Chapter 2: Love and Understanding
#2 of Love and Understanding
Chapter 2 of Love and Understanding
POKESPEECH/THOUGHTS:
"Normal speech"
'Pokemon Telepathy/Pokemon Thoughts'
'Normal Telepathy/Normal Thoughts'
' Subconscious'
" Pokespeech"
DISCLAIMER: MY COPY OF POKEMON BLUE SAYS I DON'T OWN POKEMON.
'Michael...'
'Laughter'
'Michael...'
_ 'Those vicious stares.' _
'Michael?'
'_ They are talking about me...' _
'Michael!'
'_ Their voices are so loud my mind...it's throbbing!' _
"I hope he doesn't look at me."
"Disgusting bastard."
"I heard he did it with a Pokemon."
"Sick pervert."
"A guy like him should be in a cage!"
"He's a POKEPHLE!"
' Laughter'
_ 'It's so cold...' _
"Someone grab his Gardevoir!"
'Michael!'
' Those cruel, unforgiving voices casting judgement on one of their own...'
"Jessica! Run! Get away and save yourself!" I screamed and begged, not wanting her life to become forfeit.
'Michael! Michael!'
" N-no...st-stop! M-Michael! H-Help me!"
'Laughter'
'Hate...angry stares...'
'A deafening clap of thunder...a gunshot.'
'Crimson...scarlet...red...'
' Jessica's amber eyes staring lifelessly at me...her lips frozen as her body fell to the ground...'
' Anger...'
"Now it's your turn you freak!"
"We had to kill a Pokemon because of you!"
'A-Arceus...m-make it stop...just put me down already! I have no reason to live! Not...without...her...'
"I say we cut out his tongue and make him suffer!"
'WAKE UP!'
' Just...'
'MICHAEL! MICHAEL!'
'_ Kill me already...' _
'MICHAEL WAKE UP! PLEASE WAKE UP!'
The voices fade...the stares are gone...
'Michael...are you...alright?'
That voice...like an angel...
Slowly my eyes began to part and shed the darkness back from wence it came.
Light...blessed light and...a blurry face.
A shade of blue hair colored the same as the sky...a soothing bell-like moan echoing in my mind...
"I heard you...calling for me...Jessica..."
Slowly my vision began to clear, the object above me coming into perfect focus. My eyes gazing at...her...she was alive. It had merely been...
'It's alright, Michael. You were having a nightmare.'
I was staring into heavenly spheres the color of amber and honey when she finished my sentence, having read my mind.
"Y-yeah...I guess...I was." I rubbed my eyes with the base of my hands in a vain attempt to remove any dirt or dust that may have accumulated from my lengthy slumber. When I pulled them away my vision had cleared and I was staring at her.
'I'm right here, Michael...everything will be ok.' She said with a gentle voice that sounded like the echo of a small bell. Pale arms wrapped around my neck and pulled me in closer until my nose was buried into her right shoulder. The softness of her skin reminded me of a spring breeze just after a thunderstorm.
I couldn't help but let a few tears fall from my eyes the moment she broke our embrace, finding myself thanking all things sacred for the blessing in front of me. This goddess that was sprawled on top of me was everything I had wished for in a soulmate and I had it, right here in bed with me.
"I...I haven't had any of those dreams in awhile, the ones where we are being hunted down. I thought I had gotten past this." I tilted my head back up to gaze once again into those loving amber orbs, admiring how the waking sunrise leaked through the window to create a sea of dancing light within those precious globe of yellow color. Whenever I looked into those eyes I could feel all my troubles fall at the wayside, the aftermath of which was nothing more than a mere speck of sand before a mighty ocean.
'We all have them occasionally...everything will be alright...my beloved...'
Love...It still comes as a shock everytime I think about it.
Even after twenty years it is still sinking in. After all the heartache and stress sustained in my adolescence I still found it difficult to accept this perfect being holding me tightly against her body. A being sent by Arceus himself, no doubt to change my life and rid me of the pain buried deep within my heart, the very pain caused by this world because of who i am. What had I done to deserve her? Surely there were so many better candidates to choose from, ones that had experience dealing with adversity of a higher plane than what I had to deal with.
She was staring into my eyes with the same intensity that a lover would exude. All the compassion and tenderness one could find inside a living being was directed solely at me. Nobody else would do for her. It was such a great feeling, the tension being ripped from my heart, replaced with pure joy and blissful euphoria. My mind tingled pleasurably and at some point my right hand made its way down her chest until it enveloped her chest spike.
