//------------------------------// // Chapter 20 Deforestation part 2 // Story: Pokémon of harmony // by Firefoxino //------------------------------// In the dark of the forest I saw countless vines and sometimes thorns being thrown at me, I had to jump and sidestep a lot just to avoid the green storm and at the same time dragging Thomas away with my telekinesis. “Come here snack!” The Pokémon shouted at with her crazy eyes and a chilling smile.  “Why are you doing this?” I shouted trying to maybe find a peaceful solution of some kind. “I’m hungry you moron what other reason is there?” She laughed like a maniac charging up her petal made collar, the light was getting stronger and stronger until the Solarbeam was charged and she fired it directly at me. I couldn’t dodge so I lifted a boulder up in front of me and used it as a shield, the boulder got destroyed immediately but fortunately so did the beam, I used the cloud of debris and dust to my advantage disappearing into it and hiding behind a tree. I put Thomas down against the trunk and then hid him with some leaves. ‘Not the best, but it will have to do, I’m not confident I could create an illusion while battling.’  I jumped back into the fray, I summoned my psychic sphere and threw them at her making them going sideways as to throw her off and catch her off guard. It worked well enough with three of my five projectiles hitting true, the screams of pain followed by giggling though really creeped me out. “This one fights back! I like it…” She said licking her lips, she then stomped the ground creating hundreds of vines as big as me all coming towards me at a fast pace. I grabbed a piece of wood on the ground and rode it with my telekinesis avoiding the incoming deadly vines. Unfortunately I didn’t see the seed she spit out and so they hit me right in the chest making me lose all air in the lungs making me cough hard. I lost my concentration and fell on the ground painfully, I breathed in as much air as possible and angrily went back on my feet summoning more projectiles. I threw them but they got interjected by her seeds destroying them before they could do any damage.  “Surrender meal, you will die tonight!” She shouted with laughter and with that she charged up another Solarbeam. I ran towards her getting into my range and then grabbed her with my Psychic, I then threw her up in the air, not by much unfortunately she was too heavy. But still the fall and the strain of the grasp did their jobs. I didn’t let her time to recover and I shot all of my Psychic projectiles right at her, they exploded with a purplish light and she was thrown away by the force of it, she rolled on the ground crying in pain. I still didn’t let her recover much, I took hold of several fallen branches and smashed them on her several times until they snapped. She spit out woods from her mouth, she narrowed her eyes and shot a beam of green light at me which I narrowly evaded by squatting, the beam hit a tree withering it immediately meanwhile she stood back up with a grin on her face.  “That’s cheating…” I called out. “No cheating in life, only the survival of the fittest, meal!” She shouted angrily stomping down creating more vines, this time they hit home and smashed in my face making me fly in the distance, I hit my back on a tree and cried out in pain. I fell down on my stomach and used my arms to stand up. I stood back up and face her charging towards me with her head low, I jumped away and created more projectiles hitting her in the side making her fly on the ground. I then took her in my psychic grasp and, using my telekinesis grabbed a branch. I then hit her in the belly with all my strength. The blow was strong enough to make her throw up a green object that fell on the ground, immediately after she went limp in my grasp. I looked at her, she was defeated and weak, she started to shimmer and return back to her base form, her crazed face fell and now she was openly sobbing on the ground. “Do you surrender?” I weakly called out, I was so tired from using so much power in so little time, while I didn’t use many moves the one I used were backed up by a lot of power and still I had to hit her so many times to defeat her. “I-I’m sorry.” She cried out in tears. “I found that cute metal thing and then I-I couldn’t control myself!” She shouted. “I see…” I replied breathing heavily. “So are you ok now?”  “Yes, thank you. What is your name? I want to remember it.” She asked. “The name’s Anne, and yours?” I asked back. “My trainer called me Gaia, I’m still looking for him, have you seen him?” She asked hopefully. I shook my head, “And I don’t think you’ll ever see him again, we are on another world right now. I’m sorry.”  “I-” She started with tears back again in her eyes. “I see… Can I, stay alone for a while?”  I nodded and went back to Thomas who was starting to wake up. “Ugh, what happened?”  “The princess you had to protect had to protect the knight.” I replied with a smirk. “I see, well then I can only train more to make so that it never happens again. Right?” He told me towering over me. “Yup, but I’m going to be stronger than you anyway.” I replied smugly. “Look how much psychic power I have after all.”  “That’s all good and dandy but where’s Trixie?” He asked. I froze and recalled that we truly had to find her around all those plants.  “Uhm…” I started to think of any idea, but couldn’t come up with anything.  “Hey!” Gaia shouted from the clearance, “I found a pony here in my home, is it yours?” She asked, putting Trixie down with a vine. “Yup, thanks Gaia.” I replied back.  “Oh don’t worry about it, it was my pleasure. And I’m sorry for what I did, I truly am.” She apologized once again, that being said she left and went back into the forest. “Come on let’s go back.” Thomas told me taking Trixie with him. “Lets.” We arrived back to the camp and put Trixie back into her bed, then we both went back to our beds and slept comfortably until morning. The next day Trixie didn’t have any memory of what happened so we decided not to tell her.  We proceeded on our way to Baltimare, along the way we found a cabin and I could see around it many Ponytas running around, we wouldn’t have been too curious about it if I didn’t notice that inside the house was a majestic Rapidash with blue flames. I couldn’t pass the occasion of looking at a shiny pokémon like myself. “Hey Trixie pull over, I want to check that cabin.” I told her pointing at it. “What, why?” She asked, confused. “There is a shiny Rapidash inside. I want to meet him or her.” I told her. “Fine, don’t take too long though.”  I hopped down and went to the cabin, there I knocked on the door and waited. A stallion opened the door, a unicorn, he was young with a horseshoe mark, he had a fiery red coat and a white mane. “Yes?”  “Hi sir, I’m Anne and I noticed that you have a Rapidash inside your home, could I meet her or him?” I told him. “Oh you mean my fiancè?” He replied casually. I gaped shocked, I couldn’t find words to answer to that so Thomas did it for me. “Your fiancè? So you are engaged?” He asked, he went down from the cart and approached us. The stallion laughed a bit awkwardly but answered, “Yeah, it seems weird I know that but she is the love of my life. Dear, come to the door please there are guests.” He called over, immediately after we heard her coming closer until it was finally at the entrance. There she stood with her impressive height and majesty. “Yes?” She asked with a sweet and compassionate voice. “What can I do for you?” “My name’s Anne, me and my friends are going around Equestria to help out with a crisis but I’m just so curious about you, you have an, odd colouration and that makes you so much more intriguing.” I told her. “What I’m trying to say is that I’m curious, how can you talk first and foremost?” “I could ask the same child.” She replied with a smile. “But I’ll answer, a gem was given to me made out of pure fire with a symbol on it, at first its radiance and heat almost destroyed me.” She looked down at her soon to be husband. “But his love saved me, no longer I'm threatened by it.” “Could I see it?” I asked, almost completely sure of what she was talking about. “I’ll go get it.” The stallion said and moved inside, seconds after he came out with a box, inside said box we saw the shiny jewel, it was even more beautiful than the others,  instead of being monochrome it was as if true fire was moving inside of it. “As I suspected.” I muttered. “Say would it be ok for us to take it?” I proposed, I took out the other gems in our possession and showed her. “We go around looking for these, if we collect all of them we might be able to stop the dimensional rifts that are bringing pokémon in this world.” “I do not mind, this stone only brought me worry and trouble, you can keep it.” She said with a sweet smile. “And maybe if you have time you will come to our wedding, what do you say?”  I nodded. “Sure that sounds fun, I wish the best of luck to you!” We went back to the cart and told everything to Trixie.  She laughed a bit thinking about something apparently then she said, “I guess the honeymoon will be on fire.” And more laughs. We all laughed.