Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon in anyway shape or form, all rights are reserved to Nintendo.

A/N: No one got who Darcy was, but to be fair, I didn't give you much of a hint, after reading this please don't hate me for the lack of info I gave you, but since no one got it right, I get the cookie.

No review corner today, things got messed up with the editing and everything so, sorry.

"Sora...?", a voice said to me, I could barely open my eyes, I felt like I was floating in mid air, my mind was under attack from pain that I could barely think, "Sora...?", again the voice spoke, I tried to think about the person that's talking to me, the voice sounded familiar, after some thinking I came up with an answer, it sounded like Aeon, that would explain why I felt like I was floating, "Sora...", Aeon spoke again sounding slightly annoyed now, I tried to open my eyes, but again failed to do so, "I know you can hear me, now open your eyes...", I didn't want to see what an angry voice in my head can do, so I tried again, this time I could just get them open to look around, below me I could see Aeon sitting on the non-existent ground, I was floating some what high above him.

"A... eon...?", I manage to say, he didn't seem happy.

"So you did hear me", Aeon expression didn't change, he seemed quite pissed, "What were you thinking?", I stared at Aeon think about what he meant, I tried to think of why he would be angry, but the more I thought about things the more my head hurt.

"What... do you...mean..?", I slowly asked hoping that he would enlighten me.

"I mean what were you doing!", Aeon now started to yell, he seemed pretty pissed about something I did.

"I... don't... know what's... going on..", I said.

"Well let me help!" Aeon closed his eyes and soon I felt my mind expand, I started to remember everything that happen, all the things that I did, I attacked Coal for telling the truth, I tried to run away from everyone and I remember the looks of fear on their faces, all these memories that came back made me fear about myself again, making me sad and cry, "So now do you remember?".

"Ye... yes..", I tried to say under my tears.

"So I will ask again, what were you doing!?", Aeon exclaimed, I thought about it but I didn't want to since I wished I didn't do it.

"I don't know... I guess I just... didn't want to hurt them", I tried to say but Aeon interrupted me.

"No, you were trying to run away, instead of trying to control the emotions you let them control you!", Aeon floated up to my face, "Coal saw this and tried to make you see it, and guess what he got for his efforts!", I remembered that I attacked Coal and badly hurt him, if it wasn't for Dash and Pulse then I might of killed him.

"I didn't mean to... I couldn't stop..." I cried yet again, knowing that I am a monster.

"You let the emotions control you, I let you know about these emotions because I thought you could control them, but I guess I was wrong", Aeon floated back down to the ground and took a seat under me, I was still crying over the thought of almost losing Coal, he was my first pokémon and he was also my dad's, if he died by my hand then I would of walked back to Team Horizon and gave up, "Sora, stop crying, it's hard enough talking to you while your floating up there", Aeon said, I slowly manage to stop myself but only letting small tears escape.

"Aeon... I can't hurt them anymore... if I do then... please help me" Aeon looked down the ground shaking his head.

"Sora I can't help you control them, I thought you could already or I would of tried harder to keep them at bay", Aeon said, I looked at him a little confused by what he just said.

"What do you mean... keep them at bay?"

"I felt the emotions starting to develop and quickly acted to shield you from them, there not a thing to be taken lightly, if you're not ready for them then they can overwhelm you, sort of like what happened before", Aeon looked away from me, feeling partly responsible for what happened, "I thought you could handle them, after seeing you deal with everything else I decided to let them go, that's when you started to act some what differently".

"So you thought I could handle them... but you said they were bottling up?", I was conflicted by what Aeon was saying, before he said that if I don't let them surface then it could get worse, and now he is saying that I could handle them.

"Soon after I let them go you started to block and reject it, this wasn't good for your mind to be doing, so as a last ditch effort I got you to let go of your human emotions so you can full focus on the pokémon ones, keeping them in check, but it seems that your not ready", Aeon looked back to me, my face turned from sadness to determination.

"But I can control them... I just need to learn, before I hurt anyone else", I said, most of the pain was gone from my body, Aeon sensed this and slowly floated me down to the non-existent ground, I soon touched down and manage to hold myself up.

"If you could then you would of before you started to do all those things".

"Just because I failed once doesn't mean I will again, I just need to focus more on being myself than worrying about what these emotions do!", I punched the air feeling like I could do it, if I believe I could then I know I can, Aeon's serious expression finally turned happy, before we said anymore, I saw a faint glow from under my top, I reached in and pulled out my necklace, the stone in the middle was glowing softly.

"Coal said that your dad would be disappointed in you, what do you think now?", Aeon said, I was still focused on the necklace, I forgot I had this on this whole time, both of my parents owned this so I kept it with me so I always had them looking over me, but lately I have been to focused to remember about it, I looked back up to Aeon.

"I think they would be happy that I won't give up after one mistake", I said, Aeon gave me a small smile happy about my answer.

"Just remember Sora, if you're in a spot you think you would rather not be in, your friends and family are their to help you, even your parents", Aeon got up on all fours and walked off.

