Alisa? What are you doing!

-Hey! You made it. Jake and I are throwing a party! it's totally off the hook!

-PARA BAILER, LA BAMBA!

Jake! Quit screaming La Bamba! Turn down the music! Put that soda down! You're going to spill it all over my carpet! Hey! Get off the couches!

-Alright everybody, the party's over. Sorry, owner's back. Everyone head home.

(Bunch of Pokemon rush out the door)

What the heck have you guys done! What did you do to my house!

-Sorry. Me and sis thought we'd through a party because I was the coolest Pokemon ever.

-What? That's not why we threw it. It was because I was the coolest Pokemon ever! (Tackles brother)

Will you guys knock it off? (Steps on something) Ugh! What is this?

-Oh yeah, that was our nacho/pizza/lemonade/vinegar food preparation contest. I wouldn't eat that, I've already had three bites and it tastes disgusting.

Uh huh. (Looks around) Hey? What's this big banner hanging from the ceiling?

-Uh, no! Don't touch that.

(Tears it down and reads it) Happy 2000 views? What the heck?

-Great, now he knows. I told you we shouldn't have put that up Jake.

Wait a minute. Are you guys throwing a party because I hit 2000 views? :D

-Um, maybe? Can I turn the music up now? I wasn't finished dancing.

Sure Jake. Whatever makes you happy.

-Sweet! (Cranks stereo) LALA LA, LA BAMBA!

Well there you have it everyone. I've cranked in 2000 views :D

Thanks everybody for the awesomeness. I want to thank every reviewer and follower for coming to my awesome party, and especially those who have favorited or I've just gotten to chat with. I saved some cake for you guys if you want some! Woot! Woot!

Anyways, I've got to get Alisa off the ceiling fan before she flies through the window. See you guys later and thank you so much for reading!

And remember, if you haven't made reservations for the party yet... (Meaning you haven't PM me or left a review even though you want to) Don't worry. There's still plenty of party left for all of us. Just don't reach the end of the story and then wish you had said something. :( That would make me sad.

Oh boy, there she goes. She just smacked into the fine china cabinet and Jake turned on some ACDC. Yah, I've got a serious case of party fever to attend to before Fred walks in. (Reference anyone? Hah?)

See you guys. Hope you like this chapter!

Enjoy! :D

HAPPY TWO THOUSAND VIEWS! (All thanks to you guys!) Have a great bodacious day for just being you!

Chapter 29

Most humans would've died if this happened to them. It wasn't everyday that you lost your only home that you knew and had no savings in your bank account to live with.

Lauren was smart though. She was cunning and knew how to hide for her own survival naturally. It was around midnight the next day and still no one had caught her.

What she found funny was that no policemen were actively searching for her until late the next day. She had taken a huge risk walking into the Pokemon center asking for some help to heal her burns, not that they hurt at all.

She had walked in, received treatment and food, and then walked out the same night. Nobody inside recognized her or even thought for a second that perhaps she was a wanted criminal.

So, she hurried through the city getting everything she needed to either flee or survive as a fugitive. She bought a dark red coat with a hood, zipping it up to make her safe the whole night. Staying warm was never a problem for her and she wouldn't have to worry about being sensed by anyone. She hoped nobody would recognize her young age with the hood on in case some city criminals were walking about at twelve at night. She wasn't exactly the toughest girl alive and the city was dark as the night sky above.

However, if it came to surviving, whether it was from strangers or the police themselves, she was pretty sure with her lighter that she could defend herself better than anyone else here could. She was confident in her security that the police wouldn't catch her.

She stayed off the streets, Silver city was famous for clean streets. She stayed inside a small coffee shop and tried to lay low, taking off her hood because it nice inside. Soft music played and she was able to think. Surprisingly, even the midnight shift attendants didn't ask too many questions. She listened casually as one of the young girls talked about her boyfriend in the Journalism business and how he was failing at getting a top story. The other girl who was the only other employee listened and paid attention the whole time trying to show her sympathy.

Lauren sat down at the farthest table away with the TV on in the corner. She needed to think, she needed to piece this all together.

She knew the police were after her, the laboratory was destroyed, and that meant all evidence of her machine was gone too. That was good, and terrible at the same time. No trace of her was left and the police wouldn't know who she was but then she couldn't go back home like she wanted. Having all traces of her existence wiped out was something she dreamed of, but not when she was still in the city.

Her plan had been so close to being initiated, she had almost been home.

And then Jack had to take her on a mysterious trip to the reserve that she missed so much. All because of Jack, her entire life was ruined until she somehow managed to magically build another machine and send her home. She knew how, but it wasn't so simple without money. She had all the plans and layouts in her head.

With money, she could do it. Anyone could really do it if they just thought. For someone like her, it was twice as easy. She already knew what it took to be a Pokemon.

And then Jack had to ruin it all.

She frowned. How dare she think that? This wasn't Jack's fault, this was all her head. This was her machine anyways, not Jack's. If anything, it was her fault for dragging him into this mess.

She looked up at the TV. It was past twelve and still no reports came up. She wondered if Chase had some problems getting to his desk or something, this was the latest she had ever seen a police report show up and still no one was looking for her.

She looked back down. She had one thought. She could solve every problem in her mind except the one that troubled her the most.

Where was Jack? If he was taken, she would've known. But he wasn't there when she woke up to the chaos of the burning laboratory and she hadn't seen him since.

Most likely it mean that he left. The scientist packed up his bags and left without a thank you note to her or to his laboratory. The guy left everything he knew to save his education and ego.

Wait, that wasn't like Jack. Lauren shook her head and thought about the man she knew for two years.

Jack wouldn't go out like that without a bang. If she knew him at all, he wouldn't have left in the first place.

But he wasn't here, and the police didn't have him there. Where was he?

Lauren folded her hands and let her head rest against her knuckles. She was so confused. What the heck had happened to Jack? That was the only question she needed to answer still. That, and how she was going to get her plan back in action again so she could go home.

"In other news, a police case tonight goes unsolved..."
Lauren jumped up out of her seat. She stared at the small Cafe TV so quickly that the staff actually stopped talking and looked over in surprise. They watched the quiet TV wondering what was going on.

Lauren didn't care about them. She listened to every word that the news reporter said. The Reporter looked tired and her hair was tied up to look more professional but Lauren knew that she was running the late shift.

The lady continued explaining. "A police case goes unsolved. Please with all caution be on the lookout for a young girl known as Lauren and a tall male scientist known as Jack." The news reporter continued to explain Lauren's features from the notes on her desk and then explained what she was dangerous for. Apparently Chase had failed to mention her lighter, saying that instead Lauren was armed and may carry explosives with her. Jack's description was given but Lauren was the topic for the night since obviously she was much more interesting and Chase had a bigger problem with her to deal with.

The two staff members that were watching the TV switched their eyes to Lauren. She just so happened to have taken off her hood when she was inside the shop, exposing her head to the two cafe girls.

They both stared, and then there eyes went wide. The TV continued to explain that if anyone sees either of them they needed to please contact the police immediately.

