Ch 44: Hunted
Jason was riding on Gyarados's back across route 118 with the others behind him.
"We should only be a few days from Rubello town now." Finn said.
"I still have plenty of training to do, I hear a lot of coordinators are going to be at this one." Autumn said.
"Do you know what kind of routine you're preparing?" Jason asked.
"Well as of right now a team effort with Combusken and Swablu." Autumn said.
Unknown to the group they were being watched from a distance.
A Salamence was flying over the water with a young man on his back looking at the group with a pair of binoculars.
"So the do gooders are closing in on the Hunter. They will interfere with his hunt for the shiny pokemon. The Hunter must ensure they stay away." He said as he took out a blowdart.
He put the poison filled dart in a gun before carefully aiming it at Gyarados.
"Enjoy the swim." He said before firing it.
"Alright well that does sound like it will be in impressive performance, but if I may make a suggestion Autumn." Emelia started before they felt Gyarados stop .
"Huh?" Finn said.
"Gyarados are you ok?" Jason asked as he rubbed the back of the serpent's head.
Through their connection he felt Gyarados grow sick and queasy.
Gyarados vomited into the water before his vision grew blurry and he flipped over, forcing his passengers into the water.
The young man on the Salamence grinned.
"Target eliminated, now back to the hunt." He said as his Salamence flew off.
Several minutes later Jason, Autumn, Finn, and Emelia slowly walked ashore on the other end of route 118, completely soaked.
"Ok that was unpleasant." Finn said.
"What happened to Gyarados?" Autumn asked.
"I don't know, he just felt sick like he was poisoned." Jason said.
"Could a water pokemon have used a poison move on him from underwater?" Emelia asked.
"I don't know, I'll have a look at him later." Jason said holding Gyarados's pokeball.
The four made a small camp a bit inland as they saw that all of their supplies, including their cloths had gotten wet.
"Well this is just great." Finn said as the four stood in their underwear.
Combusken was out using his body's heat to help dry their cloths.
Autumn was watching Jason closely as he put his shirt up on a tree branch.
"I guess it's not all bad." She said to herself blushing.
"Charizard might be able to help too." Jason said as he let Charizard out.
"Charizard could you help us dry our, stuff." Jason said before he noticed Charizard had his aura guardian armored jacket in is arms.
"Why do you have my guardian armor?"
Charizard nervously sweat dropped.
"Well at least I have something dry to wear." Jason said as he took his guardian attire and changed into it.
"Well that's better." he said before he noticed the other three give irritated looks considering their cloths were still sopping wet and were stuck in their underwear.
"Uhh yeah sorry, forgot about that."
Charizard moved his tail around their things as Jason looked around.
"I'm going to have a look around with the Aura."
Jason scaled up a series of trees before reached the top of the woods and took a deep breath as he synchronized his aura.
As he felt the aura around him, Jason felt a conflict.
He was interested in it, but remembered he had to look at Gyarados first.
He performed a leap of faith down into a pile of leaves.
He came up and saw a small pond nearby and let Gyarados into it.
Gyarados came out looking very sick as Jason tried to lift his pain with aura.
"Jason." Autumn said.
He turned and saw her there.
"Autumn, is something wrong?"
"No , I just wanted to see if everything with Gyarados was ok. Plus It's weird being around Finn and Emelia in our underwear."
"But not me." Jason almost laughed.
"I guess not." She said blushing.
She came up to Gyarados not noticing Jason stare at her while his face turned slightly red.
"Hey what's this?" Autumn asked as Jason snapped back to his pokemon.
Jason turned to where Autumn was over on Gyarados's body.
Jason looked there and saw a dart was sticking in his skin.
" A dart?" Jason said as he pulled it out and smelled the end.
"Toxic, this dart was filled with poison from the move Toxic."
"Well that explains why he got so sick. He's poisoned." Autumn said.
"Gyarados is a big pokemon, this would have been a strong pokemon to make a Toxic this potent." Jason said.
"Can you heal his poison?" Autumn asked.
"Only a healer would be skilled enough heal poison and sickness. Normal guardians like me can only heal physical injuries. We need pecha berries" Jason said.
"Alright let's go look for them." Autumn said as she before her shoulder was grabbed by Jason.
"UH are you sure you want to go looking around in your underwear." Jason said as Autumn blushed and sweat dropped.
"Well I want to help you and Gyarados."
"Well then stay here and keep an eye on him."
"Alright." Autumn said.
As Jason left she rubbed Gyarados's stomach.
Jason, Swellow, and Sceptile were out looking for pecha berries as Jason did the same from the trees.
As he did, he heard more rustling and sounds of conflict in the distance.
As much as he wanted to pursue and find out what it was, he had to help Gyarados first.
"Swellow!" He heard.
Jason looked up to see Swellow on the branch above him with two pecha berries in his beak.
"Good job."
A few minutes later they returned to the pond , where they Autumn still caring for Gyarados.
"There you are. Did you find any?"
Jason revealed the two Pecha berries.
Jason walked over to Gyarados's mouth and put them in before the large serpent started eating them.
