We were standing at a sign in the road outside the forest, Autumn drinking from a water bottle while I got a cute metal bowl with little brown paw prints on it that she had filled with water. It was the clearest, cleanest water I had ever had the privilege of drinking. According to her, we were waiting on her friend name Tyler. She kept saying how I would like him and how he was a good person. I had heard once from a returner that sometimes trainers traded Pokémon and that it was normal. I was frightened, what if my new trainer wasn't going to be my trainer at all? What if she had caught me just to trade me to another trainer? I had tried to ask her, but like Pyro said, she couldn't understand anything I said.
Eventually, a young man did show up. He was taller than Autumn, but about the same age. He had short black hair, blue eyes, and whore just denim pants, a black T-shirt with a picture of a Squirtle on it, black gloves, and a matching hat to Autumn's. "Hey, bought time you showed up. Get lost?" Autumn giggled at him. "Naw, just had a roughly hard time catching a Pikachu. Squirtle had a really hard time with it. I see you caught a little ball of fluff too. I caught a male Eevee near the entrance." Tyler said, putting his hands behind his head.
"Sparkette's a female. She's absolutely adorable too. Very chatty." Autumn said, looking down to me. I smiled and said hello, even knowing they couldn't understand me. My guess what whatever they heard was cute, because they both smiled and said 'aww'. Tyler pulled out a red and white ball and released the Pokémon inside, to reveal another Eevee. It walked over to me, cautiously looking over me. I picked up its scent instantly. He was a male, slightly younger than me, and clearly not of the same tree, or even same quarter of the forest, meaning not related.
"Hey there. I'm Shadow. What's your name?" he asked me. "My mom named me Sparkette, to commemorate me hatching the same day she survived a lightning strike and evolved into a Jolteon." I answered. "Interesting story behind it. My dad just named me Shadow because I like to hide in shadows. Umm, I don't want to impose, but can I share your water? Our river has been pretty dry and I haven't had any good water in days." He smiled, before his ears dropped, looking away from me. "Of course! It's delicious water too." I cheered, moving back. He came over and greedily started lapping it up.
"Tyler, your Eevee is stealing mine's water." Autumn said, glaring at Shadow. But I told him he could! "I umm, I forgot to bring a water bowl. I haven't got anything to put clean water in for him." Tyler groaned. "You're an idiot. Well, at least she doesn't seem to mind." Autumn sighed, still watching Shadow finish off my water. She refilled the bowl, and he drank a bit more before sitting up and sighing in pleasure. "Feel better?" I giggled. "I must pee." He said simply, and started to walk away behind me. "Hey! What are you doing!? You can't just walk away from your train…oh, he's taking a wiz." Tyler started shouting, before the unmistakable sound of urine hitting dirt could be heard, accompanied by a very pleased sigh of relief. "You certainly caught an interesting one." Autumn said hesitantly. "He is a man of very simple tastes." Tyler laughed. I agree with Tyler.
"Now do you feel better?" I laughed when Shadow finished and sat beside me. "Very much so. Sorry, but when nature calls…" he said nervously. "Not like you can prevent it. When you have to go, you have to go. Nothing wrong with that." I shrugged. "Wow, a girl who doesn't scoff and call me disgusting for admitting I pee like every other Pokémon. Where have you been all my life?" He laughed happily. "I take it you come from a prissy group?" I asked. "Low pop. Eevee numbers are already out of whack with an 87.5 male to 12.5 female ratio, but my tree was even lower with females after we had a plague when I was a pup. We're not sure why, but out of twelve males, only one passed, while out of the six females, four died. They of course became precious, and spoiled, and prissy." He explained, looking at his paws.
"So did you get his name yet?" Autumn asked, looking at Shadow. "I would need Pyro for that. Bubbles still can't pronounce crap." Tyler sighed. Autumn did this weird eye thing like she was rolling them in her sockets, and then released the Charmander, who was a sleep. Pyro rolled over, saw Tyler, then rolled back over with one paw raised, a single middle digit raised up. "Oh don't be like that man!" Tyler cried in frustration as Autumn howled in laughter. I won't say I understand the meaning, but I'm guessing the single digit thing is an insult or something?
"He's a bit of a prick ain't he?" Shadow laughed at the Charmander. Pyro rolled back over with a growl, staring down the other Eevee. "Say it to my face fucker!" he shouted, getting up. Oh dear. This won't end well. "I said, you're a prick. What did my trainer do to deserve that?" Shadow growled, bowing aggressively. "He stepped on my damn tail last night." Pyro growled as the two humans looked on in worry. "Well I'm sure he didn't mean to." Shadow said coldly. "What's your name bitch? I wanna know it for when I kick your ass." Pyro threatened. "Shadow." He answered. Pyro looked to Tyler, pointed to Tyler, snapped his fingers, pointed to the ground, and then made another sign. "Shadow?" To which Pyro nodded. "Interesting name for a normal type." Tyler laughed.
