Chapter 9
Edited by distortedtruth92
I sat dejectedly in front of my Master’s house. My coat was the brightest shade of pink imaginable. So much so that even Henry had been too distracted by the site of my small pink furred body to be angry at me for having ruined his ink, though he had kicked me out of the house until it dried. So here I was, sitting on my front step, head bowed in shame as occasional inhabitants of the village walked by, most of them snickering at me. It was enough to make me want to weep.
“Cres? Is... is that you?” Belle’s voice spoke out to me with a bemused tone. I blushed deeply and I bowed my head even deeper. It was her! My best friend/crush! Belle!
I tried to ignore her. I didn’t want to acknowledge my own existence at the moment, let alone have Belle, the most perfect and beautiful Absol on earth, see me this way. Maybe if I just kept my head down she would forget I was he-
*poke*
“Cres... are you okay?” she asked as I felt the front of her nose slightly poking against my forehead. I jumped backwards in surprise at the contact, my limbs flailing. I landed on my back in a scramble of claws and tail before I finally regained my composure and looked up to find Belle looking at me with a small confused frown.
“I’m sorry, didn’t mean to make you jump like that,” she said sincerely. “Just you didn’t reply and I thought something happened... other than seeing that your fur has suddenly turned pink.” Her beautiful blue eyes studied me worriedly.
“I’m... I’m fine,” I said, patting myself lightly with a forepaw. “I was just... meditating. Yeah, that’s it, meditating,” I told her with a big smile, maybe a bit too big. “And I was meditating so long that my fur turned pink.”
She raised an unconvinced eyebrow at me. “What happened, Cres,” she asked me simply.
I sighed. “Well... you remember how Henry bought that really fancy bottle of stuff?” I asked her. “And how I really wanted to see it?” She nodded her head to both of my questions. “Well... it turns out that it was full of permanent ink... permanent pink ink.”
“Ah...” she said with a slow nod of her head. “So... you tipped it over yourself accidently.”
“Yeah... that’s what happened,” I said with a sigh. “I liked my version more.” I gave her a small smile.
She smiled back at me. “Well... at least we’re both red now right?”
I thought about that for moment and then shook my head. “No, Belle, you’re crimson,” I told her, putting extra emphasis on the word. “I’m pink!” I wailed as I threw my paws up in the air dramatically.
“Well... they’re both technically the same color... or at least shade of color,” she stated matter of factly. “And stop overreacting... it’s not that bad.”
“Not that bad?” I asked with a moan. “I’m going to be pink for yearssss Belle!”
“So?” she asked with a raised eyebrow. “It doesn’t change the fact you are still you.”
“But I’m piiiiinnnnnkkk,” I whined. “No one is going to respect a pink Absol! It’s like a lime green Ursaring!”
“Not in the way you’re acting they won’t,” Belle said flatly. “In fact, you should see your pink fur as an advantage, not a disadvantage.”
I frowned. “What are you talking about, Belle?” I asked her in confusion.
A big energetic smile crossed her face, a smile I knew all too well. She was going to ‘lecture’ me on something. “Well, like you said, other pokemon won’t treat you the same as a normal Absol, but use their fault of being distracted to take the upperpaw. Like using a Quick Attack and, *pow*, they won’t know what hit them.” Her smiled grew a bit bigger. “I bet they’ll respect you then.”
I cocked my head to the side for a moment before a big smile of my own crossed my face.
“Do you really think so, Belle?” I asked her with wide eyes.
“Of course I do, silly,” she replied with a light giggle. “Why else would I tell you so?”
“Good point,” I said with a small giggle of my own. “You’re really smart, Belle!”
“Thanks, and you’re welcome, by the way,” she replied.
“What would I do without you?” I asked her as my smile became bigger.
“Still be wailing ‘oh, woe is me’ for your fur being pink,” she answered with a playful chuckle.
“Oh, right, that,” I agreed with a blush, though I’m not sure if she could tell.
“So, do you feel like playing tag with Jerry and Max?” she asked me in a hopeful tone.
“Sure,” I said with a smile. “And if they make fun of me for being pink I’ll just clock them,” I told her enthusiastically.
“Just not to hard, okay,” Belle replied with a small chuckle.
“It’s Max and Jerry, one is too happy to hurt, and the other one would probably run away if I tried,” I replied with a grin. “I don’t think I’ll even have to, now that I think about it...”
“True,” Belle agreed with a short nod of her head. “Now let’s get moving, they’re already waiting for us in the forest.”
“Right,” I said as I sauntered up beside her. “So, ready to see my awesome tag skills?” I asked her.
