Important notice!: This story utilizes language that certain people may find offensive, and deals with aggressive themes generally directed toward a more mature demographic. For these reasons, I have given this story an R rating. It is highly - and I cannot emphasize that enough! - HIGHLY recommended that you must be at least 18 years of age or older if you wish to read any further. If you are a person who gets queasy easily, then you might want to leave while you still can. Please proceed with prudence - but do not say that I did not warn you if you never view pokemon in the same light as before!
A Corrupted Conscience by FatalCalamityz
Sabrina and Victor had reached the center of Sunshadow, and the number of corpses was just as high as it was everywhere else. The sawk and the umbreon were exploring the largest building they had found yet… or, at least, what was left of it. It clearly used to be bigger.
The building was built out of many white rocks carved into different shapes and sizes, from small slabs to large columns. Sabrina figured that the building used to look more imposing than the pile of rocks it was currently, now that the rock appeared to have been disintegrated somehow. Standing beside her, Victor's visible anxiety contrasted Sabrina's apathy. He knew what this large stone building was: Sunshadow's town hall, where all political matters of the city were discussed. Not that he, a pokemon, knew anything about human politics. He also knew why the town hall looked the way it did.
That vaporeon - Cyclone, Victor believed his name was… he obviously had a very important role in the ambush. And that attack… the one he used to destroy the town hall. It was definitely bizarre, unlike anything he had ever seen before - supernatural, almost. He remembered witnessing it from afar, and how speechless the sight of it left him. A giant wave of acid, crashing over the town hall, eating away at the marble to create a gigantic mess. The vaporeon must've learned that this was where the most important people in all of Sunshadow were based, and perhaps it wanted to show its hatred for humanity by ruining what was obviously a structure the humans regarded as beautiful without showing even an iota of mercy. That vile vaporeon rendered the large stone building to practically nothing in a matter of minutes with that move!
'I thought only legendaries possessed powers as crazy as that!'
Mrs. Bascom, the new mayor, had evacuated just in time, along with several of her colleagues. They flew away on the mayor's private helicopter, far away from the city. When Victor saw that, he felt a strong sense of anger course through his veins. He and Jonah already did not have a favorable opinion of her going into that election, but this pathetic display of cowardice and egocentrism only cemented his disdain for the controversial candidate.
'So much for swearing an oath to protect the people of the city, Mrs. Bascom…'
Unfortunately, wild flying-type pokemon spotted their attempted escape, and they quickly overpowered Mrs. Bascom and her colleagues' pokemon, making short work of the helicopter and all of its occupants, who screamed as they fell to the ground below.
'I don't wanna say you deserved it… But you deserved it.'
However, he realized he should focus less on the past and more on the present.
They carefully traversed down the street, weaving among the many corpses of humans and making sure not to accidentally trip on anything. The sight of so many dead humans still bothered them, and Victor hated that he had become accustomed to finding corpses strewn about every other street. At least Sabrina was more used to such a grisly sight… that is, if dead humans weren't among all the dead pokemon. 'How many… Fuck… How many humans were killed?! This is ridiculous!' Then Sabrina's focus shifted to one particular corpse that lay in the middle of the street.
And she stopped dead in her tracks. Her blood turned as cold as ice.
The corpse was of a young man with short blonde hair and pale skin, dressed in a red t-shirt, a black jacket, a black pair of pants, and a pair of white sneakers with black stripes. Each garment featured their own fair share of holes, dirt, and bloodstains. His chest and legs featured several deep cuts that oozed blood over his clothes, as if a pokemon had repeatedly stabbed him several times over and over. Yet it wasn't the injuries that caused Sabrina to react with horror; it was who the corpse was. That face… that hair… that scent - there was no mistaking it!
"L-L-Levi?!"
