Chapter 13: Secrets Aren't Easily Kept

Sun was sitting in his and Lillie's room, trying to piece together everything that had happened during the meeting. He had felt fine about the idea of going to Barry's base in Johto, he had been fine about sending a small group of them to fight the Deobrids, he had been fine with the decision to leave most of their legendaries, but why had it bothered him about sending eight people? He frowned at the idea of being bothered by a number. He started to think, but was interrupted at a knock at the door. "Come in," he said.

Gladion walked in, shutting the door behind him, and sat in a chair, looking at Sun. The two stared at each other until Sun said, "You came in here, so I assume you have something you want to say?"

Gladion nodded and said, "Before that meeting, you've tried your damnedest to keep Lillie out of danger, but you said you and Lillie would go right to Barry's lair. I'm curious to know why. I understand she's a very powerful trainer and she even saved the world, but even then, you've tried to protect her, until now. Why?"

"Actually, it's because I still want to protect her," Sun said, which just confused Gladion, and Sun explained, "Two reasons: 1, I know her. Even if we tell her to stay, as soon as she finds out where we are, she's following us, which would put us all in more danger. 2, it's easier to protect her with her near me."

Gladion nodded and said, "Makes sense," then he chuckled and continued, "She would follow you guys as soon as she found out."

Sun smiled and said, "Yeah she would…"

Gladion kept grinning and whispered, "You still got the ring?"

Sun kept smiling, a blush forming on his face, he pulled the ring out, and tossed it to Gladion, who looked it over and said, "It still looks as amazing now as it did back when you showed it to me on Route 6. You planning on asking soon?"

Sun frowned and said, "Not sure. I'm going to ask as soon as this thing with Barry is settled, but when that will be, I have no idea."

Gladion nodded and began to walk towards the door, when the two heard footsteps heading away from the room. Sun stood up in alarm and sprinted out the door and saw Serena trying to walk quickly from the room. Sun sprinted after her, with Gladion grinning wildly. Sun finally caught up with her and said, "How much did you hear?"

Serena was smirking and said simply, "Enough."

Sun repeated, his blood chilling at the idea of what she heard, "What did you hear?"

"That you bought a ring for my daughter and plan on asking her to marry you." She smiled warmly and said, "It's a sweet thing to do Sun. You to will be an amazing couple."

Sun was blushing profusely when he said, "Can you please not tell her?"

Serena nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's not my place to tell her, that is your job."

Gladion had caught up to them at this point, and while still laughing, said, "How'd you hear that? I thought I whispered quiet enough so no one outside would hear us."

Serena smiled and said, "Motherly instincts." With that she turned around and walked of, still smiling.

Sun sighed and asked Gladion, "What time is it?"

Gladion looked at his phone and said, "Eleven P.M. You guys are leaving at eight tomorrow right?" Sun nodded and Gladion continued, "Then you should probably get some sleep. Lillie should be back soon."

With perfect timing, Lillie came walking p the hall, smiling to see her brother and the love of her life. The two smiled back and when Lillie reached them, Sun took her hand and asked warmly, "Ready for bed?"

Lillie kept smiling and nodded. They started to walk over to their room, when they heard Gladion say teasingly, "Hey, I better not have any additional family members in nine months."

Lillie and Sun both blushed profusely, but they ignored him. They walked straight into their room and laid down. They looked each other in the eyes, still holding hands and kissed. Then they hugged, and drifted off to sleep, and sadly for Sun, that meant more strange dreams.

Sun dreamed that he was back in the empty halls of the Corps of Silence's base in Sinnoh. He looked around, but nothing had changed since the battle that day. He began to walk when he heard a voice say, "Don't bother, it's a faithful recreation from your memory of the place."

Sun looked around, but saw no one. He said, "You know, you sound awfully like Darkrai... show yourself."

"As you wish," said the voice. Suddenly the shadows began to melt into one and formed a body. When it finished forming, it looked exactly like Darkrai, but it's body was more purple instead of black, the crest around it's head was a different shade of red, and it's eye was green instead of blue. Sun stared at it and said, "You're the Darkrai I saw earlier."

It nodded and said, "Indeed. And you and I need to talk if you are going to save this world."

Sun raised his eyebrow and said, "You have my full attention, but first I'd like to ask some questions…"

The Darkrai shook his head and said, "If it is about my origin, I cannot explain now, but rest assured you will learn, but you may refer to me as Darkrai Two, just so you can keep me and Lucas' Darkrai straight."

Sun nodded and began to speak, when the dream rumbled and Darkrai Two said, "Darkrai has found us. He doesn't know of my existence, only that someone is meddling with dreams that is not it or Cresselia. I need to ask you this, during the day, may I live in your mind so we can speak?"

Sun said, "You're the thing that was in my head earlier, aren't you?"

It nodded and said, "I'll explain later, but I need a yes or no now!"

Sun nodded, and the dream began to crack and collapse and Darkrai Two said, "Goodbye for now Sun."

Sun sat up in his bed. He looked around, but everything seemed solid. Sun laid back down and looked at the clock on his phone: 6:30 A.M. He sighed and got up. He began to think about his dream while he was changing his clothes and he said, "Why are things never easy?"

Then he heard Darkrai Two's voice in his head say, "Oh trust me, things are about to get worse. Much worse."

Sun sighed again and thought, "Thanks for the input."