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Me.
The feeling, the emptiness and resignation.
The darkness around, so similar to the one in my heart, now disturbed by the weak light coming from the entrance of my cave.
It just stopped raining.
I made my way through the grey and smooth tunnel. The sunlight outside wasn't intensive, devitalized by a dense crown of dark leaves growing on tall and old trees. It was peaceful, trees were softly swinging and humming. The narrow rapid stream on my left was with noise spreading into the lake shimmering with the reflected gold sunlight.
There was a movement out of the corner of my eye. I shot a glance but I didn't see anyone there. It was only one of many puddles and the only thing that was moving in there was my own reflection. From the blue sheet of water was a tired-looking umbreon looking at me, his black fur very messy and dishevelled, his eyelids showing that sleep was what he should be doing right now. I got closer to the puddle but as I was walking my reflection started to change. My fur lost its black colour and become yellow, my short tail change from bushy to a long thin leaf, and when I stood close to the puddle I saw I had suddenly changed into grass form. I could clearly see my eyes, white-blue on the edge turning slowly into bright-grey in the middle and light-green in the centre, with small tiny brown dots on the edge of the left one, which could be only spotted upon looking closer.
My eyes were the only one thing that was remaining the same in every of my forms. I quickly looked away from my reflection and shook my head. They were for sure hypnotising and they proved that many times.
I had the morning routine, I started my walk along of the mountainside. The forest around me was dark: this part of the wood was always covered in the shadow of the mighty 'U'-shaped mountain. The environment didn't change here for years. Trees, bushes, some thick grass and fallen branches. It took me all morning before I arrived the edge of the wood which I claimed as mine, then I turned to the right. Going deeper into the forest and wander off the mountainside I saw much older trees with curved root pending from the ground overlaid by fallen leaves which wind wasn't able to tear from tight embrace of roots. Some of the older trees that didn't survive the last extreme weather were lying randomly blocking small paths which I walked for many years. Not natural to this place were burnt holes in the ground, that was an effect of my night activity. When storm arrived I didn't manage to hide in time to avoid this completely, the electricity of bolts make me change to electric type, very unstable form of mine. I have only indirect control of my changing-type ability, if I expose myself to the sun I can change my appearance into an espeon or by staying in the water into a vaporeon but if I lose contact with each element I also lose each type and another will replace it. I barely remember what happened this night but that was very exhausting.
Suddenly I found a track of recent prints, which were leading to the nearby lake. I followed the path of prints and after a while of walking found its owner in the small beach of the lake. Cream and brown fur, short paws, a long tail and a stupid facial expression, without this small paws he would look like some kind of furred snake. He or she was looking just like my last dinner but with one difference, this one was much bigger than the last one, he was almost twice my height.
I would be very happy to meet him at night, but now it was a day. In the sky was still early morning sun. I didn't want to risk a fight, especially while I had a less risky option how to deal with this meat-bag. I left my hiding spot, walked to this creature and sat down behind him, waiting for his attention, I was waiting and waiting and waiting but he was still starting at dark water.
"Hkhnhee," I said harshly. That wasn't supposed to sound like that, it was very long since I had to speak but I never thought I will forget how to do so. I thought I need to have some practice.
On the unexpected sound, the brown hairy creature immediately jumped, scared.
Why didn't I killed him instantly? Ahh yes, a dragging part may be a challenge.
He looked at me, breathing sharp and heavy.
"You scared me half to death, do..." he didn't finish before I looked directly into his eyes, immediately overwhelmed him by the blue glow of mine pupils. He froze and his sight started to be blurry. My eyes were working even on me, reflected by the mirror and I didn't have much control over them when they break mind and forcing its user to be temporary upon control.
I met only one pokemon who was fully immune to this effect. She liked staring at my eyes until I told her who I am.
I started walking to the cave, didn't lose my glance from my prey's eyes and he followed me. He probably was now lost somewhere in his mind in some kind of a dream. I smiled to myself,
This couldn't be easier.
I started quietly singing under my breath or at last, I tried. I still need to remind myself how to use my tongue, so it was understandable only for me.
