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Chapter 12 - Parenthood Sucks.

Hearing the creak of a door I open my eyes to see Amelia coming into the room. Amelia apon seeing me squeals in a whisper and comes closer to me. "Hey Zorua is this Swinub from one of the eggs?" Speaking in a whisper as she gets right next to the bed and moves the two eggs off of me.

Answering her question I nod and lick Swinub in an attempt to wake it. 'Weird no hair got on my tongue.' Mentally shrugging I slightly nudge the newborn and as I do the Swinub begins to stir.

"Ok I think I should take them down to the Pokecenter to get them checked out. can you please stay here until I come back." Nodding once again Amelia attempts to pick up Swinub and they suddenly wake up and start to cry.

'This is why being a parent sucks.' 

After an hour of getting Swinub familiar with Amelia's touch they finally don't cry when being held by her and once that's done Amelia takes Swinub downstairs to be checked out by Nurse Joy.

'Finally... Now that I've dealt with that I can continue my illusion training, and with the headway I've made today getting it to work shouldn't be difficult at all. At most I've need to figure out how to manipulate psychic energy to get the image part down but other than that I should know how to do everything else if I'm correct.'

Focusing slightly a dark shroud erupts from my body and settles close to my body. 'OK! That's the first step down now lets see if I can make it any shape I want and then I'll hopefully be able to change what it looks like without the psychic energy.'

Firstly I change the shroud by forcing it off of my body creating something more similar to a cloud above me and then I stretch it out in an attempt to create multiple silhouettes. The first attempt was a Zubat which came out looking more or less identical and then I tried a Duskull which came out nearly perfect.

'Ok good now comes the hard part color.' Focusing on the Duskull shroud nothing about it changes when I think about Duskull's colors but when I think about my own colors and focus on Ghost and Normal type energy the silhouette of Duskull fills out with the appropriate colors.

'Oh... That's problamatic. This shows that I need to manipulate certain energies depending on the color of the Pokemon or it could be type. Like maybe instead of using Fire, Water and Grass energy to make a Roselia illusion I'll need just grass.'

Testing my theory I make a silhouette of Ekans and thinking of Ekans colors and putting Poison energy into the shroud the colors fill out creating a near perfect image of Ekans.

'Hmmm. OK I can work around this. I'm limited right now but once I figure out how to manipulate all energies then I should be able to make a illusion of anything. The only thing is what type are humans..'

As I think about my newest dilemma I hear the foot steps outside of the door as Amelia unlocks and comes inside of the door and as she does I dismiss my shrouds and illusions. "Good news! Swinub is fine but he needs to stay overnight at the Pokecenter to make sure they don't have any problems. Thank you for taking care of them while I've been gone." Amelia slightly bows towards me as I nod in response.

Hopping off of Amelia's bed and going towards her Pokeballs she looks towards me and asks if I want to go in the ball. 'I'm done today.. I've trained enough plus I just figured out that I'll need a lot more effort to even think about transforming into a human.'

Nodding Amelia puts me into the Pokeball and inside of the Pokeball I close my eyes and try to sleep again. 'So much is happening so fast.. I've got to keep up if I want to... What do I even want to do other than becoming human again.... Maybe I'll be the very best. Or I'll live a normal life. Or become a renowned Professor. Or...' Drifting off to sleep my thoughts end as I start to sleep soundly.