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Kevin and Buizel (Second edition)

Chapter 12: Understanding

  I looked at myself in my new form, reminding myself of the decision I have made. I had been so recent, but it does feel unbelievable as I feel that I'm going to wake up at any moment. I couldn't quite understand Pokémon yet, but what kept me most excited, was to be able to listen to my friend for the first time ever.

  Me, Buizel and my other Pokémon actually played together before going to where I had told Mathias to take me earlier. We chased around, played what I assumed was hide and seek, or maybe it wasn't, but it was overall fun! What mattered is that I was started to feel like I belonged as a Pokémon already, it reassured me that I was correct in my decision.

  Mathias joined in the fun and had quickly caught up to me when we were all just chasing each other. He was not in his Pokémon form however, he picked me up and looked at me.

  "I bet you are having fun," Mathias smiled, "most of the other trainers who have asked for the temporal side of this spell had already got bored at this point. I must say, that even I feel that you made the correct choice." This was reassuring to hear, I thanked him, I was still unable to understand myself but some things of the Pokémon language were starting to grow clear to me.

  Mathias put me down and called Cain to help him with something, he had put on the backpack on him and pulled out the guitar. "I hope you don't mind Kevin, but you can't quite play your original guitar anymore," Mathias reached for his wand, waved it left and right to where he made a small guitar pop out of thin air. "This size is more suitable for you, now you can still play music!" I looked at the guitar as soon as he handled it to me, the size was absolutely perfect for my new body, I hadn't even considered the fact that I wouldn't be able to play my guitar when I transformed, I was lucky that Mathias looked at the issue already. I quickly gave it a strum, and it sounded beautiful, the only problem was that holding down the notes as I used to was not more difficult, I did have paws now after all.

  Mathias had everything ready for us, the guitar bag was packed with all my stuff and the small guitar as well. "So the plan is to meet up with Adam, correct?" Mathias asked me, I had nodded. "There is one thing to remember though, he can't know that there are two Buizel's, it would be suspicious." He was right, I asked Mathias what we could do in that case, Mathias wondered for a bit and then snapped his fingers. "I know!" Mathias quickly picked me up and put me inside the guitar bag. "You can hide in the guitar bag!"

  It wasn't such a bad idea, maybe a bit cramped but it will work. I didn't want Adam or George to throw me out of the house or anything just because there was another Buizel. Mathias had the guitar bag open for me so that I wouldn't suffocate inside, I never thought I was going to be put inside my own guitar bag in the past, this was a bit weird, but I kinda liked it! It was cool being hidden in such a spot.

  "Alright Kevin, I'm going to take you all as close as I can to this... Adam guy, is this fine?" I nodded as he asked, "alright, me and Kaiser have to head out soon, so let's make this quick!" Mathias closed the bag slightly, it did feel cramped being inside a guitar bag but I really enjoyed it, cramped but a good place to actually rest for a while. I closed my eyes as I thought of me and my dear friend, I just pondered to myself what was so important that he had to tell me, I could've just listened to Mathias, but I needed to hear it from him, I didn't know why but somehow Buizel wanted the same as well.

  I closed my eyes and I let the swaying motions of being inside a bag set my mind well off to sleep, hopefully to dream a bit about what Buizel might say to me.

  ...

  I saw myself on the shore sitting right beside my best friend in the same spot we always spend time together. This was indeed an old memory of mine.

  "Do you want to be my friend too?" I asked as I sat right beside my friend. I remember Buizel was very happy when hearing this, he leapt to my arms and hugged me with such joy.

  "Yes! I want to be your best friend too! You are family to me!" Buizel had said, I had only heard him as a Pokémon speak, but I somehow knew exactly every single thing he said.

  Then I had just played music, but the music I played somehow spoke to me as well. "Where am I, where is my mind?" The guitar played but I felt that it was Buizel who was speaking to me instead, I turned around as the entirety of the world faded to black and it was only me and my Buizel, both as a Pokémon. "There is something I've always wanted to ask you Kevin," I listened carefully but I realized it was my own voice, I responded regardless. "Why have you given so much to Buizel?"

  "Well it's obvious, he is my best friend." I spoke to myself back and forth and the voices just surrounded my head, my form vanished and everything was obscured by my thoughts.

  "I think it's because he is family, not because he is a friend."

  "Family?"

  "Of course! Aren't we both Buizels now?"

  "It's like we were indeed!"

  "I should let Buizel know that we will be together till the end!"

  "Like best friends that stay together forever!"

  "But what does he need to tell me?"

  "What if he says that he doesn't want to be my friend?"

  "Don't be ridiculous! Buizel has given a lot for me as well!"

  "Like when he defended me from Adam's Pokémon!"

  "Or when he helped me compose!"

  "Or when we stayed together in that rainy night!"

  "Yeah! I can't wait to know what he will say!"

  "I should practice being a Pokémon way more!"

  Then all of the voices spoke in unison. "Hello, this is George."

  ...

  I woke up from inside the guitar bag, I peeked outside and we were in the Pokémon center. I couldn't see much, I could just hear George's voice that had woke me up. Lucario noticed that I was trying to see I guess, he turned a bit to let me see.

  I could see a young trainer with black hair, it was Adam on the phone!

  "You are Kevin's manager correct?" Adam asked calmly, I was nervous but also surprised.

  "Yes! I'm his manager!" George said from the other side.

  "I found Kevin's Pokémon and I want to go over there right now!" Cain quickly moved closer to the phone, I quickly hid in the bag.

  "Nice! What about Kevin?" George had asked.

  "Oh no, he is still missing?" Adam asked sadly, he seemed disappointed that I wasn't around. "I was hoping for Kevin to have already appeared, I really need to talk to him." Huh, I've heard that before.

  "No... There are still no clues of him." George said.

  "It's strange because the Pokémon here are looking very happy with me right now... anyways, I'm going down there to give you all the Pokémon, could I have the address?" Adam asked, George quickly gave him the address and said his goodbyes. "Well team! I don't know where Kevin is, but I can sure take you to one of his friend's house!

