A/N: There are some questions I want you guys to answer at the end of this chapter, so if you could stay till then that would be great. Also thanks for the 7k views of this story, that means a lot.
Orange: *still talking through radio* AHHHHH! I fuppin hate this place! I thought I saw Slendertrucker like 3 times now... Skater can I push this button that says free hamburgers?
Skater: I wouldn't do that if I were you. Who knows, it could set off a bomb and blow you to smithereens...
Orange: but it says free hamburgers...
Skater: But-
Orange: FREE HAM-BUR-GERS!
Skater: Now I hope it is a bomb...
Orange: Yay! * pushes button*... is something supposed to happen...?
Skater:* three familiar figures walk out of the recently opened up portal* OH GOOD LORD IT CAN'T BE! It's Sora, Tom and Tabatha! I'm going to kill you Orange!
Sora: *starts kicking Skater in the shin multiple times* This is for the crap you put me through!
Tom: *Ties Skater to a chair and muffles him*.
Tabatha: * Using a sledgehammer breaks Orange's radio thus breaking his form of communication* Now we will take over reviewer corner.
Skater: MMMMppphhhhh uuuuummmmmmpppphhhh gurgle.
Foxyjosh: I have a theory to stop the changes! I'll PM my thoughts so I don't give anything away.
Sora: Tell me how to end this nightmare!
Tom: Someone knows? How?
Tabatha: Nice username. *everyone stares at her confused*What it's pretty cool...
Trherring: Luna is defiantly hiding something it makes me wonder what is. I like how you have managed several characters and made them all very interesting. Sora will have plenty of times for battling in the future I am sure.
Keep up the awesome work
Trherring
Sora: I don't like fighting, I only do it if to help train or protect someone.
Tom: I really want to know what Luna is hiding. I want to help her.
Tabatha: Sora use Shadow Ball!
Sora: Say that again and I'll bite you.
Tabatha:*sad face*
Ultimate-Glaceon: Listening to dubstep while reading this, interesting how the base drops combine with the plot of the story, as the dubstep gets lower the mood of the story changes to a sad tone. As the beat gets faster and more rythmatic, the tone changes to a much happier, and for that i am glad.
Sora: Don't bring up the sad moments... I don't need to cry now.
Tom: Dubstep?
Tabatha: * reads chapter and smiles then frowns* yeah what do you know.
Orange: *Walks out of portal with a machete*, You all better run * thus they run for their lives back into the portal*. So it looks like I have to take Skater to the hospital which means I get to write next chapter yay for me not Skater.
I opened my eyes to the darkness of the void, coming here seemed like a task which would never end. What I mean is I liked coming and talking to Aeon whenever I could, but after last night I fear what he would do. He was pretty much in control over this place and could do anything he wanted, like when he showed me my fear last time. And that put me in pain. Luckily, I couldn't feel it when I woke up, but I was still terrified.
"Aeon, what do you want?", I asked out to the void. I know I didn't want to come here, I had no need to talk to him about anything. Calling out his name, Aeon soon showed up, being created from thin air.
"Hey Sora, what's up?", he sounded quite cheery, and seemed happy about something.
"Aeon, I don't like that smile of yours. And what are you so happy about?".
"Just that we had a lovely lunch", Aeon licked his lips and wagged his tail. It seems like he enjoyed something I ate some time ago, but I didn't eat anything that would appeal to his taste. Besides, the only thing I ate was the sandwich that Tabatha brought in, and... Right, I forgot what was in it.
"You liked the pokemon food didn't you?", I asked.
"It was one of the most tasty things I have ever had!", Aeon exclaimed, he laid down and yawned, feeling nice and relaxed after the tasty meal.
"I knew you would like it", just the thought of eating it made me gag slightly, but remembering the tastiness of it made me stop.
"Sora, I know you liked it as well. You said so yourself when you were talking to Luna", he gave me a smile that made me feel embarrassed, I do forget that Aeon listens in on my conversations.
"Okay, I may have liked it, but I don't want to eat it", I crossed my arms feeling quite annoyed.
"Oh come on, it was so tasty! How can you not want to eat it?", Aeon said. I quickly snapped and defended myself.
"Because it would be another fight I will lose... I may have liked it, but I don't want to eat it... this new change may have made normal food taste differently and made pokemon food more to my liking, but I don't want to give in", I now sat down on the ground, thinking about everything that I have already lost, also feeling quite depressed about it. I have lost a number of things over the weeks.
"Sora, you can't ignore this, you will need to eat eventually and your human food isn't going to cut it, you either eat the pokemon food, or I will find a way to take over and hunt you something to eat", Aeon sounded serious, his eyes showed it. I don't know what he wanted from me, maybe he was just concerned with me keeping my strength up, or maybe it was because he liked the food so much that he wanted more, but if I didn't eat, he would find a way to take over and hunt me some food.
"What do you mean hunt...?", I asked.
"Whatever I can find, berries, nuts, pokemon. Anything that I can get my paws onto that's edible will do", what he said disturbed me. If I didn't eat, Aeon would take over and find something to eat, and he might find and kill another pokemon just so I could eat. I didn't want to be responsible for a death of a pokemon.
"You wouldn't...", I wanted to make sure he wasn't bluffing, I was somewhat shaking from the thought of what he would do, so that wasn't helping me stand strong against the matter.
"If you think I'm lying, then don't eat the food and see what will happen", Aeon and I had a small staring contest, I wanted to see if he was lying but he was serious. I gave up and let out a sigh.
"Fine... I will try the food. But remember, I won't enjoy it myself", Aeon regrew his smile, seemingly happy over my choice, while I on the other hand is annoyed with the idea.
"Good, but I'm pretty sure you will enjoy it just as much as me." I closed my eyes and sighed again. I hope I wouldn't enjoy it, but if I did, I might just start eating pokemon food, although I can't really eat the old food I used to eat. Thinking about this made me depressed yet again, but in this depressed state, I remembered something that I forgot to ask.
"Hey, Aeon?".
"Yes?'.
"I want to ask a question, but I don't know if you will know the answer to it".
"Sure... what is it?", Aeon sounded slightly confused cocking his head to the side. A question of mine that he might not know the answer to seemed somewhat different to him.
"I was wondering if... you know why I feel different around Luna?", this has been bothering me for a long time now and I wanted an answer for it, since Aeon knew a lot about everything that's going on. I hoped he knew.
"Luna! I... don't know...", Aeon seemed unsure if he should answer this; he had something to hide. When I brought her up, Aeon got up and started to walk away.
"Hey, where are you going! You haven't answered my question yet!", I yelled out.
"I... gotta go... good luck...", Aeon started to run away disappearing as he ran off.
"Aeon stop! Oh what's the point", Aeon wasn't going to come back, he just tried to avoid my question.
I sat here for quite some time, waiting to wake up, thinking about why Aeon ran off like that.
"Maybe he doesn't like Luna, but she is so cute. How can you not like her?", it didn't make any sense. From what I can tell, Aeon doesn't like Luna. That's why I feel different around her, but I can also tell that my own feelings change around her even if Aeon is helping or not, "Maybe I was right, maybe Umbreons just don't like Eevees", I hope this wasn't true though, without Aeon's help I can't tell what this feeling really meant, but if we're both feeling it, then it must be something that has to do with being a Umbreon, it must be. A light started to shine in the distance of the void, "Finally!", I exclaimed as the light surrounded me.
