Ok first off I can not express how apologetic I am about how long it took me to get this chapter up. I caught a very serious bug, called Writer's block. (Ok maybe not a real bug, but that's what I named my virus in Pandemic 2. It killed almost 7 billion people (and wiped Peru off the map) Beware of Writer's block!)
Also I would like to announce that I'm going to be starting a comic up on my DeviantArt account. The first page is almost done, as well as the cover page (it was what I was working on while I was stuck). Next time I post a chapter, I will give the link to the page, as well as to any other pages that I post from here on out. On dA I am known as Scarkit. So give me a search there if you have a spare second.
And without my yammering, ON WITH THE STORY!
*cough*disclaimer:*cough* :)
"This is not fair at all!" Char-iuk sighed as we padded through the forest, his paws behind his head like Gary did a lot when he was annoyed. "I mean it wasn't even that bad of a word, I think."
"Why did you call Drano that anyways?" I asked, walking slowly beside him, keeping an eye out for anything that shouldn't be in the forest.
"I don't know." My brother said honestly. "Gary called you that once, while he was trying to teach us one of his 'simple words'."
"So you thought it would be fun to call Drano that?" I questioned. "Do you even know what a 'douchebag' is?"
Char-iuk looked at me from the corner of his eye, before returning his gaze to the morning sky. "No but it sounded like an insult. And Drano was being annoying, you have to admit that."
"Yeah but now you got us stuck on high moon lookout duty." I sighed, glancing around the moonlit forest, hoping that there wasn't a Mon wanting to cause trouble tonight. Thankfully all seemed quiet. "And a boring lookout duty at that." I mumbled, not really wanting Char-iuk to hear it, lest he think of a way to 'make fun'. Sadly for me, he seemed to have a plan as such already.
"So do you think Gary's up?" He smiled.
"No." I said flatly. "The humans always sleep at Moonout. And they never post lookouts. It's like they completely trust that no one will attack them while they aren't looking."
"Well maybe they posted a lookout tonight, since we've been telling Gary how crazy it is not to have a lookout. Maybe he passed the knowledge on."
"And maybe Snorlaxes learned to fly." I said flatly.
"Really?" Char-iuk said looking up in the sky with a twinge of fear in his eyes. He glanced up as we continued walking through the forest, only going back to looking at the path when I grabbed his tail to stop him from walking into a tree. Char-iuk shook his head before turning his attention back to me. "So the human herd dens?"
"Since we have been walking in circles with nothing happening for Arceus knows how long?" I sighed. "Sure why not?" Char-iuk grinned before getting on all fours and running towards the human's dens. "Hey but if Mama asks I said that it was a stupid idea!" I said running after him. Mew, I hate not being able to run on all fours.
Char-iuk (POV)
Cha-ko and I stared up at the giant den that we followed Gary's scent too. Even in the dark, with the Cresselia covering the moon, the den still managed to cast an eerie shadow over us.
"Char-iuk, I don't think we are near the forest anymore." My little brother stated the obvious. I just rolled my eyes and turned my attention to some of the stuff around the den. There was a large stick like thing closest to us, with the top moving around in circles with the wind. There were also some of the small dens around the larger one, much like the one that we meet Gary at all the time, his so called "shed".
"So are we going in or what?" I grinned. Cha-ko stared at me like I had just grown wings (which would be cool, because that means that evolved early.)
"We can't go in there!" He hissed. "That's the human's home. We don't even go this far with Gary. What if this isn't Gary's den?"
I rolled my eyes again. What was it with Cha-ko and pointing out the obvious? "Then we either attack them or run away, duh."
Cha-ko sighed. "Fine, but if Mama finds out, I was more against it than Groudon is against the large water." He huffed. I smiled and padded over to one of the den's see-holes. "So how do we get in?" My brother asked, looking though the see-hole beside me.
"Well we can make a hole, but that will get the human's attention." I told him, ignoring the 'no duh' look from Cha-ko. "Maybe there's a covered entrance around here. Humans are smaller than other Pokémon, maybe they need to hide their den entrances."
Cha-ko nodded and looked around before lighting up in realization. "The human's scent will be stronger at the den's entrance!" He said, before closing his eyes to try to catch a whiff of the human scent. "Maybe we can find it that way." I nodded and started padding the other direction, hoping that if we split up we could find it faster.
