"How much longer do you think it will take us?" the all too frequent complaint flies out of the mouth of Bri as she picks a leaf from her over-excessive cleavage. Fanning herself with her hand, her Vulpix looks up at her while walking alongside. "I knew we should have brought the ridable pokemon for this."
"How much longer are you going to mope about it?" Prissy turns her head from up front to look slightly at Bri as she rebuttals the question, with another question. Latched onto her shoulder is a small Eevee, just freshly hatched. "Besides, this little one needs to get used to traveling normally. If you didn't want to walk, why didn't you just bring Rapidash?"
"Rapidash is enjoying the fields right now," she huffs up, but Prissy could already tell she is just covering it up to the fact she didn't think about it.
"Maybe we should rest for a bit and cool down?" Candii waves her hand at her traveling companions. Despite her comment, she is actually the most comfortable. She has her Glaceon walking beside her, cooling the air near it. Both Bri and Prissy turn to glare at her. "Or… maybe not."
Usually Candii would be seen on PokeVision, as well as television as she shows off her Gardevoir. Her Gardevoir has the most ribbons in Hoenn, Unova, and now Kalos. Being a coordinator, Candii has grown into her own and gained fame in all the regions for her accomplishments. Now, she is traveling again through the Kalos region with her usual companions for inspiration. It is suspected that she really just wants a break from the cameras for a while. She even is wearing a ninja outfit which is the opposite of her extravagant kimonos she wears on the big screen.
Bri became a gym leader in the Johto region. She is pushing to be part of one of the Elite Four. She wants to represent fire in a way that no one could mimic. She is a hot-head that is for sure. After a while, the gym held her back from pushing her limits with novice trainers. While they did gain their badges, and she learn from them, it wasn't enough. She had her twin brother take over the gym when she was called up by Prissy and Candii.
Prissy became known as the Eeveelution Master throughout several regions. The professors called on her all the time when it had something to do with them. She never stopped traveling and training. While she still gave her other pokemon love and attention, they all eventually drifted away. Her Venusaur, the one she started with, protects the forest in Kanto near her mother's house. She visits him every now and then to see how he is. Now she is fully focused on training Eeveelutions and educating others about them. Young trainers tend to get nervous when handling Eevee, unsure what to evolve it into. Prissy's goal is to teach trainers the bond that lets the pokemon and the trainer decide together so neither are unhappy.
"I see a Pokemon Center up ahead," Bri points out as the hill begins to motion downward, allowing more of the area to be seen. They all see the all too familiar design of this region's Pokemon Center. The ones in the woods tend to have a more rustic look to them, but the red roof is the same everywhere.
"Oh good," Candii grins as she suddenly has more of a pep in her step. The other two look at her a bit confused. Suddenly the sound of a growl escapes from her stomach area. Both Prissy and Bri sigh as Candii giggles nervously. "What can I say? I'm hungry."
"We can also see how much more we need to travel to get to Luminose City," Prissy states as she looks at her marked up map.
"Why are we going there again?" Bri asks as she pets Vulpix, who jumped on her shoulder.
"I have to see Professor Sycamore and Candii has some sort of TV thing," Prissy answers as she closes her map. As she places it back into her side pouch, Eevee meeps for attention. Giving a small laugh, she picks the little one from her shoulder to cradle it. "Don't get used to riding the shoulders, you will be walking more after this pit stop."
"I completely forgot about that TV thing," Candii mutters, reluctantly wanting to go. Both her Glaceon and Gardevior look at her confused. "I just want my pokemon to shine, not me. Now I can barely eat a cake without someone taking a picture."
Both Bri and Prissy start laughing under their hands. One of the tabloid magazines gotten a picture of Candii eating a chocolate cake, but they surprised her, so the cake missed her mouth. Candii gives them a glare, but it just makes them laugh more. If someone else were to laugh at it, they probably chase that person off a cliff, but since it is the three of them, they are far too comfortable to hold back.
Reaching the entrance to the Pokemon Center, the three of them walk inside. Bri stretches her arms out and grins to feeling the cool air. Prissy places her Eevee down and walks up to the counter where the usual Nurse Joy is waiting.
