Reader (Male) X Zoroark (Female) A Dark Bond

Time to Lighten the Mood

After multiple "incidents" and getting some food to eat, you and Zora finally continued on throughout Nimbasa City. It was quite larger than you had thought. Snow had started to fall over the city, and your torn clothes weren't really doing much for you. With whatever money you had left, you dropped by a store and got yourself some better clothing. A white shirt with a red logo you thought was interesting, some long pants, and a new pair of black shoes that provided some needed traction. As you walked back down the streets, you made sure to stay out of range for another mistletoe incident. As you continued on your path, the crowd of people got thicker and thicker by the minute. You had to lock arms with Zora to keep yourself from losing her. Despite the disguise, you could still feel the soft, warm fur that was hiding under that illusion. Eventually, you pushed through the crowds enough to get past the thicket of them. A sudden thought came to mind as you were about to exit Nimbasa City. If the past two years had been nothing but an illusion, that meant that Zora was still wild, and she could still be captured by others. You looked worriedly at Zora. She saw your discomfort.

"Is something wrong?" She asked.

"A thought just came to me." You said. "You don't actually have a real pokéball, so that means that you're still a wild Pokémon." Zora chuckled a little bit and brought you closer to her.

"I'm as wild as they get." Zora teased. "But yes, I was never put inside a pokéball."

"Then that means that anyone can take you from me." You said. Zora looked at you for a second, then smiled gently.

"I can see your discomfort." Zora said. "Look, it's a bit too dangerous to turn back around and get something here, let's keep going till we reach Castelia City. We can get one there, and you won't have to worry about that." You nodded your head.

"Alright, I just don't want someone else taking you away from me." You said. You had meant it so that you two could stay safe, but from the look on Zora's face, you thought she took it another way. She blushed a little bit, then turned her head back down the road. You realized what she had thought you were talking about and chuckled a little bit. "After all, who else would be able to keep a wild man like me under control?" You teased.

"You? Wild? Don't make me laugh." Zora said playfully hitting your arm. The two of you chuckled a little bit, then continued down to Route 4. As the two of you walked along the dirt path towards Castelia City, you heard something snap behind you. Zora and you turned around, but you didn't see anything behind the two of you.

"I'm getting a bad feeling about this." You said. "Let's pick up the pace a little bit." You walked down the road a little bit, quickening your walk to a slight jog. A few hundred feet more, you heard a bush rustle. You saw it too as you turned your head.

"Come on." Zora said. She grabbed your hand and started to run. You stumbled a little bit, but you got your footing and started running with Zora. You saw something jump from the bush and follow the two of you from the side. As the two of you ran, the figure jumped in front of you as the two of you screeched to a halt. Standing in front of you, panting, and surprisingly beaten and bloody was another Zoroark. You reached into your pocket for the knife, but before you could pull it out, Zora ran towards the Zoroark and caught it before it collapsed. She spoke to it in her own language. It spoke back, faint, and stressed. Zora looked up at me. "Help me out here." You were a little hesitant at first, but you dropped the knife back in your pocket, then put the injured Zoroark's arm around your neck and helped it up to its feet.

"Is this the Zoroark that-"

"Yes." Zora said doing the exact same thing you were. "But we need to keep going, they're closing in, and fast." You looked behind you, but didn't see anything else moving. You looked back forward and continued to help Zora carry the injured Zoroark down the path.