I apologize for this short chapter. It's still building up to the more important parts of the story (which will hopefully have more words). Keep in mind that this one will be updated slower than my other story "My Little Mystery Dungeon", which is currently my main project.
I hope you enjoy!
The rest of Giratina's night was uneventful. After he had promised to himself to forget about Luna, he ended up thinking only about her for the entire night.
How could he forget? There was no way to forget such a beautiful creature that treated him so kindly. There was no denying that he had fallen hopelessly in love with Luna... But there was no way he could possibly get to her unless she visited him in his dreams again. That would be a challenge, considering that Giratina never slept. Last night was a special occasion and it was a mere coincidence that he had met Luna in the first place.
Finding another rock to lay down on, Giratina began to rest. His body had other ideas, feeling as though he had just drank four shots of pure caffeine. He couldn't even force his eyes to close. His body was twitchy, rejecting to lying down and sleeping.
I must sleep, Giratina growled at himself, I must meet her again. Just one more time... Then I'll never think about her again!
It seems as though Giratina's wish was granted, for he immediately fell asleep, now transferring to the dream world...
Giratina hoped to be back on that moonlit hill where he had met Luna. Unfortunately, his mind had other plans. He found his most common dream repeating; simply floating in an empty, black realm of nothingness.
Giratina -now back in his altered form- knew he wasn't alone. He could sense another presence with him... One that gave him a very unnerving feeling. He decided to be bold and speak out.
"Luna?" He asked, looking all around the blackness.
All he heard was his own voice echoing back.
Giratina didn't like this new presence. It felt ancient and old, much like himself or his brother, but somehow even older and more ancient... He had to get out of here, he had to wake up. Luna could wait, because this presence clearly did not belong to her.
"Testing... Testing... One two three..." A different voice suddenly echoed through the darkness, freezing Giratina in place, "Is this thing on? Ugh! Why must everything be so complicated?"
Giratina whipped his head around, searching for the owner of the voice. It was definitely not Luna, being that the male voice was a very throaty and slightly raspy with age. It seemed to be coming from everywhere at once, seeming to surround Giratina in an attempt to overwhelm him. He didn't recognize it, but something in the tone told him that the owner of the voice was up to no good. Hopefully they hadn't seen him yet...
"Hey grimey-tuna!" The voice said again, "Can you hear me?"
Giratina narrowed his bright red and black eyes, "It's Giratina... And yes, I can hear you, strange disembodied voice."
"Hang on," The voice replied again, sounding as though the owner was straining under something, "I'm... Trying... To... Get... This... Spell to work! This disembodied voice will have a body momentarily!"
"You're not Luna." Giratina stated blankly.
The voice replied with a snarky answer, "Noooo, I'm Bambi's dead mother. Of course I'm not Luna!"
"Then who are you?" The basilisk demanded.
"Didn't I tell you to hang on?" The voice quipped back, "I am trying to do something here and your talking isn't helping!"
Giratina was now thoroughly confused. His eyes scanned the darkness, searching for the owner of the voice. Still, he could not see the invader of his dreams.
"Ah! There we go!" The voice finally said with a triumphed chuckle, "Can you see me now?"
Giratina whipped around, his eyes straining to focus in the dark. He did finally find something, but what now stood before him startled him into jumping back into a battle stance. A creature like no other now stood a few feet away from him, staring at him with bright red and yellow eyes that glowed in the dark. Giratina would have describe this creature as having a face of a deformed Ponyta, the body of a furry Seviper, the talon of a Pigeotto, the paw of a Persian, the leg of a Treeko, the hoof of a Tauros, and the tail of an Arbok. Two horns sat atop the creature's misshapen head. Its red and yellow eyes were complemented by bushy, white eyebrows. The creature was currently smiling in a friendly way that was clearly fake.
"Wh-... What are you?" Giratina asked, cautiously keeping his guard up in case this creature was hostile.
"Your fairy godmother, obviously." The newcomer replied, smiling as he did.
"But you are of the male gender..." Giratina stated blankly.
"Godfather, then," The beast corrected himself, "Anyways, you can call me Discord. I'm here to make all your dreams come true!" He made a sparkly rainbow in his mismatched hands before placing it over his head.
Giratina narrowed his eyes, "You aren't exactly what I would picture as a fairy godfather."
"Do you want me to wear a sparkly dress and carry around a magical wand or something?"
