Pokémon: Agent of Entei
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So naturally when a legendaries ask you for a favor you wake up with a massive headache. Or it might have to do with the tree limb and the falls. Take your pick. The storm had stopped raining now that it was day, but the clouds persisted and thunder and lightning came like the constant sound of your washer/dryer combo. My five dogs huddled around my bed. Frash sat and watched the storm out the infirmaries window, hissing at every thunder clap, as if daring them to challenge him.
I heard the clicking of heels coming down the hall. The noise was like a tap dancer in my head. Nurse Joy opened the door and seven heads turned to look at her. My dogs got up and sniffed her over until they decided she was no threat. Frash glanced and then went back to watching the storm. Harold in the bed next to me continued to snore.
"Hey, Doc. Give me the run down." I asked Nurse Joy. She clicked her tongue at me angrily, like it was all my fault I was injured. "You've had a terrible concussion. Your muscles are strained and there were signs of internal damage, although I was unable to find any. However, your healing process is terribly slow, so you'll have to stay in here for a while." Nurse Joy told me.
The concussion would be from the falls and the tree branch to the face. The muscle damage would be from running while asleep, which is something you're not supposed to do, as there's a bodily lock on you while you sleep. The internal damage that was not there would be Entei healing me probably. The slowed healing rate would be because there was no sun.
"How's he?" I asked Nurse Joy as I glanced over at Harold. "He's broken his elbow and taken all the skin off his right hand. He won't have use of his hand for a few days if everything goes right and he heals as fast as children do. However, his left arm will take almost a full month to heal."
"How about the other two?" "The older girl, Jesse? She's taken a blow to the head and I made her wear an eye patch to prevent damage and help her heal. Wouldn't want to damage the nerves. Other than that she's fine. The older boy? I haven't seen him since yesterday, and he's locked himself in his room. I haven't been able to check on him, but if he's well enough to seclude himself hen he's well enough I don't have to do anything." Nurse joy told me. She seemed awfully frustrated that she couldn't help Nathan.
"How long will I be in here though?" "I want you bed ridden for the rest of today and tomorrow before you I let you go, and I'll be checking on you during that time." Nurse Joy told me. "I'm going to take care of your Pokémon, so if you could tell them to follow me please?" joy asked me. I glanced at my six and they understood. Frash gave me a one- over as he left, making sure I was okay. "Bones you're in charge!" I called out the door as it closed. He twitched his ear, confirming he heard.
Before the door closed all the way Jesse grabbed it and slipped into the room. "Jack. How're you doing?" She asked. "I feel like crap. Try not to be very loud, okay?" I told her. She nodded before she pulled a chair over to my bedside. "I'll try to be quick. Nathans locked himself in his room so Nurse Joy can't recognize him. He's fine, so don't worry. He'll only open the door for one of us though. I'm assuming you had the dream message from Manaphy as well?" I nodded.
"We'll have to put that on the list of things to do while we're here in Slateport city. In the mean time, I'm going to the market to get supplies. Hopefully the shops will be open in the weather. Entertain yourself with your Tech or your Dex. And listen to the Nurse. Also, as I said yesterday, you're fire. You're bound to not have fared well in the storm, so be extra careful to not get sick, okay?" "You said that yesterday? I didn't understand anything you said last night."
She gave me a worried glance and slipped out the door, shutting it softly. Beside me, Harold stirred. I glanced over at him and waited for him to speak to me. "You gave us a right scare Jack. And then there's what happened to Jesse and I…. Stupid legendaries. I'm fairly certain Entei took you over, and there's no way you survived the things that happened to you yesterday without the intervention of your patron."
His angry little burst made me think of something. "Hey? Did you always know you were going to be a champion, or is it just sprung upon you one day? Are you mad at your legendaries?" He was quite for a moment. "Well…. I always knew I was cut out for something different. I've been mentally mature and conscious at the level I am now since I was three. I didn't know, but when I was seven I discovered an area in my backyard that others couldn't find, like a veil came over their eyes and they could not see the little gate in the shrubbery bush. Inside the shrub there was this massive tree that stretched into the sky. There were ways into the tree through the roots. So I went in. I was eight at the time. I had been in and out of the gigantic tree many times over the years. The next time I tried to leave I was not exiting back into my backyard. Mew's tree of life had teleported off with me in it, seeing as Mew had chosen me as champion when I was born, changed with Mew's influence."
