A Nightmarish Life

[BlackIce]

Concealed in an old abandoned building in the south end of town were two Pokemon, one a Clone and the other a mix. The shelter was dimly lit from the sparse, frosty moonlight, and trash and other undesirable items were scattered on the cold ground. Stains were splattered across the floor and walls, a reminder of the buliding's past. A window faced to the north, moonlight spilling onto the ground in front of it. The silhouette of levitating Kadabra in a meditative stance cast a shadow across the dim light, giving it an ominous aura.

In a corner was a curled up shape consisting of mostly black fur, but its underbelly was white. The curled figure let out whimpers every once in awhile, along with a growl from its stomach. The distracting noises were upsetting the silhouetted Kadabra and soon one of its sinister eyes opened.

'Leave, Fang.' A voice had entered the Mightyena's thoughts, ordering and demanding. But, as stubborn as ever he resisted. Suddenly a snarl rang through the desolate building and the Kadabra landed from his levitation.

"Fang, leave now!" He ordered, pointing a thick claw to the entrance. "I can sense your hunger and frankly, it is distrubing my meditation. Find food and get some fresh air." He growled in an angry tone.

The Mightyena's ears folded back against his skull as the Kadabra spoke. It was very rare that Katashiko used his deep voice, relying on his telepathy to comunicate with others unless he grew angry. Quickly Fang leapt up and darted out the door, trotting into one of the alley ways.

Katashiko galnced down to his sthingy which he held in his right hand and noted that it snapped in half during his anger. "Dang, I need a new sthingy." He growled.

Meanwhile, Fang searched through the alleyway in an attempt to find food. Sadly, he was failing miserably and he was becoming weak. The black-clad Mightyena snarled and ripped his claws against the cold concrete.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

Though Fang may have not have been having any luck finding his food in the alley way, another Mightyena was just gourging herself with half-eaten Turkey and such though she knew that she could easily buy food for her she just wanted to remember what it was like to live in the streets again.

This was Melania, a beautiful sapphire-eyed Mightyena who was laying down on the old concrete eating the meat and bones of the fried bird. However she wasn't paying any attention to her surroundings as she was enjoying her meal, not noticing the other Mightyena that was nearby.

[BlackIce]

The emerald-eyed Mightyena didn't notice the lucky female Mightyena at first, and instead went for a small cardboard box. A scent of prey was wafting from it and into Fang's acute nose. To confirm his suspicions, a long, purple tail that was curled at the end popped out from the top of the box, waving back and forth.

With quick reflexes the scarred male lunged forward and dug his oddly long fangs into the cardboard, not getting ahold of any flesh. An alarmed squeak erupted from the box and out leapt a Rattata with a cookie in its mouth. The dicarded box was full of cookie crums, probably thrown here by the resturaunt down the street.

Fang growled and leapt for the purple rat, but the cardboard was stuck in his teeth, effectively tripping him. The Rattata got away unscathed, and the Mightyena dug his back paws into the box and pushed with all his might, although it was a little over done. The box came flying off and landed on the grimy concrete, Fang haunched over and snarling as he humiliated himslef, by himself. That was when the scent of turkey filled his nostrils.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

Melania's ears became erect with her head shooting straight up as she began to hear the noises near the area and peeked around to the other side to see yet another Mightyena with a cardboard cookie box over his face as it seemed he was trying to catch a small Ratatta, she let out a small giggle for she couldn't help it since it looked a little funny to see that happen.

But when she saw that the other Mightyena was trying to get the box off of his face she hid back from behind the garbage cans again as she got up but tried not to get seen by the other Pokemon, she didn't exactly want a fight, but this was of course her food and she needed to do what she could to keep it that way.

[BlackIce]

Now that that small dilema was done and over with, Fang cautiously crept towards the source of the mouth wattering smell of turkey and let out a warning snarl. Whatever the creature was, it couldn't escape Fang's nose, maybe his eyes or ears, but not his nose.

His lips pulled back as he lunged towards the trash can concealing what might as well be his next meal. The male Mighyena would do anything for food at that point and his body was growing weaker with each passing second. Come to think of it, Fang couldn't remember the last time he had eaten. He may have lost his meal of a scrawny Rattata, but he was going to fight for this turkey. Besides, if Fang won at least the turkey wouldn't run away from him.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

The Mightyena just styed as she was as she awaited this other male Mightyena to go around the trash cans and see if he would attack her, she then began to crouch down a little bit when she began hearing growling noises and thought that this Mightyena was possibly getting ready to jump sideways and then leap at her or her food. But to her surprise she was wrong.

She had never suspected the Mightyena to jump over the trash cans as she let out a barking yelp as the male's claws hit her side and sunk into her fleshy body. She slammed hard on the ground as she had her eyes shut tightly and her ears clamped to her skull while the blood from where the claws had sunken into began to drip down onto the pavement, she just waited to see what would happen next and just hoped that the Mightyena wouldn't hurt her and just take the food away.

[BlackIce]

Fang hadn't expected to draw blood as he leapt, but how was he supposed to know where he was going to land? A gasp escaped him as he looked down on the Mightyena with wide emerald eyes. Almost immediately he leapt backwards as he tried to give her space, and ended up colliding with a trash can.

It fell over with a loud thud and a few city-dwelling Pidgey fluttered from the perches in an attempt to escape whatever danger caused it. Even more trash spilled out onto the disgusting concrete-covered alley.

Guilt racked the poor male as his downcast emerald eyes glanced at her, worry a clear emotion in his depths. His ears were pulled back in fear that he hurt her badly and he hoped she would get up and look at him. 'As long as she doesn't run away from all your hideous scars.' Fang scolded himself mentally, a terrible reminder about his permanent indents.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

When the trash can fell to the ground causing a loud noise Melania opened one of her eyes but only slightly so she couldn't show the blue colour of her eyes and to see if the Mightyena had left her alone, and to her surprise the male Mightyena was still infront of her but he had the look of fear on his scarred up face and in his emerald-green eyes.

