Ash could feel the breeze flow through the tips of his raven hair. He opened his chocolate eyes to a million stars floating above him. Obviously he couldn't get any sleep, he lifted his body up letting the thin blanket that was clinging to him fall to the ground. His gaze fell upon the small yellow rodent curled up beside him, and instantly a smile spread on his face. Pikachu was sleeping as peacefully as always, his small body moved up and down with easy breaths. Ash turned his eyes to his two travelling companions, both sleeping soundlessly. Everyone was sleeping nice and easy, of course they were. They weren't about to compete in one of the biggest stages in all of Sinnoh. Technically Pikachu was, but since he was a Pokémon he didn't understand the pressure. To all of his Pokémon it would simply be another battle which was the way he wanted to keep it. Ash sighed rubbing the back of his head with discomfort. He had never felt so anxious about a league tournament before, anxious yet excited at the same time. His hands fell down to the ground and supported his upper body as he leaned back to stare at the stars. Also, many of his friends had already said they were going to come see him compete; he didn't want to let them down so that added to his worry. But just the thought of being able to battle on such a big stage thrilled him. What a strange mix of feelings.
Suddenly there was a small rustling coming from the forest, Ash twisted his head toward the sound. Standing with a horrified look was a small fox-like Pokémon with light brown fur and a white band of fuzz surrounding its neck. It was an Eevee. The small Pokémon's wide eyes never left Ash's face. He returned the stare and tired smiling to see if the Eevee would be comforted. But instead the Eevee seemed to get angry; it jerked its head in the other direction and was staring intensely towards the ground. It seemed to be thinking about something, Ash was surprised that the Eevee didn't run away by now. Especially such a rare Pokémon, he watched the small Pokémon carefully seeing what it would do next. Eevee finally raised its head with a tired expression. Its eyes met with Ash's and gave him a week smile which Ash returned with much enthusiasm. He jumped up from his sitting position and beckoned the Pokémon towards him. As Eevee approached closer Ash's grin grew wider and its tension seemed to disappear.
"Vee." Eevee said simply, giving Ash a happy expression.
"Well hello there little guy." Ash grinned at the Pokémon. "What brings you out of the woods?" Eevee didn't seem to be paying attention his eyes were locked on Pikachu with a serious expression. Ash looked between Eevee and Pikachu curiously. Eevee's eyes held a spark of familiarity that Ash didn't notice before. He shrugged it off, and went to get some poke food to see if the woodland Pokémon would be hungry.
Eevee, consumed in thoughts, was startled by the rustling of Ash going through his backpack.
"Sorry." Ash whispered with a sheepish grin. He then pulled out a bag and examined it.
"Let's see….yup, for Normal Pokémon!" Ash's face turned towards Eevee, "You hungry buddy?" Eevee hesitated, when suddenly a large growl disturbed the peaceful night.
"I'll take that as a yes!" Ash laughed and poured the contents of the bag into a bowl.
Eevee dropped its face in embarrassment and mumbled something.
"Here, come on now. Its yummy trust me." Ash placed the bowl of food in front of Eevee. It looked down at the food with a raised eyebrow. Eevee then leaned closer to the bowl and took a sniff. Its face showed displeasure instantly and looked up at Ash.
"Oh come, you haven't even tried it yet. Just taste a little bit; I think you'll like it." Ash assured but Eevee still didn't seem convinced. "Please, try it!"
Eevee sighed and nibbled on one of the pellets. A blank expression formed on its face. Then an ugly scowl appeared and Eevee spit the food out. Ash looked startled.
"You don't like it! That's impossible, all Pokémon like Brock's food." Ash looked incredibly at Eevee who simply gave Ash an unpleased look.
"Hmm, this is weird." Ash looked over the Poke food.
"Well, it says here its Normal Pokémon food. Why didn't you like it?" Ash frowned and checked if the wrong type of food had been placed in the bag. Eevee rolled its eyes and walked over to the bag where the Pokémon food was. It stuck its head into the opening of the bag and seemed to be searching for something.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Ash walked over to Eevee. It then popped out with a bag in its teeth. Eevee plopped it in front of Ash with a confident smile.
