Glowing Ch. 4: Tension
The pain of love won't break us up
We don't need your salvation
The pain of love will never stop
We are our own creation
The pain of love lives in our hearts
It's deeper than the ocean
The pain of love waits in the dark
We take it in slow motion
And we go on and we go on
And on and on and on
We don't belong, we don't belong
Belong to anyone
The pain of love will last forever
Promise me, promise me
We'll celebrate the pain together
The pain of love, love, love
The pain of love in all of us
It hits you like a hammer
The pain of love, we can't turn off
Let's celebrate the drama
The pain of love, don't let us crush
We will be all forgiven
The pain of love,
I wanna touch
Without it's not worth living
And we go on and we go on
And on and on and on
We don't belong, we don't belong
Belong to anyone
The pain of love will last forever
Promise me, promise me
We'll celebrate the pain together
The pain of love, love, love
We climb the mountains
Walk the deserts for our love
Let's make a pact tonight
So we can feel this pain of love forever
And we go on and we go on
And on and on and on
We don't belong, we don't belong
Belong to anyone
And we go on and we go on
And on and on and on
We don't belong, we don't belong
Belong to anyone
The pain of love will last forever
Promise me, promise me
We'll celebrate the pain together
The pain of love, love, love
The pain of love
The pain of love
The pain of love
I awoke in a huge bed in an also huge, dark room. The bed had curtains on it that were tied up at the top of the beds frame. The room had a large rectangle that was gray around the edges and black in the middle. I had no idea what it was. There was also another thing I didn't recognize, hanging from the ceiling. It hung from a chain and was still very high above the floor. It was gold and it had what looked like curved branches that had candle-like objects on them. I then noticed that I was still in my half-circle sleeping position. I turned my head and realized that I was snuggled up to Voya. I figured that after I fell asleep Eck put me back in the poke ball and Voya brought me to her room.
"Have a good sleep?" The sudden voice startled me as I didn't know Voya was awake.
"Yes, in fact it was the best sleep I've had in... well since I can remember."
"Really? Why do you say that?"
"Ever since I can remember my nights have been full of nightmares of Rayquaza murdering my parents. I dream that he comes for me and as soon as he gets me I wake up, usually screaming."
"That's awful... well maybe those dreams have gone away now. Nightmares usually are very common when a person is lonely. Since you have us now they might stop coming to you."
"I really hope so."
"You should come downstairs for breakfast. The others have been anxious to talk with you more." She said, smiling.
"Okay. I want to get to know them too."
"Great!" Voya replied, still smiling.
She got out of the bed and I started to follow. The bed was high up so I had to sort of jump. As soon as I landed I realized why this was a bad idea. As I landed I felt a sharp pain in my front left paw and my knee buckled.
"OWW!" I yelled out in pain.
"What's wrong?!" Voya rushed over to me.
"I forgot that my leg is still injured from Tiberius' attack." I said still, in a lot of pain.
"We have to get you to a Pokémon center soon. I'll carry you down since you're still hurting a lot." She said while picking me up. She began carrying me through the mansion.
"Thank you." I still could not believe how nice Voya was to me even though we just met. "Voya?"
"Yes Glow?"
"If you don't mind me asking, why are you so willing to help me and care for me when we just met?"
"Well it's because I believe that it is important to be kind to others. At least until they do something terrible. Even then I think everyone deserves the chance to be forgiven. Why do you ask?"
"When I was on my own I usually didn't run into many other Pokémon, but when I did they always were very mean to me. I thought that was how everybody was…"
"No, many people are very nice to others; you must have been running into the wrong people."
"That's much better to know."
"Here we are" Voya said as she opened a door to the dining room. The dining room was huge, with a table that had at least thirty seats around it. Everybody was already around the end of the table waiting for Voya and I. Voya sat me down on a chair that was high enough for me to reach the table.
"Who's this?" I heard an unfamiliar voice and as I looked around for the source I noticed, for the first time, a Jolteon sitting at the end of the table.
"This is our newest party member, Glow" said Phantom.
I then realized who it was. This was the Jolteon from a couple days ago, the one who had been in the cave that I was sleeping in.
"You?!" I said looking at the Jolteon.
"Me?" he replied, bewildered.
"Do you two know each other?" asked Tiberius.
"No, I have never seen a Pokémon of this species in my life." The Jolteon quickly replied.
"You were in my cave a couple nights ago!" I said. "I was sitting in the corner sleeping and hoping you weren't going to see me! I guess you didn't."
"Cave? Wait… do you mean that inlet on the mountain?"
"Yes."
"You were in there? How did I not see you?"
"I was hiding in the corner. I was very scared." Everyone was staring at us.
