The Sun & The Star - Memories (Prequel Chapter)

Growing Up

The human was taking longer than expected, and Celosia had been left there for quite a long time.

So long, in fact, that another pokemon had come to train with the dummy, a large houndoom wearing a spiked collar. He was very tall and intimidating!

"Oi, kid. Are ya done using the dummy? This one's mine, and I'm not used to sharin'- HOLY HELL! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" The houndoomyelled, getting really angry when he saw his favorite training dummy all ruined. Looks like this is one of those really territorial dogs.

"Your dummy? What do you mean? This dummy is no different from all the others. You do not have to use this one if you do not want to. You can use one of the clean ones instead" Celosia suggested, pointing towards some of the other dummies, which were in perfect condition.

"I marked it with my scent and everything! I made it VERY CLEAR this dummy is MINE!" The houndoom yelled, growling at Celosia. He began approaching her with an angry scowl on his face. "When you smell my scent, it means something's MINE!! Whatever's mine, you respect!!"

Celosia backed up and started sweating nervously "C-Calm down, sir...you are overreacting! The humans that take care of this place clean and repair the dummies every day. I could not get your scent!" She explained to him, trying to avoid fighting the houndoom.

"GhhAAAAHHH!! Just shut up!! I'm gonna rip you apart!!!!" The houndoom yelled as he ran at Celosia, opening his mouth to reveal his sharp teeth.

Celosia yelped and used string shot, Hoping that it would distract the houndoom long enough for her to talk. "We do not have to fight! This was all just a misunderstanding! Stay where you are or I will be forced to defend myself!" Celosia said, getting into a defensive stance.

The houndoom freed himself from his sticky trap and shot a blast of fire from his mouth towards Celosia.

Looks like there's no changing his mind...

Celosia tried to move out of the way, but the fire was too fast for her. Due to Celosia being a Fire/Bug type pokemon, the weaknesses and resistances cancelled eachother out, meaning the attack did regular damage to Celosia, which was good...because that attack took more than half of her energy.

Celosia got up and grunted. She could barely stand and felt really dizzy, like she was about to faint already. She took a moment to recover and got back up, not wanting to give up.

This is when her owner showed up, carrying Rufus in his arms.

"Nichi, I'm back!" He called out, not seeing the fight that was going on just yet. He noticed what was happening and let out a scream "NICHI! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!" He yelled, quickly putting Rufus on the ground and running to Celosia, picking her up.

Rufus gasped and looked at Celosia. He then noticed the houndoom, who was still in his fighting stance. "The bloody 'ell is wrong with you?! She's just a kid, ye numpted! Whatever she did didn't deserve this!" He yells at the houndoom, growling at him. Nobody hurts his family and gets away with it.

"Stay, Rufus, Stay! Ignore him. We're going to the pokemon center right now to heal Nichi. We'll talk to it's owner after we make sure she's okay. He'll take care of his punishment" he tells Rufus in a strict tone, looking down at him.