"Umm, Eevee….it says this is food for physic types. Are you sure you want to eat this?" Ash skeptically asked. Eevee nodded its head surely.
"Okay…whatever you say." Ash put the food into another bowl and placed it in front of Eevee.
"Here." Eevee sniffed the bowl and a satisfied look appeared on its face. It stuffed its face in the bowl and nosily ate everything up. Ash had a mixture of shock and confusion as the little Pokémon gulped down food that normally an Abra would eat.
"Well then….this is rather strange." Ash stated.
The Eevee finished eating and gaveout a loud yawn. Sleepiness evident its eyes, the Eevee drowsily stumbled over to where Pikachu was and curled up next to him. It gaveAsh a wide smile, as if thanking him and ten closed its eyes with a comfortable look. Ash, who seemed confused, suddenly realized the mess he had to clean up. The bag of Normal and Physic Pokémon food had spilled across the ground and needed to be cleaned and put back in their respective places. Both bowls had to be cleaned and placed back in the bag. He let own a loud yawn. Great, now he was sleepy.
The next morning, the first person to wake up was Dawn. She reluctantly opened her tired eyes and let out a yawn. She starched her limbs and got up. She quickly packed up her sleeping things and got ready to apply her makeup and do her hair. That's when she noticed a fox-like Pokémon crouching over where Ash was sleeping. The thing looked pretty young, and it had a worried/nervous expression as it watched Ash. She frowned and went over to the scene.
"Well, what are you doing little guy?" Dawn asked curiously but kindly. The Pokémon backed away, startled by her sudden appearance. Its eyes showed shock and it looked over her with confusion. Its eyes wandered to her hair it frowned and looked worried. Dawn noticed this and flattened her bed-head.
"If you're scared about my hair, no need to worry. I'll get Piplup to fix it right away." She laughed, but the Pokémon didn't seem to be relieved. It looked back towards Ash uncertainly.
"Oh, no need to be scared. I won't hurt you…umm. Here, why don't we find out what exactly you are? I've seen you in contests before and I believeyou're an Eevee, right?"
The Pokémon nodded its head a little too quickly and much. Dawn laughed and Eevee seemed to relax, just a bit.
"Well that's a good start. Here my Pokedexshould straighten out everything else." She took out a pink electronic device; Eevee looked at it with curiosity and walked over to Dawn to get a better look. Seeing a great opportunity to bond with Eevee, Dawn bent down so it could see the Pokedex.
She hit the scan button, and Eevee stood where it was but with a cautious appearance. It seemed to become even more nervous as a beeping sound came from it.
"It'll just scan you real quick, you won't feel a thing!" Dawn exclaimed, but Eevee's eyes widened in complete fright and seemed ready to run off if Dawn hadn't placed her hand on it. The Pokedex continued beeping and then a big question mark appeared.
"No information available." Said a monotone voice from the Pokedex. Dawn gave the device a perplexed look as she stood back up to see what was wrong. Eevee gave a sigh of relief that went unnoticed by Dawn.
"That is so strange; I mean I know your type is pretty rare. But I'm pretty sure a researcher has collected information on an Eevee before. Jeez, maybe I got a later version or something." Dawn mumbled, she then placed it back in her backpack and got out a poke ball. She turned towards Eevee with a grin.
"Hey Eevee, do you want meet one of my Pokémon friends." Dawn asked. Eevee nodded its head with excitement, obviously feeling that it would feel more comfort in the presence of a fellow Pokémon.
Dawn let out a small giggle, "Okay! Come on out Piplup!" Out came an adorable, blue penguin-looking Pokémon. In gaveDawn a happy smile, but when it saw Eevee it gave it a confused look.
"Lup?" Piplup asked curiously walking over to Eevee. Eevee gave a nervous smile.
"Vee, Eevee!" it said happily. Piplup gave it a friendly smile and shook Eevee's paw enthusiastically. Dawn watched the scene happily.
