Ok sorry this chapter took so long. I had it all thought out, but decided to scrap most of it in the end for something a little more lengthy. If I keep up with chapter lengths like this one (or longer) It will take me at least two weeks between updates, but if I do about 1000 words per chapter I can get them out about every week or sooner. So tell me which one y'all like better.

Anyways on to the story!

(word count before A/N- 2960)


I'm not too sure if I like these "sister" things. So far all Derli has done is eat and sleep. Mama says that's normal for a newborn hatchling, and that Char-iuk and I did it too when we were hatched. She says that one day she'll grow up to be bigger than I will be, and probably stronger than Char-iuk.

Doesn't help the fact that she's a bore right now.

"Can she play now?"

"No."

"Can she play now?"

"No."

"How about now?"

"No."

… "Is she grown up enough now?"

Mama opened an eye to glare at me. She was laying down on her nest rock, her tail wrapped around the tiny Charmander female.

"Is she awake and play-fighting?"

I glanced at Derli, poking her with a paw a few times in the side, just to make sure. "Nope. She's sleeping harder than a Snorlax hit with Sleep powder."

Mama sighed. "Then do you think that she's more grown than she was the last time you asked?"

"Probably not, but you never know. You do say that we grow up fast."

Mama sighed again. "Sometimes not fast enough." She grumbled under her breath. "Why don't you and your brother go outside and practice battle moves. Your Aura Sphere was looking a bit weak yesterday." She said raising her voice to a level where I didn't have to strain to hear.

"Yes Ma'am!" I whisper-shouted, giving a small salute. I quickly bounded over to where Char-iuk was sleeping, promptly tripped over my nest on the way, causing myself to go in a front roll, and slammed Char-iuk and myself into the far den wall. Char-iuk and I got out of the tangled mess that we currently were, grins plastered on our faces.

"Cha-ko learned Body Slam, Mama!" Char-iuk shouted, as the two of us collapsed into a fit of giggles. We stopped as we heard someone shouting from the front of the den.

"Flame! You need to come look at Longtail!" We heard Sparks say as he dashed into the den. He jumped right over Char-iuk and I, and headed straight to Mama, who was already standing up, with Derli in her claws. "You're the only one that might know what's wrong with him."

"What do you mean, Sparks?" I asked, coming up from behind the Pikachu. I got a little annoyed as my mother's battlemate ignored me.

"What's wrong Spark?" Mama repeated my question.

"Longtail's eyes. He opened them last night and they seemed to be glossed over." He said, hurriedly. "We just thought he was tired or something, but he hasn't even looked at the two of us yet."

Mama nodded as they rushed past us and out of the den. Char-iuk sighed as we faintly heard the "Be back." That Mama had told us.

"So…" I started looking at the semi-depressed Char-iuk. "Battle training? Or exploring the forest?" I suggested the two most popular choices between the two of us.

Char-iuk grinned. "How about we go see what's beyond the forest?"

I could only stand and blink at the suggestion. "But, we can't!" I protested. "Papa and Drano are gone and with Mama helping Sparks and Toothy, what if we get in major trouble? It's not like our attacks actually do more than scare some weak Mons."

"But haven't you wanted to see what was beyond the trees?" Char-iuk grinned. I reluctantly looked between the forest, that we know like the back of our paws, to the direction where the field was, the place that is used for scary stories about Pokèmon who leave their hatchlings when they are bad. Char-iuk sighed and started to walk over to the field, his choice as obvious as the sky. I bit my lip as I continued to look between the two, Char-iuk already almost out of sight. I looked back at our den for what I thought might be the last time.

"Char-iuk! Wait up!" I hissed, running after him and easily catching up to him. He turned and gave a toothy grin.

"Glad to know someone else isn't a coward." He laughed before running off. I huffed as I followed him, this time staying right behind him. Between the two of us, I was the one Arceus built for stealthier attacks, so it was easier for me to stay hidden.

We easily ran through the forest, dodging trees and the other Mons that inhabited them. Soon we came to the forest line, were our home stopped and the strangeness began.