I opened my eyes, the room was dark but clear to see. I thought about something for a moment before letting out a sigh of relief, I'm not feeling fear and distress like yesterday. I guess Aeon has learned his lesson, but I do still wonder if he would try again. I finally looked around the dark room. I saw in the corner there was a flickering of a light, I could tell Coal was there again, sleeping, since his tail is producing the light. Looking to the other side of the bed, Dash and Pulse could be found hugging up to each other under the warm blanket. One guess where Luna was, she was still under my arm up against me, staying warm and looking quite relaxed. Looking at these pokemon sleep seemed so peaceful, it always does make me wonder how living life as a pokemon would be. I know in the wild that it's harsh and deadly, and if you don't play your cards right, you will be next on the menu for something stronger and hungrier. Being in the care of a trainer that loves and cares for you is a much better option: you get to travel around the world, see new things, make new friends as well as getting stronger as you train. It seemed like a peaceful life to have and a fun one, thinking about it makes me want to do it more often, but I do know that deep down inside of me, I don't want this. I just want to be my old self again, but the more I change, the more feelings I have to everything around me makes me want to stay like this and change.
Upon thinking about this, I went on to think about my feelings and emotions, even the ones that weren't my own weeks ago.
'I don't know what to think, I have stronger feelings to these pokemon now because of this change, they have really become like a family to me, but at the same time I feel like I'm losing my old family', I couldn't help but notice that my old feelings to Tom have changed slightly. I felt more inclined to hang out with the pokemon and do stuff with them rather than him, but I also know the brotherhood that we have grown together over the years was still there. And he was still my family. All these thoughts scared me, I didn't know what to truly feel about everyone anymore. I know that I feel different to others like Luna, but I still don't know what that meant. Thinking about this I moved my arms and placed my hands under my head trying to relax myself. It wasn't long before Luna felt like something was missing and slowly woke up, noticing that my arm, the warmth and protection it gave her was gone.
"Huh… Sora?", Luna got up and looked around for her protection, still half asleep, I looked over to her and saw that I woke her up.
"Oh sorry Luna", she looked at me and saw that I was awake once again. She started to look away from embarrassment.
"You're up… er… ", she didn't want to look at me, she did this often now and I couldn't figure out why.
"Luna, why are you acting like this?", I asked.
"Er… no reason", she gave me a soft smile, I couldn't tell if she was lying or not, so I just had to take her word for it, she walked up to me once again, jumping onto my chest and made herself comfortable.
"You know Luna, you never acted like this when we were at home... What changed?", I really wanted to know why she acted differently and maybe I can find out why I feel different around her, and Aeon as well, since everytime I'm around her I could feel my rings glow with a very faint light. She looked away from me, she didn't want to look me in the eyes and tell me anything, "Luna, I just want to know, as a friend".
"I'm… I'm not different, I'm the same… see", she looked back at me and smiled once again.
"Luna, you look the same, but you have been acting unlike yourself around me. I just want to know what's going on", I calmly said, hoping to get her to open up, but to no avail. She looked away once again, not answering me. I let out a sigh of annoyance, this is what others must feel like when I'm around.
"Sora?", Luna spoke up, I looked back at her, hoping that she had come around.
"I… I…", she tried to tell me, but she stopped and looked away once again, I smiled and got up, catching her as I did, and hugged her.
"It's okay, Luna. You will tell me in time, at least you tried", she smiled at me while also blushing slightly, I didn't even know she could blush, I chuckled at the sight and put her back on the bed, the laughing woke up Dash and Pulse, "Oops… sorry guys, didn't mean to wake you", I rubbed the back of my head, they were rubbing their eyes from sleepiness.
"Sora… why do you keep waking us?", Dash sounded groggy from just waking up.
"I didn't mean to, you can go back to sleep if you want, I will keep it down", I told them.
"There's no point, we're staying up now", Pulse decided, Dash soon nodded in agreement. I looked over to the clock on the wall and it said it was only six o'clock, too early to do anything but sleep.
"Why stay up? You don't need to be up for another two hours, there's nothing to do", I told them, but it seemed like they didn't really care.
"There's always something to do", Dash told me.
"Nothing we can do in here… actually, there might be something we could do outside", all three of them looked at me, wanting to know what I was thinking about, "You guys want to get stronger, how about we go and train a bit while we have time?".
"Yeah!", Dash and Pulse exclaimed, they were excited about this idea.
"Oh… what's going on now?", I turned around and saw Coal getting up from his sleep, Dash and Pulse must have woken him up.
"Well, I see they woke you up… Since you're up, you want to come train with us?", I offered him, Coal looked over to Dash and Pulse and saw their excited expressions, making him smile.
"Sure".
"Yay!", Dash and Pulse again exclaimed and jumped up and down on the bed. They were very excited about this, they didn't do much training and were eager to try some more. I looked over to Luna, she wasn't my pokemon, she was Tom's, so I should ask her if she wants to come.
"Luna, do you want to…".
"Yes!", she exclaimed, I didn't even get the chance to finish my question, but she knew what I was going to say. My smile kept up as I got off the bed, having Dash and Pulse jump onto me.
"Alright then, let's go!", I was also pumped for this showing it in my voice as I made my way out with the pokemon following me, but it wasn't easy as I had to adjust to the light of the hallway before we continued.
We found a small rocky park nearby which was perfect for the training battle, I moved Coal and Luna on one side and Dash and Pulse on the other.
"Okay, remember you guys. This is just training, no need to go all out. I will help Dash and Pulse, while Coal and Luna work together to fight us. You guys understand?", I told them and they all nodded as I got behind Dash and Pulse, who were ready to fight.
"Okay, we're going first. You ready?", I asked the two plusle. They turned back and nodded, focusing on the battle ahead, "Okay. Dash, Helping hand! Pulse, Thunder Wave!", Dash got closer to Pulse with his hand glowing with energy, placing it on Pulse as he got ready to release his attack.
"Okay let's go", Coal told Luna as he got ready to fight, Luna got into a battling position, Pulse released his powered up Thunder Wave at them, before it hit them they both jumped into the air, avoiding the attack, Luna charged up Hidden Power and fired it at Dash and Pulse.
"Pulse Protect!", he ran in front of Dash as he made a shield of energy appear around them, 'Luna's attack impacted the shield and did nothing, but they knew that Pulse knows Protect, her move wouldn't have done anything, they are up to something'. As this thought passed my mind I saw a stream of fire being fired at Dash and Pulse in the distance, the worst part was that Pulse's shield was fading away.
"Ahh!", they both screamed as they saw the oncoming attack with no way out.
'I need to think of something quickly, Dash and Pulse barely know any moves… hmm, maybe…', I came up with an idea, Dash and Pulse haven't been trained like this so I'm hoping they can pull it off.
"Okay now, Dash! Helping Hand and grab on. Pulse, Quick Attack!", they looked back at me wondering what I was on about, "Trust me", they looked at each other and nodded, the attack was almost upon them, Dash's hand glowed with energy as he grabbed onto Pulse, he got down and readied the Quick Attack, Pulse launched off at great speeds with Dash hanging on tight. Dash may have slowed him down, but his extra strength gave him the speed and power he needed.
