112 Chapter 112

You know, it was incredible how chitinous clicking and low, wet hisses could sound so ominous.

Though that might have been more due to the fact that I was currently deep underground.

As it was, it didn't take long before my prey turned up.

Ironically, they hadn't been all that far away actually. If I was interested in catching them before they even realised what was going on, I would have most likely stumbled upon their resting forms in less than twenty seconds.

"Char!" Charmeleon snarled threateningly at the prehistoric beasts that emerged from the darkness into the light provided by his tail and the embers left over from his attack, burning across the ground despite their not being anything to fuel them.

That was the power of Blast Burn.

They were a bit of a ragtag group. Two Kabutops bearing their scythe like arms towards us, twin Kabuto with gleaming golden pincers poised to tear into soft flesh and a pair of Omanyte and Omastar that while much less threatening, were all the more scary looking with their writhing tentacles.

Well not so much the Omanyte, they're kinda cute.

But the bloodshot glares they shot our way for waking them up would have definitely terrified me only a few short weeks ago.

It was hard to find them quite as threatening as I would have though, when I'd previously stared down and overcome the gaping maw of a Gyarados poised to swallow me whole.

"Kabu!" one of the Kabutops snarled and rushed forward, anger and impatience getting the better of it.

It spread its scythe bladed arms outwards and dashed rapidly, its streamlined body literally scything through the air.

It was fast.

Not faster than Charmeleon though.

White energy erupted from the fire types feet and he launched himself at the ancient rock and water type.

Electricity crackled into existence around one scaled fist and Kabutops winged its scythe arms inwardly, gleaming white energy surrounding them and attempting to scissor Charmeleon.

But, it wasn't quick enough.

Charmeleon's thunder punch slammed into Kabutops face and lit its body up with crackling lightning.

The Kabutops snarled as it was launched bodily backwards, but did not fall. Its feet grinded against the ground as it kept itself upright, even though it was knocked back over ten feet.

It shook its head and levelled another bloodshot glare at Charmeleon, no worse for wear despite taking Charmeleon's super effective thunder punch attack.

'Tch!' I clicked my tongue. Just as I expected huh? These things even shook off Pikachu's thunderbolt in canon after all.

Either way, that seemed to be the signal that triggered the other seven ancient pokemon into action.

The other Kabutops rushed forward to join the first, the Kabuto following it. At the same time, the gathering of four Omanyte and Omastar chittered ominously and as one spat four large gouts of pressurized water blasts.

Alright, if that's how you want to play it!

My hand went to my belt, at the same time Charmeleon took a deep breath and roared, spitting out a tornado of fire that churned rapidly.

Fire Spin wasn't as compressed and powerful as Flamethrower, but it was quite a bit larger and worked to shield Charmeleon from the four water attacks briefly.

Steam emitted from the clash, but it didn't stop the Kabutops and Kabuto from continuing their charge.

I grabbed two pokeballs while Charmeleon bared his teeth at the ancient pokemon rushing him and shot forward to meet them-

An ear shaking, bone quivering roar erupted and echoed through the caverns stopping both me and the ancient pokemon in our tracks.

My eyes widened, 'Aerodactyl!?' I realised.

If I remembered right…

My eyes drifted to the ancient pokemon to see them frozen from the sound of the roar. They'd all turned away, stopping giving their attention to me and my pokemon at all.

A stupid move, but I literally see the terror in their eyes. They're scared shitless by Aerodactyl.

Charmeleon was not at all perturbed though.

The fire type did not stop in his charge at all, in fact, he sped up. His claws shone silver and he drove a pair of metal claws straight down into the back of the first kabutops' legs.

A hiss of pain and surprise left its mouth, But Charmeleon wasn't done. The silver light faded away, being replaced by sparkling lightning once more and Charmeleon drove an electrified uppercut straight up into Kabutops' chin and launched it straight up into the air.

And yet, Charmeleon was still not done.

Before Kabutops' even reached the apex of its sudden thunder punch assisted impromptu flight, Charmeleon launched into the air after it with a powerful quick attack enhanced leap.

Silver light erupted around one of Charmeleon's claws once more as he caught the Kabutops' by the throat and began to rapidly rotate and drag it back down with Seismic Toss.

And then slammed it bodily into the ground with all his strength. The impact was so powerful the ground shook beneath my feet.

…And then Charmeleon promptly opened his mouth while keeping the Kabutops' pinned underneath him and bathed it in a great gout of flame.

I stared gobsmacked.

'That wasn't the plan at all.' I thought blankly. I'd specifically told Charmeleon that he would play support and keep them busy because he wouldn't be able to bring them down himself while I let out Bellossom and Victreebel to paralyze and poison them. Then I'd let everyone out to bombard them and bring them down with a mass barrage of attacks, 'Did…he take offense to me saying he couldn't take them down?'

Either way, I was not the only one to gape at the aftermath of Charmeleon's sudden assault, even the other awoken ancient pokemon whipped around to stare at the sudden attack.

But the indecision was plain to see on their faces.

Attack and get revenge for one of their own…or stay and face Aerodactyl?

The indecision cost them.

And me.