Hello guys!
I'm Orion and this is my first Pokemon fanfic. I love the Mystery Dungeon games so I said "Well, why not write about it?" and here I am :)
I just wanted to say some things here:
1) I'm trying to return to my writing habits. I stopped for about 2 years because of personal problems so bear with me, please. ^w^
2) English is not my first language. If there are errors, please let me know.
3) This story will have pokemons using moves they cannot learn normally and other "special" things like variations of moves, abilities and some "anime" touchs or references... I really hope I can make this fanfic work because it's a personal project I always wanted to write.
4) Enjoy to your heart's content :)
"We will die, we will die, we will die, we will die!"
Elliot screamed those words mentally with each step he took as the light of the moon shone at the forest.
"Faster, Elliot! He is almost catching up with us!" the small dog that ran just a little behind him screamed in a terrified tone as he looked back and saw that figure that had almost twice his size chasing them.
"... and who do you think it's the fault for having a damn dragon on our tails, Cobalt!" Elliot answered while trying to hold on his small backpack. His heart was almost flying out of his chest.
They begun to take random paths. Right, left, left, jump, turn, jump higher... but then, the Riolu stumbled on a rock and rolled through a small hill. He instinctively grabbed the backpack to protect it, and after getting up, begun to run behind the Rockruff, who was now leading their escape.
"If only you had listened to me and had not used Rock Throw on that tree, we would already be home with the berries!"
"I just wanted to help, okay?! How could I know that one berry would fall in the head of this thing that is chasing us now?!"
Elliot wanted to scold the small canine, but that wasn't his priority now. They were dealing with a pokemon from a mystery dungeon. It was easy to know about that. After they apologize, the dragon started to growl and attacked them. No talk at all.
Cobalt was already at his limit. His small body weren't trained enough to support long runs. He was already heavy breathing and he stumbled more than walked. He sweared that if he survived that, he would not skip the endurance training to play anymore. As he ran, he noticed something wet at his paws. At first he thought he wet himself, but then he heard the sound of waves. They were near the beach.
"Elliot... the beach! We can call for help!"
"No time for that... you can't run anymore. We have to attack him." Elliot said and went to the other side.
"But... We never battled before! And I have no moves that can deal a good damage to him!"
"You don't... but I have. That thing is a Zweilous. He is a Dark and Dragon type pokemon. I'm a fighting type pokemon. Leave it to me."
Cobalt cursed his bad luck. That is almost a suicidal plan, but was everything they had.
They rested for half a second when the dragon appeared. Zweilous emmited a roar, expressing all of his fury. At first they thanked Arceus for that Zweilous could not fly, but he had two heads... and that's twice the problem.
Zweilous opened both his mouths and a purple energy begun to concentrate in each. Elliot dashed forward and hit the first face before it could shoot, but the second did it. Cobalt dodged it at the last second, and when the Dragon Pulse hit the ground, it exploded, sending the Rockruff some meters away from where he was.
The Riolu saw that energy and a strange sensation passed thorugh his body. Seeing that move, he knew how to use it. He put his hands together with the palm turned to the dragon. That same energy begun to gather there and got the Zweilous' attention.
"Here! Have a taste of your own move!" he forced his hands forward and the energy went in the dragon's direction. Apparently it was a very strong move because the Zweilous fell on the ground with the explosion. "Wow... what was that?"
With that... he had one more move that could do damage to that dragon!
Elliot ran to where his opponent was and as soon as he got near, his palm begun to glow. He oponened the palm of his hand and forced it against the dragon. The glow disappeared and then, another explosion. The Zweilous screamed in pain as he rolled on the ground. Elliot was confident. He put both palms at the exact position he put before and tried to use the Dragon Pulse again.
"Dragon Pulse!"
...
Nothing. Before he could even wonder why it didn't work, Cobalt grabbed and pulled him to the ground before the Dragon could hit him with a blue beam.
"Don't daydream, Elliot! He almost got you with a Dragon Breath!"
Both of them decided to retreat before planning a new attack. The Dragon stood up, showing no signs of heavy damage.
The Riolu still couldn't understand why the move failed. He used it so well seconds ago... but now wasn't the time to think about it. They still had to defeat that monster.
Cobalt made rocks fly around him and after gathering a good amount, he threw all of them on the dragon, who dodged all. This time, the dragon decided for a physical attack and ran in his direction, headbutting the Rockruff and making him crash on a tree. Cobalt passed out at the same time.
