VIOLET's Point of View:

"Violet, are you awake?," a voice pierced through the silence.

I willed my eyes to open, but I saw more than darkness, I was surrounded by trees and felt the slight breeze brush against my fur. Where am I?

"Violet?," I turned to the deep voice.

"Chance?," I questioned eagerly but as my eyes adjusted, it was Cubone. "Oh..," my eyes narrowed.

"Violet, please let me explain-"

"No. I don't want your explanation," I tried to stand but my legs were stiff from the lack of movement. "How long have I been gone?"

"It's been a few days," Cubone admitted.

"Where is Edwin," I glanced around, but it was only the two of us in the middle of the dense forest.

"He is sleeping," Cubone responded. "Violet, I wanted to see you."

"Why?," I asked cruelly." You are the one who got me sent into the ball! You are the one who has doomed to be here for all eternity."

"That's not true, Violet!"

"Oh really," I raised my voice.

"Shhh, keep it down. If they catch us out here, I'll-"

"You'll what? Get put in your ball. OH WHAT SWEET IRONY!"

"STOP!," he put his paw over my mouth. "Violet please. I saved you, can't you understand that!," he voice was filled with venom and he whispered into my ear. "Why are you so ungrateful!? I saved you! From him, from disappointment and you don't even care!"

I tried to shake his grip but he only clamped down harder. "Let me go!," I screamed into his paw.

"You should learn to recognize when someone is helping you! Violet, please."

I stopped struggling against Cubone and he released my mouth," Why do you even care?," I asked panting.

"Because... I think you are amazing, Violet. You truly inspire me," his gaze was unblinking.

"Inspire?," I was baffled.

"You are stunning in every way imaginable, you complete me, Violet," he stepped closer which made me back up into the trunk of a tree.

"What? Are you crazy?!"

"Violet, I love you! I would do anything for you! Please, accept me!," he pressed himself against me. I turned my face away, but he grapped my cheeks and made me look at him. "I love you," he leaned in and placed his lips against mine as I pushed him away.

"Stop! What are you doing!? Cubone you are scaring me!," I wiped my mouth with my paw.

"You don't feel the same way?," he seemed confused.

"No! Cubone, you were a friend. I liked you as a friend, but that was before you trapped me here!"

"No! No! That is not what I did," he tried desperately to convince me," I didn't want you to leave, we are meant to be! Can't you see this was fate bringing us together!?" Cubone advanced on me again, but I sent out an Ember so he would keep his distance. He jumped back at the sudden flame as he touched his paw.

"You're insane, Cubone! I don't love you! I don't even like you! I'm sorry if you were confused, but I don't want to be with you!...," I was so taken aback by the events that were taking place. Cubone! What the hell! I have never done anything to make it feel like I wanted him like that at all! What the hell! He is crazy!

"Are you trying to tell me that you don't feel the connection between us?," he sounded wounded.

"What-... There is no-... Cubone. There is no connection between us. I don't love you. How much clearer can I be?!"

"Don't worry, this is just a fight, love. We will get past this," he was oblivious to my words.

"Cubone! YOU ARE DEMENTED! LEAVE ME ALONE!," I screamed hoping someone would hear.

"No! Please, love. Don't be this way," he tried to come to me.

"Stay back!," I spent out another Ember, making him freeze in front of me. " Where did this even come from, Cubone!? You were never like this before!"

"I have always known that you were made for me, Violet. When we first met, I knew we were one. I knew you felt it too, especially when I convinced you to stay here with me."

"YOU DIDN'T CONVINCE ME! YOU TACKLED ME AND LET ME BE RE-CAPTURED!," I was furious.

"Love, please stop. I know you are angry, but we can work through this... together," he held out his paw for me. "It's been agony the last days without you by my side, a dark lonely night with no sunlight in my life. Now that I see you here, the world is absolute and clear. You are the fire that lights my heart, Violet I love you... I never want to part."

I stood in silence, stunned by his words, What the hell happened while I was in the ball? He is going to skin me alive and wear my fur kind of crazy!

"That was a poem I wrote for you," Cubone shuffled his feet like he was embarrassed. "Do you like it...?"

My eyes were wide with fear. He is serious... this is real. It's not some sick joke, Cubone really thinks we're in love.

