The sky was so black, it shined some blue. The moon wasn't a perfect silver orb yet, and very few stars shone in the sky. They had selected a very quiet place outside the pokemon center, and were getting ready to battle. Umbreon stood behind Briana, it's yellow markings glowing slightly, and if they had not been glowing, she would have been invisible. Espeon stood on the other side of Briana, her violet eyes flashing in the dark.
Chelsea had climbed on top a boulder off to the side. She stood up, making her the tallest one there.
"This will be a one-on-one pokemon battle." Chelsea said raising her hands in the air. "First pokemon to faint loses!"
Briana messed with the pokeball in her hands.
"Just for you to know, my pokemon is a normal type!"
Lydia fingered the two pokeballs on her waist.
Swablu is the stronger one, but I need to evolve wurmple.
"I chose my pokemon!" Lydia shouted.
Chelsea grinned.
"Then let the battle begin!" She shouted throwing her hands down.
Briana smiled and threw the pokeball in the air speechlessly. The pokeball open and a red light flew to the ground.
The pokemon spun around twice and landed in a bow. It had long ears, but one was curled up at the moment. It's feet and the tips of the ears were covered in puffy vanilla fur, and rest of it's fur was a brown.
"Bun, Bun!" It shouted happily.
Chelsea withdrew her pokedex as Lydia unleashed her wurmple.
"Buneary, the rabbit pokemon.
It slams foes by sharply uncoiling its rolled ears. When it senses danger, it perks up its ears. On cold nights, it sleeps with its head tucked into its fur."
Chelsea shut off the pokedex, not needing to hear any more. She was going to watch the battle.
"You can attack first." Briana said.
"No, you may." Lydia said with a smirk.
"Fine."
"Buneary, bounce a few times, do a flip, then hit wurmple with a pound!"
And buneary did just that. Chelsea watched curiously, why didn't Briana just order it to pound, that simple.
"Beautiful, used string shot!"
Wurmple began to, but got hit by buneary's pound. Buneary landed gracefully in front of Lydia.
Lydia winced when wurmple was hit.
"Beautiful, poison sting!"
"Buneary, jump!"
Buneary jumped in the air, the poison sting went past the spot where she stood, and hit Lydia.
"Ah!" The poison sting hit her arm and they did sting a little.
Wurmple looked stressed that it had hit its trainer.
"Buneary, do that routine again! Jump, flip, hit!"
"Oh no, We're ready this time! Beautiful, shoot poison sting up!"
Wurmple hit while it was still over head. Buneary was damaged, but still came down strong with a pound. Wurmple shut one eye in pain, it was hit hard.
"No…" Lydia moaned, then she got an idea. "Quick, before buneary lands, cover the ground in string shot!" Wurmple got to work covering buneary's side of the field in the sticky stuff.
That was smart. Chelsea thought. It'll stop buneary from jumping around so much.
"Bun?" The rabbit pokemon said when it's feet met the goop.
"Now, use tackle!" Lydia shouted.
Wurmple charged, and hit buneary.
"Good, now hit it with another tackle!"
Again buneary was hit.
"Enough! Buneary let's end this! Use, foresight, then Bounce!"
"Bun! Bun!"
Using all the strength it could muster, buneary jumped into the air.
"Beautiful dodge it!"
"That won't work, not after foresight!" Briana smiled.
Buneary landed on wurmple, and when she jumped back. Wurmple had all ready fainted.
"Oh, Beautiful." Lydia cried, running to her and cuddling wurmple.
Briana returned buneary to its pokeball and walked over to Lydia.
"That was a good battle. But to be honest, you can't battle in a contest like that."
"Huh?"
"You can't battle with brute force. You have to add style." Briana explained. Luna came up to Lydia and rubbed her head against her cheek.
"Wow."
"What?" Briana asked.
"I didn't realize before, how sleek Umbre- I mean Luna's fur was."
"That's just cause I groom them." Briana giggled. She felt Sunset's smooth fur against her hand as she petted her. "I believe in natural beauty. I don't dress up my pokemon, they are beautiful enough on their own." She held out her hand. "Come on, let's get our pokemon to Nurse Joy, they need rest." Lydia took it and got up. Briana turned to Chelsea.
"You coming?"
Chelsea stretched out on the big boulder.
"No, I think I'll stay out here for a while."
"Fine." Briana bent down to Luna. "Watch her ok?" Luna nodded her head and walked over to the boulder and jumped into Chelsea's lap. Chelsea smiled and stroked its fur.
"Hey, Luna, you know your getting kinda big. Soon you won't fit in my lap any more."
Luna yawned and stood up. She jumped down from the boulder and walked to the middle of the field.
"That's a good idea!" Chelsea jumped down from the boulder and ran toward her. She sat down next Luna and stared at the moon.
"You know something Luna? I think vulpix and wurmple would like to see the moon too." Luna nodded in agreement, Chelsea unclipped the pokeballs and released them. Vulpix quickly jumped into her lap. Chelsea noted how much smaller vulpix was than umbreon. Wurmple crawled over to the vacant side of Chelsea. They all stared at the moon for awhile, until a flock of venomoth and dustox flew by. Chelsea smiled.
