Hello there! I guess the previous chapter is pretty action packed (not). So this chapter will be longer and have loads of dialogue. Sorry for the long wait!
Changed the titles of all the chapters, hope it's better!
Pls review! (kind of sad when they stop coming, alr feeling depressed about doing tests horribly -~-)
so i'm kind of lazy to write anything more here
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I awaken to find myself lying on an unnaturally soft, yet really comfy, white surface. "Where am I?" I half-consciously mumble under my breath, while trying to get myself to properly wake up.
"You are still in the Pokémon Centre dear Ralts. I say you must be a wild Pokémon since you look all confused waking up in a bed. You are lucky compared to many of the other Pokémon, as you only suffered minor injuries, only superficial scratches. If you don't know already, I'm a Chansey. You are really safe here so don't worry!"
I turn my head to see what which looks like a big pink blob me, talking non-stop, with a horrible screechy voice. There are three spikes tipped with a darker shade of pink on each side of what I assume is her head, since it's not exactly separated from her body. On the center of her belly is a dark pink pouch that contains a single white egg. Is there a baby Chansey in the egg?
"Oh, and a Piplup wanted to see you just now, but you were still sleeping just now, and I don't want to wake you up. He's now with a Kirlia. Is the Kirlia your sister? I know you want to see your family but you should really rest. You still…"
"ThankyouverymuchbutIshouldreallygonow!" I cut the pink blob off midsentence before she can annoy me any further, jump off the bed and quickly try to float away, ignoring the Chansey's advice altogether… before coming to a stop in front of a large door, the handle too high to reach.
I look around the room. Injured Pokémon lie on beds, some awake and looking fine, while others seeming seriously injured, with scary-looking tubes attached to some of them. Although the Chansey is amazingly slow, I have nowhere to go, despite out-speeding her at least by ten times. Her bulky body must be really heavy… still, I have no choice but to surrender.
"Why did you run away from me? You should have said you wanted to visit your friend! Now you made me sad. No one ran away from me before... Okay, I will help you open the door. A nurse got to help others in every way! Don't get yourself injured again! Bye!"
Okay… that Chansey is really weird, one moment she's happy, then sad, then happy again… But I've got my freedom, and that is all that matters. Now to find my sister, Pip, and…
I forgot how big the Pokémon centre is. I emerge onto the middle of a very long walkway. On the right, doors are lined up orderly along the wall on both sides of the walkway. On the left side, it looks exactly the same. Obviously, there are signs with symbols telling me where I am all over the place. Unfortunately, I can't read.
"BOO!" In reaction to that sudden sound, I did not jump up and shriek embarrassingly like a baby Pokémon. But I am surprised and glad to see Pip standing behind me.
"That was payback for naming me Pip. Now everyone calls me that and I can't change it anymore. But that was really funny. You cried like a baby Bonsly! I should have brought a camera with me."
"I did not cry."
"Yes you did. And your sister is right behind that potted plant and will act as a witness."
What plant? I think there was one behind me just now… I turn and see two eyes staring at me. It was not scary at all.
"Should have seen the look on your face when you were scared! It was exactly like when I played tricks on you when we were little."
Our surroundings changed abruptly, and I feel the familiar tingle of being teleported. The place we landed in looks nearly the same, with the orderly and same-ish doors along a long walkway, of the exact same colour.
"Does the Pokémon centre look the same everywhere on the inside?" I ask.
"Actually we're still in the same corridor… we were there just now." My sister pointed to a spot near a potted plant. "Ty is behind these doors with Abs, and Ty really worries for you, because you 'disappeared' in the attack. You should tell him that you're all right."
"Yup! You should disguise yourself as a human now. And remember to use telepathy. In response to your question, this Pokémon centre does not look the same everywhere on the inside, I'm not sure about others though. But it is confusing to navigate if ya don't know how to read."
Thanks Pip, like I don't know that reading is important. It makes sense that there are other Pokémon centres, I guess in other towns.
I think, or illusion as Sister calls it, myself human, and tried thinking out loud.
"Do I look correct?"
"I'm not a psychic, and I can see that your illusioning is sort of off, like you are a Ralts who looks like a human somewhat, not like a few hours ago-"
"I slept for a few hours?" I was a little surprised. Pip continued talking without hesitation.
"Yup, let's continue. You were like a human who looked like a Ralts somewhat. Can't say it was great, but it still fooled humans. Maybe something triggered you to have stronger illusions. Think hard."
I wanted to be a trainer. That was when I was pretty full of emotion, and I think, envy. That must be it! My emotions must want to be human!
