Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - SoF - Twist in Time
Chapter 2 - A lot to learn (Updated 07/23/15)
The first thing I felt when I regained my conciousness was a pleasant warmth. When I opened my eyes I could see that I wasn't at the clearing anymore. I was sitting on the ground, leaning onto another tree. 'Ugh... What happened? How did I get here?'
Inspecting my surroundings revealed that I was somewhere near a river. 'I remember... I fought a couple of Electrike... With Grovyle...'
Thinking about my partner managed to fully push away the grogginess and caused my gaze to sway around the area, scanning it for the grass-type.
The only things other than the river to my left and the forest to my right was a small fireplace in front of me. There was no trace of Grovyle, which made worry a bit. 'Where is he?'
Struggling at first, I stood up and wandered to the edge of the river next to me, keeping a lookout for my partner. 'He must be around here somewhere...'
When I reached the edge of the flowing water, I stopped and looked at the reflection inside of the liquid.
A confused expression wandered onto my face while I inspected my new form. 'Wow, I look like a dog.'
My blue face now resembled the one of a dog and a pair pointy, blue ears was sticking out of my head. There was something like a mask of black fur growing around my red eyes that had a mysterious, yet familar look to them.
'Red eyes?' I had no idea what my original eye color was but for some reason my crimson eyes didn't feel wrong to me.
I then looked at the side of my head, where two new tear shaped appendages were sticking out of it. They looked like an extra pair of ears but upon closer inspection, I couldn't find any function from them.
The fur between my ears was slightly longer and fell down onto my forehead as a curled tuft of hair. 'This looks familiar... Did I do my hair like that as a human?'
My gaze then moved down to my upper body, onto the yellow collar of fur above my black chest.
For some reason I turned a little confused when I inspected my chest... I couldn't really tell why but it felt as if I had expected something to be there.
Shrugging the strange feeling off, I continued to inspect myself. After checking out my new paws and black, dog-like legs, my view moved behind me.
A tail... I had a new appendage sticking out of my rear. 'This is weird... How comes I haven't noticed it before?'
For some reason having a tail felt oddly familiar. I didn't even take me a minute to figure out which muscles I had to use in order to move my new limb around.
'Maybe it feels so familiar because I can only partially remember my human body...' A smile appeared on my face. 'Well, I guess it's a good thing I don't have any problems with it!'
"Oh! Riley, you're awake again!" Grovyle's voice entered my ears and caused me to turn around. The grass-type had just entered the small clearing from the forest.
"Grovyle!" A smile wandered onto my face while I walked up to him.
"How are you?" he asked, walking up to the fire-place.
"Uhm... I'm okay. Thank you for saving me back there," I replied.
"No problem," he responded with a smile before he sat down next to the flames and a concerned look wandered onto his face. "Are you really sure you're okay? That Electrike almost managed to bite your face off."
"Yeah, that was a little scary but I'm fine. Things like that can happen in a fight." Just then my stomach suddenly growled. "I guess I'm just a little hungry!" My face turned a little red while I rubbed my belly with my paw and sat down as well.
"That's actually pretty convenient. I just collected some berries for us to eat," he explained, showing me several berries in his backpack.
Although I had different picture of food in my head, the blue berries he had collected looked pretty tasty somehow. A foggy sensation of a sweet and sour taste rushed over my tounge while I looked at our soon to be meal.
"You've slept through the whole evening and the night... That fight really must've exhausted you." Grovyle continued while he picked up a stick from the ground. "You did pretty good back there."
"Thanks!" I gave him a nervous smile and rubbed the back of my head. "Must've been instinct or something!"
"You really surprised me... I've never seen you fight like this when you were a human. It was always me who fought our battles in the future." My partner picked out some berries from his bag and pushed his skewer through them.
"For some reason I knew how to throw proper punches and kicks... It was almost like had done something like this before," I replied while he handed the stick over to me.
"It's most likely because you have the body of a Riolu now. They're fighting-types so fighting is pretty much in their blood," the grass-type said, picking up another stick from the ground. "But that still doesn't explain why you used a move like Bone Rush."
