{Requested by Lord of Dong}
The only thing worse than suffering for the one you cherish, is suffering alone and not telling them so~
=Instinctual Intellectuals=
= Human (Laura) / Pokemon (Draco) =
*Narrator*
[The Hoenn region has always been famous for its mysterious bordering islands, more commonly referred to as, Mirage Islands. These mysteriously vanishing islands that always seem to appear and disappear at random, have always been a mystery begging to be solved. They are an enigma that draws explorers and enthusiasts alike to their shores, but just as quickly as one island is found, it seems to vanish just as easily.]
[The only way one can reliably find and track these islands is to search for them from the sky. However, while the most effective method, recorded anyway, has been from the backs of the Eon Pokemon, Latios and Latias, those that are unfortunate enough to have not earned their trust are forced to find alternative means. Other Pokemon capable of soaring the skies and carry their human partners, have difficulty finding the islands without help.]
(Laura's PoV)
The wind roared in her ear as she looked through her special edition Devon Scopes, constantly searching left and right below her for one of the Mirage Islands north of Hoenn, more specifically north of Fortree City. Below her the sea raged and waved, this way and that way, always in motion, never stopping or holding its position for more than a microsecond.
Just like how her stomach was feeling as she went up and down, just enough to make her want to hurl.
"I don't suppose we could hold our position without moving so much?" She asked her Flygon Draco as she looked at him through her Devon Scopes.
"Fly!" He said with a shake of his head.
"Ugh… good thing I didn't eat before we left." She complained as she went back to searching. "We need to work on your 'dragon pride' when we get back home, seriously… how many times am I going to get 'No Thanks' replies in my inbox? We could be using a boat for this job and I could carry more equipment with me! But instead, here we are, again, looking for mirage islands, again, and I'm once more feeling the urge to hurl because I feel sick, again!"
"Flygon…" Draco said sadly, and she knew he was merely apologizing.
She frowned as she continued looking for her Mirage Island. This was true, ever since a couple years ago when she was about seventeen, she's been trying to get Draco's species pride as a desert dwelling dragon type under control. It first started with guys asking her out for dinner, true she didn't like half of em, but he always scared them off somehow, even the ones she didn't mind. Then it started when some guys started asking her out on a date while she was neck deep in her theories and discoveries concerning Mirage Islands.
Draco once again, scared them off, not letting a single one even get two words out before he started threatening them. At first she didn't mind too much, and even let it slide because he was, after all, a male Flygon in a mostly human environment. She figured that because he figured himself the 'alpha male' in their pair, he considered it his job to protect her and keep other guys away.
She was even suspecting that after spending so much time with her, he no longer wanted a female of his own species. The only female member of his species that they had ever come across was a Vibrava on a Contest Spectacular show while they lived in Fortree City, but even then he didn't seem concerned. A part of her suspected that he considered her 'his' mate.
*Not that I have anything against it, but he's just so overprotective!* She thought bitterly, also remembering the times when he wouldn't leave her alone. *As much as I love my Flygon, and I'd never abandon him or give him up, he just won't leave me be sometimes. A girl needs her space every now and then! I should at least be able to use the bathroom without him walking around outside the stall door!*
She shivered as she remembered that lovely incident two years ago. The poor girls got the surprise of their lives when they saw Draco walk in behind her a few seconds after. True he didn't know what a ladies' bathroom was, since she mostly went at home, but still, it took her months before they finally stopped talking about her Flygon the 'peeping tom'. It also didn't help that his species had those lens around their eyes, enabling them to see at great distances and with clarity in a sandstorm.
She also remembered what happened after that 'incident', but shook her head to get the image out. That was in the past, and they had both done their best to get over it. He wasn't thinking clearly and he couldn't control himself. Nothing short of another dragon type could have stopped him.
She returned to searching the seas for the Mirage Island, trying to ignore how sick she was feeling.
"Flygon!" Draco yelled, drawing her attention to their left.
As she focused the scopes, she saw that there was an island down below her, the edges of which shimmered ever so slightly. Seeing it she smirked, they had found their island.
"Land down there Draco!" She ordered.
"Fly!" Draco said as he began flying down.
As they approached she noticed him picking up his pace to land, and upon finally touching down onto solid ground, and her consequentially getting off, she saw him panting heavily.