While I was singing I lured him to my cave. After the entrance of the grotto was a fork, the tunnel on the right was leading to the medium sized room where I usually sleep. I chose a tunnel on the left which led me to another room which was much bigger, the ceiling was very high, with many pendant stalactites. There was no floor, almost the whole cave was a big underground lake, with a single flat rock in the centre.
I forced my powers to change me much faster from the grass to the dark type. Forcing for the fast change wasn't something that I should do as I could easily overload myself and lose my powers temporarily, but currency situation required that.
When I had my bigger fangs of umbreon, I immediately jumped on my dinner's throat but I missed. Surprisingly, he was able to quickly stand on his back legs, so I hit my head in his long neck. He lost his balance and before I could attack again, he flipped over to the underground pond. There was only a single sharp scream before he was melted by the pond of toxic liquid.
From what I discovered I know that I emit some kind of bad energy and if I would stay close to something too long it starts to change to the worst version of this self, so this was more like a pond of acid than water but it was safe for me. I know most of my ...different abilities very well. I normally liked this pond as it was making my calm and relaxed but now it upsets me because it just ate my meal.
Fuck.
While I was sitting on the flat rock in the centre of my cursed underground lake, blaming myself that I couldn't even catch something to eat, I could hear many steps and voices entering my underground home. They were running inside and a moment after I jumped off the rock, first one entered the high grotto. He was a tall, jet black canine creature with white curved horns on his head and some bone-like things on his back, his muzzle was bright-red almost orange. After him were three similar black pre-evolution dogs without horns and problems to fit themselves in the tunnel. I needed oxygen so I forced myself for change my form again and …I overloaded my powers.
That wasn't any visible effect but I could feel that I would lose my current form in less than a minute.
Luckily, there was a single, underwater tunnel, my emergency exit. I swam as fast as I could, it was impossible to make it to the exit before I lose my form but I needed to try. The tunnel was like serpentine going right, left, down, right and up. I never before manage to swim that fast and I was almost at the end of the tunnel, it was right here where I lost my fish like tail and with him my ability to breath underwater.
I immediately become much, much slower. Up, up, up, I was doing everything that I could with my shorts paws of eevee to get out of the water, my wet fur became heavy dragging me down, my lungs felt like they wanted to explode. I penetrated a sheet of the water and hit that wall of the air, gasping. I made it, I was standing on the ground, on the opposite side of the mountain. All wet, I chose a direction to the left and started running through the forest. I needed to find my safe place which I prepared for the situation like this. A terrain here was tawny and made of rocks. Many stones in any size were lying randomly and plants were growing between them fulfilling every possible empty space, I could recognise some of them like pasque flowers, prickly pears and yuccas. The prickly pear flower pads were in a gray-green colour that means they were …
"Ohh!"
What happened? Did I hit something? I felt like in a dream. I shouldn't be looking at flowers while I'm running. I only hoped no one would find me when I was like this, but now I had a while to think.
How did these hunters found my home? Did they track me? I remember I was focused on my prey to keep him following me. So tracking was possible.
What was my plan now, I couldn't go back and fight without my alternative forms and I had only a small stock of food in my second save place It could be even a month before I get my ability back. Maybe should I go to the human city? I was doing this before in similar situations when I overloaded my ability, living in a sewage system and eating what I would find, most important, hunters won't follow me to the city.
I supposed to avoid every eeveelution in my neutral form, they usually stay in packs and it would be hard to explain, especially when I'm in my normal-type appearance, that I don't want to live with a randomly met pack and it can be dangerous for them. This is one of two creatures which I don't want to hunt no matter how hungry I would be, they are just too similar to me, only without that cursing, everything around thing and an ability to changing form, and they aren't from the distortion universe.
Maybe should I enjoy some sleep to pass my 'immobile' time? Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
I woke up with a terrible headache. A something or rather someone was carrying me, I could feel the grasp of teeth on the back of my neck and I definitely didn't feel the ground under my paws.
Did these hunters find me?
