"Come on Rei!" I said to my friend. Rei Hano is sixteen, tall, and extremely gorgeous. Her crimson hair falls to the middle of her back, and her cat-like green eyes go perfectly with it. She glared at me.
"I can't leave now," she said. "its about to hatch." Rei pointed at her coveted egg in the incubator. Her two Banette, Plushie and Yureii, had mated about a month ago, and she was anxiously awaited the arrival of her new baby. I run a daycare/pokemon trainer, and Rei is my partner. I looked at her like she was an idiot.
"Do you really think Plushie and Soul (my Absol) can not guard the place for an hour or two?" I asked her. "I mean, Plushie will do anything to protect her egg, as will Soul." My Absol had recently mated with a wild Absol, and I was expecting a baby very soon too. After all, you did promise to go looking for new pokemon with me, and it will only be for an hour!" Rei glared at me. She can be kinda scary because she is three inches taller than me. I am five' eight" with deep blue hair to my butt and aqua blue eyes.
"Fine, but only for an hour," she consented. "Let's go!"
We arrived at a new place I had found last week. It was a dark cave, Rei's favorite place, with many streams and ponds, my favorite. I quickly pulled out my super rod.
"Come on Rei, let's go!" I said as I dashed over to the nearest pond. 'If we're only going to be here for an hour, you might want to start looking." I quickly cast my line into the pool, anxiously awaited to tug of a coveted water pokemon.
It had almost been twenty-five minutes before I hooked a pokemon. As I jerked my pole up, I saw a ….Piplup! "What were you doing down there, you silly little thing?" I asked the adorable pokemon.
"Piplup, Pip," it said back to me, looking at me like I was an idiot of some kind.
"I don't understand you, you know." I said, looking at it. "But I do know that I'm going to catch you!" I threw an ultra ball at the Piplup. It was to young to know what I was doing, so it did not fight as I caught it. As I bent over to pick up my newly acquired Piplup, I heard Rei coming up behind me.
"This was a useless trip…Wait, you just caught a pokemon!" she said, catching sight of the ball in my hand. "Let me see!"
"Fine," I consented, "Go Piplup!" The Piplup came out of her ball, looked around, and promptly fell asleep. "Well, that's great, just great!" Rei just about fell over laughing as Piplup turned over and started gently snoring in her sleep. "Wake up you idiot!" I said gruffly. "We have to go!"
"Piplup." The tiny pokemon abruptly woke up and glared at me. I stuck my tongue out at it and blew it a raspberry. The Piplup looked stunned and offended, but consented to go back into its poke ball. Rei was still laughing.
"Haha," I said, "Laugh all you want ." I glared at Rei, "Look behind you!" Rei turned around and shrieked, an Ariados was crawling up the cave wall behind her. Rei reached for a poke ball on her waist. "Wait!" I cried. "Look." The Ariados looked frightened and immediately moved to cover an unseen bump on the wall. "Look Rei, she's just protecting her baby." Rei sighed with relief.
"I thought she was going to attack me!" Rei looked at the Ariados. "Do you or your baby need help?" The Ariados nodded, and shoved her baby at Rei.
"Oh, I don't think-" Rei stuttered, but the Ariados shoved her baby at Rei again and scurried off before Rei could think of another excuse to give the baby back. "Okay, I'll keep him." The baby Spinirack looked up sleepily at Rei and with a soft "PiSpi" went back to sleep.
"Aww," I cooed, "He's so sweet, and tiny, and adorable!" Rei looked at me like I was crazy.
"He's a SPIDER!" Rei shouted loudly enough so that her sleeping pokemon shifted in her arms.
"Shhh," I quieted her, "You'll wake him up." Rei glared at me :Let's go back to my place, and we'll see what the others think of him. Rei looked at me and sighed.
"Fine." She relented, then she perked up. "I hope my egg is close to hatching, let's go!"
Back at the center, we found the pokemon dashing around wildly.
"Hurry up Inuko," Rei yelled dashing for the incubators, "they're hatching!" We arrived in the incubator room just in time to see Rei's egg crack, split, and open! Out hovered a miniscule Shuppet. Rei immediately started cooing and gushing over it. My egg soon followed, cracking, splitting, and opening. Out hopped a tiny Absol, its fur all fluffy and silky.
"So cute!" I exclaimed as I rushed to pick my baby up. "I'm going to name you Star." I quickly checked to make sure it was a girl. "Yes, I'm going to call you Star!" Star looked up at me through half-closed eyes and promptly fell asleep.
"I'm going to name you Death." Rei said to her sleepy boy Shuppet. "You're so cute and adorable-Hey!" Death started to pull Rei's hair and blow raspberries at her. I almost rolled on the floor from laughing.
"You should have named him Clown!" I couldn't stop myself from laughing at Rei's expression. As I started to wipe tears from my eyes, Spinirack leapt from the pouch in Rei's sweatshirt and began to cry. As if in cue, both Star and Death began to wail.
"What's wrong with them?" Rei asked frantically. "Are they hurt?" I quickly understood what was going on.
"No, I think they're all just hungry." I stated. "Spinirack must have hatched recently, so he must be around the same age as the others." I got up and began moving around in the kitchen getting out the special baby food I keep for newly hatched pokemon. As we got each infant fed with their appropriate food, Soul dashed in and yipped, "AbSi," this meant that someone was walking up to front sidewalk towards the Center. I left Rei with the pokemon and went to see what someone needed at this time of night.