  The Pokémon cheered and I felt that we were walking towards George's place. I didn't want to peek outside of the guitar bag because I really didn't want to get caught inside. I just awaited till we arrived to George's place.

  Despite being inside the guitar back, I could clearly hear knocking on a door. I could hear the footsteps of all the Pokémon entering the house, Lucario had set the bag down and checked if I was okay, I nodded at him. I looked outside from the guitar bag carefully. I could see Adam and George at the door talking to each other. George looked happy "Young trainer, thank you so much for your help."Adam just smiled.

"It is my pleasure George!" Adam shook hands with George. I'm glad to see that he is as friendly as he was with me.

"How do you know my name? Do I know you?" George asked Adam.

"You don't remember me? I caused a huge incident years ago. It's me, Adam!" Adam said quite enthusiastically.

"That's Adam?!" Cedric said from afar, his Lucario woke from the scream, she stood up and got defensive towards Adam, she was ready to attack him, all my Pokémon urged Kyla otherwise. After that, Cedric's Lucario hugged him as he was sitting on the couch. "Wasn't he the bad trainer who almost basically stole Kevin's friend?" Adam stepped in and talked to Cedric.

"I've changed in the years, I was completely wrong in the past, and I regret it deeply." The same thing that he had said to me, I hoped that Adam would realize sooner that I had already forgiven him. Adam stared at Cedric and his Lucario hugging together. "Sometimes I wish I had such a connection with my Pokémon, I don't know how Kevin and his Buizel are so connected. You and your Lucario seem very close, I wish I was able to be close with mine at all." Adam said as he sat down the table, I'd more than like to be able to teach him how simple it is to just understand your Pokémon. "If I never talk to him, I fear that I might never know how to treat Pokémon better." Adam looked at George, he just stared at him. "You don't mind if I stay and talk for a while, do you?"

George and Adam spoke of very small things from the past, George sat down in front of him as he was preparing some coffee for the both of them. "So how did you find the Pokémon?" George asked.

"They just ran towards me, they basically found me. It was honestly odd; I thought Kevin's Pokémon would be scared of me." I'm glad I told my Pokémon that Adam wasn't a bad person at all.

Cedric seemed interested in the conversation, he wanted to sit down with them, but Kyla had fallen asleep as she hugged him, he patted her head and spoke from where he was. "After the incident and that poor Pikachu? Anyone would be scared of you."

Adam looked at Cedric puzzled, "to Pikachu? If you are talking about the cuts, it's because I rescued him from kids that didn't really know what they were doing. I tried raising him myself, but he was always so frightened, that's why I gave the Pokémon to Kevin, because I knew he could make Pikachu happy again." Adam said, I'm glad he made that choice, Marcus is a very happy Pikachu nowadays, "I was glad to see my Pikachu again; it gave me certainty that I made the right choice." George seemed to remember then.

"So that's why you gave me the poke ball," George said, he stared at Adam concerned, "you look tired Adam, drink some coffee." Adam was staring at his coffee, I could easily tell he was depressed.

"The last time I saw him was at the Sunnyshore cafe, I had talked to him after all these years, and then I battled those thieves. After that he was nowhere to be seen. If only I hadn't forgotten to ask him about how one can be friends with their Pokémon..." He was in luck, I was going to make sure that was a possibility.

George grabbed the journal, "Kevin's diary might help if you are interested." George opened it up and slid it towards Adam, How much have they been meddling around with my journal anyway? "He talks on and about how he cares about his Pokémon dearly and how he has befriended them." Adam picked the journal up quickly, he seemed excited.

Cedric tried to get up, but his Pokémon was still holding him down, he protested from where he was "are you sure he should read it George?" I could tell George didn't really mind.

"Adam is different, I mean the Pokémon trust him." George might not understand Pokémon, but he does have a good grasp on good and bad people. "If he really needs to know about something he was going to ask him, he might find it in the journal." George looked at Adam and smiled at him, "I'll trust anyone who is able to find Kevin's best friend and bring him home safely."

  Adam looked happy and proud in that moment, hopefully it will make him realize that everything is forgiven at this point, he looked at the journal. "Thank you so much, in which case, do you want me to read these pages aloud for you?" Adam asked George.

"We already read the other pages; you can read these on your very own, a certain chapter reminds me of the beauty and the beast over here." George looked at Cain and Kyla, I'm sure George was mentioning the chapter where me and Buizel hugged in the very cold night.

  Cedric responded to George's mockery. "Kyla is no beast."

"Nah man, you are the beast." George said as he got up from the table and picked up Adam's empty cup, I wish George wasn't so mean towards the doctor, I'm sure there was a reason him and Lucario were so close, much like me and Buizel are very best friends. "Adam, you can go to my bedroom and read there, chapters start getting very poetic." As George said this Adam turned around and looked my way, I quickly hid inside the backpack, I felt as he lifted the guitar bag to carry it to the room. "Oh before you go, I need an opinion on something." Oh dear, George please stop. "Vanilla or chocolate for their wedding cake?" George laughed at his joke, I can't believe he was being so mean to someone he probably just met, maybe he was incredibly nervous.

"We are not a couple and we are not getting married!" Cedric yelled at him.

"We should ask Kyla then. How would you like a wedding cake with Cedric?" This was already getting out of hand, I was hoping Adam would intervene somehow.

"Darn it George! We are not getting married! It's not even a thing that can happen!" Cedric said as he raised his voice.

"I don't think your Pokémon agrees." Okay, at that point I would've made George realize how inconsiderate he was being. I felt Adam heading away from the discussion, I really wished he had stood up to them.

  I felt as Adam dropped the backpack and the creak of the bed. He obviously got to reading the journal. I had to get ready to execute the plan I had, I needed to let Adam know that I was in fact Kevin. Before I came here I had asked Mathias to lend me some paper so that I could practice writing as a Pokémon, after a few tries I was able to write coherent words.

