Part 5

The dream faded into darkness and I could hear my surroundings. I felt my heart sink. I wanted the dream to go on! But I felt that I was laying on something…or someone, and that I was holding onto them. I quickly opened my eyes and saw that I was lying on top of a sleeping/unconscious Flareon. My mind wandered back to Scylla and the fall.

"That's right," I thought. "I fell right on him."

I jumped off of him with a start, my face flushing, and my heart racing. How embarrassing! He woke up also and stared at me with a dazed look. Then, suddenly, my head burst out with a horrible pain. I gripped it, shutting my eyes hoping that it would do some good, but obviously it didn't.

"Ouch!" I cried over and over.

"It's about time you woke up…" he grumbled underneath his breath, but loud enough that I could hear.

"You were out too." I pointed out.

"I had already woken up. But you seemed so out of it that I just let you sleep. Couldn't move or else I would have woken you up."

I grunted.

"You snore as loud as a Snorlax." He joked.

"Do not!"

He laughed, and when he laughed I couldn't help but laugh with him. He had a light chuckle of a laugh, light and carefree. I had just met this Jolteon- he was a stranger to me, and yet I felt as if I had known him forever.

"So what's a Drakeon like you doing all the way in the Kanto region?" He said with a witty tone, eyeing my tattoo, as if he knew something I didn't.

"A what-a-what-eon?" I asked. "I don't think I've heard of one of those before. New species?"

"It's an eeveelution, you fool," He said. "The dragon type…you know?"

Now I was confused. I looked at him and shook my head. I must still be unconscious or must have really hit my head hard for me to be hearing such nonsense. How could a Flareon know who I was?

In the background I could hear Scylla, Thorn and others whom I didn't recognize reminiscing about something.

"That's right." He sighed. "I'm a Flareon. Of course you don't recognize me. My name is ….uh…"

I waited for an answer, but an answer didn't come. I watched as he looked down in wonder, and after a while, I started to get impatient. Nothing new about that one. I looked to the right and saw Scylla conversing with a Charizard. A Charizard! I have seen one in my life when I was a little girl. One of my father's pupils had one. This was certainly going to be an adventure to remember. But it wasn't much of a conversation. Scylla looked rather bothered by something and Charizard looked like he just didn't care. It was quite a funny sight. On the other side was Gabite messing around with a Magby, and a houdour whom seemed as if he wanted to pick a fight. Just looking at him made me agitated. The way he held himself. Smug and arrogant. It made me gnash my teeth together. Losing interest, I turned my attention back to the Flareon.

"Is something wrong?" I asked, "You never answered who you were."

"I-I don't know who I am." He said.

"My mind feels blank about who I am...I don't know who I am… Some of my friends called me Fluffy, but who was I really?"

He paused, looking down.

"I guess you can call me Ignis; Iggy for short." He smiled brightly but then looked confused again. "

But...I still don't know who I actually am..."

I nodded slowly. He certainly was strange. But then an amusing smile tickled at my lips.

"Iggy… what kind of a name is that?!" I bursted out laughing and the Flareon blushed.

"Oh hey Look at my, I'm IGNIS, I was named after my great great great great… great great GRANDfather!" I burst out into laughter once more. The Flareon was fuming with anger now.

"Well what kind of a name is A-ne-mo-ney?" He had a mimic voice going now. "Oh look at me; I was named after a PLANT!" He spat.

"It's not a plant; it's a flower, Fuzzbucket!" I hissed.

"What kind of a person would name their kid Anemone? It's as frilly as your girly flower, Lizard Lips!"

I stopped as the shock consumed me. I could feel my face reddening with anger but I didn't say a word. I bit my lip and looked away. Iggy's smile went away immediately.

"Hey, c'mon I was just kid-"

"How did you know I was human?" I demanded as I looked furiously into his eyes. Iggy looked surprised as his eyes opened wide and he stuttered.

"I-I-I, uh, I d-d-didn't know, I didn't even, I mean, you're a human?" He laughed nervously "I didn't know, I swear, I..Umm… Well because of your tattoo, of course." He said, more confidently now. "You are the dragon master Anemone. I met you once before. Don't you recognize me at all?"

I tilted my head to the side and looked at him like he was out of his mind. No.

I looked keenly into his eyes for the longest moment. I tried to see if he was lying or not. He was, but I didn't really want to continue this. The silence between the two is extremely uncomfortable, but after a while, I shrug.

"Fine…"

Iggy lets out a sigh of relief and smiles. Anemone looks away, still frustrated. Desperate to change the subject, Iggy begins to talk.

"Uh…Yeah a dragon type . I would expect a dragon master to know something like that!" He let out another nervous laugh but then breathed in and changed the topic.

"I have an Idea, we can head to Celadon. That is where I used to live….I think. Maybe I can find out who I was…or am…yeah…"

I nodded slowly in agreement and we told our pokemon to follow.