A/N: I'm back! ^_^ School's almost over, I just got my muse for this story back, (He was in Hawaii getting a tan...can creatures with fur even GET tans?!) and decided a little 'end of my school year' celebration was in order. Oh, and Light Sneasel, thanks for your ideas, I'll keep them in mind for later chapters...
Disclaimer: Second verse, same as the first! (Now just replace 'verse' with 'disclaimer')
Chap. 5: This Plot Twist is Making my Head Spin *or* Farewell, my Friend (Hoshi)
Lucky me. Wouldn't you know that I was running so fast I tripped over a tree root and skidded two feet? Well I did. And I don't mind saying that I was a bit more than 'sore' afterwards.
However, it was in a way, lucky. My crash, if you could call it that, roused a nearby sleeping houndour. While I was recovering, it came out from behind the trees and confronted me. How was this lucky? Well, if this houndour hadn't noticed me, I would have probably ran into a couple of houndoom, who probably wouldn't be too happy to see me in their territory. (I never spent much time around Aku's family. I had only even *seen* his den a few times. Besides, I don't think they would recognize me.)
Getting back on track, it was the houndour who spoke first. "What are you doing in our pack's territory?" Its voice was a bit higher pitched than Aku's, so I was left under the impression that this particular houndour was a female.
"Nothing." I replied. "Well you can go in your *own* territory and do 'nothing'." She said, "Though all that noise is generally accompanied by 'something'."
Either She (I'm using it as a name now) had a small sense of humor, or was sarcastic, and because it's a rare to find a humorous houndour, I'm going with the latter.
"All right, you caught me." I said, dryly. "I'm doing 'something'. More specifically, I'm looking for a houndour named Akuma. Think you can help me with that?"
For I second I thought I saw something that resembled sadness cross over her features, but then it vanished. What She said next, though, shocked me.
"He was caught not too long ago by a trainer. Now if you have no more business here, I suggest you leave."
I was stunned. Caught by a trainer? How could it happen? And why him?
"Wait!" I said to her retreating form. "How do you know?"
She turned her head to face me. "Saw it. The whole pack did. We were out hunting, and heard something. We all hid. 'Cept Aku. He wasn't quick enough to hide. We saw the trainer send out its poliwrath and fight poor Aku. Caught 'im in one of those 'pokeballs'. Then he flew off on his pigeot. Probably all he wanted was a houndour, and then went off to enslave some other poor soul."
With that, She continued wandering away, while I walked off to find some place to sort my situation, thinking about the story the whole way.
I found sanctuary in a small cave about a mile's walk away from where I ad met the houndour. It was a bit cold, but that was fine, for even in the twilight sky, I could see clouds moving to cover the moon, and I was thankful for something over my head in case of rain.
When I first stepped in the cave, something glinted in the darkness, as a result of the little moonlight not covered by clouds. Being curious by nature, I crept towards it, my eyesight not affected by the ever-growing darkness.
When I got close enough, I saw it was a shiny piece of metal with strange symbols on it. They looked like 'TM 29'. I figured out that this must be an example of what human's call 'writing'.
I cautiously touched it with my paw, and a strange sensation went through my body. It felt a bit like when I evolved, but not so powerful, and it was just a feeling. It only lasted a second, and when it was over, I felt perfectly normal. Nothing had changed, at least, nothing I could see.
Anyway, I went over to the other side of the cave, away from the piece of metal, and lay down to rest.
However, as soon as I had almost collected all my thoughts, I heard loud jeering, and some frantic squeaks.
Whether to tell whatever that was causing the creature to squeak to stop, or to lecture them about how rotten my life is becoming just because I needed someone to complain to, I don't know, but I headed over to the direction where the sounds were coming from, and found, to my horror, three makuhitas, bending over something very small.
They must have heard me coming, because all of their heads turned to look at me. The smirked, and abandoned their previous victim.
As they came closer, I started to back away. "Remember," I said nervously, "Violence isn't the answer!"
Somehow they had managed to back me against a wall, all three surrounding me. It had to be makuhitas didn't it? Why couldn't it have been smoochums!?
The one in front of me raised a fist, while the others followed. Just as the punches were nearly touching me, my rings glowed golden, and the opposing pokemon were hit back with such a force, the hit the other side of the cave.
I heard them scurry out, and blinked, confused and amazed at what had just happened. I had wanted that to happen, I had envisioned it in my mind.
My memory then switched back to the shiny piece of metal with the symbols on it. Mom had once told my siblings and I of a human device, called a 'Technical Machine'.
If used on certain pokemon, it could give them the ability to use an attack they wouldn't have learned naturally. Was that thing a Technical Machine? It seemed pretty likely. And when I touched it, was I given the ability to use 'psychic'? Yes.
I then remembered something. What about the squeaking noise? The makuhitas' first target?
I went over to the spot I had first discovered them, and, shivering and a bit bruised, what I could recognize as an absol pup.
