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Kevin and Buizel (Second edition)

Chapter 11: Waive Away

"So Buizel, are you prepared?" Mathias asked my friend. Buizel nodded and he spoke. Mathias paid close attention to what Buizel said the whole way, he then told me everything as he finished translating. "Buizel wants to know how you enjoyed being a Pokémon." I liked the question, but as Mathias translated, I felt something amiss.

"It was honestly fun, but I felt very depressed without knowing where you were or what had happened to you, I was really worried." Buizel smiled and then spoke a bit more, I really wished that I could understand him myself.

"Buizel is asking more on what it felt like being like him." Mathias said, I couldn't pinpoint what was bothering me about this, it felt rather crucial. I had always wanted to be able to speak to my best friend, so why did it make me so uncomfortable now? Wasn't this what I had always wanted?

"Well, the feeling of being a Buizel was more than exciting, the fur was weird, the form was very different, but it was a good different and I could understand Pokémon as if I had understood the language from the very start." And then I realized what bothered me, "when I spoke with Pokémon it was like hearing regular people, family and friends that I spoke with my whole life, I was able to understand tone differences and how the sound of every Pokémon related to a different personality they had, especially while listening to Cain and Kyla. Cain had a greater and calmer sounding voice while Kyla's was more carefree and soothing. People would not be able to tell the difference but I could! I could not understand Pokémon when they spoke; I felt it deep within that I understood who they were. And every single Pokémon is so different!" Mathias paid close attention to every word I said. "I really felt their personality, like when you can tell someone is very dedicated with what they do, or when you can still someone is rather sophisticated. There are such small differences but it made me feel like I could really understand Pokémon, finally after all this time." I stopped, realizing all I had said, I saw Kaiser poking at me with his wand and sticking his tongue out at me, I somehow knew what he meant with that. Mathias looked very closely at me, slightly worried.

"What do you really want then?" His tone was a bit more concerning that I had grasped it to be.

"I need to be able to understand Pokémon just like I did when I became a Buizel." Mathias placed his hands on his face, I suppose that he was yet exhausted from being out all day looking to just help me get my friend back. "I know I might be a huge bother, but I want to be able to communicate with Pokémon myself." Mathias interrupted me, and he shook his finger at me.

"That is one thing I can't do Kevin. I'm very sorry." Hearing this made me sad and also infuriated; I didn't feel like continuing translation until I was able to understand Buizel as I did when I was a Pokémon. "If I could grant that to every human, I would, but the spell doesn't exist at all, believe me, I've tried."

"But there must be a way Mathias, you are the greatest magician there is!"

"I might be the great Braxier you know, but even I have my limits." Mathias pondered to himself slightly while tapping the table with his wooden wand. "There actually have been many people who have attempted to speak directly to their Pokémon. Soon after some time, an old enchantment was found that got many people interested in the past." Mathias took a sip of coffee.

"What kind of magic was this?" I asked curiously.

"Well, there have been many witches who have tried the old recipe to make you think like a Pokémon and to be able to understand them, it had severe backfires." I wonder what sort of issues had happened. "People were not expecting the fact that the spell transformed you entirely into the Pokémon you chose." Mathias said as he finished his cup. "You make really good coffee." Mathias yawned.

"So wait, you are saying that there is a spell that can transform you into a Pokémon?" I asked, curiously.

"Indeed, there have been witches that claim to have been able to decipher a way to speak to your Pokémon with the spell by adding different ingredients. This also doesn't always work well. So the best logical thing I did was remove the spell extension for it to last a few hours." Mathias said as he yawned once more."

"So you destroyed the spell?"

"Just the duration of it, there are few people who remember this well. But this piece changes the spell from being a couple of hours, to entirely permanent. The benefit of it being permanent is that you eventually learn to speak to Pokémon." Mathias said as he looked down at his cup.

Hearing this gave me a glimmer of hope to want I really wanted, sure, I couldn't understand Buizel, but I would if I was a Pokémon again! And then I started thinking for what probably got me wondering for hours in my head, there was a transformation spell that I could probably use for my own benefit, but the huge issue was, that Mathias' transformation spell would be permanent. Was I ready to give away such a thing as my human life? Wait, was I really thinking on this? It would mean I would surrender to my humanity entirely!

"Mathias! What if we use that transformation spell on me?" Mathias looked at me in shock; he couldn't believe what he was hearing and in all honesty, neither did I.

"But Kevin, we just got you back! And the transformation is permanent! You will never be able to be human ever again!" Mathias said shocked to what I had asked.

"But it's okay! You know transformation magic so you can change me back!" As soon as I said this, Mathias sighed, he was tapping with his wand nervously.

"No Kevin, I can't..." I didn't understand, wasn't he a great magician after all? I guess there were limits in magic just like there were in music; there are certain sounds one is able to make. "I can easily transform you into a Pokémon, but I can't transform you back into a human. The only reason I could bring you back this first time was solely because it was your soul that was locked inside a body, you didn't really transform." I was quite disappointed.

"But why isn't it possible?"

"Well, it's easy to create a new body type; it's excruciatingly hard to redo an already existing one." I think I understood. "There are landmarks; there are specifics of a body all that sort of stuff. I took about fifteen or so years to finally get down my human and Pokémon appearance." After Mathias has explained the dilemma, I felt quite sad. But why didn't it really matter to me?

"What if Buizel became a human instead?" I asked Mathias, he shook his head.

"I can definitely assure you that the human language is a thousand times harder than the Pokémon language." Then why didn't humans learn to speak to Pokémon? "It takes a Pokémon heart to learn the Pokémon language correctly, but it takes a human brain to learn the human language." That made sense to me, Buizel thought like a Pokémon and that can't change. Having a Pokémon heart is something that some people could change, and didn't Kaiser also say that he saw me more like a Pokémon?

"What if you transformed me for a couple of days? Would that work?" I asked.

Mathias shook his head, "no, the spell that allows you to be a Pokémon temporally has never been able to let you speak like a Pokémon. I don't know why, I mean, I have had people ask me for this as well. There have been a few people that have desired to be a Pokémon; none of them would do it permanently. But all of them were never able to speak to their Pokémon, even the guy that was a Pokémon for a whole month." Mathias thought for a bit. "The permanent version of this spell is actually able to make you learn the Pokémon language fairly quickly." Mathias poked at me with his wand, "you know though, becoming a Pokémon isn't that bad of an idea. I just wish I could do it without giving your human form away" Mathias smiled at me.

Becoming a Pokémon was a really inviting idea to me. But I would never be a human ever again, this was a big risk that I was not sure I could handle, and even if I did choose to become a Pokémon, what would I tell my parents? What should I tell my friends? Where would I go from there? Would I just live in the wild? All these were very big concerns to me.

Was I being jealous? Or was I being greedy? Was I really greedy to not let my humanity go for my best friend, but it is a big thing to give away. This is giving away your possible future, but what was my future? It was to be with my best friend and playing music. Was I really giving my future away, or was I reassuring it? Was this just a thing I wanted for a bit? As I thought on it, I wanted to be a Buizel right beside Buizel himself. Was that what I desired all along?

