[Author's Note: Well, here it is: Chapter 5, before Christmas, just like I promised.]
"Where No Pokemon Trainer Has Gone Before"
Chapter 5: The Battle
Charmeleon stared into the flames of the campfire, worrying about his trainer. {Doesn't she understand that I had no choice? I had to protect her! I'm her friend!} He sighed, breathing out a little flame.
He looked over at Felix, curled up close to the fire, wrapped in her bedding, fast asleep. Caterpie was sleeping in her arms. Felix had cried herself to sleep, and had wrapped Charmeleon in her arms. He had extracted himself from her grasp, but when Felix had started crying out in her sleep, he had released the other Pokemon and Caterpie had slipped into her arms. She had quieted down after that.
Wooper was watching the fire, and making sure it didn't get to close to Felix. He also kept throwing glances towards Charmeleon, wondering how the fire-type was doing, after being thrown into a pool of water and then killing several humans.
Eevee and Magnetite were off looking for food, while everyone else was staying in the cave they had found.
The cave was really a mine of some sorts. The passage they were in was a good seven feet high, and ten feet wide, supported by wooden braces every couple of yards. It extended farther back, but none of the pokemon had explored it yet.
Growing tired of the looks Wooper kept tossing his way, Charmeleon got up, walked over to where Wooper was, and sat down next to the other pokemon, who was about a third his height and half his weight. Charmeleon growled to Wooper, I am not mad at you for attacking me.
Wooper looked up at Charmeleon and asked, You aren't mad about me knocking you into the pool?
Charmeleon sighed, No, you were outnumbered and you needed something to wake me up. If you hadn't, something might have happened to Felix.
Charmeleon gazed at Felix, I hope she understands what we did...
Wooper used his tail to pat Charmeleon's claw, Don't worry, she will.
While normally Felix's pokemon would never consider stealing from other people, these were unusual circumstances. First, the pokemon had this vague feeling that something was wrong with the world. Second, those men that they had met back at the pool had some sort of weird power that made the pokemon fall asleep. Usually that required Jigglypuff to put them to sleep like that, but the pokemon hadn't heard Jigglypuff's song, so it couldn't have been Jigglypuff. Third, Charmeleon had killed some people, and while he had been defending his trainer, Felix might be considered an outlaw, and her pokemon also would be outlaws. Fourth, fresh food is always better than the pokemon food that Felix normally gave them.
Thus, this next scene....
"Come back here you thief!"
Eevee, her mouth occupied with carrying food, didn't respond; she just kept moving. While the humans that were chasing her had longer legs, their maneuverability was laughable compared to Eevee.
So Eevee was busy dodging around trees, racing over boulders, and speeding through the brush while the men huffed and puffed and got farther and farther behind as they were forced to avoid hitting trees, avoid tripping over boulders, and avoid getting tangled in the heavy underbrush.
After a minute of running, Eevee stopped and listened with those big ears of hers. She could hear the faint sounds of the humans running, but it was far enough away to not concern Eevee. She sprinted off in a different direction and after another minute of running, came to where Magnetite was floating above the rest of the food that Eevee had stolen. Eevee dropped the meat she had been carrying onto the steel shield that held the rest of the food. Magnetite and Eevee had crept into the camp with the humans and the gnolls and had quietly loaded up a shield with food. Eevee had then provided a distraction by grabbing some food and running with it. While the humans and gnolls chased after Eevee, Magnetite had used its magnetic abilities to levitate the shield out of the camp.
I think this is enough food, panted Eevee. Let's go back to the cave.
Okay, replied Magnetite, and he levitated the shield up a few feet and began moving off, with Eevee walking behind.
Unfortunately, a couple of the gnolls had picked up Eevee's scent and was using their fine sense of smell to track Eevee and Magnetite back to the cave, bringing with them several angry men and gnolls...
Felix squirmed around under her bedding, trying to get into the warmest position possible. She sighed. {It is nice to sleep in once in a while,} she decided. She could get back to pokemon training later, once she had forgotten about this bad dream...