"That's almost creepy… Anyways, my name's Volt. That doesn't matter though, what kind of Pokémon are you anyway?"
"I'm a Glaceon."
"A Glaceon? Hmmm, never heard of it, kinda sounds stupid though."
"Be polite. Glow is part of our party now." Voya defended me.
"It's okay. I'm used to it by now." I said in response.
"That doesn't make it ok, besides, Glaceons are an Eeveelution." She said.
I was about to ask how she knew that when I remembered she was psychic.
"You're an Eeveelution? You look much too pathetic to be an Eeveelution." He sneered. I was used to being put down and insulted from other wild Pokémon I encountered on my time alone, but that one hurt. My ears went down and I looked at the floor.
"Stop it Volt! You're hurting her feelings!" Tiberius and Voya both shouted at Volt.
"So what? I don't care." He didn't even look phased by the two yelling at him.
Voya glared at him with what had to be the most intimidating glare I had ever seen.
"Fine. Let's just have breakfast now." He finally gave up.
"Yes, let's do that." Phantom said, who had not said a word since introducing me to Volt.
It became silent and there was a sudden beeping noise coming from the other room.
"That's the food." Tiberius got up to go get the food, and Voya and Blast followed. They came back with their arms full of the biggest meal I had ever seen. There were eggs, toast, pancakes, waffles, French toast, crêpes, many different assorted fruits and berries, and oatmeal. My jaw dropped and I felt my mouth watering.
"That's more food than I have ever seen in a week!" This was true as I could only find berries in the wild, and where I lived they were very rare, therefore I went many days hungry.
"Really? That's only an average breakfast for us." Phantom said.
"That must have been tough. I think I would die without my pancakes." Blast said, and I realized that this was the first time I had heard him talk.
"I haven't heard you talk before now. Do you not talk a lot?"
"I talk; I just didn't have anything to say."
"Well enough of the talking. Let's eat!" Volt was clearly not the most sociable person of the group.
"Wait until everybody is situated, Volt." Voya was helping Tiberius set the table with plates and bowls. Once everyone was served we began eating. Voya, Phantom, Blast, and Tiberius ate with knives and forks, but Volt and I found that to be difficult as we are both quadrupeds. Instead we put two paws on the table and two paws on the chair and just picked our food up with our teeth. I felt a little awkward since I not only had never eaten at a table before, but I was also one of the only two not using silverware.
The food was amazing. I had never tasted anything so good in my life. There was some kind of liquid on the pancakes and waffles which I later came to know as maple syrup. This maple syrup was very sweet and added to the already amazing taste of the food. I had seen humans eating these foods before when I sometimes looked in through the window, and a few times I got some scraps out of their trash, but this was so much better. The crêpes had powdered sugar spread along the top along with the maple syrup, and these were by far my favorite. They were already good without the sugar and maple syrup, but once you got to the middle area where these additions were, it was so amazing. I was scarfing it down so fast that when I had finished eating everyone else wasn't even halfway done with their food.
"You seemed a little hungry there Glow." Blast looked at me with a grin.
"I never had anything this good in my life! I couldn't stop myself!" I surprised even myself at how fast I ate as I had never been one for devouring my food. Whenever I ate in the wild, I would eat very slow and only small portions. This was due to the fact that food was scarce, but now that it wasn't I didn't really pay attention to how fast I was eating.
"Well I'm glad you liked it!" Voya smiled at me. "Tiberius made it, he's our cook."
"You are an amazing cook!" I told him.
"Thanks! I try my hardest."
"You must be thirsty after all that food. What would you like to drink? We have a lot of different drinks." Phantom offered.
"Do you have orange juice?" I was getting pretty excited. I love orange juice. I had only had it once before this point but ever since that day I loved it.
"We do indeed." He went into the room that Voya and Tiberius got the food from (my guess is it was the kitchen) and came back out with a large bowl of orange juice. "Here you go." He set it down on the table in front of me.
"Thank you!" I took a lick, and the amazing taste of this sweet, tangy drink came flooding back into my memories. I lapped some more up and it felt like I was in paradise (this really was paradise compared to my old living style).
After everyone had finished their breakfast, and I my orange juice, Voya picked me up and we all went outside.
"I am going to go tell Eck that you need to be taken to a pokécenter. I will be back soon." She set me down and suddenly disappeared.
"How did she do that?" I asked.
"Pokémon get the power to let themselves out of their poke ball once they meet two conditions. The first is that they have to be at least level seventy. The second is that they have to share a bond with their trainer that cannot be broken." Tiberius explained.
"Level? What is a level?" I had never heard of levels before.
