Pokemon: Rise of the Pokemorph

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. Only the idea and OC's.

Author Notes:
-- This will be used for scene breaks and for when the story switches to another character, but it does not mean that a new section of the story has started.
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'Poketalk'

Beta reader: Catsithx

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Chapter 7: The Monster Within

Between Jeremy and Daisy, and some help from Melody, the meal only took a few hours to prepare. Once diner was served, everyone, both the humans and the Pokemon of the gym sat down to enjoy the meal together. The meal was enjoyed by all. There was Jeremy's stew, several types of fish and many other dishes. Everyone talked; even Jeremy had a few things to say. The Pokemon talked amongst themselves.

After supper was done the human half of the group along with Jeremy and Melody cleaned up the dishes leaving the Pokémon alone to do what they want. Trusting that they would not cause any trouble amongst themselves.

"I'll be heading out for bit. I think a good walk through town will help clear my head." Jeremy announced.

'I'll come too.' Melody said as she ran to Jeremy's side.

"Okay, but I don't intend on coming back anytime soon." Jeremy said.

'That's alright.' Melody said as she held Jeremy's arm.

Jeremy put his hat back on and pulled out two jackets from the coat rack, one for himself and one for Melody.

"Hey, Jeremy. Take this." Violet ran over and handed Jeremy a fifty. "There's no point in refusing it, I'll just find another to give it to you."

"Fine, but this really isn't necessary." Jeremy said as he took the fifty. He knew Violet would in fact sneak the fifty to him one way or another like she has in the past. He then left the gym with Melody on his arm as usual.

Jeremy walked outside into the semi cold night with Melody on his arm. Both of them wore simple blue jackets. Jeremy began toward the forest unaware of the danger that followed. A fair distance back, but not too far back was figure from the market place. He wore a simple set of silver sweat pants and a light green T-shirt. His eyes were blue and his short hair was black. He held a bottle in one hand. He smiled as he finally had a chance to have some fun. He cackled in a quite, yet insane manner as he followed his prey. High in the rooftops of the city, the same Espeon as before kept a careful eye not only on Jeremy, but also on the figure tailing him.

Jeremy slowed his pace as he reached the forest. He was still unaware of what followed him. He sighed lightly as he thought.

'What is it?' Melody asked.

"It's nothing. I'm just thinking." Jeremy replied.

'About what?' Melody asked.

"Who I am, who I was, and who I'll become." Jeremy replied.

"Don't you mean who you still are?" a deep voice echoes in his mind.

Jeremy pales for a second at this with a cold feeling coming from deep within himself. Melody looks at Jeremy with a concern look on her face.

'You're worried about your past.' Melody said as she brought Jeremy over to bench. The two of them had been walking for a while and they could in fact use the rest.

A short ways down the road, the lone human watched as he drew ever closer. He waited a while until they got up and started walking before moving in.

'Now you may test him.' These words were the only thing he needed to hear. He rushed over to Jeremy at a jog, careful not to draw too much attention to himself. He still held the same old bottle in his hand.

He walked up behind Jeremy and tapped his shoulder. "Excuse me, sir." The man said his voice deep; no doubt the man was in his fifties or sixties.

"Yes?" Jeremy turned to face the one behind him.

"First round's on me." The man shouted bringing the bottle down hard on Jeremy's head sending him and Melody to ground.

Jeremy held his head breathing hard. Blood dripped down his face. "What was that for?" Jeremy demanded only to get a boot to his face sending him flying back a few feet holding his jaw. The voice from earlier speaks again in his mind "Fool let me out you can't win like this!"

Melody took a stand between the man and Jeremy, her arms spread out. The man laughed insanely as he picked up the Lucario and threw her out of the way. He walked over to where Jeremy lay and looked at him with a disappointed looked. He kicked Jeremy in the sides a few times before sighing. Jeremy coughed up some blood. The voice shouts at him louder "LET ME OUT!!!!!"

