A Murder of Spearow

Bump, bump, bump.

I felt a bump at the most random of times but choose to ignore it. I'm laying down peacefully after the first decent meal I've had in a very long time. I don't remember the last time I ate food that good and warm. I do remember laying down in a soft patch of grass to sleep. I don't remember it being bumpy…or this comfortable and warm. I guess I can just deal with it for now and just relax until that one human walks out again to "claim" me like I know he will. He'll come with a light smile and invite to his party with an open hand but more than likely try to place me in that prison ball thing.

I've been around for a minute now. I've seen what those large nuts do once the humans get their hands on them. To think I don't know why they had the scent of nuts to them for the longest time. The humans believe I wouldn't notice them every time they tried to catch me but that smell never changes. Every human with that prison in their hands smells the same… strangely that one human smells different. It smells like a bird and something else and doesn't feel like normal human. It's like the elder one of it kind. It smells, moves, and speaks its words unlike any other human I've ever seen. They are different… but still human like the rest of them. They take us, enslave us, and force us to fight.

This simple truth is making me remember.

My mother and father all were taken away from me. That smell, the scent of nuts, came right before the ball thing hit them. In a flash light I've never seen before they vanished. My mother told me to run. Mom told me to run and hid and I did. I was young and scared. I couldn't even make a spark. I hadn't even evolved into maturity. That's when I watched a human come out the bushes with a red ball in hand.

Unlike a pidgey that sees everything in shades of red I'm not color blind. That's what the humans called it. I can see every color and I saw red as bad from then on. The human turned towards my father as he sparked. Ready to fight for myself and her. He demanded that the human leave but instead he pull the red ball out along with another. He called out a name I'm guessing and what they would call a ninoran appeared from the ball. My father continued but the ninoran blankly stared at her.

It's eyes… I'll never forget that soulless look it gave her. He wasn't even alive inside. The human made it something else.

I was proud of my father. My father was fully evolved and the leader of the pack. He was the strongest and the fastest and put up a fight and defeated one soulless beast after the next. My father lost but not to strength but because of numbers. My father killed one but the other four overwhelmed him. It was like a game to the human. It pulled one after the next to challenge my father and eventually he fell. He fell and then he was captured before me and my mother.

Then my mother jumped out from hiding and challenged the human. Told him to release my father or pay. My mother wasn't fully evolved like my father but she was the fastest in the pack. What strength she lacked my father had and vice versa with speed on her side. She fought against the remain one but was overwhelmed in the end from this rock monster. I watch her fight to the last breath. She wouldn't let herself be capture if she couldn't save father. She'd tail whip that ball right back into the human's face. In the end I watched her fall and then I was alone. I watched her die. I think that was the aim of the human though. It wanted to harm us without reason.

I was alone for a long time. I left the pack. I left the group in search for my father. I wanted to save him from that trainer and I've survived through mountains, cold, heat, and trainer that wished to capture me. I'd remain "wild" for as long as I could. And then I was forced into that ball by this elder human. His gaze froze me. It was harsh and steely. I could barely move when he looked at me. It was like staring into the eyes of the largest and meanest beast in the world. Then, like my father, I was taken and placed into a ball but not before I gave it a good shock. The nuts once a beast enters them forces you to become a slave to the human because of a chip built within. I studied them for a long time. My mind is safe and I remain unchanged like the many that came before me. Still, I was captured.

I couldn't move much inside and it felt strange. I didn't like it. I wanted out so badly and then it happened. I was given to a human without any choice in the matter. This human has eyes like the older man. I felt he would eat me if I did anything. I followed the human with the intent to run away, but I got curious. The human placed the ball away. He said I could leave if I wanted to. He wasn't going to force me to stay. I got curious and watched him. I watched and then was fed. It tasted good.

This other human. I was about kill it until is come out with that food it made. It was… nice to me. It talked to me and its eyes are unlike any other I've gazed into. I felt warm. I felt like I was within the presence of my mother once more. It told me to watch out for her child. It told me that it cared more for the young human more than it's own like to and protect him because he'll do the same for me. I don't feel obligated to protect him on my own violation but that meal might be good enough for a favor. Not killing him might do.

Bump, bump, bump.

I yawned and opened my eyes. The grass and the ground is moving. That means that I'm moving. Why am I moving? I fell asleep on the ground so I shouldn't be moving. I roused from my sleep and stretched. I found my movements restricted a little. I opened my eyes and saw trees passing me by. I looked up and saw the human. He was on something moving fast on the ground. He noticed me awake and I instantly jumped out away from him.

