“Owwww, my head. Did Larry accidentally smacked my head with Thrash or something?”Eric groaned out, rubbing his head.
What he didn’t notice in time, was that he’s somehow hanging upside down from a tree.....and the act of rubbing his head unknowingly upset his balance.
He fell right on his head, somehow remaining rigid like that of a pole, even his neck remained riggid. Eventually, he fell sideways with a little bump.
“Owww.....worst wake-up call ever.”Eric rubbed his head, only just now noticing the what he’s rubbing his head with. It was a head.....one of the head of a Hydreigon no less.
Nevertheless, it’s enough to jolt Eric out of his groggyness.”Huh?”He shaked it, it felt like his own. He tried moving it’s mouth, the mouth did open up a little.”.....how?”
The young trainer noticed that he still wore his diving eagle patterned leather jacket on the back, but that’s beside the point when he noticed that his other arms is like that as well, a head on the end. He tried to fell his legs, only to feel nothing. He look down, to see it look like the stump of that a normal Hydreigon.
This leads to one conclusion in his mind, he must be dreaming.“So....I’m a Hydreigon now? Yeah, very funny Will, did you screw with my mind or gave me a dream or something?”He realized that dream like things are usually Cresselia or Darkrai’s realm, so he crossed that out because he didn’t have them on the team nor would he even attempt to capture them.
Eric figured that he must be dreaming something weird. So he tried to make all of it logical by pinching his cheek.”Okay, time to wake up, Eric.”He pinched his cheek, causing him to cry out in pain.
Unexpectedly, that hurt a lot more than he think it should be.“Owww, that hurts.”In an attempt to pinch his own cheek, instead the head bite his cheek instead. Fortunately, it was nothing worthwhile and he realized something.....he wasn’t dreaming.”......okay, so.....I wasn’t dreaming.”
Eric was always a cheerful trainer, saying a lot of cheerful things with boundless enthusiasm. The only times he kept himself calm and composed is when he is about or during the middle of a pokémon battle. Other than that, he’s still as dense as an Aggron’s steel body. He always tried to make sense of a situation with a logical reasoning.
It’s still a surprise to him when his brain fail to comprehend the severity of the situation. Nevertheless, he tried to make sense of it or none at all. So, he does the best thing he could do in this situation.
“Okay, I think it’s time for me to panic!”Eric said to no one in particular in this forest. More to himself and panic he did.
It was supposed to be a cheery day for the fauna alike in this forest, nothing seems to be weird or out of the ordinary. Many of them perched on the branches of the trees, seeking food, creating a ness, or taking care of their family.
Nothing wrong there, they flew around, landing on some branches, etc. The birds smiled, knowing nothing is probably nothing going ot happen today. However, they just jinxed it.
“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!”The noise of someone screaming so loud, so loud in fact that it blasted the perched bird and some branches of the trees.
Just another day in Equestria and it’s brand of weirdness. That weirdness is, however, is about to reach global scale this time for Equus.
“No, no, no, no, no, no,no!”The former human Hydreigon paced around while gritting his teeth.”What do I do? What do I do? How in the freaking hell am I a Hydreigon?”
Oh Arceus, what the hell did I do wrong? I swear,if there’s anything I did. I request repentance.....or something like that.
“What the hell am I suppose to do in this situation?”He said more to himself in an effort to convince that this isn’t real.
In his fit of panic earlier, he screamed, unknowingly unleashed an ultra-powerful Hyper Voice. Luckily, he screamed to the sky, so the voice only blasted everything around him, actually bending over some trees.
Other than that, we have a very panicky Hydreigon who’s rapid pacing would probably made a trench in the ground if he weren’t floating off the ground.
Knowing that he’s hyperventilating, he tried to do the breathing trick to calm himself before a battle begin.”Okay, okay, take a deep breath and calm down, Eric.” Then, let’s see if I can make sense of this.
Second rule as a trainer, one must always keep a calm and composed attitude before and during battles. If not, you will not be able to quickly make improvise during a split-second decision during dire situations.
So he took deep breaths, just like he did before he battles another trainer so he would remain calm and composed. After several seconds of deep breaths later, he began pacing normally with one of his arm head to his chin. Eric still not noticing that he’s floating off the ground using his six wings. He tried to think of anything logical to explain this.
He tried to call out to his first pokémon.“SALLY!”He called out to his first and strongest pokémon. No response after a while, he got worried. Normally Sally would always the first to response to his calls.
“HELEN!”Eric tried calling out to his Serperior, no such luck either.