The second she saw her trainer's face, Sabrina bolted over to Levi, her heart and mind plagued by a fear like no other. She jumped onto Levi's chest to get a closer look at him and the horrible injuries across his body. "Levi!" she yelled, anxious to hear Levi's voice. "Levi! Can you hear me?!" Although she knew her words would be unable for Levi, a human, to comprehend, she was in no rational state of mind to remember, proceeding to beg Levi to wake up. "Please, tell me you can hear me!"
However, Levi remained motionless.
"No! No, no, no, no, NO! LEVI!" Sabrina's actions became more desperate. She pounded against Levi's chest, hopeful that the pressure would wake Levi up. Sure, he was in terrible condition… but he wasn't actually dead, right? "Come on! Come ON!" Unfortunately, nothing happened.
"What?! No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! T-This can't be happening! Why…? Why?! Levi, please, NO!" Sabrina continued to frantically beg for Levi to get up, but it was useless. Levi just wouldn't stand.
Her wary gaze shifted from Levi's bloodied face down to Levi's neck. There, she noticed a slight detail that stood out against Levi's pale skin. Looking closer, she noticed a pink ring around his neck, seemingly etched into his skin. Once she saw it, she felt like a wave of freezing cold air washed over her. Normally, such a chilly sensation would excite her, but there was nothing pleasant about the feeling this time. She knew what a ring of discolored, rough-looking skin around somebody's neck implied about the victim. 'Strangulation… Just like… Gah!' Against her will, the events of the day before played in her head, forcing her to watch Levi have his life strangled out of him by an evil ivysaur one last time. But now she knew just why the flashback felt so vivid. 'No, no, no… You mean it was real?! No, no, NO! Wait...' Even more, once Sabrina gave her surroundings a more thorough inspection, it dawned on her that this was the same area her flashback had taken place, too. 'So you mean… So it was hopeless from the start?! W-What the fuck?!'
The realization hurt. No amount of physical pain she had ever endured came close to matching the mental anguish thrust upon her at this moment. She desperately fought against the despair, refusing to believe that Levi could be killed the way he did, but with concrete proof in front of her, any counter-argument she could come up with was quickly refuted. Sabrina lost, reality won.
Levi Knight, the best pokemon trainer in the world, was dead, another casualty of this massacre on humanity.
At last, all of Sabrina's anxiety manifested into a big, loud scream. She screamed louder than she had ever screamed in her life. Never had she screamed this much, either. As she continued to wail in horror, she felt a thin line of a wet substance leave her eye and trickle down her cheek, followed by several more streaks of water. She couldn't remember the last time she cried, or if she ever had. She hated that she was crying, but she hated that she felt like she couldn't do anything to stop the flow of tears even more.
This whole time, she was desperately trying to find Levi amidst the ruins of Sunshadow, and now she knew just how much her efforts had been for naught. It had to have been a few hours now, and as much as she hated to admit it, the entire time, her hope of reuniting with Levi had been diminishing ever since she began searching. With each new dead human she discovered; each new area explored, cluttered with the same number of dead bodies; and each minute that passed without the scent of her trainer, let alone any human, lingering in the air; the thought of Levi being alive slowly became less credible. But if she stopped searching, that would mean abandoning Levi. That was the one thing that fueled her desire, that kept her optimistic, that kept her from totally losing her mind.
"I'm sorry!" She started profusely apologizing to Levi. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you!" She felt ashamed of herself. Crying was a sign of weakness. She didn't care, however; with her failure to Levi, she felt like she deserved to feel this way. It was the central point of pokemon training, trainers capturing and training pokemon to defend themselves… and she had just failed her trainer. Sabrina had failed the most basic responsibility a domesticated pokemon had, and it cost Levi his life. "I'm sorry… I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Her despair was characterized with another loud, long scream.
Sabrina's entire body was shaking now as she lay against Levi's chest, whimpering in between rapid and sharp releases of breath. She felt angry - angry at that damn ivysaur, and angry at herself. Still shaking, but more out of rage than shame now, she slowly turned her head, looking for something, anything she could use to vent out all these overwhelming emotions that had built up inside of her. She noticed the building directly across the street from where she lay, and its exterior. It was made out of brick. It looked solid.
