Secret chapter~
(In celebration of the holidays... A Christmas chapter!)
(Rick)
"Wake up!" Three voices yelled at me.
"It's Christmas!" The three voices yelled.
"Yes, we know!" Angela and I said together, half dazed and half asleep, the kits darted into the living room and waited for us.
I got up and stretched as angela kinda rolled over.
"Get up you big fox." I said as I shook her lightly.
"A couple more minutes ." I heard her say quietly.
"Get up." I told her, picking her up in my arms.
"Fine." She said as I put her down, she stretched out and hugged me tiredly.
"Let's get to the living room before they get antsy." I told her as grabbed her paw and lead her there.
"Can we open them?" The three zoruas asked happily as they eyed the three boxes left there for them.
"Yes, you can open them." I told them, watching curiously on how they would attempt to do so.
Zach bit at the box corners, lance tried fury swipes but only tore up the edge of the box, and Amelia used extrasensory to open the box up slowly.
"Smart girl." I thought to myself.
I watched as the two boys tried again and again to open up their boxes, eventually they came and asked me to do it for them, so I opened them up. Amelia got the scarf that I had won for her mom, Angela decided to give it to her as a present, it was kinda big on her but she loved it.
"It smells like mom." Amelia said quietly.
"Is that bad?" I asked her worriedly.
"No. I like it. It make me feel safe." She said as she wrapped herself in it and laid down.
Zach and lance anxiously pawed the box with their tiny paws, trying to get past the wrapping on the inside and to the present itself. Zach got a small ball to play with and lance got the Zorua plush that her mom used to own. Lance wrestled playfully with the little plush while Zach chased the ball around.
"It's snowing outside." Angela said, I looked outside and it was in fact snowing, the ground was covered in a thick blanket of it.
"Now would be the perfect time to snuggle up and watch a movie." She said happily.
So I went and grabbed some blankets, a pillow and a movie and laid down in the living room. Zach and lance were already laying down on Angela and Amelia jumped on my lap and laid down. We watched a Christmas movie as we all snuggled together, warm and comfortable, and happy.
"Hey Rick, remember that one day at the carnival?" Angela asked.
"Oh arceus don't remind me." I groaned.
Angela and I went to the carnival not too long ago, bringing along the kits with us, when we got into a bit of trouble with someone.
~flashback~
"Where are we going dad?" Amelia asked as she sat perched on my shoulder.
"We are going to the carnival." I told her as angela and I walked into the park that always held the carnival.
"What are we going to do?" Angela asked me as we walked around.
"Dad! Dad! Can we do that!?" Amelia said as she pointed her little paw towards a stage that had a sign over it that read "talent show."
"Can we?" Zach and lance asked as they popped out of their mom's mane.
"Sure." I told them as Angela and I walked towards the entry booth.
"Yes sir, would you and your zoroark like to participate?" The lady asked me nicely.
"No ma'am, the three zoruas and I." I told her.
"Ok, names?" She asked.
"Amelia, Zach, and lance. My name is Rick." I told her as the two twin brothers jumped onto my shoulders.
"Ok, just go behind stage and you can dress out and wait for your names to be called." She told us.
"I'll be watching." Angela said as she hugged me and walked away.
I walked behind stage and put the three zoruas down.
"Now, what should we do?" I asked them.
"Let's disguise ourselves as you and make the crowd find out which is the real you or we could disguise ourselves as legendaries." Amelia said happily.
"That's a great idea." I told her as I patted her on her head, her two brothers agreed happily.
Eventually our names were called and we walked onto the stage, the two brothers were nervous but Amelia was ready, she was confident.
"That's my girl." I thought to myself with a smile.
"We are the zorua trio!" Amelia said proudly as her brothers stood beside her.
"Watch and be amazed!" She said as the three used their illusionary powers to turn into palkia, dialga, and giratina.
The crowd was amazed, there were several gasps and claps as the trio changed into different legendary trios. They went from the legendary bird trio, to the legendary dog trio, to the regi trio, to the lake trio, and finally to the legendary dragon trio (reshiram, zelkrom, and kyurem). People stood up and clapped, some whistled loudly, some yelled.
