Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, as well as its various number of creatures and characters. But I do own the characters Hatiro and Luna
A/N: Since this was written at or before Christmas of 2007, Merry Christmas to you reader! This probably won't be much, because I am using something I just came up with in a short time. But hope it does work out to be a good one.
Note: For you to understand and know the characters, you gotta have read at least Ch.2 in my, story, "Adventures of Umbreon and Espeon".
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It was morning on the day of Christmas Eve, and Luna and Hatiro were sleeping in their own designed, bed. (Use your imagination) Luna was balled up still fast asleep, Hatiro was wrapped around her to make sure she was warm. The last few nights were very cold so Luna and Hatiro had been sleeping very closely, much more closely than usual, for warmth, not that they minded, having been a couple for last couple years. Hatiro was just getting up to do his morning routine, before a small starly came flying in through an open window that his and Luna's, owner's mother opened.
"Good morning, Hatiro. How are you this wonderful morning." the Starly sang out.
"I'm doing great, you seem extremely cheery morning." Hatiro sad as he began to stretch his legs.
"Because it is Christmas Eve, tomorrow is Christmas." Starly pointed out as he checked to see if Luna is fast asleep, "I came to see if you needed any help with your Christmas shopping, this year."
"Wow, It's only been a couple of years that I've lived here, but it appears even wild pokemon know I'm a last minute shopper." Hatiro said, as he sat down in front of the window.
"Don't worry Hatiro, I'm the only one that knows of this, after all I am one of the family's pokemon friends." Starly pointed out.
"Well that's true, I see you more often than any other of the pokemon around here." Hatiro said.
"So need any help?" Starly said, as he flew off the window and sat on Hatiro's head.
"I suppose so, but lets talk about this more downstairs, I don't want Luna to wake up and hear our conversation." Hatiro said as he got up, with Starly still on his head, and headed downstairs.
"I'm going with Ted to the store in Veilstone City today, they sell everything there." Hatiro continued as soon as they were downstairs.
"Yeah they do, I once got stuck in there for whole night, and I swear, they have so many things there, I almost got lost, because there was nothing that seemed familiar." Starly said as he decided to sit on the floor instead of Hatiro's head, so he doesn't annoy him. "But I'm still yet to understand, why you have to keep this such a secret from Luna. Each year, you and Ted, go to Veilstone to shop for Christmas gifts and all without letting everyone else knowing."
"Um... yeah, we sort of end up meeting with Ted's friend there. We spend the whole day at his place, and since Ted has the money we never actually get much shopping done." Hatiro said.
"Wow, quite surprised that nobody ever notices." Starly said
"Well, Ted's and Amber's parents do notice, but they barely speak about it." Hatiro said as he started walking to the kitchen for breakfast, with Starly on his back.
Amber and Ted's mom was already in the kitchen cooking her traditional "Christmas Eve Breakfast". She loved cooking, she thought of it as a way to show some of her creativity and show her love for her family, in fact, compared to the rest of the family she was the most common person there. As she was cooking an omelet, she noticed the two pokemon enter the kitchen, and smiled gladly towards them.
"Good morning Hatiro, Good morning Starly, you two hungry?", she asked while holding up two saucers, followed by the two saying what could possibly mean 'yes'.
She laughed as she placed the saucers on the floor for them. Starly jumped off Hatiro's head onto the floor to eat from the saucer. Ted and Amber's mom just sat at the dining table and sipped her morning cup of coffee, watching them eat.
"Hatiro, you and Ted are going to Veilstone City again, to do your shopping today right?" She asked as she looked at the clock then back at Hatiro. With a nod, she said, "Ok, can you two try to get back before ten tonight, we're are suppose to be in for a winter storm tonight." Hatiro just gave a sort of 'bark', indicating that he'll get it done. "Ok, thank you, Hatiro. You better go wake up Ted to go, otherwise you'll never be able to get back before ten."
Hatiro and Starly raced off to Ted's room while Amber and Ted's mom cleaned up the kitchen. As they entered Ted's room, sure enough Ted was fast asleep, Starly came over to Ted and lightly pecked at his head. When Ted barely moved, he tried even harder and still Ted barely moved, all that he got out of him was a slight groan.
"Dang, Ted's a heavy sleeper isn't he?" Starly said getting off the Ted's head and landing on his stomach.
