~ These Creatures Are Friend-Shaped ~
Yennefer squinted in the direction of the assassin's creature.
"Is that a Pokemon?" she wondered aloud.
Most Pokemon usually didn't try to harm humans, and their attacks tended not to do much damage to humans even when they hit them. But could one possibly be trained by an assassin to kill humans?
Yennefer wasn't certain it was possible for Pokemon to kill humans. On the other hand, she wasn't certain it was impossible, either. Queen Kalis's corpse on the ground in front of her suggested that it was indeed quite possible.
"MOM!" Yennefer yelled, as she dropped to her knees to scoop up the baby princess from the ground.
"Crying for you mother?" the assassin mocked, not realizing that she was calling her Pokemon out.
Psychic attack, Yennefer commanded her Pokemon telepathically.
The attack, however, slid harmlessly over the enemy Pokemon.
It's a dark type? In that case, Mom, use Brick Break.
"Bisharp, Night Slash," the assassin directed his Pokemon.
The Grumpig's attack struck fast and hard, knocking the Bisharp out in a single blow. The assassin was forced to recall his Pokemon to its container, and as he did so, Yennefer opened a portal and dove through.
However, she was not fast enough to dodge the small and wickedly sharp throwing knife that the assassin cast after her...
As Yennefer stared out over the sea, talking to the shallow grave beside her, a fine black mist rose up from the small mound of sand.
Yennefer was startled by a soft touch on her shoulder, and when she glanced over, was even more startled to see a Pokemon floating beside her.
It was small and mostly black, with large red eyes, holding some sort of shield in front of the lower part of its body. She hadn't seen a Pokemon that looked like this one before, but it was probably a dark type or a ghost type. The floating led her to believe it was more likely to be a ghost.
Upon looking closer, she saw that the "shield" it held was actually a clay mask, in the shape of a chubby little face.
The Pokemon started to cry and, not knowing what else to do, Yennefer opened out her arms to it. The Pokemon seemed to trust her already, since it went right to her, and stopped crying almost immediately after her arms closed around it. For being a ghost type, it felt surprisingly solid. (Maybe that was because it wanted to be held? She didn't know much about ghost Pokemon other than their type advantages and disadvantages.)
Yennefer's gaze drifted from the little ghost in her arms to the grave beside her. She glanced back and forth between the two as her mind whirled.
No. Surely it couldn't be.
Were ghost Pokemon... actually dead humans?
"Baby Princess?" the sorceress put forth tentatively. "Is that you?"
The Pokemon in her arms cooed happily and nuzzled against her.
~oOo~
A/N: Not entirely a happy chapter, but the baby princess gets to stay with Yennefer this time, at least in some form, so... yay?
Pokemon team recap:
Yennefer: Grumpig (Mom), Dratini (Anica), Yamask (Baby Princess)
Assassin who we will never see again: Bisharp