"I'm not sure, but maybe you need to want to be human. You love talking about all the adventures you would have as a trainer, all the places you would go, people you meet. Your illusioning flared stronger, when I mentioned about it just now, when you felt more excited. Maybe it just stays there once you achieve it, until you get hurt or something. Mom said she did it by imagining the faults of humans, how they are evil and take everything from you, and to tell yourselves that you need to show others you are as evil as them. That's how she illusioned to scare some bad humans from catching us when you weren't around. But I guess she was wrong… some humans are nice."
This is the longest speech which sister had given… since yesterday when she lectured me on needing to train and grow stronger. Mom must have influenced Sis to hate humans, for our safety?
I think about how illusioning could help me achieve my dreams, yet be free. I imagine myself travelling the world. And I should start by becoming Ty's friend. But I can't shake off the feeling that humans are evil. So far the (two) humans I met were quite friendly. What did Mom experience?
"That's it! You look almost like a human now! I'll try describing you. Green hair, white shirt. But when I look at you carefully, you don't have details. I can't quite describe how… confusing it looks? You look four times my size but yet the same size as me simultaneously. And concentrate hard, I still see a Ralts. Work on that later?"
As always in the short time we met, Pip talks in long sentences. "Yeah, but how do we open this door? The handle's a bit high." My sister is the tallest but the handle is still slightly above her head.
Suddenly, the handle turned itself. "Use psychic you dumb… wait, if I say Magikarp, it would be them I'm insulting."
I use my hand to slap the middle of my face, a gesture humans use when they say something stupid, and I feel embarrassment leaking out of me, however hard I try controlling it. The pain does help me remember my mistakes. Imagine if that that Chansey wasn't so nice…
We are greeted with almost the exact same room that held me. Injured Pokémon on beds. But there were humans here too. Some lay on beds, while some lay beside beds with what I guess is their Pokémon. There's a Chansey here too, and I hope not all of them are as weird. Ty is still wearing all purple, making him recognisable among the other humans.
"Ralf! Where were you! I wasn't able to find you just now! I was so worried, but Pip seemed to be telling me to calm down just now. I'm so glad you're okay!" Ty is super relieved.
"Hey kid. I'm glad you recovered so soon. No thanks during the battle just now though. I thought it over, and I decided you are a nice guy. Don't worry, I won't reveal your secret to Ty here, not that I can anyway." Abs is lying on a bed next to Ty, and doesn't seem too injured. Thank Abs for not being angry with me anymore.
"I was… ummm… let me think where I was just now."
"Didn't rehearse huh? So predictable. Just repeat after me. I was…" Pip's clearly annoyed, but at least he's helping me.
"I was outside the Pokémon Centre because I got scared and ran away from the Misdreavus, and hid in rubbish bin. I did not come out of the bin for a few hours even after my dear Piplup friend tried to persuade me, because I was a coward?"
For some reason, everyone around me became amused, with my sister and Pip giggling, and Abs having a slight smile on his face. Ty, on the other hand, became somewhat confused.
"Blindly repeating after Pip. You really are an idiot. This shows that you're pretty straight-forward though, and I like that." Abs seems more trusting now.
"Don't you…even think…about what Pip…just said?" Sister was laughing between words.
"Traitor Pip." The thought unconsciously slipped out of my mind.
"What?"
"Pip was mean to me." Might as well tell a half-truth.
"Pip's new to you. It won't trust you so fast. New Pokémon showing displeasure to you is natural. Treat him nicely, and he will too. Trust me. I've got experience." I doubt it. I totally was, and still am nice to Pip. Or am I doing something wrong?
"Thanks." I can't think of anything else to say.
"Abs has nearly fully recovered. Shall we go to the cafeteria to eat something?" Upon hearing the word eat, my stomach groaned in hunger.
"I guess so. I'm kind of hungry. Wonder if the human food here is nice."
"'Human food'? Don't tell me you were planning to eat pokéfood?! You gotta be kidding me! Have you been living like a wild Pokémon all your life or somethin? Anyway, you have to try the food here! It's delicious!"
Ty took out a pokéball and pressed it against Abs, who is instantly engulfed with a red light and sucked into the Pokéball. "You aren't returning your Pokémon to their pokéballs? It's alright. I know some people who don't either."
The room in the Pokémon Centre named the cafeteria is extremely huge. Stepping out of a moving box named an elevator, the great smell of food greeted me. The cafeteria is crowded with Pokémon and humans alike. Regardless, Ty is very quickly able to find somewhere to sit and to eat.
"Since it your first time here, I'll explain to you how the cafeteria works." Pip started his explanation of another oddity of humans.
