Hello and welcome to chapter 67. Luckily I'm getting back into school, and surprisingly things are going smoothly so far, so nothing as of yet has messed with the production of the story. Anyhoo, here is the next chapter, hope you all enjoy it.

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Anonymous: Thank you for reading, and I'm glad you enjoyed the little info I gave on Naomi's background. Hopefully you'll enjoy the upcoming chapters. Also good luck on that first story you mentioned.

Chapter 67: Calling to the night

Point of view Naomi, Flash back

Rain drizzled down from the sky, as gloomy clouds blocked the sun from giving us any light. Every couple minutes a flash would be seen in the sky, and shortly following the flash would be the booming noise of thunder. I currently stood exposed in a small opening, my brown fur was drenched from all the rain that fell from the sky. The air was cold, and the world around me felt bitter as usual.

I stared down at a patch of dirt on the ground that didn't have any grass growing over it. On top of the dirt patch, there were a few freshly picked flowers. Coming back to this site every day for the past week was always just as depressing as the first time. My eyes grew heavier, and heavier, until a tear escaped, and streamed down my face.

"Hi Mom, I'm still thinking about you constantly. I can't really prove that there is an afterlife, but I still like to think that you're listening when I talk to you. Anyways, I just wanted you to know that we all miss you."

Before I could even say anything more to the grave in front of me, I felt a strong prickling feeling, and every muscle in my body tightened up. I fought to stay standing, but whatever force was attacking my body, was too strong for me to withstand. As I fell to the ground I caught a glimpse of three figures, three pokemon that would never leave me alone. A ninetails, an electabuzz, and a sandslash, all laughed as I lied on the ground in pain. Sadly ever since those bullies started evolving, they began becoming more of a problem, since I was still an eevee, and they thought it was funny.

"Got her!" the electabuzz shouted in excitement. At the moment I wasn't in the mood for these bullies, I just wanted to be left alone. Feeling rage building up, I forced my muscles to cooperate, and I began climbing back up to my paws.

"You suck, look she's already getting back up," the sandslash joked with his friend as he gave him a small shove, as if this was some kind of game

"Leave," I growled at the three.

"And why would we do that?" The ninetales replied back, with a snide smirk.

"I'm really not in the mood for this today, leave me alone," I snarled back as I showed my fangs, and I got into a fighting stance.

The three looked at each other, and all laughed together. The sandslash clenched his gut, while the ninetales fell over laughing, and the electabuzz tried to control his laughter by covering his mouth. "You're joking right? Your brother isn't around, so he can't bail you out of this," the ninetales reminded me as he got a grip on himself, and stood back up.

"Shut up!" I shouted back at them, followed by the sound of thunder booming through the rainy setting.

"It's kind of cute seeing you act tough," the fox continued to taunt.

Losing my patience, I felt a vein bulge on my head. I let out a loud scream, and I tackled the ninetales to the ground. As we both fell to the ground, I sunk my teeth into his arm, and drew blood. I bit as hard as I could, until my teeth wouldn't go any deeper. The ninetales yelled in pain, as he tried to shake me off. Before I could make another move, I felt another bolt of electricity hit me, my muscles tightened, and I fell to the ground. The ninetales got up to his feet, but he backed away from me in fear.

"She's a psycho, did you see what she just did to me!" the ninetales said as he held up his paw, that was gushing out blood. Once I started to regain control of my muscles I tried to stand again, but before I got up, the sandslash punched me in the side of my head. I fell back to the ground feeling dizzy from the blow to my head.

"Think we're just going to let you walk away after that," the sandslash said as he pinned me down with his foot. I tried to bite at his foot, but I couldn't reach it with my fangs.

"Can't you three just leave me alone… " I said as tears began to escape my eyes.

"And why would we do that, you just attacked our friend," the sandslash said as he added more pressure onto me.

"Because my mother just passed away, and I just want to be left alone!" I screamed as loud as I could. Silence filled the air, and the only thing that could be heard was the rain. I felt the pressure relieve off my body, as the sandslash took a step back away from me. His face no longer showed anger, instead it was replaced with a bitter glare, almost as if he pitied me.

"Let's go," The sandslash said as he walked away, with a wave signaling his friends to follow.

"I'm going to get back at you bitch," the ninetales said as he followed the sandslash with a limp.

