Hey there! So, a lot of my friends on discord know about Team Fluffy Cuteness, the Eeveelution team I use for games and roleplays, but they often ask about the history of them. So, here is the story about how Sparkette and Shadow met, grew, and became the founders of Team Fluffy Cuteness, and all the trials and obstacles they had to face along the way. If you want to actually meet the team, you can find them all as RP characters on my discord. The room invite tag is mJC5PK5 Please feel free to review and PM me if you want.
"My apple." I said, giving a small growl to another Eevee on the same branch of the tree as me. "Fine, keep your apple. Plenty more apples on this tree." He said, hopping up onto another branch. I picked the large red fruit and happily chewed on it, enjoying its sweet taste. As I was eating it, I heard a human coming down the path under the tree. It wasn't uncommon, they made the path after all. What was uncommon was that the girl below was looking at me.
"Come here Eevee, come here." She said, crouching down and holding out her hand. She had some sort of small brown thing on her hand, which smelled delicious. I hopped down out of the tree, and slowly and cautiously walked to her. She didn't move, she just held out the food. I gave her a sniff, and concluded she was a good human.
I ate the small piece of food she offered, and looked up as she pulled something from her belt. It was a red and white ball of some kind. She aimed the ball at me, and pressed a button on it. Suddenly a red beam engulfed me, turning my whole body into red. I tried so hard to make a noise, to cry to help, but I could do nothing. I was torn away from the ground, the sky, the tree, everything, and yanked towards the ball until I was suddenly thrown into it. I tried to run once I was released, but there was nothing to run to. Just a cold empty metal ball with things on the walls that let me see myself in them.
"What's going on!?" I screamed into the void. "Welcome to your new Pokeball Home. This Pokeball is equipped with the latest software for Pokémon comfort. Anything you wish will appear and be provided to you. Please make yourself comfortable, and enjoy your stay." A voice said from the ceiling. I wasn't sure what a Pokeball was, but it seemed I was very much stuck here. "Show me an exit." I demanded from the voice. "Error, unable to show exit." The voice told me.
Stupid voice, not letting me out. I couldn't even lie down since there was no grass. "Beginning simulation." The voice said, as grass and ground began to slowly come into existence. I pawed at it, and it was certainly grass. I wonder what would happen if I asked for a view of the night sky. Suddenly it went dark, very dark. I looked up in confusion, only to find the most beautiful night sky I could imagine. Stars, a moon, an aurora, galaxies, all brimming with life and color. Thank you voice.
"Recall, recall, recall." The voice said, and suddenly I felt a tugging at my body like the one I had felt before as I turned into red light. I shot out of my Pokeball and onto soft grass. I looked around quickly, noticing I was still in the forest, but a far way from my home tree. As I looked, I saw the girl from earlier crouching again, looking at me and holding the ball. "Hello Eevee." She smiled. "Don't worry, she's nice. You can go see her." A boy said from beside me. I jumped back and looked to see a Charmander.
"Pyro that wasn't nice." The girl scowled. "I didn't mean to scare you. I just want to help. First thing you should know, she can't understand a thing we say." He told me. "Alright, but what's going on? I mean I was just on my tree with my brothers and sisters, and now I'm here after being a ball with voice!" I asked. "You've been captured. It's not as bad as it sounds. Before I was captured I was living off of scraps, foraging for food, trying to keep my tail dry in the rain. Then a nice professor caught me in a Pokeball, and shortly after I was given to her. It's a nice life. She feeds me, cares for me, and the Pokeball is pretty awesome." He explained.
I turned and slowly walked up to her, and she picked me up. "Hello Eevee." She said happily, and promptly turned me around and looked at my rear. "I see, you're a female Eevee." She said as turned me back around. OK! Too personal, too fast! She smiled, and set me back down on the grass. "Can you not just sniff me like every other Pokémon!?" I growled. "She's not a Pokémon. She's a human. Weird creatures. Anyways, they rely more on sight than scent. I doubt they can even tell we all smell different. Trust me it is awkward having one look to see what you have." He laughed.
