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Yote, everybody! Welcome to another chapter of my fic! For regular readers, welcome back! For new readers, welcome! I'm currently sat in class with nothin' else to do, so I figured I'd write!
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"Fine! But we're heading back at the first sign of trouble."
"Yeah yeah, whatever."
The three walked in a tense silence. No one dared speak. The only sounds were of crickets, the occasional rustle of leaves, and that one time Bailey grunted from tripping over a tree stump a few dozen yards back.
The gang was nearing the location marked on the map.
The atmosphere grew tense.
A tree stump came into view, with an object faintly catching a glimmer of the soft moonlight.
Matt was the first to approach, with the other two looking around. One neutral, the other slightly uneasy.
The eevee gently scooped up the watch in one paw, and turned back to her friends.
"See, guys? Nothing to worry about."
Joy and Jaunty were snuggling on the couch in their living room watching TV. A sports program, nothing too exciting. Joy had just finished bathing, and was ready to go to sleep with her husband, when suddenly the phone rang.
Joy stretched, and sighed.
"Golly. Who would be calling at this time a night?" She rubbed one eye with a paw.
"No clue. Maybe it's the phone monster! Oooooo!"
Joy just rolled her eyes and glanced at the caller ID, before picking up the phone.
"Hel-"
"Joy! I-I went to check on them- I followed their prints and… And…-"
"August! Calm down. Deep breaths." Joy soothed gently. A few sniffles and sighs came from the other line. "Slow down, and tell me everything that happened."
Joy glanced over to the couch and into Jaunty's concerned gaze.
"W-well… I went up to make sure the kids were in bed, but they weren't there! The window was open, and when I looked out I saw their p-paw prints leading into the woods…"
The leafeon mother dropped the phone in shock. After a second she hung up the phone and looked over to her husband with a determined look.
"Come on Jaunty. We're saving the kids. I'll explain on the way."
The aforementioned umbreon nodded and followed is spouse. They grabbed a sleeping Jarared, and ran out the door.
Skylar was relaxing in her house. It was a warm, spring night, Not enough to be uncomfortable, but enough to make the electric type sweat. At least, after her nightly workout. Yes, this sweating was very much intentional.
The jolteon sat there panting, letting the sweat drops fall from her canine tongue. She checked her watch (which wasn't gold, mind you. It was made of wood.). She'd managed to accelerate faster than last time, and maintain the pace longer.
Her treadmill was on fire, but that wasn't an issue. Her roommate would be arriving soon and would probably help fix it. Probably. Speaking of her roommate, here she comes right now!
As the oshawott walked through the door, she deadpanned at Sky.
"Really? Two in one week?"
Skylar gave the best puppy dog eyes she could manage.
"No. I'm tired from work, I'm dehydrating, and I have a killer headache. Put it out yourself, there's a tap in the kitchen."
The jolteon sighed, but relented. She walked towards the kitchen as her roommate trudged upstairs.
"G'night Audrey!" Sky hollered (Much to their neighbors disdain.).
"Night, Sky."
The electric type returned to the livingroom and dunked her treadmill with water.
"Great. Burned, and drenched. Looks like it's time for a new one again."
Sky's eyes were drawn to the window, as she saw a strange sight.
"Huh. Could've sworn I just saw my parents run by."
Curiosity peaked, the jolteon snuck out of the apartment and hurriedly trailed the rapidly vanishing figures in the distance.
As Bailey slipped the watch on, he let out a sigh of relief.
"Yeah, I guess you were right Matt. There's nothing to be afraid of."
Candy rolled his eyes, a bit frustrated. "We still have to find our way out of here, geniuses." He gestured around with a pink paw. "I don't know about you guys, but with all this going on I didn't keep track of which way we came."
Candy looked at Bailey. Bailey looked at Matthew. Matthew stared at the mightyena lurking behind the other two.
"Uh… Guys?" She squeaked out pitifully.
The other two snapped their heads around. The group hollered in fear and huddled together as the large pokemon loomed over them, with ill intent clear in it's eyes. Bailey spat a weak flame in it's face.
With a roar, it bent over and prepared to lunge. As it did, however, a large shadow ball crunched against it's skull with a sickening noise. A thunder wave crackled towards it, and it's muscles twitched and stiffened up.
The three young pokemon turned their head in the direction it came from, and saw bright glowing yellow rings, with piercing red eyes. Next to them were deep purple eyes, just barely illuminated by the moonlight.
"Come on, kids! I didn't knock it down for good!" Jaunty called to the group.
Sure enough, the mightyena started to shift and open it's eyes. Bailey, Candy, and Matthew all ran up to Jaunty and Skylar. The group of five bolted down through the woods at impressive speeds. More mightyena started tailing them.
"Split up!" Jaunty demanded. He halted and turned on the mightyena, peppering them with various special attacks to hold them off.
