A/N: I'm back! :D. I hope that you will enjoy this chapter, because I certainly had a good time writing it. I'm probably much worse than how I feel about my writing, but I suppose if I was that bad, then I would have finished by now, and people are still viewing the story, not sure if they're liking it though, but I think 'why stop there?' anyway, I do not own Pokemon, but I do own the characters in the story.

Chapter 7

Chima's POV

Even during my dreams I was in considerable pain, I could almost hear myself yipping in pain outside of my dreams. I don't remember my dreams much, they're not anything special. Except the fact that I am now dreaming from the point of view of my Eevee form rather than my human form, and all I can seem to dream about is playing around with all the other Eevee in the clan. However, when I said "I don't remember my dreams much", I do remember one dream. When it all happened it looked so real.

I had woken up in my new home, but when I woke up Kudzu wasn't there. I thought that she had gone to get us some berries, so I went outside to look for her. When I didn't find her at any of her 'berry spots' I then rushed towards the guild to see if she was there, but when I got there; it was empty. I started to panic, so I rushed out and into the open valley, and was shocked at what I saw. Only metres away from me was another Eevee, but this one looked strange, its fur was not brown like mine, it was a jet black colour with a mane to match. However, there were tufts of its fur missing. It had evil red eyes that were staring at me with an intense gaze that froze me right on the spot. The Eevee snarled and bared its fangs at me, and then it charged towards me, but I woke up before it got to me. I was panting furiously, trying to catch some more air to cool me down. Kudzu was still holding on to me tightly, so I didn't try to struggle out of her grip. Instead I decided to go back to sleep, praying to Arceus that I wouldn't have that dream again.

I had managed to get enough sleep so that I woke up when it was morning again. Unfortunately, my jaw was still under immense pain, and I could barely move it without hurting myself. I released a high pitch yelp, which woke me up fully. I noticed that Kudzu was already awake, and had already gone to get some berries. I saw her approach the entrance of our home with the egg shell in her mouth, she steadily edged her way towards me so she didn't spill the contents of what was in the shell 'how come I don't have any berries?' I wondered, but when I looked into the egg shell I saw some concoction of berries that looked like they had been mashed up "What is this mummy?" I asked whilst looking at the 'mess' with intrigue covering my mind.

"That is what you will be eating until you're no longer in pain. It won't taste great, but you need to eat or else you will starve" she answered with a concerned look in her eyes. I nodded and accepted what Kudzu said, but despite the pain, I had a growing urge to run outside and play around. I looked at Kudzu sorrowfully as if I had lost something. "What is it Chima? Wait, let me guess. Do you want to go outside and play?" She read my mind, and all I could do was give a weak smile, nod vigorously and wag my tail. I didn't dare try to yip with happiness. Firstly, I was in too much pain and Secondly, because she hadn't said yes. However, she hadn't said no, so I childishly raised my hopes to the point where I thought I would be outside within seconds. I got so excited that I started running towards the exit, but before I could reach it Kudzu quickly blocked my path. I looked up at her, hurt. "I told you yesterday. It wouldn't be good for you. I know how much you want to play, but you're just going to ha-" Kudzu was interrupted by someone behind her on the outside of the exit (also the entrance).

"Kudzu, you know you can't stop him forever. After all, it's in an Eevee's nature to be playful, he just wants to be playing with the other Eevee" said a familiar voice. I knew who it was, it was… it was the… the Glaceon talking to Kudzu.

"Ah, finally you're here. Remember what I told you? Don't forget to groom him, he's a bit of a messy kit, so maybe twice while I'm gone, so when I come back, I expect him to be clean. Also, he is teething at the moment, so if he starts crying, screaming or anything like that, then you have to calm him down. Just pull him close to you and tell him everything will be fine. Oh and do not take him o-" Kudzu was once again interrupted by the Glaceon.

"Outside, yes I know. You told me this at the meeting, and last night. It will be fun; I haven't introduced myself yet, so this will be good. I can actually welcome him to the clan. Don't worry, I'll take good care of him" the Glaceon finished.

"Do you know even his name?" Kudzu quickly asked

"Chima" the Glaceon replied at the same speed.

