I enter the hut, and I see Chase sitting down by a fire in the middle of the room. The smoke going through a chimney in the centre of the ceiling.
"Enjoy the sunset?" I hear Chase ask. I look over to him and nod in reply. He chuckles.
"That view's gotten pretty old for me. Especially knowing that there are better places out there."
"OK, 1: I do not know how that view can get to old for anyone, and 2: there can be nothing better than the cliff."
"Trust me, there are so many better places. Hopefully one of our missions will take us there..." There is an awkward silence. I hate things like this. I always let the person I'm speaking to talk first, but at the same time, I think that they're waiting for me to say something. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. Finally, Chase breaks the silence.
"Sooo, do you remember anything about you're former life yet, Edge? I mean, surly you must remember something by now." I don't know how to reply to this. Since I'm playing along, I would just have to say that I still don't remember. But I don't like lying to Chase. I guess all I can do right now is try to convince him that I'm human.
"...Chase. I-I have something to tell you. You see...well... You know when you woke me up in the forest? When we first met?" Chase nods. "Well... I didn't get there in the first place. I didn't exist here before you found me there. The thing is... I'm a human, Chase. I know I told you before, but you have to believe me. I don't know how, I don't know why, but for some reason, every time I go to sleep in the human world, I wake up here."
"W-What?! Y-You mean...like a dream? Then..am I just a piece of your imagination?" Chase looks worried. Great, I've made him doubt his own existence.
"No no no no, this is all real! You remember that morning when there was dry blood under my nose?" Chase nods again. "Well, in the human world, during the day, someone punched me and I had a nosebleed. The only explanation would be that wounds I obtain in one body also affects the other. And before I go to sleep, I sometimes hear your voice and it makes me feel sleepy. This might mean that if something is trying to wake me up, I fall asleep in the human world and wake up here, and vice-versa." Chase looks more shocked than worried now.
"W-Wait a second, you said someone was hitting you? Who would hit you, Edge?" Chase asks me, obviously looking out for me.
"Let's just say I don't have the best of lives in the human world. Oh, and also, I think serious wounds are an exception. Yesterday in the human world, my nose was broken by the same person. But when I woke up here, all I had was an ache."
"A broken nose?! Why would this human do this to you?" Chase asks yet again.
"It's nothing you can handle. Besides, he's probably gonna get punished for assaulting me."
"...Is there anything else I should know?"
"No. I've told you everything." There is yet another silence.
"I...I never imagined that an ordinary looking Pokémon like you could actually be a human. And my best friend, no less."
"I know it's a bit strange for me to say this now, but we should get to sle-" I'm interrupted by the sound of beeping in my head.
"W-What's up?"
"It's my alarm back in the human world. Time for me to wake up. But don't worry, I'll be back tomorrow morning. There's no way I would leave you." The beeping gets louder. "Night... Chase..." And with that, I lose consciousness.
I open my eyes, expecting to find myself in my room, but instead:
I find myself in that same darkness as when I first came to the Pokémon world.
There is yet again a light in the distance, I approach it, but don't go through. There is a voice emanating from it, and I wait to see what it has to say.
"The D-ess i- -till clea-ng. I h-e y-u can he- -at I'm s-in- -ght no-" I can't make out anything the voice says. The light gets brighter, and I start to hear my alarm again. The voice continues to speak gibberish, sounding somewhat desperate now. As the light engulfs me, I can no longer hear the voice. And I wake up in my room. It takes me a second to realise where I am. When I do, I get out of bed and turn the alarm off. Typical me, I forgot to turn it off last night. I climb back into bed, minding my nose, and I prepare for another hour's sleep.
What was that voice?