Flame and GrayTail

by dizzydoo

They were different from the world. They were shunned from every group. What will happen if this unusal Vulpix and Eevee meet? When Flame and GrayTail pokemon they like, will thier friendship stay alive or die out?

4. Enter Team FireFang Cut into 3 thirds

Enter Team FireFang

This was the longest chapter I wrote...seriously 8,237 words...
so many things happen in my life...
You kan say this chapter is 3 chapters in one

They're Called: Chapter 4 1/3: Nightmares
Chapter 4 2/3: Shadow
Chapter 4 3/3: Enter Team FireFang

Pov=Point Of View

Chapter 4 1/3

"...I'll stay. But not in the house, I'll sleep outside. I still want
the feeling of being alone." Ivy said walking out the door.
"Okay," GrayTail said, "Looking at the grouping clouds, it might rain
soon."
"Are you kidding me?" Ivy said with disbelief, "It just rained
yesterday, it might rain tomorrow, but not tonight."

Ivy walked out and closed the door. Outside, it was very cloudy but
that didn't kill Ivy's adventure spirit; Ivy looked in the woods for
some soft leaves to use as a bed. After a half-hour of hard searching,
Ivy found a pile of the softest leaves.
Ivy was walking towards it until a Weavile blocked Ivy's path. "Where
do you think your going," the Weavile asked.
"I'm just gonna get that pile of leaves there, that's all," Ivy said
pointing to the pile.
"Heh heh. You do know that's mine." Weavile said, "But I know where to
get some and I'm dying for a macth so let's have a battle, winner
keeps pile." Heh heh, this should be easy; it's a grass type, I
could totally pwn him or her. Weavile thought.
Awwww, this is gonna be hard, I'm a grass type and he's or she's a
ice type this is gonna be hard. Ivy thought, But I have to, it's
for my bed. I have to beat him or her!
"Okay your on!" Ivy said getting into a fighting stance.
"Wow your funny," Weavile said, "To start off this I would like to
chill you up with my...Ice Beam!"
A clear beam came out of Weavile's open mouth, Ivy tried to dodge it
but got her leaf like tail frozen. Damn that's cold! Ivy thought
But I have to beat him or her... what the hell is it anyways
"Hey!" Ivy called out, "I'm a girl Smugleaf named Ivy, what's your
name and gender?"
"Why would you care?" Weavile asked, "You'll even be done by the
tim...Mufffff Murfffff" Ewww what's in my mouth? Weavile thought.
Ivy stopped her Razor Leaf and found the best way to beat him or
whatever he was. Weavile decides to freeze me, huh? Ivy thought
Well I'll give him a pain in the head!

Ivy stopped stuffing Razor Leaves into Weavile's mouth and closed her
eyes. Focus Ivy only on it nothing else... Ivy
finally calmed down. She never tried this alone so it was worth a
shot. Suddenly, Weavile slapped his paws on his head in pain. What
is this pain? What's happening to me! Weavile shut his eyes in
pain. Weavile a voice sunk into Weavile's head Should I stop this?
Having leaves in it's mouth Weavile thought Yes Yes Yes please stop!
On one condition, I win the macth. Deal?
Yea, sure, okay, Deal just stoooopp pleassseeeeeeeee
The pain faded. Weavile relaxed it's paws on it's eyes and started to
rub them. Ivy walked over and pulled the leaves out of the Weavile's
mouth and went towards the pile of soft leaves. Weavile gasped for
air. "What did you do to me?"
There was no answer, Ivy already took the pile and left.

"Wow! I have to do that again sometime!" Ivy exclaimed with a smile
carrying a pile of leaves, "I can't wait to tell Flame and GrayTail
this. As Ivy walked towards the cottage, the sky grew dark. Rain
started to fall.
"Oh cool rain!" Ivy looked up into the sky then onto her skin. The
green color turned into a turqoise color, the yellow turned into a
light purple and blue mix.
"I really like my aqua form, I look way cuter like this." Ivy said
looking at a reflection in the water, "Well here's the cottage, I
better set up aroumd here."

That moment GrayTail ran outside, "Ivy! Ivy! Where are you?" GrayTail
ran around the cottage and found Ivy setting up, "Ivy! Ivy! There's
gonna be a storm! You gotta get inside now! Whoa what's wrong with you
skin?" GrayTail asked.
"I'll tell you inside," Ivy said going with GrayTail into the cottage.

Inside the the cottage, Flame opened the front dorr to the heavy storm
that just started, "See we told you it would storm. Anyways are you
okay, I would of went to get you, but... it's raining and I'm a fire-
type."
Flame looked at Ivy, her purple, and turqoise wet skin and said,
"Whoa, what happened to your skin Ivy? It's all purple and turqoise
and your eyes, no wait, they're always like that. But why?"
"Well, since I'm from a water and psychic, the colours that repersent
Water is usually blue, that explains the turqoise, blue is kind of
like turqoise. Psychic is usually purple or pink, so that's why my
eyes are purple and blue and my skin is also purple. I don't know how
my eye got gray though." Ivy thought for a while, "I guess I'll have
to stay with you, that's if you want me to. Do you?"
"Sure we do!" GrayTail shouted, "We asked that earlier."
"Oh yea, so I'll need a bed" Ivy said.
"Don't worry Ivy Flame can handle that. Flame time to do your stuff!"
GrayTail said.

