Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Key to Victory Remastered
Chapter 1: Once Human, Now Pokémon!?
Pokémon. Small creatures with incredible power partnered up with human trainers. We all know that, but would you believe me if I told you that there was a world where only Pokémon live? Where they talk with each other, interact with each other, and make either friend or foe with them. Where humans don't exist. Where humans are simply make believe, fairy tails, myths, to put it simply: Stories. But, that was all proven wrong when humans started to show up in the Pokémon world. Except, they weren't human, but human turned into Pokémon! Sometimes they helped the Pokemon world. But lately, more and more Pokémon, human or not, have been comitting horrible crimes. This made the Pokémon fearful and resentful to any humans that appeared in the Pokémon world. This lasted for a good 50 years, and is still a problem to this day. But what if one Pokémon...One human was able to change that? Find out as you read about their journey through the Pokémon World.
Jordan saw nothing but pitch blackness. He didn't know where he was, but wherever he was, it was certainly warm. The feeling of a warm material, which felt like sand or salt, under his also warm body felt rather nice.
"Hello? Mister Riolu? Are you okay?" Jordan was soon distracted by a feminine voice, followed by a light shake. He assumed it was a Pokémon trainer concerned about a hurt Riolu But he wondered one thing: If she really was worried about a Riolu, why was she shaking him? Jordan soon realized that his eyes were closed when the trainer said "Please open your eyes."
Jordan strained to open his eyes. He was met with a bright yellow light, blinding him. This made him close his eyes again. "So...Bright..." Jordan thought to himself, throat feeling as dry as sandpaper.
He opened his eyes again, the light returned. It soon faded away, and there he saw a Kirlia standing, smiling, with a small amulet around her neck with a light pink heart-shaped gem. But where was its trainer? Where was the one shaking him earlier?
"Oh thank Arceus you're awake!" Jordan heard the voice again, quickly looked around for it. "You weren't moving. I-I was worried you were hurt, what with those bruises and cuts on you. N-Not that I was the one who attacked you."
"Wait..." Jordan thought to himself, quickly averting his attention to the Kirlia. "I'm Kirlia, but everyone usually call me Crystal." The Kirlia gave a kind and welcoming smile to Jordan.
Eyes widen in shock, Jordan backed up, but something made his legs give out. The Kirlia luckily caught him before he fell to the ground. "Careful Riolu, I don't think you should be walking around with those injuries!" Kirlia, or as she said Crystal, said with a worried look.
"Let me go!" Jordan pushed her, making her drop him when he did. Down he went like a tree that had been cut down, he groaned in pain. But something caught his attention when he fell: His hand. Or should I say...Paws?
Jordan stared at his paws in horror. He had pitch black paws, with small white bumps that were pointed a small bit. Turning his paws over, he saw his pink paw pads and three balls that were once fingers.
"Something wrong?" Crystal, sitting down beside the horrified Riolu. "Stay away from me!" He cried out in anger, tears running down his face. Crystal scooted back, surpised. Why was this Riolu acting like this? She only wanted to help him.
Jordan realized two things: One was that he was on a beach. A rather beautiful one, with large orange rocks where he saw a few Krabby resting. But the other, and most terrifying thing was that he wasn't human!
Standing up as fast as he could, he rushed over to the ocean, and quickly looked in. He was expecting to see a black-haired, brown eyed human staring back at him. Instead, in it's place, was a small canine-like Pokémon. This Pokémon had light blue fur, black fur on its chest. Black and thin legs with black paws, Jordan was standing on his toes instead of his entire foot. Behind him was a light blue tail wagging from side to side, despite him being afraid. Around his neck was not only a small golden collar, but an odd key with a strange diamond implanted in it. Lastly, on his face was a small bandit-like mask, with two black appendages hanging off the sides, one on each side.
Jordan instantly recognized this Pokémon to be Riolu. But he looked a lot different than any Riolu he's every seen. For one thing, he had spikes like a Lucario, one on each of his paws and one sticking out of his chest. Not only that, but he was about twice the size of a normal Riolu, almost reaching the height of a Lucario. A bit of fur on the top of his forehead was more styled to be scruffy hair. His paws that were supposed to be his hands was black, and last thing was his eyes. Instead of a reddish-orange, they were a light brown, and rounded pupils instead of slit pupils.
He put his paws on the sides of his head, slowly falling to his knees before breathing heavily. "No...No..." He begin to tear up, two teardrops falling into the ocean, before he jerked his head up violent to the sky. "I'm a Riolu?!" Jordan thought, soon curling up into a small ball to cry.
"This Riolu is quite strange... But there seems there's something bothering him." Crystal thought to herself, slowly walking up behind him and gave him a light hug. "There there..." Crystal would've continued comforting him, if Jordan hadn't pushed her off while yelling "Stay away from me!" in an angry tone.
