Chapter 2: Ch2 'Fire and Rain'
Ch2 'Fire and Rain'
"Calm down he won't kill you for that," Cera said as calmly as she could. Right now we were in my den, but being in my place, all three of us weren't very comfortable; it was cosy, but tight. A few moments ago we talked with the jolteon who Sogot like to use in the role of a messenger. The message from the pack leader Sogot was simple, he was awaiting me in his cave. His invitation was not really an invitation, more of command really, but I couldn't force myself to stand up and go to him. On the other paw, making him wait could make my situation even worse.
"Remember that most of the pack enjoyed this nap. Sogot maybe will be angry and yelling at you but it is just him, nothing that would injure you," Serge cheered me, but his umbreon tone sounded vaguely threatening to me. Even though I knew him for so long, it was sometimes hard for me to recognise what emotion was hidden under the mask of his dark type.
But they didn't know how much Sogot and I didn't like each other. He already thought about me as... unnecessary, he was aware of my very critic opinion about him and there was one more problem which I actually shared with Serge. It was friendship with Cera. Sogot wanted to get her attention and because we were closest to Cera, he thought of us as competition, even if none of us ever thought about becoming more than a friend.
Cera had her tempting virtues but pack rules wouldn't allow to change our relationship; a mated pair could only have strength similar to each other. Strong with strong, weak with weak. Even if I didn't want to agree to it, I was in the second group. Not that I didn't have strength, I wasn't that bad really, but in the strength of my abilities, I was far behind.
"It is almost morning, I think you should not waste any more time," Serge said as he looked outside. I sighed but nodded, I needed to face him and there won't be any way to avoid this.
"Okay, I am going," I said and stood up.
"We will be waiting here, jolteon said that he wants to see only you and we won't cause any problems," Cera spoke and Serge almost contradicted her, but after he couldn't find any argument he remained silent.
I walked out of my den just when the sun appeared on the horizon and my leaves, because of how much water Cera put in them earlier, started intensively producing dew. Shortly after I was very wet. There was always some dew on my leaves in the morning but today it was as if I had walked in the rain.
It wasn't long until I arrived at the entrance of the cave, the entrance lit up from the inside by red light.
"Let's see what you prepared for me," I whispered and entered the cave.
"Zar, the one and only leafeon. The pokemon who caused... the last event," Sogot spoke deep, his reverberant and strong voice echoing from the high dome ceiling of the leader's underground rock den. It had been chiselled into the stone many years ago for the first pack leader, and was passed on since. The sound returned and made a trembling and droning noise in my ears, shrilling my mind and piercing my heart, followed by a rasping breath from a flareon of gigantic size.
I was in one of his rooms, in the room where everyone who wanted to meet with our leader would go. They would wait here see Sogot, the highest ranked leader, the strongest pokemon known to the pack; a defender, a ruler, a champion and even considered by some to be a small god in the body of a mortal. The entrance was lit up by a crackling fire in the centre of the broad and round room, but also by the flames which Sogot was keeping lit on his tail. He was walking, wandering around as if he was in a beautiful garden instead of this room. But he sped up, from a stroll to a brisk pace, moving from wall to wall in silence. The fire already was making me feel uncomfortable, I was weak to it and the view of dancing flames consuming what was left from the wood at the centre made me feel anxious, a great desire to just go out, escape, get myself far away from it was growing, but the flames on flareon's tail were even worse. They were much bigger, hotter and brighter, almost blinding, every time when Sogot was making his turn he waved his tail as if he wanted to throw them at me, to turn me into dust, to burn me alive, and his eyes were just like these flames. I saw in them hatred which I couldn't understand.
I was sitting close to one of the walls opposite to the exit of the room. The floor was cold and dry, the chill was another one of my weakness but this one I couldn't avoid. My teeth were rattling and I felt colder by the minute, my body shivering, screaming internally and he was still walking. Looking at my curled but trying to be proud body, making this moment longer and longer, like a hunter who is cornering his prey waiting for a moment to jump and rip its neck apart. That was how I felt, surrounded by one person, afraid of what he would say; he was pinning me down with his personality, overwhelming me with his power, making me feel smaller and smaller. But there was something more, something I didn't know and something that would be terrible and unavoidable for me. I saw it when I was looking at him and he was taking pleasure from my suffering. He was walking, his aura feeling so unstoppable and merciless, step after step, rhythmically pattering, and his paw was going down and shuffling and going back up-
But then he stopped and turned straight to me. I felt my muscles clench, my heart stop, my mind fill with a void. It was good that I was sitting, because if I wasn't I might have passed out.
