Authoress: Thanks for all the reviews, I really appreciate them. ^_^ I'm gonna start doing those personal responses to reviewers…I guess that's the least yall deserve for reading and reviewing!

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Alex Warlorn: Whose been changed? Only Jennifer has been changed into an Eevee, because she's the one the pokemon are focusing on right now. Thanks for your review and input though, it really helps. Keep giving me pointers on things I've done wrong, I'll be really grateful. ^_^

ACME-Rian: Got it, your Dragonite's nickname is going to be Ri. That's a cool nickname lol, I like it. ^_^ Thanks for reviewing, and your pokemon will be in the story in upcoming chapters. This chapter introduces Skull the Marowak. Ri is after Skull. Hope you enjoy this chapter! ^_^

Paladin Dragoon: You know, I'm not exactly sure why everyone despises pokemon in Cyprus. This plot actually popped into my head one night when I was just lying there awake, and I just had to post it! I'll leave it up to yall to decide why I guess…Yea, I'm the author and I'm beginning to feel sorry for what I've done to her! But don't worry, that last chapter was really the only angsty one, and welcum for putting you in! Enjoy!

XxBakura'sGirlxX: Lol! You didn't have ta review, but I'm glad you did! Of course my lil sis will like my fic…Lol. And yes last was a bit not my style but I gets better! I swear!

Magma Admant DJ: Thanks for the compliment on the game! ^_^ I like it too lol. Skull's in this chapter! Yay! And to answer you're question, for now the pokemon I'm including are guest-stars, and are staying for 1-2 chapters. Throughout the story the pokemon that have guest-starred might make a second appearance, or I might make them permanent. We'll see…Thanks for reading, enjoy!

Mark: I'm soooo happy that you want ta put a pokemon in my fic…but I have ta follow my own rules. Can you wait til I post the game I mentioned 2nd chapter? When I get that up and running if you answer correctly you'll be able to submit your pokemon…but for now I'm not accepting anymore. Thanks tho!

Silvermoon: I honestly love the description of the Umbreon…but as I said to mark, I can't accept anymore pokemon yet. Key word yet. ^_^ But please submit it when I post the game, its really cool! And yea, you're right about Jenn and the rest of the pokemon. I guess we'll just have ta read and see, huh? Lol. ^_~

Authoress: That's it for reviews! Here goes…

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*~General POV~*

Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon arrived at the Burnt Tower around the same time the other three "arrived" in the middle of the intersection. "Here we are," Jolteon announced. The pokemon stood in front of the building.

"What if she's not in there?" worried Flareon – she always had a thing for what-ifs.

"She will be," Vaporeon answered flatly. "Follow me, you two. I know my way around this place better than anyone." And it was true, she did. The peaceful water pokemon had actually helped out firefighters put out the flames when the tower was first set on fire. Nothing was got in return, except a few new members of PAP. And Vaporeon was deeply respected for that.

Jolteon and Flareon fell in line behind her, and in no time at all they were searching the charred hallways for signs of Stephanie.

Clank! The sound of something hitting the ground echoed across the dark halls loudly. The sound came from behind, and the three pokemon spun around quickly, menacing looks on their faces to scare away any following humans.

"Whose there?" Jolteon shouted into the darkness in front of them, seeing as there was no sign of a human. Silence met his request. "Show yourself, or you'll get the pleasure of experiencing first-hand a Tri Attack!" Jolteon was ready to unleash a Thunderbolt, while Vaporeon prepared for an Ice Beam and Flareon a Flamethrower.

Flareon dropped the fierce act and moved closer to Vaporeon when a small figure stepped into her glow. "Don't attack! I just dropped my bone!" The Marowak held his paws up.

Jolteon and Vaporeon relaxed. "What are you doing following us like that?" Jolteon scolded. "We could've just released a Tri Attack without asking first!"

"He's right," Vaporeon added. "It was a risky move."

"I'll admit, it was pretty stupid. But I got kinda curious when I saw the three of you walk in here. No pokemon hardly ever comes in here unless for a good reason."

