Thread: Extensive Bonding (Pokemon) [Shikokudarkstar]

The bond between Pokmon and trainer was often one that people talked about. It was told that you should treat your Pokmon with respect and love but they didnt say exactly why. It was said that a bond of love and trust would create a more powerful Pokmon, one that would lay down their very life in order to assure you the glory of being the most powerful trainer. However with the love the trainer had for his Pokmon, he or she would never allow such a large sacrifice. That was the way it was supposed to work, anyway. Sometimes the trainer didnt always show such love to their Pokmon, and the Pokmon in turn didnt work as hard to win. They didnt care about their trainers and their trainers didnt care about them. This feeling of mutual disregard was not the best relationship but it wasnt the worst. The worst was when the trainer started out as a loving and nearly perfect Pokmon trainer, well on their way to being a master, but then the power hunger struck. The hunger for glory made them push harder, work their beloved Pokmon like tools. All the love they had built up slowly drained from their Pokmon, all that love turned into hurt than betrayal. A betrayed Pokmon was the worst Pokmon to have. They followed orders, but barely. They started to hate the trainers who worked them like tools. To most, this wouldnt have been the most threatening of situations. A bite here or there, an elemental attack that almost killed them to make them rethink how they treated their Pokmon but sometimes when the Pokmon was powerful and olderwell sometimes that betrayal called for worse. Sometimes when you had a Pokmon like a Ninetails, that danger was much more real than anyone liked to believe. Alune was the nickname that his trainer had bestowed upon him when they were both young. At the time he had been a vulpix and the very first Pokmon that Irou ever got. The young raven-haired boy had been so excited to see his new vulpix. Alune could still remember that first day, those words so joyful and clear, I think Im gonna call you Alune, because you and me alone are going to make it to the top! Those words of course werent quite true. Soon Irou and Alune had realsed in their journey that they needed a bit more help than just one fire Pokmon could do. Still though, Irou had let him roam outside of his pokeball, staying close by and enjoying each others company. Sure, they had gotten into some trouble but they had managed to somehow get themselves out of it. There had been many times in those first golden years that Irou had told Alune that he loved him. Alune had loved those words but he had loved how Irou used to chatter to him. Sometimes they would talk about nothing and sometimes they would talk about everything. It was mostly one-sided, after all Alune couldnt speak human but Irou hadnt minded and sometimes Irou had understood his words even though he couldnt speak them in Irous tongue. Irou had expressed his wish to understand Alune though, often times in his talks he talked about the power of Ninetails saying that, One day after I get a firestone I'm going to evolve you into a Ninetails. I've heard that they have some wicked awesome powers. Maybe one of them can let me talk to you. The time that Alune treasured the most was when he and Irou were watching the sunset together. Irou hadnt said much, his crush on a girl had gotten his heart broken. Alune had sat beside him quietly, putting a paw on his best friend, waiting for Irou to start talking again. The words that had come from his human had startled him. They had resonated deep within his soul and suddenly every I love you had even more special meaning. Maybe if things were different then we could get married, Alune. Maybe if you got some of those Ninetails powers you could turn into a human and we could live together forever. Still a vulpix, Alune had felt joy and sadness from those words. He hadnt heard of any pokemon turning human but still, to live and love his master like that forever had made his small heart soar. Maybe when they had become the best they could start by looking for a way to be together! How stupid his young hopes had been. The years went by and they hadnt found a fire stone. The I love you s came less and less and Alune felt as those the feeling his master had werent as strong as before. He hadnt let it bother him, battling with all his heart to make Irou the best. It had only been a few years ago that the human who had owned his heart, started earning his anger. Once Irou had found a fire stone, he had used it on Alune. They had worked so hard to get one, waited so long for Alune to be so powerful. Alune had jumped at the chance to change for his trainer, maybe earn the love they had back since thats what they had been waiting for. They had talked, dreamed, and longed for this moment togetherbut once Alune had become a ninetailsnothing had changed. It had gotten worse. Alune had sat patiently after his evolution, waiting for the old Irou to come back and know him. Instead the boy who had loved him was now lost to the man who only used him. Irou had only said about how he was going to get to the top with a ninetails now and how he probably shouldn't let him wonder outside of the pokeball. The sad truth was, he would have if he had loved Alune more. They would be at the top now if only Alune had felt a small grain of the love he used to. Sitting now inside his pokeball, Alune was only a shell of the once loving Pokmon he had been. He was no longer let out except for battle. He no longer heard all of those silly rants and talks that Irou had. Maybe the man still didnt have them. Alune was nothing and no one inside his pokeball. He wondered if Irou even noticed him anymore, if the trainer knew that his ninetails didnt do its best in battle and let other Pokmon faint him on purpose. The Gym leader had seen it. At such a high level, a nintails like Alune should have wiped the floor with his paltry Pokmon. Had Irou noticed? Probably not. Maybe the gym leader had said something to him after Alune had left back to his pokeball. It didnt matter. The only thing Irou would notice was that they lost. Alune found it funny how one day you were the best thing to someone and the next you were just a tool.