Lauren sighed, time to go. She pushed in her chair feeling to make sure that her lighter was still in her back pocket. The two staff ladies watched her the entire way to the door.

"The laboratory was completely destroyed leaving no trace of either criminal's existence. This video was recovered at the scene."

Lauren stopped. She pulled her hands away from the door and turned around to the screen.

The news screen switched from the reporter, to a black and white video that skipped and had no sound.

Lauren froze. That was Jack's old video camera. She had seen it only once before when it their first full year they had known each other and Jack had forgotten to hit the play button the whole time he was filming.

She watched the video. Black and white blotches sprouted from the screen as the crew tried to get it working. They were just playing the same tape that they had managed to get from the police.

The screen flicked, and then there was action. A small Eevee talking to an Espeon took up the middle of the screen and behind them, a completely destroyed machine. Nothing else was visible except the two Pokemon talking. No one could see the machine in the back.

Lauren saw it all. The shattered machine, the Espeon she recognized from the reserve, everything that she knew so well from the dimmed lights to the shattered machine glass on the floor. Why was the Espeon loose in her basement? Who let her out? Only a human could do that and there was no one present.

And then she looked at the Eevee. She took one look at the way it acted, it's curious behavior, it's upright ears in fear, the way it looked at it's paws like they were unnatural, even how the Espeon acted towards it...

She knew Pokemon, and that Eevee, was not acting like a normal Pokemon.

She knew it right away. That wasn't an Eevee. It was Jack.

The video stopped playing when both the Pokemon ran off screen. Lauren could tell that it was from something dangerous.

She blinked. The shattered machine had caused the fire, that was it.

More importantly, Jack was a freaking Eevee!

The news reporter came back on showing her tired eyes. This was her last story for the night.

"Please be on the lookout for this young girl, her whereabouts are unknown. She is armed, dangerous, and her two Pokemon were let loose after the incident at the laboratory, the criminal shows no sign of recovering her pokemon where she abandoned them." Lauren figured that was the part to make the viewers feel unsympathetic to a jerk that left their own Pokemon abandoned in the city. She knew that was far from the case.

The reporter yawned and continued on. "The police are currently investigating where they believe the poor abandoned Pokemon to be and will have them safely brought to the Pokemon center for care until a new owner finds them. If you have any leading information on the knowledge of these Pokemon, or more importantly of both Lauren and Jack, please call the number below and report it to your nearest station. Thanks for keeping Silver City the safest city in the region."

No number showed up at the bottom of the screen. The news team was getting lazy since it was the middle of the night.

The news reporter smiled. She pulled down the band that was holding her hair in place so it fell out in front of her. "That is all. Goodnight everyone." With that the screen switched to black.

Lauren's mind worked frantically. She pieced the whole puzzle together in half a second.

Jack didn't leave, he had used the machine that very night. He brought the Espeon with him for proof of it's use, so that he could talk to Pokemon.

Then it backfired. Her machine worked just as she had built it. It recognized Jack as a normal type human, and turned him into a normal type Pokemon.

Lauren struggled to hold her weight on the door. She braced her hands against the cafe doors and tried to hold her weight.

Jack, was out there, alone. He was a Pokemon and he alone.

She lifted her head. Some hope returned to her. The thought came instantly.

Wait, that Espeon was still with them. She knew where they were going. If that Espeon was still there with him, then she knew exactly where they were going.

They were going home. The safest place for a Pokemon to be. Jack was fleeing the city for his very life like he was some kind of wild creature.

She looked down, she felt her lighter in her back pocket, and made her decision quickly. She had a plan. It wasn't a very good one, but it might save Jack's life.

She thrust open the doors but before she walked out she turned around to the two frightened staff members.

She smiled and hurried right up to the desk. "You said your boyfriend's a journalist right?" She asked.

The lady didn't know what to do. There was a crazed criminal in front of her that was responsible for abandoning her Pokemon and so many more things. What else was she capable of if she could do such a hurtful thing?

She nodded, and prayed that Lauren didn't have another bomb with her like the video said.
Lauren laughed, did she really look like a criminal mastermind? She had been locked in a laboratory for two years, how different did she really look?

"Relax, you're safe." She held out her hands and smiled so the two girls wouldn't freak out. So far no one was reaching for the phone.

"I need a pen and paper." Lauren asked. She knew they had some in here somewhere.

The lady took a second, and then she reached behind the counter and supplied both. One was a black pen and the other was a pad for the tickets that they hand wrote items for guests receipts. It wasn't pure white, but it counted as paper.

Lauren got to work. She wrote down names, numbers, addresses, and then anything else she could recall.

And then right in bold letters, on the very bottom, she wrote the most important part and circled it. She slid the pen and pad back across the counter to the lady.

"Tell your boyfriend to look into it. Tell him that if he searches enough, he'll find some evidence that will make his career." She chuckled a little but and the two girls didn't laugh.

"Sorry for scaring you. Don't worry, I would never abandon a Pokemon." with that said she waved and walked out the door.

The two ladies weren't sure if they were supposed to call the police, or laugh and discuss what the heck just happened. They looked at the paper and read everything that Lauren had written down.

Lauren hurried through the streets with her hood on. She had somewhere to go, a score to settle, more importantly a life to save. That video could only have come from one place, Jack's video camera, and that could only come from the police station.

She smiled. If Jack was trying to escape and the whole police squad was on his tail, literally, well... She would make sure to keep the officers busy.

Lauren hurried up the street. She headed straight for the center of town, where the police headquarters were. Her thoughts wouldn't leave her alone.

She knew it. She always knew that there was something about that little smoke covered Eevee in her laboratory that was different. When he had tackled Chase and saved her life, she knew it wasn't just a random act of kindness from a Pokemon she didn't know.

It never made sense before. An Eevee covered in smoke running into a burning building just to scratch the Chief of police saving her life just to faint seconds after. The Espeon pulling it out of the fire was even more confusing.

But now, she knew. She knew exactly what happened.

Lauren stopped walking. She remembered the look Jack gave her, the one right before he fainted.

It wasn't a look of remembering. It wasn't a look of trying to communicate. It could only mean one thing.

Jack was begging for her to change him back. He was suffering every second and he just needed her to know. His wide blue eyes and scratched up fur were just begging for her to help him.

He was wild and alone and she was the closest thing he had to saving his life. Lauren wondered, how much pain was that Eevee going through? How much had Jack dealt with in the last few days?

She hurried her walk, racing through the street. She had to get there as soon as possible before she got caught.

It wasn't Jack's fault, it wasn't John or Chase's, it was hers. She had built a machine used to turn her life to normal, and instead, made Jack's more dreadful than anything she ever knew.

She had to make this right. She had to save his life and make hers right. She wished so badly she could feel what the little Eevee was going through.

She shook her head. But first, she had to make sure he stayed alive. If he got caught by the police, Jack could kiss his humanity goodbye and say hello to waking up in a cage in the Pokemon center where other humans would just be a mockery to him. And if he ever got adopted, it would be even worse.

