Chapter 16
A/N: Hello everyone, and I hope you enjoy the new name of this story, it was created by GuyroMaster, he came up with the name of Phases of Change, I think it does fit the story more than The slow pokemon change, so thank you!
Sorry still no review corner, don't know what's going to happen with this. I hope you enjoy this chapter since it's a special one, also a few reviews about the last one said it was rush, this was actually true, but I do think it fits that chapter, but anyway enjoy! Also Thanks for the 9K Views!
"Tom, can I be your pokemon?", Sora asked me, the idea of becoming his trainer was something I didn't like, but Sora wanted it like that and I wouldn't let him down.
"Sure! We will be the best team! We can still be brothers. I will always be there to protect you", I told him.
"Promise?".
"Promise", Sora and I linked hands to hold this promise, that we would never break it, soon after we linked Sora was engulfed in some kind of dark void, his body shape was there but that was all. The void started to shift and shape changing Sora's body, the whole time I haven't let go of his hand. It wasn't like before it started to shrink and the darkness went away revealing a Umbreon in place of Sora, and where Sora's hand was now laid a black furry paw.
"Umbreon!", Sora spoke.
"See, I will be here to protect you. We will always be by each others sides", I smiled, I could also tell that Sora smiled as well.
"Breon", Sora again spoke, I wish I knew what he was saying but humans usually don't understand. But it was the way he talk that concerned me.
"What is it?", I asked, Sora was looking behind me and I followed his gaze. Behind me I could see six Beedrill fast approaching me, there spear like stingers out and ready to strike. I was frozen for fear that I didn't move out the way. I felt something knock me in the back and sent me out of the path of the Beedrill, I turned around and saw Sora now getting stabbed and poked at by the Beedrill, defenceless to do anything Sora fell to the ground barely moving.
"Sora!", I screamed out, I got back to my feet and ran to him, knocking past any pokemon that got in my away. When I finally made it to him, I picked him up and cradled him in my arms. He was bleeding quite badly with gashes all over and part of his tail and left ear missing. He slowly opened his eyes and looked up to me.
"Um... bre... on...", Sora was in a lot of pain and could barely speak.
"Sora! Hang on! We will get help!", I said shooting off the ground and ran, hoping to find help from my dying brother in my arms. I held Sora close and I could feel his heartbeat getting weaker, and his breath slowing down. I skidded to a stop and fell to me knees, "Sora hold on!", I shouted out, but it was too late, I couldn't feel a heartbeat anymore and his eyes remained half open, "Sora? Sora? Sora!", I cried heavily over my brother wishing for him to come back, but nothing would happen, "...Sora...".
I shot up out of my sleeping bag, sweating over the nightmare I just had feeling relieved that it was just in my head.
"Not another one...", I mumbled to myself holding my head. I had nightmares like this alot lately, they have been getting worse ever since Sora asked me to be his trainer. But the one I just had was different, it must have come from what I saw yesterday with the dead pikachu.
"I need to get ahold of myself", I again mumbled to myself. These nightmares have been affecting me slightly and if they continue they will only get worse, I couldn't imagine what Sora has to go through in his dreams, but I guess Aeon would keep everything calm, at times anyway.
"Hypno...", I heard a pokemon softly say it's name, it startled me as I turned around and saw a Hypno standing over Sora. Behind this pokemon was two people, both wearing a red and silver uniform, it was Team Horizon. I shot up from my sleeping bag and ran closer to them.
"What are you doing here! What are you doing to Sora?!", they wouldn't have a pokemon out for the fun of it, and it was close to morning so they have been here awhile.
"Look, now they finally wake up", one of them told the other.
"They really sleep like a log don't they", The other one responded, I was losing my patience with these two.
"I said what have you done!", I shouted loudly, loud enough for everyone in the camp site to wake up, which luckily for me they did.
"Wha... Tom, what is it?", Tabatha said groggily waking up from her sleep.
"It's Team Horizon!", I replied, it was even a second and Tabatha was already standing up walking to my side. Dash and Pulse also woke up from the noise and looked up to see a Hypno, they screamed and ran over to us. Coal, Luna, Wing and Arron all came over to us from their sleeping spot nearby. All of them ready to fight.
"Get out of here! You can't beat all of us!", Tabatha yelled, but they only smirked at her comment.
"None of your pokemon can hold a candle to our Hypno", the one on the left said.
"We will see about that. Luna Hidden Power!", I commanded, Luna got down looking ready to pounce, three green balls of energy formed around her as jumped up making her two back hind legs hold her weight and fired them off, it was only three since I didn't want to hit Sora. THe attack flew at them but only stopped near them as the attack hit a shield that was surrounding them. They laughed at our attempt to attack them.
"Our Hypno is too strong for you", the grunt on the left said.
"Why don't you just give up-", the grunt on the right was interrupted by their Hypno
"Hypno!", it said flying back slightly and landing on the ground. The two grunts were surprised by this, and to be honest so was I.
"What's going on!?", the one on the right exclaimed.
"Now's our chance! Dash, Pulse and Luna Quick Attack!", all three of them started to run at them at high speeds impacting the two grunts and the Hypno, sending them back to the tree line, "I won't ask again. Leave!", I commanded them, they did as I asked without hesitation, recalling their Hypno and running off into the forest behind them. When they were out of sight I ran over to Sora, after all of that noise he hadden waken up and I was getting worried. I stopped and fell to my knees.
"Sora?", I said grabbing his arms, still no response, "Sora", I said again but this time shaking him, 'Oh please don't let my nightmare come true', I prayed to myself, the fact that Sora wasn't waking up was worrying.
"Tom, is he okay?", Tabatha asked.
