"Brave, what are you doing?" I asked. Brave, a Braivary morph and my best friend, was pecking at a nearby tree like a mad bird.
"I'm trying to get us some food." He replied. He was in his pokemon form and speaking pokemon, but I was a liepard morph and could understand Poketalk.
"By pecking at a tree? I don't think either of us eat wood." I said. He ignored me and kept pecking. A few secods later he extracted a sewaddle from the tree and fluttered to the ground. "Woah, woah woah." I said. "We're gonig to eat bugs? I would rather eat wood!"
"Suit yourself." Brave muttered. "But I don't know what else you're going to eat. There aren't any berry trees around here and I don't think we should be snooping around humans." I watched as he chowed down on the sewaddle. The sight alone would have made me lose my lunch, if I'd had a lunch to lose. Brave wasn't as squimish about eating bugs as I was because he was, mentally, a pokemon. The two of us had been kidnapped by psycho scientists who grafted pokemon genes onto our human genes at different ages. Brave had been kidnapped at three, and had almost no memory of his family. Because of this, he assumed that all humans were like the ones at the lab; cruel and heartless, willing to sacrifice innocent children for horrible experiments. I, on the other hand, had been kidnapped at age seven. I still remembered my family and hoped to get back to them at some point and show to Brave that not all humans were evil.
"Well Brave, I am a theiving pokemon. Maybe I can get some real food for us." I said.
Brave looked up at me, concerned, and for a second, I could still see a little bit of an innocent eleven year old in his eyes. "You'll be careful, right?"
"You know me Brave. I'm always careful. So, where are these meal tickets?"
Brave waved his wing in the direction of the path. "There are three of them. One's a guy with black hair that stcks up all over the place, another is a girl with long dark hair, and there's a green haired guy in a suit. Oh, and there's a pikachu."
"Thanks Brave. I'll be back soon." I promised. I darted in the direction he had pointed out and changed into my pokemon form. As I mentioned before, we had a regular form and a pokemon form. Our regular form was a person with some pokemon attributes. Mine was a girl with long violet hair, liepard ears and a tail and retractable claws. Brave's was A boy with feathers sticking out of his head and wings and a bird's tail. Our pokemon forms looked normal, thankfully. We were some of the only living experiments from the lab and it was a miracle we escaped. The lab had been trying to produce humanlike creatures with special powers and we were two of the four experiments that had survived. We had all tried to escape together, but the other two hadn't made it.
I noticed the path and slowed down. The green haired boy was making sandwiches of some sort and the other boy and the girl were swinging on vines.
"Hey Cilan!" The girl called. "When is lunch going to be ready?"
"In a few moments!" He called back. I watched him make another sandwich and I caught myself following his hand movements. I shook my head and steadied myself to pounce. I darted forwards and grabbed the sandwich in Cilan's hand. All of a sudden, something caught my legs in the air and sent me crashing back to the ground. I struggled to see what had happened and discovered that it had been a pansage that had trapped my legs!
"Theif! Theif! Theif!" The little green monkey shouted. In an instant all the other pokemon were crowded around me screeching at me for trying to take their food. If it haad just been that pansage, then I could have taken it down easily, but there were a lot more and I was weak with hunger.
"Hold on everyone." Cilan said. "I think this liepard is just hungry." He handed me a bowl of pokemon food. I stared at him for a few seconds and then burried my muzzle into the bowl. "See?" Cilan said, smiling.
Pikachu walked over to me. "Hi, I'm Pikachu. What's your name?"
I looked up from the food. "I'm Lyra. Lyra the Liepard."