===The Human World===
"Okay, class! This is the last day of your eighth grade year!" A teacher announced, producing a cheer from her students. "Now, as your CCLR teacher who taught you to be at least a bit more responsible over this year; it would reflect badly on me if the school board were to find out that you did something stupid over summer vacation like-" But it's not like any of the teens here were paying her any mind, they were too busy fixating on the analogue clock stuck to the wall, those who weren't concentrating on the clock were busy passing notes or making gossip about their summer plans.
Yet, there was one boy who wasn't talking to friends or fixating on the clock, he was busy scribbling little doodles of Pokemon onto a piece of paper. The whole school, they had a label for kids like him, "Loner," in his teacher's way of saying it, he was an introvert. TO him, the whole school was just full of people too willing to slap labels on others.
The boy sighed, finishing his doodle of a Cubone. Without even giving the clock a glance, he shouldered his backpack and took a stand just as the bell rang. He was wearing a red jacket, a white shirt, dark brown hair that could've easily been mistaken for black, brown eyes, bluejeans, and sneakers. He stood still for one second, knowing that at the end of the year it was a bloodbath to try and exit the class first.
"What's the rush to get out of here? They have three months to do whatever they want..." He mumbled, turning to the only kid left in class. She always waited with him. A blonde, emerald green eyes, snow white skin. She could've been mistaken for a kid who spent all of their free time inside if not for her running shorts, tank-top, and running shoes.
She gave a sigh, walking over to the boy. "Alex, Alex, Alex..." She said with a sarcastic tone prominent. "To the people who are labeled, 'popular,' they have this thing called a 'life,' it's a strange phenomenon that scientists haven-"
"Yeah, I know, you've given me this talk several times before, Jewel." He laughed, getting a grin out of the girl.
"So! Loner boy can laugh!" She cheered, giving his arm a playful punch.
"Yeah, yeah..." He said, walking out of class with her in tow. Together they exited the school building, the afternoon sun on this day wasn't as harsh as it had been the past few days, so it was a nice change. "So, what are your plans for summer?" Alex asked.
Jewel smiled. "I'm busy for half the summer with cross country conditioning and gymnastics. But that's for the second half of summer, this half of summer I'm entering a contest, you may not know it but-"
"You're secretly a Pokemon nerd?" Alex finished for her, "it's not much of a secret to be honest." He quickly crossed the street, he and Jewel were neighbors, so she tended to follow him home. "And I know about the contest, whoever writes the best Pokemon related story gets three round trip tickets to Japan for a whole week, I'm entering too."
Jewel pouted for a bit. "You didn't need to interrupt me..." She huffed, making a bigger deal of the situation than what was needed. Soon, the two were on the street their houses were on, it was abnormally empty, a lot of the kids from the school lived on this block.
"This is eerie..." Alex said, getting a bit fidgety from the silence.
"You're telling me... Where are all of the kids?" She asked looking around, seeing not a single living person besides the boy next to her. "Alex... I think we should get home... Now..."
He couldn't have agreed with her more, the silence was killing him. He was about to respond when he saw a streak of blue make it's way across the street. "Did you see that?"
"See what?" She asked since she was too busy looking for any sign of life. She looked back to where her companion was supposed to be to find that he was gone. She spun around, seeing him running down the street. "Alex! Where are you going?!"
He wasn't listening to her. 'I know I saw something!' He thought to himself, making a sharp left turn down an alley just to be tackled back into the street. "Ah!" He screamed, his head hitting the concrete.
'Stay away!' Screamed a voice in his head, the voice in his head then made something like a gasping noise. 'Oh my Arceus! I'm so sorry!' He thought he was going crazy, might've hit his head too hard, but Jewel came around soon enough.
"Alex! Are you- What the hell is that!?" She screamed as Alex tried sitting up and looking at what tackled him. Now he thought he really did hit his head too hard.
"A... Mew..." He blinked a few times, taking a bit to comprehend what he was seeing. Then...