"Bone Rush?" I repeated, a thoughtful expression wandering onto my face. "I see, so that's what that move is called. For some reason I knew how to use it when you told me to try a move..." Some strange pictures were flying though my head while I tried to remember what happend before I suddenly knew how to use Bone Rush, however, building up a proper image of them in my mind wasn't possible anymore.
"Hmm... That's odd." He pulled out several more berries and began to put them onto his skewer. "What's really strange though, is that Bone Rush is a move that a Riolu shouldn't be able to use. I've read a couple of books about your new species and they said that a Riolu isn't able to use the move until they evolve into a Lucario. It's because their bodies aren't able to hold enough aura to create a solid bone like you did." the grass-type explained.
"Aura?" I blinked as I suddenly was somehow able to draw some information on it out of my mind. "That's the energy a Pokemon uses to use moves, right?
"Pretty much... It's your body's energy or life force if you want to call it like that," he answered. "It seems like your body is able to hold more aura than that of a normal Riolu... It could be a side-effect of turning into a Pokemon. You were much bigger as a human and the amount of aura your old body could hold could've transfered to this one."
"Hmm... That could actually make sense... And maybe I was able to use the move because of the instinct of this body too," I theorized with thoughtful look.
"This raises the question how you transformed in the first place... I remember that we got seperated the moment we stepped through the passage of time," the grass-type replied, mimicking my expression.
"That's the portal Celebi used to send us to the past, right?" I recalled, reviewing our conversation about the pixie in my head.
"Yes... The portal suddenly became unstable and I lost consciousness when everything turned white. The next thing I knew was waking up at a beach during the storm of last night. It took me a while to find out that I had landed on the eastern coast of this world..." He folded his arms. "The thing is that this was nowhere near the valley we entered the portal in the future... So whatever happened must've transported both of us to a different location."
It took me a moment to process all of this information. "I see... And where exactly did you find me? Somewhere near... Uhm... Treeshroud Forest, right?"
He shook his head and unfolded his arms before he gave me a serious look. "Not just near it... I found you right next to the spot where the Time Gear should've been."
"Should have been?" I repeated, raising an eyebrow and holding my berries to the fire.
Grovyle nodded and put his skewer above the flames as well. "Yes... It was gone when I arrived and time had already stopped..."
"The side-effect of taking a Time Gear..." I muttered to myself before I faced the grass-type with a shocked look. "But if it was already gone, then-"
"Right. Somebody else than us must've taken the gear," he finished for me in a serious tone.
Both of us were silent for a short moment until I spoke up again. "Could it be Dusknoir?"
"I thought that too but I don't think he or Dialga have noticed yet that we managed to travel to the past," he answered. "That there is another person trying to get the gears brings me to another theory about your amnesia... The fact that you weren't caught in the shockwave after the gear was taken can only mean that you got there afterwards. Maybe you still had your memories when you arrived in the past and made your way to the Time Gear on your own. And then when you arrived at Treeshroud Forest, you met this other 'thief'."
After following his trail of thought, I responded with a thoughtful look. "Do you think that I confronted him and that this somehow lead to my memory-loss?"
He nodded again. "It's another possibility... And a much more plausible one. That the passage of time transported you directly next to one of the gears just seems too confinient."
"Yeah... That really is a little too confinient... But shouldn't I have met that thief outside of the time-frozen area? He had to outrun the shockwave so unless he came back for some reason, we wouldn't have met next to the spot where the Time Gear should've been..." I combined.
"Maybe you two got into a fight and that somehow ended up with you getting knocked out at the center of the forest... We can only specualte about this problem until we actually get some information on this unknown person," my partner replied and pulled his skewer away from the flames. "Let's have some breakfast before we continue to discuss this problem, okay?"
"Okay, I guess..." I said, doing the same and bringing the roasted berries up to my mouth. As I had to wait for them to cool down a bit, I decided to talk about another thing from the recent fight that bothered me.
