Whoops, you found me [Lucy]

[Snow]

A silver-haired boy with flowing ribbons and bows, Sylveon ears, and a tail sat quietly in the center of a clearing. It was peaceful, calming even, until he heard the crunch of twigs under shoes. Immediately alarmed, the boy changed forms into a Pokemon -- a silver Sylveon, to be exact -- and hid. Eyes wide, Zel peeked out from a hole in the bush to watch the danger. It was just a girl, but she was really quite a lot bigger than he was. Then again, he was getting his fur all dirty from sitting in this bush... Quietly, he slipped out from the bush and tried to escape the clearing. However, he stepped on a twig which caused him to immediately go hiding in another bush. His ribbons clung tightly to his body, and he hunkered down under the bush. He desperately hoped he wouldn't be noticed, but silver didn't really blend well with green... Then he heard something familiar, very familiar. The toddling steps of Shadow, his precious little brother. And they were getting closer to the clearing... Zel steeled his nerves, but still couldn't make himself leave the bush until he saw Shadow. As soon as Shadow toddled into the clearing, Zel leaped lightly from the bush, nabbed the black Jolteon's scruff, and ran away. He dodged trees and other obstacles as he headed straight for his home. Then he remembered that the Trainer might follow him, and he didn't want a Trainer to know where his home was. So he veered off and ran towards the Frost Cave. Hopefully, he and Shadow would be safe there.

[Midna]

PROFILE PLOT BOX

Lucy hadn't really had all that much in mind to do when she set out for the forest that morning. Sure there were rumors that Eevee swarmed the forest, but she wasn't too interested in catching one. (Well, maybe. It would be nice to have one.) Any Pokemon she found here she would likely only battle to train her own Pokemon. Neither had fought a good battle in days, and Inx was getting snappish again.

The Luxio padded along beside her Trainer, keeping a look out for any sign of other Pokemon with her sharp eyes. She was itching for a good battle, and it showed. The Pokemon had that look in her eyes again, that look that usually warned Lucy's other Pokemon to stay far away. That was probably why Quil had taken refuge in Lucy's hood again, and refused to come out.

Lucy rolled her eyes when she remembered this, and glanced down at the Pokemon by her side. "Inx." The Luxio gave her a questioning look. "For goodness's sake, if you see another Pokemon, don't attack it as soon as you see it. We don't want to be chased out of the forest by rampaging Eevee." Inx actually pouted. "You heard me."

Of course, it was only a few seconds later that the Electric-type spotted a silver shape darting out from behind a bush and dashed after it, yowling her challenge. She didn't even see the Jolteon, just the Sylveon. Paying no attention to Lucy's shouts, Inx ran on. Behind her, Lucy ran after her, cursing under her breath and yelling for her Pokemon to stop. Poor terrified Quil just did his best to hang on to Lucy's hood.

WORDS: 282

TAGGED: @zel

NOTES: Still deciding if I want to use this temp or not. Hmm...

Made by Sifr of GS, Synesthesia and Adoxography.

[Snow]

Zel quickly panicked when he heard the crashing of another Pokemon behind him. But the clearing wasn't too far ahead. Straining his muscles, the Sylveon quickly pushed himself to a faster run than he could reasonably manage. He leaped over another bush and actually glided a little, being so light. He landed in the clearing and dropped Shadow, standing over him protectively like a mother. Exhausted and battered from his run, he wasn't sure if he could hold off the Pokemon that had been chasing him, but he was determined to. Zel's ribbons glowed pink and because straight instead of wavy. He let out a battle cry and got into a fighting position, growling as loud as he could. Shadow huddled underneath him, afraid and obviously not really know what was going on. Zel's fur bushed out, making him seem bigger than he really was. It made him seem like the size of a regular Sylveon, to be honest. "You will not touch my child," Zel growled out loud in Pokespeak, hoping the other Pokemon would hear. They would not have his baby, and that was that.

Zel shifted, preparing himself for an onslaught of attacks. He must not waver, or Shadow would be hurt. However, he was in no condition for battling. His legs shook from exhaustion and pain, and he was lightly panting. There was no way he could hold off too many attacks for long. He could hear Shadow whimpering underneath him, and motherly viciousness flooded his being. No matter what, he would protect Shadow. It wasn't just his job as Shadow's big brother, but also his job as Shadow's motherly figure. He stamped one paw on the ground and got ready to use his signature move, Disarming Voice.

