Here's another chapter of this. Next stop, working on the next update of Undercover in Unova! :D Brock is basically a chapter hog here but... Whatevz. Hope you enjoy the randomness of this chapter. Review at the end and lemmie know what'cha thought. ^^
Oh and for those who care, Ash is a Black Himalayan and Nightshade is a Black Maine Coon. The rest are random cats.
Just a reminder...
I role played Ash, Brock, Max, Nightshade and Jayfeather
My friend role played May, Foxheart and Tigerkit.
Chapter 2
Foxheart and Nightshade had sent the Shadowclan cats running back to their territory and the patrol had started back to camp.
Ash and May were silent as they were still in shock by how violent the cats were. Their words didn't help much either.
Foxheart pawed at her nose with a slight wince.
"What's wrong?" Nightshade asked her with the shadow of a concerned look on his face.
"My nose just hurts." She shrugged and stopped pawing at it.
"You're bleeding." Nightshade stated. "Be sure to go to Jayfeather when we get back to camp."
Ash and May exchanged a look. "Great… More names to learn." May muttered.
"But I don't want him to heal me TOO well." Foxheart protested. "I want some battle scars." She beamed
"Battle scars?!" May whispered to Ash in horror.
"Don't worry," Nightshade said. "I'm sure you'll have plenty. And you definitely gave that Shadowclan cat some wounds to remember." He smirked.
A purr rumbled in Foxheart's throat at the praise.
Suddenly a girlish scream filled the air, stirring up some of the birds. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BEAUTIFUL FACE?! I'M A DISGUSTING CAT!"
"What in Starclan's name was that?" Foxheart wondered.
Nightshade scoffed. "It sounded like a kitty pet to me…"
Ash and May looked at each other. "That scream… Didn't that sound like Dawn to you?" Ash asked.
"Yeah, sure sounded like something she would say too." May rolled her eyes. "It looks like she turned into a cat as well. Maybe now she'll stop going on about how gorgeous she looks."
Ash scoffed. "I doubt it."
May laughed. "Yeah, you're right." The patrol continued to make their way back to camp.
As they walked back through the thorn tunnel, May had to unhook Ash's fur from the brambles again.
He grumbled irritably when he was freed from the thorns. "I'm a mess from getting caught and falling all the time."
"Yeah, your fur is filthy." May pointed out.
"Well, what am I supposed to do about it?" Ash wailed.
May rolled her eyes again. "Haven't you ever seen a cat before, Ash?"
"No…" Ash admitted.
"Well cats clean their fur with their tongue and get all the dirt and twigs out." May explained.
"My tongue?!" Ash spat in disgust. "Yuck!"
"Just watch how the others are doing it." May suggested as she noticed two cats cleaning one another.
Ash suddenly looked at her with her with wide, pleading eyes. "Can you do it for me?"
"NO!" May spat in disgust and leaped away from him.
"Why not?!" He whined.
"Well for one, I have to clean my own fur." She started and counted off reasons on her cat toes. "For another, if I do it for you once then you'll expect me to do it every time so that YOU don't have to. You have to do it yourself, you lazy butt."
He grumbled.
She ignored him and continued. "And finally… Misty would kill me if I did that…" She muttered this part softly.
"Huh? Why would Misty kill you?" He asked densely.
"N-no reason!" May sweat dropped and waved her paws in front of her face. She was determined to keep her best friend's secret.
Before Ash could press his questioning any more, a familiar voice filled the air and they turned to see a very recognizable scene.
A sleek brown cat with squinty black eyes was clasping a female cat's paw in his own and stating his undying love for her.
"S-sorry, I already have a mate…" The cat sweat dropped and the brown cat suddenly received a glare from the she-cat's mate as she was led away from him. The crestfallen brown cat's head drooped.
"Rejected again… Will I ever find happiness?" He moaned depressively.
"I think we've found Brock…" May stated with a sweat drop.
Ash nodded. "No kidding…"
Another she-cat passed by Brock and he shot up and ran to her, already recovered from his rejection from the previous cat. "You have captured my heart with your luminous beauty! You shine so brightly that you put the sun to shame!"
"Uhh…" The cat blinked in shock.
