Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon in anyway shape or form, all rights are reserved to Nintendo.
A/N: longest chapter yet and one of the better ones, hope you guys enjoy!
Orangekirbyyoshi: Here is a new segment I like to call reviewer corner. It was my idea. So I respond to reviews publicly and answer questions kai. So here we go.
GuyroMaster: Nice chapter. I love how you capture all the emotions for the characters. That's usually a hard thing to do for new writers, but you've obviously had practice with this.
I do have a suggestion for a possible Pokemon. Since I'm assuming this would take place around the time of Heart Gold, what about a Riolu for a possible Pokemon for Sora...or Tom? I believe that you can encounter a Riolu in the safari zone so it could be possible he could get one on his journey. If you were to give him a Riolu, I have a combination move you could use for him. I'll just tell you it's name for now: Force Sphere (rights to name are GuyroMaster's).
Anyways, can't wait for the next chapter. I'm also a big fan of New Species.
Orange: It actually takes place in the Red saga where Red isn't as popular as now. About Riolu, well maybe, most likely Tom, but Riolu is a bit overused in my opinion.
Skaterblog: Adding new pokemon to the team is always a pain since you need to create a personality for them and get them involved in the story, so if I do decide to add a new one I do think carefully about it, and get Orange opinions before I try to add them. And no I haven't done any sort of sort writing before now, so I'm kind of going with the flow.
Kittens (guest): I love this story! I've told my pokemon fan friends all about it. Please, post the sixth chapter soon I can't wait.
Sincerely,
Kittens!
Orange: Thanks, you should get an account. It helps big time. Trust me I remember when I got my account and I couldn't stop reading. It helps greatly.
Skater: Thanks for telling your friends about this, and maybe you should think about getting an account, it can help you keep up to date with the stories you like reading.
Icecreamsyndrome: This is really good so far. I particularly like the attention you're giving to the characters and their personalities. Its only been a few chapters, and already we're seeing who everyone is as a person, the Pokemon included. The scene with Pulse and Dash crying over the thought of losing Sora was particularly powerful, and really drives home just how much family means to them. They were only introduced near the end of last chapter and already you're presenting them as fully developed characters. To be able to draw so much personality out of a character in such a short time is a sign of good writing.
There are some gramatical errors, nothing major though. I'd sudgest writing out numbers with letters, for example twenty rather than 20, and to use italics for thoughts rather than 'this' as its too easily confused with speech.
Anyway, I like this so far, and will be looking forward to the next chapter. :)
Orange: 0.0. OH MAH GAWD! I knew telling you about this story was a good idea:3.
Skater: It does mean a lot that you reviewed this story since I started it after reading yours, thanks for taking an interest :)
Schizophrenic Eevee: Very early in this story you manage to pour so much emotion into it its awesome.
This story is awesome and has great potential, and i really hope you keep updating.
Great chapter lengths, btw.
Orange: I think Skater over here needs even more of an ego boost. Everyone likes long chapters except for writers and beta readers who procrastinate.
Skater: I didn't know how this story would turn out but it seems that it's really emotion driven now, which is not a bad thing, but to me I do think I need to lighten it up every now and again, just so people don't get to depressed.
I was back in the void of darkness but something was different this time, I wasn't floating like the other time's I was here, I was on solid ground, but when I looked down their was no floor just my dark surroundings.
"Welcome back", I heard an echoed voice from the void, I have been here enough times to know that it was the pokémon side of me, it was the Umbreon, it soon appeared in front of me like it was created out of thin air.
"It's you, what do you want", I asked, I didn't want to talk to him, not tonight anyway.
"I wanted to say nice story, I liked the part when I showed up", the Umbreon let out a soft giggle.
"Well that wasn't a highlight of it", I looked down at the pokémon, he soon stopped smiling at me.
"You don't like me do you?", he asked, it seemed quite concerned about not having me as it's friend.
"Like you, I have bigger problems like why do I all ways come here, I only come here when...", I stopped and remembered that every time that I was here in the past was when I was changing, "Oh no, am I changing again!".
"No your not, you're here because I want to talk to you", the Umbreon responded, I looked at him with confusion.
"Why do you want to talk to me?".
"I want to be friends, it does get lonely in here you know", he sat down on the non existing floor.
"You want to be friends?", I couldn't understand, "Your trying to take over my body and you want to be friends!", I yelled at the pokémon sitting a few feet away from me, he didn't seem to like that I'm yell at him, "Tell me how to stop this!".
"Why would I do that?", I tried to moved closer to the pokémon to demand it to tell me, but I couldn't move I was frozen in place, "I'm in control here, your not going to try and hurt me", he giggled as I tried to struggle against the force holding me back but failing, I soon stopped when I realised that it was impossible to move, I only let out a sigh in depression.
"You heard my story correct?", the Umbreon nodded, "Well then you know why I don't want you to take over, I can't lose everything I hold dear now, like Mark and Marry, Tom and our pokémon and now Dash and Pulse", I fell to the ground and landed on my backside, "I can't... I already lost to much...", the Umbreon looked at me, he seemed saddened by what I said.
"But your friends with all them why not me?", he still wanted to be friends, how can I be friends with myself, that doesn't seem healthy.
"Because your the one that wants to take over, when I'm fully pokémon at least I wouldn't lose everything but your going to take over completely and then everything will be gone", I looked down to the floor trying to hide a few tears that escaped from me.
"You know there are other ways", the Umbreon said before getting back up on all fours. I looked at him trying to figure out what he meant, before I got a chance to ask him he burst into a bright light like before and it got engulfed like before.
