Hi! I'm back! Anyway, thanks to all of you who reviewed. Here is the next chapter. Oh, and this chapter is a little (lot?) longer than the first.
{Brackets} indicate telepathy
indicate thoughts
Black. Everything was so black. It was then that I realized what my problem was. It wasn't that I was seeing everything in black. I just couldn't see anything at all. Consciously registering this seemed to set off an automatic trigger in my brain and suddenly I was thinking again. The thing was, I still couldn't see. So I opened my eyes.
The first thing I noticed was that I was not in the place I had just been. It looked like some sort of cave. A strange cave, but what else can a chamber like that be called? I also noticed I was in a different position. Instead of lying on my back looking at an open sky, I was on my stomach, hands at my side, lying on some sort of elevated platform. This platform, I noticed, was soft.
I turned over and sat up, repositioning my body so that I had a better view of my surroundings, my legs dangling off the platform. In front of me was an assortment of three large flat shiny rocks held together with four longer round rocks, also shiny. On the large flat rocks there were a lot of thin, sharp objects that looked like they would seriously hurt if I touched them. Shuddering, I looked a different direction.
Directly to my right, the way I had been facing earlier, there was a sort of invisible shield, not unlike a pokemon's reflect, that separated me from the outside world. It looked weak, though, and I would be able to teleport through it anyway.
To my left there was nothing but a white cave wall with an opening in it. Looking through the hole I saw a long corridor with lots of other holes on the left and right sides. Looking behind me I saw another elevated platform like the one I was on. I knew that they were elevated, but not how high they actually were. Looking down I was surprised to see that they were at least twice as tall as me, at least that wide, and about four times longer than I was tall.
I thought. After searching for awhile I decided it was time to go. I focused on the tree that I had made my home. In the very middle of the forest, I saw, in my mind, every branch, leaf, and knot. I chose a nice big branch to sit on, making sure that it was sturdy AND high off the ground. I was ready to go and in just a moment…
WHAM! The dizziness hit me like a tornado, nearly knocking me off of the platform. If I had fallen I could have really hurt myself. As it was I wretched on the spot, falling heavily on my side.
I lay there for what seemed like forever, my breathing fast and heavy. After a while I could feel my body relaxing and my breathing slowed. Finally I recovered the strength to sit up. It was then that I realized that my power was being sapped. I thought, But there was a reason that I hadn't noticed it, for it was so minute that I almost missed it. I closed my eyes, concentrating on feeling where the power was going. I found it. Opening my eyes, I found on my right wrist, a sort of bracelet, shine also and made out of the same kind of rock that the sharp things were on. However, it was round and a lot smaller so it fit tightly to my wrist.
I Decided that I didn't like the dizzy feeling, but I still needed to get out of there. I sure wasn't going to try teleporting again. So I thought I'd try to get through the strange reflect. I began concentrating, ready to blow it out with my mind. But as I got ready to unleash the attack I started to get dizzy again. Quickly I stopped. I sat there pondering when it hit me. This little bracelet that I was wearing wasn't just stopping me from teleporting, but also from attacking with thoughts. Then, as I got dizzy trying to lift ine of the pointy objects from the shiny rock, I realized that it pretty much stopped me from THINKING.
Realizing that the only way out of the strange chamber was to walk through the square hole in the wall, I began to climb down the platform, not realizing I was not paying attention to my surroundings. I was just about at the ground when…
"Nurse Joy! Nurse Joy!"
The shout came from no more than two feet behind me and it startled me so much that I let go of the platform and fell hard on my tail, causing a wave of pain through my lower body. I silently cursed the thing on my wrist, that it was blocking ALL of my senses.
"Are you okay? Do you need help getting up?" Frantically I searched for the source of the voice. When I turned around I saw, directly behind me, a huge monster! Or at least, that's what I thought it was at first. It reached a hand down to me and, after careful consideration, I reached up and took it.
