"Realm of the Leafeon"
By: Kiriska
[Chapter Three: Trust & Treachery]
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The journey back to Topaztown went pretty much eventless until the little Leafeon woke halfway there. It immediately let out a cry and struggled to get out of Aymichi's grip. "Ahhhh!!" The grass-type wriggled and swarmed, bit and clawed, but the trainer held tight. "Calm down! Calm down!" the Flareon tried. "You're going to take me away!" Breathless cried, the pain from the burn in his tail came back, and he thrashed some more. "Ack! Guys, can't you calm him down!?" Atashi held the young one tightly, constantly needing to get a better grip. I'm trying! Aeno complained.
The Leafeon's thoughts were bouncing off the ways with terror. It was happening! They were taking him away! He would never see his family again! And this two-legged thing! It must be human! I did not stand on all fours like he did. It did not have the slightest resemblance to him. But those other two creatures...he understood them, and one of them was trying to tell him to calm down at the moment. Could he trust them? No! They were friends with the human! Surely they were demons too! He couldn't let them take him! He couldn't! Breathless bite down on Atashi's arm, drawing blood. "Let me go!"
"Ahhh! Espsi, use hypnosis!" The psychic complied, the grass-type went limp within moments. "You should have thought of that earlier" Espsi laughed, "Would have saved you some trouble" The trainer glared, but didn't reply. Aeno laughed, strange sound, to a human it might sound like a fire alarm if he didn't know better. "Maybe I should put him in a pokeball?" "Two good ideas in a row! Whoa! Did you eat cereal this morning!?" The Flareon continued to snicker. "You're so mean." Aymichi sighed and captured the injured little one in a spare pokeball.
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Nightfall poked her head out of the den. The troupe was busier than ever, many of them were training, reviving their neglected abilities and techniques. Even the children were having play spars. Breathless still had not returned, this confirmed her guess that he had been the one that had broken the barrier. No one could go looking for him without passing through the wall as well, and that would weaken the structure even more. The barrier was already going down for about 30 minutes at a time, another passing through could bring it down for hours. Shaking her head she went to check the storage rooms.
If the humans were going to try and catch them,...well, they aren't going to get them without a fight. Nightfall ducked down into the roomy underground cavern. They had enough dried fruits and berries to feed every Leafeon in the barrier for a few months. Piles after piles of food were at the end of countless tunnels. The hidden away society had prospered during their years of self-confinement, and they had been perfectly content. The Leafeon finished her routine and headed back to the surface. She hoped more than ever that the myths of humans were just that. Myths. But Mysts the Elder was very convincing, being as old as she is. Just looking at her, wrinked, battered, she didn't look like she could lie.
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When Atashi finally reached the town again, it was high noon, yet the place looked deserted. Small town indeed. He trotted towards the Pokemon Center, Aeno and Espsi close behind. There was only a middle-aged man with his Xatu in the center. Even the familiar Joy wasn't there. Slightly fusterated, the trainer rang the bell at the counter. No answer. He rang it again. And again. "I'm coming, I'm coming!" a voice answered. Aeno rolled his eyes. Nurse Joy appeared at last, she looked slightly annoyed, "How may I help you?" Atashi took out the pokeball that contained the suspected grass evolution of Eevee and explained his story.
When he finished, the nurse was just staring at him, as was the man with the Xatu. "Uh, well, I'll see what I can do." Joy spluttered disbelievingly. The grass evolution of Eevee? Was it possible? Scientists have tried it time after time, the leaf stone's only effect on the Pokemon was, so it seemed, pain, suffering and in some cases death, because the stone did not change the eevee DNA correctly. And now suddenly, out of the blue, a trainer claims he's caught on in the Beryl Jungle? It was very hard to believe. Aymichi released the brilliant red light from the ball.
A still-asleep grass-type formed from the light, Nurse Joy was simply shocked. "I-I..It's...a..incrediable...I...none that I've ever even heard of before!" The man with the Xatu suddenly charged out the door. Espsi glared after him suspiciously. "Maybe we should treat the burn before he wakes again." Atashi pressed urgently. He should have expected people to react like this, it was his own reaction after all, but he really didn't want to have to deal with the terrifyed little creature again. "Yes, yes, of course, it's only a minor burn, he should be fine." Joy scooped up the Leafeon and transfered him to a table in the room behind the counter. The 17-year old trainer watched as she applied some gels to the burn.
