Military Dog ch.1

Military Dog

Ch. 1: A New Life

Wow, this has been one hell of a week; between end of school trimesters, packing, and standing out in the hot sun practicing for my final review- or rather, marching in circles with a rifle just so we look good for the parents. I'm Austin Demario Bouche, I also go by the nickname Bobby Bouche, but I would prefer my middle name: Demario. It means gentle in Spanish. I'm a 15 year old male who is a Pokémon fan; my favorite is Riolu. I live in Wisconsin, but this did not happen at home. No; it happened while at military school in Missouri, so close to the end of the year. 

It was midnight, and I'd just got finished packing for the end of the school year, and I was stressed. I was just lying in bed with my iPad, checking deviantART.  "Night watch should have checked my room by now, but they haven't," I thought. It was kinda strange, but I ignored it. As I was laying there on my back, I felt something strange pushing on my back. I got up to find a blue tail sprouting on my back just under my waist. Just then a light from the night watchman shined into my room through the door window.

"Aww, crap. Caught again..... Sir?" I said and open the door, not recognizing his face. "Wait a second, are you new here?" I asked. He simply looked at me, then my tail, and back at me, and then pushed a button on the flashlight. "You're one of them!" A purple gas sprayed into my face and I passed out.

I finally woke up hours later to find that I was in a van, and couldn't move. "Is this another one of those survival hostage training things that they like to do?" I asked myself. "At least this one seems easier to take on."

I had to twist my hand to pull out my lock pick that was in between my watch and my arm. I got the cuffs off, and opened the back door of the van.

"This going to hurt..... A lot." I said to myself and jumped out the back. Luckily, the van was going through the grass when I jumped out. As soon as I hit the ground, pain shot up my arm. I got up to see the van slowly stopping, so I took off running not looking back; funny thing is I was wearing my BDU (battle dress uniform, green forest cameo) because I think that they're comfortable to sleep in. I ran to the forest and hid.

"Oh no, my tail! This won't do," I thought to myself, so I got up and found a mud pile to smother my new tail in. When I was finished, it didn't look too bad, so I went deeper into the forest to hide. I heard foot step and shouting pass by my hiding spot.
"Close one," I thought. "I don't think that they are too friendly towards people from my school." 
"Sir, we can't find him!" I heard one say. "Well, keep looking. He couldn't have gone far." Another voice replied.

I held my breath as they passed me. After they passed, I found a tree to hide in for the night. I thought to myself, "How could things get any worse?" when the branch that I was on snapped. Luckily, there was no one nearby to hear it, so I climbed the tree again and fell asleep.

The next morning, I woke up to find a spider on my chest. Of course, I freaked out and fell out of the tree. I hate spiders; I really don't care if they're poisonous or not! I got up to find everything had gotten bigger- no, I'd gotten smaller! I went to brush myself off and saw that I was covered in blue and some black fur! "So much for trying to blend in," I thought. I heard a stick snap, and without thinking took off running.

"This has to be a bad dream right?" I thought desperately. I just remembered I how I jumped out of the van and that was painful! "Think Demario, think! What do you do in this kind of situation? ...Damn right, just run like hell!" I thought to myself.

There was a huge log that I saw was hollow, so I crawled into it to catch my breath. This is basically what happened for about a week. By the end of the week, I was a full Riolu; hell at this point I was ready to just die. I do remember at one point of running, I started running in circles because I fell in the same damn hole three times. I was thinking to myself out loud, "Damn it death, I hate you! You think this is funny or something? Just take me already finish me this sucks I hate my life!" Yep I have officially gone insane temporarily, but the good thing is I haven't died! Or is that the bad news? Hmm... I really don't know; I haven't slept very well while I've been out here.

There was rustling in the woods. "Why can't they just let me be?!" I shouted as I got up to start running again. I was swaying and stumbling as I stood like someone who has had one too-many drinks of beer (I don't and will not drink). I couldn't even run in a straight line any more, and even stumbled a few times until I tripped. I couldn't get up, and didn't have the strength to "This is it then, I guess I'm done for. They got me! This is how it all ends then! All that work gone to waste!" All I could do was sit there, listen as the steps got close, and waited for the end to come.

Then there was a voice, "Hey kid, you ok? Come on, can you move?" It asked. I couldn't respond; the most I could do was groan.

Then I felt a gentle bite on my back, and watched the ground lower. I looked back to see a Jolteon holding me in its mouth, and it took off running with me in its teeth. I don't remember much because I passed out…..