Chapter 2: Scarlet
"How can I help....."
Alisa Lynn High5t
Dad was waiting for us outside the office when we slumped down the pathway leading to the office. "Can't we stay for the party?". "No" Dad said firmly "We have to go home because.........well...........it's snowing at our house". "WHAT!" I screamed. It was perfectly sunny around the school and I couldn't imagine it snowing at our house. "That's bogus" I said finally. We piled into the car and drove off. Going down the packed road made it even harder for me to believe that it was snowing. The temperature said on the gage in the car that it was 92 degrees outside, and the crowed of people hangin' around gas stations and parks was the same. What was my dad doing? Has he finally gone looney-toons on me? I thought. But sure enough as we began to climb up Banner Mountain, I saw drops of rain splattering against the windshield. Soon the rain turned to sleet, and sleet to miniature flakes of snow . But the flakes didn't stay small for long. They began to get bigger and Bigger and BIGGER. As we pulled into our street they were as big as golf balls. "Oh dear" said Amy. "What the-" I said. "I told you" Dad said matter-of-factually "I couldn't believe myself. And it's only snowing on Banner Mountain". "This IS Bogus" I repeated. We pulled into our drive, which was hard to see given the fact that it was covered in white and stopped the car. "Wait..................this means, Snow Day!" Amy declared. "This is the LAST day of school Duffus, There can't be a snow day". "I knew that" said Amy shyly. "Wait............Dorian & Rosie live up Banner Mountain too. Maybe we can have them over to play!" I thought out loud. "Yeah! Dad?" Amy asked. "Hmm" he answered. "Can we have Dorian and Rosie over to play?" I finished with a angel smile. "Sure" ,said Dad, "But only if their parents say yes". "Sweet!". I ran into the house and hurriedly picked up the phone and Dialed Rosie's number. The dial tone sounded twice as slow and tortures then ever before, probably because I was so excited, but sure enough Rosie picked up the phone:
"Hello"
"Hi. Can I speak to Rosie?"
"This is she"
"HI! Rosie can you come over to play in the snow with us?"
"Um.......let me ask my mom.............................................................................................................................. ok! My mom says yes. Who else were you planning on inviting"
"Just Dorian"
"Why him?"
"Because he lives really close to us too"
"Ok. Whatever. When do you want me to come?"
"Anytime is fine"
"ok. How 'bout now?"
"That's Perfect!"
"Ok see ya soon"
"Ok Bye"
I hung up the phone and yelled at Amy to come here. "Wha?" she said slowly given that she had tried to stifle a yawn. "Rosie can come over". "Sweet" she said and sat down in a chair. "Ok. Now for Dorian". I Dialed his number and it only took, what, 30 sec. For someone to pick up.
"Hello"
"Hi. Can I speak to Dorian?"
"Sure. May I ask who's calling"
"This is Alisa"
"Ok just a sec...............................................(I could here in the backround someone screaming "DORIAN")..... "Hello"
"Hi! Dorain , oh wow this is weird, um do you wanna come over an play in the snow? Rosie will be there and stuff"
"Um sure.........but I have to ask my mom.............................................................................................She says its fine. As long as I take Dylan too. He's here."
"That's cool. So do you know where we live?"
"No, not really, no"
"Well have you ever seen that big sign that says-"
"You mean the one with the tree"
"yah that one. Anyway, We'll wait for you there"
"ok. That's sounds good"
"ok bye"
I hung up and almost jumped out of my seat. "This is gonna be cool" I told Amy "Dorian AND Dylan are coming over".
* * * * * * * * * *
The snow specks falling from the ground and the snow-packed ground made the Summery feeling turn into a Winter Wonderland feeling. I stood next to the big sign in front of our street waiting for Dorian and Dylan. Rosie had already shown up and was currently making a snowman with spiked hair muttering something that sounded distinctly like "Brock". Amy was making a pile of snowballs to throw at Dylan when he walked up the street. Two figures suddenly appeared striding down the main road whispering excitedly to each other. "Quick!" I yelled at Rosie and Amy making Rosie drop the nose she was currently adding to her masterpiece, "They're coming! Grab some snowballs!" Amy grabbed all the snowballs , Rosie picked up her sculpture and we all ran behind the sign. Waiting.......waiting.........waiting.... And the we over heard some of their conversation , "Yah! We should make snowballs and ambush them! They'll never expect it!"
