Call from Another World
Chapter 2
Author: Hey guys i'm actually surprised a few people actually like the story so far. Please keep reviewing! It makes me a better writer and I will listen to ya!
So anyway, please enjoy the next installment here. I don't own Pokémon obviously, just my characters and such.
Alright, so things have gotten pretty weird lately...
I'm suddenly taken from my nice home in Florida into the Pokemon world, not only that but I have already seemed to have acquired a partner, a happy go lucky Mightyena named Dalieya. She didn't seem too bad and for the Bite Pokemon I haven't been bitten once thankfully.
With bag still strapped to my back and some spending money I would probably only last a day, still, call me wrong, but this is kind of awesome…
That voice still bothered me, even if I haven't heard it since I came here. Still, what was it that thing said I had to learn again…? Learn to trust. Appreciate others. Other stuff I don't remember too well. Meh, I guess i'll worry about it later...
A cool wind was beginning to blow its way through the air as it was starting to become pretty late, I happened to be following Dalieya's lead to who knows where, but all this exercise was making me kind of tired.
My Mightyena comrade noticed my slack and turned around to me. "Maybe we should be taking a break for the night."
She looked up at the orange sky, Murkrow began to set flight throughout the horizon. Then, I realized what she just said.
"Take a break for the night. As in, sleeping out here? On the grass? No bed? No anything!?" I exclaimed pointing towards the ground at each word.
Dalieya tilted her head to me like she had no problem with this...wait a minute i'm forgetting she's a wild Pokemon.
"Yeah. I don't see what's wrong with it. This is a pretty peaceful, open spot. And i'm confident other Pokemon won't attack us way out here." She reassured me. It didn't seem like I had too much of a choice as I had no clue where to go from here anyway...
"You humans sure are weird. You should try sleeping out here more often, it's actually more refreshing, Ken."
Dalieya laid onto the grass, but that statement made me rather curious of something.
"So wait, you know what it's like sleeping in a house?"
"Yeah, I used to have a trainer."
She used to have a trainer? She may know a little more than I thought, I wonder what could've happened to him or her, especially that Dalieya was a little quiet at that last part.
I sat down next to her, the grass seemed much softer on closer inspection, I don't know why i'm so easily amused when I would already be thinking of something else more important.
Anyway, back to trait of thought. What possibly could've happened to her trainer?
I looked over to her, just silent staring at the orange sky, was it a question I should even ask?
"I guess you're wondering where he is now, huh?" The canine asked me, making me fall out of the battle going on inside my head.
"I am to be honest, but you don't need to tell me. I understand if you don't." I said in conclusion deciding to not try and push her.
"No, I think I will. I think I should get it off of my chest anyway, to someone at least."
I was silent but I nodded my head. She wasn't wrong in that case. The hyena took a sigh and she then began to speak.
"The first time we've met couldn't have started out any simpler. It was your average wild human encounter. Like you, he had no Pokemon, so I was curious as to why he would suddenly try and catch me, a Mightyena out of the blue. But he was so confident, he didn't have fear of me. I saw no need of attacking or running, I became rather curious of him."
I listened as she continued, though if one thing was for sure, we were two different people...
"Needless to go into too much detail, I actually decided to let him catch me. He turned out to be a really kind trainer, his name was Sanin. Since I was his first partner we had a lot of time to bond and we've grown attached to each other. I have always vowed to watch him and protect him whenever I needed too…"
She stopped for a moment. I watched her closely, her paws began to shake a little, her eyes glistening as they watered up. I had a feeling I knew what was going to happen next, but I listened on, not going to be rude.
"It was a horrible day...Sanin and I were stuck out in the wilderness, it was raining hard and we had no shelter since we were still traveling around. It wasn't far from where we sit know, actually."
She took a long pause between her words, her tears were matting her cheek fur now. "A Pokemon came towards us, one that was horribly powerful and malicious. I never got a good look at that hideous face it had...But...without mercy, he killed my trainer...Sanin. He tortured him, mangled him, he took his time torturing him, as I laid there on the ground, beaten...forced to watch and unable to help... He took his sweet time murdering him...I can't stress it enough...His cries of agony, pain...I couldn't bare to listen but I had no choice. No matter how much I called him...screamed his name, he wouldn't get up and save himself..."
