Chapter 68: A bit of disappointment
Point of View Naomi
"Naomi!" Dante shouted at the top of his lungs. I snapped back to reality, and dodged away from the mightyena that was charging at me. Before I could think of a logical move, another two of the mightyena ran towards me, each coming from different sides. I jumped out of the way as the two snapped their teeth at me. The two then moved back, and the group of four formed a circle around us once again.
I looked back at Dante he was now trying to force himself back up to his feet. "Naomi, can you keep them off me for a minute?" Dante asked as he finished standing up.
I took my eyes off him, and stared down the mightyena that were circling us, "I don't know, what do you have in mind?" I asked.
"I'm going to use some energy I have stored up to heal, but its night, so I won't be able to heal much, just enough to keep me going," Dante said. "Think you can handle that?"
It was unclear what I was capable of since I evolved into this strange form, but I had no choice but to try, "I'll hold them off as best as I can," I said nervously.
"Good, but if you can't, then run," Dante said as he closed his eyes and began meditating. It was a very slow process, but his wounds were slowly healing. Seeing as Dante needed me, I stood in front of him, and blocked him off from the front side, sadly it was impossible to protect him on all sides.
I couldn't quite put my paw on it, but something about the moon made me feel indestructible. It was almost as if I was on a sugar rush, but my mind was fully concentrated. I wasn't an espeon, but this form would have to work.
My ears suddenly picked up the noise of running, I turned back to see one of the mightyena making his move, I ran around my brother, and towards the mightyena as my heart spiked up with adrenaline. Doing the only thing I could think of, I jumped towards the mightyena, the canine stopped in his tracks as my skull smashed into his the pain of headbutting him wasn't extreme, and I could almost say I felt nothing. My ears flicked upon hearing a crack in the canines jaw, and the mightyena ran back as it whimpered in pain.
"You bitch, I'll rip out your throat," the same mightyena scoffed as he shook off the pain. It was strange, I would have never considered fighting like that, it felt as if something possessed me to aimlessly attack him like that.
Before I could ponder the thought too much, my ears picked up the sound of two of them running towards me from behind. I turned around and saw what my ears had told me. Acting on impulse I ran towards the two and aimlessly swung my paws towards one's face. He flinched back, and avoided the claws. The sound of the other two mightyena then hit my ear, I peeked back quickly and spotted the last two running towards Dante, and me.
"Dante!" I shouted as I tried to stop them. Dante's eyes shot open, and he smashed his paw into one of their faces. The mightyena yelped and stumbled back while Dante, having not yet recovered fully, grunted in pain as well.
The other mightyena then jumped towards Dante. Dante dove to the ground, and as the mightyena flew over him, he turned and shot a series of razor leafs. The razor sharp leafs penetrated the mightyena side, and the canine let out a howl of pain as he fell to the ground.
The two mightyena I was dealing with then charged towards me. I moved out of the way, and I attempted to tackle into one of their sides. Right before I made contact, the mightyena bit down on my neck and stopped me. As he held me in his jaw, he clenched his teeth with me between them and penetrated my neck. Blood spilled out of the wound as I fell to the ground.
"That's for my friends," the mightyena growled as he pressed his paw down on me. Blood continued to exit my neck, and everything began to turn into a big blur.
"Naomi!" Dante yelled at the top of his voice.
"How does it feel, to know that someone you love is going to die here, and you can't do anything about it," the mightyena that injured me said. Off and on, I began to faze in and out of consciousness.
'I'm… going to die," was the only thought I could think of.
"I'll kill you!" Dante yelled as he dashed towards the mightyena. Before he could reach me, one of the other two mightyena tackled into Dante and sent him flying to the ground. Before Dante could recover, the mightyena pinned Dante down with his paw. Dante tosses, and turned but he couldn't break free due to his lack of strength at the moment.
"Naomi… I'm sorry," Dante said as he looked towards me "I'm so sorry." I would have responded, but I felt as if my whole body was numb. I could hardly move, and every second was a constant battle to stay awake.
"Guess we'll finish this up," the mightyena on top of me said as he opened his mouth. I looked up at him fearfully as I watched my imminent death coming.