Mathias got up and went to get more coffee, I looked at Buizel for a moment and it got me thinking, was my entire human life worth listening to my best friend? I stared idly at the everstone that my Pokémon had around his neck, I was reminded of the past we shared, of all the grand moments we played music and the days we shared together, and most specially the night where I really started to understand my best friend better. We were both always very happy; I would give anything for my friend. So it's not my Buizel that has to change. It is I who has to change something.

Yes, this is what I have to do. I was absolutely certain of this.

"Mathias," I said as he walked back and sat down, "Let's do this; I want to be a Buizel." I said confidently, I was sure of my decision, everyone was surprised by my decision, I noticed Buizel's eyes widen with surprise. Mathias was stunned as he looked at me.

"You are joking... right?"

"You said that it was a good idea."

"It is if I could keep your human form as well, not for you to surrender to it! Think of everything you are losing, I mean... think of the coffee!" I simply scoffed at his last comment.

"That is completely fine, I thought of it very well, and I am certain that I want to become a Buizel, even if it means not being a human ever again." As I said this, Buizel ran towards me, he then quickly smiled and came close to hug me, he talked to me very quickly but I couldn't understand a thing, it didn't matter now because I will soon will talk to him myself.

"Buizel said that he couldn't believe it, he asked if you were sure, and that it would be so cool to have his best friend be a Buizel too" Mathias shook his head and stared at me directly. "But Kevin, you will not be able to be human ever again." Mathias said. I was aware of that.

"I have to think about a few things first, but I must do this, I must make this huge change for my friend." I hugged Buizel, "I'd do anything for my best friend." I saw Kaiser giggling; he spoke something to Mathias that I couldn't understand.

"Kaiser says that he always knew that you wouldn't be able resist not being a Pokémon." Mathias said seriously as he stared at me. "Are you sure of what you will do Kevin?"

"Absolutely sure, but there are things I have to do before I transform." I felt like losing the human life didn't matter that much, but it did make me uneasy as I thought about it. Was I really going to waive away my human life just to talk to my friend? "First of all I must tell my parents what I will do." Was I never going to talk to my family again? What about George? No, there is no way I could tell George, he would mock me forever. "I also don't want to get captured by another trainer; I got to figure that out first..." This I didn't know how to resolve.

Mathias yet concerned warned me, "that actually is a big deal. You could all always stay around with me, but I would have to pay more money for food and all that silly stuff." Mathias wondered for himself a bit. "Why can't you humans just give the food anyway like we do?" Mathias wondered, at times I always seem to forget that he is actually a Pokémon.

"It's not how things work for humans."

"Well, in any case, the safest way to be with your friend and not get captured by anyone is to go along with a human." And as soon as Mathias said it, the idea popped. And the plan was absolutely perfect, and the best part of all, is that I would also be able to keep a promise.

"I got a splendid idea for that! Although, you might have to help me find someone later on when I transform Mathias."

"Um, of course, how could I help later on?" Mathias asked, I looked at the phone behind me and got up from the table.

"I'll let you know, I need to contact my parents." I was walking towards the phone, but Mathias grabbed my shoulder.

"Kevin, are you sure you want to do this? You got really lucky to be separated from Buizel, but now you want to become one. You should think this a bit more." Mathias said to me, but I had thought about it already, I felt almost as if I wanted this. Kaiser said it, he sees me more of a Pokémon, so perhaps there is some truth to that. I would do anything for my friend, if I transform I really wouldn't have many issues, my fans might wonder but I could always tell my parents to invent something to cover for me.

"I've thought about it already and my decision stands." I said as I walked towards the phone.

Never would I think to make such a decision in the past, but as I've recalled many times before. There is something really special about the Pokémon world that I really want to be a part of, and it was clearly present when I had taken over the body of my friend. This is absolutely what I need; I have to become a Pokémon.

I called my parents and I saw both of them there, the smiles on their faces as they greeted me really got to me, I had the feeling that I would never see them again for some reason. But I had a plan to not be at all disconnected from my parents at least. I was very nervous, how would my parents even react to what I wanted to do? Would they approve of such notion?

"Hi mom, hi dad!" I greeted briefly, I was nervous as I spoke, "there is something really important I want to talk about." Before I could talk however, my mother spoke before me.

"Kevin dear, you were away for a very long time; people were really worried for you! Your father and I were worried that you might've really been missing. What happened?" My mother asked, the kindness of her voice got to me, the tone brought to me the memories of the past, of moments when me and my mother hugged together and spent time as family, how she was always there for me when I got bullied at school, he lunches she made, when she tucked me away to sleep when I was younger. All of those memories are now flashing through my mind and they are hitting me very hard.

My father spoke as well, "son, we told you countless times to at least tell George were you are going before camping or before heading another direction to spend time." My father was the voice of reason, without him I wonder where I would've even gone to in life. After all, he was the one that told me to follow my dreams. Would my new dream of becoming a Pokémon change his mind? "At least now we know that you are safe," said my father, "I thought we had lost you forever." At this point I realized that if I didn't say anything now, it was going to be harder for me to tell them what I wanted to do.

"Mother, Father... there is something really important that I'm going to do, and I'm not sure if you are going to like it." Both of my parents were a bit shocked, they looked at me as they waited for what I had to say. "It was a very hard decision for me, but... “It was hard to say, I didn't want to disappoint my parents.

My mother was an impatient one at times, "come son, tell us. There is nothing you could possibly say that may surprise us."

"I'm going to become a Pokémon."

My father almost choked on his drink, my mother gasped at what I had said. My mom just couldn't believe it.

"But son, that's ridiculous! And even if it were possible, what will you do as a Pokémon?" My mother asked, my father was recovering from coughing and he also had something to say.

"Karen, this isn't even something we should discuss with him! There is no way Kevin can be a Pokémon anyway." My father exclaimed, I had to make them understand somehow.

"I know it sounds absurd, but there is definitely a way to transform me into a Pokémon, the problem is that I just can't be a human again." I realized late that I probably shouldn't have said that. My mother's jaw opened wide and my father had a hard time regaining his composure, "look I know how much this news affects you, but..." I was going to say until my father coughed loudly.

"Kevin, there is no way we are going to allow you be a Pokémon! Just listen to yourself, it's preposterous to even think of such things! There is no way we are going to give you permission to simply become a Pokémon and let your whole music career fade away." My father said all of this as calm as he could, but his anger was evident.

"No dad, I'm not asking you for permission. I'm just letting you know of what I'm going to do, this is why I'm calling." My decision had already been made, no matter how this conversation turns out, I need to change, and I need to do this for my friend. My mother then stood up quickly and left, it made me sad to just see her abandon this phone call like that, I didn't want to see my mother like this, not before I transformed.

My father was looking away as well, I thought at first that he was waiting for me to hang up on then, but my father was looking at where my mother went, I could clearly hear my mother's footsteps running back towards the call. She had a book with her and a pen. "Son! If you are going to go out there and be a nosey Pokémon, you have to tell me all of what you see!" My mother said as she smiled, she opened the book and readied her pen. "You must tell me every detail. This is going to be invaluable information for the future!"

