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Chapter 10: The Mystic Night
The coldness of the late hours didn't really get to me as I had expected, my new fur that I had as Buizel enveloped and protected me from the midnight breeze. Luckily, night time will help us hide from public as we made our way towards Mathias, the magician. He was my only bet on being able to separate the soul of my friend and me from this singular body; if this didn't work out I'm not sure what I would do or how I would become human again. Although, if my friend was around, I wouldn't mind being stuck as a Buizel at all.
I was lucky that Cain had evolved so that he could carry my guitar bag, otherwise carrying it as three smaller Pokémon would've been complicated. Cain looked at me as we sneaked out of the house through the window, I was having trouble getting down so he picked me and placed me later on the ground, it was still annoying.
"People picking me up like that gets quite annoying." Cain just shrugged as I said this.
"True, not many trainers really consider that some Pokémon don't really feel comfortable while being picked up. I didn't really mind however. I greatly enjoy such treatment" Cain said as he hanged the guitar bag on his back. "Is this how you humans do it?" I nodded. Marcus jumped from the window and jumped all around.
"I really really really wanna see this magician you know! You talked about him all the time when we saw him at Kalos! He must be so much fun!" Marcus said excitingly as he leapt from place to place, he was speaking so loud that it could be heard from far away. Both Cain and I told Marcus to keep quiet. "Sorry, I'm just really excited guys." I laughed a bit and began making our way over the pavement.
I knew exactly where we had to go, my presentation as a musician at the Sunnyshore show had my music come before Mathias' grand magic act. He must be near one of the houses I stayed at; hopefully I knew which one was the correct one. I had actually wanted to meet Mathias one day. We checked the houses inside the windows, most of them had already left these homes due that the presentation was over and some artists normally leave right after the show. I just hoped that Mathias had stayed for at least a day. One of the houses showed a known performer taking care of his Linoone, it reminded me of my friendship with Buizel, I felt the depression sink inside me again as I feared I would never see my friend again if everything didn't work out as I desired.
None of the houses seemed to belong to Mathias unfortunately, Cain tried to console me as I had let them know of the situation, but I was sad and frustrated. My only chance of seeing my friend is gone now, I'm stuck as a Buizel and can't relate the issue to anyone and Buizel is stuck in this body as well, the only thing that I worried about at this point is if he is doing alright despite me taking over his body. Cain poked me on the back and pointed towards the stage; right beside it was a red tent and inside bright lights escaped the tiny creeks of the tent folds. I wonder if that is Mathias himself in there!
"There are many in there! I can see their auras clearly!" Cain said as he was still pointing towards the big tent. "Isn't that the tent that you said Mathias had in every single show?" Cain asked, in reality I never understood the usefulness of the tent, he was always given a house or a place to stay when performing, I really wondered what that was all about.
"It's definitely Mathias'! This is totally a tent he used one time at Kalos! But I thought he would be in a house..." I shook my head and my hopes had enlightened. "No matter! Let's go!" I rushed onwards faster than Marcus had been able to bounce around.
As we all approached the tent we saw that many Pokémon stood around inside the tent, I had never known that Mathias had many Pokémon with him, although I was able to count more than six there, are they really his? We got near and we could clearly see all the Pokémon were sitting around a Braixen which I assumed was Mathias' Pokémon, the Braixen spoke to all of the Pokémon and they all paid close attention.
"Mathias right now is practicing his final act as something almost went wrong, you can tell me what you would all like to get or would need help with in the meantime. Mathias is very powerful but I, his grand assistant is powerful as well!" The Braixen smiled at the Pokémon which were three Eevees and a Dewott, some of the other Pokémon had left before we got there. The Braixen noticed us as we approached and waved. "Ah! I see more of you want help from us!" Help was exactly what I needed right now, hearing this from someone filled me with relief, but how could he help me? "Gather around my friends, whatever concern you have can be solved with a bit of mystic charm!" I was very impressed, Braixen spoke as if he was performing, was this Braixen's personal tent to give his own show to Pokémon? That does sound exciting!
We sat at the side and listened to what these Pokémon wanted, I only wanted to see Mathias honestly, I was nervous and impatient to see him but I kept my excitement bottled up and decided to watch the show. The Eevees raised their paws and Braixen took notice. "I see we have some impatient ones, how can we help you guys?"