"You're right," replied Vaporeon. "But our reason for being here is confidential. We can't have word getting out."

"Yea!" Flareon piped, feeling braver than usual. "We can't have any mean pokemon coming here to hurt the human sta – EEEK!" Flareon cut off and jumped backwards when Vaporeon squirted a bit of water at her.

Jolteon rolled his eyes. "So much for that little secret." He shot a glare at Flareon, who cringed. Vaporeon shot Jolteon with a much harder jet of water at his action towards the naïve Flareon.

The Marowak's eyes were huge, from what could be seen of them anyway. "You're hiding a human here? Why? Is there something wrong with them? Are they hurt? Do they like you?"

Jolteon sighed exasperatedly. "We're not hiding her here, she's hiding herself. Like Vaporeon said, this was supposed to be confidential information -" he looked over at Flareon – "but since you know, it can't be helped. Do NOT tell anyone, or we'll go stuff you into a human's garbage can and lock it."

The Marowak spoke quickly. "I won't tell! Promise!" Then he asked slower, "Can I…come with you? Since I already know and everything…"

"Of course," Vaporeon answered warmly without hesitation. "Get up front with Flareon."

The ground-type ran happily up next to Flareon. "By the way, I'm Skull."

"Nice to meet you Skull! I'm Flareon."

"Hello Skull. My name's Vaporeon, and that is Jolteon." She noticed Skull was obviously full of questions. "I'll explain more when we get there." They continued their journey through the tower, but not without some grumbling from Jolteon about Skull. Vaporeon's keen ears heard him, and she "accidentally" whacked his face with her finned tail.

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*~Jennifer's POV~*

I shriveled up as small as I possibly could in a corner of the small alley after realizing the things standing in front of me weren't scared away by my screams – though I thought I scared the black one pretty good the first time.

I peeked through my paws just enough to see what was going on. A horse-like creature was talking. Yea, talking. I'd never seen anything like it. "Why's she scared? It's like she's never seen another pokemon before."

"She hasn't," the rat answered.

"What'd you mean?"

"She was transformed," the purple fox answered. "Today, actually. We came here to get her. Her name is Jennifer."

The horse was still clearly confused. "But…why? And did you do it?"

The purple one nodded, and I gasped. Only the black looked at me, but just as quickly looked away. "There's another human at the Burnt Tower keeping hidden there. This one was going to give the other up to authorities, and we couldn't stand and watch one of the PAP go to prison to protecting us."

"Wow, you know the PAP?" the horse asked. "They leave me and my family food and water about every night, but I never see them."

"They're very secretive," the black creature spoke now. "And we'd like to keep it that way." He looked towards me. "There are already few PAP members as it is."

By that time I wasn't scared anymore. I more than angry than anything else, and also just as confused as to how these things knew so much and were, well, talking. The few pokemon that had gotten into our house occasionally had never said a word, but then again they didn't look nearly as threatening as these.

I sprang to my feet. "YOU did this to me!?" I yelled at the lilac-colored figure. "And how do you know about me and my sister? Nothing was around when we had that conversation!" The pokemon stared at me with such a complicated expression I found myself sitting on the cold concrete again.

"We're protecting your sister!" the rat spoke to me. "And we're here to take you with us."

"What? I'm not going anywhere with street trash."

I heard the black fox-like one growl lowly. "Oh, and you're not?"

I didn't know what to say to that comment. I just said the first thing that came to mind, "I'm better than all of you." But deep down I knew I had been reduced to their level by something the purple one did, and I didn't like it at all. I shot a glare at her then to the rest.

To my surprise none returned my glare, save the black. But he was stopped when the rat bit his leg in objection. "We're leaving," the creature with the split tail spoke. "You can come with us or remain here, it's entirely your choice."

They began walking away, and at first I didn't give a rat's bum. But then the horse spoke again. "You know, I heard Houndoom come out at night and terrorize things in their territory."

"Really?" the black fox answered, sounding falsely surprised. "Well I heard rats bigger than Tat prey on innocent little pokemon left out in the middle of the night, too."

