Pokevore: Seviper's Eternity
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Eternity. Warm walls pressed down all around him, holding him immobile. The monotony was only broken by a vague sense of movement, a rare event.
He had never known anything but those two sensations: his reality, and he was comfortable with this. In fact, only recently had he bothered to consider comfort, discomfort, or his surroundings, which seemed to become imperceptibly bigger, even as he did. The day he saw light still frightens him, though the warm glow that occupied forever was almost reassuring now. The light had disappeared forever, again, and he missed it.
Then the sounds. Faint things he at first had discounted as his thoughts. But they were real...they must be. Sharp, high pitched noises, deep, low rumbling. But nothing, ever like the sounds he heard now.
"Move left. Hurry!"
Suddenly, the stirring motion returned, and he shivered, feeling cold.
"Hold it! Wait...was that a Seviper?"
"It was heading to the lake. Should we capture it?"
Why was it so cold? Frustrated, he found himself stretching, tugging himself this way and that as he battered himself against those once comfortable walls.
"I couldn't see. Go after it! I'll be right behind you."
Crack! It was the loudest sound he had ever heard, and when he opened his eyes, something terrible had happened. Where smooth white walls should have cradled him, he saw an endless black. All around him there was movement, as if black tendrils of emptiness writhed in agony. Frightened, he also squirmed, dismayed that the more he moved, the more that infinite blackness seemed to grow.
"What in the world is that?"
In an instant, the blackness vanished, replaced by a blinding white light, devoid of any warmth. Frantic, he flipped and spun and wriggled, trying to find his home, but all he saw were thin, white flakes and squirming black tendrils.
"Eggs...these must be Seviper eggs! Stop chasing her, they're getting away!"
"What?"
"If we catch one, we can find out once and for all if there is a baby form of Seviper!"
The white flakes were not home anymore, and the only safety he could see were the tall, green stalks all around him. He realized that as he wriggled, the stalks grew larger. He wriggled faster.
"Ha!"
Bonk! Something collided with his head, and another bright light filled the sky, and suddenly he found himself home again. Except everything was wrong! His spherical walls were cold and dry, nothing like his old home. When he tried to move, nothing happened at all! Still, the motion and lights and infinite space were gone. He soon fell asleep.
He woke to a blinding flash of light, and more unfamiliar noises.
"Alright, let's see what you look -"
"Bill! Come quick! A tauros is charging your jeep!" Pounding rustles echoed through his ears, slowly fading.
He opened his eyes to see a brown world. When he looked up, he saw an everlasting blue nothingness and he quickly looked away. The rest of the world was big, but understandable. He was surrounded by four, smooth, brown walls, lying on a fifth, equally brown, equally smooth ground. The only other object was a small sphere, half red, half white. He tapped it, flicking his tongue along its smooth surface.
It was bright and warm now, but nothing like his home had been. Before all of this madness began happening, he had been curled up neatly in wet warmth, and he had been comfortable. Everything was unfamiliar now, and he wished he were back.
He heard distant screams and noises, but something closer...rustling, and then he saw it. At the top of his world, over the brown wall, a long, thin, blue and white thing slid over. Landing with a thud, the newcomer looked a lot like himself!
Both he and it were long and sinuous, but while he was black with yellow patches, its back was blue and its stomach was white. It had pointed white ears and a dot in the middle of its forehead.
"Se...viper..." he said, surprised to be forming words for the first time.
It cocked its head at him. The blue creature was just a little bit larger than him, slithering closer. He tried to back up, but he wasn't used to the movement and just crumpled up into a black ball.
"Se...?" he asked again. The blue creature's only response was to lick his lips. Then, moving faster than the young Seviper could follow, it opened its jaws wide, showing off its pink gullet, concentric pink circles that grew ever darker until all he could see was a dark, black hole. Reflexively, he bared his venomous fangs, but the newborn was no match. The gaping maw descended instantly around his head, lips closing firmly around his neck, and his world was once again engulfed in darkness.
Wriggling relentlessly, he tried to pull himself out of the strong mouth, but powerful muscles beat on him from all sides, pulling his head ever deeper. A slick wetness covered the Seviper's head as he slid inexorably into the larger snake's body.
"Damn tauros...look at that dent!"
"At least he's gone. Let's go look at this Seviper you've caught."
He was crumpled up no longer. Now he was long and straight, and he could feel muscles gripping down around three fourths of his body. He was panting and gasping, a sensation he'd never felt before. All of his struggles were useless; as the tip of his tail was finally sucked into the creature's mouth, the Seviper was nothing more than a long, firm bulge.
He found himself trapped, wriggling but unable to move in his wet, warm confines. Through the growing haze in his mind, he realized how familiar this felt. He was home, safe, and finally comfortable. He stopped struggling. Maybe now he could forget all the weird things he'd seen, and that terrifying, endless openness. Those things seemed like distant dreams now. The Seviper went unconscious, curling up in a familiar reality, ready to face the rest of eternity.
* * * * *
"Well, I'll be."
"That looks nothing like a Seviper!"
Laying at the bottom of the cardboard box, next to its pokeball, lay a pudgy little blue snake unlike anything Bill had ever seen. "Here, let me check the pokedex," he said, fumbling with the small electronic device. It automatically logged information about the pokemon it captured to the best official knowledge. "It says a Seviper occupied it, but now its blank. I don't even think the pokedex knows what this is!"
Harry looked down at it. "It's damn cute." The blue snake licked its lips, and then burped, lying down contentedly.
Bill said, "This is the pre-evolution form of Seviper! Let's head back to Fuchsia City and set it up in a Pokemon Daycare. Nothing but the best for you," he said to the blue pokemon. "Then we'll go to Pallet Town to get Professor Oak. Harry, we'll be in the history books forever!"
Bill reached down and grabbed the hefty, little snake, picking it up and putting it in a carrier.
"Why not put it back in its ball?" Harry asked.
"You kidding? This little guy was just born! That last place he'd want to be is back in a small, confined place. No, and I'm going to set him up at that new deluxe daycare and breeding center in the middle of town."
Yawning, the swollen little Dratini curled up in the carrier to sleep off his most recent big meal, unaware that his life was about to change forever.