I can't believe I got a new Pokémon today! An Eevee. I know that I already have my Glaceon, and I tried to tell him that, but when he showed me what that special little Eevee could do, I accepted it. Plus, it's a shiny, which is hard to resist. We are happily training right now.

Oh, right. I should probably explain to you how I got an Eevee. They are pretty rare, even here, in Kanto, and it's a really cool story.

Remember that poor cute little Cubone I told to you about? After that whole episode with Team Rocket and Marowak happened in Lavender, I chased after Team Rocket. I wanted them to pay for what they did to that poor Cubone, and ended up chasing them to Cealdeon City. I think I told you about that, so I'll move on to what happened afterwards. After challenging the gym and losing, again, I headed towards Saffron city. It was pretty easy to find the rocket's base. After infiltrating the hideout I was easily able to get to the boss. Beating him was a piece of cake. Glaceon's ice beam was able to slice through all of his Pokémon!

After I beat Giovanni, he gave me this Eevee, and told me to take good care of it. I already had Glaceon, so I refused. He then showed me how his Eevee evolved into a Jolteon, Flareon , Vaporeon and back into an Eevee with the thunder, fire, water and Everstone respectively. Each had different moves and were quite powerful. So I took the Eevee and ran, because I had lead the police to the building, freed the hostages there. And I knew nobody would have been left alive when they blew up the building.

I stopped only when I reached the forest and stood there panting. The explosion reached my ears and I grinned. Team rocket deserved it, seeing what they had done to so many Pokémon, not just Cubone. I wanted to try out my new Pokémon so I walked into the tall grass, and came across a wild Oddish. An easy target for Flareon. I commanded Eevee to evolve but nothing happened. I then remembered the firestone that Giovanni had used, so I tried that. Within minutes my Flareon had beat Oddish and I was trying to figure out how to change it back. I tried using an Everstone, and I was thrilled to find Eevee standing in front of me once again. I introduced Eevee to Glaceon, the only other Pokémon I had with me. I decide that Eevee was strong enough to have a double battle with Glaceon against Erica, and I wanted Glaceon to have a final battle before I send him back to the P.C.

Glaceon looked happy, probably because he would get to be with all of his friends, while Eevee looked confused. So I told it about myself. How I travelled to many regions and collected all the badges. I brought only Glaceon with me to Kanto for some training, and had been looking for some strong Pokémon to train. Eevee seemed to be strong enough to handle a gym battle, so after a trip to the Pokémon Centre, we will be heading off to the gym. Wish us luck!

Wow, Erika was really easy to beat! Glaceon and Eevee are a great team. Eevee is really strong, and I didn't have any problem using her alongside Glaceon. It's like she already knows about double battles and teamwork. Oh, did I mention that Eevee is a girl? Erika's Vilepulme's attract hit her, and didn't do a thing! I was thrilled, because Glaceon always lost because of attract. After that I was easily able to defeat her with my latest combination of fire and ice!

Today I sent Glaceon to the P.C., Eevee was quiet sad to see him go, but I reassured her that Glaceon was with his friends and that when we finished getting all the badges here, I would take her to meet all my other Pokémon.

Nothing more to say for now.

Wow, today is really my lucky day! Eevee and I were just passing the Game Corner, on our way to the Cycling Road, when we heard some guy announce a raffle taking place, which gave away the prizes that you normally got in the Game Corner. Eevee, perched on my left shoulder, started rubbing against my face, clearly wanting to enter the raffle. I entered once for myself and once for Eevee. Soon, almost the entire town was gathered there to see the raffle winners. First were the winners of berries, hold items and other small things. I suppressed a laugh as the guy who sits moaning in the café about blowing all his money in the slots received yet another coin case. That would be five coin cases that he had now. Then came the winners of TMs. I noticed a boy who eagerly came forward to claim his prize, the TM Dig, a Growlithe trotting happily at his heels. Seeing the close bond shared between the two, I remembered the start of my own journey, a struggle from the beginning…

-XXX-

I had just left from LittleRoot Town, on my way to the forest to catch some pokemon, my Torchic trying to keep up with me. I was too excited to stop, but I eventually did, right outside the forest, both of us panting. We stood at the edge of the forest, trying to catch our breath, and grinned at each other.