I slowly woke up from my restless sleep, I was back in my room in the Pokémon Centre, I let out a sigh as I turned onto my back, 'What did he mean by other ways?', I thought, I was still trying to figure it out, but I was coming up blank, I laid there thinking about it when out of nowhere Dash jumped in my field of view.
"Morning!", he yelled out in my face, I let out small yelp of surprise and fell off the bed, hitting the ground, Dash and Pulse looked over the edge and laughed, I got up to my knees and looked at the two laughing pokémon.
'At least their happy', I thought, "So your up I take it", the two plusle manage to stop laughing and nodded at my question.
"We're been up for awhile", Pulse responded.
"Yeah we were board so we played with Coal for awhile", Dash added, I looked over at Coal who was sitting at the end of the bed arms crossed.
"That wasn't playing, that's just mean", Coal gave a cold stare at the two pokémon.
"What were they doing?", I asked.
"They were trying to put out my flame!", Coal was irritated with Dash and Pulse, I looked at the two who were still smiling at me.
"That wasn't nice you two, you need to learn to set boundaries for yourselves, like if someone tells you to stop doing what your doing, you stop ok?", the two pokémon looked at each other then back at me, they didn't seem to be happy any more.
"But we were just playing", Pulse said.
"I know you were but when you play you can make some people or pokémon upset, like with Coal or when you play with my ears, it makes us annoyed, do you understand?", the plusle look sad that I was telling them off, but when it was coming from me they listen.
"Sorry, we won't do it again", Dash slowly said, he sounded down at being told off, I guess without parents they didn't learn restraint.
"Here I know what can cheer you up", I got up from the floor and walked over to the dresser and picked up a remote for the T.V. when I walked back with it Dash and Pulse looked at it with caution, "It's a T.V. remote", I told them, they looked back up at me with confused looks.
"What's a... T.V.?", Dash asked, I smiled at them and pointed to the black square on the wall, Dash and Pulse looked over me and looked at it, still confused about it, "What does it do?", Pulse finally asked.
"This", I looked at Coal, he seems quite happy about what's going to happen next, I press the on button on the remote and the screen came magically on, showing the news. Dash and Pulse jumped right to the other side of the bed and hid under the blanket frighten half to death, "I guess it didn't help with it being so loud", I turned down the T.V. and looked at Coal, he was laughing at the display that he just saw, he was happy once again. I walk to the side of the bed where the two plusle were hiding, "You guys can come out now".
"Is it gone?", I heard Pulse's muffled voice under the blanket.
"No it's still here it won't hurt you", Dash and Pulse slowly peaked over their shield to see if everything was ok, they saw the T.V. was making noise but it wasn't as loud, in fact it was barely audible, they finally made their way out of the covers.
"What is it doing?", Dash asked still trembling in fear.
"The T.V. is an electronic device that is a book but with pictures and commercials", they looked a me for awhile, "You do know what a book is right?", the shook their heads, I sighed trying to think of a way to explain this, "It shows us things that's happening in the world but since were not there they use technology to show us on this screen", they still looked at me with blank expressions but it seemed like they got it, "Right now it's showing us everything important that's happening in the world", the two looked over to the T.V. and smiled.
"Look Sora your important!", Dash yelled out, I was confused by what he meant.
"Sora you should look at this", Coal tapped me on the shoulder so I would turn around, when I did my jaw slowly fell as I saw that I was on the news, I turned it up so I could hear what was going on.
"Yesterday, a teenage boy has been seen in Viridian city, this boy is believe to be part human and part pokémon, trainers that came out from the Pokémon Centre yesterday said that he told them his story and it was quite moving, they said that he has two plusle around with him at all times and can talk to other pokémon, the police haven't confirmed if he is dangerous or not, just to be careful if you run into him, more on this story as it develops", the reporter then moved on to another story that made it to the news.
I was frozen stiff from what I just heard, 'Was I just on the news, did everyone in Kanto just find out about me!?', I couldn't think, everyone that watchers the news will know about me, that would include Team Horizon, they would know where I am and will come here to find me. I didn't move a muscle, the three pokémon that were in the room just looked at me, knowing that my secret was out, the door opened and Tom rushed in followed by Luna and Wing, he looked at me and then noticed that the T.V. was on the news, he could tell that I knew what just happened.
"You saw it didn't you?", I looked at Tom and slowly gave him a nod, I finally closed my mouth and relaxed my muscles, I soon fell onto the bed.
"My secret is out everyone in Kanto knows about me", I said still shocked about the news report.
"Well you were going to tell your story to anyone who would listen, it was a matter of time before it got on the news", Tom had a point, I was going to go around and tell everyone about my story that wanted to know it, so they would only natural go and tell others which would lead others finding out, so seeing it on the news wasn't such a big surprise now that I thought about it, I turned to look at Tom.
"Well that's what happens when I open my mouth", I sheepishly said, trying to lighten the mood.
"Your not worried about this?", Tom was confused.
"Nope, you were right, this was going to get out eventually if I told people my story, so it's not such a big surprise any more", Tom looked relieved that I finally gotten use to being noticed.
"I'm glade that your getting used the attention", Tom smiled at me showing his relief.
"I'm fine, now if you excuse me I have to get ready for the day so goodbye", I walked over to Tom and started to push him out of the room, he struggled against me but failed to do so, I pushed him outside of the room and Luna followed him, as soon as she was out I said one final goodbye and closed the door on him, this reminded me of the old days when Tom and I used to act like this all the time and have a good time, it was good to feel happy like this again.
I walked back to the other pokémon that we're still on the bed looking at me.
"Here", I chucked the remote to Coal, "Show them more about it I'm going to get ready", I walked into the bathroom and closed the door, I could hear Coal talking to Dash and Pulse about how the T.V. worked, I smiled at him trying to explain it. I walked to the mirror in the room and looked at myself.
