A portly man, the owner of the PokeFlute, lent over the railing of the bridge. His head in his hands as he stared infuriated at the sleeping giant below him. Turning slowly, the man looked over at Ryan. "Oh it's you" the man seemed somewhat disoriented in the setting sunlight. "Did you actually manage to borrow the Poke Flute?" he mumbled back, perking up only slightly at the appearance of the small instrument in the vagrants hand. "Thanks" he sighed, taking the flute from the elder Ryan's extended hand. "Snorlax can be grumpy when it wakes up- it might attack!" Ryan nodded, Annwn and the Ape stepping up on his sides. "I'll play the flute right now, but are you ready to stop it?" The man stepped off the bridge, the young Ryan taking his place watching over the huge creature below. "Feels nice to have this flute in my hands again. OK, I guess I'll start by playing Chinese Twilight by Klaus Schønning" The flute had a strange echoing sound that relaxed every muscle in the vagrant's body. The tall man watched as the red eagle lowered to sit upon his shoulder, and the little hand holding his slacked away slightly.
After about three minutes, the huge mass began to stir. Its eyes fluttered open and its mouth stretched wide. The echoing yawn almost drowned out the melody being played right beside the fellow in the trench coat. When the creature roared though, the portly man dropped the flute as he fell back in fright. The large beast pulled itself to standing, apparently ignoring the tremendous force of the water rushing around it. Though its eyes hadn't opened, the beast looked straight at the boy on the bridge, growling and reaching for him with it's massive paws.
The creature's roar rocked the bridge, its huge claws ripping through the young boy's chest. The lad coughed hard, every breath he took bringing bloody bubbles to the surface through the cuts. In a quick flash of light from the lad's pokeball appeared a taller somewhat humanoid looking toad, with long arms and a longer mane of clear bubbles. The boy grasped at the blue amphibian which immediately wrapped its arms around him and began to drag him off the bridge. As they moved, it was only narrowly able to avoid some downward strikes by the huge creature, saving it's master from the fate of the splintering and shattering wooden bridge. The huge hairy monster attempted to pull itself up onto the walkway, crushing and splitting the bridge as it did. With the wood simply peeling away under the paws the creature moved to a bank, lifting itself up onto the rocky edge. Leaving it's massive form looming over the small boy, who lay clutching at his bleeding chest. Ryan's attention snapped away from the battle for a moment, almost yelling at the two men from Camphrier. "Get a doctor or something, don't just fucking stand there!" He roared, not quite as intimidating as the beast, but fairly close.
Only one of the two men ran. The flutist remained, staring at the horrifying image of the creature bending over to rip the boy apart. "Hold this" Ryan commanded, shoving the bottle of whiskey into the flutist's arms. The man blinked confused for a second, looking down at the bottle in his arms. Ryan didn't wait for any answer, clicking his fingers once and pointing at his feet before charging across the rickety and breaking bridge. Annwn, on two legs and holding the stick out as a weapon in front of him, and the Fire headed red ape ran beside him. "Gimme him, over there" Ryan shouted, pointing to the boy on the ground in front of the huge beast and then to the flutist across the river. While Annwn and the Ape grabbed the boy, Ryan's whistle grabbed the attention of the bird. "Leveyr. Distract the frog" the eagle rushed away, swooping and rushing around the head of the long armed amphibian, keeping it from stopping the other two taking the young boy away. The beast however was not so accommodating, reaching down to snatch any of the banquet of pokemon in front of it. Its arms were halted though, as the skin on its back was pulled taut. Ryan's hands gripped the fur on the creature's back as it writhed and pulled away. Many pokemon in the grass around them shuddered and recoiled back into the grass at the massive beasts roar of pain. The fur on the back of the Snorlax pulled more the more it moved. Ryan was thrown about as it shook him, furiously trying to toss him away. Two pokeballs lept from his coat in the swinging, a red and white one, and a strange and somewhat unique and scratched up bronze and black one.
With it's massive paw wrapping around his chest, the Snorlax ripped the vagrant off it's back. Bringing him up to it's mouth, the huge hairy beast bit down on the man's arm, swallowing most of it's length into it's huge maw. Letting out a strange growl that didn't sound overly pained, Ryan bit down on the back of the huge furred neck. The harder the beast bit down on his upper arm, the harder Ryan bit into its neck. As blood began to trickle from the side of Ryan's mouth, the huge beast let out a painful cry. With the opportunity presented, Ryan yanked his arm from it's mouth and jumped down off the creature's chest. With a glance at the bridge, Ryan noticed the ape getting close to him and Annwn still toddling along across the rickety planks toward him. The young boy was safe on the other side, whiskey being poured onto his wounds by the portly flutist. In some grass nearby sat the red and white pokeball, but Ryan ignored it; frantically searching for the black and bronze one. A lion cub stood nearby, the metallic pokeball sitting in it's mouth as it happily stared down at him. Without a word the large man snatched the ball back, stuffing it in his pocket. The massive paw that had almost struck him instead being set alight by ball of fire hurtled by the ape nearby.
With the eagle gliding back, having apparently lead the frog to it's master, an idea sparked in Ryan's mind. "If this works, something tells me I'm going to have to come up with a faster way" He pointed to each of the pokemon; the crimson eagle, the ape and Annwn, saying 'you' each time. "Gimme fire" he smiled, rolling onto his back. Ryan pointed up at the face of the huge Snorlax looming over him. Even the creature above him seemed to know something was the matter with the tone the final word was spoken in. "There" the vagrant grinned. Annwn reacted immediately, hurtling small balls of fire at the creature. The eagle understood the quickest after, circling above and dropping burning spitballs down on the creature's fur. Seeing the others act, the ape and the lion cub began to send their own bouts of flame at the creature. "That's it, next lesson is bombardment" The vagrant chuckled to himself, scurrying across the grass to grab the red and white pokeball and store it with the bronze one in his coat.
The beast snatched Ryan up, holding him out as a shield against the bouts of fire from his pokemon. Three fireballs singed the vagrant's back before the bombardment was silenced at his moans of pain. The Snorlax's roar was almost a triumphant laugh. "That's it" the vagrant growled, reaching his arm in to slice the palm of his hand on the creature's sharpest tooth. Pulling out only an instant before the jaws slammed shut, Ryan reached around and slammed his palm down on the bite mark across the furry neck. "I've had about enough of you" he snarled, glaring into its eyes. "Sorry big guy, but down you go" The beast shook its head wearily, it's eyes fluttering shut and then snapping open again. Ryan was dropped like a sack of bricks, crumpling onto the ground and drawing his knife. The large creature staggered backward, clutching at its neck and grumbling painfully. The footsteps shook the ground around it as the beast staggered to the lake, slumping down on the grassy bank. Ryan held his knife out by the handle toward Annwn "Gimme heat." he exhaled, watching as the bipedal fox took the blade into its mouth for a moment. When the knife was handed back, the blade was pressed against the slice on his palm, searing the flesh.