Here it is! first Chapter! now the story really begins! Enjoy and please review!

Chapter 1: Nightmares And New Life


PRESENT TIME...


A gibbous moon poked out from behind the clouds, shining soft silver light down onto the houses below. Gentle snoring sounds could be heard from most of the houses. However from one house came whimpers of pain and sadness, wimpers designed for another creature and another mouth. A young child was thrashing about in his bed in the grip of a nightmare. A horrible nightmare which almost seemed real. A nightmare which saw him as a vulpix running from Team Rocket. Slowly, he felt his strength drain away and then a horribly deformed dugtrio radiating with evil and malice slammed into him from underground, slowly killing him. He felt more pain than he ever felt, even through it was only a nightmare. This continued on throughout the night each time getting steadily worst. As he was thrashing you could see that he was holding something in his hand; the curl of fur from a vulpix.

The ghost of the mother vulpix watched William with sadness. She knew that her earthly curl actually made the nightmare worst and also was slowly changing him, so slowly that he wouldn't notice. She also knew that the nightmare was about her death and wouldn't stop until he saw her offspring. Suddenly she was struck with an idea, she could influence his nightmare to tell William where to find her baby.

However, there was nothing she could do about the nightmare at this time. The very presence of her intensified the nightmare and she needed to wait until her egg was very close to hatching. 'Tomorrow' she decided. She would influence his dreams to tell him where her baby was but until then, she could only watch and wait.

Sunlight shone from the window onto the figure of William who was slowing stirring and waking up. William opened his eyes and groaned. he idly looked at his hands. The combination of restless sleep and the curl was beginning to take its toll, he didn't see his own hand, he saw red vulpix paws. He gasped and blinked again and saw his own hands. He sighed in relief, got out of bed, changed and headed downstairs for breakfast.

When William got there, his mother, a famous artist called Elisa Vannor was cooking pancakes. Her pokemon, Leonardo who was a male smeargle was mixing up the pancake batter and making a mess. "Good morning William." Elisa said happily "Come have some pancakes, while they're hot" William sat down at the table, confused at why his mother was acting so nice, then it hit him, it was his birthday! "How could i forget my birthday?" he thought. His mond changed for the better and he grinned ear-to-ear. It was his birthday, his 12th birthday which meant... His mother interuptted his thoughts as she continued "Now William, you know what i said. If you were good and helpful, you would be able to become a trainer today and go out into the big, wide world and you have been very good and helpful around the house and have proven that you're a responsable young man. Come on, eat up. After breakfast, you shall get your present." She paused then asked "William would you mind if you left tomorrow on your journey? I need to help you pack your belongings and I really want to see you on your birthday more than once." William reply curtly "Of course, mum. For you." "Thank you, Will" she replied sweetly. William wolfed down his pancakes. He had being waiting for this moment for a long time.

After breakfast, his mother presented three pokeballs for him to take."Happy Birthday, Will." she exclaimed. Then she added "Your first pokemon is in this pokeball." With that she pointed to the pokeball with a 'Happy Birthday' sticker on it. William grabbed the pokeball in excitement and let out the pokemon inside. With a blast of white light, a very small, young, male smeargle appeared. The smeargle eyed William, wary of him. William tried to hug smeargle but it didn't like that move and smacked William between the eyes with its tail. "Owww!!!" William exclaimed in painful surprise. "That hurt!" "No no no, William" his mum exclaimed. "Not like that. Pat him first, then hug him when he feels safe and secure" Wlliam tried out his mother's advice and it wasn't long before he managed to hug smeargle without being hurt. "Smeargle likes you a lot" replied his mother as William played with him. "He's grown up so quick" she through as as she watched William playing with his smeargle "I'm going to miss him."

That night, William was again in the grip of the same nightmare. It was so real and so vivid, he heart was struggling to beat and his lungs were struggling to breathe. However, just as the nightmare peaked, it stopped. It was replaced by a white, very bright world. William could hear a sound sort of like a campfire brazing, only softer. Then he heard a sweet voice, reminding him of a warm fire.
"Will...iam,...William" it called softly. William turned to where that voice came from.

A vulpix, ghostly but bright and beautiful had appeared and was calling out his name. He slowly aprouched the shining vulpix. then that vulpix spoke "...find my baby...Take good care of...it" The ghost vulpix repeated this over and over. Then, suddenly an image flashed in his mind, a egg propped by a pile of newpaper now rotted in an alleyway.

