A/N: I own nothing, sadly.

This is an AU my Son Of The Moon story, hence the title. It will also be an AU from the Armada cartoon. Rad will still have a detached personality that makes him hard to get along with. He won't be getting along with Alexis very well since they have different views on certain things-Mainly because Alexis is against hunting and Rad doesn't see anything wrong with it- with Carlos stuck as their peacekeeper.

1.

Rad moved forward on his elbows along the ground and peered through the bush. He saw a large brown rabbit nibbling on some leaves. Rad sighed intenally. 'Looks like I'm having rabbit for dinner.' he thought and knotched his silver bow with an ordinary arrow. Before he could fire, he heard a twig snap and the rabbit took off. "Damn it!" he swore.'Correction: looks like I'm having rice for dinner.'

"Who's there?" A male voice squeaked.

Instantly, Rad's bad mood rose, but once he'd registered the squeaky edge in the voice and how young it sounded, he managed to squash most of his anger. Rad rose to his feet as he put his bow and arrow in the same hand. "Me of course." he said as he casually brushed the dirt from his green camouflage shirt and looked over at the kid.

The kid looked about 13-or 14 at best- had a caramel complexion, dark curly hair, and dark eyes. He also had a packback with a skateboard on it. "Who are you?" he asked with a spanish accent.

"Rad." The blond answered as if talking about the weather. "You?"

"Carlos." The dark-haired boy answered. "Er, what are you doing out here?"

"Hunting." Rad replied.

"With a slingshot?" Carlos asked snickering.

Rad glared at him frostily as he looked down at his bow. 'So that's what the Mist makes you look like.' he thought. "Yes, actually. A better question would be: What are you doing out here?"

"Hiking." Carlos replied.

Rad raised a brow. "Hiking?" he repeated.

Carlos nodded. "I'm going to explore the cave over there." he pointed at the cave entrance at the hill side.

'Oh no.' Rad thought seeing as that cave was where his temporary camp. "You can't go up there."

"And why not?" Carlos asked tilting his head to the side.

"Because you have no proper gear." Rad replied keeping a collected face. "Do you seriously intend to go up there with nothing but a skateboard on your backpack?"

With the way Carlos glared at him; that was a yes. "I'll show you!" he said indignantly and stomped off toward the mountain.

Rad shook his head his head before putting his arrow away and changing his bow back into it's cresent moon charm form. 'Hmm, wonder what my swords would look like.' he thought before heading fo his own route up the mountain side.

Carlos smirked as he made it to the cave entrance. "I made it!" he said triumphantly.

"Well it's about time." A male voice said with apathy.

Carlos looked over at the blond teen in shock. "How'd you get up here so fast?"

"I knew a short cut." Rad replied from where he'd been leaning against the cave wall.

"You knew a short cut?" Carlos repeated as he tredged into the cavern. "You been here before or something?"

"Or something." Rad said quietly as he followed Carlos to make sure the younger teen didn't find his camp site.

As they dredged deeper into the cave, Carlos stepped on a stone plate, and it creaked downwardds and sent them both sliding down into a tunnel while riding on the plate. As Carlos yelled in fear, Rad whooped in joy.

As they reached the end of the tunnel, Rad chuckled lightly. "That was fun!"

Carlos looked at him incredulously. "No it wasn't! It was terrifying!"

Rad rolled his eyes and turned his attention to where he felt a different energy than from the cave. He looked around and found it was coming from a green panel with a slight glow. 'Hmm, there's energy coming it, I wonder...' he thought and touched the panel to pull it out.

The contact with the panel caused a jolt to go through Rad as three lights shot out of the cave ceiling, one green, one red, and one purple. The lights ignited an earthquake and the walls of the cavern shook.

"Lets get out of here, man." Carlos said as Rad stumbled a bit, clutching the green panel to his chest.

Rad glared at him for calling him such a word, but conceded that they needed to get out. "Yes. Lets."