Chapter 13: Jungle Rush Trial.
Moon and Sarah made their way down the path of Route 8 towards the Lush Jungle. They were enjoying a peaceful walk together as they discussed plans for the upcoming trial. Fabby and Sapphire both walked next to Moon while Sarah was holding Lyn and Angel walked next to her.
"So, Mallow's trial is all about Grass types." Sarah said. "Fabby, Delta, Scar, and Lancer are probably our best bets huh?"
"I guess so." Moon replied. "I could give Jade some action with her dual flying typing. But other than that, we've pretty much got that whole thing under control."
"I feel as though I've been ignored greatly with my potential."
"Can it Sapphire, you'll be getting plenty of action against Oliva's rock type Pokemon."
"Ka! Ka ka!" Lyn growled as she started making kicking motions with her tiny feet.
"Aw, is someone getting a little jealous?" Sarah giggled as she tickled one of Lyn's paws. "You must be eager to fight, huh? Well, you're still just a baby Lyn, you'll have to wait a bit longer."
The two of them giggled at Lyn's little temper tantrum as she squirmed in Sarah's arms as they made their way down the streets. Lyn did not settle down though."
"I think she's getting a bit fussy." Moon said after a while. "Why don't we take a break and sit down to do some fishing or something? It'll give our Pokemon time to prepare themselves for the trial." Sarah nodded in agreement and the two went off the main road down to a little shore edge where they released their Pokemon.
Sarah sat down over a small fire to cook some food, since she and Moon hadn't eaten any breakfast in their hurry to leave earlier this morning, while Moon sat down by the shoreline to fish, with Fabby sitting next to him curiously. Lyn sat propped up next to Sarah, poking her on a regular basis to demand a bottle. Sapphire and Angle sat atop a small ledge watching the other Pokemon play.
"So...what do you think is going on with the two of them?" Scar hissed in a rather quiet voice.
"I'm sure that they'll figure something out eventually...it's super obvious." Lancer replied as he fluttered down next to Scar. "I'm certain that both of them know that they have feelings for each other, it's only natural that something sparks between them."
"Would now be a weird time to mention that they aren't even in the same egg group?" Jade asked as she landed next to them.
"You're telling me that a Gardevior and Lucario won't breed, but if a Wailord wants to bang a freaking Skitty it can? What the hell type of sense does that make?" Scar hissed.
"Now would also probably be a bad time to mention that Angel could breed with a Stunfisk, Weezing, Muk, Chandelure, and Bellatrix if possible."
"Who the hell assigned these egg groups again?"
"That's an eggcellent question!" Bellatrix giggled as she appeared behind them.
"You piece of shit!" Scar jumped at her but she once again vanished before he could attack her.
"Wouldn't Arceus have assigned them?" Lancer asked. "I mean, I'm in the bug egg group, the weirdest thing I could breed with is a Flygon family."
"Yeah, let's just make a freaking bee breed with a freaking dragon! Makes total sense!"
"Speaking of eggs..where did Edelgard go?" The three Pokemon looked around, the Delta Phione was nowhere to be seen.
"Uh oh...that can't be good. Before we alert someone, let's try looking for her ourselves." Jade fluttered up and looked around. She could see the Delta Pokemon floating her way up the trail back towards the road, in response, she fluttered down over to it and landed in front of her.
"Where are you going?" she hooted.
"Just looking around...I was planning on coming back."
"Don't wander off without Moon, he'll have a heart attack if he thinks you've gone missing."
"Oh...okay then...wai-" Jade suddenly pushed her into the bushes and put her wing over the Pokemon's mouth. The two looked out as Dan, alongside a girl with purple dyed hair and silver eyes looked down the path at Moon and Sarah.
"Those are the two." Dan said. "You think you can at least separate the two of them...perhaps if we could just get Sarah, Moon might be willing to just come with us regardless...you'd have to separate them though."
"That shouldn't be a problem...I'll just invoke some charm and trickery." the girl replied. "I'll have her in our hands before Moon knows what hit him." The girl then started walking down the path while Dan moved out of sight.
Jade turned back to Edelgard. "Don't move from this position...those people are bad people...stay here unless you are called otherwise...understand?" Edelgard nodded in response. Jade then flew out of the bush and over towards Sapphire.