Once it pulled me to my feet I realized that it wasn't all that scary after all. It turned out that when I was standing it was only one and a half times my height. It looked like a giant rubbery egg with a real egg in a pouch on it's belly. It was pink, wearing something on it's head, and it had a very worried expression on it's face.
"Are you okay?" it repeated.
"Yes," I replied, "I am fine."
"Good." For a few moments we just stood there and stared at each other. Then, getting nervous in the silence I asked it what it was.
"I am a Chansey." It said in a high voice. "And you must be…an Abra!"
"That I am."
"That's what I thought. It's important to know what kind of pokemon your patient is, and since you're my patient, I know! Plus your trainer said that when he brought me in.
Questions exploded in my head. Patient? And YOUR patient? But that last part caught me off guard the most.
"My trainer?" I asked. "I apologize, but I do not own a 'trainer'."
Now it was the Chansey's turn to look confused. After a few seconds, though, she began to laugh.
"I always heard that Abras were literal. I didn't mean the trainer that you own, because you probably don't own one. I meant the trainer that owns you."
The confused look, once again traded faces. "What?" I said, a little indignant. "I am not owned by anyone or anything."
It was as if the confused look was a disease that kept passing from pokemon to pokemon. I had apparently just passed it on to the Chansey. It put the back of its hand on my forehead. This confused me even more. Finally the Chansey turned once again to the hole and called out, "NURSE JOY!"
For a few seconds we just stood there, me looking confused and the Chansey looking perplexed. Finally I decided to ask. "Excuse me, but what is a Nurse Joy?" Normally I would have just read her mind, but with the bracelet on I was unable. I figured it would just make me dizzy again if I tried.
Luckily I didn't have to wait too long. Almost as soon as I said it a figure appeared in the opening. I gasped. It was another human! Vividly I recalled the last few times I had seen humans. My back started to ache at the very thought. Quickly I backed against the wall. The Chansey and the Nurse Joy exchanged worried looks.
The Nurse Joy then said something that I didn't understand.
"She asked you if you were okay," the Chansey translated when I didn't move or respond. I looked a little uncertainly at the towering Nurse Joy. She was at least five times my height.
"Don't worry, she's here to help." Said the Chansey. The Nurse Joy began moving towards me. I tried to back up again but I ran into the wall. Thankfully, the Nurse Joy stopped.
"Hi Nurse Joy! How's Abra doing?" Even though I didn't understand a word, my eyes snapped to the door. I thought. I froze, hardly daring to breathe. This was the same human I had seen in the woods…the one with the purple eyes! Panicking, I once again tried to teleport back to my home. And, once again, I got so dizzy that I toppled over. This time, though, I was on the hard ground and I hit my head pretty hard. So hard, in fact, that I began to see stars. This was bad, even I knew that. Almost at once I felt hands press against my back and, panicking once again, I tried to teleport home. The dizziness intensified tenfold and I slipped into darkness. Once again, I had had too much…
A few minutes later
"They made it to strong."
"Who cares? It worked, didn't it?"
"It wasn't supposed to knock him out."
"Yeah, well, these things happen."
"Why don't you go now? Let me be here alone with him when he wakes up."
"Okay, I'll go back to the cabin, shall I?"
"Bye."
Voices…
{Abra! Abra, wake up!}
Who?
{Abra! Get up!}
Why? What's the point?
{Abra! Wake up, please!}
Slowly I opened my eyes slowly. They widened rapidly, however, when the first thing I saw was the same human looking over me with an expression of…what, worry?…on his face. I almost panicked again, but I held myself in check. I think that he could tell I was scared, though, for he suddenly leaned closer to me. The opposite direction I wanted him to move in.
{Abra, are you all right?} That caught my attention. I sat up quickly, ignoring the light pain in the side of my head. I still was not completely awake.
"I understood you!"
{Yes, I was talking to you.}
"But usually I don't understand humans."
{Yes, I've noticed.}
"But how? How did you do that? Why did I understand you?" A puzzled expression appeared on his face, but soon he laughed. Then the answer hit me like the wave of dizziness had before. It was so obvious.
