Content warning. Contains sentient feral on human (nsfw), suicidal ideation, abuse physical and sexual, Undeserved forgiveness, etc.
Pokefilia containing paragraphs will be marked with /**\ (and /*SA*\ if there is also sexual assault) at the start if you wish to skip.
Information: the only thing this takes from Pokémon is the design of leafeon, no other Pokémon things apply.
One day in the middle of a huge forest a huge temple showed up seemingly out of nowhere, it radiates energy and soon rumors spread about a treasure in the center with immanence power. The rumors lead to people going there to try to find it. At first none of them ever came back. Eventually some started coming in groups and while most didn't come back sometimes a lookout would survive and return home. They brought with them stories of a leafeon that appeared before their teammates, before slaughtering all their teammates who went too far in with unnatural powers over plants. At first no one believed them, "there is no such thing as a leafeon" they would say. But as the same kind of stories kept coming in eventually people started to believe. The stories even mentioned a voice in the temple that told them something always along the line of "I will not let you steal anything I protect" this further spread the rumor about the treasure, but everyone knew by now just how dangerous the temple was.
The Government of the nation the temple appeared in talked for a while about what to do about the issue. They tried monitoring it but forces from the temple would always destroy the equipment. Given how even groups with military equipment would die in the temple, the temple never expanded, and too much force could set the forest on fire; a more passive response was decided upon. The area around the temple where monitoring equipment was destroyed they made into an exclusion zone with monitoring equipment placed around it. Anyone who went into the exclusion zone would be presumed dead.
Zeric, just a regular human guy, gets home. He lost his job, friends, and family in a horrible accident. He wouldn't be able to pay for his home for long. And truly didn't know what to do. He picked up his phone and saw an article in the news. "6 more die in treasure hunting trip to the forest temple" he read the headline out loud. Of course he had heard the rumors, who hadn't, he never thought about going though, he wasn't an adventurer. He thought about it for a second, he had LOVED leafeon his whole life, but knew that if he went to the temple to see the leafeon there he likely wouldn't come back. He thought about everything for a second before looking over to the kitchen knives in the other room, thinking about ending it all right there and then. He thought, "I am going to that temple, I WILL see a leafeon before I die, and hey when it kills me there no one will have to find my body." He picks up his camping gear, and heads to the nearby store, leaving a note on the door saying that he was going on a hiking trip and didn't know when he would be back, knowing himself that was never.
After picking up supplies he heads to the temple he stops at the border to the exclusion zone. "This is it he thinks no turning back" before crossing the barrier. He goes up to the area that one could consider the entrance knowing that explorers had died here, and he didn't care about going for the treasure.
Nira, the leafeon of the temple, noticed Zeric setting up his camp and finds herself confused "what is he doing" she says to herself. She decides to wait for him to go further in believing he most certainly will. 2 days pass and Zeric is still camping. Nira gets some anxiety, this had never happened before, "what is he getting at, what is he planning, what could he possibly be accomplishing" she thinks. She continues her Patrols more carefully than ever looking for anything that maybe Zeric is trying to distract her from. However she finds nothing, no one trying to dig under, no one waiting to attack her, no placed explosives, not even cameras. After 3 more days she has had enough.
Behind his back a vine grabs Zeric by the neck, lifting him up into the air and restricting his breath. Nira appears before Zeric lifting herself onto a platform she created her imposing form standing above Zeric. "What are you doing here, you have been here for days, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!" Zeric is left in shock here was the creature he came here to see and she was right here, her face just meters away from his he expected to just get a glimpse of her and be dead by now but he was still here. Nira's shout snaps Zeric out of his trance, "Tell me why you are here, RIGHT NOW!" Zeric painfully tries to speak but the vines are too tight and nothing but whimpers come out. Nira sees this and lowers the pressure on the vines, "now, SPEAK." Zeric still feeling pain says, "I just wanted to see you before I die." Nira takes a step back her completely unable to understand what she just heard and can only say, "what?" Zeric having waited for almost a week, spills out his heart, "I have lost everything, I am literally nothing to live for, I know you are going to kill me and I am OK with that." Nira calms down a little a that statement, "but why go through all this effort?" Zeric responds by finishing what he was saying, "I came here and waited for so long was because... I wanted to see you before I die, I have always loved your kind, you're so beautiful, but you're the only one who is actually really real, I wanted to die seeing something so beautiful. Nira has the fur on her cheeks turn red in a blush... "I... Um... Well..." Nira stutters, but then regains composure. With a smile Nira says "You know it has gotten quite lonely being here by myself, you want to see me so bad? Alright, I'll just take you for myself and you will be able to see me quite often." In shock Zeric responds with, "wait what?" Before the vines around his neck tighten knocking him unconscious. Nira knows a lot about human survival ability after all the humans she has killed in her work so she knew it wouldn't kill him. Nira drags the unconscious Zeric through the temple as she heads inside herself.
