Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon or any of the pokéspecies in this story, but I do own the characters

Chapter 3

The next morning, Correy and Lily lead me into the forest, Lily was hopping up and down with joy. Correy told me to close my eyes once we got close to a clearing. I felt him put something behind my ear. I tilted my head and opened my eyes, then hit my ear with my paw, I saw a flower fall from behind my ear, I knew what type of flower it was. It was a delphinium, I gasped once I saw the huge field of delphiniums. I smiled and nuzzled Correy's neck. "Hey, don't just thank me, Lily is the one that found this clearing."

I smiled and looked at the little shinx, who was looking at a butterfree that was feeding on the pollen of the flowers. "Thank you, Lily."

"Huh? Oh, you're welcome!" She smiled and went back to watching the butterfree.

Correy smiled and looked at me, "You can come here whenever you feel sad."

"Yeah, I can." I turned back and started walking back to the tree. Correy followed me and nuzzled my cheek. I turned my head away and growled. He sighed and looked down.

"I'm sorry," he continued, "Do you not like your surprise."

"No, I do. It just reminded me."

"Of what?"

"The garden." I started walking faster, fighting back tears. Correy stopped in his tracks and looked at me. I stopped and sat down, looking back at him, then I looked down and started to speak, seeing that he was confused. "I haven't told you about my life as a kit, have I?"

"No?" He tilted his head.

"Whenever I was younger, I was raised by pokémon that were stolen by a group the goes by the name of plasma, new pokemon came there every day. There was a garden there. It was filled with these flowers. The organisation didn't give us good deaths, but they sure gave us a peaceful life before it. I was born there, but to everyone there, I was precious. No one wanted me to die there. So, they helped me escape, and I was left on my own, my parents had died a week before in an 'accident' regarding a far too powerful tranquillizer." The tears that I was shedding made my fur damp. Just as I finished speaking, Lily came running, she quickly hid behind me. I asked her gently, yet quickly, "What happened?"

"He's chasing me! He's going to hurt me." Her fur was moist from the tears that were rolling down her cheeks. Correy looked back and gasped, he looked back at me and said, "run." I immediately started running with Lily, he stayed back, growling at the creature that was chasing Lily. I looked back and watched as he was attacked by the large black creature. I saw a flame that was quickly extinguished. I kept running despite the danger that Correy was in. Another black figure walked in front of us. I growled at it and blew a large flame. The black figure stumbled back and tried to catch itself, but it fell. Lily and I ran past it and soon came to the clearing where we lived. For the next hour, I would growl at every movement I saw. When Correy stumbled in, I quickly got out of my bed yipped at him, not realising who it was. He had scratches and bites all over his body, the top part of his ear was missing, his nose was bloody. I gasped and nuzzled his cheek. I felt terrible for leaving him. He flinched and whined. I sighed and asked, "Do you want me to get some sitrus berries for you?"

"Y-yes please." He walked over to my bed, which was big enough for both of us, as I forgot to mention earlier, and laid down, looking at a sleeping Lily. I smiled as I looked back at him, then walked off. Once I walked into the forest, I was very weary, I was afraid that the gengar might come back. I picked some berries and put them in a makeshift bag, then walked back to the tree, then gave them to Correy, he ate them and rested his head, closing his eyes. I climbed over him and waited around 10 minutes before asking, "Can we cuddle?" He looked at me and tilted his head, thinking. "So, can we? I really liked last night."

He smiled and pulled me closer to him, wrapping his tail around mine. I purred and rolled on my side, allowing him to nuzzle the back of my neck and nibble on my ears, I giggled when he tried tickling my side. We laid like that for an hour and finally fell asleep.

When I woke up, it appeared to be midnight. I decided to go on a walk, just like I did before Evan was stolen. The thought popped into my head, What if I just go look for him on my own? Correy can take care of Lily. I pushed the thought of running away and looking for him out of my mind. I noticed a mushroom sprouting out of the ground in the clearing, it had a shape and colour scheme that made it look like a pokéball. I sniffed at it, then, it moved, I flinched and took a step back. It had a face and was staring right at me. I recognised the little pokémon, it was a foonguss. Then, I fell over when something pounced on me, I screamed and cried out, waiting for my skin to be pierced by powerful claws and for my insides to be town out. But it didn't happen, and when I looked at my attacker, I noticed that it wasn't someone dangerous at all. it was the little zorua named Isaac. "Sorry, did I scare you?"

"Yes, you did! Don't you know not to sneak up on people in the dead of night!?" I growled but quickly calmed down after I got my anger out. The zorua looked down and whimpered, "I'm sorry." He told me with guilt in his voice.

I sighed and said, "It's okay. I'm sorry for yelling at you." When I turned back around, the mushroom was gone, I tilted my head. Isaac said to me, "It ran away when you were yelling. I'm sorry."

"Why do you apologise so much?"

"I don't know, I'm sorry."

"Stop it!"

"Okay."

I sighed and looked at him, his eyes were a deep lavender colour, and his fur was messy. I couldn't help but feel bad for yelling. He started walking away. "Hey, where are you going?"

"Home, I'm sorry for bothering you."

"It's okay, I think I better head back home too." I started walking towards the tree. The zorua started following me because he lives close to me. I was surprised that Evan had never met Isaac. They would be such good friends. Isaac turned and started walking towards his home after a few minutes of talking to me about random things. He had so much energy for how late it was. I walked into the tree and laid down beside Correy, he opened his eyes and smiled at me, pulling me closer to him. I smiled and nuzzled his neck as he nuzzled mine, he curled his tail around mine and closed his eyes. I fell asleep with him, nuzzling his neck lightly.