Poor guys in Japan. I hope the nuclear issues are solved soon.
Anyway, I don't own FMA or Pokémon; however I'm a massive fan of both.
~1st Person POV~
What….where am I? I was in Chargestone Cave a minute ago…now I'm surrounded by trees.
"You awake?" Who's that? And why is it talking behind me?
"Go away."
"I take that as a yes."
"Go away."
"Is that really a kind way to treat a commander of a squad?"
"Go away."
"I don't want to."
"Go away."
"Sorry, but I can't. And you should listen to your squad leader."
"I'm not on a squad."
"Dialga assigned you to one."
"Then I lost the fight?"
"What?"
"I challenged Dialga."
"Surprising in that you challenged him, but I'm not surprised you lost. He's a legendary. Why'd you challenge him, anyways?"
"He said if I win, I wouldn't have to be on a squad."
"Interesting. Now if you didn't know, eye contact might be a good idea." I growled. Nearly a minute into the conversation and it was insulting me! I picked myself up and turned around, looking to see who the hell had the nerve to insult me.
Whatever it was, it seemed to be female around twenty years old, covered in dull orange fur, slightly darker on her hands. She had shoulder-length hair, a few shades brighter than her fur, with cat ears twitching on her head. Her eyes lacked a pupil or white, they were just a dull cross of orange and brown. At her waist, I could see several furry objects that I think were…tails?
I swept my leg at her, hoping to knock her down.
"Iron tail." A flash of white, and I was suddenly sent flying into the nearest tree.
"It isn't very smart to challenge me, you know. I'm the captain of Lostlorn Forest."
"Like hell I care."
"You know, most new recruits dodge Iron Tail. From what I can tell, you have no battle experience whatsoever, as well as being overly stupid."
"Why you…." I stood up, ignoring the pain in my back caused by crashing into a tree, and charged at her again.
"Iron tail." This time I could see something glowing around her waist to her knees, but it hit me again, throwing me against the ground.
"That move there was stupid. You already knew that I could use Iron Tail, but you didn't use a special move? You're basically useless in a fight, and stupid as well."
"Bitch."
"And while you're at it, you should take a shower," she said, throwing some pants and a black shirt at my face. "It's in the cabin, opposite the front door."
"If you don't do that, I'm allowed to punish you physically," she added after a minute of me refusing to move. I glared at her, but since I wasn't a match for her, I complied; though walking to the cabin was painful because of whatever she did to attack me.
The bathroom was painted a dull shade of orange, though it looked much more modern than what I was used to. I dumped my clothes and the clothes the weird woman gave me on the toilet lid, and stepped into the shower. After a few minutes I got out, feeling slightly better. There was a towel on the side of the sink, which I used to towel myself off, slipping on my clothes a minute later. The shirt was fairly large on me, but other than that, the clothes fit.
I was walking out, when a flash of black in the mirror caught my eye. I turned around, and was face to face with an ebony furred face. I stumbled back a few paces, and then approached the mirror again.
There were two fluffy black ears on my head, framed by hair of the same color coming up an inch below where my ears would've been if they were not on top of my freaking head. Bangs, coming down to my eyebrows (which were some rusty red color, for some reason) were tipped with crimson. And my freaking eyelids were red as well. There was some fur on my face, but not as long as on my arms and hands, but it was considerably longer on the area where my cheek met my jaw. Overall, it just looked stupid, though my eyes were their usual violet color, so not every aspect of my preferred form was lost.
But still, I looked like a freaking Nekojin. I growled, storming out of the bathroom, only to bump into some random Chimera, male this time.
His ears reminded me vaguely of a rabbit's, only thinner and about three inches in height, colored a dull yellow on the front. When he twitched them, you could see a light green on the backs of them, the same color of his hair (which came down to his neck, with a strand of hair in the middle of his forehead, coming down to his nose). His face looked like he'd used white makeup on it, which defined his caramel eyes. His tail poked out of hole in the back of his camouflage shorts, the top a dark green while the underside of it was a significantly lighter shade, the end tipped with some weird plant.