"Mom, but how will I speak? I won't speak like a normal human being again!" I explained, my mother chuckled.

"But you know how to write! Do you not?" My mother said to me as she was writing something down. "If you are going to become a Pokémon, I'll demand a letter a week with everything you get to learn from the Pokémon world!" My father looked at her a bit surprised.

"Karen! Are you saying that he should just become a Pokémon and leave?" My father said to her, my mother scoffed at him.

"Honey please, he is already a grown man and he has all the right to do what he pleases with his life, it is his body, not ours." My mother kept writing down something on her book. "Besides, this will be a grand experience for him, a clear sign of growing up as well!"

"Mom, what are you writing?" I asked as I pointed at her book.

"Oh! I'm just getting started on my grand new book! I call it "My son the Pokémon", it's just a working title. It's hard to get inspiration these days." I was quite humbled that my own mother would write down a book based on my Pokémon experiences, I understood then why she wanted to know so much.

"Mom, that's very cool of you..."

"Now tell me what has happened so far, I need a back story to this!" I had never seen my mother so excited about something. "Every bit of detail, please!"

I decided to tell her everything, from when I tried to get team rocket to translate for me, Adam's rescue, the pokeball capturing us, my first experience as a Pokémon, the magic, I told everything that I could recall to this point. As my mother wrote she looked excited, as if she had recovered something long lost, maybe she found what strives her to write once more. The excitement behind something new and enticing. It made me very happy to recover that side of her, it made me revalidate my decision.

My father had to go to work, but I gave my deepest goodbyes and thanks to my father. He told me yet to follow my dreams, he didn't really agree to my decision to become a Pokémon, but he respected my dreams, and that made me very happy inside.

"Kevin dear, you definitely have to show me how you look as a Buizel!" My mom said.

"Mom, how do you know I'm going to be a Buizel?" As I said this my mother disregarded it, as if I should know.

"Oh Kevin Kevin Kevin, I know my son very well, it is only obvious you would be a Buizel for your best friend." My mother closed the book, "you do act like a Pokémon sometimes, you know?" That comment from my mother had caught me off guard, first Kaiser and now my mother, they are saying that I'm quite Pokémon-like?

"Someone said something similar, why do you say I act like a Pokémon?" I asked, wanting to know.

"Well Kevin, you always seem happier around Pokémon, that is why I wanted you to have my Pokémon books after all." My mother smiled at me as she said this. Maybe this was why my mother approved of my decision, she wanted me to be happy. "You always had a better time with Pokémon than with George or with any of your friends." That made sense...

I told my mother that I was going to call again, or rather Mathias was going to call her, as soon as the transformation was done. Before I hung up my mother told me that no matter what and no matter where, she would always love me. "Don't be scared when you change." My mother said, I quickly recalled my birthday.

"There is one thing I don't understand mom, when you gave me the Everstone, you told me to never change who I was. But here I am now, about to transform into a Buizel." My mother shed a tear, but she was very joyful, she even laughed to herself a bit. "I mean, doesn't it bother you that I'm going to change in the end?"

"Kevin, you are not changing who you are, you might change your outside appearance, but you are always going to be the son I know. A son that has a heart of gold and that he would do anything for his best friend. By changing, you are strengthening who you really are, this is a grand step for the lives of anyone." And then she said goodbye to me, reminded me of the necklace, said that she loved me and then hung up.

After speaking to my family, I had doubts on transforming into a Pokémon, but then again my mother gave me her full approval, and I can also help her with the book she is writing. Mathias tapped me in the shoulder with his stick, everything was ready.

Everyone was staring at me, all my Pokémon, Kaiser and especially Buizel. Mathias was practicing some wording or some sort, I could clearly see him talking to himself. Buizel approached me and spoke something that I didn't understand. Mathias quickly turned around as he heard my Pokémon.

"Buizel says that you don't necessarily have to do this for him." I appreciated that Buizel cared for me yet.

"This is something I want to do." I said to my friend.

"There is still time to change your mind, I can always translate for you so that you get to know what Buizel is saying." I appreciated that he was really concerned for me as well, although I had to do this.

"I'm already decided." I said confidently, I was starting to shake, I had no clue how this would go down.

"Alright, this might hurt a little Kevin, but I hope you can resist all the painful parts of this process." Mathias said as he was reciting some words.

"Painful parts? Why pain?" I hoped that Mathias was just joking around.

"Because my transformation spell is instant mostly because I've done this so many times back and forth. In your case, the transformation will be slower, therefore you will definitely feel certain changes as they happen." I thought on possibly what these could be, "don't worry Kevin, I'll make this as fast as I possibly can, just prepare yourself mentally because this will and is going to hurt" Mathias reassured, I trusted in Mathias' ability to transform me. I looked at myself one last time, and awaited the transformation.

Mathias waved his wand and said some words I could not understand. I had thought there was more to it, but it all suddenly stopped. "Mathias, what is the matter?" After I said that my head started to hurt a little bit, but then it passed quickly, I shook my head to awaken up a little.

"Whoa, that was strange." I said as I saw Mathias had his magic wand lifted with his eyes closed. "Uh is everything okay Mathias?" Buizel spoke loudly, but he wasn't staring at me now, he pointed directly at my hair. I noticed then that I had the same hair coloration than a Buizel's fur, it was starting. I noticed Buizel was excited and his eyes were open wide watching me.

I was about to say something to Buizel, but I felt a chill around my whole body, it threw me to the floor of how strong it was, I quickly got tired and it was impossible to stand upright. Then a feeling of pain began growing quickly throughout my entire body, it's the feeling of when your body is aching but I felt it grow in my body every time more and more and it kept going on non-stop. It was starting to grow from aches, to burden to feeling the pain I have from cuts, and finally arriving to a painful sensation that screamed from within my soul. The pain was so intense that I screamed, I wonder how worried Buizel was for me, I didn't want to make him too worried. I then felt my body numb all around, I could still feel some pain but I was able to tolerate it more. I hadn't noticed until now, but my limbs were already shaping out to be more of a Buizel's anatomy. My body trembled, my bones were as shattered as glass around the extremities, and I felt my muscles tear like paper.

"Hopefully you can withstand this, I can't stop at any moment, or it could be disastrous for you." Mathias said as he focused.

I had to withstand this pain, I was so close already, or that's what I would like to think. I looked at Buizel, he did seem worried, but he was nevertheless happy. "Don't worry Buizel, I'll be compl..." I was saying when suddenly no words came from my mouth, I tried to breathe, but I couldn't, I was choking! No! I hate Choking! Everything except choking! I kept trying to breathe with the best of my efforts, I tried to grab my neck as I was choking but couldn't, I couldn't breathe at all. My lungs began to burn wildly.

My whole body began to hurt, pain just grew from every inch of my body, I couldn't stand it, I wanted it to be over with already but I had to endure this pain, I had to for my best friend.