The oldest Eevee spoke first, "I want to evolve into a great Vaporeon!" The Braixen laughed.
"This is easy then," Braixen grabbed a water stone and gave it to him, "once you are prepared, this stone will help you on your grand wish." The Braixen then turned to the youngest Eevee. "How about you little one?" The Braixen asked.
"I want to evolve into something related to nature! I love the grass and trees! I don't really know what evolution it could be." The younger Eevee said, Braixen smiled once again.
"In your case, there are moss rocks around Sinnoh, feeling nature through these rocks will help you evolve to Leafeon, you will have bright leaves that will leave you content." After Braixen gave his advice, the last Eevee hopped and asked his question.
"I want to be a Sylveon! Just like the one Mathias is friends with! How do you evolve into a Sylveon? Huh? Huh?" Eevee was excited as he asked, Braixen thought well on his answer.
"Normally, Sylveons evolve by the love and care a trainer gives to their Pokémon throughout their journeys." Eevee was a bit sad by hearing this, "Don't fret, you can also evolve as a Sylveon by the friendship you share with your brothers, keep this in mind and before you know it, you will evolve into the graceful fairy Pokémon!" The Braixen said as he smiled at Eevee.
I noticed that these were not Mathias' Pokémon, these are Pokémon who were consulting on Braixen and in search for help, then I remembered past presentations he has done while at Kalos. I remembered seeing many Pokémon close by whenever he had a presentation, what made Pokémon close up to him so much? In which case, is Braixen only helping Pokémon with things they do not know or to help any Pokémon at any time? Cain poked at my shoulder.
"Doing okay there?" Cain asked, "You seem astray."
"I was just thinking to myself what is it that made Pokémon want to get along with us humans, like when you came by that day when we met you."
"I see, well I had followed you one day when I was meditating, your music made my meditation more enjoyable so I had grown interested. One day I saw that you were being attacked by a few Dedenne. That was the day I defended you and joined the team." Cain thought to himself for a
while.
"What are you thinking about, Cain?" I asked him, Cain looked back at me.
"I wanted to be along with you because your music inspired my meditation, and when I spoke to Buizel he told me on how amazing you are, and that he really wanted for you to understand him." Hearing that made me very happy to know that Buizel really considered me a great person, however the fact that Buizel really wanted to communicate with me made me want to be with Buizel even more. Marcus leapt in front and talked to me as quickly as he always did.
"Adam said that he wanted me to be with you because you were a grand person and trainer, and boy o boy was he right! You are cool and a super great friend and all that!
Braixen looked at me, the impatient Pikachu probably caught his attention. I saw Braixen approach closely towards me.
"So what is it that you want, Buizel?" Braixen kneeled as he spoke, he waved his wooden stick around as if performing magic. "There is absolutely nothing we are unable to do for our Pokémon friends!" The fact that he said that there was nothing he couldn't do was honestly encouraging, but how could Braixen solve something as complex as merged souls? But I reminded myself why I was here, I was seeking for help and hopefully a magician knew what could be done. Before I could speak however, the Dewott caught Braixen's attention and spoke of his own wish.
"I broke one of my shells and I really want to repair it." The Dewott picked up the pieces of his shell and handed them to the Braixen, I honestly couldn't see how Braixen would be able to fix such a heavily damaged shell, it had been completely devastated. The Braixen smirked and held his wooden stick upright.
"That was not nice of you, I was talking to this Buizel. However this is finally a challenging request so I will take it full heartedly!" Braixen twirled the stick in his hand and pointed it towards the shell, I saw no real purpose to it, that is until I saw the shell shards levitate in his hand. I stood impressed, this was actually magic in front of my very eyes! The pieces reassembled and the shell was back as if it never got broken. "It is now complete my young Dewott." Braixen handed the shell back to the Pokémon.
"Wow, this is amazing!" The Dewott said as he stared amazed at his reconstructed shell. Marcus leapt as he watched the magic act.
'Wow! That was so cool! I've always been told how amazing you and Mathias were but I never expected this." Marcus giggled to himself, "this is all soo cool!"
"That is just simple magic my fellow friends, Mathias is the one who knows the stronger and more amazing magic." Braixen said as he twirled his stick around.
