Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon in anyway shape or form, all rights are reserved to Nintendo.
Reviewer corner yay!
Unknown Leaf: Liked how powerful your words were at giving the characters emotions. I have nothing bad to say so just keep on writing.
Orange: He gets better as he goes along. See this chapter. I fuppin love it. Right my Australian friend 'o' mine.
Skater: Right, I didn't tend for this story to be so emotional filled, but I see it works, and that people like it.
Ultimate-Glaceon: coolio
Orange: Wow... that's descriptive hahaha. Your our new ego booster kai.
Skater: I can always you a new ego boost!
Oloop: I like your writing style, but some of your sentences are running on a bit. overall keep up the good work!
Orange: Personally I don't mind the long sentences.
Skater: I do try and mix it up, but this is from Sora perspective so he is telling the story.
GameMastrx: Just a question: Are there going to be any generation 5 or 6 pokemon in this story? Also, do you think you can add a shinx and/or a vulpix in this story? Thanks!
Orange: Yes, In this chapter. Let's just say it has to do with tea hahaha. 6 will probally appear once we get more information. Vulpix is a bit overused in my opinion, but shinx, maybe.
Skater: I have many things planned out for this story and maybe ones to come *wink, wink*, but for adding a Vulpix or Shinx, the easiest way to add them in is when there is a battle, but I do want to add to the family!
Chapter 8
I woke up next to the pond, yawning from the nap I had when I got here, I was lying down on the soft grass with flowers dotting the landscape, I raised my head and looked around, the sun was shining through the trees reflecting off the water's surface, local pokemon where talking away in the distance, I got up and stretched my legs and walked over to the pond, I looked around to see if anyone was watching, but it was all quite around the water, I went down and got a nice cold drink, when I was done I looked at my reflection in the water, I saw my black furry face and sharp red eyes, a ring of yellow fur and two long pointy black ears, I smiled at it and splashed the reflection with my paw. I sat down next to the edge when a thought crossed my mind.
'How did I get here and who am I?' I tried to think about the past and out of nowhere a flood of memories entered my head as I remembered everything that as happened, I looked around the place to see the landscape shimmering and disappear before my very eyes, I looked down at my paws to see everything return to normal with my hands reappearing and my former size coming back.
I looked around now to see that I was yet again floating it the void in my head, "Aeon!", I called out, I wanted to know what just happened, the umbreon appeared in front of me with a smile on his face.
"Hello".
"What just happened!?", I asked still freaking out over what I just experienced.
"I showed you something", he replied.
"I thought you couldn't do any of that stuff?", I was some what confused and still freaking out, last time I talked to Aeon he told me he was too weak to show me anything.
"After your last change I got an energy boost, and since now you can collect some power from the moon I had enough strength to show you stuff, but only for a little bit", I was shocked about what he did that my emotions turned into anger and I let him have it.
"You scared me half to death, I thought I was...", I stopped my sentence when I saw light coming from behind me, ever since I have been coming here their has been no light so this intrigued me, I turned around to see that my tail was giving off light, I remembered what the last change did to me as I grabbed my ear and pulled it in front of me, it too was glowing.
"See your emotions set off the glow, you need to control that in time other wise it can become annoying and it can let others know how you feel", I let go of my ear and let it bounce back, I need to remember this, "You seemed stressed lately so I created a peaceful place for you to relax", Aeon said, I looked at him still trying to get my head around what just happened.
"So let me get this straight, to help me relax you make me think that I'm a pokemon!?", Aeon nodded.
"You always say that there is no cure that you will change, so I just showed you how peaceful life as a pokemon is", I thought about what he said, thinking about what he just showed me, I did feel at peace, comfortable and relaxed, it felt like I had no problems at all, is this what it will feel like to be a pokemon, more I thought about it the more I liked it, but that could be the pokemon side of me enjoying that, I really want to be with the people I love and the friends I know, Aeon could sense what I was thinking and his ears dropped, "You still want to be human?".
"Yeah, I will miss everything that I know and if I think about losing that then...", I looked over at Aeon he was understanding what I was talking about, "Even if I say their will be no cure, deep down I hope they find one so I can be with the ones I love".
"So your saying life as a pokemon would be great but the fear of losing everything in return is too big of a risk...?", Aeon asked, he was getting it but still didn't quite understand what I meant.
"Something like that".
"Oh... well your about to wake up so good luck and I will talk to you soon", Aeon said before bursting into light.
I woke up in my sleeping bag, surrounded by trees, 'Good, that was just a dream', I thought, I got up slightly and looked around, I saw a burnt out fireplace probably been out for some time, Coal was next to Wing keeping him warm with his tail sleeping soundly, Tom was in his sleeping bag close to them with Luna by his side, even in their sleep I can see their worried faces, I finally looked to my side, Dash and Pulse wasn't there in fact I didn't see them around at all.
I got out of my sleeping bag and looked around for any sign of them, but still I couldn't find them, "Dash, Pulse... where are you?", I called out softly trying to not to wake up Tom and the others, I got no reply. I was getting worried when I couldn't find them around the camp site, I didn't want to wake up the others, it was too early and I didn't want to talk to them yet.
Running out of options I turned to my pokemon abilities, or at least the hearing part of them, 'If I couldn't see them then maybe I could hear them', I thought, it was a sound theory in my head but would it work. I closed my eyes and concentrate on just listening for sounds, it wasn't long before I started to hear thing, the wind blowing in the trees, pokemon waking up from their slumber, and splashes of water made from a small pond, but I got no sound of the two plusle.
"Maybe they wandered off, somewhere", I said to myself, this was the only thing I came up with, so I wandered into the forest in search for them. When I was listening for them I heard a splash from a pond close by, so this is where I started my search.
As I made my way there I kept and eye out for them with little success, but when I got closer to the pond I could hear little voices chatting away, they were faint from where I was but I could tell they were Dash and Pulses voices. I slowly approached the pond keeping out of sight from Dash and Pulse so I didn't disturb them, I hid behind a tree and peeked around it to see them talking.
"So...?", Pulse asked, sitting on the edge of the water.
"So what?", Dash replied not really listening to Pulse, he was swimming in the pond, this is where the splashes were coming from, I could see that next to Pulse that their clothing were laying on the ground, so they wouldn't get it wet..
"You slept on it, what do you think?".
"I don't know, it was just... so much pain", Dash got out of the water, shaking himself dry and making Pulse wet, he only groaned and wiped the water away.
"I know he told us that he would change but I didn't know it was going to be like that...", Pulse looked down to his feet, playing with his toes.
"I know... but what can we do... he doesn't even like us any more, we didn't speak to him after that", Dash tried to hold the tears back but some manage to show themselves, I couldn't believe what I hearing, did they really think I hate them because of something they can't control, I was about to go to them but I manage to hold myself back.
"He doesn't hate us, does he...?", Pulse joined in with Dash's fear, I couldn't take any more of this, they were making themselves sad for nothing, I walked out from behind the tree and got closer to them.
"I don't hate you", I said, they jumped up from shock, surprised to see me.
"Sora!", They both announced, "We didn't know you were awake", Pulse added.
"Sorry to scare you", I sat down next to them looking over the water, "I don't hate you, I would never hate you, seeing what you saw yesterday would make anyone speechless".
"Really?", Dash asked, I nodded hoping to remove all doubt from their mind.
"But I did thought you might of given up on me when I couldn't find you when I woke up", they ran up to me and jumped on my leg.
"Never!", they both yelled out, I was relived they were still with me, I chuckled a little at the sight.
"That's good to hear", but it wasn't long before they backed off scared of something they saw, I wondered what they were doing when I saw a glow on the ground, I turned my head to see my tail glowing faintly, I sighed knowing that the rest of the rings were glowing, "It's ok you two, Aeon told me that my emotions will affect these, right now I'm quite happy so I guess that's what they're showing", Dash and Pulse looked at each other unsure of what to make of this.
"So your happy?", Pulse said as they both turned back to me.
"Of course I am, knowing that you guys will never give up just makes me feel a lot better", they smiled, my rings only glowed brighter, "Come on you two we should head back Tom will be up soon", I extended my arm to them, they grabbed their clothes and put them on, they ran up it onto my shoulders, I noticed they were trying to avoid my glowing ears, "It won't hurt you guys... I don't think"
"What?", Dash asked, not quite hearing the last part.
"Nothing, let's go".
We were walking back to camp, Dash and Pulse asked me if the glowing hurt, I just replied saying that it makes the rings slightly hot but nothing I couldn't handle, we were coming up onto the camp, when I stopped.
"What is it?", Dash asked, I didn't know why I stopped but I could sense something happening up ahead.
"Stay quiet", I said to them and went down to the ground, I had no idea what I was doing, nor what I was sensing but I didn't like it, it wasn't long before Dash and Pulse sensed it as well, drawing closer to me.
We were around the camp site hiding from view, I hid behind a tree to see what was worrying me, I saw four men wearing red and silver uniforms surrounding Tom and the other pokemon, it looked like Coal was knocked out and Wing wasn't too be seen, most likely returned to his ball, Tom was holding the injured Luna in his arms.
"Team Horizon!", I softly said, getting pumped up, my rings getting hot and bright, I hid myself from view when I realised this, it was going to give me away.
"Who's Team Horizon?", Pulse asked, I turned to him.
"Their the people that did this to me, most likely looking for me", Pulse and Dash looked scared knowing that those men were here, I relaxed myself slightly trying to lower the glow on my rings before peeking back around the tree to listen to what they were talking about.
"I won't ask again, where is your friend Sora?", a grunt asked getting quite irritated.
"I don't know who your talking about, who are you guys!", Tom called out lying to them, hoping for them to go away.
"Stop lying to us, we know your friends with him, we saw video footage of you and him running from the gym back in Viridian City, now I will ask one last time, where the hell is he!?".
It wouldn't be long before they attack him for the information or worse inject him with the virus like me, I turned back from them and sat up against the tree.
"We have to do something!", I told the plusle, they just shook their heads.
"No way, they look like bad guys", they whispered.
"And they are about to hurt Tom and the others, are you going to let that happen?", They thought about it for a moment and shook their heads, "Good now here is what I want you to do".
Tom was looking even more worried, knowing if he didn't tell them about me they were going to attack.
"I'm telling you I don't know who you're talking about!", Tom cried out, the grunt only shook his head.
"I guess were doing it the hard way", he walked closer to Tom, he tried to move back but another grunt grabbed him from behind.
"Now!", I called out, the grunts all face me as a Thunder Wave went towards two of them paralyzing them and making them fall to the ground, then Dash and Pulse ran at intense speed and rammed the other two, Tom fell to one knee when the grunt let go of him, he looked up to see me run to him.
"Sora!", he called.
"Get up and run!", I yelled out, I recalled the unconscious Charmander and went down to the ground to allow Dash and Pulse to get back on, once they were on I grabbed Tom, before we made it out we grabbed our stuff and ran into the forest, I heard pokemon being released behind us and firing attacks our way.
We run like our lives depended on it, which it did, I turned my head a few times to see shadows of pokemon following us firing intense wind our way chopping up trees in its path.
"Sora... who are these guys...!", Tom try to speak while running, holding Luna close.
"Their Team Horizon, the guys that did this to me!", my rings started to glow from anger when I said their name, Tom thought it best to drop the subject for now, as we ran for our lives.
We ran for what seemed like an eternity, still being chased down my Team Horizon, we made it into a small clearing, where we stopped unable to run any more.
"I'm... sorry Sora... I can't go on", Tom tried to catch his breath, still holding Luna close.
"Neither can I Tom", I lied, I could keep on run, these pokemon abilities will allow me to run for quite some time, but I wasn't going to leave Tom behind.