"Jump now!", Pulse jumped up using the speed from the Quick Attack to get high. They were heading right for the Flamethrower, impacting it hard. With Dash's extra power they were able to equal the power of the attack, "Now, Dash! Jump up off Pulse and use Thunder Wave, while Pulse use Protect!", Dash charged up his attack and jumped off Pulse and over the Flamethrower, while at the same time Pulse lost the extra power he had and was starting to lose against the attack Coal was dealing. He quickly used Protect before he'd lose and shielded himself from the fire, while Dash released his attack towards Coal as he kept up his Flamethrower. Because of that, he was unable to move, so it seemed like it would hit. However, green balls of energy came from the group and knocked out the Thunder Wave. Before it hit, Dash fell back to the ground while Pulse was pushed back into position from Coal's attack. And as he landed, the attack let up, as Coal fell back to the ground. All four pokemon were back on the ground, uninjured but only slightly weakened from using attacks.
"Okay that's enough!", I called out, Dash and Pulse fell and sat on the ground to rest as Coal and Luna walked over to us. I ran over to the two plusle with a huge smile on my face, "You guys were awesome!"
"But we didn't hurt them, they blocked every one of our attacks", Pulse didn't sound very happy with the outcome of the battle, but this isn't why I was happy.
"You two pulled off those moves perfectly without any training, I'm so proud of you two!", after they heard me, they grew happy once again. They should be proud that they manage to do that without training and I know that we can make it better. I looked over to Coal and Luna, they were happy with Dash and Pulse's performance.
"And you two worked well together, great teamwork!", I told them, they looked at each other happy with themselves as well, "I'm impressed with all of you". While we were training, a number of people stopped and watched us. They were getting ready for the day but it seemed like we had distracted them.
"Ah… so we found you…", a voice came from behind me, the pokemon looked over and I could see that Dash, Pulse and Luna were backing off while Coal moved behind me ready to attack. I turned around and saw what they were reacting to, I also grew angry with my rings glowing bright just at the sight of them. It was two members of Team Rocket.
"What do you want!", I yelled, I had no patience with them, not after what they put me and the others through.
"We're here for you, now you can come along quietly or we can take you by force, your choice, but you won't like the hard way", the grunt told me, I have no intention in giving up to them.
"I will take the hard way, not after you guys broke Luna's leg and trapping us in the gym, I have no patience with you and your team. If you don't want to get hurt, then get out of here!", I got the information out to them, I wanted to warn them so if I do hurt them with my attacks I wouldn't feel bad about it.
"You wouldn't dare attack us, not if you value the life of others", when the grunt finished I could hear screams from people, as I turned to my side I saw that two more Team Rocket grunts gathered up some of the people that were watching us train before while others were freaked out at the sight.
"They have nothing to do with this, let them go!", I yelled, the grunt only laughed.
"You either come with us or they get hurt, your choice".
'I can't let them hurt them... but I can't let them get me either', this was all too much, I can't let Team Rocket get me, who knows what they will do to learn what Team Horizon did to me, but I can't be the reason why other innocent people got hurt, "Fine... I'll come with you...", I dropped my head at the thought of giving up so easily, but they held all the cards.
"Sora you can't!", Coal cried out, I turned my head slightly to see the pokemon.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let innocent people get hurt", I didn't want to say anymore, I just started to walk slowly to the two grunts.
"Sora!", Dash and Pulse tried running after me but Coal stopped them.
'I can't let them do this... I need a way to stop them... I need to...', my train of thought was cut when a new feeling traveled through my body, it was something I haven't felt before.
"Sora", a voice in my head said.
'Aeon, what's happening?', I asked.
"Use this knowledge and help the people", Aeon explained poorly.
'Aeon I don't understand, what knowledge?'.
"I know many moves, everything you have been using now are my moves, you haven't learnt anything yet. This is Quick Attack, use it and other skills to help, I will not let Team Rocket take us", Aeon explained in more detail. What he said surprised me and relieved me: the fact that I have been using moves that Aeon knew was something that concerned me slightly, meaning that I don't know anything yet, this is why these moves were so easy to use right away, but now that I can run fast, I should be able to surprise them and take them down. I looked up at the two grunts I was walking to with a smile on my face. This made them lose theirs.
"Why are you smiling?", one of them asked, I didn't answer them, but showed them as I tapped into Aeons knowledge of Quick Attack and ran to my side at lighting speeds, the two grunts I was running to didn't see it coming as I rammed right into one sending him right into a tree knocking him out from the impact, I turned and faced the other one and ran at him using Tackle, ramming him and knocking him to the ground, he soon got up and ran to the others I was walking to before.
"Fine, if you want to play like that, then be my guest, go Zubat!", one of them released their pokemon, the other two joined in and released the same pokemon.
"You try and take me... you tried to hurt innocent people... and you still want to fight me!", I reached my boiling point, I couldn't take it anymore, I didn't care if I hurt them now as long as they pay, I raised both my arms into the air and charged up a Shadow Ball, I could hear gasps of fear from behind me as the group of people that were trapped by Team Rocket cower. I moved my raised arms back slightly and then forward with force, that attack I just released was one of the most powerful attacks I have done, as soon as I released it I fell to one knee trying to stay awake. The attack headed to them, they were all frozen with fear unable to move, the attack impacted the ground near them causing a small shock wave, it knocked me back slightly and I could see that my pokemon and the other people were pushed back as well, when the smoke and dust cleared there was a crater from the attack and all three of them including their pokemon were on the ground, knocked out from the explosion.
"Sora!", Dash called out as the four pokemon ran to me.
"Are you okay?", Coal asked I looked up to them and sat down resting up from what I just did.
"I'm fine... just need to rest".
"Are you sure?", Coal didn't sound convinced, I was tired from what I just did but I'm still in control.
"Really I'm fine", I gave them a warm smile, it sort of lighten the mood, but Luna brought it down again as she started to cry and jumped into me, I caught her and tried to calm her down by patting her, Dash and Pulse also jumped onto my shoulders, happy that I didn't go anywhere.
"It's okay Luna, I'm fine, I'm not going anywhere", I continued to pat her, trying to calm her down, I got up off the floor, ready to head back, as I looked around I saw many eyes on me, before they were watching us train now they see me holding a crying pokemon after I did something humans can't do.
"You... you're the kid off the news...", one of the adults said, I turned around and saw the group that had been captured by Team Rocket.
"Yeah I am, I'm sorry if this caused you any trouble, but I didn't expect them to go after people just to get me to come...", I told the group, they all looked at each other and some started to smile while others followed their lead.
"You saved us, you shouldn't be sorry", they said.
"But they were here for me, they were going to hurt you because of me, and because of that I am sorry", I bowed slightly, trying to get forgiveness from them, one of them walked up to me and stopped just short of me.
"You're not to blame. They are. You're just trying to live your life. Yesterday, Brock told the world about you on the news and things that has happened to you, I take you haven't seen it", I wasn't expecting to hear this, I had no idea what this person was talking about, I simply shook my head, "Oh, well, he told the world what happened to you, what you have done and been through to make sure you and your friends stay safe... He went on with this with an hour special".
