Magic: The Awakening

I decided to pick out something out of my old writing box and continue it. It's the tale of a pachisiru born in a test tube and her life as a vorish experiment. Day 1 is the day she first became aware of the world around her. It's told from her point of view, so it might be hard to follow at first, since the pachirisu knows nothing of the world around her... or about pretty much anything. As I will post new days entries, the readers will learn along with her what is her world. I hope you like. Feel free to comment on it.

Day 1

Scary. Where am I? Who am I? I feel… strange. All around me… it… I don’t know. But it feels strange. Everything is dark… I can’t move a lot… I tried to, but everything is slow… I don’t like this. Slow. I want to move… faster… Where… where is… my mother? I feel alone… there is something around me, but it's not heat… it’s cold… scary… and it feel strange.

I stood there, thinking about everything I knew was missing, but couldn’t tell what it was. How long did I wait? I don’t know. Alone, in this strange place, nothing felt right, but I couldn’t do anything about it. I was trapped… I wanted it to end, but no one listened to my silent plead. They didn’t want me to scream. The sounds I made were blocked by something covering that place sounds come out from. Why wasn’t I allowed to scream? Why no one listened to my needs? I was alone, because no heat touched me, but far away… I could hear sounds… others… the sounds were various, but they were nothing I could understand. And around those sounds, were others ones, calmer, filling the silence from before. Maybe I was not so alone? But why didn’t they help me? Why were they ignoring me? I had to show them I was here!

I moved around the strange place, screaming and fighting against the weird things and it seemed to works. The sounds became louder and closer. Then, a loud, hurting sound came. The loud sounds became even louder and faster. I felt movements all around me… Are the sounds going to hurt me? Did I do something wrong? What…what… is…this…my head… hurt…I…Why… I tried to get away from the hurt, but everything stopped, and the scary darkness cam to me...

Day 2.

Hum... wha... oh... the scary darkness is gone. The darkness is not fun. The darkness comes from the hurt... the hurt! The hurt come from the loud sounds! I... not move! No move, no sound, no hurt, no darkness!

I tried not to move, so the hurt wouldn't return. The sounds were around me again, but they were not loud. I was safe from the hurt. But the strange place... it was still there and scary. It might be the only place I ever had been in, but I didn't like it. It made me slow. I wanted to move, but the hurt wouldcome if I did. I was trapped. I was scared. I couldn't do anything, so I listened to the sounds. I didn't know if they knew I could listen to them. They knew when I moved. They knew when I made sounds. I didn't know if they could know I heard their sound, but I would know if the hurt returned. I hadn't felt the hurt yet and I wanted to listen to the sounds, so I did. They were mysterious. They knew what I did, but I didn't know what they did. I didn't understand. But I thought that maybe the sounds would tell me.

So I listened to them... lots of sounds came, I heard them, and no hurt came. Sometime, I heard more sounds, and sometime there were less sounds. And once, there was no sound at all. The calm sounds were still there, but the others were gone. And then they returned. And I listened again. Those sounds... sometime, it seemed like they were made so I could hear them. I heard many sounds, all different, but some were the same. This confused me, but I kept listening.

And suddenly... nearly all sound was gone. Even the calm sounds were gone. I was alone. I thought about moving, but maybe the sounds were still there, waiting for me to move and hurt me for it. So I waited... and waited... and... I felt darkness return again. There was no hurt. But the darkness still came. I could have asked why it was like this, but the sounds were more important. From all of them, one came so often that it followed me into the darkness: VX-008.

Day 5

VX-008... I had no idea what those sounds meant, but they were interesting. When the scary darkness left again, I was alone. No sounds around. It was fun, but also saddening. Those sounds I wanted to hear, they would not come. I waited for some time, but the sounds still didn't came. I waited for so long that the darkness came, then left, then returned, then left again, but still no sounds. Maybe they were gone? Maybe... I could move! Feeling all funny inside, I tried to move what could be moved. I moved things I had never known were there before. I had no idea what they were, but moving them felt natural. I couldn't know what they were, but I could feel them move in the strange place.

One of my moving things touched another and I was surprised. I tried it again, and again, the things touche. It felt nice, so I thought maybe it was made so I would feel good in this scary place. But those two weren't the only things that could move and touch things. Somewhere else, I felt something large and fun touch me in another place. This was better! I tried to find everything that could move, because moving was fun. Some moved, but some didn't. I tried to move them, but they didn't want to move. Something didn't want me to move them. I tried to move them harder and harder, and I tried so hard that I felt them touch something. The sounds weren't happy, though. They came out from out there, all around me. Loud, very loud. Scariest sound ever. They knew I had moved! The usual sounds returned after some time, and it hurt again, and again, and again. I had to stop moving! The sounds won't wouldn't hurt if I didn't move! I stopped, but the sounds didn't.

