I yawned into Darrel's hair and rose lazily up from his head. I glanced out the window and sighed in relief when I saw clear blue skies in return. Swinging from room to room, I searched until I found Sadie and poked her gently to try and wake her up.

Poke.

Poke. Poke...

Poke. Poke. Poke!

Nope. Not waking up. Just my luck. Bending backwards and flying while looking at the sky, I spun through the house and flew out the window to get some fresh air. Stretching, I casually hovered past a few rows of particularly tasty-looking berries. I resisted temptation and moved for an empty patch where I could relax and stare at the sky.

I heard Sadie padding her way over, and soon she interrupted my peace. "So D-Candy. What're you doing out here?"

I righted myself. "Just being lazy and getting some fresh air."

"Cool with me." Sadie plopped down next to a tall Wacan Tree and sighed as she let herself relax. We sat there for a while before she suddenly got up.

"Where're you going?" I asked, not bothering to move.

"Someone's watching us," She stated, tail lashing out at the air. "I suddenly got this horrible feeling..." She closed her eyes and focused a small amount of psychic energy around her in a pulse. It wormed its way out invisibly but hit nothing. She blinked in confusion before glancing around.

"A Dark type, then," She hissed. "I have just the move for that." She conjured some more energy, carefully forming it, and let it wrap around her in a sparkly pink wave, before sending it out in a similar way. This time, a startled, pained cry came from our right, and we snapped around to look at the victim.

The Pokémon was a Scrafty, a Pokémon normally only native to Unova. He shook himself, nursing a nasty glow that surrounded him from the Fairy wind. Sadie blinked in surprise as he lifted himself off the floor and shook himself, holding his mouth in a strange frown.

"Did you have to do that? That was overkill..." He moaned. I took the chance to look at him - I'd never seen a Scrafty before.

The Scrafty had orange skin and an armoured belly of greyish scales. His head had a short set of red bumps which came from his crown to the back of his neck, where a hoodie-like material hung around his neck. Similar material surrounded his lower body like a pair of cargo pants. His tail was also in this material, with a red spike at the back.

This Scrafty grabbed his hood and pulled it over his head, so only his mouth was seen. "I don't like fairy-types..."

Sadie blinked again. She took a step closer, not really sure what to do, and the Scrafty backed away and cowered.

"Please don't hurt me..."

Sadie stopped for a moment, and strangely enough, her tail began to glow pink. She waved experimentally.

"Hello? Um. Who are you?"

"I'm a Scrafty."

"Yeah, I can see that. I mean like where do you come from and what are you doing here."

The Scrafty suddenly began to act awkwardly. "Oh... nothing. I'm just, y'know, around." Sadie glared at him for a moment.

"You're trying to steal something, aren't you?" She asked, lashing her tail again.

"Well..." He blinked, then rushed forward with a rock smash. Sadie leaped gracefully into the air and whupped him with her tail, knocking him down to fall flat on his face.

"Ow..." He muttered, shaking off the dust. Sadie walked up beside him.

"Hey." From my viewpoint, I could see her forming some Fairy Energy in preparation, holding it in her tail in case he retaliated again. "That wasn't very nice."

The Scrafty looked sheepish, and he backed up a little, eyeing Sadie cautiously. "Sorry." He said, not sounding very sorry at all. Sadie frowned and pushed the fairy energy forward again.

Scrafty panicked. Lifting the hood over his head again, he cried, "Oh Arceus no please don't I won't do it again I'm sorry-" He was cut off by a quick wind knocking him over, and he sat dejectedly on the ground.

Sadie stopped, and he blinked up at her for a few seconds before getting up and nervously handing her a small string of beads. "Here. This is all I took, I promise!" He ran off, fading into the shadows, and before long he was out of earshot. Sadie poked the necklace curiously, and her tail flashed pink again.

"I... I think I'll keep this." She pulled it over her head and let it rest on her pale tan fur. Each bead had a slightly different colour.

"Let's go back." Sadie said, and I nodded, following her in the air as we went back to the shack. Darrel was awake, apparently, and we ate breakfast at his side.

"So, Sadie, I saw you were launching attacks outside. Did you learn a new move?" Darrel asked, finishing before Adina and the rest.

"We chased off some Thief," She said, trying her best to sound indifferent. "I figured out how to use fairy wind. How's Chip?"

The Skiddo in question raised his head from a large bowl of berry juice, his muzzle incriminatingly coloured. Licking his lips, he replied, "Good! And tasty!"

Sadie shook her head, and her necklace's beads chimed pleasantly.

"Hey, where did you find that?" Darrel asked.

"Oh, somewhere." She replied, trying not to let on.

I told him instead. "There was this Scrafty. He gave it to her." Darrel nodded in understanding, and Sadie glared at me from a quiet corner, where she had been admiring the string of beads. They were quite nice, really, and they shimmered in the sunlight.

"Well, we've got to get going," Darrel announced, once Adina was done stuffing her face with some delicious-looking pancakes. "Thanks again, sir." The man nodded pleasantly.

"Glad to help." He handed us our bags, and we were on our way again.