The Struggle Within CH.4
"Wait, What? Who? Jim's leaders?" Shadow asks, not really knowing what's going on.
"That's right! Your going to travel the country, meet new people, and fight gym leaders." Ace says.
"Lucky you." Dan says.
"But...but what if we dont wanna go?" Anthony asks.
"Oh your going. Crystal picked you two especially. Now I want you to be nice to her. You guys leave next week." Taylor says
"But-"
"End of discussion." Taylor orders. They continue their discussion.
Anthony looks at Alice. So does shadow. They each give her a hug.
"Goodbye Alice"
"We won't forget you. We'll visit you." shadow says. He looks up. He sees the sadness In her eyes. And her tears.
"I'm holding you to that little dude. I mean shadow." she says weakly and quietly.
"let's just spend our time wisely and have fun right now" Anthony says.
"yes. Let's have fun while it lasts." Alice whispers.
* * *
Shadow wakes up. 6 days left. He was excited yet sad at the same time. He only had a little time left. He wanted to spend it with everyone while he had the chance.
He walked out into the field. No one there. Hmmm. He then moves to the eating area. He sees Ace. Ace turns around and sees shadow. "Hey what's up."
"Where is everybody" shadow asks.
"Oh they went shopping with Rick and Crystal. They should be back soon."
"Ya know, I've never even met this Crystal, and I'm going to travel the region with her. Odd huh? Anyway, I'm kinda scared of traveling the region and fighting gym leaders."
Ace walks over to him and pats him on the back. "Ah don't worry. It'll be ok. Just come back to visit. I just feel really bad for Alice. She-"
"Hey guys!"
"Uhh never mind. Hi Alice!"
"Hello Alice" Shadow says, still wondering what ace was gonna say.
"Hey shadow. Ace. 6 days. 6 loooong days. Hey shadow, ya know how to battle?"
"Yeah,nah. Never even heard of Pokemon battling."
"It's real easy. You just attack basically. Certain Pokemon can do certain moves. Like psychic can use psychic moves, dark use dark moves, fire use fire moves, etc."
"But I don't wanna hurt anybody." shadow says sadly. He remembers the caterpie. All the Pokemon the white coats hurt, tested, used them as there persan..perso....personal expere...experiments. It brought a tear to his eye.
"Hey shadow, you ok?" alice asks.
"yeah...yeah." he wipes his tear away
"anyway, your not really hurting them. Think of it more as... A friendly battle. And any wounds get healed up at the Pokemon center.
"oh. Ok. One more question. What's a Pokemon center?"
* * *
After alice explained all the things shadow needed to know, they went out to play with the ball. His favorite game. His...only game. Pretty soon he wouldn't have a lot of time to play because of training and battling.
* * *
Anthony dreaded the coming of the next week. He was excited at the same time. His emotions were mixed. He did want to go it's just...he lived there so long. He didn't wanna leave behind his family.
* * *
3 days. Taylor had 3 days left to spend with her son. 3 days to spend with her adopted child. He's only been there about a week. Anthony knew he would take care of shadow. But she worried for him. He had taken so much abuse. She would miss him. But Anthony and shadow would visit.
* * *
On the second day shadow met crystal. She was really nice. She had a red hat, long black hair, blue jeans, and checkered shoes.
"hiya! Aren't you two cuties?" she says to Anthony smiled. Shadow just sat down.
"let me guess. Your shadow and your Anthony. Ooh I can't wait to travel with you guys!!" anthony walks over to her and she pets him. Then she looks at shadow. Shadow walked away.
* * *
Later that night, shadow couldn't sleep. He was to excited. He walked into the woods. In 5 minutes. He made it to the lake. He found it one day when he was exploring. Suddenly, there was rustling. Shadow turns around to be attacked by a beedrill. The little eevee fought as much as he could. Eventually the beedrill got hurt enough and left, but shadow, was wounded. He sat down near the lake, and took sips. Eventually he felt better. But then more rustling behind him. He turned around, growling, In a fighting position. But crystal came out. He got out of his fighting position. Then he faced the lake. "you ok? I saw that beedrill attack. Your lucky there wasn't a swarm." she sat down next to shadow
She tried to put an arm around him but he growled.
"Listen. I know what happened to you. I'm sorry about that. But I will never, ever, let that happen to you. I will risk my life so yours will be protected. I love you. And Anthony. I love every Pokemon except the evil ones. But your my pokemon. I won't let anything happen to you, or your team. If you dont like the way something is happening, well change it. just letting you know how much I care." She did not try to put her arm around him. Instead, he went over to her and licked her face. She pet his head.
Out of no where, a blinding light burned there eyes.
When the light cleared, shadow wasn't an eevee no more.
He was an Umbreon.
"wow, cool. I look awesome." he says as he checks his new body.
"Oh my God!"
"Cool huh?"
"I....I can understand you."
Shadow froze."really? Wow that's cool. What normal humans can't?"
"no. It's cool but weird. I'm freaking out right now. I wonder how that happened."
"Yeah. I'm beat. Can we panic about this tomorrow? I'm to tired."
"Uhh ok. I wonder if I can talk to other Pokemon as well? Goodnight shadow. I love you."
Shadow stopped I'n his tracks."I...I love you too."
End of part 1