"Uhm... There's something else... I think I know how to use some kind of technique," I continued, folding my arms. "It was that move I used to finish one of those Electrike. It's called something like Cross Slash- Err... Cross Slash something."
"Hmm... I know some movements that could be called a Cross Slash... Maybe you remembered seeing me using the moves and mimicked them in the fight?" the grass-type replied.
"Yeah... That could be it..." I wasn't really happy with that explanation but decided to let it rest. 'Ugh... There was another name at the end! Why can't I remember anymore?'
After both of us finished our meals, I suddenly recalled a question that I actually wanted to ask him at the beginning of our conversation. "By the way, where are we? This doesn't look like the last clearing..."
"We are not very far from our last camp. I guess I was just unlucky to stumble into that Electrike territory. I carried you all the way to this river, built a decent fireplace and collected some berries. When I came back, you were already awake again." Grovyle answered.
"Oh...Thank you," I replied with a smile. "So... What are we going to do after this breakfast? Head towards the next Time Gear?"
"Yes, the next gear we're heading to is at Limestone Cavern which is in the Southern Jungle," the grass-type explained.
"Hmm... Okay... And then?" I further asked.
"Next, we would head up north again, to Foggy Forest. The remaining Time Gears are pretty close to it so it won't take us long to get the remaining ones after that," my partner answered.
"I see... So Limestone Cavern, Foggy Forest, the Northern Desert and finally Crystal Cave..." I summarized.
His look turned serious again. "That only leaves the gear from Treeshroud Forest which was stolen by the unknown thief. We have to find the thief and take the gear back from him or her somehow. I have a plan but before we can execute it, we need a Time Gear ourselves."
"Hmm... I guess you want to lure the thief into some kind of trap. If that person wants to steal all of the Time Gears, we can be sure that they it will come after us when we get one," I replied.
He gave me a smile. "Absolutely right... Let's focus on getting our hands onto a gear first though... If the thief manages to get all of them before us, we have to come up with another plan."
Grovyle suddenly blinked and turned around.
"Oh, I almost forgot! I have something for you," he said, picking up his backpack. The grass-type pulled out a small leather pouch after some searching and held it out to me.
"For me?" I questioned, giving the object a close look.
"It's the old pouch I used to wear when I was still a Treeko. I don't need it anymore because you made that backpack from me in the future," he replied with a faint smile.
"When you were still a-" At first I was asking myself what he meant with Treeko but when I was just about to finish my question, something in my mind clicked and I remembered that Pokemon had different forms. "Right... Pokemon can evolve..."
"Well, it was a pure coincidence that I managed to evolve. Normally nobody in the future was able to do so because time was really messed up but one day, when we were looking for the location of the gears, I suddenly evolved," he started to explain. "Celebi said that the two of us stumbled into some sort of time-anomaly or something and that was why my body was able to turn into what I am right now."
"Uhm... Okay..." I responded, still processing everything.
Grovyle pointed at the pouch in my paws. "Go on, open it. There's already a Luminous Orb and a few berries inside," the grass-type continued.
I opened the leather pouch and pulled out a blue orb with a thin leather band attached to it.
"This is the Luminous Orb. It charges when it's exposed to sunlight. All you have to do to use it is to hold it in your hand and command it to activate with your mind. Pretty nifty when we come across caves," Grovyle explained.
"I see..." I replied, putting the orb back.
He then pointed at the berries inside my pouch. "The blue ones are Oran berries. They have amazing healing effects and can mend any injury in only a few seconds."
"A few seconds? So if I had a cut on my arms or something, it would just disappear when I eat one of them?" I asked with a risen eyebrow.
Grovyle nodded. "Yes, but you can't just keep munching on Oran Berries in a fight. You have to wait a while after you ate one because your body has to digest the healing nutrients before the next berry can properly work again." The grass-type pointed at the pink berries in the pouch. "The pink ones are Pecha berries... Great against any kind of poison."
"Like an antidote?" I asked with a curious look.