“Depends,” she replied with a sly smile as she leaned over and gave me a nuzzle. “Depends on if you can ever catch me,” she finished while sticking her tongue out at me playfully before turning around and sprinting to the forest, a loud gleeful chuckle trailing behind her.
My eyebrows raised in surprise before I let out a glee filled chuckle of my own and I took off after her. “Come back here, Belle! You’re going to be mine!”
Applejack stood in the living room, staring at the picture of a pair of ponies standing next to each other. One held a pitchfork while the other one just smiled easily at the camera. She gazed at it with a cheerless expression, before looking away and letting her head hang down a little. A heavy sigh passed through her chest before she urged her hooves to walk towards the front door.
“Never again,” she murmured to herself as she passed through the door.
I awoke with a smile on my lips as the first lights of dawn leaked over the horizon, which I could faintly make out from beneath the door of the farm house. That had been a good day... though I had to admit that I may have been a bit more melodramatic than strictly necessary in my youth.
Still, it had somehow managed to convince Belle that I was worthy of her affections, so that was something, right? My stomach let out a gurgle and I got to my paws, quickly going through my stretching routine before slowly making my way over to the door of the barn. I walked up and pressed on the door with a paw and to my ire found it locked. I was going to be rather irritated if Applejack was late, after all, the longer after dawn you waited, the harder the hunt would be.
However, just after I pushed on the door I heard some sort of lock being lifted and the doors opened to show Applejack standing there.
“Morning,” she said in a neutral tone.
“Good morning,” I replied with a nod as I padded past her. “So, will you be coming with me into the forest? After all, you’re not letting me out of your sight, right?” It was not as though I wanted her to come, I was sure she would make my hunt that much harder, but I supposed it was better than having her ‘stealthily’ watch me from a distance.
“Yeah, though it had better be in the forest,” she replied.
“No Applejack, I planned on starting with your farm,” I deadpanned before shaking my head. “Come on then, let’s get going,” I added before taking off at a light trot more designed to wake up my muscles than anything else. Applejack turned and followed, keeping a moderate distance between the two of us.
Our journey was fast this time, instead of taking the main road I simply cut across a road or two and ended up beneath the threatening eaves of the forest. I lifted my nose to the sky and took a few sniffs, there were several ‘animals’ about already and my knees bent as I fell into a crouch. Applejack continued to watch me with her never ending stare, but to my mild surprise, she too crouched slightly.
“Father Arceus, give me luck on this morning’s hunt,” I whispered softly. “Give me the speed and strength to catch my prey and by your grace welcome it to your breast.” I finished my prayer and turned to Applejack, a small smile on my face. “Now then, let’s go,” I told her before darting into the brush.
She rolled her eyes slightly and followed suit, though it was less darting and more like a ponyta trying to crawl through a cave crevice. Possible but not exactly graceful. I drew far ahead of her as I moved through the brush, dodging around thorn bushes and beneath briar patches (I distinctly heard some of what I believe was cursing from behind me as she avoided to see the dangers in time) until I came to a clearing.
Sitting on the edge of it was a large bird of some sort, it faintly reminded me of a Staraptor though a bit less predatory. I frowned at it for a moment. Ordinarily I wouldn’t have considered such a thing a meal, predators don’t hunt other predators after all, but I was rather hungry and there was nothing else in the area.
I crouched there at the edge of the brush, carefully inching my way towards it. Suddenly, the sound of a stick cracking behind me, and the bird took off in a rapid flap of wings. A low snarl worked its way out of my lips and I turned to confront Applejack, her fur was covered in burs and thorns not to mention twigs and leaves. It was a far cry from my nearly spotless ruff.
“Be more careful,” I growled, a bit miffed by her lack of care. “If I go hungry because you are too uncoordinated to watch where you put your hooves then you will have a very unpleasant day.”
“Then don’t get so far ahead of me,” she replied back with peeved look.
“I’m not going very fast,” I replied. “You should be able to keep up and still move with a modicum of dexterity.”
“I’m a pony... not some sort of slippery snake,” she said flatly.
I let out a sigh and twitched my blade like tail, cutting through a nearby branch. “Alright... look, when I stop running that means there’s something close by that I want to eat. That means you stop moving too,” I explained. “Can you do that?”
“Yes,” she answered shortly. “Just don’t leave my sight then.”
“I’ll do my best,” I replied as I fell back into my predator’s crouch and took off again, making steps to ensure that she could see me.
