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What are the Odds

Mountain Paths and Clefairy

Mt. Moon is the most famous peak of the Lunar Mountains so named for the fact that a meteor crashed there millions of years ago, seeding the mountains that made up its crater with moon stones. The Lunar Mountains are one of the best places to fine moon stones in Kanto and a few small towns that surround the mountain range, mine and export moon stones for sale around Kanto and other regions. The exportation of moon stones….

The Lunar Mountains are home to a wide range of pokemon, from rock pokemon like the Geodude and onix lines, the late which inhabit the deeper reaches of the mountains, to paras and Zubat lines. It should be noted that between the months of May and June the Zubat have their nesting season and should not be disturbed. There are also Clefairy and the rest of their evolution line living with in the Lunar Mountains, but the pokemon have proven to be incredibly shy, and hard to catch. The paras are a vital part of the cave ecosystem…..

When traveling through the Mt. Moon pass it is advised that trainers try to make it through the tunnel portions of the path in one day. The tunnels are dark and are a popular way through the mountains for new trainers, meaning that there is some traffic going through them at certain times of year. If you need to camp in the tunnels, it is advised that trainers use the rest station that are situated two thirds of the way through the tunnels. These spaces are large and able to house several camps. The rest stations are also free of zubat due to the amount of people who tend to inhabit them. Many people will stay for extended times…

The Lunarians were an ancient people, who inhabited Mt. Moon over 2500 years ago. The people are a mystery for there is not much people can find that remains of them. More information on the Lunarians can be found in papers written by child genius Dr. Eve Adams. Other achievements of the Dr. include….

-Excerpts from Mt. Moon and the Lunar Mountains: A Fascinating Path, a book borrowed from the Pewter city Pokemon Center's waiting room bookshelf.

The entrance to Mt. Moon was huge. When I had first read about the path through the mountains, I didn't realized that it would be this big or well made. I pictured a tunnel, that was maybe big enough for a few people to walk side by side in, the actual path through the mountain was big enough to fit at least three onix side by side.

The mountain itself was also not what I thought it was. As a person familiar with skiing in Pennsylvania, on pretty small reasonable mountains, Mt. Moon, seemed unreal. It was much steeper than the mountains I had seen and much rockier as well. Where most mountains I had seen were covered in trees, forest and ski lifts, this mountain was mainly made up of the same grey rocks that Pewter City had been built with. Which made sense. When they made the tunnel, the stone had to go somewhere and as the closes settlement, Pewter would have been the ones to use it.

When I first saw the tunnel entrance I couldn't look way, it's size stunned me that much. Once I finally pulled my eyes away, I found myself a rock to relax and have a drink on. I had hiked uphill for over three hours to get to the path through the mountain and decided that I needed a break before starting the trek through. It would take about two days to get through the Mt. Moon if my team and I took the direct route. This estimate didn't include deviating from the path to train or to forage for treasures or berries, or anything else that my team and I got into, like Professor Oak's assignment.

Thankfully valley that the path goes through is incredibly fertile, and a great place to hunt and pick berries. It's the berries that are the most important to get. Not only does everyone on the team like berries, if preference varies between different flavors, but berries are one of the best ways to feed ourselves while out in the wild. Berries ridiculously nutritional, and a nice way to add flavor to food, but they are also very filling, and make great supplements to everyone's diet. For example if I add two berries to Poseidon's food, it will taste better, and it will satisfy his appetite, though now that we were in the wild Poseidon might decide to hunt like Stridor. Between foraging and growing berries and some of my team I was able to feed my whole team and not drain my bank account. Something I had always wondered about in the anime. (Seriously did no one else wonder how Brock Misty and Ash have enough money to feed themselves and all their pokemon.)

I'd even taken to eating berries. Not only does a berry make a good lunch or breakfast, but by eating a pecha berry a day after being poised by Aeron or Lyta in increasing more potent doses, I built up a natural defense against poison. Considering that poison types were among my favorite and also pretty plentiful in Kanto building up my poison immunity was a good idea. Plus Pecha berries are really sweet and remind me almost of a cross between a honeydew and a peach. I started using the other berries in my cooking as well, the more bitter berries taste like dark leafy green vegetables and make a great substitute for broccoli rabe or brussels sprouts.

Thoughts of berries had me putting my water away and grabbing a pecha berry from one of the berry pots in my bag. I bought them in Pewter using the money that I won from beating Brock, and they were a great investment. The pots allowed me to have a steady supply of the most import berries for my whole journey. They saved my butt a few times when I was in an area where I couldn't forage. As I bit into my lunch, I felt Stridor land on my shoulder, and offered him a bite, he loved sweet berries. The bird gladly took a small bite, and I felt his chest heave a bit as he leaned down. Because he hated to be confined, Stridor had decided to stay outside of his pokeball as I made my way to Mt. Moon, even if he was as tired as the rest of my team. Of course we all had a good reason to be tired.

