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"Normal speech" Like to humans talking

"Pokemon talking" Like Amo talking to Owen

'Thoughts' Should be obvious what that means.. like when Owen's thinking to himself.

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Chapter 10

The rest of the day was a chaotic blur for Owen, and he was sure it had to have been worse on Amo. He wanted to let her out of the ball as soon as he was able, but with everything that ended up happening she'd had to stay inside the ball. After answering more of the officer's questions and filling out forms at the station to register his ownership of Amo, Owen had found himself in the back of police cruiser and on the way to a hospital in a larger city a couple hours drive away.

Once they'd got there Officer Jeremy had handed him over to the doctor that had been waiting for their arrival. Apparently someone had decided after everything he'd gone though that he need thorough checkup. Or maybe it was just protocol. Whatever the reason, Owen didn't mind seeing a doctor that much, but wished it would get over faster. The Doctor had given him a full look over, paying special attention to the healed bite marks, and then taken a bunch of x-rays and drawn some blood for a couple tests before leaving Owen alone in the room while they waited for the results.

The long hours spent waiting in the small room he'd been taken to felt like days to him. There were magazines he could have looked at, but he quickly grew bored with them. Pulling Amo's ball out of his pocket and couldn't help but play with it, rolling it around in his hands, while he contemplated pushing the button. A part of him wanted to disregard the rules about not allowing pokemon in the building and let her out. With an agitated sigh, Owen put the ball back in his pocket. At least for a few minutes.

When the doctor finally did come back Owen was more than happy to see the tall dark haired women, and hoped she was here to tell him the results and let him leave.

Seeing his hopeful look the Doctor smiled. "Your blood work all came back looking fine. And your X-rays all look good too." She told him going over to the screen. She clipped the black plastic up and turned it on to show Owen.

"This is where the break happened" She indicated an area on the large of the two white bones shown on the image. Getting up off the chair he'd been sitting in, Owen walked over to look closer. He had no training to help him see things she'd be able to spot, but with her pointing out where the break had happened, he could see a faint line across the bone.

"The bone looks like it has healed fine and as you don't seem to have any problems I don't think we need to worry about problems with it later on."

Looking away from the image he asked, "What kind of problems could there have been?"

"There are a few things, but the main one would have been if the bone had healed with the bones being out of place a bit. That could have cause you a limp and possible pain later if you didn't have it re-broken and set right soon enough.

"I'm glad I don't need to do that…" He muttered looking back at the X-ray. The pain he'd felt the first time it was broken made him hope to never break his leg again. Looking back at the doctor he asked, "Am I good to go then?" A little of his desire to get out of here could be heard in his voice, but Owen didn't much care. He really was more than ready to leave this small room.

"Yes, you can go now." The doctor said and opened the door. As he moved to follow her out the door though, she looked back at him. "The PokeCenter was contacted and I was asked to let you know that Nurse Zoe hopes to see you after you're done here."

Owen nodded in understanding and the Doctor left to go see to other patients. He was a little tired of having to go here and there, but at least with at the PokeCenter he could have Amo out of her ball with no worries.

Once he was out of the large and inviting building that was Tundir cities hospital, Owen did want he'd been wanting to do most of the day. He pulled Amo's ball out of his pocket and pushed the button to release her. Like when he'd caught her, a beam of red light was emitted from the metallic steel gray ball. The light condensed and after moment a slightly disoriented Blaziken stood there blinking.

"Are you alright?" Owen asked as he reached out to steady the humanoid bird.

"I think so… " She clucked as she looked at him. "That will just take some getting used to."

"What was it like inside of there?" He asked, curious about it now that it seemed Amo was fine. Not that he'd really worried she was unwell. If ball could hurt pokemon he didn't think they'd be allowed.

Amo made a humming sound in her chest as she thought of how to respond. "I was… enveloped in a feeling of safety and peace." She said slowly. " I was wide awake, but also felt like I was sleeping. I know I was in there a while, but it also feels I was only put in moments before being let back out. It was strange.

As fascinating as learning that was, all that Owen found he really cared about was that Amo hadn't been scared or bored while inside the ball. "I'm glad it wasn't awful. I might have to put you in the ball again." He told her as they started to walk to the PokeCenter. It wasn't too far from the hospital. He could see the tall building, though not as big as the hospital, tower over surrounding buildings. It looked to only be five or so blocks away.

"I hope I don't end up spending most of my time in here." Amo told him as she looked around. From her tone and how she was looking around at the things she'd never seen before, Owen could tell it wasn't that she didn't want to be in there, so much as didn't want to miss out on a lot.

