25: Corn with a P.

Darius did not expect this to happen, but in life, the majority of things happen when you least expect them to.

That was why he was completely baffled by the courage of the brat had to fucking kick him in the nuts.

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Darius: *body down, black lines falling over his body*

Wally: 1 Hit-KO!

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To explain what happened, we need to rewind time just a little tiny bit.

So, let's go back about... 5 hours.

See, Darius had experience with being a doctor only to Pokemon, healing their injuries. But then suddenly life throws a fucking child on his face and like the fucking helpless butter heart bitch that he is, he can't help his desire to take care of the kid. It's basically his nature, seeing as he has been doing so ever since he was 5 years old! He helped around the orphanage, helping the old caretaker take care of the babies, then when he was 8 he started taking care of the smaller kids, and soon he grew up to be everybody's big brother, helping everyone around.

Maybe that's why he got so muscular through his puberty...

Regardless of his bitchness, Darius was doing what he thought to be the right choice. The kid clearly was sick, and the poison seemed to worsen his already fragile body: "Damn, this kid's constitution is shit..." And it is! Has this kid never eaten dirt before? Has he ever been outside? Like, what the fuck were his parents doing? Not letting a child just walk around and eat dirt or get dirty on mud was a little damaging, seeing as the child's body would not be introduced to the pathogens of various viruses and bacteria. Darius has actually been to a little party where various kids had gotten chickenpox and were spreading it to other kids because Darius is pretty sure that it helped their immune system or something like that.

Anyway, he'd rather use vaccines for this kind of thing, but he has no way to make vaccines for this kid's immune system, so all he could do was give him a "boost", you could say. What was he talking about? Well, remember the Energy Root? Well, Darius gathered a lot of it! Seriously, this thing could be easily found around here... He also started gathering small flowers that had various energy types, such as Poison type flowers called [Purple Lily], a Bug type flower called [Infested Poppy], and a few small blue bell-like flowers from a bush called [Blue Bells], and it had a mixture of Grass and Water type energies.

What Darius used, however, was a flower he himself and Gardevoir managed to grow, called [Fae Flower]. It was basically a flower that was grown under the exposure of Fairy type energy, which Gardevoir was easily able to provide! With this new addition to his collection, Darius' research over how a diet can affect a Pokemon's body got a few more results, seeing as mixing several types of energies in a bowl made some Pokemon picky. Like, Swy and Swu started to ignore the berries he gave them, only wanting to eat their own type of Flower Salad, as Darius called it, which contained Water, Flying, and Grass energy thanks to berries and a little silver powder made with [Sky Roses]. He received three of these roses from the little Linoone family, and now he has a new type of flower growing on the back of the female Torterra. Not because he was misogynistic, but because she wanted her back to be covered in flowers!

She got really pretty like that, too.

She had [Fire Flowers], [Grass Gardenias], [Blue Bells], [Fae Flowers], [Purple Lilys], [Infested Poppys], and more. Of course, not all of them were special flowers that carried energy within their petals, but they were pretty nonetheless.

Back to the matter at hand.

Darius used a mixture of Energy Root to give the guy some energy and boost his immune system. He added a few Grass Gardenias, Fae Flowers, and a few Oran Berries slices to the mix and stirred it for half an hour in low heat before adding Life Dew water to it. Then he fed the boy, his arm held the boy's neck as he lifted him a little, the Darius lowered his face a little as this small vine grew from his hand and helped him guide the liquid down the throat of the sleeping brat. Darius didn't want him to choke, so he exercised his control over water by using his energy to guide the liquid to go down the right hole. So, he placed his index and middle fingers on the boy's throat and slid it down his chest and stopped only when he reached the boy's stomach, his eyes completely closed as he focused.

Only for them to open as he felt a huge fucking pain on his balls.

"ARGH!" Darius contorted his whole body, his hands immediately going to his groin as his face and whole body lowered to the ground. His immediate reaction was to use [Intermediate Pokemon Healer] skill on his crotch immediately, healing whatever damage there had been. His mind slowly growing with anger - Darius was a pretty chill punk guy the majority of the time. He took care of his like a "Bear" (He remembers the way the kids would sometimes call him Beary, for some reason), not really seeking out conflict with anyone. But if you somehow truly pissed him, oh, Darius was going to retaliate. 

He got up from the floor and turned to look at the one who kicked his nuts and - he was just there, looking at him with eyes full of an emotion Darius was really used to seeing: Fear. His irritation slowly slipped away as his brain began to process what was happening... Did he just scare a literal child? 'Oh fuck.' He sighed heavily before lifting his hand and with a quick motion, placed his hand right on the boy's head, ruffling his green hair: "You good now?" 