  I checked my things inside the backpack and I looked for the pencil I used for my journal. I felt the guitar being moved once again, the backpack opened and I felt that Adam was looking for something. "Let's see if that guide is around here somewhere, maybe I can find more information."I peeked out of the bag and stared at Adam, he was surprised to see me. "Hey Buizel, what are you doing in there?" Adam picked me up as he looked at me, despite the fact that I didn't like being moved all around, I was getting used to it by now. "That is not a good place for small Pokémon like you." I stretched my hand to say hi to him, but as I looked at my paws I was reminded that I was a Buizel now, I was still excited about it as well.

  If Adam wanted to know how to understand Pokémon he should definitely read my journal, specially the chapter where I hug Buizel. I pointed at the journal as much as I could, I was hoping he would notice. "Buizel, do you want me to read? I'm trying to understand what having a good bond with your Pokémon means." Perfect, he understood what I meant. "Is there something about that in the journal?" I nodded with more excitement, Adam put me on top of the bed and he continued reading the journal. I grabbed a loose sheet of paper that dropped from the journal, I also quickly picked up the pen without Adam noticing.

  As Adam read on, I attempted to write as clearly as I could, I really needed Adam to realize I'm Kevin, its all part of the plan. Now that I think about it, this struggle that I feel for not being able to communicate with Adam reminds me of Buizel wanting to talk to me. As I imagined the situation, I felt like my own Buizel for a moment, how could I possibly let my trainer know what I want to tell him? And then an even brighter idea snapped, I knew exactly what to write.

  "He was very happy with Buizel, and so successful." Adam spoke with a lot of regret in his voice, "I shouldn't have bullied him, I thought that if I was tough like the people who bothered me at school made me believe that I was going to be tough." I patted his back, hopefully to make him feel better. It is all fine really, I already forgave him. I went back to quickly write out what I need to say. "I'm sorry Buizel; I just feel that I need to do a grand favor for him. I never had the chance to properly say sorry, I did at the cafe but," There is one very big favor I'll be asking from you Adam, just wait until you see. "I don't think I have done anything for him." As soon as I wrote down what I wanted to say first, I picked another paper and began writing the other message on it. "I'm sorry Buizel, but if I could turn time around and prevent myself for harming your friend, I would." I'm glad to hear such words from him, but I didn't want him to be so full of regret, he went back to reading the journal as I focused on finishing writing.

  Adam stopped reading and spoke to himself. "Grace has always been with me, no matter what." He smiled, I'm sure he learned a lot from reading my journal. "I just have to listen to my Pokémon, to know what they want." Ironic, as I've always wanted to listen to my Buizel, but yet I always felt like I understood him. Adam looked at me, I had been paying close attention to what section he was reading at, it was about time to let him know the truth.

  Adam patted me, just like one would do a Pokémon. "Don't you miss your trainer little Buizel?" I looked for the first page to show him, the more important one. Adam was completely taken by surprise. "Since when did you know how to write?" I was excited, his reaction would be priceless, but I'm more excited to what the second page has to say to him, I thought of songs and melodies anew. I'm at least glad that my music never left me when I transformed. "Buizel stop shaking your leg, it bothers me. Lemme read this." I didn't notice that my old habits were also present with me.

  Adam read what I had written "I am Kevin", his eyes widened and he looked at me straight in the eye. "This is impossible!" he exclaimed as he stood up, I shook my head at him, old habits die hard so I shook my leg thinking about music once more, I mimicked myself playing guitar in my arms as well. This will obviously make him realize who I really am.

  Adam kept staring at me, for a moment I had thought that time stopped, but that was just how shocked this was for him. He picked me up and looked at me horrified. "Kevin... it really is you." he couldn't remain standing on his feet and fell on his knees while still holding me. "B-but, I..." He couldn't make coherent words, I pointed back at the papers I had written down on, he quickly picked them up and read them to himself but silently.

  "Hi Adam, I guess this is what destiny brings me. And hey, I love it! It's a long story so I'll keep it short, this was a decision I made. I made sure my mother and father solved everything, and my mother is really happy with my choice too!." Adam chuckled, but continued reading. "I needed to speak to Buizel so desperately that I wanted to become a Pokémon. I know it sounds very weird, but this is what I wanted all along. I hadn't realized until now, and boy am I glad I was able to make this a reality." Adam flipped the page, he relaxed just a bit. "The only issue is, that I had no one to travel with. So I wanted you to take me back home to the shore where I met my friend. But then an idea sparked, don't read the next page PLEASE. This is something I want to see if you learned correctly, I'll tell you what you must do before I make the biggest decision I'll ever make." Adam was still confused at everything, but he read out my request. "Show me that you understand Pokémon, and make George understand why Lucario loves his trainer so much. Then I'll tell you what I want you to do for me."

  Adam was still speechless, but by how much he was saying that he felt like doing something for me, I knew he couldn't ignore this request, as soon as he opened the door George was cheering.

  "Adam! Great news! Kevin's mother called, she says that Kevin contacted her and that he is doing fine." I hid behind the door to hear everything, I wanted him to solve the issue.

  "Apparently she also said that Kevin wants you to take his Pokémon with you," Cedric was saying, "He says that he'll let you know where to take them. I still can't believe Kevin trusts you so much..."

  "Um, that's fantastic!" Adam said as he hesitated, I'm sure he has no idea how to even respond. "Where is Buizel?" I'm sure he wanted to be certain that I was Kevin.

  Buizel spoke from across the room, George chuckled. "Buizel has been very excited with the news," George said, "Adam, why do you look so worried?"

  "Worried? I'm not worried at all! It's just that..." Adam was still uneasy. "I was thinking and... You've been bothering Cedric way too much George."

  "I haven't been bothering him that much, I'm just joking..." Joking a bit too much honestly.

  "The only problem is that you don't understand why Lucario loves her trainer so much, it’s not romantic or anything I'm sure." Adam explained.

  "It's true," Said Cedric, "Kyla is just very worried of me." I already knew the reason why Kyla hugged Cedric so much, I just wanted to see if Adam noticed, then I could make a very important choice.

  "Then why is it that she hugs you and even kisses you the whole time?" George asked.

  "Isn't it obvious?" Adam asked, "She is overprotective." As Adam said this, George seemed to understand a bit.

