Tom stirred in his sleep. He had a dream where he was walking down a long, white path. He was himself again. As he walked down the road there was a girl lying in the road. As he approached her she looked up and began to shimmer then vanished in a ball of white light which flew further down the path. Tom ran to follow it but was stopped by a dark cloud forming in front of him. As he watched the cloud thickened in the middle until if became a gengar which looked at him with dark piercing eyes befor gliding into the distance. Tom ran once more until he found both the cloud and the ball of light together in front of him. Quickly the two fell into each other and then became a third figure which Tom could swear he recognised. The figure was a girl around his age only about a foot shrter than him. She had an attractive and graceful figure which curved in all the places Tom thought right. The girl's jet black hair reached all the way down her back and seemed to move slightly. Her skin was strange, a dark shade of purple and as she approached she seemed to shimmer and fade from time to time. Only about a meter away from him now Tom felt something tug on his am but when he looked there was nothing there. The girl stopped and looked at him with eyes the exact same colours as his. Something tugged his arm again harder this time and everything around him seemed to swirl. The girl herself also started to fade away and as he ran towards her his name echoed around him.
"Tom, wake up!" the echo called
Tom woke with a start.
"Tom! Finally your awake!"
Tom looked for the source of the voice but all he could see was his absol standing beside the bed with a relieved look in her eyes.
"Absol, your okay." said Tom
"Never mind about me being okay, what about you? You've been lying here for hours after I woke up." replied the absol.
At hearing her partner speak Tom almost fell out her bed in surprise.
"Woah! How did you say that?!" asked Tom in surprise.
"You understood that? I mean word for word?" said absol.
"Why can I understand you now?" wondered Tom, then he rembered, "Oh right, they said I'm half pokemon now. Well this sure brought the reality of it crashing down on me." he said bitterly. Wait how did you know that I'm me when I'm..this?"
"You know very well that I can sense subtleties around me. There is more to identify someone than their appearance you know. As different as you may be I can still sense that you're you. Besides," she said witha smirk, " no-one else is as herd to wake up as you."
"Yeah I suppose that's true" Tom said getting up. As she tried to take a few steps forwards she lost her balance and almost went crashing to the floor, "Well this is going to take some getting used to, my whole center of gravity is thrown off". She took another few steps, more slowly this time until she gain the confidence to go a bit faster.
"Come on absol" she said, "lets get out of here."
Tom quitely left the pokemon center through the back exit, took a couple of turns and wound up right in the middle of a confrontation between a couple in the uniform of team rocket and a group of teenagers.[/b][/i]