*means someone is thinking or in later chapters when someone is talking telepathically
After letting the Eevees inside my home to help them watch over their big sister, we enter the living room and I point out where they could let her rest. " You can lay her down there if you want " I said as I pointed at a nearby where I pointed at, they carry her over to the sofa and lay her on it while the littlest one stood next to me.
"Hey..." she tugged on the sleeve of my wet jacket to get my attention. "T-thanks again for helping us..." she said bashfully.
"No problem, it was the right thing to do" I said happily. While we talked one of the other Eevees spoke up
"Alright, hopeful she'll be awake by tomorrow, I mean she did get hit pretty hard."
"If you don't mind me asking, what where you doing out in that storm that got her hurt like that?" I said. They all looked at eachother for a bit before one spoke again.
"I guess since you helped us and you were nice enough to let us stay here... we can tell you" she then pointed to another sofa across from them. "You might need to sit down, its kinda long " she added. I sat down on the sofa across from them, letting them know they had my full attention.
"Ok we really don't know much since our sister knows the full story... but for some reason she won't tell us so we'll tell you what we know " she said. "We've been on the run for at least 10 years or more"
she said. "on the run... from what?" I said surprised.
"We don't know, all we know is that they were humans, but they had black suits and weird gas masks on." she added. "We first ran into them atleast 11 or so years ago. "We were on our way back home till big sis ran up to us saying we needed to go, and right when she said that an explosion went off in the direction of our home along with those people following her. "As for how she got hurt recently, we were looking for a new home since the old one we found in Kalos wasn't safe anymore, so we secretly got on a boat to Alola and ended up getting caught in this storm" right when she was about to talk more, the little one interupted.
"she got hurt because of me... she said sadly. "I was in front of everyone and a lightning bolt hit the tree next to me but before it could land on me, big sis ran up and pushed me out of the way and it hit her instead" She looked like she was about to cry before the Eevee telling the story comforted her.
"Hey now, it's not your fault, none of us knew that a lightning bolt was gonna strike, let alone hit the tree that just happened to be right next to us" she said as she finshed the story.
"Oh!" she yelled in surprise. "We forgot to ask you what you name is" She said as they all looked at me.
"Well...if you're gonna stay here for the night I guess i'll properly introduce myself" my name is Jacob Carter and I live here by myself" I said. "Now yours?" I added.
"Alright, my name is Eleanor and im the 3rd oldest" she said. "the fluffy one over there is Frida" She did a pose when Eleanor pointed at her but she ignored it. "Don't mind her, she just likes being a show off " she added.
"HEY!" Frida yelled back.
"The one with the sleek fur is Victoria, she's the 4th youngest" she pointed at Victoria but she was too busy looking around the room. "The quiet one right there is Eve, she's the 4th oldest so she's a bit younger then me" She said pointing at the quiet eevee that was looking over the sleeping one. "The fit looking one is Layla" She pointed at her as she waved back. "The little hyper one is Stella. She pointed to the other eevee looking around the room, but unlike Victoria who was looking around in awe, Stella was looking around in excitement. "And this little one is our grace, she's the youngest of us" she said as she smiled at the small eevee still standing near me.
"What about her?" I looked at the still unconscious eevee on the other sofa.
"She's our elder sister, Ruby" she said with a sad look in her eyes.
"Hey don't worry, she'll wake up soon, I know she will" I said trying to confort her. Eleanor looks at me with a hopeful smile.
"thanks again for helping us get that tree off her" she said. "And...sorry if we were a bit...aggressive" she added.
"you mean mostly YOU were aggressive" Eve finally spoke, while Stella laughed at the comeback.
"Ok...mostly me..." she scratched her head while embarrassed.
"Your welcome, and it's ok that you were defensive, you didn't know what I was gonna do" I said as I smiled before another sound of thunder rang out, reminding all of us about the storm. "I think it's best that we all sleep in here since someone might need to watch over Ruby to make sure she's alright, plus I don't want to risk turning on too many lights and knocking the power out altogether, so i'll be back with some blankets and pillows" I said as i got off the sofa.
"Wait!" I hear Eleanor yell, causing me to turn around.
"You just happen to have enough for all of us?" she said confused .
"I come from a big family so I tend to be prepared in case they visit or if I have a lot of people staying over." I said. "Plus the person that gave me this manison left a lot of stuff for me just in case"
After a lot of walking and carrying things we all had settled in, including Ruby, most of them were already asleep leaving only me, eleanor and grace awake.
*I never thought i'd get caught up in this...I mean not only are they talking pokemon but they stand up just like humans too*
"Are you sure big sis is gonna be ok?" I heard grace say to eleanor. Not wanting to easedrop I try to force myself to sleep but couldn't help but hear while I was slowy nodding out.
"I'm sure she will grace, she's not just the oldest she's also the strongest of us, so a simple tree falling on her won't keep her down for good if being near an explosion couldn't" Eleanor said while comforting grace. I could have sworn Grace said something about me before I finally went to sleep myself.
