This took a little longer than I planned, as a result it's twice as long as the first chapter, ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon
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30 minutes earlier
"ALEX! Could you come downstairs for a moment?" shouted a sweet feminine voice from downstairs.
"Okay Mom, be right down" responded a young energetic voice from upstairs
Walking down the stairs was a young 10 year old boy named Alex. Alex had light brown hair that was short, but long enough that it would move in the wind. Blue eyes that currently had a look of joy in them. He was a little tall for his age, standing at about 3'9''. Wearing a white shirt with blue jeans. Basically what you'd expect from a normal 10 year old boy.
"What is it Mom?" Alex asked his Mother, Abigail, as he reached the bottom of the stairs and entered the kitchen.
Abigail was a woman in her mid-forties, but age didn't take much of a toll on her. She had long brown hair that almost reached her legs. She shared the same blue eyes that Alex had. Standing at 5'9'' she wore a red jacket with red boots to match it, and dark blue pants. Looking like she was ready to go somewhere.
"I'm going to the store to pick up some vegetables, could you turn the stove off to let dinner cool in about 10 minutes please." She asked in a polite tone.
"Okay Mom." Alex responded
"Be back in about an hour" she said as she headed out the door.
Alex walked into the living room, wondering what to do to pass the time. His eyes landed on the rather large bookshelf in the corner of the room. He picked a book at random, and ended up in his hands with a book about Pokémon habitats. Alex shrugged and moved to the chair to read.
Alex opened the book and found the section on forest habitats. He read about the types of Pokémon that usually live in the forest, what they eat, where to find them and so on. Alex looked out the window to see the forest just outside their house. Mt. Coronet could be seen in the distance. Beacon town that they lived in the Sinnoh region wasn't that far from Mt. Coronet, but still about a day's walk. Beacon town was a small town at the edge of the forest, and Alex and his Mom lived at the end of it next to the forest alone. Due to Alex's father dying from a sickness when Alex was 6.
Alex continued to look at the forest thinking maybe he should go for a walk, he looked at the clock and noticed that it had almost been 10 minutes. Alex went to the stove in the kitchen and turned it off like he said he would. Alex looked out the window again and figured he would go for a small walk in the forest. Alex set the book down and put on his black jacket and boots, and headed out the door. As Alex went through the back yard he noticed the berry trees in it. His mother grew a garden of most types of berries and provided them for the town, which was their main source of income. Alex approached the first row of trees and saw that this batch was ready to be picked. He would have to remind himself to do that later. Alex then continued to walk into the forest.
Alex walked in the forest for a while, he knew not to go to deep in case he got lost or ran into a dangerous Pokémon. He took in the sight of the forest, the lush green environment much like he saw in the book. He saw a few Pokémon along the way, a small group of Bidoof, some Starly flying overhead, even a Butterfree that seemed to be following the Starly. However as Alex continued to walk all sounds of the Pokémon he could hear faded away. Alex continued to walk, looking around to see if he could find a reason why that was happening. He noticed a mark on a tree and approached it cautiously.
The mark looked like a paw of a Pokémon he could recognize that seemed to be carved into the tree by a Pokémon paw itself. It soon hit Alex with what it was; he read in the book that it was a territory mark left by some sort of canine Pokémon. Alex had just entered the territory of what he assumed where dangerous Pokémon. Alex knew he had to get out as fast as he could, but as he turned around he noticed something odd. There appeared to be a red liquid of some sort on a plant just a few feet from him. As Alex approached it he noticed there was more around the plant in some sort of trail. Alex bent down on his knees and hesitantly put his finger into the red liquid. As he held it up to his face the warm red liquid began to drip down his finger very slowly. Alex recognized this as blood. He quickly shook it off his finger, and look at the trail of it. Someone was bleeding and losing a lot of blood based on how big the trail was. From the position of the drops Alex could see that the owner of the blood was moving to his right. Alex knew he should get out of here as soon as possible, but he couldn't help but wonder if that someone was still alive. He got up and started to head back home but only took a few steps.
