"Are there other lifeforms besides us?"
Millions of people on earth had this question on their minds for centuries, with no specific answer from astronomers, who have studied the solar systems for years. Although they discovered the Big Bang theory, black holes, and other space theories, this question is even making the smartest of scientist to scratch their heads.
...Well, you don't have to ponder anymore…
...Why do you ask? Because I'm gonna show you a place where no person from earth has never seen before…
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...A place where reality ceases to exist…
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...A place where it's more dangerous than a giant meteor crashing into earth…
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...A place far beyond Pluto...
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...This place I'm talking about...Is where our story begins…
...The Origin story...of the Last Hound.
Chapter 1: Link Between Worlds
The dark and cloudy sky is filled with beams coming from the forest down below. Explosion happening all across the forest, with some of the trees were covered by the deadly flames.
The ones causing the destruction were a group of dead tree monster with skinny leafless branches as arms. The branches on the top were engulfed in fire, but they weren't burning the monsters. On the monster's chest shows a certain black heart with red lining.
"Rah! Take this!" A Nidoking fired a burst of flames at one of them, causing a massive explosion. "Ha! How do you like that?"
Although he thought he took care of one of them, two more emerged out of the thick gray cloud. The two tree monsters fired medium sized fireballs from their burning tree branches, which combined together to form one big fireball.
"Thunderbolt!" Yellow sparks surrounded his body as the Nidoking let out a burst of electricity which canceled out the fireball, causing a massive explosion.
The explosion was able to the massive Pokemon back from where he was standing. He panted from exhaustion. "Damn it! There are too many of them!"
Beside him, a Tyranitar fired a burst of flames at a group of tree monsters, scorching them as well as a bunch of trees in the process. "We can't let them get to the village!"
"Yeah, I know that Tyront!" The Nidoking said annoyed. "But did you have to burn down half the forest to take those guys out?!"
"You have no right to talk Niodan!" The Pokemon known as Tyrone snapped. "If I recall, you burnt down the entire forest with your little 'training routine'!"
"Why you!" The two bulky Pokemon glared at each other, ready to throw their fist at each other's face. They didn't notice one of the tree monsters charging at them with their flaming branches lowered down until a multi-color beam shot past the two and pierce through the tree causing it to disappear in a black substance. Nidoking and Tyranitar quickly turned to the culprit which was a Grumpig.
"You two really need to pay attention," The pig scoffed.
"AND YOU NEED TO WATCH WHERE YOU'RE AIMING GRUMERA!" The two snapped at the pig.
"Why do you care Tyront? You're immune to my attack, remember? " Grumera reminded.
This caused Tyront to blush in embarrassment as he turned away. "I-I knew that! It just, Niodan was the one who distracted me that all!"
"Moron," Niodan mumbled under his breath. Tyront overheard the word and was about to comment, but was interrupted by a horde of fireballs coming towards them.
"Protect!" Grumera yelled as she put up a green energy shield surrounding the three. The fireball exploded when they made contact with the shield. "Come on, we need to stop these monsters before they take over our village!"
"Got it!" The two replied as they charged towards the tree monster.
Not far from the three, a canine with yellow pelt marked by black jagged lines fur was maneuvering through the forest of burned down trees and blotches of fire. The canine was carrying a Poke-ball in her mouth.
However, she wasn't alone. Chasing her from behind was a huge hoard of dead burning tree creatures, who fired a wave of fireballs at the canine.
"ExtremeSpeed!" The canine shouted. In a blink, she dashed with great speed avoiding the fireballs and outrunning the creatures.
Once they were out of sight, the canine slowed down. She winced when she moved her paws, but continued to limp to the forest, until she came to a dead end. She collapsed to the side of the mountain, feeling exhausted. She let go of the Poke-ball so she can catch her breath.
"Don't worry...I won't let them take you," She wheezed. The canine slowly looked around and caught a glimpse of a small black, round spaceship leaning against a tree. With little strength she had the dog walked over to the ship and gently, but quickly put the poke-ball inside the ship.
