"So...why aren't you guys in your final evolution stages?" asked a Taillow with a happy smile as he and three other Pokémon sat in front of a den's entrance. He then looked at the Vulpix who was lying down inside the den. "Especially you! Ninetales are sexy creatures!"
Shock groaned for the umpteenth time, rubbing both cheeks with both paws. "Arceus damnit, do you ever shut up?!" He glared at him, ears twitching. "You're worse than Fay!"
Fay blinked, confused.
Saur chuckled quietly, before smiling at the curious bird. "Well, we all agreed to stay a Bulbasaur, a Rattata, a—"
"First stage form, I get it, sheesh..." Sky sighed, shaking his head. "You don't have to list them all."
"Then stop asking stupid questions," Shock grumbled.
Saur blinked, smile gone. "Right. Well, it's because this is how our friend saw us last before he went away, and we don't want to change it, as our way of remembering him."
Sky blinked, then turned to Shock.
The Pikachu blinked, annoyed. "What?"
Sky tilted his head. "Even you?"
Shock arched an eyebrow. "For your information, yes. And why are you still here?" He turned and waved a paw at the clear blue sky above the large lake. "Shouldn't you be flying back to...wherever you were heading? The sooner, the better, by the way."
"If he could fly, that is." Fay chuckled.
The Taillow blinked, and then he chuckled. "Wow. You want me gone that badly?"
Shock rolled his eyes. "Took you long enough to notice."
"No offence," Vixie suddenly said, rising into a sitting position. "But we don't really...know who you are."
"I'm Sky!" the Taillow said, fluttering his feathers. "I thought we already established that."
Shock groaned.
Vixie sighed, ears drooping. "What I meant is that...you're a stranger to all of us."
"Not really," Fay chirped. "He's more like an acquaintance now!"
"Don't encourage him," Shock mumbled.
Sky was simply smiling. "Oh! Is that all? That can be easily remedied!"
"Please don't tell us you're staying here," Shock mumbled again.
Sky turned to him, smiling wide. "That's a good idea! But no, I've got a better idea!"
"I am overflowing with excitement..." Shock deadpanned.
Saur and Fay chuckled.
"Let's have a journey!" Sky announced excitingly. He turned and pointed at the sky with a wing. "Let's go on an adventure, the five of us, in search of a way to get the broken-hearted Vixie to be with her true love who's in another world!" He then turned back to smile at the three Pokémon plus Vixie who walked out from her den. "It'll be fun! So what do you say?!"
"...another adventure?" Fay asked excitingly.
"...the five of us?" Shock frowned.
"...another world?" Saur blinked.
Vixie furrowed her brows as she marched towards the smiling bird. Finally, she stopped, her nose an inch or two away from the bird's beak. "Tell me," she said, eyes aflame as she glared at the bird's eyes. "Who are you? And why do you know so much about us? About me? And about Jay?"
Sky's smile was gone, replaced with a confused frown as he blinked once...twice...and then, "ah!" He slapped his head with a wing as he chuckled. "Oh, right! I forgot to tell you all that one important detail! No wonder you all, minus Fay, acted a bit strange towards me!"
"And here I thought it was obvious," Shock groaned.
"Actually," Sky blinked, rubbing his head with his primary feathers. "I really thought it was obvious as to why I knew too much." He shrugged. "I guess I shouldn't assume too much..."
"Can you just tell us, please?" Vixie asked, her patience already running thin.
Sky smiled at her, and winked. "Hey, babe. Save the 'pleases' to my old bro once we get to him. Or once I get you to him. Whichever suits the situation." He shrugged, and then he cleared his throat. "Anyway, I—"
"You're Jay's brother?" Saur asked, blinking.
The rest of his friends turned to the grass type, blinking.
Sky frowned. "Aw... You ruined the dramatic reveal!" He glared on the ground, and awkwardly kicked a pebble.
Shock turned to him, then at Saur, and then back to him. "Wait. Hold on." He rubbed his head, a headache already forming. "You mean to tell us that you're Jay's brother?"
Sky sighed and pouted. "I was really hoping for a dramatic reveal..."
"...sorry?" Saur apologized, blinking.
Vixie stared at the Taillow, a bit surprised from what she just heard. "One moment." She turned and dragged her friends a few feet away. Once she was satisfied with the distance, she looked back at the bird, who decided to look around, before looking back to her friends. "Okay... Has Jay ever told us about his brother?"
Fay arched an eyebrow. "Shouldn't you be the one who knows more about him than us?"
Vixie glared at her.
Shock actually chuckled. "Good point."
"I'm serious."
Fay pouted. "So was I!"
Saur shook his head. "Yes, he did mention to us about his brother, although..."
"Although what?" Vixie asked.
The grass type shook his head. "I can't remember him mentioning his brother's name."
Shock rubbed his aching head. "Yeah...I've been trying to recall a name. I don't think he ever told us."
Saur nodded. "And I doubt humans would call their offsprings as 'Sky.'"
The four friends became quiet for a short while, and then looked back at the Taillow.
The said bird fell on the ground. He chuckled to himself, ignoring strange looks that he got from a few Pokémon nearby as he rose back up to his small talons. With extended wings, he started flapping them again, staying airborne for a few seconds before he tilted to his left and fell back down on the ground with a groan.
A few flying types started landing around him, asking what he was doing and some actually gave him advice on how to fly.
"Well," Vixie said, sitting down. "He does kinda give off a weird...what's the term...Jay-ish like...thing on him."
"Aura?" Saur asked.
Vixie nodded. "Right. That."
Shock arched an eyebrow. "You mean how he awkwardly walked with us all the way back here instead of hopping or gliding like how birds usually do?"
