Chapter 1
1 Year after the prologue...
Eon looked at the dummy in the eye. In the hut, he could see the light from the falling sun behind him. Celestia, or Sky, waited until Eon would throw his punch at the dummy, but she was waiting longer then she was hoping to.
Eon breathed out and raised his paw. He stood up on his hind legs and, catching his balance, he swinged his arm and hit the dummy across it's face, and he did it again with his right paw. Then left. Then right. Then left. Then right. Then he held his fist behind him and, with a grunt, threw it at the dummy.
It fell down and, along with it, Eon collapsed.
Sky's eyes widened. She sighed. "Better then last time."
She took an Oran Berry and passed it to Eon with her ribbon. The Eevee looked at the berry lifelessly.
"Not hungry," he muttered.
"You must be!" Sky said surprised. "You were training hard as ever today."
Eon sighed, and pushed his face off the ground. He sat with his legs crossed and shrugged. "I don't feel like eating."
He stood up, pushing his wobbly legs, and tried running out of the hut.
"This isn't right." Sky said. "You won't be able to battle with an empty stomach. You haven't eaten since yesterday morning."
Eon flinched. He slowly waked to the end of the hut, where the door was supposed to be but, instead, it was like an opening into a cave. he rested his hand on the side of the opening and muttered. "I'm not going back to battle until another year, aren't I? You said I'-" A pain struck Eon's leg and, with a scream, he fell on his knees.
Sky shook her head. "That looks bad, Eon. You must let me heal it, there could still be some poison in it."
"N-no..." Eon grunted. "It's.. fine..." he looked at his knee. There was a scar from a battle he had with a Serviper. After the battle, there was some poison in his knee, and he had to rest for a day. He thought it made him look weak, making him think he'd be stronger if he put up with it.
"Oh, stop being so stubborn!" Sky grinned. "It will only take a second!"
Walking up to Eon, he hesitated and tried getting up to run, but it was too painful to move his leg. Sky wrapped the ribbons on her chest around Eon's leg, healing it.
Not feeling any pain, Eon looked at his knee. Even the scar was gone.
"There. Now that wasn't hard." Sky scoffed. She looked over at the sun, which was slowly setting. The sky seemed to be filled with warm colours.
She watched Eon get up and watch the sunset too. Sky smiled.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" She calmly said.
Eon didn't reply. He wasn't seeing an orange sky and bright sun. He was seeing fires and buildings fall. Arrows being fired and people running. A castle collapse with everyone inside escaping hurryingly.
He seemed traumatised, but it ended when he shook his head and saw a dark blue sky. Sky wasn't there, she had left the hut. Like every night.
She always says she's leaving to gather more food. By now Eon thought they must be rich on food and berries, since he wasn't eating much. He went back into the hut and rested on his straw bed. The dummy was still there, bruised. Eon smiled.
"I don't need fuel to train," he scoffed. "I'll be... fine..."
End of Chapter 1