After Stridor's loss to Brock's onix, I realized that while I had taught my team new moves, I didn't work enough on their endurance, strength and speed enough. So after dinner with Ash and Misty was over I reserved one of the smaller training fields the pokemon center had, so I could start working on their physical abilities before I left.

The training I set up was hard for all us. After I consulted Nurse Joy on the safe way to train I started all of us on running, swimming, or flying laps, around the training ground as a warm up. Then I grabbed the weights I was able to borrow from the center and we put them on before doing sprints. Of course I was a lot less fit than the rest of my team, being human and not having trained to have the same physical capabilities as a pokemon, but I didn't want to just sit on the side lines when everyone else was working. After the sprints there was endurance training where we had to do laps with the weights on, and strength training where we all set about lifting or moving different weights. After the physical training I set out to have everyone master the moves that they had, so that they would be able to use them confidently in battle. I also had Lyta start learning flash in case we needed it when we went through Mt. Moon. While they were doing that I was working on psychic ability and was able to get to a point where I could connect telepathically to most of my team for a short time. Most nights after training we would all hang together at the pond where Poseidon evolved and I would groom everyone before writing up parts of my report on training a gyarados, or reading about Mt. Moon.

The upgrades the Professor made to dex made it so it was almost like a tablet and I was able to download apps onto it. This meant that I was able to get a system almost like word on it and also an app like nook or kindle as well. I was able to get a number of informative books on different subjects that could help me on my journey and as a licensed pokemon trainer and a registered field researcher for Professor Oak I was able to download a bunch of them for free or at least a fraction of their cost. For a bibliophile like myself, this was probably one of the best features on Dex I could find.

Of course while my plan had been to only train the remaining days I spent in Pewter, there were some interruptions. The first was that after a good night sleep Ash decided that Misty and I were worrywarts and he would have no problem beating Brock. When Misty came to tell me this I cut training short on the first day and my team and I went to watch his match.

Ash was defeated in about thirty seconds, by Brock's onix. It was a harsh lesson for the kid but he needed to know that he could not get through his journey, without any training or planning. Misty and I talked to Brock after the battle for a few minutes, before he was called away to deal with something.

After Brock left us, Misty and I found Ash at the pokemon center, and I tried to help him come up with a few new strategies for his next attempt at the gym. Upon learning that he had a butterfree and a pidgeotto I advised him to use them in the battles, especially as his butterfree could learn a large number of status move that could be used against onix. Then I showed him where he could access information on teach steelwing and irontail on his pokedex and left him to his training. It was Ash's journey after all, and while I was fine giving him tips and explaining things, he needed to figure out how he would train his pokemon on his own or he would never make it.

I ended up staying in Pewter for five more days after Ash's battle. Ash decided that he was ready to challenge Brock again on the day I was leaving so I decided to stay for his match, though this time my team was not able to watch as they were getting a last check over by Nurse Joy before we headed out for the mountain.

This time the battle went differently. Brock started with Geodude and Ash was able to beat the rock pokemon with Pidgeotto, using long range attacks and a lot of sand attacks to blind and scrape her opponent. Then Ash sent Butterfree out against onix, and the match turned interesting, as the bug used his gust attack to hide his poison powder to get it on the rock snake and then used a combination of dodging techniques stalling for time. Unfortunately, the bug was taken out by the onix, but it stalled long enough that Pidgeotto was able to defeat the weakened rock pokemon with sand and gust attacks.

After the second battle was over and Ash received his badge, we all headed back to the pokemon center. Both Brock and Ash needed to heal their pokemon and I needed to collect my stuff and my team and head out. Ash and Misty were planning to leave tomorrow so Ash's pokemon would have time to recover.

This plan was altered when the creepy guy I took out when I first got to Pewter showed up and preceded to inform Brock that he was his father and that Brock should follow his dream while Flint, his father took up his responsibilities again. Apparently the creepy guy had shown up while Ash was training and had tried to get him to supper charge Pikachu, but Ash had refused, feeling more comfortable with the training that I had directed him towards. Flint was supposedly inspired by Ash's determination and the fact that he was able to be Brock on his second try that he decided that he should reveal himself and start to take responsibility for his family again after being missing for years.

I was surprised that Brock didn't deck the guy after he found out that his father had been right down the road for years and never came home to help. According to Flint, he was ashamed that he did not do well on his second journey. Though the gym leader did smirk when he heard the story behind why his father took one look at me and nearly fainted. Because of his father's return Brock decided to join Ash and Misty on their journey, so they were going to stay in Pewter two or three days instead to give Brock time to pack and say goodbye to all his siblings. While they figured all this out, I had grabbed my stuff and my team, and said my goodbyes before heading out.