Even if so, they shouldn't be able to recognise me, I doubted that they really saw me as eevee, generally, I highly doubted that anyone saw me as eevee. This grasp was too gentle for trappers. I could smell a dim scent of smoke and felt a warm breath from probably a muzzle of this thing. It wasn't just warm, it was eerily hot. As I opened my eyes, I saw that I was in the forest which I didn't recognise, trees were short with small simple leaves in natural green colour, a forest cover was very poor in comparison to this which I used to see. It was only growth with some rare mosses and bushes with small red fruits on it. Close below me was a dirty, dry and tight road. My transport was walking slowly but rhythmic. I looked up to see who was keeping me below the ground. This critter was very familiar for me, it was one of my rarest and most useless appearances. Normally this being could breathe fire but out of all the elements, I was allowed only to use the electricity. She was in her early-mid age. When she saw that I m starting at her, she placed me on the dirt road.
"Hello, I was worried you will never wake up. My name is Rea, what's yours?" asked me a female flareon.
What was my third point in my plan? To avoid every eeveelution and first thing what I've done was that I ran into the closest possible one. My name, which one should I use? Should I think about a new name or use one of my old names.
"Are you there? What's your name?" she broke my train of thoughts.
"Sinar," I said. Nooo! Why did I use this name out of all the names which I had? "How long was I unconscious?" I asked. To my surprise, she understood me perfectly. Maybe in this form, I could speak correctly or my short session of reminding myself how to speak gave some effect.
"Well, I found you two days ago, you were running and you weren't looking where you were going so you hit a rock in front of me with your head," she explained. "I guessed that you were running from something, so I picked you and escaped this rocky place, I thought you are lost so I kept you with me, and now we are here."
Goodbye, my favourite cave, and welcome 'here'. Two days is long enough to be far away from the last familiar place which I could know. To my advantage was the fact that she was carrying my all this time so I hadn't left my scent which could be used to track me. No matter how much I wanted to avoid her at first, she proves that she may be useful. Also to have her around could be a good idea, not many will try to mess with the fire type, and I was almost defenceless in my currently neutral body.
My stomach reminds me that I was starving by a loud growl.
"Oh, Are you hungry? Wait here, I will find something to for you," said Rea, leaving me on the road.
A source of the transport, my own bodyguard and a chef, I was sure that I would accept her company for awhile.
Why did I think she would bring me some tasty meat? Before me were lying the same fruits which we passed five minutes ago. She was staring at me and waiting.
"Something is wrong?" she asked me in a kind tone, seeing that I hadn't even started to eat.
"I can't e... I mean I don't like them," what if she doesn't eat meat? I couldn't just blow my cover telling her about my food preferences.
"Everyone likes them, you just need to try," she tried to encourage me.
"I'm not 'everyone' and I won't try them," I knew what will happen after I will try them.
"Ooh just open your mouth," now she was treating me like a cub, maybe I was looking like one but this was getting me angry.
"Didn't you hear me?! I wo..." before I could end my sentence, she put one of these currant-like fruits in my mouth and covered my nose and mouth with a paw. I gulped. "You idiot," I said angrily, as she removed her paw.
What a crazy female! She is treating me like a cub and then she is forcing me to eat something that I don't want to eat. This was too late now, I could feel my jaw disagree to food which 'everyone' liked and I only manage to get off the road before I throw up my stomach contents. Uh, and I thought it was empty.
Third hour. It was the third hour while I was lying on my side and my stomach was doing a lot of cramps trying to prove me that he has still something inside.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't know you can't eat berries, I will bring you a something different next time, maybe some meat," she apologised to me again.
So she can eat meat, and that was a berry? I thought it was the currant.
I was feeling much better now, not because she said she was sorry but because it was three hours and only the one small fruit.
"Just don't force...ecch...me to eat something again," I said, still in cramps.
When some time passed, she spoke again.
"So what were you doing so close to this mountain?" she asked me, " I heard some scary stories about some monster and that he is catching everyone who will enter his territory."
Catching?
"You heard a legend about this 'monster'?" I was curious to finally hear this story about me and tried to avoid her first question. "The locals told you?"
"Yes they told me but I wasn't paying much attention because there weren't making completely any sense, they don't even know how this thing looks like, they gave this thing the name Bieda." So, I'm a thing with a weird name.
