This story was influenced by 'Curse of the Lucario' and 'Return of the Cursed Gift' by Talkingbirdguy

I do not own pokemon, just the story and some characters

One more thing, this story will not contain any lemons, so if you came here for that, you will surely be disappointed. If you came here for a good story, I'll do my best. Please keep in mind that my writing skills may not be the best, so please be merciful.

With that out of the way, enjoy!

Chapter 1

I have been with pokemon my entire life. I've had a few as pets, friends, and some that I grew up with. But I've never really had a desire to capture them or become a breeder.

My name is Midnight, and I live in a city near the coast near the Kalos and Unova region. I live here with my mom, our Absol, Lucario, Umbreon, Fennkin and a Rapidash. I'm 13 and am currently in seventh grade in a pretty small but well known middle school.

I was in a place with many purple bushes and a green sky. Every leaf and berry seemed to carry the scents of rotten eggs and garbage, which made the air so stinky that I did not want to breathe in, but what could I do? It was then that the life-taking smell changed into a nice smell of meat being roasted.

But somehow the air got hotter and hotter, until it was burning- "AAAHH! It burns! Damn it! HOT!" I screamed as the dream suddenly vanished and I was back to the real world with fire on my butt.

Without a second thought, I ran straight to the bathroom and poured water from the sink to my poor burning butt. Wait, fire? Fennekin! I turned around in a flash and saw Fennekin sitting in front of me with eyes closed and a big smile.

"What the fuck Fennekin! How many times have I told to not wake me up like that!? You know it burns!" I shouted, Fennekin seemed startled by my sudden rage and took a few steps backwards. "Fennekin…" it mumbled.

I sighed, realizing that I went too overboard with my words, and bent down to pet its head as a symbol of apology. "I'm sorry Fennekin, it's just—" I went and picked up my blanket with a burned huge hole in it, "It's the 183rd time you burned me and my blanket, plus these things are expensive!" I turned around and faced the pokemon.

"Just promise me you won't do it again, okay?" Fennekin nodded, and I smiled.

We stood there looking and smiling at each other in silence, until it was broken by the irritating voice of my mom. "Midnight! Get down the stairs at once and eat your breakfast this instant!" Shut up mom, I'll get down when I feel like it!

But before I could lock the door to prevent my mom from coming and beating me up, I felt something pushing my leg. I turned around and saw Fennekin pushing it. Is it just me, or is Fennekin a better kid than I am?

I smirked at the thought, and exited my room and went to the kitchen. While going down the stairs, I nearly tripped on Umbreon, whom loves to play pranks on people and to sleep on the stairs. Stupid pokemon, what's so comfortable about the stairs anyways?

As I approached the kitchen door, I heard my mom say, "Eat your breakfast quickly, it's served on the table. Make sure you're on time to catch up to the bus." Yeah, yeah, whatever. I started eating my cereal; secretly feeding most of it to Umbreon, who had just woken up and entered the kitchen. Until to my relief, the horn of the bus finally sounded in tłhe distance after what seemed to hours.

I grabbed my backpack and made my way to the door with Fennekin following me. "Bye mom, bye Absol, bye Lucario, and bye Umbreon!" I waved at them. Absol's only reaction was a grunt while Lucario raised waved his hand and Umbreon jumped onto the table searching for food to fill its bottomless pit.

I stopped at the door, and bent down to pet the little fox pokemon, "And bye to you too, Fennekin," and raced to the bus. I looked outside the window and saw Fennekin still looking at me through the door, which was unusual.

"Looks like your Fennekin doesn't want you to leave, huh?" My friend Sarah said, looking at the window as she came and sat beside me in the back row. "I don't want to talk about it Sarah." I said while still looking out the window.

And so we arrived to school in time, of course. First of all, we all went to our lockers and put our backpacks in and grabbed our books. Then we went to the first period classroom and waited for Mrs. Liu to arrive and start the first period, language arts (the most boring period there can ever be).

Everything was fine and went on as usual until lunch break, when I finally had time to move away from the crowd. I sat on the branch of a tree alone with a leg dangling in the air, and this bully came to me. The 'one and only' Dusk, the big bully in our class that had been messing with me ever since fourth grade; and is still a pain in the ass today.

Why did he bully me? Apparently, he had a crush on me when he first joined the school; and on top of that, he was all yandere, stalking me everywhere and beating up people who dared to talk to me. One day, I had enough and openly rejected his confession in front of the whole school, humiliating him. From then on, he's been hating on me for rejecting him and became super sensitive when I said 'no' to him.

