FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

A.N.-Let's keep things rolling with another chapter.

**********8**********

"Dinner's ready!" yelled Akira from the kitchen.

"I'm brushing Eevee's' fur! I'll be down in a minute!" Eric yelled back. Akira got the table ready with the help of aipom. There were two tables in the kitchen. One for humans and one for pokemon. The table for pokemon was a little smaller, but many pokemon can eat from it comfortably. A few minutes later, Akira yelled up to Eric again.

"The table's set! If you're not down here in five seconds, I'll give your food to the Mightyena!" A couple seconds later, loud footsteps were heard coming down the stairs.

"Jeez mom, you don't have to be so mean." said Eric walking in the kitchen.

"Well you should have been...what happened to your face?!" Eric had a swollen cheek.

"Well..." Apparently, when Eric was scrubbing aipom in the tub, he accidentally brushed her baby maker with his finger and she punched his face on reflex.

"Oh my..." She laughed. "Well, where's eevee?" Eric sat down at the table.

"He's coming." A few moments later, eevee came in the kitchen with a brush stuck on his tail. Akira looked down at eevee then to Eric.

"Why did you leave eevee like that?"

"Well, you said you were gonna give my food away so..." His mom gave him the classic "you know better" look that all moms give their children from time to time. (I swear they practice that in their sleep) It's super effective! Eric immediately feels bad for what he did and apologized. Eevee went over to the table aipom was sitting at.

"Enjoy your grooming?" asked aipom.

"I was, until his mom called." said eevee sitting down next to aipom.

"So, tell me more about the Ninetails, Ember."

"Well, she's nice, her fur is beautiful, she smart, and-"

"It sounds like you really like her already." aipom cut in.

"Wh-what?! No I don't!" his face turning red.

"Hehehe. That red on your face says something else." aipom teased. Eevee turned his head away from aipom.

"Aww, did I tease you too much." she said while hugging him playfully. "If it makes you feel any better, I think you smell nice, like a cheri berry." Eevee didn't really notice it before, but now that she mentioned it, he realized that

both of them smelled like cheri berries.

"You smell nice too." he said turning back around to aipom, sniffing her a little. Just then, Ember walked into the kitchen.

"Now that everyone's here, how about we start eating." said Akira. "Enjoy your bath?" she asked looking at a very relaxed Ninetails. Ember smiled and gave her nod. She made her way to the table and sat across from eevee and aipom. Akira got bowls for aipom, eevee, and Ember and put them on the table. Eric got a bag from one of the cabinets over the counter and walked over to the pokemon table. He reached in the bag and pulled out some red cookies with sprinkles on each of them. He put them in Embers' bowl. Eevee and aipom both looked at the cookies placed in her bowl. Ember noticed that they were starring at the cookies and asked "Did you want one?" she asked.

"What are they?" asked aipom.

"You don't know? The humans call them poffins. They make many different kinds of them because each pokemon has different tastes in food. They're like treats for pokemon."

"Wow, you were right. She's smart and beautiful." Eevees' face turned bright red.

"H-hey, doesn't that mouth have a filter on it?!" he said at aipom sounding a little upset.

"If you can say it in front of me, you can say it in front of her." replied aipom. Eevee was going to say something back, but stopped when he heard Ember laughing.

"Glad I made a good first impression and I hope I can keep getting compliments like that." Eric came by the table again with another bag. This time he pulled out a couple of grepa, cheri and oran berries. Almost immediately, eevee felt the urge to just eat away at the grepa berries, but aipom stopped him from tearing away at the berries.

"Hey, don't start eating away like you've never eaten before." After a couple more minutes of waiting, everyone began eating their dinner. There was a lot of laughing and playing at both tables. Most of it was directed at eevee because aipom was telling Ember about all the pranks she pulled on him. After dinner, Eric and his mom cleaned up the kitchen and put the leftovers up. Meanwhile, eevee and aipom were in the living room

talking and playing with Ember.

About an hour later, Akira announced it was time to go to bed. Neither eevee nor aipom complained, since they felt a little worn out from the beach trip earlier. Everyone went upstairs to their respected rooms. Ember followed Erics' mom into her room, eevee and aipom followed Eric into his room. The moonlight coming in from the window gave the room a completely different mood. It made everything seem so calm.

