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detective-piplup · 4 months ago

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so I joined an arpg (art roleplaying game) on toyhouse recently (also I joined toyhouse recently and only for this specific purpose, so no my other ocs won’t be housed there) that’s inspired by pokemon mystery dungeon, and decided that yeah, sure, I’ll share the first write I made for it here. this is also what the litwick drawing was for.

enjoy my first time ever writing pokemon from the Pokémon’s eyes, I’m gonna go play actual pmd and fail the vibe check now

Spirit had no clue what was happening, in truth.

He couldn’t remember much of anything, only lots and lots of fire, before he had suddenly woken up in a forest with nothing but his name and a strange feeling in his body. With nothing better to do or any other idea on how to proceed, Spirit decided to just keep going down the path he found himself on. At least he hadn’t accidentally set anything on fire yet, being extra mindful of the open flame atop his body, but the wax trailing behind him was filling the minor inconvenience quota, apparently.

It was a weird, drifting feeling that was thrumming through him. He was definitely awake, definitely aware of his small nubs for arms and how wax dripped down and covered one of his eyes, but he still felt oddly separate. Like he was stuck with a puzzle that had no solution, that puzzle being his memories and his identity, excluding his name which had thankfully come back to him, and until he figured that puzzle out, he’d just feel weirdly distant from himself. It crawled in him uncomfortably as he wandered down the path, looking for a vague sign of civilisation. Something in his brain wasn’t exactly fond of the idea for whatever reason, but it was his best shot at an answer, so there was nothing else to do but keep going forwards.

Any thoughts he was having about the situation he was probably in, and he probably was dealing with something given his lack of memories, were cut off when he heard the nearby sound of a scuffle, and a loud squawk of terror. Against Spirit’s better judgement, he rushed over to investigate the source of the noise.

What he found was someone struggling against three Combee, buzzing around the guy and hurtling attacks at them. They almost seemed competent, wielding the sword in their hands with obvious skill but too much tension and anxiety to actually use it effectively, but they were still unable to keep up with the barrage of attacks that came from having three opponents at once. Spirit moved to slither away, but he stopped himself.

These Combees and this struggling knight, or at least he assumed they were a knight by the armour they had that seemed to exude a chilly air, even from a distance, were pretty much the only other creatures Spirit had seen nearby. They were probably a good idea to help, in order to find some sort of answer. Maybe someone, somewhere, would recognise him. It wouldn’t hurt to try.

Besides, leaving the pathetic guy there to struggle just felt wrong. And a fight felt exactly like what he needed to shake off a bit of that weird feeling.

With a sigh, Spirit charged towards the group, gathering some of his flame to throw an ember at one of the attacking Combee. It cried out in pain and Spirit grinned wickedly, standing between the assailants and the knight, who seemed to be a piplup upon closer inspection. The Combee he attacked seemed to have been one that the Piplup had already injured a bit, as he couldn’t find much energy to move after it fell to the floor from his attack.

As he prepared another ember, the piplup behind him stumbled to his feet and barrelled towards another one of the Combee, shielding Spirit as it aimed its attack from him and quickly running to slice at it, making it hiss a little in pain. It wasn’t down yet though, so Spirit directed his attack towards it and watched as it, too, ran out of the energy to fight. The final Combee seemed to shake slightly, seeing how it now lacked any sort of advantage, and rather wisely fled.

The rush of battle faded, and so Spirit turned to the piplup he’d rescued. “Wow, and you really couldn’t handle that on your own?”

“Wh- I beg your pardon?! I could have definitely handled that on my own, thank you very much.” The Piplup squawked indignantly, narrowing his eyes at Spirit in anger and having more of that blue, icy mist billow out of his eyes and helmet. “I just- erm- …I simply believed their three versus one advantage to be unfair, that’s all.”

Spirit grinned wider, though it was less malicious than the one he’d had during battle. “Right, right. Sure.” The piplup opened his beak, probably to continue defending his honour as if Spirit hadn’t just witnessed someone he assumed to be at least partially an ice-type get nearly bodied by three bug-flying type Pokémon, but Spirit continued to cut him off. “My bad, I should have known. But… you wouldn’t happen to know where we are, would you?”

The Piplup blinked at him slowly, shocked. ”We’re in the Freevie Forest, did you not know that?” Spirit felt his flame flare up and he turned away, embarrassed, as the knight kept speaking. “Oh my days, you actually didn’t know that. Goodness. Who… who even are you?”

“That’s what I’m hoping for some help with figuring out. I.. don’t exactly remember anything other than my name.” He said, still avoiding eye-contact but looking back to the piplup, who stared at him like he was both deeply amused and entirely bamboozled. “Spirit, by the way. That’s my name, remember it.”

“Well then, you certainly have an ego. My name is Knight, it’s a.. pleasure to meet you.” He said with a small bow, and Spirit almost winced at the blow to his pride. “You don’t remember anything else?”

Spirit shook his head. “Nope, not a thing. Except a lot of fire. I’ve just kind of been wandering around since I woke up, and that was, like, not too long ago.”

Knight winced, but quickly regained his stone face as he raised a flipper to his chin in thought. “Hmm… Well, I do believe I owe you for your help there. And it’s a hero’s duty to help those in need!” He seemed to come to some sort of decision, and then held out a flipper towards Spirit. “Come with me, I have an idea. We’re not too far from Flora Village, we can ask around there to see if anyone’s got an idea as to who you are.”

“You’re sure that’ll help? What are the likelihoods someone around there is just gonna magically know who I am?” Spirit said, looking hesitantly at the offered flipper.

The piplup huffed at him, “Basically zero, but unless you have a better idea, then it’s probably all you’ve got to go on. And plus, it’s getting late. As a reward for your noble deed, I’ll let you take a rest at my home in the village. How about that?”

Spirit considered it for a few seconds. It would be night soon, as the Knight had said, and while he didn’t find the idea of having to deal with the question asking part of the process, he’d long since admitted it to himself that it was his only option for a chance at an answer. Taking a deep breath, he nodded, and gave Knight’s flipper a quick shake as opposed to the hand holding motion the piplup probably intended initially. “Works for me. Lead the way, I’ll stick behind you.”

Though initially a bit stunned from the handshake, Knight once again quickly righted himself and nodded, turning around and continuing down the path. Spirit followed, just as he said he would, though it was ever so slightly exhausting to keep up with his companion’s faster speed. It was a silent trip, one that almost lulled Spirit back into the thoughts about where he possibly could have come from, but he put them back out of his mind for now.

He’d had time to figure that out when he got to this so-called ‘Flora Village’. Spirit wasn’t hopeful that someone there would just magically have his answers, but maybe there was a lead.

If there was even a single thread he could find to pull on to unravel his own mystery, then Spirit was going to grab at it until he had whatever he was searching for.

No matter what, or how long, it took.

#dee describes #IF YOU RECOGNISED WHO THESE CHARACTERS ARE BASED ON NO YOU DONT #cbcs (character based characters) are how I was dragged into this and by talos I will be making em #okay uhh. character tags #spirit pmd:dc #knight pmd:dc #enjoy <3

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