"I... I don't know, he isn't waking up", I shook Sora again to make sure but still I got no response.
"What should we do?", I turned my head to see her, she was worried with what was going on, how could you not be. By her feet were the pokemon waiting to see if Sora was okay, but I had no idea myself. I thought about and could come up with only one answer.
"Tabatha pack up we're leaving".
"What?", she said sounded confused.
"I said pack up the campsite, we're going back to Pewter City to get help", Tabatha thought about it for a minute and nodded, making her way back to our stuff and started to pack it. I got Sora out of his sleeping bag and packed away all his stuff, at the same time I returned Coal, Wing and Arron to their pokeballs. When I was done I helped Tabatha with the rest of the stuff while Dash, Pulse and Luna stayed by Sora's side.
Once everything was packed we ran over to Sora and I gave my bag to Tabatha, I leaned down and Picked Sora up learning him on my back, my arms supporting his legs. Tabatha leaned down and picked up Das and Pulse.
"Are you fine being down there?", I asked Luna, she would have to run with us, no one could carry her. She nodded letting me know it's fine, my attention then drew to Tabatha.
"Let's go", she said, I nodded and ran as fast as I could out of the clearing, Tabatha and Luna close behind.
We ran as fast as we could as the early morning sun started to rise. Tabatha was barely holding on to Dash and Pulse at the speed we were running, Luna was following close behind me looking up at Sora. She was very worried about him, we all were. I was struggling to keep Sora on my back as I ran. If he wasn't so heavy, then this could have been easier, and it didn't help that his tail was hitting the back of my feet. It made me feel like I was going to trip any moment.
"Tom, where are we going to take him!?", Tabatha yelled out to me over her heavy breathing. I had no idea what she was on about, but we were going back to Pewter City so we could get help for Sora.
"What are you talking about!?".
"Well, where can we take him?! He is a human and a pokemon, so it's either the hospital or the pokemon center!", this thought didn't cross my mind. She was right that Sora is technically both, but wasn't at the same time. It was something confusing to think about. If Sora found out that we took him to the pokemon center instead of the hospital, he'd flip, but I don't even think the hospital will take him because of what he is.
"I... don't know!", I replied.
"You know what I think?! I think we should take him to the pokemon center. We already know that pokemon medicine works on him!".
"Tabatha, look at him! Do you see anything physically wrong with him!? They were doing something with his mind. That's why he isn't waking up!", I snapped at her, she did nothing wrong, but the situation had me freaking out. I had no idea what Team Horizon were doing, and the fact that Sora isn't moving was worrying.
"Tom. I know how you feel, but we need to stay calm for the pokemon", I did my best to look down at Luna, but with Sora on my back and running at this speed made it hard. However I was still able to see that she hadn't taken her eyes off him,.
"How are the others?!", I asked Tabatha.
"They're scared, but okay!", I wasn't able to turn around and see them, but I know that everyone here is worried.
'Don't worry Sora, we will get help and you will feel better, I promise', I vowed to protect him. But the problem was... he might never be the same Sora I knew.
The rest of the trip was quiet besides the sound of our loud steps as we ran. The sun was out and we finally made it into Pewter City again. People were busy with their day to day lives, but as we sprinted through street after street, we gained a lot of attention: many people asked what happened, but we didn't answer. We just wanted to get Sora some help.
We finally made it to the pokemon center. As much as Sora will hate this, it's for his own good. We ran in with the doors opening for us, I could notice a number of trainers were startled with our sudden outburst.
"Nurse Joy!", we screamed out, hoping to get help as quickly as possible. As we got to the front desk, most of the trainers came up to us, asking what was wrong, but we didn't want to answer right now, "Nurse Joy!".
"I'm coming! I'm coming!", she yelled out down the hall. She didn't really sound like she was annoyed with our yelling, but more concerned with what we needed her for. As she turned the corner, she seemed to be shocked with what was going on, "What's all this?".
"Please! You got to help... it's Sora...", I looked over the body of my unconscious brother on my back. He still hadn't moved since we woke up.
"Come this way", Nurse Joy turned around and started to walk back down the hall. Tabatha, Luna and I quickly followed her, the group of trainers soon started to follow as well.
Nurse Joy lead us into a room, it seemed to really have a bed with standard blue sheets with two side tables, a painting of a flower on the wall and some medical devices standing around with a chair in the corner. There was also a window where people could peek into the room to check on their pokemon, but this time it was just Sora in the room. "Please lay him down here", she told me, I moved to a position where I could safely drop Sora onto the bed. Tabatha placed Dash and Pulse next to Luna and helped catch him as I let him go, she then helped me lay him down. The trainers that followed us were looking through the window wanting to know what was going on. "What happened?", Nurse Joy asked.
"I don't know. I woke up after a dream I had last night and found two members of Team Horizon and their Hypno. We fought them off but Sora hasn't woken up since", I told her.
"We think they were doing something in his mind, but we're still unsure", Tabatha added. Nurse Joy looked down at Sora, trying to think of the best way to help, if she could at all. The look on her face saddened me greatly, it seemed like she didn't know what to do.
"Can you help at all?", I finally asked, hopefully waiting for a nod from Nurse Joy. Hoping that he will be awake in no time. But the response I got back was not what I was hoping for.
"I don't know... We can measure his brain waves and see what's happening, but for the moment, I don't know how to treat him", with that, Nurse Joy left the room, most likely searching for the equipment she needed. As the door closed, I turned back to Sora. A few tears rolled down my face, fearing that I could lose my brother at this moment. I fell to my knees and placed my arms on the bed, grabbing his arm with my hands.
"Sora... everything will be fine... I promise you that we will make you better...", I was hoping in some way he could hear me, that he could at least subconsciously hear me, but it was a longshot at best. Luna joined me by jumping onto the bed and laying down next to him.