Without thinking, Sabrina charged forward while screaming her griefs, until she collided head-first into the brick wall. She fell to the pavement below, gingerly stood back up, then repeated the same action, aggressively bashing her head against the brick as hard as she could while screaming.
"Why?" *thud* "Why?" *thud* "WHY?!" *THUD!*
The space where she was hitting her head was now splattered with blood. Her head hurt, her vision became blurry, and she was feeling both physically and mentally exhausted. 'It's okay… I deserve this!'
Yet, among all the anguish, some kind of noise in the background could be discerned. It was a male voice; however, what it was saying was distorted. Eventually, the noises became more clear to form coherent words.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Ay, ay, ay! Stop that!
She turned around to see Victor the sawk standing nearby, his expression a mixture of confusion and anger. "What are you doing?! You' hurtin' ya'self!" He wrapped his arms around Sabrina and began to pull her away from the wall, the unstable umbreon squirming in his grasp. "A'ya tryin' to give yo'self a-"
"Fuck… OFF!" Sabrina said, trying desperately to escape Victor's clutches. She kicked against his chest, bit into his arm, and scraped at his face, to no avail. His skin was too hard. But she had a trick up her sleeve. With a big burst of adrenaline, she released poisonous sweat from her pores, which successfully distracted Victor enough to loosen his grip on her. She took the opportunity to slip through and run away, laughing like a lunatic who had just escaped from an insane asylum.
"Hey! Get back here!"
"Fuck you!" Sabrina spat as she turned back around. "Get the hell away from me! And stop telling me what to do!" If this pokemon thought he had the right to control her behavior, then he was sorrowfully mistaken. Giving orders to pokemon was a trainer's job! It wasn't just Victor's irksome behavior that annoyed her. She glanced at the many dead humans around her, then brought her eye back up to Victor with a look of the darkest disdain possible, more suspicious of his motives than ever. "You're one of them… aren't you?"
"W-What?!"
"Shut up! Shut the fuck up, you piece of shit! You're a member of that evil army of wild pokemon! Well, your charade ends here, bitch! You're not tricking me anymore with your bullshit!"
"H-Honestly, Sabrina, I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Shut it! Shut your fucking mouth, you bastard!" Sabrina had had enough of Victor, his ugly mug, and the stupid way he talked by now, now that she knew his true nature. This motherfucker contributed to the ruined state Sunshadow and its people were in, probably killing a human or two. He strolled about his own devastation like it was a mundane walk in the park on a spring day. But above all else, he dared to lie straight to her face about his involvement! Even by her standards, this pokemon was heartless! The sheer level of death and destruction this asshole brought unto these innocent people was unforgivable.
"I… will… kill you!"
An ear-splitting Screech from Sabrina filled the air to signify the start of her and Victor's fight. She lunged at Victor, who had winced at the horrible sound, but he dodged just in time to avoid a Quick Attack from her. In retaliation, Victor swiftly extended his foot in her direction, trying to strike Sabrina with Mega Punch. Sabrina evaded the attack, surprising the sawk with her amazing agility. He was impressed, but he was confused, as well. Was she seriously challenging him in the condition she was in? She stood no chance! This was like sending a mudkip out to fight a machoke!
And yet, she didn't look intimidated in the slightest. Her stance was bold, her behavior conveyed confidence and power, and her eye was firmly fixated onto Victor. He admired her bravery, but found it rather dissonant, given the situation. He was bigger than her, stronger than her, both physically and mentally healthier than her, and had the type advantage over her; yet here she was, treating him with hostility in spite of the odds stacked against her. She knew winning was nigh-impossible, right?
"You're crazy!" Victor shouted. "I still need to find Jonah!"
Sabrina only scoffed. "Fuck Jonah! I bet she doesn't even exist!"
