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Chapter 11 - North

We were both laughing. It was the first time in days that I actually felt happy. We started walking again, unable to wipe the smiles off our faces.

“You really are weird, Thomas,” Penelope said lightly pushing me over with her shoulder. I only laughed in response. We continued to talk for about an hour more. We didn’t even notice how far we traveled or the direction we went. Our destination didn’t matter, but it was a journey. Night came upon us faster than a jolteon’s thunderwave. It was a nice night, so to great pleasure on my part, we just stopped where we were to rest, instead of looking for a cave that would surely bring back more nightmares. We laid down in the tall grass and looked up at the stars. The sky was dark, but the stars were brighter than I had ever seen them. Silhouettes of zubats were seen as they passed above us. 

“Has Charlie ever freaked out like this before?” I questioned while keeping my eyes on the stars.

She sighed, “Yeah. Twice before this.”

“And what happened?”

“He came back on his own.” The delicate skitty rolled over so she was facing me, “These things take time, Thomas.” 

I stayed on my back but turned my head to look at her. For a moment, I had forgotten how pretty she was, and I just started to smile.

“What?”

I just started laughing. I don’t know why. But I was happy. Really happy.

“What?” She persisted.

“Nothing,” I laughed, “Just you.”

Her mouth opened, “I’m being serious Thomas, Charlie needs-”

Before she could continue I said with a grin, “I know. I know. I’m not talking about that.”

Her concerned face looked at me. She didn’t know what I was talking about. But I saw her eyes start to close a little, and her face relaxed. A corner of her mouth rose, and she rolled back on her back looking up at the stars again. I turned my head to the stars again as well. The moon crept out from behind a dark cloud. It’s amazing how no matter where you are you can look up at the same moon, and it kinda connects us all. I didn’t know where Charlie or Toni were, or what they were doing, but the same moon that was above me and Penelope, was looking down on them too. Penelope and I fell asleep right there next to each other without another word.

We woke up peacefully. Together we went to a near bush and had some berries. I looked up from our perfect breakfast and saw a pair of red eyes watching us from not to far away. I swatted my tail at Penelope to get her attention. Following the gaze of my eyes she too saw the face. Without a word to me she started to walk towards it, unafraid. I followed her.

“Who are you?” She strongly stated in the strangers direction. No answer.

I supported her and asked again, “Who’s there?” but my voice cracked and face turned red. Penelope smiled, but I didn’t see the humor. Maybe it was from my lack of masculinity, but the pokemon was not afraid of us. He came out of the shadows into the light. The sunlight shined on a brilliant absol in front of us. Penelope and I both stepped back, he could obviously hurt us both in a single flick of his paw. When we thought he would speak, he instead just walked right between us and past us. He walked straight to the berries we were at just a few seconds ago, and in awe, our gaze followed him. Penelope skipped her way over to the handsome stranger. 

“Who are you?” She breathed. Her strong voice had faded and she was replaced with a breath of admiration. 

The absol didn’t look back at her when he responded, just kept walking, “Dimitri.” Her question was answered, but we then realized it was less helpful then we had hoped. I joined Penelope and we sat near him and continued to eat our breakfast. We pushed aside the awkwardness of this new stranger, or at least we tried. We ate in silence. Dimitri distanced himself from us, as Penelope and I exchanged confused glances. Dimitri stood up and walked away from us.

Penelope stood up quickly and said to him, “Where are you heading?”

“North.” He says, continuing to walk.

Penelope’s mind spun, “We’re going that way too.”

My head shot up from my berries. We are? Dimitri didn’t have any response to Penelope’s statement.  Her little legs ran as she caught up with the absol. I followed her quickly, confused by her eagerness to stay with this stranger. Penelope and I both caught up with his easy stride. After a few minutes of waling beside him with even more glances between me and Penelope to break up her gaze at him. 

She stated, “We’ll come with you.”

Dimitri took a breath. His accent was audible for the first time as we just barely heard him grumble sarcastically, “Great.” 

I didn’t like this. I didn’t like the way that he acted so cold to us. I didn’t like the way that Penelope looked at him. I did not like this.

“You don’t talk much do you?” I asked him.

He didn’t respond.

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Chapter 10 - The Trigger

We waited by the river for two more nights. Later that night when the sun had reached a peaceful orange, we had a meeting.

Penelope quietly started us off, “I don’t know how long we can wait.”

