When they reached the door of Jade's home, they found that it was closed and locked.

"Well, that's unusual. Usually, they have the unlocked and they knew I went out…" Jade said. Jade then processed to knock on the door. Nothing happened. Then she did it again, but much more loudly and harder. From the other side you could hear scampering of feet towards the door. Then a child voice rang out.

"Password?"

"Password? What do you mean by password? We have no password. "Jade stated.

"No password. No entry. Good-bye~!" the young voice retorted. Shadow looked at Jade with a raised eyebrow. She smiled at him and looked back at the door.

"Aaron, you little brat! Let me in or so help me I will tell mom and dad then you won't get to go adventuring anymore!" Jade shouted. An "eep" was heard from the other side and then a click was heard. The door slowly opened and on the other side was a shiny eevee with a frighten expression.

"Please don't tell mom and dad!" the little eevee cried.

Jade humph and said," Well, now that the door is open I just might not."

Aaron sighed in relieve and grinned. He moved out of the doorway to let his sister in. Shadow followed behind. She and Aaron led Shadow into the den. Aaron had not notice Shadow's presence so when his sister turned to the eeveelution and asked him to stay there, he was surprised.

"Aaron, keep Shadow company," Jade told her brother, then whispered in his ear, "He doesn't talk much so don't expect a conversation. Also, I will explain later." Then she processed to walk out of the room to retrieve gauze and some oran berry juice for Shadow's injures. Aaron nodded and walked over to Shadow. He sat down and told Shadow he could too.

"So..."Aaron started, "ever been adventuring or exploring?"

Shadow thought for a moment. He might have but didn't know. He shrugged in responds.

"Oh…"Was all Aaron said before Jade walked into the room.

"Got some gauze and berry juice for you Shadow," She said and smiled at him. She then began rubbing the oran berry juice first on his injures.

"Oh, Shadow are you my sister's boyfriend?" Aaron asked Shadow.

"Aaron! He is not my boyfriend!" Jade yelled. She blushed while saying this. 'Her have a boyfriend? Yeah right. In a million years maybe.' She thought to herself.

Aaron rolled his eyes, "Mom and dad said before they left that no boys in the house while they were gone…. Maybe I should tell them and you get in trouble?"

"You wouldn't dare" Jade narrowed her eyes at her little brother.

"Wouldn't I?" Aaron smirked evilly. Shadow just watched form the sidelines to watch the sibling's bickering. It made him sad and happy at the same time. He chuckled bitterly. Jade noticed this and she looked at him confused.

"Huh? What's wrong Shadow?" She asked. He only looked at her quietly.

"Does he ever talk? "Aaron asked.

"Uh, no. I think he has amnesia though. He didn't even know his name when I asked him. So I gave him a name." She smiled, she then begun wrapping the gauze on the injuries now. Aaron rolled his eyes at his sister's choice of names.

"That is the worse name ever, sis. I can think a better name than that. Like Ash, Booker or Zane." Aaron boasted. Then he turned to Shadow and asked, "Do you even like that name? You can still be called something else." Shadow thought for a moment. He did like his name, plus Jade said it suited him. Shadow shook his head. "Eh? Fine, have it that way, but no offence to you , Shadow, your name is lame and cliché." Aaron said bluntly.

"Aaron! That is not nice. How would you feel if someone called your name that?" Jade scolded. Aaron looked at his sister then Shadow.

"I wouldn't like it at all" Aaron mumbled and his ears drooped. "Sorry, Shadow." Shadow smiled at the sliver-ish eevee, he took no offence to what the little eevee said so it didn't bother him. Aaron smiled back at the moonlight Pokémon. Jade finished wrapping up Shadow with gauze." He looks kind of like a mummy," Aaron teased.

"That's what happens when you get in a fight Aaron. You become a mummy." The Espeon said to her little brother smiling. She then looked at Shadow and said, "You must be tired. I'll take you our guestroom to sleep. Maybe you'll talk to all of us tomorrow?" She stood up and walked off. Shadow and Aaron followed after her. She then pointed out their rooms on the way there and if he needs anything he could come asked them. Shadow merely nodded.

"Well, here you are Shadow," Jade said happily. The room was next to Jade's and across from someone named Glace.

'Whoever that is' Shadow thought. Jade open the door for him and led him inside.

"This is obviously your bed," She gestured to the hay bedding on the ground, "and remember, if you need anything, just come to my or Aaron's room." Shadow nodded. "I'll leave you to your dreams then, good night." She was left the room, but before she walked out she heard a faint 'good night, Jade' from a silky smooth and appealing voice. She blushed slightly, and assumed it was Shadow. If it was, she liked his voice.