She suddenly heard the presence of the enemies coming towards her direction. The canine quickly pressed the button on it and then turned towards where she ran from, noticed the flames from the monsters coming towards her. The canine closed her eyes as her body started to glow brightly covering her entire body.
Once the glowing died down, a womanly figure is seen, replaced by the canine. She gave one last glance at the ship which was about to blast. She felt a tear rolling down her cheeks as the monster were closer and closer towards her.
"I'm...sorry," The woman silently sobbed as the spaceship bolted up into the clouds. The woman stared up at the spaceship with tears in her eyes, but wiped it off and charged at the group with her fist engulfed in flames.
"Miss Hame!" An 11-year-old girl quickly turned to the front. Her slender body stiffened and there was a small but long string of blond hair covering her face.
"Yes! Sorry! Ms. Peachbody!" She answered, trying to refrain herself from laughing. The old teacher glared at her for a second before turned back to the blackboard. The blonde girl along with a black hair girl beside her let out a quiet giggle.
"I still can't believe that her last name." The black hair girl snickered.
"Yeah, sound like she's born from a peach tree." The blonde commented. While the two were giggling quietly so that their teacher doesn't hear, a boy with short black hair turned around, facing the two girls.
"Hey, Ericha! Anya!" He whispered getting the two girls attention. "Check this out! Here the picture my friend took during his vacation."
The two girls looked at the picture for a second and then burst out laughing. It was so loud that it got every student's attention including the teacher, who glared at the blonde girl known as Ericha, causing her to stop, sinking low to her seat, looking embarrassed.
The teacher continued on without any more interruptions until the final bell rang. This caused some of the students to rush to their cubbies to grab their things and darted out of the classroom. The only ones who were in the classroom were Anya and Ericha.
"Hey!" The two girls turned to find a tall girl with long scarlet hair, poke her head into the room, making sure that the teacher wasn't in the room.
"Hey, Ashely!" The girls greet in sync. She slowly walked in looking around for the teacher.
Ericha rolled her eyes. "Quit hiding Ashely the teachers already gone."
"Thank goodness!" She sighed in relief. "I really don't want to deal with Ms. Peachbody right now."
"Peach-Body?" Anya giggled again and soon Erica and Ashely joined in the laughed as they walked out of the classroom.
The black round ship is seen in the middle of a rubber asteroid belt. It bounced onto multiple meteors until one giant rubber rock bounced it off the asteroid belt.
Suddenly a yellow rocket school bus with eyes zipped past the small spaceship. The rocket booster from the bus caused the small ship to be pushed off course, and into a massive, greenish-black wormhole. The space ship started swirling into the wormhole, going deeper and deeper into the vortex until it disappears into the black abyss.
"So are you guys excited for the graduation dance coming up?" Ashely asked as she Ericha and Anya were sitting outside the library.
"Duh! I already picked my graduation outfit." Anya coed. "What about you Ericha?"
She thought for a minute before answering. "I don't know. I can't decide if I should wear my red dress my mother got me for my birthday or the emerald dress."
"I think you should go with the Emerald," Anya suggested. "It looks so good on you."
"You think so?" Ericha asked.
"Uh, you are talking to the future fashion designer!" Anya scoffed. Ericha rolled her eye with a grin on her face.
"My apologies, Ms. Penon." She responded causing Ashely to burst out laughing.
"I hate it when you call me that," Anya whined.
Ericha giggled as she stood up. "Anyway, I better head on home. I need to clean my room before my parents get home."
"Wait aren't you going to wait for your brother and sister?" Ashely asked.
"There at a doctor's appointment," Ericha answered as she climbed up the small stairs. She waved to her friends. "Bye guys!"
"See ya tomorrow!" Anya and Ashely waved back. After Ericha disappeared down the sidewalk, Ashely started giggling.
Anya turned to the tall girl. "What so funny?"