'SLAP!'
The sound resonated off the houses on the empty street. "Owowowow!" Alex complained, holding his cheek. "So this isn't some weird dream!"
The Shiny Mew face plamed. 'Why do all humans who see me slap themselves? Is it that hard to believe that I exist?'It asked, a slight feminine tone to it's psychic voice.
"Jewel? Are you hearing this?" He asked, looking to his friend, opening her mouth to reply, she was cut off by a sky shattering roar. The two humans and Pokemon covered their ears. "What the hell!"
'This is bad!' Mew's voice yelled in his head. 'I didn't think they'd have the power to follow me here!'
"They?" Alex yelled out loud, "who's they?"
'No time to explain, here!' She yelled back into his brain. 'Just come with me!'Before he had a chance to react, he and the Mew were enveloped in a bright light and were gone. And as they disappeared, so did the primordial roar, leaving Jewel alone on the street of which time seemed to start moving at that moment. Kids from the school swarmed the street, but she had something else on her mind.
"Alex?!" She yelled, searching for her friend."
===In Between Dimensions===
'Please don't be dead, please don't be dead...'The voice was mumbling in Alex's head. 'Humans are such fragile things... I gotta be more careful!' Alex attempted to open his eyes to find harsh light, making him shut his eyes instantly. 'You are alive!'Mew's voice shouted, causing Alex to flinch. 'Sorry... Um... I think I can open a two way psychic link if you're too weak to talk. It happens to all first time teleporters.'Alex nodded, he didn't feel different after the link was opened. 'Try now...'
'Can you hear me?' He thought, getting a feeling of joy afterwards.
'Perfect!'
'Good, now I can do this!' He smiled, taking a deep breath. 'What the hell is going on?! Where am I?! How long have I been out? Did you just kidnap me?!' He was screaming in his head, giving the legendary a massive headache.
'Shut up! I just need your help!' She screamed, shutting up the boy's thoughts instantly. 'Thank you... Now, something has gone wrong in my world, the Pokemon world, we all thought that time and space would be fixed after the whole time gears fiasco was over with. And it did help, temporarily, but now the other legendaries are losing control.'
A few minutes passed in silence while Alex digested this information.
'And you need the help of a loner kid? Great plan!' He thought with heavy sarcasm.
'Like I could think this through that well! I've been being chase for five months!'
Alex would have retorted, if the ground beneath him hadn't shook violently. 'Crap! Thought we'd have more time!' Mew turned to the now standing and fully awake Alex. 'Sorry! No time for the quiz we usually give our heros! You said you were a loner?'
"Yeah! Why?!" Alex asked, trying to keep his balance on the shaking ground.
'Well then, you're the lonely personality! Oh! And you're going to have some memory loss! Sorry, it's the rules!'
"What?! No, I don't want to lose my-"
'Bye!' Before he could retaliate, he was enveloped in a white light again and the dimension collapsed, revealing a red Dialga. 'He's already gone!' Mew glared, with a slight smile, 'and, so am I!' Dialga attempted to stop the shiny Mew, but she was already gone by then.
===The Pokemon World===
"No! I'm not forming a team with you!" An Umbreon shouted as he walked off, leaving the Eevee alone yet again.
She sighed. "I've been searching for twelve hours!" She moaned, beginning to walk to the one place in town that could actually calm her. "My paws are tired, I nearly missed lunch, and no one wants to make a team with me. Today's just great..." She growled to herself. Walking for a few minutes after her pep-talk to herself she arrived at her favorite spot in town, the park. It was always peaceful, aside from the screaming children.
She sighed, sitting under an old oak tree, her ears picking up the sound of the park fountain. "It's so relaxing here..." She purred, sitting under the tree before her ears perked up again. "Maybe a bit too relaxing..." She mumbled, keeping her ears perked.
