Hey everyone welcome back for another exciting chapter of Legend of the Mightyena Child! Yeah I know it's been a year almost 2 years since I updated but these sort of things do take time, and time is just not something I have these days. I will give a better explanation in the end notes.
Anyway it's now been over a two years since I joined Fanfiction, and I know I shall have many more years to come. And I want to thank Kmbrun for the review on the last chapter. It really makes my day when I hear that people are enjoying my stories. And thank you Zach206206 for your review as well.
But to get back to the topic at hand: Last time Mary finally learned something about Michael's past and learned he was a coordinator. Though when they got to Rustboro City at they were surprised to meet two trainers from Mary's past.
How will Michael react to learning that his new friend can't read or write?
Well you're about to find out.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon but all OC's belong to me.
(Michael's POV)
Miss Illiterate? I questioned in my mind before I looked at Mary. She was looking down at her feet as if she were ashamed. As we were walking to the Pokemon Center I thought Mary had looked scared about something, but I had just brushed it off as her being nervous.
I mean it technically was her first time in a big city, anyone would feel intimidated by such a thing the first time. But now, I think that she was scared about us getting separated and her not being able to find her way because she can't read.
It really shouldn't have surprised me to learn that she can't read or write, I mean what would a person that lived in the wild need to know those things for? I had just assumed she did know how to do those things, because she said that she had learned the basics back at her school.
"Uh-oh Tom I think you hurt her feelings." The one in the leather jacket then mocked and made my blood boil. These two were really starting to get on my nerves.
"Oh did I? Gee I'm so sorry Mary… NOT!" The other one laughed, Tom I think was his name.
I think Sheela had, had all she could take as well, since she charged the two boys while barking rather fiercely at them. Dorothy herself was glaring rather darkly at the two of them. Which was quite surprising since she normally only stood up for me. She must like Mary more than I thought she did.
"Whoa! Hey Mary why don't you control your mutt?!" Tom then shouted at her, and I noticed how Mary had tensed. "Or are you a lousy trainer too?"
"Okay that's enough…" I then say to them in a deadly calm tone. "You two better leave Mary alone or else…"
"Or else what?" Leather jacket then taunts. "You gonna fight us?"
"Thinking about it." I then answered him.
"Oooh scary." Tom mocked and I felt ready to snap.
"Okay that's it-"
"Stop!" Mary then interrupted me. "If anyone is gonna battle you, it'll be me."
Everyone looked at her with astonishment, including myself. Sure she needed to train but taking these two on in a double battle was a bit much for her first trainer battle. As the shock subsided, Sheela trotted back over to her sister's side and stood at the ready.
"You sure you wanna take us both on Freak?" Leather jacket asked as he took a Pokeball off his belt.
"If it means shutting you up then yes I do." Mary told them, but I didn't feel right letting her take them on by herself. Just as I was about to say something though, Mary gave me a hardened glare that seemed to say, "This is my fight. Stay out of it."
"Heh, you're gonna regret this one Mary." Tom told her as he too took out a Pokeball.
Mary simply responded by taking Shigure's ball out and enlarging it. Soon enough all three Pokemon were let out of their balls. Leather jacket let out an Absol while Tom brought out an Electrike. Shigure then let out a few chirps as he was released which I think was supposed to be intimidating but he sounded more musical than threatening. Sheela then walked onto the field glaring the whole time before giving them a threatening growl, which in turn activated her ability Intimidate. From what I could see it was rather effective on the Electrike since the electric pup looked away from her after that. The Absol however didn't seem as unnerved by the whole display.
That could be trouble for Mary, Absol normally have high attack power. Not to mention I could tell just by the atmosphere in the room that this Absol's ability was Pressure. I was honestly surprised this jerk had even managed to get his hands on an Absol. They were pretty rare and not easy to capture, that doesn't mean this guy was a good trainer by any means but still it was mildly impressive for someone like him to have such a rare Pokemon.
Anyway as this was going on I went to where the referee would normally stand to judge the battle since there was no one else around to do so. Obviously I wanted Mary to win but in order for her to be ready for her gym battle I had to be fair and not bias. I just hoped this wasn't too much for her first battle.
"Guess I'll be the judge here." I tell them with sigh. "The rules are as followed, this will be a two on one double battle. The winner will be decided when both Pokemon on either side are unable to battle. Furthermore none of the trainers are allowed to switch their Pokemon. The challenger has the first move so let the battle begin!"
