[Umbreon immediately starts wagging his tail and making a purr-like noise, elated and over the moon with the pets, furthering his trainer's words even more with the attention!]

Guardians? [He's never thought of it that way, but it really isn't that far off from the truth really.] I suppose you could say that, back home we do have some of them that guard us. They fight in place of us when fighting is done... Usually.