[Midna]

Inx didn't even slow when Zel stopped. She kept running at full speed, excitement in her eyes and almost a feral gleam there too. Her instincts had kicked in, the hunting skills that all Luxios and Luxrays had. She was going to chase this Pokemon and show it who was boss. And the boss was her. She would show this strangely colored Sylveon and the baby Jolteon under it.

Wait, baby?!

She stopped abruptly, almost tripping over her feet, excitement gone from her eyes and replaced with what almost seemed like shame. She'd almost attacked a baby! Maybe Lucy was right. Maybe she needed to be calmer. Speaking of Lucy... "INX." She could hear the Trainer from here and the human sounded furious.

Jogging into the clearing, Lucy stopped next to her Luxio, not paying much attention to the Eeveelutions also in the clearing. "I told you not to go after wild Pokemon. And what did you do? You went after wild Pokemon! Do I need to put you in your Poke Ball for a time out little miss?"

Luxio let out a whine, lowering her head in shame. "Sorry Lucy..."

Lucy couldn't understand exactly what her Pokemon had said but she could guess. "Yeah I bet you're sorry. Now don't leave my side until we get out of the forest or you'll get a time out. Some day one of those Pokemon you chase will beat the snot out of you."

She didn't notice Quil as he slowly climbed down her back and leg. He tentatively moved towards the two, eyes wide and curious. He was trying not to be threatening at all, not wanting to scare or anger the two. But he was curious. He'd never seen Pokemon like them before. "Hi," he said, "Who're you? I'm sorry Inx chased you.."

[Snow]

As soon as the Luxio had stopped and lowered her head, Zel got out of his fighting stance and quickly went to work at licking the shivering Jolteon's fur. Zel was furious, to be honest, but he decided to let it go. Shadow was a baby, after all, and knew no better than to go looking for Zel. When another Pokemon spoke, the Jolteon skittered backwards straight into Zel's belly, making him wince in pain slightly. To answer the other Pokemon, though, Zel lifted his head to look at it. He wasn't quite sure what it was, but it sounded male.

"...Hello. I'm Zel and this is my baby brother, Shadow." Zel sighed slightly. "Well, it wasn't you. You have no reason to apologize." Zel threw an angry glare towards the Luxio. "On the other paw, I would like an apology from the Luxio." Zel wrapped one paw around Shadow to keep him from moving and went back to licking at the Jolteon's bushed out fur. He cooed softly to his baby brother, nuzzling the poor child who was still scared. "What's your name?" Shadow still wouldn't talk, but he was getting calmer.

The Sylveon released the Jolteon, who cautiously crept forward to sniff at the strange Pokemon in front of them. Within only a few moments, the happy little baby instincts inside him woke up, making him so curious. He circled the fire-type, a slight toddle to his step as though he hadn't learned to walk yet. Which he hadn't. He was only just learning. The Jolteon nudged the other Pokemon's shoulder and tipped his head to one side, sitting down heavily. When he spoke, his voice was babyish and a little harder to udnerstand than Zel's feminine voice. "Wha' kin'a Pokemon awe wu? Wu don' smeww wike a Eefee..."

[Midna]

Quil stopped a few feet from the two Pokemon and sat, gaze still focused on them. These two seemed friendly. Well, sure they were probably angry and the little one was scared, but they hadn't run off or attacked him yet. "She gets that way. Usually she doesn't do stuff like that, honest. I'm Quil. The Luxio is Inx, and our Trainer is Lucy. She's nice." Lucy was still scolding Inx, but it was likely that Lucy would make Inx apologize later. It was rare that the Luxio did that of her own free will. She was pretty stubborn about that sort of thing.

The tiny black Jolteon approached him and he smiled at the Pokemon, trying to look reassuring. "Hi Shadow. I'm a Quilava, a Fire type. We don't really live around here. I like your fur. I've never seen a Jolteon or a Sylveon like you two before."

That's when Lucy spotted them. The human smiled a wide smile, Inx's trouble forgotten for the moment. Walking a few feet closer to the Pokemon, she sat on the grass a little ways away from them, watching them with curious red eyes. "Hello. I'm sorry that Inx chased you. I see Quil might have found some new friends. Good for you little guy." Her smile turned into a smirk. "Don't worry. I won't try to battle or catch you guys or anything. I promise."