"Alright, let's do this! Sheela charge and use Bite on Electrike! Shigure you use Steel Wing on Absol!" Mary then commanded, going on full frontal assault wasn't necessarily a bad tactic but this was a rather rookie move. Attacking without thinking it through. I mean it could have been worse she could have had Sheela use a Dark Type move on another Dark type still all I could do is watch silently as the two jerks prepared for a counter attack.
"Detect!" Leather Jacket then called out and the Absol instantly deflected Shigure's attack with a shielding move. This not only stopped his attack though it also weakened Shigure due to Pressure.
Tom however let Sheela's attack hit and I didn't understand why that is until electricity sparked around Sheela, slowing her movements. His Electrike's ability must be Static which has a chance of causing paralysis to the Pokemon it had physical contact with. This was not looking good for Mary at all right now.
(Mary's POV)
Crap things really were not looking good for me at the moment, but that doesn't mean I am about to give up. No, these two tortured me and Wally enough in school and now was my chance to put these bullies in their place, just like I was gonna put Victor in his place. This was my chance to prove to myself that I could do this. That I could conquer this first hurdle and move on to the next and so on, until I reached my goal. Protecting my home and family from brutes who try to hurt both.
After I refocus myself I assess my situation. Sheela is suffering from paralysis and while I can't use my healing abilities on her at the moment but I do have a Cheri Berry on hand. I always had a least a few berries on me incase Sheela and I got hungry before dinner or something. I should also keep some on hand for Shigure now as well. Speaking of Shigure he seemed to be suffering slightly as well…. But from what? And why does the atmosphere here seem so….weird is the best word I can find to describe it as. Was it because of the Absol? I already know that Electric's ability is Static so perhaps the Absol has an ability that is causing the strange...pressure? Wait! That's it! It's ability must be Pressure! Meaning that Shigure's move was weakened by it. I'll have to be careful of that unless I want to run out of moves. Okay Mary just think what would Mama and Papa do in this situation?
"Absol use Quick Attack on that mutt!" Chad then commanded snapping me out of my thoughts.
"You use Quick Attack on her as well Electrike!" Tom then called out. And just like that, both canine like pokemon were charging toward Sheela. She was trying to move out of the way to dodge but the paralysis was hindering her movement too much.
"Two on one? That's not a very fair tactic especially on an injured foe. But if that's the game you wanna play, fine. I'll show you two how a real pack hunts!" I then say before turning my gaze to Shigure. "Shigure protect Sheela by using Double Team!"
"You got it Mary!" Shigure said and just before the two Quick Attacks hit Sheela he flew in front of her and made about over a dozen copies of himself. Both canine pokemon then tried to skid to a stop only to end up crashing into each other. And on an even more hilarious note, that's when Static decided activate once again only this time on Absol.
"HEY! Tom! You idiot! Your stupid dog just hit my Absol and now he's paralyzed! You keep him out of my Absol's way!" Chad then yelled at his supposed friend.
"I'm the idiot?! Excuse me but it was your Absol that crashed into my Electrike! Your Absol is the one that needs to stay out of my Electrike's way!" Tom then shouted back.
While those two argued I was able to toss Sheela a Cheri Berry and formulate a plan. It was just like I said, I had to show them how a real pack hunts. I was raised by Mightyena and Mightyena hunt in packs meaning if I was gonna win this the three of us had to act like a pack, which in a sense we were now. Sheela and I have been together since she hatched and even before that when she was just an egg. And while the both of us have only known Shigure for a day or two, he is essentially a part of our new pack now as well. It was like Papa said all those years ago when he was trying to teach me how to hunt.
"Remember Mary, Sheela, you two are on the same team. You may not be of the same blood but you are family and key members of this pack. And family always sticks together. Just like a pack never lets another member hunt alone."
Trainer and Pokemon are always together just like a pack and family all in one. Meaning I would always fight alongside my pokemon because that's what trainers do, in truth it wasn't much different from being a member of the pack in that sense.
Since Chad and Tom were still arguing about who's pokemon crashed into who, I decided to put the plan I had formulated into action. "Sheela use Dig and Shigure you use Sing!"
Shigure and his copies started to sing just as Sheela went underground so she wouldn't be as affected by his song. As Shigure sang his song Chad and Tom once again started to argue.
