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THE SCENT. The Gifted Targets by paws22

 

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Chapter 1: Change of Scenary

--Recap--
Hey there! Alex here! Now that I have found my long lost girlfriend, life has been good for the past week. But a week after we first reunited, my life has been hectic. But I'm getting ahead of myself!
--End Recap--

As I've already mentioned it's been a week since I reunited with Ayane. Since then we have been living peacefully in my one bedroom house. I was sitting on a La-Z-boy chair in the living-room reading a book, while Ayane (currently in her normal Absol form) was sleeping on my lap, curled up like a sleeping cat. The book I was reading was on pokemon mating behaviors. I figured that the knowledge will come in handy one day. After all I have a certain gift that attracts female pokemon to me.

After reading for about three hours I was suddenly interrupted by a familiar voice in my head.

"Alex! Can you hear me?" said the Mewtwo. She sounded anxious.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's those three Wyvern Clan members!" she said. "They're approaching your house. You've got to get out of there."

Without another word I shook Ayane awake to get off my lap and ran upstairs. In my bedroom I grabbed a bag pack and frantically began stuffing it was anything I could get my hands on, including a few clothes a pair of sunglasses, my pokeball holster with six-sets of pokeball on it, and other items. While I was packing Ayane came tiredly trotting into the room.

"What's going on Alex?" she asked in apparent confusion. "Why are you packing up?"

"I don't have time to explain right now." I said. "We've got to leave the house fast!"

Once the bag was filled up I zipped it shut, put it on my back, and ran down stairs with Ayane close behind. I was about to reach the front door when I heard a banging on the door.

"We know you're in there! Open this door or were coming in."

"SHIT!!" I said in my head. I quickly grabbed Ayane and lead her into the kitchen. There is a large storage closet that had a door that resembled the kitchen wall. I figured that it was a perfect hiding place from the bad guys at my front door. Holding Ayane in my arms I squeezed in the narrow space closed the door leaving it slightly ajar to have a good look at the front door.

Meanwhile outside the Wyvern Trio got tired of waiting and smashed the door down. Yes 'smashed' not kicked.

I had a good look at the three thugs at my door. As the Mewtwo has described they were wearing black leather jackets with jaw high collars to hide the bottom half of their faces, but to my surprise I found out that they were not even human. They were anthrop pokemon, just like Ayane.

The one on the left was a large Machoke, on the right was a slim Blaziken, and in the middle was a pokemon I've never seen before. It had a light blue face with round ears, a black, spiky mane, and two rather scary golden eyes with red eyeballs that make them look completely blood shot.

"We know you're in here." said the mystery pokemon with a slow, calm, and sinister voice. "Save us the trouble and show yourself."

I stayed where I was looking on helplessly from behind the closet door, with Ayane shivering in fear as I held her in my arms.

"Alright then," said the mystery pokemon in frustration, "you asked for it."

Suddenly his eyes brightened from golden to a bright yellow, and he began scanning the room, slowly turning his head from left to right. To my horror he stopped at where I was hiding, practically staring right at me.

"I see you!" he said with that calm voice again.

Next thing I knew was the closet door literally getting torn off its hinges and blasted outward, exposing my hiding place completely.

I staggered deeper into the closet till my back was against the wall.

"What the hell just happened?" I said in my head. "How did they find me?"

Just then I heard footsteps followed by three pair of legs standing right in front of the closet opening. A large pair of arms reached into the closet grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and yanked me out with Ayane still in my arms. Next thing I new I was being held up high by the Machoke anthrop, who was grasping the collar of my shirt.

"You've geev'n aas more traable zan you'a wortz!" said the Machoke in a deep, brute, German accent. "But you haave no hope of eascaping now!"

I thought for sure that I was doomed, but my main concern was for Ayane.

"Alright, alright!" I said. "You've got me, but leave my friend alone!"

"No can do." said the Blaziken snatching Ayane from my arms. "She has seen too much."

"NO!!!" I yelled in anger while struggling to get out of the Machoke's grasp. "LET HER GO!!"

"SHAAT AAP!!!!" yelled the Machoke, shaking me violently. "You are in no possitian to tell aas what to do."

The Blaziken grabbed Ayane by the neck and threw her against the kitchen wall, making her shreek in pain. After moaning in agony for a few seconds she passed out. I was really mad at this point, but there was nothing I could do.

"How shall I eliminate her Ray?" asked the Blaziken looking in the direction of the mystery anthrop, who I now know as Ray.

"Total incineration!" said Ray in that calm, cold voice. "Make sure there is nothing left of her."

The Blaziken stood in front of Ayane's unconscious body and took a deep breath preparing a flamethrower attack, and all I could do was watch helplessly from the Machoke's grasp.