Even though I suspected these cheats were lying, neither Houndoom nor large rats sounded good to me. Before they disappeared I managed to swallow my pride for the time being. "Wait," I called quietly. "Don't leave me." They stopped, and I had now more than a feeling that they had tricked me. But at this point I had already imagined what a Houndoom was and was thoroughly freaked out by what I saw. The horse came over to me and knelt down. I merely stared at the flames, not believing they were asking me to touch it.

The pokemon I scared sighed, obviously irritated. "Get on Firewind's back, or we really will leave you."

Afraid of being left alone, even if I had to stay with them and get burned in the process, I scrambled to get on the horse. I heard the dark sigh when I failed to get on, and I narrowed my eyes at him. He glared back. Suddenly, I felt something surround me and I was lifted up onto the horse's mane. I realized it was some sort of purple glow, but I was gone before I could panic. To my relief I wasn't burnt.

"Where are we going?" the horse, I guessed its name was Firewind, asked.

"Back to our home," the rat answered as he hopped up onto the fiery back as well. I squealed and tried to back away from it as far as possible without falling off.

"I'll transport us back."

"Yes, please," the remaining three all answered in unison. I almost freaked when I started fading, but I found I couldn't move anywhere. Soon I disappeared altogether, confused, angry, and scared.

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*~General POV~*

When they arrived back at the shelter Tatta greeted Tat with a peck on the cheek, then turned her attention towards Jennifer.

"There's another rat thing!?" the Eevee squeaked.

"We're not rats," Tat replied as kindly as he could without being too harsh. "We're Rattata, and we have names."

"Since when do rats talk and have names?"

"They're not rats!" Umbreon exploded, scaring Jennifer and making her trip over her own feet before she fell. He stormed off, leaving a freaked out Eevee in his wake who in turn went and sulked in a corner.

Espeon shook her head. "Stay here," she said to Firewind and the Rattatas. She teleported herself into Umbreon's stalking path to block his way. "You've got just as much of an attitude as she does. What did I warn you about sinking to her level?"

"She doesn't deserve any less!"

"That's not the point, Umbreon, and you know just as well." Espeon spoke severely. "Don't force me to use higher measure against you to get your cooperation." She used her psychic abilities to surround Umbreon with an aurora of light – her mental strength was exceptionally strong.

"Alright," Umbreon finally agreed, and Espeon gestured for him to turn back to their residence. He obeyed, knowing that Espeon was not a force to be reckoned with.

Jennifer had resorted to curling up in a tight ball in the same corner while Firewind tried to get her to say something. "Why don't you like pokemon? It's a just question, we deserve to know. You can ask us anything you want." But the fire-type's attempts were futile, and the Eevee sat and stared at the wall, no expression whatsoever in her hard eyes.

"Leave it, Firewind," Espeon said.

Firewind sighed, and walked away from earshot of Jenn. "From what you've told me she seems worse than most in this wretched city. I just want to find out why."

"Maybe she is. But I think she's just the focus right now and other humans that may be ten times worse we're paying no attention. As for why, every child grows up knowing only what their parents taught them."

Firewind nodded, then walked towards the exit. "I need to leave now, I have a family at home probably wondering where I am. But I'll be back to check up on Jennifer. You all will most likely need all the help you can get."

Espeon nodded. "Thank you for helping us today."

"Yea, and please come back," Tat bombarded into the conversation. "Tatta still hasn't ridden on a Ponyta yet."

Firewind laughed. "I wouldn't worry about that." With that she bolted down the alley, the rest listening to her hoof steps disappear as she galloped farther away. Umbreon went and moped in another corner where he could keep an eye on Jennifer, and they waited for the others to return.

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Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, and Skull made their way through the remains of what used to be hallways under Vaporeon's careful direction. Jolteon stopped suddenly. "What?" Vaporeon questioned, slightly alarmed.

"I hear something…" he began, and he strained his neck towards the sound.

Vaporeon stopped and listened as well. "It's crying," she finally concluded. "We're close."

