Story Notes:
I am low on inspiration and sleep. Work is such a drab. Now I have to stay away from work for a week just because I visited the USA. Stupid H1N1.
There's a wild wind blowing...
What should I choose when I'm in such a situation? My needs or my wants? I've gone many seasons without a mate, and yet I still don't want just anyone. The only one I love and want to mate with is Glaceon.
I'm Leafeon, and I live together with Glaceon in this cave together. We were friends ever since we were young eevees then. I still think back to the past, where the two of us were just having fun together, without any worries in the world.
Then, everything happened so suddenly. Glaceon led me on a little adventure through the forest nearby, to mark the end of autumn. Snow had already started to fall on our furry brown heads, but it was too light for us to care.
In a few days, winter would start, and the two of us would be huddling in the cave for warmth. The stone cave provided little shelter from the chilly winds, but it was our home after all. Somehow, we managed to pull through the long and arduous winter every time it came, until the ice thawed and spring started.
That day, we were lost in the forest. When Glaceon and I finally decided to turn back, the snow had already covered our tracks. Worse, the sun was setting fast, and dusk was really near. The snowfall became heavier as the onset of winter kicked in...
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"I don't want to die...not here of all places!" It was just last year when our parents gave their lives in this very forest. It had been a dry summer, and there were very few berries to stockpile. Our parents went into the forest together to look for food, but they never came back. I thought that they had just found another cave and more food, leaving the two of us with the rest of the berries here. But when they didn't come back after spring came, the two of us cried in each other's shoulders. We were alive, but at what cost?
Glaceon dug a little snow cave in the ground. "Come on, get in! You don't want to freeze to death, do you? Our parents didn't save us for nothing!" I nodded as I curled myself into a ball inside the cave, trying desperately to keep warm. Glaceon sealed us in with a little hole for us to breathe through. "We have to stay here until the snowfall slows down..."
He was trying to hide it, but his body was shivering violently. I was warmer inside while he braved the cold nearer to the surface. "Are you alright? We can share what little warmth there is..." Glaceon shook his head.
"I'm...fine...let's try to get some sleep..." I closed my eyes to try to get some rest, but I woke up when Glaceon stopped shivering. Worried, I asked him softly, fearing the worst.
"Are...are you still...alive...?" He looked at me and licked my cheek softly.
"I promised that I'd protect you after our parents sacrificed themselves for us. Now I can fulfil that promise for now. Sleep well, and we can play again tomorrow." I squinted at him, unsure. He seemed slightly bigger, or was he? It was impossible to tell under the faint starlight.
The next day, I woke up early in the morning and tunnelled my way out of the snow cave. It was then I saw Glaceon prancing about in the snow, his blue tail and ears hanging limply from his body as he kicked up a flurry of white crystals everywhere. "Oh you're awake! What took you so long?" He said joyously, smiling brightly at me.
"You evolved last night!" He nodded, moving closer to me. He licked my cheek gently and smile.
"You should evolve soon as well. Then we can both play together in the snow..." That seemed like a brilliant plan, except...
I never evolved that winter. No matter how much I convinced myself that I was meant to be a Glaceon, and no matter how much snow I exposed my petite body to, I didn't evolve into a Glaceon. All I managed to do was to get a cold. Towards the middle of winter, it was now too chilly for me to do anything but hibernate in the cave, so Glaceon was all alone for the whole winter, with nobody beside him to bask in the joy of his evolution.
When spring came, another problem rose. It was Glaceon's turn to be sleeping in the cave. I tilted my head to one side, confused. "Glaceon, its spring! Why are you lying down and doing nothing?"
"It's too warm outside for me...the chill of winter is slow to seep from stone, and the cave will provide an excellent place to rest until autumn at least..." I stared at him, agape. Glaceon merely turned away.
"But it's so beautiful outside! All the trees have turned green again, and the field of flowers is blooming!" Glaceon merely snorted.
"I'm not interested." Sighing, I shook my body gently to warm up my tense muscles before stepping out of the cave for the first time in a month. The sun was shining brightly, melting away the last remnants of snow scattered in patches across the ground. Other pokemon poked their heads out of their hibernal resting places as they returned to their normal lives. The pachirisu scattered around the trees, the ariados continued to weave their webs, all in preparation for the next winter to come. I thought I would enjoy the sight again, but I just didn't feel right without Glaceon beside me.