"Ok, Torchic! This is where our journey together begins! Let's train hard and catch some pokemon!"

Torchic started jumping around from one foot to another, as though on live coals. I started laughing. "I'm going to call you Coal!" She seemed to like that, as her jumping increased. I laughed even louder.

Suddenly, I heard an ear- splitting crash behind me. I whipped around just as an enormous, battle-scarred Aggron crashed through the trees. I was paralysed with fear as I saw the Aggron raise one arm, it's claws sharpening for the move slash. Just as it brought it's claws down, I saw an orange blur fly by me, and heard a blood-curdling scream from Coal. She landed right in front of me, a long gash along the side of her body, starting from her neck. Aggron was preparing another slash when he got hit by a shadowy blob. He staggered for a moment, both of us turning at the same time to see what had come to rescue me. At that time, I was sure that I was going to die, why else would an angel float from the sky? It slowly floated down towards us, the sun coming from behind, giving it a more holy appearance. It even had yellow, slightly withered, wings and a halo.

The weird floated in front of me, half of it's side facing me, one eye on me and the other on Aggron. Aggron gave a roar, then lunged forward with another slash attack. My warning was just on my lips, when I saw the claw pas straight through the pokemon, the bug shell completely unaffected. The pokemon turned till it faced me, it's back towards Aggron. Aggron looked at it an gave one last scream, full of rage and terror, before collapsing.

I picked up Coal, barely managing a 'thanks' to the pokemon before I started running back to Professor Birch's lab. Oddly, the bug shell started following me, but at that time, I just didn't care. All I wanted was Coal to be alive and well. Nearing the lab, I ran into a trainer with a Treeko. He called out for a battle, but I just pushed past him, bursting through the doors. The Professor looked up, startled, from where he was returning the remaining Pokemon to their pokeballs.

"Professor, please help Coal." I pleaded, "There was an Aggron…"

The Professor didn't say anything, just took Coal from me, and rushed into one of the back rooms. On his way, I heard him call out to one of his aids about, putting a cover? I wasn't sure. The aid rushed over to me, a brown cloth in his hands, and put it over my saviour's back, tying it to the front. I noticed how he seemed to be avoiding looking at the Pokémon's back. I sat down, the weird pokemon hovering over me. I was too anxious to bother to pull out my pokedex, so I sat in silence.

Night fell, and I heard footsteps. Professor Birch walked towards me with a tired, yet pleased smile on his face. In his arms was Coal, slightly battered but otherwise alright. I squealed, "Coal!" and ran up to her. Professor Birch handed her to me warning, "She is quiet strong to have pulled through, but be a bit gentle with her."

I carefully held Coal and hugged her, crying. She protested slightly, being a fire type, which made me smile a little. I looked up to thank the Professor, only to find that his eyes were trained on the floating pokemon shell next to me. After a moment of silence, Birch said, "Where did you get that Shedinja?"

"Is that what this is?" I asked. He nodded. "When the Aggron attacked us, Shedinja protected me with a Shadow Ball. The it turned and used some sort of move on the Aggron, which made it scream and faint. I don't know why, but it followed me here."

After another moment of silence, Birch spoke in a grave tone, "Shedinja didn't use any move on Aggron. It killed it."

As I stood, dumfounded, he continued, "Shedinja have a hole in their back, and those who look into the hole loses their soul. this type of ghost pokemon is extremely dangerous, and I would advise you to leave it here. This one didn't hesitate before killing the Aggron, and could easily kill you."

"But you put a cover on it, right? So it's safe!" I refused to believe that the pokemon who had just saved me was bad.

"Listen Starr I know that you like this pokemon for saving your life, but this pokemon is dangerous. It's used as a weapon to scare people. A pokemon like this is a monster!"

But I refused to give up. "It saved our lives! It killed the Aggron to save us! It's not a monster, it's an angel! I will keep it and call it that!" With that, I stormed out of the lab, Coal in my arms and Angel following. At the door I paused, "I will prove to you, Professor, that all the ghost types who you call 'dangerous' are not like that! I will travel to all the regions and capture these kind of pokemon and prove that they are not bad!"