Pyro then pointed right at Shadow, and then made a punching motion to Autumn. He looked pissed. "I think your interesting Eevee is getting on his nerves. "Yeah…Shadow, bro not cool man. Leave the cute chicks Charmander alone man." Tyler told him. Autumn rolled her eyes again, and then grinned. "Why not let them settle it? See how strong he is?" Autumn smirked, holding up from colored papers. "I'll take that one. 350 about right?" Tyler agreed, holding up his own colored paper. The two humans stood a certain distance apart, and held their pokeballs, calling to Shadow and Pyro.
"Pyro use Ember!" Autumn shouted, to which Tyler replied "Shadow use Swift!" Pyro spun around, sending a tiny jet of flame at the Eevee, while Shadow conjured some stars from his tail as he jumped and avoided the flames, onto to brutally spin said stars into Pyro's face like small daggers. Pyro roared and rubbed his left cheek, the small cuts from the spinning stars bleeding a bit. Brutal Shadow, but…kick his ass! Send home one for the Eevee! "Dammit…Use scratch then!" Autumn told Pyro. "Shadow, use Shadow Ball!" Tyler shouted. "Oh you dumbass!" Autumn screamed, since that wasn't a move we…wait what the hell! Shadow grinned, steadied himself, and opened his mouth, blasting Pyro with an intense purple ball of pure energy, knocking him out instantly.
How the hell…Shadow Ball was a move, but we didn't learn it naturally. According to a few of the returners they were taught it using some screen thing called a 'television' which explained how to use it. I highly doubt Tyler had the ability to train Shadow in it already if he was fresh caught too…so where the hell did he learn it? "How the fuck did you get him to learn Shadow Ball?" Autumn hissed at Tyler, clearly as confused as me while Shadow strutted over to and sat next to me. "I didn't. When I tried to capture him, he really didn't wanna go and threw that at Squirtle. Knocked her out instantly. I honestly have no idea how he learned it. It's not a naturally learned move." Tyler shrugged.
"Would you be willing to explain how to you came to know that one? And can you teach me how to do it?" I asked him, looking to my right at see him licking his paw. "Huh? Oh the Shadow Ball thing? From my dad. See, my dad was captured as an Eevee too. Grew big, strong, became a vaporeon. But his trainer had some issues, and I guess after a mental breakdown he just released all his Pokémon. So dad came back to the forest, met my mom, and had me. And when I hatched, I somehow like already knew it. Like it just comes natural to me. It's one of two moves I got from him." He explained. "Oh…well, what's the other?" I asked, wondering what other tricks he had.
He stood up, grinned, and wiggled his gorgeous ass back and forth as his beautiful eyes turned pink and everything in me melted. Nothing but him mattered…just those eyes…that tail…his adorable mane…a heat rolled through me, gathering in my belly. It hurt…I wanted him to rub my belly. Actually, I wanted him to father my puppies. Please give me a pup… "HEY!" I shouted when it suddenly all stopped, as Shadow rolled in dirty laughing his ass off at me, clearly amused beyond belief.
"That was admittedly hysterical. She looked like she wanted him in bed." Autumn laughed too. "He fucking knows attract. I love it!" Tyler howled, bending over and laughing so hard he was crying. I pouted and hid behind Autumn's legs, who promptly picked me up and cuddled me to her chest. "Aww, she's all embarrassed. Poor Sparkette, did the male Eevee use a mean move on you? It's only because you're so adorable!" she cooed, cuddling me and tickling my belly. Ok fine, this is fun, more belly tickles!
"We should get going. Pewter city isn't that far, and we should be there before dark. Last thing we want is to be stuck out in the wilderness in the dark." Tyler said, looking to the North. "Yeah, besides Shadow knocked out Pyro, so he's going to need a healing at the pokecenter. I do have to admit, your Eevee is amazing in battle. Not only does it have Shadow Ball for heavy hitting, it has Attract to annoy the hell out of Sparkette." Autumn agreed, before making fun of me again and giving me more belly tickles. "You're never gonna live that down." Shadow chuckled. "Just for that, I'm going to ignore you for the rest of my life." I huffed, not that I really would.