Parts of Alex's mind were arguing with each other, one side telling him to leave, the other telling him to see what is going on. He knew that it would be dangerous to stay any longer and even more dangerous to go deeper into this part of the forest. But he would never stop thinking about just who the blood belonged to. Alex put his hand to his head as his conscience argued with his curiosity. Alex groaned in frustration as his curiosity got the better of him. Alex followed the blood knowing he was going to regret it.
As Alex followed the blood he could see that the spaces between the drops were getting smaller. Either the owner was slowing down or was losing more blood. Alex slowed down as he approached the top of a hill. Alex looked down and saw that down the hill were imprints in the grass with blood spattered everywhere. The owner must have fallen down the hill. The hill was only a few feet tall but it was steep, so Alex had to carefully slide down it. When Alex reached the bottom of the hill he looked a few feet ahead of the blood, and couldn't believe what he saw.
Alex approached what he believed to be a girl in a white dress lying on the ground, but as he got closer he noticed the green hair. Alex stopped over her and looked her over. When he saw her face he realized this was a Pokémon, but one he had never seen before. He looked around the body and saw that her shoulder was purple and had bubbles that seemed to be spreading to her arm. Alex recognized this as poison. He looked at her legs and saw that the blood was coming from one of them, and she was still bleeding slowly. He put his head close to hers, and his fingers on her neck. A faint breath could be heard, and a weak pulse was felt. She was still alive, but barley. Alex started to panic unsure of what to do, he had to get help. Alex reached to pick her up, but stopped as he remembered hearing somewhere that you shouldn't move an injured person. Besides Alex doubted he could lift her anyways. Alex wasn't that strong and she was almost twice his size. Alex knew it was a bad idea to leave her here, but he had to do something. He got up and ran home.
Alex ran faster than he knew he could, as he passed by the trees, jumping all rocks and logs he came across. In only a few minutes Alex found the end of the forest and reached his house.
"MOM!" Alex shouted as he entered the house
No answer. His Mom wasn't home yet. Alex didn't know what to do, who to ask for help. He needed to think of something fast. Alex then remembered the berries and that some berries can heal Pokémon. Alex bolted out the door, not even caring to shut it, towards the berry garden. Alex found a Sitrus berry tree and picked a ripe one. Alex then remembered that the Pokémon was poisoned, but couldn't remember which berry was the one that healed poison.
"Rawst? No that's for burns." Alex thought as he tried to remember"Was it Chesto? No, Persim? ...Wait, Persim, P-Pe, Pec, PECHA!"
Alex ran over to the Pecha berry tree, and picked the pink and green berry. With the two berries in each hand, Alex ran back into the forest.
In a few minutes Alex reached the hill the Pokémon was by, not even bothering to slow down as he slide down the hill almost tripping in the possess. Alex reached the bottom of the hill and the Pokémon. He quickly checked for a pulse. After a moment he felt it, he sighed in relief that he wasn't too late. Deciding to cure the poison first, he picked the leaf off the Pecha berry and placed it in her mouth. Realizing that she couldn't chew or shallow it, Alex tried moving her jaw up and down with his hands. He could hear the sound of the berry being chewed and hoped the rest would be natural.
"Please Arceus let this work" Alex thought as he continued to move her jaw up and down slowly
His prayer was answered when Alex felt the Pecha berry move down the throat and swallowed. Alex looked at the Pokémon's shoulder and saw the berry already taking effect. The bright purple on her arm darkened and slowly began to dissipate. Alex smiled at this, and grabbed the Sitrus berry. He broke this berry in half due to it being bigger than the Pecha, and placed it in her mouth. This time the Pokémon chewed the berry on her own and swallowed it. Alex looked at her leg and saw that the bleeding had stopped, but was still covered in blood.
The Pokémon shuffled a bit, causing Alex to jump slightly. She let out a slight moan, and then Gardevoir started to open her eyes. She lifted her body with her hands slightly and looked around. Gardevoir was confused as to what's was going on. As she scanned the area her eyes stopped at the figure next to her. Alex smiled at her happy that she was okay, however Gardevoir did not smile back. Instead her eyes filled with fear, Gardevoir tried to scurry away backwards with her hands and legs until she backed up to a tree and stopped. This was not the reaction Alex had expected as his smile died down, she was clearly scared.
