"No," the pre-teen boy breathed as he ran down the empty streets. These dead city streets, where the broken lamp posts flickered overy once in a while. He could see some overturned cars at the sides of broken buildings, and the sound of sirens in a distance. Those were pointless though. He didn't know where he was going, but he knew he had to leave.

The whole ordeal was somewhat overwhelming, especially since he was alone. "Mom, Dad, everyone," the teen panted inbetween breaths. They were no longer alive. They were gone. Every human on earth would be gone, so he had to survive. The suggestion of simply dying and moving on with everyone else seemed so much more inviting, but the primal instinct of just living grounded him from doing so.

What became of the human? No one knows, because there's no one left to know...

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The bell began to ring, the very familiar sound that called many young Pokemon to the town's Training Dojo, where they would learn how to harness their special powers and abilities, and once graduating, they would be placed into start Rescue Teams, and start their journey from then on.

A young Eevee watched from a window atop a high stone building, watching its peers, or wished peers, run off to the dojo. She wanted to go train at the dojo very much, just like any other normal Pokemon kid. Her ears fell gently and depressingly to the side of her face as her chin rested upon her brown paws. "I wish I could go to the dojo like everyone else. This stinks." This was because Eevee was the princess of Springset Town, the last heir. And as to be expected, the higher ups of the palace forbade Eevee from battleing. "Why do grown ups have to take away all the fun."

"Come on, Eevee. Not all grown ups are like that," said a small Tyrogue. He was the son of one of the palace guards, the youngest thing in the entire castle, but a very good companion for the said princess.

"Well at least the ones in here are," pouted Eevee. "I mean, I can fight. I wanna battle! I wanna go on adventures like the big Pokemon do!" She turned her head around and lept down from the stone window sill. "Why don't you go train at the dojo? You're a fighting type Pokemon aren't you?"

Tyrogue made a face and crossed his arms. "Just because I'm a fighting Type doesn't mean I have to fight." It was rather odd, a fighting Pokemon who doesn't like to fight. Eevee noticed that after a short while of knowing him.

Eevee sighed. "I'm bored. I'm gonna go treasure hunting again. Cover for me from Absol okay, Tyrogue?"

"Yeah yeah I know," Tyrogue replied, trying to act cool-ish. Eevee smiled and ran out of the room to get around the palace guards. Tyrogue thought of Eevee as a big sister figure and stuck close with her ever since he hatched out of his egg. And as a friend of the princess, he made it his duty to cover for her when she snuck off.

Being a very small Pokemon, it was easy for Eevee to remain invisible to the much bigger and taller Pokemon around the palace. Within a few minutes, she was out the front door and running down the royal garden, sneaking through bush by bush until she could get into town to explore.

Eevee was about to make a final run for it until three Machoke walked by, doing their job as guards. Once they had left, Eevee sprinted and left the royal grounds without a trace or sound. She smirked playfully at her newfound freedom. "Awesome!" she cried aloud, her voice echoing throughout the small town. Eevee enjoyed her occasional outings into the town, which made her feel all the more at home. As the last and only royal left, she was under a constant watch all the time with no fun. It was nice to be on her own sometimes.

On another point, Eevee's snuck out enough times to know her way around. Where to be, where not to be, and where she hasn't been yet, which is what she tries to find almost all times. Taking off towards the woods she passed obliviously over a broken wooden sign on the ground, labeled in faint-painted Pokemon words: Murkrow Territory.

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"Agh..." groaned a male voice. It belonged to a Shinx, who currently was up in a tree branchin a very unconsious state, at least until he woke up away. "Wha...Where am I?"

He tried to move his fingers, but it was at that very moment he felt that he couldn't. It was a weird feeling, like having a sixth toe. Then he realized he didn't have those either. Gasping he widened his eyes and brought his head up quickly. But then the top part of his ears touched the leaves of the tree he was in, causing him to try and feet his now larger ears.

"Furry," he blinked, looking down. However he got a quick queasy feeling after seeing how high he was. "I'm dreaming. I am totally dreaming. Once I jump out of this tree I'll wake up." He felt the gravitypulling plunge of looking down again. "Okay may I don't wanna jump down."

