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6. If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
These guidelines will be added to/modified as the situation arises. Questions/concerns? Go!
That's right! Right here on this post. Here's how it works, I think:
1. Anyone can reply to this post with commentfic. Anyone can start, and anyone can continue. That's right, even you!
2. Any genre, any ship, any fandom. Crossovers okay!
3. One commentfic thread is allowed to branch off into several commentfic threads. TITS, you can click 'Reply to This' at any point in an established thread.
4. You can comment with just one sentence, or you can go up to the character limit. If you exceed the character limit, post two comments. Whatever.
5. Threads will go for as long as they have to.
6. If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
These guidelines will be added to/modified as the situation arises. Questions/concerns? Go!
Merlin/Pokémon
'This' turns out to be a strange animal, sitting on Arthur's bed and looking around as if lost. It is gripping a bone tightly in both paws, and its head is almost completely covered, worryingly, by what looks like another animal's skull.
"Yes, Merlin, I can see that," Arthur says, rolling his eyes, when Merlin tells him what it is. "What's it called? I've never seen anything like it."
"If I knew what it was called," Merlin says, "don't you think I would've mentioned that?"
"You're useless," Arthur says, rolling his eyes. "Take its helmet off so we can see its face."
"Why can't you do it?" Merlin demands.
Arthur gives him a look.
Manservant. Right.
Merlin approaches the animal, carefully, and puts out a hand to touch the skull. The animal hits him over the fingers with its bone, which hurts, and then bursts into tears.
Merlin and Arthur stare at it.
"I think maybe we should just ask Gaius," Merlin says.
"What you have just described to me," Gaius says, giving Merlin a very strange look, "is a Cubone."
"Great," Merlin says. "What do we do with it?"
"Well, I think we consider how in the world you could have seen one," Gaius says. "It is a creature of legend. Cubone do not exist."
"Right," Merlin says. "Well, it might not exist, but it's here. In the castle."
Gaius raises an eyebrow, and then there's a knock on the door and Morgana enters, carrying what looks like a fox cub in her arms.
"I'm sorry," she says, keeping her voice low. "I think it's been attacked. I don't know whether you can treat it, but..."
"Pix," the fox calls, weakly, and Merlin suddenly realises that he has never seen a fox with six tails before.
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"Stop it, you're being intrusive." she says and brings it to show Gaius.
"I think," Gaius says, eyebrowing the fox, "it is time for me to look in my Ye Olde Pokemon Handebooke."
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"Merlin," Arthur says, "go and get the Cubone from my chambers."
"Merlin," Gaius says, sternly, "is my apprentice. He may need to know how to treat Pokémon in the future. He is staying here."
Arthur stares. "I'm the Crown Prince. I'm not supposed to be running around fetching animals."
"Morgana, go with him," Gaius says. "You can bear the indignity between you."
Morgana, evidently too amused by Arthur's protests to object, nods.
"You just said it's legendary," Arthur says. "We don't know what it could do."
"According to the legends, Pokémon do not attack humans."
"It attacked Merlin!" Arthur points out. Whilst Merlin thinks that this is a fair point, he is not entirely happy about Arthur using it to justify Merlin's going instead.
"Unless provoked," Gaius amends.
Arthur seems about to protest some more, but all of them are somewhat distracted when the sleeping fox gives a small sigh, and with the sigh comes a flame that sets Gaius' much-abused bench alight.
"Is it magical?" Arthur demands, staring at it. "I should tell my father."
"Mention none of this to the king until we know why they are here," Gaius says, beating the fire out with a cloth. "Cubone," he adds, after a moment, "cannot breathe fire."
Arthur is fairly easily persuaded after that.
Merlin quickly realises why Gaius sent Morgana and Arthur out of his quarters; the Handebooke is a strange red object, not really a book, which displays changing pictures and speaks in a voice unlike that of any human Merlin has ever heard. It is obviously magical.
"Cubone," the Handebooke says, when Gaius has fiddled with it a little. "The Lonely Pokémon. Its mother dies in childbirth, and so it wears her skull to remember her. Because of this, nobody has ever seen Cubone's real face."
There is a short silence, broken only by the snuffles of the fox.
"We should probably avoid mentioning the origin of the skull to Uther or Arthur," Gaius says, eventually.
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When Arthur and Morgana return, the Cubonr clasped in Morgana's arms like an infant and Arthur throwing glances over his shoulder every five steps, Gaius hastily stows the Handbooke under his massive book on anatomy.
"So, Arthur, how exactly did this creature appear?" Gaius asks.
"It just appeared on my bed," Arthur says, and Merlin nods in agreement. "There was a mysterious red light shaped a little bit like the creature and then it just...appeared."
"The same thing happened with this fox," Morgana says, setting the Cubone down next to the six-tailed fox on Gaius' bed.
"What exactly is all this?" Arthur demands suddenly, gesturing at the Pokemon curled up between Gaius' sheets.
"Shh!" Merlin whispers, pointing at the door to his bedroom. "There's something in my room!"
Meow. Meowww.
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Morgana wakes up from a terrifying dream to feel something snuggling close under her arm. She looks down and it's the strangest creature she's ever seen, like a beaver with a duck's bill. She yelps and it cries out, "Psy-ay-ayyyyy!", covering its eyes with its flipperlike paws.
At this, she stops and looks at its pathetic little face. "There, there," she says. "It's okay. I didn't mean to scare you. Were you having nightmares too?"
Psyduck nods.
"Well, you can sleep with me if you want. I'll try not to wake you up."
Neither of them wakes again in the dark, though once Morgana tosses and turns for a while, whimpering, and Psyduck whimpers too in his sleep, nudging her ear with his bill. It seems to calm her sleep.
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The dragon wakes Merlin up in the middle of the night again, practically shouting his name. Meowth wakes up too as Merlin suddenly sits up in bed, and sinks his claws into Merlin's arm, yowling Meeeoooowth!!
"Ow!" Merlin says, trying to shake the strange cat off. To the dragon, he demands, "What do you want?"
Meeerrlinnnn the dragon rumbles.
When he gets down to the cave Merlin stares balefully up at the Dragon. "I've had a long day, you know. There's been an infestation or something."
"I am aware of that, Merlin," the dragon purrs. "All will become clear in due time. I would like you to meet my friend, Merlin. He may not be as articulate as I am, but he and I go way back." He gestures with a claw and Merlin peers around the corner to see another enormous dragon.
"How did he get down here?"
"So many questions, so few of them the right ones."
"Well, then. Er. Excuse me, I've lost my manners. What's... your name?" Merlin inclines his head politely toward the dragon. He can see faintly in the torchlight that it's an orangey color, brighter than the Dragon.
"CHAAARIZARD." It spits out a little fire unexpectedly and Merlin flinches.
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"Yes, indeed," the Dragon intones. "For you see Merlin, great evil will sweep over Camelot. Only with the help of some allies from another land will the young Pendragon be able to vanquish these enemies, for they have powers beyond his."
"You mean...magic?"
"It is not magic, but a power greater still."
"What power?"
"That I cannot tell you, young warlock. You must discover this in your own time."
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The next morning, Merlin is running errands for Gaius. He's in a hurry and is rushing across the courtyard when he sees the young man.
He has hair as black as Morgana's that sticks up oddly and wears some sort of headgear with a bill resembling a duck. His clothes are brightly colored and he is struggling against the guards.
"I told you, my name is Ash Ketchum and I'm here to see Arthur Pendragon!"
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