world : pokemon world

morning, New Post Town*

south of the main town, on the main roads near the beach

*kind of a remake and relocation of Post Town from PKMN MD : GTF, but this is kind of the only per-existing location reference found here, only characters from that game will be common here (though explorers of sky references will be plentiful)

Yuki's PoV

It gave me a huge scare when I saw I am now falling from the sky, for while sure, I have been taught to jump from places as high as a 10 story building and land safely, (either on my feet or inside something soft), from the sky, itself was not on the list of distances I was confident in surviving, and I found myself losing my cool and yelling at the top of my lungs until I hit the ground.

When I finally recovered the ability to think to myself, all I was letting through my head was the classic "Okay, I'm dead, I died, I'm dead" until I heard a voice call out...

"Hey... little oshawott... are you aright?"

Surprised at the fact that I can still hear and move, I opened my eyes and lifted my head... to find what seemed to be a kind of snake-person, a sort of penguin, and a sort of blue giant salamander (who, quite interestingly, is bipedal). I just lay there staring, I had never seen these kind of people before, so this was quite startling.

"Ho good, he's alive!" said the snake-person with a sigh of relief, followed by a jump with joy.

"Th-Th…. That was scary, noone just goes over and suddenly falls from the sky like that." said the penguin.

"Hmm… you're right, but it does mean something…" said the blue salamander.

"...Mean what?" said the snake, returning to a neutral emotional state and turning on a dime to face the salamander.

Before he could say anything, I attempted to get up, but I failed to get myself into a straight-up standing position before the pain got too much and, with the audible sound of my spine popping, I fell onto the ground again.

"... When I wanted to dream about going to a different world..., me falling from the sky, nearly dying, and end up in outright agony wasn't what I had in mind for a welcoming." I murmured to myself, afterward clenching my teeth as i attempted to work up the strength to try again.

"Whow, whow, buddy, d-don't strain yourself like this, you look like shazbot, and you are acting like you feel the same way." exclaimed the penguin, rushing to me and trying to convince me to stay laying down.

In a way, I felt like taking it easy for a moment was the best course of action, but memories of my training kept kicking in, including sessions where I had to endure pain similar to this (though more of from fatigue and other athletic related damage, rather than physical pain) and remain capable of staying ready, and once again, I tried again, but this time, even though my back felt like someone had been stabbing it with a heated fork for several hours, I managed to stand up.

after a moment of all 3 of the spectators standing there wide-eyed at me managing to get up and pop my back back into a state where it no longer was making me grunt and curse, the salamander guy finally spoke up.

"... That was a very good show of your constitution, hmm…. makes my first potentially career-ending injury look like a mere slap on the hand."

"I'll say." said the snake-person "I probably would've used coil and cried like a little kid for a flat out day, if not a week."

The penguin didn't say anything. I'm sure he was wondering what kind of drugs or something I was on to be capable of shrugging it off like that.

After getting all my wits about myself together, I said "Heh... don't worry about me...so…. um…. who would you guys be?"

"Ho, umm… how rude of us," said the snake-person "Well, oshawott…"

"Yuki… please."

"Apologies, Yuki… interesting name for a male, my name is Okia, a snivy and the daughter of the grandmaster of the Roseblade family" Said the snake-person while making a proud pose.

"M-my name... is Puply... I-I'm a piplup... and... came from a rather... rich family?" said the penguin, who clearly lacked the social skills to talk in a fluent state.

Finally, the salamander spoke "Hmmm, my name? You may call me Lawance, I'm a quagsire and I am a part-time adventurer, though I also work as a traveling merchant."

This was a interesting combination, the daughter of a family who apparently is very famous, the son of a rich family, and a adventurer who also serves as a traveling merchant.

"So... who exactly... are you?" asked Okia.

I at first was hesitant, but then I thought they were forthright about their occupations and whatnot... why not be forthright about mine, its not like I truly want to go around killing people.

"My name... you already know, is Yuki, and... I'm the son of the grandmaster of a family of assassins?"

I kinda braced for the screams at someone who was trained to be a killer... and at first, Okia and Puply went wide eyed, but after a few seconds and them looking at each other, they both burst out laughing. only Lawance remained indifferent the entire time about my identity, who shut the duo up with a "Hmmmmm...?"

After the duo finally calmed down, Lawance spoke again. " Hmm... your not from around here, are you?"

"... No sir."

After another "Hmmm...", the quagsire checked his rather large rucksack for a good 30 seconds.

