7

The rest of that night I hardly sleep. All I can think about is what happened that night. Jenny may have died on an order she didn't believe in, when there were other options… Why?! I scream inside my head. I decide to try and push it out of my head, and I turn a bit in my sleeping bag. I turn around, and I find eevee licking my forehead. She gives me reassuring eyes, and I pet her. "Thanks." I say, and fall into a deep sleep.

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My eyes open slowly. I rub the crust from them and get up to a sitting position and look around. My eevee is sleeping soundly on the ground, but I look a little past her and see a Ninetails.

I stay in the sleeping bag and say, "You are from Jenny, aren't you?"

I am. She sent me here so I may travel with you.

"Whoa, you can talk?…"

Did you see my mouth move? Telepathy.

"Oh…" I nod. "Okay, so, do you like have a pokéball or something?"

You don't seem as mature as you were back in viridian…

"Well, I just woke up, kinda tired still…" I rub my eyes again. "You didn't answer my last question." She groans as she flicks her head at me and a pokéball loosely attached to a tentative collar flies off toward me. I catch it and give it a look, as it has a little red fire symbol at the top.

I ask her. "Well, if you can talk, what do you suppose I should call you?"

Abby.

I raise an eyebrow. "An awfully human name, isn't it?"

Just shut up and put me in the pokéball, I'm kind of tired and I don't feel like walking today. She finishes and I shrug, returning her to the pokéball in a red flash. I get up, and walk into the trees with my backpack to get dressed and go for a little walk. I don't bother to wake up my eevee, seeing as she was up as late as me and I get up fairly early. I walk in to a small patch of trees, undress, and get some clothes out of my backpack.

A voice, giggling, comes from the trees. "You should look around more before getting ready in the morning."

I instantly blush and cover myself with the shirt I just took off. "Who is there, and why are you peaking?"

"Oh cool your jets, Mr. Naked." Serena comes out from behind a tree with her eevee having it's breakfast on a rattata. "Why are you up so early? I would have thought you were so distraught from last night."

"Did you just say?…" I start, but she interrupts me.

"Now now, I can be smart when I feel like it, and early morning is 'it' for me normally. So… How is this morning going for you?"

I feel a wincing pain in my leg, and assume it is a charlie horse cramp. "Eh, I'm standing naked in front of a girl I hardly know?"

She chuckles. "Oh come on, it's not that big a deal. We aren't in public…" She walks forward to take away the shirt, when I feel a shocking pain go up my leg, much worse than any cramp. I fall over and scream in agony, the pain making every nerve from my left foot all the way up to my left arm yell "You are gonna die here." I curl up into a ball on the ground, and I find a small piece of rope pressed into my mouth from Serena. As I tear up from the pain I nod, and try to say thanks through the rope, but I find myself biting it incredibly hard. The pain lasts for a while, and I find myself unable to pass out, which is what I want to happen, to end this pain. Still naked and barely able to see, I try to look at my surroundings. A few pokémon have gathered about, but stay in trees or bushes, farther away. Serena left, I'm guessing to wake Sakura.

Finally, after a few minutes, which seem to last hours, a jolt of pain runs through my whole body and I lose consciousness.

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I wake up, on my sleeping bag and fully clothed, back at the campsite. I turn my head slowly to see Sakura a few feet to my left, petting my eevee, who is looking very worried and teary. I turn my head the other direction, but don't see Serena anywhere. I try to get up, but collapse. I here eevee yell and rush over to me, Sakura following slowly behind. I look at them and smile weakly. "Hey… how long have I been out?"

"A couple hours." Says Sakura. "Your scream woke us all up. Though the last thing I expected was to find you naked." I freeze, and then feel that I am wearing clothes again. Sakura laughs. "We wouldn't leave you naked to sleep. What if someone came by? Now you wait here, Serena is getting you some medicine. Even if it's a curse, we can get you up on your feet at least."

I do my best to nod, but can't really. I sit there with eevee at my side and I decide it is a good time to try and sleep.

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I wake up in an unfamiliar place. Not thinking of what happened that day, I get up from the sleeping bag, fully clothed in my darker shirt and shorts, with no shoes though. The area is dark, kind of smoky almost. I don't see solid ground, but walk forward anyway. I land on smooth, cold floor, like tile. Everything around me is swirling, and purple tinted. I continue to walk forward, surrounded by this dark, misty purple substance, until a light appears before me. It is door shaped, tall and a rectangle. I reach forward as if to open a door, and clutch a doorknob, despite there being nothing there. I swing open the door, and see a distant figure, a man. He is quite tall, and wearing a white training kimono, and a sword sheathed at his side. He takes it out, and points it at me, blade down. He mutters one word, and I at such a great distance somehow hear it. "Hurry."