Sun & Moon

By: Aubrie1234


When Moon got home (Star and Woody going back to Kukui's place), she found her mother fixing dinner as Nebby fiercely kept the Pidgey from trying to steal some food. Every time it came close Nebby growled before snapping its jaws at the bird, making the Pidgey squawk and fly off but not for long. Moon shook her head at them before going over to the sink and washing her hands, wanting to help her mother make dinner. Flareball leapt onto the couch and made himself comfortable, not wanting to get involved in the chaos.

"You were great out there, honey." Lillie praised, not surprised her daughter had come home early, "Are you excited to start the island challenge tomorrow?"

"Yeah, especially now that Star and Ailani are going to be travelling with me!"

"You know, that reminds me of when I was a child. I used to travel with Hau and an old friend of ours. Sometimes we met up with Gladion, too, but usually it was just the three of us." Lillie mused, then shook her head, "But that was a long time ago, this is about you. And tomorrow, before you go, could you go visit Mrs. Taiyō next door?" Moon hadn't met the woman often over the years, but did know the pokemon she raised used to be the pokemon of one of her Mom's friends and that she had come to Kanto a few times to help Lillie raise Moon. In her book, Moon thought she was a really nice woman.

"Sure!" The rest of the night was spent eating dinner (including feeding the pokemon. Karma had to be fed outside because of his size) before they went to bed. Flareball curled up on his master's stomach, making her smile and rub his head.

"What sort of adventures do you think we'll be going on?"

"Li len lit." (I don't know.)

"Maybe, just maybe...we can find my Dad and Mom's missing friend." Moon continued to whisper to Flareball for a while until they both fell asleep. But what they didn't know was, outside their window, a large bird pokemon watched them. It watched from some trees nearby, its eyes glowing in the dark. Shortly it flew off, not making a sound.


Moon decided not to scare Nebby this morning, so they were having breakfast together when the knock came to the door.

"I'll get it." Moon said automatically, standing and walking to the door. Opening it, she found Star there, Nebula's cloud-hand poking through the bag.

"Nebula, no!" he hissed, pushing the pokemon's hand back in, "Not just yet!"

"Pew!" said the Cosmog fiercely, but relented.

"Nice to see you up early, Star." Moon said, "By the way, that's my Mom, Lillie. I don't either either of you have had a proper introduction yet." Lillie stood and came over.

"Nice to meet you!" she said, shaking his hand, "And it's alright to let Nebula loose in here, if you want."

"Pew!" Nebula cried happily, sticking a cloud-hand out again. Star pushed it back into the bag again.

"Sorry, but Kukui asked if I could bring Moon to him. Gladion's out getting Greninja, since he's supposed to be back today, so I was the only available human around."

"It's fine. Mrs. Taiyō's next door and on the way to Kukui's, so would you like to stop there with me?"

"Sure." Star nodded.

"As I probably won't be seeing you for a while, sweetie," Lillie said, taking a small coin pouch out of her pocket and giving it to Moon, "here's some spending money. Don't use it all, okay?" Flareball, hearing that they were leaving, jumped down from the table and ran to catch up with his partner, leaving Pidgey to eat the rest of his Poke Chow, much to Nebby's annoyance. The Solgaleo wasn't allowed on the table during food times, so to get back at the other pokemon, it placed its paw on the side of the bowl and flipped it and its contents onto the Pidgey, who squawked indignantly and moved about like a Spinda. Nebby responded with a roaring laugh.

"I won't. Bye, Mom!" Moon grabbed Star's arm and dragged him away from the house before her Mom started yelling, at which she would, and they went next door. She knocked on the door, which was soon answered by Mrs. Taiyō, a Persian beside her.

"Hi Mrs. Taiyō!" Moon greeted. The woman surprisingly didn't look as old as she should, with only a streak or two of gray in her hair.

