We were at the entrance to the outskirts of the giant city. A street which was in the past a broad and modern expressway was now run-down and dirty. The street headed to the city. I remember this city, it was big modern and captivating city with large parks and tall buildings made of glass, the every night was lighted by colourful neons.
Now only ruins were here. From the cracked ground were long sharp metal girders of old structures with a coat of rust and dregs of paint. On them were hanging down old mixed cables. Fragments of glass were like a carpet with spikes covering almost the whole ground. Burned derelicts and old streamlined cars were disarranged on streets, which were cracked and full of holes.
I thought that all information about me was destroyed with that city but if someone was trying to get me than he needed to find something here.
"Rea can be trouble, what if our old prison isn't empty and we will meet some 'friends', she should wait on outskirts," advised Kilian, the umbreon.
"Listen, Rea, you shouldn't go with me now, you will only slow me down, wait here on the edge of the outskirts." I agreed with the umbreon spirit in me.
"No way, I'm going with you," she said confidently and stood even closer to me.
"You really should stay here," I argued, I looked at her and something blinked blue in her eye, I never before was paying attention to her eyes but I thought that they were a much darker colour earlier then I saw it now.
"You promised to escort me, you can't keep me safe if I stay here," I hadn't wanted to agree to that but I hadn't any excuses which could be helpful now. I sighed. Damn me why I feel that keeping my promises is so important.
"If you must, then come," I said turning to the city. But there was one more problem for me. Even if there were parks, now they were burned, because of that the only ground in the city were asphalt, brick or ashes. I couldn't keep my night form during the day. Other forms also wouldn't work because of missing elements which left only eevee and espeon form to use, until nightfall.
I didn't want to waste a whole day and because the city could be dangerous I decided to use espeon once more. After Rea looked away I changed. Voices immediately echoed in my mind but it seems to be less of them than before, maybe I started to get used to it. I also noticed that I could identify the place from where these voices were coming from. Almost all of them were from very far but one was coming from the nearby. I tried to listen to it.
"Wait, follow, bored, angry, open," This was completely different than Rea's mind voice. Rea always was creating a normal sentence which I wasn't sure if she really said it or it was just a thought, this one was like a whisper and words were spoken slowly.
Maybe it was some echo of some mind, but an echo of thought even exist?
Walking through the street wasn't easy, it was cracked glass everywhere and I didn't want to get cut. I could heal very quickly but it would be still some unnecessary pain. When we got closer to the ruined city centre, on the streets appeared white bare bones in every size and shape. We came to the central plaza of the city, here were, even more, shards of glass, covering the whole ground. I didn't know this city well enough to find another way to my target without losing ourselves in the labyrinth of streets.
"Nice, he lost us," I heard Rea after few minutes of thinking if should I try to use some psychic to move troublesome glass or look for another way would be safer.
"I'm not lost, not yet," I answered, that was the first time when I heard her grumbling.
"But I didn't say anything," said Rea looking surprised but quickly her facial expression become similar to this one which she had after she landed in the river. "Stop using your psychic things one me! There are my thoughts!"
"It's not my fault that you stream them like a radio," I answered and finally decided that using telekinesis couldn't hurt, even if I failed.
"Really am I? Terid never mentioned that. What if he knows everything that I'm thinking about him?! Maybe that's why he is so nice toward me."
"Stop talking! I mean thinking so loud, who is this Terid anyway?" I didn't care much who he is, but if I heard his name then why shouldn't know to whom it belong.
"He is an espeon from my pack, that is weird when someone knows what you are thinking. Could you try to ignore it? It's my private zone," answered Rea, a little grumpy. No matter if I could or not I needed to ignore them to give my "clear the place" mission any chance to success. I felt different than before when I was trying to concentrate on glass. It felt almost like touching them but being far from them at the same time. After a long while, few smaller shards started to fly but only for few second. There were so small but I felt like they weighed a tonne.
Am I that weak with that or am I missing something important?
"Is anything wrong? I tried to be quiet now," said Rea when she saw my failure.
"It wasn't because of you, I'm just not the best at this. Only one thing which I was able to move by psychic was you and I made that only by accident. You could say that I'm a beginner in using psychic powers," I said. Why did I even try to justify it to her, she is fire-type not able to help me with that. She probably knows even less than me.
"No, now he is saying that he is beginner into using psychic powers, I'm lucky that I'm still alive and that he didn't fry my brain,"
"That wasn't necessary to mention," I said.
