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Zillian and I were now in my room after we both got our wounds bandaged up by Jasper since we both tried to stop Dad from getting his face ripped off by Prince. Being the experienced battler that he was Prince was not easy to take down and it took me, Zil, and a few servants and their Pokémon to stop him from killing Dad and from wreaking the place with rage when Jasper dragged his target away to get much needed medical treatment.

Bleu wasn't a help cause ever since Dad's little slip up: she has locked herself in one of the guest rooms bawling her eyes out and has refused to come out. Dad's been too busy getting patched up and blowing up at Mom because she has taken Prince's side. Good thing too because she is the only one that can protect Prince from getting booted from the family/killed. Which means Mom is blowing up at Dad for his slip up that caused this whole mess in the first place. The atmosphere is pretty tense and depressing around here because of the gigantic rift that has sprung up between Mom and Dad; to make matters worse the rift won't get patched up anytime soon because they both are equally stubborn. Both sides have been yelling at each other for the past hour and have only stopped so Mom could take Prince to the Poke Center to get his injuries patched up.

Good news is that Mom is going to clinic tomorrow to find the first psychic type that's available so she can apologize to Prince and patch up their relationship. If I know my mom she'll feel so bad about her part in the dangerous escapades that she will spoil Prince rotten and do all else she can to patch everything; which shouldn't take long because of how much love is between Prince and Mom.

The bad news is that the servants are stretched really thin both mentally and physically because they now have to work double and possibly triple time. Even though being pleasant and easygoing masters normally: both Mom and Dad hunt for reasons to have bitch fits to alleviate the anger that they have for their true problems. Meaning fights break out over the smallest of issues. To make things worse since Dad is too furious at Mom and Prince to even think about having the patience to deal with or even pay attention to Bleu right now which worries me.

I have a bad feeling that even more was about to be added to the list of current stressors in my life.

I took a deep breath in an attempt to try to dispel the worse case scenarios as I turned to face Zillian who was sitting on the bed looking so nervous that he couldn't even look me in the eye; but determination was still the dominant emotion in his gaze."Aright spill. How did you get my cards and why are they covered in blood"

This caused Zillian to give me a angry glare that I had a feeling wasn't directed at me before gashing his teeth as if biting an imaginary foe" Slut took them" ah that explains it, must have taken them while I had my head in that magazine... that cumdumbster of bitch! I even paid her triple!

People are such assholes...

I shook my head and glared "You still haven't answered my first and most important question. Why are they covered in blood? and to add to that how did you even know what she did!? cause I don't remember receiving the memo of Rattata being a psychic type Pokémon because that would be the only way I could see you figuring it out!"

Zil sighed and finally managed to look me in the eye as he said "Remember when you sent Zil to cause trouble?"

I nodded and replied "Right so I wouldn't get interrupted. What about it?"

"When Zil went to go home: Zil passed the girl on the path and she was talking on the device you use to talk to far away homens "

"I told you a thousand times... It's called a phone" face palming as I mumbled before clearing my throat and speaking normally "alright sorry for interrupting. Continue?"

Zil was looking a little irritated at the constant interruptions but nodded and continued anyway "Well as Zil passed her, the girl's exact words to the device was: 'I'm totally going to take whatever is in that little pricks wallet. "she paused to laugh before saying 'It's not like he can't just replace the cash easily anyway. What's a few bucks from his bank account?' another pause 'Aww you caught me I'm totally gonna bleed that short fucker dry. another laugh before she said 'I gotta go wish me luck!' before making kissy noises and faces at phone before putting box in pocket" He took a sharp intake of breathe because Zil said all of that in one sentence since with every word he got more and more worked up

"Zil slow down you know it gets pretty difficult for me to understand you when you talk this fast" He wasn't listening however and continued as if I didn't say anything "Tried telling you but you wouldn't let Zil!"