It's been awhile since I saw myself in a mirror the last time was in my room when I first changed. I thought about how I looked now with the ears and tail, 'I kind of looked cute with these', I thought, but I quickly moved the thought to the never regions of my mind, how can I think I look cute I no longer look human, but the more I thought about it the more I think I am cute, but a sudden thought jumped into my head, 'Does my pokémon side think that I look good, but if it is, will I think other pokémon are cute?', this thought scared me, the moment I think I can be with another pokémon is the day I'm not coming back, I moved these thoughts aside and moved to another one that was on my mind. 'How far has this spread across my body', I haven't seen myself with out a top on for some time, I quickly took off my jacket and top that I still had on from yesterday since I fell asleep in my clothes, once they were off I threw them to the ground, staring into the mirror I turned so I could see my back, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I haven't seen my tail like this before it looks like I could have been born with it, the fur from the tail spread about 10cm across my back so it wasn't as bad as I thought.
I went back over my tail looking at the point where it connects to me, even after these couple of days I still can't believe it's part of me, I have spent enough time looking at my tail and I moved onto my two ears I moved closer to the mirror so I can inspect them better, like the tail you couldn't tell that these just grew on the weekend, the way I was touching them made them twitch quite a bit so I left them be and leaned back from the mirror, soon I won't look this, I don't know when but I will soon look like an Umbreon and this face will only exist in photos, with this thought I finished checking myself out and got ready for a shower.
It was 20 minutes before I made my way out of that small room to find that Dash and Pulse were glued to the T.V. screen, they seem to have gotten really into it, Coal was just in the corner of the room sleeping in peace, I packed everything back into my bag and moved to turn off the T.V., when I did the two plusle weren't happy.
"Hey, we were watching that!", Pulse yelled out.
"Come on you two we're going now", the two moaned and walked slowly up my arm and onto my shoulders, "Coal!", I called out to him to wake him up, he slowly opened his eyes and gave me lazy stare, "We're going", I pulled out his Pokeball, he got up slowly and I returned him to it, I looked back to make sure I didn't forget anything and made my way out. Tom and Luna were waiting for me back in the main room of the pokémon Centre, as I made my way to them I could feel other trainers looking at me but after what happened yesterday and what I saw on the news, I wasn't really fazed by it. I made it to Tom who was at the desk, he waved at me as I made my way to him.
"So you ready?", he asked.
"Not quite, we still have something to do", Tom was confused with what I meant, I guided him to the phones, "I wanted to call Mark and Marry before we left", Tom was surprised and happy about this.
"What about the Professor?", Tom asked, obviously thinking that would be my first choice.
"He would be on a boat to Cinnabar Island by now so we won't be able to call him", Tom understood this and just said Okay, I sat down on the chair in front of the phone while Tom lend behind me trying to see past Dash and Pulse that were still on me, I dialled our house and it was Marry that picked up.
"Hello?", she said.
"Hello Marry it's us", I replied, in no time she turned on the camera on her phone and called over Mark, she seemed very happy to see us.
"Hello boys, are you doing well?", Mark asked.
"We're fine", I replied, Tom gave me a bump on the back, I turned around and gave me a look, he wanted me to tell the truth, and In a sense we are fine, but I could be better off. Marry noticed the two plusle on my shoulders and gave them a big smile.
"And who are those two?", she asked, I looked at Dash and Pulse who seemed confused about what was going on.
"Who she?", Dash asked.
"They're Tom's Mum and Dad, I have been with them my whole life so their kind of like my family as well", Dash and Pulse looked at me and smiled. I got taped on the back again by Tom, I turned to look at him but he only pointed to the screen, it seemed he wanted me to see something, I turn to see that Mark and Marry were in shock just like when I told them about what happened.
"Ops", I said quickly, I realised what they were reacting to, they heard me talk to Dash and Pulse as an Umbreon, this would shock anyone, "Um... I can explain".
"Please do", Mark said.
"Well when we were making our way to Viridian City I kind of had another change, this one allowed me to understand and speak pokémon", Mark and Marry weren't as shocked as they were before.
"We knew you would get another change soon, at least this one you seem to enjoy", Marry tried to make light of the situation.
"I do I made new friends well their more like brothers now", I looked at Dash and Pulse that were smiling still.
"We're glad that everything is going well", Mark said, but his look soon fell to concern once again, "We heard a news report this morning about...", I stopped Mark there, I thought I would make this easier for him.
"I already know about it, it was kind of my fault", Mark and Marry were confused yet again, "Yesterday I told my story to a lot of trainers, and let's just say it got kind of emotional then, but I knew this was coming when I decided to talk about it to anyone that wanted to listen", Mark and Marry faces soon moved from Confusion to happiness.
"We're glad that your getting used to everything Sora", I smiled at them, Tom moved in and knocked me off the chair making fall to the ground, the plusle saw this coming and jumped off me before I fell and landed on the desk, they looked down at me and laughed at my pain.
"Hello Tom how you doing with all this?", Marry asked him.
"It's been fun, with in reason of course", Tom replied, "Also I wanted to ask you something".
"What is it sweaty?".
"Can you send some of your pokémon food to Pewter City Pokémon Centre, I want to give it to our new pokémon", I got off the ground and back on my feet, I got Dash and Pulse back on me and got back into view of the phone.
"Sure honey, I will make it right away!", Marry called out, as she made her way to the kitchen, but she soon backed track to the phone, "Bye boys, you be good now", and with that she went to the kitchen to make some pokémon food, Mark only waved before hanging up.
"Now that we got that out of the way, let's go shopping!", Tom said, leaving me somewhat stunned.