"Eevee eev?", she also tried to speak to him. Maybe she could get through to him, but this hope was slim.
"Tom... maybe we should rest, we can't help him with anything if we have no energy", Tabatha placed her hand on my shoulder, but I didn't react to her touch. I just continued to stare at my best friend, my beloved brother.
"Can you go and get the pokemon some breakfast... I'm going to stay here", I told her, still with tears rolling down my face.
"Um... okay, if that's what you want", Tabatha sounded like she was just as sad as I was, even though she hadn't known Sora for that long. She didn't like to see him in pain like this, no one did. Tabatha moved to pick up Dash and Pulse, they resisted a little, but gave up quite quickly. They didn't want to leave him, but they needed something to eat. Dash and Pulse jumped onto her shoulders as she went to pick up Luna. However once Luna felt the touch of Tabatha's hands on her fur, she jumped up and fought back, this action surprised me and Tabatha. Luna never acted that way to us before.
"Luna, you have to go and eat something, I will look after Sora while you're gone", I told her, hoping that she would calm down and let Tabatha take her, but she just shook her head and backed off over Sora and stopped on his other side, laying back down next to him. Tabatha and I both looked at each other feeling sorry for her, lately she has been around Sora a lot more than usual and didn't really want to leave him, since this has happened I doubt that she will move from his side, I can't blame her.
"It will be fine Tom, I will bring some food back for her, just let her be", Tabatha said before making her way out of the small medical room. As my eyes followed her out my attention drew to the group of people outside the window looking in.
'My brother could be on his deathbed and these guys just wanna show!', my anger grew while looking at their soul wrenching eyes, but I soon calmed myself down, they just want to know what's going on, they don't wish harm onto any of us. I let out a sigh before turning my attention back to Sora and in turn to the pokemon laying next to him.
"Luna...", I softly said, she slowly raised her head and looked at me, but she barely took the effort to do anything, "I know you're sad about this... we're all are... but you need to relax and not take it out on others that are trying to help...".
"Eevee...", she tried to talked to me, but I wasn't Sora, I can't understand her unless I try and learn what she is saying. I lowered my eyelids and sighed, I might not have known what she said but I could take a good guess.
"I know Luna...", I looked back to Sora raising my eyelids with a few tears rolling down my face, "He will be fine, promise...".
It was a few more minutes until Nurse Joy made it back into the room rolling in some kind of medical device, "Here we are, this should help", she said as she wheeled it into place.
"And what is that supposed to do again?" I asked getting up from the floor, I could see much better from this height.
"This will measure his brain waves. You said they had a psychic-type trying to get into his mind?", she asked trying to get all the facts down, I nodded in response just waiting to see if she can help Sora at all. Luna was interested as well as she was sitting up on the bed waiting for her to continue, "And do you know if they succeeded?", this I didn't know so I just shook my head in disappointment, "Hmm... well it's extremely hard to get into a mind of a dark-type such as your friend here. They must of had a really powerful Psychic-type to even be able to do that, and if you cut them off then you might of damaged his mind", she told me, but now I wish I didn't know what was wrong with him.
"So... you mean that he might not be the same...?".
"Well there is only one way to find out", Nurse Joy started to set up the device, plugging it in and hooked it up to Sora, Luna jumped to my side of the bed since she was in the way. Joy placed some white circles on Sora's head most likely how the machine worked, "Done... now let's see what's going on". Nurse Joy turned on the machine and the screen came to life, I had no idea what it showed since I had no experience with medical stuff, "Oh...".
"What! Is something wrong?".
"It seems that there is barely any activity, maybe his mind is trying to repair itself or it means that his mind is beyond repair but I don't know for sure, your friend is... beyond my expertise", Nurse Joy told me, this was the last thing I wanted to hear, the fact that Sora could be like this forever is a reality I didn't want to think about, but could become real. I took my saddened eyes away from the Nurse and back on my brother, falling to my knees placing my hands on his arm once again.
"Sora...", I dropped my head on the bed and cried silently.
"I'm sorry, but all you can do is wait", I heard Joy say before hearing footsteps leaving the room, indicating that we were left alone, but I didn't care if she left are not, it wouldn't have changed the news that I just received, that I was crying on my brain dead brother, just the very thought of Sora never waking up again scared the daylights of me. Everything we been through, everything that we did was for nought. The life we had together to be ended like this, even as a pokemon Sora would of had some life, but now he is on his deathbed waiting to be put out of his misery. But I wouldn't do that, I know that Sora is alright, that he will come back, but I wasn't showing this belief, I was silently balling my eyes out.
The only sounds in the room was slow beeping from the machine Nurse Joy brought in, everything else was quiet, so quiet that it made me feel like I was in a graveyard, which would be my next stop if Sora doesn't get better. Over all the silence a sound was finally made, it was the soft crying coming from the only other thing in the room, I looked up to the noise my eyes red and sore, it made it somewhat hard to see, but I was able to see the pokemon that was crying on the other side of Sora. Luna was curled up next to him, crying as I was, if she was like this I didn't even want to see Dash and Pulse react to the news, or Coal, even Wing and Arron will find it hard to handle. I slowly got up and stumbled my way over to her, as I made it to her side of the bed I could see a large number of people and pokemon still looking through the window, but again I didn't pay them any attention, I knelt back down on the ground still trying my best to hold back the tears. I placed my hand on her back, I could feel her irregular breaths as she tried to give her body oxygen as she cried. Luna jerked her head to me slightly when I touched her, her fur was soaked from the tears, she didn't even bother to lift her head while looking at me. I never seen Luna like this, she never cried over anything, not until all this started with Sora weeks ago.
