Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon in anyway shape or form, all rights are reserved to Nintendo.
A/N: I have change the back story slightly, I just changed how long the virus will take affect, from two years to one, I ran it through my head on how I can fill up two years of changes and events and the answer was, I can't or at least I don't know, putting it down to one year means the changes can happen more often, as well as other little gems in the story.
Orange: Hey another part of reviewer corner. I also have a surprise segment where I ask you guys your opinions.
Charlesguy: i must say... this story is not bad, for a rookie. makes me think you wrote pieces beforehand. anyway, a few grammar corrections to start
some ''.''s and '',''s were missing. i'm not trying to sound like an english teacher here, but still. also i recomend allowing flames, so long as they're productive.
nitpicking aside, i'm interested to see where this story will end up. i just hope you know how TO end it.
*removes pocket flute from dark blue and deep green sweater.*
may the winds of fortune blow in your favor
*plays nocturne of shadow, teleporting away by doing so.*
Orange: Hey I wanna try that.
*grabs ocarina*
I have no idea how to play this uhhhh... OH WELL I'm gonna try
*makes a horrible screeching noise with ocarina*
Ummm... was that suppose to do something hehehehe. Oh if you guys didn't know Tabatha, Solan and Arthur were created by moi. Her other pokemon I named and chose what species they are and the fact Prince and Princess are mates (real creative names I know well could've been worse and I name them Romeo and Juliet).
Skater: Right end the story... Sure let's say I know how to and leave it at that. Also there will always be mistakes in the chapters, I never spot them all.
GamemastrX: I think its good, other than a few grammatical errors. I am a fan of New Species too, so join the club :) I look forward to reading new chapters.
Orange: Oh good lord even longer chapters. There's a fuppin club. Count me in.
Skater: Club, I like Clubs, wait, is this like a fan club, or when you club someone of the head type club, because either way, I'm in!
Orangekirbyyoshi: I like the bstory keep it up. Don't let other people too get you to quit remember there will always be someone reading your fic out there. I am going to be one of those people kay so remember what I said. Just don't let people and workloads bring you down. Good luck out there.
Orange: Oh good lord past me. I think I broke the space time continuim by my totally amazing totally cool legit ultra awesome project of amazing stuff who will knock everyone to a form of spactial goo much like what Lewis of the yogscast did to those poor bees. If someone can find what I'm referencing wins a spotlight in the next reviewer corner.
Skater: I feel like something bad is going to happen, stop talking to your past self, also I don't want to become bee DNA!
Alltogether: question of the day! Who is currently your guy's favourite character in the story? Your answers will be mentioned in the next chapters or so
Skater: Aeon, his name is cool and he knows everything, but I have to wonder, is he helping Sora or not?
I was in the void in my dream again, this time it has a floor for me to stand on, I have been coming here a lot lately and I only come here if Aeon wants to talk to me, I looked around and didn't see him anywhere.
"Aeon, are you there!?", I called out, it took awhile but Aeon soon showed himself, he seemed confused.
"Sora what are you doing here?", he asked.
"What you mean, I'm here in this void and I only come here if you want to talk", I said, Aeon shook his head.
"I didn't bring you here", I was still confused, I didn't know what was going.
"You must of, how else am I here!?"
"Maybe you want to talk to me?", Aeon said.
"You mean, I can do this void thing?", I was slowly understanding, Aeon nodded.
"What do you want talk about?", Aeon said cocking his head to the side.
"I... I don't know", I didn't know why my mind sent me here, but it must have been something important, I thought back to the day I just had to think of a reason to why I would be here, the more I thought about it the more the answer became clear, "I think I know why", I looked down to the non-existent floor.
"What is it?".
"How... how do I control these pokemon emotions, they... keep getting me into trouble", I looked back up to Aeon, he seemed amused by my question.
"You can't control them", Aeon replied.
"What do you mean I can't!?", there was something Aeon wasn't telling me.
"You really want to know?", he asked, I nodded my head, "Because kids can't control them very well at first, you will in time", Aeon said, I wasn't following what he was saying, I'm fifth-teen years old.
"I'm no kid, I'm a teenager!", I exclaimed, Aeon was still amused.
"You may be a teenager now, but compare that to pokemon years, you may only be one or two years old", this information took awhile to sink in but when it did, I felt like everything changed.
"Wha... so... you're saying that... I'm going to be a... kid again?", I wasn't sure what to think about all this, I wasn't sure what was even happening.
"This is kind of hard to explain, since your fighting with yourself", Aeon said.
"What are you talking about?", Aeon was just making this even more confusing, he just let out a sigh of frustration.
"You have been fighting these emotions switching between your human emotions and your pokemon ones", Aeon took a breath, "I can feel what this is doing to you even if you don't know".
"I still don't understand, what's happening?".
"If you keep fighting them it will get worse, not just your emotions but if you keep rejecting your pokemon side things will get worse".
"But I haven't been rejecting it", I said, I have been using the abilities it has given me, like the hearing and pokemon speech.
"Deep down you have been trying to keep the changes from happening, trying to force your human side to stay, but keep this up and you will only make things worse"
"How can I make things worse?", the changes were painful enough, and I'm already embarrassed beyond belief.
