A Game of Cat and Mouse
This was a story originally done for a reviewer on AFF. Now, I was supposed to kill the main character, but decided not to, instead making her and the potential murderer a mated pair. I hope you all enjoy this. I might continue this one someday, you know, turn it into more than a 4 page fluff piece?
Asha Howell lies down on her bed, her streamlined body and soft paws stretched out. The girl is a Liepard hybrid, newly evolved. Her belly is rounded with the cubs she has yet to birth, her shiny Luxray mate off hunting for her dinner. She recalls how happy she is here in Hoenn, and how her life was once vastly different. She can feel her cubs moving around within her, little paws and claws kicking and clawing for room as they near the end of their time in her womb. As Asha settles onto the bed, a smile forming on her face, she falls asleep, and dreams of the day she and her mate were brought together, a dark time when she nearly died at his paws.
Asha runs, her paw like feet hitting the pavement, already bleeding. The stones thrown at her keep hitting her, but she doesn't bother stopping to try and fight, instead concentrating on escape. She can hear the shouts of the protesting humans behind her, along with the threatening snarls of their Pokémon. She can hear the baying of a Houndoom, the fire and dark type striking fear into her heart. She's still a Purrloin hybrid, her parents a male Liepard and his trainer. Her mother had been killed earlier today, and her father had told her to run before a trainer with a bat had cracked his skull. Now Asha is fleeing for her life.
Out in the forest, a shiny Luxray recalls how he used to live, at the mercy of a master hell-bent on killing every hybrid alive. He shudders, continuing to stalk a small Linoone, the Pokémon swiftly gathering berries from a tree.
_ In the mob of protestors, a Pokéball opens to release a Luxray. This Pokémon is a gorgeous one, his "shiny" coloring proving his status as an outstanding specimen. His name is Leo, after the constellation of the Lion, his roar making even the strongest Pokémon freeze and flee before him. As Leo is released, he catches the scent of a hybrid. More than anything on this planet, Leo knows, his master HATES hybrids. A command is given, and Leo gives chase, his gold and black fur crackling with electricity as he runs._
As Asha slips further into her dreams, her mind and Leo's seem as one, she watches from a third person viewpoint, as her dreams sometimes are, of the events that brought the two closer together.
_ Asha runs faster, hearing the footsteps of other Pokémon, their trainers long since giving up catching her. Her face is covered in blood, the gash above her eye bleeding steadily, every beat of her racing heart causing a new stream to gush forth. Asha is becoming dizzy, having lost too much blood in the fight. She is unaware of the Luxray following her, catching up to her._
_ Leo roars, terrifying the Houndoom on his prey's heels into returning to its trainer, if anybody is going to catch this girl, it will be him. He stops at every bloody footprint to pick up the girl's scent, every new step telling him more about this elusive hybrid. He knows she's roughly twelve years old, she's bleeding heavily, and a Purrloin hybrid. He can tell she is not yet of breeding age, nor will she be for a few more years. All of this information has him hating his trainer that much more. Attacking a child, no doubt if he brought her back to him the idiot would rape her for days before finally killing her. Leo decides to show this girl mercy._
_ Asha continues running, leaping onto the roof of a small shed to sit down for a few minutes. Her body is aching and bruised, her blood is covering the ground. As she sits up on the roof, she thinks back to the bodies of her parents on the ground, the humans surrounding them with insults and blows, killing them both in front of her before coming after her. Tears fall down the girl's cheeks as she curses her hybrid body for the first time in her life. She remembers the flyers being distributed around her hometown, pictures littering them of Pokémon and humans engaged in various sexual acts with threats posted under them. Asha remembers how her mother had stopped allowing her father to walk around outside his Pokéball when they were in public because of it. Asha wasn't allowed outside to play without her mother being there anymore. She remembers when the group of teenagers had painted graffiti all over their house, words like Freak, Pokéslut, and Pervert scrawled in enormous letters. After that, her mother had moved the family here, where it was safe until a hybrid child had dared to go to school with normal Pokémon trainers, the child was killed, and the panic began anew. Then the protests started, and now Asha has no family. She sits on the roof, mourning the parents she had, and the days when she was able to be happy._
