I felt a warm wet fleshy thing lather me in slim as I awoke with a sputter.

“Ppppft!”

After I finally rubbed away the offending liquid from my face, I was able to see the beast who just assaulted me in this ungodly manner.

Mama Dragonite was softly smiling at me as she cooed at me, her muzzle nudging me around the furs I found my self in. Which weird enough, smelled like a campfire roasting a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Huh

Weird

Anyhoo, Dragonite finally left me to myself as she thumped over to the entrance, flapping her tiny wings until she blasted of in a blur of motion. Only thing that showed that she was here was a flurry of air that rolled its way across the den, sending all the floors clutter flying.

As I blinked the stars from my face, I thought of the previous day and what it meant for my life going forward. Why was I even alive, and how did I end up in The Pokemon World? Am I 65 million years in the past or just in a region that has not been discovered by people yet? But that can’t be, I know I’m in Sinnoh. There is no other mountain as prominent in Pokémon. It couldn’t be Indigo, the layout isn’t right. The glimmer of the land I saw looked exactly like the maps of Sinnoh from the games and official art that the game company has shown.

But 65 million years in the past? How am I going to live?! Especially in Pokémon!! If the Pokemon Legends game was anything to go by, just a couple hundred years in the past was hell!

Now I am millions of years in the past, with no pokeballs, no pokecenters, no convenient technology…..

NO TOILETS!!

How in Arceus’s llama shaped butt will I last?!

As I am having my start-of-life crises, I hear a audible sound of concern.

“CRACK!”

I turned my head with a neck snapping quickness towards the sound to find that the Dragon egg next to me has a long vertical crack running down its center.

“CRACK!”

Then another ran down the other side, then another across the center. As this was happening, the egg started to glow. Dull at first, but with every crack it became brighter and brighter. So bright in fact, I had to close my eyes just to get any reprieve from the intense light. The hum of energy that the egg emitted sounded like it was crescendoing to a point were the whole of the cave was filled with its buzzing noise.

“POP!”

The egg finally hatched, and with it the held energy. A blast of heated air swept over me as I heard the sound of egg shell ricocheting across the nest. The noise from the explosion rung my ears, leaving me deaf and nearly blind from the flash even with my eyes closed.

After a few seconds to blink away the sparkles and let my eardrums readjust, I opened my baby blues.

What I saw at first confused me. I looked around to see if I could see any damage from the destructive hatching, but could not find any evidence of it.

Weird? Something that seemed so powerful should have left something? Even the eggshell pieces I thought I heard was just some left over scales from Dragonites last shedding. I finally decided to look at the thing that caused it all.

There, surrounded by a circle of scorched straw and debris, was a Golden Dratini.

….

Golden?

….

Why was it Golden? I thought a shiny Dratini was Pink? Is it maybe a regional variant like in the new generations? But if that was the case, then wouldn’t Dragonite herself look different?

What in Gods name…

Or I guess it would be Arceus now right?

Anyway, What in Arceus name is going on here!

Before I could dive more into my self made spiral of questions, the Golden Dratini that was dazed and looking around the cavern, its gaze fell upon me an froze.

At first It just stared at me with its expressionless dark blue eyes, not moving a single muscle. Its little white muzzle twitched ever so subtlety that I almost thought I was seeing things.

…

We stayed staring at each other for what seemed like an hour, not one of us brave enough to start the first move. But the thing is… I still was wrapped in this accursed cloth that I awoke in this world with. So I could not really move, let alone move toward the strange off-colored dragon child.

Unfortunately, one of us was impatient with the stare-off.

Could you guess who?

The Golden Child started to move, I guess it got tired of waiting huh? But, as it wyrmed its way over to me, a thought popped into my head… A very ugly thought..A no good ugly thought that I wish did not appear in my mind palace at this time…

If this is the pokemon world thousands, if not millions, of years in the past…

There are pokemon that seem to hold no qualms with eating a human baby, if the pokemon (Now know as a Garchomp) that I first saw when I awoke in this world was any indicator. Then maybe the Mama Dragonite did not save me out of the kindness of its draconic heart…

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Maybe, it saved me…

To feed to its BABY!

After I thought that, the cute looking dragon started to look more terrifying with every slow slither it made towards me.

Well, isn’t that just great! I die in my previous life to then die a more gruesome death it this new one!

Arceus! Why have you forsaken me so!!

As the baby wyrm encroached closer, I struggled against my improvised strait jacket with all my might. I wiggled and writhed, probably looking like a very enticing Weedle to the newly hatch wyrm.

It stopped just in front of me, still not making a single noise, just silently staring into the windows of my soul! Like a reaper ready to harvest its wheat. I lay there fighting against the encroaching death with a fire I never new I had.

