Whew! It has been a long time since I updated this one. Thanks for the 2 thousand views! I really never expected this one to be so popular in small time! Now in the story.

Chapter 7: Mystery

Danny was dreaming of a strange future in the Pokémon world, and wasn't able to keep sleeping. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around, just noticing a sleeping Pikachu right by his side. He sighed deeply and looked up. The sky was dark, filled with shining stars all over, the Moon being the biggest one. He had lots of questions in his mind, and very little answers.

How would he rescue the slaved Pokémon? What was Giovanni up to? Why he had transformed into a Pokémon?

He shook his head, as he knew he would be able to find the answers sometime. He slowly got up and walked a little, just so that he could relax a bit.

'I hope Poochyena is doing ok without me. He is just a small puppy, and besides I was the only one that he knew in there' with that thought bothering him inside, his nocturnal walk wasn't working at all. With much effort, Danny managed to climb a tall tree and look at his surroundings. He could see the base in which he was made to work for more than 3 weeks. Few Pokémon enjoyed their freedom, away from the rude boss and the endless work. Danny spent all the night thinking in a way to rescue them, but nothing came into his mind. His frustration didn't let him notice Pikachu shaking him weakly.

"Umbreon? Umbreon! Hey, wake up already!"

Danny finally stopped thinking and looked at the worried Pokémon.

"What is it?" he asked. Pikachu sighed in relief.

"You were lost in your thoughts" it explained. Danny nodded and looked up. Pikachu was right: The Moon had hidden and now the Sun was showing itself slowly.

"I can see you are very worried about the Pokémon that where in there. You were friends with them?" Pikachu asked, curiosity in it's face. Danny sighed and looked at the Pokémon.

"Not really, just for one of them; but still, it is not fair for us to be free and them to be there" he explained as he kept looking at the isolated base.

"Yes, I think the same way you do" affirmed Pikachu.

"So…have you gotten any plan yet?" asked Danny, hoping Pikachu would say yes and tell him. However, it shook it's head, badly disappointing the sad Umbreon. Suddenly, Danny got up and rapidly looked around, confusing his partner.

"What's the matter?" it asked, but Danny didn't reply as his face drew a big smile. A small black dot could be seen, and seemed to be growing bigger and bigger as it got closer to the duo. When it was close enough to Danny, it tackled him and started licking his face.

"Poochyena! I'm so glad you are here!" Danny exclaimed happily as the gray puppy kept licking him. When it was done, it got up and smiled back at Danny.

"Yes me too! I took advantage of a man's distraction and fled. It took me all the night to find you, but finally I am here!" it explained.

"So I guess this is the friend you talked me about?" asked Pikachu, Danny replying with a weak nod.

"Well, Umbreon's friends are my friends too. Pleased to meet you, I'm Pikachu" Pikachu introduced itself and stretched one of it's small hands. Poochyena smiled at it and gave him it's paw to stretch it. Then it's smile became a serious frown and looked at Danny.

"Oh Umbreon! You are in such a great danger!" complained the puppy, erasing Danny's smile from his face.

"Why?" he asked worriedly.

"I heard Giovanni wants to capture you to do I don't know what, and his evil smile tells me it will be something very serious"

"Coming from him I wouldn't doubt it" Danny replied, when suddenly the white clouds started slowly getting gray, and eventually, black, covering the sun rays.

"W-What's happening?" asked Poochyena while shivering a little. Pikachu's eyes widened.

"I have seen this before!" it exclaimed "When I was training, the sky suddenly got dark just like now and my human friends were like possessed by it"

"Do you think it will affect us?" asked Danny. Pikachu shook it's head.

"I don't think so, as I was in there when it happened and I was still the same. Maybe it just works for humans"

"S-Still we have to get out of here. Who knows what will happen next" Danny told them and ran away, followed by the 2 Pokémon. Still, it was useless as the darkness was expanding too fast for the 3.

"Is this natural?" Danny asked, getting a weak shake from the 2 creatures. Danny was more confused now.

'If they say this event is not natural, then who or what is causing it?' he asked himself while looking at the sky being covered by the darkness. Few seconds later, Danny noticed that the dark mantle couldn't go forward , and so he took advantage of that.

"Hey guys! Now that it has stopped, we can move!" he exclaimed, looked at the 2 nod and run besides him. After 2 minutes, they got out of the dark part and stopped, panting heavily.

"W-we…did it" said Poochyena while laying down and giving a deep sigh. But Danny still had a worried look on his face, being noticed by Pikachu.

"What's the matter?" it asked, but he didn't reply as he was focused looking at a small bush. Confused, Poochyena also looked at it, but the bush seemed to be normal.

'Strange. Why could Umbreon be so…entertained looking at that' it thought, but immediately got a reply as a small green caterpillar got out and slowly walked towards the trio.

"Isn't it a cute thing?" asked Pikachu and stretched a hand to pat it's head, but suddenly lots of bees with sharp big stings in their hands appeared from behind some trees and looked at the 3 Pokémon.