She could not let Jack be, a truly wild Pokemon. She had to save his life. She hoped she would one day get to see her family again because she didn't know if saving Jack's life was worth the life she had given up. She just didn't know if she could ever give that up, even for her best friend.

...

"Ok everyone, settle down. Settle down."

Jake waved his paws about frantically. All the cubs were busy talking but slowly paid attention to him.

He stood up and smiled. "Ok, so I know all of you guys found me."

Before Jake could continue all the cubs cheered. He had to wait a few seconds for them to calm down.

It wasn't just them, even all the adults were watching. The game had been going on for hours and the cubs were really getting into it. The adults behind Jake couldn't wait to see if anybody found where the trained Eevee was hiding. The game had interested the whole pack very fast when everyone realized that no one was winning yet. It was unusual.

And of course, there was always the enticement of the juicy Oran berry that Jake held in his paw. Not one cub could take their eyes away from it.

"Ok," Jake continued on smiling. "I declare the game, officially over. Lets see if we have any winners." He smiled wider, more cubs cheered. He was turning into the best trainer ever.

Jake smiled. "You're goal was to find both me and Alisa. Did any of you guys find Alisa?"
Three cub's held up their paws.

"I did. She was by the water."

"No she wasn't. She was hiding that way."

"No! She was, um, she was..."

Jake just laughed. These cubs were terrible liars. At the realization that their plans were doomed, the three cubs gave up and put down their paws. They had been so close to stealing the berry, if only they were better liars.

Jake chuckled. "Did anybody find her?"

No one spoke up for ten seconds. Finally, Cheddar did.

"I did. I found her."
Everyone looked over. Jake was surprised to hear Cheddar speak up.

"You, you did?" He stared at her in disbelief. Cheddar? Really? She was like the noisiest cub here. Alisa would never get caught by her.

Cheddar explained. Fenray was still by her side smiling and kept his mouth shut. "We found him. Our team of me, Fenray, and Fenara found her past the stream and out past the cave. She was hiding in the tall grass where she could move around."
Jake looked at her funny. He then realized that Cheddar was telling the truth.

"Really?" Jake asked. "That's where she was?" He had no idea the whole time but he figured the wide open meadow grass was a perfect spot for her to hide, she would be able to move around and stay hidden.

Jake realized what he said. For a moment his ears fell back below his head in embarrassment. When he turned around, Shadow was frowning at him. He had told his father that he knew where his sister was the whole time.

Oh well, it was just a little fib right? Jake turned back around and smiled again.

"Well. If that's the case, congratulations!" He cheered and most of the other teams did.

Jake smiled. Of all the teams, Fenara, Fenray, and Cheddar managed to find her. He slowly walked through the crowd to where Cheddar was waiting for him in the back.

Jake walked up. Cheddar held out her paw and had that look like she deserved the whole berry for herself. Fenray just rolled his eyes. For some reason Cheddar had told him not to say anything this whole time at the threat of getting his tail stepped on.

Jake held out the berry, and then stopped. "Wait a minute." He looked at Cheddar questionably.

Cheddar rolled her eyes and held out her paw farther. "Come on, give it up Jake." She pointed to the berry just waiting. She did find Alisa, she completely deserved the berry in front of her.

Jake laughed. "How did you guys find her anyways? Alisa wouldn't just give away her position to you guys for no reason." His sister was too smart to get caught by a team like this. It didn't make sense.

Fenray perked up. "Actually, she did. It was funny, she was talking to Ra..."

Cheddar kicked him in the tail. Fenray flinched.

"Fenray. I told you not to talk about him."

"Who? Raz..." He got kicked again.

Jake looked at the two of them funny. Fenray quit tugging at Cheddar's ear and she stopped pushing against Fenray's face.

"Fenray?" Jake asked. They both looked over. "Did you guys really find her, or is this all a hoax?"
Fenray smiled. "We did find her. Cheddar's telling the truth. Or at least most of it." At this he growled at her slightly. Why couldn't he talk about Razor? It was like he was some kind of forbidden secret to speak of whenever he was around the pack.

Jake laughed. "Well. I believe you." He handed the berry to Cheddar and everyone cheered.

Cheddar took it so fast it nearly broke Jake's paw. She held it up to her mouth.

The whole pack was staring at her. Jake was smiling at her knowing what she was going to do. She sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Fine." Cheddar whined. She took her paw and tore it in half losing most of the juices. She gave the other half to Fenray who was licking his lips.

Jake smiled. Poor Cheddar looked like she was going to cry since most of the juice spilled on the grass below her. Jake knew she wouldn't hesitate to lick it off the dirt if she had to.

Jake looked at the two of them. Wait, wasn't there a third member?

"Where's Fena..."

Jake stopped talking. A small rustling noise was heard over to his right. His ears twitched and he looked over to the sight.

The whole pack turned their heads. Alisa was dragging Fenara across the ground. Two steps, and then she pulled on her neck again dragging the Fennekin. Another two steps, and then pull again.

Alisa made it. She turned around to face the pack, she had finally dragged her friend the whole way to safety.

She turned. There was blood all over her paws, and blood on her face.

"Alisa!" Shadow screamed and ran right over. Immediately the pack blew up in chaos.

Shadow ran right up and put her paw to Alisa's bleeding face.

Her eyes started to close. "Dad I..."

"Don't talk. Just stay awake." Shadow ordered. His daughter fell limp into his paw. The scratches on her face were deep enough to make her lose enough blood to pass out. She felt light but it wasn't like the bubbles that lifted her up before. This was much worse, her instincts yelled at her to stay awake and not give in.

Shadow looked at his daughter. She had been attacked, the scratches on her face were deep but not enough to send her into unconsciousness. She was running off adrenaline and her body was finally catching up to her after pulling a heavy cub for so long.

Alisa fought it. She had to stay awake. Her vision was black but she didn't want to faint with the whole pack here staring at her. That would be embarrassing.

Shadow knelt down and began addressing her wounds. At the wipe of his paw, she already felt much better.

"You're face is cut up." Shadow said worried. "What happened?"
Alisa tried to talk. "He, I..." She couldn't do it. She fell over again into his paws.

Shadow didn't get it. Only her face was injured, but... "Alisa, why are your paws bloody."

Everyone looked up. Jake, Shadow, and Tailo all looked up at the Fennekin in the grass in front of them.

Tailo screamed. "Nooo!"
He barged right through Jake, shoving him aside, and stood over his daughter.

"No, no! Fenara! Hey?" He pawed at her cheek. Instantly his paw was red. "Fenara? Please!"

She squirmed a little. "Dad?" She whispered. She tried to open her eyes but the cut's went right through her face. Her eyelid had been torn by one of the claws. Her face felt like hot needles were being shoved into it every time she dared to move.

Tailo had been alive for a long time, he knew how to deal with wounds but there was so much blood, he couldn't tell what he was dealing with.

He knelt down and gently pushed her cheek so Fenara rolled over. She whimpered quietly since it stung, so badly.