Just looking at her I couldn't hold my tears back as I let them go, scooping up Luna and holding her tight to me, hoping is someway that holding her close to me could calm us both down, I got up and walked to the the chair in the corner and sat down, I almost fell off since I couldn't tell what I was doing. As soon as I sat down Luna drew closer to me for comfort, I scratched her behind the ear to calm her down, but this time it had no effect, "Luna... it will be fine... it will be... it must be...", She curled up in my arms and slowed down her crying, I slowed mine as well, if this is how we acted thinking about losing him, I didn't want to know what happened if we did. These thoughts and the river of tears I just let out, combined with an early wake up call from a dream made me really tired, "Maybe we should sleep Luna... we won't leave his side... but we shouldn't lose sleep over it", I told her, but as I looked down to get her reaction, I found her already napping in my arms, ever her crying got to her, I soon joined her as I closed my eyes and thought about drifting off from this nightmare.
"Tom... can I be your pokemon?", Sora asked, standing in a big white empty void.
"Sure! We will be the strongest team ever! And we can still have fun like we used to!", I replied, we linked hands to hold this promise that we made, but soon after our hands locked Sora was engulfed by darkness, his body shape was still there but he wasn't. The shape started to morph, slowly shrinking and changing, the whole time I haven't let go of the hand, as the shadow disappeared it revealed a pokemon, an Umbreon in place of Sora. Where Sora's hand was now laid a paw.
"Umbreon!", he said, seeming quite happy.
"See even as a pokemon, I can still protect you and be your brother!", I held his paw tighter smiling that we can finally put the past behind us, smiled back.
"Umbreon!", he said again, but this time he yanked back his paw and returned to a standing position, Sora then turned around and started to run away.
"Sora where are you going?! Come back!", I yelled out to him, but he didn't stopped but sped up. I started to run after him, trying to catch my brother before anything happened to him. As we ran everything around us turned to darkness and started to get cold, before I knew it Sora disappeared and I lost where he went, I stopped and looked around hoping to find him in the darkness, "Sora! Where are you?!", I loudly exclaimed sounding worried over him.
"Tom", I heard a voice from behind me, as I turned around Sora was standing there, back in his human body, still with the changes.
"Sora... I thought I lost you...", I was happy that he was back and was alright, but he didn't look alright after my comment.
"Tom you said you would protect me... make sure that nothing ever happens to me... but you failed to do that. You said you will protect me as a pokemon but yet I'm not even one yet and I'm like this", Sora took on a cold tone, one that would strike fear and sadness into anyone, "When or if I am a pokemon, do you really think you can help me, protect me?"
"I tried to help... but I wasn't quick enough...", I tried to defend myself, trying to make myself feel better over the situation.
"Quick enough? They walked right into our campsite and destroyed my mind! I will never be your brother anymore because of that and it's all your fault!", Sora started to get angry and shouted at me, he was pissed at the poor job I did, that I didn't do enough to help save him.
"Sora... I did my best but-".
"Your best wasn't good enough! I will never be your friend again... your brother... I will never see my pokemon again, what will happen to Dash and Pulse, and what of Coal! Did you plan for any of this!", Sora interrupted me and made me even more upset over everything.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean for any of that to happen! Now everything is gone! Your pokemon will never be the same, nor will mine... and I will never forgive myself for not being able to protect you like I said I would...", I broke down in tears, Sora knew that I failed him, I knew I did, I told him that I would always be there for him, that I wouldn't let Team Horizon or Rocket get him, and Team Horizon just walked right into our campsite and did what they wanted with Sora, if I didn't wake up whatever they were doing they might of succeeded and taken him away.
"Tom... I'm gone now and it's your fault... I just wanted to say goodbye...", Sora turned around and started to walk away, I wanted to chase him down, to tell him that I didn't give up on him, that I will fight for him if he can't, but I couldn't move, I was rooted in place and was unable to chase him down.
"Sora! Wait! Don't go! You can't leave... I need you!", I shouted but it was no good. Soon Sora disappeared and faded from existence, I was able to move again and fell to my knees, "We all need you...", I said before everything went silent and dark.
I launched out of the chair sweating over the nightmare I just had. As I regained my senses as to where I was, I found out that I left a nightmare and entered another. I had no idea how long I was asleep but I could tell that the crowd outside the window was gone and that Luna has left me and went back to her spot next to Sora, as well as a bowl of pokemon food, which means Tabatha must of came back at some point but didn't wake me up. Luna was sleeping still but next to Sora, Tabatha must've woken her up to get her to eat. Looking around I saw the machine Sora was hooked up to and saw that screen looked the same from when I went to sleep meaning that his condition hadden change. I soon looked at Sora and then thought back to my nightmare I had, with that I quickly made my way out of the room and closed the door behind me, and made my way outside of the pokemon center.
Even if Sora couldn't see and move, I didn't want him judging me for my actions, I already have too much to think about.
As I made my way outside I could tell that it was late at night or early morning, I was asleep for many, many hours. I found a seat nearby the pokemon center so I could sit and think about everything.
'That dream... that wasn't Sora, that was just my mind playing tricks on me... but what if it was right, what if Sora didn't take me as a brother anymore for failing him? He wouldn't do that! We will always be brothers, but I know that I did fail him, that he is like this because of me', my mind went on with many questions about Sora, but I always came up short for answers. This was one of the many things I thought about since this all started, before this attack I dreamt a lot about Sora becoming my pokemon, I still do even with this happening, and something that Sora said in my dream that could be a connection.