"Hey, where are you going!?", I called out, Aeon just kept walking.

"Your going to wake up soon, and you don't need my help, just remember everything that has happened and learn from it", with that Aeon fade away to nothing leaving me standing alone in the void, but after everything that happened, I knew that I wouldn't truly be alone any more, it wasn't long before the familiar flash of light came and engulfed me.

I began to open my eyes, I was in slight pain but nothing like it was in my dream, I was laying down on the ground, I moved my hands and felt that I was in my sleeping bag, I pushed myself up from the ground slightly so I could look around, what I saw I didn't expect, I seemed to be in a cave, slightly damp and quite dark, but the camp was set up quite close to the entrance to the cave so sunlight poured through, as I looked around more, I saw that I was alone, the others stuff were scatted around but no one was here.

"Hello!?", I called out getting no answer, I unzipped myself from my sleeping bag and got up, I walked to the entrance to look around, it seemed to be around mid day, I listen out for any noise but I couldn't hear anything but the wind going through the trees, "How long was I out this time?", I mumbled to myself, I was about to wander off in search for the others but I decided against it, if they came back and I wasn't here then they would be worried about me and after last time I can't do that to them, I walked back into the cave and took a seat back onto my sleeping bag, waiting for the others to get back.

A few hours passed and they still didn't show up, I occupied my time with my thoughts, thinking about what I would say to them when they came back, after the way I acted I couldn't figure out anything that would make anything right, and what I would say to Coal, after almost killing him saying words wouldn't be enough. These thoughts depressed me a little, "What if they don't like me any more, and what if Coal, Dash and Pulse never want to be around me again?", I said to myself, my emotions were getting in the way again, I realised this and shook my head, thinking that everything will be alright, I told Aeon that I could control them, it would just take time.

Another hour passed and I got quite board, and it was way past lunch, so I have been preparing lunch over a fire I manage to start, I prepared some pokémon food and some for the people of the group, it's not the best since Tom is the one that cooked over the fire but it would do, the food was almost done when I could hear soft voices.

"You did great Coal, you're doing better", a voice said, "You to Wing, your getting much stronger", it said again, I figured out that it was Tom, I doubt that Tabatha would train our pokémon.

"I can smell something nice!", another voice said, it sounded a lot like Tabatha.

"I didn't have anything on?", Tom said, I was focusing on the food that was almost ready, I didn't want it to burn, I could hear the foot steps of the group getting closer before they stopped.

"Sora...?", Tom said, I turned around and gave them all them a big smile.

"Hey guys, what did I miss", I said trying not to let everyone get to sadden with talking to me, none of them moved, they stayed still once they saw me, my smile soon went away when nothing happened, 'I was expecting a, Sora you're finally up, or, Sora so glad your okay, but I guess things are still a little tense', I thought.

"So, I guess we're not in a talkative mood, huh?", I tried breaking the ice between us, they were still speechless, "Oh please say something, this is getting uneasy".

"Um... how do you feel...?", Tom asked, still a little stunned to see me up.

"Much better thank you", I had a cheery tone in my voice, but it soon went away when I started to say what I wanted to for the last couple hours, "I remembered everything that I did, with the help of Aeon and of cause Coal, I managed to over come these emotions, now I know that I can't make up for what I did, especially to you Coal, but I want you to know that if it wasn't for you guys then I wouldn't be standing here", I took a deep breath, that took a lot to say, I looked into their eyes, they seemed a little less stunned now and slightly more happy, but I can tell they are still wary of me, "So how long was I out this time?".

"About a week", Tabatha said, I moved back in shock when I heard this.

"A week!?", I exclaimed, "But that's along time... well, I guess I did do a number on myself with those attacks", when Aeon took over he used one Shadow Ball and a Tackle, when I was in control, I used three Shadow Balls and a Tackle not to mention I was batted by my own pokémon, guess I had it coming though.

"We found this cave nearby so we moved you into it, but you wouldn't wake up after a couple of days we got worried, we even tried some of Tabatha's medicine, but it seemed to have no effect", Tom explained, I looked down to the ground feeling sorry that I caused them so much worry.

"I didn't mean to cause so much worry, but I hope you understand why I did that... I don't think I could explain it", I looked back up to them, they nodded understanding why I did do it, but I doubt they would understand fully, and right now I don't think I could talk about it. I looked down to Coal, he seemed fine from our battle but I still feel really bad, I walked over and knelt down to his level, Dash and Pulse backed off slightly, "Coal, you're the one I should thank, you helped me to understand myself, you helped me take control again and what I did is almost kill you, there is nothing I can do to repay you for what you did, all I can ask is that you try to forgive me..." I dropped my head, I was leaning on my hands begging for Coal to forgive my actions, Coal put his claw on my shoulder, I looked up and he was smiling at me.

"Sora... I knew that you would pull through, although I had to take a beating to make you see, I'm just glad that your back to yourself", Coal said, I was so happy that he forgave me, but I wish I could do something for him, but my emotion for having a little fun kicked in.

