the stones do not care

M mightyena X F espeon[so far non-lewd]
im doing this in notepad first so please ignore spelling and grammar errors for now.

i can feel the trembling of the flesh beneath my skin and fur warning me of critical exhaustion as my body prods my concious with need for breath. not a need that is met at the end of an array of driven fangs. the air around me has become polar and hostile the warmth my body offers. i can feel my body breaking as i desperately try to evade the violent embrace of deaths short white arms snapping closely behind me. through this my body toils. to an end that anyone else would dread... cornered between a small waterfall and a pack of mightyena. they approached me and i cowered like any other pokemon standing less than three feet away from their death. i looked down accepting my defeat and a brutal death and thought to myself "what a way to go". but they paused less than two seconds before the biggest one took his prize while i did my best to stand on my failing legs. i was exhausted and everything was blurry. but i could see a young mightyena, eyes lit with rage and power and meaning come from the the back of the formation as he pushed forward and challenged the big mightyena. i had no clue what was going on. but the two here hasty to end the problem. they quickly became hulking blobs in my vision and before long, the two bolted off followed closely by the rest of the pack. i was confused and dissapointed, but more so i was exhausted. i let my legs drop my lavender body to the floor and let my conicousness drift while i rested. the sun was already gone so i wouldnt make much progress if i tried to leave and would probably and up getting caught by those mightyena again. i plunged into the stream that was behind me and found a crevice just big enough for me to fit comfortably in behind the waterfall. they cant track me underwater so they will think i vanished. a couple of hours went by without incident and i relaxed. i was about to go to sleep when i picked up a strange scent coming from the southwest. i dragged my sore body to the left side of the waterfall to sneak a glance at what ever was coming. slowly, a black figure approached the water limping and fell to the floor. my lazy eyes adjusted to the light of the full moon overhead. and i clearly saw the figure was the mightyena from before. its thoughts were blurry and hazed but it was in pain. i slowly approached the mightyena from the side and greeted it.
"Hello?"
i saw that he was covered in wounds mostly around his neck.
"..hello..."
i paused
"thank you for earlier but it looks like you really need help right now. can you walk?"
"...mostly.." he replied before trying to stand.
he lifted himself up revealing spots of blood on the floor and the other wounds he had.
"come on, lets get you cleaned up."

i spent until dawn cleaning his wounds and trying to talk to him starting with the obvious "why did you save me" stuff but he didnt respond. most of his wounds werent that bad. the most serious one being a small ripped section of his right earlobe torn obviously by teeth. occasionally he would grunt when i touched a sensitive spot but nothing important. at least until i had finished. when i got him to the spot behind the waterfall to dry and rest, he spoke to me.
"thank you. my name is Lar. but im sure you already knew that, being an espeon and all."
his words surprised me so let out a convoulted<--[gotta change that] answer "sorry.. i havent been paying attention to your thoughts. im pretty busy thinking about where ill get our next meal. my name is...err..."
i paused while i swallowed my pride and uttered my own name
"my name is moron."
"... moron?" he smirked
"how did you end up with that name?"
i sat down next to him and sighed in preperation for a confession
"well you see i used to belong to a trainer but i wasnt a very competent fighter. he always yelled at me and started calling me a moron. it kind of just stuck. somehow the name rater decided to approve an insult to be my name. hes an asshole who appreciates a joke i guess." i grimaced.
"heh.. i dont feel like joking today. anyways,is it worth mentioning that we should probably stick together for a while?"
after a good moment i replied, "not really. i was going to stay with you anyways since i dont have anywhere else to be. on top of you saving me and all."
