Sometimes life throws you a few curves you don't know how to explain. Our story is one such series of curves that few could believe. The place we came from saw us as nothing but tools. We were property used for battles and the aggrandizement of our human masters. Here, we are so much more than that. Though, the humans of this world have forgotten what we did, the immortal races and those who are longer lived remember.
Our story is heralded as legend. We saved everyone and everything from a terrible curse. In the process, we also saved ourselves. Life for us, is much harder here than it would have been back there. However, in the end we have each other and an entire world that is safe because of what we did. We are heroes and legends. We are family. We are the light warriors.
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Chapter 1: The City Of Dreams
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Kina stared down at the rapidly cooling corpses and shook her head. Her life was over. She had helped kill four humans.
The youma sighed to herself as she shook her head from side to side. The inhuman scales covering her naked body like tight fitting armor gleamed in the early morning light. She resembled a cross between a human and an armadillo in many ways. The knobby bone plates that covered her body were durable and protective but they tended to catch the eye.
"Hey you did what you had to Kina." said Alys thoughtfully as she gazed down at the carnage they had wrought. The humans had come out of nowhere and attacked. It still filled her mind with anger. They had seen Kina and immediately shouted, "Monster!" Kina was a very sweet pokegirl despite her appearance.
"There's nothing you can do Alys?" asked the youma as she turned to the Nursejoy with tear stained eyes. Her life was over either way. They had killed humans in cold blood. Even if they had survived they would still have been hurt badly. The best she could hope for is to be level fived.
"No. I'm mostly a desk jockey. My healing powers are weak." remarked the nursejoy.
"Well, I wouldn't cry about it too much." commented Mistuki as she dropped down out of a nearby tree. The kunoichi was surprised at how skillful the fighters had been. They had given Kina a serious thrashing before they could show up. They had even managed to do fairly serious damage to Christina and Dax too, for that matter. Still, everyone knew humans weren't really good at fighting pokegirls hand to hand. Honestly, what kind of idiot human attacked with a sword or knife?
"Easy for you to say! I killed humans; Humans! You got here just in time to not lay a hand on anyone!" exclaimed the youma heatedly. "My life is over!"
"Oh look around sister. We're in the middle of nowhere! Who the hell is going to know you did anything? They didn't even bring out any pokegirls. Probably not even tamers." replied the kunoichi as she took on a casual fighting stance.
"What? Are you seriously trying to say we should just leave them here and never speak of this? I killed people!" exclaimed the youma.
"People that attacked you for no reason. They didn't even try to catch you from what I saw as I was running in. They tried to kill you, flat out. Hell, if Christina hadn't jumped in when she did, the idiots would have done it." replied Dax as she walked over to the group. The flame haired slicer shook her scarlet mane and sighed.
"Well, I've always been a distance fighter. Magic is more my thing than fighting up front." remarked Kina softly.
"What's done is done I say. They attacked you with intent to kill. No one here is going to turn you in for that. No one else saw it happen." replied Dax.
"We should take what we can from them and dump the bodies." said Mitsuki after a few silent minutes passed.
"You want to rob them now?" asked Kina in a hateful tone.
"Can't rob the dead, girl. They don't need their stuff anymore. All we have is your master's half-charged pokepack. We're all naked as hell in the middle of the woods, the gods only know where."
"Sorry Kina. I'm with Mitsuki on this one. We need their supplies. Who knows if Thalia and Christina will find anything." stated the slicer.
Kina sighed at Dax then turned to Alys. "You agree with me don't you? This is wrong, right?"
"It was wrong that they attacked you in the first place." began the nursejoy. Kina's face fell a little upon hearing it. However, she was mollified slightly not long after as the pokegirl healer finished her statement. "I don't like it anymore than you do. It does feel wrong. Still, it needs to be done."
The youma frowned down at the robed figure on the ground. He had a young face. They all seemed to be little more than teenagers. She'd killed human kids. That would never sit right with her.
With a sigh she said, "Fine. Let's get it over with."
Dax nodded at her softly then knelt down at the swordsman's corpse. His weapon would do nicely for her as would his clothing. The other three pokegirls followed suit, picking up weapons and clothing from the ones who suited them best.
"Hey. What are these things? Some kind of evolution stone?" asked Mitsuki as she held up a palm sized crystal that glowed with a soft yellow inner light.
"Maybe? This guy had a red one." remarked Dax as she held up a similar crystal for the others to see.
"Found a blue one." remarked Alys before raising her own newfound crystal into the air.
They turned to gaze at Kina. The youma closed her eyes then held up a crystal which glowed with a gentle green light. "He had one as well."
The girls held the crystals up and watched them glow as a strange sensation overcame them. This sensation was one of warmth and purpose. Unknown to these girls from a strange land, they had taken up the duties of those who had been slain.
