The Dezen Discovery
By LoneGrowlithe
Chapter Five
The area around us was awake with the sounds of unseen Pokemon, although Larana and I ourselves were quiet. We were a bit weary, for we had been walking up the steadily climbing hill for hours. It turned out that Judan village had been build at the bottom of a big curved area of high land, with a steady slope downwards or upwards, whichever way you were heading, just our luck, we had to go upwards. Halfway up a forest had sprouted, which we were now walking through.
So far, however, there hadn't been much luck in the area of Pokemon, in fact, I had no luck, and the only luck Larana had was when Kida had leapt into a colony of Fersies, snagged one, battled it herself, and dragged it back unconscious for Larana to capture while the rest of the colony bounded away, leaving me and Wolf unable to snag one ourselves.
Fersies themselves were small rabbit Pokemon with long ears and twitching noses, mainly furred with white, but brown splotches were a common occurrence for their pelt. They were very common in Dezen and highly adaptable, much like Kanto's Rattata. They rivaled Kida in size, but were more commonly known to run from battle than get involved, which made them pretty darn hard to catch. But we had long left them behind on the plains we had long since passed. Larana's new Fersies was a shy, as was most of the species, male which she had named Polka for the motley of brown splotches covering him.
We continued along the path, daring not to stray from it for the time being, Wolf flying solitary above the trees, keeping a sharp eye out for wild Pokemon, while Kida bounced from bush to bush, in hopes of flushing something out of hiding. While still staying hopeful that we might find more Pokemon, we knew that we would have to stop soon, it was nearing dark.
We were probably behind all the other trainers, I thought grumpily, for we had delayed in Judan to make sure we were well stocked up on supplies, not only for ourselves, but for our Pokemon too, making sure we had plenty of food, and extra healing supplies, couldn't hurt to be prepared, or so Larana had said.
"We're going have to stop for the night soon," Larana cautioned me as we walked.
"I know, I just hope we find some more Pokemon today," I replied as I shifted my Blaze Bag higher on my shoulder, "My Blaze Bag feels like a lead weight."
"Why do you call it that," Larana stopped walking and turned to me.
"Call it what," I stopped to look at her with a confused face.
"Your backpack," Larana spoke, "You call it your Blaze Bag, why?"
"I dunno, just do I guess," I shrugged.
"You do notice that you call Wolfs pokeball the Blaze Ball too," Larana pointed out and I looked at her in surprise.
"I do," I said incredulously, then grinning, "I never noticed, but you can't say it doesn't suit."
"You're a freak," Larana concluded and she began to walk again.
"Well, you're a freak too," I retorted and followed after shifting the Blaze Bag once more.
"Look, why don't we find somewhere to make camp, it's beginning to get dark," Larana piped up after we had walked a few more minutes, "I don't think we'll have any luck with Pokemon either, a lot of them are probably bedding down for the night."
I looked around and noticed that less light was filtering through the trees and that the sounds of Pokemon were beginning to lessen. Looking up, I noticed the sky was getting darker fast and I could now see a glow around Wolf I couldn't see earlier in full light.
"Alright," I resigned, "Let's set up camp."
"Good choice, that way we won't have to do it by Wolfs flame later," Larana perked up a bit and she began to look around, "Now, let's find a clearing."
I left Larana to her own devices and looked up at Wolf again, who still seemed keen to keep an eye out for wild Pokemon. I followed Larana as we stepped off the path and into the trees that surrounded us, looking for a nice clear area to set up camp. We finally located one as daylight began to fail considerably, Wolf had abandoned the air a long while ago, and had since taken perch on my shoulder, lighting the darkening forest for a large area around us with his feathers.
Once we had affirmed that the clearing was large enough, I put down my blaze bag and looked around more carefully. It was large, with trees on all sides, and a nice gap in the tree branches to show the sky above. A small brook bubbled nearby from which we could undoubtedly refill our water bottles with a fresh supply of water. I looked around at the clearing again, before leaning down to my Blaze Bag and untying the sleeping bag and tightly rolled tarp I had tied down the bottom of it.
Placing the sleeping bag on the ground I unrolled the tarp to reveal a stretchy kind of fabric, spandex, I think and a heap of poles tied together, along with a sheet of instructions. Picking up the instructions, I began to read, or at least tried to as I turned the sheet around and trying to make head or tails of the jumble of pictures and words. After a while I gave up, grumbling I tossed the paper to the floor and grabbed the poles and began to fit them together as best I could, while Wolf watched.
Ten minutes later, with only Wolfs light to go by, I gave up tossing the poles and spandex to the leafy forest floor and sitting down, crossing my arms and grumbling while Wolf burst into merry peals of laughter. Larana was laughing too, her tent had been set up ages ago, and she had just arrived back in camp with an armload of firewood and with Kida dogging her heels with a flashlight in her mouth.
"Well, good to see you have your tent up," she snickered as she dumped her load of wood down.
"Shut up," I growled, still sooking from my place on the ground nearby my abandoned tent "It's not my fault the instructions don't make sense."
"Well they would if you paid attention in the pre-journey classes you came to with me."
