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Chapter 1 - The Cave

  "Master wake up!" The voice seemed to resonate within my head, it was like someone was screaming something into a cave.

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  "GRRR!!!!" There was a growl in the background, had some beast sneaked into the house again?

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  Wait the house?

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  "MASTER!" The voice seemed to get anxious, "I NEED ORDERS!"

  Orders?

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  Didn't she know how to do her job? My mind was groggy but even I knew how to do my job...What was my job again?

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  "I CAN'T KEEP THIS UP FOR LONG!” The voice seemed to grow more hurried, and he could even hear growls from two animals at the back. “GIVE ME ANYTHING!"

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  His back hurt and trying to touch the place that hurt only returned a sickly wet feeling, was he sleeping on a puddle on the floor or something?

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  At least he had something soft and squishy below him, "MASTER! ORDERS! NOW!" The voice screamed at him followed by a howl.

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  "BITE ME, LET ME GET MY BEARINGS FIRST!" He screamed back at the voice.

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  "Bite right? Better than nothing!" The female voice spoke back to him and on the back, he heard a growl followed by a wet sound.

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  Yikes, the fight seemed to be getting intense, he took this chance and checked himself, he felt weak, but not sick, more as if something had rolled over him and then done it again for good measure.

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  The place where he found himself was dark, only a small trickle of moonlight shone upon this cave and even that was a small light in the background. He tried to walk up to it to get a better look at his surroundings, but something stopped him.

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  "MASTER RUN AWAY HE IS GOING YOUR WAY!" The voice seemed harried, but he didn't have enough time to worry about that.

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  "Grrrr....." As he found himself with a wolf.....thing.

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  His addled brain seemed to want to scream something at him about his denomination for this canine wolf that was snarling at him, also the thing seemed to recognize him...Did he know this oversized dog?

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  "grrrr........../Umb- breon-br [Master get behind me, this thing is stronger than expected.] " He felt a headache strike at his head as he heard three different things at the same time.

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  First the growl of a smaller-looking fox...bunny....thing?

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  The second overlapped thing the growl was some garbled kinda sounded words. Umbrsomething something. And finally the third, the voice of the female speaking in his head.

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  "Woof, woof, hyehyehyehye / Hyena, Migthyena, hyehyehe [Your trainer will change nothing girl, you both are good as dead.]" Then it struck at him again when the other dog started barking.

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  The bark, the weird name, and then a slimy dark guttural voice at the back of his head. "What the heck is happening?" He wondered aloud all the while nursing his head.

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  "*BARK*!" He didn't have time to wonder about this, as the wolf-thing eyes suddenly shined and it....swatted the bunny-fox thing with one of its paws.

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  It looked honestly ridiculous as it was bigger and heavier than the fox-bunny thing so it just needed to bite the damned thing, not that it would be good for him as the fox-bunny thing seemed to want to protect him.

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  "What the hell?" Till that silly swat shone in white light and sent the fox-bunny thing flying against a wall.

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  "yip / beon" And the double sound messed the situation even more, as one was the sound you would expect from what this thing looked while the other seemed to be a butchered name of something.

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  "Master...Run..."And the voice in his head spoke again, this time weaker.

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  He wanted to run of course, and get the hell out of here...But behind him was the cavern from where he had come, and seeing all the blood pooling below the fox-bunny thing...

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  The blood dripping from one of the sides of the wolf thing where it had the wound of a Bite, it made him reconsider.

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  "Trust me...I wish I could run away..." He said to the voice in his head, was he mad?

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  "Yip, yiip, yip / Breon-Umbreon-Umb [You always had a way with words Master, your Wish is my command.]" The fox-bunny thing spoke spitting blood while on its body some golden decorations turned azure blue.

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  "Prepare to run master, I don't know how this will result. I didn't have enough time to charge my Moonlight Bands after I used Wish last time." The voice on his head spoke once more.

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  But he was too mesmerized to pay attention, the fox-bunny thing's wounds seemed to roll back, and while the blood stayed on its fur, the wounds closed in real-time.

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  "Woof, grrrr / Hyena, Mightyenna" The wolf thing seemed to be amused at the spectacle.

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  Granted the thing had somehow swatted the fox-bunny thing before, but wasn't it worried that its prey would recover its health? Or does it want to torture the fox-bunny thing?

