Hey, T-sauce! Satoru here! I'm back with the superstitious number 13! Call it what you will, Chapter 12.5, chapter 14.0... whatever. It's time to explore the Pokémon state of Oregon! Let's rejoin the adventures of Aleksey, shall we?

Awesome! More than 3000 words! Over 3700 in fact, I am on fire! But that's probably not healthy for a Glaceon though... I'll re-edit the chapter when I get more time, but for now.. here is chapter 13!

Chapter 13: Training, Elementals, and events

August 26th 2019

Sherwood, Washington county. State of Oregon.

10:51 AM PST

"Nice one!" My sister said as I shattered a glass bottle with iron tail. We had spent the last hour practicing my techniques. "I told ya! I'm getting better already!" I had a smile on my face. I sat down in the grass, and drank out of a straw in a water bottle. Pearl swept up the glass remains as I went back into the house.

I climbed onto the couch, and watched the news. The tv was relatively new, a flat screen on the wall. The Oregon government said they had gotten stations repaired and ready for better quality news.

The fire in Pendleton has been put out. A fire squad and a group of transformed water users have worked together to put out the fire. The situation in Portland is not going so well.

An overhead shot of several damaged buildings lay in view. National guard marched down the streets of Portland, escorting and rescuing humans and some Pokémon that were still alive after days of being stuck in a damaged city. Portland, Oregon's largest city, reduced to a wasteland... so many deaths... I hope my stepdad stayed sane during those events..

The view switched to a ground view of some camera crew and a news reporter. They were in the Oregonian city of Astoria.

A small human pocket has been discovered in the city of Astoria! Around 800 rescued, they are being moved into the city of Banks at the moment. There have been reports of the transformed helping national guard. A small amount of them seem to have discovered some sort of Psychic telepathy.

The screen showed footage of an Mr Mime using psychic to translate what some Pokémon were saying.

In recent news, the U.S. Government has contacted us, and said that the Transformed Humans have received a new species name. As they are no longer a product or creation of the company Game Freak, they have been renamed "Elementals". For you Elementals listening, it should be advised that Nintendo has been discouraged from calling you their property. You are your own separate species from the characters of Pokémon. We will stay on the air ready for the next development.

Huh..., my... species... Elementals... I guess thats fine with me... Although I hate to admit that I am part of a separate species from my sister. That doesn't really sit well with me. I hate not actually being related to my family.

"I shouldn't dwell on that. It will only make me like I was 2 days ago. I've accepted my new body, and that doesn't change the relationship I have with my family. If I've become an Elemental, so be it, I'm an Elemental".

I watched as Pearl came back into the house, she looked at me and then at the flat tv on the wall. "What happened on the news?"

I shrugged. I jumped down from the couch and went into my room. I laid down on my bed and checked my phone that hadn't touched in 2 days. I had several texts. I saw 3 important ones.

All of these were posted at least 30 minutes ago from my cousins, Brittney and Brandon, and my stepbrother Scotty.

Hey, I hope you are okay, you're a Pokémon now, that's really cool -Brittney.

I'm really sorry about what happened to you, I hope you're doing good bud -Brandon

Hey Aleksey, just to let you know, you're still my brother, no matter what you turned into. Please know we all love and care for you. You can pull through this. please text me if you want to talk ok? -Scotty

...

I stood up and got ready to leave the room, but then I got a phone call, apparently someone was attempting to FaceTime me. It was a number I didn't recognize. My gut convinced my to answer. I tapped the button. I recognized the face of the human I saw. Joel? My stepsister's husband?

"Hey.. is this.., Aleksey, Uh.. you do look like one of those.. uh..." he stopped talking for a second before continuing. "You... uh.. look really cool.., Sorry, I'm not trying to be offensive, but someone wants to talk to you". He shifted the phone until it was leaning by the wall and floor. I saw a... Vaporeon?.. oh...Jesse...

"Yo! What's up buddy!" I heard Jesse's voice. She sounded like she was forcing herself to sound upbeat. "Are you okay? I'm here to talk if you need something"

I looked at the Vaporeon that was my sister. She looked exactly like what I thought a Vaporeon would look in real life. We both look like real creatures, not the animated versions. I look even more realistic than the characters from Detective Pikachu. Honestly I really wanna see an X-ray of my new body.. what does my new skeletal system look like?. That's a bit scientific.