It panged her a little seeing Draco working so hard, his species wasn't known for flying at high altitudes or for carrying passengers for any extended period of time. But then she remembered that he brought it on himself, if he hadn't frightened her colleague they wouldn't have been forced to do this the hard way.
"Alright, let's take a look around!" She said as she took her scopes off and pulled out her journal from her handbag.
"Fly… gon." Draco panted as he followed behind her.
(Draco's PoV)
Draco followed behind Laura as they explored the Mirage Island, but while she was looking this way and that way, completely enamored with the island itself, he had eyes only for her. Of course he would look around every so often, both to watch out for threats and/or rivals, but also to give her the appearance that he too was interested in the island.
In truth though, he didn't really care much about the island, it was 'who' was on this island that he was concerned with.
*She's going to yell at me again when we get back.* He thought sadly as they climbed up the base of a hill toward what looked like a small mountain in the center of the island. *Whatever, as long as I have her all to myself I don't mind being yelled at.*
He silently cursed himself for being a dragon type as he stared at Laura again, not because it made him so prideful, but because it was his very pride that was slowly destroying his relationship with Laura. He's been with her for over ten years, since she hatched him as a Trapinch in grade school. When she hit high school and he became a Vibrava, he first began seeing her maturing and, for lack of a better word, 'evolving' into a beautifully attractive female.
At least to him anyway.
When he became a Flygon during high school, she was just entering her junior year, and it was then that he began to see her as a worthy mate. But it was also then that he started his unfortunate tendency to ward off potential 'rivals'.
As a dragon type Pokemon, he has this instinct to protect his mate from any and all rivals, no matter what. While he had been trained to resist quite a few of his more powerful instincts thanks to Laura, there was just one or two things that even she couldn't train out of him. The first was that instinct from before, where he would threaten and ward off other males from his, at least from his perspective, mate.
The second, as he stared at the back of her hair, admiring her short cut brunette colored hair, her slightly tanned skin, and her five foot three inch figure, was something they both had tried to forget even to this day.
He knew it wasn't his fault, she also knew it wasn't his fault, they both tried very hard to forget it ever happened. But as she paused to survey her surroundings, him pretending to do the same yet still glancing at her frequently, he never forgot that 'incident' that happened two years ago. It happened the same night he had followed her, by accident, into the woman's bathroom.
The memory haunted him to this day, when it happened, he wasn't in complete control of himself. The next day when they found out 'why' he did it, she had all but completely forgiven him, but he would never, ever, forget it. He forced himself to remember it, the day he almost destroyed his relationship with Laura, his beloved Trainer.
[Flashback, two years ago!]
(Draco's PoV)
He sighed as he listened to Laura taking a shower on the floor above, knowing it was best to stay downstairs while she was mad. It wasn't his fault, how was he to know that rooms like 'that' were private and only meant for humans of the same gender? That was the first time he's ever been somewhere 'with' a... wait a moment. *What's that smell?*
*He smelled the pheromones from the living room where he was sleeping, he could smell his mate. As he smelled her enticing scent, his eyes became clouded, and an instinct, an almost primal instinct rose up in him. Suddenly he stood up and began walking up to her room, to his mate.*
It was the shampoo, the smell of her brand new shampoo had a scent similar to that of a female Flygon in heat. When the smell from her bath hit his nostrils, it triggered an instinctual desire deep in his mind, a drive that told him she was ready and wanting to mate. At first he was confused as to why he felt that way, but those 'tamed' thoughts were shoved aside within seconds of thinking them.
*He walked up the stairs toward the source of the scent, toward his mate. Within moments he entered her room and saw her with her back to him, drying herself off with a towel. He saw her soft skin, her beautiful shape, and more importantly, saw her bend over to 'present herself' to him.*
*He knew she wanted him, and he wanted her.*
She was bending over to pick up her underwear, but his lust filled mind, fueled by the mistaken scent of a female in heat and confused by the scent of her shampoo, had mistaken her actions as a mating ritual. A battle in his mind was raging, and it was a losing fight that his more tamed thoughts could not win. He tried to make sense, to understand what was happening, but his years without a mate, his secret feelings toward his trainer, and now this uncontrollable desire for her drove his actions.
His last conscious thought, before it was swept aside, was that he loved his trainer from the bottom of his heart, and he would never hurt her willingly.
"What the, Draco, what do you…?" She said when she saw him behind her.