He stopped his thing and looked at me blankly. I should kill this human. This human will use me just like he used the others. He stared at me for a time then turned his head. I expected him to approach and when he does I'll take him down. This didn't happen though. He turned around on his thing and waved at me. "Bye bye Pikachu. Good luck not to get captured again." He turned around an went away.

He was going to leave me here. I blinked as he rode away from me alone. No, I noticed something following him. A bird of sorts. I suppose it doesn't matter. I'm free and that's how it should be. It should be fine. It should be but this doesn't feel fine at all. Before I knew it, I was following behind this strange human. The strange human with the red eyes.

I have to admit that when that Pikachu shot out my lap I almost crashed my bike out of surprise. I stopped for only a moment and contemplated on whether or not I wished to bother with this pokémon. It's the electric mouse type and honestly, I don't wish to deal with one of that sort right off the bat. Then again a Pikachu will be useful in later gyms, like that water gym but as well a leaf type. I suppose for now I'll leave this one alone. I know as a trainer I'm supposed to raise and make friends with pokémon but it's for the best I don't bother with this one. I can tell with a look it hated me. Not the way a pokémon would be if introduced to a human for the first time but most likely its had its fair share of interaction that didn't end quite right. I turned my bike around and waved off the pokémon, wild once more.

"Bye-bye Pikachu. Good luck not to get captured again." The last thing I need to deal with is a pokémon that wants to kill me right off the bat. It might not end well for either one of us. I began to peddle and make my way down the path. The next city isn't far but I'm sure I will need to make camp. The sun is going down.

This isn't the first time I've had to sleep outside but normally I could have the choice on whether or not to go back home. Right now I don't have that choice because I've already left it behind. I started my Pokémon journey so I have to keep moving. I can't think about home right now even though I'd like nothing but to go back and have some of mom's awesome cooking. Too bad for me I have to stick to my own brand of cooking instead.

After a quick run to the creek to catch me a bit of dinner I relaxed around my fire with my fish on a stick. I turned over the goldeen on a stick I had to catch not too long ago on the open fire. Making a fire is second nature to me, almost as much as swimming.

As my dinner cooked over the open flame I slowly sharpened my knife. The one my dad sent me in the mail. The very same knife my mom kept out of my reach for years. Or rather she thought she did. I've used it for almost everything from prying something open to skinning a Pokémon or two. I found it quite easy to do after the ninth or tenth time. I had to scrap off the tough scales, cut out the guts, and rip out the eyes of the pokémon before I could eat it. A pokémon isn't easy to eat if you don't know how to prep it correctly. For a goldeen you just need to take it by the tail and cut it open from the back to the front where the gills are. For that sort of pokémon its scales are hard and not easy to cut so you have to skin it like an eevee. From the inside out.

The pidgey around me seemed happy to get the guts and stuff I left lying around. After it dies you have to cut into its head and break the bone holding its steel like horn down then cut around the cartilage of the joint that lets it spin. Once that's off the rest of body softens and the scales begin to fall off on their own. I've wondered why this is but just put it away as one of those dead pokémon things. Once the horn is off you cut to the top of head and then trail it all the way around until it falls off. Clean the insides, put a branch through it, and then place it over an open flame and you're ready to go. I've stuffed it full of herbs and berries and poured juice over the meat while it cooks. With a couple seasonings my mother gave me the meat began to smell great. I could feel my hunger getting the best of me but I have to be patient. I remember when I ate meat before it was fully cook. I was leaned over for a good hour right before puking my guts out.

"Prp. Prrp!"

I looked up to the side. I was leaning on the tree trying my best to get comfortable right now but I guess a pidgey doesn't want me to relax tonight. I looked up to it and noticed. By the golden color of his feathers I knew just who it was. "Hey best buddy." The larger pidgey fell to the ground next to me and flapped his wings a little. I pushed up some of the dirt around it with a single flap. The pidgey faced me and leapt to my shoulder and perched like he would whenever I went on a walk around the forest. "You've been following me all day," I remarked upon. I've noticed him trailing behind me for a time now not that I minded. I wondered what he was doing though.

My friend pecked my head. "Ow," I cried a little and rubbed my head "What?" I looked at the bird. "You don't want me to leave or something."

"Prp, prrrp." I call that a yes in his own way.

