"I knew it! I freaking knew it!" This is Serena's reaction when I tell her what happened. Come to think of it, I shouldn't have told her in the first place. Oh well, too late now. She probably already knew, anyway. Serena, like Valerie, has ways of figuring literally everything that ever happens ever out.

"So, how did this happen? Leafeon did something, right?"

"Yeah. Too much," I groan.

"Heh, sorry about that," Serena says. If this was an anime, she would be sweatdropping. She sends out her entire team, and tells all six of them everything, while Sylveon, Leafeon, Ninetales, Delcatty, Goodra, Greninja and I stand there awkwardly.

"Oh yeah, guys! Shauna, you can leave now. And stop leaving your Pokémon out of their Poké Balls, it's weird." With that, I know the conversation is over, and I go to see Valerie at the Laverre Gym. I don't even have Fletchinder or Togekiss with me, so I would have to walk all the way from Vaniville to Lumiose, then through the grossest route there is in the whole region. Well, I could also just go to Santalune and get one of them out of the PC, but I won't, because logic.

That is how logic works, right?

Probably not.

I walk through Route 1, Vaniville Path, and then through Aquacorde Town. I take a moment to read the sign that said the name of the city.

'Aquacorde Town: Water and civilization in harmony.'

That's a poetic description. A bit too poetic.

I will myself not to be distracted as I walk through the town, and on to Route 2. I come up to the first patch of tall grass. I don't feel like battling. So, I do what any reasonable human being would do.

I run through as fast as I can whilst screaming at the top of my lungs.

That's what normal people do, right?

Probably not.

I continue to do that through each patch of tall grass I go through. A few Trainers there will never be able to hear again, I think, rather amused. When I finally reach Santalune, I have to yell at myself to not go inside the hat store.

I've been there before, but only on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays!

Wait, that's all the days.

Whatever! They may have gotten more stuff there!

They probably haven't.

By the time I'm done with my not-quite-argument, I'm already in Lumiose. I decide to pass through Camphrier Town, and take the long way to Laverre.

Valerie will probably get angry. Normally it's rare, but she acts really different when I'm around.

Hah! No matter how famous Serena gets, I'll be more special than her to Valerie! Well, probably, at least.

After passing through Camphrier, and ignoring Palais Lane with a simple, 'nah', I pass the day care.

A thought goes through my head.

I walk in, and go up to the lady of the Day Care couple.

I imagine how funny it would be when someone says, 'and there's the lady and the other lady in the whatever-the-frick couple!'.

"Hello, can you take care of my Sylveon and Leafeon together?" I ask her. I send out both Pokémon, and leave them on the desk.

"Of course! And your name, please?"

"Shauna Abel." She cocks her head, after examining both Pokémon carefully.

"You are the original Trainer to both, correct?"

"No. My friend Serena Dubois was Leafeon's Trainer." She gasps. I forgot! This is what it's like to know a famous person.

"You mean the Serena Dubois? The Kalos Champion?"

"Right!" I say, before walking out. That's actually Serena's favorite method of ending a conversation. I go up to the man in the Day Care couple.

"Glad you came! Your Leafeon and Sylveon are doing just fine. The two seem to get along," he says.

"Good to hear," I say pleasantly, before sitting on a bench.

Arceus, benches are awesome. Kalos is the only region with benches that is known to exist!

Bored, and wanting to tell Valerie that I'll be running late, I take out my Holo Caster and call her. She answers in around 20 seconds.

"Oh, hello, Shauna. Where are you?"

"Riviére Walk," I reply mischeviously.

"What are you doing? You seem fairly unmoving," she comments.

"Something," I say, not feeling like giving her any more information.

"I could easily send Togetic over, and let him fly us back to the Gym," she offers.

"Sure! That sounds great!"

"Of course. Everything sounds great to you, Shauna!"

"I refuse to agree or disagree with that statement." She laughs at my comment. I laugh as well. I can't help her being so, well...

Perfect.

Compared to Calem, who has the violent Serena Dubois to deal with, and to Serena herself, who has the super-loser Calem Rey, Valerie is next to perfect.

"All right then, Shauna. I will bring Togekiss over. He is beautiful, don't you agree?"

"Completely." I end the Holo Caster call, and go back in to the building.

"Ah! There you are! My husband was just looking for you!" the lady says. "And please, tell Miss Dubois about how amazing she is for defeating Diantha!"

Ignoring her completely, I step outside and talk to the Day Care man.

"Ah!" Why do these people say 'Ah!' so much? "It's you! I've been looking for you!"

Yeah.

I've heard.

"We went to check on your Pokémon, and we found an egg!"

"That's great news!" I say. He offers me the egg, which I take. Then, I go back inside the Day Care, to talk to the lady.

"Would you like me to give one of your Pokémon back? I can put the other in the PC if you want," she offers. I nod, and get Leafeon handed to me. The egg is still in my arms. If Leafeon was male, I couldn't have given Valerie the closest we'll ever have to a child. Just then, I see a dark-haired figure in pink through the window. I walk outside and greet her.

"Hey, Valerie! Guess what?" I say, hiding the egg behind my back.

"What?" she asks. She's way more curious than anyone else I know.

"I brought something really special!" I reply happily, revealing the off-white egg with the green spots on it. She looks at it, and her response is to gape at it. "We'll raise the egg and make it the strongest Pokémon ever! We'll make it a really tough Sylveon, all with our care! It'll be the best memory ever!" Valerie smiles, but shakes her head.

"No? You won't raise the strongest Eevee ever in to the most perfect Sylveon in all of Kalos?" I ask. She shakes her head again. "Why not?"

"Because," she says matter-of-factly. "Remember when you told me that your favorite was Jolteon?" I smile and hug her, and she hugs me as well. Valerie is the greatest. She's strong like a Mawile, beautiful like a Gardevoir, and brilliant like an Alakazam.

And, like all of them, she had a new way to unlock herself, to become even better.

I felt super special when I found out I was her Mega Stone, the Valerinite.

That's not even a real thing.

Well, close enough, at least.

Why am I even thinking about this?