Well I lost my MP3 player...on my way home from my friend's house. The music aided in inspiration and kept my mind on track. Luckily I have a backup, I won't say what it is because that would be advertising and because it is possibly illegal. Still let us take a moment of silence to honor JD's lost MP3 player...you really don't have to, but I do miss it.
Anyway enough of my minor problems, there are bigger things to worry about. Those of which I won't tell you all about because it's personal.
Hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 24: Showing Off
The sound of footsteps woke me, but I didn't open my eyes or move. Surely they didn't mean to wake me. Though whoever it was did get a little too close to me. Okay why are they standing over me? Why are they in my face? I hate when people are this close to my face, especially when they are breathing on me.
"Shh! Don't wake him!" A little girl? Again I wish they weren't so curious. "See look!" She pulled whatever it was on my eye off. I had forgotten I was shot. When did they put something over it?
"What about it?" This one was a young boy. He sounds kind of mischievous.
"His eye was badly damaged! It's impossible that it could have recovered so quickly!" That young with a vocabulary like that? She must have some books hidden away or a secret mentor. She sounds like she's about 4 years old. Human years that is.
"So why is that a concern to you?" I spoke up causing both of them to jump back while I laughed. Ah startling little kids when they are being nosy. "I was awake since you came in. Don't you know it's not nice to mess with someone's face while they are sleeping?" The shocked expressions on their faces only expanded my grin.
"W-Why are you speaking the human language?" That question is going to get so irritating in the near future. May as well answer her.
"When you're around them for a few years, you start to pick up on things." Of course I'm going to lie. Telling them the truth would only cause confusion and maybe worse. While sitting up I asked, "Who are you two anyway?"
"Linus, are you awake?" My 'mother' asked as she entered. I dropped my grin and put on a sort of angry look. When she noticed the expression on my face she asked "What's wrong? Is something bothering you?"
"No, nothing." And here comes the question that will be asked so many times in the near future. Judging by the look on her face, she was going to ask it.
"Are you sure? If there is anything that you want to say, I'm here for you." Oh how that would make me feel so much better to confess that I am technically not her child, but easing my pain will probably break her heart and that's not something I do.
"I'm fine." I did have one thing to ask, but I won't. If she didn't ask why I'm talking this language, why would I ask why she didn't. I stood up and began to leave. "I'm going for a walk."
"But, your eye!" Once I reached the edge, I turned and ripped off what was covering my eye. It looked like cloth torn straight off a shirt. I looked back to show there was no damage before jumping down.
Using the tree trunk to slow my fall, I aimed to land right next to a Grovyle. My landing, was a complete failure. I didn't make a sound, as opposed to hitting the ground hard to make my fall seem even greater. It didn't even notice me standing there.
"Hi!" It jumped and tried to play it off by stretching. I walked away before a conversation could start. There didn't seem to be much that I could do here to enjoy myself. I'm too mature to be playing like a child. I'm not going to speak with anyone here right now. Exploring the forset seemed like a pretty good idea. Maybe I could find something to fight or something someone lost. I began jogging forward. After a bit of jogging, a Grovyle jumped from a tree and landed right in front of me, blocking my path.
"Where do you think you're going? Children are not allowed to play out there without supervision." I sure as hell am not going to be supervised. Besides he can't keep me from getting past. He probably can't even keep up with me. Just gotta follow along a little.
"Aw, come on...There's nothing else to do here!" He didn't notice, but I prepared myself to run.
"I'm sorry but I cannot let you go out by yourself."
"Fine, then you can watch me."
"I have my job, and my job is to keep children like you from going out into the forest without protection."
"And you'll be doing your job still."
"No, you can't pass."
"Well then, how about a little game of...TAG!" The moment I said tag, I ran past him. My running speed is faster than before which only made things easier for me. Though I'm not running at full speed.
"Come back here!" I noticed he was actually gaining on me, fast. "You're coming back with me!" He said once I was within reach.
"Oh really?" I wonder if he saw the grin on my face before I started putting on speed. I matched his speed exactly and watched him struggle to go faster. There was one mistake I made though, I spun around and taunted him. Of course the tree behind me stopped me, but only for a second. I ran around it and noticed there was another Grovyle waiting for me.
"You guys are really protective!" That's a good thing...for them. Right now, my enjoyment comes first. I crossed around the other Grovyle just as it tried to catch me, the other one now ahead of me and in my way got a foot to the face. "Come on! You're not even trying!" Well I'm getting what I wanted, something fun to do. Running is always fun, but running away from something is always more fun. When your life is on the line just adds to the excitement.
"Stop running and go back with us!"
"Only if you catch me!" I jumped onto a large branch and began jumping through the trees while going higher up. Never knew my jumping ability was this good. I managed to reach the top of the forest. The view was nice, but there are better places to see. My view was just above the forest. There was a small lake some ways down from my current position. I began to make my way towards it, jumping across the tops of trees. One of the Grovyles came out of nowhere and probably would have caught me if I hadn't used Aerial Ace to push myself back. The chase was back on.
"Get back down on the ground before you hurt yourself!" Hurt myself? I'm not even being wild. I'm not even using Aerial Ace to jump either. If he doesn't want me to hurt myself then so be it. I began using Aerial Ace on every jump. It was kinda scary going up so high on one jump.
"Come on! You call yourselves Grovyle and you can't catch a little Treecko?!" I yelled back to them. Using Aerial Ace so much is actually really tiring. That and I missed a branch and fell through, hitting any and every branch in my way. I collided with a Zangoose and bounced right off.