Suddenly a cat with cloudy blue eyes padded out to Brock and swiped his ears with his paw and hissed, "Rockpaw! You're a Medicine Cat Apprentice! You can't have a mate!" He scolded. "Go make yourself useful and gather some Tansy and Marigold from the territory." With that, he walked back to the den.
"Yes, Jayfeather…" Brock mumbled dejectedly.
"So Brock's 'cat name' is Rockpaw then?" Ash asked May.
She shrugged. "I guess." The two started toward the depressed cat.
"Hey Brocko." Ash said as they reached him.
Brock's head snapped up. "Ash? Is that you?"
"Yep." He answered with a grin.
"And it's me, May." May piped up with a bubbly smile. "Max is here with us too."
"Plus we think we heard Dawn screaming when we were on patrol." Ash added.
May rolled her eyes playfully. "Something about her good looks being ruined."
Brock laughed. "That sounds like Dawn alright." He smiled widely at the two. "Ah man, it's great to know that I'm not alone in this."
"Yeah, we're all in this together." Ash agreed.
May smirked at Brock. "But you don't seem too upset about it. You're getting pretty well aquainted with all the female cats here already."
"Never before did I realize how beautiful she-cats were!" Brock stated dramatically with hearts in his eyes.
The two sweat dropped with nervous chuckles.
"ROCKPAW!" Jayfeather yowled from the den. "Go get the herbs! You can chat later!"
"I've got to go." Brock stated regretfully. "We'll talk about this later."
"Alright, later Brock!" They called after him as he left the camp.
"In the meantime," May started.
"…What?" Ash blinked.
"Clean your fur." She ordered.
"Aw come on! I don't want to." Ash whined.
"Do you want to be filthy forever?" May asked in a motherly tone.
He shrugged. "I'll just get dirty again…"
May sighed in exasperation. "If only Misty was here, she could get him to do it…" She muttered and started to clean herself, wrinkling her nose at the taste of her fur but ignoring it and continuing.
Ash finally decided to do it and had a similar but more dramatic reaction than May's.
Not even half way through the cleaning, Ash stopped. "I'm hungry!" He complained.
"I am too." May sighed as she finished her cleaning. Her eyes scanned the camp and caught the pile of prey in the middle. "Look, you finish cleaning yourself and I'll get prey for us from… that pile. I guess that's what we have to eat as cats…" She bounded off to the pile.
Ash groaned and reluctantly continued his cleaning. He had obviously wanted an excuse to stop.
May came back with a mouse and a starling. She dropped them in between her and Ash. "These were the biggest ones I could find." She stated.
Ash stopped his cleaning and looked at the food excitedly. He then froze in horror, his eyes growing huge and his whole body trembling. "P-P-P-Pikachu?!" He stuttered with a trembling paw extended toward the mouse.
May looked at him weirdly but then looked at the mouse herself. Her eyes grew huge. "PIKACHU!" She gasped in horror, ignoring the strange looks they were getting from other cats.
The mouse looked exactly like Pikachu! Well… except for the fact that it was dead. But as suddenly as she had seen the mouse as Pikachu, it disappeared, leaving a regular mouse in its place again. May blinked. 'Were we imagining things?!'
"Ash, look again. It's not really Pikachu." She assured him.
He was still horrified and shook his head.
"We can't keep imagining that the food is our Pokemon or we'll starve to death, we have to get used to this food." May said.
Ash shook his head and looked away with glazed eyes. "I'm not hungry…"
Ash said the three words that no one expected he would EVER say. "Here, take the bird then." May pushed her starling toward him. "I'll eat the mouse."
He looked at the bird. "Argh! Now that reminds me of my bird Pokemon!" He wailed.
"Ash, just imagine it as chicken or something." May tried to help.
Ash looked at May sympathetically. "B-but your Torchic!"
"I know Ash. Just forget Pokemon ever existed and eat." May said and started to eat the mouse hesitantly.
Ash bit into the bird with a grave expression. Suddenly the two brightened up. The food was amazingly tasty due to their new cat taste buds. They started gobbling down the prey, forgetting about their Pokemon logic.
"Mmm! Starly tastes great!" Ash said with a full mouth.
"Oh boy…" May muttered.
Foxheart padded up to the medicine cat. "Jayfeather! My nose hurts!" She whined.