"Why's she crying?" Flareon wondered aloud. "Wouldn't she be happy that she got away from Jennifer?"

"It's not that simple, Flareon," Jolteon explained. "Emotions tend to run high in situations like this one."

The crying got louder, and the pokemon quickened their pace. Finally they entered a room where a teenage girl was sitting with her knees pulled up to her chest, a flashlight by her side. Tears wet the girl's face, and she looked up, startled.

Vaporeon walked up to Stephanie while the others held back. "What's up?" Skull asked. "Didn't she know we were coming?"

"No." Jolteon, with some add-ins from Flareon of course, hastily explained what was going on. Skull seemed ok with the news, but none the less was shocked.

"I'm Vaporeon," the water pokemon was talking to Stephanie. "We've all come to help you out some."

"Really?" she asked.

"Of course," Skull piped up, saying something just for the sake of saying something.

Vaporeon continued. "We heard you were going to be here, and we had to help out a member of the PAP when they're in some trouble."

"Yes, I am in a little trouble. How'd you know?"

"We have sources inside the tower when members talk to each other."

Stephanie nodded, then stuttered a bit. "This is kind of weird…I-I've never had a pokemon just come up and start talking to me before."

"We don't boast about it much," Jolteon said. "Flareon, make a fire without setting the place on fire again."

Flareon shot a glare at the electric fox for dissing her abilities, but she proceeded anyway to make the fire. Soon Stephanie was warmed up and talking with the pokemon, Skull most avidly. He had gotten over the initial shock of what the other three were doing, and was asking random questions. "Where are you from?" "How old are you?" "Have you ever eaten fried Magikarp?" "You know, I've never talked to a human before."

"Well, I see he's warmed up to the situation nicely," Jolteon directed sarcastically at Skull's big mouth.

Flareon had especially grown to like Stephanie, but then it was time for them to leave – they had to be there to give Espeon, Tat, and Umbreon a hand with Jennifer. "Please don't go!" Stephanie begged. "I'm really afraid of the dark – that's why I was crying before."

"I'll stay!" Flareon offered quickly.

"Flareon, I don't thi -" Vaporeon started.

"No," Jolteon cut her off, much to her annoyance. "Let her stay, Vaporeon. Stephanie will more than likely get cold in the morning hours of the night since it near the end of fall, and Flareon would be perfect to provided heat as well as light up the room.

"Thank you," Steph said. "You'll be back, right?"

"Of course," Vaporeon responded. "We'll come visit you often, but only in a week will it be safe for you to come out of the tower unprotected."

"Yea, and when we visit we'll bring food, too," Skull added as they left Stephanie and Flareon behind.

"Who said you were staying?" Jolteon asked.

"I did."

"And you think you have say over me and Vaporeon?"

"Well…no, but it was worth a shot."

Vaporeon shook her head and Flareon and Stephanie exchanged glances before Flareon curled up on Steph's lap. Both ended up falling asleep that way soon after.

The argument between Jolteon and Skull continued on outside the tower. "I think I should come to you guys' home," Skull suggested.

"No," Jolteon said flatly.

"Why not?"

"Cuz this time I said so."

"That's not very nice."

"I'm not very nice."

Vaporeon finally had enough and sprayed both down with Water Gun. "Skull can come with us. He really helped Stephanie to feel comfortable around us, and I think he could do the same for Jennifer."

Even though he was dripping wet, Skull stuck his tongue out at Jolteon, and Jolteon followed suit. Vaporeon merely rolled her eyes and proceeded to ignore them until they reached home, and their first meeting with Jennifer Waters.

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Authoress: And that's that! Read and review and tell me what you think. Constructive critisim is welcome, I always love to hear what my readers think I should improve on. Firewind's part is over for this chapter, but I think I'll bring her back in later chapters, as I hinted in the script. Next pokemon to be introduced is Ri the Dragonite by ACME-Rian, then Carly the Mudkip by Vulpix Dark Flame (sorry for not mentioning your name last chapter when I was listing the pokemon).

RR! I update every week, look for a new chapter about every Monday or Tuesday. ^_~