"ouhh,"- my career will remain mystery for me
"But, why you were so close to this mountain?" she asked again with a frown, I didn't want to answer, I needed to lie "There are no packs of our kind near this forest, do you live somewhere nearby?"
Your kind, not ours.
"Ehh, I was lost, my hideout is on the south side of the mountain far in the wood, and I live alone. " That wasn't completely a lie.
"I'm sorry I didn't know, I think I will be able to help you after I end some of my business." I didn't care what her 'business' was so I didn't ask.
"Don't worry about me, I feel fine." Don't even think that someone cares. "But I don't recognise that area so can you tell me which way is the mountain?"
"Well you can stay with me for now but I will need to leave you soon to complete my business"
"Thanks…," So I stuck with her for now.
" Now we should start moving, small one. " Yeah, small...
Before we get moving Rea caught me dedenne to eat, I didn't know most names of other than eeveelution species and I didn't really care about them until it was something that should be avoided from a far distance. This one was an electric type, the type which I was trying to avoid because, usually I'm not in the mood to change my form to jolteon and running around completely crazy until I faint from exhaustion just because of some lucky thunder, but I could finally eat something.
We were moving to the west so the sun was now was behind us. We weren't talking and I was fine with that. Actually, I changed my decision and I planned to stick with her for a while since I really didn't have anything better things to do and free food and walking across the forest with her protection were a much better idea than my plan to living in the sewage. Maybe I will even be able to find a new better place to residence than my actual cave. After the walk and my stomach turned, I was tired. I planned to sleep on this night, that wasn't natural for me. Usually, I hunt in the night.
Close before sunset, we found a hole big enough to house both of us. It was just the standard dark hole between dry roots. We lied down on opposite walls of the pit.
"So what you were doing so close to my-mountain?" This was my time to ask a question.
"I didn't plan to go close to the mountain, I'm just heading to the west," she avoided my query. "Did you said that hill was yours?"
"No, ehh, I am just tired," so if she didn't respond my question then it may be better for me to just go to sleep. I could feel her look on my back when I was falling to the world of dreams. I need pay more attention before I say something again, it's the second time when I almost told something that I didn't want to.
I woke up before the sunset. Even if I didn't sleep long feeling of tiredness disappeared without a sight. As I stood up, I didn't saw female flareon anywhere around. I guessed that Rea probably went to catch something for a breakfast or maybe for different more private needs.
I felt that something with that flareon wasn't right, I didn't know what exactly, but my instinct was almost screaming me to keep my eyes wide open. As I was alone I tried to use my powers to absorb some energy from grass, I was doing this softly just to check them. As I expected nothing happened, I was still blocked. I returned to the hole to wait for my guardian but as one hour had passed and she didn't come back I became bored. She didn't tell me where we were so without her I was completely lost.
I decided to find her, I started to look through the area for any track or scent of her and quickly found one. I followed this patch of the odour with my nose close to the ground. After a half hour of walking, I found myself in a small clearing. Here I could smell two new scents. It seems that she met someone here. Now more visible prints of Rea and other two four legged creatures were heading to the nearby low hill. As I got on this hill I had a clear view in every direction, I looked around with hope to see my mountain but it wasn't anywhere in sight.
It was only the forest everywhere, but just as I turned to west in my sight came a human city. Very big and very urbanised city. The outskirts were mainly factories, from where was flying a lot of black smoke. On the opposite side of the city were one-family houses with red roofs, walls in the white colour and gardens where were growing small trees and short bushes. Some cars were parked on next to gardens, single road. In the city centre, I could see several skyscrapers with sides made of glass.
"So back to the plan A," I said to myself. I was curious where Rea disappeared, but didn't really care. I made my way in the direction of the city.
I would arrive in the city probably at the tomorrow night. Now without Rea, I needed to pay some more attention to my surrounding, I didn't want to meet any predators so I was moving much slower than before, trying to listen intently to any potential dangers. I was walking a whole day and spend the night in a thick bush but without sleep. At morning I continued my trip still careful avoiding traces of life.