"Telepathy," he said. Now I was confused. He had gone from speaking without moving his mouth to doing it while moving his mouth, even though he must know I didn't understand him. I had just said do after all. But I decided to try out the word anyway.
"Te..le..pa..thy." I tried. It sounded so strange. "What does that mean?"
"Talking with your mind," he said. Now I really was confused. He was still telling me things out loud. Why couldn't he just talk to me the way he had before, without moving his mouth? When I didn't say anything he sighed.
{I guess I'll have to do it this way, then.}
"That! How did you do that?" Wait. Oh. Duh. Now that I was awake, the answer seemed very obvious. "Never mind."
{Ha ha! Now do you get it?}
"If by 'get it' you mean understand," I replied, "then yes, I do."
{Well, that's good,} he said, or thought, {and so now I guess you can answer me.}
"Answer you? What was the question?"
{Are you all right? }
I got shakily to my feet, using the wall behind me for support. I looked around and saw that I was in the same place that I was before, on the hard ground. And the Chansey and the Nurse Joy weren't there. I thought about all that had happened to me for the past…how long was it? One day? Two days, since I had fallen in the forest and awoken on the platform? There was no way to tell, and that's what I didn't like. I thought about the bracelet on my wrist. I thought about getting hit in the head, back, and falling more than once, and based on these and the fact that I was still here, I had my answer.
"No," I said firmly.
"What's wrong?"
"What?"
{Sorry,} he said, {what's wrong?} Again I thought about all that had happened to me, but then thought that he couldn't, or perhaps wouldn't, help me with any of my problems. After all, I still did not know how I had gotten in the strange cave. For all I knew, he was the one who brought me there. Oh well, that was something about which I could do nothing, and so I stopped thinking about it. I also didn't think he'd understand the fact that I couldn't tell how long I had been unconscious.
After eliminating all other possibilities, I realized that there was only one left. I slowly raised my right hand to show the human the bracelet. He simply stared at it with a puzzled expression on his face. Then the answer seemed to slowly dawn on him.
{Oh! The psychic inhibitor?}
{What is a 'psychic inhibitor'? I already know what it does. It stops me from thinking.}
{Here.} He lifted his own hand to my still outstretched wrist. I thought about backing away, but I realized that that probably wouldn't get me anywhere, so I remained where I was. He then did something with the bracelet that I couldn't see, and there was a quiet 'click'. At once I felt the pressure lessen, then disappear. Astounded, I looked at my now free wrist. All at once I felt alive again. I closed my eyes and nearly jumped for joy. I could still see!
The first thing I did was picturing my tree home in the forest. However, just as I was about to teleport, another thought hit me. This strange human had helped me and, aside from the fact that I owed him my gratitude, I still had a question or two.
{Thank you,} I practically shouted, still excited that I could once again use my psychic powers.
{You're welcome.}
{I have a question.}
{Shoot.}
At first I was confused. Shoot? But I decided that it must have been an affirmation for me to ask my question.
{The Chansey told me something that disturbs me greatly. She said that I had a…trainer. Since I'm pretty sure that I don't own a 'trainer', could you tell me what she meant?}
{Well,} said the human, a little uncomfortably I noticed, {would you like to come home with me? I can explain what she meant when we get there.}
I thought about that for a moment. I had a home, after all. But again, I reminded myself that this strange human had helped me. And I also wanted to see what a human nest might look like. {Sure.}
{Good.}
{And I have another question that has been bothering me ever since I saw you. Again. When I first saw you in the woods your eyes were the same color, purple, as your head…}
{Hair.}
{What?}
{Never mind. Go on.}
{Anyway, I was wondering why they changed color.} For it's true, they had. Instead of the purple that they were before they were blue. The same color blue as the sky.
To my surprise, the human laughed yet again. {I was using my psychic powers to make sure that you didn't teleport.}
{Humans have psychic powers too?}
{Well, yes. Some, anyway.} Interesting. But why would some humans have psychic powers while others did not? What could they use them for…
It was then that the full force of what he had said hit me. {You WHAT?!} I screamed. The outburst seemed to have startled him, for he grabbed his head as soon as I yelled. He recovered quickly, though.
