Hello. It's Me again.
Sorry, it Took an Extra Long time. I'll try to be Faster.
Chapter 10 Went Well! but it's Back to Normal Chapter Sizes Now.
Chapter 11 - The Ups and Downs
-Mom sets the Things on the Kitchen Counter-
"That Sounds Great! At least the House is not on Fire" Mom said
"Yea Your Right, Well, I See You Have Some Things."
-On the Table is Some Items, Some of the Highlights are, 2 bags of Adult Cat Food, 2 Rolls of Paper Towels, a Blue Notebook, White Long Bandages, Paper Cups. And A Pack of Cheap Markers- I noted as I Looked at The Table
"Cat Food? Why Did you Get Cat Food?" I Asked Looking at her
"Well, There Wasn't Much to Choose From. The Entire Pet Supplies Section was All Out, So I Had to Get You Cat Food"
"Well, You Know I Can Eat Normal Food Right? Like Human Food, I Have Basically the Same Tastebuds"
"I know that it's Just in Case. Or Maybe Jake Will Eat it"
"So There's Some Other Things…I Got The Bandages So you can put them over your…Rings, You Know, When you Start Glowing at Night a Bit. I Thought That Could Help if you Wanted it to Stop.
Or more Importantly, When Someone is Hurt you Can Stop the Bleeding"
"I Should Really Teach You on Some Medical Practices. I'm A Medical Teacher to a class of 14, I Can Most Definitely Teach You Some Informed First Aid. Possibly even With Your Paws, you can Still Do Some Things"
"Wow, That Sounds Really Helpful to Know. Even if There are Powers To Heal Wounds. I Think it Might be better Learn Actual Skills, Other than Just Using a Move"
"Jack, I'm Curious, Is There Powers That Heal People or Pokemon?"
-I Nod-
"I Think So. I Think Even Being in the Moonlight or Using The Power of it Heals me as Well. My Species is classified as the Moonlight Pokemon"
"I Wonder How That Will Effect Everything, I bet it's Not Even Safe to Even Use Healing Powers. Especially with All these Times You or Most likely Someone Else Gets Hurt Using those powers"
"Speaking of Which, What Powers can You Learn?"
Mom Asked Opening up the Colored Markers
"And How Well is Your Holding Ability? Or Can You only Use your Mouth?"
-Mom Sets the Blue Notebook on the Ground and Opens it, and Put a Green Marker Along Side it-
"Try Writing Your Name. Using your Paws, You Never Tried Them Before" Mom Asked me
"She's Right. I Never Really Used my Paws to Grip Things"
-I Grab The Marker With my Paw. And I Actually Got to Hold it in a Working Position, It Seems my Paws are Good for walking And Holding Things!…but not At the Same Time"
"You Always Used your Mouth for Everything. You Never Got the Chance to use Your Paws"
"Wooowww, I'm A Idiot. I Never Used my Paws for Much. I Always Used my Mouth, but it's not Useless Either, I Can't Just Pick up the Notebook and Carry it Around. I Need my Paws for Walking so I Guess that's When the Mouth is Handy. And my Muzzel is Good at Picking up Things" I Said
"I Guess I Was Too Busy Dealing With Izzy and Ella, Finding my True Inner Power of Flash, And Questioning my Self Worth and Identify"
"I'm Still Learning New Things About Myself. That's Good"
-I Take the Marker and Write my Name, Jack. On the First Page of the Blue Notebook-
"Can you Get The Rest of The Markers?"
-Mom Sets the Rest Of the Markers Next to me-
-I Get Out the Black and Yellow Markers, And I Draw Myself. The New Me"
"I Think That's Lookin pretty Fine for a Quickly Drawn Umbreon, I Do say myself," I Said as I Finished the Drawing
-I Look at the Simple Drawing of The Umbreon, and Something Clicks within me as if I've Truly Accepted My New Form and Myself for What I am. It Feels Strangely Refreshing-
"This is Who I am Now. I'm an Umbreon, But I have the Ideals of a Human. But When You Think about it, All Pokemon have the Ideals of a Human. Well, They Ain't the Same Though. Izzy is…Different, But not in a Bad Way. She's Just More, Chatty."