They became louder again, then a new sound came. It was stranger than everything before. And something stranger than anything before happened. Something touched me, but it wasn't hurting. I wanted to discover this new thing, hard thing touching me, but the I felt the weird place move and then.... nothing. The weird place was gone. I felt... fast! All those moving things, I knew could move faster now... but they didn't. I tried, but they touched the hard thing, so I couldn't move them. I tried again, but... the hurt... a soft hurt hit me hard, something very different from before. The strange place had been scary, so have been the sounds, but this was so... really scary I wanted to go away. Danger! Flee! I had to get away! The hurt found me! It would... it would... I had no idea what it would do, but I knew, somehow, that it was the thing to be the more scared of. Maybe, if I didn't move, it would go away!

It didn't. The soft hurt didn't want me to move and it forced me not to. Another hurt touched me, at one place on me, but it was a very sharp hurt. And I felt the sharp hurt go deep inside me... then it felt hot... then very cold... then hot again... then the sharp hurt left, with the hard thing too. I was free to move again. But the moving things didn't want to move anymore... the darkness had got them. Nothing moved, even if I tried very hard to. What did the sounds and the hurt do to the moving things? Did they break them? Why was the hurt so scary and mean?

The soft hurt returned again, but it touched me at another place, then I felt everything move, even if I couldn't move. I could still make sounds, so I made them as much I could. The soft hurt touched me on the first place it touched me, but this time.... there was no hurt... it was very soft... very... not scary. My sounds stopped without me wanting them to, and my moving things didn't feel like moving, even if they could have. I felt so good suddenly, so... fun... so fun, that, when the darkness came, I wasn't scared. Somehow, I knew it wouldn't be bad...

Day 10

I dunno how I spent in the scary darkness again, but it was no fun. What was before the darkness had been fun. I missed the touch of the soft hurt that didn't hurt. I waited for it to return, but it didn't want to. Had I been bad? I didn't know, but I knew the strange place was gone. I could move as much I wanted. That was fun. I moved the moving things a little, liking how they could go places freely.

It was when something really fun happened. Something really magical! Something new moved on its own and... Wow... It was oooooooh! I could... See! Light! Prettyness! Everywhere! It was weirdy at first. All new. All hard to see. But it got better. It was pretty white and gray. The heat wasn't as pretty, but I liked it because it was new.

Watching the gray and white got boring quick. Not changing, too much of the same, too.... Slow! I wanted to see more! More pretty! I moved all sort of moving parts and when one special one moved, I saw different pretty things. I kept moving it and looked alllllll around me. I saw my moving parts. White and blue, small, fast. Fast. I liked speed. I wanted to move everywhere and see everything. I could, now that I wasn't in the slow place anymore! But... Aww... The new place was too small. That made me very sad. There was a lot of place to move, but it prisoner out there, on the other side of hard lines of meaness. Poor out there, trapped by the lines. That made me sad too. St least I could move. The out there couldn't, I thought.

I didn't stay sad for long, because the out there did move. That made me so happy for it! Not being able to move wasn't funny. The funnest didn't stay, because something very big and very scary came from the world beyond the great moving wall thingy. I tried to move away from it quick quick, but the lines of meaness were everywhere! The meanies! I looked at the large monster, scared that it would hurt me. It became more scary when it spoke... Because I knew what it was. It was one of the sounds, the sounds that hurt! I made sounds of my own to make the large monster go away, but that didn't work. The monster in green just made louder sounds and shaked my world by placing its moving parts around the lines of meaness. I hid in a little ball and waited, all scared.

Another huge monster came. It was a monster in white, but to my surprise, this one didn't hurt me. It shouted a loud sound and made the monster in green go away! I was so happy that I wanted to touch the monster in white happily. The monster seemed happy, too. Its sound became soft and it made them for a long time, looking at me but not touching. Other monsters in white came and none hurt me. The rest of the day was fun. The monsters loked at me, left and arrived and did all kind of pretty stuff around and then, later, they all left. But that was okey, because it was getting hard to see and my moving parts wanted the scary darkness to come. I wanted it too and it came eventually. For the first time, it wasn't scary.

Day 11

It's been one darkness since I first saw things and I wanna know more. How big is the world out there? Is it filled with more pretty colors? Are there less huge monsters in green, beyond the moving wall? Is there... food? Food... ergh... oww...

