Author's Note:

This is my first fanfic. Right now all I can say is "Please review". I can't improve my writing without the feedback from you guys. If you do review or leave feedback, make sure it's constructive. Things like "This is great/bag" and "Next chapter, please" won't help me at all.

I won't be having any updating schedule. I have studies going on so it's going to slow things down. I'll try to update as often as I can though. Also, I won't be quitting this fanfic without letting you guys know. So, that I haven't updated in a long time doesn't mean I have quit. I don't think I'll be quitting this anyway. Hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, Game Freak does.

Chapter 1

'This time I'm gonna do it', thought the Vulpix, who stood firmly in front of the Luxray's guild. She took a deep breath to calm herself down. Then the fox Pokemon stepped forward and knocked on the door.

Few moments later the door opened. There was now a Lucario standing in front of her, waiting to hear what the Vulpix wanted.

"Hello. I'd like to join the guild.", she said, looking up at the Lucario.

The Lucario knelt down to get on the same eye level with the fox Pokemon, and asked "Do you have any exploration experience from before?"

"N-No.", She answered, little confused about the question.

"In that case, we cannot let you join.", she said, with her usual calm tone.

"What!? Why?", the Vulpix asked, now even more confused.

"Exploring alone is dangerous. For that reason you need a partner to join with you since you don't have any experience from before.", the Lucario answered and placed her hand on the Vulpix's head and smiled. "Come back when you have found a partner and we'd be more than happy to let you join."

"I see...", the fox Pokemon said looking a little disappointed. "I'll go ask if one of my friends want to join the guild with me."

"Alright, just remember that there is no need to hurry when choosing your partner.", the Lucario said as she stood up.

"Okay, I'll get going now. Bye!", the Vulpix said as she turned around and started walking back towards the Seaside Town.

"Hey, Cin!"

The fox Pokemon heard a familiar voice. She looked to the direction the voice came from. "Oh, hi Eon.", she answered to the Eevee that ran at her.

"Did you try to join the guild yet?", Eon asked.

"Yeah... But they said I need a partner.", Cin said still slightly disappointed about the fact that she couldn't join on her own.

"Oh. Well I'm sure you find someone who would like to join with you", Eon said trying to cheer her up.

"I hope so.", she replied.

"So, what are you going to do today? Anything special?",the Eevee asked.

"Not really. I was about to take a walk in the nearby forest.", Cin said looking at Eon curiously about why he asked.

"Alright. I won't hold you any longer then. Come see me later and we'll talk some more.", Eon said.

"Okay. I'll get going now. See ya!", The fox Pokemon said turning to the direction of the path that leads to the forest.

"See ya.", Eon replied.

The Vulpix was walking along the path leading through the forest and going through different possibilities of who she would ask as her exploration partner.

'Let's see...', she began. 'Eon is not interested in exploration and Spark is already in an exploration team. And far away too... and...'

Her thoughts were interrupted by the fact that it started to rain. She had walked too far in her thoughts and she can't make it back to Seaside Town in time.

Then she remembered that there was a small cave on the side of Mt. Granite which was closer than Seaside Town.

'I hope I can make it in time.', she thought as see ran towards Mt. Granite as fast as she could.

Soon she saw the cave opening. She stopped immediately after she got inside the cave. The cave wasn't very deep, but the end of the cave was still dark and she didn't like it.

She laid down on the rocky floor of the cave to wait for the rain to stop.

'I hope it doesn't rain too long.', she thought while looking a little concerned. It has been raining a lot lately, which obviously was not good for her since she was a fire type.

Suddenly she noticed something fly right in front of her face. She turned her head to the way the object flew. It hit a nearby tree and dispatched in a eerie mix of black electricity and a shock wave. From this she instantly knew it was a Shadow Ball. She was more scared over the fact that there was someone else in the cave than that she was almost hit by a Shadow Ball. She stood up looking at the end of the cave nervously.

"Get out...", a voice suddenly came from the end of the cave which made the fox Pokemon gasp.

"But I can't go out in the rain. I'm a fire type.", she replied slightly concerned.

"I don't care. You entered my home without permission.", the voice said. "I don't want strangers in my home, so get out."

"Please, let me stay here. I'm not yet strong enough to survive in the rain.", she began. "I won't bother you if you just let me stay until the rain stops."

There was a silence. Finally he answered, "Fine..."