"He... he did that for me?", the person nodded, "So... what do you guys think about me now...?", I heard whispers and small conversations between the group, as they did more and more people crowded around me to see me and inspect me, most of which saw the show I just put on, the group stopped whispering to each other and turned back to me.
"We think that you're a kind boy, you weren't hurting anyone and were just having fun with your pokemon, until they showed up. You also risked yourself to help us. We know from the news report last night that you have been through so much already, that taking you away from that fun should be a crime. We just wish that you can catch a break", what I heard moved me. These people that I haven't even met before say that I'm no threat, that I should be having fun than having to deal with this. I broke down in tears of happiness, Luna stopped her crying a little while ago and I started mine.
"Th... thank you...", I said under my soft crying, my rings were glowing on and off faintly from the feelings I was having over this, "I... I should head back...", I turned around and started to walk back to the pokemon center, the crowd of people moved out of the way to let me pass.
"Just remember, not all people are bad!", someone from the group shouted out. I would remember that for next time as I continued to walk. As I was leaving I saw police officers hand cuffing Team Rocket. People that were watching us fight talked to the police about what happened.
"Hey kid! Stop right there", I froze on the spot, I slowly turned around to the angry toned voice. Standing there was a woman with green hair and with the female version of police uniform. It had the essentials for enforcing the law, three pokeballs most likely containing the uniform pokemon police officers use, a taser incase a criminal gets physical, a small emergency canister of tear gas incase a crowd gets too rowdy, handcuffs, and the way to catch pokemon before the pokeball was invented - the net.
The officer continued,"I want to hear everyone's side of the story. And it looks like you're next, fuzzy". I couldn't believe what I just heard. One of the notorious officer Jenny's just called me fuzzy. My rings started to glow due to how annoyed I am now.
"Hey! Why did you call me fuzzy!", she replied with a grin.
"Cause you are", her tone didn't change, still sounding like one to piss me off.
At this point I was just fuming, rings glowing furiously. Luna distracted me from my fury by saying, "Sora, you don't want to do anything to her, she may be a jerk, but it's just your impulse wanting to reply. Impulse can be good, but not always".
I was surprised by this statement. Luna, who was barely older than Pulse and Dash, was giving quite insightful advice. But then again, Dash and Pulse gave me helpful advice in the past.
"Thanks Luna", my anger soon went away with my ring's glow slowly fading. Officer Jenny just stood there, dumbfounded by the fact that I just talked like an umbreon.
Her face went dumbfounded to one of complete joy. Now I was the one dumbfounded. "Umm... Sora, why is she so happy...?", Luna asked.
"I have no idea".
"I was just checking if you were the real thing. I assumed you would talk to your Eevee there if I pissed you off... or use a move to get me to go away...", the officers voice was kind and gentle, not like before, it made me relax slightly just hearing her talk, but what she said made me even more confused.
"Um... why would you do that?", I asked. She replied with a huge grin on her face before speaking.
"So I could get you to talk to my houndour named Cooper. You see, he's just been down lately, and I want to ask why, but can't for obvious reasons".
"Oh, I see. Almost everyone asks for something like that", I was slightly worried it would be something crazy like join the police force and help them chase after the Rockets, although chasing down Rockets sounded like a good idea.
So she released the houndour in question. He looked like an average black dog with a skull on his face and rib cages on his back. I flinched a bit due to his mean demeanor, but as soon as he got his eye on me, he just showed pure joy and happiness just at the sight of me.
"Um...hi", he jumped on top of me and started licking my face furiously. Luna, Dash and Pulse got knocked off and they landed on the ground as I got pushed over. "Yay, the person who would help me! What's your name? You smell like pokemon food. Why do you have fur? Have you ever eaten a purugly? Have you ever rolled on a dead pachirisu before?".
"Alright! One question at a time. I'm Sora, I don't want to talk about it, I'm part umbreon, No..., ewww", I answered the questions this crazy pokemon was asking.
"Yay, he understands me! Now I can tell you my problem. I had a girlfriend in our old home in Johto before being taken here. So I wanted to tell Jenny about her and then go back and get her", the dog pokemon's tone was one of sadness, he seemed to miss his girlfriend a lot, so much that he didn't feel like doing his duty as a police pokemon. I gave him a soft smile and rubbed his head the best I could trying to cheer him up, but also so he could get off me.
"I will tell her for you. But firstly, how about you get off me?".
"Oh thank you!", Cooper started to lick my face once again before walking off my chest and sitting down next Jenny. I got up and wiped my face from the licking before I continued to pick Luna back up and got up from the floor, Dash and Pulse jumped back onto me as I went.
"So what's wrong?", Jenny still sounded worried for her pokemon.
"Cooper seems to have a girlfriend back in Johto, and when he came here, he left her behind. He was wondering if he can go back for her", I told the officer. Jenny's expression turned from worry to relief as she wiped her forehead.
"Oh, I thought something was wrong", Jenny looked down at the pokemon before continuing to kneel down to his level, "Do you really have someone back there?", she asked Cooper, the pokemon nodded to confirm what I just said, "Well then, I guess we're going back to get her", Cooper grew a big smile as he started to lick Jenny, "Cooper, stop!", she ordered, and without question the houndour stopped and sat back down, Jenny was shocked that he listened to her, she got back up and looked to me, "Thank you for your help. Now Cooper will be happy and we can get back to work as soon as we get back this girlfriend of his. You should head back to the Pokemon Center, you will be safe there", Jenny told me as she walked away back to the other officers with Cooper following close behind. I stood there with a smile on my face before heading back, it felt great to help out other people with their pokemon.
"Um.. Sora?", Coal said.
"Yeah?".
"You do realize that Cooper was a dark-type right?", Coal explained, the smile from my face went away as I dropped my head and sighed.
"Lets... just get back...", the fact that I had a dark-type on me freaked me out a bit, but at least he was nice.
When we entered the pokemon center, there was a number of trainers up and about, they waved good morning to me as I walked by. After what happened yesterday, I was expecting them to look at me with disgust and fear, but they seemed calm and happy. We made it back to the room and entered. I placed Luna on the bed while Dash and Pulse jumped off my shoulders and landed next to her. Coal just took his position back in his corner, I walked back over to the door and closed it, leaning back on it and letting a sigh of relief.
"Well, this morning could have been better", I mumbled to myself, but not quiet enough since the pokemon heard me.
"Sora, were you going to leave us?", Dash asked, sounding rather sad.
"No. I just didn't want those people to get hurt, I didn't want to leave you guys, I never would", I walked over to them and placed my hand on their heads, "You're my family, and the last thing I want is for you guys to get sad, so cheer up", I continued with a smile on my face. After processing what I just said, Dash and Pulse soon got their smiles back and nodded.
"Okay!", Pulse happily exclaimed.
"How about some breakfast before we pack up, I know you guys must be starving after that training. I know I am", I got up and walked over to my bag, filling up two bowls of pokemon food and grabbing a cereal bar for me to eat. I placed a bowl on the bed for Dash, Pulse and Luna, while the other one went to Coal. I moved to the other end of the bed and got comfortable. I looked at the pokemon enjoying their food before taking a bite of mine, as soon as I started to chew I remembered that this stuff doesn't taste good anymore.
