Author notes:

1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.

2)I don't own Pokemon, obviously.

3)I only own the plot for this story and the eventual OCs

4)From now on "Pokemon speech" and "Human speech"

A year passed by after Jack saved Mary from the Pinsir. As expected, everyone ended up forgetting about that and treated the boy the way they always treated him when couples went to the orphanage seeking children: as a piece of meat that was getting too old.

Not that Jack cared much. He practically lost all hope in being adopted, but he didn't mope around. Quite the contrary, he was happy that his 'family' got expanded. He now had a male Abra, named Touma, and a female Ampharos, named Misaka. Not only that, his Nidoran evolved to a Nidorino as well.

Touma, the Abra, was found in the same place where Mary was attacked. The boy was there with his female friend to help her to pick up some flowers she couldn't get the last time. Hiro and him were there to ensure that nothing would try harm her again.

Mary kneeled down to pick up some flowers with ten shining gold-looking petals. She had brought a quite big plastic vase to put them inside this time. After all the flowers would survive for a much longer time in the soil than in a jar of water.

Jack looked at her with a smile, but they were soon interrupted by an unfamiliar cry. Both kids and Pokemon looked to their right to see an Abra teleporting near them. It was really hurt and bleeding.

It had bruises and looked really tired. Jack quickly moved and held the injured Pokemon before it collapsed over the grass. The boy immediately felt something. Fear. But the boy wasn't scared, he had no reason to. That confused the boy.

Then a wild Houndour appeared growling furiously at them. Apparently the Houndour was hunting down the Abra and had hurt it horrible before it could teleport. In fact, the dark Pokemon assaults weakened the psychic one to the point he could only teleport to short ranges which wasn't enough to flee.

Jack frowned deeply when he saw the Abra losing consciousness on his arms. He got really angry with that and so was Hiro. Jack quickly gave the Abra to Mary and turned back to the angry Houndour.

Hiro charged against the dark/fire Pokemon. His horn charged and several Poison Needles were unleashed against the Houndour, which jumped in the air and used Ember on the Nidoran.

Jack quickly stood in front of his small companion and placed his arms in front of him to endure the attack. He screamed in pain as he felt the fire burning his arms. Then he involuntary, fell on his own knees and clenching his teeth to suppress the urge to yell. Both Mary and Hiro looked shocked when they saw that.

The Nidoran became furious and charged with all his mighty against the Houndour. As he ran, he started to shine and he evolved to Nidorino. He used tackle on the surprised Houndour sending him flying.

Hiro wasted no time and jumped in the air as well and used double kick continuously on the dark/fire Pokemon pressing him against a nearby tree, cracking it a little.

The ferocious wild Pokemon fainted and fell on the ground. But Hiro wasn't satisfied. It dared to hurt his best friend, his family. When Hiro showed signs that he wasn't going to show mercy to the fallen Pokemon, Jack yelled at him: "Don't do this! Please, Hiro!"

Then the poison Pokemon looked behind and his expression softened when he saw Mary near him looking worried at the burned arms. Fortunately, it was just a second degree kind of burning.

Hiro, then, rushed to his side and sniffed carefully at the wounds and licked them gently. The Nidorino felt guilty that his friend got hurt protecting him. But Jack gave him a soft smile and got on his feet again.

Even though the burning wasn't severe it still hurt quite a bit. Jack, then tried to pick the Abra from Mary. Seeing that his human friend didn't let him, he sighed and told her: "We should take him to a Pokemon Center."

The girl nodded, but she was also concerned about her friend: "Yes, but shouldn't you take care of your arms first?"

The boy shook his head and said: "His wounds are worse than mine. I can easily endure them."

It was the girls turn to sigh. She kneeled down and gently placed the Pokemon on the ground and she ripped part of her long blue skirt. Jack looked confused until she suddenly started to wrap his arms with it.

"T-there was n-no need for it…" he said blushing a little at her gentle touch.

"You don't have to play the role of tough guy 24/7, you know? You should let other people help you every now and then." She said with a smile and when she finished wrapping his arms she continued: "There. that should help you out for a while until you can use some better bandages. Maybe at the Pokemon Center they can help you out with that."

