"Ahuuuahhh..." I groaned, standing in my cage. A human man came in front of me, inspecting my build, circleing the cage. If I were to try and move, I'd be struck by the tazer my 'owner' used.
The man finaly stopped. "Very good," He said, his eyes not leaving me. "What gender is it? Give me all the information." He now turned to my owner. No, not trainer, OWNER.
"Female. She's never been bred. About...3 years old? mabey a bit younger. Parents were a glacion and leafeon. She's a level 15, but should level up soon. We can train her to your prefirred level. What do you think?" He asked the man.
"Hmmm. I'll give you $17,500.00. I think that's reasonable enough." The man responded after a moment of thought.
The man and my owner shook hands, both grinning ear to ear. "Pleasure doing buisness with you, ." With that, unhooked my cage. I cowered into the back as far as I could, but he still grabbed me by the scruff. "Ah, a fiesty one. Mabey she can manage to be a breeding and fighting one after all." said as I chomped down on his arm, before placing me back in the cage. "Train her to, let's say... level 35? I want her to have a whole new arsenal." He peered down at me. Grinning greedily, he crouched down to my eye level. "Next time we meet, little one, I'll take you to a whole new world..." I was silent, his words nearly setting me off into a rampage. Whatever, I thought. It can't be much worse than this. Not much worse. He rose to face my owner. "How long will it take? To get her to the appropriate level, I mean."
"I'd say a month. Give or take a week." nodded. They talked for a while before both leaving the room.
An hour latter, another man came in and granted me 1/4 a bowl of food. I only got fed this much every 6 days. I choked it down; the food here tasted horrible. In a month, they'd trained me to level 35.
"Hydro..." I whispered. "Hydro!" This startled him out of his painful sleep. "I'm scared," I confided. "They said I'd be going with that man. . What's gonna happen to me?"
Hydro was a 5 year old buizle. We'd been friends since I'd been born. "I'm not sure." He replied, looking panicky. "But...I don't want them to take you away...I'll be all alone...I want..." Yeah. To most people, that's a love confession. Not for us. Growing up in a lap doesn't exactly boost self-esteem. So we can have trouble expressing emotions or even words.
I squeezed the barrs of my cage tight in my paws. "I...I don't want to go." I whispered, tears springing to my eyes. "What am I soposed to do, Hydro? They said I'd be a breeding pokemon."
At this, Hydro jumped up, eyes wide, and started using takle on the cage. "...Hydro?"
"I'm gonna get you out of here. They'll keep you for breeding? Over my dead body." He gave the steel bars another shove. To my surprise, two went flying across the room. Hydro climbed out quickly and used his claws to pik the lock of my cage. Hearing a click, he pulled it open. "Come on." He whispered, grabbing my paw and pulling me out of the cage. We lept from the counter we were placed on and jumped out the conveniently open window. "I'll take care of you, Phyclone..."
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"Arial..." Sage muttered. looking off to the sky. She was a mightyanah, as was himself. Sadly enough, she was killed by Owner's experiments. Just as Sage glanced in front of him, he saw an interesting sight; an eevee and buizle running across the plain of cages. "What are you doing?" He shouted to them, walking calmly towards them until he reached the edge of the fence enclosing his area. "heeelloooooo?" The duo trotted up to him. "Whacha up tooo?" Hydro and me explained our situation. "Sooo...Can I come?" He asked, gray face lighting up. We looked to eachother questioningly before nodding.
Sage swiftly jumped the fence and we all trotted off into the nearby forest, along the Takaheiko River...
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"Haaa...I...gotta...uhhg-" I fell to the grass, pooped by the 4-mile run we'd just made, trying to escape Owner's range. Sighing tiredly, I allowed the blackness to engulf me...
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"Glade..." I mutter, rising to contousness-and a massive headach. "Oh." I sigh, coming fully from my dream. "Wha-Where am I?" I'm in medium room littered with pillows, blankets, soft toys, and food and water bowls. "Hm... Hydro? Sage? Guys?!" I notice a large door and tackle it immediately, but it does no good. So instead, I start howling loudly, hoping to catch the ears of my friends.
