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Luna and Thief Ch. 6: Better Days.

It rained all through the morning. Griffin was awake by six again looked deep into the rain splatter against the window pane before leaving the room. He took a deep sigh and walked downstairs. Leaving everyone back in the room - the place they found was just at the outskirts of town - Griffin went for a walk a long one. When he found himself looking towards a row of trees that quickly turned into a maze of them he sat down and looked up to the rain, Alone. Back at the motel room everyone was still asleep. Everyone except one that watched Griffin leave a little more than an hour ago. Bandit had weird dreams that night, memories to be exact. She couldn't tell why she would remember something so old all she knew was that something was amiss. Bandit got up - although she really didn't want to - and suddenly found she was tracking Griffin's scent "What have we here?" Griffin stood up towards two people, both older than him. Both of them were wearing black uniforms, he hadn't seen or heard of anything like them "Pretty stupid for a kid to be out here at this time." The man gave a smile, a small dark smile "Who are you?" Griffin was standing now watching the man chuckle "I guess we haven't introduced ourselves, not like we'd be stupid enough to a punk-kid like you." "Who you calling a punk? Freak!" Griffin barked back "Anyways, what kind of cliché outfit is that? Only a desperate loser would wear those rags." Griffin watched as veins started to show from the man "You wanna keep talking!?" He pulled out a Pokéball. "Screw it I'll just take your stuff!" "Try it." Griffin went to reach for a Pokéball when his world suddenly shattered. I... Forgot my Pokémon again..._The man threw the ball down "I'll show you punk!" From the silhouette came a sleek silver figure. Griffin looked at the scythe-tail and immediately knew what it was. An Absol Griffin bit his lip and cursed himself. His eyes were captivated by a shock-collar in the next instant. They were forcing the Absol and immediately Griffin knew it was stolen. "Well come on Absol!" He pressed a button, it sent the Pokémon to the ground "Use Hyperbeam." "Stop that!" Griffin protested and watched the Absol quiver back up "And what would a punk like you do?" Griffin didn't have anything to fight with. He watched the Absol charge up the beam the energy began piling from its muzzle. He took up a defensive stance "Now what could would that do you idiot!?" The man pressed the button again, the Absol's entire body quaked from the current being forced into it. The next moment came a flash of blinding color but when Griffin opened his eyes, he was unscathed. He looked down to notice a black tuft of smoke... Bandit took the hit "B - Bandit?" Griffin could feel the intent grow. The forest was still a cold wind chilled through the dry-rain and kept the audience in wait. Bandit gave a sharp snarl and began charging up her own. Griffin heard snarling and only began wishing to know what they said "If you want to see what true power is Disaster." She snapped to the Absol "You've got that wish." From small gouts of light came an unprecedented force of energy destroying not only the floor of the forest, but a pocket of trees almost fifty feet ahead of her. Griffin fell back from the sudden blast. The blast-back of energy launched him off of his feet _Logan told me never to let her use Hyperbeam. Griffin looked around for the Absol, it took only a skim of the attack and that still launched it back. Smolders and ambers grew from the sudden scorch and began lighting flames into the trees before the rain killed them off "Let's get the hell out of here!" Whoever they were ran off, far off. Griffin hardly saw which direction they went in only knew that they were getting further away. They left the Absol behind, Griffin ran to its side. I need to get this collar off. He pulled out a small multi-tool only to get a brutally painful shock when he tried to pull it off. The shock burned his hand but that didn't stop Bandit from her bite. She viciously began clamping against the collar-vice, shredding deep into the metal regardless of the shock. Before no-time the entire collar was a clump of scrap on the forest floor. Griffin picked up the Absol and from there it was a straight run to the Pokémon Center.

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"Yeah I'm here to pick up a Pokémon." Brad asked Nurse Joy about this Mightyena that came in that morning. He read the note that Griffin left him when he finally woke up "Yes it just came in ten minutes ago." Nurse Joy began. "Can I please see your I.D to confirm?" "Uhhh well you see I'm a friend of Griffins an-" "No I.D No Pokéball." Brad walked away "This is just great Aura." Aura looked down the road before she tugged at Brad's hand. "What's wrong?" He looked down the road low and behold Griffin was running this way. Brad looked to Griffin's Vulpix she was the only Pokémon he didn't have a Pokéball for. "Finally I ju" Griffin ran by him without a second thought and into the center. For a moment, Brad waited with a blank face and then ran in the center with him. Outside people were pooling around the middle of the town, watching the smoke rise from deeper within the woods before an Officer came by to cool down the crowd. "I need this Pokémon healed immediately." "Is this yours, where did these lashes come from!?" "I ran into some trouble." "Trouble?" A police officer made Griffin jump "Somebody attacked me outside of the city, some people in black uniforms." Griffin looked back to Nurse Joy. "Please help this Pokémon! I mean when I had to fight it they had a shock-collar on it and everything!" "Someone is forcing Pokémon to fight?" "Yes." Griffin was almost pleading. "Just help please!" The officer was a tall women, she had a Growlithe of her own at her side "Do you know what way they went?" She inquired while Griffin gave a hard-confused look "The two of them scattered after my Mightyena showed up." Griffin exclaimed, starting to flush when the officer brought her face to his "They ran off? Then what was all that smoke?" Griffin nervously chuckled watching her eyes read every movements he made. He tried his best to explain it but there really wasn't much to explain other then everything he knew about Bandit, but he wasn't about to bore her with those facts.

