Last chapter before Quil goes on his way again. Enjoy and review!
"It feels so good to be out!" I said as I let a warm breeze pass by me. It felt good. And the warmth of the sunlight made me feel even better.
"I bet it does," I heard Um say.
I opened my eyes and studied him once more. I couldn't tell what he looked like. He appeared to be some sort of dog or something. It was hard to tell. He was completely black. He had red eyes and yellow circles all over his body. His ears were long as well as his tail. And he walked on all four legs of course.
Curiosity got the better of me and I just had to ask.
"What are you exactly?"
Um looked quite surprised that I even asked this question. I felt guilty for even bothering to ask.
"You mean you've never heard of an, um, Eon before?" he asked.
"Never," I replied with a shake of my head.
"You're the first I've ever come across that, um, didn't know about an, um, Eon," Um said.
"What is an Eon?" I asked.
"Eons are, um, well, I'm an Eon," Um replied. "I'm an Umbreon."
"Umbreon?" I repeated in question.
Um nodded.
"I've never seen someone of your type before," I said. "What are you some sort of normal type gone wrong?"
"Oh boy," Um said. "I guess I better explain this stuff to you. But I'd rather not bore you if you have somewhere else to be."
I thought for a moment about the task I was assigned. Priss' friend was already probably worried that I didn't show. I did spend quite a number of days without showing up. I hope that they didn't think I was lost.
Though I did have to go and complete my first task, I was quite interested in knowing about Eons. I knew it would delay me further, but I was interested in knowing about Eons.
"Well," I said. "I really do have to be somewhere. But I want to know about Eons first."
"All right," Um said. "I'll try to make this as short as, um, possible. Now where to start off?"
"How about what you evolve into?" I suggested.
"I don't evolve any further," Um replied. "This is one of my many evolutions."
"So you have more?" I asked leaning in, intrigued.
"As my, um, pre-evolved form," Um replied. "Before I became an Umbreon, I was, um, an Eevee. A cross combination between a fox and a, um, rabbit, I suppose you could say. Eevee normally have brown fur with a bit of white fluff in certain areas."
I tried to imagine what an Eevee would look like, but somehow, it appeared to have come out weird.
"Eevee normally had, um, three evolutions," Um went on. "But two new regions brought two new evolutions each, totaling seven evolutions completely."
"Seven!" I gasped, amazed. "I never heard of a pokemon that could evolve seven times!"
Um smacked a paw up to his head and shook it, sighing. I felt really stupid then for saying such a thing.
"O.K.," Um said. "Let me try to explain this to you in more, um, detail. As an Eevee, we can only evolve once in our entire life. After that, we can't evolve anymore. But on the, um, cool side, we anxiously wonder what we will evolve into. It all depends where you are and, um, the timing you wish for."
"So how does an Eevee evolve?" I asked.
"Um, well, Eevee normally evolve with the help of, um, certain elemental stones," Um said. "For instance, coming in contact with a blue stone called a, um, Water Stone will, um, cause an Eevee to evolve into a, um, mermaid type pokemon called Vaporeon."
"And that's a water type?" I asked.
"Correct," Um said. "A yellow stone called the Lightning Stone will, um, evolve an Eevee into an electric type with needles called Jolteon. N orange stone called the Fire Stone evolves an Eevee into a, um, Flareon, a fire type. And a green stone known as the Leaf Stone evolves an Eevee into a Leafeon."
"A grass type," I said.
"Right," Um said. "But as for the last three evolutions, two of which I know completely. One I don't. I'm one of the two I know how to evolve. I evolved during a full moon one night, instantly becoming an, um, Umbreon. I'm a psychic type and a dark type. My opposite, a complete psychic type kitten known as, um Espeon-"
"Evolves during the day," I finished.
"Very good," Um said. "And of course, the last one is an ice type named Glaceon. I'm not too terribly familiar how Eevees become Glaceons. I think they have to live in the, um, snow to evolve."
"Wow!" I said as Um finished. "That's pretty cool."
"It is," Um said.
"So what's it like being an Umbreon?" I asked.
"It's pretty cool actually," Um said. "You don't get affected by psychic types. To be honest, a dark type such as myself is, um, very hard to take down. We aren't affected that badly by even the most, um, powerful moves."
"I'd think I'd like to be an Umbreon myself," I said. "If I were an Eevee, that is."
"Don't go rushing into things like that," Um said. "You might have wanted to explore your options before evolving. There might have been a chance that you wanted to be something different."
"Possibly so," I said. "Just one more question."
"Yes?"
"How did you come up with the name Um?" I asked.
Um blinked in surprise and immediately began stuttering for words.
"Well, I um. It's really quite simple, um. I really can't, um explain how I want to, um, put this," he said.
I just stared blankly at him as he continued to figure out how to explain it to me.
"Never mind," I said after a few minutes. "I think I know."
"Oh," said Um. "Well, um, I suppose you'll be heading back off into the wild or something. Maybe see your family."
"I don't know what happened to them," I said. "Long story short, my home caught on fire and humans were capturing pokemon. So I ended up here on a task."
"What sort of task?" Um asked.
"I'm looking for this pokemon," I said.
"That narrows it down," Um said.
"Well, I really can't remember too much about it," I said. "But I remember that it began with a T."
"Well there are a lot of pokemon who start with the letter T," Um said. "Like, um, Tim, Tabitha, Tess, Tyler
"Wait!" I yelled. "Go back to that last one."
"Tyler?" Um asked.
"The one before that," I said.
"Tess?"
"That's her," I said. "I'm looking for Tess."
"So I see," Um said. "You see that huge building way over there?"
I turned around and looked straight ahead to a building that was higher than any other building I have ever seen.
"I do," I replied.
"That's where Tess is," Um said. "She lives there, is what I, um, mean."
"Thanks for your help," I said as I began walking towards the large building.
"Hey!" I heard Um yell at me. I turned and looked back "I, um, didn't catch your name."
"It's Quil," I answered him.
"Well then, I hope you come back and visit, Quil!" Um said.
"One day I might," I said as I continued heading to find Tess at long last.