"Highly critical about me and my position as leader, absolutely useless to the pack existence, not able to do any self-defence whatsoever," He started slowly, closing in on me and looking down at me from above. Now I could really see how unnaturally big he was; how someone could think that Cera used any of human's stimulant if there were eeveelutions like Sogot in the pack? "And now also a saboteur, who knows what your true reasons for the attack were? Did you steal something? Smuggled anything by without witnesses? You keep saying that you didn't do anything but you are known as a liar, 'only one'. What lies lay behind the story of your evolution? How it is possible that someone as weak as you have friends as powerful as eeveelutions like Cera? There are rules leafeon, weaklings stay with weaklings, strong eons stay with strong eons, what is your power that keeps Cera's eye from everyone else? What kept her eyes from me!?" he roared.
What did he mean by that? Cera had her eyes on me? Maybe I was in some danger and she wanted to keep me safe? The other possibility wasn't possible, no, not her, not in that way.
"Uh, maybe because you are..." I started mumbling but I resisted saying ' a human's freak'; I could be angry and bitter, but it would make my situation even worse, not to mention the way which Sogot was going made me really scared. I wasn't lying but I also didn't know how I could convince him of that, I seemed to already be on his bad side anyways.. The knowledge that Sogot wanted Cera didn't surprise me; it was natural that the strongest male was taking the strongest female, but Cera obviously didn't want that. Sogot completely was ignoring every pack tradition due to his background, he didn't know it of course, so Cera also said that she won't care about it. Sogot was too proud to learn tradition; he tried and still was trying to force Cera to become his mate by giving her too many duties; like the latest request as well, he was also conflicting them with her morals. But even if he did follow the tradition which told us how to pair, he was at a losing position since there needed to be agreement from both sides; he didn't want to agree with that part. "... not in her eeveelution type." I finally mumbled.
"Or maybe they know what power are you hiding... That's why they kept with you isn't it, that's why you stayed friends for all these days isn't it?" he burst and spun around, his burning tail swiping inches above my head causing me to feel the heat and impulsively jump backwards, just to almost meet the stone wall behind me.
"Not everyone cares about other pokemon's strength, they stay because..."
"Because of what?!" he erupted and turned to me again. Flames on his tail became taller and hotter. "You are a selfish, sullen, weak half-plant. Why would they stay, for a gulp of your dew or a nice smell? That is bullshit."
Hey! No one drinks my dew.
I remained silent after seeing his rage, directing my vision to the floor. I was very angry at him, who did he think he was, yelling at me in this way. My friends, my business, my weakness, my problems, he had no right to speak of any of it. No one needed to work to live, the pack functioned long before he appeared and will exist long after he faded away, but I wouldn't see that. I looked up into his angry eyes, but now mine was also filled with rage how could he call me selfish, him, the most arrogant pokemon that existed on these grounds. I wanted him... I wanted him dead. No! How could I think that? He was yelling at me but how I could want to kill him? This situation was suddenly making me very tired, or maybe it was because of the stress, perhaps even both? I hadn't slept well since two days ago, it could be a reason behind this, it had to be; how could I wish for someone else's death so easily? Maybe I spent too much time with Serge and he shared with me some of his darker desires. I never thought this way before. I noticed that Sogot started speaking to me again but I missed the first few words.
"...w you will be helping in training and you will be fighting with EVERYONE who will come, I don't care if they're jolteon, espeon, or flareon, I don't care how much stronger they are than you, you will be doing your best. If not, I will personally assist in your training, using elements as well. Call your two friends over to me, wherever they're waiting for you. Dismissed." He said briskly and almost instantly stopped paying any attention to me. I didn't dare to ask him to repeat.
Slightly confused, I slowly rose and walked out of the cavern. So, I would be a punching bag. Great, that was fucking great. And he said that I would be fighting even flareons? That was dangerous! However, if I tried anything, Sogot would fight me personally and he is also a flareon, which would make it as good as a death match for me.
"Ah fuck it," I breathed quietly and focused only on walking through the forest; everything was still wet like me from the morning dew, sparkling of sunlight as if every leaf had hundreds of small shining stars clinging to it. Sogot's cave was only a little further than the river, a short walk from the centre, so it wasn't long before I stood on the bank of the river and turned right, to the shallows. Strolling next to the river, I found the shallows and started going through the narrow river, my paws halfway emerged in the cold, crystal clear water. The river's flow was calm today so I passed quite easily. When I stood at the opposite bank of the river I instinctively shook my body, rapidly losing the remains of my morning dew. Without all of this water in my leaves, I felt much better and far lighter; my leaves once again were waving freely in every breeze as if they were lighter than the air.
