Chapter 5:

The Fifth-Eevee

That should do it.

I must be going mad. Most interesting thing about these voices is that they all sound different. Can they sound different inside my head? Yes. Even if they can't, they're different voices, that much is obvious.

I've unselected your two moves and have given you the Refresh technique. You're welcome.

I couldn't help but hear a tiny bit of sarcasm in his voice. He's helping me out though, so it's all cool. So let's see...Move Selected: Refresh. Lights move across my body, finding my various cuts and bruises and slowly healing them.

This may seem useful, but don't always resort to it in a fight. It takes up more energy to sustain than other moves, it can't heal big things like bones or huge gashes, and it takes time as well.

Good to know. I use the light on my body to look around the tunnel. It's a mixture between muddy earth and cold stone. It's small too, but long on its opposite sides. Almost circular as well, with the bottom evened out. In fact, this feels to even to be natural. Must of been made by some Pokemon.

Well? We don't have all day. Actually, let me correct myself. You don't have all day. Drink some water and get going, you're going to need to find food quickly if you don't want to starve to death.

I nod, padding over to a small trickle of water at the side of the tunnel. After a small drink, I start down the tunnel. The scent down here is musky. Musky and earthy. I'm not a fan of it. I turn my head around. Goodbye voice, thanks for the help.

Nah, you're stuck with me until the end of the tunnel kid. You haven't gotten rid of me just yet.

I guess the company will be nice. So do the voices know who the dream dweller is? That'd sure be helpful.

Do I look like the sorta guy that'd know that? Sorry, but I don't know that stuff.

He just appeared to the lot of us individually to give us a few tips. Like how I knew you'd be coming down that hole. He even recommended the Refresh technique.

The dream dweller does have my back after all, huh.

Yeah, I'm just supposed to bring you through this tunnel. Preferably alive, so get a move on.

It's not like I want to die.

Sure seems like it.

Shut up. I quicken my pace though, even though my legs argue against it. Why are you even here? I would guess that the dream dweller sent you to help me, but you did say that he visited you. Voices are more created.

Nah, we've been in your head the whole time. We were created with you, and we will die with you. And we've been..alive before you realized it. We just didn't have a way to communicate with you.

Are you with the other voices often?

Not really. We rarely get together as a group. Works for me, I prefer to be alone. Anyway, it's most common that we meet in pairs. It can get annoying, having to be the only one there to deal with some of these idiots.

Figured, since you guys are constantly leaving me and being replaced with a new voice. What's allowing you to stay so long anyway?

I guess I just have more willpower than the others. It'd make sense.

Sure it would, sure it would. Thanks for all the help by the way.

Don't mention it. You die, I die, and I don't feel like dying. So what are you going to do after you get out of the cave?

Well, dream dweller said to follow my seventh sense. By now, I'm pretty sure he means the seventh voice.

So you want me to leave so that I can get replaced by someone better? I see how it is.

That's not what I meant, you know that. Silence. He couldn't have left me yet..We were getting a nice little conversation going. Something sane, that a regular Eevee would do. Not this wacko adventure I'm going to be trapped into going on. It's nice to have someone to suffer with you, in a way.

Glad you think that.

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The exit to the tunnel is approaching. Oh, and after having thought about it, I figured out who the seventh is.

..Well?

Say please.

Really?

Yes. I need some appreciation.

I already thanked you, and you said you didn't care.

Maybe I just want to hear your thoughts say please.

Fine. Please may you tell me who the seventh is.

It's Glay.

Glay? You guys have names?

Of course, I'm-

I take another step, and my paw meets the cold, wet snow on the ground. Looking around, I realize that I had made it to the end of the cave. Huh. Well, it stinks that the voice had to go so abruptly, and right when I was about to get some answers. Maybe Glay, the seventh voice, will be able to explain more.

Wait, is he tricking me again? Are you still there? Nothing. I wait for a minute, listening for the voice inside of my head. Silence. Guess he actually did leave this time. I step outside, into the cold embrace of snowy weather.

I shiver as a chill goes up my spine. My stomach rumbles as well. I better get something to eat. I look around, but all I can see is rock and snow. A feeling of tiredness fills my body. Move Unselected: Refresh. Probably should have done that sooner. My ear perks up. There's someone nearby, not very far of here.

I follow the sound, running through the snow. More Pokemon in the same situation as me. That's what he said. I must be close to where I'm supposed to be now. The sound is getting louder. I spot another cave, and move towards it. The sound is coming from there. It sounds like...something is being smashed. Rock? I slow down and cautiously approach the entrance.