"What is this thing?" I blurted out, as we both were standing in surprise at the wood wall that stood to almost a tail above us. Well it would be a wall, if it weren't for the fact that there were holes in between the trunks large enough for just about any Mon to fit through.

"Looks like a half-attempted way to keep hatchlings out." Char-iuk guessed. He then looked at the field beyond the 'wall', and gulped. "Or whatever is out there in."

I gulped as well and then started to climb over the wall trunks. "Well we aren't going to find out by standing here." I said. Char-iuk nodded and started climbing under some of the trunks, since he was a good paw smaller than I was. The climb in was easy and the field was deserted, so we kept walking across the field, farther into the strange territory. We kept looking around us, expecting anything to come out at us and attack. But strangely, the field kept silent. We were even able to walk all the way across the field and over to a small freestanding cave, which was the only structure that we had seen so far. We walked over to it and I tapped my claws against its surface, surprised when I didn't hit stone or wood.

"What is that den made of?" I hissed silently, taking my paw away from the den's cold wall surface. Char-iuk walked over to the surface and touched it as well, scrunching his face in confusion as his claws hit the strange surface.

"This place is so strange." He said looking up at the den's roof, which seemed to be made of the same stuff and was slanted so where it looked like it could fall onto us at the slightest movement. "Do you think that Mons live in these?"

"No a c-" I tried to answer before I was interrupted by a small gasp that I knew wasn't Char-iuk's. We both spun around and came face to face with the human hatchling that I saw in the forest the other brightfire. I blinked and the hatchling followed my movement, his eyes never leaving Char-iuk nor myself. "You're that hatchling from the other sun." I said, mostly telling Char-iuk than talking to the hatchling itself.

"You ran into that?" Char-iuk said looking at me in confusion.

"Is that all you can say?" The hatchling started squeaking in his own tongue. "I mean those squeaking and grunting noises. Is that how you talk?" He squeaked again, I guessed after seeing his confused face. Char-iuk and I blinked again, not having a clue what he was saying. The human seemed to finally understand that we didn't understand him because he took off a sack that was attached to his back, and took out some berries from it. "I bet even the Charmander could understand this. Food." He said the last word while pointing to the berries.

I pointed to the berries and then back to me, to which he nodded. I blinked back, still confused on what the hatchling was trying to do, but Char-iuk seemed to get a better understanding. He pointed at the berries, "Berries." He said smiling, before he turned to me. "Cha-ko, I think he's trying to teach us his language." I smiled and nodded.

"Berries?" I said pointing to the berries.

The hatchling tried again. "Food. F-oo-d." He sounded out. I blinked and tried to make sense of the sounds before trying again.

"Fo-ries" I said trying to grasp the strange sounds before accidentally going back to my own. That seemed to be closer as the hatchling started nodding really fast, before sounding out the berries in his own tongue again.

"Food. Ff-oo-d"

"F-ooood" I tried again, happy that I got closer to the sound.

"Fuud" Char-iuk said in a try of his own. That got the hatchling happy, he then pointed to himself.

"Gary." He said pointing to his chest.

"F-ra-ry" I tried, to which he shook his head.

"G-aair." Char-iuk tried scrunching his nose trying to grasp the syllables. The hatchling sighed, before his face lit up in an idea. He put the berries back in the sack and started rummaging around in it. He came up a few tail swipes later with a small rock between his paws. He, oddly enough, opened the small rock to reveal the pictures that were inside of it. He then showed us a picture that we both could understand.

"Charmander. Chameleon. Charizard." He said pointing to the pictures of our evolutionary family. He then went one at a time. "Charmander. Char-man-der"

"Charmerdar." I squeaked out pointing at the picture.

Char-iuk looked happy at the picture. "Charmander." He said easily.

The hatchling nodded, then pointed to the next picture. "Chameleon. Char-me-le-on." He said slowly, at this point we were all sitting on the ground surrounding the strange rock.

"Charmeon." Char-iuk tried, this time not as confident in his try.

"Charmelon." I tried. The hatchling shook his head and tried again.

