(Grant)
I awoke to my ear being tugged. I looked towards the culprit. The silver eevee was tugging my ear in hopes to wake me up. "Good morning Thunder," I said with a smile.
"Come on Daddy! Get up!" He said with an excited and playful tone.
I slowly pushed myself up to a sitting position. "What's up Thunder?" I asked.
"Can we do something?" He asked bouncing from left to right.
"What do you want to do?" I asked him.
He planted his butt down and looked at me with a tilted head. "What is there?" He asked.
"Well, I still need to introduce you to everyone, late hatcher," I said nuzzling him. Our cheeks contacted and he was jolted back. We both giggled.
"Can we do that now?" He asked.
"Yes… but we need your mother up first," I said composing my diabolical scheme.
"Okay…" he said in a whisper.
"Okay, so I need you to pull on her ear and if that doesn't get her up, I'll give her a little shock, okay?" I said with a devilish grin.
"Okay I got it!" He said playfully. Thunder jumped up onto the bed and began pulling Eve's ear. Her eyes opened tiredly, saw Thunder and went back to sleep.
The devilish grin came back upon my face as I jumped up onto the bed. I got right beside Eve and counted down from three. "Okay… three… two… one," I shocked Eve, causing her to jump up. Her eyes now fully awake and witnessing both me and Thunder laughing our heads off. I turned towards her and saw her charging something. "Thunder, get ready," I said.
"Get ready for what?" He asked
Eve shot out a shadow ball at me, causing me to fall off the bed. "I'm okay!" I said. "That's the one rule about playing pranks, Thunder, expect it to happen back,"
"Fun!" exclaimed Thunder.
"Morning Eve!" I said still on the ground.
"Morning Grant!" She said back. I jumped back onto the bed and Lucy's eyes opened and she let out a cute little yawn.
"Good morning Lucy," I said. She looked up at me and smiled.
A knock was heard. "Grant, Eve? You awake?" Asked Jess on the other side.
"Yeah, it's open!" I replied back.
Jess slowly opened the door. Her head looked towards us. She smiled and walked in. "I went out and bought a couple pokéballs," Jess said holding two of the spherical pokéballs.
"Thanks Jess, finally you have a full team," I said smiling.
Her eyes turned towards Thunder and she smiled even wider. "Hello there!" She said. "What's your name?"
"I'm Thunder!" He said back.
"So they can talk huh?"
"Jess, they are our kids, we both can speak so I don't see why they couldn't," I said.
"Daddy, who are they?" Thunder asked
"That's your aunt Jess," I said to him.
He looked at her for a little bit before walking over to her slowly. Jess extended her arms and picked him up. Jess began petting him and Thunder seemed to love it.
"You are adorable!" Jess said to him.
He smiled and kicked his hind legs.
"Why did you name him Thunder?" Jess asked
"Look to his side," I said. Jess turned Thunder to the side and saw the lightning blue jolt that ran down his side.
"That's so cool," Jess said.
"Yeah. Now, did you want us?" I asked
"Yes, we are waiting for you lot to come down," Jess said.
"Yeah, we'll be down in a bit," I said. I turned towards Eve, Lucy and Thunder. "Come on you lot, let's go down stairs," I said jumping off the bed. Thunder looked over the bed and backed away from the edge. "Don't worry Thunder, I'll catch you," I said. Thunder looked over the edge again and dropped down into my arms. He is rather small, not even half the size of Eve. But, he is the cutest shiny eevee you could ever see.
Lucy looked over the edge and dropped down onto Eve. I placed Thunder down and we began walking. We turned to the stairs and began to walk down. Thunder was having some trouble with them, almost tripping over his feet on some of them. I picked him up and carried him down the remaining stairs, when we hit the bottom I let him down again and he slowly walked beside me. We turned into the kitchen and Shimmer looked over to us. She ran towards Thunder and he darted behind my legs.
"Careful there Shim, you're going to give the kid a heart attack," I said with a chuckle. "It's okay, you can come out," I said behind me to Thunder. He slowly began walking out from behind my legs and searched for a little bit. He cautiously began trotting towards Shimmer.
Shimmer was standing there patiently with a massive smile on her face. He reached her and sat down, his big eyes scanning the silver fox. "Hi there," Shimmer said in her voice of silk.
Thunder turned his head and smiled, "Hi!" He said quickly.
"No need to be scared Thunder, that's your aunt Shimmer," I said.
Shimmer shot a small ember above him, it popped and poured ash on him. Thunder began playing around in the black powder. "Aww… you're so cute!" Shimmer said giving him a small nuzzle.
Joey slowly walked beside Shimmer and looked at Thunder. Thunder turned towards Joey and his eyes widened. He stood there still, like a statue as the shiny umbreon stared at him.
"Hello," Thunder said.
"Hello to you too! I'm your uncle Joey," Joey said with a smile.
Jess walked into the kitchen still holding the pokéballs. "Grant, Eve. Do you two mind if I capture Lucy and Thunder?" She asked.
"I don't mind," I said.
"That's okay," Eve said.