"You're sure that there's a whole civilization of these guys? Behind some kind of barrier?" the nurse asked, still amazed. "According to my Espeon." Aymichi answered simply. "This is..just unbelievable! We have to contact Prof.Oak and Elm right away! Another Pokemon,..the grass evolution of Eevee!" Aeno glanced at Espsi. "I don't like where this is going." he said softly. The psychic Pokemon nodded. "If word gets out, the jungle will be swarmed. If these Leafeons wanted to be left alone so bad that they build that barrier, we should probably leave them be" The Flareon sighed, "If this little one hadn't gotten out it would have probably been better."
The burn healed quickly, Atashi felt somewhat ackward as Joy rushed off to phone Prof.Oak. Mixed feelings, he supposed, part of him was extremely excited. The other half was unsure, it was thinking the same things the Pokemon were thinking. The Leafeon had a reason to hide themselves from the rest of the world. What would happen when a herd of hopeful trainers went to Beryl Jungle looking for them? Nurse Joy rushed back into the room, a floating television monitor followed her. Prof. Oak was on the screen.
As Atashi explained his story again to the professor, he was really starting to regret bringing the Leafeon here. But it was already too late. Breathless twitched, he heard voices, but he did not understand the voices. Strange and excited murmers were all they were to his ears. He felt a smooth, cool, surface benethe him. It did not feel like the soft dirt he was accustomed to, it was all alien to him. The grass-type forced open an eye. He had been taken. All around him, weird objects, items, things. The two creatures that he could understand sat on the..ground? It was a unnatrual white, flat, ground. It reflected the lights that came..above?
The Leafeon lifted his head up slightly. Where was the sky? The trees? He felt paniced again and jumped to his feet, knocking some equiptment on to the floor. All eyes were on him again, Joy's, Atashi's, Oak's, the Pokemon's. His eyes darted around, walls, all around him. He had been captured! Where was he? Where was the sky and the trees and the plants? Why was the ground white and shiny? Where was the dirt and the grass? "Calm down!"
Breathless leapt off the table, he slid on the tile floor. Why wasn't the ground soft dirt? The young Leafeon crashed right into Aeno, "Ack! Calm down! We were just treeating your burn!" "Catch him!" Nurse Joy made a grab for the little green creature. The Leafeon leapt out of the way as Joy went crashing onto the ground and into Espsi. "This isn't getting us anywhere!" The Espeon grumbled. The nurse ignored all the cries of the Pokemon and continued her pursuit. The grass-type pup's feet scrambled against the tile and ducked into the waiting room of the center.
"We have to catch him! Scientists must research the creature to figure out how it evolved from the leaf stone!" Oak cried from the moniter. "What? I'm returning him to the jungle!" Atashi growled, he shouldn't ever taken the Pokemon from the greenery. The Leafeon ran wildly around the room, frightened by every little everyday human object. The chairs, the tables, the little one saw no exit, no way out to the open sky and ground. He huddled, whimpering in a corner, eyes darting wildly like the trapped animal he was. "We've got him now!" exclaimed Prof.Oak excitedly. Joy took out a pokeball and prepared to throw it. The 17-year old trainer stepped in her way.
"No! I can't believe you guys! All you care about is research and money and fame! What about the Leafeon? Look! He's terrifyed! He's going to go back to the jungle!" Aymichi exclaimed. "YEAH!" Aeno barked, agreeing. Espsi nodded. "Are you insane? This is the perfect chance to study this creature!" Oak argued. "Oh shut up!" The flareon blasted a mild flamethrower and destroyed the screen that held the professor's image. "Ugh!" Nurse Joy exclaimed, not knowing what else to do.
"Breathless, you have to come with us, we're going to take you home." Aeno called to the Leafeon. Breathless flinched at the sound of his name, how did these creatures know his name? His history? His problems? Would they really be trusted? "I..why should I trust you?" He asked softly. "You don't have a choice! If you stay here, you're going to be caught by people who don't care about you." The Flareon answered fusterated. "C'mon..." Aymichi called to the grass-type.
Should he? The Leafeon thought to himself, he had heard everything said by the tall creatures, but being so young he didn't quite understand them. Still....they seem..alright. After all, they hadn't done anything to hurt him yet. The two smaller creatures, that were 'Pokemon' had saved him from that giant, flying creature... Slowly, step by step, Breathless inched over to the trainer.