"And the fact that he couldn't fly!" Fay chuckled. "Maybe that's actually Jay who's a Flyeon!"
Her friends ignored her.
"Hm..." Saur hm'ed. "He's quite certain that he's Jay's brother, and that he can take us to him."
His three friends turned to him.
Saur looked at them. "Latios took Jay to Arceus, so he could return to his world, right?"
"That's what the grumpy guy's sister said, yes," Shock nodded.
Saur nodded, then looked at the struggling bird, who was glaring at his own wings while a Pidgeotto was busy giving him advice. "Maybe he got in while Jay got out?"
"Wouldn't Arceus notice? Also, how did Jay got here in the first place, anyway?" Shock blurted out.
"Well," Fay smiled. "Arceus didn't even know Jay and Krysie were here."
"...touché," Shock said.
Vixie shook her head. "He couldn't remember. Jay couldn't recall how he got here..." She frowned as she looked at Saur. "Also, he said that it would be a bad idea for us to go to his world, if it was even possible anyway."
Fay blinked, and nodded with a smile. "Oh yeah! I remember him saying that."
Shock nodded. "A world without Pokémon? I don't want to live in that kind of world."
Saur nodded.
Fay blinked. "But it could be fun! With us being the only Pokémon in his world!"
Shock snorted. He then looked at Vixie, and blinked, and then he frowned. "...don't tell me..."
Vixie was smiling, determination and courage on her face, and a little pinch of idiocy, Shock thought.
The Pikachu sighed, ears drooping.
Fay and Saur blinked as Vixie turned around and started walking towards the angrily-mumbling Taillow.
"I became a freaking bird only to find out I couldn't fly..." His wings drooped as he tiredly stared at the sky. "Even this world is so cruel to me..."
A few bird Pokémon around him chuckled, despite not understanding the first half of what he said.
"Sky," Vixie called, sitting behind him.
The Taillow sighed, hanging his head low. "Yesh... I know that's the sky." He threw her a glare. "I'm tired, not stupid."
Vixie deadpanned. "I was calling your name."
The Taillow blinked, and then he chuckled quietly. "Oh, right. Still not used to my code name, is all."
"Code name?" Vixie blinked.
"Is that another human word?" Fay asked, she and her other two friends behind the fire type.
Sky waved a wing at her. "Meh. That's my name on C.o.D. I doubt you know what that is, anyway." He turned to look at the bird Pokémon around them, smiling. "Thanks for the words of wisdom, birdies! But my friends are back and I think we need some alone time for chit-chatting." He waved a wing goodbye as the few bird Pokémon left them alone.
"We're not friends," Shock glared at him, before he sighed and stared at the Vulpix. "Vixie," Shock said, "are you serious about this?"
"Oi," Sky called his attention, glaring. "I told you to stop hitting on her."
Shock glared back. "I'll hit you if you won't stop talking nonsense, bird!"
"Hush, you two," Vixie threw a glare at the Pikachu before turning back to the smiling Taillow. "So, you can take us to Jay?"
Sky nodded eagerly. "Of course I can!"
"Do we even want to go there?" Shock sighed, turning to his other friends for help. "Please say no."
"I'll pass," Saur replied.
"I'm going!" Fay replied.
Shock groaned. "It's a tie." He turned to Vixie, who was staring at him. "Two on two. We need a tie breaker."
A loud roar echoed in the forest, even managing to create small ripples on the calm lake. A large and mighty Arcanine walked out from a line of trees meters away from the four friends plus Taillow, his fur slightly covered in dirt and tree branches.
He shook the dirt off of his coat as a large number of female Pokémon started approaching him cheerily.
Shock blinked, turned the other way, and started walking. "Okay, I'm out of here."
Saur chuckled and walked after him, Fay following close behind.
Vixie glared daggers at the newcomer. He wasn't actually new around the area, but—
A vine wrapped around her and started dragging her away from the scene.
Sky merely blinked at the four Pokémon in confusion, and then blinked at the Arcanine. And then it hit him. His face was awash with anger. Puffing his white feathered chest, he awkwardly marched towards the Arcanine and—
—was dragged away by Saur's other vine. Sky opened his beak, but two soft paws forcefully closed them shut. He was surprised, "mmf!" and even more surprised when a Rattata's face now filled his vision.
Fay chuckled as she held the bird's beak while walking on her hind paws. "Nah-uh-uh! Saury said we should leave as quietly as possible."
Author's Notes & Replies
I decided to publish one chapter every week. I hope you pipz are okay with that. ^^
Anyway, I hope you pipz don't mind if I'll reply to a few of your questions here.
Ahem...
—modern silver productions...
If humans have created a machine that can cross the Pokémon world, then this bird must have been a test subject! o.o Vixie and co. are DOOMED!
—TheGreenestGrey...
B-but, I thought Vulpixes are native to both Kanto and Johto. D:
—Idontexistexceptinyourmind...
Sequel? What sequel? What are you talking about? Maybe this [sequel] you speak of is all in your mind... o.o
—Something dictionary related...
Retcon? Nah. I know I'm stupid at times, but I am thankfully not stupid enough (yet) to do a retcon. x3
—PkmnMaster Rolf...
Thanks for that! It's fixed now. :3
—Cl8tron...
Thank you! :3
—Ricku28...
Mehbeh through flashbacks, since, y'know, he's back in the human world, recovering after Arceus knows how long he was in a coma. ;) And oh, you're the reason why I decided to reply to reviews here, 'cuz I can't send you PMs. xD Anyway, yesh, I'll really appreciate that. :3
—TheShinyEevee...
It was a purple "dog" thing. It was probably Fay, but eh, I could be wrong. *shrugs*