After it watched the family of machoke's with their machops the great steelix saw that the younger machops were fed milk from the female machoke and the two machokes ate a mixture of predominantly rattata meat supplemented with berries from the sparse bushes. The steelix fed the child the food it saw but the baby become ill. The steelix then returned to the machokes the get them to feed the toddler milk.
After a mixture of fighting type milk and cooked rattata meat that was made over a fire ignited by fire punch. The small human had grown larger, stronger and healthier and to the steelix's great consternation had started crawling about. Constantly moving and finding things, a piece of gold ore, a massive ruby and a near perfect tyrunt fossil. After the sixth great find the metal serpent was no longer surprised by the small human's ability to find earthen treasures where they did not rightfully belong where they were found.
Soon after crawling came walking and by this time steelix was concerned by the lack of speech like the older human made. Babbling, whining and crying were all sounds made by the child until the day came.
"Bubby." Large eyes blinked in confusion as the steelix peered at the small human hugging him.
"Bubby." Came again and this time the steelix gently butted his head against the child's. He gave a happy cry, and a stream of unintelligible noises came with intermittent 'Bubbys'. The steelix merely smiled as the child continued until he fell asleep atop a smoothed-out rock covered in moss.
A Year Later
The child was older now and spoke more fluently and the steelix, named 'Buddy', lived in the same cavern in the same mountain range however the cavern had been widened with the bulk of the growing steelix and clear areas were laid out. In one corner walls had been raised for the child to have its own space. Within the room there was a set of deep grooves in one wall forming shelves that stored numerous items found by the child, a massive ruby, some various ores and in one corner was a complete fossil of a tyrunt. Opposite the fossil was a pile of dried grass and moss pushed into a vaguely mound shape with a depression in the middle that clearly formed a bed.
The machokes and machops had moved away and it was just Buddy and the boy who called himself 'Stlix'. Eating, playing and crafting pieces of stone in case of Stlix and training in the case of Buddy. This is how it remained for a number of years under the large breadth of Mt Coronet.
