Dreaming of Adventure Ch 1

Chapter 1

In the Eureka forest, in a bush under a tree, a rare silver and white Eevee curled up around her mother. As she laid there she dreamed about the day she would go on an adventure and see beyond the section of the forest that her people could live and play. The little Eevee ears peaked at the sound of the first gust of wind rustling the leaves of the trees. Her eyes slowly opened, adjusting to the small gleams of light shining through the cracks in the leaves.

Once her eyes had fully adjusted, she immediately turned over to her Espeon mother who was still sleeping. Her purple fur shone with the little bits of light that cracked through the leaves. The Eevee could see no sign of her father. She figured he was most likely going out searching for food.

Feeling full of energy and playful, the little Eevee pounced on her mother. “Wake up” she chirped in her ear, bouncing up and down on top of her mother. “It’s morning. Let go out and explore the forest.”

The Espeon slowly cracked open her eyes. She let out a long yawn, obviously still tired. She looked directly at her daughter who was still bouncing on her and smiled. “Why don’t you go out and play first?” she said sounding still half asleep. “I’ll be out in a minute.”

A big smile grew on the Eevee’s face and in a second she jumped off her mother and was immediately out of the bush. She closed her eyes as the sun hit her silver and white fur, sighing happily at the warmth she felt.

She looked around and noticed her friend, another Eevee with normal brown and white fur was just getting out of his family’s bush, not too far from theirs. Quietly and stealthy she snuck up behind her friend. She waited until she was a couple of inches behind him before pouncing on top of him.

“What the heck!” he shrieked before realising it was just his friend. “Hey, get off.” He said as he began to struggle.

She giggled before jumping off to stand next to her friend.

“Are your parents up?” she asked as her friend started to get himself up.

“Mum’s still resting” he replied. “I think dad is out searching for food.”

“Mine too.”

“So, wanna play?” He asked, smiling.

“Sure” she said smiling brightly. “Give me a minute”

She quickly rushed back to her families bush. She popped her head in and saw her mother stretching. “Mum, we’re going out to play.”

Her mother looked over at her and smiled. “Sure, just don’t go too far.”

“Thanks mum” she said as she turned and went racing deep into the forest, past her friend. “Race ya” she called as she continued to run.

“Hey, wait for me!” he cried, chasing after her.

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The fox like Pokémon tried to stop herself from snickering as she watched her friend walk right past her hiding place for the fifth time now. Every time they played hide and seek she would find him almost instantly but she always found the best hiding places. It would take him ages to find her.

She wondered, when he did eventually find her what they would do next. Knowing her friend he would most likely still want to play some more even though they had been playing for god knows how long already.

What she really wanted to do was to go exploring. She wanted to go deeper into the forest and see if the trees looked any different. She wanted to see if there were other kinds of berries in the forest. She wanted to see what other types of Pokémon there were.

The problem is though her friend would never let her. He was always too careful and listen to everything the adults said about not going out on their own and how it’s dangerous out there. Sometimes she wondered which one of them is the real boy.  

It also didn’t help that she was a rare breed of Eevee and as her father said she was a prime target for Pokémon trainers that might be making their way through the forest. Which made her friend very protective of her when they went out.

Originally she would get around his worries by acting all cute until he caved. However now he was starting to see through that and would cut off the conversation before she would get the chance.

“Boo.”

The little Eevee, who had been distracted by her thoughts jumped in the air and turned around to see her friend, obviously caught by surprised.

“Would you not do that?” she snapped.

“That’s for pouncing on me this morning.” he replied.

She poked her tongue out at her friend who just giggled at the childish action.

“So, what do you want to do now?” she asked.

“Let’s play another round. This time it’s my turn to hide.” He said brightly.

The Pokémon sighed. It was just as she expected. All he wanted to do was play. He never wanted to go out and see anything. Well today she decided she was going to take a chance and she was going whether he agreed to come or not.

“I got an idea,” she said. “Why don’t we go exploring?”

