Once upon a time, back before humans began to populate the world,
there was once a group of Psyduck that lived happily in a lake, hidden
in amongst the trees of what is now called Ilex Forest, whilst they
were hidden they could, of course, still meet up and talk to other
pokemon, it was a happy time, the pokemon got on for the most part, the
had their odd fights but that was normal within any friendship and they
made up soon after anyway. As the days moved on it was starting to
become time for mating season, the different pokemon were mating off
and starting to raise families of their own and the psyduck were no
different though, unlike the other pokemon, these psyduck came to this
lake to start their lives anew and raise their own families so with many
psyduck around to pick from, one psyduck in particular just didn’t want
to breed or even get to know anyone.
It wasn’t that this psyduck was ugly, it was, in a way, your normal
psyduck, it had its certain qualities about it that made it stand out
from the rest and, for a while, it had many other psyduck that wanted to get to know it and maybe some day, become its mate but yet, this psyduck just wouldn’t allow a single psyduck near it.
As the days went on and no other Psyduck could take this particular psyduck into a
courtship, it was now time to be the one of gossip amongst its pairs
and even other pokemon around it which, in the end, just made it leave
the lake after saying goodbye to the few friends that stood around and
supported her no matter what anyone said, she just couldn’t handle it
anymore and so she promised to come back soon to see them all and left.
She decided to go out into the world and seek out what she hoped may
help her find out why she was feeling so different towards the other
psyduck, why she didnt want to be like the normal psyduck and hoped
that some day she may be able to return to the lake and hopefully, see
the friends she had now left behind.
The as she travelled the world, the days turned into weeks and then
rolled into months, still not finding anything that may help her,
besides getting into many a fights, half of which she was barely able
to make out alive, she came across a beach, now known as Olivine City,
and there she stood at the waters edge and gazed at her reflection and
sighed, wondering what the rest of her life had in store for her and if
she would ever be truly happy. She was about to turn away when
something in the water grabbed her attention, it sparkled and she was
now curious as to what it was, jumping in she swam over to the glow and
finally dived down, not noticing who was under her she dived straight
into a lanturn, the same lanturn that was giving off the glow that she
had seen.
Of course, this lanturn wasn’t happy that she had dived into him and
threw her off just as she was trying to figure out what had happened
and tried to apologise "im so..." she didn’t get to say anything more
before she was slammed into a near by rock on the bottom of the ocean
floor "I didn’t mean to!..." She tried to call out but by then a spark
came straight at her and numbed her for a few moments before she tried
her hardest to shake off the attack and tried to see if she could get
out before the lanturn attacked again. Not seeing a way out she
attacked the lanturn with Fury Swipe, catching his nose, he backed a
way a little in pain and she took this as a way to escape, swimming
furiously, trying to reach the waters surface but was soon attacked
again in retaliation by the lanturn, this time it was a water gun
attack which sent her flying into a near by corsola which didn’t help
matters at all.
Corsola, now upset that she had been disturbed from her meal, took aim
straight at the Psyduck and shot Rock Blast at Psyduck, hitting her
three times which knocked her back "I didn’t mean..." She tried again
once she had come about again but was already set upon by the both of
them, she quickly looked around and found a way back up to the top of
the waters surface. She just missed the other two by an inch and once
there, swam to the edge of the ocean and crawled up onto the sand. She
breathed heavily, glad that was over with and settled down to rest, not
knowing, under her, was a krabby who had built its home right under
where she wanted to stay.
Krabby, having wanted something to eat and perhaps, a dip in the sea,
started climbing out of his home only to notice someone laying on his
'front door', he tapped the body a few times and yet still no movement
and then he did the only thing he could do, he pinched the body of
whatever it was that was on top of his home and watched said body jump
a mile in the air before moving "that hurt!" The psyduck cried, now
starting to feel pissed off, could she not get ANY rest at all? She
looked down into the hole and saw a krabby come up and glared at her
"my home" he said pointing to it "don’t lay in my way!"
"A simple excuse me couldn’t of just been said!?" She asked the other
"you never moved when I tapped you! Maybe if you just didn’t block
someone’s front door then maybe you wouldn’t of been pinched!" Krabby
said angrily which, at that moment, the psyduck retaliated with water
pulse which just upset the krabby once he was hit by it, pinching down
on her leg once he gained his sense again. "This was your fault! Why
fight me!?" She didn’t bother saying anything, she winced at the pain
and then shot water pulse at him, sending the krabby back and hit a
rock, knocking him out, she turned around to start walking down the
beach only to start to glow, transforming into a golduck in seconds.