"Cubone..., I tried to speak slowly so he would grasp the words. "We are not in love. I don't love you, you don't love me. There is someone out there for you, but-"

"She is you, Violet. You are the one for you as much as I am for you. We are connected by life, this is what the world wanted for us!," he was so sincere that I thought he had lost his marbles. "We can live a life here together! Train with Edwin and Brian, we'll never have to leave."

"No matter how deranged you are, Cubone you will not keep me here! I am leaving! I will not stay here with you! I DON'T LOVE YOU! and I never did... I love Chance, he is my other half. Can't you understand that?"

"I wish you could understand...," his hand fell to his side," I didn't want to have to do this..."

"What? what do you mean? Do what-" I was trying to anticipate his next move when he turned to me with his eyes bulging from his mask. I was struck with a feeling deep in my chest and my head felt fuzzy and light. "Cubone...," I staggered.

"Don't worry love. It will pass..."

I slowly lifted my head ad gazed upon Cubone, even though I had done it so man times before, I felt like this was the first time. He was glowing, his muscles rippled and his eyes smiled down at me. He is so perfect... "I;m so happy that you're here with me," I mumbled and felt my mouth turn into a grin.

"I'll never leave you," he embraced me tightly to which I wrapped my limbs around him in response.

"I know."


SINGE's Point of View:

"Are we close yet?," I asked, piercing the silence that lingered between the pack.

"Shh," Theresa shushed me as she gawked at Chance while he searched for Violet's scent. "You have to let him concentrate."

Chance had his noise to the ground on the trial while we all stood and waiting with anticipation, hoping for the good news that he recovered her smell.

"I don't understand...," Chance mumbled to himself. "It's like she is just... gone. As if she just evaporated. There is nothing! How is there nothing," Chance was getting frantic and he scowered the track.

"Don't worry about it mate, it might just be... the wind that carried her scent away," I offered.

"That doesn't make sense! I would still be able to smell her.. it would be faint, but there would still be a trace... There is nothing," he determined slouching his head with sorrow.

"Chance...," Theresa was visibly heartbroken by the news.

"She couldn't have just up and left," Jack determined. "We'll just have to check around this area until we recapture her trail."

"We don't have time, Jack! We've already wasted so much time...We have to find her."

"We will," Jack met Chance's eyes," I promise you we will."

"Something could of happened," Chance openly started doubting," They could have abandoned her, or harmed her, or even-"

"DON'T SAY IT!," Theresa shouted. "Don't you dare even sat it," Theresa's voice cracked.

Chance hung his head again, defeated by the occurring events while Theresa visibly shook in place in fear for her lost friend. Jack paced, obviously trying to think of a new plan while I just stood there, taking up space and wasting air.

How do you even lose a scent? You don't. You can't. Unless you have a non-racking spray that's really pricey though and why would trainers even carry that? Not like anyone is tracking them... besides us. Then it clicked," Of course...," I said in awe.

"What?," Jack was intrigued. "What is it?"

"THE BALL! THE POKEBALL!," I jumped with excitement. "When a trainer places a Pokémon in their ball, they are cut off from this world, no contact!," I turned to Chance who was now looking at me with confusion," No smell."

His ears perked at my words,"... a pokeball..."

"YES! It fits!," I was exited to contribute to finding Violet. I was beginning to run out of time, we needed to find her and here was the explanation to her sudden disappearance.

"So, she could be close!," Chane's hopes were climbing.

"VERY CLOSE!," Theresa shouted happily.

"Are there any other scents you smell!?," Jack turned to Chance.

Chance put his nose to the ground, inhaling," I... I smell a Houndour... definitely a Houndour. Then, then there's this... this.. I've smelt it before... it's the.. the Eevee from before! The Eevee I found near Violet's scent last time!"

"YES!"

"Very good!," Jack whinnied with delight. "We can follow that scent and it should lead us to Violet, right?"

"Figuratively, yeah!"

"Lead on, tracker!," Theresa stood right behind Chance, waiting for him to go.

Chance didn't delay, he began his tracking and quite rapidly started back down the trail, they way we had came, following the scent of the Eevee.

Finally, now we are getting somewhere!


Chapter 11 is now complete! I hope you all enjoy! Drop a comment to let me know how you feel about it!

I already know a lot of you are thinking that Cubone came out of nowhere, but I thought it was time to expose him for his true CRAZY! I'm so anxious to read your reviews!