Journal,
I have no idea who I’m writing to here. Writing to myself feels weird, and writing to a book feels weirder. But apparently Lily, Jack, and Nym do it, so I should start too. Things are getting too complicated for me to properly understand, so I’m writing this stuff down so I can at least get a better idea of what is happening. So if anyone is here looking for my deepest, darkest secrets or whatever, [there are several scribbled out lines here].
The point is, a while back I agreed to go with some bad guys called Team Catch. I think they’re poachers? They catch pokemon from other regions and sell them to the highest bidder. It doesn’t sound that bad, but they clearly don’t care about anyone but themselves. They kept treating the pokemon they caught badly, and they tried to kill Nym and kidnap Jack! They were considering keeping me around anyway, so I struck a deal with them. I went with them willingly so they wouldn’t have to deal with Jack kicking and screaming. I’m not sure what I was thinking either. I was so scared I couldn’t move, and it was all I could think of!
I’ll be honest, though, that wasn’t my only reason. There was this really strong guy who had a weird vibe around him. It felt like I should know him, even though I don’t. It wasn’t like Dragon’s, but it reminded me of that. Some sort of sixth sense? Add that to the list of weird shit I can do I guess. I wanted to try to talk to him more, as scary as it was, but the sharp chin guy kicked me into a pool with some weird slimy fire pokemon to prove my worth Thunderdome style. I didn’t even have Rook with me. I left him back with Jack, but I think Sherman dropped his Yanma with me. I wish I was better at training pokemon though, I just ended up getting the poor guy sick from fighting that thing.
I’m not quite sure what exactly happened with everyone else, since I was in a pool and trying not to get eaten. Everything I write about for a bit is based on stuff people told me happened.
Our squad came looking for me, since Lily knew Team Catch was hiding out in some old warehouse Billions owns. Now that I’m writing this, why didn’t they bring the gym leader or someone? Whatever. Getting in using her card didn’t work, which scattered everybody.
Lily managed to get through the front door during the confusion, and even faced down J for a bit. I’m sure she could have won with her new swellow, if the fucker didn’t decide to take a nap in the middle of a battle. Who even does that?
Jack ended up going around one side of the building with Sherman, but they still ended up separating. Jack got Pogi to try to punch a hole in the wall before going back around through the front door to save that octopus pokemon (I guess steel is strong against fighting pokemon? Makes sense.)
Sherman went around the side with Beanlet and got in a fight with a Team Catch member. Don’t ask me how this works: apparently Beanlet used harden so much that Sherman just picked it up and clubbed their pokemon with it. Not sure how much I believe it, but apparently he did it AGAIN in front of Lily against J’s pokemon. Please keep in mind I write this based on hearsay. Still trying to figure out what exactly happened.
Nym somehow ended up getting chased all the way around the back (they said they led the grunts around. I think they got chased.) Apparently, whatever this place is, the pool I was in was connected to the ocean, so Nym hit a button to start letting water in from the ocean before jumping in just as I was about to get eaten. While I appreciate it, they also immediately got knocked out by the slimy pokemon.
I got a bunch of windy powers and tried to hold off the monster pokemon. I thought I was out of magic, but apparently that’s something else? More on that later. Apparently I got a bunch of fire, water, and lightning rolling around me while the wind held back the pokemon. It sounds like I looked cool heck, but the wind was so strong it felt like it was going to tear my eyes out. I really don’t want to do that again, but at least it worked? The water Nym let in dragged the giant pokemon out to sea, so Jack and Sherman were able to get Nym out of the water and I helped Rook. While we were doing that, J flew off with one of his pokemon.
Oh yah, someone else did come in during all the confusion. Chinhoy brought Rook and tried to help, but at that point we were mostly (?) cleaning up. Again, figuring out the timing of everything is a pain. [There’s another line here, but the ink is smudged in the shape of a paw print. Looks like something stepped on the page.]
The next part I was actually there for. We got Nym to the hospital, where the gym leader was so impressed that they got invited to fight her first. Nym was pretty mad at me for running off like that though. I did get everyone nearly killed, myself included. But before they could get mad at me I had to convince them I was actually me! Apparently the windy thing turned my hair white, but it never went back. I thought that was just like a super saiyan power up or something, but it’s still white! How am I supposed to explain this to Mom and Dad? Oh yah, I learned magic and it turned my hair white. I don’t actually care that much, but everyone keeps saying I look like some “Komaeda” guy, and it’s getting on my nerves.
Point is, to convince them I tried playing the Village Bridge Song again, but I think I spaced out and ended up back in that ocean world with the sharp toothed person. I swear, if he’s not related to Nym they have to be from the same tribe or something. Is that how it works? Anyway, we actually had a nice talk. Apparently he lives in [there are several crossed out spellings here] Supplemental Space, some world that exists in people’s minds in headaches, and is 400 years old. He pointed out I might be a Tao, one of the big tribes of Croli. Which brings up a lot of new questions! Is my magic a Tao thing, or can everyone do that too and I just got it early? How am I a Tao if I’m from Unova? And what about the windy thing, because even he seemed confused by that. He also said “Look out for the man in the-” before I woke up, so that doesn’t help! I’m going to assume he meant Crow, because that guy seems like bad news.
As if that wasn’t enough, the news is saying some CEO that Lily met got killed by Chase’s mom! I can’t say I knew her very long, but something about that doesn’t add up. I’m definitely not going to be the one to figure that one out. I’m more concerned with how Chase is taking the news. Lily is shocked, but I can’t imagine how Chase is doing. We should find him soon.
Not going to lie, my head hurts, I’m tired, I still have no idea what’s happening, and it feels like there are too many people who do. As much as I want to run off looking for answers, everyone also has their own things going on. I’m still worried about Nym, Lily, and Chase. The mind guy doesn’t seem like he’s going anywhere, so I’ll focus on [The rest of the text is a garbled mess of ideas and curse words.]
PS Buy a pencil pens suck