Eelizabeth's Tale

7

As Jon lay asleep peacefully next to her, Elizabeth was tossing and turning in a land of dreams…

She woke up next to Jon, right where she remembered that he had put her down the night before. She felt awkward, and she looked down what was causing her discomfort. At first she thought that she was probably sitting on her tail, but looking down, she saw that she was human again and that the feeling was caused by her trying to sit like an eevee would.

The no-longer pokemon shook Jon awake, "Jon! I'm human! It's a miracle!" She laughed joyfully." Jon did not respond. "Jon! Wake up! I can't believe it! We don't have to leave home anymore! Jon! Jon?" She felt familiar warmth, and a tickling feeling on Jon's arm where she had been holding it, it also felt as though his arm was becoming thinner and shorter. She gasped and let go, seeing patches of brown fur growing all over him. "Jon? Jon!" she yelled urgently, but to no avail. Although she remembered it taking several minutes for her transformation to be completed, Jon was an eevee in almost a blink of an eye.

Jon finally stirred. He looked at Elizabeth, "Good, I'm glad you were able to become yourself again." he replied happily.

Elizabeth ran out of the room with the smiling eevee, and found herself face-to-face with her parents. They spoke together and in a monotone, "We love you Elizabeth, but an eevee cannot be a daughter. Goodbye."

"But mom, dad, I'm not an eevee anymore! I'm human, your daughter! See!" She gestured widely at herself, but saw her hands were now paws. She looked at herself, but she was indeed an eevee again. "No!"

Her parents grew larger and larger until Elizabeth could hardly see their heads anymore. "We love you Elizabeth, but an eevee cannot be a daughter. Goodbye." they repeated.

She ran away past them, and into her living room, where she saw Jon, still an eevee, sitting between his enormous ninetails and Latias. She ran toward him, and the ninetails swept her into her fur's soft embrace, where Elizabeth felt warm and safe. She looked over at Jon, beckoning him to join her, but he seemed to be moving farther and farther away from her. She wanted to chase after him, but Ninetails felt so comfortable that she couldn't move. She saw Jon mouth the word "always", and then slip away.

"Jon," she called softly.

Flashbolt and Latias were there in his place, looking so calm that, in the situation, it seemed sinister to Elizabeth. "The longer you stay as a pokemon," Latias started, "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…"

Flashbolt finished the tale "they did take pity on her, they wiped her memory, letting her live in peace as a normal, dumb pokemon." Ninetails nodded in agreement to the story.

Her parents walked up, standing alongside Flashbolt and Latias, still repeating the same words. Elizabeth's eyes looked around at all 4 of them, searching for an avenue of escape. They all seemed to surround her. She saw Latias's eyes glow with psychic energy, and Elizabeth tried to look away, but the eyes were hypnotic. "We love you Elizabeth, but an eevee cannot be a daughter. Goodbye." her parents continued.

"STOP SAYING THAT!" Elizabeth screamed, "STOP!" But as she was yelling in agony, she was still looking at Latias, whose eyes now gave off a final burst of light. "NO! Don't make me forget!" she cried out, her parents still chanting, as Latias and Flashbolt simply looked at her sadly. "I'm Eelizabeth Veence! N- NO! Heeelp! Eev! Eevee! EEVEE!"

She awoke, still screaming. Jon woke up with a jolt, grabbing Elizabeth and holding her close, away from potential danger. He looked around, "What is it?!" he demanded.

"Jon! It was terrible!" she cried "You were an eevee, but you left, and my parents kept saying this chant, and Latias wiped my memory and I was really an eevee, so I started saying my name, and you weren't there, and I was with Ninetails…"

Jon couldn't understand what she was trying to say, but noticed that the little dog was shivering like crazy, and realized she must have been dreaming. "Elizabeth…" he stroked the eevee's head until she calmed down. "It's okay, it was only a nightmare."

"No!" Elizabeth denied, "It couldn't have been a dream! It seemed all so real!"

"Most dreams do. It didn't happen, and it won't. I'm right here, so don't worry, noting will happen to you. Now, go back to sleep." Elizabeth lay back down, still feeling uneasy, but she was soon in sleep's embrace again, this time peacefully.

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"Hey, sleepyhead. Get up, Elizabeth, it's already 15 minutes after we agreed to wake up." Elizabeth heard Jon say. She groaned, once again coming out as a whimper. "You okay? That dream of yours really seemed to shake you up last night."

Elizabeth shuddered, remembering the vivid nightmare. "It was just, it didn't feel surreal, it felt real, like a vision."

"Well, that doesn't mean anything. I've had plenty of realistic nightmares, but none of the things in them ever happened." Jon, whom Elizabeth saw was already dressed and clean, noted.

"Yeah… yeah you're right. Well, I suppose I should be getting ready."

"There really isn't that much that we need to do. We took care of pretty much everything last night." An image came into Elizabeth's mind when Jon finished his sentence. She broke out laughing. "Elizabeth?" her friend inquired, "Why are you laughing so hard?"

"We- we were sleeping in- hahaha- the same bed last night! Hahahaha!"

Jon's face turned beet-red. "Oh come on! We're different species!" Elizabeth suddenly looked very sad. "Oh, I'm sorry." Jon apologized "I forgot you were still sensitive on that."

Elizabeth broke out laughing again, literally ROTFLing. "I just put on some puppy eyes and, hahaha! You shouldv'e seen the look on your face! Whoohoohahaha!" Now, as an eevee, she was truly howling with laughter.

Now even Jon was smiling. "True, but you forgot, I'm four feet bigger than you!" He grabbed her and, with her tucked under his right arm, charged right into the kitchen. He put her down on the counter and they were both hooting in mirth.

"Hey," Latias butted in, "While you two crazy clowns were roaring your heads off, I actually did something useful and whipped up some breakfast. Let's eat!" they all went out to the sunroom and enjoyed the custap berry yogurt parfaits that Latias made.

TIME PASSES (about 40 minutes of it to be exact)

After struggling to get Flashbolt into his pokeball, Jon had driven everyone to the Lillycove harbor, where a large ferry was waiting for them. "Tickets please." a man said to them as they passed.

"We bought ours virtually last night." Jon responded.

"Ah yes, of course. Then I'll need to see some identification." Jon handed the man his driver's license along with Elizabeth's, who Latias was pretending to be, but was actually sitting on Jon's shoulder, told to remember to act like a house pet. The man scanned the IDs quickly, then handed them back. "Okay, these check out. Ma'am, you may go aboard."

"What about me?" Jon asked.

"Well sir, you are currently carrying seven pokemon. I'm sure that you are aware that six is the maximum legal amount."

"Yessir, but the eevee on my shoulder is unregistered. She's just my pet." Elizabeth bristled a bit, not used to being a 'pet'.

"I'm sure, but rules are rules."

Jon muttered something under his breath. "Fine. Elizabeth!" he called to Latias, who was already on her way aboard, "Could you take my eevee aboard with you? This man won't let me."

"Sure." Latias said sweetly. She picked the eevee off of Jon's shoulder and went aboard.

"Happy?" the teenager asked.

"Yes. I am. Go ahead and get on the ferry. The trip should take about two days." Jon walked past the man and onto the ship, relieving Latias of Elizabeth as he did so. The man took a handheld radio from his pocket and spoke into it. "Yes, they're here. She's with them too." [Insert cliffhanger music]

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