"What... Shopping, who are you and what have you done with Tom!?", I asked, I wanted to get to the bottom of this.
"Well we will need supplies to get to Pewter City, what we have right now isn't enough", I moved my bag a little to remember what I have in their.
"I could do with a new change of clothes", I said.
"And we have a lot of food but not enough for the journey through Virdian Forest", I looked at Tom slowly nodded in agreement.
"Fine let's go", I finally said, Tom grabbed my arm and quickly pulled me to the door for a few seconds before letting got just so he can get the ball rolling, I sighed as we walked out the Pokémon Centre.
We walked down many streets looking for the right stores, ever since we left the Pokémon Centre I've had people looking at me but I didn't pay them any mind, I was still following Tom and Luna as he tried to find the best store to stock up with but I was getting sick of all this.
"Tom!", I called out ahead of me, he stopped and turned around, "You go on and find this store you want, I'm going to look at other stuff", Tom didn't say anything but waved goodbye and continued on his way, with Luna in tow.
"What are we doing?", Pulse asked, I remembered that the two plusle haven't step foot in a city until yesterday.
"Tom wants to get a few things for when new leave Viridian City", I replied.
"Then why aren't we with him?", Dash still slightly confused about what's going on.
"Because he can do it by himself, I wanted to go round and see if there is anything we might want", I smiled at them, they still didn't get it, "Come on I'll show you", I walked down the street slightly until I reached a clothing store that I wanted to visit when we walked past, "See this place sells clothes for people to wear".
"You mean like what you got on now?", Dash asked, I nodded in response.
"I wanted to get a new change of clothes for the trip", I walked inside with Dash and Pulse still on my shoulders looking around the room seeing all the clothes hanging from stands.
"Wow", they both gaze at their surroundings, "There's so much in here", Pulse added to their statement, I simply smiled at their amazement and continued to where I could find the clothing I wanted, It was similar to what I was wearing now but the hood of the jacket was slightly larger and the jeans just a tad smaller but still useful to keep the belt. Dash and Pulse were still looking around the room in amazement but then something caught their eye they looked at each other in confusion, they jumped off my shoulders and ran down the Isle making me turn around to see what was happening, I looked at where they were heading and smiled. The two plusle were standing at what was interesting to them just before I walked over and knelt down on one knee.
"You guys find something?", they looked up and me, still confused.
"Sora these can't fit you, why are they here?", Dash finally asked, I let out a soft chuckle.
"Not all clothes fit everyone, anyway these aren't meant for me there made for pokémon", the two were getting finally getting it.
"Clothes for pokémon?", Pusle asked.
"Why would pokémon want to wear clothes?", Dash added.
"I don't know but I'm going to look around how about you guys stay here and see if you can find anything you like", I walked away before they could answer me back, I was smirking as I left, the two plusle just looked at each other then back onto the clothes they saw before, thinking what have they gotten themselves into, when I was walking away I noticed that the few people that were in the store had jaws dropped, I'm use to this by now but I guess other people are a different story, I got approached by one of them she seem to be one of the workers of this store judging by what she was wearing, but this store wasn't that big maybe she was the owner.
"Are... are you that boy off the news?", the lady asked, she didn't seem scared being in my presence.
I let out a sigh knowing this is how people are going to know me from now on, "Yes, I am".
"And are those your pokémon?", She pointed to the two plusle looking through the piece of clothing.
"Their names are Dash and Pulse and yes they are my pokémon, is their a problem?", I was getting irritated with all the questions, I have gotten used to people looking at me but if I have to answer the same questions over and over again I think I'm going to let my pokémon side out on them.
"You know they say to be careful around you saying that you could be dangerous", I remember the report, it seems like people are jumping to conclusions with out even talking to me to find out themselves.
"I'm not going to hurt anyone, I'm here with my friend and my pokémon just getting some supplies for our...", I was cut short by the lady.
"I don't believe a word of it", she smiled at me, I wasn't sure what was going on.
"You... you don't?", I didn't know what to say, the news can easily show me as some kind of monster to be feared which in some ways it did saying that people should be careful around me but this lady didn't believe it.
"I can tell, just by looking at you in person and how you interact with your pokémon tells me that your no threat", she kept up with her smile but I still was stunned.
"I didn't think about it like that", it's true I didn't even considered it, the news can show me as some kind of monster if they want, but I know that I'm not one and the way I act around people will make them change their mind.
"Your just a kid you don't need this kind of attention, I thought that you could use a friend", she looked over to the two plusle, "So what were you talking about?".
"Oh they wanted to know what those clothes were, I told them it was for pokémon so I left them to look through anything they might like but their still a bit confused".
"Maybe I can help?", the lady offered, I nodded to accept it, we walked other to the two pokémon still looking at the clothing still unsure about what to do.
"So did you two find anything you like?", the lady asked, they turned around and saw me and her towering over them, they shook their heads in response, I smiled.
"I had a feeling you didn't know what to do so I asked...", I realised that I never asked her name, "Excuse me what's your name?", I looked at her, see just laughed.
"My name is Lucy, I'm the owner", she smiled.
"I'm Sora", I smiled back, I looked down at Dash and Pulse still unsure about everything, "I asked Lucy to help you".
"Help us?", Dash and Pulse both said.
"Yep, if there something you like here she will help you find it, now you two be good I'm going to go find something", I looked back at Lucy, "Their all yours", I walked back to the clothing I wanted and brought it to the counter and paid, I walked back to Lucy and the two plusle, "I going to get a few things, can you look after them?", I asked, she smiled.
"Oh it will be my pleasure!", she looked down at them, they seem to feel nerves, they soon looked up at me with a look that almost made burst out laughing, but I manage to control myself.