"Hey Midnight, tell me those answers for the math midterm." Yes, we had the math midterm earlier that usually lasted for about 2 classes, and yes, I might be rude and all but I was the smartest kid in class.

"Solve those questions yourself Dusk, or ask someone else." I said, not paying much attention to him and resting my head on the trunk. "You think that was a request!? Give them to me!" But before I could reply, he dragged my dangling leg and pulled me down from the branch and I fell down hard on my butt. He them slammed me to a tree, grinning at my surprise. "Now, are you giving them to me or not?"

"Let go of me! I won't give you the answers!" I tried to struggle free from his grasp on my shoulder but failed miserably as he tightened his grasp until it started to hurt.

"Fine, as you wish." He shoved me aside as I tripped over one of the tree's roots and splashed into a mud puddle, getting my whole body wet with it.

At this point everybody in the school was watching, until someone started laughing and almost everyone joined in. It was so embarrassing, and so angering that I couldn't resist the urge to run away and cry. I was humiliated in front of the whole school! Can this day get any worse!? Yes, yes it can. Dusk just had to add this phrase in, "Ha! What a coward! Running away like a crybaby!" And to make it worse, the students laughed even harder!

How did the rest of the school day turn out? Well every time I entered a classroom, with my muddied clothes, students would start giggling, laughing at me and even call me a coward or a crybaby! Even a teacher almost started laughing at my appearance. A freaking teacher!

As soon as school was over, I charged out of it as fast as I could, ignoring some eventual giggles and stares coming from people. I didn't want to get laughed at again in the bus.

But hell was it far away! I had to run 20 km nonstop! By the time I opened the door of the house, barely able to breathe, I heard my mom call to me from the couch, "Hey Midnight, come and watch these news." To my relief, she didn't laugh at mud covered clothes, only because she hadn't seen them yet, she was sure to scream at me for getting them dirty. But nothing was better than to relax and watch some TV after a humiliating day.

I stood there watching as the familiar reporter continued what he was saying."-Jacob Simmons, the son of famous Jason Simmons, has followed in his father's footsteps and has turned into a Lucario."

Huh, so that guy had a son, and he also turned into a Pokemon, how funny."It has been confirmed by eyewitnesses that he transformed while out at a local restaurant. And when the reporters went to the Simmons household to question wether or not the reports where true, this is what happened." He paused as the screen turned black for a second before being replaced with what was obviously someone holding a video camera. In front of the camera stood a Lucario that looked annoyed.

"Reporter John Pitts at the Simmons household where I have come in touch with the son of the legendary once Lucario, Jason Simmons. Jacob here has agreed to answer a few questions." I saw the Lucario, Jacob, start getting mad, but before he could say anything, the reporter shoved his camera into Jacob's face and said loudly, "What did you do to turn yourself into a Lucario? Can you share these secrets with the world? Or is this an incredible hoax to make the Simmons name famous once more?"

This reporter sure was annoying, no wonder this Jacob guy was getting mad. He finally said, "First off, get that recorder out of my face before I smash it. Second, I have no clue how I transformed. And if you think this is—"

"So you have no evidence to back your story of turning into a Pokemon?" The reporter interrupted him, and Jacob said in a cold voice, "You are no longer welcome on this property. Leave now, or I will call the police."

The reporter faltered and tried to push more, "But sir—"

"Leave." Jacob said in the same cold tone.

Then the TV switched back to the familiar reporter and he said, "Our on-scene reporter was unable to get anything else out of the Lucario who claimed to be Mr Simmons as he asked the other reporters who arrive shortly afterwards to vacate the property." He continued on with the other news and I quickly ignored them and turned on my phone.

For whatever reason, I felt like watching the video where the Jacob guy's father transformed into a Lucario, I hadn't watched it before, so it would be interesting to watch it since someone transformed into a Pokemon again. Right before I could even open up the website, my phone vibrated. It was Sarah; she had sent me that video!

It was labeled "Freak transforms into a Lucario. Not a scam!" I hit the button for it to start the video and it showed me that Jason guy, who seemed to be much younger, covered in blue light. I saw the transformation from the view of someone in the back of the room. His bones seemed to snap in places sickeningly. The fur that sprouted out of his skin seemed to be from those cartoons where you use hair growth cream that would turn out to be a really bad idea. His howls and face expression seemed horribly painful. "God" I said, that transformation seems terribly painful, I feel bad for those two guys.

Then mom turned off the TV and turned around to face me, her words interrupted as she saw my clothes. "How did you get all that mud on you young lady?" She said in an icy tone.

I explained to her about Dusk bullying me and stuff. And right after I finished, I ran upstairs before my mom could start one of her LONG conversations.

