Hi there. Well this is my first time doing this so here goes, hopefully i don't blow it.
First off this fic is placed 5 years after the events of Black 2 and White 2. It is in a slight AU and it is going to get graphic. I mean, if you have a weak stomach bring a paper bag kind of graphic. I know it's been done before but I'm doing this to show that Pokemon are still monsters. They could kill us and other Pokemon pretty easily. I promise not to be gruesome 24/7. I will only use graphic material when i find it necessary to the plot of the story. But when i get graphic, hold on to a chair and don't puke all over the screen. (Obvious exaggeration is obvious)
And yes, this is a romance between a Gardevoir and my edgy af oc. Deal with it. I also promise not to keep these characters super edgy all the time. Just for a bit in the beginning, bare with me. If you couldn't tell already, I would like to try to throw in a bit of cynical humor here and there but we will see how the story goes and see if it is appropriate for the flow of the plot and tone of the story at the time.
Also don't expect any super cringy weeb shit. I enjoy anime as a source of entertainment but I am not going to be using any Japanese in my fic. I just find that cringy and awkward. Also I'm sure anyone with half a brain can figure out whose Point of View the story is currently in based on context clues and general plot flow. If you can't figure that out... then I am dreadfully sorry.
So with that out of the way, time for the super cringy disclaimer about how I don't own Pokemon!
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Chapter 1:
December 6th, 9:00 am Age 2207, 9 miles off of Castelia City:
Salt. That's all Grace could smell from her corner in the pitch black depths of the barge she was on. The overwhelming stench of the sea flooded her nose, leaving a slight burning sensation. The odor made her lightheaded, leaving her even dizzier than before. It didn't help that she had already lost a considerable amount of blood from the numerous gashes on her back. Even less so that she had done a half-assed job at patching herself up. She couldn't help but give a small smirk at the thought.
'Take that you son of a bitch. I won.' Grace snickered, relishing this feeling she had. This sense of joy and pride that she hadn't felt in years. Her long hair brushed her shoulders, shining a deep green in the sunlight peeking in through the porthole. Her dress rode up her slender legs as she sat, parting ever so slightly. She winced as the spike protruding from her back hit the wall behind her. When she was younger, she had been teased about the small size of her chest and back spikes. Though, this size made it more sensitive, allowing her to sense emotions easier than most of her species. She raised her hand and rubbed the scar just above her chest piece, a reminder of the last three years of her life. During those three years, she learned just what humans are. Monsters. She loathed humans. Despised them. Not a single one can be trusted. And for that matter, she was entering a land that she had never been to before. It was on the other side of the world and all she knew about it was that it is called "Unova". She had to fend for herself now, find a place away from the prying eyes of humans. A secluded place that not even most Pokémon would step into.
But for now she needed to rest. The only emotions she could feel right now were those of the humans upstairs. She hadn't eaten in days after the humans had figured out that food was going missing from their storage room. She decided that for now she would sleep, and worry about food when she arrived in the new, alien land.
December 6th, 2:43 pm Age 2207, Castelia City port:
When grace awoke from her slumber, she could immediately tell that they had reached land. Not only by the bustling noise of footsteps above her, but by the hundreds, no, was thousands of emotions she was picking up on. Anger, joy, jealousy, greed, pleasure, annoyance, grief. So many emotions of people and Pokémon, just a short walk away.
'Great,' she thought, 'I want to stay away from these fuckers and I choose the one boat that's going to an area with more humans then I can count!'
She smacked herself over the head, wondering how in the hell she was going to get through this undetected. Then, she got an idea. Grace took a long breath, filling her lungs with the dense air of the city, before exhaling and calming her mind. She began scanning the area around her for the least amount of emotions possible. To the left of the ship? No, there seem to be hundreds spread over the area. In front? There were fewer but still to many. How 'bout the right? Yes, yes there! Grace smirked and slowly stood up. There were barely any there, maybe three or four. And they were spread wide, it would be easy to sneak through there. Grace began to focus on the area, locking on a point with the least possible chance of being spotted. Then, with a flash of light, she closed her eyes and teleported.