“LARRY?”He began to panic again.”RICKY.....WILL.......SILAS?”
His arms fell beside him.“Anyone?”At this point he’s hyperventilating softly, not enough for anyone else to hear. He took deep breaths to calm himself down again.
He tried to remain cheerful, it was as hard as a stubborn Snorlax, however.“Well at least, I’m still a guy.”His body slumped along with his arms, sweatdropping. Knowing from my voice that I’m still a guy doesn’t help anything at all.
“Oh, I wish everyone was here.”His body slumped even more when the gloomy atmosphere stretched around him.
Eric suddenly perked up again.Wait, I can’t spend my time moping around here. I gotta find a landmark or something. Find some human or some pokémon. They’ll probably know something about my team. He made a mental note to mention anything that he’s a former human. He thought they probably think that he’s crazy or gone through experiments by some insane Teams.
“Time to head out then.”He tried to remain optimistic by remaining cheerful, but inside he’s scared that he’ll remain like this forever.”This is probably my worst day as a trainer.....ever!”He began floating away.
Normally, Eric is known for his denseness. His pokémon recognized his intelligence when developing strategy, but on other matters, he’s quite dense. So much that the fact, he still not even noticing that he’s floating instead of walking for the last ten minutes. He also noticed that some of the trees were dead as he floated through the forest.
He just remained quiet, not wanting to add any further complications on his pokémon situation as it is. He tried to remain logical that this is probably some messed up experiment were performed on him without him even knowing in the first place.
This is so weird, having heads for hands. Mouth instead of fingers, with sharp fangs to boot. He examined the heads as he walked. Knowing that he controlled the heads, when he at first thought that the heads were of independent minds from the central heads. Gotta admit, this looks cool.
He saw animals around him seems to be scurrying away from something, some bird flew past him while also trying to keep their distance from the intimidating-looking Hydreigon. To him, they look like more new unidentified pokémon species.
“They’re running away from something?” What could that be, then? “Guess it’s time to find out.”
He trudged through the trees and the occassional bushes, nothing more. Strange that his new pokémon body allowed him to maneuver with ease through the thick forest. Eric saw more critters running away from something, it confirmed that there are something dangerous.
Of course, Eric is not one to be deterred by such things. He had already seen a dangerous amount of things in his life after meeting Sally.
Speaking of Sally, he thought that he saw a flash of blue and red. “Blue and red....?That’s Sally’s scale and wing color!”He smiled before trudging through the dense of tall trees with more enthusiasm.
The more he floated, which he still doesn’t notice, the more he saw more colores of blue and red with white underbelly. Now he understood why the critters ran away, they probably thought this is a giant winged salamander’s territory or something like that. Hence why they didn’t want to upset her when they woke up.
Eric is intelligent, but dense on certain things. Such as when he approached Sally through the small clearing and witnessing her after his predicament on certain things. He thought that she’s sleeping at the time.
“SA......lly?”Eric tried to scream her name, only to find probably one of the most adorable things he saw about his Salamence.
Sally, his first unofficial pokémon, and his strongest is probably the most adorable when she’s being bathed. Even the way she’s curled when being let out of Pokéball is cute, Because she’s.....sleeping on her back, with her probably sensitive belly exposed to the world. Droll escaping from her wide open mouth, forming a little puddle around the side of her head.
Except, the sight would have been adorable to Eric if it weren’t for the drool, that made him sweat dropped. Forgetting about the image of cuteness altogether.”..uhhhh...”
He had imagined several scenes that his Salamence would actually just curled up, sleeping or something else like that. He had never imagined that Sally would actually droll when sleeping facing up like that.
“SNORE*”Eric winced, on top of that, she got one hell of a snore. Of course he knew, people like to snore because their airway were obstructed when facing upward.
Besides that, he shook his head at the ridicilous display and went to wake his first team member up.”Hey, Sally, wake up.”
Sally mumbled something incomprehensible to him, Eric just prodded her again with his right arm head.”Eric, I don’t wanna go. Later when after we finished our ‘session’ together.”
He sweat dropped. Eric just pretended he didn’t hear that. So, he proceeded to prod the sleeping Salamence.”Hey, wake up, girl.”Of course, she didn’t wake up.”C’mon man, we don’t have time for this now.”
He just keep prodding her, he didn’t know it will wake her or not. He accidentally prodded her belly, she batted it away while giggling. Eric stared at the arm heads and got a devious idea, he started tickling her. Actually running the arm heads dry tongue all over the belly.
