Welp, I'm officially back to my old hobby of story writing, actually been awhile since I've even done anything on this site, but I finally got bored enough and decided to post an new story series about a human turned into Riolu, I know its cliché, but what are ya gonna do right.
Now without further ado, chapter one of "Fabled World" shall now begin.
Disclaimer: Pokemon is a product of the Nintendo corporation, I own nothing(Sadly.)
My entire being felt numb and heavy as I laid on a soft surface that I don't remember ever falling asleep on. The hum of machinery was the only sound I heard, along with a steady high pitched beep of what I believed was a heart monitor. I tried to open my eyes so I could get a sense of where I was, but was immediately forced to shut them back as the bright light above me felt like a knife going through my pupil. My attempt to cover my eyes also proved futile as my arm felt like it was made of pure lead.
I was forced to just lay there as the light drilled past my eyelids and that infernal beeping pierced my eardrums with each passing second till I just couldn't stand it anymore.
The beeping continued as I forced my arm over my chest until all I could focus on was the now constant buzzing of the monitor after my arm accidentally hit a thin wire, making something that felt like a suction cup come off of my chest. The sound made me clench my teeth in pain, it hurt my ears worse than before until it all suddenly just stopped.
"So your finally awake." My ears twitched hearing a voice ring out from above me. The lights dimmed down enough to where it no longer hurt and I was able to crack my eyes open. Everything was blurry for a minute, but in was soon able to see a young man smiling at me. He looked to be about in his mid-teens and wore a red and white baseball cap that covered his jet black hair and the hair that the hat couldn't cover seemed to spike out on the sides of his head. His deep sapphire blue eyes looked down at me with interest as I stared back into them.
"You gave us quite a scare there bud, Nurse Joy said you were in pretty bad shape when I brought you in." Brought me in…brought me in where?
I tried sitting up so I could at least see where I was, bit my sore muscles combined with the boys hand pushing back down on my chest kept me firmly in place.
"Easy there Riolu, nurse said you probably shouldn't move around to much" he told me and kept his hand on me to keep me still.
'Riolu?...what's he talking about, I'm a hu…' I stopped mid-thought when I realized that something about my body was very wrong.
"What the hell" I muttered quietly as I stared at the small blue and black fur covered paw laying across my chest where my hand was supposed to be. 'No freaking way'.
"Hey…you okay there little guy?" I heard the boy ask me, but I didn't acknowledge him.
'Paws…I have freaking paws?...what…the…fuck.' I felt my heart beating faster as each breath I took became heavy and labored.
"Riolu?!" His voiced was laced with worry and concern at my lack of a response and I felt him shaking me lightly. I slowly turned my head to look at the boy, but then I noticed a mirror sitting across the room from where I was and froze after seeing what looked back at me when I laid my eyes on it.
In the mirror was a small creature looking back at me with a pair of startling red eyes. It looked a little like a jackal covered in blue and black fur with two appendages that looked like tear drops hanging from its head and a gold collar around the neck.
'Ok…I've officially gone insane' I was pulled from my inner turmoil after hearing the kid start to laugh quietly. I looked up at him and cocked my head questioningly, confused at what he found so humorous.
"Never seen your reflection huh little guy?" he asked with amusement in his tone. I stared at him blankly and blinked twice before an involuntary chuckle escaped my…muzzle I guess.
I'll admit that, despite the gravity of my situation, me staring into the mirror must have looked pretty funny to him, seeing as that he thought I was just some wild Pokémon seeing their mirror self for the first time in their life.
"I see someone's finally up." My eyes darted over to the door where I saw a woman in probably her mid to early twenties with hot pink hair, dressed in a nurses outfit and a creature that resembled a giant pink and white marshmallow standing next to her dressed in a similar fashion.
"Hey Nurse Joy, he just woke up not to long ago" the boy told her and moved out of the way for the woman as she came up beside me.
"Hello there little one" she greeted we kindly, "how are you feeling?" I let out another small chuckle at the question.
"Kind of redundant to be asking me questions nurse" I replied, pretty much already knowing that there was a concrete thick language barrier between us. Guess my hunch was right since she didn't give a direct reply, only a smile and pat on the head.
"You certainly sound better, that's good" she noted happily, taking her hand from atop my head, folding them neatly in front of her, and turning to the boy standing beside her. "Speaking of being better, your Fennekin is now fully healed."
