Chapter 4: Cold Nights

Setsuna Damius' note (Alright this is more of an explanation chapter of how my character ends up with all his needs as a trainer. It has no action whatsoever, however next week I will have some kind of action in it. So yeah, this is kind of a boring chapter but don't worry...)

We had landed in a forest, called 'Verizion's Retreat', by the town. Latias had gone back to her human form and I had given her my jacket. The town was lit up with bright colored lights, with snow covering all the side-walks. We stood beside a building that overshadowed us.

"Latias, just follow me, I'm sure I have the best chance at not getting caught." I explained to her, walking away from cover. "Don't look at anything with interest and you should seem to fit in. If someone talks to you just motion with your hand this."

I made a motion with my hand that meant I had lost my voice.

"Then let me talk, alright?" I asked her. I put on my goggles just in case I needed to cover my identity a little. Latias handed me the medicine bag and I put it in one of my pockets.

"Eev!" said Eevee, walking off towards the city without us.

"Wait Eevee!" I shouted running after her. I could hear Latias run after me.

I turned the corner and found Eevee stopped, by a group of people. They were dressed in wizard like robes, like in Latias' visions. Their robes they wore were a thick blue, looking more like costumes than actual clothes. A long thick shadow covered their faces, not letting me see who they were.

One of the odd characters knelt down and petted Eevee's head. She backed away before the person's hand could press against her fur. She ran back to me as I kneeled down and held my hands out to her.

The wizard looking character, that tried to pet Eevee's head, stood up as Eevee jumped into my arms.

The group walked towards us slowly, as I started to back up. I glared at them trying to make distaste obvious in my face. The group kept walking towards us as I started to back away. I could hear Latias take a step back with me.

The group came closer and I grabbed onto Eevee, closer. I could feel Latias, become tense behind me. I turned around and smiled at her, trying to comfort her. I walked towards the group calmly as possible. I could hear Latias following right behind me. I was now a foot away from the group, then a couple inches. Then now I was between all of them and they were behind me. I looked behind me as soon as they passed. Latias, looking as if she had just seen a ghost, somehow managed to continue forward till the wizard group past her too.

As soon as we walked into the streets, I let out a sigh.

Latias stared at me from my right.

"Next we go to this place apparently called the Pokémon center, if my memory serves me right." I said trying to make sure that my memory was correct. "It's like a hospital for Pokémon, I remember my mom told me to go here if something where to ever happen and talk to the nurse there. My mom says that the nurse will recognize me as soon as I go there and provide me with some assistance."

I looked around for a building that had a red roof with a medical symbol on it. Snow started to fall lightly, as I turned my head from side to side.

"I suppose we're going to need to explore," I said, walking down the sidewalk laid out with pink salt. Eevee walked to my left and Latias to my right. Thin fog flew out of my nose as I looked from around for the building.

About 20 minutes later…

"That must be it!" I said, pointing at the building that was clothed in snow and painted in red.

I ran towards it, white breath floating out of my mouth as I breathed out. I could hear Latias and Eevee following right behind me. I was about to open the door but suddenly it opened before me. I walked through mystified by the strange door that opened.

I looked around and saw red and white furniture set up all over the place. People sat down on couches around the walls, some with their pokemon out, others talking to friends. At the center of the room was a large counter with a pink haired nurse. She looked down and seemed to be studying something on a computer. A blissey walked around checking Pokémon for injuries. On the other side of the room was an audino, assisting the blissey with her job. I nervously walked towards the center of the room, with Eevee and Latias in tow.

As I walked up the nurse, she looked up from her screen and looked at me. She frowned at me as if there was something about me that confused her.

"Welcome to the Pokémon center, do you need your Pokémon to be healed?" asked the nurse still frowning at me.

I pulled off my goggles, and said," No however I do need some assistance."

Her eyes opened wide at me, then she said," Follow me!"

She nervously kept herself from running to the door in the back of the room, as I quickly followed after her.

She held the door opened for us and as soon as we got past, she closed it and sighed. We were lead into a hall with windows and doors that lead to rooms with Pokémon resting. Some rooms had a blissey or an audino checking each Pokémon.

"Why are you here?" asked the nurse.

"My mother said that I could get some assistance from you. A kidnapper got into my house and I was forced to flee." I said, looking behind me to be sure that the man didn't come back to look for us.

"Who is she," asked the nurse pointing at Latias.

"I'm not exactly sure…" I started to say, unsure if I should tell her. I still wasn't exactly sure if she was a sitto, or a Zorua, or maybe some undiscovered Pokémon, matter of fact.

"Then why is she here?" asked the nurse nervously.

"As I was saying she has a sick brother and I have the herbs for his sick brother. She went through quite the trouble to get here." I said, looking back at Latias.

"I suppose that's understandable." Said the Nurse. "After the police search your house and catch the kidnapper, you're going back home, alright?"

"I was thinking otherwise," I said, trying to decide what to say. "I was hoping that you would let me assist her to get back home."

"That's a no can do," said the nurse. "I'm under strict orders to not let you do that, unless a dire situation arises."

