A deafening roar, a snarl, and silence.
"Bei you really really really need to stop killing things you're going to be the cause of all extinctions one day and I swear I—" Casten blabbed before being whacked square in the face.
"Shut up, you fuckwit!" Bei called halfheartedly, shifting her paws. "Hey, you're gonna be a nice dinner, then! We haven't hunted anything for that one, yet, I don't think!"
'Mistress Bei, this is why I needed to—' Kaelyn began, and Bei leapt.
The pyroar noticed, obviously, and shot a flamethrower straight at her. She squeaked, ducked, and rolled on the floor in a forward motion before swiping her tail and entangling it against the pyroar's paw. He roared, shrieked, fell over and began clawing at the robotic raichu, and it only drew out a laugh. A moment of terrifying silence before the pyroar shrieked and wriggled (Bei laughed again).
With a sudden force, Bei was shoved away, and she hissed and scrambled to her feet, cheeks crackling. The pyroar wheezed, stood up, limbs bent backwards. Casten cast a glance at it; a dripping wound stained its side.
There was some red gooey stuff on Bei's tail, too.
She seemed to enjoy close-ranged fighting and leapt again, this time not right-in-the-face like earlier, and ducked a little lower. The pyroar opened fire again; Bei snarled, stamped on the ground before leaping off again. Needless to say, the pyroar missed and also got the raichu on his back, and all he did was flail miserably and whip around in circles.
"Giddy up!" Bei cheered, paw crackling as she thrust it downwards in a thunderpunch.
'Downwards' meant 'right in the chest', by the way.
The pyroar flung her off before she managed to cut in that deep. With a painful thud, Bei landed on the sand somewhere else, and snorted. She jumped backwards into the water when the pyroar swiped at her with a slash.
"Please just die," the pyroar sneered.
"Go fuck yourself," Bei giggled and waved him over. The pyroar leapt again at her and missed her. "You really suck at battling, you know, I'm just a teensy weensy raichu and all you're doing is firing flames at me. Can't you do something else?"
"Many things!" He swung his clawed paw at her—it struck her cheek, and Bei winced. She stepped backwards in the water. "I hope you realise that he was my only child and you just killed him like it's just a game. It could be, for you, and this is just game over."
Bei's cheeks crackled, shoving the blood off her cheek. "This isn't a game!" she shrieked and flung herself at the pyroar at lightning speed. She shoved his head underwater. "I hope you die, you bloody faggot!"
'Mistress Bei, calm down—'
"Why're you telling me to calm down?" Bei screeched. "This isn't a game at all! This is not a fucking game!"
She kept the pyroar down until it stopped struggling. Moving downwards, she checked for a pulse, and grinned triumphantly as she dragged him out from the water.
Casten stood there, eyeing her suspiciously. The pyroar had been rather simple to defeat; it hadn't used any tricky methods or strategies. Bei had acted rather wildly, too.
"—ten! Casten, do I scare you that much? I know I'm pretty good at battling, but I won't bash you up, promise!" Bei giggled and threw the pyroar towards him. "Hey, I don't wanna stay here anymore."
Casten tore at the pyroar while glancing up at her. "What are you saying? This is a safe place without humans, you know. I know it's boring, but better to be safe than—"
"Life is supposed to be dangerous," Bei informed him curtly. "It's not fun otherwise. I'm leaving tomorrow, and if you don't want to come with me, that's fine. I've wandered around for thirteen years of my life and it wouldn't hurt just a few more. Besides, I've been such a burden on you, you won't have to worry anymore about me if I leave, so!"
"I'll go with you," Casten replied immediately.
"You're so silly! But sure, of course you can! We'll leave tomorrow, 'kay?" Bei beamed at him and turned away.
"We've been walking for so long," Casten muttered in utter despair and watched as Bei skipped along in front of him with a smiling face. Under the hot blazing sun, of course he'd complain. Bei only grinned and didn't say anything. "When do you think we'll get there?"
"We'll get there when we get there." Easily translated: I don't know.
Casten rolled his eyes and dropped to the ground, sitting and resting for a while as Bei suddenly stopped, aware of the paused movement, and turned around to face the heliolisk with a rather annoyed expression.
"Casten! For goodness' sake, what are we going to do with you? Can't you even walk? We've been walking for—thirteen hours! Thanks, Kaelyn." Bei frowned and folded her arms.
"Not everyone's designed to walk as fast as you," Casten replied huffily. "It's already nighttime, and it has been for a while. Why don't you keep your babbling mouth shut and take a rest?"
Bei sighed. "All right, all right, you horrible creature, we'll rest! I can smell lots of pokemon nearby, though... sure you don't wanna push for a bit?"
As much as he would like to sleep in a comfier place, Casten shook his head. "I need to rest. I'm tired."
Unexpectedly, Bei beamed. "Okay, okay. I'll keep watch; you sleep. Don't worry, I won't run off while you're asleep."
Casten had fallen asleep five minutes later (or so Kaelyn said) and Bei had kept her word and stuck around the area. She was looking at berries and trying out the ones Kaelyn said weren't poisonous, and gathered some in the bag of dried reeds, which Casten was carrying. She hopped back and slipped them in and glanced at Casten.
He's so adorable.
...Oh my fuck what the hell did I just think—
'Mistress Bei, calm down,' Kaelyn quickly soothed. 'Sit down for a moment, Mistress Bei, surely you are tired?'
"Kaelyn, why did I just think that? I demand an answer. Pronto! Like, now, I mean!" Bei was panicking for a reason she didn't even know.
'Your feelings are unidentified, Mistress Bei, I cannot discover them by myself,' Kaelyn apologised. 'But if you give me time, I might be able to investigate it.'
"So—So what? You don't know?"
'I was not told explicitly what these thoughts might be. I assume your creators never thought of it happening. Therefore, it must be an unlikely feeling. I will look into it as much as I can, Mistress Bei, but please calm down for the time being.'
"B-But—that was so not me! It's not what I would do!" Bei cried frustratedly. Casten remained snoring, surprisingly.
'Mistress Bei, please, you do not want to wake Casten from his slumber, yes? If you calm down, I will work faster. Does that sound appealing?'
"Yes—Yes. Work faster. Now. Hurry up!"
...
Oh god, she really needed to get her feelings checked fast, didn't she?
A/N: we are the dead zombies.
*i am the dead zombie.
(Hey! This is my only multi-chaptered fic now so it'll update faster... maybe.)