... Well... You came back. Honestly, I thought you'd torchic out and stay away... ... ... I guess I should get on with it, already...

... The heaviness that this next day holds is something that makes my head feel scattered and messy, like someone is throwing around my various thoughts and as a result, their actions make me feel... lost... However, I know what happened. It's unavoidable, the horrifying events that took place... the very next day right after I had met Mallory... only no one I knew was to blame for what happened. If anyone or anything was to blame, I guess I would blame the ones who had made this day so infamous to me...

I had just woken up. My hearing was still foggy and my eyes were still closed. I had not dreamt that night, much like the other day. Just another sleep spent with time feeling like it was whisping by. My eyes finally found strength and creeped open to the ground, which was sideways as I slept on my side. After a few moments of blinking and staring at the little pond across from me, I sat up, slowly, moaning. Rubbing my eyes, I said, "Good morning.. Mom.. Sis..." ...I didn't hear a response.

Furrowing my brow, I looked around, lifting my bangs out of the sight of my eyes. I saw trees, grass, the pond and slight indentions in the ground where I was sure my mom and Kimmy fell asleep together, but they weren't there. "The heck?" I muttered, rubbing an eye lazily. "What? Did they go exploring around without me or somethin'...?"

Sitting up, my eyes adjust to see what seemed to be the dawn of the forest, a darkness still lingering along the trees and grass and the sky still a transparent dark-blue that revealed stars dimly twinkling through like a glass was held above the planet.

*Bam!*

My eyes and head snapped to my right, then my left. The sound of something loud and abrupt had just sounded and it was unlike anything I had ever heard. At the time, I had no idea what this was, but in time, I found out of what could make a sound so loud and unsettling...

... My body was as shaky as a leaf and my eyes were so wide. I'd realized that I was all alone and in terrible danger... I got up to see if the sound would come again, looking from side to side in the dimly lit forest, thinking I could spot it. I had no idea that the device that made such an unsettling sound was able to be heard from much further away than I was thinking, at the time. "... M-momm-"

*BAM BA-BAM!*

I gasped in the middle of the word as I heard a series of the same sound from somewhere off behind me, snapping around with my body shaking even worse! Fear was beyond settled in. There was nothing behind me other than a path that was open in the forest. It grew darker as it went on and as the sounds I heard before echoed out, a foreboding in my heart strangled me by the throat, making my breaths quicker. WHAT IS MAKING THAT TERRIBLE SOUND? That thought grew loud and set to repeat.

My lips were hard pressed to each other to the point when they were nearly flat. I had unconsciously tightened my hands into a strange knub fist on either arm. My heart pounded in my head loud and heavy. That same heart was warning my mind with the thought, {Don't go. Don't go,} ringing over and over to replace the other. I sweat from shaking so much, nerve-wracked, especially since I was alone... That's right. Where were mom and my sister? ...

Whatever I thought about it was interrupted by the sound of a clicking behind me, making me freeze with a pale shadow on my face.

[Don't Move...] I heard what sounded like a man's words being said through a can or something... Words that, at the time, were mottled and mixed up to me. I recognized the type of words they were though. They were just like that boy's I had visited... That's because the one behind me was a human, just like him.

I couldn't understand him, but it wasn't going to matter. I just had to think of a good place to get away to. One place was that crystallized part of the forest. I instantly used teleport and then the familiar pink flash of light enveloped me and started to make my body vanish in a pink, misty fashion. Before I was totally gone from that place, I heard the same sound from before, but this time, much louder.

*BAM!*

... I didn't get a look at what happened, but it no longer mattered. Though I didn't get a look at the man then, I eventually would...

When I reemerged, I had tumbled out of a cloud of pink mist, right into fragile, blue, crystallized grass as it crushed under me, some particles from it flying into the air. Some even stuck to me, especially at my front, the side of me that hit first. No time but a second or two had passed as always between the time I was in my home being threatened to that second I was not and back in Mallory's home.