Nurse Joy threw her pokeball, Espsi caught it and threw it back at her with his psychic abilities. The nurse growled something and ran back into the back room. The Leafeon stood a few feet from Aymichi and his two Pokemon. "C'mon...I won't hurt you..." Breathless whurbled and continued to get closer. "Eon..." he whimpered softly. Atashi slowly patted the Leafeon's head, careful not to startle him.
Suddenly, a red light erupted from a pokeball attached to Aymichi's belt. Breathless leapt back a few steps. A spiked Jolteon formed from the light. "Ok! It is way past my shift outside! Who's big idea was it to keep me in there? I--" The lightning-type stopped when he spotted the little Leafeon. "Thanks a lot, Raiku, you must've scared the shit out of him again." grumbled Aeno, his brother. "...Whhaaattt?" Raiku, the Jolteon asked. Espsi sighed and explained everything that had happened to him, while Aeno explained the concept of pokeballs to the young grass-type.
When all that had been cleared up, Breathless felt a bit more relieved. Surely if these people were planning to harm him they would have done so already. Besides...they didn't seem like the evil demons of his mother's myths. And they said they were taking him home. Aeno and Espsi returned to their pokeballs, Raiku remained out, for as he stated it //was// way past his turn to be outside. Atashi bought some fresh meat for the Jolteon to eat, and found some fruit for the grass-type whence he discovered it's diet. Then, they headed back towards the jungle.
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The Nurse Joy of Topaztown phoned Prof.Elm and Ivy. She knew her sisters would disapprove of her, they all would. But they don't understand, she worked this pathetic little town on the egde of nowhere. It was rare that anyone brought in Pokemon, and even rarer a Pokemon hurt enough for her to save it from death. She would never recieve the fame her sisters have. This boy's discovery was going to make her famous. They could return that young one, fine, but he had already told her where and how he came across this Leafeon. Only Oak knew the story of the grass Eevee evolution, she would not tell anyone else. No one else would know where to catch these creatures. She would catch them...and sell them to research people and rich trainers. Indeed, she would be famous. So what if she betrayed everything her family had worked for?
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By: Kiriska
[Chapter Three: Trust & Treachery]
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The journey back to Topaztown went pretty much eventless until the little Leafeon woke halfway there. It immediately let out a cry and struggled to get out of Aymichi's grip. "Ahhhh!!" The grass-type wriggled and swarmed, bit and clawed, but the trainer held tight. "Calm down! Calm down!" the Flareon tried. "You're going to take me away!" Breathless cried, the pain from the burn in his tail came back, and he thrashed some more. "Ack! Guys, can't you calm him down!?" Atashi held the young one tightly, constantly needing to get a better grip. I'm trying! Aeno complained.
The Leafeon's thoughts were bouncing off the ways with terror. It was happening! They were taking him away! He would never see his family again! And this two-legged thing! It must be human! I did not stand on all fours like he did. It did not have the slightest resemblance to him. But those other two creatures...he understood them, and one of them was trying to tell him to calm down at the moment. Could he trust them? No! They were friends with the human! Surely they were demons too! He couldn't let them take him! He couldn't! Breathless bite down on Atashi's arm, drawing blood. "Let me go!"
"Ahhh! Espsi, use hypnosis!" The psychic complied, the grass-type went limp within moments. "You should have thought of that earlier" Espsi laughed, "Would have saved you some trouble" The trainer glared, but didn't reply. Aeno laughed, strange sound, to a human it might sound like a fire alarm if he didn't know better. "Maybe I should put him in a pokeball?" "Two good ideas in a row! Whoa! Did you eat cereal this morning!?" The Flareon continued to snicker. "You're so mean." Aymichi sighed and captured the injured little one in a spare pokeball.
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Nightfall poked her head out of the den. The troupe was busier than ever, many of them were training, reviving their neglected abilities and techniques. Even the children were having play spars. Breathless still had not returned, this confirmed her guess that he had been the one that had broken the barrier. No one could go looking for him without passing through the wall as well, and that would weaken the structure even more. The barrier was already going down for about 30 minutes at a time, another passing through could bring it down for hours. Shaking her head she went to check the storage rooms.