we sighed and observed the suns progress from behind the waterfall. but it did not last. i got hungry before anybody got to express any more emotion. i left to go find a few berries in the area thankfully there was enough berry trees in bloom right now that finding berries shouldnt be a problem. i found a bunch of berry trees but they were all the kinds that confuse the shit out of you if you dont like the way the taste and i dont know what he likes. as i trotted through the forest a bit longer than perhaps was safe i started thinking about about my old trainer and why i left in the first place. shortly after birth, my original owner handed off the egg i was in to my old master. i remember hatching in his hands. well not because i actually remember, but because my old master often thought about it. i remember how excited he was to have a pokemon and that he truly thought we would be best friends. he was about seven years old when i hatched and he was around ten now. in the  beginning it was like a pokemon and a pokemon trainer should be. he was happy to have me at his side and i was happy to be at his side. whenever there was conflict, he spout orders and i happily complied. when there wasnt conflict, we shared meals and slept in the bed holding me like a live teddy bear. but that did not last. soon enough he felt that i was not enough. one day while he was out looking for cool rocks in the cave, we engaged a small wild deino and i was almost instantly incapacitated leaving a large gash on my head and a couple broken bones. my trainer immidiately attempted an escape without me and failed. he had been horribly injured and nearly maimed by that deino breaking about nine bones including the femur. when i came to, me and my old master were alone. i ventured into the next chamber to find help and found it. since i was awake and able to walk by the time we got to the pokemon center, they all assumed that i didnt do anything to save him from harm. my old master woke up around the time that his parents got there, he said he didnt remember anything about me trying to save him. i was taken home and brutaly beaten for allowing that to happen to my old master. i spent the next month tied to a post outside very nearly starving to death several times had it not been for the kindness of the meowstik that lived next door. but we didnt talk much. i recieved a beating every time they caught us together. while my old master was back at the hospital being brainwashed into believing that i did nothing to save him. i would rather have had my tail ripped off than let him get hurt. i wanted them to understand that so much that i evolved into an espeon on that post. when i evolved, i became larger so my collar choked me. my old masters parents got sick of me making choking noise after about a day and replaced my collar with a part of the posts steel chain and a small pad lock. when my old master came back he slapped me with his newly recovered arm and left me at the post for annother week while his father gave him a new, more capable pokemon. a gible to be precise. instantly he warmed up to the gible and replaced me. the gible was promptly named pith and was told of my false disloyalty. he has harassed me ever since then. after that i slept outside and was rarely put into battle. since i wasnt a very good fighter to begin with it only got worse. about a month ago, i found an opportunity to escape when he brought his new girlfriend to the house for the first time to do whatever it is that they do. he didnt bother introducing me and the door was left wide open. i took the chance and ran directly out. nobody noticed i was gone until they realized that the food in my bowl didnt dissapear anymore. i had at least about good weeks headstart. i ventured into the nearby forest to escape and eventually ended up wandering directly into the den of mightyena and immidiately was chased about at least a good 4 miles  before i got to that waterfall. thats when i snapped back into looking for berries. eventually i found a kind deerling couple. they showed me the way to a nearby oran berry bush. nobody dislikes oran berries so this was very convenient. i ate some myself then started looking for a branch that had enough berries to feed a pokemon about twice my size. after i found the branch with enough berries on it, i thanked the deerling and headed back to the waterfall with the wide end of the branch in my teeth carrying it ackwardly with my head at an angle. when i got back he smiled warmly and thanked me. i layed down and started talking with him.
"...so how did you end up with your name?" i continued our convorsation from earlier. "my parents named me after the great malevolent spirit of the northern region." that was actually kind of interesting but i wanted to know more about his motive behind saving me "thats pretty cool. why did the malevolent spirit save an insignificant espeon yesterday?"
he paused and faintly blushed "..because it wasnt the malevolent spirit. i didnt want to watch you die."
"and why not? im a valuable source of protein arent i? you are a mightyena after all. isnt that what you-"
he began growling at me."do you want to know... how many times ive been told that? do you want to know how many of my own friends ive slaughtered to that end? all for the simple luxury of having a nice warm meal?! Fuck that!"
this was obviously a sensitive topic for him. i wasnt going to push it any further.
"..im sorry.... i just wanted to know why i was spared."