"Well guys, it's been fun, but I guess we'll have to continue this tomorrow" Aipom and eevee nodded in agreement and jumped onto their bed. Eric turned off the light and went to his bed.

"Good night." he said while getting inside the bed. Eevee and aipom said good night back to Eric. Aipom and eevee went under the sheets and got comfortable, putting some distance between each other. Aipom was lying on her side facing eevee, who was lying on his belly.

"What do you think we're gonna do tomorrow?" asked eevee.

"I don't know, but I won't be here to find out anyway, since I'm going back home." replied

aipom

"You're going back home? I thought you were going to stay here with me."

"Don't worry, I'm just going back to see my family for a little bit. I'll be back before dinner." said aipom while rolling over onto her back.

"Oh. Well, tell your folks I said hi." Eevee laid his head down and closed his eyes.

"Hey, eevee."

"What is it?" he asked turning to face aipom.

"Don't try anything while I'm sleeping." Eevees' face turned red and he quickly turned around trying to forget what she said. After a few minutes, both pokemon fell asleep.

*****8*****

During the night, eevee was making sounds and turning in his sleep. He was dreaming, but it wasn't the same dream he's had before over the past few months. It was different. His dream looked like a black chalkboard and everything in it was drawn like an outline with a rainbow of colors. This time, he was with Eric. He was on his shoulder. They were going down a path in the middle of an open field. Suddenly, a giant cloud of dust surrounded them. Neither of them could see anything. The cloud slowly faded away after. As eevee regain his sight, he realized that he was flying backwards further away from Eric. Though they tried to get back together, it was no use. Eric slowly faded away in the distance. Eevee turned around and saw the familiar round figure from his other dream. He got closer and closer to the figure. He reached out his paw to touch it, but suddenly, they were trapped in two separate cages. He tried to escape, but the bars keeping him in weren't budging.

He looked around and saw other cages floating around them with other pokemon inside. They circled around him for a while before slowly dropping down into the darkness below them. The cage broke apart, leaving only the floor of it to keep him from falling like the others. He tried to find some land to jump onto, but there was none. Then he heard someone laughing. The laughing was echoing all around him, making it hard to find the source. Suddenly, the only piece of land he standing on vanished and he found himself falling. Fear made his heart heavy. He didn't know if he would ever hit land again; and if he did, would he survive the impact.

The source of the laughing grew closer while he was falling. Then he saw a man with spiky, light blue hair standing in front of him. He stood in front of eevee laughing with a sinister grin. The man held his hands over his head and two huge pokemon he's never seen before appeared. One stood tall on its hind legs shouting a mighty roar at the other pokemon. It had short forearms with a jewel encrusted where the shoulders are and wings are on it's back. The body was like a slimmer version of a feraligatr. The neck was long and muscular. The head was a little small for its body, but its face was fierce. The other pokemon was built like a dinosaur. It stood on all fours with an impressive build. Its chest was protected by some kind of armor that had a giant jewel encrusted in the middle. The neck was long and muscular with an almost equally long head. (hehehe) Its face was just as fierce as the pokemon before it.

The two flew off and started fighting. They launched massive attacks at each other, appearing to be equally matched. As Eevee stared at the two fighting pokemon in awe, he had completely forgotten that he was still falling. Suddenly, the fight was getting closer to eevee and the spiky haired man. He tried to get away, but he couldn't go anywhere. The attacks from the two pokemon collided a few meters in front of eevee. The shock wave was enough to send him flying backwards several yards. After about a minute, he finally stabilized himself. He looked around for the spiky haired man, realizing that he was caught in the blast too,

but he was gone.

"...vee" His ears twitched. He looked around for a second, swearing that he heard someone call his name. Suddenly, another explosion came from above, sending eevee down faster. "Eevee..." This time he was sure someone called out to him. The voice that called him sounded familiar, so he listened for the voice again. A door of light slowly began to appeared in front of him. "Eevee..." The voice was coming from the door. The door opened and the voice became clear. "Eevee!"

It was his friend aipom. She was calling to him from the door of light. Eevees' fall slowly came to a stop about thirty feet from the door. Now that he has use of his feet again, he made a run to the door. Unfortunately, the two battling pokemon were fighting not to far away. Each explosion was getting closer and closer to his destination, until finally, they were on opposites sides of the door. One on his left and one on his right. They launched their attacks at the same time. Eevee panicked, fearing that the collision of the two attacks would destroy the door. He used Quick attack to boost his speed so that he could at least get through the door before the attacks collided.