Gardevoir was paralyzed with fear as she was on the ground backed up against a tree. Out of all things to find her, why did it have to be a human. She has only seen humans a few time before and had heard about how cruel and dangerous humans are, they build giant metal monsters to destroy their homes, those small wired shaped things they hold that make loud sounds and hurt others, and worst of all those small round objects they have to capture them and force them to fight each other for their amusement. As Gardevoir continued to look in fear she noticed that this was a child, but even so he still could be dangerous.
Alex looked at Gardevoir as she was breathing heavily and not moving an inch, almost frozen against that tree. Alex got on his knees.
"It's okay, I won't hurt you" Alex said as calm as he could hoping she could understand him.
Gardevoir wasn't even bothering to listen as she was trying to find a way to escape. Her eyes battered around looking for anything that could help her. Maybe she could throw some sticks to distract him, or push him with a Psychic attack and run for it or teleport and... Gardevoir then realized something. Some of her power had been resorted and since the pack was gone Mean look was no longer in effect. Gardevoir then put her hands together. The next thing Alex saw was a small flash of light, and she was gone.
Alex stood up and looked around, he couldn't see her anywhere. Alex guessed that the Pokémon used some sort of move to escape. Alex looked up and noticed the sun setting, and decided to head home. Alex put the other half of the Sitrus on the ground and started to walk back home with his hands in his pockets, with a sad look on his face.
Gardevoir was trying her best not to make a sound. She didn't teleport very far; in fact she was only 20 feet away behind a tree. She sensed the human walking away, and waited. Once he was far enough she slid down the tree to sit and let out a sigh of relief, hoping that this horrible event was finally over. She couldn't believe that a human almost got her, all those dark types was bad enough. She was lucky that enough of her power was restored to teleport a small distance. Then she thought something.
"How was my power restored?"
Gardevoir looked at her shoulder and to her suspired she saw a black sludge that was once the purple poison. She brushed it off in disgust, leaving a black smudge on her shoulder. She then looked at her leg and saw it along with some of her dress stained with blood, but she was no longer bleeding.
She couldn't how recovered herself, poison would have prevented that. But here she was, no longer poisoned and okay. Gardevoir noticed she had two tastes in her mouth. She licked her lips to the familiar taste but couldn't place what it was.
Seeing that it was safe now, she emerged from behind the tree and approached the area where she saw the human. She noticed next to where to almost died was a half eaten berry. She picked it up to see that it was a Sitrus berry, which were also her favorite. She took a bite out of it and discovered that it was one of the tastes in her mouth. That explains how some of her power was restored, but not how the poison was stopped. She looked to see if there were any more berries, and she spotted an odd leaf on the ground. She picked it up and recognized it as the leaf of a Pecha berry. That would also explain the cured poison, but one question still remained.
"How did they get here?"
She looked around and saw no Berry trees, and she clearly didn't get them herself. She could only think of one plausible reason, the human child. Could he have brought the berries to her? Gardevoir didn't want to believe that unlikely scenario, but the more she thought about it the more likely it seemed. How else could the berries have gotten to her and even be feed to her? But why would a human do that? If he was going to capture her he would have used one of those accursed balls while she was weak
Gardevoir look in the direction the human went, her mind filled with questions. She could still sense him not that far away as he was moving at a slow pace. She didn't want to go in that direction, afraid that she might get captured or worse hunted but she had to know. Did the human save her? And why? With every instinct in her body telling her not to, she started to follow the same direction as the human.
Alex continued to walk; about 5 minutes had passed since the Pokémon disappeared from him. He was happy that she was okay but wished she could have stayed. He at least wanted to know what Pokémon it was. She didn't even speak to him, just vanished.
Gardevoir managed to catch up to Alex, but was keeping out of eye distance. She could sense his movements and emotions. His emotion was what caught her attention, he was sad. Why was he sad?
Alex was almost there when he thought of something. The books at his house, surly one of them was a book about different types of Pokémon. Maybe he could find one with that Pokémon in it. She started to jog, eager to get home faster.