The blind Medicine Cat sniffed the air. "I smell blood, I bet it hurts. I'll be back." He went into the den to get herbs.
"Thanks!" Foxheart said and sat patiently.
Brock walked past Foxheart to the den with his jaws full of herbs. He saw her and dropped the herbs. "My sweet Foxheart! What happened to your nose?!"
"Uh…" She blushed slightly in shock. "I busted it. I'm okay though." She gave him a sweet look. "Thanks for caring Rockpaw."
Brock was about to respond but was cut off as Nightshade walked up to them.
"Hey Foxheart, I just came in to check up on you." Nightshade greeted.
"Hey! I was the one who was worried about her!" Brock snapped.
Nightshade gave him a death glare that could scare away a Gyarados. "Okay." Brock said meekly and cowered down before the humongous tom.
Foxheart smiled. "Awww! Nightshade! You really do have a heart!"
Nightshade stared at her expressionlessly. "Thanks…"
"What about me?! I cared about you first!" Brock whined.
"Yeah, but he NEVER cares!" She sweat dropped before smiling at Brock. "You are very sweet." She flicked him with her tail.
"Really?!" Brock asked, obviously surprised. Brock heard Jayfeather coming out of the den so he took the opportunity to quickly invite Foxheart to go to the lake with him that night.
"Uh… I guess." Foxheart sweat dropped.
Jeafeather exited the den with the herbs and put them down. "Good, you're back Rockpaw. Help me out with this treatment,will you?"
"Of course." He went to his mentor's side. "What do you need me to do?"
"I'll chew this into a poultice and you apply it to the wound on Foxheart's nose."
"Alright! I'll treat her gorgeous, delicate nose. It would be an honor!" Brock swooned.
Jayfeather hissed and swatted his head. "On second thought, YOU chew the poultice!"
Brock's head drooped in disappointment. "Yes Jayfeather." He moped and chewed the leaves downheartedly.
Nightshade eyed Brock coldly before turning to Foxheart. "After you're treated, do you want to share some fresh-kill?"
"Sure!" Foxheart said cheerfully and twined her tail with his.
"Not again…" Brock's face fell with his ears and tail drooping.
Jayfeather glared at Brock irritably. "Hurry up with that poultice! We'll all be elders before you finish!"
Brock forced himself to hurry to please his mentor. "Here…"
Jayfeather took the poultice and applied it to Foxheart's nose. "And here's a couple Poppy Seeds for pain, but not enough to put you to sleep."
"Thank you!" Foxheart responded before glancing at Brock. "What's wrong?"
Brock sat up straight and tried to look as if nothing happened. "Nothing at all! Don't worry about me!"
Nightshade smirked at Brock darkly.
"Too late…" Foxheart pouted.
"Alright, that's enough chit-chat. Everyone out of here." Jayfeather said, annoyed.
"What would you like from the fresh-kill pile, Foxheart?" Nightshade asked as he went to leave with the shadow of a smile.
"I don't know…" Foxheart huffed.
"Okay then… Whatever. We'll grab anything that catches our eye, I guess."
"Like a finch!" Foxheart piped up.
"Yeah… Sure, whatever you want." Nightshade muttered.
Foxheart scowled as she started out of the den. "Yeah… Let's go…"
The two warriors went out to the fresh-kill pile and grabbed a finch for the two of them to share. They layed down outside of the Warrior's den.
"So, your nose feeling any better?" Nightshade asked.
Foxheart pawed at it. "Yeah, I guess."
An apprentice that almost looked pink with fur in the style of Nurse Joy's hair stomped up to the two. "Hey… do you think the Medicine Cat can have two apprentices? Hmm Nightshade?" She asked grouchily.
From the corner of his eye, Nightshade saw Foxheart glare at Joypaw. "Hmm? There's never been two before but I guess that's something you'd have to discuss with Jayfeather…"
"Okay…" Joypaw answered downheartedly.
"Go away!" Foxheart snapped, making Joypaw cringe and Nightshade look at her in surprise.
"Okay…" Joypaw responded in a small voice, starting to tear up.
"I'm sorry!" Foxheart apologized. "I'm just grumpy…" She scowled again.
