Erin and I make our way to Castelia city where we first must stock up on supplies before we head off. Erin works at a shop in the city so we get a portion of a discount whenever we shop there. We pick up a couple of berries and a map of Kalos, pay the cashier, and head off towards the docks.
We have decided that the only way we are going to get onto one of the ships, is to sneak onto it. When you're a Pokemon in Unova, you have to be a trained Pokemon in order to travel across regions, but unfortunately for us, we were still wild Pokemon.
We end up in jail.
Why did we end up in jail? Well, in truth, none of us deserve to be here. Where we are, men who believe that equality is stupid, run the law.
We tried to get on the boat by persuading a human to pretend to be our trainer, but of course, that didn't work. It turns out the man we tricked into helping us, was one of the crew of the ship. So they ratted us out and handed us to a pack of Gengars. 23 years had passed, and Gengars were still assholes. Now here we were, being dragged along the muddy hallways of Gengar prison.
They threw me into one cell, and Erin into another. Thus continued about two and a half minutes of me clutching on the bars and cursing into the blackness. "Just shut up. Swearing won't shatter steel." Says a voice behind me. I take my hands off the bars and slump against the wall. "It is kind of nice to have more people to talk to down here. Considering Macy won't shut up about freedom and all that poetic nonsense." "Hey! I know we're gonna get out of here soon! We just need to have faith." Interrupts another voice from the cell beside me.
"Who are you two?" 'We are nobody. Well, I suppose everybody is nobody down here." Says the voice who I assumed was Macy. *Sigh* "I am Lily, you've met my friend Macy over in cell 3." I turn my head to the location of the voice, to see what looks like a Gallade sitting in the darkened corner of the cell I am in.
They were wearing a large bandage wrapping right around their upper body with a scar or two on their face. "So, why did they throw you and your friend in here?" The Gallade asks me. At that moment I realise that Erin has not talked once since we were thrown in here. "Erin? Where's Erin!?" "Is Erin your Sevipr friend?" Macy says. "Yes! Is she there?" "Yeah, she's right here with me. She's just still UN-conscious." "Thank Arceus. Wait, why do you have a girl's name?" I ask the Gallade. "We were put in here, because we were different. Macy is a Gengar, yet she defied her whole species. Now they are punishing her by sending her here."
"You still haven't answered my question. Why do you have a girl's name when you're a guy?" "Because...I am a girl."
At first I thought they were crazy. I thought they had spent so much time down here that they had forgotten what gender they both were. But then, More and more of her feminine voice leaked into my ears. "But...how can that...be?" "I don't even know myself, I wanted to be a beautiful Gardevoir, but then one day, I woke up and I was a Gallade. My own family even rejected me." "Yeah, cus you're a freak!" Says an Unfezant in the cell opposite to us.
Lily just turns away and says nothing. I am still tossing and turning in my head whether I should believe her or not, yet I temporarily believed her. I walk up to the bars of the cell and say to the Ufezant: "Hey! She is who she says she is okay? That shouldn't even matter to you so go fuck yourself!"
"You...believe me?" "I am still confused on how this is possible, but yes." She tuns her head around andshows me a faint smile before turning back around and lying on the ground to go to sleep. Today has been a fucking hectic day, yet I promise her, I will make tommorow a better day.