Flame, Ivy, and GrayTail walked to the bedroom where GrayTail's and
Flame's bed was. Flame looked around and looked at how much space was
left in the room. There was some room by the door but then Flame
thought about it. It wasn't enough room, but it's the only room they
have.

Flame closed her eyes and her peri-paw glowed. One of the beds was
splitting into two beds like it was using Double Team. The new bed was
a little smaller than the other beds. Flame was puzzled at this and
thought Hmmm. That's weird. That never happened before.

Ivy, now happy, ran to her bed (the smaller one) and jumped onto it
saying, "Thank You! Thank You! Thank You so much! I love it!" She
cuddled in the bed until she fell asleep.

GrayTail walked in and stared at the sleeping SmugLeaf.
"I Love It." GrayTail said, "Love what? The bed? How do you love a bed?"
"No," said Flame, "Remember, she's been traveling in the world, and
gets attacked by pokemon almost all the time and sleeps on the ground.
You don't think she would like a real bed where it is safe?"
"Oh...I've never thought of it that way." GrayTail said.

GrayTail and Flame sat in the living room looking at the storm outside.
"Wow, it rained yesterday." Flame commented, "Now it's storming."
GrayTail yawned.
"Just staring at this storm makes me sleepy. I'm going to sleep now.
Night Flame."

GrayTail walked into the bedroom and hopped onto her bed and soon fell
asleep. Flame wasn't tired on the other hand, she had time to think
about life. For some reason, Flame wanted to help Ivy find her parents
so she decided to train up. The only problem was: it was raining
outside.
How am I gonna train now. It's raining! I mean I can train in the
rain. But it'll be painful. I hate being a fire type.
Unwillingly, Flame walked outside into the storm. The water on her fur
felt like acid. It stung really bad.

Flame's POV:

I just stood out there for minutes just being burned by water, but I'm
starting to get used to it. It doesn't feel like acid anymore, it
feels like a quil poking me. I started to train, but then I just
noticed: I can only produce fire. How does that work in rain?
I started to think in the middle of the rain.

Well, some phycial moves I can try are: Quick Attcak, Iron Tail,
Double Team. Wait I don't need Double Team, I can do that already. Ok
let's see Quick Attack. I'm just gonna need to be really fast. How do
I do that? I just started running in circles, I got tired, faster
and dizzy. I fell back. This is gonna be a long night. I got up
and ran again. This time, I don't know what happened, I just ran and
everything stopped in place, as if time stopped. Then I looked back, I
saw rain falling slowly and a white streak behind me. That's when I
noticed I used Quick Attack. Although I was really happy with myself,
I was tired. I walked inside and went to bed all wet.

Narrator's POV:

It was a long stormy night. Flame, being use to the storm from before,
and Ivy, being in about a thousand storms, left GrayTail the only one
shivering in her bed. She couldn't go to sleep. She kept mumbling to
herself, "Please stop. Please stop. Please stop." A lightning bolt
struk close to the window of GrayTail's side.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" GrayTail shrieked. Then she passed out in shock and fear.

The next day, Ivy woke up first. She looked over to Flame, who was all
wet still, and laughed. Then she looked over at GrayTail she was
sleeping softly. Ivy smiled at her and walked outside. Little did she
know GrayTail wasn't sleeping softly, she was having a nightmare.

GrayTail's POV:

I opened my eyes, Where the heck am I?
I wasn't in my cottage, I was outside? I started to walk around, I
can't believe what I saw! I saw my family! I was so happy! I ran
towards them, "Hey Mommy! Daddy! It's me! GrayTail! I finally found
you!" They never heard me. I waved my paw in front of them; they still
never noticed me.
"Oh! I'm sorry," My Mom said, "I never noticed you."
"Oh My Arceus! You noticed me! I'm back Mommy!" I nuzzled her. She
gave me a weird look, "Um. What? I'm not your mom. Where did you get
that from?"
I stepped back, "What! But...Mommy you have to remember me! I'm
you're only Eevee!" I hugged her. Daddy was looking at me with a mad
face. "Get off my wife!" He snapped.
I backed away, "But...You...Can't...Forge..." I ran away in tears.
I can't believe what just happened! My parents don't remember me! I
ran out into the clearing by the woods. I found my cottage. I ran to
it and opened the door. Inside, I found Flame, Ivy and a Riolu eating
inside. They looked different though, part of Flame's ear was bitten
off, Ivy had a bandana around her neck, and the Riolu was wearing a
wrist band that had a lightning bolt with a black background.
"Ummmm...Ivy...Who's that?" I asked shyly.
Ivy looked over and said, "How dare you question us about Rouge!"
"Rouge? Wait. What?" I said in shock, "If his name is Rouge, t..then,
you're a bunch of rouges. Right?"
"You bet that's right." Flame growled.
"You catch up really fast for an Eevee." He complimented. I smiled
then frowned at what he said after. "You can be a problem to us. Get
rid of this strange Eevee before she finds our plans."
"Yes Sir!" Flame and Ivy said. They started heading towards me,
surrounded me, then growled, "Let's take this nice and easy." Flame
growled, "You can go if you want to, but if you don't leave in 10
linnone seconds (about 5 normal seconds) we'll beat you to the ground."
"But Flame!" I shouted.
"5, little one. Times ticking." Ivy said.
"We're the best of friends! Ivy! How could you say that!"
"3.." Flame ignored.
I stuttered, "But...I...You..."
"1 and a half..." Ivy said getting ready.
I had no choice but to run away. I ran through the open door. I looked
back at the open door crying.
"Hey...How did she know our names?" Ivy asked.
"Let's beat her anyway. We're rouges, not pathetic civilians." Flame
said.