William woke up with a gasp. He suddenly had an overpowering urge to find the egg in his dreams and he gave in to it. He put on his coat and shoes, grabbed his pokeball and tip-toed to the door. His mum was asleeep on the couch. An easeal was standing near the couch. Leonardo was snoozing besides his mum but William was too rushed to look at the comical scene. He slipped quietly out of the door.

Outside, it was raining heavily and the wind was blowing hard no moon poked through the clouds, that were blanketed across the night sky. William cursed himself, because he did not even know where this egg was, how could he find the egg in such bad weather. But some sixth sense make him head north in the right direction. After about 20 minutes walking, he strumbled into a unused, broken down alleyway. He was wide-eyed with astonishment. Right between two garbage bins, propped by a pile of rotten newspapers was a orange-red egg. It was glowing with a inner light.

Right away, William knew what to do. It needed heat, so he picked up the egg, and tucked it under his coat and PJ's so it was in contact with his skin. It felt warm, and William's mind seemed to uncloud and become clear. "Well," thought William. "I'm best to take this home with me". He started walking away from the alley, feeling very light-hearted.

The ghost of the mother vulpix watch the figure of William disappearing into the rain with concern. She didn't think that contact with her baby would change but in fact it had changed him a lot and now by looking at his lifeforce, she could not tell if William was still human...or...vulpix. She sighed and floated back towards William's house thinking about William. "He is now not quite human" she thought sadly.

When William got back to his house he noticed, the egg had started to shake violently. William quickly opened the front door, went inside, and walked quickly but quietly up to his room. There, he sat the egg on his bed, and watched the egg slowly hatch.

The baby pokemon inside had already began to crack out of the egg. The egg was literality falling apart, revealing a cute but powerful looking female vulpix.
The vulpix squeaked with delight on seeing William, and started rubbing up against William affectionively. Willliam patted the vulpix, who was looking straight into his eyes. Strange, he noted how vulpix's eyes seem to penetrate into his soul. Soon William startied feeling really weird, but after a while vulpix stopped looking into William's eyes and William started feeling normal again. He got back into his bed. The vulpix followed him to the bed.

If somebody has been looking into William's bedroom that night, they would have seen a unusual sight. A boy that was sleeping contently, with a smile on his face and a baby vulpix, snoring softly next to him on the pillow. Both of them seemed to radiate an inner light from thier bodies that lit up the room slightly.

The ghost of the mother vulpix looked down on the two sleeping figures. She could already see the vulpix-ish smile on William's face. She knew it was now only a matter of time for William and sadly he didn't know it. But the vulpix ghost was also glad that her baby was in good hands.

The next morning, William was shaken roughly awake by his mother. "William," she retorted, staring at the vulpix. "You know there is a vulpix sleeping on your pillow? What have I told you about letting wild pokemon in the house..." William cut his mother speech short, picking up the the pieces of egg shell on his bed and the floor. "I found an egg yesterday" he replied showed her the egg shell pieces "It hatched last night." She looked at the egg shell pieces carefully. " You may be right...I believe you" he replied in a serious tone "Well, you and your friend should come down and have some breakfast" Then she added "After you clean up the eggshell and get changed" "And oh, by the way. Your hair looks red -brown. I thought it was brown before, was it? "William quickly got changed and came down the stairs to the kitchen. Elisa was cooking bacon and eggs. " There's two bowls of fresh milk for your pokemon on the bench." she replied with a hand gesture towards the bench. "And your bacon and eggs are nearly ready" William carried the two small bowls of and placed one in front of vulpix and the other in front of smeargle. William watched as vulpix drunk the milk up. Then vulpix done something which William would never forget. She mooed, mooed just like a miltank. William's eyes almost popped out of his head. William studied vulpix closely, he wasn't sure but he thought he could see signs of change in vulpix...



Chapter 1 done! Anyone knows what powers vulpix has yet? Next chapter you will find out what happened to vulpix and why vulpix mooed like a miltank. If you think you know what's happening to vulpix and to William write in at flexsqu@hotmail.com with your answer. Yeah, and lastly if Sandact_1 actaully reviews this story, I would be greatly honoured indeed. Review please!
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