A/N: Yes, umbreon CAN learn psychic. (It's recommended to) Enter Ruby and Sapphire pokemon. Go absol! (Yes, I think it's a canine type pokemon. Got a problem with that?) I got plans for this little guy. Can you say 'Papa'?
Disclaimer: Second verse, same as the first! (Now just replace 'verse' with 'disclaimer')
Chap. 5: This Plot Twist is Making my Head Spin *or* Farewell, my Friend (Hoshi)
Lucky me. Wouldn't you know that I was running so fast I tripped over a tree root and skidded two feet? Well I did. And I don't mind saying that I was a bit more than 'sore' afterwards.
However, it was in a way, lucky. My crash, if you could call it that, roused a nearby sleeping houndour. While I was recovering, it came out from behind the trees and confronted me. How was this lucky? Well, if this houndour hadn't noticed me, I would have probably ran into a couple of houndoom, who probably wouldn't be too happy to see me in their territory. (I never spent much time around Aku's family. I had only even *seen* his den a few times. Besides, I don't think they would recognize me.)
Getting back on track, it was the houndour who spoke first. "What are you doing in our pack's territory?" Its voice was a bit higher pitched than Aku's, so I was left under the impression that this particular houndour was a female.
"Nothing." I replied. "Well you can go in your *own* territory and do 'nothing'." She said, "Though all that noise is generally accompanied by 'something'."
Either She (I'm using it as a name now) had a small sense of humor, or was sarcastic, and because it's a rare to find a humorous houndour, I'm going with the latter.
"All right, you caught me." I said, dryly. "I'm doing 'something'. More specifically, I'm looking for a houndour named Akuma. Think you can help me with that?"
For I second I thought I saw something that resembled sadness cross over her features, but then it vanished. What She said next, though, shocked me.
"He was caught not too long ago by a trainer. Now if you have no more business here, I suggest you leave."
I was stunned. Caught by a trainer? How could it happen? And why him?
"Wait!" I said to her retreating form. "How do you know?"
She turned her head to face me. "Saw it. The whole pack did. We were out hunting, and heard something. We all hid. 'Cept Aku. He wasn't quick enough to hide. We saw the trainer send out its poliwrath and fight poor Aku. Caught 'im in one of those 'pokeballs'. Then he flew off on his pigeot. Probably all he wanted was a houndour, and then went off to enslave some other poor soul."
With that, She continued wandering away, while I walked off to find some place to sort my situation, thinking about the story the whole way.
I found sanctuary in a small cave about a mile's walk away from where I ad met the houndour. It was a bit cold, but that was fine, for even in the twilight sky, I could see clouds moving to cover the moon, and I was thankful for something over my head in case of rain.
When I first stepped in the cave, something glinted in the darkness, as a result of the little moonlight not covered by clouds. Being curious by nature, I crept towards it, my eyesight not affected by the ever-growing darkness.
When I got close enough, I saw it was a shiny piece of metal with strange symbols on it. They looked like 'TM 29'. I figured out that this must be an example of what human's call 'writing'.
I cautiously touched it with my paw, and a strange sensation went through my body. It felt a bit like when I evolved, but not so powerful, and it was just a feeling. It only lasted a second, and when it was over, I felt perfectly normal. Nothing had changed, at least, nothing I could see.
Anyway, I went over to the other side of the cave, away from the piece of metal, and lay down to rest.
However, as soon as I had almost collected all my thoughts, I heard loud jeering, and some frantic squeaks.
Whether to tell whatever that was causing the creature to squeak to stop, or to lecture them about how rotten my life is becoming just because I needed someone to complain to, I don't know, but I headed over to the direction where the sounds were coming from, and found, to my horror, three makuhitas, bending over something very small.
They must have heard me coming, because all of their heads turned to look at me. The smirked, and abandoned their previous victim.
As they came closer, I started to back away. "Remember," I said nervously, "Violence isn't the answer!"
Somehow they had managed to back me against a wall, all three surrounding me. It had to be makuhitas didn't it? Why couldn't it have been smoochums!?
The one in front of me raised a fist, while the others followed. Just as the punches were nearly touching me, my rings glowed golden, and the opposing pokemon were hit back with such a force, the hit the other side of the cave.
I heard them scurry out, and blinked, confused and amazed at what had just happened. I had wanted that to happen, I had envisioned it in my mind.
My memory then switched back to the shiny piece of metal with the symbols on it. Mom had once told my siblings and I of a human device, called a 'Technical Machine'.
If used on certain pokemon, it could give them the ability to use an attack they wouldn't have learned naturally. Was that thing a Technical Machine? It seemed pretty likely. And when I touched it, was I given the ability to use 'psychic'? Yes.
I then remembered something. What about the squeaking noise? The makuhitas' first target?
I went over to the spot I had first discovered them, and, shivering and a bit bruised, what I could recognize as an absol pup.
A/N: Yes, umbreon CAN learn psychic. (It's recommended to) Enter Ruby and Sapphire pokemon. Go absol! (Yes, I think it's a canine type pokemon. Got a problem with that?) I got plans for this little guy. Can you say 'Papa'?