A view of our world through one Eevee...

This is the story of one little Eevee that suffered through many hardships to brighten the world's future relations of humans and Pokémon. I will tell this story to you as this has been told by the Eevee himself for many years.

Chapter Three: Parallax
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Freya was riding on the back of a friendly Mightyena, with One and their mother laying on their bellies, fainted and bleeding. The rain was still pouring down, and the forest was filled with water and mud. Freya was extremely worried about the condition of her entire family, and she was about to lose hope for all of them...

The Mightyena leader and Flary jumped away from each other. Flary showed little to no injuries, and merely had a short slash across his right cheek. The Mightyena leader appeared to not be doing so well, however. Numerous burn marks, claw marks, and blood were found all over him. He was losing.

'Damn...' he thought to himself. 'If only we knew...of this one's power...' The last thing the Mightyena leader saw was a bright, yellow and red object, resembling the sun, coming straight at him. He simply ceased to exist from where he stood. No more pain, no more suffering.

Flary slumped to the ground, exhausted from the battle. He rested for a few moments, letting the soft, cool rain fall on him. He had managed to stand up, checked his cheek wound, and looked around. His leaders had left to go to the fruit patch to heal themselves, and he was all alone. He immediately realized something. With any strength he had left, Flary ran as fast as he could to get to his family's den. Despite being one so strong, Flary couldn't hold back any tears as he came out of the clearing and into the forest full of rain, worrying about his loved ones.

Freya and the friendly Mightyena had reached the edge of the fruit patch and the road was thinning. There were guards sitting near the entrance, protecting everyone inside. Freya was hoping that everyone had made it safely to this haven, although she had doubt...

They ordered the Mightyena to halt. The Jolteon guard was beginning to brim with electrical sparks. He angrily said, "Hey, you! How did you find this place! Get out!" Freya yelled out to him, "It's okay, he's a friend...if it wasn't for him, all three of us would probably be dead..." Freya's eyes were a bit teary, although one couldn't tell if it was her or the rain. The Jolteon guard hesitated, but eventually he calmed down and said, "...Even if you're friendly, we can't allow you in..." The Mightyena nodded. "I understand. Take the girl and her family. I'll wait here." He crouched onto the ground, and Freya jumped off. The guards took One and their mother into the fruit patch to be healed, and the friendly Mightyena stood again and jumped into the drenched forest.

Freya looked around. All she could see around her was sadness. Many of the pack members, young or old, were injured or crying or just sitting by themselves trying their best to think of happy thoughts.

She thought, 'This is terrible...how could I have let this happen...' Freya began to feel tremendous guilt hit her in the chest, and she could hardly stand out of dizziness. She instantly remembered that she left her other brother and sister here, and went to run off to ask Leaf how they were doing...

She asked around for Leaf and her missing injured siblings. Freya eventually came across Kroa, however. "Kroa! I'm so glad you're okay!" She gave him a big hug, and he silently hugged her back with a petit smile. "Where's Starra? Is she alright?" He nodded, but he had a really worried look on his face, still. "What's wrong?" She looked into his saddened eyes deeply. "Ah...Mother and One are injured a little...but they'll be fine, now... Take me to Starra, I need to see her." He ran off to a direction, looked back, and went off again. Freya proceeded to follow him into another section of the patch.

Flary stopped running for a moment. He caught a scent of his family members in the mud. He sniffed around, and also smelled blood. This made him feel even worse... Suddenly, he stopped. He smelled a Mightyena nearby in the bushes.

He lept to attack, but all that he came across was a broken and bloody corpse. Flary took a closer look at the body, and found that a powerful attack was made to this Mightyena's side...one large enough that no one in their pack could do except for him. He suddenly had a glimpse of hope in his eyes, but he realized that he shouldn't get his hopes up too high... Flary jumped back onto the road and followed the scent of his family members along with a Mightyena's that seemed to mix with it.

"Damn them...ugh..." Torvus coughed up some blood onto the steel floor of the cage. "What did I do to deserve this...? All I was doing was defending myself, and suddenly one of our own brethren puts me into this state... Damn those humans..." He rested his chin on his front paws.

All Freya could do is sit there and watch her injured Mightyena friend suffer and complain of his hatred for the humans. She constantly asked herself or anyone listening if there was a savior out there for them...

"Hey...you're awake!" Leaf was standing over a healed One. He sat up, but Leaf gently pushed him back down. "Hey, now...you need rest. Your mother and siblings are alright, too. I'm glad that you guys got back in time." Leaf gave One a nourishing fruit to get him to relax and rest a bit more, but after that dream, his mind was quite tense... One thought to himself, 'What's a human, anyway, and what did they do to Freya and that Mightyena...?'