Jack suddenly felt Hiro's front paws on his legs. When he looked down he could see his worried look and he imagined that his Pokemon also agreed with the girl. With a defeated sigh he said: "Okay, okay. As soon as we get to the Pokemon Center, I'll take care of myself, but really, it's nothing serious." Then he picked up the Abra and carried him to the Pokemon Center.

Mary decided to leave the flowers for another day and picked up her vase and followed Jack and Hiro.

When the trio arrived to the Pokemon Center, the boy gave the wounded Abra to a nurse and explained what happened. Fortunately, for him, they also had the resources to treat his wounds.

The boy was taken to another room. The nurse didn't let him take his Pokemon with him unless he used the pokeball on him and Jack refused to lock his best friend into that crammed place.

Because of that Hiro was forced to wait with Mary at the reception. Mary was stting on a bench and was sure that her friend was going to be okay, but Hiro seemed to be very agitated. The Nidorino never liked when he was separated from Jack. He could barely accept to let the boy go to have classes during the mornings.

The purple Pokemon paced in circles in front of the blond girl anxious until Jack finally got out of the room with some proper bandages on his arms. Hiro made a happy sound and rushed to his friend.

Seeing the joy in the Nidorino's face, Jack couldn't help but to kneel down and hug him. He even tried to hold him in his arms, but Hiro gained some weight when he evolved. But the boy gathered strength and raised the pokemon ignoring the little pain he now felt because of the burns. "Looks like soon I won't be able to carry you anymore." He said with a light chuckle. "I guess that I need to get stronger, then."

Then he sat on the bench, next to Mary, and placed the Nidorino on his lap as he waited to know more about the Abra's condition.

An hour later, a nurse came from the door where she had taken the injured Pokemon and went towards the two kids. She had a smile on the face and said: "You don't have to worry. Your Abra is already out of danger."

Both kids and nidorino gave a relieved sigh with the news, but noticing what the nurse had said, Jack spoke: "He's not my abra. He's a wild one. I just happened to pass by and witness what happened to it…By the way, what's its gender?"

The nurse giggled at the boy's rant and said: "That abra is male. Here, have this." Then the nurse gave him an empty pokeball and continued: "Come with me. If you want to raise that abra, you can go ahead and capture him, but you need to let us finish the treatment later. I suggest you capture him because I think it's quite dangerous for a Pokemon so small wander on its own. He might not be lucky next time if he goes back to the wild."

Jack wondered about that for a while and then he told the nurse that he wanted to take a look first at the abra. She agreed an led the two kids to the room where the Abra was now resting.

The psychic pokemon was conscious but he was lying down resting. Once he saw the boy that had saved him, he forgot his wounds and teleported right in front of him. The boy's reflexes were good enough to catch him mid-air.

Jack couldn't help, but to smile at the abra's recovery "Do you want to go live with me?" Jack asked with expectant eyes. He didn't want to force any pokemon to stick with him. He was ready to let the psychic pokemon go back to the forest if he so desired.

But the Abra gave a nod and after that, Jack felt some unknown joy flooding him. He looked to the Abra on his arms and saw he waving his tail

Jack did the same thing to the abra he did for Hiro. Even though he used a pokeball he decided to not let him inside of it. Jack decided to do this with every other pokemon he might end up befriending with.

Misaka, the ampharos, joined them two months after the abra. She was just a small mareep back then. A quite small Mareep for a matter of fact. The was half of the size of her specie average size.

It was 3 p.m. and the kids at the orphanage were outside playing. But Jack was at the kitchen with Hiro, Touma and a blue haired female supervisor named Kaoru. She was watching the boy prepare some Pokemon food.

He didn't have authorization to use the oven on his own and Pokemons were still not allowed in the kitchen, but she was sure that the Nidorino and Abra weren't going to trash the place, because these two showed a very good behavior during their entire time in the orphanage.

The boy had been taught how to cook by her and he was quite good at it. He knew how to make both some human foods and now she was teaching him how to make some food for pokemon and Hiro and Touma were going to be the guinea pigs.

Not that the two of them minded, what he was preparing was smelling quite good and they have tasted some of human food made by their owner before and it was very good.

The Nidorino and Abra waited patiently on the floor. "This smells great! I can't wait to taste it!" said Hiro.

Touma nodded and told his friend: "If this food is half as good as it seems, it'll be worthy it."