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Luna sat in the bustle of the crowd she got tired of waiting while Griffin tried to explain to the officer, her nametag read Jenny but Griffin still hadn't noticed it. Luna looked to the rolling clouds her eyes captivated by the deep endless-blue sea before the sun broke the clouds once more, blinding light shone from above. The rain was already fading but her feelings weren't. She dreamed that night about a place, a wonderful-beautiful place where she felt the presence of friends and family, where the wind would softly call and at times happily cry the words 'I'm home' in the night, where the sea rolled soft waves on a golden-sandy beach and there was always a wisp of white fur in the air; the eyes soft, loving, always they followed her. She closed her eyes the morning wind lifted through her nose the scents of pine, and she felt a lift in her hair. The wind gently swayed in her fur, a colder wind shot a breeze through the noise of the crowd she breathed, feeling a soft flow of flame swirl around her before the crowd took eye. The soft tail shrouded along her back and cased softly around her, twirling in gentle circles before fading. Luna wanted the silence, for just a moment so she could hear that sound again; the sound of the ocean waves, the leaves rustle in the wind, the soft breath. A tone so gentle that rang in her ear, the tiny three words that meant so much to her. ' I love you' Luna held her eyes because she knew it was true. Thief looked back at her, confused, asking what she had said before she walked off, following along a fence and into the forest for a walk.

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Before Griffin had the chance - after finally sorting everything out - Bandit whipped the black and red Pokéball from his hand and put it to the floor. It opened and she sat down, Griffin could almost see her smile - the best that a Mightyena could. Shadow was smaller, sleek and gave a gentle wave through his fur that screamed 'Friendship' Griffin chuckled, holding most of it in when he watched Bandit pounce on top of Shadow. Griffin felt himself smile it was uncontrolled, he hadn't seen Bandit act happy - loving, in so long that he wanted to cry. He wanted to feel the memories, and for a moment he remembered the cloudy day after-school. The larger kids picking on him, shoving him to the floor Griffin smiled that morning he found the Poochyena in the city, an alleyway near his school - he was usually late - but that day he had a reason, a real reason. It tended to rain a lot in the night and with such a small stray, Griffin couldn't stop but take off his jacket. It was his favorite jacket, white and brown zip-up, not a terrible sweater or hoodie just a jacket, and he put it over the puppy. She was asleep; freezing and cold but asleep. Griffin took out his lunch and left half there before running to school only to get looks from everyone when he walked in so late. Griffin had to sit down and struggle through another day he was the first to get called to answer questions and always the last to get them right. He got even the simplest of questions wrong and spent most of the day looking to the window, watching birds sing their heart out and wonder and dream 'how is life like for a Pokémon?' It wasn't until the end of the day that he understood a bit of the answer. That was where, when walking home the seniors of his class would taunt him and tease him. Make him feel worthless and foolish only to get hit and pushed around when he asked them to stop. That day he met a real friend when he was put between old wire fences and all of them she found him and stood up for him. Because of that.... Griffin felt his eyes beginning to water I wanted to be her friend forever, no matter how poorly she treats me now "Hey Griiiifffffiiiiiin" Brad clicked his fingers, finally catching his attention. He almost forgot about Brad entirely "Are we going to the gym yet? This waiting is killing me!" "Y - Yeah sure." Griffin looked around, watching Bandit nuzzle under Shadow's chin when he took a look back to Brad "Where's Moonlight and Thief?"

