Authors Note: Well, as promissed I have the new chapter up. I ended up tossing out my original idea and went with this one instead. Hope you guys like it.

Chapter 2 Arcee

It had been a couple of days since Baralai had received Leafstorm from Kassie. He was still learning much about raising his young bulbasaur. Kassie meanwhile had been readjusting to life back in Spira, and was out in the training yard, meant for the Warrior Monks, working with a member of her pokemon team, an Espeon named Arcee. Baralai had discovered within moments of meeting Arcee that she was a very special pokemon. The thing that made Arcee special was that unlike most Espeons, Arcee could communicate with Telepathy. He had discovered this fact while Kassie had been out of the room, he could remember that moment well.

(AN. I've never done flashback scenes before, so hopefully this sounds ok)

Flashback:

Baralai looked at the Espeon with an intrigued look on his face. He said to Kassie, "She is quite different, you know? I can't believe that pokemon are so wide in variety."

Kassie smiled "Yeah, there are several different types, Arcee is just one of the many, I believe the last count I had heard for the different species was 493 pokemon, but they still suspect there to be even more then that."

Baralai's eyes widened at the number, and simply sat down mulling over this information. He was vastly surprised at the known number, and hoped that he would get to see more of these creatures. Suddenly a small rumbling sound was heard, and Baralai looked around the room, wondering what could have caused it. After hearing it again, he and Kassie both realized that Arcee's stomach was rumbling. Kassie turned to Baralai, "Would you mind watching Arcee for me? I have some pokemon food for her in my pack, but it's in your apartment"

Baralai replied, "Sure, I don't mind."

He then unlocked the door leading from his office to his apartment so that Kassie could enter. Baralai had always been glad for the fact that he never had to walk far from his office to his apartment, as he could get a lot more work done, and yet still manage his way to a soft bed when he was exhausted. Shortly after Kassie walked out of the room, he heard a strange voice . "I am so glad I didn't have to tell her directly that I needed some food, I tend to startle her sometimes doing that."

Baralai jumped, and looked to Arcee, thinking she could tell him where the strange voice was coming from, by pointing in the general direction. Arcee tilted her head and gave him a look that could be read as, 'What's the matter with you?' Baralai seeing that he wasn't going to get a hint from Arcee finally said, "Alright, who just spoke"

He then heard the voice say, "Oops, guess Kassie forgot to tell you more about me. It's just me Arcee, I'm telepathic."

Baralai looked at Arcee and was in shock. He could see the look on her face as a slight smirk, and really was starting to wonder about his own sanity. He finally said, "Prove it."

Arcee jumped off the desk, and walked up to him while at the same time saying, "And how exactly do you want me to prove it? I can't exactly speak telepathically and make the words come out of my mouth."

Needless to say that Baralai felt convinced just by the fact that the entire time Arcee had been talking, she'd walked towards him, in a very relaxed manner, and he just couldn't explain it, but he just felt convinced."

End Flashback

Baralai smiled at the memory, as afterwards, Kassie had walked back in, and he was able to ask her more about Arcee. He had been somewhat disappointed to learn that Leafstorm would never be able to talk like Arcee, but soon got over that disappointment when Arcee started to translate to him what Leafstorm would say to him. He could understand quite well why Arcee was special, as now he knew that not only was Leafstorm very young level wise, but she was also relatively young age wise. It seemed when Kassie had caught her, Leafstorm had only been a month old, making her roughly 6 months old now. Kassie had explained to him about the different abilities a bulbasaur could use as they grew in levels, and got stronger. Baralai took out Leafstorm's pokeball, and released her out of it, and then picked her up so that they could go join Kassie and Arcee out on the training field. Another thing that Baralai was thankful for was that his office window had a perfect view of the field, so that if he needed a break from working, he was able to watch the monks train, which to a warrior such as he, that was something that helped make the day lighter.

Soon the two were at the field, and Baralai let Leafstorm down, so that she could run over to Kassie. Kassie smiled to Leafstorm, then to Baralai, and said, "Would you like to train with us?"

Baralai had been eager to learn more about how he could train Leafstorm, and readily agreed to join them. Kassie quickly explained that the best training a pokemon could ever receive was to have mock battles. Baralai remembered when Kassie had explained to him about the two attacks Leafstorm could use, and felt that not only would his bulbasaur get some experience, but he would as well, in learning how to be in a battle with his pokemon. The wind blew gently around the two pokemon, and Kassie went to fetch a monk in the area, to judge the match. Baralai had made sure that the day he and Kassie were reunited, that all the priests, and monks had been able to meet her and his Bulbasaur so that they would know that Leafstorm wasn't a fiend, and that Kassie wasn't a 'Fiend tamer" as some had first wanted to call her. Soon, Kassie returned with one monk that Baralai knew quite well. This particular monk was called Markus, and was one of the few monks that Baralai had become good friends with. Soon they were ready, and Baralai felt that he could learn much in his first battle.

Author's Note: I'm ending it here, so I can work on making the battle interesting, also I'm using the known number of pokemon up through the new Diamond and Pearl games, for anyone wondering. When I first started this story, I had planned on including new pokemon, hence I felt that using the known number would be helpful in showing that. Please leave a review if you can, because I would like to hear some comments on how I portrayed Arcee. Also, on Markus, I just simply choose to give a monk a name, since none of them actually had names in the games. Also, expect to see one more pokemon with a name inspired from Transformers, I won't say what it is yet, but i won't mind if people want to guess. And as one last note, the reason as to why Arcee is telepathic is because in the anime they've had a telepathic lapras, and some other pokemon that spoke telepathically psychic or not, hence i felt an espeon that spoke telepathically wasn't going to be a big deal.