Inx wasn't looking at them, sitting a ways off and looking at her paws. She was mostly silent. Then she mewed out a barely audible "I'm sorry."

[Snow]

The tiny Jolteon baby seemed pleased with the answer. "Hi Qwil. Um, Zewwy said dat, um, we wook the way we do because of a gen-tick vawiashon, and it made us diffwent cowows." The Jolteon looked really, really happy to have a friend. Meanwhile, the silver Sylveon stood up when Inx the Luxio apologized, so quietly that he barely heard the dear. Nodding in a friendly way at the human, Zel gently touched the LUxio with one of his ribbons. "Oh, don't look so pathetic, darling. I'm not that angry with you. Now, if you'd actually attacked, I might not have been so forgiving seeing as we are on my turf, but it's all under the well." Little Shadow was suddenly intrigued by the spots on Quil's back and asked about them.

Across from the human, the bushes rustled and a giant Flareon stepped out. This Flareon was an inch taller than Inx, and he looked pretty threatening too. His flames were a bright blue color, signaling his anger, but they quietly died down to a flaring red-orange color when he saw the Pokemon interacting and the peaceful human doing nothing. Striding over, the orange Flareon sat down next to her, keeping careful measure that his flames wouldn't burn her or anything. He glanced over at the Trainer, as though trying to make sense of her existence with his piercing red eyes. Tipping his head to one side, he barked out a "Hello" in Humanspeak. He settled down in a casual manner on the grass, flaming tail flicking lazily. 

His ear flicked and his attention was directed towards the bushes again. A pink Leafeon and a dark blue Vaporeon stepped out and crossed over to the Flareon. "Ah, Cobalt, Kit. I see you two made it here." 

The Vaporeon snorted. "Not like we had a choice, Shrike. You were about to pull your own fur out, so we have to come and make sure you weren't actually pulling out your fur."

The Leafeon piped up in a very hyper voice and spun around the human quickly. "OH! A person! I love meeting new people. It's so awesomely epicly coolly fun and you know what I like fun my name is Kit who are you what's your favorite color where did you come from are you a Trainer do you like-" 

Kit was quickly cut off by Cobalt. "Sorry for that. He's... excitable."

"Oo, a piece of dust!" And Kit went bouncing off after it.

"...And easily distracted." Cobalt smiled slightly, though it sort of threatening, and settled down on the other side of the human. "So, what brings you around here? Training?"

[Midna]

Quil was in awe. "Cool. I wish I was like that. That would be cool." When Shadow asked about his spots, he did the Quilava version of a blush, his fur turning a little pink and his fire flaring up a little. "Oh, uh, they're normal. I was born with them." He turned to look at them and ended up turning in a circle. His flames flared up a little more in embarrassment.

Inx relaxed a little. At least she was forgiven. That was a relief. She'd never meant to hurt a baby, and she hadn't even noticed it when she was chasing the Sylveon. Ducking her head a little in shame, she almost missed the Flareon. When she saw him, the fur on the back of her neck rose and she sat up, staring at him in shock and a little bit of fear. He was huge. She told herself in her mind to stop panicking, she was a Luxio and he wouldn't be able to hurt her, but the rest of her didn't seem to listen.

Lucy grinned when she heard the Flareon's voice. "Hello. It's nice to meet you too." Then when the others showed up, just as weirdly colored as the first three, she commented. "You guys must be related somehow, am I right?"

Inx and Quil were definitely amazed by the color variety in this family of Pokemon. Neither them nor Lucy had seen anything like this family before. The Leafeon was certainly bouncy, Quil noticed. He was also very talkative and quite... spazzy.

Lucy crossed her arms as she listened to the questions. She answered all of them, even though she didn't think the Leafeon was paying attention anymore. "Well, lets see. Umm, my favorite color is blue. I came from a city a little ways from here. I'm a Breeder but I train my Pokemon too. And yes, we're mostly out here training. Otherwise we're just walking. Inx here doesn't really like staying indoors."

[Snow]

Cobalt yawns and nods. "Unfortunately, yes. We're all related to each other. Which means I'm related to the pink disaster over there." He waves his paw vaguely in the direction that the Leafeon went. He flicks his tail, and Shrike stands up and stretches.

"You want another fight, fish breath?"

"You're on, smoke-moves."