"Dylan, That won't work"
"Why in the world not, Dorian!"
"Because.......... oh I don't believe it, they're not here!"
Dorian, who was standing right in range of us, Dylan at his side, Was looking around curiously waiting for any sign of movement. "Ok" I whispered "on three....1.....2....3" We all jumped up and began launching our snowballs at them. Dorian was so surprised that he was knocked down by the first 3, without a fight. Dylan on the other hand was laughing hysterically and picking up snow, rolling it into balls, and hurtling it towards us. Dorian, finally becoming aware of his surroundings, made a slush ball and threw it at me. It missed my ear by just barley a half an inch. I laughed and made another snowball, throwing it back at Dorian, just missing his hair. Dylan had thrown a snowball at my head, it got so close that I felt the wind from it. I was about to throw another when SMACK! A snowball had hit me in the neck and the water was slowly trickling down my spine, giving me chills wherever the wet slush had touched. "YES!" screamed Dorian 'Nailed H-" But he never got to finish because at that moment I had got my senses back and threw a snowball that plugged up his mouth. Everybody laughed , even Dorian. But soon the concept of snowballs was forgotten and we began launching snow and ourselves at each other. This resulted in many screwed up snow angels and 4 very soaked kids. Exhausted and doused, we all began to head back to my house, chattering excitedly along the way. "So" Dylan asked "Why did you invite us and not, like, the freak Kristin?". He could see that I was hurt by his comment and quickly muttered "Sorry. How come you invited us and not some of your other friends?". "Because they live way far away" I answered. There was a large amount of silence. "So" said Dorian, breaking the silence, "What else should we do? We've already cleared the area of snowball fight". I laughed. "Well" Amy answered, "We can sled in laundry baskets -". Everybody stared weirdly at her "-OR in sleds. I just find that laundry baskets are more fun". "We can also make snowman, sip hot chocolate or apple cider-" I finished . "I say we sip hot drinks first" Dylan interrupted "I'm kinda cold". "Good idea" everybody said in unison. We walked the rest of the way telling blonde jokes, most of them hosted by Dylan, the red head of the gang. "-So Anyway" Dylan said walking into our Driveway "She comes back into the store after dying her hair black and asks the man at the counter How much for that t.v.? and the guy says again I'm sorry but we don't serve blondes here and she says How did you know I'm a blonde? And he says because that's a microwave" We all laughed as we reached the porch outside our house. "Ok" I announced, still giggling, "here's our house" I opened the door and shouted "DAD! WE'RE HOME" My dad came out of his bedroom and greeted our guests. "So, What are you gonna do?". "Well" I said "we're gonna have some hot drinks, go sledding, and a bunch of stuff". "ok. I'll be in my bedroom if you need me". "ok. Thanx dad!". "Ok" I said "What would you all like?". "I'll have Cider" Dorian said shaking the snow out of his hair. "I'll have hot coco" Dylan said. "Cider for me please" Amy said. "Hot coco for me" Rosie answered. I took out a pan from the cupboard, filled it up with water, and put them on our stove. "Ok" I said getting out a bunch of thing-a-ma-bobs, " you can all sit down in the kitchen area". Amy lead them to the kitchen area as I stirred in a package of hot coco mix. It began to boil so I took it off the stove and poured the contents into a mug. I next filled the pan up with three times as much water as last time, and let it sit for a while heating up. I could here their conversation from the kitchen- "So, who should we prank phone call first?"
"I say we do Sean first"
"YEAH!"
"Ok"
I was so distracted that the water almost boiled over. "Whoops" I turned it down ,mixed in three packets of cider mix, and poured it evenly into three cups. I then brought it to the table. I was a bit nervous as everybody took their first sips because it might be awful stuff, but by the looks on their faces I could tell that it was fine. Phew! I thought. "So" Dorian said taking a sip of his cider, "we're gonna prank Sean first". "How? I said excitedly. "You call him up and pretend to be his grandmother or something" Dylan said smiling "I've heard your grandmother impression. It'll fool ANYONE!". "Ok". I picked up the phone and slowly dialed his number. The dial tone sounded but finally Sean picked up. "Hello?" he said.