"Keeping your human emotions to stay will make the pokemon ones to bottle up, you can't control them very well as a kid and rejecting them makes it even worse", Aeon took another breath, "If you don't change soon and accept them, then when you do show them, you won't be able to control yourself and it will be harder for you to come back" Aeon sat down after explaining so much, I soaked in everything he said trying to understand it all.
"But I don't want this to happen, that's why I'm trying to reject it!", I yelled, my rings glowing like crazy now.
"Well you better stop then, if not...", Aeon said, he has been a great source of information about this change and has helped me to understand many things, but this is something I'm not ready for.
"But, I can't be a kid again, I already been through that and I won't go through it again, last time I lost my parents... this time I will lose everything else", I had fun growing up, playing with Tom and going to school but at the same time I lost my parents and that made me depressed for most of my childhood, if I go through it again I will lose Tom, Mark and Marry, and my pokemon friends, another loss like that and I might just give up.
"I'm sorry Sora but this is something that you can't avoid, if you do you might hurt the ones you care about", Aeon said, I looked at him and he seemed quite worried about it, he has grown to care about the others like I have and he didn't want to see them get hurt.
"I... don't know what to do... I need to think about this", I slowly said, Aeon got up and started to walk away.
"Well you better decide soon", he said, walking away into the void.
"Wait!"I called out, Aeon stopped and turned around.
"If I do chose to let go of my human emotions... how do I go about doing that, and what will happen if I take on the pokemon ones", I needed more answers, I needed to know what would happen, Aeon sighed.
"You just think about it and let go, you might not feel the change happen, but you and others will notice the change in your behaviour", with that said, Aeon walked off into the void vanishing with out a trace before I could ask more questions.
"But... I don't know what to do...", I mumbled to myself, a light from where Aeon went burst into existence and engulfed me, I knew that I was waking up.
I woke up from my restless sleep, I tossed and turned in my sleeping bag thinking about the talk I had with Aeon, still trying to get my head around all the information.
"What am I suppose to do?", I mumbled to myself, I didn't know if I should believe Aeon, I know that I was trying to keep these emotions at bay so people wouldn't notice that I was different that I wasn't dangerous, but just a few small comments from Tabatha yesterday and I kind of lost it.
"I guess the news was right about me, I could be dangerous", I thought back to Lucy and what I learnt from that day, that people can make me seem like a monster but it's how I act and say that can change their minds, but with the emotions changing how I act it will be hard to convince people I'm not a threat, I'm starting to believe that I'm dangerous, if Tom wasn't there when me and Tabatha was going at it then I don't know what would of happened, I might of hurt her.
I sat up on my sleeping bag looking around for Tom, I needed to talk to him about this, but as I looked around the camp site no one was around, Tom and Tabatha were gone and so were the pokemon.
"Hello!?", I called out getting up from my sleeping bag and walked around the area, I couldn't see any sign of them, the camp fire was burnt out and everyone's stuff is still here. I was about to wander off to look for them when my ears picked up some sounds, it sounded like a battle, guessing that is where they went I followed the sounds. My rings faintly glowing from worry.
I walked a little ways from the camp site and the attacks were getting louder, what I was walking by was beautiful to see, the sun shone through the trees, flowers were dotted around all different colours and a slight mist hovering over the ground from the sun heating it up, part of me wanted to stop and stay in such a beautiful spot and the other part wanted to keep going, this is what Aeon was talking about me trying to make my human emotions priority, but I manage to pull myself away from the sight and continue to make my way to the battle.
I finally made it to the battle, Tom, Coal, Luna, Wing, Dash and Pulse were all here, Luna and Wing were battling each other most likely training, Dash turned around after hearing me push through some bushes and saw me walk over, "Sora!", he called and ran over to me, Pulse turned around and saw me, he joined Dash in greeting me, my rings calmed down when I saw everyone was fine.
"Hey guys, did you have a good sleep?", I asked, they stopped in front of me as I knelt down to their level.
"We did... but did you, you were moving around in your sleep, you woke us up", Dash said, I guess even in my sleep I was tossing and turning.
"I won't lie to you, I didn't have a good sleep", Dash and Pulse have been trying to help me through this since the day I met them, and if what Aeon was saying was true they could help me.
"What's wrong?", Pulse asked, they were having a good time, but now they seem sad, I have that kind of affect on people and pokemon these days.
"You will find out soon, come on", I held out my arm so they could run up, once they did I got up and joined Tom and Coal on the side lines watching Luna and Wing train.
"Good morning Tom", I said, Tom turned around and gave me a smile.
"Morning Sora, sleep well?", he asked, I shook my head.
"No I didn't, but I will tell you later", Tom didn't like it, he knew that I found out something and I was hiding it, but I wasn't going to for long. I looked at the training pokemon, they were taking it easy trying not to over do it.
"Tom, didn't Luna have a broken leg?", I asked, I saw Luna still had the splint on and she was battling with Wing moving around quite a lot.
"Last night Tabatha made some medicine that helped sped up the healing process, this morning she was jumping up and down on the leg, so I got her to train with Wing to get her back into the game, but I kept the splint on just in case", Tom explained turning back around to Luna and Wing.