"I'm back plus a little kid inside me, you know the one that I am now!", I chuckled, Coal looked a little shocked with that but soon smiled again giving a small chuckle of his own.

"You have been always a little kid Sora", he said, I gave a smile and looked over to Dash and Pulse, they seemed scared still hiding behind Tom's leg, I lost my happiness and grew sad.

"Guys... you okay?", I asked but they didn't seem to answer, I knew that I hurt them when I tried to leave them but I was hoping for them to be happy to see me up and about, but no such luck, receiving no love from these two just put me back into my depressing state as I got up and walked just outside the cave, taking a seat down near some standing rocks.

"Guys, what are you doing?", I could hear Coal talking to the plusle.

"We don't know what to do", I heard Dash speak.

"He tried to leave us...", Pulse added on for his brother, they felt betrayed that I tried to leave them but I wasn't thinking straight, I let me emotions cloud my judgement and I wasn't going to let that happen again.

"What happened to never leaving him?", Coal asked.

"We wouldn't leave him, he's family...", Pulse said.

"But he tried to run away and leave us alone again", Dash added, at the time I thought I was doing everyone a favour by leaving them and running way, they wouldn't get hurt anymore, but now hearing them, I know that what I did is what hurt them the most.

"Sora didn't know what he was doing, he's trying to make up for it, but if you guys don't go over there he will never be the same", Coal said, I heard feet moving away indicating that Coal moved closer to the camp site, leaving them to think about everything, it wasn't long before I heard shifting of feet coming to me.

"Sora...?", I turned around and Dash and Pulse were standing there.

"Hey guys", I turned back to looking at the forest around us, Dash and Pulse both took a seat next to me, "I'm sorry for what I did a week ago, even if I wasn't myself I should of known to never leave you".

"Sora... why were you trying to run away?", Dash asked, I looked down to the ground sadden about it all.

"I... was trying to run away because I knew I couldn't control myself, I thought I was going to hurt someone, even you guys, so I ran away hoping to protect you, but Coal and Aeon helped me figure out myself, and now I have learnt to control these emotions so they don't get out of control and take me over again, I'm sorry for any pain I may of caused but there is nothing I can do to make it up to you, I just hope you forgive me so we can be a family again...", I took another deep breath, all this talking is to much for me, I looked over to Dash and Pulse, they were uncertain of what to do, I again grew sad and looked back to the forest, if they didn't forgive me, I would understand.

"Sora... your our brother, we would never leave you", Dash said, I looked over to them.

"Just don't leave us again!", Pulse cried, I smiled happily, they weren't angry and their request is something I would never break ever again.

"Thanks you two, now were a family again!", I picked them up and hugged them they tried to struggle out but they could, so they enjoyed the hug and did the same back, holding them like this, I could feel the small clothing on them, it always felt weird so one question just popped into my mind, "Guys, I want to know, do you ever take those clothes off?", they both looked at each other and then back at me shaking their heads, "Okay, that's it, bath time!".

"No!", They both screamed out, they manage to jump out of my arms and ran into the cave with me in pursuit, they are small and fast, it was hard to catch them, as we ran around the camp site, the two plusle were giggling away, so were the pokémon that were watching, Tom and Tabatha were wondering what I was doing.

"Can you two help, I'm trying to catch them for a bath, their slippery little things!", I asked Tom and Tabatha, once they knew what I was doing, they started to giggle as well.

"I think you're doing a wonderful job Sora, you don't need our help", Tabatha said with Tom nodding still giggling away.

"It this pay back for me almost biting you?", I asked, Tabatha nodded leaving me to let out a sigh as I chased down the pokémon by myself.

It took awhile but I manage to catch the two loose plusle, I carried them out of the cave holding them tight, they were trying to struggle out of my grip but I wasn't going to let them go after that. I walked to a near by pond which was quite large in size, and placed the two down on the ground hoping that they wouldn't run off.

"Okay you two, time for a bath", I said, the two looked at each other then to the pond, they didn't seem to happy.

"We don't want one!", Pulse yelled out, Dash nodded in agreement.

"Come on guys, since we met I don't think I saw you ever giving yourselves a bath", I said.

"That's because there is no need, we're fine!".

"I beg to differ, even pokémon need to get clean to", Dash and Pulse crossed their arms refusing to go near that water, I let out a sigh trying to think of a way to get them in there with out throwing them in, because that can only turn out so well.

"Okay look, I have been asleep for a week, I need to clean myself to, how about I join you in there?", I said, leaning down to their level, the two plusle uncrossed their arms and looked at each other thinking about my offer.

"You first", Dash said, I smiled and walked over to the water taking off my clothing till I was in some boxer shorts, once I was ready I dived in, I haven't been submerged in water since I started to change and it felt quite weird, the fur I had on me got heavy, my ears and tail weighing me down, I had showers before but the fur was never soaked like this. I soon surfaced and looked over to Dash and Pulse.

