It was a cloudy day over the Hoenn region, inside of one forest, the sounds of leaves crunching and the wind bellowing through the trees, the sun beaming through a little through some of the trees that illuminated the forest. In front of one of the trees, a green haired and white gowned Pokémon that resembled a humanoid shape, with a red-pink fin-like object sticking through its chest and back, was sitting in front of the trees. It was a Gardevoir, and resting within her arms was a smaller Pokémon that had shiny blue hair and two orange coloured horn object sticking through it on the front and back respectively. The Pokémon was a special shiny Ralts that hatched barely a week ago from its egg. Gardevoir was feeding it a small Oran Berry, the flavour of the berry was tasty.
Ralts seemed happy once it had finished the berry, but then, Gardevoir saw a Pokémon on all fours approaching, with brown and white zigzag patterened fur. The young Zigzagoon approached Gardevoir, and it looked like it wanted to play. A lot of Pokémon inhabited the area, so it was normal for them to want to interact. Gardevoir put Ralts down, and it began to giggle. When the Zigzagoon rubbed against the child Pokémon, the mother smiled, standing up and walking away to find herself something to eat. Since it was the tail end of summer, the warmth had begun to fade more and more by the day berries had been a little harder to scavenge for in the general area. Sometimes, Gardevoir would go for a day or two without eating anything. Some of the other pokemon with children weren't any different, prioritizing their young with the berries they sometimes have to fight for. If a trainer didn't pick them, a more aggressive Pokémon would try to horde them all for themselves. Thankfully, she was stronger than most of the hostile encounters she had met with.
Gardevoir spent the next hour looking through the surrounding forest until she got lucky and came upon a bush that had Pecha Berries growing on it. She was happy with the findings since they were sweet in taste. Soon, after having gathered the five Pecha Berries from the bush, she began to make her way back to her child. That was until she heard a voice. "Quick attack!" A loud smash rang out. She dropped her berries and ran through the bushes and branches. She saw a black haired girl in a pink shirt and skirt, standing there. In front of her was a Seedot. The Zigzagoon from earlier was lying against a tree which it had been knocked into. The Pokémon trainer then had her focus entirely set on the shiny Ralts, but the zigzagoon had got in her way, and as result, having to be knocked out.
"A shiny Ralts… come on, Seedot. She'll be perfect for our team," the trainer spoke, encouraging her tiny acorn Pokémon that nodded. Ralts just stood there, watching, not knowing any understanding of what was going on exactly. "Tackle!" she called out. Seedot threw itself at the Ralts to try and damage it to weaken it, but before it could midway, it smacked face first into a light screen wall. "What?! How is a Ralts able to-" the trainer went quiet upon realizing where the light screen came from, as Gardevoir approached one step at a time. The trainer was in awe. Strong Pokémon weren't really known for being in the area. Gardevoir picked up her child before glaring at the Seedot. The Seedot suddenly felt a surge of pain shoot through its mind from a psychic attack, getting rendered unconscious easily and falling over to its acorn back.
"Oh no! Seedot!" the trainer cried, picking up her Pokémon. Gardevoir just stayed motionless, watching her begin to run off out of fear. Once gone, Gardevoir was relieved, hugging her child in her arms. Ralts was happy and unharmed. She looked over to the Zigzagoon that had probably distracted the trainer long enough for her to arrive to stop the capture. "Garde…" she crouched down, rubbing the Zigzagoon's side, feeling guilty for it getting hurt. It looked at her. "Zagoon… Zig-zagoon," it spoke, more than glad to help Ralts. She went and regathered the berries, Gardevoir gave two of the berries to the young Zigzagoon as thanks before she sat down beside it, watching it begin to eat them, planning on resting for a short time to recover. She looked down at the Ralts in her arm. It was almost asleep, having easily become tired from playing. She decided to stay there for now, thinking it was safe here, now that the trainer had been scared off.