"The park is usually much noisier than this..." She growled, her fur standing on end. "I don't like this..." She slowly stood on her paws, keeping her guard up. Carefully, she started walking towards the fountain, the only source of sound in the eerie silence that had enveloped the park. The fountain was definitely a sight to see, completely marble, the base was that of any-old park fountain, but the top; magnificent! It depicted the legendary trio of Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, it felt like it was taking a lot longer to reach it with the menacing ambiance.
She arrived at the fountain after what seemed like an eternity. "It's OK, Cloe... Everyone's probably gone home... Yeah, it's twilight, so everyone's probably going home..." She was mumbling, trying to assure herself that this was normal. She dipped her paw into the fountain water, seeming to calm down a tiny bit. She took a quick glance at the sky, "I should be getting home soon, mom might be worrying..." She sighed, 'guess I'm not joining a team today...'
On that note, she turned away from the fountain for a split second before she heard the cracking of tree branches, it was then silent all over again. "That isn't ominous or anything..." She mumbled, turning towards the fountain, yet looking beyond. "Sounds like it came from the forest..." She had a look on her face that said 'of course it's there.'
She looked back down the pathway towards the town, then back to the forest. "I feel like I'm going to regret this later..." She chuckled, trotting over to the forest, unsure of what lied ahead. "I think that mom mentioned that there was a mystery dungeon in here... Whatever landed in here probably went in there... Of course it did..." She growled to herself, looking at the entrance to the forest, the trees at the entrance formed an arch. Not like the trees naturally formed that way, like a supernatural force bent them into a perfect semi-circle. "After all, the whole forest is the mystery dungeon..." Without another word, she leapt into the supposed 'mystery dungeon.'
Twilight Forest
Floor- 1/4
Cloe appeared in the middle of an empty room... Well, as much of a room a forest could be. Her hairs on end. "I will never get used to the feeling of being pulled into a mystery dungeon...!" She shivered, trying to comb her hairs down. Her fur was acting like she'd just been hit by an electric type attack. After several attempts at making her fur cooperate, she was finally ready to tackle the all too familiar dungeon.
As she wandered the floor, taking out the few inhabitants, her mind was only half paying attention while the other half was busy remembering everything her mom and dad had told her about the place. "There's Rattata, Spearow, Ekans, and..." She used Bite on a Pikachu that attempted to hit her. "And Pikachu. The dungeon has five floors, each varying in size and shape, like all dungeons, the layout changes every time it is entered..." Snapping back to reality, he used Shadow Ball on a nearby Ekans, proceeding through two more rooms-in which she received no resistance- she found the staircase soon enough. "Why does the dungeon show a staircase though? I could've been a teleport pad, or anything else... but why stairs?" She found herself pondering the question as she climbed the 'staircase,' the way that she'd come from promptly disappearing.
Floor- 2/4
This floor was looking to prove more difficult, the Pokemon had seemed to grow a good half-inch from the last floor. But it was nothing she couldn't handle, just bigger snakes, rats, mice, and birds. She ended up having to take three Pokemon at once in she next room she had entered. A Spearow, Pikachu, and Ekans. She bagan regretting coming here unprepared.
'What was I thinking?!' She asked herself, barely dodging the Pikachu's Thunder shock to be hit in the side by the Spearow's Peck. 'I came here without even the basic supplies!' She took a mental note to never come unprepared again as she got bitten by the Ekans.
"Stupid feral Pokemon!" She yelled, using Trump Card, causing all of the ferals to shield themselves in anyway they could as she used Quick Attack to make a quick escape. "I almost got beat there..." She sighed, looking back, making sure that she wasn't being followed, "I need an Oran berry..." She briskly made her way to the next room, relieved that she was alone. "Thank Arceus!" She cried, taking a look around the perimeter of the room. Being in a forest dungeon, there had to be berry bushes, and she was right.
Off in one of the darker corners of the room, a bush sprouted beautiful blue berries, with an odd bumpy texture. "Jackpot!" She cheered, eating several of the berries while storing one in her chest fluff. All of the damage from her previous encounter vanishing instantly. "Ah... Much Better!'