He ran as fast as he could. His goal getting closer in his sight. He looked to his left and right. The two attacks were coming faster than he expected. He started to doubt that he could make it in time, but quickly dismissed the idea and focused all his attention to his destination. Eevee made one last desperate sprint to the door, pushing his body to its limit. Just as he got one paw in the door, an explosion came. Blinding pain was surging throughout his body, making him yell out in agony, but there wasn't anything coming out. His voice was gone. He was silently yelling out in pain in the endless darkness.

"EEVEE!!!" Eevees' eyes shot open. He saw aipom looking over him with concern. His breathing was heavy and he was covered in sweat. "You okay? Did you have a nightmare?" asked aipom. It took a minute for him to answer.

"Yeah...but it wasn't the same dream I've been having. This one...was different." He told aipom what he dreamed.

"Sounds intense. Glad I woke you up when I did." aipom stated with relief in her voice. Now that the adrenaline has died down, eevee noticed there was some weight on the lower part of his body. He looked down and saw that aipom was sitting on top of him.

"Why's she sitting on me?" he thought to himself. He also noticed that her tail hole was a little too close to his tenders. His face turned red instantly and he pushed her off of him. "What do you think you're doing?!"

"You were going to roll off the bed so I sat on you to keep you from going anywhere." she

responded.

"Wouldn't it have been easier if you just pulled me to the other side of the bed?"

"You're too big for me to do that. Besides, shouldn't you be grateful that I kept you from falling on your neck?" Despite what just happened he knew she was right. He could've not woken up at all if it hadn't been for her.

"I guess you're right." he said.

"I know I'm right. Let's go and take a bath so you can forget about that stupid nightmare of yours." aipom said sliding off the bed. She made her way in the bathroom and started running the water. Eevee got off the bed a couple minutes later and joined her for a nice long bath.

*****8*****

By the time eevee and aipom had finished their morning baths, breakfast was already halfway done. They got out of the bathroom and noticed that Eric wasn't in the room, so they assumed that he was downstairs. The smell of breakfast being made filled their noses with a variety of different foods blending together. As if on cue, both of their stomachs growled. They laughed a little at themselves and headed downstairs to get some food. When they got downstairs and didn't see Eric in the kitchen or the living room, they looked around the house for him. Akira saw that eevee and aipom were looking for something for a while, so she stopped what she was doing and asked if they were looking for either Ember or Eric. Apparently, Eric had woken up earlier to take Ember out for a walk. They usually go to the next town and come right back.

"Don't worry. If I know Eric, he'll be back as soon as breakfast is ready." she said to them. "While you two are waiting, why don't you help me out in the kitchen so we can eat sooner?" Liking the idea of eating sooner, they both agreed to help out.After a good twenty minutes, breakfast was finally done. There was a plate of pancakes with melted butter on each one. A bowl of bacon and sausages was next to a bowl of fruit. There was a bowl of poffins on the other table along with some berries. It was a good-looking breakfast. They heard the front door open.

"Mom, we're back!" Eric shouted as he and Ember came through the door.

"Wash your hands, breakfast is ready!" she shouted back. Eric made his way past the entrance of the kitchen to a bathroom to wash his hands. Ember, of course, didn't need to so she just walked in the kitchen looking a little tired.

"Good morning little ones." she said as she sat at the table.

"Morning." eevee and aipom said together.

"Did you enjoy your walk?" asked aipom.

"No matter how many times we walk that route, it doesn't get any easier. But I did enjoy the walk." Ember responded.

"That's good. Did you bring anything back?" Eevee gently nudged aipom in her side. "That's rude. You don't go asking pokemon that."

"Actually, we did." Aipom playfully stuck out her tongue at eevee, then turned her attention back to Ember.

"What'd you get?" she asked a little excited. Just then, Eric entered the room holding a bag in his hand.

"Morning you two. I've got a present for you." Aipom ran up to Eric and eagerly waited for him to open the bag. "I know how much you like these, so we gathered some on our way back." He opened the bag and pulled out two grepa berries. Eevees' eyes went wide as he saw his favorite food in the world being presented in front of him. He ran up to Eric and practically begged him for the berry. Aipom wasn't as excited as he was, but she liked getting presents, even if it was a berry that will be devoured in the next couple of minutes. Eric didn't really expect them to be this excited over a berry. He laughed to himself and gave them a berry. Aipom and eevee accepted the berry and hugged Erics' leg as a show of thanks.

