Author's Note: Well, tomorrow I go back to school, and that's when the chaos of college life begins. Yay. Things are starting to get interesting with this story, and I am starting to develop Felix's personality more in this chapter. By the way, for the fight scene in this chapter I had about a dozen different possible endings, but I finally decided on one and went with it. I can't think of anything to say, so... Enjoy!
"Where No Pokemon Trainer Has Gone Before"
Chapter 7: The Dragon
{Things certainly are more interesting,} Felix thought.
She was walking with Rowryn, talking about Faerun, the... well, "continent" was the closest thing that Felix could compare it to from how Rowryn described it, and Toril, which was the planet they were on. She listened to his stories as they walked with the others, who were still suspicious of her, the suspicion helped along by Tory, but since Rowryn said he trusted her, they didn't tie her up or knock her unconscious.
Plus there was the fact that the escaped slaves were scared of Felix's pokemon, almost to the point of pissing in their pants. They had only seen Eevee, Wooper, and Caterpie, and Felix was sure that from she had heard of the local fauna, that Charmeleon and Magneton would be seen as "monsters" to them, and in this world, "monsters" were bad things.
Caterpie, unlike the rest of her pokemon, refused to go back into his pokeball, and instead rode on her backpack, her head, and her shoulder, changing position every so often so he could keep eyes on Felix's new companions. While Felix had always thought of caterpies being cute, the escaped slaves viewed it as another "monster" that obeyed this girl.
That was another problem. The escaped slaves also found it hard to believe that such a young girl could command such fearsome {and they haven't even seen Charmeleon and Magneton} beasts. Except for the fact that she possessed such strange technology as the pokeballs and her pokedex, along with some of the gear in her backpack, they would have said she was with the Red Wizards. Since none of the escaped slaves, nor Rowryn, had ever seen anything close to what Felix had, they supposed they could believe that she was what she said she was: a human, like them, from a different dimension, where people like her were considered normal.
{Fortunately Rowryn believes me, and that counts for a lot in this group.}
And they passed the morning talking about magic, wars, wizards, elves, dwarves, dragons, great heroes, and great villains. Then Rowryn would get tired of speaking, and Felix would tell them about pokemon, the different types and species of pokemon, a world without magic, guns, computers, electronics, and the great mystery about pokemon and its origins.
At late noon they broke out some of the food caught the previous night, and Felix shared some of her food from her backpack, which the escaped slaves found to be very delicious. They didn't stop for long and were on the move again in less than a quarter-hour.
They were now deep in the foothills of the mountains, heading south, following a very old trail. Felix asked Rowryn about the trail and he said it was a path used by escaping slaves for centuries, heading south to Mulhorand, where the slavery laws concerning former Thayan slaves were lax and where it would be possible to get a ship to other ports.
It was early afternoon when Caterpie spotted it.
Caterpie had been resting on her usual spot, Felix's head, gazing out at this new world, and keeping an ear out (figuratively, since Caterpie don't have ears) for any trouble. Caterpie saw something moving against the mountain, a dark shape flying in their general direction. Concentrating, she tried to make out what she was seeing. {Blue, a dark blue, like a deep lake or some jeans. But it is also shiny, reflecting some sunlight, like a mirror, or scales of a fish.} It was getting closer, and Caterpie was beginning to make out more details. {...I would say this was a dragon,} she thought hesitantly. {It certainly looks like some of the pictures I've seen of dragons. Better point it out to Felix,} and she whacked her tail against Felix's back.
"What is it Caterpie?" Felix asked, not stopping.
Caterpie sprayed a String Shot in the direction of the dragon, narrowly missing Tory, who was walking ahead of them.
"Hey!" cried the surprised Tory, and the group came to a stop.
"Sorry," Felix said, slightly apologetic, "but Caterpie was just pointing something out to me."
"What?" Tory asked, annoyed at whatever Caterpie was wasting his time with.
"Well," Felix said, squinting, "it looks like a dragon to me," she said in a calm voice.
Tory paled in fear. In fact, all of them paled, including Rowryn, whose eyes almost popped out of their sockets when he spotted the dragon. He started looking around frantically for a place to hide, but the foothills had few trees, and there was no good hiding spot within a hundred yards.
