never see the light of the day. What is it!?" Richter exclaimed, clearly angry at the guy before him, "Who are you exactly?"
"Me? Haha! My name is Damien and about the question, what am I doing here. Well, you won't survive to tell anyone, so let me show you," Damien said before throwing out a Pokeball and releasing a Leafeon, "You there! Use Flash!"
The Leafeon shivered in fear and hesitated doing what it was told to do, "Do I have to make it clear again what happens if you don't obey me!" The crazy man screamed at the little Eeveelution.
The small, green Pokemon covered in fear again, but complied with its master's order and used Flash. A bright light erupted from the Leafeon's body and illuminated the dark area behind it, where Damien stood.
What was revealed, surpassed everyone's imagination. A big pile of corpses, Pokemon and trainers alike, was rotting in one corner, while in the other multiple Pokemon were covering in fear of what might happen to them now.
"What do you think? I am killing everyone that opposes me and those who survive or I like, I take them as prisoners! There are people who know about my work here, they come and ask if there are any interesting Pokemon lately that I caught. Then I just sell them or add them to the pile over there if they are not popular enough. If someone is interested in a Pokemon, but does not want the one I have here, they pay a little extra and I just force breed them their desired Pokemon. You can't even comprehend how much money I make with this! HAHAHA!" was by now completely mad.
All members of the team couldn't believe their eyes and what they just heard, Auron's eyes started tearing up and he turned away, trying to forget what he just saw.
"Guys, I need you to look away for a minute please. What is about to happen will not be pleasant either," Richter said in a stern voice, not losing eye contact with the mad man before him, "Alexander take Auron and Xavier and move them away from here, I will find you soon enough and then we will leave this cursed place."
"HAHAHA! You think you will leave this place alive? Don't make me laugh, just because you defeated a horde of low life Pokemon, that aren't even worth their weight in shit, does not mean you can easily defeat me!" screamed at the hooded young man before him, "You will be added to that pile of corpses like every other trainer that opposed me and sweet little Pokemon? I am sure a shiny Lucario will bring me fortune, Lucario's don't even exist in Hoenn. I will breed hundreds of them and will be rich! HAHAHA!"
Right after his little speech, took out 5 more Pokeballs and threw them in the air, releasing the rest of his team. A shiny Zangoose and Seviper, the former leaders of the Zangoose and Seviper faction that waged war between each other. A Machamp, a Hitmonchan and another Hitmonchan.
"Listen up people, I don't want any more death and killing here to happen. Leave his side and join mine and you will be freed. I promise!" Richter pleaded to the opposing Pokemon.
"You crazy? We are getting rich with this idea of his! I will never leave his side again, my former trainer was a pussy and was always afraid to fight. This guy here though, he knows what's up!" The Machamp answered, "Why do you think we joined him in the first place? That is why we stopped our war and joined this guy here. He is the one that united us!" The Zangoose leader answered.
No one wanted to join Richter's side, at least none of 's Pokemon. The other imprisoned Pokemon were too afraid to say anything.
Just as Richter lost all hope to saving them, the Leafeon suddenly started sprinting towards Richter. Richter didn't even enter his battle stance, he knew what was happening.
"Please Sir, help me and the others here. We are sick of this guy and his madness! Please, please, please!" The Leafeon begged Richter, cuddling at his leg to show happiness and relieve. Its eyes tearing up and starting to cry.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine now. I will handle this, go back to my Pokemon over there, they will lead you to safety. Once I am done with this mad man here, I will free the rest and lead you to freedom," Richter reassured the Leafeon and gave it a pat on its head.
The Leafeon grew a big smile and jumped in joy, once she calmed down a little she ran over to Alexander and the rest. They left the area and hid somewhere out of sight and danger.
"That was real cute and all, but she will be even more devastated once she finds out that her hero died in battle and then it is time for more Eevee eggs, do you know how popular Eevees are right now?" Damien responded, "But enough talk! Prepare to die!"
"I Couldn't have said it any better, Damien. Prepare to die, indeed!" Richter exclaimed back and entered his battle stance.
"Wolverine! Nagini! Go and show him what happens to people that oppose me!" She mad man ordered the Zangoose and Seviper to attack, "Use whatever means necessary to dispose of him!"
