One second, there was no-one in front of me. The only animals I could see were the Krabby, whatever they were, on the rocks, blowing their bubbles over the waves to each other. Then, the next second, I could see two animal-like beings hovering in front of me. One of them was a black sphere with evil-looking eyes and a mouth, surrounded by a purple fog. The other was a bluish-green ghost-like creature 'wearing' a red necklace of pearls. Below the necklace, its body looked similar to a skirt. The latter appeared to have bluish hair with pink tips.
"Since you asked us to show ourselves… we did," the black spherical creature deviously explained. I recognized the voice as the deeper one.
"Yeah, now prepare for your doom!" the bluish-green ghost chimed in. Its voice was the first I had heard, the highest one. I was confused. What did they want to do to me? However, I later found out I didn't want to know the answer to that question.
"Dual… SHADOW BALL!" they both shouted, concentrating any nearby evil energy in front of them to make two more spherical shapes. The blackish spherical creature and the bluish-green ghost concentrated hard to send the two Shadow Balls, as I assumed they were called, flying towards me from their position a few metres in front of me. Instinctively, I concentrated all of my energy into trying to stop the two balls of malicious energy. I felt my internal energy gathering up in my cheeks as a result of my self defence attempt.
All of a sudden, I let loose the energy I gathered in a bolt of lightning. With its sheer force, it managed to destroy the two Shadow Balls and then hit the ghost-like creature and the living black sphere with eyes. However, doing so had drained all of my energy, so I just collapsed due to a lack of power…
"Don't think you'll get away with this!" a young Shinx yelled, rapidly scampering in the direction a Misdreavus and a Gastly had floated. As I and my other friend, a Pachirisu called Riisu, knew, the Gastly and Misdreavus were way too fast for just a low level Buizel, Pachirisu and Shinx. However, nothing would stop Kaminari (or Kami as we called her) from giving up on anything, so it was useless trying to change her mind.
Riisu, Kami and I, Itachi, all wanted to one day join Wigglytuff's Guild and become an official exploration team. However, we were too young by ten years (the minimum age was fifteen), so we had to resort to going on unofficial explorations near Treasure Beach. One of our favourite places to explore was the Beach Cave, which we were currently exploring. Most of our explorations there had gone without any major hitches (our biggest troubles just being knees scraped on rocks and being severely damaged in battle, both of which an Oran Berry could easily cure), so this was the first exploration in the cave that had gone majorly wrong.
The Gastly and Misdreavus (who were called Shade and Missy) had expertly used their advantage – the element of surprise – to show up in front of us when we were in a one-Pokémon-wide corridor and swiftly nab Kami's most prized possession, her Wish Maker, which she always wore on a chain around her neck. All of the flaps on it had been folded in on the nights of the Millenium Comet, so the wish that Kami had made would one day come true. She believed that if she wore it all the time, her wish would come true even faster. Even though I wanted to know the wish that Kami had made, I knew that if she told anyone the wish wouldn't ever come true. And now, she was dashing out of the cave after them in an attempt to get her Wish Maker back.
I knew me and Riisu had no choice but to follow her, being her best friends and exploration partners. We started chasing after her – not at our extreme fastest but still fast enough to keep sight of her. She was really fast!
However, once Kami had lost sight of the two thieves, she began slowing down, each paw beat on the hard cave floor now having larger gaps between them. By then, we were near the entrance of the cave, the beach pouring into view through the mouth of the cave. The sound of the waves rolling onto the sand comforted us – we were glad to be near familiar surroundings. There was one thing out of the usual I could see through the cave mouth in front of us – the gaseous forms of Shade and Missy weak, on the ground, along with a Pikachu. We had never seen a Pikachu before, since they were quite rare.
Pikachu were also highly-revered Pokémon, due to the sheer amount of legends they were featured in. Such legends included the hundred-year-old tale of a Pikachu and a Piplup returning the Time Gears to Temporal Tower to save the future and a boy and his Pikachu halting the battle to end all battles between Mewtwo's cloned Pokémon and Mew's original Pokémon. Therefore, it was odd seeing a Pikachu around here. Kami, appearing oblivious to the fact that there was a Pikachu on the beach, jumped to the conclusion that chasing after the duo of bullies had tired them out, and immediately went up to Missy to reclaim her Wish Maker and put it back around her neck.
Riisu and I rushed over to the unconscious Pikachu so we could try to wake it up. That was when we noticed it was wearing an orange headband. I guessed it was one of the Electric-Type's most prized possessions, like Kami's Wish Maker was to the young Shinx. Regardless of the headband, we tried waking up the electric rodent. I tried shaking it while Riisu tried pulling its ear. Neither of them gained any response from the Pikachu. Since it was obvious we wouldn't be able to get the Pikachu to eat one of our Oran Berries, we decided the best thing to do would be getting it to Cleric Meganium.
"Kami, can you help us get this Pikachu to Cleric Meganium?" Riisu and I asked.
"Of course!" she cheerfully replied. "Since we're an exploration team, it's our job to help other Pokémon!"
"I suppose so," Riisu replied. From the look on his face, he knew that we weren't an official rescue team yet, but decided to play along with Kami since he knew it was hard to get Kami to change her mind.
