Author's Notes: Damn, I haven't updated in a while. Spring Break has
come and gone and now its Summer Vacation (although this summer I'm
working my butt off so there won't be too much relaxation). The main
reason I failed to put the chapter up in time is a lack of willpower,
with me not wanting to sit down and write it out, because when I put it
on the computer it crystalizes and doesn't keep changing like it does
when it is in my head. It's a painful process, but it feels good when
it is finally out of my head (probably because there is now more room
in my head for new ideas to form). But anyways, here's the next chapter.
"Where No Pokemon Has Gone Before"
Chapter 9: The Rescue
"Wait! Explain this again!" Rowryn panted, as he ran down the street.
{Long story short, Felix was kidnapped by a wizard. Or at least I think he was a wizard, since he was able to throw bolts of light at me. And the last time I checked, humans of this world couldn't do that...} Espeon's voice responded in his head, as she ran on ahead of him, going back to the scene of the crime.
Rowryn shook his head at all the things that were happening so suddenly and so quickly with so little time to stop and try and make sense of all of it.
First he finds Eevee alone and under attack by children. Second Eevee "evolves" (which he still didn't understand why these pokemon did that) into a telepathic creature that turns out to be a lot smarter than Rowryn ever thought her to be. And third he learns from Eevee, whose name is now "Espeon," that Felix has been kidnapped.
Oh and fourth is the fact that he running down the street, chasing after some sort of weird feline creature drawing eyes wherever he and the creature go to. Drawing attention to himself was not something he really wanted in his life, since that often made things complicated later on...
Rowryn almost ran past the alleyway in which Espeon stopped in, so caught up in his thoughts was he. Slowing to a walk, he almost tripped over Espeon, who was busy sniffing the ground, trying to pick up the wizard's scent. Rowryn apologized, but the pokemon ignored him and concentrated on discerning which scent belonged to Felix's kidnapper. Finally she found the scent and with a quick {Follow me} to Rowryn, she was off, though not as quickly as before, keeping her track of the scent.
Ignoring the stares and what people were saying, Rowryn set off after Espeon, intent on rescuing Felix, even if he had to fight a wizard to save her. From what he recalled Espeon mentioning soon after she gained the ability to use telepathy, in those panicky moments when her thoughts had bombarded him with explanations with what had happened, he recalled two details about the kidnapper. One was that his head was shaven and tattooed, the other was that he used magic, and thus was a wizard. A shaven and tattooed head plus magic could mean only a few possible things.
Including a Red Wizard of Thay.
Espeon ran on for several blocks before stopping in front of a tavern. {He entered into this building,} Espeon "said." She sniffed the ground and growled, {and he definitely has Felix}.
Rowryn glanced at the building and said, "There are rooms in the back of the tavern for people to sleep. The wizard might be keeping her there. I'll go ask the barkeep if he saw Felix, okay?"
Espeon growled louder and the jewel in her forehead began to glow. NO! He stole Felix from me and I'm getting her back.. NOW! A blast on multi-colored energy was unleashed from the jewel and slammed into the door, through the door, and exploded inside amid screams of surprise and pain. As Rowryn swore in various languages, Espeon leapt through the remains of the doorway and into the tavern, all thoughts focused on rescuing Felix.
[Inside the tavern, a few minutes previous]
Kurin rummaged through the girl's pack, wondering all the while about where this girl was from. Certainly, she was not from this plane of existence, her clothes said that much of her. And yet, he had never seen or read about anything like what he was finding in her pack: more clothing of such impossible vibrant colors that couldn't be made by anything but magic {but who would waste magic on something like this?}, clear bottles of water that weren't made of glass but of some flexible yet sturdy material, food of some sort in clear packages that resembled no material he had ever heard of.
{And these spheres}, Kurin thought, pulling one of the pokeballs off the girl's belt, examining it, but keeping his fingers off the button that released the monster hidden inside, {these are certainly the strangest sort of summoning device I have ever seen}. He carefully put the sphere down on the table that was beside the bed which held Felix.