The two leap at each other and tussle, and their conflicting types seem to have really no effect on their relationship. Though Cobalt seems to be keeping Shrike's flames under control and Shrike is pretty much evaporating most of the attacks the smaller Vaporeon throws at him. When they break apart, Shrike snaps his teeth in a fiery play snarl.

"Still can't beat me, even though you're a Water-type."

"That's kind of because you evaporate everything, hot-head."

The two break out into laughter after a bit, and then Kit drops from the sky and crushes them both. "Weee, cliff-diving! Or branch-diving? Oo, shiny piece of something that I want but will probably lose interest in as soon as I notice something else!" He bounces towards a shiny little piece of metal on the ground that he gets stuck on his paw. He hobbles around trying to get it off while Shadow chases one of Zel's ribbons.

When the ribbon that Shadow tried to catch flicks him, he shrieks and hides behind Quil, his spikes all ruffled. Shrike looks up for a moment in alarm, but when he sees nothing wrong he goes back to tussling with Cobalt. Zel is attempting to make Inx's fur sparkle while also attempting to keep Shadow and maybe Quil occupied.

[Midna]

Lucy and her Pokemon watch the Pokemon family with interest. The human girl is smiling. They're so cute! She feels a little bit of sympathy and warmth for the Sylveon though. It seems like he's the 'mother' of the rowdy group. Sheesh, these Pokemon have worse attention spans than even Inx.

When Shadow starts chasing Zel's ribbons, Quil lets out a squeal of delight and starts batting at them too. Lucy watches with a little bit of worry, hoping Zel doesn't mind. Quil stops when a ribbon flicks Shadow, and looks over at the baby Pokemon to make sure it's okay. Letting out a small whine, he asks "Are you okay?"

Inx flinches away at first when Zel tries to make her fur sparkle. Her mouth opens in a hiss/snarl. Then she stops, looking at her fur. Well, she has to admit that it doesn't look bad. She likes the sparkles. Now approving, she stands still and watches Zel do his work.

Lucy pipes up then, talking to Zel. "So is it just you guys living out here by yourself? I'm impressed."

[Snow]

"I otay," Shadow murmurs. He creeps forward and bats at the ribbons again, which twitch and skitter to entice the two younger Pokemon to play.

Kit bounces over, a shiny ring that someone must have dropped in his teeth. "Look at what I found!" he says proudly, promptly dropping it in her lap and sitting down. "And no, it's not just us here. There's a lot of other Eevee too. We'll have to cover up your scent after you move on, though, because they get agitated if they smell humans."

Zel sits back, beaming at his work. "There! Look at how your fur sparkles, dear. It's marvelous, isn't it?" He looks content. Meanwhile, both Shrike and Cobalt have stopped tussling and are now trying to get the jump on Kit, who is avoiding them without any realization of what he's doing.

[Midna]

Quil nods, and when the ribbons move again he jumps at them again too, forgetting all about the flick from earlier. He's much too focused on playing at the moment, and this game is extremely fun.

Lucy looks over when Kit comes up to them. When Kit drops a ring into her lap, she picks it up, eyeing it curiously. "Huh. I wonder who lost this. It might be valuable." She drops it back on her lap, then grins aKit. "Oh cool! Aww, cute. It stinks that we can't see them without worrying them, or maybe it's we that stink." She chuckles quietly at her own joke, then glances at Inx, not noticing when Shrike and Cobalt try to tackle Kit. "Nice, Inx! What do you say?"

Inx definitely likes her new look, and is admiring it when she hears what Lucy says. Then she drags her eyes away from her own fur and hesitantly says "Thank you." It was a quiet thank you, and afterwards she tried to pretend it hadn't happened. The Luxio was quite proud.

[Snow]

"Oh, you're welcome, darling!" he cries, obviously pleased. "Oh, I know, I have something that'll go wonderful with your fur. Be back in a hurry!" Zel hurries away, coming back a few moments later with a very nice aqua-blue bow. "This can go on your tail, or around one of your ears, or your forelegs. Where do you want it?"

Shrike and Cobalt give up. "How is it that you avoid us every time?"

"Hm?" Kit looks at them, confused. "I'm just doing what I normally do."

Shrike and Cobalt collapse into a pile of red-and-blue fur. "He-He wasn't even trying?" Shrike cries.

"How embarrassing," Cobalt sighs.