*Without a warning he was on her, and at first there was a slight resistance, but she was 'his' mate, no one else's. At first she tried to push him away, but she a mere female confused by his actions and her own instincts. Once it became clear what he intended, she would not resist him. Soon she saw what he was about to do and froze, he smiled and began to press into her, happy that she understood what was going on now. Soon they would become one…*
He couldn't stop himself, without any warning he had grabbed her from behind and pushed her down on the ground. She screamed and struggled, trying to yell at him to stop, but it was futile. She was weaker than him, and his body was being fueled by a lust filled mind and the muscle power of a Dragon. She was no match as his member slid out of its sheath. When she saw him, she whimpered slightly and tried to tell him to stop, but it was too late. He pushed inside of her…
"No, Draco… stop it… please don't!" She had screamed, before his eight inch member shoved its way through her lips, right through her hymen, and into the farthest point of her womb.
*She screamed in ecstasy as he claimed her, and he felt wonderful for initiating the mating ritual…*
She screamed in pain when he claimed her, and while it was warm and tight for him, he was larger than what her kind was meant to take.
*He glanced down and saw the lines of red, and smiled inwardly that he was her first, before he began to thrust, listening to her cries of joy.*
He could see the lines of blood from her lost virginity, and while he smiled, she cried in pain as he began thrusting in and out of her.
He continued to thrust in and out of her tight passage, pushing ever harder with his powerful hips, holding her soft front with his clawed hands. While he thrusted she began to moan, sadly and painfully, but moaning nonetheless.
"It… hurts…" She had moaned several times, but he continued to ignore her painful sobs, unable to push the concept that he was hurting her past his lust. "Why… why Draco… stop it… please!"
All he felt was pleasure as her sex wrapped around his member tightly, slowly shaping around his hardened member perfectly. Soon he began to pick up his pace, and she began to stop moaning in pain, slowly changing from pain to pleasure.
"Oh… it's so big…" She said as he began thrusting inside more rapidly, trying to get as far inside of her as possible. "Harder… harder!"
It was obvious now that her mind had become clouded due to the pleasure he was putting her through, but again he didn't care, she wanted him to push harder, and that was what he would do. He was 'her' mate after all, if he can't please her than she would seek another mate. So he pushed as hard as he could, slapping her fleshy rear so hard that they had become red from their normal tanned pink. Then without warning, he pulled her close to him, and hilted as far as he could inside of her.
And released his seed deep into her womb.
She shook slightly as his member convulsed, releasing strings of seed into her warm pussy. She wasn't breathing loudly, all he could hear from her was faint gasps of pleasure mixed with confused painful sobs.
"You… came… inside…" She whispered hoarsely, barely managing to say what she wanted because she had so little breath. "Why… why Draco?"
His only response was to kiss her on her mouth, revealing his clouded eyes to her, and all he saw were her eyes, his lust ignoring the tears slipping down her cheeks. Then he began thrusting again into her, knowing full well that one time would not satisfy his female, and instinct telling him that one time would not fertilize her eggs.
"Please… no more…" She moaned as he thrusted. "Stop… please… stop it… uh… yes… ah~…"
Their mating act lasted long into the night, how long he didn't know, time seemed to have lost all meaning as he mated her. In his lust filled delusions he might have mated her twice, or even three times, nothing mattered to him except that he mated her long and hard, ensuring that his scent was all over her body so no males would dare touch her. All that he knew was that the next morning his thoughts finally came back to him, and the horror of what he did hit him like the Goldenrod Train. He had forcibly mated with his trainer, what he had done was illegal, and that act could get her arrested, if she didn't get rid of him first.
Upon realizing what he had done, he had tried to kill himself, using anything in their house to rid the world of him.
But it was impossible due to his tough dragon scales, there was very little man made that could penetrate a Flygon's scales. So for the rest of the day he avoided looking at his trainer, ashamed at what he did and unable to forgive himself, even when they went to the Pokemon Center to find out what happened to him.
[Flashback Ends]
(Draco's PoV)
He sighed as he remembered that morning after. She didn't tell Nurse Joy what he did, but she did tell her that he had tried to mate with her. When she asked how far did he go, she lied and said that he snapped out of it just as he was holding her down, saying her voice brought him back just in time to stop himself.
*She protected me, a monster like me… even after what I did to her she protected me…* He thought as she pulled her binoculars out to examine something from afar.