I looked back and saw them chasing me. I ran faster into a battle
between a Pikachu and a Buneary. I looked behind me when I tripped
over a rock. Ivy was dancing for some reason; and it started raining.
"Thunderbolt!" The Pikachu yelled.
I looked into the sky, it was raining and Pikachu started a
thunderstorm. I shrieked, but no one cared. I looked around there was
no one there. Just a thunderstorm. I ran trying to dodge lightning
bolts, but they seemed to catch up to me. I fell and looked at the
lightning bolts heading towards me. I prepared for the end of my life
when someone was whispering, "Hey! GrayTail! Wake Up! Wake Up!"

Before the lightning struck me, I opened my eyes and woke up. I felt
my paws, they were all sweating. I woke up to find Ivy and Flame
nudging me.
"It's about time you woke up!" Flame said, "I think you had a
nightmare."
I sat up, "Yes. I'm so happy your still here."
"We were always here GrayTail." Ivy said, "Oh yeah! You shoud see what
Flame can do!"
"What?" I asked.
"Oh yeah." Flame said, "I'm not weak to water anymore. That's all. Not
really special."
"What! Not special! You gotta be kidding me!" I exclaimed, "Your
probably the first fire-type not weak to water! This is like history!"
"Yeah, it's easier to show you though." Flame said running out the door.

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Chapter 4 2/3: Shadow

Outside, Flame, Ivy and I found a Riolu practicing some moves. I had a
hatred to Riolu's ever since that nightmare I had. I growled at it.
Flame, Ivy and the Riolu looked at me with a 'why did you do that' look.
"GrayTail," Ivy said, "What was that for? You just growled at some
random pokemon."
The Riolu walked over to us and opened his mouth to speak.
"What do you want!" I yelled.
Flame and Ivy looked at me with the same expression.
"Um nothing...I just wanted to say hi." the Riolu said.
I reconized it was a boy because of his voice. I began to listen
carefully to his mind What's wrong with your eyes? he thought. He
opened his mouth but I yelled, "Nothing's wrong with my eyes! I was
born like this!"
"Ummm...Okay," he said, "Then what's wrong with the Smugleaf's eyes?"
"Nothing's wrong with us! We were born like this!" I yelled back.
He leaned over to Flame and whispered, "What's wrong with her?"
I had to think fast, I closed my eyes and focused on Flame's head for
a while. I telapethicly told her to say nothing. She shooked a little
afraid telling the Riolu nothing.

"Ummm okay?" the Riolu said, "Lemme introduce myself. My name is
Shadow. (A/N: I couldn't think of anything else, so don't blame me.)
My dad was a Lucario and my mom was a Vaporeon, so I know some water
moves too. I left my parents for a journey of my own; so far, it's not
going very good."
"You can stay with us!" Flame suggested.
"No way! I'm not gonna let a Riolu in our house." I said.
Flame eyed me then looked at Shadow with a smile and said, "Excuse me
Shadow. My friend here has a little problem."

Flame pulled me over to a nearby tree and looked back to see if Shadow
was looking at us. I looked back too and saw Ivy and Shadow talking.
Flame was waving her paw infront of me, "Hey!"
"What?"
"Why are you acting like this? He never even did anything to you!
Plus...This is a secret but, he's kinda cute." Flame whispered.
I widened my eyes, "What! You never told me that! I'm gonna tell
him!" I started to make a run for it but she held me down and said,
"This is serious! Don't tell him! I'm not ready tell him. We just met,
I can't randomly say 'I like him' or something like that. I'm asking
you as a friend."
I was gonna say 'no' but Flame was doing her puppy-fox-eyes. I sighed,
"Fine then. Just because of those eyes."
Flame got off of me and smiled, "That always works. By the way, why do
you hate Shadow?"
"Let's go back, I had a nightmare about everyone I cared about never
knew me. A Riolu named 'Rouge' was in it and told you and Ivy to kill
me. So now you know why I'm acting weird."
"Oh," Flame said, "I never knew."

Flame and I walked back to Shadow and Ivy.

"That's kind of akward for a Snivy." Shadow said, "Well that what you
get by being born into a Water-Psychic family."
"Hey!" Ivy said while hitting Shadow on the head, "That's not funny! I
can use a Psychic move on you and you won't like it!"