"Well now that everyone is here and ready, how about we start eating?" suggested Akira.

"Sounds good, I'm starving." Eric responded. With that said, they were eating breakfast.

After they finished eating, everyone pitched in to help clean the kitchen. Afterwards, Ember went upstairs to take a bath and rest. Aipom said goodbye and left the house to go visit her parents. Eric was a little worried that she wouldn't come back but eevee reassured him she was. Akira left the house to go to her job at the Trainer's School in Jubalife city. She was a teacher there. That just leaves Eric and eevee by themselves.

"Hey, since it's gonna be just us, how about we go play over at Jerry's." Eevee gave Eric a smile and nodded in approval.

"Alright, I'll just go tell Ember where we'll be so she doesn't feel abandoned." With that, Eric went upstairs. While he went upstairs, eevee went into the kitchen to get another grepa berry before they left. Akira had emptied the bag of berries into a bowl on the table, so it was no trouble for him to get one. Eevee took a bite out of the berry and was instantly lost in its flavor.

"Awwww...it's sooo good." He started fantasizing of a world made out of grepa berries. He sat there cheerfully eating the berry for a couple minutes before Eric came back down and interrupted his fantasy.

"You know if you keep eating those you're gonna turn into one." Eevee snapped back to reality and turned to Eric, who was laughing at him. He stuck out his tongue playfully at Eric and hurried to finish his berry and followed Eric out the door. It didn't take them long to get to Jerry's' house, since it was just down the street.

Eric knocked on the door. It took a minute, but someone finally opened the door. It was Jerry's mom. She was about the same age as Akira. Her hair was a light brown color and was about shoulder length. She wore blue jeans and an orange blouse.

"Oh, good morning. You want Jerry? He's up in his room playing video games with Kit." A look of confusion had shown on Erics' face, making her laugh a little. "I know it sounds silly, but apparently she's taken an interest in his little hobby." She motioned for them to come inside. They went upstairs and Eric opened the door to Jerry's' room. When he did, he still couldn't believe what he saw. Kit and Jerry were fighting each other on Tekken 5. Since Kit couldn't hold the controller, she has to play with it on the floor. From the looks of it, Kit's losing by a large among of health. Jerry saw the door open from the corner of his eye and looked to see who came in.

"Hey Eric. What's goin' on?" he said still concentrating on the game.

"Nothin' much. Umm, how long has she been playing video games? I've never seen her do

this before."

"She just started last night after we came back from the beach. I was playing, after I'd given her a bath and she wanted to play all of a sudden. She's gotten pretty good for someone who can't even hold the controller." Jerry laughed at his own joke. Kit heard him and decided to get a little payback for making fun of her. She turned her attention to Jerry and tackled him to the floor.

"What are you-pfft hahahaha!" Kit started to savagely tickle Jerry. He couldn't really defend himself since she knew all the places he was ticklish. Every time he would cover up on spot, she would instantly move to another spot. Her onslaught continued for a couple minutes before Jerry finally surrendered. "Hahaha...alright, alright. I won't make fun of you anymore." Kit stopped her assault and stood triumphantly on Jerrys' chest. Jerry finally caught his breath after a couple minutes.

"So, what do you want to do today?" he asked Eric while sitting up. Kit hopped off and sat next him.

"I was hoping that we could play outside, but I haven't thought of what do yet." he admitted while he and eevee sat down on jerry's' bed. Both of them sat in silence for a while trying to think of something to do.

"How about we have battle?!" Jerry said excitedly.

"A battle?"

"Yeah. Your eevee against my shinx. Come on, it'll be fun. Besides, I want to know how strong eevee is." Eric thought about it for a minute. He had never battled before, so this would be his first. Jerry on the other hand, has already battled a lot of wild pokémon with Kit. He looked over at eevee next to him and thought about how strong he was. After weighing his options, he figured he's got nothing to lose. Besides, this was an opportunity to get used to battling.

"Alright, you're on." he said finally. Jerry jumped to his feet excitedly and turned to Kit.

