Escape the Nightmare (Discontinued)

Rocking Clawmark Hill!

"Pika pikaa!" Ash, pikachu, and professor Kukui all walked up to the house exhausted after a long day of working. Pikachu bolted towards the door yelling enthusiastically as it saw the door and Ash chuckled loudly while opening the door. He gave a quick greeting alerting the stay at hole Pokemon that they were back but no Pokemon was to be seen.

Ash shifted his backpack to his arms and carried it looking around for the Pokémon but it never came out. "Hey rockruff you can come out!" Kukui stopped in the middle of the living room and glanced around confused as to where it had gone. Pikachu kept over to the small door in the wall and was about to stick its head out when it opened fast and pushed Pikachu back a few feet.

Pikachu grimaced and looked up only to cry out in confusion. Ash climbed down the ladder to his room, his arms empty of his backpack and looked back at Pikachu and the Pokémon that walked through the door. "Hey there you are rock-." Only to stop mid sentence and gaze upon the small rock type Pokémon.

Rockeuff gazed up at Ash with its small blue eyes and limped into the middle of the room. Scratches and bruises covered it's small body. It tried to set its front foot down but whimpered as soon as pressure was applied. Ash quickly went to rock ruff ladened with concern for it and asked if it was okay. Rotom dex scanned over the small Pokémon as it looked at Ash with glazed blue eyes.

Professor Kukui came around the corner with a potion in hand and kneeled beside the others. He laid his hand out and asked for the rockruffs injured paw. The Pokémon reluctantly gave it and looked down as the professor warned the Pokémon it was going to hurt a little.

Ash and Pikachu gazed in concern as the professor doctored up the Pokémon. Ash looked over at the professor "Do you think that it maybe got into a fight?" Professor Kukui sighed tiredly and picked up the Pokémon and held it like a baby. "I thought I told you to stay inside while we were gone." Rockruff didn't look the professor in the eyes and looked away as tears gathered. It whimpered as it was held and they watched over it for the rest of the night.

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"And that's what happened." Ash sat at his desk explaining the situation to his friends and classmates. Everyone listened sternly and with full attention. Lillie was the first to speak "but if this has been an ongoing problem, why doesn't the professor just put it in its pokeball?" Everyone awaited for an answer and Ash just looked upset over the whole situation.

"That's the thing. Rockruff isn't really the professors Pokemon." Everyone gasped and looked in shock. "What do you mean it isn't the professor's Pokémon?" Willow tilted her head and patted absols head beside her. "Well the professor told me that rockruff just followed him home one day after giving it some food." Mallow leaned down and rested her hands on her knees "So rockruff is a wild Pokémon? I mean we all assumed that rockruff was just the professor's Pokemon." Kiawe nodded and leaned in closer to Willows side, Ash started with a little bit of envy of being close to her but didn't know why. He shook his head a little and berated himself. Now is not the time. He should be focusing on the problem at hand. "We all saw how attached rockruff is to the professor."

Rotom dex floated up besides Ash's head "you see, rockruff have quite a reputation for being genuine people friendly Pokemon. Rockruff, the puppy Pokémon, a rock type Pokémon. Rockruff have lived with people since ancient times. They train themselves by running around."

Lana nodded along and smiled at Ash "I bet you that's why rockruff was hurt. It was training!" Ash looked in confusion and was about to ask what she meant when sophocles spoke up "yeah I bet you I know why it's training. I bet you it's about to evolve."

Ash looked intrigued suddenly. Rotom dex jumped into action explaining its evolved form. Rockruff evolves into lycanrock which has two forms depending on the time of day. It evolves into midday form during the day and midnight form at night. Also when rockruff gets closer to evolving its temperament becomes more aggressive and it tends to become more independent. It's common for it to disappear and then reappear after it has evolved." Everyone looked fascinated at the thought of the Pokémon evolving while over in the corner where all the Pokémon were playing, popplio blew a giant bubble and released it causing it to float up above the other Pokémon. It didn't hold for more than a few seconds when it popped scaring the Pokémon while also drenching then.