AN: Hey, I just want to thank GilTano and death angel shadw kat for reviewing the first chapter. Well I made it to the second chapter, so yay!
By the way did anyone know whatsoever was a real word? I am kind of sad to report that I did not know that.
Disclaimer: I think the owners of Pokémon knew whatsoever was a word a long time ago, so I'm clearly not one of the owners.
Chapter 2: Journeys Aren't What They're Cracked Up To Be
As Autumn slowly made her way through the doors to the first floor of the Ice Fortress, she was taken aback by what she saw inside.
Autumn had been in two mystery dungeons before the Ice Fortress and heard of many more than that. Everyone described them as mazes that change every time you enter the dungeon, but the first floor of the Ice Fortress did not fit that description whatsoever.
The entire first floor was a large room made entirety of smooth ice. When the light from the rising sun outside hit the ice a rainbow of colors appeared giving the room an enchanted feel. But feature that caught the eevee's eyes immediately was the ice statues that littered the room.
There were dozens of them in all different positions. Autumn noticed several different kinds of Pokémon like pichus, munchlaxs, azurills and many more. Autumn walked warily to a specific sculpture of two different Pokémon. It was a plusle and a minun holding hands and glaring straight ahead with utter hatred.
Autumn looked around wildly searching desperately for the stairs. Something about seeing the two Cheering Pokémon frozen in such fury had awaken a feeling of wrongness about the room.
Autumn spotted the stairs in the northeast corner of the room, right in front of a statue of a rattatta that was frozen in a position that made it look as if the rattatta was attempting to flee toward the stairs.
Autumn quickly ran forward trying to get to the stairs as fast of she possibly could. The Evolution Pokemon stopped in her tracks as the air in the room chilled to the point where she felt as if she was being frozen alive.
Frozen alive, Autumn thought dread worming its way into her heart. Autumn took a look at the ice sculptures in the room all frozen in positions and expressions that made them look so ... lifelike.
Autumn looked behind to where the cold feeling was coming from and came face to face with a creature that was a ball of pure rock covered in a thick layer of ice. Autumn immediately recognized the Pokémon as a glalie. A type of Pokémon notorious for freezing their victims.
Autumn gulped. For some reason she had though the Ice Fortress would be a piece of cake. Stupidly, she had never suspected that maybe other Pokémon besides the absol live here. Let alone powerful Pokémon that could crush her with one blow.
The glalie stared at Autumn then smirked. Next thing Autumn knew an ice fang was heading in her direction.
The eevee yelped and swiftly jumped out of the way of the rapidly approaching glalie. The glalie turned and glared at the frightened eevee.
Autumn took her small success in a way a lady should. She smiled at the glalie and then used charm on the now enraged glalie. The charm hit the glalie head on but the Face Pokémon just shook it off as if it had no effect on it.
The young eevee's head tilted as she started seriously considering how far out of her league she was.
The glalie took advantage of Autumn's momentary distraction to fire an ice beam at her. Autumn looked up and saw the powerful move headed straight for her. Panic took hold of her keeping her in place. She wanted to run, to dodge, to do anything! But her traitorous body locked her in place as the ice beam hit her.
Autumn immediately felt the effects of the ice beam. It was freezing her, turning her into one of the statues. I wonder what I will look like frozen? Autumn thought as hysteria took hold.
It is cold. It is very cold in here, the eevee thought as she shut her eyes as tight as they would go. If you couldn't see the nightmare maybe, just maybe, you will wake up. It was a stupid and impractical thought but Autumn had nothing else to give her hope.
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Unknown to Autumn there was something else coming to save her even through said person didn't know he was going to help her yet.
A certain absol just happened to be coming back from a successful robbery with a grand total of 24,047 poke coins. The rather happy thief was making his way to the Ice Fortress. The path there was safe and tranquil but also rather boring so the absol had resorted to tossing the bag of money up in the air then catching it for entertainment.
The absol slowly made his way up to the doors, the cold and the view of the Ice Fortress had lost its appeal some time ago. He walked into the first floor's only room with his usual dispassionate expression.
