Tuesday, 1st of September, 2019 - 11:36 AM
"So... What' we doing today?" Asks Maggy as we walk back to the hut.
"I don't know Maggy... There's not a lot to do when we have enough food and water to last us for days... and while sparing is good, we should probably stop for now before we end up annoying the people cleaning the park or someone calls the cops on us for fighting" I explain as we avoided yet another group of people.
"Well... There's gotta be something we can do! This boredom is killing me!" Maggy complains as are getting close to the street of our refuge.
I'm not gonna lie... these past few days have been... harsh.
Not because it got harder to get food, in fact, that's the opposite! Thanks to Maggy's attitude and my good acting of a starving chicken we had managed to get a semi-reliable source of food near restaurants and shops.
The real problem, however, is that we are quickly running out of stuff to do!
Movies don't get premiered every day, sparing can be exhausting and can easily get us in trouble for "disturbing the peace" despite how fun they are, and worrying about supplies has been trivialized by acting cute in front of a gullible couple.
I can only listen to the radio for so long before it becomes boring, hell! I don't have a limitless supply of topics to speak about with Maggy before the awkward silence starts to creep in!
When my life was on the line, I thought lack of food or lack of security would be the end of me... But I never thought about it would to the boredom that would end me!
So here we are, taking a stroll, hoping for anything to happen!
This is driving us nuts!
"Uuuugh... This is boring! I thought something could happen today, but it has been too quiet!" Maggy complained as we were about to turn into the street where our house was.
"Sigh... it has been quiet indeed..." I suddenly stop walking and a moment of realization hits me like a sack of bricks.
"Uh? What Wrong Luis?" Maggy asks as she realizes that I stopped walking for 3 seconds.
I look around me and noticed something peculiar...
There was nobody around us...
However... I could hear a commotion in the street where our shelter resided...
"*Groan* For god's sake!" I complained loudly as I realized what this meant and then started running towards the sound of people murmuring, while Maggy follows me saying "HEY!" right behind me.
After getting in the street and getting near a crowd of people I could see one clear event taking place.
A Pokemon battle was taking place between a weird humanoid lagomorph with big ears and some heat pads(?) on o his nose and soles of his feet, I managed to see some trailers to realized that this might be Scorbunny, but I was never sure...
This Scorbunny however, was fighting a Snivy, but this one had some interesting things to make him different and probably dangerous...
For one, this Snivy is wearing that same scarf I've been seeing in some Elementals, mostly Grass Types, but the odd Typing was still roaming the street every now and again.
However, this Snivy was wearing that badge on that very scarf, I could tell that whoever this guy is... He's definitely a higher class of douche, more experience? Maybe. But I can tell with the way he carries himself that he's definitely not nice...
Despite the Type advantage, the Snivy was barely standing while the Scorbunny was casually jumping from one leg to another, a cocky smile adorning his face while a frown is in the Snivy's. Impressive from the Snivy all things considered.
I don't know the story, but I can tell that the snake started the fight, the rabbit fought back, and now the rabbit was kicking his ass.
Whatever was this Snivy's plan was a mystery, but it was clear that it was failing hard.
The rabbit then starts running straight into the snake while leaving little traces of fire on his feet and then dropkicks the Snivy that was finally done getting up.
Snivy, however, didn't see the Scorbunny until the dropkick already hit him square in the head.
Getting knocked down tends to be a death sentence in any fight, but the bunny was too busy basking in the admiration of the public (and my annoyance) to make use of his ridiculous advantage.
"Brilliant... it's one of those fighters..." I thought with a snark.
These guys are fighting on the street of my shelter! The audacity!
Regardless of what I think, it would be pointless for us to intervene in that fight. The Scorbunny is clearly winning and the Snivy doesn't seem like it will put a bigger-and there he goes getting up again...
Great...
"Shouldn't we... I don't know... stop them?" Maggy asks me while looking a tad concerned about the ongoing fighting.
"Nah, There's no reason, they'll sort it out... or the police will, I don't know, I don't see the future," I remark while shrugging my feathers.