I saw her take a red and white ball from the tray that the marshmallow was holding and hand it over to him. The thing looked like a real, honest to God, Pokéball that I remember seeing from watching the show as a child and with my niece on multiple occasions. He thanked her and took the ball from her grasp and looked down at it with a fond smile on his lips.
"I'm also happy to inform you and Riolu that, other than probably having a few sore muscles, he seems to now be in perfect health."
'Other than the fact that I've completely lost and semblance of sanity I thought I had left.' I mentally corrected her and her presumption of my health. "I'm a Pokémon for Christ's sake, I'm far from fine.'
"That's good to hear, right Riolu?" He asked and I nodded to him in agreement, not wanting to stay in this room any longer than I have to, cause if there's one thing I hate, its being cooped up inside a room on the grounds of any medical institution.
"Okay then, just let me get you on the stretcher and wheel you up to the front and you will be free to go" she said and reached out to me. I offered no resistance, letting her lift me from the bed and place me on a wheeled stretcher that the Wigglytuff, if my memory serves correct, must have gotten out while the nurse and the boy distracted me.
"There goes my dignity" I sighed out as I dangled in the air in her arms like a toddler. I was 18 like a day ago, now I'm the size of a freaking 3 year old. At least she was quick to set me down and, as soon as my rear hit the stretcher, I felt it moving forward through the door and into the hallway.
"Your pretty lucky, you know that?" I looked towards the head of the stretcher where I saw the Wigglytuff looking back at me with a smile.
"Why's that? I asked her curiously.
"Not many Pokémon, with what you had, would be able to leave here almost immediately after waking up" she answered me, her smile never leaving her face.
"What was wrong with me?" My question made her cheerful smile falter a little and I could see a hint of sadness in her eyes.
"You had multiple lacerations across your arms and torso, as well as a mild concussion." She looked at me sympathetically before her cheery attitude came back, "but you healed up marvelously"
I couldn't help but smile back, her joyful attitude was contagious and helped take my mind off of the situation I currently found myself in. I turned back to the front of the gurney and looked down at my new paws with extreme interest.
'A Riolu huh…never would have seen that coming' I said to myself while flexing the three nubs on my paws that took the place of my fingers. I tried to bring out any recent events in my that would have led me being turned into a Pokémon, but all I could remember were bits and pieces of my life. Graduating High school, hanging out with my brother, playing with my niece, and flashes of all of my family members messing with each other, but those only came in short intervals. Most of my mind was, to my horror, completely devoid of almost all memories of my life as a human. This set off many red flags in my subconscious and I nearly had a panic attack. My entire life is gone, who I was…forgotten.
"Riolu." I blinked away the moisture in my eyes from the tears that threatened to fall and turned towards the kid after I heard his voice call out to me. "Your kinda quiet buddy, you feeling okay?"
It felt weird, but I could practically see his worry as he gave off a eerie blue light that seemed to come off of him like flames in a fire. I nodded with a forced smile, not wanting to see him be so concerned about me. The dark blue color turned to an almost slivery white shade, then to a calm light blue. The colors changed so fast that it actually scared me a little, but I did my best to ignore it by locking my sights on the Pokéball he held in his hand. From what I heard from the nurse earlier, that ball held a Pokémon called a Fennekin, and I was actually curious to find out what one of those looked like. He seemed to follow my gaze and smiled before giving me a closer look at the ball.
"You wanna meet my partner Riolu?" He asked me, promptly receiving nod from me. "Alright, but let's wait till we get outside." After he said that, I jumped slightly feeling hands slide up under my arms and lift me from the gurney before placing me on the floor.
"Sorry for the scare Riolu, didn't mean to surprise you" Joy apologized and scratched behind one of me ears, nearly making me collapse under my new legs from the unexpected, but pleasurable, touch.
"S'ok" I said with a goofy smile on my muzzle, making her giggle in amusement. I involuntarily whined when her hand pulled away, but caught myself before it was vocalized.
"Ready to go Riolu?" I looked up at the boy, which I saw was a good four feet taller than me, and nodded with an excited smile, ready to see the new world around me.
"Right behind you" I told him, but to him I just said something along the lines of "Ri Riolu."
He nodded back non-the-less and beckoned me forward while he walked towards a set of double glass doors that slid open before us, giving me a good breath of fresh air.
"Gotta say, feels good to be out of the stuffy pokecenter doesn't it?" I replied with a happy yip and walked a little ahead of him with my eyes closed, enjoying the feeling of the soft breeze ruffling my new fur coat.
