A/N: I know this is taking me far too long. I should try to focus more on this... But I'm very busy, and I've also started a huge project with my best friend. We're doing a Harry Potter fancomic-parody-thing and it's taking a lot of my time. But here's the next chapter.


Newmoon Cave

Arceus opened her eyes, inspecting her surroundings. She was in a dark cave, and there seemed to be some kind of dark power surrounding her. She tried getting up, but found herself too weak. She growled. This was NOT how the Creator of the Pokémon World wanted to be treated!

"Ah, finally awake, are we, Arceus?" She suddenly found herself gazing straight at Darkrai, who looked very satisfied.

"Darkrai, you traitor!" Arceus spat. "How dare you do this! You are disturbing the balance of the world!" She tried once again to get to her feet, but her legs didn't support her, and she sank back to the floor. So she simply glared at him. "Where are we?"

"Oh, you don't know?" Darkrai let out a dark chuckle. "Welcome, Arceus, to Newmoon Cave. My lair!"


The members of Team Saviours were waiting impatiently in the Hall of Origin, just in case Arceus would come back. Shadow had started getting restless, and was simply walking through the corridors, followed by Aura.

"What do you think happened to Arceus? Do you think Darkrai really did attack her?" Shadow asked Aura.

"I'm not sure. I'm really afraid he has. I'm so worried about the prophecy." Aura whispered.

"I know. I'm worried too. But we've made it this far. We just can't give up yet." Shadow replied.

"How can you always be so brave and all?" Aura blurted out suddenly.

"What?" Shadow looked at Aura, clearly confused.

"Well, are you really ever scared? I mean, ever since we first met, you've always been so brave and all..." the riolu mumbled in reply.

"Actually, I've been scared several times." Shadow replied. "But I don't want everyone else to see it, because that might get them worried too."

"I'm scared now." Aura sighed. "I've always been a coward."

"You're not a coward, Aura. If you were, you wouldn't have stayed with me for this long. You're my oldest companion." Shadow told her.

"Thank you, Shadow..." Aura blushed lightly. "But... there's really only one reason I'm still here."

"What reason?" Shadow observed her closely with his purple eyes, not even bothering to try mind-reading. He wanted to hear Aura tell him what she was thinking herself.

"I'm still fighting by your side... because I don't want you to get hurt. I... I care about you a lot." Aura said, barely louder than a whisper.

"It's still brave, Aura, to fight just because you care about someone. I care a lot about you too. And don't think I don't understand what you think about me, Aura. I've understood by now." Shadow smirked when he saw how Aura stared at him.

"You have?! How... How so?!" she stammered.

"Well, with Whitetail constantly making hints to it..." Shadow said with a smile on his face.

"I should have guessed..." Aura sighed. She and Shadow had stopped now, and just stood next to each other, watching the other.

...and suddenly Feather dashed up to them out of nowhere.

"Hey! Aura! Shadow! We're going down to Treasure Town! You two coming?" A moment's awkward silence.

"Sure..."


Shadow, Aura, Whitetail, Mighty, Feather and Nyara all walked down the road through Treasure Town. Giratina hadn't come with them. After all, it would look very peculiar if a legendary pokémon showed up in Treasure Town (Everyone except Feather and Nyara would never forget the day Reshiram and Zekrom did so...), so he had just left them outside Treasure Town and returned to the Hall of Origin.

"We should buy some more Oran Berries and stuff." Whitetail suggested, and they went to the Kecleon brothers to buy those. When they did, however, Mighty spotted someone in the crowd...

"Isn't that Spirit?" he asked. Everyone turned their heads there. Indeed, it was the spiritomb, and he was on his way out of the town. All the members of Team Saviours just glanced at each other, and started following Spirit as carefully as they could.


They followed Spirit into a dark forest. It was starting to get quite late.

"I wonder if Dad is worried." Whitetail mumbled to herself, but right then, Spirit stopped. The six members of Team Saviours leapt into a bush to avoid being seen. Suddenly Marionette leapt out of another bush, not far away from them. Whitetail thought with relief that they were lucky that they hadn't tried to hide in the bush she had been in.

"Ah, there you are." the banette said, rolling her eyes. "You were taking so long."

"Sorry." Spirit said. "I just had to look at all the stuff in Treasure Town!" Marionette sighed.

"Well, Lord Darkrai is waiting for us in Newmoon Cave. Arceus has woken up! Heh, she's not very happy! But she can't do much anyway. Lord Darkrai's powers keep her trapped. She's too weak, with only half of her Plates..." Whitetail felt her heart go cold at those words. No... Not her mother. They had captured her!

"Sure!" Spirit and Marionette started walking through the forest, and Team Saviours was back stalking the commanders. Suddenly they arrived at a cliff. In the cliff, there was a crack, and out of there came Dusk and Blacktail.

"Finally." Dusk said. "Come on, let's go inside." Blacktail said nothing, just twitched his tail and followed his fellow commanders into the cave. Whitetail glanced at the moonless sky above her. So this was Newmoon Cave.


A/N: Just finally, I would like to apologize to everyone who's mad at me for taking such a time to update... I'm trying my best, I'm so sorry to disappoint all of you. I promise, I WILL FINISH THIS. And I will have it done before... um... Christmas. Hopefully. I swear!