This time Blast answered. "A level is what a trainer uses to measure his or her Pokémon's strength. A normal Pokémon can reach up to level one-hundred. Shiny Pokémon can reach up to level one-hundred and fifty, and legendary Pokémon can reach up to level two-hundred. The higher the level, the stronger the pokémon is. That's why legendaries are so strong, because they all have the highest level capacity."
"How do you know what level you are?"
"Trainers carry these things called pokédexes. The pokédex can tell you what level any pokémon is." I found this topic very intriguing.
"What level is Voya?"
"She is level ninety-five."
"Wow. What levels are you guys?"
"I'm level seventy-six, Tiberius is level seventy-two, Phantom is level seventy-four, and Volt is level eighty-nine."
"That's because I am the best fighter here." Volt declared. "Not one of you could beat me in a fight, even if we were all the same level."
"I bet you we could." Phantom defended.
"Never, not even in your dreams. I'm too fast for you, not to mention the fact that I am better at fighting in gen-" before he finished his statement, a large fireball hit him. I looked to where it came from and blast was standing in a battle stance. The flames on his back were huge and very intense. Volt was pushed back about ten feet by the fireball.
"You're gonna pay for that." Volt looked like he didn't take very much damage from that and he had one of the scariest glares I had ever seen on his face. His fur suddenly spiked up into what looked like needles, coursing with electricity. The electricity on his fur kept moving faster and faster until a massive lightning bolt shot out and struck Blast square on. Blast looked like he took a lot of damage from the attack, but he held his ground and fought back. He went down on all fours and started running at Volt. He started running faster and all of a sudden his entire body was engulfed in flames. I felt like I was melting just watching. Just as he was about to hit Volt, Volt jumped extremely high into the air and dodged the attack. When he landed he bit Blast while causing electricity to run through his teeth, shocking Blast. Blast took the attack, but looked pretty worn down. He shot a long continuous stream of fire from his mouth, which Volt dodged by strafe jumping to the side. Volt was just about to finish off the battle with the move Thunder, when a reflective screen appeared over Blast. The thunder bounced off the screen and Voya appeared.
"What are you two doing!?"
"He started it." Volt said with a sneer.
"I don't care! We are supposed to be a team! We don't battle each other unless Eck is training us!"
"Sorry Voya, I just get so enraged at his attitude sometimes." Blast said.
"That's okay, but make sure you guys don't do it again."
"No promises. I never know when I might be in the mood to completely beat the crap out of something . . . or in this case, someone." Volt had a very sinister looking smile on his face.
"Volt, if you ever battle someone in our group again without Eck's permission, I will make sure you don't have the ability to battle ever again!" Voya was yelling at Volt, and I have to say, I would never have expected Voya to be capable of that kind of intimidation. She seemed like she was just too soft (for a lack of better words) to yell like that.
"Whatever." He seemed like he didn't care, but I guess that was what he meant to sound like.
"Now that that's out of the way, Glow, we are going to a pokécenter right now, so we will be able to get your leg fixed up shortly." Voya turned to me and said.
"Thanks, it'll be nice to be able to walk on my own again."
We waited outside the mansion until Eck pulled me out of my poke ball and I was in a pokécenter. There was a nurse who began looking at my injured leg. She put pressure on the area that was injured and I flinched a little.
"Your leg is sprained. I should be able to have it healed up by tomorrow and you will be feeling as good as new." She said with a smile. She put a bowl of a tangible shade of light purple in front of me and told me to take a few licks. It tastes very gross and on the first lick I spit it back out. "I know it tastes bad but it will help your leg heal." I took another few licks, keeping it down this time and pretty soon I felt a little drowsy. "It will make you a little tired so make sure you get some rest and when you wake up tomorrow it should feel much better."
"Thank you very much." I replied, even though I knew she couldn't understand me. I licked her on the arm so that she would get the idea of what I was saying.
"No problem." She said. Eck carried me out of the pokécenter and set me down.
"Are you tired Glow? You should probably go to bed; the nurse said you need rest."
"Okay." He pulled out my poke ball and called me back. Voya carried me to the bed and I drifted off into a deep and dreamless sleep within seconds of lying down.
I would like to thank anyone who reads this story for taking the time to read it. I want to say a few things before I continued on to the next chapter. First off, I want to say that I realize how short the first three chapters were, and I don't plan on making all of them that short. I hope to make most chapters at least as long as this one if not longer. The first three were a sort of introduction to the story and they were not meant to be very long. Also, if you want to try to guess the song for each chapter you can either pm me or review the story and I will tell you if it's the right song. When I finish the story I will post a table of contents of sorts that tells each song and its artist. It will of course also tell which chapter those songs are in. Once again I would like to thank you readers and my best friend Hunter for giving me the extra will to continue this story. Thank you.