Crystal was slightly bruised on her stomach from being pushed. The Riolu pushed her hard, plus given he's a Fighting-Type it was probably a lot stronger. Jordan, seeing the bruise, begin to tear up and whisper "I'm sorry" to her.
He didn't seem like a bad Pokémon, despite his antisocial behavior. "Please, Riolu, tell me what is wrong... I want to help you."
Help...? Help? How could she help him? "What's wrong?" Jordan sniffled, growling a bit. "What's wrong is I'm not suppose to be a Riolu! I'm supposed to be a human!" He snapped, stomping his right foot on the ground, speaking quite angrily.
Crystal's eyes widen. A human?! "No way! You're not one of those monsters!" She say in shocked. She didn't think all humans were monsters, considering her herself was a Pokémon.
"I am..." Jordan nod softly, looking at her with sorry and scared eyes, looking like a frightened wild animal being hunted.
"Oh really? Then where did you come from?" Crossing her arms, Crystal asked this question with a smug and suspicious look.
"I came from...from..." Jordan's mouth was hanged open was he tried to remember. But all that came up was a blank. All he could remember was his name, the fact that he was human, and about everything that has happened so far. "Where do I come from? Why can't I remember anything...?" Jordan could feel tears well up in the corner of his eyes, his breathing deepens a bit. "I...I don't remember..." He responded sadly, eyes looking down at the ground.
"Oh no, he's going to cry. What will I do...?" Crystal looked at him, feeling sorrow. She put a hand on his shoulder, giving a light smile. "H-Hey. It's okay. Here, let's start over." She say cheerfully, her smile widening, as she stepped in front of Jordan and held out her hand. "Hi. I'm Crystal, what's your name?"
Jordan looked up at her, scared, but her smile made him calm down and shake her hand with her paw. "J-Jordan..." He say with a small blush, looking to the right.
"Jor...dan?" Crystal tilted her head. "What an odd name for a Riolu. For a Pokémon actually. But anyway, it's nice to meet you Jordan!" Her expression forming a bigger smile, her crystal glistened in the light of the sun.
"Must be why she's called Crystal." it seemed to Jordan as he looked at her necklace. His attention was suddenly focused on the sunset. It looked so beautiful watching it slowly disappear. He muttered out a little "Wow...", trying not the let Crystal hear.
She, however, heard him and giggled. "I know, right? It's such a beautiful sight. I come here every time I'm feeling sorry for myself." Crystal said, looking at the sunset with him. She giggled noticing his face. "Aw, what's with the blush?"
Jordan soon noticed he was blushing, and tried to hide his face. "N-Nothing. It's just hot out here...Plus my wounds are hurting." He said as he looked down at the small cuts on his body. How did he obtained all these injuries.
"It's okay to be a bit embarrassed Rio- I mean, Jordan." Crystal said being nice. Crystal believed everyone was a good Pokémon on the inside, even humans. "Come with me, my mom's a doctor. She can help you with your injuries." Crystal grabbed his paw, and began to walk him away from the ocean.
Jordan couldn't help but form a small smile on his face. Why was this Kirlia being so nice to him? All he's done was be mean to her, yell at her, and hurt her a small bit. "..." Jordan's ears suddenly began to twitch, a feeling inside of him that wasn't right. "G-Get down!" Jordan ducked down, bringing down Crystal who was still holding onto his paw.
Crystal let out a small gasp when Jordan did, as a sharp projectile flew above them. If Jordan hadn't made them duck, one or both of them would've most likely been hit by it.
"Well well, what have we here?" The two looked to see a Scizor staring down at them. This Scizor had a small scar on its chest. "Two little runts on our turf."
Jordan, furious, stood up and glared at it. "What the Mew was that for, jerk?!" He clenched his fists, growling.
"Jordan..." Crystal slowly got back up.
Jordan turned around to her. "What is it?"
"I lost it!" Crystal scrambled to ground, looking for something. But what?
"She must be talking about that necklace..." Jordan thought to himself, noticing her necklace was gone. He begin to help her look on the ground but was cut off on his thought when something suddenly slashed his and Crystal's backs, causing the two to fall down.
They heard someone behind them saying "Looking for this?" with a small chuckle. The two turned around two see a Dewott wearing a green scarf around it's neck, and in his left paw was a necklace and in the other was a scallop.
"Hey! G-Give that back!" Crystal pleaded, standing up looking at the Dewott scared. "It's special to me!"
"Special, huh?" Scizor gives a cocky chuckle. "Could be worth something in town then. Thanks for telling us that, darling."