"Dream!?" Felix yelped, and sat up. She was in a small cave, and Charmeleon and the rest of her pokemon were around a small campfire, near the entrance of the cave. From what she could tell, it was some time after noon.
"Charmeleon... then it wasn't a dream?" Felix pinched herself. It hurt. She rubbed the pinched skin to make the pain go away and walked over to the fire. Several pieces of meat were on sticks, roasting on the fire.
"Eevee!"
"Woo!"
"Pie!"
"Char!"
Her pokemon greeted her, except for Magnetite, who was apparently asleep. They had questions in their eyes, and they were all wondering about her.
"I'm okay," Felix said, smiling slightly. She sniffed deeply, "where did you get this food from?"
All the pokemon looked to Eevee. Eevee pointed out of the cave and said, "veeeeee."
Felix shrugged. It didn't matter much to her right now where the food came from, she was hungry. She grabbed one of the pieces and started chewing on it.
"Hey, this is good!" she exclaimed.
"Ee, eevee," replied Eevee, bowing slightly. She also nodded towards the sleeping Magnetite.
"So Magnetite helped you, and...?"
Eevee made a cupping motion with her paws, and moved her paw up, over a few inches, and then back down.
"Magnetite carried the food? How?"
Eevee pointed over to a wide curved piece of metal, and then she walked over to Magnetite and pointed at him, or more exactly, at one of the magnets that made up Magnetite's body.
"Ah, I see! Magnetite used magnetism to levitate that piece of metal, and you just put all the food onto the plate, right?"
"Veee," Eevee nodded.
"Let's eat, then!"
All of the pokemon, except for Magnetite who was still asleep, agreed and began chowing down on the food.
Most of the way through the meal, Eevee's ear perked up, and she looked out of the cave. She let go of the food she had been chewing on, and walked over to the entrance, and swiveled her ears around to try and pinpoint what she was hearing. Felix put down the leg she had been chewing on, wiped her hands on some rocks, and walked over to Eevee.
In a whisper Felix asked, "What is it?"
"Veeee? Eeeeveeee?" Eevee wondered aloud, and then, "Vee! Eevee! Vee! Vee!"
Eevee crouched forward, her hair standing on end, ready to attack whatever it was.
"Eevee!" exclaimed Felix. "Is something bad coming this way?"
"Veeeee!" growled Eevee.
"Then let's get out of here!"
Eevee turned to Felix, confused, "Eevee?"
"NO! We are not going to fight, we are going to run. I won't be responsible for any more deaths!"
"Eevee?"
"Yes, I am sure. Now pack up the food and let's go!" And Felix wiped her greasy hands on her shorts and began packing up her things, stuffing them into her backpack carelessly.
The pokemon put out the fire and placed the leftover food on the steel shield. Then they roused Magnetite.
"Mag?" Magnetite asked sleepily.
"Char, char-me, char-leon," Charmeleon quickly explained.
"Magnetite!" exclaimed Magnetite, now fully awake.
"Woo," confirmed Wooper.
"Okay!" said Felix, coming over to them with her backpack on. "Everyone back into their pokeballs," she said, holding up two pokeballs.
The pokemon all protested loudly, though not too loudly with whatever-it-was coming closer.
"No!" said Felix. "If you were out, you might want to fight. We are fighting, we are running. Now, everyone back. Eevee, return! Caterpie, return!"
A red beam shot out of each pokeball and sucked up Eevee and Caterpie.
Felix shrunk the pokeballs, put them back onto her belt, and pulled out two more. "Charmeleon, Wooper, return!"
Again the pokeballs sucked the two pokemon in, and Felix shrunk them and placed them on her belt.
She looked over to Magnetite. "You may stay out to carry the food, but only if you promise not to harm anyone."
"Mag..." Magnetite grumbled his agreement.
"Good. Grab the plate and let's go." And she walked out of the cave... and found herself surrounded by humans and gnolls.
Felix looked to her left. She looked to her right. She looked up. She glanced back at the rock face surrounding the cave. {No humans or animal-faced creatures above me,} Felix thought.