"No... It's just that... What kind of pokémon are you? Are you from one of those regions I've never visited?"
For a moment, Discord looked rather confused. Immediately, he seemed enlightened by an unknown source, "Ah! A pokémon! Yes, a friend of mine told... Well... She didn't exactly tell me, more like I read her thoughts and learned everything."
"So you are a psychic?" Giratina asked, a little unamused by this creature's constant babbling.
"Nooo... I'm just very, very powerful," Replied Discord, his smile becoming slightly more malicious, "I'm not a pokémon as you are. In fact, I am from Luna's world of Equestria."
"You know Luna?" Giratina asked, his red eyes suddenly lighting up with excitement.
Discord nodded, "Indeed I do. She's a good... Friend of mine. I was reading Luna's thoughts when I came across a thought of you. I decided to come and visit -seeing that Luna is hopelessly in love with you- and see if you felt the sam-"
"Yes I do!" Giratina squealed in a voice that was very unlike him. He cleared his throat and started again, "Uh... Yes, I have mutual feelings. Why do you ask?"
"Well, since I am a somewhat fairy godfather, I've come to grant your wish." Explained Discord. He suddenly appeared next to Giratina, startling the great basilisk a little, "You love Luna, don't you?"
Giratina's mouth felt dry for some odd reason, "I do."
"You want to see her again? You want to hold her and squeeze her and call her George?"
Giratina stared at Discord, "Er... Yes to the first question, not so much the second."
"That's what I want to hear!" The multi-beast cheered. He obnoxiously flew right up to Giratina's face, that ridiculous smile still on his face, "Now, how would you feel if I told you I could bring Luna to the pokémon world without your brother or her sister interfering?"
Giratina began smiling, "I would be thrilled!"
This got a chuckle out of Discord, "Well listen up, gritty-timer-"
"Giratina."
"That's kind of a mouthful. Can I just call you Tina?"
"Preferably no-"
Discord ignored him and continued on, "Anyways, as I was saying, Tina... I'm good friends with Luna and could convince her to come to this world and be with you. However, it will come with a catch..."
"Tell me," Giratina insisted, "I'll do anything to see Luna again!"
Discord started circling around Giratina, most likely to intimidate him. He wasn't very successful, being that Giratina was five times larger than him and the basilisk didn't find him all the intimadating.
"If you want Luna to continue staying with you, you must agree to run a few... Errands for me while she is here."
Giratina was skeptical, "What kind of errands?"
Discord stopped pacing around Giratina and stood in front of him, "Let's just say... I have been an outcast much like you have, Tina. These errands will help me... Get back into society."
Giratina could see why Discord was an outcast. If he lived in a world populated only by Ponytas and Rapidashes, surely they would see him as some sort of monster. Giratina almost felt sorry for his helper, being that they seemed to have a lot in common concerning their social status.
"What did they do to you?" Giratina asked curiously.
"Imprisonment." Discord answered. He gestured to his body, "Just for looking like this! But we're getting off topic here. Do we have a deal? I will bring Luna to your world so long as you agree to help me run these specific errands."
Giratina's mind was screaming No! No! It's a trap! There was something this creature wasn't telling him. No one was that cruel just to imprison someone for their looks. However, Giratina's heart conflicted with his logic. He wanted to see Luna again. He wanted to feel accepted, being that she had accepted him despite being who he was.
He needed to see her and tell her his true feelings.
Slowly, Giratina nodded his golden-plated head, "It's a deal."
Discord chuckled a little, seeming happy with Giratina's answer. He reached into an imaginary pocket and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, "This is a contract of sorts. I need you to sign your name, growly-teeny-"
"Giratina."
"-on the dotted line, just so we have an official agreement." Discord handed the renegade pokémon the pen before holding the tiny documents close to Giratina's giant head. The basilisk has issues with signing his name, being that he was using his mouth to hold the pen and was writing on a tiny piece of paper. He eventually managed to scribble Giratina on the line before Discord rolled the document up and shoved it back into the imaginary pocket.
"Good!" He said, a happy smile on his deformed face, "I'll get to work on getting Luna here. You, in the mean time, can take it easy until Luna arrives." The multi-beast tipped an invisible hat, "Ciao!"
And with a flash, Giratina's "fairy godfather" was gone, thrusting him back into the Distortion World. He sniffed, smelling something that was not natural for the Distortion World.
Is that... He thought for a moment, ...Chocolate?