I sat there in silence as her body began to shake more violently with each moment that passed, claws digging deep into the ground to anchor herself to no avail.
I had no clue what I should say to her, maybe this wasn't a moment for words. Without much thought being put into it, I wrapped my arms around the canine in the most comforting way possible.
"Don't worry. It's okay...you couldn't do anything about it. He was just too strong, you can't help that sometimes..." I said quietly, she glared at me with tear filled eyes before shutting them tightly and putting her head into my side sobbing.
"That's the problem! I was too weak to protect him!" She yelled, her sobbing never seeming to end over the passing of her close friend.
"I know how you feel, Dalieya..." I held her head up with my hand.
"I have also lost people before. The feeling of wishing you could do better for them, it's overwhelming I know. But, it doesn't change someone's fate. Death is unavoidable, sadly. If anything...I look more forward to what's ahead, and sometimes...well I forget to appreciate what I have a lot, actually. Look, I have no idea why i'm here still, whether i'll live or die here. Still, you're here, you said you would protect me...I think I understand now…" I said to her, not even sure what I have even said.
Dalieya was staring at me now, I couldn't tell the expression she had on her face but soon she had a smile across her muzzle, making me smile somewhat too for some reason.
"Ken...thanks." She told me, her body wasn't shaking anymore as she appeared much calmer now.
I actually felt really good for once, a new type of feeling. Kind of felt warm but who cares about that?
"You're kind of like...a second chance to me. I owe to everything that I've lost to protect you, Ken. I'm glad to have met you..."
I stayed silent, never have I heard someone say such a strange thing to me. I couldn't help but have a cheesy grin and blush on my face though, I have to admit I kind of liked it.
I took my hand and rubbed it down the two manes of black fur that stretched down her back, it made her feel a little more comfortable now.
"So you're saying...i'm like your reason for living now?" I asked out of curiosity and she nodded to me. I never would've wanted someone to get this attached to me, I didn't know that was possible, this quickly.
Still I nodded back, trying to take this responsibility into my mind and make it a priority. I wasn't even here for a day, yet all if this suddenly happened out of nowhere...
I looked towards Dalieya and wiped her face of her tears, which she was relieved enough of letting me do.
I decided to take my bag off of my back which was actually forgotten about since I dropped in here. Nightfall seemed to have came already during our conversation, weird how I haven't noticed since there was an exception. I laid on the grass.
"Might as well get used to the idea i'm sleeping out here tonight." I joked though I didn't expect Dalieya to giggle. At least she was back to her normal self.
"May I ask you a question, Ken?"
I perked up out of any trance I have fallen in the past second and I nodded.
"Go ahead."
"Well, since your world is different than ours...what is it like?"
I thought for a moment even if there wasn't too much to say. "I think it's not too different from this one, we don't have Pokemon and things like that though. Animals back at home don't really have powers, not any that I know of. The only thing in common animals and Pokemon have in common is that they could probably exterminate the human race if they wanted too." I shrugged it off already knowing it for a fact.
"Oh. Did you have a family?"
Once again I was forced to silence for a moment, yes I did have a family of course, I wasn't really sure if I wanted to talk about them however, nonetheless I nodded to her. "Yeah I did. Just a mom, stepfather, two brothers and three dogs."
Dalieya was looking rather lost. "What's a stepfather?"
So many questions she has, not that I was annoyed with answering them but she was obviously a very curious one, which is a good thing.
"Uh...I guess it's just the guy that takes care of you and loves your mom when the normal dad is gone."
I didn't know how to explain it, but Dalieya seemed to have understood apparently although I could guess that she was confused to why I had a stepfather instead of my actual dad but she didn't say anything about it. Instead she asked me another question.
"Do you miss them at all?"
I would have to admit that it would be kind of complicated to explain to her.
"Well, I've only been here for a short time, I haven't thought of them too much. I'll put it like this, eventually I would have to 'break free' of my chains anyway. Here, i'm free to make my own decisions and I don't have to hear what's right from them anymore...I can figure it out myself…"
The both of us were silent at that point.
"Oh. I love my family, I hope I could see them one day." She said quietly, making me feel a little bad.