It wasn't long before the pokemon and Team Horizon made it to us, I could finally see what that pokemon was, it was a Scyther, two of them in fact. They where green and looked like a mix between a grass hopper and praying mantis with a dinosaur's head. It had metalic blades for arms. One had a larger abdomen than the other proving it was female.
"We finally got you!", one of the grunts said.
"Don't try and run, you will only make it worse", the male Scyther said, I stood in front of Tom and growled at them, but this time I wasn't going to stop myself, my rings glowing bright.
"I see your changes, Kerr is going to be pleased", The other grunt said, making me even more angry, I heard a voice in my head, it was Aeon.
"Let me take over, we need to get out of here!", he demanded, I must have been really mad if Aeon was able to talk to me.
'No I can't afford to pass out again, I will need to do this myself!', I thought so I wouldn't speak out loud, I soon blocked him out and focused on the two men standing beyond me.
"Ok, time to bring you in, Scyther Quick Attack!", one of the men said, the other one called the same move.
"Dash, Pulse, Thunder Wave!", They jumped off my shoulders and let off a stream of energy, the two Scyther dodged and attacked them both sending them back to me, "You two ok!?", they got back to their feet in no time and nodded.
"Scyther remove those two with X-Scissor!", One of the Scyther charged at Dash and Pulse crossing its scythes.
"Dodge out of the way!", I called out, Dash and Pulse were able to just avoid that attack.
"Razor Wind!", the other grunt ordered its Scyther, it charged up the attack, while the other used Double Team to surround Dash and Pulse.
"Get out of there!", I cried, they try to move out but the Scyther only tried to slash them if they try to move, but it was too late, the Razor Wind from the other one was released going through a fake Scyther and hitting Dash and Pulse making them scream out in pain, they were pushed into me knocking me down, I looked up to my chest to see them piled up on each other barely moving, I sat up and they slid into my arms, "Guys...?", I got no answer.
"Do you give up yet!?", a grunt called out, I again heard Aeon.
"Please let me take over, this is hurting me as much as it's hurting you!", he cried, I looked up to see the Scythers coming closer, I looked behind me to see Tom holding Luna, they both knew the end was coming, I was about to let Aeon take over until I heard a voice, one I haven't heard of yet.
"Solan, Flame Charge!", I look to my left to see an unknown pokemon run out of the trees on fire and smack right into one of the Scyther, causing the other one to back off.
"What... what just happened!", a grunt yelled, his Scyther getting up from the attack, everyone in the clearing looked to where that pokemon came from to see a shadow walk out of the darkness, it was a girl no older than 14, she was wearing a long fancy green dress with black high heels barely visible, she had long curly blonde hair.
"I heard a battle and came to watch, but I guess this isn't one, what a shame", she walked over to us and looked around, she saw Tom and I holding our pokemon, we were showing fear in our eyes, she then turned to the grunts, they didn't seem to happy she barged in.
"Get out of here kid, before we hurt you too!", they said, she only laughed, and walked up to them.
"You, hurt me, why you can't even control you pokemon let alone insult me", she walked around one of them smiling away, she didn't know what she was getting into.
"How dare you insult me, if you want to protect these kids then fine, I will just get a bigger pay check from the boss", The girl walked away, walking towards me and Tom.
"So your saying your trying to take these two, well we don't like your type do we Solan", The catilpilar like pokemon nodded.
"Ohh they make my blood boil!", He said.
"And you know what's worse, is that your using Bug types for your evil plans!", She didn't seem very happy about that.
"Whatever, Scyther Slash!", he called out while the other one called out the same move, the scythers moved in for the close range attack.
"Solan, Flamethrower!", She called out, the pokemon let out a stream of fire from it's body hitting into the Scyther he attacked before, causing it to fall down to the ground, unconscious, the other Scyther slashed the pokemon causing it to move back, but something happened.
"Ahh... what happened!", Scyther cried out, it's owner was confused.
"What did you do!", The girl only laughed.
"Wow, you really don't know how to control your pokemon, Solan has the ability Flame Body, meaning he has a chance of dealing a burn to its attacker", She continued to laugh like it was all a big joke, "Can you believe them!", she told her pokemon which giggled at her comment, "Ok Take Down!", Solan ran up to the burnt Scyther and charged into it sending it back to it's trainer.
"Get off me you lazy bug!", he yelled but the Scyther wasn't moving.
"Ok time to rap up, String Shot!", She called out and string rapped the two grunts, tying them down, and their pokemon as well, the girl just laughed even more, "Well it's been fun but I think it's time that we left, hope you enjoyed our performance we will be here all week!", she giggled and ran to us, "Come on let's go!", the girl and her pokemon run into the forest, her pokemon looked like a catilpilar with white fur cavering up part of its body and blue eyes in the mess of fur, Tom and I looked at each other before following her.
We didn't go far as we made it to another small clearing, but it wasn't as big as the one we just came from, there was a bag sitting on the ground most likely belonging to the girl, once we got closer to it I fell to my knees looking down at the pokemon in my arms, still not moving.
"You're all safe now!", the girl said.
"Thank you for the help, what's you name?", Tom asked, she had a shocked face forgetting to introduce herself.
"Oops... sorry, my name is Tabatha!", She replied.
"I'm Tom and my brother here is Sora", he looked down to me, but I wasn't responding to anything around me, I was too focused on Dash and Pulse.
"Guys... please wake up...", I cried, shaking them slightly, my rings were glowing on and off. Tabatha just looked at me, listening to me talk to my pokemon.
"What's with him, and why is he wearing those toys?", Tabatha asked Tom.
"That's a long story, um... Sora?", I wasn't listening to him, I was still focused on the two pokemon, "Sora!", he tried again, I manage to turn to Tom, a few tears running down my face, "Mind speaking a language we can understand?".
"It's Dash and Pulse... their not moving...", I held them out slightly showing Tom that indeed their not moving.
