By Alicorn
Part 1: The Discovery
By Alicorn
Part 1: The Discovery
She hadn’t been looking for trouble, but it seemed it had found her.
A raging inferno of red and blue grew out of the forest undergrowth, masking the life giving afternoon sun.
She drew her single fragile leaf over her eyes and screamed, one hardly intelligible word born of fear.
"FIRE!"
The scream went unheard, and cowering down into the brown earth, Chikorita waited for the end.She opened her bright ruby eyes and looked ahead at the flames, mustering in up all the courage she could find within. But her voice was only it's usual soft chirp edged with defiance.
"Gods, take me if you want, but please don't give me time to regret!"
The flames did not move and simply sat on the forest floor, as natural and solid as a rotting pine log.There's no heat at all! She thought in surprise, then touched it yet again
No wait...it is warm...but...
She rubbed up against it with her whole face this time, a light purr escaping her mouth
...but..it is a comforting warmth..
Nearly smelling a dearly loved scent upon this strange fire Chikorita found herself nearly nuzzling it when suddenly, it made a noise!
Chikorita leaped back in horror as the strange fire made a terrible groaning sound, much louder than any cultured Pokémon she had ever heard.
It rose up and slowly an area of tan colored skin with bright black eyes appear between the red and blue.
So, what she had really been rubbing were its colored skin on it head and chest! It was a human! A very rare human at that...
Chikorita's eyes grew bright with wonder.
The human appeared dazed as it pulled off the red and white skin upon its head to reveal mane of short black fur.
It rubbed its hand with its long figured paws.
Then it caught sight of her and mumbled something.
How cute! Chikorita thought It's actually trying to pretend it can talk...
She cleared her throat and spoke very slowly, stressing every word.
"I AM CHI..KO..RI..TA...YOU..ARE...HU...MAN..."
The black furred human looked down at her and then suddenly parted it's lips to reveal teeth (a sign of pleasure, she knew) and murmured something again.
"My, you are a charming one, aren’t you?" She questioned, knowing it couldn’t understand
Slowly, and with great difficultly, the male human seemed to try to rise off all fours and onto its hindquarters.
Chikorita sensed its effort, and came forward pressing her full body weight against one of it's odd long figured paws.
Suddenly, a large cloth sack was thrown over the human and in its wake sent her tumbling forward where she had be placing all her weight.
The impact of hitting a nearby tree with her head sent her vision spinning.
A huge Snorlax and a gruff looking Magmar stood before her, the pokemon wore a worried expression.
"Dr. Chikorita are you all right?"
"I..I..." She stuttered, for some reason words would not come.
"That's quite alright, you need not speak. This horrible human has frightened you so, you have a right to be out of sorts. Any Pokémon would feel the same."
The Snorlax shouldered the bag that contained the trashing human with a rough thump.
"Come along Doctor, we will have any wounds the beast may have caused you healed quickly...you are much to delicate a female to be a human researcher I've always..."
But Chikorita was not listening to the Magmar's words; her mind was somewhere far away to a few moments before, looking into a pair of glinting human eyes.
What are you, strange one?
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