The moment passed not long after they finished stripping the bodies. Kina noted that the loose fitting robes came with a hood that easily hid her inhuman face and features readily. The boots were a little loose though.
"This guy was pretty buff." said Dax as her new clothes hung limply from her lithe frame. The neckhole of the simple shirt almost reached to her shoulder when she pulled it to one side or another.
"Hmm. Well, better than nothing." remarked Mitsuki as she squeezed her curvy yet rockhard booty into a set of cotton pants that were two sizes too small.
Alys belted her new white robe and tested the sandals she was now wearing. She prefered not to wear the poor dead man's undergarments. Those would remain. She also noted a similar thought had occured to the others as the slain humans were wearing nothing but their underwear when the girls were done looting the corpses.
When they finished taking the meager belongings of the fallen warriors Kina sighed down at them.
"What now?" asked Mitsuki with a frown. Didn't she get that these guys had tried to kill her? Why was she so upset by this?
"We can't just leave them like this. It's not right." remarked the youma.
Dax shook her head. "The ground is too hard to dig them a grave."
The youma sighed. They had hurt her pretty bad and it had exhausted Alys to fix her up alongside Dax and Christina. Even so, they had said things that made her wonder if they weren't really the 'bad guys' of the situation. Being called a monster did hurt a great deal. That wasn't the issue though. The other things they had shouted were the problem.
The way they protected each other and tried to rally and the desperate struggle to defeat what they saw as a threat weighed heavily on her. These nearly naked warriors lying cold on the ground had fought to the bitter end to defend each other. That wasn't something you would see in the insane or in common road bandits. It would haunt her for some time to come.
"What else do we have?" asked Mitsuki as she added her findings to the pile.
Alys looked the random assorted items over and shook her head. "A pile of coins that look like gold, a map, and their backpacks. These guys were traveling light."
"Anything in the packs?" asked Dax curiously.
"A little food and some camping supplies. There were more coins, but I added those to the pile." remarked the pink haired nursejoy.
"Gold coins?" asked Mitsuki curiously. Coins were good. Coins meant money. Money meant buying stuff. Mitsuki liked stuff.
"Yeah, looks like about four hundred or so."
"Holy shit! We're rich!" exclaimed the kunoichi excitedly.
"I doubt that." said Kina with a sigh.
"Why?" asked the ninja girl with a squint. Gold equaled money. Four hundred gold equaled four hundred money. That certainly sounded better than no money.
"If that was really a lot of money, why were they dressed like this?" asked the youma as she pulled at her simple black cotton robe.
"Hmm. Good point." remarked Dax. Mitsuki countered the argument, however. "These guys might have simply enjoyed traveling light though."
The girls continued to banter about the stuff they found for a few minutes before deciding to drag the bodies behind a tree and covering them with leaves and branches. It would not keep the feral pokegirls away, but at least the bodies would be hidden for a while. If they were lucky no one else would come along before then. They had to wait for Thalia and Christina to return before they could head out.
An hour passed before Dax decided to start cooking something for breakfast. They couldn't leave till the others got back and she was getting hungry.
Camping supplies were brought out and a few beans were put on to boil, with heavily salted meat strips added for flavoring. The warriors had traveled wth simple rations of dried food and jerky for the most part.
As breakfast cooked slowly over the fire, it soon became lunch as the cook realized that dry beans took a while to soften. She was used to cooking items out of instant meal packages.
"So, where do you think we are?" asked Mitsuki as she plopped her well toned booty onto a fallen log.
"We are in the woods." remarked Alys with a sigh.
Mitsuki snorted at her and shook her raven-black hair. "Oh ha ha. I did not know that."
Alys ignored the lightly muttered, "Bitch." that followed up the kunoichi's statement as she leaned back against the tree she was sitting under.
"We are definitely not where we should be. Those guys proved that." commented Dax as she stirred their legume based war booty.
"Oh? How did they prove that?" asked Kina softly. She had her own thoughts regarding the situation and was curious to see if the red head agreed.
"They were too strong and too lightly armed." explained the slicer after blowing on a spoon full of beans. She taste tested a single bean afterward and found that it was still too hard despite cooking for three hours. It was a mystery to her that the beans were still hard when the water was boiling rapidly.
"They didn't seem that strong. I mean, they were tough for humans but we dropped em pretty easy." remarked the kunoichi with a yawn.
"We?" asked Dax curiously.
"Ok, ok, so I wasn't able to get here in time. Sheesh. You sent me out to scout the area. Get over it!" replied the ninja girl.
"True. However, they were pretty strong. Freakishly so." said the flame haired slicer as she stared at the strange pot of still hard beans. Mentally she commanded them to soften. She demanded sustenance.