"This can't be right. The real Death Bringer would have killed me by now." The man sounded angry. "How disappointing this is here I was hoping for some sport!" He shouted sending Jeremy flying back into a near by tree with one swift kick. A small gush of blood flew from Jeremy's mouth as he hit the tree. "He's not the one we thought he was. Just let me kill him." The man asked out loud.

'Not yet. It may take some time to coax Death Bringer's mind out of a dormant state. Feel free to beat our agent out of him if you have to; just don't kill him... yet.' The voice inside his head replied.

"Very well." Melody once again ran over to Jeremy. The man pulled out a strange pistol from behind his shirt. It was rather large; the weapon looked like the bottom of the barrel had been pulled down a lot. The man hit a switch and a red laser sight activated on the weapon. The man pointed it at Jeremy and fired. Before Melody knew what had happened, she was standing with Jeremy beside her a fair distance away from the tree. Whatever that weapon was that this man was using, it was very quite. There was almost no sound what so ever when the weapon was fired.

"I missed." The man said plainly. He once again took aim and fired only to get the same result. Jeremy was once again holding Melody a fair distance away from where they just were. A large amount of blood poured out of Jeremy's mouth as he struggled to maintain himself.

"As if you could really do this fool just let go other wise you will die. Also this lovely Lucario you're protecting will die too. Do you really want that?" the voice said with a sly tone. The man aimed and fired for third time and just like before, Jeremy had moved the both of them out of harms way, but he was quickly losing blood and would be unable to keep this up.

"Maybe you are Death Bringer." The man said as he continued to fire shot after shot after shot at Jeremy only to miss every time. The distance that Jeremy traveled however was getting shorter and shorter with each shot fired as more and more blood found its way out of the Jeremy. Melody could feel Jeremy's claws in her sides as he held her bridal style trying to keep her out of harms way. His eyes were once again black and white as he slowly tried to release his Pokemon side while keeping his head.

"This isn't going to work fool let me do what I do best and you and you pretty Lucario will live to see another day." the voice tells Jeremy. The man reloaded his weapon as he once again took aim, however the man predicted Jeremy's move as he fired a second shot quickly after the first. The bullet nicked Melody's stomach as it flew through Jeremy. Jeremy fell to his knees.

"I can't do this not again." Jeremy whispers softly.

"Then don't worry about it I will be doing it for you my friend. All you have to do is let go and let me have the fun. If you don't you'll both will die. Besides, it would be trouble for me if you died now." as the voice states to him.

"He's almost dead. There's no way this is Death Bringer." The man sighed more out of boredom then anything else.

'Kill him and his Pokemon. We can't leave witnesses.' The voice instructed him.

The man aimed his gun as he walked closer Jeremy and Melody. Melody grabbed onto Jeremy tightly. Jeremy looked up the man. Just as the man pulled the trigger, the man was sent flying backwards as Jeremy began to glow. He got to his feet, a strange smile on his face. There was no trace of his human eyes as the glow faded away. Jeremy set down Melody as he wiped the large amount of blood from his face.

'Jeremy?' Melody asked.

"I'm not Jeremy." Jeremy replied his voice slightly deeper. "Fleshwound, what's it been? Eight, nine months?" Jeremy asked raising his voice.

"So, you are Death Bringer." The man cheered. "At least I won't die of boredom." The man laughed.

"Stand back little one. I doubt Jeremy would want you to get hurt." Jeremy laughed pushing Melody to the side. "Let's play. Standard rules. You pin me down good once or I kill you five times. No hostages, we stay out of the city, and no move restrictions." Jeremy named off the rules of the fight he was about to enter showing signs that this had happened several times before.

"Fair enough." The man aimed his gun and fired a burst of three rounds as he charged in laughing like a madman.

'What are you doing. The mission has been completed. Pull back and get out of there.' The voice in his head cried out, but the man ignored it. Now was a time for him to have some fun.

Jeremy changed as he ran. A long tail grew from the base of his spine, claws at least an inch long sprouted from his nails, fangs extended past his lips, as a very short snout grew outward form his face. He no longer ran like a human, but like a canine on all fours. Melody could only watch as the dreadful battle began. A storm began to blow only adding to horror that would soon take place. There was not lighting and thus no thunder, just a very heavy rain that darkened the sky and soaked the ground.