When she opened her eyes, she found herself on a small strip of asphalt with a set of stairs leading back up to a larger inlet. Grace turned around and couldn't hold in a gasp at what she saw. Miles upon miles of water, as far as the eye could see. It was peaceful and serene. A sense of calm washed over her… until she heard a high pitched voice shout something.
"Mommy, Mommy! Did you see that light! It was like the sun!"
"No I didn't sweet heart, where was it?"
"Over there Mommy, follow me!"
Grace scowled, knowing that the light from her teleport had been spotted by a human. She sighed and looked for a place to hide. She turned to her left and saw a door with a sign next to it which read, "Castelia City sewers, Stay out during the summer".
Without even thinking, she rushed through the door letting it close behind her. She bolted down the stairs that were right in front of the door and scanned the area for a place to run. A good fifty feet away on the other side of the passage was an opening. She floated across the gap and ran straight for the opening. She looked in and saw the entrance to what looked like a cave with a makeshift sign in front of it. It read, "Relic passage, extremely dark, tread lightly."
While she hated idea of being trapped in a dark cave, she didn't really have much of a choice if she wanted to get away from this city undetected. She sighed, to a breath and walked into the cave.
December 7th, 4:30 am Age 2207, Driftveil Pier:
When Grace exited the cave, she slowly dropped to the ground, totally exhausted. She hadn't eaten or drank anything in days, and she didn't sleep all night. She could barely stand at all. But she had to push forward. At this time of night, no humans would be out of their homes. She climbed back to her feet, holding her gut the whole time. She had to find some food. Grace took in her surroundings. She saw a large building adorned with multi-colored lights and a blue roof. The streets were lined with lights and green tile. To her left was a small tunnel that looked like it led somewhere. She quietly looked inside to see if any humans were there. Normally she would just sense for emotions, but her lack of food and water made her unable to concentrate and kept her from using her psychic powers. The tunnel opened up to a larger, quainter looking part of the town. She saw tall buildings marked with the word "Hotel" lining the streets. She also saw what looked like a market. Upon seeing this, she made a mad dash for it, tripping over her own feet a few times. She scrambled inside, searching desperately for anything that looked edible. Then, it hit her. A scent. Multiple scents. Sour, sweet, spicy all different kinds of smells. She looked for the source and spotted a berry stand. Grace bolted over to the stand, drooling at the thought of finally having some food. She spotted a basket of sitrus berries and began to feast. When she bit down on a berry, an explosion of sour juice that turned sweet, becoming mellow and dry flood her mouth, leaving a slightly bitter after taste. It was heaven on earth. Behind the counter she found a container holding water. It trapped the water inside, holding it in place. She had no idea how to get the water out, so she used her returning psychic power to slice off the top of the bottle, and began to drink. She felt her energy returning and gained a sense of revitalization. However, in her distraction, Grace failed to notice the human male walking up behind her.
December 7th, 4:55 am Age 2207, Driftveil City, Nathans' home:
It was no use, he couldn't sleep. It had been weeks since he had gotten a full good night's sleep. A few weeks prior had been the anniversary of his mothers' passing. He'd have nightmares every night, reliving that day over and over and over again. And it wasn't exactly an easy trek to get to Fennel ever since he left Castelia City. Nathan had come up here to be closer to her so that she could help him whenever he had the nightmares. But now she had returned to Striaton City. She wanted to return to the dreamyard and he didn't have the money to pick up and move again. He was barely getting by working the drawbridge and couldn't afford to move. He vowed to never stay in Castelia again, fearful of running into his father. The man had become a drunk ever since Nathans' mother died, spewing profanities and hate wherever he went. He was just one example of why he despised most human beings. To him they are vile, despicable, selfish creatures whose main priority is themselves. After mulling over his spite for a few minutes, Nathan decided to get up and go for a walk.
