Eelizabeth's Tale

9

Elizabeth and co. had finally made it to Canalave City, and thought that they would start moving towards their destination immediately, But they were stopped by Amy.

"Hey you guys!" she called to Jon and Latias, who was again posing as Elizabeth until they got out of Canalave, "Wait up!" she ran up to them, "Whew, hey I was thinking,"

Impressive. the actual Elizabeth, who was perched on Jon's head thought, rolling her eyes.

"There is absolutely no place to go from Canalave than to Jubilife, and so I thought I could come with you until then!" she said gleefully.

"No." Jon said immediately. He quickly thought that he sounded too harsh. "You can't come because… uhhh…" he glanced to Latias, who shrugged, and to Elizabeth, who had just hopped down to his shoulder. Elizabeth looked hopeful. "You know, you're right. There really is not any reason for you to not come with us. I suppose there is safety in numbers."

"Oh goody!" Amy squealed in delight. "That means I get to… Well, I don't know but yay!"

They began leaving town when Amy barraged them with curiosity. "Why hasn't Elizabeth said anything to me? She isn't ever very shy at school. Why do you have seven pokemon? Where are you going? When did you get an eevee?" Elizabeth became irritated and made an annoyed gesture to Latias, who nodded. Latias's eyes glowed and Amy became quieter.

As they became more relaxed without the extra noise, Jon mistakenly walked past a fisherman. "Hey!" the fisherman cried, "Oh, you're a trainer! Let's have a battle."

"No." Jon replied flatly. "I'm in kind of a hurry."

"You can't refuse a trainer battle."

Amy butted in, "Oh shut it!" Elizabeth looked at Latias expectantly, but the legendary only shrugged. "I'll bet you could whoop this water-wallopper easy, Jon!"

"Not the time, Amy." Jon mumbled out of the corner of his mouth, as Elizabeth looked up at the sky. "Really, can you call off the battle?"

"No," the man replied. "That would be too easy. Go Magikarp!" he threw out a pokeball containing a large red fish, that flopped around uselessly."

"Ugh." Jon moaned, "I don't have this kind of time! Fine. Whatever. Let's get this over with." He threw out his own pokeball, the one that held Pikachu.

"CHU!" the pokemon yelped happily.

"I'm not even going to bother," Jon grumbled. "Okay Pikachu, use… well just do whatever you feel like to KO his little fish." Pikachu sent out a small shock, nevertheless conking out the carp.

"My pokemon!" the fisherman shouted in despair. "Well you won't be able to do anything to this!" He sent out another magikarp, and another, and a couple more, also being easily defeated until he sent out his last pokemon, a gyarados.

"Pikachu, thunderbolt." Jon commanded dully. His pokemon sent out a shockwave that knocked out the dragon.

"How did you beat me?!" the challenger questioned.

"I… train." Jon answered as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"You train? Oh!" the fisherman facepalmed "Why didn't I think of that?!"

"Oh. My. Gosh." Jon walked away, pitying the poor man, but not so much that he did not still think he was an idiot. "Amy," he said to the girl, "I really am on a tight schedule. Don't go off doing stuff like you just did. Amy?" but Amy had already run over to a nearby guitarist and would have caused him to battle too, if Elizabeth had not gone over with her and nudged her to bring her back to the group.

"Oh, heheh, sorry about that. I just like talking."

"We've noticed." Latias sighed.

"Maybe we should ditch- I mean… stop for lunch." Jon suggested.

"Oh! Great idea!" Amy said, ignoring Jon's original notion. "I packed some chople berries for my soon-to-be glaceon." Elizabeth looked like she was about to throw up after hearing the words "chople berries".

"Um, no thanks. I think we'll stick with tropius's fruit, and some hamburger I packed." said Jon, recalling Elizabeth's position on that kind of berry. Elizabeth silently thanked Mew.

***

It was about 6:30 when the odd group made it to Jubilife, and Jon reasoned that it would be easier to stay the night, as opposed to camping out, seeing that it had started to drizzle. "Come on, let's get to the Pokemon Center before it starts to pour. I can tell that that's what old Ma' nature is planning to throw our way. Quickly!" he ushered everyone into the red-roofed building.

