Before I start with the new chapter, I just want to say that from now until whenever this switching POV's stops, it's going to switch night and day. Daytime obviously being Raith's point of view, and night time obviously being Shuu's point of view.

Enjoy!

Daytime

Everyone was talking in Pewter City that day. The housewives calling each other, recalling the events of the Midnighter's battle, and the pubescent girls squealing and sending each other picture of him. No matter who you were, you were talking about the Midnighter. Everyone, that is, except Fayre and I. We had been looking for Shuu all over for most of the night and didn't find him. Neither of us woke up until one in the afternoon.

"Maybe we should cut our losses and continue with the journey?" Fayre suggested, concerned.

"I don't think we have much of a choice in the matter, Fayre…" I replied. She kissed my head and got into some clothes. I shrugged and headed to the bathroom to splash some water on my face.

When we were ready, we grabbed our stuff and checked out of the hotel. I went to the gym to challenge Brock, but he was just sitting outside the gym with his head in his hands.

"Ummm…" Fayre tried to get his attention.

"Oh, hi. You guys from yesterday, right?" he asked.

"Yeah. Can we get a rematch?" I inquired.

"Uhh I'm kinda busy at the moment, but here, you guys can have these." In his hand, he held out two Boulder Badges. This got me pissed.

"Dude! You're not even gonna battle us? We've worked our asses off and you just push us off to the side?! What kind of a gym leader are you?!"

"Hmph. You sure are persistent… But fine, I will battle you." We followed him to an outdoor stadium, but the only spectator was the judge. The terrain was rugged and there were many cliffs and rocks scattered throughout the battle ground.

"Heh. Get ready for this…" I smirked and grabbed a PokéBall from my belt. He casually sent out his Geodude while my Charmander was ready to play.

"Geodude, Tackle!"

"Charmander, dodge it and use rock slide!" Charmander climbed atop a nearby cliff and pushed a boulder off the edge, landing on Geodude's head as it was heading toward Charmander for a tackle. Geodude shook its head and climbed up to where Charmander was.

"Charmander! Smoke screen!" Just then, puffs of smoke escaped Charmander's mouth. Geodude was unable to see, and so was Brock.

"Defence curl, Geodude!" Brock yelled, but it was too late. Charmander used rock slide yet again and buried Geodude in the pile of stone.

"Ugh…" Brock took Geodude back.

"Round one, the winner is Raith!" the judge stated.

"Go Raith!" Fayre cheered. I put Charmander back in its PokéBall and sent out Rattata in its place. Somehow, I was able to defeat his Onyx using bite repeatedly… How did Rattata's teeth get so strong? I decided to stop pondering that fact and proudly accepted my Boulder Badge.

"Would the lady like a battle as well?" Brock asked, kissing Fayre's hand. She blushed. I got pissed.

"No, thank you kind sir. I will take a badge, if you would be so kind as to give me one." She replied sweetly. He wrote something on the back of the badge and gave it to her. I didn't see what, but something about him really pissed me off.

"Well then, I have to get going. I notified all the gym leaders about this 'Midnighter' and I need to find out who he is." Brock stated randomly. We nodded and he left. The judge was just sitting in his seat.

"Are you just going to stay there?" Fayre asked.

"Yeah… It's kinda my job." He sighed and fell asleep on the rock-hard bleachers. We shuddered and headed toward the exit and off to Route 3.

"I wonder what Brock was talking about though… I'm kinda curious…" Fayre wondered out loud. I shook my head.

"WE. ARE. NEVER. SPEAKING. TO. THAT. MAN. EVER. AGAIN." I commanded. She chuckled.

"Sounds like someone's jealous… Hehe!"

"I am not jealous! I'm just over-protective! Nobody touches you unless I approve." After saying that, I wrapped my arms around her and rested my head on her slender, perfect shoulder. She turned around and we kissed romantically.

Night time

I left Pewter City last night and arrived at the entrance of Mt. Moon. I heard there were a lot of "scary" pokémon in the cave, but it's the only way to get to Route 4 and Cerulean City. I couldn't wait to get there, I heard there was a water gym there and I'm really into the water type.

"Man… Dis cave be dark…" Squirtle stated. It was true, I couldn't see anything in front or behind me. Suddenly, we heard a voice.

"Hey! Is anyone over there?" a husky voice called out.

"Indeed there is! Where are you?" I called out. A beam of light shone out far away from where we were standing, and instinctively, we headed toward the light. There was a 45-ish year old man with hiking gear.

"Are you a new trainer?" he asked.

"I guess you could say that? I am the Midnighter. You are?" I responded.

"Ahh… I'm just the unlucky bastard who works here… But caves are my home. Wait, did you say, 'Midnighter'?"

"Yeah… That'd be me."

"OH MY GOD! NO WAY!"

"Yes way."

"Dude! This is so cool! Here, have this!" He handed me a disk labelled "HM 01". I took it from his trembling hands. "It's got the move Flash in it! HM's, or Hidden Machines, aren't like TM's because you can use them more than once. You have the Boulder badge, right? Of course you do! See, certain badges have certain abilities. Some allow HM's to be used, others raise the bar of the highest level pokémon you can have, and others raise stats! You have to keep up with them, but it shouldn't be too hard if you get them, because they're engraved on the back!"