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Luna looked past the gnarl of roots and trees she was running although she couldn't tell why. Her face was beyond flushed and she could only pray that Thief didn't notice it at all. What am I talking about!? She hardly felt her paws touch the floor it took her much too long to realize that she could smell salt in the air, she couldn't tell how far off it was but she knew if she just kept going north. It was to the left of her she saw the reflection of water and when she looked ahead it broke into the vast sea, the sun caste a ripple of gold that burned into amber when she looked to it. Clouds rolled above her the sun was past the point of mid-day and she found herself sitting, watching the vast unimaginable sea. There was no land, only the horizon which waves crashed below the cliff-side when there was a soft rustle. Thief actually caught up to her "Wait..." He panted hard, coughing in exhaustion. Luna felt her cheeks flush "What did you say? You're leaving? Where!?" So he didn't hear me... Luna looked to the sea and back to Thief with a smile "I wanted to see this." She gave a coo, looking at him crumple to the floor before giggling. He simply blew his head-fur from his eyes and lied down watching the sun dare to set. She felt her paw slide forward Luna felt her blood rise when she rested it on his it was then that a face flashed in her. His face, his infectious smile and laugh. The way he loved to roll in the sand and look at the sun light-up the leaves in the morning mist, or how he always hid his face when someone noticed his ears only to watch them apologize and introduce themselves. That beautiful place where the tree's always singed and the waves always danced and the clouds were as white and comfy as sitting around a gentle fire, the smoke wisps in the night with gentle shapes that made Luna wonder and guess only to hear... Him reply. Her eyes began to tear, just for a moment before she felt something touch her nose. It was small and a little wet, it rubbed against hers and almost made her cringe from the light tickle; she always loved that feeling whenever her nose rubbed against someone else, but here she was taken by surprise. She blushed when the butterflies fluttered all through her stomach and her heart suddenly have a spring in its beat. She felt the warmth blaze through her body, her head to her paws, she felt it burn. This special flame that she almost always felt a sun-down that special feeling she gets whenever Thief looked to her. CRACK Thief broke the kiss and almost sprung to his feet from the shade of the forest came a purple thread much like a fine hair. Luna stared at it for a moment before she dared to look around at the face of a Persian it growled violently and suddenly her eyes widened to a shift. It turned itself into a Suicune "W - Who are you?" Thief forced a snarl before he was shut out by the charge from within it. Luna knew it in an instant, but the power was surreal; the Copy-Suicune was using Aurora Beam, but the focus created a ring of color around it. The earth seemed to shift when the shot rang out, the last thing Luna saw with her shaking-wide eyes was Thief jump in front of her and the sudden flash from a smaller ringed beam. In front of Thief was Moonlight his jewel shone a deep pink as his eyes glossed over from the power that he gathered. A single cry rang out "Stop this!" Moonlight launched a Second Psybeam and began twisting it in with the first. If he continues on like that Luna felt her eyes widen more He could... he could cause more damage to himself than when I did at Pewter city. Thief was shaking frozen in place only to watch the blinding light from the two beams clash nearby the cliff-side of the sea. Luna forced herself up. Move. She screamed to herself but hardly heard her voice. MOVE! She demanded it again but her body wouldn't listen the light blinded them and a force pushed them off, far off. When Luna opened her eyes, she was plummeting face down into water and heard a deafening splash and felt pain that dug further into her chest then she ever thought possible.

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Griffin gave up the search; the sun was just on the verge of setting when a faint sound rose from far near the mountains. Boom... Aura looked to the mountains while Griffin and Brad looked down. "Everything's shaking?" Before another crowd of people could even dare to form outside, Officer Jenny was already outside "There! The smoke?" Griffin looked too, his eyes widened "There's a fire!" Brad called, watching the black plumes rage deep from the woods "This is Cerulean City, we live with water. That fire isn't reaching far." It was a fairly young voice, Brad and Griffin turned to see two girls around the age of nineteen or twenty. One was blonde, but the other had blue hair. "Do you trainers have any water Pokémon?" A commotion came from behind before Griffin could answer, the Absol from before stopped behind him. Nurse Joy was running down the road to catch up "He... Ran out when the smoke..." She put her hands on her knees small daps of sweat fell from her face. Griffin pulled out a Pokéball and let Marill out "I don't know much about water types but I'll try and help." A brush made Griffin turn around, the Absol it looked like a dance. Soon Griffin felt a clap and rain fell, hard. The patter sounded like running water and it only grew larger. The clouds turned black as the smoke and they covered the sky above them. The fire was already there, as if it only spread in a single direction, towards them. Astonished by the spread of the fire - the rain hardly had much effect on it - The two girls sent out two Pokémon of their own, Griffin turned to Officer Jenny who suddenly came running back. "Sorry, I went to contact a friend for a quick transfer." She pulled out a Pokéball. "Go Blastoise!" Griffin was stunned he had never seen one before except on a television screen. "We have to stop the fire before it spreads to the city!" Blastoise nodded, before Griffin knew it there was even more water than before! For once, Griffin actually used his Pokédex "Blastoise, a Shellfish Pokémon. The final evolved form of Squirtle and is capable of creating virtually unstoppable attacks from the Hydro Cannons on its back..." It cut out Griffin shook it "Would you like to hear your brother's notes?" Notes? Wait how can he do that?_Griffin remembered that Logan gave him his Pokédex to start, that was after he became a champion. Logan also gave him the PokéNav later on and it all started to click. _Figures, he's always trying to get the better of me. Griffin turned off the Pokédex and turned to the plumes. Somehow the fire still wouldn't die out it crackled around the trees and whipped branches off of them. "This is turning into a real problem." Griffin watched his Marill tirelessly use Water-gun again and again the Blastoise was pumping out water by the litre, both of them were holding the flames at bay. The two girls were using their own to bat the flames down. Thief, Moonlight. Where are you?

