**Note:
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"GIVE BACK MY EEVEE!"
Candela charged after the man dressed in a black uniform with a large red "R" plastered across the front of his shirt. He was holding an unconscious eevee, her eevee, in his arms, smirking. She tried to throw a punch, but he simply moved out of the way to dodge the teen's attack. Unfortunately he wasn't expecting her to recover so quickly. She pivoted on her foot and sent another jab his way, that one connecting with his side. A grunt emerged from the man's lips at the impact and he almost fumbled the pokemon..
"CANDELA!?"
Spark and Blanche had come running when they'd heard their friend yelling. Unfortunately all they were seeing was her punching some guy, causing mass confusion. Sure she had a fiery personality and was often confrontational, but usually she didn't go through with her threats. Spark stared in disbelief, while Blanche's visage held a more stoic look.
"This punk stole Pyro from me" The dark skinned girl sneered as she tried to drive another punch at the guy. This time he dodged it.
"Yeah, and good luck getting it back kid."
The goon took off running in the opposite direction and Candela took off after him.
"Rainer, I need your help."
"Sparky, pichu, you too"
The other two young trainers called out their pokemon and took off running after the pokemon thief.
"Rainer, sand attack."
"Sparky, you do the same. Pichu, thunder shock!"
Soon the area around them started to fill with dirt and debris as the two eevee's kicked dirt up. Blanche hoped that by kicking up the dirt, they'd make it hard for the kidnapper to see and get away. Sparks filled the air around them and there was a grunt.
"Spark, I swear if you hurt Pyro!"
Candela ran blindly into the settling dust cloud to see if the efforts of her two friends had helped in taking the thug that attacked her and her eevee. Spark and Blanche followed after her.
The Team Rocket thug was on the ground, Candela's eevee sprawled out on the ground beside him. Candela quickly ran over to her eevee and scooped him up in her arms. From there she quickly turned and delivered a hard kick into the Rocket's stomach before returning to her friends.
"Let's get out of here."
The dark haired teen stepped over the thugs body. She needed to get her eevee checked at a pokemon center. As she brushed past the other two teens, Blanche could have sworn she saw tears in Candela's eyes. She nodded towards Spark and they, along with their pokemon, followed after her.
"So uhh . . . What was that Candela? Like, what happened?"
They'd walked in silence for several moments before Spark finally burst out. There had been obvious tension between the three as curiosity burned to figure out what had happened before Spark and Blanche had arrived in the scene.
"I was training with Pyro and that guy just came out of nowhere. He started saying something about some Team Rocket organization and joining it. Then when I refused he just went for Pyro - "The teen gritted her teeth together angrily, looking down at her eevee. Hot tears streamed down her tanned cheeks.
"Let's just get him to the pokemon center."
Silence fell over the trio again.
[ . . . ]
Striding through the sliding doors of the pokemon center, Candela rushed to the nurse at the front desk and handed Pyro over to the pinkette. After an exchange of words, the teen went to sit down in the waiting area next to Spark and Blanche. All she could do now was be patient and await the news about Pyro.
"Guys . . ."
It had seemed like forever that they'd been sitting there. Candela finally lifted her head, her hands resting in fists in her lap. Both Spark and Blanche looked up towards their fellow trainer.
"Thanks for your help earlier . . . I couldn't have gotten Pyro back without you"
"Of course, that's what friends are for. Right Blanche?"
"Yeah. We'll always be here for you."
Candela bit her lower lip lightly and looked back down at her lap after giving the other two a little nod in acknowledgement.
Silence returned to the group, but the air around them certainly wasn't nearly as filled with tension as it once was.
Endnotes:
First chapter of 2017!
I'm so sorry for disappearing. There's a whole slew of reasons that probably aren't very good excuses. Sun and Moon came out so I got very preoccupied with that. And all the holidays. Winter holidays are a very busy and bad time for me. I also just really haven't felt like writing lately at all. I suffer from severe high-functioning depression and lately I've just been really down. I'm trying to get back into it and start this fic up again. I'm always looking for ideas to inspire me, so if you have any ideas on what you might want to see, just let me know~ The Pokemon Go hype has really died down, so it makes it harder to write for. I've also been stuck in a deep pit of feels from Final Fantasy XV orz. The good news from that is that there may be some fanfictions from there some time in the near future ;), so look out for that. I just have to stop crying every time I think about the game.