Marcus giggled and bounced in place, "the magic was soo awesome though! It was like the magic wand glowed and then boom!" Marcus looked excited as he mimicked what he had seen.
I had seen it right in front of me, this was true magic that Braixen was able to manage. Did this mean that Mathias actually did perform magic as well? Was the grand magic trick that I had seen since my childhood real magic? Was all the smoke and mirrors just a ploy to hide the fact that they really do know how to make magic happen? Not only that, they might be actually able to aid me! It meant that there was a very big chance that me and Buizel could reunite! My happiness was too hard to contain that I had smiled, the rays of hope are always warming after all.
"You seem amazed Buizel, that was just very simple magic." Braixen said as he approached, the rest of the Pokémon had left. "I'm sorry for that Dewott, but as you all surely know, Pokémon from all around come to see me and Mathias to aid them on their issues. Magic might not exist as much as it did before, but we want to share our powers with every Pokémon around the world!" Braixen said proudly to himself, although I really need to know if my petition was possible.
"Can you use magic to help us if our souls are in trouble?" I asked and hoped, I prayed to Arceus that they could.
"That is no real problem my dear friend! Although Mathias is the one who knows of how to manage spirits, just wait for me here and I'll go look for him. The request should be made directly to him." Braixen quickly wandered off in search for his trainer.
I couldn't believe it, Mathias was going to help me out in this! Cain was glad while Marcus was jumping in excitement. "This is so great!" Marcus said, "I can't wait to see Buizel and you separated from that body!" Marcus held my hands and ran around in circles with me. "You'll be so happy to speak with Buizel and everything!" Cain watched how we spun around cheering, although he interrupted.
"The real question is how Mathias will know what you really require, remember that he is a human and that he will not understand you." Cain had made a really good point, this disconcerted me, so I began to wonder, and how did Mathias know how to help Pokémon then?
Braixen had come back with Mathias rather quickly, he looked just how I recalled, he had a fancy suit that he used for his show but most importantly he had that stunning wizard’s hat on him. I had never noticed it before, but as I saw Mathias' magic wand it was very similar to sticks that Braixens hold, he also twirled his own stick around. Braixen cleared his throat before speaking, he pointed at Mathias with his magic stick and presented him.
"Now presenting a soul with magic untold! Magic dating from ages before the extinction of some of the Pokémon of the world, knowing arcane arts and spell to delight your eyes! The one and only, Mathias!" Braixen bowed as he presented his trainer, not that he could understand, but I'm sure Mathias is thankful of the gesture regardless.
"Thank you very much my dear assistant Braixen, I can't wait to give out a grand show for all these lovely people tonight" He gave a reverence and acted out his introduction, so that is what Braixen always said when he stood alone at the beginning of every act they made, this is so interesting. Mathias then grinned towards us. "Now let’s cut out the act and get down to business. What do they really need, Kaiser?" He asked his Pokémon, which I assumed was his name.
"This Buizel says that there is an issue with his soul Mathias!" Braixen said as he spoke to Mathias as naturally as if he were responding to any Pokémon. Mathias nodded.
"I see, this sounds like a serious issue." He was able to understand what Braixen said entirely, or that is what it appeared to be. It caught me by surprise. I had thought that no one could understand Pokémon, although he clearly is someone who knows true magic.
I stuttered but asked, "How is he able to understand Pokémon language? Did he learn how to speak with Pokémon?" Kaiser was ready to reply but Mathias interrupted.
"It's not that I learned to speak with Pokémon young Buizel," Mathias smiled as he looked down on me. I couldn't believe it, all this time the answer of my much required communication issue with my best friend were here, in this presentation. I was going to meet up with Mathias in the end anyway, I could've possibly have been talking to my friend by now if I hadn't taken such a huge risk with Team Rocket! Mathias waved his wand around him, the wand glowed. "I guess all of you are new here? Well, I didn't learn how to speak to Pokémon." Mathias quickly flickered his wand around him and a cloud of smoke rose from nowhere, as the cloud slowly dissipated I saw Braixen appear where he was standing, or rather, I saw another Braixen stand along Kaiser.