Nathan was a nineteen year old boy that lived alone in Driftveil. He pushed himself up out of bed, revealing his tall, slim form. The moonlight shown across his face, causing his eyes to glow a faint purple. He walked over to his dresser, pulling on his grey slacks and purple tee-shirt. The shirt hugged his torso, gripping him tightly. As he walked out the door to his room, Nathan threw on one of his many black hoodies. It was soft and snug, its warmth covering him like a blanket. He walked over to the door leading outside and slid his feet into his purple vans. On the counter was his xtransever. He grabbed it and attached it to his wrist, cursing as he pinched his skin with the clip.
When all was said and done, Nathan turned to the door and opened it, allowing the cool winter air to slide across his face.
December 7th, 5:08 am Age 2207, Driftveil Market:
"Well, look at what we have here. A thief eating berries from my stand. The hell do you think you're doing?"
Grace swallowed and froze. She didn't think any humans would be out this early. And from the sound of his voice, he is pissed. She gulps and slowly turns or head to look at the human, breaking out into a cold sweat when she lays her eyes upon him. He towered over grace and looked like he was strong enough to punch a hole through steel. Her heart started to race, panic beginning to rise and overflow.
'Shit shit shit shit shit shit. What the hell am I going to do?! This human looks like he could go toe to toe with a salamence! How am I gonna get out of this.'
Charles narrowed his eyes and began to raise his voice. "Well little thief, do what I tell you and we won't have any issues. Get the FUCK out of my store right now or I will make you get out."
Grace stayed right where she was, completely frozen by fear.
"What are you deaf? I said get out! I am not about to have some dirty fucking monster eat all of my product!"
Suddenly, all the fear and panic Grace was experiencing changed. Her fear was replaced by a boiling rage, her panic by an unrelenting hatred for all things human. She narrowed her eyes at the human as the leaves on the fruit began to glow with a faint light.
"Do I have to spell it out you dumb bitch?! G-E-T O-U-T-" was all he managed to say before being pelted by razor sharp glowing leaves. Although the leaves cut all over his body, they were very shallow and barely bled. Most of the leaves didn't even make it through his clothes. Grace couldn't must the power needed to do any serious damage. She raised her gaze to meet his. And realized how little her attack actually did.
Charles, looking much more pissed off than hurt, glared at her, wiping the blood off his face with his shirt. "You just sealed your fate girly." Charles swung his fist and slammed it into her gut, sending Grace flying through the air. She landed with and hard, the wind vacating her lungs. As she gagged and coughed trying to get to her feet, she noticed Charles approach her slowly, a malicious grin plastered on his face. She slowly got to her feet, only to receive a hard slap to her back. She landed on the ground hard and when she reached around and felt where she had been hit, she was greeted with something wet and warm. She brought her hand around and looked at it in horror; her hand was soaked in blood. The gashes on her back had opened up and were bleeding once again. She had to get out of there, and she had to do it now. She got to her feet and began to make a run for it. But, Grace heard Charles not far behind, and knew her only way to escape was to try and teleport. She didn't even focus on the where part just the 'Get out of here right now' part. She gathered her energy, and in a flash of light, disappeared.
December 7th, 5:10 am Age 2207, Chargestone Cave:
Nathan stared at the gorgeous blue crystals in the ceiling. The electrically charged gems looked like thousands of priceless sapphires, gleaming and glowing with a faint blue glow. Of course if he touched one he would be in for quite the shock.
'Heh, at least I can still make puns.' Nathan chuckled lightly. This area of chargestone cave had always brought his emotions back under his control. Something about the blue glow of the crystals always brought him wonder and managed to calm him, not matter how often he came here. He was standing on the edge of a cliff overlooking a chasm of the blue gems. The pulsed with electricity, each bolt dancing across the crystals like miniature lightning storms. It was truly a beautiful area. He wished he could just abandon his rather mundane and sad life, live on the lamb and set up shop here. It was secluded, away from people and from what he had seen, not very many Pokémon traversed through this portion of the cave. He had only ever seen a Klink and a Pikachu pass by and they would just scurry into whatever small crevices they could fit into. He felt lucky for his rather average size. He was just small enough to crawl through a slit in the wall and get to his favorite spot.
