This couldn't be fit into the description but this was inspired by an amazing fanfiction called I Became a Vulpix. I hope you enjoy this story this story, I'm personally not too confident in this so if you have any advice, things you like, or opinions at all on this I would very much appreciate you leave a Review.

Dark, everything was so dark. I couldn't see anything, it felt like the world was spinning. I could barely stand and was blindly stumbling through the dark. Where am I? "Help me! Somebody help me!" I voice... a young voice... a woman? "Please!" trouble... someone's in trouble. Need to find her, where... Colors, dark colors, swirling, twirling blurred. Noises, metal falling, glass breaking. Screaming, still screaming... people, two people. Someone on the ground, tall man standing, can't see clearly... where am I? Burning, skin on fire, can't breath... have to help. Running, stumbling, running forward. Big, Giant, too tall. I hit something the giant fell. My skin's hurting, trying to pull the skin off of my neck, can't feel the ground. swinging my arms, kicking, screaming, more screaming, falling, head hurting... gotta fight... can't move.

I woke up to blinding lights. It almost hurt to open my eyes. I felt weird, no I can't breath... oh god! I can't breath! I tried to breath, it hurts! Oh God everything hurts! I can't move! I tried to scream for help, but I barely let out a gasp. "It came back!" a woman's voice screamed.

"That's impossible I have no heart readings!" another voice yelled

"Quick jump start it's heart, we almost have it. Stay with us!" the woman yelled again. Something pressed against my ribs "Clear!" a harsh shock to my body convulsed and made me bounce off of the bed. My heart moved a few times before it stopped... I could feel my own heart! Why can I feel my own heart?! "Clear!" another shock. I could breath again, the pain is horrible! It hurts to breath! I panicked I tried to sit up but even that hurt, I tried to look around but I couldn't see, doctors surrounded me but I couldn't see the room. My mind was racing, simply being alive was nothing but pain. I want it to stop, please make the pain stop! Thoughts rushhing into my brain, too fast to hold on to, need space, need air, I need to get up! Like burnning knives in my stomache, head throbbing, heart burning, it felt like my skin was on fire! I'm in a hospital? What happened to me?! I struggled more to sit up but the doctors held me down, I fought against them. I screamed and flailed as I tried to get out of their hands. I couldn't even hear my own voice. Nothing but Screams in my ears! I felt a sharp pain on my side. I slowed down, my vision blurred, the screams faded, I couldn't keep my eyes open.

I woke up, I could feel something numbing my body but I could feel a slight pain across my spine. The anesthetic must be running out. Was I really in a hospital? I tried to think back but my memory was fuzzy. I could only remember screaming. What happened? I tried moving my hand but it felt weird, I looked at it. It wasn't a hand, I had a paw! It was covered in red fur. My mind was still in a haze but I could feel lingering panic as I looked up my arm but it changed from red fur to grey. This had to be a dream but as I looked around I did realize I was in a hospital. I tried to move my arms and saw those fuzzy red and grey legs move on some sort of operation table. I could feel the fur -my fur- shifting and rubbing against the table. It hurt to move my head but I had to see something, I looked behind me and saw more grey fur with my body ending in a very fluffy tail. I was some sort of Fox that much I could tell. How did I become a Fox though? It seemed like a dream or even a nightmare, but the pain- the pain felt real. I could feel my body aching slightly around my stomach and across my spine. It is impossible, not even a one in a million odds. Evidence went against reason right now, this can't be happening. Yet somehow I was a weird Grey and Red fox, I couldn't place it but something felt familiar.

Their were electrodes attached to me connecting to a machine keeping track of my heart rate. Looking at it I noticed it had a somewhat irregular pattern to the beeping, my breathing did feel a little labored but it wasn't painful. I tried to stand up but my back right leg had shooting pain even with the lingering painkillers and only managed to lift myself a few inches before crying out in pain and falling back down. I started breathing heavy trying to cope with that pain and calm down as a result the machine I was hooked up to started beeping faster. I guess someone heard the commontion because a nurse ran in. This wasn't any regular nurse this was a nurse I had seen for about 20 years. A nurse with pink hair. I could barely beleive my eyes as I read the name tag "Joy" was this seriously Nurse Joy? I want to beleive I'm dreaming but the pain combined with feeling real fur tells me otherwise.

