? Pov
You have done far better than I ever could have. People don't dislike you and even though you have no clue why you're here, you continue to move on.
Maybe it was my nihilism or lack of empathy that led me to be so unsympathetic.
Maybe I should've changed? But I feel it's too late you're already the master here.
It's time to return to the deep depths where I'm filled with nothing but my own regrets.
Glaze Pov
I slowly opened my eyes as I stared at the dull source of light beeping next to me. It was a button of some sort though I couldn't really make out any details since the room was lacking any strong light sources.
Turning over to the windows I noticed they were covered by a number of blinders though a few rays of sunlight managed to tear through them.
'So it was daytime'
The last thing I remembered was the battle with Zac. I must have lost consciousness back there.
I moved my right hand to tap the button and noticed that there were two tubes coming from my arm leading into some sort of medical device.
I glanced at the button again and it seemed to be one of the types used to call for assistance. So I moved my hand again and this time pressed it.
After a few seconds the door swung open and a doctor and a nurse entered the room.
"Good morning Glaze" The doctor said.
"Good morning"
"So how are you feeling today?"
"I'm feeling some amount of exhaustion but other than that I feel fine"
"Any shivering or any pain present?
"None at the moment at least" I said after thinking for a while
The doctor then scribbled something into his notepad.
"Just lie down for a while and let the nurse take out those tubes. I'll be back in a while to check your condition and if everythings fine I'll let you go home"
"Where are we by the way?"
"Petalburg Salient Hospital, it's on the outskirts of petalburg city. You were admitted sometime in the evening at about 4:30 p.m. yesterday"
"And was there anyone with me at the time I was admitted or is there anyone outside right- agh
I stopped myself as the nurse took out the needles from my skin
"-now" I finished.
The doctor stared at my face for a while before he spoke
"Sure just don't overexert yourself"
"I will be sure to take care"
"Fine, nurse send them in"
At the door I was surprised to see Vis walk in with Elicia following the two of them were Absol and stopped right beside my bed though shroomish tried to make an effort to get onto the bed but failed.
I stopped lying down and sat upright to face the two of them. My right arm had some bandages on it and the stinging pain from a few seconds back almost vanished.
"Glad to see you're awake Glaze"
"Vis what happened after I collapsed?" I asked as I picked up shroomish and placed it on the bed.
"I'd say not much. After you lost consciousness we began to fight Zac but his manectric mysteriously fainted"
"So the perish song worked then" I said out loud.
"That's what I expected it to be. After that Zac gave up pretty easily maybe too easily for someone like him. Nonetheless we took him into custody and then got you and your friend here"
"You said friend right? Where is Matthias?"
"Matthias is fine, he's probably relaxing in his hospital room. While Matthias didn't seem to have been affected by the cold as badly as you had been we decided it was better for him to might as well stay a night at the hospital"
"Makes sense"
Suddenly I heard my pokenav ring. I followed the sound to the desk on my table.
"It's my father, I'll need to take it," I said as I looked at the contact registered as Dad.
"Sure go ahead" Vis said
I answered the call.
"Hello"
"Hello Glaze are you doing fine, Matthias had phoned me earlier saying that you had injured your leg"
Well I could work with this.
"Yeah I just tripped earlier though it's nothing to worry about I'm perfectly fine"
"That's good to hear so when should I send the dragonites to pick you up"
"I'm not sure at the moment. I'll have to take a rain check on that"
"Sure I'll call back"
"Bye"
I cut the call.
'Phew'
Good thing my father wasn't too perceptive or else things would be especially hard to explain.
"So anything else you would like to tell me?" I asked Vis.
He scratched his chin for a moment then began.
"I'm affiliated with the police to be frank. I don't as per say have a job but I do help out with dealing with any criminals or such. Though my job right now involves scouting for trainers with good potential"
"Scouting for trainers for what?" I asked.
"Well I can't explain all the details right now but it does involve getting involved with criminals. Though you guys did a good job fighting the manectric" he answered.
"Hardly, I think if it was just me and Matthias we wouldn't have been able to have survived" I said as I took a look at Elicia.
"I should be thanking you Glaze for interfering at the the perish song really took a lot of time to take effect on manectric. Porygon had fainted after a while during the battle " she said with a hint of a smile.
"Prism had fainted perhaps I really was out of it at the time and how did manectric survive?" I said as I turned to Vis.
"'Mega evolution'' or at least that seems to be researchers' consensus. We've got the manectric in custody and well it seems to have reverted to normal though it does have a strange stone equipped to it"
"I feel that's enough questions for now at least for me. I need to head back to the forest to meet up with some pokemon rangers to calm the local pokemon down. Also Elicia is working with the police so she's safe for now " Vis finished.
'You should have mentioned that first'
But Vis had already left the room leaving me alone with Elicia. Well not exactly alone Shroomish and Absol were with me but they did nothing to dissolve this clumpy awkward atmosphere.
I had not really paid any attention to her when I was speaking to Vis but now I noticed that she was out of the aqua uniform I had seen her in before and was in more casual clothes.
Well I couldn't just wait here not saying anything. It was time to make conversation.
"Did you need something?" I asked.
"Well I just wanted to apologize for before. I was so caught up with revenge that I almost turned you into an ice popsicle"
Her words seemed to be honest at least to my understanding, leaving the last part aside.
"I'll have to think about it for a while though I don't think you're a bad person"
The problem with being awoken and being thrust with so much information is that it's still taking my brain some time to catch up with things. I attributed it to my exhaustion.