The unlikely duo started running at Richter, viciously they tried to take him down. Wolverine starts out with two quick Slashes, directed at Richter's chest, while at the same time Nagini goes in for a Poison Fang at Richter's right leg.
Our protagonist block the two Slashes from the shiny Zangoose with his sword and quickly turns to slash down at the Seviper himself. The snake was really agile and easily dodged the slash, while still going for the Poison Fang attack. Richter noticed that and quickly raised his right leg to perform a Roundhouse Kick towards the Zangoose, while at the same time dodging the snake's attack. The normal type Pokemon dodged the kick with a simple crouch and then tried to uppercut Richter with a Fire Punch, "Burn in Hell!" he exclaimed while performing the move. Richter simply leaned back, barely dodging the Fire Punch in the process. He was able to feel the intense heat of the attack, but didn't lose his composure. He saw his chance to retaliate and took it. While Wolverine was still in mid-air from his uppercut move, Richter quickly performed a horizontal slash at his adversary. The katana cut through the Zangoose, like he is made out of butter. In one clean cut, the opponent got halved. The two parts fell down separately and his entrails spilled everywhere. The upper part of his body tried crawling away, towards his master, but shortly after he lost all signs of life and just fell limb.
Nagini was shocked at what just happened, his former rival, defeated so easily. She even crawled away a little, fearing of what would become of herself if she continued fighting him.
"Don't you dare run away now! It doesn't matter if he is dead or not, you have to fight our enemy!" Damien ordered the snake to attack.
The former Seviper leader was still hesitant, but quickly noticed that if she does not do what Damien says, she would die either way. With that decision made, she quickly slithered towards our young fighter with incredible speed. Richter calmly analyzed her movements and predicted where she is gonna move to next and slashed at that predicted place. Nagini used her quick reflexes and dodged the attack yet again and slithered in between Richter's legs and got behind him. She saw her opportunity and struck from behind. Richter was not about to lose now after all he has accomplished. He used Extreme Speed and slowed down time around him, he saw Nagini striking at him with a gaping mouth, revealing a pair of poison fangs, bigger than any other Seviper. Richter took his opportunity and stabbed his enemy through its gaping mouth, causing the sword to exits from its back end and stopped his usage of Extreme Speed.
Nagini went wide eyed, understanding what just happened. She looked into Richter's eyes just moments before she breathed her last, only thing she saw were his fiery eyes, staring down at her before everything went black and she fell limb.
Richter pushed the lifeless corpse of Nagini off of his sword and directed his stare back to Damien.
"Who is next? Or do you finally give up?" He asked the maniac, "Do you really wanna carry this on!" he screamed at him.
"I won't give up! Machamp go, show him what pain is!" Damien ordered his next Pokemon into battle.
"As you wish, boss!" The walking mountain of muscle said before walking towards our protagonist, "Those two always were the weakest link in our team. Let me show you how a real Pokemon fights."
Richter just scoffed and poised his katana before him again, just waiting for a mistake to take advantage of.
"I see you are not the talking type when you are fighting," the Machamp said with a grin, "Let's see if I can't get a sound out of you when I squeeze your intestines out!" The Pokemon said angrily and started to sprint towards Richter.
Richter just stood there, unimpressed by the threats the hulk of a Pokemon just told him. He, again, carefully analyzed his opponent's movements and designed a plan of attack in his head. The Machamp came closer and closer, but Richter still just stood in the same spot unmoved by whatever is coming at him.
The four armed Pokemon cocked back both of his right arms and flung them at the human in front of him with full force. Richter just grinned and did a small hop to the side, completely negating the Machamp's attack, but that was not all. Before the Machamp even recognized that Richter dodged, the swordsman unleashed a strong downward thrust with his katana at the two arms that were stretched out from the attack just right now. It was difficult cutting through all the muscle mass in those arms of him, but Richter had enough power to achieve that, causing the blade to cut through both of the arms. The Machamp screamed in agony after realizing that he just lost his right arms, "I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THAT!" he roared and flung both of his other arms at Richter. The same dodge saved Richter again from a two devastating blows, the Machamp didn't learn from his last mistake. He really was just brawn and no brains. Richter simply repeated the same downward slash at the other two arms, rendering his enemy harmless.
"Do you need a hand, Machamp?" Richter asked sarcastically with a laugh after his one liner, but the, now armless, Machamp didn't think it was really funny. He started to run head first into Richter.
