Chapter 5: From Cold to Warm

*One night Later*

I sat up with a jolt in my bed, only half awake. Immediately I felt woozy as I started to open my eyes. Not even sure what I was exactly afraid of, I looked around the room. Everybody was looking at me, their eyes wide open. I tried to stand up but I immediately toppled over forgetting the fact that I was zipped into a sleeping bag. I took a face plant to the floor and finally stopped to think.

Latias chuckled lightly as I came around to my senses. I unzipped myself out of my bed sack and stood back up.

"Good morning," I said, my face still regretting the meeting with the floor. Eevee shook her head and Zorua paid me no attention.

I thought back to my dream, what had it been about. I couldn't remember no matter how hard I tried, like if there was a block there. I rubbed my temples lightly, and looked at my sleeping bag. Latias watched me with her golden eyes as I rolled it up. That was when I found that the sleeping bag could be carried like a bag, since it had a single long shoulder strap that was adjustable that was used to tie the sleeping bag into a cylinder. I sat the sleeping bag next to my backpack and opened the bag to search for the watch and some clothes that I could wear.

Then from behind me I could hear someone knocking on the door.

I opened it to find that it was the nurse.

"You're awake already?" asked the nurse.

"Yes, most presumably because all my life I woke up at exactly 8:00," I said, ignoring the factor that it could of simple been just a coincidence that some nightmare scared me into being awake, starting to remember it.

"Alright," said the Nurse. She had a large black box that had the word 'Ninjask's' on it. "I just called Tom, he said that he'll be waiting for you down at the docks."

"Okay," I said.

"Oh and take these sneakers, you'll need them," said the nurse. "I just hope they fit."

"Thank you," I said, taking them from her and opening them up. Inside were a pair of slim black shoes with a grey silhouette of a Ninjask on the side.

"Try them on," advised the nurse.

I knelt down and fit my foot into one of the shoes. At first it was tight, however after loosening up the strings a little they fit as well as my boots. I was surprised by how light they were compared to my boots.

"They fit perfectly, thank you." I said again, putting the shoe in the box.

"Alright, have a safe trip," said the nurse leaving again.

"Before I forget, Latias, can you tell me how many days you were in the sky?" I asked while closing the door.

She nodded and she closed her golden eyes. Then in a couple seconds she opened them again, and like before a blue sphere formed around us. In the blue ball I could see night turn to day and in front of the rapidly rising sun, a silhouette of Latias flying above mountains, villages, and forests. Every few minutes I could see her go into a forest, most likely to take a break and get something to eat. The sun cycled form setting and went back to rising, then she landed. Within a few seconds she was flying away from another creature that was much bigger than her.

"Alright, so it probably took about a couple days," I said, as the sphere broke apart the moment Latias closed her eyes. Then I added it to the math that I was doing last night, we most likely had less than 3 weeks to save Latios, which was probably more than enough time, if we don't run into any trouble along the way.

"Alright let's get going," I started to say then I looked down at my pajamas. "Right after I change into something more presentable rather than a pair of pajamas."

*A couple minutes later*

I stood in the bathroom looking at my own reflection in the mirror. My face was washed and my hair was neatly made. I wore a shirt that had the same Ninjask shape on it, a pair of blue jeans and my old boots. My watch was set up and running the current time. Above all of that I wore a small jacket from the backpack. and I felt as though I looked like I was dressing like a character from a book. Both of my arms were still wrapped in bandages and around my neck was my pair of goggles.

As I looked in the mirror, the nightmare slowly crept back to haunt my thoughts. I could remember that I sat in my room. My hands were tied to a chair and a man with a long syringe injected a strange liquid into my wrist. His face was the same as the man that took the mechanism from his back pack, earlier from the vision Latias showed me. This time he wore thick goggles, shaped like two gray tubes sticking out of his eyes as if he were doing construction work. He slowly pulled out the syringe. I shook in the chair, and the same goose bumps re-appeared on my arms, both physically and in my nightmare.

Behind the man I could see my mom lightly clapping.

"Good good," she repeated, putting her hand on my forehead. "Good Jirou, take the solvent like a man."

That was where my dream ended, but no matter how eventless the dream was, I didn't like it. Then the other question. Who was Jirou? It certainly wasn't my name. But then why is the name so, familiar, like if I spoke the name before. I quickly put the thought out of my mind and sighed.