"Char-me-le-on." He said pointing to the little scratch marks under the picture that I didn't notice before.

I winkled my face as I tried again. "Charmellon." I tried.

"Charmelon." Char-iuk tried again. The hatchling sighed as he moved on to the next one.

"Save that one for later." He mumbled, before pointing to a very familiar picture. "Charizard. Char-i-zard." He tried, obviously not expecting much success from this.

"Charizard." Char-iuk and I almost yelped out, much to the hatchling's surprise. Char-iuk then pointed to the picture of the Charmander in the rock and then to himself. "Char-uk." He then pointed to me. "Char-Ko."

Then I smiled and pointed back at the book. "Char-man-der." I told him. "Charmander." The hatchling blinked and then pointed to himself in confusion. I nodded and repeated myself. "Charman-der."

The human then sighed and attempted to remake the words. "Karman-dar?" He questioned, only to open his eyes at us grinning. I could already tell that this was a beautiful friendship brewing.


For the next moon cycle, Char-iuk and I snuck out of the forest, after Mama had been pre-occupied between Derli and helping Spark and Toothy teach their blind son, Longtail. We meet up at the same den that we had meet Gary, the human, at, and learned the other's language every sun. He had taught us a lot about the ways of the humans, like the stuff the den we met at was made out of something called metal. (Well he tried another word, but he couldn't say it so he went with metal) I even tried to teach Gary some attacks, but he wasn't as good as it as I was. That and he kept getting scared at Char-iuk's Ember attacks. It was something that we always joked about. For a while we thought that nothing would change. Sure, Mama might find out, but she wouldn't stop us from coming now that we have learned so much. But I don't think even Gary thought about the older humans, since he mentioned that he no longer had a Mama and Papa. Soon enough we were forced to remember them.


"Building." Gary pointed to the den next to us. "It's Gramp's shed." He said trying to stop us from calling it a den.

"It hides yu?" Char-iuk asked. Gary nodded.

"Then Den." I stated crossing my arms across my chest.

Gary sighed, as he tried to make heads and tails of my 'squeaks' as he called them. It was a deal that we had. He was teaching us human-talk, and we would teach him pokèspeak. "N-no." He tried. "Den is h-om." He frowned while trying to think of a word to describe it in our language, then sighed and went back to his own. "A shed is where you store things. Like where you hid-" Gary's eyes went wide as he heard a shout in the direction that he came from. "Hide, now." He said quickly, as he stuffed his stuff back in his pack. We nodded and hid on the other side of the den, not wanting to know what scared Gary so much.

"Gramps? Uncle Richard? What are you doing out here?" Gary asked. I guess they had found out that Gary leaves too. But I was too afraid to turn around to look, and by looking at Char-iuk, he was thinking the same thing. His tail-light was dimming in fear.

"We were looking for you. Where have you been Gary?" I recognized the voice as the old human that was with Flint and earlier with Mama and Papa's human.

"I've been playing. You always just seem so busy, that I thought you wouldn't want me in your way." Gary told him. "So I came out here. It not like you let any real dangerous Pokèmon out anyways."

"That doesn't give you a reason to go and run off." The old human told him sternly scolded him. I resisted the urge to go out and help Gary. It wasn't solely his fault for coming out here, after all Char-iuk and I came out here daily too. Char-iuk's head popped up from the position we were hiding in as he heard a faint crunching sound. "Richard, what?" The old human stopped in midsentence.

"Uncle Richard, Don't go back there!" Gary cried out. I barely had time to blink and turn towards the crunch, finally figuring out what-scratch that- WHO made the noise, as both Char-iuk and I were grabbed by our paws.

"Samuel, you have company and probably want to check that old fence by the forest again." The other human, whom I recognized as Mama and Papa's human, said, as he pulled both of us closer to his chest to prevent us from running.

"Uncle Richard, you don't understand." Gary said with wide eyes. He ran up to us as Richard held us off the ground and expertly kept Char-iuk's tail from burning him. "Cha-ko and Char-iuk are my friends. Tell him guys! Umm…" He thought for a moment before speaking back out. "Say something in human, Mons."