"You two will be fine, I'll be back soon", I waved goodbye and walked out the store, they tried to run after me but Lucy grabbed them before they could do anything.
"Now let's go and get you dress up!", they tried to struggle out of her grip but failed.
I was walking down the street trying to not take too long as so I can go to Dash and Pulse rescue but right now I had something important to do, when we walked by it a little while ago I just had to go to it before we left, I walked a little longer before I made it to the store, it was a doll store.
When I was born my dad gave me a doll that him and my mum picked out for me to play with but since my mum died before she could give it to me means that it will be the only thing she would of gave me my whole life, I named it Jin and there wasn't really a time when you could see me with out it, but I lost it when I was around four, I think it was due to me moving around between family's so much, I cried for days when I lost it, we looked everywhere but couldn't find it, when I saw this store I thought that I could maybe find that doll and help fill a hole in my heart.
When I walked in there were dolls everywhere, I was kind of overwhelmed, I slowly moved through the store trying to spot the doll I wanted, I saw many types of pokémon dolls but not the one I wanted, but it wasn't long before I saw it, the doll I lost so many years ago, it was a Jirachi doll, when I was three dad finally told me why they picked it out for me.
I was playing with Jin in the living room, we were having a great time, Dad walked in and smiled at me, seeing me have fun is what he lives for, he walked up to me and knelt to my level, "Sora do you want to know the story behind your doll", Dad said, I looked down at my hand, I was holding my Jirachi doll that mum and dad gave me, I looked at dad and nodded my head, he smiled and walked over the chair and patted his leg gesturing that he wants me on it, I hoped on and made myself comfortable, he put his arm around me and grabbed Jin and held it out in front of me.
"A couple of months before you were born your mum and I wanted to get something that you would love and treasure, and you have done well with that", he hugged me a little harder for a few seconds, he seemed proud of me, "We went to many stores to find the right thing, but we couldn't deicide on what to get, your mother wanted to get you a hat while I wanted to get you a necklace", he put down Jin and put his hand to his chest, he did this often but I didn't know why, he never told me, after a moment of silence he put his hand back down and picked Jin back up.
"It was was a silly thing to get worked up over but we really wanted to get the right gift, but then from the corner of our eye we saw it and when we did we both let out a smile and dropped our now useless gifts, we walked over and picked it up, it was perfect, it was Jirachi", I looked up at him and smiled at his story I was really enjoying it, "People say that Jirachi is a wish maker, every one thousand years he wakes up and grants wishes for people", I was wide eyed and looked at Jin.
"He can do that?", I asked surprised about Jirachi's power.
"We wanted to give you the best life we can give, we got you Jirachi so maybe one day you can get your own wish", I thought about it but there was only one thing I wanted.
"I wish mummy was here...", I told Jin, dad hugged me tightly and put his head down on my shoulder.
"I know, me too...", is all he said, we sat there for some time before he put me to bed.
I stood there staring at the doll thinking back to my past but I was pulled back from it when I got tapped on the shoulder, I shook my head and turned around to see a woman.
"Can I help you?", she asked, I was still a little out of it when I was thinking back, but I manage to start talking.
"Oh... um... I was just looking at this", I pull the Jirachi doll off the shelve and show it to her.
"Oh Jirachi, did you know he is the wish maker?", she told me hoping to enlighten me on this pokémon.
"Yeah I was told, can I have this please?", she nodded and directed me to the desk, I bought it and thanked the lady, I had the doll in a bag in my hand as I walked out the store.
I was glade that I finally got Jin back even if it wasn't him, but this time I'm going to make sure that I never lose this one. I was walking back to the store where I left Dash and Pulse when some one called out my name, I looked around and found that Tom was waving at me, I waved back, he made his way to me with Luna close behind, just by looking at him I can see he has finished his shopping and he seemed to have gotten a bigger bag, he finally made his way to me.
"How much did you buy?", I asked, Tom adjusted his bag showing me that it is quite heavy.
"Not that much", I looked over to the bag then down to Luna, she shook her head.
"Luna seems to disagree with you".
"Ok fine I got quite a lot but you will thank me later", I shook my head.
"Well just don't come to me when you get tired carrying that thing".
"Fine", tom said, he looked around me and saw that something was missing, "Hey where is Dash and Pulse?".
"Oh I left them at the clothing store while I went and brought something", I put my hand in the bag and pulled out the Jirachi doll.
"So you left your pokémon to get a doll?", Tom was confused as to why I would buy a doll.
"Remember when I was four I lost a doll that my dad gave me when I was born?", Tom thought back trying to remember.
"You mean the doll you cried over for days when you lost it, that was a noisy week", Tom put his hand to his head remembering back to it, now that I thought about it gave me a headache as well.
"That doll was the only thing that my mum would ever give me", I looked down at Jin, I was holding him in both hands and rubbing it with my thumbs, Tom could tell that I was making myself sad and tried to think of something to cheer me up.
"Hey if you want to replace the doll I'm not going to stop you but aren't you forgetting something?", I looked up trying to think of what Tom meant then it hit me, I forgot about Dash and Pulse they were still with Lucy.
"Oh... their going to hate me after this", I quickly put Jin in my bag on my back and threw out the one it came with, I gestured Tom down the street as we made our way back.
As we walked Tom was telling me some of the stuff he got, most of it was food, medicine and other useful supplies but nothing that interested me, as we got closer to the store we heard a voice coming from inside.
"Oh my!", it sounded like Lucy, Tom and I looked at each other then ran to the door, we opened it quickly and got our pokémon ready but when we looked around there was a group of people just staring at us.
"Sorry we thought something was happening...", I rubbed the back of my head while Tom looked to the ground in embarrassment, Lucy was happy to see me.