The three walked away from me, and left me to myself. As the three left my sight, I climbed back up to my paws. Once I was sure that they were gone, I looked back at my mother's grave. Her death was so sudden, no one expected it. She came down with some kind of disease, and she died within a month. We tried everything we could to help her, but there was nothing that could be done with our resources.

Dad took her death pretty hard, but on the most part he bottled up his emotions, and has been spending most of his time in silence. Dante was emotionally affected as well, ever since our mother passed away, he was grown more quiet, and didn't really want to talk much.

I spent the next few hours in front of my mother's grave and reflecting on moments I had with her. I would never forget the time we spent playing when I was younger, or how she was always there for me in my time of need. After the few hours of mourning, I decided it was time to head back, since it was getting late. I let out a sigh of depression as I turned away from the grave. I began making my way back through the rainy weather. The walk back through the forest would only take about an hour, depending on whether I ran into hold ups or not.

Life without my mother was beginning to take its toll, especially with Dante being silent lately. Dante, and I did talk a bit about how much we missed her, but Dante mostly kept it brief since he was still upset. Dante was the type to bottle up emotions, he didn't like others seeing him upset.

As I continued to slowly walk back through the forest, I heard a loud howl coming from some kind of pokemon. I stood frozen as I tried to guess what it was, and how far away it was. I shook my head in an attempt to get rid of my fear. I looked up into the sky, and I could tell that it would be dark out within minutes.

"I just need to get home," I said to myself as I picked up my walking pace. While I continued to make my way home, more rain fell from the sky, and I could hear the thunder getting louder each time it echoed through the sky.

My ears flicked as I heard the peculiar howling again, but this time it was much closer. The strange noise made me feel uneasy; I didn't like being out this late, especially when I was alone. Seeing as my discomfort would only increase, I decided to begin running home. I didn't want to encounter a nocturnal predator that just woke up, and was looking for an easy early night meal. With me being smaller, I have almost been killed by predators a few times. Luckily my speed bailed me out, if not Dante did. But this was different; but at the moment, Dante wasn't here to help me.

Within minutes everything became dark out. I couldn't see anything due to the fact that the moon was blocked by the clouds. As I continued to run, I felt my front paw get snagged on something, and I fell down onto the muddy ground. I let out a pained groan as I raised my head off of the muddy ground. I looked down towards where my foot got snagged, and I spotted a root sticking out of the ground. I let out a sigh of annoyance, and I got up and attempted to shake the mud off of myself.

"Aren't you clumsy," A voice stated through the darkness. I jumped up in surprise, and I hesitantly turned to see who was speaking. I looked in the direction of the voice, but I couldn't make out anything through the darkness.

"Who's there?" I spoke fearfully.

"Just another pokemon," the voice said back to me.

"I'm not playing, show yourself, or go your own way," I replied as I took a step back away from the voice.

"Why don't you come closer," The voice asked. Alarms instantly went off in my head, I don't know what he wanted from me, but I wasn't getting near a creep like him.

"I'm fine, I got to get home, so… bye," I awkwardly replied as I walked backwards, keeping my full attention in the direction of the voice. As I walked back, I felt my backside bump into something, something alive. I jumped forward as I let out a surprised shriek.

"She really is clumsy, rather amusing," A voice said through the darkness, but this voice was different, it was a separate pokemon, there was now two creatures stalking me.

"What do you want from me," I asked nervously, as I looked around in every direction possible in an attempt to spot any movement. The only reply I received was the sound of two pokemon laughing at me, although this laugh was purely out of the enjoyment of my fear.

The rain slowly came to a stop, and the only noise that could be heard now was the wind slowly blowing through the silent night. A few seconds after, the area began to slowly illuminate from the clouds moving away from the moon. A figure began to slowly illuminate in front of me, something canine shaped. As the figure was illuminated more, and more, I made out its gray fur, with black fur that covered its back, and legs. Its ears were pointed up, and its eyes were red. It was one of the most vicious predators of the forest, a mightyena.

"She looks kind of scrawny, I don't even think she qualifies as an appetizer," the canine behind me said, as he licked his lips "Although, she'll make a decent snack, if there is any meat on those bones."

Usually I would have piped up from a comment about my size, but at a moment like this, I was more worried about how I was going to survive. There were two of them, they could easily defeat me in speed, and power, and that's also assuming that they don't know any projectile attacks.

"If I'm not even going to provide a decent snack, then why even bother," I said fearfully as I looked back and forth between the two.