Like I expected, I arrived in the city at the midnight. The scent of exhaust fumes, trash, and other factories remind me how much I like the clean and fresh air of wilderness. How it's even possible to live in this centre of noise and pollution whole life. Just thinking about it was making me a headache and weirdly irritated, maybe unnatural environment in which humans separated themselves from the wilderness made this species so aggressive and impatient.
I saw that before of outskirts was a junkyard, maybe it would be better to stay in this junkyard than in the sewage system. It's close to the forest and I already saw some violet rat-like creatures. It took me awhile to wandering through the trash of junkyards to find a hideout for me but I finally decided to stay in an old fridge which one someone placed in something that supposed to be a truck hundred years ago.
The junkyard, that field was actually more like a garbage dump, on the ground were lying crumbled bricks, glass and porcelain. Tonnes of rubbish were covering stark and rusted bodies of old cars and trucks, making small hills of junks. In the centre of the yard was a single ruined cabin with windows masked by skis. This place was looking like the field of old dreams. They were here slowly becoming history which will be forgotten.
It was reminding me of old times when I was looking for a place for me after I decided to be free, wandering across this world. I made some friends and several lovers, but none of them stayed with me for long, pushed away by my nature. All of them were only short adventures.
How old was I? No one knows, even me, if I would want to calculate, I didn't know how much time I spent in distortion world before coming here. I didn't remember anything earlier than being trained by Giratina how to hide, kill and survive on the mission which she later gave me. When I finally went out of reflected universe I spend four years to prepare portal which could help Giratina come on this globe, but that never happened. After that I had multiple adventures which proved to me that if I want to live here I will be alone, my nature was too much different from others habits.
During one of my companionless treks, I met this one pokemon with whom I thought I will live forever as she was completely immune to effects of my extraction. We became close to each other and we were together more than three years but we broke up. I started telling her about my past and she ran away from me. I didn't even have a chance to tell her about me being probably immortal, form changing, and cursing my surroundings creature, not just a simple leafeon like she thought. She was afraid only after I told her about another world and how I avoided my destiny. She was probably still alive, I heard her race could live tremendously long, but she was the past for me, with all rest. I didn't regret anything that I had done. It was hard and took me more than a year but I accepted that. I really wanted to be different than I was now but quickly found that I couldn't change myself to say that I am just another eeveelution. My life was still much better than I ever thought it could be.
I went to sleep in my new fridge, it wasn't very comfortable but it was better than nothing.
-Fear-
A forest around me was cursed. From the highest trees to the lowest blade of grass: plants were in a completely black colour and they were actually moving in attempts to catch anything that would try to pass close to them. They wanted to taste blood in its root, to tear a meat in its leaves, to kill every creature living and walking in this world. That was how this world will look like after my ruler Giratina ends his job here. The sky was covered in black and heavy clouds but that wasn't raining yet, from time to time powerful thunder shook the ground and tore ears in its loud bass rumble.
It was almost midnight, the moon was high appearing any occasionally between the darkness of the sky. I started the last part of my mission in this world. To open a portal between universes and let Giratina conquer this world. But I was full of doubts. Did I really wanted to do this? I hated the Distortion World, the world without life, without light, just the world of craziness, floating rocks, giant pillars and toxic clouds. Where the only living things were the giant ghost dragon and her slaves. Was I born there? I don't know but I also didn't remember anything different than the Distortion World. I was there as long as I remember, learning how to control my abilities, fighting with delusions. Now I remember this only as a blurry nightmare. I felt good in the world which I was in at this moment, I had the blue sky above me the solid ground under me and food was almost everywhere. My original universe hadn't any of this. And what will happen after I succeed with my mission? Will this globe become a copy of Distortion World? Or Giratina will find a way to escalate my ability to change objects, making this place even worse?
Was that my whole life? Just to curse some ground to open a single portal? Actually it wasn't that easy but still, I don't want to end my existence like that. I made my decision.
"No," I said aloud to myself and to monstrous plants around me. "I am something more and I will prove it."