My look turned towards Thunder, who was playing around with Joey. "Thunder, come here for a bit," I said. Thunder turned his gaze over to me and he began walking over to us. Lucy was already by my side. "Okay, so you two are going to be captured," I said. "Don't worry, it isn't anything to be scared of,"
Thunder took a step towards Jess and Jess kneeled down. She slowly pulled up the pokéball and tapped it on his head. Thunder was engulfed by a blue light and the ball began to shake. It shook three times before stopping. Jess released Thunder from the ball and he looked around the room. "You're fine," I said. He looked at me and smiled.
The sound of Lucy coming out of the ball was heard and she looked over at Eve. I can't wait until they are old enough to begin training. We are going to have so much fun.
Night fell and both Lucy and Thunder were restless. Their bodies were tossing and turning, their eyes were wide open and it was doing my head in.
"Why won't they sleep Grant?" Eve asked tiredly.
I looked at her and smiled. "I have an idea," I said
"What would that be?" Asked Eve.
"A bedtime story,"
"What story would you tell them?" She asked.
"I have a good one in mind," I answered. "Lucy, Thunder!" I called. They both walked over to me and sat down. "Obviously you two are having trouble getting to sleep, so sit back and listen for a while." Interested, they both inched closer to me. "Okay… One day there was a pikachu travelling around with a trainer. On this day, they both met up with another group of people…"
(Eve)
Oh my Arceus! He's telling OUR story!
Grant's story continued; "These people were welcoming and gave them lunch. The pikachu met a lot of other pokemon, and they all greeted him with a smile… that is all except one. A lone eevee hiding behind their trainer's legs, terrified of the pikachu,"
"Why was the eevee scared of the pikachu?" Asked Thunder
"He'll get to that, Thunder," I said
(Grant)
Yep, she picked up on it. "Anyway, the eevee was scared of the friendly and inviting pikachu, although curiosity got the best of her and she moved out from behind her trainer's legs. The eevee was sad, the kind pikachu saw this and led her away from everybody else. They had a conversation when the sky became dark, the clouds were swirling so they decided to head back. But, on the way back a bolt of lightning hit the tree and the pikachu warned the eevee to run before it hit her. The tree fell on the pikachu,"
I looked towards Eve because I didn't know this part.
(Eve)
"The eevee looked around her to see if the pikachu was nearby. He was not. She quickly ran back to the tree in the mud and her wet fur coat dragging her down. The pikachu was there, tree beside him and blood leaking out of his head,"
"No!" Thunder shouted.
"The eevee picked up her pace toward the pikachu and inspected him. He was out cold. She needed to find shelter before they both froze from the cold. She dragged the pikachu into a hole beneath a tree out of the cold and snuggled next to him to keep him from freezing. The next day, the pikachu was still knocked out, so she decided to wander off to find food. Not far from the den there was an Oran berry bush with ripe Oran berries growing on it. The eevee took a few back to the den and wondered how to give it to the pikachu. She decided to bite a hole in the berry and juice it into the mouth of the pikachu, he swallowed the juice and the eevee lay down next to him to make sure he was okay."
"Is the pikachu okay?" Lucy asked
"Oh, he's just fine!" I said. "The eevee spent days taking care of the pikachu whilst he was unconscious. One of these days, the pikachu woke up and the eevee was so overjoyed she jumped up onto him and almost slammed him against the wall,"
(Grant)
"The eevee had tears running down her face and her grip on the pikachu was tight. The pikachu asked "why did you come back?" And the eevee just replied "because I couldn't live with myself if I lost you." The pikachu blushed and said "You didn't need to do that. The eevee just looked at him and said "I just wanted you to be safe!""
"What happened next?" Thunder asked excitedly.
"You'll have to wait," I said. Thunder curled down and fell asleep. I high-fived Eve and we both fell asleep.
A month passed and now I feel confident in training both Thunder and Lucy. Thunder has grown up a lot, getting taller than Eve. Lucy still needs to evolve but she'll get there soon enough. The light shining on my face and the feeling of my ear being tugged woke me up. Thunder was trying to get me out of bed. He is an eager little bastard, I'll give him that. My eyes looked at the shiny grey coat of the eevee standing in front of me. The lightning blue bolt birthmark has grown and he looks like a real champ.
"Lemme guess," I started, "You want to start training. Right?" I asked Thunder.
"Yes Dad! Come on!" Thunder exclaimed as he bounced from left to right.
"How about your sister? Is she ready?" I asked.
Thunder moved over to Lucy, who was having a nice little pichu dream, and began shaking her awake. Lucy looked at him with tired eyes. "What do you want Thunder?" She asked in a yawn.
"Dad's going to teach us how to fight! Just like that Pikachu!" He said bounding from side to side, completely oblivious to the Pikachu in question sitting right next to him.
"Okay… I'm getting up," Lucy said getting to her feet.
I led Thunder and Lucy to the battlefield. It was worn down and needed fresh paint but that won't be an issue. "Now then!" I started. "We have to establish some rules. Firstly, always pay attention to what I have to say, you never know when it will come in handy. Second, no attacking any spectators, either of you try and attack the other when they are not in battle we will stop immediately, understand?" I got a very quick and understanding nod from both of them. "Okay, now let's get started!" I said.
