The Life of Kyorui
 
Contains: Predation/Soft Vore of Pichu by Charizard
 
 �Wake up, little brother,� was the greeting Kyorui got as woke up to a blinding light. Kyorui opened his eyes to see his older brother, Sparky, standing right next to him. �So,� Kyorui thought to himself. �He finally mastered Flash. Least he could do is face away from someone when he uses it.�
 Kyorui sat up and rubbed his eyes with his paws. Sparky always had to show off when he learned a new technique. He wondered if he would act like that when he evolved into a Pikachu. If he ever did evolve into a Pikachu. As he stood up and started toward the mouth of their cave home, Sparky moved his goggles from his eyes to the top of his head. He had found the goggles laying on a dirt path near their home. �Cheer up, Kyorui,� he said to his half-awake brother, �It is your birthday today.�
 Kyorui sighed and replied to his brother, �and why should I be happy about that? You know Mom and Dad never remember anything if it has to do with me. Sometimes I wonder if they even know I exist.� �Come on now, Kyorui,� Sparky said in a sympathetic voice, �You know that isn�t true.�
 Just then, the brothers� parents walked by on their way in from collecting berries for breakfast. �How many times have we told you, Sparky,� they said, obviously exasperated, �You can�t have friends over before breakfast.� When they had left, Kyorui turned toward Sparky and said, �See, I told you. They always think I�m your friend.� �C�mon, little bro,� Sparky looked down at him, and then looked up and said, �Let�s go get some breakfast.�
 They went into the area of the cave where the family had their meals. Sparky turned toward his parents and asked, �Hey Mom, Dad, do you remember what today is?� �I don�t think that today is anything except today.� his mother replied, �Why, do you have something going on that we forgot about?� Without another word, the little Pichu finished off what berries he had grabbed from what his parents had dropped, and headed outside of the cave.
 Kyorui started walking toward the edge of the grass outside of their home. �Kyorui!� shouted Sparky, �Kyorui, wait up!� The little Pichu stopped, spun around, and looked up at his brother. �Why?� he said, �why should I stop when no one in our family knows who I am? I want to go somewhere where I will be known as someone. Known by name. Known as someone other than, �that kid�. Sorry Sparky, but I�m tired of waiting around for someone to take notice of me. I�m gonna find someplace where they accept me.�
 �If that is what you really want,� Sparky said, �Then I won�t stop you. Just remember this, little brother. I will always take notice of you here, so don�t hesitate to come back should you want to.� Kyorui sniffled, and hugged his brother as tears streamed down his face. �I won�t forget you, Sparky.� �I won�t forget you either, Kyorui.� Sparky told him. �If you are going to go, then you should go while most of the predators are still asleep. Good bye, and good luck.�
 With one last look back, Kyorui started his long journey to find someplace where he would be accepted. Little did he know, he would find acceptance in the most unlikely place. With determination, he started walking toward the mountains in the north.
Meanwhile, Nate the Charizard sat up in his bed and scratched his head. �Ahhhh.� He said aloud, to no one in particular, �This is gonna be a great day. No work and no rain.� Nate the Charizard was from Cinnabar Island, only recently coming to Mt. Moon to make his home. He was a shiny Charizard, and could speak and understand human speech. He worked at the Poke Center right outside of the mountain, and was known by any hiker that traversed the mountain. Anyone who knew of Nate knew he was taught to speak by his former trainer, but everyone knew not to ask what had happened. Anyone who did got the same answer from Nate, �I don�t like to talk about it.� This was as far as anyone dared to push him, as they were afraid of what the fire dragon would do to them. Nate, who had continued to hunt prey even though he was a �civilized� pokemon, headed outside of his fully furnished home.
 He had brought all of the furniture and entertainment with him from Cinnabar, and had carved his home with his own flame. �Time to get some breakfast,� he said with a sigh. �I wish there wasn�t just Spearow, Paras, and Rattata around here. You take what you get, though.� He headed to the nearby grass patch, and that is where he saw something that lifted his spirits. �Wonder why this is here�� Suddenly, a trainer ran up, and yelled to Nate, �Hey, what�s up Nate? Have you seen my pokeball? I think I left it somewhere around here��
