{"sf1_id":142794,"sf2_id":"qmy6Y5vn","title":"Gone (chapter 1)","author":"Lando the Charizard","words":1740,"posted_at":"2010-05-01T16:24:00.000Z","tags":["Character Development","Charizard","Emotion","Ninetales","Pokemon","Story Series","emptiness","loss"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/142794-gone-chapter-1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/qmy6Y5vn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/7b/5c/7b5c1b78-c46a-4001-8446-0f25f4877a9f","description":"#1 of Gone","content":"\u0026nbsp;\n\nOk people this is my first story EVER and it's the story i said i might do for the purpose of giving my fursona a background story\n\nI now present...\n\n### Gone\n\nThe Charizard just laid on the rocky surface of cave.\u0026nbsp; Wondering where his life had just been taken without his consent.\u0026nbsp; As the golden sunlight, that normally brought hope and joy to the creature's slowly degenerating spirit, entered the mouth of the cavern it landed upon the Pokémon snout.\u0026nbsp; What was immediately noticeable was that this Charizard was not like the rest of his species.\u0026nbsp; His scales and even the underlying skin was almost to the point of being pitch black.\u0026nbsp; Instead of totally dark scales, however, they had a purple hue to them.\u0026nbsp; This creature was what humans called a 'shiny' Pokémon and that made it all the rarer.\u0026nbsp; The creature just laid there and let the gradual warmth from the sunlight to envelope him and give him some reason to get up.\u0026nbsp; The Charizard slowly crawled to a sitting position, staying in the sunlight the whole way, and gazed at his surroundings.\u0026nbsp; He noticed nothing out of the ordinary, whatever ordinary was anymore, and decided that the best thing to do now would be to find a meal.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe Charizard returned to his cavernous sanctuary feasted on the variety of berries he brought with him.\u0026nbsp; He thought of nothing in particular, especially not current events, but he also thought of everything that he could wrap his mind around.\u0026nbsp; The Charizard just let the world pass by and in what felt like 10 minutes of personal contemplation had actually been several hours of his life wasted.\u0026nbsp; He realized this as he stood and walked to the mouth of the cave and saw that the sun was now high in the sky.\u0026nbsp; It must have been at least 90 degrees today so the fire lizard decided to stay indoors for now and contemplate everything and why it had happened the way it did.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Catch me if you can you overgrown lizard!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"We'll see who's fastest after I get a hold of you!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe day was growing old and the two Pokémon were finishing up their game.\u0026nbsp; Truth be told they were fully grown but that didn't stop them from acting like children.\u0026nbsp; They loved the fact that no matter what happened they had each other and that left them both with the freedom to almost anything they wanted.\u0026nbsp; At the moment that included a nostalgia inducing game of tag between the Ninetails and her Charizard companion.\u0026nbsp; The two were inseparable form the first time they met but about a month ago they decided to officially become mates.\u0026nbsp; Everything about the Charizard intrigued the Ninetails.\u0026nbsp; She couldn't help but wonder why he was such a quiet Pokémon but she didn't give it much more thought than any of the others ideas that floated through her head.\u0026nbsp; She loved him for who he was and nothing would break that bond.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Gotcha!\", yelled the triumphant Charizard as he finally caught his mate.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Hey!\u0026nbsp; No fair I was distracted!\", whimpered the defeated Ninetails.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"It's totally fair.\u0026nbsp; You need to pay attention to what's going on around you.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Whatever, can you at least let me up?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe Charizard had caught the vixen but he had landed on top of her when he did so and that only seemed to make the situation a little bit awkward for the two of them, despite being mates.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Yeah I suppose I could, but why not try this first while we're together?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe lizard began to lower his face to hers and made contact between their lips.\u0026nbsp; The defeated vixen couldn't help but enjoy the sudden affection.\u0026nbsp; She truly loved the Charizard but she would have to get him to stop doing stupid things like this.\u0026nbsp; She had fallen for the first few 'accidents' where the two ended up in a ridiculous situation but now she had gotten somewhat tired of them.\u0026nbsp; She never lost interest in the kiss at the end of each incident though so she happily follow the lizards lead and reciprocated the affectionate kiss.\u0026nbsp; The two locked together like that for about a minute before she spoke.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Lando?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Yes, Ruby?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What are you doing?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"I'm showing my little fox that I love her.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"But why did you fall on me?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"It was an accident.\u0026nbsp; Honestly it was.\" the lizard stated this while beginning to get defensive.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"You know I don't believe that, Lando. Why are you really doing this?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSilence permeated the field as the lizard looked dumbfounded.\u0026nbsp; She was actually asking why he was giving his mate affection.\u0026nbsp; He was totally clueless as to why she would do something like that but he had to think fast to keep her from walking off to the cave.\u0026nbsp; He knew she would not talk to him the rest of the night if he lied to her but he really couldn't place why he was doing what he was doing.