_ Leo snarls as he walks, the sickening scent of blood and tears making the loyal Gleam Eyes Pokémon wonder what kind of psychotic being would send him to hunt a little girl. He knows he's catching up to her, but he just can't make himself invested in this chase. As he reaches the alley, he can hear the hybrid child crying on the roof. He looks up and sees her, bleeding from what will end up being a fatal wound if nothing is done. The Luxray musters his strength and leaps onto the roof, growling deep and low. Asha turns, fear in her eyes and she nearly falls from the roof. Her body is swaying, unsteady from the wounds, and as she begins to fell backwards, Leo grabs her shirt in his jaws, pulling her back to the safety of the roof._
_ "Stupid girl, you could have fallen, what were you thinking, running like that with such horrid injuries?" Leo questions, not expecting the girl to understand him as saying more than a jumbled string of his own name. He's startled when her eyes widen._
_ "I understand you! I'm not stupid; I just had to get away. They killed my parents. My mother was a trainer, my father a Liepard. I could see the blood in their eyes when they came after me. I don't want to die, but I'm going to, I know that now. I'll never know what it's like to go to a dance, or fall in love, or any of the things normal humans get to do. Instead I get to die here, in an alley, when your trainer catches up to you." Asha's words startle the Pokémon; he hears no bitterness in her voice, only sorrow at having to die so young. Being a Dark type, normally he would relish the chance to have somebody suffer at his fangs, but this girl, he feels pity for. He watched his trainer kill many hybrids, some even drew their last breath as his jaws closed around their throats, but never has he killed one so young, or one that could understand him. He decides for the first time in his life to disobey his trainer's actions._
_ "Child, I'm going to save you. My master will kill you if he finds you, but he can't do that without me, and I'm not about to let him harm a little girl. Get on my back. I'm going to have to carry you, you've lost too much blood." Leo growls, lowering himself as the hybrid climbs onto his back, realizing for the first time that she weighs less than he does. At 92 pounds, Leo is mostly muscle, fur, and teeth. This girl is almost as tall as he is, but her body is all skin and bone. Leo growls as he runs off with her, feeling her blood trickling into his fur and soaking it._
_ Asha feels her body growing cold and numb; she's unable to hold onto Leo anymore and feels herself sliding off. Leo drops and repositions her so she no longer needs to hold on, feeling his tie to his trainer severing. He realizes his Pokéball is most likely broken now. Even so, he understands the need to get this girl to a Pokémon center or hospital, either one will do. Running as fast as he can, he reaches the closing doors of the Pokémon center and howls until the Chansey come running. Seeing the blood covering his fur, they try to take him to be checked, but upon discovering the girl clinging to his back, realize this is far more serious._
_ Nurse Joy is called and as she spots the bleeding girl, she realizes she has no time to waste. Slipping a translating collar around Leo's neck, she takes the girl from him and places her on a stretcher._
_ "Alright, Luxray, tell me what happened. What hurt your trainer?" Nurse Joy asks the Pokémon, assuming that because the girl is with him, that she must be his trainer._
_ "She's not my trainer. She's a hybrid. My trainer sent me to kill her, but I couldn't do it. She's just a little girl. When I found her she was bleeding badly, so I let her ride on my back so she could be treated. Don't you DARE hurt her for being a hybrid." Leo snarls, his fangs bared and his eyes dark. Nurse Joy is shocked by the fact that a trainer would go after a child simply because she's a hybrid, but the wounds are obvious. Nurse Joy scans Leo's neck, trying to find the microchip that will give her his trainer's ID number. She finds it and pulls up the profile on her computer._
_ "Leo, please don't take it personally, but I'm calling Officer Jenny to go arrest your trainer, most likely you'll end up being taken back to the station as evidence." Nurse Joy comments, earning a roar from Leo._
_ "I'm staying here with the girl. I need to keep her safe." He snarls, making Nurse Joy back off. She leaves for a moment and returns with a Pokéball._
_ "You were released because of disobedience, your ball was broken, and technically you have no Master. I'm going to use this ball to capture you, and then register you as Asha's Pokémon. The hybrid you found, she had a school card with her, she's studying to become a Pokémon trainer, and her name is Asha Howell." Nurse Joy replies, tossing the ball at Leo and capturing him without a fight._
Asha wakes suddenly, her belly throbbing in waves. She lets out a piercing shriek and Leo forgets his hunt, racing back to their house. As he enters the dwelling, he sees his mate lying on the bed soaked in sweat. Asha is in labor, and without any type of medical treatment, Leo knows this will hurt. As he gently licks his mate's hand, he remembers how this moment came to be.
