Chapter 1
The Hatching
The sun slowly rises above the horizon to relieve the land of the darkness. The last of the late night creatures hide from the light. The warmth of the late spring sun warms the furs, feathers, and scales of the waking pokemon. Sparks wakes up to the warmth of the sun and the sounds of all the morning creatures that like to sing in the morning. Sparks sits up with the egg nesting next to him away from Sparky who is on the other side of him. He listens for a few minutes to the music of the forest. Sometimes the music was pretty and beautiful and other times it was eerie. Every new day that sun rises is a new song from the forest. Today the music was nice and uplifting probably because of the nice warmth from the sun.
Sparks stands up and looks at Sparky and the egg. He slowly walks out with an uneasy feeling of leaving Sparky and the egg alone but hunger got the better of him. Sparks hadn't eaten for a few days due to stress of Sparky and the egg. Sparky still acts like a little child and it scares Sparks what damage she could do to the egg in her ignorance. No matter how many times she said that she would be careful and he could take a break and let her take care of the egg but Sparks can't find himself to trust her to take care of the egg. Although hunger forced Sparks to leave and get food. Sparks walks on the familiar path but this time, he doesn't have his knifes in hand which he hasn't done in a while.
Sparky wakes up without her brother being around. She rubs her eyes while looking around the room. She spots the lonely egg on the other side of the nest. Without any hesitation she crawls to the egg. She carefully pokes the egg. The egg rolls softly on its side. Sparky carefully picks up the heavy egg and sets the egg on her lap. She examines the egg. "This is a pretty big egg for a snivy to lay," Sparky commented to herself. "I still barely remember Penny and Dash. Sparks told me some of the things about Dash, even though their time together was really short. He also talked about Scouter a lot more than Dash. Scouter was around Sparks longer than Dash. That was apparent. He told me that I killed them. Although deep down I know he knows that I was being controlled and that it wasn't my fault but it still hurts." Sparky sighs, " I know that he is sort of loss without them, and I feel terrible that I was involved, but was I truly involved? Sparks is different from when I last remember. He would trust me with everything, he would comfort me, protect me, and we would always be happy no matter what happened as long as we were together... What happened to that? I guess times have changed when I was gone... He scares me now. I worry that he'll kill himself over this egg. Why does he care for it so much? It seems like he cares the egg more than me." Sparky stares at the innocent egg. "If this egg wasn't here, Sparks wouldn't have to destroy himself for the egg..." Sparky stops to think deeply about what she just said. She sighs, "I can't do that... it's not fair to the egg." She sets the egg back to where she grabbed it. Sparky stares outside away from the rising sun. The egg rolls on its side again a few minutes later. Sparky, so deep in thought, doesn't even notice the movement of the egg. Sparky's ear twitches as a little noise is heard from the egg. Sparky looks at the egg questioning whether what she heard was from the egg. She passes it off as something else but a few minutes later another little noise this time more like a squeaky cry is heard from the egg. Sparky carefully and nervously watches the egg.
Sparks walks in to a visibly uncomfortable Sparky staring at the egg. Sparks picks up the egg protectively and looks at Sparky and asks, "What did you do? Did you touch the egg?"
Sparky shakes her head no nervously.
"I know you're lying Sparky. You do the same thing when you lie, even now."
Sparky sighs and said, "Yeah I touched it... I got curious."
"Okay... it's fine.. the egg looks okay" Sparks words may seem innocent and calm but his look towards Sparky said, "Don't you ever touch the egg again."
Sparky silently looks at the egg wondering if she should tell Sparks what she had experienced. Sparks looks at Sparky trying to read what she is thinking, trying to figure out if she is leaving out any information. Sparks with a calm voice said, "You know you can tell me anything. You don't have to lie to me."
Sparky stays silent.
"Why did you feel like you needed to lie to me?"
Sparky doesn't answer.
Sparks, getting a little annoyed at this point asks, "What are you hiding?"
Sparky looks at Sparks with a blank look, "Nothing. Nothing at all." Sparky goes back to looking at the egg.
Sparks thinks whether or not Sparky is telling the truth or not. She was acting very strange. Sparks sets the egg down away from Sparky. Sparky looks at Sparks as he pulls out a knife. Sparks sits there for a few minutes thinking with Sparky staring at him. "Sparky, Is that really you?"
Sparky is shocked and confused by the question. She answers, "Of course."
"You sure that Fireback is not controlling you right now?"
"Sparks, look at me brother. Do I look like I'm being controlled?"
Sparks examines Sparky, "No, but I didn't know you were being controlled by Fireback last time."
"Sparks... when Fireback controlled me, he took me away from you and towards him so he could use me more. He also took me away so you wouldn't know. He's smart Sparks, but he's no me."
Sparks doesn't reply to his sister. Before the next word came from either one of them, Sparks feels the egg move. Sparks looks at the egg. He notices a little crack in the egg that wasn't there last time. Sparks smiles.
"What are you smiling about?" Sparky asks.
"Oh... this egg won't be an egg very soon. Soon we'll know the little one hiding in this shell."
Sparky becomes slightly excited. She has never seen an egg hatch in her life. Sparks on the other hand, has seen a hatching one other time.
