Pikachu: Oh hey, a multi-chapter story.
ML54: Yeah, figured I'd try commiting to a long term project. Doesn't mean I'm giving up my one-shots, but I can have this story to have something a little easier, since it won't take me as long to write out these chapters. Plus, more PikaBun, mainly because I've really been neglecting this ship and a PMD fic will let me have more pairings as well, but it's gonna focus on the PikaBun! Disclaimer please!
Buizel: ML54 doesn't own Pokemon!
Waking Up
"Urg…What…?" A female voice said, grumbling. "Where am I…?"
"Oh good, you're finally awake!" A voice cheered from beside her. She cringed at the volume and turned to the side, trying her hardest to open her eyes and see who was beside her. "You've been out of it for quite some time!"
"I…I-I have?" She said, moving a hand up to her head to try and rub out the pain she felt there…
…that's when her hand hit an ear. An ear that was supposed to be on the side of her head, not the top of it.
She blinked, her vision still fairly blurry, and grabbed at the ear, bringing it down, seeing the long brown appendage and the cream coloured fluff adorning the top of it, and shrieked.
The voice from the side of her seemed to flinch and lay a paw on her shoulder. "Hey, calm down miss, it's okay! You're safe now."
She turned to the voice, and saw that it was attached to a small, green pokémon with two red flowers adorning the top of her head, one on each side of it, and a floral skirt.
Once the girl had calmed down, the pokémon beside her gave her a friendly smile. "That's better, I know you're probably confused right now. Anyway, I'm Bellossom, and you've taken a nasty fall from what I've heard."
The girl blinked at Bellossom, before she jumped up onto her feet in surprise. "W-wait! Y-you're a talking pokémon!"
Bellossom blinked at her, before she grew concerned. "Oh dear, it's worse than I thought, you've gone delusional!" She exclaimed, jumping into the nest-bed that she prepared in the room for the girl, and tried to lay the slightly taller girl down.
"W-what?! I'm not delusional! H-hey, please stop it," She said, wiggling out of the bellossom's surprisingly strong grip. "I'm a human! How can I understand you?!"
"What do you mean human?" Bellossom asked, stopping in confusion. "You look like an ordinary buneary to me."
The girl blinked, before spotting a basin of water in the corner of the room, next to the door, and rushed over to it, staring at her reflection.
In it, she saw a big brown face with a little pink nose, two long ears, one rolled up, but both topped with cream coloured fluff. Her eyes were big and brown.
She then looked down, noticing her chest of short brown fur, and her waist and feet being covered in the same cream fluff that her ears were. She brought her hands in front of her and noticed that they were now paws with remarkably flexible paw…finger thingies.
She looked to the basin again, the bellossom looking at her, slightly worried. "Um…Miss? Are you okay?"
"I'm…I'm…" She stuttered, before she brought her paws to her mouth, her eyes sparkling. "I'm adorable!"
Bellossom blinked as her patient happily looked over herself, extending and retracting her ears, admiring how stretchable her waist fluff was, pulling it out to cover her face a little, before she let it spring back down again. "W-well…Regardless, you're still my patient and I'd appreciate it if you sit back down so I can ask some questions."
The buneary blinked, before nodding and sitting back down, fiddling with her fluff. "O-okay."
"Thank you," Bellossom smiled, looking her over, checking her for injuries. "Let's start with a name."
"M-my name…Well um…I think…" The buneary stumbled, her eyes clenched shut, straining to remember.
After about a minute of this, something finally came to her. "…Gracie. I think…My name is Gracie."
"Aw, that's a lovely name," Bellossom replied, taking a small note pad from a side table that Gracie hadn't noticed before, writing down the information. "Where are you from, Gracie?"
"Uh…I…Um…" Gracie stumbled again, until she shrugged. "I can't remember."
"Oh dear, you must have suffered some memory loss from that cave in…" She said, writing that down.
"Wait! What cave in?!" Gracie exclaimed, causing Bellossom to jump.
"Oh right, I suppose you wouldn't remember. One of the clan members found you outside a collapsed mystery dungeon and brought you here. You must have been hit by a few stray rocks when you dived for safety," She explained, before bowing her head down. "I'm sorry, I don't know much more about the incident myself, but maybe you should ask the one who found you. He's outside, waiting to see if you're okay."
"Oh…Um thank you, wait do you have any more questions?!" Gracie asked when she noticed the Bellossom turn to leave.
"W-well…usually yes, but since you have amnesia and believe yourself to be human, I'm afraid you'd not be able to answer them so…well I don't see any outstanding injuries so I'm clearing you to be able to leave," She explained, rubbing the back of her head, sheepishly. "Just take it easy and, hopefully, your memories should come back to you."
Gracie blinked as the grass-type left, trying to comprehend what she'd just heard, before she sighed and flopped backwards onto the surprisingly comfortable nest. "Well…That could've gone better…"
After a little bit, the human turned buneary decided to see if she could get any answers about the cave in from the pokémon that brought her here.
She hopped out and found herself in a small room, with a chansey sitting at a receptionist desk, a couple of wooden stools that appeared to be made out of tree stumps, and one of said stumps had a pokémon sitting on top of it.
The pokémon was an orange weasel, his arms crossed while he looked to the ground, a brown bag slung over his shoulder.
When he looked up and noticed her, he let out a relieved sigh and smiled at her, causing her to think that he was the clan member that Bellossom was talking about, whatever clan member meant.
"Hey you're awake, thank goodness!" The pokémon said in relief, extending a paw towards her. "I'm Buizel, a member of the Serene Clan."
Gracie blinked at him, before taking his paw and giving it a quick shake. "I-I'm Gracie…I heard that you found me around a cave in?"
