Our Star Shines For Us
By: Ryudragonclaw, Coloredraininlives, and ShinyMew112
First part in fist person, rest is in third person.
Italics for pokespeech.
Chapter 2: Shine On! Bright Star!
"Hmnf!" I sat by a river licking my cream fur clean where that filthy human had touched me. "The nerve of him... How dare he touch me..." Satisfied that my fur was clean, I starred at the river, mumbling.
A magikarp flopped to the side of the river beside me and stared at me oddly.
"What are you looking at filthy fish?"
The magikarp just continued flopping and staring.
"Grrrrr!" I let the anger rise within me and I released a torrent of fire at the pathetic little creature. All that remain of it was a blackened corpse. "It may not make the best meal, but it matters not." I picked the carcass up in my maw and headed into the shade of the forest to enjoy my meal.
I tore a piece of meat off the remains of the pitiful creature and mumbled to myself. "I'll show them. I'm not close to done with them yet... They will pay dearly..."
"We're here!" Akiko gleamed with excitement as he stopped in front of the Pokemon Reaserch Lab.
Ciar gazed around as Asher stopped near Akiko's feet.
"Oh no... I was supposed to help later today," Asher exclaimed, "After my walk..."
"Some problem you got there," Ciar mumbled.
"Don't worries! Everything will be okays!" Akiko picked Asher up and hugged him.
"ARGH!" Asher grunted. "YOUR CRUSHING MY BONES!"
"Sorry!" Akiko let go of Asher, dropping him in the process. "Oops! Sorry again!"
"Don't worry
about it," Asher assured, hiding the small amount of pain in his smile.
"Come on Asher-friend and Eevee-friend!" Akiko exclaimed eagerly. Akiko happily wandered towards the Kazuki Town Pokemon Lab.
Before them loomed a grand, bewildering building. A sign labeled it the Pokemon Research Lab.
Akiko slowly walked in with an amazed expression. Asher and Ciar followed behind.
"Look Asher-friend and Eevee-friend!" Akiko exclaimed with his voice full of excitement. "We're here! Yay! Let's go get licence!"
"Estatic much, isn't he?" Ciar said blandly.
"He's just a kid," Asher declared.
"So?" Ciar's voice stiffened.
"Come on! What are we waiting fur?" Akiko grabbed Asher and Ciar and headed inside.
Akiko, Ciar, and Asher were greeted by a lab assistant with long pink hair and in a lab coat
"Hello, My name is Clair, what do you want?" the lab assistant said in a not-so-friendly matter.
"Hi! I'm here to getz my pokemon licence! And these are my friends, Asher and Ciar!"
"Well hello there," she smiled as she petted the former humans, "They're so adorable!"
"Who are you calling adorable?" Ciar questioned angrily, but came out as cute high pitched yips.
"Hey! Be nice Ciar!" Akiko smiled.
Ciar looked away, pouting.
"Huh? Did you just talk in pokespeak? And you are a quite cute, little eevee. And aren't you too young to qualify for a licence, little boy?"
"Nah-uh! I am old enough! I'm ten! See!" Akiko took out the postcard from the professor, asking her to come to the lab.
"Whatever, let me lead you to Professor Maiara, little boy, and she'll get you whatever you need."
Clair let them into the main room of the lab where there was a unethical lady in a revealing lab coat staring at a screen with a bottle of hard liquor in her hand.
'Who's that?' Asher wondered.
"Hello? Professor Maiara, you have a trainer here to get a licence."
"Really? Well, bring 'er over."
'Helloz! I iz Akiko! I'm here for licence!" Akiko looked as excited as a volcano on the verge of erupting.
"Well hello Akiko, hold this for me will ya?" The professor handed to bottle to Akiko.
"Woah, this is heavy!" Akiko struggled to hold the large bottle.
"Trust me kid, in this field of work you'll need a lot of this crap just to get through the day. And having some after-hours fun dosn't hurt either"
The bottle slipped from Akiko's hands and shattered on the floor.
"NNNNNOOOOOOEEEZZZZ! MAH LIQUOR!" Fear and anger and many emotions were expressed on the professor's face.
Clair grabbed the professor from behind, keeping her from strangling Akiko. "Professor! Stop it this instant ya old lady! What were you even thinking giving alcohol to a child? It's your fault for giving it to him!"
