✔️Pokemon: Beastly Hunter (Leaf x Gary) (leafgreenshipping)

Episode 23: Controllers

Leaf stood in the dark in shock. She didn't know what just happened. Unconsciously, one of her hands touched the lips that Gary had kissed moments before. As if her mind finally processed what had happened, a mix of emotions flew by Leaf's mind. At first, she was blushing and shy, since her first kiss was taken unexpectedly. Her face and her neck turned bright red, like a girl meeting her first love. She always loved these fairytale romances, which the story ended with the prince charming and the princess giving each other a kiss and having a happily ever after. In her case, it was almost as if the lovers were being separated by an evil villain. As the pink bubbles slowly faded, Leaf's mind cleared up, and she became angry.

"That man! How dare he take my first kiss and doesn't take responsibility!" Leaf screamed in her mind as she glared at the closed door in front of her. She can still feel the heat on her cheeks and her neck.

"Don't really treat me as a five-year-old who will listen to you!" Leaf exclaimed.

She stood in the dark in silence for a while as she listened to what was happening above her and see if there were any surprises down the dark tunnel. Once she made sure that everything was clear, she took off the hood that Gary had put on and brushed her hair behind her ears, which she had never done before. Her pointy, wolf-like ears were exposed in the air. She wiggled her ears to feel more comfortable. She then stretched her body a bit with her brown eyes turning a bit yellow.

"You better not die on me, Gary," she said before she dashed off down the tunnel.

Leaf ran down the passageway. She didn't know how far she ran, but it took a while before she saw the end. She slowly made it to a stop, made sure that the coast was clear, and stepped out. Looking around at her location, she was a good distance away from the mansion. She set up some traps at the entrance and hid them well. She smiled at her work with approval.

"I hoped no one would activate it. After all, it took us hours to find the passageway," Leaf thought to herself.

After inspecting her work, she climbed up to the nearest tree she can find to be on the lookout for what will be happening around her.

She looked back at the mansion at a distance. She then digs through her bag to see what Gary had packed. She nodded at some of them and took out the crossbow and the small dagger. She then took out the mirror.

"I want to see Gary," she said.

The mirror shined and displayed the current event.

Back in the mansion, Gary quickly ran around the mansion to do the last minute check on the traps he and Leaf had set up over the past few weeks. After making sure that everything is okay, he took his crossbow and sword and ran to the secret room where he and Leaf ended up the first time they entered the mansion. In the room, all the controls for the traps were set up. The whole place looked as if they were in the secret controlling room at headquarters.

Gary sat at the main seat and leaned back in his chair. He looked at the magic screens on the table, which shows all the rooms in the mansion. He sat there and waited.

"I hope Leaf is at a safe place now," he thought to himself as he held his sword and looked at the screens. He chuckled at himself when he remembered the flattered face Leaf had on her face.

"Well, I don't think she will be running off. That is not like her. I just hope that whatever she planned to do, she will be alright," Gary thought to himself.

Leaf was an interesting woman from the start. She was never mesmerized by his handsomeness, not that he is bragging, and she never made unreasonable demands. Unlike most of the women he met, Leaf was more down on earth and calm. She was refreshing. In fact, Gary sometimes was jealous of his friends who found themselves nice partners. He always longed for someone who he will spend the rest of his life with if he was not cursed.

"Let's hope that I will stay alive after this. After all, the Goddess did bring Leaf to me. Maybe it is because She found me too pitiful," Gary said and laughed. "I don't think Leaf will let me go easily if I left first. She will most likely bring me back to life and then personally finish me off."

Gary stopped thinking and talking to himself when he heard the noises outside the mansion. He looked at the mirror and saw that a group of missionaries and hunters had arrived at the mansion after knocking the gate open.

"This is a big mansion!" one of the people exclaimed as he tried to peer into the mansion through the windows.

"I can't believe that we never saw this place before," another one commented.

"Let's quickly check this place out. The last clue we received was that the beast lives here. Let's quickly finish this job and go home," another one, which sounded like the leader commanded over the noisy group.

"Which rich people want us to bring back a mythical beast?" one whispered in the group.

Another one who heard the whisper rolled his eyes and slapped the person on the head. "Idiot. Who cares what they are thinking. All you need to know is that we are being paid for this. Think about the commission!"

The group continued to discuss as they tried to open the front of the gate. However, the voice slowly began to die down when they noticed that the front door was shut and locked tightly.

"It's locked," one pointed out.

"I know, Sherlock. We all can see," another replied with sarcasm.

The group looked at each other as one of them inspected the lock.

"It seemed that..." the man started. However, he was interrupted when the locked door suddenly flew open, locking all the people down with the attack.

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Hello everyone! Thank you all so much for reading this chapter! Please vote, comment, and share if you like this chapter. The next chapter will be the last and only chapter with action. It is all part of my master plan! I know that I can't write action and based on "Beauty and the Beast", the ending action also ends in like 10-20 minutes. My action is justified. Just to clarify, Leaf's ears in this story are like Cerise Hood from Ever After High. If you don't know the show, you are missing out. I would ramble on and on, but I will leave it for that fanfiction to come out. Gary is not OP, okay? Yes, someone with controllers is cool, but remember that in every fairytale, there will always be at least one remaining.