"The truth is," The new Braixen spoke, "That I the great Mathias am indeed a Braixen." And then everything clicked together, the fact that Mathias was a Pokémon didn't only impress me, but it made me realize how their most impressive trick was done. Mathias never teleported from inside the box with his Pokémon, he transformed into a Pokémon inside the box in front of everyone. That explained all the smoke coming from inside the box as well. "I see you are impressed, but many Pokémon that visit us already know that me and Kaiser roam around helping every Pokémon we can." Mathias said, "The only issue is that we really can't let humans know about this." Mathias said as he sat down with all of us, Kaiser followed and sat right beside him.
"You see, me and Mathias are in fact brothers, Mathias learned how to transform into a human to help us both, and we did not want to get captured after all." The two magic brothers, at first I thought it was only a trainer and it’s Pokémon, but this changed everything for me. "So what would you like for us to aid you with, Buizel?"
"Well, it is a very long story. And I am unsure to where we can start..." I said, I tried to decide on what to say to Mathias, I didn't want to freak him out if he knew I was a human or anything. Cain then spoke to Mathias.
"Sorry to interrupt, I'm Cain, my friend here is actually my former trainer and Buizel's soul is inside this one body, my trainer doesn't know how to arrange himself to separate their souls, this is the big problem he has. We want to know how we can separate them from this fate." Cain explained, Mathias' expression shifted from a calm first impression to a more concerned gaze.
"Oh I see, it's another one of you trainers." Mathias quickly stood upright and turned his back on us. "I've had many other trainers that got caught inside their Pokémon’s pokeball, some of them wanted to be human again, while some of them were Pokémon trying to get their trainers back." Mathias' tone was also growing dire, he really didn't seem to get along with trainers that had become Pokémon at all. "I then find out that the great majority of these trainers are nothing but disrespectful people, they mistreat their Pokémon which causes them to struggle about and get caught in the beam whenever the trainer wants to put the Pokémon away." Mathias turned around and pointed at me with his magic wand, "so what did you do to your Pokémon? Did you torture him? Did you forget to treat him as they really should? Or have you come to disclose our secrets to humanity?" Cain stood in front of me and Mathias, Marcus also jumped in front.
"That is enough! My master Kevin is none of the sort, he and Buizel are best friends ever since I have met them!" Cain growled at him, both Mathias and Kaiser then grew surprised. Kaiser rushed towards the guitar bag Cain was carrying.
"It must be the Kevin! The one that went missing brother! Look, this Lucario is carrying a guitar bag around with him!" Kaiser said as he inspected my guitar bag. Mathias lowered his wand and sat down once more, he approached me and kneeled.
"My most sincere apologies Kevin, that was disrespectful of me, as a magician I should know better than to assume the worst out of you. I have just been flooded at times with humans that had become Pokémon wanting to transform back, in the end I always help them because of the Pokémon. But those trainers are awful and I just," Mathias sighed. "Please, I'm so very sorry. I know you very well and the friendship you carry along with your Buizel." I was relieved, for a moment I thought that he was going to do something to me. "I've heard that a great musician was going to be at Sunnyshore's presentation today but he never showed up, I guess this is what really happened then." Mathias held his chin and pondered to himself." I won't ask how this came about, but this is a very troubling issue. Both of you very kind souls should not be stuck in such a fate."
"Can you please help me Mathias?" I asked, "me and Buizel are very good friends and I don't want to be able to not talk to him anymore."
"Yes I definitely know of how badly you want to communicate with Buizel, but this is very complicated, I need to practice and I also need the correct ingredients to help you out." Mathias stood up, "I can split your souls and bring you both back separated but the issue is that after you are split..." Mathias was explaining but I interrupted with certainty.
"Whatever it is, I just want my friend back. I don't care what problems it brings to me." I said confidently, Mathias smiled.
"Very well then, I'll tell you about this later then." Before he left the tent I had to ask him something very important as well.
"Mathias," he turned around as I called him, "could you help me understand my Buizel when we are back to normal?"
"Oh most definitely. I'll be back when I find everything that I require." Mathias exited the tent. I was so excited that my situation could be solved, so happy that I hugged all my friends, Marcus was very excited.
"This is so cool Kevin! Everything will be back to normal!" Marcus said, "It's gonna be super cool to see you and Buizel finally talking thanks to Mathias and everything!"