"Thank you.", the fox Pokemon said. She laid back down to the cave floor and took a look outside. It was raining harder than before. She wanted to start a conversation with the Pokemon at the end of the cave, but she already promised not to bother him. She was really bored. She couldn't do anything else but to wait for the rain to stop.

It was getting dark and the rain hadn't stopped yet. It looked like she had to stay until morning. And on top of that, she was hungry. She hadn't eaten anything today besides breakfast. The fox Pokemon just had to bear with it. She didn't think that the Pokemon at the end of the cave was going to give her any even if he had some.

She hadn't heard anything from the end of the cave in a long time. Cin started to feel like he wasn't there anymore. Like he had sneaked past her at some point.

'Maybe he is just sleeping...', she thought, just as she started hearing light footsteps. They came from the end of the cave. Cin was curious who the Pokemon was. She just looked to the darkness waiting for the Pokemon to come out of the shadows.

Soon she saw his silhouette. He was a quadrupedal Pokemon, and just slightly taller than she was. Now the fox Pokemon was even more curious. She wasn't so scared anymore knowing that the he wasn't very big. He also had long ears that were thin from both ends and bold from the middle. She had a thought on what Pokemon he could be.

Just as he stepped out of the darkness, Cin's guess was correct, he indeed was nothing but an Umbreon. He had some kind of bag around his neck and a dark blue scarf with a white crescent moon symbol on it on his head. She had never seen a scarf like that, but she assumed it was a scarf variation of Lunar Ribbon; a Lunar Scarf.

"Where are you going?", she asked just as he walked past her.

"Just going out for a while.", he began "And didn't you say your not going to bother me?"

"Sorry...", she said looking down "I couldn't help it. I'm just too curious."

The Umbreon didn't respond to this. He just kept walking out of the cave.

Later the Umbreon returned with the bag full of apples and sticks. It was already dark outside. And cold too. Cin assumed that he was going to use the sticks for a fire.

"Can I have one apple?", she asked, even though she had a feeling she wasn't going to get one. "I can do something for you in return."

The Umbreon took a while to think, but then he took one apple from the bag and placed it in front of her. While still keeping his paw on the apple, he said "If you promise me that when you leave, you won't return here."

"O-Okay...", the fox Pokemon said. She didn't know why the Umbreon wanted her to promise something like that, but she was willing to make the promise. That's how hungry she was.

The Umbreon lifted his paw off the apple and walked to the end of the cave. Cin picked up the apple and started eating it. Meanwhile the Umbreon started piling the sticks to one spot. Then he took a Blast Seed and tossed it on the pile of sticks. The seed blew up from the impact and lit up a fire. Cin was so concentrated on the apple that she got startled by the noise of the explosion. She felt a little embarrassed as it wasn't even that loud noise.

After finishing the the apple, she walked by the fire. She was unsure if the Umbreon would let her, but she tried anyway. When she got to the fire, she noticed that the Umbreon was already sleeping. She decided to do the same and laid down on the cave floor on the opposite side of the fire the Umbreon was.

Later that night she woke up feeling cold. The fire had gone out and there was no more sticks to start the fire again. There was only one thing she could do, and that was to go sleep next to the Umbreon. It was risky but she didn't have a choice. The fox Pokemon sneaked to him so he wouldn't wake up. Just as she was about to lie down next to him, she received a fairly powerful slap on the right side of her face, which made her stumbled back a bit. When she looked back up, the fox Pokemon noticed that the Umbreon was not sleeping anymore.

"What the hell do you think your doing?", he said with angry tone, almost shouting at her.

"I just wanted to sleep next to you because I was cold.", the fox Pokemon said, almost crying. The Umbreon's reaction and the slap she received made her feel pretty bad.

"I thought you were going to attack me.", the Umbreon said. "You should know that sneaking up on a sleeping Pokemon is a bad idea. If you really are so cold that you can't sleep, I guess I have no choice but to let you sleep next to me..."

The Umbreon laid back down on the floor and continued his sleep. Cin laid down next to him, once again feeling embarrassed of her actions. She closed her eyes and tried not to thing about it too much. Some time later she fell asleep too.

Author's Note:

I guess that's a good spot to end the chapter. So, what do you think? What you liked/disliked? What do I need to improve? I have some kind of feeling that some of the Umbreon's actions conflict with his personality, but I can't figure out what it is. Maybe it's just my imagination. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter.