Ummm... Yeah.
I really procrastinated, didn't I?
Disclaimer: Heck no. And the name's aren't really mine, they're based off of FFGirl15's Fanfic Sun and Moon, (even though I used the names from the languages in there 'cuz I fail at thinking up names) and two certain rangers. *coughcough Lunick and Solana coughcough*
Solana's POV
"We're here!" Shelby announced triumphantly. She set me down on the green grass as I stared at the tree in front of us. The tree was quite old, judging from its large diameter. It could had easily been home to several pokemon.
Shelby and I were currently in the middle of the dense forest I saw earlier. It took Shelby until noon to find a way around the mud, so the warm sunlight was strong enough to pierce through the thick canopy of emerald leaves above our heads.
"Ugh... He's such a teenager," Shelby groaned while stomping in annoyance towards the tree.
"...He?" I asked the brunette. The girl sighed in annoyance and leaned against the tough bark of the large tree.
"...You'll find out," she answered reluctantly. "Stand back," Shelby said. I cautiously stepped back a few paces, and Shelby stretched backward to crack out a few kinks in her back.
"What are you-" I began, but I was cut off by Shelby who also stepped back, and then gave the tree a sharp kick to the base of the trunk. As soon as Shelby's foot made contact with the tough bark, a large thud resonated from the inside, along with a cry of shock.
"LUNE! It's noon! Get out of bed!" Shelby barked to whoever was inside the tree. I had to feel sympathy to whoever the twelve year old woke up. The human girl's voice made my poor ears ring with her ridiculously loud voice.
"I'm coming, I'm coming," a voice mumbled, sleepy from the rude awakening, from inside the tree. I stared at Shelby, expecting an explanation, but she put a finger to her blood red lips, so I kept quiet. The young girl silently pointed to the base of the tree, where there was a small hole, large enough for an eevee like myself to fit through. My brown eyes widened in surprise as a dusty brown, furry creature crawled through the small entrance.
"What is it?" the male eevee asked Shelby drowsily. I admitted the newcomer was... attractive, I guessed. I started to slightly blush, and I hoped Shelby didn't notice. That girl could had used this against me in the future... Shelby seemed nice, but I was quickly starting to believe that she threatened people with blackmail on a daily basis.
"Lune, meet Solana. Solana, meet Lune," Shelby interjected with authority after she cleared her throat. The eevee, who I presumed to be Lune, noticed me and padded closer to introduce himself.
"Hi, my name's Lune. So you must be Solana, right?" Lune asked, a friendly smile brightening on his face.
"Yeah, that's me." I nervously laughed. I scolded myself for saying something so stupid in front of a possible boyfriend. If I even had a boyfriend that is... Suddenly I heard a small giggle from Shelby, and Lune and I both turned our heads to look at her. The brunette had a gloved hand held up to her mouth, and she was failing miserably to contain her uncontrollable laughter.
"Shelby...?" Lune cautiously asked the giggling human, his brown eyes suspiciously glaring at her. I also glared at the young girl, and I had the nagging feeling that Shelby set me up for something...
"Yes Lune?" Shelby immediately replied, quickly taking her hand away from her mouth and discretely hiding it behind her back. She rocked back and forth on her heels, which was probably an involuntary habit she did when she knew she was in trouble. Shelby was trying her hardest to hide the blatant fact that she was hiding something, but I saw right through her.
"You're trying to set me up with a girl again, aren't you?" Lune bluntly asked, also seeing through Shelby's obvious facade. Wait...
"She does stuff like that?" I exclaimed in shock. Lune responded with a simple nod of his head, and Shelby gave an enthusiastic shriek of joy. If that kid had a shred of a chance of convincing me earlier, she had certainly lost it now. Lune glared the now nervous girl, and Shelby, realizing that she needed to convince her friend, held her dainty hands up in defense.
"Okay, okay, maybe I did that a couple of times, but that isn't the point right now," Shelby hurriedly explained, moving her hands while she talked to us. "The point is, Solana has no memory and no home, so I figured you could help her out Lune," she nervously relayed my situation to Lune. I had to agree with what the girl was saying. I really did need help.
"So... Lune, meet your new roommate, Solana," Shelby ended, gesturing her left hand towards me when she said my name. For a moment I actually believed the twelve year old, until...
"And yes Lune, I am trying to set you both up. Now remember, if you two get into any shenanigans, I refuse to be held responsible," Shelby rapidly stated, not caring that we were right next to her.
"I knew it!" Lune cries out, growling at her. I think I'll refrain from giving Shelby any government files, along with anybody's personal information.
"...Bye," the brunette quickly said before running away in the opposite direction to keep Lune from yelling at her. I sighed and silently wondered how much crazier my life would turn out.
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After that scenario, Lune had graciously offered to show me where I'd be staying. There were two floors, one the entrance room where Lune slept, the other soon to be my room. Lune had found his home by himself after he was old enough to claim one. Because he was a loner, a pokemon abandoned from birth, Lune lived alone. We were finally at the top of the steps that wound up the right side of circular walls.