"Hey you!" called a female's playful voice. Looking down on the other side of the tree, he saw a Pokemon, a brown furry Pokemon with a cute yet curious look on its face. "What are you doing up there?" asked the Pokemon, presumably an Eevee.

'...It talked.'

Using his dream-found paws he rubbed his eyes before looking down again at the Eevee. It only looked all the more confused down there. "And Tyrogue says I'm weird. Hey are you stuck up there?" she called again in a loud tone."Maybe he doesn't talk," she said quietly, curious about the new Pokemon.

The boy's mind had the urge to retort back a strong no, but looking at his point of place, he really was stuck. "Uh, yeah," he finally replied. Talking Pokemon, no opposable thumbs, might as well go along with the dream for as long as possible.

The naive Eevee circled the tree, trying to find a way to get the stranger down. "I can't find anything useful. Can you just jump down?" she asked, looking back up.

'What do I have to loose?' After becoming steady on the large and high branch, the Pokemon up in the tree shut his eyes and left from his spot, landing almost gracefully on the grass beneith in a short distance from the Eevee. It was then he realized he was on all fours.

"There you are," said the persistant Eevee, walking over. "You sure are a weird Shinx."

"Shinx? I'm not a Shinx," the boy said instantly. "I'm-" He found that he didn't know who he was. What was his name? He had forgotten his own name? 'And the dream gets weirder and weirder by the minute.'

"You're..." Eevee persisted unsurely.

"I... don't know my name," he said, looking to the side in an attempt to remember something. He recalled everything but his name. "Oh what does it matter. I'm gonna wake up soon anyway."

"Wake up?" Eevee repeated, getting a little worried for the stranger in front of her.

"Yeah. This is all a dream, and once I wake up all this nonsence about talking Pokemon can finally stop," said the Shinx, walking away leaving a baffled Eevee behind.

"H-Hey wait up, Shinx!" called the Eevee, running after her fellow companion and then walking at his pace. She had figured out that this Pokemon didn't know who she was, a very rare occourance. Perhaps he was not from Springset.

"And stop calling me Shinx, 'cause it's not my name," he clarified, bringing the Eevee back to the real world.

"Well it's supposed to be. You're obviously not a Delibird," muttered the Eevee. "And it's apparent that if you can't remember your own name, I've gotta start calling you something."

Shinx sighed in defeat. "Fine. You can call me Shinx until I get this whole thing sorted out." They continued to walk, and Shinx noticed Eevee still following him at the side. "You're annoying you know that?"

"Well you're a bother," she pouted in remark. "I didn't have to help you out of that tree."

"Help me? I jumped!"

"Well I told you to jump," Eevee said smartly.

Shinx groaned and held back his head. "Please let me wake up already," he gritted through his teeth as he walked on his paws to who knows where.

Eevee sighed, starting to become agrivated with her new find ranting on about how this was all fake. "Listen you, I'm really getting tired of you saying that! This is not a dream so just man-up will ya?"

It was then they heard the sound of rustling in the leaves around them, bringing the two young Pokemon into a sudden scilence and halt in their walk. "Did you hear that?" Shinx asked in a harsh whisper, looking at his surroundings and listening for any signs of movement.

"Yeah," Eevee whispered back, just as alert and observant. Another rustle was heard on the left and they both turned heads, hearing a talking voice, intended for them.

"Look guys, two trespassers we can play tag with," taunted the voice with some stiffled laughter in the background. It was safe for Shinx to assume they weren't humans either. And he was right. It was then a group of Murkrow Pokemon flew out together, making Shinx and Eevee put up their guard. Shinx recalled how troublesome these Pokemon were.

"Great, they can talk, too," Shinx muttered under his breath so that the Murkrow wouldn't hear.

"Be quiet!" Eevee whispered harshly. "We're in enough trouble as it is. We must be in Murkrow territory."

The bird Pokemon flew downwards, low enough to be within our range, but far enough that we couldn't harm them. "So you kids, got anything you can pay us with? If ya do we'll let you have a ten second head start," teased the Murkrow who appeared as leader. They flocked over Eevee and Shinx like prey, intimidating them.