"Look what you did now idiot! You distracted me and now the Freak has the upper hand! Do something before that blasted bird's song puts our pokemon to sleep and leaves them vulnerable!" Chad then shouted.
"Again you are the one who's an idiot! The only Pokemon who is gonna be put to sleep is my Electrike! Your Absol is already paralyzed a Pokemon can't have more than one status condition unless it's confused or infatuated! So why don't you do something before that bird puts my Electrike asleep!" Tom shouted back. And I am honestly surprised he was smart enough to know about how the status conditions worked.
"And what am I supposed to do?! My Absol doesn't have any ranged attacks! And that double team is still up so there is no way to tell which one is the real one, oh and he's still paralyzed because of your Electrike!" Chad then replied in an irritated tone. For two people who were supposedly friends they sure did not work well together at all. Which in a way was a point in my favour. And because their trainers were arguing about what to do, their pokemon had no idea what they were supposed to be doing. So they just stood and waited for the inevitable. Albeit rather awkwardly and annoyed but they didn't have much of a choice in the matter. After all from what I remember, a trained pokemon doesn't normally act on their own unless out of pure instinct, though instincts don't help much when you can't move.
And sure enough, while those two argued more, Shigure's song had affected Electrike and caused it to fall asleep. And just as it did Sheela came up from underground and attacked it with Dig. The electric pup yelped in pain from the super effective ground type attack. Thankfully this time Static did not activate, let's hope my luck keeps up, because now was time for phase two of my plan.
"Now Shigure use Fury Attack on Electrike and Sheela use Rock Smash on Absol!" I call out and both boys panic.
"Gah! Come on Absol dodge we can't lose to this freak!" Chad shouted but it was to no avail Absol's coat sparked with electricity and hindered his movement just enough that Sheela was able to get a hit in with the super effective move.
"Electrike dodge! Get up! Do something!" Tom then also shouted at his pokemon at almost the exact same time. But this did little good as well. Electrike was injured from the ground type attack, not to mention, more than likely still groggy from being asleep before that. So when Shigure went at him with a Fury Attack and managed to hit 5 times in a row….yeah that puppy is KO'd, with Shigure only suffering slightly from Static.
"Electrike!" Tom shouts as he sees his pokemon faint.
"Electrike is unable to battle!" Michael then announced. And even from here I could tell he was trying not to sound too pleased as well as trying not to grin at me for my accomplishment since it had been a rather rough start before.
Meanwhile Sheela was feeling the pressure after using Rock Smash and Chad's Absol looked weak but it was still standing but just barely.
"Ha! We're still standing! Okay Absol use...h-huh? Absol?" Chad's Absol then suddenly swayed on its paws and collapsed. "No! Absol!"
"Absol is also unable to battle the victory of this two on one double battle goes to Mary!" Michael once again announces and this time he truly is unable to hide the joy on his face about my victory.
"Yes! We did it! Oh Sheela you were so awesome! You too Shigure, thank you both for your hard work!" I tell them as I run onto the field and hug my sister while feeding Shigure a Cheri Berry for the paralysis.
"Wow! You know Mary I had my doubts at the beginning there but you were really able to turn things around! Great job!" Michael said with a laugh joy as he joined us on the field with Dorothy following closely behind him.
"I must agree with Michael that, that was indeed an impressive feat for your first battle." She then commented as she floated over.
"Was there really any doubt that me and my sister wouldn't win against those brutes?" Sheela then asked rhetorically with confidence and pride as if she couldn't believe in any other outcome other than this.
"Hey, I helped too you know." Shigure then said to her. "If it weren't for me you would have been knocked out by those two while you were still paralyzed."
"I'm not that weak bluebird!" Sheela then huffed at him. And I rolled my eyes at her stubborn pride now.
"Sheela remember what Papa always said, a pack and family sticks together and never lets a member fight alone. Shigure is a part of our pack now, meaning you will have to learn how to fight with him, as well as learn to accept his help and thank him for it." I then tell my stubborn sister whom I then hear mutter something like 'I hate when you use Papa's words against me.' which only causes me to giggle with the satisfaction of knowing that I was right.
"Ugh, fine, thank you for your help Shigure." Sheela then says as she almost forces the words out.
"You are welcome Sheela." Shigure says with a happy chirp.