So there I was, staring at a big ass tunnel through a big ass mountain while eating a pecha berry. I finish off my lunch, and grabbed the pokeballs lining my purse strap.

"Aeron, Coeus, Poseidon, Lyta ex venite!" I call out, throwing up the four balls. After talking with my team, I decided that I needed to start using a phrase to call out to my pokemon as I released them. It was actually a good way to get a pokemon's attention when releasing them. If a pokemon is not paying attention and is surprise by being released, it can be a bit uncomfortable to be suddenly unshrunk. A called out phrase ensures that a trainer gets a pokemon's attention so they have a moment to prepare for the process. I decide to use Latin to call everyone out, as a small reminder of my time working on my degree.

Red beams come out of the thrown balls and form my teammates. Aeron and Poseidon, proceed to yawn and stretch a bit. It seems that I had woken them up when I called them out.

"Hey guys, I figure that I would give you a chance to walk with me through the mountain, there is enough room for all of us to walk together. Does anyone want to walk with me?" I asked them nodding to the tunnel.

"Sure, I want to stretch my wings for a bit, plus I've never been in a cave before." Lyta said.

"Count me in, it gets fucking boring sitting in that ball." Aeron chimed in, andI felt Coeus's acceptance pulse in my mind.

"I'll go back to my pokeball when we go through the tunnel, Sephie. I still feel weird and heavy trying to move on land, but if we come to a part of the path that runs along a water source, I'll come out." Poseidon said last. I felt bad for the gyarados, while his species could stay and fight on land, it was uncomfortable, and they felt clumsy and heavy. They could learn to get around this, but Poseidon would probably never be completely comfortable traveling for long periods over land. I had some plans to help with this that mainly had to do with trying to teach the sea serpent to fly, or at least float.

It always bothered me that gyarados could not learn fly when it was a large flying type, so I looked up what flying moves they could learn and was shocked that the only two moves they could learn were bounce and hurricane. Of course I figured that if Poseidon could learn hurricane that he could learn to control flying type energy enough to learn gust and whirlwind. And if he could learn bounce than he could learn to harness flying energy to stay in the air longer, after all Raquaza could fly and the legendary had a similar body type to a gyarados, so why couldn't Poseidon. Of course I was simplifying the problem since it wasn't a gyarados's ability to use flying energy that hindered it's ability to use other attacks but their control. A gyarados had so much energy that it was nearly impossible for them to use weaker flying type attacks. But Poseidon had been using flying energy since he was a magikarp so I had hope that we could figure it out. Not to mention the fact that we had a spearow traveling with us. While the pidgey line was known for their sped once they evolved, the spearow line was known for being able to fly longer, and farther using their superior control of flying energy. However it was not the time to focus on new moves, so I returned Poseidon and grabbed my flashlight from my bag.

Lyta had mastered flash, but it would tire her out to use it constantly, and the light that she made was so bright it would disturb the zubat. Considering that they were nesting at the time it would have been a really bad idea to disturb the zubat. When I found out I bought a flashlight from the pokemart that was guaranteed not to bother the bat pokemon. So with flashlight in hand the five of us started into Mt. Moon.

"I found some." Stridor called as he took off from my shoulder and landed near a group of mushrooms. Since he had the ability keen eyes, I had asked him to keep an eye out for cave mushrooms as some of them could be sold for a lot of money and other could be used in making medicine. While there were many mushrooms that could do that, cave mushrooms were the best as often they were cultivated by paras, and parasect making them even more potent than normal. After scanning the mushrooms with Dex to make sure they were the ones I wanted and not poisonous I picked them and we continued on our way.

We had been walking for about two hours. Lyta and Aeron were discussing poisonous plants and which ones were the best for building up their own poisons while Stridor, Coeus, Poseidon and I had been having a discussion about how I could learn to utilize my aerokinesis. Poseidon who was linked to me and Stridor telepathically so he could join in the conversation from his pokeball, suggested that we experiment when we got to camp. It was a good idea, as I had not been able to do much with my powers so far. Plus as my aerokinesis seemed to behave like flying type energy, Poseidon, Stridor and I could experiment a bit and maybe figure out different flying type moves, as well as finding ways to help Poseidon control his own flying energy.

About fifteen minutes after finding the mushrooms, we found ourselves in a wider circular area, with a small stream running through it and several stone benches. I had read that there was a rest stop two thirds of the way through the first mountain, and figured that this was it. I let out Poseidon and we all took a short break.

"Will we be done with these tunnels soon?" Lyta asked, after we had all settled down.

"I think we only have an hour or so left until we reach the valley, but let me see what I can find on Dex's map so I can be surer. Can you use flash so I can get some more light?" I asked as I pulled out Dex.

"No problem Sephie." She said and flew up to the top of the space and started to glow brighter and brighter. Once the whole space is lit, Lyta flew out of the light and left it hanging at the top of the cavern. The cool thing about flash is that while a pokemon can learn to just emit a bright light, they can also learn to project the light and keep it steady. It is almost like they are making a double using double team, only instead of a clone they make a bright light. Lyta learned to do this and learned double team in the process.

