The Dezen Discovery Old Version Chapter 6, a pokémon fanfic

The Dezen Discovery

By LoneGrowlithe

Chapter Six

Groaning, I finally decided that I had enough of walking for the time being, and flopped down on a soft cushion of grass to rest. Wolf, weary and somewhat upset, came fluttering down beside me and curled up to have a snooze. Larana however, didn't think it was the best idea to be lying down.

"Sayunae, stop being lazy and get up," she snapped as she loomed over my face, blocking my view of the trees above.

"Look Larana, we've been walking for," I stopped talking for a moment to glance at my watch, before continuing with my arguing tone, "three and a half hours straight, I think we need a rest, I know my feet are killing me."

"Tana," Kida agreed with me, whining pitifully at her trainer as she sat down on the ground, before falling sideways from exhaustion.

"See, even Kida can't go on," I pointed out to her, while I stroked Wolf's head.

Larana looked at me, anger still creasing her features, and then at her tired cream and brown kitten Pokemon, before sighing in defeat, her face losing its cast of anger, "Fine, we'll rest then."

"Best thing you've said all day," I smiled and let all of my frustrations leave me.

"I just wish we weren't lost," groaned Larana as she set down her bag and sat on a felled tree long dead.

After packing up our camp this morning and beginning to set out, it was to realize that we had camped further away from the path than we had meant to, which left us utterly lost. I'd tried sending Wolf up above the trees to locate the path, and he had, but once he was below the trees again, he couldn't discern which way the path was and got upset by the fact that he couldn't help, leaving the two of us to wander around lost with an upset Asydri and compliant Kitana for company.

We'd come across a few wild Pokemon, but when we tried to battle them, it ended up with them running away before the battle was finished, or the Pokemon was too strong and creamed us, causing us to be the ones to run away from it, as was the case with a Mightyena we had the bad luck come across, and be chased by for a good ten minutes.

Although this forest was one newbie trainers traversed regularly, capturing the weaker Pokemon, there was also to be found the occasional strong Pokemon, including evolutions of those Pokemon to be found in the forest itself, as was with our Mightyena encounter, but usually those stronger Pokemon stayed well away from the path, which gave us reason to believe that we were deeper into the forest than intended.

"Yeah, well so do I," I countered Larana's complaint, "Anyway, it wasn't me who chose the campsite last night."

"I don't want to talk about that," Larana moaned as she covered her ears with her hands.

"Fine," I scoffed, and then whispered to Wolf with an indication over to Larana, "Crybaby."

Wolf began to snicker, before bursting into fresh peals of laughter, his upset demeanor evaporating with his newfound happiness. Larana glared at me a bit before turning her full attention to her worn out Kitana. After a while of silence, I got sick of it, and let Jakura out for some air before turning to talk to Larana.

"So, how long do you think it'll take us to find the path," I asked her as I sat up.

"Dunno," Larana sighed, looking at the ground, "Guess it's my fault though."

"Who cares whose fault it is," I waved it off, "What do you expect, your bound to get lost sometime or another."

"I guess so," Larana replied, not really cheering up.

"Look, we'll rest for a while, and then keep walking, we'll find the way out of here sooner or later," I said to her.

Larana said nothing, but gave a couple of nods of her head. Lying down again, I watched Jakura as he waddled his way over to a nearby bush and began to eat the leaves growing on it, my new Pokemon was still getting used to me I guess, for he was not as friendly with me as Wolf currently was, but he was wild caught, and Wolf had probably been around humans his whole life.

Larana seemed to take my lead, and released Polka from his pokeball, leaving the rabbit free to hop about everywhere, inspecting some new things confidently and shying away from others. Turning my attention away from the Pokemon, I looked up at the leaves and branches of the trees above me, and closed my eyes, feeling suddenly sleepy.

