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Type: Water
Number: #133
Average height: 3'3"
Average Weight: 63.9 lbs
Species: Bubble Jet
Gender: Neptune is female
Weaknesses: Electric, Grass
Abilities: Water Absorb
Evolves to: -------

Hp: *****
Attack: ***
Defense: **
Special Attack: *****
Special Defense: ****
Speed: ****

Reserved

Neptune hadn't been aware she was being watched. In fact the only reason she was being watched was because of her peculiar nature. Never had a pokemon been studied like she was being studied. Notes, pictures, more notes. A small camouflage hide out that ...really was pretty obvious was a tent with branches stuck to it.

Neptune pretty much ignored the tent, a strange man came in and out of it time to time but left her and the other pokemon alone for the most part, aside the staring anyway and the random photos.

At first Neptune found the camera a new and shiny toy she could play with, or at least with the man. She would make random poses, faces and generally be in his face. It was fun, but soon she grew tired of it...cause the man never joined her in the fun, he only scribbled in his note pad and took the occasional picture and hmm and hawed at times. How boring.

Neptune lived close to the water, she wasn't sure why her fascination with it, but she loved to play in it, dive off the water fall. Attempt to catch fish and fail terribly. The mighty hunter usually was a berry eater as ..fish was way too hard to catch. Though she vowed she would get there at some point.

There was a time when the strange man offered her food. It was...strange food, brown and ..round like. He had tried to entice her to eat it and..well she played with it more than ate it. The taste was..weird. Grainy. It wasn't really all that great, in fact in only took her a few more minutes to finally finish playing with the food and then wander off.

Falling Stars

Notes. There were notes everywhere. Little pieces of paper drifting in the wind, what wasn't caught by tall grass found themselves water logged in the nearby lake. Neptune had been gathering them all up, one by one. Apparently the human who had been stalking her this entire time was so frustrated by her erratic behavior that he was giving up researching her.

The human was currently ...emotionally ...dramatically crying on his bed roll in his tent. It was so pathetic a sight really. Neptune felt a little badly for him, even though she had no reason to be. She was just being herself after all.

Gathering up all the papers she could find she placed them at the base of the bedroll, not wanting to disturb his sobbing. Sitting in front of his tent she wondered why exactly he was so ...unhappy. She had done everything he had wanted.

Ate, played slept...what else could she do? Of course her lunging off of water falls was a bit...crazy. As well playing a tug - of - war with a wurmple and sending each other flying! Now that had been fun. There were not a lot of pokemon willing to get a bit hurt and dirty these days.

Soon days stretched into weeks and this human still hadn't left. Neptune continued as she normally did it wasn't until she was jumping in puddles that she spotted it. High in a tree in the crutch of a limb something was sparkling.

She had determined rather quickly that she couldn't climb the tree to reach that sparkly thing. But oh how she wanted it! Sitting back and looking up at that tee she pondered intently on how to grab it.

Having legs was awesome; Hemlock was so much faster and could actually run, instead of just shuffling forward quickly. He could also climb and jump, which made getting up and over the rocks towards Neptune's territory a hell of a lot easier going. Though he was huffing and puffing a bit as he made his way towards the waterfall where his best friend lived, he felt such pride in himself.

Mostly because he was sporting a nice, dark bruise under his left eye, purple and blue and even a little green in some areas. Dee had walloped on him hard, and he loved every moment of it. Even when he woke up that first day and couldn't really chew properly without his face hurting. Still so worth it.

Anyway, he was getting towards the top of a rock pile now...he'd probably be able to see the waterfall in a moment or two.


Neptune was...a rambunctious child, becoming human didn't even phase her, in fact in only opened up more opportunities for playing rough and hard. Having hands was wonderful, she had to relearn how to swim from Winston, the bookworm of man who had been studying her activities before she had become human. Semi-adopting her mostly out of obligation, he had tried to explain that she needed to wear a girls bathing suit and girls clothes...which Neptune quickly shunned as she thought the full piece bathing suit would just be annoying to get under the ruff of hair around her throat. The man only conceded since..well they were in the middle of the forest...who would notice a girl wearing a boy's bathing suit? Besides Neptune looked awefully like a boy anyway. And that hair did cover up everything on her chest...so...he let it slide for now.