It was a painfully slow process for me, an expert hunter, but after half an hour’s roaming I finally found something worth hunting. It was reminiscent of a Tranquill though its coat’s color was off. The thing was simply pecking about the forest floor for food. I came to a dead stop and looked behind me to see that Applejack came to a halt as well, standing still and not moving an inch.
I nodded slowly and then began to creep forward once more. The ‘bird’ hadn’t noticed me yet and I managed to make it much closer to the edge of the brush. Then, with a small snarl I leapt out of the brush and caught the bird by it’s neck. My jaws snapped together and it went limp. I dropped the bird and smiled.
“Find Embrace in the breast of Arceus,” I prayed before I began to process of removing the feathers around the main area I was going to start on. I heard Applejack approaching closer to my position, but she kept her distance and didn’t comment on my deed.
My tongue snatched out to grab a droplet of blood from my jaws before I began to eat the bird. It did not take long until I had devoured every bit of tasty meat and organ on the carcass. When I finished I licked my lips again and looked up at Applejack who was glancing away, though her ears were pointed towards me.
“I’m done,” I announced as I padded over to her, giving my blue lips one last lick. “Ordinarily I might look for something else, but I’m sated for now.”
“Then let’s head back to Ponyville and to Twilight’s library,” she stated. “I’m sure the others are already waiting for us.”
“Of course,” I agreed, beginning to follow her. “Now was that so bad?” I added.
“Don’t get smug with me,” she remarked. “You’re not going to completely change my mind just because you’re following the rules now.”
“Fine then,” I replied with a shake of my head. “I still don’t see why you despise me. I spared your life when by all right I should have taken it, I did not burn you to death with my flames, nor have I made any action against you which was not provoked by you,” I continued while ducking beneath a low hanging branch.
“Because you’re a predator, one who thinks our ‘rules’ don’t really matter,” she answered bruntly. “And that’s reason enough for me to distrust you.”
“Well, they really don’t matter,” I told her. “Any predator should be able to go where he likes and hunt where he likes so long as no humans or owned Pokemon are hurt. Though in this case it’s ponies and their pets.”
“Yeah well, not all predators think like that,” she stated in a low voice. “Meat is meat to their eyes... not matter who they’re ripping into.”
“Ah,” I said with a frown. “I know of Pokemon like that. They are usually cornered by several angry humans and their teams and then either killed outright or captured.”
“Good for them, still doesn’t change my mind about you,” she said flatly.
“Very well,” I said with a small roll of my eyes. It was then that I noticed that something was once more watching me, a small shiver ran up my spine and I frowned deeply. I subtly scanned my red eyes around the forest but found nothing once more.
“We should move faster,” I told her, picking up my pace a bit.
Applejack raised an eyebrow at me, though picked her pace up to stay close. “Why?” she asked.
“Because, something is watching us and I don’t particularly like it,” I answered with a frown.
The pony frowned at me. “This isn’t another one of your stupid reasons, again, is it?”
“Well I don’t know,” I replied, my voice becoming more than a little annoyed. “We’re in a forest full of predators some of whom are probably bigger and more powerful than I am, and we’re being watched by a pair of malevolent eyes,” I said as bluntly as I could before ferociously adding. “So no, I don’t think this is another of my ‘stupid’ reasons.”
“Alright, don’t have to get so feisty about it,” Applejack muttered as her hooves pounded into the ground faster.
“Actually, I feel like I do,” I retorted as I in turn increased my running speed. “You’re letting whatever repressed feelings or other nonsense in your head negatively impact how you feel about me. That’s fine, normally. I don’t really mind you being ‘mean’ to me. I can take that easily enough,” I continued, ducking beneath a branch. “But what I can not take is you ignoring me when I’m telling you something important!”
“Well, I’m sure Mr. ‘I growl at our nonsensical weather and roll my eyes at our claiming territories’, but I’m still questioning your sense of logic sometimes,” she replied back, leaping over a fallen branch.
I let out a growl of irritation as we broke through the edge of the forest. “My logic is perfectly sound,” I told her while my eyes scanned the forest. “It kept Belle and me alive for years when we were together and then it kept me alive for the two years we spent apart.”
“Well, good for you,” Applejack stated as we came to a stop and softly panted to herself. “But you really haven’t proven to me otherwise with your words alone.”
My tail twitched violently for a moment, slashing through the air with an audible *slice*, but I regained control of myself before I could do anything I’d end up regretting. “Fine,” I told her as I sensed the watching presence diminish and disappear. “Let’s just go to Twilight’s house.”
Applejack’s eyes trailed the twitching of my tail with a small frown. She then glanced them up to mine and gestured her head to Ponyville. “Then let’s get a move on.”