"I'm doing amazing now, I feel much better now. I did some thinking, and I've accepted myself as a Glaceon" I answered. "How are you? I know you're not a Pokémon fan like me, I don't know how you're taking it..."

I then watched as my eldest sister's smile turned into a frown.

"How? Aleksey... what happened? How did we become these things? Please... you have an answer... your the Pokémon expert in the family... right? I-I don't know what to do… please help us.." My Vaporeon sister looked on the verge of tears.

"I'm.. sorry. I have no idea what happened. But, I think it's pretty insane that we became Pokémon in the first place. How does that even happen? At least I've become content with my new body. As for you?... well… I can see your very upset".

My sister's face scrunched up. "Upset?! That's an understatement! I'm absolutely livid! I don't want to be this freaking dog, er..cat whatever the hell this thing is! I can't even type on a computer! How am I supposed to do my job?!"

My eyes started to water. "I'm.. i am so… sorry.. I can't do anything to help you…, it must feel so terrible being stuck in a body you don't want…"

My sister saw my crying and realized that she messed up. "please please don't cry, I shouldn't of yelled at you like that. Yeah I shouldn't be yelling at you after what you've gone through. I should let you know that I was asleep when I transformed, does that make you happy that I didn't experience any pain?..."

I remember what happened when I transformed. It hurt a lot, the grinding of my body parts, and on my forehead. That was probably the crystal growing. I know.. I shouldn't think about that. I've been given a new body, The body of my favorite fictional character, a Glaceon. I nodded, and stopped my crying, . I noticed that my tears on the floor were frozen, some sort of supercooling, I guess?

"being awake when it happened you must be traumatized… I'm really sorry, i'm very glad that you except yourself. It's just that I'm suffering for being in a body I don't want, but at least you're happy, and that makes me feel a bit better"

I smiled, " it was was painful but I don't really want to dwell on that it would just make things worse".

"A quick question how do you raise a baby Pokémon?" My sister looked away, and then at her husband, and finally to me.

"Uhh… what?"

The Vaporeon looked at her husband, who got up and came back with a small animal in his arms.i got a close look at what I thought was a puppy, "holy shart! A baby Eevee!"

"say hi to your uncle Aleksey, Lucy". Then the infant cooed, moving her paw towards the phone.

"Wait.. you had your baby?"

Jesse nodded. "shortly after transforming,... I..laid an egg…, Lucy hatched this morning.."

"Oh god… Are you okay?" I asked, sounding very concerned.

"... I don't know… my baby had her life stolen from her before she was even born…. what am I supposed to do, tell her she was supposed to be a human, but too bad?..how is she going to learn? Or read or write?..and how am I supposed to raise Parker, my still human child?"

" Pokémon are quite smart, she should be just as intelligent as a human, . Lucy should be just as intelligent as she would've been as a human. You just need to spend the time to do teach her.. and, you can still raise a human child, it'll just take more effort, I know you're not a quitter".

My sister looked at her husband, and Joel left the room with Lucy, where only we would hear each other. Jesse spoke first. "So… what am I? You are the Pokémon master, right?" She chuckled.

"Well…" I began, "you want me to explain your new body and abilities?". Jesse nodded. "I want to understand what I am now, so that I know what to do as well.. also.. what are you?..".

"You are a Vaporeon, it's a water type Pokémon. I am a Glaceon, which is a ice type Pokémon. We are both part of the same species family, the Eevee line. We are what you would say, final forms of it. Lucy is an Eevee, if you didn't know. I've looked around town, and I Believe Eevee and it's evolutions are very rare here. It's incredibly lucky that we became these over something else!" I finished my rant.

"So… what can I do? Am I a water bender? Like in Avatar?"

"Well.. kinda..? you can shoot water out of your mouth. You should practice and learn to do this. You could use it for self-defense if anyone tried to attack you. As for me?.. I can utilize the powers of ice. Like you, I can shoot ice out of my mouth. My body also generates cold air like an AC unit, which is kind of neat if you think about it, I never have to use AC again because I generate cold air. And since I am an ice being, I also don't need to pay heating bill because I don't need heat to survive. I can literally go into freezing temperatures and feel like it's room temperature".

"do you want to know what you can do that I'm really envious about?" I asked, showing a look of impatience on my face. I can be immature sometimes.

"What? Is it a superpower of some kind?" Jesse guessed.

"You can breathe underwater!"

My sister looked quite surprised. "Really? That's pretty rad".