"Alright, alright! That's enough now." A muscular voice ringed. Just then, the door opened, making me back up and revealing a man of about his thirties. "oh. You'r the one I found in the field. Poor thing." He muttered, lifting me into his arms. I instinctivly flinched on contact, but didn't resist, remembering what Owner would do if I ever did. But, surprising me, this man didn't hit me, he didn't give me a pill, didn't hook me up to a mussle and leash. No, he started stroking my furr, allowing me to lay down in his arms, purring lightly. "Atta boy. Don't be afraid. But I guess you must be from an abusive trai-owner, hu? You didn't atteck, but flinched pretty strongly. Poor thing..." He repeated.
He walked down a short hall, still holding me gentaly but firmly in his arms. "Yo! Shino!" He yelled aggitatedly, sitting at a kitcen table, still not putting me down. After a moment, a gold jolteon came from behind a door and I was placed on the tile floor. "Shino, check it out. I found this cub out in the field yesterday," So I'd been ther a whole day, hu? "And I need you to tell me the name and gender. So hop to it!"
Sighing dramaticly, Shino walked over to me and sat down. The man put down some lettered cards and sat in a chair. "So, kid, what's your name?" Shino's voice was surprisingly low.
"I, uh...Phyclone...or Phyc...or whatever..." I muttered, feeling intimidated by the larger evolution. Sparing a glance up, I noticed him looking at me curiously.
"Well, uh, Phyc. One sec." He took four cards in his mouth, rearranged them, and presented them to his master, who nodded then waved his hand expectantly. Sighing heavily, Shino turned back to me. "Humans. Can't even tell genders properly." He muttered.
"Hu?" I asked curiously.
"I, uh...Nothing." He jumped up on the table and sat infront of the man. After a second, he tapped his tail twice on the table.
"A girl, hu?" Shino repeated the action in response. "Kay then. Take her to the rooms, will ya? I'm pretty tired today-gonna just go to bed."
Shino nodded his gold head befor jumping down next to me. "come on." He ordered, motioning me to the door he'd come out of. We walked in and I followed, trotting to keep up with his fast pace. I walked in to a room like the one from before. Then Shino filled me in:
Turns out, the man was named Daton Wills and an electrical pokemon trainer. He'd found me alone in a field not far from here yesterday and taken me back.
Sighing tiredly, I laid my head down on one of the many pillows and glanced around the room. Other than us, there were an electabuz, a couple pichu, pikachu, a mareep, and a richu. Shino walked closer to me and laid down, pressing his side to mine. My head shot up, surprised. "I...It's cold here lately. Thought you'd be cold." He explained quietly, looking away from me.
Overcoming my shock, I smiled warmly. "Thank you..." I said, drifting off to sleep, pressing back against him as well. I thought I'd felt him tense, but I couldn't be sure, because I was already being engulfed in darkness...
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"Mmmm... Glade...Come back...Glade..." I was shaken awake and quickly got to my feet, as I was tought -tortured- to do. "Hm?" It took a moment for me to realize where I was, and relaxed, falling back to the pillow I'd been laying on.
"Who's Glade?" I jumped in surprise at Shino's low voice. "So, who's Glade?" He repeated.
"Oh! Uh...I guess...I guess you could say he was my...Oh, I don't know!" I stuttered nervously. I always felt akward and defensive when talking about the vaporeon. Shino gave me a calm look, with a hint of hurt in his eyes, and laid back down. He touched my smaller paw with his muzzle, and I laid back down as well, though no longer touching him. "Sorry..."I muttered, before hot tears streaked down my face.
"I, uh! Ummm...Phyc? What's wrong?" Shino asked nervously. You could tell he wasn't used to this sort of thing. He gentaly put his gold paw over my brown one and nudged me with the top of his head, a worried expression on his face.
"I-I'm sorry." I apologized. "It's just.." Sighing heavily, I rested my chin on his paws. "Glade was my mate, of sorts."
Shino looked utterly shocked -probobly about me having a mate so young- before thinking about my words. "'Was'?"
I nodded solemly. "Yeah. We never mated, but we were planning to once I was fully grown. But then..." I trailed off for a moment. "Then Owner tried to take me in for early breeding because I developed quickly. It didn't go well and Owner took Glade away. I never saw him again. It's always been like that. I never met my father. My mother was taken away from me once I was weened. My brother and sister were always kept seperate from me and eachother. For a long time, I decided not to get close to anyone. The enevitable was too painful. But then I met my best friend, Hydro. We finnaly got out. I fell asleep and when I woke up..." Fresh tears welled up in my eyes.