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  That sadistic glee in its eye was enough to answer "You can do it fox-bunny thing!" He cheered the black shining fox-bunny thing.

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  "Woof ?/ Breon? [...Master? I know you aren't a fan of naming Pokemon. But at least use my species name.]" The voice on its head said despondently.

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  How was he supposed to know the thing's name!?!? Or its species?!? Fox-Bunny thing was close as you can get from looking at it!

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  No wait, that fox-bunny thing was the voice on its head?

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  "Are you the voice in my head?" He asked warily.

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  If that was true...Then the other sadistic voice of before was the other canine?

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  Then wouldn't that make communicating easier? Maybe they could parley something in return for the wolf leaving them be?

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  "Grrrr / Hyena." Yeah, that growl and glare was answer enough.

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  The thing wanted blood and only blood, better cheer on the stupid grumbling voice on its head aka fox-bunny thing.

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  "An order would be nice Master." Said the voice in his head, right, this thing was into getting ordered...

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  The other creature didn't seem to have that problem, maybe this fox-bunny thing wasn't that confident and wanted help.

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  "You can do it, I believe in you!" He cheered at the thing...Only for it to grow lowly...Yikes, did it want instructions too?

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  "Amm...I don't know man, just like, bite its neck or something?" He grumbled, how was he supposed to know how a pseudo-wild animal fought?!?

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  He wasn't even sure what his name was!

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  Or where he was for that matter!

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  "*sigh* Bite it is, wish you used a more varied move...We wasted so much money on all those TM and here we are using Bite." The fox-bunny thing grumbled on his head while the thing's eye glowed and its maw seemed to grow vicious in real-time.

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  That was one dangerous mouth the thing had, in return, the wolf-thing seemed to imitate it and its maw also seemed to grow more dangerous as if something dark was hidden within the maw of the wolf.

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  It was almost as if the whole thing's being was being choreographed as both started to try and bite each other. The wolf jumping as its eyes shone with a mean look that made his blood turn cold as ice.

  “Master! Careful, it’s using Mean-Look!” The Fox bunny thing screamed as it tried to get close to the wolf thing.

  “I know it’s glaring at me!” He answered as the headache pounded at the back of his head again, getting glared by a mean-looking wolf was not helping him, at all “Quick! Attack it swiftly or something! I need to nurse this headache so I can calm my mind and try to remember what he hell happened! ”

  “Finally something that made more sense!” The bunny thing said with a sound almost happy.

  What happened next... did not make sense at all, the bunny - fox kinda thing suddenly turned almost into a white streak as it moved to one side of the wolf thing, the wolf-thing tried to turn as quickly as it could, but two things happened in quick succession.

  First the bunny-fox thing’s eyes shone with a white light and he could swear the golden rings seemed to shine too with ethereal light again, and from... somewhere? Somehow a rain of comically drawn stars (As in they had five points and everything) became a barrage that turned the wolf-thing into fresh meat.

  “Sorry about that Mightyena, but you aren’t fighting following the rules either.” The Fox-bunny thing said as the stars turned into actual shuriken stars and sank deep into the wolf-thing’s body.

  “Grr..../Hyehyehyehye/ Still....managed...to kill.... the....pup.” The wolf-thing almost seemed to smirk as it fell to the side, “Woof / Hyena / Hope...you....choke....on...my.... meat.”

  “Amm.... I know I am not in the position but... if you want to eat it... can you like... tell me what happened first?” He asked as the situation fully sank into him, he was in a dark cave with two dangerous creatures (Well, now only one) that somehow seemed to have powers.

  His head was hurting like hell, and now that he didn’t need to worry about immediate danger, he did notice that his hands were dyed in red.

  “Yip...yipyipyip/ Breon...Umbreon / Master...You must have hurt your head harder than I intended, sorry about that.” The bunny-fox thing said shaking its head and walking to him, somehow that didn’t look ominous, at all.

  But the triple sounding thing was doing actual damage to his head, as he felt something drip from his nose, touching his face returned blood, “That is no good... That is no good at all.” He searched into his pockets for anything to deal with it, he found a couple spray applicators, a bag of jerky, a couple balls and a... device of some kind.