Outside the Dungeon
"Skylar!" An Espeon cried, running up to a familiar Skarmory who turned to the Espeon.
"Donna?" He asked, honestly surprised to the the woman. "What is it? I should really be getting back to my family for dinner."
The Espeon, Donna, was gasping in the cool night air, catching her breath she began to speak. "H-have you seen Cloe? She was supposed to come home an hour ago!" The Skarmory simply shook his head.
"The last I saw of her was this morning." He smiled, "quite a kid ya got there, she's a fighter behind her timidness." Donna seemed furious, slapping him with Psychic.
"Get serious, Skylar!" She screamed as he massaged his cheek. "My daughter is missing, and you're analyzing her strengths and weaknesses!" The Espeon seemed to be on the verge of tears, she collapse on the ground. "For all I know she could be dead! She could be gone forever!" Skylar sighed, helping his old friend back up.
"Don't worry, I'm sure she's fine," he smiled, placing a sack of items in front of her. "Take that back to my house, tell my family that I'm going to be late, I assume you've searched everywhere except for Twilight Forest?" Donna wiped away some tears from her break down and nodded. "When you aren't panicking, doesn't that seem like the logical place to search?" Before she responded he took off to the forest, determined to find Cloe.
Twilight Forest
Floor- 2/4
"How big is this floor!" Cloe whined, not really paying attention to her surroundings as she was in a hallway. "I mean, seriously! I don't know if it's been hours or minutes because of this stupid time manipulation!" She quickly sat down as soon as she had entered the room, looking around. "Wait..." She mumbled, looking to her right, seeing a familiar Oran bush in the shade, making her jump up, new energy that she'd just found.
"No way!" She yelled, looking around the whole room. "Why am I back here!" Getting no answer, she ran down the nearest hallway, the one with the room with the Pokemon trio that ganged up on her. The hallway had changed, it was now a very straight, narrow corridor. "What's going on? This hall should branch off left!" As she continued running she saw the end. Pouncing forward, hoping that she wasn't right, of course she was right though. "What the fuck!" She yelled loud enough to probably scare off any nearby feral Pokemon. The Oran berry bush in the shade, the impression in the dirt of where she'd just sat down, the scuff marks from her run, it was the exact room that she had left.
"This can't be happening..." She moped, looking defeated. "I've heard of the dungeon trapping Pokemon in a single room for the rest of their life, or until they starved... But it had to happen to me!" She dropped to the ground, about ready to cry. "Is Arceus just against me today or something..." She was just about to give up all hope, until she heard it. Her ears had never failed her before; perking up, she began swiveling her ears to try an triangulate the sound.
"Mmm.." There it was, she quickly turned to her right, towards the Oran bush. Making her way over, she continued to swivel her ears as soon as she got next to the bush.
"Where are you...?" She muttered, turning her ears to the right, the sound of soft breathing could be heard. The only thing between her and the breathing was a solid wall of trees, all right next to each other, no gaps. "How the hell... A secret passage?" She began analyzing the wall thoroughly, trying to see if there was a hidden lever or anything. "I guess it's just one of those push passages...?" She said, pushing on the 'door,' doing an unintentional forward roll into a secret room.
"Ow..." He muttered, grabbing her head. "Not fun!" Her ears perked up suddenly, picking up the soft breathing. "Huh?" She glanced to her right, finding that she wasn't alone in the cramped room. A Cubone was lying against the wall, sleeping peacefully. Blissfully unaware of her presence. It had a slight male tone to it- his murmuring while he was asleep.
Cloe was nervous, many questions storming their way through her head. 'Is it a feral? Who is he? Did he get lost here?' Those were only a few of the questions, but she didn't have much time to ponder these questions though. His eye twitched, sending her into overdrive, there were no places to hide, the room they were in seemed only big enough to fit the two of them. No places to hide, nothing.
