Well, here I am back and ready to write. I'll be honest with ya, I have no clue when this chapter will come out as school is starting 8/29/17 and I'll probably be busy for the most part. I will whenever possible to write and do my best to get these chapters out by doing that 250-1000 words a day I attempted to do on the earlier three chapters that seemed to work perfectly.
Big shoutout to Janningguy, That Judge Judy, and Doom Dezire (think I got that right, may have to look back on go check) for your support on all of my stories. Janningguy, I've been seeing your name pop up ever since the early chapters of Left in the Shadows. Judy, you found me a little bit after him, forgot I existed for a decent chunk of time, then came which is cool. The Doom Dezire, you seem pretty recent as I bunk this story was the first story of mine you've read and have gone outta your way to read the rest of my stories and even to read some of my buddy's like realFlareon's and Laptoper321's story which he still needs to update. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everybody else who has been nice enough to leave me a review but I just wanted to shout these guys out for leaving their thoughts constantly and for enjoying all my stories, even if I don't think one of them is worthy of being a story.
To be honest, I'm not exactly sure if I'll still be writing but we'll get there eventually. I'm not sure how long this story is going to last so that's the only downside but I'll write for as long as I have ideas that I wanna use. Hell, if I do keep writing I may try out some of those basic story ideas that are used to much like adventure ones with a trainer and high school fan fictions. Do they suit me? No, not really but I may try them out to see if they're any fun to mess with. I may even try out a story with some humans as well like Red, Blue, Leaf, Mallow, and maybe a few other characters. Hell, I'll put a lemon in if I make a high school story thinking about it now so Zyxa, you're welcome bud since I know you want to requests lemon from me but won't since you know I'm no longer accepting requests.
This chapter and next chapter will be shorter than normal due to the backstories that I'm having here instead of as their own separate stories as one-shots. (Cancelled as they were both extremely short so I had them both combined.)
Four Years Ago
Hibana's POV
"Where are we going Legion?" I asked, my ears twitching from the light rain that Arceus provides our desert with.
"Out of town for a week or so, now hurry up." The older Jolteon commanded.
Legion was the only Pokémon in the world that'd look out and care for me so I had stuck by his side of the past seven years of my life, while extremely stern at times, he was able to be like a caring and gentle brother to me. "I managed to save up enough money to get two tickets for us to head south, toward Tucket, to visit my family so you could have a better place to stay for a little while.
"So are we heading to the train right now to head that way? Or does it depart some other time?" I question him.
He replied with a sigh, "We're leaving for the station right now but it doesn't come for another thirty minutes so we're gonna wait at the station for the train Hibana."
I squeaked in joy. "An actual house? For me to stay at? This has got to be the best day of my life, I don't even remember the last time I was actually able to sleep in a real bed and away from all the sound, dirt, and dust that the desert floor would collect over time. I wonder if he has any brothers, sisters, or cousins that are my age to play with. Legion has been my only friend as not many people want to befriend a homeless eevee it seems, but that's okay. Quality over quantity."
For the most part, the walk to the train station was silent but that's probably only due to me keeping every little ounce of excitement my small body contained to myself. I had also began biting my tongue constantly to prevent myself from becoming a chatter box and embarrassing Legion. Thoughts of my friend's family raced throughout my mind as I wondered about how everybody was gonna be and what type of Pokémon they all were, it was driving me insane. My small body was quivering as ignored it were about to burst any second.
The sound of the rails shaking from the incoming train echoed through the small roofed area as all the passengers look up to see their ride, including the ones that had newspapers with them. Once at a complete stop, the passenger train carts' doors opened along with one small door opening to let the conductor out, a Hitmontop wearing a weird grey and red striped hat. "Okay everybody, attention here," he began, shaking a bell to get everybody's attention, "We will be departing toward Cramer then Tucket. It'll be a few hours long of a ride and we shall be leaving in about an hour once the coal is restocked and I've eaten and bathed."
"Follow me Hibana, we'll find the best seats the money I saved can offer." Legion said, a half smile on his face. We strolled through the carts with available and non-reserved seating, looking for a pair of seats close to both a bathroom and the buffet that every cart had. "This'll do, we're close to both a bathroom if we need to go, and food and drinks if we get thirsty. Which knowing you, you'll get hungry within the next hour or so."
I giggled at the older jolteon's statement, "You know me too well Legion... I'm always starving! I really hope that your house is gonna have plenty of food because it's always a good time to eat, no matter what the time. Now they said we have about an hour until departure, right?"