"WHAT! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" I screamed back into the phone.
"HELLO!!!" he screamed back. It was very difficult not to laugh.
"Oh hi, can I speak to Gregory"
"Um I'm sorry you must have the wrong number"
"WHAT! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! SPEAK UP!!!!!"
"YOU MUST HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER!!"
"Oh good. I have the right number now put me on with him"
"YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER!!!!!!!!"
"Sheesh! Then you should have told me!"
"Never mind"
And he hung up. By now Dylan, Dorian, Amy and Rosie were on the floor roaring with laughter. I joined in. "What in the world?" My mom had just waltzed in o the house and was looking at us very weirdly. "Oh hi mom" I said "Dorian, Dylan, and Rosie are over to play in the snow". "Well then" my mom answered back "Don't Dawdle, I need some peace. Outside now!". We slouched outside, still giggling. "That was SWEET!" said Dorian. "No kidding" Rosie agreed "I thought you wouldn't do it". "Well' I answered "I did. And get over it. It's just a phone call. Besides we have to go sledding before the sun comes out". "ok. I'll get the sleds" Amy announced. She ran over to the beat up garage, and pulled out 5 sleds. "No only get 4 sleds. I'll ride my horse, Kya". I remeber getting my horse from that strange boy, and I named it Kya. "Lets go to the hill up our street" Amy said excitedly, putting back a sled. "Yeah! That hills huge!" I agreed "It'll be perfect". We walked down the street passing many odd neighbors. One was in a tank-top and shorts jogging up and down his driveway. Apparently, he had left his keys with his wife and she wasn't home right now, and having on Summer clothes didn't help. Also, there was a couple of kids swimming in there swimming pool, despite their yelling parents. As we came along a shack-house thing down the road , Dorian, Dylan, Rosie, and Amy jumped on their sleds and began to push themselves along. I was about to when I noticed something. The shack was the same setting as my dream........... Weird I thought and jumped on pushing myself down a hill. I would've caught up with the others if it hadn't been for a scarlet object holding something in the air that popped up suddenly out of a bush. "Whoo.......Crud" I said swerving to avoid hitting it. I jumped of the sled just as it went straight into a tree. I turned to see what the object. I realized my mouth was open and quickly shut it. Standing in the middle of the road, glistening eyes piercing me with a depressing stare, was a Vulpix. Or was it? The Vulpix like thing had a gem on it's forehead and one tail , like a Persion, but the rest of it had features like a Vulpix. I blinked thinking I was hallucinating, but it was still there when I opened my eyes again. I then noticed the sign in its paw. It read "Open for Employmint" I reached my hand out towards it.......hoping desperately that it wasn't a dream, but it backed away. "It's ok" I said softly ,"I'm not gonna hurt you". As if it had understood me it moved close enough for me to touch it. It was there, I could feel it's velvety fur. "Hi!" I said back to it "Listen, I think I should help you with your spelling. You spelled Employment wrong". "Who are you" "Who said that!" I looked around curiously trying to find the owner of the voice. "I did" It voiced again. I turned back to the Vulpix. "You..........You're Psychic" I said Astonished. It shook it's head. "That's right. You are one of the smart ones. I can see that. Only people with good hearts hear this voice. Can you help me?". "How can I help.........?". "I need you to return me to my world". "What do you mean "Your World"?" I asked confuesed. It gave a huge sigh and answered. " I knew this would be hard. You see, I, and many other poke'mon, had gone on a mission. The mission was to find..........well, that's actually confidential so I can't tell you. There is a line.........a line where this world splits to the poke'mon world. We were chased by Team Rocket across that line. And the only way to return is to change this world, or someone in this world, forever". "Oh dear" I said dazed, "That sounds complicated". "Yeah.....just a smidge" the Perspix answered back. "What's going on Alisa? What are y-" But instantly, Dorian Froze. "Is that.............Is that a...........a Poke'mon?". "Yep" I said at his confused look, "It is?". He immediately began muttering to himself, you could distinctly pull out the