Defenders of Evodusai Part 9
I awoke with a shake and a
shiver to find myself in a bed placed in the corner of an unknown
room. Something about me was different, as if I had somehow been
reborn. From the twitching in my tail to the wiggling of my toes and
paws, for the first time in a long time I truly felt that I had total
control over my body. Happily taking a hold of my wagging tail, the
warmth from that appendage started to spread across my entire body.
Giggling, I soon caught the scent of someone approaching from the
hallway. A couple of knocks on the door later and in walked a cute
looking audino who gave me a curious glance. "Well good morning
dear," he spoke softly. Still clutching my tail closely, my face
heated up from the embarrassment of being seen doing this. The audino
only smiled as he turned to leave. "Please relax for a moment while
I go get the healer who treated you." After gently closing the
door, I was left alone with the urge to observe my surroundings. The first thing that I noticed
were the tacky yellow colored walls with painted pictures of various
flowers scattered everywhere. On the wall to my right were a couple
of open windows that would let in a cooling breeze. Meanwhile, a
quiet snoring to my left had just gone unnoticed until now. Shocked,
I found the flaaffy from before sleeping on the other side of the
room. He was covered up in bandages and his breathing had become
short and rugged. I kinda felt sorry for what I did to him. I mean,
he only deserved about half of what I had given him. Seeing him
grumble awake, I dropped my line of thinking and watched him. Seeing
his body all wrapped up, he tried to move around only to wince from
the soreness of his injuries. "Damn that charmander," he
huffed in frustration. "Damn the way that her eyes flared up with
murderous determination. It was like she turned into a completely
different pokemon. How the hell did she change like that all of a
sudden?" I gave a cough to get his attention. "You know, if you
weren't such a big asshole back there, you might have been able to
walk away as the victor. Now it looks like you wouldn't be able to
walk at all for the next week or so." Realizing that I was in the
room with him, he quickly clamped his mouth shut. Unable to turn his
head to look at me, he just stared up at the ceiling. "Asshole,
huh," he chuckled quietly. "Says the girl with the attitude
problem. You just got lucky that day." After a few more minutes of
silence, he slowly drifted back into dreamland. Beating off the urge to punch
him in the gut, I took a peek out the window. Off in the distance I
could see the sun slowly rising above the foundation of Offensive
Superiority. A couple of quick knocks at the door soon echoed into
the room and in walked the audino accompanied by a blissey. A glint
of light bouncing off of something attached to the blissey's egg
pouch caught my eye but I couldn't make it due to being blinded by
it. Clasping her paws together, the blissey gave a graceful smile
before approaching. "Hello Winta. My name is Olein and it's good to
see you up and looking healthy. After being treated for about two
days, it's safe to say that you can leave whenever you want today.
Feel free to come and find me if you start to experience any sort of
pain or discomfort. Do you have any questions before I go?" I was about to say something
when the door had suddenly exploded open and knocked the audino
forward into the flaaffy's bed. The sound of his agony filled the
room and spilled out into the hallway. Along with the shrieks of pain
came the sound of someone shouting my name before something heavy
landed on top of me. Getting pulled into a hug, I returned the
embrace and snickered a bit when I realized who it was. "You've
always had a horrible sense of timing Liru," I whispered to the
totodile. She punched me on the back and told me to shut up. "I was
worried sick about you and the first thing you say to me is that?"
she whispered back with a hint of fear in her voice. "When you
didn't wake up for a day, I thought I lost you again." I pushed her away for a moment
to look her straight in the eyes. "It'll take more then that
screaming ball of fuzz over there to take me down permanently," I
grinned, pointing to the flaaffy. Olein and the audino managed to
calm him down by now and together all looked at Liru angrily.
Stepping forward, the blissey puffed up her chest and exhaled in
frustration. "What you did was unacceptable. I can forgive you for
disturbing the peace of all the patients here, but causing injury to
them? That's taking it too far. Now tell me who your commanding chief
is so that I can tell them of your actions." Arriving on cue, Truce
appeared huffing for a breath. "There you are," he panted. "I
looked everywhere for you. Should have realized that you'd come here
to visit Winta. I--." His smile turned sour when he saw Olein
glaring at him. Taking a couple of steps back, he turned to Liru and
me. "Oh crap. What did you guys do?" Pointing a paw at the zangoose,
Olein approached him with a look in her eyes that just screamed
danger. "That blue hooligan is one of yours I presume?" Truce
stumbled to find the right words but Olein placed her paw onto his
muzzle. "I don't want to hear it. Just take her away from this
place. I'm going to go lie down for a minute and I expect the both of
you to be gone by then. Got it?" Nodding his head furiously, he
moved to the side of the room to let her through. "Oh, before I
forget," she said turning to look at me, "Sorry Winta, but please
come find me if you have any questions or start to feel any kind of
pain. Have a wonderful day dear." With that said, she gently closed
the door and left. Wiping his brow, Truce released the breath that he
was holding in. "Come on, you two," he grumbled. "Let's get
going before we get into some serious trouble." "Woah, she was the chief of
health and recovery?" Liru cried in astonishment. I too was
surprised after finding this out. Putting some things together in my
head, I came up with a mischievous idea. "It looked like you two
knew each other. I wonder if there was something that went wrong
between you two. You know, relationship wise?" Seeing Truce blush,
it seemed that I hit the nail on the head but he waved it off. "No,
nothing like that happened between us. It was just something I did
long ago that peeved her off. Sort of like what Liru did to that
flaafy, only it was much more worse." I decided to drop the subject
since it looked like talking about it was starting to hurt him. "So
where we headed to?" I asked, concerned that he wouldn't let me go
to my division. "Well, my captain took an interest in you after
your battle with a pokemon who was almost twice your level and wanted
me to bring you in to meet with him. He's a nice guy but can be very
unpredictable, so I don't really know what his intentions are.
Anyways, we have to hurry up or else we'll be late."