Chapter 3: Memories

"Boy I was surprised when I found out that Konoha feeds the poor village." said Amy.

I smiled at her and we gave each other a passion filled hug.

"You two are like Lovedisks," chuckled Rin.

We hugged each other tighter and I said," Well should I continue?"

"Go ahead." said Rin.
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Well after another hour or so. We were at Treasure Town. The sheriff, Lamington, was about to put me in cuffs as soon as he saw me. That's because he thought I was the thief. In which I was. The lie I told everyone was that: I had a brother that was the thief. Of course I honestly don't have one, instead I do have a sister, but at that time I thought she was dead. {Rin, let me finish the story} He was astounded to see that Amy was with me however.

"Where was she," asked Lamington happily giving Amy a tight fatherly hug.

"I found her in the river drowning." I said to Lamington.

He gave me a slightly angered stare over his daughter's shoulder. Lamington didn't like me. He suspected either I was the thief or I was helping my 'brother'. For this reason he wasn't so excited that found Amy. Not only that but I had hadn't told anyone my history, yet; so he wasn't treating me with any hospitality. It was a miracle he let me open a bakery.

"Thank you," he repeated, agitation was to the brim in his voice.

"You're welcome," I said with irritating happiness. I allowed a separate persona to show just for him.

Just to irritate him.

I left.

You know my schedule, I continued working at my bakery till the moon was in the center of the sky.

Usually, another words, till midnight.

I locked my bakery shut and held the key in my hand. The money I got I left in store. I whistled and walked down the street, alone and onto the forest path. I was leading a character following me somewhere not home. I knew it was either Lamington or Amy, most likely Lamington. I turned around and said," Mr. Lamington. Is it not against the law to follow people?"

I turned around and saw Lamington glaring back at me.

"I know you're the thief." said Lamington.

I laughed and said," And your proof?"

"My daughter saw you in your suit." He said.

"Last I checked I thought eyewitness was not proof. After all anyone can easily flap their gums."

"Err…. I'm sending you to jail one way or the other!" He started to run at me viciously.

"Shukuchijutsu." I said and stomped my feet lightly. Adrenaline pumped through my legs and I could feelmy eyes tense. [Shukuchijutsu is an actual Japanese term meaning the ability to teleport back in the samurai days. However it just was meant to explain extreme speed done by people.]

"What are you doing?" He said, as if I were doing some magic.

I lunged forward suddenly. Lamington backed off immediately. I stopped and stood there chuckling with my successful feint.

"You irritating piece of trash!" shouted Lamington. He put his hands together and fired a bolt of lightning.

In that same instant, I took a dash to my left curving around his lightning, and running towards him.

I stood beside him on his right. His eyes turned towards me as I changed into an attacking stance.

"Ya!" I shouted. I slugged him with my right fist and knocked him down.

[And I think it's better if I cut this short as Amy gives me that look.]

In a few minutes the match was decided. He had no hits on me, I got him at least 7 times.

"You're annoying!" he shouted at me. Each hit was a bruise to his right shoulder just to make him stop using his right arm.

"Well stop bugging me!" I shouted.

"I'll show you!" he shouted. Suddenly his neckband shined and a ball of light flashed behind him.

"I'll end you with this!" shouted Lamington, a pearl like sphere surrounded his body. The night was illuminated by his form. The pearl shattered and disappeared, in Lamington's place stood a glowing Lamington, with a white mullet that stood above his head like cloud.

"I'm going to beat you in!" he shouted.

"This is going to be painful." I muttered, I unwrapped the bandage on my arms then I lifted the leaves on my arm up to my mouth. I bit down.

This time I pulled a full leaf off, a sensation of pain burned my body.

The bitter liquid engulfed the nervous systems in my body immediately. The time I had to seriously beat him was about 10 minutes. After that I'm going to be on the ground, ill.

"Get ready to be beaten!" He said angrily.

I raised my leg and held it. I stomped it, my foot bounced off the ground. My heart beat hard.

*Dun Dun*

I dashed forward, the wind caused the tree branches to float and stay in stasis.

*Dun Dun*

Lamington rose his fist up, a red and orange light covered it.

