"Please," the Zangoose scoffed, "do you honestly think a measly Pokemon like you can take me on? It would be better if you just gave me little Emmy and have me be on my way."

"Shut up!" Scepter growled, "You're all talk, why don't you just show me your power so we can leave in peace?"

The Zangoose smirked, "Very well, then..." his claw turned a light purple before charging at Scepter so fast he barely had time to react. Out of instinct, the Grovyle blocked his face by crossing his arms and protected himself, though it was at the cost of his arms, which were scratched so badly his arms shook. Scepter shook off the pain and tried to whack him with a Pound, but the Zangoose dodged it like it was nothing and scratched him again with enough force to land him in front of Evina.

"You don't have to do this," Evina said to him as he was getting up, "he's a lot stronger than you, Scepter..."

Too involved in the fight, Scepter ignored her and leaped from tree to tree, the Zangoose following him every time.

"I'd listen to your sister, Grovyle," he snickered, "you don't stand a chance against me..."

Scepter glared and attempted to strike him, however, he knew he was going to dodge, so he leaped into a tree, dodging whatever move the Zangoose was going to use. He was up to something.

"Where are you?" the Zangoose called out, "Don't flee now, I was just having fun!"

From below the trees, Evina, Emmy, and Pippy watched as the Zangoose kept looking around for their first-stage friend.

"Where is he?" Emmy said quietly, "Is he preparing for a sneak attack? I hard Grovyles are good at hunting by sneaking around."

The Zangoose smirked, "Looks like your friend just fled," he jumped down from the branch, "too bad, I was having a lot of fun. It was almost going to be like a game to see how long he could survive. Oh well, I guess he was too scared to come out and fight like a real Pokemon should."

He walked up to Emmy and was about to grab her when all of a sudden he felt a sharp pain on his back, he turned around in shock just in time for the pain to reach his face. Once he recovered, he touched his cheek to feel that it was a slash. Emmy looked closely when the next attack hit and found out that it was Scepter, and by the looks of it, he had just learned Fury Cutter, which was why the Zangoose's pain got worse every hit. The Zangoose tried to attack, but he was too fast. Once he got the sixth Fury Cutter move in, he finished it off with a Quick Attack, which sent the Zangoose flying through the darkness of the forest.

"Did...I win?" he said, a little suspicious; that was easy, way too easy. He told Evina to stay with Emmy as he slowly walked towards the area where the Zangoose flew.

Emmy was shaking, she knew that the battle was not over, she just knew it. It really was too easy for Scepter to win like that without some form of effort, and be barely even got hurt in the battle, so there was something else...

Suddenly a cry, a shrill, grating roar, was heard in Scepter's direction. Emmy's ears perked up to the sound and then hid behind Pippy and Evina.

"That was NOT a Zangoose!" she exclaimed, "Sweet Arceus, don't let him get to me, I know who he is now!" she called over to the Grovyle, "Scepter, get out of there, now!"

It was too late. As soon as Scepter turned around to do what Emmy said, a purple, glowing paw slashed Scepter's stomach as fast as he used his Fury Cutter. The Night Slash was a direct hit, and left the Wood Gecko on his knees, coughing. The figure smiled at this scene, his purple paw turning into a thin, red-clawed paw. It pushed some of his red, black-highlighted hair out of his face as he smirked.

"That's Kanve," Emmy whispered to the two, "the last time I saw him, he was a Zorua...but he...evolved."

Kanve turned to Emmy and sharpened his claws like he was sharpening knives, "So you remember me, Emelia? Well, that's wonderful, at least you'll know the person who killed you and your friends..."

Evina pulled out her vines and put them in front of the flying squirrel defensively, "You won't touch her!"

"Oh, so the little baby snake is going to try to defend her now? How pathetic...you might as well give up now while you can..."

Scepter staggered to his feet and prepared a Leaf Blade, but as he charged after Kanve, the Zoroark turned to him and lashed at him with his claws.