Me and Flame walked into the scene. We were both happy but I'm still
wondering if I should tell Shadow about Flame.
"Sorry," I said with a guitly smile, "Lemme introduce myself, I'm
Aliza but people call me GrayTail. I'm the one and only Psychic Eevee
around!" I winked at him to get Flame jealous. He smiled back, "That
was a way better introduction tham before." He stuck his paw out
telling me he wanted to shake paws.
"Heh heh. Yeahhh..." I replied sweatdropping and then I shook his paw.
"Soooo. Heh heh. Do you want to come to our place?" I treid to ask
nicely.
"Okay! Sure I'll come! 8 have nothing else to do anyways." He replied
happily. Shadow and I walked together while Ivy and Flame walked
behind us.

Flame's POV

"So that's why GrayTail hated Shadow at first." I finished explaining
to Ivy.
"Wow. That's kinda scary. Nobody you care about knows you." Ivy said
looking down at the grass.
"But look on the bright side!" I perked up, "They seem to be getting
along."
GrayTail turned around and winked at me. I smiled back, then I turned
my hear towards Shadow's. I fell into a daze.
Wow. He even looks cute when his head is turned. If he were mine I
would be happy for the rest of my life. He's so cute! His coat is so
perfect and his eyes are crimson red; perfect for me! A voice popped
into my head.
Hello. Hello. Hey can you hear me? Hey, it's GrayTail! You're caught
in a daze. You're gonna bump into a tree.
I didn't listen. Even though I was gonna bump into a...
"Ow!" I screamed.
I looked to what I bumped into. It was a tree. I'm so mad; I looked
back and saw everyone else including Shadow looking at me laughing.
"I toldja!" GrayTail said, "But noooo. You were to busy in your 'happy
land'."
I growled at her.
"Hey don't be mad at me. I warned you. You didn't listen. So it's your
fault for bumping into that tree." GrayTail taunted.

I rubbed my muzzle with my paw and looked behind the tree I bumped
into. I saw a big building with a big Vaporeon shaped head on the front.
"Hey. What's that?" I said pointing to the Vaporeon's head.

"What is it?" GrayTail and Ivy asked.
I looked over at Shadow.
"It's the Vaporeon Guild in Florecent Town. You've seriously never
heard of it?" Shadow said with disbelief.
All three of us shook our heads.
Shadow facepalmed himself.
"It's my Mom's Guild. She works there with her right-hand assistant
Frostlass. My dad owns a guild of his own in LunarMoon city which
isn't far from here."
"Oh..."Ivy said.
"That's why I've been training. There's a rule in both of the Guilds
that say you need at least one partner to form a team. So I've been
looking for a partner all this time. But none of them seemed to like me.
"Awwww. Don't feel bad." I said patting him on the back, "I like you."
"You do?" He asked. GrayTail was looking at me.
"I mean, we all like you." I said.
That was close! I thought.
You're really bad at keeping secrets right? The voice said.
"Shut up!" I yelled.
"What?" Shadow and Ivy asked.
"Umm.." I stuttered. I glared at GrayTail who was smirking.
I picked the first thing on my mind.
"Umm...Who wants to make a team!" I switched the topic quickly.
"Oh. I do!" Ivy and Shadow said raising their hands.
"You're lucky." GrayTail said raising her hand.
"Okay so let's go! To Vaporeon's Guild!"
We all headed to Florecent Town to go to Vaporeon's Guild.

After a few hours of walking it started to drizzle. Why does it
always rain now? I asked myself.
"Why does it rain all the time?" GrayTail asked.
"Hmmm? Oh I don't know." Shadow said.
"Wait Flame! Aren't you getting hurt or something?" GrayTail asked.
"No. Why?" I replied.
GrayTail looked confused and said, "You're a fire-type, and...ohhh
that's what you were talking about this morning!"
"Yeahh..." Ivy said, "Then we ran into Shadow here."
"Yup. That's me!" He said happily.
Soon Shadow's smile turned into a confused face, "Ivy...ummm...what's
wrong with your skin colour?" He asked.
"This?" Ivy asked pointing to her skin, "Oh, that always happens when
I get wet."
"So...All of you have an unusual colour, for fur or skin, except for
me?" He asked.
"Yeah," I said quickly before anyone can say anything.
"Hey look!" GrayTail shouted, "There's a sign!"

We all ran to the sign and read it. It said:
Florecent Town

"We made it!" I said in relief, "Now where's this Guild?"
"Just down the road that way." Shadow said pointing right.
We all ran to the right, when it began to storm.
Thunderbolts from different directions struck at once making GrayTail
scream.
"It's okay GrayTail." Shadow said hugging her, "There's nothing to be
afraid of as long as I'm with you."
GrayTail smiled which made me mad.
Come on Flame! A voice in my head said, I thought her was yours not
mine. I'm startig to like him to you know, I'll probably have him
before you can.
I growled and shouted, "GRAYTAIL! COME HERE!"
Shadow let go of her and she skipped towards me and asked, "What's up?"
"Don't 'what's up' me! I know exactly what your up to!," I yelled
quietly, "Your trying to steal my guy!"
"Well...I guess I DO like him a little bit, but seriously; you gotta
grab hold of him before I do." She replied happily.
"I would do anything to learn Thunderbolt now! If it weren't raining I
swear I would turn you into ashes right now!" I shouted.
"Let's see about that." GrayTail perked up.

