Hello, this is Forest Fire. If you read the story before, (Up to where I stopped) then you might be wondering why I was starting all over with this. Well It's being revised! Yayyyy! I could not conutie this story unless I fixed it up a bit. It's not going to ALL the chapters, but most of them that I feel like that need the most work. I hope you enjoyed this!
It was a peaceful day, it was, the Pidgey's were chirping their morning tunes, waking up all Viridan Forest home residents. A Rattata had covered her eyes from the sunlight from her hollow tree. She felt her brothers twitch from the beaming sun and the chirping birds. The eldest of the three Rattata's, a male with broad rat like shoulder, stood up first.
He then woke up the middle child, and the youngest caught of the three had caught little of what they were saying.
"Father is coming bright an early, were going out huntin' in the fields." The eldest chattered, while the younger one groaned, muttering words that the youngest Rattata didn't need to here. As the only female, and the runt, out of the three she was usually outcast by her older brothers, since they were to be out in the wild more often. Life as a Rattata was a hard one, especially when you only had such small territory, and had to go hunting and scavenging.
The two older boys left the tree, in search for their Father, while the youngest sat there a sighed. She sat up finally, when she knew the boys were gone, and stared out of the three. When you live the life of a young Rattata, you are mostly stuck in the home base tree, or was that just her? She hadn't explored the forest much, heck, truth be told she only been out there twice.
She cleaned her purple fur, she had to look pretty when Mother presented her self. She watched the forest Pokemon all playing, and she couldn't help but to feel envious.
Surely enough, Mother had came, as all the small Pokemon scattered from the Mama Raticate. She ordered the Rattata down from the tree, examining her like she has been for the past two times she been out.
"Fur is clean, very good. Never know when suitor will come." Mama Raticate usually skipped over words she felt like that didn't have a purpose. Rattata wondered if she skipped over her at time too because she had no other real purpose. Besides a breeding machine. Yes, Rattata did know what her purpose was, it was to pass down the genetics. It was a thought that had made her bitter.
Instead of just be married off to some random Rattata like her father had wanted too, her Mother had decided it was good to learn survival skills, to win a husbands love, and to seem to dean worthy of having a mate.
Mother and Daughter were off on the side of the road, where the humans usually used, so the female Rattata would at least know the roads.
"Beedrill territory north, very dangerous." She had then re-directed them east. Radicate was teaching Rattata which berries were good to eat, and which would kill your future family. Rattata, with no real interest looked over the forest area. It was far from home, further then she had been, and didn't know her way back. Though the slightest noise had always made her jump, she was getting use to a life outside the tree.
"Radicate! Radicate! There has been an upstart!" A Pidgey suddenly was perched on the branch above, obviously a messenger since it kept repeating what it said. Mother sighed at Rattata.
"I will be back young-ling, stay here." Rattata, knowing better to not speak for her behalf, sat and stayed. She watched as her mother had walked off in the forest, her destination still unknown.
Rattata stayed there for a long period of time, irritated that mother had not come back yet. Lousy Mother! Leaving her child to defend for herself! She thought spitefully, huffing at the thought. She didn't like to be left alone for long in the forest, you could easily become dinner for any Pokemon. Being at the bottom of the food chain and all. Something must have gone wrong was her next thought.
Which she was right.
The first thing she smelt was the smoke. She became a little edgy about that. Maybe a trainer has a fire Pokemon? That didn't help ease her mind any more. But she obediently stayed where she was. A few minutes later the ground startled to rumble. This made Rattata jump up with a start. Her eyes got wide as Pokemon were frantically rampaging. In her direction.
She quickly buried a hole in the ground, trying not to be stampede on. Most of the Pokemon that were in her area noticed the scared Pokemon and started to ask questions. The few who stopped to answered rambled on how they needed to get out of there. When questioned more, they just got up and left. This unnerved Rattata more, as the Pokemon were running around in all sorts of directions.
Then she saw the flames. They were huge, like a monster were licking the tree barks as food, and chomping on more and more. Scared out of her mind, she did the reasonable thing.
"Mother! Mother!" Rattata cried out frantically, and started to go crazy like the rest of the Pokemon. Then she remembered the river, maybe some water Pokemon could put out the fire.
She had little difficulties since all the Pokemon were running away from the river, mentioning how going there was dangerous. When she made it to the body of water, she could see why they were running away. There was yet another fire on the other side of the river, and the one behind her was catching up.
