Chapter 3: Confrontation

Here I was, yet again, trapped within the prison that resided within the horrible pokeball. The inside of the pokeball is rather… boring. I mean, how much fun can you have with just one big hill in the middle of a grass plain? Then on top of that, I had no food, and I'm usually up during the night, not asleep like Alex planned me to be. So now what?

I laid on my back drooling on myself in absolute boredom. 'I can't believe this is my new life now,' I thought to myself as I lied on the artificial grass in the pokeball. Suddenly, I felt that pulling sensation as the false reality broke down around me.

Once I got past my head spinning, I was blinded by a bright light above me. Through slightly squinted eyes I scanned the world around me, and noticed that I was back in the forest we were in last night. I also realized the thing blinding my light sensitive eyes was the sun with it's harmful rays, shining through the trees overhead. The sun: the very thing that made life possible, yet it was the thing I despised most next to pesky humans.

That human, Flare, and the absol I barely remembered, were all staring at me right now as if I was a crazy lunatic. It must have been hysterical seeing me so startled from being ripped out of that 'hell'. I knew they thought that because Alex chuckled, and Flare lost it in laughter, and the absol just rolled his eyes at me.

"'The Hell is this? You keep me in their all night, and then you laugh at me?" at this point I was very pissed. Not that I was insecure with how people view me, I just really didn't like people with low I.Q.'s laughing at me as if I was some sort of idiot. The only one who wasn't laughing at the moment was the absol. He looked relatively lifeless, but he really may be the only sane pokemon here. Maybe he and I would get along… maybe… I still didn't appreciate him rolling his eyes at me.

"Alright guys, what do you say we all get a move on for today?" Alex said gleefully as a smile formed on his face; the kind of smirk I would love to just knock off his little human face. Everybody but me nodded in approval, and began to walk down the trail in the forest. I should have made my escape there, but I was too tired and hungry to think of escaping.

We all followed a dirt trail that went deep into the forest. The sun was beating down on me as the light shone through the branches, which should have provided shade for us. I hated the sun so, so much. It made me feel weak and roasted me like an egg on a frying pan. I'm a dark type that gets my power from the moon, not the sun. As a matter of fact, the sun made me feel noxious at times, so you may understand why I'm not a day pokemon, and especially not a morning pokemon.

I felt myself tiring out a lot faster than usual, mostly since I was still limping from my injured leg and very low on sleep. As I studied the people around me, I could feel my brain cells committing suicide one by one. I tried as hard as I could not to show any weakness. Again, not that I cared about their opinion of me, I just didn't want to appear dependent on them. It's a wild pokemon thing; I wouldn't expect a mere human to understand.

Flare must have noticed my limp, because it looked he finally started noticing my struggle. "Is your leg okay? You don't look too good. do you need us to stop for you?" Flared attacked me with multiple questions.

I just stared at the imprudent fennekin as if he should have known better, which he really should have. "Well, adding on to my previous complaint list, our wonderful and considerate trainer crammed me into a magic ball all night, when I'm nocturnal, and I sat there drooling all over myself all night bored out of my freaking mind. then I'm dragged out of that prison and expected to walk miles upon miles without rest. Yeah, I'm doing great for a second class citizen" I said in a snide voice.

"What do you mean second class citizen?" the stupid fox asked me with a curious voice.

I looked at him as if he was stupid, as my brain cells continued to die rapidly from his stupidity rubbing off onto me. "Think of it this way, I was just robbed of my life because someone wanted to go on an adventure. I won't receive pay, only a thank you, here and there. Also, if we kidnapped a human, Arceus help us, because humans would flip the world upside down, but, hey, it's okay if they do it to us," I snidely said.

"I don't think it works like that, humans and pokemon are equal, and-" the idiot fennekin started to say.

"Are you fucking stupid! How do we have anywhere near the same equality as those-" I was yelling when I felt my injured leg hit something solid.. I gave out a quick gasp of pain as I landed on my injured leg very awkwardly, and felt intense pressure on it along with a small popping noise that didn't sound pleasant in my sensitive ears. Everybody stopped to look at me to see what was going on.

Alex quickly ran over to me without hesitation, and began observing my injured leg. Thoughts of horror simulated through my mind as I began thinking of how bad his medical abilities were. I mean this guy is like sixteen or so. How in the name of all the Legendaries can I expect him to be of help to me? He'd probably just consider amputating my leg, he's so dumb.

Signs of worry showed all over Alex's face as he observed my injured leg. "Are you hurt can you move it at all," Alex asked frantically.

"Just back off," I snarled at my human trainer. Alex flinched back at my aggression.

My attention was then directed towards Flare, which he was looking away as he winced in repulsion. Seeing the clues that something was wrong, I decided to look down at my injured leg, and that's when I finally noticed my dislocated leg. The instant I saw the leg, a pulse of pain shot through the bones and nerves in my leg, the pain was almost unbearable as it intensified each second.