Sarah was still busy tending to Lyn's needs as she fed the baby Pokemon with the bottle. Cynthia's advice on being patient was certainly coming in handy, raising this baby Kangaskhan was certainly going to be a chore.
"Excuse me...miss." Sarah looked up, a girl older than her with purple hair and shining silver eyes approached her. "I'm sorry...I just...I saw you and, I couldn't help but wonder...are you by any chance related to Mavis Jones?"
Sarah blinked in shock. "Um...yeah." she replied. "I'm Sarah, her younger sister...Why do you ask?"
"My name is Lavender." the girl replied. "I'm a part of the Galactic resistance...I'm here in Alola on an assignment from Cynthia...but that's not important...I believe your sister is still alive."
Sarah's eyes widened in shock. After all this time had passed, what, two years since Cynthia had told them Mavis was killed...and here was a member of the resistance who thought she was still alive. "You...you really think so?" she asked. Lavender nodded in response. "
"I was also tasked with giving you something from Cynthia, would you mind coming with me so I could get it for you? It'll only take a minute or so."
"I...I guess so." Sarah said. She picked up Lyn and followed after the girl.
Moon had picked up on their conversation, but didn't think much about it. Everyone kept secrets, even Cynthia, if she wanted to deliver something to Sarah in private, this was probably how she'd do it.
"Dart! Trix! Dar Dar ix!"
He looked to his side when he heard hooting. Jade had landed next to Sapphire and Angel was hooting and pointing at Sarah and the girl. Both Pokemon's eyes got bigger as Jade kept hooting at them. Sapphire then turned to Moon.
"Rio! Olu Ri Girl...bad...working with Dan...trying to kidnap Sarah! Iolu!"
"Oh you've gotta be freaking kidding me." Moon growled. "Lancer, with me, the rest of you keep Edelgard as far away from them as possible. He stood up from his spot and ran after them.
Sarah and the girl arrived at the beginning of the road where a laboratory for some Aether Foundation was constructed.
"So...what is it that you have to give to me?" Sarah asked curiously.
"I'm just giving you what filthy traitors like you deserve. Ariados String shot!" A sudden webbing spun around Sarah before tightly binding her together, with Lyn clutched in front of her chest. The webbing then shot over her mouth and then her legs as she fell to the ground.
"Excellent work sweetie." Dan came out from behind the laboratory and placed a kiss on Lavender's cheek. Sarah looked up at them enraged as she held on tightly to Lyn who was clinging onto her chest and letting out small crys.
"Great, now let's get her ready for bargaining with-OW! WHAT THE HELL?"
Lancer buzzed down and jabbed both of his drills into Dan's and Lavender's backs. The two jumped in pain and turned around.
"You stupid piece of shit." Dan growled. "Monferno! Fire Punch!"
Monferno jumped down from behind Lancer and unleashed a fiery punch with its fist. Lancer was launched down into the bush.
"Quick, just grab...gah...Sarah and let's get the hell out of here." Dan growled.
Edelgard watched in horror from inside the bush as Lancer layed next to her.
"Just, stay out of sight Lady Edelgard." he buzzed. "Moon wouldn't want you to be seen."
"No!" Edelgard said back. "They're going to take Sarah away! Their defeat must be inevitable, I'm not going to stay here and let them take away my mother!"
"Lady Edelgard wai-" Edelgard ignored the bee and floated out.
Dan and Lavender both looked at her as she emerged from the bushes.
"Wait a second...that's...that's Project Delta!" Dan nearly shouted.
"Edelgard!" Moon finally caught up to the rest of them. He scooped the Delta Phione into his arms as she continued trying to make her way towards Dan and Lavender. When she felt herself get lifted off the ground she started flapping her flippers around.
"Phi Phi Ione Phione!"
"Hey, it's alright...I'm here." Moon said calmly. His pendant suddenly began flashing as Phione kept crying.
"I will prevail! Let me at them Moon! I can end this! Please."
Moon bit down on himself. He didn't know all the side effects of Delta DNA, for all he knew, Edelgard's development might be more advanced than an average Pokemon. But, she was still just a baby...what could she possibly do in battle. Then again, Lancer was out of commission...if he wanted to rescue Sarah...he didn't have much of a choice.
"I'm sick of you stupid piece of shit always getting in our way." Dan growled. "You're just like your worthless father once he found out about Cyrus' true intentions. You're so lucky that Cynthia was willing to forgive him after what he did."
