Eelizabeth's Tale
5
Elizabeth's eyes were darting between the wall clock and her front door. It was almost 4:00, but Jon still wasn't there. She got worried. What if his parents had found out the truth and wouldn't let him go? What if he just abandoned her?! No, she thought, Jon isn't like that, and neither are his parents. He's going to be bursting through that door any minute now. But it wasn't for fifteen more minutes until he did. "Jon!" Elizabeth shouted as she ran to him and began rubbing against his legs. "You scared me! I thought you weren't coming back! And I would stay as an eevee!"
Jon saw the worry in the eevee's eyes. "Hey," he said reassuringly, "I'm not that kind of person. It just…" he looked away, "I, um, it took longer than I thought it would to pack.
Elizabeth sensed that he wasn't telling the whole truth, but she was too overjoyed seeing him come back to think about it. "Oh, yeah, speaking of packing…" she ran on all fours to the kitchen, which she thought she saw Jon grin at, and came back with a small bundle in her teeth. "These are some things I thought that I, as a person, might need. Some clothes, for when I'm no longer furry, some money, ID, things like that." Jon put the items in his backpack. "By the way, Jon,"
"Hold on a sec." He finished putting the bundle away and rezipped his backpack. "Yes?"
"You'd better not plan on feeding me that junky pokemon food."
Jon ruffled her head fur, "Nah, I got stuff for both of us to eat. I did pack some though. It's not for you, unless of course you want it." He smirked "It's for my regular pokemon that I took on my pokemon journey last spring. You sure are lucky you have me as a partner, they should make traveling some areas easier. I think you should meet them. Come out guys!" he tossed several pokeball varieties into the air.
Beams of light shot from all of them, revealing a Pikachu, that looked high level, most likely his starter pokemon, along with a tropius, a lapras, and a togekiss. The last two pokeballs thrown were dusk balls, which Elizabeth reasoned held strong pokemon, due to their great capture potential when used at night. She was right. Out of one came a latias, which shocked Elizabeth that her friend had never mentioned to her that he had caught such a rare and powerful pokemon. Out of the other came a very large, almost unnaturally so, ninetails, whom Flashbolt ran up to.
"Well hello there!" he said kindly and with cunning, "Long time no see, eh? Aren't you a bit bigger that when I last saw you?"
"I, I don't remember you." It said, its voice a scared whisper. Flashbolt chuckled.
"Hey! Stay away from Ninetails! She's timid!" Jon announced as he shooed Flashbolt away. "You wouldn't happen to have a pokeball for him would you?"
"It's in the bundle I gave you." Elizabeth stated. Jon fished around in his pack until he found it. "Thanks Jon, I wouldn't want to put up with him all the way to Sinnoh. He makes a better pet when he stays quiet. But let him be until tomorrow."
"Suit yourself." Jon shrugged. "Make yourself acquainted with my pokemon." Jon walked away to the kitchen where he began to cook what, to Elizabeth and her improved senses, smelled like spaghetti.
She turned to face the pokemon. "Um, hey everyone. I'm Elizabeth."
The Pikachu stepped forward, "Elizabeth? That is name of Jon's friend. But you not human like Jon."
Elizabeth looked puzzled with the pikachu's impaired speaking. "Flashbolt?" She asked the jolteon. "Are all pokemon not as smart as you?"
Flashbolt sniffed indignantly. "I should sure hope not! Heck no, few are. Although I have met several alakazam, dragonite, laprases, and espeons that are. Other than them, no there are few others that reach my level of intelligence, with the exception of legendaries of course."
"Flashbolt!" Latias cried when she saw the eevee evolution. "I never thought that I'd have the pleasure of meeting you again!" She said angily. "I guess I'll just get you back now!"
"Stop!" Elizabeth cried when the legendary pokemon charged towards her pet. "He's helping me!"
Latias stopped in front of the girl. "You're nothing but a pitiful eevee. This is personal between me and Flashbolt." She looked closer at Elizabeth. "Oh, sorry. Upon closer inspection, I reason that you are Elizabeth Vance, the friend that Jon told us has been turned into a pokemon. Such a cruel fate for such a pretty girl."
"Tell me about it." she muttered.
"Oh? It seems you aren't taking this as seriously as you should. I don't think you understand. The longer you stay as a pokemon, the more of your humanity is drained away. The last girl that came was half mad by the time she got to us. We couldn't change her into a human in her state, so we…"
"I know, Flashbolt told me. Don't remind me of her fate. But you mean that if I stay a pokemon long enough, the mindset will stick?!"
"Don't worry, it would take about a year before you got to the point she was, your will is strong. Though I still would not take any unnecessary risks like evolution, capture, or just giving in to those instincts that you feel. Unless, do you want to be a pokemon?"
"No way! That's why we're going to such lengths to get the council's help."
"Okay. Though for a while, it will be good to have someone besides Lapras to have a civilized conversation with."
"Elizabeth!" Jon shouted from the kitchen, "Vittles are cooked and ready! You too, Latias!"
Elizabeth looked back to where Latias had been levitating, but instead saw herself, in human form. She thought how lucky Latias was to be able to change forms anytime she wanted, when she was trapped in an eevee's body.
"Oh," Latias said, and changed into a different girl, taller, but with flawless skin, dirty blonde hair, and green eyes. "Sorry, your image was in my mind. I forgot that it would be upsetting to you. Not to mention how confused it would make Jon." she laughed.
"It's fine. It was kind of a relief to remember what I used to look like."
"Good!" the girl smiled widely. "Now come on! It's spaghetti, and I can't remember when the last full meal, not counting that disgusting kibble that people give to pokemon, was!"
A faint smile passed Elizabeth's lips as she saw how peppy Latias was. I wonder what an entire journey with her and the other pokemon will be like. It doesn't matter, anything to get back my old human form. But would I really give anything? She thought of Flashbolt, Jon, her parents. She shrugged, That can wait. Right now I'm hungry! And she ran off to the table that Jon had set.
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