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Chapter 2

The young boy woke up, breathing heavily. At first, his vision was blurred and couldn't make out anything that was in front of him. After a few moments of adjustment, his eyes were greeted to a bright light blinding him. The boy tried to look around to see where he was but he couldn't move. The only parts of his body that he can move were his eyes.

Looking to the left, all he can see was a green wall, freshly dried recently. Looking to the right was a plastic white table that had a few empty syringes and a bottle of clear liquid. The boy was filled with fear and tried getting out of whatever he was laying on. However, he still couldn't move. He looked forward to find out that he wasn't tied down to anything. The boy then wondered why he couldn't move.

He then heard loud, ominous footsteps walking towards him. The boy panicked and tried to make his body move but he couldn't. He began wondering what this someone or something in the room is going to do to him. Is he going to die? Is he going to be tortured? Kidnapped here forever? As the footsteps became closer, the more the boy hoped nothing bad will happen but he knew the worst is about to come. He tried thinking ways of remaining calm. Pretending this was just a nightmare, saying that whatever he was in wouldn't be as bad as it seems but the ferocious feeling of panic still remained.

Behind the blinding light, he could make out a silhouette of a person near whatever the boy is laying down on. The silhouette of one person turned into a silhouette of two people, a man and a woman. The sight of these figures made the situation all the more terrifying and surreal. His eyes widened and his mouth was opened trembling and his hands were shaking but that was the only thing that could move in response of horror.

"He's awake! Hold his arm down!" The man said to the woman. The woman walked up to the boy and held down his right arm rough and pressed her weight on the boy. As she got closer, the boy could begin to distinguish what the woman looked like. She was a middle aged woman with curly brown hair that slightly sparkled by the array of light from what the boy thought was a ceiling light of some sort. She wore a surgical mask to hide her facial features but expression was noticeable through her eyebrows. She also wore perfume with an over powering smell of it as she got close to the boy. She looked very familiar to the boy, too familiar. He recognized who she was. Why are you doing this?! The boy tried to ask but his mouth couldn't move to form words at all whether it was shock or something else. His mouth could only tremble open.

The man walked towards the plastic table and took one of the syringes with his wrinkly old hand visible through the plastic glove and filled it with the clear liquid. At this point, the boy was begging for the man not to kill him but couldn't show it to the man and the woman.

"You'll be alright, it might sting for a second but it won't last long, I promise," the man said as if he can read every thought that is going through the boy's head. Liar! The boy screamed in his head. The man took the syringe and jabbed it in the boy's vein on his right arm releasing the liquid in the veins ready to travel through his body. The boy tried fighting but is still restricted. As the liquid traveled through the veins, he saw the man make an expression through his surgical mask that the boy could only tell from his eyebrows. It was an expression of pure sorrow. He felt the sting in his arm and wanted to scream. In moments, the boy became drowsy. The boy passed out in about a minute. Before he passed out, he heard the last thing the man said to him.

"Goodnight."

***

The Lucario woke up instantly; breathing heavily. His vision was blurred from the water in his eyes.

"You're awake!"

The Lucario adjusted his blurry sight to see a Vaporeon sitting about a meter away from him. The Lucario's eyes widen. He got up and tried to strike the Vaporeon in high fear of the pokemon being another hostile. The Vaporeon evades the attack with such ease and she used water gun to push the Lucario back against the ground he was sleeping upon, stunning him briefly.

"Look, I'm not going to attack you. I'm going to help you," the Vaporeon told the Lucario with an annoyed expression.

"But you just attacked me. How is that helping? What do you want from me?!" The Lucario replied still with his eyes widened and in a tone of panic. The Vaporeon sighed and tried to calm the Lucario down the best she can.

"You better be careful what you say. I just saved your ass from those men in the woods. If I wasn't around walking in the woods, you would have been locked in that big warehouse and beaten to death."

"Why would they do that?" The Lucario asked as he was struck with fear thinking what could have happened to him. The Vaporeon sighed at the Lucario's lack of knowledge of what's going on.

"Are you new here? This has been happening for years. Many humans and our kind began attacking the Lucarios. They have been trapping them, beating them, killing them, etc. That wasn't a smart move walking in those woods without some sort of disguise, its suicide without one if you're a Lucario."