Jordan could see the fear in Crystal's eyes. And the sadness and...grief. Jordan felt a rage building up inside him. Who did these Pokémon think they were, to think they could just push around not only him but someone kind-hearted like Crystal!? "Shut up! And give that necklace back now, or else!" He growled, obviously ticked off.
Crystal looked at him, blushing. The same Pokémon who was acting hateful to her earlier was going to help her? She sniffled a bit, smiling.
The Scizor and Dewott wasn't faze by Jordan's outburst, only laughing it off. "What are you going to do about it, mutt?"
Mutt?! Jordan growling, his pupils that were once rounded begin to thin, turning into slit pupils like a cat's eye. "Lets make a deal." Jordan said softly.
"We're listening..." Dewott, putting the necklace around his neck, crossed his arms intrigued by Jordan's statement.
"Lets have a battle, me versus you two. If I win, you give Crystal back her necklace..." Jordan glared at them.
"And if we win, we not only keep that girl's necklace but your key!" The Scizor finished Jordan's sentence, like he had expected it.
Jordan clenched the key to his chest. Was he really going to fight these two just for a random stranger? No, he had to. Crystal has been nothing but nice to him, this is a nice way to repay her. "Do we have a deal?" Jordan asked.
"Deal. But how are you going to beat us both by yourself?" Dewott chuckled, which annoyed Jordan greatly.
But he had a point, how was he going to beat the two Pokémon?
"Not by himself!" Jordan heard a voice behind him, turning around to see Crystal standing, glaring at the two bullies. "Let's make it even! 2-v-2!" Crystal said, looking at Jordan and gave him a small nod.
Jordan smiled, determined and went into a battle stance. "This will be a walk in the Poképark!" The Scizor said quite confident in himself, before rushing over at the two, claws glowing a white color. "X-Scissor!" He cried out, crossing his arms in an X-shape before slashing at the two.
Crystal managed to dodge, Jordan managing to do barely. "Razor Shell!" Jordan and Crystal were caught off guard when the Dewott ran to their right and slashed them with his scallops.
Jordan held his side. It felt like any cut, but if someone had applied salt to the wound. "What are those things made out of?!" Jordan wondered for a bit, watching Crystal brush off the Dewott's attack, but could see she was heavily damaged by it.
Most likely because she's a Grass-Type and Dewott is a Water-Type, so that put her at a disadvantage against it. "Are you even trying?!" The Dewott mocked the two, getting Jordan even more peeved.
"Magical Leaf!" Crystal cried out, summoning a band of glowing green leaves, launching them at Dewott.
Dewott was unable to dodge them in time, and was sliced by them but he wasn't exactly down for the count just yet.
The Kirlia was so distracted by Dewott that she had not seen Scizor snuck up behind her. "X-Scissor!" He cried out again, slashing her on the back.
"Crystal!" Jordan gasped, watching his friend fall to the ground, her eyes spinning spirals. He felt a burning rage inside him, that made him glare Scizor dead in the eyes. "Big mistake." He growls, rushing at Scizor. He jumped up, and would've attacked him if Jordan hadn't realized something. "Wait...What are my moves?!"
"Hydro Pump!" Jordan was blown away after being hit in the face by a large beam of water, flying into Crystal.
Jordan, on his knees, was shaking. He saw Crystal tearing up, probably from the attacks. This made Jordan snap, baring his teeth as Dewott ran at him.
"Time to finish these twerps off!" Dewott exclaimed, Jordan closing his eyes as he held his paws together.
Jordan suddenly opened them, his eyes glowing a light blue as he spreads his paws out creating a light green bone-like staff. "Bone Rush!" He cried out, holding the staff in his palms above him.
Dewott didn't have time to react, only looking at him in shock. "What the-" Dewott was cut off when Jordan brought the bone down, hitting him straight on the forehead and sent him flying down. Dewott met face first to the hard ground, fainting from impact as his eyes became cartoonish spirals, his mouth hanging open in a dazed smile.
"You can use Bone Rush?!" Scizor growled, looking Jordan with piercing eyes.
Jordan looked at the staff, just as surprised as the Scizor. "How did I do this...?" Jordan pondered, before clenching it, looking back at the Scizor, with a look of determination. "We going to continue this fight or what?"
The Scizor's shocked expression soon returned to his cocky face. "Right..." He chuckled, rushing at Jordan, who was prepared now that he knows at least one move. "Aerial Ace!" Jordan watched the red insect Pokémon fly up a small bit, before he came at Jordan at great speeds claw extended and glowing light blue.
Jordan hopped out of the way, Scizor hitting the ground where Jordan had stood. Jordan appeared behind him, and slammed the staff into Scizor's back, damaging his wings.
Scizor let out a cry, before turning around to use X-Scissors again. But Scizor didn't get the chance, as Jordan put one paw on his forehead.
