I looked around the room for a little while just to see where I wanted to sleep at, and after testing out a few places, other then the bed of course. Which was already occupied by a sleeping Tepig. I found that the floor was surprisingly the only thing that seemed comfortable enough to sleep on.

I crawled down on all fours and chose a spot by the wall closest to the couch that was on the other side of the bedroom. I could still see the door if it was opened, and I would be the first able to react if something tried to get in and attack.

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The next morning I was awoken to the sound of breathing, and near me too. I immediately shot up and looked at the door with my claws out and ready to strike, but there was nothing there. I looked behind me to see a Butterfree fly past the window, so nothing there as well, but the bed was empty.

I finally looked down to see that the Tepig has somehow gone from being on the bed, to the middle of the area of the floor that I was sleeping in, probably in between where I was sleeping. You have your own bed, and you can self heat being a fire Pokémon and all, so why are you sleeping next to me?!

I quietly growled a little, but got over it and started to look around for something that I might be able to make for food. I saw some fish in the freezer along with a bunch of other meats that I didn't recognize, and there were berries on the table. So I decided to grab the fish, put it on the stove, scavenge the cabinets for some seasoning, and when I finally found some I poured lots of spices on the fish. Then I grabbed a bunch of random berries and put them in a bowl for Tepig.

"Mmmm something smells good" Tepig wandered in while I was finishing the fish and I raised an eyebrow at her.

"I wasn't talking about the meat, no that smell is foul and I don't want to ever be near it, I was talking about the berries that are calling to me" she scowled and I grinned.

"Uh huh, if too say so. I'm pretty sure that this meat smells good for even you" I said and she just snorted at me and looked away. Then she turned around and hopped over to the table and started to dig into the bowl of berries without so much at looking at me.

I guessed when the fish was done, grabbed it right off the pan, and took a bite. And it was amazing, I was honestly a little surprised by myself.

"Um, how are you eating it like that?" Tepig asked pointing to the still streaming fish in my paws.

"Oh I don't feel anything below my wrists and on some parts of my arms, I was in a very bad tribe when I was younger, they didn't take care of me and only barely taught me how to interact with others, so I had to fend for myself most of my younger life.

"I was in the forest stalking a caterpi when a bunch of Spearows and Pidgeots flew up from the trees and started to flee, giving out warning calls to one another, but I was too late. As I started to run back to the cave the fire that had spread through the forest caught up to me and burning sticks and branches kept on threatening to fall on me. So I had to hit every single one of them away with my paws and arms.

"By the time I got into my cave again my fur up to my mid forearms were almost completely burned off and my hands had second and third degree burns on them. It was painful for the first three weeks while I took care of my own hands, but I still had to hunt with them, and let them rest in between in order to heal. By the time I got out of the cave winter had already come."

"So what happened to your tribe then?" The Tepig asked and I looked at her and shrugged, the still hot fish still in my paws, so I took another bite.

"Don't know" I said, "by the time it was spring again and I could go back, I found nothing but some burned bones and the ash of former shelters."

"I'm sorry" she said and I tilted my head at her.

"Why?" I asked, "I didn't have a bad life I was just in a bad tribe"

"And that's why I'm saying sorry, no Pokémon should have to go through hurt like that, with no one to go to, no one to be there for you, no true family to depend on. It just sad" I tilted my head at her, she wasn't going to go all waterfalls on me now was she?

"Well" she suddenly banished the look of sadness and looking at me with a new determination, and I tilted my head at her. "I guess that I'll just have to show you what it's like to have a family" she said and I shrunk back. I don't think that this was flying in a direction that I wanted it to go.

I ate the rest of my fish quickly, as it was getting cold. Then I ran over to where Tepig was waiting by the door and smirked.

"Stop doing that, it's not my fault that I don't have hands yet" she said and I tilted my head.