"well now you know. what difference does it make anyways? your`e alive. be happy that you are." he retorted. i did my best to regain my composure and say something useful. "i would like you to know before we travel anywhere that im actively being pursued by my old trainer along with the help of the cops. if you dont want to be involved with either its probably a good idea for us split up as soon as you are healed."
Lar gave a yao ming face "im not concerned about them and while were discussing our pursuers i would like you to know that the pack i disbanded with earlier isnt too happy that im alive either. i expect that they are going to find us in about a week if we dont move. if you dont want to end up in the same position that you were in yesterday then i suggest we get out of here as soon as we can." i noticed my tail was swaying loosely behind me "so we travel together?"
"yes" he replied.

that day was mostly spent healing and chatting about useless things. when the sun left, so to did the espeons ability to maintain conciousness. but no unconciousness came to her as the cold earth of the crevice she found stole her warmth and found herself too tired for sleep. there was one feasible solution, but that involved an ackward morning and waking lar up but not in that order. she could see lar was warm under his thick coat of fur despite the stones sucking the warmth beneath him. annother hour of being too tired for sleep brought moron to her limit. she needed help again and just like last time lar was going to be the one to help her. she still was too embarassed to consider waking him so she simply curled up on his underside while he lay asleep. you see, normally, this would be around the point where it would typically turn lewd but thats not going to happen today. finally she truly rested. the morning came way too soon for the both of them. lar was the first to reclaim his conciounsnes. moron was the last to reclaim hers. just as she predicted, that morning was a bit ackward, but she had prepared for it. and he honestly didnt mind. espescially since she was going to be traveling with him. he decided not to make anything difficult for eachother. at least he was comfortable with her. normally a psychic type and a dark type would not be found together as friends. today was no different. they were not truly friends. she owed him her life, and he owed her his life. he certainly would be alive or would at least be starving to death without the help of moron. but this would not be the last day they would spend together.
"Damn we got lucky today!" Moron exclaimed observing their catch. "Damn right! you dont just wake up and find a small school of magikarp pretty much waiting to be eaten every day!" lar exclaimed as he bit into the back of a magikarp squirming for the life it still held. Moron took a magilkarp for herself and followed lar`s actions holding it down with one paw while she began eating "it doesnt taste bad" she thought while she took another bite. "how were you able to get them all out of the water? did you have a net or something?" lar said as he enjoyed his moving magikarp. "no actualy. i just took control of their minds aand they all came splashing out of the water" lar paused and stared at her for a moment. "..thats fucking brutal. i like it." Moron read Lar`s thoughts for the first time. he admired the notion of getting you mind taken over and going directly to your death. they finished eating all of the magikarp before eiter spoke again. Lar looked at the peculiar ring moron had around her neck.. it looked uncomfotrable. "what is that around your neck?" lar questioned. "oh this? its a collar. humans give them to pokemon that they own. i havent been able to get mine off yet." "i think i can help you with that" lar got up and approached her intently. when his nose pushed against her neck for his mouth to start looking for the collar, she couldnt help but blush. she was thankful that he wasnt looking at her. she was also thankful that hre collar would soon be removed. once he found the collar, he chewed violently and even made snarling noises. a good few minutes and a lot of blushing later, nothing happened. "what the hell is with this collar? why is it so hard?" Lar almost whined. he pushed her down with one paw to observe the reason while she continued her blushing. the reason that it was so hard to chew through is because there was a metal chain at the core keeping it intact. "uuuhhhh.. moron im afraid i cant actually help you get this off. at least not without losing a few teeth."moron whimpered and loosely responded "why not?" "theres a chain in the middle." moron whimpered some more while Lar sat down. "i guess humans put that there so that they dont lose it in the middle of an intense battle. like if it gets burned away or something it will still be there" Moron explained. "well that doesnt help you. but i know what can." moron made some kind of a weird face at lar`s comment "if we can get about eight valleys east of here, there is a guy i know that will definitely help us get that off of you." she sat considering it for a moment. "what about you? are you good to walk?" She questioned. "ive had enough resting. lets get out of here." the two promptly left and properly discarded the fish bones.
