Chapter 7: Truths and Lies

Jenna opened her eyes of what she only thought was a few minutes to only be on the cold floor. She gained a headache once more, and was even worse than the one in the morning. It took a few minutes for her to realize where she is. She was in a grayish room with only a bed (in which she was not on) a toilet and a grossed out sink. And a wall of the room had bars what prevented even the skinniest of people like Jenna from escaping...she was in jail. Jenna freaked out once this was realized and tried to get up where she was from but proved to be difficult with handcuffed hands. When she finally figured out how to get up her headache suddenly disappear once more and she looked at herself, she was wearing an orange jumpsuit that she saw prisoners on tv wore. She could not believe herself right now she had never did anything criminal like for her entire life and was thrown in jail for just handling a Pokemon, in which case, that's when fennekin popped back into her brain.

Jenna was wondering if it is even still alive or what even happened to it, could it be still in the Pokemon Center or it could be taken to the shelter, where it could die, but even so it's breathing problem is concerning as it lifespan could be shortened. Jenna looked at herself once more, she asked herself if it was worth going to jail to save fennekin, or it would be all worthless in the end, as it could die, or already be dead. Jenna had sacrificed so much, even in a span of a day just to get it so far...and in the end it would be no good, thoughts flooded in her head, anxiety kicking in and she just broke down crying in her cell for what seemed to be hours, hotness filled her body and so many thoughts drowned Jenna's brain in a wave of hatred and regret of what she could of done better or what she is going to expect from all of this. This was fairly common for Jenna, as she experiences this every few months when something bad happens to her and bad thoughts flooded her brain, but for the first time of her life she suddenly stopped crying, only moments after she had started, a strange warm feeling was felt in her chest then transferred into her got up and tried to touch one of the metal bars trapping her in the room. The felt cold at first and became the same warm feeling in her hands. The bar slowly changed color into an orange and once it was seen, Jenna pulled away from the bar, and the color faded away in seconds. The heat from her hands also disappeared before Jenna could realized what happened. But before Jenna could really therized what could've happened the same cop from earlier came up to Jenna's cell and opened the door.

"I need to ask you some questions, I might shorten your jail time depending on what you will tell me."

Jenna responded "What do you mean, I was trying to save that fennekin life, would you rather let it suffer? I should be asking the questions like, Is the fennekin ok? How long am I going to be here? What does it take to convince you I WASN'T KILLING IT?"

The officers face turned red but before she could get her revenge her speaker by her shoulder muttered a few words. The officer locked the door back up and glared at Jenna.

"I got some business to attend to I be back in a few minutes stay put"

The officer walked away and a few minutes past, she returned with a tall man who held a semi clear plastic bag, with Jenna's clothing in which can be faintly seen. The officer open the cell door with a plain face.

"Professor Redwood explained everything, you are free to go. Can you please turn around?"

Jenna turned around as the officer got the key out for the handcuffs and worked them in. They then popped out of Jenna's hands and they were once again free.

The man spoke at last to Jenna "There's a bathroom down the hall, change out of those clothes and put them on the main desk. I want to take a walk to the Pokemon center with you, I bet you want to see that fennekin you cared for."

The man handed the bag to Jenna and made his way to the door. Jenna wanted to know who that man was and rushed to the bathroom to get changed and came out of the bathroom with a smile on her face. She quickly found the office, and placed her old orange clothing on the desk. Then hurried out to the outside of the building to find the man on a bench next to the door. Jenna looked at the man sitting down, he wore orange t shirt under a classic white lab coat, he had matching black shoes and pants and his untidy hair was a sharp reddish-orange. And he was amazingly tall, taller than anyone she had ever seen. Jenna almost certain it was Profesor Redwood but it could be one of his assistants, still she asked.

"Are you Professor Redwood, Sir?"

The man got up with a smile his height towering over Jenna, "Just Redwood is fine I'm just any normal person like yourself, Jenna. I'm pleased to meet you."

"Its great to meet you as well sir, I was wondering if I could ask you a few things about…"

Before Jenna could finish, she could here the sounds of stomping from the distance from a heavy force then from, The distance Jenna could see two Mudstale pulling a cart full of hay. A man who was controlling the Pokemon stopped them as soon as he reach the police station.

"Oh, Redwood nice you are here, you need a ride?"

Redwood responded, "You have room for two to go to the Pokemon center?"

"Sure hop in with the hay, I'll take it easy for you two we should be there is just a few."

Jenna hopped into the hay then Redwood followed, the Mudstale started pulling the cart again and they were on the way the Pokemon center can be seen from a distance on a hill.

Redwood looks Jenna in her eyes, "Carmon was here this morning, she told me about the egg and that she gave it to you last night. She couldn't raise it because of her work and it would be in its ball for most of its life so she knew it went to trustworthy hands once she gave it to you. I didn't expect it to hatch in just under 12 hours, but as soon as I heard about you in jail, I had to get you out because you did not break the law, no one has ever told you this before but the truth is...you are a legalized trainer."

Jenna's eyes brighten and her heart raced, "WHAT? BUT HOW MY MOM NEVER AGREED?"

"She did a long time ago, your family was struggling and she enrolled you and her into a program to help get her back up to your feet" Redwood smile got wider, "One of the benefits was you having an Equal Trainer Opportunity or ETO. Your ETO can allow you to be a trainer anytime after you are 10 when June 10th passes, and that your mother already approved becoming a trainer. I guess she never told you, she lied about never signing you up and keep you home. I don't know why she keeped you away from trainer hood, but you have the choice whether to become a trainer or not.

Redwood got out a pink purse with a Pokeball sign on it and also a Pokeball out from his bag. "I want you to catch that fennekin of yours, it's breathing problem had been solved and it is in good shape, should not have any problems anymore. All the eevees are gone now, which means you can catch fennekin or anything else in the wild. But you raised that fennekin and you already have a bond with it. You two will do great together and grow as one being."

Jenna could not believe what she was hearing she can become a trainer and catch fennekin, she already has a nickname in mind for it and knew that this is the path she had to do, her dreams are finally coming true and she accepted Redwoods gift.

Redwood happily gave her the purse and a pokeball. Inside the purse was 5 more Pokeballs and Pokedex, a few potions, a map, a trainer's ID, and a few other bits and pieces. It was then after looking through her stuff she was back at the Pokemon Center and was ready to take her first step in becoming a trainer at last. She jumped out of the cart and thanked the man and ran into the Pokemon Center. The fennekin could be seen right on the table where she last left it and was sitting down looking at Jenna with a smile, it quickly hopped off and ran to a few feet from Jenna. Fennekin was normal, it's still pretty small, especially since it was still a baby and it looks like the problem had been fixed. It was finally time. Jenna kneeled down to the fennekin's height and placed the Pokeball in front of fennekin and gave her a sweet smile. The fennekin was surprised by the object and proceed to touched it. The ball opened and released a red energy and sucked the Pokemon in then closed and starts shaking, but to be stopped when a click was heard. A smile was on Jenna's face. She had never been so happy in her life as Foxy the fennekin had joined her team.