They found out that the Shampoo mixture had somehow accidentally created a scent enticing enough for his more feral instincts to take over him. Apparently an ingredient, an extract of Shuckle Berry Juice, combined with the other ingredients had induced this effect in him. It didn't help that because he had yet to mate with a female, from Nurse Joy's perspective, the smell of the shampoo had driven him into a lust filled state of mind.
When they went home after finding out, Laura had thrown out every bottle of that shampoo's brand, and went back to her old brand. But it took them many, many months to forget the incident. However he never forgot it, and he would never let it happen ever again, but because he had mated with her he now saw her as 'his' mate.
Thus why he drove away other males, why he was so overprotective, and why he hated himself to this very day.
"Hey, wake up Draco!" Laura said, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Yes?" He said, looking up quickly.
"I found something over there, some kind of ruin or something." Laura said "Let's go check it out!"
He nodded and followed her as she led the way with her bag, carrying all of her equipment that she could stash in it as well as some food. They walked for a good half hour before they finally reached the ruins.
(Laura's PoV)
Laura looked around at her surroundings as they entered the remains of what appeared to be, some kind of village. There were broken down stone structures that resembled houses in what appeared to be some kind of square. The houses themselves were all at least thirteen or fourteen hundred years old if her archeology classes taught her anything.
"Wow, I never imagined a Mirage Island being home to a civilization." She said as she eyed the village remains. "These are stone houses, I knew humans had access to this type of stonework back then, but what are these ruins doing here? More importantly how did they get here and why on a mirage island?"
The houses varied in size from building to building, some were the same size as her own house, with a second floor. Others were even larger in height and width, some even tall enough to be over twelve feet tall. The walls of the buildings were covered in vines, moss, and other pieces of nature.
"Wow, nature really sure claimed back her territory here." She said, examining one wall and seeing tons of cracks in the stonework. "This stonework looks really sophisticated… if it weren't for the cracks and all this nature, I'd say this was carved extremely well."
She pulled out her notepad and began scribbling notes on what she was seeing. For several minutes she wrote notes on what she found before she began taking pictures. All the while Draco kept an eye out for danger, as well as her.
*Jeez, he could at least take a break.* She thought bitterly as she went to another building with him following close behind. *What, is a Salamence going to jump out and attack me?*
As she entered the remains of another stone house, this one with the roof caved in, she looked at the inside of the walls and got the surprise of her life.
"Pictographs?" She said as she pulled her camera out again and began snapping pictures. "Ancient pictographs?"
The pictographs were just simplified drawings of what appeared to be the villagers. Stick figures of humans and basic drawings of what appeared to be Pokemon, all of them showing what looked like daily life in the village. She was mesmerized by the detail, the humans all looked similar, but the Pokemon were clearly defined from species to species but still kept their basic theme. Yet what truly astonished her was what accompanied the pictographs.
Pictures of a single species of Pokemon could be seen constantly, Unknown.
"Unknown… why are the Unknown here?" She asked herself, before pulling out another notepad to read a translation of the Unknown.
"Flygon?" Draco asked as he looked over her shoulder to read.
As she checked the Unknown's translations and the pictures, she found that they were lined up to be read as sentences. After she scribbled down the words she translated them.
"We, the last remains of our beloved island of Ootopia, leave a record for those who would come after us…" She read out loud. "Our history, which we wish to preserve for future generations, is our gift to those who have forged a life with the living creatures we live alongside, whether they walk on two or upon four, have skin or scales, have power over the mind or even the elements themselves. What follows is a record of all we have created, strived, and attempted to preserve, so that those who come after learn the lessons we have learned."
She looked at the next set of pictographs on another wall and quickly translated them, noticing how they were creating a sort of story book using both the Unknown themselves to form words, while portraying the words with the images.
"We remembered when this island, surrounded by the vast sea, was created when the earth shook and separated our land. For decades later, we became stranded and forced to survive on the meager bounty this land provided. But we were not alone, the creatures of great intelligence and incredible power were with us as well." She looked below the words and saw images of Humans and Pokemon, what looked like basic images of Rapidash, Gardevoirs, Flygons, even a Salamence, all crowded on an island too small for them all.
"At first we feared they would destroy us, for they had done so in the past, but here on this island, they could not survive any better than we could. Deprived of our tools and natural environment, we could not shape the land easily, and deprived of the forest and bounty of nature, they could not live for long. After much effort on both sides, our two species, creature and human, began working together to survive. United to survive, what challenges that one side suffered became trivial when we were combined!* the next images showed humans and Pokemon facing great odds, a Gardevoir learning to farm with a human's help, using her psychic powers to shape the land, while a Salamence showed it's human how to hunt for Magikarp, diving into the ocean and swimming like it.