"I must admit, the mere sight of you is wanting me to wash my eyes." Lavender said, wrinkling her nose. "People like you and her don't deserve to hold such power with legendary Pokemon. However, we are willing to make a compromise, give us Project Delta in your hands, and we'll let your little friend go." Dan glared at her.
"Our assignment is too-"
"Project Delta will be of more importance than the two of them."
"Moon, I will prevail!" Edelgard continued to say.
"Whatever, let's just grab both of them then! Monferno Fire Punch!"
"Ariados, Poison sting." The monkey and spider both charged at Moon and Edelgard.
"If you can do anything Edelgard, now would be the time." Moon whispered quietly.
Edelgard nodded, she placed her flippers facing each other and charged up a little black sphere, then, she fired it at the two Pokemon. The circle hit and enveloped both of them. Both Pokemon fell asleep and layed on the ground. Edelgard then floated out of Moon's hands and blue spheres of water surrounded her head and one charged from her mouth. She fired all of them as beams pushing the two Pokemon back into their trainers and the trainers into the side of rocky ledge.
"Your defeat was inevitable!"
"Origin Pulse and Dark Void?" Moon said in shock. His pendant stopped flashing as Phione came back to him, she looked very pleased with herself.
Dan and Lavender both got up, there were several cuts and bruises on them as they returned both Pokemon to their Pokeballs. "I swear...there will come a day when you regret all that you've done." Dan growled. "Consider yourselves had, Manaphy and Shaymin are as good as Team Galactic's pretty soon." He took another smoke ball and threw it into the ground. When the smoke cleared, they both had vanished.
Moon quickly knelt down towards Sarah, it didn't take long for him to realize that Ariados' string was not coming off easily. In a panic, he quickly returned Edelgard and Lancer and picked Sarah up bridal style, carrying her back over to their Pokemon. He set her down as all their Pokemon came running over to him.
"Alright...Fabby, Scar, come here." he said calmly. Both fire types approached him. "Alright, Scar, see if you can burn a few of the strings off with ember, Fabby you try as well.
Sarah started making some muffled noises from behind the string that was on her mouth. Moon took notice of her and placed a hand on her cheek. Feeling a bit of looseness in the string he pulled a small amount off, when he didn't hear any shouts or see any tears fall down her cheeks, he knew it wasn't hurting her and continued to carefully pull it off. When he had gotten the whole thing off she started talking rapidly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She said, nearly on the brink of tears. "I should've known better than to trust that girl. I'm sorry Moon."
He placed a finger to her lips. "Hey, it's alright," he said calmly. "I trusted her too...if it hadn't been for Jade telling Sapphire, they probably would've gotten away with you...I still don't understand how she figured it out though."
"She went after Edelgard, who was wandering around, she noticed Dan and the girl overheard what was going on...she knew she'd never be able to convey that to you in time so she told me."
"Great job Jade." Moon said. "I'm very grateful you got the message to Sapphire."
"Moon, please, don't use fire." Sarah said with a hint of worry. "I don't want Lyn getting hurt." The baby Kangaskhan was still clinging to Sarah with her eyes shut tight.
"Ka Ka!" it cried.
"Alright then, um...Scar...use your claws." Moon said.
Scar carefully looked for an opening, after a moment of looking carefully, one of his claws extended a bit and he slowly placed it in an area between Sarah's arms and the side of her body and cut through. Lyn slowly climbed off of Sarah's chest and slid back onto the ground.
Moon moved over to the amount of string that had tangled up her legs and slowly began to look for an area for Scar to cut through.
"Hey Moon, no peeking." Sarah said, sitting up.
Moon's face flushed with red color. "Y-You know that...that I wouldn't d-do t-that." he stuttered. "Ta-taking a-advan-advantage of y-you w-would bb-be wrong."
Sarah giggled at his embarrassment and nervousness. "I'm just trying to make light of the situation." she said, fighting down her giggles. "You seem way too tense and nervous."
Moon's face flushed an even deeper red as he heard snickers from their watching Pokemon. "I'm supposed to take care of you and protect you as your boyfriend." he said shakily. "Cynthia made me promise that I'd protect myself and you now that we're keepers." he said, then he added quickly, after noticing Sarah's sort of upset look. "She doesn't doubt your abilities, she just promised Mavis that she'd do everything she could to protect you."