He nodded again. "Yes, just like an antidote..." My partner then pointed at the green berry. "Finally, the green one is a Rawst Berry. Not only is it great for healing burns, it also makes your body more resistant to fire for a limited amount of time. If you eat a Rawst Berry before facing a fire-type, it makes it harder for them to burn you in the first place."
"That's pretty cool..." After processing the information, I closed the pouch and moved my gaze back at the grass-type. "Thanks a lot!"
Grovyle responded with a smile. "No problem. You can attach it to your leg with the leather bands on the backside," he explained, pointing at the pouch again.
"Oh! I see..." I did as told and attached the pouch on my right upper leg.
"Alright, then... I think we're good to go," Grovyle said while he got up from the ground and picked up his backpack.
"Right!" I got up as well and followed him as he walked into the forest.
We quickly made our way through the woods and onto a soiled path.
"It should only take us a few days to reach the border of the Southern Jungle," my partner said before we began our journey to our first destination.
After only a couple of minutes of walking, I began to sense a strange feeling of familarity to travelling. I was somehow drawn to gazing into the distance and admiring the landscape around us, whether it be a forest or simple plain. It felt like an old habit.
Grovyle wasn't very talkative while we travelled. Not that it really bothered me... My habit was keeping me entertained. He was probably trying to keep us on track so we didn't get lost or stumble into the territory of some wild Pokemon again.
Some occasional conversations did rise up though now and then but they were mostly comments about the landscape or corrections on our route.
We wandered until late afternoon like this when Grovyle suddenly grabbed me by my arm and pulled me into one of the bushes at the side of the road with him.
"H-hey! What are-" I tried to ask but was silenced when the grass-type placed his claw over my mouth and pushed my head down with the other one.
Before I could even struggle to get out of his grasp, I noticed some voices. From my point of view, I saw sillouettes of what seemed to be other Pokemon that were walking on the road. I couldn't really see them properly but I noticed that they were wearing equipment that was pretty similar to ours.
After they were gone, my partner released me again and stepped out of the bushes with me.
I growled at him. "What did you do that for?"
"Sorry, but I think it's better if nobody sees us," he replied with a sigh.
"Huh? Why not?" I asked with a confused look.
"First of all, what are we supposed tell them if they whip up a conversation and ask us where we come from?" he questioned in a serious tone.
"Where we come from? Uhm... We're from the futur-" I stopped myself there as I realized what my partner was getting at.
"See? I don't think they'd appreciate two Pokemon who claim to be from the future, trying to save the world by collecting the Time Gears. You already know that removing a Time Gear from its place leads to the paralysis of time in the area around them. I don't think many Pokemon would like something like that to happen..."
"I-I know! But after they get over the whole time-travel thing they might believe us! I believed you so what makes you think that nobody else would?" I asked with a sad look.
"Whether they believe us or not is not the main reason I want to stay hidden like that... There is a pretty big chance that Dusknoir is going to follow us to this time, trying to stop us from collecting the gears. If he hears rumors about two Pokemon that wander around, claiming to be from the future then we would pretty much give ourselves away to him. There's also-"
"Wait... You're not human anymore... And Dusknoir doesn't know that..." A smirk formed on his face.
"So?" I raised my eyebrow again.
"I've just come up with a backup plan if everything goes wrong and he somehow manages to find us. If I somehow get captured, we still have you to finish the job. You'd just have to lay low for a while and after that, there'd be nobody left to stop you. And even if Dusknoir left a couple of his Sableye in the past, they'd look for a human and not a Riolu! You'd still have to deal with the Pokemon of the past through... If they find out about what you are doing, that is," he responded.
"Do I really have to do something like that? It feels like I'm abandoning you that way..." I responded with a sad look.
The grass-type seemed to be startled by my change in attitude and gave me a concerned smile. "H-hey! This is just a plan for one of the worst case scenarios! It can only work under the circumstances that nobody knows that the two of us are travelling together. If Dusknoir finds us while we're together, we have no other choice than to fight him together of course."