Alex and Flare both overcame the gruesome sight and both stood next to me. Well Alex was more squatting, while Flare was just standing. Absol on the other hand just sat in the shade below some tree's not really caring for the teams most important member (Me of course). I was really beginning to wonder if he was socially retarded, or if being around my dumb trainer, and Flare so long just rotted his brain away.

Before I could think too much about the silent absol, my attention was redirected towards a tousling noise in a bush around one meter away in the tree-line that followed the dirt path. No one else noticed but me, so I just kept watching the bush as I wondered what was in it. The tousling continued to get louder, and then the mother of all houndour's that looked more pissed off than a charizard with a wet tail popped out of the bush, and started sprinting full speed towards us. Everyone froze in fear not expecting an attack.

My feral instinct kicked in, and I jumped up as fast as I could manage with my injured leg, and I dodged out of the way from the houndour, although I ended up tripping in the process and fell back down on the ground. Everyone followed my lead on getting the hell away from the canine. I stared at the Houndour as I slowly got back up to my three good legs. The houndour saw that I was an easy target, or in other words I was an easy meal with my injured leg.

The houndour continued to look at me as he licked his teeth as if he could already taste me, and I then felt a little discomforted by the sight. "Hey buddy, I'm not some chew toy, you got that," I said nervously as I limped back a step back.

The houndour began running towards me again, and that's when I saw a big opening, and I lunged forward on my three good legs, and I head butted the sucker right between the eyes, and I heard the joints in his neck crack from the pressure of making solid contact with an umbreon's skull. One of the perks of being an umbreon is that your body is built as strong as a tank.

The houndour flinched back in pain as he shook his head in an attempt to un-daze himself. I felt really satisfied with getting him out of my face, and I'd gladly do it again if he came at me again. As the Houndour was distracted by his pain, the absol from our group tackled the houndour from his left side, the houndour flew off his four legs and slammed into the solid ground.

The Absol looked down at him with no emotions at all, like he was some kind of badass. The houndour smirked, and shot out an ember right in the Absol's face. Absol flew back, and smacked onto the ground with a singed face. It looked really painful, and it probably was since it appeared that the absol was unconscious from the direct blow to the face. That left Flare, and I to fight, because Mew knows that trainers don't ever help for shit.

"Flare, quick attack!" Alex yelled in a serious voice as he pointed at the houndour.

'There goes our element of surprise,' I thought to myself as I sighed in annoyance.

Flare dashed towards the houndour with quick feet, but his speed wasn't enough, as an ember flew at him, and exploded against his side. Since flare was a fire type it didn't knock him out, and instead it just sent him flying into a tree, and made a really loud 'clunk' noise as he made contact with the tree, and leafs fell down onto his hardly conscious body.

Now it was my turn. I hobbled as fast as I could on three legs towards my new foe. He did the obvious, an ember flew from his mouth that was directed at me. I Barrel rolled out of the way, but as soon as I got up, I kept running toward him on my three legs. When I was one meter or so away, he decided to use a fire fang. I knew if he landed a good attack on me with that fire fang, I may not live to add this to my complaint list. The houndour lunged toward me with all of his might in an attempt to kill me, everything then slowed down as my heart rate spiked up, and I saw him slowly make his flaming teeth towards my throat. I lunged towards him, and swung my claw at his eye right before he reached me. The canine tackled into me, and we both tumbled to the ground. Luckily my throat was still intact. Both I and the canine struggled to our feet. I glanced at the houndour, and saw that his legs were trembling.

My glare went from his leg, to his eye. Blood dripped out of the giant gash I inflicted on his eye. His eye was tightly held shut, as he trembled from the shock of being blinded in one eye. As if a switch flipped, the houndour stopped shaking, and looked at me with his one good eye. Words weren't said, but his eyes lusted for revenge. The canine dashed towards me with a speed I could barely keep up with. I stood petrified, unable to make a proper decision on whether to run or fight.

Instead Flare jumped in front of me with smoke exiting his mouth, and ember escaped between his teeth, and the houndour was blasted with a wave of fire. The houndour went flying like a ragdoll as he hit the ground, and rolled over unconscious. I watched as I saw smoke sizzle off the bastard. I stood there amazed at flare's perfect timing, had he been even a second later, I would would have been the rag doll in that houndour's mouth, and this would have been a completely different scene right now.

The houndour came back to consciousness, and got up sluggishly as blood fluently dripped down his injured eye. I felt a little sick from the sight of the bloody eye the houndour had as he looked us in the eyes with his one good eye. The glare said he obviously thirsted for our blood after what I did to him, but instead he turned around, and dashed back into the woods.

Seeing as the coast was clear, I let out a sigh of relief since I was alive, and I quickly remembered who was responsible for me still being alive at the moment. I looked over at the not so lovable fennekin "Thanks," I blurted out dryly.

Flare smiled at me as he always did since I first met the fennekin "We are a team now, and besides, you practically beat him yourself. If your leg wasn't trashed you would have done a lot more to him probably."

