Disclaimer: Pokémon is by Satoshi Tajiri

Pokémon BW: Yin-Yang Quest

Arriving in the outskirts of a forest, the egg Mia was keeping safe began to glow and flash white. Momo let her know of this and they went over to it. "You're finally going to hatch, little guy! Or girl," she exclaimed.

"Mo-ga!" Emolga cheered.

She set the egg case down and opened it. The egg cracked and burst apart in blue light. When the light faded, an Axew was born!

"Who's that Pokémon?" Taylor asked as the newborn looked around.

"It's an Axew!" she answered happily.

"Axew!" Axew cried out. Taylor looked it up on his Pokédex.

"Axew, the Tusk Pokémon," the Dex explained. "They use their tusks to crush the berries they eat. Repeated regrowth makes their tusks strong and sharp."

It began to cry all of a sudden. "Ah, Axew! What's wrong?" she asked in fear.

"Mia, don't panic!" Taylor instructed. "He's only a baby. And whatever you do, don't cry, too."

"Let's see…um…" Mia pondered. "Yeah, that's it!"

She picked up Axew and began rocking it back and forth. The motions began to calm Axew down. "It's okay, don't cry…" she whispered.

"E-mo-ga," Emolga whispered. Momo jumped over to Mia's other shoulder to give her affection to the newborn.

"Come on out, everybody!" Mia said as she and Taylor let out most of their Pokémon. "I want you all to meet our new friend, Axew!"

Axew hid behind Mia's leg in fear. "Don't be shy," Taylor assured him. "We're all friends here."

Pidove walked up to Axew and raised her wing to greet it. Woobat suddenly rammed it out of the way. Axew got scared as the two Flying-types started to fight, only to be broken up by Oshawott.

"Return!" Taylor said as he recalled Woobat. Oshawott apologized to Axew about the brawl, causing Axew to open up to her. "Thanks for the save, Oshawott."

"Oshawott," Oshawott replied in return.

"Snivy, snivy," Snivy said as he approached Axew. Axew backed away a little, but when Snivy revealed his vines, this made Axew want to play with them. The other Pokémon joined in.

Only Tepig remained behind, fuming at the thought of attention not on her.

Bottle feeding Axew, Mia looked over at Tepig. "Hey, Taylor," Mia said.

"Hmm?" he asked as he and the other Pokémon set up camp.

"I'm getting a little worried about Tepig," Mia noted as she looked over to the Fire Pig Pokémon. "She hasn't eaten, and I don't think she wants to play with any of the other Pokémon."

"I think Tepig is just having a bad day," Taylor guessed. "Let's leave her alone for a while."

"You're probably right," Mia said as Axew fell asleep in her arms.

Later that night, while everyone else was sleeping, Tepig made her way out of the camp. Axew had woken up to see Tepig leave and followed her. When she turned to find Axew, Tepig blew flames from her nostrils out of anger. Axew got scared and backed away.

Tepig kept this up for a while, happy at Axew's fear. They were unaware, however, that a swarm of Venipede was sneaking up behind them.

"Te-PIG!"

"AXEW!"

The two yells were enough to wake the others at the campsite. "What was that?" Mia asked in shock.

"Sounded like Tepig," Taylor noted.

"Mo mo-ga!" Momo alerted, pointing to the blanket that the Pokémon were previously sleeping on.

"Speaking of Tepig, where is she?" Mia asked.

"Axew's gone, too!" Taylor realized as he looked at her hands.

"Just my luck!" Mia said as she got out of her sleeping bag. "Te-pig! Axew!" she yelled as she ran into the forest. Everyone else followed her.

The Venipede inched closer to the two Pokémon, bearing their fangs at them. Axew began to shake in fear. Fangs glowing white, they lunged for the two. While Tepig ran out of the way in time, Axew was promptly bitten all over him.

"Axew…axew, axew!" Axew whined as more Venipede surrounded him. More Venipede came and cornered Tepig. A blue ball of energy formed in Axew's body as Axew charged up energy in his mouth.

"Te-pig?" Tepig asked as Axew continued to charge the ball up.

"AXEW!" Axew yelled as he fired the ball at the Venipede.

An explosion occurred somewhere in the forest, getting Pidove and Woobat's attention. "Woobat!" Woobat signaled.

"You found them?" Taylor asked, shivering a bit due to being in his pajamas on a cool night.

The two Flying-types flew to where the explosion came from. "Let's go!" Mia said as they ran after them.

When the smoke cleared, the Venipede swarm was knocked out. Tepig looked at the fallen pack, then at Axew, who was still shaken up from what happened. Tears formed in Tepig's eyes.

"Axew?" Axew asked as Tepig began to shake.

"TE-PIG! Tepig, tepig!" Tepig cried as she ran to Axew.

"Axew! Tepig!" Mia exclaimed as the group went over to them. Both Pokémon cried as they ran into her arms, happy to see their Trainer again.

"You two had me worried sick!" Mia lectured. "Don't run off on me like that again!"

They nodded as they continued to cry.

By the next morning, Tepig and Axew were getting along just fine. Tepig had told Mia what she felt after some encouragement from Taylor: she was jealous of her attention being turned to Axew, but saw him in a new light after he saved her with a Dragon Rage attack.

"Kids will be kids," Mia reminded herself as they played.

"True," Taylor agreed. "But that doesn't mean we don't love 'em."