Then Magnetite floated out of the cave, with the shield piled with food floating beneath him.
One of the animal-faced creatures pointed at Magnetite, and snarled, "that was one the creatures spotted at our camp! It must have been working with that other monster! Kill her! She must be a rogue wizard!" With that, some of the humans and creatures pulled out weapons and began stalking forward.
Felix turned and started trying to scramble up the rock wall surrounding the cave. "Magnetite, forget about the food! Use supersonic and drive them back!"
The shield clattered to the ground, and the food flew off of it, splattering around. Then a loud screeching noise filled the air, with the attacking humans clapping their hands to their ears, and the attacking gnolls dropping to the ground and began screaming and rolling around in pain.
"Magnetite!" Felix tried to scream over the noise. "Help me up!"
The noise stopped, but the screaming from the gnolls didn't. Magnetite floated over to Felix and put himself near her hand, and she grabbed onto him. With Magnetite acting as a moveable handhold, Felix quickly got several feet off of the ground, to where there were more places to put her hands and feet. She let go and started climbing on her own. But then two arrows ricocheted off of the rock a few feet from where she was.
Surprised, Felix almost fell off of the wall, but she was able to hold on. She glanced back and saw that a couple of the humans had gotten out bows and were trying to shoot her. The ringing of the ears prevented them from their normal excellent accuracy, but it wouldn't be long before they hit Felix. After all, she IS a big target.
"Magnetite, use thunder wave to paralyze them!"
Electricity flew at the archers, but never reached them. It dissipated halfway to them.
"Magnetite?" Felix looked to Magnetite.
He was hovering nearby, barely. Carrying that shield back to the cave had drained him of a lot of power, and the energy he got from the nap he took had all been used up in the supersonic attack he had unleashed.
{I have to protect Felix,} thought Magnetite, and he positioned himself between Felix and the arrows.
The archers fired again, and Magnetite used his weakened magnetic powers to attract the arrows to him, knocking him backwards.
"Magnetite!" Felix screamed. "Don't do this! Run away! Save yourself!"
NO, I MUST PROTECT FELIX! Magnetite screamed, and he suddenly began glowing; glowing as brightly as the sun.
"What in the name of the God of Strife is that?" yelled one of the archers, covering his eyes.
"He, he's... evolving," said an awed Felix.
Magnetite's silhouette expanded outwards, forming three connected balls, with magnets on each of them. The light faded, revealing Magneton, Magnetite's evolved form.
"Mag-ne-ton," Magneton pronounced in a much deeper voice than Magnetite, and he unleashed his magnetic powers. All the humans and gnolls were flung backwards, as anything metal they were carrying suddenly became oppositely charged. They lay where they were, pressed against the ground, against trees, or against rocks.
The shield that had served as a food platter floated up to Felix and Magneton. Magneton nodded towards the shield, and Felix got onto it. With very little effort, Magneton levitated himself and the shield with Felix up the rock face, letting the humans and gnolls go.
They reached the top of the rock face and Felix jumped off the shield and wrapped Magneton in a hug.
"Thank you, Magneton! You were great!" she exclaimed.
"Mag," blushed Magneton.
"Come on! Let's leave those bozos behind and get going!" And she ran off to the mountains ahead of her, with Magneton racing along beside her.
[Author's Notes: I finally got around to shooting the monster known as "Procrastination" and I got this chapter out of my head. That leaves one less thing bouncing around in my mind. In other news, one of my brothers was reading my story and noted a bunch of problems with the first couple of chapters. Since I am home right now and my computer is not (my parents decided to leave it at college because of limited space in the van), I will fix the rest of the chapters when I go back to college, when I have access to my entire story, not just this small section that I have on my brother's computer.]
[Chapter 6 ought to be up sometime next semester. Though I am having a lot harder classes in the spring, so I may, or may not, have as much time to work on my stories. Cross your fingers and help me hunt down the monster "Procrastination."]
[One more Author's Note: It saves thinking power and time to just let the reader figure what the pokemon are saying when they are saying their names over and over again.]