"Great, now everyone is friends! Right Eevee?" Eevee hesitated, looking at both Dawn and Piplup cautiously.
"Eevee!" it exclaimed happily, causing Dawn and Piplup to both cheer.
"Great! Now we can go- oh wait." Dawn paused and took out a mirror from nowhere and looked at her reflection.
"Ahh! My hair looks terrible! No, this will not do. I can't travel like this! Piplup you know what to do!" Piplup nodded its headed determinedly, while Eevee watched the pair curiously.
5 minutes and several bubble beams later…
"Perfect!" Dawn yelled with excitement placing both hands on her now perfectly styled hair, and running her finders through each sapphire lock. She gavePiplup a thumb-up, "Great job Piplup! Once again, my hair looks fantastic.
She did a little pose where she winked and put her hands on her hips, Piplup jumping up next to her. Eevee sweat dropped. But she smiled at her new friends anyway.
"You know," Dawn said thoughtfully, "we should really go wake-up Ash and Brock." The group of three walked over to where their friends were sleeping soundly.
"Hey wake up you guys!" Dawn yelled, going over to Brock and shaking him. He still didn't budge.
"Lup, pip!" cried Piplup in Pikachu's ear, no response.
"Vee, Ee! Vee!" Shouted Eevee at Ash, but his snores seemed to cancel any attempts to wake him up.
"Boys are so oblivious to anything when they're sleeping." Dawn huffed and crossed her arms, she scrunched her eyebrows in thought. Piplup sat down next to her and imitated her trainer, although not understanding why. Suddenly Dawn's face brightened and a some-what evil look appeared on her face.
"I have an idea. Here Eevee, now you get to meet another one of my poke friends." Dawn winked before reaching back into her bag and pulling out another poke ball.
"I need your help, Pachirisu!" Vaporizing before them was a white squirrel pokemon with a electric blue band running down her back. The pokemon let out a squealof delight and blue sparks started forming on her cheeks with happiness. Pachirisu looked over at Eevee.
"Pachirisu, I'd like you to meet our new friend Eevee. Eevee this is Pachirisu." Eevee gave Pachrisu a smille, but one second later she was tackled to the ground by the electric pokemon. It took Eevee a couple of seconds to realize that Pachirisu was hugging her.
"Okay enough of that." Dawn picked up her pokemon off of Eevee. "Listen here Pachirisu I need you to give Ash and Brock a little wake-up call!" Pachirisu got the concept of the idea and cheered with approval. She jumped in between Brock and Ash and started charging some electricity.
"I've always wanted to do this, now i have the perfect excuse!" Dawn giggled, while Piplup and Eevee looked on somewhat disturbed by Dawn's idea of humor.
"Alright Pachirisu, Discharge!" And Pachirisu let out a powerful burst of blue-colored lighting, striking Ash and Brock directly. Instantly Brock was jolted to life.
"WAHHHHH!!!!" The breeder cried in pain jumping at least 5 feet in the air. Dawn, Piplup, and Pachirisu started laughing hysterically. Eevee gradually joined them, and eventually the four of them were piled to together in a fit of giggles. Brock still looked pretty roasted as he realized the girls laughing.
"Why did you electrucute me?" Brock asked as camly as he possibly could but his eyes were glaring fierce daggers at the group.
"You weren't waking up." Dawn simply replied.
"So you hit me with a lighting bolt to wake me up!" He yelled.
"Well it worked right!" Dawn happily responded with Piplup and Pachirisu eagerly nodding their heads in agreement.
"Yeah, whatever." mumbled Brock with bitterness as he tried to straighten his disheveled hair, ignoring the giggles of Dawn and her pokemon. That's when he glanced over at Ash who was still sleeping quite peacefully and un-harmed.
"Why didn't you shock him?" cried and outraged Brock. Dawn frowned as she just remembered Ash.