Cain smiled, "indeed! I was getting worried that there was no hope, but now everything is going your way Kevin!" Cain said, Kaiser approached us all from behind.
"You three are a grand trio, aren't you?" Kaiser said as he poked Cain with his wand. "Of course everything is fine, me and Mathias will help Pokémon to the best of our abilities!"
"That's true, but I'm not exactly a Pokémon sort to speak." I said, Kaiser simply shrugged.
"I honestly see no difference, Mathias does, but I don't really care." Kaiser then snapped his fingers and sat down, "gather around my Pokémon friends, I'll tell you the tales of old and why I think Pokémon and human are pretty much the same." Kaiser quickly kindled a fire in front of him. "Now sit around, I'll tell you all a good story to occupy our time while my brother looks for ingredients."
We were warm around this magically created campfire and everything was calm, Kaiser had turned off the candles that were inside the tent with the motions of his magic wand. Kaiser extended his hands and related his tale.
"Once upon a time, in the land we now walk on, Pokémon and human were very much alike. Human and Pokémon lived together and were normally friends with each other, it was actually hard to distinguish who were Pokémon and who were human, as it is said, human were in fact Pokémon and Pokémon were human, we were all but one species." Human were Pokémon, that was normally unheard of, I only heard of such things in Pokémon tales and fiction.
"Is this an actual story told by Pokémon around the world?" I asked Kaiser.
"This is a tale known and shared by many Pokémon, if there is something that I learned about stories is that there are always a bit of truth within them." Kaiser flickered his wand and continued his tale, "in any case, Pokémon and human lived together as if they were the same and they even spoke to each other of their lives. Eventually humanity had grown bored of sharing with Pokémon for whatever reason, thus humanity had become more secluded from what we know today as the Pokémon world. This explains why humans don't really live within our world." Cain immediately raised his paw to catch Kaiser’s attention, Kaiser glared and Cain spoke.
"If humans grew so astray from us, how are we still friends with them?" Cain did make a point, I couldn't help but feel myself be absorbed within this short tale Kaiser was telling us. There was definitely something more magical than what the Braixen brothers performed, the mystic world of Pokémon had more magic within it than magic itself.
"An excellent question fellow Lucario, you see, humanity had grown very lonely without Pokémon and thus there was one human being that looked to be friends with them again. However, whenever the poor human approached any Pokémon, they would attack him with their abilities, humanity had grown apart from Pokémon so much that we didn't recognize them as equals anymore. There was however one Pokémon that curiously approached the human, the Pokémon flew closer towards the human and watched how he learned from the different Pokémon, he found there was true potential that abilities couldn't match. This human had the mindset of a true leader, but this Pokémon noticed how sad he was of being alone." Marcus lifted and waved his hand impatiently.
"Who was this Pokémon?" Marcus asked, "is he a Pikachu like me? Or is it one of those really amazing legendary Pokémon?" Marcus was so excited from the story that he had trouble sitting still.
Kaiser flicked the wand and poked Marcus' head with it. "I'm getting to that young Pikachu, you must be patient." Kaiser then resumed, "where was I? Ah yes, the Pokémon approached the human and wanted to be friends with him. This Pokémon is known as the legendary and pure hearted Mew." I had heard about Mew in the past, it was the more pure hearted Pokémon there was and he could learn almost every single ability there was, scientists have said that Mew possesses the DNA of every single Pokémon in the world.
Braixen had given an extended explanation on who Mew was and why this particular Pokémon was always happy and proud of helping what Kaiser called, the first trainer. To be brief, Mew was unhappy that humanity had grown astray from the world he beloved, and Mew attempted countless times to make him come back to the world it was from. "Mew knew in its heart that he couldn't leave humans secluded from the world they shared, Mew revealed the nature and knowledge of all Pokémon in an attempt for the human to talk with them. This is why humans are as we know as trainers, many of them share partial information that was given, the knowledge that Mew gave to this human was what we know today as the first Pokémon trainer. With this information, humanity also grew to love Pokémon just like it was before." The tale was very interesting and insightful, I realized how much more Pokémon know as well. I had heard that there were many tales within humanity that we shared, but this got to me thinking just how many more were the tales that Pokémon shared within each other. It was a whole new world and a grand one. I had never heard of such a tale in my life, I might have no read many books, but these are things they should probably tell at school to inspire children. I lifted my paw to ask a question, Braixen looked at me waiting for me to speak.