{Abras, well, wild ones, have a habit of teleporting away from battle. Then you can't catch them,} he explained matter-of-factly, almost cool. I however was anything but cool.
{What are you saying?} I asked. Then the Chansey's words came back to me, 'I didn't mean the trainer that you own, because you probably don't own one. I meant the trainer that owns you'. Suddenly it all clicked. What the pokemon in the forest had said about being 'captured'. About what the Chansey had said. And about what this human had said, just now. {Are you saying that you OWN ME?}
{Well, yes.}
At those last two words my world seemed to shatter. This human owned me? I am not owned by anyone or anything, I thought.
{No, I'm not,} said the human. Then, in a more concerned voice, he asked, {Why are you so upset?}
Concerned voice? No. Not concerned. This human was anything but concerned. He was dangerous. I had to get away from him. Once again I tried to go home, and, for the fourth time, it failed. But the bracelet was gone, wasn't it? Then it dawned on me. If the human could block my powers before, why couldn't he do it again? I tried again and again, more and more desperately. And each time, it failed.
{Abra! Stop!}
{Stop? Why should I listen to you?}
{Because I'm your master, that's why!}
{No. No master. I don't have a master. No master has me. Nothing has me.} I turned on him, ready to use my psychic powers to render him unconscious. I knew it probably wouldn't help. He could most likely still use his powers when he was asleep, to. But still, if I didn't try I would never know. I focused all the energy that I could into one single blast and, with all the power my mind could muster, hurled it at the human. A blast that strong could have knocked out almost any pokemon I knew.
It backfired and hit me full force. I Felt my body immediately crumple as the wave of psychic energy slammed into me. I lost my balance and fell to the ground once again. Than everything went black…
Hi! Did you like the second chapter as much as the first? I hope so, but either way, please tell me what you thought. I probably am going to continue. Oh, and for those of you who want to, helpful advice would be welcomed! Bear in mind that, while I'll read it, that doesn't mean that I will use it but, then again, you never know.
{Brackets} indicate telepathy
indicate thoughts
Black. Everything was so black. It was then that I realized what my problem was. It wasn't that I was seeing everything in black. I just couldn't see anything at all. Consciously registering this seemed to set off an automatic trigger in my brain and suddenly I was thinking again. The thing was, I still couldn't see. So I opened my eyes.
The first thing I noticed was that I was not in the place I had just been. It looked like some sort of cave. A strange cave, but what else can a chamber like that be called? I also noticed I was in a different position. Instead of lying on my back looking at an open sky, I was on my stomach, hands at my side, lying on some sort of elevated platform. This platform, I noticed, was soft.
I turned over and sat up, repositioning my body so that I had a better view of my surroundings, my legs dangling off the platform. In front of me was an assortment of three large flat shiny rocks held together with four longer round rocks, also shiny. On the large flat rocks there were a lot of thin, sharp objects that looked like they would seriously hurt if I touched them. Shuddering, I looked a different direction.
Directly to my right, the way I had been facing earlier, there was a sort of invisible shield, not unlike a pokemon's reflect, that separated me from the outside world. It looked weak, though, and I would be able to teleport through it anyway.
To my left there was nothing but a white cave wall with an opening in it. Looking through the hole I saw a long corridor with lots of other holes on the left and right sides. Looking behind me I saw another elevated platform like the one I was on. I knew that they were elevated, but not how high they actually were. Looking down I was surprised to see that they were at least twice as tall as me, at least that wide, and about four times longer than I was tall.
I thought. After searching for awhile I decided it was time to go. I focused on the tree that I had made my home. In the very middle of the forest, I saw, in my mind, every branch, leaf, and knot. I chose a nice big branch to sit on, making sure that it was sturdy AND high off the ground. I was ready to go and in just a moment…
WHAM! The dizziness hit me like a tornado, nearly knocking me off of the platform. If I had fallen I could have really hurt myself. As it was I wretched on the spot, falling heavily on my side.