Sighing, I closed my eyes gently and wished in my heart.
"I wish there could be some way for me and Glaceon to be together forever, then we could have fun with each other for the rest of our lives..." All of a sudden, I felt a surge of energy flow through my body as I grew before my own eyes. The humid forest bothered me no more as my ears and tail became leaves that flopped gently in the breeze.
Padding over to a river to examine myself, I smiled.
Dashing back to the cave, I wanted to inform Glaceon of my new evolution. "Glaceon, I evolved!" I yelled happily, leaping onto his snoring body. He grunted softly in his sleep, but didn't stir. Sighing, I watched him as he murred gently. The rising and falling motion of his chest, the way his body was shaped, the perfect muscular contours of his body and the slight chill around him made me want to stay with him forever. He was handsome in a way which I had never seen him before, and I thought, for the first time in my life ever since I knew Glaceon, that I loved him. I just decided to keep it to myself, in case he didn't feel the same way.
Spring and summer were torturously long without Glaceon by my side. Talking to trees and other half-plants helped passed the time, but not as well as with him. Soon, I found myself dragging my bored paws to and fro from my cave to prepare for the coming winter ahead. Somehow, time seemed to pass very slowly, almost as though something was missing from my life. Then, I felt it, the burning desire to mate and reproduce. But no matter how many other pokemon courted me, my heart was reserved for the one I loved, Glaceon.
Glaceon finally woke up when autumn came. By then, the leaves on my body had slowly turned a brownish red. He looked at me with slight surprise. "I didn't know leafeons look like that..." I stared into his eyes, almost needing him to mate with me now to satisfy my lust. I wouldn't even mind a rape.
"Glaceon...I think I'm in heat...can you be my first?" Glaceon shook his head.
"I can't do that to a friend. I wouldn't feel right. You're my friend...and you are beautiful, but not...beautiful beautiful, more like just beautiful." I whined softly at my friend's refusal, but there was nothing I could do.
"Don't see me as a friend, then. Glaceon, I couldn't tell you this, but I think I..." I pouted, and he smiled, nuzzling me gently.
"I see you as a friend. A very close friend, but still a friend. And there's no way I can bring myself to hurt you, even if you want me to. Come, let's go outside. I need a good, long stretch. It isn't long before winter comes again."
We spent the whole of autumn together, playing, before it was my turn to hibernate through the winter. The first four years were okay, but from the fifth year onwards my life felt empty. We drifted further and further apart with every season that passed, and it broke my heart every time Glaceon made a snide remark about me. He had no friends to share the winter with, and the loneliness was slowly making him bitter.
This was the seventh year since our evolutions. Glaceon has now become as cold as his exterior, and my heat is too strong to bear. If he does not claim me soon then I'm afraid somebody else would. Just as my leaves wilted for the winter, I looked at Glaceon once more.
"Please, Glaceon. I can spend the winter with you, so how about you spend one spring, just one spring with me?" I placed my paws together as I begged him. He sniffed.
"Fine. But only because we're friends." I sighed as I looked at my wilted tail.
"I look horrible in the winter, don't I?" Glaceon nodded, frowning at the brown leaves of my tail and ears.
"In the autumn too. Reddish brown is such a disgusting colour in my opinion."
"I think so too..." I rubbed my paws together to warm them before lying down. Glaceon blushed, licking my cheek
all of a sudden.
"I've...I've never spent the winter with anyone else before...please stay with me!" He begged.
----
The white powdery substance that came with winter was fun, but after a while I started feeling sick. There was not enough water for me to survive. My body could not keep up with my pace, and I just collapsed in the cave one day, panting heavily. Glaceon placed a paw on my head worriedly.
"You're having a high fever! You pushed yourself too hard!" He lay down next to me, and I immediately felt better. Whether it was a placebo effect or not, I wasn't sure.
"But I spent it with you...that's all that matters..." Glaceon was crying, his tears freezing before they left
his face.
"I didn't mean to...I didn't need you to kill yourself for me! I bring myself through the dull winter every year so that we can spend the autumn together...it's the only time we can be with each other..." I smiled at him weakly.