"Oh your back, there is something you got to see!", she rushed over and pushed Tom and I to the front of the crowd, "Take a look", she waved down to the floor, mine and Tom's eyes followed where she was pointing, then our jaws dropped at what we were seeing.
"Sora is that...", Tom tried to talk but still a bit to stunned.
"Yeah", I replied to his unfinished question.
"And are they...".
"Yeah", soon our shocked expressions became a happy ones, Luna was laughing at what she saw, the two plusle looked up at us.
"Sora, Tom, your back", Dash and Pulse looked happy, "How do we look?".
I looked at Dash and Pulse, Lucy seemed to dress them up and they liked it by their happy expression, Dash was wearing a bottle green colour backwards cap while Pulse had a dark blue vest, they seemed custom fitted for their breed since it fitted them perfectly, I knelt down closer to their height.
"You two look cute, I guess leaving you guys here was a good idea?", the two plusle seemed happy that I liked their clothes.
"We had so much fun here, Lucy showed us many different stuff", Dash was jumping around he couldn't contain himself.
"Can we keep these?", Pulse asked, I got up and turned to Lucy.
"You really made them happy", I gave her a smile, seeing those kids happy like this made me happy and also made me forget my problems, she seemed relieved.
"Oh I'm glade, they really tore though piles of clothing before they found those", I looked to the ground and saw that their was small clothes scatted everywhere, "And they made so much noise that they attracted some attention".
"Sorry about that, they like to have fun and we're still working on self control", Lucy just smiled.
"Oh no it was fine, those two actually put on a fashion show for these nice people", I laughed when I heard this.
"I guess those two really know how to have fun", I looked down at them they were still checking each other out, "We'll take it", Lucy nodded and we made our way to counter to purchase the clothing, I looked back over to them they were chasing Luna, she was still laughing at them I guess they got fed up with it, Tom was smiling at the site so was I, when I finished paying Lucy and I walked back over to them.
"Come you two stop chasing Luna, it's time to go", they both let out an aww and jumped back onto my shoulders, I turned to Lucy that was by the door.
"Thank you for everything!", I said.
"Oh it was my pleasure, please don't be a stranger".
"We will visit again", we waved goodbye to her as we left the store.
We walked a little longer around the city just taking in some sights, Dash and Pulse were still happy about their new clothing at least it will help Tom know which one is which now.
"Hey Sora?", Tom slowly said, I looked at him waiting for his question, "Before we leave I want to challenge the Gym here", I stopped walking Tom soon stopped as well.
"Challenge the gym, what for?".
"I know that I didn't have to come with you and your here on a journey to hide, but this is my journey as well and if I want to become a pokémon master some day then I'm going to need to beat the gyms", I looked at Tom, he's right this was my journey I did this because I wanted to protect Mark and Marry and hide myself while Professor Oak tried to work on a cure, but Tom was going to wait till he finished school before he went on his journey but since he followed me his plans have changed, and I'm not about to stand in the way of that.
"Ok Tom, we will go to the gym before we leave", Tom was surprised by my answer, he didn't expect me to let him do it.
"Tha... Thanks, let's go then!", Tom ran off to the gym Luna trying to follow close behind him, I looked as Tom sped off only turning around to call me over, I let out a small smile and run to catch up.
Soon we arrived at the Viridian City gym, it was a big building with a fountain and two flight of stairs going up onto a raised level where the building itself was located, as we got up the stairs their was some potted plants some distance away and 6 pilers guiding us to the door, as we made it a guard stopped us from entering.
"I'm sorry, but the Viridian city gym isn't open at this time", he said, Tom didn't seem too happy with this information.
"What, I came to challenge the gym leader!".
"I'm sorry but Giovanni doesn't want anyone to bother him", Tom really wasn't happy at this point.
"Bother him, he's a gym leader he is suppose to accept challengers, and I'm not leaving until I at least talk to him!", I think Tom wasn't thinking this through.
"I don't have time for this, fine I'll see if he is in", the guard moved his finger to his ear and started to talk to himself.
Giovanni was sitting at his desk, flicking through research notes and a news report about a human pokémon in his city, he has been at his desk for days going though some research notes he got a hand of from Team Horizon with the virus, his pet and loyal pokémon Persian was laying next to him, his attention was only taken away when the voice of the guard was heard on the intercom.
"Sir, you got another challenger here".
"I said I didn't want to be disturbed with these peaty challengers, send him away", Giovanni said.
"He won't go away sir not until he talks to you", Giovanni sighed and pressed a button on the desk, a screen flipped from the table top and showed a screen of just outside of the door showing the guard, two boys and three pokémon, but his attention drew to the boy that had pokémon ears and tail, Giovanni smiled.
"Ah, so you found your way to me, that saved me time", Giovanni got up from his desk and walked out of the room closely followed by Persian.
"Well can I talk to him?", Tom was getting impatient with waiting, tapping his foot on the ground showing this.
"I'm sorry but Giovanni hasn't replayed, so he still...", the guard was cut short with the door opening, Giovanni stepped out from the building being followed by a pokémon, he had a smile on his face.
"You been asking to see me?", he said, Tom's anger finally went down but still was pretty ticked off still.
"I want to challenge you!", Tom yelled out.
"Well then a challenge you shell get", the guard seemed surprised with what Giovanni said, Tom's anger left him all at once and he soon got pumped.
"Yeah this is going to be great!", I smiled at Tom excitement, Giovanni gestured us into the building and showed us down a hall, as we walked Giovanni asked us some questions.
"So who are you two?".
"I'm Tom and my friend here is Sora", Giovanni looked over Tom's shoulder to look at me, I didn't like the look he was giving me.