To be frank, it was really quite incredible that he was even alive to see this. After the Frozen Plasma incident 5 years ago, millions of people across the region lost almost everything. It took all of the gym leaders, the previous elite four, the champion and three heroes to put an end to it. Even with all those incredible strong trainers fighting, Unova did not escape without casualties. He and his family lives in Opelucid City at the time of the attack, the first city to get hit. After that came Mistralton and Iccerus and so much more. It was horrifying.
Nathan shook the thoughts from his head. He had just gotten calm. No need to throw his emotions out of whack again.
Nathan sat up and looked at his watch. He had only been here for about ten minutes but it had been enough. He wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon so he might as well leave and get ready for work.
As he stood up, a bright flash of light came from the other side of the cliff face. He was blinded for a few moments, staring right into the flash. As he rubbed the spots out of his eyes, Nathan began to make out a figure on the ground where the light had been. What he saw baffled him.
The figure had green hair that looked as if it fell to her shoulders. It had a red spike protruding from its chest and a white dress down to its knees. He couldn't make out its face as he was too far away, but he could only guess that this was a Pokémon. But, what was it. He had never seen a Pokémon like it before. And how the hell did it get there? What was that light? Why is it in a pool of…? Oh god that's a lot of blood.
Then the Pokémon began to move. Slowly but surely, it managed to push itself up onto its knees, flinching ever three seconds or so, clearly in intense pain. It began to lift its head, and it looked straight at him. It opened its eyes and Nathan caught his breath. They were like two perfectly formed rubies, deep red but at the same time spots of pink whenever the light shown upon them. All he could this was that it… no. She was absolutely beautiful. It took him a few moments to collect his thoughts. He tore his gaze away only when he heard a weak grunt escape the Pokémons' mouth.
Grace let out a grunt as she hit the ground. It was a hard surface, and she was barely able to stand. Instinctually, she began to scan the area for any sources of emotions. There were two in her vicinity and they were right on top of each other. One was a torrent of different emotions, while the other only had one. Rage.
She began to push herself up on her hands and lift herself onto her knees. She could feel the blood on the floor. She was losing a lot and she needed to do something about it fast. But first she had to hope and pray that neither of these sources of emotion were human. She didn't think she could handle any more run ins with them.
'Please don't be human, please don't be human, please don't be…' She silently begged. She began to lift her head and open her eyes and when she finally saw the human staring back at her, all she could think of saying was, 'GOD FUCKING DAMNIT! Of course I had to go and jinx myself. [Oh Grace you moron you. It's way too early in the morning for you to run into any humans.] Well me, guess what dumbass! You ran into TWO of them!'
Grace let out a small groan at her own lack of luck. She couldn't tell what the second source of emotion was. All she knew was that it was pissed that the human was there. She couldn't blame it really. It seemed like her fate was sealed. She escaped from a murderous human, only to teleport right to another one.
She looked up again and examined the human. He was MUCH smaller than the human that was using her as a living punching bag just a few minutes ago. Maybe she'd be able to fight him off.
She was just about to get up when she sensed something she hadn't expected to come from the human. Or rather a lack of something. She couldn't feel any malice. No hatred, no fear, no intent to cause her harm. Instead she felt something she hadn't felt in years. Concern. Sure there was a mix of confusion and wonderment, but out of everything she felt, the strongest feeling was that of concern. Why? Why was this human concerned for her. Humans saw Pokémon as tools to make money, for sex, for power. They saw them as weapons to use to fight others of their own kind. She had suffered at the hands of an awful, monster of a human for years who felt nothing but that lust of power, the adrenaline when he beat her or raped her. She just couldn't describe it.
When Grace looked back up, she saw that the human was gone. Panicking, she began looking around wildly, trying to see where he went. Then there from the left, she saw him. The human was approaching her slowly, almost methodically. Her eyes widened and her panic grew. She began to scoot backwards, trying to get away from him.