they were just leaving when they heard something move along a bush. both noticed and immidiately took action "shit hurry were being followed" "my old master" in the growing distance, Morons old master could be heard. "GET BACK HERE YOU STUPID FUCKING PSychic im done playing your game! dont thi....!" his voice faded out in the distance. Moron was a bit slow but she managed to keep up with Lar with the added motivation she had. her thin layer of fur and soft pads did almost nothing to protect her from the thorns of bushes and loose rocks hidden less than an inch under the surface of the ground. but just like two days ago, she ignored the needs of her weak young body and pushed forward. Lar seemed to know where he was going. they both panted and slowed to a stop when they realized they were out of the trainers reach. she was not accustomed to running over extremely long distances like Lar was and toppled over like sack of rice when they stopped. "hehe.. you alright?" "just give me a few minutes" she commented. "...what the hell is a minute?" he asked. "its a measure of ti-... whatever. its not truly important right now. just give me a bit of time to catch my breath." she remarked. they hastily made their next decision. that is; find and travel along the ridge of the mountain they were on down to the next next valley and find shelter before it gets too dark. even with enhanced night vision, they were still very vulnerable to the smaller predators like gliscor and nincada. however, it was still the morning for them. once Moron gathered her strength, she got back up and started walking toward their chosen path. after that it was mostly a bunch of mundane wandering through dense brush and thickets. they were heading up so there no rivers or anything to worry about. their biggest problem occured at around noon when they reached a cliff face. "great.. now were at a cliff at we cant climb like humans can.. what now?" Moron complained. she avoided reading her new companion`s mind in order to not be dissappointed by his; now apparent lack of serious thought. "well it wanst my fault that trees are big. did you have a better plan genius?" he scoffed. "of course i did! i told you we should make our way past the thickets and taken the low route. we could avoid being spotted and avoid being followed that way. im trusting you here to guide us since you know the area fuck-o!" "youre the one here who earned the name moron so dont give me shit about lack of intelegence." he remarked "what do my fighting skills have to do with intelegence?!" she retorted while lar sat and pouted at her wise remark. "lets go this way. come on." she pulled at his good ear in the direction she gestured. they walked off into the mundane again. as they traveled down, the air grew noticeably thick and moist, the brush heightened and covered them on all sides. Moron decided to climb up and get an idea where they were going. while climbing, she stepped a bad branch and fell directly into a large weepinbell. Lar immidiately acted to do something about it. but so did weepinbell. its skin immidiately hardened and became stone-like as it compressed to begin digesting the espeon. the espeon fell face-first into the weepinbells mouth and was now beginnning to suffocate while Lar desperately thought of a solution. he bit its skin was too hard, he may as well have been biting an iron bell. then he got an idea. he grabbed the longest and thickest branch he could find and placed one end between two close trees nearby. then he grabbed the other end and began pulling it back so that it would hit the weepinbell in the face. when he was sure that he had pulled the branch back as much as he could without breaking it, he let go. there was a loud bang noise as it hit the weepinbnell and split its face. the swelling softened the exposed flesh behind it enough that it was possible to bite through. then Lar got to work. it didnt take more than a minute to get Moron out. but she was still unconcious. he dragged her about a quarter of a mile away through the thicket to reasonable shelter. it was dark now and the temperature was dipping. she was still alive but the digestive juices were irritating her skin. washing would have to wait until tomorrow unless he did something about it himself. she definitely would slow them down if her pads hurt stepping anywhere. being a wild mightyena, he was an excelent groomer. but that would mean licking her entire body down."being caught licking her is better than being eaten in the morning" he thought. he began his cleaning and was about a quarter way done working on her left shoulder when she woke up. ".Lar... what are you doing?" Lar nearly jumped "oh shit. im sorry, its just that you have weepinbells digestive juices on you and i have to remove them otherwise you will slow us down tomorrow." she thought for a moment. "... okay then. go ahead." he proceeded removing the digestive fluids from her body and spitting them out. after he completed his task, they fell asleep. waiting for the next day to come..

