Foxfire
Beta Pokemon
Hello, friendly friends. I've been twiddling with this idea for some time now, and now that I've got an account on the TCoD forums, I figured that I might as well post it and get some feedback. Hope you like it!
It was a perfectly normal day in the Coronet mountains. Pokemon fought over silly territorial squabbles. Others looked for the sparse amount of food that was up there. A select few Pokemon lazed around irritably.
Being one of those who was lazing around irritably, Isolde was bored as heck. The light blue, catlike creature was so utterly disappointed with life, it gave her the creepy willies sometimes. She shifted in her little nest made up of snow. It would be very nice, she reasoned, if something happened right now.
Ever since she had been little, this particular Glaceon had been shunned by all of her brothers and sisters. This was not because she was shiny, or any of that bunk, but because while they were a very rowdy lot, and very well-developed fighters, Isolde had been more of a thinker, and a philosopher. It showed even today, as all of her siblings spent their lives drinking onion beer, having sex with each other, and generally being dipsticks. Isolde, however, spent her days gazing out across the mountains, and marveling the architecture of Heiligkirche, the Hearthome Church.
Unfortunately, because her brothers were better fighters than her, this resulted in Isolde being deprived of all berries, and food in general. Thus, they slowly were starving her to death, and also putting her in an almost perpetually bad mood.
"****," she barked at a passing Bronzor, who scuttled out of the way. He did not want to risk angering any of the Glaceon, who would either fire a drunken Ice Beam at him or develop a plan to psychologically torture him.
Little did Isolde know that soon, she would be having the best day of her life. Ironically, her first clue was when the world ended.
It started out as a little breeze, nothing special in particular. But then it picked up. The few trees that lived at this altitude rustled in irritation. Absol began to howl. The wind blew even faster.
Isolde leapt to her feet and began racing down a snowy cliff path. She knew that if she could just get inside the caves that wormed through the mountain's core she would be safe, if this turned out to be a full-scale blizzard.
The wind howled on faster still. Boulders, disturbed from their perches near the mountain's summit began raining down like massive bowling balls. Bronzor got squashed. Snover were uprooted.
Now Isolde began to get worried. She had lived on this mountain her entire life, and had never experienced winds like this before. It was probably just a tropical storm coming up from the Sea of Wailord, but she didn't want to take any chances with hurricanes. Oh, where was that cave? Isolde listened desperately for any sound of wind echoing past the walls of a cave, but there was none.
"Ray!"
The noise came from the sky. Isolde looked up to find a forest-green snake the size of a jumbo jet flying around the summit of Mt. Coronet. Somehow, instinctively, she knew that this was the creature causing this storm. With a valiant battle cry, Isolde fired a frigid Ice Beam attack at the draconic monster.
Unfortunately, this did little to weaken the beast. It now turned towards her and suddenly shot out of the sky. Before the Glaceon could react, the monster had grabbed her with a reptilian claw and soared back to the mountain's summit.
Isolde was gasping for breath as the monster dug its claws into her half-starved flesh. Through her blurry vision, she could see an ornate temple at the mountain's peak - probably Spear Pillar, a shrine to Dialga and Palkia. Then, if anything worse could happen at that time, it happened.
Mt. Coronet erupted.
Globs of hot lava and smoldering ash burst out of the volcano. The beast holding Isolde reared back in terror, accidentally letting go of her in the process. As the Glaceon fell off the mountain, she could see the beast that had capture her writhe in pain as lava coated its body and ash coated its throat.
As Isolde fell, she reflected on the fact that she would probably die after this. That was a good thing, she thought. Death would be a welcomed break from the life she lead.
It was at that moment that the Glaceon found herself in the clutches of yet another monster. This one was the size of the Empire State Building, and looked like a massive, plated t-rex. This beast eyed her suspiciously, and then made to throw her into the slowly advancing lava.