He wiped the blood away, and flinched.

"Berry. Give me the berry now." He ordered holding out his paw.

Cheddar had already eaten hers. Fenray ran up to Tailo and held his half out.

Tailo grabbed it and crushed it in his paws. He gently wiped his daughter's face one last time and then held his paw over it.

The berry soaked in. Fenara cried.
"Ow!" She whined and tensed her face. "It, it hurts."
Tailo didn't care. It was helping her out. He prayed that it wasn't infected or she was hurt anywhere else he didn't see.

The claw marks were so deep, he feared his daughter would never recover from this. Her whining right now from the pain was almost unbearable. Anytime he wiped it free, more blood just came back. It was a Pokemon's worst nightmare to be injured like this.

Alisa was recovering. The few scratches on her face weren't bleeding anymore and her mind was coming back. She had stopped pulling the heavy Fennekin and her muscles were starting to work.

She stood up, and looked over at the bleeding Fennekin. "Fenara?"

Everyone looked up. Shadow looked at Alisa, Jake did also.

Tailo looked up and frowned. "Back off guys!" He growled. "Back off. I'm trying to save my daughter."

Tailo immediately had to readdress the wound when Fenara squeaked in pain. He was doing the best he could.

Shadow stood up tall. "He's right guys." He turned around to the rest of the pack. "Everyone leave. This isn't for your eyes. Give him some room, we need to do all we can to make sure she stays alive."

Most of the Pokemon agreed. They didn't want to, but they turned around and walked off taking one last hopeful glance towards the young Fennekin in the front. The mothers quickly grabbed their cubs hoping that they didn't manage to sneak a glance at the sight. This wasn't something they wanted their cubs to see.

The last one to leave was Fenray. He took one last look and then ran up to his mom crying. She did her best to comfort the crying cub as she watched from a distance.

Eventually, Tailo and Shadow were left alone. Jake was still there staring at his sister and the bloody mess before him. He looked at Fenara and immediately shut his eyes. It was awful.

Alisa wanted to faint. Her dark secret still lurked around inside her and she was doomed.

"What happened?" Shadow asked.

Jake turned towards Alisa. She immediately looked away since she had been trying to read his expression

"Alisa? You did something." Jake growled at her. Tailo stood up tall, stopping him.

"Jake. She's your sister. We'll handle this together as family, as a pack, don't be mad at her."

Jake listened. He stopped growling at his sister who was scared to death. Jake only growled because he was afraid that the sister he loved just did something to threaten her. He had to make sure his sister was safe

Jake didn't scare Alisa, it was the truth inside her that did. Fenara knew exactly what happened back with Razor.

Shadow looked down at his daughter. "Alisa? Can you explain what happened?"
She started to sob. "Dad, please I..."

"Shh." Tailo interrupted. Fenara was stirring.

The father had done all he could, already the wounds were better and the blood stopped flowing. The three gashes on her face went clean from her eye, to the lower part of her chin.

Fenara flinched. "Ow. Dad, it hurts."

"I know." Tailo said quietly. "Can you talk?"

Fenara tried. When she moved her mouth on the right side, it stung like mad.

"It hurts daddy." She whined. She had never felt so much pain.

She tried to stand up, Tailo pushed her back down.

"No. Don't stand, just rest. Get all the energy you can." He hoped his daughter didn't faint. That would be too much for him.

Fenara had to speak. "Dad. She, Alisa..."
Everyone listened in. Alisa could feel her heart skipping. She sunk so low that her body was lower than her tail.

"She, she kissed him." Fenara muttered. "Right on the cheek. She kissed Razor."

Even Tailo was surprised. Jake, Shadow, and Tailo all looked up, and then turned right to Alisa.

She was hoping she could get away. When they all looked over at her trying to sneak off, she froze.

Alisa let out the highest pitch phrase she had ever had. "Uh oh."

Fenara had to say it. She stood up on her shaky paws trying not to faint. "It's true. She kissed him, right on the cheek. Razor attacked me and I..."

She fell, right on her face. The scream she gave when her wounds met the ground made Tailo jump back to reality instantly.

He flipped her over and pressed his gentle paw against her cheek to soothe the pain.

Tailo looked up. "Shadow please, give us some room. She needs to heal first." He looked at the Umbreon as if he was begging him to just leave them alone. Tailo knew Shadow was confused, he was too, but his daughter's safety was obviously more important.

Shadow jumped awake. "Uh, yes. Of course." He turned around to his two cubs.

He looked at Jake. He was biting his lip and his ears were below his head. He was so scared, he had lied about knowing where his sister was to his father.

Shadow looked down at Alisa. She was so low to the ground that the grass around her almost concealed her body. She could feel her cheeks burning so red that the cuts on her face were nothing compared to how her cheeks felt from embarrassment.

Shadow glared at both of them. "Come with me." He walked off slowly.

Jake didn't know what to do. He watched as his father strode off.

He glared right back at Alisa. "Sis? What did you do?" He growled at her.

She couldn't answer. She just looked up at his terrified face knowing that anything she said wouldn't matter. Surprisingly, it wasn't anger that she saw. Her brother was more scared for her than he was for himself.

Jake took his eyes away from her, and walked off towards his father. Alisa had never felt so alone.

Ten seconds passed and Jake caught up with Shadow about ten yards away from where Alisa still sat alone

They quickly talked, Jake's ears fell below his head and he swore that he didn't know what was going on. He was just as scared as his sister.

They both looked over, right at her. Alisa could feel the squeak erupt from her mouth. They were silently asking her to come to her doom.

Very, very, slowly... She walked over to her father. Each step was an eternity in her mind but she wished she could go even slower if she could. No amount of time was going to keep her from her father, her doom was imminent with every step she took.

Eventually, she couldn't go any slower and she reached both her father and her brother. She made it to the small circle and crouched low to the ground.

"Explain." Shadow commanded, staring at both of them. "Now!"

"Dad. Please, I don't know." Alisa begged. It was a lie.

Jake wanted to speak but he couldn't just yet. He couldn't betray his sister.

"What happened Alisa?" Shadow growled slightly. "Why is it that you had to drag Tailo's unconscious daughter back here, covered in blood!"

Alisa didn't know what to say. "It was an accident. He didn't mean to."

She stopped. Oops.

"Who?" Shadow commanded. "Who didn't mean to?"

"No. Please." Alisa started begging. "Please. It was an accident."

Shadow couldn't control himself. "Who attacked Fenara!" He yelled standing up.

Jake shoved him. "Dad, stop." He demanded. "You're scaring her."

It was true. Alisa was hardly able to control herself. Her breathing was frantic and she felt like she was going to have a heart attack.

Very slowly, the black faded from her eyes. Her anger left her.

Jake was more in charge here. He walked up beside his sister and knelt in close to her. Immediately she was more comforted.

Shadow understood what he was doing. He had no intentions of hurting his daughter, he was just, so scared.