 Nate looked up and turned toward the voice. �Ah, D-T, what brings you here?� The trainer looked at his friend and smiled. �I lost my pokeball again. I swear, my belt doesn�t hold them like it should. I should get my money back�� D-T was a teen trainer who specialized in training dragon pokemon. He had a Salamence, a Dragonite, a Kingdra, and a Mudkip, which wasn�t a dragon. He just liked Mudkip. Though he had asked several times for Nate to join him, Nate had always declined. He knew why he didn�t and never would accept his offer: after the death of his first master, he didn�t want to commit to another human again. �It�s right here D-T� Nate told him. �You wanna battle me today? I don�t have to work today, so I�m free to help you train.�
 "Alright, let�s do it!� D-T yelled as he whipped out a pokeball from his belt, and tossed in the air. �Show �em what you got, Dragonite!� He yelled. Nate took a fighting stance, and stared eye to eye with the orange dragon. �Let�s go, then!� Nate yelled, and immediately fainted Dragonite with a swift Dragon Claw to it�s belly. �Not again,� moaned D-T as he called back his Dragonite. After encouraging his fallen dragon, Salamence was brought into play. Nate took one look at him and immediately felt the effects of the Pokemon�s Intimidate. He was afraid to attack him. �Salamence, Hyper Beam!� yelled the trainer, and Nate took a full force blow to the chest.
 �Wanna turn up the heat?� Nate asked, �Let�s burn.� He had picked these up from a computer game a co-worker had given him, and enjoyed the way they sounded. He thought they went well with his signature attack. Then, he landed a critical and full-fledged Blast Burn to Salamence. While they both sat recovering, Nate thought to himself, �I can�t lose. I just can�t.� Before Salamence had time to react, Nate whipped out a TM. He stuck it to his head, and immediately learned the move. Being a wild pokemon, and learning how to meditate, he could remember more moves than other pokemon.
He opened his mouth, and a bright orange beam, identical to Salamence�s, hit the dragon square in the face and fainted it. Nate thought he was going to win, but he couldn�t recover in time for what came next. D-T brought out Kingdra, and ordered it to a Hydro Pump. The water exploded into Nate�s lower jaw, and he fainted on the spot.
 Kyorui had traveled for a long time. He was thinking about taking a rest, when he felt the earth tremble with intense power. He immediately ran for cover, just in time to see a shiny Charizard land face-first into the ground, unconscious. Before the Charizard could wake up, Kyorui scrambled into the nearby mountain entrance. He looked around, and immediately found a cave. He crawled inside, and immediately fell on his back. �This feels just like home.� He said. And then, starving from not having eaten for hours, he passed out where he lay.
 D-T was worried. He had ordered his Kingdra to do a Hydro Pump, and he had knocked his Charizard friend clean out. He couldn�t get him to wake up, and couldn�t carry him to the Poke Center. �What do I do? I need to get him awake�� D-T thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers. �I�ve got it! Mudkip come out and help!�
 The pokeball hit the ground, and the Mud Fish pokemon appeared in a bright flash. �Mudkip?� The pokemon said its own name with a tone of questioning. �I need you to use Water Gun on Nate. See if you can get him to come to.� �Mudkip,� the pokemon replied, and started spraying water into the face of the black dragon in front of him. �C�mon Nate, wake up man.� D-T said to his unconscious friend.
 Kyorui woke up and looked around. His stomach was aching from not eating anything. He sat up and thought to himself, �this cave is to rounded too be natural. This has got to be someone�s house.�
 He got up and looked for a light source. He found a cord, and pulled on it. Suddenly, light flooded in through a window, and he could see that someone lived here. �Maybe I can find some food here. It looks like a pokemon lives here.� He thought to himself, then wondered why he was sure a pokemon lived here. He then saw why.
 There were berries laying on a table in the middle of the room. He climbed up onto the table, and with the last of his strength, ate the berries that were laying there. �Ah�� he said, and then passed out again.