words "Amazing", "How" , and "I'm Hallucinating" while sitting down and rocking backwords and forwards. Then he blurted out 'You're joking right?". "No" I said giving him a suspicious stare, curious to see what he would do. He looked once more at me, at the poke'mon, and then collapsed onto the ground and began to twitch. "Who's he?" the Perspix asked. "Oh that's just Dorian" I answered . Scarlet walked over to him gingerly and sniffed his now dead frozen arm. "He's Cute!" she answered back. "Well, I guess. But he's just a friend". Dylan and Amy came sliding down the hill and at the sight of Dorian, Me and the thing, they stopped abruptly and began to run away screaming something that sounded a lot like "Dragon". But they then froze. I began to go into hysterics, followed by Dorian (who had just come to) and the vulpix-thing. They ran towards the poor vulpix thing. She backed away again. "No. It's ok? This is my friend, Dylan, and my sister Amy". She cam forward and sniffed at them, very warily. Almost instantly she smiled and held her paw out in acceptance. Then Rosie came sliding down and saw the vulpix. "Hey look! It's another one". Everyone stared at her blankly. "I found an onix the other day, sitting just perfectly in the middle of the road". "Oh" said Dylan sarcastically "this makes total sense now!Just because Rosie saw an enix-" "ONIX!" Amy, Rosie, and I shouted at the same time. "Whatever" Dylan said Blushing a dark crimson "Just cause Rosie saw a Onix in the street yesterday , that makes this whole situatiuon normal". "Dylan chill!" I said mounting Kya. "NO!' Dylan screamed so loud that I flock of birds perched in a tree nerby took of in suprise "I have been fighting this "Fad" for to long just to chill!". Suddenly, Amy let out a blood curtailing scream. "What?" I asked her reassuringly. "LOOK AT YOUR HORSE!!!". I looked down. Indeed something had changed Kya. She had now sprouted a long mane and tail of flames. "This can only be one thing" I said. "It's a Ponyta" Rosie, Amy, and I said in unison. "Cool' Amy said "What will you name the vulpix?" . "Er-". I hadn't really thought about a name. "What about, Fire Foot?" Dorian suggested. "Uh, No" the vulpix said sharply. "That's a no" I translated "But what about Scarlet?". "Sure" Scarlet said back, "That's a pretty name!".
"How can I help....."
Alisa Lynn High5t
Dad was waiting for us outside the office when we slumped down the pathway leading to the office. "Can't we stay for the party?". "No" Dad said firmly "We have to go home because.........well...........it's snowing at our house". "WHAT!" I screamed. It was perfectly sunny around the school and I couldn't imagine it snowing at our house. "That's bogus" I said finally. We piled into the car and drove off. Going down the packed road made it even harder for me to believe that it was snowing. The temperature said on the gage in the car that it was 92 degrees outside, and the crowed of people hangin' around gas stations and parks was the same. What was my dad doing? Has he finally gone looney-toons on me? I thought. But sure enough as we began to climb up Banner Mountain, I saw drops of rain splattering against the windshield. Soon the rain turned to sleet, and sleet to miniature flakes of snow . But the flakes didn't stay small for long. They began to get bigger and Bigger and BIGGER. As we pulled into our street they were as big as golf balls. "Oh dear" said Amy. "What the-" I said. "I told you" Dad said matter-of-factually "I couldn't believe myself. And it's only snowing on Banner Mountain". "This IS Bogus" I repeated. We pulled into our drive, which was hard to see given the fact that it was covered in white and stopped the car. "Wait..................this means, Snow Day!" Amy declared. "This is the LAST day of school Duffus, There can't be a snow day". "I knew that" said Amy shyly. "Wait............Dorian & Rosie live up Banner Mountain too. Maybe we can have them over to play!" I thought out loud. "Yeah! Dad?" Amy asked. "Hmm" he answered. "Can we have Dorian and Rosie over to play?" I finished with a angel smile. "Sure" ,said Dad, "But only if their parents say yes". "Sweet!". I ran into the house and hurriedly picked up the phone and Dialed Rosie's number. The dial tone sounded twice as slow and tortures then ever before, probably because I was so excited, but sure enough Rosie picked up the phone:
"Hello"
"Hi. Can I speak to Rosie?"
"This is she"
"HI! Rosie can you come over to play in the snow with us?"