\u0026nbsp; He thought he was showing signs of his love to her but maybe there was more to it than that.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Lando, I think I'm going to go to the cave now. Ok?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nShe pushed him off of her and began the walk to the nearby sanctuary.\u0026nbsp; Lando watched as Ruby strode through the field.\u0026nbsp; It looked to him that she was gliding on air.\u0026nbsp; He began to have a feeling in between his legs, but he simply ignored it.\u0026nbsp; He walked after the golden fox and soon reached the entrance to the cave.\u0026nbsp; She did not acknowledge his existence until he sat next her and set fire to the small pile of logs in the center of the cavern.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nShe gradually rose her head to see that Lando was looking rather disappointed with something.\u0026nbsp; She assumed it was her rejecting his advances.\u0026nbsp; They were mates but that didn't mean that they had all of their issues dealt with.\u0026nbsp; This was just another obstacle for her to leap over and conquer.\u0026nbsp; She nuzzled his chest with her muzzle, trying to get his attention.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLando couldn't help it but he shivered at her touch.\u0026nbsp; She was one his mate and he loved her dearly.\u0026nbsp; He then spoke to her.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What is it, Ruby?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What's bothering you Lando, You're not yourself.\"\u0026nbsp; She began to dig deeper into his scaly chest with her snout.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"It's nothing, honey.\u0026nbsp; I just need to think.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Lando?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Yes, Ruby?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nShe leaned in towards him and gave him a quick kiss to his nose.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"I love you.\" She stated at a near whisper.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"I love you too\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLando heaved and sobbed as he remembered that day.\u0026nbsp; She was so innocent then.\u0026nbsp; So loving and deserving of every possible, positive, feeling.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Why did they take you, Ruby? Why?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLando collapsed in the center of the cave and wept at his loss.\u0026nbsp; He wanted to see her so badly right now.\u0026nbsp; Just a glance at her face, her warm, smiling face.\u0026nbsp; That's all he wanted now.\u0026nbsp; That's all he's ever wanted.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLando worked himself into a fitful sleep.\u0026nbsp; He was sure nothing could ever be as horrible as when they took Ruby from his side.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"LANDO... HELP ME!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe fire lizard stirred.\u0026nbsp; Slowly at first but soon was in a sitting position.\u0026nbsp; He glances around and noticed Ruby on the ground at the mouth of the cave.\u0026nbsp; She was obviously in pain, she was having a hard time breathing and her fur was matted down with a copious amount of water.\u0026nbsp; He stood in a split second and raced to her but he was too late.\u0026nbsp; A strange object flew threw to air and made contact with Ruby's head, causing it to smack hard to the ground.\u0026nbsp; Lando was enraged at this.\u0026nbsp; Whoever thought that they could just throw something at his mate was going to pay.\u0026nbsp; What happened next shocked Lando to his core.\u0026nbsp; Ruby started to fizzle out of existence and soon what was left of her was a white light that was sucked into the strange object.\u0026nbsp; He now realized that it was one of the human's devices, called a Pokéball.\u0026nbsp; As the rest of Ruby disappeared, Lando knew that nothing would come out of trying to save her.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe ball rocked form side to side.\u0026nbsp; Occasionally give a little bounce.\u0026nbsp; The ball stopped for a second and the light on the front of the ball turned from red to white.\u0026nbsp; Ruby was gone.\u0026nbsp; The Charizard was devastated.\u0026nbsp; He couldn't breathe, couldn't feel the ground beneath him or the air circulating through the cave.\u0026nbsp; He was at a loss for anything except for the feeling of absolute emptiness.\u0026nbsp; If he could've cried he would've likely turned into a Blastoise. \u0026nbsp;He felt like breaking down and doing just that but he couldn't do it.\u0026nbsp; The air grew heavy and stale around him and then he heard it.\u0026nbsp; It was the worst sound he had ever heard and it broke down him down to nothing, body, mind, and spirit were rocked by this sound.\u0026nbsp; It was of laughter.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe trainer couldn't believe his luck.\u0026nbsp; A fully grown Ninetails and all he had to do was use a Wartortle to weaken it to the point of easy capture.\u0026nbsp; He was elated to find himself with a brand new and probably very strong Ninetails. And he laughed at his good luck.\u0026nbsp; He laughed about it all right then.\u0026nbsp; It all came together so perfectly.\u0026nbsp; He was so overjoyed that he didn't even hear the sound of distress coming from the cave and he walked away.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLando died on the inside.\u0026nbsp; He was left as a hollow shell of his former self.\u0026nbsp; He couldn't do anything now.\u0026nbsp; He had no purpose now.\u0026nbsp; No one to care for...no one to love.\u0026nbsp; He was truly and utterly unable to bring himself to accept that Ruby was gone... gone...gone.\u0026nbsp; He couldn't do it, he just couldn't.\u0026nbsp; He punched a wall of the cave and left the tiniest of indentations in the hard stone wall.\u0026nbsp; He now cried his heart out.\u0026nbsp; His mate... his love... his Ruby was gone.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd he could do nothing to stop it.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}