"Aww, but what fun is that? Tell ya what kid, we'll give ya a… I don't know, a ten second head start," the mightyena taunted, followed by a small chuckle.

"Please don't," I said fearfully as the two walked towards each other, and stretched out their muscles, prepping themselves for their game.

"About five second left kid, make this fun would ya," the mightyena said. Without a second more of delay, I took off running. Thankfully everything was illuminated, so I could see what was coming up as I ran. I jumped over roots, stumps, and ran around every tree that came in my path.

A howl echoed through the air indicating that the game had begun. My pace quickened as my heart pumped harder with every second that went by. I would have attempted to scream for help, but what good would that do me if it just gave away my current location?

I could hear the sound of running behind me. As I ran, I peeked back to see how close they were, but the only thing I saw was a mightyena lunging towards me. I ducked down as the canine flew above me, I could hear his teeth smash down, on what was supposed to be me.

Before I could get over the first attack, I felt something bite down on my back. I screamed at the top of my lungs as I was thrown into the air, by the other mightyena. Back first, I smashed into a tree. I groaned in pain as I tried to get back to my feet, but as I attempted to stand up, one of the mightyenas pinned me down with his paw.

"That was rather boring, I was at least hoping you'd give us a bit of a challenge," the mightyena said as he licked the blood from my back off his teeth.

"Should we go for the throat and make it quick, or perhaps eat you from the tail up, and let you die when your body gives out from the pain?" the mightyena asked as he continued to lick the blood off his lips.

"I think I like option two the most," the other mightyena said with amusement. I tried to move, but the pressure on me was too much, all I could do was watch as these two slowly tortured me to death. This was going to be the end for me, I was going to die before I even achieved one of my goals.

The mightyena opened his mouth as he slowly lowered his fangs towards my tail. "Please don't," I begged as he continued to slowly lower his teeth towards me. A laugh could be heard from the other mightyena.

I clenched my eyes shut, as I tried to not think of the pain I was about to feel. Being eaten alive was always the last way I wanted to exit this world, slowly having my body torn to bits as I slowly passed out from blood loss, or shock.

A pained howl exited the mightyena, and I felt something wet splash onto my body. My eyes slowly cracked open to see a familiar leafeon biting down on the mightyenas throat. The mightyenas jaw trembled as blood gushed out of his throat, along with the blood that flowed out of his mouth. The leafeon lifted the mightyena up slightly, and grunted as he threw the mightyena a few meters away from me. The mightyena stood completely still, he didn't move a muscle, he didn't make a single noise, there wasn't even a sign of breathing.

"D-Dante?" I said in surprise, unsure if my eyes were telling the truth.

"Are you alright, they didn't hurt you, did they?" Dante asked. Despite my minor back injury, it was nothing compared to what he just prevented.

"I'm fine."

Dante gave me a small nod, and then turned his attention towards the remaining mightyena. "You're going to regret this, big time," Dante snarled.

The mightyena looked over at his fallen brother and then pointed his snout up into the air, and gave out a loud howl. The howl echoed through the night, it could easily be heard from halfway across the forest. As soon as the howl ended the mightyena looked back at the two of us and growled.

"You think we are alone in this forest? I have brothers, and sisters who will come to my aid, you'll regret messing with my family," the canine said as he snarled.

Dante, and the mightyena's eyes stayed locked onto each other, "Anyone who messes with anyone I love, will suffer the consequence, I don't care, call your pack, I'll kill you all if I have to," Dante said as he growled aggressively. I have seen my brother upset many times, but never to this level, on top of that, I have never seen Dante kill another pokemon.

"Naomi, you need to leave now," Dante said.

"But what about you!" I yelled back.

"I'll be fine, I can't focus on this while protecting you, please just hide until I come get you," Dante said in a stern voice.

"But you'll die alone, you need-" I began to say before Dante bit down on my tail, and punctured my skin.

"Now Naomi!" he yelled at the top of his voice. Before I could even turn around to follow his order, three new mightyena joined the scene. Each of them looked over at their dead brother, and then looked at Dante who was covered in their brother's blood.

"You two will pay for this," A female mightyena snarled.

"Naomi, run!" Dante yelled. My muscles hesitated, and refused to move out of fear, Dante grew impatient and shoved me with his paw, forcing me to move. Doing as he said, I began to run as fast as I could.