"Hey! A'ight, first of all: Jonah's a guy! Second of all… nobody says that about my trainer!" He sounded the most angry he had all day now. She hit his most sensitive nerve, and now he was holding nothing back. "Oh, you are goin' down, girly!" He dashed up to her and tried to deliver two hard kicks to her side. However, Sabrina evaded both kicks.
Still, Victor's fury didn't deter her in the slightest. In fact, seeing him fired up only fueled her adrenaline even more. Her sly grin never left her face, even as she dodged all of Victor's attacks. "Your act's been exposed, so you might as well drop it, dipshit!"
As she continued to scream, Victor drew a deep breath, allowing himself to focus his energy. Then he sprinted at Sabrina. The umbreon prepared to defend herself, creating a small ball of energy in her mouth, then firing several dark circles in Victor's direction.
But the Dark Pulse missed… badly. Victor didn't feel the need to dodge the purple projectiles, her aim was so off. Sabrina sputtered in anger, aghast at the fact that she missed, and not because her strategy called for it, but because she just… failed to execute the attack properly. Sabrina quickly realized that having only one good eye to see through was the source of fault for her mistake. She thought Victor was standing in a certain spot, when in reality, her impaired senses of depth and direction placed Victor a few feet away from that spot.
Unfortunately, Sabrina wasn't as lucky this time. The shock distracted her enough that she had no time to evade Victor's attack, and he landed several hard hits onto her in quick succession. A punch to the side of her face, a jab to her chest, a strike to her foreleg, and a kick to her hindquarters.
Sabrina was sent flying into the same wall she had bashed her head into earlier. She heard something snap as soon as her body collided with the brick before she dropped to the cement below. She quickly opened her eye to inspect the damage, but found her vision was getting blurry. Through the array of distorted shapes, she saw a tall, blue figure approaching her. Panic clouded her mind, and she attempted to fight through the fatigue and stagger herself back into a fighting stance… but soon found that her right hind leg refused to cooperate with her, and she slipped, forced to lay back onto her stomach.
"No… No! NO!" She struggled a few seconds more, but each attempt was just as futile as the last. It was useless. With her hind leg broken, getting up was seemingly impossible.
"No! I don't… Argh, t-this is… A-Agh!"
Victor stood in front of the umbreon. He could feel the rage emanating from her twitching body. "Sorry…" he said, "I had to." Watching her body violently convulse within a puddle of her own blood, Victor figured he should feel at least some remorse; but her mind was poisoned by her own delusion, and she was dead-set on killing him. In her eye, he was a genocidal maniac, a villain who had brought unprecedented calamity unto the people and pokemon of Sunshadow. He didn't feel the need to use any more attacks; he was certain she was going to die from her injuries eventually. Sabrina was muttering something under her breath, but Victor couldn't hear what she was saying.
Suddenly, Sabrina unleashed the loudest scream she could. "FUUUCK!" The yell was filled with as much animosity as she could muster, for she sounded like she was dangerously close to death. Then, with a big aspiration of air, she used what appeared to be her last breath to deliver one last expletive at Victor. "FUUUUUUUUUUCCKK YOOOOOUUUuuuu… uuu!"
And thus, Sabrina's head dropped to the ground, laying limp like the rest of her body, unmoving, to join the other corpses of pokemon that surrounded her.
Then Victor ran. He ran, and didn't think of looking back.
-oOo-
"Jonah?" Victor yelled down an alley, to which he received no response, much to his dismay. "Jonah?" he yelled again. He was getting more antsy by the second. Whether that was the aftermath of that fight with Sabrina. "Ugh, come on… Jonah, where are you?"