I was a slave of my leader, and now I was breaking my chain. It was the midnight and storm started raining, a first bolt appeared in the sky quickly followed by the roar. Two seconds later second bolt hit the ground close to me. I could feel the energy of an electricity going through the ground. I absorbed energy from the lighting changing my form to my dark spiky-furred appearance.
"I will be free, completely free," I said in the voice of lunatic which completely didn't sound like mine.
The next bolt hit the ground destroying trees and everything close to them burning and melting it instantly. They made a low loud sound before they died. Then hit second, third and another, and then everything went white from the light of hundreds of lightings as the ground become full of holes and dust flow in every direction.
It was my fifth day on the junkyard, living here was the most boring thing what I had to do from very long time. Nothing interesting was happening here and ratatas weren't even a challenge to catch, they were very vulnerable to my eyes so I didn't even need to chase them. The good thing was a fact that my ability to change form was almost back. I already could feel energies going through me, responding to the changing environment. I left the junkyard behind me when I started to walk in an opposite direction then I arrived here. East.
An hour had passed as I left the outskirts, a small discharge went through my body. Finally. My powers were back and I immediately felt how grass under me started giving me its energy. After a quarter I was in a one of my favourite bright green and dim yellow with a leaf-like tail form. Grass under me lost its bright green colour and now it was a faded green. Happily, I continued going to the east.
Six hours had passed as I heard conversation from my right direction. I was curious who decided to yell in the middle of the forest and maybe to find out how this pokemon tasted. I followed voices keeping close to the ground sneaking without making any sound. On a small clearing between walls of the forest trees, which appeared before me were sitting three black dogs with their evolved version before them.
Wait, those were the same hunters who found my home.
But more surprising was who was sitting at the front of the leader of the dog's pack. Before him was orange furred Rea, and she was yelling on the familiar looking houndoom.
"...st week and you still have nothing, you were only able to lose one of your co-workers, I won't pay you until I will see any progress. I heard you are the best hunter, Gloim. But for now, you did nothing more than locals." She was angry, when she was yelling a small flame escaped from her mouth.
"But this thing is like a ghost, we checked every room in its cave and we didn't find another exit, it just disappeared," said the leader of dogs pack, now known as Gloim. "We also didn't find the furret's body. It doesn't make sense. How some monster can live here, slaying everyone he meets, even groups of dragons, fit into the tight tunnel and after twenty years still be unseen, not to mention about changing plants into something that I can't even name." These dragons weren't easy, I spend three nights to deal with them, mostly because I couldn't penetrate their scales and their size also was very problematic but the acid was enough to do this for me.
"Maybe this is some kind of a legendary snake or something," said one of the houndours.
Sssseriousssly?
"Legendaries doesn't exist, Goin," answered another.
"I don't even hear about a legendary snake and we saw footprints, snakes don't have feet," added a third houndour.
"Maybe this one has," insisted the first of smaller dogs.
" SHUT UP! I don't care what that thing is, I want him gone and it's your job, you have a week" shouted Rea. I was curious how her reaction would be if someone would tell her that the mystery creature was that "cub" which she met a week ago. The meeting ended and Rea walked out of the clearing leaving the hunters group.
"What will we do now, I don't want to mess with the leader of a 'Rising Sun'," said the houndoom who thought that I'm a snake. Rising Sun? It's an organisation which tries to discover an ancient knowledge about a beginning of the world, the creator and other similar stuff but why they are interested in my wood? Is there a something valuable somewhere underground or because of my curse?
"We will look through this dark forest again for any mark of this monster, if we don't find anything again we will set this wood on the fire," planned Gloim " If we don't find him after this, then that will mean that this thing is already gone. We have a week and we are able to get to the mountain in two days, that leaves us with three days of searching and two to atomise these freaked plants."
When my curiosity was fulfilled, I decided to go after Rea. When they were talking it is started to becoming dark and a silver disc of the moon appeared in the sky. I used the moonlight to change my appearance to the dark type. I liked this form for very big fangs, compared to other forms. I manage to catch up to Rea after ten minutes of a silent walk.