'Arceus, please don't let him die, he's all I have,' I prayed in my head as I continued to run as fast as my legs would carry me. After running nonstop for a few minutes, I stopped running to catch my breath. I panted frantically as I searched for a small hole, or something convenient to hide in. As I searched, I realized that there wasn't any good hiding spots here.

My ears pricked up at the sound of footsteps walking through the mud. Without any hesitation I hid behind a tree in case it wasn't Dante. Nothing would make me happier at the moment than to see my brother alright.

"Come on out little eevee, your leafeon friend is already dead," A feminine voice called out into the night.

"Liar," I whispered to myself as I shook my head in disbelief. No matter what she said, I wasn't going to believe I lost another family member. Dante dying would just seem unreal; he has always been a part of my life, and I couldn't imagine him permanently gone.

"I can smell your scent, I can hear your trembling, stop resisting and we can make this painless," the mightyena called out, but this time her voice was much closer. I couldn't negate what she said about my brother, but I knew mightyenas had keen noses that could easily smell me from a mile away.

My ears flicked up as I heard the mightyenas paws squishing in the mud, on the other side of the tree. I could hear her sniffing the air with her nose, and every few seconds I could hear her lick her lips as if she could already taste me.

"You're close," She said through the darkness, as I heard her circling around the tree towards me. I cautiously starred in the direction she was coming from as I circled around the tree in the opposite way. My heart rate picked up, along with my breath that picked up.

As I continued to back up, my back bumped into something solid that wasn't a tree. My fur stood on edge as I slowly looked back to see what was behind me. The first, and only thing I noticed was the red eyes of the mightyena staring at me, along with a smile that lusted for my blood. I let out a screech as I ducked under her teeth that aimed for my throat. After avoiding her teeth, I ran under her legs, but before I could even make it past her legs, I felt something sharp clamp down on my tail. I screamed as I was raised into the air by my tail by the mightyena.

"End of the trail," The mightyena muffled with a mouthful of tail. I screamed as I felt her teeth sink deeper into my tail.

"Dante, help!" I screamed as loud as I could through the forest. The mightyena kept her teeth around my tail, but then she lowered me down, and used her paw to pin me down from the neck. Her fangs released my tail, but then clamped down around my neck, and she raised me back in the air.

"Let her go!" A voice yelled. Out of the corner of my eye, I was able to spot dante standing around two meters away. Dante was covered in gashes, and bite marks. What appeared to be the most devastating wound inflicted on him was the small chunk of flesh missing out of the side of his neck.

"How'd you get past my brothers?!" The mightyena yelled as loud as she could, with me in her mouth.

"They're dead, every last one of them. Now, let her go before you make my shit list as well," Dante said, as he panted in exhaustion. He stood his ground, but it was more than obvious that he was at his limit. Dante took a step forward, as he swayed back, and forth hardly keeping his balance.

"Come another step, and I'll kill her," the mightyena stated, as she slowly increased the pressure on my neck, which caused me to yelp in pain.

"Stop!" Dante yelled. "What do you want from me?"

The mightyena let out a small laugh before she spoke a word, "I want you to kill yourself for my brothers, and then I'll let her go," the mightyena replied back as she continued to bite harder on my neck. I could feel the teeth slowly sinking into my neck, along with the blood slowly dripping down my neck.

"Do I have your word on that," Dante asked.

"She won't be harmed if you do what is right, you killed my brothers, so only your blood will even out the deaths of everyone tonight," The mightyena responded.

"Alright," Dante bitterly replied. "Naomi, close your eyes," Dante instructed.

"Dante, she'll just kill me anyways!" I screamed back at him.

"I don't have any other choices!" he screamed back at me "Big brothers are born first, so we can protect our sisters, it's okay, I'm not afraid to die tonight," Dante said with a small smile on his face. "Please close your eyes, and just remember that I will always love you," Dante said as he slowly closed his eyes, and let out a sigh.

I did as Dante instructed, and I closed my eyes. 'No, no, no, no, no' I screamed mentally in an attempt to block out what was happening. 'Arceus please, help, please!' I continued to scream in my head. Suddenly the grip around my neck tightened, I felt as if my neck was about to break, then the grip loosened, and I fell to the ground.

My eyes shot open upon impact with the ground, and I saw the mightyena lying in front of me, with a leaf sticking out of her eye. The canine's eye leaked blood, from the plant that possibly went into her brain as well. As I tried to put the pieces together, I rolled over, and looked towards Dante. The leafeon sat there panting in exhaustion, then he looked up, and spotted me.

