Eeveeloution Squad

Chapter Three: Family Chores

The early morning sunlight streamed through Flare's window, lighting up her room. Flare opened her eyes and stretched lazily as she yawned. She looked around her room. Flare's room was big. The walls were bright red and she had a white bookcase in her room for her books. She had a white rug on the floor. In front of her bed was a cute orange love chair. Her bedsheets were yellow and orange and she had nice fluffy white pillows and her comforter was a red and orange ombre. It was Saturday, meaning it was time for family chores. Flare threw off her covers and left her room. She walked downstairs into the dining room.

Her brothers and sisters were already there. They were eating poke berries. Xerneas was already gone for the day. She was a legendary Pokemon after all and it was her job to protect the forest. Flare joined her siblings and picked up a Cheri berry. Evie was happily nibbling on some Pecha berries, the juice from the berries dribbled down her chin. Glacy and Meadow were sharing some Oran berries while Thunder, Midnight and Essence were eating Aspear berries, Ocean was enjoying some Persim berries and Aphrodite was enjoying a bowl of Leppa berries.

There were a ton of berry bushes in the forest. The siblings loved long walks in the forest to pick berries. It was one of their favorite pastimes. Flare loved Cheri berries for their spiciness whereas Evie loved Pecha berries for their sweetness though she was limited to one bowl a day. Glacy and Meadow both loved Oran berries for their unique and delicious flavor. Thunder, Essence and Midnight preferred Aspear berries for their sourness. They often had a competition to see who could eat the most Aspear berries before giving up. Aphrodite loved Leppa berries for their tastiness. Their mother Xerneas loved Persim berries for their colors as well as Ocean.

After they had finished breakfast, they decided to get started on the chores. Everyone quickly ran to their rooms to start taking their covers off their beds. Flare grabbed a laundry basket that had been woven from pine tree bark. She put it down in the hallway.

Evie ran out her room, toting her blanket, a brown fleece blanket with a green deer silhouette on it. She threw it in the basket before running back into her room to take off her pillow cases.

"Need help, Eves?" Flare asked her baby sister, watching her struggle to take her bed sheets off of her bed.

"Yes please!" Evie said. Flare came over to help Evie pull her bed sheets off of her bed. Evie's bed sheets were green and brown. Together they hauled Evie's sheets into the basket. Glacy and Meadow placed their sheets into the basket followed by Thunder, Midnight, Essence, Aphrodite and Ocean.  Flare hiked up the stairs and grabbed her bed sheets and brought them back down stairs. She put her sheets in the basket.

The siblings all went outside to wash the sheets. Essence was levitating the basket since it was too heavy to carry.

"Let's wash the sheets in the stream!" Evie said.

"You mean river?" Thunder Corrected.

"Oh right!" Evie said. The siblings sat down by the river and started washing the sheets. After they had finished, they wrung out the sheets. Evie ran back to the house and came back with a basket full of pine needles. They all went to work, spreading pine needles in the sheets and then folding them over before hanging them on the clothesline to dry. This was to keep the clothes smelling fresh after being out in the sun.

Everyone went back into the house and went into Xerneas's room to wash her sheets. Xerneas's bed was huge. It was also round and had huge fluffy pillows on it, the color of the dusk sky.  The sheets and covers were a deep and soothing blue. It take all nine siblings working together to get the sheets, blankets and pillow cases off the bed. After that, they took the sheets outside to wash in the river.

Each sibling had to hold up the end of the blankets and sheets to properly wash them. After they had finished, they spread pine needles all over the sheets before folding them and putting them up on a separate clothesline. They did the same to the pillow cases and blankets. They all headed back inside to clean the rest of the house. They cleaned up the kitchen and the living room and the dining room. They then moved on to the bathroom. The bathroom was huge, big enough for Xerneas to stand in. There was a huge rectangular mirror hanging over a vessel sink. There was a nice soft plush rug in front of the sink the color of lavender. There was a big soaking tub made out of dark oak.