"I keep you out as much as I can." He promised her. He'd have liked to say he'd never put her in it again, but knew that was a promise he couldn't keep.

Amo gave him a happy look (it showed in her eyes) before looking back at the new world all around her. Smiling at the bird Owen started to tell her about some of the things she was seeing as they walked to the PokeCenter. She seemed practically intrigued by cars. She found it fascinating that human had made things to bring them from place to place, even if she enjoyed walking to get where you were going.

When Owen arrived at the PokeCenter he'd hardly told Amo everything there was to know. He only tipped the iceberg. He knew there'd be plenty of time later to tell her more though.

Amo looked around with interest when they entered the building, but the number of people inside seemed to cause her to feel a bit shy. She kept right up next to Owen. Glancing over his shoulder at the bird Owen sent her a look he hoped would be calming, before looking back towards the large desk he was walking towards.

"Hello." He greeted the slightly chubby blonde haired women behind the desk, working at a computer.

Said woman looked up from her work with a smile. Taking in his still dirty appearance and the Blaziken at his side she returned his greeting than asked, "Are you Owen?" When he nodded she got up and motioned for him to follow her. "I'm Zoe. Officer Jeremy contacted us earlier to inform us what was going on. We have a room ready for you to stay in while you're here. If you'd like you can also pick up a few things you need from the shop."

As she said this, the Nurse indicated towards other end to the center where a small trainer shop was located and handed over a temporary Id card to him. Glancing down at his clothes Owen was glad for the chance to get something new to wear.

"We'll also need to give your Blaziken the standard checkup and tests." The nurse went on as she lead them though a large sliding glass door. The door lead to the 'vet' part of the center. They walked down a wide hallway with glass doors on either side. The doors lead to small exam rooms, or farther inside to specialized care and emergency rooms. The nurse led them into one of the smaller exam rooms.

As they'd walked to the room, Owen had picked up on Amo's nervousness. The Blaziken had taken a hold of his left arm and had stopped looking around with interest. Inside the room she clucked lowly, "Why do I need to… take tests?"

Hoping to reassure Amo, the green haired man smiled and tired to help her understand what was going on more. "She just needs to make sure you're healthy. By tests she means she's going to check for any illness its possible pokemon can have. Right Nurse Zoe?"

The nurse looked a little surprised to be asked to explain to a wild pokemon what the checkup was for as if Amo was human and understood everything they were saying, but joined in anyway. Owen wondered if working with pokemon as she did, that Zoe already knew quiet well how intelligent pokemon where and how much they understood.

"Yes, I just need to make sure you're healthy. It's something we do with all newly registered pokemon." The nurse explained to Amo and then gestured to the exam table.

It took a few moments for Amo to move away from Owen, but the humanoid bird did. She walked over to the table and after looking at the steel surface for a moment, then sat down.

Owen himself sat in a chair up against the wall on the opposite side of the room from the table, and watched the nurse do her job. Maybe it was just how she did exams, or something she was doing for Amo's benefit now she realized the pokemon was quiet intelligent and already had a good understanding of human speak, but Zoe talked though out the exam. Explaining what she was doing and now and then asking for the birds compliance to do this or that. At first Amo would glance at him before doing as the nurse asked, but after a while she stopped looking for guidance. Save for when Zoe wanted to take blood at the very end. Amo took one look at the needle and then sent a questioning look to Owen.

"It's alright." He reassured her, smiling a little. In the back of his mind though, Owen didn't blame her for not wanting to be poked by it. He himself didn't like needles much…

When she was all done Zoe put her things away and smiled at the both of them. "Your Blaziken seems quite healthy. And smart. It's too bad most pokemon aren't so easy to give checkups too."

Getting off the exam table Amo hurried over to Owen, but he could tell she was happy the nurse only had good things to say.

"She definitely is a special bird." He agreed as they left the exam room.

Once they were back out in the main lobby the nurse headed back over to the front desk, but not before saying. "We've been in contact with your university. Some of your colleagues should be on the way here. I believe they'll arrive Thursday, the day after tomorrow." She added when Owen looked towards the calendar at the desk.

"Thank you." He told her, happy to know they'd been informed. And happy he himself didn't need to make the call. He'd been a little anxious about doing it. For some reason he was just not sure how to go about it. Just a 'Hey! Guess what, I'm actually still alive!' didn't seem appropriate.

