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Journey to Another World 5

Ch. 9

"DONOVIN!" Both Rena and Jenavee yelled as they quickly stood up in the stands, only to be hit by a wave of nausea which made them quickly sit back down, with their hands/paws over their mouths to try and hold down what they'd last eaten. They'd been watching the whole thing and were quite pleased with their trainer/mates tactics. Silently, they both cheered as they continued to out-smart the opponents that they came up against, so it stood to reason that they both were watching the gym leaders battle with great interest as well.

When the final battle had begun with Kit vs. the Quagsire, Jenavee and Rena were practically at the edge of their seats, watching every twitch/movement that either Kit or the Quagsire make. So when Donovin had shown the shock and then quickly change to fear on his face from the last set of attacks from Kit, they both saw it. It was Jenavee who'd been quick to poke into their trainers mind and realize what was causing him to become so distraught. She quickly whispered the realization that she got from his mind and they both went wide eyed when he'd dove into the pool to save the slowly boiling Quagsire.

Jenavee couldn't believe it. Donovin had just committed suicide to rescue a Pokemon that refused to exit the water, who probably knew all to well that the water temperature had come from cool, to killingly hot in just s short period of time. She quickly looked towards the gym leader and just watched for a moment as he just stood there. 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING. YOUR POKEMON AND OUR TRAINER ARE BEING BOILED ALIVE IN THERE. HELP THEM YOU FOOL!' Jenavee mentally screamed at Wake.

Just then, it looked like somebody had just slapped him across the face as he quickly jumped into action. A few moments later, three large tubs were brought over and quickly filled with water by three different Pokemon. With that done, Wake called out some more orders and the water in the Pool quickly began to be drained. When half the water was drained, Donovin was reveled holding the unconscious Pokemon, standing on the pools bottom. He slowly looked up with his blood red skin and threw the Pokemon that lay in his arms up to Wake.

Wake didn't say a word as he quickly caught the Pokemon out of the air and quickly turned to toss it into the nearest tub (which was the one that was slightly warmer water than the rest). He paid no mind to their trainer who just stood there in the rapidly descending water.

'I just hope that that Quagsire is going to be ok.' Jenavee heard him mentally think, as she saw a smile slowly appear on his face. He slowly closed his eyes and then seemed to fall backwards in slow motion. Quickly reaching out, she used her psychic abilities to catch him just before he landed on his back, then softly/slowly lowered him to the floor, because a person his size would have probably broken something falling from that height. Using her psychic abilities again she lifted herself up from her seat and sailed over to her trainer/mate.

Just like the time that she'd seen him in the shower and utterly embarrassed him when he realized he was naked in front of her, much of his skin was a harsh shade of red. The only true differences this time was the fact that much of his body was covered in what looked to be bubbles under his skin, and that the red color seemed to not stop at just his face. She guessed that the redness probably spread across his entire body, as well as the nasty looking bubbles. "You fool. Do you realized that you nearly committed your self to the afterlife." She said as anger, fear, sadness, and several other emotions played across her face. Tears started to form in her eyes as she continued to lash out at him. "All this, just to save one foolish Pokemon, who does not know when to get out of the how water." She saw him slowly turn to look over at her, gave her a smirk, and motioned for her to come closer. She knelt down and slowly leaned in as he was probably in to much pain to speak loud enough for her to hear.

"It's just who I am." He simply said as his voice grew strained and he tensed up with pain. 'Damn. Second degree burns are no fun, and are probably covering over a lot of my body. I'm probably going to be out of it for some time, this time.' She heard him think.

Just then their came a whimper and She looked up to see that Kit was laying down on the edge of the upper platform above. She saw that the fox was greatly worried, and wanted to know if he was alright. Just then, Jenavee was hit with the realization that if Kit hadn't done what she did, that Donovin wouldn't be in the situation that he currently was in. She was about to jump to her feet and attack the damn fox, when a paw held her down.

" You know as well as I, that this is not Kit's fault. So do not go lashing out at her, no matter how much you want to blame her for this." Rena said as Jenavee looked up the paw and saw her with a look of sadness across her muzzle. " Donovin did this to himself..." Rena took her paw off her shoulder and knelt down next to Donovin to brush a stray strand of hair off his face. " All to save someone he barely knows. But you are right, he is a fool, but then again, he is our fool."

This got her to smirk as she turned to look over her trainer. 'Um guys.' Donovin said mentally. 'As much as this cold floor feels nice to my skin. I'd really appreciate it if you could get me some help.'

How little did the two expecting mothers know that the over reacting had caused some interesting/rushed side effects of their pregnancies.

(two days later)

"How in gods name do I keep getting myself into a hospital bed." I said to myself as I lay back in the bed and took a long sigh, only to curse under my breath as my wounds stung from moving around.

"Well you only really have yourself to blame Donovin." Undine said from across the room. "After all. You did know that that water was super hot, but you still did not care as long as you got to Wake's Quagsire." 'Which was stupid enough not to realize that it was slowly being cooked alive in that water.' Undine finished saying the last part under her breath.