"Where No Pokemon Trainer Has Gone Before"
Chapter 5: The Battle
Charmeleon stared into the flames of the campfire, worrying about his trainer. {Doesn't she understand that I had no choice? I had to protect her! I'm her friend!} He sighed, breathing out a little flame.
He looked over at Felix, curled up close to the fire, wrapped in her bedding, fast asleep. Caterpie was sleeping in her arms. Felix had cried herself to sleep, and had wrapped Charmeleon in her arms. He had extracted himself from her grasp, but when Felix had started crying out in her sleep, he had released the other Pokemon and Caterpie had slipped into her arms. She had quieted down after that.
Wooper was watching the fire, and making sure it didn't get to close to Felix. He also kept throwing glances towards Charmeleon, wondering how the fire-type was doing, after being thrown into a pool of water and then killing several humans.
Eevee and Magnetite were off looking for food, while everyone else was staying in the cave they had found.
The cave was really a mine of some sorts. The passage they were in was a good seven feet high, and ten feet wide, supported by wooden braces every couple of yards. It extended farther back, but none of the pokemon had explored it yet.
Growing tired of the looks Wooper kept tossing his way, Charmeleon got up, walked over to where Wooper was, and sat down next to the other pokemon, who was about a third his height and half his weight. Charmeleon growled to Wooper, I am not mad at you for attacking me.
Wooper looked up at Charmeleon and asked, You aren't mad about me knocking you into the pool?
Charmeleon sighed, No, you were outnumbered and you needed something to wake me up. If you hadn't, something might have happened to Felix.
Charmeleon gazed at Felix, I hope she understands what we did...
Wooper used his tail to pat Charmeleon's claw, Don't worry, she will.
While normally Felix's pokemon would never consider stealing from other people, these were unusual circumstances. First, the pokemon had this vague feeling that something was wrong with the world. Second, those men that they had met back at the pool had some sort of weird power that made the pokemon fall asleep. Usually that required Jigglypuff to put them to sleep like that, but the pokemon hadn't heard Jigglypuff's song, so it couldn't have been Jigglypuff. Third, Charmeleon had killed some people, and while he had been defending his trainer, Felix might be considered an outlaw, and her pokemon also would be outlaws. Fourth, fresh food is always better than the pokemon food that Felix normally gave them.
Thus, this next scene....
"Come back here you thief!"
Eevee, her mouth occupied with carrying food, didn't respond; she just kept moving. While the humans that were chasing her had longer legs, their maneuverability was laughable compared to Eevee.
So Eevee was busy dodging around trees, racing over boulders, and speeding through the brush while the men huffed and puffed and got farther and farther behind as they were forced to avoid hitting trees, avoid tripping over boulders, and avoid getting tangled in the heavy underbrush.
After a minute of running, Eevee stopped and listened with those big ears of hers. She could hear the faint sounds of the humans running, but it was far enough away to not concern Eevee. She sprinted off in a different direction and after another minute of running, came to where Magnetite was floating above the rest of the food that Eevee had stolen. Eevee dropped the meat she had been carrying onto the steel shield that held the rest of the food. Magnetite and Eevee had crept into the camp with the humans and the gnolls and had quietly loaded up a shield with food. Eevee had then provided a distraction by grabbing some food and running with it. While the humans and gnolls chased after Eevee, Magnetite had used its magnetic abilities to levitate the shield out of the camp.
I think this is enough food, panted Eevee. Let's go back to the cave.
Okay, replied Magnetite, and he levitated the shield up a few feet and began moving off, with Eevee walking behind.
Unfortunately, a couple of the gnolls had picked up Eevee's scent and was using their fine sense of smell to track Eevee and Magnetite back to the cave, bringing with them several angry men and gnolls...
Felix squirmed around under her bedding, trying to get into the warmest position possible. She sighed. {It is nice to sleep in once in a while,} she decided. She could get back to pokemon training later, once she had forgotten about this bad dream...