He was in the back room of a tavern, kept for a place for a man and woman to... um... "relax" after they have had a few drinks and... um... "stay the night." The gold he had given the barkeep ought to keep him from being bothered by anyone until his master, Tharch Pyrados, came to pick up the girl. Kurin had already sent off a magical message that would soon inform her that he had the girl she was interested in. In a few hours his master would be here, and he would be handsomely rewarded, maybe even given access to his master's spellbooks!
Kurin's daydreaming about his rewards were interrupted when the door to the main room of the tavern exploded open, filling the room with dust and screams from the other customers in the tavern. {Damn!}, he thought, {Someone else must have found out about the girl and is coming to claim her for themselves!} He pulled out the material components for a summoning spell, a bag containing an unlit candle, and began chanting and gesturing. He finished casting just as Espeon scampered into the room, stopping when he saw the mage and Felix. The bag vanished from the mage's hand and four dire rats appeared in front of Espeon, twinkling motes of light that surrounded the creatures slowly fading.
Rowryn arrived quickly thereafter with sword in hand, just as the mage pointed at the two of them and commanded the summoned creates: "Attack!"
As the dire rats charged them, Kurin picked up Felix and grabbed the pack of her belongings. He would escape while the two of them were occupied by the rats through the back door (for those times when exiting into the main room would not be a very good idea).
Kurin saw the sphere he had been examining still on the table and reached for it just as Espeon unleashed a Confusion attack against the nearest dire rat, sending it flying into the table, shattering the table, and tossing the pokeball into a wall, freeing the pokemon inside.
Seeing another monster beginning to form like the other monster that had attacked him, Kurin decided to run while the dire rats still had them occupied. The back door slammed open and he ran out of the room.
Charmeleon, free from his pokeball, saw an Espeon and Rowryn fighting off three strange pokemon-like creatures. While Rowryn was pulling his sword free from the dire rat he had just killed, Espeon had been scratched up pretty well because he was exhausted from the powerful psychic attacks he had just unleashed after just recently evolving. Charmeleon roared and released a Flamethrower that blasted one rat against the wall, and caused the other to turn to face Charmeleon, leaving him open to a decapitating blow from Rowryn.
Charmeleon looked around and asked, What's going on here? When did you evolve and where's...
{Felix's been kidnapped and the man who did it just went out that door!} Espeon interrupted him.
Charmeleon roared in outrage and charged out the door, ready to burn the kidnapper to ash. Espeon tried to run after him, but her legs collapsed from the injuries and exhaustion. Rowryn picked her up and grabbed Charmeleon's empty pokeball, dumped it a pocket, and followed after the enraged fire pokemon.
Behind them, the fire from the Flamethrower began to spread, causing screams of panic to join the screams of pain and surprise.
Rowryn caught up to Charmeleon just as he unleashed a blast of fire into the sky. When it dissipated without hitting anything, Charmeleon let out another roar. "What?" Rowryn asked, looking up into the sky, and then his heart sank.
Flying away on invisible wings of magic was the mage carrying Felix and her backpack. They were out of range of Charmeleon's fire attacks, as he had just demonstrated, and he was flying much faster than they could run. Rowryn ground his teeth together and cursed. "I don't suppose either of you can fly?" he asked the pokemon without much hope, not expecting the answer that was to follow.
Charmeleon and Espeon exchanged a startled glance and then Charmeleon closed his eyes and started growling, focusing and concentration on saving Felix, and his body trembled from his efforts.
The growl grew and grew until it was full-throated scream. Finally he burst into light, and he began to change, doubling in height, more than quadrupling in weight, its legs, arms and tail expanding in size and strength, his fin atop his head becoming a pair of horns, and a pair of strong wings sprouting from his back, strong enough to catch up to that kidnapper and show him that magic is no substitute for real wings.
The light of evolution faded, revealing Charizard, a dragon.
