Ash was very happy. He finally had an Axew! He just needed to find him a good nickname for his new friend. Ladon will love not being the youngest anymore. However, Ash was not the only one who was happy, now that they were back in the classroom, he could clearly see the giddy and happy faces of his classmates. Holding their Poke Balls and reading the info with their new Pokedex.
"Ash!" Ashley called out, standing in front of his desk with Laura. "Did you end up catching Axew?" She asked with a big smile, she seemed very pleased with her pokemon.
"I did! What about you? Did you both catch a Horsea?" Ash asked, his Sunflora smile never leaving his face.
"We did," Laura replied. She was more collected than the other two, but you could still see her happiness. There was nothing like catching your first pokemon. "We were lucky, from all the Horsea's ours were the only ones with an ability."
"Really? What kind?" Ash asked, excitedly. As all his pokemon have abilities he sometimes forgets that it was not that common.
"Mine has Swift Swim and Laura's has Sniper," Ashley answered, matching his excitement.
"That is so cool!" Ash exclaimed- pokemon will never get old for him.
"What about yours?" Laura asked him, interested in knowing what kind of ability (if they had any) and move set the dragon pokemon had.
"I… I don't know," Ash replied sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head as he chuckles. "I was so excited about finally having an Axew like Drayden-sensei that I completely forgot about checking it out."
Even Ele sweatdropped at her human's slip. But he looked so cute being all sheepish that Ash had many girls and boys alike sighing at the sight.
"Al-alta!" Ele nudged her human, pointing at his pokedex.
"You are right Ele, let's do it right now," and just like that, every student stopped talking to watch Ash.
Pokemon : Axew.
Gender : Male.
Ability : Mold Breaker.
Type : Dragon.
Move set: Leer, Bite, Scary Face, False Swipe, and Slash.
The pokemon knows the eggs move Endeavor and Night Slash.
NOTE : The egg moves have yet to be unlocked.
"Mold Breaker? What kind of ability is that?" A boy asked.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Ash answered, looking as confused as the rest of the class. But Ele looked quite interested in the Poke Ball in his hand. "But from Ele's reaction, it seems to be an interesting ability."
"It is," Drayden-sensei replied, as he entered the classroom. Every student rapidly returned to their seats. "When a Pokémon with Mold Breaker uses a move, the effects of all ignorable Abilities are ignored while the move is used. One example would be if your Axew uses Earthquake against an opponent with Levitate it can still hit." Everyone's eyes opened wide in surprise. Ash especially, as his gaze returned to the Poke Ball in his hand. "Also, abilities that prevent status conditions, such as Immunity and Oblivious, will not protect the Pokémon from receiving the status condition. However, many of these Abilities also have effects to cure the Pokémon of the status condition if afflicted, which will activate immediately after being inflicted with the status condition, even if it was inflicted by a Pokémon with Mold Breaker. Like your Ele who possesses Natural Cure."
"That's so cool!" Now it was everyone, not only Ash, who said that.
"Yeah, it is." Drayden chuckled at his students.
Ash opened the move set selection for Axew on his Pokedex and was already planning on what to teach him. Starting with Dragon Dance so he could start learning to get in touch with his dragon energy and a way to build power for the baby pokemon. Maybe even have Ladon teaching him, so he can finally begin learning how to help others. Then followed by Ele helping them both learn Dragon Pulse. He also decided to teach him Crunch and Dual Chop, as he noticed by the moves, he already knew that he had quite an ease with dark energy and using his claws as his main weapons.
He was so deep into thoughts and making training notes on his Pokedex that the next time Drayden-sensei spoke he was startled, he would have dropped the Pokedex if it had not been for Ele.
"Thank you, girl," he whispered, kissing her head as Drayden-sensei spoke.
"But as interesting as Ash's Axew's ability is, the pokemon is not rare in this region. Not like Celeste's Eevee." Ash's eyes snapped towards the shy girl with teal hair and teal eyes, that was blushing and looking at her lap.
"Eevee? The fluffy brown pokemon I saw her with?" A guy asked. "Is it really that impressive that would overshadow a dragon?" Many other students shared their opinion.
"Eevee, as in the evolution pokemon?" Ash asked, slowly, making sure he had heard right. By now, the other students realized it was a big deal if it got such a reaction from a dragon trainer. "The same pokemon who has eight different evolutions, which had the term eeveelutions created for their species specifically? The same pokemon that cannot be found in Unova or Hoenn? Which are even hard to find in Kanto, Johto, and Sinnoh?" By now every student was looking at Celeste with eyes wide-open.