"Seeing you smile in the winter was the best thing I could have gotten...I just want to look at your happy face one more time...you're never happy in the autumn..." He gasped, holding me tightly in his paws to try to warm me up.
"You speak like you're going to die! You won't! I won't let you!" Tears started rolling down my cheeks as well.
"If I do, promise me you won't forget the time we spent together, this winter...promise me that you'll remember me. And in case I die...let me just say again, I love
you."
"I never knew! I always thought that you were just using me to sate your heat! If I had known, and mated with you before, then you wouldn't have done something so stupid! Why didn't I stop you? Why didn't you just tell me head on?" I placed a paw on his mouth to keep him quiet.
"Because..." I grinned weakly at him. "Because I wasn't sure if you loved me as much as I did. I didn't dare speak up. You were always so sarcastic that I was afraid you'd break my heart beyond what I can bear." He looked at me, shocked.
"But I've never said anything that would have hurt you!"
"Every time you told me how ugly I looked, how careless I was, I feel really bad inside...I didn't think you loved me..." Glaceon nuzzled me gently, and I returned it. My consciousness was fading slowly.
"Why...why did you do this? I'm sorry!"
"I'm happy. That's all that matters..." My vision faded before me, and the last thing I saw and felt was Glaceon crying, still holding tightly onto me.
----
When I recovered from my sickness, it was the middle of spring. Glaceon was still holding tightly to my body, even though he was asleep. I shook him awake gently, and he stirred, looking in every direction. "Oh no! I fell asleep! I was supposed to be looking after her!" When he saw that it was me that woke him, he let out a cry of joy and leapt onto me in a strange hug. "You're alright!"
"Better than ever." My leaves had turned green from absorbing the rainwater that trickled into the cave, and I was my natural self again. Glaceon stared at me in wonder.
"So this is how you look like when I'm asleep. I never kne-" I placed my lips to his before he could finish his sentence, and I pushed my tongue gently into his mouth. He soon returned the kiss as we rolled about on the floor, the first time we've ever done that for intimate reasons rather for playing.
"I love you, Glaceon, do you love me?" I asked breaking the kiss.
"You're beautiful..." He marvelled, beaming at me.
"I know that already, but do you love me?"
"Yes I do..." He placed his lips to mine in another kiss. Things had turned out just fine.Chapter End Notes:I am also out of name creativity
I'm Leafeon, and I live together with Glaceon in this cave together. We were friends ever since we were young eevees then. I still think back to the past, where the two of us were just having fun together, without any worries in the world.
Then, everything happened so suddenly. Glaceon led me on a little adventure through the forest nearby, to mark the end of autumn. Snow had already started to fall on our furry brown heads, but it was too light for us to care.
In a few days, winter would start, and the two of us would be huddling in the cave for warmth. The stone cave provided little shelter from the chilly winds, but it was our home after all. Somehow, we managed to pull through the long and arduous winter every time it came, until the ice thawed and spring started.
That day, we were lost in the forest. When Glaceon and I finally decided to turn back, the snow had already covered our tracks. Worse, the sun was setting fast, and dusk was really near. The snowfall became heavier as the onset of winter kicked in...
----
"I don't want to die...not here of all places!" It was just last year when our parents gave their lives in this very forest. It had been a dry summer, and there were very few berries to stockpile. Our parents went into the forest together to look for food, but they never came back. I thought that they had just found another cave and more food, leaving the two of us with the rest of the berries here. But when they didn't come back after spring came, the two of us cried in each other's shoulders. We were alive, but at what cost?
Glaceon dug a little snow cave in the ground. "Come on, get in! You don't want to freeze to death, do you? Our parents didn't save us for nothing!" I nodded as I curled myself into a ball inside the cave, trying desperately to keep warm. Glaceon sealed us in with a little hole for us to breathe through. "We have to stay here until the snowfall slows down..."
He was trying to hide it, but his body was shivering violently. I was warmer inside while he braved the cold nearer to the surface. "Are you alright? We can share what little warmth there is..." Glaceon shook his head.
"I'm...fine...let's try to get some sleep..." I closed my eyes to try to get some rest, but I woke up when Glaceon stopped shivering. Worried, I asked him softly, fearing the worst.
"Are...are you still...alive...?" He looked at me and licked my cheek softly.