No! I will not go silently into the night!! I will fight until it rips the life from my child form!

Then, to my happy surprise, it started to nudge it soft snoot against my face sniffing me and pushing against me like a kitten against a leg. It then proceed to wrap me in its golden coils until all you could see of me was my face poking out next to Dratini’s snout. It closed its eyes and then…

“Prrrrrr”

Is…

Is it purring?

Its tiny wet tongue started to lick my noise and eyes in circle-like patterns, giving me the nastiest newborn puppy breath bathing session I can ever remember. My god, does this whole line of sudo-legendaries just love to lick human babies on there faces?!

I digress.

I maybe complaining about the unwanted bath, but I am SO relieved to know that I’m not on the menu to be dragon baby formula. But that still begs the question..

Why did Dragonite save me?

Is the Dragonite line really so altruistic as the Pokédex claimed them to be? I always assumed it was because of there close ties with modern day humans that made them that way. Like wolfs and dogs, I would have thought if it were millions of years in the past, they would be more.. Feral? Animalistic?

But it seems that my 21st century otherworldly knowledge does seem to have a few misconceptions that I hope doesn’t effect me to much in the future.

It could be because this is a slightly different Pokemon world? Or maybe we truly don't know how things in the the past, the pokemon past, were really like. Hell, we only hade like 9 full fossil Pokemon with those horrible mix-and-mashed ones from the Galar region.

Thats not even considering the many “maybe real” past versions of pokemon with the paradox pokemon!

“Snnnsssnn…. Snnnnssnn..”

Was that really how Dratini snored?

Weird

It was a newborn, so it must have been tired. Being wrapped in Dratini’s coils was more comfortable than I thought it would be. Almost like a compression sock mixed with a water bed. I guess this also proves that it was a warm-blooded Pokemon, since it felt like a heater in here.

As I started to relax in the coils of my golden friend.(Sibling? Am I adopted?) I started to slowly drift back to sleep, having burned through all of my baby energy.

I can’t wait to be able to move again.

—

I awoke to the sound of snoring and movement from the entrance of the cave. Slowly peaking open my eyes, I see the blurry shape of two massive shadowy figures. As the blurriness of sleep fades from my vision, I see that there are two adult Dragonite’s starting down at me and my cuddly companion.

The first Dragon was obviously Mama Dragonite, I could tell by the sweet smile she conveyed across her scared covered golden hide. Her cooing in her soft voice also helped with that as well.

The dragon next to her though was a new face that filled me with wonder and confusion.

It was taller than Mama, at least two Dragonite heads taller. Bulky, muscles bulging from every inch of its rotund body. Around its strikingly blood-red eyes, were many stress wrinkles that littered its face. But what surprised me the most wasn't it’s eyes or seeming stress…

What surprised me was the color of its scales.

They were Blue!

The Big Blue Dragonite lumbered over to us as its prominently stern face came closer to me. It took two big sniffs and sneezed, shaking its head out of what I could only imagine was disgust and turned to Mama Dragonite with a glare.

“Drag. Dragonite drag nite.” It said as its clawed hand pointed at me with a firm wave.

“Dragonite, drag…”

Mama Dragonite at those words shifted her demeanor as she glared at Big Blue and ferociously spat, “DRAGONITE! Drago nite DRAG!!” Her sharpened claws coming scarcely close to the others chest.

The new guy? Until I find out otherwise, Big Blue will be a guy to me. He stepped back in surprise from Mamas aggressive roar, to then look at me with a searching gaze. After he stared at me, for what had to be a minute, he side in resignation and slowly nodded his head.

“Dragonite drag..” he whispered.

Mamas mood did a 180 and was back to being the happy-go-lucky Dragonite I knew. She then reached her scared arms to us as she picked us up and hugs us in her firm embrace. She gave both me and the now awake Golden Dratini that wrapped me like a burrito a little lick and nuzzle, only to then hold us out to the other Dragonite.

He looked almost uncertain of what was happening…

Me and you both brother!

After only a second of inner struggle, Big Blue reached out with one of his clawed hands. After it was hovering over the two of our heads, he closed his eyes in what seemed like intense focus.

What was he doing?

I didn’t have to wait long as a shimmering light flowed out from his hand and floated towards our heads. I could not take my eyes off of the light as it shifted through the spectrum of colors like the aurora borealis. Its warmth, strangely familiar, started to softly enter my head and spread through my little body.

I closed my eyes, taking in the feeling of comfort. But I soon started to notice something. The energy was not just traveling randomly through my body. It targeted certain areas with its power.