Zeric wakes up, at first he thinks he's in some kind of afterlife but his sore neck Dissuades him of that. He looks around the room he is in. It's fairly barren, some bioluminescent plants light up the room, the walls and ceiling are the same as the outside of the temple, a special kind of plant permeated stone, the room has no windows or vents, the only piece of furniture other than what he was on was a toilet, he didn't understand how it works though, and one of the walls has a large door. Zeric goes up to the door and attempts to open it both ways, but it doesn't budge in the slightest. The door opens Nira is standing in the entrance. "Good morning sleepyhead" she says as she enters. "I am glad you were done with the outside world you won't be seeing it again for quite a long time... If ever." Zeric takes a step back, "this wasn't part of the plan, what am I supposed to do now" he thinks, thoughts quickly flood his mind until comes to a conclusion. "I don't really think I really have much of a choice right now. I guess I need to go along with this, see what happens." Zeric tries to think of something to say and only comes up with. "Um so I guess I live here now." "Yes, yes you do." Nira responds. Zeric a little embarrassed says, "so um... I can't photosynthesize so what am I going to eat?" Nira frowns, a combination of flustered and upset. "Of course I know that, I'm not that stupid, I can eat myself, so I actually have kept some of the supplies of those who came before, food and tech, I have enough to keep you around for a long time, and if any others decide to ignore the need to stay we will gain some more" Zeric feels conflict at this fact, he wasn't sure if it was OK to eat the food of those who have been killed but he put this thought in the back of his mind seeing no other option. "I'm going to leave you here to get used to your new room, oh silly me, I forgot to ask your name." Nira says, "it's Zeric" he responds, "OK my name has been irreverent for a while now, but I still have one, I am Nira, see you later" Nira leaves the room, closing and locking the door behind her. Zeric looks back at where he had been sleeping, a bed of hay. "There isn't much here to get used to" Zeric says to himself while sitting down to think.
Nira opens the door a few hours later. "Hello Zeric time to eat, I bet you're hungry, you will eat either way, I am not letting you starve, even if I have to force the food down your throat." Zeric looks up "she actually remembered my name he thinks, and again, I don't really have much a choice" he thinks, "OK thank you, where are we eating" he asks. "Come with me" Nira says before turning around and begins to walk, Zeric follows behind her.
Nira directs Zeric to a wooden table. Zeric says upon seeing the table Zeric says, "surprised you have anything wood given how close you are to plants." Nira responds with, "the trees will die eventually anyway, when they did I preserved and reshaped the wood before it would rot." They both take a seat at the table Zeric looks on the table to see what Nira got for him, some Chef Boyardee, he asks Nira, "How did you make this, even if you found it in someone's supplies, how did you heat it." Nira responds to the question, " Oh that, some people brought microwaves and generators so I just used those, I didn't know what foods humans like, and which is just nutrients, so I got something that the previous owner said he was excited to eat." Zeric says, "oh that makes sense, thank you" The 2 eat together till they both finish. Nira speaks up at the end, "I forgot how nice it can be to actually eat, you will rest off your neck now and I will think about what you will do tomorrow after my patrols. Nira directs Zeric back to his "room" before having him to go sleep for the night.