"So where is Tabatha, I got up and she wasn't there and she isn't here?".
"I don't know, I saw her walk off into the forest, probably doing her own thing, just leave her be she will be back", Tom said, we stopped talking and looked at the pokemon train.
Luna ran up to Wing using a Quick Attack, Wing flew up into the air to avoid but Luna jumped up and manage to slam into him causing him to fall back down to the ground, Wing quickly got up and used Gust trying to knock Luna back, she flew quite far before managing to get back onto her feet.
"Wing your trying to hard to defend, your getting Luna to close to you, you must make the push, use Quick Attack!", Tom yelled out, I could see how Tom was training the pokemon, he let them do their own thing, but he was mostly focusing on Wing than Luna helping out if he was falling behind, he seemed to be making mental notes on how his pokemon performed so he could improve on it.
Wing hovered just above the ground and flew at Luna at intense speeds, Luna just stood there and waited for Wing to get closer, when he did Luna jumped up and over him. Wing slowed to a stop soon after to turn around and look at her, Luna charged at Wing using Take Down but before she could hit him Wing flew up high into the air to avoid her attack, he started to smirk at Luna, she got a bit fed up with it and charged up a Hidden Power.
"Ah yes, good girl", Tom said, Luna charged her attack, three green balls of light surrounded her, before long she release it towards Wing, he didn't see this coming as he only manage to avoid two while the third one struck his wing making him lose control and hurdle to the ground slamming hard. We ran over to see if he was fine, "Wing are you ok!?", Tom yelled as he skid right next to him, Wing slowly got up and nodded.
"Nice shot", I said to Luna.
"It wasn't my fault he started to fly!", Luna quickly defended herself, I shook my head and looked down at Wing.
"How you feeling?", I asked.
"Embarrassed", Wing replied trying to hide his face.
"Luna has had a lot more training than you, don't worry, we will train you up and you will be stronger in no time!", Wing looked up at me and saw my enthusiasm, his embarrassment went away and was replaced with determination.
"You promise!?", he asked.
"I do", I said, I looked over to Tom, he was wanted to know what we were talking about.
"Will you promise to train him to be as strong as Luna?", I asked him, Tom looked down at Wing with a smile on his face.
"Don't worry, when we are done you will be the strongest bird out there!", Tom punched the air showing his spirit, Wing joined in with him.
"Tom, how about we head back and make some breakfast, maybe Tabatha is back", I said, Tom nodded and got off the ground, dusting himself off from when he skidded along the ground, as soon as he was done we started to head back to camp, followed by all our pokemon.
As we made our way back Luna, Coal and Wing were talking about how they can improve their battling skills, Dash and Pulse were on my shoulders still looking around the forest and talking to each other, but they were interrupted with the start of Tom and mine conversation.
"So Sora, you didn't sleep well huh?", Tom asked trying to get the ball rolling.
"Yeah, not really... I woke up Dash and Pulse because I was moving around so much", I looked at them, they seemed concerned about what happened last night.
"So were you having a bad dream?", Tom asked, he wanted to know what was happening.
"You could say that", I could see that I was getting on Tom's nerves, he wanted to help and I wasn't giving him any information.
"Do you want to talk about it?", he was still digging.
"Yeah I do... I guess, I was talking to Aeon last night", Tom looked over to me, he didn't liked the fact that I was talking so much to myself, I could see this and responded, "Tom we're friends now, he has been trying to help, please don't react like that each time I bring him up".
"Okay, I'm sorry, so what were you talking about, it must have been something big if it made you toss and turn in your sleep?".
"Well I asked him about how I can control the pokemon emotions".
"And, do you know how now?", Tom asked, wanting to know more.
"Well that's the thing I...", I stopped myself from talking and stopped walking, Tom stopped soon after concerned about what I was doing.
"Sora?", he said, I wasn't listening, I was back at that spot I went by on my way to find Tom, this time it didn't have the small layer of mist, but since it was gone I could see the healthy green grass, and the sight was beautiful.
"Look at this, isn't it great...", I told Tom, he looked around the area and saw what I was looking at but he didn't seem to pay it any mind.
"What's wrong?" ,he asked, by now the other pokemon made it up to us, and were trying to figure out what is going on.
"Nothing, it's just... this place is so beautiful", I looked over at Dash and Pulse "Don't you think?", they nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, it's great", Dash said.
"Can we go and play?", Pulse asked, I nodded and they jumped off and started to run around the area, Luna and Wing joined in, Coal stayed back and sat near a tree.
"That looks like fun...", I said, Tom was getting worried, I never acted like this before, he walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder.
"Sora, you okay...?", he shook me a little, and I shook my head wondering what was going on.
"What happened?", I asked.
"You don't remember?", Tom was more worried now.
"Um...", I looked around and saw the area we are in, "Yeah, I do... I guess Aeon was right...".
"What do you mean?", Tom removed his hand from my shoulder and walked in front of me.
"Let's take a seat", I said, I walked away and sat down near a tree, Tom soon joined me taking a seat next to me.
"So what's happening?'.
"Last night I talked to Aeon about these emotions, about how to control them... he told me that kids can't control their emotions very well", I looked over at Tom, he seemed confused, just like I was.