"Err...", I spat the food out, not bothering to even finish it, if it had some good flavours to it I might have tried to finish it, but the tasty food I liked to eat didn't seem appealing anymore. I placed the bar on the side table and grew depressed.
"Sora, what's wrong?", Luna said making her way over to me, she got the attention of the other pokemon.
"I'm... not hungry", I lied, the last thing I want them to know is that I can't eat this food anymore, even though Luna already knew.
"Yes you are...", Luna wasn't buying it, she walked back over to the bowl of food and grabbed the edge with her mouth, dragging it to me.
"What are you doing?", Pulse asked, looking annoyed that his food was being dragged off, I looked over to everyone else and they were quite confused with what she was doing, but I wasn't, she was trying to get me to eat. She stopped near me, placing the bowl next to my leg. She let go and sat down.
"Sora likes our food, he won't eat that because he doesn't like it anymore", Luna explained, I got strange looks from the rest of them, wanting an explanation.
"Okay, yes, I don't or rather can't eat my food anymore, I like pokemon food now, but I'm not eating that".
"Really?!", Dash exclaimed with confusion running up next to Luna, Pulse joined him while Coal walking up to my side of the bed.
"Yes, ever since yesterday, I find your food more appealing than that", I pointed to the partially eaten bar on the table.
"Then why not eat the food?", Coal asked.
"Because I refuse to start eating that and let this virus win again", I calmly explained, but I then remembered a promise Aeon made back in my dream.
"Come on Sora, it will be fine", Dash tried to get me to come around.
"It tastes great", Pulse added, Luna got up and moved the bowl closer to my hand before taking her seat again. Between their encouragement and Aeon's promise made me finally give up.
"Okay... I will eat, not because I want to, because I don't like the alternative Aeon offered me", again they seemed confused but they didn't need to know, I wish I could forget it myself. I slowly moved my hand over the bowl and grabbed one of the pellets, I opened my mouth and chucked it in chewing on the tasty treat before swallowing and enjoying the last of it's flavour, "Okay, I will admit it's tasty, but it doesn't mean it's right", I was still human after all, or as close as I could be right now and eating this just isn't natural, next time I'm not going to hold back the change, things like this happen too early. The pokemon seemed happy that I ate one and enjoyed it.
"Sora, it doesn't matter if it's right or not, you need to eat", Coal said, walking away back to his corner after eating the last of his food. I looked back down to the bowl next to me, the other three were eating again, I could see Luna gesturing me to have more. I sighed and gave up yet again as I continued to eat the food. A few minutes later Tom came into my room to see if I was up. After yesterday he just wanted to make sure I was fine, but what he found wasn't an unconscious brother, but one that was eating pokemon food.
"Sora?!", Tom's voice echoed through my head, making me feel like I did something wrong. I finished my mouth full of food and looked over to him feeling guilty.
"Whatever I did, I'm sorry!", I quickly defended myself, as soon as I heard myself say that I felt stupid.
"What, you didn't do anything, it's just Tabatha was right".
"Right? Right about what?", I asked.
"That you eat pokemon food now", I felt embarrassed, I didn't want to eat this stuff, I only wanted to let the pokemon see me eat it. But now that Tom has seen, I felt like curling up into a ball and shielding myself from the world.
"It's not by choice!", I yelled back, defending my poor actions.
"It's okay Sora, it's fine. I'm not judging, I understand why", Tom put his arms up defensively, making me seem like I was going to attack him.
"I'm sorry Tom, I'm just not in the right mindset right now", Tom lowered his arms and came closer, relieved that I calmed down slightly, but was still concerned.
"Sora, about yesterday, it wasn't your fault that...".
"I know Tom, and I accepted that I wasn't responsible, but I do hate the fact that I took it that far, that I could hurt people if they provoke me, but this isn't something I want to talk about, so, can we drop it?", talking about past mistakes can take a toll on me, I already think about them enough that I don't need to verbally express my thoughts about them.
"Er... sure", Tom didn't seem to like the fact that I'm trying to avoid the subject, but there's nothing else he can do to get me to talk, "Tabatha is waiting for us, you ready?".
"Just need to pack this stuff up then I'm ready to go", I told him, I got up and started to pack my stuff that I have left around, my journal, the food bowls and some excess clothing that I left on the floor that I had yet to clean, once everything was done I recalled Coal, Dash and Pulse hopped onto my shoulders.
"I see Luna stayed with you again", Tom said, I turned around and stared at the smiling Eevee behind me.
"Yeah, she seems to like being around me, still don't know why, she won't talk about it", Luna looked away trying to break eye contact with me, her actions made me smile, "But she doesn't need to, she's welcome to sleep with me if she wants", I said turning back around and walking out of the room, Luna following close behind, Tom closed the door and joined up with me.
"Well she can, but I would still like to know why she's acting like this ever since we got into Pewter City".
"Tom, I tried asking her, she just doesn't want to talk about it. I say just drop the subject and let her be", Tom seemed like he wanted to protest but stopped himself, I don't know why, but I guess he thought I was right.
We walked to the front desk and booked out of the pokemon center, as I turned around I could see Tabatha talking to Sim. I also saw someone else there, it was Brock, I quickly ran over to them, after what those people said this morning I wanted to hear it from him. Tabatha noticed me running over and waved to me.
"Hey Sora, I see you're up", Tabatha cheerfully said, Sim and Brock turned around and saw me standing there, waving hello to me too.
"Brock I want to talk to you", I said, Tom and Luna joined us at this point.
"What about?", he asked.
"I heard from some people that you went on the news about me?".
"Right, I wanted to tell you before, but it slipped my mind", Tom explained, "You see Sora, after you left yesterday, Brock came and talked to me, he wanted to know more about you, I rejected at first but I soon told him the gist of what you've been though", Tom added.
"After I got the information, I went on live and talked about you. I'm just hoping people don't treat you like an outsider anymore", Brock continued on for Tom.
"Two things, one thank you. Two, what made you do this?", I was still mostly confused over everything they were talking about.
"As a gym leader, I have a voice that others will listen to, so when you came to my gym, I have kept an eye on how you acted and how the media portrays you. And what they said about you was incorrect, so I got what I could from Tom and went live to tell everyone the truth. I hope that was okay?", as soon as Brock was finished, my head dropped trying to hide the tears of joy. What Brock did for me was one of the best things that has happened to me ever since this started. He showed everyone that I'm no monster, that I'm just a kid trying to live out his life, a short life, but a life nonetheless. I wiped away the few tears that showed and looked back up to him.
"Thank you...", Brock's worried face turned to a smile at the sound of my gratitude.
"That's not all", he looked over to Tom, I followed his gaze.
"I got my badge!", Tom exclaimed, the news shocked me and Luna since we both went to bed super early.
"You what?!".
"Brock gave me the badge".
"But you didn't...", I was even more confused than I was before. Last I checked, Tom didn't finish his battle with Brock.
