Willow Creek Village-owned Pokémon
Gemini-Male Purrloin, carrier of Riptide's Curse
Yearling-Female Deerling
Bumble-Male Starly
Candybunny-Male Wigglytuff
Pancake-Male Zorua, carrier of Riptide's Curse
Waffle-Male Zorua, carrier of Riptide's Curse
Plum-Female Zorua, carrier of Riptide's Curse
Flowey-Male Eevee
Cell-Male Solosis
Woolly-Male Mareep
Vine-Male Serperior
RaRa-Female Grumpig
Swannie-Female Reshiram
Quartz-Female Jirachi
Willow Creek Rogue Pokémon
Riptide-Male Vaporeon, origin of Riptide's Curse
Moris-Male Rampardos, former leader of the Willow Creek Bandits
Shark-Male Garchomp, former Bandit
Toad-Male Toxicroak, former Bandit
Bliss-Female Aromatisse, former Bandit
Pincer-Male Clawitzer, former Bandit
Algae-Female Goodra, former Bandit
Cattail-Female Goomy
Sharp Eye-Female Charizard, former Bandit
Dew-Female Liepard
Gold-Male Umbreon
Cheese-Female Rattata
Peach-Female Rattata
Perri-Female Emolga
Cold Nose-Male Conkeldurr
Wild Pokémon United Front
Jackal Raikou-Female Raikou, guardian of Tall Plains
Poseidon Lugia-Male Lugia, guardian of Moanna Islands
Octavia Hoopa-Female Hoppa, guardian of Goldpan Ruins
Tina Terrakion-Female Terakion, guardian of Rusty Canyon
Lifeblood Xerneas-Female Xerneas, guardian of Rainbow Fields
Vinny Victini-Male Victini, guardian of Flockcano
Gemini
I woke up from a very comfortable slumber, another wonderful day as a owned Pokémon in the rapidly building human village.
I felt the Zorua trio leap out of the tent while the other Pokémon yawned and took their time waking up. After all, the humans have been so generous enough as to make a tent just for us Pokémon.
With the exception of Swannie, the huge legendary that joined the village sleeping in a cave just a little above.
"Gemini!" I heard a giddy squeak, which sounded beautiful netherless.
After all, the voice belonged to my best friend Yearling, traded as an egg from the outskirts of Rainbow Fields.
I woke up and immediately felt her warm breath underneath my chin as she nuzzled and nudged me.
"Another day here!" Yearling cheered. "Let's go!"
"Ah, but Yearling?" I chuckled. "Nothing changes around here. And even though that's great, it also means I could sleep here all day and it'd hardly make a difference!"
"Pleease?" Yearling begged. "Bumble thinks we can win at Mossball today!"
"Ah yes. The fake glimmer of hope." I laughed. "Do join me here instead. With winter coming near, the chill gets stronger on me."
"But the humans have roasted apples and cooked up some Pidgey for us!" Yearling squealed.
"Mmmm. That does sound good..." I whispered. "Perhaps I'll get up for a bit..."
I looked at her orange coat, a nice reminder that it was still fall. The prey would last a little longer for the humans and us.
I walked out with her trotting ahead, and our close friends Bumble and Candybunny waiting for us.
"Lemme guess, you already ate at least 12 apples huh?" Yearling chirped at Candybunny.
"15!" Candybunny burped. Bumble was evidently licking apple juice off his beak.
Being the only carnivore in my quartet of friends, I walked past the apple feasting and pulling over a whole Pidgey. I yanked out some feathers and starting chowing down on the meat.
I saw Yearling tossing a bucket of roasted apples into RaRa's pen. RaRa was a Grumpig that actually used to be a rogue Pokémon till she was tired of being hunted down in the Tall Plains and walked in welcoming to our village.
RaRa rolled in the mud of the pen and snorted eagerly as she heard the apples land. She leaped and swallowed them almost whole.
I carried my Pidgey and fell abruptly when the Zorua trio took it out of my jaws and squabbled for the bare meat on the bones.
"There's several more Pidgey in the pile!" I snapped. "You three are so weird!"
"We're doing it for the skill!" Waffle barked. "Them humans never let us hunt or anything!"
"Let's go steal Flowey's Pidgey!" Pancake growled.
"No way." Plum squeaked. "Last time he shoved me into one of the fences."
"Take a shove, Plum!" Waffle snapped.
They started attacking and biting at each other, leaving the bones nearby.
At least I had my closest friends, especially my best friend.
It couldn't be better.
...
Riptide
It couldn't be worse.
I was hiding in the broken logs that was once WCAD, I didn't intend to have another mate or kits. Killing Felis and destroying our eggs...
It was traumatizing, my own children. But it had to be done.
Patrols would pass, looking for me desperately. Everytime they were close, I would hide farther into the stack of broken logs.
One day I had saw Dew, hatred burning in her gaze. I could only imagine that she had found her sister's corpse with my scent on it.
I did not want to die, for I knew I mated with other females during the Mating Night. And what if they had my young?
I couldn't let my Curse spread, but word went around that Pokémon were being traded between human villages and what if I had kin traded to all regions?
My breathing quickened, I was panicking...again.
I screamed when the whole ground shook, the logs shuddering. Threatening to collapse on me.
"WHERE ARE YOU, RIPTIDE?!"
I ran, splinters piercing my fins, debating whether I was going to run deeper in the log pile or continue running till I reached the Tall Plains.
Maybe I'll do the latter.
I kept running, it was becoming easier to evade the logs and their branches. Could I see a hole at the end...?
Could it be the Tall Plains?
A chaotic roar shook the logs again and I was certain it could only be a horrifying legendary. Did my escape really warrant the attack of another territory's Guardian?
I was curious what legendary it was, but my fear was stronger. I went into a sprint and gasped when I saw a tail smash an opening in the log pile yards away.
I felt my heart screech and I felt the chills, I wanted to wail, to be a pup by my mother's side again.
I winced, a coward till the end...that's all I was.
And I knew from the sound of my frantic running that the legendary had to have heard.
I was slowing down but suddenly in the huge opening that the tail created, the legendary swooped down and started knocking logs out of it's path.
It was a Lugia.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!"
I screeched and knocked a log behind me, maybe it would stall time.
That's what I hoped anyway.
"GET BACK HERE!"
It was a male Lugia with a thunderous voice, I heard a smash against the log I knocked over and ran fast, my heart relieved. He would be dizzy for a bit of time.
"Riptide, you killed my sister!"
I saw Dew frantically climbing the knocked-over log with the need to kill in her eyes.
"I had too!" I yelped. "Just leave me alone!"
"When I get to you, I'm going to tie you down with vines!" Dew gasped as she chased me. "And rip out your guts!"
The hole! It was only feet away!
"Bliss! Pincer! Now!"
What?
I saw logs cover almost all of the hole, but there was a narrow space still!
I leaped into the space and took off into the Tall Plains, panting like crazy. Getting farther and farther away from Willow Creek...