That was true, but I still wanted to thank him. Plus, I may not be the nicest pokemon in Kalos, but I still didn't want to sound like an asshole that was ungrateful. I know when to suck up my pride, and drop the asshole act.

Alex then decided to open his mouth after all that has happened. "Is everybody okay?" he said with worry in his words. I don't know if he was worried for us, or just shocked that he was still alive after such a ferocious attack. The kid practically did nothing, but say one command, and then froze up.

We all nodded, besides the Absol, who lied on the ground still unconscious. Alex walked up to his unconscious body, and crouched down, and gave the absol a small pat on the back, and returned him to his pokeball, and latched the pokeball onto his belt.

"We should probably get him to a pokecenter, along with you Black." Alex said as he worried for his unconscious pokemon, and my injured leg. Alex then unlatched another pokeball off his belt, and I already knew what was coming as he quickly sucked me into the false world of the pokeball. I could have easily resisted, but I was too tired at the moment to care.

I felt that noxious feeling overtake me again, as I found myself back in the pokeball. As usual, the world remained dull and boring. In a way though, this place did somewhat remind me of home. Just some of the features though, like the hill, and what could have been a nice view if there was more scenery in this world.

Seeing as I was going to be trapped here for a while, I lied down on my left side so my now dislocated leg wouldn't be in more pain than necessary. I was now slowly drifting off as everything became hazy and, I finally gave into the urge to sleep.

I now found myself in a similar area as the pokeball world, except I could see a village off in the distance. A forest could be seen very far off in the distance to the left of the village as well. I stood at the bottom of a grassy hill. It was cold out now, and I felt a strange feeling of nostalgia. A few flakes of snow began to gently fall from the beautiful night sky as I looked up to observe the sky. It was also a full moon with a few clouds in the sky, but the moon shone through the clouds. I looked up to the hill, and I could feel this odd force calling me, it was rather… inviting. I followed my urge, and I ascended up the hill.

Once I reached the top I had a perfect view of everything. The world was clearer up here. I continued to look off into the distance. Suddenly a loud feminine scream shattered the silence of the night from behind me. My head hesitantly turned to view what caused the disturbance. The scream was over, but the horrified sounds echoed in my head over and over, getting louder each time.

Lying lifeless on the ground I saw the same leafeon that always haunted my dreams. Her body lied completely still on the floor, not showing a single sign of life. The way her face was frozen in fear stuck in my head, I could tell she wanted to escape her fate so badly.

I looked down from her head, and looked at the gash in her jugular, blood freshly gushing out of the fatal wound, and staining the pure snow red. A tear began to form in my eye as it streamed down my face. The blood continued to gush from the wound, with no sign of ending, the sight made my head spin.

"I'm so sorry," was all I could choke out as tears flowed down my face, and I felt the world over my shoulders. My head fell low as I tried to understand why it had to be her of all pokemon. After a moment, I looked down into the blood, and noticed my reflection. My crimson eyes matched the red substance perfectly, almost as if my eyes were the exact color of blood.

My head began to throb with intense pain. I fell over and held my head in an attempt to ease my suffering, but no matter what, the pain wouldn't go away. After a moment, I opened my eyes and there I saw the Leafeon staring down at me as I wallowed in pain. I froze in terror from the sight of the Leafeon that was dead staring down at me. Her head was leaning to the side hardly able to support itself with such a fatal wound in her neck.

Then I heard her whisper something. "I love you." Everything went silent as those words echoed in my ears, repeating over and over. Each ring was a mockery of what I've lost.

In an instant she quickly lunged toward me with her mouth wide open. I wasn't able to move. My body refused to, I was helpless, and I knew it, and I accepted that. Her teeth sank deep into my throat right in my jugular. I felt my breath become stiff; air would no longer exit my windpipe properly. I felt myself become numb, and my body began to feel cold.

She released my neck, and then stared at me with tears of blood flowing down her eyes. I was struggling to breathe properly with the big gaping hole in my neck, along with blood flowing out of my neck, and mouth. I

I felt myself dying, my breathing got slow, my vision was blurry, and I was very tired now. But I wasn't physically tired, just tired of living an empty life.

As my life faded, past mistakes replayed in my head.

'My life is… pointless' was my last thought as death took me.

I woke up in my pokemon prison breathing heavily in fear. I quickly realized that I was just dreaming. I was still shaken from the dream still though, and I could never fathom how something illusionary in my head could seem so real, and be so scary.

I then slowly got up, and I felt a wet substance rolling down my face. I swabbed the substance, and I saw a tear on my paw now. I was crying from my dream. I now desperately wanted out of my prison. I just wanted to talk to someone to take the mental pain away. But I did not want anyone to see me like this at the same time.

I waited to be released from my prison, too afraid to go back to sleep.

Chapter End

Thank you genericgamer207 for taking the time to edit this chapter of all its flaws.