Hi y'all. This would be my first published story. Excuse me while I train my spell-checker.
Lucario Riolu Pokemon Pokémon Chimchar Treecko Rei Dialga Palkia
Level-up! Spell-checker learned several pokémon terms!
There. That should do for now. Y'see, this is why I hate spell checkers. Half the stuff I type is either non-words (such as Y'see), or fictional words such as Pokemon names.
Anyway. Pokémon belongs to whoever the crap made them, while specific characters belong to me.
Without further ado, let the story-related stuffs begin.
Character Specific (or general) Notes
Italics mean thoughts of various characters, generally the main one. Could also represent telepathy. Or a flashback. Or a flashforward. Yes, I use italics a lot.
Dashes (--) represent a split in sections, characters, etc, while underscores are used only at the beginning and the end.
Prologue
In the beginning, there was only the darkness of nothingness. One day, two Pokemon created both time and the universe itself. How those Pokemon came to exist is anyone's guess. Each of you know their names; Dialga and Palkia. I am one of the few who knows what made them. A great god-pokémon was the one that created those great creatures, with such power that it could easily destroy our world in the blink of an eye. How did I come across such carnal knowledge? That's what today is for...
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He had a splitting headache as he sat up from the ground on which he rested. Or rather, was rested.
"I don't know why you try, Rei. It's impossible to beat me, you know."
"That's what you think, friend," he replied, wincing in pain as he calculated his next move against the Riolu whose words would ordinarily be quite true. Mentally, he smiled. The expert fighter was right where he wanted. He swung his legs out, which the pokémon dodged easily enough. That was to be expected. Rei moved his legs unexpectedly, grabbing hold of the pokémon's arms while he was still midair, and spinning him around. The Riolu landed, dizzy and shaken from the display, and found himself on his back, arms and legs pinned down, the human standing above it. It would be...quite the position to be caught in if they weren't in the middle of an arena already.
"What was that, J, did I hear you proclaiming me the victor?" Rei taunted.
The Riolu smirked, twitching its muscles and sending the human flying. "Not bad, kid. You might have beaten me if I wasn't me."
For the second time in as many minutes, Rei found himself seeing stars. Above him appeared his opponent. "It's been ten seconds."
"I know, Sara," Rei said somberly, standing up slowly to make sure he wouldn't fall over, which he had on several other occasions when sparring with this particular pokémon. "Ugh... You beat me up pretty good. Mind helping me back to my room?"
"Sure, lover-boy," She said, eyes dancing. He blushed deeply at this, but couldn't refute it. He did have feelings for the Riolu, though he wasn't sure yet it they were merely platonic or something more...interesting. Sara led her friend back to his room. Looking in the mirror, he saw what he always had. Plain brown hair, clear blue eyes and plain dress; tan breeches, a long-sleeved shirt of a like color, and plain boots marking him quite ordinary to the average eye.
Stretching back, he winced at the pain of his injuries, though they weren't too severe, considering that his exceptional friend had put him into the hospital on occasion. His thoughts on the past were interrupted by a knock on the door. He glanced at Sara, rolling his eyes as if to say, "Of course, they would choose now to knock."
After several moments' contemplation on whether it was worth it to get up, he finally did, moving forward in an exaggerated stumble to the amusement of the Riolu balancing on his bedpost. Before he could get to the door, it opened, nearly slamming him in the face, though luckily his training assisted him in leaping out of the way... Right into a chair, which Rei stumbled over, his head going into the trash can. Now there were two feminine voices laughing at him.
"Well, I would have thought your training would have made you at least somewhat more graceful. I was apparently wrong," the new voice teased in a light alto.
"Funny, I don't remember that being there...," he said, ignoring her comment while extricating his head and shoulders from the trash receptacle. Another burst of laughter as the Riolu leapt nimbly down to the ground, moving the can back to its original position.
"Oh, believe me, he's improved quite a bit," said Sara's melodious voice from behind him. As he finally stood up again, he looked at her in surprise.
"You never said that...," he commented to her thoughtfully.
"I find it's best to keep the trainee unaware of his progress, she replied. Looking back to his visitor, whom he knew by the voice to be Melonie, a long-time friend that had got him caught up in this organization. Contrasted to himself, she was dazzling, with quite an entourage of men in her following, though she had accepted none of them.
"Well, anyway...," The redheaded beauty began, "Boss wants to see you. He says that the research into pokémon-human communication has reached a breakthrough. Though I doubt it's of much concern to you. Regardless, he says to hurry," she laughed, nodding toward the eloquent Riolu.
"O contraire, mademoiselle," he says, briefly lapsing into a bit of well-known-by-all French, his eyes widening at her announcement. He immediately reached for his work clothes, heading into the bathroom for a brief time to change and apply needed deodorant.
Outside of the bathroom, the two ladies conversed. "So, he's really coming along?" asked Melonie. She shifted in the chair that Rei had so recently fallen over, moving to straddle it with her chin propped atop it.
"Yes, quite well, in fact. He had me pinned today, though he didn't have the strength to keep me that way," Sara replied with a slight grin.
"Does anyone have the strength to pin you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. She shuddered to think of the power that the creature on the bed might have when she evolved. It was only then that she really looked at the pokémon. Its fur coat was of a darker tint than that of most of her kind, and so too were the now-soft spurs of bone that ran down the top of her arm. The white fur that covered her chest, though, was of an even brighter tone than it would normally be, despite the workout she had just had.
Melonie had no more time to think of the pokémon's appearance, though, as Rei came out of the bathroom dressed in only slightly more formal clothes than those he might normally wear. "Are you both ready?" he asked.
Sara nodded quickly, but Melonie hesitated. "I'm not sure he would want Sara there..."
Rei's cheerful demeanor quickly changed as he scowled, saying forcefully, "I'm sure he wants to keep his best researcher, too. Lead on."
Melonie's eyebrows raised again, but she shrugged, heading to where the Boss was headed.
So, what do y'all think? How 'bout some reviews, eh? Eh?