I nodded, and we set off.
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Can I clock applejack? Absols are on my top ten list
Good job! I like this story a lot, keep up the good work.
AN UPDATE!?
I am going to beat Applejack. Absols are awsome and are right up there with Suicune.
Yay a new chapter! I absol-utley (See what I did there?) love this story!
ok can somrone clear this up for me is belle an Absol?
4188646 yeah she is. she is a shiny one though. instead of a blue horn and tail she has red ones. instead of red eyes she has blue ones
nice
the "whoa" should be "woe".
Go hug a pissed off jolteon Applejack...
Well at least we got some clarification for why AJ is acting like that. Not entirely rational, but then again those suffering from traumatic loss aren't known for being rational.
Author, you are making people hate AJ...One of my top 5 favs....
Be careful where you step.
Good story regardless.
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So you are angry at someone whose parents are implied to have been killed by a predator and is therefor distrustful and antagonistic of a fierce alien predator who they know nothing about and who seems to have no regard for the laws of the land?
Because you are a fan of a video game species that character belongs to.
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Were is this? A tree could of fallen on them are had cancer or something
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Hmmm... yes
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Not in canon. In this chapter.
She looks at the pic of her parents and says "never again" and later she tells Cres that some predators don't care what or who they eat, that meat is meat to them.
4188911 crap, missed that one. thanks for pointing it out bud
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I as well missed,
But she is going a little overboard
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If you haven't been paying attention to the show, she overreacts/go overboard over a lot of things.
4189575 No problem
4189491 I understand what Applejack is dealing with I went through a similar situation.
My Bio dad left me and my mom when I was three my first step dad abused me physically and mentally. I now have slight PTSD(That's the only way to describe certain things.). I may be paranoid of people I don't know but I give them a chance before I judge them. I threaten people and have even told a girl I would kill her if she didn't leave me alone right in front of my school principle and two teachers. I have severe anger issues, Blood Lust, and I will kill you if you start attacking and innocent person without a rightous reason. I got punched in the face by one kid and I turned around to look at him with no emotion on my face no anger, no sadness, just a cold and emotionless expression while I fought to keep me from lunging at him. I could have easily beat him as he was skinner than me and not as strong or fast. Instead I walked away so I didn't end my future military career in the U.S Army. So don't go talking to me about judging her and not knowing what she went through because I have been left to the wolves as well and not just me but my family as well.
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I am sorry you have had a difficult life. Life damages us all but it is how we choose to live despite the hardships that defines us.
Your response is very attention seeking and immature. You provide large amounts of irrelevant anecdotal information while displaying a lack of insight into the actual situation you are talking about.
You are only viewing Cres as a memeber of a species in a videogame. You are angry at AJ because you like that species in your videogame and she is being "mean" to him.
AJ knows nothing about Cres other than his actions and what he has told them.
AJ, in this story, is implied to have lost her parents to a carnivorous predator attack.
Cres is a carnivorous predator. One who, while sapient of mind, stalks and kills his prey like a wild beast and eats it raw.
He has expressed that he will not obey any pony laws which he does not argree with or are not beneficial/convenient for him to follow.
He has expressed that he will defend himself with lethal force if anypony attempts to capture him, even if they are acting within the law.
Cres is also a confessed criminal who refuses to disclose his crime.
Cres is not a videogame character to AJ. He is real to her and really dangerous. She has every reason to distrust him.
In fact, if it wasn't for the gaping holes in canon and logic in this otherwise entertaining story, I would say that AJ is the only one not acting completely OOC to Cres right now.
4190575 Hey uh buddy I know that he is real to AJ. I am just saying give someone time to open up and don't jump to conclusions like Applejack did. Yes he confessed he was a criminal but as far as we know he could be talking about something HE veiws as a crime. If I were Cres I still wouldn't give two shits about pony laws. What the ponies need to realize is that there are other carnivorous animals out there. Hell a bear lives with Fluttershy. They shouldn't be so shocked that he eats meat.
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The only thing I can suggest is to imagine if this story was not in first person and not from the Absol's point of view.
Because we know he does not deserve it.
But Cres and the readers are the only ones who do.
We get to be in his head, the other characters do not.
4190823 sorry for the whole past life story. I was extrmemly tired and couldn't think. Anyway this is a good story and I just was confused why she hated Cres until this point. She does poke fun at him as well. Absol with pink fur LOL. That would be something I would laugh at.