The wind whipped through Jeremy's hair as he ran. Bullets whizzed past his face as he ran closer and closer to his target. Jeremy's hat flew off as he could now hear the sound of the gun it made as it fired. It was soft like an air gun, but the bullets flew out at very high speeds. Obviously some sort of new tech the Rocket's had developed. The rain began to fall in sheets Jeremy jumped as another bullet flew past his head. Jeremy landed on his target perfectly, his front hands or paws considering how he was using them landed hard on the man's shirt which rippled from the impact as he flew back. Jeremy sank his teeth deeply into the man's neck tearing out large chunks of flesh. Blood flowed freely into Jeremy's mouth, as he tasted the deep red life giving fluid that he had once lived for as an assassin. He jumped off the man leaving him holding his neck laughing insanely like nothing had happened.

Jeremy stood on all fours facing the man while he licked up all the blood he could around his furry muzzle. He had quickly grown a light layer of white fur which had turned red around the mouth. He then let his tongue hang out as he waited.

'It's over?' Melody went to run toward Jeremy only to see the man get back up. A golden light shone brightly in the storm filled night. The light flew freely from the wound on the man as the wound grew smaller and smaller. After a minute, there was no sign that the wound have ever been there as the rain had washed all signs of blood from his shirt.

"That's one." Jeremy called out as he prepared for his next attack.

"Surely you can do better then just ripping my neck out." The man shouted as he took aim again. Melody's heart rate started to rise not believing what was happening. She saw the man's neck get ripped right off, yet he stood like it was nothing. The wound practically never existed as there were no signs of the attack.

"Alright, then how about this?" Jeremy took off like a rocket. His tails whipped about because of the high speeds at which Jeremy ran. His joints had completely realigned themselves by now. He would not easily be able to stand on two legs for long, but running on all four of his limbs was very easy and much faster. The man took aim and fired shot after shot at the agile target he was aiming for. Jeremy seemed to just vanish from view for second before reappearing next to the man. With one quick and fluid motion, Jeremy thrusts his arm threw the man's chest and pulled it back out.

"That's two." Jeremy whispered into the man's ear before running off a distance to let the man regenerate.

The same golden light as before poured forth from the open slowly repairing the damage that had been done.

'You've had your fun, now get out of there.' The voice in the man's head called out again.

"Nice very nice. You haven't lost your touch at all." The man said. "But then again, neither have I." The man charged forward this time, holding his arms out. Both of his arms seemed to unfold and unwind themselves into a pair of long tentacle like appendages, the top two were blue and the bottom two were red. Each one was no more then an inch wide, but well over a few feet long tipped with single very sharp point.

The man charged forward, all four of the long fingerless appendages were bent back like a snake getting ready to strike. Jeremy jumped back just in time to avoid the first strikes of the attack. All four of the man's tentacles easily plowed through the moist ground before twisting and turning tearing anything in their way a part. Several large tree roots broke and snapped under the strain of the attack.

The man charged again before Jeremy had a chance to land and Jeremy did the only thing he could do, he let loose a Flamethrower attack but it did next to nothing other then just burn the man's skin. Two of the man's tentacles flew right into Jeremy's stomach but they seemed to miss all of the important organs that Jeremy needed except for a flame gland that had been taken from a Charizard. The punctured gland released one last powerful blast of fire out of Jeremy's mouth nearly engulfing both in the sudden eruption of fire.

Melody watched in horror as the flames lit both men up. Jeremy's fire was the first one out quickly followed by the other man's. Melody just looked on; the strange man had a pair of his tentacles still placed firmly in Jeremy who had been pinned firmly to the ground while his other two tentacles held his arms and tail in place. His burnt skin was black, but quickly returned to it natural color. Jeremy was not moving and Melody feared the worst. She ran over to Jeremy as the man pulled his tentacles out of Jeremy as they winded themselves back into his normal arms. "I win." The man gloated.