  "True as well, when I just recently had Kyla as a Pokémon, I had a terrible accident and went to the hospital. I don't remember much on my days at the hospital, but my mom visited me every day. The one that stood there the whole time was my Lucario, every time my mother visited me she gave me a hug and a kiss." Cedric was explaining.

  "I think I get it now," Adam said. "When Kyla saw your mother caring in such a way for you, Kyla wanted to do the same, I'm certain she didn't want you to feel alone and then that affection stuck to her to this day." He was quick at noticing, and I was glad, he really started to understand Pokémon.

  I peeked through the door slightly, I saw Cedric and Kyla hugging together, George apologizing for his reckless mockery and Adam returning to the room. "I'm going to get Kevin's stuff, I'll be right back." Adam said as he closed the door behind him. I looked at Adam and smiled at him. "Did I do the right thing?" I nodded at him, I went to fetch the other paper that had my proposition, Adam read it to himself softly like last time.

  "I'm glad that you are able to understand Pokémon now, see how easy it was?" Adam chuckled. "I promised you that I was going to take you to see Kalos, and that is exactly what we should do." Adam looked at me strangely, I'm sure he wondered how we were going to do this. "There is a very expensive necklace inside this bag, it will make enough money for us to travel together!" Alan shook his head, "but how are we going to travel together? You are a Pokémon now!" I pointed at the paper, Adam kept reading, as he did so I got up and went to pick up something inside my guitar bag. "I might not be able to travel with you as a friend now that I am a Pokémon, but if you promise to let me and my friends stick around we can travel together in a different way." Adam turned the paper to see if there was more, but I hadn't had enough time to write out too much. "Kevin, what are you talking about?" I came back and set down a pokeball between me and Adam.

  Adam looked at me, the pokeball and then shook his head in disbelief. "No, I can't do something like that! I can't capture you! You are a human!" Adam said aloud, I rushed towards him and gestured him to be silent, none else should know I'm a Pokémon. "Kevin this is ridiculous, I can't capture you." I was a bit disappointed but I could understand, it is not something easy to accept. But I had to make it clear that I didn't want it any other way. I picked a piece of paper and wrote as quickly as I could to respond, it took a while but I managed to get the hang of writing at this point. Adam picked the page up and read it.

  "What's the matter Adam? I thought you wanted to capture a Buizel in the past!" Adam crumbled the paper and tossed it to the side. "This is not the same Kevin! I'm not going to capture a human being!" Adam refused to use the pokeball to capture me. I decided to tap the pokeball until it opened to capture me, I wasn't successful, I sat down at the pokeball quite sad. I had even tried to pick it up and throw it on top of me, but I couldn't manage that either.

  "You really want this to happen, huh." Adam said as he thought to himself but then snapped again, "I can't have you as my Pokémon Kevin." I wrote one last thing on the paper that he had crumbled. Adam picked it up.

  "You wanted to do a favor for me, this is a favor I need. Let me be your Pokémon, I don't want to get captured by some random trainer by accident." As Adam read this he sighed, "I can't believe I'm even considering this..." Adam picked up the pokeball and looked at me, "this is so weird. Are you positive you want this?" I nodded quickly, I was getting ready to have the pokeball thrown at me. I closed my eyes in excitement.

  I felt the pokeball tap my head, I saw it open up and my vision went red, just like when I got trapped in the pokeball with Buizel the first time.

  Darkness surrounded me, but I felt really calm, almost as if this darkness was very soothing to me. I could see a bright light. I guess this is what Pokémon see when they are captured, I could run to the light but what if that made me resist the capturing process of the pokeball? I stayed in the darkness, I saw the light quickly fade away, getting ever so weaker. As the light faded I accepted the fact that I was now a Pokémon even more than I did before.

  The light was now gone, now Adam was my trainer and I was his Pokémon. I saw the light grow and shine very brightly throughout the darkness. As soon as the light enveloped the blackness I was greeted back into the room with Adam looking at me, he was unsure of the entire situation. "So I guess you are my Pokémon now, huh?" I nodded at him, Adam picked me from the ground and looked at me. "Geez, this is SO weird."

  The door was opened by George, he saw the both of us. "Oh hey Adam! I didn't know you owned a Buizel too!" Adam was shocked, "I remember you wanted a Buizel as well, I guess you finally got one huh."

  "Uh, I guess I do!" As Adam said this I saw Buizel looking at me from across the room, I leapt down and hugged him.

  "Wow! Kevin's Buizel and your go along very well!" George said as he saw us hugging. "Did your Buizel and Kevin's meet at the cafe when you spoke to him?"

  "Uhhh, of course they did! They are like best friends too!" Adam looked around, searching for someone. "Where is the doctor and his Lucario?"

  "They left already although I did end up apologizing to him. Oh, and you should go too! You gotta take his Pokémon with him." Adam was going to say something but George dashed in the room and picked my stuff up, he packed it in the bag and handed it to Adam. "I won't make you lose any more time."

  George had bid Adam farewell, and he closed the door. Adam looked at all of us, me, my friend, Cain and Marcus. "Well, I never expected to have four extra Pokémon in one day... Now what?" Adam snapped his fingers, "ah yes, we go to Kalos!" All of my Pokémon were impressed but also very enthusiastic. "So I guess this is how it is now, huh Kevin?" I looked at Adam and tilted my head. "How do you feel Kevin?" I tilted my head the other way. "Don't pretend you have no idea what I'm talking about! I laughed, I smiled back at him. "You do seem very happy, but did you really want me to be your trainer? It's so weird though!" Adam said as he smiled a bit, I think he was getting used to the idea. "You do look better as a Buizel anyway." We both laughed, I spoke to him saying that he was very funny, but I covered my mouth with my paws realizing once again that I couldn't speak human. "Wow, you speak as a Pokémon too! That's cool!"

  We headed out towards the boat that would take us to Kalos, I had made a promise to Adam to take him to Kalos and to teach him how to get along with Pokémon, what better way to do this than being a Pokémon myself. Although one thing I really hoped for, was to speak to my best friend, I feel that the time is about to come and I can hardly wait.

To be continued…

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Adam now has grown to understand pokemon a bit better! How will this affect Kevin's adventure? What is Kevin's plan precisely?

