Hello, again! I have recently been going through the story and editing it for plot holes and have noticed that I switch from tense to tense a lot and I apologize for doing this. I will fix it but currently am focusing more on the plot itself. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 2

The Girl

I groaned. Unlike what the doctors had said so long ago, I was not feeling better. The cancer was taking my body slowly, part by part. It had gotten my feet first. I haven't walked in six years. It slowly, despite chemo and every other method in the book, climbed up my legs. It has taken my knees. My thighs. My lower back. Now it fights for my heart.

I have a day, they tell me. A single day.

Good. I thought. Then I'll be done with this terrible world. But I didn't really want to die. Seventeen is far too young.

Arguably, my life already ended. I've never been in remission, so I've been laying in this bed for six years. I have never gone back to school. My friends weren't really there; they didn't understand really what was happening to me or how to respond. My parents also ditched me. Said they loved me one night and left. Never came back. I fell into a coma two days after that. It lasted two years. When I woke up again, I wished I hadn't.

Ever since I woke up, I've been reading. And reading. I've read algebra books, science books, poetry, Alex Rider, the entire Warrior series. Anything and everything I could get my hands on. Anything you could name, I have read it.

Recently, a twelve-year-old girl has started coming to me in my dreams. Her light green hair reaches her feet, and matches the little dress she wears. She said her name is Celebi. She also said she's real. Why I like her so much is because she trains me in my dreams. From her, I have learned to be a black belt in karate, akido, and several other forms of martial arts. Some would say I live in my dreams. She has also taken me around the world, to see sights and to help. Help, you wonder? In my dreams I am a superhero, I guess. Just without the powers. Celebi takes me and together we save children from burning buildings, people from drowning, pokemon from devilish trainers, people and pokemon from kidnappers, and so much more. I have fought for the life of another more times than I could count, whether it be a fire I fought or an actual person.

I'm happy when sleep greets me for the last time in my life. The doctors and nurses cry as I say goodbye to them. They've been so nice to me. I would miss them, if I could.

"Hello, Celebi." I say as we meet in the green field. It's surrounded by flowers, endless flowers. The sky here is always blue.

"Hi." She said.

"Today I won't ever wake up." I tell her. She shakes her head.

"Not as a human, you won't." Celebi agrees.

"What do you mean?" I ask curiously.

Celebi looks to me hopefully. "I've been training you for more than one reason." She said. "One, because you need a night away from your day. Second, I have a friend. I've told you about the portal that turns you into a pokemon, right?"

"Yes." I nod. She can create a doorway into another world. That doorway also changes you into a pokemon.

"Good. He had to go through that doorway, otherwise these evil people would have killed him." Celebi shakes her head sadly. "Dark, now an umbreon, has lost his memory. Most do, though. But, he is still in danger. Someone went through the gateway with him, I'm afraid..."

"Are you saying I will live if I do through the gateway?" I ask.

"Yes... you will." Celebi said. "But I must ask you to protect my friend."

I think about this for a long moment. This is only a dream, I remember, I won't wake up in the morning either way. Might as well go along with it while I can! If this was real, I would say no. Not unless she took me back out. I was young, but I was ready. I didn't fully want to die, but at least eighty percent of me was ready to go. But this wasn't the real deal.

"Sure!" I say. "None of this is real. Why not?" Celebi doesn't seem to catch that last part. She comes and hugs me, saying her thanks. A dark hole opens up beneath me, and I disappear into it.

I thought that this was me dying.

I thought I wouldn't wake up in the morning.

Boy, was I wrong.

I wake up as an Espeon the next day. I know the only reason I have my memory was because Celebi re-inserted it into my mind. That would also explain why I knew who Dark was.

The Espeon

I woke up in a small room, on a straw bed. The ground was grassy, and the walls were painted a light pink.

"Fuck." I spat at the ground, realizing it was all real. I was an Espeon. I hadn't managed to leave this stupid world. Actually, I had left that stupid world. I was just in a new one now.

"Are you alright?" Came a voice behind me. I managed to shift over in my straw bed.

"Yeah." I say quietly to the lucario. His eyes are blue, I notice.

"Are you in a lot of pain?" he asks.

"No." I say, then stand and shake the straw from my fur. "Where am I, exactly?"

"Wigglytuff's guild." The lucario tells me. "I'm Austin, by the way."

"Great," I said. Crap. The one thing I don't remember is my name... I make one up."I'm Carry."

"Nice to meet you." He said it with a smile.

"You, too." I responded. "Wanna get me outta here? There's someone I really need to see..."

"Okay. Follow me," he responded, and slowly walked out. Good thing, too, I couldn't go any faster. We walked past a few pokemon, all chattering about something random. We climbed a ladder, then another. We were out.

"Thanks." I say to him, and he nods.

How much do you bet he knew I would come back?

Another cliffhanger. Hope you enjoyed!