Arizona's POV
"Hey..." I said. "Why are you here again?" He questioned. "I think we both know the answer to that..." I said, smirking.
I woke up. "Whoa!"
That was a crazy dream… I would never say something like that, honestly!
"Dad! I'm going out!" I called, throwing on some shoes and starting to walk out the door.
"Okay hun! Just be back by six for dinner!" My dad called. My mom was at work.
"Okay!" I left and started to walk. Maybe I'll just walk into town.
I walked for a while, admiring the environment. There sure was a lot of trees. And grass. That too.
I was walking right next to the woods. I would never get involved in those dark-type rituals and stuff they hold in there.
I'll admit it, I'm pretty innocent. I'm 15 and just recently hit puberty. It's sad, I know.
Pokemon call me "Goody two shoes Espeon". I get why. Never got less than a B in any class, and I'm in 10th grade. I've never kissed anyone, or dated anyone. I've never even liked anyone. It's hard to be interested in finding the perfect Pokemon to date when you're too busy finding the perfect answers to the math test.
Maybe I'm getting too deep in thought. I almost ran into a tree. "Ah!" I shouted, turning.
I heard a rustling noise in the woods. Maybe it's just my imagination?
"What was that?" I said to a tree. I'm too much of a social outcast that I'm talking to a tree. Or maybe it's a Sudowoodo.
I poked the tree.
It didn't move.
It's not a Sudowoodo.
It's just a plain, boring, old, "tree," I said aloud. Oops. I heard a rustle again.
This time, I know it wasn't my imagination. There was someone watching me.
"Who's there?!" I shouted at the woods. More rustling.
"Show yourself!" I tried sounding confident but I could hear the waviness.
Even more rustling… then an Umbreon stepped out of the woods and shook his fur. I shrieked inside. I got scared.
"Could you just fucking shut up already? You're making so much fucking noise, me and my brother are just trying to sleep. Assholes like you are getting in the way of that," the Umbreon spat at me. I got even more scared by his overuse of cuss words.
"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-" I began. I stopped when he took a few more steps toward me. I got even more worried. If I was fine before, I had just gained a sever case of anxiety. In that 2 seconds he took to get up into my face. I literally squeaked.
"I know you didn't fucking mean to, I'm not fucking dumb. Just shut the hell up, capiche?" The Umbreon took a step back and was about to leave back into the woods when I spoke up like the idiot I was.
"I'm not dumb either..." I said. My voice was stuttering. I, myself, was trembling out of my fur.
The Umbreon stopped and I swore I saw his blood red eyes glimmer. Like he was preparing for a fight that he knew he would win. If there was a fight, I would lose. Instant knockout.
"You're quite the smartass, I suppose?" The Umbreon questioned sarcastically, and I backed up. How does one respond to that? This Umbreon was really intimidating. I was scared. And angry. I can't figure out why.
I opened up my mouth to speak but he kept talking. "And I suppose that you use words like 'suppose' daily. Isn't that true?" He said. I got even more intimidated. He was challenging me to stand up for myself. But why? How would I? Am I supposed to know? Am I actually a smartass or just an idiot? Too much questions circled into my head. The biggest one being. 'Why is he still trying with me?'.
"I guess..." I made a horrible impression of a confident Pokemon.
"Oh… so you're admitting to being a goddamn smartass? You got balls..." The Umbreon said, and his red eyes shone brighter.
"L-Leave me alone! Please!" I pleaded, and the glimmer in his eyes faded immediately. I was oddly upset.
"Uh… fine. Leave then. It'll be funny to see you try to fend off the dark-types on your own," he said, and almost left. I stopped him.
"Wait!" I stuttered at him. He whipped his head around. "What the fuck do you want?" He asked in an annoyed voice. I felt guilty for getting him annoyed and my sudden anxiety lit up again.
"Um… wha- what's your name?" I trembled. "I-" he paused. His eyes shone for half a second but they quickly went back to a bland red color.
"I'll only tell you mine if you tell me yours, dick," The Umbreon said and I gasped for air. I was holding my breath, waiting for him to be nice for once.
"My name is Arizona…" I answered. I was named after some state. I don't know what a 'state' is, I've just heard that there's some other Earth with these 'states' on them. Scientist Pokemon have studied it.
"Cool? Was that the proper response? That name is so weird," he said and I have to admit, I felt a bit shot down. I hate when Pokemon make fun of my name.
"Well, what's y-yours?" I asked, and I tried gulping down a lump in my throat. You could hear the sound from a mile away.
"...Pierce..." he said. His name was Pierce and that was terrifying. 'I'm going to pierce your throat with this knife; maybe that will get the lump out.'
"Oh… Nice to meet-" My sentence was cut off by Pierce groaning. I knew I shouldn't have been nice to him.
"Shut up. I have to go," he said, and with one last glimmer in his bloody eyes he whipped his head around and raced back into the woods.
He disappeared out of sight.
