"Embrace? You ready? I have everything set up," Shade called out. Embrace was looking out in the flower field by their den. She was unaware of Shade's call. She was lost in thought, thinking about her past.
From before she even met Shade, even as he was a silver colored Eevee. She has recalled the times how silly he was and trying to fit in due to his different colors. It was awkward that day, the day they first met. How the small Eevee was trying to get her attention, by showing his personality. He was acting so open to her that day, she couldn't have just turned him down that day. If she hadn't decided on being his friend, she wouldn't have been where she was right now, she had no regrets. She loved him, she knew that, she was hoping that he would ask her to be mates one day.
"Embrace?" Shade called out again, this time sitting down next to her.
"Oh, uh, hey there Shade," Embrace responded, sounding a bit uncomfortable.
"What are you doing?" Shade started to grow worried about her.
"It's just, I'm thinking about everything that led up to this moment. I'm wondering about how my trainers doing."
Shade shook his head. "Please, don't worry. She even said that she wanted you to be happy. To be happy with me. That's why she made that. She even smashed... what do you call those again?"
"Poké Balls, I was pretty upset when she did that, after that moment, I was now considered a wild pokemon. She took care of me since I was an egg." Shade put his paw the string of the necklace around Embrace's neck. She cherished and loved it equally as much as she did with Shade. She clicked it open to show the photo her trainer took of both Shade and Embrace. She finally had the spirit to give it to her after inserting the photo in it, after putting it around the Sylveon's neck, she smashed my Poké Ball after that, which indicated that she was fine to go through with it. She ran from the scene after it, Embrace had tried to chase, but Shade stopped her, telling her that she would be fine. She hasn't been seen since her release, she had thought about her daily. "And once I go through with this, I can't turn around."
"If you want to turn around... then you can." Embrace whipped her head to see Shade's face, expecting to see a sad expression, instead, he provided a warm smile. "I can take care of myself Embrace, I want you to always be happy, and if you're happier with your trainer, then be my guest." She couldn't believe her ears, Shade was really willing to go through with this. She misses her trainer greatly, but doesn't want to leave Shade at the same time.
"I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE YOU SHADE," Embrace spat out like venom. She was startled at her own outburst, she covered her lips. Tears started to form in her blue eyes as she couldn't make any decision, she couldn't decide what to do, it was too much. Trying to come back to her trainer where she was raised, or stay with Shade to be happy and have children, was not a decision she could make. Only thing she did, was cry even harder as she cried into her paws. She felt a pair of forelegs wrap around her, her only response was to cry into Shade's fur. He was silent, letting her calm down. She felt him rubbing her back as she continued to sob. "I'm still s-so worried about h-her Shade," she managed to say.
"It's okay to be worried, it's okay."
Her crying has calmed down to sniffles as she looked up at Shade, still trying to comfort her. "I love you so much Shade." Dry tears on her face, she gave a Shade a small peck on the cheek, the Umbreon's eyes was focused on something on the field. Embrace looked at it too, to their surprise it was a bright light, coming from one spot. It was coming from the centre of the flower field.
Something emerged from it, it was a large quadrupedal pokemon. It had a lower blue body and the back side of it served a black, slender body. The magnifying focus of the Pokemon was its set of antlers, which sported a shade of blue. Embrace knew who it was, as she released herself from Shade's grip and moved towards the creature.
"Embrace! What are you doing!? Don't go near it!" Shade yelled, soon following.
The creature looked towards the blue sky, not noticing the two pokemon running to it. Its eyes were a blue color, with an X in the middle of them, most likely serving as pupils.
"X-Xerneas?!" Embrace yelled out to it. The deer like pokemon turned its head to see the Sylveon just a few steps from it. It bent its legs so its head hovers just above the ground.
"Yes," Xerneas responded, in a feminine voice. The Intertwining pokemon soon realized it was talking to her through telepathy. "You must be the Sylveon that goes by the name Embrace, I can sense that you're troubled."
"What are you doing here? I thought you were under the ownership of a trainer," Sylveon asked.
"I was, indeed, but I was soon released by him, since I have fulfilled my purpose to serve him. I know your problems have to do with the decisions you are faced with this very night."
"Wait wait wait," Shade interrupted. "You know this Pokemon Embrace?"
"Well, I have heard rumours about it from other pokemon, but I always believed the myths." Embrace smiled at the huge pokemon. "I always knew it would be real."
"Embrace, tell me, tell me about your situation."
This struck her as odd. She would tell her that it was her own business, but she was a Legendary Pokemon, and may even have a close relation to the creator in Arceus. "I bet you know the relations between people and pokemon already, I love Shade, with all my heart. And at the same time, the guilt I carry when I left my trainer, she had acted like a mother to me."