"Grr...are you all seriously ignoring us?!" Chad then shouts at us from the other side of the field as he returns his Absol to his pokeball. "Don't think that you winning means that you're not some sort of freak Mary! Or that you're better than us, I lost because of Tom's stupidity today but next time we meet just know that you are gonna be the one losing!"
Tom was glaring at Chad as he stalked his way back to the front desk where Nurse Joy is, his glare then turned towards me, aren't I lucky?
"It was actually Chad's stupidity that made us lose." Tom says with annoyance. "But just so you know the same goes for me as well Mary. Do not get used to winning against us because this will be the last time you do, we'll take you and your new bodyguard on if we have to." Tom then returns his own pokemon to his ball before going to the front desk himself.
"Can I just say, that I hope 'next time' isn't anytime soon?" Michael then asked and I nodded in agreement at that.
I then remembered why that fight had started and what Michael had learned about me. Thinking about it caused me to rub my arms awkwardly but I may as well get this conversation over with.
"S-so um...about what Tom said…" I started before Michael held his hand up to stop me from saying anything more.
"Mary you don't need to explain, but if you think we should talk about this, then let's do it in the privacy of our room." He then said before heading to the exit, and naturally I followed since he knew where the room was and I didn't.
"But wait about training for my gym battle?" I then ask since that was the original reason we had come to the battle ground.
"I think Shigure and Sheela have trained enough for now and earned a good long rest." Michael then replied before heading to a pair of silver looking doors and pressing a button, the doors then seemed to magically open but there were no beds or anything inside, it was just a small metal looking room with even more buttons. What is this place?
Dorothy then giggled at both mine and I am guessing Sheela and Shigure's expressions as she floated into the metal room. "It's called an elevator, the guest rooms are on the second floor and these things tend to be quicker than stairs."
"I take it you've never been in an elevator before?" Michael then questioned after Dorothy explained and I shake my head in response as I take a tentative step inside the metal room, with Shigure and Sheela following behind me. "Should have figured. Anyway it's like a metal box humans invented to go up and down to other floors without using the stairs which tend to tire some people out especially if it's a bigger building with like 10 floors. It uses electricity and a pulley system to go up and down to each floor. We can pick the floor we want to go to by pressing one of these buttons."
Michael then proceeded to push a button that had the number 2 on it. Numbers had been easier for me to remember than letters for some reason. I noted that the button with a 1 on it had a star and then there was another button that had a B on it. Though I had no clue what any of that meant.
"Those other buttons indicate the main floor and basement levels. The main floor button normally has a star next to it." Michael then explained once more as he noticed me looking at the buttons. I didn't exactly like needing to have these kind of things explained to me, it made me feel rather dumb, as well as realise how right Mama and Papa were about me. If I had attempted to do this journey on my own with just Sheela I would have failed the moment I reached a city.
I also did not like when the metal doors closed shut making the small metal room feel even smaller and closed in. Like I was trapped. And then the thing began to move upward causing something to push down on me just a little, well I began to panic and grabbed onto the bar that was on one of the walls.
"Hey, easy, just relax. You're okay Mary, just take a deep breath and relax...I know this is all new to you but there's nothing to worry about. I promise." Michael said in a softer tone as he put a hand on my shoulder obviously trying to relax and comfort me but as if he wasn't certain how to do so.
I did as he suggested but it wasn't working instead of relaxing I panicked a little more, this thing was tiny wh-what if I somehow used up all the air in here? What if it stopped and we couldn't get out? What if? What if? What if? That's all that kept going through my mind as the walls in this metal box began to feel like they were closing in on me, I thought I was going to die. That is, before I felt a rather tight embrace anchor me back to reality. The panic receded from my mind as I gave into the secure and safe feeling that had enveloped me. Breathing came a little easier now and I started to relax.
As I did I realised that the metal box thing had stopped moving and Michael had his arms wrapped around me and that he was muttering a bunch of things into my ear to get me to calm down.
"Michael…?" I said slightly confused as I finally found my voice but it sounded slightly hoarse and my throat felt very dry now for some reason. Just what had happened?
(Michael's POV)
"Michael…?" I heard Mary utter in confused hoarse tone, her throat must be dry from hyperventilating. I loosened my grip on her but didn't release her quite yet. That had terrified me. I didn't expect her to have a panic attack in an elevator. I didn't even know what to do to help her. I just acted on some instinct that I didn't even know I had.