"The light should last for a while I tried to put a lot of power into it." Lyta said as she rejoined us. I pulled up the map Dex has of the Mt. Moon path and area.

"Alright, we are at the rest stop which is here," I said and pointed to the rest stop on the map. "We have about an hour and maybe fifteen minutes left, before we are out of the tunnel." I looked at my watch at that point. It was 4:30. "It will be close to six by the time we get to the valley, so we will probably make camp, before continuing through the valley tomorrow, then depending on how much time we spend in the valley, we can decide if we want to camp out another night before we head through the second tunnel." I finished.

"The valley is where the old human's information states that the Clefairy reside. The duration of our stay is dependent on finding group and attempting to engage them in conversation. The old human's information on the valley also includes that the valley is a pleasant environment to inhabit so I will not be adverse to spending time there. Any extra time will also allow Persephone to investigate the civilization that she has fixated on. However I cannot speculate on the opinions of my peers." Coeus projected into our heads.

I was excited when Coeus mentioned staying for a little while, and looking for information on the Lunarians, though saying I fixated on them might be a bit much. When I read about the ancient civilization, I wanted to do something familiar to remind me of home. Then I saw a picture of a statue that looked like Palkia in the information Prof. Oak sent me and I felt like I needed to find them. They were a link to the legendary pokemon of Space. A pokemon who was probably my best chance of going home. I hadn't realized that Coeus noticed how interested in them I'd become, but at least he was supportive. There was a decent chance that the clefairy knew something about the Lunarians, as it was speculated that the Clefairy had lived in the mountains for thousands of years and might have been living there while the Lunarians were. So any extra time I had with them after fulfilling Prof. Oak's assignment was appreciated.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea. Anyone against staying a bit longer to try to find out more about the Lunarians?" I asked getting negative responses from everyone. Then I realized that the light is starting to fade so I taok a last look at the map to make sure that I didn't forget anything. "Hey Poseidon," I said noticing something. "Stream runs along the tunnel and then through until disappearing into the next mountain, do you want to stay out of your ball and swim alongside?"

"Sure, Sephie. I would be nice to be able to join the journey for once." He said, and his head leaned over me to look at the map.

"Great so, everyone ready to head out?" I asked getting up and putting away Dex. I got an affirmative from everyone and got going. After all we still needed to make camp and it was getting late.

It was about a quarter to seven when I started to hear a strange crashing sound, echo through the tunnels. Curious to what it was I asked the others if they heard anything.

"That sound, shit I've been hearing it for a while now, not too long since we left the rest stop. Thought it's been getting louder and louder. No fucking idea what it is though." Aeron said. I was even more curious when I heard that he was right and the sound was getting louder. It was only five minutes later that Poseidon had a clue to what the sound was.

"I think that there might be some sort of waterfall ahead, the river current is getting faster." He said his body a tall blue pole surrounded by dark rushing water. Ten minutes later we found out that he was right and were greeted by a beautiful sight.

The tunnel opening was about a hundred feet from the floor of the valley, and from it we had an amazing view of the whole valley. The river cascaded over the lip of the tunnel into a large basin that flowed into a number of smaller streams that branched out all over the land. Between the streams there was a lush forest dotted with colorful meadows, full of flowers and rock formations. The sun which was just about to set behind us lite up the water and rocks until they sparkled giving the whole valley a mystical feel.

Poseidon hadn't learned to make the elevator like shelf that would allow him to take passengers down a waterfall yet, so he dove down to the basin alone. Stridor and Lyta flew down to meet him, while Coeus, Aeron and I had to follow the winding path cut into the shear side of the mountain to reach the valley floor. Once down it was a unanimous decision to camp next to the basin. We would explore in the morning, but that night we were all tired from traveling. We had dinner and went to bed.

The next day I woke up and climbed my way out of the pile of pokemon who decided to use me as a bed last night, and then skirted past Poseidon's head and out of the tent. I had become a part of the pokemon pile since the very first night on my journey when both Coeus and Stridor settled on me to sleep. Every friend who joined the team joined the sleeping pile, and now that Poseidon had evolved, he usually slept with his head resting next to all of us as well. All of them except Coeus were from pokemon species that liked to group together, whether in a flock, hive, herd, or school. And Coeus was part of a large group before being sent off to be my pokemon. They took comfort from sleeping in a group.

I set up my battery powered hot plate and scooped up some water from basin in my kettle and made myself some tea. (Even after needing tons of caffeine to get through all-nighters at school, I never developed a taste for coffee.) As I waited for my water to boil, I heard wings flat and looked over to see, Stridor land on a nearby branch a small caterpie in his beak. Stridor was always the first to wake up. He would go hunt for breakfast and be back before anyone else even realized that he was gone. I saw my water was about to boil and I grabbed the kettle off the heat, before it could whistle and wake everyone.