Elliot shivered when the dragon opened it's mouth and droll fell on the ground. He had to think fast. He needed to lure the dragon away from his friend before he became dinner.
That wasn't the proper time, but he understood why his move failed. He had to see a move first. He couldn't think of any other at the time and dashed to headbutt one of the dragon's head. Like he thought, it had much more strenght than a simple headbutt.
As soon as he got his feet on the ground, he saw that big body getting near... and then, it clashed with him. Zweilous used Slam to send him flying.
His body was throw on the sea and he sinked. Elliot's body was heavy but before he could even think in drowing, something grabbed him out of the water. He coughed a few times before realizing that he was in the arms of another Pokemon. He had yellow trident-like thing at his face and was tall. His arms were cold, but then Elliot noticed it was a more like metal wings.
"Need help, little fella?" The penguin-like pokemon asked while looking to the dragon.
"Who... are you?"
"Oh, sorry. You can call me..." He was about to say his name but then he stopped. He remembered something that stopped him from saying it. "... I'll tell you later." He walked in the direction of the dragon, who froze. Did it just trembled in fear? Elliot was surprised that someone could intimidate a monster like that Zweilous like that.
"Ok. you ugly thing. You don't belong here. Go back to your forest or you'll face the consequences." The said while putting Elliot on the ground. The Dragon was still blinded by fury and prepared a Dragon Pulse. "The hard way, eh? All right... it's been a while since I got serious in a fight..."
What Elliot saw that night... he would never forget.
The trident face pokemon begun to glow and it was getting brighter with each second. Elliot had to cover part of his face to see what was happenning, and then... the surprise. His colors were gone! All his blue and yellow colors turned in white.
Elliot felt a shiver. That was Aura. He never saw it but he knew instantly that that pokemon was covered in Aura. The only thing he read in a book was that Riolus and Lucarios were able to feel and manipulate the Aura of all living beings and communicate with them. "So that's Aura... but... he is not a Riolu like me nor a Lucario!"
"I am Empoleon, the King of Seas! You attacked innocent pokemons and now you'll pay for that!" After that, his body got covered in water and he flew on the sky with a Aqua Jet. The Zweilous tried to hit him with two Dragon Pulses at the same time, but Empoleon dodged all and begun to spin around him while from his beak, a cold beam was fired. In less than a minute, the Zweilous was completely frozen in ice.
He went back to the ground, bent his knees and put both wings at the side of his body while a strange energy begun to concentrate. Elliot felt the shiver again. He was concentrating Aura!
"... it can't be... Aura Sphere?!"
He always dreamed about learning that move ever since he heard about it at home... Cobalt's father, a Midnight Lycanroc, was an explorer and said he met a lot of Lucarios and described everything about the Aura Sphere... he said it was one of the rarest fighting type moves because only 13 pokemons could use it out of almost 800 pokemons, and half of the ones who could use it were Legendary Pokemons.
"How can he use the Aura Sphere?!"
"By Arceus' name, I will vanquish evil! GO, AURA SPHERE!" He said and threw the concentrated energy at the frozen dragon. The ice shattered with a "BOOOOM" and exploded, sending shards of ice all over the place. After the dust from the explosion dissipated, the Zweilous was unconscious on the ground.
"That wasn't even a warm-up... well, whatever." The Empoleon said and after that he closed his eyes. The colors begun to return and he was a normal Empoleon again.
"What was THAT?" Elliot said while running till where he was.
"Let's talk about this later. Shouldn't you be worried about your friend?"
The Riolu stopped running in his direction and ran to rescue his friend. He searched at his backpack for something that could wake him up, but found nothing. He tried to lift him, but he was too weak at the moment.
"I think I have something that will help. Give me a minute" The Empoleon ran to the sea and dived. When he returned, he had a small seed with him and a bag. A real explorer's bag. The same one as Cobalt's father. "Put this in his mouth." He gave the seed to the Riolu who obeyed. "Let it there for some time. The ressurect seed will wake him up eventually, but let's talk about another thing. You know what Mystery Dungeons are, right?" he sat on the ground while looking to Elliot.
"Yeah... my friend's parents told us about it... but we never entered in one. We just went to the forest to collect some berries. Why do you ask?"
"Well... you are in one right now. You probably entered while running from him."
Elliot blinked and thought for a little before taking a deep breath. "Ah... so that's why I couldn't find the exit... Sir, I'm really sorry to have caused you trouble."
"Not at all. It's my duty to protect pokemons who are in need. After all, I'm one of the Kings."