"Is that so?Well then I should get going then" she said as she stood up.
"See ya"
And with that she left the room.
I was now alone if we didn't count the pokemon beside me.
"Shroomish did you decide to tag along to check up on me?" I said as I patted it on the head.
"Shroom Shroom" It nodded enthusiastically.
"Thanks for that"
The shroomish seemed to have grown attached to me and I in part too had grown attached to it. Thinking of dropping it back at Petalburg woods gave me an unpleasant feeling.
So I posed the question.
"Hey Shroomish do you want to come along with me?"
I didn't expect to get an answer immediately but was surprised to receive one.
"Shroom Shroom" It said enthusiastically along with another wobbly nod.
"That's great.. Wait a sec where is my bag"
Taking a look at myself I just noticed that I was in a hospital gown and that my bag wasn't nearby. It seems only my pokenav was present on the desk. There was a pokeball on the desk but it was opened. I assumed that it was Absol's pokeball.
I pressed the button from before once more and the nurse I had seen earlier entered.
"Did you need something sir?"
"Yeah I wanted to ask if the hospital is in possession of my backpack?"
"A backpack, I do remember your friend who had been admitted having you want me to get someone to deliver it?"
"Yes if you could"
"Sure I'll inform someone from the staff to do so"
"Thanks"
So I lied down for a while until I heard a knock on the door. Another nurse entered.
"I was asked to give this to " he said showing my backpack.
"Yeah that's me"
"Here, sorry for just rushing on out but I really need to get to the other patients"
"No problem"
And with that he was out in a split second.
After he left I sifted through my bag to find a pokeball. Since I had six in there I found one pretty easily.
With the pokeball in my hand I lightly tapped shroomish. The ball in my hand opened up and shroomish was enveloped in a red light that continuously shrank until it disappeared into the pokeball.
I stood up and picked up the empty pokeball off the desk.
"Absol return" I said as the red beam hit absol returning it to the ball.
I placed the two balls in my bag and waited for the doctor to arrive.
A few minutes passed while I daydreamt until the doctor finally made an appearance.
"I've checked your results and they seem to be in order. You're discharged"
"Thanks where do I change by the way"
"You can use the bathroom behind you to change also when you're leaving be sure to inform the receptionist. That's all"
"Thank you doctor"
"Your very welcome"
And with that the doctor left.
I made my way to my bag where I had placed the clothes I was wearing before I had changed into the aqua clothes. The police must have taken the team aqua uniform I had been wearing prior since I couldn't really find it anywhere.
Though I did find the other aqua uniform I had stashed in my bag which I decided to keep to myself.
After having spoken to the reception about being discharged. I inquired as to whether there was a patient named Matthias.
"Matthias yeah he's in room no 203"
After explaining my situation(not entirely) to the receptionist she told me where Matthias's room was. She did ask me some questions before she let me know though.
We were right now on the first floor and I had been admitted to room 105. So I had to take the stairs or elevator to head to the second floor where Matthias was.
Before heading up though I spotted a vending machine from which I purchased a hot coffee.
After finally reaching to room no 203 I knocked.
"It's me Glaze"
"Glaze? Sure come in"
I walked in expecting a completely healthy matthias who was goofing off. But what I saw was kinda the opposite.
"You seem to be pretty hurt," I said as I took a look at the number of bandages on him.
It wasn't anything particularly bad but the guy didn't seem as healthy as I expected him to be.
"Yeah about that" he took out a pokeball and pressed the button.
Out of it came a slakoth.
"Slaa.."
"So you managed to capture it"
"Well I did but at the time it was really hyperactive, I guess. It kept attacking me instead of porygon and I had to run for my life"
"Hah wish I could have seen that"
"This isn't funny Glaze I was almost a goner. Well anyway since slakoth wasn't really paying attention to prism it was a pretty quick fight" he said as he turned to slakoth.
Slakoth didn't do anything as it lay still on the floor.
"Well.."-I said as I took out shroomish's pokeball-"I've also got a new buddy to tag along"
I pressed the button thereby revealing shroomish.
"Shroom"
"As expected"
"What do you mean as expected?"
"I mean the little fella was trying to get into your room the whole time you were hospitalized or so I've heard from Vis."
"Speaking of Vis , did he tell you anything?"
"Well yeah, he did speak of some kind of anti-terrorist organization but he spoke in very vague terms not really explaining much about it"
Guess Vis was as cryptic with Matthias as he was with me.
"So you feeling fine then?" Matthias asked me.
"Yeah I just got discharged and I'm free to go"
"That's good, you're not in a hurry to head home or anything right?"
"No not really. I told my dad I'll call when I need the dragonites. Did you have something in mind?"
"Sort of I heard there was a gym battle taking place at Petalburg city about an hour from now. So I wanted to know if you wanted to head there to get a feel for the atmosphere present for gym battles in terms of preparation"
I mulled over the thought in my head for a few seconds.
"Yeah that sounds good. Though can we make it in time?"
"It's not that far from here, walking distance really"
"Sure then I'm in"
AN: Hello dudes,dudettes and thudes this will probably be the last chapter for a while since I'm going to be undertaking the massive nanowrimo(You guys should try it too if you're bored). So if there aren't any updates for a while y'know why. Also wanted to thank the people who read my stuff as it brings me immense joy and I hope to improve my writing further on to give you guys some good content to feast on. This will probably be my only AN. Peace.
