Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon; Island Locators

Chapter 1

"Come on, we have to hurry!"

"What? What are you so worked up about?"

"There!"

"Isn't that-"

"Look out!"

"Waaaah!"

(-)

A small, fuzzy pokemon could be seen from the docks. It had brown fur, with white fur that would be a bit more fluffy if it wasn't wet. It appeared to be diving into the water, desperately looking for something.

Finally, one of the pigeottos that were guarding the boats yelled, "Someone get that fur ball out of the water before he drowns!"

A few pokemon who heard just glanced at each other, then went on with their business. The pigeotto sighed, before he, too, went on with his job.

The pokemon continued diving, looking for whatever he was looking for, until he resurfaced again and noticed something.

A blue dot was washed up against the rocks, unmoving, just there, nearly getting washed away with the tide.

Curious, he started to swim closer to it, wondering what it was.

The pigeotto back at the docks noticed him going towards the rocks and yelled, "What are you doing, you blasted eevee, you could get hurt!"

The eevee ignored him however, because the closer he got to the dot, the more it looked like another pokemon.

Sighing, the pigeotto took flight, deciding that he needed to drag the eevee out, despite the fact that he had a job to do.

But his much keener vision saw what the eevee did not. On the rocks was a Mudkip, severely hurt, about to get dragged into the ocean. He didn't find this as urgent as getting the eevee out, though. A Mudkip was a water pokemon, hurt or not.

Swooping down, the pigeotto grabbed the eevee around the torso with his claws.

"Hey! What are you doing! Let go!" the eevee protested.

"It's just a mudkip, kid, let's go," the pigeotto said.

"Aw, Cloudbearer, you're no fun! And it's on the rocks, it could be hurt!"

"It is hurt. I'll go get it later, after I bring you back to the dock. You know, if you want to be in the water all the time then get a water stone and evolve into a vaporeon," Cloudbearer grunted.

"…It's hurt…? You left it there, hurt, when I was fine? What's wrong with you!" the eevee growled.

They arrived at the dock and Cloudbearer carelessly dropped the eevee onto the rotting wood. He growled as he slapped onto the rough surface, but didn't say anything as Cloudbearer spread his wings to take off again.

"Lupe, for once in your life, stay here so I can bring the mudkip back."

"Well, this is the only time I've waited for a pokemon to be brought back."

The bird glared over it's shoulder at Lupe, before taking off into the air again to retrieve yet another pokemon.

(-)

The mudkip winced as she felt something grab her torso and lift her up. Her stomach felt raw along with the rest of her body and she struggled to remember what happened to her. She also couldn't recall her name, nor anything else that would help identify her.

She heard flapping of wings, for each flap, a new wave of pain shot through her until she finally passed out again from the pain.

(-)

Reawakening, she could hear a plethora of sound coming from all around her. It started to make her head pound, and she tried to desperately tune it out to go back to sleep, but no such thing happened.

Instead, a young male's voice asked, "Leave her alone, the mudkip's pretty torn up."

'Mudkip? What are they talking about?' she thought, slowly opening her eyes.

"Shh, she's waking up."

Forcing her eyes to fully open, she found that the noise wasn't from a group of people, in fact, she realized that it was probably hardly anything, it was just a nurse Chansey, an eevee, and a pigeotto.

She was suddenly fully awake. Jumping up, she backed away from the pokemon that were far to large to be normal.

The Chansey was a ways away from her to notice her behavior, but the eevee and pigeotto weren't.

"Hey, we won't hurt you. Just tell us what happened," the pigeotto said soothingly.

This only succeeded in freaking out the mudkip further.

'I can understand what they're saying! That can't be normal,' she thought urgently.

"Hey, Cloudbearer, I think this mudkip hit her head pretty hard on the rocks," the eevee said not so subtly.

The pigeotto waked it with its wing, before hissing, "Don't be rude! For all we know she could have been attacked!"

"But she's still acting weird. It's like she's never seen pokemon before," the eevee whispered back.

'Not pokemon that were so big and could talk,' she thought to herself.

"Plus, she was KO'd on the rocks earlier, and she could've just swam out. She is a mudkip."

"Wh-what!"

The two pokemon looked back at her startled.

"I-I'm a-! No, that can't be right! I'm a human!" the mudkip cried.

"See, she obviously hit her head. She's claiming she's human now," the eevee insisted.

The pigeotto tilted his head thoughtful. "Not so, Lupe. There have been rumors of two pokemon that were humans. Although whether it's true or not is doubtful," pigeotto mused.

"You're crazy old man," the eevee muttered.

"I'm not old! I'm only a few years older than you!" Cloudbearer protested.

Meanwhile, mudkip had already stopped paying attention to them and was pacing on the mat she had been sleeping on.

'This can't be right. This can't be. I…it's true I don't remember anything, not even my name, but I know I was human. There's no way,' mudkip thought to herself.

Mudkip glanced down at her feet, then twisted her head around as far as she could and found that she had a) stubby blue feet and b) a long, fin like tail behind her.

"…Hey…kook, what's your name?"

Mudkip turned towards the other two pokemon, managing to hear the question and frowned.

"I…I don't remember. Honestly, the only thing I remember was being human," the mudkip whispered the last part scared of what the two pokemon would think. They were already worked up about the fact that she was human, which they didn't believe.

"You don't remember? A pokemon, with amnesia that claims to be a human. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this picture? Anyways, I'm Lupe," the eevee introduced.

"I'm Cloudbearer. I'm sorry about Lupe, he's like this with everybody so please don't take any offense to this." the pigeotto said quickly.

"No, it's fine. I kind of understand. It's hard to believe that a human could turn into a pokemon and vice versa but…" mudkip trailed off.

"…Well, you're going to need a name. There are tons of mudkips here so we can't say mudkip," Lupe stated.

"Well…"mudkip tilted her head thoughtfully.

"I know! How about Muddy!"

Cloudbearer winced. "That's terribly uncreative, Lupe."

"Exactly. So uncreative that no mudkip will have the same name! It's brilliant!" Lupe exclaimed.

"Lupe…leave the confused mudkip alone. She can name herself later," Cloudbearer told the eevee.

"But she has no problem with it! Right?" Lupe turned back towards the mudkip.

"Actua-" she began but Lupe cut her off.

"See, Muddy's fine with it!"

"She didn't even-"

Cloudbearer was quickly cut off by someone scurrying through the small doors of the clinic the three were at.

"Cloudbearer! There you are! A ralts, I think it's name is Prance, is dangling from a gap in the cliffs!" The new comer exclaimed.

The two pokemon were suddenly alert, all humor was erased from Lupe's face.

"Were?" Lupe asked seriously.

The pokemon shook it's head, it's cream and blue ears swaying slightly. "On the left side, in the circular area of the cliffs."

Lupe made a movement to leave, but Cloudbearer cut him off. "No. Stay with-uh…Muddy, I'll handle it."

"But-"

A glare from Cloudbearer quickly shut Lupe up and Cloudbearer left, leaving the three pokemon, minus the nurse, staring at the door he had just left, surprised, while one was rather angry, too.

A/N: Okay, so I was playing MD: Explorers of Darkness again, finished it, cried because Celebi and Grovyle are still gone, then wished there was a third game. But since there isn't, I wrote this fanfic instead. I don't have the guild members planned out yet so, feel free to suggest any characters if you want.