Gates to Misery CH: 3
#3 of Gates to Misery
Emolga Told us everything. I don't know what this 'Distorted Path' is, but I know of a place called Distorted Cave. Is that what Eevee meant? Umbreon and I have been
there before and there's nothing there. Why would he go there?
We left to 'Distorted Path' the next day. I went with Umbreon, Snivy, and Emolga. The place looked the same, but it felt... different, somehow.
We went in. For some reason, there was only Ghost type Pokemon. They were there before, but why only Ghosts?
We reached a dead end in the cave. "I guess this is the wrong place." Emolga said. "Lets turn back and-" "Wait! someones coming! Hide!" Snivy interrupts.
He was right. I can hear someone. Please be Eevee. We all run to hide in a gap in the wall. It was him. Eevee! And that must be the stone.
Eevee puts the stone down and looks around. Did he hear us? "Master?" He calls out. "Are you here?" A void-like portal opens up and we see a Pokemon none of us has
seen before. "EEVEE, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID."
"Master?" Eevee asks. "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GET THOSE CARDS FOR ME, BUT GAVE THEM TO THAT ESPEON." Eevee looks down. It looks like he was about to cry.
"I-I'm sorry, master. I-I..." "YOU CARED ABOUT THAT ESPEON? I KNOW. I ALSO SAW WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU WHEN YOU GAVE THEM BACK. I SAW YOU CRYING WHEN YOU ESCAPED FROM HER. THAT SCRATCH DID MORE EMOTIONAL DAMAGE THAN IT DID PHYSICALY."
Eevee isn't going to get hurt because of me. Is he? "I FORGIVE YOU. WHAT SHE DID WAS PUNISHMENT ENOUGH." Eevee was finally able to look at his master again. "Master, I do have... something."
He show this mysterious Pokemon the stone. "I... I don't know what it is. It just appeared in front of me. Do you know about it?" The Pokemon looked very pleased with it.
"HA HA HA HA! THAT'S A WISH STONE! POKEMON CAN MAKE A WISH WITH IT!"
Eevee gets a wish? That's good... I'm happy for him. "Master, what will you wish for?" What? Everyone, including this Pokemon, was shocked by this. "UM-WELL..." He
tries hard to cover up is shock. "WE CAN'T JUST MAKE WISHES. WE HAVE TO FIND THE WISH CAVE. THE WISH CAVE IS HOME TO A POKEMON NAMED JIRACHI. IF WE GIVE HIM THE STONE, HE WILL GRANT A WISH."
"Did you hear that? He said A wish. He didn't say HIS wish." Snivy points out. It's true, but... What does he mean by it?
"BUT... I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE CAVE IS..." he continues. "I know... It's 200 miles north west from here." How does he know that? Has Eevee been there before?
"OH? YOU'VE BEEN THERE?" Eevee stares hard at the stone like he's trying to read it's mind. "No... I just suddenly knew when you mentioned it. I swear I haven't even heard of it."
Eevee's master lets out a soft laugh. "IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE HAVE THE STONE AND WE KNOW WHERE JIRACHI IS. YOU HAVE SERVED ME WELL. I THINK YOUR ACTIONS DESERVE A REWARD, BUT THAT CAN WAIT. I'M VERY EAGER TO MAKE MY WISH." "Yes, master."
The two Pokemon vanished, but we knew where they were. "Everyone..." Umbreon speaks up. "We have to stop them!"
We all come out of hiding and I say "I agree. That wish belongs to Eevee!" Snivy nods in agreement, but Emolga seems a little upset. "But it's a shiny Eevee... Can't we use the wish for ourselves?"
"NO!" I shout out. I just realized how angry I was by that as everyone stares at me. "I-I mean... I know a lot of shinys are evil and all, but after everything that's happen... I can tell that Eevee isn't evil! I can also see that his life has been hard. I think we've all missed judged shiny Pokemon. We all hear the stories, but
we've never seen any shiny do anything bad and none of us has met any one who has had any trouble with them. We also know the stories we heard happened a thousand years ago, but there's no evidence that it actually happened, and even if it did, it was a thousand years ago. Shiny Pokemon had to have changed by now... Right?"
I got no argument from anyone and we all went to the cave. "Guys?" Snivy asks curiously. "What's are these stories about shinys?" We explain how one shiny got an army of shinys to try to destroy every normal Pokemon in the world and how Pokemon have treated them ever since.
Umbreon finishes with: "Everyone agreed that shinys didn't deserve death until they finally took their own lives, so Pokemon have been trying to make thamselves do that by making their lives as bad as possible."
Snivy looked disgusted with what we were saying. I don't blame him. I couldn't believe that anyone could deserve anything like that.
We made it to Wish Cave. The whole cave had a nice shade of violet to it and it looks like Eevee and that Pokemon isn't here yet. We run in and try to reach Jirachi before they can.
We were too late. We reached the end of the cave and only had a few seconds to hide before anyone could notice us.