'I told him that if he becomes a pokemon that I would protect him, look after him, but I couldn't do that when he was still a human, more or less', this thought sort of crossed into my other dream, and what I have been thinking a lot about, 'Sora wants to be my pokemon, if he ever wakes up, I wouldn't be able to understand him, and as much as I hate it we can't do the same stuff as brothers when he changes', I thought about it for a long time, and I'm still not sure if what I came up with was the best way to deal with everything.
"Well then, if I can't protect Sora now, how can I protect him later... and still be brothers and have fun like we used to... I guess I have no choice...", I told myself, "I will just become like him, that way I could help him, protect him and have fun", I knew that this idea was stupid, that I shouldn't attempt to become like Sora, I didn't want to go through the pain he did, but I saw no other option, I couldn't protect him as a human, and having Sora as a pokemon wasn't ideal, so if I changed then I could be with him always, we would look after each other and still be a family.
This thought went in circles in my head, making me think if this was the right thing to do, but that train of thought soon left as I felt a soft blow to the head, "Ow!", I cried from the slight pain it caused, I turned around and saw Tabatha standing there, I looked to her side and Simolena was with her, they both looked quite pissed. I shot up from my seat and backed off slightly from the enraged looking ladies, "Tabatha! What's wrong!?".
"What's wrong? What's wrong! I'll tell you what's wrong! You think turning into what Sora is will solve all your problems!", She yelled into my face, I did my best to back off but she would get give up.
"You... you heard me?".
"You bet I did! Changing into a pokemon under one's will is the stupidest idea I have ever heard!", by this time I fell to the ground, losing my balance as Tabatha continued to walk into me, Sim had to hold her down to keep her from beating me up.
"And why is it such a bad idea! Sora is on that bed because of me! If I was like him then I could've helped him and saved him! And do you really think I can still be a brother to him if he is a pokemon? Be honest, it can't work!", I snapped back, getting up from the ground and stared her down, but she didn't let up her ground, instead she shook Sim away so she had full control again.
"You can still be brothers! And the last thing I need is someone else to turn into a pokemon! I have been through too much to lose someone else!", Tabatha yelled back, but what she said got to me, and made me confused.
"Someone else? Been through too much? What are you on about?", I asked, calming down from the fight we were having. Tabatha looked away thinking that she let too much out.
"Er... none of your business! You just can't go around saying those kind of things. What if Sora finds out what you're thinking?", her angry, pissed off tone of voice was still there, be she seemed more relaxed now.
"If I tell him. He doesn't need to know anything, not until I think this is the only way".
"And what about everyone else? Your family? The pokemon? You know Sora was counting on you to look after his pokemon when he changed", she said, and I forgotten that Sora needed me like I am now. He need me to look after him, and the pokemon that he was going to leave behind, although he will do his best to look after them himself, he needed me, like he needed me yesterday.
"Even so, he needed me yesterday and I failed him, I won't do that again!", I sounded determined, but the fact was I didn't know if I could continue to help. My eyes soon led to Sim that was still freaked out that we were at each others throats.
"Sim, you haven't left Pewter City yet?", I asked.
"Nope, I was staying for a few more days. When I heard about the human pokemon being carried to the pokemon center I rushed and ran into Tabatha, she told me what happened", Sim explained, I was happy that I had another friends here and sad that now another person is sad over Sora's condition.
"You're worried about him too... this is all my fault...", I dropped my head from the thought, but Tabatha acted quickly against my depression.
"Tom, you're not to blame, it's was Team Horizon that did this! And if you are blaming yourself, then you can blame me too! Since I also told him I would help", I didn't know what to say about this, I know that I was responsible for this, but Tabatha is also placing blame on herself.
"Tabatha... you can't blame your-".
"Well if I can't blame myself and I can't blame you, then I blame Team Horizon for starting this in the first place! Take your own advice and don't blame yourself when the real people to blame are them", I thought about it, and in a way she was right, Team Horizon was to blame for even starting this thing in the first place, but if I was more alert then Sora could've been safe.
"Listen to Tabatha Tom, your mind is clouded with these thoughts. You're not to blame for what happened", Sim added, and with that I agreed with them, I wouldn't blame myself, I do wish that I could've saved him from the pain he is now in, but the real monsters are Team Horizon.
"Fine you win. I won't blame myself, but instead the next Team Horizon grunt I see is going to pay", Tabatha and Sim looked relieved but were also concerned that they may of put me on the road to revenge.
"Tom just promise us that you won't go crazy with this pay back". Sim told me.
"It's fine, revenge isn't on the top of my list anyway", I reassured them, it wasn't on top of my list but it was sure high up.
"Now let's get back with you becoming like Sora", Tabatha butted in.
"It's fine, I was thinking out loud. But I would be lying if I didn't consider it as an option".
"Tom trust me on this. You don't want to go down that road, it will lead to nothing but sadness and grief to everyone, including yourself", Tabatha placed a hand on my shoulder sounding calm and collected, but again she had be confused.
"How can you know so much about this? I know that Sora has an affect on people but you can't know so much about this just by spending a couple weeks with him", Tabatha spoke like she knew a lot about this, how this can all turn out. Tabatha quickly took her hand away from and looked down to the ground before getting angry again.
"I said it's none of your business! It's my own problem! Just promise me that you won't go ahead and try to become like Sora!", she exclaimed. Tabatha was hiding something from me, from us that could maybe help us in the long run.
"Tell me the truth and then I promise you that I won't do it", I crossed my arms and stared into her eyes, keeping calm hoping that could break her. She just turned around and started to walk back to the pokemon center.
"I don't need to tell you anything. My past is my own problem. How about you think about the future and what this idea can lead to, then you come find me", she said as she walked down the path, soon leaving my sight.
"You know she's right. You have too much to lose if you try to go through with this", Sim commented.