"Incredible…" She whispered as she finished the last reading. "Our ancestors were once on this island, and they became trapped with Pokemon in the past!" She touched the pictographs of the humans and felt a strange connection to them. "We were helpless, both of us, alone we couldn't have survived on this island. Neither species could live here successfully… but when they combined their powers, Human intelligence and Pokemon abilities, they thrived where alone they struggled. So this is the origins of Pokemon/Human relationships, working together toward a common goal… survival."
"Fly…" Draco whispered as he looked over her shoulder.
She got up and left the building to look for another building, while Draco continued to look around for threats. As she moved to another house, her foot stepped on a twig and a snapping could be heard throughout the village remains, and in the eerily quiet ruins, it sounded like a thunderbolt.
"Flygon!" Draco yelled, spinning around and letting loose with a blast of Flamethrower.
Caught off guard she spun around and watched him incinerate a nearby tree's branches. Then seconds later he stopped and watched as the ashes of the branch fell down. "ARE YOU INSANE?" She roared furiously. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF ARCEUS DROVE YOU TO DO THAT?"
Draco looked back at her sheepishly before folding his wings back behind him in shame. "Fly gon…" He said sadly.
"I don't care if it was an accident, I don't care if you're super hyped up. I'm asking what if you had burned one of these ruins." She yelled. "These buildings are over thirteen hundred years old, you burn one of these things up and the history of this place will be lost, FOREVER!" She took a deep breath and glared at him again. "I stepped on a twig, alright? There is NOTHING here but pictures, words, and the wind, nothing is going to attack us, so STOP ACTING LIKE YOU NEED TO PROTECT ME!"
"Flygon Fly!" Draco said quickly, but was silenced as Luara yelled again.
"I have had ENOUGH of your overprotectiveness Draco, if you were so protective of me years ago like you are now, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE RAPED ME!" She yelled angrily.
The last two words she said echoed around the remains loudly, for at least a full minute all that could be heard where those words. They simply stared at each other, Laura glaring at Draco with anger, and Draco looking shamefully back at her.
"Fly… gon…" He said feebly, but it barely sounded more than a hoarse whisper.
"Get… out… of… my… sight!" She replied just as quietly, but each word she uttered was filled with rage.
He looked down at the ground and nodded, before walking heavily away from her, his tail dragging behind him in shame. As he left the village, she could hear his faint sobs from him crying.
She sighed as she turned around and went into the next building ruins, and saw more pictographs. *Great… now you did it Laura.* She thought bitterly. *He's only trying to protect you and make amends for something he had no control of. So what do you go and do? Yell at him and make him feel even worse.*
She sighed and looked back at where he was, feeling sorry for him. She won't admit it openly, but she loved Draco. Even though he hurt her, she loved him, and no matter what happened between them she would always love him. That was why she lied, why she hid the truth, why she still kept him. *It wasn't his fault, I know that now.* She thought sadly. *He couldn't control himself, if he could, he would never have laid a claw on me.*
She shook off her thoughts and concentrated on the pictographs and the Unknown words.
"Our two kinds learned to coexist, from our unity, we created this village, a testament to our combined strength. From two came one, and we saw this as a sign from the heavens, that it was our purpose to create this place." The next translation said, and the pictures showed Humans and Pokemon smiling as they stood in the middle of two stone buildings, created by their unity.
She moved on to the next wall and stared at what she was seeing. But regardless of what she saw, she translated quickly to make sense of it. "From our unity, came attraction, as both sides found flaws and greatness in each other. In our unity, we saw past our kinds, and found even greater unity. From two came one, and eventually two became one." The next images below this translation showed Humans and Pokemon together, some in the act of sex, but most often simply being together.
The next wall held similar images, Pokemon making love with Humans, but what astounded her was that one couple, a Rapidash and a Human, female and male respectively given what she saw based on their 'act', looked different compared to the others around them. This couple were together, kissing each other on the lips apparently, but the female's belly was larger. At first she thought it was just bad drawing, but as she translated the Unknown again, she learned the truth.