"Okay, I'll be back before the sun sets, so I'll see you two then. Good bye" she said as she smiled at me and then thanked the Glaceon one more time, then she was gone, and I was left with the Glaceon standing in front of me. I wanted to run after Kudzu, but I had no doubt that the Glaceon would be able to catch me again, so I just stayed where I was.

"So, uh, are you okay then buddy?" the Glaceon awkwardly asked me, but I was still too shy to reply to this, so I looked down at the floor and then buried my face in between my forepaws. "Well, just tell me when you need something okay bud-" he was interrupted by my yelping. I didn't know how much longer I could live with the pain of teething. I dragged myself back to bed, but I didn't fall asleep; instead I lay there trying to outlast the waves of pain that were overcoming me. I whimpered every time the pain was receding because I knew that another powerful surge of pain would soon make itself present.

"I want mummy back!" I shouted as I writhed in pain. The Glaceon now began to slowly approach, but because of my 'battle' with teething I didn't notice that he was getting closer. However, the pain I was feeling was temporarily replaced by shock, as I felt the Glaceon's cold body next to my limp form.

"I know you want Kudzu back, but she has to do her job today, so I'm going to be here to look after you for now. My name is Taphyn, and as you can see I am a Glaceon. However, I'm not sure that you would know that yet, being just under a month old eh? I don't even know if you know what evolving is; do you?" Taphyn tilted his head slightly in curiosity of what I was going to say.

"I do know a-ab-bout e-ev-evo-" I was struggling to say it. I could easily think of the word's spelling, but for some reason I couldn't say it 'is this because of my age?' I pondered on the thought only to realise that Taphyn was already trying to explain evolution means.

"So, basically it all comes down to what you want to adapt to the most. Okay?" he smiled as he finished his lecture about evolution, and I nodded in response to his question even though I didn't actually hear most of what he said. I could tell that he was nervous and didn't know what to do, so he tried to do what he knew best. However, just as I was starting to listen to his conversation with me I yelped again, this time even louder, the pain had become much stronger. It felt like my teeth were going to be ripped out; it certainly didn't feel like they were growing.

"Q-quick I-I n-need some waaat-ter. Please" I begged as the pain was increasing by the second. Taphyn quickly returned with the egg shell full of water, but before I could drink any of it, Taphyn put his head down to it, blocking my way. I released several high pitched cries to tell him to let me drink. I was in so much pain that I was crying again, but I felt like I had to be brave in front of Taphyn, so I wasn't loudly crying, I was letting my cries run silently.

"I know you're in pain kid, but trust me, I'm helping you." He raised his voice to quieten me down. I watched as he exhaled slowly onto the water, which rippled when the force of Taphyn's breath made contact with the water. Then he stepped back, smiled at me lightly and said "There I used a weak form of icy breath, and have made the water colder. It is going to taste a lot better now, trust me" I feebly smiled and started drinking the now ice cold liquid, and then I realised why Taphyn had actually done this. The super cold water was going to numb the pain much more than normal water. However, because this made my mouth and jaw numb, I knew I wouldn't be able to talk properly, so to thank Taphyn I walked up to him and smiled as best I could without showing any dying pain.

"That's okay little guy. I knew that would do the trick. You should be fine for a while now, but remember to tell me if your mouth starts hurting again." He smiled at me sympathetically. "So, what do you want to do?" he asked, and immediately my thoughts went straight to what I had been told not to do. I wanted to go outside and play. I wanted to be running around with the other Eevee having fun, not being stuck in here like a baby, 'but I am a baby, aren't I?' my ears went flat and were pressing against my head 'being a baby sucks, I want to have fun and run about, but because I'm a baby Kudzu won't let me play just because my teeth are growing. It's not like I'll be in any danger'. "What's wrong Chima?" Taphyn asked, clearly worried if I was still hurting.

"I w-wan-t t-to p-pla-ay outside, b-but mummy won't let me." I complained through waves of tears. I had lost all hope in going outside, so I don't even recall why I was saying that, because I knew it was hopeless.

