Eelizabeth's Tale

8

Jon opened the door to their assigned room aboard the ferry. Upon first glance, it was a dump. It was also a dump upon second glance. However, despite its dump-like quality, it was also one of the last unbooked rooms on board, and Elizabeth felt that two days in a less-than-flattering room was a fair price for not staying an eevee for her entire life. All in all, the ferry ride was pretty normal, except that Elizabeth had to spend the entire two days in the room to avoid attracting any unwanted attention to herself. They all believed that if someone found out that an eevee could talk, that they would not have enough time not being swarmed with press to make it to the council in the nine remaining days. So Jon, Latias, Flashbolt, and Jon's other pokemon agreed to take turns staying with Elizabeth in order to protect her from reporters and who knows what, and to keep her company.

It was now Flashbolt's turn to keep watch, and Elizabeth was very curious about him. "Hey Flashbolt, I hope I don't get on your nerves during your time, but If you would allow, I'd like to ask a few questions." She requested.

Flashbolt inhaled and shifted uncomfortably, "Um, okay, ask away, but I must warn you that I will be very blunt with my answers."

"Fine by me. Okay… why is Latias so bitter towards you?"

"Heh," he chuckled nervously, "Well, one of your questions is obviously going to be asking me why I'm so smart." Elizabeth nodded, "Well, that answer ties in with this. A while back, most likely before your birth, I made a small bet with Uxie and the council, concerning matters that I am forbidden to disclose. Anyway, I managed to win, and in return, I was blessed with a small amount of knowledge, from Uxie of course, and due to that, I became a temporary member of the council. Now, a jolteon is certainly not known for its ability to sit still for the amounts of time it takes for the legendaries to resolve matters, and I became restless. I tried to assert myself too much, and I of course, overdid it. I wound up injuring several members with a trump card attack, and received punishment.

"Afterwards, I was still an active council member, so I did my part, discussed matters, helped reduce unneeded captivity, went on kitchen duty occasionally, but eventually they came to a conclusion on a… personal matter, that I could not approve of. It was regarding the girl that I told you about. I tried to influence the council, but they made their final decision, so I warned the girl, who ignored me, and ended up attacking the council. Needless to say, one jolteon, increased knowledge or not, could not defeat all 35 legendaries. I got pummeled, the girl… well, you know… and I ended up receiving banishment. However, in the fight I mentioned, I managed to take out Manaphy, Lugia, and, you guessed it, Latias. And let me tell you, legendaries can hold a grudge for a long time."

"Oh…" Elizabeth replied, and they sat in silence for a while. "How do you know Ninetails?"

Flashbolt swallowed and looked away. "That's… personal. I don't feel comfortable discussing it."

"Well, why were you my pet in the first place then?"

"Uhh, well, after being banished, it turned out that human speech had also been taken away, and I ended up with you the same way you would expect. A pet-store owner from the Lillycove dept. store caught me and you picked me out and voila! I wound up as a house pet."

"You consider me a punishment?" she wondered sadly.

"No, not at all. It has been much better than I pictured it being."

"Thanks," she smiled. "There has been one more thing that's been bugging me, though. When Jon and I went to try to get me back to normal using the machine, we found you there, and a large area that looked like it had been shorted out. Did you…?"

"No."

"But-"

"No. I have no reason to keep you as an eevee."

"An excuse to get back to the council?"

"I don't want to be there any more than they want me to. Dialga's punishments are really really really horrendous, to put it gently."

"Oh…"

***

That was the only informational part of Elizabeth's day. The other watches were not as interesting. She and Latias chatted about girl stuff and pokemon, with the other pokemon she mostly climbed on Lapras during their conversations, although she tried to talk to Ninetails, but the vixen was too shy. She practiced attacks in case of emergencies with Jon, and it turned out that she knew dig, but they decides that digging inside a ship in the middle of the ocean was not a good idea. Their dinner consisted of roast beef and salad, and everyone slept peacefully.

***

"Jon? Is that really you?!" a voice shouted, waking an eevee from its sleep.

Elizabeth was about to groan as she normally would if she were woken like that, but remembered it would result in a whimper. She looked up and saw Jon and another girl hugging. Looking again, she realized that the girl was Amy, a friend that she and Jon had made the year before and had stuck.

"I can't believe that we're on the same boat! I was going to Sinnoh to evolve my eevee into a glaceon… OMG! You have an eevee too?! Is that why you're going?"

"No," Jon shook his head, smiling. "It is for the eevee, but you wouldn't believe why we're going to Sinnoh if you tried."

"Oh, if you can think up something crazy, I can triple it!"

Jon rolled his eyes, "True, very true, but I really can't tell you. I want to, but I'm not the one making decisions like that. It'd be someone else that would tell you if they wanted to." He glanced at Elizabeth, but so did Amy.

She ran over to Elizabeth, picked her up, and rubbed their nosed together. "Oh, I just love eevees! They're soooo cuuute!" Elizabeth gave a yip and Amy set her down.

Elizabeth shook her fur out. Yes Amy! It's me, Elizabeth! she thought, but she didn't want to drag Amy into all of her sadness; it killed her when she saw Amy sad. On the other hand, she was a friend, and friendship was in high demand for Elizabeth in her predicament. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but then closed it sadly. Amy said goodbye and skipped away.

"You did the right thing." Jon said with compassion when she was gone. Elizabeth nodded.

After that, the previous day seemed to repeat itself.

***

Yes, I realize the last part was filler, but I wanted to show the sacrifices that Elizabeth makes. I was going to do something with it but changed my mind.