username:
booklover789
home's link:
Cabell
prompt number:
m-2
prompt - Tell or show us a good deed your eevee(lution) has done! (min. 100 words)
Shanti Cascada, who goes by either or both of her names, lives on a beach. One day in the middle of a hot and humid summer, the air weirdly without wind for that time of year, Cascada trotted onto the sandy beach as was her custom. She stopped just a few pawsteps into the sand, however, when she saw movement in the land beneath her paws. She froze, thinking it might be a sand viper or a crab - both nasty things to come across while living near the water. Thankfully, it was neither - Cascada had just happened to stumble upon a nest of baby sea turtles which had just hatched. Her eyes filled up with happiness as she stared at their wriggling bodies as they pulled themselves out of the sand and crawled with their flip-flapping flippers to the sea. But the sea was a long way away for a tiny turtle! Cascada then realized that there was no way they'd reach the water before nightfall - she had to help them. Racing back into her beachfront home, she grabbed the largest scarf she had on-paw and ran back out to the beach. She then picked up each baby sea turtle and placed it gently in the scarf that she'd tied around her neck. She filled it to bursting, ran to the ocean, and plopped them all into the water. Turning around, she rounded up the rest of them. This took several trips that lasted several hours, but when the day was done each and every turtle was safe in the water, free to live however they pleased and away from the dangers on the land... but not completely free and clear yet, as they still had to survive the depths of the ocean blue.
"Still," Cascada murmured to herself as she shook the sand out of her fur, "I did something good for them today. I gave them a fighting chance at life."
(323 words)
username:
booklover789
home's link:
Cabell
prompt number:
f-2
prompt - what does your eevee(lution) cherish most in life? (min. 200 words)
Luna cherishes her Everstone more than anything else in life.
When she was a very small eevee, shuffled around from place to place as she was never able to find a trainer, she often wondered if she would ever get to evolve. All of her older friends had found trainers and had evolved into either beautiful beasts or scary looking creatures, but she was the one always left behind. The one who never evolved, as she never had a trainer to help her get to that upper echelon or reach her peak purpose in life. She'd heard rumors of items granting a single evolution to the pokemon who used them, but she didn't think it wise to dabble in dark arts she wasn't familiar with. Luna hadn't even grasped her own powers yet, and wasn't confident enough in her own abilities, let alone the weird items whose claims were dependent upon some rumor mill!
When she finally found her trainer, Luna was ecstatic for a variety of reasons: no more would she be shipped off to failed adoption places. No more would she have to deal with the feeling of being unwanted. Never again would she feel that loneliness inside of her that welled up and threatened to overcome her. AND FINALLY, she would be able to evolve!
But when she studied the materials her trainer had read up on to understand pokemon a bit better, Luna found herself more confused than ever. One day, she hopped up next to her trainer, who was sitting in a chair reading.
Luna tilted her head. "Uh... I don't want to disturb you, but I have a question," she murmured quietly.
"What's up?" Taya asked, setting the book aside.
Luna looked up at her trainer. "I've been reading a lot of books lately."
"That's great," Taya said with a smile, patting the eevee gently on the head. "The more that we read, the more we can understand the world around us, and the more empathetic we become. We also expand our source of knowledge through reading."
Luna nodded, but looked down to the ground. She didn't want to speak up and make her new trainer dislike her and send her back to the adoption agency, but she also wanted to ask the question. She didn't know what to do.
"You seem conflicted. What's up?"
Luna sighed. "I don't want you to send me away."
Taya smiled and picked her up, cradling her in her arms. "I could never get rid of you. You'll always be my little eevee, Luna. I'll never let you go... and I'd especially not toss you out over some silly question!"
"Well, it's actually a serious one." Luna smiled nervously.
"All the more reason to ask it," she insisted, the light from the windows reflecting off of her black-framed glasses.
"I've been reading about evolution."
The trainer nodded. "Since you're my first pokemon, I'm still learning about it myself. What are you wondering?"
"I don't know if I want to."
"... What aren't you sure you want to do?"
Luna took a deep breath, sighed, and then spat out the question as quickly as she could. "Do I have to evolve?"
Taya frowned. She shook her head in a double-take. "Wait, what?"
"I don't know if I want to evolve. It sounds... scary."
"It's not scary! It's more like... fulfilling your purpose. Now, you don't HAVE to evolve to fulfill your purpose, but some pokemon DO have to evolve to gain new powers and have the ability to do certain things. Evolving might seem scary at first, but it brings great benefits to both pokemon and trainer." Taya paused and thought a bit before continuing. "That being said, I know a trainer who never had his pokemon evolve. His pokemon just kept getting stronger and stronger - never evolved. They seemed to have a good life together, even without the evolutionary part of the cycle. It seems that it's a choice on both the trainer's part and the pokemon's part whether or not the pokemon evolves. Sure, it's mostly nature running its course, but it also has a great deal to do with the bond between pokemon and their trainers."
Luna nodded. After a bit of thought, she quietly said, "What if I'm content being just the way that I am?"
Taya's face changed into a pleased one. "Then I will never force that upon you. You can stay an eevee forever."
"But... but... it doesn't work like that. Don't we just change without really knowing what's going on? Just out of the blue one day... it just happens?"
Taya looked off into the distance, lost in thought. "Yeah... yeah... you have a point." Snapping herself out of it, she set Luna aside and stood up. "Let's go, Luna. We're off to the library to do some research."
And so, Taya found that if she could attain an Everstone, Luna would remain permanently an eevee. Once she'd gone on quite the quest with her pokemon to find it, she and Luna made the metal scraps that hold it in place around Luna's back left leg, where it will never leave her. Luna is grateful for such a caring and loving trainer who would go to such lengths for her, and that is why the Everstone bracelet is Luna's most cherished item, and one she would never dream of giving away.
(899 words)