I could already see the crowd of eeveelutions busy with whatever they were doing, but since it was still morning, the crowd was much calmer than usual. Without any problems, I arrived at the entrance to my den and found my two friends in the middle of a conversation about the decor of some den, probably mine. They were just outside my den, waiting at the doorway, and I came up from behind them, surprising both of them.
"Thanks for waiting, I'm back but now he wants you two in his cave," I greeted them, interrupting their discussion..
"For what?" Cera asked, looking irritated.
"He didn't say, just that he wants to meet with you and Serge," I repeated.
"Okay, if he ordered it then we must go. I want to get it over with so let's hurry," Serge said, turning towards the direction I came from.
I sat down next to the entrance of my den, deciding to wait for them. The day was bright and sunny right now, but already I could see some thick, dark clouds slowly covering the ocean blue sky from afar. Even though the sun was high, the moon was still faintly visible, an incredible sight. The sun was always blinding; a great ball of light, causing pain to your eyes. But the moon, I could look at it without a second thought. Now when I focused on it, I could see the dark and slightly blue craters on its silver plate. As I looked at it longer and longer, I saw more and more details of the unequal terrain of this planet's orbiting skies as they flowered. It made me realize how small we were in this world, and how close to us things which we did not understand were, in our reach. So insignificant I felt, compared to the moon, to the sky, even my problems seemed like nothing. What would it mean if I burned to ashes tomorrow, if Sogot yelled, if even the whole pack disappeared? The moon would still be in the sky, and the world would keep going. My deep thoughts about the meaning of life were disturbed when the dark clouds finally covered the moon, and I felt the first drop of rain and heard the dull crackle of thunder from afar.
"Maybe I should have evolved into umbreon since I like to stare at the moon for so long?" I wondered, entering my home as I didn't want to become wet for a second time today.
Maybe I shouldn't talk to myself? It isn't sane.
I guessed that even if Serge and Cera end their visit in leader's cave they also would try to avoid the rain and hide in their dens. Cera's home was almost in the centre, her den had a lot of rooms and a few levels deep into the ground but wasn't built by her. Serge's place wasn't at the edge of the pack like mine but also wasn't in the centre, he dug his own den a long time ago, but lived in it for not very long; Sogot couldn't accept how the pack was looking and had decided on a plan to change it. The idea was to place the strongest eeveelutions in the middle and the weakest at the edge. I dug my home three winters after this. And now I regretted that I made it so small. Even being as far as I could from the entrance the rain still could reach me.
I moved to put my flank towards the entrance and put up my tail to hide from the splashing water; my tail was a great shield against water. It wouldn't get wet since it had no fur on it and it was broad, helpful to hide behind it, besides I had few nerves in it so I didn't even feel the rain hitting it right now. Lying like that I saw that there was a chewed stick lying just before me, I guessed that Serge brought it here when he was waiting with Cera for me. I judged that it was a good stick for him but not for me, I didn't have a jaw as strong as his.
The quiet and monotonous sound of the rain outside made me sleepy and because of the last night I completely wasn't sleeping I wasn't resisting to it for long.
Two things woke me up: I was inconceivably hungry and I was in half sunk in water. As I opened my eyes I saw that my den had changed to the... hole filled with water. It must have rained for a long time for that to happen. Now I really regretted that I didn't have another room or level where I could hide.
Not having many options I turned to the exit and walked outside, being met by heavy rain. Still using my tail to cover me from the water, I started going into the direction of the centre, wondering: should I go to Cera or Serge now? Theoretically, Cera's den was closer and Serge could be asleep now since he was nocturnal. But was it was a day or night now? It was dark as if it was night but it could be caused by clouds, was it possible that I slept a whole day away? That would explain my hunger, but I just felt as if it wasn't more than an hour or two.
Because of the current water level, the ground had changed into a field of slippery mud. Connected to the fact that I was almost blind in the dark, my walk was incredibly hard. I was slipping, stumbling and getting dirtier with every step. Suddenly my front paws sunk into the mud so deep that I met the ground with my face.