I walked back into the other room to carry my bag and I motioned with my hand for Latias, Eevee, and Zorua to come. Somehow Zorua came with us without a single a problem.

We walked down the hall till we opened up to the same lobby, this time with less people. The nurse smiled and waved as I opened the door to the city streets. As soon as I opened the door I was shocked by the amount of people here. The town seemed small, but the amount of people that populated it seemed to be too much for the city carry.

"Wow," I said, looking around. I started to walk down the street, looking up at the buildings that seemed to curve towards me at the top. As I looked down the street, I could see that in the distance it led to a port. The many people on the street seemed to be monochrome, all of them wearing suits or a large black jacket.

Every now and then I could see a man, dressed up like a wizard, pass by, however they didn't bother us at all. Even through this we kept at a distance away from the wizards, we didn't want an ambush.

I kept my eyes on every alleyway, making sure that there wasn't a single person hiding in one though. Was this all a trick or something I wondered to myself, or where they just not attacking in the public.

Everybody seemed to be on their guard, even Zorua. After a couple minutes we reached the port and started to look for the sailor dressed in a tuxedo.

After a few minutes of walking across the port we found a man in a tuxedo wearing a white sailor's hat. He was asleep on the back of a very clean speed boat. The man wore a pair of shades and was lightly snoring. He had a clean shave and a very slim tuxedo that seemed to make his muscles pop out a little.

The boat had four seats and a small table between them. The back had a small roof over it to keep the customers from feeling too hot, which was strange since we were in a place where snow was constant. The boat was painted white with a couple red stripes on it.

"Excuse me, are you Tom?" I asked walking over to the sleeping man and shaking him awake.

"Huh, what?" asked the man, standing up. He seemed to tower over me, his body full to the top with muscles.

"You… You must be the gym leader's kid, right?" asked the sailor, straightening his tie. He had a deep voice like a singer.

"Yes, may we have a trip to Revena?" I asked, looking up to him. Revena was the name of the island on the outskirts of Sinnoh.

"Sure but who is she?" asked the sailor, pointing at Latias.

"Um… Just a friend of mine." I said, nervously.

"Alright, I just need a ticket for both of you." said Tom, opening his hand to both of us.

I opened my bag and pulled out the two tickets as asked. He took them from my hand and said," All aboard!"

All of us stepped onto the speed boat and sat down in one of the four seats.

"Please use the seat belts, and keep all limbs inside the boat at all times," said Tom, through a speaker attached to the back of the boat. "Disengaging Anchors!"

The boat started to rock back and forth as the waves kicked the boat up, then drop it.

The boat kicked up a little bit against the wave as I put on a seat belt. Eevee and Zorua jumped under the desk not knowing what to do. Latias tensed a little bit and then quickly calmed down.

"Over here you two, I'll hold both of you," I said, bending over to grab the two.

Zorua refused but Eevee jumped into my open arms.

The boat rocked once more and stayed in a tilted position. Zorua slid to the back of the door and lightly banged is head on the wall.

"Eev!" Shouted Eevee, cheerfully. I looked back at Latias quickly to see that she was no longer surprised but seemingly enjoyed the ride.

"Grr," growled Zorua standing up.

The boat rocked as it bumped into a small wave and Zorua fell back down.

"You sure you don't want me to hold you?" I asked, giving it another chance.

"Eev!" Eevee said, sounding like she was trying to support me.

The Zorua gave up and fell onto the floor, watching me with angered eyes. He quickly jerked his head forward and closed his teeth, but I moved my hand out of his fangs.

"Yip yip!" said Zorua, glaring at Eevee.

In return I glared back at him, I would have Eevee's back one way or the other.

Zorua's eyes didn't fall on me but stayed trained on Eevee, who stayed calm.

Zorua started to talk away at Eevee, explaining something. Not being able to understand at all, I watched Eevee and looked back at Latias, trying to tell what was going on from the expressions on their faces. Though neither of their expressions changed when Zorua was done talking, by which Zorua seemed surprised by.

Then the boat rocked hard again, as I looked up at the ceiling of the roof. I looked out over the sea and watched the sun continue to rise to the top of the sky.

Then Eevee started to talk lightly to Zorua, who kept a straight face, looking like he was trying to keep an angry looking frown. However he seemed to be more in shock rather than angry.