An Espeon quickly ran out of the shadows. 'I told you, the mission was to find him, not kill him.' The voice stormed through the man's head. The jewel a top the Espeon's began to glow a deep shade of red as if to show its anger.

"If memory serves me well, I still lead by three wins." Jeremy said softly as he very slowly worked his way up.

"It's two wins. Get it right." The man yelled before the Espeon tackled him hard.

'When I give you a command, you follow that command. Got it!' Unlike before, Jeremy and Melody both heard the voice quite clearly.

Jeremy looks over to the Espeon. "Well look who the Meowth dragged out his hiding place, I thought you didn't like to be seen."

The Espeon looks over to Jeremy the jewel flashes once more. 'You know full well I am out here is to keep this fool in line.' As he raises his forepaw and points to the man who was just attacking him.

"I am not done yet he's still in the lead I can't just leave it at that! I need to tie it up." The man shouts at the Espeon just before he falls over clutching his head in pain.

'You forget your place in this team my friend. I am in charge and you obey me, or did you forget the reason I am here is to keep you in line.' The Espeon's voice could be heard by all in their heads.

"Ok ok, I understand you're in charge I am sorry." the man shouts out in pain. The jewel on the Espeon's head turns back to its normal color.

The Espeon turns its head back toward Jeremy, and notices Melody standing a bit back from him. 'I thought your partner was a Latias what's with the Lucario.'

"It's none of your business, stay out of my mind from now on because I can sense you poking around in there." Death Bringer looks at the Espeon with an evil look.

The Espeon starts to laugh ' I am sorry oh mighty Death Bringer but I think your time out of your captive mind is almost up I can sense your other self trying to take hold now. So let me make this quick, the society wants you back, and they will not stop until you come back willing or in pieces. We're just here to drag you out some Death Bringer so you can tell your better half what's at stake.' The Espeon starts to leave then stops, and looks at Melody. 'I sense an emotional bond between you and Jeremy. Much like him and Latias, but with this one is a bit more personal than just friends' Melody blushes with the statement. 'Also your brother says hi and wishes to see you soon. He misses you so much; I hate to see him so sad he wants his family close you know.' Melody shivers from this statement.

'Why are doing this to my family and Jeremy? What have we ever done to you?' Melody screams at the Espeon. Fleshwound fell over laughing.

"Aw, you went and made the little Lucario mad now boo hoo hoo." The Espeon sighs looking at Fleshwound.

"I guess all those deaths have really taken their toll on his sanity. He used to be a somewhat dignified person." Jeremy looked on at Fleshwound with slight look of confusion mixed with worry.

'Young one, you do realize that if you choose to take Jeremy as a mate, then you must also accept his darker side as well. I have to leave now and it would be best for you to say nothing about this to Jeremy. He must figure this out on his own.' The Espeon looked back over at Fleshwound. The gem atop her head began to glow a soft blue as both of them disappeared with a flash of light, teleporting to some unknown location.

Melody ran over to Jeremy, The wounds in his stomach barely bleeding by this time. "Until we meet again little one." He laughed. "I hope you know what you're getting into by choosing Jeremy as a mate."

His fur was the first thing to fade as he returned to his mostly human body. Jeremy's hands clenched down tightly into fists as his claws sank back into his body. His fangs and snout returned to normal as his tail shrank away back into his spine. Jeremy closed his eyes for a few seconds and when he opened them back up; his eyes were back to normal. During this change, the wounds in his stomach had sealed over leaving two small scars behind. Jeremy slowly got up to sitting position unaware of what had just taken place. A quick look as his watch informed of just how late it was going on midnight.

"Melody, what happened?" Jeremy asked. He had to know if the events that just took place were a dream or if they were real. "Did we just get attacked?"

Melody sadly nodded her head quickly grabbing onto Jeremy afraid that she might lose another.

"I don't want to the others to know about this. Promise me that you'll keep it quite." Jeremy held her softly. "I need some time to...think this out before I tell them." Jeremy rose to his feet with Melody tightly clinging to his side.