Victor strode past a few objects he recognized as "cars," transportation devices that, when operated, could carry a human from one place to another at a much faster speed than walking. He noticed that a human hand was sticking out from underneath the blue vehicle. Intrigued, Victor heaved up the vehicle, and he found three people - all dead, of course. None of them were Jonah, to which Victor was both sorrowful… and a bit relieved. All due respect to these innocent civilians, but Victor couldn't help but feel like his chances of finding Jonah were increasing with each passing corpse that wasn't Jonah. 'Right? That's how human maths work, right? Am I doin' that right?'
His mind kept drifting back to what he did to Sabrina, and the horrific state he left her in. Sure, she was absolutely insane, tried to kill him, insulted both him and his trainer, and accused him of a most nefarious crime; however, he couldn't help but feel a bit guilty for the degree of violence he brought unto her. He had killed a pokemon, and not for prey. Murder…
The word made Victor shudder. He didn't mean to kill her, only incapicitate her until she snapped out of her delusional state. At the time, sympathy was of his least concern, but now that those "in the heat of the moment" feelings had subsided, deep regret clouded his conscience as the full weight of the event came down on him. 'Damn…! She clearly wasn't right in the head… but that don't mean she deserved to… to die! Oh, Arceus, what have I done?!' He was horrified. In all those pokemon battles of the past, he had never killed any of his opponents. Of course, that was against the Pokemon League's code. 'She was tryin' to kill you, you dimwit!' Victor mentally reasoned with himself, trying to rationalize his actions. 'You defended yo'self. Ya did the right thing, Vic! Jonah would understand…'
"Hmm?"
All of a sudden, a great wave of unease crashed over Victor, filling the sawk with dread from his head to his feet. Sure, these neuroses had been plaguing him all day; but now, without a friend to talk to, the solitude seemed to make his fear worse. Some weird, inexplicable feeling of anxiety put him on edge for no particular reason, like something bad was about to happen.
He couldn't help but feel like he was being watched from somewhere by an unseen entity, observing his movements from an unknown location. The thought compelled him to cast a few nervous glances around him, wary of the shadows cast by the buildings. "Hello?" he called, checking whether or not anybody was there. He got no response - but that didn't necessarily make him feel better. Just because he got no response did not mean there was not anybody following him… or, perhaps, he was letting paranoia overwhelm him, and there really was nothing to be anxious about. Victor placed his hand over his chest. Every beat of his anxiety-ridden heart was audible. He moved his hands to the back of his head and let out a deep breath to calm his nerves. 'Ugh, this nightmare is getting to me… Once I find Jonah, everything will be okay. There ain't much left to search, either. Jonah has to be-'
"Urk! Ghk! U-Ugh… Oh…"
Victor felt a sharp pain in his chest, like something sharp had been thrust through his stomach. He felt deprived of oxygen, as if his oxygen supply had been abruptly cut off. He cautiously looked down, only to manage a gargled scream when he saw the end of a blade protruding from his abdomen, stained with fresh blood… his blood.
Victor fell to his knees, clutching the blade. Jostling it only made the pain worse, and the wound spilled more blood. The sad truth came quick, that there was no chance of him surviving this injury. He was going to die a slow and painful death, right here and right now. There was nothing he could do. 'Jonah…' Tears came to his eyes at the thought of his trainer. He didn't want to die not knowing the fate of his trainer, nor did he want Jonah to be traumatized when he found his corpse; but there was no bargaining with fate at the moment. His desperate struggles to stay alive were distracted by a mysterious voice coming from somewhere behind him, laughing.
"Wow, you scream like a charmander who's had his tail-flame doused!"
Morbid analogy aside, that derisive laughter sounded familiar… 'No… No, it can't be!' Alas, his suspicions were confirmed when his assailant walked in front of him, smiling wildly to give him a view of two rows of bloodstained fangs.
"Sab… rina?!"
"Aww, you recognize me!" Sabrina said in a mocking sweet voice, as if she was happy to see him. Truthfully, she was just happy to watch him die, and gloat about it. "Even though you thought you killed me, you forgot to make sure you had killed me! And that mistake cost you…" She broke out into another fit of maniacal laughter. "While you thought you'd won, in reality, the fight wasn't over. Now it's over, you're the loser, and I'm the winner! Not like that should come as a surprise. I've never lost once, you know?"
