Chapter 5:
"Kill that bird!" Larx ordered.
Screamed into Nix's ear as Larx ordered her to attack a wild Spearow, and Larx got to see what happens when you unleash an Ekans that's been training to be an apex hunter since she was six days old against a bird that thinks it can attack people.
What happens is a bloodbath, and it happens quickly.
Megatron assessments were completely right on the money—Nix was an absolute nightmare. Not just on the field, but off the field. Training her was like teaching a wild animal—that could crush her in seconds if it wasn't so damn obedient.
And yes, that means Larx got bitten a couple of times, and yes, the venom made her see pink elephants, and yes, Larx did find the situation kind of funny in hindsight. She followed Megatron's protocol to a T, and the little bitch is growing and Larx learned something crucial.
Using real live animals as a basis for Pokémon biology is a straight up ass. Nix is a snake no doubt and yes, she does share a lot in common with the snake that inspired her, but at the same time she is more like a demon with snake features than she is a actual snake.
The most important lesson Larx learned is that when it comes to Nix's biology, Nix is a snake that can shoot poison, breathe fire and is basically the snake version of an angry elemental dragon . And if Nix is basically a demon, then her mother is probably Satan in snake form, which is really scary to think about, considering that Nix isn't even close to evolving.
They have 2 weeks until exams start, and Nix is out of her infancy period. The little monster reached level 11 last night. Apparently, Pokémon gain levels through training, time, and battles. The better the training they go through the more EXP they will gain. Since she reached this level, it was time for her to get some battle experience against wild Pokémon. The moment Nix's venom is effective against them, they will go out to hunt, and if the prey isn't a baby Pokémon, that is.
"Poison Fang!" Larx ordered as Nix wrapped her long body around the Spearow, sinking her teeth into its neck.
Larx was so glad that her gloves were made out of rubber, because there was no way in hell she'd get close enough to Nix to touch her barehanded. Not with those fangs. They're nasty, but so efficient, and Nix's toxin glands are just...
Larx's training had not only given the Ekans a strong venom, but it also allowed her to keep it contained, and her bite strength to increase, now a bite from Nix's fangs can crush steel. The moment her fangs touched her enemy's skin, they will pierce it like knives through the paper. And when poison entered the body of her enemies, there was nothing they could do, no resistance they could mount against the toxin.
Snap!
The Spearow fell down. The life was sucked out of its eyes and its body fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes. The battle ended in a matter of seconds.
The first battle wasn't without mistakes, and Larx knew she would need to keep working on them, especially Nix's tendency to get a bit too aggressive. Nix wasn't some obedient Houndoom who just followed commands without thinking for herself.
Nix moved her head towards the Spearow's dead body and opening her jaws, she closed her jaw around it, swallowing the entire Spearow whole.
"That's going to give me nightmares, you know?" Larx told her.
Nix didn't say anything back, but Larx was certain that the snake would smirk if it could.
"Find you bitch!" A voice that Larx don't recognize or care to find who the fuck it is called out and the two turned to find the source.
They find two males, dressed in gym clothing, staring at them. One had his hands in his pockets. The other was flexing his biceps in a threatening manner. The muscles on his arm bulged as he tensed, veins popping up, and it was obvious he was showing off his strength. The second guy was short, and very thin. The most notable feature he had were his eyebrows. The guy's eyebrows were thick and very hairy. It looked as if there was a bunch of tiny bushes on his forehead.
"I have no time for you," Larx said in a bored voice. "Now I'm sure I beat the crap out of you and the twink next you. Wipe your blood with your shirt and jacked your money out of your wallet for wasting my damn time."
Bob Regan and his minion, Ed, looked at each other in disbelief, then looked at Nix, and finally looked back at Larx, a bit pissed off. They came here to start trouble and ended up being insulted.
"Are you making fun of me?!" The buff one asked in an angry voice. He walked closer to her and stood face to face with her. Larx didn't say anything as he came up close."Don't play games with me bitch. I'm here for payback for what you did to my crew. "
Larx didn't give a damn. "Who da fuck is you?"
"Who da fuck am I? Who da fuck you? Who da fuck you think I am?! I'm Bob the Bullet and my crew is the Bullets of Dread!"
Bob the Bullet... That name was as stupid as his eyebrows.
Larx just sighed in response.
"Okay, here's the deal. You walk away. I will take your stupid money. You don't get your ass kicked. Nix will keep eating, and I will keep ignoring you," she offered. "So what do you say? Do we have a deal?"
Bob was silent for a second, not sure how to answer. Then he did, "Fuck no. I came here for payback, and I will have my payback! Go Bulbasaur!"
