Welcome to another project that will probably take us forever to finish!
Yeah, you notice that? Yes! I said US! This is a collab project between myself and a deviantart member who goes by the alias of VonGreedo! Every odd chapter, including this one, will be written by him, and every even chapter will be written by yours truly! I hope you enjoy this as much as we've enjoyed writing it!
The Gabite's eyes narrowed. Hurtling end over end towards it was a yellow-and-black spherical object. It had seen many of these over the years it had spent in this cave. They were always being tossed at Pokémon by humans. Then those Pokémon never returned to the cave. The Gabite never understood why, but it was sure it was not a good reason.
With a flip of one clawed fin, it slapped the ball away from itself. The device fell, now useless, to the ground. Within seconds, it disappeared, just like all the others that had failed to capture the Gabite's Pokémon brethren. The Gabite idly wondered why that was, but did not spend too much time thinking on it. After all, there was another Pokémon rushing him right now.
The Sceptile came at the Gabite with claws extended, swiping hard and fast. Faster than the Gabite could react, in fact. Sceptiles were notorious for their speed, and this one was no different. The blow connected, but was once again not enough to seriously injure the Gabite. It took a measure of pride at how well it was faring against this opponent.
"Good job, Gex," came a voice.
Looking up, the Gabite recognized where the yellow-and-black ball had come from. There was the Sceptile's human. The human seemed to favour the colour blue. It was coated in garments of blue all over its body. Even its hair on its head was a light shade of blue, somehow.
The Gabite knew what this trainer wanted; another trophy. Yet another creature to store in its menagerie of indentured servants.
Well, not this time.
Light pooled at each of the Gabite's foreclaws as it channeled the power of its kin. The power of its special Pokémon type.
The power of Dragon.
Lashing out at the Sceptile, it scored a hit along its long, leafy tail. The Sceptile lightly flinched, but seemed unconcerned overall. The Gabite realized that this Sceptile was a veteran of many battles. More than any Pokémon in this cave.
That's when it hit him.
Well, when they hit him.
At once, it realized that in order to become so strong, this Sceptile had done what no wild Pokémon he knew had. It had bonded with the human that it accepted as its Trainer. As a result of that bond, the Sceptile had reached heights of power that the Gabite could not truly fathom.
Also, another yellow-and-black ball hit it square in the head.
Human technology did its thing; somehow changing the Gabite's form into energy and sucking it into the ball. The Gabite, aware of what was happening, started to struggle as best it could. Then… it stopped struggling.
If this human has forged such a strong bond with that Sceptile, it mused, then perhaps I can become stronger, too.
Content that its lot in life may have improved for this turn of events, it calmly went to
sleep. It began to dream about life as a part of something more.
Part of a team.
Man I'm getting goosebumps. So awesome. I'm posting my chapter right after, so stay tuned!