Together

Chapter Twenty-Five

"Thanks so much for your help! Man does it feel great to use my paws again." Neri remarked as she raced around everyone there. Terbium and Eon chuckled while Fae tipped her head.

"What is a bounty hunter?" She asked the fifteen year old Scorbunny. She had informed them of her age not long ago.

Terbium smirked. "Oh, it's just a job only the strong gutted can handle. Pokémon like me go out into the world and target certain Pokémon who are wanted by the law or by...other Pokémon, and we go out and take them out." She explains.

She means kill them, right? Fae thought in horror.

What kind of Pokémon would want to do something like that? Surely being a Starter Squad member was better than hurting innocent Pokemon, right?

"So how long have you been this Bounty Hunter? Sounds pretty dangerous." Eon remarks, almost a little fearful of the bunny. It was almost surprising. What was to be feared from a bounty hunter? Is it unpredictability?

Fae would feel that one minute you could be friends with someone who was a bounty hunter and the next minute you could easily be their prey. But had that ever happened?

"So are you planning on killing her?" Kawai asked as he pointed at his previous love interest with a finger. He had begun to tremble and was holding onto Terbium as if letting go of her would make her kill Timsah.

Fortunately, the fire type alligator was still unconscious, snoozing away on the ground loudly. Terbium glared at the fire type alligator in slight malice before turning her head back towards the terrified Totodile before her.

She seemed kind. Why would such a kind, yet clumsy soul want to have such a job as this? It didn't make any sense!

However, it wasn't up to Fae to figure that out. Terbium smiled warmly at the young Pokemon. Well, he was definitely the youngest here. He seemed to only be thirteen years old...hence why he easily fell in love with certain Pokémon. Timsah had been nineteen.

Terbium wrapped a paw casually around Kawai, and this made him shyly try to hide under her paws.

Terbium chuckled at his antics. It was like she was already planning something with him. "Don't worry," she assured the smaller Pokemon with a a pat on the head. "I won't kill her. This is only my first mission after all. Actually, it was the Starter Squad who enlisted me to only capture this one. They requested for me not to kill her, only capture. So she won't die. She'll just be locked up in jail for the rest of her life." The Scorbunny explained.

This made Kawai's eyes glow with happiness. "Really?" He asked in excitement.

The Scorbunny rubbed the back of her head with a grin. "Yeah. Of course. She's nineteen, so that doesn't excuse her from her crimes, but since she's so young the Squad would rather have her behind bars rather than fully executed. They're very nice Pokemon."

"Yay! Yay!" Kawai cheered.

"Welp, it was nice meeting you all. I've gotta go." Terbium remarked. She seemed eager to get going, even not spying the rock that was right in front of her and taking a tumble.

Immediately, the little Totodile ran towards her with an unearthly amount of concern on his face. "Are you okay?!" He exclaimed as he grabbed her paws in his. Immediately he remarked on the softness of her paws, and Fae got slightly irritated.

"Yeah. Welp, anyways see ya little buddy. You can go where you want to now that you're no longer under the control of that tyrant." Terbium chirped with a wave, but before she left Kawai grabbed a hold of her legs.

He was definitely more than an oddball.

"No! Don't leave me!" He wailed. How attached to this random Scorbunny was that simp anyways. He was making a huge dramatic scene, and it felt like to Fae he was sexually assaulting her. Though, Fae knew better. He was just more innocent than her at this point.