Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Trial of Life

Part 3: New Friendship

Eevee woke up completely sore and tired. Turns out the grass isn't a pleasant thing to sleep on.
'I did kinda go on an adrenaline trip yesterday' he thinks to himself.
Eevee let himself fall back asleep, nobody was awake anyways.

Eevee felt something poking him and barely opens his eyes to look who it was.
He didn't see anybody in front of him, and he immediately felt stupid.
'They're poking my back you idiot' he thinks to himself.

Eevee gets up and turns around, just to see something run into the bushes next to him.
'Judging on how they stopped rustling after a second, they're probably still there.' He thinks to himself
"Growlithe you can come out now." He says, walking over to the bush.

"I'm over here." Growlithe responds, at the other side of the clearing.
"Then who was that?" Eevee replies.
Eevee was about to reach into the bushes when a Poochyena tackles him.

Eevee hears Growlithe running over to him, preparing to Ember the Pokémon off him.
"Hey, wait stop!" Eevee says, hoping that Growlithe wouldn't hurt the Poochyena.
"Why? It's attacking right?" Growlithe replies and stops running.

Eevee was about to reply when Poochyena lays down on him.
"Soft..." Poochyena says, resting his head on Eevee's mane.
Eevee didn't move and let the Pokémon fall asleep on his fur.

"What's going on?" Mareep says, coming back from collecting berries.
"Eevee is getting snuggled by a wild Pokémon." Growlithe replies while motioning to Eevee and the Poochyena.
"I'm not going to hear the end of this huh." Eevee says, trying to stay as still as possible.

After a while the Poochyena finally woke up.
"Sorry, was tired" The Poochyena says, struggling with their words.
"It's okay!" Eevee says smiling.

They both get up and stretch. Eevee still felt sore but, it was a passing feeling.
The Poochyena followed Eevee when he walked over to the bag to grab a berry.
Eevee grabbed two and gave one to the Poochyena. He felt like they needed it.

"Thank you." Poochyena says, happily eating the berry.
"No problem!" Eevee replies while looking inside the bag again to investigate something.
A weird pink ball was in the bag. Eevee grabbed it and it jumped out of the bag.

"What?" Mew says. She stretches and turns to Eevee expectantly.
"Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were asleep. I didn't even realize that was you." Eevee replies.
"Mmk then." Mew says, floating back into the bag. "Also, it's pretty comfortable in here."

Eevee just let Mew fall asleep back in the bag.
"Okay! So should we start going?" Growlithe says, picking up the bag.
"I mean I'm fine with it." Mareep responds.

"Me too." Eevee responds as well.
"So let's start going!" Growlithe says as they all start walking, except Poochyena, who just stands there and watches them leave.
"Hey! Come on!" Eevee says to them, motioning them to follow him.

Poochyena looks surprised and runs up to them.
"Thank you, soft one." Poochyena says, walking closely to Eevee.
Eevee just smiled at them, happy to have another member joining them.
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"So, this seems like a dense forest." Eevee says.
"Where'd you get that assumption 'Soft one'?" Growlithe says jokingly.
He had been calling Eevee that for the past hour they had been walking.

"By looking around, dummy." Eevee responds jokingly as well.
Growlithe only responded by punching Eevee in the shoulder.
Eevee heard Poochyena growl quietly at Growlithe as he did that.

Eevee quickly petted Poochyena to try and calm them down.
They looked surprised that they liked that, and just let Eevee continue.
"Oh my god just kiss already!" Mareep says, joining their conversation.
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Eevee looked up and just watched the stars above them.
"Where are we going anyways?" Eevee says.
"Away." Growlithe tiredly replies.

"Away from what?" Eevee says confused.
"Away from civilization. We are fugitives remember? I'll bet you're a fugitive now too." Growlithe responds.
"What is a 'fugitive'?" Poochyena asks.

"They're a person that is wanted by the police." Mareep says.
"What are 'police'?" Poochyena asks.
"They are people who track down people who broke the law." Mareep explains.

"What is 'law'?" Poochyena asks.
"Do you know anything?" Growlithe says.
"A little." Poochyena waits a second to respond to that.

"So, are you just a wild Pokémon Poochyena?" Mareep asks.
"Yes." Poochyena replies.
"Then how do you know how to speak?" Mareep asks.

"Well, there was a rescue team, very nice one. They let me stay with for awhile." Poochyena explains.
"In that time, they taught some words. I did not it get at first, but I kinda know words!" Poochyena finishes their story.
"Wow, that's cool!" Mareep says.

Eevee was tired of walking, they had been walking the entire day.
"Okay, I'm tired. Let's stop here." Growlithe says, almost like he was reading Eevee's mind.
He set the bag down and sat. "I'm way too tired to make a nest." Growlithe says.

"Same here." Mareep chimes in. "Sleeping on the grass isn't that bad right?"
"It's bad. Trust me it felt horrible." Eevee says.
Eevee started to lay down when Poochyena suddenly rested their head on his mane again.

"Soft..." They said again and fell asleep.
"Welp, I know where I'm sleeping." Growlithe says, walking over to Eevee and resting their head on his stomach.
"Oh my god you are soft." Growlithe says, falling asleep.

"Guess I'm the pillow now." Eevee says, tired.
He felt Mareep rest her head on his tail.
"Wow, they were right." Mareep comments and slowly falls asleep.

Eevee sighs and prepares to sleep on the grass again.
'I would rather die than be caught being a pillow but, it's nice to help the group.' Eevee thinks.
Eevee couldn't sleep and decided to listen to the world around them.

Eevee could hear trees rustling in the wind, and quietly could hear rushing water.
Eevee felt calmed by this and thought about everything that had happened.
'So I was teleported here to try and earn my life back.' Eevee recalls.

'I don't know what I'm even supposed to do but, I think I'll figure it out.' Eevee thinks.
'This is gonna be a fun adventure.' Eevee thinks, and finally falls asleep.
Little did Eevee know, this was only the start of his trial, and it was about to get a whole lot worse.

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Hello everyone!
Fun fact about this chapter: I was gonna re-write it entirely because I was thinking;
'Do I really want some people to think there's sexual tension between me and a Pokémon?'
Until I realized I don't really care.
Well, cya! I _ < <3