For some reason, he had removed his shirt, showing an emphasized collarbone outlined with the same dull yellow lining his ears. At the edge of his collarbone, a solid dark green band ridged the yellow, ending in something reminding me of an upside-down Ace of Clubs. The rest of his body was a lighter green, only with some weird yellowish markings at the bottom of his ribcage.
"You new here?" After a moment of silence, he spoke up again.
"I'll take that as a yes. Have you met Fluffy?"
"Fluffy?"
"The Vulpix Morph." Silence.
"The one with six tails."
"She slammed me against a tree."
"Yep, you met her. You might as well come out right now, since she generally doesn't half kill morphs when I'm around." He laughed and stepped back into the clearing outside, me cautiously following, since I didn't want to get whacked into a tree again.
"Leaf, put a shirt on," Fluffy muttered after glancing at him for half a second.
"Why?"
"Because I said so."
"I will fight you for the right to remain shirtless." Note to self: these Chimera are weird.
"Suit yourself. Nekomata!" She yelled, and a minute later another Chimera appeared. This one wore some kind of red kimono with green markings at the edges, and was clad in lilac fur. There was a crimson gem inlaid in the center of its forehead, framed by fairly large foxlike ears and violet hair about ear length if it had human ears. Like Fluffy, its eyes lacked a pupil or any white in them, instead just being a pure dark amethyst. There was a tail twitching around his waist, and it forked at the end into two tails, each about six inches long.
"Nekomata's here," it muttered.
"Envy, this is Nekomata, the team healer as well as an Espeon morph. In case you didn't know, he's male. It's fairly hard to tell his gender with him wearing a kimono," Fluffy said, turning to Leaf.
"Survive against me without fainting for one minute, and I'll let you go shirtless." Leaf smiled and backed a few paces away from Fluffy.
"Envy, watch the fight. You have no battle instinct whatsoever, but you might actually dodge something if you watch closely. Leaf, you may have the first attack," Fluffy said, crouching slightly.
"LEAF BLADE!" Leaf shouted as some kind of scythe appeared on his wrists, charging toward Fluffy, who backed up a pace or two. Were they using Alchemy? I'd never seen anything like it. There was no flash of sparks, and nothing to use to transmute nearby, and I didn't see any Transmutation Circles on his body.
"Flame charge." Fluffy's body suddenly erupted in flames as Leaf got within a yard's radius. Leaf halted the scythes disappearing as he jumped back several yards while Fluffy charged at him. This was impossible. Not only was she controlling the fire, but she wasn't hurt by it! Not even the best Alchemists had figured out how to do that!
"Glare." Leaf's eyes briefly glowed, and the flames engulfing Fluffy ceased, slightly panting.
"Flame Charge." Fluffy's body was covered in flames again, charging at Leaf, though much slower this time for some reason.
"Leaf Blade!" A scythe appeared on his wrists again, and Leaf held it up in defensive position, the scythes crisscrossing his chest. Fluffy reached Leaf, who shifted his posture to better hold the hit back.
"Time. Leaf wins Fluffy's challenge," Nekomata proclaimed as Fluffy's flames died down along with Leaf's wrist scythes.
"You hurt?" Fluffy inquired, turning to Leaf.
"A bit. Flame Charge didn't hit me, but I was kinda singed by the fire." Upon hearing this, Nekomata walked over to Leaf, cupped his hands, and placed them on his forehead.
"Wish." After a second, he retracted his hands and strolled away.
"Leaf, can you show Envy around the forest?" Fluffy asked, yawning.
"Fine with me. I probably won't end up going back to sleep, since something woke me up."
"I think that was me using Iron Tail on Envy. Anyway, you might want to introduce him to the other squad members." Leaf nodded, motioning me over as Fluffy went back inside the trailer.
"Lostlorn's kinda small compared to some of the bridges in Unova, but it's on the edge of the border between the morphs and humans. It replaced Route Five a while ago. Something about deforesting and planting trees in Lostlorn. Eventually Route Five got completely replaced by the forest. Anyway, I suppose I should introduce you to the other members. However, they usually aren't up before ten unless a global catastrophe strikes, me included. Though Nekomata's up, and I think Futachi wakes up fairly early to train. Knowing him, it's in some secluded location." Leaf tapped his finger against his chin for a few seconds, and then started walking off into the more densely forested area.