I was just nodding off to sleep, when a loud squeal entered my ears, jolting me from my near slumber. Bolting upwards, I saw that it was Polka, being attacked by what appeared to be a black and grey blur dashing about everywhere. Wolf was next to me, wings outstretched to either side of him to make him appear intimidating, Jakura had ambled quickly over to me and was curled up by my side, shivering incessantly.

Larana had been alerted to her Pokemons plight by the frightened squeal he had given and was on her feet, looking over at where her white and brown speckled Fersies was curled up in a tight ball, being pounded endlessly by the unknown Pokemon we couldn't yet identify because it was moving too fast.

"Keep up using Defense Curl Polka," Larana called out to her frightened Pokemon, who had begun to use the attack on instinct.

It was a few terse moment before the blur finally realized it was getting nowhere with the current attack it was using and slowed to a stop. Now that it had stopped, I could see what it was. A small dog Pokemon easily more than half the size of Wolf, with black fur covering most of its body, whilst the rest of it was a stark grey. A very bushy tail bristled with anger, while furious yellow eyes glared down at Polka, and too large teeth jutted up from its lower jaw. I knew what it was, having encountered its evolution earlier, but I accessed my pokedex regardless, wanting to hear the information.

"Poochyena, the Bite Pokemon

Poochyena are vicious canine Pokemon who guard their territory zealously. They tend to travel in packs and work together to drive off invaders.

Pokemon Gender: Female

Pokemon Size: 1'4"

Pokemon Type: Dark," my pokedex finished, I looked up to notice Larana's head turned slightly my way, as she had been listening.

"My catch?" Larana questioned.

"Go ahead, she attacked Polka first, and that shouldn't go unpunished now, should it," I told her, giving her a thumbs up while Wolf, a bit ruffled about being frightened, settled down to preen his feathers back into place.

As he done so, I lifted Jakura, who I now deduced to be my scaredy Meowth Elervae, from his place by my side, and placed his shivering form in my lap and began to stroke his head to calm him down.

"Are you going to watch Jakura," I asked him, "you may have to fight a Poochyena yourself one day."

Jakura uncurled his body, still shivering, but turned his full attention towards the battle which had begun with earnest. Poochyena, angered by her inability to injure the Pokemon she was attacking, cocked back her head and released a howl that split through the air, frightening poor Polka out of his protective ball, and also enriching her with more power to fight with.

Polka, nothing more than a shivering mess, jumpily got into a battle position, not to keen on fighting an opponent that scared him so much.

"Come on Polka, don't be afraid," Larana called out encouragingly, "Give it a growl attack."

Polka, taking Larana's word of encouragement, braved up a bit, while still shivery endlessly, and let loose as fierce a growl as he could, but Poochyena wasn't fazed in the least, and retaliated with a swift Tackle to Polka's side. Polka squealed in pain, and darted behind Larana's legs, while Poochyena snickered with victory.

"Polka," Larana blushed, embarrassed by Polka's actions and began to reason with her Pokemon, "Please, try to fight."

Polka looked up at Larana's pleading face, and shakily stepped back onto the field, ready once again to fight.

"Alright Polka, try a tackle attack this time," Larana instructed her Pokemon and he took off at a bounding run.

Bounding as fast as he could, Polka made a Beedrill line for Poochyena and slammed point blank into her side, causing both of them to tumble over each other and fall into a pile. Poochyena was up almost immediately, and slammed Polka with a tackle attack herself. Instinctively, Polka used Defense Curl to defend himself, causing Poochyena to tire herself out as she endlessly tried to break through the defensive attack.

Larana watched, waiting for a moment to which Polka could give the finishing attack, thankful that he wasn't relying only on her commands. Poochyena stumbled back, panting heavily, but cocked back her head once more, preparing to howl again, and removing her eyes from Polka.

"Now Polka," Larana yelled seeing an opening, "Tackle her."

Polka, as quick as he could, uncurled from his protective ball and bounded forwards to strike Poochyena hard in the chest and neck just as she started to howl, causing it to be cut short abruptly with a guttural cough. Poochyena was now curled up on the ground, trying to regain the breath that had been knocked out of her while Polka bounced about happily, emitting soft squeaks of victory over his opponent.