The next day, Gardevoir found herself awake after the night. She still felt tired, looking down and seeing Ralts still asleep in her lap, though the Zigzagoon friend of her child was now gone, presumably back to somewhere warmer to get to sleep. She looked to the sky, trying to see through the thick bunches of leaves. A few drips of rain were beginning to pour. She felt her shiny Ralts beginning to move around in its sleep as she was waking up. Gardevoir stroked a hand through her shiny blue hair. She got up and began to walk a bit deeper into the forest, wanting to get away from the rain, though something else had caught her attention. A weird warmth from nearby. It didn't take long to find the source of the warmth which was a tree that had a huge scorch mark on the side. The leaves lay burned to the ground, embers still scattered around.
Gardevoir was careful, pulling Ralts closer in her arms. She took a peek through some more of the brush and noticed two more trainers talking amongst each other. "And you're sure you heard this at the Pokémon centre?" one trainer asked, wearing a red jacket and black pants with his hair in a ponytail. "I swear. Some weird girl came in last night telling Nurse Joy about what happened to her Seedot. Come on, man. Either way we could use some new teammates. Just imagine how popular we'll be with a shiny Pokémon," the other trainer persuaded, being an older boy with black hair in a red baseball cap and a striped shirt. "That's if we find it first anyway. A lot of trainers came once they heard the news," he quickly added.
"I guess… I had to blast a horde of Wurmples already over there," the first trainer pointed a thumb to where he had burnt the tree with his Pokémon. Gardevoir took a step back and began to run away, glad to have avoided another confrontation. Ralts was beginning to get upset from the rapid movement. The mother tried to keep her child quiet, but she doubted she could do much. Suddenly, she crashed into something, getting knocked back. An oversized Zangoose was in front of her, as it turned around and glared at her, unamused by the collision. "You find something Zang- …oh my Arceus!" a young trainer rang out in shock and awe, dressed in a yellow hat and a green dress, apparently out hunting for the shiny child as well.
Gardevoir quickly stood up aiming a hand at the Zangoose. "Oh. Crush Claw!" the trainer ordered. Zangoose's claws began to glow bright light as it charged at Gardevoir, taking a swing. She couldn't get her attack off in time. Before she knew it, she felt a sharp pain ring out through her leg, and Zangoose was behind her. Gardevoir was forced onto one knee. Its crush claw had made a good deep cut to tear into her flesh. She did her best to keep her focus, firing a small yellow ball that went around zangoose. After it went around its head a few times, it suddenly became dizzy and started acting weird. "Zangy? Are you okay?" the trainer questioned before seeing her Pokémon walk into a tree and fall onto its side, clearly having lost its mind to the Confuse Ray. The trainer was distracted for too long that Gardevoir forced herself up and began to flee again as fast as she could.
Half an hour later, Gardevoir was hiding in some tall grass that usually was housed by the smaller Pokémon. The forest felt empty like all of the friendly Pokémon, She knew were no longer around. She looked at Ralts who was starting to cry. "Garde…" she sighed, hearing the sound of more footsteps outside. It made a shiver go up her spine. She couldn't run anymore. It wasn't a viable option with her leg bleeding partially. The constant throb of pain didn't help matters, either. "Ra?" something caught her attention. An Abra was sitting alongside her. One of a few psychic types in the area, Abras were known for usually teleporting away to other areas in the region when scared. Gardevoir looked down at her shiny child, handing it over to the Abra. It was confused, though.
Ralts began crying, its light voice beginning to echo the forest. Gardevoir put up the meanest appearance she could, looking ready to attack Abra. Instantly, its tail straightened and it abruptly vanished with the shiny Ralts in hand with teleport.
Gardevoir just stayed, sitting there, staring at the space where they used to be, the tall grass over her head bellowing with wind, and the dark skies beginning to pour rain even harder. She began to lay down, everything around her feeling faint and becoming harder and harder to see and feel, before starting to fall unconscious.