"Cause I thought you were just going to try to talk me out of it again like you tried to do before you left. I thought if it was anything important it could wait till I was finished. I didn't know it was THAT immediate and important. Truthfully I just wanted to get everything over with"

Zillian suddenly leapt up and began slapping me in the face with his tail as while yelling "Next time listen!" I grabbed his tail to keep him from tail slapping me anymore then he already had (which hurts a lot more than it sounds it does). "Okay fine I'll listen to you more and I'll stop assuming shit okay!" I sighed when he finally stopped fighting to do more damage "So continue please"

"So left with no other choice I decided to deal with it my way." Finally the blood and the flash of purple and brown I saw at the cave entrance started make sense. Pictures and scenarios flew past my minds eye in a frenzy, each causing my normally pale face to get paler and paler as I looked at him with mouth agape and terror building up in my stomach "You didn't!"

Zil held my gaze as he slowly nodded "Oh god!" I groaned, covering my face with my hands as thousands of scenarios and possible solutions continued to rush to the forefront of my mind at once. But Zil said one thing that gave me a bit of hope

"Zil didn't kill her. Wanted to. Too big of size difference and the crime shows that we watch taught Zil that people will come looking for her and what would happen if they found body with Elly's DNA and Zil's all over her. Not worth trouble. So all Zil did was use Quick Attack to rush at her before she noticed Zil's presence and went into pockets to fish for Elly's stuff, grabbed it, ran. She didn't know what happened. "

"Oh thank god" I murmured as I grinned at Zillian before noticing his gravely serious look hadn't changed.

"The problem was Zil made the mistake of underestimating her and her greed. Zil didn't expect her to chase Zil deeper in the tunnels that Zil was going to hide until she gave up and went home. Zil ran and ran but her strides and speed allowed her to keep up with my speed. Had to use Quick Attack to lunge forward out of her reach every time she lunged." his expression told me he was a little impressed but annoyed at this fact.

"Impressive that a human kept up with your speed. She told me when I complemented her on her slenderness that she ran track since Middle School and continued it to keep up in shape so I'm not too surprised. But wait what about the bag I saw you holding?"

"That will come in later but I left the tools I brought with me in case things went horribly wrong at entrance" Zillian determined look came back on his face "Zil don't think Elly realize how far Zil was willing to go. Zil was doing everything in his power to get Elly's things back."

I shivered "I get it. Rattata are instinctively hoarders and are very protective of their things and are equally protective of their Trainers things. I was warned all these in the Ratatta Trainer's guide's that my parents gave me for you. Pg.15 section 3 titled Normal and Expected Behaviors."

Didn't read that book at first because I wanted to be lazy and wring it. But eventually decided to when I grew tired of Zillian scaring my fingers with his teeth when I did something wrong. Now? I have that bitch read and have it memorized PLUS I have the Raticate edition sitting on my desk just waiting and collecting dust .

Zillian seemed surprised but shook it off and continued " The chase went on for at least ten minutes and both of us were exhausted and making silly mistakes. I had gotten caught at least four times but managed to get away because she didn't want to lose a finger. Reason for blood by the way" Duh I figured that. "Nearly lost her a few times because girl kept tripping over rocks and Pokémon that live in the tunnels but she found me every time Zil hid...think she followed footprints in dirt" Bitch was smarter then I gave her credit for."Eventually Zil was running out of tunnel and strength and since she also works in the tunnels she knew that as well and slowed down to expend less energy...she figured out all she have to do was chase Zil until the tunnel dead ended. So there Zil was: trapped and exhausted but willing to fight until Zil went unconscious or death"

"You stupid rat" I mumbled with a shake of my head

Zil managed a small smile "She said same" back to serious "Thinking she won she took her time as walked towards Zil slowly and carefully in an attempt to block any opening for Zil to slip through. In the end it was her smarts and slowness that doomed her."

Now confused I asked "how so?"

Zil went quiet besides making the sound of smacked his lips like he was parched I saw his signal and understood. Hell with all that running and talking: I would be parched too. Still didn't stop me from rolling my eyes at his laziness as I got his bowl and bottle of water from the small mini fridge next to my bed. Zil continued as he lapped at his offering. "During the last half of the chase Zil heard the sound of a wild pack of Onix expanding their own tunnels while searching for food like they do always around this time."

