Parallel Hearts Chapter 1
It was dawn of a new day as the journey continues for a certain mouse pokemon living in the forest of the Amaru region. Soundly, he sleeps underneath a tree with roots poking at him at every side possible, it was bothersome at first, but he could sleep in worse places. As the sunlight sneaks into the temporary home and shines upon his face, he sturs.
As he opens his eyes to a morning sunshine he tries to crawl out of the tree, despite the roots poking him, he succeeds with his front and back paws dragging the rest of his body out of the hole. When he stick his head out, he looks around, he sees nothing but the natural morning sunlight that gives off such a beautiful glow to the forest.
He was amazed at how he was here to see such a rare occasion, he was glad he was going to the southern part of the forest to continue what he was doing in the northern part of the forest. Thinking back to that horrible place, sends shiver down his spine for the lack of food and water he had to suffer, "why did I have to stay there for a whole year? I'll never understand." He said to himself as he crawled out of the tunnel.
He looked down at himself, he sees what a pikachu shouldn't look like: bony enough to see his own ribs and a awful three-clawed-marked scar from his left shoulder to across his chest. He wish he ate more and never had that scar.
"Well, better get some food before I starve to death," he said to keep the scar off his mind. As the pikachu looked around, he could see apples and oran berries, "yup, good day to leave, indeed." As he drools of the food he was going to eat, so he decided to grab some apples and ready to chow down without a second thought.
As the little rodent was eating on the apple with sever hunger, he was a target by a predator behind a bush, looking at him with hunger in it's eyes. "Doesn't look much," the predator says, " but still looks tasty as every prey does," it charges at him from behind ready to bite him in the neck for the kill.
Unfortanetly he turned around just in time to see the attacker. He jumps out of the way as fast as he could, only to be bit in the arm instead. Wincing over the pain in his arm, he tries to ignore it and looked back to see what was the pokemon that attacked him more clearly.
It was a houndoom that attacked him, taking a battle stance, he says to her, "I won't forgive you for interupting my perfectly good meal." All it did was laugh and said, "I don't care," it says, but by his instincts, he knows it's female,"for all that matters, you'll be MY meal soon enough," as she charge at him once more. "Bite!" Showing her fangs preparing to strike for the kill once more. "Thunderbolt," as he charge massive electricity from his body and point it towards her.
She runs up to another side to avoid the attack against her and was about close range to strike her attack into his neck, but before she could- "Double Team!" There was three different pikachus in front of her as she bite into the pikachu that was there to disappear. When she looks around, she sees multiples of pikachus around her. That fustrates her to the fullest knowing that this multiplies him but only one of them is the real one.
Since she doesn't have any other moves that can tell her which one is the real one she thinks over. "Ember!" She announces as she shoots out bullets of fireballs out of her mouth and onto the clones of pikachus.
One by one she hits all the mirage of pikachus, but when she shoots all of them, none of them seems to be the real one. She looks around to see if she could find the mischief rodent. "Thunderbolt!" She turns to that voice only to see a bolt of lightning hitting her right between the eyes and soon her entire body was being covered by the electricity. The pain was intense and the houndoom was enduring it as much as possible.
When it was all gone she relaxed for a bit and looked at the direction of the attack came from, only to come face-to-face with the prey she was trying to eat. "Quick Attack," Pikachu announces as he charges at her with full force his body can carry out and slammed his head against hers. It caused her to slide an inch of where she was standing, but that wasn't enough for her to lose consiousness. Quick thinking, he charged up electricity to his right fist, "Thunder Punch," he shouted out and slammed his elecrtic-charged fist onto the top of her head. This could have caused a concusion to any weaker pokemon in her place, but she was not ready to give up.
Despite the fact that this pikachu was skinny to the bone, he's really strong. That only made her hungrier by the second, and cause her desire to eat him more satsifying. He asks her, "why don't you pick someone else?" That really confuses her as to why he'd asked that, then he continues, "it's clear that I'm stronger than you... so why not give up trying to kill me?" As he asks the last question he turns around and went back to the apples he was eating and grabs one of them to eat.
As he looks back while eating, he could see the fumes coming out of her head. Boy, he got her mad. She shouts, "Hyper Beam," she charges all of her energy into one point in her mouth. She fires the attack through her mouth straight to the little mouse. Despite the fact that a powerful attack is coming towards him, the pikachu looks rather calm about it while eating his apple with one hand. "Double Team," he says as he multiplied once more around her, this causes her attack to strike another miraged pikachu in his place. After that shot, she was sweating and panting deep breaths, "that rat... I hate... him."
This was his chance to strike at the exhausted houndoom. He charged up all of his energy into this one move, "Thunder..." he begins as electricity started to emerge from his cheeks to his body, "BOLT!" He unleashed all of the thunderous attack against the poor houndoom, who could only barely stand there and watch as the lightning is about to strike her, all she can do is close her eyes and admits defeat. When the attack connected to her, she screams in pain for her body and pride was slipping away from her, there was a huge explosion afterwards, sending her across the forest path.
