It was the first cold night of the year, the start of winter. Anya has been shivering in her sleep as cold air invades the burrow.

Anya slowly woke from her slumber as she suddenly felt a cold breeze invade her core. She noticed that all three of the small pokemon were huddled under the warm looking tails of Ninetales, she was a bit envious but not enough to visibly show it.

As Anya rose from her pillow, only then did she really notice how cold it actually was. Determined to actually do something that day, she quietly left the burrow, only to find the grass outside with a layer of frost on top of it.

She moved to the nearby stream, knowing well the nearby area. Refreshing herself at the cold stream might not have been the best of choices as the cold water clung to her skin and causing her to shiver when the cold wind blew past her.

Today, she was supposed to start making cloth again.

There hasn't been any other flare ups after the first one, seems like it won't happen again.

She shivered again and told herself that making clothes for herself might be a good idea, like the 'gloves' she had made earlier for herself.

On a plus note, her skills as a tailor had come in handy and her ability to knit silk has increased tremendously, right now her speed in making the cloth has become so good that the kids are all entranced by her.

At midday the burrow had a visitor, A Raticate had entered and the Rattata gleefully shouted "Mom! You came!"

"Yes dear, I am here now" Raticate looked around the burrow and its eyes met with Anya's, They both stared at each other for a while until Raticate was interrupted by Ninetales.

"It is good to see you well" Ninetales said

"Thank you for looking after my child this summer, I really had some important things to do. I really can't thank you enough"

"It is fine, if anything, his company was nice bit of change around here"

Raticate then eyed at the Leavanny who calmly knit silk at the corner of the burrow.

"Who is that?" she asked Ninetales

"Some lost one we found few weeks back, she has been quite nice to us. Even making our nest a little nicer place to sleep, with these things" the Ninetales said while pointing at the nearest cushion.

"Some odd move?" The Raticate asked curiously

"None that I know of, but it doesn't seem to even be a move, it doesn't seem to use any aura energies"

Raticate looked around again and said a quick few words merrily.

"Come darling, say goodbye to your friends we need to get going"

"Yes mom!" Rattata then went to nuzzle Eevee and Vulpix saying their goodbyes and wishing them a good winter.

"Goodbye guys, keep safe" Rattata chirped as they both exited the burrow.

Anya focused more on her silk and continued to knit. She was sure it was going to get colder, she needed to prepare better if she wanted to survive.

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While knitting peacefully, Eevee and Vulpix both came to join her while dragging their own pillows nearby and then loafing on them. Anya didn't see any problems with such an act and continued to knit.

She opened her mouth and threw a question in the air in curiosity

"I didn't know that Rattata was a temporarily here, does that mean that your mother or father comes to pick you up too Eevee?"

Eevee jolted up from her pillow in surprise when being talked to so suddenly.

"...I...My..."

"Her parents are both gone" Anya heard an answer from the Ninetales

"Oh... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked"

"It's, it's okay, you couldn't have known, Ninetales has looked after me most of the time" Eevee stuttered.

Anya struggled for a while to change the subject to a more livelier one, then she had an idea.

"Hey, what do you want to evolve into?"

Eevee stupedified answered as a matter of factly "Flareon of course!"

"How so?"

"Because Eevee evolves into Flareon like Vulpix evolve into Ninetales. Everyone knows this!"

This baffled Anya, she knew that Eevee had at least eight different evolutions to evolve into, so she decided to question her deeper.

"Are you sure? In my knowledge Eevee has eight different options to evolve into"

"E-e-eight?!" Vulpix stuttered nearby in surprise. "Is that true!?" he looked at Eevee expectantly

"N-no" Eevee answered "Eevee evolves into Flareon"

Ninetales had risen from its bed and walked slowly towards them.

"I am not sure about eight different evolutions but I have seen three forms myself" Ninetales said.

"But if you know something about Eevee, then do enlighten me, I am raising one myself" His mouth turned into a smirk.

Anya took a deep breath, she wasn't sure how much of her knowledge was correct, but so far it has not been exactly wrong either.

"Do you mind telling me first which of her forms have you seen before?"

The fox nodded

"The one I am most familiar with is the form of Flareon as Eevee's mother was a good friend of mine, then I have seen the yellow one with white collar and is spiky all over and lastly I have seen the black one with glowing yellow circles all over its bodies."

"So you have seen a Flareon, a Jolteon and an Umbreon." Anya nodded

"So that leaves, Vaporeon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon" She counted.

Anya then asked a question meant for either Ninetales or Eevee.

"Do you know the conditions of Eevee's evolutions?"

"Conditions?" the Eevee parroted her

"Only Flareon, they need to be exposed to a strong fire aura for an extended period of time" Ninetales said

Anya racked her brain as the information Ninetales gave her did not match any of her knowledge 'does this mean that the evolution stones from the games and anime were just condensed type aura, maybe they aren't even real?' she cleared her head and gave them what she thought was right.

'Or possibly with a stone with condensed amount of fire energy?' she then continued

"I'll skip Flareon as you might know about it the most, next is Vaporeon, a water-type pokemon capable melting into a puddle of water that are evolved using a water stone or exposed to a large amount of water energy? Aura? As you called it, their body has a large fin-like tail. Jolteon, electric-type extremely fast and is capable of easily releasing lightning and thunder, evolved by using a thunder stone or electric aura."

"Then its going to get a little odd, we have Umbreon the moonlight pokemon, capable of using dark-type energy and is attuned to the moon, evolved when... attuned to the moon and is happy? friendly? Next Umbreon's counterpart, Espeon a purple twin-tailed sun cat which is capable of using strong psychic energies, move stuff with their mind and talk to others directly into their heads, Evolves like an Umbreon but attuned to the sun instead of the moon."

After each of these explanations Anya could see the face of the Eevee shifting more and more, she chuckled.

"I know I am not doing that great of a job to explain these, but are you still with me? " she asked to let the poor pokemon's mind rest a bit. But the Eevee resolutely nodded

"All right, We have three left, First one of them is Leafeon, which is a green grass-type pokemon with a sharp tail and can survive just by being in the sun, is evolved by exposing an Eevee to a leaf stone or a high concentration of grass-type aura?

Next up is Glaceon an ice-type pokemon with icy blue fur, capable of instantly freezing and cooling its surrounding, they are evolved by exposing an Eevee to either ice stone or a high concentration of ice-aura."

"Last but not least, we have Sylveon, a mystical fairy-type pokemon with pink and white body. Capable of moving a ribbon like appendages at will and its mysterious fairy energies to feel feelings and bring peace to aggressive opponents, evolved by knowing how to handle fairy aura and... love?"

The whole burrow was dead silent for a moment, before Anya coughed and continued.

"So which of these sound the best?" Anya asked Eevee

"You can ask me anything, I'll try to help as much as I can"