Italics: Thoughts or words that have more expression added to them.
I continued to lay there underneath a tree, the blood from my body staining the snow around me a gory red. I could've easily lost my consciousness at that moment, but I just resumed panting, looking up at the overcast sky as my last moments were ticking away with each passing second. I should've known it was over before it began, although I still went with it in the end.
A sigh escaped my mouth, even though that was all I could've uttered at that point without collapsing from the immense pain I felt. The blood stains on the snow became redder and redder as time passed. I wished that the cuts would've just stopped bleeding, but I was all out of choices.
My vision began to blur drastically, and all I saw afterwards was a shadow as I turned to the left to see who or what it was. I could swear there were more shadows next to the bigger one, which I thought was a bit odd... but it didn't matter. I ran out of energy to go on, and my head fell in the snow below me, darkness filling my vision. I felt my breath leave my body one final time... and then I passed out.
After that, I couldn't tell if I was still alive or not, but I highly doubted the former. If death is just eternal darkness, then death really is boring. Something seemed strange though. I could've sworn I was still breathing, but I figured it was just an illusion.
All of a sudden however, I felt relief and I was finally able to open my eyes again. Around me, it looked as if I was in the exact same forest as I was in before, but I wasn't next to the tree...
I shook my head as I slowly got up, not understanding any of this at all. My cuts were healed, and apparently my whole body was, too... but how? I looked up at the sky and could see that it was night time from just the moon and the black sky that was filled with a couple clouds which floated above. I'm an Umbreon, so I liked the spooky atmosphere of course... but this just seemed weird to me.
Before I could think of any more thoughts, my vision faded to black again, but this time I didn't close my eyes. I felt a change in my surroundings as my paws touched something harder than the dirt that I was previously standing on. I was able to see shortly after as my eyesight became assaulted with bright lights.
"Oh, my... gosh!" A girl with red, flowing hair immediately picked me up and... hugged me.
"Thanks Nurse Joy!" She held me in one of her arms and waved with the other as she walked out of the strange building into an even stranger city.
"Wait, what's going on-" I spoke, but then I remembered that she was human... and she probably didn't understand me at all.
"I was so worried for you, Umbre... I thought you were gonna die in that forest, so I saved you." She put me down gently on the ground.
Umbre?... That's not my name... and how did she save me in the first place... I thought before I remembered what had happened. The shadow. That must've been her.
I shook my head to signal to her that my name was something else.
"What?... Did you not want to be saved?" She looked confused and worried.
I sighed, then shook my head in the other way to say yes.
"Okay... so you wanted to be saved... then what were you saying no to?"
I growled in frustration and looked up at her. She didn't seem to be that young, but she still didn't understand what I was saying.
"Don't worry Umbre, I have a Pokemon that'll be able to help with communication, but that means we gotta go back to the hotel."
I looked at the sky again, but it was night here too. I became confused once more, however, she picked me up anyway, surprising me a bit more this time.
"We gotta go to the Monorail Station to get there, right over there." She pointed with her other hand at what I assumed was the station, right next to the weird building we came out of.
Our eyes connected as we both stared into each others pupils. For some reason, I trusted her at that very moment. Maybe it was because we both had red eyes, or maybe she just had an aura that was like that... or maybe even both, I don't know, really. We kinda just clicked right then and there, and I knew she felt the same way too and trusted me as well.
She entered into the station and talked to some lady that looked a bit older than she did, most likely an adult.
How is this girl holding me and a bag at the same time...
"Okay, go ahead." The lady said.
"Thanks." She flashed a smile, then walked onto some sort of vehicle... or so I thought.
Is this the Monorail?...
She sat down on a seat and began to hum a little as a few other people got on.
"Oh," She stopped humming as the vehicle or monorail began to move, "we should be there in a few minutes, Umbre."
"By the way, my name's Abigail, or Abi for short." She said, stroking my fur with her hand softly.
I purred in response, which made her giggle a bit.
"I'm sure we'll be good friends, but first we gotta work on the communication thing."
A few minutes passed and the monorail stopped to a halt. Abigail let go of me and stood up.
"Okay, come on Umbre."
I followed her as she walked out of another station along with the rest of the people that were in there with us and back outside again. The surroundings seemed a bit different... and then I realized what the vehicle was for.
This must be another part of the same city... but didn't that lady say something... or was I just not paying attention?...
I thought back for a moment while I followed her subconsciously.
She said something about a Coumarine... no, that's this city's name, isn't it. I bet it is.
Surprisingly, I was thinking so much that I didn't even notice we had already entered yet another building, this one different from the rest. It was most likely the hotel she had mentioned earlier.
"You'll need to be careful with these," She said as she walked up some elevation structure or something of the sort, "they're called stairs, so just take it slow when you're walking up or down them, alright?"
I listened to what she said and climbed up the stairs, which took a bit longer than I expected.
Abigail then walked down some sort of hallway and fumbled for something in her bag.
"Found it." She said as she took out something metallic from her bag and stuck it in a hole, turning it to unlock a door. Being in a forest for all my life, I had almost no idea what most of these things were, but I knew some things, that's for sure.
I took a few steps inside of the room as I walked behind her after she closed the door, then froze at what I saw.