 Nate started coming to, and heard a voice. �Mudkip, he�s waking up.� Nate opened his eyes, and heard the Mudkip say, �I�m glad. I was about out of water.� Nate rolled over and sat up. He noticed a sharp pain in his jaw, and asked D-T what happened. �You were hit by Kingdra�s Hydro Pump, right in the jaw. You blacked out, and so I had Mudkip spray you with water to wake you up. You feel all right?�
 Nate stood up, and turned toward Mudkip. �Thanks, little guy.� �No problem, Nate. I�m glad your alright.,� the little pokemon responded. �Are we close to the Pokemon Center, D-T?� He asked the teen. �Yeah, you need to go get some rest?� �I think so.� D-T supported Nate on one side, and had Dragonite support the other. They headed into the Pokemon Center.
 After resting and receiving healing at the Pokemon Center, Nate headed back to his cave. He kept the lights off, because the curtain was open. � That�s odd,� Nate said to himself, �I don�t remember leaving that open. Oh well, guess I�d better get some food.� Just then, he noticed the Pichu on his table. �Wow, I guess I won�t have to go far to get my meal today.�
 He lifted the Pichu up from the table, and held it by the tail over his open maw. He slowly lowered the unconcious yellow mouse toward his mouth, and at that exact moment, Kyorui came to. Nate finished putting the Pichu into his mouth and shut his jaws tight. Nate had seen the pokemon wake up, but he needed to eat. He didn't chew the mouse, he instead decided to move it around in his mouth so he could swallow it whole. After two attempts to swallow the Pichu and failing, Nate finally worked the electric pokemon into his throat.
 Kyorui was terrified. He was trapped in the mouth of the Charizard he had seen faint earlier, and it immediately hit him that this was his den. He thought to himself, "I'm gonna die the meal of a Charizard. My came into the world miserable, and I'll leave that way." He then found himself being forced little by little into the throat of the dragon. Suddenly, he stopped moving.
 "Damn it!" Nate yelled at the top of his voice. "That Pichu's Static kicked in!" He was right: the mouse's ability had paralyzed the muscles in his throat, and he could feel the little pokemon pushing against the flesh of his throat. Suddenly, he heard a voice. "I should have never left home. My parents might not have known who I was, but it was better than being the meal of a Charizard!" Nate then realized why the pokemon had been on his table. It had come in after journeying away from home becuase his parents didn't know he existed. He spoke in a voice loud enough for his meal to hear. "Hey, little Pichu, tell me about your life."
 "Why do you care?!?" Kyorui said loudly, in an angry and fustrated voice, "You ate me. Why would you care about me or what I've been through? All your interested in eating me as your food." "That is not true." He heard his captor say. "I care. No one should have to live being treated like they shouldn't exist or don't have a reason to live. Please, tell me about yourself. If it helps, I'll do something I've never done before: I'll tell you my life story." "Really?" "Really." the Charizard replied.
 After the two had exchanged life stories, Kyorui could audibly hear the Charizard sniffling. "I'm so sorry that I ate you. If I would have known, I wouldn't have done what I did. I may hunt my food, but you aren't just another pokemon like the ones I prey upon. You're a very special Pichu. A Pichu that deserves way more than what life has given you." Kyorui smiled. Despite being eaten by a Charizard, despite having one of the worst lives anyone could possibly have, Kyorui was truly happy for the first time in his life.
 "Thank you Nate. Thank you for showing me that even I can find happiness in a world of pain." "I am glad to have met you, Kyorui." "I'm glad to have met you to, Nate." Kyorui replied. "I wish you could stay alive, and so you could know what a true life feels like. I promise you that if you survive, you can stay with me. I'll teach you how to speak and communicate human language, and I'll show you what a life with meaning is." "Can you think of anything?" Kyroui asked the Charizard.
 
To Be Continued...
 
 
There are two endings for this story: A digestion story and a story in which Kyorui survives.
 
For the digestion ending, see: Life of Kyorui Digestion
 
For the ending where Kyroui survives, see: Life of Kyorui Survival