"Didn't she promise the same to your father?" Sarah asked.
"Not exactly," Moon said as his face still flushed a deep red. "My father, as you know, was once a Team Galactic Admin, he was still paying Cynthia back for all the damage he was responsible for before realizing Cyrus's plans."
"Oh...I see." Sarah said quietly.
Moon nodded. "Are...are you okay?" he asked. "They didn't hurt you or Lyn did they?"
"No...all they did was tie me up with the Ariados." Sarah replied. "Lyn, are you okay?"
"Ka, Ka ka!" Lyn replied, she then started poking Sarah again.
"Still hungry?" Sarah asked. "You know what...maybe you need a rest...take some rest." She returned Lyn to her Pokeball before letting out a sigh.
"We've already had an eventful start to the day." Moon said, letting out a sigh. He noticed his fishing rod was moving a little. He quickly moved over to it and reeled it in, a Pokemon that looked like a small purple oyster leaped out of the water. It had a small black pearl with large eyes and a tongue sticking out.
"Shell Shellder!" it said happily.
Sarah took notice of the Pokemon and quickly looked at Moon, his face had gone from red to pale white, she understood why though.
Moon pointed a shaky finger at the Pokemon. "Sapphire...destroy it!" he said. "Blaze Kick!"
Sapphire lept in front of Moon and quickly blaze kicked the oyster pokemon. The small Pokemon was sent flying across the water, creating a small wavelike effect before it hit a rock sticking out of the water and plopped back in.
The Rotom dex flew out of Sarah's backpack. "You weren't going to catch that Shellder? Zzzts!"
"No…" Moon said shakily, as his hand balled into a fist. "I am not catching such garbage for my team...no Shellder...and no Cloyster."
"But Cloyster is quite a powerful Pokemon! Zzzt!"
"No." Moon said strictly. "No Cloyster…let's just go to Mallow's Trial."
The two of them approached the entrance to a thick looking forest at the edge of the route. Mallow was waiting for them outside.
"Hey!" she said, waving excitedly. "I hope you all are ready for a good trial! For the trial, you'll have to gather some ingredients from around the Jungle, when you're both done, you can bring them up to the entrance way, one of you will then make a Mallow's Secret Surprise to attract the Totem Pokemon. Stoutland will be of great use to you all...you ready?"
"You betcha!"
"Alright then, let the grass trial begin!"
(A hidden cottage)
Cynthia approached a cottage just off the south of Royal Avenue. She had received a call from Cloress to come and visit her, as she approached the cottage, she felt a sudden large gust of wind from behind her. She simply closed her eyes and let out an irritated sigh.
"What do you want?" She asked.
"You aren't going to turn and face me?" A femenine voice replied.
"Last I was told...you were dead...not working for Cyrus."
"I'm sorry Cynthia...I really am." the voice got sadder, almost to the point of a soft cry. "B-but...he threatened Sarah...he'd been watching her all the time back in Sinnoh...he was going to just kill me...but when my father gave up her location, he just decided to use me...I'm sorry...I just wanted to protect her."
"I'm not mad at you." Cynthia replied calmly. "But that doesn't mean I necessarily forgive you for what you've done...wait." she turned around and was met with a rather unexpected sight. It was just Mavis, no one else, she didn't even have a weapon. It was just her, crying. Something that was rather unusual for her.
"Mavis...with you working for Cyrus, Sarah will be absolutely fine, he'd be a madman to try and betray your loyalty, you don't need my help with anything and you aren't going to get it either."
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Mavis screamed. "He did things to me...horrible...evil things." He wanted me to suffer as I slowly died off! If I betray him, he'll do all of that to Sarah! She's only 15 Cynthia...please...I just need one thing."
Cynthia closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she had a feeling that she already knew what Mavis would say to her, but it didn't hurt to ask. "What is it?" she asked with as close to a calm voice as she could manage.
"If I just bring Cyrus Moon then he wou-"
"Absolutely not." Cynthia said flatly. "Much like I promised you I'd keep Sarah safe...I promised Saturn that I'd keep Moon safe."
Mavis' face flared with anger. "Saturn sold me and my family out to Cyrus!" she said in a rather loud voice. "He's the reason we're in this situation today! He's the reason my father is dead and my family was tracked until they moved."