"Well, here we are." Lune shifted aside so I could see the interior of my new home.
My room was bare, but the tree rings and wood patters created a nice wallpaper. There was a circular hole northeast of me with two twigs shoved just right to act as a barrier to prevent pokemon from coming in. The window had sunlight flooding in from the afternoon sunset, filling the room with its comforting light. I pawed into the center of my room, and turned to talk to my benefactor.
"I'll take it," I told him, giving him a smile.
"Great! You should probably get some rest now. Amnesia has a tendency to take a toll on your brain, so you should get some sleep," Lune reasoned, his voice taking on a concerned tone. I nodded in reply, and as the fellow normal type left my brand new tree apartment, I cat-stretched while yawning. I curled up in the center of the wooden floor, and wondered just who I was.
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My brown eyes opened blearily, only to be greeted by darkness. The silvery moonlight shone through my window with several twinkling stars to help it. There was complete silence throughout the area except for the chirping of kricketune and the occasional cry of a hoothoot or noctowl. I took a few seconds to ask myself why the hell I woke up in the middle of the night, when I came to the realization that my mouth felt like the bark that protected the tree I was in. I vaguely recalled Lune telling me where a lake nearby was. The fellow normal type told me to go there whenever I needed a drink.
Carefully, I lifted myself up and padded towards the staircase. I had to be quiet enough so I wouldn't wake up my new roommate. I cautiously laid my paw on the first step to check for creaks. Since there wasn't a noise when I transferred my weight onto my paw, it was safe to continue down the stairs. I bounded down the steps without making a single disturbance in the still late night air.
I glanced at the exit, only to look back again. There, right in front of the only way out of the room, an object was glimmering in the harsh moonlight. My mud brown eyes were blinded at first, so I had to look away until my burning retinas adjusted. And when I focused in on the shiny object, I did the natural thing...
I screamed like crazy.
Lune's POV
It was never a good thing to wake up to the sound of screaming. Or being rudely awakened in the middle of the night. Needless to say, I awoke with a start when I heard someone shrieking. That "someone" turned out to be Solana. Her brown eyes were glaring at me with intimidation with a trace of fear flickering in them. Before I was able to say anything however, Solana beat me to it.
"Who are you and what have you done with Lune?" the amnesiac demanded as she positioned herself into a poor battle stance. I needed to teach her how to defend herself tomorrow next morning.
"Solana, I am Lune. Calm down," I assured the eevee. I saw Solana slowly loosen out of her battle stance and relax herself after she recognized my familiar voice.
"Lune? Why are you silver?" she asked me after calming down a bit.
"Solana, have you ever heard of a shiny pokemon?" I asked.
"Well, no..." she hesitantly replied. I sighed, I knew this was going to be a long night.
"A shiny pokemon is a pokemon that has a different color scheme than others of its kind," I explained, thinking of how to put my "condition" into better words. "There's at least one shiny out of eight thousand pokemon. I am currently a shiny pokemon right now. For some reason...I only transform at night."(A/N: One of his "relatives" is a were-pokemon and another one is a shiny, but I'm not tellin' who.~)
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"Does Shelby know?" Solana asked, being concerned about the situation.
"...No. I plan to keep it that way," I answered, knowing Shelby was either too innocent to understand, or too crafty to seal her lips.
"...Is there anything I can do?" my roommate pressed further. She seemed...to actually care. I never had to deal with someone knowing my secret before, so I had to think a while about what she could do?
"Please don't ever scream like that when I'm sleeping," I finally replied, smirking. For a moment, the corners of Solana's mouth twitched, as if she was battling the urge to laugh. She rolled her eyes in false annoyance.
"Fine, but no promises," she joked, and she slipped out through the entrance, leaving me behind. I yawned from the loss of usual sleep, and padded back to where I was sleeping. My eyelids started to droop, and soon I fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
Solana's POV
"WAKE UP!"
"Kya!" I squeaked, jumping from surprise. My room was filled with pouring sunlight for the new day, as the staravias chirped to celebrate it. I swerved around, searching for the culprit who woke me up so early, when I spotted Lune.
"What was that for?" I asked him as he fought back laughter.
"Payback for last night," Lune replied. I made a face, and he had to fight back even more laughter. "Now if you want breakfast, you better help me gather some berries. You are hungry, right?" he asked me, leading the way downstairs to the entrance.
"Fine..." I answered, realizing I was hungrier than I thought. I followed Lune down the carved stairs.
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I finished the last bit of my breakfast as I recounted what had happened so far this morning. Lune had graciously showed which berries tasted best, which berries healed/powered up/cure, which were okay to eat, and where they grew. He also quizzed me at breakfast just five seconds ago.
"Solana?" Lune asked, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"You've...never battled before, have you?" Lune waited for my answer as I dug through my memory for any details on the matter. So far, nothing familiar came up.