"What are you talking about kids, your fifth-teen?", Tom sounded a lot like me when I was talking to Aeon last night.
"That's what I said, but according to Aeon, if I change now then I would be no older than one or two years old", Tom didn't believe me and until just before neither did I.
"So your saying you're going to be a kid again... and you believe Aeon?", Tom said suspiciously, I nodded.
"Yeah, he has been very helpful about everything else, he has nothing to gain from lying to me", Tom dropped his head slowly think about it before sighing.
"I guess your right but still... it can't be true".
"But it is, we talked more and he said that all these extra emotions you're seeing like before is the child pokemon inside, Aeon said that I have been trying to reject them making my human ones to stay".
"So what, what's the worse that can happen?", Tom asked, I feel like I'm reliving the conversation I had with Aeon, but this time I am Aeon.
"He said that if I keep bottling them up then when they do show up, then they can take me over without me realising and it would be harder for me to come back, just like then it took awhile before you got through to me", Tom looked over to the pokemon, thinking about this.
"So what can you do?", Tom asked turning his head back to me.
"Aeon said I can let go of my human emotions and let the pokemon ones take over, or I can choose to do nothing and let this get worse", I took a breath, a few tears ran down my face, "I don't want to give up, if I do that's another fight I will lose to this virus... and if I do I will act more like them", I pointed over at the pokemon playing around the area indicating that that is what I will more likely be.
"And you're sure there isn't another way?", Tom asked, I nodded my head, "Well... it can't be all bad", I looked up at Tom, I was confused.
"What do you mean?", I asked.
"Well you've been going about this thinking that you will lose who you are, if you choose to let the pokemon emotions to take over completely then it will just change the way you react to stuff and feel about things", Tom paused to catch his breath, "It won't change your personality, you will still be you but you will just act differently", Tom gave me a smile.
"I... I still don't know...", what Tom said did make sense, I would still be me and I still would be in control, right now having two sets of emotions is causing me to choose from them, causing me to maintain the one I want, losing the human one will help me get use to the pokemon one and let my mind rest from the strain. I looked over to Tom, he was waiting for me to respond, "I guess your right... will you help me control myself if I go a bit overboard?"
"Of course I will, I will always be here", Tom put his hand onto my shoulder comforting me, trying to make me make the right decision, "Besides it will give a new look on life".
"What do you mean new look, I'm turning into a pokemon, I think that's about as new as I can get!", my rings glowed with a bit of annoyance, Tom just laughed, I joined in, it wasn't something I wanted to laugh at but it was something to raise my spirit, the glow from my rings slowly fade away, it felt like second nature to me now, I looked over to the pokemon they were staring at us wondering what was going on, I waved them over and called Coal over who was resting against a tree near by, we were now surrounded by our pokemon wondering what was going on.
"You guys, things will slightly be different from now on", I told them, they all looked at each other trying to figure out what I meant.
"What's wrong?", Luna asked.
"Well have you seen me act differently lately?", they nodded, "Well that's because that... my pokemon... emotions are trying to surface and show itself, I have been trying to reject them trying to keep the human emotions as long as I can", I took a breath, I knew this was going to take awhile, they are just kids, "I found out from Aeon last night that if I change now that I would be as old as Luna, which means that I will be a kid again", the pokemon were still quite confused, they found it hard to follow.
"So your just like me?", Luna asked.
"I'm the same age as you and will be as emotional as you, yes", Luna came closer to me and put a paw on my leg.
"It's not that bad being like me", I smiled at her comment.
"No I guess it wouldn't be, but I just wanted to let you guys know before I try and get rid of the human emotions altogether, I will act differently from now on and if I don't seem like myself let me know, okay?", the pokemon looked at me and gave me a smile.
"You won't be alone!", Dash exclaimed.
"Yeah all of us will be right here!", Pulse added.
"You have been a good friend to me, I would leave you in a time of need", Wing said, I haven't spent much time with him but he can sense I do care for him.
"If you start to growl I will bite your tail, okay!", Luna said giggling, I smiled.
"Sure".
"Sora...", I turned my head and saw Coal walking up to me, "You have gone through many things in your life, and you manage to over come it all, this is something that can make many people give up but here you are trying to accept it and move on, I know that your dad would be proud", Coal said, giving a thumbs up sign, he knew my dad quite well and knew a lot about my life, when he brought that up tears escaped and ran down my face, knowing that Coal thinks my dad would be proud of me is something that really touched me.
"Thank you...", I put my hand on his head and rubbed it a bit before removing it, I looked over at Tom, "Okay we're good".
"So they know everything?", he asked.
"Most of it, but they get it, so I guess it's time", I said.
"So how do you do this?", Tom asked, I thought about it a remembered what Aeon said.
"Just let it go and allow the pokemon to come through, he said I might not feel different but we will know by how I act", Tom nodded wanting me to go and try, I looked over to everyone else they were all waiting as well, "Okay here we go", I closed my eyes and thought about letting go of the thing I been holding on to for some time, but I couldn't, deep down I was still holding on to these emotions, I didn't want to lose them, I still thought that losing them would mean losing a piece of myself, soon I heard an echoed voice in my head.