Suddenly the pain in my lungs vanished, I could breathe once more. I took a really deep breath to fill my lungs once again, still frightened. I was able to breathe deeper than I thought I would. I have never breathed so deep before, I feel a lot better than before, did the transformation give me better lungs? I smelled the air, my sense had astonishingly increased. It smelled like I was outside, but I clearly know that I'm inside Mathias' house, colors changed slightly, some fading while others were brighter, the blues were all beautiful while the oranges fades ever so slightly.

I began to have lots of chills throughout my whole body, I felt my skin itch as a very distinct pattern of small hairs was forming. I assumed it was the fur, my new fur felt very soft. As the transformation went on I had to look at my hands, they were paws now, I watched them and glanced at them. I was so enthralled with how my new body was starting to feel that I felt my tail tickle around my body, it currently had no control over it. Some changed were happening without my notice.

My body hurt and burnt the same as every limb did, my body seemed to get smaller and lots of fur grew from it. As that happened, my neck began to feel somewhat hollow, but I realized it wasn't my neck, it was the floatation sac that had settled around my neck. I was so interested in feeling my body during the rest of the transformation that I didn't even realize when my cranium snapped. The force of the crack made me dizzy and my vision became blurry, the sounds of my environment beeped loudly. My skull kept breaking until I couldn't even feel my face because it. I was blinded with pain and a burning feeling, I touched my face and I had a maw, although it still had a bit of skin. The fur was growing slowly at a steady pace, the chills still remained, those exciting feelings grew stronger, if I could I would be making up a song in my mind about how this feels, but there were so many mixed feelings.

At this point I was way too exhausted and I fell flat on the floor letting the rest of the transformation happen, it was about to end, or so I thought, I was a human no longer, and the thought itself felt great for me, maybe I really wanted to be a Pokémon deep in my heart after all. Maybe I had become a Pokémon when me and Buizel hugged that very night below the storms, could it be that way? As I saw my body I could realize that I had become a Buizel completely already, I am not a human anymore… I have become a Pokémon, this time forever. I thought so much about my humanity that I was repeating myself over and over, but I traded my humanity away, the thought of not being a human anymore lingered deeply within me throughout the whole process, thinking of it over, my humanity gone, I at times thought nothing was real, that it was all a dream. This felt too true to be a mere dream, it was real and it was happening.

I thought that it was over but the transformation didn't stop yet. My head began to hurt way too much, even harder than I thought. What was Mathias doing now? I couldn't stand this pain, this was the most agony I have ever felt in my entire life, I yelled very loudly in the room.

"I ca-!" I tried to yell, "I ca-" I tried once again. I did my best to speak this time. "I- Bui... Bui! Bui bui!"

I tried to say that I couldn't stand the pain, but it was evident, I started to lose my human language. My tongue was changing as well, my neck was still burning and as I spoke it burned way more, I assumed my vocal chords were changing.

"Bui bui!" As I spoke in my new Pokémon tongue I couldn't avoid but to feel happy, with this, I felt that the transformation was completely over. Buizel ran towards me and hugged me. What was so interesting was that this time I could hug Buizel properly, we were the same size now after all. Mathias looked down on me, with a smile on his face.

"And it is done Kevin. You are now a Buizel." I looked up at Mathias and smiled.

"Bui!" I realized something very important. I couldn't understand myself when I spoke. I was instantly concerned, was my transformation all for nothing? As Buizel spoke to me I really didn't understand a thing he said, that made me worried.

"You are now Buizel, you are not taking over Buizel's body, you will learn the Pokémon language soon, but you have to let the spell have some time." I asked if I was going to be able to speak soon. "Impressively, your communication skills match the ones of a Pokémon perfectly, at least I was able to get that around. Somewhere around 2 hours or a day you'll be able to speak to Pokémon properly." That was very relieving to me. It meant that I was going to be able to talk to Buizel in about an hour...

I closed my eyes to be able to have some sleep as the transformation left me completely exhausted. Adapting to the new Pokémon world might be a bit complicated, but I'm sure I could manage. All I wanted was to talk to my best friend. I relaxed for a bit until Mathias picked me up from the pile of clothes I had around me.

"Come Kevin, let's show how you look like to your mother." I wondered how my mother would react as soon as she saw me. Mathias set up the call, the phone was picked up rather quickly.

"Hello Mrs. Karen, everything went smoothly and your son is safe." Mathias said, he then raised me up and showed me through the video feed of the call, my mother gasped and stared at me for what could have been about ten full minutes.

"Kevin..." My mother was sure it was me, "he still has his eyes, I can still see him there." My mother was still able to recognize me despite being a Pokémon, of course, Mathias had told her it was me, but I felt that she was entirely sure. I smiled and waved back at my mom, she still couldn't believe it. "Oh gosh Kevin, you make a very cute Pokémon!" I laughed a bit as she said that. "I can still notice that he has a bit of his hairstyle there as well." As she made this remark, I touched my skull and there was indeed a lot of fur, it definitely resembled the hairstyle I had.

"I took some liberties when I casted the spell, I thought that the only way you would recognize him would be with the hair still somewhat there." Mathias said.

"I always saw my son through his eyes, it told me everything about how he was feeling when he was younger. Now I see happiness greater than I had ever seen within him, even greater than when he played with his Pokémon." Was it really that evident how happy I was?

"Bui bui bui!" I tried to speak, but I covered my mouth as I giggled, I forgot that I couldn't speak to human. I realized once again how bothersome it must've been for my friend to speak to me without me being able to understand him. I saw my mother smile when I spoke with a Pokémon tongue.

"Oh Kevin dear..." My mother said.

"Kevin says that he is happy." I could see my mother's happiness all the time, she was still writing frantically on her book as the conversation went on.

"Remember son, I expect to hear from you." Then she looked at me with a smile. "Please don't forget to visit." I nodded to her, "and also write if you need to talk with anyone! You can still contact with people that way." I winked an eye at her, "that diamond necklace is very expensive, use that if you need any money." My mother put down her book and looked at us before hanging up. "Hugs and kisses my little Pokémon son! Please visit me someday!" I motioned a kiss towards her and waved goodbye.

The video turned off and Mathias placed me on the ground. I attempted to take a step but I tripped over, my body was still somewhat numb and it was hard to adapt myself to walk like a Pokémon. Buizel ran towards me and gave me a hug, he spoke countless words to me, unfortunately I still couldn't understand any of it.

"Well Kevin, let's get going. We got to take you to that guy you mentioned earlier." Mathias said, and everyone started to get ready, Mathias picked up my clothes and guitar bag, he packed everything there.

Just a few hours more and I'll be able to talk to my friend, and I'll be able to listen to him directly. For now, I had to set the plan that I currently had in motion. I told my mother to invent some sort of story so people wouldn't think I was still missing, but I had to find someone in particular to help me. I'm a Pokémon, that part is done. Now I had to assure I wasn't captured by another trainer.

The only way, is to go and see my friend.

To be continued…

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And now a very important moment of the story happpens.

Not gonna say anything about the story. But the changes I had done from the original are seen here, also removing deus ex machina.