"Leave us alone! We don't even know you!" Shinx shouted out offensively, taking a step forward.

Eevee made an exasperated look at the boy. Did she not just say to remain quiet? "Oh so now you have a big mouth."

"Well what do you suggest we do?" Shinx whispered as the Murkrow watched intently.

Eevee looked at a clearing in a distance across the grass. She smirked. "Run!" Darting forward she took Shinx by surprise, who ran after her just as fast after a late reaction. The speed took the Murkwo by surprise as well and no doubt did they try to follow and chase them down.

Shinx pushed himself harder to run faster, for he was still not used to running on paws. Once he caught up to Eevee, he maintained a constant speed. "Wha," he panted first. "What kind of idea was that?"

"One that worked," Evee said excitingly as she kept a persistant smirk on her small lips. Shinx got the idea that she was enjoying this.

"You don't get out much do you," Shinx commented.

"There they are!" yelled out one of the Murkrow who was starting to catch up to them, flying and dodging branches along the way.

"Come on! We're almost at the main town! We can loose 'em there!" Eevee encouraged as she laughed, picking up her speed and going even faster. Shinx was panting heavily from the long running, wondering where the Eevee got all this energy. Well she was a Pokemon, he figured. After running in and out of the woods Eevee led him to the outskirts of a town, where small buildinsg were and flags, and then a far, tall castle.

"Wow," Shinx said in awe and amazement. There was no trace of city anywhere, which was very hard to believe. A dirth path with grass and occasional flowers were present.

"That's where I live," Eevee told.

"Seriously?" Shinx asked, still taking all of this in. It had only been what, ten minutes since he woke up? He began to wonder if this really all was a dream. It seemed to real, felt too real. And his new companion Eevee seemed all the more real as well.

Eevee turned her head, seeing Shinx starring at the distance. "Well don't just stand there. Come on, I'll take you to the palace. It's obvious you're not from around here, and it's not very smart to wander a stranger."

"Wait, the palace? Hold up, Eevee!" Shinx said, running in front of the furry Pokemon and stoping so he could have a front-forward talk. "What do you mean the palace? I know I don't know a lot about this 'Pokemon World' of yours but I know you don't have that much privillage to just walk into some castle like it was your lake-bed vacation house."

She narrowed her eyes. "It's not my vacation house, it's where I live," Eevee told, going around a profound Shinx and leaving him dumbstruck.

He blinked his golden eyes, wondering what just happened. He sighed. "Well looks like its back to the dream theory," he said to himself before going off to follow the Eevee into her hometown. Upon entering the quaint village-like area Shinx found himself surrounded by a population of talking Pokemon, making him remember more of his current knowledge of the real world where he was last. Pokemon talked and chatted among drinks at local PokeFoodmarts, some traded, some battled for practice. However, Eevee was for some reason rushing her way through the busy town square.

"Here we are," Eevee said with a breather, actually glad to be back home after their eventful afternoon. But she knew it'd be a huge bother getting in, and with a guest, at that.

Shinx gazed upon the fancy garden of green, flowers of all differnet colors everywhere, well grown and organized. "Wait, if you live here, then you must be a, princess right?"

"Man you really are slow," Eevee remarked, finding it how funny the straner in front of her had such limited knowledge, as smart as he seemed. "Let's go inside before the guards see me. I'm not supposed to be out here."

"Then what were you doing all the way in those woods?" Shinx asked curiously as they alked up to the giant wooden doors.

"None of your business," Eevee hmphed, going inside. Shinx made a look before following. This Eevee, a princess. He found that really hard to believe. But then again, he could believe anything at this point.

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My new story. Sorry if it's kinda cliche. It's my first Mystery Dungeon story.
I saw the trafic button and it said I haven't had any viewers and or readers in the past two days, whether it's just me or not, I decided to use that as an excuse to post up a new story.

I already have a solid plot thorugh this and I just have to write it all out, so that's good.

Anyhow, review, crtique, give ideas. I appreciate it.

And thanks for reading ^^ Whether you liked or disliked the first chapter.