"Having trouble?", It said, only one thing can talk to me in my head, it was Aeon, focusing like this must allow him to be able to talk to me.
'I'm trying to let go, but part of me doesn't want to give up',I thought so Aeon could hear me.
"I see, Sora just remember, you may be a child now but you will grow older, and you will gain back your mutuality in time", Aeon said, I thought about it and he was right, I may be a child, immature and care free, but I will gain back these emotions I'm about to let go, in time but till then I could enjoy myself. The part that was holding on to my human emotions finally gave up as I felt them slip away while being replaced with the pokemon one, it was a weird feeling having something slip away only to replaced by something new, I guess Aeon was wrong about me not feeling it, "Whoa...".
"What is it?", Tom asked, I opened my eyes and saw that everyone's eyes are on me.
"Nothing... it just felt weird, that's all", I said.
"So it's done?".
"I think so", I didn't feel different besides that first instance when it was taking over but I feel nothing now, "Well I guess we will find out, come on, I'm still hungry", I waved Dash and Pulse over, they jumped onto my shoulders and I got up off the ground and walked off, "Come on", I called to the others, they soon followed.
"Sora are you sure your okay?", Pulse asked.
"We will find out soon enough", I responded, they did seem confidant about it but had no choice but to trust me, Tom ran up and caught up with me, "Hey Tom".
"Yeah?".
"I found out something", I said.
"What is it?" Tom was getting confused again.
"That I'm happy with this, because I found out that I might be a kid now, but I will grow older and back into my old emotions, so I might as well enjoy these while I can", Tom smiled at me, he was happy that I can accept these changes so easily, we didn't say anything else as we made out way back to camp.
We finally made it back to camp and as I thought Tabatha was their waiting for us, again she was having some tea with another pokemon, it was a Scyther, ever since yesterday they made me a bit jumpy.
"Tabatha... please tell me that isn't another wild pokemon?!", Tom asked slowly approaching her and the Scyther, Tabatha took one sip of her tea and looked over to us, smiling.
"No this is my Scyther, this is Arthur", she said, Arthur got up and moved a few feet towards us.
"It's very nice to meet you", he said taking a slight bow, Tom and I were somewhat scared, but since it was Tabatha's pokemon we relaxed quite a bit.
"Hi I'm Dash!", the little plusle said, followed by his brother, they were introducing themselves, they were quite comfortable with new pokemon that would be their friends, they took to me quickly.
"I'm Sora and my friend is Tom", I said pointing over to Tom, Arthur nodded slightly recognising our names, the other pokemon were off somewhere still talking about training tips, so they didn't introduce themselves.
"We were going to cook breakfast, do you want to join us?", Tom asked Tabatha, she shook her head.
"No I'm good, I already had something, so have my pokemon".
"So is that where you went this morning?", I asked, again she nodded, Tom tugged on my jacket telling me to come over and start on the food, I picked up Dash and Pulse from my shoulders and place them on the ground, "Go and play and we will have breakfast ready in no time", I gave them a smile.
"Okay, have fun!", Pulse said before pushing Dash over and running for it, Dash quickly got up and chased him, I chuckled at the sight, before getting called over again by Tom, I got up and made my way over.
Tom and I were close to finishing the food, Tabatha was still having tea with Arthur and the other pokemon were playing and talking amongst themselves.
"So Sora... you feel any different?", Tom asked, I looked over to him and shook my head.
"Nope, don't feel different, have I acted differently?"
"No, not yet", Tom replied, I knew that I let go of my human emotions I could feel it slip away before, but I guess I haven't been in a situation yet to show any pokemon emotions, but I knew that it was going to happen soon.
"Done here how about you?", Tom asked, he had finish with the pokemon food, I lost my train of thought and shook my head.
"What?", I looked over to Tom.
"Are you done with the food?", he asked again, I looked down and nodded.
"Yeah, I'm done", I said, we put the food in bowls for everyone to eat out of and handed it out, Tom and I walked over and took a seat next to Tabatha still drink tea.
"So what did you do when you wandered off?", I asked, Tabatha had one last sip of her tea before putting it down.
"Like I said I feed my pokemon and had something myself, that's about all, what did you guys do?", she asked, I looked over to Tom, he gave me a smile trying to ensure me that's it's okay, I looked back over to Tabatha.
"Well Luna and Wing had a training session, Wing needs a bit more training", Tom said, he then looked at me wanting me to continue.
"Don't look at me I'm not doing it!", I exclaimed, Tabatha was getting confused.
"Hey it isn't my change, I don't have to tell her anything", Tom said.
"Aww, come on, please?!", I said in a tone resembling that of a child, Tom and Tabatha looked at me somewhat stunned with the tone I used, I realised what I did and dropped my head slightly, "Sorry".
"I guess we know if it worked or not", Tom said, Tabatha is even more confused now, she seemed to be getting impatient.
"Can someone please tell me what's going on!?", she yelled, Tom looked back over to her and sighed.
"Sora replaced his human emotions with the pokemon ones".
"What?", Tabatha said, she wasn't annoyed any more but even more confused, "What does that mean?".
"It means that he will act a bit more childish from now on", Tom looked back over to me, I crossed my arms.
"Hey this isn't my fault, you persuaded me to do it!", I quickly defended myself.
