It was a bright, sunny day outside; Ash- a ten years old boy was continuing his journey to become the Pokémon Master alongside with his friends Brock, Dawn and his trusty Pokémon- Pikachu.
"It's a lovely day today." Dawn said staring at the bright, blue sky, "there is not a single cloud in the sky at all."
"Yeah." Ash agreed as he stared up at the cloudless sky too. Pikachu (who was sitting on his shoulder) let out a cheerful 'pika' as a sign that he agreed too.
The four of them walked down the clear path, heading towards the next town when suddenly a bush rustled. The group stopped immediately in their path, Pipulp hopped out of his owner arms and so did Pikachu, they both readied to attack what was going to come out from the bush.
The bush rustled a bit more and then out popped a small, light brown paw stuck out from the green leaves, then another one popped out. Everyone was on full alert now.
The leaves on the bush rustled even more as the (-what the group could tell was a,) Pokémon struggled to get through; finally with one more grunt the little Pokémon came free from the branches. The fluffy, light brown Pokémon gave a little squeak as it tumbled out from the bushes and landed in front of the puzzled and confused group.
It was an Eevee!
The Eevee got up and dusted it self, it had a curl sticking out from the right side of it's head, the Pokémon then finally noticed the audience in front of it.
"Ve~" The Eevee said.
The group looked at it confused, what was an Eevee doing here?
"Oh ciao there! ~" The Eevee cheerfully greeted in a high-pitched voice while waving it's paw at the crowd.
The three trainers jumped back in surprise. Did the Eevee just spoke? It was already strange that there's actually an Eevee in the Sinnoh region, since their kind are quite rare and very difficult to find and it was even weirder that it could actually speak.
"I'm-a Feliciano, but-a you-a may-a call-a me-a Italy! ~" Continued the strange Eevee, " I love-a pasta and-a… Ve~! You-a wouldn't-a happen-a to-a have had-a seen-a one-a of-a my-a friends-a or-a fratello have-a you-a? It's –a really-a hard-a to-a miss-a him-a~"
Ash and his friends all stared at the talkative Eevee that seemed to have no clues on what was happening right now, suddenly Piplup let out an angry cry snapping the Eevee out of his daze.
"WAAAAHHHHHH!" The startled Eevee cried out.
He instantly whipped out a white flag from out of nowhere and started to wave it furiously above his small frame while the other free paw covered his head.
"Please-a don't-a hurt-a me-a! I surrender-a! I will-a do-a anything-a! But-a please-a don't-a hurt-a me-a!" The frightened Eevee cried as tears started to form in his eyes, "Germany! Fratello! Help-a me-a! GERMANY!"
Italy kept screaming and yelling at the top of his lungs in his high-pitched accent that seemed to be calling someone.
"Hey, we won't hurt you." Dawn said trying to calm down the loud and scared Eevee.
But Italy kept crying non-stop. The tears were now streaming down like waterfall.
"Here let me try." Brock told the others as he slowly approached Italy, trying not to frighten him even more.
Italy noticed and started to curl tightly into a ball,
"Please-a! I don't-a know-a what-a I did-a wrong-a! Please-a don't-a hurt-a me-a!"
Brock then gently placed a hand onto his head and started to scratch gently behind his ears, Italy's ears twitched a little and his crying started to soften it felt very nice. Soon the Eevee stopped his panicked screaming and smiled, he let out another one of his 'Ve~'.
"Ve~ That's-a feel-a nice-a…" The Eevee said dreamily.
"Wow Brock." Ash began in amazement, "That was amazing how you actually managed to calm him down."
"Hey sorry about Piplup." Dawn apologised picking up her Water-type Pokémon, "He's just very protective and doesn't like it when other Pokémon we don't know are around."
The Piplup gave a little 'piplup' to tell that he was sorry for scaring him. Italy just smiled,
"Ve~! It's-a all-a right-a, he-a reminds-a me-a of Germany!" Italy replied in his cheerful tone, "He's-a very-a protective-a of-a me-a too-a and-a he's-a trying-a to-a train-a me-a so-a I can-a take-a care-a of-a myself-a!"
"So is this Germany of yours like your trainer or something?" Ash asked him.
"Well… Sort-a of, but-a not-a really-a. He's-a more-a of-a an ally-a." Italy told him, "And-a speaking-a of ally… Ve~! Have-a you-a seen-a anymore-a talking-a Poke-what-a-ever-a-you-a-call-a-them-a around-a here-a?"
The trainers glanced each other looks and thought for a moment and then they stared back at him and slowly shook their head.
"Nope, sorry." They all replied at the same time.
"We haven't encountered any talking Pokémon besides you." Brock told Italy.
Italy's ears and curl drooped down.
"Ve~…" He softly said, "I'll-a never-a find-a them-a now-a…"
"Wait, don't give up now." Dawn told him trying to cheer the sad Pokémon up, "We'll help you find them."
Italy ears and curl perked up at the words and he stared at her.
"You-a will?" He asked.
"Yeah!" Ash replied encouraging the Eevee.
"Pika!" Pikachu said joining in.
Italy smiled widely, "Ve~! Grazia, grazia! Oh thank-a you-a so-a much-a! I couldn't-a thank-a you-a better-a!"
The trio of trainers alongside with the talkative Eevee all set out in search for other talking Pokémon.