"Ok." He took a deep breath with his eyes closed and let it out. "Ok. So what happened?"
Alisa felt that she had to explain. "Razor attacked Fenara."
"Why?" Shadow asked, keeping his temper down.

"Because, because he..." Alisa couldn't say it.

Jake was piecing it together. He looked at his sister for a second with crossed eyes.

Suddenly, he stood up. "Wait. That's why, that's why you were all loopy." He pieced it together right in his mind, he pointed over to Fenara. "She said, she said you kissed..."
"No." Alisa begged him. "No, please Jake. Please!"

"Dad." Jake whipped around. "Razor attacked Fenara because... Because Alisa's in love with him!"
Shadow flinched. "What?"
"It's true." Jake continued. He ignored his sister's pleading. "Alisa was acting all loopy today, she couldn't think like Fenara did when she fell in love with Fenray. I found her waking up inside Razor's cave this morning."

That was it. Alisa let her head collapse to the ground. She was doomed, her entire life was gone.

Shadow looked over at his daughter. "Is that true?" He asked Alisa.

Alisa started sobbing at first, and then she full out cried.

"I'm sorry!" She whined for ten seconds.

Jake instantly felt terrible, but, this had to be said and his sister was trying to hide it. She couldn't hide this, he had to say it for his own sister's safety.

Shadow was confused. His daughter was in love? How did it come to this?

He gently leaned down and brushed the tears away from her cheek. "Alisa. It's ok. I forgive you."
Alisa's ears perked up. "Re, really?" She sobbed.

Shadow smiled. "Of course. You're my daughter. Just tell me what happened."
Alisa felt much better. She feared Shadow was going to kill her for saying it.

Before she started, Tailo walked over. In his teeth, held by her neck, was a much better looking Fenara.

He set her down gently. She sat, completely exhausted on the grass. She could hardly stand but she was awake and did everything in her will to ignore the pain on her cheek.

Tailo smiled. He looked over at Shadow who had a worried look. He nodded, his daughter was ok. Immediately Shadow felt better.

Fenara looked over at Alisa. She could hardly open her eye where she got scratched.

"I'm sorry." She mouthed. Alisa got the meaning immediately.

"Ok," Tailo stood up tall and sighed. "Someone, anyone, just tell me exactly what happened."

Everyone looked over at Alisa. She swallowed and prayed they wouldn't kill her for this.

"Um, Razor? He, um..." She didn't know what to say.

Jake was up instantly. "Tell them the truth Alisa."

"Razor kissed me." Alisa confessed. Tailo immediately went wide-eyed.

"What? Why?" He complained. Shadow looked up at him telling him to be quiet.

"He, he..." Alisa kept explaining. "He let me into his cave, and I fell asleep. He carved my symbol on the wall."

Tailo listened, Fenara did too. All eyes were fixed on Alisa, even if she wasn't making any sense.

"After I woke up, I told him that I loved him, and then he kissed me on the cheek and ran off." Alisa put her paw up to her cheek.

She smiled, Jake felt sick just hearing it.

"I woke up the next day, loopy and confused," at this Alisa pointed at her brother since he had explained it. "And then when I was hiding, he came back and told me he was sorry."

"Why?" Shadow asked. "Why was he sorry?"
"Because he kissed me and he didn't know if I loved him back." Alisa explained in between her sobs.

"Did you?" Jake, Tailo, and Shadow all asked at the same time.

Alisa thought about, and then smiled. "Yes. That's why I kissed him."

Immediately Jake looked horrified. Shadow and Tailo couldn't give looks that described how they felt.

Fenara spoke up. "Why? I saw you guys kiss, why do you like him?" She asked it as if asking Alisa if she was insane or not.

Alisa looked over. "I, I like him because..." She didn't have an answer.

That was what Fenara feared. She jumped straight up. "Alisa. You can't be with him. He's gross!" She growled.

Alisa frowned. "No he's not!" She yelled right back. "He's nice. You don't know him like I do."

"He's a freak." Fenara growled.

"He's lost his family!" Alisa shot straight back.

"Enough!" Tailo forced his daughter to stop from lunging at her friend. "Enough Fenara. That's enough."
"What?" Fenara looked up at her father. "You, you can't agree with her." She pointed her paw at Alisa accusingly. "He attacked me." Fenara complained.

"Actually, you attacked him." Alisa stated. "You threatened him first."

Tailo wouldn't have this. These two friends didn't need to be exchanging mean words like this.

"Fenara." He ordered grabbing her attention. "Why would you judge him before you know Razor?"
Fenara was put on the spot. "Because dad. He's, he's Razor."
Tailo looked her right in the eyes. "Yes, but Alisa approves of him. Doesn't that mean anything?"

Fenara didn't know. She looked over at her friend.

She had been friends with Alisa for a few days now, and they loved each other a lot. They looked out for each other.

She swallowed. "But, but he's..."
"Different." Shadow interrupted. "I know, he's different. Different than any Pokemon I ever knew. He scares me too."

Alisa felt her heart drop. Her father didn't approve of this. Uh oh.

"But," Shadow perked up. "If you're telling the truth Alisa. I think there's some talking that needs to be done. We need to straighten some things out between you three." He pointed to Fenara and Alisa and meant the third to be Razor.

When he pointed to Alisa, he winked. The fact that Alisa was in love just made him want to laugh and be all giddy. She reminded him of how Eseral acted all the time. She loved romantic stuff.

Jake was rubbing his neck. "Yes, but..." He stopped and everyone looked at him.

He looked right at his sister, he was more confused than ever. "Alisa? Why... Razor?" He said the word like he was some kind of disgusting unspoken thing. He even stuck out his tongue after saying it.

Alisa chuckled. Why did she like Razor?

"Um," She pulled on her ear. "I, I don't know. He's cute, I guess."

Both Fenara and Jake scoffed. "Cute?" They both said and then looked at each other.

Alisa shrugged. "I don't know. He's different." How was she supposed to describe it?

She knew how. She felt her head getting lighter already. "He, he kissed me and..."
"Oh boy." Shadow rubbed his paw on his face and laughed. "She's in love. It's obvious." He pointed to his daughter, already she was feeling the bubbles come back and didn't know she was being talked about.

Tailo laughed. "Razor huh?" He thought for a moment, and then stuck out his tongue. "Eww."

Jake laughed. Fenara chuckled, finally someone was understanding her side of the argument.

Alisa came back from the clouds. "Wait." She interrupted. Everyone looked back down at her, she no longer felt like her cheeks were burning red.

"Um..." If she was ever going to ask it, now was the time. "What do I do? I can't get him out of my head. He's so..." She smiled and the feeling jumped right back.

Shadow smiled. "Well we go meet him of course." He answered like it was obvious.

Everyone jumped up. "What?"
Shadow laughed again. "Come on guys. If Alisa and Razor are in love, we have to get the two together. Razor's going to have to join the pack."

Everyone gave mixed reactions. Loudest of all of them, was Fenara.

"WHAT!" She screamed.

Tailo was starting to see the point. "I think you're right Shadow. We can't deny love, but we can make it easier for Alisa. If Razor truly loves her, and she loves him, we should let them be together."