Jason could feel his pain starting to lessen, but Gyarados was recovering slowly from the sheer magnitude of the poison.
"Alright, now that Gyarados will be ok I'm going to do some investigating." Jason said.
"What?"
"Someone did this to Gyarados, and I've been sensing conflict in these woods. Something's going and I'm going to find out."
"I better stay here and take care of Gyarados, for obvious reasons." Autumn said sweat dropping with her red face.
"You're so sweet Autumn, take good care of him." Jason said as he hugged Autumn before kissing her.
Autumn's face turned even redder as she closed her eyes and hugged Jason back.
Autumn then felt Jason's hands on her panties for a few moments before letting her go.
"I'll be back." He said as Autumn gave a bashful look.
Jason was freerunning through the trees of route 119.
He was using his aura vision to try and find the source of the conflict.
Finally he saw a blue aura sprinting across the ground below. This was a pokemon's aura, and the pokemon seemed very distraught, and agitated.
As the pokemon ran he tripped over his front leg , tumbling across the ground.
Jason quickly performed a leap of faith down and rushed over to the pokemon.
As he got closer he saw it was an Absol.
When the Absol saw him he seemed a little uneasy, and even tried to move away.
"Easy Absol, I'm not going to hurt you." Jason said as he reached out to Absol with his aura.
However, before he could even complete this the Absol looked at him again and seemed less hostile, almost as if he recognized.
Jason noticed the Absol's skin wasn't dark blue, it was a deep red.
"Wait a minute." Jason said to himself.
He thought for a minute before he realized, this was the same shiny Absol that he and Autumn helped Finn take a picture of the first day they met him.
"You remember me don't you." Jason said as the Absol looked at him in a more trusting way than before.
Jason saw and could feel the Absol was in a great amount of pain.
He felt the same sickness inside Absol as he felt inside Gyarados.
He looked around and saw along with the wounds on Absol was the same kind of dart that had been launched into Gyarados.
Jason pulled it out and smelled the same kind of toxic that was in the other one.
"So it was the same person." Jason said before he heard something with his advanced senses.
He quickly picked up Absol in his arms and moved him away as another dart flew in and hit the ground where Absol had been.
Jason looked up and saw movement in the trees.
"Who's there." he said before he heard more movement.
A small round object landed and began dispersing poisonous gas out.
Jason quickly covered his mouth with his jacket's mouth cloth and ran from the gas.
Jason used his aura vision and saw a familiar red aura pursuing him and Absol.
He had seen this aura before, but where.
As he continued running he heard another dart get launched at Absol.
He moved his body into the path and the dart bounced off his armor.
Another gas launched landed in front of him and began dispersing gas.
Jason quickly formed a barrier of aura that kept the gas away.
Moments later Jason heard something else flying at them.
He turned just in time to see a Skarmory spray painted black fly down at them with Steel wing.
Jason quickly ducked as the metal bird flew over him.
"Wait a minute, a Skarmory spay painted black, Hunter K!" He shouted.
The Skarmory flew back at him and Absol as he hurled a pokeball forward.
Aggron came out and roared as he saw Skarmory flying down at him.
"Iron tail!" Jason shouted.
Aggron snarled as he rushed forward and slammed hit tail into the black Skamory, hurling him across the air and into a tree.
As this happened Jason turned when he heard another pokemon approach him from behind.
He saw a large Salamence fly down and none other than K himself jump from a tree onto his dragon's back.
"I thought I took care of you when I shot your Gyarados."
"So it was you!"
"You won't keep me from my prize this time jackass. A shiny Absol is worth a fortune and he will be mine."
"I'll give you this one chance K, leave now or I'll feed your your teeth."
"Dragon's breath." He said as the Salamence unleashed a fog of green dragon energy down at Jason and Absol.
Aggron sprinted over and got between his trainer and the attack before using Iron defense.
Aggron grunted as the attack hit him.
"Water pulse aim for his wings!" Jason shouted.
When the attack passed, Aggron lowered his arms and unleashed a large pulse of water that hit Salamence's wings and made him lose altitude.
"Iron head!"
Aggron charged forward and slammed his body into Salamence's hurling the dragon back.
"Let's move." Jason said.
Aggron growled, wanting to continue the fight.
"This fight could go on, we need to help Absol before the poison gets worse."
Aggron snarled but followed Jason away from the area.
Salamence got up and looked around with K.
K put his thermal vision goggles on and looked around.
"You can't hide from me!"
Elsewhere, Jason was sing his aura to try and heal Absol's physical injuries while Aggron was looking around for more pecha berries.
Absol watched Jason closely as he healed him.
Several minutes later Aggron came back with a pecha berry.
"Oh good you found one." Jason said as he took the berry and fed it to Absol.
The Absol's poison began to disappear as the effects of the pecha berry filled his body.
Absol slowly got onto his feet as he looked at the two in front of him.
"Alright you should be ok now Absol." Jason said as Absol looked at him similarly to when he first saw him so long ago.
"Grauu." Aggron growled.
"You're probably right." Jason said.
He looked at Absol.
