A child like girl sat on top of a tree deep within the thick wooded forests. This girl has known it all of her life and even grow up with in it, she is known as the child of the Viridan. She took up the name of Espeon form the Pokémon that first brought her into the woods she now inhabits, though many just know her as Espy. Espy is a rather small person even at her age she looks much like a small child and has the habit of acting like one at times as well, though her looks don't really show everything about her. She is much different that her appearance lets on about her.

For now she has been spending a few days back inside of her foster with her friends Shine Shadow and Ax. It has been a rather lively time with so many men and women coming into the woods trying to hurt her down recently wanting something from her, although she never bothered to find out what exactly it is. She just took them out of kicked them out of her woods for the time being, albeit with the help of the Pokémon that have brought her up.

It wasn't very long until she hears more of the buzz about men coming to get her once more. The Beedrills seem to be taking care of them nicely for now she will stay back and wait till nightfall to go in and get anything she can from them before treating them like all the other who have come before.

"We should have never wandered off that Lugia cursed pat- aaaaauuugggg" The last words of an aqua grunt are spoken as he drops dead when a beedrills stinger appears through his throat.

Avonmora screams a war cry as he slices cleanly through his 6th beedrill. "All right push forward we can't let them push us out of the forest!" the Pokémon kept coming at the men like nothing they have ever seen before in their life's. One after another the Pokémon attack relentlessly not willing to give an inch of land to the strange invaders from outside their home. It would take over an hour to be rid of them had it One or two of them just fly off as the sun is setting overhead, the old tree hiding it faster than normal with their leaves and large trucks. It would be pitch back much sooner they had thought, giving less time for the men to set up camp.

One hour later

The mercs sit around a campfire roasting some beedrill and a few rattata that they managed to catch. As they sit there with two men watching out for anything hostile coming into the camp.

The camp itself is simple with scattered one man tents set up and one large storage tent. By the ground there are 7 graves of the dead Pokémon and mercenaries that came with them only to meet an untimely end.

The head of this expedition Avonmora looks at the fires watching the flames dance over the wood.

"This is my first major mission I have been payed to lead and it's already going down the drain."

He looks over at his fralagador who was trying to eat some meat while his plusel and minum try to sneak pieces of his meal. Up in a nearby tree his swellow is perched preening its feathers as to get the blood flecks off of it from the events of today.

Around camp the rest of the Pokémon and mercenaries sleep or prepare for tomorrow as they know the sooner they find the girl the sooner they can leave and get paid.

30 minutes later

She keeps watch on the men from a tree not far away, waiting or her time to strike and take what she needs. Although she is not a big fan of men like this who kill so many of her friends and harm so many more she can't say she minds some of the items then bring with them into the woods. Oftentimes she will find good medicine with in their gear and be able to use it on the sick Pokémon around the woods, or even clothing that would make a nice nest and so on.

With thought of that she might find in her head Espy slowly and quietly moves through the trees getting closer to the camp and eyeing up where the items she would like might lay. It didn't take her long to find the supply tent and have a smirk come over her lips.

After she sow most of the men fall asleep or go into their small tents she puts p her hood and goes in. She is fast on her feet and quite in movement as she makes her way down from the tree, already pass the guards, and to the gale she has set for herself. Her feet move fast and silent as she makes her way around even avoiding the eyes of the Pokémon lying within the tree not far off. Her own all placed them around the camp ready to make a move if she would need them to cause some type of distractions. All of this is far to comment for her to do, it is to the point now where it is just part of her life and an actively she has a mastered.

Once Espy gets to the tent she quickly glides in without so much as a trig braking and looks around. Inside the tent two small Pokémon run around playing with some supplies while keeping scouting. Every time they touch small sparks fly around. The air around the blue one is chilled and the air around the red one waves from the heat.

Espy stood in shock at what she sees before her, how could she have missed this? She should have seen the small Pokémon running into the tent and know! She could get caught now and that would not be a good thing, even if she does have an easy time at getting away who know what would happen to the men when the Pokémon with in the woods find out.

The two small Pokémon see her and begin to run over, minum yelling out "minmin" As the small mouse gets closer her eyes go wide, she has seen this little one before and smile comes to her lips as she bends down to hug it. No words leave her lips as she gives it a tight hug to show she has missed him as well. Plussel soon follows suit and goes and hugs her foot, "plueplu", they hug her tight back. As her one arms goes over to rub the red one's head a small shock goes over her body causing a small jump but nothing to ch really. She is far to use to this kind of shock to let it bother her now.

Even though seeing the two Pokémon from her pass is a more than welcomes sight, she has to move fast. She lets minu down and pets his head before pulling Plussel off of her and petting her head once her hand is off of the other one. Her finger moves of her lip as if asking them to stay quit for the moment being.

From behind her she hears the sound of feet moving towards her along with a voice that the small ones seem to recognize. "Thunder wave!" Crap. Espy quickly jumps away if she could know that the two would want to obey their new master, but she can't let herself get caught so easy. She would try to jump over a stack of boxes to get away but it was a little too late as the shock hit her freezing her in place for only a short moment, but that moment was more than enough.

"Well if it isn't my little target" an armored man steps into sight with two more mercs flaking him. Both of them draw their swords and keep an eye on her smirking as the armored man walks forward.

Espy has already recovered from the shock by the time they have come in but now she couldn't just run, she has to buy her time and make her escape later or when they are asleep. For now she just glares at them acting as though she still cannot move. " …." Her Lips lay quiet as they move in and her eyes like shooting daggers right into the man who had called out before.

Avonmora walks closer, plussel and minum appear on his shoulders rubbing up against his helmet. "so you're the target I was sent to capture" Still no words would leave her mouth as she turns her head away from the man not wanting to give him the sadexpaction. He laughs while smirking before he begins to tie her up using some heavy rope to keep her secured closely. Some more Pokémon begin to enter the tent most of them armored in one way or another. "Sorry for doing this I need the money for this to support my goal in life."

Espy rolls her eyes at him still refusing to looks at him. "Yeah right you probably enjoy this. " She mutters to herself has he ties her up. She is still just waiting, waiting for her time, but for now she plays along until her own friends come in to help.

Two cloaked figures walk into the tent longbows on their back and ranger tattoos on their arms. The right ranger speaks up, "well this is good we can get out of here before anyone knows were here."When she sees the tattoos on the men's arms she glares at them and looks right up at them. "You make me sick." She tells them right to their faces.

There marks where on there arms, that is only ever given to the king's rangers. People who claim to be ranger but hold none of the values of one. All they have are the marks and nothing more, they get trained on their own and work on their own never talking with the true rangers. How can she not hate them? THey are used as poeple to bring fear to all who look at the mark of a ranger, that give a bad name to all the ture rangers out there. They're not rangers, just plan old soldiers with a fancy titter and toy.

The two rangers shrug before one speaks. "we are much better then the dam forest pixies, we are the police of the empire and we were tasked to help by our lord in your capture." The man almost sounds proud of this job as he speaks of what he is up to.

The daggers in her eyes only get worse as they speak, they really are sickening to her. How can they say such things with so much easy. " You're just dirty old soldiers with nothing but a fancy toy and you know it." She then smirks a bit at them and watches. She wants to make them mad if she can, if they get mad they will be more likely to slip up.

The rangers chuckles and walk out while the shorter one speaks. "well tree hugger, we will still win in the end." Avonmora sighs and signals to the other mercs to pack up and head out as the three mercs and there Pokémon prepare a wagon to take espy back to the city in. As they move her out her body lays limp making it harder to hold her. She just won't make it easy on them in any way.