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Luna and Thief, Chapter One!

With her nose close to the ground, the wind blew the final few seconds of daylight away from her eyes. Rumbling came to the silence. Gosh, a whole day and I still haven't found even a berry to eat. Her stomach nipped and growled bitterly back, demanding food even as she stood back up. I can't even catch onto a whiff of food. The middle of a forest was where this small fox walked on the sight of bug-type Pokemon flew high into the air. She pressed forward the sun began drifting off sluggishly but that didn't make her tired just a little cold and scared as the twisted and gnarled roots began looking even more fiendish to her eyes. I don't like it here at all, I wanna go; her thoughts quickly fell short, she had no home to go back to. Small tears came to her eyes but she shook them away in bitter rage. I`ll never trust a trainer! The rage went to her chest, a small burning pain that beat itself against her red fur; the licks of small embers twitched from her muzzle but she quickly dispersed them with the sound of her stomach. I have to conserve my energy. She listened to the forest with teary eyes, her enraged hunger nipping at her once more. I miss that Pokemon food. Thinking of food only made her hungrier so she pressed further into the sunset for another hour. The bushes picked clean and not a berry in sight, she slowly collapsed with her six tails thrown in front of her. Cold, drowsy and with the clouds above her beginning to churn the little Vulpix tried to rest up for the night, but her restless sleep only made her more tired the next day. In the light wet mist of the bright mid-day sun a small canine figure came from down field, she only noticed the small dog for a little while before her eyes went wide, it was headed in her direction. Her muzzle in the mud she watched in surprise to notice that a small group of Spearows were flying overhead. They're attacking him? A Growlithe dodged back from a diving Spearow countering with a solid blast of fire that lit up her eyes. That's flamethrower? She looked left and right for a trainer, but there wasn't any to be found. It didn't take the small dog long to fend off his attackers, he was panting heavily cuts and bruises were lashed into his fur. In the sudden moment a soft scent touched her nose, she looked hardly to her left, an Oran berry lay on the forests floor from a bush. FOOD! She picked up the berry with a small smile of victory that lifted her spirit but her eyes fell to the small injured Growlithe. She paused, contemplating what to do before sinking her head down and slowly walking from the forest. I`m way too much of a pushover. She thought to herself. He probably does need it more than I do, these berries do help with injuries a lot. She got within about twenty centimeters before the Growlithe turned to meet her eyes, growling at first. She had the berry in her mouth and couldn`t speak well because of it she simply lied down, she was used to submitting to other Pokemon by now. "You need thish" She tried to speak, blushing from her young child-like voice before walking up to the dog. A small rock got in her way - she hadn't noticed and fell into him; their noses touched her eyes went wide. The small berry barely separated their muzzles from pressing together. His eyes were wide and he flustered, his furred face went red from his blush. "MmF" She bested out that he said Oh. "Thanks." He spoked with the berry still pushed up to him, she took a moment and stepped slightly away. He bit into the berry - There goes the only food I've found in the past few days - but he only took half. Her stomach rumbled shortly after she devoured her half and pushed away only to start blushing. His mouth open - as if to speak - but was interrupted by the sounds of a bike wheel. Oh god! A trainer!? What do I do!? What do I do? She began panicking softly and almost turned to leave. "Wait, you're name?" The Growlithe finally forced it out. "Luna." She went dead quiet. "I -I'm, uh no! I don't have one." She cursed that name, the name her trainer gave her. "Hey Thief!" The Growlithe turned a shadow further down the meadow. "Come on! We have lunch waiting for everyone!" By the time he turned back, Luna was gone. She hid back into the trees only to hear the small dog's voice. "We're by the river! You should come if you're hungry." Her stomach growled at her, she sunk her head again and fought about this. Only this once. She turned and slowly followed the Growlithe keeping at least twenty paces behind him. He turned once or twice and she had hid so fast that hardly the wind could keep up with her, or her breath. Her pants were what worried her from the start. Can he hear me? Did he see me? What about his trainer? What will he do? In the distance the roar of water came to the air, she could see the bright blue river that slowly coursed nearby when they stopped. "One second Thief." His trainer was young with light blond hair, he pulled out a Pokeball. "I'm going to try her here." He released the Pokemon inside and what stood was a gray and black-furred wolf-like Pokemon that stood past his waist height. Luna had never seen a Pokemon like that inside the Kanto region. It viciously bared its huge fangs at the trainer and growled bitterly, he returned it into the Pokeball. "Every time... The Pokedex even tells me that they never go against their leader." Thief stared with a tilted head his ears almost waned off to his left. "It's like a mutiny... Well let's keep going, the food won't last forever." Luna spent her time studying the odd trainer. He's walking his bike beside his Growlithe and he's even talking to him. She paused to think for a while. My trainer never did that? She pressed forward, the soft smell of actual food cooking on an actual camp stove brought her to Cloud 9. She almost shivered in glee wanting to bolt ahead of the two before holding herself back. Luna stalled her excitement and followed slowly behind Thief. I don't think they've noticed me yet. Luna nervously played with her paws and walked up further hardly five paces behind them now.