As soon as I got up, I ran to the bathroom and took a shower. After I finished, I went to my room, laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling, not bothering to do my homework. I tried to sum up what happened today; so I was bullied by Dusk and humiliated in front of the whole school, and there was this Jacob guy who turned into a Lucario. Seems like today didn't work out well for both of us, huh?

I continued to stare at the ceiling. So this is what you wanted, huh? To have revenge on me for humiliating you all those years ago. I closed my eyes. Nice, I hope you're satisfied now.

I had fallen asleep until my mother called us to come down and eat dinner. Again, I almost tripped on Ubreon whom I mentioned, LOVES to sleep by the stairs and trip people. We had a special dinner tonight, pizza! You see, my mom makes me eat a lot of vegetables and healthy things, they were good for the most part, but it got boring since I've eating stuff like that for like…forever! And my mom rarely orders junk food, because 'it's unhealthy', so it was very exciting when she did.

We, or rather, I, ate with a lot of pleasure. And I started laughing every now and then when I saw the look in Umbreon's eyes. It gave me that look that seemed as if it was saying 'Please give me some food, I haven't eaten in years!' Stupid pokemon, why would I give you my precious pizza when there isn't even enough for ME! The other pokemon just stared at us, nothing else.

And then I heard a rumbling sound. It didn't come from me or my mom. It sounded again, very loudly, it came from beside my chair; and guess who it was? Yup! Umbreon.

"Midnight! Feed something to Umbreon! You heard that rumble."

"Fine mom! Jeez!" Sometimes I thought that my mom cared more about Umbreon, her pokemon, than me. I mean, she's always angry at me, barely pays attention to Fennekin, my pokemon, or Absol, Lucario, and Rapidash, my dad's pokemon.

After dinner was over, I charged to my room at full speed, trying not to trip on you know who, as I ran up the stairs.

I had totally forgotten about my homework! Especially when there was so much to do! Now I'm done for! It takes more than 4 hours every time! Not to mention I have to study for at least 2 hours! I looked at the clock, it was already 8 p.m. Man I'm screwed!

I started with the hardest and most IRRITATING part first, math. All those calculations just drove me nuts! I kept cursing under my breath while doing it, especially when I suddenly realize that I made a mistake after what seems like hours of calculating and had to do it again. Ugh! Then I continued with the easier and less irritating parts, such as science, biology, humanity and stuff like that. But only to discover that the teachers had given me harder and more homework than usual. Not to mention the fact that I was humiliated today and the fact that someone actually turned into a pokemon, it was hard to stay focused.

It was already 12 p.m. by the time I finished with humanity (First math, then science, and humanity). Even Fennekin, who was usually sitting on my desk watching me do my homework, had drifted into sleep some good hour and half ago. I let out a yawn every now and then, until I was at my limit while still on biology (after humanity), I had taken too long on math, plus it was almost 2 in the morning.

I was too tired to even walk to my bed, or do anything at all, so I just laid my head on my arms. For a moment it felt like the most relaxing thing there could be in the world, and sleep flooded over me right after 2 seconds.

I woke up realizing that Fennekin was biting my arm, but I somehow felt no pain. Weird. I went to get some of the paint I used for projects and painted my face with it, put a boiling hot temperature measure in my mouth (again, not feeling the heat) and walked down to the kitchen and told my mom that I was sick. Then after I told her that, I went to my room worked on the unfinished homework from yesterday. And then after a while, a bloody image of a dead woman covered in burns and wounds with a shadowy figure standing behind her appeared. Then I suddenly felt a sharp pain on my arm, as if something was piercing through it.

"Aah!" I jolted awake as something bit down my on my right arm. I turned around and saw Fennekin biting down on it, just like before, except this time, I felt the pain. Hm. I must have been dreaming. Then the image of the dead woman suddenly came to me. But that image… it looked so real. And if the Fennekin biting me part actually happened, then does that mean… I shook the thought away. No! It can't be real, it won't happen! Then I looked at my unfinished homework. I had to get it done somehow, or I'll be laughed at again at school.

Then an idea came to me, what if I acted sick so I could skip school and finish my work!? I mean, it was Friday after all, so I had the whole weekend to get it done. But that's just like the dream…No… I shook my head to clear my thoughts, a dream is a dream, and maybe it's just a coincidence that part of my dream became real.

Anyway, if I'm going to act sick, I need to at least look sick. I went and grabbed the paint I usually used for projects and to paint for fun and carefully painted over my face with it. I had to redo it a few times; being the perfectionist I am, to make it look as real as possible. After painting over my face 3 times, I finally got happy of the results.