"I do, Calem was such an enthusiastic boy. His personality and love of pokemon was past no other relationship of people and pokemon. Unlike me, another pokemon absolutely despises the human race, wishing he would someday have this world subjugated."
"What do you mean by that?" Shade had intruded.
"Please, have a seat, the both of you."
They were obligated as they sat down on the one spot void of flowers.
"Yveltal's life runs on the life of living thing's life source, making him sound like a very menacing pokemon. Embrace, I have no answer to your decision, it's one you must make yourself. However, I can share this, when something new has been born, the world becomes a smaller place. This may seem irrelevant, but new life means a longer life span of this world, and having a child of your own can be a blissful moment in life."
Embrace had took this into consideration. She knew her trainer must have been sad, but she went through the pain to release her. She smiled as she wished to be her to be safe on her own. She looked at Shade, he knew that she had finally made her decision, and she loved her for it.
"The Umbreon, Shade." He was surprised to hear his name called out by the Legendary pokemon. "Embrace's mate-to-be. Never let her out of your sight, or you may lose your control, being torn down by despair and feeling of failure. I have found out that Yveltal can take the body of a pokemon to extend its Life span, however, he can only do it when the Pokemon feels vulnerable. Keep this in mind, because he was awaken from his slumber." After hearing it, Embrace seemed to feel uneasy, Shade put his paw on top of hers, trying to make her feel safer. "Your love for her is not an illusion Shade, I'm happy to see that. Your choice of mate was not to be reconsidered, that's true love. Same goes for you Embrace, you two are destined to be together.
"However, the real reason I was here was to commemorate the day that Pokemon was born and first used his powers to take every life miles away from here. It was so destructive," she mourned.
"So is there something special about this flower field? I only brought Embrace here because I knew she loved flowers, and I've never seen humans around this area," Shade added. "I've known this flower field for a while now, is there something we need to know about it?"
"Yes, this was where I had took my slumber, seeing that all the life be destroyed all around me, I had to bring it back. So during my slumber, life had been reborn and brought back to life here." Xerneas sounded more mellow than it was before, most likely thinking of those years back in the pokemon war. "However, one pokemon was ever my only best friend from the time, but now, he's gone. And I couldn't bring him back." Embrace couldn't believe her eyes, Xerneass' eyes were watering, the X in them were blurry as she looked at the two eeveelutions.
"That's so sad, I'm so sorry," Embrace said.
"I decided to take my slumber again, to maybe wake to another trainer like Calem. Shade, remember what I said to you and cross your heart that you will keep the promise you put upon yourself. Embrace, don't be afraid to move on, birth is a wonderful thing, and don't try to ruin the moment."
"We will," Embrace and Shade said in unison. They looked at each other and blushed.
"Take care you two, may we meet again." With that said, the legendary pokemon flashed in a brilliant light as its form began to morph. When the light disappeared, what took Xerneas's place was a white tree, crossed with an X.
"She's a cool Pokemon," Shade said. "I never would of thought we would meet a legendary pokemon the day we were planning on mating. Right Embrace?" The Sylveon took one last look at the tree before walking towards him.
"Thank you so much Shade."
Before Shade can respond, his lips were tackled by another pair, as he was starting to know what was happening. It was just like how the Moonlight pokemon first asked her about being potential mates, where Embrace made the first move. It felt exactly like that one moment they had. It was much longer, much more meaning to it. The wisdom they were given has pushed Embrace to continue on her road to be Shade's mate. Shade pulled away as he looked at Embrace, locking eye contact.
"Want to go back to our plans? Or do you want to wait more?" Shade asked.
Embrace had her ribbons caress her soon to-be-mate's chin. "I'd love to, I'm eager to be a mother."
Together, they walked back to their den, where Shade had everything set up.
The sun was just above horizon, giving the sky a red tint to it. The air is warm, the winds that flow throughout the flower field are very soft, feeling nice to feel against one's face. In the den of the two mates, Embrace and Shade, they sleep, tired. They lay wrapped in each others legs, sleeping on the bed of soft leaves.
Shade's eyes fluttered open, meeting Embrace's sleeping form. He smiled, as he started to caress her cheek. She looked so peaceful, he didn't want to wake her, as he slowly moved away from her, her paws laying on the leaves instead of him. She looked outside to see it almost sunset. He stretched out his body, after from sleeping for about two or three hours, and stepped out of his den. He was hungry, it was time for dinner. He went deeper into the forest as he knew about berry trees his friend keeps.
