Roark was making his way through Jubilife City to get to get to Oreburgh City when he stopped in his tracks in fount of a new cafe unsure if he was seeing things or not. Out of the cafe came a boy that looked a lot like Danny followed by a Darkrai. "Wait a minute, was that just Danny and his Darkrai? But that can't be! How could they have gotten here before me?" He then held his hand up to his head as he shook it, "I think I'm just seeing things. First that flying black and white thing with a Darkrai following it and now seeing Danny and his Darkrai getting here before. I think I need to get some sleep when I get back to the gym," he then continued on his way to Oreburgh as he tried to figure things out.
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Leaving the cafe behind them, Danny and Darkrai made their way to the headquarters that Sunda was located at. "So Darkrai, are you going to hide in my shadow?"
"Like I said in the cafe, I don't see the point in doing so right now," Darkrai answered, "Besides why do I need to when pretty much everyone in this town knows about me."
"I guess you're right," the Halfa replied with a small sigh knowing the Dark-Type was right. After a bit, Danny felt as if they were being followed and turned around at a quick pace to look behind him but saw nothing.
Seeing Danny's sudden movement caused Darkrai to stop in his tracks and look back at his friend, "Is everything ok?"
Danny stood there for a bit taking in his surroundings looking for anything strange before turning back to look at his friend, "I believe so. It just felt as if we were being followed a moment ago."
"You must be imagining it," Darkrai commented not recalling having that feeling.
"Maybe, but I'm not going to let my guard down just yet," the Halfa assured him. He didn't want to take the risk of a sneak attack if one was to come.
"Don't you think you're being a bit paranoid?" the Nightmare Pokemon asked him as they started on their way again.
"No, I'm just being rational," Danny simply answered with.
"If you say so," the Dark-Type states with a roll of his eyes
"You don't believe me do you?" Danny asked knowingly.
"What makes you say that?" Darkrai asked acting innocently.
Danny just shook his head at the Dark-Type reply when he had the feeling that they were being followed again. Resisting the urge of turning around to see who was following them, Danny pulled Darkrai towards an unpopulated area of the city. Once he was sure that no one was around them in case something went down and stopped walking he called out, "I know you're there so come on out."
In reply for Danny's order, it was quite for a few minutes, but when Darkrai was about to say something, someone else spoke, "I'm impressed you were able to detect me. You have great detective skills."
At the sound of the voice, the two turned around to see a man with light green eyes, long grayish blue hair and was wearing a long red cloak. "Um thanks, but why are you following us?" Danny asked not letting his guard down in the slightest.
"Because I wanted to have a look at that Darkrai of yours," the man simply answered.
"Why is that?" Danny asked not buying it in the sightless, he had the feeling that there was something more to this man, "I know that he is a Legendary Pokemon and all, but you could of had came up to us instead of following us as if you were someone up to no good."
"I guess your right, sorry about that," the man apologized, "But I mostly wanted to see how your Darkrai compares to mine."
"Wait, you have a Darkrai?" Danny asked shocked not expecting that.
The man nodded as he tossed out a Pokeball and out of the flash of light was another Darkrai. The Darkrai beside Danny stared at the newcomer and greeted it with, "Shadow."
The Darkrai now known as Shadow stared at the Darkrai besides the Ghost Boy, "Phantom, it's nice to see you again."
"Wait, you two know each other?" Danny asked surprised forgetting about the man at the time being and turned to the Darkrai beside him, "And your name is Phantom?"
"Yeah, why do you think I was so hesitant on telling you my name," the Darkrai now known as Phantom answered, "I didn't want it to seem awkward with you calling me by your alto ego's name."
"I'm sure I would of have been fine," Danny assured him even though he may of found it a bit strange.
"By the sounds of it, you seem to be able to understand the tongue of Pokemon," the man commented as he watched in interest.
"Um yeah," the Halfa confessed a bit embarrassed that he forgot that the guy was there.
"So I guess it's no use talking about you as if you can't hear us?" Shadow asked a bit disappointed on the subject. When he saw Danny nod, he then said, "Oh well. Hey Phantom, no offense, but I don't think your trainer is for you. Aren't you one of the ones that enjoy giving nightmares?"
"You know as well as I do that I'm not a big fan of giving nightmares," Phantom growled.
"Yeah right, I remember when we were little, you enjoyed going out with your father during the moonless nights just to give others nightmares," Shadow stats knowingly.
"That may have been when I was younger, but I have changed since then," Phantom growled, "And didn't you say yourself that you didn't want a trainer?"
"True, but just like you said, I've also changed," Shadow informed him, "But can you prove that you changed? You still seem like the Phantom I know of."
"I can prove it perfectly," Phantom stats as he got down into a battle position, "But can you prove that you changed as well?"
"I know I can," Shadow declared as he got down into a battle position too.
"By the sounds of it, they want to have a battle," Danny informed the man sweat dropping a bit at how the two Nightmare Pokemon were acting.
The man looked at the battle ready Pokemon, then to Danny, "As much as I would love to see who's Darkrai is the strongest, right now is not a good time. We have something that we have to be in a bit," he then called back his Darkrai to its Pokeball, "I'm Tobias by the way."