She was alone, walking in the direction of some faraway lights. She was passing between two giant rocks with very smooth sides. Then I noticed, these rocks were making an echo to her steps and a new idea appeared in my mind. I hid in a bush behind a corner of one of the rocks.
"What business the 'Rising Sun' have in my dark forest?" I asked loudly.
A lame name for my wood.
She immediately stopped moving and looked in the completely opposite direction to this where I was. Like I thought echo was making their job.
"Who is talking?" she asked not showing any sign of being scared or surprised
"Your favourite legendary snake," I answered. Her facial expression was worth all risk what I was now taking.
"W-what, it can't be, you shouldn't be here, we are far away from that mountain It it..." she started to panic, my voice as an umbreon sounds quite coarse
"Silence, I don't bother myself to speak to a corpse, so answer me or we will stop talking." I didn't want to kill her because I didn't want to break my own rules. So, I hoped she would answer.
I heard her heavy breathing, I guess she was trying to calm herself before she answered.
"There is something," she said in low voice. "Somewhere in your wood, I don't know any details about this, we even didn't start looking for this," There is probably a some cured rock or something similar, some of the most changed by me could look as some ancient artefact, it wouldn't be the first time when someone may think about them like about something valuable. Why are they wasting their time for that?
"I thought Rising Sun is interested how the world had started. Twenty years ago everything here was the normal forest. You can take with you some rocks or plants if you want but everything that you can get from them will be some illness."
"Wait, illness? This is something that we should know? What you know?" Why does she always have a question to me? She was looking directly at my hideout, probably random direction for her searching for a source of my voice.
"I know enough to know that you shouldn't be interested int…," I couldn't finish when a huge flame came into my hiding spot. That was Rea's flame. I jumped out of the bush which was burned to an ash.
"Wow, I didn't think your ears can be good enough to find the right direction," I said to her, now she could see me. I noticed that if she wasn't the biggest flareon of this world and wasn't even close to it, she was still taller than me. Even if I could take the appearance of evolved form I never really evolved, because of that I never could keep the size of fully mature eeveelution usually looking undersized. I know she didn't stand a chance to my speed and she could be already dead but I respect my small amount of rules. She was standing little shocked.
"What!? Just Umbreon!? You tricked me!" she was yelling ...again, and this was actually hurting my sensitive lugs. "From what organisation are you, who want to be my competition?" Is there even a competition in gathering fossils?
"I'm not your competition, now answer me how many is interested into that curse," Would it be right for me to torture her? I need to talk to myself about that. "Hurry."
" I won't tell you anything!" she opened her muzzle to throw her fire at me again but before she could do this I jumped at her, faster than she could even blink, I closed her mouth with my paw and looked in her eyes. She will be a challenge for me but this was worth a try. After fifteen minutes of staring eye to eye and litres of Rea's sweat, her sight became blurry, she was resisting a really long time.
" How many?" I asked again but as I expected she wasn't vulnerable enough to my ability to make her answer me but she probably still could hear me in her dream.
"It would be better for you to forget about this thing what made you came here," I ran away into the dark forest before I would lose the rest of my energy. Actions like mind control were draining my strength pretty fast. Especially when I was using this on the strong-minded person. I wasn't done for this night. I planned to check where Rea was going.
Like I was planning that I was done. I was sneaking close to the clearing to which Rea was earlier walking. There was a single tent in the middle of two campfires. The tent was very typical, in a delta shape with cloth white walls.
Why have they the tent? Can't they sleep under the sky?
No one was outside, campfires were going off giving a dim light to the surrounding. There was also a big metal cage behind the tent. The cage was two meters tall and three long and was empty.
Are they hunting for something or something escaped them?
Before I went any closer I smudged my Umbreon's form rings to cover their shine. I slipped into the centre of the camp close to the tent. I could hear only snoring, breathing and calm beating of their sleeping hearts. I entered the tent, on the floor were lying five creatures, three of them covered in a shared yellow blanket. But what got my interest was a map which was on the ground in the centre of sleeping bodies.