"Well, how am I supposed to know? I am an amnesiac, after all. Tell me, is it really that obvious?" I asked.
"Yes. Your battle stance is horrible," he bluntly replied, his brown eyes glinting with mischief. I frowned, and Lune smiled at my reaction. "In fact, it's so bad I've decided to give you lessons on battling," my roommate decided.
"You know how to battle?" I stared, dumfounded that Lune more about fighting than me.
"Come with me," Lune replied, flicking his fluffy, curled tail over to the trodden trail behind him. But before I could say no, the eevee had already bounded down the narrow path.
Of course, I followed Lune down the trail, paying no attention to the lush green blur of the scenery. It wasn't long before I reached an open, grassy area with a lone fir tree with Lune lying in its cool shade.
"What took you so long?" he inquired, lazily stretching his body out.
"You're too fast," I complained.
"Well, you're going to be needing speed in battle." Lune lifted himself up and stepped out of my way. "I usually use this tree as a target when I practice fighting techniques," my roommate explained, and on a closer look the pine's rough bark was quite worse for the wear with deep claw marks and chipped areas.
"What do I do first?" I asked, unsure of my battle skills as I kept my eyes on the pine tree.
"First, you should assume a battle stance. Since you obviously don't know how to position yourself, you should watch me first," Lune directed from the sidelines. He placed his paws apart for balance as he crouched himself into a downward facing dog position. "It's easier to move around and dodge attacks this way," Lune added.
"Like this?" I copied Lune's stance, positioning my body carefully for balance. Lune seemed surprised for a moment as he checked me over.
"Yeah, exactly," the eevee answered. "Has anyone ever told you that a fast learner?" he asked, and I shot him a glare. I had been handing out glares free samples at a supermarket lately.
"You're talking to an amnesiac here," I retorted. Lune sighed.
"Next, try to run up to your target and slash him at a critical point with your claws," Lune instructed, demonstrating a swiping motion with his right paw. I nodded and set myself back into the battle stance from earlier.
I swished my furry tail as I prepared to sprint up to my opponent, a "wild tree" in this case. Then, I pushed off my back paws for a slight speed boost as I ran up to the "wild tree," giving me an advantage in speed. Next, I leaped up, aiming for the one spot with the deepest battle scars on the thin bark. Releasing my claws, I picked out a particularly engraved line, and tore my claws along it. I then retracted them and backed away from the pine, admiring the slight damage I had done. I glanced over at Lune, but he was at a loss for words as he gaped at the long mark I scratched out.
"I think you're ready to learn harder things Solana," the flabbergasted eevee managed to squeak out.
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Lune and I had just finished the training session, and I had progressed far faster than a normal rookie. At least according to Lune I did. It made wonder who I really was. Did I have a human owner that taught me training? Did I have a family where I was wanted and loved? Or was I on my own in the world like Lune? Or...
"Solana, are you even paying attention to me?" Lune broke my train of thought. I blinked and strained my brain, trying to remember what Lune was talking about. Let me see... We left the training field and we were now at a fork in the road. The right trail lead to..."home," and the left trail lead... Oh, who was I kidding? I had no idea what Lune was talking about.
"Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts," I apologized, feeling guilty.
"Don't worry about it," Lune said. "I was just asking if you wanted to see the sunset." I prayed the blush that crept across my face didn't shine through my fur as I fantasized what could happen at such a romantic moment.
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It was times like these when I really hated myself.
"Of course I will," I agreed. I couldn't help it.
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There just had to be something wrong with me.
"Great." Lune's face lit up with a grin as he took the left path leading to who-knew-where. It didn't take very long to reach the end, and by the time Lune and I did, the sun was dipping lower in the painted sky.
I couldn't help but smile too when I saw the panoramic scene. Lune and I were standing on a cliff overlooking a large lake with crystal clear water shimmering in the last bit of sunlight. The sky's orange, violets, blues, pinks, and reds contrasted against the water below, and I wanted the magical view to last forever.
Alas, some things weren't always meant to be.
At that exact moment, a milotic breached out of the water, close enough for me to count every last one of its luminescent scales as they glistened with droplets of water. On a pink scale at my eye level however, there was imprint that suspiciously looked like the milotic's tail. It was as if a human had taken their thumb and pressed the side of it to leave an impression. The mark was familiar... But where had I seen it? I raised my right paw when I saw it. The same marking was on my own paw. I quickly stole a glance behind me at the paw prints Lune had made in the dusty earth. My pupils shrunk when I saw the imprint there, too. If Lune had it... and I had it... How did we get it? Then, time started up again, and the milotic fell back into the waves with a splash.
My mind swum with agonizing questions eating at my skull, but before someone could answer them I became bathed in white light.
Have you heard the legend of the milotic?
If you and your true love see one, and receive its blessing,
you and all your descendants will have true and everlasting love.
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