The night was quiet, it was almost too quiet for nocturnal pokemon were supposed to be out and running. The only thing he was hearing was some Kricketot chirping. He felt like he was being watched, he had no idea why, but it was just a feeling.
He finally got to the berry trees which consisted of pecha, sitrus, and oran berries. He knew that his friend wouldn't mind if he took some, first he got some to eat for himself. He ate a couple of sitrus berries for the sweet taste, than had some oran berries. He loved the two berries because of how common they were, and then he had one pecha berry.
He saw a basket weaved out of straws of long strands of grass, from the help of his other friend since he is a psychic type. He started using psychic as he gathered a dozen Oran berries, a few pecha berries, and a mouthful of sitrus berries. He carried the basket in his mouth as he headed back to his den. He was glad that the night has finally rolled in, as his energy felt restored due to being an Umbreon.
Not long before starting to walk back, he heard something snap behind him. He swung his head to see something running at high speeds.
SLAM!
The basket was sent flying towards a tree, where the handle got caught by a tree on the side of the road. Shade's eyes felt dizzy as his eyes tried to refocus themselves. Once his eyes landed on the attacker, it was a familiar sight to see.
"Sapphire? What are you doing here?" Shade asked, still a little irritated. Sapphire was an Absol, the Disaster Pokemon. He was still rubbing his head, most likely gotten a bruise near his sickle-like horn. The Absol had been one of the closest Pokemon to Shade, Absol had even taught him the move, Sucker Punch. The last time they had seen each other was when their forest was being attacked by a group of Pokemon hunters. Shade couldn't help but run up to him and give him a hug. "I thought you were captured." Shade literally had tears falling from his face.
The Absol seemed to miss Shade as well as he smiled down at the eeveelution. As Shade stepped back, he had a grin on his face, behind the two waterfalls. Sapphire was happy to see him as well. "It's nice to see you son," the Absol said. He felt happy to call him his son, even though their genes are completely different. Instead of being actual father and son, Shade was adopted by him. "I was, but a few cages couldn't keep me from getting out in the wild."
"Why have you just appeared now?"
"Remember what I told you? I can sense disasters coming. I want you to get out of here A.S.A.P." Shade had never heard his new father this worried. "It has to do with a strange fog north of here."
"What's so bad about?" Shade asked.
"Let's just say it's like a black hole, you go in it, you don't return," Sapphire said, making it sound simple as possible. Shade seemed to understand as he looked north to see the black fog slowly crawling forward.
"I need to get my mate out of here!" Shade yelled, as he run south of the forest. Sapphire's eyes widened as Shade continued to run. He started to tear as he smiled and decided to follow close by.
"Finally, he's finally grown up," Sapphire whispered to himself, with the sound of joy in his voice. However, he felt hurt at the same time, knowing full well why.
"Wake up Embrace, please," Shade asked in a frightened voice.
Embrace started to shuffle as her eyes creaked open, still looking very sleepy. "What's going on Shade?"
Before he could answer, they heard the chatters of different pokemon coming from outside, some of them were even worried. The view was blocked by Sapphire. "Hey kiddo, there is still the East side of the forest I need to gather, come on," he said as he took notice of the fairy-type behind Shade. "You must be the one Shade was talking about, I'm Sapphire, you must evacuate immediately."
The sleepy pokemon got immediately to her paws as her eyes widened, indicating she was awake. "What's happening?!" she exclaimed.
"There is a deadly fog slowly rolling in, a few pokemon were already consumed by it, not to comeback after a few minutes. I don't want others to fall victim as well." There was a hint of concern for in the Absol's voice. Embrace could tell that the Disaster pokemon meant well, so she did something she may regret soon.
"My name is Embrace, I would like to come with you," she said with confidence. Shade's eyes widened at Embrace's remark.
"But you can't! I won't allow it!" Shade screamed. This seemed to shake the whole den as Shade's outburst startled Embrace, but not Sapphire. "Please Embrace, I don't want you to get hurt, I don't want to lose another pokemon that's important to me. And I can't allow you to get close to it because... I want to have our child safely hatched." He placed his forelegs on her shoulder as they made eye contact. However, Embrace needed to ask what he just said.
"You've lost a pokemon important to you Shade?" Embrace asked, getting closer to him.
He was silent, not even bothering to answer the question. Instead of trying answer the question with the pain and misery that takes place when he answers it, he switches the subject back to their regular goal. "You can help Embrace, just please be careful and stay with Sapphire or me at all time. I promise to tell you later."
Embrace rolled her eyes. "All right," she said, not wanting to push on the question even further.