I lay there for what seemed like forever, my breathing fast and heavy. After a while I could feel my body relaxing and my breathing slowed. Finally I recovered the strength to sit up. It was then that I realized that my power was being sapped. I thought, But there was a reason that I hadn't noticed it, for it was so minute that I almost missed it. I closed my eyes, concentrating on feeling where the power was going. I found it. Opening my eyes, I found on my right wrist, a sort of bracelet, shine also and made out of the same kind of rock that the sharp things were on. However, it was round and a lot smaller so it fit tightly to my wrist.
I Decided that I didn't like the dizzy feeling, but I still needed to get out of there. I sure wasn't going to try teleporting again. So I thought I'd try to get through the strange reflect. I began concentrating, ready to blow it out with my mind. But as I got ready to unleash the attack I started to get dizzy again. Quickly I stopped. I sat there pondering when it hit me. This little bracelet that I was wearing wasn't just stopping me from teleporting, but also from attacking with thoughts. Then, as I got dizzy trying to lift ine of the pointy objects from the shiny rock, I realized that it pretty much stopped me from THINKING.
Realizing that the only way out of the strange chamber was to walk through the square hole in the wall, I began to climb down the platform, not realizing I was not paying attention to my surroundings. I was just about at the ground when…
"Nurse Joy! Nurse Joy!"
The shout came from no more than two feet behind me and it startled me so much that I let go of the platform and fell hard on my tail, causing a wave of pain through my lower body. I silently cursed the thing on my wrist, that it was blocking ALL of my senses.
"Are you okay? Do you need help getting up?" Frantically I searched for the source of the voice. When I turned around I saw, directly behind me, a huge monster! Or at least, that's what I thought it was at first. It reached a hand down to me and, after careful consideration, I reached up and took it.
Once it pulled me to my feet I realized that it wasn't all that scary after all. It turned out that when I was standing it was only one and a half times my height. It looked like a giant rubbery egg with a real egg in a pouch on it's belly. It was pink, wearing something on it's head, and it had a very worried expression on it's face.
"Are you okay?" it repeated.
"Yes," I replied, "I am fine."
"Good." For a few moments we just stood there and stared at each other. Then, getting nervous in the silence I asked it what it was.
"I am a Chansey." It said in a high voice. "And you must be…an Abra!"
"That I am."
"That's what I thought. It's important to know what kind of pokemon your patient is, and since you're my patient, I know! Plus your trainer said that when he brought me in.
Questions exploded in my head. Patient? And YOUR patient? But that last part caught me off guard the most.
"My trainer?" I asked. "I apologize, but I do not own a 'trainer'."
Now it was the Chansey's turn to look confused. After a few seconds, though, she began to laugh.
"I always heard that Abras were literal. I didn't mean the trainer that you own, because you probably don't own one. I meant the trainer that owns you."
The confused look, once again traded faces. "What?" I said, a little indignant. "I am not owned by anyone or anything."
It was as if the confused look was a disease that kept passing from pokemon to pokemon. I had apparently just passed it on to the Chansey. It put the back of its hand on my forehead. This confused me even more. Finally the Chansey turned once again to the hole and called out, "NURSE JOY!"
For a few seconds we just stood there, me looking confused and the Chansey looking perplexed. Finally I decided to ask. "Excuse me, but what is a Nurse Joy?" Normally I would have just read her mind, but with the bracelet on I was unable. I figured it would just make me dizzy again if I tried.
Luckily I didn't have to wait too long. Almost as soon as I said it a figure appeared in the opening. I gasped. It was another human! Vividly I recalled the last few times I had seen humans. My back started to ache at the very thought. Quickly I backed against the wall. The Chansey and the Nurse Joy exchanged worried looks.
The Nurse Joy then said something that I didn't understand.
"She asked you if you were okay," the Chansey translated when I didn't move or respond. I looked a little uncertainly at the towering Nurse Joy. She was at least five times my height.