"Okay, Kami, you get the Pikachu's front left and back left legs. Riisu, you get the front left and back left legs. I'll look out for any evil Pokémon that will attack us," I commanded. I decided to keep lookout in case the Pikachu should wake up and accidentally shock one of us. Kami and Riisu would be fine with it, but I would suffer extremely, maybe even paralysing my limbs.
"Okay!" Kami and Riisu said in unity. Being a mostly-quadruped, Kami just maneuvered the rodent's front and back left legs onto her back. Riisu did the same, even though he was able to walk on two legs. It must've probably been since carrying the Pikachu while standing on two legs would mean its right side would be tilted slighty upwards which might cause it discomfort. I just scampered along in front, keeping a lookout for any evil Pokémon.
Soon enough, the beach was out of sight and we were nearing Treasure Town, our home town. Meganium lived in Treasure Town as well, offering help to injured travellers and healing battle-scarred explorers in her own hut. Her straw hut was quite simple with two rooms - one for her patients and another for herself.
After around ten minutes, Meganium's hut came into view. Luckily, I hadn't seen any evil Pokémon on the way, so none of us got injured. I sped up a little to reach Meganium's hut first. When I was close enough, I knocked on the door. However, five minutes later, Meganium hadn't answered.
"It seems Meganium isn't in," I pointed out.
"Well, of course! She's tagging along on a guild exploration to help heal injured explorers! It must be awesome to be able to go on a Guild exploration," Kami excitedly replied.
My immediate reaction was to facepaw. How could I forget Meganium was on the Guild Exploration? It must've been because I hadn't been paying attention to guild happenings lately. With all of the earthquakes, checking recent guild updates wasn't on any non-explorer's priority list.
"Itachi, if Meganium isn't here, do you have any ideas on how to heal this Pikachu?" Riisu asked, inquisitively. As the oldest out of our trio, Kami and Riisu left it up to me to make decisions. That could be good sometimes, as it meant no rash decisions from Kami or Riisu, but it could also be bad – especially when they left it up to me to solve really tricky problems.
"Umm… I don't really know much about First Aid, Riisu. Sorry," I muttered in response.
"Wait a minute! I think I know! Itachi, Riisu, do you two remember that one time when Riisu fainted while trying to perfect controlling electricity?" Kami chimed in.
Lightening up, I replied, "Yes, I can. However, if Riisu can is another story!"
"Didn't I tell you to forget that I have short term memory loss?" Riisu moaned, but in a light-hearted way.
"Anyway, what I meant was maybe I could try sharing some energy with this Pikachu, like I did to Riisu after that incident," Kami explained.
"Well, even though it was an accident all those years ago, that's quite a good idea, Kami. Riisu, why don't you try it too?" I said, approving of Kami's idea. "But first, you ought to put the Pikachu down."
Kami and Riisu carefully manoeuvred themselves to the left and right respectively, dropping the Pikachu onto the sandy path with a 'thump'. They each placed a paw on one of the Pikachu's red cheeks, since it was often mentioned in tales that the cheek sections were actually used to discharge electricity. I made sure to stand back, since I knew that Kami and Riisu still weren't perfect with electricity control and therefore stray bolts could fly at any time.
I could feel some sort of electricity making its way into my body. However, it felt like it was restoring energy to me, instead of injuring me like it would normally be. I didn't know why, though it probably had something to do with how the strange creatures in this world could manipulate the elements. I slowly opened my eyes, to realize I wasn't on the beach anymore.
I could see some sort of hut in front of me. It seemed to be made out of vines, as it had a greenish tint and appeared to be knitted out of something. However, it also seemed sturdy and able to shelter someone from harsh weather. I quickly glanced around me, seeing if I could get any more clues as to where I was. Most of what I could see was more huts. Tables were in front of some, making them look like shops, but most were being packed up for the day since the sun was going down.
However, I could also see some more of the strange creatures. One of them, the one furthest away, was an orange bipedal weasel with a yellow inflatable tube around its neck and two tails. There were also two more on either side of me. On the left was a white squirrel with light blue markings and a large bushy tail. On my right was a blue canine-like creature with a yellow star on the end of its tail.
"Who are you?" I stammered. Waking up on a beach to see a brown puppy creature was weird enough, so why did I have to live through finding myself suddenly transported between two areas and seeing more strange creatures?
So yeh, since I need ideas for other Pokémon to just be around Treasure Town, running shops or just being background Pokémon, I thought I'd open up OC submissions. Here's the form.
Pokémon's Name:
Pokémon's Species:
Pokémon's Gender:
Pokémon's Age: In this story, age roughly equals level. So a 20 Year Old Magikarp would be able to evolve into Gyarados, no earlier. For Pokémon that evolve via other methods, they can be as young as you want (ex: a Pikachu can be as young as you want it to be. However, Pokémon like Oddish which evolve via level and then Stone, the minimum age for the final form is the age where they'd evolve via level.) All Pokémon have some control over their natural element, but can't use moves with it unless they are old enough to learn them.
Pokémon's Personality: Be as detailed as possible, please. This is because I don't want to write your OC out of character.
Role in Town: Are they part of an Exploration Team? Do they run a shop? Or are they just background Pokémon?
Anything Special? Is there anything special about your OC? For example, does he/she always hold a Dragon Gem, do they have a scar/birthmark/tattoo or do they have alternate colours to the usual species?
Anyway, I hope you all appreciate this extra long chapter.