"She's right. The two wearing robes were that tough but they were hard to hit. The one with the sword nearly killed me a few times." remarked Kina as she remembered the sword blade cutting a deep gouge in her side. Only her bone plates had saved her.
"Don't rule out the guy fighting with his bare hands. He beat the hell out of Christina before Thalia stunned him with a manabolt."
Mitsuki quirked an eyebrow. Christina was a pretty solid fighter for a low level catgirl. She had missed the confrontation Dax mentioned but if the guy was that good, then maybe she could give the rotting warriors a little more credit than she already had.
"So, what" They were a group of guys with heavy bloodgifts but no intelligence? I mean what human fights without a pokegirl to help them?" asked the ninja babe after blowing a lock of hair out of her eyes. She missed her bow. When they'd awoken here they were all naked. The only thing that had made the trip was Kina's former master's empty pokepack and dex.
"Maybe they were. Still, it doesn't feel right." confided Dax as she continued staring legume related death at the pot of beans.
The quarter continued to argue and consider their current situation for another few hours. Finally in the early afternoon the beans were ready. Unsurprisingly Thalia and Christina managed to show up not long after. A few half hearted comments such as, "Knew you'd be back when you smelled food." were spoken but for the most part the girls were eager to hear the news.
Thalia, a witch pokegirl, decided to relate the tale.
"Well, we wandered all over the place. South of here there is a small port and according to the dock workers there is a large city up north about a half-day's walk."
"What's it called?" asked Alys curiously.
"Corneria." responded Christina as she flicked her ears slightly. She was constantly scanning the area for would be threats. They had seen quite a bit of action since the fight with the humans. Some of it had even been with strange creatures and some things that looked like really short humans who had bad hygiene.
"Never heard of it." remarked Dax thoughfully. She was the most experience fighter in the group. A level seven slicer, she had actually traveled in a tamer's battle harem for a brief time before she had been traded away for a few weeks rations and a bicycle.
"Yeah, I don't think you would have. I doubt any of us would have." replied Thalia with a shake of her head.
"Why?" asked Kina.
"I really don't think we're in the Crescent league." replied Christina before Thalia could make the same statement.
"Where the hell are we then? Come on, we can't be that far from the pokecenter." scoffed Mitsuki.
"Well, for starters.. no one at the dock has ever heard of a pokecenter or pokegirls." replied Thalia.
Alys blinked and asked, "You're kidding right?"
"No. They thought Christina was a monster, but when she ducked behind a bunch of barrels to avoid them and shouted about how she was not a monster, they stopped and looked confused. Apparently they had never heard of a monster that disputed actually being a monster.." said the witch pokegirl with a smirk.
"They seriously didn't know you were pokegirls? They didn't pull out a pokedex or something?" asked Dax.
"They didn't have any. There were no pokedexes, balls, or packs. I don't even think they had electricity at that dock." said Christina.
"Well, maybe they just don't have any kind of electrical system?" asked Kina.
"That's not all though. There are weird creatures in the woods. We also helped them fight off a bunch of strange fish-men things that came out of the water wielding tridents and spears." explained Thalia slowly. Her slow speech patterns had more to do with her hunger than with emphasizing her point. Those beans smelled good.
"What sharptits?" asked Mitsuki.
"No. These things were clearly male and kind of tough. Six of them took down eight workers before we could all finish them off. Those workers were no slouches either. It was a good thing they had a healer on hand though. They almost lost a few people." answered Christina as her tail lashed lightly.
"Notice you have clothes." said Dax after the girls discussed their battles some more. Apparently there were large wild animals in the ones and short green or grey skinned humans that smelled like an open sewer wandering the wilds as well.
"Yeah, the workers scrounged up a few bits and pieces for us for helping out." said the catgirl as she tugged on her plain wool shirt and pants set. The material was itchy, but better than being naked.
The girls chatted briefly then served up the beans. The pot emptied quickly, leaving only a remnant of its former legume goodness behind.
When lunch was over they discussed their plans. They really had no choice in the end.
"Corneria, the City of Dreams, Huh?" asked Kina aloud. Somehow, for a pokegirl like her, there was no reason to believe in dreams. She was not hideous but few tamers had looked kindly at her. Even the one who had taken her had only done so in the hopes of trading her off for something more attractive. Bony plates and blue skin were not a turn on for most humans.
"Let's see if we can get there before nightfall." said Dax. A half day's walk for a human at a solid march might be less for their group. There was no guarantee though. They did not know the land after all.
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AN: So there we go. This entry into my pokegirl insertion challenge has begun. I will be making small chapters for this story. I am still working on another story primarily, and I want to at least attempt to keep this one going at a steady rate.
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