A flash of white fills the void before it all turns to a pinkish-purple with a shining ruby in the center... "Is.. Is it on?" A female voice asked quietly. Dark purple in the form of eyes appeared as the pinkish-purple seemed to move back. The figure continued until it could be completely seen. An espeon stared curiously forward. In the background; numerous boxes all labeled mundane things such as "kitchen" and "living room," and also wooden support beams hinting the location to be in an attic.
"Riku?!" She shouted. "Is it on or not? I wanna do this while I'm still young, you know."
Another voice, supposedly Riku, who was off-screen shouted back, "How in the hell would I know?! I don't know how to do this dumb human contraption. This was your idea after all, I told you this 'chamra' thing probably doesn't even work."
The espeon glared daggers at the person off-screen. "First off, it's a video camera you grumpy geezer" She drawled. "Also, shut up."
The male sighed, "Naomi... How would I even be able to tell if it's on? All its done so far is show you on a little screen and that's all."
The espeon, supposedly named Naomi, did a facial gesture that was somewhat akin to raising an eyebrow. "Is there like a red light or something flashing?"
"Yeah, it's flashing and there are little letters right next to it." Riku answered.
She scoffed, "Well?! What does it say?"
"Fuck if I know..." He replied halfheartedly. The espeon's gem lit up as a small toy or something floated into the air and quickly flew straight over the camera. "Gah!" The male shouted in surprise. "W-What the hell?!
"No cursing." Naomi frowned, shaking her head as if she was scolding a young child.
"What?!" He yelled sharply.
"If we're going to tell our story, I will not let it be ruined by your foul mouth!" The sun Pokemon continued to scold. "Don't give me that look. Now, switch places with me, I should of done this anyways." She walked off-screen and an umbreon slumped over to where she was standing, grumbling what could only be imagined as every curse he could think of.
"So? Is it on or not?" Riku asked, mimicking her from earlier but obviously sounding like he was feigning any interest. Which he most likely was.
Naomi giggled. "It say REC, which is short for recording, you dummy."
The umbreon shrugged. "I can't read those weird human scratches..."
"You ought to consider learning to." Naomi said in a way that sounded more like a command than a suggestion. The umbreon rolled his eyes, saying another curse under his breath. This time, another small object flew at the umbreon. He jumped back, glaring at Naomi. "I heard that."
"You used to be so much less abusive, you know that?"
"Maybe, but I know you love me."
"You still make it difficult."
"Meh, whatever."
The screen moved up, now scanning the ground showing the umbreon and espeon who were both looking up to the camera. Naomi was holding it up with psychic. Soon enough the camera seemed to be placed in an alcove of some kind to keep it steady, now with a clear picture of the center of the attic.
"This thing is AWESOME!" Naomi shrilly exclaimed. " I've always wanted one of these." She went over to Riku nuzzling his cheek, which he begrudgingly allowed. "Anyways, let's do this." The umbreon yawned, uninterested. Naomi frowned at him. "Come on, This could be fun! And I'd love to hear your side of the story."
"Maybe..." He grumbled.
"Cheer up!" Naomi chirped, Placing her head in the crook of his neck and her forepaws around him, tightly hugging him. "After all, we decided we needed something to do now that we have to stay indoors."
He gave a dry laugh, "Yeah, we."
"Exactly!" She said happily with a toothy grin, ignoring his sarcasm. "And one day, we can show this to our kits!" Riku jerked back, coughing. Somehow choking on air, with eyes as wide as dinner plates. Naomi cocked her head. "Something wrong?"
"Ah-um... I mean.." He coughed out, too surprised to think of what to say.
"Is-Is there something wrong with us having kits?" Naomi asked quietly, almost nervous.
"N-No! I mean, I just didn't expect that you'd bring it up so.. so casually..." He shook his head vigorously. "Do we have to record this? I-"
"Yes." She interrupted.
He groaned, "Don't make me break the chamra."
"Don't make me break you!" She retaliated.
"Okay-Okay, Just... let's talk about this another time, alright? We need to start the story."
"Alrighty!" Naomi chirped, adopting a smile once more. She turned toward the camera and had it come down to its original position. With her back turned, Riku made little circles with one of his paws next to his ear with his other paw pointed at Naomi, shaking his head.
Naomi grabbed Riku, causing him to yelp, and pulled him right next to her. "Hello!" She announced. There was a few seconds of silence. "Um..."
"Really? All that preparation and that's what you came up with?"
She huffed, "I'd like to see you do any better."