"What the hell...You'll pay for that!" He sounded pretty pissed. Didn't matter to me though, I was too busy rubbing my face to ease the pain.
"Have we met?" I asked while rising to my feet.
"You got lucky last time. Things won't be the same this time." It swung, but missed because I had bent back to stretch.
"Whoa! What the hell?!" Luck was on my side that time, but maybe only that time. It swung again and missed because I stepped back. Judging by how slow his attacks are, he's weak. Of course my cocky grin was back. I dodged a few more times to confirm that. He was weak. Now I was toying with him, dodging just barely. So close that the fur on his arms actually made contact.
"Hold still damn you!" He's out of his mind to think I'd listen.
"And take a hit? Hell no!" I noticed one thing over the past week or so about every hit that I took. The damage dealt was more than what it would have been on a normal Treecko. My skin isn't as tough as theirs while in its normal state. Revealing my ability here wouldn't be a wise idea either.
I noticed the Grovyles just standing there watching. Clearly they knew I had this under control. The way I'm dodging kind of shows that I'm in no real danger here. Hopefully they keep their mouths shut if I do just so happen to mistakingly make contact with my palm. Dodging was getting boring anyway.
"You're boring me." Right after I said that, I struck back. A kick to the stomach stunned him. Landed two more blows to his face. With him pretty much towering over me, I had to jump to reach his face. I wasn't done there, while he was stumbling back from the kicks to the face, I jumped onto his shoulders and repeatedly punched him in the face. To aid in finishing things up, I used giga drain and pulled energy from not only him, but everything nearby us. Then I jumped up and put everything I absorbed into a massive Energyball, kinda like when I was fighting myself. The explosion from the Energyball probably attracted more of them and them seeing one of them laying here, badly hurt would probably provoke them to attack me. Of course, I'm going to wait on them.
"Kid, you're something else." One of the Grovyles stepped forward and spoke. Literally something else, but they can't know that.
"And you didn't think I'd be okay out on my own." I responded, the grin still on my face.
"You jumping over the forest like that proved it, but you should still never travel out alone. As you know, we're at war with them." War?! What have I gotten myself into...Maybe beating up that Zangoose wasn't such a good idea.
"War? No one told me about any war!"
"Oh! You must be that Treecko who was injured out here."
"I am, now why are you at war with them?" There's no way in hell I'm going to be involved in a war...yet. Eh this could prepare me for the sight of massive slaughter during the end. Man that image scares me.
"Before I tell you, what are you going to do with the Zangoose? If we stay here too long more of them will come. That explosion from your Energyball was loud so surely they'll be drawn to the fight." I'd forgotten about him. I'm not touching it, can't expose my special ability.
"Umm...Dunno, but you two can do something." And with that I ran off in a random direction. Leaving the job of disposing what seemed like a dead body. Doesn't matter to me though. One of them was following me too. Hiding in the trees as if I couldn't hear the leaves rustling. Wait...where am I?
"Hey you! I want to go back now." I couldn't see him well because he blended in well with the leaves, but I knew exactly where he was. He jumped down.
"Fine, follow me." Doing as told, we walked back to the center of the forest.
"I still want to know why you're at war." If it has anything to do with territory, I will have no part in it...maybe.
He sighed and began to speak, but was interrupted by a loud and kind of nasty growling sound that seemed to come from my stomach.
"W...Was that my stomach?!" Something that loud couldn't have come from there. We waited in silence. My stomach started to hurt, but only a little. I could feel it slowly but surely getting worse. It growled again. After a week plus some days, I'm hungry? It's different from normal though. The pain from hunger doesn't grow this fast, or even anywhere near this fast.
"You are a strange one..." I ignored him and scanned the entire area for something to eat. An oran berry bush! I ran over to it and began to pick the bush clean of every berry on it. Still hungry...
"Find me some food! Apples, berries, ANYTHING!" Of course he listened to me, after what I did to that Zangoose, he's probably afraid to get into a fight with me.
"We passed an apple tree a little ways back..." I ran back full speed in the direction we cam from, scanning the trees for any sign of any fruit. There was something red in one of the trees. I jumped up to it. Another Zangoose, don't recall them being able to climb trees. In its paw, an apple. Obviously I snatched and devoured it which pissed off the Zangoose, though my tail quickly wiped the anger away, as well as its consciousness.
"Where is that damn tree?!" I turned around. "Right behind me..." I jumped right from the branch I was on into the apple tree. Why there was an apple tree randomly placed here in the forest didn't really make sense, but with this so called war it makes sense. Although this tree is going to be empty for some time because I'm about to pick it clean. I do hope no one sees me eating though. Don't need anyone getting suspicious of something that probably will be WAAY off from the real reason.
After a few minutes I had been stuffed. The tree had only a few left. Note to self, remember to eat at least once every week.
"Are you done?" Didn't know he had been watching. I jumped down. Felt kind of weighed down from all that eating. Hopefully it's just me and not actually a change in weight.
"Yeah, which way was the center again?" Now that I've eaten, I'm feeling really energetic. He started in a direction and I ran ahead in that same direction. Got to find out more about this war and whether I'll be taking part in it or not.
Well you learn that Jason still needs to eat. He's also much faster than before. There will be a war happening soon and he doesn't want to take part in it. Another about him, he's actually getting stronger as he gets hurt. Right now I'm working on his base moves set. It'll be every move learned by a Treecko along with others because of the way he fights. The only extra moves you can be sure he'll have are a few fighting type moves because he still fights similar to a human.
Towards the end, I kinda stopped trying completely and was just putting text in. Wasn't sure how to write that part.
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