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Kevin and Buizel (Second edition)

Chapter 11: Waive Away

"So Buizel, are you prepared?" Mathias asked my friend. Buizel nodded and he spoke. Mathias paid close attention to what Buizel said the whole way, he then told me everything as he finished translating. "Buizel wants to know how you enjoyed being a Pokémon." I liked the question, but as Mathias translated, I felt something amiss.

"It was honestly fun, but I felt very depressed without knowing where you were or what had happened to you, I was really worried." Buizel smiled and then spoke a bit more, I really wished that I could understand him myself.

"Buizel is asking more on what it felt like being like him." Mathias said, I couldn't pinpoint what was bothering me about this, it felt rather crucial. I had always wanted to be able to speak to my best friend, so why did it make me so uncomfortable now? Wasn't this what I had always wanted?

"Well, the feeling of being a Buizel was more than exciting, the fur was weird, the form was very different, but it was a good different and I could understand Pokémon as if I had understood the language from the very start." And then I realized what bothered me, "when I spoke with Pokémon it was like hearing regular people, family and friends that I spoke with my whole life, I was able to understand tone differences and how the sound of every Pokémon related to a different personality they had, especially while listening to Cain and Kyla. Cain had a greater and calmer sounding voice while Kyla's was more carefree and soothing. People would not be able to tell the difference but I could! I could not understand Pokémon when they spoke; I felt it deep within that I understood who they were. And every single Pokémon is so different!" Mathias paid close attention to every word I said. "I really felt their personality, like when you can tell someone is very dedicated with what they do, or when you can still someone is rather sophisticated. There are such small differences but it made me feel like I could really understand Pokémon, finally after all this time." I stopped, realizing all I had said, I saw Kaiser poking at me with his wand and sticking his tongue out at me, I somehow knew what he meant with that. Mathias looked very closely at me, slightly worried.

"What do you really want then?" His tone was a bit more concerning that I had grasped it to be.

"I need to be able to understand Pokémon just like I did when I became a Buizel." Mathias placed his hands on his face, I suppose that he was yet exhausted from being out all day looking to just help me get my friend back. "I know I might be a huge bother, but I want to be able to communicate with Pokémon myself." Mathias interrupted me, and he shook his finger at me.

"That is one thing I can't do Kevin. I'm very sorry." Hearing this made me sad and also infuriated; I didn't feel like continuing translation until I was able to understand Buizel as I did when I was a Pokémon. "If I could grant that to every human, I would, but the spell doesn't exist at all, believe me, I've tried."

"But there must be a way Mathias, you are the greatest magician there is!"

"I might be the great Braxier you know, but even I have my limits." Mathias pondered to himself slightly while tapping the table with his wooden wand. "There actually have been many people who have attempted to speak directly to their Pokémon. Soon after some time, an old enchantment was found that got many people interested in the past." Mathias took a sip of coffee.

"What kind of magic was this?" I asked curiously.

"Well, there have been many witches who have tried the old recipe to make you think like a Pokémon and to be able to understand them, it had severe backfires." I wonder what sort of issues had happened. "People were not expecting the fact that the spell transformed you entirely into the Pokémon you chose." Mathias said as he finished his cup. "You make really good coffee." Mathias yawned.

"So wait, you are saying that there is a spell that can transform you into a Pokémon?" I asked, curiously.

"Indeed, there have been witches that claim to have been able to decipher a way to speak to your Pokémon with the spell by adding different ingredients. This also doesn't always work well. So the best logical thing I did was remove the spell extension for it to last a few hours." Mathias said as he yawned once more."

"So you destroyed the spell?"

"Just the duration of it, there are few people who remember this well. But this piece changes the spell from being a couple of hours, to entirely permanent. The benefit of it being permanent is that you eventually learn to speak to Pokémon." Mathias said as he looked down at his cup.

Hearing this gave me a glimmer of hope to want I really wanted, sure, I couldn't understand Buizel, but I would if I was a Pokémon again! And then I started thinking for what probably got me wondering for hours in my head, there was a transformation spell that I could probably use for my own benefit, but the huge issue was, that Mathias' transformation spell would be permanent. Was I ready to give away such a thing as my human life? Wait, was I really thinking on this? It would mean I would surrender to my humanity entirely!

"Mathias! What if we use that transformation spell on me?" Mathias looked at me in shock; he couldn't believe what he was hearing and in all honesty, neither did I.

"But Kevin, we just got you back! And the transformation is permanent! You will never be able to be human ever again!" Mathias said shocked to what I had asked.

"But it's okay! You know transformation magic so you can change me back!" As soon as I said this, Mathias sighed, he was tapping with his wand nervously.

"No Kevin, I can't..." I didn't understand, wasn't he a great magician after all? I guess there were limits in magic just like there were in music; there are certain sounds one is able to make. "I can easily transform you into a Pokémon, but I can't transform you back into a human. The only reason I could bring you back this first time was solely because it was your soul that was locked inside a body, you didn't really transform." I was quite disappointed.

"But why isn't it possible?"

"Well, it's easy to create a new body type; it's excruciatingly hard to redo an already existing one." I think I understood. "There are landmarks; there are specifics of a body all that sort of stuff. I took about fifteen or so years to finally get down my human and Pokémon appearance." After Mathias has explained the dilemma, I felt quite sad. But why didn't it really matter to me?

"What if Buizel became a human instead?" I asked Mathias, he shook his head.

"I can definitely assure you that the human language is a thousand times harder than the Pokémon language." Then why didn't humans learn to speak to Pokémon? "It takes a Pokémon heart to learn the Pokémon language correctly, but it takes a human brain to learn the human language." That made sense to me, Buizel thought like a Pokémon and that can't change. Having a Pokémon heart is something that some people could change, and didn't Kaiser also say that he saw me more like a Pokémon?

"What if you transformed me for a couple of days? Would that work?" I asked.

Mathias shook his head, "no, the spell that allows you to be a Pokémon temporally has never been able to let you speak like a Pokémon. I don't know why, I mean, I have had people ask me for this as well. There have been a few people that have desired to be a Pokémon; none of them would do it permanently. But all of them were never able to speak to their Pokémon, even the guy that was a Pokémon for a whole month." Mathias thought for a bit. "The permanent version of this spell is actually able to make you learn the Pokémon language fairly quickly." Mathias poked at me with his wand, "you know though, becoming a Pokémon isn't that bad of an idea. I just wish I could do it without giving your human form away" Mathias smiled at me.

Becoming a Pokémon was a really inviting idea to me. But I would never be a human ever again, this was a big risk that I was not sure I could handle, and even if I did choose to become a Pokémon, what would I tell my parents? What should I tell my friends? Where would I go from there? Would I just live in the wild? All these were very big concerns to me.

Was I being jealous? Or was I being greedy? Was I really greedy to not let my humanity go for my best friend, but it is a big thing to give away. This is giving away your possible future, but what was my future? It was to be with my best friend and playing music. Was I really giving my future away, or was I reassuring it? Was this just a thing I wanted for a bit? As I thought on it, I wanted to be a Buizel right beside Buizel himself. Was that what I desired all along?