"That's because if you didn't you would be making things worse", Tom said in a calm voice, unlike me, my new emotions are making me feel like arguing.
"Well we could of waited, but no".
"Sora, you're getting a bit over board, calm down", Tom reached over and put his hand on my shoulder, I saw this and slowly calmed down.
"You're right, sorry", we looked back over to Tabatha, she was still a bit stunned by the way I was acting.
"So... you're saying that you replaced your emotions?", she slowly said, I nodded in reply, "That's really weird".
"Hey you wanted to travel with us, this is what is going to happen, get used to it", I said.
"And on top of that, we found out that Sora is one or two years old in pokemon terms", Tom added to the confusion.
"I knew that when I met him, so immature", Tabatha said, giving a slight chuckle.
"Hey!", I yelled, with these new emotions I can get angry quite easily, and with Tabatha around, it wouldn't be hard to achieve it.
"Okay, no more fighting, Sora doesn't need this right now!", Tom yelled over us, we both calmed down and looked away, we ate our food in silence after that.
We packed up the camp site, putting away sleeping bags and removing any litter we may of caused, Tom and I recalled Coal and Wing returning them to their pokéballs, we were all packed, Dash and Pulse were on my shoulders and Luna was next to Tom, Tabatha walked up to us and Arthur was next to her.
"What is he still doing out?", I asked, Tabatha looked at Arthur and smiled back at us.
"After what happened yesterday, I took it upon myself to place a body guard for me, I don't like feeling defenceless", Tabatha said, Tom and I looked at each other then at our pokemon, we never thought about having our pokemon out for protection, they didn't like it in their pokéballs so we kept them out, I guess having them around like this does provide extra protection.
"Okay, that's fine by me, let's go", Tom said, he walked off back towards the path, Tabatha and I joined him.
We walked out of the trees, Tom and Tabatha had no problem hopping back onto the path and walking onwards, but I was unsure about it, I was scared to wander out from the trees thinking that Team Horizon were still about, Dash and Pulse looked at me wondering why I stopped. Tom and Tabatha followed by Luna and Arthur noticed that I wasn't next to them and turned around to find me still in the trees.
"Sora what are you doing?", Tabatha asked.
"Team Horizon could still be around...", I slowly said, Tom and Tabatha looked at each other.
"Sora their not here, it's fine", Tom said, but I wasn't too sure, the new emotions are making me scared to easily, I now fear that Team Horizon were about to jump out at me.
"Sora what's wrong?", Dash asked.
"Team Horizon could still be here", I said, Dash and Pulse looked around and saw nothing, nor did they sense anything.
"Their is nobody here", Pulse said.
"You sure?" they both nodded, I gave a soft smile and slowly made my way out of the trees and made it back to the others.
"You okay?", Tom asked.
"I don't know... sorry about that", I rubbed the back of my head smiling, Tom didn't seemed convinced that we should of done this, Tabatha just turned around and kept walking, I joined her while Tom lagged behind thinking.
We have been walking for a few hours, I talked to Tabatha most of the time, Tom was still lagging behind thinking about things but Luna kept up with me and Tabatha.
"So what's it like being part pokemon?", Tabatha asked.
"Weird... having these ears helps me hear better, and this tail has done nothing but get in the way", I said grabbing my tail and bring it forward showing it to Tabatha.
"And this voice in your head...", Tabatha couldn't find the right words.
"His name is Aeon, he is my pokemon side, he's my friend, one I only meet in my dreams sometimes", I told her.
"And he is the one telling you all these thing, saying that your a kid?", I nodded in response, Tabatha looked ahead and cross her arms thinking, it wasn't long before she opened her eyes and reached into her bag looking for something, "Well since you have these new feelings why don't you try this!", she turned back to me holding out her hand, it had a bunch of pokemon food in it.
"Not this again, I'm not eating that!", I yelled.
"Why not, you will have to eventually", Tabatha said, still holding out the food close to me.
"And I'm going to reject that for as long as I can!", I snapped at her, but I had to admit to myself, that did look somewhat appetising.
"Oh just try one, you won't know you like it if you don't!", she was getting irritated with me, and I with her, but I snapped and my new emotions kicked in making growl at her.
"I don't want it!", I yelled still growling, my rings glowing furiously, Tabatha slowly moved her hands away looking quite frightened, Arthur came a bit closer to us, ready to protect he if needed. I was still growling at her, Tom heard what was going on and ran to catch up to us, before he could do anything I yelped in pain and stopped growling, I turned around to she that Luna bit my tail, I shook my head and regain my senses.
"See I told you I would bite you!", Luna said.
"Th... thank you", I slowly said to her, Tom finally made it to us.
"What's going on!", he exclaimed.
"Your friend here was ready to attack me!", Tabatha yelled out to Tom.
"Well what were you doing?", he asked.
"I was offering him some pokemon food, I mean he is going to eat it eventually so why not start early, they say the early scizor catches the pidgey", Tabatha explained, Tom just shook his head.
"You did this last night, and as I recall Sora did the same thing, but he at least could send those emotions away, now he is taken them on he can't stop them on his own without a good reason, you need to be careful!", Tom said, Tabatha put away the food looking quite sorry.