"I gave him the badge because Tom dropped everything to win the badge to help you, even when you insisted that you were fine and I asked if he wanted to continue, he turned me down and stayed with you, and besides he was about to deal the finishing blow", Brock explained, I didn't really know how to react to this,. I'm happy that Tom got his first badge, but the way he got it was something I didn't think Tom would accept.
"Tom, I'm happy and all, but is this the way you want to get the badge?", I asked him, it seemed like he was expecting this question as he answered straight away.
"I didn't want it, but Brock wouldn't take no as an answer", Tom put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a case, opening it. It contained the Boulder Badge.
"Wow, it does look good. Where did you get the case?".
"Since I didn't have one, Brock gave it to me with the badge".
"What else have you done for us?", I asked Brock, but Tom answered instead.
"As well as the badge and information, he showed me some stuff about looking after pokemon, and sharing some recipes for different kind of pokemon food!", Tom seem to have found this information very interesting, what he learnt from Brock yesterday must have helped him in some way. Tom was already quite good at cooking, so if he learnt new stuff about it, then Brock must be really good. However, with this came concern.
"Um... just to be clear... what kind of pokemon food...?".
"I thought you might ask something like that... Brock showed me how to make food for different types of pokemon, like Normal-Types, Bug and Fire-types. Also... Dark-types...", Tom backed off ever so slightly just so he was out of range of me.
"Oh aren't you lucky Sora, Tom is going to make you special food!", Tabatha found this quite entertaining, giggling over all this. I tried to make her stop by giving her an annoyed glare, but she just continued.
"Wait, so it's true! You like eating pokemon food now!?", Sim exclaimed sounding rather surprised. Figuring that I couldn't hide it any longer, I nodded in response.
"I knew it! What did you have for breakfast, pokemon food?", Tabatha asked not sounding like a question but more like something to tick me off.
"Actually yes, I'm not happy about it, but I must admit it was tasty", Tom and Sim both gave me a look of disgust thinking about eating it themselves, Tabatha however didn't seem phased by what I said, as the days went by, she became more and more difficult to read. I looked over to Brock with a big smile, "You have done so much for us, if there is anything we can do, please tell us", I bowed slightly showing my gratitude.
"All I want is that you keep me informed with what's happening, I might not be traveling with you, but I do care".
"Same here, you're my friends as well, I want to know what's happening, okay?", Sim added on.
"Don't worry, we will contact you when we can", Tom ensured them, they were happy that we wouldn't forget them, but how could I forget. Sim showed me how she battled, she made Aeon want to get in on the action and in turn got me wanting it as well, it was a good feeling and I can't wait for my first proper battle, though this did seem weird. Brock is a friend I couldn't forget about either, he has done so much for me and wanted little in return, he got a lot of people in Kanto to see me as a normal kid, as well as showing Tom new things that made him quite happy.
"We should be going", Tabatha said, picking her bag off the floor and putting it on, she walked out of the pokemon center with Tom and I behind her, we stopped and turned around to wave goodbye to our new friends.
"We will meet again!", Sim yelled out, waving goodbye, if she wasn't staying for a few more days she probably would have come with us, but she had her own things to do.
"I know we will, good luck with your gym battles!", Tom yelled.
"You too!", Sim replied. With that, we turned around and started our journey again, heading for Cerulean City.
"Hey, Sora. Guess what the pokemon are having for lunch", Tom said, I tried to think of something but one thing really only came to mind.
"Some of your new cooking?", I answered.
"Nope, I picked up the food mum made, they're going to enjoy that!", Tom sound quite happy that our new pokemon are going to try Marry's famous cooking.
"You know, Sora, you could eat that as well", Tabatha said with a sly smirk on her face.
"Sora, that might not be a bad idea, we did always say mum made the best pokemon food in Kanto, why not prove it".
"I'll think about it, because eating this stuff is still new to me and I don't enjoy it", I crossed my arms and looked away slightly. I wanted to get away from this conversation.
"It looked like you were enjoying it to me this morning", Tom now also has that annoying smirk on his face, these two just want to torture me. Tabatha's face brightened up at an idea she had. She turned her body slightly so she could reach her bag and pulled out a hand full of pokemon food and held out her hand in front of me.
"Tabatha, what are you doing?".
"I want to see for myself", her annoying smile was still on her face, it really just made me want to punch her.
"I'm not eating, stop trying to give me food", I tried to stay calm, but this was Tabatha and all she wanted to do was annoy me.
"Come on just eat, it won't take you a minute".
"No".
"How about one pellet?".
"Still no".
"Why not? You ate the same stuff this morning".
"I was hungry this morning, I'm not now".
"Probably filled up on too much pokemon food".
"Tabatha, do you really want to drag this out?".
"Just take it from me and I will leave you alone", I thought about it and grabbed the food in her hand, I could tell Tom was enjoying this a bit too much,Tabatha even more so. I looked down at the food that was now in my hand, I thought about eating it, it did look good, but my human side won and I split the food up into two hands and raised them to Dash and Pulse.
"Here you can have it", the two plusle quickly grabbed the food from my hand and ate some of it, Tabatha looked depressed that I didn't eat it myself.
"Oh no fair!", she pouted. I had a smile of victory on my face, I was happy that I won this that I didn't see the evil smiles that Dash and Pulse now have.
"I told you I wasn't going to eat...", I was stopped when pokemon pellets entered my mouth, being forced in by Dash and Pulse, from surprise I chewed them tasting the flavor they had. Everyone broke down into loud, annoying laughter, Dash and Pulse almost fell off me as they laughed, I finished eating the forced food and swallowed, "Tasty...", no one stopped there giggling for a while as we headed on our way.
Already an hour in into our slow paced journey, nothing has really happened, Tabatha called out Arthur when we left the city limits. Dash and Pulse were still smiling over what they did before telling me that the look I made was priceless, but not in so many words. Tom was concentrating on some of his own thoughts, I wish I knew what they were. Luna wasn't walking next to Tom now, soon after we left the city, she has slowly made her way to my side walking next to me. What she was doing was confusing me so much that I just made myself forget about it. After thinking long and hard, Tom decided that now would be the best time to do a little training.
"Tom, we just left Pewter City. Can't you wait till lunch?", I said, sitting down on a nearby log, my arm on my leg holding my head up.
"You never know what's going to be around the corner. So I'm going to train until we're strong enough to handle anything", Tom sounded like he was on a mission, I have no idea what brought this on.
"But, right now?", I continue to protest.
"What better time! The sun is out, we found this big open clearing, and besides I want to see what Tabatha can do".
"Fine, we will be here then", Dash and Pulse were next to me waiting for the battle to start. I know if I start watching, I'm going to find it amazing, that I want to join in, but I just really want to get away from Pewter City since Team Rocket is there.
"You ready, Tabatha?", Tom shouted to the other side of the clearing to where she was standing with Author.
"Yeah! We're good to go!", she shouted back, Author got into position ready to battle his opponent.
"Okay Luna, you ready to do some training?", he looked down to the small fox pokemon, which was already in her battle position, "I'll take that as a yes".
"You can have the first move!", Tabatha told Tom."You're going to regret that. Luna, Quick Attack!", Tom ordered, Luna started to run, picking up a lot of speed as she went.
