My ears were ringing as I ran. The explosions I've been hearing were mainly the cause of it. Up above Bee flew, keeping a weary eye out on anything that I might run into. My nostrils burned from the smoke, my breathing shortening.
"You all right down there?" Bee asked, taking a look at me.
"There's too much smoke," I answered best I could, though I think I choked out the words. "How much further?"
"We still have a ways to go," Bee replied as he shot out more of his Poison Sting upon a human whose back was towards us. The human yelped with pain upon contact, quickly falling and writhing in pain. I stopped abruptly, staring at the hurt human.
"Forget him, Quil," Bee said. "He's part of this whole attack. He deserves what he got."
"But look at the pain he's in," I said. "Surely you don't want him dying from your own attack?"
"Quil," Bee said. "If you had any idea the kind of work these humans do, you would leave them for dead too."
"Maybe," I said as the human's breath grew rasp.
"We can't stay here," Bee said, sounding a bit worried. "We're out in the open as easy targets. I don't want us getting captured. So let's move."
"But the human," I said. I heard Bee growl in frustration as he landed next to the human whose breath was weakening. I was confused at why Bee had raised his needle until he brought it down into the human's back. I gasped in horror as the human's breathing immediately ceased. Bee pulled out his needle, looking at the blood dripping off it.
"Listen to me and you better listen well," Bee said, all emotion gone. "Life isn't all good and kind. There are people and pokemon out there that are cruel and will show no mercy for you. Saving this pathetic human's life wouldn't change the fact that he would be glad you saved his life. He would only end up capturing you and eventually kill you."
Again, I felt the same angering feeling bubbling up inside. All I felt like doing was shouting at him for defense of my actions, but I didn't. Instead, I drew in a long, deep breath and let it out, along with a small whimper. Bee sighed in frustration, clearly tired and annoyed by how I act.
"Alright," he said, wiping the blood onto the grass. "I am clearly ticked off at this. You need to start knowing what's right and what's wrong."
"I know what's what," I said, feeling a little bit annoyed myself from his attitude.
"Oh you do? Well what about that Scyther you saved from my poisoning? Was that right?"
"It felt like the right thing to do," I replied, getting yet another growl from Bee. The conversation probably would have continued on forever if not for a bunch of humans showing up.
"That Cyndaquil is still alive!?" one of them said, sounding surprised by m appearance. "I thought that Scyther of yours took it out."
"Well he was only supposed to weaken it enough where I could catch him, sir," another human spoke out. "But I somehow lost him in the smoke and the fire and-"
"I don't want to hear your excuses," the first guy yelled. "The Cyndaquil is right here in front of us. That's all that matters. Get him."
Bee reacted fast to this. Lifting both needles, he aimed them at the humans' feet, releasing another round of Poison Sting. The humans retreated but one who managed to dodge the poison.
"This should take care of you," he growled as his hand reached down towards his side. I was curious as to what he was going to take out, but a sudden yell stopped him. We both looked up to a still standing tree as a Caterpie swung down at him by String Shot, right into his face. The force of impact knocked him out cold as the Caterpie landed.
"Glad to see you guys haven't been captured yet," he said. "Where are you off to?"
"I'm leading Quil away from the forest," Bee replied. "Where have you been, Tai?"
"Here and there, ambushing the humans mostly," Tai replied. "It's so much fun seeing their surprised reactions for just a few seconds before I knock them out cold."
"Same old Tai," Bee muttered. Tai was the most hyper pokemon I knew. He always made everything that happened fun. And it seemed to make Bee a little happier whenever he was in a bad mood.
"So is the exit far?" I asked.
"Nah," Tai replied. "Not if you take that shortcut right there." I turned and looked at where he was referring to. It was a yet another bush, though this bush had a fairly good size hole, which made it into a tunnel. "Just take that path. I've managed to protect it so far. It leads you all the way to the exit."
"Really?" I asked hopefully.
"I use it all the time for a good hiding spot," Tai admitted. "Can't say for sure if any other part is burnt, but you'll just have to risk it."
"So what do I do once I get out?" I asked.
"Head for the nearest city," Bee answered. "And don't bother coming back to the forest unless you want to be captured and be forced to do things you normally don't want to do."
I nodded and asked, "What about you guys? Are you coming too?"
"This is my home," Bee said. "I'm going to defend it until my end. So take care, Quil. May we meet again." Bee took off, flying away as Tai began climbing up a tree.
"I'm just going to remain here and ambush more of those humans," Tai said happily. "I don't care if I'm caught. Just let me have my fun. Be careful, Quil."
"I will," I said before running through the tunnel bush. I ran like that Scyther was on my tail, though I was running a lot faster than I normally was. My heart pounded, my desire burning to be free. The bush remained intact as I ran, not burnt in the least until I was halfway through.
The coast was clear, luckily, as I ran across and returned under the leaves and ran the rest of the way to the exit. I was blinded as I shot out of the bushes and had to stop momentarily until my eyesight adjusted. Living in a dimly lit forest really takes a toll on your eyes if you never left.
"Oh great," I said. Due to the brightness of the light, my eyes registered everything as fuzzy looking. I really couldn't see that far at all. "What a time for my eyes to go fuzzy. Some day this is turning out to be."
I looked around, trying to figure out what all the fuzzy objects were. I knew that the forest behind me was nothing but trees. The grass was a bit fuzzy as well. I looked upward into the sky and saw a huge cloud of black smoke hovering over the forest, though I had to squint my eyes to see it.
I sighed, knowing that I could never return to my home. Everyone I knew and loved were gone, my forest and home were now destroyed, and to make matters worse, I was partially blind. I felt my heart go heavy, like someone just took it and tore it and then set it under a rock. And again, for the third time today, I felt that same bubbling anger rise up in me. I had a brief moment where I almost wanted to go in and hurt those who hurt me real bad, but again, I wasn't that type of person.
Instead, I turned around, a paw clutched to my chest as my heart began hurting again. Being that I didn't want to be captured, I began moving onward, heading for the nearest city Bee told me to travel to, though it was going to be hard because of my poor eyesight. However, I was began walking away, I felt something beginning to build up inside me just a bit. It felt like anger, but it was a completely different kind of anger I had. A different kind of anger I couldn't figure out quite what it was.