The Poisonous Rose (Chapter 1)
"Now then," Cresselia said to the pink-tinted Buneary, the lavender and cornflower Dittos and the magenta Espeon, "Renae, stop poking Quirky, and Genta, stop poking Adamant, please! As I was saying, does anyone know what story I'm going to read tonight to you three?"
"I do!" Renae, the Buneary, said, with her mint green glasses tilting slightly sideways as she put her paw up. "It's 'The Poisonous Rose', isn't it, Cressy!"
"That's right, Renae!" Cresselia smiled. "I'm so glad at least someone is paying attention! Now then, let me tell you it."
"There was a young Snivy princess. She hated being a Princess and-"
"Hold on a minute," Adamant Ditto said, "This sounds like a proper girly girl story!"
"Just wait." Cresselia said.
"One day she went to the Arbor Area in the PokePark to find it completely deserted. Not even her mother, who was Queen Serperior, was there. 'Mother,' she said, 'Where are you?' She was upset because not even her best friend, Gordon, was there. Gordon was a shiny Servine that..."
"Like you, you're shiny, Adamant!" Genta, the Espeon whispered. "And Renae!"
"I just have fluff that looks like a shiny Buneary's." Renae replied.
"...Snivy really liked a lot. Then she saw the most beautiful flower she had ever seen..."
"Yawwwwwwwwwwwn!" Quirky yawned loudly. "This is boring. She's just gonna tell us another version of Sleeping Beautifly again."
"...It was a glorious, plum coloured Rose. There were no spikes on it. She wanted to get it, and get it she did. She used Leaf Blade on it, but it never cut, so she went up to it and attempted to snap it off. Just when the stalk snapped, roots came out of the ground, wrapped around Snivy and held her in the air! It was wrapped around her mouth, so she couldn't talk. Suddenly she felt something pushing strongly against her body! The thorns started jutting out of the roots and then, one after another, they pierced her skin! A red aura appeared around the rose, then the roots, then finally, Snivy herself. She felt a strange feeling zap through her body. The leaf on her tail started stinging her, as though needles were prickling out from inside her body. Then, two small columns of leaves sprouted from her back, and out of those columns came two vines with thorns on, identical to the rose's stalk. She felt the strange feeling through her arms and hands as well. Then, at last, the prickly feeling got to her head, and she wasn't feeling so good. Then, the roots dropped her and left Snivy on the ground, who had passed out. Now then, I'll read more to you little cheekies tomorrow night. You need to go to bed!"
"But Cressy," Renae began, "What if Darkrai comes and gives us nightmares?"
"He won't," Cresselia smiled. "I'll keep you safe and he'll never get here. Now then, off to bed, little ones!" She led the quartet up the stairs to a room with four beds, side by side. She turned the light off in the room, but not before saying them a quiet "Goodnight, sleepyheads." She went into her own room and stared out the window. The night sky was jet black, and there was a slight red aura coming from the room. She knew what was coming; The return of Darkrai. She had to keep everybody from getting pre-Darkrai Night nightmares, and to be protecting thousands of people and Pokemon would be a tough job, as she wouldn't be able to sleep, and she was bound to get tired at some point, unable to continue. She just hoped that she had enough energy the next few nights to outpower her nemesis, Darkrai.
AN: I hope that was good for you, it's a bit like a Orphanage, the house that Cresselia's in, isn't it? xP anyway, next few chapters (hopefully) will be epic :)