Of course, she reacted like he expected, Sally at first just giggled. Until it turned into a full-blown laughter from her ticklish belly. Her eyes opened a little by little, Eric continued his quest to waking up the dragon.
Sally couldn’t take it anymore and her eyes snapped open. Eric immediately stopped his tickling and stepped back. When Sally eyes lay upon the Hydreigon floating over her, she cried out in surprise.
“Whoa,”Sally, with speed not seen in many Salamence suddenly jumped onto her four legs and snarled at the Hydreigon.”Who are you? Why are you tickling me?”
“Easy there, Sally!”He held up his arm heads in defense, hoping to calm her with talking. Not wanting to be on the receiving on of a Giga Impact from her.”It’s me Eric. Your trainer, your best friend? Please don’t blow me away with Giga Impact.”He begged, he really didn’t want that scenario to happen.
Sally recoiled slightly when recognizing the voice.”Eric? Is that really you?”The Salamence stared at the Hydreigon in bewilderment.”Wait a minute, Eric was supposed to be human. Not a three-headed Hydreigon.”She stepped forward, how dare this guy claim to be her best friend, Eric.
Eric floated backward.”Hey, hey, hey, Sally. I know your name, isn’t that proof enough to you? And look at the jacket.”
“Tell me something only Eric know, then. I’ll decide if I believe you, then. Knowing nicknames doesn’t prove anything.”The Salamence remained stubborn in her refusal to believe the Hydreigon in front of her.
Eric sighed, he hoped it didn’t come to this. He hated doing this to her.”Fine, you ask for this, Sally.”He took a deep breath before muttering.”When I was ten, I found you in my backyard when I checked my secret stash. All dirty and hungry. I gave you the food after that. I don’t know how a pokémon not native to Unova can suddenly be found in my backyard.”
Sally, upon hearing that, stopped snarling. Her features softened.”Eric? Is it really you?”
“Geez, that’s what I’ve been telling for the last five minutes I think.”Eric rolled his eyes. And she think she’s not stubborn.
He was suddenly pulled into a hug by the rather worried Salamence.”Eric! How did you end up like this?”She nuzzled him in an effort to calm him, causing him to fidget uncomfortably.
“I don’t know, I’ve been panicking, screaming, and then calming myself down. A record time I did all of those in a row actually.”Eric joked.
“Eric, now’s not the time for jokes. We need to get you back to a human!”Sally began inspecting every inch of nook and cranny of Eric. Trying to understand this unknown phenomena.
“Wait a minute, I can understand you, Sally. I mean, not with Will’s help now!”Eric cried, surprised at this sudden development.
Sally facepawed.”Of course, you do, Eric. You’re a Hydreigon now. I can’t believe you didn’t realize it until now.”Eric just chuckled nerveously.”And I suppose you didn’t realize you were floating off the ground, right?”
“Huh?”He looked He stopped flapping his six wings, causing his face to have another meeting with the Sir Dirt of the Ground.”Owww, just how many times do I have to fall on my face?”
The Salamence sweatdropped at Eric’s predicament.”When I said you didn’t realize you were floating, doesn’t mean I said you should stop floating.”Sally chided.”I swear, you’re so dense at times.”
“Hey, it was instinctual you know. Most pokémon learned how to fly probably by following their instinct.”Now that I realized that, I’ve been floating by instinct alone. Forcing it probably won’t work. Evident when he began flapping wildly.
Sally stepped in before Eric could probably hurt himself again.”No, no, no, to fly you need to slowly flap your wings.”
“Man, I sure miss my legs now. These six wings might look cool, but it’s not helping.”Eric slowly flap his six wings. He slowly flap his first two wings and he lifted of the ground slightly.
Sally nodded in understanding.”I think I understand now. You should try slowly flaping your first two wings, then the third and fourth before moving onto fifth and sixth. That should allow you lift off the ground.”
Eric did as instructed slowly and more carefully this time. First he flapped his first two wings simultenously, he took off the ground. He missed the timing of the third, and fourht wings, causing him to bump on to the ground again.
“This is a lot harder than I thought.”Eric groaned out.
“That’s because you’re trying too hard, Eric. Just don’t think about it, flap your wing like it’s the extension of your body.”
“Okay, okay, I’ll try.”Eric began to gingerly flap the wings like the procedure Sally told him. “By the way, did you hear my loud scream earlier?”Eric asked. Completely unrelated, trying to get his mind of things to act more naturally with the wings.
