pokemon: eldritch

by lichmewtwo

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Princess Celestia, Crossover, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad, Other, Princess Luna, Original Character
Length: 1586

a young earth pony becomes a pokemon trainer and runs off to meet adventure and his destiny

in this alternate universe luna rules equestria, whereas celestia is an insane princess who was locked away by a skilled pokemon trainer.

now a young earth pony named Dash wants to go on a journey of his very own, not knowing what sort of interdimensional monstrosity awaits him.

an mlp/pokemon/cthulhu crossover and my first fanfic. constructive criticism is accepted.

Published 2012-05-25 23:54:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-05-25 23:54:01 UTC

beginnings

CHAPTER 1: The beginning

Dash is a young earth pony, around 16 years old, and he has finally decided to go on a pokemon journey of his own. He woke up bright and early that morning, right at the crack of dawn, he ran down the stairs to get some breakfast and shoved it down as fast as he could. He then ran out the door to get his pokemon from Professor Goat.

When he got to the professors lab he realized that he came too early, seeing as the gates were still locked. “Crap” he said as he facehoofed. “I guess I’ll just have to wait for him to be awake” he said to himself.

After a 2 hour wait the professor finally came out to unlock his gate. “What do you want from me?” Professor Goat inquired. “Well, I was hoping you could give me a pokemon so I can go on an adventure” Dash said with a smile.

Dash and the Professor walked into the lab, and Dash was amazed by the incredible amount of information surrounding him, Dash had always been the studious type, always wanting to know more about the world. As they moved through the piles and piles of research, Dash noted a few pokeballs on a table. “What sort of pokemon are in those?” Dash inquired.

“What? Those old things? Oh they’re just remnants of my past as a pokemon trainer, would you like one? If you don’t want one of them I have plenty other pokemon for you to choose from.” Before the professor finished Dash had ran straight to the pokeballs on the table. “Oh! What’s this one? And what about this one? Or how ‘bout this one?” Dash was so excited that he almost didn’t notice the professor coming to tell him which was which.

“The one on the left is oshawott, the middle is charmander, and the right is turtwig.” The professor explained.

“Really? Hmm… which one do I choose?” it took Dash about an hour to finally decided on charmander, which he nicknamed Slayer.

“Alright, now that I have a pokemon, it’s time to head out! Thanks for the pokemon professor!” with that Dash went of to begin his journey through Equestria.

"Princess, we have detected a disturbance in the arcane forces." the royal guard said in the calmest way possible.
"I see, send a team of skilled wizards to investigate. You never know what might be awakening." Princess Luna was calm despite the fact that an ancient enemy may be arising.
"Right away your majesty, is there anything else you need?" the guard was not clear on what the actual threat was, but he knew it was deadly.
"Yes. begin a tournament to find a skilled pokemon trainer. the winner of this tournament will be our champion in this battle against our most ancient of enemies." Luna said with confidence.
"Very well then. I shall see to it that only the best of pokemon trainers are found for this tournament." the guard thought that using pokemon against an ancient evil was stupid, but it wasn't his place to say the ruler of equestria was wrong. especially since it was pokemon that defeated the insane queen celestia.
"you are dismissed." Luna said.
"yes your majesty" with that the guard left to begin the preparations for the tournament.

"I hope we can find a skilled enough trainer to defeat the old ones with" Luna thought to herself as she prepared for an announcement about the tournament.

In the dungeons of Canterlot castle, the incredibly well protected cell of the insane Queen Celestia was beginning to lose it's magic seal. Celestia sensed this, and began drawing a magical sign in the ground, she wanted to help the escape of her eldritch masters. When she finished drawing the sign, she began chanting something in a language nopony should know.
When the incantation was complete, she had a vision of how she was to help in the release of her dark masters. "Yes my masters, i shall do as you say" she said while laughing maniacally.

Authors note: hey i hope you guys enjoy this fanfic of mine. it is my first, so i dont expect it to be that great. and yes, putting three things in the same world is maybe a bit much but it is the first idea i had lol.

first steps

CHAPTER 2: First steps

After running for awhile, Dash found himself in the Everfree forest. He decided to find out what a Charmander looked like, since he never really studied specific pokemon, only the types and moves. He removed the pokeball from his saddle bag and pressed the small button in the middle, causing it to grow to its normal size. A second press of the button caused it to open and release a small, golden, reptilian creature.