Mathias got up and went to get more coffee, I looked at Buizel for a moment and it got me thinking, was my entire human life worth listening to my best friend? I stared idly at the everstone that my Pokémon had around his neck, I was reminded of the past we shared, of all the grand moments we played music and the days we shared together, and most specially the night where I really started to understand my best friend better. We were both always very happy; I would give anything for my friend. So it's not my Buizel that has to change. It is I who has to change something.

Yes, this is what I have to do. I was absolutely certain of this.

"Mathias," I said as he walked back and sat down, "Let's do this; I want to be a Buizel." I said confidently, I was sure of my decision, everyone was surprised by my decision, I noticed Buizel's eyes widen with surprise. Mathias was stunned as he looked at me.

"You are joking... right?"

"You said that it was a good idea."

"It is if I could keep your human form as well, not for you to surrender to it! Think of everything you are losing, I mean... think of the coffee!" I simply scoffed at his last comment.

"That is completely fine, I thought of it very well, and I am certain that I want to become a Buizel, even if it means not being a human ever again." As I said this, Buizel ran towards me, he then quickly smiled and came close to hug me, he talked to me very quickly but I couldn't understand a thing, it didn't matter now because I will soon will talk to him myself.

"Buizel said that he couldn't believe it, he asked if you were sure, and that it would be so cool to have his best friend be a Buizel too" Mathias shook his head and stared at me directly. "But Kevin, you will not be able to be human ever again." Mathias said. I was aware of that.

"I have to think about a few things first, but I must do this, I must make this huge change for my friend." I hugged Buizel, "I'd do anything for my best friend." I saw Kaiser giggling; he spoke something to Mathias that I couldn't understand.

"Kaiser says that he always knew that you wouldn't be able resist not being a Pokémon." Mathias said seriously as he stared at me. "Are you sure of what you will do Kevin?"

"Absolutely sure, but there are things I have to do before I transform." I felt like losing the human life didn't matter that much, but it did make me uneasy as I thought about it. Was I really going to waive away my human life just to talk to my friend? "First of all I must tell my parents what I will do." Was I never going to talk to my family again? What about George? No, there is no way I could tell George, he would mock me forever. "I also don't want to get captured by another trainer; I got to figure that out first..." This I didn't know how to resolve.

Mathias yet concerned warned me, "that actually is a big deal. You could all always stay around with me, but I would have to pay more money for food and all that silly stuff." Mathias wondered for himself a bit. "Why can't you humans just give the food anyway like we do?" Mathias wondered, at times I always seem to forget that he is actually a Pokémon.

"It's not how things work for humans."

"Well, in any case, the safest way to be with your friend and not get captured by anyone is to go along with a human." And as soon as Mathias said it, the idea popped. And the plan was absolutely perfect, and the best part of all, is that I would also be able to keep a promise.

"I got a splendid idea for that! Although, you might have to help me find someone later on when I transform Mathias."

"Um, of course, how could I help later on?" Mathias asked, I looked at the phone behind me and got up from the table.

"I'll let you know, I need to contact my parents." I was walking towards the phone, but Mathias grabbed my shoulder.

"Kevin, are you sure you want to do this? You got really lucky to be separated from Buizel, but now you want to become one. You should think this a bit more." Mathias said to me, but I had thought about it already, I felt almost as if I wanted this. Kaiser said it, he sees me more of a Pokémon, so perhaps there is some truth to that. I would do anything for my friend, if I transform I really wouldn't have many issues, my fans might wonder but I could always tell my parents to invent something to cover for me.

"I've thought about it already and my decision stands." I said as I walked towards the phone.

Never would I think to make such a decision in the past, but as I've recalled many times before. There is something really special about the Pokémon world that I really want to be a part of, and it was clearly present when I had taken over the body of my friend. This is absolutely what I need; I have to become a Pokémon.

I called my parents and I saw both of them there, the smiles on their faces as they greeted me really got to me, I had the feeling that I would never see them again for some reason. But I had a plan to not be at all disconnected from my parents at least. I was very nervous, how would my parents even react to what I wanted to do? Would they approve of such notion?

"Hi mom, hi dad!" I greeted briefly, I was nervous as I spoke, "there is something really important I want to talk about." Before I could talk however, my mother spoke before me.

"Kevin dear, you were away for a very long time; people were really worried for you! Your father and I were worried that you might've really been missing. What happened?" My mother asked, the kindness of her voice got to me, the tone brought to me the memories of the past, of moments when me and my mother hugged together and spent time as family, how she was always there for me when I got bullied at school, he lunches she made, when she tucked me away to sleep when I was younger. All of those memories are now flashing through my mind and they are hitting me very hard.

My father spoke as well, "son, we told you countless times to at least tell George were you are going before camping or before heading another direction to spend time." My father was the voice of reason, without him I wonder where I would've even gone to in life. After all, he was the one that told me to follow my dreams. Would my new dream of becoming a Pokémon change his mind? "At least now we know that you are safe," said my father, "I thought we had lost you forever." At this point I realized that if I didn't say anything now, it was going to be harder for me to tell them what I wanted to do.

"Mother, Father... there is something really important that I'm going to do, and I'm not sure if you are going to like it." Both of my parents were a bit shocked, they looked at me as they waited for what I had to say. "It was a very hard decision for me, but... “It was hard to say, I didn't want to disappoint my parents.

My mother was an impatient one at times, "come son, tell us. There is nothing you could possibly say that may surprise us."

"I'm going to become a Pokémon."

My father almost choked on his drink, my mother gasped at what I had said. My mom just couldn't believe it.

"But son, that's ridiculous! And even if it were possible, what will you do as a Pokémon?" My mother asked, my father was recovering from coughing and he also had something to say.

"Karen, this isn't even something we should discuss with him! There is no way Kevin can be a Pokémon anyway." My father exclaimed, I had to make them understand somehow.

"I know it sounds absurd, but there is definitely a way to transform me into a Pokémon, the problem is that I just can't be a human again." I realized late that I probably shouldn't have said that. My mother's jaw opened wide and my father had a hard time regaining his composure, "look I know how much this news affects you, but..." I was going to say until my father coughed loudly.

"Kevin, there is no way we are going to allow you be a Pokémon! Just listen to yourself, it's preposterous to even think of such things! There is no way we are going to give you permission to simply become a Pokémon and let your whole music career fade away." My father said all of this as calm as he could, but his anger was evident.

"No dad, I'm not asking you for permission. I'm just letting you know of what I'm going to do, this is why I'm calling." My decision had already been made, no matter how this conversation turns out, I need to change, and I need to do this for my friend. My mother then stood up quickly and left, it made me sad to just see her abandon this phone call like that, I didn't want to see my mother like this, not before I transformed.

My father was looking away as well, I thought at first that he was waiting for me to hang up on then, but my father was looking at where my mother went, I could clearly hear my mother's footsteps running back towards the call. She had a book with her and a pen. "Son! If you are going to go out there and be a nosey Pokémon, you have to tell me all of what you see!" My mother said as she smiled, she opened the book and readied her pen. "You must tell me every detail. This is going to be invaluable information for the future!"