"Dream!?" Felix yelped, and sat up. She was in a small cave, and Charmeleon and the rest of her pokemon were around a small campfire, near the entrance of the cave. From what she could tell, it was some time after noon.
"Charmeleon... then it wasn't a dream?" Felix pinched herself. It hurt. She rubbed the pinched skin to make the pain go away and walked over to the fire. Several pieces of meat were on sticks, roasting on the fire.
"Eevee!"
"Woo!"
"Pie!"
"Char!"
Her pokemon greeted her, except for Magnetite, who was apparently asleep. They had questions in their eyes, and they were all wondering about her.
"I'm okay," Felix said, smiling slightly. She sniffed deeply, "where did you get this food from?"
All the pokemon looked to Eevee. Eevee pointed out of the cave and said, "veeeeee."
Felix shrugged. It didn't matter much to her right now where the food came from, she was hungry. She grabbed one of the pieces and started chewing on it.
"Hey, this is good!" she exclaimed.
"Ee, eevee," replied Eevee, bowing slightly. She also nodded towards the sleeping Magnetite.
"So Magnetite helped you, and...?"
Eevee made a cupping motion with her paws, and moved her paw up, over a few inches, and then back down.
"Magnetite carried the food? How?"
Eevee pointed over to a wide curved piece of metal, and then she walked over to Magnetite and pointed at him, or more exactly, at one of the magnets that made up Magnetite's body.
"Ah, I see! Magnetite used magnetism to levitate that piece of metal, and you just put all the food onto the plate, right?"
"Veee," Eevee nodded.
"Let's eat, then!"
All of the pokemon, except for Magnetite who was still asleep, agreed and began chowing down on the food.
Most of the way through the meal, Eevee's ear perked up, and she looked out of the cave. She let go of the food she had been chewing on, and walked over to the entrance, and swiveled her ears around to try and pinpoint what she was hearing. Felix put down the leg she had been chewing on, wiped her hands on some rocks, and walked over to Eevee.
In a whisper Felix asked, "What is it?"
"Veeee? Eeeeveeee?" Eevee wondered aloud, and then, "Vee! Eevee! Vee! Vee!"
Eevee crouched forward, her hair standing on end, ready to attack whatever it was.
"Eevee!" exclaimed Felix. "Is something bad coming this way?"
"Veeeee!" growled Eevee.
"Then let's get out of here!"
Eevee turned to Felix, confused, "Eevee?"
"NO! We are not going to fight, we are going to run. I won't be responsible for any more deaths!"
"Eevee?"
"Yes, I am sure. Now pack up the food and let's go!" And Felix wiped her greasy hands on her shorts and began packing up her things, stuffing them into her backpack carelessly.
The pokemon put out the fire and placed the leftover food on the steel shield. Then they roused Magnetite.
"Mag?" Magnetite asked sleepily.
"Char, char-me, char-leon," Charmeleon quickly explained.
"Magnetite!" exclaimed Magnetite, now fully awake.
"Woo," confirmed Wooper.
"Okay!" said Felix, coming over to them with her backpack on. "Everyone back into their pokeballs," she said, holding up two pokeballs.
The pokemon all protested loudly, though not too loudly with whatever-it-was coming closer.
"No!" said Felix. "If you were out, you might want to fight. We are fighting, we are running. Now, everyone back. Eevee, return! Caterpie, return!"
A red beam shot out of each pokeball and sucked up Eevee and Caterpie.
Felix shrunk the pokeballs, put them back onto her belt, and pulled out two more. "Charmeleon, Wooper, return!"
Again the pokeballs sucked the two pokemon in, and Felix shrunk them and placed them on her belt.
She looked over to Magnetite. "You may stay out to carry the food, but only if you promise not to harm anyone."
"Mag..." Magnetite grumbled his agreement.
"Good. Grab the plate and let's go." And she walked out of the cave... and found herself surrounded by humans and gnolls.
Felix looked to her left. She looked to her right. She looked up. She glanced back at the rock face surrounding the cave. {No humans or animal-faced creatures above me,} Felix thought.