I whimpered, feeling a lot of hurt in the middle of my body, where all the moving parts are tied. The hurt wasn't nice and it wasn't fun, because I didn't know why it was there. There was no monster in green to put hurt on me. The ground was soft and, if I didn't touch the cold lines of meaness, it was nice. Much, much funner than in the scary strange place. I was very happy that it was gone forever. It was the worse place ever. No speed... ewwww.... not fun. Other things were not fun too, like the hard hurt and the sharp hurt. I missed the soft hurt, though! I wanted that one back. It made me feel great, ahh...

Oh, but this day wasn't so bad! I saw the monster in green again, but this time he didn't touch me. Yay! I was safe from the monster. The monsters in white though... they seemed less nice... they looked me closer than before and that wasn't fun and I was scared they would turn bad and attack. They nearly did! I was looking at them and then one of them made a hole in the lines of meaness. Freedom! I tried to run fastfastfast in the hole, but the monster grabbed me. It felt like... like... the soft hurt! Oh! The soft hurt was a monster in white! That made me feel much better about the monster in white. So happy that I let him move me around. I was a lot of pretty things. Some big, some small, some in the middle. Some moved, some didn't move. And some were shiny. Those were the best! Shiny! I tried to grab a shiny thing, but the monster in white moved me away from it. I dunno why it did. I was sad. And I still hard hurt inside me. I think the monster knew it too, because it looked at me in a funny way. It was a good-bad funny way. Or I dunno. It was something. I wish I knew what it was. Could have helped, maybe.

The monster put me back inside the lines of meaness and removed the hole. I wanted to see more of out there and I was sad, so I cried. But... the monster in white was sooo nice that it didn't let me get sad for long. It returned with something that smelt good. Like, really, really, really good! Good like fun and happy! I jumped on the thing and... I dunno, I just knew what to do with it. It was red and around and smelt good and was half my size, but I opened my sound making moving parts and put it all inside it. I pushed and pushed and pushed and... poof! It was all gone inside me. It looked funny, because my middle part was all big and round and it made me laugh. The pain was gone, too! I was very happy. The monsters were too, because they all started to moved happily all around the out there. I dunno what they were happy about, but I was happy for them. I loved happy! And I felt the darkness wanting to come back again. I didn't stop it. I was too happy. No more hurt and a funny large middle part. It was magical!

Day 17

I've learned a lot from the humans, those last few days. Yup. Humans! That's how the monsters were called. Oh, and I learned about days, too. That's how they called the things between the darkness they called sleep. They also told me that I was a pachirisu and that I was special. Magical, even! Wow! I felt very happy to hear that. Those humans in white were really nice. They taught me things, they gave me big food when my tummy hurt and they gave me a few rides outside, too. I wondered what they would make me do in this day. I couldn't wait for them to come. I was moving in my cage, waiting for the humans in white. They would come from beyond the door and make me happy. They would. All I had to do was wait...

...wait... I waited for so long... so long... it was very not fun. My heart was hurt. They didn't come. All day, I was silent and alone. And it hurt. And it wasn't only my heart. My tummy hurt a lot too. I hadn't eaten since the last day and I wanted food. I needed food! Food... thinking about not having food hurt me... thinking about never having food hurt me so much that I wanted the darkness to come and never leave. The darkness did come... but then it left, but the hurt in my tummy was worse. Where were the humans in white? Why did they leave me alone? The answers didn't come, but the pain stayed. And it hurt me a lot. I wanted to cry. And I did. I ran around in my cage, I bit the lines, I chewed then ate the water bowl... and the water inside it. It helped a little, but by the time the real darkness came, I was thinking about eating the lines and getting out. But the humans in white didn't want me to be out. Maybe they would know and then I would never have food, ever. That was very much scarier than the hurt eating my tummy. No food... ever... eeeek.... scary...

Day 18?

I don't think I slept a lot that night. Not at all. I shivered a lot, though. I was scared a lot, too. I was in my corner of the cage and crying at the hurt. I did all of those unhappy things, and more. It was dark... dark... it was hurt... then... then it happened... a human in white came, holding something... yellow... shiny... moving... it didn't look very happy until it was put in my cage. Then it looked happy again and touched me. I had no idea what that thing was, but it was pretty. The touching, I mean. It was so soft, so nice...what happened after that was very bad... I was very hungry... my tummy was hurting very so much... I didn't wanna to... the yellow thing seemed so nice, but... my tummy... it didn't... didn't wanna let it go... it wanted the yellow thing inside me... I opened my mouth very large and put the yellow thingy inside it. It started to be scared and wanted out, but I wouldn't do it! I just... had to eat it... poor thingy... all sad inside me, all crying... all moving... why did the humans in white do that to me? Why did they look so... happy about it? I hurt something moving... I made something sad... and they were happy? My tummy was happy again and the hurt was gone, but... I had never been so sad of my short life. Suddenly, the humans in white didn't seem so nice...