"Actually… I wanna see you do that! Please please!?.." I realized I was begging like a child begging for candy.

"You know what?.. I'm going to do that right now. You wanna see it?"

I nodded with intense excitement.

"Ok then, I'll be right back." My sister left the room. I heard some talking in the next room but it was so muffled I couldn't really make it out, about three minutes later Jesse and Joel both came back into the room with a bucket of water.

"you're sure I can breathe underwater right?.. you're not trying to drowned me or something?"

"Of course not! I wouldn't lie to you!"

"Ok… here is the moment of truth…" my sister dunked her head into the bucket. She kept it underwater for at least 10 seconds. She immediately brought her head back above the water looking quite excited.

"Holy crap! You're right! I just put my head under water and continued breathing! it was like breathing in damp air…" my eldest sister looked surprised.

"See! I told ya!"

"You know what?.. I'm actually going to try and learn some thing, thank you… but I.. I don't want to be stuck as this… but if we are stuck these 'Elementals' forever, I'm eventually going to have to accept myself or, I'll end up doing something like what you did a few days ago… I don't want to die, even if I've been turned into an animal.."

" we are going to be ok, I swear on my life that you and I will be fine."

"I lost my voice, I can't even talk to my husband without writing on paper…."

" I lost my voice too, but I'm not whining or crying about it. It may take a long time.. but I swear we will find a way to re-learn how to talk, . we just need to train our new vocal cords to speak English".

Just then my younger sister came into the room. "Who are you talking to Aleksey?.." she noticed I was on my phone. "Who is this?"

Jesse called for her husband to come back into the room. Joel reentered, and was noticed by Pearl. The two then talked for several minutes about things, and how they were trying to get me and Jesse readjusted into our lives. We eventually promised that one of us would come over to visit later, maybe in a few days. The call then dropped as we both hung up.

…

2:15 PM PST

The sun was bright, I could feel as my body got less and less comfortable in the heat. 3 days ago, I was fine, but now? 70 degrees felt like 80 degrees… I guess that's the catch of being an ice dog. Not that that upsets me. It's quite fitting being a Glaceon, I'm more of winter kind of guy myself…

I should visit the Mightyena girl, Juneau from a few days ago, I wonder how she's doing?..

I walked into old town Sherwood, passing by closed building after building. I noticed the restaurant from that past day was open, and people were eating. I stepped up to the door, knocking on it. Several humans up at the front darted their eyes at me, and then looked away. A young child spotted me and said "Ooh, look at the blue doggie!". I waved my paw at the kid, smiling. The child's mother took one look at me, and scolded the child, saying to him, "don't talk to those Elemental creatures! It might try to turn you into one of them!". She then turned around and gave me a death glare. Wanting to avoid conflict, I left and continued my trip across town.

I entered a cul-de-sac and I swept my eyes, looking around the street. That's when I noticed the correct house. Juneau's house was a two story building, I couldn't really think of any other way to describe it, besides that it was an olive green color. I went up to the front door. And knocked. I heard footsteps and I stepped back as the door swung open slowly. Juneau's father looked down eying me. He looked a bit confused until he remembered me.

"Hey.. you're the Glaceon from several days ago.. you must be here to see Juneau. I'm sorry, but she is currently in Beaverton with her aunt and uncle. She will be back on the 28th if you want to return then or after?"

I nodded, leaving a note that I may return. I then began my 20 minute journey back home. I made it down hill and back into old town, Passing by the business and food area again, I decided to take an alternative route and walked by the park, I went to that park so many times in my childhood. I was quite sad it got remodeled. Neighboring it was a few houses and an old church that was being used as a daycare center. I walked down the sidewalk, seeing a few children, human and elemental playing together. There was even a birthday party too. I saw an elemental child, a Zigzagoon attempt to blow out the candles on a birthday cake, her human sister cheering her on.

…

I was approaching the turn that would lead to my street, when I saw an Eevee running into the road, chasing a ball. The base Evon realized his mistake, and stopped. A van entered the street and the driver didn't notice the Eevee. I immediately ran up and pushed the brown elemental out of the way, and ducked as the vehicle passed over me. The human immediately stopped, and the driver got out to see what he thought he ran over. "Oh.oh my god… it's one of those elemental people….are you ok?" The man asked me. "Yeah, I'm fine" I answered. The human got back in his van and continued onward to his destination, wherever that may be.