"Mom, but how will I speak? I won't speak like a normal human being again!" I explained, my mother chuckled.

"But you know how to write! Do you not?" My mother said to me as she was writing something down. "If you are going to become a Pokémon, I'll demand a letter a week with everything you get to learn from the Pokémon world!" My father looked at her a bit surprised.

"Karen! Are you saying that he should just become a Pokémon and leave?" My father said to her, my mother scoffed at him.

"Honey please, he is already a grown man and he has all the right to do what he pleases with his life, it is his body, not ours." My mother kept writing down something on her book. "Besides, this will be a grand experience for him, a clear sign of growing up as well!"

"Mom, what are you writing?" I asked as I pointed at her book.

"Oh! I'm just getting started on my grand new book! I call it "My son the Pokémon", it's just a working title. It's hard to get inspiration these days." I was quite humbled that my own mother would write down a book based on my Pokémon experiences, I understood then why she wanted to know so much.

"Mom, that's very cool of you..."

"Now tell me what has happened so far, I need a back story to this!" I had never seen my mother so excited about something. "Every bit of detail, please!"

I decided to tell her everything, from when I tried to get team rocket to translate for me, Adam's rescue, the pokeball capturing us, my first experience as a Pokémon, the magic, I told everything that I could recall to this point. As my mother wrote she looked excited, as if she had recovered something long lost, maybe she found what strives her to write once more. The excitement behind something new and enticing. It made me very happy to recover that side of her, it made me revalidate my decision.

My father had to go to work, but I gave my deepest goodbyes and thanks to my father. He told me yet to follow my dreams, he didn't really agree to my decision to become a Pokémon, but he respected my dreams, and that made me very happy inside.

"Kevin dear, you definitely have to show me how you look as a Buizel!" My mom said.

"Mom, how do you know I'm going to be a Buizel?" As I said this my mother disregarded it, as if I should know.

"Oh Kevin Kevin Kevin, I know my son very well, it is only obvious you would be a Buizel for your best friend." My mother closed the book, "you do act like a Pokémon sometimes, you know?" That comment from my mother had caught me off guard, first Kaiser and now my mother, they are saying that I'm quite Pokémon-like?

"Someone said something similar, why do you say I act like a Pokémon?" I asked, wanting to know.

"Well Kevin, you always seem happier around Pokémon, that is why I wanted you to have my Pokémon books after all." My mother smiled at me as she said this. Maybe this was why my mother approved of my decision, she wanted me to be happy. "You always had a better time with Pokémon than with George or with any of your friends." That made sense...

I told my mother that I was going to call again, or rather Mathias was going to call her, as soon as the transformation was done. Before I hung up my mother told me that no matter what and no matter where, she would always love me. "Don't be scared when you change." My mother said, I quickly recalled my birthday.

"There is one thing I don't understand mom, when you gave me the Everstone, you told me to never change who I was. But here I am now, about to transform into a Buizel." My mother shed a tear, but she was very joyful, she even laughed to herself a bit. "I mean, doesn't it bother you that I'm going to change in the end?"

"Kevin, you are not changing who you are, you might change your outside appearance, but you are always going to be the son I know. A son that has a heart of gold and that he would do anything for his best friend. By changing, you are strengthening who you really are, this is a grand step for the lives of anyone." And then she said goodbye to me, reminded me of the necklace, said that she loved me and then hung up.

After speaking to my family, I had doubts on transforming into a Pokémon, but then again my mother gave me her full approval, and I can also help her with the book she is writing. Mathias tapped me in the shoulder with his stick, everything was ready.

Everyone was staring at me, all my Pokémon, Kaiser and especially Buizel. Mathias was practicing some wording or some sort, I could clearly see him talking to himself. Buizel approached me and spoke something that I didn't understand. Mathias quickly turned around as he heard my Pokémon.

"Buizel says that you don't necessarily have to do this for him." I appreciated that Buizel cared for me yet.

"This is something I want to do." I said to my friend.

"There is still time to change your mind, I can always translate for you so that you get to know what Buizel is saying." I appreciated that he was really concerned for me as well, although I had to do this.

"I'm already decided." I said confidently, I was starting to shake, I had no clue how this would go down.

"Alright, this might hurt a little Kevin, but I hope you can resist all the painful parts of this process." Mathias said as he was reciting some words.

"Painful parts? Why pain?" I hoped that Mathias was just joking around.

"Because my transformation spell is instant mostly because I've done this so many times back and forth. In your case, the transformation will be slower, therefore you will definitely feel certain changes as they happen." I thought on possibly what these could be, "don't worry Kevin, I'll make this as fast as I possibly can, just prepare yourself mentally because this will and is going to hurt" Mathias reassured, I trusted in Mathias' ability to transform me. I looked at myself one last time, and awaited the transformation.

Mathias waved his wand and said some words I could not understand. I had thought there was more to it, but it all suddenly stopped. "Mathias, what is the matter?" After I said that my head started to hurt a little bit, but then it passed quickly, I shook my head to awaken up a little.

"Whoa, that was strange." I said as I saw Mathias had his magic wand lifted with his eyes closed. "Uh is everything okay Mathias?" Buizel spoke loudly, but he wasn't staring at me now, he pointed directly at my hair. I noticed then that I had the same hair coloration than a Buizel's fur, it was starting. I noticed Buizel was excited and his eyes were open wide watching me.

I was about to say something to Buizel, but I felt a chill around my whole body, it threw me to the floor of how strong it was, I quickly got tired and it was impossible to stand upright. Then a feeling of pain began growing quickly throughout my entire body, it's the feeling of when your body is aching but I felt it grow in my body every time more and more and it kept going on non-stop. It was starting to grow from aches, to burden to feeling the pain I have from cuts, and finally arriving to a painful sensation that screamed from within my soul. The pain was so intense that I screamed, I wonder how worried Buizel was for me, I didn't want to make him too worried. I then felt my body numb all around, I could still feel some pain but I was able to tolerate it more. I hadn't noticed until now, but my limbs were already shaping out to be more of a Buizel's anatomy. My body trembled, my bones were as shattered as glass around the extremities, and I felt my muscles tear like paper.

"Hopefully you can withstand this, I can't stop at any moment, or it could be disastrous for you." Mathias said as he focused.

I had to withstand this pain, I was so close already, or that's what I would like to think. I looked at Buizel, he did seem worried, but he was nevertheless happy. "Don't worry Buizel, I'll be compl..." I was saying when suddenly no words came from my mouth, I tried to breathe, but I couldn't, I was choking! No! I hate Choking! Everything except choking! I kept trying to breathe with the best of my efforts, I tried to grab my neck as I was choking but couldn't, I couldn't breathe at all. My lungs began to burn wildly.

My whole body began to hurt, pain just grew from every inch of my body, I couldn't stand it, I wanted it to be over with already but I had to endure this pain, I had to for my best friend.