"Whatever," I grumbled, inaudibly mumbling curses at the tent.
"Here, let me show you," sighed Larana and she helped me set up my tent.
After my tent had been set up with enormous help from Larana while our pokemon watched, cracking upwith laughter the whole time, we began to go about getting some dinner ready, not only for us, but for our Pokemon too. Polka and Kida had worked together and dug a small pit out of the ground, in which we placed the wood Larana had gathered and let Wolf set it on fire.
After eating we washed up our cooking stuff before heading to bed, the fatigue of our exploits for the day catching up on us.
I was woken abruptly the next morning by a loud screeching yell and a loud clatter from outside my tent. Alarmed, I scrambled to get to my feet but I only managed to get my legs tangled about in my sleeping bag as I did so.
"Crap," I yelled as fell sideways, but luckily through the open door of my tent and into the outside world while I battled with the sleeping bag to get it off of my legs, "Get Off!"
I finally managed to kick off my sleeping bag and pull myself into the weak light of early dawn. Standing up abruptly, I saw at once what had awoken me. It had been Wolf, brightening the area around him, who had fallen into the pile of saucepans and bowls that had been set out to dry last night, but the cause hadn't been his own.
At the edge of the field, worming away as fast as its little legs could muster and only just visible from Wolfs light, was a caterpillar Pokemon. It was small, a lot smaller than Wolf; it couldn't have been much higher than my ankle. It had a long body with its tail so to say being a small sharp jutting spike. On the back of its head were two spikes and traveling in two rows to halfway along its body were more spikes being a pearly white. Its colors however, were astounding; its head was a very light blue, but as the blue progressed down its body, it started to get darker, until it was so dark, it appeared almost black, and this point was at halfway down its body, just after where the spikes ended, then the color started getting lighter, but had changed completely to green which started dark and continued getting lighter until the very end of its tail spike which was a vibrant hue of bright green.
Diving for the clothes I had discarded the night before for pajamas, I pulled out my pokedex and pointed it at the retreating Pokemon as Larana tried to fight her way out of her collapsed tent and Wolf disengaged himself from the clutter of pots and pans noisily.
"Elervae the spike worm Pokemon," The pokedex started to drone in its monotonous electrical voice, "Elervae are common Pokemon to be found in forested areas, known as the spike worm Pokemon for the spikes trailing down its back and its tail spike filled with stunning toxins.
Pokemon gender: Male
Pokemon size: 0'7"
Pokemon type: Bug type," The pokedex finished, yet unlike the time it gave me Wolf's information, I didn't get a list of its attacks, probably because I hadn't caught it.
"I'm gonna catch it," I called out to the trapped Larana.
"Catch what," Larana's muffled and distressed voice came from the tent that Kida and Polka were ardently trying to pull apart with teeth to free their trainer.
I just shook my head at her and dove into my tent once more, but this time to grab an empty pokeball from my discarded belt and run over to where Wolf stood intimidating in front of the bug, his blazing wings spread out to block the bugs' path as he stood in front of it. I felt ridiculous, trying to catch a Pokemon while in my pajamas, but I shoved the thoughts away and prepared for battle.
"Good call Wolf, now, let's battle it down and catch it," I pulled my left hand into a fist in front of me, while my right hand held a maximized empty pokeball, which could have been about the size of my fist, "Tackle it."
Wolf immediately gave a mighty pump of his wings, and rushed forwards, ramming into Elervae with a large amount of force causing it to slide back a few feet and roll over onto its back. Veering upwards into the air, Wolf cast a wary eye on his opponent below, waiting for commands. Elervae rolled itself back onto its stomach and looked up at Wolf, before rearing its head back a lobbing a large glob of white goo towards him from its mouth.
Wolf faltered in the air at the prospect of the small Pokemon launching a projectile, but gathered himself enough to soar out of the way. Wolf watched as the glop when speeding past him and through the trees, distracted enough that he stayed hovering in the one spot, and was caught in the back of the head by another unexpected blob of goo to late for me to warn him about it. Almost immediately, the goo burst into flame, black wispy smoke and ashes falling away from Wolfs head as he turned to glare at the unfortunate bug Pokemon.
"Wolf, use Ember," I called and Wolf complied.
Wolf dipped into a dive and rocketed for Elervae, it looked as though he was going to plough full on into the bug and I became fearful, for impact with the ground could injure him greatly. I prepared to call him off, when suddenly he pulled sharply out of his dive and flicked his tail at Elervae sending small blazes of fire falling onto the bugs' skin, effectively scorching him.
I suddenly had to clamp my hands over my ears, dropping the empty pokeball to the ground, as the bug let off a resounding shriek that sent Wolf veering into a tree, Kida began to yowl and Polka tried to shrink into as small a ball as possible. Larana was yelling something incomprehensible, her voice greatly muffled by the folds of the tent she still had to navigate her way out of. Eventually, the shriek died down, and I realized that it hadn't just been a shriek, but a full blown Screech attack.
The bug, despite being burnt, still seemed eager to leave, headed once more at a slow crawl for the trees. Wolf, sprawled on the floor after having a nice little chat with the tree, staggered to his feet, and stumbled about a bit, before getting his balance and leaping into the air with a flare of his wings. But once in the air, he didn't seem any better than he was on the ground, nearly colliding with a couple more trees.
