Ok so I know this one is sooner than normal, but I just had a creative bug in me that I really needed to get out. But before I get on with the chapter... I'm goin to explain some terms that they use, since they don't know names of colors or seasons or even how to calculate time (cuz lets face it, those are all human things) I gave them Pokemon-terms. So here's the list and what they equal to us.

Colors

Red-fire

Blue- water or sky (interchangeable, depends where one was raised.)

White- white or sky-fluff

Green- grass or leaves (again interchangeable upon location)

Brown- trees

Orange- Dark Sun

Yellow- light sun

Other colors most likely will have comparisons within nature or the narrator will compare them to a pokemon's fur color.

Time and season names

Sunrise- lowsun (interchangeable with lowfire)

Noon- Brightsun (brightfire)

Dusk- Darksun (darkfire)

Night- Moonout

Midnight- High moon

Month- Moon cycle

Spring- Season of Rebirth

Summer- Season of Learning

Fall- Season of Change

Winter- Season of Rest

(some pokemon use "Time of" in place of "Season of". Names of seasons come from their creation story.)

(Age is done by seasons, that one is important for later, mainly for a running joke that I can't get out of my head.)

Ok so I think that's everything at the moment. Now enjoy the story :D

I didn't move as Char-iuk bolted away back to the den. I was actually proud of myself, I didn't even flick my ear or blink I was so still. That way Flint would think it was some crazy Pidgey or something. My plan worked too, well most of the way. Flint turned back towards the human, convinced that the rattling in the bushes was a random wild pokemon. The old human on the other hand, apparently likes to investigate rustling bushes, and I wasn't willing to try my luck twice now, so I bolted in the other direction that Char-iuk did a few heart-beats earlier, not looking back to see if the human saw me.

After I got quite a distance a way, I chanced a look over my shoulder.

"Nothing back there." I sighed in relief. As I turned back to watch what was in front of me, another strange human ran out of the bushes and ran straight into me. We both fell back on our tail ends, knocking the wind out of me.

This human was my size, making me think that this one was a human-hatchling, like I was a Charmander-hatchling. He had tree-colored top fur and, like the other humans, the rest of his body was covered in the fake fur.

He finally opened his eyes, and stared at me wide-eyed, like he was looking at something he wasn't expecting. After a few silent and, again, strangely still moments of this staring contest, I bucked up the courage to speak.

"Umm… So do all of you humans have fake fur? Or is it just the ones invading the forest recently?"

The hatchling blinked at me, trying to figure out what I was talking about (I guess). So I decided I would help him a little.

"I'm talking about these things." I said reaching for the fake fur attached to his chest. The scream that followed from the small human startled me to the point where I fell on my back and let lose a gasp of my own.

Note to self: Humans don't like when others touch their fake fur, and they can yell loud.

By the time I got back to my feet, the human had already started running back the way he had came towards the edge of the forest, leaving me to stand there stupidly. And of course, as I'm standing there looking like an idiot, someone has to come along to find me, and that's exactly what Sparks does.

"Cha-ko!" The Pikachu hissed from a tree branch above me. "What are you doing so close to the edge of the forest? I know for a fact that your mother said to stay far away from here!"

"Sorry Sparks." I said looking up innocently at the Pikachu. He sighed, jumped down, and started to head back towards where the nests were, motioning for me to follow. "But I couldn't help it. I was walking with Char-iuk, minding our own Combee-wax, and then this strange human came out of nowhere with Flint." I barely stopped my story to catch my breath, while Sparks sighed from the trail in front of me. "Well we didn't want to get caught, so we ran and then there was this human hatchling that I ran in too. Did you know that those yell really loudly? And I wasn't even doing anything!"

Sparks sighed as we stopped outside his den. "He probably couldn't understand you, Cha-ko. Those are humans. They don't speak the language that Arceus gave us, they speak their own."

"But why?"

"That's the way things are. No one knows the real answer to that."

"That doesn't make any sense."

Sparks smiled. "Nothing in life does, kid. Now I want to show you something. You've seen that egg that your mother laid right?" I nodded. "And I know you saw the ones that we both gave the humans." Another nod, this one hesitant. "Well like your mother, we didn't give up all of ours either. And he just hatched." Sparks had a happy grin on his face. "Would you like to see him?"

"Can I?" I said happily. As the youngest of the group, or "herd" as Sparks sometimes called it, I hadn't seen anyone younger than myself, so this was a step in the positive direction for me.

"Would I have asked if you couldn't?" Sparks laughed as he padded into his den. I followed shortly after, and was welcomed by the sight of Toothy curled up into a ball, her tail wrapped around a small bundle. The Ratatta was no bigger than my front legs, and was fast asleep in his mother's embrace.

"Why is he so small?" I whispered to Toothy, who had opened one of her eyes as we padded in.

"Longtail was just born, Cha-ko." She hummed. "When creatures are born, they are made tiny so they can learn and grow with the seasons, just like Arceus planned it to be."

(Timebreak to next morning… I didn't want to end the chapter yet.)

I woke up the next morning, curled up next to Char-iuk, underneath Mama's wing. We both had gotten sent to bed earlier than normal, and gotten the hatchling treatment of having to sleep next to Mama, which neither of us had done since our second Season of Rebirth. I wiggled around, letting Mama know I was awake and wanted out, which got me a grunt from her and a claw grabbing my back and placing me closer to her.

"You can sleep at least until low-sun." She grunted. I faintly heard Char-iuk giggle from where he was sleeping a few tails-lengths away. Though we were both surprised when Mama jumped in surprise. Her wings lifted up quickly, leaving both Char-iuk and I out in the open again, and she turned around to the spot that her tail had been covering all through the night. Char-iuk and I exchanged glances, as we dashed over to her tail, trampling where Drano's nest was normally. Papa and Drano left the night before to go to the Dragon Den for training.

"What is it Mama?" Char-iuk asked trying to glance at what she was covering up. Mama let out a rare smile. "I wanta see! I really do!" Char-iuk said as he bounced up and down at Mama's feet. I joined him in the chorus soon afterwards.

Mama laughed. "Hush you two, you are going to wake her." She said lowering her chest down so we could see. "Meet your new sister, Derli. She hatched last night."

"Isn't that a Dragonite name?" I asked while looking at the smaller Charmander. I couldn't see much of a difference looking between Char-iuk and now Derli, but I somehow knew she was, well… A she. Though my comment earned me a pop in the back of the head.

"You know names aren't stopped by species." Mama scolded me. "Arceus made us all the same, and we need to always remember that. I nodded and looked back at Derli, who already had Char-iuk's claw in her mouth, and was hiccupping tiny embers.

Char-iuk laughed as he pulled back his paw. "Mama did I do that when I hatched?" He asked, still fascinated with the new-hatched. Mama nodded, and nuzzled him. I only blinked, and tried to get Derli's attention. She gripped my paw in her mouth, still hiccupping embers. "What about Cha-ko?" Char-iuk said, glancing over at me. Mama froze for a moment.

"No, Cha-ko was a special hatchling." She said as she nuzzled me. "And I wouldn't have you any other way."

(word count before author notes-1,267)

:D So those that don't know who the human hatchling is, Think about who else lives in Pallet at the time. And next chapter will be how Char-ko gets discovered by the humans and how he learns most of his human speech (or is that the other way around? Well I know, but y'all will just have to keep readin to find out)

As always Review! And thanks to all those that have Favorited, watched, and review to my story so far. Y'all are the reason that this one came out so soon. (And the next one should come out even sooner.)