"Come on guys, it's your turn!", I yelled, the two didn't seem to want to jump in, knowing that I will give them a bath, but they soon forgot this fear and slowly took off their clothing, Dash placing down his green cap and Pulse putting his blue vest besides it, and walked into the water, "See, it's not that bad, come on let's play!", I had a big smile on my face, I wanted to play with them more than give them a bath, my emotions wanted me to have fun, I do try to control myself if I go a bit over board, but lately I need a good laugh. Dash and Pulse started to swim over to me, smiles grew on their faces as I splash them with water, we did this for quite some time, Dash and Pulse showed off their swimming skills, they were quite good in the water, even though they tried their best to avoid it.

We played with each other for a little while longer before I decided to to become mature again and got ready to give Dash and Pulse a bath.

"Okay you two, that's enough playing, time for your bath", I said, they both gave me a sad look, they didn't want to stop playing.

"Can we play a little more, please?", Dash begged, I shook my head, we spent enough time playing, any more and I might forget that we came here for a bath.

"Sorry you two, but we played enough", I said with a somewhat sad tone, I didn't want to stop either, but I can't let my emotions get the best of me, even if it is for fun. We swam closer to the shore so this would be easier to do, but I stopped half way to it, I could feel something happening and it was something big, I looked over to the plusle that have made it back to shore, they seemed confused as to why I stopped.

"Sora what are you doing?", Pulse yelled out, I was starting to feel cold, my body freezing up, I know by this feeling that I was about to change again but this time it felt stronger.

"Guys, go get the others, now!", they looked to each other then back at me when I started to scream in pain, the coldness in my body mixed with me still swimming in water isn't a great combination, I saw that they haven't moved, that they were getting quite scared by what was happening, "Go now!", I yelled again, the pain shooting through my body, the pain is much worse that what I have previous experience before, I couldn't figure out why but my mind was under constant strain from the pain I couldn't think, I looked up to the two pokémon again, just managing to keep myself up in the water, Pulse was gone most likely going to get help and Dash was swimming back out to me to help out.

I let out another scream of pain, it felt like someone placed me into a truck full of ice and lava at the same time, the pain was intense and heating me up while the change itself made me cold, this feeling I was used to from the other times but again this time was different, it was more painful than before. Dash made it back to me, I was splashing around trying to keep my head above the water, but it was getting harder every second, Dash grabbed my arm and tried to pull me to the shore but I was too heavy for him even in the water, my arms were freezing up from pain, my legs grew stiff and I slowly sunk into the water, but as soon as I started to sink the pain faded away, but it soon came back focusing on two points on my body, my left hand and my head, it was more painful than before but since my body is mostly free from the strain I manage to get myself back to the surface.

"Sora!", Dash exclaimed, he didn't know what to do, the only thing he could do is watch me sink, as I still struggled to keep afloat, I felt movement on the back of my hand, I felt skin being pierced and pushed up, I looked at my hand and saw black fur growing on it, it wasn't long before my back hand was covered with the black stuff, and the pain from my hand faded away. The pain in my head stayed making me light headed, I was getting quite tired trying to stay afloat but I didn't need to try any more since the pain focused on my eyes causing me to move my hands over them as I sank into the water, it felt like my eyes were getting poked by a flaming stick, I saw many different colours as they changed, I was in so much pain that I started to lose consciousness, I dropped my arms down and slowly opened my eyes still being attacked by the pain, I could barely see anything, but something yellow started to flash and rapidly approach me from the bottom of the pond, it slammed into me causing me to fly out of the water making me airborne, but as soon as I reached the waters surface I passed out from pain.

I quickly opened my eyes, getting up gasping for air, but I noticed I wasn't around trees or water like I thought I would, I was in the void in my head, but if I was here then I was still alive.

"Sora...", I heard Aeon call out before fading into existence, "Are you okay?".

"I... don't know", I said, I raised my hand and saw the black fur on it, I hoped that I was imaging it that it was a vision my mind made up from the stress of drowning, but I remembered that another thing changed as well, "How... how are my eyes?".

"I don't know, I don't know what the change did unless you see it, so I just see your normal eyes", Aeon responded, I got quite depressed from this, I will have to wait until I wake up to find out what happened, "Sora I brought you here so I can tell you something", I looked over to Aeon, I hope that it wasn't more change information because I couldn't take any more, "I could feel that this change was much more painful than the last ones, I believe that it was from being knocked out for a week".

"What do you mean, how is that connected?".

"You used all your energy to use those attacks that you had none left for the virus to use to change you, when you woke up and you regained your energy, the virus made up for the week that you missed, meaning that it was quite painful", Aeon explain, he knew a lot about what happened, he seemed to know a lot for a voice in my head made by the virus.

"So your saying that I am responsible for almost drowning myself, great", I was quickly becoming a danger to myself, I could of badly hurt myself when I was using those attacks and now I find out that I almost drowned myself, I really needed to be careful.

"You're about to wake up again, just what ever happens, just remember you can get though the changes", Aeon said bursting into a bright light.