On the map I could see the single mountain and the forest, there was also a lot of 'X' letters and arrows mainly close to my cave. I noticed that arrows were covering my typical path of the walking. No matter how silent I would walk I always leave some marks. So I know now they are tracking me but I still don't know what they are looking for. Aside from the map, I found dry food, an empty bag and a single device in shape of the cuboid, it wasn't bigger than my head. I hadn't much time before the sunset so I exited the tent and returned to the forest. After they wake up, it will be my turn to track them.
The sun appeared moment after I found a blind on the tree branch. In my grass form, it will be impossible to see me here. I had a clear view of the glade where the single tent was standing.
After an hour I heard some talking from the tent but I wasn't able to understand any words. Another hour passed and they were still talking and that made me bored. I was expecting tracking full of hiding and action, what I got was lying on the branch and waiting. My eyelids started to be heavy and short yawn escaped my mouth. I didn't even notice when I fall asleep.
" JUST KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL," the very familiar voice of the maniac shouted in my mind.
"Shut up Sinar, we are trying to sleep," answered another voice, now calmer and with a more friendly voice.
"It's pointless trying to shut him up Myron," added a third voice, this one was dark and cold.
I was in the biggest room of my grotto in my neutral form and before me were standing, lying, swimming or sitting all my seven forms.
"THEY NEED TO BE DEAD, SHE SEEN US, SHE SEEN OUR EYES, SHE TOLD THEM, THEY KNOW" shouted Sinar the Jolteon walking from the side to the side of the cave "We will sneak into their tent and and murder yes murder them, as fast as we can or faster, then we will cut their heads and legs and and BLOOD…"
The rest of his talk was mumbling, random shouts, and chuckles, which wasn't possible to understand.
"I will let you make a tea from my leaves when he will stop acting like a lunatic," said Myron the Leafeon.
"Zenon and I will willingly use you like that," that was the Flareon, he doesn't have a name. I was using him so rarely that I never even gave a name to this form.
Zenon the Vaporeon happily nodded, his head was the only thing which was above the water of the pond.
" Do you remember that I or we can use only the one element?" I asked
" Lucky Sinar," hissed Snowid the Glaceon, his voice sounds like rub metal by metal.
" Hey, guys, what are you thinking about this situation with these scavengers?" they were my imagination so they didn't know anything more than me but I liked to believe that they are something more.
" I THINK THEY SHOULD BE DEAD," screamed my electric-type form from another side of the cave. That cavern was my mind so he hadn't any problems to hear me.
"It's obvious that they are not trying to find any cursed stone, stones don't need cages," said the calmest person of the pack, Myron.
" They are hunting for us," the mysterious voice of my dark-type form filled the silence.
"Then we don't have anything to worry about, even if they will catch us, we can live hundreds of years. They don't have that much time," said my winter form. Snowid, Myron, and Kilian the Umbreon had the most developed personality as I was used them most frequently. So they always had always something to say.
" And before we wake up, no we don't allow tortures on familiar to us creatures," add Myron when my sight was becoming dark
Good to know what I'm thinking.
I woke up on the same branch on which I fell asleep. Something wasn't right, I could smell a dim scent fumes. Suddenly I felt the heat of the fire on my left side quickly followed by a cut of a something sharp. I had fallen from the tree, hitting the ground with a loud thud and disgusting crack of bone. I wasn't bleeding, I don't even have blood. From my wound was dark and dense smoke, but wasn't dissipating in the air. This smoke was standing close to injuries, covering them. That was my healing system. I tried to get up but I almost immediately collapsed. One of my front legs was broken, also I felt a horrible pain in my chest. A new wave of fire came, hitting my face, melting my skin and burning my eyes but I wasn't screaming. I was blinded, I felt that my eyes are open but all that I saw was darkness. I tried to depend on a different sense, like the connection to the plants of my leafeon form. Then I could sense every single stalk of grass, falling leaves from trees, and four sources of concentrated energy of life.
One of them was close to my left, others were hiding nearby. I wanted to fight back but my body was too much damaged. I only managed to lift my head to hear them better. Someone was almost in front of me and I heard his voice.
"Die finally, a hellhound," and a powerful force struck the top of my head, then I no more could feel rest of my body and I fell down to the ground.