"Yes, exactly that Eevee," Drayden-sensei answered, smiling proudly that it was his student the one who knew how special an Eevee was. "You can even say that compared to the other regions Sinnoh has the biggest population but nothing compared to Kalos, Alola, and Paldea, where they are common. They've been the topic of study to many professors over the years. Even for those who study the evolution of pokemon, Eevee is still an unresolved mystery. The only thing they know for sure is that they are originally from the Paldea region. The region which Celeste comes from, which is why she knew how special they are. I, myself, could only find one. What am I curious about is why did you know about them, Ash? They are not that common in Kanto."
"My grandmother was from Paldea," he answered. "She used to have an Umbreon and Espeon mate-pair."
"Tu abuela era de Paldea?" Celeste turned towards Ash and asked in surprise.
"Si, mi mamá también se crió haya antes de que se mudaran a Kanto," Ash answered, with a smile to his shocked classmate.
"Umbreon and Espeon?" Laura spoke up. "What kind of pokemon are those?"
"Well…" Drayden-sensei began, turning on the projector. An image of Eevee surrounded by eight arrows pointing at different pokemon appeared on the white blackboard. "Ok, as I mentioned before Eevee is a Normal-type Pokemon that can evolve into eight different pokemon. The more commons are Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon," he pointed at the top tier of pokemon. "As you can guess Vaporeon is a Water-type Pokemon, that evolves from Eevee by being in contact with a water stone. Jolteon is an Electric-type pokemon, that by being in contact with a thunder stone. Flareon is a Fire-type, that needs a fire stone to evolve." The students could not take their eyes off the projection, they could not believe that one pokemon can have so many evolutions. "The next two evolutions are Umbreon and Espeon. They are not that common but not that hard to find either. Umbreon is a Dark-type pokemon and Espeon is a Psychic-type pokemon. If they evolve during the day without the help of any stone, they turn into an Espeon, but if they do it during the night, they evolve into an Umbreon. The next ones are Glaceon, Sylveon, and Leafeon." He said pointing at the lower tier. "They are the rarest to find around."
"Let me guess Leafeon needs a leaf stone to evolve!" a guy interrupted with a smug expression on his face.
"No," Drayden-sensei deadpanned, making many students chuckle at the embarrassed student. "But you did guess their type correctly, Leafeon is a Grass-type pokemon. But they need a moss rock to evolve. Glaceon is an Ice-type that needs an icy rock to evolve. Now, Sylveon has quite the deceiving evolution. They are Fairy-type pokemon that no one can really explain, as they evolve during the day without any evolutionary item as Espeon's do. The only thing that could explain this phenomenon are theories that Eevee needs to know one or two Fairy-type moves before they evolve into Sylveon. But still, none of these theories were verified."
"Who would have guessed such a fluffy pokemon could be so complicated?" Ashley commented, many classmates agreeing with her.
"They are quite the evolution mystery," Drayden-sensei agreed. "What I am curious about is why did you choose an Eevee? Was it because they are originally from your region?"
Ash then realized why his mentor called her out, Cilan's words from this morning echoing in his head. Did you choose Eevee because they are from Paina? Or because they are rare everywhere else?
"Well…" she suddenly took out four Poke Balls and threw them into the air. An Espeon and Umbreon appeared on her desk, followed by two Eevee's that landed on her lap. Many gasped at the sight, even Drayden-sensei's eyebrow rose. "I rescued these two from a trainer that wanted them to force a mating to reproduce and sell their eggs for money." Many looked away in disgust, Ash and Drayden-sensei looked angry. "They did end up together and having two beautiful twin girls," she snuggled the two Eevee's who playfully licked her cheeks in return, making her and many classmates giggle. "But only because they wanted to and after they healed from the abuse. When these two finally came out from their eggs I decided to become an Eevee trainer. As I plan to be a coordinator, I don't need the variety, and having cute pokemon of different types work for me."
"Have the girls decided what they want to evolve into?" Drayden-sensei asked, this time more relaxed.
"Yes," Celeste smiled, patting the Eevee on the left. "This one wants to be a Vaporeon and the other one a Flareon," Drayden-sensei's eyebrow rose for a second time. "Yeah, I had the same reaction. They might be twins but they could not be more different, like water and fire."
Just like that, she called back her pokemon and the class returned to session, with their homeroom teacher. But Ash could not get Celeste's story out of his mind. The both of them were so similar, found and saved their starters from an abusive environment which lead them to decide to specialize in a pokemon type, or one pokemon in Celeste's case. Maybe… just maybe he can get a second friend.
A/N:
* Tu abuela era de Paldea? = Your grandmother was from Paina?
** Si, mi mamá también se crió haya antes de que se mudaran a Kanto = Yes, my mother was also raised there before they moved to Kanto.