"Well I can't stay. I need to chase my dream to become a master and catch and train one of every pokémon I can for the old man." I pat the pidgey on top his head and smiled. "You shouldn't get mixed up with something like this my friend. It's not worth it." My friend pecked me in the head again. "Stop that!" I rubbed my head again and felt something wet on my fingers. I pulled my fingers to my eyes and saw something red even in the faint light from my camp fire. "I'm bleeding." I rubbed my head again and sighed. "Well whatever." I turned my food around again so not to burn it on one side.

"Plrrrp?"

"That Pikachu from before?"

"Plrrp, plrrpp prrp," my friend chirped.

"Well I'm unsure right now. That one doesn't seem to like me that much not that I mind. I left him to his own devices already so it doesn't matter what he does."

"Churrp plrrp."

"I'm perfectly fine without a pokémon to protect me. What's the worst that could possibly happened to me right now. The storm that's coming right now might hit me bit a little rain never hurt anyone."

"Spwrr!" I looked up when I heard this and noticed a spearow standing near my foot. I frowned and climbed up to my feet with my knife out. I should buy a gun so I can shoot this little thing the next time but a knife should be good enough. I slashed at the bird and forced it off my food. It cawed at me and flew away. I rolled my eyes at the bird and took my fish on a stick off the fire. I gave it a sniff and smiled. "Good."

Pidgey was already peeking the meat and eating before I even had a chance to bite into it. "Selfish bird." I sat down and bit into the fish as well. I bite something hard and ripped it off with the meat in two. The good thing about goldeen are their large bones. Magikarp have small bone and are hard to eat. The best time to eat them is in the middle of their evolution into gyardos. The bones are larger and the meat is leaner. It's also expensive to get your hands on. I tossed the bones away from me and continued to eat. "Good."

"Spwrr." I stopped and looked up. I could only see a couple of the spearow but I could make out the eyes of dozens of them.

"Oh, crap." I let my food fly away from me and shot to my fire. I grabbed the first stick I could and tossed it into the air away from me. Fire and the color red attracts spearow while blue attracts pidgey. The pokémon looked towards the stick giving me the seconds I needed to gather my pack and bike.

"Pidgey get out of here!" The pidgey took to the air when I got my feet on the pedals.

"Craw."

"Spraw."

"Coow!"

A murder of spearow are some of the most dangerous groups of pokémon in the world. These things are known for picking whatever pissed them off clean of all meat and even the marrow in the bones included. I will not be food for a bird. It didn't happen when I was 8 and it won't happen now.

Just as I was about to push off I saw a flash of yellow and covered my head. I heard the thud of dead weight hitting the ground and looked up. I noticed that Pikachu behind a bush with his cheeks sparking. I looked down and noticed a couple spearow on the ground either dead or out for the count. Either way my life was saved by the Electric type which are super effective against flying… super effective.

I pedaled towards the mouse and without hesitation picked him up. I placed him in my basket and pedaled. The Pikachu growled at me and I glared down to him. It settled down under my gaze.

"Not right now! If they catch us we are dead Pikachu. You can hate me later!"

"Caww!"

I drew my knife and stabbed down into a spearow that tried to tackle me off the bike. My knife stuck into the bird and ended its life in one strong stab. I grit my teeth as the aided weight that nearly ruined my balance and threw the bird away off my knife. "Pikachu can you used thunder shock again?" It looked behind me to the many birds. I could feel the bloodlust of each behind me numbering in the dozens. The aura makes me feel their desires and they desire me dead.

The Pikachu sparked its cheeks. "I need you to jump up and fry as many as you can when I give the go ahead." I glanced back to the murder and then took a sharp turn to the right though a couple trees.

"Now!"

Pikachu jumped, "PI-Ka-CHUUU!" Yellow lightning shot out from the Pikachu and spread around hitting many of the birds. They dropped to the ground but many more remained and now they seemed more motived than before. One dove and tackled Pikachu who couldn't dodge in mid-air.

I rode and caught him in my arms. "You okay?" The pikuchu seemed to be in pain. I looked down and noticed a bit of blood on its stomach. A critical hit with its peck attack it seems. "Are you okay Pikachu?"

"Pika," he said strongly but I know that had to hurt a lot.

"Okay, it's my turn." I placed Pikachu into my basket and pedaled forward. They dove after me. I took to the trees with my knife in my right hand. I saw them flying at my flanks and waited until we pass a tree before moving in and cutting the bird. This tactic didn't work for long though. Pokémon are animals but they are not stupid. They learn and eventually overcome. One came from behind a tree and tackled me in the shoulder. Pain shot through my body. I reached over and felt something wet. It pecked into my back with that sky attack.