All hope seemed lost, when suddenly the floor exploded right under the blaziken, immediately followed by a large fist that punched the blaziken right under the jaw. He prematurely launched his flamethrower on the ceiling in shock and pain. He stumbled backwards as a large pokemon barrowed itself out of the floor. It was a nidoqueen.

The nidoqueen emerged from the large hole in the floor carrying something on its shoulders. It was an anthrop pokemon who looked just like Ray, but unlike Ray it wasn't wearing any clothes exposing its features.

Other than the black mane, it had black fur running down its arms and part of it's legs. The black fur also covered its shoulders and most of its chest, while the rest of its body was covered with a much thinner layer of light blue fur.

"Causing trouble again, Ken?" said the mystery pokemon in a female voice to the blaziken who I now know as Ken.

"You again!" yelled Ken rubbing his bruised jaw. "Stay out of this Zenia!"

From the moment Ken said that, I knew this other mystery pokemon as Zenia.

"You know I can't do that." said Zenia. "You're not taking Alex away."

Then suddenly Zenia disappeared from the nidoqueen's shoulders then reappeared standing on top of the Machoke's head.

"AARRA!! GET AAF ME YOU LITTLE PEST!!!" Yelled the Machoke while trying to grab Zenia by the leg, but she jumped off his shoulder before he could and after somersaulting in the air she kicked the back of the Machoke's head.

"GRAAA! AA'M GOING TO CRUSH YOU!!!" The Machoke yelled again after which he dropped me to the floor and set his sights on Zenia.

At this point Zenia had landed on the kitchen table, standing like nothing has happened. When the Machoke beared down on Zenia with his right arm she jumped to the right dodging the attack and he ended up smashing the table in half.


While Zenia kept the Machoke busy, I took the opportunity to get up and ran to Ayane, who was still lying unconscious on the kitchen floor. I got on my knees and held her by the back of her head.

"Ayane!" I called her in fear. "Ayane please wake up! Ayane if you can hear me, please wake up!!" I broke down in tears when she wouldn't respond. "Don't leave me again Ayane!" I sobbed.

Suddenly I heard foots steps approaching from behind me, I turned around to see Ray standing behind me with his arms crossed. "Sorry to break up your little sob-fest," said Ray with an emotionless tone, "but I think I will continue where Ken left off." He opened his mouth, his eyes and mouth began to glow, and a bright glowing ball began to grow in front of his mouth, to my horror I realized what Ray was doing. He was going to blast Ayane with a 'hyper beam' attack.

"NOO!!" I yelled while getting up and getting into Ray's line of fire. "IT WAS ME YOU WANTED! LEAVE HER OUT OF IT!"

"Then you'll both have to die!" said Ray. "HYPER BEAM!!!"

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In a split second there was a large, multicolored beam of light heading straight towards me, followed by total darkness. It took me a while to realize that my eyes where closed. When I opened them I was shocked, and relieved of where I found myself. I was lying on a La-Z-boy chair with a book in one hand, and with Ayane lying on my lap looking at me with a concerned look.

"Are you okay?" She said. "You had me worried when you started thrashing about."

I reached over, pulled her to me in a slow embrace. I began stroking the back of her head as I hugged her.

"Ayane!" I said softly. "I had the worst nightmare."

"That was no nightmare." said a familiar voice in my head, it was the Mewtwo again. "That was a scenario of what will happen if you stay in that house."

"A scenario?" I said. "What exactly are you trying to tell me?"

"You are not safe staying in that house." said the Mewtwo. "You must leave immediately to avoid capture and possibly an inevitable doom."

"But what do I do? Where could I go?" I asked in painful confusion and worry.

"You've already met Zenia, haven't you?" said the Mewtwo. "Find her and she can help you. You can find her somewhere in the eastern waters, but that's all I can tell you. By the way, you can tell Ayane about your gift, but be sure to swear her to secrecy too."

Her voice started to fade away as she said those last few words, and I snapped back into reality. The first thing I knew was that I was still hugging Ayane.

"What kind of nightmare was it?" she asked. Apparently time hadn't passed while I was talking to the Mewtwo; the only words she heard me say were that I had the worst nightmare.

"I'm afraid I don't want to describe it." I said. "However there is something I should tell you."

I told her about everything that happened from the moment I discovered my gift of sexually attracting female pokemon, from the encounter with the three mightyena, to the show Milotic in heat, and even the endangered Arbok. I also told her about the Mewtwo that gave me this gift during my infancy.

"Wow!" She said. "You've had quite a life while I was not around."

"That reminds me!" I said. "You've never really explained to me how you became what you are now. Or what happen that night that we last saw each other."