These guys keep fighting for around 30 seconds before one of them decides to be a general jerk.
The Snivy picks up Scorbunny with their vine whips chucks them to... oh no!
In horror, I couldn't help but see the Scorbunny crash into our shelter with a fire still in his feet, they get up relatively unharmed, our shelter on the other hand...
"Ah!" I yelp as I see our house getting on fire in mere seconds, before we knew it, our shelter is aflame and unusable... and spreading!
"Oh crap!" Yells Maggy as she realizes that the two elementals literally started a bonfire.
None of us were equipped or capable of putting the fire off and the Scorbunny also had that moment of realization a little too late.
Then he got slapped by a vine whip...
"Dude! Stop! We got stuff on fire!" Screams the Bunny in panic.
"Do I look like I care?!" The snake yells back with anger.
They both begin an argument, then Maggy starts to panic as she's looking around for a way to put out the fire while making a grabbing motion with her paws.
I just stare at my burning house...
Two weeks' worth of effort... gone...
And all because two idiots couldn't help but fight...
I was... reasonably pissed off...
"Grrrrr...!" I let out an aggressive growl as I keep my eyes on the wasted effort that was in front of me.
They say that you get attached to the things you build... but this?
I. Am. Livid.
Letting out a loud screech I turn around and unleashed a Frustration at the Snivy, definitely the most likely cause of my current grief in my mind.
No, I am not being biased against grass types. The guy just really pisses me off.
I slam into the Snivy, startling both the Scorbunny and the snake, and bit on his nose as hard as I could, fully intending to rip it off his stupid face.
"AH! GETITOFFGETITOFFGETITOFFGETITOFF!" The Snivy trashes around and tries to shove me away from his bleeding nose.
I can taste copper and sap for some reason...
Standing at point-blank, I shoot an Ember at him, fully engulfing his face and actually set him on fire.
I was definitely not thinking straight...
"Woah! Dude! What the hell?!" Screams the startled Scorbunny.
I ignore him and shove a Sand Attack on his eyes, so now not only is head on fire, but he also can't see.
The levels of sadism I can reach has become... frightening...
"Luis? LUIS!" calls out Maggy, barely louder than the Snivy, thrashing around trying to put out his flaming head that I provoked.
"What?!" I yelled/asked Maggy with irritation at getting interrupted.
"The police! I can hear the cars coming!" She yells at me in a panic.
That snaps me and the Scorbunny out of our mental discord.
I don't know about you, but if the police catch me... I might not live for long. I'd rather not become chicken dinner.
"Huh?!" The Bunny smartly replies as police sirens start to become slightly noticeable.
Now that the federal threat is finally real, The bunny starts running in a random direction. Meanwhile, Maggy and I have no option but to do the same.
Running from "the scene of the crime," we ditched the Snivy, hoping that he would take the fall for us somehow. The guy was still putting out the fire in his face and tearing up from the dirt in his eyes, by the time he recovered, the police would already be pointing guns at him.
Running as fast as I can, with Maggy somehow hitching a ride on my head, we managed to make one hell of a distance between the conflict and us... but now we were safe on the beachside of the city, where most of the tourists tend to go.
So now here we are... hiding in a heavily populated area... catching my breath.
"Huff...Huff...Uuf..." I inhale and exhale air as I seat on a batch of grass near a hotel neat us.
"Hmmm... Looks like we're safe..." Maggy says as she does her species' namesake.
"Good...Huff... Jeez, that was... more tiresome than I hoped..." I stated, knowing full well that Maggy wasn't that tired because I was the one who did all the running, I even did it with her extra... weight...
So nowhere we are... hiding in a little hole between buildings, the only thing I managed to save was the fanny pack I always have on me...
Silence fills our hideout, None of us willing to ask that painful question... well... I wasn't, but she was...
"So... now what?" Maggy asks disheartened as we lost our shelter, and by extension, out home.
"Sigh... I wish I knew Maggy... that place had all our food and supplies..." I regretfully remembered out loud.
That was a good question she made indeed...
Now, what do we do...?