"It's the best thing I've come up with. Maybe the main thing that drew me to this idea is that I won't be able to talk to Sora again", I made my way back to the bench which I was sitting on prior to Tabatha and Sim showing up and took a seat, Sim followed me and sat next to me.
"Well that's an easy fix", She said with a smile, she had an idea, anything that could help me I would listen to.
"What?".
"Just learn what Sora is talking about", Sim continued, "I learnt what what some of my pokemon are talking about".
"You have!?", I was confused, I had heard of people being with their pokemon long enough that they learnt what they could say, most of the time. Sim nodded and pulled out two pokeballs and released the pokemon inside. Once the light was gone I could see that on my left the Sneasel that she used during her Gym battle was there and on my right was a Zangoose.
"The Sneasel is Snowy and the Zangoose name is Fear. Once I learnt what they could say they wanted names like people, so I gave them some", as she talked my eyes was on Fear, he was quite scary looking and that put me off slightly, I know why he was called Fear.
"Zangoose Zan", Fear started to talk but I had no idea what he was talking about. He was looking up and Sim which my gaze followed.
"Tom wanted to know that I could understand you so I could help him", she replied, my jaw dropped knowing that she was speaking the truth, that she had learnt how to understand them. I looked over to Fear with my jaw still dropped and he gave me a cold stare that made me back off slightly and closed my mouth. Fear let out an annoyed puff of air before walking off to Sim and hitting his pokeball, being returned into it. My scared surprised look turned to confusion as I looked back at Sim.
"You see Fear doesn't like to be out unless it's for a battle", she said as she rubbed the back of her head. I let out a sigh and turned my attention to Snowy that was still standing there, once she saw that I was looking at her she started to speak.
"Sneasel", she said looking at back up to Sim before running and hitting her pokeball and was returned just like Fear. I was again confused with her pokemon actions as I looked back at her.
"And snowy gets a bit shy around other people", Sim continued to rub her head, which only lead to me shaking mine.
"What was the point of that?", I asked, her pokemon were barely out, and did more to confuse me than to make friends with me.
"I did that to show you that you can learn what they are saying. Since Sora can speak both languages, it should be much easier", Sim gave me another warm smile before continuing, "And who knows, you could even learn what the other pokemon are saying with Sora's help speeding it all up".
"I guess...", I didn't really know what to say, it would be cool to learn what everyone is talking about, even what Sora is saying right now would be awesome, but just how long does it take and how do I even start. Before I could ask Sim she got up and started to walk towards the pokemon center.
"Come on Tom. Let's go find Tabatha and get some breakfast", she said as she walked. I sat there for a little longer, thinking about my options.
'I guess I could learn to understand pokemon, but that doesn't help with protecting anyone... I guess for now I will just drop the subject of becoming like Sora, but I won't forget about it'. I thought before getting up and taking a look up to the sky which was slowly turning bright due to the sun rising, "From now on things will be different", I mumbled to myself before running to catch up with Sim.
Sim and I found Tabatha in the room Sora was in, she was sitting on the chair in the corner of the room watching Luna, Dash and Pulse while also looking after Sora. Sim and I walked in, my gaze was quickly directed to Tabatha, and her gaze at me.
"So you going to make that promise yet?", she asked, crossing her arms waiting for my answer.
"Yeah I will", I simply told her, I wasn't going to tell her my new plan of learning to understand Sora, but if she knew it wouldn't of mattered either way. Tabatha grew slightly happier with this.
"Good. Now then, breakfast", she got up and walked over to me, waiting for me to respond.
"I will catch up, I'm going to stay for a bit", I told her.
"Fine", Tabatha walked over to the bed and picked up Dash and Pulse, interrupting the conversation the three were having. She placed them on her shoulders before continuing on to pick up Luna, just like last time Luna started to growl and backed off, indicating that she wanted to stay, "Fine, stay here", Tabatha sort of snapped at her, she didn't like Luna acting like that towards her. Tabatha turned back around and headed towards the door before stopping near me.
"I don't know what's gotten into her but I'll bring back some food for her. Catch up when you can", Tabatha didn't even look at me when she talked, and just walked out of the room with Dash and Pulse on her shoulders.
"She seems to be taken things hard as well", I told Sim.
"Yeah, she doesn't like seeing friends like this, I asked why but she didn't want to say", Sim responded, before making her way out only to stop at the doorway, "You going to join us?".
"Yeah, like I said I will be there soon", I told her before she too made her way out, closing the door as she went, 'Tabatha, you're hiding something from us. When I find out what it is and if it's something that could hurt any of us... then look out', I had a dark thought, but it was mostly to protect everyone. She was hiding something from us and I wanted to know what, but one day we will find out.
I moved away from my thoughts and walked over to Luna, kneeling down so we could be looking face to face, "Luna something's up with you and Sora. Dash and Pulse care for him as well and you don't see them acting this way, what's wrong", I asked, forgetting the fact I couldn't understand her.
"Eev eevee", she responded, I had no idea what she just said, to me it was just her saying what she was over and over again.
I looked down to the floor, 'I don't see how I can learn what she's saying', I thought. I had no idea how Sim managed it, but if she could then anyone could if they had the patience, "Luna, I've been thinking", I said looking back up at her.
"Eev?", she responded.
"I... want to learn what your saying", Luna cocked her head to the side, "I know it sounds weird, but I want to be able to understand you. It will differently help in the future, and we could finally talk to each other properly. And it will help take our minds off Sora", I said looking over to him, this plan better work to help me forget about what happened. Luna did the same and dropped her ears a bit looking at him before looking back and nodding which made me very happy.
"Great! Er... I don't know how to start...", I said stupidly, Luna knew this as she shook her head. I wanted to learn but I didn't think about how I would even start.