"Right..." I said, still not really happy with the idea of leaving my partner behind.
"Anyway, we should keep the contact with Pokemon from this time to a minimum... I bet Dusknoir is going to look for every Grovyle he can find on this land, should he really come back in time... The name Riley could also catch his attention so you better keep to your species name or use a fake one whenever we really have to make contact with someone from this time..." he advised.
I could only give him a distasteful look in response as lying to other people like that just felt wrong to me. "Mmph..."
Grovyle placed his hand on top of my head all of a sudden and pulled a couple of leaves out of my fur. "Come on, now... Let's get going," he said with a smile while turned around and let them fall out of his claw.
I blinked and didn't move for a moment before I shook my head and ran after him. "H-hey! Wait up!"
We continued our journey an continued like we did before. Grovyle was keepinh us on track while I admired the landscape. Nothing much happened until the sun started to set and my partner decided to call it a day.
We made our way into another forest to look for a good place to set up a camp. After finding a decent spot, which was a small clearing next to a rocky cliff, we placed out equipment next to the stone wall and put up a small fireplace.
While my partner prepared our dinner, I was sitting next to fire and warmed my paws. After a while the grass-type sat down next to me and handed a skewer with berries on it to me.
"Thank you," I said with a smile, taking the stick out of his hand and holding it over the flames in front of me.
He did the same and focused his gaze onto the fire.
After about a minute of silence, I decided to attempt to whip up a conversation. "Uhm... So how do these moves work? Can I use something else than Bone Rush?" I questioned, facing the grass-type with a curious look.
He put his empty claw up to his chin. "Hmm... What's the best way to explain all of this? Do you still remember the different types?"
I thought about it for a second but didn't find any proper information in my mind. I knew that he was a grass-type, that I was a fighting-type and that there were several other types. "Uhm... I'm not sure... I think I know them but everything is really foggy..."
"Let me try to refresh your memory then," he replied and started to explain the different types and how they affected each other.
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"And that's pretty everything you need to know about types..." he finished, not too long after we had eaten our meals and threw our skewers into the flames in front of us.
All of it had sounded strangely familiar to me but considering that he told me about this in the future didn't make me think too much into it. "Okay, I think I got it."
"Alright. So now that we're finished with types, let's get to the topic of moves itself. Pretty much every move uses the user's energy or aura to be executed. Let's take your Bone Rush for example here. I don't know hos exactly it works but guessing from how I use my moves, I'd say that you focus your aura into your paws and form it into a solid bone, changing its properties into ground-type."
I nodded in response, remembering how I used the move during our last fight.
"From that you see that Pokemon are not only able to use moves that are from their own type but also ones from different types. Most moves only require a general idea of what to do and how to manipulate your body's energy to be executed... That doesn't mean that every Pokemon can learn every move though..."
Some more information surfaced from my mind. "Right... A fire-type isn't able to use water-type attacks because their bodies rely on heat as their energy source while water-types rely on the water in their body's..."
My partner nodded in response. "Correct... Which Pokemon can use which moves mostly depends on typing and body-structure."
I folded my arms and put on a thoughtful look. "I see... So... Uhm... Do you think I can use something else than Bone Rush? We know that it comes somewhere from my new Riolu instincts so there should be other moves too, right?"
"Hmm... Riolu are normally able to use Quickattack. I know the move too so maybe if I show you how I do it, you can do it as well," Grovyle offered.
We got up and created some distance between us and the fire.
"Alright, let's get started. First I'm going to show it to you before I explain how I usually do it," he explained before he relaxed his whole body and began to concentrate.
His whole body was starting to give off some aura, becoming visible as white streams that slowly faded into the air at some spots. He smirked at me and suddenly vanished from my view, leaving only stirred up dust at the place he had just been standing on.
'W-what?' I frantically looked around me, trying to get him into my sight while he dashed around me with an unbelievable speed. 'Dammit, he's fast!'
After a few seconds, the swishes stopped and the dust all around me settled.