"What just..." she trailed off, walking over to the ocean carefully
incase the corsola and Lanturn were still around and carefully peeked
into the ocean, noticing that the last fight finally turned her into a
golduck! She was shocked but, out of a lousy day she did feel ecstatic,
looking herself over, this was the best thing to have happen to her
since she started out on this adventure! The gem in her head HAD to be the shiniest of the gems she had ever seen, it was beautiful! But she made her way away from the
ocean and looked around for somewhere to spend the night, it was
getting late and whilst she was sure she wouldn’t be able to sleep, she
had to. She found a place down the beach a bit, a small cave she
decided to curl up in and make her own for the night, in the morning
she would continue to try and find the reason as to why she left home
to put herself through this crap in the morning, she went looking for
food, finding some berries, she had a quick dinner and then went to bed
and slept.
Morning came and the newly evolved golduck woke up to being attacked,
her forehead was being pecked at by a murkrow, trying to get the shiny
gem out of her head, she backed away and glared at the bird “what do you think your doing!?” She asked as Murkrow made its way towards the golduck once more “that gem, it will be mine!” It said as it sent nighshade towards the golduck, inflicting damage upon her “leave me alone!” She screamed at him as she used fury swipes against him, if only to get away. She quickly ran towards the opening of the cave, just missing getting attacked by another move from Murkrow and ran back the way she came when she first got here, deciding that maybe it was time to go home, it had been a while but that lake back in the forest was her only hope of living a peaceful life, she didn’t bother looking back to see if the murkrow was following her or not, she just dodged behind trees and shrubs when she could and just made her way to the nearest lake which she passed on her way here, it was the only thing that could keep her safe right now so, after some time, finally reaching the lake she dived in and stayed there for a little while, waiting till the murkrow had gone and then slowly got out and shook herself off.
She made her way as quickly as possible back to her home, when night fell she slept under a bush or made a home for herself by just grabbing some leaves and covering herself in them, somehow she just needed to keep herself covered so no other murkrows could try and get the gem in her forehead.
Over the next few days, her hiding plans wernt going as well as she hoped, more and more shiny object lovers had tried getting the gem out of her forehead,, by now the bleeding had stopped but it was still needing to be looked at but that could wait, she had to go on, when she was almost home she came across two Persian with their children, four meowths, she was battered, hungry, tired and just needed to sleep, she could make it home in the next day or two but, until then, she just needed rest. “excuse me” she said as she looked at them all “please, may I stay with you for the night? I just need somewhere to stay because im scared that I will be attacked again, pokemon keep wanting my forehead gem and I need somewhere to stay just so I can make my way home tomorrow.”
The Persians looked at each other, a smile crossed their face and nodded “yes, of course you can, please, come tis way” the female said as she lead her to a cave where they slept ad gestured to the bed where the golduck lay down “thank you, thank you very much!” She said as she curled up and started to sleep.
The Persians and their kids wernt nice at all, they wanted the forehead gem for themselves, it was nice and shiny and who wouldn’t want it? They waited till she was asleep before the male crept up and pounced on her, the golduck tried to protect itself but it didn’t work, the male knocked her out with a couple of night slashes and then the female walked up and dug the gem out with her claw, leaving the golduck where she was as she walked away with the gem in her mouth.. The Persians and the kids left, leaving the now injured and bloody golduck where she was, until a couple of days later when she finally woke up, a Chansy sitting next to her, keeping her safe as she took care of her, having helped clean up her forehead as best she could and made sure there was food next to her.
“I…what….what happened?” She asked in a daze, still groggy at being knocked out and the fact she was in pain “its alright, I have been taking care of you, your foreheads a mess but other then that, you will be alright, I helped heal you as best as I could, though im sorry to say, your gem is…gone…” she said sombrely as she pushed the food over to her “please, eat something, get your strength back” she said hoping to try and just not have her focus on the gem for the time being, she needed her strength. “My…my gem is…gone?” She asked , she wanted to break down and cry but instead she felt angry,. The golduck ate up what she could and then nuzzled the chansey “thank you for your help, I live in a lake in the forest just a bit down that way, I need to go, I know I should rest but I cant, im sorry, but please, come see me” she said as she ran out of the cave, she looked around and wondered which way the Persian family went and feeling like they went left she ran that way.
She was wanting revenge, she wanted her gem back, it may not be fixable but it was hers, she deserved it! After a few days of looking and finding nothing, she walked back home finally, she would be happy had she not been tired, she lay down, still cross that she couldn’t get her gem back, cross that it happened in the first place, cross that she still hadn’t found out what she was meant to but…she was home. She may have been the unluckiest of go ducks but she was home and if she was up to it she would greet all her friends but that could wait, right now, she needed sleep and so she settled down and slept, dreaming of how she could explain this to the others in the morning.
The moral? Of this story is, go ducks just don’t like other pokemon who like shiney things, this story taught them of the fate of one golduck, they still hate what happened to one of their own, they are still cross about what happened and no way do they want it to happen again.
