I just want to note that this is still a sort of Prologue, the main story is yet to start. But some of the characters introduced in this chapter will have significance later in the story.

Chapter 1: The beginning

I was excused from training for the day, which meant I was free to do whatever I wanted for the day. I went to the mission room, near the gates of EVE Academy. The mission roster, which was updated daily, showed who was going on a mission, where and when it would take place, and special equipment assigned to the participants. I was mildly surprised to see Ritch on the list, assigned to my party. A Vaporeon, named Null, was also going on our mission.

And most surprisingly, we were getting special equipment. Ritch and Null were getting power enhancers, a Charcoal, and a Mystic Water, the Espeon, Hazle, was being given a Quick Claw, and I got Choice Specs. Decent equipment for my first mission. I decided that I needed to rest, to conserve my energy for tomorrow, so I decided not to do anything that required any sort of effort.

I took a walk around the Academy, which was about 3 km in diameter, so the walk was roughly nine and a half kilometres. Even walking slowly (for me, anyway), I still walked it in less than an hour. Since that would obviously not keep me interested for long, I decided to venture out of the Academy grounds, and into EVE proper.

EVE was a huge area of land, owned by several Eveelutions, and their families. They had pooled their land many years ago, after the human populations began to thin in Johto and Kanto, and adopted a common name. Since all of us started as Eevees, the name fit perfectly. EVE expanded slowly over the course of many years, until human interference stopped it.

Since many other Pokémon nations wanted EVE's land for themselves, we fight constant political battles, and sometimes physical ones. So, EVE opened an Academy, and hired some of the best fighters our nation had to offer to train recruits. Others saw this as a threat, and began their own training programs. But we had something that they didn't. They focused their resources on training only one type of Pokémon, while we had many types, from Water to Fire, Dark to Ice. A total of seven different types, which gave us the distinct tactical advantage.

As such, others began to back off, began to rethink their own strategy. Unfortunately for them, they did not trust any other types, so they could not work efficiently with them. This gave us an even larger advantage. In the end, most of them backed off.

Two notable exceptions: Electrics and Bugs. They actually accelerated their training programs, attacked us more frequently, and began to halt our travels through their lands. There were even rumours that the Bugs were amassing an army to invade us outright.

I walked into the untamed grassland around my home, the grass taller than I was, and began to search for berries. They grew wild in this area, one of the main reasons that we had made the Academy in this particular area. Easy access to food. There was also a network of caves beneath the Academy, which were used as housing for any militia in the area, as well as the Instructors, the Senior Trainees, and for storing food and equipment.

I found a large Oran bush after a half an hour, but by then I was far too hungry to be satisfied by just those five berries. I ate them hastily, as anything could sneak up on me in the tall grass. When they were finished, I searched around for more.

Before I could find any other bushes, I heard a noise from behind me. A twig snapping. I whirled around, and found nothing. Another twig snapped, behind me again. I turned again, and nothing was there. What the hell? I though to myself. Another, different sound came from behind again. The sound of someone landing and jumping. I looked up to late, the Scyther already to close for me to counter it.

It slashed me in the flank, and I fell back, barely dodging its second attack. I retreated slowly, keeping my eyes fixed on it. My second mistake. Another Scyther pounced on me from behind, slashing me multiple times in the back. Fury cutter. I groaned. These two were very experienced, and they had disabled my ability to retreat almost right away. With me losing this much blood, I couldn't fight, and I couldn't run. I was freaking screwed.

I was to far away to call for help, so I tried to surrender. All that got me was a cut on my face, right over my eye. I was too fatigued to move at this point, even standing up was difficult to manage. I managed a weak scream for help, but I was to far gone for anything else. I sank to the ground before my vision faded and I saw nothing more. Son of a-

…...…..

I opened my eyes, which in and of itself was a surprise, to see a human standing over me. My left eye was covered in blood, but I was alive. The human looked concerned about my injuries, but he was making no move to help me. I looked around a little more, and saw a Dragonite, a Feraligator, and a Toxicroak lounging a short distance away. They radiated power.

The human, who had decided what to do, reached into his backpack to grab something. When his hand emerged, he was holding a small, rectangular object, with a small strip of green near the top. It had a small opening at the top, along with a small button on the side.

My legs still would not move for me, and when I looked down, I saw that the grass around me was soaked with blood. I felt a liquid spray against my wounds, and they began to heal unnaturally fast. The human sprayed his healing concoction (A full restore) on all my cuts, including my eye. He finished quickly, and with a nod to his Pokémon, he began to walk away. The Toxicroak walked up to me, and I began to feel lethargic. Moments later, I fall asleep.

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I woke up late in the night, nearing dawn, and struggled to stand up. Blood loss had weakened me beyond what I could compensate for, and standing seemed harder than anything I had ever done before. I knew that there was no way I could go on a mission now, I'd be lucky if I was out of the infirmary in the next week. My hopes crushed, I sank back to the ground.

But, moments later, another sound invaded my rest. I looked up to see another Umbreon standing next to me. He was staring at me with contempt. After a moment, he began to walk away. He walked awkwardly, as if he had a leg injury. That was when I noticed his strange colouring. He was black, like all Umbreons, but his rings were blue. He looked back at me, and I noticed he had yellow eyes. My own eyes, all Umbreons' eyes, were red. This guy was not normal.

I felt a mysterious strength flood into my body, and I rose to follow the mystery Umbreon. He walked far too quickly for a cripple, so I knew that he was not what he seemed to be. I followed him blindly for a long time, him always one step ahead of me, until he simply disappeared. He walked through a particularly dense patch of grass, and when I stepped through it, he was gone. I had no idea how far I was from the Academy, or even if I was still in EVE land.

Luckily for me, the stranger had walked in the general direction of the Academy. I could see it, about a kilometre away. I sighed, and began to walk toward it. This had been one messed up day.

List of new characters: Ethan (the human), those Scythers will also return, and blueringy is central to the plot.