#ashlithe

Cinnamon had been walking in circles for almost an hour. "5539, 5540, 5541, 5442- Oh?"

A little crack had started forming near the top of the egg. Cinnamon started bouncing with excitement. "DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD!" Blaine chuckled. "Looks like you did it! Come put it here on the table."

Cinnamon ran over to the table and set the egg down. Their tail was wagging in excitement. "I'm going to name them Flower because I found them in a patch of flowers!" "You don't even know what it is yet..."

BAM

"AUGH!" Blaine rushed forward to catch Cinnamon before they could fall. "ARE YOU OK?"

Cinnamon mumbled something unintelligible. Thank goodness, they were still alive. Ash was barking angrily at the new pokemon sitting on the table.

Blaine helped Cinnamon back to their feet. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine! Wow, they're already so strong! Is that a shiny? They're so cool!"

You couldn't see it behind his sunglasses but Blaine was glaring at the new pokemon. Why was it staring at Cinnamon like that? "No, shiny riolus don't look quite like that. This one is very... weird..." Cinnamon bent down to pat Ash on the head, who was still barking at the riolu with rage. "Calm down buddy! This is Flower. They are your friend now."

Ash gave a little growl but stopped barking. Flower decided to growl back at him. Tenmai flew around Flower a few times. "Female. She still has the weird energy." Cinnamon went to give Flower a pat, but Blaine stopped them. "Cinnamon. This thing attacked you, and we don't know what's going on with it. I don't think keeping it is a good idea." Cinnamon looked up at him with a frown. "What? I'm sure it was an accident! Lots of pokemon are weird!" "I don't-"

"I'll go to bed on time! I'll eat less candy! I'll clean my room! I'll stop feeding clefairy crayons! Please?" "What cray- nevermind." Blaine looked away from Cinnamon. They had a look of genuine betrayal and desperation he couldn't handle.

"Dad, give her a chance. If something does go wrong, Ash and I can handle it."

Blaine hesitated, then sighed. "Alright." He pulled an empty pokeball out of his pocket and handed it to Cinnamon. "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" Cinnamon tackled Blaine in a big hug, then turned to Flower and patted her on the head. "Don't worry, proving dad wrong is pretty easy." "What-"

"POKEBALL GO!" Cinnamon tapped their pokeball on Flowers forehead and she was sucked inside. It shook 3 times, then clicked. They jumped up and down a few times. "YAY!" Blaine couldn't help but smile at how happy Cinnamon was.

Maple has plenty of stuff going on to focus on so there will be a bit of time before chaos begins but I still wanted people to know

Have some doodles

“dad dad DAD-” “Crud-” Blaine shoved his notebook into his desk drawer right before Cinnamon kicked open the door, holding up an egg above their head.

“DAD DAD DAD DAD!”

“KID KID KID KID!” Blaine stood up and clapped his hands over Cinnamon’s shoulders. “Calm down, you’re going to give your old man a heart attack!” Ash ran in, somehow panting and barking at the same time. “You too, Ketchup.” Cinnamon took a deep breath, then held out the egg, grinning with pride and excitement. “Look!” Blaine took the egg and looked it over. “Where did you find this?” “It was just sitting in the middle of the forest!” “Well, I hope you didn’t steal it from any poor momma.” 

“It looked super abandoned.” “Mmmm…” Blaine squinted at the egg. It seemed… off. He set it down on his desk. “Tenmai, can you scan this?” “Of course I can.” Tenmai rotated around the egg a few times. “Ok, maybe I can’t.” “Huh?” “It has the coloring of a sunflora egg, is the size of an abra egg, has the weight of a snover egg, and has energy readings off the charts. A little lower than the amount that is theorized for legendary pokemon eggs. I estimate somewhere around 5500 steps to hatch.” “Steps?” “Ah, yes! Pokemon eggs absorb kinetic energy to grow, hence the official measurement for incubation time is the number of steps it takes for an egg you are carrying with you to hatch.” “Ooooo…” Cinnamon picked up the egg and started walking in a circle. They were being surprisingly careful about it. “One, two, three, four, five-” “Hang on.” Blaine frowned. “I don’t like this. The egg is unnatural and could be dangerous.” Cinnamon hugged the egg close. “How could a baby be dangerous?” Blaine’s mind jumped to when Cinnamon was “born.” Giovanni hadn’t cared that it was a baby. He only cared if it was dangerous. And it could have very well been, if given the training. “Dad? You got that look on your face again.” Blaine shook the thoughts away. “Sorry. You’re right, as long as we raise the baby well, it won’t be dangerous. Do you think you can handle that responsibility?” Cinnamon puffed their chest out in determination. “Yes!” “Alright, it’s yours.” Cinnamon grinned and went back to walking. “Six, seven, eight, nine…” 

Present day...

"Alright... speed training, go!" Cinnamon started running through the forest, laughing as Ash struggled to keep up with their stubby legs. They both were going to train the whole 9 years they had before being able to go on a pokemon journey, and with all that time already under their belts, they'd be the best trainer and partner there ever was! Ash could already one hit k-o a caterpie, by the time they were at the first gym he'd be taking down, like... Palkia or something! Nobody and nothing could stop them-

"-OOF!" Cinnamon was suddenly stopped by an invisible wall. It gave slightly as they hit it, kind of like a trampoline, which sent them onto their back with that much more umph behind it. They groaned and sat up. Dang it, forgot about the forcefield again.

Ash hadn't encountered any wall at all, and was a few feet away barking frantically in Cinnamon's general direction. They snorted. "The wall cloaks, remember? I'm right here silly."

Ash ran back towards Cinnamon. The second he passed the wall Cinnamon had crashed into he looked up at them and grinned, tongue hanging out at one side.

"See? Right here." Cinnamon squinted and reached out until their fingers hit something solid. They pushed against it and it gave slightly again. The wall was to keep them safe from bad humans, like Team Rocket. It read DNA and let pokemon pass through like it wasn't there so it didn't disturb the ecosystem, but Dad was the only human who could walk past it using a button to turn the wall on and off. Cinnamon sighed. "Nine more years, Ash. That time will fly by like nothing, right? We'll be on the other side of this wall and adventuring before we know it!"

Ash gave a single bark that sounded like an enthusiastic yes.

Cinnamon scanned their eyes over the forest beyond the forcefield. So many trees they had never been able to run through... wait a second. There was something a bit of a ways away.

They pressed their face up against the forcefield. "Holy Miltank! Ash, do you see that?"

Ash followed Cinnamon's gaze until they found the object, then tipped their head to one side like they were going "woah, what is that??"

"It's a pokemon egg! I wonder what's inside?" Cinnamon looked around for some sign of a parent. "It's just sitting there... I'm worried about it. Can you go grab it?"

Ash woofed and ran over to it, then started to roll it back by pushing it with his nose.

"Good boy!" Cinnamon ruffled Ash's fur on his forehead when he got back, just the way he liked it. They picked up the egg and looked it over. "It looks like they're alright... dad will know what to do. DAD DAD DAD DAD!" they ran back to the house with the egg held high over their head.

We are soooooo close! It's almost like I know what he's saying! But being able to speak pokemon is a silly idea.