A\N: I couldn't help but notice that I completely forgot to put any sort of disclaimer in th last chapter -.-'

I do not own Pokemon. I DO however own several copies of the games. Is that good enough?

The Chespin stared at me for a full thirty seconds, and I stared back until another cough from the Fennekin caught the attention of both of us.

He (at least, I think it was male) glanced at his friend anxiously before looking back up at me. "Help. Please."

I nodded dumbly. I couldn't believe this was happening! My excitement was mostly dampened by the situation though.

I knelt down to them both, and the Chespin suddenly scowled and glared at me, as if suddenly struck by the thought that I might harm them. That or he caught sight of the axe in my other hand.

I extended the hand with the umbrella to him. "Please hold this and try to keep us dry." He eyed it warily, but took it and obliged.

I placed the axe carefully down on the ground next to me, and took off my jacket. I picked up the soaked Fennekin, placed it gently in my jacket and wrapped it up tightly. I shivered when the cold hit me twice as hard. I balanced the bundle in the crook of my arm.

"Get up here!" I motioned for him to climb up my arm and onto my shoulder. When he did, I took the axe and umbrella both back and sprinted as best as I could back to my home.

"Where are you taking us?" I probably wouldn't have heard him if he hadn't screeched directly into my ear.

"My house!" I yelled back at him.

After ten minutes of water, cold, mud, and nearly getting lost in the dark, I finally got us to my house, and kicked open the door, too drained and full-handed to care about getting mud inside.

I huffed and the Chespin hopped down from my shoulder, shaking the water off of him. I glanced quickly at the fire; it was still going strong. I shook my somewhat damp hair. Running and splashing through a storm like that had left none of us in the best of conditions.

I gently placed the Fennekin in front of the fire, hoping that the flames should warm it up at least a little bit.

"You should sit there too." I said to the Chespin.

He glanced quickly at me, pausing in his drying ritual. "I… was gonna. Thanks."

He went and sat next to his friend and began warming up while I went to change. After I did, I grabbed some towels and tossed one to him, and began rubbing my own hair.

I think that he usually would've noticed the thing flying towards him, but he failed to and yelped and began flailing around under the towel in a panic before realizing what it was and using it.

"So…" I looked up when he spoke. He managed to smile at me before continuing. "I didn't catch your name?"

I raised an eyebrow. "I didn't give one." We both glanced when the Fennekin coughed again. "But it's Felicia. Felicia Adams. Call me Felix." The last part slipped out before I could stop it. I usually told a lot of people to call me that, but he might not appreciate it.

The smile turned into a grin. "Nice name, Felix. I'm Leo."

"Leo?" My brows furrowed when I recalled the two Pokémon's argument under the rain. "That wouldn't happen to be short for Leonith, would it?"

The grin dropped from his face. For a moment, I thought that I shouldn't have brought it up, when he suddenly blushed. "You… heard that?"

I smiled slightly. I found the little creature cute. Adorable actually. "Its how I found you two."

"Oh…." He turned his eyes down and stared at the floor for a few moments before his next question. "You… wouldn't… happen to know where Kalos is, would you?" He gathered his answer from my flinch. "Oh… So you wouldn't. That's fine! Really it is!"

I frowned in confusion when he suddenly gave another sunny grin. "That's it?" My eyebrows rose higher when he nodded. "You're fine with not getting back home?"

"Umm, why would it be impossible to go back home? And besides…. I got to see Soren again, even if it wasn't the best of times. I missed her."

"Missed her? You two were separated?"

He gave me questioning stare. "Yeah, I mean we're both starters. We usually get separated. You know, the process of being given to different trainers, and each individual only gets one, all that jazz…" He shrugged, but he looked slightly sad. "Wow, where have you been living all your life?"

I bit lip and looked away. It was like they'd been pulled straight out of Kalos from the games! I had to say something, though…

Before I could answer, he continued. "And what are you doing out here all by yourself? Do you have any family, friends, Pokémon living with you…?"

I gave sheepish grin and scratched the back of my neck. "No. Yes. Wait, I have family and friends, but I don't have Pokémon."

He frowned and tilted his head in confusion. "Wait, on that subject, I didn't notice earlier because of Soren, but I didn't see any other Pokémon around or anything. Usually the water types go out and play in the rain, even if it's nighttime!"

Oh boy, I wasn't gonna like breaking this to him, or his friend. "Well…"

"And you!" he interrupted me. "You say you don't have any Pokémon, and yet most kids would usually be far away on their journey by now! A whole ton of kids even start at half or a third your age! So why don't you?"

Silence reigned for a minute as I nervously began chewing on a fingernail, trying to decide how to tell him this… "Well, Leo… This isn't Kalos."

"I figured that out."

"Or Kanto. Or Johto. Nor is it Hoenn, Sinnoh or Unova."

He raised an eyebrow. "The Orange Islands?"

"That's part of Johto, I'm fairly certain. Not Orre, Fiore, or Oblivia either."

"What the heck are those places anyways?"

I shrugged. "Beats me. They're supposed to be part of your world, anyway."

"Wait," He gave me a bewildered look. "Your world?!"

I winced. This was off to bad start. He was also a lot sharper than he looked.

"Well…" I began. "Here's how it goes…"

A\N: Okay, so welcome to my first ever Fanfiction!

I hope to upload a chapter at least once every week. Let's hope I can stick to that. :)

And I would really love it if any readers could review, maybe? Tell me what you think of my characters so far, if you think the story is any good, how I can make it better, any spelling mistakes, even just a random, but funny comment on the story.

I have a lot of space to improve, and I'd love it you guys could help.

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Ciao!
-RD98