"Do you think that the Clefairy will let us talk to them if we can find them. And do you think we'll get any good information for the professor" I asked the bird while focused on my darkening drink.

"If the old human is right about the moon guardians being here at the same time as the ancient humans you might. Most pokemon have legends and histories that they pass down, but the ancient humans lived a long time ago the moon guardians might not remember much." he stated. Well that was helpful, I thought and then another part of Stridor's statement caught my attention.

"You just said that most pokemon, have their own histories and myths? Do humans know about these? Are humans allowed to know about them? Can I hear some of them, I bet they are absolutely fascinating, and I'm sure the professor would appreciate them" I fired off rapidly to the started spearow. I loved myths, and always wanted to learn new ones. It was why I studied classics in college and why my favorite parts of the pokemon games were the ones that dealt with the mythology of the world. It would also be something that could get me a bonus from Prof. Oak.

"Slow down human, I can only answer one question at a time." Stridor chastised. "Now in the order I think you asked them. Yes most pokemon have their own myths, some of them are shared between pokemon types, like many flying pokemon hold the story on of how Lugia first calmed the skies close to their hearts. A story which I will tell you later trainer." He said when he saw my hopeful look. "Others are more related to a certain species of pokemon. Most of those have to deal with how a certain species came to be or why they have a certain trait."

"Now there is no reason not to tell humans some of the myths. There are a small few that are for pokemon hears only, but not too many. The only problem is that we don't have many chances to tell human's our legends as there are very few of you who actually understand us and even fewer who we trust enough to allow to hear them. You have earned some trust from healing me and I have gotten to know you as we traveled, so I will share some with you. However not all of the knowledge you gain is ment to be shared with others, and you will have to first earn the trust of any pokemon with a story to tell before you would even hear anything." He said, blowing my mind.

How amazing it can be to learn pokemon mythology right from the pokemon themselves. It's great, especially the myths that I could compare to the one that the humans of this world had. I'm be able to get both perspectives of different aspects of this world. Of course I would have to respect their secrets, and I'm sure I won't be told anything super special any way. A lot of things could be private to the pokemon, but any knowledge that I gathered would be great even if I couldn't share it. Plus I thought the legends may have clues on how I could get home. I would start with the Clefairy, and then move on to any other pokemon that would share their histories and stories with me.

Of course, I thought looking at Stridor, how I used the knowledge would depend on what information I was given and what I could share. I decided I should take two sets of notes, things to share and things for my eyes only. I was broken out of my thoughts by Poseidon sliding his head out of the tent, with Coeus floating after him.

"Good morning, Sephie" Poseidon said before he dove down into the basin, coming up moments later with a goldeen in his mouth. Coeus sent out a feeling of contentment, as he settled on a nearby rock. His claws sink into the stone and he starts to extract the minerals that would feed him.

"This morning provides an opportune time, for the experiment that was discussed the previous day." Coeus said from his rock, reminding us that we had to work to figure out how to control my aerokinesis.

"Persephone, enter your psychic core. Once you are in place focus on your power over air and let the power emanate from you without trying to affect the air." Coeus ordered me, "To be able to utilize your power you must first be able to draw out your power to your fullest ability."

I sunk down into my mind and found my core and my powers. Moving over to my power, I started to pull it out, unfurling the glowing orb so that it became a sheet that expanded out ward. After it had expanded a certain amount, it started to feel too stretched, like a rubber band puled to tight. I quickly pulled it back a bit and left it expanded, but relaxed, and left my mind to see what was going on.

I opened my eyes to see the winds wiping through our campsite. The sides of the tent were flapping in the wind. Polyta and Aeron were watching from the opening with wide eyes, as dust and leaves flew past them, having been woken up by the experiment. Coeus was still balanced on his rock, though now he was glowing. And both Poseidon and Stridor had been enveloped by cocoons of wind, but they appeared to not be harmed.

"Persephone, you have shown to have sufficient ability when it comes to manifesting your power. It is now time to utilize control and restrain your power once more." Coeus's voice sounded in my head, and I was brought back to my mind. Quickly I tried to gather the power that has expanded over everything, but it kept slipping through my fingers. Then I felt Coeus again, and he pushed against the edges of my power forcing them in enough that I was able to grab them. Once I had hold of the edges it is easier to collect my power and pull it all in until it is back in its original ball.

"It appears Persephone that you need to work on restraining your power over unleashing it." Coeus says "I suggest continuing these experiments in at another time so that we will not disturb anyone else." At that statement his eye turned to a bush, where I could see pink poking through the bright green leaves.