At the moment that Hemlock was making his appearance Neptune was running off the top of the water fall, a boy like cry of WOO HOO erupted through the air as a loud crash and splash came from the stream below.


At first Hemlock couldn't believe what he was seeing...but sure enough, he'd know that shout of rambunctious joy anywhere, and with his own howl he laughed from his place on the pile of rocks.

"Yeah! Go Neptune!" he cheered, starting to scramble his way down from the tiny mountain, stumbling more than once but recovering quickly.

He could always count on Neptune for a good time, and now that they were both like this...well, there's no telling what amount of trouble they could go get into.


Her head erupted from the surface, hair covering half her face as she half heard the shout of a voice she knew quite well.

"HEY!" She called out with a wave noticing that it wasn't just her that had changed so had her best friend! Swimming to shore she dragged herself out, literally the hair from her tail and chest made swimming almost a chore, but she still loved it. Without missing a beat she ran up to Hemlock, noticing almost INSTANTLY the bruise under his left eye.

"WOAH! What did you do there? Hit a tree branch on the way down?" She laughed poking at the still rather fresh looking bruise with a finger before she gave him a quick 'bear hug' lifting him up slightly and squeezing him tightly before releasing him. "When did you change???" She demanded in her next sentence looking him over. He certainly looked cool enough!


"You look like a drowned rat," the Wurmple boy started to say with a laugh, pulling back the hood of his jacket to reveal the poofy mess of black hair as he came up to Neptune.

Though, of course, he'd tried to back-pedal when he saw the finger coming for his face, wincing and chuckling, punching Neptune's shoulder, "You a**, it's still sore!" he snapped jokingly.

"Haha, funny. No, but man do I...guhk!" And suddenly Hemlock's new feet were lightly kicking in the air as he was lifted off the ground a few inches, giving a muffled chuckle while patting Neptune's wet back before he was put down. "Good to see you, too Nep. Just a few days ago...and man, do I have a story to tell you about when me and Dee changed. Man, it's ridiculously priceless!"


Neptune only gave a strange and funny face at Hemlock's protest of his bruise being poked. After all it was just a bruise, not a broken arm or anything. Still she snorted a laugh and gestured that Hemlock follow her so that they could sit. It was a dead log she led them too, but it was rather dry and she climbed upon it and began to wring her wet hair out rather recklessly. This Dee Hemlock mentioned caught her interest. If anything he only complained about the other girl wurmple, and she sounded like a snob, but Neptune had yet to meet her so until then she wouldn't judge.

"So you got a story? Spill it before I came at you with more wet fur." She threatened as she shook her head to try like a dog get the rest of the water out of her hair.


Nearly bouncing, he followed Neptune over to the log...sliding away almost immediately when his friend began to shake around. It was a knee-jerk reaction, which he quickly remedied by sitting a comfortable distance from the Eevee.

Some day, when Neptune couldn't hide it any more, Hemlock would get a clue. Not today.

"Ok, so...first we were just regular Wurmples, like Pokemon right? And then something came down from the sky and clocked me on the head...and evidently, either it hit Dee too, or something else hit her...cause next thing you know, we're both waking up and we're like this!"

And with that, Hemlock proceeded to tell the Amazing Tale of Pissing Off Drosera, not skipping a detail and probably elaborating a little more than he had to more than once. Hell, when it struck his funny bone, he's even laugh at her sorry misfortune.

"And then, she's all blubbering and like 'I hate you!'," he went on. "So I told her that screaming at people isn't very becoming of a proper lady, and it'll give her wrinkles! Get this, she HITS ME...punches me right in the face," he said, so very excited and proud, pointing at the bruise.

"Then she ran off crying...Neptune, buddy, you should have seen her face!"


Neptune chuckeled as she listened to Hemlock retell his tale, about how they got hit in the head (wow sounded like her experience) and waking up totally different. Her enthusiasm though...started to lack...and soon she was down right frowning at the end of his story.

Why was he so proud of this? He made a girl cry....that wasn't cool...that wasn't cool at all. Even if she was annoying she didn't deserve to be teased like that.