Then Magnetite floated out of the cave, with the shield piled with food floating beneath him.
One of the animal-faced creatures pointed at Magnetite, and snarled, "that was one the creatures spotted at our camp! It must have been working with that other monster! Kill her! She must be a rogue wizard!" With that, some of the humans and creatures pulled out weapons and began stalking forward.
Felix turned and started trying to scramble up the rock wall surrounding the cave. "Magnetite, forget about the food! Use supersonic and drive them back!"
The shield clattered to the ground, and the food flew off of it, splattering around. Then a loud screeching noise filled the air, with the attacking humans clapping their hands to their ears, and the attacking gnolls dropping to the ground and began screaming and rolling around in pain.
"Magnetite!" Felix tried to scream over the noise. "Help me up!"
The noise stopped, but the screaming from the gnolls didn't. Magnetite floated over to Felix and put himself near her hand, and she grabbed onto him. With Magnetite acting as a moveable handhold, Felix quickly got several feet off of the ground, to where there were more places to put her hands and feet. She let go and started climbing on her own. But then two arrows ricocheted off of the rock a few feet from where she was.
Surprised, Felix almost fell off of the wall, but she was able to hold on. She glanced back and saw that a couple of the humans had gotten out bows and were trying to shoot her. The ringing of the ears prevented them from their normal excellent accuracy, but it wouldn't be long before they hit Felix. After all, she IS a big target.
"Magnetite, use thunder wave to paralyze them!"
Electricity flew at the archers, but never reached them. It dissipated halfway to them.
"Magnetite?" Felix looked to Magnetite.
He was hovering nearby, barely. Carrying that shield back to the cave had drained him of a lot of power, and the energy he got from the nap he took had all been used up in the supersonic attack he had unleashed.
{I have to protect Felix,} thought Magnetite, and he positioned himself between Felix and the arrows.
The archers fired again, and Magnetite used his weakened magnetic powers to attract the arrows to him, knocking him backwards.
"Magnetite!" Felix screamed. "Don't do this! Run away! Save yourself!"
NO, I MUST PROTECT FELIX! Magnetite screamed, and he suddenly began glowing; glowing as brightly as the sun.
"What in the name of the God of Strife is that?" yelled one of the archers, covering his eyes.
"He, he's... evolving," said an awed Felix.
Magnetite's silhouette expanded outwards, forming three connected balls, with magnets on each of them. The light faded, revealing Magneton, Magnetite's evolved form.
"Mag-ne-ton," Magneton pronounced in a much deeper voice than Magnetite, and he unleashed his magnetic powers. All the humans and gnolls were flung backwards, as anything metal they were carrying suddenly became oppositely charged. They lay where they were, pressed against the ground, against trees, or against rocks.
The shield that had served as a food platter floated up to Felix and Magneton. Magneton nodded towards the shield, and Felix got onto it. With very little effort, Magneton levitated himself and the shield with Felix up the rock face, letting the humans and gnolls go.
They reached the top of the rock face and Felix jumped off the shield and wrapped Magneton in a hug.
"Thank you, Magneton! You were great!" she exclaimed.
"Mag," blushed Magneton.
"Come on! Let's leave those bozos behind and get going!" And she ran off to the mountains ahead of her, with Magneton racing along beside her.
[Author's Notes: I finally got around to shooting the monster known as "Procrastination" and I got this chapter out of my head. That leaves one less thing bouncing around in my mind. In other news, one of my brothers was reading my story and noted a bunch of problems with the first couple of chapters. Since I am home right now and my computer is not (my parents decided to leave it at college because of limited space in the van), I will fix the rest of the chapters when I go back to college, when I have access to my entire story, not just this small section that I have on my brother's computer.]
[Chapter 6 ought to be up sometime next semester. Though I am having a lot harder classes in the spring, so I may, or may not, have as much time to work on my stories. Cross your fingers and help me hunt down the monster "Procrastination."]
[One more Author's Note: It saves thinking power and time to just let the reader figure what the pokemon are saying when they are saying their names over and over again.]