"Alright. Let's show them what we can do Kit." Kit jumped to her feet excited and ready for battle.

"See you outside." Jerry ran out the room with Kit following closely behind. Eric turned to eevee.

"You think we can win this eevee? I've never battled before." Eevee looked at him and gave him a reassuring smile. "Okay, let's get outside before they start running out of steam."

Eric and eevee went out to the back of the house where Jerry and Kit were waiting. The backyard was pretty big, so there was enough room to have a battle. Eric distanced himself away from Jerry and Kit so that they could battle. Eevee had positioned himself in front of Eric ready for battle. Just then, something had occurred to both of them. Eevee's never battled with a trainer before. "Hey, uh, eevee. You haven't battled with a trainer have you?" Eevee turned around and shook his head no. "Okay, all you have to do is listen to me and do what I tell you. I know that sounds a little blunt and rude, but that's pretty much it."

"Ya damn right that's rude." eevee thought. He didn't like the idea of being told how to battle by someone else, especially someone who's never battled before. He thought about how the battle might go and told himself if things were looking bad, he would just do his own thing. He was pretty serious when it came to battling. Eevee gave Eric a nod and turned to face Kit. Eric took it as sign he understood. When eevee looked at Kit, he felt there was something a little...different about her. She wore the same smile she always had, but now it felt different. "Maybe she's just confident." he told himself. He still couldn't shake off that feeling though.

"You two done chatting over there?! I want to get this started before bedtime!" Jerry shouted.

"We were waiting for you to make the first move!" Eric shouted back.

"Just cuz you're my friend, doesn't mean I'll go easy on ya!"

"We don't need you to! We're gonna win this easy!"

"Big words for someone who's never battled before! Come on Kit. Let's show 'em who they're messing with." Kit got ready.

"Let's go eevee. We're not gonna be some pushovers." Eevee got ready.

"Let's start things off with Tackle, Kit." Jerry commanded. Kit charged full speed at eevee.

"You use Tackle too, eevee." Eevee charged full speed at Kit. Both of their hits connected. Surprisingly enough, the result was a stalemate. Eevee and Kit looked like two battling rams. They kept ramming into each other, trying to get an edge against their opponent. "Eevee, jump up and use Shadow ball!" Eevee dodged left just before they collided again and jumped in the air, charging the dark purple energy in his mouth.

"Dodge it kit, then use Bite!" shouted Jerry. Kit turned to eevee, who had just launched his Shadow ball at her. She barely had enough time to dodge and the attack grazed the star-shaped tip of her tail. She flinched slightly, but it wasn't enough to make her miss a beat. She picked up speed and lunged forward just as eevee touched the ground. She opened her mouth wide and bit down on Eevee's hind leg. He flinched at the pain and tried to use his free paw to hit her off, but Kit would add pressure to her bite every time he lifted his other leg, making him flinch.

"Alright, now that he's close, use Iron tail!" Eric looked at Jerry in complete shock.

"Kit knows Iron tail?!" he said in disbelief.

"Sure does. I got the idea to teach it to her from my mom, since she's an electric type. We've been working' on it for a while now, so taste the fruits of our labor!" Kits' tail started to glow white.

"Eevee, get outta there!" Eric shouted. Kit quickly let go of his leg and jumped in the air. Using this opportunity to get away, he tried to move out of the way, but a pain in his leg caused him to flinch and momentarily paralyzed him on the spot. Kit came down flipping forward, building momentum to make the attack more powerful. With one last flip, she brought her tail down with force strong enough to make an onix feel a little intimidated. Acting on instinct, eevee launched a Shadow ball at Kit. The shadow ball connected with the Iron tail, causing an expolsion. She was launched a good distance away from eevee, landing just few feet in front of jerry. She shook off the slight daze she had from the explosion.

"Kit, look out!" Jerry yelled. Kit focused her eyesight and saw a shadow ball heading toward her. She tried to jump over it, but it was too late. The attack hit her belly, making her fly towards Jerry. He caught her and checked over her injuries. She was curled up in a ball holding her stomach in pain. The Shadow ball had hit her pretty hard and he was sure she wouldn't last much longer with that kind of injury. Jerry decided to call the match.

"It's a tie!" he shouted. Eric looked at Jerry in disbelief.

"What do mean a tie?! We won!"