Sabrina continued to boast. "I've seen plenty… puh-lenty… of pokemon die before me in battle! So I know what a pokemon's final moments look like, which is how I was able to perfectly mimic a pokemon's last actions before their life force slowly slips away until there's nothing left! And you… you fell for it like the dumbass you are!"
"When you walked away, I got back up. It was difficult, what with my broken hind leg, but I managed. I've always wondered how some of Levi's other pokemon moved with only three legs… Anyway, tracking your scent was easy, but moving was rough. That fucked up leg just would not move, and you cannot believe how fucking frustrated it made me! Ugh, I wanted to get rid of it! I mean, if it was useless to me, why still have it? But then I noticed a dead scyther lying nearby with its blades intact, and so I got an idea! I severed one of its blades from its body, and used that to cut my bad leg off. See?"
Sabrina shook her legless thigh in Victor's face, the disgust evident in his eyes. If his insides weren't already screwed, he would have vomited at that revelation. Sabrina noticed his reaction, and found it humorous.
"Mobility became quite easier after that. But then I realized that I had a good weapon at my paws, so I kept it and carried it around with me as I followed you. All I had to do was wait for the perfect opportunity to strike, and it struck! That's when you turned around, and I snuck up behind you and lodged this motherfucker straight through your stomach!"
"Isn't it ironic? You fooled me with your act, now I fooled you with an act of my own! You never suspected a thing! Hahaha! You're so dumb! All you fighting-types are alike, aren't you? All brawn, no brain!"
"You had your chance! You could have killed me - yeah, you should have killed me! I lost, you won - you had every right to kill me! But you didn't. You just had to jump to fucking conclusions, and walk away like you just didn't give a fuck, didn't you?"
"Hey! Are you…?" Sabrina stopped shouting, noticing for the first time that Victor wasn't moving. The spasms stopped, his body fell limp, and he was no longer choking. The sawk had apparently succumbed to his stab wound in the middle of her monologue.
'Aww, he didn't let me finish! Heh, serves him right, anyway, for the shit he's done! Fucking traitorous cunt, piece-of-shit, no-good fucking son of a bitch!' She stared intently at the blade impaled through his chest, giggling uncontrollably. pleased that her idea worked.
Even though he wouldn't hear it, she left the dead sawk with one final message before slinking away from her latest kill. "Hey, can you tell Levi his umbreon says "I love you!" for me? Thanks!"
- o0o -
Sabrina returned to Levi's dead body, the disbelief that her trainer was killed still weighing heavy on her heart. The umbreon curled up close against Levi's chest, gazing into his eyes. It hurt, knowing that they would never open again. She sighed in sorrow. Her anger from earlier had subsided; she was just depressed now.
"Oh, Levi… Why did this have to happen?"
Her eye drifted downward to the sash Levi wore, which held six poke balls he had been planning to use in an upcoming competition. One of them was hers.
"I don't want another trainer," she said. "Levi was perfect - the best fucking trainer in the world! No other trainer is like him!"
Her mind took her back to a time when she was still an eevee back at the Stonedust City Pokemon Daycare, eagerly awaiting a pokemon trainer to gain interest in her to adopt her.
Every day was roughly the same: pokemon trainers would walk in, eager to adopt a new pokemon for their team. They would walk past cages and pens of all kinds and types of pokemon. She remembered they would walk past her cage in the wall, and she would try to act as cute as possible to get their attention, pressing her paws and face up against the glass and rolling over on the floor, but the trainers would only scoff. She couldn't hear what they said, due to the glass's density, but from their faces, it couldn't have been positive. The happenstance that a trainer did show interest in her, they ultimately decided on a different pokemon, killing that false hope he or she had given her. She remembered the daycare faculty saying things that they hoped would make her feel better. "Oh, you'll find a loving trainer soon," they would always say. She initially believed them, but eventually came to doubt their optimism.