"Pi?"

"I'm fine." I've suffered worse than this.

I peddled but after all day on my feet and riding my bike my legs are beginning to give. I was slowing down and the murder baring down on me. I might have to abandon my bike.

"Caaw!" From both sides and the front they came at me from around the trees.

"No." I grabbed Pikachu and rolled off my bike. I heard the sound of metal bending and breaking as I hit a tree with my back upside down. I grit my teeth and opened an eye. My bike. Two of them got speared on my bike but it was destroyed. "Dang it," that was my only bike and it took me two years to save the money to get it. Bikes are expensive. I'd say more so than cars sometimes.

"Caaw!" I looked up from my kneeled down position. They hovered over me still and cawed angrily at me. Then they came from all sides. There's no way to escape this.

"Pika!" Pikachu slipped out my arms and suddenly lit up the night with his thunder shock. I covered my face out of fear one of those shock bolts might hit me. When the light died I heard the side of bodies falling to the ground.

I felt something coming down upon us and moved. I rolled to my side and shot to my feet. "Pikachu watch out!" I spearow came down from above. I dove and felt it hit my back forcing me over Pikachu. I felt pain ride up my back. It might have pieced through my pack and got my back.

"PIKA!" Pikachu rushed to my side as I struggled to my feet.

"We need to keep going." I rolled out the way of another of the birds to my feet and ran for it. Pikachu was right behind me but I was leaving him. "Pikachu hop on." I put my arm back. Pikachu leapt on to my arm and climbed up to my shoulder. I kept running though. I could smell it up ahead. I could smell the water. The storm hit the land further up the stream from us and the water at the river is rising as consequence. That was our escape. A couple spearow came down surround me but with a quick swipe of my knife they backed off. I'm pretty good in close combat against overwhelming odds. I felt a pain in my hand and looked down. A spearow pecked my hand and gripped to my pants leg while doing it. I stabbed it in the body and threw its body away. My hand was bleeding out blood though.

"Pika?" Pikachu sounded a bit worried for me.

"I'm fine," I reassured the pokémon. The water was right there and they are flocked around it. They seemed to have guessed my plan. "Pikachu take them out!" I pointed to the front. Pikachu leapt up and shocked the bird. I rose my arms and caught him just as the ones on the sides began to converge on me. I felt them peck my shoulders and sides as I huddled down to protect my internals. I jumped out and my body hit the ice cold water. A couple of the birds went with me that grabbed on to me only to drown.

I was being carried down the rapids with ease but I'm a good swimmer. I reached to surface and broke through. Pikachu breathed as well and coughed. "Pikachu are you okay?"

"Pika pi."

"Good. Hold on to me while we go. I got you." The pokémon nodded and tucked into my arms. I placed my arm out and paddled forward. I looked back and saw them. "They're persistent. Pikachu hold your breath." I dove under to hit the strong current underneath. I kicked my feet and pushed forward with my hands gliding through the water. I don't know how long I was under the water but I do now that I was hooked onto something. Suddenly by some joke from god itself I was pulled out the water. Pulled is putting it lightly. I flew out the water to the ground and landed hard into the ground with Pikachu in my arms still.

"Holy crap!" You can say that again. I looked up and saw a girl. Orange hair tied to the side and a yellow tank top and blue shorts held up with red suspenders. The girl looked like a free spirit and a little tom boyish. The 'holy crap' bit isn't something you'd hear from a dignified young lady. I looked behind me and saw a fishing hook on my pack. I placed Pikachu down who shook off the water on his fur and coughed. I pulled the hook out of my pack and followed the line to a fishing pole the girl had.

"Hey you okay?" I looked up to her from my knees and sighed. I didn't know how to answer that question honestly. My first day as a trainer and I've lost my starter, got attacked by a murder, and almost drowned.

I took a breath and nodded my head. "Today has been…" I started until I felt that desire to murder once more.

"Cawwww!" I looked back and saw one single spearow. I thought about throwing my knife at it but stopped. It's too late. It flew away to alert its fellows that the meal has been found. It was beginning to rain hard now.

"Wow, here I am doing some night fishing and catch a kid instead." I looked around and spotted a bike. It must be her bike. The murder is coming back and we need to go.

I looked back up to the girl and smiled sadly from what I have to do. "Sorry about this?"