I shot up from my sleep, gasping for air, I did this in my dream as well but this wasn't the dream this was real, I soon caught my breath and felt a ponding headache, I moved my hand to my head hoping for it to stop but of cause touching your head with your hand doesn't do a thing.

"Sora!", a voice called out, I looked around and saw Dash and Pulse next to me but their relieved expressions disappeared as they took on a shocked look.

"Guys?", I said, they weren't responding to me, I could hear feet moving around and getting louder, I turned to my other side and saw the others surrounding me, by this point I realised that I was back in the cave, as I stared at them Luna yelped from surprise and shock, the others just let out a soft gasp, I sighed knowing that it was something the changed did, "What is it this time?".

"I... I don't know, but your eyes, they're... black", Tom responded, I didn't know what to do about the information I got, I quickly looked around for my bag and looked inside pulling out the hand held mirror Tom got me. As I looked into it I saw that my blue eyes that I had gotten so used to had turned into solid black eyes, the white of my eyes still intact from the change, looking at me now makes me quite scared, my human eye colour was gone being replaced by Umbreon's solid black iris, looking into it would make anyone jump.

"Great...", I mumbled to myself, but it was loud enough for others to hear me, "Looks like I'm not getting that back".

"Sora, are you okay?", Tom asked, I heard this quite a lot lately due to everything that was happening, I was out for a week, and now I almost drowned with another change, I guess this is something I will have to get used to.

"I'm... fine, how long was I out?", I asked.

"The whole night, you didn't look so good when we got to you", Tabatha told me, at least I wasn't out for a day or more.

"Speaking of which, last thing I remember was slowly sinking in the pond, who saved me?".

"That would be Dash, when we got to the pond we saw you fly out of the water and onto the shore, Dash emerged from the water where you came from", Tom explained, I looked back over to Dash, he seemed quite happy that I was alright so to speak.

"Thank you Dash, if it wasn't for you I would of drowned, and you Pulse for getting the others so quickly", they gave me a smile of gratitude, I returned in kind.

"Sora about you hand...", Tom spoke up again, I turned to face him and the others, but I slowly looked down to the furry skin, it was something that was hard to hide from others, and it was a reminder of what was happening to me, I couldn't really see my ears and tail, and I couldn't feel them, they felt like they were apart of me, but now that I have fur easily viable on my hand it would be hard to forget about everything.

"What about it?", I sounded depressed about it, which I was.

"I just wanted to know, why did the fur pop up there and not grow from your tail or something?", Tom added, I didn't think of this, why did it grow here and not spread from my tail or ears, why my hand, what was it doing, Tom's question made me even more depressed.

"Thanks Tom, I didn't think of that till now".

"Oh... sorry", Tom sounded apologetic, but it was too late, my mind was think about why it would grow there of all places, if it didn't spread out from the tail or ears I would of thought that it would of started growing on my chest, everyone saw that I was deep in thought about what Tom said, Tabatha elbowed him in the side.

"Nice going now he's depressed again", she said, Tom rubbed the back of his head.

"I didn't mean to, I was just curious", he defended himself, he looked back down to me, I was sill thinking about it, "Sora I'm sorry I brought it up, but we want to head out today, you up for it?", I looked away from my hand and into Tom's eyes, he leaned back slightly looking directly into my new eyes, I looked down to the ground in disgust over my new features.

"Yeah... let's pack up", I slowly said, they have been here for over a week waiting for me to feel better, now that I am they are taking the opportunity to get out of here, to be honest I have had enough of this forest and want to get to Pewter City as soon as possible. Everyone left me to pack up and I was left sitting on my sleeping bag, I looked over to Dash and Pulse that were still behind me, "You two okay about all this?", I asked, they nodded slowly, I wasn't convinced that they accept the new changes but I guess Tom hasn't either so it would take awhile, "Okay then, let's pack up".

We left the cave and manage to find our way to the path again, if it wasn't for me we would have been in Pewter City a week ago, but I couldn't change the past if I could I wouldn't be like this still. As we walked I asked how Coal did when I was unconscious, they told me that it took awhile but with Tabatha's help they manage to get Coal back onto his feet, I would never forgive myself if I attack another one of our pokémon, at least I'm comforted by the fact that they would be looked after if anything happened.

We walked for a few more hours most of it was in silence, we had nothing to talk about and when someone brought up the changes from yesterday I acted like I didn't hear them, it was something I didn't want to talk about, not yet anyway, but this silence was deafening so I spoke up.

"So, you two want to train more when we stop for lunch?", I asked Dash and Pulse, they seemed quite pumped to be offered to train again.

"Yeah, we want to get stronger!", Dash exclaimed.

"The stronger we are, the more helpful we can be!", Pulse added, I smiled at their comments.

"We want you to get stronger, but your already helpful, remember you help me a lot", Dash and Pulse smiled, happy that I just liked having them around, our conversation was cut short when we started to hear distant attacks.

"What is that?", Tabatha asked.