A smirking Grovyle was now standing in front of me again. "That's it."
"That was awesome!" I responded with a look of admiration.
"Okay, then... Let me explain how to do it. The principle of Quickattack is to use you body's energy or aura to increase the users overall speed. This speed-boost is commonly used to ram into your opponent with a quick dash, but there are a lot of other ways to use this move," he began to lecture but couldn't speak any further as I interrupted him.
"I think I know how it works..." For some reason I had somewhat of an idea of how to do it too. "All I have to do is to use the energy I use to create my bones and focus it all over my body..." I said, already drawing on the energy inside me.
"T-that's right," Grovyle replied with a surprised voice while I closed my eyes and started to spread the feeling of power across my body.
I could feel the streams of aura, coming off at some spots but just when I was about to push my foot into the ground and dash forward, I was suddenly overwhelmed by a feeling of familarity and a severe headache.
A grimace of pain shot onto my face while everything around me seemed to fade into the background.
I suddenly found myself in some sort of village. Blurry shapes of buildings were standing all around me and in front of me, I could make out some sort of creature.
"Use Quickattack!" a muffled voice called from behind me.
My vision moved behind me, only to reveal another figure. It was completely shrouded by black flickering smoke and, for some reason, looking at it made my headache worse. The black smoke that flickered like a TV without a signal quickly spread from it, completely obscuring my vision.
"Riley!" Grovyle's voice suddenly pulled me out of the vision and back into reality.
The next thing I knew was falling to my knees while I moved my paws up to the sides of my aching head. The aura that had formed around me busted into the air as my concentration was interrupted by the severe pain.
"Riley! What's wrong?!" Grovyle's voice called again.
I opened my eyes again and met the blurry sight of the ground. "Ugh... What was that?"
"What happened?" my partner asked.
Blinking a couple of times, I shook my head to clear up my senses. "I don't know... I... I think I remembered something..."
"Really? You remembered something?" the grass-type repeated, a hopeful expression creeping onto his face. "What was it?"
I struggled to form a clear image in my mind. "I... I don't know... All I can remember now is some sort of black figure and a headache..."
"This is strange... As soon as you try to use Quickattack, you get a severe headache and seem to remember something. If the knowledge on how to use it comes from your Riolu instincts but you remember something about your past when you try to access the information, it seems that you mind is mixing something up. Your human-mind seems to interfere with your Pokemon instincts."
"I guess I won't be able to use Quickattack then, huh?" I frowned.
"Maybe... You've been a Riolu for only a day so maybe your mind is still trying to get used to your new body. We should wait for a couple of days before you try it again," the grass-type replied.
A disappointed look wandered onto my face and my head slumped down a bit. "Dammit... I really wanted to learn that move."
"Hey, tell you what. If learning new moves doesn't work, we can try to improve your Bone Rush," he offered, obviously trying to lift my mood.
I faced him with a faint smile. "Really?"
"Yeah. Come on, create your bones. I already have something in mind to teach you," he instructed, returning the smile.
"Alright," I said, creating a bone between my paws. When it was long enough, I broke it into two batons, just like I did while we fought the pack of Electrike.
"Good..." Grovyle extended the leaves on his arms. "What I'm going to teach you is a new fighting-style."
"A new fighting-style?" I repeated, already excited to hear more.
"Try to hold your batons at the other end, that way you should be able to mimic my movements," he explained.
I did as told and held my hands up, letting my bones slide down to hold them at their other ends. The posture resembled how a thief would have held his daggers that way.
Grovyle got into a battle stance. He held his left hand in front of him, slightly lower than his face. His right hand was also in front of him only that it was a little lower, at chest height. He then kneeled down a bit, slightly putting his right leg behind him.
Copying the grass-type was surprisingly easy to do for some reason. The whole scenario of learing a new way to fight felt familiar to me somehow.