the next morning went smoothly and with no mention of the previous nights events. well with the exception of a passing remark at how she thought she stank and needed to bathe. after this they strolled down their merry lack of path into the morning sun and gathered light on their bodies. each nearly fought for the shrivel of barely noticeable yellow light. they didnt travel far to end up on the peak of this valley. they hadnt even noticed they were traveling up until they got there. but that was mostly due to the mundane nature of traveling like mans failed robots. "okay its time for a break." Lar said when they reached the top. "alright then." both were as silent as they were when they were walking for a moment. Lar broke the silence "okay seriously moron, we need to do something abut your name. i cant keep calling you that, it annoys the hell out of me and im sure you dont like being called that either." "yeah actually i need a new name... well im not about to name myself so you do it. if its not satisfactory, ill let you know." "Okay then how about... Alondra". Disgusted she commented "Absolutely not!" "wow ok then how about.... polaris.. after polaris the destroyer" she pondered the name for a bit. ".. i like it. my name is now polaris." he smiled. "cool ill call you ari for short." "lets get out of here." the two stood and left to go look like mans failed robots again. the trip to the next valley was rediculously short compared to the the first. both gave signs of exhaustion and dehydration when they reached an enormous bidoof dam. but this was no dam. arceus this was a fucking fortress. they sat there looking confused at the massive construction with some dumb look on their face. "arceus , what the fuck is that?" polaris questioned. "ive no clue... i came around here only a year ago. this wasnt here" "well lets rest here for a bit. i need to bathe. i swear if i dont ge-" she was interrupted by the draw bridge opening revealing two luxray on either side of a vampiric looking bibarel. it stood on its hind legs silently for a moment observing us looking intimidating and spoke."psychic, evil one. who are you and what are you doing here?" its looked at us appearing as if we woke it from some deep slumber. the luxray wore their their usual flesh and soul piercing scorn. Lar took the initiative to prove his intelectual worth to Moron "we are rogues on our way to our way to a visit a friend in a valley near here. our business is our own. we are simply passing through." the bibarel thought for a moment and spoke almost divinely. "the sun will soon leave us. there are no caves nearby. may we offer you shelter against the night?" "we would very much appreciate that. thank you." "very well. come then" all of the luxray approached us as we entered the fortress. the inside was just as magnificent as the outside. everything was wooden and reeked of roselia. pokemon around them heading thier own ways to whatever business they had. a few wood carvings of watchog, bibarel, and loppuny took dominion over the largest wooden surfaces almost as if monuments to something. they took to the bibarels company who led them down a maze-like path while talking about the construction of his grand fortress. they stopped when they reached a gigantic log stump. it had been hollowed out and had hole in the front for access. "this is where you may spend the night. we have the resources if you desire to bathe and will be having supper soon. i suggest you do not miss it. we have excelent chefs" all in his vampire like authority made it seem like the fortress had been here centuries regardless of age that wood suggested. they left the two at their stump shelter to decide their course of action. Lar took to sniffing everything as any canine would while Polaris began scanning thoughts in the area to find the bathing area. it didnt take long to find what she was looking for. there were a number of pokemon enjoying the bathing facilities at the moment. but its what she wasnt looking for that caught her attention. there were several feint and unknown for entities in the area. she searched their minds for identity information. "Lar, something is wrong here" "what happened Ari?" "i.. i think im sensing ghosts here.... Lar this room is vibrating." "what the hell does tha-" Lar was pushed violently downward by some unseen force. since he hadnt prepared for it, he fell directly down and his head hit the sharp corner of the entrance. "uuggghhh what the fu-" he grunted and tried getting back up before being forced back down again against the corner and silencing him. "LAR!" she screamed. the air around her had so much gravity that it instantly turned the air intto stone in her lungs. depraved of breath, her attention turned toward the entrance, where the bibarel was standing silently "oh my. not this again." he stared at the espeon blankly while she stuggled to maintain her conciousness and reach the door. she blacked out. she