"Welcome the Pokemon Center!" she greets with a smile. She looks over to the Eevee as it jumps onto the counter. "Oh my! What an adorable Eevee! Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Thank you, just wanted to request for food for the pokemon and three trainers," Prissy replies as she gives a pat to Eevee's head.
"Of course," Nurse Joy gives a brief response and tells a Wigglytuff. The pokemon scurries off and Prissy goes to sit down with the others to one of the larger booth areas.
"Alright guys, come on out," Prissy lets out all of her pokemon from their pokeballs. Eevee darts over to greet them. Out came Sylveon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Espeon, and Umbreon. Prissy gives each of them a scratch behind the ear. Sylveon, who is always overly excited to see Prissy, is pressed against her leg and hugging it with its ribbon-looking feelers.
"You guys come out too," Candii calls out as she lets out her pokemon. Glaceon and Gardevoir are already saying hello to Prissy's pokemon when Candii adds her Eevee, Flareon, Ninetails, and Sylveon. They are all happy to see one another.
"Time to let mine stretch their legs too," Bri states as she releases her pokemon from the pokeballs as well. Her shy Vuplix meeps from her shoulder as the others are let out. She let out Blazekin, Ghastly, Flareon, Gardevoir, and Absol. Prissy's little Eevee hops happily through all the other pokemon, finding them exciting. Up until Ghastly does a silly face, which scares the little Eevee to running off behind Candii's Ninetails. Bri's Flareon lectures Ghastly making him feel bad. Ghastly floats over to apologize, but the little Eevee is too scared to listen to it.
"Aw," Candii watches them. Before she could say anything about it, Wigglytuff comes out with a cart full of sandwiches and pokemon food. "Ooo! Food!"
"You are so easily distracted," Bri comments, while she pulls out a brush from her bag. She then grooms Flareon's tail.
"I am hungry," Candii huffs just before she takes a bite from one of the sandwiches before it is even put down on the table for the booth. Prissy gives her a look, which she ignores, stuffing the rest of the sandwich into her mouth.
"Alright," Prissy speaks up after looking at the map. She has a sandwich in her hand as she points to the paper with the other. "So we are here on Route 3. We will make it to Santalune City first and rest for the night. It is just outside of the forest. Maybe we can see we can hitch a ride tomorrow morning to Luminose City."
"Hitch a ride?" Bri looks at her. Candii is too busy stuffing her face to really pay attention to what is being said. "You mean like how you snuck onto the transporting truck like you did in Hoenn when we were younger?"
"We got to the next town didn't we?" Prissy grins.
"I smelled like Onix for days!" Bri exclaims. "Do you know how long it takes to look this good?"
"Weren't you just complaining about how long it will take us?" Prissy mentions as she gives the pokemon their food. She reaches for another piece of sandwich but the serving platter is empty. Prissy looks at Candii, who is well stuffed, eating the last triangle. Shaking her head she looks back to Bri.
"I rather take the long journey than smell like I was tunneling through the ground like some sort of Diglet," Bri huffs.
"Fine, then it will be three more days until we get there," Prissy responds.
An hour passes when Prissy stands up from a nap. The pokemon are all huddled up sleeping. Bri and Candii are also asleep, napping on the booth couch. She gently touches both of their shoulders and they both wake up. After a moment of gathering what is happening, they begin to get up and gather their things. The pokemon wake up to the sound of their movement, and stretch out.
"Alright," Prissy grins as everyone is back in their pokeballs. "Do you guys have everyone and everything?"
"Yep," the other two speak up at the same time. Vulpix and Gardevoir are both following their trainers. Prissy looks at them and then looks around.
"What's wrong?" Candii asks.
"Where's Eevee?" Prissy looks around the Pokemon Center from where she is standing. She pulls out the pokeball that is reserved for her, but its empty, so she didn't accidentally put her in it.
"Hm…" Bri looks around and then walks up to the counter. Nurse Joy looks at her in question. "Nurse Joy, have you seen the little Eevee that was with us?"