"Crap!" She mumbled as the boy opened his eyes.
"Where.. am I...?" He muttered, a dazed look on his face. Startling Cloe, but she was slightly relieved that he wasn't a feral.
"Um... Hello?" Cloe asked, trying to stay in the boy's vision as he looked around the small room. After a few minutes, the Cubone was still dazed, as he finished examining the room, he looked to Cloe, he became silent. "A-are you OK? Do you need anything?" She asked. Still silent, he just stared at the Eevee with piercing brown eyes.
"Ee..vee..." Tumbled out of his mouth, confusing Cloe. As he woke up more and more, his brain allowing him to comprehend what his eyes were telling him, and then. "AH!" He cried, jolting his head forward, probably in an attempt to get up, but instead he collided heads with an unsuspecting Eevee.
"Owowowow!" They both cried, grabbing their heads, the Cubone began freaking out more as he touched his skull helmet.
"What the hell happened!" The Cubone cried, examining his new body.
"Yeah, thanks for that, I'm fine by the way!" Cloe said, pawing at her head. "Just got headbutted! Nothing big!"
The boy turned to the fox. "You! Just stop talking! This isn't right!" He was yelling, it was clear from his eyes that his emotions were mixed. There was anger, panic, shock, and maybe a slight sliver of sadness.
"What do you mean by that!" Cloe was now yelling, he wasn't making any sense to her. "It's like you haven't heard a Pokemon speak before!"
He was now glaring daggers at the small, brown fox, making her a bit terrified. "That's because I haven't!" He screamed, venom in his words. "In fact, Pokemon should not exist at all!" He was looking around the room wildly, trying to find an exit.
'This is getting us nowhere, fast!' She thought to herself, she swiftly reached a paw into her chest fur, pulling out a small bell, before he knew what was going on she put the bell over his head, as it landed on his chest it gave a slight twinkle, instantly relieving all of the tension in the room. "Thank Arceus for soothe bells~' She chimed.
The boy sighed, all fear gone from his eyes. "What did you just do?" He said, relaxing more and more.
"I gave you a soothe bell, feel better?" He nodded. "Good, now, who are you?" She asked, this question seemed to trouble him.
"Who... am I?" He asked himself, bringing a paw up to his chin, thinking. "Al... Alex?" He gave a relaxed smile. "Oh yeah, I'm Alex~ "
"Okay, Alex," She said, looking him in the eyes. "If I take that soothe bell off, will you not freak out?"
He shrugged, "before you do, can we get a bigger room?" He asked, smiling. "It's kinda cramped in here~"
"Alright!" She cheered. "This way!" She attempted walking at a wall only to crash muzzle first into a solid wall.
"What the-?!" She whined, rubbing her nose. "The secret door was right here!" She promptly pushed on the wall in front of her, it didn't budge. "The hell?"
"Um... miss Eevee?" The Alex asked, causing her to turn.
"Yes, A-" She was cut short when she saw the tunnel he was pointing at that had just appeared at the other side of the small room.
"That kinda appeared when you ran into the wall..." He said bluntly as he got to his feet and began walking into it with Cloe in tow. It was a fairly short tunnel, but plenty spacious. The room it lead to had no other tunnels, just a lone staircase in the center. "A staircase?"
Completely ignoring his question, Cloe stretched he legs and sat down, Alex sat across from her. "Before we continue, I'm Cloe." Before he could respond Cloe took off the soothe bell, his eyes seemed to dull a bit as the deed was done. "You OK?" She asked, concerned. Alex simply turned away from her, trying to avoid her gaze. "Alex?" Still nothing. "Come on, please talk to me... I still have questions..."
He sighed. "Fine ask away..." He growled, making her ears droop.
"Um... I w-was just wondering... What did you mean that Pokemon shouldn't exist...?" She inquired. He just looked to the side, his gaze not meeting his.
"I... don't know... It just doesn't feel right..." He mumbled.