"I did though!" She scratched her head in confusion. "Why didn't anything happen to him?" Thatswhen a very tired looking Pikachu woke up and looked around curiously at the group. Eevee, who was currently standing behind Dawn because she didn't know Brock and was scarred, immideatelyshowed delight at seeing Pikachu awake.
"Pika, pi." Pikachu stretched his body as cackles of electricity danced on his bright red cheeks. Brock then started nodding knowledgeably.
"Oh, i get it." Brock snapped his fingers,"Don't you see? Ash has been shocked so many times by Pikachu that he has become immune to electricity coming from a pokemon, mostly."
"Pikapi, chu?" Pikachu didn't seem to understand what they were talking about.
"Okay, well Ash dosen't seem like he is gonna wake up soon. What do we do?" Dawn asked. That's when Eevee started jumping up and down in a attempt to gather eveyones attention. Brock and Pikachu looked at Eevee with confusion.
"Uh, Dawn did you catch a Eevee while we were sleeping?" Brock asked bending down to take a good look at the small creature. Pikachu curiously walked over and Eevee grinned happily at him. Which of course confused the poor electric pokemon even more.
"What? No, I found her over by Ash and we all became good friends." Dawn stated.
"Oh, alright. Well are you going to catch her?"
"Umm." Dawn bit her lip and looked down to see Pikachu and Eevee chatting about something with the other pokemon. "Well i don't know, maybe. If she lets me."
"Well i don't want to make a big crisis or something. Its just that she seems to be getting along quite well with everybody. And if she is going to travel with us, it would be best if she could be kept in a poke ball. so do you plan on keeping her?"
"Oh, well i really didn't think that far. I mean i just befriended her. For all i know she might be another trainer's pokemon." Dawn looked over to Eevee.
Brock shrugged and tried beckoning Eevee over. Eventually she did come, it was like she just realized something and then rushed over to him, and Brock started inspecting her.
"Wow, her fur feels like it has just been professionally groomed." Brock said impressed. "Maybe she does belong to someone. Do you? Brock questioned the Eevee.
Eevee seemed to think real hard on the question before shaking her head no.
"Well then you're real lucky to have such fine fur naturally. Other than that, you seem real healthy too." Brock smiled at Eevee and let her down on the ground. Eevee then tugged on his pants and pointed over to Ash.
"Oh yeah, we have to wake him up. I wonder why he is sleeping in so late. You'd think he would be training his pokemon for the Sinnoh Championships."
"Maybe something kept him up last night." Dawn responded. Eevee walked over to Ash and then burrowed her eyebrows. Suddenly Ash's facial expression changed. He started frowning and a frightened looked appeared on his face. He was still sleeping bt he started tossing and turning. Brock, Dawn and the rest of the pokemon came over.
"Whats wrong with him?" Dawn asked worried.
"Maybe a nightmare?" Brock said.
"No, no! No, Stop!" he cried out. "Don't!!" and with that he woke up drenched in sweat and panting hard. He looked around at the worried faces of his companions and the happy face of a very familiar Eevee.
"What happened?" Ash asked weakly as Pikachu hoped over in his arms.
"You were starting to freak out in your sleep, were you having a nightmare?" Brock asked. Ash shook his head in fright at the question.
"Well i was having a dream. But not any old dream, it was great! Probably the best dream ever. I became Pokemon Master and eveyone was cheering for me and...um....other stuff...." Ash blushed a bit at the thought of the fantasies. He then came back to the real world.
"But then suddenly eveything turned black and all my friends and family...well terrible things started happening. It felt so real too. And..." Ash stopped unable and not wanting to think about anything bad happening to the people he cared about.
"Let's just say it was awful." Ash simply said looking down. Dawn, Brock and the other pokemon looked on sympatheticallyat their friend. But Eevee looked appalled she had a guilt-ridden face and was completely terrified.
"Pikapi, pi chu?" asked a worried Pikachu nuzzling his trainer's arm. Ash smiled and patted his first pokemon's back.
"Thanks Piakchu, I'm fine now."