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Kevin and Buizel (Second edition)

Chapter 12: Understanding

  I looked at myself in my new form, reminding myself of the decision I have made. I had been so recent, but it does feel unbelievable as I feel that I'm going to wake up at any moment. I couldn't quite understand Pokémon yet, but what kept me most excited, was to be able to listen to my friend for the first time ever.

  Me, Buizel and my other Pokémon actually played together before going to where I had told Mathias to take me earlier. We chased around, played what I assumed was hide and seek, or maybe it wasn't, but it was overall fun! What mattered is that I was started to feel like I belonged as a Pokémon already, it reassured me that I was correct in my decision.

  Mathias joined in the fun and had quickly caught up to me when we were all just chasing each other. He was not in his Pokémon form however, he picked me up and looked at me.

  "I bet you are having fun," Mathias smiled, "most of the other trainers who have asked for the temporal side of this spell had already got bored at this point. I must say, that even I feel that you made the correct choice." This was reassuring to hear, I thanked him, I was still unable to understand myself but some things of the Pokémon language were starting to grow clear to me.

  Mathias put me down and called Cain to help him with something, he had put on the backpack on him and pulled out the guitar. "I hope you don't mind Kevin, but you can't quite play your original guitar anymore," Mathias reached for his wand, waved it left and right to where he made a small guitar pop out of thin air. "This size is more suitable for you, now you can still play music!" I looked at the guitar as soon as he handled it to me, the size was absolutely perfect for my new body, I hadn't even considered the fact that I wouldn't be able to play my guitar when I transformed, I was lucky that Mathias looked at the issue already. I quickly gave it a strum, and it sounded beautiful, the only problem was that holding down the notes as I used to was not more difficult, I did have paws now after all.

  Mathias had everything ready for us, the guitar bag was packed with all my stuff and the small guitar as well. "So the plan is to meet up with Adam, correct?" Mathias asked me, I had nodded. "There is one thing to remember though, he can't know that there are two Buizel's, it would be suspicious." He was right, I asked Mathias what we could do in that case, Mathias wondered for a bit and then snapped his fingers. "I know!" Mathias quickly picked me up and put me inside the guitar bag. "You can hide in the guitar bag!"

  It wasn't such a bad idea, maybe a bit cramped but it will work. I didn't want Adam or George to throw me out of the house or anything just because there was another Buizel. Mathias had the guitar bag open for me so that I wouldn't suffocate inside, I never thought I was going to be put inside my own guitar bag in the past, this was a bit weird, but I kinda liked it! It was cool being hidden in such a spot.

  "Alright Kevin, I'm going to take you all as close as I can to this... Adam guy, is this fine?" I nodded as he asked, "alright, me and Kaiser have to head out soon, so let's make this quick!" Mathias closed the bag slightly, it did feel cramped being inside a guitar bag but I really enjoyed it, cramped but a good place to actually rest for a while. I closed my eyes as I thought of me and my dear friend, I just pondered to myself what was so important that he had to tell me, I could've just listened to Mathias, but I needed to hear it from him, I didn't know why but somehow Buizel wanted the same as well.

  I closed my eyes and I let the swaying motions of being inside a bag set my mind well off to sleep, hopefully to dream a bit about what Buizel might say to me.

  ...

  I saw myself on the shore sitting right beside my best friend in the same spot we always spend time together. This was indeed an old memory of mine.

  "Do you want to be my friend too?" I asked as I sat right beside my friend. I remember Buizel was very happy when hearing this, he leapt to my arms and hugged me with such joy.

  "Yes! I want to be your best friend too! You are family to me!" Buizel had said, I had only heard him as a Pokémon speak, but I somehow knew exactly every single thing he said.

  Then I had just played music, but the music I played somehow spoke to me as well. "Where am I, where is my mind?" The guitar played but I felt that it was Buizel who was speaking to me instead, I turned around as the entirety of the world faded to black and it was only me and my Buizel, both as a Pokémon. "There is something I've always wanted to ask you Kevin," I listened carefully but I realized it was my own voice, I responded regardless. "Why have you given so much to Buizel?"

  "Well it's obvious, he is my best friend." I spoke to myself back and forth and the voices just surrounded my head, my form vanished and everything was obscured by my thoughts.

  "I think it's because he is family, not because he is a friend."

  "Family?"

  "Of course! Aren't we both Buizels now?"

  "It's like we were indeed!"

  "I should let Buizel know that we will be together till the end!"

  "Like best friends that stay together forever!"

  "But what does he need to tell me?"

  "What if he says that he doesn't want to be my friend?"

  "Don't be ridiculous! Buizel has given a lot for me as well!"

  "Like when he defended me from Adam's Pokémon!"

  "Or when he helped me compose!"

  "Or when we stayed together in that rainy night!"

  "Yeah! I can't wait to know what he will say!"

  "I should practice being a Pokémon way more!"

  Then all of the voices spoke in unison. "Hello, this is George."

  ...

  I woke up from inside the guitar bag, I peeked outside and we were in the Pokémon center. I couldn't see much, I could just hear George's voice that had woke me up. Lucario noticed that I was trying to see I guess, he turned a bit to let me see.

  I could see a young trainer with black hair, it was Adam on the phone!

  "You are Kevin's manager correct?" Adam asked calmly, I was nervous but also surprised.

  "Yes! I'm his manager!" George said from the other side.

  "I found Kevin's Pokémon and I want to go over there right now!" Cain quickly moved closer to the phone, I quickly hid in the bag.

  "Nice! What about Kevin?" George had asked.

  "Oh no, he is still missing?" Adam asked sadly, he seemed disappointed that I wasn't around. "I was hoping for Kevin to have already appeared, I really need to talk to him." Huh, I've heard that before.

  "No... There are still no clues of him." George said.

  "It's strange because the Pokémon here are looking very happy with me right now... anyways, I'm going down there to give you all the Pokémon, could I have the address?" Adam asked, George quickly gave him the address and said his goodbyes. "Well team! I don't know where Kevin is, but I can sure take you to one of his friend's house!