"Al-right..." Cloe said, readying her next question. "What did you mean that you've never heard a Pokemon speak?" Causing him to scoff. "What?!"
"Nothing." He managed, looking directly into her eyes. "Would you believe me if I told you?" He challenged.
"Try me!" She replied to the challenge.
"Two words." He said, a mischievous grin on his face. "I'm. Human." The two locked eyes for a second before Cloe broke down and began laughing, putting a frown on Alex's face. "I'm not kidding."
This just made her laugh more. "Y-yeah, s-sure!" She gasped out, laughing like a maniac. "And I'm a pink, fluffy Arceus who dances on rainbows!"She gasped for air, her lungs expelling any that she did intake. "And, just what do you remember about being human?"
"I remember plenty, like-" He paused, searching his brain to find it blank. "Like...I don't remember." He muttered, beginning to panic again. Carol noticed.
"Dude? You OK?" She asked, her laughing fit over, "you got anything? Any memories at all? They don't have to be your 'human memories' just any old memory."
He turned on her. "You think I haven't checked?! The closest memory I have is meeting you!" He began hitting his head against the walls of wood closest to him. "Think, think, think!" Now Cloe was worried.
"Alex! Stop beating yourself up over it! Literally!" She said, pulling him away from the wall. "We'll figure this out... But, first, we need to get out of here. We're still on the second floor of the dungeon. Up the stairs is the third floor, after that is the fourth, at the fourth we can exit. OK?" She asked, taking a stand.
He just looked at her. Coming to a conclusion. "Alright... Let's get out of here..." He mumbled, standing, then her words hit him. "Wait... dungeon? It looks like a forest..." He said, clueless, getting a sigh from his companion.
"I'll explain later..." She stated, bluntly as she began walking up the staircase. Having no other choice, Alex followed suit, the room behind them disappearing.
Floor- 3/4
Alex and Cloe arrived on the new floor, the Eevee seemed relieved to be off of the previous floor, Alex, not so much. "This place is weird..." Alex stated, his face portraying no emotion, drawing yet another sigh from Cloe.
"I believe that's the point of these places." Cloe replied, keeping her eyes out for any enemies. "Mystery dungeons are-"
"Distortions in time and space." Alex finished for her, catching them both by surprise, causing Alex to cover his mouth after it had tumbled from his mouth. "Then again, what do I know about these places!" He said through his paws, his voice muffled. Cloe gave him a skeptical look.
"But that was spot on... For a short explanation." She said, looking back at him. He went back to trying to avoid her piercing gaze. She sighed again, stopping quickly, Alex stopped shortly after, she turned towards him. "Look, to get out of here, we're going to have to work together!" She stated frankly. Alex didn't seem to be paying attention, he was staring at a point beyond her. "Oi! pay attention!" She cried, stepping towards her companion.
"B-bi..." She was confused.
"What is it? Spit it out." She said, getting a bit annoyed.
"B-big... A-Arbok..." Fell from his mouth. Cloe froze up, slowly turning around to see a snake Pokemon that was easily seven feet tall, if it had been lying down, it would probably be fourteen feet in length.
"T-this can't be real!" Cloe stuttered, tumbling back a bit. "There were no accounts of giant Arbok in this dungeon!" He and Alex were quaking in fear as the Arbok's muzzle got closer, it seemed to be smiling.
"Sssso! Lunch hassss found it'sss way to me inssstead of me having to sssearch!" It hissed, scaring Cloe and Alex even more. "Delightful!"
"A-Alex! We have to run!" Cloe cried, attempting to get to her paws.
"Here, let me help you!" The Arbok hissed, a sadistic smile on it's face. With a wave of it's tail all of the trees on the dungeon floor faded out of existence. "This is my floor, I control it!" The giant snake smiled down at them. "Let's play a game! If you find the stairs in this giant room, you're free to live, if I catch out, you're dead meat!" It gave off rapid hissing, probably to simulate laughter. It quickly glared down at them. "Welcome to the monster house!"