"About wh…" She didn't finish because I pushed her into the water just as the murder arrived. I rushed to the bike. She'll probably hate me but its better than being killed by spearow.

"Pikachu!" The mouse jumped into my lap and we were off yet again. If we get to the next town the automatic defenses should trigger and get these things off of me but that's maybe another hour ride away. "Damn it," I cursed and I hate to curse but it seems appropriate this time around.

The rain was hitting us hard now but I rode harder. Harder than ever before. I could barely see with the darkness and the rain but I petaled ignoring the burning in my lungs and the pain in my cuts. I was beginning to feel cold and I hope it's from the rain. My aura sight was pushed to the limits. I didn't see it but I was in the air before I knew it.

I hit the ground and slid into the mud with a grunt. I struggled up to my feet and looked up. The birds tackled the bike and then took it up. At least nine of them. That was smart… but stupid of them as well. Lightning stuck the bike as the birds flew away with it leaving Pikachu and I surrounded and the birds dead.

"Okay, fine." I drew my knife and focused on my aura to find all of them and fight. They swarmed and I cut, slashed, and stabbed until they backed away. I looked back and saw Pikachu firing lightning every which way but that became weaker and weaker until it was only sparks he could create. He was pecked and tackled repeatedly until he fell to the ground.

Just as they were about to swarm him I dove and hugged him to my chest. I combat rolled onto my feet and ran as fast as I could. I couldn't tell if what was dripping down my face and arm is water or blood but at a time like this it didn't matter. They tackled me and tripped me but I kept moving.

"Pika…" Pikachu said weakly.

"I got you don't worry." I tripped into a clearing and fell to my shoulder and then my back. My chest was on fire. I couldn't run anymore. I ran for what felt like hours and now I'm completely surrounded. I have no escape. I stood up to my feet and let my pack drop to the ground. I drew my knife again, help it up across my body, took my close quarters combat stance, and closed my eyes.

"Behold the aura," lucario's words came to my mind. I could see them all despite the darkness and readied myself. They swarmed me from all sides. I cut a couple but hey pecked me every time I left my arm go out. I punched a few and cuts thee at once. I rose my foot and kicked one trying to sneak in but I can see everything. If I'm dying I'm taking as many of them as I can with me.

"Leave Pikachu alone!" I grabbed one bird that targeted the downed pokémon and snapped its neck. I used that body to cub one and another before tossing it away. "Come at me," I growled at the birds. "You won't harm Pikachu anymore and if you want me come and get me!" I felt my leg give suddenly and my body run cold. I might have lost too much blood. I'm seconds from passing out. No… No! I looked up to the swarm. They must have sensed this and came at me for blood. I rose up my knife weakly and glared at them all. I can't die here. I felt a pressure on my back suddenly and then there was light.

It was crazy. Insane even. One moment I'm following the human and watching him and the next I'm on my last leg about to die. I followed him to the creek and watched him from close by as he killed it and cooked it. Then I saw him talk to bird for some reason. They looked like good friends. Then they came.

I've done my upmost to follow my mother's words and never get mixed up with a flock of birds capable of picking your bones clean but following this boy had me in the midst of them. No matter how many I shocked and killed or not they seemed almost infinite and never ending.

The human and I… we worked together to get through this. We worked and took down as many as we could. We went through water and rain to escape until the point that I couldn't even shock anymore. It was over and this boy and I were going to die. I just about gave up… but he did. He stood ready and willing. He cut with that thing of his and took dozens of them down. I watched as he defended me and shielded me from them all. He wasn't going to give anything.

"Come at me," the boy roared and screamed. He drew them to him and didn't fall no matter how many times they attacked him. They somehow barely touched him. He moved almost like the dance of an ekans during the summer bowls. It's like he has eyes inside and outside his body. He could see everywhere and responded every time something got too close. Still he was hit and then one got his leg forcing him down. They knew they had him this time and they moved to take him.

NO! They will not take this human. This human is… decent. I couldn't let them. I climbed up but it was hard. I could barely move without pain quaking my very being. I got up not only for me but for him. He protected me. Now it's my time.

I shot upward and jumped on his shoulder with my tail up. My father showed me a trick to redirect electricity from other sources outside of other beasts. I watched my father take control of the power of the heavens and turned them against a beast much larger than us. It hurt him greatly to do it but destroyed that beast that dared endanger the family.