Day 23

The last few days had been a lot of not fun! The humans in white had returned, but they were always waiting for my tummy to hurt a lot before coming close to me with a moving things and putting it with me. They were making me so very sad everytime, because I didn't want to eat the moving things, because they didn't wanna me to eat them. I didn't wanna eat them too, but it was always so strong in my head and I couldn't stop myself.

So today, when the humans in white came, I didn't look at them. They talked to me with their sounds, but I didn't listen. They were meanies and I didn't wanna have to do anything with them. I'm a nice thing, so I didn't wanna play with mean things! I think the humans in white knew I wasn't happy, because they did something different. They took my cage and... Oh! Oh! It was special! The human in white was bringing beyond the moving wall! I jumped all around in my cage because I was all happy. The outside was... Err... Very different! There was a long tunnel in one side and another big tunnel on the other side and both went very far. It was a lot of new and I wanted to see what was beyond the tunnel. The human knew, because he took the right tunnel and walked faaaaar into it. There were a lot of turns and up and down in the tunnel and at the end, another moving wall. I could smell something pretty on the other side. I waited for th human to move the and then...

Wow! It was so pretty! A lot of green, everywhere! Big green, small green, middle green, all kinda green! I was still inside the metal den though, because I could see gray around the green. Still, it was a fun looking place and nice to watch. The human in white placed the cage on the ground of green, opened the door and... left?!?

I sat in my cage for a long time, not sure if I was really allowed to leave. I heard happy sounds outside and that got me curious, so I walked onto the green. It was soft, nice, and soft. My cage didn't look very nice compared to it. I didn't think about for long, because I heard the happy laugh again, behind a wall of green. I went there and I saw a funny looking brown doogie. It was playing with something really small and moving and that looked fun. I moved closer and saw that the tiny moving thing was a tiny human! It was a different kind of human, one without human skin. The brown thing looked at me and talked. To my surprise, could understand! It said "Hiya! I'm Thirteen! You wanna play with me and my food?"

I tilted my head. She was a Thirteen? I didn't know what I was and that made me sad. I shown it by looking all sad. "I'm me? I dunno what I am. My tummy is often wanting food, and when it wants food, I eat everthing I see I see in one gulp, all yum! But I'm sad, because there is always a big thing bigger than me when I wanna eat and then I have to eat the moving thing and the moving thing is sad..." I explained and looked sadly.

The Thirteen looked all large eyes and smiled at me. "Wow... You can eat things bigge than you? You're like... magic! I can't eat big things. So I make them tiny instead. Then I..." she said, but my ears stoprd listening. I repeated those first words, telling me what I was. I was magic. I liked that! I was magic. I was Magic. Yay! I was magic! I was so happy to know what I was that I touched the Thirteen with my nose, but she moved away from me and pushed the tiny human near me. "I don't wanna be food, so I'm gonna give you mine! Its really tasty!" she told me, all moving her head up and down. I didn't know why she was giving me food, but I liked the Thirteen a lot already.

"Yay! I am Magic and I have food! This is the funniest day ever!" I said, picking up the tiny human. It was moving, but I didn't feel bad about eating it, because humans were meanies and I couldn't know what they were saying. I licked the human and it tasted very good. One gulp and no more human! I felt it go down inside me and move inside my tummy and it was funny. The brown thing saw my smile and smiled too. "Hehe. Told ya they are tasty. If I have another later, I will give it to you. Watching you eat is... funny."

I laughed with the Thirteen and smiled. I wasn't hungry, so we ran around and played games until the human in white returned and put me back in my cage, then in the room I have always been in. I was forced to eat another moving thing before sleep, but it wasn't as sad as usual. Now, I wasn't alone. I had a friend and I was Magic, too! YAY!!!

Day 32

Life was good since I met my best friend Thirteen! It almost made me forget the hurt of having to eat sad moving things. I also leaned that she wasn't only Thirteen, but an eevee. She was Thirteen thwe eevee and I was Magic the pachirisu. Every day, the human in white would put us in playroom to play and they prepared games for us. One day, we had each one tiny human to hunt, then another day, we had to fight to get one, but I didn't wanna fight, so I gave it to Thirteen. The day before this day, there had been a normal human and I got to see Thirteen make it tiny and eat it. Hehe. It was funny to see the big bad human to get eaten.

