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Chapter 1: A Sea Disappearance
A 5 hours before the disappearance …
“Ahhh finally vacation time”
A young red haired woman said to herself as she was getting ready to go onto a vacation she’s been waiting forever for, the girl’s name was Julia whose was actually a well respected dragon type trainer in her home region of Galar and became champion about 3 years ago after defeating Leon.
She decided that she wanted to take a break from her region for a while so she planned out a vacation when she heard about a ship called the SS Sliversteed which was gonna go on a 3 month trip across the ocean to the Alolan Islands which is a place she has never visited before. The Sliversteed was actually this huge cruise ship that’s funded by the Rose corporation and she decided why not a better time to take a vacation but on that ship.
It was planning to dock at the Hulberry town’s docks for passengers in about 2 hours from now. But for right now, she was packing what she needed for the trip like a few clothes of hers, bags, three Pokeballs (just in case), sunny-day sunscreen, towels, and of course her ticket she brought for the ship in advance.
After she finished packing about 3 bags of her stuff she decided to call her friend/old rival/professor assistant Hop who was busy doing some research project in the Crown Tundra. She grabbed her Rotom phone from her dresser on the side of her room and called his number, which the phone came to life and floated up to her face. “Heya Julia how are you doing?” Hop asked excitedly as his face appeared on the phone.
“Hey Hop nothing much just packing up my things to go onto that 3 month cruise ship I’ve told you about” she said back to him.
“I really do hope you have fun on your vacation to the Alolan Islands, I would’ve came with you but I have a research project I am helping Sonia with at the Crown Tundra” Hop say’s back sadly.
“It’s okay Hop and yeah thanks I hope to enjoy the vacation a lot” Julia says back excitingly.
“Anyways Hop I gotta go right now so I wish you good luck on whatever that project you and Sonia are working on over there” Julia says as she waved goodbye to her friend Hop and promptly turned off her Rotom phone.
Julia put away her phone back into her pocket and started to get her three bags (one suitcase and the two other ones are duffel bags) and started to leave the entrance of her room and into the kitchen to where her Mother was washing some dishes near the sink in the kitchen.
“Hey Mom I am getting ready to go to the cruise right now” Julia said to her Mother. “Ok honey I hope you have a wonderful vacation and don’t worry I’ll take care of Cinnamon for you” Julia’s Mother said. Alright on cue a cute little Appletun came running into the kitchen from the living room to say goodbye to Julia and which in turn knelt down and petted Cinnamon on the head.
“Okay I am actually leaving now, goodbye Mom and Cinnamon” Julia said as she opened the door and gave a small wave back to both her Mother and Cinnamon before closing the door to her house.
Julia’s plan now was to ride personal favorite dragon Pokémon she has which is a Flygon named Red down to Huberry town to the docks to where the ship is docked for the best 3 hours, she went a few blocks away from her house to a open field in one of the routes here tall grass and also avoiding any encounters with wild Pokémon hiding in the grass so she avoided that.
After reaching the small patch of grass, Julia started to pull out a Pokeball of or her pocket and through it in the air.
A red light shot out of the ball and materialized into a large green dragon who appeared right in front of her and a happy one at that, “Hey Red how are you doing?” Julia asked as she petted the Flygon who gave an excited “Fly” in response and rubbed his head into her.
“Yeah Red I am doing good, I just need you to carry a few bags and carry us down to a Hulberry town so we can go to that cruise we’ve been looking forward too for a while” Julia said to her Flygon while pulling out a saddle out of one of her bags. This saddle she pulled out is actually one of those carrier saddled people use on flying or dragon type Pokémon down in Alola that she got from a friend of her’s as a gift from them down in Alola a couple of months ago.
“Okay Red now I just need you to hold still while I strap this around your wings and shoulders” Julia said as she started to strap the saddle in a x shape around his upper torso. “Good boy Red I hope your okay with carrying a bit of extra weight” Julia teased as a challenge to her Flygon as they both eyed her three bags on the side of them and he gave a affirmative “Fly Fly Gon” as in say in “I accept your challenge.”
With Red’s consent, Julia then started to attach her bags to the sides the strap provided because it also doubled as a way to carry bags too and plus Red could use the exercise. After all was said and done, she started to get onto the Flygon’s back “alright Red let’s go” she started as Red finally leapt up into the air and started to fly off.
(About 40 minutes of flying later)
Both Julia and Red actually lands a few blocks away from Hulberry town on one of the routes leading to the town actually, they did this because it would be easier to just walk over to the ship and not make some huge entrance because she didn’t want to get mobbed by a crowd of people because of her champion status.
Anyways both Julia and Red walked down one of the routes leading to the town while also avoiding any wild Pokemon in the grass around the route. They did that for about 10 minutes before they were finally able to leave the route and enter the town’s entrance.
They entered the town and started to walk down one of the streets down towards the Hulberry docks which was right next to the lighthouse, Julia started to unattach her bags from the sides of Red’s legs and called him back to his Pokéball because she could walk by herself from here on.
