Author's Note: Apologies for the delay. I had a very busy week with work and real life. Could barely get the time to write or read fanfics. =/

"I evolved?" I asked as we sat on a bed in one of the Pokémon Center's rooms, where Bill was furiously filling the air with his furious typing noises on his laptop.

"Yup!" Fay cheerfully chirped, bouncing a bit from where she sat. "You evolved into a Flareon! And then a Vaporeon! And then a Jolteon! And then—"

I arched an eyebrow and turned to Shock. "I evolved?"

"—an Umbreon! And then an Espeon! And—"

Shock shrugged. "I saw it happen. I still don't believe it."

"—then a Leafeon! And—"

I turned to Saur. "I evolved?"

"—then a Glaceon!"

Saur just smiled and nodded.

Fay suddenly blinked, and her smile turned into a confused frown. "And that weird pinkeon with tentacles worming around you."

"That's a Sylll—" I shivered at the sudden pop-ups of images in my head about the 'things' I saw on the internet about that girly 'mon. Brr... "...a Sylveon, Fay... Anyway..."

I shook my head and turned to Vixie, who was annoyingly leaning on me, and resting her head on my shoulder.

"Ahem," I said, pushing her off of me a bit. I failed to get rid of her smile, unfortunately. "So... I evolved?"

"Yep," and she went back on leaning her head on my shoulder again...

I sighed, and turned back to each one of them. "Okay. So, I evolved, as you claim, right?"

They nodded.

I frowned. "Then why the freaking hell am I still an Eevee?!" I held a paw up, stalling Fay's deep intake of breath. "And more importantly, how the hell was I able to evolve into different Eeveelutions?!"

"Eeveelutions..." Saur quietly repeated with a smile and a nod. "I like that."

I glared at him. He shrugged.

Shock cleared his throat. He raised a hand, extending a finger for point number one... "For your first question, we do not know." Second finger. "For the other one, WE should be the ones asking THAT question, not the other way around."

I frowned.

"So, how'd you do it?!" Fay asked excitingly.

My frown deepened.

Saur chuckled. "Jay doesn't seem to know either."

Shock arched an eyebrow at me. "Our party's weakest member happens to be the strongest as well, yet he doesn't know how he did it..." He shook his head in disappointment.

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah. How sad, isn't it?" I glared at him.

I was being sarcastic. They didn't notice. I sighed.

I pushed Vixie away and turned to Bill, and noticed that his Murkrow was sleeping beside his laptop. What was her name again? I think it rhymns with lies... Eh, whatever.

"So," I said, stopping for a moment when Vixie finally stopped pushing her head back on my shoulder. "What now?"

"We wait for Krys' group," Saur calmly replied.

Fay nodded cheerfully.

I blinked. Oh yeah. I almost forgot about her. "Where are they now?"

Shock shrugged and pointed a paw to Bill. "That human Bill guy over there last said that they were following Scizor's group."

I blinked again. "To where again?"

Shock sighed. "Ever since you evolved, your brain doesn't seem to work anymore."

I glared. "Well, excuse me for waking up and suddenly feeling like I could have been fried to a crisp!"

"Wouldn't that be a wonderful sight to see."

"Shock!" Vixie gasped.

The Pikachu waved her off with a hand. "I was kidding. Sheesh, you're being over-protective of your mate lately..."

I frowned. "We're not mates." I noticed Vixie's frown from the corner of my eyes, and I sighed. Here we go again... "Anyw—"

"Jay," Bill called.

We all turned to him.

Bill turned, slightly carrying the chair as he turned so he could face us directly. "How are you feeling?"

"Fine, I..." I suddenly felt how free my neck was. I touched my neck with both paws, and yep, no collar there.

"Ah, right," Bill said, smiling sheepishly as he scratched his head. "The collar was...fried...by the time I got to where you were resting after that...incident."

I turned and glared at Shock. "See? I was fried!"

Shock just rolled his eyes as Fay giggled.

"Anyway," Bill said as he returned his attention back to his laptop. "While you were sleeping earlier, I took some blood samples from you and—"

I gasped. It wasn't enough to break his concentration on whatever was on his screen.

"—compared it to the other Eevees from the trainers that were here."

My eye twitched. I hate needles so much. Just imagining myself being stabbed by... I shivered, and Vixie was quick enough to lean her head on my shoulder again. I sighed.

Bill turned his laptop for us to see two large images side-by-side. It was that aurora-like-rainbow-thingy-thingy again. Bill was frowning at he turned back to us.

"There wasn't any difference, as far as I can tell..."

Well, that was useless information. I frowned. "Can I have my blood back?"

Bill shook his head and returned to his laptop. "Professor Oak went back to Pallet Town so he could do his own research better. And..." he trailed off. He was already absorbed by his laptop that waiting for almost a minute for him to continue became pointless now.

"So..." I said as my friends turned to each other. "We wait?"

Shock nodded. "That's the plan, yes." He suddenly shook his head. "But I don't like staying here for long." He looked around. "Feels like we're captured and forced to follow that human." He looked back at us. "We're leaving."

I arched an eyebrow. "We leave to...where?"

Shock shrugged. "Nowhere." He turned to the only window in the room, smiling at the calmly rolling white clouds on a blue sky. "It's a big world out there. There are still so many things for us to see."

I rolled my eyes. "When did you become so poetic?"

"Shut up."

I chuckled. "Anyway, so we'll go on an adventure while waiting?"

Shock grinned at me.

I turned to the others. Fay was smiling happily as usual. Saur was smiling calmly as usual. Vixie was annoyingly leaning her head on my shoulder, which I am hoping will not become a usual.

I sighed quietly. Our little group started this little adventure of ours so that we could get to Professor Oak, since that's where Bill was, in hopes for me to return to being human.

We ended up with failure, since Bill can't help me with my situation.

I am still kinda waiting for Celebi, or any legendaries that might bring me the word that Arceus is finally going to help me.

Waiting... Waiting...

Am I just going to sit here and wait? I could. That's a safer option. I thought of that as well when I was in Oak's lab. I ended up working with them to at least help solve the devolution mystery, with the promise of them helping my situation. The promise ended up being nailed in the waiting list... Also...helping them, I kinda didn't like it. It wasn't about me...

Selfish I may sound, but I am truly not supposed to be here. I need to go home. The legendaries, as far as I've seen, are powerful, and they can help me, and it's going to be worth the wait...no matter how long?

Shock wants us to go on an adventure...the five of us. But for what? I think I'm satisfied with the knowledge that I have about this world from the animé, game and manga. I don't really want to experience everything firstha—paw... And there's also t— "Eep!"

I jumped aside in a jolt after I felt a wet lick on my cheek. I stared in disbelief at the giggling Vulpix.

"You think too much," she said.

"And welcome back to reality," Shock grinned with an eye roll. "So, what do you say?"

I sat down, leaned down, wiped my cheek on the soft bedsheets, and stayed lying there with a confused sigh. Bad idea. Vixie laid her head on my back. I grunted in annoyance.

"You two look cute together."

"Shut up, Fay."