Leuko - Blind to the Sunlight

Chapter 10: Guilty of Compassion

"Gnn..." Yellow grunted as she tried to stand up, but the moment she did, she felt an immense pain in her shoulder.

This caused her to open her eyes, even if everything was blurry. However, she was still able to distinguish the red on her shoulder, a red that was gushing out abundantly.

Just beside her, was also her arm that had crimson leaving it...her arm...her...

"AAAAAAAAAH!!!" Yellow screamed in pain as her vision came back to her just to allow her to see her arm disconnected from her shoulder.

She didn't have the sense to scream more, as a body came flying her way, knocking her down the stairs.

It was Raihan who landed on her after receiving a tail attack right into his plexus and sent him flying.

As for the Drattak, it laughed wildly while preparing another dragon breath. She was more than happy to show those miserable who dared to hurt her in her weakest.

As for the one who healed her? What about her, she should be grateful that she wasn't angrier than this after her pitiful Caterpie threw a string in her eye that made her attack land on her arm instead of her face. That was a too small price to pay in her opinion, for daring to approach her with something other than fear, she completely deserved it.

"Cough!" Yellow tried to scream again, but Raihan landed right in her lung.

As for Raihan, he was surprised he didn't land on anything hard until he realized that Yellow was his cushion. "Oh no! Lil' lass! Ya alright?!" He said in fright, but when he saw the bloody hole where her arm was supposed to be, he could only bite his lips.

"Raihan! Duck!" Wallace screamed as the breath came toward Raihan's way.

Without any hesitation, the galarian immediately covered Yellow with his back, but it was useless as Melody was able to place herself in front of him before, and the breath could only dissipate into vapor after hitting its scale, to the fury of the Drattak who decided to teach this pretentious snake it last lesson.

But it was suddenly tackled by one ton of metal of Duraludon, as he charged right into its face.

It was barely able to stop the Drattak charge, not because the force was enough, but only because it became more annoyed by the Duraludon than the Milotic.

This was confirmed right after, as it used his front leg to grab the face of the Duraludon and buried him right into the ground.

Right after, it charged a Dragon Breath, but as before, Milotic took the blow.

"The only advantage we have right now is that Melody is immune to dragon attack with her fairy type! We must use that ability to gain enough time for the overseer to notice us and help us!" Wallace said as he napkin compressed it against Yellow shoulder to absorb the blood.

But the yellow tissue immediately got filled with the blood, rendering it useless.Wallace looked at his blue shirt before grinding its teeth and looking at Raihan instead.

"Can you give me your shirt?! I need to stop the bleeding!?"

Raihan looked surprised, but immediately removed his shirt and gave it to Wallace.Wallace stared at his well-defined chocolate abs for an instant before focusing on Yellow again.The shirt absorbed a lot of blood, but Wallace was at least able to do a knot around her arm to stop the bleeding.

"Ow in blazes are ya doin' that?!"

"Does it matter?!" Wallace tried to divert the attention, but looking at Raihan's curious face, he could only sigh while looking back at the semi-battle behind him.

Semi battle as it was more of a one-sided match in favor of the Drattak, despite Milotic protecting Duraludon from the breath attack, and Duraludon diverting it attention during her physical attack, it was clear that nothing would be done if it went on like this.

"Melody! Listen to Raihan's order!" Wallace screamed at his Milotic and then looked back at Raihan. "You can have temporary control of Melody! Try to gain as much time as you can! I will take care of the little girl."

Raihan nodded then stood up to approach the pokemon to coordinate them better.

Wallace then looked at where Yellow army should have been with disdain, he remembered all of them walking so proudly, but the moment they saw the Drattak, they immediately ran away leaving Yellow behind without a once of hesitation.

'How ugly...' Wallace thought until he caught on the presence of a little Caterpie on Yellow's shoulder that was trying its hardest to close Yellow's wound with her silk. 'Even this little bug is more beautiful than them.'

'But I suppose the ugliest being right now is that overgrown lizard.'

"I'm...so...sorry..." Yellow said with great difficulty as blood left from her mouth.

"Do not talk, keep your breath," Wallace said in worry as he held her head up, so she didn't choke on her own blood.

"It's...my...cough...fault..."

'It would indeed be easier to beat this Drattak if it was still weakened...'

"I'm so sorry...I...I just believed...that every pokemon were good...I hoped...that I was right."