Rort, having spotted a group of people, let out a mighty roar.
Humans always taste better when soaked in fear and sweat.
Felix's face showed confusion at her companions' look of complete terror, and glanced back at the dragon just as the dragonfear stuck.
Her stomach was suddenly all knotted up, her mouth dry, her breath coming in gasps, her eyes wide, her heart pounding loudly in her ears, and she was also pissing in her pants. Felix didn't notice that everyone else was experiencing most of the same things as she.
Dragonfear is one of the most powerful weapons that dragons' posses, even more fearsome than their mighty claws, sharp teeth, or even their deadly breath weapons. It can paralyze entire companies with fear, or set them fleeing in complete terror, making them easy prey for the dragon, to pounce, scratch, bite, and play with as they desire.
Adventurers, like Rowryn, who have experienced dragonfear before and know its debilitating effects, are better able to resist the terror that rips into their minds.
Rowryn, his insides still churning from the dragonfear strove to bring his companions to their senses so they could make a run for it.
He started slapping them.
The jolt knocked Caterpie from her perch and she landed on the ground, terror still in her mind, but with the understanding that if she didn't do something, they were all dead, she tackled Felix, dislodging the pokeballs on her belt.
The slap from Rowryn had her mind reeling in confusion and the blow from Caterpie caused her to cry out, the pain clearing her mind of the fear that had gripped her.
The blow to the pokeballs, combined with the pokemon's determination to get to save Felix from whatever was making her cry in pain, freed the pokemon from their balls. They quickly materialized and the adrenalin pumping in their systems prevented the dragonfear from taking full effect.
Rort, seeing the monsters appear, figured that a wizard among the group must be summoning allies. A wizard might be a problem for the dragon, and he decided that he could stand some of his food being fried instead of fresh.
He opened his mouth wide and inhaled deeply, and then exhaled, spitting out a bolt of lightning that exploded in the middle of group, instantly killing one of the female ex-slaves, the concussive force blowing the rest of the companions away.
The pokemon were up and ready for battle moments after they landed.
Rowryn, an experienced adventurer, and Felix, a Pokemon Trainer used to explosions, were both stumbling to their feet, shaking away the ringing in the ears.
The rest of the humans had been knocked senseless and were lying on the ground, either unable or unwilling to move.
A loud *thud* brought Rowryn and Felix spinning around to face the dragon who had just landed, ready to finish off the rest of them.
Seeing the dragon not thirty feet away, Felix shouted, "Eevee, Quick Attack now!"
Rort felt a small impact on his stomach, and Eevee bounced away and off to the side, completely knocked out after slamming into the dragon's harder-than-steel scales at high speeds. While he was somewhat disconcerted with the speed at which the monster moved, Rort smiled at the little girl who had ordered the failed attack. He reached out with his claws, intent on eating this small appetizer now to sate his hunger, and to terrorize the girl.
"Wooper, blast him in the face with Water Gun!"
"Woo-PER!"
A stream of high pressure water caught Rort right in the eye, and he fell back, roaring in pain.
"Caterpie, grab Eevee, quick!"
Caterpie shot out his String Shot, and gave a might heave on the thread, flinging Eevee into the air, back towards Felix, who caught her.
Rowryn's sword was out and in his hand, but he didn't move. One part of him wanted to scream for Felix to run, but another part of him said that it was foolish to try to run with the dragon so close and so obviously provoked. At this point he could only pray to the gods and hope for a miracle.
Roaring loudly, Rort charged forward, intent on squishing this annoying human and her little monsters too.
"Caterpie, trip it up with String Shot!"
Threads shot out again from Caterpie, entangling the dragon's legs, but Felix underestimated the dragon's strength, and the silk ripped apart, hardly slowing down the dragon.
The dragon slashed horizontally with his claws, narrowly missing them all thanks to Wooper, for he shot him in the eye again. But that was the last attack Wooper got in, for the dragon, with all his rage directed towards the water pokemon, kicked out with his foot, sending Wooper flying.
"Wooper, return!"
