Ambush and repercussions

Ambush and repercussions

The area after Fortree in Hoenn was amongst the most unique as it was the lushest place and at the same time the wettest. Between Fortree and the next major city Lilycove was a sort of wild area with ill kept pathways and the perfect conditions to rain almost constantly. Needless to say the only one of my pokemon having a good time was the little one. Even Hades that was unbothered by external stimulus got annoyed with the rain and insisted on getting balled. Vulcan bit the bullet and was the only strong pokemon traveling next to me as all my others wanted nothing to do with the rainy area.-

The little one was happy as a clam in the rain and even went out of it's way to snap up the drops in front of it's face to amuse itself. Vulcan and I were instead soaked through but ignored it to keep a vigilant eye on the surroundings. Rain was a particularly harsh type of weather for dealing with assassins in as it had a really bad habit of muddling ones senses. Smells become faint and distorted. -

The water running down the face and the many flashes of light off the falling drops made it hard to focus on any area properly unless it seriously stood out. Finally of course the sound of the water hitting the ground was damn near deafening as it overcame almost all other sounds. All of this came together to mean that rain was an assassins best friend with some likely even specializing in using it to their advantage. While the little one was oblivious to the danger Vulcan and I were not and bordered on paranoia. For good reason too as the path we took was littered in traps and hidden assassins.-

I kept a firm flow of aura just under my skin cautiously so when a bullet came out of nowhere and struck me in the forehead I wasn't killed like what may have happened otherwise. Vulcan moved the instant the sound of the gun going off reached us and blurred through the would be assassin. Despite my aura keeping me alive by stopping the bullet my head was still ringing from the impact alone and the spot the bullet hit was bleeding as my aura was under my skin and so my skin had still been split open.-

It was a nasty stain on the clans record and not one that could get swept under the rug either as the amount of life lost as a result was far too big for that. This one incident alone resulted in nearly twenty people getting killed after their ambush failed horrifically. Add on any future assassins and the pile of bodies that this single stain on their reputation will leave behind will haunt them for quite some time unless something big happens to distract everyone away from it.-

This incident was so bad that more than a few groups that would normally pander to the clan had distanced themselves to keep the situation from blowing to them by association. It was a sting that the entire clan felt in Hoenn. The regional Matriarch of the clan even went as far as to issue a public statement about how the clan had exiled the one responsible for causing this whole mess in an attempt to repair the clans public image. I also learned that the reason for the exile rather than the execution of the old crone was because she was the Matriarchs younger sister.-

Wasn't that a real fucked up fact in and of itself? The person who was at the head of the entire Joy clan in Hoenn was the older sister of the Joy responsible for this mess. I didn't need to try and ruin the clans reputation when that little fact got out as the public was in outrage. 'The sins of family weigh the most after all.' I thought fairly amused as I watched this clan with a long history suffer in the court of public opinion.-

Not to say I wasn't still planning on killing the crone who caused this mess to begin with once I eventually got to Sinnoh because that was still very much on the agenda. Perhaps if I am lucky she may even kill herself out of guilt for the suffering she created but she seemed like a stubborn old bat so I doubted it. No , like usual I imagined that she would probably do what everyone seems to do when things don't go well for them now days and blame me. 'It's all his fault! if he didn't exist!' And so on as long as it didn't involve blaming themselves. It was stupid and pointless.