So now Hemlock needed to see Neptune's face, it was dark with a look of 'what the F man' written across it. Leaning back he found a loose piece of bark and began to pick at it.

"Not cool man...that isn't cool at all. I am GLAD she hit you if your going to be a jerk like that." Neptune stated with a snort, a clearly unimpressed look on her face.


He was so caught up in his storytelling, Hemlock wouldn't even notice all was not well until he had covered from his victorious giggling...blinking his eyes as he realized that Neptune was anything but impressed.

"What? Seriously, Neptune...this is Dee we're talking about here. Drosera, you know...the Wurmple who's mission in life is to make my life miserable? All she ever does is put me down and try to get me angry...you don't think it's even the slightest bit amazing that for once I was able to completely piss her off??"

This...this was not how things were supposed to go.


Neptune leaned back still picking idly at the bark of the log, staring at her hand as she did this trying to figure out why it bothered her so much. Sure the girl sounded annoying, and yes she often was the start of most of their...'fights' but it had never escalated to having them hit each other

"Doesn't matter, you made a girl cry...you became a bully and a jerk. Even if you only meant to tease her...you obviously went a step too far." Neptune stated as she managed to rip off a piece of the bark, she stared at the lump a moment before she tossed it aside.


The Wurmple boy sat for a second longer, completely caught off guard...before giving a 'hmph' and settling heavily onto the log, his arms crossed over his chest. Petchulant little bugger, wasn't he? Really, he was just pouting, feeling dumb that Neptune was calling him a bully.

"Yeah, well...snob deserved every bit of it. Just because she's a stupid girl she's allowed to tease and pick on me, but I can't stand up for myself when I get the chance?"

He stood up with another huff, whirling around to glare at Neptune darkly, "If she'd been doing the same stupid thing, and I hauled off and punched her, no one would be sitting there going 'Gee, Dee...you sure did deserve that for being so mean.' I'm getting the short end of the stick no matter what I do!"


Neptune raised an eyebrow at his comment about 'stupid girl', normally gender never played a roll for her cause obviously she had a lot of fun no matter who she played with girl or boy.

"I am not saying its right for her to do it to you, but there is a line. Once you cross it its no longer teasing your hurting her with your words. Ever heard the phrase, 'take the high road'? it means be better than her and don't do it back." Neptune explained though she was itching to punch him now. Instead however she stood up and stood in front of her best friend her hands crossed over her chest.

"Then hit me if it would make you feel better. I don't care if you hit me, but don't bully Dee again or any other girl for that matter. If your frustrated just wail on me instead. I can take it. Deal?"


He sure did feel like an a**...though, what he'd said before still made perfect sense. Just because he had a thicker skin than Drosera, didn't mean it was ok for her to be nasty to him and call him ugly and stupid. With his arms still crossed over his chest, Hemlock looked at Neptune and realized he wouldn't ever wanna beat on his friend; that just wasn't right...

"I'm not gonna just sit there and let her be a brat," he explained. "But...I'll stop if she turns on the water works." Which should probably have been his clue from before, but...yeah. Oblivious Wurmple is oblivious.

Obviously.


Neptune rolled her eyes as if this had been a no duh part. Still though she cuffed Hemlock on the shoulder rather hard, "Hey I want to stay best friends with you, but I won't be friends with a bully...so if she if mean to you again how about I go talk to her? I mean it isn't like she can do much to me. I don't have the same triggers as you." Neptune stated with a smirk before she suddenly lept forward and got the wurmple kid in a head lock and started to mess up his hair rather badly.

"Okay? OKAY? Say yes all wise and powerful Neptune I shall listen!"



"You? Go talk to Dee? Ha, yeah right...good luck with that one," Hemlock scoffed. "No way anyone could talk some sense into that air-head of hers."

But then suddenly, Hemlock found himself in a head-lock, and the world was going every which way as his hair was ruffled and messed with.

"Ack! Hahaha, never...no way!" he said between laughs and coughs, trying to fight his way out from Neptune's grasp. He wrapped his arms around Neptune's waist, clinging to him and trying to throw the Eevee off balance in this...very, very strange dance.