He looked around the room with cold eyes. The glalie had to be the sickest Pokémon here if it found this twisted room enjoyable. All the Pokémon had had been defeated by the glalie were frozen until some compassionate Pokémon knocked them out. The whole point of the room was for the glalie to show how strong he was.
The glalie appeared from behind one of his abundant statues and stared at the absol before disappearing again. The absol snorted. Even the brutal glalie was terrified of him!
The absol was about to move on to the next floor when a shade of blue caught his attention. While the Ice Fortress was filled with cold blues this one was different. This shade of blue resembled the blue of the magnificent sea being warmed by sunbeams. A shade he had seen just the other day.
Just like the other day the shade of blue was still a scarf and just like the other day it was on the same idiotic eevee that attacked him. The absol stared at the frozen eevee confused on why she would be here. It wasn't like he stole from her just the other Pokémon that he couldn't quite remember.
The eevee was frozen in a position of panic. Her eyes were squeezed shut and she looked terrified.
The glalie didn't seem happy about the attention the absol was giving its statues as it appeared once again from behind another statue. The Disaster Pokémon was oddly annoyed at this situation and he was partially sure it was the eevee's fault.
The glalie gradually started approaching the absol. It was sensing something different about the absol than usual.
The absol stared at the glalie as it approached clearly preparing for a fight. This action caused a deep primal rage to escape from its cage in the absol's heart. It was a type of rage that was born from mistreatment and hatred. Without thinking the absol used his ultimate move.
A haunting melody soon made its way into the ears of everyone in the large room. It was soft but loud. Fast but slow. The glalie froze after hearing it but when nothing happened he moved forward three steps. Three steps was all it took for the glalie and all the other Pokémon in the room to faint. That was the power of the move called perish song.
The absol sighed. A hard dull sound after the warmth and beauty of the perish song. Releasing the frozen Pokémon was one more good deed than he had meant to do. Ever.
They had done nothing to deserve his help. It was all the eevee's fault. He didn't know how but the absol was certain that none of this would have happened if it hadn't been for her.
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Autumn slowly opened her eyes to see what was going on. "Not again!" Autumn yelled.
It was getting sad that she was getting used to being knocked out on a daily basis. Maybe going after the absol was a bad idea after all, she thought.
That one thought brought back a memory of Charlie, the Pokémon she barely knew but was still doing all of this for. Charlie had looked at her like she was insane when she said she was going to get his rare coin back from the absol. That expression, the one that said that there was no way she could succeed, was the reason she wanted to succeed so badly. Where is Charlie now? Autumn wondered briefly. if she got the coin back would she even be able to find him? Autumn dismissed that thought. She would figure it out later.
The last time she had seen him was when he told her where to find the absol's hideout, Autumn mused.
A sob, sharp and loud, pulled the Evolution Pokémon from her thoughts. She sat up and noticed there was a good two dozen Pokémon still knocked out, one dozen conscious but confused ,and she guessed around a dozen had run or flew as far away from the Ice Fortress as they could get.
Autumn was feeling rather confused herself. What could have knocked out all the Pokémon? Autumn wondered. Thinking about the first floor brought back memories of an excruciating cold. Huh, the eevee thought, when I opened my eyes the nightmare was over. It was kind of ironic in Autumn's opinion.
With that thought Autumn stood straight up. She would make it to the final floor of the dungeon and get back Charlie's coin! Autumn needed to do this, she wasn't clear on why but she wanted to prove she could do something.
If all the people who were statues -including herself Autumn thought with a shudder- were knocked out that meant the glalie was as well. Autumn quickly ran toward the foreboding doors and opened them. She was relieved to see the room was completely empty. She ran over to the staircase which was in the same location it was in last time she was here. She made her way to the second floor hoping it would be a normal mystery dungeon floor.
The young eevee let out a sigh of relief after she landed in a run-of-the-mill mystery dungeon room. Even better was that she had ended up in the room with the staircase. Autumn quickly rushed to the staircase and moved onto the third floor. Maybe her luck was finally turning around. It just needed to stay on the positive end of the spectrum until she hits the final floor which was the twelfth floor in this case.