Gardevoir picked up on the human speeding up and his excitement. Wondering why the sudden change in the human's emotion, she picked up her pace as well but still kept her distance.
In a few minutes Alex reached his home. And as he entered he was unexpectedly greeted.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG MAN?!" shouted Alex's Mom Abigail with a look of worry on her face.
"Mom calm down, I was in forest." Alex honestly responded
"THE FOREST?! AT THIS TIME?!" Abigail said obviously not calmed down "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I WAS?! WHAT IF A WILD POKEMON ATTACKED YOU?!"
"I didn't go that far in the forest." Alex said deciding to leave the part of finding the territorial mark out "and I... I found something"
Abigail's face shifted from anger to curiosity, but you could still see the tension in her eyes. "Oh, and what would that be?' she said
"Well to be more precise, I found someone." Alex said as he prepared to explain everything "I found a Pokémon in the forest, but it was injured bad. Poisoned and bleeding." The image of the Pokémon entered Alex's mind as he tried to hold back tears" It was dying, I had to do something"
Abigail nodded to let him continue
"So I ran back home and picked a Sitrus and Pecha berry, bought them back to it and they healed it." Alex said
"Then what happened?" Abigail asked
"Well it put its hands together and disappeared in a flash of light" Alex responded
Abigail let out a slight chuckle "It didn't even bother to thank you?"
"No" Alex said with a smile seeing that his Mom has calmed down "I think it was afraid of me"
"Well, most wild Pokémon are afraid of humans" Abigail explained "but Alex that Pokémon might have attacked you, even because it was afraid of you"
"I didn't think of that" Alex admitted
Abigail kneeled down and pulled Alex into a hug
"Just... be more careful, okay?" Abigail asked
"Okay, I promise" Alex said, he wasn't surprised by this. She was always this way since Alex's father died
Gardevoir stood at the edge of the forest, looking at the house the human entered. She could sense another presence in the house, and didn't dare to go any closer. This was the first time she saw a house, it seemed smaller then what most Pokémon told her. She heard that they built these things out of metal and glass and they reached the sky. She didn't care much for that however. She looked over the area, and noticed some familiar looking trees in the clearing. Gardevoir started to make her way over to them, while staying at the edge of the forest.
Alex was sitting in the living room and looking through a book that had information about many different types of Pokémon, hoping to find the one he found in the Forest. So far he had no luck as he continued to flip through the pages.
"Watcha looking at son?"
Alex jumped slightly, startled by his Mom.
"I'm looking for the Pokémon I found in the forest, I never saw it before." Alex answered
"Well, what did it look like?" Abigail asked
"Well it was tall, about your height. Had green hair and arms. A red gem on its back and chest. Red eyes and I think it was wearing a white dress." Alex explained
Abigail put her finger to her chin, thinking about it.
"Don't think I've heard of a Pokémon like that before." she said
Alex sighed and continued flip through the pages of the book.
"You said it disappeared in a flash of light, correct?" Abigail asked
Alex nodded
"Well if I'm not mistaken that would be the move teleport, and if I recall only Psychic type Pokémon can learn that move naturally." Abigail explained "You should try searching for those types."
Alex smiled "thanks Mom."
She smiled back "No problem, dinner will be ready in about 5 minutes."
Alex nodded as she walked into the kitchen.
Alex easily found the section on Psychic types, as it was coloured pink. Alex found Abra, Drowzee, Espeon (smiling at how cute it was), then he stopped on the picture of #282 and it said on the top of the page.
"Gardevoir." Alex whispered to himself. He continued to read with interest.
Gardevoir the embrace Pokémon and one of the final evolutions of Ralts. Gardevoirs are powerful Psychic type Pokémon that can ignore the effects of gravity with their psychic power, with this they can levitate. Gardevoirs are known to be extremely loyal to the point of sacrificing their own life to protect those they care about. Unless provoked, wild Gardevoirs usually won't attack humans. Using its psychic energy Gardevoirs can have visions of the future but will not attempt to change it because they know it is impossible to. Despite its feminine looks and having a male only counterpart Gallade, Gardevoirs can be either male or female.
