Bridging The Gap; The Final Records In Unova: An Autobiography

A Flock Of Flames

Her unwary smile... I reflected. She's received her unwary smile... She's received her unwary smile...

June and Courtney were both out of sight, walking behind me, their feet crunching on the grass underneath them as we all walked through the thick forest, our path lined on both sides by a never ending row of dark green shrubs that nearly reached up to my knees.

She's received her unwary smile, I told myself.

Melissa's smile had been plastered in my mind ever since June had told me Beheeyem's bizarre sentence some time ago. Melissa's thin lips spreading across her face in a soft smile. Her lips opening apart to reveal her teeth, sharing the same small gap in between her two front teeth that everyone on my mother's side of the family had.

My sister's received her unwary smile... I repeated in my head. My sister received her unwary smile? What is an unwary smile? An unaware smile... What does that mean? How do you receive an unwary smile? From who? Or... what? Why? What does it mean? It doesn't make any sense! What was that Pokemon talking about?

June, Courtney, and I had been traveling through a strange setting of constant trees, shrubs, bushes, flowers, and grass for a while, the exact amount of time unknown. Since our encounter with Beheeyem, the atmosphere between the three of us had been pretty heavy and thick.

After Beheeyem had uttered his final sentence to us and teleported away, the only sound that remained was that of the crickets in the surrounding darkness of the night and the wind whistling through the grass.

Courtney insisted on understanding what had just happened. She said that she and June had been in a forest in the dream that Beheeyem had put us in, and that June had claimed to sense a voice in the air. A voice that Courtney could not hear. She followed June through the trees, June saying that the voice was in the direction she was leading Courtney in, and they found themselves in Pallet Town, where my house was. They had peeked in through the window and saw me with my dad and sister, and then June had instructed Courtney to stay outside. June then kicked open the door and caused a commotion. A little while after that, a bright light had blinded Courtney, and she awoke with us in the woods.

June and I didn't answer Courtney's demands for an explanation of what had occurred.

I certainly didn't have one, and at the time, I didn't feel much like talking.

None of us had any idea where we were. Neither Courtney, nor June, nor I, could find the location on the map since we didn't know what to look for. We weren't anywhere near the last place we remembered being; Twist Mountain. We were simply in the middle of the woods for no given reason.

I hadn't been paying attention to how many days had passed, and I hadn't been getting too much sleep, either, but it felt like it had been at least a couple of days since we had decided to try and make our way out of the woods and into the closest town as quickly as possible.

June looked over to me every time Courtney demanded an explanation about what had happened in the dream.

I thought I was made of tougher stuff and I ignored Courtney, sure that I would outlast her persistence. After a few hours, Courtney was still bugging us, and I could tell that she was on to me and was testing how long I could endure. Another hour of her questions swirling in my mind, ruining the quiet I was in need of to think about what had occurred, and I had finally lost it on her. I stormed over to her and screamed in her face. I told her everything. I told her I had lost my dad, and my sister had been missing for years, only to have been found in Unova by me and June only a couple of weeks or so ago, and then she ran off and I had lost her once again. I told her what had occurred in the dream for me. How I had seen my dad and sister and didn't think twice about it. I shouted at her that I had believed that it was normal for them to be alive, and that my mother being dead was what I had believed to be true. I yelled that I had no recollection of June, even when I had seen her, up until the last moment before Electivire had freed us with his Psychic attack, and once awake, the mix of memories from both the dream and reality had left me confused and was still driving me crazy, and right now, I needed her to shut up so I could think and straighten out everything in my head!