This day started the same as any other day. I waited for the human in white to come, then I took the cage ride to the playroom. Thirteen was waiting for me and as usual, we played a lot. My favorite games were one hide in the green and another tried to find and the game where we run and try to touch each other. I always won that game and Thirteen was better at the other game, so both were happy! We played the running game until the human in green came and pushed a special human in our playground. Food time! I waited for Thirteen to make it tiny, but she didn't and the human looked at us funny. It had its paws tied together, so it couldn't move a lot. Thirteen giggled and asked me a really weird question. "I shown you how I can make things tiny. Now I wanna see you eat big things! Think you can eat the big bad human?"

I was all surprised! Me, eating something so big? I didn't wanna say yes, but Thirteen looked at me all sad and really wanted me to try, so I did, for my best friend! I walked near the human head. It was looking at me all sad and confused, but I knew it was just trying not to act meany to make me think it's not a meanie. I ignored it and opened my mouth allllll wide, all around the human head. The started to shout and move a lot, but I didn't let go. I was feeling a bit sad, but I didn't wanna make Thirteen sad by not eating it.

I pushed more, the moving human going byebye inside me. Its taste was really great, so I licked it a lot as I ate it. I went all gulp gulp lick lick for a while, eating the human front paws, then middle, then back paws. With a last big gulp, the human was gone in my tummy. It was really big and moving too! Thirteen looked really happy and nosed me as a gift, then she jumped on my tummy and sat on it. I could just see my tummy, but I could feel Thirteen on it and it was soooo much fun! I was feeling all thingly inside. I was happy typ and my tummy really looked pretty!

I couldn't move, so that was kinda sad. I think Thirteen took a nap on my tummy and I took a nap too. When I woke upl, I saw the human in white come and take Thirteen away. The human left, leaving me alone with my really big tummy. I didn't like being alone, so I was sad. But because I couldn't move, I didn't stay sad for long, since I got bored and slept again, this time for the whole night.

Day 33

I woke up this morning and my tummy was a lot less biggy. I wasn't sure if Thirteen could still nap on my tummy, I knew I would know later, because I saw Thirteen every day and she loved to play with me. That made me happy a lot too, so I waited for the humans to bring her in the playroom. Waiting was not fun, when I couldn't move, so I tried to think about things. I remembered the images in my head I had when I was sleeping. I was eating a lot of humans and my tummy was big, big, big, but the more I ate, the sadder the humans were. At the end, they were soooo sad that it made me sad and I stopped eating them. The humans thanked me and gave me up and nuzzles, like Thirteen did. Thinking about the images made me sad and wonder why the humans were all sad and not allowed to move. It was strange, because the other humans weren't like that. I didn't have to think a lot more, because the humans in white came and brought Thirteen with them.

I smiled again as the eevee came to me and nuzzled me all happily. "Hiya, Magic! Hehe, you still have a big tummy. I guess I get the human today. Yay!" she told me all happy. I was happy for her too and I smiled more more. Thirteen was a nice pokemon and it was good when she got good food. I wasn't hungry too, because I still had a good tummy. I was tired too and that tummy was all weighty on me and I couldn't move and all that so I was sad. I didn't show it to my friend, because I didn't want my friend to be sad. Thirteen looked at me and jumped at me, wanting to take a nap again. I let her, because she wanted to.

She didn't have time to nap, though. That was sad. But what was a lot less sad was that the humans in white came with another human prey! I said "Thirteen! Thirteen! Food! Food!" all happy, but then I stopped. I looked at the human, all confused. I thought about the images in my head, about all the sad humans in them and I felt something in my tummy, but that wasn't food. I dunno what that was, but it made me feel not funny. Thirteen was going about to make the human all small, but I didn't really wanna her to now. I dunno why. I shouted and asked her to break the thingies on the human. I wanted to see it move. I wanted... to see something.

And I did see something. Something I didn't forget, ever. When the human was untied, it hit Thirteen hard, then shouted loud, then ran fast fast fast and hid in a corner. I was supposed to be sad for Thirteen and angry, but... the human was so sad so scared... so... so much like the moving thingies I had to eat in the cage. That was when I understood... I undertstood that those humans were like the small moving thingies! They didn't want to be eaten, like the moving thingies, and they were forced to be! How mean! That made me very unhappy! Very very very! It was the human in white again. Trying to make me do mean things. I told Thirteen not to eat the human, but she was all angry for being hit and ate it. She made it tiny... then started being very mean with it, hurting it, biting it, clawing at it. I didn't want to watch. I closed my eyes and cried. I wasn't angry at Thirteen, but at the humans in white. They were mean... they weren't nice... they forced me to do mean things. I wasn't happy. I didn't like this place anymore. It was all unfunny. I wouldn't eat things anymore... I wouldn't... no matter what would happen...

