Have you ever been hunted? I never had, not as a human, not as a pokemon. For all my life, I had always been able to talk my way out of situations and never had to fight nor defend myself. As a pokemon, I let small pokemon take refuge from sandstorms inside my hollow body and never turned anyone into a mummy. I tried to do good deeds to others. Even when I was mocked by other cofagrigus I still tried to be a good pokemon. As a human I consider myself an ancient gentleman, never catcalled a woman, had made sure my children studied, I always thought I was good. So how did It end up with me being attacked by a Chandelure, fleeing for an hour, then cornered and forced to fight? That's what was happening right now, fighting. I never trained because I never felt like I had too, and this Chandelure was strong, and had hit me with hex, hard. In defence, I shot a shadow ball at him, but even in the midst of a sandstorm he had dodged and struck me with hex once again. Then my lid shut and I fell from the air where I was hovering. I had lost. It was dark, only the howling of a sandstorm in the background that slowly faded to a low drone as I hit the sand, then nothing at all.
Hall of Fame
Cofagrigus woke up in shifts. First he became aware of the buzzing of artificial light, then he felt the noticeable drop in air temperature, cooling his body of gold. Lastly came the sickening nausea of powerful medicine. The air stung with the scent of disinfectant and cleanliness as Cofagrigus opened his red eyes. He groaned and immediately slammed his eyes shut again as the powerful white light above him hurt. He did end up hovering slightly above the ground, two of his arms free. He examined the room he was in, doing a full 360 degree turn. It was painfully bare, with four blindingly white walls and a white tiled floor. The only thing that caught his attention was a window which he could barely see blurry shapes running back and forth, whispering about him on the other side. "Remember.." cofagrigus could only catch snippets of conversation from those who stood to close to the glass. ".. not recover.. must not die.. ." someone said,
"that's easy… say .. . experimented... .. advanced specimen.." another responded.
Cofagrigus fluctuated in the air in concern for himself, the words " must not die " and " experiments " gave him chills. He stopped focusing on the whispers and focused on the rest of the room. There seemed to be no way out, and nothing to do to pass the time. There didn't even seem to be a door! He pressed one of his hands against the wall and felt around. He tried to feel for cracks or a difference in texture and circled the whole room. Only then did he notice hair sized cracks of a door in the wall. "So that is one mystery solved" he said out loud and jumped back suddenly when a voice came from the other side. "hello number 0-0-0, you must be surprised at the current situation!" the voice said and Cofagrigus frowned in annoyance, it would have helped a lot if they had been this friendly and simply told him to follow. "Then again" cofagrigus thought, "If they had to use that much force, maybe i wouldn't like what they are doing, or, what their doing to me" the voice continued on " you are one lucky pokemon, number 0-0-0, you have been chosen for special scientific research on the mysterious inner powers that pokemon hold." if cofagrigus could turn his head to the side like a dog, he would. He hardly considered himself to be lucky at the moment and The only thing stopping him from trying to bust out of here was the dying hope that whatever they were going to do, he would be unharmed and returned to the wild soon after. Maybe even get a trainer to travel around the world with. He had to give out a chuckle at that, all Cofagrigus were stereotyped into the 'evil' pokemon category of pokemon by humans (Of course, he knows firsthand that many do fit into this category.) they were said to turn on their trainers unless they were caught as Yamask by birth and raised with quite a bit of human contact. Even in his later years, other pokemon tended to run from him when he came near, his only friends being a sigilyph and two sandile, the quartet promising to travel the world together. His thoughts were so consumed by worry of his friends well being that it was a full minute before he realized that the voice was still talking. He noted two types of stones called z crystals and mega stones. The voice droned on about Cofagrigus, about how he was "significantly more difficult to capture, not because you tried to pick a fight, in fact it was because you ran away." it would try to compliment cofagrigus as well, although the compliments would normally make cofagrigus a very happy pokemon, right now it didn't seem to faze him. The only thing that really caught his attention was the last part of the half hearted flattery. "You will be released into the main building in three hours. Please get used to your living conditions for the next few months."