[ POV Change ]

[ Stone Town ]

In a wealthy suburban town, the streets are lined with large, elegant villas. Each one is set back from the road and surrounded by sprawling lawns and gardens. The houses are all different, but they share a certain grandeur, with marble facades, gabled roofs, and intricate architectural details.

The town itself is quiet and peaceful, with very little traffic on the roads. The air is clean and fresh, and the sun is shining down from a bright blue sky. The lawns are perfectly manicured, and the gardens are bursting with vibrant flowers.

As you walk down the street, you can see people out and about in their yards, tending to their gardens or playing with their children. Some of them are chatting with their neighbors over the fence, while others are simply enjoying the solitude and beauty of their surroundings.

In the distance, you can see the town square, with its charming shops and restaurants. People are walking their Growlithes, pushing strollers, or simply enjoying the scenery. It's a picture-perfect scene of suburban life, and it's clear that this is a town where the wealthy come to live in luxury and comfort.

This is Stone Town, a small suburban town famous for its stone sculptures and the numerous Villas for the wealthy people that stay in this quiet town.

Stone Town was famous for buying and selling items like old statues, evolutionary stones, and other precious gems.

As Austin walked through the dense, quiet forest near stone town, he could feel the cool, damp air on his skin and the musty smell of the forest floor in his nose. He was blindfolded, so he couldn't see anything, but he could hear the rustling of leaves and the occasional chirping of flying-type Pokemon.

He had a sleeping yellow on his back, and he could feel her weight and the warmth of her body as she rested against him while wearing a blind fold as he tried to use aura to find his surroundings.

( ~ Thud ~ )

" Don't move your aura like that," Lucario said as he patted his stick on his paws while Austin was tiring hard not to scream at the aura pokemon.

' The aura is with me. ' Austin exclaimed in his heart as his aura tattoos glowed before sending out small ripples near him.

Austin couldn't help but smile in disbelief as he felt everything around him.

To think one day he would be training for something like his own powers.

Would he be able to use these powers if he went back to Earth?

Austin suddenly stopped causing Yellow's eyes to flutter open while he took off his blindfold before crouching down and pointing. "An Eevee with a collar and leashed up to a tree—"

"In the middle of the forest?" Yellow asked while half-asleep.

"Poor thing," Lucario opined. "It's been abandoned."

The Eevee suddenly started vehemently barking.

" What is it saying ?"

" He isn't abandoned. His trainer would be right back. " Lucario answered back

" Is that right ?"

" Vee !"

Yellow was surprised by Lucario's words as Austin stood a pocket knife and cut the leash.

Eevee's tail wagged in happiness at Austin's actions as it got a little comfortable in a sleeping position. It was going to wait for his trainer.

" Hey there buddy, when is your trainer going to come in ?"

" Eve."

Austin turned to Yellow who was falling back asleep before he nudged her awake.

" Huh, w, what ?"

" ..... "

Seeing Eevee and Austin looking at her, yellow blushed and placed a hand on Eevee's forehead.

" So what did you find ?"

" Eevee's trainer tied it to this tree with food and water and said that he would come the day after tomorrow."

" Ev, vee !"

" Ok, I am guessing this trainer is a little kid."

" How did you know ?"

" Lucky guess."

" So what are we going to do ?"

" Let's get Eevee back to its rightful owner. You come with us, and we'll go find your trainer—and if he doesn't think he can take care of you anymore, then you can come with us."

"Pokémon aren't that vulnerable, are they?" Yellow asked.

"It depends on how they were trained," Austin explained. "Contest 'mons, for example, are trained to not have as vicious of attacks as battle 'mons."

"And there's the fact that tame Pokémon forget that there is such a thing as a food chain," Austin further added. "The Eevee might have done all right if it wasn't tied up, but it was a literal sitting Psyduck—anything from Fearow to Ekans to remarkably hungry Rattata could have done him in."

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[ Stone Town - Eve's Mansion ]

Austin and Yellow alongside Lucario walked through the Stone Town.

"I wonder if Eevee can learn Chatter," Yellow mused.

"I doubt it," Austin said, looking around. "Do you see the address yet?"