"Blah!" I spat trying to clean my mouth from the mud but it didn't help much. Spewing and cough I started to shaking off of the mud, even vaporeon wouldn't enjoy this rain, or maybe they would? Even if I didn't see very much in the dark, I had no problems with my hearing and didn't hear a sound. That would mean that I was the only one outside, but I really didn't want to be. From afar I heard dull thunder rolling through the landscape at a slow pace, spreading itself out.. That made me decide to go to Cera; a fear of thunder was natural for everyone, and even if jolteons could make some lightning bolts, it wasn't even close to being compared to the powerful natural electrostatic discharges between the ground and atmosphere. As if following the thunder, from the same direction from which I heard it started to blow very strong wind making it impossible to keep my leaf-tail umbrella, and my tail along with any other leaf on my body was now just chaotically waving like the trees around me.
I should have been close to Cera's den right now, 'should' because I couldn't see where I exactly was but I didn't see any trees nearby so I was somewhere in the centre of the clearing. Depending on memory only, I turned a little to the right and for the second time, I lost the ground under my paws and fell down. This time I didn't hit head first into the mud but into a transparent violet bubble. I didn't even stand up when the bubble blinked and disappeared and I ended up falling down once again, meeting dry ground this time for a change. I noticed that the bubble appeared once again covering the 'entrance'.
"I thought that you knew where the entry was and wouldn't try to enter through a window," said soft and slightly sleepy voice from my right and when I looked into voice direction I saw that at the end of the underground room was Cera. I couldn't see her clearly because of the duskiness but I saw that fur from her ears was very dishevelled, going in every possible direction but not into the direction in which it usually was set. I guessed that she slept on her flank and this was the effect of it.
"Hi, sorry but I was kinda lost," I answered sheepishly. "But what is that?" I asked, pointing at the violet sphere in the 'window'.
"It is a psychic barrier, I'm using it to prevent water from going inside," she explained as if it was as obvious as that the sky was blue, water was wet or jolteons eccentric.
"You keep it up while you sleep?" I was amazed by the usefulness of this thing.
"Yeah, it is quite easy actually but I wasn't sleeping, or at least not when you landed on it. It was easy to foresee that heavy rain makes your den... uninhabitable. I just wasn't sure to who you would decide to go to, me or Serge. So I woke up a while ago, since it is middle of the night right now."
If it was so easy to foresee then why she didn't put another violet thing in the entrance of my den? I wouldn't need to go to someone at all.
"Once again sorry," I apologised and tried to stand up but a powerful force pushed me to the ground.
"No no no, you will not walk around here with all this mud on you, let me clean you," Cera demanded and not waiting for my answer made her eyes shone. Whole mud just flew up from me, created a ball in size of my head and flew outside through the same hole from which I came. "I guess you are hungry since you missed a whole day, but I am not serving sunlight tonight," she said jokingly. "Anyways, come inside."
Even if the first room was already bigger than my whole den, Cera's real den started further. This den was built by many generations of Cera's family which, quite differently than other families, cared about each other even after evolution. Maybe that was a reason that almost every espeon came from her family. Actually, Cera lived here alone. As the strongest from her litter, she took the den while her family moved out, since then she could invite another eeveelution to live with her as a mate but so far, she was living here alone. Generally, it was very rare that anyone was even coming here, I or Serge were here only occasionally. But even as a friend of her there was a rule in her place: do not touch anything, and there was a lot of things to touch. In the deeper part of the den were rooms filled with treasures, glowing stones (pink one mainly), bones whose value I couldn't understand, and a lot of weird things which I didn't know how to name. Some of them seemed to be brought from the world of humans, but I wasn't sure since I haven't ever seen a human. I've only heard that they walk on two legs instead of four, have fur on weird parts of their body, and stink.
I didn't know how but that thought reminded me of something.
"Hey, Cera? Do you know why others say that I speak weirdly?" I asked following her as we were walking through the tunnel, lit weakly by the glowing orbs in the wall. The lighter parts of my leaves reflected the soft light.
"Because you are," she answered and met my meaningful muteness. "Okay, I'll explain it to you, let's just sit somewhere comfortable."
It appeared that the comfortable place to sit was five heaps of dry straw and leaves, five heaps of killed plants... but I tried to not think about it in that way. Stupid type thing, what other material was it supposed to be made of? Even I had my own bed made from them.
"About your speech, it's because you are the only leafeon here, and the other eeveelutions aren't used to your voice and it's different sounds," she spoke getting comfy on the one of the heap.
"What sounds?" I persisted, and followed her in settling down.
"Lee, feon, leaf."