A beam of red energy intercepted Wooper, and suck him back into his pokeball. Felix had picked up the balls and had already returned Eevee to her ball to rest and recover.
Rort glared back at Felix, but Felix was too angry and mad to be afraid now. {He hurt my pokemon, he attacked my friends, he KILLED someone! I won't let him hurt anyone else!} "Magneton, Thunder Bolt!"
"Magne-TON!" Hovering in front of Felix, Magneton unleashed a bolt of electricity at point blank range. The bolt slammed into the dragon, and did absolutely nothing.
The dragon smiled evilly, and spoke in a deep voice, startling Felix, for she didn't realize it could speak, "That was nothing. Let me show you again what a lightning bolt looks like!" And he opened his mouth as wide as it could go and inhaled.
Knowing what was coming, Felix shouted, "Stand your ground, Magneton! You're a Steel and Electric type pokemon! You can take it!"
When the last word passed through her lips, Rort unleashed another blast of lightning, and this one, only ten feet away, blinded and deafened everyone there.
Strangely, there wasn't as much of a shockwave this time, and when her vision began to clear (though her ear were still ringing), she saw a strange silhouette in front of her. The dark shape of the dragon had a hole in it. As her vision cleared more, and details began to appear, she realized that the dragon was staring, slack-jawed, at something glowing in the air in front of him.
{That's impossible! Nothing could survive my breath weapon at this range!} Rort thought.
Felix's jaw also dropped open when she realized that glowing was Magneton. "But I thought that Magnetite didn't have another stage after Magneton?" she asked aloud, though she couldn't herself speak.
The light faded, revealing a new pokemon, similar to Magneton, but instead of being composed of three spheres, it was composed of five, spread out in a cross, a pair of magnets sprouting from each of the four outer spheres, and the central sphere had four screws, instead of two. Each sphere had an eye, all of which were focused on the dragon in front of them.
"Me-ga-ton," the pokemon announced its name, in a deep, slow voice, even deeper than Magneton's voice.
Felix fished around in her backpack, still staring at Megaton, and finally pulled out her pokedex. She opened it and aimed it at Megaton.
"Pokemon unknown. No available data."
Felix's eyes went wide with pleasure, "I must be the first one to ever see one. Cool!"
Rort's eyes narrowed, "You have made annoyed of me for the last time. Die!" And he lunged forward and bit down hard on Megaton.
The dragon's teeth clenched tightly on the magnet pokemon, but didn't dig into the metal very deeply.
"Megaton, now, while his mouth is open, THUNDER!"
"ME-GA..." Electricity raced around and around Megaton's outer magnets as Megaton put all his power into this one attack.
Rort realized that he was in a really bad situation and while he might be immune to lightning, he wasn't so certain a lightning bolt down the throat would be very good for him. He let go of Megaton and tried to rear back, out of the way bolt of lightning.
Too late.
The Thunder attack roared out and down into the dragon's maw, leaving Rort nice and crispy on the inside. He seizured violently for several moments, and Felix and the other pokemon had to jump out of the way of his wildly flailing limbs to avoid being hit, before the dragon collapsed to the ground. Its mouth was partially open and smoking nicely. Its eyes stared out at the sky, not blinking. It was either dead, or close enough to count as being dead.
Felix thrust a fist high into the air and shouted, "Yahoo! We won!" And she and the rest of her pokemon started dancing around Megaton, cheering.
Rowryn dropped to his knees in awe of this young girl and her amazing pokemon. He thanked the gods and whispered something to the winds:
"Now that is what I call a miracle."
Ending Notes: Okay, some of you might think that the blue dragon was defeated too easily, but let me point out a few things: First, the dragon SEVERELY underestimated the pokemon. Second, the dragon was a young adult, so he didn't know many magical spells, and certainly nothing that would have helped with the situation. Third, Megaton still had a lot of left over power from being hit by the blue dragon's breath weapon, and that helped power Megaton's thunder attack. Fourth, I never said the dragon was gone for good (*loud evil laughter*). Also, about Megaton: He is my creation. If you want to use him in a story of yours, feel free to, only mention that I was the creator of Megaton. If you don't... *deafening roar fills the air* ...well, you get the picture.