A wave of fire suddenly blinded me. The mightyena flew off me, and fell to to the ground with a scorch mark, burnt flesh could be seen where he was assaulted. The canine struggled to stand up, but another ember collided with his body and exploded. The mightyena didn't move this time, and more flesh was burned away, and I could even make out a bit of his ribs through the charcoaled flesh. The image repeated in my head over and over, as I watched the flesh burn away on the mightyena.
I fearfully shifted my eyes in the direction of the random attacks, and coming out of the shadows was a flareon. The flareon stared bitterly in the direction of the two remaining mightyena that stood by my brother. The flareon appeared average excluding a scar diagonally down his face. The scare went from above his right eye, down to below his left eye, and the sky avoided intersecting with his eyes.
"Great there's another," one of the mightyena snarled as he sprinted towards the flareon with no fear. The flareons body set ablaze, and he charged towards the mightyena. The canine froze in fear right before the flareon rammed into him. Right as the two forces collided, a small fiery explosion set off, and the mightyena flew back with a stream of smoke following him. The mightyena fell to the ground, and didn't move a muscle. Just like the last mightyena, this one had serious burns.
The mystery flareon then looked towards the remaining mightyena. "Don't move leafeon," the flareon said in a calm voice, right before he inhaled a deep breath.
The mightyenas eyes widened as he caught onto what was going on, and he jumped out of the way, and avoided an ember that flew through the sky, but then another pokemon jumped out from the trees and landed on top of the mightyena. The canine let out a whimper as he collided into the ground with a grovyle on top of him. The grovyle then held up a strangely shaped piece of grass, and then impaled the mightyena in the neck. The mightyena let out a gurgling noise before its eyes closed, and it remained completely silent.
The fact that these random pokemon killed those mightyena with zero hesitation was scary alone. The flareon didn't even have to use a strategy to kill the mightyena, and the grovyle planned his attack perfectly.
My eyes were then directed back at the flareon who was now walking towards me. Out of fear I tried to stand, but my neck pulsed with pain, and my vision became even more blurry. As he walked closer to me, my eyes closed, and before I knew it I was unconscious.
"You're going to be alright," a voice whispered gently into my ear right before I lost consciousness.
I slowly opened my eyes and a bright light blinded me. It took a second, but I realized that the light was the sun. Levitating above me was a gardevoir who looked down at me with a smile. I practically jumped upon seeing the unfamiliar pokemon, but her smile was reassuring.
"Where am I?" I asked in a faint voice, "And how am I alive?"
"You're alright, I managed to heal you by using healing pulse," the gardevoir stated as she held up her hand and a pinkish aura glowed around her hand.
"Wait where's Dante?" I asked in surprise as I jolted up, but instead I felt pain pulse through my neck.
"Calm down, he's alright," the gardevoir said as she gently pushed me to the ground "Your brother is talking to my comrade."
"Oh," I bluntly replied as I relaxed.
"You're pretty lucky that you evolved into an umbreon when you did, if you didn't you likely would have died," the gardevoir said. I replied with a depressed sigh. "What's wrong, is something bothering you?" the gardevoir asked as she observed my depressed state.
"I… I really didn't want to be an umbreon out of all the eeveelutions," I responded back with melancholy in my tone.
"Well it can't be that bad," the gardevoir spoke back.
"I'm basically the nocturnal version of a leafeon. The only real difference is that I become all glowy like a glow stick at night," I sarcastically replied. "This evolution doesn't reflect a single thing about me, I don't like the night, I'm not a fighter, I'm a thinker, and I'm terrified of the idea of being an evolution that relies on physical strength," I responded back.
"I can see how this ended up as a disappointment, umbreon's aren't really known for their smarts," the gardevoir said. I responded with a long sigh. I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, I felt as if the sun was making me Claustrophobic. On top of the strange feeling, I also felt a little noxious, and the sun was practically burning me alive.
Within a minute I reached my limit, I quickly forced myself up even with the neck pain, and I slowly made my way to a tree that provided shade. The instant I made my way into the shade I felt relief from all my symptoms.