"I saw it when you all came in," Nurse Joy replies. "But with all of your Eeveelutions there, I did not notice it go anywhere."
"Alright, thank you," Bri sighs as she goes back to the other two, shaking her head.
"Espeon!" Prissy releases her Espeon. He looks up at Prissy eager for something to do. "Eevee is missing. Use your psywaves to see if you can sense her."
Espeon wastes no time as he closes his eyes to concentrate. When he opens his eyes, they are glowing light blue. He looks around seeing everyone's energy, but he tries to pinpoint Eevee's. They all have unique auras, like fingerprints. Espeon could tell that Eevee was inside the Center, with residual aura left behind, but fading. It meeps out for them to follow.
"Seems Espeon picked up a trail," Candii states outloud. The three of them follow Espeon.
"Eevee!" Prissy shouts out once all of them are outside. They make their way deep into the forest, off the path.
"Eevee!" Bri calls out with her hands around her mouth for the sound to travel further.
"Eevee come out from wherever you are!" Candii shouts out.
Espeon calls out to them, causing them to look over. They follow Espeon up until they reach a steep cliff. Espeon is pacing back and forth at the edge. Prissy's heart sinks as she approaches the cliff edge and looks down. The little Eevee is there, but unconscious on a ledge.
"Eevee!" Prissy exclaims. The other two come running. When they see Eevee their eyes widen.
"We need to get Eevee before that ledge gives out," Bri states noticing the bits crumbling underneath Eevee.
"Leafeon!" Prissy brings out Leafeon from her pokeball. It stands ready to fight. "We will use Leafeon's vine whip to lower me down. Then pull us both back up."
"Alright," the other two state.
"Blazekin," Bri calls out another pokemon.
"Leafeon, use vine whip!" Prissy instructs. Leafeon wraps her vine whip around tree and extends it to wrap around Prissy's waist. Bri, Candii, and their pokemon hold onto the vines as they lower Prissy down the side of the cliff edge. "I'm coming little one… I'm coming."
Eevee begins to open her eyes. She could not move, being badly hurt from the fall. She sees Prissy, and relief seems to fill her up. Prissy feels close enough, so her hand extends. Eevee moves a little, causing more of the ledge to crumble.
"Don't move Eevee!" Prissy calls out to her. However, the little Eevee begins to panic. It starts moving even more so. The ledge falls from beneath her feet fully. Prissy lunges forward, causing Leafeon to lose her grip.
Prissy catches Eevee in midair. Leafeon extends its vines as long as it can. Prissy reaches and catches it at the very end. Everyone holding the vine gets pulled forward, struggling to keep a good hold on it.
"Prissy!" Bri and Candii shout out together. "Hold on, we'll pull you up!"
"Hurry!" Prissy shouts back as she feels her hand slipping. Feeling her hand slipping she calls up again. "Have Gardevoir take Eevee! I am going to throw her up!"
"Right!" Candii turns at looks at her Gardevoir. "Get ready to catch with psychic!"
Prissy holds firmly onto the weakened Eevee and with one firm throw, the little Eevee is sent flying into the air. Gardevoir's eyes glow on cue and uses psychic to grasp the Eevee from the air. She gently moves Eevee and places it into Candii's arms. Everyone falls back suddenly. Their eyes widen to the sound of a splash and Bri runs to the edge to look.
"Prissy?!" she looks over and there is no one holding onto the other end. Down below there is a river. "Oh no!"
Everyone else runs and looks over. With a collective gasp, they all looked at each other afterwards. Prissy fell into the river.
"We need to get downstream!" Bri tells the others. She then looks at Eevee's condition. "Candii, you need to get Eevee back to the Pokemon Center. I will find a way down the cliff and find Prissy!"
"Right, I'll be back as soon as I can," Candii nods and darts off with Gardevoir following close behind.
"Damn… Prissy, you better be alive," Bri hisses through her teeth as she runs along the side of the cliff to see where it descends for her to go down."
-To Be Continued-