Introductions
Waking up in a strange place for the second time in what were maybe two or five conscious minutes is unpleasant. When I look back letting her put that berry in my mouth could have been a big mistake, call me overly cautious but I would say I have my reasons. Living through a nightmare could be one, don't you think?
I woke up from what I thought was a nightmare, my breathing was quick and shallow. Slowly its pace returned to normal, I raised my paw to wipe my forehead which like the rest of me was drenched in sweat. I sat upright with minor troubles. The room was dark but my eyes were accustomed to this after having been closed for what was probably a while. Everything was the same, even the girl was lying against the frame of the bed as before.
My thoughts flicked back to the dream, all memory from it was gone or blurred beyond comprehension, only the fact I had dreamt it remained. I let out a deep sigh. Maybe it held some clue to the attack, judging by how I woke up I wouldn't be surprised.
"Huh?" came the sleepy voice of the eevee who had woken in response to the sigh.
"Never mind, go back to sleep." I mumbled as my gaze danced across the wall until it found a window for me to stare through. Where will I go? The one place I knew is now nothing but ashes. I thought to myself, my shoulders felt suddenly heavy and my ears drooped down. That village may never really have been welcoming but it was all I knew as home. A tear formed in my eye.
"Did you really come face to face with the drapion?" she asked ignoring my telling her to go back to sleep. Why was she so interested? Though the fact she spoke as if she had heard of him interested me. I pushed past my uncomfortable feelings about being near strangers to ask a few questions of my own.
"Yes, now tell me what made you and that riolu react that way when I mentioned a drapion. I know the reaction would have been different if I had said anything else." What I said was more of a demand than question. I wanted to know as much as I could.
"That drapion is-or at least we think- a certain drapion that along with a few other pokémon leads his own gang, well more like miniature army, and has recently gone further and attacked and destroyed villages without leaving any sign of them behind, no one has escaped." She explained mournfully, as if this troubled her personally "Until you." She added, she turned her head to me and I noticed a smile and a hopeful expression of sorts, though I didn't know why.
"I don't think I escaped without help." I answered, I didn't know why but something told me someone or something had helped me. Maybe it had to do with that dream. "Why are you pokémon taking care of me?" I asked insistently, my whole life and this was the first instance of someone actually helping me on their own accord, I couldn't help but wonder why.
"Well its kind of our job, this guild is split into two groups." She began "One group as the ones that go out into the field and explore or bring back injured pokémon, like you, the other group-the one I'm in- are like medical aids, we stay and take care of pokémon that are brought in, like you." Her ever present smile seemed to grow slightly every time she said the phrase like you.
"Why are you smiling at me like that?" I was feeling rather uncomfortable, like I said I was more uncomfortable around people more different to me-and she was definitely different to me, by a long shot. She let out a quiet giggle.
"You're quite shy aren't you?" she asked playfully, I sensed she was going to do some mental probing. Though I had no way to avoid it, I was rather socially dim and let on information without knowing it. I edged away from her and she noticed it "What's wrong? I don't bite." She added innocently.
"Trust me, with what I went through in what I recall as about three or four days being bitten sounds like a pleasure." I said as I halted at the edge of the bed to keep from falling off. She giggled again before hopping onto the bed beside me and rubbing her head up against my chest.
"Your funny." She said as she settled down on the mattress with her feet in the air as if she expected me to scratch her belly.
"That's a first." I mumbled before making the mistake of edging away a little bit more, only to fall off the bed and have the back of my head hit the ground with a resounding crack!
"Are you ok?" she asked as she poked her head over the edge of the bed with a look of concern, her head tilted at a slight angle. I forced a smile before answering.
"Like I said, it seems like a pleasure." I groaned "Plus, people say I have a thick skull." I said through another groan and I stood myself up with evident difficulty, my knees buckled and threatened to give way.
"Why are you so gloomy?" she said as she rolled over with her feet in the air so her head which was hanged off the edge looked upturned. "You seem like you could be fun, if you stopped trying to avoid everyone and stopped being… well… gloomy." She scrunched up her nose as she said the last part, like mock disgust mixed with someone trying to think.
"I'm sorry." I answered as I dusted myself off with my tail and flopping about my ears "Am I supposed to be dancing around giving everyone hugs and kisses?" I asked sarcastically, she was beginning to annoy me-no doubt that was the idea.
"Well that would be fun to watch." She said as she giggled once more, a few moments later she put her paws over her mouth and there was the sound of muffled laughter. I guessed she was imagining the idea.
"Aren't you enjoying yourself? Being all nosey and such?" I was asking this for two reasons, one to hopefully get her to stop out of either guilt or the embarrassment of being uncovered, and two to confirm if she was actually probing around.
"You could say that. You need to loosen up though, I'm trying to be friendly" she finished it in a way as if I didn't know what the word meant and she was being careful to see that I did.
"Go be friendly somewhere else." I grumbled as I looked around the room once more. I was trying-and seemingly failing- to make it clear that I wasn't the friendly type. Maybe I wasn't the one with the thickest skull around here. "Are you dim?" I asked as if I expected the answer to be yes.
"No, persistent." She rolled herself right side up and jumped down from the bed landing gracefully with her head low against the ground and her tail high and swishing about curiously. She proceeded to circle me like a sharpedo.
"When can I go?" I asked as I dodged her attempts to rub against me as if I was some foreign substance she was trying to understand, in truth we were identical aside from the obvious gender difference and the fact my fur was of slightly different colouration which was invisible in the dark.