/*SA*\ Nira opens the door hours later, waking Zeric up Nira has a look on her face, she obviously wants something. "You know there is something I always wanted to try even before coming here, and now is the perfect opportunity." She says with a fanged grin. Vines push Zeric over falling on his behind, Zeric backs up till he's stopped by the wall, "wa...what Are you doing!" Nira steps forward, her head above Zeric's. Nira trusts her head into Zeric's, their lips connected and her
tongue in his mouth. She explores his entire mouth, going for quite a while before letting him go. "Well now that was an experience, maybe I'll do that again sometime, see what it's like the second time" Nira says before turning around and walking toward the door, flashing her privates at Zeric before leaving, locking the door behind her.
Zeric just stays there sat up against the wall, his mind trying to process what just occurred. Nira had come into the room, cornered him, and forced herself upon him. He could do nothing but sit there and let her have her way with him. He didn't even know why she wanted to do that to him. The way she spoke... It felt like it was only her curiosity or maybe libido that drove her to act. It didn't seem like that came from a place of love or even just care, nor did his wishes seem to have any impact on her choice. He backed up after he was knocked over, obviously uncomfortable, but she advanced anyway. Zeric didn't know what to feel, but he couldn't stop part of himself from feeling used. He stays where he was, a flood of thoughts still going through his mind for hours, before he falls back asleep right where he sat.
Nira wakes Zeric up hours later for food. Zeric eats slowly, not looking up at Nira the whole time he ate. Nira showed him around that day, showing him where she lived and setting quite a lot of boundaries for him. The way she spoke while doing so made Zeric feel like little more than a pet. Nira gave Zeric a "free time" where he could walk around the temple center under Nira's watch. Over time Zeric feels more and more like an object, a pet, and a prisoner, his life stuck in an abusive loop.
/*SA*\ After months of this things kept Escalating, including the kiss incident. One night Nira does it again, but worse than ever. Nira pushes Zeric into the same wall as the first time, but with plants holding him to the wall now. Nira rips Zeric's clothes off before doing the same kind of tongue kiss, but this time, she has her claws out piercing thru Zeric's skin, with even more pain coming as she uses her claws hold to trust herself further unto Zeric. By the time Nira is done with him, his body is sore from the plants Trusting him into the wall. And his chest has bleeding holes from Nira's claws. He barely gets any sleep that night.
When Nira gets Zeric for food the next day things finally fall apart. Nira tells Zeric "you are always so quiet, I am going to need you to talk more." Zeric stands up and explodes at Nira, "FOR WHAT BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE ME MORE USEFUL TO YOU?" Nira, shocked at Zeric's outburst, responds, "what are you talking about?" Zeric doesn't stop, "CAN YOU REALLY BE THAT CLUELESS? YOU HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE TO ME, I AM STILL BLEEDING BECAUSE OF YOUR ABUSE YESTERDAY! I FEEL LIKE I AM NOTHING MORE IN YOUR MIND THAN A PET AT BEST AND AN OBJECT AT WORST! I CAME HERE BECAUSE I WANTED TO DIE, BUT YOU COULDN'T EVEN KILL ME, JUST PUT ME THROUGH HELL. I CAME HERE BECAUSE I WANTED TO DIE WHILE SEEING YOUR BUTITY, BUT YOU HAVE SHOWN ME THAT ON THE INSIDE YOU ARE HIDEOUS." Zeric breaths heavily for a while, while Nira is just left thinking about what she has been told. Zeric speaks up once again, "I am leaving this life one way or another, whether by just leaving this place or you killing me like you should have long ago" he stands up from the table and leaves the temple center.
Nira sits for hours going over everything from the past few months, at first she denies any wrongdoing. However after some time and putting herself in his position, she can deny the truth no longer. "He's right I am hideous on the inside, I did see him as no more a pet or object. I had by wants and just used him to get them, even no matter what he thought..." Nira says to herself. After thinking for a while, she comes to a conclusion. "I am going to see him one last time, he should at least know he's right." She stands up herself and walks out of the temple center.
Zeric spent that time attempting to make it through the temple labyrinth, it's large and hard to navigate without prior knowledge. The plants in the walls of the temple begin to point toward the exit, at Nira's , though this is unknown to Zeric. Eventually Zeric finds himself at the exit, however it's blocked by vines. He turns around to see Nira coming up behind him, he tenses up and closes his eyes waiting to be killed, but Nira doesn't attack.