"Now for our finale, we will disguise ourselves as our dad and you must pick which one is really him." Amelia said loudly, everyone got silent and watched attentively.
Amelia disguised herself as me and so did her brothers, we all walked off stage for a second and scrambled our order to confuse the people when we walked back out. We stood in a line and the people called a vote on who was really me. They picked the me on the far right, who was really Zach, he giggled and dispelled his illusion.
"Can we have a hint?" One man asked, the entire crowd cheered.
"Dad's eyes are blue." Zach told them, lance had changed his eye color to look human like while Amelia kept hers the same.
Finally they found me and lance and Amelia dispelled their illusions, we all bowed as people clapped as we walked off the stage.
"You did so good, I'm so proud of you!" I told the three as I held them in my arms.
A man walked up to me and cleared his throat to get my attention.
"That was a remarkable performance, truly amazing for such young ones to do things of that caliber, can I make a proposition with you?" The man asked, I listened curiously for what he had to say.
"Are you willing to trade me the zoruas?" The man asked.
"I'm sorry sir but I can't do that." I told him, utterly surprised.
"Why?" He asked.
"You see... How do I put this... They are my kids, I can't do that to them." I told her nervously.
"Oh my, I'm sorry for making things so awkward, you have very truly amazing kits." He told me as he shook my hand and walked away.
"What a strange guy." I thought to myself.
"What do you mean? "Their my kids?"" Someone said, I turned around to see a middle age women standing before me.
"They are my kids, these are from my blood." I told the woman.
"So you're one of those people, freak." The woman said suddenly.
"Excuse me? What did you just call me?" I asked her angrily.
"A freak, people like you need to be put in jail, doing things like that with your pokemon. Where is your demon fox mate, she needs to pick up her litter of rats." She told me, a disgusted look on her face.
"You can say what you want about me, I don't care, but as soon as you bring my family into this, that's when you cross the line." I told her, placing the three zoruas behind me, they were all mutually scared.
"What do you have against people like me anyway!?" I asked her angrily.
"When I was in high school, a guy forgot about me at homecoming because he was in love with his luxray, another one of my old friends abandoned me because he was in love with his ninetails." The lady told me, clenching her fist, me noticing Angela towering over her from behind.
"So? Just because they love someone else besides you doesn't mean that you hate them for it." Angela told her, making the lady jump in surprise and turn to her.
"And what was that about me being a "demon fox who needs to pick up her litter of rats?" Angela asked her angrily.
"What are you going to do about it!?" The lady taunted her, which wasn't the best thing to do, especially when she was angry enough already.
"Can you please stop?" I heard Amelia say.
"Why does it matter? If you love someone, than you love someone, it's no different than a man loving a women or a man loving another man." Amelia told her, I was amazed by her sudden outburst.
The lady was taken back, she was unable to say anything else, she just glared at me and Angela angrily and stormed out.
"Amelia! You're so smart!" I told the Zorua as I picked her up and held her in my arms.
"No one makes fun of my family." She told me as she nudged herself into my face.
"Let's go home for today okay?" I asked them, everyone agreed.
We walked home and we all were a bit shook up from recent events. Angela had called me to another room while the kits played. She immediately collapsed into my arms and begun to cry.
"It's alright Angela, everything will be okay, I promise." I told her as I caressed her.
"There will be times where we might meet people who are like that, don't mind them, they like being negative because their life is negative." I told her.
We spent the rest of the day trying to forget what happened, we eventually got over it.
~end of flashback~
Eventually, the kits had their reputation in town as the Zorua trio.
"Screw that woman." I said to myself.
"She didn't need to be so mean about it, she could of just ignored us." I added.
"Whatever, let's forget about her, she kills my brain cells just thinking about her." I told Angela.
She cuddled up on me and the kits did too, even if I was considered a freak for this, I was a happy one, and that's all that mattered.