I was almost to the other side of the den before I heard Cha-ko. I turned around and started to head back to Cha-ko as I heard his squeak of success. As I reached back to where he was, I noticed he was near one of the den's straight walls, pushing at a wood flap at the bottom.
"Stop that, you'll break it." I hissed at him.
"No look." He said pushing it again. The flap seemed to be pliable and bent at his small push. "The humans that live here must be really small. And look they even put see-holes over their den entrance. That must be to confuse other Mons." I went over to his side and started pushing on the den entrance covering myself.
"Wow… These humans have the strangest ideas." I said looking around. "Well the night's not getting any longer." I said, going through the den entrance. After I went through, I waited for Cha-ko to gather his courage ("Arceus save us") and join me inside the den. Inside was a lot different than the outside.
"What is this place?" I asked, tapping my back claws on the glossy stone floors. Cha-ko started to look at the things in the middle of the den.
"Can we go now?" Cha-ko asked me, after looking at something that had little buttons and lights. "This place gives me the creeps. It reminds me of the dreams that Darkari gives me." He said, his voice dipping down as he shivered in the memories. I was about to agree, when I heard footsteps.
"I know I just heard something down here."
"Hide." I hissed at Cha-ko. He nodded and went behind a shelf covered in Pokeballs. I hid behind a plant closer to the den entrance, pulling my tail closer to I could hide the light better. I had no clue how well humans could see in the dark and I didn't really want to chance it.
"Maybe a Pidgey flew in the chimney like last time?" A voice that we recognized said. I glanced at Cha-ko and he nodded and mouthed 'Gary's here'.
"We need to check though, your Grandpa is working really hard and the last thing we need is for a random Pokémon to mess up all of his hard work."
We could hear Gary sigh as the den was filled with light. "Yeah like the pidgey that came in looking for food on the other side of the lab, was a danger to Gramps' experiments."
"Soorry" The second human said, annoyingly drawing out one of the sounds. "Not all of us can pretend to speak to Pokémon."
"I do not pretend! I really know how!" Gary quietly yelled. "It's not my fault you can't understand them." Gary told the second human as they started to leave the den, turning off the fake sun as they left. Cha-ko glanced at me from his hiding spot. I carefully padded over to him, being careful to keep my tail dimmed and to remain on four paws. Unfortunately, I wasn't as careful as how low I stayed to the ground, as I rather loudly bumped into one of the standing pieces of wood in the den, knocking down most of the stuff that was on top of the wood.
"Arceus' name!" I swore loudly, rubbing my head. Cha-ko almost came out of his hiding spot to check on me before we were both stopped by a voice.
"What was that?" The other human, that had just been in the room, exclaimed. We heard footsteps rush back into the room.
"It didn't sound like anything to me." Gary said loudly, the last word almost coming out as a squeak.
"Well I'm going to find out." The second human said, walking back to the den-room that we were in, panicking Cha-ko slightly. We could hear Gary's lighter footsteps following the harder, more even sounds of the other human. Cha-ko and I scrambled to find different hiding spots, Cha-ko more trying to clean up some of the fallen Pokeballs that fell from the wood stand.
"Lance!" Gary hissed. "Don't go in there." Cha-ko hid back underneath one of the standing carrying wood walls, as we heard the tell-tale sounds of running footsteps. (A/N it's hard to come up with names for common things from the eyes of a foreigner xD)
"Or what? Are you actually going to stop me from seeing what's in the Professor's lab?"
"Well…" Gary was hesitating. I stood frozen in place not even noticing that the two humans were getting closer to discovering me. What did I have a capture wish?
"See no reason, now move aside small fry." The second voice told Gary. A small "uph" lead me to suspect that he had pushed my friend out of his way, and soon I was face to face with another human. This one not much stranger than the others, which isn't saying much. He was much taller than Gary, but still shorter than the old "gramps" that Gary always talked about, and had fire colored fur on the top of his head. His fake fur was the funniest, same as Gary's as he soon came into view. The strange new human had little pictures of Dratinis, while Gary had one with pictures of Pikachus, Charmanders, Bulbasuars, and Squirtles covering his fake fur. It took every ounce of my being not to roll over in laughter, though that's not saying that I didn't let a tiny one loose. But it was just a little one.
((Gary's POV)) (Pokémon speak will be italicized)
I nearly lost my jaw to the floor as Lance and I walked in, well more like Lance marched in, but Char-iuk and Lance gave a staring contest which ended in Char-iuk all but rolling on the floor by the end of it. I was honestly scared that the tiny Charmander was going to have an asthma attack, by how hard he was laughing.