Yes, I was in love with a Pokemon.
While love in its purest form is something to be cherished there are those who stray from what is considered "normal" in society. Such love is considered dangerous and taboo by the masses, a kind of love not meant to be performed and deemed immoral in the eyes of society. Ironically there was a time that love between humans and Pokemon was considered pragmatic. Royalty and leaders were regularly seen bonding with their pokemon in ways now deemed as impure. As time marched on however the ways of old began to flutter and crumble on the endless sea of time, never to be part of the cycle again.
Despite the controversy surrounding interspecies relationships no one really changed their ways. It wasn't until about seventy-five years ago that the first public execution of a "pokephile" that the world began to accept that such love was taboo. Word spread like wildfire after that and many trainers who were in a carnal relationship with their Pokemon either fled their homes or released their Pokemon, the latter being done to "clean" the taint left behind.
Was it fair to banish interspecies relationships? Was it truly hurting the world as a whole? Was there a disease being passed down from such love? What if it was merely a platonic relationship? What constitutes "love" between a Pokemon and its trainer? How do you determine what what is "allowed" as far as caring for your Pokemon is concerned? What if the Pokemon or trainer is in danger and that line is crossed trying to save one or the other?
These and so many other questions were left unanswered, the majority instead electing to weed out this form of bonding as if it were the most unholy of things ever created. There were arguments for both sides and many argued that there were never any links to negative consequences due to humans bonding with pokemon. of course those in power used their influence to intimidate all who tried fighting the system and, as a result, easily won over the masses. As time marched on, human and Pokemon relationships were one of the worst crimes you could be a part of.
If only it was as simple a thing to decipher as that.
Through the controversy surrounding pokephilia there was one question that had yet to be asked.
"What do the Pokemon think about this?"
It was a very important question. The sole purpose behind the change was supposedly to protect Pokemon and prevent something bad from happening. Yet, not once did any of the supporters of the law document what had gone wrong due to this bonding, nor could they duplicate their supposed findings. more importantly, there was never any recorded documentation on what the responses of the Pokemon were. If it was such a horrible thing for the Pokemon and caused so many problems for them then why has there been no accounts of Pokemon even contributing to arguement?
For years these questions were looked past in favor of stricter rules regarding the treatment of Pokemon in a vain attempt to steer the conversation away from the ones who started the whole meas. Guidelines from proper methods of raising Pokemon to balancing their nutrition and keeping them in shape. All of these rules only servednto try and cloak the most important part of raising pokemon, that was the bond one made just from being around their trainer.
The bond between trainer and Pokemon is one built solely on trust and comradery, seeing each other through the toughest of times as well as rejoicing in the moments that etch themselves into ones mind forever.
To some Pokemon are friends, to others they are partners in battle. We play with them, live with them, experience life together with them and engrain our very soul with their own. We share the same air and eat the same food. We comfort each other when we are down and take joy during the good times. We make memories on and off the battlefields and make new friends along the way. In that aspect Pokemon are more human than they are given credit for.
Yet the act of loving a Pokemon is deemed taboo and harmful to the well being of a Pokemon. While this may hold merit in some aspects it is never revealed what the Pokemon thinks of such a rule. Why must there be a right and wrong way to bond with thr trainer? Conversely why is there a right and wrong way to bond with Pokemon? It has been done for centuries and nothing has changed until now.
With the bond between a Pokemon and its trainer limited the true strength of that bond is lessened, The trust is harder to obtain and emotions are kept locked up inside trainer and Pokemon alike. Eventually these emotions reach the breaking point and negative feelings manifest between them. These feelings evolve into distrust and hatred and, in a few unfortunate cases, ended with either the trainer or Pokemon ending the others life or breaking their bond utterly.
This twisted irony only raised more red flags and, for a brief period of time, the idea of interspecies relationships with trainers and their Pokemon could have made a comeback. In the end, though, the intimidation factor of power-hungry lobbiests opposed to such a union far outweighed any sort of benefit created.
'Yet had it not been for her I wouldn't be alive today. Had it not been for her I might have never discovered the good in this world. If it had not been for her i would have been alone with nary a friend to mention. If it had not been for her I might not have ever found love or the benefits that come with it.'
Which begs the question "how can something be wrong if it has done nothing but good for both trainer and Pokemon?"