Larx raised a brow at this. Since when do small dicks cucks get good Pokémon? A Starter is too good for a man she will never care for.
Starter Pokémon is something that is in every region. Pokémon, classified as starters, had their own distinctive characteristics at birth, with their stats being three stars and up. In professional tournaments, the Starter Trio of any region had the highest appearance rate.
Hell, to be the best dragon master she was going to need quite a few of those incredibility rare starters. Just because every year a newcomer gets a Starter Trio doesn't mean they have substantial numbers. In fact, Pokémon under the Starter Trio is endangered and are rare.
Starter Trios were something that appeared once in a blue moon. They are only given to Trainers with promising careers. 80% of those Trainers with Charmanders are dead by the first year. And that is a friendly version.
In the end, Starter Pokémon is difficult to get.
"I challenge you to Pokémon battle!" Bob screamed.
Larx was done.
She didn't want to battle these assholes.
It was stupid.
She just wanted to enjoy the time with Nix, not battle idiots with weak Pokémon.
And it showed.
"Fight me, you fucking bitch! If you win, I will leave you alone! But let's make things more fun. Winner gets the other Pokémon!" Bob continued to scream, demanding her to battle him. "You scared bitch? Going to call that stupid ex--" It was then Bob remembered why Larx fought him and his gang in the first place.
They insulted the ex the petite tomboy always talked about.
And just like last time the dark gaze she gave him was enough to make his heart tremble with fear.
Bob couldn't help it.
It was natural to be scared when facing such a gaze.
The gaze of the dark demon of death.
Bob took a step back, and Larx noticed that. She just shook her head in disappointment.
"I see, I see. So you want to fight, you stupid fucking twig? Well, if you want me to battle you, I will make sure to beat the stupid out of you and your twink of a partner, got it."
Bob and Ed trembled in fear, but they knew if they didn't fight her here and now, it would just get worse, and that would end up with their lives in danger.
Larx saw them and just sighed in annoyance. "You will be eating poison dust in a minute," she warned them as she opened the Pokéball she held. "Nix, come back," she called and Nix was engulfed by the Pokéball, which in a blink of an eye got back to its master's side. "I have some stupid shit to beat, so come back and I will call you again."
The petite woman snapped her fingers and little purple drone floated out of her backpack. The drone is a product of robotic engineering. The drone was no bigger than a fist and floated silently above her.
"Soundwave" Larx called. The little drone floated up and stood at attention on Larx's right shoulder. "Record this battle for me kay?"
Might as well put the humiliation for the world to see, she thought with a smirk.
The drone floated for a few seconds before the front side of the drone opened, and from it came a thin metal tendril and in the end was a microphone, ready to record everything for its owner.
The two male stared at the small drone as if it was going to kill them and it might, in a way. Walking a few distance away from the two idiots Larx started to stretch her arms and neck as if preparing for a fight, a fight that wouldn't need her to actually fight.
She looked at Bob with an arrogant smirk.
"Now you stupid little man, you think you can take me?" she mocked as she got ready. "Prepare to lose that grass type and your money."
"Why did you trying to rob me!" Bob asked, as his anger spiked once more.
Larx wasn't really impressed. "Cuz, you little fucking idiot. You look like the type to carry all your money and then think you are untouchable because of your Bulbasaur. Guess what, the grass toad there is still weak as shit, just like you. So get your Pokémon ready to battle so I can crush your face faster and stop starin' at the shit-hole you call a face."
"Alright that's it! Fuck off! Bitch!"
Larx said, one hand in her jacket pocket and the other extended, Pokéball spinning on her fingertip. "Let's make this quick. I got better things to do—like rearrange my sock drawer or choke on Nix's venom again."
The little shitbag screamed, "Go, Bulbasaur!" like he thought it was going to mean something. The toad hit the field with a dopey croak and a flex, vines twitching. It even looked proud.
Larx didn't even blink.
"Nix," she said, voice calm as a guillotine blade. The ball opened mid-air. Light spilled out. Then hiss.
The battlefield changed.
Nix uncoiled with a sinuous, fluid grace, each scale glistening like polished amethyst dipped in oil. Her tongue flicked once. She was already sizing up her prey. Larx could see the ripple under her skin where venom was preparing to load, pressure building behind her fangs.
"She's not even hungry," Larx said, watching Bob swallow hard. "But I bet she'll make an exception."
"Bulbasaur, Vine Whip! Now!" Bob screeched.
Vine Whip: The target is struck with slender, whiplike vines to inflict damage.
PP: 25 (max. 40) | Power : 45 | Category : Physical | Type: Grass]
The vines shot forward—but Nix didn't move.
She watched them come.
Then she struck.
CRACK.