"Dante!" I yelled as I got up, and ran towards him. The leafeon made his way towards me with a limp, but half way towards me, Dante fell over against a tree. "Dante!" I yelled again in fear, as I approached him. Once I reached him, I observed his wounds. He was covered in his own blood, along with the blood of those he just killed.

"Sorry," Dante apologized in a faint voice.

"Sorry?" I replied back with confusion. "Why?"

"I needed to catch her off guard, so I played along with her, I didn't mean to scare you."

My eyes began to water up from the fact that he was injured over me, and on top of that he was apologizing. "Thank you, Thank you so-" I began to say before I heard another howl off in the distance. My head turned back instantly. Four new mightyena approached us. Each of them snarled at us, along with a few vicious barks.

"No…" I said fearfully as I took a step back. "We can't win this, theres too many." My vision was then directed towards Dante, who was forcing himself up onto his feet, even though he was probably about to pass out from blood loss.

"I don't care," Dante said as he limped in the direction of the four mightyena.

"Dante, you can't keep going, you're barely standing," I warned him. Right as I finished my sentence Dante fell back down to the ground. The instant he fell down to the ground, he began to climb back up, but halfway up he collapsed back down to the ground.

"You need to run, forget me," Dante snapped at me.

"I'm not leaving you," I said as I stood between him, and the mightyena. "You wouldn't abandon me, even if you died in the process," I retorted as the mightyena began to form a circle around us. "Let me protect you this one time!" I shouted.

"Naomi… That's really touching, but… you aren't a fighter, you won't win this. Just run and don't stop no matter what."

"Then I'll die with you, life without you isn't any kind of life worth living, you're my brother, and you're a part of my life!"

"Naomi, I'm not afraid to die, just leave!" Dante yelled back at me.

"Well I'm afraid of you dying!" I shouted back at him.

"Naomi?" Dante said, his tense tone was now replaced with a more peculiar tone. Out of nowhere I felt… strange. I looked down at my paw to see it oddly glowing a shiny white color. My eyes then gazed up into the sky, and I noticed the full moon. Something about the moon felt different, almost as if it was calling my name, and bestowing me with energy, I felt as if… I needed it. The strange light around my body grew brighter, until it blinded everyone in the area. My body felt as if it was expanding. The bizarre feeling only lasted for a second, but I felt completely different. The bright white light was now replaced with a glowing yellow aura around my body, that illuminated everything around me. Not only could I see better, I could also see much clearer through the areas that should have been pitch black.

"She evolved!" one of the mightyena called out as he took a step back.

I rose my paw up, and quickly noticed the silky black fur that replaced my fluffy brown fur. 'What am I?' I questioned mentally. I evolved into something I have never seen before. I looked back at my tail, and I noticed that my tail had silky black fur as well, along with a strange yellow ring, that was emitting a strange yellow aura. I looked all around my body, and I noticed a ring on each of my limbs, and each of the rings glowed with a mysterious aura.

"Kill them!" one of the mightyena shouted out. I flinched back as one of the mightyena lunged towards me with his mouth wide open.

To be continued…

Chapter End

Author Note: And cliffhanger. Well hopefully this chapter was enjoyable, I enjoyed writing it. Personally I like writing anything to do with Naomi lol, she's fun to write. Anyways funny thing, while I was writing the end of this chapter I was listening to a playlist of music, so when I started writing about Naomi's evolution, a song came on conviniently called 'Call to the night'. I just thought that was funny since the chances of that song coming on at that exact moment was pretty low (My playlist of music is 300 songs long, so it was a 1/300 chance since I put the playlist on shuffle). Anyways thanks for reading. Also feel free to follow or Fav this story, it would be greatly appreciated :D

Fun Fact: Before I planned on giving Naomi her name, I was considering the name Sarah, or Rin. I like both of the names, but I thought Naomi was a good name for an umbreon. The name to me sounds intelligent, and unique. Anyways I'll share some fun stuff about the name 'Naomi' for those who may care lol. Origin is Hebrew. meaning is beautiful, pleasant, and delightful. I don't know if people would view her as delightful, but I still like the name lol. It could also be noted that Naomi's name spelled backwards is 'I moan' which is weird. The name Naomi is also a biblical name according to the internet. Anyways theirs your fun fact, and I could get more into this, but I think I may have put everyone to sleep XD

Thanks for reading.