Which is why no one is allowed to be in the tunnels during certain times because so many diggers and miners have died to the Onix that were just racing to get all the delicious tasty gems before the others can get to them. Even rock types have favorite foods you know.

"So..."

Zil nodded "At that exact moment a Onix burst through the topmost part of the wall behind me. Zil was saved from being smashed by the Onix by small size but barely cause Zil was still knocked out by it's tail coming down... Zil was the lucky one"

He didn't need to tell me the exact details of what happened to...Becca? whatever her name was because I could tell from his expression that it was ugly and that she didn't make it.

"When Zil came to Zil took one look at her body before booking it to the entrance, grab bag, went down to body, use match to set fire, placed explosives in few weak spots in the tunnel and a few around body-" We have C4 for the large rocks that are too hard for the drills to do their job. Expensive though so Dad's going to have a cow when he realizes some are unaccounted for."-safely away from flames of course before going to entrance and set them off. Cave collapsed in those points. covered up body"

Dead silence besides the sound of Zil polishing off the whole bottle that he managed to drink in the span of two minutes. Meanwhile I took the time to absorb Zil's story and organized my thoughts. Once finished, I sighed, laid down on my bed to stare at the ceiling as if the answer to the problem was right there "You done messed up Zil" I said softly

Another period of silence

"Please explain" came Zillian's reply

I took a moment to organize my thoughts to make it less complicated before continuing. "Don't get me wrong. What you done by covering it up would been the best solution if YOU killed her. The law doesn't have any sympathy for Pokémon that kill humans except if they are defending themselves. So if they found her body and had proof you killed her: you would be killed and I would be tried and put to jail for neglecting my job as a Trainer to stop you from doing things such as that...What happened instead was an accident that was her own damned fault because she was aware of the dangers since she works there herself but decided to chase you anyway...I'm not sorry to say that she deserved it for stealing from me. But-"

I sat back up to look at Zil in the eye "-with the whole burning of the body thing and covering it up with man-made cave-in's business. The way things appear to anyone investigating her death now is a successful attempt of murder. By luring the victim deep inside the caves by running and hiding into the tunnels at the convenient time that would allow let the Onix do the rest to makes it look like an 'accident'-" I took a page from my Dad's book and used both of index and middle fingers to establish the falseness of the term accident. "- which is basically the same as blindfolding her and putting her in the path of a train. You may have not pushed her yourself but your actions still caused her death which is still homicide. With the evidence of sexual activity so close with the estimated time of death they would assume that the motive of the crime was the perpetrator fucking her and trying to skip out of payment. This is what the evidence-" I counted them off with my fingers -"of the cover up, My DNA from the recent sexual activity and your teeth marks all over her hands: all can be easily traced by the way to us ,then there is her friend knowing where she was and what she was doing, and that she was getting paid to do a job. Which brings me to the final nail in the coffin: there is no evidence of a business transaction ever occurring because that was mostly likely burnt and then vaporized in the explosion. In the eyes of a 3rd party member the evidence points to this conclusion: Trainer pays for victim's illegal services and then skips payment..probably even giving the victim a blank check. Meanwhile the Trainer's Pokémon awaits in the shadows for the Trainer's signal to steal the 'check' and run off with it. The victim is then forced to make chase or risk losing what was promised her in return for her services. The girl's obvious decision leads her straight to her demise. "

There was silence as Zil absorbed all of this than he replied "Zil sees. But those are a lot of assumptions... too much work and too big of a price to for a few seconds of good feelings and some cash"

I shrugged and said "Most police work is assumptions unless the perpetrator comes clean to it. Stupidity plus geed do not go well together since it makes people do dumb and reckless shit. People are also assholes thanks to survival instinct that makes them put themselves first. You should know all of this because you have watched just as many crime shows as I have..." I thought about that statement a bit more before shaking my head "...actually scratch that you always fell asleep after the 'who done what part' and you just wanted to know if they got away with it and how once you woke up...which now that I think about is very bad for something as young as yourself to watch"

Which means his decision making might have been partially my fault...Fantastic

Zillian shook his head and before I could dodge let alone blink he slapped me with his tail as hard as he could. When I saw no more was coming I opened my eyes to glare at him with all the fury I could muster as I rubbed with my still stinging cheek. But Zil was glaring at me with much more of an intensity. "What I watch on TV has nothing to do with my actions. Zil. *slap* is *slap* not an *slap* idiot *slap*TV just gave me ideas" he was panting like a dog from all the slapping and jumping he had been doing.