Apparently PokeCenters were just big trainer places that did everything you could think of. The nurses could heal almost anything. There were computer banks that did trading, storage, and teaching, as well as special ones where trainers could call family and see them, instead of uing the pokegear Autumn sometimes talked on, although usually it just played music. They also let trainers stay upstairs in free rooms. The first thing Autumn wanted to do was call her dad on a computer, so while Pyro was healing, we went to make the call.
"Hey kiddo, how's it going? I see you have an Eevee. That's a rare pokemon...where did you find it?" her dad asked. "I found her in Viridian Forest. She's a tough little girl. Anyways, I was hoping maybe you could help her out. She only knows Tackle and Growl, not very good moves." Autumn sighed. "Hmm...best one I would suggest is Shadow Ball. I know Eevee can use it. But I mean you might want something tatical too." he said, rubbing the hair on his chin.
"I think I know one she might enjoy, if nothing else than to annoy Tyler's Eevee. He's a male." Autumn said with a wink. "So you met up with Tyler? Good, I feel safer with you not going it alone. I mean not to thrilled he's a guy, but I trust him to behave. But yeah, you thinking 45?" he asked. "Yeah. His actually knows it through breeding, so it would level the playing field for them." she smiled. "Sure. You have the M.O. Disks I gave you right?" her dad asked. "Of course. It's much cheaper to get the TMs from you than buy them from stores which just goes to you." she laughed. "Well, when your dad runs the Kanto TM manufacturing company, it does help." he laughed.
She put a weird square of plastic with a brown film wheel into a spot on the computer and the computer buzzed a bit before the 'disk' popped back out. She did it again with another one, and then said bye to her dad. "Goodbye!" I shouted, lifting a paw to him. "That is adorable. I never had an Eevee. Would have gone for a Vaporeon. But I don't think she want to be one. They are more serious where she seems playful. Anyways, I should get to back to work. Be safe kiddo." her dad said, then the screen went dark.
Next on our list was a training computer. Autumn set me down, turned on the screen and looked at the two disks she had made. "We'll do this one first." she smiled, putting into the bottom of the screen. The screen flickered, and a purple furball of a pokemon called a Gengar appeared. "Welcome to the Technical Machine Program. I'm Gengar, and I'll be teaching you TM30, Shadow Ball. Now, Shadow Ball is a hard move to learn if you're not a ghost type, but not impossible." the Gengar explained, and while it took him a while, he explained how to use the move, and by the end I was able to easily to use the move.
The video ended, followed by a loud snapping sound as tape spewed from the bottom. Autumn didn't seem that bothered. She just untangled it and pulled the disk out, to reveal that it was absolutely ruined. The next one she put in clicked and played, revealing a Gardevoir sitting in a chair with her legs crossed, looking somewhat bothered. "You're on Aurora. Please?" A man said from behind the camera. The Gardevoir rolled her eyes, then smiled at the camera in a very suggestive way. "Welcome to the Technical Machine Program. I'm Aurora, and I'll be teaching you TM45..." she said in a sultry voice. Oh Autumn, you evil manipulative person...I love you.
Once the video was done, the TM again broke, this time snapping in half and spitting half the casing out of the slot! How unreliable were these poor things? But now that I had a new move under my belt, Autumn got Pyro back from the nurse and we went up to a room. Tyler was already in there with Shadow and a Squirtle who was named Bubbles. "Sup Sparkette. We our own cubbies here! They are awesome!" he cheered, pointing to special padded holes in the one wall perfect for a smaller pokemon like him or I to sleep. "Well, I learned something cool too." I said with a smirk.
"What did you lea..." he began, until I gave my butt a wiggle and focused a power into my eyes staining my vision pink. Small pink hearts appeared in his as he started to lose his control and see only me. When done right, this shoud make him so infatuated he can't attack me, but it clearly was doing more since he was literally drooling over me. "So how is the wee Sparkette doing...oh Arcues dammit. You really got your dad to give a TM for attract?" he growled as he watched me taunt his Eevee. "All is fair in love and war." Autumn smiled. "He's gonna really regret having pulled that trick on her." Tyler laughed.
I stopped using my charm on Shadow, but made sure to have a grin on my face when the hearts slowly died from his eyes. "What just happened? It was like...Sparkette...did you learn Attract?" he asked. "I learned it just for you fluff ball." I taunted, showing him my teeth in a smile. "Alright I see how it is. I deserved that. But if we're going to play tit for tat, here's a new challenge for you to master." he chuckled, moving in closer. I didn't really know what to do, then he tilted his head, and licked my cheek! A shiver ran down my spine and I just sat down in shock as Shadow laughed and went to a cubby, curling up and sleeping. "Those two are adorable together." Autumn smiled.