"I always did enjoy the outdoors, the fresh air, sun on my skin, all that good stuff" he continued and stepped up beside me. I look up to see him still smiling at me and showing me the Pokéball that housed his Fennekin. "Now I believe its time you met my partner, I bet she's excited to meet you as well" he said with a wink and enlarged the ball before rearing his arm back.
"Okay Lilly, come on out" he yelled and tossed the ball high into the air, where it opened up with a loud pop, releasing the Pokémon inside with a flash of red light. What appeared in front of me was a bundle of fur that resembled a Fennec fox with yellow fur covering the entirety of its body with tufts of orange fur protruding from its huge ears and a tail tip colored in a similar fashion. The only color that really stood out from the rest is the snowy white fur that colored her muzzle. Her fiery red eyes stared at me curiously for a few minutes before a cheery smile appeared on her muzzle.
"Hey there, I'm Lilly" she greeted me happily and quickly closed the distance between us. Next thing I knew, she was only mere inches from my face, her warm breath tickling my nose with a faint smell I couldn't quite place. It took me mind a minute to catch up, but when it did, I released a surprised yelp before falling back on my rear. Another yelp escaped me as a spike of pain shot up my spine. I looked back to see what had caused such discomfort and saw that I had landed on my new tail.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" Lilly said in a voice filled with sorrow and regret. I rubbed the base of my tail to try and relieve the pain before waving her off.
"Its OK, I know it was an accident" I told her and held out my free paw towards her. "Names Alex, nice to meet you Lilly."
Her smile returned full force and she quickly took the offered paw in hers and gave me a pseudo-handshake.
"Good to see you two getting along" I heard the kid say happily after watching our little exchange.
'Kid…' I thought to myself, that's all I knew him as, I never even bothered to try and ask him his name. He looked to be distracted by something in the distance, so he didn't notice me walking up to him and tugging on his pants leg.
"Huh?" he blinked a few times before looking down at me, "What is it Riolu?" I answered by pointing a paw at him, then tapping my chest and saying my name, even if he didn't understand me. He tilted his head and stared at me before a look of realization ran across his face. "Oh, I never introduced myself, my bad" he laughed before kneeling down to my eye level and held his hand out.
"I'm Caleb, pleasure to make your acquaintance Riolu" he said in a very formal voice. I laughed at his tone and took his hand into my paw, well more like the other way around with his larger appendage.
"How are you feeling Alex?" I heard Lilly ask me as she padded up beside me.
"I'm alright, don't remember much but at least I ain't hurting" her face took on a look of confusion after hearing my response.
"What do you mean you can't remember much?" I sighed and looked down at my paws for a minute before turning back to meet her eyes once again.
"Means this," I tapped my head for emphasis, "is empty, no memories whatsoever." Her expression became one of sheer horror when I told her of my amnesia.
"NOTHING!?" she shouted, getting Caleb's attention as well, "No memories of friends, family, anything!?"
"Just adding salt to the wound Lilly" I sighed while rubbing my ears, her voice reaching an octave that they just couldn't handle. Her ears flattened to the top of her head and I could see white and blue flames mixed together coming from her person and I could tell she was feeling extremely sad. This confused me greatly, her and Caleb both seemed so concerned for my well being, even though they were complete strangers. Then I noticed the flames change to a bright yellow and her smile suddenly took its place once again.
"I know, you can come with us!" She suggested, taking me by surprise.
"What!?" I questioned, my eyes as widen as plates, "come with you?" She nodded frantically and started running circles around me, making my head spin.
"Yeah, if you come with us, we can help get your memories back!" She exclaimed after coming to a stop in front of me, her tail wagging furiously. I just stared at her in a amazement, she's asking me to come with her and Caleb despite having known me for maybe five minutes.
"I…I don't know…a trainer" I gazed at the sky pensively, my mind running at a mile per minute.
'A trainer…that could actually hinder my mission to get my memories back' I thought and closed my eyes in concentration. 'On the other hand, I don't really know anything about how this world works so Caleb could be a big help in a long run.'
"Alex?" Lillie's voice entered me mind and dragged me from my thoughts. I glanced beside me, seeing not only Lily, but Caleb as well as he stood beside her and looked down at me.
"Hey Riolu…I know it's a bit sudden but, well…Lilly seems to really want you to come along with us on out journey, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't want you to come with us to." He rubbed the back of his head before taking his bag from his shoulders and rummaging through it before pulling a Pokéball from one of the pouches and held it out to me.
"So…what do you say?"
Well there you have it, chapter 1 is now up and loaded.
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