Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ The Water’s Reflection ❯ The Discovery ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

She hadn t been looking for trouble, but it seemed it had found her

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. When it did not come as quickly as she had feared she crinkled her eyes shut harder still and began to regret all the things which she had never done in her life.

I never told Sunspot I loved him..oh, did he ever even know?..I never saw the world beyond on the Mountains...it must be so beautiful...I never had an egg of my own...I never learned Giga Drain..I..

By the time she got to missing her great uncle Laceleaf's hundredth hatching day Chikorita was more than a bit puzzled.

What's taking so long? The least the gods could do is make my death quick and painless.

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.

Chikorita tiled her head to the left and her head leaf bent in a lazy half loop like a cat's tail, a sure sign that she was now curious. Curiously being her trademark Chikorita did what every single sense of her body and race of the grass type screamed against. Walking the short couple strides space that remained between herself and the enemy, she bent out, and gently as a raindrop, touched the fire.



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 slowly 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 inpack 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?