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CHAPTER 13: AN IMPORTANT, NEW ABILITY AND A STORY___________

He sat down in a semi-circle around Dialga while he explained how we failed to beat him. I already knew it was my fault mostly, letting myself get distracted by memories. I knew better, too. But either Dialga didn't know that-which I doubt-or it wasn't my fault at all because he is talking about how we failed in communication. He didn't sound disappointed, though, more like he expected us to fail so he could give us this lecture.
“IF YOU AND YOUR TEAMMATES CANNOT COMMUNICATE AT ANYTIME, THEN EVEN THE MOST FOOLPROOF PLAN WILL FAIL. YELLING OUT YOUR PLANS IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE IS A HUGE MISTAKE IF DONE IN FRONT OF THE WRONG PERSON. LUCKILY, YOU FOUR, ESPECIALLY YOU, SAORI, KEN, AND KINICHI, HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE TELEPATHICALLY AT ANYTIME YOU WISH”.
“We do?!” asked Ken, completely taken back.
“But we haven't done anything like that before!” Kinichi objected. “And how come you never told us about this before? Even before the battle?”
“IF I HAD TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS ABILITY YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE LEARNED HOW IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION S IN ANY SITUATION. IN ALL BATTLES, A LACK OF COMMUNICATION CAN EASILY CAUSE FAILURE. COMMUNICATION IS CRUCIAL.”
“So how are we supposed to learn how to learn telepathy?” I asked, kind of anxious to learn this ability.
“BY LINKING ALL OF YOU TO EACH OTHER.”
“And how do we do that?” Kinichi said, quickly getting impatient.
“FIRST YOU MUCH CONCENTRATE, CONCENTRATE SO THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER HERE, BUT INSIDE YOUR SUBCONCIOUSE. FROM HERE, I CANNOT TELL YOU WHAT AWAITS YOU. I, OF COURSE, CANNOT EVEN DREAM TO CLAIM THIS SKILL.”
“Wait, how do you know so much about this if you can't even obtain it?” I asked, quite surprised myself that I only just now realized that he should have no way of knowing about this if we were the first humans here.
“THAT IS A LONG STORY. BUT YOU DESERVE TO KNOW, I SUPPOSE. A LONG TIME AGO, ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, THREE HUMANS, MUCH LIKE YOU THREE, SHOWED UP HERE. THEY WERE EVEN THE SAME POKEMON. PIPLUP, CHARMANDER, WHO EVOLVED INTO CHARMELEON SHORTLY AFTER, AND EEVEE, WHO EVOLVED INTO UMBREON JUST AFTER CHARMANDER DID. THEY WERE ALONE AND NEVER WERE ABLE TO MAKE FRIENDS BY THE TIME THEY LEFT. WHEN ANYONE ASKED, THEY KEPT SAYING THAT THEY WERE HUMANS AND THAT THEY WANTED TO GO BACK HOME, TO THE HUMAN WORLD. THEY WERE THOUGHT TO BE CRAZY AND WERE IGNORED AND HARRASSED BY EVERYONE. THEY HAD EMBARKED ON A QUEST VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOURS, BUT JUST AS LIFE ALTERING. BACK THEN, GROUDON, THE CONTINENT POKEMON, AND KYOGRE, THE SEA POKEMON, WERE IN A BITTER WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER, CAUSING HORRIBLE RAIN IN RANDOM PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND EVENLY TERRIBLE DROUGHTS IN ALL OF THE OTHERS. AFTER MEETING WITH NINETAILS, THEY TOOK IT UPON THEMESELVES TO FIX THE ISSUE. “AFTER MUCH RESEARCH THEY FOUND OUT A THIRD PART TO THE LEGEND. IT TOLD OF ANOTHER POKEMON, RAYQUAZA, WHO LONG AGO BROKE UP THEIR FIGHTING AND PUT THEM TO REST. THEY TRAVELED FAR INTO THE SKY AND SPOKE TO RAYQUAZA, WHO ACTUALLY STARTED THE FIGHTING. HE WANTED GROUDON AND KYOGRE TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH SO THAT NO MORE CALAMITIES LIKE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN AGAIN. THE HUMANS THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS NOT RIGHT AND TOOK OUT RAYQUAZA. THEN, THEY BRAVELY WHENT INTO THE MIDDLE OF GROUDON AND KYOGRE'S FIGHT AND TOLD THEM WHAT HAPPENED. REALIZING THAT THEY WERE USED, GROUDON AND KYOGRE WENT BACK TO THEIR RESPECTIVE CORNERS OF THE WORLD AND TO TODAY THEY STILL SLEEP, NEVER TO FIGHT AGAIN FOR IN FEAR OF BEING USED. AFTER THAT, THEY WERE ABLE TO RETURN HOME AND THEY WERE NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN, FOR EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE HEROS, THEY NEVER WERE ABLE TO GAIN THE PROPER RESPECT THAT THEY DESERVED UNTIL THEY HAD LEFT. FOR IT WAS ONLY THEN THAT ANYONE BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE HUMANS.”