"Ms. Penon...really?"
"Shut up!" Anya snapped.
The green wormhole visibly formed behind Pluto, looking much smaller than the dwarf planet. The wormhole literally then spat out the small ship, which zipped over Pluto. It then speeds past, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. The ship was then halted when it crashed into the International Space station solar panels, breaking off one of the boosters. The small ship then started slowly floating into space, until it was lured into the earth's atmosphere.
At the same time, Ericha was walking down her street that led to her home. Since she was walking alone, she had a lot in her mind.
The annual Grade 6th dance is coming in three weeks, followed by her graduation the next day. To make matters even worse, her family will be to Orlando at the end of August.
Ericha never wanted to move. She wanted to go to the same high school that her friends were going to, but her parents made up their minds on it and they were moving to Orlando.
Ericha was so into her thought, that she didn't pay attention to the person right in front of her and walked right into the person, causing the blonde girl to land hard on her but.
"Ow," Ericha groaned. She rubbed her but in pain.
"Oh! I'm sorry Ericha. I didn't see you there," Ericha looked up to find a tall, dark teenage boy wearing a blue and white T-shirt and blue jeans pants.
"Oh, it okay Shermin. I was the one who wasn't paying attention," Ericha replied as she stood up and dusted her pant off.
"My name is Shermar," He sighed annoyed. "Anyway, I just came by your house and drop off the books you let me borrow."
"Thanks, but why didn't you bring it to me at school?" Ericha asked. Shermar looked down to his feet.
"Well I was going to give it to you at the end of the day but…" Shermar trailed off.
"But?" Ericha raised her eyebrow.
"W-well." He softly stuttered. "You were busy with your friend, a-and I didn't want to bother yo-"
Shermar was interrupted by Ericha who flicked his forehead. Although it hurt, he didn't wince or flinched. He pressed his finger on his forehead where she flicked him.
"Shermar you need to get over your shyness," Ericha replied kindly, but stern. "Ever since Grade 4, you've been out in the corner of the playground alone."
"I know," Shermar replied. "But It's kind of hard to make friends when your friends keep telling them that they'll catch my Poke-germs if they touch me."
Ericha just responds with a nervous smile. She knew that her friends had been bullying him ever since he transferred to her school.
"Anyway, I better get home. My auntie wants me to take out the garbage before nightfall," Shermar said as he walks pass Ericha. "I'll keep that mind for tomorrow. See ya at school!"
"Bye!" Ericha waved back. When Shermar was out of sight, she continued on her way to her house. Thinking about the relationship between him and her friends, it wasn't the best due to the fact that they hate him.
"I keep saying I'm gonna tell them about Shermar," Ericha groaned to herself. "But with the graduation party coming up and on top of that I'm moving to Orlando in August!"
Ericha felt like she was going to scream from all the stress building up in her mind, but she took a deep breath to calm herself. "Now's not the time to feel hassled. I'll just head home, make myself a sandwich and watch some television until my parents get h-."
Before she could finish her thoughts, she notices something up in the sky."Huh? What is that?"
The small spaceship came down faster than her eyes could follow and crashed into the ground with a bang. The shock wave caused Ericha to fall backward on her but.
"W-what was that?" Ericha asked herself. She then suddenly realized where that thing landed and got back to her feet. "Oh no!"
Ericha quickly dashed to that direction. Praying to herself that whatever it was that fell from the sky, it didn't demolish her house.
But when she made it to her house, she felt like another heavy atlas of stress piled up on her back.
"Y-y-you gotta be kidding me!" Ericha stuttered in shocked. She couldn't describe what emotion she felt. Anger? Surprised? Stressful?
Right in front of her house was a huge crater. The beautiful green lawn was covered in dirt and soot. Ericha noticed a couple of metal parts from the spaceship near the center. She slowly walked towards the middle of the carnage and slowly pushed away all the dust to reveal a Poke-ball.
To Be Continued...