-XXX-

I was brought back to reality by a sharp bite on my shoulder from Eevee.

I blinked, then noticed that the entire crowd was watching me. the announcer cleared his throat, "I assume you want the prize won in your Eevee's name?" I walked up to take my prize, my face redder than a Scizor's claw. Since I had not bothered to pay attention, I had no idea what Pokémon I hade won. After I received my prize, a couple more were announced, and everyone started leaving. I walked out of the city, eager to train my new pokemon, but that Growlithe kid wanted to battle. You will never guess what my new pokemon was. A Dratini! And an agile one too, the Growlithe couldn't even land a single hit! The battle was a piece of cake with Dratini's dragon rage! The Kanto gym leaders better be prepared, because we're coming for them.

I went to challenge Sabrina's Gym today, but I lost. I'm not going to waste any more time her, like other times, I'll move on to the other Gyms, and return here when we're stronger.

Again. I failed again. We tried hard, but we couldn't defeat Koga. His Gym and Sabrina's are the only two left. We trained as hard as possible. But even though Dratini evolved into a Dragonair, and I caught a powerful Ditto, I couldn't beat either one of them. we can't train any more here, all the trainers are tired of losing and have started refusing to battle. I want those badges, and I don't care what I have to do to get them…

No, this is wrong. I can't believe I'm doing this. But I have to, it's not like I have a choice.

I left Kanto and travelled to Johto, where I put both Eevee and Ditto for breeding. Eevee are rare in Kanto, but it would be quite easy to get an Espeon. I'm planning to defeat the Johto Gym Leaders while I'm here.

Finally, the egg hatched. After taking Eevee, who I've decided to call One, and Ditto out of day-care, I went out to try the young Eevee, named Two. He was strong, and was able to change into all three forms just like his mother, thank Arceus for that. I trained him for a while, then switched to training One. Her happiness was high as it is, so hopefully, I'll get an Espeon soon…

The experiment failed. One evolved into an Espeon, but was unable to switch back. I noticed that she had a patch of shiny Eevee fur on her left foreleg. I put her back in the day-care with Two. I'm going to be busy, and might not have much time to write. I hope I get an egg soon.

Sorry for not writing for so long, I was busy. But I finally did it! I managed to breed an Eevee that can change into all eighteen of her evolutions and back. I named her Fifty. I even managed to defeat the Johto Gym Leaders, though I didn't use my Kanto pokemon much. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I got both Angel and my Cofagrigus out of the P.C. I needed Angel for the breeding. Cofagrigus was a precaution. Now I'm going to get back to Kanto to finish those last two Gyms and the Elite Four. Watch out Kanto, Niv is back in business!

I headed straight to Sabrina's Gym the moment I reached Kanto. My pokemon were all rested up, and my Johto ones were already in the P.C.

My team is pretty good. Dragonair, Ditto, Angel, Fifty and Cofagrigus. I want to try winning without Angel and Cofagrigus, like I always try to do. I hope I win this time!

I won. But I feel…strange. I'm not happy about the victories, and neither are any of my pokemon. Something bad is going to happen, I just know it. I think that my pokemon know it too, all of them have been acting strange around me. Except for Angel.

I won't bother catching any more pokemon. I need Angel and Cofagrigus with me, and the rest of my team is strong. Dragonair is close to evolving, so I think that we're ready to take on the Elite Four. Wish me luck!

No, no this is not possible. It just can't be true! I-I'm in danger, I need help. Please someone help me! I don't know what to do now, I shouldn't have done it, why didn't I realise it sooner…

For a while, I had been getting a strange feeling, like I'm being followed. Voices, too. I don't know what they're saying, or who 'they' are, I knew that it was bad. But, I ignored it earlier. I kept my goal in mind, and ignored everything else. I wish I hadn't.

I was battling Agatha. Her taste of room decoration matched her taste of ghost type pokemon, so I was pretty creeped out. Dragonair, who had evolved while battling Lorelei, managed to knock out her Golbat, Arbok and Haunter before being beaten by her Gengar. I decided to use Fifty, since she was a normal type.