Walking away from the desk Owen pulled out the Id carded he'd put in his pocket and looked over at the trainer shop. "Let's go find me something new to wear." He told Amo as he headed over towards it.

Amo made an affirmative cluck and followed him over. As they went Owen could tell others were looking at him again, and picked up his pace a little. He really didn't like the way people seemed to judge him for his appearance. Some looks gave him he feeling they thought him a bum or something, while others where a bit pitying.

Reaching the shop he shook his head a little and headed over to the small section of clothing available. Most of it had either the PokeCenter logo on it or was some other name brand that was affiliated somehow with the Center. At the moment though he didn't care that much and just tired to find something that he'd looked okay in.

"Do you see anything you like?" He asked Amo over his shoulder. He wasn't sure the Blaziken would be that interested in helping him find new clothes, she'd never quite got why he wore them, but wanted to give her the chance to help anyway.

She made an 'hmmm-ish' sound in her chest and after a moment came a little closer to look at the shirts he was looking through. After a few minutes she pulled out a long sleeved red and orange shirt with a bit of a fire pattern along the bottom and sleeves.

"Maybe this?" She clucked in question as she held it towards him.

Looking over at it Owen smiled. "What do you like about it?" He asked as he accepted the shirt. He wondered if it was the color, so similar to her own plumage, or the flames she liked. Or both.

Amo turned back to the rake of shirts and for a moment Owen didn't thinks she was going to tell him, but then he caught a quiet, "I just thought it would look nice."

It didn't really answer his question but, Owen still felt his lips turn up in a grin. 'I really am hopeless.' He thought as he put the red and orange shirt over his arm. The fact it likely would clash with his green hair something he didn't mind at the moment.

In the end he picked out one more over shirt, a light brown one with the Center logo on the back, and a couple pairs of jeans. He'd also grabbed some new shoes and some packages of white and gray tee-shirts, socks and briefs when he noticed them on the back wall. Going the cashier, Owen handed him the card he'd been given. It took the young man a few minutes to figure out how to get it to work, making Owen wonder if he was new here, but he did figure it out and after that Owen led Amo to the sliding doors that lead to the trainer rooms.

He had to scan his card to get in. Doing that also gave him the number of the room he'd been given. Once inside room 26, with the card opening this for him as well, Owen dropped his new clothes on the bed along. It was along one of the walls, with a small window over it. Other then the bed there wasn't too much in the room. Along another wall was a small desk with a chair and opposite that was a door. Opening it Owen found it lead to a small bathroom with toilet, shower and sink all crammed inside.

"I'm going to get cleaned up and change, alright?" He told Amo, who was standing in the middle of the small room. Looking towards him she clucked 'okay' and nodded her head as she walked towards the bed and window. Through it could be see a large park filled with pokemon and trainers. Some were practicing while others just relaxing or having fun.

Looking out the window to himself, Owen said, "After I'm done we can go out there if you want." Again Amo just nodded and feeling she likely needed a little time to adjust Owen let her be. Going back over to the bed he grabbed some of the new clothes, the orange and red shirt included and went into the small bathroom.

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The day his friends where to arrive, Owen and Amo were outside at the park. They were sitting at a picnic table just watching some of the other trainers. Amo interested in seeing how pokemon and humans got along here, and Owen just happy to be peacefully sitting next to Amo. It was the cry of his name that let him know they'd arrived.

"Owen!" Sarah yelled as she ran towards where he was sitting. He barely had time to turn and look before she'd flung herself on him." We.. were so worried. I.. I thought you'd died! We looked all over for you but all we ever found was your bag." She half yelled, half sobbed as she clung to him.

"I'm sorry." Owen said quietly. Suddenly he found it hard to talk and his eyes were a little watery. He'd have wrapped an arm around her to try and comfort his friend, but at that moment Amo had let out an irritated squawk and was attempting to get Sarah off him.

Both humans where startled, and Sarah backed away a little, with a wary look at the bird. "Amo?" Owen questioned.

"Why'd she tackled and screech at you?" The Blaziken asked, still looking at Sarah as if she thought she'd 'tackle' Owen again. "Who is she?"

"It's all right. She's one of my friends." Owen said after looking at Amo for a moment. The way she stood next to him seemed protective, but also like she was guarding what was hers. It was that, that had him staring at the bird. Did she even know she was doing that? And what did it mean if she was aware? Now wasn't the time to wonder though.

"She was just happy to see me is all." Owen told Amo.