Jeremy walked for along the forest path, the trees partly covering the two from the rain. They finally made it back to the gym late that night around three. Both of them headed for his room. Melody was quick to get to sleep; the rising and falling of her chest against Jeremy told that she was out. He just laid there for another hour, his mind racing with thoughts.

What was that back there? Was that really me? How would the others react if they found out? These were just a few of the many various questions that now plagued his mind. Now more then ever, he was beginning to regret ever wanting to learn of his past.

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Jeremy once again had dreams of his past life that night. His head would occasionally jerk to the side. Luckily, this dream was much shorter then his others.

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A few years ago...Rocket Science Vessel... Unknown location...


The large vessel was sitting still on the calm waters. The ship was a Science vessel; many of the personal were scientists. Except for a few elite guards like Jeremy and about thirty grunts, the ship had no armed personal on board. Jeremy looked to be about fifteen as he walked the side of the boat with a fishing rod in his hand and a large ice pack held to his head and bandaged right arm. Behind him was a grunt that carried a dead Sharpedo with bloody teeth. Jeremy had a rather angry look on his face as he walked.

Finally opening a door that read infirmary, Jeremy removed the ice pack to reveal a large cut in his forehead.

"Hellborne, next time you send to go deal with a boat that strays to close, I'm taking my pistol." Jeremy snapped at the lead scientist.

"What happened?" the aged doctor turned around to see a wounded Jeremy.

"Damn fishing boat was a disguised police boat. Whoever was on it was well trained and threw me into the water where I got attacked by that Sharpedo." Jeremy explained.

"I see. You weren't designed for underwater combat, which explains the wounds. Very well, come on. I'll have you fixed up shortly." Hellborne lead Jeremy over to one of the cabinets and pulled out a few cases of vials.

Just as Hellborne went to open the case, another man walked in. This man had a large hole in his chest and held something in his hand. His clothing was badly ripped and torn. He had a slightly...crazed look on his face. "Hey doc, think you can put this back?" The man held up a beating heart.

"I'd say it's a little late to put that back. Who'd you kill?" Jeremy asked.

"Kill? Kill? I've killed... nothing today...I think." The man replied tilting his head back and forth. "Well, I think it's not dead. It managed to swim off."

"Then whose heart is that?" Jeremy asked.

"Death Bringer, this is Alvin Mostorand. He is here on vacation so to speak. Our boss thought a few days on the water might do him good. By the way, you'll only need a single injection for those wounds." Hellborne walked over and took the beating heart. "Now then, what happened?"

"I took a swim and some stupid fish tried to eat me, so I tried to eat it back. Lost my heart for second, but I got it back." The man replied smiling showing some signs of confusion.

"What's with him?" Jeremy asked as he opened the case that Hellborne had taken out.

"Forgive him. He's not all there so to speak." Hellborne took the heart from the man with a gloved hand.

"All here? Of course I'm not all here. You're the one holding my heart." The man snapped angered by the statement.

"Wait, you're heart?!" Jeremy was just about to give himself the injection, but stopped and turned.

"This is agent Fleshwound. Our regenerator agent." Hellborne looked into the chest wound on the man.

"I've heard stories about him, but this, this is not what I expected." Jeremy injected the small vial of blue liquid into his arm.

"What? Oh I get it. You think you better then..." the man stopped with sudden random look on his like he had just been given a powerful shock of electricity. Hellborne had a small syringe in his hand with the need jabbed into the man's chest. "Birdie go tweet." And with that odd statement, the man fell over.

"You'll have to forgive him. His psyche has been drastically affected from the many deaths he has suffered. I've no idea why our boss thought to keep him around." Hellborne took the beating heart and threw it into a biohazard waste bag. "He'll just have to grow a new heart. I don't think this one can be put back."

"Grow a new heart?" Jeremy stood over the fallen body.