"Maybe I will be able to solve our problem," she said, ignoring fact that I heard her insult, and walked in front of me. She let from her muzzle large stream of fire on the glass carpet and kept doing that for some time. When she stopped I noticed that pieces of glass melted with each other creating bigger one losing its sharpness. She repeated this several times making the path of melted glass.
"It's too hot for you to stand on this yet," she warned me and she was right, she needed to create heat of over thousand degrees to melt it. But it was fine for her and she laid on the newly made path of glass, enjoying the warmth.
Finally, she let me know that it was safe to step on glass and we were able to cross the place. On the other side of the place, I turned right, into the smaller one-way street. The street was long and had parking spaces next to the narrow road. At the end of the street was large and high building, this one was much more destroyed than the others buildings were.
"This street looks like this one which I saw in the tunnel, I mean in my dream while we were in the tunnel," said Rea looking around.
"What happened here? I mean in your dream," I asked. It was more like mine dream but I wanted to know what she saw.
"I was standing here," she said moving to the centre of the route, the same place which I was in my dream and turning to the direction which we came from."There were crowds of people and then I blinked and the street became completely empty." That means that she saw some other version of the same thing, maybe less horrible version.
We continued going along the road still avoiding the now rarely sharp pieces of glass.
After few minutes we stood before the entry to the building. The building had many holes in the wall and some part of walls were completely missing giving a view of the interior of the building. Paint faded completely from the building making red, bare bricks visible. There was no sight of a door, just another empty hole.
I entered the building. Inside was dirty and everything was covered in thick dust, I stopped for a moment and strain hearing trying to catch some sound which could warn me about some danger but the only one thing what I could hear was dripping of the water. I moved to the steps, climbing up the stairs, with Rea close behind me. There was some missing part of the stairs so we needed to make few risky jumps. We arrived at the sixth floor, here was one single corridor with many entrances on both of the sides. I walked inside of the room and started calculating empty space where many years ago doors were. '96' , '97' , '98' , '98' ... '121'. Steel doors were lying on the opposite side of the corridor and were full of small cut and cracks. I entered the room, inside was, even more, cracks on the floor and walls, only the ceiling, ignoring structural cracks, was free from cuts.
The room wasn't large, there were three chairs, one long table, and cage with a large hole in one on the left side. It looked like that something bit this hole from inside. I started looking for any track of mysterious hunter who, if I was thinking correctly, had to be here earlier. I quickly found very visible prints in the dust on the ground. I wasn't able to recognise to whom this print belong, that was for sure some pokemon, his footprint was bigger than would be a print of my whole body but most important was a scent.
I stayed for a moment with my nose close to it until I was sure that I will remember this scent. I needed to admit that nose of espeon is extremely bad, that made me feel blind in some way but I couldn't change into umbreon for a better sense of scent in the middle of the day. I moved to look for any other signs. The scent was important but maybe I will find something more helpful.
"I will wait outside," said Rea, exiting the room. I noticed that because of her company I didn't hear other parts of me that often like I was hearing them usually. I remember that Myron was advising me to have company.
Maybe he was right?
But if I did something that my imagination was telling me then maybe I was even crazier than before? Maybe I got from hearing other sides of me to seeing them as a real sentient being? No, Rea had to be real, the glass couldn't be melted just by my imagination. I need to trust my own eyes. If I wouldn't be doing that then I could develop a sense of paranoia like thinking that I'm still in distortion world and Giratina is just making me another test, wanting to observe how I will behave out of her reach. That couldn't be true, right?
Maybe it was a good time to take a break from my espeon form, I was overthinking things and ceaseless buzz of voices in my head wasn't helping. When I was about to exit the room I saw some yellow thing inside of the damaged cage.
When I got closer it saw the orange dragon scale, he needed to lose it when he touched the sharp tear in the metal cage. It was some small spill of blood, I wanted to lick it to taste it but because of the tear in the metal cage, I decided not to. When I was exiting the room I stopped one more time, this time in front of the lying metal door. I looked at the scratches, I stepped closer to it and I revealed my claws. I put my paw on one of the cracks, my claws fit perfectly to few centimetres deep scratches.
I was locked here, long ago when this city was a heart of human civilisation. In these days I was scratching this door completely brainless trying to get out. Humans were ill, testing on me with their chemicals they tried to learn as much about me as they could. One day they gave me something that allowed me to use all my forms at the same time but they didn't know about the evil side of me, the side which wanted only bloodshed, death and suffering.
