Frozen Resolve

Chapter 6 : Catnip

I turned back again to look at the pokemon, only to see its dull gaze focused on the ceiling. I turned away and walked out, only to bump into the man from earlier. "What are you doing...?" he asked and grabbed me by my collar. "Hey! Let go! I just got a little curious!" I yelled while I attempted to loosen myself to no avail.

"Wait...the Grovyle...he's gone!" said one of them, I then heard the sound of something being cut. I felt the grip of the guy who grabbed me loosen while the person slowly slumped to the ground as something slowly dropped into my hands...it was the head of the man...cleanly sliced off his neck. "Welp, guess I'm dead"

"Everyone, on your guard!" one of them said, they formed a circle while I stood some distance away from them, clueless about what was going on...until I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned back to see an eye...a yellow eye looking right at my face without anything around it, until its color fully changed...

"The Kecleon DNA! He can change color to camouflage!" one of them shouted. "Go Arbok/Stunky/Toxicroak/Skorupi/Sneasel!" they shouted and sent out their pokemon. I felt the claw let go of my shoulder as the Grovyle who was now back to green...shiny green stepped in front of me. "What...? What's happening?" I wondered.

The people in front of me ordered their pokemon to attack, shooting several waves of poisonous substance at us. Before I could react, the Grovyle touched the column next to him and his color changed to silver. The attacks that were shot toward him bounced off him upon contact while I was still dazed by what happened.

The Grovyle then glared at the Sneasel lunging at it with its claw glowing white. He struck the Sneasel on its head and knocked it out, he then started to spin his one tail. A huge storm of razor-sharp leaves were shot toward the people and their pokemon, covering all of them in the storm and destroying the lab equipment. When the storm died down, we appeared to be the only ones who remained conscious while the Grovyle stared at me.

"Are you going eat me or something?" I asked and took a step back, almost stumbling over the dead body of the lab security. Hearing my words, the Grovyle tilted his head, he looked confused by my question...but how...? "Grovyle, can you understand me?" I asked. "Grrh" it growled with a nod. "Wow, cool!"

"Did you leave me alive for eating me alive?" I asked, I then realized how stupid the question was since we were about the same height. He shook his head and walked towards a broken lab table. He picked up a piece of paper, dipped his weird-looking claw into the blood of the other pokemon, then walked back to me and knelt down.

"You can write?!" I asked when I saw him scribbling something with his claws. "WHAT?!" I exclaimed when I saw what he wrote on the paper. "ፈᏗᏁ ᎩᎧᏬ ᏬᏁᎴᏋᏒᏕᏖᏗᏁᎴ ᎷᎩ ᏇᎧᏒᎴᏕ?" was written on the paper in Unknowns. "Yeah...it's kind of incredible that you can write, I've never seen a pokemon that can write...I guess we've underestimated your brains.

"ᏖᏂᏗᏁᏦ ᎩᎧᏬ ᎦᎧᏒ ᏖᏒᏋᏗᏖᎥᏁᎶ ᏬᏕ ᏕᎧ ᏁᎥፈᏋᏝᎩ, ᏗᏁᎴ ᏖᏂᏗᏁᏦᏕ ᎦᎧᏒ ᏖᏂᏗᏖ ᏰᏋᏒᏒᎩ" he wrote on the paper. "Err...no problem, what do we do now?" I asked, what had happened today had already wiped my mind clean, I had already forgotten about everything. The Grovyle then appeared to be thinking about something.

"And another question, are you alright? You look injured and burned, they must have done some horrible things to you" I asked. "ᎴᎧᏁ'Ꮦ ᎷᏋᏁᏖᎥᎧᏁ ᎥᏖ, Ꭵ'ᏉᏋ ᏰᏋᏋᏁ ᏇᎧᏒᏕᏋ" he wrote on the paper. "How about we introduce ourselves?" I suggested, then the Grovyle replied with a nod and scribbled something down.

"ᎩᎧᏬ ፈᏗᏁ ፈᏗᏝᏝ ᎷᏋ ፚᏗᏁᏋ, ፚᏗᏁᏋ ᏖᏂᏋ...Ꭵ ᎴᎧᏁ'Ꮦ ᏋᏉᏋᏁ ᏦᏁᎧᏇ ᏇᏂᏗᏖ Ꭵ ᏗᎷ ᏗᏁᎩᎷᎧᏒᏋ...ᎩᎧᏬ'ᏒᏋ ᎷᎥᏕᏕ ᏁᏋᏰᏬᏝᏗ ᎥᎦ Ꭵ ᏒᏋᎷᏋᎷᏰᏋᏒᏋᎴ ፈᎧᏒᏒᏋፈᏖᏝᎩ" he wrote on the paper. "Wow, you...how did you know? Wait...you remember?!" I exclaimed in astonishment, then he gave me a nod. He then started to scribble down something else.