Pokémon Tower, the final resting place for some pokémon; birthplace for Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, and Misdreavus. Umbreon's final resting place, the most depressing place for Mike to be right now. "I'd never thought I'd be here under these conditions, now I am." he says, "This is where Umbreon and I say goodbye...". "Hau, haunt, haunter!" Haunter says.
"Haunter says that you should not be so discouraged, Mike."
"Haun, haunt, ha, aunter, haunt, haunt."
"Just think of this as a crossroads in your life."
"Haunter!"
"Are you sure I should say that, Haunter?" she asks the ghost pokémon.
"Haunt!"
"Okay...." she turns his attention to back to him, "Haunter wants to let you know that his old friends Gastly and Gengar will be Umbreon's company.". "I don't want to let Umbreon go!" he yells at Haunter, "Can't you understand that?!"
"Mike..."
"What?"
"You must let Umbreon go.... you must go on!"
"........."
"Listen, the first pokémon I had was an Espeon, she died three years after I got her."
"Was she killed....?" he asks, starting to get unhappy.
"Well, you can say that. She was.... attacked by a strange wild pokémon when we were walking back home late at night after visiting Cerulean City. I was five years old at the time. I ran home, afraid for my life, crying the whole way home. I cried for days after that. Then.... I started to train my psychic abilities and started to introvert myself from other people, even my own parents.... intent on mastering my abilities. I even transformed my mother into a doll because I was so confused about what to do with my abilities."
"Really? How come you never told me?"
"I didn't think you'd care about it."
"Well, I do care."
"You.... do?"
"Yes."
"I'm.... glad you do..."
"I must let Umbreon go." he walks away from her, into the Tower.
* * *
He enters a big dark main hall, and waits for his eyes to adjust to the darkness. Over time, he gets the features of the inside of the Tower into focus. A stairwell leading up, hugging the curved wall, furniture that looks like it hasn't been used in years, and a big hole in the floor in the center of the room leading into a basement. He heads towards the staircase and starts his climb.
* * *
Outside, Sabrina waits for him. She thinks back fifteen years ago, when her Espeon was mauled by that strange wild pokémon on the road....
She was five at the time. She had an Espeon ever since she was two years old, she got the Espeon as a gift from her parents. Her and Espeon were walking back home from Cerulean City after a day of wandering around Mt. Moon and watching the pokémon battles in the Cerulean City Pokémon Gym. The night was oddly quiet, compared to how it usually sounds. There were no sounds of Jigglypuff singing faraway, no Clefairy in the distance, no Meowth rustling in the bushes, no Oddish spreading their spores around, nothing. It was... too quiet. Only one pokémon can be seen that night, a pokémon standing about one foot tall, its head about the size of a football, black crests around its eyes, its tail measured about the same size of its body with two thick black blades growing out of it, its mouth beak-like, claws growing from out of of its three fingers, its feet like that that of a cat pokémon, its dark grey skin reflecting the light of the moon. Its crimson eyes seem to burn into her soul as she stares at it. Those eyes... she would never forget those eyes.
Espeon darted in front of her, obviously trying to protect her. It growled at the pokémon as if to say 'Back off!'. The pokémon did not see this as a threat. Instead, it took it as a challenge, running at the Espeon head-on with speed beating a Dodrio or Rapidash, and slashed at its head, creating a long scar down the Espeon's face and neck before it even gets to have a chance to react. Seeing the blood it caused, the strange pokémon lunges at Espeon, tackling it, biting it repeatedly. Sabrina screams at the sight of her Espeon being attacked by it. It bites its short razor sharp teeth into Espeon's elegant neck, ripping off the purple flesh, sending a spray of blood into the night sky. Espeon gives out a cry of agony then coughs up blood. The Espeon's body goes limp and falls to the ground, the strange pokémon continues to feed on it, driving its mouth into the chest cavity of the Espeon, tugging and eating out its heart. Glaring at Sabrina the whole time of its feast with those menacing, peircing crimson eyes. She starts to run away, the pokémon lets her run, only because its busy with the eating of the Espeon.
She forces herself out of the memory, and looks up at the dark windows of the Pokémon Tower.
* * *
Inside the tower, Mike finally reaches the top floor of the Tower. He sets down Umbreon's body on the hard stone floor and kneels. Umbreon's body glows purple, sending a ray of light into the air. It fades away, "Good bye... Umbreon..." he says, gets up and walks downstairs.