"I see your that kid off the news", I sighed, even gym leaders knew about me.
"Yeah, this won't affect Tom's battle will it?", I didn't want to be the reason why Tom can't fight any gym leaders, since some people are scared of what I am.
"No he will still get his battle, tell me how did you get to become like you are now?", I didn't know what to do, most people I met always seemed surprised of my current state but not him, he was calm and in control, I had no idea if I should answer him.
"I don't like this guy, he scares us", Pulse told me.
"I don't like him either but be nice were here for Tom", I told them, they were still wary of him, Giovanni herd me talking to my pokémon and let out a small smile.
"You should be careful about what you say", I looked down at the pokemon that was following him, it too gave me a look that put me off.
We finally got to a big room most likely where the battles take place, Giovanni and Persian made their way to one side of the room while Tom stayed near the door waiting at his spot.
"This will be a two on two battle, only the challenger may substitute a pokémon from battle, victory will go to the trainer that has at least one standing pokémon, you shall go first", Giovanni announced the rules, I wasn't a trainer but isn't there suppose to be a referee or something, me and the two plusle were on the side of the battle zone but still kept close to Tom to help cheer him on, although I think Dash and Pulse will do enough of that for all of us. Tom smiled and took a pokeball from his belt and enlarged it.
"Wing, GO!", Tom called out throwing the ball into the air, with a burst of light Wing was now on the battlefield ready to fight.
"Look it's wing!", Dash said.
"Yeah and this will be his first battle with Tom, I hope he does well", I told them, Giovanni put his hand under his jacket and pulled out a pokeball.
"I chose kingler", Giovanni clicked the button on the ball and release Kingler onto the field.
"Ah more victims, finally", Kingler said, I didn't like what it was saying, the most training Tom got was with me, as well as some special times like when he saved me and when he caught Wing, I didn't like Tom's chances.
"You can have the first attack", Giovanni said, Tom smiled.
"Ok Wing let's show them what we can do, Quick Attack!", Wing flew just above the ground straight at Kingler.
"Harden", Giovanni commanded, Kingler hardened it's shell and when Wing's attack hit him, it didn't seem to do anything.
"Kingler, Crab Hammer", Kingler raised it's massive hammer like claws and swinged them towards Wing, he was still a little dazed from ramming into Kingler before and was unable to avoid the attack sending him flying to Tom, Wing landed a few feet from him.
"Wing!", Tom called, but he was knocked out and couldn't do anything.
"I guess that's one pokémon down", Giovanni said giving Tom a small grin, Tom recalled Wing and sent Luna onto the field.
"OK Luna this time it's a real battle so were going all out!", Tom was trying to raise Luna's confidence.
"Right!", she said, again Giovanni gestured Tom to have the first move.
"Luna, Quick Attack!", Luna charged at Kingler at intense speed, but Giovanni wasn't letting up his smile.
"Harden again", Kingler again hardened it's shell ready for Luna's attack, but Tom also had a smile on his face.
"Luna jump!", she jumped mid attack, this made her fly right over Kingler and land on the other side of him, "Now Sand-Attack!", Luna kicked up dirt and dust from the ground into the pokémon's eyes, blinding him.
"Kingler ViceGrip", Giovanni commanded, Kingler reached out with both claws trying to find the small fox pokémon, with no success, Luna was far enough away to avoid the attack.
"Luna Take Down!", she charged at Kingler ready to break though it's defence, I looked at Giovanni he wasn't even breaking a sweat and still had that annoying smile on his face, I can tell something was up, I could hear Luna running to the blinded pokémon and that's when it hit me.
"Tom call off the attack!", I called out, Tom only looked at me with a confused look, he couldn't understand, with my ears I could hear much better than him and he was leading Luna into a trap, but it was too late.
"Ahhh...!", Luna cried out, she got stuck in Kingler's claws, he was squeezing her hard.
"What just happened!?", Tom didn't know want was going on.
"Your a trainer aren't you, you should know that pokémon have ears as well, using Take Down made your Eevee make too much noise and my Kingler could find it and trap it, you should be more careful", Giovanni explained, Tom was shocked by this information, he didn't consider that and now Luna is paying for it. Kingler was squeezing harder then before making Luna scream out in pain, I could hear her pain and it was getting to me, I fell to my knees with my hands to my ears.
"Tom call off the battle, she is in too much pain!", Tom looked at me and back at Luna, he can tell that we were both in pain over this fight and couldn't take any more, Giovanni looked at me with more interest sensing that I have these powers, but what does he want.
"Stop, call off the attack... you win", Tom finally said, Giovanni snapped his fingers and Kingler threw Luna to Tom, she was knocked out from the pain, I manage to get up off the floor and the plusle hoped back onto my shoulders, I ran to Tom who was holding Luna in his arms.
"She will be fine... just needs rest", is want he said to me as I got to him.
"I'm sorry Tom", I tried to comfort him but he didn't want it.
"This was my fault, I wasn't paying attention and she paid for it", Tom looked at the beaten up Eevee in his arms, a few drops of tears fell from his face and landed on her fur.
"Tom it will be...", I got stopped mid sentence by Giovanni.
"You did well, you had moves that took me by surprise but you need to focus more on the battle, you may become a fine trainer", Tom looked at him feeling better from his speech, "Too bad you won't be able to become one", we all looked at him, wondering what he meant, he snapped his fingers and from nowhere about 5 people surrounded us, Tom and I moved closer, and he held Luna closer to him and Dash and Pulse were trying to hide behind me.
"I knew I didn't like you when I first saw you!", I snapped at him, he only gave me that evil smile of his.