  The Pokémon cheered and I felt that we were walking towards George's place. I didn't want to peek outside of the guitar bag because I really didn't want to get caught inside. I just awaited till we arrived to George's place.

  Despite being inside the guitar back, I could clearly hear knocking on a door. I could hear the footsteps of all the Pokémon entering the house, Lucario had set the bag down and checked if I was okay, I nodded at him. I looked outside from the guitar bag carefully. I could see Adam and George at the door talking to each other. George looked happy "Young trainer, thank you so much for your help."Adam just smiled.

"It is my pleasure George!" Adam shook hands with George. I'm glad to see that he is as friendly as he was with me.

"How do you know my name? Do I know you?" George asked Adam.

"You don't remember me? I caused a huge incident years ago. It's me, Adam!" Adam said quite enthusiastically.

"That's Adam?!" Cedric said from afar, his Lucario woke from the scream, she stood up and got defensive towards Adam, she was ready to attack him, all my Pokémon urged Kyla otherwise. After that, Cedric's Lucario hugged him as he was sitting on the couch. "Wasn't he the bad trainer who almost basically stole Kevin's friend?" Adam stepped in and talked to Cedric.

"I've changed in the years, I was completely wrong in the past, and I regret it deeply." The same thing that he had said to me, I hoped that Adam would realize sooner that I had already forgiven him. Adam stared at Cedric and his Lucario hugging together. "Sometimes I wish I had such a connection with my Pokémon, I don't know how Kevin and his Buizel are so connected. You and your Lucario seem very close, I wish I was able to be close with mine at all." Adam said as he sat down the table, I'd more than like to be able to teach him how simple it is to just understand your Pokémon. "If I never talk to him, I fear that I might never know how to treat Pokémon better." Adam looked at George, he just stared at him. "You don't mind if I stay and talk for a while, do you?"

George and Adam spoke of very small things from the past, George sat down in front of him as he was preparing some coffee for the both of them. "So how did you find the Pokémon?" George asked.

"They just ran towards me, they basically found me. It was honestly odd; I thought Kevin's Pokémon would be scared of me." I'm glad I told my Pokémon that Adam wasn't a bad person at all.

Cedric seemed interested in the conversation, he wanted to sit down with them, but Kyla had fallen asleep as she hugged him, he patted her head and spoke from where he was. "After the incident and that poor Pikachu? Anyone would be scared of you."

Adam looked at Cedric puzzled, "to Pikachu? If you are talking about the cuts, it's because I rescued him from kids that didn't really know what they were doing. I tried raising him myself, but he was always so frightened, that's why I gave the Pokémon to Kevin, because I knew he could make Pikachu happy again." Adam said, I'm glad he made that choice, Marcus is a very happy Pikachu nowadays, "I was glad to see my Pikachu again; it gave me certainty that I made the right choice." George seemed to remember then.

"So that's why you gave me the poke ball," George said, he stared at Adam concerned, "you look tired Adam, drink some coffee." Adam was staring at his coffee, I could easily tell he was depressed.

"The last time I saw him was at the Sunnyshore cafe, I had talked to him after all these years, and then I battled those thieves. After that he was nowhere to be seen. If only I hadn't forgotten to ask him about how one can be friends with their Pokémon..." He was in luck, I was going to make sure that was a possibility.

George grabbed the journal, "Kevin's diary might help if you are interested." George opened it up and slid it towards Adam, How much have they been meddling around with my journal anyway? "He talks on and about how he cares about his Pokémon dearly and how he has befriended them." Adam picked the journal up quickly, he seemed excited.

Cedric tried to get up, but his Pokémon was still holding him down, he protested from where he was "are you sure he should read it George?" I could tell George didn't really mind.

"Adam is different, I mean the Pokémon trust him." George might not understand Pokémon, but he does have a good grasp on good and bad people. "If he really needs to know about something he was going to ask him, he might find it in the journal." George looked at Adam and smiled at him, "I'll trust anyone who is able to find Kevin's best friend and bring him home safely."

  Adam looked happy and proud in that moment, hopefully it will make him realize that everything is forgiven at this point, he looked at the journal. "Thank you so much, in which case, do you want me to read these pages aloud for you?" Adam asked George.

"We already read the other pages; you can read these on your very own, a certain chapter reminds me of the beauty and the beast over here." George looked at Cain and Kyla, I'm sure George was mentioning the chapter where me and Buizel hugged in the very cold night.

  Cedric responded to George's mockery. "Kyla is no beast."

"Nah man, you are the beast." George said as he got up from the table and picked up Adam's empty cup, I wish George wasn't so mean towards the doctor, I'm sure there was a reason him and Lucario were so close, much like me and Buizel are very best friends. "Adam, you can go to my bedroom and read there, chapters start getting very poetic." As George said this Adam turned around and looked my way, I quickly hid inside the backpack, I felt as he lifted the guitar bag to carry it to the room. "Oh before you go, I need an opinion on something." Oh dear, George please stop. "Vanilla or chocolate for their wedding cake?" George laughed at his joke, I can't believe he was being so mean to someone he probably just met, maybe he was incredibly nervous.

"We are not a couple and we are not getting married!" Cedric yelled at him.

"We should ask Kyla then. How would you like a wedding cake with Cedric?" This was already getting out of hand, I was hoping Adam would intervene somehow.

"Darn it George! We are not getting married! It's not even a thing that can happen!" Cedric said as he raised his voice.

"I don't think your Pokémon agrees." Okay, at that point I would've made George realize how inconsiderate he was being. I felt Adam heading away from the discussion, I really wished he had stood up to them.

  I felt as Adam dropped the backpack and the creak of the bed. He obviously got to reading the journal. I had to get ready to execute the plan I had, I needed to let Adam know that I was in fact Kevin. Before I came here I had asked Mathias to lend me some paper so that I could practice writing as a Pokémon, after a few tries I was able to write coherent words.

