Main Character Profiles:

Name: Leafy

Species: Leafeon

Gender: Male

Age: 5

Type: Grass

Eye Color: Hazel

Fur Color(s): Tan, green, and dark brown

Personal Characteristics: Clever, jocular, brave, careful, loyal, etc.

Personal Interests: Gardening, hunting, cooking, crafting tools, sunning, etc.

Ticklish spots: Hindpaws, belly, ribs, etc.

Name: Aquamarine

Species: Vaporeon

Gender: Female

Age: 4½

Type: Water

Eye Color: Amber

Fur Color: Blue

Personal Characteristics: Playful, bold, compassionate, inquisitive, ambitious, etc.

Personal Interests: Swimming, fishing, exploring, observing others, playing games, etc.

Ticklish spots: Hindpaws, thighs, belly, etc.

Main Character Theme Songs:

Leafy's Theme: "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden.

Aquamarine's Theme: "Cherish" by Madonna.

Leafy and Aquamarine's Theme: "From This Moment On" by Shania Twain and Bryan White.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Watercress

A bright sunny day is just beginning to dawn over the vast region of Sinnoh. The wind is calm, with nary a single leaf fluttering in the breeze. The tree branches too are still throughout the deep Eterna Forest and beyond into the forests in the northwestern corner of Sinnoh. Shortly after daybreak, various forest critters slowly emerge from their hiding places one by one. Squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, and many a mess of other similar creatures scatter to and fro in search of food, new shelter, or simply something to do. Various Pokémon are scurrying about as well, including Rattatas, Bunearies, Pachirisus, Deerlings, and Pichus, among others. In addition to these smaller Pokémon are larger ones, such as Sawsbucks, Ursarings, and Manectrics.

One such Pokémon is a young male Leafeon named Leafy. He is seen making one of his early morning runs through the forest, searching for wild berries and vegetables to gather. He eventually stops at a small sitrus berry bush in a thicket. "Excellent, just what I've been searching for: sitrus berries! They're rare around these parts of Sinnoh, but surely enough, I've found one!" he thinks, pausing for a moment to look heavenward in thankfulness before taking a pawful of the berries and returning to his den site with them.

Leafy's den site is not like your typical Eeveelution den site, or even that of a typical Leafeon's, for that matter. In addition to a den, he also has a small garden immediately adjacent to it, with several plants within it already in bloom, another even bearing fruit. Across from the garden a ways is his cooking area, consisting of a small rocky fire pit, a small pile of kindling and firewood, and some makeshift wooden tools he had carved himself over time. A couple hundred feet over to the west of the den site is the eastern shoreline of Lake Watercress. Leafy deliberately chose a lakeside location to grow his garden since the soil is naturally irrigated by the underground freshwater runoff, providing his crops with a rich constant supply of some of the purest spring water Sinnoh has to offer.

Upon arriving back at his den site with his tangy cargo in tow, Leafy happily consumes a couple of the larger sitrus berries as a small breakfast, saving the seeds to plant in his garden later in the day, most likely after his afternoon nap. He then stores the remaining sitrus berries in a small subterranean "cellar" he dug out beneath the back floor of his den, its floor covered in a thick layer of rocky gravel instead of soil to preserve moisture and stabilize the temperature better. As he exits the den, he sweeps the soil floor with his tail to tidy up a bit, not leaving until the place looks satisfactory enough by his standards. Pausing for a moment to gather his thoughts together on what to do next, he goes and sits under a large fir tree just beyond his fire pit, whittling away at a small piece of wood he plans to use for part of a rotisserie rack he had been planning on making for some time now.

Half an hour later, Leafy has finished that particular component and puts the piece away in a small burrow hidden near his fire pit before taking notice of the thick clouds rolling in overhead, a distant clap of thunder being heard shortly thereafter. Seeing this to be the perfect time for his daily afternoon nap, he heads into his den to rest as the storms blow through outside. A couple hours later, the storms have ended for the eastern shores of Lake Watercress, and a well-rested Leafeon reemerges from his den, having napped sufficiently for the day. The clouds above soon begin breaking up, the sun now shining brightly on the glistening lake waters below. This presents a sterling opportunity for Leafy to sun himself on his favorite rock, which he takes without a moment's hesitation. As he lies upon the rock, he looks out over the water's surface before him at a small rocky outcropping jutting out near the lake's center, almost as if to tempt him, as if to say: "Try as you might little Leafeon, but you're never gonna make it this far out to sun yourself on me!" Unamused at this prospect, Leafy challenges back, thinking with a slight smirk, "I swear, one of these days - nay, very soon - I'm gonna swim all the way out there and sun on that rock!" With plans made and mind concluded, he closes his eyes and relaxes in the warm sunlight for a good long while.

As the sun hangs low on the horizon, another day draws to a close, with Leafy taking notice and trotting over to his fire pit for supper. He first takes some potatoes he left out in the rain purposely, since they were still covered in dirt prior to the storm's arrival. He skins them with a stone knife he had carved in days past, and then places them in a stone pot full of clean lake water suspended over the fire pit by a sturdy wooden rack. After gathering some dry wood from an auxiliary chamber in his den, he replaces the remaining wet wood currently in the fire pit with some of the dry wood, putting a bed of crisp brush below a thinner layer of kindling followed by a few medium logs and one larger one in the center upon the rest. To start the fire, he uses a piece of convex glass he found in the woods once. He then adds the remaining ingredients for his meal: some preserved rabbit flesh, chopped carrots, diced celery, minced onion, and a dash of black pepper, stirring everything periodically as needed. "Yum... smells tasty!" he muses, his mouth watering with each passing minute.

Once dinner's been cooked and served, Leafy sits in front of a large flat stump, eating his food out of a big wooden bowl with a small wooden spoon. As he eats his meal, he begins feeling a passive sort of feeling slowly coming upon him. Looking across the stump, he notices just enough room for another to dine with him, but no one there actually doing so. He sighs, feeling truly lonely for the first time in his young life. His meal finished shortly thereafter, he puts his dirty dishes beside the fire pit, goes back to the stump, and kneels before it. "Dear Lord, if it be your will, please help me find someone to care for and to care for me in return soon. It's getting rather lonely out here, and only now have I just realized this fact. I hope someday, I can look across this old stump here while I eat into the loving eyes of whichever Eeveelution girl you have planned for me. In Jesus' name, amen!" he prays silently with a humble heart and a quiet spirit. With the evening twilight nearly faded, he yawns and heads into his den for the night, curling up and sleeping peacefully, with the hopes of finding a mate still very much on his mind.