Yellow looked around with blurry eyes that started to be filled with tears."

"Ah!...where my other...cough...friend...they die?! It's my...fault! They die because of my naivety."

"They did not die, they simply ran away."

"Oh...I'm so glad...they are safe..." Yellow said with a weak smile, but she was truly happy.

Wallace looked at her in confusion before slowly smiling too. "You're really beautiful."

"Eh?" The response was so surprising that Yellow almost forgot the pain she was in.

"You stood for what you believed in, and I find nothing more beautiful than that."

Wallace said with a smile as he looked at Yellow eye.

"Oh no! Your face got all red!"

"It...it al... bleurgh!" Yellow spite blood from her mouth, before laying down again.

"You need help right now!" He looked up the stairs, but the Drattak was still dominating the fight, the only reason why they were still able to stand was because of Raihan's guidance.

'We need to find a doctor fast, or else she might die from blood loss...we can't go down to search for help, we are too advanced for, if I try to go down, she will die of blood loss first...wait!'

"Can you use your power to heal yourself?!"

"...my...cough...I can't u...cough...use my...anh...power on myself...it's doesn't work."

"...I see..."

'The only way is really up, but this is blocked by the Drattak. What about the people behind us? 

Can we hope for any help?!'

He looked behind, but he could only see a stampede of pokemon who ran away from the 

Drattak's presence. Even if they were less panicked than when Luciel was on the top. He could even see some remnants of Yellow army, and they were attacking anyone who stood in their way. So not other candidate could come to help them.

'Tch, why did we have to be so talented that we are ahead of everyone else!?'

"Wallace! Dodge!" Raihan screamed right in time for Wallace to jump away with Yellow in his arms as the dragon try rushed right into the spot they were in.

The impact caused a shock wave that made Wallace fall, but he was able to protect Yellow from the impact of the fall.

"Urgh." Wallace grunted as he felt the hard floor against his back.

But then he felt a delicate hand on his chest, and then a warm feeling entered his body and healed his back.

"Stay down! Don't exhaust yourself!"

"No...it...my fault...I need to pay the price... bleurgh!" Yellow wasn't able to keep the blood inside her and caught up all over Wallace's outfit.

"My beautiful outfit!" Wallace screamed in horror, which woke up Yellow to also look at it in terror as she tried to stand up from him

"Oh no! I'm so s...AAAAAH!" But by trying to do so, her wound started to re-open causing her to feel pain.

"Ah! Wai..." Wallace tried to reassure her, but he immediately grabbed Yellow once more and rolled to the side.

*Snap*

He was able to do it right in time as Drattak's jaw closed right where it once was.

She tries to follow them immediately right after, but something is holding him back.

A quick look behind him revealed that it was because Duraludon was holding firmly to its tail.

The Drattak simply swatted her tail in annoyance, but the Duraludon was still attached to it. So out of spite, she rammed the tail into the ground again and again until the ground cracked. Happy with the result, the dragon looked back at its target, only to see they trying to run away from its might.

It tried to charge at them again, but once again, something held its tail, even if the force was less than previously, its pride was greatly more affected. This time, it was the stupid-looking human who held her with all of its strength.

"Hi! Didn't you forget little old me? You can't go anywhere without passing through me!" Raihan valiantly said, but the strength of a fool could not equate to the one of a dragon.

The Drattak simply raised its tail and slammed it once on the ground with so much force that it left a bigger crater than with the Duraludon.

"AH!" Raihan cried out in pain as he felt his bones break, under the satisfied gaze of the beast.

The Drattak was finally free, but sadly, its target already run away too far to be able to catch them in less than a second. So out of laziness, it charged another breath to throw right at them.

But suddenly, Melody coiled right under its jaw and tried to forcibly close it.

As the Drattak didn't expect it, the Milotic was able to execute its plan and the breath exploded right inside its mouth, causing the first real deal of damage since she was healed.

"Graah!" It screamed out of pain, but soon, its gaze fixed on the serpent, and used one of its strong paws to grab it by the neck and made it taste the ground.

"Lio!!!"

Despite the slight irritation inside its mouth, the Drattak still prepared another beam to finish it once and for all and prove it the apex of this territory!

But just when he was able to do so, he felt someone grabbing his tail again.

This time it had gone beyond just annoyance, now it was pure frustration as he looked back just to see the pitiful worm it smashed as a pancake raising his arm to flutily grab his tail.But what made her even angrier was that it dared to lock eyes with her despite its current situation. "I...said you had to deal with me first, looser."