After the event of sending the houndoom flying, the pikachu couldn't help but feel exhausted afterwards and fell down to the grassy grounds around him. His vision was blurry and his body was spreading across the ground, the feeling of the grass brushing against his fur and the moist ground was as comfortable as a common nest. He wish he could get up, but his body wasn't responding to get up and eat, so he decided to just close his eyes and relax his muscles as he drifts off to sleep.
When he finally woke up he saw he wasn't at the ground he was sleeping on, rather twigs and leaves instead, "a nest?" He asks as he looks around and see the walls are wood, so he figures that he's in a tree or something. Wanting to look around, the pikachu gets off the nest and look to see if someone saved him or something. It's pretty dark in the room he's in and sees a handmade door and some stairs that goes down, he shrugs and decides to go down these mysterious stairs. Before he did, he looks around the room one more time to see why the place wasn't as dark as it should be. There weren't any openings for light to come in, rather, there were stones on the walls that glows somewhat radiantly shiny. He figured they looked kinda pretty and walks down the stairs.
As he descends down the stairs, he wonders as to who or what took him in here... and why? Why take him to a rather beautiful and comfortable place like this? And where exactly is he? These were questions he couldn't answer, but trying to find the answers. When he went the last steps of the stairs he was too deep in thought and was looking down the entire time. When he look up the little mouse pokemon couldn't believe what his eyes are seeing.
Everywhere he looked was radiantly beautiful; when he looks to the right, he sees a fancy rectangular table and six chairs around it , all made out of wood, on the left he sees a counter with six sets of cups and a leaf with an oran, sitrus and pecha berries on it and when he looked forward he sees he's in a round room that's big enough to fit a snorlax and still enough room for more pokemon in here. There was a huge crystal that glows a bright blue color at the very center of the large room, giving off enough light for the entire room to be seen.
As the pikachu continues to look around he sees four other sets of stairs, three of them spiral around, like his, and one that goes straight up. He figures that's the exit or something, that thought changed when his stomach growls in hunger, "heh, better eat something." He said to himself as he looked back at the berries he saw earlier. He grabs the oran berry first and begins to chow down. That is until, "if you're gonna eat the berries I brought you, you could at least say 'thank you'," that stopped him dead on his tracks from eating the berry. Judging by the voice, it's female, and he turned to where he heard the voice.
The pikachu turned around in a fast pace, only to see a buneary giggling to herself. Uncomfortable about the unexpected situation, he says, "heh,thanks for the berries," this makes her giggle a bit more. This question him even more and he asks,"what's so funny?" "You, silly," she answered back, this put a confused face on him, until he saw himself. His body was covered in leaves and dirt, this causes him to blush in embarrasment and scratch the back his head a bit while laughing himself.
They share a good laugh together, but then there was an unconfortable silence between them, until he grabbed the other berries laying on the leaf and says, "really, thanks for the berries." this causes the bunny pokemon to relax and say, "you're welcome," this gave him permission to take a bite out of the berries in his hands and he asks, "where are we?"
"This is my hideout," she answers back as chimed and happy she was before, "did you make all of this?" "No, a friend of mine did, he gave me the place after he went off somewhere else," "is there anyone else here?" He questioned after finishing his oran and pecha berry, "yes, they live in the other rooms up stairs." she answers back as he was getting ready for the sitrus berry.
He looked at the stairs again and wondered where her's is, "mine is right next to the one you were sleeping in," she chimed as if she knew what he's thinking. With one more question in his head he asks, "why did you take me here?" "Because I can and you needed help," she said rather quickly than he thought she would. He decides to shrug it off and to savor the flavor of the sour flavored berry, as he was, he couldn't help but smile.
"You must like sitrus berries," she says as she watches him eat the berry he responds by saying, "they're my favorite berries of all berries."
"Well, if I knew you love sitrus berries, I would've gotten more for you," she stated as she sees his skinny body, "why are you like that?"
That question sends shiver down his spine once more, "I was training in the northern part of the forest... for a year," he answers the last part of answer looking away.
This shocks her for she knows about the northern part of the forest lacking food, water and the main part of the predator territory. She's knows that a pikachu being there would be suicide. For the fact that he's still alive, with such a bony figure and that awful scar means that it was a miracle for him to still be alive today."Oh, you poor thing," she says as she walked up to him and gave him a small hug.
This sudden hug really confuses him, considering he had never gotten a hug for such a long time. He just stood there and watch as she was wrapping her arms around his neck and her head over his shoulder, until the fatique from the battle gets to him again and falls forward.
As she was hugging him, she noticed that she's falling backwards. She managed to stop it before they fall off balance and wonder why this happened. She wonders why he would tackle her like that, until she heard a soft snore coming from the skinny pikachu. She couldn't help but giggle at that and thought that he looks kinda cute this way.
"Well, off to bed with you," she says as she turns around to get a better position to carry him to the stairs on her back, she did this the first time and he's rather light, so why not? As she was walking up the stairs, she wonders how he got that scar on his chest... did it happen while he was up there? Would he talk about it? And the most important question... why risk his life to training? These were questions only he could answer, and she wants to ask him when she gets the chance.
Eventually, she reached to the room and layed him down gently as possible on the nest he was resting on earlier, "good night." She says as she walked out of the room, closing the door behind her.