She saw the ship near the docks when she was walking down them and the ship was way larger than she was expecting. It was a blue and white cruise ship with the name “SS Sliversteed” written in large words at the front of the ship as she took in the size of it.
After she was done taking in the size of the ship, Julia started looking around and saw a really long line leading to a small ticket booth on the other end of the dock to that led to a ramp leading upwards into the ship were she also saw people and Pokémon going up it. She figured that this was gonna be a really long wait.
(About 20 minutes of waiting later)
“Uhhhh hurry up” Julia complained to herself as she has been waiting about 20 minutes behind other people and their Pokémon, some of which wanted a autograph from her which was a bit annoying but she couldn’t ignore fans of hers.
She checked the line in front of her and noticed that she was actually two people behind the booth in the front and so she prepared her ticket to give it the person at the booth.
She waited for about 5 minutes before it was finally her turn to show her ticket, she heard the person behind the booth yell out “next” and so she was finally in front of the booth.
“Ahhhh champion Julia welcome!” The person called out to her when she gave them her ticket. “Oh hello” Julia said back to the person, “let me just say but we at the SS Sliversteed are absolutely thrilled you choose to come on board our ship that we’ve actually set up a personal sweet section of the ship for you”.
The guy started to look behind their desk for a moment before taking out a small booklet from behind their desk and giving it to Julia. “This here is a small map that will show you every location on the ship and the directions to that personal sweet we’ve I’ve told you about, consider it a welcoming gift for a celebrity like you”. Julia was kinda a bit shocked that she just came in to give the guy her ticket for the Cruise and here they are giving her an all exclusive sweet on the ship just for her.
Took her a moment but she eventually found her words to say “oh wow thank you so much! I wasn’t expecting this at all but still it’s quite shocking to me still” Julia laughed a bit before taking the small booklet out of the guy’s hands and waving them bye as she walked away. She walked down the bit of dock that was left and finally reached the ramp that led onto the ship which she started to walk upon.
After a moment of walking up the ramp, Julia reached an entrance hallway that led deeper into the interior of the ship. She had to be honest she liked the blue and white coloring on the walls with the reddish looking floor the interior was designed with, with painting on the walls too.
Anyways she walked down the hallway that opened up to something she was amazed by, the hallway opened up to a large plaza like area with three floors that had both escalators and elevators leading up to each floor.
It reminded her of how any type of mall would would look like but on the inside of a boat. The second floor looked like a shopping district because it had all kinds of stores from gift shops, item shops, clothing shops, and even a small food court area in the middle so people can go eat over there whenever they’re hungry.
The first floor looked more towards for both trainers and Pokémon themselves because it had a noticeable Pokémon center in the middle of a few item shops and to stations she heard about from the Paldea region a week ago. It also had a rather medium sized battle field for battles and even a playground designed specifically for Pokémon that was called the Pokepark (which was not at all a little reference to something she has never heard about).
Anyways she saw a small reception desk right in the hotel with a woman behind the desk who was probably the receptionist for the hotel.
Julia walked over to the desk and said “uhhh hello I came here to check in” Julia said to the receptionist. “Oh welcome champion Julia we’ve actually been expecting you when you decided to come aboard our beloved Cruise and also the guy told us you were here beforehand” The Lady said as she opened up a small cabinet behind her desk and pulled out a set of keys from it.
“Here is your key for your exclusive hotel sweet we set up for you and it’s located two floors up so you can take the staircase over there, we hope that you enjoying your stay on the SS Sliversteed” the woman said as she gave Julia the keys for her new hotel room. “Oh thank you so much and yeah I hope to enjoy the ship too and also the Alolan Islands eventually” Julia said to the receptionist as she took the keys from her and started to walk up the stairs on the left of the desk.
Walking up 3 sets of stairs, Julia eventually reached a hallway full of rooms. The lady told her that her room is numbered 307 which is where her room is which see saw was actually town the hall a bit.
After walking past a few rooms and people in the hallways who wanted to say hi to her, she finally reached room 307 at the middle of the hallway. She inserted the key she had into the door and opened the door to the room, the room itself was actually quite large for a small hotel room but it had a really nice red and orange color on the walls with a few paintings on some of the walls to that showed a beautiful sunset on a beach which she can only guess was supposed to to depict one of the Alolan Islands, a small kitchen area, and a single bed in the middle of the room.
The room also has a balcony area too which she thought was the best part of the room to be honest. It was actually when she decided to check out the balcony that she heard a ding in the room behind her for a moment before a voice came out. “Attention everyone onboard we this is your Captain Johnson of the SS Sliversteed, me and the staff are happy to announce that we’re finally gonna set sail on are planned long 3 month trip to the Alolan Islands and our staff here on the SS Sliversteed hope that you all have a amazing stay on our beloved cruise as we finally start our journey” the go is said as the boat finally started to leave the docks behind.
There was another ding as the announcement ended and the ship has finally set sail into the open seas.
“I am so excited for this trip” Julia said excitedly as she pictured her 3 month trip and couldn’t wait what the ship offered (though she will never experience that excitement). After she said that Julia threw all three of her bags on the bed and started to open they up to take out her clothes, towels, Pokeballs, and other things.