awoke in a dream. it began with her old master strangling her. every passing second his hands would get tighter and tighter around her neck but her neck would never break. his look of dissaproval was the only thing she feared in her youth and the last one she saw her old master with. just when she thought she could taste her bones coming out of the backside of her neck, she was instantly thrown accross the dark room they occupied. choking to her feet she looked up and found she was in a new room. the wall was covered in gigantic speakers. the kind you would expect to find in those motorcycle shows in unova. when she turned around, she saw herself standing in the mddle of the room. only the new self was now a statue and stood looking directly at her. confused at what she was seeing, she began pacing around the room. unmoving, the stautes stone gaze followed the troubled espeon around the room. at once, all of the speakers began emitting unholy chords of vibration into the room unleashing the reverse world into Morons head. looking forward, she saw the statue begining to crack and fall into pieces. the removed stone revealed an odd yellow light, when the statue was gone, the sound stopped. the light figure stood on four feet and looked like Lar. the figure appeared to be breathing. and suddenly it began attacking some unseen force as if it was defending itself with the speakers letting me hear the dilema before me. she could see it desperately trying to ward off something as it backed into the corner and snarled. it then twitched its head to the side making a fleshy snapping noise and slowly stopped fighting while the yellow light fell to the ground from its neck. then the light decayed away leaving only the dust and debree from the statue on the floor. the debree slowly started to gather and form in the middle of the room again into a tall straight cylinder. she recognized instnantly what it was. it was her old post in the backyard, and before she knew it she was chained to it again. the speakers began emitting a symphony of humans screaming her name. the pain opened her eyes and she saw the faint glow of flames that looked like her old masters face strobe in the cone of the speakers. turning back to her post, she found the post had transformed back into the figure of herself and was now chained to herself. her stone self began screaming at her, the sound nearly visible now. slowly, a low frequency sound began to drown the sounds of the humans and overpower the dream as she awoke in a leaf mattress of some kind. she sat up and began puking everywhere. "hmm from the looks of things, its beginning to become agitated with us."  "what do we do my lord? this is beginning to become a problem for locals too. ive had tem reports in the past two days" Polaris was beginning to show signs of concious thought "where am i?...whats going on here?" Lar was stil passed out next to her. thankfully she didnt puke in hs direction. "Ah. you are awake. im sorry you had to experience that. we have been having problems with noisy spirits here. we didnt expect it to attack you so quickly." "that would explain everything." Lar woke and puked just as Polaris had moments ago. "good morning Lar. wait how long have we been asleep?" Polaris inquired genuinely concerned about the matter. "about three days" bibarel replied. "shit Lar, we need to move. lets get out of here. come on" after spewing the his last, Lar began picking up on the convorsation. "hang on Ari. i think we can help these guys." "What the hell are you talking about Lar? we dont have that kind of tim-" "no Ari, i mean were the only ones who can help them" both bibarel and Polaris stared at Lar expecting a explanation. "im a native from the bunta tribe. this place was known as the valley of the undying souls. this place is known for attacking dwellers and passerby." the bibarel wore a look of confusion and frustration as he tried to come up with an appropriate answer. "but we have tried everything! it just keeps attacking all of the psychics that try reasoning with it. We even tried offering a sacrifice!" confidence rolled off of Lars tongue as he spoke his next words, "these spirits are not looking for your sacrifices. they are looking for closure. and me and my friend here are the only ones who can help you." Polaris began reading Lars mind, he planned to ally them by doing them this favor and maybe gain their protection. all in all it was a good idea and it might actually help them to gain a bit of distance from their pursuers. "but my friend still needs to bathe if thats not a porblem" Lar suggested. "certainly this is most kind of you. we will soon be dining. you can meet us there. by the way my name is Vald. i am a representative on behalf of the kingdom of Rhhok. we are here on an offensive campaign eliminating pockets of rebellion. your help is most appreciated" "excelent. thank you Vald." Polaris said as she began trotting to the bathing area.