Chapter 1: An old Reunion
The dawn of a new morning welcomed with a cool wind breeze through the forest leaves as the Pokémon awoke from their nighttime slumber. The horizon of the sunrise shines down onto the fields and town with a warm embrace.
As the morning progressed on, an umbreon with sharp, silver rings finally began to wake up. He opened his eyes, stretched out his body, and let out a loud yawn. He started off his day by washing up his face at a nearby lake, and then set off to take a stroll to the fields. Later in the day, he finds a white & black-furred eevee sleeping peacefully under a large oak tree. He dashes over to her and stops a few inches in front of her.
He whispers into her ear, "Hey Belle, is that you? Uh, hello? Hello~" He tried tapping her tail as an attempt to try and wake her up. Her tail twitched as she snapped her eyes open. She seemed to be in a chipper mood knowing that she heard a familiar voice. "Dark Mirage?" She rubbed some of the sleep out of her eyes, stretched her body limber, and sat up strait facing him. "Hey! How's it goin'?"
He spoke to her with a smile. "Nothing much. Was just passing by bored out of my mind. So then, had a nice rest?" Smiling back at him, she remarked, "I did 'till I woke up. But since you're bored…" She casually snuggled her head to his as her tail wrapped around to his side. "You wanna do something?" Thinking he knew what was going on, he said with a smug grin on his face, "Oh? I don't really have anything to do right now, but it seems like you have something in mind." Her ears perked up for a moment. She tilted her head off to one side as if she was putting on an innocent look. "Huh? What do you think I was thinking?" smiling at the end of that sentence. He became hesitant at her response. "Pfft, I'd rather not say. So then, what DO you have in mind then?"
She grinned widely as if she knew what he was thinking. "Well I dunno, spending the day with you sounds fun." She leaned in closer to him with their noses about an inch apart from each other. "What do you think?" "That sounds fine by me," he said as he began to pounce on her pinned down, then loosened his grip on her. "But don't think I don't know what you're up to." Taken by surprise, her eyes widened. Strangely enough, she actually liked this aggressive attitude of his. "Wh-What are you talking about?"
"Hah, don't play dumb with me. You know well that you want me," feeling arrogant and cocky. "Pfft, hun this is my normal flirty personality. What makes you think I'm jumping at you so eagerly? Hmm…" He finally got off of Belle and sat back strait up at her. "Well now. Apparently I was wrong about you. Don't think though that you could get me to fall for you now, because I already have somebody else in mind." He pulled out of his chest tuft to show her the half-heart necklace with the engraving of his first initial onto it.
Upon seeing the necklace, her ears drooped down a little in disappointment. "Well if you had a girl, then why didn't you just say so; I woulda left you alone from the start!" She started to look down onto the ground a bit. "I guess if you have someone, you should be with her…" She walked away from him to go and find some food, but to the umbreon it looked though as if she was mad at him.
He chased after her and tried to walk alongside her. "Aw, c'mon now. I kept this necklace as a reminder of her. I'm just friends with her now, but I still love her though. I may have not gone over it right now, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to get over it eventually. I'm just not trying to find anybody else at the moment, okay?" Her ears lifted a little and she snuggled up to him as they walked. "Kay."
As they walked, Belle spotted a few delicious-looking berries on a branch and licked her lips. She crouched down then sprang up into the tree, snatching a berry in her mouth. She jumped back down and sat with her tails laid flat down, revealing two more berries. She offered one to him, which he gratefully accepted. "Well thank you." As Belle finishes her berry, she takes the third one, splits it in half and gives the other half to DarkMirage. He gladly accepts and begins munching down onto it.
Thinking about an earlier event, he then asks, "Hey Belle. You seemed pretty upset when I pulled out my necklace to you. Is there something wrong?" As she swallowed the last bit of her berry, she replies back, "Huh? Oh no. I just always thought you liked me* and then I got confused by the necklace. That's all." "Oh? Well I was just simply attracted by a pretty face was all. I wasn't going to fall instantly in love with you or anything…" He paused for awhile and added in, "…but maybe in time I might get to like you a lot. I'm just not sure right now." She just smiled back. "Well, it's nice to know I'm pretty." She then began to laugh a little. "Don't worry tiger. You don't have to hold yourself for little ol' me." He chuckled at her remarked and then gazed at the horizon. "Wow, sunset already? Time sure passes by quickly."
With a scoff, she blurted out, "Quickly my butt! I must've been asleep for a lot longer than I thought." She looked at the sky just as well. "Hah! Who's not to say that the scenery is actually an illusion? Either way, this is a nice view." As he stared at the sun, he puts on some shades to protect him from complete blindness. She gave a fake gasp to humor him. "Yes, it's totally a mirage."
As they idly gazed at the sunset, Dark turns to Belle and notices how graceful she seemed to look in the lighting. After awhile, he shook his head from the thought and tried to start another conversation. "So then, you think that we should call it a day? Or do you wanna go out and have some fun tonight?" She turns back to him in a thought of interest. "Well, since we didn't do much during the day we could have some night fun." "Well then. We can go into the city and party till we drop or something. I know a place where the other Pokémon get together to go drink, party, and wreck stuff up." "Really? Sounds like an awesome time! Lead the way le capi'tan!" she said as her ears perked up.