"Um.......let me ask my mom.............................................................................................................................. ok! My mom says yes. Who else were you planning on inviting"
"Just Dorian"
"Why him?"
"Because he lives really close to us too"
"Ok. Whatever. When do you want me to come?"
"Anytime is fine"
"ok. How 'bout now?"
"That's Perfect!"
"Ok see ya soon"
"Ok Bye"
I hung up the phone and yelled at Amy to come here. "Wha?" she said slowly given that she had tried to stifle a yawn. "Rosie can come over". "Sweet" she said and sat down in a chair. "Ok. Now for Dorian". I Dialed his number and it only took, what, 30 sec. For someone to pick up.
"Hello"
"Hi. Can I speak to Dorian?"
"Sure. May I ask who's calling"
"This is Alisa"
"Ok just a sec...............................................(I could here in the backround someone screaming "DORIAN")..... "Hello"
"Hi! Dorain , oh wow this is weird, um do you wanna come over an play in the snow? Rosie will be there and stuff"
"Um sure.........but I have to ask my mom.............................................................................................She says its fine. As long as I take Dylan too. He's here."
"That's cool. So do you know where we live?"
"No, not really, no"
"Well have you ever seen that big sign that says-"
"You mean the one with the tree"
"yah that one. Anyway, We'll wait for you there"
"ok. That's sounds good"
"ok bye"
I hung up and almost jumped out of my seat. "This is gonna be cool" I told Amy "Dorian AND Dylan are coming over".
* * * * * * * * * *
The snow specks falling from the ground and the snow-packed ground made the Summery feeling turn into a Winter Wonderland feeling. I stood next to the big sign in front of our street waiting for Dorian and Dylan. Rosie had already shown up and was currently making a snowman with spiked hair muttering something that sounded distinctly like "Brock". Amy was making a pile of snowballs to throw at Dylan when he walked up the street. Two figures suddenly appeared striding down the main road whispering excitedly to each other. "Quick!" I yelled at Rosie and Amy making Rosie drop the nose she was currently adding to her masterpiece, "They're coming! Grab some snowballs!" Amy grabbed all the snowballs , Rosie picked up her sculpture and we all ran behind the sign. Waiting.......waiting.........waiting.... And the we over heard some of their conversation , "Yah! We should make snowballs and ambush them! They'll never expect it!"
"Dylan, That won't work"
"Why in the world not, Dorian!"
"Because.......... oh I don't believe it, they're not here!"
Dorian, who was standing right in range of us, Dylan at his side, Was looking around curiously waiting for any sign of movement. "Ok" I whispered "on three....1.....2....3" We all jumped up and began launching our snowballs at them. Dorian was so surprised that he was knocked down by the first 3, without a fight. Dylan on the other hand was laughing hysterically and picking up snow, rolling it into balls, and hurtling it towards us. Dorian, finally becoming aware of his surroundings, made a slush ball and threw it at me. It missed my ear by just barley a half an inch. I laughed and made another snowball, throwing it back at Dorian, just missing his hair. Dylan had thrown a snowball at my head, it got so close that I felt the wind from it. I was about to throw another when SMACK! A snowball had hit me in the neck and the water was slowly trickling down my spine, giving me chills wherever the wet slush had touched. "YES!" screamed Dorian 'Nailed H-" But he never got to finish because at that moment I had got my senses back and threw a snowball that plugged up his mouth. Everybody laughed , even Dorian. But soon the concept of snowballs was forgotten and we began launching snow and ourselves at each other. This resulted in many screwed up snow angels and 4 very soaked kids. Exhausted and doused, we all began to head back to my house, chattering excitedly along the way. "So" Dylan asked "Why did you invite us and not, like, the freak Kristin?". He could see that I was hurt by his comment and quickly muttered "Sorry. How come you invited us and not some of your other friends?". "Because they live way far away" I answered. There was a large amount of silence. "So" said Dorian, breaking the silence, "What else should we do? We've already cleared the area of snowball fight". I laughed. "Well" Amy answered, "We can sled in laundry baskets -". Everybody stared weirdly at her "-OR in sleds. I just find that laundry baskets are more fun". "We can also make snowman, sip hot chocolate