7,088Chapter 140
Revengeance
Everything went alright and my day was going super well, until a bird decided to dive bomb me.
I would like to say something cool like how I noticed its shadow against the moss covered ground, how the tall grass blades swung differently or how the sound of leaves rustling clued me in, but I didn't notice anything until it was much too late.
A black shadow moved across the sun and a loud screech followed.
I looked up through the network of branches and leaves and saw a black blur move straight down.
Fuck.
I didn't really have the time to move out of the way or to draw a weapon. I didn't have much time to do anything but barely recognize that something was onto me and manage to instinctively raise my arms to cover my face.
Not a moment too soon. A burning sensation washed over me as I felt something slash through my flesh.
I felt like I pressed my arm against a roaring furnace, the sudden hot flash of pain unbalanced me slightly, though it beat getting my face torn open.
What was more disorienting were the beating wings that were really loud and blocking my vision.
Then it all suddenly vanished. The black shape was flung out of my view and slammed against the ground.
At last, the cavalry had arrived.
A blue bolt of aura shot past my nose and tore into the ground. It hit the black shape and a crackling blue explosion followed.
I had already managed to move away from its range and just in time as a second aura explosion followed, blanketing the area in a blue haze.
Through the daze I managed to catch a glimpse of my attacker.
Wings were the first thing I noticed. Gleaming black feathers mixed with stark white and a dash of red. Its claws gleamed silver in the light of the overhead sun.
It began to beat its wings and the smoke was dispelled.
A Swellow? What's a Swellow doing here?
I straggled back some more and just in time. A burst of light manifested above the grounded Swellow and turned into the shape of a Kirlia.
Luna looked pissed. Her horns were glowing purple and her eyes were fuming with rage.
Luna retracted her arm and then plunged it into the bird, sending it back to the earth. Another crack followed as Luna pummeled the Swellow again.
I heard footsteps, felt a sudden rush of air slam into me and suddenly Fay materialized next to me, she was panting heavily.
She moved to stand in front of me. "Stay back!"
I hadn't planned on interfering.
Luna was ready to bring down her fist again but the bird started rapidly beating its wings again. A swirling vortex of winds and air was suddenly unleashed and forcibly pushed her away.
The wind grew stronger and I felt my shoes slipping on the ground. It was like a small tornado just erupted and I felt myself rapidly losing footing.
Luna appeared next to us and a shield of aura was swiftly erected by Fay.
Immediately the deafening noise died down. Outside our small bubble the winds continued to tear and shred, ripping at leaves and branches. The Swellow rose above the ground, seemingly possessing endless energy to keep this miniature storm up.
"Is that the one from before?" I asked.
"Yes."
{Yes!} Luna glared at the Swellow.
"Your arm!" Fay cried out.
I looked at it. It hurt; pain came in throbbing waves but over all, it didn't look too terrible. Though I wouldn't know what actually terrible would look like.
"It's manageable," I murmured. "You should've seen my arm when that Raticate gnawed through it."
The winds howled and increased in ferocity and any other day I would've been impressed, but then I started to hear the trees groan as they began to sway dangerously in our direction.
Yeah, we should do something about that.
"Luna, can't you teleport a rock on top of that stupid Swellow?" I asked.
"That won't be necessary," Fay said with a smile.
A large shadow emerged behind the Swellow, effortlessly overpowering the gusts. Seconds later a large steel snake the size of a house steamrolled through the trees. Its tail rose up high in the sky, eclipsing the sun. The Swellow looked up in surprise, before the tail swung down on the storm maker.
A dull boom followed and the devastating winds immediately died down, instead an explosive shockwave followed it up and stirred up dust and sand.
Fay dropped the aura shield and immediately Luna launched herself towards the small crater that Midna had created.
Her fist was glowing and ready to meet Swellow's skull.
An explosive burst of air erupted from the crater and caused Midna's heavy tail to be lifted for a moment.
The Swellow appeared again and it locked eyes with me. "Swallow!" It screeched.
Its wings glowed white and it zipped straight past Luna towards me.
"Don't even think about it!" Fay cried out. She zipped ahead and threw herself into Swellow's path.
Swellow's wings eclipsed Fay's body but instead of slicing through her it's position was abruptly frozen mid flight.
"Got you!" Fay grinned. Her Counter activated and violently threw the bird back towards Luna.
I yelled."Luna, try to restrain it!"
