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Chapter 25 - Hatchlings

"We should stop, I'm tired & hungry," I frowned. "No! We're already on Route 15! If we stop we won't get to Fuschia City until nightfall!" Brandon retorted.

It had been two days since the incident with the douche trainer, & we were finally on Route 15, so close to Fuschia City.

"What's the rush? It's not like we'll have anything to do! We should probably train a bit, for a day at least, until we challenge Koga," I said, sitting down stubbornly. "Koga?" Brandon sounded confused at the mention of his name.

"The gym leader's name is Koga. Specializes in poison-types. Which is pretty bad news, considering that if our Pokemon are not properly trainrd they will up poisoned badly," I gulped, hating all things poison. Poison took my brother away from me.

"Well, I'm gonna challenge him as soon as we get to Fuschia! I wanna see how good he is," Brandon sat down & we began to prepare our lunch.

Sandwhiches. What we had daily when we were on the road. We released our Pokemon; even Magikarp, who flopped around at being on land. I quickly fed him by hand, & retreated him. "I'm stupid. I shouldn't release him onto land. That's like someone pushing me into the ocean, I can't swim & he can't walk," I sighed.

"Yeah, well you have to feed him right? Hopefully one day he'll evolve so he can slither around like a snake on land," Brandon said. I only nodded.

We ate & watched our Pokemon play around with each other. As we sat there I felt a farmiliar wiggling in my backpack. My egg? I took it out & it was shaking.

"M-Mine's shaking too?" Brandon had his eyes fixed on his own egg. "Are they hatching?" I asked hopefully. "Yeah!" Brandon squeeled.

The egg began to slowly crack, so I took it out of the incubator & took off my jacket, placing it there. Brandon took his sweater off & did the same. We were excited.

Then, as my egg was cracked about halfway, it stopped. I frowned. Brandon's seemed to be going.

After 15 minutes of slow cracks & movements from the egg, little brown fur appeared from Brandon's egg. "It's here!" Brandon yelled excitedly. All of our Pokemon were huddled around, watching the beautiful miracles of life happen.

With one final kick, the Eevee snapped the egg open & appeared, submerged in some goey substance. Brandon got rid of the egg shell & had his Poliwag shoot some water gently to wash his new Eevee off.

"She's so cute," Brandon smiled as the Eevee tried to stand up but fell. "Aww, adorable," I laughed. Eevee looked up at all of our Pokemon, & cried out, probably in fear.

"Give her some room, guys." All of our Pokemon observed from a distance. "Hello, Eevee. I'm Brandon. I'm your new partner," he smiled & picked up Eevee in his arms.

I looked down at my egg, that had one crack, but other than that nothing. "Soon," I assured myself & told myself to be patient.

Brandon got right into introducing all of our Pokemon to Eevee while he held her to make her feel safe.

"& this is Phantom," I heard Brandon say. I thought Eevee would be scared of him, but he made a funny face & stuck his tongue out & Eevee cried out with joy! She seemed to like Phantom the most.

Cinder was considerably gentle with the baby Eevee. She licked her gently, & treated her like she was her daughter. Awww!

I was tired from walking around all day, so I laid my head down & drifted off to a comfortable sleep as all the Pokemon around us played.

I dreamt of battling Koga. His poison-type Pokemon were strong! My newly hatched Eevee was battling a Toxicroak. "Come on Eevee! Use-" Before I could give out a command, Toxicroak used Toxic. Toxic.

Eevee cried out as poison overtook its body. I panicked. What if it died like my brother? Then I saw him, he was poisoned too. "Katrina..." He said weakly as he collapsed.

"Randall! Are you okay?!" I screamed, tears flooding down my cheeks as I held my now deceased Eevee in my arms.

"You're... Pokemon..." He pointed behind me. I looked back to see all my Pokemon, Cinder, Charcoal, Venus, Jolt, Phantom, Relic, & Magikarp... All dead from being poisoned.

My heart stopped. "No! What's going on here?!" I screamed.

"Katrina! Katrina wake up!" I heard someone yell.

I gasped & sat up, only to see Brandon in my face. "Katrina? What's wrong? You were crying & yelling in your sleep?" Brandon looked at me with eyes full of concern.

My eyes darted around the area. The sun was beginning to set.

"How long have I been asleep?" I asked. Brandon bit his lip. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you... "How long?" I demanded.

"About a day, a little less. Maybe like 16 hours?" he thought. No way, how did I sleep that long?

"I tried to wake you. You're Eevee even hatched this morning. But it seemed like, you were stuck in a nightmare or something..." Brandon furrowed his eyebrows.

I looked & saw two Eevee's on the ground. One was bigger & one was a tiny bit smaller. One was a female, & the other was a male. The male was mine.

"Hey Eevee..." I said calmly. Eevee jumped on me & looked me in my eyes. He just gave me a simple nod, & left to go play with Brandon's Eevee.

"Brandon... I... I'm not challenging Koga," I said, my voice hoarse. "What?!" he asked, shocked. "I can't... He's a poison-type trainer," I whispered, so our Pokemon wouldn't hear our conversation. "Yeah?" he still didn't get it.

"Poison killed my brother, Brandon... I... I just can't... What if my Pokemon die from poison?" I began to cry.

"Katrina. Listen to yourself. Your brother died from poison because he went days without treatment. Unless your Pokemon go for days being poisoned, which I know they won't, they won't die," Brandon looked me in ny eyes & assured me.

"I don't know..." I trailed off. "Tell you what. I'll battle Koga first. & when you see how silly it is to think that being poisoned for an hour will kill a Pokemon, you'll change your mind," he gently ran his hands over my cheek, & then got up. "We're really close, Katrina. To Fuschia City. Let's get there tonight," Brandon offered me his hand to help me up.

With our Eevee's out of their Pokeballs, because at the moment, they didn't have Pokeballs yet, we headed to Fuschia & got there at around 11 pm.

"Hey Brandon?" I asked, as we were watching tv in our room at the Pokemon Center. "Yeah?" he asked. "Can we go to the petting Zoo tomorrow? After your gym battle?"

He smiled at my request. "Um, sure," he nodded. "But only for a little while. I wanna go to the Safari Zone."

"Okay, deal," I smiled.

"Wake up wake up!" The following morning Brandon was up with pancakes, eggs, & bacon on a plate with a glass of orange juice. I looked at him, confused. "All for you. I ate already. My gym battle is in 40 minutes, so eat up. All of our Pokemon had breakfast & are outside training together."

He left me there, alone. I ate as quickly as possible, packed up my things, & went outside. I smiled almost instantly. Our Pokemon were helping each other get stronger!

They looked so cute. Even Magikarp was on land, flopping around to get from place to place. He was working on his Tackle attack, & his ability to dodge moves.

Even the newborn Eevee's were training. They were practicing moves on each other. Tackle? Yeah. They were practicing their Tackle attack. & Sand Attack? I guessed they had recently learned that move.

"Hey, you know our Eevee's know Wish?" Brandon appeared out of nowhere, startling me a bit. "What?" "Yeah, they were bred with Wish, somehow," Brandon scratched his head.

"Well, we should be heading towards the gym now! We have a pretty long trip ahead of us!" He smiled & we recalled our Pokemon.

When we got to the gym, Brandon had a serious look on his face. "You okay?" I asked him. He nodded & walked with confidence through the gym doors.