Next chapter will be out when I figure out when I figure out how hectic my schedule will be.
"Where No Pokemon Trainer Has Gone Before"
Chapter 7: The Dragon
{Things certainly are more interesting,} Felix thought.
She was walking with Rowryn, talking about Faerun, the... well, "continent" was the closest thing that Felix could compare it to from how Rowryn described it, and Toril, which was the planet they were on. She listened to his stories as they walked with the others, who were still suspicious of her, the suspicion helped along by Tory, but since Rowryn said he trusted her, they didn't tie her up or knock her unconscious.
Plus there was the fact that the escaped slaves were scared of Felix's pokemon, almost to the point of pissing in their pants. They had only seen Eevee, Wooper, and Caterpie, and Felix was sure that from she had heard of the local fauna, that Charmeleon and Magneton would be seen as "monsters" to them, and in this world, "monsters" were bad things.
Caterpie, unlike the rest of her pokemon, refused to go back into his pokeball, and instead rode on her backpack, her head, and her shoulder, changing position every so often so he could keep eyes on Felix's new companions. While Felix had always thought of caterpies being cute, the escaped slaves viewed it as another "monster" that obeyed this girl.
That was another problem. The escaped slaves also found it hard to believe that such a young girl could command such fearsome {and they haven't even seen Charmeleon and Magneton} beasts. Except for the fact that she possessed such strange technology as the pokeballs and her pokedex, along with some of the gear in her backpack, they would have said she was with the Red Wizards. Since none of the escaped slaves, nor Rowryn, had ever seen anything close to what Felix had, they supposed they could believe that she was what she said she was: a human, like them, from a different dimension, where people like her were considered normal.
{Fortunately Rowryn believes me, and that counts for a lot in this group.}
And they passed the morning talking about magic, wars, wizards, elves, dwarves, dragons, great heroes, and great villains. Then Rowryn would get tired of speaking, and Felix would tell them about pokemon, the different types and species of pokemon, a world without magic, guns, computers, electronics, and the great mystery about pokemon and its origins.
At late noon they broke out some of the food caught the previous night, and Felix shared some of her food from her backpack, which the escaped slaves found to be very delicious. They didn't stop for long and were on the move again in less than a quarter-hour.
They were now deep in the foothills of the mountains, heading south, following a very old trail. Felix asked Rowryn about the trail and he said it was a path used by escaping slaves for centuries, heading south to Mulhorand, where the slavery laws concerning former Thayan slaves were lax and where it would be possible to get a ship to other ports.
It was early afternoon when Caterpie spotted it.
Caterpie had been resting on her usual spot, Felix's head, gazing out at this new world, and keeping an ear out (figuratively, since Caterpie don't have ears) for any trouble. Caterpie saw something moving against the mountain, a dark shape flying in their general direction. Concentrating, she tried to make out what she was seeing. {Blue, a dark blue, like a deep lake or some jeans. But it is also shiny, reflecting some sunlight, like a mirror, or scales of a fish.} It was getting closer, and Caterpie was beginning to make out more details. {...I would say this was a dragon,} she thought hesitantly. {It certainly looks like some of the pictures I've seen of dragons. Better point it out to Felix,} and she whacked her tail against Felix's back.
"What is it Caterpie?" Felix asked, not stopping.
Caterpie sprayed a String Shot in the direction of the dragon, narrowly missing Tory, who was walking ahead of them.
"Hey!" cried the surprised Tory, and the group came to a stop.
"Sorry," Felix said, slightly apologetic, "but Caterpie was just pointing something out to me."
"What?" Tory asked, annoyed at whatever Caterpie was wasting his time with.
"Well," Felix said, squinting, "it looks like a dragon to me," she said in a calm voice.
Tory paled in fear. In fact, all of them paled, including Rowryn, whose eyes almost popped out of their sockets when he spotted the dragon. He started looking around frantically for a place to hide, but the foothills had few trees, and there was no good hiding spot within a hundred yards.
Rort, having spotted a group of people, let out a mighty roar.
