Surrounded by Shadow

Hope you guys enjoy my new fanfiction! Difference and Acceptance is on hiatus since I'm having writer's block with it so I'll work on this story for now.

It was a beautiful spring day. The weather was warm, without a cloud in the sky, a flock of pidgy flew overhead, chirping. Magikarp, goldeen and staryu happily jumped out of the water. And a mother lugia watches over her eggs.

The mother lugia nudged one of her eggs gently, then looked into the clear blue sky and sighed happily. A warm breeze blew by and the lugia smiled, enjoying the warmth. Then she heard a cracking noise, one of her eggs was hatching!

She lowered her head to get a better look at the first egg as a crack appeared. Then, more cracks began to show up and pieces of shell began to fall off. A hole appeared and got bigger as the egg shook. A small wing poked out of the hole, the baby inside struggled to get out. The top of the egg cracked and the head of the baby lugia came out. After a few more minutes, the baby was out of the egg. The baby lugia looked up at her parent and chirped as the mother smiled and nuzzled her baby.

A few minutes later the second egg began to hatch, and it didn't take long for the second baby to emerge. The male baby lugia joined his sister by his mother's side. The third egg, however, was different. While the first two were a creamy color with silver spots, this one was a dark grey with purple spots.

As it began to hatch and cracks appeared in the shell, a piece of the shell came off and the third baby's head came out of the egg...but it wasn't a normal lugia, or even a shiny one, it was a shadow lugia. The baby's head was a dark blackish purple, and the spikes around his eyes were silver instead of blue and his eyes were red.

By pushing his wings through the egg he broke the rest of the shell and stepped out. His skin was the same color as his head, his belly was silver, as were the spines going down his back and the two spikes on his tail.

Like the first baby he too chirped, looking at his mother happily, but the mother backed away nervously from him. Not understanding why his mother was afraid, he tried to get close to her. But the mother lugia just shielded her other two babies with her wings and avoided the shadow lugia.

As the baby lugias grew the shadow one would often beg for food from his mother when she returned from hunting, sadly she would take care of his siblings but not him, she would just drop some food for him and then avoid him. When he was old enough to get food for himself, he didn't bother his mother anymore. Any time he wanted to play with his siblings, anytime he would walk over to them and they would chirp and play and sometimes wrestle playfully, their mother would block the little shadow lugia from his brother and sister with one of her large white wings, so he would just watch from a distance as his mother cared for his siblings and as they played together.

The shadow lugia, whose name was Kuraidesu, began spending more and more time in the lake, which had a large rock in the middle that rose a few feet from the surface. Near the bottom of the rock was a cave, where Kurai would spend most of his time when he wasn't eating or watching his siblings play.

A few months passed, the lugias got bigger everyday. The lugia mother watched her children play, Kuraidesu watching from a short distance since he couldn't play with them. They heard a lugia call from the distance and a speck appeared in the sky. It was their father, returning from a long trip.

Kuraidesu flapped clumsily to the lake and hurridly dove into the water and hid in his cave, not wanting his father to see him. The male Lugia called out again as he came closer and then landed, the female lugia came over and nuzzled him lovingly. Then he noticed the young lugia looking up at him, they only came up to his belly. He smiled, "what are their names, dear?" he asked. "This one is Kala," she gestured to the female, "and this one is Skylar." She pointed to the boy. "And...there is one more..." she trailed off.

He noticed the worried look on her face, "Lyra what's wrong? does he have a name?" Lyra looked at him, frowning, "You'll have to see him for yourself, Silver. He's in the lake, his name is Kuraidesu." Silver went over to the edge of the lake, "Son? son, are you down there?" He didn't see anything. Down in the cave, Kurai just laid on the sand, ignoring his father's voice. "Guess I better get this over with," he sighed. On the surface, Silver squinted, trying to see anything in the dark water when a pair of red eyes appeared. As his third child approached, he didn't see anything but red eyes getting closer.

When his son's head appeared above the water he gasped, no wonder he couldn't see anything, his son was a shadow lugia! Kuraidesu flapped out of the water and onto the land, ignoring his father's face. Silver backed up slightly, it was a bad sign if a lugia was born as a shadow lugia, and although he didn't want to, he had no choice. He needed to send his son away.

Kurai looked up at his father, "h-hello, father." Silver couldn't help but smile, "Son, it is wonderful to finally meet you, but when a shadow lugia is born it is a bad sign of things that might eventually happen, so you must leave..." Kurai lowered his head, and shuffled over to his father. Silver embraced his son with his large white wings "just know that I love you.." he whispered to his son. Kuraidesu then backed away from his father, nodded a goodbye to his mother and siblings, spread his dark wings and clumsily took off, heading for the ocean. Lyra watched her youngest son leave, and felt a twinge of sadness for him. She felt bad about neglecting him all those years, and a tear came to her eye as he disappeared. Kala and Skyler just watched him leave, sad that their little brother was leaving.

Kuraidesu flew towards the ocean, *I can't believe I was kicked out of my own family. Oh well, mom didn't seem to like me much anyway...but dad at least didn't want me to leave, but I had to* he thought. *I'll just find my own place in the ocean and no one will bother me then* he silently continued his way to the ocean.

Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Next chapter Kurai ends up at the ocean. What will he do then? wait and see.

*Kurai in Japanese means dark; gloomy; be ignorant; be a stranger; somber and desu means "it is/to be" in English. so Kuraidesu's name is a combination of both