The sounds of waves hitting the sandy beach echoed throughout. A lone pinkish-purple figure was pacing about with an impatient look on its face.

"What is taking Aqua so long?" a feminine voice spoke, belonging to none other than our impatient figure. "He should have been here ten minutes ago." She continued in a huff of exasperation. She swished her fork-tailed back and forth impatiently.

She finally sat down and gazed around until she caught something in her sight, the awe striking sunset. She had seen millions upon millions of sunsets here, yet it had never ceased to amaze her. She thought for a moment that she should have brought her little brother to see this beautiful sight, but then remembered that she was going to be too busy to keep track of him if she was going to go exploring. She hissed slightly at this thought. She wasn't much of an explorer nor did the idea of exploring bring much pleasure to her. That was more of her father's and baby brother's thing. Her sister was 'ok' with exploring but only because it helped with her business in town. She would occasionally go with her to make sure that her sister was safe. As for her mother, from what she heard from her dad was that she, in her younger days, was a hard-core explorer. Unfortunately, now she was more concern with her children than exploring.

The impatient Sun Pokémon smiled. She loves her family dearly and does anything for them. As for her friend Aqua, who she has known since they were pups, he had a tendency to be late for everything, but usually no more than a couple minutes. This was the most he was late ever.

"Probably got held up by his mom," She snorted. "Might as well wait up for him for a little bit long-…"

Just then a bright light was emitted from the far distance of the beach. She was very shocked and startled by this light. She had jumped and hid behind one of the many rocks on the beach. When the light dissipated all that was left was a lump of a figure. The Espeon poked her head from her hiding place and looked around. Cautionly, she walked out and slowly walked up to the small figure. It wasn't as small as she was, but it was kind of small from a distance.

Creeping slowly, she made it to this strange creature. She found it was heavily wounded and that it was an Umbreon, like her dad. It looked to be a shiny but its fur had a blue-ish tint to it instead of a grayish one. If she could maybe see its eyes then she could really tell if it was a shiny. Remembering that the Umbreon was injured, she ran to her bag that she had brought with her. She pulled out an Oran berry and carefully opened the moonlight Pokémon's mouth and placed it in there. She helped it chew as well, since it was unconscious. The chewing part was easy but helping it sallow was hard. She had to carefully lift its head up and tilt it slightly to make sure it went down. When she was sure that the Oran berry went down, she started to clean the blood from its pelt. Taking gentle licks like a mother would do for her child, she cleaned it.

She took a step back to take a look at her handy work. He, she had found that it was a male, was looking better than how she found him, but he still had claw marks and bruises on his body. Those would heal eventually and some might even scar but he would be ok.

'I wonder what happen to him,' she thought to herself. 'He must have been in a real fight though. All those claw marks and bruises make it very evident…' She turned away from him for a brief moment to look at the dazzling sunset. It hadn't been long for her to wait and the sun was still far from becoming nighttime.

"Oooww…" A groan emitted from the injured Umbreon, this made the pinkish-purple Pokémon whip her head around to stare at him. He was starting to awaken from his unconscious state and she moved back a little to give him some space. Worry was etched on her face. She may not know who he is but she still cared as if he was family.

"Are you alright?" She asked quietly

He opened his eyes and surveyed his surroundings. Blinking his eyes slowly, he noticed that he felt exhausted for whatever reason he could not remember.

"Umm… mister?"

His eyes immediately snapped to look at the source of the voice. The sudden motion scared the other Pokémon. He could not find his voice so he simply nodded in responds to her first question.

"Ok. Well…um… how should I put this… were you in a… in a fight of some kind?" The female eeveelution asked.

He gazed at her quizzically, and then he noticed a scratch on his left paw. He nodded again.

"Ah. Well, I helped you as best of my abilities with the things I have, so you should come with me, if you can walk and stand, to get better aid." She stated. She stood up and waited for him to as well. He managed to stand, and stumbled slightly. Upon seeing this, the Espeon jumped to his side and supported him by having him lean on her slightly. "Off we go then, yeah?"

He nodded again and they took careful baby steps to the Sun Pokémon's home. There she would be able to treat him better than on the sandy beach; though it might take a while. They took the stony path out of the beach area to the forest one. They passed many trees and bushes, along with flowers, grass, and the dreaded weeds.

"So… I'm Jade by the way, and you are?" Jade asked to make some small talk, the silent was killing her. This halted the moonlight Pokémon right in his tracks. He gave her a confused look, what did she mean by this question?

"Your name, silly," She chuckled, "What is your name?"

'His name?' He thought. He then continued to think and came up with nothing. He had no name and if he did he sure could not remember it.

He shook his head.

"Uh? What do you mean no… oh. You have no name? Um… well…" She really sucked at these situations. She did not talk much to others, much less figure out names. "Er… why don't I give you a name? Like… uh…" She looked around quickly. 'Geese,' She thought,' not much to go on for this… Ah!'

"How about 'Shadow'? It suits your kind of Pokémon quite well! "She smiled hoping he would buy into—I mean accept the name. Boy was she terrible with names. He thought for a moment.

'A names a name so it will have to do,' He nodded in affirmative.

"Great! I mean… uh…"She blushed. She should not have said that, now he must think she wasn't even trying, and she very much was. Do you know how hard it is to come up with names?

Shadow smiled at her, he was starting to like her already even though he did not know her. She had a happy vibe to her and he liked it. It reminded him of someone he knew but couldn't place it.

Snapping out of her embarrassment long enough to see the sky was darkening, she quickly said "Well, we should head for my home quickly! It will be dark soon and you need to be healed as well as I don't need to get in trouble with my parents."

He nodded in agreement. 'That would be bad,' he thought to himself.

They quicken their pace and found themselves at a rather large home. It had an Umbreon head on the very top. It seemed to have many rooms probably to house all the family members plus more. It was a strange sight to Shadow. He had never seen anything like this.

"Well! This is my home, and we should get in quick or deep dodo trouble!" She scrambled to her feet and ran to the door. "Coming?" She shouted turning her head while running.

He nodded while he gazed at her with his piercing red eyes….