  “Yip, yipyipyip, yip / Breon, Umbreon, Umb umb umbreon / Don’t move master. I know you hate TM healing, but this is better than nothing.” The fox-bunny thing said and with a swift jump pushed him to the ground, as he fell in his butt the fox-bunny thing, as if it had done this countless times put a paw into his stomach and sure enough, its golden ring started shining again. “Yip...YIP! / UMBREON! / I wish for my master to be healed!”

  That... made his body felt warmth as pain that he didn’t know he was feeling slowly faded away, the headache mostly remained but he felt as if this weird energy moved something inside his head. As if now there was a switch that he could turn on and off.

  Playing with that mental image he tried to move it, only for the weird energy that had gotten into his body moved to answer, and before he knew it, one of the switches moved.

  “Master! You did it!” The weird fox-bunny thing suddenly jumped and started licking his face, “I felt it! You finally managed to do it!”

  “What did I do?” He asked confused.

  “You used the Normal Energy!” The fox-bunny thing seemed too happy about that, “I knew you had talent for it! Now we just need you acclimated with it and soon enough the High Priest’s theories about humans using TM energy will be proven! Quick! Let me... I know! I’ll use Psychic and you try to latch into it and use it too!”

  The fox-bunny thing then had its eyes shine in pink light... which made it even more ominous.

  “[That is a very rude thing to think master. Like I said, I evolved into an Umbreon.]” The voice of the fox-bunny thing said on its head, as if... it was reading his mind? “[That is how Psychic works... Now... Wait... you really don’t remember me?]”

  He felt the fox-bunny thing rummage through his mind and in a panic he quickly tried to do the same thing as before and sure enough, he somehow managed to latch onto the weird pink energy that was moving inside his head expelling it all.

  “....You... really don’t remember me? It’s me! Your Eevee!” The fox-bunny thing said in a sad tone, actually, he tried flicking the first switch on his head again, “Yip! Yip yip yip!”

  And then the second switch.

  “Breon! UMbreon! UMBREON! BREON BREON!” The fox- bunny thing was now walking around him looking for something and smelling his back. “BREON! UMBREON!!!”

  Now it was pushing at his back, so time for turning that one off and moving to the last switch.

  “WHY ARE YOU ONLY LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?!?!? HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MUCH BLOOD YOU LOST?!?!? QUICK! THE MAX POTION!” The fox-bunny thing was now using its paws to try to get something from his belt.

  “This?” He asked as he unlatched one of the spray bottles.

  “YES! THE MAX POTION! USE IT!” The fox-bunny thing screeched at him.

  “...How?” He asked confused and before he could elaborate, the fox-bunny thing’s eyes shone in pink light again, the thing floated away from his hands and now he felt the nozzle on his back, “Wait you aren’t-”

  “Shut it master!” The fox-bunny thing screamed at him and...

  He felt something rush into his body, it was different compared to how he had been healed, this time it felt as if his whole body was burning and his nerve endings got a double dose of lightning.

  “pleasepleasepleaseplease.” The fox-bunny thing was walking around him, but he was too busy screaming his lungs out, he could feel his awareness fade away again.

  The last thing he could make out of the fox-bunny thing was how it was running around the cave looking for something, “FOUND IT!” Or well, finding something, it pulled a... ruined backpack, it was splashed with the clasical red color.

  *Thud*

  And now he was on the ground with his face looking at the fox-bunny thing as it ripped even more into the backpack, now that he was looking... “Oh...that is so much blood...wonder who died there...” He said only to earn himself a glare from the fox bunny thing.

  “I knew I should have insisted on getting a flyer... I knew we would need it...” The fox-bunny thing complained as the last vestiges of his awareness faded away. “My name is not Fox - bunny thing master, you can call me Umbreon till you think of a better name. Or you can continue using my old name as an Eevee... Either will do.”

  The fox-bunny... Umbreon said as it finally found what it was looking.

  “I’m so sorry master... I can’t risk you, and you are unable to decide.” Umbreon pulled a... button? Why was it apologizing for pulling a button? “I’ll try to take the blame, but you know the rangers. They will still grill you out about this.”

  And it was as soon as he lost consciousness that the last thing he heard was a click.

  Wonder what that was about?

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