The worm dared to speak to her! Even if she didn't understand what he just said, it was probably just to beg for it life!

So she decided to show her all of her mercy by directing her breath toward him instead, and even during this time, he still looked at her straight in the eye even when the concentred breath of draconic steam was right in front of it face.

And even when her attack got redirected with a single hit of a tiny pink hand...

What?

Drattak looked in disbelief at the newcomer who made it attack look like nothing more than a playtime.

It was a round pokemon completely pink with an egg on its belly. And instead of the usual smile, it showed a frown. "Chansey!"

Without letting the time for the Drattak to understand what going on, it grabbed its tail with her tiny little hand, and with a colossal force lifted it in the air.

"Guh?" That was the only sound the Drattak was able to make before getting slammed on the back of the stairs.

*Slam*

The weight of the pokemon was more than enough to break the place where she crashed, but the smoke didn't even have the time to dissipate, and the dragon was once again raised in the air just to get smashed on the other side.

"Chansey!"

*Slam*

"Grah!" The drattak finally noticed what had happened and tried to escape by flapping her immense wing to create a tornado. But even this force wasn't enough, and she got slammed into the ground once again.

'What...' Raihan looked at the scene in shock, the dragon he was barely able to stop now became a simple formality to this round-shaped pokemon.

"Raihan!" Raihan immediately recognized the voice and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Leon's 'ere... means everythin's gonna be alright..." Raihan started to close his eyes as Leon ran toward him.

"Raihan! Stay with me!" Leon screamed as he kneeled right in front of Raihan shaking him.

"AAH! That bleedin' hurts, ya idiot!" Reihan woke up and looked at Leon with anger, but Leon was only pushing a sigh of relief.Noticing that Raihan gave up the idea of being mad and trying to go to sleep.

"Wait! Don't sleep Raihan! Or else you will be disqualified!" Sonia said after finally catching up to them

There didn't need to say more as he immediately stood up despite his wound.

"Rai...Raihan?" Sonia asked in worry, but still threw a furtive look at his shirtless appearance.

Leon only smiled as he stood up to pat the shoulder of his friend.

"Good to see that this little dragon wasn't enough to beat down my rival."

"Course not! This was barely bleurgh!" Raihan didn't have the chance to finish as he started to cough out blood.

"Ah! Stand down Raihan!" Sonia said as helped him sit back down on the stairs.

"Sorry..."

"It's fine, just don't do it again."

"Wot's goin' on, anyway? Who...who's that??" Raihan said by looking at Chansey manhandling the poor drattak as if it was a toy. "Wait! There is another girl way more hurt than me, you must help her!" Raihan said while pointing to where Yellow was, just to see someone already treating her.

"This is Nurse Joy, the moment she saw what was happening she immediately left her station and ran straight down. Me and Leon also did the same...I hope it won't invalidate our candidature we didn't follow some kind of rule..." Sonia said with a little panic.

"There is no need to worry, even if we get disqualified, we just have to try again next year, this time I will make sure that you follow us Raihan!" Leon said with a smile as he nudged Raihan.

"Like distortion I'd follow you!"

"Hey! No bad word" Sonia reprimanded Raihan.

"...sowwy."

As Raihan was having fun with his fun, the situation with Yellow was the exact opposite.

'Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap! Her arm is gone! She's hurt! I knew this would happen! I knew I should have protested more for a safer exam! Why didn't I do it? Now a child is handicapped for life because some stupid person wanted to keep only the strongest...damn you Volo!' Joy was panicking internally, but outside she showed professional calm as she slowly removed the improvised bandana placed on her just to reveal a gashsling wound with some purple steam leaving it.

'Draconic pokenergy.' Nurse Joy frowned but put back her calm attitude to not make Yellow worry.

She already put her in some anesthesia, and her brain was already sending natural painkillers to make her forget about the pain, but she still needed to reassure her every five seconds so she didn't panic.

"Everything will be fine, don't worry."

"Cater..." Kitty also looked at Yellow with worry and tried to snuggle her to raise her morale, but Yellow with the adrenaline gone, Yellow wasn't able to keep her thoughts coherent and could only look blankly at the sky while murmuring incoherent ramble.

Nurse Joy reached into her first health box beside her and took out a green bandana out of it.