The small creature looked up at Dash and said “hello, I am Charmander, and I’m guessing that you are my new owner?”
“Yep! Wow, I never knew Charmander were gold colored!” Dash exclaimed joyfully.
“Well most of us aren’t, for the most part we are orange, but I am what’s known as a ‘shiny’ pokemon. A very rare breed that is differently colored than the norm.” the Charmander said with pride.
“That is so cool! Oh, and is it alright if I call you ‘slayer’?” Dash asked.
“I would prefer being called by my species name, but since you are my owner you may call me whatever you want.” Charmander explained.
“Well I certainly don’t want to annoy my first pokemon with a name it doesn’t want, so I guess I will just call you Charmander for now.” Dash said.

With that they went deeper into the forest, and they noticed that the sun was going down so they set up camp. As they slept that night, Dash dreamed of a place of insanity, death, and chaos. It was not a chaos like that of Discord; it was a dark chaos, with nothing but suffering and sadness inside.

Where am I? Dash thought. He saw before him a desecrated city, full of fallen royal guard, soaked in blood. He saw shadows that moved faster than light, and a gargantuan creature that could only be described as horrifying. It was humanoid, with giant claws at the end of its hands, huge demonic wings sprouting from its back, and its writhing tentacles coming straight from where its mouth should be, and to top it all off, it was colored a sickening green like that of toxic waste.

The creature seemed to speak to Dash. It was in an insane language that Dash could not understand. He felt that this thing was ancient beyond belief, and that it was a great evil that should never have existed. As soon as the beast was finished speaking, a horde of ponies that had bulging, fishlike eyes came from the shadows, and slowly came towards Dash. Just as they were about to close in on Dash, he awoke.

He was panting heavily; he noticed that he was sweating. What was that? Dash thought, unsure what to make of the dream. Well… it was a mere nightmare. I better get to sleep so Charmander and I can train tomorrow. And so, Dash went back to sleep.

The next morning, Dash woke up to see Charmander looking through his saddle bags. “Don’t look in those!” Dash exclaimed.
Hearing this, Charmander took her head out of the saddle bag.
“I just wanted to have some breakfast” Charmander explained.
“Okay, I’ll make something for us” Dash said, sounding very tired.

After eating breakfast Dash decided it was time for some training, so the two went off looking for something to fight. After three hours of wandering around and finding absolutely nothing to fight, they sat down to rest their legs. “Damn it! This is a forest! It should be crawling with pokemon to fight!” Dash said angrily.

While the two are sitting they see something move in the shadows.
“What was that?” Charmander asked. Then, a young Pegasus came out of the shadows. “Hello! I see you have a pokemon, wanna battle?” the young Pegasus asked.
“Umm, sure!” Dash said.
“Alright, but I’ll have you know that my Rattata is in the top percentage of Rattata!” the youngster said with a smile.

“Go, Rattata!” the youngster said as he threw a pokeball, releasing the Rattata.
“Are you ready for this Charmander?” Dash asked.
“When you are!”

The two pokemon got into battle position, awaiting their master’s orders. “Charmander, use scratch!” immediately Charmander ran at the Rattata to attack it with sharpened claws.
The Rattata attempted to dodge but wasn’t fast enough and was hit in a critical area, causing its blood to flow from the small wound in its side. “Oh crap! Rattata, use tackle!” the Rattata ran at Charmander with all its might, but Charmander swiftly dodged the attack and delivered a second scratch attack.

With that attack, the youngsters Rattata fainted and Dash won the battle. “What?! How did you beat my Rattata?” the youngster was not very happy about his loss. He recalled the pokemon into its pokeball and gave Dash the reward money.
“Wait, I get money for winning? That is awesome! You did great Charmander!”
“Thanks! That Rattata wasn’t very tough though.”

The youngster then left to heal his pokemon, while Dash and Charmander talked to one another about their victory.