"And similar ones," she said, completing her telepathic message. "Well, it was something that interested me from the moment when you evolved, I'm also currently trying to find out why your leaves are white at the bottom. It is quite easy to get used to this sound, I almost do not notice it anymore, but if someone hears you for the first time then it may surprise and confuse them."
"Uhh, I didn't even know that I made sounds like these, I sound very... indulgent," I said a little ashamed. Was I really speaking like that all the time?
"It is not that bad, nothing can be worse than that male sylveon accent. Yours is nice, I mean after I get used to it." she calmed me but I still felt bad with this news. "Any more questions?"
"If two espeon read each other's minds then what are they thinking about?"
She rolled her eyes after hearing this query, looking a bit annoyed but at the same time very adorable.
"A different question?"
"About the white bottom of my leaves," I acted as if my question was never spoken and moved my tail so it was clearly visible. "What you think about it? My theory is that it is white because I never use the bottom side to absorb sunlight. I mean, I would need to lay on my back so the bottom could collect sun rays but then I would cover up all of the rest."
"Well that is an idea, but your tail is flexible enough to use the bottom side."
Suddenly, the deafening crack of thunder came to us from outside. We both jumped from our seats and curled in together in the middle of the room. It needed to hit quite close if it was that noisy.
"Do you have a deeper level?" I spoke with near silence, speaking with my eyes more than my mouth.
"Yes," she confirmed, also silent. She stood up from the tight hug in which we inadvertently found each other and began to walk. I closely followed her to the room after room, each deeper and deeper underground. Finally, she stopped; the room had a low and flat ceiling but curved where the ceiling connected to the walls and where walls were turning into the floor. The den was mostly empty, in the middle was another glowing stone but this one was much bigger than the ones I saw earlier. It was embedded in the ground and touching the ceiling with its top. I could touch the same ceiling with my ears, but a glowing stone was still impressive.
We were deep enough underground that I couldn't hear the swoosh of the wind or rumbling of the rain against the ground. Fear of thunder was ridiculous, since we knew that the chance of getting hit was practically nothing and noise couldn't hurt, but instinct was a thing which could not be ignored. When I felt that we were 'safe' here, I turned my eyes from the stone to Cera.
"What are these stones? You have a lot of them," I questioned and waved my paw at the one before us.
"I honestly don't know. Many generations ago when our pack didn't exist yet, some of my ancestors were collecting stones and they found somewhere a cave with these glowing stones. As you can guess, they took as much they could of them. Now it just a source of light, so this is possible to have a den in this size and not have to be an umbreon to see something inside of here," she answered, sitting down once more.
I also sit down, I still felt hunger but I tried to ignore it, generally, I still could ask Cera for something 'normal' to eat, but I wasn't sure how my belly would react to a food after almost a full year without. For now, I was resisting my hunger, but if this night lasted any longer, then I would have to eat something.
"So, how was your meeting with Sogot?" I asked, after an unpleasant moment of silence. She sighed and looked at me with a bored expression; it was obvious that it wasn't her favourite subject. I also didn't know why had I asked for it, it could make her only angry but I just hadn't thought about it.
"Just like always, 'we the strongest should be together', 'your resistance is making the pack weaker', 'with me you can be something more'," she answered trying to imitate the deep voice of our leader flareon. "If every pokemon raised by humans is that dumb, humans should be banned."
I actually didn't want to go into it, even if I was somehow involved in it, but I couldn't resist saying something more about Sogot's attempted wooing.
"Well, I think that could work on most of the females from the pack," I said.
"Yes, you are probably right, but that is good. When he becomes bored of asking me over and over again and ask someone else, she would agree faster than Sogot would have a chance to change his mind," she said and yawned, it seemed that the fatigue of being woke up in the middle of the night finally returned to her. Even if she was fighting it, the pull of sleep was visible, and her big, blue eyes, much brighter than any other espeons, were slowly closing against her will.
Suddenly her head fell down and with it, the rest of her body. She would have hit the ground if I hadn't jumped to support her. Half lying on my back half sitting on the ground she completely fell asleep, leaving me in a really uncomfortable position. But I actually shouldn't have been surprised; she was espeon, eeveelution which is active during the day just like me. In addition, this espeon was Cera, who slept for a long time, just like I would have had the storm not ruined that plan.
As slowly as I could, I slid from under Cera and gently placed her on the ground; she didn't wake up. Doing that I realised how nice her fur was to touch, so delicate, fine and soft. I had the desire to touch it again but I resisted, settling for just lying next to her, not sure what I should be doing right then. Theoretically, I could walk around here but I felt that there was something wrong with walking around in a friend's den while she was asleep, so I stayed where I was.
