I love having free time on my hands. Too bad this'll all go away during the summer when I'm working. Well I plan on hitting at least 50 chapters by then.
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Chapter 7: No Longer Alone
"JASON!!" Someone yelled right in my nonexistent ear causing me to jump right to the ceiling which I clung to due me being a treecko. Forgot all about being able to climb on walls and ceilings.
"DON'T DO THAT!!" I yelled at whoever it was who scared the crap outta me. Looking...up I saw it was Mash who was laughing his ass off. "You fucking asshole...I would kill you...if only I knew how to use my moves." I pushed myself off the ceiling and fell to the floor on my back which knocked the air out of me.
"You can go ahead and try, with no true battle experience you won't stand a chance against me, even with the type advantage, but look on the bright side. You're green and red again like a normal treecko." He was right, I changed back to my normal colors I guess it does last for only so long. But for how long? Claus came out of the bathroom in a robe.
"Out." Was all he said, there wasn't much to be said here. He wanted his privacy to put his clothes on. I won't argue. So I went into the bathroom, to take my own shower. I may be a treecko, but I still have my humane sense of hygiene. I hopped into the tub and turned the hot water knob till the shower poured. The hot water actually fell behind me. Forgot about how short I was in this body. So I stepped back into the pouring water, closed my eyes, and thought.
"I have a choice to make...do I stick with Claus, or do I leave?" I asked myself. This is a really tough choice. Both have their pros and cons. Staying with Claus may seem like the best choice, but I'd then put their lives at stake. I don't want to make them suffer just for me. I also don't want to caught by some random trainer or to end up walking into the territory of some predators. I can't really defend myself yet.
"Man, what do I do? I can't just leave them that would make me feel like an asshole, but I can't just put their lives in danger by joining them." This is really a lose-lose situation here, and what do you do in a lose-lose situation? You wing it.
I finished showering and hopped out of the tub. I closed the bathroom door on my way in...this could be a problem. Opening a door has never before been hard in my entire life. I can't even climb on the walls because they were moist and ceramic. I tried jumping up to the doorknob only to slip off. I could stick to the door but only for a few seconds before sliding off.
"CLAUS! OPEN THE BATHROOM DOOR!" I yelled out. Not even sure if he was still there, but I could hear snickering. Mash is going to learn the meaning of his name soon enough when I do that to his face. We'll see who's laughing then.
The door opened, but it was Blake standing there.
"Can't open doors now? Some 'super treecko' you are." He teased. I see now that it was him snickering. I take back what I said about mash...wait no I still have to get him back for waking me up like that. I guess Claus told Blake everything, or a summary.
"It was wet, my paws aren't made to grip wet metal and ceramic things." I answered.
"Whatever, come on Claus is waiting for you outside." I wonder what he wants.
"By the way where were you yesterday?" I asked.
"Out preparing for the gym battle. As you should know, a gym battle is nothing like a normal trainer battle. One mistake could cost the whole battle." He answered. "Anyway lets go, Claus is waiting."
And so we left out of the hotel, the hallways were somehow brighter than before. Strange because there are no windows in the hallways. It was even brighter outside somewhat. I guess sunlight does reach through, barely. Blake led me to an open field where Claus stood watching his pokemon as they preformed simple exercises. Probably preparing for actual training. There were no other trainers in the area amazingly. An open field like this near a town or city with a gym is usually crowded.
"So you've decided to join us." Claus said after turning.
"How'd you manage to find an empty field like this?" I asked.
"I have my ways." He answered. "Before we begin," He held out a pokeball. "have you decided?"
"Not this again, can't I just travel along without having to go into the pokeball?" I asked.
"Sure, if you want to be at risk of being captured by anyone. All you need to do is go in once. I'll never put you back in unless I have to." He answered.
"Fine...I'll join you, but only because I don't want to be a target to everyone." I walked up to the pokeball and took a deep breath. "Before I go in," I turned to Mash. "what is it like?"
"It's like fucking hell. It burns to go in, it makes you sick to leave it. While you're in you see all of your worst nightmares." He answered. It was a lie and he noticed I didn't buy it. "It's like going to sleep except with no dream. Kind of like watching TV through your eyes, but without being able to move anywhere. You're not locked in place, you can turn, just not able to move forward or back even if you try. You'll be able to see everything going on outside of the pokeball, but you can never see the inside of one while in it." That did not make me feel better. Oh well...
"Hope this doesn't hurt..." I muttered. Never thought I'd be scared of anything like this. I can't press the button, my arm won't go any farther than right in front of it.
"You don't have to if you don't want to." Claus is trying to calm me down, but giving me a choice isn't exactly helping. The only way to beat the fear of doing something, is to just do it. After fighting with my arm disobeying a direct order to press that button for about 3 minutes I finally managed to get it to swing, but I hit Claus' hand sending the pokeball straight upwards into the air. I didn't know where it went but he was staring upwards. When I looked up it hit me right in the face. Guess there are two ways to fight the fear of doing something, just doing it, or being hit by it in the face. I can't even begin to describe the feeling of being sucked into a pokeball, but I'll try anyway. It felt as if I was being forcibly pulled into nothing, and then nothing. No feeling, no sound. As if everything just stopped, not like when your arm goes numb and you feel it there but not anything that is touching it. After a couple seconds it all came back. I could see everything...everything. Yes in all 360degrees. It's weird seeing like this, nothing I've ever imagined can compare to how odd this is. Turning my ass, spinning just made the view spin which made me very sick.
There was a bright flash and the pulling sensation came back. The light faded and the 360 view was gone. I was standing in the field again.
"Don't you ever...EVER, put me back in there. If you do, I swear..." I ended my threat before I gave one of them an emotional scar from something that I didn't even truly mean.
"Whoa calm down, it won't happen again. I promise." Claus said.
"It better not." I responded. My stomach felt like it had been hit from the bottom and pushed everything up causing me to puke.
"...You'll get used to it over time." He said. I hope so, I know there will be times where I'll have to go in again.
I spit out the last of whatever the hell I just coughed up, wiped my mouth off, and said. "Well that was pleasant."
"Yes...it really was. You should do that more often." The dratini said sarcastically.
"I'll be sure to." I continued the sarcasm.
"Okay I don't know what it just said but can we get started? We planned on leaving here within a week and all this talking is just slowing us down." Blake is pretty impatient. Really if they planned on leaving in a week and it has only been one day...wait they could lose at the gym. Forgot about that.
"Relax, we have plenty of time." Claus told Blake. "But, I guess we should get started. Jason you're with Blake." Wait...I just joined him and he won't even train me? Or is this his way of respecting my independence? Either way I'll be training so it doesn't really matter. Blake and I moved to a spot where we wouldn't interfere with Claus.
"Just because I had plusle hold back during your first fight does not mean I'll do it again." He tossed a pokeball and out of it came a charmander. It had a red ribbon on its tail like the one I gave my charmander...no it can't be.
Do you think I rushed with adding the characters? Well this will be the last one for a while. Oh you'll learn about Jason's color changing soon enough.