Candy continued straight ahead at increased speed. Matt followed him for a short while, but soon took a sharp left. Sky picked up her younger brother, and sped up greatly as she veered to the right.
Bailey held onto his older sister for dear life. He squoze his eyes shut, and buried his snout in her spiky, yet soft mane. It was slightly comforting.
Forty-five minutes later, Sky skidded to a stop in a small clearing. She let her slightly smaller passenger down, and glanced up into the sky.
The creeping rays of the rising sun painted the sky orange and violet. The sun wasn't visible yet, but everything was bathed in a soft orange glow.
Bailey was snoring softly on the ground.
"Poor little guy. Must be worn out."
Skylar wandered off slightly beyond the clearing. She spotted a leppa berry bush close to a stream. She plucked some, and walked back out to her brother.
The jolteon mindlessly snacked on some for a time. She left a few for the flareon beside her, of course.
By the time she finished her small little meal, it had already become morning. She wiped the berry's juices from her lips, and jostled the younger eeveelution awake.
The flareon woke slowly. He saw his sister's face, and some berries. He slowly began to sit up and eat them. He looked at his paw and sighed.
"Looks like the watch is gone again…" He glanced towards the treeline behind him.
"Is that what this is all about?"
"Mhm…"
"You can explain later. Eat up, we need to regroup with the others or find a way out. Preferably both."
"All right."
After Bailey finished, the two set off in a random direction.
As the pair walked, Sky decided to bring up the topic again.
"So. About that watch."
Bailey glanced to his side and into his sisters eyes, before beginning to summarize the events of the last few days.
"Well... Candy, Matt, and I were walking through town. Some guy nicked the watch off me, and we couldn't find them. We decided to have the sleepover to come up with a plan. Matt managed to track it down, she insisted we went and retrieved it, and that's when you guys showed up."
The jolteon simply nodded in understanding. The pair soon found themselves upon the edge of the woods, and spotted a few houses in the distance.
"From what I can tell, we ended up on the other side of the town." Sky said, partly relieved partly annoyed.
Candy burst from the treeline. He sat there a moment, panting heavily. He looked up, and thankfully saw his house. The sylveon ran up to the door, and burst through. His mom looked miserable on the couch, being comforted by Joy and Jarared. When she saw her son, her face instantly brightened.
"Mommy!"
"Son!"
The two ran to each other and leaped into a hug.
Jarared and Joy walked up. The leafeon happy yet concerned, and the eevee confused.
"Candy? Where's big bro? And sis? And dad?"
Candy looked down dejectedly and sighed.
"I'm not sure where the others are. Mr. Jaunty stayed behind to fend off some mightyena, and the others split up."
Joy visibly saddened, and hugged her scared son. Candy mouthed an apology.
"That's quite all right dear. It's not your fault." Joy put on a warm smile, and pulled Candy and August into the hug with her. "If I know my husband and daughter, they'll be fine. I'm sure one of them is with Bailey, and little Matthew will make it back too."
Everyone was a little happier, hope having been restored.
Matthew was perched atop a tree, bathing in the sun. Everything felt right.
She enjoyed the sun's rays, as she had done every day for years. It had always ignited a strange itch in the back of her mind. One she could never quite scratch. But now the itch was worse than ever.
She was starting to have a hard time enjoying the sun now. Every second seem'd to intensify the itch- No. The burning within' her skull. At the moment she felt like her head would burst, it stopped burning.
It turned into a more invigorating feel than before. It spread throughout the young pokemon's body.
The sun. It was so warm. It made everything more clear. Matthew was aware of everything nearby. The way the wind moved, what pokemon were moving where, and each and every rustle of a leaf.
The energy intensified in her tail. It slowly grew thinner, and split at the end. Her body grow larger, yet sleeker. The mane around her neck seemed to vanish.
Matthew's eyes snapped open. She snapped out of her sunbathing, but her heightened sense of awareness didn't cease like it usually did. She looked at her body, her paws, and her tail.
Matt jumped down from the tree she was in, smiling like a little kid.
Matthew had evolved into an espeon.
Jaunty was tired, and in pain. He had been fighting well into the morning now, but more foes still kept coming. There were only a few more of the pack of mightyena left, but he knew he wouldn't last until the end. He'd managed to take out most of them on his own, but he wasn't strong enough to take them all.
As the tired umbreon was backed up against a tree, he saw something unexpected, but welcomed.
One mightyena glowed purple, and was slammed into the other. Jaunty looked beyond, to see a young espeon standing behind them.
"Mr. Jaunty, come on!" Matt urged. "I only caught them off guard, we need to run!"
Jaunty nodded, but failed to stand back up. The last thing he felt before blacking out was a telekinetic aura holding him, and floating him along with it's controller.