"From two came one, our first child on this island, which we called Ootopia. Born from the male Human that was its father, and the female flame runner who was its mother, it was given a name, Hoenn. The father Howard, and mother Enna, were overjoyed, and our village celebrated, for it was another sign that our unity was meant to be. From then on, each Human took a Creature for a mate, and Creature took a Human for a mate."
She stared at the picture, a pregnant Rapidash mating with a human male. The next image showed the little Ponyta, smiling up at its parents as they smiled down at it. Surrounding them the entire village, all smiling and cheering in joy.
"Pokemon and Humans loving each other… and being able to procreate?" She whispered as she rubbed her stomach subconsciously. "They cared about each other so much, that they didn't care about the barriers between their species. They even managed to have a child… and Hoenn… that's my home region's name! How is it we have the name Hoenn if they have this name as well?"
There were more answers to be found, and she was going to find them.
(Draco's PoV)
Draco limped on over to one of the farthest ruined homes in the remains of the village and sat inside of it, unable to get rid of Laura's last words in his mind.
*YOU WOULDN'T HAVE RAPED ME!* He kept hearing her say over and over again.
He looked at his claws as they shook before him. "I'm… I'm so sorry…" He kept moaning sadly as his eyes began crying, the lenses in front of his eyes sliding aside just enough to let the liquid out.
His species could subconsciously retract the lenses to let liquid out that came from his eyes, it was the only way to prevent them from blurring or fogging up from the inside. But for him, it was just another way to prevent him from punishing himself. He couldn't even hurt his own eyes with his tears.
"I'm sorry Laura… I didn't mean to!" He moaned again, curling up on the floor to cry. "I wasn't in control… I couldn't stop myself… I'm so sorry."
He was so prideful, as proud of his own identity as a Dragon as he could be, on the surface to anyone he was just an average Flygon. But inside when he was alone, he would beat himself up, over and over again. It was the only way he could punish himself for what he did. His scales though, were tough as ever, and nary a scar could be seen on his proud green scales. Even when he wanted to, he couldn't even hurt himself.
"Why can't I just DIE?" He yelled angrily, hitting his head on the floor, trying to cause himself pain to make him forget the pain in his chest. "Why… why can't I just die?" He moaned sadly as he cried again, hiccupping as he stopped hitting his head when he couldn't even make himself feel pain. "She doesn't need me… I'm just a pile of trash… I'm no better than a Garbodor!"
He had tried so many times to kill himself, but each time, whether it was his own body or his instincts, he always stopped himself. He wanted to rid the world of his existence, at least with him gone Laura wouldn't have to put up with him. He's done nothing good for her since he raped her, all he's done is anger her, annoy her, and harm her.
As he sobbed he looked over at the wall and saw more paintings, more words of the Unknown. Wanting to take his mind off of his misery, and willing to try 'anything' to stop feeling sorry, he limped over to the wall and tried translating. He's not nearly as educated as Laura is, but he does know how to read certain hieroglyphs like the Unknown scripture.
What he translated read, "Years after Hoenn was born, we learned of a new creature on Ootopia. We did not know who they were, but we called them Unknown, after the word they continued to squeak over and over. The Unknown, using their hidden powers, shattered our final barrier that divided us. We spoke one language now, one voice, we rejoiced… for we were truly united. Two had become one!"
Below that were depictions of the Unknown, surrounding the visitors, and what looked like speech bubbles that were different at first. But then slowly became the same, and the depictions of what looked like Humans and Pokemon were smiling and happily talking to one another. Many kissed and embraced one another.
He even saw an image of a male Flygon kissing a female human among those couples, and he once again felt pain in his heart. A Flygon from a long time ago once had a human partner like he does, and they had loved each other so much that they broke the barrier between them to be with each other.
All he wanted was to admit his love and 'be' loved by Laura, but all he had done and seemingly would ever do, was cause her distress and frustration.
"Even this Flygon from hundreds of years ago, has what I'll never have…" He whispered as he turned away from the pictures.
(Laura's PoV)
She finished translating the last pictures and frowned sadly as she saw what happened to the Ootopians. Years after they had met the Unknown, she learned, the Pokemon of the island began experiencing their more feral instincts. At first they were nothing terrible, but then it began to get worse as those with more powerful instincts, more uncontrollable urges began to show them. The Dragon types, and others of powerful and proud breed, began perceiving threats to their mates, and fights began to break out, despite their best efforts they could not control their more feral desires.