"So one day I wasn't at my house with my parents anymore. Mew claimed me, then showed me to the Lake tree separately at their lakes. I didn't know what was going on at the time, to me the tree had teleported to five different locations now; My house, Lake Acuity, Lake Verity, Lake Valor, and this really foggy forest area. Little did I know at the time, the tree wasn't teleporting, I was. Mew didn't reveal herself immediately, instead choosing to show me the Lakes first. The Lake trio agreed to sponsor me as well. Mew finally revealed herself to me when I was Nine, after living in the tree of life for almost a full year, seemingly in a deep sleep she and the lake trio had put me in. When I woke, I had my powers… Telekinesis, Telepathy, teleporting… The Three Important T's as Uxie put it."
"So after that I trained. Mew and I went around the world and caught my Pokémon. I learned about the inner workings of the mind. Dark nature of humans. Lovely stuff for a nine year old, but Mew wanted me to be prepared. When I was ten and had completed my training, Mew took me home. My parents didn't recognize me. They refused to accept their lost son had lived. I got fed up with them and accidently damaged their minds. Once I had examined the damage I decided hey, if I'm fixing them, why don't I edit them? They forgot their son had ever run away from home, or that he had ever been a creepily smart child. But they forgot lots of other things. It just wasn't the same. Dad eventually had a work accident because he had forgotten what he had to do. It was my fault. Both my parents were pretty old, getting to be in their fifties. The death of my Dad upset my mother so much that she broke out of my edited memory parameters. She still didn't recognize me, and she attacked me. I went back to living with Mew, rather than try again. I trained myself by battling trainers. All the money I made from various odd jobs went to my mother. I stole what I could not buy or obtain otherwise, like my I.S."
"Am I angry at my sponsors? I guess I would be, but we, as champions, cannot be. Part of our psycho-makeup when we become champions is that we cannot hold a grudge against the legendaries. I stole that bit of info out of the semi-insane mind of Mespirit. Are you still really mad that they took your family Jack?" I shook my head. It no longer bothered me so much I was on the verge of forgetting it ever happened.
Beside me Harold stared at the ceiling, looking like he wished he could die. I felt sorry for the poor small boy. "I'll never really forgive the legendaries, but I can't stay mad at them. It's not in our natures anymore. They change us in other ways too. Have you been guilty for anything we've stolen? That persons van? The money from the Devon corp.?" I shook my head. At the time it was all just adrenaline. And then it was promptly excused under guise of 'I'm here to save the world.' "Champions think they're better than humans. The legendaries do this for better results. Cruel, but it's not like it can matter to us." I looked over at Harold. There was no way that was true, right?
"I know what you're thinking. That sounds pretty drastic, almost a little over the top, right? Well… You can choose to believe me or not believe me on any of the things I say. I'm pretty crazy, remember? I was so smart and crazy, even when I was five, my parents had a priest exorcise me, and I convinced him to not do it!" Harold told me, as he laughed manically.
"Answer me this, are there any sane champions?" "Maybe Vidar or Kendal. Those would be the only ones though."
There was a long silence and I had though that Harold had gone to sleep, so he surprised me by asking, "Hey, what's the Doctors diagnosis anyways?" "Left arm broken, almost a full month in a sling. Right hand skinned to point of unused, keep bandaged for a full week, check again in a center or hospital. Looks like you don't have either arm right now." "That's absolutely fine by me, I'll be using my telekinesis so much from now on I might turn into a stickman and float instead of walk." "That'll be the day, I'm sure."
The Nurse walked in. I had not heard her approach since I had been talking to Harold. "Oh, good to see you're both up. It's time for your pain relievers. Joy handed us little plastic cups of pills and a glass of water each from a tray she had been carrying. I downed the pills straight, not bothering with water. Harold made a big show off popping his pills and drinking the whole glass of water. The nurse took our glasses and cups. "Go to sleep again soon boys!" she called back to us in her too-cheerful voice. Beside me Harold levitated some pills out of his mouth. I glanced over at him. "Can't take these. They interfere with my powers." "The pain is going to get horrible dude. It really is. I saw your hand. I think a bit of your palm bones showed through the bloody mess and the gravel. Eat the pills." Harold looked over at me and considered me. Then he popped the pills and ate them.
