After the pain had subsided, Rigel opened his eyes again to see the Camerupt lying motionlessly on the ground, hot lava spilling from it's humps. The sight of what he had done sickened Rigel, and he felt nothing but shame and remorse as he saw the young Numel running away with tears in it's eyes. "Oh Arceus, what did I just do?" he thought to himself as tears of his own began to form. "I can't believe I just..."
"Looks like we have dinner." Tarazed said. "Dinner that can cook itself, at that. Thanks Rigel."
Rigel said nothing, he only stood trembling as he tried to wrap his mind around the fact that he and his friends had just robbed another pokemon of it's life for defending it's young.
"Hey, are you alright?" Tarazed asked.
"No, I'm not alright!" Rigel yelled. "Do you realize that this thing was probably trying to stop you from eating something it cared about? Never again, I don't care if I starve, I am never hunting or helping you hunt again!"
"Rigel, calm down." Tarazed said. "We did what we had to do."
"You keep telling yourself that!" Rigel said, getting even angrier. "You didn't feel it, you didn't feel the pain! If you could, then you would stop too! Now I'm going to find some berries, enjoy your Arceus-damned dinner!" He then walked away quickly, leaving his friends stunned.
"Did he really just say that?" Meissa said as she ran after her brother. "Man, he must be really mad. I'm going to talk to him, stay here Gauss. Rigel, wait up!" She soon caught up with Rigel and tried to talk. "Rigel, what is it?" she asked. "What kind of pain were you talking about?"
"The pain of something dying." Rigel said without looking at her, a hint of anger still in his voice. "It happened just now, it happened when Tarazed killed a Dwebble last week, and it started to happen before you evolved. I can feel it when something dies near me."
"Really?" Meissa said. "I had no idea, how terrible."
"But that's not the worst part." Rigel said as he stopped walking and the anger in his voice turned to sadness. "I saw the look in that yellow thing's eyes as it ran away. It just watched what could be one of it's parents..." He stood silent for a moment, once again thinking about what he had done, before beginning to cry tears of guilt and remorse.
"It's alright Rigel." Meissa said as she sat down in front of her brother and put his head on her shoulder. "It's alright."
Rigel sat crying on his sister's shoulder for several minutes before drying his eyes and standing up again. "Thank you Meissa." he said, the feelings of sorrow lessened but still there.
"No problem." Meissa said. "Want to get started on those berries?"
"Sure." Rigel replied. "But where would we start looking?"
"I don't know." said Meissa. "It's not like I know this pla-" She was then interrupted by a loud snorting and the sound of two hard surfaces hitting each other. "What in the world was that?" she said, looking around for the sound's source. "Oh man, if it's something else that's gonna attack us..."
"I think it's coming from over there." Rigel said, motioning towards a large rock formation. "I don't think whatever it is is after us, otherwise it would have come out before making any noise."
"Want to go check it out?" Meissa asked.
"I don't know." Rigel replied. "I really don't want to get into another fight."
"Who said that we had to fight?" said Meissa. "Let's just take a peek at what's going on." She then walked over and looked around the rock formation to see large bipedal creature repeatedly bringing it's large arms down on top of a smaller quadrapedal one. The larger creature stood more than twice as tall as the other one, and was covered in rocky armor, with a drill-like horn on it's face."Hey Rigel, come here." Meissa said. "Didn't dad tell us about something like that once?"
"Yeah, I think so." Rigel said after looking around the rock himself. "Big, grey, a swirl on it's horn, I think that's what he called a Rhydon. But what's that other thi..." Rigel trailed off as he looked at the other creature. It was about the same size as him, with light blue fur underneath what looked like clear crystalline armor, and iridescent eyes that glimmered in the fading sunlight. "That's that thing from my dream." Rigel thought to himself. "But why would that Rhydon be attacking? Dad said they were vegetarians. Of course he also said they were pretty bad tempered and territorial. I have to help it." He then ran from behind the rock, heading straight for the Rhydon while focusing energy into an orb on his forehead.
"Rigel, what are you doing?" Meissa yelled. "I thought you didn't want to fight again!"
Ignoring his sister, Rigel jumped into the air and crashed head-first into the Rhydon's side, the impact on his head softened by the orb of energy.
"Thank you." the blue creature said quietly as the Rhydon fell down.
"N-no problem." Rigel said back.
The Rhydon roared as it got back up a started spinning it's horn, but was then struck in the face by a ball of shadowy energy. "Rigel, you sure are good at ticking things off aren't you?" Meissa said as she ran to her brother's side, her shadow close behind. "At this rate, you'll have fought everything on this mountain in no time. Care to introduce me to your new friend?"
"Now's not the time Meissa." Rigel said. "That thing still looks really mad."
The Rhydon roared again and charged toward the three with it's head lowered. Rigel and Meissa quickly ran out of the way of the charge while the blue creature stood it's ground and got into a low stance, not afraid to take a hit. The Rhydon hit the blue creature dead-on with it's horn, but the creature only got pushed back a few feet, and it retaliated by causing several sharp pieces of stone to burst from the ground beneath it, which the Rhydon barely noticed as it began hammering down with it's arms again.
"Hey, how about you pick on someone else?" Rigel said before building up malevolent energy and firing it at the Rhydon, who turned to look at him with rage in it's eyes before suddenly getting punched by Meissa's shadow.
"Can't take us all, can you?" Meissa said. " You should probably just run, I wouldn't blame you."
"Meissa, I think we've may need to run," said Rigel. "This thing seems pretty stubborn, and I don't think it will run away." He then started looking around and saw a small gap in some boulders, before turning to the blue creature, trying not to look into it's eyes. "Uh, how fast can you run?"
"I'm not the best runner." the creature said before cracks began forming in it's armor. "But I can try." Most of the armor then shattered and fell to the ground, making the creature more maneuverable.
"Ok, good." said Rigel. "Meissa, can that shadow of your's cause a distraction?"
"Sure." Meissa said as she extended her shadow in front of the Rhydon's face. "No problem, get going." As she said this, Meissa's shadow began moving it's hands about and glowing with a dark yellow light, causing the Rhydon to start swaying and stumbling around. Rigel, Meissa, and the blue creature then ran as fast as they could into the gap, easily leaving the confused Rhydon behind.
This is Jeweleon, probably my last original Pokemon appearing in this story.
