A New World, A New Journey Chapter 12

Title: Ice cream for girls, pizza for boys.

First of all: MERRY CHRISTMAS (or whatever other holidays you maybe have) EVERYONE!

Secondly: Sorry for the long wait for this new chapter and thanks for everyone who still reads and enjoys my story. I really had to kick myself to finish this chapter and I hope you will enjoy it.

It has been three days since the defeat of Team Rocket's Mega-Mega-Meowth and my little outburst. Ash and the gang leaved that same evening to continue their journey. They thanked Calem for his help and wished him good luck in his gym battle. Calem was staying with Professor Sycamore, who offered us a guest room to stay.

I did not much in these 3 days. I just woke up, eat my breakfast and then climbed one of the trees in the garden of the lab and thought about my old life, home and family. "Have they noticed I'm gone? Are they worried about me?". Maybe not the healthiest thing to do, but it kept me occupied. The others thankfully kept mostly away from me, only sometimes asking how I felt and if I wanted to talk about it. I declined the offers and just let my mind wander.

I sometimes felt my own anger raise at myself for letting Calem just capture me and giving up my freedom so easily. I feared, I could lose control over myself and lash out with my anger and actually hurt someone. I haven't heard from Mew or Luna in these days. Which was ok with me. I don't know if I could keep my cool around them.

After a few hours of thinking, I just decided to wander out of the garden and take a look around the lab. I don't know if I was allowed to, but no one told me to not go either. I actually found my way to a library with shelf after shelf of books. Reading is one of my other hobbies (yes, I have hobbies besides from Pokemon), and seeing this amount of books, I felt I could have a little bit from my human life back.

"I'm maybe in the body of a Pokemon, but I still have the mind of a Human." I said to myself and walked around the library to look for a good book.

Luckily for me, the Books were in English and not this weird symbols they sometimes show in the anime. After a few minutes, I found a book that caught my interest. It seems to be an old riddle book. But what actually caught my interest, was the fact that, it was written in Unown letters. And as quite the fan that I am, I could read them. The title says: "Riddles of the Unown."

"I always like a good riddle." I thought and walked over to a table with some chairs. Probably for students to learn here. I sat down and grabbed a pencil and some paper that were lying there so to not write in the book itself.

"Alright. Let's see..."

1) Sometimes I walk in front of you. Sometimes I walk behind you. It is only in the dark that I ever leave you. What am I?

2) It weighs next to nothing but no one can hold it for long. What is it?

3) If your aunt's brother is not your uncle, what relation is he to you?

4) Everyone is attracted to me and everybody falls for me. What am I?

5) I can't be seen, found, heard or smelled. I lie behind stars and under hills, I fill empty holes, come first and follow after. What am I?

I read and solved a few riddles for the last hour, until Kitsune came in the library, apparently looking for me.

She came over to me and looked over my shoulder and asked: "What are you doing, Argon?"

I didn't looked up from the riddle and answered: "Doing some riddles from this book I found."

She looked a bit perplexed and asked: "Can you actually read that?"

I looked at her and was at first confused by what she meant, until I remembered that pokémon can't really read when they are not trained. "Yes. I found this book and thought it would be fun to do some riddles from it."

"Sounds interesting. I wish I could read human language." she said.

"Well, maybe I can teach you a bit one of these days." I said.

She looked happily at me and said: "That would be awesome! Oh! And, Calem is actually looking for you. He said he had a surprise for you that maybe lifts your mood a little."

"A surprise? For me?" I was already surprised to hear that he had a surprise for me. I actually ignored him most of the time in the last three days and I thought he would rather be angry with me.

"Of course for you, silly. He is really worried about you and kinda fears that you would leave the team." she explained. "Come! I bring you to him." she grabbed me under my arms and hugged me with my back to her, like some kids would do a doll. Another reminder that I was no longer human.

Kitsune rubbed my cheek with her nose as she noticed my mood got a bit down. It actually helped to calm me down and I felt safe with her.

We walked (and with that I mean I was carried and Kitsune walked) to another part of the lab I haven't been yet. The room we entered was separated in two areas. One was a kitchen place with a worktop, stove and oven, where Calem was taking something out of the oven and didn't saw us, and the other a dining room with a big table and some chairs around it.

I saw Thumper already sitting there on a chair with a big pillow to actually reach anything and waving at us.

"Calem can cook?" was the first thing I said as I watched the scene in front of me.

Kitsune and Thumper got a bit nervous at that and I literally saw this little sweat drop, you sometimes see by anime characters, form on thumpers head.

"This can't be good..." I thought as Kitsune sat me on a chair with a pillow of my own at the table and took a seat beside me.

"Argon! Nice to see you decided to join us." said Calem and came from the kitchen section with a tray "I wanted to make you feel better, but I don't know how. So I asked the Professor what he thinks, and he said a good meal could do wonders. And so I made us something special tonight." he explained proudly and set the tray on the table.

"PIZZA!" I exclaimed happily and watched hungrily at the mafia-pie... I think I drooled a bit.

