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Trouble in Midnight woods Grovyle vs. Dusknoir Part 2

It didn't take Jasmine very long to find what she was looking for, like she thought, the fruit trees were at the very back of the forest. However as she got closer to them she noticed many of them had been completely destroyed, which was weird because there weren't many inhabitants in the forest, as for the ones that did live there, why would they attack their food source? Just looking at the trees made Jasmine nervous, though luckily not all of them were destroyed, there was still one toward the back that was bearing fruit. She made her way over to it cautiously, her right hand griping the hilt of her weapon.
'This is eerie; the forest didn't look this bad before…' It wasn't too long ago that Walter and she came there. During the last time, the trees and the shrubbery were just fine, so why now? Jasmine was just about to pluck some apples from the tree, but when she did...

Snap! Gasp!!"

" Ahhh!" Jasmine screamed as she fell…Too her surprise the apple that she picked was a trigger for a trap. A huge cage made of steel fell on her, immobilizing her.

"Ouch! What the hell is this?" She screamed out of pure outrage. Someone had a lot of nerve setting traps all over the forest, and when she finds that said person she'd very likely rip them apart.

"Well… Well if it isn't my young friend!" A dark figure suddenly appeared, it was a ghost type pokémon and a very familiar one at that. Jasmine couldn't believe her eyes when she saw him, as if she hadn't been frustrated enough, seeing him again made her blood boil.

"D-Dusknoir! What the hell do you think you're doing? Release me!" She screamed.

"No can do lass… I'm sorry to say but you're coming with me." Dusknoir sneered, Jasmine's screams and threats didn't seem to bother him at all, as a matter of fact he was enjoying it.
"How could I have fallen for such a clichéd trap?" Jasmine shouted then tried to slash at the cage with her sword again, it didn't do anything, didn't even leave a scratch.

"Ha-ha! It's futile my dear! That cage is made up of impenetrable steel you could never break free using that pitiful weapon!" Dusknoir laughed as if someone had said a joke.

This seemed to set Jasmine off; she continued to slash at the steel bars containing her, hoping she could break one of them, though sadly it was a wasted effort. "Grrr... I have done nothing to deserve this! Let Me Go!"

"Shut up! You annoying little brat! Unless you want us to make you…Sableye! Teach her a lesson in respect!" Dusknoir ordered, just as he said this about six little sableye made their way toward the cage. The sight of them was frightful, they where each waving their sharp claws around just waiting to cut into something. Jasmine was panicked now, backing away from the front of the cage over toward the back, slashing it with her sword as she did so. "N-no! Stay back… Stay away!" Jasmine screamed in terror then ducked for cover. But just then, a long saber-like leaf slashed at the sableye and knocked them out. "Ack!" The Sableye screamed in agony.

"G-Grovyle!" Dusknoir shouted in alarm as Grovyle landed in front of the immobilized Jasmine.

"Dusknoir… I knew you were ruthless but this! You should be ashamed!"Grovyle roared disgusted.
"Y-you, you dare patronize me Grovyle? I don't have to listen to someone who steals for a living!" Dusknoir barked back.

"W-What?" Jasmine whimpered still in a daze, the whole event would have caused anyone to be a little shaken up. Though she was surprised to see the Grovyle from before suddenly show up.

"We have searched for you for a long time Grovyle… You traitor!"

Gasp! 'Traitor but… That can't be true.'" …" Grovyle looked down in embarrassment, he tensed up at these words, was Dusknoir telling the truth? Even so Grovyle was still in his battle stance, ready to attack again.

"That's right Grovyle you used to work with us as a bounty hunter, you stole what you could then you ran off, you worthless…Scum!" Jasmine looked as though she had had enough; she stood up and shakily made her way over to the opposite side of the cage in order to confront Dusknoir.

"W-Wait a minute…" She said barely above a whisper, this caused both Grovyle and Dusknoir to turn and look at her. "G-Grovyle is a nice person, I don't think…" She started even though she didn't really know that pokémon she knew that much at least.

"Heh! that's where you're wrong…" Dusknoir cut her off. "He was one of my subordinates and…He was quite the good one too…"

"Enough!" Grovyle shouted, angrily. He was still in his battle stance.
"Leave Dusknoir and take your underlings with you…Or would you rather join them on the ground?" He threatened.

"Tch… It doesn't matter… I'll be back for both of you soon enough." With that Dusknoir and his subordinates left. Once they were gone Grovyle seemed to relax a little and walked over toward the cage.

"Hey… Are you alright? Here step back…" Grovyle took out a blast seed and threw it at the iron bars; the small explosion seemed to be enough to destroy the bars.

"Yeah… Thanks to you, thank you Grovyle." Although she might not have admitted it, Jasmine was really relieved that Grovyle showed up.

"Don't read too much into this, I was just repaying a dept." Grovyle answered. It didn't really matter to Jasmine; he still saved her from a beating.

"That Dusknoir I knew he was no good." She said with a bitter undertone, she knew that if she'd see him again she'd be force to cut him in half with her blade.

"Yes but I didn't expect him to pull something this dirty." Grovyle turned too Jasmine. "Why is Dusknoir after you anyway? " He asked, curious. It was usually pretty rare for Dusknoir to go after a human.

Jasmine shrugged. "I have no idea whatsoever." She said, bluntly.

"Hmm...Well…You shouldn't be here this place is very dangerous these days." As Grovyle said this he pointed to all the trees that were nearby the ones Jasmine noticed before.

"Well I came to gather some fruit for my brother and me."

"Oh…Well then." Grovyle ran up to the trees and used leaf blade on them to make the fruit fall, he was careful not to cut through them as he did so. The fruit landed softly on the ground.
"There…Now I would suggest you leave this place immediately…" Grovyle said as he handed her the fruit, Jasmine had finally gotten her fruit.

"Thank you but what about you? Where will you go? Isn't Dusknoir after you to?" All these questions made Grovyle sigh in impatience.

"Yeah he is… But he won't catch me he isn't fast enough, but anyway I have matters to attend to so…"

"I gotcha." Jasmine walked over to her bag which she had dropped during the attack and stuffed it full of the fruit Grovyle gave her. She then noticed she still had a few of her escape orbs left and decided to give one to Grovyle. "I still have a couple of escape orbs left if you need one…"
"No thanks I'll be fine." Grovyle said promptly. "Now you must leave! Goodbye." With that he shot off toward the entrance of the forest, leaving Jasmine standing there looking like an idiot.

'Uh… bye? Man he's really fast! Well better leave too.' Jasmine used her escape orb than teleported out of the forest.

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