She grunted a little bit as she tried getting up straight though she struggled a little bit as she did and whinced a little bit since three claws had sunken into her right shoulder making her have to hold her arm up as she limped on three legs and looked straight at the other Mightyena as all she could here was her own breathing as she just waited to see what this male's next action was.

[BlackIce]

He felt a small blush burn in his dark-furred ears and a lump form in his throat when emerald eyes met sapphire. Fang swallowed hard, feeling a bit uncomfortable in the presence of such a beautiful Mightyena. “Hey, uh, you alright?” He inquired softly, not sure how she would react. It wasn’t exactly an everyday thing to leap on someone behind a trash can and draw blood, let alone it be a pretty Mightyena.

And that was when his secret shyness took over and Fang looked away, the silence making him even more uncomfortable. Even though he wanted to hide his scarred face, the male knew he couldn’t and her inevitable sight of either his slash marks or his torn ear would soon come. With most, he expected a few questions about them. His tail swayed for a second before settling down, a gesture that meant he was growing increasingly uncomfortable.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

Melania stayed quiet until she heard the words, Hey, uh, you alright? She just looked back at the holes on her sides and saw the crimson blood stain her fur around her shoulder and around the side of her chest and looked back at the scarred up black and white wolf as he turned his head once in a while knowing that he obviously didn't want to show his face, though she never did mind other Pokemon's complections.

"I-I guess I'm alright." She said as she slowly put her injured leg down for she wasn't feeling as much pain anymore which she was relieved of that as she watched as she put it down. "I guess maybe you should look at what's around before jumping in places." She said sounding a bit more happier as she looked back back at Fang again with a small smile on her face, this wolf was lucky that Melania was quite a forgiving soul.

[BlackIce]

The dark Mightyena sighed, not making eye contact with the female in front of him. "Yeah, well, that's kinda hard with my hunger," he quietly replied and dared to look into her eyes. But before emerald met sapphire, he saw the small smile curve her black lips.

Now Fang was terribly puzzled. If someone tried to fight him for food, leapt at him from behind a trashcan and ended up drawing blood, well that Pokemon would end up dead on the spot. Why was she being so nice about it?

His brow furrowed in pure confusion and he just sat back further on his haunches. "You don't seem as angry as I would expect someone to be." Fang observed in a louder voice. Her smile seemed to cheer him up inside.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

Her smile shrunk a little bit when he asked why she wasn't all angry with him and such and shrugged a little bit as she looked around the surrounding area and back at the Green-eyed wolf again. "Well, I find that being angry makes you feel bad a lot and you tend not to feel great all the time and are mean to everyone around you."

She said in a calm matter as she looked down at the half-eaten turkey again and let her smile again grow just a little bigger. "Besides, I think you just saved me from getting any Heart Worms." She said joking around as she looked back at Fang again, she knew that he was a bit diffrent from other alley way-living Pokemon for usually she was frightened of them and worried she may get abused by them and such.

"But I guess we haven't been properly introduced yet, I am Melania She said as she made a little bow with hetr head, she had always been nice to other Pokemon and wanted to see where this conversation could end up.

[BlackIce]

The black-clad male chuckled at her little joke about heartworms. He remembered once way back when he still lived at home with his father and brother, his brother ended up having to be put on medication because of an infestation of heartworms in his system.

Fang nodded as she suggested they be introduced properly. A toothy grin that showed off his pearly whites curved his maw and tugged at his black lips. He gave his own dip of the head in a show of respect. “My name’s Orph-I mean Fang.” He stumbled, almost giving away his despised real name.

Meanwhile, concealed from view in a shroud of shadows behind the dark-types was a black figure. Its sinister white eyes glowed in the darkness, making them illuminate more then the Pokemon would have preferred. It watched the two Mightyena with a curious, yet serious gaze. Hopefully it would get a good piece of entertainment and stay hidden.

[<[-Nalani-]>]

The blue-eyed wold raised a brow there for a moment as this Pokemon was just about to say one name but quickly had said another name, Fang, but she just nodded her head when he said his name and laughed a little in the inside, somehow it suited him a little bit knowing that the Fang's canine teeth were unusually longer than an ordinay Mightyena's should be. however she just smiled at him but she also noticed that he looked really thin.

"Are you... hungry by any chance? She asked him in a polite manner as she shuffled her paws a little bit from side to side as she had a grin on her face showing off her glistening teeth as they shined from the moon's light that krept from the building ledges. "Cause, you know, I could maybe... get you something." She said as she shrugged a little bit, she had a lot of money and didn't mind spending a few bucks for a hungry Pokemon.

[BlackIce]

A genuine smile split his face and he nodded eagerly. "I'm starved. Can't even remember the last time I ate." He chuckled, dismissing the thought as something less serious than it actually was. Spending time with the blue-eyed Mightyena sounded pleasant. He just hoped to dear Arceus that Katashiko wouldn’t ruin it for him, that or humiliate him.

The dark figure couldn’t suppress a chuckle and the small laugh echoed through the alleyway, although it was in the use of telepathy. Fang’s ears easily picked it up and he groaned, rolling his eyes. He would know that laugh anywhere, and the fact it was telepathy. Katashiko just has to crash his parties, huh?

Only for a second did he ignore the Kadabra to turn to the female. "That sounds nice." He replied, smiling again. And yet another chuckle rang through the alleyway. Fang just closed his eyes and folded his ears back in enbarassement.