"Hmm... yes, I do have enough money... Yuki, you wish to come with us? I'm here to set up shop here as well as plan my next adventure, and these two children are here to attend school here as well."

I was surprised by the generous offer. First off, he did not ask for anything at all, and he plans on helping this sea otter (erm... oshawott) that just fell from the sky like some alien from outer space. Seeing no other valid option, however, I took up the offer.

"Another gentalmonly action by the great Sir Lawance" said Okia, noting the unlikely assistance he was giving.

"hmmm... ho stop it, you" said Lawance, who started to blush, though from the looks of it, it appeared to be more from being praised then out of love or embarrassment. Back in the human world, this was somewhat of a warning of a white knight, (not the good definition like you'd find in children's stories) but I decided not to jump to assumptions and go along with it. I dusted myself off and followed them down the road.

After a while, Lawance suddenly handed me a book titled "the species of pokemon". At first, I thought he just wanted me to hold it, but when we got into town, Okia and Puply ran for the school, and Lawance set up shop at a rental concession stand, and after suddenly presenting me a meal and getting me comfortable in the backroom of the concession stand, he said I could read the book.

I read a bit of the book, witch showed the different species of pokemon (as I found out the people in this world were called from the book) that may be found in this world apparently, giving me good insight on what I may encounter here, before I turned to the table of contents and found quagsire, Lawance's species apparently, and while I'm sure you guys know what a normal quagsire looks like, I compared the looks from the pictures on the book and Lawance, himself, and noticed that compared to the quagsire in the book, he had a scar on his leg (possibly the "protentionally career-ending" injury he was talking about), a tattoo on his arm in the shape of a wigglytuff, another pokemon I found in the book, and was considerably leaner, not so lean as you can see his skeleton, but lean enough that you could tell he was more active then the quagsire presented in the book.

At first, after I put the book down, I stared at the plate of food. It was still warm, as if it came off the range, but a part of me (also related to training) restrained me from eating it, for our ways are to eat as little as possible. But finally, my stomach rambled and I dug into the rather large quantity of food, to come to the surprise that, compared to food I normally ate, witch either was small and didn't taste good, or was heavily processed to the point where it made you sick trying to eat it, this food was actually something I liked for once. The berries in the meal actually had a good taste to them that didn't seem hostile at all, and the pastry that came with them was, while it was dense, more satisfying then anything I ever ate before. More notably, back in the human world, food of such quantity would make me feel bloated, but this seems like a nominal amount...

After I finished the meal, I sat up, examined myself, and the "oshawott" in the book, and noted that while my robes from the human world were gone, I still had some of my equipment I slept with at all times (no weapons, mostly defensive stuff like the armguards) and the tattoo, in the form of the moon, on my shoulder that represented my family. Afterward, I noted the seashell on my chest. It seemed good looking, I admit, but something about it seemed off from the normal seashell I have seen, for this one seemed to be made of a different material, was larger, and was directly connected to my chest. I gave it a good tap, and it fell off. In panic, I rushed to pick it up, but after I stood back up and examined it, I noticed that the top and wide part of the shell was sharp, and the shell itself seemed balanced in terms of weight, like a sort of weapon.

"Kind of a shock to be seeing a new world, hmm?"

I jumped and dropped the shell again when Lawance said that, he apparently took a break to check on me.

"Apologies, I didn't mean to scare you." said Lawance as I got my wits back together and pick the shell back up.

"Its fine... wait... how did you know I am not from this world?"

"Hmmm... I must say, your not the first ex-human to arrive in this world. I've studied ex-humans back in the guild, and in all honestly, you can tell one as soon as they come into this world usually when you see a pokemon falling from the sky randomly. Of course, if you don't catch them as they come in, its hard to tell, but we saw you falling, and while Okia and Puply didn't quite know what that meant, I knew what was coming from what I knew."

"Wait... I'm... not... the first human on this world?"

"Hmmm... no, not at all. Well... if you mean recently, your the first in several hundred years, but before, they would sometimes pour in, usually with stories about war and such. But in the human world, I heard from one of the last humans that religion had become a problem. While the legendaries say the overly religious are no longer too much of a thorn in the human's side, they managed to cut off the human traffic to the pokemon world."

"Whow... that... was quite interesting..."

"Speaking of witch, what... exactly was happening in your world before you came here."

I was scared to tell at first, but he seemed to understand me a lot, so I spilled the beans after 10 seconds.

"... In my world, corporations managed to obtain more power then most of the governments, and many of the superpowers fell. All of the corporations begun to fight over land and to destroy the remaining governments. Finally, they resorted to atomic weaponry and turned it into a nuclear war on a global scale."

"Nukes... of course, at this rate, I swear they will destroy themselves. Why do they need that much firepower, I would like to know."

After we got things sorted, Lawance got back to work, while I began to explore the town. I failed to find any vending machines or such, as all the shops were manned by a live pokemon. (I did, however, see some interesting tricks that lured others to the shop, such as unusual decor and even actions done by the shopkeeper.) Somehow, though, I found the obudence of real shops a better sight for me... rather then the common "shop" at my world, witch often was the vending machine scenario, witch not only sold just food and drink, but also pretty much every common item you needed. The only thing closest to a live shopkeeper you may find was a guy restocking the vending machine, or a cook at a restaurant, but if the task didn't require skill or involve maintaining anything, it was a robot of some sort doing it.

As I explored the place, I heard the bell coming from the school, and a bunch of pokemon from the school, supposedly kids(though some older looking furrets came out in uniforms as watchmen), came out with balls, jump-ropes and all that, and started to play in the playground or socialize in the nearby town square. At first, I took no attention to them, then saw what they did in their recess, and, in all honestly, I grew jealous about, for back at my world, when we had recess, we basicly had to do work, or sit around and do nothing, anything remotely suppose to be fun, even if it caused no trouble, would be cause for punishment.

Finally, Puply and Okia found me and called out "Hey guys, its Yuki!", before running to me, along with a emolga and dunsparce. The remainder of the kids and the furret watchmen looked our way, but afterward went back to their original actions.

"Whow, never seen this kind of guy before, what gave you the idea to go places where only my type would go?" said the emolga

before, I could respond, Okia slugged him, visibly ticked off about his first impression.

"Aye aye, sorry, my bad, my bad... the name's Alek...heh, my mother owns a inn around here, though I prefer skateboarding and air gliding to holding a place for others to stay, honestly."

After he finished his sentence, the dunsparce, with a ahem, said "And my name is Fodug, I, along with my family, live with Alek, and we're best friends."

"Say... Yuki.. up for some totterball?" said Alek, pulling out a oddly colored ball from his bag.

"...Well... I may have to pass for today, I still need to look around and such, I am new around here after all."

Alek and Fodug showed a face of disappointment, then cheered up, with Fodug saying "We understand... welcome to New Post Town, by the way."

As the duo ran off and started to strike the ball as to toss it back and forth, Okia whispered in my ear "Don t worry about them, its kind of normal for them to act like that... say, where do you go to school?"

Half of me was now listening to the conversation, saying "In some other world..." as my physical self started to look around. I found all the activities fun, and spectated all the games I could, including how Alek and Fodug were getting progressively dizzy from the odd patterns on the ball creating a confusing moving image, but something about the place started to look a little off, something that normally happens then a assassin senses something about to happen...

then I found what was causing the sense to tingle...

in a far off area in the square emitted a scream. A Toxicroak had a lillpup in his grasp, and was attempting to make off, with the lillpup emitting a cry of distress. The furrets ran to him, but then noticed who the assailant was and grew too scared to continue... these guys are suppose to protect these kids, and they are going to act scared to one guy?

I took matters into my own hands, and charged at the scene.

"WAIT, YUKI, TH-THATS THE SKULL GANG!" exclaimed Puply.

I didn't listen, I kept running, and dove for them, then used a technique that ended up knocking out the toxicroak cold. The lillpup ran off into the hands of one of the furrets, who began to take the kids back into the school as they watched through the windows, while a group of other large, powerful looking pokemon, about 15 or so, and apparently friends of the guy I just knocked out, ran to the scene. I jumped down off the body of the Ko'ed toxicroak and readied into a combat stance to confront them, for while sure, we assassins are suppose to deal with targets stealth-like, we do know how to handle ourselves in a outright fight, even if outnumbered and on our own.

"OKEY, WHO IS THE DAREDEVIL THAT... ho look, a little oshawott thinks he's tough enough to handle us."

"Hehehehehehe, this is going to be fun, lets show him what happens when people try to resist us."

end of chapter one...

notes : I am open ears for suggestions and anything I should clear up, and such. I also plan on, starting chapter 2, to start putting biographical stats about the characters... just not this time.