"Hello, and welcome to the Pokemon Center." said a red-haired nurse from behind a counter, "We restore your tired pokemon to full health. Would you like to rest your pokemon?"

"No," Latias responded kindly, "we just need lodging for the night, please."

"Oh, so that preplanned question was for nothing?" the nurse asked disappointedly.

"Yeah, sort of. Sorry." Amy said.

"Oh, that is quite alright. Follow me." The nurse led them up to a hotel-like room, bowed, and wished them a good night. "There are some sandwiches in the mini-fridge if you get hungry." Then she walked off, leaving the assortment of people and pokemon in an odd silence.

Elizabeth hopped on the bed and was asleep before she landed. "Hey," Amy said to Jon in a questioning tone. Jon groaned. "I was wondering, at lunch, why did you feed all of your pokemon pokemon food, except eevee? You seem to treat it more carefully than your other pokemon."

"That's, uh… speaking of food, I'm starved! Let us indulge in the eating of food!" Jon quickly scarfed down a ham sandwich nervously.

"Are you hiding something from me?"

"You know, I'm also tired. I'm going to follow eevee's example."

"But it's only about a quarter 'til!"

"You have a better idea of something to do?" Jon flopped down next to Elizabeth, whispering "'Night Ellie."

Amy was confused. "What's with him?" she casually asked Latias.

"I don't know. His logic seems sound to me." Latias also lay down on the bed next to Jon and the actual Elizabeth.

Amy shook her head, "I give up." Soon everyone was asleep.

***

Amy quietly woke up in, what she could tell from the light in the room, the middle of the night. Thirsty. she thought, but she heard voices from the direction she was facing. The girl moved her eyes to see who was speaking, but could only see Jon, blocking her line of vision.

"We've gotta ditch her."

"I say you should have let me hit her with a mist ball when you had the chance."

"Elizabeth, Latias, she's going to leave tomorrow for Floraroma town, I think you might be overreacting."

Latias? Surely Jon hasn't captured one. Amy pondered, and her eyes absentmindedly drifted to where Jon's eevee had been sleeping. It wasn't there.

"We would've made it halfway to Oreburgh by now if it weren't for her!" Elizabeth's voice rang out shrilly. "We are pushed for time! I do not want to stay like this for my entire life!"

"Elizabeth, calm down. We'll get to the council in the remaining six days. That's plenty time."

"Couldn't we just fly there and save time?"

"Maybe you can, but neither Tropius nor Togekiss know fly, and I didn't bring the HM with me."

"Let's just ditch her."

"She's leaving tomorrow!"

"And how long will it take for her to be ready and gone? Too long."

"She's our friend!"

"My humanity is my friend!"

"Your face is your friend."

"Not the time, Latias. What's so important about us not ditching her?"

Amy sat straight up. "Cause I don't want to be ditched." She then saw who was speaking; Jon, a Latias, and Jon's eevee. "Wha, bu, hsmamama… Eevees don't talk!"

The eevee yipped in surprise. Latias's eyes glowed, and everything around Amy went dark.

Amy soon awoke again, hearing the same voices.

"This is bad. How are we going to explain that 'the eevee' is me without her following us?!" Amy again sat up, and upon seeing the eevee, was immediately knocked out again by Latias.

"Will you kindly quit KOing company?!" Jon requested.

"Well excuuuuse me for trying to give Elizabeth privacy!" Latias shouted back.

"Can we please focus on the problem at hand?!" Elizabeth yelled at both of them. "Now we can't have her following us around, and we can't let her blab to the world that Nicholas Vance turned his daughter into an eevee either. And killing her is out of question. So, what do we do?"

"We could try to pass it off as a dream." Jon suggested. "I mean, if we don't, she'll think she's going insane no matter what."

"We can also tie that in with my original plan. Ditch her!" Elizabeth added.

"I agree," Latias said.

"Fine. I'm not happy about it, but it seems to be the best course of action for us right now."

The next morning, Amy awoke alone in the room, with only a hastily written explanation note for company.

***

I took filler and made it un-filler. Yay! And Amy will make a comeback in an upcoming fic. But on a darker note, I placed in more than one divider. That must mean I'm getting desperate again! NOOOOO! Oh well, review it or something.