A/N: I'm sorry for the wait everyone. This chapter has actually been done for a week, but never got around to releasing it. Again, I'm sorry for the wait and I hope you guys enjoy. I also have plans on having the point of view change in some chapters, so from now on, before each chapter, it will say who's the one telling the story.

Sapphire POV

"Sapphire, you saw that meanie jolteon?" Shade asked.

"I sure did. I've been watching you guys the moment the jolteon called you useless," I answered.

"But why help me now? Why didn't you help earlier?!"

"From my perspective, the jolteon wanted you...dead."

"But he said he would protect me if I were in trouble if I was to do what he said."

"If what he said was true, then he would've attacked me and 'protect' you from me I'm guessing. However, I was listening to him, observing his behaviour, and how he treats you. He truly doesn't seem to be the one to protect you, would be more likely to run and leave you for whatever would attack him. A kid like you should understand this."

"But I thought other parents are like this to others."

"That's not true. You admitted yourself, he isn't your real dad. So where is your real parents?"

"R-real parents?" he asked dumbfound. That was the moment where I knew that this eevee was lost and confused, desperate to do anything for safety.

"How old are you?"

"I'm... I don't know." He held his head low and kicked at the damp ground. I knew that he must have felt ashamed that he doesn't even know much about himself.

"Do you have any friends?"

"What are friends?"

"Ones that you love, pokemon that you have a close bond to."

"No, I don't."

"And do you consider the jolteon a friend?"

"...No."

"Hmm, do you wish to go back to him? Because I can just let you go back an-"

"No please! Don't let me get hurt by that...bitch!"

I raise an eye from the sudden swear. "Guessing you learned that word from him?"

"Y-yes." He started playing with his paws as if he was guilty of something.

"Just as expected, others not caring what they say around kits. I'm guessing you're pretty hungry?" That was when I heard the Eevee's stomach rumble. "I'll take that as a yes." I get up from the ground and walk up to inspect some of the berry trees. I see both the oran and cheri berry trees there, but not something that will be very tasty. However, I see some pink colored berries in the distance. "Do you like pecha berries?"

"Y-yes, but why are you doing this?"

I stay silent for a while, as I honestly do not know why I have done this in the first place. At least giving him an answer is the least I could do. "I feel bad for you, so I'm giving you the care that I have experienced for some time."

"Can you walk?" He gets up from his paws and stands. On all four, he slowly walks towards me, but collapse. I walk toward him and try to help him, but shakes his head.

"I can do this!" he yells. I back up and just wait. He tries again. All fours he may be on, but I noticed their shaking. Again he collapse. I sigh and go to the oran berry tree and grab one in my teeth. I toss it to him where it lands in front of him.

"If you want to walk yourself, try eating one of those and then continue. I'll be over there, waiting."

"No no! I actually need help, please," he pleaded. "Can you...lift me over there?"

I stare at him, his eyes supporting his plead. "Do you think you can do me a favor?"

"W-what kind of favor?" His voice is full of worry. I'll admit it myself, but I sounded just like the jolteon back there. I walk to him and lower my head to eye level and smile.

"I'm pretty sure that jolteon is still out there somewhere." I look into the sky, the sun shining upon us. "I want to bring him to justice. And you're going to help me. This is something you want as well I'm pretty sure."

"Is what you mean hurt him?" Shade asked, still confused, and cocked his head. "Like he hurt me?"

"There's going to be more than that. I'll make sure he doesn't touch another kit of another parent again." Shade's stomach growled again, he blushed and put his forelegs around it. I laugh, something I haven't done in a while. "But I guess you can't do it on an empty stomach."

I get on my stomach beside him and motion him to get on. He gets on slowly and grabs onto my sides. I get up and start walking. Due to the berry tree's distance, I attempt another conversation. "Do you know any attacks?" I start.

"Um, I know how to dig really far. And there is something I can do when I can make a dark ball at my mouth, but I haven't really used it much," he answers. Dig and shadow ball, not a bad moveset for a kit.

"Anything else, anything that doesn't hurt anyone?"