A tooth filled grin filled Rowryn's face. These Pokemon never ceased to amaze him. He asks them to speak and they speak. He asks them to fly and they grow wings! Charizard turned to him and growled something, which Espeon translated, {Get on! We're going to rescue Felix!} Rowryn climbed on, careful of the pokemon he was carrying, and held on with one arm wrapped gently but firmly around Charizard's neck. With a few powerful strokes of his wings, they were airborne and quickly catching up with the mage.
Roaring a challenge, Charizard unleashed a huge blast of fire aiming to catch only the mage and not Felix at the outer edges of the blast.
Turning, the mage saw a dragon {A Dragon!?} spew fire at him, which he barely dodged. Completely surprised that a dragon had come out of nowhere to attack him, he didn't counterattack when he had the chance. Before he knew it the dragon was right next to him and that was when he noticed the dragon had a rider. Too late. Rowryn leaped from Charizard's back, leaving Espeon to cling there with all her strength, and drew a dagger, which he stabbed into the mage's back, piercing a lung.
Kurin's concentration on his flight spell was shattered and the three humans began to fall. Leaving the dagger buried to its hilt in flesh, Rowryn grabbed Felix from the stunned mage and kicked down hard on the mage, slowing his fall slightly, and speeding up the mage's.
Charizard dived down, with a wind-swept Espeon clinging to his back, and grabbed the Rowryn and Felix in a bear hug, pulled up out of the dive, and flew away from the doomed mage.
Kurin tried to get off a Feather Fall spell to save himself, but he choked on his own blood and didn't get the spell off in time. He hit the roof of a blacksmith shop and splattered.
Several hours later Felix woke up on a hill outside of the city and saw the now evolved Charizard and Espeon sitting nearby, and asked, confused, "Did I miss something?"
Ending Notes: Not much to say here concerning the story itself, other than I got my brother to preread it and make a few comments, and thus I fixed one or two things. As per the suggestion of one of my reviewers, I am moving this story to the Forgotten Realms section. I guess I shall see whether or not this garners me more reviews or not, although gaining reviews is not one of my goals for creating this story, but it does make me feel good! And a happy author is a productive author! So review and I'll be more motivated to leech this story out of my head and into the computer. In anycase, I'll be sure to get another chapter out before the start of the next semester of college.
"Where No Pokemon Has Gone Before"
Chapter 9: The Rescue
"Wait! Explain this again!" Rowryn panted, as he ran down the street.
{Long story short, Felix was kidnapped by a wizard. Or at least I think he was a wizard, since he was able to throw bolts of light at me. And the last time I checked, humans of this world couldn't do that...} Espeon's voice responded in his head, as she ran on ahead of him, going back to the scene of the crime.
Rowryn shook his head at all the things that were happening so suddenly and so quickly with so little time to stop and try and make sense of all of it.
First he finds Eevee alone and under attack by children. Second Eevee "evolves" (which he still didn't understand why these pokemon did that) into a telepathic creature that turns out to be a lot smarter than Rowryn ever thought her to be. And third he learns from Eevee, whose name is now "Espeon," that Felix has been kidnapped.
Oh and fourth is the fact that he running down the street, chasing after some sort of weird feline creature drawing eyes wherever he and the creature go to. Drawing attention to himself was not something he really wanted in his life, since that often made things complicated later on...
Rowryn almost ran past the alleyway in which Espeon stopped in, so caught up in his thoughts was he. Slowing to a walk, he almost tripped over Espeon, who was busy sniffing the ground, trying to pick up the wizard's scent. Rowryn apologized, but the pokemon ignored him and concentrated on discerning which scent belonged to Felix's kidnapper. Finally she found the scent and with a quick {Follow me} to Rowryn, she was off, though not as quickly as before, keeping her track of the scent.