"Wow. That Drawing is Impressive, is That You?" Mom Asked
-I Nod-
"Well, That Proves you can Hold Things. Try Holding the Marker and Walking" mom Asked
-I Pick up the Marker with my Paw and Walk toward the Other Side of the Room. It's Uncomfortable, Like imagine While Your Walking but With a Marker below your Foot as you do it-
"Alright. So you Can Hold and Do Basic Actions When Your Sitting or Still. But Walking Takes Priority" Mom Noted
"Alright Come back here and Sit Here on this Chair. And wait a Minute" Mom Said Picking up the Blue Notebook
-I Walk Back With the Marker. I Then Get onto the Chair.-
-Mom Goes Into a Drawer and Pulls out a strange thermometer-
"A Thermometer? But I'm Not Sick, and I'm an Umbreon?" I Asked Her
She Just Looks at Me, Dead in the Eyes, and then Just Said
"Nope."
"What Was That Thing?" I Asked
"Just a Doctor Tool, Don't Worry About, Alright Next Thing is to See If You Can Hand Me the Marker" Mom Said
-I Hand Her the Marker, Not Really Handing it to her. More like Plopping it into her Hand.-
"Alright, So Turn Around for a Moment, I'm Doing an Experiment"
-I Turn Around and Sit. I Can Hear Her Getting Things. Like She Goes Into the Cabinet and Gets Out…Uh, like Food? Something like that. Unwrapping Something, And the Sounds of Placing Things on The Table-
"Alright So Turn Around Now."
-I Turn Around and See 3 Styrofoam Cups Labeled 1 - 3 in Green Marker-
"Now From Where Your Sitting. Figure out the Rest What I'm Doing"
-I Look at Cup Number 1-
"It's Pretty Obvious There's Something in One of These Cups"
"Through I Smell Something." I Edge Closer to Cup 1
-Other Than the Funky Smell of Styrofoam Cup. I Smell a Chocolatey, Marshmallow Thing-
"Try the Rest Of Them." Mom Said
-Cup Number 2 Had a Scent of…Peanut? Like a Peanut Butter Cracker-
"Peanuts…I Bet There's a Peanut Butter Cracker in There"
-Cup Number 3, Sadly, Was Only The Smell of Styrofoam-
"If You Are Finished, Label What You Smelt in Here" Mom Said Placing the Notebook Down with a Pencil
-I Write Down for 1. Chocolate Marshmallow thing 2. Peanut Butter Cracker and 3. Nothing-
-Mom Lifts The Cups And Cup 1 Was a Double Stuff Oreo. Cup 2, a Surprise to No One, A Peanut Butter Cracker. And Cup 3 Had Nothing-
"Wow. An Oreo! My Favorite! But I Can't Have It Though…"
-If my Sense of Smell can do that. What Else Can I Use it For?-
"So You Have A Strong Sense of Smell. I already knew that but I Wanted to Test it." Mom Said placing the Notebook on the Counter
"That's All I Have for You to Do. I Won't Do it often"
Mom Said
"So Are you Going to Run about the Area for what's left of the Summer? Your School is Pushed Back 2 Weeks" mom Said
"Yes. I Hope to Travel The Entire World! Or At least My Surrounding Area and Enjoy The Gifts I've Been Given!"
"I hope To Interact With Human And Pokemon! See the Lifes of the People. And since I'll be On own, I'll check every nook and Crany!"
"So I Guess you are Going to be Adventuring around the Area from now on?" Mom Said Looking At me
"I Have to Keep In mind that You're an Umbreon now. Not a Human, I've Let you go On your Own before this. But Everything's Changed now."
"And There are other Family Matters to Take care of. We Are Going to Start Supporting Your Sister, Missy and Brandon, She's…Not Feeling So Well, I Have been Talking With Brandon these Couple of Days, I Have told you before Of Missy Becoming a Glaceon, I am Going to Call Brandon and I Hope you Two can Talk to One Another. Brother to Sister"
-those Words Hit me a Ton of Bricks. I Feel Horrible for Her. Her life must be upside down…I just want to Talk to Her.-
-Mom Gets her Phone and Calls Brandon-
"Can you Get Missy for me?"