The Nurse checked me, tenderly touching me trying to check to see what is wrong. Then she touched my broken leg a quick pain shot up my leg and I flinched from the shock. I heard her let out a soft sigh and gently petted my head "You're lucky you didn't displace your leg after all that work we went through." she cooed. The petting felt oddly relaxing and without much thought I could feel my fluffy tail moving in joy. "Try to relax, with everything you've been through you were lucky to be alive." what did she mean by that? What happened? She stopped petting me and checked on a few other machines I didn't realize I was hooked up to. she switched out a bag of liquid that was hooked up to me. I wasn't entirely sure what it was for but I could make a few guesses. On closer inspection of everything I realized I had more than a broken leg. I had bandages wrapped around my torso I felt quite a few stitches and one of my ears felt weird, I could only guess I had a chunk taken out of my ear. Before I had time to think about any of my other problems a young girl, I guessed maybe early 20's maybe mid-20's, with blonde hair tied but in a rather small ponytail, fair skin and modestly dressed, it reminded me of those times my mom or sisters would get dressed up for some get together with friends. Beside her their was an older man who was clearly a police officer if the uniform was anything to go on. He had scruffy facial hair as if he hasn't had time to shave in a while and brown hair with signs of graying.

"Is Zorua okay?" the girl said in a worried tone. So I became a Zorua? What is happening? Pokemon don't exist so why is their a Nurse Joy here and why have I become a Zorua? It all feels so real yet it can't possibly be real. They clearly didn't know I was a human turned into a Zorua or they wouldn't be talking or treating me like this. When did this happen and how?

Nurse Joy tried to calm the girl down "He's fine he just didn't realize his leg was broken. He's been through a lot already but I can comfortably tell you the worst is behind us."

The police officer spoke up "He's a tough little guy too, He survived being poisoned, stabbed and thrown and he's still ready to get up, I don't think he's going anywhere." he smiled and reach out to pet me but I pulled my head back. Seeing that big hand of his reach for me was a little intimidating. He seemed dissapointed but didn't try to force it. I felt sort of bad that I upset him but his hand was almost as big as me and he was huge, it was scary.

"Tough as he may be he's still just a Zorua and he has been through hell and back he might be nervous around people for a while" Nurse Joy explained "It might be best to give him some peace and quiet while he heals." The two hesitated but quietly left with the girl looking over her shoulder and staring at me with eyes that seemed almost sad, did I know her? I quietly watched as this sight unfolded in front of me a real life Nurse Joy doing medical work on a guy who somehow turned into a Zorua that got violently mauled. Thinking on it now if I really was a Zorua then that would mean I have special powers and could have awesome battles just like in the Anime. I would guess this is closer to the anime version because Pokemon Centers always were bigger and more complicated in the Anime than the games. Could I even use my powers?

The Nurse took a small light and started shining it in each eye "Can you see?" she asked me "You took a few serious blows to the head and a few small sections of your brain have been bruised." Did she really expect me to answer? I wasn't sure if this was a direct copy of the anime world or some other version of pokemon. Did Pokemon understand human language properly or even have the intellegence or capabilities to answer? If I was a Pokemon but I used to be a human could I speak english or would I speak in the language of a Zorua? I didn't want to risk it, not right now. Who knows what would happen if she found out I wasn't a pokemon? Instead I just nodded. She seemed happy with this "Good to see that you've had no loss of hearing either." She smiled as she stood up "You know you are extremely lucky. I have seen plenty but I have never seen something like this let alone have a pokemon as small and young as you survive all of this. What has happened to you has created some serious talk." she commented with a twinge of admiration in her voice. Really? Their are plenty of news stories about animals before but I don't think something like this would be news breaking. Animal abuse is bad and it does get advertised every now and then but not like that. Why was my case so special?

"Nurse Joy!" another nurse yelled as she stormed in, I scooted back as much as my body allowed. This big loud creature storming in made me nervous. I think Joy noticed and had a flash of irritation on her face, from this lady scaring me but tried her best to hide it.