Like father showed me I used my tail as the conduit by discharging my body to attract the power I needed to end this. I became the negative to the positive of the heavens. I could feel the connect almost instantly. I feel the power coming down. I had to move so not to touch the ground or the human. If I did the power would kill us both. I shot up towards this flock just as the power came down. The sensations of it was almost… godlike and I felt more powerful than ever before. But I also felt like I was moments from death if I contain this for any more than a second. My body burned from the inside out as the power circulated from my tail through my body to my cheeks. The power that ripped my body into pieces little by little was released and then consumed… everything.

"PI-KA!" Pikachu shot from out my shoulder to the sky. Lightning suddenly struck everything around him. Pikachu became lightning itself and used it. Pikachu's lightning was more powerful than ever and it showed. When the flash was over Pikachu fell down in front of me. Him and many of the bird pokémon as well. The rest flew away being only a few.

I crawled to the Pikachu and fell forward with my hand on his side. "Pikachu." The Pikachu met me with his eyes.

"Pika?" He asked weakly.

"Yeah," I nodded. "You did it Pikachu. You're amazing." I felt my mind go blank and fell forward with my head in the mud. I couldn't anymore.

My last thought this time was of the first verse of my mantra. "Even before… the fiercest lightning." I smiled a bit as the darkness began to me.

Suddenly, I felt warm all of the suddenly. I opened my eyes and saw blue. I saw the sky and not just the sky. I saw a rainbow. I looked leaned up from my position on the ground and saw so many different burnt carcasses around me. What happened? The memories of before him me like a raging Gyarados. "Pikachu!" I looked around and found him right next to me. I reached for him with my good arm and picked him up. "Pikachu," I called again and this time his eyes opened. I smiled and hugged the little guy to my chest.

"We did," I said gratefully. "We did."

"Pi," he said weakly and I smiled down at him.

"Look buddy, a rainbow." I looked up to the rainbow above and the sunrise. That and something else entirely "Do you see that?" I pointed up to the thing in the sky. "A large golden bird?" It was so beautiful. Mystic and powerful. I reached into my pocket and pulled out my pokédex. I pointed it at the bird.

"No information found. Pokémon unknown." My Pokédex said making me sigh.

"Figures." I let my hand fall and watched as that legendary rainbow pokémon trailed across the sky. Seeing this scene with my new comrade in arm filled me with the determination. I needed to continue on. "Catch them all. That pokémon included. How can I do this at my level?" I almost got torn apart not to long ago after all. I looked down to Pikachu and smiled. "Well I'm off to in interesting start though huh?" I looked down to my belt and noticed my knife was missing. I looked around a little and found it in no time. I placed it in the holster and climbed up to my feet. I don't have my pack anymore. I'm a little sad I didn't catch some pokémon on the way here to protect me. Me and my big mouth.

"Prrp." I looked up as another golden bird came down from the sky but not in the manner it used to. He almost fell straight out of the sky and landed next to me.

"Pidgey?" I reached for him and stopped when I saw blood oozing out. His golden feathers are stained with red. "I told you to fly way!" He must have fought against them in my defense like an idiot and now look at him. I bet half of the flock fell before he did and he still found the energy to get up and find me. Now I have to take care of both of them together because its obvious that I can't take care of myself. I'm only still alive right because these two, circumstance, and dumb luck.

I rubbed my shoulder and arm first before picking up Pidgey with my left arm and placing him underneath. I did the same for Pikachu under my right and climbed up to my shaky feet. "Let placed you both into the shade and I'll take care of you the best I can." I need to stop the bleeding first and clean or wounds but without my pack all my supplies aren't there. "Crap." I need to hurry to a pokémon center and quick.

I stepped and almost tripped forward. My knee was about to give on me. "Not now body." I closed my eyes. "Pain is relative to your mental state. Focus on the fight and that pain will fade." This is my fight right Lucario? I have to fight from here to the next town. If I don't my friends will die and maybe me as well. Move body. Now!

My feet began to move into a stumble. The pain faded and I walked as normally as I could. Then I burst into a fit of running. I have to hurry. I have no time to waste. It would probably be easier to place them into pokéballs but I can do that. Pikachu hates his ball and I won't capture pidgey.

I soon found the path and hit the ground running.

"Pi…"

"Don't worry Pikachu. Once I reach a town they can heal you to full health." They have to."

A/N: Still not sure about this story and if I should continue it. I think I might have dropped the ball a bit with this chapter with the shifts in POV's. Whelp, please review and thanks for reading.