"Oh it will be fine, I will use my expertise to help you, haha Tabatha away", Tabatha run too her bag, joined by Solan, Tom and I had blank faces, not understanding what she was talking about.
"She reminds me of you", I told Tom, he didn't seemed amused, Tabatha walked back after a short time, holding two cups.
"These will taste quite bitter but it will do wonders", I put Dash and Pulse down and grabbed the cups, I slowly made them drink the green liquid until it was all gone, it took some time but they soon shot right up, complaining about taste.
"Eww... why does everything taste bad!", Pulse complained, followed by Dash trying to wipe the taste from his mouth, as soon as I saw them up and walking I went I for a big hug.
"I thought I lost you... I'm sorry that I had you fight..." I was crying now but they just smiled.
"We're fine, see", I let go of them and looked them over, they seemed healthy again.
"Thank you", I turned to Tabatha, she gave me a smile and a wave, "By the way what is that stuff?"
Tabatha replied with a grin," Oh that stuff, It's just herbal medicine, it is a good medicine, but is horribly bitter. I wouldn't recommend it as a topping."
"Another job done, why do people always need me?", She turned to Solan for an answer.
"Beats me, you're always so crazy", he said before letting out a small giggle.
"Now, onto more important matters, who were those guys and why are they after you!?", Tabatha demanded, I got up from the floor after allowing Dash and Pulse to jump onto my shoulders.
"They were from a team called Team Horizon and they were after me", my rings glowed brightly from just saying their name.
"I'm sorry, but it's kind of hard to take you seriously with those toys on you", Tabatha giggled, I sighed when I heard this, it only made me depressed.
"I take it you haven't seen the news", Tom said, Tabatha shook her head.
"Nope, I kind of been in this forest for weeks, I kind of got lost, not that I'm complaining mind you, it's been fun meeting all these bug pokemon", She said.
"Speaking of which what is that?", Tom pointed to Solan.
"He's Solan, a Larvesta, my first pokemon" Tom was still confused, so was I, he put down Luna and pulled out his Pokedex and pointed it to Solan, an electronic voice started to talk.
"Larvesta, the Torch Pokémon. A Larvesta shoots fire from its five horns to repel its enemies. They live at the base of volcanoes."
"It says here that is from the Unova Region, so that must mean...", Tom was stop short when Tabatha answered.
"Yep, I'm from Unova, when I'm not travellingI live in White Forest, but it's been awhile since I've been back there", She didn't seem down about it, she was quite happy to be travelling, "but enough about me, we can talk more about me later, I want to know about you two, you seem to have an interesting story to tell if you got people trying to catch you", she looked down at me and the plusle.
"Sora, who is she?", Dash asked, still trying to get the taste out of his mouth.
"Her name is Tabatha, she is the one that saved us", they looked up at her in wonder.
"Before you start can you please take those things off, your no little kid", Tabatha pointed to my ears and tail, thinking that they were some kind of toy, I shook my head.
"I can't take them off, they are apart of me", I said, Tabatha only looked confused.
"Apart of you, what is that suppose to mean", I was about to answer be she kept on going, "No matter, if you won't take them off I will", She ran up to me giggling away, grabbing my tail and yanking hard, I yelped and started to growl, "Man what did you stick this on with, super glue!?".
"Let go!", I yelled, my rings glowing bright from the anger, she saw this and let go and walked back to her spot she was in before she decided to charge at me.
"Fine we will forget about the toys for now, but now you can tell me your story", She crossed her arms waiting for us to start, I rubbed my tail from the pain she just caused.
"Why should we tell you, you just yanked my tail!", I said, she stuck her face in the air.
"For one I saved you, if your not going to tell me then I will just go and get those men", she started to walk back to the clearing we just left, but I acted quickly.
"Okay, okay, fine we will tell you", she turned around in no time ran ran back to me.
"See I knew you would see it my way, oh I got a great idea!", she pushed me aside and ran to her bag like their was no tomorrow, I looked over to Tom who didn't understand either, I looked back to Tabatha and my jaw dropped, she was moving at speeds only a pokemon can achieve, she laid a blanket on the ground, quickly placing cups and tea pots all over it, she started to heat up tea and sat down, waving us over, Tom and I looked at each other, we couldn't believe what we just saw, it only took her 30 seconds to set up a tea set.
"Um... what?", Tom just didn't know what to say, she giggled.
"Come, sit, enjoy some tea, and tell me everything", we slowly made our way over and sat down, Solan was laughing.
"Oh boy, enjoy the tea!", he said continuing to laugh.
"So start from the beginning, where are you from?", Tabatha asked.
"We're both from Pallet Town, we left over a week ago", Tom replied.
"What, you're on a journey, you want to become a pokemon master, or something else?".
"I want to become a pokemon master, but we're not on it because of that", Tom looked over to me, indicating that he is here for me.
"We on it because of me", I said finishing off Toms sentence, Tabatha looked me over.
"What's so special about you?", she asked.
"Really, you can't tell?", She looked me over again, then smiled.
"Oh I see, your crazy that's why those men were after you!", She giggled I was surprised at what she said, I'm not crazy, with in reason.
"No, I'm part pokemon!", I yelled, her comment slightly got to me, she stopped giggling at looked at me with a blank expression.
"What?".
"The reason I talk funny is because I'm talking to pokemon, you pulled my tail which by the way really hurt, and these rings glow which only showed itself yesterday, those guys that were chasing us were Team Horizon they are to ones that did this to me over a week ago", Tabatha was looking at me looking quite shocked, but her happy nature came back.
"That's so cool, being part pokemon would be so much fun!", she was getting excited, "Wouldn't you think Solan?".
"Word of advice, run while you can!", Solan looked at me, he seemed kind of serious, but I doubt she could be that bad.
"Well it isn't fun, because I'm slowly changing and soon I will be a Umbreon and I will cease to exist, see this yellow ring on my head, I only got that yesterday!", bring that up made everyone sad, Tabatha still had her smile.