"What is it?" Joy questioned

"Journalists are asking to see the Zorua they-"

"Absolutely not!" Nurse Joy interrupted "The poor thing has gone through enough, it doesn't need all of the lights and noise right now. You have my permission to call security on them if they refuse to leave!" I was surprised when she snapped like that. But she does seem to genuinely care about me and my safety. I know I'm just a Zorua and not evolved but she treated me like a lost puppy. It felt almost demeaning in a way. I tried not to take it personally since she couldn't know but I didn't like all these people treating me like an animal. I thought back to how I enjoyed the petting I got from Nurse Joy and felt embarrased. I still have almost no clue what was happening either, one moment I am in my house and the next thing I know I got transported into the pokemon world, put in the body of a pokemon and nearly killed. I was shaken out of my thoughts by watching the new nurse run out to relay the message and actually got hit with the door on the way out. It got a laugh from me but I quickly noted it wasn't my typical laugh. It was tiny and sounded almost michevious it almost reminded me of a less threatening hyena laugh, it was a childish sounding snickering. Joy let out an exasperated sigh "At least we know you're feeling well enough to laugh" she gave a light smile that look almost exhausted. "You know one of your greatest tricks was making us think you died" she continued not wanting to look me in the eye "You really had us worried your heart stopped for a couple minutes and stopped moving." it surprised me, I was clinically dead for several minutes and I suddenly came back? "While I might not agree with all the things people have said about you I can agree that you are a fighter. You never gave up." while I didn't fully understand what she meant it made me feel sort of happy that I made her happy. I felt a weird sensation of having my tail start wagging, it was almost mesmerising in one way, felt weird in another, but overall felt kinda nice. I always wondered what it felt like to have a tail.

Though thinking back to what Nurse Joy said, I wondered what people where saying about me? It didn't sound like what was being said was good. I didn't do anything why are people talking bad about me? A good part of my memory was hazy, did I do something? No, I haven't even had time to do anything wrong. To my own surprise I let out a yawn "Still tired? You've been sleeping all day, but I guess some more sleep can do you good." Nurse Joy thought to herself. I was gently put into this cage that I couldn't say was big but it wasn't small either, it was a decent size. Their was a soft dog bed on on side almost taking up the length of the cage and put a small dish of food I couldn't identify and a bowel of water. Again I felt very embarassed by all of this. Being treated like a dog didn't sit well with me but a part of me just wanted rest so I didn't fight it too much she put me in the bed and made sure I could reach the dishes from where I was. I guess she was still worried about my leg. After some rearranging with wires I was nicely set into my cage with the heart monitor still attached to me. She turned off the lights and let me know that if anything happened they would know because of the machine and cameras and would rush in right away. Then she walked out. I was left alone now with nothing but the lights seeping in through the door, a beeping machine, this cage and my thoughts.

I had a lot of thoughts. Was I really in the pokemon world? Was it exactly like the anime or was it diffrent somehow? Why did this happen to me? Usually in stories this kind of thing happens for a reason and I would have some special mission or purpose but from where I stood this happened for no reason. Great start for an epic adventure, huh? Would I actually have the powers of a Pokemon? Would I have battles? Those were always the best part of the show and movies. Dodging lightning fast attacks, jumping twice my body height, shooting things from my mouth, that would be so cool. I let out another yawn, I really was tired but I had so many problems. Thinking too hard with no restful sleep wouldn't do me any good. I resolved to at least try to sleep on a dog bed, as embarrasing as it was. It hurt a little to lay on my belly and laying on my side hurt more, with my barely connected leg held in place with looked to me like a tiny cast I didn't want to shift on my back and risk pulling on it in some way so I decided that my belly was the best option. I found myself getting comfortable and slightly curling into a ball restristed mostly by my leg. The fluf of the bed somehow felt almost... nostalgic. It was fuzzy and welcoming, I found myself almost wishing it was longer so I could bury myself into the fluf. I let out a happy sigh and started to drift.

My sleep was far from peaceful my hearing was so good and I was so on edge that noises from out of my room kept waking me up. I stayed in my bed, the cushion was fuzzy and oddly comforting, it made me feel safe. At one point during the night I decided to test out my body. I tried standing as best as I could and managed to pull myself up with only three legs. Though it was embarrassing to actually be standing like a dog it didn't feel too... "out of place" I guess are the words I'm looking for? It probably would be more comfortable without keeping track of my other leg but as it stood it felt natural. I tried to focused on my senses and even though it was still mostly dark in my room my eyes seemed to almost pierce the darkness, it wasn't as clear as vision in the day time but I could still make things out easy. It seemed I had decent night vision, I could feel my ears twitching and moving as I listened to the light work that was outside my room. I noticed the light seeping in was dimmer than before, maybe it was night? I couldn't tell from in here since their wasn't a clock. I guess it made sense, why would they need a clock in a recovery room for animals? Still it would be nice to have something to do.