--Time-laps--
Ayane told me that the moment she left the bedroom that night she mysteriously blacked out and the next thing she knew is that she was in a cage, in a dimly lit laboratory. She later noticed that she was no longer human. I stopped her there, because I didn't wish to know what might have happened next.
--End Time-laps--

"We have to move out of this house Ayane." I said as I was getting ready to get up from the chair. "It is not safe for us here."

"But where are we going Alex?" asked Ayane as she jumped off my lap to the floor.

"We'll be staying on an island off the coast of the Sinnoh region." I said. "There is someone we should meet, but all I know is that she is somewhere in the eastern waters."

--Time-laps--
While explaining more minor details to Ayane I packed up everything I could in a large suitcase. The two of us left the house, purchased our travel tickets and, after a two hour walk to the harbor, boarded the next ship to Sinnoh.
--End-Time-laps--

Ayane and I spent most of our time in our quarters. Not only didn't I want the other passengers knowing that she is...well...not normal, but I didn't want to leave her alone for a second. Not even when she is using the bathroom, which strangely she found kinky.

But after two days of traveling, unusual things started happening on the ship. Six crew members and twelve passengers mysteriously disappeared, the captain was found unconscious in his quarters, and there were loud tapping noises throughout the ship, seemingly coming from nowhere.

On the third day however things got worse. A woman was found murdered in her quarters. The news spread through the ship like wildfire and all the passengers started to panic. The whole crew was trying to keep everyone calm.

But throughout all this confusion no one heard an emergency weather alarm going off on the bridge indicating that the ship was heading right for a storm. By the time the crew knew about that it was too late. The captain told all the passengers to remain below the ship until the storm passed.

Ayane and I stayed in our quarters, huddled to each other on the bed. Through the port-hole we could see the large, pounding waves and the loud thunder and lightning.

"Alex!" said Ayane shivering after a very loud thunder strike. "I'm scared."

"Don't worry." I said trying to hold her closer to me. "We'll make it through this."

The truth is that I was scared too. After everything that had happen on that ship leading up to this, the only thing I can think of is that if things could get any worse. Unfortunately, after hours of terror, I got my answer. Ayane and I were still huddled together when suddenly there was a horrific explosion. It rocked the whole ship so violently, that we were tossed around the room like rag dolls. When the rocking stopped the whole ship felt like it was tipping over when the wall started to become the floor. I suddenly realized Ayane wasn't in the room. I figured that we got separated when the ship was rocking, but she was nowhere in sight. Before I could call out her name however, the port-hole window burst open as a focused torrent of salt water hit me square in the face. I fell to the floor choking on salt that was lodged in my throat coughing painfully.

'It's over!' I thought to myself as I started to black out. 'I'm going to die! I never got to see Ayane one last time.'

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The next thing I knew was that I was lying on what felt like soft, grainy material, like sand. I could also hear what sounded like crashing ocean waves. When my blurry vision came into focus I noticed that I was lying belly-down on a beach.

"How convenient!" I said sarcastically. "I'm playing CAST AWAY!"

I was about to get up, but there was a problem. I couldn't move. My body felt so weak and numb that I couldn't move a muscle. Apparently the only parts of my body that are responding are my facial muscles, my breathing and my eyes.

"What am I suppose to do now?" I asked myself. "If I can't even move I'm going to starve to death on this beach."

All I could do was lie and wait. But as two days passed I began to go insane. Constantly screaming and talking gibberish to myself. The hot sun and freezing night air was not making my situation any better. On the third day however something finally happened. I saw a tall slim figure coming towards me; I immediately noticed that it was Ayane in her Anthrop form. I was very happy to see that she was okay, but when a gust of wind blew sand in my eyes I looked away blinking rapidly to stop the irritation in my eyes. By the time I was done and I looked back to were Ayane was she wasn't there.

"Ho great!" I said to myself in tearful anger. "I'm hungry, thirsty, baking in the hot sun, and now I'm seeing things. This day could only get worse if I die of insanity!"

As the third day started to reach noon I started having more hallucinations. I saw a decapitated head roll past my view, pokemon walking around with mixed pokemon body parts, and two clam shells arguing about something. I closed my eyes for a second to try and block out the hallucinations, but when I opened my eyes I only ended up seeing another one, it was a nidoqueen. I thought to myself that it was just another illusion. But as it got closer to me I knew that it wasn't. She bent down and began to sniff me over.

"Ho-no! The Scent!" I said to myself. "This is not really the time for that."

She suddenly rolled me on my back, picked me up, and carried me into the forest. I was wondering where she was taking me, but I couldn't even turn my head to look around as I was practically a rag-doll in the nidoqueen's arms.