Then a young man with blonde hair and pale skin entered the store. He was different from the usual pokemon trainers that patronized the place, in that he didn't ignore the eevee or treat her with contempt. He approached her, giving her a careful look… before smiling, nodding, and walking away. The next thing she knew, the man appeared behind her cage, and her eyes lit up like diamonds.
She remembered enthusiastically jumping out of her cage and landing in front of her new master, running up to purr against his leg. He outstretched his hand, in which he felt a poke ball, toward her. "You're all mine," he said, "I'm gonna help you become stronger than you can ever imagine!"
Her mind returned to the present day, where the Levi she once adored now lay dead before her paws. "I'm sorry, Levi," Sabrina said again, fighting back another onslaught of tears. "I wasn't strong enough. If I was, then you wouldn't… be…" She didn't want to finish her sentence. Or, rather, she didn't want to say that word. She didn't want to use that dreaded word to describe Levi. It felt disrespectful, like a blemish against his legacy. But as badly as she wanted to avoid that word, it was the only word available. Levi was dead, forcibly taken away from her by a crazy wild ivysaur. If only there was a way to revive him…
Revive…
With a gasp, Sabrina got an idea on how she could save Levi. Immediately, her mood improved. "Wait right here, Levi! I've got an idea! Don't go anywhere, okay?" She bolted away from Levi's location, sprinting down a street laced with buildings she deduced to be shops as fast as her three legs could carry her.
'This has to work. This has to work! Or else… I've got nothing left to live for!'
-oOo-
When Sabrina returned to Levi, she carried an object encapsulated within a pink glow. The object was a gemstone with eight sides in the shape of a diamond - a revive.
Sabrina knew how revives worked by observing Levi use them on losers who, for whatever reason, Levi still saw potential in: he would put a revive in a dead or dying pokemon's mouth, and the revive would release a surge of energy within the pokemon's bloodstream strong enough to heal their wounds, and restart the pokemon's heart, effectively granting them a second chance at life.
Sabrina climbed atop Levi, and used her claws to prop Levi's mouth open. Then, using Psychic, she carefully inserted the revive into Levi's mouth. Now all she needed to do was wait for the revive to work its magic.
… … …
A minute passed, and nothing appeared to be happening. Levi's eyes still stay shut. Levi's lips still didn't move. Levi's hands still remained limp at both sides of his body.
The revive should have worked by now! Seeing this, Sabrina grew frustrated. "Argh! Come on, work!" she yelled, her patience waning thinner than her twig-like legs. "Work, you piece of shit! Work!"
'Ugh, look at what you're doing…' she internally criticzed her insane behavior, 'Yelling at a piece of fucking medicine to make the process quicker. Haha! Like that's going to work, you dumbass!' But why wasn't the revive working? Surely there had to be a reason. 'Maybe a revive takes longer to work on a human… T-Than it does with a pokemon? Yeah… Yeah, that must be it! I just need to wait some more, then Levi will spring up back to life any second now!'
Another minute passed… Then two minutes… three minutes… four, five, six… Yet nothing changed!
"Did it… Did I do something wrong? Oh, Arceus! Please, no!" Sabrina inspected Levi's body for any more signs of movement, but nothing changed. Curious, she inspected inside Levi's mouth. The revive was still lodged in his throat, perfectly intact. Maybe if she activated it herself, then allowed its essence to pass through to Levi, it would be enough to revive him. The idea brought a big smile to the umbreon. Her trainer finally regaining consciousness would be amazing, but that was not the best part of the idea; Sabrina was mostly excited because she had to activate the revive with her tongue... which meant inserting her tongue into Levi's mouth.
She let her tongue fall inside, and began feeling around Levi's oral cavity for the revive, giggling a little when she felt her tongue touch Levi's. The contact made her moan in ecstasy. 'If only he were alive! Oh, he will be in a few seconds; then we can have some real fun!'