He brought it down and went for a punch, but it was slow.

*Dun Dun*

I was on his right.

Seeing that he started to turn his body.

*Dun Dun*

"Ya-aa" I shouted.

"Haa-" He shouted.

But I was faster my punch hit his shoulder but his new strength made his take it. His punch continued like a mace.

*Dun Dun*

My stomache was impaled by his flamming fist.

I bent down as his punch pushed me back. The anesthesia made me immune to pain however. And it fueled me with a rage and new found adrenaline.

*Dun Dun*

I held onto his fist.

I jumped up and kicked him the face while still holding on. I started to fall and I pulled him down with me.

*Dun Dun*
I let go before I pulled his arm out.

Fortunately the kick to the face was enough to knock him out.

I stood up, I must have had another nine minutes and however many more seconds before I was going to go down. I was about to walk off to my house when the real trouble came.

I heard something behind me and looked back.

"Hey man, what's up?" called the character.

"I told you to not follow me," I said angrily.

"I haven't, we accidently ran into you," said the Marshtomp. The guy right before me was a man named Tate. He was a commander in a neutral guild. A neutral guild is a guild that accepts money under the table to do bad things, of course sometimes they did good deeds, for more money. The guilds name was Orpheus. A commander was pretty high ranked, I was much higher; when I last left I was like an admiral with direct connections the guild master. "No need to be so hostile."

"Yes there is, you broke a rule regarding me, a man with a higher rank."

"Things changed, I'm admiral."

"So that lets you loophole out of rules, this allows you to trash your pride? Enough talk I got no time for this."

"Now, now," said Tate. From the woods surrounding me, a few recognizable members blocked my path before I could leave. There were at least three. A magmar, a monferno, a quilava. "You can let us pass, nicely, or we're going to have to beat you down."

The winter air crackled around their bodies.

"Jokes on you, I'm in my zone right now." I said, piece of cake. I had eight minutes to knock out 4 Pokemon, this was going to be fun.

The monferno took position and ran straight at me, the other two fire-types most likely stood back to ready up a high-powered flamethrower.

The Monferno flung himself at me with a mach punch. I took it by crossing my arms. I grabbed his arm and kneed him. My hand was still on his wrist, and I caught him from flying away. I switched to my other leg and kicked him, this time letting go.

He was thrown back. He rubbed his chest with the back of his fist.

Suddenly the Quilava released something much more powerful a run off the mill flamethrower. The frigid night air seemed to warp around the over-sized column of flame he released from his mouth. The flame scourge the ground drying it and making it warm. The column of flame was taller than the user itself.

I dodged to the left, avoiding injury when suddenly through the flame a fist came at me hitting me square in the right cheek.

I was thrown to the ground. I immediately got up to face the Monferno. These guys were good, before these guys were so non-team oriented. I had suspected they were still going to be the same, but I had obviously been wrong.

Waking me from my thoughts, a moist sticky arm constricted around my neck and bent me back.

"Didn't see that coming did you," said Tate, from my right.

I immediately bent forward and jumped into the air. I grabbed onto his arm and bent back so I would land on him, instead of my back. I landed right on top of him but before I could get up, the monferno joined the wrestling match.

A tornado of flame rose around his body and he started to run at me. Tate was beneath me so I was now the shield. I tried to roll but the Tate's grip was still on me.

Shoot.

Then the monferno ran right over me, burns were left across my body. I couldn't feel the pain, but I knew they were there. My body was darkened with burns.

I stood up and this time I bent frontward, as hard as I could. Tate's body was flung off and landed on the ground with a thud.

I jumped away back towards Lamington.

I stomped my feet. I didn't want to do this, just fighting with Lamington had probably taken up all my stamina. I, unfortunately, couldn't spam my speed. I had to be careful and know my limits. For one, by running infinitely I could use stamina and not notice due to the anesthesia I was on. If I didn't be careful I could suddenly throw up mid run because I'm running too much and not feel the pain.