"If that's what Cyrus told you, then it's a lie." Cynthia replied calmly. "Keeping both of your family's identities safe was the whole reason we kept Moon and Sarah from seeing each other for those three years after Rowan's Pokemon camp. Yes Saturn knew who you were and your family. But I never revealed their location to him. I only told your family his location because it was where I lived. I simply delivered the countless letters that Moon and Sarah wrote to each other during that time. But Saturn never knew anything more than the fact you had a sister."
"I told you that Saturn was untrustworthy, and he was!" Mavis shouted. "Now my family is in danger because of him!"
"Mavis please…" Cynthia began.
"I don't want to hear it." Mavis interrupted as she pulled out an ultra ball. "If you won't let me bring Moon in, then I'll do it myself. Swanna, take me away!"
"Saturn didn't sell you out, he didn't, on top of that, Sarah won't like it if you bring Moon in, she lo-" but it was too late, Mavis had already hopped on the back of Swanna and flew off into the distance.
(Lush Jungle)
Moon and Sarah arrived at the entrance of the Jungle, after gathering a few requested berries, alongside an energy root, they were finished and ready for their battle with the totems. Sarah was now busy mixing and crushing the ingredients with a thick club the way Mallow instructed her to. A weird aroma filled the air around Moon as he waited patiently. The aroma was a sweet nectar like smell, one that he often found whenever he was close to Sarah. He felt a large blush rise up from somewhere as it continued to spread.
"Alright, you're done." Mallow said. "Now that the smell fills the air, the totems should be here any minute."
"I don't smell anything though." Sarah said.
"Well, Moon seems to." Mallow whispered to her, "Let's just say that my secret surprise recipe has a unique trait of identifying a group of lovers...in a way, a male will be able to identify the smell if it's created by someone they have an affection for." Sarah felt herself going red as well.
"Shiino!"
"Rantis!"
Moon and Sarah both turned around. A giant Pokemon with pink and green all over its body with two sword-like hands it had glowing red eyes and flowers making two antennas. Next to it was a pale pink mushroom with pupil eyes and a little mouth. It had pale white steam where its face was with twig like hands. A green lizard Pokemon with a red zigzag pattern across its body alongside an orange crab-like creature with little mushrooms on its back joined the two totems.
"Shiinotic and Lurantis." Moon said. "Fabby, Lancer, Battle Stance!"
"Scar, Delta, Show your strength!"
Fabby ran out in front of Moon while the remaining three Pokemon popped out of their respective Pokeballs.
"Delta, Sludge Bomb!"
Delta launched the purple gooey ball from its puckered mouth at Lurantis. The Totem showed off incredible speed as it dodge the slime ball with ease. Lurantis then held one of its sword-like hands up towards the sky, green light surrounded the swordhand before it was swung down like a blade at Lancer, who blocked the attack with his stingers.
"Fabby, Flamethrower!"
Fabby launched a trail of flames from her mouth at Kecleon, who was too slow to move out of the way, the lizard stopped itself before summoning a few fossil rocks from nowhere, and firing them at Scar. Each of the rocks slammed against him pushing him into the ground, where Shiinotic then launched a leech seed. Which Lancer got in front of to take the hit.
Parascet fired a few spores from its mushroom back, the green puffs of spores scattered in the wind, a few hit Delta and Fabby, who instantly fell asleep. Lancer swiftly buzzed over to Shiinotic, turning his drills purple as he unleashed a fury of rapid jabs with each one, poking and pushing Lurantis around. Lurantis didn't take to kindly to this as it made a swift kick with one of its legs, pushing Lancer back further. The totem then directed its attention to the sun as green light surrounded it, making its injuries fade.
Shiinotic fired a pink beam of light from its mouth at Fabby, who was still sleeping. The beam enveloped her and launched her backwards. She landed by Moon's feet and quickly got back up, though, she was now shaking slightly.
"Scar! Fire Fang!"
Scar jumped up and targeted Lurantis, fire surrounded his fangs as he unleashed a critical bite into the totem's blade. Lurantis let off a screech before flinging Scar off of it and then slashing it with its swords. Kecleon then moved over to Lurantis and fired off a green beam from its mouth, once again taking away the damage. Parasect launched more spores, which everyone quickly dodged.
