With silenced steps Kotami entered the forest, careful not to cause any sounds walking by tree after tree.
The journey would be long and the dangers plenty.
He had chosen the perfect time to escape as Pokémon in the viridian forest were mostly asleep during the night. Nevertheless Kotami was wary of not making sounds in fear of waking up any Pokémon.
The wind howled and the moon shined bright as a couple of hours had passed since he entered the forest, even so Kotami was pumped up with adrenaline, heart thumping and eyes vigilant, he didn't feel a single bit tired as he was making his journey through the night.
He saw some ekans slithering for food along the way and had steered clear of them, deep knots forming in the stomach for every step he took in fear of being discovered.
After walking for another fifteen minutes through the encircling forest, Kotami began to feel worn down as he had walked a considerable distance of about a dozen kilometres all whilst being constantly on the edge, his mind still preoccupied with the events of the day prior and, the pain left by his psychic surge and the sadness of leaving his adoptive family.
How will I even live from now on. I don't have anyone to rely on but myself anymore. He thought.
Step by step he wondered if he had made the right choice, but even examining every possible route, staying would mean he would only meet a bad end.
Fatigued, but adrenalinic he walked around the nearby trees trying to find one which he could sleep on.
This one should do it.
After some time he finally found a tree he was satisfied with, one with branches sturdy and high enough to sleep in safety.
He knew that along the path further ahead there were some small canals which could provide him water, but too tired to care he started climbing his chosen tree
*rustle*
The leaves made some noise as he climbed past them, one step at a time he was getting closer to the spot.
Suddenly as his hand skirted past the foliage and gripped the trunk, it made contact with something hard, almost metallic.
As blood froze in his veins he slowly raised his head, his throat dry as the desert and heart thumping like a drum, his eyes finally crossed path with another pair of eerie, angry white eyes.
Those eyes furiously locked on him as a Pokémon with a beatle like body and huge pincers came into view.
Damn! A pinsir! Kotami thought, his fear almost causing him to lose his grip and slip from the tree.
Without hesitation he started reverse climbing, the tree trunk scraping his body as he tried to descend as far as possible.
"PINSIR"
Meanwhile the pinsir's pincers started glowing as it climbed down much faster than Kotami.
Suddenly after tensing its legs muscles, with the branch beneath him as sustain, it leapt downwards!
Its glowing pincers lengthened and thickened, pinsir was using guillotine!
Kotami raised his head and saw the fast approaching pinsir.
Death looming on him, he decisively jumped and bumped against many branches finally falling to the ground with a thud.
*crack*
Pinsir's attack missed and struck the tree instead. The tree split into two and fell down straight at Kotami.
Kotami rolled and dodged the falling trunk, many branches hit him and scraped him, one even penetrated into his shoulder.
"Urghhhhh"
Kotami grunted as he tried to stand up as fast as possible, still dizzy from the fall.
His eyes darted left and right spotting the pinsir fast approaching with its claws glowing green.
He rolled aside as the claws slashed down, forming an X on the ground mere inches from where he was standing.
Fully concentrated and with his heart threatening to explode he turned around and started to run wildly as his right arm hung limp by his side.
The pinsir quickly regrouped itself and gave chase in full.
Kotami kept running as he whizzed past trees with burning legs and lungs, but the pinsir was still getting closer using furycutter to destroy the trees in the way or simply running through them with a tackle.
All of a sudden in his mind flashed the scene of the pinsir slashing down with its claws at him.
Uh?!
He deftly and ungracefully donkey rolled in to the nearby bushes, at the last moment possible, and got stung by its spines.
Not caring at all he started running again trying to create a gap between himself and pinsir, which was sure its attack would have connected.
The momentarily dazed pinsir quickly regained its composure, its eyes burning with fury as it screamed.
This puny human had dared to fool himself!
Unable to see anything due to rage he quickly started closing the gap with Kotami.
Head aching fiercefully, Kotami ran as his life depended on it. As the pinsir kept getting closer his fear and despair rose.
The pinsir crouched and tensed preparing to use an X scissor on him. As the pinsir was lunging, Kotami read its mind and foresaw its intentions, but knew he wouldn't be able to dodge this in time.
As his life flashed before his and the thought of joining his parents in the underworld crept up his mind,
*thud*
Kotami stumbled on a root and fell down.
Pinsir missed its attack and out of balance due to its momentum struck a tree hard.
*BOOM*
A loud noise echoed through the surroundings and suddenly a buzz was heard.
*bzzzZZZZZZZZ*
As the buzz grew louder, a swarm of angry, red eyed beedrils came out of the tree's foliage.
Seeing the beedrils that had attacked their homes they immediately launched furious attacks at it as a flurry of pin missiles rained down upon it.
The pinsir embarrassingly dodged what it could and immediately let out an angry roar
"PINSIR!"
it retaliated with a tackle of its own and the two sides started seriously fighting.
Kotami whose hands and knees were bloody scraped, witnessed this and ran away through the trees like there was no tomorrow.
He didn't stop running. He ran and ran as his adrenaline, the only thing keeping him from fainting, ran through his blood.
After a long while, exhausted, with his lungs burning and legs hurting, he panted to a stop as he plopped to the ground.
Realising he had lost the fighting beedrils and pinsir he started painfully crawling around, dragging his battered body near a tree close to a slope.
As he leaned onto the tree, his eyes felt a familiar force coming from the surroundings.
Curious and knowing he wouldn't last the night without a proper hiding spot to find repair from nocturnal predators anyway, since climbing trees was impossible due to his injuries, he slowly and carefully crawled towards the force.
After three to six hundred metres, Kotami found a dark cave fitting in the slope. The familiar force now getting stronger as he made his way to it, in the darkness.