"Arthur, Vacuum Wave!", Tabatha commanded her pokemon, Arthur flapped it's wings and created a green coloured wind before jumping up, raising its arm like blades.
"Jump up!", Luna jumped up into the air, with the speed she had, she flew high up, high enough to reach Arthur without any problems. Arthur raised it's arms high before slashing at the air, releasing the green air that surrounded him towards Luna. With no way of dodging out of the way, she impacted the attack and flew straight back to the ground, impacting hard with the solid rock, "Luna! Are you okay?".
"We might have overdone it, Arthur...", Tabatha told her pokemon that was still flying in the sky above her.
"Sorry little one!", I heard Arthur yell out to the dust cloud. We all waited for it to clear so we can see how Luna was doing. We didn't have to wait long as the dust started to settle, I could tell an outline of a pokemon. As it settled more, we all could see her, standing and ready to fight.
"Luna, do you want to go on?", Tom asked. He wanted to get stronger, but not at the cost of his pokemons health. She nodded, letting him know it's fine, but from what I can see, she was in quite some pain. The attack that was dealt did a number on her, but she wanted to push herself to get stronger, this is something I haven't seen Luna do before, "Okay then, in that case... Luna, use Hidden Power!", Luna got down closer to the ground, she looked like she was ready to pounce on something. Balls of green light started to form around her and spin, before Luna forced herself onto her hind legs and fired off the attack.
"Arthur, X-Scissor!", Tabatha continued with the battle. Arthur raised his two scythe arms, they glowed with blue energy as Luna's attack came closer. When it was close enough to him, he slashed the air with his own attack, which completely blocked Luna's oncoming attack.
"Arthur sure is strong!", Tom told Tabatha, he always admired strong opponents.
"Thanks, I do like...", I turned out to what everyone was saying, I felt something pulling me somewhere. I stood up and slowly looked around, trying to figure out what this feeling was. Dash and Pulse looked at me wondering what was going on, I was so zoned out that my eyes dilated, this feeling was one of pain and fear, but it wasn't my own.
"Luna, Quick Attack again!", Tom commanded, but Luna didn't listen to him, but instead, she ran over to me, wondering what I was doing, "Luna, where are you going?", Tom asked, he looked to where she was heading and saw me zoning out and looking around the empty clearing, "Sora?", he said, walking over to me. Tabatha saw what was happening and walked over as well.
"Sora?", Pulse tapped me on the leg, but I wasn't focused on them. I was still trying to figure out what this was. I turned around and looked into the forest that was there, as I looked this way I could hear silent cries of pain coming from deep within, as if instinct took over I ran into the trees and towards the cries of pain.
"Sora! Where are you going!? Not again", Tom ran off after me trying to track me down, everyone else soon followed him.
I ran without a purpose through the trees and bushes that were in my way, dodging any pokemon I came across. This feeling I was having was getting stronger as I ran, but I still didn't know what to make of it.
'What am I doing? Why am I running?'. I continued to run for another two minutes before I made it to a clearing with trees and rock scattered all over, but that wasn't the interesting part. What was happening in the clearing was what got my attention. On the other side, I could see four Beedrill surrounding something on the ground, poking it with their spear like stingers. As I looked closer at the object, it was yellow, with red all over it, this sight reminded me of something else.
"It can't be...", I ran to the group of Beedrill still trying to figure out what this all was, "Hey!", I shouted, the four pokemon turned around and backed off.
"Great, it's the trainer...", I could hear one of them say, when I heard this I knew that they were the same Beedrill from before. If that was the case then the yellow thing I saw on the ground must of been the other pokemon I met that day. I made it to the thing that was on the ground, I fell to my knees and picked up the bloodied pokemon.
"Fling...?", I hopped in my heart that this wasn't her, but this hope was soon shattered when she slowly opened her eyes and stared up, my rings glowing faintly from worry.
"I... you're... Sora...", she tried to talk, but I could hear from every sound she made that she was in tremendous pain.
"Fling... what happened...?", a few tears fell from my face without her even starting, her bloodied body was more than enough answer for me, but I needed to know something.
"I... took your advice... I stood up for... myself... it took a few days to work up... the courage... but I tried my best... they were still too strong for me...", every word she said was like a dagger in my heart, and what she said just crushed it.
"I'm... I'm the reason you're like this...?", I hope it wasn't true. I could feel her heartbeat slowing down as I held her, her movements slowing to a halt and she found it hard to keep her eyes open. I could hear sounds of running behind me, indicating that the others have found me.
"No... you're not... you helped me become stronger... helped me face my fears...".
"Fling... if I had known... then I wouldn't have told you anything...", my tears now running faster down my face, I could tell that she wasn't going to make it, her injuries were too extreme.
"Don't be like that... you're my friend... you only wanted to help... you had no idea... what would happen...", she sounded more distance, she was struggling to hold on.
"You can't die! You can't! You have to hang on!", I cried out, this sight reminded me of the dream I had with the Mightyena and Aeon, the fact I could feel the end was there, that my life was about to be cut short, but that was a dream, and this is really happening, Fling was going to die in my arms and there was nothing I could do.
"Sora... if you find my friends... tell them I'm sorry...", Fling found it hard to even speak anymore, but here relief of the pain finally came as she soon slipped away.
"Fling? Fling?", I shook her to try and wake her up but nothing happened, I couldn't feel her moving anymore, her breathing stopped, she was gone and it was my fault.
"Sora...?", I heard Tom slowly walk closer to me, they had no idea with what just happened, ever since they got here, they were looking at my back.
"The intruder is dead, the nest is safe, time to head back", I heard one of the Beedrill say, the four of them turned around and started to fly off into the forest. Hearing their voices made me lose it, they killed her just because she wanted to walk past to meet her friends, I slowly placed Flings body on the ground next to me. When I did, I could hear gasps coming from behind me.
"What the...?", I could hear Tom say under his breath, "Tabatha, the pokemon", Tom told her, I would guess that he wanted her to get them to look away from the lifeless body that was on the ground. I stood up, blood dripping off my hands from Fling.
"Where you going!", I yelled out to the Beedrill. They didn't listen, but continued on their way, "Stop!", I shouted, this time they stopped and turned around. They could hear the anger in my voice, "You think you can kill this innocent pokemon and just walk away! She was my friend and all she wanted to do was walk past your nest and meet her friends! Now you took all that away from her! You will pay!", I snapped and lost control over my emotions, they took a hold of me as I raised both my arms to the side and charged up a Shadow Ball in each hand before firing both of them at the pokemon, hitting two of them and pushing them into the trees.
"Retreat!", one of the last two Beedrill said turning around and running for it, soon joined by the other one.
"You're not getting away!", I yelled, going to chase them down, but I was stopped as someone grabbed my arm. I turned my head and saw Tom holding on, "Let go! They have to pay!", I resisted against him but Tom did his best to stop me.
"Sora, calm down! I can't understand you!", he cried out.
"Just let go!", I continued to yell, I completely lost control of myself, I found it hard to come back, I could feel myself feeling angry at Tom now since he wasn't going to let me go.