"Whatever." He turned his focus on the camera. "For those listening in, Naomi and I will be recounting our lives thus far. However, if you're actually serious about wanting to hear all this, you should talk to someone, because you need he-"
He was interrupted by a smack to the back of the head, " Help because of how much this story is gonna blow your mind!" Naomi ended his statement. "Now, let's get this show on the road. Where should we start?"
"I'd guess the whole Miri thing, that whole situation started a ton of this story."
"But there's also your-" Naomi started.
"We'll get to it." Naomi gave him an odd look. "Hey, if you're serious about this, we can go into that later. It'll probably add to the story." He answered, sounding a bit somber.
"I see..." She looked up and pecked Riku on the cheek. "Well, i guess you'd know, right? Despite how little you know about stuff like this, you watch a bunch of television. Anyways, I think I know a good place!"
"It's more about the moving pictures entertaining me."
The espeon ignored him and started. "This all started in Johto, more specifically a small city named Ecruteak. A human girl named Miri had just been wrongly fired from her job as a nurse...
POV "Miri"
"I can't believe they would just- just fire me!" I shouted out mostly to myself as I exited the Pokecenter. "I mean yeah… I might've broken a few things i probably shouldn't have... But they're just being cruel! We hardly even used that that stupid x-ray thing anyways. If it was important maybe make it a little harder to accidentally break? Why does it cost so much anyway?!"
I decided to stop ranting after I caught a few glances following me. Of course that might not've be the only reason why they were staring. My stupid nurse's outfit didn't do much in the way of covering me up. I continued my trek through ecruteak in silence, still heated up. I ripped off my stupid hat, throwing it onto the ground. "I could really use a change of clothes right now." It was getting a bit chilly and this short skirt wasn't keeping anything warm. And the staring I got didn't help any. I sighed.
"Stop staring!" I snapped. The three or four people around quickly turned their heads away, as if pretending they weren't just having what i can only imagine to be very perverted thoughts. I tried to distract myself by humming a favourite tune of mine in beat with my footsteps.
"I didn't need that job anyways, there's other options." I marveled at the beautiful greenery of the forest that lead to my path home. My legs were starting to get sore from all this walking, but at least I got to enjoy this beautiful sight. This... This is amazing. I've always loved the forest and the Pokemon running around within them. So.. So carefree. It sounds like such a pipe dream. What I'd give to be able to... I shook my head of the thought.
"I've gotta get a shower. I smell like dead people." I groaned out. An old couple I hadn't noticed were close to me and I guess heard me since they both started shuffling away in the opposite direction, albeit not very quickly. I shrugged and continued on.
I ended up thinking of Pokemon again. I wouldn't really know if it's as easy to be one as i think, but I'd much rather continue on believing so. Without any family left, other than an asshole I'd much prefer to never see again, I'm stuck living on my own, in a small house I've rented right next to the exit on Ecruteak's right side. To be honest, it's difficult. Bills, bills, and more bills. What i want is to go on and enjoy life, but that's rather hard to do unless I have some talent in being a Pokemon trainer, which I so don't. I just couldn't handle seeing my cute little Pokemon be hurt.
I sighed again, watching my feet as i trudge on. Being left alone with my thoughts like this is starting to depress me. I tried to think of happy times, the few parts of my childhood that i loved. Only until a horrifying scream stopped me dead in my tracks. I glanced to the forest next to the path, my heart now beating out of my chest. I could've just stayed at the Pokecenter until a friend got off work... And... just like a typical scared girl shown in so many scary movies, I called out, "H-Hello? Is anyone there?"
"I believe that's a good stopping point." Riku said, stopping Naomi from continuing.
Whaaaat? No no, I wanna keep going." She pouted.
He sighed. "It's getting late, and I can tell that you're tired. We'll pick it up again tomorrow."
She sulked over to Riku, now leaning on him. "But, no... I.. maaaah..." Her eyes closed and she began to gently snore. Riku looked down to her, smirking to himself a little.
"You're so adorable when you're not talking." He turned to the camera. "Don't worry, we'll pick this up again as soon as we can, maybe. No promises. Sorry about the short start. I'll go ahead and warn ya here. Beware of gore, suggestive themes, and cursing if that really nags you.
"Nooooo.. No cursing.." Naomi sleepily moaned. Riku then mouthed that there will indeed be cursing and the camera was turned off.
R&R
(Tweaking a few things here and there for the first few chapters. Will there will be a new chapter 8 after this? Maybe. Possibly.)