"Well I'm sorry Chima, but your mu- I mean Kudzu said that you were not to leave the house. Anyway, I've noticed that what Kudzu has said about your fur's state once you've been awake for even a short time is true. Your fur is a mess, there are tufts sticking out everywhere, your tail seems to have knots in its fur, not to mention the mud and leaves in there. And your mane, it has lost its shine. You need to stop rolling on the floor, otherwise you won't stay clean for two seconds" He laughed at my poor state, but I couldn't work out how to clean myself, so I just assumed that it was fine to look the way I did. "Here, I'll help clean you up; you'll look like a new Eevee. Kudzu will barely be able to recognise you" he chuckled to himself 'I don't want to be a new Eevee AGAIN' I sarcastically thought to myself. When Taphyn had cleaned my mane and the whole of my body, he got to work on the knots of hair on my tail. "This may sting a little bit, but it won't be very painful" he warned. I was caught off guard when he managed to rip out one of the knots. Once he had removed all knots, he then groomed my tail to make it sleek, yet soft to the touch.

"C-can I ha-ave s-some more w-water please?" I asked trying to sound as polite as possible.

"Of course you can, I'll be right back" he cheerfully replied, and within seconds, Taphyn returned and did the same cooling trick with the water, so that it would numb the pain. I felt the urge to ask again before I took any sips of water.

"Can w-we g-o outs-si-side and play?" I asked whilst trying to put on my best attempt of a cute face. I was hopeful, but still doubtful.

Taphyn's POV

I was a little bit surprised by that question reappearing, but I suppose his young age just meant that the 'play games all day' trait was wired into him, like most other Eevee, he just wants to have fun. "I don't know Chima, Kudzu said that you shouldn't go outside, because you may be in too much pain and then you would have to suffer whilst I got you back home, and then if Kudzu found out then she would not be happy with you, but she would be furious with me, and I do not want that happening. I'm still trying to get over the time she went ballistic at Devin because he got angry with Demyx and nearly destroyed his and Amara's home." I started speaking quicker because I knew that when Kudzu got angry, no one would have the nerve to mess with her 'maybe im actually helping Chima, so that he knows not to get on Kudzu's bad side. Although I think it will be more difficult for him because he is now Kudzu's son, and she'll find it harder to get angry at him. Still I think I'm helping anyway' I thought to myself, showing a small smile at my thoughts.

"Pleeaassee. I promise I won't cry. Pleeaaassee Taphyn" Chima whined on, and when I turned to face him he put on his 'sad, but cute' face. His ears were flat against the back of his head; eyes were looking larger than normal, and he was pouting a sad face. How could I say no to that?

"Fine, I will take you outside, but not for long, and you're not allowed to tell Kudzu" I told him. Chima started furiously swishing his tail from left to right with a grin that stretched from ear to ear, although you could still see that his teeth were far from done growing. Chima rushed outside and then stopped to wait for me "Where do you want to go Chima?" I slowly asked

"I wanna go see all the others" he cheerfully replied. I guess by 'others' that he meant the other Eevee, so we both walked to an open field, where you could see plenty of Eevee playing games; chasing each other or just talking.

"Right, we're here, go on, have fun" I chirped at Chima, but when I looked down, he was still there, and pressed up against my foreleg. "Chima?" I asked confusedly "Why aren't you going?" I asked. I could see that Chima was shivering, but it wasn't from the cold "are you nervous?" I asked. Chima just nodded his head.

"Okay, that's fine, I can help you" I reassured him, then I noticed a female Umbreon and a female Vaporeon sitting down and discussing various 'girly' things, but they were also watching over their children playing, making sure that no one got hurt. At that moment, an idea came to my mind. "Excuse me ladies" the two turned there heads and blushed at what I said "Do you two mind Chima and I sitting here?" I asked, the girls looked down at Chima, who stayed close to me, but still looked scared. "What are your names?" I asked them flirtatiously, although I wasn't actually interested in them personally.

"My name is Vesper, and this is Marina." The Umbreon replied, she then looked down at Chima, who backed away a little bit. "Is this your kit Taphyn? Oh, no I remember that's the one that Kudzu found and was at the meeting isn't it." I nodded, confirming her thoughts. "Well that's fine for you two to stay with us, although wouldn't Chima like to play with the others?" I looked down at Chima and saw that he was nodding vigorously. "I'll get them to come over then" Vesper said. "Cora, come over here, we have someone to meet you" she shouted to one of the Eevee, and it came rushing over.

"You too Ivy, come here" Marina shouted to her Kit, and she also came running at full speed to her mother.

"What do you want to say mum?" said Cora, who still hadn't even noticed Chima at this point.

"Please tell us!" both of the kits shouted with a whiney tone.