"Wouldn't it be great to fly?" Chelsea thought aloud as she leaned back on her hands. She heard the grass shift and saw wurmple making it's way toward the boulder. When it got to the top it stared at the flock of bug pokemon. They shined in the moon light, there body's reflecting the color purple down at them. Chelsea stood up, mildly annoying vulpix, and walked over to the big rock. Before she got there wurmple jumped off. Chelsea began to sprint, but it was Luna that caught wurmple.
Chelsea picked up her wurmple off Luna's back.
"What were you think wurmple?"
"Wurm, wurm!" Wurmple said wiggling it's front legs.
Chelsea looked up at the moon.
"You wanna fly?"
Wurmple nodded his head vigorously
Chelsea watched the bug pokemon fly away. She set wurmple down.
"Ok then! Let's train hard so you can evolve!" Chelsea said her hands in fist. "No matter what you evolve into you'll be able to fly!"
Wurmple began to glow.
"Wha?" Chelsea said.
"Vul?"
Umbreon watched the pokemon evolving closely.
"Wurmple?"
"Cascoon…"
Chelsea lifted up cascoon and jumped around.
"Hurray! Hurray! You evolved!" Chelsea stopped. "Huh?" Cascoon had fallen asleep. Chelsea smiled and returned him to its pokeball.
"Does evolving take up energy?" She asked umbreon.
Umbreon was already half way toward the pokemon center. She turned around and gave Chelsea a follow-me look. Chelsea obeyed, vulpix smirked as she watched her trainer take orders from a pokemon.
"Briana?" Lydia said as they left Chelsea on top of the rock.
"Yeah?"
"Before, I'm not sure if I heard you right, but you said 'Sometimes I wonder if Yulie gave them to me reluctantly.' What did you mean?"
Briana smiled.
"I've known Yulie for a long time. And one thing a lot of people don't know, is that she could be one of the best pokemon breeders if she set her mind to it."
"So, she gave you eevee's?"
Briana nodded her head.
"She didn't just give them to me, she bred them for me. She loves eevee's as pets, but she also train some of the strongest eevee's. She has each evolution of eevee, and each one loves her. But she kept one eevee, her first eevee, an eevee. And that eevee, you don't wanna mess with."
"Why not?"
"Not only is it a sweetie pie, but it has a deadly combination. Brains, Beauty, and Bronze."
"What."
"It's one of the best pokemon she has ever raised. And it's the mother of Luna and Sunset. See how her coat shines?" Briana said pointing to Sunset. Lydia nodded.
"That's what they inherited from there mother. Their coats are nothing compared to hers."
"Do you think she'll breed one for me?" Lydia asked. Briana laughed.
"Maybe, if you ask nicely. What do you want an eevee for, what would you evolve it into?"
"I don't know…"
"Well, when you ask her, be sure you do know. That's what she goes off when she breeds them."
"Why?"
"Well, that's what she told me. I think it so she knows who to breed with. See, Sunset and Luna have the same mother but different fathers. Yulie said it was so that they showed special colorings, and personalities."
During they're conversation they had arrived at the counter.
"Nurse Joy, could we get a room with three beds."
"Yes you can." Nurse joy replied cheerfully.
"Oh and when a girl and an umbreon walk in, can you tell them which room, please?"
"Of course!"
"What do you mean special colorings?"
"Well, for example, did you see how Luna's rings glow out there?"
"Yeah."
"Most umbreons do that when they attack or there is a full moon. But Luna's glow it a lot stronger than most, and no matter what, she glows naturally. And her eyes, you wont find a lot of umbreons with piercing red eyes like hers."
"But almost all umbreons have red eyes."
Briana frowned for a second, then smirked.
"You and Chelsea both have wurmple, right?"
"Yeah."
"And if I was to take them from you, then switch them would you be able to tell them apart."
"Yeah."
"How?"
"Well, cause mine has brighter spikes than Chelsea's."
"See? But they both have the same coloring. As a pokemon coordinator, you not only compare your pokemon, but you have to compare others. Sometimes you discover that a pokemon's coat can achieve a certain gleam, or that you can fine pokemon of different colors."
"But what about accessories? You can tell pokemon apart by what you put on them."
Briana stopped and looked at Lydia. Lydia realized they had been climbing stairs and Briana hung a few steps in front of her.
"Accessories are for people who have given up on their pokemon. People who think that they are not beautiful on their own and want to enhance their beauty." Briana began climbing the steps. "But in fact, are dressing them up as clowns." The trip to the room was silent, and only was interrupted when Chelsea burst in the room with a smile plastered on her face.
Chelsea thanked Nurse Joy for telling her what room she was staying in and raced vulpix and Luna upstairs. She opened the door to the room and found silence. She didn't like how quiet it was, and decided to leave her news until morning. She switched into her night gown, a soft purple, with different shades of purple flowers on it. Before she went to be Briana spoke to her.
"Chelsea I'm leaving you in the morning, alright?"
"That's fine."
"Ok, goodnight."
"Night!" Chelsea said snuggling with her vulpix.
Briana silently recalled Luna and Sunset into their pokeballs and she too fell asleep.