"Hey Naomi, you're awake," Dante called out as he came into my sight. Following behind the leafeon was the grovyle, and the flareon who saved me earlier. "Sorry I couldn't be around when you woke up, we were talking about that attack last night."
"Its fine," I said to my brother. I then looked in the direction of the two pokemon who saved me last night, "Thank you, for saving me. We would probably be dead right now if not for all of you," I said.
"It's no problem, we were hunting those mightyena down anyways. I just wish we could have come before anyone got injured," the flareon replied.
"You were hunting them?" I asked curiously.
"Those mightyena were a pack of killers of traveled around Kalos killing humans, and pokemon for sport, we were hunting them down so we could stop them," the flareon answered.
"Well aren't we lucky?" I said as I looked at my older brother.
"No kidding," Dante said with a nervous chuckle. My survival was purely luck after luck. Not only did I luck out with Dante saving me, but then another group of pokemon conveniently saved me again.
"Zack we should get going soon, are job has long been finished, the threat is exterminated," The grovyle said in a stern voice to the flareon as he crossed his arms.
The flareon known as Zack let out a sigh. "I Guess you're right," he turned to us, "Sorry, we have other pokemon, and people to save, you two try to stay out of trouble," Zack said with a smirk.
"And just who are you guys and gals?" Dante asked.
Zack looked at each of his teammates before looking back at the two of us, "I'm Zack, the gardevoir is Ada, and the not so lovable grovyle is Isaac. We are all members of the WPA, World Peace Association," the flareon proudly responded.
"So you guys go around helping people and stuff?" Dante asked.
"The name is pretty self-explanatory," The gardevoir added.
"Anyways as Isaac stated, we have to take our leave now, so you two take care," Zack said with a small wave.
"Bye, and thanks again," I said as I waved the trio off. I couldn't guarantee if I'd see them again, but I owed the three my life for saving Dante and me. After Dante, and I watched them disappear, we both looked at each other at the exact same time.
"We should probably get back to Dad. The guy is probably worried sick about us," Dante said.
"If that's possible," I scoffed. Despite the fact that I should be thankful right now, I still couldn't help but resent my father, too much damage had been done for me to care about his opinion.
"Anyways…" Dante said awkwardly in an attempt to neutralize my hostility towards our father, "I'm proud of you, you finally evolved," Dante said with a smirk.
"Yeah well… it wasn't really my first pick, and now everything kind of got ruined for me," I replied back in frustration.
"Well if you didn't evolve into what you're you would be dead now, so consider yourself lucky that you evolved into that so you could live," Dante replied back, sounding almost as if he took offense.
"I guess… but I really had my mind set on evolving into an espeon. I asked Ada about umbreon's and she basically described us as strong headed pokemon, who solve problems with brute strength since we have strong bones," I pouted.
"Well I think your form looks nice, I know it isn't what you planned, but I never anticipated being a leafeon, for a matter of fact, I was terrified when I evolved. I thought I was going to hate this form, but it's actually something I wouldn't change, the only downside is the fact that I grew a phobia of fire, but that's to be expected since I'm a grass type," Dante responded with a smirk. "Besides, just because you're an umbreon, doesn't mean you can't achieve your goal. You probably already outsmart some psychics twice your age."
"Maybe… we'll just have to see how this plays out, guess we'll have to start by presenting myself to Dad," I said nervously, as I shuddered from the thought.
Chapter End
Author Note: Sorry for the short chapter, but I thought this was a good stopping point. I guess in the end this and last chapter should have been one chapter, but this took a lot less content than I expected, so my apologies on that part. Also thank you genericgamer207 for editing.
Fun Fact: Before I planned on making Dante a leafeon, I considered a flareon. I stopped myself though due to the fact that I didn't want to add to many flareon's. That is also why Dante has such a weird name in my opinion. Dante sounds more like a fire type name than a grass type, but that may be due to the fact that I got the name from a game called Dante's Inferno which takes place in Hell... you can probably guess why I think of fire when I hear the name Dante. Regardless the name grew on me, and I kept it.
Thanks for reading, and feel free to share your opinions on this chapter, I really enjoy reading what people think. Also feel free to criticize, even if I don't ask for it, I am always looking to improve my writing skills.