A new chapter!? After what, months? Yeah, well, that's what happens when writes block, lack of motivation, and a change in work happens. I'm really sorry it took so damn long, like, I HAVE plans, but... I just work too hard in my real life to sit down and type out a chapter. But with Covid-19 and being on lockdown, guess who has far too much time on her hands? I wrote this out in four hours out of boredum, and tomorrow I think I might do it again. I have plenty of time, plenty of ideas, so who knows, I might be pumping chapters out every day until this is over. Or I might vanish for a year. But hey, if you want to stay up to date, chapter one still has my discord channel, Eevee's Playground, linked for you. Stop by, ask around, meet the Eevee, and enjoy yourself. Also yes, we now serve coffee.
I woke up and stretched myself as wide as I could, my left rear paw colliding gently with someone soft and wet. I looked back to see Shadow's face, his eyes crossed looking at my paw which was currently booping his nose. "Your foot is indeed a foot." he said, then licked it, making me quickly pull it back as I turned. "I didn't expect you to be right beside me. Sorry about kicking you." I apologized. "I was coming to wake you up since you sleep in later than I do. The humans say it's time for us to go explore the cave of moons or something." he shrugged. "Mt. Moon. It's the route to Cerulean City. Apparently that is where the next gym is, and it's supposed to be a water type gym. Meaning Autumn can't use Pyro there. The only other Pokemon she has besides him and I is that thing." I explained, pointing a paw at the green paperweight she referred to as Metapod. "Does that thing even know any moves?" he asked, looking at the weird cocoon Pokemon. "Harden. Literally, just, harden. I don't think I've heard of a more useless Pokemon for a battle." I sighed.
"Sparkette! Get your fluffy ass out of bed already! I wanna get moving!" Autumn said, throwing a chunk of bacon at me. "Mmm, I see someone is in a bad mood" I said, chewing my treat. "I can't understand you normally, what makes you think I can understand you better with your mouth full!?" she shouted, putting her backpack on while Tyler sighed. "Oh, she's in a bad mood by the way. Apparently Tyler walked in on her while she was naked." Shadow chuckled. I looked over and saw his face was swollen a bit. I guess That would earn him a punch. Humans are such odd creatures. Once everything was packed up, we followed them downstairs to the Pokemon Center reception area.
"Autumn! Hey, you have a package!" Nurse Joy shouted, waving us over. They chatted for a bit, and I took the moment to groom my tail some more, because one can never have a tail that has been groomed enough, and I love my tail. Suddenly I was lifted up into the air and onto the counter. I wish she would warn me before she did that! "Here, let's try this out." Autumn said, clipping a black collar around my neck with a small black box on it. "If you pick me up without permission again, I will bite you." I hissed. "Duly noted." she said, taken aback. "Wait, did she just understand what I said?" I asked Shadow, who was also on the counter with a collar now. "I think she did." he answered.
"Translators. Those collars convert your... chatter, into English for us. So now we can understand everything you say." she explained, adjusting mine. "Anything I say huh?" Shadow smirked, before inhaling deeply. Oh don't you dare do it! "FUCK!" he shouted at the top of his lungs, making everyone turn and glare at him. I have never facepawed so hard in my entire life. "In my defense, I honestly thought it would censor that." he laughed. "No you didn't. You knew exactly what you were doing and fully planned on it not censoring you." I grumbled. "I take it that's not something new from him?" Autumn asked, staring at him with her arms crossed and her eyes full of fury. "No, he's pretty vulgar and curses quite often. The other night he used that same word eleven times in a single sentence, which to his credit, was a grammatically correct sentence." I sighed.
"Can we just get going? Today has not started well and the last thing I want is to be crawling through a cave at midnight in the darkness." Tyler groaned, his hands behind her head. "Yeah, let's get going before Shadow says another foul word." I sighed. "I know one that will start a race war." he cheered. "Dude, if you say the N-word I will drown you." Tyler said sternly. "I'm gonna say the N-word!" Shadow shouted, only to turn into red light as Tyler recalled him into his pokeball. "Thank you. We might want to suggest my dad install a censor before Shadow actually does start a race war." Autumn said, and off to the cave we went.