A blast of blue flames from above knocked the second monster off its feet. Isolde's head jerked upward to reveal the dragon-like monster from before. Its skin was now an ugly, orangish color from being covered with lava, but that didn't seem to be hampering it in the least. She wondered, just for a second, if all of these idiots were out to get her.
The sound of water managed to get her and the monsters' attention. They turned towards it, and none of them liked it.
If there was any time for a thousand-mile high tidal wave to be sweeping across western Sinnoh, this wasn't it. The monster holding her shot into the sky on a pillar of rock forming beneath is feet. The dragon simply flew upwards, while Isolde could only watch in horror as it drew nearer and nearer . . .
Something at the top of the wave caught her eye. Isolde strained to see what it was, and then realized that this was the third monster of the day. It was shaped like a whale or dolphin, but was easily as large as the titanic, and was covered in a glistening coat of wet scales.
Both of the other monsters attacked - the one holding her fired a massive boulder at it, while the other monster blasted it with a tornado that appeared from its mouth. The third monster surrounded itself with a barrier of pure ice, easily deflecting the other monsters' attacks.
What is going on? Isolde thought, racking her brain for any memories that might explain what was going on right now. She just needed one tidbit of information . . .
Suddenly the Glaceon had a flashback to her days as an Eevee. While her brothers and sisters were play-fighting outside, Isolde and her mama Glaceon were sitting in their snowy den, telling stories to each other.
"Now, Isolde," mama Glaceon had said, "do you want to hear a scary story?"
"Yeah!" she had chirped.
"All right. Once upon a time, in a land far in the past, the gods of the earth, sea and sky were restless. They were arguing about which of their territories was the best. Soon war broke out between them."
Mama Glaceon lowered her voice so that Isolde had to strain her fluffy Eevee ears to her her.
"The god of the earth polluted the sky with choking ash from his volcanoes. The god of the sky decimated the creatures that lived in the sea with massive bolts of lighting. The god of the sea raised the ocean to cover the earth."
"Whoa, that does sound scary!" squeaked Isolde.
"But that's not the worst part." The Glaceon grinned. "There is a legend that says this fight, this war that could end the world, will happen again in the future."
Chapter 1: The End of the World (Again)
It was a perfectly normal day in the Coronet mountains. Pokemon fought over silly territorial squabbles. Others looked for the sparse amount of food that was up there. A select few Pokemon lazed around irritably.
Being one of those who was lazing around irritably, Isolde was bored as heck. The light blue, catlike creature was so utterly disappointed with life, it gave her the creepy willies sometimes. She shifted in her little nest made up of snow. It would be very nice, she reasoned, if something happened right now.
Ever since she had been little, this particular Glaceon had been shunned by all of her brothers and sisters. This was not because she was shiny, or any of that bunk, but because while they were a very rowdy lot, and very well-developed fighters, Isolde had been more of a thinker, and a philosopher. It showed even today, as all of her siblings spent their lives drinking onion beer, having sex with each other, and generally being dipsticks. Isolde, however, spent her days gazing out across the mountains, and marveling the architecture of Heiligkirche, the Hearthome Church.
Unfortunately, because her brothers were better fighters than her, this resulted in Isolde being deprived of all berries, and food in general. Thus, they slowly were starving her to death, and also putting her in an almost perpetually bad mood.
"****," she barked at a passing Bronzor, who scuttled out of the way. He did not want to risk angering any of the Glaceon, who would either fire a drunken Ice Beam at him or develop a plan to psychologically torture him.
Little did Isolde know that soon, she would be having the best day of her life. Ironically, her first clue was when the world ended.
It started out as a little breeze, nothing special in particular. But then it picked up. The few trees that lived at this altitude rustled in irritation. Absol began to howl. The wind blew even faster.
Isolde leapt to her feet and began racing down a snowy cliff path. She knew that if she could just get inside the caves that wormed through the mountain's core she would be safe, if this turned out to be a full-scale blizzard.
The wind howled on faster still. Boulders, disturbed from their perches near the mountain's summit began raining down like massive bowling balls. Bronzor got squashed. Snover were uprooted.