Buizel smirked, folding his paws again. "Straight to the point, I see?" She blushed in embarrassment slightly, not noticing him chuckle. "Relax, I'm just messing with ya. Yeah, I found you at the entrance to Valley Pass, you were just passed out on the side of the entrance and I found ya just as me and my partner were about to head on in."
"O-oh…I'm sorry if I distracted you from something," Gracie said, kicking up a little dust with a foot, holding her paws behind herself.
Buizel rolled his eyes. "It's fine, we were only going on a little adventure, Pachirisu gets a little antsy if she stays cooped up too long. I brought you back here while she investigated the area to see if she could find some form of ID that may belong to you," He explained, before his eyes got serious again. "Are you holding up okay?"
"Yeah…I guess. I just…can't seem to remember anything," Gracie mumbled, causing Buizel to frown in concern.
"Guess that means you don't have anywhere to go then, huh?"
Gracie's eyes widened, only just realising this. Oh drat! Where am I supposed to live?!
Buizel saw her panic and laid a paw on her shoulder. "Well, if you don't have anywhere to go, you could always come with me to Serene Clan headquarters. You could get a job there?"
"A…A-a job?!" Gracie exclaimed, fiddling with the fluff on her waist. "Oh, I don't know, I don't think I'd be much help."
Buizel leant down to eye-level and gave her a wink. "Hey, don't sweat it, you'll obviously get training and, if Pachirisu doesn't find anything, we can always help find out where you came from…"
Almost as if summoned, a small white squirrel like pokémon with a large bushy tail rush into the room, looking around for something.
She turned to see Buizel and Gracie and her eyes set in a glare, inter-cutting between the two and set her gaze on Gracie, who jumped back in surprise.
"Hey, back off girlfriend! Buizel's my honey-bunch and I ain't gonna let you take him!"
Gracie's eyes resembled dinner plates as she waved her paws in front of her and shook her head. "W-what no! I wasn't trying to-"
"You can't fool me! You ain't the first one who tried to steal him away from me and if I see you-"
"Pachirisu," Buizel sighed, rubbing his paw between the smaller pokémon's shoulder blades, causing the squirrel to sigh, happily, and immediately become docile. "Have you eaten yet? You get really paranoid when you're hungry."
"…no," She admitted, before Buizel went into the bag he was wearing and produced an apple, which Pachirisu grabbed and started munching on, hungrily.
Gracie blinked at this, causing Buizel to grin at her, sheepishly. "Sorry, Pachirisu's a little eccentric, especially when she's hungry, she should calm down now."
Once Pachirisu had finished her snack, she licked her lips, happily, before she gasped and turned to the buneary. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to say those awful things!" She exclaimed, grabbing her by the shoulders to give the slightly taller girl a hug, causing Gracie to blush in embarrassment.
"Oh, talk about a bad first impression, huh? I'm not usually like that, I promise, it's just that me and Bui-Bui were going out on a date and then we found you, so our day off turned into a work day and he had to run you to the infirmary, meaning I had to spend four hours on my own, investigating the area, then these ariados jerks tried to attack me, so I had to zap 'em, then I realised that Bui-Bui had our explorer bag and then I had to rush back here on an empty stomach and then I see you two standing eye-to-eye and I just snapped and I'm so sorry!"
Gracie blinked, a little disorientated at how quickly all that information was thrown at her, before patting the squirrel on the back, awkwardly. "U-um…I-it's okay."
"C'mon Pachi, stop smothering the girl," Buizel said, picking the squirrel up and away from Gracie, placing her on his head, where she sighed and dropped her head down onto his, her ears folded down.
"U-um…it really is okay Miss Pachirisu," Gracie said again, kicking her foot against the ground a little. "I'd probably snap if I had a bad day too…"
Pachirisu groaned. "Aw, I didn't mean to say helping you ruined my day! Oh, I am a horrible pokémon!"
Buizel smiled slightly, and brought her tail around his chest so that he could stroke it, comfortingly. "I'm sure she doesn't mind, Pachi, don't worry about it. Just don't do it again and she'll forgive you."
"R-really?" Pachirisu asked, her eyes lighting up as she looked at Gracie, who grinned back, sheepishly.
Man, her mood just jumps all over the place! "Yeah, don't worry about it, I'm fine!"
"Yay!" Pachirisu chirped, happily, her ears springing back up and her tail swishing around the water-type to show her new, happy mood.
"So, did you find anything?" Gracie asked, already knowing the answer.
The squirrel sighed, her mood slightly sagging again. "No, sorry. I didn't find an explorer badge or anything!"
Buizel hummed and motioned for Gracie to follow him. "Well, I guess you'll have to come to the Clan then, just to at least earn some money."
Gracie sighed a little, feeling a little roped into this, but knowing that her only other choice was to sleep on the street with no money or food. Guess I really don't have much choice…
"Okay, I'll come with you," Gracie said, starting to hop behind the weasel, finding it easier to do so than walking.
Pachirisu turned so that she was now resting over Buizel's head sideways, so she can look at her properly. "Great! You'll love it at the clan! It's so much fun! We get to explore, make rescues, capture outlaws, go on trips, make new friends, eat good food, sleep on great beds…"
Gracie grinned, listening politely to the squirrel, but her thoughts suddenly turned to the two questions that were plaguing her mind since she woke up:
Who was she? And why was she here?
ML54: Welp, that's the first chapter! A human turned buneary who doesn't have any idea why she became a pokémon, off to join an organisation to help un-cover that mystery...
...I know it doesn't sound very original right now, but don't worry! I hope to set myself apart from the games soon enough!
Also, I must thank VGS2 the sexy sausage for giving this chapter a proof read! And I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend his story, Game Changer while I'm at it, if you need some Lagomorph shipping, then you can get some there! I'm reading it and loving it thus far, so I'm sure you guys will too! :D
Please R&R guys!