On the third floor she arrived in a small empty room. Autumn dashed out of the room taking the first exit she saw. Trouble appeared as soon as she reached the next room. Trouble had actually taken the form of a rather large and ferocious looking houndoom. Its eyes were attempting to drill holes in her from the look of it, so Autumn did what any rational eevee would do in her situation. She ran away.
Autumn didn't know how long she could keep the running thing up, but the answer also appeared. This time as a skuntank. It was safe to say Autumn was sick of things "appearing".
I'm done for, Autumn thought as the two enemy Pokémon cornered her. The next thing Autumn was aware of was her prediction coming true as two flamethrowers were knocking her out.
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A bright light was working its way into Autumn's closed eyes and lights in eyes were apparently not good for sleeping. Autumn woke up with a groan caught in her throat. She shook her head forcing the memories to push away any thoughts of sleep.
The Evolution Pokémon stood straight out. Third time is the charm, Autumn thought attempting to compel cheerfulness into her thoughts.
Autumn ran onto the first floor and ran into the glalie. She smiled weakly at its angry glare before taking off into a sprint towards the stairs. The glalie tried to keep up but the youthful eevee's adrenaline was working overtime. She easily reached the stairs and moved onto the second floor.
When Autumn moved onto the second floor she ran into another houndoom.
"HOW MANY OF YOU ARE THERE!" Autumn yelled fed up with the houndooms. The houndoom used the Evolution Pokémon's outburst as a chance to use flamethrower on the poor eevee.
Autumn cringed at the pain as the smell of burning fur clouded the room. She tried to use tackle but the houndoom easily dodged the weakened eevee's attack. It smirked and used crunch. Pain exploded in Autumn's body as she tried to fight back but she flinched. The houndoom used that as an excuse to use crunch once again.
Familiar black dots clouded Autumn's vision alerting her to the fact she was fainting . . . again. This was really pathetic, she thought as her conscious faded away.
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This time is was the pain in her stomach that woke Autumn up. Autumn jumped up determined to reach the twelfth floor this time. She was about to make her way through the doors to the Ice Fortress when a loud growl echoed through the air.
Autumn immediately jumped into a fighting position expecting to see a houndoom hiding behind a snow pile. Realization slowly dawned on her causing her face to turn bright red. She rummaged through her bag until she found what she was looking for.
The Evolution Pokémon pulled out her big apple then made herself comfortable near one of the numerous snow piles. Autumn started munching on her apple while she thought of strategies to avoid houndooms. A crunch in the distance alerted the eevee to a possible threat. She gently placed her half-eaten apple down and moved behind the nearest pile of snow.
Just as Autumn expected a Pokémon was approaching the Ice Fortress. Unexpectedly, the Pokémon was the absol carrying a bag of something Autumn assumed was money. Autumn hastily decided that if she followed the absol he would 1) lead her to Charlie's stolen coin and 2) keep away houndooms.
As the absol walked into the Ice Fortress Autumn waited two minutes to follow. One minute for the absol to defeat the glalie and another for him to reach the staircase.
After the two minutes passed Autumn opened the large doors to the Ice Fortress and found the first floor completely empty. Smirking she darted to the staircase.
As Autumn landed on the second floor she swiftly noticed that the absol was nowhere around. the Evolution Pokemon headed to the west and ended up in the next room without a problem. Also, Atumn had ended up in the same room as the staircase.
Autumn made her way to the third floor warily when she arrived she saw a scene that made a grin come into sight on her face. A distinctive gray tail was taking the north exit from the room she was in. Autumn silently followed the absol until they reached the fourth floor.
This system worked all the way up to the eighth floor. The Disaster Pokémon unknowingly led and protected Autumn as she carefully followed him.
On the eighth floor a little thing made the delicate system Autumn created break. Autumn's stomach growled. She had never gotten to finish her big apple and she couldn't even remember the last time she ate a real meal.
While the absol didn't hear it a very not happy houndoom did. The houndoom ran towards Autumn. It was then that Autumn devised a strategy she had made while eating her apple. She turned tail and ran away.