Humans always taste better when soaked in fear and sweat.
Felix's face showed confusion at her companions' look of complete terror, and glanced back at the dragon just as the dragonfear stuck.
Her stomach was suddenly all knotted up, her mouth dry, her breath coming in gasps, her eyes wide, her heart pounding loudly in her ears, and she was also pissing in her pants. Felix didn't notice that everyone else was experiencing most of the same things as she.
Dragonfear is one of the most powerful weapons that dragons' posses, even more fearsome than their mighty claws, sharp teeth, or even their deadly breath weapons. It can paralyze entire companies with fear, or set them fleeing in complete terror, making them easy prey for the dragon, to pounce, scratch, bite, and play with as they desire.
Adventurers, like Rowryn, who have experienced dragonfear before and know its debilitating effects, are better able to resist the terror that rips into their minds.
Rowryn, his insides still churning from the dragonfear strove to bring his companions to their senses so they could make a run for it.
He started slapping them.
The jolt knocked Caterpie from her perch and she landed on the ground, terror still in her mind, but with the understanding that if she didn't do something, they were all dead, she tackled Felix, dislodging the pokeballs on her belt.
The slap from Rowryn had her mind reeling in confusion and the blow from Caterpie caused her to cry out, the pain clearing her mind of the fear that had gripped her.
The blow to the pokeballs, combined with the pokemon's determination to get to save Felix from whatever was making her cry in pain, freed the pokemon from their balls. They quickly materialized and the adrenalin pumping in their systems prevented the dragonfear from taking full effect.
Rort, seeing the monsters appear, figured that a wizard among the group must be summoning allies. A wizard might be a problem for the dragon, and he decided that he could stand some of his food being fried instead of fresh.
He opened his mouth wide and inhaled deeply, and then exhaled, spitting out a bolt of lightning that exploded in the middle of group, instantly killing one of the female ex-slaves, the concussive force blowing the rest of the companions away.
The pokemon were up and ready for battle moments after they landed.
Rowryn, an experienced adventurer, and Felix, a Pokemon Trainer used to explosions, were both stumbling to their feet, shaking away the ringing in the ears.
The rest of the humans had been knocked senseless and were lying on the ground, either unable or unwilling to move.
A loud *thud* brought Rowryn and Felix spinning around to face the dragon who had just landed, ready to finish off the rest of them.
Seeing the dragon not thirty feet away, Felix shouted, "Eevee, Quick Attack now!"
Rort felt a small impact on his stomach, and Eevee bounced away and off to the side, completely knocked out after slamming into the dragon's harder-than-steel scales at high speeds. While he was somewhat disconcerted with the speed at which the monster moved, Rort smiled at the little girl who had ordered the failed attack. He reached out with his claws, intent on eating this small appetizer now to sate his hunger, and to terrorize the girl.
"Wooper, blast him in the face with Water Gun!"
"Woo-PER!"
A stream of high pressure water caught Rort right in the eye, and he fell back, roaring in pain.
"Caterpie, grab Eevee, quick!"
Caterpie shot out his String Shot, and gave a might heave on the thread, flinging Eevee into the air, back towards Felix, who caught her.
Rowryn's sword was out and in his hand, but he didn't move. One part of him wanted to scream for Felix to run, but another part of him said that it was foolish to try to run with the dragon so close and so obviously provoked. At this point he could only pray to the gods and hope for a miracle.
Roaring loudly, Rort charged forward, intent on squishing this annoying human and her little monsters too.
"Caterpie, trip it up with String Shot!"
Threads shot out again from Caterpie, entangling the dragon's legs, but Felix underestimated the dragon's strength, and the silk ripped apart, hardly slowing down the dragon.
The dragon slashed horizontally with his claws, narrowly missing them all thanks to Wooper, for he shot him in the eye again. But that was the last attack Wooper got in, for the dragon, with all his rage directed towards the water pokemon, kicked out with his foot, sending Wooper flying.
"Wooper, return!"
A beam of red energy intercepted Wooper, and suck him back into his pokeball. Felix had picked up the balls and had already returned Eevee to her ball to rest and recover.
