Sorry for the delay! Writer's block decided to attack me like crazy for this story, so I was left with absolutely no inspiration for weeks! I'd like to say that it's a different story now. In fact, this is the last chapter of the story so I don't have to worry about updating anymore! Great, eh? Yay! I did say that this was going to be a short fic, didn't I? :D Have fun reading guys! Please review despite how long it took for me to get this up! They're very much appreciated! Enjoy the final chapter of Absol!

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Similar Hues: English isn't my first language, but I've never had anyone say anything about my grammar. Maybe it's because it's my first time writing a story in first-person present tense? I'll admit I have been struggling with writing this story as everyone can tell by my delayed updates. :P
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Absol chapter 7

The smell of blood is revolting, it really is. It smells metallic, like rusty iron to be precise. I've never liked it. It's always made my head spin, and I feel like vomiting every time I catch a whiff of it.

Just like I am now.

The smell of the mightyena's blood has filled my nose with the most sickening odor. It's splattered all over the place. The ground, the trees, the bushes...me. I'm sickened by the feel of the warm liquid trickling down my arm from the patch that was splattered on my shoulder.

It's so gruesome. I feel like I'm living in a horror movie.

I hatehorror movies.

The sight before me is definitely something that you'd see in one. Absol is still snarling viciously as it tries to tear apart the mightyena even more. The same stump that used to be half of the mightyena's body is still being shook back and forth in Absol's mouth. Some other pieces of the body are scattered all around the area. Some others were flung so far that they're not even in sight anymore. And yet, Absol keeps trying to tear them up, shaking them until the very last bit of blood has splattered on the floor.

Then, the splatters of blood around us start to sizzle. The smell of burnt wood fills the air as the blood begins to bubble and eat away at everything it's touching. It's literally as if the blood has turned to acid. Next thing I know, small chunks of the ground and trees are gone, eaten away by the acid that used to be Mightyena's blood.

I'm gaping right now, I know I am. Alright May, close your mouth. Pick your jaw back up from the ground, I tell myself.

But I can't. Holy crap, I can't. This can't really be happening. I'm living in a nightmare. Someone pinch me. Pinch me right now. Please.

May?

My mouth clamps shut in surprise at the sound of my name. The voice sounded so much like Drew's. I turn my gaze over to the absol automatically. Its eyes are staring right back at me.

"Drew?" I breath, unable to believe it. Was it really Drew's voice that I just heard?

Yes, he answers, but his mouth doesn't move. What're you doing here?

I hesitate for a moment, still getting over the shock of hearing his voice. I'd thought that I would never hear it again. Should I be happy that I'm still able to hear it, or should I be upset and worried that I'm hearing it through telepathy from an absol? An absol that had been killing a mightyena just minutes ago, if I may add.

But for some reason, after hearing his voice, I find myself strangely calm. It's as if I hadn't just witnessed him killing a pokémon. My hands aren't clammy, my mouth isn't dry, my heart isn't racing. I'm not afraid of him.

"I woke up on the beach here after the cruise ship sunk," I begin to say. My voice is steady, too. "The mightyena chased me into the forest and I leapt into the ravine. I walked around for a while to find a spot for me to get a fire started so that I could try to get someone to rescue me. When I didn't find a good place to do that, I went back into the forest, but then..."

I trail off. He knows the rest of the story, anyways.

Drew blinks and diverts his gaze to the ground. He doesn't speak through telepathy to me for a while, so I let my eyes travel over his body during his silence. I trail them all over his absol body, lingering for a little while longer on the red spots on his white coat. It's the mightyena's blood, but it hasn't turned to acid like the rest of the mightyena's blood.

My eyes instantly fly to my arm at the realization. To my surprise, the blood on it hasn't turned to acid, either. No wonder I didn't feel any pain on my body. I must've been too distracted by the other blood to have paid any attention to the small trail on my arm. My hand goes up to touch it with my fingers. They come back with the tips coated with the sticky, red substance.

"Drew...what happened back there?" I ask in a whisper, bringing my eyes back to the face of the absol.

I killed the mightyena, his telepathic voice answers, almost bitterly. Didn't you see?

"I know that," I breath, shaking my head. "But I mean, why? It was almost as if you were possessed or something. You were so..."

Violent? Ruthless? he offers. Then the equivalent of a scoffing laugh passes through my mind before he returns to words again. I don't know what it is exactly, I really don't. That wasn't the first time I've killed a pokémon in the past twenty-four hours since the ship sank, either.

"What?" I gasp at both the fact that it's only been a day since the ship sank, and the fact that he's killed others before the mightyena. "How many?"

Two. I tried to stop myself from doing it, especially since they didn't even pose a threat to me. Not a growl, a hiss, nothing, he seems to struggle for moment, But it's as if I'm suddenly overwhelmed, taken over, and then completely driven by bloodlust the second I smell the blood of anything living. I lose myself the second the smell reaches my nose. I didn't even have to see the first pokémon to go after it. One whiff of its blood was all it took for me to go bursting through trees and take it down. By the time the frenzy was over, it was already too late. The arbok was already a pile of shreds.

