Chapter 4: Dreams: Random Brainwave Signals, Hidden Thoughts, and Hints of the Future. (Former Title: The Wild Pokemon.)
Hikari felt something strange the next day which made her wake up. She opened her eyes and saw Satoshi standing above her. She wondered what was wrong, but before she could say anything, Satoshi grabbed her by the throat and picked her up and held her over his head. Hikari couldn't breathe.
"Wh...what are you...d...doing?" she choked out. Instead of replying, Satoshi punched her in the stomach, creating more problems for her to breathe. She choked and struggled desperately to get some air into her lungs. All of a sudden, Satoshi threw her, slamming her down on the ground hard. She groaned in pain as she saw Satoshi walk towards her. She was able to see Satoshi swing his foot towards her face before she closed her eyes.
She braced herself, expecting a very painful blow. However, the blow never came. She opened her eyes to see her still in her 'bed,' Satoshi near her, still asleep. She ran a quick scan over the areas Satoshi hit her and found no bruises. She closed her eyes and started to think over what happened. 'Hmm...Satoshi would never do such a thing against anyone, especially his friends...So it was all a dream? It was so real...oh well. Dreams are just illusions that the brain makes when it's asleep.' She told herself that is was a dream and sat up. She looked at her clothes and found them all messed up.
She quickly stood up and desperately tried to straighten them out but had no effect. Sighing, she checked her hair; it wasn't that messed, but messed nonetheless. She reached for her bag for her Piplup but remembered that her bag itself and all of her Pokemon were at Prof. Oak's lab. Sighing, she did the best she could with her hands and actually managed to fix her hair a bit. She then ate some fresh berries as her breakfast. Noticing that Satoshi was still asleep, she began to pick berries for him. She gathered all of the picked berries and put them in a dish and put it near Takeshi's bag. She then leaned on a tree somewhat near by and continued to try to fix her hair.
Satoshi suddenly woke up because he felt something sharp and hard under his head. Satoshi picked it up and opened one eye to examine it. It was a small rock. Satoshi threw it into some thick trees far away and looked around. Hikari was standing about 20 meters away, trying to fix her hair. Satoshi smiled, and tried to go back to sleep.
He suddenly woke up about a minute later because he heard Hikari scream. He jumped up and looked at where she was standing, wondering what happened. He was shocked to see Hikari lying on the ground, desperately trying to crawl away from something. He looked at the thing that was threatening her carefully; it was a wild Scyther. Hikari was trying to crawl away from the Scyther as it swung its scythes wildly, trying to kill her. The Scyther had already hit her leg with a Fury Cutter, and was trying to finish her off.
"HEY!!! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!!!" Satoshi roared angrily while running as fast as he could towards her. However, it was too late. By the time he was close enough to do anything, some of the random Slashes by the Scyther hit her in several places. She screamed in pain as the sharp blades penetrated her flesh. Satoshi picked up a rock and threw it hard against the Scyther, and picked up a long wooden stick and started to swing it wildly. The Scyther, seemingly intimidated by the crazy actions, turned around and silently disappeared into the forest.
Satoshi dropped the stick and kneeled beside Hikari to check her. She had been stabbed in the stomach by a random thrust, and had been deeply cut in several places by its Slashes. Satoshi held her in his arms, holding her head in his hands. Her blood was streaming down her legs, dying her shoes.
"Hikari! Oh no..."
"Sat...osh...i..." Hikari gasped, coughing up blood as she spoke. "It…it's…too…late…f..for...me...Wh...when...you...re...turn...home, t...take.. ...good...c...care...of...m...my...Pok...emon..."
"NO! NO! Don't you start talking like that! Don't you die on me! Damn it! You are going to be fine! It's just a scratch!" Satoshi was now beginning to cry. Tears were forming in Hikari's sapphire blue eyes as well.
"I...I'm... s...sorry...Sat...osh...i...th...this...is...good...bye...I...I...love...y...you..." Hikari managed to gasp out her last words before she gave out a long silent sigh. Her limbs went limp and slowly closed her eyes.
"No...NO...NO!" Satoshi yelled; tears were streaming down his face. "Damn it! You can't die!" He closed his eyes and hugged the limp body of Hikari and kissed her on the forehead. He checked her pulse to see if she at least had a chance to live. Nothing...Her body was starting to turn cold... Satoshi yelled at the top of his lungs in disbelief.
He suddenly woke up, opened his eyes, and sat up as quick as possible. He seemed to have woke up from his own shouts in his dream. He quickly looked around and saw Hikari leaning against a tree, trying to straighten out her hair. 'It was all a dream...but it felt so real...and does Hikari really love me? Was it just a dream, or something...more?' His heart was still racing and he was hyperventilating. He also noticed that his cheeks were wet from tears. He quickly wiped them off and lied back down from relief that Hikari was alive and nothing happened to her. Satoshi accidentally hit his head on something hard and sharp; a rock. He picked it up and threw it into a thick forest and realized something right after. What he just did was what happened in the dream! Hikari was leaning against the same tree doing the same actions, and Satoshi did the same action as in the dream by hitting the rock and throwing it away! Having thought this, he sprang up and started to run towards where Hikari was standing.
Suddenly, Hikari turned around and started to scream. The Scyther that attacked her in Satoshi's dream was trying to attack her for real. Desperately backing away, she tripped over a large tree root, while Scyther still advanced. Unlike the dream, Satoshi was right beside her this time, when Hikari fell. He lunged at the Scyther with the knife he found in Takeshi's bag. Hikari scrambled backwards into a safe distance, while Satoshi and the wild Scyther fought. Hikari was extremely worried about Satoshi's well being, since it was obvious that he didn't stand a chance against the Pokemon. The Scyther had an advantage in attack, defense, speed, agility, reaction, and endurance.