_ A strange scent fills the air, calling to the Luxray's nose. He can feel his body calling to him to force him into tracking the scent, but he ignores it, his prey is within hunting distance. He races after the young deer, the Stantler fawn unaware of the predatory lion coming after him, blindly following its mother in an attempt to get away. As he brings down the fawn and drags it back to the previously abandoned house in the forest, Leo notices the scent is much stronger. As he walks into the house, Asha is on the floor, her tail raised high and her body in the pose of a female in heat. Leo is shocked, he never expected the little girl he rescued to be so close to her heat, but since the years had passed when she was merely a child, he failed to recognize her status as a breeding female. Now he comes to appreciate her lithe body, her muscles filled out with the food he's hunted for her, her fur soft and silky, showing the gorgeous patterning of the Purrloin. Leo can feel his barbed feline cock hardening as he thinks about her body._
_ Asha yowls loudly, her body sensing a breeding male close by, she doesn't care that it's the loyal Luxray who saved her, her body demands that she present herself to him and get him to take her like a wild cat. As her tail curls, she lets out a yowling shriek, her need obvious as her inner folds glisten with moisture. Leo snarls his need and mounts her, gripping the nape of her neck in his jaws as he positions himself to take her. The Luxray's claws tear through her flesh as she screams in pleasure beneath him, she can feel her blood pouring from the wound, but she doesn't care. She can feel the barbed head of his cock at her opening, he's by far larger than the average Luxray, but she's fine with it. She smells blood as he roughly thrusts into her; the furred body on her back lets her know this is real. As he breaks through her hymen, she screams a feral feline shriek. There's no turning back now. As Leo thrusts wildly into her, his barbs rip and tear at her inner walls while his claws and jaws rip away at her flesh. Her human body is in no shape to take such a powerful being, but neither of them cares at this moment. All that matters is that his cock deposits its seed in her depths and her body allows her to carry his cubs. As Leo's balls tighten, Asha can feel the barbs catching on her walls with every outward thrust he makes, her body being painfully driven closer and closer to release. As Leo roars and sends a pulse of electricity flying from his fur, Asha yowls, a dark pulse erupting from her mouth as the two cum hard together. As they lie there panting, Asha smiles at the thought of carrying Leo's cubs._
Leo is jerked from his thoughts as his mate digs her claws into his paw, the Liepard girl not handling pain well with her labor. As a male, he can feel the desire to be there with her, but his fear of what she'll do to him is ingrained since the first male Luxray in the wild was driven away by a female in labor. The females are instinctively aware of the horrors males are capable of. Since the beginning of their species males have eaten the young of their rivals, and females have driven them away while they give birth. In this vicious cycle of life and death, he still feels the pride of fatherhood flowing through his body and nuzzles his mate lovingly as she shrieks in pain. He doesn't see her claws flashing as she delivers a slash across his face, nor does he mind the reaction as blood begins to drip down his fur. All that matters is that his mate and his cubs are safe.
"I'm not going anywhere Asha. Not until this is over. You can bite and claw at me all you want, but I'll still be here." Leo comments, knowing his mate is far too feral right now with the pain to register his words. With a gush of fluid, the first cub is born, a small Shinx male. Leo instinctively sniffs the cub, causing the small male to growl at him.
"This hurts so damn bad! I'm going to kill you, damn Luxray!" Asha hisses as her second cub makes its way out into the world, a Purrloin female. For the next two hours, Asha continues her labor, delivering two more cubs. Leo stands beside her with a look of pride on his face, knowing that his family has grown, and that so long as he's with her, nothing will ever harm Asha again.
-Fin?-