Eelizabeth's Tale
14
Elizabeth at what had just come out of her eevee mouth. She tried saying something again "Eev? Vee vee eevee!!"
Jon looked at Latias, who translated, despite the pain she was feeling. "It's mostly what you'd expect, she's confused and scared that she can't speak, and she said something very unladylike."
Flashbolt ran over to her, "Elizabeth! Are you alright?"
"No you idiot, I'm not alright! I can't flippin' talk!"
Flashbolt shook his head sadly. "Just like before."
Elizabeth walked over to Jon. "Jon, I think we should get to the council, like, now."
Her friend leaned over sadly. "I'm sorry, I don't know what you're saying. Just nod yes or no. Do you know why this is happening?" Elizabeth hastily shook her head, and then jerked it sideways, indicating the end of the spear pillar. "Do you want to go to the council?" The eevee nodded vigorously, and she ran forward until she reached a large tile with a bar on it. Jon followed her until he saw the tile too. "I guess this is where I play a little tune." He pulled out an odd object that resembled an ocarina and looked like it was azure, but was a bit darker in actuality. "So, what exactly am I supposed to play?" He turned to Latias, who was on the ground, clutching her head in pain.
"Latias!" Elizabeth cried, and tried to run over to her, but after a few steps, a golden light covered Latias, the dissipated.
Latias gasped. "Thank you, recover." she said to herself. "Someone is exerting massive amounts of psychic energy somewhere around here. It was penetrating the shield that I always keep around me to keep anybody from reading my mind or things of that nature."
"Could it have been someone from the council?" Elizabeth asked in the pokémon language.
"That is possible, but I don't know why. Although, I don't think the energy was directed at me."
"Okay," Jon interrupted, "I can't understand a word that Ellie is saying, so this conversation seems pretty one-sided to me, but I do know that we should get to the council right about now. So Latias, what am I supposed to play, 'Turkey in the Straw'?"
"I think you just blow into it."
"Uhh, okay." He blew into the brandeis blue flute, and the sound echoed beautifully around the spear pillar. Then, Suicune majestically jumped down from a glass platform that was hovering thirty feet above them.
"Hey, what's up?" he asked casually.
"We want to meet the council." Jon replied.
"May I see your flute?" Jon held the instrument in front of the pokémon. "Tsk, tsk. I'm afraid the g color coordinate is off by 15. This is clearly brandeis blue, and I'm afraid we only accept azure. So sorry."
"But my best friend is an eevee! She can't even speak human language anymore!"
"Does that look like it's my problem?" He leaped back up to the levitating platform.
Latias flew over to where Jon was standing. "Helloooo, you have a legendary pokémon with you." She leaned her head back to shout, "Hey Suicune! It's me, Latias! Let us in!" Suicune leapt down again.
"You have to tell me the password first."
"That's what she said." Flashbolt muttered.
"Shut up, just let us in." Latias answered, ignoring Flashbolt's remark.
"Fine." A glowing stairway appeared! The companions… and Suicune, climbed said staircase up to the council of legends. Jon and Elizabeth were amazed at the great gathering of almost every legendary pokémon from Articuno to Arceus in one place, in full knowledge that they each could kill them in a blink of an eye if the temptation should arise. But Flashbolt, Latias, and Suicune waltzed, looking almost bored, like it was an everyday affair.
"Um, Flashbolt?"Elizabeth whispered to him. "Don't most of these guys hate the air you breathe?"
The jolteon cringed, "Except maybe Phione and Darkrai, yes. Phione hadn't been born yet, and Darkrai might not be mad because we used to get into trouble as friends, and because he actually killed me the last time we met, but that's another story. But you're right, perhaps stutting in here like that wasn't the best idea." They snuck back to where Jon was.
"We all know why you're here," Dialga said to the group, "And for interesting things such as transformation, you'll have to talk with our two co-presidents."
"Two?" Elizabeth questioned "I though Mew was the sole leader."
Mew floated toward them. "Well, I was." he chuckled, "Then Mr. 'Creator of the Universe' had to wake up from his not-so eternal slumber."
"Now Mew, this is no laughing matter. We need to discuss this girl's problem with her." Arceus said as he stepped out from behind Groudon and Ho-oh, towering above the travellers.
"Well, if you know why we're here like Dialga says, then you know that in return for Latias I'd like to be human again." Elizabeth requested timidly, still speaking as an eevee.
"Yes, we know that, but I don't think you know how much power is needed to undergo such a feat. Now you have an important choice to make. Uxie?"
Uxie floated forward and created a window of energy. An image appeared on it, showing a gallade and a delcatty confusedly wandering in a small room with no visible exits, illuminated only by luminescent orange fumes that were hovering in many places in the room.
Elizabeth was puzzled, "Why are you showing me this?"
"Look closer." Arceus instructed.
Elizabeth did so, though not knowing why. She caught her breath No… she mentally gasped. No, it can't be. That gas… images flashed rapidly through her mind, of a machine, and and a tingly gas… and so much pain. Her breath was heavy and uneasy now. "Is that…" she started and looked up at Uxie, "my parents?"