"Is this all true? Did Mew really impart this wisdom to humanity?"
"All stories have truth in them, what we know for certain is that humans are quite like Pokémon, they possess abilities that help them. Not special abilities like most of us have, but more strategic than anything else. In my opinion, we are all the same at the end and we all live on the same world, we just can't communicate these days." Kaiser poked me with his magic wand, "you are a very, very curious Pokémon."
"Kaiser, I'm not a Pokémon. I thought you already knew." I reassured him, Kaiser patted me on my head and smiled.
"Well, if you were a human, I would be able to tell the difference, your personality is pretty much like a Pokémon my dear friend." Cain touched my shoulder. "Or maybe the tale is correct, and human are indeed Pokémon."
"Kaiser is right Kevin, you are pretty much just like us! In the very least in personality." Cain said to me, "even Buizel has said it a few times too, that you were almost a Pokémon in his eyes." For more humbling that I felt that was, I didn't really consider myself as a Pokémon.
The night went on with tales and stories from the rest, Marcus told the day he met Adam who had saved him from bullies, Cain had told how his meditation has helped him understand aura, and that with aura he could grow to understand everyone, Kaiser had asked me to tell how I became a Pokémon in the first place and I did tell my long story. Shortly after the end we were all yawning non-stop, since it seemed that Mathias wasn't going to come back yet I had decided to go to sleep. Kaiser assured me that he will indeed be back.
If I knew we would have to sleep right now on the floor I would've had my sleeping bag with me, but I forgot it when I left my house to reach Team Rocket, Kaiser had some blankets and pillows that he could share. We all had our own blankets and spots, however I was still lonely without my best friend right beside me. I carried my blanket and pillow with me and approached Cain, Marcus saw me get up as well and wondered what I wanted. I just wanted their company as I went to sleep, not being able to hug my friend while sleeping made my chances to even conceive sleep.
In the end me Cain and Marcus cuddled up together, and then I was able to sleep...
...
The storm awoke me from my sleep, although when I stood up Cain and Marcus where not around, neither the blankets or the pillows were. The thunder raged once more and a giant silhouette appeared before me, my fear and uncertainty kept me in place, I wanted to run but I couldn't find it within myself to do so. The dark figure then revealed in its hands what appeared to be a pokeball. Then I knew for certain that it was a trainer that wanted to capture me, I ran as quickly as I could towards the nearest shore to swim away, the thunder and the sky raged and rumbled the earth but also struck my courage, in my desperate running I had tripped countless times before managing to reach the shore.
As soon as I dived within the water I swan underneath it using my tails to propel myself away and as deep towards the ocean as I could, then I went back to the surface. I had seen that not only thunder was striking but now the rain was pouring relentlessly almost as if the rain was filling up the ocean until the land would vanish.
The waves kicked in and I was thrown in all directions, I was having a hard time staying afloat and the waves were pushing me against some large rock formations. It was then too much for me and everything had gone black...
I awoke on what seemed to be an unknown shore, but as I lay on top of the rocks from the seashore, I noticed that this was the place I met Buizel for the first time. The sense and taste of nostalgia invaded me entirely, although I did recall this place my mind did not, it was a strange feeling. I tried to get up, but I cried in agony as my leg burned with pain, I cried because I felt that no one would save me, especially since there were no other Buizels around this area. But how did I know that?
I suddenly felt something pick me up, and I looked on who it was I had seen myself as a child...
...
I woke up sweating and confused, but my mind was regaining sense, I calmed down and thought on the dream. It must've been my best friend's perspective on how we met, Buizel despite fearing trainers and humans managed to trust me, was he trying to tell me that he trusted me at the very start since we met? It must've been this way.
I saw that Mathias was the one that had woke me up by poking me with his wand, he looked tired but had most of the setup for everything he wanted to do, he yawned as he spoke.
"Sorry I had taken so long Kevin, some Pokémon are very hard to convince to get some of their own fangs or tears or whatever it is I need." Mathias and Kaiser had a very intricate setup that I couldn't understand, before I had asked him what anything did, Mathias plucked some fur out from my head. "This is the last ingredient!" I rubbed my head.