"Okay. Okay. Kids, as you can see, Taphyn is here and-"

"Oh hey mister Taphyn" Cora smiled, and I smiled back and nodded.

"As I was saying; Taphyn is here, but he's not alone" The two then looked beside me and saw Chima, sitting next to me, and they stared at him for a while until

"Oooh, a new friend come on, you're coming with us, we need more to play tag with us, so far we have….. me, Cora, and those four over there, I'll tell you their names later. Let's go!" Ivy barked excitedly, and very soon Chima was following her to the group of Eevee that were further out in the field. Whilst they were walking to the group, Ivy was clearly bombarding Chima with all her talking, because I could just about see that Chima was trying to listen, but couldn't always work out what she was saying because she spoke so fast.

"So, why hasn't Kudzu taken him here?" Marina asked

"She has her duty to carry out today, since she was missing for a day more than expected, so I volunteered to help her out, and that is why I'm 'babysitting' Chima. However, you cannot tell Kudzu about Chima" I quickly finished the sentence

"Why?" Vesper asked with a suspicious look on her face.

"I'm not supposed to take Chima outside, because he's teething and Kudzu thinks that it would be better if he wasn't in pain, but the little guy was so desperate to go outside that I couldn't say no." I explained

"WHAT!? How could you do that? You are being very stupid, Kudzu is that kit's mother now, and you've just broken the mother's trust. If she finds out don't expect me to-" Marina was cut out by Vesper

"Look, what you did was wrong, but I can understand. You have my word that Kudzu will here none of this, and I'm sure Marina will calm down. Don't do this again though. Although Marina may have been extreme in her reaction, you do not want to break the trust of the mother. Kudzu is strong willed anyway, but with the incentive to protect Chima, she would be able to take on legends." I gulped at Vesper's calmer and more accurate consequences of my decision.

"I'll take that into mind, thank you" I forced a chuckle to hide my fear. After our conversation, we all turned out attention to what all the kids were doing.

Chima's POV

I was so excited, we were going to play a game of tag, but I was more excited about the fact that I was making new friends. I could see Taphyn talking to the Umbreon and Vaporeon in the distance. "Chima, this is everyone. You've already met Cora. That is Sae" Ivy pointed to the largest of the group "He's called Nik" she pointed to another Eevee, he was not as big as Sae, but was still bigger than me. "And those two there are Jade and Dylan. They're twins" Ivy explained. All of the girls smiled at me "What's your name?" Ivy asked

"I'm Chima" I quickly replied. I felt nervous, but excited at the same time,

"The way you tag someone is by either headbutting them lightly or nipping at their tail, and since you're new, you will be 'tag' first GO!" Ivy said as they all rushed off in different directions, I decided to chase Sae, because I could see that despite his size advantage, he was the slowest. I felt my heart race as I was very soon catching him, when I go within range he turned, so I lunged for him and head butted his tail, so he immediately changed his direction as he charged for Cora who had witnessed me catch Sae with relative ease.

"You can't get me" she shouted to Sae, who obviously couldn't keep up with Cora's speed. However, what I didn't notice was that Sae had re-directed his attention to me, and was charging at me. I noticed at the last second and quickly dodged Sae and ran as fast as I could, quickly outrunning him. In all the excitement and looked back to see that he was giving up his pursuit of me, but then 'WHACK!' I fell to the ground feeling slightly queasy, but I quickly regained my composure enough to see that I had accidentally run into Ivy. Ivy shrugged off the hit, smiled at me and then ran away again, just in case anyone was after us again. I turned round to see that Cora had been tagged by Sae because she let him. Cora caught my gaze and returned with a sly smile, and then she started to sprint towards me, maintaining that mischievous smile of hers. I darted away, and to my surprise I was even getting away from Cora. "Get…..Back….Here" she yelled in between pants, it was becoming obvious that this chase was tiring her, and she was surprised that there was someone who could outrun her. I looked back to see that Cora was still trying, so I decided to put on another burst of speed, and very soon Cora was getting smaller and smaller. Finally I could stop to rest. I watched as Cora quickly tagged Jade, and then fell down out of pure exhaustion from chasing me. Because I was pumped full of adrenaline, my already heightened senses must have heightened further, because even when they were far away, I could here them almost as if I was right in front of them.