"Yes." the knowledge pokémon nodded solemnly. "They were transformed last night, after your mother tried to force your father to alter the gas's structure in hopes of changing you back."
Elizabeth fell to a sitting position, quietly weeping. "No… no…" she would repeat to herself.
Arceus continued what Uxie had begun. "Part of us pities you all, but we can't change you all back. Not only would it not be practical for us, and I doubt all of us share thoughts of sympathy, but we are physically unable to.
"The mass that is taken away during a transformation is vaporized, and the vapors are neutralized by the gas. We cannot change back a pokémon unless we find extra mass to add to the body. That gas is not an original creation, a copy, rather, so we have encountered it before."
"What happened last time?" Jon inquired.
"Terrible things, but that is not important right now. It is imperative that the mass that is used is that of flesh, so we… Latias, are you alright?"
The painful feeling had returned to Latias and she was clutching her head. At the same time, Elizabeth had fear in her eyes, as though the realization that she was in the presence of 32 of the most powerful pokémon in existence hit her in full, and she quietly backed away, not thinking of all the trouble it had taken her to get there. She might have ended up slipping away from the entire council unnoticed if she had not backed into Jon. He looked down at her, noting that she was trembling.
"Elizabeth, you okay? You don't look so hot." He bent down to pick up his friend, but she barked in surprise and ran to Flashbolt, hiding behind his legs.
"Wh- who is that human?" she asked Flashbolt.
"What?" he answered, "Do you not remember? He is the one that you told your secret to, and probably the only reason we got this far."
"What secret?" she cocked her head.
"That…" he thought for a moment, "What is your father's name?"
"Umm, Papa?" Elizabeth unsurely answered. "Are you him?"
Flashbolt was dumbfounded. Surely it didn't happen this fast before! Either she's faking, or my memory fails me. Unless… He understood, and ran over to Latias, in knowledge that she was the only one that could prove his theory correct and didn't want to murder him.
Unfortunately, she was still struggling with an unknown jabbing in her head. But then suddenly, the agony left her as quickly as it had come. She used recover again, and at the same time, Elizabeth painfully whimpered, "Help me…" but then became clueless again.
Flashbolt wasted no time in giving her his message. "Latias, Elizabeth has completely forgotten who she is! And I know that the only-"
"I know, I figured it out too." she interrupted. "Mew?" she said, turning to the aforementioned pokémon, "Where is Latios I this meeting?"
Mew looked around at the pokémon, "I don't know. I would have thought he would have been on the front lines due to his relations with you."
Latias sighed, "That's what I thought." She closed her eyes, and when she opened them, they were glowing with a slight blue tint to their usual gold. "Latios!" she called out to the air, "I may not be a lucario, but you can't hide your aura from me! Come out here and give back what you have taken!" After several seconds, a blue dragon seemed to materialize from the air.
"Well, here I am." he snorted.
"Give Elizabeth her memories back." Latias demanded. "Do it or so help me I will hold a grudge on you triple what I have on Flashbolt! No offence, Flashbolt." The jolteon shrugged.
"How do you know that her life will improve with human thoughts? I believe you were the one that-"
"Do it." she growled.
"Fine." Reluctantly he submitted. His eyes glowed and a light shone brightly around Elizabeth. She made a small grunt of pain before the light disappeared.
"What happened?" Elizabeth groaned.
"Elizabeth!" Jon cried, "I could understand that!"
"I don't… what? Why wouldn't you?"
"Do you not remember?" Flashbolt asked her.
"I don't know what you all are talking about, so, no."
"Latios here was taking Elizabeth's memories and twisting them around so that they seemed as though you were an eevee your whole life." Latias explained to Elizabeth and the council. "He almost got to the point of no return, but he was going quickly enough that the extra psychic was going through my shield, and so I figured it out. Elizabeth, he was forcing you into an eevee."
"And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dumb jolteon." Latios grumbled.
"Okay now, let's get back to business." Arceus suggested, as though the incident with Latios wasn't very important. "So anyway, we need flesh, and so we could do something like mass murder 500 rattata, which we aren't really going to do, or we could change larger pokémon or humans into something smaller, and use that. But still, transforming three will be a difficult-"
"What? Three?" Elizabeth interrupted, "Who are the other two?"
"Elizabeth, I'm sorry to have to tell you this," Jon explained sadly, "But apparently, your parents were transformed last night."
"But… you mean-"
"A delcatty and a gallade."
"No… No no NO! This, this can't be happening…" she howled.
"Well, if you feel that way, then the best thing to do is to let us help." Mew said impatiently. "Now, how will we do this?"
"I'll do it." Jon announced, stepping forward.
"Jon, no, don't." Elizabeth pleaded, "You don't have to do this."
"Yes I do. You want to be a human, and I don't care what species I am. This is the best way."
"I'll help too." An unknown voice said, and a figure climbed over the stairs, revealing herself to be Ninetales.
"What's she doing here?" Mew questioned urgently.
"You know her?" Elizabeth asked.
"Er, not really, um uh, sort of…" Mew stuttered.