Suddenly the pain in my lungs vanished, I could breathe once more. I took a really deep breath to fill my lungs once again, still frightened. I was able to breathe deeper than I thought I would. I have never breathed so deep before, I feel a lot better than before, did the transformation give me better lungs? I smelled the air, my sense had astonishingly increased. It smelled like I was outside, but I clearly know that I'm inside Mathias' house, colors changed slightly, some fading while others were brighter, the blues were all beautiful while the oranges fades ever so slightly.

I began to have lots of chills throughout my whole body, I felt my skin itch as a very distinct pattern of small hairs was forming. I assumed it was the fur, my new fur felt very soft. As the transformation went on I had to look at my hands, they were paws now, I watched them and glanced at them. I was so enthralled with how my new body was starting to feel that I felt my tail tickle around my body, it currently had no control over it. Some changed were happening without my notice.

My body hurt and burnt the same as every limb did, my body seemed to get smaller and lots of fur grew from it. As that happened, my neck began to feel somewhat hollow, but I realized it wasn't my neck, it was the floatation sac that had settled around my neck. I was so interested in feeling my body during the rest of the transformation that I didn't even realize when my cranium snapped. The force of the crack made me dizzy and my vision became blurry, the sounds of my environment beeped loudly. My skull kept breaking until I couldn't even feel my face because it. I was blinded with pain and a burning feeling, I touched my face and I had a maw, although it still had a bit of skin. The fur was growing slowly at a steady pace, the chills still remained, those exciting feelings grew stronger, if I could I would be making up a song in my mind about how this feels, but there were so many mixed feelings.

At this point I was way too exhausted and I fell flat on the floor letting the rest of the transformation happen, it was about to end, or so I thought, I was a human no longer, and the thought itself felt great for me, maybe I really wanted to be a Pokémon deep in my heart after all. Maybe I had become a Pokémon when me and Buizel hugged that very night below the storms, could it be that way? As I saw my body I could realize that I had become a Buizel completely already, I am not a human anymore… I have become a Pokémon, this time forever. I thought so much about my humanity that I was repeating myself over and over, but I traded my humanity away, the thought of not being a human anymore lingered deeply within me throughout the whole process, thinking of it over, my humanity gone, I at times thought nothing was real, that it was all a dream. This felt too true to be a mere dream, it was real and it was happening.

I thought that it was over but the transformation didn't stop yet. My head began to hurt way too much, even harder than I thought. What was Mathias doing now? I couldn't stand this pain, this was the most agony I have ever felt in my entire life, I yelled very loudly in the room.

"I ca-!" I tried to yell, "I ca-" I tried once again. I did my best to speak this time. "I- Bui... Bui! Bui bui!"

I tried to say that I couldn't stand the pain, but it was evident, I started to lose my human language. My tongue was changing as well, my neck was still burning and as I spoke it burned way more, I assumed my vocal chords were changing.

"Bui bui!" As I spoke in my new Pokémon tongue I couldn't avoid but to feel happy, with this, I felt that the transformation was completely over. Buizel ran towards me and hugged me. What was so interesting was that this time I could hug Buizel properly, we were the same size now after all. Mathias looked down on me, with a smile on his face.

"And it is done Kevin. You are now a Buizel." I looked up at Mathias and smiled.

"Bui!" I realized something very important. I couldn't understand myself when I spoke. I was instantly concerned, was my transformation all for nothing? As Buizel spoke to me I really didn't understand a thing he said, that made me worried.

"You are now Buizel, you are not taking over Buizel's body, you will learn the Pokémon language soon, but you have to let the spell have some time." I asked if I was going to be able to speak soon. "Impressively, your communication skills match the ones of a Pokémon perfectly, at least I was able to get that around. Somewhere around 2 hours or a day you'll be able to speak to Pokémon properly." That was very relieving to me. It meant that I was going to be able to talk to Buizel in about an hour...

I closed my eyes to be able to have some sleep as the transformation left me completely exhausted. Adapting to the new Pokémon world might be a bit complicated, but I'm sure I could manage. All I wanted was to talk to my best friend. I relaxed for a bit until Mathias picked me up from the pile of clothes I had around me.

"Come Kevin, let's show how you look like to your mother." I wondered how my mother would react as soon as she saw me. Mathias set up the call, the phone was picked up rather quickly.

"Hello Mrs. Karen, everything went smoothly and your son is safe." Mathias said, he then raised me up and showed me through the video feed of the call, my mother gasped and stared at me for what could have been about ten full minutes.

"Kevin..." My mother was sure it was me, "he still has his eyes, I can still see him there." My mother was still able to recognize me despite being a Pokémon, of course, Mathias had told her it was me, but I felt that she was entirely sure. I smiled and waved back at my mom, she still couldn't believe it. "Oh gosh Kevin, you make a very cute Pokémon!" I laughed a bit as she said that. "I can still notice that he has a bit of his hairstyle there as well." As she made this remark, I touched my skull and there was indeed a lot of fur, it definitely resembled the hairstyle I had.

"I took some liberties when I casted the spell, I thought that the only way you would recognize him would be with the hair still somewhat there." Mathias said.

"I always saw my son through his eyes, it told me everything about how he was feeling when he was younger. Now I see happiness greater than I had ever seen within him, even greater than when he played with his Pokémon." Was it really that evident how happy I was?

"Bui bui bui!" I tried to speak, but I covered my mouth as I giggled, I forgot that I couldn't speak to human. I realized once again how bothersome it must've been for my friend to speak to me without me being able to understand him. I saw my mother smile when I spoke with a Pokémon tongue.

"Oh Kevin dear..." My mother said.

"Kevin says that he is happy." I could see my mother's happiness all the time, she was still writing frantically on her book as the conversation went on.

"Remember son, I expect to hear from you." Then she looked at me with a smile. "Please don't forget to visit." I nodded to her, "and also write if you need to talk with anyone! You can still contact with people that way." I winked an eye at her, "that diamond necklace is very expensive, use that if you need any money." My mother put down her book and looked at us before hanging up. "Hugs and kisses my little Pokémon son! Please visit me someday!" I motioned a kiss towards her and waved goodbye.

The video turned off and Mathias placed me on the ground. I attempted to take a step but I tripped over, my body was still somewhat numb and it was hard to adapt myself to walk like a Pokémon. Buizel ran towards me and gave me a hug, he spoke countless words to me, unfortunately I still couldn't understand any of it.

"Well Kevin, let's get going. We got to take you to that guy you mentioned earlier." Mathias said, and everyone started to get ready, Mathias picked up my clothes and guitar bag, he packed everything there.

Just a few hours more and I'll be able to talk to my friend, and I'll be able to listen to him directly. For now, I had to set the plan that I currently had in motion. I told my mother to invent some sort of story so people wouldn't think I was still missing, but I had to find someone in particular to help me. I'm a Pokémon, that part is done. Now I had to assure I wasn't captured by another trainer.

The only way, is to go and see my friend.

To be continued…

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And now a very important moment of the story happpens.

Not gonna say anything about the story. But the changes I had done from the original are seen here, also removing deus ex machina.