"Moon! I heard you had moved here, but I didn't get a chance to talk to you! You were amazing at the festival, as was Ailani!" Star lingered behind Moon, feeling like a third wheel until the girl spoke up again.

"By the way, this is Star!" Moon pushed the boy forward, "He's going to be travelling with me and Ailani!" The Persian meowed in shocked as Mrs. Taiyō froze.

"W-well now..." This confused the kids.

"I-is there something wrong?" The woman shook her head.

"No no, it's just that you look a lot like my son, back when he was your age." she brightened again, "I'm assuming Lillie asked you to visit me before you left?"

"Yeah. It was great seeing you again. Could you tell the other pokemon I said hi?"

"Sure. Now get on with your journey, you two!" The kids smiled and nodded before leaving.

"Huh. I've never actually seen any pictures of Mom's and Uncle Hau's friend. Weird coincidence."

"Maybe." Star muttered, running a hand through his hair. They walked on to Kukui's place and as they did, Moon noticed the medal around Star's neck.

"What's that you're wearing?"

"Oh, this?" the boy held up the medal, "It's a gift from my Father, back when I was very young. The character on it is Soru, Japanese for Sol, which is another word for sun."

"That's even weirder. Taiyō means sun in Japanese."

"Then maybe this isn't such a coincidence at all." Star let the medal fall back onto his chest, "Nebula is a Cosmog, which are supposed to come from a far away place, like space. It used its powers once to save me."

"This all seems to center around space, doesn't it?" Moon put in, "You and I are named after the Moon and the Stars, a Nebula is basically a star nursery, you have a medal named after the sun...What's next?"

"Who knows?" the boy shrugged, "And another thing about Cosmog... It's a very rare pokemon, and evil people are after it. I saved Nebula from those people, but now they'll be after me. I'm a little scared because of that..."

"Then Ailani and I can help you!" Moon said. Star looked at her, surprised.

"Why?"

"If you're trying to protect Nebula from bad people, then I'll do it too and Ailani might as well!" The boy was touched by the offer.

"Alright, but it's going to be dangerous. Are you sure?"

"Littenen!" (Positive!) Flareball answered, puffing out his chest. The humans laughed at that.

"But anyway, only people I trust know this, so you must keep it a secret, understand?" Star said seriously, "If this leaks out, then who knows what will happen to Nebula!"

"Pew..." the Cosmog agreed, voice wavering in fear.

"Hey, it's okay..." Star reached a hand in to comfort the pokemon.

"I'll keep it a secret. You also seem very close to Nebula."

"We grew up together. My Father caught Nebula when he was a kid and allowed the Cosmog to take care of me when he couldn't. It was only recently that evil people started coming after us." Moon nodded silently as they finally got to the house. Inside there were sounds of squawks, yips, and growls. Both kids knew that it meant Kukui was practicing moves with some pokemon, so they waited outside until the excitement went down and they could enter. Entering, they found Greninja and Gladion to be back. Upon seeing them, Greninja waved. He had heard everything from Gladion already.

"Hey! Glad to see you two!" Kukui was on the floor, Rockruff on his stomach and licking him, "I wanted to gather everyone together before you two set off with Ailani." Just as he said that the girl came in.

"Alola, Kukui! Nice to see you back, Greninja!"

"Gre gre!" (You too!)

"Here, I'll take these kids to the Trainer's School while you continue your research." Gladion offered, "And Greninja, make sure he doesn't hurt himself." The frog-ninja nodded. Gladion led the kids outside, where Silvally came out of its pokeball, very cheerful, and started knawing on Gladion's head again.

"Silvally, KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!" Gladion pushed at the pokemon, trying to get it to stop. The kids sweatdropped.

"Well, I've been all over the island, so I can show you around." Ailani said, "We need to get back to the road, where a Pokemon Center is. It heals your pokemon and you can buy items there, like Potions and Poke Balls. Past that is the Trainer's School that Gladion was talking about, where you train to become a trainer. After that is Hau'oli City, the largest city on the island and in the region."

