Hey everyone! It has been some time since my last update, seven months maybe? I'm sorry for taking so long to update but I'm back again! Anyway, I have a surprise for this chapter… I changed POVs! However, I do intend to write the whole story from start to finish in Grovyle's POV but for some chapters I will change POVs to his partner's POV. This means that for this chapter I have picked it up directly after chapter two in Grovyle's partner's POV but for my next chapter I will also pick it up directly after chapter two but in Grovyle's POV. Okay so I'm probably just rambling on now so I hope you enjoy this chapter, and reviews are greatly appreciated!

I am somehow falling from somewhere and I plunge into something wet and cold, a lake maybe? More water begins to crash over me and sends me plummeting deeper into the water and I learned that lakes are generally calm… but from where did I learn that? I begin to paddle to the surface of the water to see what's going on but it's so dark I can hardly see and something is blowing against me, is that rain? No, rain is water that falls from the sky meaning… but how did I know that? Who am I? Questions begin to race into my mind about myself; my life and my passions, but why don't I know anything about myself? I can't even recall my own name! But most of all, why am I in a… sea! That's what I must be in, a sea… but why am I in the middle of the sea? Where did I fall from? I am trying to stay afloat but I keep coughing on water that splashes into my mouth and something's not right with me, I feel so small and I'm struggling to control my body and… why am I so sad? My body is still shaking from the adrenaline that shot up my body from falling, but that doesn't explain to me why I feel so depressed… This is all just a bad dream I conclude, I begin to close my eyes and let the waves carry me with them because I know I will wake up in the morning and everything will be okay and I will know who I am…

I awake from something tapping on my back and I find to see it is a Mudkip. The instant that I open my eyes I'm immediately blinded by something bright so I look down, and then back at the Mudkip without paying any attention to my surroundings. I am lying on my stomach in warm, mushy sand and my arms and legs are buried in it. The Mudkip mutters something to himself, and by the deep voice I can tell that this Mudkip is a guy. He wears a necklace around his neck that has a stone with a mystic pattern on it. He looks concerned with his eyes wide open and starts speaking to me, but I can't understand a word he is saying. I look up to him with a confused facial expression and he stops speaking. He starts speaking again, this time really slowly, and in an instant I can understand exactly what he is saying, but why couldn't I before? He is saying that he found me unconscious here and that I was barley moving. Still lying down I say,

"Hey thanks for making sure I'm okay, sorry but for some reason I couldn't understand you at first"

Now it's his turn to give me the confused look,

"Why are you speaking human? I only understood about half of what you said"

What does he mean by that? 'Why are you speaking human?' What else am I supposed to speak? Speak rock?

"Well I am a human so I guess I speak human, but why couldn't I understand you before but now I can?"

He just stares at me for a few seconds, studying me very curiously, then finally says,

"Are you trying to pull off some sort of trick or something?"

"Am I trying to pull off a trick? What did I say that would make you think that?"

I realize that as soon as I say that, it didn't sound the way I normally speak, my words kind of slurred together and it sounded as if though I was only saying two letters; e and v.

"You said you were a human, and you're clearly not a human"

I begin to open my mouth in denial, but before I say anything I start to think that he's making a point, this would explain why I felt so small in the sea and I had trouble controlling myself… but if I'm not human…

"What the hell am I?" I scream as I lift what I thought would be my hands from the sand and look down and see brown furry paws instead. If it took at least five minutes to figure out that I'm not a human anymore, then something must be wrong with me! Suddenly, I have a flash back of my nightmare at the sea, the fierce blowing wind, heavy waves, and worst of all my complete confusion of who I am. I stare harder at my brown paws, furry body and tear drop shaped brown tail with a tint of tan on the top. I realize that my nightmare was reality; I don't have a single clue who I am except that I know I was a human and I somehow turned into a…

"A pokémon" He interrupts my thoughts. He stares at me again with those black and white eyes which are actually kind of cute…

"No!" I scold myself out loud. Why am I thinking about his eyes at a time like this? It's just something about the look in his eyes that remind me of someone, the look that he cares about how I'm feeling. He takes a step back at my command, and I regret doing so immediately, but why? Why do I care about his feelings when I don't even know who I am!

"So you are honestly telling me that you were a human, and somehow you turned into a pokemon without knowing it?"