Then I went to get a thermometer and hanged it on a sting, telling Fennekin to use flamethrower on it. Then I went to get something that would block the heat a little and picked it up, after that, I put the thermometer in my mouth. Oh shit! It burns! I instantly spit it out, feeling my tongue burn like crazy. I picked it up, since it was too hot, and nobody could possibly get a fever with the temperature of 86°C, I went to the bathroom and started pouring cold water on it to cool it down. I stopped when it said 40°C, and put the thermometer in my injured mouth.

I then went down the stairs, Fennekin following close behind, to tell my mom of my 'fever'. She was frying pancakes today, which she didn't do often.

"Why are you up so early today?" She said, not taking her eyes away from the pan.

I tried to sound sick, "I've got a fever."

There was a moment of silence between us two, until she put the pancake on a plate and turned around to face me. "You can't fool me; I know you're not sick."

I dropped the thermometer on the ground and stared at her in surprise. "How did you—"

"You're face says it all, you painted your face with paint and heated up a thermometer." She interrupted me before I could finish my sentence. She walked over to me, "So, what's your reason for skipping school?"

I sighed, I had a near perfect record of attendance, and it was really rare for me to get sick. My mom trusted me enough to know that I had a reason for skipping school. "Remember what I told you yesterday? About being shoved into the mud?"

She nodded, "Well I want to take a break from school to avoid being laughed at, and maybe for people to get over what happened yesterday. I don't want to be made fun of by students first thing in the morning." I said, hiding the fact that I hadn't finished my homework yet. It was true, what I said, people would probably laugh at me again and Dusk would be feeling prouder than ever to tease me.

I heard my mom sigh, "Fine, but only today." I looked at her wide-eyed in surprise and happiness, she said yes!

"Thanks so much mom! You're the best!" I said as ran up the stairs, almost tripping on Umbreon again. I looked at my mom and saw a look in her eyes that said 'what am I to do with you?"

I quickly charged to my room, locked the door and started finishing my homework. Fennekin was asleep on my desk by the time I had finished my homework, only to suddenly realize I hadn't exactly finished my math homework. "Fuck! Why math!? Why couldn't it be anything but math!?" I screamed, slamming my desk, taking Fennekin by surprise and it fell on the floor.

After finally finishing my math after what seemed to b hours, cursing under my breath the whole time, I jumped up from my desk and started dancing around my room, celebrating that I was finally free from hell. I took Fennekin by surprise again, but this time it knew better than to sleep on my desk.

I danced around the room like I was out of my mind until my mom called me for lunch. I went down the stairs with a big smile on my face; I seemed to have startled Umbreon, who was sleeping on the stairs, because it immediately moved out of my way. And for some reason, Absol was walking in circles in front of the door.

As expected, my mom had prepared vegetables, which disappointed me a little, since I ate that basically every day, but it didn't make me lose my smile completely.

We ate in silence, there wasn't really much to say anyway. After I was done, I quickly got up and told my mom I was going to out to feed Rapidash. I heard her starting to protest, but I didn't bother and went out the backdoor.

I closed the door and started walking towards the fence, which was about 20 meters from the back of the house. Rapidash was already waiting at the fence for me when I arrived.

It wasn't exactly true that Rapidash needed food, because there were a few bushes that grew berries inside the fence, but there were no berries growing on them at the moment. I grabbed the basket to put berries in that was hanging on the fence and went around the fence to random bushes and collected some berries, not caring what it was; Rapidash ate whatever I gave it, anyway.

After filling the basket with berries, I walked over to the fence and went inside it. I put the basket down to let Rapidash eat the berries in it, and as it did so, I petted its side. "Good girl, make sure to eat it all."

I sat there on the grass, and waited for it to finish eating. When it finished, I grabbed the basket and went outside the fence and hanged it on it. I waved goodbye as I left Rapidash, "See you tomorrow!"

As I entered the house, I saw Fennekin sitting on the floor with a smile. I bent down and petted it with a smile, "Were you waiting for me?" Fennekin nodded. I ruffled the fur on its head a little, laughing as it gave me an annoyed look and walked away.

Mom was watching TV, as expected. "Hey mom, can I go out?" I asked.

"Where are you going?" She asked, not looking at me.

"Just to walk around, since I have nothing better to do, anyway." I responded.

"Okay then, just make sure to be safe and to return before 7 o'clock." She said.

"Yes, yes, whatever." I said as I opened the door, only for Absol to suddenly come and block the door. "What's wrong Absol? I'm only going out for a walk, no need to worry about me." I said as I went around the Pokémon, the only response from it being it turning around to look at me. Strange, I thought.

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