"Oh come on!" Fenara complained. She was starting to sound like Cheddar.

Shadow just laughed some more. "I can't believe this. My daughter's in love with the grossest, sickest, most undeniably horrendous smelling Eevee that lives."

Alisa chuckled. That pretty much summed it up.

Fenara was way not on board. "Are you all crazy? You can't let Razor join our pack!"

"Why not?" Tailo questioned. He looked down at Fenara with a huge grin on his face. This idea of Alisa being in love was so funny that even he was having to accept it.

Fenara had a million reasons why not. "Because! He's dangerous."

"Would he attack again for no reason?" Tailo asked Alisa.

Alisa shook her head. Razor wouldn't do that. She smiled at the thought of his name.

Fenara tried again. "But, but he's so creepy. He sits alone in his cave."

"Fenara." Tailo got low to her level. "That's selfish of you to think that. He's lost both his parents."
Fenara was running out of support. "But, no! He can't be a part of our pack!" Him? Razor? No way, not in a million years.

Tailo had one last card to play. "Sweetie, do you trust Razor?"

"No!" Fenara screamed.

"Ok, but do you trust Alisa?"

Fenara was about to answer, when she thought twice about it.

She looked over at her friend. She tried to read her expression knowing that whatever she said made their friendship hang in the balance.

Fenara looked at the scared Eevee's face. If Fenara said no, she was going to blow up in tears.

Even though that Eevee had been nothing but self-obsessed since she first met her, Fenara couldn't deny her friend what she most wanted. Even if it meant something like this.

She fell down to the ground and shoved her paws over her face. She had one last thought run through her head.

Razor, the horrific smelling Eevee that permanently left her face scarred and tried to kill her... Was going to be a part of her pack?

She gulped. They were all doomed.

"Ok." She whispered beneath her breath. Razor had her permission to make her life horrible.

"Good." Tailo shot upright. "It's settled then. All paws up for Razor joining the pack."

Shadow raised his paw and smiled. Tailo did too. At a painful nudge to her side, Fenara raised her paw up too.

There was one last vote. Everyone turned to Jake.

His ears lowered and he started rubbing his neck. "Um, I just, I don't think..."

He looked down at his sister. She was going to die if he said no.

Jake gave in. he sighed and raised his paw. "Fine. Only because Alisa would kill me if I didn't." Anything for his sister right?

Alisa caught his meaning. She smiled so wide the cuts on her face hurt. Her brother was always looking out for her, doing the right thing. She couldn't have wanted a better sibling.

She beamed at him in joy, Jake just winked.

"But," Jake interrupted before Tailo could approve. Alisa's smile disappeared.

"He can join, only if he takes a bath." Jake finished. He stared at Tailo waiting for his decision.

Tailo thought about it. "Yes. I agree. Lets get him smelling like us before we start to smell like him."

Jake cheered, already Fenara felt better with a bath established. She hoped she was personally the one who had to clean his fur. She would claw him up so badly...

"Ok then." Tailo stood up tall. "That's done. Sorry for any bad feelings, but Razor's joining the pack."

Alisa squeaked in delight. "Eek." She jumped up on her back paws and fell onto her back.

The sky looked so awesome, everything smelled so sweet, and she was going to be able to talk to Razor for the longest time now, staying every night by his side.

It was perfect. She should've gotten her friends injured all the time if it turned out like this.

She thought about Razor, she smiled and started going up into the clouds but this time, she was actually able to think without her worry obsessing her.

Razor was joining the pack. Alisa wasn't sure if she just doomed them all or if she just had the best dream of her life come true.

Jake couldn't believe this. Both he and Fenara watched as Alisa stared up at the sky with her paws on her fur. She looked so calm, exactly the opposite of how Fenara felt.

"So," Fenara looked up at her father. "When does he join? Like in a week, two weeks?" She wanted to say in twelve years because by then she hoped she would be able to take him on in a fight.

Tailo smiled. "Right now sweetie. Shadow and I are going to find him right now." Tailo looked up at the smiling Umbreon to confirm this. Fenara felt her ears fall to her head. Did her father just say, right now?

Shadow understood what he meant. His smile disappeared and then he nodded.

"Ok." Shadow answered. "Jake?" Jake turned towards him. "Remind me to deal with your punishment after this."
Jake gulped. He said ok but immediately regretted doing so.

Shadow smiled, and then walked off. The three cubs were left alone.

Fenara felt like she wanted scream. Jake wasn't sure what he was feeling, he was just so stressed.

Alisa was so happy that she closed her eyes and wished Razor was right here, right now. She couldn't wait to see him again.

Jake laughed, and then laughed some more. "Razor? Really?"
Fenara rolled her eyes. "I hope he doesn't take the offer." She stuck out her tongue. "What's going to happen when he gets put in training?"
Jake laughed. "Well, I still think I could take him." He looked back down at Fenara's face and immediately regretted saying it.

Fenara had some time to think. She put a paw to her face, very gently. She had no idea what happened to her, she had yet to see her newly clawed up face.

The cuts were deep. They were clean though, the Oran berry had done some work but they tore straight past her fur and into her face. Any tough wild Pokemon would've thought she was the most fearless Pokemon alive for going after something so dangerous. She could probably make up a good story about how it happened.

She winced. Her paw touched just too hard. The sting came back worse but slowly faded. She still couldn't move her mouth completely or it stung.

Silently, on the sidelines, Cheddar had been waiting the whole time. When tailo and Shadow ran off, this was her chance.

She ran right up, and tackled Fenara to the ground.

"Fenara!" She screamed standing over her. "What happened? I've been waiting for forever!"

"Ow!" Fenara kicked Cheddar off her in one attempt. "Ow. Cheddar! You can't do that."

She jumped up and growled at her friend. Her whole face was throbbing. Leave it to Cheddar to shove her face in the dirt right after she just got brutally injured.

"Oops." Cheddar backed up looking guilty. "Um, sorry. I forgot."

Fenara ignored her. She touched her cheek and winced. "Ow." She gritted her teeth and braced for the stinging.

Cheddar had a thought. Without even thinking, she said it aloud.

"You know, with your face beat up, now your tail looks alright."

"What!" Fenara jumped up and tackled the Chespin. She screamed and tried to defend herself as Fenara pulled on her ears as hard as she could.

Jake just laughed. The two cubs rolled around on the ground yelling insults and trying to hit the other. Cheddar was playing dirty using Fenara's face as a target whether it hurt her or not.

Fenray was going to walk up peacefully but when he saw the two fighting, he figured it best to give them some room. He managed to walk all the way around until he stood by Jake's side.

Jake just laughed and fell to the ground. "Hi Fenray." He smiled staring up at the sky.

Fenray was already confused. "What happened? Is Fenara ok?"
Jake laughed. "Yes. She's mad because, well, Razor's joining the pack."

Fenray didn't give any reaction at all. Jake looked at him funny.

