Chapter 9

"Ok… let's start off with my Eevee. There's not much for me to say about her… I got her as a gift on my 10th birthday, that's how she ending up being my first pokemon. The thing is… no matter how much I trained her, she would never evolve; day OR night. I figured that she just didn't want to evolve, but I needed to be sure. So once I tried using a stone for her to evolve, but she just knocked it away with her tail and warned me to keep those things away form her. That's when I was positive that she didn't want to evolve and I no problem with it. But I had to take caution. You see the stone around her neck?"

They nodded when they looked towards my Eevee and saw the stone tied in a rope around her neck.

"That's an everstone. It prevents any pokemon that can evolve from evolving. Since she doesn't want to evolve I had to be careful that she doesn't evolve by accident,"

"What do you mean 'by accident'?" May asked

"Stone's can be found almost anywhere May. And if we weren't careful Eevee could have evolved at anytime into a pokemon she doesn't want to be. So… that's basically it of how Eevee's my first pokemon and why she doesn't want to evolve."

"Wow… no wonder your Eevee was so powerful. You did a lot of training with it for it to evolve and it never did. But in the process of that training, Eevee got really strong," Ash commented.

"Right," I replied

"What about your Espeon and Umbreon? How'd you get them and why is their color different from the regular ones?" May asked

"Hmm… I found Espeon and Umbreon at an Eevee festival I just so happened to stumble upon while on my journey,"

"You FOUND them!?" Brock asked

"At a festival celebrating Eevee?" May asked

"Well… yes I found them and… no not a festival celebrating Eevee. It was a festival where Eevee from all around come together to play around and have fun; and to see how much their friends have grown, that is, if they have not been captured. It just so happened that Espeon and Umbreon, who were quite popular among the other Eevee because of their color when they were Eevee, were on their way to the festival when they… evolved."

"Well… if they were on their way to the festival as Eevee, what caused them to evolve?" Ash asked

"Battles. They tried their best to avoid battles from other wild pokemon, but… they couldn't. Espeon, at the time she was an Eevee, loved the daytime, so she was on guard and battle ready duty while on their way to the festival. Umbreon, at the time he was an Eevee, did the same thing, but at night since he was more lively then."

"Of course… they beat all the wild pokemon who thought they were pushovers and eventually they evolved. They weren't too happy about it though, but they couldn't go back because it was only one day before the festival, so they continued their way towards the Eevee festival. When they arrived at the festival, the other Eevee weren't too happy to see them since they evolved and ignored them and went to play with the other un-evolved Eevee."

"I found the festival area while chasing my Eevee. She had ran off on me for some reason, so I followed her, and that's when I found a whole lot of Eevee in one spot, which was a really rare sight to see,"

"Yea it is," Brock said

"When I looked around, I saw that my Eevee was already playing with the other Eevee. I couldn't go anywhere knowing that my Eevee was practically having the time of her life, so I set up camp in nearby cave and that's when I saw Espeon and Umbreon, looking… a bit sad. I approached them and they didn't even try to run away, even though Espeon sensed me coming. It was like… they didn't even care if the person that was a approaching would try to catch them. When I got close enough to them, I asked them what was wrong and Espeon showed me the whole story by resting her tail on my head and using psychic."

"I felt sorry for them and asked why they didn't just go back home. Espeon then used psychic again, but to communicate with me."

"What did she say?" May asked

"It… just so happens that… in the Eevee family, once a wild Eevee evolves, they no longer have a home to go to. Their parents disown them and they have to go and find a mate to start their own Eevee family."

"That's so sad…" May said, feeling sympathy for Espeon and Umbreon.

"I felt really bad them. But the worse part of it was that they were way too young to start their own family. The next morning when I woke up, all the other Eevee had already left, my Eevee was curled next to my face and Espeon and Umbreon were sleeping with their heads and forepaws on my back. I woke them up and started to put all my stuff back together to continue down the path to the next town."

"Just when I was about to leave the cave, I turned to face Espeon and Umbreon, and realized that they were looking at me with the same sad expression that I met them with the night. I looked to Eevee and then back at them. I then asked them if they wanted to come along, since it seems they had grown quite fond of me in one night, and for the first time since I met them, a big smile came upon their faces, and surprised me when they jumped me, cause me fall and they started licking my face. So that was a definite 'yes'."

"Ever since that, and I start training them, they became my first strongest double battling team."

"Wow, so it was a sad story with a happy ending for them when you found them," May said

"Yea. The two of them a practically inseparable, as you can see,"

"How about, Jolteon, Flareon and Vaporeon? How'd you get them?" Ash asked


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