Nightshade looked slightly taken aback by Foxheart's outburst. "Grumpy because of the pain or something else…?" He turned back to Joypaw. "Have you talked to Jayfeather about it yet? Your only hope of becoming a Medicine Cat Apprentice may be if Rockpaw decides to become a Warrior Apprentice for whatever reason."
Joypaw gained a dark look on her face. "Okay… then that's my goal!" With that, she ran to the Medicine den.
"Ah what a beautiful day," Brock stated with a content sigh.
"Yes, it is." Jayfeather agreed as he sorted herbs.
"Beautiful day, beautiful she-cats-" Brock was cut off as Jayfeather's paw swiped his ears painfully. He whimpered in pain momentarily before continuing. "Beautiful sun, beautiful weather… gorgeous she-ca-" Before he could even finish, Jayfeather swiped his ears again.
"You're a Medicine Cat Apprentice. You can't swoon over she-cats!" He hissed and walked into the storage part of the Medicine den.
Brock groaned again.
"Hello…" Joypaw said as she approached Brock, the dark look still intact.
"Joypaw!" His eyes sparkled. "What brings YOU here this fine morning? Are you hurt?!"
"No… You need to become a Warrior Apprentice." She stated.
"Huh? Why do you say that?"
Joypaw's eyes suddenly twinkled as she stared at Brock lovingly. "Because… That's the only way we can be together." Her tail brushed against his cheek.
He blushed madly under his pelt. "I, uh-"
Jayfeather padded out of the den behind them. "Hey Joypaw, need anything?"
"I CAN'T BE A MEDICINE CAT APPRENTICE ANYMORE!" Brock blurted out.
"What? Why the Dark Forest not?!" Jayfeather spat with a suspicious glance in Joypaw's general direction.
One of the clan members was passing by the den when Jayfeather had said this. "DARK FOREST?!" They screamed and fainted.
"…" Jayfeather stared pathetically.
"Oh no!" Joypaw cried and rushed to the cat's aid with some herbs, reviving it. "~Doo doo doo doo doo~" She hummed the Pokemon Centre healing music.
"Hey! Thanks!" The cat said, leaping up.
"Thanks for waiting." She bowed her head. "We hope to see you again."
"…Okay Rockpaw, you're fired." Jayfeather padded up to Joypaw. "How were you able to heal that cat with no training?"
"I've always had a knack for it." She responded in a bubbly voice.
"How would you like to become my new apprentice?" He offered.
"Oh, I want that." She said with a wide smile.
"WHAAAAA?! But Joypaw, my sweet! I thought you said that I needed to stop being a Medicine Cat Apprentice so that we could be together!" Brock wailed.
"Oh yeah, right. Now that you're not a Medicine Cat Apprentice anymore, you can finally get a mate… And stop annoying me with it." Jayfeather said, muttering the last part.
Joypaw looked at Brock with wide, innocent eyes. "Oh, did I say that?" She chuckled. "Silly silly tom. I'm a Medicine Cat."
"Burn!" Jayfeather cackled.
Brock's face fell with his ears and tail drooping as a depessive cloud hung over him. "Rejected again." He moaned.
A gray tabby she-kit with one blue and one green eye ran in. "Jayfeather! My paw!"
"Oh, you poor kit!" Joypaw gasped.
"No!" She pouted. "I'm about to be an apprentice!"
Brock felt as if his heart had been captured by this beautiful she-cat. He ran to her in a flash, already over his rejection from Joy, and took one of her paws in his. "How is it that I never met such a beautiful cat as yourself before?! You eyes are like the forest and lake, entwined in purrfect harmony!"
"Here we go again…" Jayfeather grumbled. "At least I don't have to put up with it anymore."
"Uhh… Thanks?" The kit blinked rapidly in surprise.
"Anyways, let's get that thorn out of your paw, Tigerkit. Rockpaw, you should go meet the other apprentices." Jayfeather turned to Joypaw. "Joypaw, do you know how to treat this case?"
"Well, Poppy Seeds are for pain and Marigold to fight infection." Joypaw recited.
Tigerkit glanced at Rockpaw. "Oh! My paww! Ohhh!" She started swaying around, feining terrible pain.
"Are you alright?!" Brock asked frantically.
"Rockpaw, leave. We need room to work." Jayfeather growled, his patience snapping. "Yes Joypaw, that is correct. But first we must get the thorn out of her paw. You start chewing the poultice and I'll get it out. Then you can give her Poppy Seeds and I'll apply the poultice." He instructed.
