Pokemon Cards Book One

Time To Eevolve!

It was raining again. Seriously, why was there so much rain this summer? The only good thing this time was it had actually been super sunny and warm out all day, but now it was night and it had started raining. Everyone was supposed to be asleep, but this was a restless night. Everyone in Cabin Primarina had become good friends and we didn't really want to leave. Sure, maybe we'd run into each other again, but how likely was it actually?

"Hey, anybody else awake?" Gaia whispered. A bright light turned on, making me squint as I peeked over the edge of my bed and below me. She was checking her phone. "It's like... One AM."

"I'm up." I whispered back. Then, everyone else started talking.

Pearl mumbled something about it being too late for this and Aubrey and Eve whispered loudly that they were both awake. Lilac groaned quietly, but now she was sitting up too, along with the rest of us. The rest of them, actually. I stayed lying down until someone gently poked my shoulder. Then I sat up.

"Hey, get your pokemon partners up. I'm bored, and I have an idea, but we need our ninja to make it work." Gaia ordered. We kept our voices low to avoid waking our counselors.

"I am a ninja." I insisted, but I shook Greninja awake anyways. "He taught me everything he knew as he evolved, and I taught him everything I knew."

'Hey, get up.'

'Hm? What's going on?'

Even through telepathy he was mumbling and he sounded unfocused. I could tell he was tired and still half asleep, but his eyes were starting to open and he had never been the type of person to need a proper sleep schedule to function. I'd learned that through many years of trying to figure out if sleep deprivation was even a thing for this guy.

'Gaia has an idea or something. Nobody else can sleep. Come on.'

'Yeah yeah... Gimme a minute...'

"He needs a minute." I whispered to everyone. Eve held a groggy Eevee in her arms, Jade was already perched on Pearl's shoulder, and Misdreavus was flying around the room aimlessly. Deerling and Lilac already seemed wide awake and were sneaking down the ladder. Flabebe hid under the covers at first, but Aubrey, Eve, and Eevee coaxed her out by the time Greninja sat up, now mostly awake.

'What's going on?' He asked me. 'Why's everyone up so late... early? What time is it?'

'One AM Bud. Gaia got bored. She said she has an idea.'

'Yeah, you already said that.' He looked around before speaking out loud again, in a whisper like the rest of us. "Hello everyone."

"Hey Ninja Froggo. We need both our ninjas here." Gaia grinned. "Teach us how to expertly sneak out of here?"

"What?"

"You heard me. Let's all go outside and have some battles! Quietly and carefully of course. Ninja style."

"This is a terrible idea and someone will get caught." Greninja groaned. "You know what? I don't have the mental energy to debate this right now. Screw it. Let's go."

"Really?" Eve squeaked. "You're serious?"

"Yeah. Hurry up before I change my mind and go back to 'this is a terrible idea'."

I hopped out of bed and Greninja followed. We took turns changing in the washroom on our side of the room and the bottom bunks (Gaia and Aubrey used blankets to turn their beds into tents to change in). Two people used the washroom at a time this time, since one person could just hop in the shower and close the curtains. While Eve, Aubrey, Gaia, and Lilac were changing I was stuck in the room only able to see Pearl, Jade, and Greninja. Pearl and I came to the agreement that we would turn our backs and get changed quickly. Jade was a girl, so Pearl didn't mind if she stayed on her shoulder, but Greninja went out into the hallways to give us some privacy. I only changed into jogging pants, then I just pulled a hoodie over my pajama shirt, put on my socks and sneakers, and went to join my pokemon. By this time everyone else was ready too.