"Eevee", Luna said, I looked at her, trying to figure out what she was saying, she was trying to get things started.
"Um...", I tried hard to to figure out, but nothing came to me.
"Eevee", she tried again. One would think after all this time I have spent with her this would be easier, it just sounded like eevee to me. I thought about it and took a shot in the dark with an easy answer.
"Are you saying Tom?", I asked, Luna looked happy and nodded, "Don't be so happy, I just guessed", Luna happy face went away as she shook her head once again. I leaned back and moved onto the wall behind me rubbing my eye, "This is harder than I thought...".
When I finished rubbing my eye I looked to my side and saw Sora's bag, it was unzipped and I could see his journal sitting inside, "I shouldn't, but... maybe one peak", I reached in and pulled it out, Luna saw what I was doing and quickly acted.
"Eevee Eev!", she shouted as she jumped off the bed and landed next to me, quite pissed.
"Woah! Easy Luna! I just wanted to see how he's been fairing with all this", Luna seemed to calm slightly, taking a seat next to me, even she wanted to know, "So you're fine with this?", I asked just to make sure, I didn't want her to bite me, when it came to Sora lately she would do anything. Luna nodded letting me let out a sigh of relief as I opened it up, this felt wrong but I wanted to know.
I read through a number of entries most of them detailing the main events of that day and how Sora felt about them. Reading them made me sad at what Sora put down, he didn't like the way we acted to his changes nor did he like it either, I could also see that he neglected to mention the time his emotions took over, maybe something he didn't want to remember, to be honest I didn't either. I told Luna about most of it, the parts I wanted her to know, she also wasn't happy.
I read on to when we were at Pewter City, in all of them he mentioned the way Luna was acting around him. I told Luna this and she looked away from me, embarrassed about it, it made me chuckle slightly, but the other thing he also written in it along with that made me pause. Sora had some strange feelings when around Luna, this must of been one of those things he didn't want to talk about to us. He doesn't really know what it is, but what he came up with is that Aeon feels the same way and thinks that Umbreons just don't like Eevees, I told Luna this and it almost made her cry, I helped her relax but hopefully it isn't true, I don't know how the future will look if Sora starts to hate Luna.
I then read the last entry in the book, this one gave me a better insight into what Sora felt when that pikachu died. Luna wanted to know what I was reading about, batting at the book with her paw, "Luna... you don't want to know about this", I told her, I put the book down and looked back to the bag, inside I also saw the doll Sora got when we were at Viridian City, 'He would want this with him', I thought, I grabbed the doll and got up, I walked to Sora and place the doll under the covers for him, 'There, now you will have Jirachi and your parents looking after you', I walked away from the bed and made my way to the door, "I'm going to get lunch, I will bring something back for you", I told her as I stopped at the door opening it slightly, I turned around and looked over to Luna, I left the page of the book open and she tried her best to read it, but she gave up swatting the book away and looking down at the floor.
'I guess we all got our own problems...', I thought as I made my way out closing the door and heading to find the others.
Days went by and still no change in Sora. Luna has barely left the room, mostly keeping to Sora side, only moving to eat the food we bring in for her, and when we try again in our language lessons. Brock came by at some point to see Sora, we told him what happened and even the mighty Gym Leader got sad over Sora's condition.
Another day went by and we saw on the news that there was a story about Sora's condition, they say that they are deeply saddened by this event and hope for him to get better, but they just want ratings more than anything else. Along with that people came up with some flowers and get well soon card, these people we haven't even met before were wish him well. I guess Sora really did leave an impact on people. But after this day we keep a closer eye on Sora, since everyone knows where he is and that he is unconscious, we didn't want anyone to come after him.
About a week went by since we got Sora to the pokemon center and I'm still no closer in understanding what Luna is talking about.
"Eevee eev", Luna said again, she seemed to be getting impatient with me.
"Um... My name is Luna?", I responded for the sixth time now, Luna just shook her head again, "Er... You are Tom?", I tried again, Luna looked angry and hit me in the head with her paw, it wasn't hard as she would've lost her balance if she did try harder, but it still got the message across, "Yes I get it, I suck at this", I leaned back and moved to the wall.
"Eevee", Luna said laying down on the bed.
"I know I need to get better, it's just hard, really hard", I told her, she perked her ears up when I responded to her, "I only guessed what you said Luna, I still don't understand anything", Luna dropped her head onto the bed, she seemed pissed off, I would be as well.
I was about to tell her that we can try tomorrow when a new sound echoed through the room, it was only sounds of beeps but being in this room for a week made that missed placed. I looked around the room trying to find the source of that noise, Luna was also curious as she joined in as well. I got up and walked around trying to get a better view of the area, when the sound returned again, a sequence of three beeps sounded, I looked over to the corner and found something different, it was the machine that was hooked up to Sora, but it seemed different, the screen had something flashing on it and it made the three beep nose again. I walked close to see if I could find anything different with it, but I still didn't know what this machine showed me.
I looked over to the wall where a button was, Nurse Joy on the third day here told me if anything happened to press this button, and right now it seemed like a good time to. I pressed the button but nothing happened, I figured that it could be some kind of silent alarm and didn't dare in pressing it again in case I would piss off Nurse Joy.
I got away from the button and looked to Sora, I was hoping that he was awake, but he wasn't. Something was happening and I wanted to know what.
"Eevee?", Luna spoke up.
"I don't know what's going", I told her. The door opened up as Nurse Joy walked in followed by Tabatha and Sim, Dash and Pulse were on Tabatha shoulders, "Why are you here?".
"Nurse Joy ran into us on her way here and said that something was going on", Tabatha explained.
"So what's happening?", Joy asked, I pointed to the machine near me.