"Oh yeah? Take a good look at eevee over there." Eric looked over at eevee and closely examined him. His breathing had become a little unstable. He struggled to stand up straight, trying to avoid putting any kind of pressure on his injured leg. From the looks of it, he didn't look like he would last much longer if Kit hadn't been hit with that last attack. "Alright, I see your point. Let's get back inside and heal them up." Eric said carefully picking up and carrying eevee inside.

He felt slightly disappointed by the call, but felt a little excited that he had his first battle. Eevee on the other hand was a little surprised by how strong Kit was, for her age. He didn't expect her to be just as strong as he was. He felt a little down at the fact that someone younger than him had almost beaten him in a fight, especially if it's a girl. He believed that the male should be strong enough to protect the female, at least that's what his dad told him. He really admired him. Thinking about his dad reminded him about the personal goal he set for himself.

"If I want to be that strong, I have to step up my game." he thought to himself. With his newly found determination, he decided to train harder than he's done before.

Eric and Jerry carried Eevee and Kit inside the house to be treated for their injuries. They brought them up to Jerry's room and put them on the bed. Jerry left the room to go get some medicine while Eric stayed to get them comfortable. A couple minutes later, Jerry came back with a blue spray bottle.

"I got the medicine." he said coming in the room. "Who wants to be treated first?" Kit vocalized that she wanted to be first. Jerry walked over to her and got on oneknee so that he was near eye level with her. "All right, show me where it hurts." he told her. Kit rolled to her side so that he could spray her belly. Eevee was watching closely while this was going on. He knew he would have to get sprayed after her. After a quick couple of sprays, Jerry got up and walked over to the other side of the bed where Eevee was.

"You're next little guy." he said while getting back down on his knee. "I take it that only your leg hurts?" Eevee nodded and presented the bitten leg to him.

"Hold on, let me do it." Eric walked over to where they were. He was watching from the desk next to the tv.

"You sure?" Jerry asked.

"Yeah. I'll have to do this eventually when I get started on my journey." he responded. Jerry looked at him in shock.

"You mean your gonna take Eevee with you on your journey?!" Eric hadn't really thought about it. He's thinking about getting a Chimchar when he starts out. He always had a thing for fire pokemon, probably because he was around one most of the time. But taking Eevee along had never crossed his mind. He thought about how it would be taking him along instead of Chimchar. After quickly thinking it over, he thought it would be best to wait and decide when the time comes.

"I haven't really thought about it. Maybe I'll change my mind when I head out." Eevee was a little clueless as to what they talking about. Though he heard stories from his parents that humans would travel around with the pokemon they captured. Some pokemon were happy traveling with the humans who captured them, but there's always that

group of people who abuse their pokemon. He shivered a little at the thought of being abused by a human.

"Psst, eevee." Eevee snapped out of his train of thought and looked to see who called him. It was Kit.

"Hey, have you ever been healed by humans before?" she asked him.

"I think so, why?" She shook her head, obviously not what she wanted to hear.

"I meant other than the time you were in the hospital because I'm sure you weren't awake." He tilted his head to the side, confused by what she asked.

"What's a hospital?" She let out a sigh.

"Geez, you're kinda slow." Hearing this from someone who gets easily distracted and got lost from her home by following every pokemon that came into view was not exactly comforting. "I mean, have you ever gotten sprayed with those bottles before?" she said hoping that this would be simple enough for him to understand.

"Uh, no I haven't." he said finally understanding what she was getting at.

"Well just to let you know, since this is your first time, it's gonna sting a little when he sprays you with that stuff."

"She didn't even flinch when she got sprayed." he thought to himself.

"You ready?" Before he could say anything else, Eric sprayed his leg with the medicine. Eevee jumped a little out of surprise. It did sting, but not as much as he thought it would. After a few seconds, the stinging went away and was replaced with a slight numbing feeling, then it felt as if he never got bitten. Just to be sure, he moved his leg a little to make sure the pain was gone. "Feel better?" asked Eric. Eevee looked at him and gave him an affirmative nod. "Now that that's over, how about we get in some gaming." he said getting up from his kneeling and turning to Jerry.

"Only if you're up for getting your butt kicked." Jerry responded while getting up. He walked over to his PS3 and grabbed the two controllers sitting next to it. He tossed one to Eric. While they were playing, Kit and Eevee took this time to talk to each other.