After a few minutes of walking we were in what was apparently a cave. She carried me through the dark tunnel until we reached a large dimly lit room.

"What is this place?" I asked myself. "And why did she bring me here?"

The Nidoqueen gently placed me on a straw-pile and stepped back.

"Well done Gertha," said a voice from the shadows, "I'll take it from here."

A familiar figure stepped out of the shadows. It was Zenia, the same anthrop pokemon that the mew-two sent him to meet.

"You must be the one called Alex." said Zenia as she was approaching me. "You were quite fortunate that my friend found you."

As Zenia was standing next to me she reached a clawed paw out to my neck. "Brace yourself!" she said. "This is going to hurt a bit." She suddenly applied intense pressure to the side of my neck. It hurt like hell but it least the pain ended almost as quickly as it started.

"Try to get up now." said Zenia.

To my surprise I was able to move again. I slowly sat up on the straw-pile and looked myself over; only now do I realize that my clothes were torn up, my shoes were missing, and that I was covered in sand and dirt.

"You and your friend were lucky to survive last night's storm." said Zenia.

With several things running through my mind the words 'my friend' caught my attention.

"My friend!" I said in realization of Ayane. "My friend, the absol, where is she?"

"Relax!" said Zenia pointing at another straw-pile; Ayane was asleep on the pile in her anthrop form. She was bandaged-up on parts of her body, yet she seemed so peaceful. I don't think that I have ever been so relieved in my whole life.

"I found her on the beach," said Zenia, "she was in pretty bad shape. Had I found her a few hours later, her wounds would have been beyond repair."

I slowly got up from the straw-pile letting my legs adjust to it, seeing as I haven't stood on my feet for three days straight.

"Whenever you're ready, meet me in that room." said Zenia pointing at a nearby entrance to a pitch-black room that she walked into.

I looked over at Ayane, and then turned my head to the Nidoqueen who rescued me. She stared at me for a few seconds before tilting her head in curiosity.

"Err...Okay!" I said to myself, feeling awkward. "Thanks for finding me." I said before walking toward the pitch-black room.

When I entered the room I couldn't see anything except three dim beams of light to small beams in front of a large one. Zenia was sitting in one of the small beams of light in what looks like the lotus position with her arms crossed.

"Glad you could join us." said Zenia. "Sit down under the other small beam."

"Us?" I said looking around. "Who else is here?"

"Sit down and you'll see!" said Zenia.

I sat down under the other small beam which I now realized didn't seam to be coming from anywhere. A few seconds later however the dim beams suddenly turned bright, and the third beam had an occupant. It was the Mewtwo again.

"I told you to find Zenia," she said with a slight smirk on her face, "but she ended up finding you instead."

Seeing as too many weird things have been happening to me I was no longer surprised.

"There were some unforeseen circumstances." I said.

"I know." said the Mewtwo. "And now that you're both here, it is time to get into details about what's next, starting with the Wyvern Clan. You remember them from the scenario I sent you, right Alex?"

"Yes." I said. "The Blaziken, Machoke, and... err...what kind of pokemon is Ray?"

"Ho! That's right!" said the Mewtwo. "You've never seen that kind of pokemon because you have never been to the Sinnoh region. Ray is a Luxray and so is Zenia, in fact they just so happen to be brother and sister."

"And what was that thing he was doing with his eyes to find me?" I asked.

"That would be a Luxray's special skill," said the Mewtwo. "Luxrays can see through solid object with their X-Ray vision."

"So that was how he was able to find me." I said. "He saw me right through that closet door. In that case if I ever encountered him trying to hide would be pointless."

"That is exactly why you need to learn how to defend yourself." said the Mewtwo.

"WHAT!?" I exclaimed. "You're joking, right? Are you telling me that I would one day have to fight them?"

"Not to so much as fight them," said the Mewtwo, "but to avoid being captured by them. Zenia here can teach you all you need to know. I have to leave now, but before I go you need to know about this place. This cave is now your secret hideout, and this room can be used for the three of us to communicate."

"Wait a minute!" I said. "I can't live here, What about all my friends back home!?

"Not to worry," said the Mewtwo. "you can use this beam I'm standing in to teleport between here and the basement of your house."

"But I don't have a basement." I said.

"You do now." said the Mewtwo. "You can try it out after I leave, goodbye for now."

The Mewtwo faded away in the form of a glittering mist. I looked over at Zenia who was looking at me with a pleasant smile on her face.

"Looks like we'll be spending a lot of time together." She said.

TBC...
Chapter End Notes:As usual please leave your honest comments and please bare in mind that this story needed a good structure to continue from
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