I looked back at Latias, and then thought, I suppose it can't hurt to let one person know that the girl was Latias. Even if the nurse worked with my mother, the most she could do is try to catch her with a handful of blisseys and audinos. Even so they would be no match for Latias and she can simple fly away.

I walked closer to her and said," Latias, go into your form."

She transformed into a bright ball and shimmered for a few sections.

"What's going…" the nurse started to say, but she stopped when she saw Latias' true form

"A Latias ?!" the nurse nearly shouted.

I put my finger to my lips and said," Her brother has the Pokémon plague, we've got to help him before it's too late."

The nurse thought about it for a few seconds and then said," Alright, I'll give you tickets to get off the island and onto the main land. I'll give you what your mom prepared for you just in case there was an emergency of you getting discovered and you needed to get off the island. It's a back pack full of stuff, such as clothes, food, the necessities of every trainer your age. Also a couple tickets to get off the island on a boat."

"Why two tickets, wouldn't that cost more money?" I asked, trying to figure out why my mom would prepare two tickets.

"Just in case you lose the first or something," said the nurse, not sounding sure herself." Either way, go to the docks, down this street and keep looking around till you find a sailor with a speed boat and is dressed in a tuxedo. His name is Tom, he should be easy to find."

"Alright, if you say so." I said, looking at the door behind me.

"I suggest staying here for tonight," said the nurse.

"Why should we," I asked, suspiciously.

"Because Tom's probably asleep by now," said the nurse, looking a little nervous.

"Are you sure, you can let us stay, you seem somewhat busy." I said, not wanting to bother her more than I needed to.

"Yeah, besides you have to plan the trip if you're going by foot," said the nurse.

"Then I will gladly take your hospitality," I said, lightly bowing.

"You're welcome, by the way let me get you a map for the mainland." She said, walking down the hall.

"Well we're staying here for tonight," I said, looking through the door at the people who paid us no attention.

"Latias, how long have you been traveling, just so I can measure how much time your brother most likely has," I said, trying to figure out the best equation for this. It couldn't have been too long since she left and Latias' had to be faster than certain things such as an Escavalier and my Eevee. So Eevee can move at about 20 miles per hour for a constant amount of time. Then multiply that by maybe two and that has to be the lowest speed a Latias can go up to, after all she was a dragon, and as legend has it, she's ridiculously fast. Then also do the math that it probably had to rest along the way. Maybe it was possible for it to be three days' time for her to get here, at latest.

Latias' eyes started to glow again, and then I said," Wait, let's go to a different room. We don't need other people to see you in this form and casting moves that look like something Pokémon use."

She blinked and her eyes returned to normal, then she reverted to her human form.

The nurse quickly walked back down the hall and had a large back pack in her arms. As she came closer the back pack seemed to be very big compared to her, as she seemed to strain under the weight of it.

She handed me the bag and as expected, I immediately felt my arms shake under the weight of it. Then I asked with a strained voice," Where can we stay?"

"There's a small room further in the back that leads to a stack of stairs. From there you'll find a room that has three doors, then take the one on the right," said the nurse, pointing behind her.

"Eev!" said Eevee, running down the hall.

"Don't make too much noise, there are still some Pokémon that are trying to rest," Said the nurse.

"Understood, c'mon Latias," I said, motioning her to follow me.

She followed me down the hall, the nurse's eyes staring at us, still surprised from the fact that a latias was walking down the hall of her hospital. I put down the bag and grabbed it by the handle so it was easier to open doors if I needed to.

We walked down the long hallway to reach a door all the way at the end of the hall. The bag started to tire my arm as I constantly shifted it from one hand to the other. Finally reaching the end, I opened the door to find it lead to three doors as the nurse said. In the square shaped white room, there was a door at the end, on the left, and on the right. I opened the door to my right and found that it lead to a small room with no windows. A couple beds were laid out on the floor, with a small table surrounded by woven couches with white fluffy blankets on them.

I dropped the large backpack onto the floor, and as it landed it made a large thud sound, making me and Eevee jump in unison. Latias started to chuckle at us lightly, then I couldn't help but to join in with her, even Eevee let out a small smile.

"What's in here anyway," I asked myself, opening it as Latias closed the door. The zipper got stuck as I tried to open it, due to the amount of stuff inside. I pulled the zipper back down then moved it up and opened it, getting it past a stuck point.

Inside were a handful of pokéballs, only one of them occupied, all of them sat on a pile of clothes. I dug my way to the bottom and found a large variety of stuff, including a berry case that held a variety of berries, a few cans of food, a couple lighters, a Swiss army knife, an extra bag, a small phone book, and a small box with a picture of a watch on it.

I stuffed everything back, except for the occupied pokéball, and the box with the picture of a watch on it. Putting them all down, I looked at the box. In big blue letters it said, 'Pokétch, now with color and all apps!' In small blue text it read, includes 2 AAA batteries.

I opened up the box and looked at the watch inside. The watch was black but the straps itself were white. I put the watch back and looked at the pokéball and thought about letting the Pokémon inside out. What if it was a large Pokémon, for all I knew it could be a wailord inside.