"Well I think you should be happy for the time you have left".
"Why, there are moments where something makes me happy but my life is going to end and you want me to be happy?".
"There is no point in being a downer all the time, be happy and you will be just fine", She said poring some tea into each of our cups.
"I'm not a downer", I said, looking at the tea she just pored, it didn't look to bad.
"Well Sora you kind of have been", Tom said taking a sip of the tea, he seemed to like it.
"I didn't know you thought that, I didn't mean to be", I said, taking a sip of the tea myself, it was quite tasty, a hint of honey could be found among the ingredients which made it nice and sweat, she really knew her tea.
"It's okay Sora, you do have a good enough reason to be like that", Tom smiled at me but he didn't make me feel batter, I was dragging down everyone's moods, I should think about being happier, but not right now.
"So why are you in Kanto Tabatha?", I asked trying to change the subject.
"Oh, I want to be the bug type master, so I've travelled to many regions to study and catch bug types, Kanto is my latest stop but I kind of got lost in this forest when I was trying to help an injured pokemon", she said.
"More like she chased down many different pokemon and got lost in the process", Solan added, I giggled at this.
"What you giggling at?", Tabatha asked.
"Oh, well I think you got lost because you chased pokemon until you got yourself lost", she wasn't expecting me to know this and then turned to Solan.
"You told him didn't you!", she asked Solan, he only nodded, "Well guess who's not getting tea!".
"It was worth it", Solan said before giggling again.
We sat their and drank some more tea, Dash and Pulse tried some and they didn't seem to like it, I guess it must have been the drink from before that put them off, we told Tabatha mostly everything about what has happened to us, and by time we finished there was no tea left and 2 hours have gone by.
"Thank you for everything Tabatha, but we really should be going, Team Horizon will be looking for us", I told her.
"Well where will you be going?", She asked.
"Well we are going to make our way around Kanto mostly sticking to the forests to hide from Team Horizon and Team Rocket" I replied, she closed her eyes and thought about something, Tom and I just looked at each other.
"Ok I decided to tag along with you", Tabatha finally said, this shocked everyone.
"What!?", I didn't expect this.
"Well if I want to become a bug type master then I need to learn more, and since your going through many forests, this can help me greatly, besides I also figured out that you need an attitude adjustment", Tabatha crossed her arms and held her head up.
"What, I don't need any attitude adjustment!", I yelled.
"Yes you do, I'm going to put you in a Tabatha's Mood Changer Course, this way you will be happier, and not the downer you always are".
"What!?", I was getting ticked off now and my rings were now glowing slightly, and they have been fine for the last hour.
"I told you to run for it", Solan said laughing, I only sighed.
"Well if you want to come then there is no point in trying to stop you", I said, Tom was surprised.
"What you going to let her come?".
"Well I didn't want you to come but you wouldn't listen to me and came anyway, so there is no point in trying to stop her", Tom rubbed his head, feeling guilty about this.
"I guess that was my fault, sorry", he said.
"Then it's settled, I will join you guys!", she picked up her bag and returned Solan and looked at us.
"Aren't you going to return your pokemon?" ,she asked.
"They don't like it in their pokéball so they stay out with us, we want Luna to go in hers since she has a broken leg but the splint will do", Tom said, Tabatha looked down to Luna, and smiled.
"When we stop to set up camp I will take a look at it, but for now we walk", Tabatha sped off into the tress.
"Hey wait, what happened to walking!", Tom called out, picking up Luna and tried to chase her down, I shook my.
"I feel like we might regret this", I said, Dash and Pulse just had a big smile.
"She seems like fun!", Dash exclaimed.
"Come on Sora, let's go!", Pulse added, I nodded and I ran to try and catch up.
We were walking for some time, Tabatha told us more about her, but she got distracted easily when she saw a bug pokemon, Tom and I had to hold her down once when things got a bit out of control. Tabatha told us about her other pokemon, she met them when she was studying in different regions, she has a scyther named Arthur, a larvesta named Solan, a beutifly named Princess, a dustox named Prince, a durant named Steel, a beedrill named Dusk, a venipede named Roll and a skorupi named Pin, Prince and Princess are mates, Tabatha told us that they wouldn't go with out the other so she now has them both, in my mind having Tabatha around with all her pokemon will make it easier to fend off Team Rocket and Horizon.
"Hey Tabatha?", I said, she turned her head to look at me.
"What is it?".
"Are you sure you want to join us, you know if you do your as much of a target as Tom", she just smiled, it seemed like she didn't really care.
"Your kidding, this will be fun, anyway I find it hard to believe that anyone will hurt you", she said, I was confused by what you meant.
"What do you mean?".
"Your too cute to hurt", she winked at me, leaving me stunned and slightly blushing, my rings softly flashing, when she said this it thought back to when I was looking at myself back at the Pokemon Center, I thought that I looked cute then, I thought it was my pokemon emotions affecting me and I still do, maybe she was just messing with me, at least I hope she is.
"Hey Sora, are you blushing!?", Tom said giving me a sly grin, Dash and Pulse were laughing at me, I shook my head trying to come back to reality.
"What, no... I was just thinking... I will talk to you later about it", I gave an evil look at Tabatha who just giggled and ran further up ahead.
"I knew I was going to regret this", I mumbled to myself.
"Look on the bright side, she's not the only one that thinks your cute", I looked down at Luna and she also gave me a wink, I dropped my head in embarrassment while Dash and Pulse kept on laughing.
'At least Tom can't understand her', I thought.
We made our way through the forest trying to spot Tabatha who ran off before, but not having much luck.
"Where did she go?", Tom asked.
"I don't know?", we kept on walking looking around as we went, it wasn't long after that when we spotted her, sitting down on the blanket heating up some more tea.
"What are you doing?",I asked.