I started to lift myself of the ground, arms hoisting my upper body up, when I heard a voice.

"Ralina?" It was Mallory's voice. She was floating in front of me, ready to take my hand with her own. "How did you just suddenly appear here?"

I looked up to confirm that it was her and my red eyes were relieved to see Mallory's somewhat glowing eyes and concerned face staring down at me, an arm out for me, even leaning herself over frontward from her personal gravity. It made her boulder half stick up a bit, somewhat silly-like. I can't lie. A smile crossed my face when I saw her.

I took her hand as she helped me up and then leveled herself back to floating right side up again. Taking my hands, I dusted myself off from the broken grass on my front side. While I did, I spoke up to Mallory, but kept my eyes on the crystal mess all over my front. "H-hey Mallory... And to answer your question, I can teleport myself anywhere I've been before or can see... within reason..." I looked up at her after I was done dusting off, grief riddled my blankened face. "However, that's not important. What is important is the reason I had to do it."

Mallory's face grows even more concerned upon hearing that. "What's going on? A-are you okay? What are you doing here alone? Aren't your sister and mother worried?"

The thought of my mother and sister's whereabouts was back upon the topic coming up with my hidden brows creasing in concern and fear, a frown on my lips. I kicked the ground with my covered foot softly and wondered that myself, not even knowing where they could be. "If they are worried, I sure don't know. I haven't seen them since I woke up." I scowled, thinking about that human man that threatened me. I found myself frustrated I couldn't get his face. "But I DID have the pleasure of being threatened by a human when I woke up.", I said, sarcasm heavy in my tone.

She gasped and started rounding me in levitation, checking me for injury I guess. "By the devine trinity- he didn't hurt you, did he?!" When she was finished and an answer didn't come from me, she floated back in front of me and sighed in a little relief, brows furrowed. "You seem unharmed..." She thought for a minute and so did I, but all I thought of was what I already had been thinking of. Who was that human? She questioned me, seeming serious all of the sudden. "I heard a lot of gunfire a while ago. Was that coming from around you?"

She then had me confused, me looking up at her with a lost expression. "Gunfire? What the heck is that- a .. move?"

She shook her head, expression frozen on serious. "No, it's a loud sound that comes from guns, metal-made mechanisms that shoot metal bits called bullets. It sounds like a big... bang!" She raised her voice a little to emphasize the bang and it suddenly caught my attention when I thought of how the sounds from before sounded.

"Yes!" I suddenly shouted. Then I put my hands up to emphasis further. "But instead of a bang, it was more a blaring... Bam! It was all over the place at one point. Then when I teleported away from the man, I heard it just before I left!" Turning sight back to her, I was left startled.

She had grown pale in the face and her eyes was wide with shock. Her lips even pursed a bit. Then, her hand went to her chest as if she had felt something there, eyes closing as she sighed. "Ralina... Trinity preserve... Yo-you were too lucky, then..."

I wasn't aware that what she was calling a gun was so dangerous. My body shuddered a little while I breathed. "Wh-what do you mean? How did I get lucky?"

She slowly opened her eyes as she took a moment, letting the air grow still with hesitation... "A gun, as I said, shoots metal bits humans call bullets. You were in a point-blank spot... You're not a rock or steel type and your not able to protect yourself that well, yet, at your age with your psychic mind... If the human you spoke of was aiming for your head or your back, a single bullet would have killed you..."

Her words stung my very blood and made it feel as if it had drained into my legs. I was even paler than a sheet with my entire body quaking, not just shaking. I had no idea before then that I could have died. I WOULD have died if my teleportation wasn't a near instantaneous move. I don't know what kept me from crying back then. Most my age would have been bawling their eyes out at this point, but I guess I just couldn't. I did grab at the back of my head though, feeling for anything that seemed harmful to my health.

Her hand came down onto my head, which made me gasp and look up really quick to see her in frontward float again. She smiled reassuringly down at me. "But your okay. That's what counts, not what could have happened. So, no thinking too hard."

