GUESS WHO'S BACK?!

BACK AGAIN!

Hey everyone, welcome back to dual natures! There's not really a whole lot I want to say this time (not much has been going on recently.) so let just allow ourselves to carry on with the fic.

Eli: Oh, so you're just going to ignore me then?

Me: DU- WHU-GU- HOW DID YOU GET HERE?!

Eli: I took a trans-dimensional portal here.

Me: …

Eli: What? This is MY story! I'm not just going to let you treat me like I'm a character in your novel! Heck, You didn't even tell them my name yet.

Me: It was in the description-

Eli: THAT DOESN'T COUNT AND YOU KNOW IT!

Me: FIIIINE YOUR MAJESTY! Everyone, this is Eli. He's the guy who's freaking out over the fact that he gonna turn into a werewolf every night now.

Eli: It's called a zorua!

Me: Yeah, and how is fact different from fiction again?

Eli: OH, SO YOU WANT TO GO YOU DISRESPECTING CHILD?! I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WILL PUNCH YOU STRAIGHT IN THE-

Me: OKAY, your getting too riled up. *whips out hand and casts warp*

Eli: WAIT, WHAT ARE- *gets teleported back home*

Me: ugh, for heaven's sake. There could be KIDS here for all we know...and he was so calm before too...

There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met."

-Jim Henson

…

Wow...this is….

Okay…..wow….

Um...where do I….start with this? (if any of you say; *FrOm ThE bEgInNiNg DeRp!* I'm going to MCFREAKIN LOSE IT!)

So...apparently if miss joy is to be believed, then...i...was...never...A human to begin with.

ONE HOW EVEN DOES!?

Okay...chill….breathe in….breathe out….okay...okay…..I'm going to do the best I can to explain this, but even I still don't really know how this works so bear with me.

So, after a few hours of me trying to sound out words to myself, (trust me you didn't miss much.) miss joy expanded a bit more on my situation. She told me that zorua could transform into anything they wanted be it living or dead, mineral or vegetable. But, (and this is the REALLY confusing part) she told me that the only way zorua Are able to do this is through their tails. Apparently, even she's not sure of the specifics, but if a zorua loses their tail, they get stuck in whatever form they had taken until it grows back…

And that's when it hit me.

When I looked at...my….tail..(sorry if I keep slowing down the word, by the way, I'm just still shakey from all this.) I realized that it was..very small. Smaller than it probably should be given my...relative size…

"Oh my lord." I whispered to myself. "she's telling the truth."

Right about then I was starting to ask a flurry of questions. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Have I been a Pokemon my whole life? Does this mean my family is all zorua too? Where even are my family anyway?

That last question was the one that stuck in the back of my mind, so I asked miss joy about it. She told me that they were staying at the Pokemon center I was in. obviously, I wanted to go see them right away, but she advised against it because...well...they don't know that I'm….not...human...so them seeing me like this might be too much for them to handle given the circumstances.

After that, a few days passed. Joy informed my family that I was alive, but they wanted to keep me here to be sure there was nothing wrong. They knew better than to question her, so they went on there way back home to wait for my return..this...troubled me, to say the least as I was unsure if I could even return to them they way they wanted to see me. Most of my time at the center was consisted of having various tests run on me. Apparently, something like this was unheard of to most people and they wanted answers.

Which eventually...*sigh* led to the dreaded socialization test….where I would soon meet my new friend/burden/acquaintance/cruse. /reason I question why I even bother.

It was a very nice room that the test was in. It was kept at a nice cooling temperature, there was grass covering the floor and a medium sized lake to the left. There were even a few slides and a small swing..it seemingly was a nice enough place, so what could be the problem?

There were only Pokemon there. No humans.

Are you listening? - fire emblem fates

Now, I've got nothing against Pokemon. They're nice enough and help with day to day problems humans face, and in return, humans give them a place to stay and food to eat. It's just, my hometown didn't have any Pokemon in it and now I was surrounded by them, with no idea how to act or behave, and I'm supposed to just...socialize with them? And it didn't help that I was on either, that just meant I had no excuse!

"*sigh* ms..joy...do..you..think..this..is...needed?" (at this point in time, I had just about remembered how to talk without taking a year and a half.)

"Oh come now, Eli! (she knew my name now by the way.) Of course it is! If you're a Pokemon, then you need to make friends with Pokemon. It's just logical!"

"Of course." I thought. "of course she would say something like this and expect me to just roll into it no questions asked."

At the end of the day, I couldn't escape my situation and found my self in the middle of the playground, trying not to bump into anyone running recklessly through the place. It seemed to be going well enough, I found a nice quiet corner I could huddle in...but before I could take a nap something caught my eye.

Allow the music to finish if it hasn't already. (and may God bless you if you happened to pick an extended version.)

I saw a small Pokemon playing in the aforementioned lake by themselves. They were just splashing the water around, no real goal in mind...then they looked at me. I immediately shifted my gaze away, hoping they wouldn't notice my presence. Sadly, luck was not on my side this time and the latter smiled, and then...sunk under the surface.

To say I saw that coming was as true as saying my dad likes to waste time. I mean I knew the lake was a decent size but..how deep was it? As I lay there pondering the situation, I heard..bubbles presumably from the lake. I turned, and sure enough every few moments a group of bubbles would rise to the surface. "...what are you doing?" I thought to myself.

Now, I'm not really sure why I did this, maybe it was because of curiosity, maybe I was just bored. But regardless, I found myself walking over to the pond to investigate this event...eventually, I was face to face with the bubbles themselves. I stared at them for a few moments's not sure of what to make of them.

Not my smartest move.

"BOO!" said the figure as they launched out of the water and into my face. Naturally, I screamed and then jumped back into the opposite direction.