Elliot never heard about that and was making a curious face.
"I see... So nobody told you about the Kings and Queens of the past either, right?" Empoleon asked a little sad. "What's the problem with these people? They can't just forget about us!"
"No, sir... or should I call 'Your Highness?'. I'm really sorry, I don't know very well about these things..." Elliot seemed ashamed.
"Oh, no! Not at all. I prefer just Empoleon but 'sir' is fine as well. Anyway... I could tell you here about us, but it would take a long time. You should search about it when you return to your home. Maybe try to spread the word that we're still there, protecting people, just like I did to you."
"Sure, but doesn't the explorers do the same?"
"Well... yes, but can explorers prevent events before they happen? I'll tell you this: No. Explorers adapt themselves to the reality of our planet. If there is chaos, they'll explore until they find the cause of it. If there is peace, they'll just explore to get food or make money. We, the Kings, make sure so we, and by we I mean every living being, only live in peaceful times. This work 90% of the times..." He gave a small lecture to the Riolu about the Kings and Queens. In the middle of it, he stopped.
"You want to be an explorer too, right? I see you have a great interest in my bag." He caught the Riolu glancing to his bag from time to time while he was talking.
"Yes, but I don't think I can be an explorer anytime soon. I don't have enough knowledge about the world and I believe I'm too young for it."
"Nonsense! I believe I had your age when I became a junior explorer. You just have to know where to go. Tell me, where do you live?"
"Moon Coast. It's a small village near the beach. Not this beach, the one on the other side. I believe it's just one hour away from here. We just have to cross the Berry Fields."
The penguin-like pokemon put a wing on the head and tried to remember where this village was. He was always diving in the ocean, so it was impossible to have a paper map with him.
"Let's see… we're at the Berry Fields… one hour from here… Moon Coast… " he had a hard time thinking about it. It seems he has never been there before and his sense of geography was awful.
"Sir, I can lead you there. It's becoming late anyway and Cobalt's parents will be worried if we get home too late. You can crash at my place.. although it's not much comfortable for someone your size."
"Thanks, kid. Let's get out of here when your friend wakes up… but now I'm worried. He should have opened his eyes after all this time we spent talking."
"I'll take a look…" Elliot stood up but felt his body heavy.
"You are tired. The fatigue from the battle is taking its toll on you now. Was that your first battle?"
"Yeah… I only trained my moves on trees… never in an actual battle."
"I see… so that's why you didn't know about your Copycat."
"Copycat?" Elliot asked but he had a feeling he knew about what he was talking.
"You can copy the last move used in battle. You tried to use Dragon Pulse again at that time but you used Force Palm just after the Copycat. If you tried using Copycat, you would have executed another Force Palm."
"I see… So that's why I didn't feel anything. Can I try it again? Just to get the grasp of it. I never trained it and I think it will be really useful in the future."
"Sure. Nothing is like testing a new move, right? Let's see… what was the last move of the battle…!" Empoleon stopped when he realized it was Aura Sphere and looked to the Riolu. Elliot's eyes were shining. He stood up even with his heavy body and begun to concentrate… but then, a beam of ice passed in front of his eyes. Empoleon had used Ice Beam on a rock near there. Elliot slowly turned to him with an expression of 'Why?'
"Sorry, Elliot… I can't let you use Aura Sphere now. It requires a lot of concentration and stamina. If you tried to use it now, with your fatigue, you could make it explode in your face by accident… and believe me, that wouldn't be fun."
Elliot stayed in the same position. He really didn't want to believe he lost the chance to finally use Aura Sphere. "Please, Arceus! If there is a minimum chance to use Aura Sphere, let me use it! Just this time!" He closed his eyes and kept the memory of Empoleon using it. The pose, his breathing, everything. He imitate the Empoleon at its minimum details, hoping that it wouldn't be an Ice Beam to get out of his hands. It was almost like he felt the energy of everything was flowing through his body. When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Empoleon, shocked. He was out of words.
"Elliot! That's…!"
The Riolu turned his eyes to his hand. There it was. A perfect Aura Sphere on his hand!
"That's impossible! It should have been an Ice Beam! What the..."
Elliot forgot about Empoleon as he had the biggest smile on his face and waited for a wave to come. He didn't want to damage the forest.
"AURA SPHERE!" He screamed with joy as he threw the sphere at the sea. When it collided with the water, it exploded with a power Elliot never knew he had.
"Look, Empoleon! I did it! I… did…" He slowly closed his eyes and fell unconscious before finishing that phrase.