"I guess I can protect myself with some weird...wall I can make." Protect, an ability that is useful in almost any situation. "I forgot to mention, but I can't quite do it, I'm pretty sure it's useless telling."

"I'd still like to hear."

"Well, I remember my dad using this attack. His tail would glow and is able to use it as a weapon. I've tried it myself, but my tail only glows a little before it goes back to it's fluffiness." He waves his tail around and shifts around on my back."

"Dig, shadow ball, protect, and iron tail. Call yourself lucky Shade, your parents certainly knew what they were doing when you were born. I'm curious, why didn't you attack the jolteon with any of those or use dig to try and run away?"

"Well...he's able to hurt me at any time he wants, and he proved it to me by this." He painted at the scratch on his muzzle, which had stopped bleeding, but the wound still open. "He knows how to dig as well, so I can't do that. I tried to run away once on foot, but he just caught up to me and gave me another...shock treatment he calls it. Sapphire, I'm really scared of him and I want him to stop it."

"Well Shade, guess today is your lucky day. I have a plan that will make sure his ways are stopped. Plus...I can sympathise with you as I have suffered bad shocks when I was smaller."

"Really?"

"Yes. When I was little, I believed I can take on the world." I laugh at my own remark. "I pretended I was Arceus and that I was the strongest pokemon ever. I went out on my own and tried to take on a luxray. He could've stopped my heart if he actually wanted to try. The moment he tapped me with his tail, I experienced that same type of shock. As I was still weak, I cried and prayed that I wouldn't die. My father saved me and made sure I didn't die on him. I just don't want you to do to something stupid like slow painful shocks that could potentially stop your heart at some point."

"So if I stayed with him longer…"

"Then you were more likely to die than be protected. Have you ever felt it difficult to breath before?"

"Yes, after each shock treatment."

I stop in my tracks, as we were close to the berry trees with them being just a few feet in front of us. "You were never safe with him," I say to him, my voice filled with dread.

"Then what do I do?" he asked. "Then who'll take care of me?"

I just continue walking, simply avoiding the question. When we're close to the trees I let him get down himself. He walks up to the pecha tree, his small size not being able to reach any of them. "You said you knew iron tail, correct? I want to see you use it," I ask. He looks at me with a look at surprise.

"W-why?" he responds bewildered.

"If you can use it correctly and become an expert at using it any time, then you'll have more options to protect yourself if you are to run into predators. Use it on the tree and get some of the berries down." I stand behind, waiting for him to try.

"But…I'm scared that I might hurt myself."

"Here, watch me." I walk up to a nearby tree and look at its size. It has a rather thick trunk so I won't accidently tip this tree down. I move the muscles moving my tail in small circles as I haven't used this attack in a while. I jump, then my tail started to glow the white I wanted. I swing it at the tree's bark, where it was sliced clean off. "Iron tail is a powerful attack, and using it to its full extent is worth having. Now try it."

He stares at the pecha tree trunk and stands in an offensive stance. He moves his tail around a bit like I did. He closes his eyes, most likely thinking how his real father or I did it. His tail started to glow, but it wasn't the brilliant white that most iron tails were. He opened his eyes and decided to take a swing. He ran toward it his tail almost completely white. He spun from his front paw and took a swing. It was that moment it became strong enough to at least shake the tree. But before it could make contact, it lost the glow completely and his tail simply brushed against the trunk, Shade falling on his stomach.

"You're scared, aren't you?" I question, picking him up and getting him on all fours.

"I… I don't think I can do it. I just can't!" he answered, tears filling his eyes.

"Hey Shade, there's no need to cry over it." I walked over to the pecha tree and grabbed and snapped off a branch with around six berries on it. I set them down and sit beside him. "Do you know why you can't do it?"

He sniffled and wiped his eyes. "I don't remember exactly. I-it had something to do with my real daddy, but I don't remember." He tried to grab for one of the pechas, but I gently put my paw over his, stopping him from grabbing one."

"You said you knew other moves beside iron tail. If you can't get iron tail down, then try to use your other attacks and abilities, see if they need improving. We'll try after you eat, okay? I'll help you along the way. And perhaps you can share with me more things about yourself?"