GrayTail's POV

I started to fake cry and ran to Shadow.
"Help me. Flame is scaring me. Make her stop." I whined.
Flame started growling, "That's completely fake! Can't you tell!"
"I don't care!" Shadow said, "You're scaring her! It's bad enough that
shes's scared of lightning! We need to get to my mom's Guild as soon
as possible."

I smirked at Flame enraging her more. She looked mad, so I decided to
read her mind.
One day GrayTail! I swear I'll get you! she thought.
In a million years I'm guessing. I telapethicly told her.
She glared and growled at me more.
"Shadow! Shadow! Make her stop!" I screamed.
Shadow turned around and saw Flame and Ivy talking.
Nice save Flame. I thought to myself.

"Look! There it is!" I pointed out.
We all ran inside out of the rain. I looked up huffing and puffing and
a Vaporeon stood infront of me.
"So son," She said, "You've come to form an exploration team. Well,
come this way."
Shadow nodded while the Vaporeon dissapeared in to a puddle on the
ground. Flame, Ivy and I were suprised.
"How did she do that!" Ivy asked.
"It's a Vaporeon's ability." Shadow explained, "To be able to melt
away into water. It's in the particles of her body. I could only do
half of what she does but first we need to form a team."
We all nodded and went down the ladder, fortunetly there was a flight
of stair heading down so Flame and I could walk down easily.

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Chapter 4 3/3: Enter Tem FireFang

When we got to the bottom we saw 9 pokemon talking to each other and 6
pokemon at a billborad on one side of the room, and 3 on the other
billborad at the other side of the room. I looked to the right side of
the ladder and there stood another ladder and another flight of
stairs. I pointed this out so we can all go downstairs once again.

On the second floor was much different than the last floor. There was
barely any pokemon down here, it was just a Frostlass and a Vaporeon
talking.
I decided to listen in, and this is what they said:
Vaporeon: Hey, my son came back from training and he finally has
partners!
Frostlass: Really! I can't wait to meet him. But when are we going to
tell him about 'The Rip'?
Vaporeon: Oh...I never told him about that.
Frostlass: Lemme tell you a lesson I had to learn the hard way.
Vapor, *pats Vapor's back* sometimes you have to tell pokemon things
before they get worse..
Vapor: I'll think about it.

We all walked to them. The very first thing I asked them was, "What's
the rip Vapor?"
Vapor sweatdropped.
"Ummm..I'll tell you later." She covered quickly, "But first we need
to form your exploration team!"
"Oh yeah...That's right." Shadow said.
"Come wi... nevermind we can't go to my office. So let's form up in
my headquarters." Vapor said pointing to a big blue door.

Insode Vapor's Headquarters, it was really damp. There was alot of
puddles on the floor.
"Why's is it so wet in here?" I asked taking my drenched paw out of a
puddle, "Don't you want anybody to clean up?"
"What are you talking about?" Vapor asked, "It's natural for water to
be in here."

Vapor sat on a big water lily in the middle of a pond at the far end
of the room. The Frostlass floated beside her.
"So, you want to form an exploration team." She said, "Why?"
We all stood there. The only reason we came here was because Flame was
covering up a secret, we really had no reason to form.
"Because we have ones we care about in the world, and we want to find
them." Ivy said, "We figured out if we came here, we could find them
on our explorations."
I stood there suprised at Ivy, she was quiet the while entire trip and
she says something worth hearing.

We all nodded seeing there was no other reason we could think of.
"Very well," Vapor said, "I will allow you to form an exploration
team, but first I must tell Shadow one thing."
Shadow stepped up nervously, "Yes mom?"
"While you are here, I am very proud you are on a journey of your own.
I love you with all my heart," Vapor said, "But to be fair to the
others, I won't treat you like a son but like any other member here.
Do we make ourselves clear?"
"Yes ma'am!" Shadow said saluting.
Shadow walked back to us holding up a 'peace sign'.
Maybe I do really like him. Maybe I... I thought.
A voice popped into my head saying Hey! That's Flame's man and you
know it!
I looked around the room to see who could of said that to me. I came
across Flame and Shadow looking at Vapor nodding, and Ivy who was
looking at me.
You're not the only one that has telepathy! The voice said again. I
replied Yes, Ivy. You can too.
Ivy smiled and winked at me.

