Author's Note: Well, this is my first fanfic ever, so your opinion will be appreciated.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. If I did, I wouldn't have time to write fanfiction.
Chapter 1 – The Forest.
?'s POV.
I open my eyes. It's completely dark around me. I'm surrounded by a moist membrane, that clings to my skin. I can't breathe, so I desperately push my head against the membrane, and feel the wall outside the membrane give as I tumble out into the crisp, winter morning air.
I look around at my surroundings in wonder, seeing the vast blue sky, and snow-covered trees around me, and experiencing the feeling of grass blades tickling my feet under the ice-cold snow for the first time. As I look at the ground, I see the white fragments of a shell, my egg.
The first thing I notice as I start to explore my new environment is that there is no sign of life anywhere. The forest around me is deathly quiet, and there is no sign of movement, except for a light snowfall from the top of the trees around me, caused by the light breeze blowing through the trees, ruffling my fur.
I head deeper into the forest, following the sweet smell of berries. As I stumble through the undergrowth, I notice the first sign of life in the forest. A dark red blur sped away from me and ran deeper into the forest. I, being inquisitive and fun loving as I was, gave chase, and ran after the mysterious blur.
After a short period of chasing after the blur, my lungs began to burn, and the blur started to get further away. "Wait!" I cry, hoping to get a response from the thing I was chasing, "Please stop running, you're the first person I've seen in this forest, and I just want to talk."
Luckily, the dark red blur slowed down, and stopped, and turned around. I could now see that it was a black fox with red fur on it's head. It started walking towards me, and, when it was about a foot and a half away from me, said, "Ok. You just startled me is all. My name is Cara. I'm a zorua."
"Hello Cara!" I reply, "I don't have a name yet, and I'm not sure what I am."
She – I know that she was female from the sound of her voice – looked shocked at this information before inquiring, "Are you sure you don't have a name? Everyone has a name. You know, the thing your parents give you when you're born?"
"My parents weren't there when I was born, so I never got a name", I reply. "I think that I should give myself a name. From now on, my name will be Psy."
"Why did you decide to call yourself Psy?" Cara asked.
"I don't actually know. It just sounded like a cool name, I guess", I answered.
We laughed for a bit at that, before Cara asked me, "So Psy, do you have anywhere to stay?"
I replied, "No, I don't have anywhere to stay. I actually only hatched today, and went exploring, and have no clue where I'm supposed to go."
"You only hatched today? And your parents weren't there? How did you learn to talk?" She inquired.
"I just instinctively knew how to talk. Isn't that normal?" I asked.
"Well, I don't think it's normal for zorua, but maybe whatever you are knows how to talk from birth. Oh yes, before I forget again, maybe you can come stay with us. Besides, maybe my mom knows what you are."
I agreed to go stay with Cara, and we set off through the forest. After quite a long walk, we reached a cave in the side of a steep hill.
"That was a long walk!" Exclaimed Cara tiredly. "I didn't think that I had strayed so far from the cave. Maybe it was a good thing that you scared me, Psy."
"Yeah, that was really tiring. If I hadn't scared you, I probably would have collapsed by now." I replied.
"Yup!~ But being tired is a good thing. It means that you're getting stronger and gaining stamina. The more regularly you exert yourself the better." Cara replied.
As we walked into the cave, Cara called out, "Mom!~ I'm home!~"
At this revelation, an even larger red and black fox appeared, walking out from the back of the cave.
"Hello Cara! Welcome back! Did you enjoy playing outside? Oh! Who is your eevee friend over there?" Cara's mom asked.
Cara answered, "This is Psy. I met him close to the big oran bush, but he startled me, so I ran halfway here, and he chased me, before I stopped", and to me, "See Psy, I told you my mom would know what you are."
Cara's mom looked at me, perplexed. "You didn't know you were an eevee?" she asked.
"No", I replied, "my parents weren't around when I hatched, so I didn't know what I was, and I didn't have a name."
"Oh you poor darling! You can stay with us if you want. Oh, and you can call me mom just like Cara does!" my new mom exclaimed.
"Mom, Psy knew how to speak when he hatched. Is that normal?" Cara inquired.
"Well, for a zorua or zoroark, that would be unusual. However, I believe that eevee are particularly intelligent pokemon", mom replied. "By the way, how did you get your name if your parents weren't around, Psy?"
"Well, I just decided to call myself Psy because I liked the sound of the name, I guess", I reply.
"That's interesting, because that name would suggest which pokemon you will evolve into, if your parents had given it to you. Parents of eevees generally have a good idea of what choices their children would make", stated my mom.
"So which pokemon would I evolve into?" I asked.
"Only time will tell, but you will probably become an espeon, if you have the same sense of your personality that your parents would", replied my mom.
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