Taking breaths, I tried my best to calm down, whipping the sweat that had formed on my face. "E-either way, I know now that my mom and sister WERE in danger. I can't stay here..." I looked up to see Mallory's once again concerned face, continuing so say, "...and neither can you, Mallory."

She frowned with a sweat ridden look of unease. "If you think I'm letting a little girl go charging toward those monsters, you're mistaken. You'll be killed, Ralina!"

"...'M not asking for approval." She probably tried to stop me. I'm sure she tried to say something, but I had already teleported away, though it wasn't very far away.

I wound up reforming 100 yards away, but out of her sight. I was somewhere behind her... And from that distance, I wasn't out of ear shot to hear her calling for me... then breaking down weeping... I hate it when I make people cry... I'm positive back then, I almost broke down, too. I teleported again...

Several teleports later, I was back out of the crystallized parts of the forest and back around where I lived. It was the only other place I could think to start. Though I felt weird after I had used that last teleport.

Not a bad weird, but the weird that made you feel lighter. Stronger... I suddenly felt drawn to try moving something... with my mind. Looking around I found a few small nuts, humming to myself as I focused in on them... then suddenly they all started to float up as my eyes moved up. I blinked in surprise as I started to draw them closer to me, so I could reach out and grab them in my hands. I just stood there, staring at the nuts I had just made move with my mind... "Is this MY Confusion...? That was.. so easy...!"

Letting the nuts go did not make them drop to the ground, because I was gripping them with my mind. One suddenly cracks as I focus harder. With a little grunt, I used my mind to crush it! -Crunch!- Though, I also crushed the others with it, both excited and surprisingly taken back with a nervous grin on my face. "O-oops!..., Well at least I know I can crush them~..."

I looked at a tree branch and hummed to myself again, now excited that I had finally learned just one psychic move. Confusion wasn't a strong Psychic move, but it was the lowest form of it's stronger Cousin, Psychic... Yes, okay. Stop laughing. I know the name is the name of our type.

Getting back to the point, I started to wonder exactly HOW weak confusion was. Focusing on the limb of the tree, I started to try and pull the branch down with my mind, moving the branch downward toward the ground as I started to hear it's base creak and crack. Straining my focus in a groan of effort, I found myself putting my arms forward and bringing them to the side and up, as well as the branch. I let out and grunt while I threw my arms down to the side, and as I did it, the branch's base splintered and snapped. A loud, resounding -CRRRACK!- echoed out into the forest! The branch was too heavy for my confusion though and it made me have to stop holding it, letting it drop in a -thonk- of weight to the ground.

It took the wind out of me a little when I released, making me gasp and pant. I felt stronger, but at the same time, I had seen my mom take down an entire tree once to get us over a riverbank. What I just did was what could have been done by her 80 times and then MAYBE have had the same result it had on me.

Either way, looking at the branch made me smile when I gained my composure back. I was still sweaty, though. "Just confusion and I did this! How co-"

"You doofus!" I was suddenly tackled down by someone into bushes, grunting out when I hit the solid ground under them, hitting my head a little!

I was knocked for a loop after that, but heard some beating feet near me and whoever was holding me down under this bush. When I was done reeling from the impact, I rubbed the side of my head that hit the ground, finding wet mud there and groaning in disgust, only to have my mouth covered by a white hand with two fingers. I heard... my sister's voice tell me, "Quiet!" In a hushed shout. My eyes flicked my eyes to her face... and found that it WAS her! Kimmy! If I hadn't been heeding her words, I would have been asking her where she had been and what was going on and so many other things. Then I noticed something that was off about her face...

There was blood trickling her forehead and the side of her white face where she'd been cut by something. The cut seemed to have trimmed a small portion of her hair tuft there, as well. It made my stomach turn over twice and my heart race a little, putting a look of awe and fear in my eyes, which could be seen with my hair so messed up from the mud. I hadn't ever seen so much blood...