"You're name's Envy, right?" he asked once we were about thirty yards from the trailer.
"Yes."
"Zorua morph?"
"What?"
"Are you a Zorua morph?"
"I don't know…" Leaf stared at me for a moment, confused.
"Then I suppose you are a Zorua morph, then. The black fur suggests dark typing, and the only Dark types with red hands or paws are Krookodile, Zorua and Zoroark (1). Since you're definitely not a Krookodile, and if you were a Zoroark, your hair would be completely red, which leaves Zorua."
"And what significance does that bring?" Leaf stared at me again, more confused this time.
"Type advantage, moveset and abilities, and that's just scratching the surface of it."
"I don't know half of those terms."
"Moveset is the attacks you can use, type advantage is the fact that some moves are stronger on certain typed Pokémon, even if they have the same defensive abilities, and abilities usually help you in battle. Honestly, an infant could tell you that." The nerve of anyone to insult me! I was going to attack, but remembered the fight with Fluffy. If his power was on par with hers, he could easily beat me, so I tried to ignore the insult, and asked another question.
"Abilities?"
"Yep," he said, nodding. "It differs from Pokémon to Pokémon, and some kinds can have two or three to choose from, but you can only have one ability. Mine's Contrary, which reverses stat changes(2), but makes my personality kinda weird. If I remember correctly, Zorua can only have one ability, Illusion."
"Which does what?" I swear, if it affects my personality…
"Something along the lines of shapeshifting. I'm not too informed on the details, but there's something about creating illusions as well." So I was capable of changing my form all along? But it didn't work with the weird cat purple Chimera, when I tried to turn my arm into a sword. I tried again to turn my arm into a blade, but nothing happened. I growled, trying again with the same result.
Shit. This means I'm basically useless, since I know my regenerative abilities are screwed as well. If I couldn't even turn into my regular form, I would be useless.
"See? You've got the Illusion ability," Leaf said, "though turning into someone without any morph characteristics might get you attacked here."
"What?"
"You just transformed into someone." I did? I brought my right hand up to my face, and to my surprise, it was in the shape of my preferred form. I glanced at the rest of my body, and it was in my favorite guise, though the fluffy black tail remained. I smiled. At last now I could fight to some extent, though the tail might get in the way.
"Anyway, Futachi's probably training somewhere around here. He's a Dewott morph, and he's crazy good using swords." I shrugged, not really caring if he had a sword, when something went flying at my head. I reflexively caught it, but it scratched the palm of my hand in the process, causing it to glow. I dropped the thing (a shell about the size of my hand if I closed it into a fist), startled. After about a second, the glow died down, revealing ebony fur.
I was back in the Chimera form I took on when I came here. Yippee.
"Futachi, that wasn't very nice," Leaf said, fairly annoyed.
"Might have been an intruder, "responded a voice from the trees. After a minute, another Chimera came out from behind a tree about ten yards away. It was male, and covered in cerulean fur, except for his hands, which were covered in black fur. There were some kind of whiskers protruding from the side of his nose, and two blackish lumps on his head that I figured were ears. He wore baggy jeans and a light blue shirt, and he held a copy of the shell he threw at me in his right hand.
"He was with me. And if Envy was aggressive, he'd be attacking me right now." The Chimera nodded, and then faced me.
"Sorry. Shell?"
"What?"
"I forgot to mention Futachi almost never talks," Leaf butted in, "and I think he wants his scalchop back." I mused it over for a second, picked up the shell, and then threw it at Futachi's head. Serves him right for throwing his shell at me.
Futachi whipped the shell he was holding in front of his face, angling it as the shell I threw hit his scalchop, throwing it about a foot in the air, which he easily caught with his unoccupied hand.
"Now that you've met Futachi, I think that just leaves Lepto and Kojo, though I doubt Kojo's up yet."
1- And Shinigami. I just had to say that.
2-Serperior can have the ability Contrary if it was obtained from the Dream World as a Snivy. Otherwise, its ability is Overgrow. It works with Leaf Storm, basically making it the best Grass starter of all time.
Sorry for the slowish update, I was preoccupied beating the Elite Four.
Which my Zorua and Serperior royally swept. I swear, those guys are morons if they don't know that spamming Coil=setting up for a sweep.