"I am sorry if we disturbed you. I am Sephie and this is Posiedon, Stridor, Coeus, Polyta, and Aeron, do you want to come and join us for breakfast? Think of it as an apology for bothering you this morning." I asked the pink pokemon we disturbed. After a moment the pokemon stepped cautiously out into the open and I saw we had disturbed was a clefairy. Stridor had said they were close by, but I had not realized how close. I was also surprised that the clefairy had come so close. They were usually said to be shy, and we were a large group.

"Your trainer sounds nice. I came to investigate the great winds that blew through here thinking that one of the great ones had come to witness our festival, but now I see that the winds were caused by someone who was blessed instead. I've never seen someone who was blessed before. She has many interesting journeys ahead of her. She will also have accept some sad truths, but she will eventually find the home she needs." The clefairy said as she talked to my friends, then went on a bit more normally. "Oh, forgive me it never introduced myself, I am Clefairy apprentice shaman of the Lunar tribe. Now what's for breakfast I hope there are Persim berries, I like Persim berries." We were all looking at Clefairy like she was crazy. Shaking myself out of thoughts of weird Clefairies, I searched through my berry supply for Persim berries. After all I had offered breakfast as an apology and might as well give Clefairy something that she liked. I also pulled out some berries for the rest of my team along with some poisonous plants for Lyta and Aeron, since unlike the others they had not eaten anything yet. I also grabbed a small box of Chansey O's cereal for myself.

We all sat down and I told Clefairy about my journey so far and how I am working for Professor Oak as well. I told her that he asked me to see if the Clefairy in the area would be will to offer some knowledge about themselves so that humans could know more about them. I then mentioned my own tasks about learning about pokemon myths and legends as well as the Lunarians who once lived in the Mountains. I was sure that I might be able to find some sort of clue on how I got here or at least a clue on how to find Palkia and a way home. I told her about how I was from a different world not that she seemed all that surprised, but she did mentioned me finding home when she first talked to us.

"So do you know how got here or I can get home, my family is probably going crazy over my disappearance, and I was told that Clefairy tend to hold onto a lot of knowledge?" I ask Clefairy.

"How can I know how to get you home, if you don't know how to get home? If you need knowledge that is not known, you would be better pressed to look for the one with closed eyes" she said as though her words were perfectly reasonable and not completely confusing. "Now why don't we go see Clefable. I don't know much about the ancient ones yet but my mentor will, and if you come you will be able to see the opening night of our festival." We agreed and once camp was cleaned up and packed we followed Clefairy to her tribe.

"So what is the festival for?" I asked Clefairy as we head along the path.

"Oh, it's our annual moon festival. It starts tonight and will go on until the full moon three nights from now. On the first night of the festival when we are the closed to the crescent moon, we celebrate and pray to Lady Cresselia thanking her for the good dreams and fair fortune that we have had this year, and pray that it continues over the next year. On the second night we give thanks to Father Xerneas for giving us life and pray that our next breeding season will result in many eggs. On the final night we pray to Lady Lunala that her light might shine on those who have departed, and ask her to shine the moons blessing on the moon stones so that those who wish to evolve might do so. During the day we all dance and tell stories. Once the festival starts the ones who wish to evolve will go around the mountains looking for depleted moon stones. The stones will be added to our sacred stone and when they are blessed by Lady Lunala on the final night they will unleash the blessing and evolve those who wish to grow."

"That sound beautiful." I said my friends agreeing with me.

"It is the most wonderful time of year. You probably can't stay the whole time but, you should definitely stay tonight. It would give you time to learn about the ancient ones from Clefable and on the first night of the festival we tell of how the Clefairy came to be. It is such a nice story, I am sure you would love to hear it." She told us.

A few minutes later the river that had been running next to our path splits. We followed Clefairy over a fallen tree that spaned the river and walked into a grove of willow trees. The grove was huge, at least thirty meters in diameter, and full of clefairy, cleffa and clefable. The river that split can be heard circling the outside of the grove and the branches of the willow trees hang around the edges, providing privacy to who ever wanted away from the crowd. As we admired the glade a clefable made their way over from the large shiny black stone in the middle of the clearing.

"I see you have returned with visitors Granddaughter. Why don't you introduce us?" The clefable said.

"Yes grandmother. This is Persephone, Poseidon, Stridor, Coeus, Hippolyta, and Aeron. This is my grandmother, Clefable shaman of the Lunar Tribe. I found Persephone and her friends while I went to find the source of strange wind. Persephone has been blessed, and is interested in our stories and any knowledge that we might have of the ancient ones. Persephone also mentioned that she wants to learn about our tribe so that other humans can understand us better." Clefairy said. Unfortunately it would be a long time until I learned what blessed ment.