Jordan felt a rush of energy flowing into his paw. "Force Palm!" He shouted, a bright flash appeared and launched Scizor into one of the rocks.
Scizor tried to get up but fainted when a nearby Krabby pinched it.
Jordan let out a soft pant, dropping the staff, which faded away. Jordan felt tired, but he still felt energetic. It was most likely due to Fighting-Type Pokémon having increased stamina, plus the only reason why Scizor probably took more damage when Jordan attacked is because Fighting-Type is stronger against Steel-Types such as Scizor.
Not forgetting the deal, Jordan walked over to the fainted Dewott and took back Crystal's necklace. "Crystal. We did it." Jordan said with a smile, shaking her softly.
"Mmm...Is dinner ready...?" Crystal lets out a groggily moan, rubbing her eyes. She soon spots the necklace, and smiled. "Oh thank you Jordan!" Exclaimed the happy Crystal, who first took her necklace and gave Jordan a big hug.
"Ack!" Jordan groaned, before smiling. "Please...Don't crush me..." Jordan thought, chuckling as the two suddenly hear a Pokémon run up behind them.
It was a Magnezone. "ZZZT ARE YOU TWO KIDS OKAY? ZZZT?" He asked the two of them, looking at the unconscious Pokémon.
Jordan, still on edge, took 'kids' as an insult. "Kids? Who are you call-" Crystal covered his mouth to stop him from continuing, but he managed to let out a few muffled words.
"We're okay. Two Pokémon attacked us, but my friend here took care of them." Crystal smiled, giving credit to Jordan despite her helping too.
"ZZZT! WOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU MANAGED TO TAKE DOWN TWO CROOKS! ZZZT NICE WORK PAL! ZZZT!" The Magnezone congratulated them, before picking up the two criminals. "ZZZT! YOU TWO ARE UNDER ARREST! YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN BE USED AGAINST YOU! ZZZT!" He buzzed, dragging the two off.
Jordan smiled watching the two criminals getting what they deserved, but froze up when the Scizor shot a glare at him. This made him jump when Crystal pat him on the back.
Crystal gave a small chuckle seeing him jump. "Thank you again Jordan. Sorry I wasn't much help to you. I wish I could repay you."
Repay him? "No, you don't owe me anything Crystal. I am the one who owes you." Jordan smiled.
Crystal looked down at her necklace. "You see my necklace? It was a gift my father gave me before he went on an adventure. He's a famous explorer, Explorer Gallade. You've heard of him, right?" Crystal asked, smiling.
"No." Jordan shook his head softy.
"That's a surprise. How do-" Crystal soon remembered Jordan was human. "Oh. Well Jordan, since you're a Pokémon now, what are you going to do?"
That was a good question. What could Jordan do now? He doesn't even have a home. "I don't know to be honest. Maybe sleep in a tree like a monkey." He chuckled at his joke.
Crystal doesn't get it, not knowing what a monkey was. "Monkey, do you mean 'Mankey'?" She asked, smiling thinking he said it wrong.
"Eh, don't worry about it. I'll find a tree to sleep in." Jordan said as he looked at the forest near the beach.
He suddenly felt Crystal grab his right paw with both of her hands. "You could stay with me and my mom. Plus we need to get you healed up. You've just had a battle after all." Crystal pointed out, still amazed as to how Jordan could defeat two Pokémon by himself. Then again, she was knocked unconscious during the battle so she didn't know what had happened.
Jordan was about to say "You don't need to do this for me Crystal." but he was cut off by a low growling noise. He quickly looked around to see if anyone else was going to attack them.
Crystal smiled. "Jordan, I think that was your stomach."
Jordan blushed, hearing Crystal's stomach growl too. He was hungry enough to eat a horse. Or in this case, a Rapidash. "I may be a bit hungry..." He smiled nervously, Crystal grabbing his paw again and began to lead her to her house.
"Follow me!" Crystal smiled, skipping along the way.
Jordan didn't really have much choice, since Crystal was dragging him so why not go with her anyway? Still, he had many questions. "Why am I a Riolu? Why can't I remember anything? Why is this Kirlia being so nice to me? What is this key around my neck? Why...Why...?" Jordan was derailed from his train of thought when his stomach growl. His ears went flat as he put his left paw on his rumbling tummy. He couldn't think on an empty stomach, so he decided to just wait to ask Crystal some questions later.
The two weren't aware something was stalking them. Whoever it was quickly hid into some bushes and looked at a small poster. "Is this him...He can't be, he looks nothing like this guy. But the boss said these two were connected somehow so..." They shook their head silently and ran off into the forest. The Kirlia ruined their chance to ambush him in the forest so they'll have to be patient on what they're planning on doing.
[End of Chapter 1!]