Then after a while Latias smiled lightly and closed her eyes, I looked back at Zorua who seemed to be at a total loss. After a few minutes, Zorua looked up to me, with a frown still looking sort of unsure. Not sure what I was supposed to do, I looked back up to the sun in the sky. Getting bored I started to press random buttons on my watch, checking out random applications on my watch.

"A handful of 'Rice balls' will be served momentarily. At the moment we are expected to reach our destination quicker than expected! Please, although it was short, I hope you enjoyed the short trip," said the speakers from the back of the boat.

After a couple seconds the boat slowed down and Tom came out with a small box of rice balls.

He gave each of us, including the Pokémon, two rice balls from a small red lunch box. The he quickly disappeared again into the captain's quarters.

As the sea passed by, the humidity in the air seemed to rise. My jacket seemed to stick to my bandages. The wind started to become less cool and the sun became harsher. Soon I was forced to pull off my jacket and was about to start ripping off my bandages till I remembered why I had them on in the first place. Beads of sweat formed around my forehead and neck. Eevee fell on her side and onto my lap due to the heat. The strap around my goggles seemed to become sticky as eventually I took that off and tightened it around my neck.

Latias took off the jacket I gave her from last night and gave put it on her lap. She seemed to be comforted by the heat rather than looking uncomfortable in the heat. I looked at Zorua who was bathing in the sun and quietly snored beside me. When did he get this close to me, I wondered to myself.

I whipped some sweat off my forehead and leaned back in my seat. Somehow my mind fell to thoughts of snow. I could seem myself looking out a window as a young child. Eevee sat on the window sill, looking out the window with me. Snow was pilling up outside but inside the house, the heater inside the house whistled lightly. The air in the room started to feel like syrup, thick with heat and humidity. The door-bell rang and I ran to the door. My feet felt like I was walking on glue as each step clung to the bottom of my foot. I opened the door and was wet with my mother's cold smile. As my child self I gave her a bright smile.

"Wake up," said a manly voice when my mom opened her mouth.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Wake up!" she shouted.

I opened my eyes and I saw Tom in my face.

"You're awake!" said Tom, moving out of my way as I got up.

"What can I do for you," I asked, rubbing my eyes.

"Where here, so you know, go take care of your business." He said, standing up.

The sun was in the center of the sky and was covered by the tent above me. The air almost felt damp, and my shirt felt tight around my body like I was wearing a wet shirt.

Latias and the other Pokemon watched me from my right, waiting for me to wake up. I stood up as Tom moved out of my way.

"Thank you," I said, grabbing my bag and slinging it over my back.

"You're welcome now get going!" He said, almost pushing us off his boat.

As soon as we got off the boat, he got back into his seat and left at full speed.

Okay, that was strange, I thought to myself. I looked up from the wooden dock and looked up at the large mountain before us.

The first thing that I noticed was that the mountain had large ruins and modern buildings built into it. I could see hundreds of people walking through the streets of the town. Between me and the mountain was a smaller settlement that became bigger and more modern looking the closer you got to the mountain, as if the sea was the area for outcasts. Around the small settlement I could see small wild pokemon walking around amongst the small crowd of people walking down the street.

I dropped my backpack and pulled out a map. I pointed at the place we were and moved my finger up the street before us, following a path to the city my mother was. Judging from the path that Latias showed me, she most likely had to have flew from one of the two mountains that I pointed at, north from us and north form the city my mom resided in.

Finally deciding I moved forward down the street and constantly checked the map to make sure that I was going down the right path. We saw much more people dressed in wizard robes than in my town making us nervous.

As we walked down the path I could feel the heat pulling sweat from my skin. Eventually I pointed at a cafe on the map and showed it to Latias. The small café was called, 'Royal Unova Tea'.

"Let's rest here," I suggested, my body tired from the unusual amount of heat.

"Eev…" agreed Eevee from behind me.

Latias nodded and smiled, she too seemed a little tired.

We turned to the right and walked down a quiet lonely street. Down the street I could see a small park and further down was a road that split in three.

As we walked past the park I could see two people standing by a large fountain. In the distance a small jungle gym sat in the heat.

I continued on when suddenly, "Thief, give him back!"

I looked as Latias who looked just as surprised and ran through the park doors, with Zorua right at my feet.

As I looked closer I could see the man was dressed in wizard robes and was holding a panpour in one arm. Beside him was a familiar looking houndoom.

Beside him was a girl that must have shouted. She wore a pair of jeans with a bright pink shirt. Her slightly red hair reached down to the collar of her shirt.