"Danny," the Halfa informed him.
"Well Danny, hopefully the next time we meet, we can have ourself a battle," Tobias told him and then walked away.
"Can't wait! See you around!" Danny called out then turned to the Dark-Type beside him, "So do you want me to continue calling you Darkrai or start calling you Phantom?"
"Ether is fine," the Dark-Type told him, "It's up to you, whichever one is more comfortable for you."
"Ok," Danny nodded understanding what the Nightmare Pokemon meant, "Now let's get going."
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"Ah, Danny, Darkrai, it's so great to see you two again so soon," Sunda greeted as the two entered his office.
"It's great to see you again too," Danny greeted as he took a seat in front of the desk.
"So how have your travels been so far?" the chief asked with interest.
"So far it been great," the Halfa told him, "We went to Full Moon where we met up with Phantom's sister."
"Phantom?" Sunda asked confused with the name.
"Yeah, that is apparently what Darkrai's name is," Danny explained, it may be a bit strange calling the Darkrai Phantom, but it felt like the right thing to do.
"And who is Dar-I mean Phantom's sister?" Sunda asked.
"How about I show you instead," the Halfa suggested as he took out Luna's ball and let her out in a flash of light, "Sunda. this is Luna."
Sunda's eyes lit up in delight at the sight, "Amazing. Who would have thought that a Darkrai and a Cresselia could be siblings."
Once Luna was out of her Healball, she turned to her Halfa friend and glared at him, "It's about time you let me out! Do you realize how bored I was in there! I was doing my best of not letting myself out."
"Sorry that it took so long, but we got caught up in something," the Ghost Boy tried to reason, "But I may have something you would like."
"Really? Like what?" the Psychic-Type asked wondering what the Ghost Boy had up his sleeve that would stop her from sending an Aurora Beam at him or send him flying using Psychic...Ok now that she thought about it, sending him flying may not work, He could just fly back or stop in mid-flight on his own.
"Um, cookies?" Danny answered even though it sounded like a question as he held up the bag of leftover double trouble chocolate chip cookies.
At the sight of the cookies, Luna's eyes lit up with joy, "COOKIES!" and in no time at all, she grabbed them with her Psychic and started munching down on them.
"I guess I should have warned you about my sister's sweet tooth," Phantom states with a small sweatdrop at the sight of Luna diving into the cookies.
"Yeah, you should have," Danny told him grumbling a little, "Now I have to make sure I hide any if my sweets from her," then he turned his attention to the Lunar Pokemon, "Anyways, Luna, this is Sunda, he's in charge of the people that are looking to see if there is a way to reverse what was done to Phantom and me."
Luna stopped eating her cookies as she looked over at Sunda, "So this is the guy in charge? I just hope he knows what he's doing," then she went back to enjoying the cookies.
"Um, what did she just say?" Sunda asked a bit confused at the language and was shocked that in such a short amount of time another legendary was standing before him.
"Oh, she just said that she hopes you know what you are doing," the Halfa translated.
"Don't worry, I have my best people working on it," the chief assured her, "I also got some Pokemon Professors and their people helping out as well."
"Wait, you have people outside of the force helping?" the Halfa asked a bit worried that his secret may be out once again.
"Don't worry, the people I requested help from are the ones I trust the most," Sunda assured him before the boy could jump to too many conclusions, "All they are doing is looking over the syncing notes to add their own expertise to it. Nothing about your ghost half has been revealed just like I promise. But I fear that there may come a time where we may just need to add that part to the calculations if we get stuck."
Danny let out a sigh of relief at hearing that, his secret was still safe for the time being. Just then he remembered something, "Oh yeah, Sunda, are the Pokeballs designed to have stuff inside them to keep the Pokemon that are inside them busy?"
Sunda sat there as he thought about it over, "I believed so if I remember correctly. From what I heard of, a Pokeball is believed to be designed to create a friendly environment for the captured Pokemon, but no one is very sure if that is true. But if it is, it may take some time, because the Pokeball may need some time to figure out what a friendly environment is for the Pokemon inside it."
"You hear that Luna?" Danny asked the Lunar Pokemon smirking, "You're Healball may not be so boring soon."
"I hope so, but I hate waiting," Luna grumbled as she munched on her cookies.
"So has anything else interesting happened to you?" Sunda asked deciding to change the subject around.
"Well, I won the Mine Badge without really meaning to," the Halfa confessed as he rubbed the back of his neck, "I just was just helping bring Byron back to his old self through a battle and it was kind of under the official league rules at the same time."
"So are you going to try and defeat the other gyms along with winning the Sinnoh League?" the chief asked with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Yeah, that seems to be the plan at the moment."
"That's good, this may also be a good way for you to learn more about this world during your stay here."
"Hopefully. Oh yeah, is Looker around by any chance?"
"Actually, he left a few days ago on a new mission to track down an evil organization," Sunda explained then thought for a moment, "I know I shouldn't be telling you this, but they may be a group that you may be needing to look out for. Not much is known about them since they had just started appearing not that long ago. But for what we found out about them so far, they are trying to take over the world and make it their own."