The professor slowly calmed down.
"Crazy old coot," Ciar mumbled.
"I'm okay now. And you are to be punished!" The professor poked her assistant on the forehead.
Clair fell to the ground as lavender fur began to sprout from her skin. She began shrinking slowly. Paw pads and claws formed on her palms and feet and fer shoes fell off as the hands and feet formed into paws. Hear ears grew much larger and pointed, and tufts of hair grew underneath them. A muzzle began forming and a red jewel appeared on her forehead. Her entire body began to reshape into a quadruped form, and she slowly stopped to shrink, an espeon being where Clair once was.
"Hey!" The once human espeon shouted.
"Your punishment will be to stay in that form for a week! And no changing back!" The professor scoffed.
"Oh noes! Why you turn her into an espeon! That's mean!" Akiko scolded the professor.
"Because she deserves it," Professor Maiara said bitterly,
"No, she didn't turn me into an espeon exactly. I'm a espeon shifter. She just made me change forms."
"She's still one crazy SOB," Ciar said darkly.
"Hehehe, you're totally right about that!" Clair laughed happily.
"What are you laughing about? Clean up all this glass and wasted liquor! And bring another bottle!"
Clair wandered off looking agitated.
The trio stared at Clair silently and then at Professor Maiara.
"So what were you guys here for again?"
"To get my licence!" Akiko gleamed with anticipation.
"And to start on adventures!" Asher added.
"And to get the hell away from here," Ciar said blandly.
"Well, let's get this over with," The professor took out a camera and quickly took a picture of Akiko and went to the back room. She returned with a few items.
"Here ya go. A trainer card with three thousand pokedollars, a pokedex, and a pokeHD."
"What's this?" Akiko pointed at the pokeHD.
"It's like Jhoto's pokegear and Sinnoh's poketch, exept way better and it now had a HD screen. Now hurry along and leave. The prof needs her alcohol." Professor Maiara shooed them away.
"But, wait a minute! Trainer card says girl! I not girl! I boy!" Akiko complained.
"Whatever. I don't care. move along. Clair! Get rid of them!" The professor looked annoyed.
Clair came in and her eyes glowed pink as Akiko, Asher, and Ciar were surrounded my a pink glow, lifted into the air, and thrown out of the lab.
"B-bu-but I'm not girl!" Akiko's eyes began to water.
"Don't fret Akiko," Asher tried to soothe the saddened Akiko. "We can fix that later."
"O-okay, so we go to pokemart and but supplies an pokeballs now?" Akiko held back his sniffling.
"Sure." Asher rubbed against Akikio.
"Okay..." Akiko grabbed Asher and hugged him tightly.
"Common lets go"
Akiko slowly began walking to the pokemart...
"Herez we are!" Akiko opened the doors to the pokemart. The cool air blasted him as he stepped in.
Akiko and Asher looked around in awe as Ciar went over to the nearest pokebed and curled up inside.
"There they are!" Akiko rushed to the section with pokeballs, and grabbed some luxury balls. "What else will we need?"
"Some potions," Asher pointed out, "in case we run into any trouble and are too far from a Pokemon Center
"Okayz." Akiko went to the section with potions and grabbed a bunch of potions and full heals.
A strange and lightly creepy guy in a black tuxedo, orange top-tat, goatee, cracked monocles, and huge moustache went up to Akiko. "Hello young child? Are you going on a journey? Here take this!" The strange man gave Akiko a map of Dragoslavia. "And take these too!" The creepily strange guy gave Akiko a pair of running shoes.
"Thank you Mr. Weirdo! I probably won't use the shoes though.. Me no likez wearing shoes."
"You are most welcome! Though I would be preferred to be called Nigelian the fourth. It's okay, keep them, in case you even need them. Let the winds of fate cross our paths once more someday." Nigelian the IV left.
"Bye Mr. Nigilian four! So we don't need anyting else?"Akiko's eyes caught on a rack of colorful postcards. "Oooh... colorful..."
"Want to buy one Akiko?" Asher asked.
"Yups! They is pwetty!" Akiko took three from the shelf.
"Where is Ciar anyways?"
"Ummm... we should look for him." Akiko looked under the shelf. "Where could he be?"
"Where the food is?" Asher guessed.