Rort glared back at Felix, but Felix was too angry and mad to be afraid now. {He hurt my pokemon, he attacked my friends, he KILLED someone! I won't let him hurt anyone else!} "Magneton, Thunder Bolt!"
"Magne-TON!" Hovering in front of Felix, Magneton unleashed a bolt of electricity at point blank range. The bolt slammed into the dragon, and did absolutely nothing.
The dragon smiled evilly, and spoke in a deep voice, startling Felix, for she didn't realize it could speak, "That was nothing. Let me show you again what a lightning bolt looks like!" And he opened his mouth as wide as it could go and inhaled.
Knowing what was coming, Felix shouted, "Stand your ground, Magneton! You're a Steel and Electric type pokemon! You can take it!"
When the last word passed through her lips, Rort unleashed another blast of lightning, and this one, only ten feet away, blinded and deafened everyone there.
Strangely, there wasn't as much of a shockwave this time, and when her vision began to clear (though her ear were still ringing), she saw a strange silhouette in front of her. The dark shape of the dragon had a hole in it. As her vision cleared more, and details began to appear, she realized that the dragon was staring, slack-jawed, at something glowing in the air in front of him.
{That's impossible! Nothing could survive my breath weapon at this range!} Rort thought.
Felix's jaw also dropped open when she realized that glowing was Magneton. "But I thought that Magnetite didn't have another stage after Magneton?" she asked aloud, though she couldn't herself speak.
The light faded, revealing a new pokemon, similar to Magneton, but instead of being composed of three spheres, it was composed of five, spread out in a cross, a pair of magnets sprouting from each of the four outer spheres, and the central sphere had four screws, instead of two. Each sphere had an eye, all of which were focused on the dragon in front of them.
"Me-ga-ton," the pokemon announced its name, in a deep, slow voice, even deeper than Magneton's voice.
Felix fished around in her backpack, still staring at Megaton, and finally pulled out her pokedex. She opened it and aimed it at Megaton.
"Pokemon unknown. No available data."
Felix's eyes went wide with pleasure, "I must be the first one to ever see one. Cool!"
Rort's eyes narrowed, "You have made annoyed of me for the last time. Die!" And he lunged forward and bit down hard on Megaton.
The dragon's teeth clenched tightly on the magnet pokemon, but didn't dig into the metal very deeply.
"Megaton, now, while his mouth is open, THUNDER!"
"ME-GA..." Electricity raced around and around Megaton's outer magnets as Megaton put all his power into this one attack.
Rort realized that he was in a really bad situation and while he might be immune to lightning, he wasn't so certain a lightning bolt down the throat would be very good for him. He let go of Megaton and tried to rear back, out of the way bolt of lightning.
Too late.
The Thunder attack roared out and down into the dragon's maw, leaving Rort nice and crispy on the inside. He seizured violently for several moments, and Felix and the other pokemon had to jump out of the way of his wildly flailing limbs to avoid being hit, before the dragon collapsed to the ground. Its mouth was partially open and smoking nicely. Its eyes stared out at the sky, not blinking. It was either dead, or close enough to count as being dead.
Felix thrust a fist high into the air and shouted, "Yahoo! We won!" And she and the rest of her pokemon started dancing around Megaton, cheering.
Rowryn dropped to his knees in awe of this young girl and her amazing pokemon. He thanked the gods and whispered something to the winds:
"Now that is what I call a miracle."
Ending Notes: Okay, some of you might think that the blue dragon was defeated too easily, but let me point out a few things: First, the dragon SEVERELY underestimated the pokemon. Second, the dragon was a young adult, so he didn't know many magical spells, and certainly nothing that would have helped with the situation. Third, Megaton still had a lot of left over power from being hit by the blue dragon's breath weapon, and that helped power Megaton's thunder attack. Fourth, I never said the dragon was gone for good (*loud evil laughter*). Also, about Megaton: He is my creation. If you want to use him in a story of yours, feel free to, only mention that I was the creator of Megaton. If you don't... *deafening roar fills the air* ...well, you get the picture.
Next chapter will be out when I figure out when I figure out how hectic my schedule will be.