"Well, it has been a long time since I have met one of the blessed, let alone one who was able to understand our speech. You are most welcome to stay for our festivities we don't often have visitors who are interested in our stories. Come I will tell you what I know of the ancient ones, while your friends either join us or the tribe in preparations for tonight. Once I am done, you can join the preparations. Everyone who wants to join the festival has to help set up the festival after all." Clefable said as she led me away. Stridor and Poseidon followed while the others made their way over to the other pink pokemon. We settled next to the river under the willows, which was a relief for Poseidon who had been struggling since he left the river to enter the grove with us.

"So human, what do you know about the ancient ones already?" she asked once they were all settled.

"I don't know much. I researched the Lunarians after they were mentioned briefly in a book on the Lunar Mountains, but there is not much known about them. Most speculate that there are ruins with in the mountains that could tell them much more, but they can't get to the ruins." I said

"I see. First you must know that while some information has been passed down, much of the knowledge we have on the ancient ones has been lost over time. While pokemon information is easy to hold onto, human knowledge sometimes slips through our fingers. We as a species do not have as long lives as some and so information that is passed down from shaman to shaman is sometimes lost depending on how well our predecessors were able to hold on to it. What I do know about the ancient ones has been passed down in stories and might have been changed somewhere along the way. But I can tell you what little we still know.

Now you already know that the ancient ones lived in these mountains. What you might not know is that the ancient ones lived in harmony with many of the pokemon that lived here as well and even adopted some of their culture when they arrived. Don't ask me where they arrived from as I don't know, just that they came from somewhere else before settling in the mountains. Anyway they adopted our culture and the pokemon of the mountain taught them how to survive the mountains. They learned what plants to forage from us, and how to grow different plants that would survive in the cave by the paras. The onix and Geodude lines taught them how to tunnel and build in the mountains, so that they had a well-protected city, while the zubat lines taught them how to navigate their new tunnels in the dark. It was a peaceful period with all the pokemon in the mountains living in harmony with the humans. Then it is said that the humans suddenly became agitated. They started to hunt and forage for more, and they started to fortify their cities more, taking larger stronger rocks from deep in the mountains. Then they all vanished. It is never stated why the left, or where they went. They just disappeared leaving their cities to lay forgotten for thousands of years." She finished.

"That's amazing, and you have no idea where they came from or where they went? Is there anyone who might be able to tell me more about them?" I asked wanting to know even more about this mysterious people. Where did they come from if they about Palkia did they come from another world as well or did they just come from a place that actively worshiped the legendary.

"Well you could ask some of the onix that live deep in the mountains, but they are a disagreeable and territorial bunch. They are just as likely to attack a trainer as they are to speak to one. Though you might have a better choice than most, being able to speak our tong. However it could be dangerous, if you go talk to them." She said. I opened my mouth to ask how to find the onix, but I could get a word out before Clefable quickly continunes. "Look I am sure you want to go looking for them, but sleep on the decision first, it will be dangerous and you might not get any new information. But if you still want to go look for the onix in the morning I will send a guild to show you the way to their territory. However if you are going I would suggest teaching the young sea serpent here a water move or two if you can between today and tomorrow. I will also talk to you about our tribe more tomorrow or have your guide talk to you if you decide to follow through with your fool hardy plan of talking to the onix. we have taken up too much of my time today already and I have much to prepare to start tonight's festival. Off with you. You only have to help prepare for the festivities until the shadows of the willows are halfway to the stone, then you can do as you wish until the sun sets." She finished, and headed back to the other clefairy, cleffa and clefable.

I watched as the sun set behind Mt. Moon casting the whole valley into darkness. The setting sun was the que for the start of the festivities, and when the last bit of light faded away, a trio of three clefable circled the large pile of sticks that had been gathered today and set the bonfire alight with three simultaneous flamethrowers. With the bonfire lit it was time for the clefairy to share their origin story, after which there would be feasting and dancing, and when the moon reached its peak shining directly on the sacred stone the clefairy would start their prayers to Cresselia. After the prayers were over the partying would end for the night, and the clefairy would go to bed, except for a few chosen to stay up the rest of the night to tend to the bonfire until dawn.

I was so excited that the festivities were finally started. I had tried to distract myself all day, but the closer it came to nightfall the more impatient I got. After my talk with Clefable, I went to help decorate. For a while I helped some young cleffa string flowers together while Lyta and Stridor carried the garlands into the trees. After that I helped gather firewood. Poseidon helped with the firewood as well. He ferried it over the river that surrounded the grove so that the clefairy could collect more of it without worrying about dropping it while going over the bridges into the grove. Aeron helped to collect berries, and Coeus was moved rocks out of the clearing.

Once we were done with our tasks I worked with everyone to learn a new move. I first got Poseidon started on aqua tail. It was easy for him to figure out as the main part of the move was coating his tail in water, and he had learned to do that as a magikarp, when he learned splash tackle. I had Stridor and Aeron learn fury attack from Lyta, and had Lyta learn twinneedle, which seemed to just be a fury attack with her bug energy incorporated. Coeus and I worked on expanding and restraining my aerokinesis, with some helpful comments from Stridor I was able to make a bit of progress with my control. But it was finally time. Clefable stood in front of the bonfire facing her tribe, and started to tell their history.

