Chapter 11
Despite being an underground city, Kinholdur actually never suffered from food shortages. Whether it was due to food imports from Equestria or the Diamond Dogs' major reliance on crops that would be able to grow in moist, underground areas with artificial light at most. Many of the pokemon residing within the city weren't too picky on what they were fed while they were working as long as it was palatable, which actually led to a lot less sustenance hunts within the city limits.
Actually, one of those hunts in particular led to Mick's new friend... which was quite odd since the large Ekans had tried to eat him. That had certainly been a strange experience, fortunately Emma had been nearby to rescue him.
Mick was hopping up and down, a little giddy with joy since he had finally begun to be able to use his moves... even if it was just the simple Scratch attack. They both still had a long way to go before they could start their journey, but fortunately most of the preparation was more along the lines of teaching Mick how to use his pokemon moves than anything else, a lot of his stealth and acrobatic training seemed to have carried over from his human form.
...Unbeknownst to the passing fire types a hungry predator was eyeing the much smaller, and slightly lagging, Cyndaquil from where it was curled under what appeared to be an abandoned stall. A forked tongue licked cracked, starving lips as the pokemon eyed its prey.
The moment it was waiting for presented itself, ripe for the taking since the larger mongoose-like quilava was distracted, reading a map of the city while the Cyndaquil was too busy celebrating the insignificant victory it had gained in the use of its moves. The purple snake pokemon lunged out, catching Mick by surprise and managed to swallow up most of the little Cyndaquil in one desperate gulp hoping to get fed and flee before the larger fire type reacted.
Mick's reaction, well, let's just say it was completely on reflex as he only heard a gulping sound before being swallowed alive.
...He screamed... Loudly...
Emma was the first to recover from the shock as she noticed the bulge just below the writhing Ekans' jawline. She quickly leapt onto the stunned snake's body and knocked the wind out of it, making... her... wheeze for air as she tried vainly to keep her meal down. With a furious, predatory look Emma glared into the slit-like eyes of the violet snake and seemed to have her own hiss just loud enough for the Ekans to hear.
"You will spit him out... Or so help me I will tear you apart to get him back..." She growled, leaving no room to argue it may have been a bluff.
With fear-filled eyes the pokemon quickly nodded and spat out the poor, disoriented Cyndaquil. Emma quickly rushed over to his side, shooting a venom-filled glare at the weakened snake.
Mick let out a quiet moan and shook his head as he finally regained a bit of sense. "Ooh... I really don't understand how some people could be aroused by something like that... That was absolutely terrifying..." He groans with a grimace just before his expression changes to one of surprise as his vision finds his attacker. His stomach sank as he saw the injured form of the Ekans. Her body was actually a lot thinner than he knew it should be at a glance, in general she wasn't even in physically fit shape for an Ekans. But what truly broke his heart was watching her there, laying hopelessly on the ground as tears streamed down her face. While every instinct in his new body was screaming at him to run away from the creature who attacked him and nearly swallowed him whole, his mind was calmly slapping his instincts in the face and telling him to get a grip.
She was starving, and he was likely her last, desperate attempt to get SOMETHING to eat. He may not have liked that she chose him, but he could certainly understand why. He slowly began walking over to the battered Ekans with a look that was torn between curious and sad. Halfway to her he was suddenly stopped as Emma pulled him close to her.
"Don't even think about talking to HER..." She growls slightly as she stares at the slightly sobbing pokemon. "...We're leaving... That's more than she deserves... If you weren't here she wouldn't be getting off so eas-"
"Emma..." Mick says with stern resolve. "...Put me down." Out of reflex to his 'you're in trouble' tone she lets him go and he looks at her with a somewhat... disappointed... look. "Emma... We were brought here... to this world... Because we're better than those who just leave pokemon to a terrible fate." As he spoke, the Ekans began to look up at him in slight confusion. "...While what she did may not have been right... she did so because she thought that was the only way to survive." He turned and started walking towards the Ekans again, only to stop in front of her.
He held out a paw that she flinched a little away from. "I'm Mick... Human turned pokemon who specialized in pokemon care..." He introduces gently.
With a bit of wonder on her face the Ekans slowly meets his paw with the tip of her tail. "G-Gwenneth... but... you can call me Gwen..." She replies nervously.
He smiles a little as he gives her tail a firm shake. "If you were hungry, you could have asked... I know there may not be a whole lot of jobs around for a snake pokemon, but I'm sure someone could have found a place that suited you. If you want, you can come home with us and get a warm meal."
Her eyes widened with surprise as she gawked a little. "A-are you serious? But... I just... tried to eat you..."
Mick nods. "Yeah, but you were desperate... you didn't try just because you could, but because you wanted to survive... I know what it's like to need the hospitality of someone you don't know."
The look of surprise on the Ekans' face began to melt into a tear-filled smile. "Thank you... I... I would love to have somewhere to rest..." She seemed to wheeze out before she collapsed on the ground, causing Mick to jump a little in surprise.
"Oh my... It's worse than I thought..." He says just before wiggling his paws underneath the Ekans to heft her onto his back.
"Mick! What are you doing?"
"What does it look like? I'm carrying her to safety... She's starving... I'm surprised she had the strength to lunge at me like she did in her condition." He replies sharply. "Now you can either help lift her or just open the door when we get back to Vinny's."
It was several hours later before Gwen awoke again, with some food nearby... much to her initial surprise before she began to eat ravenously, not caring what the food was or even tasted like. Her devouring was stopped as she heard the door to the room she was in creak open, revealing the Cyndaquil and Quilava from earlier with a container that had a red plus sign on it.
"Well... Some things between worlds appear to never change." Mick says as he starts walking over to the bed with the first aid kit in his paws, causing Gwen to look at him curiously. "Now... I've got to do a physical for you... I need to make sure that nothing is too wrong with your body so that we can hope for you to make a full recovery." He says gently while he pulls out a stethoscope. "First is a check of your breathing and heart rate..." He explains as he lowers the metal end to her scales. It was surprisingly warm as he slid it along her to listen to various places and explained as he went along what he was checking for.
After several minutes he finally put the stethoscope away with a smile. "Good news; you're going to make a full recovery as long as you get some rest and some food in your system. The bad news... Is you're going to have to stay in the bed until you've recovered to the proper weight for your species, while the damage wasn't permanent... It doesn't mean you'll be getting back up soon.
Tears began to fill Gwen's eyes again as she listened to the little mouse, half giggling to herself about what a miracle it was to finally have someone caring for her, and how adorable the little mouse she had tried to eat not that long ago was. She let out a smile and a small nod. "Thank... you..." She chokes a little on the happy sob that was stuck in her throat. "I... I don't know how I can ever repay you..."
Mick lets out a chuckle. "That's an easy one... Just don't try to eat me again."
Despite how much she disliked the Ekans near her Cyndaquil, Emma couldn't help but let out her own little chuckle as the three of them began to laugh the experience off a little.
...Maybe it wasn't so bad being a pokemon after all...?
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All in all, rather cute chapter
5251805 Thank you, I'm trying to get a mix of cute, awesome and FEELZ!!!! into the whole story before the end.
You missed the wedding by two days.
5259983 Ok, so as long as it doesn't take too long for Gwen to get in travelling condition there won't be too much of the story that's altered from my original plan.
5346189 It was still funny when he did it
5259983 wedding happened around day (let's see carry the one, add that...)
day 19-ish
5346397 Wonderful! Then my plans don't need to worry too badly about changing.
5346879 mostly i know that the meeting happen day 14, aka 2 weeks after the arrival of all the pokemon