He dismissed the thought, and decided to try and get some sleep, but only after quite a while due to noisy disturbances of the overpopulation in the fruit patch. He hoped that it will be safe once more.

What seemed like only a moment later, his parents were standing over him. Espy said, "Oh, One...I'm glad you and your family is alright...I was so worried." Espy's injuries were fully healed, along with Umby's. "Everything's alright, now. Everyone will be able to head home after we clean up a little." Umby reassured their peace, and One was relieved. He suddenly felt very relaxed, and began sleeping peacefully, his parents watching over him with great smiles.

Freya and the friendly Mightyena were talking outside, but still in the tree's cover from the pouring rain.

"Thanks for all of your help...I can't thank you enough. Really..." Freya couldn't stop thanking him for saving her family members. "I'm glad that I helped...I never wanted this to happen to anyone... War is such a needless thing..." He looked down in sadness, and Freya could tell that he is a bit experienced...

"Hey...maybe when things cool down a little, you could visit us, sometime?" She was making her first friend outside the pack, and she wanted him to be memorable. "Sure...I'd like that a lot. I don't really have a pack to go back to...I guess I could try to find anyone leftover. I hope one day that we can live in peace." He started to walk away. "W-wait!" Freya trotted up to him. "What's your name?" He grinned. "My name's Torvus...yours?" "Freya." "Well, Freya, I hope we meet again. You're a brave one, you are..." Torvus ran off into the foggy rain, Freya finding herself caring for one that may be an enemy.

Suddenly she saw a brownish figure on the road running towards the fruit patch. She recognized the figure after a few seconds...

"...Father!" Flary came to a halt in front of Freya, and quickly reached down and held her tight. "Oh, Freya...is everyone alright...?" Freya could sense a hint of crying on him, but she didn't want to embarrass him. "Everyone's fine...we're okay." He looked at Freya and smiled. Flary put her on his back and walked into the patch's main area. Everyone in the patch was happy that this entire ordeal was finally over, thanks to Flary, Espy, Umby, and a Mightyena named Torvus...but no one would know about him, and Freya would keep it a secret as long as she could.

One woke up in the middle of the night in the safety of his den, with his beloved family members surrounding him. The rain had stopped, and the air was filled with a wet fur smell that he didn't particularly like, and wrinkled his nose a bit. He was a bit sore after the whole experience in the previous day...but at least everyone turned out okay. However, suddenly, One felt something odd, something he's never felt before. He couldn't explain the feeling, really. The feeling passed, but unfortunately for him he was left with a slight headache.

One heard someone outside trudging through the grass. He didn't want to move, in fear of someone seeing him. He decided not to take a look around, and besides, he has his mother and father to protect him.

One heard several thuds and clunks. Seems like that previous someone was doing something out there... He decided to wake up his father by biting him softly on the ear and tugging.

Flary looked at him in the eyes and said drowsily, "Oh, One...what is it...?" Flary's ears twitched, and he knew what One was worried about. Flary slowly stood up, and began to sneak to the entrance of the cave. He could sense some heat coming from a nearby source, he guessed it was some kind of fire-based Pokémon doing something out there. He kept his guard up, just in case.

He slowly peeked out of the side of the cave opening where he would be able to see the source of heat. He saw the a small fire burning some wood, similar to his little light sources that he uses in his cave for his family, although he uses durable leaves. However, a human walked up to the fire and sat next to it. Flary immediately began to panic, and feared for the safety of his family. Not knowing what to do for the moment, he merely cooled himself down and decided to observe the human and the other Pokémon with him.

Flary looked back into the cave, and saw that One decided to try and get some more sleep, much to his relief.

He looked back out again. The human was wearing these weird flat but bendable things over his skin except for his face, Flary assumed would keep the human warm and provide minor protection. The human also wore something similar on the top of his head, with a little thing protruding from the front. Although Flary was somewhat afraid of this human, he became interested, although not for his own good. Flary kept his watch on the human.

The human pulled out a large object from where Flary could not see. It seemed to constantly make a strange ruffling sound that was quite unnerving. Flary became more curious. The human covered his entire body with it, presumably for more heat and protection. Flary then heard a long, erratic sound coming from the object that was even more unnerving than the last one. The sound was a bit loud, and he even looked back to see that his little ones were moving around in their sleep. The sound stopped in a moment. The human looked comfortable inside the soft object, and Flary could tell that he immediately fell asleep.

Flary didn't want to get closer to the human. He also wanted to alert his leaders, but then he would have to leave his family, and that's the last thing he would ever do... Flary decided to stay awake through the night to keep an eye on the human and also his family...

To Be Continued