Sheela whimpered and nuzzled her sister's hand while she looked at her with concern. Shigure was now sitting on Mary's shoulder chirping to her. He was more than likely asking if she was okay. I didn't need to know pokespeak to understand that. Even Dorothy who was not Mary's biggest fan was looking at her with concern.
She had given us all a scare. When Mary had first started to panic I tried saying and doing what I thought would be enough to calm her but it obviously hadn't worked because when she had tried to take a deep breath, her eyes had gone wide with fear and she had started to hyperventilate instead. Without even thinking I had grabbed her into an embrace and started trying to get her to calm down and well it must have worked because Mary looked back to normal and she wasn't panicking anymore.
"I-I'm okay Shigure, Sheela...I-I think... I-I don't really know what happened." I heard Mary say as she patted her sister's head. She then looked at me and well I rather awkwardly released her finally. I also then realised that this had been like 5th? Maybe 6th, time that she and I had hugged? Now I know why Kamehameha had teased me about her being my girlfriend...with how my parents had treated me I was never one for much physical contact, yet here I was giving hugs to a girl I have only known for a few days, and I still felt no attraction to her whatsoever, so what gives? Why did being around Mary make me like this?
"Michael? Michael...hey quit spacing out already, I asked you a question." Mary said as she calls out to me. Guess I had been more lost in thought than I had thought.
"U-uh sorry Mary, what did you ask me?" I asked her as I looked her over, still not over the scare she had given me earlier.
"Wh-what exactly happened? A-all I remember was you telling me to take a breath an-and then I got scared I would use up all the air, a-and the walls were closing in...a-and…" I put a hand on her shoulder and started to guide her out of the elevator, no need to have her have another panic attack. Though what she was describing sounded like claustrophobia, a fear of confined spaces. I guess that would make sense for a girl raised in the wild where nothing is closed in.
"And what?" I asked as she kept repeating the word in a mantra.
"A-and...I-I only started to calm down wh-when you hugged me…" Mary said as she looked down at her feet, it was almost like she was ashamed she had shown me her vulnerable side, again.
"So-so um...what exactly was that?" Mary then asked, Sheela and Shigure seemed to be looking to me for an answer as well. Sheela then barked something at Dorothy.
"Mis...misdreavus, misdreavus." Dorothy replied but the answer did not seem to satisfy the wolf-like Pokemon, given how she glared and growled at Dorothy after that.
"What do you mean? Do you really not know or do you just not want to tell us?" Mary then asked her before looking back to me. Lovely, Dorothy wouldn't provide her an answer so she still expected me to do so. I really don't want to do this here…
"...Let's find our room first, then I'll tell you what I think happened, alright?" I told her before walking on ahead to find our room. I then heard her mutter something under her breath, guess she wasn't too pleased with this answer either, but she was following me nonetheless cause I could hear her footsteps behind me.
I found our room easily enough and Mary and the others were right beside me as I pulled out the key card for our room.
"What's that?" She asked as she eyed the card in my hand.
"It's the key to our room." I told her simply.
"That's a key?!" Mary then exclaimed in surprise "….that doesn't look like any key that I've seen on a Klefki."
I chuckled despite myself and decided to tease her a little. "Perhaps that's why these were invented, so Klefki wouldn't steal them."
"...Is that the reason?" She asked her curiosity now peaked.
"I wouldn't know, I just know that this is how they make room keys for the doors in Pokemon centers and hotels and stuff." I tell her still chuckling. "I think it's a security reason but could be because of Klefki as well, who knows?"
"It's not very nice to tease me about things I don't know…"She then mutters as she catches on that I'm just messing with her. And with that attempt to make the mood lighter, I open the door to our room and get back to the more serious matters.
"Alright so, you still wanna know what happened in the elevator and discuss you being illiterate?" I then ask her as we settle into the room. She took a seat on the bed closest to the window, with Sheela hopping up on the bed and laying down beside her, while Shigure remained on his perch...I mean on Mary's shoulder. I myself had taken a seat on the other bed and sat so I was facing her with Dorothy floating near my shoulder.
Mary didn't speak she just gave me a nod, perhaps she was too embarrassed to speak. I wish she wouldn't be, she didn't always have to be seen as the strong, tough and independant wild girl persona she was used to being.