"I think I get it now." Moon said quietly. "Parasect, Kecleon, and Shiinotic are all playing as supports for Lurantis, who hits hard and moves fast. We'll never be able to take out Lurantis with all of them still on the field. Let's deal with Parasect, then Shiinotic." Sarah nodded in response.
"Fabby, Flame burst on Parasect, Lancer, Swords Dance into X-scissor, aim it at Shiinotic!"
Fabby launched a small blast of fire from her mouth at the mushroom crab. The burst hit the crab and then exploded, sending drops of fire everywhere, hitting Kecleon and Shiinotic, Thanks to being bug and grass type, however, that was all it took to knock Parasect out of the battle.
Lancer did a little ninja like dance in the air as red katanas surrounded his body and clanged against each other before connecting their tips over his head. His drills were then surrounded by dark green light as he crossed them and dove head first at Shiinotic.
"Delta, Sludge Wave on Lancer!"
Delta's body was surrounded by more purple goo as the wave of sludge trailed up towards Lancer, the goo enveloped the bee as it continued down towards Shiinotic, Kecleon quickly jumped in front of the mushroom and quickly unleashed a circle of blue light from its mouth. Lancer suddenly flopped in midair and started falling towards the ground. Lurantis quickly moved to a close position and quickly kicked Lancer, the green bee was sent back at Moon where he fell to the ground with swirls in his eyes.
"Go Fabby! Fire Spin!"
Fabby quickly launched a fiery tornado from her mouth, the tornado surrounded all three Pokemon as it closed in created a shockwave of heat that blasted the three Pokemon apart. Delta then fired off a sludge bomb, the gooey ball hit Shiinotic with a massive plop and splattered a bit on Kecleon. The Totem Shiinotic fell to the ground with swirls developing in its eyes.
Lurantis did not take too kindly to this. It quickly charged at Delta and unleashed a fury of slashes. Each slash pushed Delta back before a final blow jab sent the seahorse backwards. Scar then landed on the back of Lurantis and unleashed another Fire Fang, this time going into the small neck the totem had. Lurantis cried out as Kecleon used another ancient power to throw Scar off of it. The last rock sent Scar off the neck of Lurantis, who quickly turned around and kicked it, Scar landed on a large tree and fell to the ground with swirls in its eyes.
"Now Fabby!" Moon commanded, use Extrasensory!"
Pink light flashed through Fabby's eyes, Kecleon was suddenly lifted into the air as a rocket head shape of pink and purple light started flowing over top of it. Fabby then twitched her head to the left, sending Kecleon into a large moss covered rock. Kecleon fell to the ground with swirls in its eyes. Leaving Lurantis on its own. Lurantis quickly looked back up at the Sun as green light started to surround it again.
"Moon, finish this quickly." Sarah said. "I don't know how much more Delta can take!"
Moon nodded. "Alright Fabby, let's try out a Z-move!" he said. Remembering what Kiawe had shown him, he summoned the fire Z-crystal to his bracelet. All of a sudden, he felt some weird energy sync up with him almost like a spark of flames had entered his body. Light flowed between him and Fabby, who was looking much more confident than usual. He made the wave flap motions upwards with his hands before pumping them out.
"Fabby! Inferno Overdrive!"
A large fireball charged up from Fabby's mouth, it kept getting bigger and bigger until it was larger than the moss rock. Then, she fired it at Lurantis, the wave of travel created a small flame trail that was quickly extinguished as the fireball hit Lurantis and exploded! A massive blast of light and heat erupted through the area as a large gust of wind blew through as a shockwave. When everything had settled down, Lurantis was still standing tall. In one swift movement the Totem Pokemon charged at Fabby and unleashed a cross slash, followed by a quick kick. Fabby fell to the ground with swirls in her eyes.
"You're kidding me! It lived a Sunny Day boosted Z-move from a fire type of all things?" Moon said with wide eyes. "Alright then, whatever," he took out the friend ball and returned Fabby and then Lancer.
"Delta, quick, Sludge wave!"
"Skrelp!" Delta sputtered. Suddenly, blue light surrounded the brown seahorse as it started growing, it nearly doubled in size! When the light settled down, a large brown seahorse like dragon was left in Delta's place. It basically looked like a larger version of Delta, only with brown coral-like spikes around its body and tail.
Delta launched a dragon pulse at Lurantis, enveloping the Totem Pokemon whole and pushing it into the moss covered rock. Lurantis fell to the ground with swirls in its eyes.