Zeric opens his eyes again after a second, and backs himself into the vine wall, his face filled with fear, the thought, "if she isn't going to kill me what horrible thing is she going to do for me" going thru his mind constantly. He breathes quickly, dreading Nira's advance. But Nira doesn't advance, but sits down and starts laughing, however the laughing quickly turns into crying. "Look at you even with you not caring about your life, I have been so horrible to you that here you are preferred of me. Goes to show just how horrid I have treated you doesn't it." Nira says thru her tears. Nira drops the wall of vines, Zeric falling back without it supporting him. Zeric looks back at the exit, he could leave right now, so he turns around and gets up ready to run. "Wait" Nira blurts out, "I know I don't deserve it but please hear me out." Zeric hesitates for a second "she at least kept me alive he thinks" "fine" Zeric says.
"You were completely right about me, I was truly evil to you, what I did was unforgivable. I had been alone for so long that I felt like I needed to "make the most of you" that's no excuse, and on top of that the wrong way of looking at it, as you said, I saw you as property. I finally see how wrong I was." Tearing up as she speaks, "I... I don't want to be alone, you were my only chance at a companion, and I screwed it up. I have no right to ask you to forgive me, but I will anyway. Can we start over? This time I promise things will be different, and you can leave whenever you like as long as you don't come back after. I know I don't deserve to be forgiven, but I beg of you to do so anyway. If you decide not to, just walk away right now." She continues to sit as she waits for a response.
Zeric was not expecting this turn of events, the logical part of him was telling him to just run, that was definitely the smart thing to do but he wasn't even sure what he would do after leaving he had nothing to return to and would likely kill himself anyway. After thinking for a while he breaks a spike that he knows contains a lethal toxin to humans sticking it in his pocket as a plan goes thru his mind. "Alright if things go south at all I will kill myself then and there, one last chance, for her and me"
"Fine, one last chance, don't make me regret this" Zeric asserts thinking about the death spike in his pocket as he speaks. Nira breaks down even further, she can only say one thing over and over, "thank you." Zeric turns around and sits next to Nira while she cries. After a while Zeric puts one of his arms around Nira helping to calm her down. Nira finally stands and speaks up, "would you come with me, so I can prove something to you" Zeric nods and walks with Nira back to the temple center.
When they make it back they go up to the room where Zeric was staying, staring intensely at the lock. A vine comes up from the floor and rips the lock of the door, even damaging the lock mechanism of the door itself. Nira smashes the lock under her paw. "I am never locking you up again, no more external locks." Nira opens the door to the room looking inside, "I can't have you sleeping in those conditions anymore, but I don't have enough to fix it..." Nira says before thinking for a minute, "would you want to sleep in my room tonight till I get this in acceptable condition again?" Zeric thinks for a second, "has to be better than this I guess"
Zeric and Nira talk for the rest of the day. Zeric going over all his grievances and them going over agreements on how to change things. The conversation seemed quite reasonable and productive, and helped to ease his anxiety. He still wasn't sure if this would really work, but he at least had some hope. Nira shows Zeric her room, it was beautiful with flowers everywhere, it was so Intricate, that it almost gave Zeric a little bit of sensory overload. In the center was a huge "bed" of plants, definitely more then big enough for both of them. During the next few days, things seemed to get better and the 2 got closer, with genuine care this time.
/**\ Nira really was making the room Zeric had stayed in better, so much so that soon it was a place Zeric would be happy to stay in, but Nira said she wanted 1 more day to finish her work. The 2 go into Nira's room one last time. Nira brings up the kissing incident, and says to Zeric, "I guess that after, you know, that, you will never want to do anything romantic with me right?" Zeric responds with a smirk, "I never said that now did I?" Nira was shocked by this response, "but you told me how much you hated when I did that to you, how could you be OK with anything similar?" She asked. Zeric answered, "that's just the thing when YOU did that to me, that wasn't romantic, that was just abuse, that doesn't mean we can't ever get in a situation where we want romantic interactions, just as long as it's both of us together." Nira surprised began to mutter, "well it's not like kissing would be anything new for us... Doesn't really seem like we can have a first physical romantic interaction... Unless." Nira starts to speak at a volume she can be heard, "Um Zeric?" "Yes Nira?" "You wouldn't happen to maybe want to you know, go all the way with physical romance?" Zeric looks at Nira confused, "I don't understand what you are asking." Nira blushed and looked down while speaking her next sentence, "well I...I Am asking... If you want to... Maybe... Have sex with me?" Zeric is surprised at this request, even when he had said what he did about romantic interactions he didn't expect to actually do any, especially not right NOW. He stayed silent for a minute before responding, "let's try it, it might be a good way to see what progress we made from... That." Nira also wasn't expecting that response, even though she asked, but she decided she was going to go along with this anyway, still a little embarrassed she says, "well so I can hide and show my, you know what, but with you well, you need to, you know, remove your covering."