"And you," he walked over to the weak Grovyle, "you are such a huge mistake. I think you got a little overconfident because of your evolution, was that it? Let's see...By the looks of it, you are so close to being KOed that all I have to do is scratch you and you're finished," he put his sharp claw up to Scepter's neck and smiled, "'Sayonara', Scepter..."

"No!" Evina ran over to Kanve and pushed him over with a Vine Whip, "Don't you dare touch him!"

Kanve glared at her, "Okay, little Tsutarja, you are seriously grating on my last nerve. If you're so eager to die, then fine, I'll leave your 'brother' alone and kill you instead. At least it'll be a heck of a lot faster..."

Evina was scared, but she tried to hold her ground. She put up her vines defensively and tried to hide the fact that they were shaking. She had never really fought alone before, and she did not even know if she could even get a move in.

But she had to try; Emmy's life was at stake.

She saw that Kanve was about to strike her with a Night Slash. She was not prepared for this in the slightest, and instead of dodging, she braced herself for the impact. Suddenly she heard a familiar voice:

"Awesome Shell Lightsaber Attack!"

She opened an eye to witness Mimi slashing at the Zoroark with a Shell Blade, or as she called it, the "Awesome Shell Lightsaber Attack". A rustle in the bushes and Iggy appeared, his snout smoking with flame. He jumped up and snorted an Ember attack at Kanve's face.

"H-Hey! What are you two doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with a Trainer by now?"

"We were worried about you," Iggy said as he landed next to Evina, "we knew you didn't want to be there, so we let you go 'cause we saw your friends, but Mimi saw this odd Pokemon out our window and we decided to follow it."

"How did you guys even get out?"

"Diversion, Miju~. Miss Makomo really likes plushies, so we put plushies of ourselves in the Pokeballs instead, Mimiju~" Mimi replied for Iggy, for he was still trying to burn Kanve.

"You two are more annoying than the snake!" Kanve hissed, he then took the form of a Jihead, a two-head Dragon Pokemon, which both of the heads grabbed Mimi and Iggy and threw them in opposite directions, then he turned back to his normal self, "Have you even looked at your levels in comparison to mine? I could wipe you away with my numbers alone!"

"Levels don't matter!" Iggy said as he struggled to get up. Levels did matter in some way, there was no way two level five and a level eighteen were going to even touch a level thirty Pokemon, he was too strong, but that did not stop them from giving up, the two Isshu starters fought until they were in the red, when they could barely even stand anymore. Surprisingly, they did a number on Kanve; he was cut in a number of places, even though he passed them off as paper cuts, and he was burned on a couple of places, too. Emmy and Pippy took the two Pokemon to the safest area on the battlefield to heal. It was just Kanve and Evina now.

Kanve sharpened his claws again as he smiled. He was so much looking forward to this, for if she was defeated, there would be no one to stop him from getting Emmy. Evina raised her vines, she was ready for battle as well, but now she was more nervous than ever; she had no one to protect her now, she was all alone at this point. Kanve swiped his claws at her, but she dodged out of instinct and went through his legs to get behind him and then struck him with Vine Whip. Kanve grabbed one of her vines and bit right into it, causing a massive amount of pain. She withdrew her vines and spun around so fast the leaves around her made a tornado, in which she aimed it at Kanve. It hit, but it was not direct; he only got shot in the leg by one of the leaves.

Evina was getting exhausted, she had never performed a Grass Mixer in a while, and it took a lot of energy to do. Kanve saw how tired she was and used this to his advantage. He charged at her and, before she could dodge, stuck her with Pursuit, which hit.

Evina got up, but before she could stand on her little cream-colored legs, she was struck across the face with his claws. It took only a second for her to realize he was using Fury Swipes, and every "swipe" was followed with Claw Sharpen, not for the benefits in the move, but more to make his claws more and more deadly.

"Evina!" Scepter cried out, he tried his hardest to get up, but his own wounds were too great, and he was forced to sit back down by his pain.

"L-l-leave her alone...," he attempted to say, tears formed in his eyes as he was forced against his will to watch his sister get slashed to death by this...this monster.