Biting my lip, I decided to take a chance, quickly bending down and snatching up the dropped pokeball, I pulled my arm back, aimed, and lobbed it at the retreating back of Elervae. The ball slammed into Elervae's back and it started a Screech attack out of surprise, which was cut short as the Pokemon was converted into dull red energy that was absorbed into the ball.
The now occupied pokeball dropped to the floor, and shook for a moment or two before stilling and releasing a dull chiming sound. I stood for a moment, a little bit taken aback by the capture, before I suddenly leapt to my feet with a jubilant yell.
"Yes, finally, I caught my first Pokemon," I jumped about, punching the air above me, "Yes, Yes, Yes! Way to go, you done awesome Wolf."
My flaming bird smiled lopsidedly as he came in for a landing on the ground, only to flop wing over talon onto his back, sliding to a stop by my feet.
"Silly bird," I laughed as I righted him, before pulling him into a loving hug, "You did great Wolf, and thanks to you, we now have a new friend."
"Asydri," Wolf chirped, before giving his head a shake to clear his minute confusion and walking with a ungainly pace over to where Elervae's pokeball lay and began to push it about with his beak.
"So, what Pokemon did you catch?" A disheveled Larana spoke as she walked over; trying to run a brush through her knotted hair, anger to be heard in her voice.
"An Elervae."
"A what now?" Larana looked up at me confused, her hand stilled with her brush caught in her hair.
"It's a bug Pokemon," I said to her, and heard a small croon by my feet, looking down; I saw it was Wolf, with Elervae's pokeball solitary in front of him.
"Really, can I see?" Asked Larana, as she started to brush her hair again, all anger now dissipated for the time being, she really wasn't a morning person.
"Just wait," I muttered as I headed over to my tent and yanked out my Blaze Bag and digging through it to grab a potion, and as an afterthought, a revive.
I walked back over to where Wolf, and Elervae's pokeball resided, then picking up the regular red and white ball, I turned it towards the ground, and released the Pokemon inside. Elervae appeared, tumbling out onto the grass, burns on his skin and despite this he still found the energy to hiss at Wolf when he saw him.
"Hey, ease up little guy," I spoke to him softly as I picked him up, "No need for that now, Wolf won't attack you, he's your friend now."
"Funny looking bug," Larana spoke up, earning a hiss in her direction.
The Elervae looked up at me, and then settled down in my lap, content for the moment. Thankful that little bit was over with, and that my new Pokemon wouldn't attack Wolf, I picked up the potion and began to spray it on Elervae's burns. Elervae hissed a bit as the potion healed the minor wounds, but then settled down again when he felt his energy returning, after that was done; I picked Elervae up so I could look him in the face.
"You need a name," I declared to him as I put him down, "Does Elliott work for you."
"Vae," Elervae hissed loudly.
"Looks like he doesn't like it," Larana commented.
"I figured that," I snapped back at her, before placing Elervae on the ground, "Hippa?"
Elervae just looked at me like I was insane.
"Oy, I'm horrible with names," I groaned, smacking myself on the forehead, "Jack," I tried, Elervae hesitated a moment, before shaking his head no, "Jakura then."
Again a hesitation, I prepared to blurt out another name, when suddenly Elervae started to bounce about, trilling his species name happily in a high pitched voice which put a bit of strain on the ears.
"I'll take that as a yes," I sighed gratefully, "Welcome to the team Jakura."
"Eler/Asyd," my team of two Pokemon exclaimed happily before they began to talk with each other.
"Play nice you two," I laughed as they were joined by Kida and Polka.
Looking up at the sky, I noticed that it was still dark, but more light was creeping across it every moment; there was no way I was getting back to sleep now, not after the momentary rush of excitement, and besides, an earlier start to the day would get us to our destination quicker. Looking over to where the tents had been set up, I noticed, that while mine was still standing, Larana's had collapsed in on itself, why I didn't really know.
"Well Larana, you may good at putting tent up," I commented out loud, hearing a distant splash and a yell while I was acting like our camping skills teacher, "But your way of taking them down is less than satisfactory."
"Shut up," Larana snapped as she stalked over, throwing a plastic cup she had in her hands.
"Ooooh, touchy this morning, aren't we," I teased as I ducked away from the flying cup and watched it bounce away.
"I just fell in the river Moron," Larana snarled at me, I turned back to her and noticed she was sopping wet, wringing out her hair.
"How did you manage that," I said, trying my hardest to keep a straight face.
"Why don't you ask your bird, he seems to enjoy pushing people into water sources," Larana grumbled, flinging her wringed out hair over her shoulder, and then beginning to wring out her shirt.
I couldn't hold it any longer, and I burst out laughing at my friends' misfortune. The Pokemon seemed a bit confused, but Wolf was laughing right alongside me. Traveling around was going to be a lot of fun when Larana was there to provide the entertainment.
TBC
Okay, another chapter finished. I just want to say thank you to those who have reviewed my story and/or faved it, tis very encouraging.
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