"K's not going to stop hunting you, we have to force him out of these woods. You should stay close sense he will be coming after you."
Absol nodded.
The black Skarmory flew through the trees with Salamence behind him.
K was using his thermal goggles to search for Absol.
"Where are you?" He said with his dart gun raised.
Moments later his Skarmory saw Absol walking below.
"There you are, Skarmory use Steel wing!" He shouted as he fired three darts and his Skarmory flew down.
Just before the darts could hit, a barrier of aura deflected them as Absol's eye glistened as he used Detect.
He moved under the Steel wing and avoided the attack completely.
He then came at Skarmory's back and slashed across him with Night slash.
"No you don't Salamence use Dragon Claw!" K shouted as his Salamence flew down with glowing claws.
"Iron tail!" Jason shouted.
Aggron ran out of the tree cover before slamming his metal tail into Salamence's side, nearly knocking him out of the air.
K and his Salamence saw Jason come out with his Aggron.
"You're an idiot. I don't play by your rules!" K shouted as he fired two darts, one at Jason and the other at Aggron.
The first was sliced in half by Jason's hidden blades with his lighting fast reflexes.
The other bounced off Aggron's metal body as K looked at his gun.
"Why did I think that would work?"
The black Skarmory unleashed Air cutter on Absol, hitting him repeatedly as he moved back.
Finally Absol used Double team and surrounded the Skarmory before each unleashed Night Slash on him, forcing the Skarmory into the ground.
Meanwhile, Salamence flew down with his tail glowing green.
Aggron came forward with his own tail and exchanged blows with Salamence's tail.
"Salamence use Dragon claw!"
"Metal Claw!"
Salamence came in with his claws as Aggron grabbed his arms with his own claws.
The two struggled as Aggron held Salamence in place.
"Dragon's breath!"
"Iron head!"
As Salamence opened his mouth, Aggron forced himself and his horns forward into Salamence, carrying the dragon back before he was hurled into a tree.
K was thrown from the dragon's back and landed on the ground.
He looked up and saw Jason standing over him.
Absol and Aggron watch in entertainment as Jason went to work on K.
Two minutes later the pokemon hunter was tied up by a rope dart and dangling from a tree branch with two black eyes, a red mouth, and two missing teeth.
"And the hunter becomes the hunted." Jason said as Aggron roared in victory.
He went over to Absol who was giving an impressed look at Jason.
"You don't have to worry about him anymore, you're safe now."
"Sol." Absol said.
"What?"
Aggron listened with interest as he came closer.
"Sol." Absol said as Aggron turned to Jason.
"Grouu." Aggron growled at Jason.
"You want to travel with me?"
"Sol!" Absol said nodding.
"Alright! I'd love to have you on the team." Jason said as he took out a great ball and touched it to Absol's head.
Absol was sent inside.
The pokeball shook for a few moments before sparkling.
"Alright , pokemon number six, an Absol!"
Jason returned to the pond where he saw Autumn was still with Gyarados.
The large sea serpent had recovered much since Jason left, he was up and moving around.
"I think you're just about better." Autumn said before Gyarados turned his head.
Autumn also turned her head as she saw Jason come back.
"There you are, did you find out about that conflict."
"Yeah, it was hunter K."
"The creep who tried to steal my Swablu?"
"The same, anyways he was hunting the very same shiny Absol we helped Finn take a picture of."
"Are you serious, you rescued that same Absol?"
"More than that." Jason said as he took out a great ball and let out the pokemon inside.
Autumn's eyes widened as she saw the Shiny Absol in front of her.
"Sol."
"Amazing, you actually caught a shiny Absol. You're so awesome!"
"Well my little family has its sixth member now. Plus it looks like Gyarados is feeling better, thanks again for watching after him."
"Oh it was nothing I." Autumn started before Jason per his arms around her and kissed her, causing Autumn's face to turn red.
When Jason with drew he returned his two pokemon.
"We better get back to the others, I'm sure they'd like to see Absol too, oh and uh maybe you're cloths will be dry." Jason said as Autumn realized she was still in her underwear.
"Oh right." She said blushing and sweat dropping.
The two walked back towards the others with their hands holding.
Elsewhere Mathis walked through the Magma hideout towards Maxie's chambers.
He knocked once before he was given permission to enter.
"Father, our archeologists have been hard and work and have translated several of the words using the key. We still don't know where the orb is, but we have located something else, a very powerful artifact that is connected to the Red orb. If we find it it will lead is directly to the orb."
"Where is it?"
"Buried under a weather institute on route 119."
"I will send one of our Lieutenants to retrieve it. You have training to do."
"Father, what happened at Mt. Chimney was a mistake, it won't happen again!"
"indeed, because you will resume your training, now go."
Mathis gave an irritated expression as he stormed out of the room.
"Oh Thraxel, why can't he be more like you were. I will get justice for you my son, no matter how long it takes."
Author's note
Sixth pokemon has finally been caught,
We saw Hunter K again,
Now onto other business,
Some of you have asked if certain pokemon of Jason's will mega evolve, rest assured, any that can will
So until next time,
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