"Well, look at this," Kanve stared at his claws, "by the looks of this, one more Fury Swipe and you're done. Any last words before you experience miserable failure?"

Evina said nothing.

"Alright then. Sorry I have to do this to you...oh wait, no I'm not."

Evina squeezed her eyes shut as she felt a sharp pain in her side.

"EVINAAAA!" Scepter rushed to be at her side when Emmy, Pippy, and the rest of the gang held him down, "Let me go! I need to be with my sister! She needs me! We need to go home together!"

Evina saw Scepter try to run to her when her vision blacked out.

Evina...

Evina opened her eyes and saw she was in a white room, but the color turned to green and then change into a forest. Evina walked around this forest, curious as to why she was here.

Evina...

The voice was behind her, she turned and then saw someone she had never seen before, but looked so familiar to her at the same time.

"...Mama?"

The Jaroda slithered up to her and smiled, "How are you?"

"Mama!" she hugged her as tightly as she could, "Mama...if I'm here with you, does that mean I'm..."

The Jaroda shook her head, "You're just unconscious. I saw what happened down there, and I asked Arceus to just see you one more time before I go to Poke-Heaven."

"You mean you saw Him?" Evina said, "Wow...but, why here? Why now?"

Mama Jaroda went to eye-level with Evina, which made her a bit uncomfortable, but she knew she meant no harm,

"I needed to give you support; this is your first big fight, and the last thing I want to happen to you is that you die."

Evina looked down, "Mama, why is the Zoroark bad? Emmy told me he belonged to a loving trainer, and he was treated with happiness and love, so why did he kill her?"

Mama Jaroda looked sad, "You know...I don't know. I actually asked the same thing to Lord Arceus, and he said that maybe something was truly wrong with Mr. Kanve. Pokemon, and Humans, are sometimes born as horrible creatures," she nudged Evina happily, "don't let him get the best of you, just because he's levels higher than you doesn't mean he's stronger than you."

Evina saw that her mom was fading away, and she got scared, "Mama, don't go! I don't want you to leave me again!"

Mama Jaroda looked at her, "Evina...I will always be with you, always. Even when I'm not really there, I'll always be by your side, I always was from the beginning..."

"Mama?" her hand on her mother's stomach now was touching air, "Mama?"

She looked at her hands as a tear was caught on one of them. Her mama did not want her to die...so she won't.

"Now, where was I?" Kanve said as he turned to walk towards Emmy, who was so scared that electricity was starting to come out of her yellow cheeks. The Zoroark felt something tugging his leg. Annoyed, he turned to see one of Evina's vines wrapped tight around his leg. He tried to shake it off, but it stuck there.

"You're still alive?" Kanve said, "You just don't know when to quit, huh?"

Evina struggled to get up, but she did, and immediately she was glowing a bright green, which made it look like she was outlined in emerald fire.

"What's happening to Evina?" Emmy asked to Scepter, who was so happy and relieved his sister was alive that he was able to stand.

"It's her Overgrow, Grass-types like us are born with it. When she's really hurt, her grass moves are boosted!"

"Oh, I remember!" Emmy exclaimed, "My Trainer also said that, since she's a Grass-type, any Grass moves that attack are boosted with...what was it again? 'STAP'? ...no, 'STAB'! Same Type Attack Bonus! So that means she's even MORE powerful with her Grass attacks!"

"But she never used Overgrow, most Grass-types her stage can never master it as well as their evolved others...is she planning anything?"

"Mama...I...we have been through a lot to see you...please ask Arceus to give me enough strength to fight him...please..." Evina whispered.

The leaves made for her Grass Mixer earlier slowly levitated into the air and surrounded Evina. Her friends, and Kanve, were wondering what was going on with her, she had never done this before. The leaves started to glow a bright white and form into little white spheres, which put their energy into Evina until she herself started to glow a bright white.

"Sweet Arceus..." Pippy was amazed, "She...she's evolving?"

That she was. She turned a foot taller and there were leaves growing out of her back. The leaf on her tail was larger and her arms were a bit stubbier, the yellow parts on her shoulder formed into a big collar, her eyes were more narrow, and a small crest formed on her head.