He frowned obviously not fond of that idea.

“You know what our parents wi-”

“I know, I know” She cuts him off. “Come on. We won’t go far. We will just go and see a little bit of the forest,”

He looked away, still clearly not keen on the idea but obviously thinking about it.

“Look I really don’t thi-”

“Pleaaaaaaaase,” she said as cutely as possible.

He looked at her before giving a long sigh. “Alright” he said.

A sly grin broke on her face. ‘Looks like I still got it’ she thought.

“Come on, let’s go!” She called as she dashed into the forest.

“Wait up!” He called, as he ran after her.

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“H-hey! C-can you st-stop for a m-minute?”

The silver Eevee stopped and turned around to see her friend panting heavily.

“You are really out of shape.” She told him.

“Y-YOU JUST NE-NEVER RUN OU-OUT OF ENERGY!” He snapped through his pants.

She just brushed off the comment and turned to face the forest.

“Come on, let’s go.”

“Wait!”

She turned back to face him, feeling irritated. “What now?” She asked.

He took a moment to relax his breathing before replying “We’re at the edge of our part of the forest.”

She looked around and noticed he was right. They were right next to the Oran berry bushes where their side of the forest ended and where the other unknown Pokémon’s side of the forest began.

“Come on, let’s go back. I’m sure our parents are wondering where we are.” Her friend said.

She knew he was probably right but they had already come this far. She wasn’t ready to turn back yet.

“Come on,” she pleaded. “Let’s go a little further.”

“No”

“Pleaaaa-”

“No.” He said serious. “We need to go back.”

“Vhat are yoo two doong.”

They turned around to see her father, a black and yellow Umbreon, standing with a branch with a bunch of sitrus berries on it, in his mouth.

“No-nothing,” her friend statured, obviously afraid of getting in trouble for being this far into the forest.

Her father eyed them suspiciously, placing the branch down. “You weren’t planning on going outside our section of the forest, were you?” He asked.

Her friend paled. “N-no. We we-were ju-”

“I wasn’t talking to you,” he cut him off. “Were you planning on going outside our section of the forest?” He repeated, staring right at his daughter.

She looked away. She would not feel guilty. She hadn’t done anything wrong, yet.

The Umbreon sighed. “It’s dangerous out there, especially for you. You’re still too young and inexperienced in battle to defend yourself if something goes wrong.”

“Yeah, yeah.” She replied, clearly not really listening.

“Look at me!” He said sternly. She immediately looked him directly in the eye, knowing not to be disrespectful when he took that tone.

“Promise me you won’t go any further.”

After eyeing him down for a little bit she realised that she wasn’t getting out of this without promising her father. “I promise,” she said through a sigh.

Her father kept staring at her for a moment before a smile broke out on his face.

“Good.” He said. “You two should think about heading back. It’s going to be dark in a few hours.” He picked up the branch and then headed off.

As soon as they were sure he was gone, they both relaxed.

“Want to head back?” Her friend asked.

She frowned. “You go ahead. I’ll catch up.”

Her friend eyed her suspiciously, obviously not trusting her. She supposed she couldn’t really blame him. She was a bit of a trouble maker.

“You’re not going to do anything stupid, are you?” He asked.

“Don’t worry. I promised, didn’t I?” she said rather disingenuously.

The male Eevee glared at her, not amused by her tone of voice.

‘Now he is acting like my father,’ she thought. She was getting real sick of people treating her like a kid. However, she realised that getting mad at him wasn’t going to help her case.

She took a deep breath and as calmly as possible said “Don’t worry. I’m not going to do anything. Please, can you just leave me alone for a bit?”

The brown and white Eevee just stared at her for a moment before giving a small nod. He turned around and started heading back to their bushes.

Once she was sure he was gone she turned back to face the part of the forest that was ‘dangerous’ and really started to think about it.

On the one hand she had no idea what was out there and her parents will surely be mad if she went further into the forest. Especially after she promised her father she wouldn’t.

