"When a life is snuffed out when it shouldn't have, the world will shed it tears because of the unfairness of life. The world will rejoice when a new one begins. I wonder what the world will do when a life gets a second chance?" ~Hozuki

Darkness. That is the first thing I noticed after the shooting. It is the only thing I can see no matter which way I looked. The only thing I can see is my body, well parts that I can see anyway.

'Where am I?' I looked all around me, wondering where I am. Then I remember about me getting shot and dying. 'Is this what the afterlife is like? Eternal darkness.' I hope this isn't my fate. Being all alone is the last thing that I want. What more strange is that I feel warm and secure.

"Don't worry little one. This is not your fate that we have in store for you.",said a soft female voice from somewhere inside the darkness. Startled, I looked around me, searching for the owner of the voice.

"Who's there?!", I called uot in a scared voice, wondering why I can't see the owner of the voice or how she knew what I was thinking. "Show yourself!"

"Don't be frightened. I mean you no harm.", said the voice before a light appeared right before me. "And as for who I am, I am Xerneas, the life pokemon." Out of the light appeared a deer-like pokemon. It has eight horns, four on either side of it is that is a pale gold color. The horns have the colors blue, purple red and yellow that are lighter at the base and darker at the tips. The root of the horns seems to begin from under the eyes, that are a dark blue color with X-shaped pupils, and the nose. The head is dark blue till it comes to the chest where horn-like projections come out. There's an upside down V on the end of the blue fur and the rest of its body is black. the legs are in the shape of blades and a blue line going down the spine and ends at the tip of the fluffy tail.

"Wow." was all I could say seeing the beautiful Legendary right before my eyes.

"I was hoping to make you an offer.", she said in a soft and caring voice. I snapped out of my daze because of shock. Come on! What would you feel when a Legendary makes you an offer!

"W-what is it that you would offer me, Lady Xerneas.", I stuttered out in respect, hoping I would not offend her because of my question.

"No need for the 'Lady' part, young one. Just call me Xerneas.", she said, still keeping her soft tone. "I want to offer you a second chance at life since your first one was cut so short." , she said in a sad tone.

My eyes widened in shock at her offer. "I-I I would be honored but why me?" I don't know why she chose me, I wasn't anything special.

"Simple child, very few people would offer their life for another's. I wish to reward such behavior," she said with a happy look in her eyes before they became serious "Be warned, I can give you a second life but not the one you have left behinde. You will have a second live as a pokemon. The path ahead will have its own hardships and challenges. There will also be happiness and you will be reunited with the people you care for," her eyes then gain a mysterious light to it and she dropped the serious tone ", and maybe some more. So what will it be young one?"

I am confused about the last part but otherwise, I'm ecstatic about the thought of seeing everyone again. "Thank you for the offer, Xerneas! I accept your offer."

"Very well. We are going to meet up later in your journey but if you want guidance, just call out to me in your mind. I will appear in your dreams and you are going to have my blessing on your journey." Xerneas said before her horns burst in a rainbow of colors and fill the darkness. Warmth spread across me before everything went dark again.

'Looks like I'm going to keep my promise after all, Ash' was the last thought I had before letting the darkness take me to my new life.

When I came to again it felt like I am floating in what felt like warm liquid. I also felt another presence with me, brushing up against me. For some reason, I felt calm and safe, like I knew the other presence which confused me greatly. I was wondering what was going on but then it hit me.

'I'm being reborn!' the thought made me happy for I knew I can be with my precious people again. 'So does that mean the other presence is...' I was caught off guard when the other presence began to become restless and whatever we are in begun to shake. I even began to hear a muffled voice that sounds odly familiar.

"Come on little ones, your almost there!", said the voice, trying to incourage us to come out of whatever we are in.

I decided to help out by pressing against the burrier near me, trying to break free. For a while it seems like nothing is happening. I was about to give up when I felt the other presence give what felt like a hard push when suddenly the barrier gave out. We both tumbled out of our prison, the warm liqued flowing out alongside us. The air was cold! We both gave squels of discomfert before we felt something warm and fuzzy being put over us and rubbing against us to remove the sticky liqued from us.

My eyesight was terrible but that could be because I was just born. Every sound that was made was also harder than it should have been and the smells were also sharper. When I was picked up I looked at who it is. I had to focus at what I was looking at before I could find out who it is, and the sight I was met my heart skip a beat. With her signature smile on her face was the one and only Prof. Juniper.

"Looks like this eevee is healthy just like her twin growlithe brother.", She said with a happy smile on her face to her lab assistant. "They both are even shineys!"

It took awhile for the information to set in before the shock set in. 'Wait! I'm an eevee and also have an growlithe who is my twin brother!' I began fighiting around seeming to become restless.

"Looks like she doesn't want to be seperated from her brother.", said the Professor before putting me down beside a bundle of fur who curled around me protectively, making me calm down almost instantly. I looked beside me to see my brother looks different from normal growlithes. Instead of oranje fur, he has golden-tan colored fur the beidge fur on his muzzle, head and tail are a silver color and the black stripes are white. His paws are also the color of white. What stood out was his eyes. He has Nightsade-purple colored eyes, where it was darker near the pupil and becomes lighter the futher it goes.

We both gave a yawn and heard Prof. Juniper and her assistant chuckiling at us. "Looks like they're both tired. I think it's time for their nap but first, names!", the Professor said excitedly before she bend down to our height. "Let us see here", she said before looking at my brother, " Your really protective of your sister and very healthy and big, so I will name you... Kenta." then she turned towards me, "The most noticebul thing about you is your eyes. It is the shade of purple that Hope used to love,", she said with a sad smile on her face. "I wished that she was here to see you guys. She was waiting for your arrival. In the memory of Hope, I'm going to name you Hozuki."

I was sad after that. My death must have been a shock for her to hear.

She brightened up after a while. "Come on you two! It is time for your nap," she said before picking us up and walking out of the incubater room towards the nurssarry. While we were walking through a hallway, we past a mirror and I caught a glimps of myself.

It looked like I was also diffirent from other eevees. Where I should have brown fur, I had golden-tan fur and my mane and tip of my tail were a silver color, the same with my paws and ears. Just like Pro. Juniper said, my eyes were Nightsade-purple, the same as my brother's and my humanself's.

When we were put down to sleep, we curled and snuggled against each other, being content just as lomg as we can stay together. I had one last thought before I was wisked away to the my dreams

'Looks like this is a atart of a new adventure.'

"Even though death leaves scars on the people we care about, they will fade with time but will never forget. Sometimes all that is neede is for a new life to be borned"~Hozuki