There was more but Alex was then interrupted by his Mom. "Alex! Dinner's ready!" she called
"Coming Mom." Alex responded, he sent down the book and went to the kitchen.
Meanwhile Gardevoir was examining the trees she found near the house. She came across a Sitrus berry tree; she looked down the rows and saw a Pecha berry tree a few rows over. This confirmed it. Her life was saved, by a human. Gardevoir just couldn't wrap her head around it. She always heard that humans were the most cruel and dangerous of all creatures on this planet. Sure she could probably send one through a wall with one attack, but they had weird devices that could kill them or capture them easily. And to make things worse they made their own kind fight against them. So why didn't this human try anything on her? Was it because he was just a child? But she doubted she was much older than him because human mature at a much slower rate than most Pokémon, but that didn't really matter.
Gardevoir looked up at the sky. The sun had set and the moon was starting to rise into the sky. Gardevoir decided to find somewhere to sleep, and entered the forest. Only a moment of walking led her to a clearing which had a small pond in it. Gardevoir look at the black smudge left by the poison on her shoulder, and the blood stain on her leg and dress. Gardevoir sensed to see if anyone was around and to her surprise no one, not even water Pokémon, was in the area. Gardevoir was slightly wary in case a dark type jumped her again, but she doubted the pack would bother her again seeing as how she killed their leader. Seeing how dirty she was after that battle, Gardevoir decided to clean herself.
Gardevoir slipped her arms through the sleeves of her dress, then slipped the rest over her and place it on the ground. Revealing the pale white skin on her body. The moonlight giving her a bit of a glow on her body. She stepped over to the pond to look her reflection. She watched her hands glide over the curves of her body up to her breasts. They were only slightly bigger than her chest spike but they were perked and round. She slowly stepped into the water, quickly adjusting to the temperature.
Gardevoir began to rub water on the blood stain on her leg, seeing some parts of the water change to red for a few moments. Once it was clean she looked over the wound on her leg. A bite mark was left there but it didn't look like it would leave a scar.
She then lifted some water with her psychic in a bubble and slowly poured it on her shoulder wound. After rubbing the rest of the black smudge off, she looked at the wound. This one as clearly worse, it left a mark that almost looked like her shoulder was cracked open like a rock. She sighed at this knowing that it wouldn't disappear anytime soon, and possibly leave a scar.
Gardevoir then lifted her dress with psychic and brought it over to her. She proceeded to clean the blood stain and black smudge off it. She looked at the shoulder of the dress seeing it ripped from the poison fang attack. She singed and concentrated as her eyes glowed blue and the dress stared to repair the rip. A Gardevoir's dress was made out of a special material, though not that strong, could be repaired and shaped by psychic energy. Gardevoir smiled as the rip was fixed and started to exit the pond. Once out she used psychic to lift the remaining water off her dress and body. Though she could was still cold from the water, this would dry her off quicker. She slipped her dress back on over her head and put her arms into the green sleeves. Gardevoir looked around to try to find somewhere to sleep.
"So it was a Gardevoir you found?" Abigail asked.
"Yes, a Psychic type like you said." Alex said having just finished dinner.
"Well wild Gardevoirs are a rare sight, I never seen one myself your very lucky Alex." Abigail said putting the dishes away
"Thanks Mom." Alex said
"But that doesn't mean I want you going into the forest looking for it." Abigail said with a stern look on her face.
"Y-yes Mom." Alex said rolling his eyes
"I mean it, now off to bed." She said "Goodnight son."
"Goodnight Mom." Alex said as he climbed the stairs
Alex entered his room and made his way to a bed. At the same time Gardevoir found some soft grass under a tree she could use as a bed. Both Gardevoir and Alex lay down. Alex was hoping he could see Gardevoir again and learn more about its species, unaware that Gardevoir wasn't far away. Gardevoir was thinking about what to do about the human child, maybe she should confront him? But she'll decide that tomorrow.
Both of them fell asleep, unaware that they were thinking of each other.