On the other hand she had gone this far into the forest before and nothing bad has ever happened. What harm would going a little further do?

‘It’s dangerous out there, especially for you.’

The words of her father played in her head. She knew that she was a rare kind of Pokémon. She had never seen another Eevee like herself. But she never saw any trainers in the forest. Not that she knew what a trainer looked like.

Deciding that she had nothing to fear, she started walking into the forest. Excited what she was going to see.

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To say that she found this part of the forest disappointing would be an understatement. She had been walking for at least an hour and in that time not only had she not seen any new Pokémon but all the berry bushes and trees looked exactly the same as in her part of the forest.

‘How boring’ she thought.

Noticing that it was starting to get dark, she decided to head back. If she didn’t get back soon her father might find out and then she’d be in for it.

Crack.

A sound of a branch breaking snapped her out of her thoughts. She turned around before freezing. Standing right behind her was a Pokémon that was black and orange, with a stylized bone on its head.

A million thoughts raced through her head as the Pokémon continued to stare. How long had he been following her? What did he want with her? Was it a wild or a trainers Pokémon?

Taking a deep breath, the Eevee calmed herself. She needed to think this through.

The Pokémon wasn’t attacking. Maybe it was just walking through. There was certainly no harm in asking was there?

“U-um, excuse me. What are yo-”

She immediately stopped talking when the Pokémon started charging at her. She turned around and started running as fast as her little legs could carry her.

As she ran she could hear the Pokémon barking “Get back here!” Clearly he was right on her tail. She just kept going, desperately trying to move faster.

She turned left, hoping to lose the Pokémon but stopped immediately when she saw a rock wall right in front of her.

Before she could even think about doing anything, she felt something crash right into her, sending her flying at the wall with a smack.

As her body hit the ground she saw the Pokémon slowly approaching her. ‘I’m going to die.’ She thought as she closed her eyes, too terrified to watch.

Then she suddenly heard some barking. At first she thought it was the Pokémon trying to scare her. Then she noticed there was two voices barking.

“Leave this Pokémon alone.”

“Get out of my way.”

She opened her eyes to see a similar looking Pokémon standing right in front of her. A bigger one with horns on the back of his head.

‘What is happening? She thought. ‘Why is this Pokémon protecting me?’

Suddenly, the bigger Pokémon sent a blast of fire from its mouth at the other smaller one who ran away as fast as he could.

The last thing she saw was the bigger Pokemon turning around to face her before she passed out.

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She felt something stroking her fur. ‘It must be mum,’ she thought. Eevee wondered if the whole experience was just a dream.

The silver and white Eevee blinked her eyes sleepily. She noticed that it was very dark. She wouldn’t be able to see anything if it wasn’t for the glow of the fire.

‘Wait, fire?’

She looked around and noticed she didn’t recognise this part of the forest.

‘Where am I?’ She thought.

“So you’re finally awake?”

She froze at the sound of the voice. The Eevee looked up and saw something she had never seen before.

As the thing tried to stroke her fur again she immediately jumped away. She tried to look scary but suddenly collapsed in pain.

“Hey, are you alright?” It asked.

“Who are you?” she growled, trying to sound intimidating.

“Why don’t you calm down?” She heard someone growl from behind her.

She turned around to see the Pokémon that stopped the one chasing her, laying down.

“Where have you taken me?” She demanded weakly.

“That’s not a nice way to talk to the one who saved you.” He said, obviously not impressed with her.

“Leave her alone Houndoom. She’s obviously scared.”

The Pokémon growled a little before obeying.

Eevee’s eyes widened. This must be a Pokémon trainer, a human.

Before she even had time to think, the human stood up and walked over to her. She tried to move but her legs were too weak. As it crouched down in front of her the human pulled out something purple and grey out of their pocket.

‘Is that one of those things that they use to capture Pokémon?’ She thought.

Unable to do anything, she watched in horror as the human started spraying something at her.

