Silver stretched his arms as he slowly woke up. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, yawning. He stretched his back out a little bit, before moving his legs off of the bed and standing up. He walked out of the bedroom and through the house, making it to the kitchen. He went to a cabinet and took out a bowl and a box of cereal. He poured out some cereal into the bowl before going to the fridge to retrieve some milk. He took a gallon jug and poured some milk into his bowl, putting away the cereal and the milk afterwards. He took his bowl and a spoon and moved to the dining room table. He sat down and ate his breakfast.
As Silver ate his breakfast, his Pokémon walked in through the hallway. A Luxray.
"Good morning, Spark." Silver said. He had named him 'Spark', due to how his body would give off electricity.
Spark nodded to him. He didn't make much noise, knowing that Silver couldn't understand him, so he just used body language to communicate.
Spark made his way over to Silver and sat down next to him, waiting for Silver to finish his meal. This was a normal routine for them.
Silver finished his breakfast, got up, and put his bowl into the sink in his kitchen.
He then walked past Spark again and went back to his room. Spark was confused, and got up to follow and see what he was up to. This wasn't something usual.
Silver was sitting on his bed, typing away on his laptop as Spark walked in. Spark moved over towards Silver's bed, jumped up onto it, and went over to Silver to see what he was up to.
Being able to read, Spark reviewed what was on the digital screen. Even though he understood what he was using, as it said 'PSPad' on the top of the window, he didn't understand what he was doing. All he could see was a bunch of brackets, abbreviations, numbers and parameters, with the occasional appearances of the words 'earpiece' and 'speech'.
Spark kept looking through, trying to figure out why it was there, what it was for, and what Silver was doing typing this.
Silver noticed Spark's presence.
"Oh, hi, Spark." he said. "I'm programming something."
Spark was confused as to what, but Silver answered, as if he was reading his mind.
"It's meant for something I'm trying to make this thing do." he picked up a small earpiece, something he usually used for his video game. "I… don't exactly want to tell you what it'll do, yet… But it'll make things a lot easier! You'll see!"
Spark watched him type away. Silver eventually moved the window to the side, Spark catching some text in the bottom right corner.
Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview
Evaluation copy. Build 10130
Spark had no idea what a 'Windows' was, or what his little laptop had to do with 10 of them, but the thought soon left his mind.
Silver clicked on a small bar on the bottom left of the screen with the words 'Ask me anything' in it next to a circle.
A small window protruded out of it, with a spinning circle design above the words 'Can I be of assistance?' underneath.
Silver typed in 'Pokémon speech patterns' into the box on the bottom and hit enter. A new window opened titled 'Microsoft Edge' with a white 'e' design in the middle against a blue background. It was soon replaced with a search page, and Silver visited a few links.
Spark felt a little weirded out and decided to stand up. He hopped off of the bed and headed out the door.
Silver watched him leave, sighed, and closed the laptop and set it down. He followed Spark out of the room.
"Alright, let's go and train." Silver said. Training is what they usually did. Spark perked up and they both headed out the door.
They both headed through some thick woods, not far from behind their house. They travelled pretty far from their home until there was absolutely no sign of people whatsoever. Spark's eyes glowed gold for a moment. He acted startled, and quickly moved the direction he was facing. Silver had never seen Spark act like this before. He wondered what it was.
Spark ran in the same direction, Silver struggling to keep up. They soon came across an injured Pokémon, a Ninetales. A shiny Ninetales. It seemed to have its right hind leg badly injured.
Spark went up to it and inspected its leg, and Silver got down on one knee next to it. The Ninetales' red eyes looked into his. He almost felt like he was being hypnotized.
"Let's take it to the house." he said, not breaking eye contact with the Ninetales. "Maybe we can help it."
Spark nodded. He slowly helped the Ninetales up.
Silver paused when he looked away from the Ninetales' eyes. He never thought of that. Was his mind being controlled? He looked back to the Ninetales who was giving him a sly grin, almost in a humorous manner.
Silver shook his head and forced himself to dismiss it, deciding that he would worry about it later. He decided to just pick up the Ninetales, since it wasn't that heavy. 50 pounds at the most.