I slowly opened my eyes after the stinging sensation lessened to a bearable degree. I really didn't need to know what the walls or the room looked like, as all the hospital rooms for the Pokemon center looked pretty much the same (white walls, one window that had it's curtains open to allow light into the room, and a bathroom near the front door). Undine was laying her head down on the foot of the bed, so that she could keep an eye on me (Per both Jenavee and Rena's orders which Undine didn't mind), Samantha was currently under the bed as she didn't like the sunlight that was coming in from the window and had found the darkest part of the room which happened to be right under there, but Kit was laying in the corner with her paws over her muzzle and a look of shame over her face.

I took another long sigh and slowly shifted around so that I was in a more comfortable position that wouldn't cause my wounds to act up. Once I was settled I looked over at Kit and grunted. "Darn it Kit, would you stop beating yourself up over this." I said as her eyes slowly rose to look up at me. "None of this was your fault." I told her as I looked to Undine and chuckled. "Like Undine said. This was my fault. I was the dumb one who decided to jump into a pool full of scolding hot water to save Wake's Pokemon." She slowly took her paws off her muzzle and slowly wined at me.

"Now there is something you do not hear every day." Undine said as she smirked at me. "Somebody actually calling themselves dumb for something that they themselves did. Somebody grab a pen and paper. I have to write this day down." With that, everybody in the room broke out into laughter and the gloom in the room seemed to lighten up a bit.

I lay back against the bed for a bit longer until I noticed that two members of our family were missing (Though it should have been three but I know knew that Samantha was hiding under the bed, as I'd heard her laughter earlier. 'Thank you damn headache.'). 'They can't be in the bathroom,' I thought. 'It's to small in their for two people, let alone the size of the everything else in the room.' "Say guys," I said as each of them stopped laughing and Undine wiped a few watery tears out of her eyes, "Where is Jenavee and Rena? I don't see them around."

Both Kit and Undine looked at each other then gave each other a smile, before turning back to me. "There in another room at the moment," Undine turned and muttered something under her breath, (the lucky buggers) "So you should not have to worry to much about them."

I gave her a quizzical look and looked down to Kit who was now sitting on her haunches and pointing towards the wall on the opposite side of my bed. She let out a few barks, but the meaning was a little lost due to the language barrier. I simply gave her a confused look and shrugged my shoulders she dropped her head and shook it.

"I'm sorry Kit. Without Jenavee or Rena here, I can't really understand you." I turned to Undine and nodded to her. "Could you tell me what she just said Undine?"

Undine turned and nodded to Kit, who promptly repeated what she'd just said/barked and pointed towards the wall again though this time there was a lot more said to Undine which sort of confused me a little. Once Undine had gotten all that she'd said she nodded to her again. "Alright," Undine turned back to face me, "She says that Rena and Jenavee are in the adjacent room next to ours."

I was about to question her further but stopped when by back began to twinge and sting. "Well...," I said with a sigh, "At least there close by. How about you three? Are the three of you doing ok after our battle with Wake?" To which both Kit and Undine nodded. "What about you Samantha? Are you doing okay?" I asked but wasn't expecting what came next.

The shutters to the window were drawn by and invisible form as something grabbed the upper portion of the shades, then pulled them together. Once that was done the room's only light, which was coming from the overhead florescent bulbs, were instantly dimmed. Once the room was sufficiently darkened, did Samantha finally fade into the room over my the dimmer switch by the door. 'I guess that's why she doesn't like the light. It totally makes her see-through.' With that thought she floated over to right over the bed and gave me a quick smile.

She was about to say something but I held up a hand and she stopped before she even got started. "I know that you want to speak with me, but we need Undine to translate for you."

Samantha nodded to me and floated back to Undine and started talking with her. Once they were done, Undine nodded to her and turned to face me again, "Samantha is okay and wants to know when we are going to get back on the road." Only when she finished translating did I notice that Samantha was giving her a hard look and had her hands at her sides. Samantha said some more things to her and then gave her a huff. "To you to missy. Honestly, I do not understand how Jenavee and Rena can stand to be a translator for you all. It is such a chore." She turned to me and gave me a scowl. "Honestly. First you have me in so many battles that it will take me weeks to get my beautiful scales to shine like they used to, now you want me to play translator for the rest of these..."

Just then both Kit and Samantha said something in their native tongues and Undine jerked her head to back to them, only to laugh a moment later. "Oh really. I would love to see the two of you try that. You little..."

"THAT IS ENOUGH!" I yelled as I was now sitting bolt upright in my bed and clenching the bed's mattress with both my fists, causing my knuckles to turn white. "So help me Undine. If you start a fight in here, then so help me...I'll dump your ass in the nearest swamp!" I yelled again but quickly seized up again and fell back onto the bed with a yell of pain.

After all this commotion, the nurse came in to investigate. When she stepped into the room, she only took one look around until her eyes locked onto me and the amount of pain that was shown there. "I knew that this would be a problem," She sighed as she slowly shook her head, "And I was right. I never should have agreed to letting your other Pokemon talk me into letting these out of their balls, when you were in such a condition." The nurse who looked almost exactly like that of a nurse Joy, except that her hair color was a soft brown that was held back by a clasp. As she walked further into the room, all the girls quickly darted back to where they were before, and dropped their heads in shame.