"It's ok Eevee. Here, would you like a treat?" the girl said, rummaging through her pack to pull out a piece of meat. She knelt down and offered it to me on her hand. I gave it a sniff, and reluctantly took it from her. I wasn't sure what type of meat it was, but it was yummy! "Well you certainly do like beef. So, do you have a name? If you do, Pyro can probably translate it for me." She smiled. "That's me by the way." Charmander said. "My name? Well, everyone just called me Sparkette." I shrugged. Pyro made a few hand signs, and then said 'spbarkaht'. Not even close dude…
"Electric…girl…electrical girl…oh! Sparkette! Well Sparkette, please to meet you!" The girl smiled, holding her hand out to me. Umm…she didn't have anything on it. What was I supposed to do exactly? "She wants you to shake. Put you paw in her hand, and move it up and down." Pyro said. I looked up, and gently set my right paw into her fingers. She gently grasped it, and moved my paw up and down three times. "Well, pleased to meet you too miss." I smiled. "Her name is Autumn by the way." Pyro laughed. "Oh you are just adorable! Oh I wanna squeeze you!" Autumn squealed, hauling me into her arms and holding me against her chest. "Yeah, she calls those hugs, and she quite enjoys giving them out like candy." Pyro said as I was put down.
Autumn was not one of the regular humans I saw in the forest. One thing I had learned from my mom about humans before she passed was the difference between the males and the females. Another thing I learned was that the females for some strange reason developed enlarged breasts when they came to maturity. Autumn's were there, but they weren't very big. She also was shorter than the adults, but taller than the normal children. If I had to guess from what I knew, she was adolescent. Given how long it took them to mature, I'd say about 13 years of age? She also dressed different from the other humans. She wore a dark red T-shirt, a dark grey vest with many pockets, a black backpack, long pants made from what they called denim with even more pockets that missed her ankles by about two inches, and black boots. On her head was a red and white hat they called a ball cap. She had waist length straight tree bark brown hair, and pretty green eyes. Most of the 'trainers' as they were called were younger by about 3 years, so why was she older, but still new? Maybe Pyro would know?
"Pyro…why is Autumn older than the others? Most trainers who come through here are about three years younger." I asked the Charmander. "She was very ill when she should have started. Something called an asthma. I don't understand it, but I know she has this little red tube thing that she keeps in her pocket. She has these weird moments where it's like she can't breathe normally and she has to put the tube in her mouth, it hisses, and then she inhales from it. And somehow, a few moments later she can breathe again. But I guess a few years ago it was harder to get her those tubes, and she struggled a lot. But now she can get them anywhere, and so it's easy for her." He explained.
Autumn stood up, and looked towards the sun, her hat shading her eyes as the light came through the trees, staining her in faint greens. It was as if she was the embodiment of her very namesake. "Walk or ride Pyro?" Autumn asked, looking to the Charmander. Pyro smiled and pointed to one of the red and white balls on her waist. Autumn nodded, and took the ball off her belt. When she pushed the button, the ball popped open, and Pyro was engulfed in red light before being sucked into the ball. Even though I knew it didn't hurt or anything, it was creepy how he just went into the ball. "What about you Sparkette? Do you want to go into your ball, or ride on my shoulder?" She asked me with a smile. I didn't really like the ball, so I pointed to her shoulder and yipped. She leaned down picked me up, and set me on her shoulder.
We were off…goodbye Dad, goodbye Sparkshot, goodbye tree, goodbye…home. It was depressing to go…and yet, somehow freeing. It was well known that Pokémon in the forest were caught regularly. A Pidgey had probably already told my family. It wasn't the first time we had gotten word of a capture, and at first, long long ago, it had been upsetting. But as we met more and more who returned to visit, we realized captured Pokémon had really good lives usually. So was I sad? Not really. Autumn seemed to be very nice, and seemed to really care. And while my family might miss me, they would know I would be safe and return someday to visit. This was not a sad ending; this was a happy new beginning!