Sunlight met the insides of a hotel in New York City. Despite the saying. "The city never sleeps," in reality, about half the city slept depending on the time. From Sunup to sun down, half are out and about. From Night fall to the rising of the sun, a new batch of people come out and start their day… or rather night in that situation. Constant honking down below kept an Alolan Ninetales, Chili, from having the most pleasant sleep he's ever had, but it wasn't terrible. For once, he wasn't sleeping on the floor of a testing room, a blank, boring testing room. Instead, he was sleeping in a blank, boring hotel rook that lacked personality.
Even with how boring the hotel room is, the Ninetales didn't really care that much. What the hotel room contained, its current residents, was what drew on his attention. His eyes were currently glued on a human, whom his head rested by, his trainer. The fox started getting bored of how Daniel, the human, was sleeping in. Chili wanted to start the day, which likely would've been uneventful, but at least he'd have an awake hand to scratch him in the spots he couldn't reach. Or spots he could reach, but would prefer a human hand to his hind legs' claws.
After a couple moments of waiting, Chili stuck his nose in his trainer's closed left eye. "Ma… wha…?" Daniel made a noise similar to a Skidoo's bleat, which made the Alolan Ninetales chuckle. "Daniel, wake up. I am a small baby, and I demand attention!" He demanded. The Ninetales' adoptive parent lifted his head and yawned. "Don't harass our trainer, you know yesterday was rough on everybody," Sol jokingly scolded as he stuck his nose into Daniel's other eye as well. "Come now, Daniel, I also demand attention," the Kantonian Ninetales growled.
Daniel's eyes opened up and widened at the sight of Chili. "Who…?" The young man slowly started realizing who the Alolan Ninetales was. "Oh right… you evolved," a hand landed on the fox's cheek. "Hey Chili," after a couple seconds of rubbing, he turned his focus on his other Ninetales. "And now why are you growling, buddy?" Before Sol could flee, Daniel dragged him into a big old hug, and laughed. "You two are like big babies sometimes," he sat up and rubbed his left eye. While thinking it would be funny, Chili stuck his nose in his trainer's eye again. "Cut it out, Chili. Just because you're cute doesn't mean you get to harass my eyeball," Daniel was then met with a nose in his ear.
"God dammit you two…" the young man grinned and pulled out his phone. He very quickly got to the camera and turned on the selfie camera. "Hey Chili, look," Daniel said. Just like that, the Alolan Ninetales was staring at an image of himself, which he couldn't recognize at first; he had only been evolved for a day, half of which he was asleep for. Now that he realized he was an Alolan Ninetales now, he started staring, turning his head, and stood up here and there to look at his sides and tails. "Checkin' yourself out now?" Sol asked. The Kantonian headbutted his adoptive son. "I'm just… surprised at how I look. I'm not used to looking so… elegant. I'm used to being a bit rough looking!"
"Don't say you looked rough. You were damn near adorable, ask Daniel," Sol said. He quickly grabbed a notebook on the nightstand, He scribbled something down with his telekinesis and handed it over to Daniel. "Oh yeah, Chili was a cute little Vulpix," Daniel wrapped an arm around said fox and grinned. "I'm gonna miss seeing those big ol' eyes, big ears, and tiny little light blue socks. But… if Chili wanted to evolve, which he did, I wasn't gonna deny him it when the opportunity popped up. And I'm glad I did," he noogied Chili, which was met with a wine from the Ninetales.
"We'll wait for Chris to wake up, and then head down to a Mcdonalds or some shit. Since I don't think I can make cereal. Plus you guys need food too, and I don't got dog food," Daniel reached down to the side of the bed, expecting his suitcase to be there, but it hadn't. It was sitting by the foot of the bed. With a Groan, Daniel got on his knees, stretched to the otherside of the bed, and opened the bag. "I got you guys some jerky while I was at a gas station on the way here, so you guys can at least get something in you before we go get a proper breakfast," Daniel opened the jerky bag.
Sol was the first to take a piece of the tough, dried piece of strip meat, or jerky as Daniel called it. It tasted heavenly, but it was hard to pull piece of so he can swallow it; his mouth was made for tearring, not chewing. "Here," Daniel took the Jerky from the fox, which made him whine. "Don't worry bud, you know I wouldn't take your food from you," Daniel ripped the jerky in half, and ripped one of the halves into a seemingly swallowable, bite sized piece of jerky. The fox was then hand fed by his trainer until each piece was gone. Then Daniel grabbed another piece, and started ripping it into pieces for Chili.
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Riot lifted his head up to see paws again, curled up to a Ninetales, with a Vulpix laying her head on top of him. Casper and Ruby were snuggled up to him last night as a human, but now his hands were paws. "Casper…" the fox lifted her head. "What? You do not have many responsibilities. So why not spend that time until the lab is if fixed up, as a Vulpix?" Casper nuzzled him. "Besides, I'm sure we can sneak into Daniel's hotel room if we are kicked out. We paid a fine price for a pet friendly hotel for a reason," she said.
"I'll likely have a court case once we find the asshats that blew multiple, no, hundreds of holes into the lab. Plus, I gotta make sure that Daniel's Vulpix, when he evolved, didn't have any odd mutations because of the synthetic Ice Stone," Riot said. "I can simply ask and sniff at him for the next few days. You'd be surprised at what a Ninetales' scent can tell you," she said and nudged her favorite little scientists. "I swear to god, once I am a human again, I am going to tickle the shit out of you," Riot declared.
"So it is war then," Casper's face formed into a scowl as she got up. She moved Ruby's sleeping form gently before snarling and Riot. "Uh… Casper?" The little Scientist, turned Vulpix started backing away as his friend didn't seem to be acting. In fact, it looked like she was fully ready to kill him on the spot. "What? Do you think declaring such a thing would leave you unscathed?"
Suddenly, the snarl was gone, as Casper realized she was scaring her trainer, and grabbed him by the scruff. "You declared a tickle war," Casper said as she flipped Riot onto his back. A moment later, she was licking the Vulpix's paws, which started making him draw them back to keep them safe. "You cannot flee, this is your fate, my friend. You will be tickled until you are short in breath," Casper said. Riot couldn't retain his laughter.
A/N:
Alright so, a little bit short of a chapter, but I feel like these guys have had their little journey. But, this is not the end of Pokemon Are Real. There are many, many perspectives this can go. From a Pokemon fanatic, such as Chris, to a Youtuber, to the Pokemon themselves, to even somebody who doesn't really know Pokemon. So I figured I might as well show these characters beginning to relax. Don't worry, they will show up again at some point, but for now they'll take a back seat. Next up we will be returning to the start, where the flash of light that brought Pokemon into the world. From the eyes of a Pokemon.