"So, what will your exploration team name be?" Vapor asked.
We all paused in time again. We never thought of a team name. Shadow
motioned over for a huddle. We followed and huddled.
"I'm thinking of Team RavenClaw." Shadow whispered, "Any other
suggestions?"
"Well, I was thinking of Team PurpleDots." Flame said.
"Wait let's think for a moment," I whispered, "What are we all good at
and not weak to?"
"Well, we're all not weak to: water, electricity. That's all." Ivy said.
"Well, me and GrayTail can use Ember though." Flame put in.
"You can GrayTail!" Shadow said, "Wow, cool!"
"I'll show you later, but we need a name. How about RavenFire?" I
suggested.
"Or, FireClaw." Shadow said, "Just think of it, you and Flame can use
Ember, and me and Ivy have fangs."
"Then how about FireFang?" Flame corrected, "And me and GrayTail have
fangs too you know."
"So have you decided?" Vapor asked.
"Yeah," Ivy said, "We are Team FireFang!"
Vapor looked at us for a comfirm. We all nodded.
"Well then, Icicle. Go get their exploration kit." Vapor commanded,
"Here you go." Vapor threw 4 water droplet shaped badges.
"This is your official Guild Membership Badges." Vapor said. Everyone
caught one badge for themselves. I felt the badge and it felt extremly
soft with a perfect velvet surface. "This can let you escape a dungeon
or save people who are lost in dungeons." Vapor explained, "Your room
is outside on the 2nd floor, the very right hallway, at the end of the
hallway. Icicle will show you the way."
"Yup," A voice said. Icicle came down from the celing holding a blue
box with a water droplet lock, "This is your exploration kit, it has
all the basic things you need for your first exploration: 1
Exploration Map 5 Oran Berries, 2 Apples, 1 Orange, 4 Starwberries,
and 4 Scarves. One scarf increases physical power, two scarves doubles
your expirence, the last one is a Rainbow Scarf; it fits any aura so
it increases all status points by 3."
"Yayy!" I said, "Oranges and Starwberries! I love those!"
"Oranges? Starwberries?" Ivy asked, "I've been traveling for 1.4 years
and I never came across any of those."
"I'll explain in our room." I said cheerfully.

"Well, our new Eevee seems to be informed about items." Vapor said,
"I'll let her and Shadow explain everything else. Dinner is at Chef
Melody's Call, which is in about 15 normal minutes."
"Okay," Flame thanked, "Come on everybody! To our room. Team
FireFang's adventures starts tonight."
"Yeah!" We all exclaimed proping each other.

We all walked out of the office to see a group of 3 pokemon. A
Poochyena, Zorua, and a black (body) and red (marks on his eyes)
Latarviar.
"Excuse me," The Zorua said passing by me.
I looked at the crew, for some reason I could tell they were boys
without them talking. I caught sight at the Latarviar talking to Ivy.

Ivy's POV

"Can I have a picture of you?" The Latarviar asked me.
"Why?" I asked slightly flattered.
"I wanna show Delibird what I want fpr Christmas this year." He said
winking at me.
"What!" I exclaimed, "Are you flirting with me?"
"Oh I don't know. You're the only cutie here." He said smiling. "Do
you like me?" I quietly asked.
"If I didn't, then why would I be talking to you like this." He said
smiling, "My name is Midnight. What's yours?"
I decided to speak up, "Ummm, my name is..."
"Midnight! Get over here, we need to form our team!" A voice called
from inside the office.
"Uhh. I'm coming!" Midnight said rushing, "Please tell me the next
time we meet."
"Uhhh..Okay." I said sweatdropping, "GoodBye Midnight!"

GrayTail's POV

That was a weird scene to see. I thought to myself.
"Hey everyone! let's go to our room now!" I yelled to everybody,
"Flame! Shadow! What are you doing!"
"Coming!" Shadow replied running back with Flame.
"Flame, what exactly were you doing?" I asked.
"Shadow was just showing me around. But if you wanted to know exactly
what I was doing, I was just trying to hold my man as tight as
possible." Flame said taunting.
I growled, "I'm so gonna get you!"
"Okay everyone let get going!" Ivy yelled.
"Right!" Flame and I said.

We walked to our room. The hallway had 10 rooms, 5 on each side, and
one room at the end of the hallway just like Vapor said. We all ran to
the door and opened it. I walked into the room, after Shadow, and
sniffed the air. It smelled fresh, just like it was just made.
"Ummm..GrayTail..." Shadow said, "There's only two beds."
"Don't worry," I said, "Flame can handle that."
"Uhh...Right!" Flame said saluting.
I laughed, "Flame. You're always so animated!"
"Yeah..." Flame said akwardly.
"Whay do you mean?" Shadow asked.
"You'll see." Flame said.
"Okay you take care of that," I said, "I'll explain to Ivy these
fruits."
I pointed to my waist. I looked at the Exploration Kit.
"What!" I yelled, "I forgot it!"
"What!" Everyone yelled.
"I'll go get it." I said.
"I'll come too, seeing I have nothing to do." Ivy said.
"Okay, Flame work on the beds! Me and Ivy will be back soon." I
commanded running out of the room.