Before they knew what they themselves were doing, their legs were running, making sure that they didn't lose each other.
Skylar on the same floor
"What the hell?" He asked the empty air around him. This floor was just one big room, which could only mean one thing, if he remembered correctly. 'Someone activated a monster house?' He thought, taking to the air, thankful of the eternal twilight of the forest, allowing him to still see what was happening... to a certain extent. "This is bad... There's only one Pokemon in this dungeon who could activate it... Maybe she made it to the next floor?" He asked himself, hopeful for a second.
"Cloe... What have you gotten yourself into?" He asked, deciding to fly to the center of the floor. The distance from the edge of the floor to the center had to be a good few hundred meters, his hope was beginning to dwindle, on this big of a floor it could take hours to check the whole floor. "Maybe she got lucky?" He asked, skeptical. He touched down at the center to find three sets of scuff marks. one of them was one big endless line in the dirt. "A snake Pokemon? There haven't been any reports of any this big..." He moved to the next mark, they seemed panicked, erratic.
"Cloe?" He asked, analyzing the marks. "Definitely made by a four legged Pokemon... It seems to have intelligent if it is panicking this bad... So it must be her!" He smiled, 'she was on this floor!' He took a quick glance at the last set of tracks. "Who did she bring with her though... Best way to find out is to follow the tracks I guess." He had his goal set, he began gliding over the tracks, following them carefully, hoping to find who he was looking for.
Cloe and Alex
"There's nowhere to hide, children!" The Arbok hissed maliciously. "Why not just end this?~" It was just taunting them now.
"Alex... I'm getting tired...!" She whined, they both were beginning to wear down.
"W-we can't stop n-now..." Alex gasped. Continuing to run, the met no other Pokemon, nothing.
"Oh, children~" The Arbok called, it's voice seemed to be getting more distant. They both sighed, hoping that they'd lost the crazy, giant snake.
"Thank God..." Alex whispered, trying to catch his breath.
"G-god? We have god-like Pokemon, none of them are called God..." She whispered back, resting her tired paws.
"I- it's a human term..." He sighed, his paws on his knees. "But I guess for Pokemon it would be 'thank Arceus...'" Cloe nodded. As soon as the were rested, they began making their way around the floor. Continuing to walk in a single direction, they ran into the wall of the floor.
"So, there are boundaries to the floor..." She said. Looking left and right, the wall spanned as far as the eye could see. "Should we go left?" She asked, getting a shrug from Alex.
"I'm just following you." He stated, honestly.
"Alright, left it is." She said, keeping her ears perked to listen for any abnormal sounds. They both turned to the left, walking along the perimeter of the room. "Wonder where the snake went..." Cloe pondered, her ears swiveling to pick up sound.
"Who know's, maybe we lost it." She said, weirdly optimistic.
Cloe giggled and turned back to him. "Where is this coming from?" She asked, teasingly. "About a half an hour ago you wouldn't even look me in the eyes~" She stated, turning quickly and finding a difference about the Cubone boy.
"Huh? What's wrong?" He asked, his eyes a brilliant scarlet color.
"Your eyes are red..." She stated, confused as they faded to brown. She quickly shook her head and blinking a few times. "Or I'm just tired and my brain's getting worn down..."
"Probably, wonder what time it i-" He caught movement in his peripheral vision, the ground seemed to be shifting, before he could comprehend what was even happening, Cloe was knocked into the air, then she was grabbed out of the air by a familiar purple tail.
"Ah..." The Arbok sighed, smiling. "You have no idea how much trouble it was it catch you two..." The over sized snake took a look at it's tail to see only one of the Pokemon there. It turned towards Alex who was standing frozen in place, terrified. "Oh, even more fun! You get to watch you friend being eaten~" Cloe was struggling in the grip of the Arbok.
"Alex, run!" She yelled. The Arbok didn't seem too pleased at this.