"Right there," Lucario said, pointing. "That big place that looks like a party's going on."

"All right," Yellow cheered. "Maybe they knew we were coming, so they baked a cake!"

"I doubt it," Austin said again. "Come on then—let's see about Mikey."

They went up and into the garden in front of the building, looked around—

People were evolving their Pokémon.

"This is an evolving party?" Austin asked.

"Evolving party?" Yellow echoed.

"If Pokémon evolve using a special item, their trainers generally throw a party for them, especially if it's a Pokémon very dear to them," Austin explained. "This one looks more like a group party."

"Huh," Yellow noised, before tapping a guy on the shoulder. The guy turned to look at them, a box in his hand and an excited Poliwhirl next to him.

"Oh, hey, some late arrivals!" the guy declared. "Boxes are over on that big table, and there's a buffet over there, and a fountain and a battlefield over that way once your Pokémon's evolved—"

"Uh, we're not here for that," Yellow tried to protest.

"We're looking for a kid named Mikey," Austin said, adjusting his hold on the Eevee, which was starting to get antsy. "We think he lost his Eevee, and we're sure he's worried."

"What? Hey!" the guy said, spotting Eevee. "Hey, that's great! Mikey and his brothers have been so worried about that little guy! Straight that way," the guy added, pointing. "In front of the Evo boxes—they're the ones hosting the event."

" Great, thanks," Austin said, prompting the guy to nod and turn back to his Poliwhirl, which clapped happily.

"We should have a party for our Pokémon when they evolve," Yellow said as they walked through the crowd.

"You'll jump at any chance to eat cake, won't you?" Austin asked.

"And your point?"

"None, I suppose," Austin sighed before they were accosted by three boys about Brock's age and were forced to marvel at the hair they had.

"Eevee!" all three chimed.

"You found him!" the one with spiky yellow hair declared.

"We've been looking all over for him!" the one with poofy red hair said.

"Yeah, we can't have a party without the guest of honor present!" the one with wavy blue hair added.

"Guest of honor?" Yellow echoed.

"Yeah—Mikey! Hey, Mikey! Look who's here!"

A little kid, maybe a few years younger than Ash, came forward—

And looked…decidedly not happy at the sight of the Eevee in Austin's arms.

"These nice trainers found Eevee and brought him back! Hey, thanks," the redhead said.

Austin smiled and said," It's no problem, we were just on our way to this party. I had seen an AD on the Pokenet that you guys wanted to purchase some Evolutionary Stones. Not gonna lie, I think this little guy was too excited when he saw those stones."

Austin opened his backpack revealing a thunderstone, a Waterstone, and a firestone.

Suddenly the Eevee in Austin's hands outstretched her hand out to Austin's backpack causing the trio of brother's eyes to widen before they looked at each other.

They had made that AD as a part of a joke but now seeing their precious little brother's Eevee reach out to these specific stones made the trio realize that maybe that joke had turned into an opportunity.

" Ah, yes I do remember that AD. Name your price for these precious stones." The Redhead said causing Austin's smile to increase.

Looks like his plan worked.

" 20,000 pokedollars each." Austin's words caused the brothers to almost trip up.

That was 4 times the market price.

" Ahh, can't you bring down the price? It is my little brother's party after all."

" I want to do that but I and my friend traveled from Viridian City. We had to pay a lot of money to get here on time. I am sorry but I can't decrease the price. But Thank God we arrived on time or this buddy might have gotten hurt in the forest." Austin's lying words caused the trio of brothers to look at Austin with gratitude.

In actuality, Austin had personally gone into that forest just to Eevee so he could charge the trio of Eevee brothers such a high price. He even had Haunter manipulate Mickey's Eevee to reach out for the evolutionary stones so he could get the trio to agree to his unreasonable price for the evolution stones.

Was he pulling a scam on them?

Yes.

Was he ashamed of what he was doing?

Yes, but he needed the money. No way in hell was he going to get his pokemon mediocre food, for them it would be the top of line food.

The Eevee trio brothers looked at each before turning towards the smiling Austin as they exclaimed.

" What did you say the price was ?"