Brock finally backed out of the den, disappointed. He turned to go look for Ash, May and Max.
"Bye Rockpaw!" Tigerkit called before shouting out in pain as the long thorn was pulled out of her paw.
Jayfeather disposed of the thorn and then applied the chewed poultice to her wound. "Alright, now give her some Poppy Seeds, but just enough to take away her pain."
"Huh?" Brock turned as he heard Tigerkit call his 'cat name'. "Oh! Farewell, delicate flower!"
"My name's Tigerki-" She started but was choked off as a HUGE pawful of Poppy Seeds was shoved down her throat.
"SHE'S IN SO MUCH PAIN!" Joypaw said like a frantic mad-woman as she shoved the seeds down Tigerkit's throat.
Jayfeather blinked with a sweat drop at the scene. "Uhh… I don't think she needed THAT much… She'll sleep well tonight." He muttered the last part.
"Sorry!" Joypaw frowned.
Tigerkit passed out instantly. "Rockpaw?" She turned over in her sleep and muttered. "Am I really a flower?"
"Is that normal?" Joypaw asked.
"Rockpaw got to her head apparently, who knows how normal she'll be…" Jayfeather snorted.
"Kay…" Joypaw sweat dropped.
"So I learned some information while you guys were gone." Max stated as the group sat under the shade of a small brush to talk.
"You learned it while you were stuck in that den?" May smirked.
"No," Max pouted. "The cat let me go talk to the elders after she forced me to have a quick nap- which I faked." He beamed proudly.
"So…" May rolled her eyes at her brother's childishness. "What did you learn?"
"Well, there's basically four clans. Thunderclan- the one we're in, Riverclan, Windclan and Shadowclan." Max started.
"We just met Shadowclan!" May gasped.
"I heard that they are no good crow-food eaters… what ever that is." Max said.
"They got into a fight with our patrol." Ash said.
"What?!" Max's eyes became huge. "You guys got into a fight?!"
"Nah, the other cats did." Ash explained.
"But it was horrible!" May cried.
Ignoring her, Max went on. "But besides those four clans, there's one that they all worship. It's called Starclan. I'm guessing that it would be the equivilant of Arceus for us."
"And what else?" May pressed.
"Nothing much. Except a strict rule system called the 'Warrior Code' and some stories of really scary cats here and there." Max shrugged.
"I bet none are as scary as that Nightshade cat…" May shuddered.
"I still can't believe that he has the name of a Pokemon move…" Ash muttered.
Max ignored them again and continued. "So now we just need to figure out what could have caused us to get here and turn into cats… What do you guys remember happening before we woke up like this?"
"Well, we were on a ship while it was storming and I passed out all of a sudden." Ash said.
"I remember seeing a bright light under the water. It almost looked like a Pokemon…" May mused.
"And we were given tickets to go to some kind of party." A voice spoke behind them.
They all turned. "Brock!"
May smirked at him. "All done flirting with the female cats, Brock?"
"Nope! Not by a long shot!" Brock stated, making them all sweat drop. "But I need to be a part of this discussion."
Ash smiled at him. "Great to have you Brocko."
Brock grinned back at Ash before his expression became serious.
"That's right!" Max realized. "We WERE all given tickets to some party!"
"And it included a lot of the people that Ash knew from all of the different regions. Who in the world knew all of Ash's friends? They didn't even leave their name on the invitation! But we all shrugged it off and went anyways. Then all of this happened." Brock summed up his thoughts.
May gasped. "Do you think that it was a trap?"
"It would make sense if it was… But how did we get to this different demension?" Max asked.
"Did you say different demension, Max?" Brock inquired.
"Yeah," Max blinked and looked around at all the cats. "It sure seems like it at least. How else would rare creatures in the Pokemon world be gathered together in large groups or even more importantly, how did we turn into them?"
"Ash," he turned to his friend, "do you remember Palkia?"
"Yeah… From Alimose Town. It took us to another demension right?"
"Right."
"I've heard of Palkia! That makes sense!" Max agreed excitedly.
"Or this could be one big nightmare!" May suggested with wide eyes.
