Sylveon- Egg Roll
The woods were abuzz with activity, as various Pokemon went about their lives in the wild. It was clear day, with the Sun shining brightly for those who desired to back in it, while the trees provided ample shade for those who wanted to stay cool. One such bit of activity involved a flash of pink and white leaping out of the bushes. It was a female Sylveon, running through the forest carrying a bunch of twigs and clumps of moss in her mouth. She dashed off onward, her nervous eyes not daring to look behind her as she zig-zagged around trees.
Sylveon's blue eyes went wide when suddenly came to the edge of a cliff. Her pink paws skidded to a halt as she overlooked the edge, then she turned around to look at the rather large Pokemon that was pursuing her. Still carrying her payload tightly in her mouth, Sylveon took a deep in and out through her nose, then planted her paws firmly on the ground. She then extended her ribbons outward and began to move and spin them in a swirling pattern. Sylveon then slowly raised up onto her hindlegs, moving her ears left and right as she continued to wave her ribbons around. She measured each and ever moment as she let her body sway along with her ribbons, flowing in a enmity-erasing dance as she smiled around the sticks and moss in her mouth. Then, with a cute squeak, Sylveon performed a little hop and disappeared over the edge of the cliff.
Sylveon swiftly spun mid-fall and hit the steep slope on her hind paws. She leaned back all the way and slid down the slope, hugging it with her back as she spread herself eagle, all four paws dragging across the crumbly, sandy slope as well.
Eventually, Sylveon reached the bottom, and jumped off to land on her paws. She briefly shook each of her legs to get the sand out of her toes, and then used her ribbons the brush off her back. She sighed in contentment as she stepped forward through some nearby bushes, and onward to a small burrow dug into the side of a small hill, it's entrance hidden by a large leafy tree branch.
Sylveon moved aside the branch, promptly replacing it as she entered her home. With a spring in her step and her eyes shining, Sylveon approached a nest tucked away in the back of the burrow. She leaned over the nest, her eyes fixated on the Pokemon egg resting in the middle. Sylveon let the moss and sticks fall from her mouth, and quickly went to work strengthening the nest with the sticks and arranging the soft moss around her egg.
Once that was done, Sylveon leaned in close and turned her head slightly so she could rest her right ear onto the egg. She closed her eyes in concentration for a moment, then her eyes opened and lit up as a thrilled smile graced her face. Her ribbons flowed around her with delight, and she quickly walked over to position herself right over the nest. She turned to face the entrance of the burrow, and gently sat herself down atop the egg, an expectant look on her face.
Then, much to Sylveon's surprise, her rump suddenly fell down a bit. Sylveon jumped out of the nest and turned to see that where egg once was, there was now only a large hole.
Sylveon screamed, her ears and fur standing up on end, and she immediately jumped forward and stuck her left foreleg down into the hole. She groped around the deep hole with her paw, a distressed look on her face as she couldn't feel anything other than the sides of the hole. She then pulled her leg out of the hole and sent two of her ribbons down into the hole. When this attempt bore no fruit either, Sylveon pulled her ribbons back out and jumped into her nest to frantically dig into the ground. She wildly swung her forelegs as she dug her forepaws into the ground, sending clods of dirt flying as she dug into the ground. She grunted and whimpered as she stared down into the small hole in desperation as she worked to widen it as quickly as possible.
In no time at all, Sylveon had created a Sylveon-sized tunnel that went a good 5 feet downward when something caused her ears to perk up and her forelegs to freeze. A loud rumbling and crumbling sound echoed throughout the burrow, and then the ground beneath her feet completely gave way, dropping Sylveon down several feet into a larger cavern.
Sylveon moaned as she laid on her side. She looked around as she lay there, and she spotted that, not two yards away, was her egg lying on a soft patch of moss that had fallen down the hole along with it, cushioning its landing. As Sylveon looked on with joy and belief, the vibrations created by both the cave in and her subsequent landing caused the egg to wobble a bit, fall over, and roll across the cavern floor and towards an edge of an slightly steep incline.