"Yes, we have plenty of time Hibana. Now calm down please, I don't wan you to cause a scene." He told me as he looked me dead in the eyes.
Hours that felt like years passed as the train ride continued chugging along. "Are we there yet?" I groaned, shoving my face into Legion's side.
"Actually, I think we're amazing there," He replied, "I can see what seems to be houses or at least buildings." I pushed him slightly out of the way so I could look out the train windows where as my friend just stated, buildings off in the distance by a small sunset.
My tail's slow wagging picked up on pace as I saw what looked to be a train station getting closer and closer to our train. "Legion, how is your fanily? Are they fun? What type of eeveelutions are they? Can any of them help you train me in battle? Will they treat me and and love me as if I were family too since you take care of me?"
"Shhh, calm down. All your questions will be answered when we arrive," He said as he covered my mouth with one of his paws, "Just trust me, you'll be in good hands here. Just enjoy what will hopefully be the best week of your life. I'm not sure how long I'll be around but that's the point. You'll be meeting my family while I do some personal work, you know?"
"What are you working on?" I asked as I neared his face.
He backed up uncomfortably, "Personal stuff, business. I gotta get it done with so I can finally move on with my life. I'll finally be free of my worries and anxiety, y'know?"
"Yep! I understand, you wanna relieve yourself from the stress life is providing you." I squeaked.
"Oh, your little friend is just adorable! Where did you find a cutie like this? Is she gonna be your mate?" Legion's mother asked as she examined me from every angle.
Legion sighed at his mother's questions. "No mom, she's not gonna be my mate, she's an orphan who was living on the streets so I chose to take her into my care. If anything goes wrong here, I'm hoping to have her stay at our county jail so she has a home that I can visit from time to time when I'm in town."
"What do you mean you're leaving me to live in the jailhouse if your work goes wrong? Nothing is gonna go wrong, right? Right Legion?"
He shook his head, "I don't know. I got my self stuck in a sticky situation and this is my only way out of it. It's my only chance so I'm gonna take it. If I get out of this for free, I'll stick with you until you're 18."
"What about after I'm all grown up? Where will you be then?" I asked, hiding my face in my friend's fur.
"I'm not sure... Only time will tell but until then, I'll be doing my best to sticking with you. Anyways, I'll be seeing you guys soon. Please take good care of Hibana mom." Legion said, turning to walk away.
"Will do honey, you can count on me!" His mother exclaimed as he slowly walked away, a small tear could be seen dropping from his left cheek. "Welp, I guess it's time I take you home so you can meet the rest of my son's family. Besides, my Zebstrika friend said he was willing to pull my carriage for me so we could get back to the house and get you all set up in one of the rooms.
"Will I ever see him again?" I asked his mother.
She looked off into the crowd of people that her son walked away through and sighed. "Maybe one day sweetie... Only Arceus and maybe Dialga Celebi know what the rest of our lives are going to end up as."
Four years ago
Chains' POV
"Are you sure about this Aisha? This doesn't seem like it's the safest way to go, we'd better off just taking the the hatch from above them, even if we have to blow it open." I asked, looking around our gang consisting of me, Aisha, then a new Houndoom who calls himself Henry, and his Manectric friend who went by Dallas.
"Chains, I know what I'm doing, just follow my lead kiddo." Aisha said before picking up a large stick of dynamite between her teeth and dropped it in a small metal box that was only exposed on the bottom to breach through ceilings and floors. "Bombs away baby." She smirked as we had the new fire type recruit light the fuse. We all took a few steps back is a portion of the floor blew open and the metal half crate fell to the floorbelow. The two Hoenn Pokémon leaped down and awaited for us to put our charge holder in Henry's satchel. Aisha and I hopped down and quickly loaded up our gear before sneaking around inside of the meth lab.
"This set up is an extremely risky one for cooking, just look at how it's set up. Cracked tubing, opened cylinders and burners, I don't even think all these ingredients are pure. This muriatic acid looks like it was fused with some other acid or ingredient but I've seen meth labs plenty of times and tbe acid was never this color." The Houndoom said as he sniffed around the place.
"No kidding, I'm not even seeing any sort of type of project gear at all, which is limiting are options for what type of pioneering it is... That is of cause if it isn't a Psychic user becaus becusss that expands this damn list by a lot. But that's thankfully not of use to us, we're here to break the law, not fix it." The Manectric added.
"Exactly," Aisha stated, "Now you two stay here and take every little bit of meth they've got on them. If you want to risk it and try to make more, that's up to you. But for now, just bag what you can. Chains and I will go look for their coke operation, it's gotta be in here somewhere."