"Alright! We did it!" Sarah cheered. She quickly hugged Moon tightly and placed a kiss on his cheek. Both of them then realized that Mallow was still watching and they separated going red.
Mallow giggled and clapped her hands. "Most impressive." She said excitedly. "I always have people who think they can be cheeky and try to wrap my trial up with Kiawe's Firium Z-move. However, I raised my Lurantis and Shiinotic in excellent defense and speed. You'd need a Moltres or some other fire type legendary to use a fire Z-move to take these babies out in one hit. It always catches people off guard and they're left unable to do anything as they lose."
"Thanks Mallow." Moon replied. "We definitely weren't doing that already, but now that we know this, we're even less likely to do it."
"Anyway, here." the green haired girl took out two dark green crystals and handed them to the two of them. "This is the Grassium Z-crystal." She said, "it's proof that you have completed my trial and can now take on Kahuna Olivia...if you don't already have some grass types, there's plenty to pick from around here."
"Aren't you going to show us how to use it?" Sarah asked.
"Oh right, I completely forgot! Alright, watch carefully now." Mallow made a little teepee like a tent with her hands flatly pressed together as she crouched down before quickly moving up and separating them like a blooming flower. "That's how you use the Grassium Z-move, Bloom Doom! Now, as for you Moon, you still need to do one more thing for me!"
Moon's face flushed a red color. Something about Mallow gave him an offsetting vibe. He wasn't sure what it was, probably his nervousness that she'd ask him to do something stupid in front of Sarah, or bring up his seemed reaction to Sarah's cooking. "Yes?" he asked.
"It's usually tradition for challengers to eat the food I have them prepare." Mallow replied with a wink. "In the case of you two however, I had Sarah cook you a special meal that's been passed down in my family for generations. The soup that she has created however, will taste like nothing more than crushed berry juices. However, you should try it and see what you think."
Moon nodded nervously and looked at the pot of stew that Mallow had out for him. It still had the ever loving nectar smell that he smelled from Sarah...now that he was thinking about it, was this some type of Voodoo magic or some bullshit like that?
"Well Moon?" Mallow asked with a testy look in her eye. "Are you going to try Sarah's Special Surprise? She worked hard on it."
He let out a sigh as Mallow handed him a bowl and a spoon. He stirred it around for a bit, taking note of the coloring, it didn't seem like Sarah had done a good job, there was mainly a lime green color to match Sarah's dress, with some blue and gold colors around the area in a shade of her eyes and hair. There was also a bit of pink, the same shade as Sarah's pendant.
"Whatever, I gotta choke it down...for Sarah," he said to himself. Hah, choke it down? Him? He was a picky eater most of the time, how the hell was he going to like this thing? He looked at Sarah, gave her a reassuring smile and raised the spoo to his lips, taking the liquid in whole.
A weird sensation flowed through his taste buds. The stew tasted incredibly sweet, sweeter than anything he had before. However, it also had a small bit of spice to it as well. The weirdest thing however, was that the stew, despite being over a fire for the duration of the totem battle, was kind of cold, almost like the tastes were trying to cover up for its temperature. But that didn't matter, he loved it! He drained the entire bowl, without even using the spoon. Then, he looked up at Sarah with a dazed expression.
Mallow giggled at the two of them. "I think he likes it." she said to Sarah. "Just like he likes you."
That's all for today's chapter, stay tuned for my notes as I discuss a bit of Moon and Sarah's character traits, I think you'll be interested in that. Also, how about we check up on two old friends of ours? No? Well too bad! It's Omake Crossover Time!
Omake #2: One In The Same?
Moon and Sarah sat waiting in the Pokémon Center near Lush Jungle, Fabby, Sapphire, and Angel waited patiently next to them.
"You sure we're good on supplies?" Sarah asked. "I mean, Lyn's already a big pain...so are we sure this'll get us to Konikoni?"
"It should," Moon replied calmly. Sudden laughter suddenly came into hearing distance, the two turned around, the boy Moon recognized as Sapphire Chaser came into the Pokémon Center alongside Cobalt, he was followed by a girl with light skin and rich brown eyes and hair that was brushed neatly to the small of her back. She wore a tight green tank top with a burgundy shoulder bag and skirt to her knees, unlike Sarah, she had black leggings and...heels. She was followed by an Espurr by the looks of things.
