Chapter Nine - A Day In The Woods

Story by Dallas Adoraslash on SoFurry

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#9 of Part One - Life Through The Eyes Of A Former Human


THREE WEEKS LATER

I sighed, sitting up on the couch. I still couldn't believe that Ben had caught us mating... I mean, we weren't even doing it yet, we were about to. I was in position and everything, and he just HAD to come walking by and see us... It was so disappointing and degrading, not to mention the scolding we both got afterwords. That was just harsh. Way too harsh of a punishment for what we did. I mean, what we were about to do was natural, and every male and female of the same species does it when they love eachother. So why the hell do we get punished for something we did to show affection to eachother? If he didn't like it, then he should've stayed away from us. He had no right to interfere.

I'm not even going to go into what he did as punishment, mainly because it'd bring you to tears if you saw it from my point of view, if you only knew how emotionally painful it was for me... We planned to try again soon, but it's almost been a month and we haven't both been in the mood at the same time, or it was never the right time, or Brian might be coming home soon and would catch us, stupid little excuses that kept us from trying again. If you ask me, I think we both have the same idea in our heads. Hold off on the mating by making up these silly excuses until we're so passionate for eachother that we just dive into eachother's arms and give into our true feelings for eachother... And so far, I'd have to say it's working pretty well, because I don't know how much longer I can go making up these weird excuses for not wanting to mate... And if I can't hold back much longer, I can just tell that Electra's on the verge of forcing me into it... And if she did that, she probably would win the battle, because right now my resistance is at an all time low...

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Me and Electra were in the woods. I'd managed to tell Ben that I'd be out for a while, and not to worry if I never show up, and he seemed to take it pretty well... Actually, now that I look back on the situation, I think he might've even encouraged me a little... I don't even remember how I did it. I just remember him... Acting almost excited as he closed the door behind us... I didn't think anything about it at the time, but now that I DO think about it it's kind of strange...

Electra followed me out. I didn't even have to ask her to come. I guess she really does love me... But it's hard for me to say the same... One, because I'm not completely ready to admit I like her, and two, because I've known her for only a month or so, maybe a little bit more, which is plenty of time to get to know someone, so I guess I'm just slow. But then again when I look her over... I get lost in her beauty... And when it comes to thinking about mating with her, my resistance... It just melts away... Maybe I AM ready to tell her... Maybe I'm perfectly ready, but... Ready emotionally, and not physically... If that makes any sense.

"Where are we going?" Electra asked me as she climbed down a tree, holding an apple.

I bit into my own apple, replying before I began to chew. "I don't know, somewhere in the woods." I said as I chewed, spitting juice in random directions as I talked with my mouth full.

She opened wide and took a huge bite of hers, chewing it quickly. "Well why are we here?" She asked.

"To wander, look at stuff, discover things I guess... Besides, I have something, well rather SOMEONE... I need to find in here..." I said as I took another bite.

By now, she had half of the apple down her, and she stared at me. "You lost someone in here?"

I laughed. "No, I just need to find the two that did this to me..." I said as I pointed to myself.

She tilted her head. "Did what? There's nothing wrong with you." She said as she shoved the rest of the apple into her mouth and chewed it quickly. And by quickly I mean reaaaaaally quickly... She probably chomped down on it three times, four at the most, before gulping down the rest with no problem at all!

I giggled, changing the subject. "Why do you eat like that?"

She tilted her head as she swallowed hard, getting what was left of the apple in her mouth down. "Eat like what? What am I eating like?"

I walked up and patted her on the back, chuckling. "A Snorlax? Nevermind... You're a good eater... That can come in handy sometimes, you know?"

She nodded. "I know. And it has a couple times. Like when I need to hide things, I can eat them, and then later when I feel weird movements in my lower belly, I can go into a sandy place, and dig a hole, and then s-"

"Alright, no need to tell me." I interrupted as I placed my paw over her mouth. "I know what you're about to say, and that's pretty smart." I smiled.

She giggled and removed my paw. "You are so strange, you know that?"