"Why in the world are the lights so low and the curtains drawn?" She asked as she cross the room and stopped in front of my bed, expecting an answer.

"Sorry...nurse." I said as I was fighting back the pain that was finally starting to ebb. "Samantha...my Mismagius, doesn't much care for the sunlight or bright lights. So when she wanted to come out from her hiding place, she pulled the drapes and dimmed the lights." I told her as she looked around the room, only to shake her head. I just pointed under the bed and a smirk slowly spread across her face.

"Well...I guess that is ok. But I think the main thing that needs to happen right now, is that you need your rest and you can't get that if your Pokemon are so rambunctious. So I have to ask you to recall your Pokemon." This got all the girls to start voicing their opinions about that, but with a quickly turn which caused her hair to flair out, she gave the three a harsh look that would curdle milk. "No buts! Your trainer is recovering from some nasty burns and the three of you are not helping," As the girls were just as quickly quieted, the nurse walked over to the nightstand that was next to the bed and pulled out my belt which had all five Pokeballs, from the drawer and handed it to me. "Now, recall them so I can get a good look at those burns. As I'm sure that some of which have probably opened up and I'll have to treat."

After she'd handed me my belt, I pulled off Undine's ball first and quickly recalled her, but when it came to the other two I wasn't really sure. Undine was the one who was causing the other two girls to become rambunctious, so without her to start these fights... The question was quickly answered as Samantha came out from under the bed and nodded to me. 'She probably thinks it would be better to go back into the ball since it's a lot lighter out here now. So I recalled her as well, but really hesitated when it came to Kit.

Kit was looking up at me with a look of regret and defeat, as she knew that she was probably going to be recalled like the others. The look upon her face tore at my heart and I knew that I didn't have it in me to do that to her, so I turned to the nurse and she nodded to me. "I'll allow it. As long as your Ninetails doesn't cause any problems." With that said, we both turned to look at Kit and she straitened up on her haunches and gave a happy yip as her tails began to sway upright behind her.

With that done/said, the nurse came over to a counter across from the foot of my bed, and started collecting things onto a tray. Once she was done, she slowly turned around and walked over with a tray full of fresh new bandages and a few bottles that had something written on them. She set the tray down on a rolling lap table and then proceeded to apply something for the burns (which smelt a lot like vitamin E), then wrapped up my burns again in bandages. "There you go," She said as she stood up and placed the soiled bandages in a trashcan. "All re-wrapped and treated. Now make sure that you don't open those wounds again." To which I nodded as she turned to walk away.

"Wait a minute nurse." I called out to her.

She stopped and looked over her shoulder at me. "Yes?"

"What about my other two Pokemon, the Gardevoir and Lucario. How are they doing?" I asked as the nurse slowly turned the rest of the way around to face me.

The nurse looked towards the ceiling and placed a single finger on her chin while her head cocked to the side. "Two Pokemon, one Gardevoir and the other a...Oh yes, now I remember," She smiled and nodded to me. "There in the next room and have been asking about a trainer that fits your description. So that must mean that you're their trainer." To which I nodded. "Their both doing fine and out of danger."

'Danger?' "What kind of danger? They weren't hurt by anything, while I was battling in the gym, were they?" I was about to sit up again but was stopped when a large fluffy white thing hit me full in the face and I fell back to the bed. When I was finally able to pry the thing off me, I saw that Kit was sitting on the end of the bed with her back to me, and her tails (the one's that weren't pressing down on me) were waving menacingly towards me. Almost telling me that if I moved again that I'd be hit with more of the fluffy things.

"Why thank you Ninetails." The nurse said with a small giggle, then walked back over to my bed. "Now I thought I told you to lay still, otherwise you'd open your wounds again." She scolded, but pulled over a stool and sat down next to me. "As far as those other two Pokemon go, their doing much better now that they've calmed down and the eggs that they are carrying are no longer in danger due to their overly excited conditions."

Just then I realized that the whole time that I'd been rescuing Wake's Quagsire, that I had no idea how that would've effected Jenavee or Rena who were watching the match from the stands. 'So, when they saw me jump into the boiling hot pool, Jenavee must have sensed my condition and Rena must have felt my condition due to her aura abilities. In turn, that must have effected their pregnancies in their distressed state.' Then I saw a strange look come over her face. "What is it nurse? Is their something else?"

She looked up at me then turned to look over at the wall on the far side of the room, then turned back to me. "It's strange," She said as her eyebrows dropped in concentration. "I've never seen a Pokemon who's decided to carry it's egg for as long as they have." She gently shook her head. "Normally, a Pokemon lays it's egg a week or two after the original conception, but your Pokemon are different." I cocked my head to the side in confusion and interest (as I didn't know the first thing about Pokemon and their eggs). "It would seem that they wish to carry the eggs within themselves until they hatch. Which could prove quite dangerous, if they wish to do so."