"You could've asked you know!"
I had stood in the center of the circle that was drawn on the ground, it had strange symbols that I had never seen before, Mathias looked straight at me and pointed his wand. "Just wish for the best Kevin! The worst that could happen is that I split your soul ten ways!" That disconcerted me.
"You got to be joking, right?"
Mathias laughed to himself, "no, not really. That could actually happen." And before I had any chance of even objecting, a very bright beam came my way and struck me. There was strangely no peculiar feeling when I got struck, the only thing I felt was if someone pulled a chunk of hair from my head, but I had this feeling within my body. As if removing a large and very sticky band-aid from me.
The light faded and I could see the world around me, I was still able to see the two Braixens ahead, I had wondered if it worked. I looked at my paws and this time saw my hands instead! I was back being a human. I quickly looked for Buizel around me, as I looked down I saw him curled up on the ground. I quickly picked him up and hugged him as tightly as I could, I had my friend back with me and he appeared to be fine! I patted him, kissed his forehead and cried. "I'll never make such a stupid mistake again Buizel, I won't lose you again I promise to you. I'll not put you in that kind of risk never again." I sobbed as I held my best friend close to me, I felt him hugging me back. I also saw him crying.
Wait, I can talk to Pokémon now because I understand their language! How could I possibly forget?
"Hey buddy! I can understand Pokémon now, ask me anything please! I really want to talk to you!" I said excitedly, anxious to listen to understand what he says.
"Bui bui?" Buizel spoke, but I couldn't understand anything of what he said, I was thinking that my mind was still dizzy form the spell, so I asked again... Nothing.
I tried asking him a yes or no question, he answered but I yet couldn't understand as if I knew the language, I felt someone place their hand over my shoulder, as I turned around I saw Mathias in his human form smiling a bit.
"Sorry friend that was the bad news, bringing your form back from your spirit had made you lose your ability to speak to Pokémon. But your friend is back!" It was true, I was very happy that my friend was back, but slightly disappointed that I couldn't understand him. "Don't fret my friend! Remember that I know how to talk with Pokémon. I'll gladly be your translator!" That made me quite happy, I wanted nothing more than to understand my friend, but I felt that I was taking too much from him.
"You've helped me already so much Mathias, I can't thank you enough."
"Nonsense! I want to keep helping, especially if it means bringing a human as great as yourself and a Pokémon closer together!" Mathias said, he poked me with his wand, "besides, I have literally nothing to do right now and I want something fun to do!" It made me happy that Mathias was so interested in helping me understand my Pokémon. "And, you can teach me how to make coffee! I've always wanted to learn that secret from humanity.
I looked at him and imitated his way of presentation. "It is but a magic brew that only few humans dare learn, but its magical attributes will maintain you sharper and more awake than ever." We both laughed as we headed out towards the house they gave to him. Mathias was not very fond of trainers, but I'd love to believe that I was able to change his opinion somewhat.
We went to the house that Mathias was assigned to with all of the Pokémon, Cain and Marcus were happy that I was back to normal, although I felt the need to understand what they said to each other. It was strange, but I really felt like I needed not only understand Buizel, but the rest as well. I wanted very deeply in my heart to speak with Pokémon. We sat at Mathias' kitchen table and had coffee together, extra caffeine for Mathias so that he could be awake. I had of course taught him all the methods that were necessary to teach him how to make his own in the future.
It was very early in the morning, the sun hadn't fully risen yet so I assumed it was around six or seven in the morning. Buizel hugged me as I was sitting down drinking coffee. Me and Mathias were almost ready to start translation. Mathias had told him about how Kevin became a Pokémon, or more or less how his soul had merged with his, Buizel was very interested in this conversation. I could see Mathias and Buizel speak back in forth as simple as counting, it made me a bit jealous.
But that didn't matter now, I was finally able to understand and what Buizel had wanted to ask me for so long, my excitement couldn't be contained and the coffee only made me more exhilarated.
To be continued…
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Kevin bets all his hope on the famous magician he always admired, will it all be worth it? Or will Kevin's hope be forlorn?
We also learn a bit of the world pokemon share around here. I really enjoyed crafting out this little tale.
Stay tuned because the big moment is closing in!