"Seriously?" Lance growled. "I did NOT wake up at two in the morning to be laughed at by a Charmander." He said, pulling out a pokèball. "Dratini, please show this little imp something about rude awakings." He said as a Dratini appeared from the pokèball.
"What ever you say." The dragon Pokémon said. Have I ever mentioned how awkward Pokémon battles are now that I know what they are saying?
"Lance, what are you doing?" I asked the Elite Four member. Well Richard asked him if he wanted to be a part of the Elite Four and he was supposed to be completing his training with Gramps and Richard, so he is almost an Elite Four member. "Gramps said that you're not supposed to battle in the labs."
"I'm just chasing this stray Pokémon out, or even better, I'll catch it and save damage to the Professor's lab." Lance told me, a bit of a smirk forming. "Besides it's more than you were doing."
I hardly had time to think of a response before Char-iuk started attacking Lance's Dratini.
"Hey, what was that for?" The small snake-dragon complained to Char-iuk, a nice round bump forming on the former's head.
"I don't know." Char-iuk honestly replied. "Instinct and the fact that you're a trainer-Mon doesn't help your approval rating either."
"Hey be nice." I squeaked to Char-iuk, earning a cautious glance from Lance. "Your Mama is a trainer-mon too."
"But at least she can fight like a real Mon." Char-iuk said, earning what could be called a Mean Look from Lance's Dratini.
"I'm not translating any of that." I told the so-called "Dragon-Master-in-training", which earned me another cautious glance. I threw him a glare back before he went back to focus on the 'battle'. It's not my fault that I understand Pokémon. I completely blame my teachers, one of which was beating the crap out of the "Dragon Master's" new dragon Pokémon, and the other one… Wait where was Cha-ko?
"Take that you dragon imposter!" Char-iuk said gleefully, while unleashing a furry of Metal Claws mixed in with Fire Punches.
"How am I an imposter?" Dratini said, hiding behind a Safeguard Lance was smart enough to call out. "I'm an actual Dratini! I have the jewel and everything!"
"Char-iuk." I called out, softly, actually remembering that there were still others in the house asleep. "Where's your brother?" Lance gave me a look like I had grown two heads. "What?" I hissed at him, "He and Cha-ko are like peanut butter and jelly. They aren't apart unless something bad happened."
"Yeah and you aren't bad." Char-iuk said, standing on top of the newly defeated Dratini and giving Lance a well-deserved heart attack.
"Lookie, Char-iuk!" I faintly heard from the other room.
"Why is there something squealing from the Pokémon Storage room?"
"Ahh… shoot." I said dashing off, Char-iuk on my tail happily following me. Lance soon followed, after returning his fallen Pokémon. What we saw when I stepped in the room was not what I was expecting at all.
Cha-ko surrounded by other Pokémon, which he released from their Pokèballs, with the one furry little electric rodent that Gramps hatched a few weeks ago and promptly took out all the electricity in all of Pallet Town.
"I made a new friend." The human-Pokémon hybrid, which is what I started calling him, said happily. And if Arceus had given the poor thing a tail, it would be wagging faster than a Rapidash. "This is Longtail's brother, but he doesn't have a name because the humans don't let him out because he likes to blow things up."
"So you're going to call him Pikachu?" Char-iuk asked, Lance and myself still in a shocked state.
"Hey I have feelings you know!" The said electric rodent squeaked.
"Can I call you Pi-ock? I like that name for you."
"Sure why not? It's better than 'scary electric rodent'."
"That's your name?" Cue eruption of laughter from Mons.
"Ok this night officially can not get any stranger." I muttered to Lance.
"No kidding."
Of Course Arceus had to prove me wrong.
"What in the blazes is going on down here!"
"Oh hi Gramps" "Morning Professor Oak." Lance and I muttered to my Grandpa, as he marched down the stairs. Of course what else do the Pokémon do? Laugh their little tails off at Gramps' pjs, which sported a lovely scene of a Jigglypuff and Clefairy singing around a microphone.
Ok maybe I could see the humor in that one. I still think mine are cool though.
Count before Author's notes- 2520. Almost six pages long. That's pretty good for me. ;)
So keep an eye out on DeviantArt for my comic, and any drawings I'll be putting forth for the story. And please put in a review. I just saw that they made that easier too (hint hint wink wink). And hopefully the next one won't be attacked by a massive pandemic of Writer's block like last time.