Kimmy saw my face and turned her head to look at me, putting on a reassuring smile. "Don't look at me like that. I'm fine. It's just skin. Nothing permanent~." It was the first time I was afraid I could lose a part of my family, but it wouldn't be the last...

Looking around, Kimmy peaked her head out from under the bushes, looking around once more, making sure no one was around. "It looks clear now... Those masked freaks are gone." She uncovered my mouth and let go of me, allow me to move and get out from under the bushes. The first thing I did was get the mud off of my head... but there was more warm mud on my side, making me groan out in disgust again while I tried to brush myself free of it. My sister, who was also covered in some mud, probably more than me, wasn't even concerned with it, seeming to be more concerned about watching around up. "When I saw those masked guys all around our spot, I thought they had caught you, too... You had me worried..."

The second I heard the key words "caught you, too", I froze, leaned over from trying to clear the mud from my legs. I stood straight and whirled around to my sister, one showing eye wide like the hidden one. "Caught you, too...? What do you mean...?"

She suddenly gasped and covers her mouth, turning her eyes on me for a second, but turning away to curse herself. "Why can't I ever just..." She was whispering now and I could not hear a word.

I came again, but I hopped onto her back and grabbed hold of her shoulder for that time, making her fall over, because she hadn't expected it. I had to know what she knew! "What does that mean, Kimmy?! What do you mean?! Tell me!"

I don't know if I've ever called a moment by this, but whatever the case, this had become the single most extensive minute of silence that I'd had to wait through. Kimmy was faced down in the grass under me and was not moving for a while. She didn't attempt to throw me off, even though I knew she easily could, back then.

After a full minute of breathing into the dirt, Kimmy turned her head to the side to reveal her blood dirtied face, her scarlet eye dull with the emotion of sadness and her mouth's lips quivering... "Those masked freaks are capturing pokemon... They had them in cages... I don't even know what for..." That alone was hard to take in. I let go of her shoulders and sat back against her back, just wondering why the heck these people are specifically targeting pokemon with a body type like their's.

"...I didn't believe..." She started, but stopped, her eye welling up with tears while they spilled over her face .

Seeing my sister starting to cry, I started to reach over to touch her cheek, but she slept my hand away with her own. Confused, I stood up off her back and moved to the side, letting her sit up.

She looks around again while tears wet her face more than her own sweat did. She let her gaze fall upon her lap as her lips came open to reveal her bit down teeth with a sob, her eye's squinting to stay open. "Mom.. Because I was in the way... she was knock out and.. they... they c-caught her!"

I could have kept back a gasp if I tried, because it felt like my heart suddenly stopped, a hand flying to my chest. My mouth hung open while my eyes came wide. I was shivering, sweating and unsure. Shaking my head, my mind refused to accept that... "No... Not mom... Not... She's... They'd be... M-mom is... she-"

"I-it's all my fault! They-y just .. came and.. the-ey shot at me but... she got in fr-ront of me and then they... hit her with some needle that made her go to s-leep..." She looked at me with a tear drenched face and lips that seemed like an invisible button was all that was keeping them together... Her eyes were slits... I had never seen her so miserable or hurt before. I just stared at her with eyes wide while my head was dipped down low and my hands clenched each other. "I tried... I-I tr-hied to get her up, but ... One cut me-he with a blade... and tried to go after me..." She hung her head in shame to avoid my eyes... "I don't know how I ever got away... I d-hidn't look.. back..."

By that point, she was choking on her own tears. She could not tell me a thing anymore. She could only sulk and cry on the ground now. I felt like exploding. All I could think at that time was how I wanted to run... Run... and go get our mom back... Or join her in captivity. Looking at my sister with tears running my face and hands shaking from tears and fear... Better judgement was a dead thing to me in that moment... I only wanted my mom... I thought, the masked men would take me to her...

And so.. I... I ran... and left my sister there to cry... Alone, I would run... Alone, I would be found by those freaks...