5
I reach the outskirts of town without any problem. I have my backpack and no one has yet to notice or follow me, from what I can tell. Since no one was going to be near me for a while, I decided to release my eevee and continue walking. I have to find some kind of remedy, but where am I going to look?…
I hear a running sound and I flip around, eevee in a defensive stance already. It's Sakura. "Why are you going alone? You don't know what to do."
"Shut up!" I yell.
She is unrelenting. "You are going to die and you don't want help? What is wrong with you?"
"How could you possibly know what is going to help me?" I say, a little calmer, but still lace my voice with a hint of anger.
"For one, this is a mystical curse, or some kind of fake. How Officer Jenny could possibly do that to YOU when SHE pulled a tail is beyond me. Just trust me."
It then hits me that I should ask for some more detail on the scene. "Fine, let's walk to Pewter. We can get through viridian forest alone with Eevee." We begin to walk and I decide to start questioning about the event. "So, when I was cursed, what EXACTLY happened?" I ask, and she begins to explain.
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I looked and saw Raizu just finish off a growlithe. I had to stay behind a bit to make it look less like we were together, but most weren't fooled.
"So Raizu, just got you're friend to come in and save you?" Yells a police officer at him. I wince at the accusation, knowing I maybe in as much trouble as him.
"You are just worthless." Raizu said. The officer returns it to the pokéball and another officer comes forward to unleash his growlithe, but eevee tackles him and grabs the pokéball in her mouth and tosses it away. "My eevee is very well trained. You think if I was an abuser she would still listen to me?"
"I think so." Says a voice from my right, and I glance and see Officer Jenny. She looks at me and I gulp. "So, Sakura, why are you not dealing with this one? I hear you are with him, is that true?" She says accusingly.
I run out to Raizu and get behind him, still facing Jenny. "I am. I won't stand it while you all try to attack an innocent boy. He clearly loves his eevee and would give up everything for her."
"Sakura…" Raizu says under his breath, and calls eevee to his side and turns to face Officer Jenny.
"Heh, that eevee is obviously doing this out of fear. Why else would it still be standing this long if it is just his newest pokémon?" Says the Jenny smugly. "I'll handle this with ninetails." She takes a pokéball out and releases the ninetails. "All right, do a Fire Spin ninetails." She commands, and the attack moves too fast for Raizu's eevee to evade. It hits dead on, and engulfs the eevee.
"NO!" Yells Raizu, and he jumps to the pillar of flame and tries to reach inside, only to get burned a little and draw back his hand. I try to think of something that might help him but fail to come up with anything. "You are some kinds of police officer aren't you?!" Yells Raizu.
"I'm doing my job. Now…" Officer Jenny grabs one of her own ninetails' tails and yells "CURSE IT TO DIE!" The Fire stops and the ninetails stops for a moment. A weird, black sack of unshaped energy appears above ninetails. Raizu looks at his eevee then at the black thing. The black thing moved toward eevee at a startling speed and is about to hit his eevee when Raizu jumps in the way and covers eevee completely, hugging her. The black thing smacks his back and he flinches. It slowly pours itself into him through his back while leaving no physical wound. He hardly has time to return the eevee, too weak to do anything, to it's pokéball.
I release my pidgeot and yell at Jenny. "Are you happy!? You were trying to save his pokémon and you wanted to KILL IT!? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!? You are lucky you are wrong about Raizu or that eevee would be dead." I grab Raizu and bring each other onto pidgeot's back and we fly out of there. I look back as the police squad runs after us and notice Jenny is just standing there, unmoving, looking at the ground.
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"And then," Continues Sakura, both of us now into the forest. "We got to the hotel room unspotted somehow and I waited a few hours. Several hours actually. Then you woke up and you know."
I shudder. "That sounds like a lot more power than they need just for someone who is mean to their pokémon…"
She shrugs. "I hope there was a possible reason that could be explained, but I'm guessing you are clueless."
I think for a second and nod. "I have no idea what would make them want to get rid of me."