I just nodded straight through his ungodly amounts of excitement… or estrogen… I couldn't really tell…

"I'm going to go now… Thanks?" I said.

"Okay! Bye-Bye! Ohhhh I'm going to tell ALL OF MY FRIENDS!" the creeper hiker said. I cringed when he said that, because the more people who know my location, the more likely I will have followers… I'd like to stay solo, especially after what happened with Raith… God, I'm still not over that man… This is ridiculous…

I pulled out my Weedle and taught it Flash. Suddenly, the cave grew bright, as if it weren't an enclosed dark space hidden from the sun. I could see every nook and cranny. Cool. I looked around and found various useful items, such as Everstones, Rare Candies, and… a map of the cave?! Frikken sweet!

On the map, it said that there were two basements to the cave. I decided to check them out. Heh, I wish it were that easy though… The terrain was really rough and you really had to watch your step, even with Weedle using Flash.

"Hey, Squirtle?" I asked.

"Hm?" he turned around.

"The map says right around here that there'd be a passage or something to basement one, bu-" At that moment, the ground underneath us began to crumble to the point where there was no longer ground, but falling rock. Guess what fell with the rock?

"GYAAAAAHH!!" I screamed. It felt like my heart was in my mouth and I no longer had feet, or a lower body of any kind. I grabbed Squirtle and Weedle and held onto them tightly. Weedle tried to use String Shot to latch onto a cave wall, but the thread wasn't tough enough. Squirtle used water gun to try and get the water to push against gravity, but that didn't work either. Then I heard a weird humming noise and we stopped falling.

"Mommy! Look! Pokémon fell from the sky!" a small voice shouted.

"Shut up child!" a more mature feminine voice commanded. I looked below, and there was a crowd of small pink pokémon surrounding us. I landed on my feet and put Squirtle and Weedle down. Bright, bioluminescent plants clung onto the walls of the cave and water dripped down from the ceiling.

"What is this place?" I asked.

"Welcome to the 'Le Fairy Coven'! I am its leader, Apollo!" a pink pokémon announced atop a rock. "We are the only clan of Clefairy in this entire cave! Congratulations for finding us, human!"

"Thank you so much for saving us, Apollo."

"No problem, no problem at all." I looked around at the Clefairy. All of them were trembling, probably with fear, and as I walked closer, they backed away.

"What are you afraid of?" I asked.

"Surface beings… Like you…" one replied.

"You're the reason why we hid in this place!" another shouted.

"Please don't take us all away again…" a small child cried.

"What happened?" I asked. Apollo then leapt onto my head and smirked.

"I'll tell you what happened. Lucky for you, it didn't happen too long ago. The surface beings are still in this very cave. You don't seem to be one of them, so you should help us out." Apollo suggested.

"Okay, I'll help." I answered. Then he told me their story:

The surface beings came to the Mountain of Moons a few nights ago. They brought their machinery with them as well. So loud and noisy things those are!

We consulted the Holy one and she told us that bad things were to happen in the cave. We panicked and began our decent to protect our home. Their machinery was too strong to be defeated! We have lost many to battles and many more to slavery.

I, Apollo, gathered the remaining Clefairy and brought them here. However, the evil surface beings trapped us in this small cave.

I was shocked to know that there were people who would harm pokémon. I thought that people were supposed to coexist with pokémon, and generally, it works that way. Then again, Raith would know more about that then I would, he would always watch those Pokémon abuse shows on TV. I couldn't bear watching them.

Apollo led me through this narrow tunnel. I was surprised I fit, but when I looked at my hands, they grew smaller and smaller. I frantically looked around and noticed my surroundings become larger and larger. I saw Squirtle grow larger and larger than me.

"D-Dude! Wha's goin' on?!" Squirtle exclaimed.

"I used Metronome, usually the user is allowed a move at random. However, I can control what move to use, and I used Minimize to get you to fit through these small cracks. Don't worry; I'll change you back afterwards." Apollo explained.

"Ohh… You sure you can turn me back?" I asked worried.

"No problem. Just follow me. I'll take you to the place where the surface beings gather. Then I'll bring you back to normal size and then we can take them all and make them leave… Somehow?" Apollo replied.

On the way there, Squirtle and I tried to plot something that may get the people out of the cave. I looked behind me and noticed that several other Clefairy had followed us. I then stopped everyone and told them the plan. We were going to surround the exits of the base (which Apollo knew well) and then render them unable to do anything (which in this case would be disrupting their machines and weaponry/Pokémon).

There were only two exits, so Squirtle and I took the first exit and Apollo and the other Clefairy manned the other exit. The people were wearing strange black uniforms and had devilish looking pokémon. While our presence was still unknown to them, I unhooked their machines and weapons in my miniature state. After I unhooked the machines, Apollo used Metronome to make me grow back to normal size.

"NOW!!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. The Clefairy on the other side then blocked the entrance using giant boulders. Squirtle used a really powerful water gun to blast the uniform people to their feet. Some of them tried to flee, but the only other exit was behind me.

"Who do you think you're messing with, kid? We're Team Rocket!" One of the thugs yelled.

"Yeah! We'll take you on!" Another yelled.

Three other Team Rocket members looked in my direction. All of them started throwing out PokéBalls at me. I readied my other Pokémon, intent on winning the enormous batte.

Aaaaaand… That's all, folks.

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