“There you go,” the human said as it stopped spraying. “You should be all healed now.”

Eevee looked at it confused. She stood up and didn’t feel any pain at all.

‘Why did it heal me?’ She thought.

Suddenly her stomach started growling. She hadn’t eaten all day.

The human started laughing as it put the purple and grey thing away. The trainer then walked over to something grey and reached inside it.

The Eevee immediately tensed up, wondering what it was doing.

“Relax,” growled the Houndoom. “She is just getting you something to eat out of her bag.”

The human then pulled two things out of the “bag”. She placed something round and silver in front of her and poured some small little brown cubes in it.

‘What is this?’ she thought, giving it a sniff.

“Try it,” the human said. “It’s good.”

She took another sniff before taking a bite out of one of the cubes. It tasted like a mix of berries. Liking the taste, she kept eating.

Once she had finished the human took the round thing away and placed it back in the bag.

She then turned to face her Pokémon. “Alright Houndoom, put out that fire.” She commanded.

The Pokémon obeyed, kicking dirt on the fire until it was out.

The human then pulled out a round object from its waist. “Thanks Houndoom. Return,” in a red beam of light the Pokémon disappeared.

She then walked over to the Eevee and much to her horror picked her up. She immediately began struggling, not liking the feeling at all.

“Calm down,” said the human as she stroked her fur with the hand that wasn’t holding her.

The human then walked inside what looked like a big, red shelter. Once inside the human then put the Eevee down, who proceeded to growl at the human.

“Calm down,” the human repeated, crouching down in front of her. “I’m not going to hurt you.”

Eevee continued to growl, still not trusting the human.

The human just sighed as it got up and walked over to the other end of the shelter.

“Look, I’m not going to catch you,” said the human as she laid down and wrapped herself in a green material. “You’re still too young to be battling and you probably still live with your family. Besides, I don’t catch Pokémon that don’t want to be caught. My Houndoom found you injured in the forest. In the morning we will see if we can find your parents. For now you should get some sleep.”

With that, the human closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Eevee eyed the human warily before relaxing. She figured the human had given her no reason not to trust her so far. She wrapped herself in a ball and attempted to sleep.

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She was shivering.

Normally when she slept she had one of her parent’s body heat to keep her warm. This was the first time she can remember sleeping alone and she was cold.

She opened her eyes and looked around for something to keep her warm. The only thing she could see was the human sprawled out on the floor.

Realising there was no other options, she walked over and curled up next to the human. She then felt an arm wrapped around her.

Eevee looked up but the human’s eyes were still closed. Deciding to ignore it, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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When she woke up she couldn’t see the human anywhere. It can’t have been a dream. The red shelter was still there. After having a stretch she walked out of the shelter the same way she remembered the human came in. When she walked out the sun shone right in her eyes. Clearly she had been asleep for a long time.

“So, you’re awake.”

She looked over and saw the human smiling, with the same silver bowl and same food from last night right in front of her. Eevee quickly ran over to the bowl and ate the food.

“Alright, you finish that and I’ll put the tent away,” the human said.

It didn’t take long to finish the food. When she looked over at the human the red shelter was gone.

The human walked over and picked up the silver object and put it in her bag. She then pulled a ball, like the one from last night, from her waist.

“Go, Houndoom.” She commanded, as the ball opened and in a flash of red light, the Pokémon that saved her appeared. “Alright Houndoom, take us to where you found this little fella.”

Houndoom immediately started walking off as the human and Eevee started to follow.

While they were walking, Eevee remembered that she hadn’t actually thanked Houndoom for saving her last night. She speed up to walk next to the Pokémon.

“U-um, ex-excuse me,” she said, timidly.

“What?” Houndoom growled.

“W-well, I want t-to th-thank you f-for saving m-me.”

Houndoom stared down at her for a moment before smiling. “No problem.”

A few second later Houndoom stopped.

“This is the place,” he barked.