I know, it must be so hard for him to buy what I claim to be true, but he has to believe me. I begin to curl into myself and whine like a baby

"Please, help me! I was a human, a teenage girl, and somehow I became a pokemon! I don't even know who I am and where the hell am I anyway…"

The minute I check my surrounds my mouth drops in awe, my heart beat begins to calm down and I take a deep breath in and out. I think my eyes have adjusted to whatever that bright thing was and the view is amazing! I look to my left and I see the ocean, and the best part is that it connects to the sand at a line and the waves wash up the sand, and flow back down again. The sky, it's breathtaking! I look up and see… I don't know what the proper name is for them but they are white and thin and they decorate the sky beautifully! I look towards the ocean and see that bright thing again before I turn my face around immediately as my eyes begin to burn. The sky is the color orange, and I just know I've never seen anything like this. I begin to stand up, on four legs, and frolic around in the sand. I roll around in it, and it just feels amazing! I am laughing so hard that my stomach begins to hurt. Somehow I get the eerie feeling that I've never seen so many colors befotr… I glance over to see the Mudkip laughing, and this just makes me laugh even more.

"I'm guessing that since you love the beach, maybe someday you'll evolve into a Vaporeon!"

Beach, that's what this is called! But there's something different about this beach that I know I've never experienced before.

"Life, this place is alive"

He frowns and I know that what I just said doesn't make any sense to him, but I know that I've never been anywhere so full of life. Then I think about the last part of the comment he just made, "I could evolve into a Vaporeon… that means I'm an…"

"Eevee" He finishes my sentence.

I stare into the sky and take the time to think about all this. Am I really a pokemon?

"Well, I think that Sylveon are really cute, but I think if I could choose I would evolve into a Leafeon"

I scold myself after what I said. This is impossible! I am not an Eevee and I'm not evolving into any eeveelution. The Mudkip seems to be picking up on my internal conflict just by the longing stare he gives me. I drop my head and sink into the sand. He nudges me,

"First of all, I have no idea what a Sylveon is, but we can figure this out. By the way, I'm Luke, and what's yours?"

"Sylveon are really cute, I'm surprised you've never heard or seen of one! But anyway I'm…"

Its then that I remember I don't know what my name is. He realizes this and looks for something to say, but quickly looks up and points behind me.

"The Krabby are blowing bubbles! Isn't it great! Today's my favorite day of the year just because of this sight!"

I look behind me, to find out that he's right. Krabby soon begin to spread out all around us, in the sand and even on high rocks, and begin to make bubbles from their claws. The second they are released they float in the air and come towards Luke and I. I look at one of the bubbles that come near me to find my reflection in one of them. At first I glance away, but then I realize that I am an Eevee now, and I just have to embrace it. I look into the bubble and stare at myself, with my long rabbit like ears and brown furry face. I frown, but I smile when Luke looks into my bubble and sticks out his tongue. I know, it's a bit childish, but it makes me laugh. Seeing our reflection together, a light of hope grows inside of me. Maybe I can live the rest of my life here with Luke, and make friends here; maybe it won't be so bad.

"So what's today anyway?" I ask

"Summer solstice, June 21"

First day of summer… what did I do during the spring? While pondering this, Luke nudges his head against mine.

"Take a few breaths, enjoy the view of the Krabby, and just think about what your name is. Something that you go by, that brings you joy when you hear it"

I take seriously what he says and begin to try to remember my identity. Something that brings joy to me when I hear it…

"Scout"

Luke smiles when I say this. I don't even know if this is my real name or not, but it's soothing to hear.

"See, you do remember something, so is that your name or nickname?"

"I really just don't know, I don't even know where the name Scout came from, but I just really like it"

"Well Scout it is then" He grins, which also makes me grin. I start to draw circles in the sand as I try to think about where I came from.

"Listen Luke, I don't know why but these things here, like that big ball of light and those white streaks in the air and the waves of the ocean, I just know that I've never seen any of these sights ever"

"Scout, it's understandable if you've never seen a beach before, but the sun and the clouds? That's nearly impossible to say"

This starts to worry me. From where the hell did I come from?

"Sun and clouds… These words are so familiar yet so distant to me"

Without realizing it, Luke comes next to me looks at me again with those caring eyes.

"Well to find out from where you came from; let's gather up what we know so far. You said that you couldn't understand me when I first started to talk to you, and that's probably because you were a human, and humans can't understand Pokémon speech, so probably your Pokémon instincts haven't kicked in yet"

"Right, now about Sylveon, are you sure you've never heard of one?"

"Never" He frowns.

Questions race into my mind, I know that Sylveon were one of the later eeveelutions to be discovered, so maybe this is the past? Or in other words I am from the future.

"Luke, I think I'm from the future"

I thought he would enjoy that I discovered from where I might have come from, but his face grows a little pale instead.

