All of us turned around quickly in surprise and gasped. Behind us, in the sky, was a large human aircraft of sorts! It was gray and had several small windows lining it that reflected the sunlight. On top of this aircraft stood two humans, a man and a woman. Each was holding a device I had only seen before in books; a megaphone.

The man held the device up to his mouth and started talking into it.

"This is great. This must be the spot we've heard about. Look at all of those Eevee evolutions down there!"

The woman nodded. "We'll study them and find out exactly how those little rarities evolve." She smiled a wicked smile.

The man took out a small, square device – a remote control – and pressed a button on it. Instantly, two long guns emerged from the side of the aircraft and dangerous-looking blue orbs fired straight at us.

"Run!" our mother cried frantically, and none of us hesitated for a moment. All of us went scrambling into different directions. Umbreoniss skipped and laughed like the overly optimistic Pokemon she was. I ran straight with my eyes shut tight, hearing and feeling the effects of the explosions going on all around me.

Then I heard a particularly big explosion and a cry of pain that was cut short.

I opened my eyes and started in the direction of the noise. Had one of my siblings been hurt?

It was worse than that.

Much, much worse.

My family was gathered together in a circle. I noticed that my Jolteon sibling was not in it.

As a drew closer, I realized that the Jolteon was in the middle of the circle. He was covered in bright red blood.

He wasn't breathing.

He was dead.

"Oops… I overshot that one", said a male voice.

The humans.

We were still under attack!

We had no time to mourn the death of our fallen family member. We all took off running again. I realized that Umbreoniss and I were the only ones who had not been hit.

Suddenly, a bunch of strange spheres rained down toward us. I strained to remember what they were called.

"What were they", I thought. "That's it! Poke Balls! These are a different kind, though… Great Balls!"

One of the blue and white Great Balls hit my Mom.

"No", she cried. The rest of us watched in dismay as our Flareon mother dissolved into white light and disappeared into the ball.

We tried to run, but it was no use. Every one of us was captured and sucked up into the human aircraft. Well, all of us except Umbreoniss and I. We ran blindly through the woods, hoping to find a safe place to hide before we would be hit by one of the exploding balls they fired at us.

Before too long we arrived at the edge of a cliff.

"You have nowhere to run", the woman said triumphantly. "You two belong to us now."

Umbreoniss looked out below the cliff. "What a lovely view", she said happily.

I shook my head in disbelief. "I can't believe you, Umbreoniss! One of our siblings is dead, the rest of our family has been captured, and we're going to end either way, and you're talking about the view!" I was so extremely angry that I almost pushed her off the cliff.

I was wrong, however. Okay, so it was wrong to have homicidal thoughts about my own sister, especially since she was just trying to cheer me up, but that's irrelevant. I was wrong about ending up dead or captured.

"I'll catch them now", said the man greedily. The next several events happened in a blur.

The man pressed a button on the remote. One of those balls blasted at the cliff edge we stood on. As it shattered below my paws I heard "No! I pressed the wrong button!" before plunging down.

I was falling farther and farther. There was no doubt about it, Umbreoniss and I were done for.

Then something strange happened. Suddenly, I stopped falling. I started soaring upward. How could this happen? Looking down, I saw that Umbreoniss was still falling. I realized that I could control the direction I flew in. I dived downward, the wind whistling through my large purple ears. "This can't happen," I thought. "Espeon just can't fly. This must all be a dream."

I grabbed Umbreoniss anyway and hauled her up to the cliff edge. "That was so neat", she said after I dropped her safely onto the ground. She jumped up and down excitedly.

"This isn't real", I said. "It's a dream. I'm sound asleep at home." I pulled out one of my claws and poked my arm with it. Pain shot through it and a small drop of blood appeared.

It really hurt. Not just the poke, but the realization of it all. One of my siblings was dead. All the other members of my family were taken by humans and might end up dead as well except one. Besides, that one was overly cheerful and downright annoying anyway. The both of us were stranded in the middle of nowhere, all alone in the world.

I realized that I could stand up and easily walk on two legs. Evolution held so many strange changes and secrets, I guessed.

I took a step towards the cliff edge.

"Why", I whispered miserably. "Why…"

A single tear fell from one of my blue eyes and slid down the light purple fur that my face was now covered in. It was all more than I could stand.

I leapt off of the cliff. Once again, I ended up flying. I sighed and flew back to where Umbreoniss was standing. "Some other time", I thought.

"Whee!" Umbreoniss said. "It's so neat how you can fly like that!"

I shrugged. "One of our siblings is dead."

"That means he's in Heaven now, playing with the legendary Pokemon! I bet they're so happy!"

Then I did something that I've never done before. I took out the claws on my right paw and struck Umbreoniss across the face. She reeled backwards a bit, but other than that she didn't seem to be effected by the blow at all.

"Umbreoniss", I said angrily, "You don't understand. There is no Heaven. Legendary Pokemon are just like us except stronger. Our brother is gone out of existence forever!"

I turned away sharply. "We have no where to go. What to we do?"

Umbreoniss was silent for a moment, and then she said "Find them! We can rescue them from the humans!"

I sighed and shook my head. "That won't work. Even if we did find them, which we won't, we'd end up captured or killed."

"We can't just sit around and do nothing. We have to try!"

As much as I hated to admit it, Umbreoniss was right. I sighed and turned to face her.

"Alright", I said. "I'll go."

Umbreoniss smiled and started jumping up and down. "Whee! Whee! An adventure! Yay!" She got up and started walking on two legs. "I can do it too! Hooray!"

I started off in the direction the human aircraft had came from, or at least where I thought it had came from. Umbreoniss followed, jumping and cheering.