"Look, it's not that I hate them or anything. I just want to be my own person, be in charge of my own decisions. I'm smart, and i'll only get farther in life if I learn things for myself, ya know. But yeah, in a way I do wonder how they are..."
Dalieya had a smile on her face seeming a bit relieved that I was thinking about my family. I couldn't blame her for being worried though, not everyone's family relationships are golden.
We mostly talked as an hour passed, maybe, I was currently regretting not bringing a watch with me thinking this was a freaking joke. I took my mind off of it now as it was too late to complain.
I stared at the grass as the winds made it sway likes waves of the ocean.
"I have to admit you're right about this outside stuff. It's not too bad, definitely wouldn't be doing this back at home though."
We both had a good laugh.
"I actually like hanging out with Dalieya. She's really friendly and caring, kind of like a mom, female friend, whatever people would probably say we are to each other. I just hope she kind of feels the same way. Just what did I do to deserve her? Hhmmm…"
I thought to myself, Dalieya seemed to be thinking too when I looked at her, was it possible she was thinking the same thing? Whatever thoughts were clouding up inside my mind I decided to shake off for now as I did not want to get too much into it.
Looking up at the sky, I saw the full moon.
"Just what am I supposed to be doing here?" I started to ask myself before I felt fur press up against my body.
It was of course Dalieya, sleeping, peacefully. It seemed like she didn't have a care in the world, now that I think about it crying is exhausting, I would never admit to anyone what I baby I was but crying was only good for better sleep then, and besides, people who need to let their emotions out, it's the still the only use of it I see up to date.
"Times are different now, tomorrow always will be a new day from here. Since time has changed, so have I. I didn't need anyone to set my path, i'm grown up now..."
I got comfortable next to Dalieya laying my head down on the soft grass. I closed my eyes and focused myself on going to sleep, which for a person like me, was a rather easy task…
"Ugh...what the hell...stop trying to get me up…"
I turned over onto my side still keeping my eyes shut after feeling paws shaking my body. I was having a really great dream about all of the food I could possibly eat like a certain monkey guy does...who doesn't hate being woken from an awesome dream like that?
The air still felt cool so it wasn't daytime yet...why am I being summoned to this world…?
"C'mon Ken, get up it's nearly morning." I heard from a feminine voice, oh wait that must be Dalieya.
Please don't tell me she's an early bird and she's going to keep waking me up before it reaches 12 P.M. Suddenly the shaking stopped, and I already knew within a few minutes I would be allowed to return to my dream world, my beautiful dream world with all of the food I could imagine…
"...It won't be long now…" That's what I was thinking before I suddenly heard a couple of large, quick moving footsteps and ferocious roar came right to my ear.
"Oh shit!"
I jumped up from my resting place in a quick reaction to save myself, only succeeding to trip on my foot and fall over on my ass. I was stuck there gripping my chest to catch my breath.
I then heard Dalieya's giggle as she walked up to me. "Rise and shine, Ken." She said with a grin while I reeled my head back still trying to breathe precious air.
"Oh jeebus why...just why…?" I eventually snapped out of it and looked at the sky, the sun was just rising up so it was probably only six or seven in the morning!
I glared at Dalieya, not for scaring the crap out of me but waking me up so early. But as I continued to look at her face, her fur reflecting the light the sky gave, I couldn't keep being angry like I apparently wanted to and I sighed.
"Heh, top of the morning, Dalieya." I said cooling myself down seeing her face.
"Hope I didn't scare you too bad. Did I?" She asked with the most innocent smile, I merely crossed my arms.
"Being cautious and having fear are two different things, ya know." I pointed out as I stood to my feet. She only gave me a giggle as a response.
"Sure thing, big guy." She added with a grin as with nearly everything else she said.
I huffed. "Just what am I going to do with you." I said shaking my head, both of us started to laugh until I felt something take over my body.
I gripped my stomach as I fell onto my knees. Dalieya looked towards me with a shocked expression before it turned into a frightened one and she ran over to my side as my head reeled over my body.
"Ken what's wrong!?" She asked me in a hurry, though I felt like I could barely answer I left her with this.
"If I don't do something about this...it's all going to be over..."