"Go away! This is our territory!" one of them exclaimed.

"If we don't do, what are you going to do?" Danny taunted with a big smile, Pikachu walking towards him.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" he whispered and pointed at the now angry bees.

"You asked for it!" another bee warned and pointed at the 3 Pokémon. The swarm flew towards them as fast as their wings let them.

"Run!" Pikachu exclaimed and ran away, followed by Danny and Poochyena, the 3 reaching a desert that wasn't too far away from the forest. The poor gray puppy was so exhausted that eventually started slowing down, tripped and fell over. Pikachu and Danny didn't notice at first and hid behind a big rock.

"Whew! I thought we wouldn't make it" Pikachu said while sitting down.

"In fact, both of us just did it. Poochyena is still there" he said worriedly and ran towards the puppy. Pikachu just looked at Danny from behind. Poochyena tried to get up, but his exhaustion put him down on the sand. The swarm surrounded him.

"It's your end" one said ,flew a little far from him to prepare their attacks and flew back to Poochyena. He covered his head with both paws and closed his eyes, waiting for the impact. However, when he felt none, he slowly looked up, still scared. His eyes widened when he saw a hurt Umbreon in front of him.

"A-are you all right?" Danny asked slowly while stumbling to stay up. Tears formed in his yellow and red eyes and sobbed weakly.

"Well, that was a stupid thing to make" a bee said. Danny looked back at the bees.

"I have…gone through…harder things" he taunted.

"We don't care at all. Now we will get rid of both of you" 2 of the bees said and prepared again, but they suddenly got hurt by electricity.

"R-Retire g-guys" one said and they all managed to fly away. Poochyena looked at the rock where Pikachu had been hiding and saw him running towards the hurt Umbreon. When Pikachu reached him, Danny wasn't able to stay up and fell.

"Oh Umbreon! I-I'm sorry! If only I had accompanied you before, nothing of this had happened" complained Pikachu while crying weakly.

"I-It's also my fault. You would be fine if I hadn't tripped" said Poochyena while rubbing Danny with one of his paws. Danny opened one eye and looked at the sad Pokémon.

"H-hey guys…I'm fine. As I told the bees before, I had gone through more painful things" Danny tried to coax them, but he failed.

"No Umbreon. Please forgive us" the 2 said at the same time. Danny gave a weak smile before losing his consciousness.

"U-ugh…what…happened?" Danny asked, and got up, gasping at the unexpected pain he felt on his back. Slowly, he turned around and noticed a big leaf covering where he was hurt.

'Pikachu and Poochyena' he thought with a smile and heard his name being called.

"Oh Umbreon! You woke up" said Poochyena

"We searched for something to protect your wound and found that leave" explained Pikachu. Danny nodded and slowly got up, being helped by the Pokémon.

"Thanks guys" he thanked and looked around. They were in a cool cave in the desert. Danny got worried when he saw the sky was now dark. Poochyena seemed to notice his worry and smiled.

"Don't worry, it's just that is night time" he explained, a sigh escaping from Danny's lips.

"We will stay here until morning arrives, as it is quite unsafe out there" said Pikachu as he walked towards the mouth of the cave and looked outside.

Now that Danny had the time, he thought of the darkness he saw hours ago, trying to find some kind of answer, without getting a clue.

Pikachu suddenly remembered something and turned around to look at Danny.

"Umbreon?"

"Hm?" he asked, curious.

"When we were being attacked by the Beedrills, why did you taunt them? I mean, those Pokémon are quite aggressive, and by doing that you got hurt" he asked, making Danny gasp weakly.

'The truth is that I really didn't know that they would react like that. Even the ghosts in he Ghost Zone are a little more pacific' he thought and shook his head.

"It's my style" he replied. Pikachu thought for a moment before nodding.

"Umbreon, watch out!" Poochyena exclaimed as he ran behind him. He looked around and saw a strange mouse with big brown spikes in it's back and big claws looking at them with red eyes. It raised one of it's claws and tried slashing, but Danny dodged the attack.

"Let's go!" he ordered and ran after Pikachu and Poochyena got out of the cave. When he reached Pikachu, he looked at him.

"It's quite strange. Sandslashs are very docile, even though a Pokémon has trespassed their territory" he explained and looked behind at a running Sandslash.

"Then something is very wrong in here" Danny pointed out while running.

"We can't escape forever from him: They are way too fast for us" complained Poochyena.

"We did nothing to you, please stop!" he tried to convince the Pokémon, but the Sandslash didn't seem to listen and tried slashing again. Danny sighed.

'I didn't want to have a fight, as I still don't know how to control my powers, but I guess there is no other way'

"Then it will be a fight" said Poochyena with a small smile in his face, and the trio stopped, facing at the mouse-like-hedgehog.

Ok, explanation time. Again, I'm TERRIBLE SORRY for not updating any faster, but I had some tests (pretty hard, I admit) and I had to study A LOT -_-. I hope the length of this chapter made up for the so slow update.