We ran to Vapor's office and knocked on the door.
"You may come in Eevee!" A voice yelled.
Ivy and I walked into the room. We saw the trio that walked in. The
Latarviar waved at Ivy, she waved back.
"How did you know it was me?" I asked Vapor.
"There was a Kit left here, I guessed you came back it." She replied.
"Okay thnak you. Sorry for interuppting you guys." I said.
"No problem," She said smiling, Oh yeah. GrayTail,"
"Yes Vapor?" I asked Vappr.
"Is it okay if Team DarkClaw stay's in your room." She asked me
politely.
"What!" I shreiked looking around, the Zorua and Poohyena were
staring me down. Ivy walked up to Vapor with a smile and said, "It's
okay."
"Yayy!" The red and black creature said, "Hi. My name's Midnight."
The Poochyena walked up to me and said, "I'm Raven"
The Zorua was still standing in front of Vapor, he turned around and
said, "And I'm Thunder. Here's your Exploration Kit."
"Oh thank you," I said taking my team's Exploration Kit, "Follow me.
I'll show you our room."
They all nodded at each other and followed me. Ivy walked with
Midnight on the way back. I'm gonna need to find out if they're dating
or not. I saw Thunder walking towards me, I got scared a little
because I'm still scared of lightning amd tr word 'thunder' reminds me
of lightning.
The Zorua opened his muzzle to start talking, "So. This room of yours,
is it big?"
"Oh yeah. It's pretty big." I replied.
"Oh great! How many is in your group?" Thunder asked.
"Ummmm...Four including me." I said nervously.
"Oka...whoa!" Thunder tripped, "Owww..."
"Oh My Gosh! Are you okay!" I asked trying to help him up.
"Yeah." Thunder said getting up, "I'm just a klutz. You should get use
to it."
"Here it is!" I pointed out to everyone.
I knocked on our door.
"Come in!" A voice yelled from inside.
I opened the door. Ivy and Midnight walked in first together, then
Raven. I motioned for Thunder shook his head and said, "No, you go
first GrayTail; it's your room."
I paused for a short while.
What...Just...Happened? I asked myself, Did he just say that? He
such a kind pokemon. Well for a dark-type anyways.
I walked in.
"Hi there guys...GrayTail who's this?" Shadow asked.
I was still caught up in a daze at Thunder so I said, "The nicest
pokemon in the world."
Everyone, including Ivy and Midnight, was staring at me. Ivy, who was
still hugging Midnight, walked over to me and whispered, "He ment the
three! Not just Thunder. I think someone's in love."
"Umm...Ahh...I mean...this is Team DarkClaw. The Poochyena is named
Raven, the black and red Latarviar, Midnight, and this
wonderf...Zorua, Thunder." I took a breath and said to Team
DarkClaw, "Thunder, Midnight, Raven; meet team FireFang. I'm GrayTail,
the Snivy is named Ivy, the Riolu is Shadow, and the Vulpix, with the
periwinkle paw, is Flame." I looked at Flame now, "Flame, we're gonna
need 3 more beds."
"Okay, but first," she said, "Tell us if you like Thunder."
"No! He's just a friend of mine." I shouted.
Everyone looked at Flame and I with an akward look.
"Why? I told everyone I love Shadow, why is it so hard for you?" She
asked me.

After thinking of that sentence, I actually think I do like Thunder.
I'm not sure though, it's just a light sense. Or maybe I do like
Thunder, I'm probably denying it.
Do I? I thought to myself Do I really like Thunder? I mean, I only
known him for less than 10 minutes. But, what is this feeling? It's
just a feeling of happiness, just makes me want to hug Thunder. Plus
he's really nice. What should I say? I do like Thunder...I do like
Thunder...no wait...I LOVE Thunder...wait...did I just think that!
Why? Do I really? I think I do. Flame's right. I love Thunder and
there's no denying it.

I walked over to Thunder and kissed his cheek. He blushed and smiled
and returned a kiss back, but this time, he kissed me on my muzzle. I
felt so happy, I knew that was the right move to do.
"Yes I do Flame," I admitted, "I love Thunder."
"Oh okay. I was just wondering." Flame said.
"Guys." Shadow said, "Didn't 15 minutes pass yet?"
"Oh yeah!" Ivy said, "We're late for dinner! Hurry up everyone!"

We all ran to the other side of Vapor's office, and into the room that
had a sign saying: Guild Dinner In Session.
I read the sign out loud, "Guild Dinner...In Session...really? In
Session?"
Everyone laughed as we all walked in.

"Shadow! Your Late!" said Vapor, "And you too Team DarkClaw!"
"Sorry," Shadow replied, "We got caught up on a convorsation."
"Well, sit down we're about to eat." A Pikachu said.

We all sat down at an open chair. I specifically sat beside Thunder, I
pushed Flame and Shadow together and Ivy sat beside Midnight. I looked
over at Raven and couldn't help but feel sorry for him; so I invited
him to sit beside me.

"Okay," Icicle started, "Now everyone is here, let eat!"
Everyone started munching down on our berries, strawberries and
apples. The mixed taste of Cheri berries and starwberries made my
mouth want more. I separated the apples from the berries and the
strawberries. I ate the apples first to get rid of them. Then I ate
the starwberries with the Cheri Berries. The taste was so good words
can't describe it. Like a waterfall of sweetness, a starfall of
strawberries hit me. I sat with a smile after finishing my first bite.
I decided to dig into the berries.