"Don't worry, she's here to help." Said the Chansey. The Nurse Joy began moving towards me. I tried to back up again but I ran into the wall. Thankfully, the Nurse Joy stopped.
"Hi Nurse Joy! How's Abra doing?" Even though I didn't understand a word, my eyes snapped to the door. I thought. I froze, hardly daring to breathe. This was the same human I had seen in the woods…the one with the purple eyes! Panicking, I once again tried to teleport back to my home. And, once again, I got so dizzy that I toppled over. This time, though, I was on the hard ground and I hit my head pretty hard. So hard, in fact, that I began to see stars. This was bad, even I knew that. Almost at once I felt hands press against my back and, panicking once again, I tried to teleport home. The dizziness intensified tenfold and I slipped into darkness. Once again, I had had too much…
A few minutes later
"They made it to strong."
"Who cares? It worked, didn't it?"
"It wasn't supposed to knock him out."
"Yeah, well, these things happen."
"Why don't you go now? Let me be here alone with him when he wakes up."
"Okay, I'll go back to the cabin, shall I?"
"Bye."
Voices…
{Abra! Abra, wake up!}
Who?
{Abra! Get up!}
Why? What's the point?
{Abra! Wake up, please!}
Slowly I opened my eyes slowly. They widened rapidly, however, when the first thing I saw was the same human looking over me with an expression of…what, worry?…on his face. I almost panicked again, but I held myself in check. I think that he could tell I was scared, though, for he suddenly leaned closer to me. The opposite direction I wanted him to move in.
{Abra, are you all right?} That caught my attention. I sat up quickly, ignoring the light pain in the side of my head. I still was not completely awake.
"I understood you!"
{Yes, I was talking to you.}
"But usually I don't understand humans."
{Yes, I've noticed.}
"But how? How did you do that? Why did I understand you?" A puzzled expression appeared on his face, but soon he laughed. Then the answer hit me like the wave of dizziness had before. It was so obvious.
"Telepathy," he said. Now I was confused. He had gone from speaking without moving his mouth to doing it while moving his mouth, even though he must know I didn't understand him. I had just said do after all. But I decided to try out the word anyway.
"Te..le..pa..thy." I tried. It sounded so strange. "What does that mean?"
"Talking with your mind," he said. Now I really was confused. He was still telling me things out loud. Why couldn't he just talk to me the way he had before, without moving his mouth? When I didn't say anything he sighed.
{I guess I'll have to do it this way, then.}
"That! How did you do that?" Wait. Oh. Duh. Now that I was awake, the answer seemed very obvious. "Never mind."
{Ha ha! Now do you get it?}
"If by 'get it' you mean understand," I replied, "then yes, I do."
{Well, that's good,} he said, or thought, {and so now I guess you can answer me.}
"Answer you? What was the question?"
{Are you all right? }
I got shakily to my feet, using the wall behind me for support. I looked around and saw that I was in the same place that I was before, on the hard ground. And the Chansey and the Nurse Joy weren't there. I thought about all that had happened to me for the past…how long was it? One day? Two days, since I had fallen in the forest and awoken on the platform? There was no way to tell, and that's what I didn't like. I thought about the bracelet on my wrist. I thought about getting hit in the head, back, and falling more than once, and based on these and the fact that I was still here, I had my answer.
"No," I said firmly.
"What's wrong?"
"What?"
{Sorry,} he said, {what's wrong?} Again I thought about all that had happened to me, but then thought that he couldn't, or perhaps wouldn't, help me with any of my problems. After all, I still did not know how I had gotten in the strange cave. For all I knew, he was the one who brought me there. Oh well, that was something about which I could do nothing, and so I stopped thinking about it. I also didn't think he'd understand the fact that I couldn't tell how long I had been unconscious.
After eliminating all other possibilities, I realized that there was only one left. I slowly raised my right hand to show the human the bracelet. He simply stared at it with a puzzled expression on his face. Then the answer seemed to slowly dawn on him.
