A Week's Grace
By Sawyer521
I slumped my cap over my eyes and closed my eyes. We were in the forest and I was training my Pokémon for the upcoming gym battle. I decided they could use a break, so I let them play around in the opening that was nearby while I'll rest myself.
I heard rustling in the bushes and a sound that sounded like pots and pans clanging together. I straightened my cap and got up. I walk towards the noise and then it suddenly stop. I lean forward to the bush, trying to poke my head through the bush to see what's on the other side.
"Hi!" shouted a girl who has stuck her head through the bush. I let out a yell and fell backwards.
"Oh sorry!" she said as she came around the bushes and helped me out. "Didn't mean to scare you."
"It's okay." I said as I dusted myself off.
"My name's Kate." She said smiling.
"I'm Jack." I said, I held out my hand and she shook it. "So what brings you out here?"
"Well…I was looking for ingredients." She said.
"Ingredients for what?" I asked.
"A magic potion." She whispers in my ear.
"A magic potion?" I said with confusing.
She nods with excitement.
"I know!" she shouts. "It's pretty awesome isn't it?"
"Yeah, sure." I said. "Well, I should get back training my Pokémon."
"Ooooh." She said. "Can I see them?"
"Yeah, sure." I said as I led her to the opening.
As I entered the opening, Timburr was showing off to Mienshao by juggling his log. She clapped when he caught it in his hand.
"Impressive." I said as I clapped as well.
He looks at me with embarrassment and smiles.
"Awww, how cute." Kate said as she rushes up to Mienshao and gives her a hug. "You have a Mienshao!"
I heard a swooping sound and turned around. Unfezant landed behind me.
"Hello, Unfezant." I said as I stroke her head. She rubs my hand as I stroke her. "Very nice landing."
Kate releases Mienshao from her hug and rushes to meet Unfezant. "You have an Unfezant too!" she shouts as she starts to stroke Unfezant head.
"I wouldn't do that if I were…" I didn't get a chance to finish my sentence as Unfezant used air cutter on her. It narrowly misses cutting her shirt.
"Yeah…" I said. "She doesn't like being handle by other people."
"I'll try and keep that in mind." She said. Just then, Dewott, Buizel and Lilligant walk into the opening. Dewott and Buizel looked wet. There was a lake nearby, so they must have had a dip to relax.
She lets out a gasp and rushes up to meet all three of them.
"You have a Dewott, Buizel and a Lilligant!" she shouts. "You're so lucky!"
"Don't you have a Pokémon?" I asked her.
"Uhhh…" she hesitated. "Want to try out that magic potion?"
"Depends on what it does…" I said.
"It's a secret." She said as she gave me a wink. "Just let me get the ingredient and I'll make some."
"Can't wait…" I mumbled as I slumped against a tree.
I watched her set up a fire and a tiny table. She pulled out a couple of ingredients and placed them in a saucepan. She adds a little bit of water, which I made Dewott supply. She finishes it off with a little pinch of some sort of powder.
She sprinkles the powder in and the saucepan lights up with a green light. A green smoke rises up from the saucepan. Kate smiles as she places the saucepan on the table.
"Now we got to wait two hours." She said. "You want to put out the fire."
I nodded and twist my head to Dewott. "Dewott, use water gun please?" I said.
She puts out the flame and we waited.
Finally two hours were up and the sun was already setting. I decided to set up camp and I set up my tent and spent the rest of the time inside it.
"Alright, it's ready." She called to me. I groan as I pulled myself out of the tent and to the table. My Pokémon followed behind me as we crowded around the table.
She pours the potion into a small vial and hands it to me.
"This should make you feel pretty good." She says.
I held the vial to my eyes. The potion was green and was giving off some sort of glow. I let out a sigh and put the vial to my lips and downed the potion.
It tasted like sour and it made my mouth pucker up.
"So…" she said. "How do you feel?"
"I'm feeling pretty good." I said. "It might have taken affect…" I stopped and my eyes snapped open. My head started to pound and I felt my legs give way as I collapse to the ground.
I must of have blacked out as I was looking towards the sky with Kate and my Pokémon looking over me.
"Ugh…" I groaned. "What happened?"
"Raise your hands." She said. "And you'll find out."
I raised my hands. But they weren't my hands. They were paws. Coated in a blue fur. I raised my head to see I have shrunken and I was wearing a blue dress like cloth over my waist.
Attached to it were two scallops. I wiggled my black feet. I felt my face, I had grown whiskers and my ears were on top of my head. I felt something move behind me and I felt behind my back.
I grabbed onto a thick, flat wriggling object behind me. I sat up and turned, I had grown an otter like tail. I got up and I awkwardly try to move myself, I nearly fell over again but Dewott put me around her shoulder.
"Can you take me to the lake?" I asked her.
She nodded and we walked to the lake.
I shuffled to the water and looked down. My reflection looked back at me, but it wasn't me. It was a Dewott. I grabbed my face again and felt at the whiskers. They were real.
I moved away from the water and looked back to my Pokémon; they were staring back at me. Kate was stroking her chin.
I soon found myself rocking back and forth beneath a tree, with my Pokémon trying their best to comfort me.
"Jack." Kate said. "You should calm down."
"Calm down!" I yelled at her. "I'm a Dewott! How can I calm down when I just have been turned into a Pokémon!"
"It's not a big deal." She said.
"You can change me back right…?" I asked her.
"Well…" she said. "I must of have made a mistake with the ingredients. So I think I can make an antidote."
She got out this tiny book and she began flicking through it.
"What's that?" I asked her.
"Oh, just my potion book…" she muttered as she continued flicking through it.
"She's weird." Said a voice beside me.
"Yeah, tell me about it…" I muttered. I turned my head to see Dewott next to me.
"Wait a minute…" I said. "Did you just talk?"
"I didn't." Kate said as she flipped through the book.
"Wait..." Dewott said. "You can understand me."
"Yeah…" I said. "I can."
Dewott clamps her hands to her mouth and begins jumping up and down.
"Uhhh, Kate." I said. "I can understand Dewott."
"Well you are a Pokémon." She said. "You should be able to understand them."
She stops on a page and begins to skim through it.
"Here it is." She said.
"The antidote?" I asked.
"No, the potion I made." She said as she turned the book to me and showed me a picture. "The transforming potion."
"Is there anything about an antidote?" I asked.
"Let me see." She said as she scrolls through it. "Here it is."
She starts muttering to herself.
"Good news is." She said as she slammed the book shut and shoved it into her pocket. "I can make it tomorrow."
"Really!" I said with a smile.
"Bad news is…" she said. "It takes a week for it to be fully ready."
My smile got wiped off my face and a slumped down.
"Oh hey." Said she. "Cheer up."
I let out a sigh and got up.
"I'm going to bed…" I muttered. "Wake me up in the morning…"
I walked to my tent and zipped it opened and walked in. I let out a sigh as I dropped into my sleeping bag and ducked inside.
"This will be a hard week…" I muttered as I closed my eyes.