The Viridian Incident

Chapter 2:

Prey

The sun rose slowly above the Viridian Forest. Although it was early in the morning there were absolute silence around the little camp, Daniel and Mewtu set up the day before. And so it took them pretty long to get awake.

The first thing Daniel felt was a furry body which nestled against him. Slowly his brain said him what his right hand felt. It was something soft and round and it was obviously that it belonged to the body next to him. In his light sleep and not full in control of his mind he started to caress it.

Mewtu moaned quit in her sleep and suddenly Daniel realised with horror what he was doing. Immediately he moved his hand away and himself fast backwards. The result was his head clashed against the tree stomp and he had problems to suppress curses and Shouts. It hurt badly but he didn't want to wake up Mewtu. After the pain died down he stood up carefully.

Daniel went to his bag pack to get something to drink. Fortunately he still had enough. To get some water in this Forest wasn't easy. He took a pullover out of his bag pack and put it on. It was getting colder everyday.

Daniel sat down quietly on the trunk and watched silently Mewtu. Trying not to stare at her more feminine body parts he eyed her face. Her white muzzle, the triangularly Ears and her, now closed, eyes. She looked really cute, especially when she slept.

Another cold breeze came up the clearing where they had there little camp and a swarm of pidgeots flew over them. Daniel looked on his wristwatch. It was time to travel further. He stood up and lowered near Mewtus head. Carefully he stroke her head. "Wake up." Mewtu turned around trying to sleep further. "Come on. Wake up or you'll miss breakfast." Slowly she opened her eyes and looked into the smiling face of Daniel. "Good morning." He said quietly "Good morning Daniel"

Daniel shuddered. "Oh sorry. Good morning Daniel" Mewtu repeated with her own physical voice. "It's ok but you should stand up. We have to go." Daniel answered and stopped stroking her head. She looked a bit upset about that but didn't mention.

"Breakfast, huh?" Mewtu said with a disappointed voice. "Everything I could find. As long we are far away from civilization you should be happy about every bite of food you can get." Daniel answered grinning. They stood around an apple and another candy bar. "I suggest we share both." The young boy said and a few moments later they sat there both eating a half apple and bar.

"When do you think will we reach the city?" Mewtu asked some minutes later.

"I don't know. You should hope we'll come further than yesterday." "Maybe you let me decide where to go. Last time it brought us back to nowhere…exactly where we came from" the Pokemon answered. "If you say so. But first help me packing please."

Half an hour later they started to walk southwards. This time even Mewtu carried something and after they found a path in the forest they took a rest. Hours have passed and the sun already went down to the horizon again. Mewtu and Daniel sat next to each other and leaned against a big oak tree. Nobody had said a word for minutes until Mewtu started to say, "You didn't ask about my memory today…" A sigh followed. "Sorry. Uhm…do you remember anything more now?" Daniel said surprised. "No"

"Why do you want me to ask if you can't?"

"I thought over it. What if I don't want to remember? What if there's a good reason behind not remember anything. I don't like the few memories I have now, so what about the others?"

Daniel moved closer and gave her his water bottle. "Come on. I'm sure everything will be fine. Even if your Memory doesn't show you what you want, you're now here. Don't worry about things that might be wrong. Ok?"

"I guess…but how can you be so sure about this?" Mewtu responded.
"Maybe ignorance?" Daniel laughed back.

She smiled a bit and took a big drop of water. "Ok. I hope you're right about this."

"Sure. Hungry?" Daniel asked in response and took out another apple. "Already again? No thanks" Mewtu said with a questioning face. "More for me"

A few minutes later, Mewtu rested her head on Daniels shoulder; they were just looking into nowhere. Thinking on nothing. Just enjoying the moment. Daniel threw the rest of the apple away into the forest behind them and laid his arm around his knee.

A dump noise and an angry buzz followed this action. Taken out of their thoughts Mewtu and Daniel turned around. "What the hell?" "What have you done?" "Nothing I only threw away the-"He stopped when the buzz approached and a very angry, black and yellow striped Pokemon with red eyes appeared between the trees. "Get up and run!" Daniel said in horror as his eyes spotted the Beedrill.

"Why?" Mewtu asked puzzling. The buzz got louder and suddenly more of those Pokemon, known as Beedrill, appeared out of nowhere. Daniel pulled his companion up and grabbed his backpack. In a few seconds he mobilized all his energy reserves and ran through the forest with holding Mewtus hand, who had problems with running this fast. Somehow she wasn't made for this. They left the path and ran as fast as possible.

A big swarm of Beedrills pursued them. It must have been up to thirty of these Pokemon. Every single one was able to hurt a human very badly. Now they were after a human and an unknown Pokemon.

Daniel tried to get shake them of with changing the course as often as possible. He gave up. Running forward they made their way trough the forest. The Beedrill got closer and closer. What Daniel couldn't see: While he was concentrating of not stumbling over plants, Mewtus eyes glowed. A dark blue glowing and it got brighter and brighter.

Suddenly she stopped moving and turned around. Holding her hand Daniel fell because he didn't realize she had stopped running. Panting he said "Come on! ...We can get away… Oh shit!" With horror and fascination he saw how a transparent blue wall appeared. Mewtu just stood there with stretched hand. The shield got wider and the Beedrill closer. Daniel closed his eyes and mentally he finished with life.

The buzz changed. It got quieter and didn't sound angry anymore. It was … scared. He opened his eyes.

12 Beedrill lay on the ground. They didn't move anymore. The rest just hovered over a spot watching Daniel and Mewtu. A few seconds later they left as fast as possible.

"What the hell?" Daniel asked. The blue shield vanished and Mewtus eyes got normal again. Exhausted she sat down. Slowly Daniel approached the motionless bodies of the Beedrill and nudged them with his feet. They were definitely dead. "What have you done? How?" Daniel sat down too in a distance to his companion. But she didn't say a word. She just sat there wagging her tail as an expression of thinking. "This must have been a Barrier-attack but I didn't know it's able to hurt the opponent."

After dozens of minutes in silence she looked up. Daniel was drinking some water. "I'm sorry." Mewtu said with a tear running down her cheek. "I didn't mean to kill them!" Daniel stood up and went next to her. He stroke her head like usual. "It's ok. You defended you and me. If you hadn't killed them they would have killed us. That's self-defence." Daniel said in a low tone.

"And I started it all…" He thought.

The Pokemon stared in his eyes. "Indeed" Mewtu said with a slight smile. "Indeed what?" Daniel asked puzzled. "You started it all." I never said that! I- oh. Since when can you read my mind?" "I did what? I didn't know I'm able to do that!" Mewtu said.

Daniel sighed. "Well I'm sure you're psychic so it's not unusual. But please try not to read my mind. I don't even want to think on it." He said with a shudder. "Why not?" the Pokemon asked in response. "It's about privacy." Daniel looked over the dead bodies of the Beedrill and came to the conclusion that it's a bad idea to make Mewtu angry on him. A really bad idea. "Ok if you think so." She answered.

The young male tried to change the topic. That wasn't something he wanted to talk about. Not now. Not in front of 12 dead Beedrill.

"Damn. We lost the path again." Daniel cursed and looked after the sun. It must have been afternoon. Somehow he managed to find out where south was. "Let us go this direction, ok?" Daniel said a bit depressed. His companion nodded and stood up.

Slowly Mewtu followed. She also looked over the bodies of the killed Pokemon. She killed them. Defence or not. She took their life to save her own. 12 to 1. This couldn't be right. "12 to 2" She thought and followed her friend.