The fog has gotten closer to the point it was just a few metres away from their den. Embrace grabbed her necklace before heading out with the two dark types. "Shade," Sapphire started. "Can you still use screech to get everyone's attention in this area?" Shade nodded as he walked in front of the two, making sure that the sound waves don't hit them. A red orb appeared in front of his mouth as he took in a deep breath, then the sound waves started travelling throughout the area. Sapphire can really tell that Shade has gotten stronger, he was quite happy.
"You're lucky Embrace," Sapphire stated. "You're lucky to have him love you so much."
"We just met, who are you exactly?"
"I'm Shade's father, or so he considers me, and I consider him my son. I help him with what he knows so I can help him sharpen his skills. He mentioned something about having a kid soon, I'm assuming your his mate?"
"Wait, I thought his parents were a Jolteon and Vaporeon. And I am, we may have an egg in a week or two."
"Those were his real parents." This shook her up from the inside. Real parents? Then Embrace found out what he may have been talking about. "Long story short, something happened to them."
"H-he never told me about that! Why do you think he didn't tell me!?" Embrace said in a sort of whisper, but was still a hint of anger in her voice.
"It's cause of how it went," Sapphire told her in a few short words.
On how Sapphire said it, it told her not to push the subject even further. "I'll ask him myself someday."
Sapphire leaned his head close to the Sylveon as he whispered. "I might tell you some time, when I get the chance. For now, could you help with the pokemon that won't cooperate with me?"
"I'll help."
At that moment, Shade had finished his screech attack. Many sleepy pokemon walked to see what was happening, they were happy not to see any aggressive pokemon such as Ursaring in the area. The group composed of many bug, bird, and normal type pokemon such as Yanma, Fletchling, and many others. Sapphire stepped up as he acted as the leader.
"Listen everybody, a deadly fog is seen rolling that has been known to consume pokemon that have already entered it. I advise you leave this area at once." The only response he got was many pokemon speaking amongst themselves, saying that they've been woken up for nothing. A Heracross came into the air, wings flapping with his horn glowing, charging to attack the Absol. Sapphire was calm and collective,
"You woke us up for this!? You're the Disaster pokemon!" It screamed while charging. The only response he got was the Absol instant appeared beside it, nose length away from the bug pokemon. It seemed like time slowed down as he whispered to the bug.
"I'm not that hesitant when it comes to protesters, you put this upon yourself." Sapphire's swung his body into the Heracross's, showing how powerful his sucker punch was. Its eyes were just yellow as its pupils were in its sockets, the pain was excruciating, easily knocking it back, slamming into a tree. Shade was fascinated on how strong Sapphire was, doing that much damage with an attack that does not do effective damage to a fighting type. He looked back at the crowd who looked in awe at the knocked out Heracross. "Any more pokemon object?"
"Please everyone, if you don't run away, then you too will fall to what happened to the other pokemon," Embrace said to support Sapphire's announcement. Right when Embrace said that, she saw a male Pyroar come out of the crowd.
"Listen to her everyone, my mate had just entered the fog and has yet to return. I worry this may happen to you as well." Everyone seemed to listen as they saw the fog rolling in closer as they soon ran into the opposite direction, frightened by it. They even saw the knocked out Heracross being dragged across the ground by three Ariados' string shot.
"That should be everyone. Lets get outside of the forest," Shade stated. Embrace took Sapphire's words to make sure it doesn't happen. She opened her mouth to ask about Sapphire.
Embrace felt something grip her abdomen, where it felt like air, but was solid at the same time. She didn't get the chance to say a word, only gasp.
She looked to see what it was, it was coming from the fog, her eyes widened at the shadow like claw that was holding her whole body. She never knew a shadow claw attack could do that, which must have needed great power to use. She did what she felt was appropriate. She screamed.
Shade and Sapphire whipped their heads around to see what happened, they saw Embrace being pulled back at high speeds. Shade's heart fell to the bottom of the chasm in his body, feeling emotionless. His mate has just been pulled into the fog.
"No you don't, Shade, hurry," Sapphire yelled before preparing to dash. He through up a stone in the air, then caught it in his teeth. His body glowed and started to change as he started to use a Quick attack into the fog. Shade felt motionless, he felt like his will to move on had been lost. His mind told him to go into the fog, and save Embrace, but his body wouldn't move. It was just like the incident with his mother.
His mate was just taken.
"Shade!" a voice called out from behind. His golden eyes stay widened as he was like a statue: stiff and emotionless. "Shade!" It called again. He felt a paw on his shoulder, but didn't bother to turn around to see who it was. The fog was getting closer to him as the paw left his shoulder as he was pulled back by something biting at his tail.
Then he blacked out.