Unbeknownst to her, two pidgey had been watching her antics. Both stayed a safe distance away from her, perched atop the edge of a building, for they had deduced that she was mentally unstable, not a pokemon to attract the attention of. The way she treated a dead body as if it was still a living being was unsettling on its own, but when they saw what she was doing to this corpse - her own trainer, no less - that was enough for the two of them. Both birds averted their eyes away in disgust, and swiftly flew away from the deranged creature.
Finally, Sabrina felt her tongue collide with a hard, solid object. She gave it a few gentle licks, then retracted her tongue as she moved her mouth away from Levi's.
The crystal shard started emitting a bright glow, and began to slowly disintegrate into tiny specs of sparkly dust that trickled down Levi's throat. Sabrina watched the revive disappear in great anticipation, confident that she had done it right this time. She lay against Levi's chest, staying vigilant for Levi to begin showing signs of life having been restored to his system.
Except nothing happened.
The inactivity left her feeling more frustrated than ever. "What?! How? B-But I did everything right! Why…? What the fuck happened?!"
For the second time today, Sabrina's heart broke. Staring into Levi's eyes, knowing that they would never open again, was a bullet of despair that sank deeper within her than anything had today, shattering her hopes once and for all.
"No… no, no, no, no, no! NO!"
This was a new level of devastation for her, the lowest she had ever felt in her life. She was without a trainer now. Where was she to go? What was she supposed to do? She couldn't live in the wild - she would die instantly! Forget her battle strength, the wild was unknown territory for her, and the thought of being left to fend for herself scared her to her core. But then, if the wild wasn't an option… where else?! She already stated that she didn't want another trainer; but without a trainer by her side, she felt useless, like her life had lost all purpose. As far as she was concerned, she was basically doomed. A world without Levi in her life was a world she would perish in. As long as she lived, she would never be whole again… so why bother?
She brought a shaky paw up to her throat, setting her sharp claws against her scrawny neck. This was going to hurt, but she didn't care anymore. "At the very least… I'll get to see him again. Oh, Levi…" Her ruby-red eye locked with Levi's face one last time before committing suicide.
Those horrible wounds… Someone had attacked him. Someone had dealt these wounds unto him. Someone had murdered her beloved Levi. That ivysaur… that army of wild pokemon…
"No…" she darkly muttered as she lowered her claws, "No… Not yet." Depression turned to fiery rage, and a forlorn frown changed into a fierce scowl. She couldn't kill herself yet - not when Levi's killer still roamed free.
"I can't kill myself yet - not when your killer still roams free. If I did, and reunited with you in the afterlife… as amazing as that sounds, you would… probably not be happy to see me. You would have wanted me to avenge your… your d-death. To find that fucking ivysaur and everybody else in that goddamn army, and kill them all!"
"I'm not afraid… Why should I feel afraid? That army doesn't scare me! I've faced and fought large groups of pokemon before. One pokemon… two pokemon… five, ten, fifty! It doesn't fucking matter how many losers I face, the outcome remains the same: I will always - always - win! I am invincible!"
"And it's all thanks to you, Levi. Yes, it's because of you that I am as strong as I am! All that pain… it hurt, but it helped me. I got tougher through the pain, and you were there to be that booming voice in my ears, encouraging me to push myself. You were as hard as you were because you cared, because you wanted to see us grow and reach our potential. You've done… so much for me, I…"
"I wish you were alive to hear me say this, but Levi… I love you! The time we've spent together, you became more than the best trainer in the world to me! You are my everything - you were my everything! And I swear to Arceus up above, I'm gonna fuckin' kill and bury 'em all with my bare fuckin' claws for taking you away from me, Levi! Your name! That army doesn't stand a fucking chance!"
"I've already failed you once; I am not going to let you down a second, Levi! I swear on my fucking life!"