"A future with no sun? Like I said, that's nearly impossible to say"

"What's with the sun away?" I demand

He looks towards the sun,

"The sun brings life to us, without it we're dead"

It's as though pieces of a puzzle suddenly come together, If there is no sun then there is no life, two things I know I haven't experienced until now.

"Moving on to my memory dilemma, it's not like I've completely forget everything. Let me explain, when I try to remember to remember something about my past, an image in my head starts to piece together, but the instant the image starts to focus in my mind it immediately starts to dissolve; it's as though some outside force is trying to prevent me from remembering anything about my past"`

He bites his mouth. "Try to remember something"

I close my eyes and try to think about my family and friends. A green image starts to come together in my mind, but just when it starts to become clear it dissolves. In frustration I whine,

"Luke, this is all too much for me to handle now, please, tell me about yourself"

He frowns, "Well honestly there isn't much to say…"

But before he finishes, a zubat and a koffing come to Luke at each of his sides, push him from side to side, and snatch his necklace while he's off guard.

"Loser" The koffing mutters in a low voice as he and the zubat float away from us. Luke slowly sinks into the sand.

"That…that was my treasure" He stutters.

"So are you just going to crouch there?" I say with an edge to my voice. He begins to mumble something but I shout,

"Let's go get it back!" Luke seems surprised by my positive attitude.

"You will really help me? Scout, I…"

"Enough chatting; let's catch up to them" I say while running in the same direction as the zubat and koffing. I feel as though my real personality is coming back to me, a sense of adventure has come back to me. I find myself running into a cave, and I can tell that this is where they went. Luke is walking behind, but I can tell he wasn't too amused with my plan. It's dark and chilly so it's hard for my focus, yet something tells me I've faced much worse conditions. I hear echoed laughter, and I know that the laughter came from the thief. I come to realize that walking on four legs isn't all that different from walking on two legs. I continue to run in the same direction of the laughter until I encounter the two jerks. Were they really not expecting us to come after them? Their hiding spot really wasn't really hidden… Both of them turn around as I come up to them,

"So you decided to show your sorry little faces up, eh? Luke, you little coward, I see you decided to get yourself a body guard, huh?" The zubat sasses, and it's a girl, no guy can be that sassy, at least I hope not.

"I am not his body guard and I want the necklace back you thief" I screech. The zubat just stares at me,

"Poison gas" She hisses and the koffing in response begins to release heavy smoke from his holes. I begin to cough on the smoke and my eyes become watery. I can't let this stop me, I have to do something… in an impulse and without seeing what I'm doing, I pounce, and I land on the koffing.

"So the little eevee knows tackle… that's so strong" The zubat once again sasses. I pounce on her, but right as I land on her she bites my head, which hurts as crap and roll onto the floor. As I'm on the floor, I see water shooting onto her face. I turn around to see Luke, trying to stand brave and tall, using water gun on the zubat and koffing. He then rushed up to me, nudges me up, and gives me a look in which I interpret as the look of a fight. I stand up, brush off the pain, and stand next to Luke. As the zubat begins to recover, I tackle onto her in her stomach and Luke sends another water gun, then she's unconscious. Luke gives me a surprised look and so does the koffing.

"Scout, what level are you? Once you learned how to use tackle that was pretty powerful" Luke questions. Before I say anything, the Koffing launches another poison gas, but before it gets to me I launch another tackle, and he's down. Luke snatches his necklace from around the zubat's wing and we both run out of the cave.

"You know, a thank you would be appreciated" I tease. Luke, still heavily panting from our quest, finally looks up to me as we finally both arrive back on the beach.

"Scout… you helped my find courage in me to fight those thiefs… I never would have even seen my necklace again if it weren't for you, thank you so much."

This brings a smile to my face, I really wasn't expecting this much praise.

"What does that mystic pattern on the rock of your necklace mean?"

He stares at his necklace for a while,

"Honestly, I don't have a clue from where I found it! It just sort of found me. I've always had a passion for mystic treasure, going on adventures and helping other Pokémon. My setback though is that I'm not brave enough. But Scout, you bring out of me a side that I never knew I had; bravery. That's why I'm asking you Scout if you will join a mystery dungeon exploration team with me"

A mystery dungeon exploration team? What the hell is that anyway? Does he not understand that I just turned into an eevee and I want to return to my normal life as a human? Then again, he was really kind to me and he really does want to help me. Anyway, is that what I really want to do? Do I want to stay here and be with Luke or go out on my own and find out who I am? I don't think that I was just randomly transported here, I must have come for a reason, and I must determine on my own what that reason is. Would I find that reason myself or with Luke? I finally decide to let my gut feeling make my decision. I close my eyes, take a few breaths, and whisper,

"Yes Luke, I will"