After a very short and destructive civil war among the village's residences, there were hardly any survivors left over to keep the village alive. Soon only a few were left, and without the aid of their once great unified village, the survivors began to die out one by one, unable to take on the challenges that had once been trivial to them. Sickness and hunger, drove the village to extinction, until only a scarce few were left.
But among those survivors was the female Rapidash, Enna, and her Human lover, Howard. They could not escape the island, but the Unknown could, and so they asked the Unknown to take their daughter Hoenn to a place where she could live in peace. When the Unknown asked why they did not want to go with her, they said that they belonged on Ootopia, their home, where they found each other.
So the Unknown left, but before they did, they used as much of their power as they could, and imbued the island with their power. After they left, the island vanished from sight, or so they were told by an Unknown who stayed behind. With his help, they used him and his brethren's images to record their history. After he left, never again would anyone find their island, as the survivors had hoped.
They had wanted to die on their home, with those that they loved. Yet they ensured that their history would be passed down to anyone who would find it, hoping that they would learn the lessons that they had failed to learn.
"They left this history for us…" She said as she touched the pictograph before her. "This island was a utopia for Pokemon and Human lovers. They found peace and harmony, and unity above all things here. Yet the Pokemon's feral instincts, urges out of their control, drove them to disaster. If only they had been able to control them…"
As she thought about the island's inhabitants, she thought about her and Draco. Yes he had raped her, but he wasn't at fault, nor was it her, it was that stupid shampoo she had bought that drove him crazy. But when she thought about that time, painful as it was, she found herself not as angry at him now that she saw what happened here on this island to these people and their Pokemon.
She found herself realizing that, she had been in love with Draco as well, just as he obviously was in love with her. Yes he was overprotective, but he was only doing that because he blamed himself for hurting her. True he also annoyed her to no end, but if she really hated him or despised his attitude, she would have gotten rid of him ages ago. Yet she kept him, she lied to Nurse Joy about him raping her, and even checked to see if she had gotten pregnant to make sure she could make up a cover story for it.
Fortunately she didn't get pregnant, but a part of her had actually been sad that it wasn't so.
As she sighed and leaned on a pillar supporting the ceiling, she felt it nudge ever so slightly to the side, than ever so slowly tip over toward her.
The ceiling began rumbling and with a loud crash, the pillar fell over and on top of where she was moments ago. The sound could be heard for miles, but all she was concerned with was the ceiling which was now starting to collapse around her.
"Ahhhh!" She screamed as she tried to get away, but the rocks and stonework falling around her had other plans.
She jumped aside to avoid some falling stones, which landed on her bag and smashed her film equipment, burying it and her notebooks under tons of stonework. She tried making for the entrance to the building, but it caved in moments later. She was trapped now, and saw that she had nowhere to run as the ceiling above her began to break and fall on top of her.
She covered her head with her hands in a feeble attempt to survive the falling rocks, but she knew it was no use, this stonework was carved extensively from granite rock, and it would crush her like a tin can. But just as she screamed in terror, bracing herself for a painful death, Draco smashed through the collapsed door and flew over to her. He grabbed her instantly and shoved her underneath him so that he took the brunt of the falling rocks.
All around them stonework fell and slammed, but he withstood them, ignoring the pain as he protected her from harm.
Once it was over he shoved himself up and threw the rocks off to let her out of their premature tomb. She looked up at him and saw him smiling down at her.
Without thinking, without even knowing why she was doing it, she pulled Draco into a hug and kissed him on his lips.
Draco, caught off guard slightly, reacted slowly to this sudden expression. But soon he wrapped his clawed arms around her and kissed back.
They held each other together for a few minutes, before they separated to look each other in the eyes. "I'm so sorry Draco…" She moaned sadly as she held him. "I didn't mean what I said, I don't hate you for what you did. I didn't mean to yell at you back there, I wasn't thinking clearly."
Draco simply held her close to him as he rubbed her back, nuzzling her cheek softly while she sobbed into him.
(Draco's PoV)
He had rushed to his Laura when he heard that rumbling sound, he didn't care that she might yell at him again. All that mattered was she was safe, and he was glad that he had heeded his own instincts to protect her. Another moment and she would have been lost.
As he heard Laura sob to him, telling him that she wasn't mad or angry at him, he felt as if the weight of the world had lifted from his shoulder. He didn't care about anything else anymore, he had Laura for his own and he knew she loved him. If that kiss didn't signify her feelings, than nothing else would He didn't initiate the kiss, she did, of her own will she had kissed him.