At that moment, when Fifty touched the ground, I saw something shift in the shadows out of the corner of my eye. I glanced that way, only to find the dimly lit wall glittering with what seemed to be eyes. But that seemed to be the pattern of the room, as it was everywhere. Agatha seemed distracted by something, absentmindedly commanding her pokemon to use shadow punch thrice before noticing that my pokemon had not taken any damage. By then her pokemon had all but fainted. Fifty took a little damage during Gengar's next move, but not enough to stop her powerful shadow ball from ending the battle.

As we shook hands, she leant close to me and whispered, "I sense the presence of some evil spirits around you. please be careful." I nodded, even though I hadn't understood what she meant. We were allowed to challenge the Elite Four in any order, and I had chosen to battle her last. I never really wanted to become the Champion, so I decide to leave.

After a quick stop by the pokemon centre to heal my team and get some supplies, I decided to train in the tall grass for a bit and decide where I would go next. After Fifty thrashed a couple of Arbok, I ran into a shiny Espeon. In Kanto. It must have run away or been released by it's trainer, but I decided to defeat it, seeing as I already had Fifty. I sent out Dragonite and ordered it to use ice punch. Much to my surprise, it seemed to pass through the Espeon. Assuming that the move missed, I continued battling. Espeon leapt forward to use return, and I noticed something. On it's left foreleg, a patch of silver Eevee fur glittered in the sunlight. I froze as realisation hit me, and ran.

I made Dragonite Fly me to Cinnabar, then returned him to the PC, along with Ditto and Cofagrigus. Fifty surfed me to Seafoam Islands in Vaporeon form. I ran to the deepest part of the cave, where Articuno used to live, and hid there. This is where I am now. this is where I hope they will not find me.

I'm scared. They found me. I can hear them coming. It's all my fault.

Do you know why I named this Eevee Fifty? Even though it has only eighteen evolutions? I didn't name my Eevee's after the number of evolutions, I named them after the number of Eevee that I had experimented on. This is the Fiftyth Eevee, the one who is perfect in every way. Unlike the others. Experiments don't always go right. There were some Eevee that were... different. Mutants. They had parts of all the evolutions that I had bred them with. I kept the ones that came out right. I got rid of the others. And their parents too. I didn't have a choice, they hated me, they thought I was mad. They all thought that I was wrong. Even Glaceon. That hurt the most. Which is why I got Angel.

Angel didn't want to do it at first, but then it saw that I needed them dead. If I hadn't killed them, they would have killed me. angel saw how much pain it caused me, and agreed to steal the experiment's souls. But that was not enough. I started having nightmares. And seeing things. So I got Cofagrigus. I didn't want to do all this! But I had to. I dug up the bodies, and he wrapped the bodies.

I can see them coming. Ghost, but solid as well. Especially their claws and teeth. They have come, to make me pay for what I did. To make me suffer.

Please, help me. help me Angel. I don't want them to kill me. please, protect me now, like you did before. Like you do even now. my sweet Angel…

-XXX-

"The body of the girl was found deep in Seafoam Islands. She was found dead, but not a scratch on her. Through the letter that she was writing to Professor Birch before she died, we gather that her Shedinja killed her at her own request. The Shedinja in question was found lying on her right side, while her Eevee was on the left, both dead, and both of them torn and badly scarred. What baffles the police the most is that, while both pokemon were torn apart, there are no signs of a dark or ghost type move, or any special move, which is a Shedinja's only weakness. If anyone has any information on this case, please contact-"

Professor Birch switched off the TV, sighing. He had warned her about Shedinja, but it seemed as though that pokemon had really cared for her. A quick death was much better than what had happened to her two Pokémon. Even though she shouldn't have done what she did to all those poor Eevee, she hadn't been a bad person, and hadn't deserved that kind of death. she was a good person, but, like most, she had been lured by the thought of that much power.

Before he left his lab, Professor Birch glanced, once again, at the last letter, the one that Starr wrote before she died. Because she had accomplished what she set out to prove, on a folded corner of the letter, she had written, "I told you that Ghost types are not all bad."