"I don't know how to read that. I was making different noises that I haven't heard it do before", I told her. Joy walked over and stared at the screen and what it showed, it wasn't long before she smiled and turned back to me and the others.
"It's saying that Sora's brain activity has increased slightly, which means his mind is repairing itself", Joy told us. My heart raced with the news.
"You mean he will wake up?!", I shouted acting all excited over the news.
"Well it was a slight increase, but yes he will. It will still be awhile maybe another week or more but he will wake up", this news I was receiving was the best thing I ever heard, even the time I was deadly sick when I was eight and I got the news I was going to make a full recovery didn't top this. Besides me I think Luna was the most happiest about this news, she walked up to Sora's head and poked it with her paw, while Dash and Pulse jumped off Tabatha and landed on the bed stand on Sora's side.
"Luna, he won't wake up yet. Please don't do that", I told her, she looked back at me still smiling as she laid down near his head, even being told off wouldn't have affected her mood, the only thing that would is if Joy told us that she made a mistake, but hopefully that won't happen, this is the happiest I have seen her.
I turned back around to Joy, "Thank you", I said. Joy smiled eyes closed.
"It's what I do. If you need anything let me know", she said as she walked back out the door, going back to what she was doing. Tabatha and Sim walked over to me, they were also cheerful of the news.
"See, everything is fine. You don't have to sulk in here everyday now", Tabatha told me, it sounded like she was back to her old self, trying to annoy other people for fun, but it wouldn't work, not now.
"Actually, I'm going to stay in here everyday until he wakes up", I answered back, taking a seat on the chair.
"Please don't tell me you still think you're responsible?".
"I am... but we all know whos to blame in the long run", I told them, I looked back to Sora and the pokemon on the bed, they were talking to each other, most likely excited for Sora to wake up, "But right now there's no time to think about things like that. We should enjoy this and hope Sora will be fine".
Nothing much happened as the days went by, I was still failing in trying to learn what Luna was saying, I didn't want to ask Sim for help as I wanted to do this on my own. Sora's activity increased as well, like Joy said it was slow but he was getting better. Another news report said that Sora was going to be alright and was going to make a full recovery, I didn't know where they were getting their information from, but I didn't care, we won't know if he is the same until he wakes up.
It has been a week since Sora began to get better, I didn't care how long it took, I just wanted him to be alright. I was having lunch with Tabatha and Sim, our pokemon were eating near us, besides Luna, she hasn't left Sora's side since day one and was still there.
"...Tom?", Sim called out to me waving a hand in front of my face snapping me out of my train of thought.
"What?".
"Were you listening to me?", she said, I shook my head, "Argh... I said what are your plans for the Cerulean Gym? Your pokemon aren't really the best for that battle", Sim repeated herself.
"Er... well I haven't really thought about it, I guess I could catch another pokemon, but I'm sure Luna and Wing could handle it", I told her.
"Well as good as they are, I doubt they could win a battle underwater", Sim said with a slight smirk on her face.
"Hey they could do it! Just a bit of special training is all that's needed".
"Ha!", Tabatha blurted out after swallowing her mouth full of food.
"What do you mean Ha!?".
"I mean, Wing isn't the best, if his wings got wet it will be hard to fly. And Luna won't be the best swimmer, I haven't even seen her near water. Actually on that note, have you even given her a bath?", Tabatha asked me giving me a suspicious eyes.
"No, I don't need to she does it herself".
"Oh Tom!", Sim and Tabatha exclaimed.
"What? Haven't you seen her lick her fur?".
"That doesn't mean that's she's clean! You have to do it. Sora does it with his pokemon", Tabatha told me, I chuckled at the comment about Sora.
"Sora can smell them that's why", I joked about his sense of smell, although this did remind me of his changes again, it the end it only made me sad.
"Tom! Go do it now! Or I will tell Sora about the little talk we had two weeks ago", Tabatha threatened me, she would tell Sora that I was thinking about coming like him, this would only make him depressed and concerned for me.
"No no! No need for that! I'll do it", I said quickly getting off my seat and started to walk back to get Luna, I could hear Tabatha and Sim giggling as I left, 'She's going to hang that over my head forever... but my main problem now is, how do I get Luna out of that room', Luna didn't even want to leave to eat, she really only left to do her business and thats about it, getting her out of that room to give her a bath would be a challenge.
I walked to the room trying to come up with the best way to trick her to get out, "Maybe I can tell her that there is trouble and I need her help... no she would just hate me after that, and bite me", I mumbled to myself, "Maybe I can get someone to use a Water Gun attack on her so she doesn't have to leave... no that would get Sora wet, not to mention the machine he's hooked up to", I couldn't figure out a way that didn't end up with something getting destroyed or me getting bitten.
I opened the door to the room, "Maybe I can get... Sora", I looked over to the bed and found my brother sitting up and hugging Luna, he stopped once I walked in.
"Sora...?", I was speechless, it's been two weeks and he is finally awake, I thought about what I would do when he got up, but when it came time to it I was frozen in place.
"Hey Tom, long time no see".
A/N: That was a different chapter, seeing the world through Tom's eyes made it real different didn't it, and the fact that all our pokemon friends couldn't be understood was annoying.
Now you see what Tom has been thinking, he wants to become like Sora just so he could still be brothers and to protect him as much as he could, but will he go through with that plan?
Tom wants to learn how to understand their pokemon, and it doesn't seem to be working out too well, hopefully he will learn soon.
What do you guys think about this chapter, I would like to know since this was the first one that didn't involve our main character and I want to see if it was good or not.
Next chapter things get a bit touchy with Sora and a fellow friend, as Sora finally understands what an unknown feeling meant, but it all doesn't go well for our two brothers.