[Go away!] She screamed, [Can't you humans just leave me alone!] She knew that to the human it would sound like nothing but gibberish. Hopefully she got her message across. She looked up and saw him continue to approach slowly. The gardevoir used her psychic powers to start hurling pebbles at the human. They would just bounce off his clothing harmlessly, dropping back to the floor. She looked around and saw a bigger rock near her left hand. Grace used the rest of her energy to pick it up and hurl it at the human. It his him right between the eyes. He grabbed his forehead and yelled out in pain. He fell backwards and sat on the floor, still clutching his forehead, a small stream of blood flowing from where he was hit.
"OWWWW! What the hell! I just want to…" He looked up only to see that the strange Pokémon had lost consciousness moments before.
December 10th, 9:30 am Age 2207, Nathans' house
Grace groaned as she began to rouse from her unconscious state. She put her hand on her forehead and groaned again. She had a splitting headache. Not to mention she was starving and thirsty.
The gardevoir started to piece together what had happened. She had teleported away from a fight with a human. Well less of a fight, more of a beating. When she had reached her destination she was in a cave with another human looking at her. He started to come up to her and then she fell…
'Oh god,' She thought, beginning to realize where she was now. She was in room not unlike what she had seen her tormenter stay in, only it was different. This one was decorated differently with portraits of humans holding strange metal objects and screaming. One even had a black marking on it. She was sitting on a bed in the corner of the room. Next to the bed was a small table with a bowl of water on top of it. Wait… WATER!
Grace reached her hands into the bowl, cupping up a scoop of water and drinking it, forgetting where she was for a moment.
"Oh so you're awake. That's good" She heard a voice emanating from the other end of the room. She looked up and her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. That human in the cave was standing at the other end of the room.
Grace screamed and tried to use her psychic powers. But, as soon as she did, she felt light-headed and nauseous. Her headache got worse and she lost her focus.
"Yeah, I wouldn't do that if I were you. You lost a hell of a lot of blood and I'd rather you not reopen your wounds after I just bandaged them.
She looked up at the human and then quickly down at herself. She couldn't believe her eyes. Not only were there fresh bandages, the less sever wounds that were still exposed had been cleaned and were scabbing over.
"Since you lost so much blood, it's gonna take you a couple of days to fully get back on your feet. You should rest but I won't stop you from leaving if you want to. That's really up to you. Here," Nathan placed a bowl of berries down on the ground near where he was standing and he gave it a shove with his foot. "It would be a good idea for you to eat a bit. It'll help you get your strength back. If you need anything I'll be downstairs." He began to walk out in the hall when he stopped and said, "Oh, my name is Nathan, by that way. And that's my bed that you have been asleep on. I have been using the couch. You're welcome."
She stared, dumbstruck at what had just happened. Not only had the human patched her up, but he was giving her food and water and he gave her a bed to sleep on. He was clearly different than the other humans she had met. He didn't really seem like he cared about what she did. He was more concerned about her getting her strength back. Was he really genuinely concerned for her?
… No, she still can't trust him. As kind as he has been to her, Grace knew that she couldn't trust a human…
But this one seemed different. It intrigued her.
'GAH!' She sighed, 'What the hell did I do to deserve this!'
She was conflicted as to what she would do. Should she stay and wait for her strength to come back, and put her faith in this human?
Or should she leave and never look back?
After a few moments of deliberation she decided she would do a mix of both. She would leave now, but she would start to follow this human around when she had her strength back. She wanted to analyze him, see why he had done what he did.
About an hour later Nathan went back upstairs to check on the Pokémon. When he got up to his room, he was unsurprised to see that she had left by… jumping out of the window.
He noticed that the bowl of water was slightly less filled than before and that there were a few sitrus berries missing. Nathan shrugged, hoped she would do well out there, turned off the light and closed the door.
And that's a wrap. I really hope you enjoyed it. Please, if you did, review the story. I am always looking to improve my writing and I'm excited to hear feedback.
Please be polite in any criticisms you have. Don't get me wrong if you have criticisms please share them, just know that if you attempt to flame me over the internet then you are really wasting your time. :)
Have a good day everyone, I am planning to post this on a weekly/bi-weekly basis depending on how busy I am with college and work. Thanks for the read!