The Blaziken looked between him and Sarah for a moment and then over to the other two humans, as well as the branch horned deer, that had followed Sarah over. Jake and Tom. Seeing as they weren't looking likely to 'tackle' Owen as well, and maybe because they where guys, Amo didn't seem to mind them. Finally she made a 'Bah' like noise that was here equivalent of a huff, and moved to sit back down.

Patting Amo's feathery arm Owen stood up to face his friends. "Sorry about that. She's just seems a little protective is all."

Sarah nodded but still keep a little away from Amo. Jake though come the rest of the way over and asked, "So what happened? All we'd been told was you'd turned up a live."

Glad most Jake and it seemed Tom to wasn't too worried about his new pokemon, Owen answered there questions as best he could, sometimes enjoying their look of amazement or disbelief. As he'd talked he'd ended up standing by his Sawsbuck and stroking the deer's strong neck. He'd not been lonely while with the Blaziken, but he was happy to see his first Pokemon. He loved the deer too. Not like he did Amo, but as a faithful companion he could trust to always be there.

After he'd finished tell them about what had happened after he'd fallen off the cliff, Jake slapped him on the back with a large grin on his face. "That's some tale you've got now. I almost want to go get lost myself for a while." He said jokingly. "All I've got to impress people with all the obscure pokemon facts I know."

"Well I think the time you pissed off the professors Quilava is a good story." Sarah butt in with a not so innocent grin.

"Maybe to you." Jake said turning to the blue haired woman. "You didn't have to wonder if it'll fry you every time you see it."

Owen rolled his eyes as the two started to bicker and went back over to the table Amo was still at. He wasn't too worried that they would be annoyed with him for leaving them. He wasn't even sure how long it would take the two to even notice he'd wondered off. And Tom was a quiet man. He liked to take everything in and comment when it was needed. So Owen sat down next to the Amo without any worry. Sawsbuck followed him over and gazed at Amo with a large dark eye before leaning in to rub his nose against her.

Glad the deer liked her Owen smiled. "Looks like he doesn't mind you."

"This is the natures stag you told me about?" Amo asked as she gentle pushed the deer's noise away.

Owen thought that was an interesting thing to call the deer. It as an accurate description of a Sawsbuck though. "Yeah, this is my Sawsbuck." He said reaching forward to rub the deer's noise. The Sawsbuck let out a happy sound. After a moment Amo patted the deer too, in a show of being willing to get along with him.

They sat there for a while, till Sarah and Jake stopped arguing. Sarah suggested they go out somewhere to celebrate Owen's return. The green haired man agreed happily, but insisted they find a place there pokemon could be out and join them. Tom looked at Amo when he'd said that, but didn't say anything and the others agreed easily.

The place they found was an outdoor barbeque like grill. As it was out doors and spacious it was fine to let pokemon join in. As long as the pokemon we'll trained anyway. It was a cook your own food type of place. Each table had its own grill to cook the raw berries and veggies, as well as the platter full of stips of tauros meat they'd ordered.

Owen gave a large bowl of greens and berries to Sawsbuck before telling Amo she could have anything she wanted. The bird nodded but before getting anything, gave Owen a puzzled look as he'd picked up some of the raw meat. "I thought you didn't like meat?"

"Not when it's raw. But I do when it's cooked." He told the bird as he placed it on the grill. Owen had thought of trying to explain about humans cooking there food while he was with the Flock. He'd not at first as he wasn't sure how to get Amo to understand, and later they'd just not been much need as he was never given anything after the bonfire he'd need to cook before eating.

Amo watched what he was doing for a few moments before she seemed to understand what he meant by cooking. Picking up a slice of the meat she looked at the grill. Owen stopped her before she set it down though, "You can eat it however you'd like." He reassured her. Amo nodded, but set it down anyway. Deciding it wasn't a big deal if she wanted to eat it as he did, or was just trying it out, Owen went back to making sure his piece didn't burn.

A little while later after they'd started to eat and Sarah and Jake were 'arguing' over what berries tasted better raw or grilled, Tom leaned towards Owen. "Earlier you were actually talking with your Blaziken, weren't you?"

A little surprised by the question Owen slowly nodded.

"I thought so." Tom said looking over at Amo. "At first I wondered if you just got to really understand her body language as most pokemon and trainers do, but it seemed you both were responding to to precise of things for it to be that." He murmured, then looked back at Owen. His eyes shining with interest, like they always did when he found something he wanted to know more about.

