You Don't Find Adventure, It Finds You! Chapter 2: The Raging Storm, a pokémon fanfic

I still don't own Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, I only own Yamini

Here's the second chapter, enjoy!

Please no flames I'm not a Fire-type!

"I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen."

Winnie The Pooh.

Chapter 2:

The Raging Storm.

Yamini.

BOOM!

A loud clap of thunder from overhead jolted me out of my peaceful slumber.

I won't lie, Electric-Types may like the storms because they get a easy recharge by just standing with their tails in the air, but I ,for one, do not.

I don't like the rain either. It just makes my fur cling to my body and droop down like someone had used Gravity. It soaks me to the bone and I shake,and shiver, for hours afterwards.

CRASH~

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, lighting it up, for a moment. I lifted my head from my paws and felt the first drop of rain hit the top of my head.

I resisted the urge to lift my head upwards and check to see if it actually was rain, and instead, I climbed to my paws and started the long walk home.

Sand clung to my pelt in small clumps, but I paid it no mind since the rain would wash it away.

As soon as I took the first step off of the beach and onto the path that lead back to the crossroad, the downpour started.

I was used to the own weight of my drenched fur sagging against my bones so I didn't stop to take shelter from the bullets of rain that were falling all around me.

I should have, but I didn't.

The downpour continued as I trudged on, the dirt becoming muddy and slushy on my paws after a while. I padded along the muddy earth for a while until the rocks changed into large, green trees.

The criss crossing branches forned a cradle overhead protecting me from the rain.

The mud below me was another matter though.

I finally stopped, too irritated from the water clinging to my fur to move another step, and gave myself a vicious shake.

Water sprayed in all directions, flying from the tip of my ears down to the very end of my small, scythe-like tail tip.

Once my fur was no longer water logged, I sat back against my haunches and started licking myself to speed up the drying process even though I'd only be soaked again once I've left the safety of the canopy of trees.

It was better for me to be dry and wet again, then be wet the entire way home.

I didn't want to get sick from being out in the rain for too long.

But if I did get sick from it, it would only fall upon myself.

Looking around the forest, I saw a small hollowed out tree not from where I stood.

Bounding over on silent paw pads, I peeked my head into the small opening.

Two pairs of beady eyes stared back at me from within the darkness.

Just my luck, it was a pair of Rattata.

I withdrew my head, quickly, narrowly missing getting hit by the large incisors from the male Rattata.

"Scram!" ,the Male squeaked, snapping his large front teeth together, threateningly, "This is our Hollow!".

"Sorry,sir" ,I bobbed my head in a apologetic manner while flattening my ears against my head, "I didn't know it was occupied".

"Now, now, Nat" ,the female pipped up from her place in the back in a soothing manner, "Let the poor dear in. The Hollow is big enough for her and us".

The male, Nat, turned his head from me and faced the female with a huff.

"Now Vinnie, please don't start a argument" Nat tried to reason with the angered female, "You know how far we've traveled and how long it took us to find this Hollow with such a storm going on outside of the Forest. We'll be llucky if it passes before morning! On the matter of this runt-"

I flinched at the word and backed away, hurt, and no longer in the mood to find a warm place to sleep if I was unable to get back home before the storm got worse.

THUMP!

My paws thumped along the ground as I ran. Tears built up in my eyes making my vision blur and distort, but I wouldn't let them fall.

That's what most Pokemon called me.

Runt.

Because I was as small as a Azurill where i was supposed to be taller than a Pikachu, both height and length wise.

My paws were suddenly, and without any warning of any kind, were knocked out from under me and I went slamming, face first, into the mud.

"Hehehehe!", A annoying and a very familiar laugh could be heard from above me.

I pulled my head out of the mud, and shook the offending substance off of my face, before pushing myself up with my front paws to get back onto all fours.

"Have a nice fall?", the same voice as before asked, and I whirled around to see a Monferno, hanging, with his tail wrapped around a thick tree branch, above me.

