CHAPTER 18: PROMISE AND COMMITMENT

Despite the fierce glare the Alolan ninetales gave him, Alec didn't stop for a moment, on the other hand, the rotomdex had long since fallen behind, apparently the Alolan ninetales glare scared him.

Soon, Alec found himself face to face with the alola ninetales, who was lying with his tails gathered around his belly, although he did nothing to move Alec away, his vigilance still did not decrease.

Alec didn't care about this, although the overflowing emotions that overwhelmed him had already disappeared, he still wanted to comfort the ninetales, or at least make his suffering lessen a little.

Thus, Alec, almost unconsciously, reached his hand towards the face of the ninetales, who stepped back for a moment, before carefully accepting Alec's touch.

For a moment, just when Alec had touched the face of the ninetales, some images appeared in his mind, and what he saw in them made his fury explode, before great tears fell down his face, but Alec said nothing, he She sat in the cold snow as she placed the ninetales's head on her lap, gently rubbing its neck.

The images were quite messy, perhaps because of the ninetales' mood, but it still made Alec aware of what had happened.

"So a Guzzlord huh."

To the tragedy of the vulpix and alola ninetales community, an ultra wormhole opened very close to his community, from which a guzzlord came out, causing havoc in the place.

Given this, the community leader, as well as other alolan ninetales and surrounding pokemon joined together to face it, but the guzzlord was too powerful, and although they managed to suppress it the first day, exhaustion defeated them, so guzzlord ended up gaining ground In addition, he was quite furious with those who arrested him, so his objective was the closest community, that of the Alola Vulpix and Ninetales.

Unfortunately for them, those who were the strongest in their community had already been defeated or killed by guzzlord, so even after praying for the island's guardian deity, Tapu Bulu, he never appeared, so in the end , the entire community of vulpix and alolan ninetales in that area disappeared.

The alola ninetales that Alec had just met was the partner of the community leader and was as strong as him, but because she had just given birth, his strength was weakened, so she couldn't participate in it. the first raid.

The wounds he had were caused by defending his community, 5 of his nine tails were lost, one of his legs was quite injured, and seeing that he could not save his community, with great sadness and pain, he could only flee with his little pokemon egg.

Even so, she was already quite hurt when she ran away, but she still persisted for almost 2 days until she got here, where she couldn't go any further due to excessive exhaustion.

For Alec, the mere fact that he managed to get here from the place where his community was was a miracle, but he remained silent, gently stroking the neck of the alola ninetales who was calming down little by little.

Shortly after, very softly, Alec spoke, but looking not at the ninetales, but at the bright moon in the sky.

"I don't know if you believe me, but I got here listening and feeling your pain, although I see that I can do nothing for you."

Alec's voice trembled saying this, he really wanted to be able to help the alola ninetales, but he knew that, with the condition he was in, it was impossible.

The ninetales for his part raised his head and let out a light Wuuu, then raised his three tails showing the object that he had so carefully carried despite his injuries.

Seeing it, Alec was very hesitant, the egg in front of him was what he had come for, but right now, he felt that if he took it, he would bear a great responsibility.

But his hesitation was short-lived, with a serious look on his face, he took the egg as white as snow, he was never so serious and solemn in his life, not even counting the previous one.

Feeling the warmth of the egg, Alec quickly placed it inside his coat, before stroking the Alolan ninetales neck again, saying:

"Don't worry, I will make sure that the little vulpix that is born has everything it needs, it will never suffer and will live happily, in case you don't know, I am the assistant of a pokemon professor, who knows the needs of all pokemon."

Although Alec didn't know if the Alola ninetales could understand him, he tried to convey his emotions as hard as he could.

The alola ninetales seemed to have understood, so with a slight wuu, he rested on Alec's lap, quietly closing his eyes, giving people the feeling that he had fallen asleep.

Seeing this, tears escaped from Alec's eyes, but he didn't make a sound, he just sat gently stroking the neck of the alolan ninetales looking at the full moon.

It was late at night that a group of people led by Professor Kukui came to where Alec was, who were shocked to see the tragic but strangely moving scene in front of them.

It was Professor Kukui who approached Alec sitting next to him, he didn't say anything while he did it, he just placed his hand on Alec's back while he patted him.

This gesture made Alec sigh, before telling the professor:

"I would like to bury her in this place."

Hearing this, Professor Kukui nodded, took out a pokeball from his pocket and summoned a lycanrock, which as far as Alec could see, was quite exhausted and with some injuries.

When the lycanrock came out and saw the scene in front of him, he seemed to understand what was happening, so, with a movement of his legs, he opened a hole behind where they were.

Thus, with the help of Professor Kukui and the other workers of the Aether Foundation, they managed to bury the body of the alola ninetales, on which Alec placed a slightly large and heavy stone as a tombstone and while holding the egg in his arms, he leaned towards the grave.

Seeing the snow white egg in Alec's arms, Professor Kukui was surprised, as a complicated look appeared on his face, it seemed that he more or less had an idea of ​​what happened.

Not long after, Alec escorted the others back to the Aether Foundation headquarters where Alec was given an incubator where he placed the pokemon egg, before retiring to the room where he slept.

In it, he noticed that the rotomdex was here, so, seeing this, Alec approached him and said:

"Thank you rotom for coming back and telling you about my location, otherwise I might have stayed all night in that place."

Seeing that Alec wasn't upset, the little Rotom inside the pokedex looked somewhat relieved, so he fluttered curiously around the incubator with the snow white egg.

Seeing this, Alec smiled, before motioning to the rotomdex to wake him up early and then returning to his corner, settling down and going to sleep.

At dawn, the rotomdex woke him up early, so Alec, although still somewhat sleepy, went to find Professor Kukui to ask him to take him back.

Although somewhat surprised, Professor Kukui seemed to understand his plight, and he also had things to prepare until the beginning of the conference, so they both said goodbye to the boss and the other workers of the Aether Foundation, where Professor Kukui promised him that he would send support as soon as possible, so they had to expand the support area for the pokemon.

Though with a helpless smile, the Headquarters Head still agreed to this arrangement as she sent them both off.

The two wasted no time, but instead of returning to Professor Kukui's yacht, Professor Kukui summoned a braviary.

Noticing Alec's look, Professor Kukui smiled at him saying:

"You're in a hurry, right? Besides, I'm not in favor of time either, so to get there faster, we can only ask my partner for help."

Thus, on the back of the braviary, Alec and Professor Kukui quickly returned to Melemele Island, where the professor decided to land in a certain unpopulated area of the beach, but close to the apartment where Alec was staying.

Once on the beach, they both said goodbye quickly, on the one hand, Alec was in quite a hurry to prepare the vulpix egg incubation liquid, and on the other hand, Professor Kukui still had to prepare a few things before the lecture. afternoon, so maybe he was in even more of a hurry than Alec.

Thus, this time Alec returned to the apartment again with two new pokemon, the rotomdex and the alola vulpix egg, although the way he achieved his goals left him quite amazed and dejected.