Every pack has their own right of passage into adulthood. Every species is different. For the pokemon who can fly their right of passage to adulthood would be when they learn to fly. For the pyroar, it is when the young male litleo are sent away from the pride to become stronger.

For eevee and its evolutions though they have five unique trials, since eevee can evolve into eight different forms. You may be asking yourself, why only five trials when there are eight evolutions. The answer is simple, three of the evolutions require the eevee to be close to a trainer, so it is rare to find espeon, umbreon, or sylveon in the forest. Young eevee face each of these trials so that they may find where they belong in the world of pokemon.

Now here is the beginning of out story, the story of a young eevee and her parents. Within a large forest a young eevee is born. Her parents fled from their trainers when they found that the mother was expecting. They knew that if they stayed then their cub would be taken from them and sold to the trainer who was willing to pay the most for the eevee cubs. So with that the parents decided that they would run away from their trainers and live in the forest. As they ran for a forest they heard of only in legends they gathered more of their kind. Eeveelutions of all kinds flocked to them to escape from their trainers: Vaporeon, Flareon, Jolteon, Glaceon, and Leafeon. The only reason as to why no Espeon, Umbreon, or Sylveon joined them is because those eeveelutions were loyal above all else to their trainers.

The only odd thing was that no eevee cubs were with them, that's when the espeon and umbreon pair realized that all the parents lost their eevee to their trainers who proceeded to sell them to the highest bidder. And so when they found the forest they established their pack as the pack who would take in any eevee and/or their evolution who ran away or had no pack of their own.

Agility Trial

Only the fastest of the eevee will succeed in this trial. Those who succeed become jolteon, those who fail however are sent off to try another trial.

Blizzard Trial

Only those who are the most adapted to the cold will succeed in this trial. Those who succeed will become glaceon while the rest are sent off to a different trial.

Nature Trial

Only those who love nature, are gentle and kind, and have natural healing ability will succeed in this trial and will become leafeon while the rest are sent off to a different trial.

Magma Trial

Only the eevee who can withstand the heat will succeed in this trial. Those who succeed will become flareon while the rest will be sent to another trial.

Marine Trial

Only those who love water and can swim quickly will succeed in this trial. Those who succeed will become vaporeon while the rest will go to another trial.

For espeon, umbreon, and sylveon normally the eevee who are runts and fail all the trials will be exiled and left on a popular path for trainers. This way trainers will have eevee and their evolutions and will not search for the whole pack.

But not every runt is satisfied with this life and this story is about one such young eevee who was born a runt. This is Skyla's story.