I laughed. "Yeah, I seem to be getting that a lot lately..." I said as I looked up, then around. "Well I guess we can get going.." I held out my apple. "Here, you can have the rest of my-"

She snatched it from my paw and took several huge chunks out of it before I could even finish speaking.

"Wow..." I said, chuckling as I began walking. "Electra.... Look at that..." I said as I pointed to a scorch mark on the ground.

She swallowed the last chunk of the apple and looked at it, tilting her head. "It's a burn."

I nodded. "Which means there are other Pikachu here somewhere, right?"

She nodded. "Yeah I guess so. Or a fire." She said as she began licking her right paw.

I nudged her. "Of course there are others here somewhere. Fires don't burn in zigzags. Plus I can smell them nearby."

She sniffed. "Oh yeah... I smell it too. Well let's look for them then. Maybe they know where we can find good food."

I nodded. "Wow... THAT'S what you want to ask them?" I laughed. "Well if that's what makes you happy, then... Let's go." I smiled as I got down onto all fours. I ran in a random direction, and almost immediately, Electra was following close behind.

"You know, you have no sense of direction whatsoever Dallas." She said as she jumped on my tail, causing me to fall on my belly with a grunt. "The scent was stronger the other way."

Standing up, I brushed leaves out of my fur. "Well It's not hot out anymore, and it's just going to get colder, and I like cold weather, so I don't know." I said, shrugging.

She stared at me. "Okay, what did that have to do with anything, anything at all? I was talking about how you have no sense of direction and you bring in the fact that you like cold weather... See Dallas, that's what makes you so weird!" She laughed. "Well it's one of the things that makes you weird, and I like it. But really, COME ON!" She yelled as she tugged my paw and yanked me in the other direction. "We need to ask them for food!"

"Yet you say I'm the weird one for randomly changing the subje- AH!" I gasped as I was yanked and dragged. "Ah! Let me go! I can walk! You're getting my fur dirty!" I shrieked as I twisted around.

She let me go and laughed. "You're such a female when it comes to your fur. Even I don't freak out like that when I get dirty."

Pouting, I shoved her to the ground, then grabbed her tail and dragged her by it for a couple feet in a circle.

"Ow! LET ME GO!" She yelled. So I did. She stood up, her fur covered in dead leaves. "LOOK WHAT YOU DID! YOU GOT ME ALL MESSY!" she yelled as she tackled me down.

I just laughed. "Oh, but you don't overreact when your fur gets dirty, remember?" I said, laughing as I pushed her off of me. "That's exactly my point. You do it too, whether you know it or not, and now well, you know it."

We both stood up and I helped her get dirt and leaves out of the fur on her back, and other places she couldn't reach.

"There, cleanish... Not exactly clean because all I did was take dirt and stuff out, rather then go all out and groom it for you, since we're just going to get dirty right away anyway, right?" I asked. She nodded and began picking stuff out of my fur.

"Right, besides, we still have to-"

She was cut off as another Pikachu, fairly small, interrupted. "Are you two lost? I don't recognize you, are you from us?"

I tilted my head to the Pikachu spoke. "From... you? What?" I asked.

He nodded. "I guess not... Follow me then." he said as he took off and disappeared into a bush.

Electra finished brushing leaves off of me and shrugged. "Hey, do you by any chance know where I can find some good foo- HEY!" She growled as he disappeared into the bush. "Might as well follow him, what else is there to do?" She said as she growled under her breath.

I nodded. "I guess so. I mean after all, you want food, and I want you happy, so..."

"Kissass..." She grinned as she playfully pushed me. "Just follow him."

"Hey, making my mate happy doesn't mean I'm a kissass." I laughed.

As we approached the bush, I stepped aside and held my paws out, stopping Electra. "Wait Electra, it might be dangerous in there... I think maybe you should go first instead of me."

She nodded. "Well, okay, but- Hey, wait, that's not funny! YOU go first!"

I laughed. "Nonono, the females always go first, it's the rule."

She frowned. "That's so stupid, I don't want to go first."

I laughed harder. "Relax, I'm joking! If it were dangerous, trust me, I'd go in way before you did."

She giggled. "Aw thanks Dallas." She said as she licked my nose, to which I blushed and hugged her. "So now it's cute, but before I was kissing your ass supposedly? Hehe, anyhow, no problem. It's the truth. Now let's go in before that guy comes back."

She nodded and I turned around, then jumped into the bush, coming out the other side, followed by Electra, who stared ahead. "That was a strange bush... There were no branches in it or anything... Just leaves and twigs..."

I nodded. "Very strange... Also, there is nothing back here except for that hole..." I said as I pointed to the hole in the ground. "And all those random seeds and stuff scattered everywhere..."

She nodded. "Maybe it's someone's home. But I can smell that many others were here recently, so maybe they share it?" She said, then all of a sudden squeaked. "I KNOW WHAT THIS IS! I USED TO BE IN ONE! Okay, you have to be very careful when you enter. You don't want to startle them." She said as she nudged me towards the hole.

"Wait, what the hell are you talking about? The male said nothing about a hole, he just said "Follow me!" He said NOTHING about a hole!"

"Just do it! I know what I'm talking about! But be careful not to startle them!" She said as she nudged me towards it once more.

"Startle WHAT?" I yelled as I held my ground, looking back at her.

"The others!" She pleaded.

"What...? Ugh fine, I'll go in." I said as I got down onto all fours. "But this better not be a trap."

I smelled it too. Various other Pikachu had been here recently, so did that mean there was a treat inside that everyone wanted to get to? No, that didn't make much sense... It had to be a home or something... Like how Ekans dig holes to sleep in I guess... But this one must be really deep...

She smiled. "Would I EVER trap you? EVER?"

I shook my head no. "No... I'll just go in."

"Exactly." She said as she got down on all fours close behind me.

Poking my head in, it was the perfect size for me to crawl in comfortably. "This is odd... It's like it was specially dug out for Pikachu to enter only..."

Electra crawled in behind me. "It is. Just keep going. And try not to disturb them."

"The other Pikachu?" I asked.

I got no answer as I crawled down the tunnel, slanting downwards, deep underground, then leveling out and eventually coming out to a big dug out room.

"First of all, I can't see, second of all, I have no clue where I am." I said as I stood up. "Third, it smells of like a hundred different Pikachu in here, and fourth, what the heck was I supposed to try not to disturb? The air around me? Because it's empty in here." I said as I walked blindly in a random direction.

Electra came up behind me, her cheeks sparking. "Okay, first, do this to make light, second, this is a colony, and if you just came running in, you'd get attacked." She said as she looked around.

"Know it all." I said as I forced sparks from my cheeks, lighting up the room, with the help of Electra. "Well what are the random tunnels for?" I asked as I pointed to all of the tunnels that were around.

"No clue. I was in a colony the whole time I was a Pichu. It was not this one though." She said as she looked around.

Just then, I heard someone talking, and it was getting louder.

"Well what were they doing? Just standing there cleaning eachother?"

Yes, I told them to follow me. I do not recognize them at all.

"Well are they mates? Do they have eggs?"

I don't know, possibly."

By now I could see the light coming from one of the tunnels.

"Well go get them! I want to see them! They could've wandered off by now for all you know. You should've waited for them to-"

A Pikachu, followed by a Raichu entered the room, and me and Electra were standing side by side. We both just waved.

"Um... Yeah, we're right here." I said as I scratched the back of my right ear. "And no, we don't have eggs yet... But we're trying." I said as I hugged Electra, who giggled.

The Raichu smirked oddly and shoved the Pikachu. "You should've said they followed you IN HERE!" He said in a loud whisper.

The Pikachu shoved him back. "Well I didn't KNOW they followed me in!"

"Well your last words to us were "Follow me," so obviously you KNEW we followed you in here." Electra said, tapping her right foot.

"Dumbass..." The Raichu grunted at the Pikachu as he shoved him harder. "Well now I seem like a jerk for talking about them when they're right there! Nice going, stupid." He said as he shoved him into a wall.

Electra coughed to get their attention. "A-hem... Yeah, and your first impression on us isn't exactly making you look like any less of a jerk. Anyhow Nice to meet you." She grinned.

The Raichu stood up tall. "No need for that. Follow me." He said as he got down on all fours and crawled into a tunnel. "Time to redeem myself I guess..."

"Well turning your back to us in the middle of an introduction is also a terrible way to convince me that you're not a jerk. You can keep trying if you want, but to me, you're a jerk." She chuckled as she followed him into the tunnel.

Shrugging, I followed him inside too, Electra in front of me, and the other guy behind Electra. Electra kept her tail low, probably because the other male behind her might try something if she didn't, however, I kept mine in the normal position. A bit in the air. Not too long after we'd entered, we began hearing voices. Pokemon arguing, Pokemon laughing, Pokemon fighting. Eventually, we wound up in a room filled with Pikachu, and the Raichu told us to stay put by the hole. The other guy however, wandered off. I guess only we had to stay.

"Wow, look at them all Dallas. There's so many... I feel so... Charged... Full of energy..."

I nodded. "I can feel it too..." I sighed happily.

"You know, we can make thunderstorms if we all stick together when it starts raining..." She giggled.

"I know." I said, smiling. "I want to try it sometime..."

We looked around for about a minute, before a whistle sounded and everyone stopped talking, almost immediately scrambling to the sides of the room, arranging themselves so that there was an empty path in front of me and Electra, going all the way across the room to the other side, ending at the opposite side, where a Raichu was standing. From what I could tell, this was not the same Raichu.

I looked at Electra, then the Raichu, and she shook her head. "I don't think he's the same one."

I nodded. "Yeah, he's different."

The Raichu motioned for us to approach, so we did. When we were right in front of him, we stopped.

"I sense great power in you." He said as he rested his tail upon my shoulder.

Electra nodded. "Yes, he IS quite powerful."

The Raichu looked at Electra. "Greetings newcomers. I am master Clawstrike, but you can just call me Strike."

Electra smiled. "Hello Strike. I'm Electra." she said as she turned sideways and touched her tail with his.

I tilted my head to the right. I wanted to say something, but I figured I shouldn't. I figured it was some kind of secret pawshake.

"Hello Strike, my name is Dallas." I said as I turned sideways and interlocked my tail with his. It had taken me a long time before I figured out how to use my tail.

"Newcomers..." He said, sounding very strong and mighty. "Do you wish to join us? Guaranteed safety and food, you will never go hungry, you will almost never be in danger, you will NEVER get cold, always have a friend to cuddle up with, and much more."

"Well I always have Dallas for that." Electra laughed as she put her arm around me.

I looked at Electra, who nodded. "Well, we have nothing else to do, so why not?"

I nodded. "Well... Yeah, I guess so." I said as I turned to the Raichu. "Yes, we'd like to join."

The Raichu's voice boomed. "EXCELLANT! Right this way." He said as she crawled through a tunnel. As we followed him, so did the crowd. I could tell that they were right behind us. Looking back just confirmed that the whole crowd was following us, all talking to eachother at once.

"Silence!" The Raichu yelled. Almost immediately, everyone quieted down. We passed a bunch of tunnels, turned left, went around a corner, and ended up in an even bigger room, where there were lots of Raichu gathered in the center. Clawstrike stood up and cleared his throat. "A-hem... I'd like to take this time to welcome our newest members of the colony, Electra and Dallas."

One Raichu, a really big one, walked up to me and patted my shoulder with his tail, then did the same to Electra.

"Welcome young ones. My name is Rice, and I am the leader. If you need anything that the others can't help you with, then come to me and I'll do my best."

I nodded. "Okay."

Electra made a face at him. "Well if you're the leader and all like you say you are, then why weren't you out THERE greeting us? Why did that other guy, Clawstrike or whatever his name was, have to come out into that room and greet us? Why weren't you, the leader, out there instead of him? Isn't it your job?" She asked, folding her arms.

Rice tilted his head and just stared at her. "Feisty one eh? We've got a talker here." He said as he took a step back.

"Not just a talker, an eater too." Electra laughed.

