A full moon was hanging in the dark, inky-blue sky. Clouds of mists swirled slowly around it, enveloping it in an eerie motion. There was a strong wind, the wind so strong that it made the trees shake and dance frantically, the stream howling and slapping its waves against the shore, the kind of wind that scatters everyone to the shelter of their own homes.
He sensed something about this town, something he had sensed only too many times. He surveyed his surroundings, his sharp eyes not missing a single detail.
There was a distant rumble, and then a flash as lightning struck and thunder roared.
Startled, the Absol jumped on all fours, his fur standing up in spikes and his lips curled in a snarl.
But he realized that there was nothing to fear, and relaxed; slowly sitting back down on the grass and his fur gradually lying flat. But he kept his snarl frozen in the same position, just in case.
A raindrop fell and splattered on his nose. Blinking, he looked up and saw more and more falling from the sky, landing down on the world sharply like bullets and stinging his pelt.
A storm was raging, and yet, he didn't even bother to find shelter. The Absol fearlessly stood in the middle of it all, oblivious to the cold.
He sensed something, something oh so familliar, a force, tingling and creeping up his horn. Invisible and mysterious. He felt drawn to it, the way a fly is attracted to honey, and the force pulled him closer like a magnet. Following it, it kept on getting stronger and stronger, until it stopped abrubptly. The disaster Pokemon looked up.
He was in front of a house, a large house with a red roof and a white picket fence surrounding it. He came closer, until he was just in front of one of its windows. He peeked inside. There was a family of four, a mother, a father, and two sisters. The sisters looked about eighteen or twenty. They were all sitting on a leather sofa facing the fire place, with hot cups of cocoa in their hands, talking and laughing. They seemed content.
But, with a sinking heart, the Absol knew that it won't be like that for long. Shaking his head slightly, he continued watching, feeling wistful.
Suddenly, one of the sisters, the younger looking one, turned and gazed at him with stormy gray eyes, her long, glossy black hair covering a part of her face.
Alarmed, the Absol backed away, and turned tail and fled as far away as possible, all the way to the outskirts of town, as fast as he could. He knew that he shouldn't ever be seen by humans...
Meanwhile, back at the home, the young woman, named Lea, continued to gaze at the window, feeling slightly confused. She could have sworn that she had seen a pair of eyes watching her, but they were gone. She shrugged it off, thinking it was just a part of her imagination, and turned to continue talking with her family.
How wrong she was...