Hiro and Touma got along quite nicely after they meeting. Sure, the Nidorino felt a bit jealous because his psychic friend was able to communicate better his Jack. The Abra was able to send his own feelings to people he wanted to.

But the purple pokemon quickly overcame it when he got a very good idea. Hiro now could express himself through drawing. He could use his horn to make drawings of things he wanted to say to his human friends. Sure, he couldn't write words, but Jack managed to correctly decipher the meaning of most of Hiro's drawings.

While they waited for the meal to be ready, a Mareep was passing by at that time and when she smelled the scent of the food, her stomach growled in hunger. She saw that the gate in front of the orphanage was open, because a supervisor got inside of the place and forgot to close it.

She got inside and she saw that the door had a small entrance often used by the pokemon to get into and out of the main house. The Mareep passed through it and followed the delicious scent to the kitchen.

Hiro was the first to notice the presence of the wild pokemon. He hadn't been able to smell her before because her scent couldn't be noticed due the aroma of the food. But just because he couldn't smell her, it didn't mean that he couldn't hear her steps.

He quickly assumed a defensive stance in front of the boy and gave a loud growl to make the two humans aware of the new presence. Touma also was afraid that this newcomer would be hostile and he quickly inquired: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The Mareep was a bit scared seeing the two pokemon slowly approaching her as if they wanted to pick a fight with her. She started to tremble in fear cursing herself for letting her stomach draw her to a trap. "I just…" she tried to defend herself not being able to continue because of the firm stare of the two pokemon making her really nervous.

But her hungry quickly made itself known by a loud growl coming from her stomach. Jack looked at the scene a bit confused, but when he noticed that it was just a hungry pokemon he told his two smaller friends: "Guys, don't pick a fight with it. I don't think it has any ill intentions." He quickly told them before they decided to attack her.

Hiro and Touma didn't attack but they still watched the unknown Mareep more carefully. She was shaking in fear now, which made both of their expression soften a little bit.

Jack suddenly heard a clock alarm being triggered. It was the an alarm he set to know when the food would be ready. He then turned off the oven and wore some protection gloves and removed from it a plate full of a brown food.

He placed it over a table near him and removed the gloves. Then he turned to the Mareep and told her with a smile. "Don't be shy. Come here."

The electric pokemon looked very unsure, but she was snapped out of her thoughts when Hiro told her with a more calm voice: "Aren't you going to go? He's calling for you. You don't have to worry. He's not going to hurt you. He's a very nice human." But then his gaze turned serious again and continued: "But you better not do anything to harm him or you'll regret!"

"Y-yes…" stuttered the Mareep as she carefully approached the boy.

Jack picked up three bows inside of a cupboard and placed some of the food inside of them. Then he placed the three bowls on the floor and noticed that Hiro and Touma didn't start eating. Both were watching the Mareep.

The boy could see that the electric pokemon was visibly frightened. "You don't have to worry. I won't hurt you. You can eat this and after that you're free to go if you want to." Then he gently patted his two pokemon on the head with each of his hands and told them: "Don't give it a hard time. I don't think it's going to attack us. Come on, don't you guys wanna try my new recipe?"

The Nidorino and Abra reluctantly obeyed, but they turned to the other side of the bows to be able to see the Mareep properly. Jack didn't know if he was thankful for the 'protection' his pokemon were giving him or worried because he didn't want them to be hostile with a pokemon just because they were unfamiliar with.

The electric pokemon slowly approached the bow with the food. It smelled really good and gave a small bite on it. It was delicious, for the pokemon, at least. Jack used a combination of berries and a some products he bought from a store and he made his own recipe.

The three pokemon soon devoured the entire food and they all had a happy expression on their faces. Jack then kneeled down next to the Mareep and gently rubbed her head and said: "See? There's nothing to fear here."

But she was startled by the sudden touch and gave the boy a light sock. It was just like if he had rubbed his feet against a carpet and then touched a knob. But it was enough for Hiro and Touma want to jump on the Mareep. "Your ungrateful little…" the Nidorino started saying.

Jack quickly placed his arm in front of his two pokemon friends when he heard their angry growls and said: "Don't do this. I bet it only reacted this way because I startled it." Then he turned to the Mareep again, which was quite confused, and continued: "You don't have to be afraid." Then he touched her head again and gently petted her.

She couldn't deny she was enjoyed the physical affection, but she didn't know why he was standing up for her. She had hurt him and yet he was defending her. She found that human boy in front of her…very interesting.