"A panpour is rare pokemon. He's mine!" he said, pushing the girl away. As I looked closer I could see the man was the kidnapper from the night before. He must have traveled by plane, I thought to myself.

"Sir," I said walking into the scene. "I suggest you give the lady back her panpour."

"Huh," said the man looking at me as if he were trying to recall who I was. "You!" He pointed at me with his free hand. "I have a job to finish, keep this stupid monkey Pokemon. I have no need for him."

He dropped the panpour and pointed at me.

"Houndoom Ember," said the man.

I looked down and grabbed Zorua who was shocked from the sudden attack. I rolled out of the way and quickly released him. I was still bent down on my knees and I quickly formed a strategy.

"Eevee," I called. She quickly ran to my side and responded, "Eev?"

"Remember them?"

"Eev!"

"Eevee Secret Power!" I said, pointing back at the Houndoom. Eevee quickly ran up to the Houndoom and rammed him with all her might. The Houndoom was pushed back and was quickly ready to counter.

"Eevee stand back!" I shouted.

"You can't beat me him with range! Houndoom ember," The man shouted.

Eevee quickly jumped out of reach of Houndooms physical attacks, but Houndoom spewed multiple specks of flame from his breath.

"Duck and roll!" I said, jumping out of the way to not get caught in the specks.

Without hesitation Eevee fell down to her chest and rolled out of the way.

"Eevee counter with Secret Power!" I shouted, annoyed by the fact that my tactics weren't working as well as planned. The chances for Eevee to win was low, however if this one move did what I wanted it to do…

"Eevee stand back," I shouted again.

"Houndoom don't let her get away from your physical range." Said the man.

Eevee jumped back but Houndoom quickly depleted the range Eevee made between them.

"Houndoom Bite," said the man.

"Dodge Eevee," I quickly said, but the Houndooms fangs bit eevee.

"Eev!" she cried.

"Eevee Bite back!" I yelled.

She bit the Houndoom and forced him to let go.

"Now use Secret Power!" I said, hopping that the Houndoom was still recovering.

"Houndoom, Ember!" shouted the man.

Eevee, now airborne, and Houndoom stared at each other, and time slowed down. Houndoom started to open his mouth.

"Panpour Water Gun!" Shouted a girl's voice sounding far away.

The man and I turned to look at the girl and her panpour.

A blast of water quickly headed towards the Houndoom, but the man jumped in and covered for the Houndoom.

I closed my eyes, not wanting to see Eevee get hit in the face with Houndoom's Ember.

"Eev!" shouted Eevee, I forced my eyes open. Eevee went through the flame and slammed into the Houndoom.

"Yip, yip!" cried the Houndoom, getting hit in the face with Eevee's body.

The man turned around, as Eevee landed, and said, "Houndoom, Bite!"

But Houndoom stood there, shaking a little.

"Houndoom?"

It worked I said grinning to myself. Secret Power's effect, if used in a plain area, it may cause paralysis.

"Eevee finish the job, return!" I shouted with a large smile on my face.

Eevee rammed Houndoom with all her force, moving him back a couple inches. The Houndoom stood, still shaking then closed his eyes and finally dropped to the ground. Eevee turned around and started to walk towards me.

"Wha… But, how?" he said in disbelief.

As Eevee got closer I could see the burns on her fur.

"Eevee, good job. Now rest, I'll take you to a medical center immediately," I said patting her. I started to scoop her up off the groujnd.

The man put his Houndoom back into the ball and ran down the park.

"Thank you," said the girl, holding her Panpour.

"Panpour!" said the panpour.

"Thank Eevee, she's the one who did all the hard work," I said, lightly patting her again.

She put down her Panpour and patted Eevee saying," Thank you Eevee."

"Excuse me, do you know where the nearest Pokecenter is?" I asked, feeling Eevee's muscles become calm.

"I was just about to go there, I'll lead you!" said the girl, starting to jog away.

I waved for Latias to follow and ran down the street to follow the girl. For the first few minutes the parts of town she crossed seemed to be relatively familiar, then at the last second she turned into a smaller road that branched off from the main side walk. Then we finally found a familiar red roofed building.

The glass door slid open before us, and the inside of the building was the same. Even the same size, with the same exact nurse, with the relatively same Pokemon, instead there was a single Chansey amongst the crowd of working nurse Pokemon.