Sylveon gasped and quickly got up onto her paws as her egg went over the edge. She ran forward, watching as her egg rolled down and away from her. Sylveon didn't hesitate to jump off and land onto the incline, sliding forward on all four paws after the egg.
The cavern, most likely a lava tube, suddenly came to a turn up ahead. The egg followed the slight upward pitch in the cavern towards the bend it took, making a wide turn before rolling off down the path of the cavern. Sylveon leaned forward as she slid down towards the turn, and she focused on a stalagmite near the inside of the turn. She flung all four of her ribbons out to wrap around the stalagmite, and held onto it tightly as she slid down into the turn. Sylveon gritted her teeth as she pulled hard with her ribbons, making a very sharp turn, and let go at the last moment, effectively slingshoting herself forward down through the tunnel. Sylveon cheered out triumphantly, only for her celebrations to be cut short when she collided face first with a stalactite.
The force of the blow smashed the stalactite and knocked Sylveon senseless for a moment. She continued to slide onward on her belly, still moving much faster than before. The unconscious Sylveon eventually caught up with her rolling egg, it literally being a few inches away from her nose. Sylveon's nose twitched at the scent of her egg, and her eyes blinked opened as she was brought out of her dazed state. She smiled warmly at first, but then her eyes widened when she saw that she and her egg were headed straight towards a dead end in the lava tube cavern. Right before the end was a boulder that was sticking up out of the cavern floor at an angle, which acted as a makeshift ramp for the egg and the sliding Sylveon.
The egg was sent up towards a small hole in the wall had let in a small shaft of light. It zipped cleanly through the hole, while Sylveon was helplessly launched toward it. With a pop, Sylveon's head was forced through the hole and out into the open air, while the rest of her body hung awkwardly within the cave. Sylveon's pink tail flicked back and forth nervously, and her left hind paw reached over to scratch the back of her right hind leg.
Sylveon breathed heavily as she shook her head in desperation. She kicked at the inside of the cavern wall with her hind paws, and frantically dug at it with her forepaws. Unable to even make a scratch in the cavern wall, Sylveon wailed loudly as her ribbons swung around in distress. Then, with a determined pout, Sylveon brought her ribbons back behind her body and built up power. Then, a powerful Moonblast was unleashed right behind her, blasting apart the cavern wall and sending Sylveon flying.
Sylveon landed some distance away, her face ground into the dirt as she slid forward slightly, her hind legs and rear sticking up into the air as she stopped. Sylveon's body his the ground, and she lifted her face up and spat out the dirt in her mouth. She then rolled over and stood up quickly, and held her nose high as she frantically sniffed the air. Her tail stood up like a signal flag as Sylveon swiftly turned to look behind her.
There was something rustling in the trees, and as she stared, it became apparent that it was her egg, rolling along the branches. It eventually reached a branch that bent down towards the ground, which would allow it to safely roll off to the ground. However, up ahead of the egg's path, and between the egg and Sylveon, was a wide and very deep ravine. The bottom of which contained nothing but hard ground and jagged rocks.
Horror-struck, Sylveon took off as fast as she could, her heart pounding as she sized up the width of the ravine she was approaching. Her eyes darted back and forth from her egg to her ravine, and she gulped as an idea came to her. Sylveon raced right to the edge of the ravine, then stopped short, pushing herself up onto her hind legs. She then stood on her right hind leg, and reached upward as high as she could with her left foreleg. Then she allowed herself to fall forward, stretching with all her might as she fell, and grunted as her left forepaw landed on the opposite side of the ravine. Sylveon hung suspended over the ravine, with her left forepaw on one side and her right hindpaw on the other side, while her ribbons hung down into the ravine below her.
With her body bridging the gap, Sylveon looked forward as her egg rolled speedily towards her. She held her breath as the egg rolled up onto her left forepaw and up her leg. It rolled up over her left shoulder and down her back. She could feel it roll onto the left side of her rump, gave her rear a twitch to her right to keep the egg from rolling off. The egg spun a in a place a bit, but a careful, surgical flick of Sylveon's tail sent the egg rolling down her right hind leg.
