"Hey, please wake up," Autumn's eyes opened slowly to see a blurred face looking down at her.
She rose up from where she was lying down and blinked again and saw it was a cat-like creature she recognized it as a Litten. It wore a bright orange scarf around its neck. "Are you alright? You were unconscious when I found you".
"Where am I?" she asked and then looked around to see if there was a person near by who spoke.
Looking around she saw not a single human. Her glaze returned to looking at the Litten.
"Hey, are you alright?" the Litten asked again.
I quickly realized he was talking to me.
"Gah! You're a talking Litten!? How can you be talking?!" Autumn said in shock and slowly backed away.
"Wait! I didn't mean to scare you," he said, making her relax just a bit, "It's just... I've never known anyone that's seen a talking Litten before".
"I know what a Litten is!" Autumn snapped and quickly regretted doing it.
"I just...I never thought they could talk...," she said trailing off.
How am I even able to talk to him? I'm a human. They can't speak to Pokemon...
"Your very strange for an Eevee. Are you sure your alright?" the Litten asked for the third time in a row. He really did care for my safety.
Autumn looked at herself in a puddle nearby and saw that he hadn't been lying, she was an Evee!
An Eevee, just like he had said. How can this be? How could this happen?
"Hey, you haven't told me what your name is. What are you called?" the Litten asked her, Autumn hesitated.
"I'm called Autumn, that's what they call me back home..." she replied and trailed off as she grew nervous again of remembering where she was now.
Maybe I should tell me later about being a human, he'll think I'm weird and won't help me out of this mess.
The Litten grinned at her. "You can call me Blaze, that's what everyone calls me". Autumn nodded
"It's a great name, did your mother give you that name?" Autumn asked.
Blaze shook his head. "I never met any of my parents, I was adopted and raised by my guild's leader, everyone calls her Snow".
"What is she like?" Autumn asked.
"It's hard to say. She's kind and wise...but sometimes she can snap. It's tough when she's like that, but she's not a bad pokemon".
Blaze's attention got sight of the sun that was about to set beyond the forest's reach. Blaze started to look worried.
"Hey...Autumn?" Blaze asked and turned back to face Autumn.
"What is is?" Autumn asked. Blaze hesitated for a moment. "Do you have a place to stay?"
Autumn shook my head. She didn't really know how far away from her home was. Or if she was an entirely different world ruled by Pokemon.
"Will you join me as a member of my team at the Edge Guild?" Blaze asked.
Autumn blinked in surprise and then became confused. "Team? The Edge Guild? What exactly do you mean by that?"
Blaze pointed towards the direction of the cliff. Close to the edge, she saw the whole forest with her own eyes.
It's so beautiful, I don't think I've ever seen a forest look this amazing before.
Further away she could see a huge tree in the distance.
"If you decide to join me, it won't be long before we will be soon at the Edge Guild. That's where I was going before I stopped to see you unconscious in the meadow. The Edge Guild is where the best Pokemon teams gather to serve a leader of the guild—".
"I'll go with you," Autumn said, interrupting Blaze before he could finish speaking.
Blaze didn't care that much. His eyes gleamed with a fiery passion and looked so pleased.
"Great, follow me!" he purred, leading the way. Autumn followed Blaze close behind him as they headed into the forest towards the guild.
After walking for so long, both of them stopped to rest.
It had felt like hours had passed and they still couldn't find where the end of the forest was.
"Are we almost there? I've had enough of this creepy forest," Autumn finally said, admitting that she wasn't a huge fan of the dark and spooky woods that they had to traverse though it order to get out.
Litten sighed loudly. "I don't know why I can't find the way to the guild, I'm sure I know how to get there," he said, clearly frustrated.
The cold wind rustled leaves in the trees above, making me nervous.
Suddenly a loud bird cry screeched loudly, scaring me half to death. It sounded like a Pokemon she knew she remembered.
"What is that?" Blaze looked around, trying to find where the cry was coming from. He wasn't as scared as I was.
"You two!"
Both of them looked up to see Honchkrow who looked pretty aggressive looking.
"We didn't mean to disturb your sleep, we were just on our way to town," Blaze said, trying to defuse the situation.
The Honchkrow flew down and landed right in front of them. "Both of you shouldn't be here, especially a human like you!" he said.
Autumn felt shocked and unsettled by this. How did he even know she was a human?
Blaze looked at her. "He can't be serious, are you really a human?" he asked.
Autumn was lost for words, she didn't know what to say or do. Why did things have to come to this?
The Honchkrow laughed cruelly. "This is priceless. You didn't tell him anything about being a human? Are humans really that stupid?" he spat.
"Shut up!" Autumn heard Blaze said as he moved in front of her, protecting her from the Honchkrow.
"I may not know that much about humans, but I know someone with a kind heart when I see one".
"If you think I would turn on someone in need, your dead wrong! I'll protect her until my dying breath, on the oath of my guild!"
It was at the moment that she saw what Blaze really was. Not a pokemon or an ally, but a true friend that would do anything to protect their friends. A true hero.
"Blaze...," Autumn said weakly and was quick to wipe my tears away.
The Honchkrow stared at us with even more hate in his eyes. "You're a fool! That's who you've always been. You should be turning on her, she's will destroy this world!"
"No," Blaze firmly said. "I won't let you kill her. Even if I don't know that much about her. I rather defend someone that can't yet fight on her own".
Finally having enough, the Honchkrow launched himself at Blaze.
Blaze quickly dodged and tackled him from behind with his unsheathed claws, only to go tumbling down a hill with the Honchkrow.
Despite still being filled with emotions from before, Autumn hurried down the slope as fast as she could go. "Hang on Blaze, I'm coming!" she yelled.
She was worried for the safety of her friend and what that terrible Honchkrow would do to him.
Getting to the bottom of the hill, she saw that both Blaze and the Honchkrow still fighting each other, though the Honchkrow was getting the upper claw on Blaze.
Finally, the Honchkrow stood over Blaze, pinning him down to the ground. Blaze struggled to get up. He looked as if he had run out of energy to fight.
"Any last words?" the Honchkrow asked before being knocked to the ground by Autumn tackling the Pokémon off.
The Honchkrow quickly got back on his feet and looked even more pissed off. "You dare attack me, human?! Stay out of this!" he spat angrily at Autumn.
The Honchkrow launched himself at Blaze again with talons ready. Suddenly a large white figure on all fours intersected the attack, saving Blaze.
Autumn quickly went to her friend's side.
Blaze weakly got up only to fall against Autumn, leaning against her for suport.
Blaze's face lit up slightly as if he recognized the Pokémon that had saved them.
"It's her...Snow".