Aisha walked over to the only door in the room and peaked around the corners as I creeped towards her. She dashed out the door and turned right running down the hall as silent as she could. She stopped at each doorway so she could peek her head through to look for the coke operation. This little process continued until we reached the very final door, in which she forced her head back outside and the doorway and whispered "There's a Lombre in here making a batch that looks pretty much done, I'm gonna freeze and hide him so we can take everything they've made. Unzip my bag and I'll unzip your's.
I nodded and positioned my teeth in the small hook her zipper provided and slowly pulled it back to be as silent as possible, Aisha doing the same with my bag. The glaceon charged up an ice beam and poked her head into the doorway and shot the frozen beam towards the working Lombre, freezing his entire body on contact. "Just start collecting, we'll be able to get it all and get out of here before he's found and the bells stop ringing to alert the entire place." I said, dipping my head down to slide the bag's strap from off of my body so I could let the bad sit on the floor and sweep all the made product in. Oh the opposite side of the massive table they had everything layed out. I slipped the band of my bag back over my head and went towards Aisha so she could zip it up for me. Once the table was clear of all cocaine, she zipped up her own bag before putting it on then zipped mine up. "I shoulda thought of that..." I mumbled before walking towards the door and hid a little to the right so that any possible passerbies couldn't see me. Aisha on the other paw, just carelessly walked out to head back to our crew. I rolled my eyes and followed her lead just trusting her instincts.
"You guys get everything?" The Houndoom snarled as he left the meth room.
"Of course I did, don't you see the extremely full bag on me and Chains' backs? Now let's get out of here and get paid. A pretty little lady like me doesn't belong in a building like this." Aisha replied, walking past the two hounds.
As we walked, the Manectric started rambling about some new plan after some overchecks. "The train is running late and for how fast we completed this heist, we would have to wait anywhere between thirty minutes to an hour just to catch a ride. Since I planned ahead in case something like this happened, I hired a carriage to pick us up and take us to a safe house where we can drop these off and pick up are cash. Afterwards, we go our separate ways and never speak of this to anyone."
"And how do you know this?" I asked.
"Kid, I just fucking said the plan. We're going to follow through with this, you really think me and my buddy here joined you unprepared?" I just stayed silent and awaited orders from Aisha as she was the only one I trusted for this job.
Aisha shook her head disapprovingly, "Fine. We'll trust you. Chains, there's no other way."
I sighed in defeat and followed behind the rest of the group. "Intruders! Sound the bells!" Somebody screamed from behind us. Instead of turning our heads, we all sprinted down the halls. "Chains, I need to tell you something for If this all goes wrong!" She shouted over all the voices and ringing bells, "I've always thought of you as more than just a friend! I just never thought you were interested and never bother to tell you how I truly felt!" She started to get closer to me as we ran before getting me a small kiss on the cheek.
My body went numb from her contact, but I could feel every part of my body slowly changing. My legs and tail grew longer, my fur began to shrink, my body becoming more slim and my hearing picking up smaller sounds and detail around me. This whole process took about ten to twenty seconds but I didn't feel the same. When I looked down, my legs and feet were black instead of brown and my strides were longer than what my old little legs could provide.
"Aisha, what the hell happened!?" I shouted.
The glaceon just stared at me in awe for a few seconds before replying "You evolved into an Umbreon? You felt the same way I did all along and you didn't tell me? Look, we'll discuss this afterwards. Just run you freaking adorable Umbreon!"
As we were in the underground cavity, we sprinted throughout the halls and up a few flights of stairs which to much of our surprise, led to an already opened door. The stars that filled the night shined through the opening, guiding us to our escape. Even better in our case, the ride that Dallas had hired for us was waiting right outside for us. "Get in your for, your destination is still that motel in the second town down from Birgen, right?"
"Of course it is, now go!" Dallas shouted after we all piled in.
"So where is this place that we're going exactly?" Aisha questioned the Manectric.
"We're we'll drop off our drugs and get paid, that's all you need to know. I've known this guy long enough to know that he'll pay us better than whoever you two were planning on selling it to for. Only downside is that he doesn't accept no as an answer and doesn't accept bad attitudes either. So I'd watch out for doing either of those things or you may be running from his gang too."
"Whatever, as long he pays well then I'll obey his wretched rules. Suprised we didn't get killer in there which leaves us to die another day."
And that is it for this flashback chapter. I don't know if I'll write more flashback chapters about the character's past so I'll leave that up to you guys if you're reading this author's note.
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