They made their way to the house. Silver kept looking at the admittedly pretty creature. He was surprised how well the creature was holding up with a possibly broken leg.
"You alright?" he asked the poor fox.
It made a small hum sound. Silver wasn't sure what that meant, but at least it wasn't dead or something.
He got into the house, and set the Ninetales gently on his couch. He turned and moved to his room. He searched for something that would help it. He looked in his closet and found some gauze. Perfect. He thought.
He went back to the injured Ninetales. He inspected its leg carefully to see what exactly happened. On close inspection, it didn't look like an actual break… it looked like a gunshot wound.
Silver turned to the kitchen and searched through some drawers, looking for some tweezers. He searched through three before being successful. He went to the Ninetales once more, tweezers in hand.
"This might hurt." he said to it. "I'll try to make it as quick and painless as possible, but if it hurts, please know that I don't intend it to. Okay?"
The Ninetales sighed, looking away.
Silver found where the wound was. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened his eyes, and put the tweezers near the wound. He quickly retrieved the bullet successfully, virtually painless to the Ninetales.
Silver dropped the bullet on a table next to the Ninetales. "Got it." he said. The Ninetales looked at the bullet, inspecting it. "That was in your leg." Silver said.
Silver then picked up the gauze, unraveled it, and wrapped it around the Ninetales' leg. This caught it off guard; it was still focused on the bullet.
Silver finished wrapping the gauze around its leg. He looked at the Ninetales' face as it looked back at him. Its eyes were so captivating… It was like he was being hypnotized once again.
He sat there, staring into its eyes, not realizing that Spark was right next to him. The Ninetales stared back. Unbeknownst to Silver, the Ninetales was going through his thoughts and memories, learning about what kind of person he was. Most Ninetales' could control other's minds, but this one could search through them and talk into them as well. Even if it was subtle.
Silver then noticed a tear escape one of the Ninetales' eyes. She was seeing the part of his memory when he was saved by Spark, and when he had realized that Pokémon actually existed, and realized that his parents didn't make it.. It was sad, but also beautiful to her. Mixed emotions. It made her subtly cry.
"Are you okay?" Silver asked. "Is it your leg?"
He could've sworn that she was taking it like a champ.
The Ninetales didn't break eye contact for some strange reason. Silver was getting a little worried.
She discovered that he was raised by Spark before he was capable enough of taking care of himself. Spark had taken a huge burden onto himself by choice.
The Ninetales had finally had enough. She turned her head.
"What's wrong?" Silver asked. Did she know something he didn't?
The Ninetales took a deep breath. It tried standing up, but couldn't due to its injured leg. It kept trying, but failed.
"I'd recommend staying still." Silver said. "You don't want to make matters worse."
The Ninetales stopped trying to move and sighed. She looked out the window. It was starting to get dark already.
Silver noticed this. "Look, you can come in my room for the night, or stay in here. What would you want to do?"
The Ninetales looked down the hallway towards Silver's room, then back to him. She flicked her head towards his room.
Silver didn't know why or how she knew where his room was, but he dismissed it.
"Alright." he said. He gently picked her up, and moved to his room. When they got to his room, Silver placed her carefully at the foot of his bed. "There you are."
The Ninetales watched him as he got into his bed, not thinking about changing his clothes. He planned on taking a shower in the morning.
"Hopefully you'll be able to rest." he said. "If you can't, I'm sorry. I'll get up if that's the case."
The Ninetales appreciated his attitude. It was rare. He was very caring.
Silver covered himself with the blanket.
"Goodnight…" he said. "Oh, and if you need anything, don't hesitate to let me know."
The Ninetales nodded, settling down.
Within about fifteen minutes, Silver was asleep.
Noticing this, the Ninetales sat up. She looked at Silver further out of curiosity. She then looked around his poorly lit room, still being able to see. She didn't see anything very interesting, but then saw his laptop, having no idea what it was.
She got up and limped off of the bed. She looked at the closed laptop, inspecting it. Not figuring it out, she eventually dismissed it.
She looked back at Silver before making her way back up onto the bed. She moved over to him and lied down next to him, them both facing each other.
She set her head onto his pillow and closed her eyes before going to sleep.
Chapter 3 is still being worked on. It is much longer than this chapter. Please stay tuned!