"So, where's Aipom? I thought that she would be coming over with you." asked Kit.

"She went back to her parents for the day, since it's the first time we've slept at a human's home."

"So how do you like it so far?" He paused for a minute to think over his experiences far.

"Let's see..." he thought. "I saw the ocean for the first time, ate dinner and made breakfast with humans, had an intense battle with a new friend, met a pretty Ninetails..." His face turned a little red as he thought of what happened when they met. Luckily his brown fur covered it up.

"Well, are you gonna tell me or just on keep spacing out?" she asked curiously, snapping him out of his trance.

"Uhh, yeah, It's good so far." he said a little spacey.

"By the way, why didn't you go back to your parents for the day? Don't you want to tell them how much fun you're..."

she stopped when she saw that his face went from spacey to looking a little depressed.

"You okay?" she asked a little concerned for him. It took a minute, but he finally responded.

"...yeah, I'm okay." he said still feeling and sounding down. Kit looked at him with concern and little guilt. Eevee saw her face and "No, it's not your fault. It's just that...I really miss them."

Kit let out a held breath. "Is that all?" she said thinking that there was an obvious solution to his problem. "Then just go home and visit them."

"I can't. They were captured by a trainer." Hearing this brought her high spirits down again.

"Oh..."

Things stayed quiet between them for a while. After a little bit of thinking, Kit thought of a way to get him talking again.

"So what were your parents like?" she asked hoping to get his attention.

"They were the best parents ever. My dad was an umbreon." His tone seemed to get a little more cheerful at the mention of his dad. "He was cool, smart, and super strong. He's the one who taught me how to use Shadow ball." He thought back to the times he spent training to get it right and the look of his dads' face when he showed him that he's mastered the move. That was the best moment in his life. Kit smiled, glad that he was talking to her again. "My mom was really pretty. She was a lot more fun and smarter than dad. She would always trick him into getting the things she wanted. Then later, we would make fun of him when he wasn't around." They both laughed at this. "Other than Ember, she's the most beautiful Ninetails ever."

After his little speech, things got quiet for a bit. Kit was thinking about everything he told her. "So, what was that move you did earlier with your tail?" asked Eevee. Kits' attention was brought back from her thoughts to Eevee.

"Oh, um... It's called Iron tail. Jerry said that since I'm an electric type, I should learn it because it's really effective against rock types."

"It's kinda cool; you think you could teach me how to do it?" Kit thought about his request for a moment, unsure if he could actually learn it, but she figured that if she could do it, anyone could.

"I don't know. It took me a while to learn it from Jerry, but I guess it couldn't hurt to try."

With that said, Eevee now has a goal to achieve: learn how to use Iron tail. After that day, Eevee has trained everyday with Kit so he could learn how to use Iron tail. Aipom was also there to train with him, acting as motivation to keep him going. You know, like you tend to exercise more when your friends are around you than you would by yourself. During their stay, Ember found a mate and had a baby male vulpix. The father was an arcanine belonging to Eric's cousin Micah, who came to visit for a few months.

Aipom and eevee stayed with Eric for a year before it was time for him to start on his journey as a pokemon trainer. He picked eevee to be his starter pokemon over the Chimchar he originally planned on. Although Eevee wanted aipom to go with them, she declined. She said she doesn't need a trainer to travel around the world and get stronger. She can do all that by herself. Even though she said that, he knew that she was just being stubborn.

After the farewells to friends, they left to go to Professor Rowan's lab in Sandgem town to get a pokedex and register Eric as a trainer. Along the way to their first gym battle in Oreburgh City, they met and battled many trainers and pokemon. Though Eric had plenty of chances to catch more pokemon, he figured eevee would be enough till he beat the Oreburgh City gym. Once they got to Oreburgh City, they challenged the gym leader, Roark, to a battle and won. Now we follow our heroes as they are walking out of Oreburgh City on their way to the next Gym, which is in Eterna City.

"Hey, Eevee, how about we go catch some pokemon on our way to the next gym. After that battle with Roark, I think it would be best for the both of us if we get some friends on our side." Eric said admiring his first of many badges. Eevee nodded in agreement. He missed being around other pokemon to talk to, not that he minds talking to Eric, but then again, most of their conversations are pretty much one-sided. Speaking of other pokemon, Eevee's had a feeling that something's been following them since they left Oreburgh City.

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