I started thinking back to everything that happened, I tried to pinpoint at what point I entered this world. The problem was I couldn't find that point, it happened too fast. I went to sleep in my bed then... I was really groggy and almost blind. They said I was poisoned, was the exact moment somewhere around that attack? The timing didn't make sense. My memory was in pieces and some parts were missing. Maybe that too had to do with my injuries, Nurse Joy said I had bruised sections of my brain from being beaten, some sort of blunt force memory loss? The more I thought about it the less it made sense. I'm convinced this is real but outside of this I had no information. The only other thing I had was... the girl! It seemed like she knew me. I don't even know if I can speak english with this muzzle and I might have lost my one chance to learn more! "Damnit!" I yelled but even though I knew what I said it didn't sound like it. I just made typical sound a pokemon would make. That just means I still would have no way to get information unless I could somehow question pokemon but I wasn't sure if I could understand them, I could absolutely speak the language of a Zorua but could I speak only to my own kind or all Pokemon like in the anime?

A nurse ran into my room startling me out of my thoughts. I crouched in the safety of my bed trying to hide or at least sink into the shadows. She turned on the lights and glared at me. I guess she didn't understand what I said and assumed I called out for no reason. She turned off the lights and trudged out angrily. Like Nurse Joy said, they would come right away if it sounded like I had a problem. I relaxed my tensed muscles and decided to try and get some good sleep.

I stood in the middle of the biggest meadow I had ever seen. I felt a calm breaze blow past me and heard the faint whistling of the wind. The grass was a flawless fresh green, and the sky had barely any clouds. There was a feeling of pure joy in my chest as I looked towards the forest. I wonder what's in there? It was so dark but the sun was shining brightly. Yet the forest didn't seem scary, it was a feeling of pure childlike wonder. I stopped as a woman yelled my name, I looked around trying to find the person that called out for me. I knew it was important but I couldn't find the source of the voice.

I woke up to the gental voice of Nurse Joy "Rise and Shine," she cooed "You have a visitor." I yawned loudly and streched out my legs and back before struggling to a sitting position. I was carefully taken out of the cage and set down on the recovery table. As I sat there still groggy and barely wake I thought back curious of my own dreams, it was a really plesant dream actually. Almost like something from a fairy tale. The magestic Meadow, the amazing grass, the pure blue sky, and the pretty forest. The excitment I felt in the dreams carried over somewhat, because even though I was groggy from being woke up, I could feel my heart racing a little. I remember a voice too but I guess that was just Joy waking me up. I felt a litle angry from being woken up from the best dream I have ever had. I silently prayed it would be a recurring dream.

As I was brought back to what was happening I was surprised to see it was the girl from yesterday, she poked her head through the door quietly as if to see if I was awake or if she should let me sleep. The girl had her hair tied up yesterday but now that she let it down I noticed she had ear length, wavey blonde hair. she had on a light coat and some casual (but still rather pretty) clothes obviously meant for the colder seasons. Was it winter outside? Maybe fall? Nurse Joy quietly left the room as the girl entered trying to hold back a smile but failing. The Girl on the other hand had a bunch of diffrent emotions on her face and I'm not sure I could place them all. Saddness? Joy? Guilt? She seemed so sure yet so conflicted as she walked up to me and pulled up a seat so she could be almost eye level.