"Lucy, we'll start with you," I said.
Lucy got to her feet and walked towards me. "What do I have to do dad?" She asked
"I need you to go to the other side of the battlefield, okay?"
"On it!" She said excitedly running to the other side.
"Now, before I teach you two anything, I want you to show me what you have, Thunder stand back, you'll get your turn soon," I said. Thunder quickly got off the battlefield. "Lucy, I want you to come at me with all you've got!" I said. "Begin!" I shouted. Lucy began running towards me extremely fast, I was hit by a quick attack, didn't feel much of anything. She began to continue her attacks followed by a quick attack and scratch. None doing much damage, Lucy was tired and Thunder was looking on curiously. Lucy sat down and began panting. "Not bad for a little pichu," I said before giving her a slight nuzzle. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Eve take a seat beside Thunder. Lucy began to glow a vibrant blue. Her body began changing shape, her tail extended and formed a heart shape at the tip, her feet grew and her ears thinned and grew longer. The light subsided from her and she looked around. "Lucy! You just evolved!" I shouted in joy.
I hugged her small pikachu body. "I know dad! It felt so weird!"
"That being said, it is Thunder's turn to show me what he has got," I said. "Thunder!" I called "It's your turn." Almost as soon as the words left my mouth he was right next to me with his tail wagging.
"I'm ready dad!" He exclaimed
"Okay then, go over to the other side and get ready," I said. Thunder quickly got to his side. "Begin!" I shouted. He ran at me and began his onslaught of attacks with tackle, followed up by quick attack. Both were not hurtful but I did feel them a little bit more than Lucy's attacks, he continued with the same attacks over and over.
(Eve)
"Mom?" Lucy began
"Hmm?"
"This has been bothering me for a while but why is dad's tail like that?" She asked
"Well… you see, your father has been through a lot, he did once have a full Pikachu tail, but after an event he lost a lot of the tip of it," I explained.
"What caused it to…"
"Okay, that's it. Lucy come in here," Grant said as Thunder was panting on the ground.
(Grant)
Time to teach them some moves. "I think it is about time you two learned a new move. I use this move quite a lot. It is called iron tail," I said. "Now, all you have to do is think about something heavy is running through your tail, imagine that it is a heavy metal and it will happen. Let me show you," I said. I walked closer to the middle of the field and charged up an iron tail.
"Wow!" Thunder said.
"Now you two try," I said. I watched them as their eyes closed tight and began thinking hard. I saw Thunder's tail begin to glow before a shiny grey material surrounded it. Not to throw off Lucy's concentration, I didn't comment, soon Lucy's tail did the same thing and coated itself in the same metal. "Well done you two!" I said. They both opened their eyes and looked at their tails.
"I did it!" Thunder exclaimed.
"You both did, well done! You two really are a chop off the old block," I said. "Now, would you like to see how it works in battle?" I asked.
"Yes!" They both shouted at the same time.
"Eve! Can you come over here?" I asked.
Eve walked over beside me. "What is it Granty?" She asked
"I need to ask if you want to demonstrate how an iron tail works in battle," I said.
"Sure," she said walking to the other side of the battlefield. Lucy and Thunder walked to the side of the battlefield and I took position. "Thunder, can you start the battle?" I asked. He quickly ran to the middle and shouted "Battle begin!" Before just as quickly getting off of the field. Both me and Eve ran at each other with iron tail charged. We began dueling like pirates with swords. "Don't hold back sweetie," I said. Eve jumped high in the air and swung her tail, I quickly dodge and swing my tail at her, it connected and she fell to the ground. I slowly walked over to her and helped her to her feet. "That was exhilarating, thanks Eve, I didn't hit you too hard did I?" I asked.
"Nah, had much worse than that Grant." She said.
"How was that kids?" I asked
"That was awesome!" They both shouted.
"I'll begin teaching you guys that tomorrow as well as a new move," I said
"But dad!" Thunder said.
"I'm not stopping you from using iron tail on something to train, Thunder. I'm just saying that I will teach you two how to fight with it, but until then, I'm out," I said.
"What could I train with?" Asked thunder.
"There are a lot of trees out here, they'll help you build up strength okay?" I said.
"Okay! I'll go train!" He said
"Okay son, don't hurt yourself!" I shouted.
An hour passed and I decided to go out and check on Thunder. As I expected, he was training his iron tail on one of the surrounding trees. The bark was shaved and massive chunks were chipped out of it. "Thunder, time to come inside!" I shouted.
"Coming dad!" He said running inside.
"How did the sesh go?" I asked.
"It went really well! I think I'm starting to get the hang of it,"
"Cool, I'll make a fine battler out of you yet," I said.
"Thanks dad," he smiled
"Now go on and get some food," I said.
Oh he is committed and that spirit he has will make him a great battler.
A/N: Wow, some strong words by Grant there. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. The story is really fun to continue working on and I thank everyone who continues to read this. You all remember to stay cool, stay awesome and most importantly stay shocking.
-Shocking Pikachu (it is currently 2am) :p