Shino put his head on top of mine, breathing quietly into my fur. I was thankful for his comforting, and it took everything I had to remember not to get close- it would just end badly. We stayed like that for a while, just soaking in eachother's presence.
"Shino!" We both looked up at Daton's voice. The large man opened the door and looked in. "Shino, it's time for your daily training..." He trailed off as he saw that we were so close. "Well," He started, smiling broadly now. "It seems like you've become quite close. That's good. You should be more sociable, Shino." He walked over and patted my head roughly. "Atta girl. You be good, now. Me and Shino need to go train. Why don't you get aquainted with the others?" I looked around and noticed that there were now more pokemon in the large room. There were the ones from before, but there was also a piplup, charmander,charmeleon, pidgeyotto, buneary, riolu, and umbreon.
Daton and Shino trotted off quickly and then charmeleon walked up to me. "Hey, who are you?" He asked rather agressivly. I noticed all the other pokemon seemed to look away. "Hey, SHRIMP! I asked you a question. You gonna answer?"
I glared at him, mentaly unleashing all my training on him. "Sorry. I'm Phyclone. Or Phyc for short."
"Short's right!" He cackled and I inwardly groaned. He was one of those guys.
"Whatever." Looking irritated suddenly, he marched off elswhere. Sighing thankfully, I started playing with a rubber ball, rolling, pouncing on, and rolling it again. After a while of this, the pidgeyotto landed beside me. " I'm Celena. Can I play?" She asked kindly. I smiled brightly and nodded, throwing the ball high in the air. Celena cought it in her beak before tossing it in my direction. I tapped it with my snout and it went flying back up.
We played this strange game of pass for over an hour. Then the door opened, revealing Daton, Shino, and an espeon. "Shino!" I called, my tail wagging. Shino quickly made his way over to me and Celena.
"Hey, Phyc. Guess you've met Celena." I nodded happily. "Cool." He said simply.
"Well, I'm going to go now. But, Phyc! Let's play again soon!"
"Yeah! Bye, Celena!" She took off in flight and I turned back to Shino. "Hi, Shino. How'd training go?" I asked, genuinly curiouse.
"Well, I really just practiced my old moves. Nothing special."
I sighed dreamily. "That sounds like so much fun."
The gold pokemon gave me a questioning look. "But you're a level thirty. You must have trained plenty, too." Shino stated, sitting down.
"Well, yeah. But Owner never let me just practice. He used machines and hard battles with pokemon way over my level. It hurt a lot. So, your kind of training sounds like a lot of fun to me. Ya know?" He nodded slowly.
The rest of the day, we ate dinner, talked a lot, and Shino started teaching me how to read human books. By night time, I was really tired and pretty happy, though I still missed my friends. Shino laid down with me like we did before, and I rose my head to a series of ghasps and murmmers. I glanced up and saw that everyone was staring at us. "What are they staring at?" I asked shino, prodding him gentaly. As soon as he looke dup, everyone looked away, now seeming to mind their own buisness. I sighed tiredly. "Whatever." And I laid back down to sleep.
But then I heard her. "SHINO!" The shout nearly scared me out of my own skin. I heard Shino groan rather loudly beside me as the espeon ran up to us. She surprised me by using headbutt and sending me flying about 4 feet with a muttered 'Oofff!'. "Shino's MINE! You stay away, you little...rat! Shrimp! Bug!" She screached.
I picked myself off the ground -with a painful 'pop!' from my leg- with fire in my eyes. How dare she just attack me like that?! What'd I ever do to her?! Without hesitation, I lept at her and used a vicous Bite. Hollaring in pain, she stumbled back. Growling agressivly, I snorted and laid back down beside Shino, without touching him. "What a way to wake up..." I muttered to myself. I closed my eyes, but kept my ears peeled for another attack. Which came soon enough.
Not even a minute had passed before I felt myself being raised into the air. Opening my eyes, I found the espeon using Phychic. Then I felt quite a shock...