But as she was about to put it in between her wounds, the drattak got smashed against the floor once more, distracting her from her treatment.

"Tournesol, we will deal with this villain later, can you please treat the other victim please?" She said calmly, but her pokemon understood and released the tail of the dragon and moved toward Raihan instead.

Drattak didn't even counterattack after being freed and only tried her best to regain consciousness.

'Good, now first I must remove the draconic pokenergy, or else the wound will never heal. At least it's not that strong, so just a basic treatment with fairy pokenergy should be more than enough.'

She reached for one of her pokeball, and suddenly her hand glowed pink, she then delicately put her hand on her wound before making it glow even more. Soon, the purple steam started to dissipate, but it also caused the hole to bleed even more, so she didn't wait to put the bandana around her shoulder to completely block the blood from flowing out.

After finishing it, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Yellow with relief. "Everything fine now, you can sleep, when you wake up, everything will be better."

Yellow was barely able to listen to her, but it still seamed as if she understood and slowly closed her eyes to sleep.

Seeing this work done, Joy looked at Wallace who was trying to wash off the blood on his clothes with the help of his pokemon.

"Why don't this go off?!"

"I saw you defending this little girl and you also did a good job preventing her injury from getting worse, I want to thank you for it." Nurse Joy said with a smile, surprising Wallace.

"Eh, ah, no problem."

"Now that I finished treating her, I will now inspect you."

"Oh I'm fine, there no need to heal me...but by any chance, do you have something that will help me remove this stain?" He pointed to the stain on his shirt.

"Sadly, I'm not equipped for it, but are you sure you don't want to get any treatment?"

"Ah, how sad." Wallace didn't even notice the second part of her sentence and tried to rub his shirt again.

Joy didn't react that much, she only stood up and prepared to approach Wallace, but she suddenly stopped to look behind her. She didn't hesitate to take one of her pokeball in her hand and looked at a spot with utter seriousness.

Wallace noticed it too, and looked at the spot, only to see a weak purple amber.

However, before he could ask anything, the amber started to wildly grow until it became a giant circle of purple flame that turned like a whirlpool.

Leon also noticed the new arrival and stood up with his pokeball in his hand.

The circle soon released a green flame to slowly move to form three ghostly balls, and a smile appeared right at the center, just to form an eye just up to it.

Sonia wasn't able to resist his presence and immediately fell on the stairs with a look of horror. Leon was still able to stand, but even for him, it was a difficult matter.

"What are you doing here Spiritomb," Joy asked as she was prepared to throw her pokeball at any moment.

But he only responded with his usual mocking voice. "Oh you know, nothing much, just picking up some body and some screaming soul, the usual."

"Where's Olympia?! She was supposed to stop you!"

"Don't worry, I was already filled, so I didn't eat her." One of Spiritomb's green orbs started to spin until Olympia's body was ejected from it and hit the ground.

Her clothes were damaged, but that was the only sign that she received any harm.

"See, I'm an honest pokemon filled with pulsion for murder, there no need to worry."Joy looked at Olympia with worry but frowned after noticing something wrong. "Where's her pokemon?!"

Spiritomb silently looked at her, but this only caused her to prepare herself to launch her pokeball.

"Tch, fine." Before this could happen, Spiritomb clicked his nonexistent tongue, and his green orb released two unconscious Meowstics.

Joy looked at them with worry, but seeing they were still able to breathe, she pushed a sigh of relief before immediately locking eyes with Spiritomb. "You disappear now."

"Why so cold toward me? What did I do wrong? I mean, there is so much of it, you will need to be more precise." He said with a mocking gaze before watching the other on the scene. "Did I perhaps scare this little hero with his gang of misfits? No, he's too stupid to be scared. I mean, who in the Distortion world thinks they can save anyone?"

He mocked Leon, but noticing he did not even react to his insult, he moved his gaze to Sonia instead. "Maybe it's this coward then? Someone whose only worth is the weight she forces on others more stupid than her." Sonia looked down after hearing his remark, which made Spiritomb smirk.

"Sonia is my friend, so if you have anything to say, you need to pass by me!" Leon said valiantly, but Spiritomb only looked at him with derision.

"You don't have the power to make me regret anything."

"But I do, so back off you evil spirit!" Joy said in a stern tone, forcing Spiritomb to look at her again.