"Any time you want, though I wouldn't wake the sentry now since he is a bit grumpy." She said as she continued to circle me, her beady blue eyes scanning me as if trying to memorize every inch, then she stopped in front of me-it seemed to take some effort to stand still and she looked dizzy- "Especially when woken up early." She added as if it were a precaution to keep me here. I couldn't be sure if she was making this up to stop me from leaving but I didn't want to chance it, I guessed 'grumpy' could mean violent. Especially to strangers. She seemed to detect my doubt and grinned widely as if she had succeeded in doing something.
I let out a deep sigh knowing I had just backed myself into a corner, a corner I would be returned to if I tried to escape "Ohh boy… why am I so gullible?" I asked myself, a giggle from the girl came in response.
"That's what makes you fun." She said as she sat down, her tail flicked about behind her "Anyways, I'm June. What's your name?" she asked as her tail settled down.
"I know you're June, but I don't have a name to respond with." I said glumly as I sat down and made myself comfortable, if I was going to stay here until morning I might as well do it comfortably rather than fighting to stay on my feet.
"There we go again, gloomy." She said as if she was disappointed "Try this." she added as she reached out at me with her forepaws which she rested on my cheeks-which consequently turned a bright crimson, luckily for me this went unseen- and began to tug them in different directions for a while. Her tongue poked out from behind her lips as she began to concentrate. "There." She said eventually and pulled her paws away, it took me a moment to realise she had formed my lips into a smile.
"No thanks, I prefer gloomy over having you play around with my face." I said as I removed the smile and turned straight faced once more.
"But I worked hard on that." She said as if she was genuinely sad about me removing the smile she had formed. Her eyes looked down in mock sadness and her ears drooped to either side.
"Do you do this to everyone?" I asked as I backed away a bit, she noticed this and made double the distance towards me, I backed away once more and into the next bed and the same thing happened again. "Ok, you're beginning to scare me." I said with some genuine fright in my voice, we were almost nose to nose. I pushed my head back into the straw to widen the gap. To no surprise she let out another giggle.
"No, but you're the first eevee I've taken care of." She spoke up as I backed away slightly to give me some space. I let out a breath I realised I had been holding.
"Well this eevee is getting scared." I replied. I edged to the side silently to make sure I wasn't backed up against something. She seemed not to notice this.
"Relax, what have I done that's scary?" her eyebrows went up as she asked the question, she didn't seem to think she had done anything to scare me. But pokémon are different, right?
"You keep trying to get closer and closer, and it looks like you know I don't like it." I complained as I took the final step to get clear of the bed.
"In that case, you're cute when you're frightened." She said through yet another giggle. I edged away to try and get more distance between us, all because I let out that stupid sigh. In truth I had ignored the words in that sentence.
"Please, stop, please!" I begged as I took a few steps back, and just as before for each one I took she took two. "I don't exactly call this being friendly, I call it being mean." I protested as I halted and did what came naturally when I felt afraid, I curled up into a ball with my tail covering my underbelly and my nose tucked into my mane and my tail covering the top of my head.
"You look like a ball of fur." She giggled "But what do you expect? Do you want me to dance around giving you hugs and kisses?" she quoted with a mischievous tone.
"Please don't." I replied from inside my mane.
I pulled my head out of my mane and looked at her, she sat there with an innocent look on her face, her front paws spread out as if she expected me to run at her and give her a hug. I scrambled awkwardly to my feet and began to run away, dodging through the narrow alleys made by the arrangement of the beds. To my right I heard the padding of paws on straw, I looked up onto the beds and saw the girl following me from above, leaping from one bed to another as she reached the end of each. I attempted to speed up but I was tired and hungry, the fatigue from the poison still remained.
She jumped down and tackled me to send us booth tumbling in a heap. I halted as the back of my head hit the wooden frame of the beds with a loud crack! The girl had it easier and instead came to a rolling halt in front of me. I tried to steady myself as the world spun around me, my ears were ringing from the impact and my feet could barely hold me.
"You call that friendly?" I put the same emphasis on the word as she had done earlier. Then my knees gave way and I fell to my stomach, I rolled onto my side to keep an eye on the girl as my vision steadied. She was up and dusting herself off.
She took the few steps over to me and pushed me onto my back with one paw. Then carefully pinned my shoulders with her paws and then sat down on my stomach to effectively pin my torso while staying out of range of my hind legs. I had the feeling she had done all the probing she needed and was now moving on to some form of torture.
"Eep!" I squeaked as I struggled to break free. She smiled back and giggled, then came the biggest surprise of all as she got off me.
"Your fun, do you plan on sticking around?" she asked as she helped me up, the mischievous grin was gone and replaced by a friendly smile.
"If that means being around you then no." I took a cautious step back as I said that in case she got angry about that remark, seeing as she didn't I continued. "Though I wouldn't call that fun."
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To answer just-a-chic's review, no this isn't the one. I decided to post pone that due to lack of pokémon to use, I need to draw up more and fix up the ones I have. Any ideas for those are welcome and tell me if I am missing some of the essentials like the three stage bug type worm/cocoon/moth or butterfly or rodent ect.
Anyways, the usual. Please read and review(that's R&R right?) and hopefully enjoy. I really need to writ them as the details for each chapter come to my head because I have it planned out(storyline) then I think over each chapter about a million times and get bored with it or start thinking it sucks because its not interesting. But I guess that's like watching the same movie over and over.
Now, review responses.
to last warrior 7, a description? Well I think a pile of ashes sums it up nicely, its not really an important setting, just a cluster of wooden huts as I think was mentioned.
to voltskull, that's sort of the idea. Things will clear up in the next few chapters.
To pure gamer, if you mean when he is questioned about what he remembers and he describes fire and stuff, yes that's what he recalls from the attack.