"First stop is the Pokemon Center, then!" Moon said. Together the three raced back up to the road, leaving Gladion and Silvally behind. They entered the Center, where the girls healed their pokemon and decided to check out the cafe. With the long road ahead, Star went to the Mart section of the Center and began to buy supplies.

"Delicious!" Moon praised as she drank the Moomoo Milk.

"I know, right?" Ailani agreed as she drank some Tapu Cocoa. The cafe keeper smiled at them.

"Nice to see you girls like the drinks. By the way, is one of you named Moon?" The girls shared a surprised look.

"That's me. Why?"

"A few minutes ago a postman came in and said he had a package to deliver to a girl named Moon. He left it with Nurse Joy, if you want it."

"Uh, thanks." They paid for their drinks, getting a few Poke Beans in return, before going over to Nurse Joy.

"Excuse me." Moon spoke, "I was told there was a package for Moon?"

"Ah yes, here it is!" Nurse Joy handed it to her with a smile, "Hope whatever is inside makes you happy!" They thanked her and went over to one of the tables, where Star had been waiting.

"Where did you get the package?" he asked when they sat down.

"Some postman came here and left it, saying it was for Moon." Ailani explained. Flareball sniffed at it before using his claws to help open it.

"Thanks a lot, buddy." Moon opened it, finding a red and black pokeball inside with a note and a jewel.

"'Dear Moon,'" she read the letter aloud, "'I have a feeling that you will need this pokemon and its abilities more than I. Please take care of it and the Z-Crystal.'" There was no signature or return address.

"You've already got your first Z-Crystal! Cool!" Ailani praised, "You give the crystal to the pokemon it can be used with and they can use the Z-Move, but only once per battle. It takes a lot out of them."

"This looks like Snorlium Z." Star noted, examining the crystal, "It's one of the special Z-Crystals. There are move Z-Crystals that only work with the same type move and then there are Pokemon Z-Crystals, like this one. These correspond not only with the pokemon but also with a certain move they can learn. In this case, it would have to be with a Snorlax, though I'm not sure what the move it is you need."

"Then let's see if we got one." Moon threw open the pokeball to find not a Snorlax, but a Munchlax. It blinked at them and yawned cutely. Smiling, Moon rubbed its head.

"I'll name you Glutton, big guy." Ailani's and Moon's Rotom Dexes flew out to examine the Munchlax.

"Zzzt! It's got some moves it usually doesn't learn!" said Ailani's.

"Yeah, zzzrt! Happy Hour and Hold Back!"

"Hold Back is a move that allows the opponent to have at least 1 HP, no matter what, and Happy Hour doubles the prize money amount at the end of a battle." Star explained, "Interesting..."

"Quite interesting indeed." The kids looked up to see a man walking over to them. He had bright blue eyes, jet black hair, sunglasses, and wore a simple white shirt, black belt, green pants, black and green gloves, and black shoes. He smiled at them.

"Munchlaxes aren't rare around here, but to have one with such moves is very interesting. By the way, my name is Charles."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Moon, this is Flareball, Ailani, Star, and Glutton." The pokemon were getting a strange vibe from the man but didn't want to alarm their partners so they only glowered.

"Well, I must be leaving. Perhaps we can meet again!" he waved goodbye as he walked out.

"Strange guy..."

"You said it." Moon agreed to Ailani's words, both girl looking in the direction of the Center doors. Like the pokemon, Star had gotten a strange vibe, like he somehow knew the man, but he couldn't lace where.

"We don't truzzzt him." the Rotom Dexes said. The humans shared surprised looks but said nothing as the Dexes returned to their owners.

"Well, Glutton, you're several levels lower than Flareball, so let's go train you up a bit." This snapped the pokemon out of their uneasiness, where the group went outside to help train the Munchlax. What they didn't realize was that they were being spied on, out of sight.


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