"It sounds like a battle", Tom replied, it wasn't long before we got our answer, down the path we could see a pokémon coming into view, followed by another pokémon and a trainer, the trainers pokémon was launching attacks to the small scared pokémon, I took a look at the trainer, I could see him clearly, but he was so far away, then the thought crossed my mind that the change I had yesterday must of change my eye sight, but I wasn't going to complain about it, just like the hearing it will come in handy. The trainer that was running down the path had long white hair wearing an evil grin, he was wearing a black jacket, it was unzipped showing his bare chest, dark grey pants with a few chains hanging off it, and hanging off that was some pokéballs, some runners to top it off. Just by looking at this guy I can tell he was trouble.

"Is that a Aron running away?", Tom asked, I got out my pokédex and pointed it to the far away pokémon.

"Aron, the Iron Armor Pokémon. Aron has an impressive defense power and eats iron ore in order to build up the metal in its body".

"So it is", I said, the Aron finally made it up to us, stopping to hide behind Tom, the trainer and his pokémon stopped close by.

"Step aside", he demanded.

"What are you doing?", Tom asked.

"This little pokémon failed me for the last time, so I released it and now teaching it a lesson to never disappoint me, now I will say again, step aside", everyone was shocked with what he just said, he was torturing this poor pokémon just because he failed him, I don't how people call themselves pokémon trainers.

"What's you name?", Tabatha asked, the guy smiled.

"My name is Darcy, if you haven't heard of me then I would stand aside before you find out what I can do", Darcy threaten us, my rings were glowing hot, this guy was getting me all worked up, I could feel my emotions of anger trying to setting in although I will allow myself to feel angry I won't let it consume me.

"You can't do this to pokémon, no matter how badly it failed you, I won't allow you to hurt it anymore!", Tom yelled walked up a bit getting ready to fight.

"You really think you can beat my Absol, you stupider than you look", Darcy chuckled.

"That's a Absol huh?", Tom mumbled to himself, but he quickly regained his composer and readied Luna for battle, I just noticed now that she wasn't wearing her splint anymore, it seemed that Tabatha's medicine really worked wonders.

"Okay then, show me what you can do", Darcy said, Tom let out a small smile and started.

"Luna, bite!", Tom ordered, Luna ran at the Absol, but he only chuckled as she got closer, when she was in striking range, Absol just side stepped her.

"Woah, that was fast!", Tabatha exclaimed, I saw it to, it was like the Luna was attacking a decoy and the real one was right there the whole time, Tom is biting off more than he could chew.

"Absol, Thunder", Darcy called out, Absol jumped into the air and charged up his attack and quickly releasing it towards Luna, we were all stunned by his speed that no one told Luna to move, but I doubt she could as she was stunned by it as well, the attack hit the ground hard hitting Luna and causing her to scream out in pain from the volts passing through her small body, when the smoke cleared Luna was laying on the ground, unconscious.

"Luna!", Tom cried out and ran to her, skidding across the ground and stopping right next to her, he picked her up and walked back over to us, Tom lost his will to fight over seeing Luna like she is, I got really mad, how someone could care less for a pokémon's safety is something I would never figure out but now I'm ready to fight.

"That's it, Coal come out!", I threw Coals ball out and let him go, he was standing just in front of me ready to fight, "Dash, Pulse, you to!", Dash and Pulse jumped off my shoulders and joined Coal, Darcy laughed over the site.

"You think having three pokémon will help you win, stop this nonsense and let me continue with what I was doing!", I turned around and the Aron was now hiding behind Tabatha.

"No, you cause enough problems, now it's time to stop!", I yelled turning back to my opponent, I was fired up and ready to fight.

"Coal, Flamethrower-Ember Combo!", I called out, this combo attack was the hardest for Coal to pull off since it required him to use two flame attacks from his mouth, but I know he can do it, Coal charged up his flame attacks in his mouth but my fear was coming reality when he had trouble controlling the flames.

"What do you think your doing?", Darcy asked, I was getting worried that Coal wouldn't be able to pull it off, Dash saw Coal struggling and walked over to him, his palm shining with energy, he placed it on Coal, Coal soon felt something powering him up and started to control his attack, ready to launch.

"That's Helping Hand!", Tabatha blurted out behind me, at least it was good to know what Dash just used, Coal was ready and he moved into his stance ready to fire the attack.

"Fire!", I commanded and Coal let it out, the twister of flame heading towards Absol while fire balls flinged off it and flew from the side, Absol had nowhere to go and got hit by the powerful attack, knocking him back and making him let out a grunt of pain. Soon Coal let up the attack and fell to one knee feeling exhausted, Absol got up from the attack, it seemed like it didn't affect him much, but I could sense that he was in slight pain from his breathing.

"Impressive pokémon you got there, I commend you on training him well, but this ends here, Absol Future Sight followed by Thunderbolt!", Darcy called out, he seemed pissed that we hit his pokémon, but this is what a battle is, Absol shook with energy before releasing it in a wave, he then jumped up and fired off a Thunderbolt to Coal.