"I promised that I'd protect you after our parents sacrificed themselves for us. Now I can fulfil that promise for now. Sleep well, and we can play again tomorrow." I squinted at him, unsure. He seemed slightly bigger, or was he? It was impossible to tell under the faint starlight.
The next day, I woke up early in the morning and tunnelled my way out of the snow cave. It was then I saw Glaceon prancing about in the snow, his blue tail and ears hanging limply from his body as he kicked up a flurry of white crystals everywhere. "Oh you're awake! What took you so long?" He said joyously, smiling brightly at me.
"You evolved last night!" He nodded, moving closer to me. He licked my cheek gently and smile.
"You should evolve soon as well. Then we can both play together in the snow..." That seemed like a brilliant plan, except...
I never evolved that winter. No matter how much I convinced myself that I was meant to be a Glaceon, and no matter how much snow I exposed my petite body to, I didn't evolve into a Glaceon. All I managed to do was to get a cold. Towards the middle of winter, it was now too chilly for me to do anything but hibernate in the cave, so Glaceon was all alone for the whole winter, with nobody beside him to bask in the joy of his evolution.
When spring came, another problem rose. It was Glaceon's turn to be sleeping in the cave. I tilted my head to one side, confused. "Glaceon, its spring! Why are you lying down and doing nothing?"
"It's too warm outside for me...the chill of winter is slow to seep from stone, and the cave will provide an excellent place to rest until autumn at least..." I stared at him, agape. Glaceon merely turned away.
"But it's so beautiful outside! All the trees have turned green again, and the field of flowers is blooming!" Glaceon merely snorted.
"I'm not interested." Sighing, I shook my body gently to warm up my tense muscles before stepping out of the cave for the first time in a month. The sun was shining brightly, melting away the last remnants of snow scattered in patches across the ground. Other pokemon poked their heads out of their hibernal resting places as they returned to their normal lives. The pachirisu scattered around the trees, the ariados continued to weave their webs, all in preparation for the next winter to come. I thought I would enjoy the sight again, but I just didn't feel right without Glaceon beside me.
Sighing, I closed my eyes gently and wished in my heart.
"I wish there could be some way for me and Glaceon to be together forever, then we could have fun with each other for the rest of our lives..." All of a sudden, I felt a surge of energy flow through my body as I grew before my own eyes. The humid forest bothered me no more as my ears and tail became leaves that flopped gently in the breeze.
Padding over to a river to examine myself, I smiled.
Dashing back to the cave, I wanted to inform Glaceon of my new evolution. "Glaceon, I evolved!" I yelled happily, leaping onto his snoring body. He grunted softly in his sleep, but didn't stir. Sighing, I watched him as he murred gently. The rising and falling motion of his chest, the way his body was shaped, the perfect muscular contours of his body and the slight chill around him made me want to stay with him forever. He was handsome in a way which I had never seen him before, and I thought, for the first time in my life ever since I knew Glaceon, that I loved him. I just decided to keep it to myself, in case he didn't feel the same way.
Spring and summer were torturously long without Glaceon by my side. Talking to trees and other half-plants helped passed the time, but not as well as with him. Soon, I found myself dragging my bored paws to and fro from my cave to prepare for the coming winter ahead. Somehow, time seemed to pass very slowly, almost as though something was missing from my life. Then, I felt it, the burning desire to mate and reproduce. But no matter how many other pokemon courted me, my heart was reserved for the one I loved, Glaceon.
Glaceon finally woke up when autumn came. By then, the leaves on my body had slowly turned a brownish red. He looked at me with slight surprise. "I didn't know leafeons look like that..." I stared into his eyes, almost needing him to mate with me now to satisfy my lust. I wouldn't even mind a rape.
"Glaceon...I think I'm in heat...can you be my first?" Glaceon shook his head.
"I can't do that to a friend. I wouldn't feel right. You're my friend...and you are beautiful, but not...beautiful beautiful, more like just beautiful." I whined softly at my friend's refusal, but there was nothing I could do.
"Don't see me as a friend, then. Glaceon, I couldn't tell you this, but I think I..." I pouted, and he smiled, nuzzling me gently.
"I see you as a friend. A very close friend, but still a friend. And there's no way I can bring myself to hurt you, even if you want me to. Come, let's go outside. I need a good, long stretch. It isn't long before winter comes again."