"You're probably too light to wake him up. Let me have a go." Hatiro said and backed off and prepped for a tackle, he slightly tackled the bed making it rock and Starly almost losing his balance.
"Umm... maybe you need to try harder." Starly said as he regained his balance and with a nod Hatiro tried again except this time tackling the bed harder forcing it to move a full 12 inches from its original spot.
"What!... What was that?" Ted yelled out as he bolted up from the shock.
Looking around he saw Hatiro looking straight at him and Starly lying on the ground, eagle-wide. Ted relaxed a little as he realized that it was just Hatiro and not a shockwave from an earthquake.
"Morning Hatiro, Starly." Ted said as he looked at Hatiro and Starly, Hatiro and Starly just did a 'bark' and a chirp to indicate that they are saying about the same thing. "Bet you're here to wake me up to go shopping, huh?" Ted said now out of his bed, stretching. Hatiro just made a sound of confirmation. "Alright, let me get dressed, and we'll be on our way." Ted said as he walked away to the bathroom.
While Ted went to do his morning routine, Hatiro decided to go outside into the hallway and clean off the bit of dust that use to be under Ted's bed until it got disturbed from the minor shock wave from his tackle. Starly had most of the dust because he had fallen flat on a good portion of the carpet that was under Ted's bed, and was cleaning off his feather by shaking rapidly.
"Dang, doesn't Ted ever clean his room? I think I have so much dust on me, I could be considered a dust bird." Starly complained
"Oh, he does, just not as thoroughly as Amber does." Hatiro said after lightly laughing at Starly's comment.
"I won't be able to shake off the dust for at least for the rest of the day." Starly said as he looked at the dust still on his wings.
"At least it easy for you, I'll need a good rub down to get the dust completely off me." Hatiro stated.
"At least without help." Luna said out loud behind them.
"Luna!" Hatiro and Starly said as they looked behind them to see Luna sitting down.
"Well, good morning Hatiro, Good morning Starly, good to see you again." Luna said
"A good morning to you to, Luna." Starly said as he continued to clean off his feathers.
"Morning Luna, how was your sleep?" Hatiro said, smiling.
"It was good, you snored a little again, but other than that, nothing was a problem." Luna said as she kissed Hatiro on the lips. "So still need that help with your fur?" She asked him
Luna helped Hatiro with his fur until, Ted came out and rushed down stairs for a quick breakfast. Starly had left earlier to see if he can get something else to eat, and Hatiro and Luna soon followed behind Ted. In the kitchen Ted and Amber's mom was already working on part of their dinner that would take some time to finish, and Starly was on the table eating small bits of food that fell off the counter and whatever fell on the floor from Ted's meal as he ate it.
"Good morning Luna." their owner's mom called out to Luna, followed by a bright smile from Luna.
"Here you go. Hatiro already ate some time ago." she said as she placed the saucer on the floor.
"So you already ate? Why didn't you bring me up any of it?" Luna asked Hatiro teasingly.
"I had to go wake up Ted." Hatiro said
"Still the thought could've been there. Oh well, so why did you have to wake him up?" Luna asked taking some of the food in her mouth
"Oh, we're going out training up near Solaceon town." Hatiro said.
"Really? On Christmas Eve?" Luna asked, Hatiro just simply nodded, "Alright, I'm probably going to stay home, there really isn't much to do outside anyway." She said
About an hour later, the rest of the family was awake and eating, as Ted and Hatiro prepped to leave.
"There that should suit ya." Infernape said, as he finished placing a scarf on Hatiro
"I don't know, I really don't think I'll be needing a scarf, I mean wild pokemon don't have this and they seem to hold out." Hatiro complained
"Ya, I know but remember since you were younger you were part of the family, so it may be uncomfortable for you outside." Infernape said, "Hey Hatiro, do you think you can get Ted to buy some of those spices again, it really helped in our poke-food?" he continued on.
"Alright, I'll try to remember that." Hatiro said
"Hatiro, come on its time to go." Ted said, calling out to him
"Alright, see you around Infernape."
"Later kid." Infernape said before he left to the living room to help Ted and Amber's parents with the fireplace.
As Ted and Hatiro ran off to their destination, Luna was watching from the second story window, watching them leave and watching the small snowflakes drift lightly in the air, before she left to go meet up with Amber in her room as she combed her hair.
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A/N: Ok this is a good place to stop, I don't know why I'm dividing this story into Chapters, if I'm submitting this at once. Oh well.