They were blind to my suffering of being locked so I stayed blind to their suffering when they were killed. From the great city, no one survived and part of their technology was forgotten. Today's humans weren't the same, they are using what was left of that technology but aren't able to create the same weapons, machines or vehicles like before. The whole of civilisation on its knees to every legendary pokemon, that was perfect for Giratina, almost if she planned it.
Maybe it was bad what I have done but I felt great with that. I wasn't telling myself that it wasn't me, that only my jolteon part of me done all of that. It was me and I liked it. I took my paw off the door and I went to the exit. But then again I heard "Wait, follow, bored, angry, come, open" this time it was much closer, it was from another room. I went by stairs on the second floor. This floor has very similar to earlier visited corridor. I once again was passing multiple rooms but this time I was listening to the mysterious voice. "Come, open, free, rage". I entered one of the rooms where I thought the voice was coming from.
The room was round, walls were painted on blue colour but not much of paint stayed on the wall. On the wall was the large and prim mirror, it looked like someone cleaned it seconds ago and completely wasn't suited to the rest of the scenery of the ruined city. Then before me, the mirror become black and...deep? Or it was some funny 3D effect or I really saw deepness of the mirror, and something was...moving in there? I move closer to check it but almost immediately jumped back when from mirror leapt out a canine creature. I barely avoided its fangs.
The mirror cracked and spilled into million small pieces but the creature, giant cream and orange with black stripes arcanine was now standing before me. No that wasn't possible, that was Giratina delusion but how he got here, how portal to distortion world could just appear? I wanted to continue my contemplation but arcanine had a different plan for me. He lunged at me covering himself in flames but this time I was prepared and dodged it easily.
When he was passing me I bit his neck but almost immediately let go when his flames burned my delicate espeon skin. I hissed at him when he turned to me, my smoke covered my muzzle trying to heal my wounds but also was disturbing my vision. I noticed that I didn't do any visible harm to him. He didn't attack the second time, he was staring at me in the battle pose. Then he spun around and run away through the wall destroying it. It seems that he didn't even notice this wall and any next which he hit going only faster and faster until dust covered him completely.
What was that?
That was Giratina delusion, so he should disappear. But delusion which had thought? Which could live out of the distortion world? I knew that Giratina is a god but never was thinking how powerful she really can be. I exited the building little shaky, I still wasn't sure what I saw a second ago: did it really happen?
My muzzle healed not leaving any sight of a burn.
Rea was standing before of the building waiting patiently.
"So, where to next?" she asked with enthusiasm when I exited the building.
"To your pack, I think, I'm done here," I said turning to the opposite direction from which we came from. There was a mountain pass which we could use as a shortcut.
It had become cloudy and the sun disappeared from view. I had hoped to learn more in this city about that 'someone', but what I found was better than nothing. Now my hunter will become my prey. In the same moment, I lost my espeon form and became eevee because I was still standing on asphalt and hadn't a connection to any useful element for me. My genes lost all energy of the sun and chose the form which didn't need any special environment. I felt relief when my mind became silent but that wasn't a good moment for this form. I looked around to find anything which could be helpful for me to change but there was nothing.
"Why did you change into that?" asked Rea, looking at me puzzled.
"That wasn't planned, I just lost connection," I answered, now I needed to look up in order to not speak at her legs.
"Um, connection?" she asked even more puzzled.
"Yeah, connection, I need to have contact with each element to keep some type, without it, I'm like that," I answered and continue walking into mountain pass direction.
"So, can you still evolve?" she asked walking side by side with me. Can I? Probably no, gaining the ability to changing my type replaced evolution.
"No, I don't think that I can," I answered after a while of thinking.
"But if you could which one would you chose?" Which one would I choose? Perfect for me would be some mix of leafeon (because I feel good in that form), umbreon (for its senses) and espeon (if I finally learn psychic). But if I had to choose one of them I wasn't sure, every of this forms has its advantages and disadvantages.
"I think that if I were a normal eevee before his evolution I wouldn't be thinking about that, I would just try to enjoy my life as some of them. But I would much rather enjoy life as a jolteon than a vaporeon because I'm not a fan of swimming...but maybe I would get used to it," I answered her, I wasn't sure about what she was thinking but she didn't say anything more.
After an hour of walking, the city disappeared from the view and we were closer to the mountain pass. The terrain here was very flat and burnt, I suddenly felt very naked without anything which could hide me from a view of a potential observer, there was nowhere to hide. I shivered at the thought that even the laziest eye could see me right now without any effort, my only camouflage was my brown colour to the much darker brown ground.