She could, just, yanno, jump in the water, but that unnerved her more then the fire. She didn't know how to swim. She knew what happened to drowned victims, they get no more air. Rattata didn't like the idea of not breathing. With the fire catching up to her, hearing the fellow Pokemon's scream she looked back at the river. It wasn't exactly calm. It had rapid movements and there was several rocks around the edges.
Great, I either burn or drown! Take your pick! She thought, looking at both. I have better chances with the water! She admitted to her self. She then jumped.
The current swept her away, more forceful then she thought it was going to be. She clawed at the water, trying to stay aloft. But as the current was saving her life from the fire, it would as be her death sentence, as it kept dragging her down in the current itself. Since she didn't know how to swim, she had struggled greatly. She saw a fast approaching rock in the middle of the river. Eyes wide, she had tried to dodge it by going to one side, even if the side were just as worst.
Fear finally made her try to swim against the current, with her claws aimlessly flailing everywhere. She then hit the rock. Hard. She squeaked in pain, as she was thrown to the sharp edges like a rag doll. She tried to push herself off the edges, but the current was to strong, and up ahead were many more rocks in the middle. She had then hit another rock, taking the strength out of her.
The water consumed her, she had no more power to fight this death. She had squirmed a little to breath, but that only made the blackness around her vision only close in faster. With air bubbles coming out of her nose, she finally fell unconscious.
When Rattata finally was regaining conscious she had started to cough the water out of her lungs. Peering down at the dirt, where she was particularly throwing up, she saw another shadow that was larger then hers. She looked up to see the Pokemon blocking the sun, so she couldn't see it's face. Defensive mode, finally kicking in, she jumped back.
The Pokemon was a blue ball with a white belly, and had a zig-zag like tail with yet another blue ball attached at the end of it. It was smiling down at her.
Looking at the Pokemon over, she realized that it was a Marill, from her mothers teaching of course. Then everything came back to her, like a slap to the face. A hard one. Freaking out in her mind, the Marill finally spoke.
"Whew! I thought you were a goner! I'm so glad to see you moving!" The Marill said cheerfully, as the Rattata looked surprised.
"Do you know what happened?" She asked the other Pokemon slowly, as the Marill had placed a paw on her lips.
"You were underwater silly! I mean, I found it strange for a Pokemon, who couldn't breath in water, was under water! So I merrily dragged you out and waited to see if you would wake up!" The Marill said delightfully, smiling at the Rattata.
"What about the fire?" The Rattata quickly asked, she needed to know.
"Fire? I didn't see any fire.." The Marill said, frowning for a fracture of a second, then went back to smiling again. Rattata's heart started to pound, has she became more fearful.
"What about any other Pokemon? Did you see any of them?" She asked the blue ball, scattering to get closer. The Marill shook her head.
"None besides the locals." Rena's heart sank as she looked for the closes tree. She needed to be in a high place. When she found one, she climbed up to the top. She looked at the three-sixty view. Over at the distance, maybe a week worth of travel or maybe more, she saw a black blob. Like the land has been chewed off wrong.
That can't be it! She thought, as she climbed down.
"I know where I need to go. Over in the distance. I need to know what happened!" She claimed to the Marill, tears coming to her eyes as her mind played several scenarios. She had to know what happened to keep her mind at ease.
"I'll go with you then!" The Marill blurted out, raising her hand like a pre-schooler. The Rattata stopped and looked at her, curiosity had filled her to the bone.
Why does she want to go with me? The rat thought, though touched by the kind offer.
"Oh! I totally forgot to introduce myself! My name's Bubble! What's yours?" Bubble asked quizzically, as the Rattata suddenly tried to shrink into a ball.
"I-I don't have one. I never got caught by a trainer..." The Rattata stammered, looking away. It's not like it bothered her not to be caught, but it wasn't the greatest feeling just being like your species. Just a breeder. Bubble looked at the Rattata long and hard, which made her feel uncomfortable.
"Ya know, you look like a Rena to me!" She finally claimed, smiling. the Rattata pondered on it, Rena did have a good ring to it. She actually liked it. And it made her feel special. Like a individual. The Rattata nodded, accepting the name. She would now be known as Rena the Rattata.
Rena looked at the direction the black blob was at, and she knew an a adventure was going to happen.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. R&R