"Hey Cora, what's it like not being the fastest anymore" Dylan teased

"Be quiet you. He just got lucky and I wasn't expecting it" Cora grudgingly said that last sentence "He is quick though, it's no wonder you haven't been able to keep up with him" Cora teased back at Dylan.

"TAG!" Jade shouted, as she tagged Ivy. Ivy decided to stop my recovery from Cora's chase and started to chase me, and although she was still far away, I decided to run immediately because I was having so much fun.

We played tag for a while until "STOP!" Cora shouted "I HAVE A NEW GAME!" all of us came running towards Cora to see what the new game was.

"Is it tag?" Jade asked. Everyone looked at her "What? I was joking guys" she giggled

Sae asked "Is it play fighting?"

"No, I said NEW game" Cora said becoming slightly agitated

"Well, don't make us ask anymore questions, just tell us already" billowed Ivy

"I thought we could have races from here to that tree and back" Cora explained

"That sounds great"

"I love races!"

"Where do you get these great ideas from?"

"ahh, I am totally gonna beat you Jade"

"No you're not"

All of them were shouting in unison. I guessed that Cora wanted to race me, but instead "I'm racing the new kid first" demanded Nik who looked at me with a friendly stare, I accepted. I looked to the tree that we were running to; it couldn't have been more than three hundred metres away, so I knew that this wouldn't last long. However, I never actually saw Nik run in tag, he was more of the tactical player, he never got tagged because he was either hiding or when there was a chase, he would run to someone else who was slower and force the chaser to chase the other one; very clever.

"Are you sure Nik?" Cora asked, hoping that Nik would let Cora race me, but he shook his head.

"Cora, I've gotten a lot faster than when you and I raced that last time." He reassured her

"Okay, but don't expect this to be easy, Chima seems to be very quick, I couldn't catch him in tag." Cora warned

"It'll be fine" he smiled back at Cora, who was now a little upset that she wasn't racing me.

"Hey, I'll see who wins, I'm not that fast, and so I know I would lose. And I say that we have two races with three in each race" Sae demanded "Cora, you can go in the race with Nik and the new kid, and then Jade, Dylan and Ivy you can go in the next race" I was surprised how organised Sae could be when he was in control of everything. However, I didn't like the nickname that I was getting of 'new kid', and the only ones who didn't call me that were Cora and Ivy. "Get ready" I was caught off guard by Sae about to set us off "get set" then there was a long pause "GO!" all three of us sprang into running straight away. Cora and I edged ahead of Nik, and Cora was starting to get a lead over me. All I could hear were heavy breaths from all three of us as we approached the tree. Cora ran around the tree first, closely followed by me, and then about ten metres behind me was Nik. In the last one hundred metres it looked like Cora was going to win, but then I focused all my energy into my legs and didn't think of anything other than being fast, and very soon I surged past Cora who almost yelped in shock, she strained to make herself go faster, but there was nothing she could do as I overtook her and got past her by about five metres by the time I reached the finish line. Nik finished at least thirty metres behind me; all three of us were exhausted, but we had fun, and all smiled at each other. Cora staggered over to me.

"Well done Chima, I didn't know that you were so fast"

"Thank you Cor-aaagh" I screamed as the excrutiating pain of teething returned with brute force. Luckily Taphyn was already on his way

"Come on Chima, word is that Kudzu is going to finish early, we've got to get back before she does or else she will not be happy with you or me." And with that he quickly picked me up, and dashed towards kudzu's home. He stopped and quickly scanned the area to see if Kudzu was back yet, when he found that she wasn't back yet he quickly placed me onto her bed. "Okay, remember, you've been in here all day, and if she asks about the smell of other kits, just say that we had visitors. Oh I'll quickly fetch you some of the cold water to numb the pain". Taphyn left to get the water and returned very soon after.

Kudzu arrived later on in the day, and didn't suspect a thing, and as Taphyn was leaving he gave me a smile and winked at me and then he walked away. "How was it being with Taphyn and the others today?" she asked, obviously Taphyn had told her that we had 'visitors'. I shrugged, and then started to yawn, I was tired after today, and all the pain and excitement of the day had worn me out.

A/N: Hope you liked it. I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. I don't know when I'll next update, but it shouldn't be too long, so, just be patient until I've got the next chapter up