Espeon slept restlessly in her grass bed. Visions; thousands of them were trying to come into her head. She tried to keep control and have an empty and peaceful sleep, but the dreams wanted to invade her.

"No… can't.. must…"

It was dark in the forest. She was a child again, an Eevee. Strange noises were all around her. A sound of a tree branch breaking was heard. Eevee turned her head violently, looking about for any signs of movement. But nothing. "M-mom?" She squeaked. Another sound from the opposite direction. She turned to look, but only saw darkness. Eevee curled up into a ball on the forest floor, shivering. Tears fell down her face as she tried to wait through the night. The fear of being alone.. It always struck her deep.

…

Espeon awoke slightly and looked around, the morning light greeting her with a smile. These dreams of her child hood kept coming back. "Damn.." She mumbled under her breath. It only meant she wasn't meditating enough before sleep. Espeon blinked a couple of times before she looked about in her cabin. Up in the corner on the shelf was Haunter and Mew, nestled together in slumber. Espeon grinned a bit. Mew was a delightful child. Though she was very young, she was extremely powerful. Mew had joined Espeon's rescue team in hope that Espeon would help her IQ increase and mature. They both shared the love of meditation and wandering in psychic states. Haunter, on the other hand, was a jokester. He joined the team for no reason really. Actually, as Espeon remembers, he said he was fond of her and would like to play further pranks on her in the mid future. She couldn't tell if he was serious about that or not. Ghosts, they were very unpredictable.

Espeon glanced over near the door of the cabin. There, sprawled out on a pile of sand lay Charizard, her old friend. She and Charizard had been best friends ever since they were children. As Eevee and Charmander, they had put the rescue team together from the start. It was great to see how far the two of them had accomplished. Espeon got up and stretched a bit. She stepped outside and sat in front of the door, cleaning her precious pink fur. It was a bit early for the Pelipper mail, so she would sit and enjoy the sun while she waited for it. A soft sound came from the forest patch near the rescue team base. Espeon merely turned her large fox-like ears in the sound's direction. She knew who it was. The soft footsteps had a certain sound to them that reminded her of raindrops.

"Hello, Espeon. Any big rescue missions today?" Suicune, the goddess of the North Wind said as she approached with grace. The rest of the team called her the protector of the rescue team.

"Not sure yet… Pelipper hasn't arrived." She replied not even bothering to turn her head. She had her gaze up into the sky, in search for the big, white delivery bird.

"He hasn't? Well its already a bit late… you suppose there are no calls today?" Suicune asked.

Espeon was silent for a minute but then replied. "Yes.. I don't think there are today."

Her sixth sense told her so. Suicune sat down next to Espeon and gazed up at the sky too. Espeon finally took her thoughts from around her and focused on Suicune. "How is the Sacred Fields today?" She asked the large, wind goddess.

"Calm… at peace. No sighs of the natural disasters. Seems they are finally all gone." Suicune replied.

Espeon continued to gaze at the large wolf. Something about Suicune's beauty made her so envious. Her beautiful shiny blue fur, the white diamond markings, the cyan crystal on her head, the wispy flowing white ribbon tails, and the purple silky mane on her back. Suicune's appears was truly stunning. Espeon remember when she first met the goddess, she could barely move. At the time Suicune was in rage from Espeon's intrusion to her lair. Even in anger, Suicune had so much elegance and beauty.

Espeon could never understand why Suicune, a legendary, joined her team. Suicune saw something in them that made her inspired to become a tag along to a lower classed pokemon.

"Espeon! Haunter is possession the house again!"

Espeon turned to the sound of Mew's shrieks. The whole base was quivering under a spell or shadow. Espeon groaned.

"I'll handle it this time" Suicune replied, getting up and walking into the base.

Espeon began to meditate on her status of life, trying to ignore Suicune's loud roars at the mischievous Haunter. Espeon was once a human being but she could never remember her being human. It's as if her memories of humanity was wiped clean and started fresh as her age of being a pokemon. Ever since she found out she was a human, she never regretted missing that life. As a pokemon, she could understand the ways of life much easier. And as a pokemon, she could help the world be a better place. That is why she and Charmander started the rescue team; to help other pokemon in need. She had completed that goal in life, but… didn't life have more to offer? She had always been a selfless person and always put others before herself, but.. she was getting older. Sure, she was technically a young adult in Espeon years but life was going to move by faster at this point. Perhaps it was time for her to do something for herself…

"Guess whooooo?" A sinister voice whispered in her ear as too large hands covered her eyes.

"Ugh.. Haunter.." She grumbled under her breath.

The large hands removed quickly as she heard large cackles of joy. "Ehe he he he!" Espeon turned around sharply to see him and glared. Usually, in this situation, she would give him a sharp sting with her psywave, but as she looked at him laughing with pleasure, she couldn't possibly bring her self to ruin his fun.

Something for myself…

"Eh? Why the long face, Espeon?" Haunter grinned at her, showing his large fangs. "Stuck in thought?"

Espeon blinked her large purple eyes at him.. "Wah? Oh no.. just had a thought I was trying to completely loose.."

Haunter laughed again, "A c'mon… you're always thinking in the future. Live a little!" He told her as he began to float off back to the base.

"Yeah…" Espeon mumbled more to herself. "Live a little.."

Some irony, coming from a Ghost that was 'dead'. But he was right.

As she watched him float off, she couldn't help but notice something different. Had she always found his purple spikes so… lush? She gazed at them more and more and found herself oddly attracted to it. She then realized that this was Haunter she was gawking at and she quickly gained her composure again. Odd.. the moment she lets her guard down and starts thinking for herself, her instincts for affection randomly kicked in.

Mew hovered over to Espeon with a large grin on her face. "Suicune took care of Haunter. Hey! I heard we have no mail to day." She was grinning largely.

Espeon looked up at Mew with surprise. "I thought you liked it when we got mail.. so we could go train while on the missions…"

"Yeah, but it's been a while since we took a break…. Do you think we could go to the towns and hang around with the other pokemon?"

Espeon chuckled at Mew's enthusiasm. "Sure, why not."

Mew did a flip through the air and meowed loudly, "Yaay! Everybody, let's go to the towns!"

Mew began whizzing through the air as Haunter returned outside with Charizard and Suicune. Charizard gave a large roaring yawn. "Dang, it's a bit early don't you think?"

"Ah, come on Charizard! You will wake up when we start walking!" Mew cried down to him as she continued to do circles and flips in the air.

Suicune gave a light shake to her purple mane and began to walk after Mew. "Careful, young one, you might hit one of the trees.." she told Mew.

"Ah, don't worry, Suicune! Let's just hurry up!"

Charizard and Suicune began to follow Mew towards the Town Square road as Haunter floated up to Espeon. "Hahaha, decided to take my advice, did ya?" He asked with a large grin. Espeon smirked up at him, "It was more of Mew's idea, but sure.. I did."

The two of them began heading towards to the towns with the rest of the gang.