If the humans were going to try and catch them,...well, they aren't going to get them without a fight. Nightfall ducked down into the roomy underground cavern. They had enough dried fruits and berries to feed every Leafeon in the barrier for a few months. Piles after piles of food were at the end of countless tunnels. The hidden away society had prospered during their years of self-confinement, and they had been perfectly content. The Leafeon finished her routine and headed back to the surface. She hoped more than ever that the myths of humans were just that. Myths. But Mysts the Elder was very convincing, being as old as she is. Just looking at her, wrinked, battered, she didn't look like she could lie.
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When Atashi finally reached the town again, it was high noon, yet the place looked deserted. Small town indeed. He trotted towards the Pokemon Center, Aeno and Espsi close behind. There was only a middle-aged man with his Xatu in the center. Even the familiar Joy wasn't there. Slightly fusterated, the trainer rang the bell at the counter. No answer. He rang it again. And again. "I'm coming, I'm coming!" a voice answered. Aeno rolled his eyes. Nurse Joy appeared at last, she looked slightly annoyed, "How may I help you?" Atashi took out the pokeball that contained the suspected grass evolution of Eevee and explained his story.
When he finished, the nurse was just staring at him, as was the man with the Xatu. "Uh, well, I'll see what I can do." Joy spluttered disbelievingly. The grass evolution of Eevee? Was it possible? Scientists have tried it time after time, the leaf stone's only effect on the Pokemon was, so it seemed, pain, suffering and in some cases death, because the stone did not change the eevee DNA correctly. And now suddenly, out of the blue, a trainer claims he's caught on in the Beryl Jungle? It was very hard to believe. Aymichi released the brilliant red light from the ball.
A still-asleep grass-type formed from the light, Nurse Joy was simply shocked. "I-I..It's...a..incrediable...I...none that I've ever even heard of before!" The man with the Xatu suddenly charged out the door. Espsi glared after him suspiciously. "Maybe we should treat the burn before he wakes again." Atashi pressed urgently. He should have expected people to react like this, it was his own reaction after all, but he really didn't want to have to deal with the terrifyed little creature again. "Yes, yes, of course, it's only a minor burn, he should be fine." Joy scooped up the Leafeon and transfered him to a table in the room behind the counter. The 17-year old trainer watched as she applied some gels to the burn.
"You're sure that there's a whole civilization of these guys? Behind some kind of barrier?" the nurse asked, still amazed. "According to my Espeon." Aymichi answered simply. "This is..just unbelievable! We have to contact Prof.Oak and Elm right away! Another Pokemon,..the grass evolution of Eevee!" Aeno glanced at Espsi. "I don't like where this is going." he said softly. The psychic Pokemon nodded. "If word gets out, the jungle will be swarmed. If these Leafeons wanted to be left alone so bad that they build that barrier, we should probably leave them be" The Flareon sighed, "If this little one hadn't gotten out it would have probably been better."
The burn healed quickly, Atashi felt somewhat ackward as Joy rushed off to phone Prof.Oak. Mixed feelings, he supposed, part of him was extremely excited. The other half was unsure, it was thinking the same things the Pokemon were thinking. The Leafeon had a reason to hide themselves from the rest of the world. What would happen when a herd of hopeful trainers went to Beryl Jungle looking for them? Nurse Joy rushed back into the room, a floating television monitor followed her. Prof. Oak was on the screen.
As Atashi explained his story again to the professor, he was really starting to regret bringing the Leafeon here. But it was already too late. Breathless twitched, he heard voices, but he did not understand the voices. Strange and excited murmers were all they were to his ears. He felt a smooth, cool, surface benethe him. It did not feel like the soft dirt he was accustomed to, it was all alien to him. The grass-type forced open an eye. He had been taken. All around him, weird objects, items, things. The two creatures that he could understand sat on the..ground? It was a unnatrual white, flat, ground. It reflected the lights that came..above?
The Leafeon lifted his head up slightly. Where was the sky? The trees? He felt paniced again and jumped to his feet, knocking some equiptment on to the floor. All eyes were on him again, Joy's, Atashi's, Oak's, the Pokemon's. His eyes darted around, walls, all around him. He had been captured! Where was he? Where was the sky and the trees and the plants? Why was the ground white and shiny? Where was the dirt and the grass? "Calm down!"