The pills made me drowsy, so I slept until it was night. When I woke up Nurse Joy had returned. She took a look at some canners hooked up to my arm. I faked sleep and watched her. "Why does he have such a white blood cell count?" Nurse Joy mused to herself as she examined my chart and the monitor. "He's not sick now, but whatever it is that made him drop his cell count could really be a problem in the future. The fewer white blood cells he's got the more chance for a serious infection or sickness."
Nurse Joy seemed satisfied with her examination and left. "It's the rain. Rain will forever be an undermining agent with you from now on. The harsher the rain, the less white blood cells, having their unique little spark of fire essence go out when it rains so much on your skin. The more water in through your skin, the less white cells. You must be careful. It's an unintentional side effect of being a champion; you've got to have the weaknesses." "My god, it's less about the Pokémon and more about the champions with the legendaries!" I told Entei through my Dex. "Of course. If it was only about the Pokémon, why would we need champions? Oh, We've found more info about the void. It's a parallel dimension that was unconnected from us for a long time. We don't know what changed that, but we're connected now by the Reverse World of Giratina."
"Our new info is that although there are a few humans there, the entire planet is mostly Pokémon occupants. The legendaries there are much darker, and the planet of this is covered with spatial and temporal anomalies known as 'Mystery Dungeons' according to the locals. We dared not enter them. We are much less powerful so far away from our own realms. This new information is pretty startling, for it shows signs of being infected with a plague we simply know as 'Darkness.' It is the closest our dimension and the Reverse World have come to falling to another dimension that declared war on us. We beat it back into its own dimension before about five hundred years ago, but it looks like it remembered us more than we did for it. And now it's back, attacking a parallel it mistook for us. And the parallel is irreversibly lost."
I listened for more, but Entei had stopped talking. I sighed and closed my Dex. That didn't sound good. We had enough to worry about at the moment anyways. All of us but Nathan were pretty busted up; we had a gym to take on, a crystal to steal and return to the temple, a package to deliver, a Legendary to appease, Pokémon to train, and supplies to pick up. And I couldn't do anything here because I was still healing! I probably couldn't even ask the legendaries for help seeing as it was their powers used on me to allow me to survive the storm. And another would be coming once the day was over or sooner if Kyogre was ticked.
I struggled with my thoughts while I drifted off to sleep. I probably went to sleep at around six yesterday, yet when I woke today it was three o'clock. Amazing what head injuries will do for your sleep. Harold had been playing checkers against Thompson again when I woke up, but he quickly grew bored with their perfect mirror match after I woke up. "So, you reckon we're getting any better?" "Not even the fates are cruel enough to let be laying here for no reason." "Fates?" "Eh… I forget what that's from, but it exists as a phrase in my dimension."
Jesse snuck back into our room, shutting the door softly. "I managed to get the truly important supplies we had been using up in the month since we began our journey. Food, Pokémon supplies, other miscellaneous necessities, etc. I've got a lead on the gem, and Nathan delivered a design to some captain guy. Thankfully Harold is well on his way out of here, and it's not like the nurse could really stop you if we decided we needed to take you out of here Jack."
"So, what's the plan for now?" I asked. "We wait, and heal up. Then, we go for what's not important first, so, supplies, and such. Then, we take the gem, get it to the temple, and find a way to Mauville. Simplicity, until you factor in we'll be in a ton of trouble for taking back a crystal of Manaphy's temple. So, yeah, we've got a goal,and a strategy, just not a plan." From the other bed Harold looked like he was about to say something critical about Jesse's wording but stopped when he saw her glare at him for a moment. Even with only one eye Jesse could make a Charizard back down with a death glare.
Jesse tilter her head and listened for a moment. Then she quickly slipped out and silently moved off. Joy came in a moment later to check on us and read some diagnostics. She left again and I went back to sleep, again, since there was nothing else to do.
Later at night I received a message on my PokeTech watch from Nathan. It read: 'Tomorrow we leave this center and go out. The next day, we get the crystal.' I read the message twice just because of how bored I was. I tried to think of something I might have in my I.S. for entertainment value, but it didn't seem like I knew what I had. I reached into my I.S. on a whim and came out with a DS. I was surprised it existed in the Pokémon dimension. I slotted in Mario racing and set to work beating X-Jack's insanely bad records.