"Why are they doing this?" The Lucario asked worried and more astonished and overwhelmed of the knowledge.

"Who the hell knows? I guess there was an incident a few years ago that left this area in ruins. From what I see, it's their fault, causing more trouble all the time, fighting over everything to the point of violence. I think the flaw of humanity is that they can't admit to their own mistakes, they always find someone or something to blame. Even some of our kind agrees to this pettiness, especially the Growlithes and Arcanines. It's very stupid, I just missed the days when things were peaceful," the Vaporeon rambled. The Lucario sighed. He remembered the Growlithe, Arcanine, and the humans back in the city. Why would they all want me dead? What did I ever do? What did me and other so called 'Lucarios' do? Maybe I can hopefully stay with this thing until it's safe to come out again. The Lucario thought as he lay down on the cold ground. The Vaporeon walked up to the Lucario and lied down next to him.

"Sorry, I think I just rambled on. What is your name?" The Vaporeon asked changing the topic to make the atmosphere better.

"My name... I don't think I have a name," the Lucario replied. The words then flushed in his mind; "I don't think I have a name."

"Really? I'm sure you do have a name." The Lucario nodded at the Vaporeon with confusion. "So you seriously don't have a name?" The Vaporeon asked her expression changing from a sympathetic smile to a shocked gasp.

"Yes," the Lucario replied.

The Vaporeon sighed. "Okay, well....I'll find a name for you." The Vaporeon thought for a couple minutes.

"Well, since you are a Lucario, I'll just call you 'L'. I know it sounds dumb but at least it's something. Anyways, my name is Erin or that's what my old master used to always call me. This is where I have been living in for a couple of months. It's probably the only building intact in this town." L began to look at the building he was in. It was an abandoned Pokemon Center. There was no electricity so the machines weren't on casting darkness through the room with only the outside world from the windows as a ray of light. The floor had some broken glass from the bottles that fell from the shelves that have also been knocked over. There was a metal rust of a staircase near the entrance of the building that was collapsed on the floor with a rusty odor spreading across the room. Although many objects were destroyed in the Pokemon Center, the building itself was intact unlike the last Pokemon Center he was at.

"Just curious, what were you doing in those woods anyways?" Erin asked L as he was observing the minimally wrecked Pokemon Center. L was hesitant at first wondering what reason he did have for traveling in that nightmare of a forest

"I'm not really sure... I don't remember much at all. I just woke up in a bed in a city filled with people who wanted me dead and I needed to find a way out which was the forest. Now I'm here. All I really want to know is what happened and what I am doing here," L replied still not adjusting to the world that he woke up to. Erin wasn't very surprised.

"You don't remember anything? I figured that. Why would a Lucario take a chance of dying and walking so close to one of those warehouses in the woods? You don't remember anyone or anything?" Erin asked. L began to remember about the dream he had before waking up. He remembered Kimmy who found the little Lucario that was injured. Remembering the girl finding the Lucario gave L a moment of fond happiness, but only for a moment.

"I think I do know someone. I remembered before I woke up seeing this human girl that found me injured. I'm trying to look for her. Maybe she knows the answers to everything. Can you help me find her? You are the only one I talked who isn't trying to kill me." Erin began thinking for a few moments before delivering her answer. L's stomach started to rumble ravenously and was embarrassed by the loud rumbling. The Vaporeon immediately tossed him an oran berry. L caught the fruit by the two tips of his paws and by the sight of the food, gave L an even more great distressed feeling of hunger

"Here, eat this. I have many berries in this place if you're hungry. You are injured so I don't think you should go anywhere right now. Since you're very confused and don't know where you are going, I will join you in your little quest. However, I need you to do a little favor for me," Erin answered. The Lucario asked her the favor was, acting if he was about to oblige to any favor. As Erin told him her favor, his eyes slightly widened just as he got done with the offered food.

"Wait... WHAT!?" Lucario's eyes flared more wildly, his mouth came a jar showing bits of his beast like teeth as if the Vaporeon told him the most monstrous thing any human or pokemon could ever do.