PMD2: Explorers of Fate
A Frozen Heart's Love
Prologue
The moon shone brightly overhead, illuminating the sea as it lapped at the sandy beach. Sitting in the sand, letting the salt water wash over her paws over and over, was a light blue fox.
She had a blue Sherpa cap-like growth on her head, two green-blue diamond-shaped spots on her back, green-blue paws, ear insides, and tail tip. The tips of the Sherpa cap with green-blue as well. Her green-blue eyes glimmered in the moonlight. She was a Glaceon.
She just sat there, letting the ocean waves lap at her paws. She listened to the sound of the Kricketune doing their evening choir.
Another sound caught her attention. The sound of paws crunching through sand. A large figure slowly made its way toward her. Her fur bristled at first, the sharp frozen quills that made up her fur rising as a visible threat to the intruder.
Then a scent hit her nose and the quills lowered. The Glaceon relaxed, a small smile crossing her face as the figure reached her. He sat down beside her, shivering slightly as the cold water ran over his paws.
"Nice night," he said.
"Yes," she nodded. Then she turned to look at her companion. "It's a shame you can't see how truly beautiful it is…Lucar."
The Lucario chuckled. "I can see the aura that the stars and moon create. Even if I couldn't see that, I'd still be seeing the aura of the most beautiful Pokemon I've ever met. Can you guess who that would be?"
"Perhaps," the Glaceon said, smiling sneakily.
"That Pokemon…would be you, Snowflake." Lucar said, resting a spiked paw over one of her forepaws.
"Are you certain?" Snowflake challenged playfully. "What of that lovely Lucario, Laurel? She's been eyeing you ever since she joined the team."
Lucar ran one paw along the Glaceon's cheek. "I'm certain, Snowflake. No one can possibly compare to you in beauty. Even a blind Pokemon like me can see that."
"You're too sweet," Snowflake said, nuzzling her lover's cheek affectionately. "However did I fall in love with you?"
"Love at first sight?" Lucar joked.
"Hilarious," Snowflake said, looking back at the moonlit sea.
Giggling caught the pair's attention. Lucar and Snowflake looked over their shoulders to see a trio of Eevee rolling around in the sand. Two of them wrestled, kicking up sand and tackling one another playfully, while the third bounded after them, giggling. Snowflake smiled at them.
Lucar cupped his paws around his mouth and called to them. "Chander! Nila! Iris! Come here!"
"Coming, papa!" one of the wrestling Eevee, the one on top, cried.
"Wait up, Chander!" the Eevee that was on bottom of the wrestling pair cried, rolling over and dashing after his brother.
"Wait for me!" the bystander Eevee wailed, chasing after her two brothers.
Lucar laughed, nearly falling over as his two sons tackling him. Snowflake happily nuzzled her only daughter. Once the trio of children settled, the smaller male Eevee piped up. "Mama? Papa?"
"Yes, Nila?" Snowflake said, looking over at her younger son.
"How did you two meet?" Nila asked.
"Mama already told us this story!" the older male Eevee, Chander, pointed out.
"But it's a good story!" Nila argued.
"Not if you hear it a million times!" Chander said.
"Knock it off, you two," Lucar said, patting his two sons on the head to calm them.
"I want to hear it again. Please, mama!" the girl Eevee, Iris, pleaded.
Lucar and Snowflake looked at one another and laughed. "Alright," Snowflake said, giving in.
"Don't we tell it every night?" Lucar wondered.
"Oh, hush!" Snowflake said, kissing the Lucario to silence him.
"Ew! Cooties!" Chander cried, ducking further down into his father's lap.
"There's no such thing as cooties," Nila argued.
"Well, let's test that theory!" Lucar laughed.
He quickly scooped up his sons and kissed them both on the cheek. Almost instantly, the pair struggled and shouted for help. Snowflake laughed when Nila cried for her to save them from the cooties. Lucar laughed again before letting his sons down, allowing them to wipe their soaked paws over their faces to rid themselves of the cooties their father had given them.
"Calm down! I was kidding!" Lucar chuckled.
Nila and Chander reluctantly clambered back onto the Lucario's lap, grumbling about how they now had cooties. Snowflake smiled, nuzzling Iris affectionately.
"So, where to start?" the Glaceon asked, looking at her lover.
"How about when we first met?" Lucar suggested.
"Alright," Snowflake nodded. "It all started in the mystery dungeon called Serenity River…"