Did I really feel fearful?
I wasn't thinking about it earlier but while I was in eevee form my life seems to be much more important than being in another form. Maybe I felt like that because of my now much smaller size. Luckily we arrived at the entrance to the mountain pass.
The weather didn't change but there was some snow here in which I dove in, and after a minute I was glaceon. The feeling of coldness from snow immediately disappeared and it felt even warm. This time Rea didn't comment anything, it seems that she got used to seeing my 'difference'. Instead of her commenting I heard a rumble in her belly. I was hungry too.
"I will go ahead to find something to eat," I said. "You just follow this path... "-I pointed my paw to the opposite end of the pass-"...it is impossible to lose your way, and I will be nearby."
"Okay," she only said. Maybe she was too hungry to discuss? I ran ahead searching for a track. Reminders of the hunger made me even more excited to hunt. I loved it: the feeling when I was tracking my unexpecting prey, staying silent until the last moment, and then satisfaction during rest after a successful hunt.
Then I noticed the entrance to the cave. If there is a cave then maybe there is also some lodger. The cave was only a little bigger than my own on my mountain. I quickly noticed that at the entrance was a big spiral and white web. I knew what to do, I jumped on the web and immediately adhered to it, hanging one meter above the ground. I waited some time facing the entrance, but nothing happened. I started shaking to make the web vibrate but not too much, I didn't want to free myself yet.
Then I saw a spider-like creature deep in the tunnel. He probably thought that I didn't see him because of darkness which was inside of the cave. Acting like I wouldn't expect anything I shook a little more.
"Oh no I got kidnapped in the spider web, what will I do?~" My acting was that bad and emotionless that I felt even shame that I tried. I sounded more like I was trying not to fall asleep than being afraid of my life.
But ariados seems to not be an acting critic and started getting closer. When he was close enough I looked into his eyes, I saw a glimmer of the light reflected in his pupils. small dots in my eye started to shine bright blue.
He immediately froze in place with his jaw prepared to bite. When I saw that my ability worked well I spined fast in the web breaking it. Some web still was glued to me but I could move again and I started to going backwards to the exit of the cave. The arachnid followed me. Outside I chose a direction to the path when Rea soon or later would be going but not losing eye contact with my potential new dinner. I went in one direction but I didn't even manage to get to the path when my ariados lay on his stomach: he probably froze to death.
"Hey what you think you are doing, I'm not done yet with you, where is my fun?" I said to the lying body disappointed that the best part of hunting escaped me.
I didn't feel coldness but I guess that it had to be very cold. Ariados probably was waiting in his cave for summer, when he could spread his web across the whole mountain pass. To be sure that he was dead I bit off his head, that won't be useful anymore. Dragging him by the soft snow wasn't that hard, he mostly slipped through that and I quickly returned to the path. Here I saw prints in the snow which means that Rea already was here.
After I dragged my prey following the path of Rea's prints I found her at the end of the mountain pass were snowy ground become grass again. She was lying sleeping. I sniffed around, her scent wasn't strong, that meant she arrived here not that long ago.
I promised her sleep when we (or mainly I) finished my investigation in the city, so I didn't try to wake her up. I looked at the lying ariados. Normally I would just eat him not wasting time but now I needed to wait for Rea so I decided to prepare our dinner as smaller, more comfortable and safer to eat pieces.
In the end, I saw that there wasn't that much of meat as I thought it would be. I sat down on the heap of snow, I thought that I would have just an enjoyable rest, free from every voice in my head.
But Rea started snoring and when I thought that I couldn't stand it anymore she started snoring even louder, a fully opened mouth, going through the full octave of "hr" sounds. I couldn't ignore this so I went to the forest, changing to leafeon while I was walking. I quickly found a good spot on the maple tree branch and got comfy on it. From here I could see Rea but I was too far to hear her, I saw that she rolled on another side on which she was lying. It won't be long when we arrived at her pack. After that, I would be again alone on my journey: to find the person who tried to hunt me.
I didn't know Rea's pack very well, only that they arrived here very long ago probably before I was even born or Giratina was caged in the distortion world. In the past, it was a very small pack, usually less than thirty adults. Living close to the human city, their number was often reduced because one of them was from time to time caught by humans. How easy was for the humans to separate pokemon from their family always astonished me; me whose conscience wasn't very clear. They just wanted to have some creature to battle with and then take with them as their friend for the rest of their life. Forcing to be like a puppet, obey commands and battle other puppet pokemon.