Silently, Luna's telekinetic grasp brought down the bird again just as it had reached her. It was floored with a heavy thud. Looming over it, Luna's fist blitzed with energy and she threw a wide arcing haymaker.
Seeing the pattern from the previous two times it got floored, I shouted at her to get away.
The Kirlia aborted her violent punch and with a flash she teleported back to my side. She narrowly dodged another explosive burst of air.
The Swellow was severely damaged and I'd say it needed medical attention as soon as possible, but it didn't deter it from screeching like hell.
It rose up into the air, above the treeline and began preparing another attack.
Midna suddenly appeared behind it, beating her own insectoid wings and overshadowing the Swellow in the form of a Scyther. "Now it's my turn!"
"Swe!" The bird cursed, or at least it sounded a lot like a curse. Midna rose above it and aimed a downward strike with her scythe.
At the same time Midna went on the offensive an Aura orb shot through the sky. It almost hit Swellow, but it narrowly dodged both the scythe and Fay's attack.
"Swellow!" it cried out and then it changed into a black blur again. I braced myself for another attack and a blue Aura shield was erected around us again by Fay.
However, instead of dashing towards me again or launching another barrage of attacks it flew away from Midna at top speed.
"...Wait…" Fay panted heavily. "Excuse me but what?"
{COME BACK HERE!} Luna was fuming. {Fay drop your Aura! We can still catch up!}
"It ran away," I said, unsure of my own words.
I waited, unsure whether something was going to happen, waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Swellow's trap card to be played.
Nothing happened.
My heart was still in my throat and adrenaline was pumped through my body at top speed, but the Swellow had simply left
I stared as the black blur faded into the horizon, eventually becoming only a small black dot and then becoming indistinguishable against the soft blue sky.
It actually ran away.
"What the hell?" I frowned.
Okay…that was just great. I got randomly attacked and did not even get the chance for proper retaliation, though with how hard my team hit it, it probably did get punished quite a bit.
It still did feel extremely anticlimactic.
I sighed and looked down. Oh gross. I was wounded and with that realization, the pain also kindly returned, as if it had been waiting for me to pay attention.
Luna pulled her eyes away from the sky and turned to me. Her eyes widened upon seeing my left arm. {You need to go to a hospital right now!}
"Oh no you're bleeding!" Fay dropped the shield and turned around.
Feeling a bit sickly, I calmly sat down on the ground.
Okay, time to assess the situation.
Well it hurt a lot but it wasn't life threatening, unless it got infected or someone else came along and I needed that arm to defend myself.
I exhaled deeply, holding my left arm against my body. It was bleeding but I couldn't decide whether I was okay with bleeding out over my shirt or not. I was feeling a bit lightheaded.
I briefly recalled that it was always important to stay calm during these kinds of things. That and it genuinely wasn't that bad compared to the Raticate.
"I'm fine, okay. Not dying at all. Just give me some space and keep a look out for if that Swellow returns, who knows what it is thinking."
I looked around for my stuff but I couldn't find it. "See if someone can get my backpack, I need the medical kit."
{Midna, go get it!} Luna hurried over to my side and held my arm. Her face turned pale.
{It's a lot of blood! Are you sure we don't need to call a hospital?!}
"I'm fine. I think it's mainly a flesh wound, or something. Isn't blood supposed to be good, a sign of healthy cells or something?" Fay gave me a skeptical look. I continued to explain. "Actually, I read up on this kind of stuff, it's not rare for people to get hurt in the wild and I should have the kit for cleaning up wounds." I spoke with a calm voice and made sure my emotions were also neutral, but the fact of the matter was that it really started to feel painful. The hot flash of pain I initially felt had turned into a throbbing pain that came in waves and set my nerves on fire, over and over.
"Look, it has already stopped bleeding." I raised my arm. It actually didn't look like it had stopped yet, though it was starting to crust and cake at the edges. I couldn't recall what that meant.
"Found it!" Midna straggled towards me, She held the left in her mouth and was dragging the backpack behind her. "Okay so what the fuck was that? It's not rare for you to get attacked, but usually we have a warning."
"I don't know, it's the same stupid Swellow from Floaroma town, it did get stronger apparently." I laughed. "Seems like I have a new rival."
"He still is enraged and hates you," Fay said. "It's rare for Pokémon to feel that much hatred." The last part she said more to herself than to anyone else. Not that I couldn't have figured that one out myself. That Swellow was for sure dedicated.