The houndoom chased her through so many rooms that she lost track. Its longer legs making it far too easy for the Dark Pokémon to catch up with the small eevee.
A glimpse of gray in the eternal sea of blue floors and walls gave Autumn a burst of energy. As she ran into the room where she spotted the glimpse of gray her eyes zoomed onto the source of the gray. The staircase.
The houndoom seemed to sense its prey was about to escape and used flamethrower on Autumn. Said Pokémon quickly jumped to the side while said Pokémon's yelp sounded in the room. The flamethrower singed the end of the eevee's tail.
The houndoom moved to attack Autumn again, but before it could pounce Autumn reached the staircase and moved on to the ninth floor.
Autumn quickly looked around the room she had landed in scanning for threats. When she didn't detect any she allowed herself to collapse from exhaustion. She was tired, her tail hurt and she didn't know where the absol was.
Autumn got up deciding not to complain about it. She would wait until later. Autumn started slowly walking toward the exit of the room. Autumn was carefully watching for danger as she walked around trying to find the stairs. That was the only reason Autumn noticed a flash of white fur in the distance. Autumn ran closer and saw . . . a Pokémon that was definitely not an absol.
It was a seel. It didn't look to hard to beat and Autumn was tired of running away all the time anyway. Autumn readied herself for a battle and this time she wasn't going to lose.
The seel made the first move sending an aqua jet toward the eevee. The aqua jet ended up hitting Autumn dead on soaking her to the bones, but she wasn't going to give up so easily. Not this time. Autumn easliy shook the water off and then used charm.
The charm hit the seel causing him to blink and use aqua jet . . . again. This caused the Evolution Pokémon to once again become soaking wet but the attack didn't hurt nearly as much as before. Autumn's eyes narrowed and she leapt tackling the seel. The seel counterattacked with a brine. Autumn jumped backwards avoiding the brine with a smirk firmly paced on her face.
Autumn used the chance to use endure to prevent herself from being knocked out. the seel glared and used brine again this time scoring a critical hit against the eevee. Autumn tensed as she felt the endure keeping her from the dangers of being unconscious. The Evolution Pokémon pounced on her foe tackling him into the ground. Autumn backed away looking at the knocked out seel.
Autumn quickly rummaged through her bag and pulled out one of her two ouran berries. Autumn popped the berry in her mouth and waited for the it to begin healing her injuries. The effect was nearly instant as she stopped feeling weak and dizzy.
Autumn began wandering through the rooms finding the staircase relatively fast. Relief flooded through her as she climbed to the tenth floor. The Evolution Pokémon was also not embarrassed to say she gave a shout of joy when she saw she had landed in the same room as the staircase.
As Autumn arrived on the eleventh floor she saw something glimmer in a corner of the room. Curiosity got the best of the youthful eevee as she went to inspect the mystery object. Autumn noticed with a spark of interest that it was an orb. The eevee picked it up and held it close to her chocolate-colored eyes. Autumn distantly noticed it was an evasion orb as she placed it in her bag.
Autumn only had this floor left until she reached the absol's treasure room. Hopefully, she would be able to find Charlie's coin quickly and get out with no one the wiser, or at least find the coin before the absol knocks her out. Either works.
Autumn was carefully thinking about a fast way to find Charlie's coin (she barely remembered what it looked like) when she wandered into the next room. Suddenly dozens of monsters appeared around her. Skuntanks, seels, houndooms and many more kinds that in her state of fear Autumn couldn't remember the name of. "Monster house," the eevee whimpered. She didn't see a way out of this mess.
Why did this have to happen when she was so close!
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AN: Hola! Did my chapter live up to your expectations?
I know that there was very little eevee and absol interaction but the next chapter will be filled with it! I think. It should be. Maybe.
So just please review. Tell me if you like the chapter, what I should work on, yell at me for not putting enough eevee and absol interaction. You can even tell me if you knew whatsoever was a word or comment on the shape of countries like Austria or Brazil.
Thank you all for reading!