We spent the whole of autumn together, playing, before it was my turn to hibernate through the winter. The first four years were okay, but from the fifth year onwards my life felt empty. We drifted further and further apart with every season that passed, and it broke my heart every time Glaceon made a snide remark about me. He had no friends to share the winter with, and the loneliness was slowly making him bitter.
This was the seventh year since our evolutions. Glaceon has now become as cold as his exterior, and my heat is too strong to bear. If he does not claim me soon then I'm afraid somebody else would. Just as my leaves wilted for the winter, I looked at Glaceon once more.
"Please, Glaceon. I can spend the winter with you, so how about you spend one spring, just one spring with me?" I placed my paws together as I begged him. He sniffed.
"Fine. But only because we're friends." I sighed as I looked at my wilted tail.
"I look horrible in the winter, don't I?" Glaceon nodded, frowning at the brown leaves of my tail and ears.
"In the autumn too. Reddish brown is such a disgusting colour in my opinion."
"I think so too..." I rubbed my paws together to warm them before lying down. Glaceon blushed, licking my cheek
all of a sudden.
"I've...I've never spent the winter with anyone else before...please stay with me!" He begged.
----
The white powdery substance that came with winter was fun, but after a while I started feeling sick. There was not enough water for me to survive. My body could not keep up with my pace, and I just collapsed in the cave one day, panting heavily. Glaceon placed a paw on my head worriedly.
"You're having a high fever! You pushed yourself too hard!" He lay down next to me, and I immediately felt better. Whether it was a placebo effect or not, I wasn't sure.
"But I spent it with you...that's all that matters..." Glaceon was crying, his tears freezing before they left
his face.
"I didn't mean to...I didn't need you to kill yourself for me! I bring myself through the dull winter every year so that we can spend the autumn together...it's the only time we can be with each other..." I smiled at him weakly.
"Seeing you smile in the winter was the best thing I could have gotten...I just want to look at your happy face one more time...you're never happy in the autumn..." He gasped, holding me tightly in his paws to try to warm me up.
"You speak like you're going to die! You won't! I won't let you!" Tears started rolling down my cheeks as well.
"If I do, promise me you won't forget the time we spent together, this winter...promise me that you'll remember me. And in case I die...let me just say again, I love
you."
"I never knew! I always thought that you were just using me to sate your heat! If I had known, and mated with you before, then you wouldn't have done something so stupid! Why didn't I stop you? Why didn't you just tell me head on?" I placed a paw on his mouth to keep him quiet.
"Because..." I grinned weakly at him. "Because I wasn't sure if you loved me as much as I did. I didn't dare speak up. You were always so sarcastic that I was afraid you'd break my heart beyond what I can bear." He looked at me, shocked.
"But I've never said anything that would have hurt you!"
"Every time you told me how ugly I looked, how careless I was, I feel really bad inside...I didn't think you loved me..." Glaceon nuzzled me gently, and I returned it. My consciousness was fading slowly.
"Why...why did you do this? I'm sorry!"
"I'm happy. That's all that matters..." My vision faded before me, and the last thing I saw and felt was Glaceon crying, still holding tightly onto me.
----
When I recovered from my sickness, it was the middle of spring. Glaceon was still holding tightly to my body, even though he was asleep. I shook him awake gently, and he stirred, looking in every direction. "Oh no! I fell asleep! I was supposed to be looking after her!" When he saw that it was me that woke him, he let out a cry of joy and leapt onto me in a strange hug. "You're alright!"
"Better than ever." My leaves had turned green from absorbing the rainwater that trickled into the cave, and I was my natural self again. Glaceon stared at me in wonder.
"So this is how you look like when I'm asleep. I never kne-" I placed my lips to his before he could finish his sentence, and I pushed my tongue gently into his mouth. He soon returned the kiss as we rolled about on the floor, the first time we've ever done that for intimate reasons rather for playing.
"I love you, Glaceon, do you love me?" I asked breaking the kiss.
"You're beautiful..." He marvelled, beaming at me.
"I know that already, but do you love me?"
"Yes I do..." He placed his lips to mine in another kiss. Things had turned out just fine.Chapter End Notes:I am also out of name creativity