Heed my tale. Don’t make my mistakes.

Ever since I had seen a picture of it for the first time, I decided that Umbreon was my favorite Pokemon, and I LOVE its shiny as well. Two days ago, I decided to finally embark on my quest to get one for myself- I got an italian eevee to breed with one of my own, and off I set, running in circles. 

Now, I have some SHIT luck when it comes to shiny hunting, let that be known. Honestly terrible. Over 1500 eggs masuda method-ing in X once, 400 hordes the other time. (I only have 2 shinies) Horrible. 

The next morning, I continued my search and realized- this was not one of those times, oh no. I got extremely lucky. 

47 eggs. That’s all it took. 

Of course, I got up, running around the room, screaming. I did not realize that I hadn’t saved since I started hunting. I immediately went to go play with the newfound silver Eevee, named Aku- for a Babylonian god of the moon. A fitting name for my Umbreon, I thought. 

I did not save the game. 

I immediately got its friendship up, and started levelling. Little did I know, I had made a critical mistake in breeding. 

Charm, a fairy type move, is an egg move! My female breeding Eevee had it. It was then, of course, passed down to her silver son. 

To my astonishment, after only one battle, my eevee wanted to evolve! It was night, so I allowed it to, not realizing that my Aku had gotten Charm. 

Oh, imagine my shock and horror for a moment, dear readers, as I sat, dumbfounded, in the middle of AP Language. Imagine the tears I wanted to shed as my luck began to turn sour. 

I couldn’t comprehend it. The waving blue ribbons and bows before me made no sense- where was my blue-ringed dark type? Where?

I closed the DS, unable to look any longer. I hung my head, unable to show my utter disbelief outwardly, as that is not an acceptable AP Language behavior. 

I continued to think about it, all through the day. I looked on the bright side. Fairy types are incredibly strong, and Sylveon has an awesome shiny I might’ve gone for that one next, even! I could just take it to the name rater, and change it to something more suitable, and hey! now my pokedex entry would be shiny, how cool is that?

As I suffered on though a truly awful essay, I didn’t see the light in my bag begin to flash red. 

So, imagine my horror- absolute, unfiltered horror, when I got to lunch that day. 

dead. 

i hadn’t saved. 

i got home, lay the DS on my bed like the most precious of cargo, and unravelled my charger. I couldn’t remember my last save. It must’ve been after I got Aku, right? I couldn’t have been so dumb. 

Staring eagerly at the charging light, I waited. I couldn’t even focus my attention on anything else. 

I pressed the power button, waiting with bated breath. Right before I started hunting, I had evolved a Vaporeon, Flareon, and Jolteon. I hoped, at least, that when I opened the game, I would still have Aku. 

No. I had only evolved the Vaporeon. That’s fucking it, dudes. Hadn’t even started breeding yet. 

I should’ve known it was coming for me, I have a disgusting habit of only saving right before my DS dies. I should’ve known. 

Moral of the fucking story: SAVE THE GODDAMN GAME.