Satoshi dropped the knife that he was holding after he was sent back by Scyther's Quick Attack. Satoshi sprang back up and ran towards Hikari, protecting her. He helped her up and tried to run away, but the Scyther was way too fast. It swung its right scythe, attempting a Slash attack on Hikari.
"THE HELL YOU DO!" Satoshi roared before he spun around, embracing Hikari.
Doing so, Satoshi took the blow with his back, and gave a sharp exhale before falling forwards, taking Hikari down with him. Hikari tried desperately to wake Satoshi up, but found no avail. She tried crawling away, but she knew that she couldn't get far before the Scyther got her, and she couldn't leave her friend who just saved her life seemingly with the cost of his own.
The Scyther moved closer, raising its scythe for the final blow, when it suddenly looked up, sensing something. It looked around, trying to see what it was sensing. All of a sudden, a blizzard blew, covering everything with snow. Hikari wasn't affected much by it, since Satoshi was lying on top of her. Thanks to the sudden blizzard, which kept blowing, the Scyther ran off, shocked at the sudden weather change.
Hikari pushed Satoshi carefully off of her and crawled towards Takeshi's bag. She remembered finding some medical stuff in the bag. The temperature was quite below freezing, but she didn't care at the moment. She grabbed the bag and pulled out the medical equipments. She took Satoshi's vest off of him and rolled up the back of his shirt, revealing the wound. There was a lot of blood on his back, which stained his clothes. The blood was starting to get on Hikari's bare legs and her bare arms. Luckily, the cut wasn't very deep, so she cleaned it with some water (from water bottles) and started to apply antiseptic on it. Hikari's lips were turning blue and her vision was fading away in the cold, but she ignored it and continued. She completed bandaging the wound, put his vest back on him and rolled him over. She wiped off his blood from her bare arms and legs with leaves and looked at him. She was starting to tremble, mainly due to the below freezing temperature which probably will give her hypothermia, but also because of the fear of watching Satoshi die while knowing that she couldn't do anything to help. Her sapphire blue eyes started to water as she looked at Satoshi's limp body. But all her worries and fears disappeared when she saw Satoshi's hand starting to move. Sighing in relief, Hikari crept closer and shook him. Satoshi snapped open his eyes, and (for the third time) sat up really quickly, slamming his head against her's. She didn't care at the moment, though; she was just glad to see Satoshi alive and well.
"Satoshi! You're alive!" she exclaimed. Tears were falling from her eyes, this time, from joy and relief.
"What happened?" Satoshi asked, rubbing his back. His face turned grave when he felt a big cut through his vest, indicating that he was wounded by the Scyther that he fought. He also appeared shocked to find Hikari crying, with her lips turned blue, skin turned pale, and trembling.
"That Scyther hit you in the back with its Slash attack. You fell on me, so I couldn't run away, when this blizzard started to blow. The Scyther ran off, and I took the time to take care of you. It was the least I could do; after all, you saved my life!" she quickly explained.
"Where did that Scyther come from?" he asked.
"Over there," she pointed.
"Oh. That's why it was attacking us. I threw a rock that hit my head over there, and the Scyther must have been hit by it." he told her.
"Oh. So as long as we don't bother any Pokemon, they're not going to attack us."
Suddenly, after one strong wind, the blizzard stopped. In fact, the sunlight seemed to have become stronger. The snow on the ground started to melt, and Hikari's lips was turning back into its ruby pink color. Satoshi looked at her and started to think.
'She went through all that trouble to help me...I didn't know that she even knew how to treat injuries...Maybe she does like me, like my dream showed me...I owe her a lot...her birthday is a day away, so I have to make it up to her tomorrow...'
Satoshi and Hikari hugged, stood up, and started to walk South, like they planned before (after eating the fresh berries). They eventually stopped to eat lunch from an apple tree, took a break, then continued South. An hour later, Hikari suddenly stopped walking and collapsed on the ground. She must have been exhausted still, from the previous events. Startled, Satoshi picked her up, and started to carry her. Hikari looked at him in surprise and started to complain, but Satoshi hushed her up and continued walking, holding Hikari in his arms. Her body was light and soft, making her easy to carry around. She tried to look as if she didn't like it, but couldn't help closing her eyes and lean against his shoulder.
'Well, I guess this pays her back for earlier today...she's so beautiful when she's sleeping. Wait, is she sleeping? Better keep my eyes and mind on the road. I don't want to wake her up by tripping or anything like that...' Satoshi thought as he kept walking.
Hikari opened her eyes and looked at Satoshi. He didn't appear to be tired, although it has been several hours since he started to carry her. 'Wow...he's still not tired? He's so strong! Or wait...is this about earlier today? He appeared to be in deep thought when I told him what happened...Maybe he...likes me? Ah, what am I thinking? Wait...he hit me earlier today..didn't he! Is that why I'm drowsy?' She cleared her mind of her deep thoughts about Satoshi and closed her eyes again.
Another hour had passed. The sun started to set, shooting bright orange light everywhere. Satoshi once again marveled at Hikari's beauty in the sunset before setting her down on the grass under a large tree. She was sound asleep. Satoshi made a small fire for warmth during sleep and set up his 'bed' after covering Hikari with large leaves. He fell asleep while keeping the knife (recovered it after eating breakfast) and a long wooden stick near by (recently picked up).