The supervisor just looked in disbelief how easily the boy managed to get a hold on that situation. "Looks like he made another friend." She said to herself with a smile on the face.

It didn't take long until the Mareep joined the group and was accepted by the other two pokemon. Jack had taken her to the pokemon center just for a check-up on her and it was there he discovered the Mareep to be a female and named her Misaka.

Months passed by and the electric pokemon reached her final evolution, as an Ampharos. She had quite a lot of energy stored in her body even though she remained quite small, but a little taller than the Abra. It took some serious training for her not to electrocute people or object by accident. He didn't want her to be kicked out like the Magnezone was.

Jack knew that Hiro would only evolve if he used a moon stone on him and he didn't know if his friend wanted to evolve. Clearly, Touma was very happy as an Abra. The psychic pokemon was quite mischievous with his teleportation powers. He wasn't just able to teleport himself, but others as well, but in this second case, he could only teleport at a short range.

He had plenty of fun being with them and also with Mary who still passed by almost every day after her classes. But, one day, Jack saw a huge commotion on front of the orphanage because many of the kids were looking through the window. Mary still haven't arrived from school and he decided to ignore whatever the kids were looking at and went outside to play with his three pokemon.

It was because John and his wife, Jennifer, were talking to the director of the orphanage with a couple of supervisors. Jake and Kaoru to be accurate. Nobody could hear what they were talking about.

Then the five adults started to walk towards the building and all kids stopped spying them and just thought that the man was there to just make an inspection or something, after all he came there, sometimes, to make a donation. But he always came alone.

His wife wore a blue dress and had a long, curly and pink hair. She also had shining green eyes and a fair skin. She also wore a gold-made necklace and a couple of rings which seemed equally expensive.

When the adults got into the orphanage, the adults, instead of going straight to the director's office, they were strolling through the entire place. The couple had a smile on the face and talked to a few children. They asked questions like "how are you?" or "what do you want to be when you grow up?"

They walked by the entire place and when they spotted Jack playing with just his pokemons on the backyard John asked him nicely: "Hello. What's your name, kid?"

Jack blinked a few times before he answered a bit unsure: "My name is Jack, sir."

Even the boy's pokemon looked each other not knowing what these two strange adults wanted with the boy. Sure they used seeing the boy interacting with the supervisors and the teachers, but never with these two.

"What a nice name." the man said with a smile. "Are these your pokemon?" he asked pointing at the Nidorino, Abra and Ampharos.

"Yes, they are. They're my best friends." He replied with a smile and his pokemon smiled back at his words.

"You raised them all by your own?" the man asked interested.

The boy just nodded in reply. He didn't know why so much questions about him.

After a shot, but very awkward silence, for the boy, John asked with a big smile: "Would you like to come with us, young man?"

"M-me?" John said quite surprised. Nobody had been interested in him for a good time.

"Yes, you. Would you like to come with us and be our child, my dear?" said Jennifer with a smile as well.

"If, I said yes, would my pokemon be able to come with me?" he asked pointing to the Nidorino, Abra and Ampharos next to him.

The man nodded and said: "Of course. They're more than welcome in our house. My two sons also have pokemons and I bet you're going to befriend them in no time."

"You guys already have kids? Why do you want me, then?" Jack said really unsure. He couldn't comprehend that someone was willingly trying to make him and his pokemon part of his family.

The man chuckled before he replied: "We have a fifteen and a seventeen year-old sons. But we would like to have a third one. The more, merrier, as I always say. So, kid, would you like to come live with us? I mean, would you accept us as your family for now on?"

The boy felt numb for a while. He didn't know what to answer. Part of him wanted to just yell 'yes'. But the other part was making him think twice about this whole situation. Nobody showed legit interest for him and his pokemon before.

"Are you serious?" they boy asked again really confused.

The man laughed for a while and he answered: "Of course I am. You don't have to be so nervous, you know. Do you…need to think about our offer for a while? We can wait to hear your answer."

The boy felt an unknown emotion, for him, over flooding his being. "I-I…would like to have a family…" he said looking down at his own feet. He really wanted to have a family, a human one. But he still had some trusting problems. There were very few humans he trusted and he still remembered how the previous couples who went there to adopt a child treated him. The very few that wanted to adopt him whether were moved by the happening last year or didn't like his pokemon.