"Fenray?" Jake wondered if he even heard what he said. "Doesn't that scare you? I said Razor's joining our pack."
Fenray shrugged. Why should it? He hardly knew the Pokemon.

Jake couldn't believe it. It was like everyone was on a completely different page. No one thought the same about anything anymore. Even Fenray didn't know who Razor was?

He couldn't help it. He laughed so hard at what was happening that he almost cried. He rolled over and cried into the dirt because it was just too darn funny.

Fenray considered him crazy and turned away. The Jolteon was famous for laughing so why did he care. Fenara and Cheddar were busy yelling insults now instead of fighting.

Fenray looked over at Alisa. "Hey? What's wrong with her?"
Jake looked up and snorted from his laugh once before he was able to talk. "Alisa? She's fine. She's just in Lala land right now."
What the heck did that mean? Fenray stared at Jake but he just shrugged and let his head fall back down. Fenray was totally lost on everything.

He watched as Fenara tried again to attack Cheddar but she moved just too quick. Fenara aimed for her ears but Cheddar ducked just in time.

He chuckled, it reminded him of the dream he had. He never did manage to touch that pokemon. Watching Fenara was just like him trying to touch the intangible Bulbasaur.

Without thinking, he spoke aloud. "Come on Fenara. Get the Bulbasaur!"
Everyone stopped. Fenara froze and looked over at him, Cheddar jumped upright staring at the Fennekin. Even Alisa looked up from the ground.

"Huh?" Jake asked standing up. Did Fenray just say Bulbasaur?

"Oops." Fenray giggled. He just that aloud.

Everyone was staring at him for an explanation. He shrugged and figured why not tell them.

"Sorry. You two fighting reminded me of a dream I had." He pointed to Fenara and Cheddar. "There was a Bulbasaur in it and he kept insisting that I play with him."

Everyone stopped. Alisa shot upright and Jake jumped up in surprise.

Everyone stared right at Fenray as if he had said something truly insane. The words of a cub insisting he play, rang through every one of their minds.

Everyone, except Cheddar. She kicked Fenara off her while she had the chance. "That's for biting my ear you jerk!" She growled at her but Fenara wasn't even looking.

Fenara didn't even care. She shot upright and stared right at Fenray.

"Fenray, what did you say?" Fenara stammered pointing a shaky paw at him.

Fenray looked around him. Everyone had expressions like he just said a bad word in front of his mother.

"What? What did I do? I didn't say anything." His ears fell below his head and his crooked tail dropped. He hoped he didn't say anything wrong. He didn't believe that he did but what did he know that was aloud or not anymore.

Fenara got the nerve to talk. "You said, that you had a dream." She stammered on every word.

Fenray shrugged. "Yes, I did. It was about a Bulbasaur that kept insisting I play with him."
No one moved. Everyone listened intently except for Cheddar who wondered why everyone was acting weird.

Fenray continued. "Well, I was playing with him, and then suddenly, when I tried to touch him..." He held up his paw to mimic how he tried to hit the Bulbasaur in his game that he made when he was dreaming.

He looked up. Fenara's ears were straight against her head in fear, Jake looked like he was going to have a heart attack, and Alisa had actually rolled over and stared right at his paw as if she could see it happening.

Fenray crossed his eyes. Was this a joke or something?
"Fenray?" Fenara asked. "What happened when you touched him. Did he, explode? Into dust?"
Fenray's ears shot straight up. "Hey, how did you know?"

Everyone panicked. Jake let out some kind of shrill cry and Alisa squeaked in horror.

Cheddar didn't know what was going on. "Um, hello anyone?" She waved her paws but no one looked her way.

Fenara stared at Fenray. Fenray stared at Alisa. Alisa stared at her brother, and Jake stared at whatever was in front of him. He couldn't really tell from the panic attack he was having.

Everyone was frozen. Fenray finally spoke up.

"Why is everyone..." He stopped talking. Everyone was looking at him again.

So, right after he explained his dream, everyone froze. Then Fenara read his mind, and everyone looked like they were staring at a ghost.

Fenray's eyes went wide. "Wait a minute. Did you..."
"You said he was a Bulbasaur right?" Jake interrupted. Just by saying that he felt much better. He could actually breath. It wasn't the same thing anymore that they were dreaming.

Fenray looked up at him. He nodded once, confused.

"Oh, thank Arceus." Jake collapsed to the floor. "For a second there, I thought we shared the same dream. Mine was a Pikachu."

"Eep!" Alisa's ears shot straight upright. Everyone looked at her.

She was dumbstruck. "What? But, but, how did..." She couldn't speak.

Jake's eyes opened wide again. Alisa had the same dream too?

"Mine was a Pikachu!" Fenara exclaimed. "Wait. No, this isn't possible."

It was. They all looked around at each other. They all had very similar dreams.

"Um, hello?" Cheddar called from where she was. She waved her paws trying to get someone's attention. "Hey, am I the only one who doesn't know what this Pikachu talk is about?"
Fenara walked right up beside Alisa leaving Cheddar behind. She threw up her paws and sat down annoyed with her back to them. Why was she left out of everything?

"Um," Fenray stammered. He pointed a paw at everyone.

Then he laughed. "Wait, I know what's going on. You guys are trying to trick me huh?" Of course, the one day he gets to be awake and his friends were pulling a prank.

Fenara and Jake stared at each other. "Did you find out his name?" Jake asked.

Fenara shook her head. "No, but he kept asking you to play right?"
Jake was about to faint. "And then, after you touched him, he turned into..."

"Dust." Fenara finished. They both stood back.

Alisa couldn't believe it. "That's my dream!" She screamed. Everything except for the fact that her Pikachu was a girl.

Fenara's breathing quickened. "But, how's that possible? We can't all have the same dream? Can we?"
Jake shuddered. "Maybe there's some trickery here. Someone's pulling a prank."

Alisa didn't think so. She looked like she had something to say but it was crazy, she thought it was crazy when it happened to her.

"Um, I..." She couldn't finish. Everyone stared at her.

"Um, well," She took a breath and forced herself to talk. "Before Razor found me..."
Fenara rolled her eyes. Of course Alisa was still stuck in her lovesickness. She probably had no idea what they were talking about.

"Um, after Razor found me, I saw the Pikachu with my own eyes. She was right there."

Everyone looked over. Alisa felt her ears lower in embarrassment.

"It's true." She whined. "I saw her, she was exactly the same."
"Did you touch her?" Jake asked. He knew what would happen if she did touch her and it was the Pokemon from their dreams. Wait, his dream, not theirs, it was all too crazy to believe!

Alisa shook her head. "I wasn't able to. Razor knocked me over."

Fenara was about to lose her mind. "But, no. No, this can't be true."
Jake gathered his thoughts. "Ok listen." He pressed his paws against the ground and took a deep breath.

"I've been dreaming, that there's this cub that keeps wanting to play with me. At first I refused but then he wouldn't be quiet so I had to." He was trying to defend his position. He didn't know why he did, he just gave in eventually in his dream to the pestering cub.