When I heard cave, I expected a route that was marked, well traveled, and so on. I did not expect a literal cave with no lights full of Zubat without so much as a single sign to point us in the right direction. Pyro could give us light using his tail, but for the most part were very much on our own. And it took less than an hour before we were hopelessly lost. And by the time we decided to take a break, we were so lost even having a map didn't help, because we couldn't figure out where on the map we were. About the only thing we did know was that at one point we should have climbed a ladder, and hadn't. So wherever we were, it wasn't in that part. So exactly where in the name of the Distortion World are we!?
"I think our trainers are about to beat the shit out of each other." Shadow sighed, watching them argue. "Autumn isn't stupid enough to hurt Tyler, and Tyler wouldn't hit a woman. But I must say, this is very bad. Not to mention I very much hate it under the ground. I like the free and open skies, not this rocky cave." Nora said, watching worriedly. "Aren't Pidgeotto's good at navigation? Can't you navigate us out?" Shadow asked, looking at his new bird partner. "Normally yes, I could easily fly around and find where we are. But this is a cave. I cannot gain any height advantage here. Even worse, I can't even feel a breeze. That means we are so far from an exit the wind cannot get to this part of the cave. We are, for lack of a better word, screwed." she signed. "I can think of a better word!" he said, perking up. "NO!" Nora and I chorused at the same time.
"Look, we're trying to have an argument over here! Settle your furry and feathery asses down!" Tyler barked at us. "I can remain hyper because I am scaled!" Bubbles said, bolting across the cave and into a wall, knocking herself out. Ever seen two humans and four Pokemon simultaneously facepaw? Had you been there, you would have. I think even the Metapod would have, had he hands. Or paws. Just as Autumn was about to shout at Tyler again, something swooped down and took a shot at me floating back up and turning to face us. "Golbat. The bat pokemon. It attacks in a stealthy manner, without warning. Its sharp fangs are used to bite and suck blood. Once it strikes, it will not stop draining energy from the victim even if it gets too heavy to fly." Autumn's PokeDex said as she scanned it. Oh god, a vampire pokemon!?
"Scam, or you will pay for it with your blood!" Shadow shouted, prancing to the front to confront it. "Shadow, back off! Let it go!" Tyler shouted, but Shadow was flat out ignoring him. "Bat... Golbat." it said, showing off it's fangs. "Last warning you blood drinking parasite, you better run." He growled, digging his claws into the dirt. "Shadow, back down! That is an order!" Tyler screamed, getting a pokedoll ready. The Golbat swooped, and the cave lit up vibrant purple as Shadow unloaded a dozen Shadow Balls at it, erupting in a shower of darkness and energy, blasting the entire rear of the cave apart, rocks scattering everywhere as he demolished the entire area. "Shadow... what the hell..." Tyler said in shock as the Eevee panted, his eyes glowing red.
"Shadow... Shadow speak to me." I said, slowly approaching him. He didn't answer, or move, he just stood frozen and panting, his eyes pulsing. "Shadow, come on, whatever is going on, you can talk to me about it. I'm fine." I said, rubbing against him. The fiery red light dimmed as he looked back at me, before dying out as he nuzzled me in return. "I won't tolerate an attack on those I care about. I won't let them hurt you. I will fight until my dying breath on that." he snarled, calming down. His heart was racing, and his fur has a cold feeling to it. Not like the cave, that was warm and moist. This was a coldness one could compare to pure darkness. Something was wrong with him, but the question was what? He shouldn't react like that to a simple pokemon battle.
"Error. Evolution failed. Improper stimulus received in level up." A pokedex said, making us look at Tyler, who had his out. "Level 24... you went up two levels? And what is this failed evolution warning? Autumn, does this make sense to you?" Tyler said, looking over the red device. "Autumn I'm no professor yet, but if I had to guess, Shadow touched something he shouldn't be able to reach into. Eevee is the evolution pokemon, they evolve based on stones. There's plenty here that could react, but I mean, I guess it's too far to do anything? That's the temper of a Flareon though. So maybe there is a fire stone nearby?" she theorized. "Shadow... what happened?" I asked softly, hoping he wasn't losing control. "Sparkette... I felt something. It was close, yet far. I couldn't grasp it. something fueled me. I feel... energized, but it's gone now." he sighed. Please Shadow... don't lose yourself to some rock...