"It's tea party time!", Tabatha exclaimed, "We also got a guest", I was trying to figure out what she was talking about when Tom tapped me on the arm, I turned to looked at him but he only pointed at something, I looked down and jumped back a little, I saw a Beedrill sitting on the blanket with Tabatha.
"Er... is that your Beedrill?", I asked, she shook her head making me back off even more Tom followed suit.
"He won't hurt you, he is here for a nice cup of tea", Tabatha took the kettle of and pored some tea in a bowl for he Beedrill to drink out of.
"I don't know about this", I said, still keeping an eye on the pokemon.
"Well you say you can talk to pokemon, how about you do that instead of jumping to conclusions!", Tabatha sounded ticked off, she loved bug types so I guess she didn't like us being afraid of them.
"Well okay then", I looked to the beedrill who was still drink the tea, "Hello, how are you?".
"I'm fine, now leave me be", the Beedrill responded, he didn't want to be disturbed.
"Well?", Tom asked, I dropped my head.
"It might be best if we just leave him to drink", I turned to Tom and he nodded very quickly, Tabatha crossed her arms.
"Fine suit yourself, go wait over there while we drink", she pointed over to a spot near by, which we happily moved over to, we took a seat and looked back over to Tabatha and the beedrill, they were still drinking away.
"Tom remember when you said you would never understand me...", Tom nodded, "What about her?".
"She... she is one of those people where if you try to figure out you will go crazy...", Tom chuckled, I joined in knowing that he was speaking the truth, it wasn't long before he stopped and turned to me, "You wanted to talk to me?", I thought back and remembered what he was talking about.
"Oh... yeah, I guess I did", I softly said, Tom didn't seem to thrilled about my attitude.
"Hey you wanted to talk, if you don't want to any more it's fine", Tom said, I looked down to the ground thinking about how I would say this.
"Well... before when Tabatha said I was... cute, I thought about something that happened, back at the Pokemon Center when I was getting ready I looked at myself in the mirror and thought the same thing, I don't know what that means but I think your right about my pokemon emotions...", Tom stared at me not knowing what to say, I myself didn't know what I was talking about, "And there is something else... last night Aeon showed me something, he made me think I was an Umbreon relaxing near a pond enjoying myself, at first I was freaked out but the more I thought about it the more I liked it... and I don't know what to do...", I was slowly breaking down into tears trying my best not to show them so I didn't make Dash and Pulse too upset.
"Sora... you will be fine, don't worry... but if you really do feel that way then...", I stopped Tom there.
"I don't know what I think about it all... I don't know if it is the pokemon emotions that make me feel this way or my own..", I couldn't hold the tears back any more, I put one hand to my face trying to hide it but everyone knew, I felt something scratching behind my ear and I slowly stopped crying, relaxing to the soothing pleasure, I slowly turn my head to see Dash's hand reaching for my ear, he was the one scratching me, I gave him a soft smile, "Thank you...", Dash lowered his arm smiling softly.
"Sora... maybe you should get some time alone with yourself so you can think these things over?", Tom said, I thought about it and shook my head.
"No... I'll be fine, I just want to know what's happening, if there is a way to stop this I want to know, and fast...", I looked over to Tabatha who was still drinking tea, but she didn't seem as happy as before, maybe she been watching or worse listening, "Even having Tabatha here to help make me happy isn't going to work forever...".
"Maybe Professor Oak knows something by now?", Tom said, I raised my head and ears, I completely forgot about the Professor.
"Maybe", I said taking my bag off my back and reaching into it for the pokégear, looking at it there was one problem we forgot about.
"Their is no reception in this forest, great", I returned to my depressing state knowing I will have to wait to find out anything from the Professor.
"Everything will be fine Sora", I turn my head to see Pulse giving me a big smile.
"Really, how do you know?", Pulse looked over to Dash and gave him an evil grin, Dash did the same, I've seen those grins before.
"Oh no!", I exclaimed, but it was too late, the two jumped off my shoulders and onto the ground quickly turning around and jumping into my chest knocking me over, they started to tickle me causing me to to laugh loudly, Tom and Luna laughed at the sight they were seeing, I manage to raise my head slightly to see Tabatha laughing as well. It was a few minutes before I manage to turn around and pin them to the ground, they were still giggling away, "Thanks you two".
"We know what cheers you up!", Pulse manage to say under his loud giggle.
"Yeah you do, now it's my turn!", I tickled them both, they were sent into a fit of laughter, few more minutes later I stopped, I took my hands away and sat back down, the two plusle manage to sit up still giggling loudly.
"Feel better?", Tom asked, trying to calm down after what he saw.
"I feel much better", I had a big smile, I felt so much better after that, laughter really is the best medicine, Tabatha walked over to us.
"Well I hope you had fun, while you were losing your head I packed up and ready to go, how about you?", Tabatha crossed her arms wanting us to hurry up.
"We weren't the ones that stopped in the first place", I responded.
"I stopped for a drink, I wasn't the one crying!", Tabatha and I were in each other faces ready to get into an argument, Tom stepped in between us.
"Ok that's enough, calm down!", I shook my head and backed off, again I lost myself to these emotions, these can become dangerous if I'm not careful.
"Sorry Tom... I lost myself again".
"It's fine Sora", Tom turned to look at Tabatha, "Don't fight, please".
"It's fine, not like I was going to bite his head off, I can't say the same for him!", Tabatha chuckled.
"What's that suppose to mean!", I yelled getting angry again, my rings now glowing, Tom again stepped between us.
"Enough, no more from both of you!", Tom was getting irritated from our attitudes, "Now let's get moving", Tom walked off with Luna following him, Tabatha went and followed him.
"She was playing with me", I mumbled to myself, "Come on guys let's go" I leaned down to allow them to get up and I ran to rejoin the others.
Two hours went by and I didn't make eye contact with Tabatha, Tom was standing between us so we wouldn't go at it again.