I heard that return to freedom was very rare. But much worse were pokemon raised by humans simply because they didn't know other life and thought about it as 'normal' to be subservient to humans. It reminded me of me and Giratina.
With time, Rea's pack found a place where they were hidden from people and number caught shrunk. But their population really increased after the city was destroyed or, to be more accurate, after I destroyed it. Even if I remember only a few moments from doing that. I could only guess how many eevees and eeveelutions were in that pack right now, they had a whole forest to themselves and lived in isolation to the rest of the world, only rarely some of them decided to see more than their forest world, and like Rea did go through the world, so their population could be something like two or three hundred.
Back to my problems, I hope that there wasn't any legendary pokemon who was hunting me. Fighting that would be a big problem: I'm not even sure if they are possible to kill. Most of pokemon didn't believe in that they really exist or thought about them as something mystic and out of reach. I, obviously, knew that they are true beings. I saw, not counting Giratina, one of them which I think is a very good score. But this one time proved to me that they are far from that what can be expected from legendary. I saw Moltres who brought on the eruption of volcano destroying valley in which I lived back then. It was wonderful days of my life in that valley, but ended so unexpectedly.
"Sinar!" Rea's voice broke my thought "Where are you?!"
I looked at the place where she was earlier and I saw that she was walking to my direction looking around searching for me. She was probably following the trail of my scent.
"I'm here," I said. from the tree branch when she got closer. She stopped and looked around. "Look up."
"What you are doing there?" she asked and look up but still wasn't looking straight at me. I guess that my colour and leaf-like parts of my body were making me invisible in the thick foliage of the tree. I got down on the ground and stood at her right.
"I was resting," I answered, stretching until something pleasantly cracked in my back.
"I didn't know that you need rest, I never saw you sleeping before. But why were you resting on the tree? I've never seen someone from our kind resting on a tree," she said supplementing my missing knowledge which I actually never gain about eeveelutions behaviour. I learned to sleep on the few trees while I was in the Distortion World and later when I was in the normal world this habit only got stronger until I found my home in a cave.
"I guess that we should keep going, we are not that far from your pack now," I said choosing the right way to our destination.
"So, you will just go in your way after we arrive at that?" asked Rea following me behind.
"That was the deal, I'm escorting you to your pack, you don't have three questions which I firstly promised and you forgetting that you even met me," I said not even turning my head to her.
"Forgetting? You didn't say anything like that before," she said confidently.
"It would be easier for you to forget me, soon I will hunt down this someone who tried to capture me, imagine that: you are returning to your pack saying things about a form changing eevee and after few days someone on the world disappearing because of some mysterious form changing eevee. Isn't that little obviously that someone can suspect that you know more about that eevee if you talked about him before things happened? Stay silent and your life will be easier," I told her and she remained silent. Soon we arrived at the stream of water and followed the bank of it, it would lead us straight to the pack.
After half hour of walking, I stopped. Before me was large green clearing and on the opposite end, clearing started becoming covered in large stones which were very close to each other creating small tunnels.
"We are here," I said looking at stones, there was no one here but why I even expected some guards? There is no one who would be able to disturb peace in so large pack.
"Yes we are," said Rea, "I guess it is goodbye," I thought that she would be happy that she was finally home but she acted weird. She acted like being sad and happy at the same time. She had a weak smile on her face but her ears and tail were down.
"What's wrong, isn't that your pack?" I asked when she was still with me at the edge of the clearing.
"Yes it is but I, I just thought, it was, I mean can..."
"No," I interrupted her when I guessed what she wanted to say, "I said it earlier, I have things to do." I looked at her and again saw that her eyes shine in weak blue colour. I blinked but it still was there. I started to feel ...confused, the world started to undulate and spinning in my eyes. Then suddenly it stopped, Rea looked at the opposite end of the clearing, blue glow disappeared.
Weird, maybe should I use some sleep, I hadn't good sleep since I was kidnapped.
Seeing that Rea still didn't move I decided that first move in up to me.
"So, take care," I said turning back and going back to the deepness of forests.
"Goodbye, remember that you can always find some place here," screamed Rea behind me while the forest was overwhelming me.
I was completely brainless going along the invisible path before me, going around trees, and occasionally rocks and hills which I was too lazy to climb over. My fur was tousled by the strong cold north wind, my leaf-like ears and tail undulating in the breeze. The sight of the mountain, which was still visible when I left Rea, disappeared long ago. I was lost, but that didn't bother me. I was lost almost my whole life wandering through the world aimlessly, condemned to immortality and only from time to time did I find some goal.