Danny couldn't help but shake his head at that, "Why doesn't that surprise me?" then he sighed, "At least they aren't trying to kill someone's dad, marry their mom and make them their evil apprentice or son or both."
"Wait? What?" Sunda asked very confused and wondering if he heard right.
"Nothing you need to worry about," Danny quickly said not wanting to explain the story at the, "But if we find anything about them, I'll give you a call as soon as I can."
"That would be appreciated."
"How has the research been going anyways?"
Sunda just sighed a bit in sadness, "So far nothing that helpful, we are still searching through all the notes trying to find any hints to undo it."
Danny just sighed, "That's disappointing."
"Don't get too worked up about it, we just started looking it over not that long ago as well," the chief said trying to cheer the boy up, "Plus as we looked through it, we also have to consider many different things as well."
"Yeah I guess you're right," the Halfa said as he rubbed the back of his neck a bit embarrass, "I guess I should have known that from being the son of two scientists."
The chief nodded his head, "So are you heading to Oreburgh next?"
Danny nodded, "Yeah and Roark already said that he be more than willing to accept my challenge at the gym."
"Then I hope you are ready. Steel-Types may be quite difficult to take down, but Rock-Types can be too if you don't have the right strategy and the right moves."
"Thanks for the heads up, but I'm sure I'll be able to come up with something for it."
"Also, if you are going to sign up for the Sinnoh League, you will be needing to do so at a Pokemon Center," Sunda explained to him, "But I'll be able to do it here if you want."
"You don't have to do that," Danny told him as he held up his hands in protest, "I'm sure I can do that myself."
"But I insist," Sunda told him smiling, "Plus, don't you three have to head off to Oreburgh for that badge?"
"Thanks, I guess," the Halfa accepted with a small sigh having the feeling that no matter what he would say, Sunda would keep on insisting. He then stood up and turned to Luna and Phantom, "Are you two ready to head out?"
"But I'm eating my cookies," the Psychic-Type protested with a cookie floating not that far away from her mouth.
"You can eat them in your Healball if you want," the Ghost Boy suggested.
Luna then thought about the offer, "Fine, but only because of the cookies."
Danny then took out Luna's Healball, returned her to it and put it away. He then turned to Sunda, "I guess I'll see you later then and thanks for all your help so far," he then left with Phantom right behind the.
Sunda watched the two leaving smiling, he was glad those two were doing well so far.
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Somewhere else tons of scientists were rushing around trying to get some work done. "What's going on in here?" asked a man with dark purple hair put up to look like a crashing wave, dark blue eyes and looked to have some muscle. He was wearing a dark purple-gray sleeveless shirt with a black symbol over his heart that was an O with what looked like a P in the center, purple sweat pants with black stripes on the side and black combat boots.
"W-W-We are t-tr-trying to find where the subjects disappeared off to," one of the scientists answered nervously when he noticed the man standing there.
"What do you mean 'disappeared'?" the man demanded with a glare.
"W-W-We-Well you see Victor, they had disappeared a few days ago," the same scientist answered scared about what the man now known as Victor reaction will be.
"And why didn't you tell anyone?" Victor asked not very impressed.
"W-We thought that we wo-would have th-th-them b-ba-back by now."
"Do you have any idea on where they may be?"
"No-No not really. W-We-We're still looking for them."
Victor let out a small growl at hearing this, "What about the data? If we still have that, we won't be needing to worry about finding those two."
"I-It-It's all gone sir. We somehow lost it. W-We don't know what happened, b-but it been deleted."
"What about the backup?"
"It-It's been detected as w-well."
Victor let out a larger growl not very pleased at the information that was given to him, "Our leader will not like this if he finds out about this that is. For now, we will not say anything about this for the time being. For now, get more of our agents out looking for them. Also, send out a notice to all Pokemon Hunters about a big reward if they are able to capture and are able to bring those two in alive."
"Well do!" the scientist cried out and started to get to work.
With that taken care of, Victor left the room, "And I will go out there as well to look for them," then he smirked an evil smirk and laughed, "This is going to be fun."
Here's another quick update for you guys! The reason as to why I updating this story so fast is because I'm busy typing up all the chapters I had done during all the mouths of not updating, so after this one there is two more to do. I hope you guys don't mind all these quick updates, they are somewhat of a way of saying I'm sorry for it taking me this long to get this story updated, but after I get the other two chapter uploaded, updates will become slower...well maybe that is. Also, I decided to add someone to this story who you all may just know from the Sinnoh League, they may just make this story a little bit more interesting. As you can tell, there was a little sneak peek of the group that was responsible for what happened to Danny and Darkrai or should I say Phantom?
I decided to finally give Darkrai a name, what do you think? Do you like it? The reason why I choice Phantom for Darkrai, well I think you see the reason if you look closely. :) One question though, do you want me to address Darkrai as Phantom or continue putting Darkrai for him when Danny isn't talking to him? It really up to you guys, either is fine with me.
I hope you all are enjoying this story so far and thanks for all the ideas you guys! They are helping a lot! :D
Until next time, Flare, over and out!