“What a story...” Kinichi had an astonished look upon her.
“Did you teach them how to speak to each other telepathically?” I asked.
“ACTUALLY, I NEVER MET THEM. NINETAILS TAUGHT THEM EVERYTHING AND TOLD ME ABOUT THE ABILITY.”
I noticed that since Dialga told us about telepathy, Monferno hadn't said a word.
“Is there something wrong, Chimchar?” I asked.
“Hmm........” He said, the first thing in a long time.
“YOU SEEM BOTHERED BY SOMETHING, MONFERNO.” Dilaga pointed out.
“I just feel left out.” Chimchar said sheepishly. “If Saori, Ken, and Kinichi are the only ones that can use this ability, then what good am I to the team? I will be left out of the loop and if we lose it will most likely be my fault.” It wasn't like Monferno to be so hurt by something. This must really bother him.
“ACTUALLY, I WAS THINKING THAT THERE IS A WAY FOR YOU TO LEARN THIS ABILITY, TOO. IF SAORI, KEN, AND KINICHI CAN GIVE YOU SOME OF THEIR HUMAN ENERGY, THEN YOU CAN PROBABLY LEARN TELEPATHY THROUGH THE EXACT SAME METHOD AS THEM.”
“Is it the same way that I did it the last time?” I asked Dialga.
“YES. YOU FOCUS YOUR ENERGY AND REALEASE IT ONTO YOUR HANDS SO THAT IT BECOMES TANGIBLE. ONCE YOU DO THAT, TOUCH IT AGAINST MONFERNO'S CHEST AND HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ABSORB IT NO PROBLEM.”
“Honestly?!” Chimchar said, excitement showing on his face as a grin that could not be mistaken for anything else, his eyes full of joy that he would not be a burden to us.
I decided that I may as well be the first to give him some energy. “How much do I give him?”
“NOT MUCH AT ALL. JUST ENOUGH SO THAT YOU CAN HOLD IT WITH ONE HAND.” In an instant I had the energy in my hand. The feeling of it was like riding a bike. I would never really forget how to release this energy for as long as I lived. I walked over to Monferno and pressed it gently against his chest. Without even a noticeable effort on Monferno's part, the orb of energy easily went into his body and for a slight moment he glowed dimly. Ken concentrated hard and after a few seconds put it on top of his head. He carefully walked to Monferno and I and pushed his head into Monferno and his energy went into Monferno and for a second time, for just a moment, he glowed but this time it was much brighter. Kinichi was last. We turned around and saw her staring intently at her hand. She almost seemed to be breaking out in a sweat.
“Kinichi, look deep inside yourself and imagine yourself pulling the energy right out of you.” I coached to her.
She seemed to get it because the sweat disappeared from her face and a huge glowing ball appeared in her hand.
“Not that much!”
She quickly shrank down the size of her energy and placed into Monferno. He erupted in glowing light and shown brighter than the sun itself. It took about 30 seconds before he finally dimmed so that we could look at him. He stood there a little shocked at the event that just happened.
“How do you feel?” Ken asked in concern.
“Very different, like I just found the other half of my being. I also feel warm around my chest and like I could do so much more than the typical pokemon.”
“IT SEEMS THAT THE TRANSFER WAS A SUCCESS. AND NOW, I THINK WE SHOULD TEST MONFERNO WITH HIS NEW HUMAN ENERGY AND GET YOU ALL TO LINK TOGETHER AND LEARN TO COMMUNICATE TELEPATHICALLY. TAKE A SEAT, SINCE THIS COULD TAKE VERY LONG. LITERALLY LOSE YORSELF INSIDE YOUR SUBSCONCIOUS AND MAKE YOUR WAY TO EACH OTHER.”
We all did exactly as we were told. I concentrated and did kind of what I would do to access my human energy except instead going to my energy I went another path and into what I could only assume was my subconscious. I was at a door in the middle of black. There was a sign on it that said “subconscious.” I turned the doorknob and opened the door. In it was the same blackness as what was around me now. It almost seemed like the door led nowhere at all. Nevertheless, I stepped through and made the first step into learning to communicate telepathically.