Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon or any of the pokéspecies in this story, but I do own the characters.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Hope's POV:
I awoke and examined myself, I looked at my red fluffy tail, made up of six curls, and my sleek red fur, I blew a little flame from my mouth and smiled, then looked at my brother, an Eevee named Evan by a trainer, sleeping on a bed made of leaves. I looked around our little house, which was a hole that I dug out from under a tree. I decided to take a short walk to tire myself out and allow myself to fall asleep again since whenever I wake up, it's hard for me to fall asleep again. I walked out from under the tree where we slept, it appeared to be around midnight. As I walked away from the home I heard a loud crack in the sky. It then started to rain. I quickly ran back to the tree and curled in my leafy bed. I watched as the rain fell. The wind blew throughout the tree. I shivered. Thunder roared throughout the clouds, waking my brother. He whined and said, "Hope, can I sleep with you?"
"Yes, you can." I smiled and scooted over and let him get in my bed. For the next hour, he would whimper every time there was thunder. I nuzzled his fluffy neck to assure him that it was all going to be okay. I finally dozed off.
In my dream, Evan was there, he was sleeping, surrounded by flames, he called out my name, I couldn't hear him, but I could read his lips. I ran towards him, but as I did so, he just seemed to get further and further away. I collapsed and started crying. I felt a presence above me, a charizard was hovering over me, a menacing grin on his face. he picked my up by my neck and opened his mouth as if he were about to use flamethrower. I closed my eyes and braced myself for the burning, the terrible burning. Although I am a fire type, I can still burn just as bad as a grass type. Then, I felt a nuzzle on my cheek. When I opened my eyes, I saw Evan, his eyes closed, nuzzling my neck, blood on his fur. Then I had to watch as an arrow pierced his chest. He cried out and collapsed. I watched terror, then ran up to him and laid down with him, knowing not to take the arrow out. I assured him that it would be okay. He took his last breaths, then stopped, I cried out for help, but no one came. I whimpered and nuzzled his fluffy neck. When I realised he had stopped breathing, I screamed and ran into a tree, slamming my head against it over and over again. Blood dripped down from my head. I collapsed on the ground, crying.
When I woke up from my terrible dream, I looked around for Evan, then saw him run into our home. A shinx ran in after him and pounced on him. I growled at her. She got off of my brother and walked back, cornering herself. I lifted a paw, showing my sharp claws. Evan gasped and ran in front of the shinx. He looked at me with the saddest puppy eyes ever. "Please don't hurt her, she's my friend." I lowered my paw and sighed.
"I'm sorry, what's your friend's name?" I asked Evan, but the shinx spoke out, "I'm Lily. Are you his mum?"
"No, I'm his sister. Sorry for threatening you, um, may I ask you, where are your parents?"
"Oh, um..." She looked down. Evan tilted his head and nuzzled her cheek, he quickly reared back as an electric shock jolted through him. Lily quickly said, "I'm sorry! That happens when I get upset... I should probably just go..."
I sighed and stood in front of the entrance to the tree. She tilted her head, confused, so I said to her, "If you would like to, you could stay with us."
The little shinx smiled and looked up at me, she hopped on her front paws, repeating the word, "Thank you," rapidly over and over again. I smiled and told Evan to stay with her while I go gather materials to make a but for her. As I walked out, I heard Evan and Lily giggling and playing. There was dew on the grass and leaves on the ground from the rain last night. As I walked through the forest, I gathered sticks and leaves, as well as some cotton from a whimsicott. I had travelled so far that it took me the rest of the day to get back to the tree but I eventually found it. When I came back, Lily and Evan were asleep in one bed, I smiled and started building Lily's bed. I eventually got too tired to even move leaves around, so I just climbed into my bed and fell asleep, I would finish it in the morning.
When I woke up, Lily and Evan were still asleep, I smiled and got out of bed. I started building Lily's bed again. When I looked back at the Lily, she had her eyes open, she yawned and walked up to me. "Are you making my bed?" She asked.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" I smiled at her. She walked back to Evan and placed her paws on his back, then started nudging him softly, he woke up and yawned, then walked over to me and, laying his head on my tail. I smiled and kept building. About an hour later I finished building, Lily jumped into the bed, she curled up, letting the soft cotton consume her. I hadn't put any cotton in Evan and I's beds, as I didn't think of it when I had built ours. Evan decided to go outside, so Lily followed him. I watched them as they played. Then, I saw a friend of mine, he ran to me and nuzzled my neck. He was another vulpix, but he had a light gold fur, he was very shiny. His name was Correy, I rubbed my cheek against his and smiled. He put his paws on my side me and pushed me over, I laughed and played with him, rolling around in the grass, I was having so much fun that I didn't notice that my brother was trying to run away from a human. Correy got up and gasped, "Hope! Get up! Your brother!" I got up and gasped immediately running to my brother, who was now in a net. I noticed that the man had two nets, one with Lily in it. Correy jumped up and scratched the man's arm, he immediately dropped the net with Lily in it and shouted a word that I didn't understand. When he stopped, I saw the symbol on his jacket, he was part of the organisation that raised me, before it broke up 3 years ago. I kept running, I jumped up and tried to scratch his arm, but I missed. Whenever I hit the ground, I screamed in pain. I couldn't move my front right paw, it hurt so bad. I kept crying. I watched as my brother was put in a cage in the back of the man's truck, and drove off. My brother shouted my name. That was the moment that caused everything else that would happen in the matter of a year, just one year.