  I checked my things inside the backpack and I looked for the pencil I used for my journal. I felt the guitar being moved once again, the backpack opened and I felt that Adam was looking for something. "Let's see if that guide is around here somewhere, maybe I can find more information."I peeked out of the bag and stared at Adam, he was surprised to see me. "Hey Buizel, what are you doing in there?" Adam picked me up as he looked at me, despite the fact that I didn't like being moved all around, I was getting used to it by now. "That is not a good place for small Pokémon like you." I stretched my hand to say hi to him, but as I looked at my paws I was reminded that I was a Buizel now, I was still excited about it as well.

  If Adam wanted to know how to understand Pokémon he should definitely read my journal, specially the chapter where I hug Buizel. I pointed at the journal as much as I could, I was hoping he would notice. "Buizel, do you want me to read? I'm trying to understand what having a good bond with your Pokémon means." Perfect, he understood what I meant. "Is there something about that in the journal?" I nodded with more excitement, Adam put me on top of the bed and he continued reading the journal. I grabbed a loose sheet of paper that dropped from the journal, I also quickly picked up the pen without Adam noticing.

  As Adam read on, I attempted to write as clearly as I could, I really needed Adam to realize I'm Kevin, its all part of the plan. Now that I think about it, this struggle that I feel for not being able to communicate with Adam reminds me of Buizel wanting to talk to me. As I imagined the situation, I felt like my own Buizel for a moment, how could I possibly let my trainer know what I want to tell him? And then an even brighter idea snapped, I knew exactly what to write.

  "He was very happy with Buizel, and so successful." Adam spoke with a lot of regret in his voice, "I shouldn't have bullied him, I thought that if I was tough like the people who bothered me at school made me believe that I was going to be tough." I patted his back, hopefully to make him feel better. It is all fine really, I already forgave him. I went back to quickly write out what I need to say. "I'm sorry Buizel; I just feel that I need to do a grand favor for him. I never had the chance to properly say sorry, I did at the cafe but," There is one very big favor I'll be asking from you Adam, just wait until you see. "I don't think I have done anything for him." As soon as I wrote down what I wanted to say first, I picked another paper and began writing the other message on it. "I'm sorry Buizel, but if I could turn time around and prevent myself for harming your friend, I would." I'm glad to hear such words from him, but I didn't want him to be so full of regret, he went back to reading the journal as I focused on finishing writing.

  Adam stopped reading and spoke to himself. "Grace has always been with me, no matter what." He smiled, I'm sure he learned a lot from reading my journal. "I just have to listen to my Pokémon, to know what they want." Ironic, as I've always wanted to listen to my Buizel, but yet I always felt like I understood him. Adam looked at me, I had been paying close attention to what section he was reading at, it was about time to let him know the truth.

  Adam patted me, just like one would do a Pokémon. "Don't you miss your trainer little Buizel?" I looked for the first page to show him, the more important one. Adam was completely taken by surprise. "Since when did you know how to write?" I was excited, his reaction would be priceless, but I'm more excited to what the second page has to say to him, I thought of songs and melodies anew. I'm at least glad that my music never left me when I transformed. "Buizel stop shaking your leg, it bothers me. Lemme read this." I didn't notice that my old habits were also present with me.

  Adam read what I had written "I am Kevin", his eyes widened and he looked at me straight in the eye. "This is impossible!" he exclaimed as he stood up, I shook my head at him, old habits die hard so I shook my leg thinking about music once more, I mimicked myself playing guitar in my arms as well. This will obviously make him realize who I really am.

  Adam kept staring at me, for a moment I had thought that time stopped, but that was just how shocked this was for him. He picked me up and looked at me horrified. "Kevin... it really is you." he couldn't remain standing on his feet and fell on his knees while still holding me. "B-but, I..." He couldn't make coherent words, I pointed back at the papers I had written down on, he quickly picked them up and read them to himself but silently.

  "Hi Adam, I guess this is what destiny brings me. And hey, I love it! It's a long story so I'll keep it short, this was a decision I made. I made sure my mother and father solved everything, and my mother is really happy with my choice too!." Adam chuckled, but continued reading. "I needed to speak to Buizel so desperately that I wanted to become a Pokémon. I know it sounds very weird, but this is what I wanted all along. I hadn't realized until now, and boy am I glad I was able to make this a reality." Adam flipped the page, he relaxed just a bit. "The only issue is, that I had no one to travel with. So I wanted you to take me back home to the shore where I met my friend. But then an idea sparked, don't read the next page PLEASE. This is something I want to see if you learned correctly, I'll tell you what you must do before I make the biggest decision I'll ever make." Adam was still confused at everything, but he read out my request. "Show me that you understand Pokémon, and make George understand why Lucario loves his trainer so much. Then I'll tell you what I want you to do for me."

  Adam was still speechless, but by how much he was saying that he felt like doing something for me, I knew he couldn't ignore this request, as soon as he opened the door George was cheering.

  "Adam! Great news! Kevin's mother called, she says that Kevin contacted her and that he is doing fine." I hid behind the door to hear everything, I wanted him to solve the issue.

  "Apparently she also said that Kevin wants you to take his Pokémon with you," Cedric was saying, "He says that he'll let you know where to take them. I still can't believe Kevin trusts you so much..."

  "Um, that's fantastic!" Adam said as he hesitated, I'm sure he has no idea how to even respond. "Where is Buizel?" I'm sure he wanted to be certain that I was Kevin.

  Buizel spoke from across the room, George chuckled. "Buizel has been very excited with the news," George said, "Adam, why do you look so worried?"

  "Worried? I'm not worried at all! It's just that..." Adam was still uneasy. "I was thinking and... You've been bothering Cedric way too much George."

  "I haven't been bothering him that much, I'm just joking..." Joking a bit too much honestly.

  "The only problem is that you don't understand why Lucario loves her trainer so much, it’s not romantic or anything I'm sure." Adam explained.

  "It's true," Said Cedric, "Kyla is just very worried of me." I already knew the reason why Kyla hugged Cedric so much, I just wanted to see if Adam noticed, then I could make a very important choice.

  "Then why is it that she hugs you and even kisses you the whole time?" George asked.

  "Isn't it obvious?" Adam asked, "She is overprotective." As Adam said this, George seemed to understand a bit.