He grinned at me, a truly monkey-like grin, and swung back and forth.

"What do you want, Blaze?", I shuffled my paws, shaking the mud off of them, and raised my head to address the Fire-type suspended above me.

"Just passing through" ,Blaze swung back and forth as he spoke, "And I found my favorite friend-"

I cringed at the word friend and backed away a step or two, knowing what he was thinking.

"-All alone in the Small Forest-".

I didn't wait for him to finish and took off once more.

I heard him screech behind him and willed myself to go faster. A small, burst of fire zipped past my ear and I slammed them down to lay flat against my head.

"Ember!".

I spared a glance behind me to see several small bursts of fire flying at me.

I dodged as best as I could, I ran to the left and to the right, I zigged and zagged through the undergrowth, but my luck had run out when I slid down a muddy hill.

My world spun for several minutes until I came to a stop. Dizzy, and a little nauseous, I tried as best i could to get to my paws, to get away.

Key word is that I tried to, but I failed, miserably.

I shook my head to clear away the dizziness, but it didn't work, apparently it's worse than Confusion. or any Confuse Ray. that I've been hit with.

It made the world tilt on it's axis and I felt as though I was sinking or being dragged down into the depths of complete darkness.

My ears were ringing and I could hardly keep my eyes open. The only thing that was keeping me awake was a sharp pain.

A sharp, stinging, pain accompanied by a voice.

It sounded frantic, worried almost?

But...why...?

why did they care?

Blaze.

Oh my Arceus.

Oh my Arceus!

I killed her!

She's dead!

I gave another slap to her cheek and called her name, no I didn't actually call her name,but the name I knew her by.

My voice cracked as something akin to dread filled me.

"Runt! Runt! Wake up!" ,I spoke out loud as I cradled her head with gentle hands, careful as to not spill anymore of her blood than I already did. I gave her another slap on the cheek, watched her head jerk with the movements, then roll back, completely and totally lax.

I was completely freaking out by then, afraid, that I may have done something that I couldn't take back.

Then, a sudden memory struck me like a Thunderbolt. My Old Man's words had come back to me,

"If you think someone's dead, always check for their heart beat and breathing".

I lowered Runt's head back onto the soft moss that I had gathered as a bed for her.

I was lucky enough to have found a small cave a short distance away from where she had taken the heart stopping fall down that mud covered slope.

I pressed sofly down on the side of her ribs, where I assumed her heart was, with two of my fingers and lowered my head to rest on her fur.

Ba-bump!

She's still breathing. I let out a silent breath that I didn't know that I had been holding in for so long. That's good. She's still alive. I didn't kill her

A sudden weight came crashing down on me from out of nowhere.

I sunk down onto my rear, carful as to not sit on my own tail, and let out a groan.

"You gave me quite the scare" ,I told the unconscious Purrloin, knowing that she couldn't hear me. "I thought you were really de-".

I stopped and let the silence cradle us for a moment, thinking over why I had been so worried, and why I nearly had a heart attack when I found her, bloodied and bruised, at the bottom of that slope?

I really didn't have a answer to any of those questions.

I ran a hand through my orange fur and scratched at my belly with my other hand.

This is really unlike me. I sighed and leaned back to lay on the cool, earthy floor of the cave. I don't know why i care about her anyway. I'm one of her bullies. I made her life miserable! I shouldn't have done anything! I should have let her d-.

I stopped my thoughts instantly and banged ths back of my head against the earth beneath me.

Why, oh why Arceus!, are my emotions all over the place!?

It's like there's a storm raging inside of me!

I'm so confused. I laced my hands together and placed them on my belly. I could hear my heart pounding in my ears, echoing off the walls of the cave, and the soft breathing of Runt close by.

Don't look at her... Don't look at her... Don't look at what you've done. I told myself over and over in my head.

I unclasped my hands and dug my nails into the dirt on either side of me, willing myself not to look, not to see what my bullying had done to her...,but I had to...

And I did.