Larana ignored him for the moment, as she snatched a spare pokeball from her belt and hurled it towards Poochyena, striking her on the side as she panted and coughed, converting into red energy that was sucked into the sphere. The pokeball, which had been hovering slightly in mid air while the energy was going into it, dropped to the ground and began to shake violently.

Both I and Larana watched the pokeball shake violently, hearts in throats, and I gave a relieved sigh when the pokeball stopped shaking and emitted the dull chime. Larana immediately gave a loud yell and dashed over to polka, snatching him up off the ground and hugging him.

"You done awesome Polka," Larana bounced about, hugging the overjoyed Fersies, "You won your first battle, and now we have a new friend."

"Congrats on the capture Larana," I called out to her as Wolf and Jakura trilled their congratulations too.

"Thanks 'Yunae," Larana smiled at me as she placed Polka back down on the ground and picking up the pokeball Poochyena now occupied.

Releasing Poochyena, it was to find that she had fallen unconscious, but was at least breathing steadily. Kida trotted over, dragging along with her Larana's heavy backpack. As Larana went about the task of healing her newest Pokemon, I paid more attention to my own Pokemon. Wolf had resumed his task of preening and Jakura had made his way over to a bush again to eat some more.

Several loud and angry barks alerted me and I turned back to Larana, to find that she was trying to keep a revived and fully healed Poochyena from attacking a cowering Polka. Wolf had sprung into full awareness and looked ready to take to the air, but Larana soon managed to quell her Pokemons anger and he calmed once more.

"What was up with that," I called out as Larana set Poochyena on the floor as Kida came bounding up and Polka stayed well away.

"I don't think she likes Polka to much right now," Larana said as she packed items she had taken out back into her bag, all the while keeping a wary eye on her Pokemon.

"Give her time, she'll get used to him," I shrugged as I picked up my own bag, "Maybe it's time we headed off," I suggested as I stood.

"Guess so, Dahk, Polka, back to your pokeballs," Larana picked their respective balls off her belt and returned them before settling her backpack on her shoulders.

"Dahk, nice name for a dark Pokemon," I commented before pulling Jakuras pokeball from my own belt and returning him to his sanctuary, "Ready to go Wolf."

"What about you Kida."

"Taaa."

"Syydri."

Both Pokemon yelled in agreement and began to lead us in a random direction together, Kida by paw, Wolf by wing. Laughing the two of us followed our lead Pokemon, trusting their judgment and letting them take control of the situation.

A couple of hours later, found Larana and myself gratefully stumbling out of the trees and onto the path cut through the forest, our beginning Pokemon stumbling out after us, mewing or trilling happily.

"Finally," I yelled out, not caring who heard, "The path."

"Thank Mew we finally found it," Larana panted.

"Thank Mew, more like thank all the Legendaries," I countered, "Now we can finally get on with actually getting somewhere."

"Can't we rest first," whined Larana, seriously out of breath, and not only her, but our Pokemon too.

"Fine, five minutes, then lets get going," I bounced about, excitement keeping me form feeling tired or out of breath.

"Never should have let you have that chocolate for lunch," grumbled Larana as I bounced about eagerly.

"So what, at least I'm happy," I snickered, before poking Larana in the middle of the forehead a few times, "More than I can say for you."

"Alright, that's it," Larana straightened up, glaring at me murderously, "Do that one more time, and I will hurt you."

"Do what," I feigned innocence, "Oh! You mean this," I poked her in the head a few more times, and then, when she balled her hands to fists, bolted down the path.

"Get back here," Larana yelled from far behind me, while Wolf took up his wing stride and flew alongside me.

"Yeah right," I called over my shoulder and kept running, laughing all the way.

TBC

Wow, this one took a while for me to write, dang writers block on the beginning of the chapter. Well anyways please read and review.