"Quiet." It hissed, slamming it's tail to the ground instantly knocking out the Eevee. "Much better, do you realize how rude it is to butt into another Pokemon's conversation?"
'What are you doing?! She told you to run, didn't she?!' A voice cried in Alex's head.
'But, if I don't do something she'll be eaten!' He retaliated.
'And just what do you care?' It sneered. 'You've just met the chick, plus, aren't you the loner kid? Since when have you needed anyone?' He was stuck, a near hopeless situation as the girl he'd just met was about to be devoured. That's when it hit him.
'But I don't remember any of those times!' He thought, taking a step forward, causing the snake to stop it's movement.
"What is this?" It remarked in a taunting tone. "Cubone grow a backbone?" He took another step forward, soon, he was walking towards the cocky snake.
'It doesn't matter if I was a loner before I got amnesia. I can change that!' He was now into a full out sprint.
"Bring it, small stuff~" It smirked. The mistake it had made was looking at him in that moment, his eyes were full of poison, he gave a glare that could have made a Machamp tremble. He'd used Leer. With it's defense lowered, Alex leapt up, making a seven-foot jump that his human body could never have made, he was now eye level with the Cobra Pokemon's. Without giving his next move a second thought, he pulled his head back for several seconds before bringing his head forward suddenly, if the head of his opponent hadn't been there he would have done a front flip or something.
The impact was more jarring than he'd expected. The head of the Arbok had been sent to the floor, Alex on the other hand had been sent flying back towards the wall of trees. He curled up, closing his eyes, expecting to hit hard wood, instead.
CLANG.
Whatever he'd hit gave way from his velocity. Opening his eyes, he'd found himself on the back of a metal bird who was giving what looked like a smile. "Nice shot, kid!" Skylar shouted back to him. Alex wasn't paying attention though, he was busy looking over the fading body of the Arbok. "Yeah, that was on hell of a hit! Though, I probably helped a bit with Air Slash.~ It was a low level, so it didn't have much HP."
"Did you get Cloe?" Alex asked, ignoring the half-praise. Skylar chuckled.
"Yeah, when you hit that thing she was sent flying through the air!" They glided down a bit, landing on the ground next to the fading body, the Skarmory was being careful as he looked over the frail Eevee. Alex sat on the ground next to her, exhaustion seeming to catch up with him. "You OK?"
"Peachy..." He sighed, looking over Cloe's injuries.
"Ya sure? I co-"
"I'm fine! Just treat her wounds." He scoffed, annoyed.
"But her wounds aren't that bad, if I'm honest." The steel bird mumbled. "You on the other paw, your head is bleeding."
"Huh?" He huffed, confused as he brought a paw up to his head, wiping up some of the crimson liquid. "Oh, I guess that did quite a number on me too..." He chuckled, promptly collapsing from exhaustion. Leaving Skylar the only conscious one there.
"Oh, thanks, kid..." Looking over to the giant, fading Arbok. Through it he could make out the feint silhouette of a staircase. "once we get to the next floor, the normal dungeon rules should kick in and transport us out..." He smiled, relieved to get out of the place, he quickly took a glance at the two, mostly Cloe. "But for all I care, you can join~" He said, beginning to drag both of them towards the staircase.
Author's Note
Hiya, guys! Here's the next expansion to my story~ Also, sorry about the supposed "battle scene," I honestly don't have much experience with writing those ^^;
But I do feel accomplished from this chapter! This is the longest chapter I've ever written; 6,308 words! *le gasp* It is amazing, is it not!... Well, I don't have much to put here frankly, and I'm sure you don't wanna listen to anymore of my rambling, so I'm off!
*goes to walk off, but then stops*
Wait! One more thing! I'm still accepting characters for this story! Go to the previous chapter to check that out~
*the crowd boos and hisses, throwing tomatoes to get me off the stage*
Fine! I'm leaving... FOR NOW! I shall be back!