Owen wondered what was going on in his mind, but Tom just looked at Amo thoughtfully before going back to the food. Once they were done eating the group headed back to the center. His friends didn't stay there long though, as unlike Owen, they weren't staying there. Instead they had rooms in a motel, as none of them where registered as traveling trainers. Owen knew he was only given a room at the center because he'd had no way to pay for a place to stay, and because of what had happened to him. He'd noticed the staff, especially the nurses that worked at the center had been keeping an eye on him. Nurse Zoe had even mentioned she was friends with a good psychiatrist in passing.

He knew they were only concerned, and wanted him to get help if he needed it, but it very quickly got annoying. He thought he was mentally sound, so wasn't sure he needed to see a shrink.

After his friends had left Owen went back outside to the park with Amo and Sawsbuck. Looking at the deer he started to wonder if he should nickname him too. He'd never thought much about it before, partly because he wasn't sure what to name him, and because the pokemon seemed fine without one. Now though he wanted to call him something special. As he did Amo.

"Do you want a nickname?" He asked the Deer. Unlike Amo the Sawsbuck didn't fully understand everything he said, but he was intelligent and got a got portion of it. So the deer blinked and looked over at him. After a few moments the deer 'shrugged' and then turned his attention to a young boy and his Treecko that were training.

That was typical behavior of the deer and it made Owen smile. The pokemon would always keep his attention on Owen when it was important or the man need someone to just talk too, but for the most the deer part was laid back and a bit indifferent to things. Owen knew as long as he took the Sawsbuck with him, the pokemon would be happy with whatever Owen did.

Turning to Amo he asked, "So what did you think of my friends?"

"I like natures stag." She said looking towards Sawsbuck. They both knew that wasn't what he'd meant though so after a moment she said, "The males were okay, but I don't the blue female. She shouldn't have tackled you." She said still not looking at him. Owen though she sounded jealous as she talked about Sarah, but wasn't sure it wasn't just wishful thinking on his part.

"She didn't mean anything by it." Owen tried to reassure her again even if it was just his imagination that she was jealous. "Like I'd said she was just happy then."

Amo clicked her beak but didn't say anything more about it. So they sat in silence as the sun started to set. Just as Owen was going to call Sawsbuck back (the deer had ended up wandering off a little ways) and suggest they head inside, Amo suddenly turned to look at him. The look in her eyes was intense, and so full of emotion that Owen had a hard time pinning any of them down. "Don't let her tackle you again." She told him somewhat forcefully.

There was no denying the jealousy now, and Owen just stared at the bird. Part of him loved it, it meant Amo had to feel something for him to be jealous, and wanted to let if continue, but the more reasonable part of his mind didn't think it would be good to have Amo glaring at Sarah whenever he did stuff with her.

"Amo, you don't need to worry about her. She's nothing more than my friend. I don't feel anything more than that towards her." Amo looked at him for a few moments before giving a slight nod. She didn't seem fully convinced though so Owen decided to let her in on something he though. "I think Sarah likes Jake anyway. They fight like every time they meet, but I think they enjoy it. And if you think she was worried about me, that's nothing compared to when he sprained an ankle once…" He still remembered how she'd acted as if Jake was about to die, rather than in need of a cold press and a brace.

"The noisy male?" Amo asked. Owen nodded and after a moment she seemed to finally decide Sarah wasn't a threat. Maybe… "I still don't like her touching you."

Shaking his head a little Owen laughed, "Alright, I'll try to keep her from touching me to much then." To that Amo gave him a happy look. For a few moments Owen just gazed back at her, soaking in the knowledge she seemed to like him. After a few moments though, he decided he had to know for sure. Know that she wasn't just super possessive of her friends.

"Amo…" He started a little nervously. Sensing he had something important to say, Amo's gaze became more focused on him. "Why do you worry about if I loved Sarah, or her me?"

Amo's eye's became so full of emotions again. This time though he could see a lot of confusion and uncertainty. The Blaziken opened her beak a few time, only to click it shut. She also kept looking away from him, only to return her dark eyes to him a few moments later.

It seemed to take Amo a while to decide why, or simply what to answer. Owen could tell when she had though, because the swirling storm of emotions calmed and they suddenly seemed to shine with a new emotion. One that he'd dreamed of, but hardly dared truly think he'd see.

"Because you're my Human."

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AN- Ok this is the last chapter. I hope you've enjoyed it. I am considering writing a short epilogue though, so that may be up in a few days if I decide I am going to do that.

Please tell me what you've though of the story.*Kitten Eyes*

I love to read the reviews. And a huge thank you to everyone that has reviewed in the past. I might not respond to all of them, but I do love getting them. At times they were what keep me writing.
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