Now Isolde began to get worried. She had lived on this mountain her entire life, and had never experienced winds like this before. It was probably just a tropical storm coming up from the Sea of Wailord, but she didn't want to take any chances with hurricanes. Oh, where was that cave? Isolde listened desperately for any sound of wind echoing past the walls of a cave, but there was none.
"Ray!"
The noise came from the sky. Isolde looked up to find a forest-green snake the size of a jumbo jet flying around the summit of Mt. Coronet. Somehow, instinctively, she knew that this was the creature causing this storm. With a valiant battle cry, Isolde fired a frigid Ice Beam attack at the draconic monster.
Unfortunately, this did little to weaken the beast. It now turned towards her and suddenly shot out of the sky. Before the Glaceon could react, the monster had grabbed her with a reptilian claw and soared back to the mountain's summit.
Isolde was gasping for breath as the monster dug its claws into her half-starved flesh. Through her blurry vision, she could see an ornate temple at the mountain's peak - probably Spear Pillar, a shrine to Dialga and Palkia. Then, if anything worse could happen at that time, it happened.
Mt. Coronet erupted.
Globs of hot lava and smoldering ash burst out of the volcano. The beast holding Isolde reared back in terror, accidentally letting go of her in the process. As the Glaceon fell off the mountain, she could see the beast that had capture her writhe in pain as lava coated its body and ash coated its throat.
As Isolde fell, she reflected on the fact that she would probably die after this. That was a good thing, she thought. Death would be a welcomed break from the life she lead.
It was at that moment that the Glaceon found herself in the clutches of yet another monster. This one was the size of the Empire State Building, and looked like a massive, plated t-rex. This beast eyed her suspiciously, and then made to throw her into the slowly advancing lava.
A blast of blue flames from above knocked the second monster off its feet. Isolde's head jerked upward to reveal the dragon-like monster from before. Its skin was now an ugly, orangish color from being covered with lava, but that didn't seem to be hampering it in the least. She wondered, just for a second, if all of these idiots were out to get her.
The sound of water managed to get her and the monsters' attention. They turned towards it, and none of them liked it.
If there was any time for a thousand-mile high tidal wave to be sweeping across western Sinnoh, this wasn't it. The monster holding her shot into the sky on a pillar of rock forming beneath is feet. The dragon simply flew upwards, while Isolde could only watch in horror as it drew nearer and nearer . . .
Something at the top of the wave caught her eye. Isolde strained to see what it was, and then realized that this was the third monster of the day. It was shaped like a whale or dolphin, but was easily as large as the titanic, and was covered in a glistening coat of wet scales.
Both of the other monsters attacked - the one holding her fired a massive boulder at it, while the other monster blasted it with a tornado that appeared from its mouth. The third monster surrounded itself with a barrier of pure ice, easily deflecting the other monsters' attacks.
What is going on? Isolde thought, racking her brain for any memories that might explain what was going on right now. She just needed one tidbit of information . . .
Suddenly the Glaceon had a flashback to her days as an Eevee. While her brothers and sisters were play-fighting outside, Isolde and her mama Glaceon were sitting in their snowy den, telling stories to each other.
"Now, Isolde," mama Glaceon had said, "do you want to hear a scary story?"
"Yeah!" she had chirped.
"All right. Once upon a time, in a land far in the past, the gods of the earth, sea and sky were restless. They were arguing about which of their territories was the best. Soon war broke out between them."
Mama Glaceon lowered her voice so that Isolde had to strain her fluffy Eevee ears to her her.
"The god of the earth polluted the sky with choking ash from his volcanoes. The god of the sky decimated the creatures that lived in the sea with massive bolts of lighting. The god of the sea raised the ocean to cover the earth."
"Whoa, that does sound scary!" squeaked Isolde.
"But that's not the worst part." The Glaceon grinned. "There is a legend that says this fight, this war that could end the world, will happen again in the future."