  "True as well, when I just recently had Kyla as a Pokémon, I had a terrible accident and went to the hospital. I don't remember much on my days at the hospital, but my mom visited me every day. The one that stood there the whole time was my Lucario, every time my mother visited me she gave me a hug and a kiss." Cedric was explaining.

  "I think I get it now," Adam said. "When Kyla saw your mother caring in such a way for you, Kyla wanted to do the same, I'm certain she didn't want you to feel alone and then that affection stuck to her to this day." He was quick at noticing, and I was glad, he really started to understand Pokémon.

  I peeked through the door slightly, I saw Cedric and Kyla hugging together, George apologizing for his reckless mockery and Adam returning to the room. "I'm going to get Kevin's stuff, I'll be right back." Adam said as he closed the door behind him. I looked at Adam and smiled at him. "Did I do the right thing?" I nodded at him, I went to fetch the other paper that had my proposition, Adam read it to himself softly like last time.

  "I'm glad that you are able to understand Pokémon now, see how easy it was?" Adam chuckled. "I promised you that I was going to take you to see Kalos, and that is exactly what we should do." Adam looked at me strangely, I'm sure he wondered how we were going to do this. "There is a very expensive necklace inside this bag, it will make enough money for us to travel together!" Alan shook his head, "but how are we going to travel together? You are a Pokémon now!" I pointed at the paper, Adam kept reading, as he did so I got up and went to pick up something inside my guitar bag. "I might not be able to travel with you as a friend now that I am a Pokémon, but if you promise to let me and my friends stick around we can travel together in a different way." Adam turned the paper to see if there was more, but I hadn't had enough time to write out too much. "Kevin, what are you talking about?" I came back and set down a pokeball between me and Adam.

  Adam looked at me, the pokeball and then shook his head in disbelief. "No, I can't do something like that! I can't capture you! You are a human!" Adam said aloud, I rushed towards him and gestured him to be silent, none else should know I'm a Pokémon. "Kevin this is ridiculous, I can't capture you." I was a bit disappointed but I could understand, it is not something easy to accept. But I had to make it clear that I didn't want it any other way. I picked a piece of paper and wrote as quickly as I could to respond, it took a while but I managed to get the hang of writing at this point. Adam picked the page up and read it.

  "What's the matter Adam? I thought you wanted to capture a Buizel in the past!" Adam crumbled the paper and tossed it to the side. "This is not the same Kevin! I'm not going to capture a human being!" Adam refused to use the pokeball to capture me. I decided to tap the pokeball until it opened to capture me, I wasn't successful, I sat down at the pokeball quite sad. I had even tried to pick it up and throw it on top of me, but I couldn't manage that either.

  "You really want this to happen, huh." Adam said as he thought to himself but then snapped again, "I can't have you as my Pokémon Kevin." I wrote one last thing on the paper that he had crumbled. Adam picked it up.

  "You wanted to do a favor for me, this is a favor I need. Let me be your Pokémon, I don't want to get captured by some random trainer by accident." As Adam read this he sighed, "I can't believe I'm even considering this..." Adam picked up the pokeball and looked at me, "this is so weird. Are you positive you want this?" I nodded quickly, I was getting ready to have the pokeball thrown at me. I closed my eyes in excitement.

  I felt the pokeball tap my head, I saw it open up and my vision went red, just like when I got trapped in the pokeball with Buizel the first time.

  Darkness surrounded me, but I felt really calm, almost as if this darkness was very soothing to me. I could see a bright light. I guess this is what Pokémon see when they are captured, I could run to the light but what if that made me resist the capturing process of the pokeball? I stayed in the darkness, I saw the light quickly fade away, getting ever so weaker. As the light faded I accepted the fact that I was now a Pokémon even more than I did before.

  The light was now gone, now Adam was my trainer and I was his Pokémon. I saw the light grow and shine very brightly throughout the darkness. As soon as the light enveloped the blackness I was greeted back into the room with Adam looking at me, he was unsure of the entire situation. "So I guess you are my Pokémon now, huh?" I nodded at him, Adam picked me from the ground and looked at me. "Geez, this is SO weird."

  The door was opened by George, he saw the both of us. "Oh hey Adam! I didn't know you owned a Buizel too!" Adam was shocked, "I remember you wanted a Buizel as well, I guess you finally got one huh."

  "Uh, I guess I do!" As Adam said this I saw Buizel looking at me from across the room, I leapt down and hugged him.

  "Wow! Kevin's Buizel and your go along very well!" George said as he saw us hugging. "Did your Buizel and Kevin's meet at the cafe when you spoke to him?"

  "Uhhh, of course they did! They are like best friends too!" Adam looked around, searching for someone. "Where is the doctor and his Lucario?"

  "They left already although I did end up apologizing to him. Oh, and you should go too! You gotta take his Pokémon with him." Adam was going to say something but George dashed in the room and picked my stuff up, he packed it in the bag and handed it to Adam. "I won't make you lose any more time."

  George had bid Adam farewell, and he closed the door. Adam looked at all of us, me, my friend, Cain and Marcus. "Well, I never expected to have four extra Pokémon in one day... Now what?" Adam snapped his fingers, "ah yes, we go to Kalos!" All of my Pokémon were impressed but also very enthusiastic. "So I guess this is how it is now, huh Kevin?" I looked at Adam and tilted my head. "How do you feel Kevin?" I tilted my head the other way. "Don't pretend you have no idea what I'm talking about! I laughed, I smiled back at him. "You do seem very happy, but did you really want me to be your trainer? It's so weird though!" Adam said as he smiled a bit, I think he was getting used to the idea. "You do look better as a Buizel anyway." We both laughed, I spoke to him saying that he was very funny, but I covered my mouth with my paws realizing once again that I couldn't speak human. "Wow, you speak as a Pokémon too! That's cool!"

  We headed out towards the boat that would take us to Kalos, I had made a promise to Adam to take him to Kalos and to teach him how to get along with Pokémon, what better way to do this than being a Pokémon myself. Although one thing I really hoped for, was to speak to my best friend, I feel that the time is about to come and I can hardly wait.

To be continued…

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Adam now has grown to understand pokemon a bit better! How will this affect Kevin's adventure? What is Kevin's plan precisely?