11 Meeting a Hero (1/2)
Arthur tried moving, but his body was either too exhausted from the pursuit earlier or the concentrated marsh through this area. His legs were rooted in the ground and didn't budge even a tiny inch!
No matter what, his body didn't listen to his thoughts, shocked still on the spot.
Just as he was about to get attacked from both sides, Arthur closed his eyes and braced himself for the worst happening. His arms were crossed over his head instinctively and his back bent down a little to offer as little contact-surface as possible.
”..”
”...”
”...”
”Huh?” But the excruciating pain he expected didn't come. Instead of never ending pain or loud-deafening noises of colliding bodies it was just ... silent.
So silent it felt surreal!
He realised something was wrong and thus opened his eyes slightly. He see could see a massive back through his crossed arms that casted a big shadow on his side. The person owning that back stood protectively in fron of him like a statue with a foundation that was unshakable and unsurmountable!
Only after little time passed, it dawned upon Arthur that it wasn't a statue but an elderly man that had saved him from this tiny disaster. The man looked like hugging himself from Arthur's point of view, but in reality his arms were stretched out in opposite direction each holding one of the fighting Pokemon.
The right arm took hold of the Eevee while his left arm had a grip on the Spinarak.
What Arthur found weird was a certain illuminating light that shone from that man's left arm, as if he wasn't holding a Pokemon but a lamp instead.
”Whe-where did he come from?”, Khali wondered, just a couple seconds ago the street was empty of any people but then this guy appeared out of nowhere! Did he teleport?!
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”Hahaha, children these days, so reckless and yet so cute!”, chuckled the old man while gazing back down towards Arthur.
”Errrie!” ”Shhhzzz!”, the two Pokemon the mysterious man had in his grip were protesting and tried to break free, without success though.
”Errrieee!!!” ”Shhhhzzzz!!!”, Both Pokemon were shocked in the first few moments. The world turned upside down for them but then in the next seconds, their instincts started kicking in again and Eevee was the first to find its balance. It landed gracefully on its paws and walked back to the red-haired girl.
Spinarak used its wide point of view and found Khali during its fall in its surroundings. With a professional Web-shot the spinarak pulled itself back to its partner.r.
”NO! Not on my fac- Icfant sfek nou!”, was the last Khali could bring out before a green object crashed on his head and made him fall down.
”Hmpf! You deserved that, molester!”, Cecile commented, happy about Khali's misfortune.
”Cecile! Is this how I raised you to be?!”, a deep voice thundered in Cecile's ears. She looked shocked in the direction of the mysterious man.
”D-dad! That wasn't my f-”
”No excuses!”
”But -”
”No! We can have this discussion later! Take your eevee and go home for now, you have done enough here.”, her father didn't leave her any room for negotiation and ordered her streng.
”But - I - Grrrr, OK!”, she struggled for several seconds, feeling indignant about the injustice she had to experience. Yet her father's words were still law to her, she didn't want to make him angrier than he already was and left. But before she left she threw Khali one last glance and growled:
”If I ever see you cross my path again, you won't have so much luck again!”
”Is that a yes to our date?”, he asked as if the last few minutes had never happened.
”You ...! Hmpf!”, Cecile was overwhelmed with how irrational that boy was and couldn't think of anything more to repy him. Instead of continuing this pointless fight, she just left, wishing to never see him again. Eeevee accompanied her but turned around one final time and made faces at Spinarak.
Spinarak felt the mockery aimed at him and his human partner, and angrily vowed to regain honor the next time they met again.
Khali felt the turmoil in his partner and gave him a light pet:
”You did great Webster! Don't worry, next time we will give them a big surprise!”
”Shhhzzz!” glee filled spinarak and he started climbing around on Khalis body.
”Ha, haa haha, argh! I get that you're excited, but please calm down a little!”, as his body shook wildly, Khali realized there was another person he had completely forgotten,
”Arthur!”
He quickly got Spinarak back on track and ran towards Arthur. As they met up, the first thing he did was ...
”Ahh, sorry man!”, he put his palms together and made a slight bow. While having one eye closed, the other looked at Arthur apologetically.
”Ahh, haha, no Problem, Khali, right? It was my fault as well I guess. I shouldn't have run straight into a Pokemom Battle, I guess.”, Arthur didn't take it to his heart, and he was saved after all.
”No, not at all. I should have stopped it earlier, it wasn't even an official battle, thank god that guy was there. Speaking of the devil, did you even see him coming? He was just there in a second as if ...”
”... as if he teleported!”
”Yes! Teleportation! Hahahaha”
”Hahaha”
”Hey, are you guys talking about me?”, the mysterious old man spoke to them.
”Master Oak!” another urgent shout rang out behind them.
”Oak?”, Arthur wondered to himself. It felt like he had heard that name before somehow.
”Alfred! How are you?”, the man answered his call.
Then after a couple of seconds, a middle-aged man in black butler-looking clothes appeared hastely with two big bags in his arms. His breathing heavily, he must have been in a hurry to come here.
”Alfred, take a break. Why the hurry?” the elderly man stoppped him worriedly.
”M-master Oak, I-I huh I have to deeply apologize. I just got informed by Miss Cecile, I was just buying food in the supermarket, I could never have imagined that something could have happened to Miss.”
”Don't worry Alfred, shit happens, life goes on.”, the man called Oak waved him off.