Guardian of the forest

The day began with Zack, a teenage male woke up on a most special day, his 14th birthday.  He was going camping on his own for the first time in his life and he was so looking forwards to it.

"Right then, let's see if I packed everything..............tent, food, sleeping bag, lantern, torch,  stove.................and everything else is here, perfect!" Zack smiled happily.

Soon he was setting off on his journey in which something would happen to him that would change his life forever.  He was on his way to the forests edge when he thought something was watching him. Zack looked around and found nothing there and carried on to the spot he had picked out a few days before, hoping no one had taken it for themselves.

"Thank god they hadn't" he sighed as he began to set up camp at the side of a beautiful crystal clear lake with plenty of fish and drinking water. He was going to enjoy the weekend.

When all was done he lit a fire where he could cook his meal for the afternoon, just a small stake. The sizzle of cooking meat and crackle of dripping fat filled the sir as Zack turned the stake over to cook its other side.

"I know how to cook" Zack smiled and laughed as the meat started to brown on both sides now.

An hour later his steak was cooked and the healthy aroma of cooked beef filled the area.  Attracting the attention of plenty of meat eating Pokémon, but luckily they were all too nervous to approach the camp.

"I think ill walk that off" He chuckled. "But which direction?"

In the end he didn't care and just walked off in any random direction. And for a couple of hours he went around admiring the scenery, the Pokémon and everything the forest had to offer.  And everything he saw was beautiful, awe inspiring. But then he came across a stone carving of a Pokémon, at first he couldn't tell what it was but as he got closer he knew it to be a grovyle.

"Alot of skill was put into this" Zack nodded in appreciation. "And the surface is so smooth"

He was tracing his finger across the surface, it felt like marble with its incredible smoothness. But as he got to a claw he cut himself.

"Ah damn it!" He grunted and looked at the cut.

It wasn't deep at all, but for some reason it was bleeding badly. But luckily he had bandages on him so he wrapped the wound up tight.

"There we go" Zack sighed. "Only my 3rd hour into the weekend and I've already cut myself, oh well"

He decided to make his way back to the camp, still admiring the scenery, but getting drowsy.  He thought it was due to the blood loss but he knew he had stopped the bleeding, maybe his wound was infected?

"Ill clean the wound when i get back" he sighed and ran back to camp to find the med kit he had brought with him.

"Where is it?" he gulped after searching everywhere.

He couldn't find it anywhere and sighed.

"God damn it" he shouted and just fell to sleep straight away, too exhausted.

But his dream was different..............all he could see was himself.........in total darkness.

"Hey what the hell?!?" he stammered.

But then he started feeling numb, very very numb as it feels like he was made of lead.  His hands were the worst, it felt like the bones were been broken and remade, re forged and melded.  He then looked down and could've screamed, they looked like they had been hit with a hammer, everything was out of shape, the fingers, the wrists, the joints, everything.  He screamed in agony as everything began to settle. He closed his eyes, the pain was almost too much, even for a dream. But when he opened them again, He was missing two fingers, all he had now was 3 claws.

"This is only a dream, only a dream!" zack whimpered.

Then the pain began to spread into his arms.  Soon they were as miss matched and as deformed as his hands were a few moments ago. But then they too began to feel relief as the bones and muscles began to reform. But instead of growing, they Shrunk and became almost stick thin, but they felt extremely powerful. But something even more shocking.........On the sides of his arms above the wrists he was growing leaves!

"THIS HAS TO BE A DREAM!"

Suddenly his shoulders cracked and snapped as the bones were forced to break and liquefy. The liquid bone flowed into its new shape rather quickly and with alot less pain then he thought. And again, they grew to the same thickness as his arms.

"WHAT IN GODS NAME?!?"  Zack wept, even though it was a dream, it felt real.

Suddenly the cracking bone could be felt in his chest. He could feel His rib cage shrink and become a bit tighter as most of his organs began to shrink. Within several painful minutes his chest was as thin as something he had seen before..........something recent.

"Wait............am I changing into............" He gasped, realising what he may be turning into.

Suddenly he lost his balance as his ankles snapped. He knew his feet were changing now. He felt his toe bones, some of them withdraw into his body, but as some toes shrunk, 2 on each foot remained, nut started to grow into long talons, or something like it. But as Zack thought his feet were done, a claw erupted from his heel, roughly the same shape, but smaller then his toes.

"GROVYLE!" he screamed.

Zack knew more was to come. His legs suddenly snapped as the bones shrank drastically. The muscles inside the flesh grew a little bulkier as the bones set into place, his legs alot bulkier then before, not as small as his arms though.

"This has to be a dream, it wouldn't really happen!" Zack stammered.

But then his stomach began to grow a little bulkier, he was as round as a barrel now. He chuckled as he thought he looked like a pear drop now. Suddenly he felt the base of his spine tingle. He looked around and found a giant leaf sort of shaped like a v at the end. His head and skull felt like they were on fire as it formed into a muzzle similar to a grovyle's. But this wasn't the end as a giant leaf grew from the back of his head. He was complete, he was a grovyle.

"Oh wow.........im glad this is a dream!" Zack sighed and suddenly woke up.

He sighed in relief as he thought it was a dream. But as he went to pick up a towel to wipe the sweat from his forehead he saw his arm..........it was like his dream. Zack then rushed out of the tent and looked into the surface. He saw his reflection........a Grovyle.

"No............not a dream" he said. It really had happened, he was now a grovyle.

"It seems i live on the forest now" Zack sighed. But instead of feeling upset.............he was happy, happy to be a grovyle now.

"I suppose its better then been human" Zack smiled.

He looked forward to his new life as a grovyle as the inscription on the side of the statue came into his mind.

"Oh grovyle, noble protector of the forest, Thy cannot be captured by trainers for thy duty is to guard this forest from evil doers, Defend the forest from all evil, keep it pure." It translated as.

And so it began, Zack's reign as the guardian of the forest. He would protect it with all his strength and power, not letting it fall to anything or anyone.