"Well I remember you, all of you, including Flashbolt. And I remember myself. I am the scientist Kate Haven."
"How do you know that? How does she know that?" Mew asked to nobody in particular.
"I was staring at a picture of my former self, before my discovery that turned me into a vulpix, and before you all evolved me and wiped my memory. I felt a memory in the back of my mind trying to dig its way out. At that time, several bursts of psychic energy were sent out, and my sixth tail used the energy and inadvertently used it to fuel the memory. Once that one memory was back, it was as though a stopper had been taken out of a bottle and all the memories came flooding back to me. Including those of you, Flashbolt, and I missed you."
"What? How do you two know each other, 'cause now I'm even more curious than I was before." Elizabeth asked the two canines.
"Well, you see," Flashbolt started, almost blushing.
"Oh, don't listen to him; he won't give the real truth." Kate laughed, "When I was human, I had an eevee as a pet, and one day, he came inside glowing with a greenish stone in his mouth, and before I knew it, he was a jolteon. After a few days, I came home from the store in Oreburgh, and he was gone! I didn't see him again until after my transformation. Then he just came out of nowhere and told me his name and that I could be human again if I went to the top of the mountain.
"So I followed his instructions, but right before I made it to the top, he told me to go back, and that they wouldn't help. I had already come that far, with nine-inch legs, mind you," Elizabeth rolled her eyes, "So I wasn't about to turn back. But the last thing I remember before becoming a full pokémon is Flashbolt whooping legendaries. But I want to help you Elizabeth." She turned to the council, "I'm larger than a normal ninetales, and most humans. If you change me into a human, the leftover can be used to help Ellie or her family."
"Okay. But after the transfer, you must release Latias." Arceus said
"Hey, I'll be a pokémon after the transfer, so I don't think that having a pokémon team would really be necessary." Jon reminded them.
"Touché."
"No Jon!" Elizabeth stamped her paw demandingly, "I won't let you be a pokémon while I live out my life. I just won't!"
"Elizabeth, we came all the way to the other side of the world for you to be human, and I'll carry that out."
"Jon, you don't understand. We can't be different species."
"Why?"
Elizabeth didn't answer at first. She took a deep breath, "… Because… I think I love you." No one talked for a long time. Elizabeth finally broke the silence, "And, I would rather have my parents human than myself. But I can't have both. And no matter what happens, I don't want to forget, not again."
"Elizabeth…" Jon started, "… I'm not sure what I should say. But… I think… I think I love you too…" They stood, staring into each other's eyes, one pair tall and brown, the other human dark hazel.
"Well then, if that's the case, I still have an idea!" Mewtwo said overly excited, effectively ruining the moment. "Told you this would work." he sneered at Latias. "I have a plan that would get that ninetales and your parents back to humanity, and let you and Jon stay together like the little lovebirds I knew you were all along."
"I knew it before you!" Mesprit said indignantly, "It's my specialty. And you two are soooo meant for each other! It's just soooo romantic! 3
"What's your great plan Mewtwo?" Jon asked the pokémon.
"Oh, if I tell you, you might not agree."
"Tell us." Jon demanded flatly.
"Okay, fine. So, we change you into an eevee, and keep your little lass over that like that too. Then we make Kate a human, and use yours and her masses to make the parental people human. And I suppose that if you promise not to tell anyone who you are unless it's an emergency, we won't wipe your minds, although that would be a lot more fun."
"Hmm!" Mew said, impressed, "When did you get to be such a diplomat?"
"I guess that was part of the genes that got passed on."
"Okay, but I'd like it if you let Flashbolt back into the council on occasion." Elizabeth suggested. There were grumbles and shouts throughout the council, until Darkrai, came forward.
"I would imagine that after thirteen years of banishment and the experience of a Dialga punishment," he shuddered, "he will have learned his lesson. And I'm not just saying that because I think the meetings without him have been as dull as ditchwater."
Cresselia also floated forward. "For once, I agree with Darkrai. I'm doubtful that Flashbolt would do anything as stupid as attacking us again, and even though he did attack, he ended up being right about Kate."
"All in favor say aye." Acreus addressed the council, "All opposed say no." The only pokémon to vote against the motion were Manaphy and Lugia. "Motion carried." He turned to the group from Lillycove City. "Okay, are you sure you want to do this? Just remember, once this is done, there's no going back. You will also have to stay within a boundary, just so we can make sure our existence is safe."
"I live at the base of the mountain. You two can stay with me." Kate happily offered, and was met with nods from Jon and Elizabeth.
"Okay then, if you're sure, then let us proceed." Mew said, and the legends came and formed a ring around Kate, Elizabeth, and Jon. An eerie light glowed everywhere inside the circle.
"This… will be an interesting experience." Jon muttered.
"My eevee ears heard that, Jon. And just so you know, from experience I know that this is going to hurt. A lot." Elizabeth warned him.
The glowing got brighter and brighter, and, ah, why not, brighter. There was a shout that echoed from the mountain peak.
And then…
It was finished.
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"Haha! Die, writer's block!" (Stabs writer's block with sword)