Midna finally got the backpack close enough. I opened it, or well tried to. Using one arm was rather difficult. An invisible hand clasped the zipper and pulled it open.
"Man, I've never heard a Pokémon curse like that," Midna said. "I don't know what you did but he for sure considers it personal."
{He's done nothing!} Luna glared. {That fucking bird is still stalking us for nothing. Next time we'll kill it.}
I wasn't really paying attention. I was digging through my backpack, trying to find the medical kit. I hadn't used it once, so it must have sunken all the way to the bottom. Being limited to only one arm also didn't help matters.
"Maybe we should help it!" Fay suggests. "I mean what better way to get rid of it than solving his issues!"
I paused my digging to give Fay a charming good smile. The kind of smile a goodhearted hero would wear. "Yeah, sure. I'm certain this miscommunication can be solved."
Fuck no! Next time I'll toss 50 Pokéballs at it and then sell it to someone in Alola.
Some Pokémon can't be reasoned with at any level. Besides, I really didn't fancy randomly getting assaulted.
{Next time we'll see him, he's dead.} Luna groaned, she kept pacing around, her frustration was almost palpable and heating the air around her. In a burst of rage her fist lit up and she punched a nearby tree. Wood splintered from the impact. {Aaargh fucking coward. Why did it flee?!}
"It's fine, we won. Thank you all for coming to defend me so fast. Luna, you were already attacking when I didn't even realize I was under attack.
She turned to me, her eyes big. {But you still got hurt.}
"Tis but a scratch," I joked. My humor fell upon deaf ears.
I opened the kit and looked through it. What had Chelsea said again? Something about cleaning the wound, or was that only for deep cuts?
It was truly just a scratch wound, An awful looking scratch wound but I'd gone through worse and I still felt pretty good about it, aside from the waves of pain of course. But I was getting a bit worried that I didn't know the exact steps to take care of something that each trainer should know.
Had I really overlooked such a simple misstep? Getting the wound infected would be the lamest way to go.
Using the kit was more difficult than I thought it would have been. Not having both hands made it also a lot more challenging. I felt this was a critical oversight on the designers' part.
I dug out a tube of stuff that looked important. The label read: ointment.
I tried to open the tube using my one good hand. I think it was disinfectant though it could also be salt.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Midna asked. She gave me a worried look. "I can fly you to Hearthome…probably."
"Let me try aura healing!" Fay offered. "My species should be able to do it…I think?"
{He has a weird aura, better not try it or else you might break him.}
"Maybe I should try cleaning the wound with water first? There's sand in it." I was getting slightly concerned with my lack of first aid skills.
It was something all Pokémon trainers should be able to do, but then again I never bothered with the official process of acquiring it.
{Hold on! Someone's nearby.} Luna narrowed her eyes. She put her hand to her lip, mimicking the universal symbol for: shut up.
I immediately reached for the gun and pointed it up at the sky. I looked for a flash or a blur, anything to indicate another dive bomb attack.
{I can feel them too!} Fay said. "They're coming from that direction!" She pointed east, but not towards the sky but instead towards the direction Midna had come through.
I pointed my weapon in that direction and patiently waited.
Finally, something did emerge from the rubble left behind by Midna's rampage.
A human shape. It was a human shape because, as it turned out, it was a human.
He had long purple hair, this time tied in a short bun and he looked like he'd been a while in the wild. Though the most striking thing about him were his blue eyes that were stuck in a permanent disappointed scowl.
I recognized him immediately, and subtly lowered the gun before he could see it and make a fuss about it.
He wandered into the clearing and it surprisingly took him a few seconds to see me. When he did he froze for a short second, before pretending he hadn't and calmly looked me over.
"You?"
"Me," I nodded.
"You're wounded," he mentioned. He looked around. "So you ran into the E level threat."
I stared blankly at him.
He held up his Pokédex. "I just received an alert about a nearby Swellow that was targeting people. It was marked as an E-level threat with high priority."
How embarrassing. Only E? I've dealt with Dialga and Palkia and came out unscathed, why did that stupid ass Swellow decide to target me now of all times?
"It caught me by surprise," I murmured. "It flew away though. Most likely left this forest."
"I see," he quickly scanned the horizons before his eyes returned to me.
This was embarrassing on so many levels, still, it was the best option available to me.
"Hey Paul," I said. "You wouldn't happen to know first aid, right?"
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After all, there's still a whole insane world of Pokémon left to explore.
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