"Pulse Protect!", Pulse ran in front of Coal and a shield appeared around them, the Thunderbolt hit it causing no harm to them.

"Such annoyance, Absol Hyper Beam!", Absol opened his both and charged up the attack.

"Dash, Pulse, Thunderwave!", I ordered, I wanted to stop him before he fired off that attack, my pokémon are to weak to dodge it, Dash and Pulse got next to each other and got down on all fours, charging up energy before releasing a wave of it to Absol, but it was to late, Absol released his Hyper Beam, it collided with the Thunderwave and destroyed it, going right through it, Coal saw the on coming attack and jumped in front of Dash and Pulse so he could take most of the attack, it struck him causing a huge explosion. The shock wave pushed everyone back slightly, when the smoke cleared Coal was badly injured and unconscious on the ground, Dash and Pulse struggling to keep on their feet.

"Now the end", Darcy said, I looked over to him and saw what he meant from Absol, a shock wave of power came from him and went straight for Dash and Pulse.

"No!", I yelled and ran over to them standing between them and the attack, everyone was scared and frighted that I was standing in the path of this powerful attack, but I would let them get hurt any more.

"Sora, no!", Tom cried but no matter what they said I would move, the attack came and struck me, I felt nothing as it hit, I was expecting a lot of pain, maybe even being knocked out, but I felt nothing, everyone was just as surprised as I were, so was Darcy.

"That's enough!" I yelled, "This is it, no more battling, it's time you walked away!", I got very angry with what Darcy was doing to everyone, my emotions got lose for a second before I regained my senses, but I was still going to do what I planned. I pulled my arm back and charged up a Shadow Ball.

"Sora don't!", Tom cried behind me, he feared that using attacks that I might lose control again, but this time I have full control, but I knew that I was only going to get one attack off before I had enough, the attack was ready and I launched it at Absol, Darcy and Absol were stunned at the sight that they didn't do anything, the attack hit him causing him to groan in pain as he got pushed back by the powerful attack, when the smoked cleared Absol was on the ground, weakened by the attack, struggling to get up.

"What just happened, that was Shadow Ball, that shouldn't have been such a big effect on Absol, what are you?!", he asked, I was breathing heavily from what I just did, I was just keeping myself from passing out, I didn't dare answer him, he pulled a ball of one of his chains and recalled Absol before reattaching the ball back on it, "You win this time, but I will find out what you are, and you will repay me for what you did!", Darcy said before turning around and walking off back down the path.

"Sora?", I turned around and saw Tom walk up to me holding Luna, she was still unconscious, "What were you thinking!?", he yelled.

"I was thinking about the pokémon!", I yelled back, I looked down to my pokémon, Coal wasn't moving and Dash and Pulse we struggling to stand, I dropped my head and started to cry over their pain, "I'm sorry, I didn't want you to get hurt... I just wanted to protect Aron and now you're in great pain!", I cried, I dropped to my hands and sobbed, Dash and Pulse manage to walk over to me and place a hand on my arm, I looked up to them and they smiled, but I only dropped my head a second time, Tom and Tabatha were sadden by this, Tom had to worry about Luna while I have to care for all three of my pokémon.

"I wish I could help you in some way, but I don't know how...", I sobbed, but when I finished I could feel something strange growing inside me, it was a power that seemed to calm me down, I got off my hands and sat on my legs, the strange feeling soon turned into power inside me that I haven't felt before, I worried that it was another attack I might release, but I realised that it felt soothing, like it was mending, I soon started to here small bells in my head, intercalating that something was happening, 'This must be another move, if it will help the pokémon then I must try, even if I pass out from it', I thought, I looked around and saw everyone was quite worried, I paid it no mind as I closed my eyes and concentrated on using the move, my rings burst into action with a powerful glow as I could feel myself glow with energy before releasing it, it felt like it was radiating from my body, as it was released I could hear soft jingle of bells as I used this move, I also heard gasps as things started to happen, before long everything went quite, I couldn't feel the power any more and my rings stopped glowing, I opened my eyes and looked around at what happened, I looked up and saw Tom staring down at Luna, she seemed to be awake now, I was stunned by what I saw next, I saw Coal slowly getting up, most of his injures gone but he still seemed to be in pain, and Dash and Pulse were standing right.

"Sora... what just happened?", Coal asked, getting up off the ground.

"I... I don't know", I said, I didn't know what I just did, but what ever it was, I didn't feel weaken by doing it, Tom looked down to me.

"Sora, what did you just do?", he asked, just like Coal, Tabatha answered for me.

"He just used Healing Bell, judging from the sound and the look, but... I never heard of it healing injures before".

"I did,?", I was still confused, I just wanted to help, and I felt something new so I gave it try, I didn't care what it did to me as long as it help them, 'I used a move and it did something it wasn't suppose to do... what does that mean?'.

"Sora... thank you", I looked up at Tom, he had a tear running down his cheek, happy that Luna and everyone else was better, Tabatha butted in again.