{Oh! The psychic inhibitor?}
{What is a 'psychic inhibitor'? I already know what it does. It stops me from thinking.}
{Here.} He lifted his own hand to my still outstretched wrist. I thought about backing away, but I realized that that probably wouldn't get me anywhere, so I remained where I was. He then did something with the bracelet that I couldn't see, and there was a quiet 'click'. At once I felt the pressure lessen, then disappear. Astounded, I looked at my now free wrist. All at once I felt alive again. I closed my eyes and nearly jumped for joy. I could still see!
The first thing I did was picturing my tree home in the forest. However, just as I was about to teleport, another thought hit me. This strange human had helped me and, aside from the fact that I owed him my gratitude, I still had a question or two.
{Thank you,} I practically shouted, still excited that I could once again use my psychic powers.
{You're welcome.}
{I have a question.}
{Shoot.}
At first I was confused. Shoot? But I decided that it must have been an affirmation for me to ask my question.
{The Chansey told me something that disturbs me greatly. She said that I had a…trainer. Since I'm pretty sure that I don't own a 'trainer', could you tell me what she meant?}
{Well,} said the human, a little uncomfortably I noticed, {would you like to come home with me? I can explain what she meant when we get there.}
I thought about that for a moment. I had a home, after all. But again, I reminded myself that this strange human had helped me. And I also wanted to see what a human nest might look like. {Sure.}
{Good.}
{And I have another question that has been bothering me ever since I saw you. Again. When I first saw you in the woods your eyes were the same color, purple, as your head…}
{Hair.}
{What?}
{Never mind. Go on.}
{Anyway, I was wondering why they changed color.} For it's true, they had. Instead of the purple that they were before they were blue. The same color blue as the sky.
To my surprise, the human laughed yet again. {I was using my psychic powers to make sure that you didn't teleport.}
{Humans have psychic powers too?}
{Well, yes. Some, anyway.} Interesting. But why would some humans have psychic powers while others did not? What could they use them for…
It was then that the full force of what he had said hit me. {You WHAT?!} I screamed. The outburst seemed to have startled him, for he grabbed his head as soon as I yelled. He recovered quickly, though.
{Abras, well, wild ones, have a habit of teleporting away from battle. Then you can't catch them,} he explained matter-of-factly, almost cool. I however was anything but cool.
{What are you saying?} I asked. Then the Chansey's words came back to me, 'I didn't mean the trainer that you own, because you probably don't own one. I meant the trainer that owns you'. Suddenly it all clicked. What the pokemon in the forest had said about being 'captured'. About what the Chansey had said. And about what this human had said, just now. {Are you saying that you OWN ME?}
{Well, yes.}
At those last two words my world seemed to shatter. This human owned me? I am not owned by anyone or anything, I thought.
{No, I'm not,} said the human. Then, in a more concerned voice, he asked, {Why are you so upset?}
Concerned voice? No. Not concerned. This human was anything but concerned. He was dangerous. I had to get away from him. Once again I tried to go home, and, for the fourth time, it failed. But the bracelet was gone, wasn't it? Then it dawned on me. If the human could block my powers before, why couldn't he do it again? I tried again and again, more and more desperately. And each time, it failed.
{Abra! Stop!}
{Stop? Why should I listen to you?}
{Because I'm your master, that's why!}
{No. No master. I don't have a master. No master has me. Nothing has me.} I turned on him, ready to use my psychic powers to render him unconscious. I knew it probably wouldn't help. He could most likely still use his powers when he was asleep, to. But still, if I didn't try I would never know. I focused all the energy that I could into one single blast and, with all the power my mind could muster, hurled it at the human. A blast that strong could have knocked out almost any pokemon I knew.
It backfired and hit me full force. I Felt my body immediately crumple as the wave of psychic energy slammed into me. I lost my balance and fell to the ground once again. Than everything went black…
Hi! Did you like the second chapter as much as the first? I hope so, but either way, please tell me what you thought. I probably am going to continue. Oh, and for those of you who want to, helpful advice would be welcomed! Bear in mind that, while I'll read it, that doesn't mean that I will use it but, then again, you never know.