First it started in my brain, surrounding it and penetrating deep with the strange energy. After a few moments, it then started to travel to my eyes and ears and mouth, again doing the same thing as my brain. But as it headed down my esophagus, I could feel that the energy left pieces of itself it the organs it decided to soak itself into.

The next organs were as followed: My Heart, Lunges, Stomach, Kidneys, Liver, Bladder, both Intestines, Muscles, and then the last was my skin. Which after, it left my body. Whatever it did to me left me with a weird feeling.

When next opened my eyes, the world had changed drastically.

The world glowed with saturated colors. I could hear the seag..I mean wingulls crowing in the distance as new smells of earth and water wafted into my newly reborn nose.

“He looks so inquisitive! I bet he’s as smart as an Alakazam!” A soothing voice I never heard before said near me.

Who was that?

I scanned my surrounding, but could not see any human that could have spoken that scen..

“He seems to be smarter than a Mankey at-least, but we wont know for certain till after he evolves into his adult form.” A new and masculine voice said. “ I wonder if he is related to a Fighting Type? Could be a weirdly formed Machop?”

I looked to were the voice came from to then be shocked stiff. The one that was talking was not a human man…

It was Big Blue!

Why was he talking English? Was this some psychotic break that had me hearing things? And why in the Distortion World did he sound like a ford commercial!!

“Why is he staring at me like that?… Its a little creepy.”

The woman’s voice came back with a chastising remark.

“Oh stop that Amrin! He just went through his awakening! Any newly awakened hatchling would have the same reaction!”

I looked to see that the feminine maternal voice seemed to be coming from Mama Dragonite!

“I swear, you really need to work on that horrible personality that you have Amrin! Or you’ll never find a mate this coming season!” She drilled home, every word making Big Blue, or I guess Amrin, to lower his head further and further.

“I’m sorry Momma..” He finally commented.

Man.. That voice and attitude should not be coming from this blueberry colored beast in-front of me. It was really giving me some cognitive dissonance.

“I swear, the only good thing that you got going for you are your looks and that you are going to be the next chief of our Den.”

A Dragonite Den? Is that like a village? Or is it more of a herd or pack?

“Well I better be off!” Amrin said in a too fast manner as he hastily jogged to the edge of the den and then it a burst of speed (That to my surprise I could almost see) he was gone.

“Huff!” Mama tooted as she turned back to me and Goldy in her arms. “For all the smarts my son has inherited, he lacks common decency.”

She started to walk over to a corner where I could see a crudely carved bathtub filled to the brim with what looked like a milky liquid. To my surprise, I could smell that in fact it was milk!

~Grumble~

My stomach roared, making me realize that I have not had a meal since my arrival in this new world.

“Hoho! You might just be a Dragon Type after all” Mama laughs as she plops down next to the vat as she then, to the protest of Goldy, separated us and then unwrapped me from my cloth prison. She then began to lower both of us into bathtub of milk.

As it touched my skin, a chill ran up my body.

Dam! This milk is cold! I look to see that I was not the only one to think that, Dratini wiggled even more after the initial dip.

After being full dipped into the bath, she proceeded to scoop the milk and rub it over our body’s, the milk seeming to seep into my skin as my body started to feel full, like a balloon being pumped full of air.

But what was this milk?

Juice?

I could not fathom, but what I could was that the liquid was starting to siphon into me and Dratini. It was slow at first, then something awakened in our bodies that started to drag more of the liquid into us, then more and more until it looked like a small whirlpool whirled around me and Goldy until the liquid was all gone. Devoured by our body’s in the most bizarre way of eating I have ever experienced.

My shock at what transpired was probably written all over my face. Mama Dragonite started to giggle at my stupor.

“Hohoho, My foolish child. You look so cute with that surprised look on you tiny face!”

I looked to her in awe as she just laughed a little more before picking us up into her embrace.

“Now that your feeding is done, it is time for my precious hatchlings to rest!” Her chipper voice exclaimed.

She walked over to the nest of furs to then lay us down. Goldy, taking its chance, slithered over to me with extreme speed and used warp on me…

It was super effective!

The first time she wrapped me I was covered in cloth, so I was unable to truly appreciate the softness of a newborn Dratini’s scales. But now that I was receiving scale to skin contact, I only had one word for the feeling.

Heaven!

It was as soft as silk, and as warm as a heating pad. Goldy’s little muscles hugged me in a way that made it feel like a full body massage! This felt so good that I almost passed out and missed Mama Dragonite curling around us as she nuzzled into us with her snout.

As Cresselia came for me once more, I heard Mama say.

“Grow strong my blessed gifts.”

\\—10 years later—\\