Floret's POV
It took me the whole day to get over my depression. The next dawn, I got up and prepared to leave. I didn't have a reason to stay in Jeffery's house anymore and I didn't want to be kept as a pet. I had decided that I would just roam free without any destination, like a wanderer. I truly had no one to go to. Gust had already found a mate, so I couldn't properly stay with him now. I went over to the main door of the house to get out. But Lightning was already awake and he was five feet in front of the door. He gave me an indifferent look.
"Just where are you going, Floret?" he said monotonously, licking his own paw.
"Well, I am going out for a walk." I said flatly, walking past him.
"It is too early for a walk, isn't it?" Lightning countered and I gave him an annoyed glare in return. He must be suspicious of me or he must already know what I was thinking about.
"You know, just stay out of my business." I said to the electric pokemon, who looked at me indifferently. He then, grinned, trying to cool.
"Just what do you think you are doing, umbreon?" he said and winked an eye at me, trying to be attractive without success. His face looked ugly. That was disgusting. I signed in disappointment and continued to walk. His face turned serious.
"Floret, I know what you are trying to do and I also know that I have no right to stop you. But if your absence will make Tom upset and that is why I cannot let you leave." Lightning said as he bit my tail, dragging me back. I winced as a sudden pain struck through me. I shook my tail with force, throwing him to a nearby table, with a crashing sound. A painting was torn apart. Tom wasn't even his master and yet he tried to stop me. I continued to make my way through, knowing that he wouldn't be up. But to my surprise, he jumped in front of me, blocking my way.
"Look here, Lightning. I don't know about your relationship with that boy but I have decided that I am going to leave now. And no one can change my decision." I said flatly.
"Well, any relative of Jeffery is my master and friend. Speaking of friend, friends don't want each other to be upset, do they?" he said, with a sneer. I growled and bared my teeth. He should go to hell with his stupid theories. I lunged forwards, trying to bite him. But when I caught him on the back, I had to give up my plan since his quills stung me, causing me to wince in pain. I retreated backwards and growled.
"You can't bite my back, umbreon. The quills will only sting you." He said with a sneer again. He was getting cocky and I hated my adversary, to be like this.
"Then what about this?" I snarled and spat a shadow ball at him which exploded at his face. I assumed this to be quite effective but the electric pokemon lunged at me, out of the smoke and released Thundershock at me which caught me directly. I screamed in pain. And then he slammed into me, hurling me back against a small table. A container with flowers fell on my head and shattered with a cracking sound. I stood up on my feet once more to deal with him.
"What's up with the noise?" I heard someone, running to the living room. Crap… I would definitely be caught. Jeffery ran into the room, followed by Tom and stared at us with surprise. He then frowned at us.
"Just what're you two doing?" he yelled at us, causing us to flinch.
"You, two, surely messed this up." Tom said, gestured to us and picked up the shattered pieces. I grunted as I knew that there was going to be trouble. On the inside, I blamed the jolteon for everything.
"It is your fault, you idiot!" I yelled angrily at him.
"My fault? What about yours?" he yelled back. I jumped at him but was grabbed by Jeffery on the back of the neck. He lifted me up but I still continued to bared my teeth at Lightning which he returned by growling at me. Jeffery grabbed Lightning in a similar way with the other hand.
"What's wrong with you two?" he said. I swatted my paw towards Lightning even though I knew that it was useless. But still, I felt very angry towards him. Lightning was swatting his paw as well.
"Just cut it out!" he shouted. We stopped swatting towards each other but still bared our teeth.
"I have no choice then." He said, putting us down. He then put a collar around my neck and one around Lightning's. He then chained the collars which in turn chaining us. My eyes widened as I understood the situation. I couldn't possibly escape now.
"Lightning, you are a male, aren't you? So please get along with the female, okay?" Jeffery said, to Lightning who whimpered. I snickered, since he was just berated.
"And you, if you ever harm him again, you will regret it." Jeffery scolded me and I scowled. This collar and chain was very inconvenient. I wonder how that female vulpix wore the collar all the time even though she wasn't chained.
"I hate you." I said angrily as I lied down. My face and ears drooped down.
"The same applies here." Lightning replied angrily and lied down in a similar manner. Now I couldn't get away from this crazy theorist now. He really was stubborn, not letting me go out there. The only way I could escape was to convince to escape with me.
"Don't you want to escape from this narrow place?" I inquired lazily.
"I swear to myself that I will never escape or run away from my true friend, Jeffery even if it means the end of my life." He replied. I looked at him blankly. This guy was dumb and stupid. How would I ever get out of this mess?