Day 34

The next day was a lot of not fun. I was all confused and I didn't know if I had to be mad at Thirteen for hurting the little humans or at the humans in white for bringing the human food to us. I was all sad too, because I would have to see Thirteen eat the humans and it wasn't fun. I rested in my cage all morning, waiting for the humans in white to return and to bring me to the playground. They gave me water, but I didn't wanna drink it, because I was too sad. The humans saw it and weren't happy at all. One of them came to my cage, talking all loudly and scary-like. It was so scary and I couldn't understand what it was trying to tell me. I went into the corner and hid behind my tail, so he wouldn't see me. It had worked before and that time wasn't any different. The human stopped shouting and left the room, leaving me all alone again. This time, I stayed hidden behind my tail, because I didn't want the human to see me and be back. I didn't wanna go back to the playground and see my friend be mean. I didn't wanna do anything but hide. Soooo... I stayed hidden.

For a very loooong time. All day, I think. Nearly all day, because I became bored of hiding, because I wanted to move, because moving was fun, because fun was nice. There wasn't a lot of place to run to in the cage, but I ran anyway. I went left, then right, then I climbed on the ceiling. Did I say that I like climbing? Climbing is like weeee and yaaaay! I like the high, because it's full of things and I can see far. I couldn't see far in the cage, but climbing wasn't any less fun. I think I forgot about my sadness and Thirteen, so much I was having fun.

After so much running and climbing, I started to get thirsty and hungry, so I drank all my water, but I wasn't happy yet. I wanted foooood. Fooood! But there was no food. Not until the human in white returned with.... ewww.... living food. Again! Meanie! This living food was another tiny human, all ready for me to eat. It was shouting and trying to get away, which made me unhappy. I looked up at the human in white and shook my head. I felt something strange in my cheeks, like all tingly. My cheeks became all warm and pretty light came out them. It was pretty! But the the light left my cheeks and touched the cage, going all byebye somewhere. I dunno why, but the human in white didn't like that like. The human in white was just a meanie anyway. Every time I liked something, it didn't like it. Pftttt!

The human didn't just not like it, he punished me for it, too. He went somewhere and returned with some thingy covering his hands. He thne opened the cage and picked me up, but not nicely at all. He grabbed me by the neck and it hurt! And then, the meanie forced my mouth open with his new weird ewww tasting fingers and forced the tiny human down. I wanted to spit it out, but the human didn't let me until the humans was so deep inside that I couldn't spit it up anymore. I felt it doing down my inside and I felt not felt, sad, angry... I dunno... very bad things. I made some pretty light and shoot it at the human in white!!!

...but it didn't do anything. Awww... failing wasn't funny. The humans liked it though, because it laughed and thrown me in the cage, like bam! Owie. Meanie! Then it closed the door, just before I could jump out. I pushed into the door, again and again, but nothing. Nothing but the human leaving me alone. Again. I was feeling my sad prey being hurt inside. Again. It was always the same. Always the same hurt. Why were the human so meanie? I missed Thirteen and I wanted the humans gone... I wanted out of the metal den, out in.... the outside. I didn't know what the outside looked like before, with all its pretty trees and its fun water and friend pokemon, but I was convinced that it was better than the metal den. Anything was better. Like Thirteen. Thirteen was better. I missed Thirteen...

Day 36

The day before was unfun too, but this one was much better, so I'm gonna talk about it. It all started when the human in white returned in the morning to do something. Instead of forcing to eat a tiny human or a moving thing, he took my cage out there again! I was curious about where we were going, because I hadn't left the room for 2 days! Two days without seeing Thirteen. Two not fun days. That's why I was happy when the human in white took me to the playroom, where Thirteen was waiting! Yay! I Playing with my friend! I jumped in my cage, so eager to play with her. The human placed my cage near the wall and then... just left the room, leaving in the cage!

Awwwwww! So sad! I wanted to play with Thirteen, but instead, I was stuck in the cage! So close, yet so far! I sat in my cage, pouting and crying. Maybe that would make them change their mind and let me out, but no, it didn't work. No human returned, but Thirteen did come closer to me. "Hi, Magic! Why are you in the cage? Did you do something bad to make the humans angry?" she asked me.