The darkness was disturbed only the dim light of glowing stone and the silence by Cera's rhythmic breathing. I was lying on my stomach on the ground with my head between my forepaws. Even if the ground here was made of stone, it wasn't cold at all. I wasn't sure why, there had to be some techniques to keep a den warm but I knew only one: to gather straw, leaves or other things which seem to keep warm. Serge knew more about digging dens than I did.
Maybe should I ask him how to prepare my den for the rain?
It wasn't the first time it rained heavily, but usually, I had a tree next to my den's entrance for protection. Unfortunately just as heavy rain season ended it was burned with some other trees to make space for new dens.
The silence and duskiness jaded me, and despite that, I wasn't tired my eyes kept closing. Just as I closed my eyes someone tapped me on the back. I almost yelled from the surprise as a single spasm went through my body. I hadn't heard anyone come in.
"Hi," I recognised Serge's voice when he greeted me in a whisper, and when I looked at him he gave a sign with his head to go with him outside. I silently stood up, throwing fast look in the room before I followed the umbreon; Cera still asleep. I couldn't really see Serge, my weak eyesight in the darkness and the dark fur of the umbreon made me see only a few floating, shining blue rings in the air. That let me knew where he was, but was the ring I assumed was on his head really on his head, or was it his tail? The lights in Cera's den could be really confusing.
"It is nice to see you, but what you are doing here?" I asked as we were far enough to speak normally and not disturb Cera's sleep.
"It was hard to miss the signs of this rainfall coming, so went to check on you just when it stopped," he said still leading me through the dark corridors until we were in the room with 'window'. "Your den is, well, I think you probably need to dig a new one since your old one collapsed. I came to check if you were here before I went to dig in the mud to look for your body."
Was I the only one who didn't see the rain coming?
"Uh, thanks. It is good to know that you care, but my den, is there really nothing left of it?" I questioned, a little sad. Maybe I didn't have anything valuable there, but I had dug it when I was an eevee and back then, it was a proud achievement.
"No. But don't worry, as the noble Azor always said 'Unexpected work always... eh, fuck I forgot the rest, he said something wise I think." Serge said finally turning to me. Azor was the name of a pack leader from very long ago and his name used to fit some sayings, he was a kind of symbol these days. I noticed that Serge was smiling, but I didn't like his smile. It wasn't the first time I'd seen it. "But I see that you took advantage of this rain, how was it 'I prefer jolteon', heh?"
"It wasn't anything like that I just..."
"Went to Cera, in the middle of the stormy night, trusting that she welcomes you into her warm house," Serge recapped keeping his smile on. "And then I found you two asleep, deep underground, together. So how it was? I didn't see any mess so I guess you were done quite fast."
I couldn't resist and spun around, slapping him in the face with my tail. It was more like a dab than a slap since I missed due his quick reflexes.
"Hey! You two are of similar age, and I'm just curious how two inexperienced eeveelutions would do it."
"We didn't do anything!" I screamed at the top of my lungs angry and embarrassed. In the same time, both of us lifted ears trying to hear if our espeon friend woke up, if Cera heard it I would be shamed for the rest of my life.
"If it is hard for you, I can talk first and tell you about my time with Liss," he proposed a moment later after we didn't hear anything.
"Wha? You... no how how did you even appeared here?" I mumbled, trying not to scream again. "These are psychic barriers in entrances."
"Yeah, but they don't affect me, I'm a dark type," he praised, forgetting the Cera discussion. He was sometimes irritating, but if he managed to stand my company then I will stand his.
"Is it daytime already?" I asked.
"It should be morning right now; when I was entering this den it was already well-lit, but it is still drizzling," he said and scratched his ear with one of his back legs. Then I noticed that he was completely dry, and he shouldn't have been if he was outside.
Maybe the water can't go through the psychic barrier, even on an umbreon.
"Rain doesn't really bother me, I was starving the whole night. I'll use whatever sunlight there is, even during rain," I said and made my way to the exit.
"Don't rush so fast, I can go through the entrance, but you are not dark type. You need to wait for Cera," he spoke and passed next to me. "Also, did you realised that if it still raining there are clouds in the sky?"
"Some of the sun always go through the clouds. Are you not staying?" I said from behind him.
"No, I'm nocturnal. I already should be asleep. I hate mornings, I have a headache from the daylight already," he answered back, and disappeared from my sight going out of the den.
