When Yolie arrived to the diner in Gronk City, she took a seat. Lucky, the restaurant has accommodated seating for pokemon as well. She gave her Knope a seat, and the two sat at a booth on a fourth floor balcony, which looked upon the city. The two had quite the candle lit feast, as Yolie ordered a decent amount of food for the two of them.
Yolie prepared her utensils in a polite manner, showing exquisite table etiquette. She began to teach her Trubbish how to display proper table manners.
"Nope, Knope. You are doing it all wrong. Never rest your elbows upon the table, and lay your cloth along your lap. I may be dining with trash, but once you learn to eat like a gentleman, you will put to shame un-priveledged pigs."
Knope fiddled with his fork, and began gnawing on it along with the food. He made a little bit of a mess on the balcony with his food.
Yolie sulked by her lonesome, checking her pokegear for constant updates. Her friends hadn't messaged her yet. Didn't they care how she was doing? She began this journey for them, they should be more invested! She was ready to call it quits.
As she was absorbed in her phone, suddenly a blood-curdling scream filled the air around her. Yolie looked up from her phone and at Knope. It sounded like a boy, she thought to herself.
"What was that?" She asked Knope.
Knope gave back a blank stare while he chewed on the rest of his dinner.
As the two stared at each other, the image of a boy appeared to run on top of their table, and jump off the balcony. Yolie couldn't believe her eyes, but the Trubbish didn't seem to flinch.
Yolie ran to the balcony's ledge and frantically searched for a kid. To no avail, she couldn't find one.
"Are you OK?" She screamed. The only reply she received was silence. Silence, and a cold air on her back that made her shutter. As she began to turn around, her skin froze, and time slurred. A loud ringing noise rang in her ears, but her Pokémon stood at the table, wondering what was wrong with her. And in an instant-
"BOO!"
Yolie jumped back as a pinkish ghost with colorful eyes separated her from the table. She was so spooked that she slipped over the balcony's edge and nearly fell. She managed to grab the ledge with her hands, and was now dangling. Yolie was holding on for her life, when the small ghost floated above her and began to laugh.
"What!!!! This isn't happening! Somebody help!"
Yolie felt her life flash before her eyes. To her surprise, her biggest worry was what Knope would do without Yolie. They had just met, and she felt concerned for its wellbeing. She never felt that way about anyone or anything before.
Yolie felt two hands grasp hers in tandem. It appeared that Knope climbed along the balcony edge and grabbed Yolie's hand, tugging with all of its might. Yolie succeeded in climbing back to safety, to the soundtrack of the ghost's laughter. It began to speak.
"Shu-shushushu!" The ominous ghost seemed more playful and sadistic now.
"This isn't a ghost! Its... A pokemon. Hey bub, watch it how you play your games! I could've been seriously hurt, or even worse... I don't even want to think about it."
Yolie flipped her pokedex open at the pokemon. "Shuppet, the puppet Pokémon. Shuppet grows by feeding on dark emotions, such as vengefulness and envy, in the hearts of people. It roams through cities in search of grudges that taint people."
Yolie's heart sank, while the ghost Pokémon continued laughing. This ghost wasn't just here for jokes, it was feeding on negative emotions-her negative emotions. She started to wonder, maybe no one enjoyed her company because she was always a debbie-downer. The news brought on by the pokedex entry just made her feel even more depressed. Knope saw his trainer fall to the ground, as she began to cover her eyes, a river of tears seeped out of the crevices of her fingers. Knope walked in front of Shuppet and tried to reason with it.
"Trub. Urr-u-bish." Knope said, with its eyes beginning to water. It pointed its arm at Yolie.
"Mmmm. Shup. HuhuhHUHUHh." The ghost seemed concerned at first, and then couldn't hold its pokerface; it was taking the whole situation as a joke. Knope began thinking of what to do, and then it closed its eyes and began to produce a strange wave. The wave seemed to encapsulate both Shuppet and Yolie. Then, Yolie's tears stopped, and she seemed to feel comfortable. Meanwhile, the Shuppet finally halted its laughter. And then it stared at Yolie. It grimaced, as tears began to flow down its eyes. It had felt sympathy for the first time in its life, and wanted to make it up to the human girl it almost killed. It allowed itself to have a physical form, and snuggled up to Yolie. She decided to hold it in her arms and coddle it.
"Its OK. I understand, you are alone too. Whatever Knope did, I just feel like I know where you're coming from. All you know is how to survive, and I was an opportunity. It must be hard finding sadness in a world where pokemon make trainers happy. Maybe you don't need dark emotions to get stronger. And if you do... Ill have plenty of them for you to feed on."
The Shuppet continued to cry. It nodded in agreement. Then it looked at Knope, struggling to perhaps say sorry, while sobbing. In that instance, Yolie grabbed an extra pokeball.
"So, how about it Shuppet? Wanna join me? You don't have to be alone. We can grow together. With Knope too."
Shippers tears of sadness slowly shifted to tears of joy. Shuppet wouldn't want anything else than to become partners with Yolie.
"Great! Now get in this Pokeball!" Yolie laughed, her throat clogged with mucus from crying so much.
The pokeball touched upon shuppets head, and opened instantaneously, absorbing the Shuppet. The ball shook in Yolie's hand three times before letting off a successful clink noise. Yolie felt proud, and went up to Knope and hugged him.
"Thanks for saving me buddy. I don't know what I'd do without you."
Knope returned the hug and seemed so happy. The hug was short lived, because Knope stopped smelling so well. But the hug was just a taste of everything Knope could ever want. Trainer and pokemon got up, and started to stare into the sky, relaxing along the balcony ledge.
"I can't believe I'm even brave enough to be so close to this again. This day... It truly was Eventful. Actually, that's what Shuppet's name will be! Eve'ent!"
A moment later, the waiter came to Yolie's table.
"It seems you have finished your meal, but you have disturbed our guests. If you are ready to leave, will you be paying with cash or credit?"