Did I do something bad? I didn't think so. If anyone had done anything bad, it was the human in white. It was the one who acted all mean with me and forced me to eat things I didn't wanna eat. I told all that to Thirteen and her answer was kinda surprising. "Hehe... silly Magic. You did do bad... according to them. They want you to do these things, so if you don't, they punish you. That's why you always gotta do as they say and they will let you out." she explained to me, which made me disappointed. I didn't wanna be mean... but I didn't wanna stay in the cage. I wanted to be out and see the world out there, far far away. I thought about it for some time, while Thirteen left to play some. I'm not very good at thinking, so it took me a loooong time. But at the end, I finally got a great idea. "Thirteen! I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be "nice" to the human in white, but when I get out of the cage, I wanna you to promise you're gonna do one thing for me. I don't wanna say it now, but can you promise you will do it when I will ask?"

The eevee smiled and nodded. "Ok! I will do it for you. Friends are nice and do things for each others. I'm sure we will be together again soon!" she told me, nuzzling my nose through the cage. It felt nice... but it would be nicer to be out there again...

The rest of the day went the same as usual. The human in white came to feed Thirteen a human, which I forced myself to look at to look nice. Later, I was taken back back to the room and given another human Thirteen shrunk to eat. I smiled at the human in white and ate my prey, trying to focus on its good taste rather than its sadness, so I would look I was having food. I think the human liked, because he quickly left without doing any mean thing. Ewwww... I really hoping not to have to do too many things before I was let out...

Day 40, part 1

The next days weren't that much fun. Forcing eating, forced to stay in the cage and watch Thirteen have and more forced eating. I took it all and this day, it finally got me a reward. When I was led to the playground, the human opened the door of my cage and let me out! Yay! Free! It was finally time to put my plan to execution. There would be no more sadness, no more bad things. All that left was telling my friend. When Thirteen did come, I ran to her and told her my big secret. "Hiya Thirteen! Today, we're gonna go see what's outside the metal nest!"

She looked at me with a funny look. I think she thought I was making a joke. I tilted my head, not sure why she didn't seem to believe me. "It's true! We're gonna go out! We're gonna use your tinier thing and my magic and leave in a magical way! It's gonna be a lotsa fun! And you know what's the most funner? The human in white won't do mean things to me anymore!"

After I said that, something really not fun happened. Thirteen like, got away from me and looked all sad. "...the human in white never did anything bad to me... they always give me a lot of food and it's always the best food, the moving and the kicking one. It's fun." she said, nodding. I shook my head and did a sad face. "No! That's not fun! That's meanie, because they don't wanna us to! If I ate you, would you be happy? I know I wouldn't be... it's scary... I don't wanna do that... but maybe the human in white will do it some day... or maybe they will make you eat me... oh.... and you promised you would do something for me when I would be free! Now I'm free, so I was you to be nice and do what you promised! Pleeeeaaaase??!?"

Thirteen took a step back, looking unsure. I dunno what she was thinking, but she didn't seem that much happy. I was worried, but finally, what she told me wasn't so bad. "I... err... I guess... I did promise and... if you really think it's mean... then... maybe you're right. You're always right when it's about sad or happy things. If you think we have to leave... then... maybe we should... but how...?"

I smiled happily and nosed her, moving behind her to push her gently toward the entrance. As I did that, I told her all my plan. She agreed and thought it would be kinda funny to do. So... we waited for the human in white to come with the usual human food... but we waited near the door, really close to the door. When the human in white came, Thirteen looked at it and used her power, making it all tiny. It vanished in its white skin and we quickly ran out of the playroom.

A few humans in green looked at us, all angry. I didn't like the human in green, too! They were mean, like the humans in white. Thirteen looked at them too and they vanished in their green-ness. Yay! We were free! Yay! Yay! We were all happy and ran up the long tunnel, then past my room, and further to the side of the tunnel I never went before. On the way, there were a lot of humans in green, but Thirteen made them all tiny. But, before we could reach the end, loud sounds came and there was red everywhere and that was very scary. It felt like long ago, when I first felt the hurt. Was it going to be back? "Thirteen! It's all scary! I wanna go home!" I shouted all scared to Thirteen, stopping my running.

The eevee came to me and nuzzled me, licking me a bit too. "Magic... don't be scared. We are the best friends and we can do everything. We got far, I'm sure. You're not gonna let sounds and light scare you, huh? You're Magic. You're... err... magical! You can do it." she said to make me happier. And... hehe... it worked! I liked when she said nice thing, but that was the nicest thing she ever said. I giggled and cleaned my eyes dry again. I was Magic! I could do it! I touched Thirteen with my nose, then started running. "The last one outside the metal den is slow!" I joked. That wasn't too mean, because I don't like mean things. Never did, never will. But it was funny enough.