There was no blur. No flicker. Just a streak of motion and the sound of vines hitting the dirt after being severed mid-air. Bulbasaur screamed as Nix coiled around its back, squeezing with surgical malice. Her body glistened with tension, muscles flexing like steel cables under silk.
"Sucker Punch," Larx said with a yawn.
Sucker Punch: This move enables the user to attack first. It fails if the target is not readying an attack.PP: 5 (max. 8) | Power: 70 | Category: Physical | Type: Dark
Bulbasaur reeled as Nix's head snapped forward and slammed into the base of its skull—venom didn't even need to be used yet. Just blunt trauma. It went limp for a second, twitching.
"Still conscious," Larx noted. "How durable."
"Get out of there!" Bob cried.
"Poison Fang."
Poison Fang: The user bites the target with toxic fangs. This may also badly poison the target.PP: 15 (max. 24) | Power: 50 | Category: Physical | Type: Poison
No mercy. Nix lunged, fangs glowing an eerie violet, and buried them into Bulbasaur's flank. As venom flooded into the toad's bloodstream, it howled in pain. Grass/Poison type energy shouldn't cause this much pain, but this venom was too strong for his immune system.
Bulbasaur collapsed, legs kicking, eyes rolling.
"Vine Whip again!" Bob shouted, voice cracking.
The vines twitched… then went limp. Nix had severed the neural impulse chain with her bite. Larx had read about it. Megatron's last update: 'Venom density at 83% efficiency. Capable of inducing temporary paralysis in large mammals within 14 seconds. Pokémon baseline: 6 seconds.'
It took four seconds.
Nix uncoiled and slithered back to Larx's side without needing a word.
Bob stared at his Pokémon in disbelief. "W-What the fuck did you do to it?!"
Larx tilted her head. "I let my baby girl play."
"You bitch!"
"Wrong again," Larx said, stepping forward, hands in her pockets. "I'm not a bitch. I'm a goddamn war crime."
Ed stepped forward, sweat beading down his face. "Screw this. Go, Sentret!"
The little fuzzball popped out and blinked up at Nix like a child at the foot of a guillotine. It actually squeaked.
"Poor thing," Larx said, mock sympathy dripping from every syllable. "Should I let Nix have some fun?"
Nix hissed once, coiling tighter, venom sacs pulsing visibly.
"Disable."
Disable: For four turns, this move prevents the target from using the move it last used.PP: 20 (max. 32) | Power: — | Category: Status | Type: Normal
The moment Sentret opened its mouth to squeal, Nix's glare hit it like a psychic sledgehammer. It forgot its moves. Literally. The light behind its eyes dimmed like someone unplugged the server.
"Acid," Larx ordered casually.
Acid: The user attacks by spraying a horrible acid on the target. This may also lower the target's Sp. Def stat.PP: 30 (max. 48) | Power: 40 | Category: Special | Type: Poison
Nix reared back and spit.
A stream of fluorescent sludge hit Sentret dead in the face, splashing over its tiny body. The thing shrieked, twitching and sizzling, as the compound began eating through fur and pride simultaneously.
"Now Wrap it. Gently."
Wrap: A long body or vines are used to wrap and squeeze the target for four to five turns.PP: 20 (max. 32) | Power: 15 | Category: Physical | Type: Normal
Gently, of course, was subjective.
Nix whipped forward, curled around the twitching Sentret like a snake curling around a marshmallow, and squeezed. You could hear the squeals go up an octave before cutting off entirely. No blood this time. Just crushed ego and broken ribs.
Ed dropped to his knees.
Bob stared, twitching, looking between his downed Bulbasaur and Ed's fetal-position breakdown. Then up at Larx.
"You… you can't take my Pokémon!" he stammered.
"I can and I will," Larx said. "That's the price of opening your goddamn mouth in my direction."
She stepped up, grabbed Bulbasaur's ball off the ground, and clipped it to her belt like a trophy. Then reached into Bob's pockets without a second glance. "Ooh, 30,000 pokéyen and a gym pass? You're rich for someone so stupid."
Bob tried to throw a punch.
Larx caught it with one hand and cracked three of his fingers with a pop pop pop. He fell to his knees howling.
She leaned in close. "This is what happens when you challenge a bitch who doesn't play fair. Get that through your thick eyebrow meat."
Then she turned around, red light beaming out to return Nix to her ball.
The drone hovered back down.
"Upload that to my socials, Soundwave," Larx said. "Hashtag: 'Eat Poison Dust.'"
A few poeple in the stream clapped. One guy vomited. Larx cracked her neck and headed off without a single glance back.
They weren't worth the memory.
But the humiliation?
That was forever.