Chapter eleven: The Torch, and The New Gal

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An Espeon was trotting slowly, it's sapphire eyes seems to have a somewhat faint glow of melancholy, and the ruby on it's forehead glowed as well with the similar intensity. It's faint lavender fur seems to have lost it's original luster and beauty. The fur, that was once soft and beautiful like any other Espeon, seems to be dirtied by mud, blood, and wounds of others.

The Espeon was alone, no one was with it. A nearby Jigglypuff sang, but the Espeon ignored the soothing lullaby sang by the pokemon. Nice try, but you can't put me to sleep, not after my long and hard journey to escape the tragedy that happened to me in the past. The Espeon thought to itself.

But after thinking the word "tragedy," the young Espeon had one tear stream down from it's sapphire-colored eye, then another and another. Soon the Espeon bursted into tears of tragedy, thinking about the past.

'What's wrong? Dark pokemon bit you? How sad,' a nearby voice called. The Espeon darted it's attention to the voice, and to it's surprise, it was a Charmander. The Charmander's tail was burning brightly, which frightened the Espeon dreadfully. The blaze of the tail was shown in the frighten sapphire eyes of the Espeon.

'Well? What's wrong, little Espeon? Scared of my tail-flame?' the Charmander taunted, waving it's tail in front of the terrified Espeon. The tail was crackling, and popping sounds were coming from it, like as if someone is burning dry grass and wood, but used red coalinstead of matches.

'Get that away from me!' the Espeon made a mad dash for it, but it was trapped by a fire-spin attack from the Charmander.

'Where are you going, hun? Enjoy my beautiful blaze of fire, you'll like it.' the tail then glowed and growed bigger and warmer.

The Espeon, twitching it's pitch-fork like tail with fear, gave out an angry glare that seems to say,"you really want me to hurt you, right?" The Charmander understood what the Espeon's glare meant, then lowered it's flaming tail.

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'Well, I wonder what's happening in that bush that Toby went in to. He's been in there for a long time,' Richan stated, looking a bit guilty for screaming at Toby in the first place, but at the same time, he felt that Toby kinda' deserved for screaming at Sapphire in the first place.

Then Beai began, 'I don't know. True that he's been there for a long time, but what is he doing is the question here-'

'That was what I said! Well, we aren't going to just stand here and wonder all we want, we can all just go in there!' Richan retorted, breaking Beai's sentence. There was a long, awkward silence, but then Toby got out from behind the bush.

'Well, what took so long?' Beai questioned, but Toby was just silent, eerily silent. 'Well, what's wrong?'

'They're coming...and ready to attack...' was all Toby said before he turned his attention to Sapphire, who was still up in the cherry blossom tree.

Sapphire caught his eye, but she said nothing. She just remianed silent...