Calem's laugh got me out of my trance. "I take a guess and say, you like pizza?" asked Calem.

I just nodded vigorously. Feeling a bit dizzy after that, but was totally worth it. I had been faaaaar too long since I had pizza.

(The last time was 4 days before I got sucked in this world)

Calem cut the pizza in pieces and gave each of us a slice on our plates. The others looked kinda suspicious at the pieces, but I didn't care. It was pizza! How bad could it be?

I took the piece in my hands and took a big bite... big regret. I let the rest of the pizza fall on my plate and I felt my face getting even greener. I was ready to throw up and die right after. But I actually managed to keep it in and even survived.

Calem, Kitsune and Thumper just looked nervously at me as I just sat there, staring at nothing as I saw, once again, my live pacing before my eyes. I never thought someone could actually manage to ruin pizza LIKE THAT!

As I got myself under control, Kitsune handed me a glass of water and I drank it eagerly. I looked a bit pissed to her and said: "You could have warned me about his non existing cooking skills, you know?"

Kitsune laughed and rubbed her head sheepishly as she said: "Sorry. I actually thought he would get it this time."

I looked to Calem and he also looked really sheepish. Then, he suddenly let his head fall and clapped his hands over his head. "I'm sorry, Argon!" he shouted embarrassed and continued: "I really messed up, didn't I? I failed you not only as your trainer, but also as your friend. I don't even have the slightest idea of why you are so upset or how I can help you." He raised his head and looked me in the eyes.

"I really want to help you. I want us to get along and have adventures together with everyone here. But... but I just don't know how." Calem looked now really depressed. I felt really bad for ignoring him these past few days. It was not his fault that I have turned into Pokemon or that I'm stuck here. I sighed and wondered how I can tell him that he is not at fault and don't need to worry about me. I looked back at my plate and the... thing that pretends to be a pizza and an idea struck me.

I jumped from my chair and Calem was about to stand up as well, but I looked at him sternly and held my hand up. I pointed with my finger back at his chair and said: "No. Sit down and wait here." Calem seems to get what I wanted and sat down with a confused look.

I turned to Kitsune and Thumper and said: "Could you come and help me with something?" Kitsune and Thumper looked at each other and shrugged before following me into the kitchen area. With the help of Kitsune and Thumper, I looked through the cabinets and got everything I needed for what I had in mind.

"Alright guys. I show you now, how to ACTUALLY make a pizza." I said and begun to lead them through the process of making the dough and preparing the tomato sauce. As I grabbed a knife, they actually looked a bit worried, before I started to expertly cut the herbs for the sauce and some salami to put on the pizza.

I rolled the pizza dough out on a baking tray and we begun to put everything we prepared on the pizza. As everything was prepared, I put the pizza in the oven and started the time. We used that time to clean up and put everything back where it belonged.

"I didn't know you could actually cook, Argon. I thought you were a wild pokémon. Did you actually had a trainer once?" asked Thumper. I just sighed and said: "I already told you guys, I used to be a human. Cooking is something I had to learn at some point." Seems they still don't believe that I was once a human.

Thumper looked a bit sad and said: "Seems like you still don't remember your pokémon live. But at least you seem to be a bit happier as in these last few days."

I sighed and got to the oven to look at the progress of the pizza.

It looked nearly ready and I asked: "You will never believe me, will you?"

Thumper scratched the back of his head and didn't seem to know what to say. Kitsune gave him a little slap on his head and said to me: "It is not like we think you are lying or something. You clearly believe what you say, but... it just doesn't seem possible to us that a human can turn into a pokémon."

The pizza was now ready and I got it out of the oven. I luckily found some oven gloves in my size, so I didn't get burnt. But even with that, was the heat stronger as I'm used to. Probably something to do with me being a grass type.

I carried the tray with the pizza to the table where Calem was still sitting and waiting. After I got it on the table, with some help from Kitsune, I got to my chair from before and sat down. Calem watched with interest and asked: "Argon... can you really cook?" I looked to him and nodded proudly.

"And you did this... for me?" he asked again. I rubbed sheepishly the back of my headsaid: "I... I just wanted to thank you and Kitsune and Thumper for everything you have done for me. I also wanted to say sorry for how I behaved the past few days." I sighed and continued: "I'm still not over what happened to me. And probably never will be." I looked up at him with a determined look and continued: "But I still want to go with you on adventures."

I know he couldn't understand me. But I really needed to get this of my chest and I hoped he would understand me anyway.

Calem just sat there for a moment, before taking a piece of the pizza with a thoughtful expression. He then took a bite and after a few seconds, he said: "I'm not going to force you to battle for me, until you are feeling ready again." he said and surprised me a bit with that. "But you are still bound to the Pokeball. So how about, instead of battling for me, you can cook for us? I would still like for you to train alongside the others."

I was actually surprised by his response. It was like, he really did understood what I said. I smiled at him and nodded while he smiled back.

We sat there together and ate the pizza while Calem explained our plans for the next days. Regarding some more training and coming up with a strategy for the next gym leader.