"But wait a second." Dawn said with a frown. "I mean this is kind of weird. One second you're dreaming of nice, wonderful things and then all the sudden bad things start happening? Kind of weird don't you think? And besides that, it happened really quickly. You were in the nightmare for like seconds"
"Well it felt like an eternity." Ash mumbled. He then looked over and recognized the Eevee from before.
"Hey Eevee! Looks like you've been acquaintedwith my friends." But this time Eevee had a very, very apologetic face and seemed miserable in guilt.
"Whats wrong?" Ash asked. But Eevee shook her head quickly.
"Wait, you two have met?" Brock asked. Ash nodded his head.
"Yeah, last night i couldn't sleep and i heard her coming out of the woods. I offered her some food and then i guess she just slept with us. So everyone has met her i see." Pikachu nodded his head and, with the other pokemon, went off to play.
"So whose going to catch her?" Ash and Dawn looked up curiously at Brock.
"What do you mean?" said Dawn
"I mean exactly what i said. She's obviously been accepted into the group. Shouldn't one us catch her."
"I mean i guess." said Ash as he got up and looked over at Eevee.
"All right then. Whose it going to be?" The three friends looked at each other.
"Well if you two don't want her," Brock started "She is a wondeful pokemon, a kind of pokemon that a breeder would want."
"Wait a second, i kind of meet her first. And fed her, i think i should get to catch her!" Ash countered
"Look you at her you two. Eevee is beautiful and graceful, don't waster her talents by battling. She is made for contests, thus a coordiantor like me should get her."
"Hey wait I think-" but before Ash could finish a large beam of water gushed right passed the trio and slammed straight into Eevee.
"Eevee!!" they cried and the pokemon looked horrified. They all rushed over to the small pokemon. Eevee weakly got up and glared over to where the beam came from as did everyone else.
But all they could see were bushes with a pair of bright blue eyes staring at them from the middle. Eevee looked at them with a blank expression and then nodded slightly. Ash didn't seem to notice.
"Who do you think you are attacking Eevee out of nowhere?" Ash angrily stated with an equally angry Pikachu next to him. But then then the eyes dissapered.
"That was strange." Brock said.
"I'll say." Dawn agreed. She then looked down at Eevee, "You okay?"
But Eevee wasn't paying attenetion she was instead looking sadly into the sky, but the expression then turned into a determined look.
~~~~~~~~ *Somewhere else*
"Hello Northern Wind."
"Gah! I hate it when you come into my head without warning like that. Its so creepy."
"You might as well get used to it."
"I suppose, you physics can't talk normally so you have to use telepathy for everything."
"Moving along, how is our new recruit doing with Lugia's chosen one and his group."
"Well things didn't go according to plan. They saw her before they were supposed to, but she has fit in quite well."
"Have they tried catching her?"
"They where in the process of deciding who was going to catch her, when i interrupted.
"Then they will soon see that they won't be able to catch her."
"Won't they get suspicious?"
"No, pokemon are still a mystery to them. I don't think anything to big will come out of this other than a debate."
"Alright, well then other than that she seems to be enjoying herself with them."
"I thought she might, being familiar with the Lugia's chosen i wanted her to be put in a comfortable environment."
"Yes, well she is getting along great with the other pokemon. And they don't suspect a thing."
"Good, I'm glad she is having fun. This might be the last chance she gets to for a while."
"You don't mind her goofing off, while i get in trouble for simply playing with my brothers."
"I don't think they considered it playing. Besides, she is still very young. As long as she reaches the Sinnoh Championships and does her duty let her do what she wants."
"It still isn't fair."
"You had your fun when you were her age."
"That was hundreds of years ago."
"I think we should move on to another subject. Are the other choosen coming?"
"I'll see to it that they arrive at the same destination eventually."
"Good."
Yay, first chapter is done!!! I know the last part is kind of confusing but i think it'll make sense latter. I'm sure you guys can figure out one of the person/pokemon that was talking there. Please review, they let me know what to fix and correct and all the stuff. And it also lets me know somebody out there likes my story so i can continue writting.