or apple cider-" I finished . "I say we sip hot drinks first" Dylan interrupted "I'm kinda cold". "Good idea" everybody said in unison. We walked the rest of the way telling blonde jokes, most of them hosted by Dylan, the red head of the gang. "-So Anyway" Dylan said walking into our Driveway "She comes back into the store after dying her hair black and asks the man at the counter How much for that t.v.? and the guy says again I'm sorry but we don't serve blondes here and she says How did you know I'm a blonde? And he says because that's a microwave" We all laughed as we reached the porch outside our house. "Ok" I announced, still giggling, "here's our house" I opened the door and shouted "DAD! WE'RE HOME" My dad came out of his bedroom and greeted our guests. "So, What are you gonna do?". "Well" I said "we're gonna have some hot drinks, go sledding, and a bunch of stuff". "ok. I'll be in my bedroom if you need me". "ok. Thanx dad!". "Ok" I said "What would you all like?". "I'll have Cider" Dorian said shaking the snow out of his hair. "I'll have hot coco" Dylan said. "Cider for me please" Amy said. "Hot coco for me" Rosie answered. I took out a pan from the cupboard, filled it up with water, and put them on our stove. "Ok" I said getting out a bunch of thing-a-ma-bobs, " you can all sit down in the kitchen area". Amy lead them to the kitchen area as I stirred in a package of hot coco mix. It began to boil so I took it off the stove and poured the contents into a mug. I next filled the pan up with three times as much water as last time, and let it sit for a while heating up. I could here their conversation from the kitchen- "So, who should we prank phone call first?"
"I say we do Sean first"
"YEAH!"
"Ok"
I was so distracted that the water almost boiled over. "Whoops" I turned it down ,mixed in three packets of cider mix, and poured it evenly into three cups. I then brought it to the table. I was a bit nervous as everybody took their first sips because it might be awful stuff, but by the looks on their faces I could tell that it was fine. Phew! I thought. "So" Dorian said taking a sip of his cider, "we're gonna prank Sean first". "How? I said excitedly. "You call him up and pretend to be his grandmother or something" Dylan said smiling "I've heard your grandmother impression. It'll fool ANYONE!". "Ok". I picked up the phone and slowly dialed his number. The dial tone sounded but finally Sean picked up. "Hello?" he said.
"WHAT! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" I screamed back into the phone.
"HELLO!!!" he screamed back. It was very difficult not to laugh.
"Oh hi, can I speak to Gregory"
"Um I'm sorry you must have the wrong number"
"WHAT! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! SPEAK UP!!!!!"
"YOU MUST HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER!!"
"Oh good. I have the right number now put me on with him"
"YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER!!!!!!!!"
"Sheesh! Then you should have told me!"
"Never mind"
And he hung up. By now Dylan, Dorian, Amy and Rosie were on the floor roaring with laughter. I joined in. "What in the world?" My mom had just waltzed in o the house and was looking at us very weirdly. "Oh hi mom" I said "Dorian, Dylan, and Rosie are over to play in the snow". "Well then" my mom answered back "Don't Dawdle, I need some peace. Outside now!". We slouched outside, still giggling. "That was SWEET!" said Dorian. "No kidding" Rosie agreed "I thought you wouldn't do it". "Well' I answered "I did. And get over it. It's just a phone call. Besides we have to go sledding before the sun comes out". "ok. I'll get the sleds" Amy announced. She ran over to the beat up garage, and pulled out 5 sleds. "No only get 4 sleds. I'll ride my horse, Kya". I remeber getting my horse from that strange boy, and I named it Kya. "Lets go to the hill up our street" Amy said excitedly, putting back a sled. "Yeah! That hills huge!" I agreed "It'll be perfect". We walked down the street passing many odd neighbors. One was in a tank-top and shorts jogging up and down his driveway. Apparently, he had left his keys with his wife and she wasn't home right now, and having on Summer clothes didn't help. Also, there was a couple of kids swimming in there swimming pool, despite their yelling parents. As we came along a shack-house thing down the road , Dorian, Dylan, Rosie, and Amy jumped on their sleds and began to push themselves along. I was about to when I noticed something. The shack was the same setting as my dream........... Weird I thought and jumped on pushing myself down a hill. I would've caught up with the