One of the Raichu scratched something into the wall, then thunderbolted it. "You two are now officially a part of the colony. Once again, welcome, and enjoy your stay here. Ask someone to show you two around, or you could just wander. We'll try our best to get you two in the flow of things within a week. You prefer to do things together, right?"

We both blushed and nodded.

"Well then, I'll keep that in mind. No need to be embarrassed about it. There are plenty of mates here that work together all the time."

Electra hugged me. "I bet there are."

I just blushed a darker red and hugged her back.

"Oh, and before you run off, Strike here will show you to your room."

"Why can't you do it?" Electra asked.

"Because I'm busy." Rice replied.

"You're just standing there..." She said back, sighing.

Strike nodded. " Anyhow, right this way." He said as he crawled into a tunnel, and Electra darted in front of me, crawling in before I could. I just stood there for a second before crawling inside after her.

"Was there a reason for that?" I asked.

"Yes actually. Too many males are following behind me to stare at my rear. If any male is going to do that it's you." She said, showing no signs of embarrassment.

I blushed a deep red and stepped on her tail, causing her to stop walking. "Shhh... Clawstrike is right there! He heard everything you said!" I said in a loud whisper.

She chuckled. "So? Like Rice said. Nothing to be embarrassed about. I'm sure many females do it too."

I let go of her tail and nuzzled her rear. "Well I'm sure of that too, but I'm just not used to sharing our business with everyone yet."

She giggled, continuing on her walk. "Well I'll stop if you like."

I smiled. "Nah, just be a bit more careful is all I ask."

Clawstrike chuckled. "Make sure you get a good look at her rear Dallas. After all, it's what she wants."

Electra started to laugh, and Clawstrike joined in, but I blushed so red, you could probably see it in the dim light of our sparks.

I nodded. "Well, it IS what she kind of asked for..." I said as I stared right at her rear.

Electra chuckled. "Well, if you like what you see..." She said as she lifted her tail and wiggled her rear a little.

I blushed. "N-n-not here. Maybe when we get to our room."

Clawstrike chuckled. "Sounds like she wants you."

I blushed. "Yeah, ever since we met she's "Wanted me...""

Electra giggled. "See? Now you're doing it too."

I blushed even more, my face almost bright red. "Oh wow... I am..." I said as I continued to stare at her rear. The way she walked... The way her fur changed direction at her curves...

My gaze lowered to her private area.

Oh Arceus... I'm staring at it. I'm staring at it and she doesn't care. In fact, I think she WANTS me to stare at it... She's luring me in...

I tried to look away, but I couldn't. How much longer until we got to our room anyway?

"Here we are!" Strike said as he turned left and we entered a large circular room, a pile of leaves and soft fluffy stuff in the center. "If you two need anything, just ask me okay? I assume you can follow my scent out, and tell which one is me, out of the hundreds that pass."

Electra made a face. "Why would we be able to do-"

"Exactly." Clawstrike laughed. "Just ask around. Someone's bound to direct you towards me."

Electra nodded, and so did I.

"Well, that's all for now I guess. I'll just go and leave you two alone to um... Get comfortable." He chuckled and winked at me. "If you know what I mean."

Electra giggled and nuzzled me as Clawstrike turned around and crawled out of the tunnel. Immediately, Electra pounced onto the leaves and lay down on her back. "These are so comfy... They don't go dry since we're down here, and it's moist, so they stay good for a while. Why don't you come over here with me?"

I blushed as I nervously walked over and stood in front of her. Her legs were open, and I was staring right there... At that special place between them...

"Now... What is it you wanted to do with me when we got here?" she asked.

I looked away. "I can't hold back any longer Electra... I'm ready to... you know..."

She smiled up at me. "To mate? Me too."

I shivered with nervousness. "Yeah, I could tell after what you did to me back there. Plus, all your attempts to get ME ready... From what I know, you've always been ready for it."

She licked her nose. "That was... Well, you know, a lure kind of... A bait."

I looked at her. "Well it worked." I said as I got down onto all fours and licked her - right between the legs. I heard her make a noise, kind of a squeak, so I did it again. "Enough small talk Electra. Let's get started." I said as I crawled ontop of her...

---END Chapter nine.---