Luna heard a sound she thought it came from Thief who started to walk with a small spring in his step. hiding in a nearby bush she watched the trainer released all of his Pokemon. A Pikachu, a Marill, an Espeon, and that strange large dog all came from the trainer. The scent of steamed rice and tofu along with fresh fruits and some salted and cooked salmon. Luna sniffed in the scent from her hiding place her stomach nipped violently at her; Luna could hardly take her hunger any longer when suddenly something sat next to the bush she hid in. "So you did come along." It was Thief who scared her; her fur stood on ends and her eyes went wide. He pulled out something from underneath his collar, the first time she actually noticed the brown leather collar with a bell at the end of it. What he pulled out was a seaweed wrapped Oniguri that he gave to her. He was quick with it so no-one had noticed him. "What about you?" Luna spoke, a little surprised. "There's plenty of food to go around my trainer loves to cook, in fact I've seen him hand food out to other trainers and even wild Pokemon." Luna took a little offense to that, but she couldn't blame him for considering her a wild Pokemon. "I mean if he does it I should too right?" "What are you doing?" Both of them jolted to the sound of her voice, the black and gray wolf spoke. "N- Nothing Bandit!" Bandit's yellow eyes were studious, reading Thief's body-language. She lied her head back down. "You better not be handing food out again." She growled bitterly at him... enough that he whimpered. "I." He swallowed hard. "I'm not." Bandit was about to speak again, but the trainer called to her and brought her some food. "Thief, come get seconds." Quickly he stood and began walking towards the human, bolted when he seemed to get a little too close to Bandit. In silence Luna ate away at the rice ball, chewing softly only to keep looking at the wolf-like Pokemon ahead of her. The trainer chuckled and handed more food to Thief. "Pewter City is up ahead, you gotta keep yourself full and ready if we're going to win that badge!" The trainer handed a bowl out to the Espeon. "There you go Moonlight." The Espeon mewed happily and took the bowl from him the trainer had simply chuckled and gave a warm smile in return. Luna stopped eating for a few seconds. I... I wish I had a trainer like that. Luna looked up and froze, Bandit wasn't there. She swallowed hard listening to the sounds around her, but it wasn't what Luna heard that frightened her, it was what tugged at her tails that did. Bandit had pulled her right from the bush with such a commotion that even the trainer looked over to her. "You know." Bandit spoke with her mouth stuffed from a few tails. "It would've helped if you decided to hide these better instead of sticking them halfway out of the bush." With a small bitter whine Luna, in fear, broke into sudden tears. "I'm sorry! I'm so so sorry!" Luna whined and begged. "A Vulpix huh?" Bandit gave a sharp look to Thief. "A small one at that too." Luna forced her eyes to look around, but with her world being upside-down (Quite literally) she could only look into the gray furred chest of the Pokemon that held her, the blood slowly rushed to her head. Finally Luna was dropped to the grassy bed below her, yet when she looked up; all she saw was the frightening sight of a huge shadow. Luna wanted to run but Bandit was right behind her, the luminous figure came closer then slowly dropped to one knee. Luna closed her eyes shut she whimpered and lied down to the floor only to have a strong scent catch into her nose. Is that? She looked up to a slice of salmon. It is! She graciously nibbled into the piece, looking up with big eyes into the trainer's shadow. He spoke but no words hit her ears, only the name Thief; who snapped to attention almost immediately. That was Luna's curse; she was always cursed and could never hear the words spoken by a human.