'Why does she act so childish?', I thought, I know she saved us from Team Horizon and also help Dash and Pulse recover from their beating, but she is so weird, she seems like she doesn't know what she is doing, that she tries so hard to stand out, I don't think that letting her join us was a good idea, she doesn't understand the danger she is in.
"Sora", Tabatha said, she broke my train of thought, I turned my head to look at her, Tom was being wary of us making sure we don't get into another fight.
"Yes?" , I said.
"I'm sorry for what happened, when I start I can't stop myself", she said, putting her hands behind her head.
"It's fine, really, it was my fault", Tabatha wasn't sure what I meant, she was going to ask when I stopped walking, Tom, Luna and Tabatha stared at me.
"What is it Sora?", Tom asked, I turned my head around to see what I could sense, it was the same feeling from this morning.
"Run," I said.
"What?".
"Run!", I ran ahead of everyone grabbing Luna as I went, Tom and Tabatha quickly joined me unsure of what's happening.
"Sora what's going on!?", Tabatha called out.
"It's Team Horizon they found us!", as soon as I said that attacks could be heard from behind us.
"How did they find us!", Tom yelled over the attacks, I didn't answer as I was to focused on running, we manage to run back onto the path of the forest which we manage to lose when we got here, on the other side 2 grunts were waiting for us making us stop in our tracks, the other two came up from behind us with their pokemon which were a Vulpix and a Ninetale.
"Thought you got away, next time maybe try taking the tracking device out of your bag", one of the grunts said to Tom, I looked over to his bag and I did notice a strange bump on it, I couldn't believe we didn't see that.
"Now time to bring you in", the grunts reached for their pockets ready to pull something out, I could see Tabatha and Tom both reaching for the pokemon, but I could sense something about to happen, I couldn't explain it but I felt like something bad was about to come our way.
The grunts pulled out guns from their pockets and fired darts at us, my body dropped to the floor to avoid it, unfortunately Tabatha and Tom both got hit by one and soon fell to the ground, it seemed like they were asleep, another one was fired at me and my body reacted and jumped to the side, I had no idea what I was doing but I didn't care.
"That was our last dart!", one of them cried.
"Who cares it's four against one, he can't do anything to stop us", they called their pokemon forth, the other two called out a Zubat and a Golbat to join the Vulpix and Ninetails.
"Okay here we go, Coal let's fight!", I called out Coal from he ball, "You feeling better?", I asked, he was knocked out from this morning.
"Never better, besides it's time to get some payback!", he exclaimed.
"Okay it's four against one, this isn't good odds...", I mumbled to myself, I wasn't sure I could beat them all.
"Let us help!", I turned to Dash and Pulse who seemed eager to fight.
"No way not after last time", I said but they seemed determined.
"We need to help or we won't win!", Dash and Pulse jumped off my shoulders and landed next to Coal, Luna struggled out of my arms and went next to them.
"Luna you can't fight you still have a broken leg!", I yelled, but she wasn't listening, my attention was drawn away from the grunts calling attacks.
"Ninetails, Flamethrower!", The other grunt that had Vulpix called the same attack, the two fox pokemon let out a stream of fire at us.
"Coal counter with your Flamethrower, Dash and Pulse Quick Attack them and Luna Hidden Power the bats!", I called, Coal was able to block the Flamethrower from hitting them just in time but was struggling to keep it back, Dash and Pulse quickly moved to the foxes and hit them sending them back, braking their attack allowing Coal to get his through and hitting them for a direct hit, Luna focused on her attack, balls of green light started to surround her as she fired them off to the two bat pokemon.
"Golbat Protect!", the grunt called allowing his pokemon to avoid damage, but Zubat got hit by that attack but it didn't seem to do much.
"Dash and Pulse, Thunder Wave Golbat and Zubat!", The two got down on all fours and released a wave of energy that hit the bats making them fall out of the sky, they were soon returned.
"Vulpix, Round!", the grunt called, the one that owns Ninetails used the same move, I remembered Tom talking about this a few years back when he was studying, he said that the attack is a song that a pokemon sings and it can do greater damage if other pokemon join in. The fox pokemon released their song right at Coal, Pulse saw this and jumped in front of the attack and used a move, it was Protect.
'I didn't know he knew that...', I thought, this stopped the attack from hitting and saving Coal from harm, Dash ran over to Pulse surprised to see the move.
"Enough of this, Ninetails, Heat Wave!", the grunt called, Ninetails built up a ball of fire in it's mouth, I saw this and ran to Luna to cover her, Coal did the same with Dash and Pulse, Ninetails released a shearing hot wind from it's mouth which burnt everything in it's path, Coal and I could barely handle it, I started to feel my back burning up, I figured that it inflicted a burn on me, the attack stop as Ninetails jumped in pain, I slowly turned around to see on it's back was a burn mark.
"You have Synchronize, clever", I didn't know what he was talking about, I just knew that the burn killed, but my attention was taken from that when I saw a bright light coming from next to me, when I looked I saw Coal was engulfed with light, he was evolving.
"Coal...", I said, Dash and Pulse backed off slightly as Coal changed shape and size, before long before us was standing a Charmeleon.
"Coal you evolved into a Charmeleon!", I exclaimed, Coal looked up and down his body and looked at the grunts. He looked like a larger and darker red version of a charmander. He had a single horn on the top of his head.
"Oh your so in trouble!", Coal said, his voice sound a lot different, he sound a lot older which I had to get used to.
"Ok Coal let's show them who's boss, time for one last attack, use Flamethrower, Luna Hidden Power, Dash and Pulse use Thunder Wave!", I was determined to rap this up quickly so we could get out of here. The pokemon all charged up their attacks and released them all a once, sending a storm of power to the four grunts and their pokemon. there was little that they could do as the attacks slammed into them sending them flying for meters all landing hard getting knocked out in the process.
"We did it!", we all celebrated in triumph, it wasn't long before I ran over to Tom and Tabatha to see if they were ok, "Guys wake up!", I shook them but I got nothing, "Dash, Pulse, can you give them a slight shock?", I asked the two, they both chose different people and gave them a shock making them jump up from their unconscious rest.