After she finished unpacking her things and putting it around her room like the Pokeballs on the table next to her, her clothes in a small closet next to her new bathroom, she also put the towels she brought into said bathroom.
Eventually though she decided to go check out the rest of the cruise ship had to offer herself because she didn’t have anything better to do, with that she walked over and walked out of her door.
She then locked the door behind her and decided to go check out what the second floor had to offer with those shops she saw on her way into the ship at first.
As she started to walk down the hallway though she suddenly heard a voice just out of nowhere. “Oh hey excuse me miss!” Julia jumped a bit as she heard a random deep sounding voice call out from the behind her in the hallway. She immediately turned around to see some kind of 20 something year old man behind her on the other end of the hallway she just was in.
Quickly composing herself she answered the guy “Yeah sir? you need any help with something” she asked the the guy she was now seeing. Speaking of the guy he looked really strange like weird clothing, messy looking hair that actually was way longer than it should’ve been for a normal looking guy and Julia herself started to feel a bit uncomfortable around the guy.
“If you don’t mind me asking but are you Champion Julia right?” The guy asked me. “Yeah I am” Julia responded to the guy confusingly, the guy still just felt so weird and creepy to her because of how she looks.
“Oh good becaus-“ the guy said as he suddenly grabbed Julia by the shoulder and threw her into the wall on the left of her. Shocked she now had a hurting head from that hit as she stumbled back and fell to the ground holding her face as it hurt. The guy then leaned knelt down onto one leg, grabbed Julia by her hair, and made her look into his eyes as they somehow started to turn pure yellow for some reason.
“Hey let go what the hell!” Julia yelled out at the guy as she started to fight against the hand holding her hair. “Let go of me you-yo-“ she couldn’t finish what she was saying as somehow looking into the guy’s eyes started to make her feel dizzy on the inside until she just fully passed out as her body fell onto her side on the floor.
(Stranger’s pov)
The girl stared into my eyes into a moment before finally fainting onto her side with an audible thud onto the ground in front of him.
“Pathetic thing, and this was the one that he foresee himself getting stopped by?” He laughed to himself because she was nothing by a pathetic weak human. Though if she is the one to stop him though he will do everything in his power to prevent it”. Making sure no one was watching, the guy started to walk over to the girl’s leg and grabbed it with his hands and saw that the girl’s room was still unlock thankfully.
He pulled the unconscious girl back into her own room and again making sure no one was in the hallway, he closed the door to the room. The man started to glow as his entire body began to glow blue and instead of a man standing there, it was instead this darkish-greenish looking tall squid looking thing as the blue light faded out.
A Malamar… but something was off about it.
The Malamar stretched his tentacles out as he finally was able to get out of that weak human form. “Uhhhh I hate those wretched humans so much, even their bodies was just disgusting to be in” the Malamar said in disgust as their human form finally faded away.
He took a light blue stone off from his chest and put it away in his hair of tentacles somewhere until using his psychic to call out to someone “-Hoopa can you hear me?-“ the Malamar said in his mind as he called out to someone. “- Yes Master I’m here in the walls-“ the Hoopa said back out to him, “good we’ve finished our business here in this world so I need you to create a portal back to our world quickly before any more of those humans discover us-“ the Malamar said that as a command to the Hoopa.
Getting the message the Hoopa came out of one of the walls inside of the room the Malamar was in, but this Hoopa had a strange dazed out looking expression in their eyes. Next he threw one of his ring portals in front of them which led into a really ugly looking place on the other side.
“Good job Hoopa, that spell I made to upgrade your ring portals for dimensional travel is working wonders” the Malamar said to the Hoopa floating in front of them”. “Thank you Master, what about the human thought?” The Hoopa asked the Malamar to which the Malamar grabbed the unconscious girl’s leg again with one of his tentacles.
“We’re bringing her with us because I can use her” the Malamar has heard from a bunch of rumors of how humans who come into their world have these strange powerful abilities that other Pokémon have thrown around for years with no such real evidence, he’s also heard that whenever a human crosses over into their world they also take on the form of a Pokémon too and so he wanted to test out that theory.
He started to move towards the portal while dragging the unconscious girl behind her by her leg, until he literally just threw her body right through the portal (he was correct about that second rumor after all).
Immediately going through the portal the girl’s body started to glow over the body with a more golden light than the one he used before and now instead of a unconscious human girl on the other side of the portal, it was instead a unconscious Noibat on the other side of the portal instead.
“Hmmmm interesting, so that part of the rumor is true after all”. The Malamar finally crossed over the portal himself as he told his Hoopa companion to close it behind him, finally putting that wretched human world behind him.
“Hoopa please go toss this unconscious Noibat into the cell in the bow of the ship please, we have a long day of fun tomorrow” the Malamar told the Hoopa. “Yes Master” the Hoopa started to float over to the unconscious Noibat on the cold wooden floor, opened a ring portal that led into the mentioned cell in the bow of the ship, and tossed the unconscious Noibat in there with all of his strength.
The Malamar is gonna have a lot of fun experimenting on their new guest tomorrow morning….