"Follow me, Jack," mom Said as She Set the Phone on the Couch in the Living Room
"I hope you can help her. No-one Can Understand what Your Saying to each other. So Talk what you want" Mom Said Leaving the Room to Me
"Hello?" I Said Picking up the Phone with my Paw
"Hello? Missy are you There?" I Asked Again
"Hey Bubbo. How are you?" Missy Said From the Other Side of the Phone
"I'm…Good. I Heard That you Transformed Along Side me. Are you Taking it Well?"
"I've Been Doing Nothing With my Life."
"Well, That's Not Good. What do you Think About me Becoming an Umbreon and You A Glaceon?" I Said Excitedly
"It's pretty amazing that this Happened in the First place" I Added
"Yes, Yes Very Amazing."
"Jack. I Can't Even Talk to Brandon. He's Trying his Best to comfort me. But…im just a freak, a Worthless Pile"
"Your not a Freak. We Understand Each other. You still have Value" I Said
"Valuable? I'm No longer Helpful to Society. I've been in Bed for The past 5 Days Doing Nothing! My Entire Life is Ruined! Our Lives are Ruined!"Missy Said
"Hey, our lives is Not Ruined We Just Have new Opportunities! I'm Still Here for you to talk to…It's Not All Bad being Like this"
"Not so bad? Not so bad you say. I'm Alone in a New Body…I…I Can't…I cant handle This"
"Look, Everything is Going to be Fine, We Are Eeveelutions Now. We Have to Stick Together" I Said
"I HAVE PAWS! Jack, Can't you understand?"
"I Have no Hands. N-No Hands…I Can't Even Talk With our Friends or Family. JACK, We are outcasts for Life. You were so beautiful…IM…I'm…I"
"I Just want to go back to Reality"
"Where Everyone is Fine, Normal. Please. Please Jack Tell me. Is This Really Reality? Am I Just in a Coma? Are our Lives Condemned to these Horrible Forms? " Missy asked
-She Begins Crying, Sobbing on the Phone-
"I-I Don't Recognize myself. What am I? What am I-I? What are We?"
"We are Family. and This is Only a Setback to the Grand Scheme of Things"
"And Our Lives. Eh? Well. I'm Been…Alright with Dealing with it"
"And that's The Difference between me and You. You are Young. You Still Haven't Experienced Life. A Life that you should've Had. A Life I Should've Had. What Jobs can you Fulfill to Stabilize a Family of Your Own?"
"I Hoped That Brandon Could've Transformed as Well. I Could be Actually Be With Him…But if he Did, We Would eventually be Homeless, or Not have Much Left. What Are We Going to Do With The Mistakes That we Are?"
"Maybe Just Start to Familiarize Yourself with Your new Form?" I Said
"You Just Don't Adapt to this New Form in Days. I Was Awake When I Transformed, I Could feel Every Bone in my Body Break And Move. Twitch And Turn. It Didn't Hurt that Much. But my Head internally felt Like it Was On Fire!" missy Said
-She Experienced her Transformation. I Never Felt Mine…She is probably Traumatized by Her form in Question-
"I-I'm so sorry for You. I Never Experienced Mine, I-I was Asleep"
"It's Fine Jack. I'm Just Sick of All This. What did We do to Deserve this Fate? Is it God? Is it Something Greater? Is This World a Lie? Are We Going to Massacred? We Don't Deserve This."
"I…I Don't Know. I Never really Believed in a God. But Something had to Cause This. It Will Be Probably Never be Answered, just That it happened…" I Said
"Jack. Please Tell me that Whatever you do. You Try to be Safe And Don't Take any Unnecessary Risks. Even if We are Given fewer Rights, Please Live through it. But Either way you Will, You have Been Through Hard Stuff as Well." Missy Said
"I'll be safe, I'm a quick Thinker"
"Do you Want to end it off here?" I Said
"No, I Still Have Some Things to Ask you. Have you Learned any Powers or Moves Yet? Did you know Umbreon can learn Physic? At Least you Will be of more Use"
"Well, I guess that Would Work out. But you Can Do Things! I Mean, What Is An Umbreon? It is a Pokémon that Mainly relies on The Dark and The Moon"
"But Glaceon powers are Much more Direct, you can Do Stuff with Ice. Survive in sub Zero Temperatures, That Right There is Huge Plus to your Life. Just Check our your Abilities! You are Probably Better and Stronger in the main Scheme of Things. My Point is, Your Really Cool. Get it? Cus you Have the Powers of Ice?"