"I didn't mean it to go like this, I was just trying to help", she said, they both looked at me, I wasn't listening to them, I had too many thoughts go through my head to think straight.
'What was I doing... I couldn't stop myself... I took these emotions on to help protect the ones I care about... but it seems I can't even control myself without help', If Luna didn't distract me by biting me then I might of done something bad, I didn't know what to think about all this, Aeon knew most about being a Umbreon, he knows most about everything that is happening and all he says about this is I can't control them well that I need to be careful, I try my best to be careful when doing stuff but it just isn't enough.
"Sora...?", Tom said, I wasn't responding, Dash and Pulse were quite worried that I was just standing there looking down to the ground doing nothing,"Sora?", Tom came to me and grabbed my arms shaking me a bit, I slowly looked up at him, but didn't say anything.
"Are you okay?", Dash asked, I still didn't do anything, my mind was full of questions that couldn't be answered.
"Sora, are you okay, look it's fine, we can work on it", Tom told me, but again I wasn't listening to them, Tom looked over to Tabatha, "Got anyway to snap him out of it".
"I... I don't know what I can do to help", she said, Tom looked back over to me and shook me a little bit more.
"Sora, can you hear me?", he tried again but again failed.
I was too focused on my thoughts, that I could turn at any time, not knowing that I'm doing anything wrong, hurting the people and pokemon I cared about is something that I couldn't live with, I knew that Tom and Tabatha were trying to help me deal with everything that's going on with me, and the pokemon as well but they only have so much control over my emotions and how I act. My mind always came back to the news flash on the T.V. back then I knew that I wasn't dangerous, that my pokemon emotions were barely showing and I still had the human ones in control, but now a few little words and I'm ready to bite a person, this isn't human nature, this is a pokemon one, and everyday I could sense that I'm moving further away from being human, that I'm just a freak of nature until I change complete then I would be a pokemon living in a new world that I knew little about.
The more I thought about it the more the answer became clear.
"Sora please, are you still there?!", Tom was getting quite worried about me know I have been standing there for a few minutes now doing nothing, Tom was still holding onto my arms shaking me, Dash and Pulse got off me and onto Tom to see what was happening.
"Tom?", I said slowly, Tom let go slightly, relived that I was finally responding.
"Sora, your back!" he exclaimed, I looked around and saw a number of faces looking at me, all of them showing concern, I looked back at Tom and dropped my head again.
"I'm sorry about this...", I said, before anyone could say anything I shook Tom hands away and ran into the forest as fast as I could, leaving everyone even Dash and Pulse behind.
"Sora, where are you going, come back!", Tom yelled out trying to chase me down with Dash and Pulse on his shoulders, Tabatha, Arthur and Luna following close behind.
I ran at full speed faster than any human could run, I had no doubt in my mind that I would lose everyone soon, I dodged around trees and plants and avoiding to trip over the pokemon that lived here, I ran for twenty minutes before I stopped and looked behind me, I saw no one there, Tom wasn't the best runner and he couldn't run for as long as I did, I didn't know about Tabatha and the pokemon but they wouldn't find me this far out, I found a fallen tree near by and took a seat next to it.
I had no choice but leave them, if I stayed I would of put them in danger from everyone that's after me and from myself, I couldn't convince myself that I could control these emotions so I wouldn't hurt anyone so I took the next best option and ran away from them, it was one of the hardest things I had to do in my life, even harder than this change. I didn't like being alone, I always felt alone in my life when my parents died, having Tom and his family around me helped take my mind off it.
When I left Pallet Town and left Mark and Marry it felt like I was making a big mistake, I felt like I was going to be alone yet again, but Tom tagged along and comforted me, as well as Coal and Luna, they were my family and were always there for me, then we got Wing, I didn't talk to him much but it felt good to have another pokemon in our family, but then came Dash and Pulse, my two small brothers, they were kind of like me, there parents got captured soon after they hatched, and manage to survive this long by themselves, I took them in to show them what a family is like, to show them that you don't have to be alone and what I did is just ran away from them leaving them behind, they said they would never leave me but instead I left them.
These thoughts wandered my mind many times over, making me cry till it hurt, wondering if I made the right choice, but I couldn't come up with an answer, the only friend I had with me now was Coal, he was still in his pokéball, I moved my hand and removed the ball from my belt and moved in front of me holding it with both hands, I held it out and released Coal from the ball, he looked at me seeing that I was crying and looked around to find anyone else but saw nothing but trees.
"Sora...?", Coal said, wondering what was going on.
"Coal... I... I left everyone... I ran away...", I was crying heavily, I could taste my salty tears.
"What do you mean you left them?!", Coal said loudly.
"I mean that they aren't with us... I ran away!", I exclaimed.
"Why?",Coal asked.
"Because... my emotions were to much... I can't control myself... I almost hurt Tabatha, if I could do that then... I'm a danger to everyone...", I said sadly, tears still streaming from my eyes.
"Sora you can't run from your problems!", Coal yelled out, I suddenly stopped my crying and focused on Coal, "Running away won't change anything, only being around the problem can you truly fix it!".
"But... I can't... I'm afraid that I would hurt the others...", Coal wasn't letting up from his speech.