He smiles and looks at me, giving me a signal that he was listening. "I really appreciate that you're helping me with this Sapphire, and for that, thank you. But why do you want me to master these attacks?"

"So you can take care of yourself, without having the burden of a terrible caretaker. And in all honesty, I'm doing what I believe is right, making sure that you can do what I said earlier. Speaking of him, did he have a name?"

"His name I heard only once, but I think it was Voltage."

I let the name sink in for a moment before I think if I have heard the name before, taking my paw off his and close my eyes.

I remember back at some city and I was watching some sort of pokemon battle in a large building. There were two trainers battling on a field. One of them sent out an onix, letting out a loud battle cry. However, the other trainer let out a jolteon while calling out the words I remember. 'It's your turn Voltage!' the human yelled out. I watched the battle drag out for a while before several rocks entombed Voltage. Seconds later, he fell to the ground unable to battle. The human in the middle claimed that the gym leader was the winner of the battle.

I left seconds later after Voltage lost the battle, not acknowledging what he did or what his trainer did to him. The only thing I could assume that he was released after the battle or just any other time after it.

I feel the Shade tap my foreleg a few times, trying to get my attention. I open my eyes and look over to him. He is sitting on his bottom with his fore legs outstretched towards me with a pecha in between them. "It's important to show gratitude to those you love and...pokemon who are friends, like you, right?" Shade said, still offering the berry to me.

The moment he called me his friend gave me a feeling I didn't know what. I still didn't know the reason behind my concern for this eevee. I should have just killed it, eaten it perhaps, and forgotten, but I can't bring myself to do this to him. It bothered me too much. So I just did what I felt what was necessary. I smiled and took the berry and bit into it eagerly. He was eating his own berries with such a happy look on his face, which I was somehow glad to see. Shade seemed to help me with something I don't know of, but I decided that I should put this question to rest.

I was happy to have this eevee around and smiling.

He finished eating up his berries, then looked at me. "Wanna get started on shadow ball?" I ask him nicely.

"Yes! Gee, I want to get at least this move down before we go take down that meanie jolteon!" Shade said with enthusiasm.

I smile as we get up and move towards a large rock, a perfect target. However, before I start talking and getting on with shadow ball training, I recall back to my father's own words.

Sapphire, killing isn't always the answer. Even if you watch me kill many pokemon, I simply defeat some and let them go on their own way. If who you're fighting isn't for food, then try and restrain yourself from killing them, start a conversation if you can. It may seem crazy, but remember these very words for the rest of your life, as I will not repeat this. It will be beneficial in the future.

Do these words apply to those I planned with Voltage? Should they? They probably do, and replanning will most likely be necessary. But the training is what was on my mind first.

"Ok, Shade, this time, I wanna see how you do with forming the shadow first. Show me as if you're trying to impress me," I ask, standing back a bit.

"I'll try," he responded nervously. He walked a bit closer to the large rock and opened his mouth. The orb formed, slowly getting bigger and bigger. That was when his eyes moved towards me, his muzzle still pointed toward the rock. That was when he fired it, the size and speed of it looking very strong. The moment of impact, it made the rock shatter into hundreds of pieces, scattering everywhere.

I was greatly impressed. Most shadow balls I have seen don't have enough potential force to destroy something like that. I could see a look of surprise in this eevee's face, probably not even realizing that he had it in him.

"I did it Sapphire! Wasn't that awesome!" he celebrates.

I chuckle. "Sure was surprising," I answer. "How about we check out your protect?"

"And how are we going to do that?"

I started backing up from him, giving a good distance between us. "Block one of my attacks."

The color drained from his face. "B-but what if you break through it and you accidentally cut me an…" he stopped talking as he looked at one of my paws, my right one's claws having grown in length and glowed a radiant purple.

"Then make sure it doesn't." I smirk and the length of my claw grows even more.

I got a running start, making sure I was slow enough for him to follow me with his eyes, but fast enough for him to react quickly. I jump in the air and ready my night slash. I see that he does indeed keep his eyes on me and looks at me in the air, almost like the fear was just taken away. Something I was happy to see.

As I was confident that this eevee was ready to defend himself, I take a swing.