I involuntarily wince at the mental image. "Then why aren't you killing me, right now?" I ask.

I don't know. To be quite frank, I'm glad I'm not. I don't know what I'd do if I killed you, he pauses for a moment to shake his head, which he then leaves to hang in shame. I can't believe I killed those pokémon so recklessly. I couldn't stop myself...I took killed three living things in the course of twenty-four hours. I'm a monster.

"No...Drew, don't say that about yourself. You're not a monster. You didn't want to kill those pokémon. You just couldn't stop yourself," I try to tell him.

But am I trying to convince just him, or myself as well?

Drew lifts his head and eyes me incredulously. May, look at me. I'm overgrown absol who took three innocent lives in a single day. They used to be humans. I heard their voices begging me not to kill them, but I did, anyways. All I wanted was to tear them apart, and I didn't stop until I did. How could you say that I'm not a monster?

"But you're not!" I scream at him without meaning to. I'm not even the slightest bit worried that I'll alert any pokémon with my voice. "This type of stuff just doesn't happen naturally Either something or someone made all these things happen! You didn't make yourself this way! You couldn't have made yourself turn into a pokémon, or those other people for that matter! You didn't make yourself want to kill those pokémon! You didn't choose this! You're not a monster!"

How can you even say that I'm not? he screams back in my mind. I killed pokémon, May! Pokémon that used to be humans! Humans that were on the same cruise ship as us!

I try to ask him how he knows that they were on the same ship as us, but he interrupts me.

I recognized their voices! I remembered their eyes! The arbok's eyes belonged to one of the judges at the contest! The same one that handed you the trophy! I recognized him, and I killed him! Regardless of if someone or something made things this way, I still killed him and the other two! I'm still a—

Drew's telepathic voice cuts off as we both hear the sound of a snapping branch. I keep my gaze on his face long enough to see his eyes clouding over with some familiar desire. My stomach flops when I register it.

Bloodlust.

My mouth immediately goes dry as I realize what will inevitably happen next. Then, I turn my head to look behind me just in time to catch sight of an approaching scyther. Like Absol and the late mightyena, it's about twice the common size of a normal scyther, and are obviously human eyes for they're hazel instead of the black. They're fixed on me, reflecting the same bloodlust in Drew's eyes.

But fear doesn't even manage to reach me before a blur of white flies past me and takes the mantis down.

It's déjà vu as I watch the scyther struggle to fight a losing battle against Absol. I can't refer to him as Drew as I watch the scene, transfixed against the trunk of the tree while he easily traps his victim beneath his body. It cries out in pain and thrashes while he tears off its blade-like arms. Minutes or seconds later, it eventually lets out one final, blood-gurgling cry before Absol rips its head off and flings it into the trees. And then, its blood begins to sizzle and burns away every inch that it touched.

Its death was exactly like Mightyena's.

Absol lets out a huff of breath after shaking his head. After realizing what he had just done (again), he takes a step back and Drew's voice returns in my head.

Fuck! Drew's voice screams telepathically. We need to get you off of this island, now. We need to get someone to rescue you and take you home.

"You're coming with me," I say immediately.

Why? he asks sadly. My heart clenches when he brings his eyes to mine. They're glossed over with tears. I've never seen Drew so close to crying before. To see this for the first time under such circumstances is truly heartbreaking. There's no point. I'll just be a freak of nature and a threat to everyone else back home. I don't want to kill people back home, too, May.

"You won't kill people, Drew," I whisper in an effort to comfort him, and also because I believe that he won't. My feet begin to take me closer to him. "I'm human, and you're not doing anything to me right now. Someone's going to rescue us, and then we're going to go back home where we'll find a way to cure you. You won't be stuck like this forever."

Drew's watches me warily as I step closer to him. He doesn't believe that he won't hurt anyone, I can see it in his sad eyes. He thinks that if he can kill pokémon that used to be people that he'll be able to kill actual people, too. But, instead of voicing the thought, he asks, Why aren't you afraid of me?

I don't answer. I just keep walking until I'm standing directly in front of him. Without thinking, I reach up and wrap my arms around his neck.

"Because I love you," I murmur truthfully. "You won't hurt me, and you won't hurt anyone back home, either. We're going to get out of here, Drew, and we're going to get you back to the way you were before. This'll all be over soon."

Drew turns to press his cheek against the back of my head. I hope so, I really hope so. His shoulders lift as he exhales a sigh. I love you, too, May.

Author's Note: Well, how'd you guys like it? The final chapter of Absol is over! The end! Sorry, it was rather short...

By the way, if you believed what I just said now and in the first author's note, then I got you so good. Happy April Fools' Day, everyone. ;) Anyways, I'm on my spring break now so I'll have more time to write. I'm going to devote all of that time to writing chapters for this story. I'm even going to rush to get all of the chapters uploaded before inspiration escapes me again! This story should have no more than 16 chapters, and that's including an epilogue. Just thought you all should know! Hope you guys aren't mad at me for the joke I pulled. Tehe! Reviews are appreciated! Until next time! ;D