"Sora! Look at what you're causing!", Tom pulled me back and made me look over to the others. Tabatha was crowding around the pokemon hugging them and hiding them from the sight of the dead pokemon and what I was doing. I could hear their crying, it wasn't loud and Tabatha was calming them down, but I could hear their fear, their sobbing broke through to me. I shook my head and realized what I had been doing, I had lost myself to the emotions that I thought I had total control over. I fell to my knees and looked to the body of Fling that was laying next to me.
"I... I did this... I caused her death...", from sadness and anger I charged up another Shadow Ball and fired it into the the ground near by, creating a crater.
"Sora..", Tom thought I was losing it again, but I knew what I was doing, I picked up the lifeless body and walked over to the hole I just made, carefully placing her in it.
"I'm sorry Fling... I didn't want this to happen... I just tried to help you... but now... this is all my fault...", tears again streamed down my face. I let down a new friend, I was the one that got her killed. If I just saved her the other day and didn't give her any advice, then she would have been alive right now, taking the long way to Mt. Moon. I moved dirt over her, saying my final goodbyes before completely filling in the hole. I stayed there for some time, crying over her death, when a hand was placed on my shoulder.
"Sora... what happened?", Tom asked.
"She was my friend... I got her killed...", I tried to explain, but all that came out was my Umbreon voice, Tom would never understand me.
"Sora... I don't know what you said, but you should get yourself cleaned up", he said. I looked at my arms and body seeing blood that had stained it, blood was also on my hands but that was mostly covered up by the dirt on them, "You don't want the pokemon to see you like this. Your bag is over there, we're going to head back to the clearing", Tom removed his hand and walked back to Tabatha, I looked back at him, seeing what he was doing.
"Tabatha, he needs to be alone for now, let's take the pokemon back", he told her, Tabatha looked over to me and saw the state I was in, she quickly nodded in agreement with Tom and quickly grabbed Dash and Pulse and headed back, making sure they couldn't see behind her. Arthur soon left as well, I didn't care anymore though. Tom also grabbed Luna at the same time, hiding her from the mess that this clearing showed. She tried her best to get a look, but Tom moved too quickly. I was soon left there to my own thoughts.
'Fling died because of me, and I also let my emotions control me again and I hurt two pokemon that deserved it, but I didn't want that. I could've killed them myself if Tom hadn't stopped me', I got up from my sitting position and took one last look at where I buried Fling, 'I'll never forgive myself', I walked over to my bag and grabbed it.
I spent two hours cleaning myself up at a nearby stream, getting changed from the bloodied clothing into some clean ones, I placed the bloodied ones in a hole I dug and filled it in with dirt, I didn't want to keep these anymore, it would be a constant reminder of what happened today. Taking a seat next to the steam, I stared into the water, reflecting on what Fling said to me.
"I only wanted to help... I gave her some advice to not be afraid... and she died because of me, but... she didn't blame me... I blame myself, I know I'm the one that did this, maybe if I just asked her to join us till we got to Mt. Moon, this would all have been avoided... but I didn't", I was talking to myself, trying to deal with this. I haven't seen a pokemon die before, I know pokemon can be vicious, that they will do anything to protect their family, even kill. If Coal didn't follow me on my eleventh birthday when I got attacked by the pack of Mightyena, then I would've died. I owe Coal my life because of that, "I wasn't as strong as him... I couldn't figure out what that feeling meant in time, and because I took too long, Fling died". I moved my hand to my belt and grabbed Coal's ball from it, releasing him. Once the light was gone, Coal stood near me. He could feel the pain I'm going though, and he could also smell it.
"Sora... what happened?", Coal asked.
"I... I don't want to talk about it... I just need a friend...", I looked away from him, trying my best to hide the tears. Coal walked up and sat next to me, placing a claw on my leg.
"It's okay, Sora. It will be just like the times when we were at the pond", Coal tried to lighten the mood, but what he said saddened me even more. I looked over to him, giving him a fake smile and turned my attention onto the water.
"Yeah... but this time we have one more to remember...", I could tell Coal wanted to ask what I meant, but he didn't, and I wouldn't have told him anyway, I just wanted to sit here in peace.
Coal and I made our way back to the clearing after spending many hours at the stream. It did remind me of the times I went to the pond on my birthday, but this time it was different. As we walked passed the last few trees, we stepped into the clearing where Tom and Tabatha have already set up camp. They knew that we would be staying the night here. Tom saw me and Coal come closer to them.
"Sora... you feeling any better?", he asked. I didn't reply, I just really wanted to get something to eat and go to sleep. The sooner that this day was over, the better. I walked past him, grabbing some pokemon food that was nearby, and walked to my sleeping bag, which Tom or Tabatha kindly put out for me. I took a seat and started to eat. I could tell all eyes in the clearing were on me. I could tell that Dash, Pulse and even Luna wanted to run over to me and ask what happened, but Tom and Tabatha were keeping them back. They knew I just wanted to be left alone. I finished the food I took and opened my bag and pulled out my journal for it's entry, I didn't enjoy writing in it this time, but I hoped that it would remove some of the weight on my shoulders. When I was done, I got into my sleeping bag and got comfy. I didn't bother to change out of my clothes. the last thought that went through my head before sleep took me was 'Forgive me...'.
Dear Journal,
I'm a monster, I hurt pokemon because I can't control my emotions, and I can hurt them by just saying a few words. Fling, the Pikachu I saved the other day... died because she took the encouragement I gave her and acted on it. She tried to get past the nest of Beedrill, and this time she made it, but not before the Beedrill chased her down and tried to kill her. I found her and she died in my arms... it was my fault, there were many things I could've done to help her before, but I chose to give her encouragement, and now... she's dead.
She doesn't blame me, but I blame myself. One might think I'm overreacting, that I barely knew her and getting this upset over her death is pointless, and they might be right, but once I make a friend, we stay friends, and since I'm the one that got her killed, I feel terrible.
Before she died, she asked me to tell her friends on Mt. Moon that she was sorry. I don't know why she has to be sorry though. I'm the one that should be, I'm going to have to tell them that they won't see her ever again because of me, that if she had a family, then they will never be with her again because of me... The one thing that I wish I could do now was saying sorry to Fling... I'm sorry...
~~Monster
A/N: Wow, that was an interesting chapter, who knew pokemon could die. Also guys I want to know, would you like a "Ask the Cast" segment in future chapters, where you guys could ask the cast questions and they would answer it, how does that sound?
Sora is getting used to eating pokemon food, not because he wants to because he doesn't want Aeon to get angry, but could Aeon really take over and 'hunt' him some food?
We learn that Sora knows no attacks, it's all Aeons, but if that's the case can Sora learn any attacks of his own?
Brock told the world Sora's story. I didn't see this coming and Sora seems to be fine with this, I wonder what's going to happen because of it?
Sora's new friend Fling died, and Sora is torn up about it blaming himself, what would happen because of this? At least the kids didn't see the mess.
Next chapter Orange is writing and I'm hoping it will turn out well, if it doesn't he doesn't get his christmas bonus this year. I don't want to tell you guys about it but I will tell you this, Team Horizon show up and Aeon is the only one that can save Sora.
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Author: Skaterblog
Reviewer corner replyers: Skaterblog and Orangekirbyyoshi
Beta readers: Orangekirbyyoshi, Tigerclaw and GaiaMeloetta