"I'm sorry Draco, I didn't mean what I said." She said again, holding him tightly.
"It's alright Laura…" He whispered to her.
After a few minutes of holding each other he looked over at the pillar and saw the remains of her bag buried under it. Everything she had recorded was lost when it was buried.
She looked over as well and sighed. "All this knowledge, what I found out here could literally change the lives of thousands of people Draco." She whispered to him. "There are like, tons of Pokemon and Human couples out there, all of them hiding who they are because they'll be arrested if they are found out. If I could have shared this proof with the world, that might have changed the law, allowing couples like us to live in peace like the Ootopians who were here."
At the word 'couple', he looked back at her and looked flabbergasted. "Couples like 'us'?" He asked her.
She smiled at him and nodded. "Yea, couples like us." She said happily. "Tell you what Draco, you keep doing what you're doing, watching out for me like the big strong mate I know you are. And in exchange… if you promise to not chase away every guy that just wants to talk to me or even say hi." She leaned up to him and gave him a kiss on his cheek, before whispering into his ears. "I'll give you a little 'reward' every now and then."
At that he grinned before nodding in understanding.
"Good… now how about we go home." She said. "I can't learn anything else new here, and there's no point in staying other than to enjoy the scenery. Besides…" She looked back at him while clasping her hands behind her back with a sly grin. "I want to know how 'long' you can 'last'… are you up for the challenge."
"You got it!" He yelled as he picked her up and began flying off the island toward home.
As he took her on his back and flew away from the island, they both looked back at the island and saw that it had vanished from sight again. They both turned away from it and looked at each other, and Draco skillfully pulled Laura in front of him so he could hold her, while she wrapped her legs around his waist so she could grip him better.
Then they kissed each other one more time, just as passionately as they did before, while he flew onward toward the main island of Hoenn.
=Four years later=
Laura felt Draco nuzzling her neck as they both sat in the living room, she on the couch and him behind it, in the nude with the blinds closed so nobody could see her.
Being in the nude was comfortable for her, but also a necessity for her figure.
Soon after they returned home she began researching in controlling the more instinctual urges of Pokemon. Eventually she found that these urges were triggered by certain pheromones, which while alone wasn't too big of a shock, could be replicated accidentally by products made by humans. After that she began testing out these products, going deeply into the ingredients with her colleagues, to help find a way to prevent them from happening.
She had yet to make any serious breakthroughs, but she did develop one particular medicine for female Pokemon in heat that killed the heat before it took effect. Unlike the one developed by the company that most used, hers had been found by mixing certain berries with other ingredients that, when combined, killed the heat without suppressing it like the other medicine did. It also had the side effect in that it made the female, temporarily five times more likely to become pregnant, but that time period only lasted a few days.
Thanks to this discovery, she had made quite a small fortune selling the license to it.
Unfortunately it also had a pair of side effects, at least when it was used for 'human' females who go through their period. One side effect was that it increased the size of their breasts by about five percent, and began the process in which their breasts produced milk.
As for the other side effect…
"So Draco…" She whispered as he looked down at her enlarged belly, smiling warmly as she rubbed her naked stomach while he rubbed it as well. "How many do you think you gave me… this time?"
"Flygon…" He said with a grin, before looking over at the three eggs sitting in a basket next to the fireplace.
Next to that basket was also a pair of Vibrava, snoozing contentedly as they sat next to the fire, warming up their wings after just evolving days ago.
She became a mother of so far, five Pokemon, she gave birth to two a couple years ago after experimenting with her new medicinal discovery. The next year the same thing happened again, but this time they both wanted it. This third time, she just couldn't resist again, she found herself happily dreaming of the next group of eggs he would give her thanks to this medicine. But she also found that the medicine had an after effect and enhanced her pleasure receptors in her sex region, up to three months after she was fertilized.
"First I became an archeologist searching for the Mirage Islands, now I'm suddenly a Flygon Breeder… what would my mother and colleagues think of that, huh?" She asked him while rubbing her belly with one hand.
"Flygon…" Draco whispered as he walked around the couch and kissed her lips, massaging her breasts while something poked at her between her legs.
"Alright… but remember, less than an hour alright?" She whispered back as she stood up and followed him to her bedroom. "After all, I have to feed the twins."
He grinned back as they entered the bedroom, but soon enough the sound of her moans and pleasure could be heard throughout the house.