"...Tch, it is indeed not worth it...Oh by the way, are you going to eat that?" Spiritomb said while pointing at the body of the Drattak lying quietly on the ground, and before anyone could answer, he appeared right in front of it and took the Drattak's tail with phantasm hand and brought it right above its mouth.

The dragon wakes up at this moment, just to see it doom right in front of her. She tried to escape, but the force was superior to the one of Chansey, so she had no chance of escaping.

She tries to scream out for help instead, ignoring her pride just for any chance to live. "Grah! Rah!"

But no one wanted to help her, Leon only looked at it with a complicated gaze, before turning away his regard.

While Wallace fixed the scene despite clearly not liking it.

Noticing that no one reacted, she used her last idea and looked at Yellow, but her hope was destroyed when she saw she was still unconscious.

"Grah! Rha! Dra!" So she used the last thing she knew, she started to bite, claw, beat, scream, or even beamed toward Spiritomb, but nothing seemed to have any effect as he sadistically lowered her at slow speed.

She threw one last breath inside his mouth before realizing it was over, yet she never accepted her fate even when her soul got burned alive by a green flame and Spiritomb closed his mouth.

The monster who just tyrannized three talented candidates was gone just like that, death in a way no one deserved to be.

"Kehkehkeh! Your faces are hilarious!" Spiritomb laughed after looking at the look of discomfort on everyone's face.

"You already destroyed the ecosystem enough, was there any need for that?" Joy complained as she looked at Spiritomb without any fear.

"Of course not! Why did you think I did this?"

"...you're a horrible person, you know that?"

"Nah, I'm completely unaware of that, you're probably the first one to tell me this, usually they only tell these." Suddenly, the usual face of Spiritomb disappeared and instead started to look like the face of an ordinary man, but more faces started to get added around the first one. All of them were different, some appeared to little kids, others to elders, others to soldiers, and others to housewives and all other types, not a single one were the same. But they all had one common point.

They all screamed.

"AH!" "STOP IT!" "IT BURN!" "MOMMY!" "WHY?!" "ANYTHING!" "ANYTHING!" "MOMMY, IT HURT, WHERE ARE YOU MOMMY!?" "DADDY! I'M SCARED!" "WHERE ARE YOU!? I HEAR YOU BUT CANNOT SEE YOU!?" "JUST ONCE, LET ME SEE HER FACE ONE LAST TIME!"

But they disappeared as fast as they appeared, and it was replaced by the mocking grin of Spiritomb.

The other kids no longer feared him, they only felt horror when looking at him.

"You see, that type of thing...I do wonder though, what would you say if you were inside of..." Spiritomb suddenly grew silent, only gazing toward Joy.

'No...not me!' She looked behind her to see that Yellow body was aligned toward Spiritomb's gaze. 'OH NO!'

"NOBLE SOUL!!!" Spiritomb screamed like a junky who didn't get any drug for at least a century as he teleported right beside Yellow's body with a hungry gaze.

"How long has it been since I saw one? Oh! I must appreciate it with the finesse it deserves! Or maybe should I make her breed so I can have more of them? I can't let them disappear again."

"Get off her!"

But this time Spiritomb didn't even hear her as his whole focus was only on Yellow. "Rah, I can't resist, it has been so long since last time!" He immediately moved his ghost hand to grab her, already savoring the taste in his mind.

Joy knew she wouldn't be able to convince him to stop with word, so she was about to sent her pokemon instead.

*Splash*

But before she could, a corpse fell from the sky just to put himself right in between Spiritomb and Yellow.

Blood was already spilled everywhere from the impact zone, drenching Wallace who was right beside Yellow.

He made an expression of disgust and tried to remove it, but before he could even attempt it, the blood already fell off his shirt to his confusion.

But for Spiritomb, he only felt fear. "I WAS JUST JOCKING!!!"

He tried to justify himself before it was too late, but the head of Volo already regenerated, and the only thing it did was look at Spiritomb with a serein gaze.

A gaze that terrified him. "STOP!!! I SPENT SO MUCH TIME ACCUMULATING THEM! YOU CAN'T!!!"But Volo didn't even respond, and instead slowly opened his mouth and talked in a very low tone. 

"When humanity falls...

"NOOOOOO!!! STOP!!!" Spiritomb didn't try to argue anymore and instead tried its best to run away. But it was too late, as humanity already had fallen.

"...then the sky shall follow."

As he said, heaven fell in a wrath of light.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*