"JIRACHI, I HAVE YOUR WISH STONE AND I WANT TO MAKE A WISH." The Pokemon places the stone in front of Jirachi. "So you do... Fine. What is your wish?"
"THIS EEVEE IS ACTUALLY A HUMAN." No... how is that possible? How did he become a Pokemon? And why? "I DON'T KNOW HOW OR WHY, BUT I KNOW MAGIC IS RESPONSIBLE. SINCE HE
HAS MAGIC IN HIM, HE CAN USE IT AND THERE ARE TWO OTHER HUMANS IN THIS WORLD." I can't believe what I'm hearing. None of this makes since. He must be lying.
"HERE IS MY WISH; MAKE EEVEE THE ONLY ONE IN THIS WORLD WHO CAN USE MAGIC." "As you wish." Jirachi replies unhappily.
A purple smoke spirals around Eevee and enters his body. "It's been done. Now, can I have a word with this Eevee?"
The Pokemon doesn't answer. He just leaves so Jirachi could talk to his slave privately. "Eevee, that wish was for you and you gave it up to him. Your very kind and even though you don't have a wish stone, I'll grant you a wish. What do you want?" he says gently.
"No..." Eevee turns away from him. "What I want doesn't matter." "What?!" Jirachi asks in shock and disappointment. "Of course it matters. What every Pokemon and human wants matters." A tear escapes Eevee's left eye. "No... I'm not a human... or a Pokemon. I'm just a seedling... A seedling growing for his master..."
Eevee just walks away and leaves the moved Jirachi behind. The wish making Pokemon looks at the sad Eevee leave and decides to leave. With a white flash, he was gone.
From the place we were hiding, we see the poor human leave to catch up to... That... That monster. Yes. That's what he is.
Everyone was trying to fight back tears but me. I was too angry to cry. "That's it." I ran to catch up to Eevee and that fiend and I hear "Espeon! What are you doing? Wait!" From Umbreon as I do.
With my friends behind me, I reach Eevee and the monster. "You! I don't know what you did to Eevee, but I know that whatever it was, it was horrible. Leave him alone!.
He lets out a loud laugh that almost makes me sick. "WHAT I'VE DONE? I'M THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO HIM. THIS WORLD IS UNKIND TO SHINYS AND I WAS NICE ENOUGH TO CARE FOR HIM. ALL I ASK IN RETURN IS HIS LOYALTY. NOW, HOW IS THAT WRONG?"
What he was saying made since... Pokemon hate shinys a lot, but... "I know your doing something! He doesn't even see himself as an equal or a person! And even if you aren't, it's clear that your using him! What are you going to do to him when he's no longer needed?"
Eevee joins the argument with "I can't be happy... I've tried and... It's impossible. I've come to accept that, but I would like to at least be useful.... I want my life to have some value and... Meaning. Even if I do become useless later, I can still be something now..."
I couldn't say anything after that and neither could my friends. What Eevee just told us was so... powerful.
"OH YES. I DON'T THINK I'VE INTRODUCED MYSELF. I'M GIRATINA." the Pokemon finally reveals his name. "NOW... IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE?"
How can he talk after that? All I can feel is sympathy for this poor Eevee. "Eevee." I force myself to speak as I walk towards him. "You don't have to live like this. I... I want you to be happy. I want to help..."
Eevee kept his head down as I came closer. I hope he will forgive me for what I did at the inn. I reach out and hug him. "I'm sorry..." escapes my lips.
"EEVEE..." Giratina says with a smirk. "I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS GIVEN YOU REAL KINDNESS. ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO BETRAY ME?"
He's crying... I can feel his tears on my soft fur. "No..." He quietly lets out. He blows me away with an invisible force and I can see anger in his eyes. I don't want to fight him, but I have to now.
Umbreon and Emolga try to run in, but Giratina gets in the way. "NO. DON'T GET INVOLVED. I WANT TO SEE HOW WELL EEVEE CAN FIGHT. EEVEE, YOU BETTER WIN. AND DON'T HOLD BACK."
Eevee fires three dark orbs at me. I dodge the first two, but I couldn't dodge the third in time. What kind of attack was that? Was that magic?
I used swift and he was hit badly by it. He forced himself up and formed some black sticky liquid underneath me so I couldn't move. He Levitates a peace of the Earth into the air and sends it at me with startling speed. The impact freed me from the black liquid and knocked me into the wall of the cave.
I barely had enough strength to get myself up, but I managed. I used psybeam and knocked Eevee off his feet again. He tried to get up again, but he couldn't lift himself
up. He started to cry quietly. "Master... I'm sorry..."
Giratina looks at Eevee with frustration. "I'M DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, EEVEE. THIS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED." He teleports him and Eevee out and Umbreon and Emolga runs over to chek on me.
Snivy looks at the spot Eevee was before they left. Giratina said he was going to punish him... I'm sorry, Eevee... We'll save you. I promise.