Breathless leapt off the table, he slid on the tile floor. Why wasn't the ground soft dirt? The young Leafeon crashed right into Aeno, "Ack! Calm down! We were just treeating your burn!" "Catch him!" Nurse Joy made a grab for the little green creature. The Leafeon leapt out of the way as Joy went crashing onto the ground and into Espsi. "This isn't getting us anywhere!" The Espeon grumbled. The nurse ignored all the cries of the Pokemon and continued her pursuit. The grass-type pup's feet scrambled against the tile and ducked into the waiting room of the center.
"We have to catch him! Scientists must research the creature to figure out how it evolved from the leaf stone!" Oak cried from the moniter. "What? I'm returning him to the jungle!" Atashi growled, he shouldn't ever taken the Pokemon from the greenery. The Leafeon ran wildly around the room, frightened by every little everyday human object. The chairs, the tables, the little one saw no exit, no way out to the open sky and ground. He huddled, whimpering in a corner, eyes darting wildly like the trapped animal he was. "We've got him now!" exclaimed Prof.Oak excitedly. Joy took out a pokeball and prepared to throw it. The 17-year old trainer stepped in her way.
"No! I can't believe you guys! All you care about is research and money and fame! What about the Leafeon? Look! He's terrifyed! He's going to go back to the jungle!" Aymichi exclaimed. "YEAH!" Aeno barked, agreeing. Espsi nodded. "Are you insane? This is the perfect chance to study this creature!" Oak argued. "Oh shut up!" The flareon blasted a mild flamethrower and destroyed the screen that held the professor's image. "Ugh!" Nurse Joy exclaimed, not knowing what else to do.
"Breathless, you have to come with us, we're going to take you home." Aeno called to the Leafeon. Breathless flinched at the sound of his name, how did these creatures know his name? His history? His problems? Would they really be trusted? "I..why should I trust you?" He asked softly. "You don't have a choice! If you stay here, you're going to be caught by people who don't care about you." The Flareon answered fusterated. "C'mon..." Aymichi called to the grass-type.
Should he? The Leafeon thought to himself, he had heard everything said by the tall creatures, but being so young he didn't quite understand them. Still....they seem..alright. After all, they hadn't done anything to hurt him yet. The two smaller creatures, that were 'Pokemon' had saved him from that giant, flying creature... Slowly, step by step, Breathless inched over to the trainer.
Nurse Joy threw her pokeball, Espsi caught it and threw it back at her with his psychic abilities. The nurse growled something and ran back into the back room. The Leafeon stood a few feet from Aymichi and his two Pokemon. "C'mon...I won't hurt you..." Breathless whurbled and continued to get closer. "Eon..." he whimpered softly. Atashi slowly patted the Leafeon's head, careful not to startle him.
Suddenly, a red light erupted from a pokeball attached to Aymichi's belt. Breathless leapt back a few steps. A spiked Jolteon formed from the light. "Ok! It is way past my shift outside! Who's big idea was it to keep me in there? I--" The lightning-type stopped when he spotted the little Leafeon. "Thanks a lot, Raiku, you must've scared the shit out of him again." grumbled Aeno, his brother. "...Whhaaattt?" Raiku, the Jolteon asked. Espsi sighed and explained everything that had happened to him, while Aeno explained the concept of pokeballs to the young grass-type.
When all that had been cleared up, Breathless felt a bit more relieved. Surely if these people were planning to harm him they would have done so already. Besides...they didn't seem like the evil demons of his mother's myths. And they said they were taking him home. Aeno and Espsi returned to their pokeballs, Raiku remained out, for as he stated it //was// way past his turn to be outside. Atashi bought some fresh meat for the Jolteon to eat, and found some fruit for the grass-type whence he discovered it's diet. Then, they headed back towards the jungle.
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The Nurse Joy of Topaztown phoned Prof.Elm and Ivy. She knew her sisters would disapprove of her, they all would. But they don't understand, she worked this pathetic little town on the egde of nowhere. It was rare that anyone brought in Pokemon, and even rarer a Pokemon hurt enough for her to save it from death. She would never recieve the fame her sisters have. This boy's discovery was going to make her famous. They could return that young one, fine, but he had already told her where and how he came across this Leafeon. Only Oak knew the story of the grass Eevee evolution, she would not tell anyone else. No one else would know where to catch these creatures. She would catch them...and sell them to research people and rich trainers. Indeed, she would be famous. So what if she betrayed everything her family had worked for?
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