Shadow's POV

I decided to finish early cause I have to ask Mom something. I walked
over to my mom and looked at her.
"Yes Shadow?" She asked me, "Is something troubling you? Or you need
to ask me something?"
"You know me," I said, "I need to ask you something. As a child not a
member."
"Okay Shadow. What is it?" Mom replied.
"Well," I started nervously rubbing the back of my head, "Is it okay
if I start dating?"
Mom paused for a second. Then she said, "Depends. Who?"
I pointed to Flame who was laughing with Thunder and GrayTail. Mom
looked over at her and said, "The Vulpix? But why?"
"Well she likes me," I started, "And I fell in love when I first saw
her. Please Mom. We love each other, and we want to stay together.
Please, she's the perfect one, and her tribe abandoned her, so I also
feel sorry for her. Ple-"
My Mom cutted me off, "Okay Shadow. You can date, but don't take this
dating process too far that you would run away. Remember, your still
my son no matter what."
I felt so happy. I hugged my Mom and said, "Thank You!"
I ran back to Flame, and hugged her and said, "Vapor said we could
date!"
Flame stay silent while I let go of our hug. She started crying. I was
scared that she might not want to date anymore so I asked her, "What's
wrong?"
"Nothing." Flame said through tears, "I love you too. I've just never
felt so loved before. Now I know that you belong with me. Fate has
brought together. You're the missing piece to my life."

She stopped crying and took my arm with her teeth and ran out of the
mess hall. She lead me to our room. I was wondering What does she
want? Why did we leave so early? Wait. Why is she walking to me?
"Well Shadow," Flame said with a flirty smile, "You said you love me
and I said I love you. So let's take this a step further. Just stay
still, you can try to sense my aura to see what I want now."
I tried to sense her aura, but she kissed me already. On the muzzle! I
decided to embrace the moment. Her muzzle was slightly wet from
berries, mine was to. But this kiss..It just has an unknown feeling. I
just felt that I've lived for this moment. Although I'm a guy, I felt
safe with her around. She let go. I was now thinking Why did she
stop! I wanted more? Wait...did I just say that?

I leaned over to Flame's muzzle and kissed her again. We both embraced
the moment.

GrayTail's POV

"Shadow! Flame! Where are you!" I yelled infront of Vapor's office.
They probably went back to our room. I should go see what happened.
I walked down the halls and barged into the room. My mind blanked out
for a minute.
Shadow and Flame were kissing! I mean really kissing! Muzzle to muzzle.
"Flame!" I yelled, "You had your first kiss and you didn't tell me?"
"Well," She started, stopping kissing. She was nervous, "I-It all just
happened at once. So I couldn't tell you. Plus, don't you know we love
each other? Go off with Thunder or something."
"Um...okay," I said quietly exiting the room.
Did I get her mad? Or is that just me? I can't let romance ruin our
friendship. She took me in when I was abandon, she was my first friend
and I can't risk it to die.

I walked back to the mess hall. Everyone was cleaning up, I was too
caught up on Flame. Questions kept on rolling through my head. Is she
mad at me? Does she like Shadow more than me? Wait. What if she hates
me now! I was hesitating alot, my heart race, I couldn't think
straight or right. I was sokn calmed down by a voice saying, "What's
wrong?"
I blinked a few time before looking up. It was Thunder. I calmed down.
I looked up with a tear in my eye. I broke out on Thunder's shoulder,
"Oh Thunder! If you know what I'm going through."
He nuzzled me, "It's okay GrayTail, I'm here for you."

We sat there, just together with our heads touching, well, my head was
still on his shoulder. We sat there for a while, we left when Vapor
told us to go to sleep. We both nodded and walked back to our room. I
was still nervous to see Flame again. I was to ashamed, but we both
knew where we had to go.
Thunder oped our door for me, again. I blushed as I walked in. I
looked at Flame, she looked at me.
"I'm sorry for getting you mad, if I did," I quickly apoligized.
"It's okay, I calmed down. Fire Types sometimes get mad for no
reason." She said.
I sighed in relief. At least she's not mad at me. Thunder walked to a
bed and was soon asleep. Flame and I stayed up until everyone if Team
FireFang and DarkClaw was asleep. I walked up to Flame looking at
everyone, "Look Flame. Look what we started. We use to be friends
living in a cottage, now we're in a team of friends and we have love
ones. And importantly we're still friends."
"Yeah, it's nice ti know we started our own adventure. Now let's go to
sleep."
"Okay," I said cheerfully. We both crept to a bed and fell asleep.

Narrator's POV

A ghost aoon came through the wall. She looked at Flame Nd GrayTail
and said, "Let's review...Two unusal pokemon...Cottage in the
woods...Teams up...Tgese are definetly the two pokemon. I have
to tell master."

The ghost flew up through the celing to where her master was.

Who was the ghost?
What is she talking about?
Is there gonna be more drama between Flame and GrayTail?
What is this 'Rip'?

Read the next chapter to find out!
and Happy Valentine's to all!