The man smiled and gently placed his hand on the boy's chin and raised his look to look straight into his eyes: "Is that a 'yes'?"

Hiro, Touma and Misaka didn't know how to respond at that. For one side, they wanted to make the boy say 'yes' and have a human family as well, but for the other side, weren't they all already a family? But even they had to admit that the boy was like a father, most of time, to them. They wondered if it was time for Jack to have parents to take care of him for a change.

Hiro stood on his back paws and stood with his front ones on the boy's legs and when the kid looked back at him he could see a happy expression on the Nidorino, which was nodding vigorously.

Jack looked at Misaka and Touma and both had the same expression as Hiro. Then the boy gave a big smile and finally answered: "Yes!"

"Very well, then. You're now officially a member of the Grandfist family." the man said placing both of his hands on Jack's shoulders.

Jack wanted to cry in joy right there, but he held the tears back. Jennifer told his warmly: "Why don't you go pack your things, while he handle the papers, sweetie?"

The boy turned to his pokemon and said: "Come on, guys." Then the boy rushed to his room to pack his things. Jake went with him and told the boy he was going to give him a bag to put all his things inside.

The boy thanked him as he, now in his room, placed all his things over his bed. His clothes, books and recipes. He never really cared about inanimate toys much. He would rather play with Mary and/or with his pokemon.

Jake soon arrived with a blue bag and helped the boy to pack all his belongings. After they were done, Jake placed the hand over the boy's head and ruffled his hair. "Take care kid. I'm going to miss you around here. I hope you're going to be happy in your new home. Don't worry about my daughter. I'll tell everything to her. Maybe you two can end up in the same school! But even if you doesn't go there, you can still hang out with her after school time."

"Thanks, mister. I'm going to miss you too…" The boy replied before he gave the man a hug. For most of his life, Jake had been the paternal figure for the boy. It was there when the boy finally realized something. He wasn't going to live with people and pokemon he knew and trusted anymore. He was already starting to miss the man he was hugging and also the some other supervisors, the director of the orphanage and even the pokemon that lived there.

Part of him didn't want to leave. He didn't want to trade something he liked for sure for the possibility of a happy life with that new family. Another thing that plagued his mind was that he feared not being able to see Mary again. What if they couldn't meet again? He didn't want that. He felt a pain in his heart.

"I…don't want to leave you all behind…" the boy muttered finally voicing the doubts in his heart. His expression changed to a sad one.

Jake couldn't help but to feel sad too, especially after seeing the boy's expression. He was really going to miss the kid. But he smiled warmly at him. "You don't have to be sad because of that. You aren't going to move away from the town and the Grandfist live quite near from here. Don't be sad. This is supposed to be a happy day for you."

The three pokemon watched the scene and they rushed to join the boy in a group hug. They like that man too. He was nice with them and also very nice with Jack.

The man was speechless at the boy and pokemon's actions and he could only hug the boy back in response. Then, after a couple of minutes, the man said: "Let's go, Jack. Your family is waiting for you."

After that the boy broke the hug he told his pokemon with a smile: "Come on!"

Then the boy picked the bag and rushed to the entrance. He was followed by his three friends and Jake. The couple was waiting for him at the entrance of the building with a smile.

Then they guided Jack to the car and opened the door of the back seat for him. He placed the bag inside and went inside of it. Touma teleported inside of the car and Hiro and Misaka got inside right after that.

When John saw that he asked raising an eyebrow: "Aren't you going to put them inside of their pokeballs?"

The boy just replied: "I never put them there. I don't think it's right to lock pokemon in such a crammed space."

After a few seconds in silence the man said: "Very well, then." After that he closed the door and moved to the driver's seat. His wife sat next to her husband and looked behind and asked: "Don't forget to use the safety belt, sweetie."

The boy complied and helped his friends to be safe as well. He could carry the Abra on his lap, but the Nidorino and Ampharos were helped by the boy who placed the security belt on them too. The boy sat on the middle while Hiro and Misaka sat on the window seats.

Jack couldn't believe what was happening. He was so happy that he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to. He sat on the back of the car as he waved back at the people and pokemon who were saying their 'byes' to him.

The boy was heading to a new home with a new family.

End of chapter 3

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. reviews are more than welcome! XD