We should turn in for the night – fire emblem awakening

They then giggled to themselves while having a mischievous grin on their face….well, I use the term 'they' but with the word giggling I'm sure you could tell what gender they were. Once I realized what just happened, a slapped my own face with my 'stub'. "Oh, ARE YOU SERIOUS!?….*sigh*...how did I not think of that?"

She rose from the pond her fur soaking wet, but she didn't seem to mind it very much. "Well, you didn't! And I guess that means that I win this round." she said, a triumphant smile on her face.

You know, I was about to ask myself just why I could understand what she was saying (cause to any old human, that would have been her saying her name over and over again…..in fact, to any human passing by, the same would be true for ME...also, yes. I have a much easier time speaking in that weird language, but I'm translating it to English because I'm just nice like that.)...and then the penny dropped.

"Yeah, yeah that's great. Look, what do you want. A cookie?" I said, not very pleased with the fact that I had just been pranked by a Pokemon of all things.

"A COOKIE!? WHERE!?" she shouted, her eyes sparkling at the prospect of the sweet treat entering her mouth and revitalizing her taste buds.

"Well if there IS one here, you won't get out of me," I said, thinking she didn't deserve such a luxury after what she just pulled.

"Hey! that's not very nice!" she said, the sparkle in her eyes vanishing at my blunt tone.

"Well, it's also not very nice to scare people! You reap what you sow." I said, remembering a quote from one of the many books I had read over the years.

"Aw, c'mon. You're not hurt, right? Mentally, emotionally, or physically?" she asked me, waiting for my response.

"Well...no, but-"

"Then why are you upset?" she asked, cutting me off from what I was about to say. I was going to argue….then I realized...she was right. Nothing bad had been caused by it, why get bothered by it?

Simple.

"Well, you still startled me!" I said, not willing to give up this argument just yet.

"And what's wrong with that? If you ask me, it can be fun to be startled randomly!" she said, trying to justify her choices.

Oh, I wish I could have seen the look on my face when she said that.

"Yeah well, not everyone is going to share that opinion you know. If you're going to scare someone, you should at least be sure they're okay with it." I said, using logic to best her simple argument.

"...But everyone I know here doesn't seem to mind it very much," she said, pausing for a minute to shake the water off her as she on just now realized she was soaking wet.

"Yeah, and I'm new here so what does that tell you?" I said, knowing that now she should understand me.

"Oh! Why didn't you tell me earlier?" she said, motioning with her paw that I was to follow. "I've got to introduce you to the gang then."

At this rate, I could tell there would be no use going back to my corner as she would just bring them to me, so I just followed suit. She led me to a small group of Pokemon behind a small patch of trees.

Sorry, did I forget to mention there were trees? And that the room was really big?

"Well look who it is, our favorite battery." said one a Meowth in the group in a teasing manner.

"Well look who it is, my favorite thief." she said in the same manner.

"Aw, c'mon, you know ya love me." the 'thief' said, seemingly friends with the girl.

"Do I? it's hard to tell sometimes." she said, seemingly trying to...well, it's not really clear WHAT they were trying to accomplish through this exchange.

"Well enough about us, who's the stranger ya brought with you?" he asked, most likely referring to me based on his look.

"Oh right! This is...uh..."

"*sigh* Eli." I said, answering a question that should have been answered earlier.

"Eli, this is Joss. He'll take anything that isn't nailed down in this place so if you want something, call dibs before he can." she said, giving a description of this stranger.

"...Heyy." I said, offering my stub to him.

"Pleasure to meet you man." he said, returning the gesture in a handshake.

Wait, Pokemon have handshakes? Eh, doesn't matter.

"Joss, this is Eli. He's new around here, so don't mess with him too much alright?" she asked the normal-type, who in response, simply put his arms behind his head.

"Oh I wouldn't dare...after all, that's YOUR job is it not?" he said, pointing at her head.

She snickered at this, clearly amused. "Yeah if I don't prepare him for our shenanigans, who will?"

"Shenanigans?" I said, clearly confused and not ready to go along with any of this…

"You'll see. Anyway if you're going to hang with us, and I'm assuming you are based on the current turn of events, you'll need to know the gang." he explained.

"...What kind of gang are we talking about?" I said I bit concerned about where this was heading.

"Oh it's nothing special, just a group of the most diverse people you will ever see." joss said as he walked forward, expecting us to follow.

As we made our way to the spot, the one from before spoke to me again. "in all seriousness though." I turned at her face.

"...I'm sorry if you didn't appreciate my first impression. I just thought it was the best way to greet someone new like yourself, give you a taste of what to expect and all that." ...the odd thing was that she seemed genuinely sincere with her apology.

"So do you think...we can do this over?" she asked as she extended her paw to mine.

"….."

She was being awfully nice about this whole thing…

"...*sigh* alright, live and let live I suppose." I said as I took her paw and shook it, remembering another quote from one of the many books I had read.

"So you already know me. Eli, zorua. What about yourself?" I asked.

She gave me a smile and then said "Eini, shinx."

And does it for chapter two guys! I'm sorry if this one felt like it took a bit long to get out, but I've been feeling kind of sick recently as of me writing this. I'm doing the best I can to fight it off, but it has been slowing me down a bit with uploads. Not trying to make excuses, just telling facts,

Eini: Please review! And have a great day! ^_^

Me: o_e

Eini: uh...are you o-

Me: NOT YOU TOO!

Eini: AH! PLEASE! I HAVEN'T EVEN CONTRIBUTED TO PLOT YET!

Me: IT DOSN'T MATTER, YOUR GOING BACK NOW GET IN THE NET!

Eini: NOOOOOO!