"He can regrow any organ or limb off of his body. The purpose behind his creation was a reusable suicide solider, only I question what we ended up with. At first, he was fine. There were no side effects from the deaths he took, but now. I'm not so sure." Hellborne bent over and checked the wound again. "The only way to kill him is by poison, suffocation, or deep freeze."

"Sounds like a perfect weapon to throw into the middle of war." Jeremy commented.

"If not for the fact that he seems to be losing his mind, then he would be the near perfect soldier we want." Hellborne sighed. "I'm really thinking that he needs someone to watch over him, but I can't find anyone even remotely willing to take the job. Could you move him back to his compartment, room 4 port side."

"Why not?" Jeremy picked up the body and moved it to the location that had been specified.

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The dream seemed to disturb Jeremy more then anything, but he slept peacefully for the rest of the night.

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Everyone slept in that morning, but Jeremy was the last to wake around noon. Melody had not left his room, much less the bed. Jeremy found her arms gently wrapped around him as he began to stir.

"Morning Melody." Jeremy slowly opened his eyes to find Melody looking him.

'Morning. Did you sleep well?' She released her light hold on Jeremy to allow him to get up.

For a second he realized that she was actually speaking english not pokespeak, but ignored it knowing she had her reasons not speaking it before.

"For the most part, although I did have a slightly disturbing dream." Jeremy told her the events of the dream as they two of them headed down the hall to meet the others. When he came to the entrance to main room, he quickly ducked back. He didn't want to be seen without his hat which he had completely forgotten about. "I forgot my hat." Misty and Violet were talking with a few people who Jeremy didn't recognize and had almost walked into the open with his ears sticking straight up just waiting for someone to point them out. Jeremy walked back to his room and picked up his hat only to put it back down. It was all muddy from last night and had to put on his old instead.

He decided that he'd start a load of laundry since he didn't have much else to do. With a load in hand, he walked to the laundry room and began the washer. He then proceeded back to the main room of the gym where Misty and Violet were still talking to the three people that had been when Jeremy realized that he failed to have his hat on.

He walked in with Melody at his side lightly holding his arm. "Hello."

"Hey Jeremy, Melody," Misty greeted her friends. "We'll have everything filled out for you by the end of the week." Misty was handed a large yellow envelope.

"The Indigo Plateau thanks you for your co-operation." With that the three men left.

"What was that all about? It's not everyday that people dressed like that show up." Jeremy asked as the men left.

"They were here to make sure that Gym is back up and running. They also here to deliver the new gym registration forms for next years Indigo League." Violet explained. "This is how they keep records of what badges we give out and Pokemon we'll be using."

"That makes sense." Jeremy walked by them and headed for the kitchen.

Jeremy opened the fridge and began to smell around when something else caught his attention. "Huh? I sort of recognize this smell, but can't put my finger on it." Jeremy got back up and looked over at the stove but turned to look elsewhere. Melody slowly began to blush realizing that the mysterious smell that caught Jeremy's attention was coming from her. She knew that she'd be going into heat soon.

'That's me, Jeremy. I'll be going into heat soon.' Melody released her hold on Jeremy as she looked into his eyes. 'I was hoping that you would help deal with it?' Jeremy stood there speechless. 'You've helped me so much already and I can think of no one else I'd rather have help me.' Her face was already turning red a bit.

Ruby flew in slowly having overheard voices. 'And I thought you were going to choose me to be your mate one day.'

"Ruby? How long have you been floating there?" Jeremy turned around quickly, a look of surprise on his face.

'Not that long.' She giggled. 'I wasn't interrupting anything was I?' She asked kindly still giggling a bit causing Melody to blush and once again grab onto Jeremy.

'No. Nothing was going on.' Melody quickly replied, her face almost completely red.

'Relax. I think the two of you would make a great couple. I just came in to grab some berries. I'll leave the two of you alone.' Ruby said with a sly tone. With that said she floated over and grabbed a small bag of berries before floating off.Chapter End Notes:I'd like you all to thank Catsithx for helping me get back on track. Without the help, I'd probably still be stuck and unable to continue for a long while