The moment Sylveon felt the egg roll off of her paw, she let go of the breath she holding in a sigh of relief. Then, right before her eyes, the part of the ledge her left forepaw was holding onto started crumbling. Sylveon's eyes widened as she felt the edge her right hindpaw was anchored on begin to crumble as well. She quickly strained to push herself up somehow, too panicked to really figure out what she could do, if anything. Both ledges crumbed simultaneously, and all of Sylveon's legs were brought in close to her chest right before she fell straight down into the crevice.
Sylveon cried out as she fell, her eyes staring down at the rocks below. But then, her eyes spotted something else, a pair of branches on either side of the ravine. Swallowing her fear, Sylveon reached out with all her ribbons, and as she fell past, she snagged the two branches with two ribbons each. He decent was quickly slowed down a great deal, and she breathed in and out calmly as she eventually came to a stop no less than two feet from the bottom of the chasm. Sylveon then looked up at the two branches and how much her ribbons were being stretched, and she sighed in resignation and closed her eyes. With a serene look on her face, Sylveon held up her right forepaw and used its three digits to count down from 3, to 2, to 1, and to 0.
Sylveon's ribbons snapped upwards with all the energy of her descent, launching Sylveon straight up as she let her ribbons unravel from the tree branches that had acted as her own personal giant slingshot. She soared through the air, squealing as she saw that she was headed straight towards the side of a mountain. Sylveon quickly flipped herself over so that she was falling backwards, and then closed her eyes as she bunched all her ribbons behind her seconds before she collided with the mountainside.
Sylveon thudded against a large bolder embedded in the mountainside, possibly from a past landslide, and landed in a heap on a relatively small ledge. Sylveon groaned as she slowly got up, but was no worse for wear as she shook it off and walked to the edge of the ledge, sniffing loudly. She looked down and saw that the slope wasn't too steep, so she quickly slid down towards ground level. However, she didn't notice that her impact had loosened the large boulder, and that it was starting to slowly roll forward.
Down at ground level, Sylveon hopped onto the end of a fallen log which laid atop some a pile of fallen rocks. Sylveon looked around, sniffed the air, and immediately looked ahead of her to see her egg rolling right towards her. Sylveon all but cheered with joy, and she quickly walked down the log towards the egg. It ended up rolling into the other end of the hollow log by the time she go there, and she was in the midst of reaching into the log with her forepaws when the large boulder, having rolled off of the ledge above, landed hard on the opposite end of the log. With the log acting as a lever and the pile of rocks acting as a fulcrum, the force of the boulder's landing sent Sylveon's end of the log shooting up, catapulting her and her egg up into the air.
As she soared up higher than the ledge the boulder had fallen from, Sylveon desperately flailed her limbs and cried out in confusion. However, seeing her egg spinning in the air along with her brought clarity and focus back to her. Sylveon reached out with her forepaws, only for them to slip off the surface of the egg, unable to grab hold of it. Luckily, a better idea came to her, and she reached out with her ribbons and securely wrapped the ends of them around her egg. Seemingly forgetting that she was still flying through the air, Sylveon smiled as she brought the egg close to her. She was about to plant a kiss on the top of the egg when the left side of her body solidly struck the side of the mountain at full force.
Sylveon's ribbons seemed to slowly wilt as the lowered toward the new ledge below. They slowly unraveled, gently releasing the egg and allowing it to slowly roll away.
Meanwhile, Sylveon slowly opened one eye, moaning from the throbbing ache that was running through her body from the impact. From where she hung pressed into the imprint in the cliffside that her body had made, Sylveon could see her egg slowly rolling away from her, and inching towards the edge of the ledge beneath her. Unlike the ledge lower below which lead to a manageable downward slope, this one led to a sheer drop off straight down to the hard ground below.
Sylveon's eye widened as she let out a panicked gasp, and she went to jump out to grab her egg. However, she found herself unable to wrench her body out of the Sylveon shaped imprint she'd made for herself. She closed her eye and clenched her teeth, and with great effort, she pulled her head out of the side of the cliff. Her neck free, she turned to see that her egg was still rolling towards the edge.