"And then," Jake explained further. "When I tried playing with him, I reached for him and..." He paused and held up his paw to demonstrate.

"Well, he..." He was going to sound crazy. He hoped he didn't. "He exploded into yellow dust. I couldn't touch him!"

Fenara looked at him as if she understood. Alisa could hardly breath.

Fenray took a second to look around. "Ok, so everyone's having the same dream?" That was kind of weird. He still didn't believe it, he was just playing along with their little game.

No one knew, they didn't want to believe it. If it was true, then there was something seriously wrong here.

Fenray had an idea. "Ok. Raise your paw if it's true. We all had dreams."

Everyone raised their paw. Cheddar had walked off not seeing the point in this weird phenomena that didn't interest her at all so she went to find something else to do.

"Ok." Fenray put his paw back down and everyone else did. "So then, who had a young cub in their dreams?"
Everyone raised their paws.

Now it was starting to get weird. "Ok, um, did the cub keep begging to play with you over and over?"
Everyone nodded.

Fenray's ears fell straight down to his head. It's true! They were having the same dream.

"But, but," He stammered on his words. "How is that possible?"
No one knew. They looked around at each other but it was obvious no one had an answer. Fenray wasn't sure he could breath. He didn't think it was real, but now... This was absolutely crazy!

Jake had to know more. "Ok. So after you touched them, what happened?"
No one spoke up. They were too scared to.

Jake sighed. "Um, my cub kept complaining about a certain thing. After I was done playing, he kept asking me to go see... Her."
Everyone's paws went up.

"Ok," Jake was making progress. "Um, I said no. I was too scared. No one agreed to go see her right?"
Everyone's paw stayed up.

Very slowly, Fenray lowered his to the ground.

Everyone looked at him. He felt a hiccup reaching from his throat.

"Uh oh." He squeaked, his ears tight against his head.

Fenara was amazed. "Wait. Did you actually, go see her?"
Fenray nodded, very slowly. At this point in the dream everyone else had chickened out. Alisa didn't want to admit it, but even she was too scared to go see her.

Jake couldn't believe it. "What was she? Who was, her?" He jumped up and stared right at Fenray begging for an answer.

Fenray gulped. "I don't know. I didn't actually see her." He felt disappointed that he couldn't tell his friends. At least he had the courage to say yes to seeing her in the first place.

Jake sighed. "Ok, so you just heard about her then. So nobody's actually gone to go see her?"
Everyone's paws went up. Everyone except Fenray.

"Oh come on!" Fenray complained. Really? Was he the only one?

Fenara spoke up. "Fenray? What did you do?"

"I don't know!" He cried. "The cub kept asking me to go see her, so I did."

Everyone froze and paid attention.

Fenray continued. "I followed the Bulbasaur, he was supposed to lead me to her."

Jake sighed. "Ok, so does anyone actually know where she is?"

Fenray's paw shot up. Immediately he put it back down.

"Am, am I the only one?" Fenray felt like he wanted to cry. Why was he so different in this already crazy scenario?

Everyone stared at Fenray. Alisa spoke up in a quiet whisper. "You, you actually saw her?"
Fenray shook his head. "No, I went to her cave. There were weird markings and stuff."
Everyone felt like this was wrong, like this wasn't supposed to happen. They were already sharing their dreams, they didn't want anything else to happen, they wanted to know that they weren't being haunted.

"Do you think it's a ghost?" Alisa asked.

Fenray shook his head. "I doubt it. The cub seemed nice enough and it all happened in my dream. None of it was real."

Alisa doubted him. "Yes, except I actually saw her. I saw the Pikachu."
Jake doubted it too. He was with Fenray. "Alisa? Are you sure. It was probably another cub. You were obsessed with Razor at the time." Jake just wanted to know that his dreams were safe. This was already weird enough and if Alisa actually saw something? Well, he might lose his mind.

Alisa frowned. "I swear, I saw her. She was real. She was exactly the same."

Everyone had their doubts, but no one was sure.

Jake heard talking. All four of the cubs looked over when Fern was walking over

"Mom!" Fenray ran right up to her and hugged her. She didn't know why, but whatever these cubs were talking about was scaring him.

Fern looked up. Everybody looked like they were hiding something.

"Is everything alright?" Fern asked.

"Yes." Jake stood upright. "Everything's fine. We're just scared about what happened." It was a good lie. One of the quickest ones he had ever said.

Fenray walked back over. He tried to keep his nerves under control but hugging his mom helped a lot. She was glad to comfort him from whatever was going on.

She sighed, the four of them were just worried about Fenara and all. She knew what was going on.

"Um, ok." Fern smiled. "When you guys are done, I was wondering if you wanted to go berry hunting. I found a special batch and thought that all of you guys might want some."

Everyone perked up. that sounded like fun.

"Cool. See you guys soon then. Bye Fenray." She turned around and started walking off, not before she enticed them a little further though. "And in case you're all wondering, Cheddar has already eaten half of them so you should probably hurry."

Fenara chuckled. When she turned around back to her friends, her smile disappeared.

"Ok, listen." Jake commanded. He got low and whispered making sure only the four of them heard it. Fenray was paying attention too even though he was scared.

"Ok. Tonight at midnight meet me back here at this exact spot." Jake pointed at the ground below him. Everyone made note of it.

"And," he paused. "If anybody has the same dream tonight, make sure to..." He paused again and gulped. Already it was scaring him.

"Make sure to say yes. Go and see, her." Jake said the last word like "her" was some banished thing they couldn't speak of.

Fenara nodded. Alisa did also. Fenray had a thought but no one payed him attention since all eyes were fixed on Jake.

Fenray gulped. This was probably a bad time to say that he knew exactly how to find the cave from here. He could literally walk straight to it.

Jake stood still for eight seconds, and then stood up. This was the craziest thing he had ever heard of.

"Ok. Don't talk to anyone about it." He instructed. No one wanted to talk about it again anyways. "Just make sure to be here. We'll figure out what's going on tonight."

With that said all four cubs walked off. They silently agreed that this was the most insane thing they had ever faced.

Fenray was in a good mood. He wasn't sure if it was creepy that he knew the most about this dream than anyone else did, or if he was happy that he was brave enough to walk inside the cave in the first place.

He wondered, did seeing Tailo on the wall have anything to do with this? Had he just imagined it? What were his friends going to say?

He looked out across the meadow seeing nothing but grass. Past Razor's cave, past where Alisa was hiding, was where "her" was located.

He knew how to get there. He wondered, if his friends hadn't been, should he go alone to her cave, tonight?

He continued walking and forgot about the berries. He was taking a nap before his mind went crazy over all this.

Really, he just wanted to see the Bulbasaur that he had gotten along so well with. They had played for days, they had fun together when he was unconscious.

He just wanted to see that cave wall again. One last time.

He walked to where his mother had laid him down before when he was knocked out. He hoped his mother wouldn't mind that he lied about eating berries with her. He was just too confused, eating was the last thing on his mind.

He fell asleep. He hoped that tonight he would have that dream and be able to see "her" for the first time.