/***\ Even with how vague Nira was, Zeric could use the context clues he had to know exactly what she was asking. He removes all his clothes and throws them off the bed. Nira asks Zeric, "I think I should ask you what we should start with." Zeric responds with, "I don't know I have actually never done this before." "I haven't either, guess this is new for the both of us." Nira smiles nervously. They both just stare at each other for a minute. Nira finally breaks the silence "How about with start with something more, how would I say, you orientated." Zeric goes, "yea that sounds like a good idea." Nira goes up to Zeric and puts her head up to his crotch, before she puts his dick into her mouth, slowly to see if he would resist in which she would stop, he didn't though so she went in. Zeric cock quickly expands in Nira's mouth, Nira doesn't know exactly what she is doing so she starts to rotate her tongue around his penis, at first she wasn't sure if she was doing it right, but over time she stopped caring, as long as they were both enjoying this she was doing it right. And Zeric was enjoying it, not at first because he was still thinking about if it was OK what they were doing, but as time passed and he tried to ignore the thought, he slowly forgot about it the pleasure enrapturing his mind. After a while, though Zeric was close, Nira takes a step back licking her lips. "Why don't we move on to the main event? What do you say Zeric." Nira says, Zeric nods in response. Nira is still the dominant one as she enthusiastically jumps onto Zeric. It's only after this that Zeric fully relied just how huge Nira actually is, she is over 1.5 meters tall. Nira asks "you ready and willing?" Zeric responds, "yes, just be careful, remember I am not as strong as you." Nira says, "right of course" while using a vine to direct Zeric's dick into her pussy, slowly moving down till the entire thing is inside her. She starts moving, starting out slow then speeding up. She keeps speeding up until going overboard vines wrapping around Zeric, causing him a little pain, Nira realizes this and loosens her grip, "sorry love" she says without thinking. Nira slows down and settles into a ridium. The 2 go at it until Zeric couldn't last any longer, he holds Nira and ends up pulling Nira down onto him right before cumming inside her. Only after did they realize what happened the 2's faces right up next to each other, and all they can do is laugh before lying down next to each other.
After lying down for a bit Zeric looks up at Nira. He sees her sleeping for the first time. Every other night she purposely went to sleep last and woke up first. Now here she was, in the most vulnerable possible position she could be in, asleep pointed away from him. Zeric thinks about the spike still in his pocket, he doesn't know if it could kill her like it could him, but she couldn't stop him from stabbing her either way. Now he never actually considered doing it, but the thought of how he could removed the last bit of doubt that this could work. The whole time before she had her eyes on him every second he wasn't locked up, now she let herself be vulnerable around him, to him that meant she finally trusted him. He laid down and spooned his leafeon companion.
Excerpt from Zeric's autobiography:
To anyone reading this, I feel the need to give advice. Don't do what I did, I got lucky, and didn't really feel like my life was really worth living anyway. Doing what I did is a complete gamble, Nira wanted to change, she was willing to put in the effort. However many aren't really like that, and are just trying to manipulate you. I took a huge risk and though it paid off for me the risk can be far worse than the potential reward. I can't stop you from giving abusers as many chances as you wish, but know Nira was an exception not the rule.
2ed Excerpt from Zeric's autobiography, quote from Nira:
"No matter how you look at it I was the bad guy, what I did was in no way ok or excusable. As thankful as I am for the second chance from Zeric, I know I don't deserve it. Please don't be like me, I was a despicable creature to Zeric, and anyone who follows in my pawsteps is the same."
The end of this crap (for now).