"That was a Horrible Joke"
"Yea. But you See my Point. What true Special Abilities I Have? Sure, I Can see in the Dark, heal from the Moon and Glow. That's Basically It. Your Pretty Awesome."
"Yeah…I Guess your Right!" Missy Said With a Little more Beat to her Voice
"But How Do you feel about that? Don't you Feel Cheated?"
-I Lie on my Back and Say-
"Well. I never really thought about other Powers I can't Obtain. But now that I Think of it, it makes myself a bit sad that I Will Never Experience those Powers. Like Never Really Needing to Eat using Photosynthesis and Feeling the Sun like a Leafeon. Or to Swim under the Ocean and seeing the gorgeous Beauty of it, like a Vaporeon. Or Withstand temperatures and Be my own personal Heater like a Flareon"
- I Won't experience any of that, I feel sad, like I Do feel now pretty Cheated. I Won't Feel any of that, do any of that -
"I Accidentally Just made myself feel like Trash Saying That Outloud, But you Should take What you have and Run with it Missy, You can Do that Stuff, you Just Need to Learn and Control it, I love you, and I Just Want you to see how truly lucky you are" I Said
Missy then Said "I love You too, but I'm not So Lucky, though You Didn't Have to Lower your self-esteem for Me. I'll try my best to use my Paws. They…just feel foreign. It will hopefully get better in Time. Thank you"
"No. thank you. I'm Happy to Talk to Someone I know, just try your best with your life. And I'll do my best as well"
"Well, I guess I'll see you later. Hopefully, we will see each other in person. Next Time can we talk about how we Should Act?"
"Sure"
"Love you Jack" Missy Said
"Love you too," I Said Pushing the button and Hanging up
- I Then Just continued looking at the ceiling on my Back -
-Sigh-
- I Use my Paw to Feel the Furry Fuzziness on my Body, Same as Usual-
"I Never Really Thought how Umbreons Fit within this World. Their Powers and Usefulness to Society. There are Many Other Pokemon out there that Outdo Me, though I'm perfectly Fine With That, that's Normal in Life. but There is So much I'm Going to Miss. like I Gained Something amazing, but there Are So many more interesting things that I Could've Gained. What Should I Do When I Grow Up? Should I Just Let go of this Topic and Move on, or Should I Plan?"
"I'm Satisfied With new Body, Not anything Like Missy's Feelings, but I Think she's Feeling better. If She Has Ice Powers, what True Power Umbreons have Darkness? Moonlight? I think Ice powers are Much more Useful, Flash is Probably the Best thing I Have Going But Physic is Also Useful so at Least I Got that Going, though it may Take Years to Master it"
"What Else I Could've been? Perhaps a Leafeon. If I Had to Choose Something Else That Would be it, Would I Change Right now if I Had the Chance? Absolutely Not, I like this Form, It's Cool."
"What Jobs Could an Umbreon Have? Missy Was right on that, Can I Even Work? Support a Family? I'm Going to Continue my Education of Course, Even if I Have to Switch Schools"
"Maybe Having Powers Doesn't Change Anything About Yourself Really, Humans Don't Have Powers. And look how far they have come, even If I Do not Have those Powers like A Vaporeon or a Leafeon. I'm Still Gonna Achieve things, And At Least I Have Some Cool Powers as Well, Hell. I bet Humans Want to be Me in This situation. Though that Mentality is Gonna Go Soon, Will it actually?"