"Alright, first off what happened in the elevator was called a panic attack. It's what happens when your mind gets consumed by fear. And that fear I believe was caused by something known as claustrophobia. It's a fear of confined spaces, growing up in the wild and never having been in such a closed tight space you couldn't get out of before is probably the cause of this certain phobia." I pause to let all this sink in for her before I continue. "When we were in the elevator did you feel trapped? Like there was no way out? You said that the walls were closing in and your were scared to use up all the oxygen in there so I figured you also felt trapped."
"Y-yes...yes I-I felt trapped…" Mary answered as she took a breath. "A-and you're right...I-I've never been in a space like that before….there were no windows or-or anything in there and it made me scared, then when the thing began to move all on its own and my body f-felt some sort of force hold it down….I-I didn't like it at all…"
I nodded at her in understanding. "That force was called gravity, it pushes down on you when you go up and feels a little more intense in an elevator because it's pushing past that force to keep going up. And I'm sorry Mary...if I had known it would cause you to be like that...I would have suggested to take the stairs."
She wouldn't look at me still and she still looked ashamed of herself. Sheela then put her head in her sister's lap as if trying to comfort her and make her feel better about being scared. Shigure then began to nuzzle Mary's neck, which caused her to try and pet both of them.
"Anyway I know next time to suggest taking the stairs." Or to take a clear glass one with a window so she doesn't feel so trapped. I then think to myself as I move onto the other matter. "As for you being illiterate….Mary, do you really think that bothers me? I mean without these contacts I'm as blind as a Zubat, and there are so many things that you can do that I can't. I mean honestly it doesn't even really surprise me that you can't read or write, what use did you really have for those things growing up in the wild?"
"..But it's something that every normal human can do…" She then responds miserably. "A-and I could never get the hang of it…"
Was there anything I could do to make her feel better about herself? Suddenly an idea hit me like Thunderbolt.
"What if I helped you?" This caused everyone to look at me as if I grew an extra head or something.
"Dreavus?" Dorothy asked while giving me a puzzled look.
Sheela also barked something while Shigure gave me a confused look, and finally Mary looked at me and her expression was just as confused. "Helped me with what?
"Reading and writing" I told her simply. "I can't exactly help you get over a phobia but I could teach you to read and write."
"...Michael...it-it's hopeless, I'm a lost cause...many have tried and failed." Mary said but I noted that there was a bit of hope in her voice. And that hope was all I needed to try and cheer her up.
"I'm not them Mary, and we won't know until we try right?" I tell her even though I doubt I would be any good at trying to teach her. I wanted to at least give her hope and make her feel better….and it couldn't be that hard, right? "So what do you say wanna give it a shot?"
She looked at me for a long while without speaking and I thought she was gonna say no until she finally spoke. "Alright….I-I suppose you can't do any worse than those teachers at the school. Let's give it a try."
"That's the spirit!" I tell her but deep down inside I was terrified that I would fail her as well. Still I had to at least try for her sake. But I get the feeling she's gonna have an easier time taking down that brute Victor, than she will learning from me. Why do I always choose the road less travelled?
TO BE CONTINUED…
Whew this took way longer than I thought to write, I mean it's May of 2019 and I started writing this in October of 2017. I am really sorry for such the long wait everyone.
And I said that I would explain why this had taken me so long when this was supposed to be a sort of anniversary chapter. Anyway to proper explain things I'll list all that has happened since I started trying to write this. Firstly Halloween interrupted, then my cat died on November 1st and I was too depressed to write anything after that.
Then I got a bit of writer's block and didn't know what to write for this chapter and focused on Latios and Emily instead. Then my mother's doctor's appointments, then there were various other distractions such as video games, my boyfriend and other things.
Then just this last November after I came home from a trip to Florida my mom had to go to the hospital for pneumonia and her kidneys failed. She has been battling Diabetic Kidney Disease for a while now so she had to start Hemodialysis. And I accompany her when she goes to Dialysis which is three days a week and I normally very tired by the time we get home from that, not to mention I have to take care of the housework on days we don't go to dialysis so I have very little time to write at all these days, because I am stuck 12 hours a week away from home and my computer.
I still plan to put out a chapter every now and then and do writing when I can it's just not gonna be as often as I used to anymore and I am sorry about that. I hope you all understand and will be patient with me.
Until then thank you for reading this long overdue chapter and this long endnote, and I hope to see you all for the next chapter of Legend of the Mightyena Child! Bye!