Toni added on, “He could be anywhere.”

“But we’ve looked for days,” I solemnly added.

“We can’t give up!” Toni jumped in, sensing the path of the conversation.

Penelope looked offended, “Of course we aren’t! Charlie is my best friend. But what other choice do we have? How long do you expect us to stay here?”

I could sense the anger building up in Penelope and a tension was strung between her and Toni.

“Yet you’re suggesting we abandon him?” Toni snapped.

“If he wanted to be with us he wouldn’t have left. He would have come back by now. Has his thoughts ever occurred to you?” Penelope accused her.

Toni was taken a back and a small silence set over them. They both withdrew themselves for a moment. My presence was forgotten. Toni barely got out, “How could you say that?” Her voice grew, “After you knew what happened. I thought you understood.”

“I do understand,” Penelope declined. 

“You think its easy for me having him gone. We say we don’t know why he left, but we know. It’s because of me.” Toni paused, “It’s all my fault. He could be anywhere.”

“It’s not your fault,” Penelope consoled. 

Toni looked at her skeptically, “You know that’s not true. If I weren’t here, he would be.” There was a pause as Penelope realized the devastating truth behind her words. “I’m staying,” Toni stated.

Penelope looked down, “I don’t think-”

“Well your thoughts aren’t of much importance right now.”

Penelope looked hurt, but she understood. She resigned, “We will be departing some time tomorrow. I suggest you think it over.”

After that Toni retreated into the water and Penelope retreated into the shadows. I think the shadows comforted her after everything that happened.

The soft orange of the sunset fell and the floating stars came up. Little words were spoken before we each drifted off. The girls confused me. I didn’t know what they were talking about nor why they were getting offended. I was taken aback when Penelope stated that we were leaving, because I don’t remember having a say. Would I have wanted to stay with Penelope or Toni? I wanted to stay with Penelope I determined. I guess at times she knew me better than I did.

Morning came with a taunting of chirps from the trees. Penelope was still asleep when I woke up, but Toni was awake. Just swimming around, but she looked stressed. I greeted her and we spoke a little, but nothing of importance. A few laughs over breakfast. Penelope woke up and joined us to eat. The conversation felt heavier but it still stayed afloat. After eating and talking and going on with the day, it came to the natural stopping point that we leave. 

Penelope and I faced Toni, “You can still come.”

“That wouldn’t be best. You know that.” Toni replied.

I spoke up, “We can stay along the river. It won’t be hard.”

Toni shook her head, “Difficulty is not the problem. But I promise you Thomas, we will meet again.” I didn’t see how that could happen. No one that left ever came back. Instead I stepped forward and pressed my head against hers. I was going to miss her.

Toni looked over to Penelope, she looked sad as she spoke, “Good luck, Penelope.”

Penelope leaned in and wrapped her head around Toni, hugging her close. I could just barely hear her whisper, “Take care of Charlie.”

After that they looked at each other for a moment. Somehow the world could be such a confusing mess, but between two friends it made total sense. They understood. Penelope and I walked off and Toni retreated under the water, bubbles rising up as she left.

Once Penelope and I were a good distance into the long grass, I asked her, “What happened between Toni and Charlie?”

Penelope looked at me and was deep in thought. I read on her face that she was considering if she could tell me, and she did, “Charlie is a Gengar, Tom. He eats dreams. Because he was so betrayed when he was traded and forced to evolve, he never grasped controls of his attacks, even the ones he always had changed. I don’t know if he is emotionally trying to deny his evolution, or something actually did happen preventing him to control himself. He has become good at controlling himself, but when something strongly emotional happens to him, his control weakens. It is usually at night after the emotional experience when he is unconscious that something bad happens. He has no control when he is asleep, so the emotions rush back and take over. When he met Toni, an emotional response was triggered. That’s why at night, he unwillingly entered he dreams and basically consumed them. It’s a hard concept to understand, but it is very traumatic. As far as I know, everything gets cold, physically, emotionally, mentally, everything. I don’t know how to explain it. But just imagine what it would be like to have your dream literally eaten.” It was at this pause that I noticed we both stopped dead in our tracks, enthralled in the conversation. The only things that came to mind were the nightmares I had of my dads, and I knew that this was much worse. 

“Why was an emotional response triggered?” I asked.

Penelope looked at me, her face was still serious from the story. Then the corners of her mouth started to creep up and she lightly laughed at my ignorance.

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