Out of the Darkness

Chapter 3.

Chapter 3.

I was left in my ball for quite a while, Ash was most likely reluctant about letting me out after what happened...

 Some of the other legends were up to being captured, but I sure as heck was not one of them. I had an important role to play, and I was the barrier between life and death for some Pokemon who couldn't move and needed the healing qualities of purified water.

 Speaking of water, my coat was messy from sprinting through the forest. I hadn't really thought about this; I was more concerned on how I was going to escape. I got into the small pond and relaxed.I loved the cold water, and how it always made you feel alive. While I sat in the cold waters of the pond, I stared out into the fog surrounding the small area. You could see the sky, but I guessed it was fake as the clouds didn't look right.

 I tried to hear what was going on outside of the ball, but I couldn't detect anything. I had guessed Ash had put me in some sort of case.I had realized something; some Pokemon I have seen just popped out of their balls. They weren't liberated, but they were out. Free for just a precious moment. I had wondered how they had done it. I walked up to the fog, sticking my paw just outside of the habitat. There was a mini-tremor, I assumed the Pokeball was shaking in it's place. I backed up, and dove head-first into the fog. 

 With a pop, I was outside of the ball. I looked around at my surroundings. I wasn't in some sort of case, I was in the living room of who I assumed was Ash's house.

It was nicely decorated, but needless to say, it had the basic necessities for a human. In other words things they needed for their simple minds in order to not "suffer." There was a couch and a black, shiny slab with moving pictures in the middle that I later learned was called a television. Ash was watching said television with excitement. 

The lady on the screen was talking. "Good morning, Kanto! Today, we have some breaking news, coming straight from Pallet Town. I'm passing it on to Kyle, who is currently outside Professor Oak's Lab." The screen switched to a man outside of a building that I guessed was that old man's lab. "We all  know about the tragic event that happened two days ago with the Team Rocket and Celebi almost dying, but what you don't know is that right after the villain was defeated, Pokemon Trainer Ash Ketchum has caught the legendary Pokemon Suicune. We haven't had a Trainer capture a legendary Pokemon in quite a while, so we're eagerly waiting for more news on this Mr. Ash Ketchum. Now to Meteorologist Lily Parson." 

Ash finally noticed me looking at him with hatred, he jumped back on the couch and screamed. "Ah!" He cried out. "How did you get out?!" I growled.

I was hungry. It had been a long time since I had eaten; two or three days was a long time to spend without food for a Pokemon. Or a human, for that matter. I scraped at the wood floors with my paws. My stomach growled loudly.

Pikachu came running down a flight of stairs. He sprinted across the floor and jumped on Ash's lap. He faced the Trainer. "Ashhhhhhh... I'm huuungry!" The yellow mouse whined.

Ash, who couldn't hear PokeSpeak, said, "You two must be hungry! I'll get some food right away." He headed off somewhere.

In about 15 minutes, he came out with two dishes of Pokemon food. One was practically covered in ketchup, the other was pellets with... What were those? Ah, berries. Dried up Oran Berries that were picked probably months ago and drenched in impurities. I decided to eat it, I was honestly starving.

The food was dry and the Oran Berries weren't as good as in the wild, but it was better than I had expected. Nothing beats the pure berries and fresh water that you can find on a spring fed river's shore.

Pikachu also started eating the food, and apparently it was the best thing ever to him. Or at least, it looked that way by the way he was scarfing it down.