BZZZZZZ

Blaze's head shot up. ^What was that?^ he thought as he headed outside to find out. He saw four beedrill carrying a bed of hay, and the middle looked weighed down by something bigger. As they came closer to the ground, he reconized the centerpeice as Katie, returning home safely. When they had put her completely on the ground, Samantha came outside.

"Hello, Mister Beedrills. Do you want to come inside?" She showed them the way inside and they all followed her.

Blaze looked at the sleeping vulpix, looking as cute as ever. He laid down next to her; her body was warmer than she should be. He licked her bangs. Just as he did, Katie open her eyes slightly to look at him. She nuzzled him.

"Where have you been, Cutie?" he asked calmly.

"With a friend." She looked into his eyes. "Blaze, I can tell you anything, right?"

"Of course." He smiled at her, and she just stared at him.

She took a deep breath. "It's about my mother."

Blaze's smile faded; he looked at her in shock. She took another breath.

"One day, me and Fisk were sitting at the table..."

"Who's Fisk?" Blaze asked.

"He was my baby brother, a white vulpix." She was breathing very fast and shallow. "My mom came in the room and had a weird look in her eyes. Her pupils were tiny and shaking. She turned to look at Fisk with those eyes, and I couldn't speak. I was too scared." At this point, tears were rolling down her fur. "She grabbed Fisk by the scruff. She took him, and then, they were out the door and gone." She started to sob.

"Oh, Katie." He tried to lick her bangs, but she refused.

"I feel as if I did this." She put her muzzle in his neck; he didn't know what to say to her. Just as she did, Blaze saw a flash of pink from inside the house, but he needed to be there for Katie.

"Come on, Katie. Let's go inside and lay down." She nodded and stood to go inside; he followed her pattern.

She went inside slowly. As she was down the hall, Blaze was still outside; he saw the bushes to his left russle. He took a defensive stance to face the intruder. A blue pokemon bounced out, happy as could be. Next, a black pokemon with a blue glow sulked out, looked at Blaze, and growled. The blue pokemon smacked him on the back of the head, and the black pokemon rubbed it.

"Don't growl, idiot. Katie might be here!" Blaze was a little confused. The blue pokemon bounced over to Blaze after she spoke. "Hi, you must be Blaze. I'm Chi. I'm here to see Katie."

"What do you want with her?" He didn't want Katie to be attacked again.

"I'm her best friend." She smiled sweetly.

"What about the other one over there?"

"I have a name!" Shouted the glowing pokemon.

"Don't worry about him; he's an idiot." She trotted inside. The other pokemon came towards Blaze. He sniffed him, and he quickly turned to hit Blaze with his tail.

Blaze ducked out of the way and built fire at the back of his neck. He opened his mouth to release toward the pokemon. When all the flames were gone, he didn't see the pokemon. He saw a hole in the ground and felt a rumble under him. The black pokemon hit him in his rib cage, knocking the wind out of Blaze. The fire pokemon fell over in pain.

"Light! What did you do?!" He heard Katie's voice.

"He smells like y-"

"It doesn't matter. He's my boyfriend, and you have no right to judge him." There was a silence. "Now, go inside and sit down. Don't cause anymore ruckus. Got it?"

"Ya, ya, ya." The pokemon went inside.

Katie came to Blaze's side. She tried to pick him up with her muzzle, so Blaze stood up and winced in pain.

"Are you ok?" Katie looked at him.

"Ya, I'm fine." He could barely stand without pain.

She saw this and helped him hop his way to the couch. He sat opposite of the black creature and looked outside. The sun was already setting and had made the sky shades of orange, red, purple, and blue, and the beedrill flew off into the sunset. He faced the other male, staring accusingly at him.

"Now, Light, appologize."

"But..." He looked at her.

"NOW!" She stared at him for a few minutes.

"Katie, it's ok." Blaze smiled at the brick red pokemon.

"No, he needs to be humble."She didn't even look up from the gaze.

Chi came up from behind her and squirted behind her ear.

"Chi, stop it."

The water pokemon did it again.

"Stop."

It happened again.

"That's it."

Katie turned to tackle her, and Chi ran down the hall. Katie followed her. The males were left alone. They were quiet for a long time. Ralph and Samantha went into the very back room to go to sleep. They just sat there, quietly eyeing each other, so Blaze spoke to break the tension.

"What are you?"

"An umbreon."

"How do you know Katie?" he pondered aloud.

"I was her boyfriend once." Blaze's neck hair rose. "But now she's my best friend."

"Really? I couldn't see her dating you."

"I still love her..."

Both were silent for what seemed like hours.

"How can you love her when you don't know anything about her?"

"I know more than you," he snapped back; the blue-ish glow grew brighter.

"Prove it!"

"Her favorite color is blue; she hates her paws cause she thinks they are too big; her birth season is the hot season on the nineteenth day; she's taking care of her day; she's tried to commit suicide twice; and she HATES the smell of burnt food." It rolled off his tongue like memorized lines in a play.

Blaze was shocked. He knew so little about her, and he didn't even ask her anything. His eyelids began to droop.

"Staying awake for two days is hard, you know?" He yawned loudly.

Light just smiled and walked out to the front as Blaze's eyes closed for the night.