"They are following you because they care, they knew the danger they were putting themselves in!", Coal walked up closer, "You can't control what they want to do!".
"But I'm too afraid...", I said, Coal let up his angry tone and let out a sigh.
"And what about Dash and Pulse, have you given up on them as well?", Coal asked, I didn't know how to answer this, I didn't give up on them but I can't have them around.
"No... I... I just can't have them around, if I hurt them then...", I couldn't go on, but I wouldn't be able to when Coal started to talk again.
"Your hurting them more by running off and leaving everyone!".
"But..."
"Sora, you have to understand that your not alone in this, how would your dad feel about you running away!?", what Coal said then made me snap, I pushed him away and shot up from the ground.
"You have no Idea how my dad feels!", I yelled.
"I spent long enough with him, he told me everything about your life, he told me how you dealt with the bad things that happened in your life and how happy you can turn out from it, if he knew about this he would be disappointed!", Coal moved a bit closer, I was getting more ticked off.
"You don't know my dad!".
"Yeah well apparently neither do you!", Coal yelled out, this was something that really got to me, I was so angry that I could feel an energy build up in me, my eyes opened wide as I looked at Coal then I charged at him and slammed into him sending him skidding across the ground, Coal looked up at me, "Oh you want to play like that, fine!", Coal charged up an Ember attack and released it towards me, I felt the energy inside me and my pokemon instincts, that I reacted to the attack and dodged out of the way, I when I landed on the ground I could see from the corner of my eye I saw movement, I turned to look at it and saw Tom and the others standing there looking at what was going on.
"Sora!", Tom called out, I wasn't paying him much attention as I was focused on Coal, the energy I felt inside me made me feel like I could do anything, even attack, the last time I did this I passed out for two days and it was Aeon that was using the attacks, but this time I felt like it was my turn.
"What I am doing now is the right thing, hurting everyone else is too much for me to handle!", I yelled out to Coal, I charged up a Shadow ball in my hand and release it towards him, it pulsed with intense power, Coal saw this and jumped out of the way, the Shadow Ball impacted the ground leaving a small crater, everyone saw this and were terrified with I was doing, Coal only got up off the ground and fired a Flamethrower at me, scoring a hit, the intense flames striking me as I put my arms up over my face, the heat was intense but it soon let up as Coal stopped his attack, I fell to one knee from the pain.
"You think you're doing this so you don't hurt anyone, look at them and tell me how they feel!", Coal was still trying to get through to me, I turned my head and looked over to the by standers, they showed a look of fear and concern, my eyes moved and locked with Dash and Pulse, they were hiding behind Tom trying to avoid me, but my emotions still had the better of me, I got up and looked back to Coal.
"They shouldn't even be here, I wanted to go off by myself, but they tagged along and made this even harder for me!", I charged up another Shadow Ball and fired it at Coal, this time Coal was too slow to fully avoid the attack as it grazed his side, sending him into a nearby tree, I slowly moved closer to my foe charging up another attack, Coal struggled to get up as he failed and sat up against the tree.
"Sora, your dad wouldn't want you to do this... he would want you to trust yourself and in your friends", Coal said in a last effort to try and break through to me, but still I wasn't listening, the attack was ready and I fired it at Coal, I knew deep down that this attack can severely hurt or even kill him, but I couldn't stop myself. The attack was about to hit Coal before it impacted just short of him, has the smoked cleared, Pulse and Dash were standing between me and Coal, Pulse must of used Protect.
"Sora... what are you doing!?", Dash cried out, fear showing on his face.
"I'm trying to protect you from me, stay away!", I yelled, Dash and Pulse still in fear but weren't moving.
"We said we wouldn't leave you!", Pulse yelled out, I slowly began to lower my arm from it's fighting position, thinking about everything I done.
"You... you would still be by me... even after this...?", I slowly said, Dash and Pulse nodded not daring to move in case I fired another attack at Coal, thoughts crossed my mind about what I was doing,'What am I doing... why would I want this... Coal was right...', I was trying to run away from my problem instead of facing it, this is something I taught myself to deal with years ago, but I had forgotten it over everything that has happened, my dad wouldn't even look at me after this.
"Guys, knock him out", Coal said to Dash and Pulse, they turned around, stunned by Coal's request.
"What... attack Sora..!?," Dash exclaimed.
"Do it before he starts to attack again or worse runs off, if he is knocked out he can't go anywhere...", Dash and Pulse looked at each other trying to find another way, but couldn't, they soon faced me and charged using Quick Attack, before I could do anything they slammed into my chest knocking the wind out of me and slamming me into a tree, I fell to the ground slowly blacking out.
"Sora, we're sorry...", is all I heard before it all went dark.
A/N: Wow, Sora you big... well I guess you can't really blame him, if you couldn't control yourself and you wanted to protect your friends what would you do?
Replacing Sora's emotions wasn't really planned but it happened anyway, and wow Sora is a child again, this is something that will be interesting to write in the future.
Also keep sending in those reviews, hearing from you guys really makes a difference, also tell me who your favorite character is in a review, so next chapter is chapter 10 and what will you expect, who knows, but I will give you one hint, "Darcy the ...", if you can think of what this means you win a cookie!