Ignoring the stares and what people were saying, Rowryn set off after Espeon, intent on rescuing Felix, even if he had to fight a wizard to save her. From what he recalled Espeon mentioning soon after she gained the ability to use telepathy, in those panicky moments when her thoughts had bombarded him with explanations with what had happened, he recalled two details about the kidnapper. One was that his head was shaven and tattooed, the other was that he used magic, and thus was a wizard. A shaven and tattooed head plus magic could mean only a few possible things.
Including a Red Wizard of Thay.
Espeon ran on for several blocks before stopping in front of a tavern. {He entered into this building,} Espeon "said." She sniffed the ground and growled, {and he definitely has Felix}.
Rowryn glanced at the building and said, "There are rooms in the back of the tavern for people to sleep. The wizard might be keeping her there. I'll go ask the barkeep if he saw Felix, okay?"
Espeon growled louder and the jewel in her forehead began to glow. NO! He stole Felix from me and I'm getting her back.. NOW! A blast on multi-colored energy was unleashed from the jewel and slammed into the door, through the door, and exploded inside amid screams of surprise and pain. As Rowryn swore in various languages, Espeon leapt through the remains of the doorway and into the tavern, all thoughts focused on rescuing Felix.
[Inside the tavern, a few minutes previous]
Kurin rummaged through the girl's pack, wondering all the while about where this girl was from. Certainly, she was not from this plane of existence, her clothes said that much of her. And yet, he had never seen or read about anything like what he was finding in her pack: more clothing of such impossible vibrant colors that couldn't be made by anything but magic {but who would waste magic on something like this?}, clear bottles of water that weren't made of glass but of some flexible yet sturdy material, food of some sort in clear packages that resembled no material he had ever heard of.
{And these spheres}, Kurin thought, pulling one of the pokeballs off the girl's belt, examining it, but keeping his fingers off the button that released the monster hidden inside, {these are certainly the strangest sort of summoning device I have ever seen}. He carefully put the sphere down on the table that was beside the bed which held Felix.
He was in the back room of a tavern, kept for a place for a man and woman to... um... "relax" after they have had a few drinks and... um... "stay the night." The gold he had given the barkeep ought to keep him from being bothered by anyone until his master, Tharch Pyrados, came to pick up the girl. Kurin had already sent off a magical message that would soon inform her that he had the girl she was interested in. In a few hours his master would be here, and he would be handsomely rewarded, maybe even given access to his master's spellbooks!
Kurin's daydreaming about his rewards were interrupted when the door to the main room of the tavern exploded open, filling the room with dust and screams from the other customers in the tavern. {Damn!}, he thought, {Someone else must have found out about the girl and is coming to claim her for themselves!} He pulled out the material components for a summoning spell, a bag containing an unlit candle, and began chanting and gesturing. He finished casting just as Espeon scampered into the room, stopping when he saw the mage and Felix. The bag vanished from the mage's hand and four dire rats appeared in front of Espeon, twinkling motes of light that surrounded the creatures slowly fading.
Rowryn arrived quickly thereafter with sword in hand, just as the mage pointed at the two of them and commanded the summoned creates: "Attack!"
As the dire rats charged them, Kurin picked up Felix and grabbed the pack of her belongings. He would escape while the two of them were occupied by the rats through the back door (for those times when exiting into the main room would not be a very good idea).
Kurin saw the sphere he had been examining still on the table and reached for it just as Espeon unleashed a Confusion attack against the nearest dire rat, sending it flying into the table, shattering the table, and tossing the pokeball into a wall, freeing the pokemon inside.
Seeing another monster beginning to form like the other monster that had attacked him, Kurin decided to run while the dire rats still had them occupied. The back door slammed open and he ran out of the room.
Charmeleon, free from his pokeball, saw an Espeon and Rowryn fighting off three strange pokemon-like creatures. While Rowryn was pulling his sword free from the dire rat he had just killed, Espeon had been scratched up pretty well because he was exhausted from the powerful psychic attacks he had just unleashed after just recently evolving. Charmeleon roared and released a Flamethrower that blasted one rat against the wall, and caused the other to turn to face Charmeleon, leaving him open to a decapitating blow from Rowryn.