"I have been looking for you for quite some time, and now here you are", my heart dropped when I thought about it, 'Did Team Horizon find me!?', then I looked at the people that surrounded us, they weren't wearing the uniform, they were black and had big red R's on them, I only came to one conclusion.
"Your Team Rocket!", Giovanni nodded, Tom looked at me in shock, fearing that I might do something reckless.
"Ever since you stepped foot in here your abilities impress me more and more and now it's time you come with me so I can learn how Team Horizon did this", The Professor warned me that I would have both of them after me, but I wasn't expecting to run into Team Rocket for some time.
"And you think I'm just going to let you take us!", I started to growl but quickly stopped when I heard myself doing it, Tom still in shock and Giovanni just laughed.
"Your friend has no pokémon left and I doubt those two will a big problem", I looked at Dash and Pulse the were froze by fear, I guess they haven't been in a battle yet and all these Team Rocket members can scare anybody, I looked back to Giovanni and smiled.
"You think their my only pokémon, you are mistaken, and now we're going to leave!", I reached for my belt and took Coals ball from it and release him, he was now standing between me and Giovanni ready to attack, Giovanni only laughed more.
"You think that one pokémon can stop me?", I only smiled at him.
"And more, Coal Ember-SmokeScreen Combo attack", Coal let out a big Ember attack aiming for the Rocket grunts, they dived out the way and protected themselves, while smoke surrounded us, now that they couldn't see us I grabbed Tom's arm and dragged him to the door with Coal in tow, I tried the door but it was locked, "Coal Flamethrower the door!", Coal gave it his all against the door trying to weaken it, the smoke was clearing up and the door seemed to be getting weaker, I asked Coal to tackle the door and it finally moved slightly, just enough for us to slip though.
Giovanni and the other grunts stopped coughing from the smoke and looked to where we were, but we were no longer there.
"Get them!", he called out, the Rocket grunts rushed to the door and knocked it down, chasing after us.
I turned back to see that the grunts were gaining on us and we were about to reach the exit, but most likely that was locked as well and it would take to long to knock it down. Tom and I turned and faced our ever approaching enemy, as they got closer I could feel the end approaching, Tom was looking down at Luna hoping for her to wake up and help but she was still out cold, the two plusle were too scared to fight and using combo attacks makes Coal too tired to fight much longer, it is the end, but then I heard a voice which was familiar.
"Let me help", it said, I looked around to find where it was coming from but couldn't find the source, but this voice I knew too well, it was the Umbreon from my dreams.
"Let me help you", it said again.
"What do you mean help?", I asked, Tom looked at me wondering who I was talking to, Dash and Pulse snapped out of their fear and looked at me.
"Let me take over, I can help", he asked, I was shocked at what he was asking.
"I'm not letting you take control again, not after last time!", I yelled out, Tom continued to look at me in confusion before he understood who I was talking to, only one thing can take over me and the was my pokémon side, Dash and Pulse didn't know what was going on.
"Coal is fending of them right now but how long can he keep it up, you either let me have control or get taken by Team Rocket, and I don't like them that much either!", I thought about it and saw no other option.
"Ok, how do I do this?", I asked I heard a soft giggle in my head.
"Just let go, I will do the rest", I looked at Tom who was concerned about me right now, I waved goodbye to him and picked up the two plusle fro my shoulders and put them down on the ground, they ran behind Tom for protection, I closed my eyes letting everything go, Tom tried to stop me but it was too late before long the pokémon side was in control.
Umbreon, now in control of my body looked at Tom, he back off a bit holding Luna tighter, Umbreon then grabbed Coals ball and returned him before putting him back on the belt, Tom was scared at what I was doing, he just wanted it all of this to be over. Umbreon looked down the hall and saw the grunts running to us, pokémon at their side, when they got closer, Umbreon built up energy in my hands charging up an attack, Tom and the plusle looked at the growing attack with fear, he release the attack onto the roof and then it stated to collapse blocking the grunts from getting to us, Umbreon then moved his attention to the door, he ran up to it and tackled it knocking down the door running outside with Tom and the plusle behind him.
A crowd gathered around the gym with all the noise happening inside, they got quite a shock when they saw us run out of the demolished door, Umbreon grabbed Tom's arm and dragged him out of the city, the plusle jumped on Tom before they went, leaving the crowd stunned.
We were now outside of the city limits and Umbreon finally let go of Tom before moving a few feet from him, Tom was still in shock over what happened but soon looked to his arms after feeling movement, Luna was waking up.
"Luna you ok?", Tom asked, she looked up and smiled at him, he was relieved that she was up, his attention was soon back on Umbreon, still controlling my body, "Sora are you in there?".
Umbreon just looked at him and nodded showing that I was still in there.
"I take it your the pokémon side of him", again the Umbreon nodded, "We're thankful for the help but can we please have Sora back?", Umbreon thought about it for a moment before running into the surrounding trees, "Hey wait!", Tom chased after him still holding the three pokémon. Tom chased him for a good ten minutes before he stopped in a clearing waiting for Tom, Tom stopped near him heart pounding after everything that just happened, "Please can Sora come back?", Tom pleaded, the Umbreon closed it's eyes for a second and then opened them again, "Sora?", Tom said.
"Tom...", I manage to get out before collapsing to the ground, everything went dark yet again.
Giovanni was sitting at this desk going over the events of the day.
"That boy is a prize I must have, and his Charmander too", he said to himself, Giovanni turned his chair around and looked at the screens that were on it, they were showing tapes of the events that happened at the gym.
"And such power, he will be mine, but what did Team Horizon do to get this to happen?", Giovanni lent back into his chair and looked at the reports on his desk, "I will find out".
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this chapter, it was a lot a fun to write.
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