I turned the ball around in my hand and found that there were half black smudged letter on the bottom of it. It read, 'From ma with love, Zorua for hot weather'.

I looked at the black sharpie ink on my hand and thought to myself, my mother's a fighting type gym leader, so why would she go after a dark-type? Whatever I'll just run out of the room if it's actually a Gyarados or something, I thought to myself.

I pressed the button on the ball and a red light shined from the ball. The red laser flashed white once and in its place stood a Zorua. He looked at me, and then turned his cheek on me.

I blinked a couple times of times confused by his reaction to me. It hates me I suppose.

The zorua looked around the room, looking from Eevee to the Latias, then back to me. He walked over to Latias and Eevee and then continued to stare at me.

"What?" I asked, still left confused by his hostility towards me.

It turned the other cheek and jumped onto a couch, watching me from there. Latias looked at me with a frown. I shrugged at her, then thought to myself, maybe I could turn it into a friend if I gave it a berry from the back pack. I re-opened my backpack and took out the case of berries. I pulled out the berry case and took out a sitrus berry from it.

I slowly walked over to the zorua and handed it to him. He looked at it for a few seconds then smacked it out of my hand, with his head. Frowning, I shrugged and sighed. I put the berry back into its case and the case back into the back pack.

After a few quiet moments, there was a slight knocking on the door. I opened the door and met the nurse. She held some pajamas and a rolled up piece of paper.

"I figured your mom may have forgotten to give you some change of clothes, so I brought you some pajamas. As I said earlier, I believe it would be also handy to have a map so, here you go." She said, her attention on Latias.

"Thank you," I said, taking the objects out of her hand. The pajamas were striped with blue and white lines and were rather thin.

"Let me show you where your mom is," the nurse said, as I took the map. "Wait, you had a Zorua?"

"No, my mom just put one in one of the pokéballs." I answered and looked behind me. The zorua just gave me an irritated look. "He doesn't seem to like me either…"

"Well I hope you guys will get along just fine. Maybe a few berries will help…" the nurse recommended.

"Tried that," I said, remembering how he knocked them out of my hand.

"Well best of luck. Back to what I was planning to show you." She took the map out of my hand and unrolled it. "We're here."

She pointed at a small island beside a large mountain shape island. The island was shaped like a triangle, and seemed to looked like a random piece of land that was chipped off from the mainland. Next to the mainland sat Sinnoh, only separated by a 2 inch sea.

"We're not too far," I said, confused.

"Agreed," she said taking out a red marked and circling the area we needed to go to.

"Alright, thank you, and have a good night," I said, bowing lightly.

"Enjoy your trip," she said, closing the door.

For the rest of the night, I studied the map, with a pair of red eyes burning holes in my back. The zorua continued to sit on the couch and sometimes I could see him start to fall asleep, until he saw me and woke back up. Eevee sat on my lap as I worked on the table. Latias eventually gave me back my jacket and laid down on the bed to fall asleep. Even so I continued to work till my neck was strained. It would take about a week to get to my mom, and if my studies were correct, Latias' and Latios' resided in mountains. From where my mom was, it would probably take up to three days to get to the top of any mountain, including hiking up it. But this was probably without stopping, with stopping it could take well over a week. Maybe two, and at worst three. I grimaced at the thought and started to nervously scratch at the tight bandages on my arms.

I put my head on the table to retire for the night, too lazy to unpack the bed. But my eyes fell onto the zorua as he slept. Unable to sleep, I quietly put my jacket over him. Now I can go to sleep, I thought to myself, irritated by the fact that I was looking at a Pokémon that was sleeping with no covers on. Since I was standing up, I pried open my bag and took out the sleeping bag. I turned off the lights with a soft flick and slipped into my sleeping bag where exhaustion took over. I took off my ski goggles from my head and placed it beside my bag. I could feel Eevee's warm fur on my shoulder as I slipped into a long dream…

Setsuna Damius' note:

So how am I going to tell you this time that I hope you enjoyed the chapter this time if I have stated it was boring earlier? *face palm* Well either way I hoped you enjoy it.

I felt as though I'm starting to sound more like a broken record, so I've decided to two of the following things, allow characters to break the fourth wall, during these notes, or I'll give a tip for battling against other people, such as giving out strategies to use for Pokémon. (Most of the info is based off Smogon so all thanks go to them!)

Absol hint:

They're cool, they're evil looking, but either way underestimated. Give it a Swords dance, a Focus Sash, and a Sucker Punch so you can sucker out everybody that's never used this strategy, and teach is Super Power to end the steel types. (Swords dance doubles the Attack of an Absol, and their base stat is already 130, only 17 points away from Haxorus, and Focus sash, gives it a 1hp if it gets hit with something very powerful. Then Use Sucker Punch so he will attack first, only if the other opponent is attacking, and not ussing moves like Toxic.)

If you want me to keep providing hints like this put it in a comment and I'll do so, or if you want me to end it, go ahead.

Till later, Setsuna Damius

Signing off.