"Fine fine your absolutely right. Just don't hit me again please it's annoying" The stars I was seeing just were just now beginning to clear after my words.

Zil harrumphed and hiked his nose up and away from me like a prissy dog "Don't give Zil reason then"

Asshole.

I looked at the time and saw it was getting pretty late "Anyway I still have school in the morning so we really have to get ready for bed-"

"But-"Zil began

"We'll talk more about this tomorrow and probably continue to until we figure something out. Even though they doomed us the explosions actually did the positive thing of buying us time...how many-?"

"Zil used 9-" Zil's reply resulted in my mouth to fall agape like a dumb-ass. Holy shit he was packing alot of heat with him! How on Earth was he even able to drag it with such a small body!? "-two on the body and the rest in the tunnels" Zil finished then looked at me expectantly waiting for my verdict. DAAAAYMN I don't think Zil knows the exact power of those things...

I closed my jaw with a cough to clear my throat before saying my reply that was escorted by a happy grin"You gave us at least a month and a half or maybe 2-5 months or maybe even longer to figure something out"

Zil's eyes widened and his jaw dropped than stuttered "I-I I was thinking a few weeks at the most!"

I chuckled as I began to rub his head with my palm and scratching Zil behind his ears with my fingers. With this being Zillian's favorite spot to be scratched and pet I received the reaction I wanted as Zil immediately began leaning into my hands while making a purr/chatter like noises "You my stupid mouse underestimated the explosives. You collapsed the whole damn tunnel it sounds like! That is if you had indeed hit all the weak points... We'll be clearing up rubble for months! Then we have to wait still for the eggheads that my Dad works with make sure the foundation of the rock is stable enough so that the roof wont collapse on top of us before Dad can even think about digging again in that tunnel again."

I started laughing while giving Zil a huge relieved smile "Hell we might not even have anything to worry about because knowing Dad, he would think that the tunnels collapsed during the night since the area has become too unstable with all the digging we and the wild Pokémon been doing. Then Dad will become so fearful of the possibility of another collapse that he might even force us to pack up and move away to start from scratch which is exactly what had happened when I was ten!"

"You sound WAY too happy...what about your friends both Pokémon and human? Won't you miss them?" I gave him a duh look and put my hands out as if I was weighing something. Took him 30 seconds to do the same before I saw the light bulb flick above his head and he face pawed at his own stupidity "Meaning we would be escaping from any sort of trouble thanks to the wait period the police investigation has to follow before searching for anyone reported missing. Which far outweighs the bonds that can be reformed by visiting or kept stagnate with tek..teckna-"

"Technology" I said with a chuckle while rewarding my friend for figuring everything the same way I had done previously but this time I also said in my best baby voice "Now there is my little smarty pants mouse, I knew you could figure it out." My teasing did nothing to dim his enjoyment to his reward though.

Eventually I let him free and began gathering fresh clothes from my dresser "Thanks to Prince and the drama you dumped on me: I think I'm dirty again from just sweat. You still haven't had your bath yet anyway" I picked up Zil and he must have known what I was planning because he tried to wiggle his way out of my grip. Despite Zil's best attempts though I still managed to give the fur on his head a curious sniff before wincing at the stench of overworked mouse "Yep definitely bath-time" Immediately Zil began blushing in embarrassment (he's worse than a girl when it comes to hygiene) and tried to hide his face as he tried to worm his way free from my grip, foolishly believing he had a chance of escape (where to and to do what was beyond me) Still Zil's reaction was too cute to just let slip by quickly; So I extended it just a few more delicious moments until I got my fill before finally saying "So I guess it's bath time for the both of us. After that it's bedtime... I don't know about you but all this random excitement makes me feel I've ran at least two marathons!" Zil chirped as a way to show his eargerness and agreement.

We should have known life is never that easy or simple.