Charmeleon looked around and asked, What's going on here? When did you evolve and where's...
{Felix's been kidnapped and the man who did it just went out that door!} Espeon interrupted him.
Charmeleon roared in outrage and charged out the door, ready to burn the kidnapper to ash. Espeon tried to run after him, but her legs collapsed from the injuries and exhaustion. Rowryn picked her up and grabbed Charmeleon's empty pokeball, dumped it a pocket, and followed after the enraged fire pokemon.
Behind them, the fire from the Flamethrower began to spread, causing screams of panic to join the screams of pain and surprise.
Rowryn caught up to Charmeleon just as he unleashed a blast of fire into the sky. When it dissipated without hitting anything, Charmeleon let out another roar. "What?" Rowryn asked, looking up into the sky, and then his heart sank.
Flying away on invisible wings of magic was the mage carrying Felix and her backpack. They were out of range of Charmeleon's fire attacks, as he had just demonstrated, and he was flying much faster than they could run. Rowryn ground his teeth together and cursed. "I don't suppose either of you can fly?" he asked the pokemon without much hope, not expecting the answer that was to follow.
Charmeleon and Espeon exchanged a startled glance and then Charmeleon closed his eyes and started growling, focusing and concentration on saving Felix, and his body trembled from his efforts.
The growl grew and grew until it was full-throated scream. Finally he burst into light, and he began to change, doubling in height, more than quadrupling in weight, its legs, arms and tail expanding in size and strength, his fin atop his head becoming a pair of horns, and a pair of strong wings sprouting from his back, strong enough to catch up to that kidnapper and show him that magic is no substitute for real wings.
The light of evolution faded, revealing Charizard, a dragon.
A tooth filled grin filled Rowryn's face. These Pokemon never ceased to amaze him. He asks them to speak and they speak. He asks them to fly and they grow wings! Charizard turned to him and growled something, which Espeon translated, {Get on! We're going to rescue Felix!} Rowryn climbed on, careful of the pokemon he was carrying, and held on with one arm wrapped gently but firmly around Charizard's neck. With a few powerful strokes of his wings, they were airborne and quickly catching up with the mage.
Roaring a challenge, Charizard unleashed a huge blast of fire aiming to catch only the mage and not Felix at the outer edges of the blast.
Turning, the mage saw a dragon {A Dragon!?} spew fire at him, which he barely dodged. Completely surprised that a dragon had come out of nowhere to attack him, he didn't counterattack when he had the chance. Before he knew it the dragon was right next to him and that was when he noticed the dragon had a rider. Too late. Rowryn leaped from Charizard's back, leaving Espeon to cling there with all her strength, and drew a dagger, which he stabbed into the mage's back, piercing a lung.
Kurin's concentration on his flight spell was shattered and the three humans began to fall. Leaving the dagger buried to its hilt in flesh, Rowryn grabbed Felix from the stunned mage and kicked down hard on the mage, slowing his fall slightly, and speeding up the mage's.
Charizard dived down, with a wind-swept Espeon clinging to his back, and grabbed the Rowryn and Felix in a bear hug, pulled up out of the dive, and flew away from the doomed mage.
Kurin tried to get off a Feather Fall spell to save himself, but he choked on his own blood and didn't get the spell off in time. He hit the roof of a blacksmith shop and splattered.
Several hours later Felix woke up on a hill outside of the city and saw the now evolved Charizard and Espeon sitting nearby, and asked, confused, "Did I miss something?"
Ending Notes: Not much to say here concerning the story itself, other than I got my brother to preread it and make a few comments, and thus I fixed one or two things. As per the suggestion of one of my reviewers, I am moving this story to the Forgotten Realms section. I guess I shall see whether or not this garners me more reviews or not, although gaining reviews is not one of my goals for creating this story, but it does make me feel good! And a happy author is a productive author! So review and I'll be more motivated to leech this story out of my head and into the computer. In anycase, I'll be sure to get another chapter out before the start of the next semester of college.