others if it hadn't been for a scarlet object holding something in the air that popped up suddenly out of a bush. "Whoo.......Crud" I said swerving to avoid hitting it. I jumped of the sled just as it went straight into a tree. I turned to see what the object. I realized my mouth was open and quickly shut it. Standing in the middle of the road, glistening eyes piercing me with a depressing stare, was a Vulpix. Or was it? The Vulpix like thing had a gem on it's forehead and one tail , like a Persion, but the rest of it had features like a Vulpix. I blinked thinking I was hallucinating, but it was still there when I opened my eyes again. I then noticed the sign in its paw. It read "Open for Employmint" I reached my hand out towards it.......hoping desperately that it wasn't a dream, but it backed away. "It's ok" I said softly ,"I'm not gonna hurt you". As if it had understood me it moved close enough for me to touch it. It was there, I could feel it's velvety fur. "Hi!" I said back to it "Listen, I think I should help you with your spelling. You spelled Employment wrong". "Who are you" "Who said that!" I looked around curiously trying to find the owner of the voice. "I did" It voiced again. I turned back to the Vulpix. "You..........You're Psychic" I said Astonished. It shook it's head. "That's right. You are one of the smart ones. I can see that. Only people with good hearts hear this voice. Can you help me?". "How can I help.........?". "I need you to return me to my world". "What do you mean "Your World"?" I asked confuesed. It gave a huge sigh and answered. " I knew this would be hard. You see, I, and many other poke'mon, had gone on a mission. The mission was to find..........well, that's actually confidential so I can't tell you. There is a line.........a line where this world splits to the poke'mon world. We were chased by Team Rocket across that line. And the only way to return is to change this world, or someone in this world, forever". "Oh dear" I said dazed, "That sounds complicated". "Yeah.....just a smidge" the Perspix answered back. "What's going on Alisa? What are y-" But instantly, Dorian Froze. "Is that.............Is that a...........a Poke'mon?". "Yep" I said at his confused look, "It is?". He immediately began muttering to himself, you could distinctly pull out the words "Amazing", "How" , and "I'm Hallucinating" while sitting down and rocking backwords and forwards. Then he blurted out 'You're joking right?". "No" I said giving him a suspicious stare, curious to see what he would do. He looked once more at me, at the poke'mon, and then collapsed onto the ground and began to twitch. "Who's he?" the Perspix asked. "Oh that's just Dorian" I answered . Scarlet walked over to him gingerly and sniffed his now dead frozen arm. "He's Cute!" she answered back. "Well, I guess. But he's just a friend". Dylan and Amy came sliding down the hill and at the sight of Dorian, Me and the thing, they stopped abruptly and began to run away screaming something that sounded a lot like "Dragon". But they then froze. I began to go into hysterics, followed by Dorian (who had just come to) and the vulpix-thing. They ran towards the poor vulpix thing. She backed away again. "No. It's ok? This is my friend, Dylan, and my sister Amy". She cam forward and sniffed at them, very warily. Almost instantly she smiled and held her paw out in acceptance. Then Rosie came sliding down and saw the vulpix. "Hey look! It's another one". Everyone stared at her blankly. "I found an onix the other day, sitting just perfectly in the middle of the road". "Oh" said Dylan sarcastically "this makes total sense now!Just because Rosie saw an enix-" "ONIX!" Amy, Rosie, and I shouted at the same time. "Whatever" Dylan said Blushing a dark crimson "Just cause Rosie saw a Onix in the street yesterday , that makes this whole situatiuon normal". "Dylan chill!" I said mounting Kya. "NO!' Dylan screamed so loud that I flock of birds perched in a tree nerby took of in suprise "I have been fighting this "Fad" for to long just to chill!". Suddenly, Amy let out a blood curtailing scream. "What?" I asked her reassuringly. "LOOK AT YOUR HORSE!!!". I looked down. Indeed something had changed Kya. She had now sprouted a long mane and tail of flames. "This can only be one thing" I said. "It's a Ponyta" Rosie, Amy, and I said in unison. "Cool' Amy said "What will you name the vulpix?" . "Er-". I hadn't really thought about a name. "What about, Fire Foot?" Dorian suggested. "Uh, No" the vulpix said sharply. "That's a no" I translated "But what about Scarlet?". "Sure" Scarlet said back, "That's a pretty name!".