"It helped, somehow, but as you can see it didn't heal them fully, I can help with that, I will do it tonight, I will prepare then, until then, they should rest", she said, I looked over to Coal and pull out his pokéball, Coal gave me a nod and let me put him back in, Dash and Pulse got onto my shoulders and I got up from the ground.

"Sora you were awesome!", Dash said, I looked over to him in shock.

"Really?".

"Yeah you helped us all, thank you", Pulse added, I smiled at both of them, then turned my attention to the pokémon we did this all for, he joined Tabatha as she walked up to me and Tom.

"Thank you for helping me, I'm sorry for what happened, but... what did you just do?", he asked.

"I'm... part pokémon, so I tried my best to help, that just then was a new one for me", I responded, "Do you have a name?".

"It's Arron", he said.

"Well that's easy to remember", I smiled, he let out a small one but was scared, "Um... do you want to join us, we would love to have you with us?".

"You want me to join you?", Arron asked, still shaken up from before.

"We don't care what you did before that pissed you last trainer off, we just want to make friends, and make sure your safe", Arron thought about it for a moment before nodding accepting my offer I looked up to Tom and back down again, "How about Tom takes you, he can use another friend like you".

"Su.. sure", Arron said nervously, I got up and faced Tom.

"His name is Arron, and he would like to join us", I told him.

"Really?".

"Yep, and he wants to join you, do you want him?", I asked, Tom was sort of speechless over the thought, he never thought he would get a new pokémon without battling, but soon Tom nodded and took out an empty ball and tapped it on the Aron before it opened up and engulfed him in red light before closing again, it shook a few times before it clicked, Tom returned the ball to his belt and smiled about the thought of having a new pokémon, Tabatha interrupted his train of thought.

"I think we should set up camp and head to Pewter City tomorrow, we need to rest after that", Tom and I didn't argue as we walked back into the forest finding a clearing for us to set up camp.

It was quite dark now, we manage to find a good place to set up camp, Tom and I released our pokémon to get treated by Tabatha, we had eaten a while ago so Tom and I were sitting near by talking.

"I really should ask her to teach me how to look after pokemon like that", I said.

"Why?", Tom asked.

"Because if I want to become like my dad, then I will need to learn more about these kind of things", I replied, Tom looked quite down after that.

"Sora... I... don't think you will be able to do what your dad did", Tom slowly said, trying his best to not upset me.

"Why not?", I asked, I probably already knew the answer but I hoped some how this could all be reversed.

"After what I've seen in the last week with you and what is happening to you, I doubt that you will ever get the chance to be like your dad", Tom's tone sounded sad, he didn't want to say it, he knew that I would hurt my feelings but I had to hear it, I knew what he was saying was true but we both hoped that there will be a cure somehow, but I wouldn't be able to do these thing without some big changes going on inside.

"I know, but... I can't give up hope, because right now, I can't think of a life as a pokémon, I already had planned what I wanted to do, but now that is all gone", I sadly said, Tom felt bad for saying it, but before he could say anything I got up and walked away, "I'm going to bed, see you in the morning", I walked off to my sleeping bag, and got ready, I looked into my bag and pulled out my journal, "I haven't written in this for a while", I mumbled to myself, I written down what I wanted and went to bed, I was still sore from the moves I used so I went to sleep almost straight away.

Dear Journal,

It's been a week since I last wrote in here, and I rather not bring up why, but yesterday I almost drowned because I had another change, this time it was my eyes and some fur on the back of my left hand, my eye sight is way better than it used to be, but that isn't my main concern, it is the fur, I wondered why it grew on the back of my hand and not spread from my tail or my ears, or at the very least grow on my chest but it didn't, I'm scared as to why it did grow on my hand, but this question will only be answered in time.

We ran into a trainer today going by the name of Darcy, he was attacking a pokémon he released because it failed him one to many times, so we tried to defend him, but Darcy had a very strong Absol and mowed down Luna, Coal, Dash and Pulse. He launched a final attack at us and I went in front of it to protect the already injured pokémon, but when it hit me it did nothing, I'm surprised by this and I'm going to ask Professor Oak when I get into Pewter City.

I found out I have another move called Healing Bell, I used it to help the injured pokémon from the battle with Darcy, that move isn't suppose to heal injures but it did, I need to think about this one, but my concern isn't that I know another move or that it did something it wasn't suppose to, is about Darcy, who was he and what does he want with me now, I guess time will only tell.

-Sora

A/N: Yes I know Healing Bell doesn't heal pokemon, but think about it, Sora isn't a normal pokemon, his moves are stronger and somehow do things there not suppose to do, what this mean is... well I don't because I have no Idea where this is going.

What you think of Darcy, bad ass evil person, you can be sure he will show up again, but what will he want with Sora? Time will tell.

Next chapter Sora asks Tom a question which they won't soon forget especially Tom, if you can figure out what the question is, you win a cookie, and yes I had more than one so you can still get the cookie!