Our Protagonist was seriously baffled by the mindlessness of his opponent, he thought to end this quickly before he starts hurting others too.
Since the Machamp didn't know what was happening in front of him, Richter decided to make it easy on his opponent. He positioned his sword in a straight line ahead of him, in the trajectory the Machamp was running at. Just as predicted the mindless pile of muscles just ran straight into the blade, he helped Richter even, by running that fast he had enough velocity to break through his skull. Literally impaling himself.
Richter just shook his head in disbelief, how could one Pokemon be so stupid, he asked himself.
"Well two more to go, come and show me what you got!" He proclaimed loudly.
Meanwhile, his teammates and the Leafeon were hiding in a bush nearby and were able to see everything happening.
"I didn't know that Richter was this skilled in fighting. I mean I already thought he was strong and all, but not like this. This is incredible!" Auron said in excitement.
"I know! And he is doing all of this for us, for us not to get hurt. I am so happy to be one of his partners!" Alexander agreed with his friend's statement.
"What type of trainer do you guys have? He is a better fighter than any Pokemon I have seen before!" The leafeon asked curiously, not trying to raise its voice to not draw any attention to them.
Back to Richter and the two Hitmonchan that are left with Damien.
"You two really want to do this too?" He asked the two boxing Pokemon, "Well we are not as brainless as that piece of muscle-no-brains was over there and we are two against one now!" One of the Hitmonchan said and rushed at the hooded figure before him, the other Hitmonchan closely following his partner.
Richter knew that he can't take those two lightly, but he knew a fatal weakness of them. Aerial attacks!
Richter quickly jumped up, dodging a swift jab from the first Hitmonchan, and delivering a strong High Jump Kick to the second one. He didn't even see it coming and couldn't protect himself from hit, he was smashed into the ground, the katana following right after. Richter stabbed his opponent right through his heart. Suddenly the shape of the Hitmonchan changed to a dark and red one and then into a completely different from all together. It turned out to be a Zoroark in disguise, acting as a Hitmonchan.
The real Hitmonchan got really angry at the sight of his dead teammate and charged into Richter, prepping up a Mach Punch. He got really close to our protagonist and threw out his fast punch, aiming at Richter's face.
Richter quickly did the same, their fists connecting to each other, the resulting impact of the two powerful fighter stirred up a lot of wind.
"You are good kiddo, it is a shame I have to finish you off. You would have made a really good apprentice of mine," The Hitmonchan cockily said with a smirk on his face, "Don't make me throw up please. I fought opponents at least twice as strong as you, you are nothing compared to those I trained with," Richter retorted.
Hitmonchan's smirk quickly vanished and turned into an angry expression, "Have some respect kid, I will show you some!" He exclaimed and threw a Fire Punch with his other hand, hitting Richter point blank in the face Richter didn't even flinch nor faze from that attack, he just stared back at his adversary and said, "That was weak and you said you are good."
This caught the Hitmonchan off guard, Richter used this moment of confusion and unleashed a devastating Sky Uppercut on the Hitmonchan, sending him flying. This was the perfect opportunity for Richter to finish the fight, once and for all. He readied his blade again and performed an upward slash, cutting his opponent from bottom to up.
With that, the last Pokemon of Damien was defeated, rendering him completely defenseless.
Our hero slowly walked up to him, Damien on the other hand tried running away, but tripped and fell. Richter was now towering over him.
"Please have mercy! I don't want to die..." He said and started crying, "Mercy? Did you have mercy with anyone else here? Now man up and face your judgement!" Richter responded.
With that said he thrusted his katana into Damien's private parts, making him scream in agony, "That is for the forced breeding, you sicko!" Richter yelled at Damien, "And this is for everyone you killed!"
Right after finishing his sentence, Richter sliced off Damien's head in one clean cut.
"This nightmare is finally over! You can all run free now!" He shouted at the Pokemon hiding everywhere.
Some Pokemon instantly took this opportunity and ran away, others were hesitant at first but still decided to run away too.
Richter's comrades came out of hiding to celebrate their victory about Damien, but before they arrived, Richter suddenly dropped to the ground.
Back to Richter's point of view.
Richter felt dizzy and his vision was blurring, "Oh no, not right now. I didn't think it would start so early…" he blacked out and fell to the ground. He was able to hear the faint call outs from his teammates before completely falling unconscious.