"Oh yeah! We forgotz to buy food!" Akiko set out for the food isle.
"You go get some food," Asher announced. "I'll go look for Ciar."
"Okayz!" Akiko grabed a few bags of pokemon food from the food isle.
"Ciar, where are you?" Asher called as he wandered down the aisles. "Ciar?"
"Wait.. we also need a sleeping bag!" Akiko hopped down the isle to where the sleeping equipment was.
"Where is that Eevee?" Asher asked quizzically as he gazed around. "Ciar?"
Akiiko pulled a sleeping bag of the shelf and noticed Ciar in a nearby pokebed. Ciar slept peacefully, unaware of Akiko glancing at his tiny, fluffy body curled up in a pokebed.
"There you are Ciar!" Akiko went and picked Ciar up and hugged him.
"EEV!" The surprised Eevee gave a high pitched yip as he immediately snapped his eyes open.
"Helloz Ciar!" Akiko put him on top of the pile of stuff they were buying.
Ciar gave a soft growl, annoyed by the disruption of his nap.
"Now lets go get Asher and buy all of this stuff." Akiko put all of the stuff in a cart as it was now too heavy to carry, and he put Ciar in the basket.
"Ciar? Where are you?"
"We're over here Asher!" Akiko called out at Asher.
Asher trotted over where he laid eyes on the peppy Akiko and the annoyed Ciar.
"Oh, you found him then."
"Uh-huh! Now lets a-go and buy this stuff!"
"Alright," Asher smiled. He quickly spotted a bunny suit for Eevees on the rack and asked teasingly, "Hey Ciar, want Akiko to get you that?"
"Okayz! I'll get it." Akiko put the suit in the cart.
"NO! Don't you DARE!" Ciar growled.
"But Asher wants it..."
"I swear Akiko if you even try to put that thing on me I'll.."
"Okayz... You can have something else then Asher." Akiko put the suit back.
"Thank you," he sighed in relief.
Akiko headed towards the checkout, and waited his turn.
They approach towards the counter where the salesperson gave them a warm smile. Akiko placed the stuff on the counter and the salesperson began to scan the items.
"That will be a total of ten thousand pokedollars."
Akiko handed his trainer card to the salesperson.
", little girl, but you don't have enough money. You only have three thousand pokedollars."
"I notz a girl! I iz boy!"
"Oh, sorry young man. It's just that this trainer card says girl on it."
"What seems to be the problem?" A much older woman walked in with the tag "store manager" asked.
"Oh, nothing. this young boy here just happened to not have enough money to buy this stuff" "No enough money...? Well young boy lean over here and I'll tell you what you should do."
"Yes?" Akiko filled with curiosity.
"See where that man is standing, near the costume rack?" the woman whispered.
"Hmn-hmn."
"I want you to stand there in line, but be polite to the lady behind him and tell her that I put you there, okay?"
"Okay!" Akiko walks up to the lady. 'Hello missus! Can I get in front of you? Ms. store owner lady said I should."
"Sure, why aren't you the cutest thing?" the lady smiled as she pinched Akiko's cheeks.
Akiko giggled and got in front of the lady.
"Why did she made us go back in line?" Ciar questioned, "What's the point of going in if we can't afford it?"
"But store lady said we should!"
"You never know, she might be unto something," Asher shrugged.
It came to be Akiko's turn at the counter once more. Akiko placed the stuff on the counter once more.
"You again? Didn't you not have enough money? Hey, wait a second, you are the thousandth customer since the promotion began. So you get all your stuff free of charge!"
The three of them gaped in awe as the store owner gave a small smile.
"Yayz!" Akiko jumped into the air. He went and hugged the store owner lady.
"Congratulations young man."
"Thank youz!"
"Have a nice journey young man."
"I willz!"
The store owner and the salesperson smiled as the trio euphorically left the pokemart.
Authors Notes:
Maiara is a Native American name meaning wise.
Clair is based off a friend of ours. .net/u/3446117/
Ryu: Yay! Chap two is done!
Ciar: Finally...
Akiko: Yupz! Free stuff fun!
Asher: ^_^
Ciar: -_- I'm leaving now...
Color: Excuse him... he's umm unhappy about working two things at once...
Ryu: Please review! It'll make us happy!