4188666 *crimson
4190823
Can I just say how glad I am for someone to finally point that out? Cres is a good guy... he's just not the smartest one and he's not very adaptable to completely new situations like this.
seriously? the parents eaten by predators thing? eh oh well still good
Applejack's irrational level of distrust begins to make sense.
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It's good to see that not every comment here is filled with Applejack-bashing Absol-fanboyism and that some people are still capable of simple logic and reason. Bravo, good sir! I'm glad to know I'm not alone.
Not quite fixed yet. The word's woe. Not woa.
Still looking forward to seeing where this goes, too.
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Damn... my brain miss read it
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No worries. I've accidentally paragraphs before while both writing and editing, so typos aren't that bad.
Raise your hoof if you wanna deck jack
4188666 Too bad I didn't know that until I read a single line of this chapter, and up to this point I imagined her as a normal Absol, and now it is litterally imposible for me to think of her as shiny. I will continue to think of her as normal, not because I want to, but because that's how the storey will translate it into my mind.
PS: Everything I knew about everything is a lie. I just recently (yesterday) was on my 3ds pokedex pro and went to Absol. I found out it is officially pronounced Absal, and not Absoul. Everything is a lie. EVERYTHING!
Let's see... Some comment about Applejack being stupid or something of the other. Could say something about Peta, no, they are stupid, but that doesn't fit in this situation. Something about not liking predators which is like being racist against things like gryphons? Maybe, but no. Something about love and tolerate, no, not another dumb phrase that stupid people take too seriously. Something about how she doesn't even take logic anymore from any preditor. No. I have no idea what to say about this, exept that she needs to have a stern talking with Fluttershy? Crap, that makes me seem like an extreame Brony. All I know is I want to punch Applejack in the face. No idea what to say about her, but I do want to punch her in the face. I find myself to be a well rounded person. (How is this connected to this story? NO IDEA!) I will suport causes and try to understand people. Not rasist, and will give a chance. I have no idea what is with Applejack, (Yes, I know about parents connected to being eaten, I'm not stupid) but she is being a huge, and I mean HUGE *INSERT INSULT HERE*. I hate her here. She is being stupid. Think of how her friends would think of her. (CRAP! Seeming like a huge brony again). I mean, really. It's like saying, "My parnts were killed by a rabid dog, NOW I HATE ALL PETS BECAUSE OF THAT!" Also, I am sure that the things that killed her parents couldn't speak, which makes a huge difference. (Wait, Cres couldn't speak to them until they had a potion. Disproving my point doesn't help me.) A animal that is just an animal, and an animal that talk are different in the ways of thinking. Oh, and look. I am making this rant way to big about how I hate aPPLEJACK. dIDN'T THINK i COULD GO ON THIS MUCH TEXT ABOUT HOW MUCH i HATE aPPLEJACK. I also hate pressing the caps lock while typing. To sum it up, I guess I could say that I am over reacting just slightly (like Peta does to everything, NO ONE LIKES YOU GUYS), but it is justified (unlike Peta). I think that Absol being my favorite Pokemon is affecting my opinion of Applejack even more. F*** you Applejack, f*** you.
PS: Everything I knew about everything is a lie. I just recently (yesterday) was on my 3ds pokedex pro and went to Absol. I found out it is officially pronounced Absal (second a pronounced same as first a), and not Absoul. Everything is a lie. EVERYTHING! This also means 4kids was right...
4201493 Yep, this comment seems to fit into a rant, which is something that I never do. I never even comment on stories. That shows you how much I like this story, and I can't wait for more. Thank you for one of the best stories ever Author.
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(only emoticon with a hoof in it, so it is raised.)
And I swear this is my last comment for now. It took me 15 minutes just to think of all of that. I may never comment, but when I do, I do it good.
4200136 /)
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*sits in fetal position, rocking back and forth*
So, I want you to know, because of this story, I went and caught an Absol in Pokemon Y and built a team around a team around him.
Consists of Absol, Gengar, Celebi, Kabuto, and Sylveon (Still looking for a 6th party member, if anyone has any ideas, let me know!
)
4200136 My hoof has been raised.
4201493 Absal? No. Nononononononononooonoiohgiugf8 r76xrUFT 6UY7F67T R7 7EI56r^& r&%R 6 r^&R^&R^&OR^&R^&ORigyuh 9 381yp
*dies*
See I would've taken out applejack :P
4201493 Someone's jimmies have been rustled
4218232 Rapidash!
Oh MY God applejack is such a PRICK!!!
6912913 probably cause, I'm assuming, her parents were eaten and is taking out years of anger out on Cres
4218232 im just assumiing your team is complete at this point but i always liked drapion