- I Get Up from my Position on the Couch, and head back to My Mom in the kitchen, Who Couldn't Even listen in if she tried. I Wonder What She Thinks of the Constant "Umbre brev breon bre" rambling from my mouth-
"Hi Jack. You did a Really Nice act of kindness there." Mom said to me as I Walked in
"I hate to see how she is right now, I have to get you up to her this week and do something with her, There's not much to do"
-Mom Notices something-
"Hey, Jack. Your Tail is Droopy and Your Ears are Sorta down, I Could've Never Handled how well you are taking it right now, I'm really proud of you. But you don't have to hide it"
"No, really I'm fine. I'm just Saddened a bit. And I'm Been really Doing alright so I Don't have to hide anything at all really"
"Well, We all have been through a lot, Especially today, You Always Have that determination to keep moving on. But You should go upstairs and Relax. Take a nap. You just got back from the mountains"
"Alright, ill do that. My paws hurt from walking around"
- I Wave to my Mom That I Was heading up, When I Got upstairs I Checked up on dad. Who was Still Working, Seemed like he got my Life insurance in check. -
-I Go down the Same hallway I did 6 days ago?, I lost count, and Pushed open the used to be "Hard to open" door with the Stool still there, with knocked over Clothes still on the Floor, With Scents of Cat piss on them-
"Brings back memories…Of like literally 6 days ago"
-Other than the Scent Of Cat Pee, the room is Unaffected-
"Man What I'm I Going to do With all Those Clothes," I asked myself as I looked through the drawers
"I'm an Umbreon, I'll just wear hats now, maybe Cut a Few holes in them for my Ears And they've set. For the Clothes maybe we'll just keep them. A memory, pretty Sad Memory. Of which I Used to wear them, pretty Strange as Well"
- I Look around for neat things…and to do try things as well-
"What if I'm Walking around on Rocks? Should I Wear Shoes? That's Stupid. I won't be able to use my Front Paws. Through maybe Socks?"
- I Grab Some Socks From the Drawer and put them on front paws-
"Yeah, no Socks"
APPROXIMATELY 28 Minutes Wasted Later
"Now That's What I Call A Fort!" I Said as I Marveled at my Creation
- in the Corner of my Room, I Made a pillow Fort made up of Blankets, Pillows and Even the Stool As Support for Holding it Up -
"Now Since I'm Smaller I Can actually Fit!"
- I Get inside the Pillow fort. Which isn't really a Fort Just pillows for Walls and a Blanket on Top through really Compact and Warm -
"It's Like my Little Den. I can Hang out in Here and Maybe take a Nap. It's really Comfy and Dark and l like this Sorta Spot, like A lot. This Darkness feels Relaxing" I Said Chillin in my Umbreon Den
-I'm Staring at a motionless Ping Pong Ball which I Found when I Rummaging Around in my Closet. Which the Ball is Set on The Floor-
"…"
- I Imagine the Ball Moving. Rolling. Rolling Around The Floor like it's being moved by the wind-
-Deep breath-
"Come on now. Take your Time, Move, Maybe I Should Try Smaller movement"
-I Think of the Excitement of Success if I Do this. I imagine it Moving it a bit to the Left-
-Then I Feel Something, like in my mind a Movement That I Have to push-
- I Take That feeling, I Feel the Ball. Like I Just have to push it-
-The ping pong ball moves A Puny Bit to the Left-
"HAH. I DID IT! I Moved a Ball! I want to try it again!"
-I Move it a bit to the Left again-
"YYEEEESSSS, I DID IT!" I Said Again Jumping Around
-I Did a bit Too Much left on The Ball and It Rolls under the Dresser-
"Damn"
-I'm Looking Outside my Window. My Room is on the Second Floor. And It's Getting Dark, I See a Beautiful Sunset, I Could feel the Suns Warmth even as it Sets-
"You know what. No matter what happens I'll still be able to look at the Sun." I Said Relaxing
"I'm going to live a good life. It's going to be sad times and there's going to be happy Times."
-I Look at the Treehouse-
"I Can't-Wait to See what It Will be like. Being with my own Kind. I haven't been around here these 5 days, so they must have something going on. I think it's just a Trading Center, so there must be more of them. And I hope to see what battling is about? Maybe I'll just Watch. They must be intense"
- I Lie down near The Window. Hanging out by the edge of it-
"It seems to me after this point my life is Going to Change. Like a Turning point? Or the Calm before the Storm."
"I haven't looked at any News Stuff. But I'm not interested right now, Though what is to become of my Kind is an endless debate, maybe I'll move to a Populated area of My kind, like a Town or City of them. But what is my Kind? Pokémon? This has become something greater than Pokemon. I Think Pokemon And Transformed People should be Called Different"
-as I Watched the Sky go on and get Darker and I Realize my Rings are Getting Brighter-
"My Life is going to be Awesome"
Hello! Sorry for not having any News Segments. Jack (The Umbreon) is Pretty Busy with His Life, He Still Cares. I'm Just having Lots of Fun writing With Jack. Mainly Right Now there is Just News Debates Arguing over Morals of Human and Pokemon. Though the next Chapter will Expand On That