"W-what?" Stuttering, the boy looked almost taken aback by Darius' casual action after he literary kicked him in the nuts! "S-sorry!" The boy did that weird Japanese tradition of touching a surface with your forehead while kneeling. Darius didn't really get it, but he really didn't study Japanese culture, he just knew they invented anime, were fucked over by the US of A, and had more old people than young people. "I-i just... You were close, too close, and I thought..." 

"That I was taking advantage of you?" Darius lifted his eyebrows as he looked the boy up and down... He was cute, but thankfully, Darius is not a shotacon. "Nah." He turned around, picking up the dropped wooden bowl that he had used to feed the whole amalgamation of berries, water, and flower petals. He placed it by the small table he had and sighed - oh, right, I never described his home, did I?

Well, it's not a big home, seeing as he was on top of a tree that was in the back of a gargantuan Pokemon that was, currently, moving. That was why Darius softly adjusted his center of gravity to make sure he wasn't going to fall head over heel on the ground. It was now a subconscious action to do. The layout of the house was basic - a single 60 feet by 60 feet by 15 feet cube with thin wooden walls to separate three rooms. A single bedroom, a kitchen - alongside a small storage - and a bathroom. Seeing as Darius didn't want to piss and shit on top of Big Boy and he had to take baths, he had a hole and a seat of wood, and he always placed this really thick sheet of weaved silk to act as a sack where he would shit on, then he'd throw it away. Seeing as the silk was made by Bug Type Energy, it would fade away in a month maybe? Thankfully Darius' clothes would last way longer than that, seeing as Arachne had control on how long her silk would last.

As for how he got rid of his piss? Well, he has a bucket you know. 

For bathing, he had three options - option one was to use the water on his reserve. Option two would be to wait for it to rain (ah, right, he stored a lot of rain water from the last storm! He now has a lot more water.), or he could always ask Shelly to help him. She was starting to learn [Rain Dance], which was why Darius could ask her to make a small rain cloud on top of him. Ah, thinking about it, option four would be him using his own energy to control water and bathe himself. 

"So, kid, care to tell me why the fuck were you bleeding and poisoned in the middle of fuck nowhere?" Darius still felt a little uncomfortable on his groin, but at least this wasn't the first time he had been kicked in the fucking balls. This is the... 5th? 6th? He doesn't remember. "Also, your little friend-" He couldn't even finish his phrase, soon a small white cotton flew from the open window towards the green haired boy, making him stumble back and fall back into the bed. "-is fine." Darius grinned as the boy and Pokemon hugged, relief clear in both of their eyes, body language, and aura. Darius could feel a soft energy surrounding the boy, an energy he also possesses. 

Fairy type energy.

'Huh.' Darius just found another person with Fairy type affinity huh? Normally seen as out of this world, fairies (and the fae) in mythologies around the world are very popular. Darius himself remembers a few of them, such as the Willow Lady (a tale about a Dryad or Wood Nymph, he doesn't remember exactly what they are called), the tale about King Erysichton and the wrath of Demeter... Not exactly a tale about the fae/fairies, but he always associated the Goddess of Starvation, Limos, as a fey being. 

"Thank you... And, again, I'm sorry for kicking you in the groin." The boy softly thanked him while holding onto his Pokemon. "I... How can I thank you?"

Darius stopped for a moment... This kid is very thin, doesn't seem that healthy, and seems too soft. "Let me ask you this..." Darius paused, before saying with the most serious face he could muster: "Can you handle big fat meat?" Darius looked at the boy up and down once again before frowing. No, he can't handle it: "...nah, you're too small for that." Darius simply meant physical work, as in, the boy helping him as a butcher to skin and cut Pokemon meat. He has constantly been feeding Cerberus, Swy and Swu, and even little baby Bidoof. 

Apparently, they are omnivores. 

Darius softly touched his crotch again, seeing if it hurt, and when it didn't, he simply sighed. 

Meanwhile, Wally, was paralyzed. There was smoke coming out of his head as his whole face went red: 'M-m-m-meat!?' Ah, right... Wally here, you see, is a... connoisseur of good media. Growing up with a frail immune system and breathing problems, Wally was always the quiet kid in class. But he had a single friend, and her name was Ianna. He and Ianna were best friends, and she would always give him her mangas.

Except for one little things.

She only had porn.

With men in it.

And those men? They kissed.

And even worse... held hands.