So I didn't feel that I needed to back to my mountain right now so I would arrive it in next two days or just go with the wind direction and arrive my cave in next thousand years. I always felt like this when I completed a task, losing purpose to do anything and waiting until something happens. But that was hopeless waiting, I knew that nothing would just come to me, that if I wanted something I needed to reach for it. But what did I want? Had I any purpose to live?
I was telling myself that vengeance on Giratina is that purpose but I wasn't and never will be able to kill her. She was isolated in the Distortion World, what is a sense of isolating something if that thing was just impossible to annihilate. And when someone was powerful enough to build the barrier between the worlds but couldn't kill Giratina, what were my chances to do something that he couldn't?
I didn't even notice that I was almost crawling until I tripped over some tree root and fell on my stomach.
I woke up, I had mouth and eyes full of sand so I rubbed my eyes with the paw. When I cleared my vision I looked around. I was lying in the middle of a narrow canyon.
How I even was able to fall asleep like that?
I saw behind me a root, the same root which made me fall to the ground which ended with very pleasant sleep and stopped my train of dark thoughts, that was the good root. I stood up and went into the same way which I was heading yesterday.
"Today the weather will be mostly sunny with some passing rain in the evening, the sky will be clear and the wind will blow mostly from the north. And because it's spring. The days are getting longer," I said to the ground before me, using my leafeon talents to forecast the weather.
I noticed dew on my leaf-like parts of the body so I stopped and I satisfied my thirst with dew which required from me some gymnastics because being leaves, the ones on my body were still waving in the sporadic breezes. Then I decided that I really should find where I exactly am. I chose one of the nearby trees which looked taller than others and started climbing. When I got on the highest tree branch which could manage my weight I looked around.
On the left, I saw large basin of water, probably sea or very large lake, definitely not the way which I wanted to go. Other directions were similar: the forest, the forest of green and some which weren't overgrown in leaves trees to the horizon. I scolded myself for how stupid I was yesterday, allowing myself to be lost thinking that there was no difference between few days and thousand years. I guess I had to be really tired. I got down from the tree and chose only one rightful way to go, to the forest.
"So, nice weather we have today," I heard a cheerful voice in my head.
"How good to hear you loud and clear again Myron," I said to the leafeon in me.
"I'm glad that you are in good mood today but don't you think that you screwed something up?" said Myron, changing his cheerful tone to more serious.
"I slept with my mouth full of dirt and you didn't even come to speak to me in my dreams, is that what is bothering you?" I asked joking.
"NO! You had a chance to live in the group and you decline it saying that you have something to do!" screamed Myron. I expected that he tell something like that.
"Meh," I answered simply.
"Meh!? What you mean by 'Meh'? I'm part of you, and I know that you wanted to go with her," said Myron, still angry.
"Yeah you are part of me and you should know that we... I mean I...have a purpose to stay alone, especially when we are hunted. And I have not declined I just set it aside for later," I said.
"But it is just stupid," argued Myron. "If you joined Rea it would be safer in the pack."
"Leave it, Myron," Lasota the espeon cut him off. "You always tried to put us into some relationship with almost everyone we've met."
"Sometimes I am wondering if only me have voices in the head or everyone has some other sides of personality," I said more to the air than to the small pack in my head.
"I would suggest you stop wandering and maybe practice your psychic powers, you are really bad at this," said Kilian the umbreon and he had a right, what he said was accurate. No one was around, the day was sunny and I was lost anyway. I stayed in the rays of the sun for a while and changed to the psychic-type. But this time I sat down and tried to listen to the stranger's voices. It came to be that listening wasn't easier than ignoring. It was like a choir where everyone was saying something different and I could hear clearly each of them but it was hard to focus on just one. Someone was saying something about cold food, others commented some bushes, others were mating.
"Uhhh..." I grimaced at the sounds of the last one, which weren't even words. I closed my eyes and tried to find just one voice on which I could focus. I waited long but finally.
"Hello, what you are doing?"
This one was clear, kind, pleasant and even seems to be familiar. I tried to listen to it some more.
"Um, you are okay?" asked again the same voice.
Maybe I wasn't that bad into doing that, now I heard it like if a person who is speaking was ar front of me.
Then I smelt a new odour of smoke which usually accompanied fire-types. I opened my eyes.
Oh, fuck.