Panic-stricken, Sylveon tried to wrench the front half of her body sideways in order to free it. She thrashed her head around, forcing her forepaws to move. With a forceful lurch, the front half of her body popped out of the cliff. Her pink forepaws touched the surface of the ledge, and Sylveon gazed out at the egg. It wasn't rolling as fast, but it was still edging closer and closer to the edge.
Sylveon screamed as she went into full panic mode, and she frantically began running forward with her forepaws, but her hindquarters were still stuck tight in the imprint, holding her back. Her forepaws skittered wildly over the stone ground as she watched her egg roll closer and closer to the edge. She breathed in and out in desperation, faster and faster as she pulled her body as hard as she could. She even wrapped her ribbons around her own forelegs to try and pull herself forwards with everything she had. Sylveon saw her egg stop at the very lip of the ledge and wobble precariously on the edge, and let out a scream of denial and despair right before giving her body one final thrust. This was just enough to free her back half, and it came out with a pop.
Sylveon came out running forward up on her forelegs, her rear up in the air and her hind legs kicking as she went towards her teetering egg. Seeing it just about to fall off the edge, Sylveon took a deep breath, bent her forelegs, and front flipped forward towards her egg. Time seemed to move slowly as Sylveon flipped up and over the egg. As she sailed over it, she gently tapped the egg with the tips of her hind paws, her tail, and her ribbons to gently nudge it away from the edge and back to the relative safety of the ledge.
As Sylveon flipped over in mid air, she saw her egg roll back to the center of the ledge. She actually laughed out loud in relief and joy. However, she then noticed that she was up in mid air, and her left eye twitched as she realized what was going to happen to her. Sylveon screamed as she unceremoniously fell down for quite a few seconds, until finally solidly striking the ground far down below.
Some time later, a dirty pink paw reached up over the ledge and grabbed onto it. Then came a second paw, and then came Sylveon head as she rested her chin upon the ledge. Sylveon's fur was dusty, dirty, and utterly scruffy and unkempt. Both of her bows were slightly wrinkled, and her left ear was bent slightly. Sylveon was breathing heavily, exhausted from her climbing, closing her eyes as she began to sob a little. However, both ears perked up when a subtle cracking sound came to her attention. With wide eyes, Sylveon watched as her egg began to hop around and slowly crack. Then, with a burst of light, the shell shattered, revealing a Shiny Eevee.
The Eevee slowly got up to his feet and rubbed it's eyes with a forepaw, then opened them to look about. He turned his grey eyes upon Sylveon, who was staring at him in total awe as she still hung onto the edge.
Sylveon blinked her own eyes once, then she squealed with delight as a joyful smile came to her face. She beheld her child with eyes filled with adoration and love. The Shiny Eevee saw this and gave a cry of happiness, and he gleefully walked towards his mother's smiling face.
At this moment, the small foothold that Sylveon's hindpaws were resting on suddenly gave way. Sylveon gasped as her hindlegs flailed about, and she felt her forepaws begin to slip off of the edge. She then looked up at Eevee, who had stopped walking and was tilting his head in confusion in response to his mother's distress.
Thinking quickly, Sylveon put on a reassuring smile and raised her right forepaw to motion for Eevee to stay put. Then, her left forepaw fully slipped and Sylveon fell once again. However, just as she was mentally ordering herself not to scream, Sylveon suddenly stopped falling. This surprised her a great deal, and her surprise only increased when she felt herself being hoisted upward.
As Sylveon was hoisted back up to the ledge, she turned and saw to her amazement that her Shiny Eevee had grabbed one of ribbons with his mouth and was pulling her back up with a cute yet determined look on his face. Before long, Eevee had pulled her mother up to safety, and was already snuggling up to her chest and nuzzling her chin, squeaking with happiness as he cuddled. Tears of joy filled Sylveon's eyes as she used her ribbons to hold her child in a loving embrace, breathing easily as the two of them sat simply enjoying the warm feeling of just being close to each other.