"Sorry, but no" I said and then went over to the table, grabbed the key, and then went over and opened the door for us. She grumbled and snorted under her breath but thanked me and headed towards the elevator again. I grumbled this time, I really didn't like this thing, if the Onyx that were carrying it and the Pokémon standing on the platform was to get hurt or forget it's duty. Then everyone that got on those platforms would fall a long Long ways before their death assuming they couldn't fly.

I saw the platform come up and stop at our level, and we stepped onto it, but instead of going down it went back up again and stopped at a different level where there was an Arcanine waiting.

"Hello, good morning you two" he said and stepped on next to us, and then the platform started to go down, and when I thought that wet were near the bottom it stopped again a level or two above the ground making me growl in frustration. A Lopunny appeared waiting with a Buneary at get side hoping up and down with excitement.

They both got on and there was a groan under us but the platform finally got to the ground. And I jumped out of the elevator as soon as I could, I was never using one like that again, and it made me glad that I was going to be staying outside for a while to train.

I said my goodbyes to Tepig since I probably wasn't going to see her in a while and then I ran over to that like cabin and stood on the chair, since it seemed to be pressure sensitive and the next second I was falling through the air. I counted the minutes until I saw the bottom and when it finally came into view I was at around three or four minutes of falling.

I landed in the pads of my feet without a sound and then made my way over to where The Giant Dragonite was working.

"Hi I'm here just as you asked" I said and ducked under his swiping tail as he jumped and struck out at me.

"I need to put something on you soon" The Dragonite said turning around and glaring at me and I cocked my head.

"Why would you need to do that?" I asked and he shook his head sighing with frustration.

"I don't want you scaring me everytime you come in to say 'hi' or when your done with a task" he said and I looked around.

"Well I'm not putting one on my neck if thats what you want" I said and he chuckled.

"No I'm not asking for that, just take it as a requirement while you work with me. You are now required to wear a bell somewhere on you, preferably your wrist or ankles, while you work with me" The Dragonite said and I shrugged, that wasn't something bad or too irritating, so I was fine with it.

I guessed that I would need to go back into the city and find a store that sold small noise devices. I looked around for the moment. Almost half of the Sharpedo that were hanging up were gone.

"Where do you sell all of this fish, and so quickly too?" I asked and The Dragonite turned his head and looked at me.

"You don't need to know where they go, but as for how they disappear so quickly. That is my doing" he said and I was confused. I was just here last night there's no way the Dragonite could've done that many in one night...right.

"I can work much faster than you can" he said seemingly reading my thoughts and looking back at me, but still working on the fish. He cut off the sides for the filet of the fish with his long claws and then set them aside and burned the leftover to ash. Then he reached over to the stack next to him and started on the next one.

I decided to watch him once and then tried one in my own. I grabbed a Sharpedo from the pike and tossed it into a spot next to the Dragonite. Then I hoped up onto the counter and watched the process of him cutting them up. He burned it when he was finished and blew away the ash and grabbed the next one as I started on mine.

I finished as he did and I slid mine over as he burned his away and set the filets aside. The Dragonite raised an eyebrow at me but grabbed two this time and set one in front of me.

We ended up getting through the entire stock of Sharpedo and once he was done he grabbed all of the filets that we had cut and then he flew over to a stack of boxes and put them in it before sealing it off, writing something on it, and bringing it over and putting it on some other boxes. The walls behind them were covered in ice and some of the boxes were also partially frozen.

"Do you have to keep freezing that area to keep the ice there?" I asked and the Dragonite looked at me with an interested look.

"Well at least you didn't ask about what the ice was for" he grumbled under his breath, and I think that it was so that I didn't hear, but I had better ears than he thought because I cocked my head at that but didn't say anything just in case he got irritated with me further and didn't answer my other question.

"No" he said after a while, shaking his head as he spoke, "thankfully I do not have to, I've only needed to use that move once and haven't needed to since."

"Cool" I said and watched as he grabbed a Gyrados and hauled the entire thing over and lay it across the table.

"Now I'm going to show you how I prepare a Gyrados" the Dragonite said looking at me with a grin.