A tale from the past, a gift to the present.

A zoroark was wandering the land, looking for something in particular... “It has to be somewhere...“ He kept repeating in his mind... he roamed for many years, until he gave up... he decided that instead of finding it, he would have to do it himself... so he went to a forbidden cave to his kind, sneaked in past the guards... and got his treasure. he had managed to get in unnoticed, but when he was to be outside, he was found... and followed to his lair.

-At last! I will be able to perform my experiment!- He said as he begun to expel his energy into that treasure of his. He was halfway done when he was interupted by his follower.

-Stop right there!- A powerfull lucario screamed behind him. -You give back that Lucarionite or suffer the consecuences!- They both engaged on a fierce battle, one to recover, one to keep. But in the end, the lucario won... and he claimed the corrupted Lucarionite.

His kind tried to cleanse the stone, but they couldnt clear it off the Zoroark‘s influence... so they decided to hide it deep... Where no one would find it...

That was the tale that went through my mind the moment I touched that stone... that cursed stone...

I kind of forgot to introduce myself, my name is Ryzo, 13 years old, rather pale skin, light brown-ish hair, nothing really special... Well anyways! Back to what happened!

I was wandering through a cave I found, deep in the forest, when I suddenly stumbled upon a carved wooden door, with some drawings that I couldnt really understand... but it looked... abandoned. Old. Not putrid... just old...

I tried pushing the door, but obviously that didnt worked, so I called my Lucario to help me break the door open. He was hesitant for a moment... but then he threw an aura sphere at it, and it blasted open. I thanked him, and entered the cave.

It was, suprisingly, not dark at all. Probably because my eyes had adjusted, but anyways, it was ginormous! The opposite wall wasnt even noticeable! What I did saw, thou, was a pedestal which had something on the top of it. Curiosity got me, and i got closer to it.

When I got close enough to be able to see what it was, I was... baffled. It kind of looked like a mega evolution stone... but at the same time it didnt. It had the rainbow-ish line of colors, but the external part was... wrong. It was cloudy... with black and red shades...

Aparently, something clicked inside my partner‘s head, because he suddenly became alarmed, and tried to advert me from something I couldnt see. I tried to calm him down, but it was of no use. He kept trying to pull me away... like the gem was something really dangerous...

I honestly didnt believed him, and to try to prove my point I decided to grab the stone and cleanse him from his fears. Big mistake.

At first nothing happened, as I was expecting, but then the stone felt like it was pouring something into me. Once I looked at my hand, i noticed that some weird red thing was on my hand. When I tried to shake it off thou, it didnt, which made me wonder what was that stuff. Once I dared to touch it, i felt it like it was fur! Once it had consumed all the way to my wrist, I felt my hand mutate... my fingers fusing until a paw was left and the mega stone fell to the ground. From the back of my paw, a spike protruded almost instantly, which made me flinch and almost loose my balance. Once it was past that, the fur changed into a deep blue on diferent spots, making it look like the color spiked on my wrist. The fur continued to spreadn down my arm, and until it reached my shoulder joint, my arm was pretty much the same. When it DID reach me shoulder joint thou, my arm thinned a little, the fur became red, and the joint swelled, leaving a makeshift red ring as joint. When the fur got past that, it became flufier when it began to cover my chest, and also yellow-ish. I couldnt notice because I wasnt looking, but the red and black colors from the stone were slowly dilluding... like they were being drained away.

Once that the all-consuming fur had reached my other arm, it started to undergo identical changes to look like my right one. Again, a spike instantly protruded from my left paw, and this time, I was caught off guard, since I was looking at my partner‘s face, who looked horrified, so I fell to the ground. Good thing that i did, now that i think about it, since a rather larger spike also made its way out in my chest, and that one would have surely dropped me to the ground. Then the fur growth took a direction towards my head, and it returned to the deep blue once it reached my neck, which was a little shorter than I remembered it to feel. i really couldnt see the changes anymore, so i looked around the cave to find something that gave out a reflection. i actually found a little pond, full of pure water, so i could see my changing face. Once the fur had claimed my lower half of the face, I felt it push out painfully into a muzzle, my teeth growing sharper. After it got through that, it switched colors yet again, this time to a dull gray, and covered my eyes in a linear fashion, and by the way, my eyes had changed color to a mesmerizing yellow color. Back to the fur, thou, it kept going until I couldnt see it on the mirror, but I felt it cover all the way to the back of my head... and pain exploded from there.

It was, by far, the most pain I had felt on my whole life. It was completely undescribable. Some things protruded from the back of my scull... I counted 4 from the zones in which the pain was originated, and they grew in pairs. Once they were big enough to see them on the pond, I noticed that they were grey, but dull blood red on the tips and the color seemed to spike, just like in my hands. And as soon as they stopped growing, the pain in my head stopped, and I thank whoever I have to thank it did. But from there a weird sensation lingered... I could FEEL my partner about 6 ft away from me... I could feel his anxiety, his fear for me... And that made clear for me that what those things were. They were a Lucario‘s aura sensors. But how? A lucario wasnt this color... not even shiny...

Once I looked back towards the pond, i noticed that the gray fur had spread towards my forehead, and made it also in a linear way, so it looked kind of like a mask. Past that, the fur on my head became the blood red shade, and my ears moved to the top of my head... and became pointier. 

After I stopped poking my ears, i noticed that the fur had restarted its way, this time going down from my chest, towards my waist. It kept the fluffy yellow until it reached it. Once it got there, I noticed it change into a pure silvery color, and it made a V patern around my body. Before the fur continued it‘s changes, I felt pain… that was coming from my tailbone. To be completely honest, I think that it would have hurt a lot more tan it did, but more tan likelly, my brain was just overriden because of the pain I had felt before. Anyways, I looked behind me, and noticed a blue tail, which was curved sideways on the tip, and also red in that part. Past that, I saw the color in my legs turn the red shade, and progress down. About halfway before my knees, it started to change into the blue color, but not in a spiked manner. instead, it looked rounded... in the fashion of how kids draw clouds.When it did get to my knees, I felt my legs thin considerably, and the fur changed into the grey shade in my face and aura sensors. But a really strage thing happened after that. I felt my feet grow, and my bones from past my knee and before my foot shorten, until there was only a little space between my knee and my joint in the foot. But from the way my foot was now formed, I got to the conclusion that now I walked in a digitigrade manner. Finally, the fur in my toes changed into a red, and also changed in a spiked manner. At last, the changes were complete...

I was... horrified. I had changed into Arceus knows what... and what was worse, there wasnt anybody else like me. I could have easily been broken down to tears, but i got a spark of courage, and held them in. I could feel my partner walking towards me, and when I turned my gaze towards him, he was sitting next to me. He told me that he‘d still be standing next to my side. That we‘d find a way to fix what had happened to me. He was such a kind friend... I couldnt let him see me cry. i decided to suck my feelings, and to try to see the positive side to my situation. So I gathered all my courage, stood up, helped my friend to his feet, and we both walked outside the cave... Looking for a brighter tomorrow.