"Alright, Riley... This the basic stance from which I initiate all of my techniques. They require the knowledge of Quickattack to be executed so I'll just explain the principle of close combat for now," my partner lectured. Grovyle held his right arm up to show me the extended leaf on his arm. "When you throw an attack at your opponent, use the tip of your bone to deal the blow. The tip of my blade has the greatest velocity during a swing and it should be the same with your bone."
"And greater velocity means greater damage, right?" I combined, looking at the bone in my right paw.
"Correct. You can also increase the velocity and force of the attack by using the momentum of your whole body while you slash at your opponent," he continued. "I'll practice the movements with you tomorrow, okay?"
"Promise?" I asked with a grin.
"Promise," Grovyle answered, returning a smile.
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"Well, it's getting late and we should really get some rest. We've got a long trip ahead of us tomorrow," he said, pulling his leaves in again.
"Okay..." I replied while I let the batons in my hands disappear.
We then went back to the fire sitting down next to it. Grovyle grabbed his backpack and looked around inside of it before he then pulled out a blanket and handed it over to me. "Here, this should keep you warm. You lost your blanket, so you can have mine."
At first I was quite confused and stared into his golden eyes with an unsure expression. "Thanks... But won't you be cold without one?"
Grovyle gave me a warm smile. "I'll be alright... Please, just take it."
While he said those word, I noticed something inside of the grass-type's eyes. A look that somehow let me know that he cared more about me than himself. But that wasn't the only thing... Something in his eyes made me feel really strange. I couldn't quite tell what it was but one things was clear to me. Whatever it was felt comfortable.
My own eyes were still locked on his when I reached my right paw out to grab the blanket. I unintentionally touched Grovyle's hand, making me flinch back a bit when I noticed what I had done.
"S-sorry!" I apologized as my blood rushed into my cheeks and a blush crept onto my face.
'Wha- Why am I...?'
With a gasp, I quickly pulled the cloth out of his hands and held it in front of me to hide the completely embarassed look I had on. A confused expression could be seen on Grovyle before he disappeared behind the white blanket.
"What's wrong?" the grass-type asked though the cloth.
"U-uhm... Just looking at the cloth!" I quickly shot out, not thinking on how stupid the excuse was. "W-well I'm going to sleep now!" Turning away from the grass-type, I rested myself onto the ground and pulled the blanket over my body. "Good night!"
My breathing was hastened and my face was still completely red while I hoped that he would buy it.
I could hear a sigh from him. "I have no idea what's gotten into you all of a sudden but well... Good night."
'Oh god... What was that just now?! His eyes just- Why would I blush to something like this? Turning into a Pokemon must've changed how I see things... Yeah... Just try to forget about it...'
My cheeks turned back to normal and my pace of breathing calmed itself while I tried to forget the incident somehow. After some struggle, I managed to push the topic aside and closed my eyes, trying to get some rest.
Maybe it was the exhaustion from all the walking, or maybe the training but as soon as I did so, I drifted into unconsciousness and fell asleep.
End of Chapter - 2
Who could be the mysterious thief that stole the Time Gear from Treeshroud Forest?
Grovyle could very well be a detective, the way he put up the facts and theorized about the 'case'.
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So here's a little disclaimer: Due to the revision, where I change dialogue and even add completely new scenes now and then, some inconsitencies might occur in future chapters.
Those include that some of the scenes that I added aren't mentioned in conversations or thought-processes where they would fit very well and that some flashbacks are different from the older chapters.
Trivia - Section
Orbs:
Orbs are magic-imbued spheres made of a blue, glass-like material. They can have many different effects, from stunning an enemy to changing the weather.
In order to use an orb, the user has to touch it and mentally 'command' the sphere to activate.
Orbs are creations of Mystery Dungeons and therefore have the greatest power when used in one of them. They work outside of dungeons as well but their magical power is reduced due to the missing time and space distortions.
Quickattack:
Move - Physical - Normal-Type
The user amplifies their speed with their body's energy. The energy becomes noticable as white streams of aura that surface on the user's body. This speed-boost is commonly used for a quick ram into the user's target but it has several other uses like for dodges or quick dashes to change the user's position on the battlefield.
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