"So the food over there," he points to the right, at some humans behind some counters, and a line of other humans standing orderly in front of each counter, "needs to be brought with money. Money is really hard to explain to you guys, but we don't have any money, so don't take anything from there. Nothing at all."
"While the food over there," he points to a few tables with big shiny metal bowls containing food, with a crowding of humans and a few Pokémon capable of holding plates swarming chaotically around the food, "is totally free. So you don't need to give anything to eat it. But it has loads of rules and regulations and conditions, so follow me and nothing too bad should happen. I should warn you that it doesn't exactly taste nice or anything."
So my sister and I followed Pip's instructions exactly, while Ty went to the paid food area.
"So, Ralf, where are you going to go tomorrow? You can share a room with me tonight if you want." Ty's food smells so much better than mine.
"Please don't. I don't think your illusion can last the night. Instead, we should sleep at the lab. I forgot some stuff there anyway, and I want to take them." Pip is eating human food, after I persuaded Ty that it's okay. Pip claims human food is better than pokéfood, although the human food here is kind of bad.
"Oh, then I should really ask Ty if I could travel with him now. I asked Mom using telepathy when you were out, and she didn't say no…" My sister is trying out the pokéfood served here.
I should have asked sister about direct telepathy, but I just can't. "I'm actually sleeping at the lab, since Pip wants to go there. And I think Kirlia wants to go with you." I used psychic to lift my fork to lift the food to my mouth, although I could just psychic the food itself. Pip says appearance is more important than convenience.
"How did you know what your Pokémon want?" Ty is curious.
"Busted." Abs is eating pokéfood brought with money. I wonder if paid food taste better than free ones.
"I guess I can kind of tell what they think… I sort of grew up among them. That's why I know so little about the Pokémon Centre." Half-truths does not give me the feeling of guilt like lying does. Should be better than the real truth though.
"I think there was some green haired guy who could understand Pokémon too… But who am I kidding? This is Sinnoh… And growing up in the wild with Pokémon!?" Ty is practically mumbling to himself, but turns back into his original cheerful self again. "So are you sure Kirlia wants to join me? You two seem to be really close."
My sister immediately hops near to Ty, and starts to speak, although I'm sure he can't understand. "I want to battle stronger foes." She says this pleadingly.
"She wants to battle stronger foes I think. She's actually a wild Pokémon so you can catch her."
"Ralf! It's late already and we need to go before it gets too dark." Pip exclaims, and I realised that all our plates are already empty. Did I really eat so fast?
"Got to go!" I hopped off my seat. "Bye! I'll miss you Kirlia. Ty is a nice guy."
"Hey wait! Are you entering the Pokémon League? You are going to the lab right? If you don't know what it is, you can check with Professor Rowan. Please consider! I hope we can meet each other another day, and battle if you get stronger. Bye! I'll take real good care of your friend Kirlia!"
"I'll ask him. Let's hope we meet again." I followed Pip out of the Pokémon Centre, and lost my illusion when we were out of sight. Illusioning really drains my energy a lot. This town does seem to have many Pokémon wandering about. I should be able to pass off as a captured Pokémon I guess.
Ty. The first human friend I have. I wonder if I'll ever meet him again, and who else Pip and I will meet in the future. The Pokémon League, huh. Pip should give enough information.
"Ralts… Or, should I call you Ralf now?"
This voice! It couldn't be… Mom?
"I'm your mother. Of course I can reach you. I can hear what you're thinking, even now, without you using your own reserves of energy."
That's nice. So you already know what I'm planning to do? Did Sis tell you?
"She said you wanted to be a trainer and explore the world! And she wanted to travel as well. I suppose I'm alright with it."
I thought you hated humans?
"It wouldn't be right for a mother to hold her children away from their dreams. Just be safe, and learn all you can. Always remember that you are always a Ralts, or maybe a Kirlia, Gallade or a Gardevoir like me. Not a human. Not another kind of Pokémon. Just don't play human until you think you are one. Or worse, think like one. And if you ever need me, just think really hard about me, and I'll be there. Safe travels…" The telepathic connection I never knew I felt suddenly cuts off.
What did all of those even mean? I file away my thoughts on that for now, and ask Pip about this thing called the Pokémon League.
A man stood in the shadows of the lab, shrouded in darkness while going over the plan in his mind.
"Come on Fluffy." The Starly perched on his shoulder chirped happily in response. But while its tone was cheerful, it had a malicious glint in its eyes...
"So we shall meet again, Professor, due to unforeseen circumstances. Though I doubt you will recognise me like this. I rather you not." He muttered softly to no one in particular. He grinned as if laughing at his own words, and stepped out unseen into the light...
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