“I only hear as if something is whispering in my ear.”They heard a bushes rustling. As if by mere instict, Sally quickly stepped in front of Eric and snarling.
Sally was about to unleash her Outrage upon the intruder. She didn’t know how she came so close in doing it just to defend Eric. That is until a certain Serperior trudged out of the bush, noticing Sally’s expression.”Please, don’t attack me, Sally. It would certainly be unwise.”Surprised by the sudden appearance and nearly attacking her, Sally chuckled nerveously, she nearly attacked one of her team member. Eric weren’t that surprised to see Helen being the first one to actually find him because of his screaming fit earlier.
“Did you hear my scream earlier, Helen?”The Serperior nodded.”How did you know this is me either?”
“You scream is quite loud, how could any pokémon or human missed that?”Helen answered while tilting her head.”You have Eric’s voice and jacket while speaking casually around Sally, that’s good enough for me.” Eric nodded, Sally was always the voice of reason within the group for a reason after all.
“Sally sure did. She still asleep when I got there.”Eric said rather too cheerfully. The Salamence blushed at that.”Snoring as well, with a droll from her mouth.”Her face is as red as tomato.
Helen giggled at Sally’s reaction.”We’re off the subject. Are you two injured?”
“Nah, I’m fine, Helen.”He confirmed to the Regal Pokémon while Sally nodded, trying to desperately cover her blushing.
“I’m relieved to hear that.”Helen looked around the trees before looking back at Eric.”So, you’re a Hydreigon, Eric?”
Eric shrugged.”Beats me, don’t even know why I become like this.”Unconsciously, he began floating again.”What, is there something wrong?”
“No actually, I was just rather surprised.”
“Well at least you’re back with us, Helen. Why don’t we get out of this forest and get our bearings, huh, Sally?”
Sally shrugged.”Sounds good to me. Forest and myself never really get along after all.”
“I agree we must get our bearings, Eric.”The Serperior nodded.
“Let’s go then. Time’s a wasting”
“Is it just me, or we are seeing new types of pokémon as we passed?”Eric tried to strike a conversation.”Wish I had a pokédex right about now.”
Sally shooked her head as do Helen.”No, I don’t think you’re dreaming, Eric. I’m seeing them too.”The dragon, flying-type giving the animals a glance.”You’re right, they seem to be new ones I haven’t seen before.”
“I wholeheartedly agree, it seems we are in a different region after all.”Helen put a whip onto her chin.”Unless....”
Eric and Sally knew that Helen is probably got something on her mind. The regal Serperior is usually the voice of reason within the group, beside Eric. So when something is nagging her, it usually she’s either had some bad new or good news.
That prospect is not suitable for the Eric right now because he wished for good news.”Unless, what Helen? Please, tell me in a good news.”Eric asked as they continued onward.
“I’m not quite sure, Eric. So far, the pokémon we encountered seems to be quite fearful of us.”She motioned around with her vine. Sure enough the animals were giving them a wide and fearful looks, as if they’re the living personification of bad news.”They seems to be quite fearful of us.”
“Of course they would be scared. A three-headed dragon that most of the time are brutal, a giant winged salamander that are aggresive at times, and a giant vine snake. Who wouldn’t be scared?”Sally asked rhetorically.
“No, what I mean is, look at them.”They give the animals a once more lookd again, they seems to be getting when Helen meant.”I could sense their fear, they acted as if they never seen a pokémon for their entire lifetime.”
“Now that you mention it, they look liked as if they looked.....too varying or something, a lot of them were of variety different species. Most pokémon usually have a lot of the same species in generally the same area. We went through the forest and seen different species of flying-types. I haven’t seen any Fletchling either that were only found in Kalos.”
The Serperior nodded at Eric’s observation.“That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking about. It’s entirely possible that we’re not even in Kalos anymore or any region around it as well.”Helen added.”Or maybe we’re in an entirely different world.”
Eric and Sally stopped immediately.”Whoa, back up a bit. A different world. Really, Helen?”The Serperior nodded.”I know you’re always the voice of logic of the team, but don’t you think you’re going off topic here?”
“Any pokémon would have attacked us by now. Either out of fear, or our of defense of their territory. They haven’t attacked us, maybe because they don’t have any moves at all.”Eric nodded in confirmation.”Either that or we’re in a different world. Because it’s not possible I’ve suddenly turned like this without an explanation.”
“Still, I think a different world is farfetched in my opinion.”Sally said, remembering her teammates with a wide eye.”I forgot to ask. Where’s the stupid bird, Ricky, Will and Silas? You seen them, Helen?”