"Alright, alright, time to get serious," I muttered. I stomped my feet. Then suddenly I took off straight at Tate. I swung my arms, using the leaves on my arms as a leaf blade. I swung and smacked him square in the face. Tate was pushed back. I jumped forward and turned around increasing my strength. This time I hit him with both my elbow and my leaf blade. He was pushed back. I followed it up with a drop kick to his chest. He was this time thrown completely down and didn't stand up.

I stood up and felt my stomach lurch. I clamped my mouth shut and fell to one knee. Shoot I'm feeling queasy. Then the magmar which I totally forgot about came out of nowhere about a foot away. He spewed a barrel of flame from his mouth. I sat right in it, I couldn't escape because I was too tired.

My anesthesia was starting to slowly fade away and the burns started to feel like pins and needles.

"Errr…"I said out of the side of my mouth.

I stood up in the flame and kicked the mamgar square in the jaw. His flamethrower was shut off. I then pushed him back with the palm of my hand.

"No holding back," I muttered to myself.

I cracked my knuckles and shook my head. I stomped around lightly.

This time the quilava responded, he fired a web of flame at me.

I sidestepped and I knew what was coming next. I readied myself in position, when suddenly from beneath me something caught my foot.

I looked down and saw the Monferno, the top torso of his body sticking out of the hole he created in the ground.

"Jerk!" I said lightly.

I looked back up and the magmar was about to fire.

I bent down and clawed into the ground. I dug a narrow straight line down and waited for a second. I tried to breath, and save up some stamina. When suddenly the monferno from earlier peeked into my hole. I looked up.

"Jerk bag!" I said lightly. He spewed fire into the hole I sat in. I somehow managed to dig another hole to my left and continued, getting away from the flame. The flames seared my back but I wasn't in too much pain.

I looked up in the darkness and I had formulated a plan. I dug straight above ground, I appeared in the same area, but this time I was a little bit more to my right. I ran straight at the magmar. Not knowing what to do, he fired a column of fire towards me. I jumped up and flew over the flame. Then I kicked out a foot as I got closer to the magmar and my foot collided into face.

I kicked him straight to the ground and rolled on the landing. I immediately went to create a hole for myself. More pain revolted in my body, slowing it down. I gave myself a second then I stopped. I turned and moved forward, so my body wasn't facing downward, but instead forward.

I got on all fours. I gasped for air and then my stomach got the strange feeling, a tingly feeling. I threw up on the floor of the hole I dug. I gasped for air, and my body immediately felt weak, the anesthesia, I must've thrown some of it up. I dug far away from my fluids and fell down.

A new pain took control of my body, the price of the anesthesia. The price of the anesthesia was an extreme drop in blood pressure. I laid down and gasped for air, burns made me sit in more pain. I sat there humiliated. I felt light headed.

"Ahh…" I would sometimes croak. That's when I heard something coming. I tried to stand, I couldn't. I knew it was over. But I was going to make a last stand none the less. If I was going to die here, then I was going to at least bring down my murderers. I wasn't going to let my clan die out like this. I won't let my parents hard work, go to nothing! I sat up, my eyes cold with the desire to fight.

Then a hole appeared from the top.

Lamington's head poked in.

"Hey," said Lamington.

I sighed and fell down, I fainted.

"So what happens next?" asked Rin. "And how is Lamington conscious?"

"Well from what I heard," suggested Amy. " Daddy woke up from all the commotion, after all the way I knocked him out was pitiful. He apparently beat down the weakened enemies and coincidentally the monferno was digging downward to at least finish off Konoha. Daddy stopped him with a thunderbolt. Lamington dug a little more and found Konoha, fainted."

"So, what happens next?" asked Rin.

"All the children in the village get kidnapped." Said Amy. "Including teens like me."

"Wait what!?" shouted Rin, her eyes big as marbles.

{Setsuna Damius: Sorry I've been off schedule for a while. But to be blunt, I got some writer's block and you know, finals (shiver), is coming up. I just tried my best to finish the thing that was closest to being finished. (And this was the closest because I was working on it from my phone.) The other stories are in a notebook, which I work on only at school. And since I can't really take that out in front of my parents (especially if they find out that I was working on it during class lol) then well I just need a little bit of time to stall. Well at least I plan on starting Absol's story next and I'm nearly finished with my cover page for the fanfiction of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series.}