I nodded at Gary. "He does truth. Truth." I tried saying the first thing that came to mind. Probably wasn't all the way right but I should get a berry for effort, or for the older human's face. Though it was only funnier as Char-iuk started talking.

"Yeah, Yeah. We plaining." Char-iuk looked up at Richard, as the human's eyes got wide in surprise.

"In the name of Arceus." He said, looking like a Magicarp out of water. He looked between Char-iuk, Gary, and me. "What have you been doing out here?" He questioned. "And how did you find Flame and Draco's hatchlings in the first place?"

"Richard." Samuel said looking at me. "I don't know if you noticed but that one is a human child, not a Charmander hatchling."

"I am me." I told him, before realizing that he probably didn't understand me. "I am me. Mama raised me." I repeated in their language.

Richard sighed. "Yeah I'm not sure how that happened either, but it did. I saw him a few years ago, but I didn't think that he would actually survive. I honestly thought he would be dead by now, Sam, and I wasn't in the mood to lose my head to an angry mother for touching her babies." Samuel looked like the entire world had been proven wrong, and Gary started giggling at the old human's expression.

"You- He- That- She" The older human sputtered out. Gary ran over to Richard's side.

"Can you let my friends go now? I was trying to explain that Gramp's shed wasn't a home. They keep calling it a den." Gary said pulling on Richard's fake fur.

Richard nodded, and put us down. He then got to where he was closer to eye level. "So you two can understand us?"

We nodded. "We can talk it too." I squeaked happily.

Richard closed his eyes in thought. "Well what are your names? Gary said them earlier but who is who?"

"Cha-Ko." I said pointing to my chest.

"Char-iuk." Char-iuk said pointing at himself.

Gary came up behind us and put his arms around our necks, bringing us into a hug. "They're my friends." He said, looking pleadingly at the two older humans.

I blinked and looked over at Char-iuk. "What do we tell Mama now? Her human knows."

Gary looked at us, obviously getting the jest of what we said. "Uncle Richard? How are we going to explain this to their parents?"

Richard looked thoughtful before we all lift our heads to the sound of a roar. "Well two someone's Daddy will know in about two seconds." Richard flinched as Draco landed nearby, with a long snake-like Mon next to him.

"Cool! A Dragonair!" Gary said looking at the Dragonair, who blinked at him in confusion. "Wait I want to try something." Gary said before running up to Draco and the newly evolved Drano. "Hi! My name's Gary." He squeaked out, making Char-iuk and I fall over in laughter, Drano look like he had just been slapped, and Papa and Richard look at the tiny human like he had lost his mind.


So that's the 7th (or technically 6th) chapter of the story. :D Now Gary can speak a little Pokemon, Cha-ko and Char-iuk can speak more than a little human (they aren't fluent in it yet) and they were discovered by Richard and Professor Oak. Oh and Draco and Drano are back.

Oh and I decided it would be a good idea to do this now :D Review replies:

Algrandz- Yeah I noticed that too. It sort of made my choices easier on this. The strange part is that the first few episodes of the English version of the Amine mentioned two other trainers starting at the same time, but you never hear from them again. Maybe Pallet Town is one of those town where the average age is in the late 60s, and no one ever has kids?

bowser comunist lev X- Nope wasn't much longer at all XD

anon- Thanks, and yeah I thought of that. I just like being stubborn in my beliefs.

Swagnilla-Ice-1985- Well Longtail won't be his Pikachu (Since Longtail is a blind Rattata) But I promise that I will show you where Pikachu is at soon.

Kiomori- Oh yes there will be plenty of Gary being teased about that first meeting. Then again, he's going to be teased a lot in the future for his grammar issues, when speaking Pokemon. :P

Sierra Lobo- Thanks :D And is this long enough? I'm not so good at long chapters, honestly. Since I mostly write in small spurts.

Fordkid101- Don't worry, I'm not ending it there (or here for that matter) I am honestly surprised on how popular this story is. I thought it would be a bust at the beginning.