As we quickly ran up to the counter the nurse gave a light bow, and asked," Can I help you with something?"

"Yes, Nurse Joy can you heal this Eevee and my Panpour?" asked the girl.

"Of course I can!" She took my eevee and the girl's panpour and placed them on a cart. Then she disappeared through a door to a room in the back. I looked behind me to check that Zorua and Latias were still there. They watched me silently, the zorua in Eevee's arm.

"Thank you, umm… Excuse me what is your name?" I asked the girl.

"You can call me Aria," said the girl. Then I stopped and finally realized that I hadn't even really looked at her. She wore small thin glasses on her short nose, and had to be about my age, 13 or 14. She wore a small smile and had a large purse slung over her shoulder. Her eyes were deep blue and a mask of makeup colored her face. Her hair was neatly combed down and she wore a heavily accessorized pink watch on her wrist and a very exotic black bracelet.

"My name is Roku." I said letting out my hand to give her a hand shake.

She lightly chuckled and shook my hand.

"Who's the girl behind you?" asked Aria, she nodded her head at Latias and Zorua.

"Umm… She's just a friend of mine. She doesn't talk much because she lost her voice," I said, trying to avoid conversation between the two.

"Oh… Alright, just curious," said Aria, nodding lightly. "Let's lounge here till the nurse is done."

Just as Aria recommended we sat down and talked waiting for the nurse to finish. Turns out there were also a couple staff members here that also new how to cook and so we had our lunch here. Making matters better, the Pokemon center was run by a kind government making food free, only for kids under the age of 18.

*About an hour later*

"So where are you headed off to next," asked Aria.

"Umm… Hold on," I said just noticing that I hadn't even checked the name of the map. I scrambled around in my bag for a couple minutes and rediscovered the map.

"Bealeton Town," I said, pointing at a point on the map.

To my right I could see the nurse approaching us, with Aria's panpour and my eevee.

The two pokemon ran at us, both to their respective owners. Eevee jumped onto a seat beside me as panpour jumped onto Arias' lap.

"Well then we may see each other again," Aria announced hopefully.

"Why are you going there?" I asked, suspiciously. Was it possible this was simply another set up for us, it was strange that we ended up seeing the same guy twice. I quickly trashed the thought and moved on.

"No, I'm planning to travel across the island to see my dad. He's all the way on the other side of the map. Here," she said, pointing at a coast past the mountain that I suspected Latias was from. This was slowly starting to become fishier.

I quickly looked at my watch and found out that it was 4:00P.M

"Oh dear, look at the time, I must continue on my travels." I said, standing up.

Latias rose with me and we both marched out of the hospital.

That girl was sort of strange, I thought to myself.

Maybe later I should ask Latias , maybe she can tell if Aria's words were true or if they were fake.

I looked up at the sky at a large cloud forming, covering the skies like a soft grey blanket.

"We best get going to the next town, I don't want to be caught in the rain." I explained to Latias.

She nodded and we both hurried out of town.

Damius Note:

I'm sincerely sorry for not posting another chapter for so long. I say that too often don't I? Anyway from cramming for the finals and working on a vocation due to my dad and losing part of a chapter for Shinx's Tragedy, I think that explains it…

Next week due to the same type or reasons I may not be able to post a new chapter, however I will try to get something done for Shinx's Tragedy by this week since I'm about halfway through a chapter.

Please if anyone knows a place where to find out a Pokemon's cry, from the anime, will you please leave it in the comments. Going back, finding an old episode with the certain Pokemon in it, is not a fun process. Oh yeah, it has to be English dubbed because if it's in Japanese, even though I can understand, the Pokemon's name and cry is different so for an example Snivy is Tsutarja in Japanese.

Another note, I may have hit Paste on my computer twice so if you see something repeated, let me know so I can fix it.

Game Tips: Porygon 2
The only Pokemon, I think and in my opinion, to be better than its evolved form, Porygon Z. Now true at first sight Porygon is slower and has less moves, but he also has a magical item called Eviolite making his defenses good enough to withstand a blow from Garchomp. (You will have to Ev and Iv train him for this.) Give him a chance, and give him Restore, Toxic, Ice beam, and maybe some Hidden Power move and he will become very hard to take down. Not only can you just throw him into a dragon and kill it with ice beam, but you can also poison Pokemon like Miltank and end their reign of heal spamming. The only thing to watch out for, steel types.

(I think this is way too long for a note…)