"My name is Haley." She said softly "Do you remember me?" I'm sure she doesn't mean from last time as I was just coming out of surgery, because even then she acted like she knew me, was I her pet somehow? I slowly shook my head not wanting to take my eyes off her. My answer seemed to almost hurt her but she kept it in "You saved my life last night." she said with the same soft tone trying to avoid crying. She seemed really shaken up, I know near death expirences can really shake some people but this felt diffrent somehow. She must have seen the confusion on my face and continued "After the man ran away I saw how hurt you were and drove you here as fast as I could. You were bleeding so much, everyone took you for dead, even I thought medical help couldn't get you in time. I panicked, so I picked you up and drove you there myself." I could see her reliving that horrible moment as she was saying it, I didn't know how to feel about all this, she seemed so torn up over it but it didn't feel like it happened to me "When they first told me you were dead, I was so sure that it was me that killed you, but then you just... woke up." she laughed to herself at that part. It didn't last and she looked like she was about to cry "You got hurt really bad because of me, but I wanted you to know that I think you're amazing." she gave me a warm smile. She reached out to touch me and I ducked out of the way of her hand. That's when I saw the tears she was fighting back finally give out. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she struggled to regain composure "I-If I didn't act like such a coward right then maybe you would be fine. You wouldn't be stuck here and you wouldn't have forgotten!" I didn't want to make this poor girl cry, she thinks this is all her fault, no one could have known any of this would happen. She acted I like was the hero and all she was is a burden, that couldn't be farther from the truth! She was the real hero if she didn't take me here I would have died from any number of injuries, she's my hero. I nudged her hand with my nose inviting her to pet me, she took the invitation and slowly started stroking my head and her hand slowly travelled down my neck and back. It felt nicer than the ones Nurse Joy gave, I think she thought thought this was nice too. I could hear the sniffling slow down the more she pet me. We stayed like that for hours it felt like. She did a quiet but happy giggle "You really are something special."

After a while Nurse Joy came back and Haley stopped petting me, it was very dissapointing. "We have asked to be updated if they find any traces of a Zoroark around the city limits but we've got no signs. The poor little guy might be all alone. I know you and your father mentioned considering adopting him, have you come to a choice yet?" She asked Nurse Joy asked

"Yes!" Haley quickly replied standing out of her chair "He just too sweet to abandon! Especially after what he's been through. We actually got started preparing for him" she smiled glancing down at me. I gave a smile back, it was nice to see her happy. But the thought of being her pet was not too appealing. I would rather be allowed out into the wild so I can do what I want and maybe figure this out. She seemed nice but what was her family like, were they abussive, would they be those annoying pet owners that got too clingy, I'd be stuck in a house of who knows how many people and I would have to be obedient and do whatever any of them said. I didn't like the sound of that future. It didn't sound like a good future for me. How long does a Zorua live for anyways? If they are even remotely similar to real dogs that would mean have at least 10 good years of being a pet at least before dieing or even worse living longer than that and possibly having to get put down from an old and failing body. Living a very short and freedomless life, the thought of that unnerved me. On that same note I had no idea what powers I had or how to use them, how would I survive in the wild? My gut is telling that the pet option was the best choice but I hated that option. The more I thought about it the less it even seemed like an option.

"I couldn't agree more." Joy smiled "We will have to do some tests to make sure he is healing properly but if everything goes well he should be healed enough to leave in two weeks." So I have two weeks before I can leave and become a pet. The thought crossed my mind that during my first opportunity once I leave the Center I could bolt and never come back. But then I thought of Haley and how sad she was. I think my heart would break with that on my conscience. Haley seemed happy about the news and nearly ran out the door.

"It's a nice friend you've just made." Nurse Joy said once she was sure Haley was gone. "If you want to go with her then we need to make sure you get better." she said as she started to push the bed I sat on out the door. I was startled by the sudden movment and crouched lower to the bed so I didn't fall over. I wish I could say this was all a dream but I came to realize this was all too real. As I was carted out of my room, I was bombarded with new smells, many of them I didn't recognize and I realized just how isolated I was in my room. I saw people walking back and forth through the hallways, some nurses, some doctors, there were also people that didn't seem to work here but were either on their way to visit some unknown pokemon or leaving from their visit, some of them looked happy while others worried. That's when another question came to mind: Where are all the pokemon?

This was supposed to be a Pokemon Center yet even as I got carted through the halls to some unknown room, I didn't see any other pokemon. I tried to scan the corners and hallways as we passed hoping to get some glance of someone else. Nurse Joy thought I was getting restless "Calm down, We are almost there. You'll be out of here before you know it" I hope these next two weeks would pass quickly, as much as I wasn't eager to be someones pet, I was already getting bored of being in this hopsital.