“Well it doesn’t look like there are any Pokémon around here,” the human said. “Can you find your way back from here?”

Eevee looked around. She didn’t recognise where she was at all. She was busy running for her life last night that she didn’t make time to remember her surroundings. She looked up at the human and shook her head sadly.

The human then proceed to pick her up and stroke her fur. “Don’t worry,” she said “We will find your home.”

Eevee strangely found comfort in her words, relaxing into the touch.

“Houndoom, see if you can pick up the trail of where this little guy came from,” the human commanded.

Houndoom sniffed around on the ground before he started to walk with his trainer following.

“So, I haven’t introduced myself, have I?” The human asked as she continued to stroke her fur. “My name is Lisa.”

Eevee looked at her in confusion. Was she expecting her to talk back?

The human smiled, looking down at her. “So Shiny, I’m wondering why you were out on your own?” She questioned. “I know. I bet you wanted to go on an adventure and something happened.”

Eevee’s eyes widened.

“I’ll take that as a yes,” the human said. “You know when I was a kid all I wanted to do was go adventuring but my parents always told me it was dangerous out there.”

‘Sounds like my parents,’ she thought.

“I never really listened though and one day I decided to go out into the forest and look around. To be honest it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting.  Then I was attacked by a wild Pokémon. I thought I was in trouble but my dad found and saved me. Of course I got in trouble anyway for going off on my own.”

‘Damn it.’ She had forgotten about her father. She wondered if he would be mad. She did disobey him and go into the forest.

“But I didn’t let that stop me. I trained hard and once I was old enough to be a trainer, I was able to handle myself on my own.” She continued. “I hope you don’t let this experience change you either, Shiny.”

Eevee didn’t understand. Her parents had told her to be afraid of humans because they are just greedy creatures, who would only be interested in her for being special. This human, “Lisa” seemed nice.

Eevee was brought out of her train of thought by the sound of something in the distance.

“Eevee, Eevee.”

‘Was that?’ Eevee thought.

“Eevee, where are you?”

‘It is.’

She jumped out of the human’s arms and started running in the direction of the voice.

“Wait.” The human cried.

She didn’t listen as she continued in her pursuit. It didn’t take her long to find just what she expected. Her father looking around for her desperately.

“Dad.” She cried happily as she went running towards her father.

Her father turn around to look at her. “Eevee.” He said, sounding relived.

“Dad, I went into the forest and I was chased by a Pokémon but I was saved b-”

Eevee never finished what she was saying. A loud smacking sound cut her off, making her head whip ninety degrees.

“Do you know how dangerous that was? I have warned you about going into the forest. You promised me and you still went.”

Eevee looked down at the ground. Her dad was really angry.

“There you are.”

Eevee looked around to see Lisa and the Houndoom. In an instant her father was in front of her growling. The Houndoom immediately got into an attack position, growling back.

“No.” Eevee cried, getting in front of her father. “They saved me.”

“Did it capture you?” he demanded to know.

“No.”

“Well since you found your family we’ll just leave then.” Lisa said.

Eevee turned around to see the human and the Houndoom turn to leave. She felt sad. She didn’t want them to leave. She may have only just meet Lisa but she felt a weird kinship with her. She was someone that understood her and now that she had finally meet someone like that, she wanted her to stay. At least for a little longer.

She ran over and stood in front of the human, blocking her way.

“What’s the matter?” She questioned. “Don’t want me to leave?”

Eevee nodded.

“Sorry but I have to.”

Eevee looked down sad. She then felt the human run her hand through her fur.

“But my home is near this area. So when I am back from my travels, I will come visit you sometime, alright?”

Eevee looked up at the human and then gave her a big smile.

The human smile back before getting up and walking off with Houndoom. Once they were gone Eevee turned to face her father.

“Come on,” he said. “We need to get home. Your mother is worried sick.”

Eevee followed her father, not wanting to get in anymore trouble then she was already in. She wondered if she would ever see that human again.