{"sf1_id":653766,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Defenders of Evodusai Part 8","author":"Mizucharoshi","words":1296,"posted_at":"2014-01-21T19:02:00.000Z","tags":["charmander","flaaffy","pokemon"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/653766-defenders-of-evodusai-part-8","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/653766","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=653766\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":" Barely dodging a bout of\nelectricity, I was stunned at how quick his attacks were. \"Oh?\"\nthe flaaffy wondered aloud. \"You dodged it? There aren't that many\nwho could effectively dodge that. Then again, it's only that fast\nbecause I sacrificed power for speed. Even if it did hit, I\nwouldn't--\" Taking the initiative, I blew out a wave of ember in\nhopes of hitting him when he was talking. He was able to nearly avoid\ntaking the full hit as the flame singed off some of his fluff. Seeing\nthe burn marks on the right side of his shoulder, his face took on a\nserious tone. Firing off a couple more bolts, I managed to avoid most\nof his attacks. However, a stray bolt struck my left leg and I was\nbrought down onto a knee. The hit reminded me of the feeling that one\nwould get after sticking a fork into an outlet. Shaking the blow off,\nI soon saw a bunch of floating wool swarm around me. The faint sound\nof crackling static made me aware of the attack, but by then it was\ntoo late as these things started to stick onto me.  Slowed by the wool, I hurled a\ngushing spout of fire. Responding with a large wave of electricity,\nthe sudden explosion caused by these two forces provided him with a\nperfect opportunity to counter-attack. Appearing through the smoke,\nthe flaaffy rushed head first into me. Slamming into the area\nunderneath my belly, he successfully tackled into me and launched me\nback a couple feet. Before I could even respond to the pain in my\ngroin, a strong jolt of lightning struck my form and burned off all\nthe wool on me. The pain around my entire body was then amplified\nwhen another more powerful bolt made its mark on my chest. Crumpled in a heap after those\nmultiple attacks, all that I could hear was the sound of laughter.\nTaking a glance over to the line, I saw the flaafy interacting with\nthe crowd. Wincing from all the pain, I slowly made my way up from\noff the ground. Fueled with rage, I'll be damned if I just gave up\nnow. Noticing that I still had some fight left in me, the flaafy\nlooked to Plena before coming back to the center of the arena slowly.\nHis stupid face glowed with pity as he looked at me, smiling at the\ndamage that he had done to my body. \"You just don't know when to\nquit. I like that in a potential mate!\" Hearing the word \"mate\" just\nset me off. My mind raced uncontrollably and rising through to\ncapitalize on the chaos was instinct. Spitting out a cloud of thick\nblack smoke, I saw his face go from smug to shocked before he was\nenveloped in it. Pushing forward, I did my best to ignore the pain\nand charged forward with my claws. With the flame on my tail blazing\nbrightly, I lost myself to the giddiness of battle. The smoke began\nto clear and the flaaffy could be seen rubbing his eyes in\ndispleasure. Striking multiple times with scratch and ember, a\nmaniacal smile soon grew on my face. The way he cried out in pain\nevery time I hit caused a rush of happiness to spread through my\nmind. The silence of the crowd as I smashed the flaaffy down was\nextremely satisfying and I soon jumped back to prepare for my final\nflame attack.  It was here that I noticed what\nwas actually going on. Consumed by instinct, I had turned an\nembarrassing defeat into a stunning and shameful victory. Did I\ndeserve this win? Was that really me fighting or this other persona\nthat had found its way into my psyche. I was unhappy. Frightened. I\nalmost went and attacked a guy who had already been knocked out. I\ncould have killed him. I would have killed him if I didn't return to\nmy senses in time. Cringing, all the pain that I ignored up until now\nrushed back and I felt my heart skip a beat or two. Everything\nswirled around and around until my vision faded. The last thing that\nI felt was the hard surface of the ground connecting with my aching\nbody before losing consciousness. I found myself sitting in a\nstrange area. Around me was the smoldering ruins of a place that\nreminded me of home. Wait. This is my home. My human home. Panicking,\nI tried to get up and run towards the building but something around\nmy neck held me back by choking me. Feeling around my neck, I found a\nleather collar with a dog tag under my chin. A chain connected the\ncollar to a burning rock shaped like a tree. Desperately pulling at\nthe chain and the collar, I came to the conclusion that it was\nimpossible to remove. Even trying to melt the chain with my fire\nattacks didn't work. The crunching of dried grass alerted me to the\npresence of another. \"Oho! It's good to see you! Or should I say\nme?\" Emerging from behind the tree, another charmander appeared\nwith an arrogant smirk plastered on his face. \"W-what do you mean?\"\nI growled. Taking his time approaching me, he gave a shrug and shook\nhis head slowly. \"Think back to what that Mr.\nmime had told you. You know, about how your psyche was damaged by\ninternal conflict? Well, this is what he saw when he entered your\nmind.\" Gasping after finding out where I was, I examined the scene\naround us. The place did look like a battlefield, but if this was\ntrue then... \"Of course it's true,\" the other charmander giggled.\n\"I fought your human form in here and won easily. Merging with you\nand taking over should have been easy but I didn't take into account\nthe overwhelming amount of stubbornness still left in you at the\ntime. The process was interrupted about halfway through the\nconversion, which meant most of your body and only some parts of your\nmind was changed. Since this is the first time the process was\nstopped, I didn't know what to expect then. After what seemed like a\nday, I was forcefully separated from you and an unexpected change to\nyour gender occurred. With the transformation complete, we were now\nleft with a female version of my body coupled with your thoughts and\nmemories.\" Taking a moment to absorb all\nthis info in, I still had a question to ask this guy. \"Why did you\nchoose me to change? I was nothing but a failure of a man who\nbasically lost everything in his life. My friends stabbed me in the\nback, my home ruined from said friends, even my parents went through\na change that turned them into entirely different people obsessed\nwith revenge. I--\" The other charmander placed paw over my mouth.\n\"You were chosen because of your hardships, Winta. The\ntransformation should have given you a clean slate to start anew.\nThink about it. After changing, you were reunited with your long lost\nbaby totodile and joined an organization dedicated to helping out\nthese lands. Life can only get better for the both of us.\" Finding\nsome sort of comfort in his word, I teared up and hugged him. The\nfeel of his scales on mine put me at ease and I relaxed my tense\nmuscles. Part of me hated these feminine feelings while a majority of\nme slowly started to embrace them. A soft click was heard and the\ncollar fell from my neck. Inscribed upon the dog tag were unknown\nletters spelling out the word \"fear\". \"Once you accepted you\nnew self, you'll find yourself free,\" he winked.","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/650947-defenders-of-evodusai-part-7.json"}