"… That we all share? Come on May, don't be stupid." Max huffed.
"Hey! Take that back!" May yowled and bowled her brother over.
"Hey! Get off of me May!"
"Darkrai!" Ash suddenly blurted out.
The two siblings stopped fighting and looked at him in confusion. "Darkrai?" They asked.
"Yeah, he can make people and Pokemon have bad dreams." Brock explained.
"So it COULD be a shared nightmare after all." May boasted and beamed at Max.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Now will ya' get off me already?" Max grumbled.
"Say it first." May demanded.
"Wha-? Say what?"
"Say that I was right and I'll let you go." May bargained.
"There's no way that I'm ever saying that!" Max protested.
"Fine," May looked away stubbornly, "then there's no way that I'm getting up."
"I'm not saying it!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
Brock sighed and glanced at Ash. "They're almost as bad as you and Misty. Note that I said ALMOST, no one could be worse than you two at bickering."
Instead of delivering a retort, Ash wondered where Misty was. 'If she was here then shouldn't we have seen her by now? She'd be freaking out like the rest of us…'
"Alright you two," Brock finally spoke up, jerking Ash out of his thoughts. "Let's continue figuring this out."
"Fine, I'll let it go for now." May sighed and leaped off of Max.
He stood up, shook his fur out and glared at her. "Gee thanks May." His voice was laced with sarcasm. "You're just lucky that mom and dad aren't here or-"
"-You would tell on me." May finished for him. "Excuse me but we have bigger problems."
"GUYS!" Brock snapped.
They looked at him with wide eyes. "Sorry."
He sighed. "What are we going to do now?"
"Find a way to get back somehow." May shrugged. "Maybe the answer will come to us. But I'm surprised that you want to go back so badly Brock." She smirked at the doctor cat. "You seem so happy chasing female cats here."
"Although they too are beautiful, they are nothing compared to human girls!" Brock wailed, making the group sweat drop.
"Right…" They all muttered.
"But I think that we need to travel outside of these clans to find our answers. If it IS a different demension then we shouldn't be able to get past a certain point like in Alomose town." Brock rationalized.
"When should we go?" Max asked.
"How about tonight? We'll sneak out and explore. But don't be too conspicuous or we may be stopped from leaving." Brock motioned them all closer into a huddle to avoid any other ears hearing. "Any questions so far?"
Ash raised his paw.
"Yes, Ash?"
He put his paw down. "What does con…spice…ose mean?"
The other three face-pawed. "That's conspicuous Ash." Brock answered. "It means to not be too obvious."
"Oh okay." Ash smiled cheekily. "I knew that."
They all groaned.
"Moving on…" Brock looked around the camp. "Find any secret exits that there may be."
Ash raised his paw again, making Brock suppress a groan. "Yes Ash?"
"What time do we meet?"
It seemed like a logical question but Brock was stumped.
"Ash! We're cats, there's no clocks here!" Max pointed out in a tone that implied Ash was an idiot- which he was but that was beside the point.
"Just use the sun and moon!" May piped in. "We didn't always go by time when traveling either. Why don't we meet when everyone seems to be asleep and the moon is high in the sky?"
Max opened his mouth but May shot him a glare before he could speak. "If you call my idea stupid again, I'll make sure that the cat mom keeps you in that den."
Before another argument could start, Brock spoke up. "So we're all agreed on the plan right? Let the group know when you've found an exit."
"Right." They all agreed.
"Now, if you'll excuse me…" Brock began to back away from the group, making them give him curious stares. "I'm going to go enjoy the company of the she-cats here now that I'm free of being a medicine cat. YAHOO!" With that, he ran to a random she-cat with a dust cloud following behind him and started flirting.
Max sighed. "Just like the old days…" He muttered before padding to Brock and yanking him away by the ear with the one thing he knew how to grab with as a cat: his teeth.
"OWOWOWOWOWOW! That's worse than any other ear pulling! Cut it out!" Brock cried, making the she-cat sweat drop.
"This isn't working…" Max muttered and let go of Brock's ear, making the older trainer sigh in relief. "Here we go!" He grabbed Brock's ear with his claws this time and drug him away flailing.
"OWOWOWOWOWOW! This isn't any better! Let go!" Brock continued wailing. Ash and May sweat dropped at the sight.