When the door was closed, Shadow found himself smiling. He had found his voice a bit, well, just enough to say good night to the pretty sun Pokémon. He also found himself alone, but that was okay. It would give him time to think of things or not. He finally realized how exhausted he was. His eyes drooped slightly; he walked over to his bed and laid down. His last thoughts were about Jade and how nice she was to a total stranger, before his dreams consumed him.

Shadow's Dreams—

All Shadow felt was fear and pain. Red eyes were staring wickedly at him. They looked like they wanted to kill him.

"They did." A voice said to him. Shadow looked around for the source but found nothing. Then he heard a chuckle. "You can't find me because I'm the voice of your conscious," The voice said. "Well, the voice of your original self's conscious, anyways"

"How and who am I?" Shadow said.

"I don't know and I can't tell you. You have to figure that out on your own. Also there is only bit and pieces left of me anyways." The voice said. "I can only guide you a little on your journey with the little knowledge I have." The ground then started to rumble. The red eyes turned into a monstrous shadowy creature with piercing red eyes. It was coming towards him, and it looked ready to attack too! Shadow yelped and tried to run, but found he couldn't. His injuries were worse than they were before Jade fixed him up.

So he couldn't move, all he could do was watch and wait. The creature than raised it claws and striked him. Shadow felt his body hurt worse now, and felt he was dying. He looked at the creature and found it was smirking down at him.

"Shadow!" a voice cried.

'Huh?' Shadow looked around again. It was a different voice from his conscious.

"Shadow! Come on! You got to wake up!" the voice cried again. He also felt something shake his body. "Come on! You need to eat before going back to sleep again! I know my derpy sister forgot to tell you but I won't let you starve!"

Shadow found that Aaron was shaking him. "Ah! Good! You're awake! I got you food, here." Aaron cheered and handed him an apple. "You need to eat something, or you might have nightmares. That usually what happens to me if I don't eat." The little eevee smiled at him. Shadow returned the smile. "Oh! I need to go eat too. Night Shadow!" Then Aaron scampered out of the room, leaving Shadow once again alone.

After eating, Shadow rested his body again and fell back to sleep.

-Jade-

"Jade, I can't believe you forgot to give him food," Aaron scolded his older sister.

"Sorry, I-I got a little sidetracked," She replied. Her ear twitched, she heard voices; three to be exact. She walked to the front door with Aaron trailing behind, and found it was her parents and older sister, Glace.

"Hi, mom, dad, and Glace! Welcome home!" Aaron greeted. "Guess what? We have a-humf" Jade put her paw to her brother's mouth and glared down at him.

"A what?" Her dad asked .

"Oh~ Nothing, Dad. Just new berries. Right, Aaron?" Jade looked at her brother.

"What about Sha—" Aaron began.

"Right, Aaron?" She was glaring deathly at her baby brother.

"Oh, right, right. Very few new berries though." Aaron said. Jade hoped her dad would buy it. To her luck, he nodded and accepted the lie. Jade sighed in relief and she and Aaron moved out of the way for the rest of their family to walk in. "What about Shadow?" Aaron whispered to the sun Pokémon.

"We'll tell them after they have gotten into the den. It isn't right to shout that out to them at the front door" She whispered back. When her family was in the den, Jade started, "So, Mom and Dad, I have something to tell you."

"Is it that you want to start exploring with your old man now like your little brother?" Her dad asked.

"No." Jade said, "Its—"

"Oh, Jade! I remember when you used to love going exploring with me. You used to beg me to take you. What happen to that, sweetie?" Her dad asked.

"I, I just grew out of that. Anyways, I—"

"Jade, honey, did Aqua show up on the beach today?" Her mother interrupted.

"About the beach, I—"

"Jade, is Aqua your boyfriend now?" Glace interrupted her little sister.

Jade twitched and shouted "NO! AND FOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS WILL YOU GUYS STOP INTERRUPTING ME!" Her family froze; they were shocked by that outburst.

"Uh… sorry. Anyways I found an injured Pokémon and brought him here to patch him up. He is in the guestroom right now sleeping, I hope."

Her sister and mother nodded at this but her dad felt there was more to tell than just this, but didn't bother with it. They had just got home and were all tired from the long day.

"Well," Her father started, "Maybe we should all gets some sleep like our guest." They all nodded in agreement and went to bed, but Jade's dad stopped her before she walked into her room.

"There is more to it than that, isn't there?" He asked. Jade nodded slightly.

"I did find him on the beach, but he didn't know who he was. Also there was a bright light when he appeared… it was strange" Jade said to her dad.

"I see. Well, you go to bed, sweetie. We will talk more about our guest when he is around and when everyone is well rested." Jade nodded and walked into her room. The older eeveelultion walked to his shared room with his mate. He was smiling as he thought to himself, 'This sounds very familiar.'