"What just happened!?", Tom exclaimed putting his hand to his head.
"We just saved everyone, we trained our pokemon well", I said, Tom looked around to see the grunts on the ground some way from us and also saw that Coal evolved.
"Did Coal...".
"Yep. He's now a Charmeleon!", I said, Coal seemed very happy about it, I flinched from pain as the burn kept on stinging.
"What's wrong?", Tabatha asked.
"Nothing, just got a slight burn from the battle", Tabatha got up and walked over to me.
"Show me", she said.
"Show you, no!".
"Just show me, I can help", I thought about it and nodded, I turned around and lifted my top.
"That's a pretty big burn, but I will fix it in no time", she took off her bag and searched through it, "If I can't find the herbs to make medicine I always carry factory made heals for emergency", Tabatha pulled out a heal from her bag and sprayed it on my back, it stung for a bit but then all the pain went away.
"Thanks Tabatha, one of the grunts say that I have Synchronize, what does that mean?", I asked.
"Synchronize is an ability that if you get inflicted by a status condition then the one the caused it also receives it, I didn't know you could use that", Tom explained, I didn't know about it either, but now that I do, it sounded cool, Tabatha put the heal away.
"You owe me one favour", she giggled as she ran off down the path.
"Wait what!?", I yelled out to her but she kept on running.
"Just leave it be, come on", Tom said as he made his way down the path followed by Luna.
"Wait!", I called out them him and run up to him, I pulled out the tracking device from his bag and chucked it on the ground, "Coal would you mind?", Coal quickly burnt the thing to a crisp before I returned him to his ball,"I'm not going to deal with this again".
"Good, let's go", Tom turned back around and walked down the path, I got Dash and Pulse back on my shoulders and followed him.
It was getting dark out and we went back deep into the forest to set up camp so it will be harder for Team Horizon to find us, we had a fire raging with food cooking, Tom, Tabatha and I were sitting together with Tom and my pokemon sitting near by talking to themselves.
"Tabatha why don't you let out your pokemon, they have to eat as well?", I asked.
"Oh, well I feed them early in the morning, they get a big meal and that's about it, they seem quite happy with it", she said, I wasn't sure.
"Really?", I said.
"Sora, many different pokemon have different eating habits, and their trainers can make them have that habit", Tom tried explaining, I didn't quite get it but they did so I just nodded to get them to change the subject.
"Oh, Sora", Tabatha said, I looked at her wondering what she wanted, she put her hand into her bag, "Here try these!", she pulled out her hand and opened it up in front of me, showing me a hand full of pokemon food.
"That's pokemon food!", I said.
"Yeah you are part pokemon so why not try it", she had a big grin on her face which was making me uncomfortable.
"I'm not eating that!", I yelled.
"Oh come on!", she yelled back.
"No!"
"Don't be such a baby!"
"Don't push me!", I was starting to get really annoyed.
"Just try one, you owe me a favour!", she moved closer.
"I said no!", I growled showing my teeth like an angry dog, Tom got between us.
"Cut it out!", He yelled snapping me out of it.
"Fine don't eat it then, I was only trying to help!", Tabatha moved her hand away from me and put the food away.
"I think I will skip dinner, I'm not that hungry any more", I got up and walked to my sleeping bag and sat down, getting ready to go to bed, when my ears picked up a conversation.
"Tabatha why did you do that", Tom whispered.
"I was just trying to help" she replied.
"Well please stop trying to push or get Sora angry", Tom said.
"Why?"
"Sora can't control his pokemon emotions, if you push him to far then he doesn't pay attention to what he is doing, you heard him growl just then", Tom said, they were whispering but my ears could pick up on what they were saying, this made me sad.
"Well why doesn't he just learn to control them then?", she asked.
"I don't know, maybe he has tried and can't, I can see he tries his best to hold them back most of the time, but when it happens he doesn't know he is doing it, this just makes him depressed, so please can you stop?", Tom asked.
"For now, but just remember I'm only trying to help".
"He has too many people helping right now and he doesn't know what to think, just leave him alone tonight and let him sleep, he needs it after today".
"Fine", Tabatha replied, I tuned out from their conversation after that, I was back on my thoughts thinking about everything I just heard, Tom knew more about me than I did, hearing him talk about me like that just makes me feel like I lost control, I pulled out my journal and wrote another entry and went to bed hoping that tomorrow will be better.
Dear Journal,
Today was eventful, Team Horizon showed up and attacked us, we were almost beat until someone came to our rescue, her name is Tabatha, she is a crazy and funny new friend we made and she is now joining us as we travel, I don't know if this is a good thing but time can only tell.
During a second battle with Team Horizon, Coal evolved into a Charmeleon, and helped me fend off the attackers, but during today I have figured out something.
My pokemon emotions is affecting me more that I thought, making me get angry to easily, making me growl and also enjoy kid games, but what I also found out that my pokemon instincts can make me do things with out me thinking about it, not that I'm complaining since it saved me from Team Horizon but it something I'm concerned about.
The last thing is Aeon showed me something in my dream last night, he made me think I was a pokemon, at first I was freaked out but the more I think about what he showed me the more I like it, it scares me as well as me seeming cute, Luna and Tabatha both brought it up today, I thought the same thing when I was back at the Pokemon Center, I don't know what this means but I know I'm not going to like it.
-Sora
A/N: I really enjoyed this one, when Sora was in his dream as a umbreon was the best to write, but I do wish I could of done more with it, but Aeon isn't strong enough... yet.
How do you like Tabatha, Orange told me about the character and since Sora is always such a downer I thought it time to add someone the raise everyone's sprits.
Also Coal evolved, YAY, what would this mean and how would it affect everyone, we might find out or nothing will happen, we will see but next chapter prepare for a good one as things get a little tense with our group.
Writen by: skaterblog
Edited by: Orangekirbyyoshi