"YORCK!!" I heard, looking towards a house, I saw an Espeon, a SHINY one at that, worriedly running towards the Eevee. "Uhh… is this your son?" I asked. The green psychic eeveelution looked at me. "THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You saved my son's life!"

"Yorck, you can't just run into the road like that! Especially in the condition you're in, you're so small people might run you over.." the Espeon scolded his son.

"I'm sorry dad…" Yorck said. He looked genuinely sorry.

"It's..ok,.. just be more careful". The Espeon father said. "Who are you?" He asked me.

"Who.. me?.. I'm Aleksey, I'm a Glaceon. Who are ya?"

"Alex, Alex Daniels. This is my son Yorck".

"Hi Mr Aleksey". Yorck greeted. I smiled, and turned my attention towards Alex. I held out a paw, "pawshake?". The neon green Espeon returned the greeting, and shuck my paw.

"Is there anything I can do to repay you?.. anything?". The Espeon asked.

" you have a bottle of Fanta?" I asked. "Uhh.. let me look inside." Alex ran into his house through the big dog flap door. He returned emptyhanded. "I'm sorry.. we don't have that, is there anything else? I know! there's going to be a party at some kids birthday party tomorrow if you want to show up?.. there will be food and cake for everyone. Anyone can show up if given permission. I'll tell them that there's an extra guest coming".

"Can my sister show up too? She is a human by the way".

"Sure! the sister of the man who saved my son is welcome". The neon green Evon nodded. "it's going to start at the Stella Olsen Park at 11:15 AM".

I was about to leave, but then I decided to ask one more question. "Hey, you're an Espeon.. do you know telepathy yet?"

"No…uhh.. I haven't tried to learn it.." Alex said,a bit disappointed sounding. " well... you can learn telepathy. I am a huge Pokémon fan. I could probably try and help you learn it, if you want me to teach you?"

"Sure! absolutely! I'm quite the Pokémon fan myself! But.. how are you gonna teach me when you're not a psychic Pokémon?"

"Uhh... I don't know, I'm gonna help you no matter what... so, ya want to learn now? You can come to my house, it's only 3 blocks away, you can meet my sister too".

"Hmm… how about, during or after the party, you think we can do that?" He said. I agreed, and continued to the street where I lived. I stayed on the sidewalk as a car passed by. Grandma's house as a single story house, I remember when it was an olive green color. The house was repainted a faint scarlet color for about a year, and has been a teal color since 2017. I went back inside after knowing, and I explained what happened and the party. Pearl was absolutely down with a party, and she practically leapt up to get prepared for tomorrow. I took another cold shower, and hung out in the living room for the next 5 hours. The tension was in the air as my sister rolled the dice. She landed on Pacific Avenue, forcing her into bankruptcy, I had won in monopoly! "Congrats! You won! I looked over at the sheets of paper sprawled out on the tables and floors. I had been use of them to communicate with everyone. We cleaned up, and I ate dinner with the family. I discussed how I was developing my new powers, via writing on paper. I could control my body temperature at will now, so no one will have to suffer being in a cold room around me.

Not wanting me to miss out on being part of the family, as my family didn't want me to feel isolated or unloved, I thanked them as they sat me on top of a chair with a book or two stacked on top of each other for me to be higher. I am less than 3 feet tall now. I'm glad I got to sit at the table, I always did anyway but grandma never said anything until now.

I noticed I was eating more meat than anything else, Glaceon is based off of several animals, mainly dog, cat, rabbit, and arctic fox. 3 of those are mostly carnivorous… "am I going to have to eat more meat now? If I want to stay healthy, I will need to consume what my body needs to. And that includes meat".

I wrote my worries that I might be more carnivore leaning now to my sister and grandma. They were a bit concerned and asked me if I felt different.

"Are you okay? Do you suddenly crave meat? Do you need help? You don't have an urge to hunt or do something do you?, Please tell us if you feel like you're having any changes in personality ok?".

I nodded, writing "I feel fine. I simply believe I should eat more meat, being a Glaceon. It would be a healthier lifestyle, due to being in a slightly more carnivorous body, ok? I don't feel like killing or hunting or anything, as I don't really want to. It is my body and it's my choice on what to do and eat".

"I am ok".

We finished eating and i went into my room to read a few books I had gathered from around the house. After that, I played on the Gameboy color again, and fell asleep.

——end chapter——