She was a Janovy.

"Wow...," Scepter said, taken aback by that sudden evolution. She was still hurt, so her Overgrow was still in effect. She hissed angrily at Kanve.

"WOW, I wanna be cool like that, Mimimiju~!" Mimi cheered, "Don't you, Iggy?"

"I guess," Iggy replied.

Evina closed her eyes as she smiled, immediately she saw her mother smile at her,

"Do you still remember that move the old Venusaur taught you?" she said, "I think you should use it now while you still can..."

Evina nodded and opened her eyes, which glowed a bright green as she lifted her tail high up in the air, she glared daggers at Kanve before she slammed it hard on the ground.

At first nothing happened but then the earth shook violently. Emmy held tightly to Pippy as Mimi did the same to Iggy.

"What...what's happening?" Iggy said in a panic, afraid that this might be an Earthquake attack. A bunch of small roots traveled in front of Kanve, and once they reached him, a small vine grabbed his foot, then another grabbed his other foot, and then even larger vines wrapped around his body and tugged at his hair. They were trying to pull him down, but he struggled, snapping off the vines, but more just came, one even reached his neck and threw him down on the ground so they could pull him down easier.

"What the hell is going on?" Kanve said, "How is this happening?"

"I agree with Kanve...what...what is she doing?" Emmy asked.

Scepter suddenly remembered the time when Evina was pulled to the side by that Venusaur, she said she taught her something that she would only use if needed, and he then knew what she taught her: Frenzy Plant, only her Overgrow made it more powerful than it should be.

"How...I was beaten by a little grass snake...how could I...How could I lose?" were Kanve's final words before he was sucked into the ground by her vines.

The green in Evina's eyes faded away as she lay down on the ground, exhausted. Scepter, now recovered, ran over to her sister and lifted her head up so he could see her.

"Brother," she opened her eyes slightly, "I'm really sorry I got you into this mess... I just wanted to prove to you that...I can do something right...but what I've done is get us into more trouble and made me more disappointed than ever. I'm sorry."

"You didn't do anything wrong...I thought you did at first, but then when I saw the many adventures we were on...I mean, we were on a plane, I fell out of a plane, we met people like Emmy and Pippy, and these two."

He gave the Janovy a big hug, "You're one of the best people I ever met, you know that?"

Evina hugged back to the best of her ability, for her arms were shorter now, "You too, brother...you too."

"There they are!"

The gang turned to see Leena and Treaver run up to the two Grass-types and gave them a big hug, "Sweet Arceus, we were so worried about you. All I wanted was a few Oran Berries, they aren't this far away!"

"Look how much you've grown!" Treaver exclaimed.

"Brother Scepter, sister Evina!" the three Treeko said as they ran up to them in happiness,

"How did you get so big?" one said,

"What's with the leaf on your head?" the other added on,

"You look so COOL!" the last one finished.

"One at a time!" Scepter said, a little overwhelmed by his three siblings. Evina giggled,

"Maybe we can discuss this when we get home?" she said.

"Uh...how are we going to go home?" Treaver asked, "I mean...yeah, how are we going to get home...?"

It suddenly dawned on Scepter that there was really no way to get home. He had to think of something until Evina stepped in...or not, because she was to exhausted to stand, but she still added in,

"Why don't we stay here until we find a way to go home? Or better yet, make a new nest here?

Leena looked at the many trees possibly filled with berries, and then looked up at the sky where many flying-types were showing of their skills of flying, she smiled.

"That's not a bad idea...," she turned to Treaver, "this could be a new adventure, especially for our little kids, and their new friends."

Treaver thought about it for a moment, then smiled, "Alright, that's fine with me."

"Scepter," Evina said, "are you okay with this? Are you sure you don't want to go back home?"

"I AM home," she nuzzled Scepter, "and I know where it is now."

"Oh?" Scepter was a little confused, but it was all dismissed when Evina butterfly-kissed with her tongue.

"With you."

THE END