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"Grab onto that!" Moonlight was pawing the water around Luna she couldn't feel her paws or anything for that matter. Moonlight had been biting down to keep her from going under, Thief swam fine but was choking out salt-water all the same. Luna bit down into a decent piece of driftwood; the clash between Moonlight and the Copy-cat caused a huge explosion that destroyed the trees around the cliff-side. Luna tiredly flopped onto the board, it strong enough to take her weight - barely - Thief clawed into his own, but from there they were traveling west! "There's nothing!" Luna spat up water "But a mountain range all the way down!" "The current passes by the Kanto region this time of year, going against it would be suicide." Moonlight crawled onto his own drift-wood. "The current is fairly strong, if we're lucky we can probably hit dry land by at least mid-day tomorrow!" "Tomorrow!?" Luna cried "But there's nothing but salt-water and the sun." She forcefully swallowed down her words Luna suddenly knew that she was panicking "It'll be hard to sleep." Thief brought up "And there isn't any food either Moonlight." Luna watched his eyes tear up. "And what about Griffin when are we going to see him again!?" "It's alright Thief!" Moonlight called back, the cliff-side was treacherous there was no way they could climb back up, not to mention they almost couldn't see it to begin with. "We will find him again we just need to stick together, all of us!" Moonlight watched as dark clouds suddenly formed in the sky "What's happening know?" Luna whispered when she saw a huge flash of light hit a tree farther off - it was standing one moment and then gone the next - she felt like crying, she felt entirely hopeless. Water picked at the side of her board the waves became violent from the storm that gathered overhead them. The only thing Luna felt happy for, the only thing she could think about was that they were at least close together "Everyone! Join paws! If you get separated now god knows what would happen!" Moonlight nipped Thief's tail and drew him back before he could protest he was looking straight into Luna's eyes. "Luna, hold our tails together!" Moonlight called to her and she did it in a flash. Surprisingly enough, Moonlight had a tight hold when his tail was wrapped, but Luna almost gasped when the waves began parting her from Thief. Without warning, he leaned over and held her by the scruff to keep them together "S- Sorry Luna." Thief managed with a muzzle-full of fur she really couldn't protest at that moment when the waves crashed around them "I hope we find land soon." Luna whined. "I absolutely hate water!" She wasn't in the most comfortable spots either; any lower her nose would've been skimming the water! There goes that special feeling. The wind was starting to chill Luna could feel it in her fur. Night hit. Without warmth and nothing but water, Luna began shivering just thinking about it "If we're really lucky." The driftwood was making small circles as the traveled down-current the mainland was already a small dot in her watery eyes. "The moon may just calm down the waves, it'll give us a clear opening to maybe talk to some ocean Pokémon." "O - Ocean Pokémon!?" Luna started to feel the panic rise again, the idea of being attacked raced through her mind. In a period later she felt a small lick that made her blush softly before looking to Thief, she couldn't tell herself from a harsh look or a startled one. "S- Sorry, I guess it's getting a little uncomfortable." Thief stated, trying to loosen his grip. He wasn't all too comfortable with being stuck in the middle of the ocean either and that only let little marks form on the back of Luna's neck. They couldn't tell how long they were out there for already, but it was a full moon that night, just at that period where it would start waning. It was a huge beautiful crystal, not only in the sky but in the sea as well. The wavy picture let the water look black around it a mysterious but calming abyss fanned all around them now. Luna could just barely make out the cliff-side from before and that made her feel sea-sick. The ocean wind was soothing but cold, if it wasn't for Thief and Moonlight she would've froze that night.