"Hey, Sapphire!" Moon called, waving over to the two of them.
"Olu?"
"Not you, the boy!"
Sapphire and his friend took notice to him and Sarah as he directed the girl away from the counter and over to them.
"Hey," he said. "Didn't expect to see you again so soon."
"You know him Sapph?" the girl asked.
"Oh right, sorry," Sapphire said. "This is my friend Willow, she's from Kalos, Willow, this is Moon Wolfe, he's from Sinnoh...who's your friend?"
"I'm Sarah, Sarah Jones, I'm also from Sinnoh." Sarah replied. "Nice to meet you."
"Sapph huh?" Moon said, cracking a sort of devilish grin. "Normally takes a while before couples get to the nickname faze huh...not that we need to...right Sarah?"
Both Sapphire and Willow's faces flushed red at his words while their companion Pokémon snickered.
"So uh, are you two doing the Island Challenge together as well?" Sarah asked.
"Together?" Sapphire's face seemed to go more red. "Nah, we're rivals on separate journeys!"
"Well, who are we to argue?" Moon said shrugging.
"So uh, I couldn't help but notice." Willow said, finally jumping in on the conversation. "But uh, you just so happen to also have Riolu, while Sarah also has a psychic type as her main partner, I sense that there's some romantic tension between both of you, and you also happen to be on an Alolan Journey like us...where's the room for difference between us?"
"You could argue that our journeys are kind of like a...mutual friends agreement." Sarah replied. "You've got your own things going on separate between the two of you, while we tackle every problem together."
"Also, you guys don't get to be keepers of awesome legendary Pokémon!"
"Dammit, who decided that?" Sapphire asked to no one.
Meanwhile, the five Pokémon watched their trainers, dumbfoundedly.
"What the hell happened here?" Sapphire asked.
"We should be asking you the same thing!" Cream replied.
"I fear that Sammy might have something to do with this." Angel sighed.
"I don't like being written by some other lunatic!" Cobalt muttered.
Fabby just sat there in silence. To herself, and only herself, she inwardly smiled.
"Well, looks like we're all one in the same! I hope we can see more of this."
That's all for the Omake and Chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. I don't know if Phoenix is ever down to do something like this himself, but lord knows I could care less about putting someone else in my stories to do funny gags with them myself instead of just making them easter eggs. Hehehe...you can probably tell that I don't have a lot of friends. Not that it matters to me, the friends I have are all really great and supportive of my writing anyway, hell most of them became characters in Bound By Earth and Unfound Revenge.
Anyway, let's talk about Moon and Sarah's characters for this story. I never have a clear cut way of identifying character traits here, as they were much more obvious in BBE.
Anyway, Moon Wolfe (AGAJ): Moon is a kind-hearted individual with a love of battling, raised by a former admin of Team Galactic, he was raised to treat Pok
émon as friends, just as if they were human. With a quick thinking brain and immense knowledge of type matchups, he's been able to get himself out of situations that would take even long time trainers a while to figure out. He has shadows of his past however, that have caused issues in his relationship with other people. He was tasked with serving as a sort of guardian to Sarah.
Sarah Jones (AGAJ): Sarah is an incredibly sweet girl with a quick temper. She cares for Pokémon deeply, however, she lives in the desperate shallows of her "dead" sister. She struggles early on with battles, having little slip ups and a small confidence. She sees Moon as sweet person, even with his quirks and flaws. Her past remains a happy lifestyle with lot's of experience with Pokémon, with Moon by her side, she's grown more confident and aware of battles and is growing out of her sister's shadows to make a name for herself. Anyway, hope you enjoyed seeing more of Edelgard and Lyn, they'll have time to grow as well. Leave a review if you want, let me know how you feel.
PKMN Teams
Moon Wolfe:
Fabby - Vulpix
Sapphire - Riolu
Jade - Dartrix
Sammy - Furret
Genji - Frogadier
Silver - Sneasel
Lancer - Beedrill
Gojira - Pupitar
Edelgard - Phione_Delta
Sarah Jones:
Angel - Kirlia
Snowy - Eevee
Scar - Torracat
Candy - Corsola
Bellatrix - Mismagius
Flora - Petilil
Delta - Dragalge
Lyn - Baby Kanga