"So what did you find?"
"Well…this is what I got:" Luke looked at the papers he printed out. "At the start of birth, they have six tails. As they get older, they grow more tails." Luke lowered the papers. "Never seen a Vulpix with more than 6 tails…" He looks at the papers again. "Anyway…
"The Vulpix usually sleep with their mother, or parent if any, until it will mature. Mature age is around…7 or 8 years…"
"So that kinda means I'll be sleeping with her for a while, eh?"
"I guess…choose your wording next time—anyway…
"It is an omnivore, but more of a carnivore than they are an herbivore. I'm guessing that you already found that out earlier…"
"Yeah…"
"Okay…What else? Uh…" Luke looks around the papers, flipping through each paper. "Well; you're gonna be outside most of the day now…A Vulpix will need about 5-6 hours of exercise. At the age the Vulpix is now…it would probably need about 3-4 hours of exercise."
"Okay. We've been walking for about an hour…so I guess we have about 3 hours left. Alright I'll just be heading back—or right, what time is it?"
"Uh…" Luke looked back, "It's around eleven…eleven thirty nine."
"Okay; see you later."
"Bye."
Alex and Sorrel are sitting on the grass at the park, looking at those who were active enough to get up and be active. Most of the Pokémon there seemed to be adults…adults who didn't have the midday shift. Some see to be staring at both Alex and Sorrel.
"So I'll be taking care of you; well Tracey and I actually. Hopefully this could end up good, right?"
"Mhm!" Sorrel seemed to say. Alex looked Sorrel, wondering about her understanding of speech. Hm, she seems to understand more with what I'm saying… Alex thought.
"You remember what my name was?" Alex asked.
"A…" Sorrel started, "…A-Alec…"
"It's 'Alex'."
"A-Alex?"
"Yeah, there you go." Alex started to smile. Sorrel smiled also, happy for saying her first word. "Okay, say Tracey."
"T-tray…"
"Okay, go on."
"S-see? Tray…see. Tracey?"
"Yep that's right!"
"A-Alex an' T-Tracey!" She's learning pretty quickly Alex thought. Alex looked around the park again, seeing more Pokémon walking around, a few of them still staring at Alex and Sorrel.
"Just keep practicing," Alex started, "and you could talk better than now."
"Okay." Fourth word…wow. Don't kids learn like one word per day?
"C'mon let's go," Alex says.
"Where?" Sorrel asks. Fifth word!
"Back home with a friend."
"Luke?" Damn! I may have underestimated her a little bit.
"Yes, with him."
"Okay." Sorrel smiled as she stood up. Alex stood up, realizing how fast Sorrel is learning. They start walking off from the park to the house.
Why was she given up? Alex thought. What made the mother give up the Vulpix and leave it at a house instead of any emergency rooms? Not sure if a shiny Vulpix should be given up from the mother. It was probably because she would end up being different… Alex didn't give any hint that he was thinking in question, but he kept looking straight, and only straight. It made Sorrel wonder why he's acting like that. No; I shouldn't think like this; I can't freak out Sorrel. Come to think of it… He looks at Sorrel; her face having a questioning face. She's been wondering about Alex what he's been doing. Oh crap— "Hey, uh, sorry. I was thinking…for a while."
"…Of me?" Sorrel asked. She seemed to be a little worried.
"What—no. It was something else…" I hope she doesn't catch on…
"So what's goin' on?" Luke asked to Alex, Sorrel outside with Luxray and Absol.
"Well, uh…" Alex scratched his head, "do you ever wonder why I was abandoned?"
"Eh, sort of; but after a while I just stopped caring. I never seen a human with another human; seeming that they want to be alone."
"…Really? What if I wanted to see another human?"
"Eh, I don't know; good luck with that."
"…Okay…" Alex thinks out the next question. "Okay, did you ever wonder why Sorrel was abandoned?"
"A little bit…maybe because of her being a shiny."
"Maybe. Well, she's sorta learning fast."
"What do you mean by that?"
"She learned a few words; she even learned to respond with the words."
"So…that means…?"
"She's learning a lot. She was probably given up for what she can handle."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Do you remember when you started to talk? And when you started to understand what you were saying?"
"No, I do not."
"Okay…uh…" Alex started to think out something. "When was Sorrel born, exactly?"
"Uh, hold on." Luke left from the couch, temporarily leaving Alex alone. A few minutes later, he came back with a few papers. He sat down on the same couch he was on earlier. "Uh…from what it says here…she was only born a few weeks ago." Luke looked at Alex with a strange looking face, thinking of what Alex said earlier. "Are you of what you've said earlier?"
Alex holds his hands up, on either side of his side, "Have I ever lied to you Luke?" Luke looked out at the window. He saw that Sorrel seemed to have a good time with Luxray and Absol, wondering about. She seemed to try to say something, maybe words of what Luxray and Absol are speaking of.
"Maybe…but you suck at lying." Luke puts the papers on the coffee table. "So what are you trying to say, that she's a threat to someone out there?"
Alex gave an odd look at Luke, and said, "I don't know, I guess…"
"Okay…just protect her when someone goes ransom for her."
"Uh…what do you mean by that?"
"You're one of the few humans here. You really think I would give you up for eighty-five hundred?"
"Um…probably…not…"
"Wrong! Sometimes I think I made the fucking wrong decision of not giving you up! But Glaceon kept talking about everyone is not worth any money, some crap like that, so that and some self-thinking made me not give you up for eighty-five hundred."
Alex gave another odd look at Luke. "What were you gonna do with the eighty-five hundred exactly?"
"You want to know what I would do with eighty-five hundred? I'll tell you what I would do with eighty-five hundred! First, I would…"
A few minutes later…
"Uh…that's a little—never mind. I just have to say," Alex rose up from his seat, "you are really fucked up. I really have nothing else to say." He left the house, neither Luke nor Alex exchange words.