"When father Xerneas first gave us life we were one people. We were the singers of the world, tasked with sending the world into slumber when Lady Lunala called forth the moon. We sent the world to rest, and then went to rest ourselves after greeting the moon's first rays. However the longer they preformed their duty, the more some singers became curious of what happened when the light of Solgaleo departed. One day after the song was sung and the world went to sleep, a group of singers decided to forgo their rest and explore the dark world.

"Doing so they found that the world of night was a dangerous place. It was inhabited by the spirits of those departed, who had taken new forms. There were dark creatures who hunted at night, playing tricks and stealing the dreams and possessions of those who lived in the light. And then they saw a frightful entity who they watched travel around the world giving pokemon frightful dreams that kept them from having peaceful rests. They were terrified of the night world and started to wonder if it would be better to keep everyone awake so that they might combat the frightening things thing in the dark.

However just when their fear reached its peak, Lady Cresselia found them. She knew that the singers could not let their fear rule them and cause them to abandon their calling so she showed them the wonder of the night. They learned of the good dreams she spread to make up for the nightmares her brother. She showed how the spirits were under the rule of Lady Lunala and were vital in ferrying the spirits of the departed to their final rest with Lord Yvelta. Lady Cresselia showed them that while the creatures of the dark were scare they were necessary for if there was no one to take, soon people would have too much. And then Lady Cresselia showed the awake singers the most beautiful part of the night, the stars. And when she showed them the stars she gave them some word of wisdom as well.

"Remember," she said "The dark of night might seem all consuming, but the darker it is the more you can see the bright light of the stars" And with those words the awake singers made a decision that changed their lives. They offered their pledge to Lady Cresselia, that they would help protect the night and the day. While the other singers sent the world to sleep they would stay awake keeping the balance safe from those who wished to brighten the dark and those who wished to dim the light. And with that pledge to Lady Cresselia the singers changed. They became able to interact with the spirits of the night, and their bodies changed so that they reflected the stars they so loved. They learned to handle the full light given off by Lady Lunala and not just the first rays. And so we came to be splitting from the singers and guarding the balance of light and dark.

We are still the guardians of the night, and while many of us decide to gather and spend our time in the light, many of our brothers and sisters are out in the night on their own quests protecting the balance. They live hard solo lives only able to take a break from their duty when Lady Lunala is able to manifest in the full moon. This festival celebrates them as they honor our pledge to Lady Cresselia. So let us give our feast and give our thanks to Lady Cresselia." Clefable finished, and the rest of the pink pokemon in the glade started cheering and partying.

I was floored, I couldn't believe how amazing the story was. Not only did it explain why the clefairy line worshiped the legendary pokemon related to the moon, but it also gave reasons for why the pokemon was able to fly when they absorbed moonlight. Before the festival started I met with Clefable and she made me take an oath that I wouldn't tell other humans about their position as Guardians. She was worried that it would cause more humans to try to catch them and keep them from preforming their duties. She made me vow on my status as a blessed that I wouldn't say anything. When I tried to protest that I had no idea what it ment that I was blessed. She waved a way my concern and told me that it didn't matter and I would be held to my word. The strange thing was that when I gave my vow, I felt as though a huge presence was pushing down on me and watching my every move. When I looked over at Clefeble she seemed contemplative as though she was just given the answer to a question and now had to figure out what she would do with this new interesting knowledge. I tried to ask her about what I was feeling, but she only told me that it was not her place to instruct me in such thing.

Luckily I was able to share some of the information I was given. I couldn't share their origin myth or the gods the worshiped, but I was allowed to tell the professor that they had a three day festival to celebrate their evolution. They would even let me tell the professor about how their tribe was structured when I learned about it the next day. Thinking about the next day made me realize that it was getting really late and I had to be up super early in the morning so I decided to turn in.

A.N. So this chapter was longer than I thought it would be. I thought that I would get all Mt. Moon out in one go but the Clefairy stole the show. Hopefully in the next few weeks I will have the second part of getting through Mt. Moon finished. Until that time thank you again for reading and reviewing.

Gyarados (M) – Poseidon – moves: flail, splash, tackle, bounce and combination move splash tackle, dragon rage, Aqua tail

Beldum – Coeus – move: take down, and headbutt

Spearow (M) – Stridor – moves: leer, peck, growl, quick attack, wing attack double team, steel wing, and fury attack

Beedrill (F) - Hippolyta or Lyta – moves: string shot, poison sting, bug bite, tackle, harden, fury attack, flash and Twinneedle.

Nidoran (M) – Aeron - moves: leer, peck, double kick, poison sting, and fury attack