Both Sparks and Sparky sit there looking at the for about an hour, not realizing the fast moving time around.
Finally Sparks said, "It must be resting."
"Maybe he or she needs help getting out of the egg." Sparky said as she reaches for the egg.
Sparks hits her hand away. "No, give it time. Getting out of an egg is hard work."
"Why do you call the baby it?"
"Because we don't know the gender and the exact form it'll be."
Sparky folds her arms, "But it makes you seem like you don't care about the egg. It's like you're calling the egg an object. Isn't this more than an object to you?"
Sparks stares at the egg for a moment, "Just because I call the egg an 'it', doesn't mean I don't care about it, it's the common society's view that makes it seem like that. It's not that I don't care, it's yours and everyone else perception that says I don't care about the egg because of my choices. You and everyone around will assume that I don't care about the egg and you all would group up and take it away from me."
Sparky surprised at how the conversation turned quickly replies with, "I wasn't saying that you didn't care about the egg... but just calling the egg 'it' makes it seem like you don't care but I know you care dearly about the egg and I would never take the egg from you."
Sparks doesn't reply to Sparky's answer. Sparks turns away from Sparky and lays down with the egg in front of him.
Sparky looks down and sighs. The air between them remains still for the next few minutes. Sparky finally breaks the stillness by asking, "Why don't you kick me out?"
Sparks doesn't answer nor move.
Sparky looks over at Sparks breathing body. She goes silent... listening. Trying to hear all that she can. Sparks makes a little snoring noise. Sparky lays down and faces the other way. With hundreds of thoughts racing through her mind about Sparks and the egg. Slowly, the tiredness slows her thoughts and she finally falls asleep.
Sparky dreams of a time before Fireback. Before the events. Before the control. Before the egg. It was a very nice dream for her. It helped ease some of her thoughts and some of her worries.
Sparky wakes up from her deep sleep by a hard poke on her back. It actually kind of hurt a little. "What do you want Sparks?" she asked with out even looking. She hears movement behind her but the footsteps were not as heavy as Sparks. "Who could this be?" Sparky thought. Sparky slowly turns towards the sound and sees a little blue snivy going through the many materials of the nest. Sparky looks at Sparks who, of course, was asleep through this. Sparky slowly stands, and sneaks up on the little snivy and she quickly grabs the snivy scaring the little one to death. The snivy begins to cry very loudly waking up Sparks. Sparks looks at Sparky holding the little crying snivy. Sparks quickly gets up and lightly grabs the snivy. He sits down and slowly rocks the snivy. The snivy slowly stops the crying and she looks at Sparks. Sparks smiles at the little snivy and the snivy smiles back. Sparky looks at Sparks and asks, "Who is that?"
Sparks, still rocking the snivy said, "This is what came out of the egg."
Sparky looks at the little snivy, then looks at the shattered egg. "Oh... I thought it was someone trying to loot our stuff."
"Come on Sparky. Someone this small and this young trying to loot stuff?"
"Yeah, I guess it was kind of dumb... Aren't snivy suppose to be green? This snivy is blue. Maybe she's sick."
Sparks rolls his eyes. "She got her blue from the oshawott."
Sparky looks at Sparks, "I thought that the child only gets characteristics from the mother."
Sparks looks at the snivy then towards Sparky, "Well if we were tamed then yes, because humans are very selective on what they want from breeding us pokemon, but in the wild the selective traits depends on survival. That's why you'll rarely see what humans call 'shiny pokemon' because their traits make it hard to survive and they are highly demanded to humans. The fact is, we should keep this little one away from the humans. We need to make her afraid of them. Otherwise she'll be caught by them and I can only imagine what it's like to be in one of those balls. Her blue color will be hard for her to hide from predators and humans. The green for a snivy made it great for them to hide in trees against the leaves. This little one got the blueness of the oshawott which for oshawott is great for hiding in the water and with snivy usually being poor swimmers, the blue probably isn't going to help her hide at all. She'll need to be smarter and more alert then the average snivy. Otherwise she won't have a very long life."
Sparky looks at Sparks, "Maybe she would be safer with humans, since being in the wild is so deadly for her."
"It's deadly for all of us but I understand where you're coming from. It really depends on the human(s) that take care of her on whether or not she'll be happy or not. She'll need lots of attention and lots of love. A human that will let her outside and exercise her, whether that would be by playing with her or use her in a battle. Not just battling though... Some of the faces on the pokemon that are only used for fighting are not very pretty. Just imagine that the only time you get to see the sun, feel the wind, feel the warmth, the only time you get to feel that is when you have to fight. That would be terrible. That's why I just don't trust humans in general."
"Sparks... me and you both know that that's not the only reason... That you have something deeper against humans."
"You're right Sparky, but I'd rather not talk about it."
"I understand..." Sparky looks at the snivy, "So what are we going to name her?"
This had barely crossed Sparks mind. He didn't think he would have the egg for when it hatched. "I'm not sure... I didn't even get that far in her life yet."
"I see well I guess it's something we don't need to rush it but we should come up with something soon."
"Agreed and it needs to be perfect."
"Agreed."