The Serperior shooked her head.”Unfortunately, no. I woke up somewhere within this forest. Once I began searching, I haven’t any trace of them. I’ve found Eric and you, Sally once I heard Eric’s scream while following the general direction of the unknown pokémon running away from.”
Eric rubbed the back of his head nerveously with one of his arm heads.”Yeah, I was panicked at the time.”
“No need to be sorry, Eric. Anyone would panic if they were robbed from their original body. It is best we find our way out of this forest first before we commence our search for our team member.”
His face suddenly turned gloomy along with the atmosphere.”Don’t remind me of that, Helen.”
The Serperior sweat dropped.”I don’t mean it like that, Eric. If it helps, you seems to be getting used to floating.”
Eric nodded, not falling to the ground this time.”Heh, it’s like you said, it’s instinct.”The Hydreigon swiveled his head, no landmark.”Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Anybody spotted anything landmark because I think we’ve been going around in circle.”He received a pair of shooking heads.
“Do you want me to scout out the area ahead?”Helen volunteered.”I will blend in with the forest and mark my way so I couldn’t get lost.”
“No, we don’t even know where we are, right now.”The Hydreigon shot down the offer.”I would take too long, either way.
Eric turned to Sally, she quickly understood what that meant.”Me?”Eric and Helen nodded.”But what about you, Eric?”
“I’ll be fine, besides,”He suddenly pulled Helen close to him, causing her to smile nerveously.”Besides, I have Helen with me.”
“What I meant, is how you’re coping with the body of a Hydreigon?”Sally asked.”I don’t want you suddenly setting off a large amount of attacks out of instinct.”
Eric frowned, he’s rather fond of her being worried about him, but sometimes . He appreciated the gesture though.”I understand you’re concern, Sally
“But-“She was cut off when a whip was put to her lips, silencing her.
Helen slithered forward.“Eric is my trainer and friend. I will protect him. I assure you of that, Sally.”
In one paw, Sally is still rather worried for the former human. She didn’t want him to suddenly set off attack just because he didn’t know how to control it and in one paw again, she’s worried how her best friend is coping with this.
Seeing her reluctance, Eric put an arm head on her shoulder.”I’ll be fine, Sally. It’s just a simple scouting.”
“You sure are quite calm for someone who got turned into a Hydreigon.”
Eric huffed.”I’m calm enough, you know. I already panicked earlier.”The three chuckled.
“Be careful Sally. Who knows what’s out there.”Sally nodded before slowly taking off to scout. Despite her big stature, Sally is always fast. The second fastest of his team with Archy being the first.
Sally returned landing quickly with a thump.”I think I see a silo out there in a clearing with a lot of rocks around it.”The Salamence reported.
“Did you see anything else?”The Hydreigon asked.
Sally nodded in confirmation.”I think I also see some kind of house just near the silo. It looks like someone is living there.”
“Finally, some good news, let’s ask for direction from them.”Both quickly heading toward the general direction of the silo.
“Wait,”The Salamence groaned while Eric just turned around with an eyebrow raised at Helen.”How are they going to understand us?”
Now both realized what that meant.”Maybe we should use gestures?”Eric offered.
Sally rolled her eyes.”Like that’s going to work. You didn’t even understand the gestures I’ve made most of the time.”
“Hey, I don’t really understand gestures that much.”Eric cried out indignantly.“What do you think we should do then?”
“It’s best that we approach whoever living there with caution. There’s still a possibility that this is another world entirely.”
Sally raised an eyebrow, she still thinks that another world is too farfetched.”So......you think that they’re aliens?”Helen nodded worldlessly.”Great, and I thought Deoxys is bad enough.”
“Then it’s settled.”Eric clapped both arm heads together.”Let’s go meet the local....carefully, though.”
“I agree whole-“They were suddenly cut off by a high-pitched scream.
“What was that?”Sally asked, swiveling her head around to find the source.
“It looks like to be a girl." She sniffed the air for any source of fear by flicking her branched tongue around, she’s after all a snake.She glanced at one general direction.”It’s that way.”
They wasted no time getting over there, of course, apart from Sally, both Helen and her trainer noticed that more dead trees were visible. What they saw is rather baffling. Some kind of grey ponyta with different colouring, being cornered on rock on the clearing by a Pyroar? Two of them no less, both male and female judging from their mane.
They looked at each other. Sally shrugged, Helen shrugged, they glanced at their trainer. The Hydreigon nodded. Both Sally and Helen went into battle with their cry and hiss respectively.