Thirteen tried to follow me, but I was faster. Did I say I like fast? Hehe. I was so fast that I ran past a human in green and it didn't really see me until I ran back to it, because I didn't see anymore. But it was too late though, because it looked at me, didn't see Thirteen and poof! No more human in green. Hihi. Funny funny. Oh... and then there was more running, when we reached the end of the tunnel. It had biiiiig doors. Biiiig! So big there was two of them. We tried to push, but they didn't wanna move. I was sad and there was still the loud sounds, so I was feeling scared again. But...

...but Thirteen was there again to help! She looked at the door and I heard weird sounds... the doors became smaller, broke and then there was a magical hole under them! Exit! Yay! Fun! Oh... oh... and do you know what was the funnest, bestest thing? Under the door was... was...

OUTSIDE!!! Yay! Nice, huh? We were outside! Outside! Outside! Outside! That's what I said then. too! I was so very hyper happy! It was pretty. It was all green in the distance, but so far away and without gray walls. Outside! Did I say it? Outside! I was so happy that I ran far away in the in front of me. For a long time. Loooooong time. When I stopped and turned around, the metal den was away, looking like a tiny dot. There was also Thirteen, still far away and trying to come back to me. SO I waited. I didn't like waiting, but I did, only because it was Thirteen. I learned a lot of things in the waiting game. The green smelled good, there was a biiiiig ball making lotsa light and it hurt to look at it much. When Thirteen came, I was starting to feel tired. All that running, that sad and that happy made me wanna nap. I said bye bye to Thirteen and climbed in the tallest green to nap. Before I napped, I think I saw Thirteen hide under my green to nap too. Napping is good...

Day 40, part 2

I woke up some time later and things had changed. The ceiling was red and the ball of light was low and kinda red too. It was pretty to see. I climbed the tree and jumped in the green to wake up Thirteen. She went all "Ahhhh!" and pawed at me all scarily. It was funny and I laughed. Thirteen looked at me, blinked some and then laughed too. I think she understood the funny... or something. I'm not really good at understand things. Sooo...

Yeah, then Thirteen said something like "Hiya, Magic! Where we going?" all half-tiredly. I think she was tired. I nodded to her and told her that we would follow the ball of light, because it was pointing away from the metal den. Thirteen said it was a good idea and tried to race me to see who would be the first one to touch the ball of light. That made me laugh and I followed her. There would be a lot of adventures in the future for me, but that's another story! Hehe.

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The pachirisu swayed her tail happily, looking at the male pikachu expectantly. She had been telling her story since the ball of light in the sky was at its highest and she was eager to his impressions on it. "Sooo... that's how I was born and how I escaped the meanie humans. Did you like the story, Sparky?"

The pikachu was sitting on a log, looking tired and annoyed. He had been sitting on that spot for the last few hours, expecting a grand tale from the hyperactive squirrel. When she came to him in the morning, she had praised her story as being one of great mystery, one with horrors and scary things in a mysterious laboratory led by a mysterious organization. Having barely escaped capture a few moon cycles ago at the hands of a similar armed group, he had hoped to find some answers in her tale. Perhaps get some information about the location of the army base where they had turned his trainer into a pikachu, only to perish later on under the jaws of her umbreon. Oh, how sweet it would be to get his revenge on Jen's murderers, but it apparently wouldn't be today. Magic's tale hadn't been very good, in fact...

"It was the worse story anybody ever told me. You're really bad at storytelling, Magic. It wasn't even believable. Thirteen? I bet she never existed. I don't know any pokemon able to shrink things. You know perfectly well that stuff like shrinking is impossible. Feeding shrunken humans to pokemon? Don't they have anything better to do? I don't know... like get a life? I work hard every day to feed my mate and my daughter Miya, to keep Kagai from attacking the colony and you come with that stupid story making no sense at all! Next time you want to make a pokemon waste their precious time, go tell your story to kits!" he growled, his cheeks sparking angrily.

The poor pachirisu tilted her head down, broken. She had poured her best into that story, worked hard to remember every little detail of her childhood, only to have her new best friend make fun of it. The rodent couldn't be more saddened. "Awww... but it's true! There really had been all that! And Thirteen is somewhere, it's just that she was lost during the trip to my home here and I never saw her again! You're a meanie, Sparky!" she shouted at him, dashing back up her tree. She had never been so insulted of all her life. As for Sparktail, he shrugged it off and went back to the underground colony, where his mate and his daughter were likely waiting for him. He had learned a lesson today: no matter how "Magical" Magic made a story seem, it was never a good idea to listen to it. It could only lead to being disappointed.